a re are fortunate. altogether if you are fortunate. temperatures range from between eight and 12 or so. not next week wild and wet and windy to start and thenit wild and wet and windy to start and then it is cool and showery to finish off the second half of the week. a dry enough start to the week but don't be full by that, because this system makes fairly steady progress towards the british isles. after a dry start in northern ireland, you get to see the rain in all parts by lunchtime and the wind freshening all the while and eventually western parts of scotland, through wales into the west of england, quite a bit of rain to come here through the day. out east we keep the date drive for longest until the evening and then you get to see your fair share of the wind and rain. plenty to go around and come tuesday, because this frontal system kinks are getting into a little area of low pressure, we think there will be a lot of cloud and bursts of rain across central and southern parts. further more showery, better chance

of sunshine, but windy right across the british isles and the wind is coming in from the south west and will have come from my down in the atlantic, hence the sort of temperatures, could be 15 up to 17 and even further north, central belts of scotland, here you could be looking at 12 degrees. that frontal system eventually pulls away into wednesday but the flow is still south of west and although there is a slightly fresher field, i expect the temperatures will not tumble away but it gets cooler as a mix of sunshine and showers for many of us to finish off with the week.

hello. this is bbc news.

we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: the government is planning new emergency laws in response to the coronavirus outbreak. it comes as the number of people who have tested positive for the disease in the uk rises to 209. milton keynes hospital is isolating people who came into contact with a man in his 80s who died from the virus on thursday. 140 britons remain quarantined on board a cruise ship off the coast of california in which 21 people tested positive for coronavirus. in the six nations rugby, england held on to beat wales 33—30 at twickenham. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

with me arejoe twyman, director of the polling organisation deltapoll, and ruth lea, economic adviser at arbuthnot banking. good evening to you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer leads with coronavirus, reporting the government is planning emergency legislation allowing people to switch jobs and volunteer to work in the nhs. the sunday times goes with the same story and says that the government is working on the assumtion that covid—19 could kill around 100,000 people in the uk. the sunday express reports the government has plans to deliver food to coronavirus hotspots. the mail on sunday says the queen doesn't want the virus to prevent her from carrying out her duties, as the palace plans how to keep her protected. the sunday telegraph contains an interview with chancellor rishi sunak, who says next week's budget will contain measures to help businesses deal with the virus. the sunday mirror has a tribute to the british man who died

from covid—19 after catching it on a caribbean cruise. let's take a look at some of those stories in a bit more detail. let's start with the observer. the papers are dominated by coronavirus. let's go with the headline emergency law to boost nhs volunteers. this is the public policy angle of the questions around the coronavirus. it is always difficult when there are any situations where it to know what position you should take as a government. do you go hard on a or soft on it was meant the lesson you wa nt to soft on it was meant the lesson you want to be accused of is missing opportunities and letting things get out of hand. so you have to prepare for the worse case scenario. i think thatis for the worse case scenario. i think that is a lot of what we are seeing here. there is a talk of drastic new measures. things like allowing telephone to be used and video links in court to avoid people having to be there in person. people volunteering to work for the nhs or

the situation worsened and sports governing bodies discussing with broadcasters cancelling sporting events and discussion about events taking place behind closed doors with no fans or banning over 70 from attending large gatherings. so if anyone wants any opera tickets, i imagine they will be readily available soon. indeed. or do anything. this is about government strategy because phase one is containment and we are still in it but probably edging over into phase two at this point. they certainly are and they talk about a emergency bill as a government prepares to move to the next phase and they are saying we should delay in other words slow the spread of the virus having given up the idea of containing it because of course it is spreading and then isjoe implied you're talking about cutting back on large gatherings and talking about closing schools and encouraging

people to work from home etc so in other words some fairly major decisions that he made about these things so no wonder they need extra legislation. but of course the really serious one, the worst case scenario is where you see what they call mitigation and this is presumably when you are really only able to deal with the worst cases and you are having to bring in retired medical staff and emergency services can only do with a real emergency so services can only do with a real emergency so to speak. so we have gone from phase one to phase two on this one and i believe is a big step. the telegraph also has the virus on its front page but of course next week is the budget and it has got an interview with the new chancellor. this is the economic angle to the coronavirus outbreak. because there have been lots of reports the budget has had to be widely revised and perhaps even rewritten completely in light of recent events. and the paper says the chancellor is going to promise

