hello. this is bbc news with me, rachel schofield. as rachel schofield. you can see, we are all set to ta ke as you can see, we are all set to take a look at tomorrow morning's papers. first, the headlines. the foreign office is advising against all but essential travel to a number of areas in northern italy — 16 million people there are being placed in quarantine for a month because of the virus.

here, a third person has now died in the uk after contracting the virus, after the biggest one—day jump in confirmed cases. france bans gatherings of more than a thousand people in order to try and contain the virus. the prime minister has met victims of flooding, announces a doubling in flood defences funding, and defends not turning up when bewdley was under water. it is all too easy for a prime minister to come to a place in the middle of an emergency. it is not so easy for the emergency services because what they have to do is then break off. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are rachel cunliffe and miatta fahnbulleh. great and miatta fahnbulleh. to have you both with us th evening. great to have you both with us this evening. lots of the papers already in. and as you would imagine, many leading on the same story, which is of course coronavirus. the independent leads on the rise of coronavirus cases in italy, saying, "deaths soar as 16 million people are put on lockdown". the telegraph calls italy's handling of the virus a "farce" as it says dozens of flights from infected areas were allowed to land in britain. the guardian agrees. because the situation chaos as thousands try to flee the worst affected areas in the north of the country. also focusing on italy is the financial times, which describes the "dramatic action" taken by the country to contain the spread of the virus. as italy goes into lockdown, the prime minister here urges people

to "play their part" in tackling the virus — that's according to city am. the daily mail reports on the third person to die in the uk after contracting coronavirus. the man, who was in his 60s, had recently returned from italy. the metro looks at a different angle of coronavirus and makes reference to the stock—piling taking place here in the uk, as "panic buyers fight for toilet roll". yes, we will go on a little bit. we aim to bring a bit of common perspective with our guest this evening. rachel, we're are good as her with the telegraph. a great picture of a tourist in st mark's and venice. they're calling it a force in italy. something really dramatic initially has done, putting a quarter of the population and lock—out in the north. there were other praises of italy's sacrifice

at this point and with the telegraph is leading on is that there seems to have been a bit of confusion about the quarantine, people try to escape it, particular people who already had flights out of the affected areas. one of the things that telegraph is worried about, and i can see why, is that dozens of flights from the affected areas arrived in britain today and no one there on arrival was warned, were not put into quarantine, and there are thoughts that if italy is taking this drastic action, why are we not responding? there is this idea to blame the response that is logistically complicated. clearly it's a lee felt it needed to move fast and correlating international response and we would have to see how this plays out. miatta, lots playing out in here. italy are trying to move in a dramatic way to contain it? absolutely. it is no

small feat to try and contain 50 million people. it is unprecedented. it's quite a big action. i think as i understand it, there was a leak of action of what happened to a lot of people starting to panic, starting to flee, and that has added to the problem. i mean, only time will tell. it does raise a question now domestically. aliza suddenly looked to the prime minister and what actually is going to be taken. —— all eyes subtly look. the number of uk cases has increased. if all indications are it is probably going to continue to escalate, at what point do they start taking or drastic measures? we already know in some european countries, in germany, there banning public meetings of over 1000 people. are we going to start doing that here? and how are we going to contain it? the fact people are travelling into the country, there are no checks on the airports. countries that contained

its, people coming in, they were being tested, checked at the airport. at the moment, it doesn't feel like a response quite requested that and it needs to do very soon. interesting. and as we move onto the ft. interesting. and as we move onto the ft, rachel, they've got a picture of a quiet shopping area in milan. there's a focus here as well on cobra, on the emergency meeting that is going to happen tomorrow because the brits are going to need to think about our response. yeah. it's all about our response. yeah. it's all about planning. and i say what the government have been very clear about is we are past the point where containment on its own is going to work. we will move into the delay phase by delaying is as important, is really important because it's about making sure you don't get a sudden spike in cases. yes, cases are rising. i think the current numbers are 273. not being

hyperbolic there! it is increasing, but it is a village of the small amount of people, and it is about making sure the health services are able and prepared to cope when that spike comes. the other measures being taken in other countries, italy closing schools, france and germany closing public gatherings, i was quite reassured by the chief medical officer last week, who said there is no point in doing it yet, children don't seem to very contagious, closing schools not in terms of banning public gatherings, if you're going to ban a football match, you're going to get loads of people watching in a pub so it might not help. you're getting a pragmatic view of this challenge rather than saying, everyone panic right now. we are not at the pennington stage yet. are you at the panicking stage yet, miatta? partly, the numbers are quite small. and when you compare to things like the flu, instances that

