halt any vehicle, chain or to halt any vehicle, chain or aircraft as well. the government is in control and will be able to step in if there is wider problems. at the moment it is two days now, very serious, gloomy front pages. and i do me section here, in the worst—case air, the death management industry will be readily overwhelmed. we will not have body storage requirements. good gracious. measures seen by the times says that councils may go over sanders and ca re councils may go over sanders and care homes to address staff shortages because there was worry is that those during the carry might fall ill... they have to have a certain headcount, a certain number of heads and if they relax that... ca re of heads and if they relax that... care homes, everyone has a few years. when you see a sentence like that, you wonder how for willow

these standards will go. people want their wealth once looked after. —— how far will the standards will go. within the next two weeks this will be pushed through parliament. and a whole bunch of things that could happen, this is interesting, a couple of weeks ago i was very much the camp of is this being over—the—top, isn't that bad? and then last week it was starting to look like the stock markets trumping and then saying that the financial impact would be massive to the physical and impact. now impact would be massive to the physicaland impact. now i'm in impact would be massive to the physical and impact. now i'm in the zone of having conversations with my pa rents, zone of having conversations with my parents, please don't do this, please wash your hands, please think about there is one in seven people in yourage gap about there is one in seven people in your age gap who are going to die from this perhaps. let's be more thoughtful. there is a space between complacency and panic and i don't know where i am in it. i'm confused. it was that had —— press conference

again, that star sentence about people losing loved ones, people we re people losing loved ones, people were scared but... a big telling moment. you needed to get the worst—case out straightaway so people sits up and listen and keep washing their hands, people do keep isolating. otherwise i suppose it goes away. people get complacent as you say. but you do not want people panicking. we have a 12 week period, 13, 14 panicking. we have a 12 week period, 13, 1a week where we are still waiting. in that time, you cannot keep saying you will lose loved ones because you cannot self—isolate for that length of time, you must have children home from school because people start ringing up other pa rents people start ringing up other parents and saying "i am tearing my hair, can they have a play date?" and the same with other people and they will try to break the embargo in some ways. you cannot sustain that for 12 weeks. michael take us to the telegraph, same story by and watch what they have gone big on this mass gatherings. that was not going to happen, now in england it

looks as though elsewhere. going to happen, now in england it looks as though elsewherem going to happen, now in england it looks as though elsewhere. it says he has performed a u—turn but it hasn't spelled out that he has done, and said whether or not he mentioned yesterday in the press conference this idea that it would possibly come somewhere down the line. this will be next weekend. the times some say more five and a people, some say more than 5000 could still be about. the are not sure. —— they're not sure. we saw a lot of the governing bodies and sport acted anyway and we nt bodies and sport acted anyway and went ahead and did it. they were very worried because they have a duty of care to their spectators. a lot of big games this week and, a lot of big games this week and, a lot of big games this week and, a lot of action and i think they decided they did not want the responsibility of it so they acted straightaway and the government gave themi straightaway and the government gave them i supposed to do that in whether you think that or not, and the next week, it is going to be official. i think they're dropping these things into us to get used to

them. are they? or are they persuaded by public opinion to change? if you are taking scientific advice and if you are saying this is the cogent, sensible, credible thing to do, we are listening to the advisers and doing what they say and then 2k hours after there has been some criticism of you you are changing it, doesn't it look like you are not relying on the scientific advice and now we're going to be ruled by public opinion and opinion on twitter, is that the best way of doing it? he would officially done the u—turn today and said right from now wouldn't he? and set a week's time, we still had that the way... we have those mass gatherings banned in ireland and scotland, he has been made to welbeck about there has been some criticism by some experts saying this isn't the way to do it and other experts saying there is the way to do it. there is disagreement in expert opinion is ed where he is said where he will do it... there must be a reason for the seven days

one would think so. they have said we will not ban football matches but if your first team is getting ill and if the manager, and coaches ill, you can't and people do not come up to the ground, there's no point saying we will keep all these gatherings opening because people wa nt to gatherings opening because people want to go. if you do everything at once, then you have 12 weeks where there is... there is a word on their up there is... there is a word on their up at the economic consequences of this. alastair darling was the chancery during the financial crisis talking about big businesses needing to be bailed out. that is interesting because this government but fly... the previous government wet british steel have a number of problems when labour were urging them to bail them out and now we will be in a situation where so many businesses are going to have trouble, we have 500,000 businesses in this country that are struggling and a good chunk of them. so many problems, the tourism industry has

50 millionjobs in it worldwide... the economy finances everyone. to keep the country going, they will have to make an ideological switch and start subsidising and supporting private business which is something any normal conservative government could not do. they will also have to start pumping money into the nhs which is in the french ways than they were expecting are planning to do ordid they were expecting are planning to do or did not want to do. and some things they promise in the budget speech this week will have to go out the window, they won't have enough. a £12 billion relief package, if you look at where this is going to spread, at every sector of the economy. . . spread, at every sector of the economy... more than £12 billion will be needed. michaell economy... more than £12 billion will be needed. michael i want to stay with you because i want to ask you what the words on the brink mean on the front of the daily express? this is imperial college in london, i think they have started this