targeted measures to help businesses work and get through the other side ofan work and get through the other side of an economic downturn. again possibly plenty for the worse case and there but when it comes to economic predictions, at the best of times, it is difficult to get those sorted out. so thinking about things in terms of where things might go depending on how the epidemic possibly the pandemic plans out is going to be difficult. but there is not a people who are self—employed of people on zero—hour contracts and the whole get economy could be especially badly hit by this and how the government helps that supply side of the economy and then also the demand side. people actually going out to buy things or not is the case may be. that will be interesting. he says in this interview that he is not daunted by the challenge of protecting the cou nty the challenge of protecting the county but this is a very big moment for him a new chancellor and his

first budget. only been in the job for a couple of weeks and he was the chief secretary of the treasury prior to that but the idea of this budget was to talk about this extra public investment in about leveling up public investment in about leveling up the regions, etc. no doubt that will still be a theme of his budget on wednesday but i suspect a lot of it will have to be pushed forward and not least of all because they are going to publish the natural restructure plan on wednesday and will that would not be postponed and the focus is as joe will that would not be postponed and the focus is asjoe implied is the reaction to the coronavirus outbreak. yes, there is a lot of talk this week about small firms being assisted by various loans and i'm sure they will have to help some of the people who will actually lose money who are self—employed. he is wanting to make and mitigate the economic impact of this particular virus andi economic impact of this particular virus and i think one has to have a little sympathy with the office for budget responsibility as well because it will have to reject its hmmfi because it will have to reject its forecast would not take your point that economic forecasts are there to

make every other forecast look good. and i speak as an economist. and i speak as a pollster. many years of brutality. there will be a lot on the coronavirus no doubt but he will also talk about some manifesto promises and recall the manifesto, there was a general election last year and it seems a million years ago. also a bit of speed giving him saying he is not daunted in the government is prepared and do we expect him to say i am terrified and we don't know what we are doing. fairpoint. the mail on sunday with a big headline and the queen and would we expect otherwise? she is over 70, you know? she will not be able to go to any large gatherings. but she even go to those gatherings? she will not be able to go to bingo. but she is not daunted either. and today the word is daunted or not daunted.

that is the question. the queen is not daunted and specifically she is ata not daunted and specifically she is at a commonwealth date service tomorrow at west chester abbey when she deals representatives of all 54 commonwealth countries so it will be a bit of internationaljamboree. but my goodness me, the war did not defeat her, nothing defeats her, coronavirus, forget it. she will be fine provided she does not know any elderly man with any pre—existing health conditions. i shall park that one and move on. i think so, yes. let's move swiftly on. let's go to the independent. most britons want a new mansion tax in the budget and this is interesting because it is based on an independent survey. this is interesting because it is based on an independent surveylj have based on an independent survey.” have not been able to find out the details but it does not surprise me when you ask the entire british population whether the richer it should pay more tax for nice things that a large number of people will agree with it. a mansion tax in some

form or another and also calling a mansion tax in itself presents things ina mansion tax in itself presents things in a certain way. that is consistently supported from a large portion of the population especially young people. it does not have support generally is people in traditional conservative constituencies. but if this is to happen and it should be pointed out the prime minister has said he has called on the idea but if it is to happen or coming like this is to happen, it could be aimed at those in those red wall constituencies. as ruth says as part of the leveling process will be here so much about, if the government is serious about that and if the government is wanting to perhaps more wealth than a conservative government would be shifted to do in the past, things like this might be part of that but it remains to be seen. never mind the red wall, i think if they went ahead they would lose the blue wall as well because as you've implied, this would be deeply unpopular with

conservative voters and i think people who have got houses now will say i pay enough taxes as it is, i pay council tax and when i buy a house i pay large standard he bills especially on expensive properties and this is also very questionable as to how much this would actually raise. fairenough, as to how much this would actually raise. fair enough, people as to how much this would actually raise. fairenough, people want as to how much this would actually raise. fair enough, people want to raise. fair enough, people want to raise money and britons want to raises money for the mansion tax to spend more money on the nhs which is a fair point. but don't forget that the chancellor philip hammond, remember him? he was the chancellor. feels like a long time ago. that's a long time ago, is show business. he increased the nhs spent in the autumn 2018 budget which was the la st autumn 2018 budget which was the last budget believe it or not any talked about an extra 20 billion by 2022. there is already a lot of extra nhs spend in the pipeline. 2022. there is already a lot of extra nhs spend in the pipelinem a mansion tax would not raise anything near that. 20 billion him a mansion tax and even from that would

be dwarfed. does it help the government or the chance for this is being discussed, though?” government or the chance for this is being discussed, though? i think these are the kind of things government will want to put out there to see what kind of reaction it gets. because ultimately one of the things it talks about is social careful so this is a massive issue and an ageing population such as ours will have to face notjust in the next year but in the next decade. and in a government of any kind is going to have to deal with that. the conservative government has said repeatedly they will not have to sell houses in order to pay for social care. but what if those people living in larger houses who are older have to pay greater tax in order to finance other people's care? does not get around it? pay for it somehow with her privately or publicly in the have to be addressed in that situation is only going to get worse. sergeant jenna did float the mansion tax and it was very