are comparable, what is really worrying about the iris is, yes, how quickly it is spreading but the fact it is unknown, it is a new virus and we don't know how it spreads and what causes deaths in what instances, so i think that is what is...| instances, so i think that is what is... lam not instances, so i think that is what is... i am not worried at the moment but this is clearly going to play out, and the other angle the ft brings it is the economic one. you know, we already know that the chinese economy has slowed down dramatically, so expect growth below 596 dramatically, so expect growth below 5% this year. it's would have a knock on effect on other countries. we are excepting a big drop in growth. the question then becomes, how deep will this slowdown be? and what impact does it would have on a calm is like our own? and i will be the test. there's a kind of public health crisis the public have to grapple with —— the government have to grapple with. you segued dutifully onto rachel's city a.m. frontpage. the focus of your picture

here is on travel any fact that milan station is rather lengthy mary celeste. . . milan station is rather lengthy mary celeste... the economics of this are going to prove very important. the casualties of that... my frontpage, the travel restrictions, the trains in the picture but also italy's airline, which has cancelled all flights to malan and venice as well, and bas cancelled a lot of future flights, this is costing the airlines a lot of money —— ba has cancelled. the british one last week... the pressure of people booking flights and not knowing. if you go on any flight booking websites now, there are some amazing deals. i think you can get from london to la for £300 but you don't know if that is going to go or if

the flight is when clubs beforehand. that is tourism. manufacturing... of the economic impact could be quite severe. and it's interesting, isn't it, this travel? the unintended risk, whether you are taking off somewhere and thinking, can i get back again? that is the reason flights are so low, is a lot of people are not willing to take that gamble. people are staying put. for me, the big disruption will be on the supply chain committee industries, butjust the idea of 16 million people staying put and actually the disruption to the labour market. if you are not set up for working remotely, and this will bea for working remotely, and this will be a huge test, that's a lot of money that a lot of companies are going to lose instantly. the feed on effect to the western economies go to be interesting in ways that we

cannot quite predict at the moment. if for example the city of london subtly has to have huge numbers of people working from home, and they're not properly set up to work from home, that's good to have a huge effect. there's lots to play out in this, and we cannot predict it. we'll talk a bit of it about the budget in a minute and whether the government step in to address some of these issues but in the meantime, before relief coronavirus, miatta, just on the metro's frontpage, the angle of panic buying. don't be so sheu angle of panic buying. don't be so shelf —ish is there headline. angle of panic buying. don't be so shelf -ish is there headline. lots of toilet papers, lots of has to, lots of peer suitable —— lots of pasta, lots of paracetamol. i am not panicked. it is contagious. panicked. it is —— pasta, lots of paracetamol. i am not panicked. it is —— a contagion. they see people buying, they think,

cranky, i need to get my ten rolls of toilet roll! a number of the big supermarkets are actuallyjust capping the number of tour rules people can buy, capping the number of paracetamol they can buy, just to get some calm into the system. can i just give this opportunity can i do not do it. there are only going to be shortages. there is no need to be stockpiling dry pasta. resist, resist. that is the message from a seer. as we leave coronavirus, though i imagine it will be some knock—on, rachel, as we go back to the daily telegraph, a headline on the daily telegraph, a headline on the budget. the budget coming on wednesday. we are getting that little drip, drip, of things that might be in it. yes. although we are not paying much attention to it. i

feel for the chancellor. a lot of the plans are being put on ice because of carreras spending but when should the —— one of the things government says it is committed to an election campaign is leveling a pa rt an election campaign is leveling a part of the country in terms of fibre broadband and connectivity and ending so—called not spots for you internet service and they're spinning a £1 billion deal with mobile companies improving service. not mentioning 5g, but i do think we are going to carry on getting the drip, drip of future what we can expect in the budget. i don't think anyone is paying attention. they wa nt to anyone is paying attention. they want to know, do we have a plan to deal with the economic consequences of this? and for rishi sunak, he is going just to be sipping a lot more cups of tea. what would you like to hear from the chancellor aside from broadband and 4g? hear from the chancellor aside from broadband and 46 ?|j hear from the chancellor aside from broadband and 4g? i think it is going to be a tough budget for him.

the big message they want to sell is there going to try and level of the country. expect public investments. we have years of austerity and i think rishi is going to try and break that mould. investment, but there is indications as well on the day today spend, over the government has been very tight, they're going to be investing more as well, not least because they going have to dropa least because they going have to drop a lot of money to the nhs to respond to the coronavirus that. for me, let's see. at that because of the government will not just me, let's see. at that because of the government will notjust be the immediate response, but if there is a slowdown that comes out of that, we then enter the territory of fiscal stimulus. what are you going to do to boost the economy? and so the thing that i am hoping to see coming out of this budget is, yes, invest, but let's invest in sensible ways. we don't have to increase the amount of money coming into the economy to keep it going. i would like to see a lot of investment into green infrastructure. we knew you can invest quite quickly, we note yields a return, so that's what i am