testing on animals on mice, the results were back within one month and they say it has worked in terms of in mice and other want to move on to human trials. they think they could have this within nine months. which, is not going to help this time around but we are being told by the experts that it will be coming back, it will be a feature for the re st of back, it will be a feature for the rest of our lives. so, i think people would want to know what is going on and do not know if it is certain. positive news! struggling to be optimistic! they're asking for £2 million in government funding which does not some i can offer a lot when we're in the situation we are. it is a bit of hope, it will not help this time around by the that but this team is all over the world. they are doing this research. if the british government got behind british scientist to do it, i did see why anyone would have a problem with that, too many pound —— £2

million is not sound like an awful lot... the very first cases in china at the end of january, the unconfirmed was the chinese did not know about, they put them back at the beginning of december. if not before. very early days of december. then they confirmed cases started coming through in january then they confirmed cases started coming through injanuary and the lockdown came at the end of the month. they managed to capture the virus, capture the genome, sure that you know with researchers around the world in the matter of days and now andi world in the matter of days and now and i met her a few weeks, there is other countries as well and other scientists are working on different kinds of vaccines communicant with each other and building something. and we have had a 12 week heads up that there is going to be a big issue. this is the first time of any plague for want of a better word in history that we have had that kind of information and the amount of whining that is going on about it is incredible! this is a first, a big pandemic and we have had that kind

of morning... remember yesterday they told us it would be 14 weeks until the peak. that's just they told us it would be 14 weeks until the peak. that'sjust the peak and there is plenty time after that. doesn't mean it will go down straight afterward. we are in this for the long term. the mirror finally, this is your paper, susie. game over, they‘ re finally, this is your paper, susie. game over, they're going heavily on the sporting. i am upset about when within but it has not made the front page. that is a could be. that could bea page. that is a could be. that could be a maybe but the thought of the pandemic perhaps building and having a peak in may, junejust certainly... you had british sport which although you may think it is people's leisure time and is just an afternoon in the public on the come at this is a massive multi—billion pound industry in which there are manyjobs dependent pound industry in which there are many jobs dependent and pound industry in which there are manyjobs dependent and even if you are going to watch football in the pile, that pub is making money

selling you beer and christmas while you are doing it. and if you are not going, that pub... —— and crisps while you are doing it. we can have you come if you're a sports fan, you kind of product as to what you will watch. arsenal and liverpool famines are quite concerned or what is going on. it is important for a lot of but... —— arsenal and liverpool fans. one thing that surprising during the presser with the scientific advisers was saying we would not ban football games because you when i get affected in big areas, you are more like it to be affected down in the pub. they don't seem to realise that football matches are preceded or followed and a pub. they carried it outside anyway. yet the travel on public transferred to get to the games and they don't do it with their hands in their pockets. time is at this time around, we would do it all again shortly. thank you both very much for the time being. that's it for the papers this hour. we will be back at 11.30 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. goodbye. hello there. for many of us it was a glorious start of the day. take a look at this weather watcher picture from the highlands of scotland, the glorious mountains they're covered in snow underneath crisp spring sunshine. many started off with sunshine. many started off with sunshine but we saw showers form notably this alignment stretching from merseyside across the midlands which made showers heavy and slow moving in nature. tamworth, that's where the skies worked —— would like asa where the skies worked —— would like as a cloud gathered during the early stage of the afternoon, with a few

rainbows. but our attention at the moment is shifting to the slump of cloud moving in, a weatherfront weakening because we are seeing pretty big developments with an area of low pressure to the west of the uk, that develop meant taking over. what does that mean? overnight tonight, as our band of rain pushes and it will be weakening, the rain turning right ear and patchy, the that theme is western scotland where the rain will be coming in with more ofan on the rain will be coming in with more of an on and could be some snow across the high ground for a time. the weekend isn't unsettled and while there will be rain at times but sunshine at times. quite a windy weekend. we start off with cloud and rain moving eastwards and then sunshine in northern ireland which moves into scotland, england, and wales for a time before the next weather system, the more developed with system moves into bring heavier rain into northern ireland and western scotland as well. temperatures of 14 degrees, it will bea mild temperatures of 14 degrees, it will be a mild one, it stays quite windy

and those blustery winds continue through night as well as this rain becomes a slow moving across the hills of wales in south—west england. nine or 10 degrees for inwood and wales tomorrow and further north is where we have the cooler air. first sunday we pick up on or weather front cooler air. first sunday we pick up on or weatherfront which cooler air. first sunday we pick up on or weather front which will bring wet weather across england and wales. as the front moves eastwards it will decelerate and slow down and drag its heels as it works across east anglia and... writer weather, sunshine but so showers heavy with hailand sunshine but so showers heavy with hail and thunder across northern areas of scotland. cooler here, temperatures just 6 degrees. pressure builds next week across southern areas which means they should become drier with some sunshine, quite mild of to 16 degrees in london but then the northern half of the uk, temperatures stay closer to normal and we will continue to see that mixture of sunshine and showers. it stays quite settled across northern parts. that's your weather.

this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 11:00: the world health organization declares europe the focal point of the global coronavirus outbreak. europe has now become the epicentre of the pandemic, with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from china. here the premier league, english football league, and scottish fa fixtures are all off until april and there's no six nations rugby this weekend. in the usa, president trump declares a national emergency as it's confirmed 46 states have cases of coronavirus. the action i am