unpopular. —— the previous chancellor floated the mansion tax. the other story on the front page here is about borisjohnson's holiday. that has cropped up again. parliament sees watchdog his launched an investigation into boris johnson and his holiday as to who paid for it because it was this very smart mansion and i don't know if he paid the mansion tax or forget about that. but i suspect actually this is just a bit about diversion and i cannot see boris johnson just a bit about diversion and i cannot see borisjohnson being concerned about this desperately. i suspect most have got other fish to fry and it got bigger issues to consider surely not least of all coronavirus. on the macro around half think that he is doing quite a good job of handling things at the moment. —— coronavirus. but we know events moment. —— coronavirus. but we know eve nts ca n moment. —— coronavirus. but we know events can have very impact on the population —— the popularity of the prime minister and the parties. so he will want to not get too much in

trouble on this. we will have more on this at 11:30pm but thank you both very much. they are back. joe twyman and ruth lea will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers, and don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, joe and ruth. next on bbc news, it's click.

this week marks three months since the world first heard about a newly identified disease. i am, of course, talking about covid—19, which is caused by a new type of coronavirus. to date, there have been over 3000 deaths from nearly 100,000 confirmed cases in 81 countries. and this is how i know that. this is thejohns hopkins university covid—19 dashboard. and since it went live in january, it's gone. . .viral, in a good way, by demystifying the stats and the numbers behind the spread of the disease. it's amalgamating data from many of the world's health agencies, and so, for example, right now i can see the total number of confirmed cases is just over 93,000, these are the countries where they have confirmed cases by numbers, and just as importantly, i think, this is the total number of people who have already recovered completely from the disease.

and this is just one of the pop—up projects that have appeared online, aiming to demystify the glut of covid—19 data. community—powered site nextstrain draws together genome data shared by scientists around the world. as covid—19 is transmitted from person to person, it can change its genetic make—up in subtle ways, allowing researchers to build a family tree that shows how the disease has spread. it's genuinely fascinating stuff. in a health crisis, particularly one that's growing rapidly like the coronavirus outbreak, we really need to communicate with people about what they can do individually and collectively to try and help get this under control. but also, its important that individuals understand that if they make minor, relatively mundane changes to their behaviour, they can help us to slow the spread of this down. in 2018, the bbc ran its own

experiment to simulate the spread of a flu—like disease using a network of virtually infected smartphones. for me, the show did a brilliantjob of revealing how simple things like washing our hands can make a massive difference to how quickly and how far a disease spreads. 0n the right is what happens if we all wash our hands really well. 0n the left is what happens if we don't. just look at how the spread is slowed if we follow the advice of washing our hands well and often. posts like this are everywhere on social media, recommending good hand—washing technique and other scientifically grounded tips to try and limit the spread of germs. but they're not the only things you might find if you look online for coronavirus information. over the past few months, social media companies have been waging their own war

against a different kind of pathogen. dubbed an "infodemic" by the world health organization, social networks have been deluged with information about the coronavirus. some of this is correct and helpful, but a lot of it is misleading, half—true or completely fake, and that's making the real information and advice much harder to find. looking through tiktok now, and it looks like any search for coronavirus or a similar term now brings up this banner at the top and these videos from well—known organisations take up the top spots. similarly, dubious recommendations seem to have gone. "coronavirus conspiracy" used be one of the suggested search terms, and it's not any more. over on facebook, it's a similar story, with posts from well—known and trusted organisations taking up the top spots.

so, some of the kinds of misinformation that does travel around would be first of all not believing that there is a problem at all, and this is a creation in order to try and control people. that has been seen before and is being seen now. also, people come up with ideas of cures, whether it's drinking garlic water or whatever, people suggest that something will happen or that there's a cure out there, it's just being withheld. that's a circulating rumour at the moment. and you have to counter that because if you don't, people will not take action in the way that you want them to. so, it's really important that we get the true messaging out there and the science underpinning it, and that's what we're trying to do. and if you're really interested in educating yourself on the science behind covid—19, then professor ward has a free online course that should really protect you from the fake facts. so, that's where we are now. but in this emerging age

of artificial intelligence, we're starting to get glimpses of how that technology may help us in fighting outbreaks like this. and lara has been investigating. this coronavirus seems to have shaken up life as we know it. inevitably, it's going to continue to spread. but how far and fast that's going to happen and what we're going to do about it are still in question. so, could artificial intelligence play a vital part in providing some answers, and maybe even improving the outcome? ai had an important role in the initial understanding of this outbreak. canadian specialist blue dot deals with global epidemic intelligence and identified very early on that something was amiss, through a combination of medical and airline data.