desperate to see. we will see. at the end of the article, the question whether rishi sunak will adhere to the rules. that is what some of the traditional conservatives are concerned about. for the last ten yea rs, yes, we concerned about. for the last ten years, yes, we have austerity but one of the things the conservatives asa one of the things the conservatives as a party have been clear on is they want to get borrowing down. borisjohnson, when they want to get borrowing down. boris johnson, when he they want to get borrowing down. borisjohnson, when he became prime minister, through a lot of that on the window. they have fiscal rules on how they're allowed borrow and rishi sunak refused to confirm his go to stick to those coaches good in if you want more infrastructure and if you want more infrastructure and if you want a coronavirus contingency fund, but i think there we re contingency fund, but i think there were going to be quite a few traditional conservative voters who are very concerned about that. we will finish, miatta, with a slightly different gear change here but still on the daily telegraph. new pecking orderfor on the daily telegraph. new pecking order for eggs. on the daily telegraph. new pecking orderfor eggs. the on the daily telegraph. new pecking order for eggs. the colour of exquisitely apparently people like

to buy brown eggs because they think it is healthier. the hands that lay brown eggs are quite aggressive and the white egg, which is in less demand, farmer i'll. —— far more docile. i wonder, because demand, farmer i'll. —— far more docile. iwonder, because they demand, farmer i'll. —— far more docile. i wonder, because they taste the same, is it more wholesome? we we re the same, is it more wholesome? we were talking about panic buying and the consumer mind. eggs are not being rationed yet. have not seen panic buying. laughter you can knock yourself out buying pickled eggs — nobly likes them! —— nobody likes them. that's it for the papers this hour. rachel and miatta will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. for now, thank you both. 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—i9, which is caused by a new type of coronavirus. to date, there have been over 3,000 deaths from nearly 100,000 confirmed cases in 81 countries. and this is how i know that. this is thejohns hopkins university

covid—i9 dashboard. and since it went live injanuary, it has gone...viral, in a good way, by demystifying the stats and the numbers behind the spread of the disease. it is 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—i9 data. community powered site nextstrain draws together genome data shared by scientists around the world. as covid—i9 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, it is 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. on the right is what happens if we all wash our hands really well. on the left is what happens if we do not. 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 are 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 is 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 conspiracies' used be one of the suggested search terms. and it's not any more. over on facebook, it is 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 is drinking garlic water or whatever, people suggest that something will happen or that there is a cure out there — it's just being withheld. that is a circulating rumour at the moment. and you have to counter that because if you do not,

people will not take action in the way that you want them to. so it is really important that we get the true messaging out there and the science underpinning it, and that is what we are 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 is where we are now. but in this emerging age of artificial intelligence, we are 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 is going to continue to spread. but how far and fast that is going to happen and what we are 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 specialists 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 was 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 cannot yet do the investigation to say what is 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 is 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 is notjust about tracking, though. the dream is that one day, ai might be able to conjure up necessary vaccines on the spot, or repurpose drugs to deal 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 do 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 are notjust pulling out coronavirus information but we are merging it with a lot of existing publications on underlying biology.

our algorithms reason over biology at multiple layers, from the nano world of proteins interacting on ourselves through this maze of biological processes, up to human—defined definitions of diseases. it is 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 is 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 are 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 9,000 diseases that have no treatment. well, ai will play a greater role than it has already because what is 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, a! has not 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 short cut of click for this week. the full—length version is waiting for you right now iplayer. and we are waiting for you on your social media platform of choice. we live on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. hello once again. showers and rainbows aplenty on sunday, but as the showers begin to fade as we get into the first part of monday, it could be quite a chilly start. but things will change quite

markedly after that bright sunny start for many, because we've got a weather front lurking out towards the west, which eventually, through the morning, will rob northern ireland of its sunshine. by lunchtime, we will see quite a bit of rain. by mid—afternoon, western parts of scotland, western england and all of wales will have seen a fair amount of rain too. it's driest for longest out towards the east. a high on the day of about 10—11. notjust one set of fronts, but those fronts are still trailing across the british isles come tuesday, and there are still a fair few isobars as well. so, pretty cloudy fare. fruther burst of rain concerns about the intensity of rainfall across northwest england and wales. out towards the east though, if those skies begin to clear for any length of time, well, we could be looking at 15—16, possibly even 17 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: italy sees a sharp rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus, as a quarter of the population, is put in partial lock down. 366 people have now died, with the movements of 16 million residents in the north of the country, heavily restricted. a third person has now died in the uk after contracting the virus, after the biggest one day jump here, in confirmed cases. france bans gatherings of more than 1,000 people —

the future of the cruise ship cycling of the california coast remains uncertain. we will be speaking shortly to one of the