we were one of the first groups in the world that identified this outbreak. this was back, actually, on new year's eve day, the morning of december 31. the machine learning algorithms that we developed had picked up information in chinese of a pneumonia — it wasn't known to be a coronavirus — of unknown cause centred around this market in wuhan. when it was presented to our team, we recognised there were parallels to the sars outbreak 17 years earlier, so we knew immediately that there were some historic parallels here and that this outbreak really warranted our attention. and this is where the human scientists were needed. ai can alert, but can't yet do the investigation to say what's really occurring. detecting an outbreak is really just the first step. there are multiple other things that need to happen. ultimately, we need to determine what kinds of risks does this pose? is it likely to spread? if it's going to spread,

where might it go? what kind of consequences might occur from that spread? and then, ultimately, we have to get that information into the hands of people who can then be empowered with that information to take the appropriate actions. it's not just about tracking, though. the dream is that one day, ai might be able to conjure up with new challenges — the latter being something benevolent ai in london is already leading the way on. this company uses al to better understand the mechanism of disease, correlating data on illnesses, drugs and outcomes, and providing more information than any human being could ever come up with. and, in this case, a potential lead. what are we looking at here? this is a demonstration of our algorithm processing documents in real time,

reading the abstracts of scientific publications to do with coronavirus and extracting relationships between key biological concepts that we really care about to carry out drug discovery. and at this point, we're just a few months into an outbreak that could really, really grow. how meaningful do you think this data is so far? there's a huge amount of information being published. we're notjust pulling out coronavirus information, but we're merging it with a lot of existing publications on underlying biology. 0ur algorithms reason over biology at multiple layers, from the nano—world of proteins interacting on our cells through this maze of biological processes, up to human—defined definitions of diseases. it's very early days for the process, but it is suggesting what might be worth further investigation. now, a lot of people are looking at virals, antivirals and how they might potentially, you know, treat the disease. we looked at it from

a completely different way. we said, "what are the other types of approved drugs that might inhibit the progression of that disease in the body?" so, we surfaced a number of drugs, and then we did some experimentation based on that and further research. and then we came up with this one drug that we think is best suited. it has both anti—inflammatory properties as well as the ability to stop what's called endocytosis, which is what enables the virus to enter the lungs, which is the most, you know, potentially dangerous outcome of the coronavirus. the company stresses this is only conjecture. and although the drug in question is approved for use in rheumatoid arthritis, clinical trials and full scientific evidence would be needed before it could even come close to being used for this purpose. what we're trying to do is use this technology in the service of science to further the development of novel treatments for diseases that

currently have no treatment. like, right now in the world, there's over 9000 diseases that have no treatment. well, ai will play a greater role than it has already because what's being done is genetic sequences are being taken — that is the understanding of the organism itself — and this is put into databases that can then determine where a virus came from, where it might be going in the future. of course, ai hasn't solved the covid—19 crisis, but it has hopefully helped to some extent, and should be learning from it to be even more helpful in any future disease outbreaks. and that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. and we are waiting for you on your social media platform of choice. we live on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter @bbcclick. thanks for watching

and we'll see you soon. hello. sunday offers a better chance of sunshine across many parts of the british isles including the cumbrian coast and for that we have to think the progress of this weather front towards the near continent. he also bars beginning to open up a touch as well through sunday so a blustery day but less in the way of wind then perhaps you experienced overnight and there will be a better chance of sunshine widely across the british isles although you will see a peppering of showers especially but not exclusively across western areas. temperatures in a range of about 6—12 were sloped. monday sta rts about 6—12 were sloped. monday starts off dry enough but this

system similarly a long way away in the atlantic eventually spreads its cloud and wind and rain initially into northern ireland or in the morning but then come mid afternoon it will be all over western scotland and western england and much of wales. and for the very driest of weather until the evening you have to be in the northeast of scotland ora to be in the northeast of scotland or a way towards east anglia in the southeast.

this is bbc news. our top stories: the government is planning new emergency laws in response to the coronavirus outbreak. it comes as the number of people who have tested positive for the disease in the uk rises to 209. milton keynes hospital is isolating people who came into contact with a man in his 80s, who died of the virus on thursday. we currently have five patients who are isolated and who have been tested and we are awaiting the results of those to come back, and we have asked nine staff to self isolate. 140 britons remain quarantined aboard a cruise ship off the coast of california, on which 21 people tested positive for coronavirus.