a bit stream will perhaps move a bit further north and things will start to settle down across southern parts of the uk. that is still to come. here we have saturday. early on saturday there will be some patchy rain around, and the skies are going to clear. the anticipation is that london, birmingham, liverpool, at least through the bulk of saturday should be fairly bright, but noticed there is low pressure here approaching the west and the north—west, so that does spell rain for places like belfast, the lake south—west that south—western parts of scotla nd south—west that south—western parts of scotland as well. —— the lake district and south—western parts of scotla nd district and south—western parts of scotland as well. this is the forecast for sunday. you can see a weather front crossing the country here, bringing a spell of rain during the morning. then perhaps a few spells of showers. sunday itself, the second half of the day gci’oss itself, the second half of the day across many western parts of the country will look absolutely fine. the winds will be pretty brisk as well. particularly around some of these western coasts. here is the

big picture on monday. this big high from the azores is coming. low pressure to the north end with high pressure to the north end with high pressure building in our direction but does spell from any of us a sunny and quite a chilly start. remember, the nights are still pretty long so it gets pretty chilly during the course of the night. lots of fine weather around, both in the morning and in the afternoon on monday. hardly a cloud in the sky for many of the major cities, but obviously a different story in the far north—west of our neighbourhood here. a weather front moving through with low pressure sitting across the north atlantic stop here it is. quite a large area of low pressure close to iceland. this weather front is moving across the uk. that means during the course of tuesday, a little bit more cloud across parts of northern ireland and scotland here, a notice ahead of the weather front, we have south—westerly is coming in all the way from the azores, so that does mean it is going to be relatively mild. in

fa ct, going to be relatively mild. in fact, temperatures in london could get up to around 15 degrees, perhaps even a degree also higher in one or two areas. here is the middle part of the week. just need to get through one weather front. it needs to sweep across the country. not a particularly active one. one that is not particularly active means they will not be an awful lot of rain associated with it. there is wednesday. just a bit of cloud moving through the uk. perhaps for a time, some fresh air on wednesday in the north of the country and maybe even some wintry showers across the hills, but in the south will probably hang onto some of that milder weather. once that weather front milder weather. once that weather fro nt m oves milder weather. once that weather front moves through, it does look as though the end of the week, sorry about thursday or friday, certainly saturday and sunday, a big high—pressure system builds across the uk. that means light winds, settled conditions, it doesn't necessarily mean it is going to be desperately warm. in fact, it could be only single figures, but at least the weather is looking good, with sunshine and conditions of light winds.

hello. this is bbc news with julian worricker. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. 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. 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. there's new uk guidance for those with flu like symptoms — don't visit relatives in care homes. and the government says schools should remain open

despite the outbreak, unless advised otherwise, by public health england. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the mirror columnist susie boniface and the deputy editor at the daily express, michael booker. welcome. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in with coronavirus continuing to dominate the headlines. here is a flavour. it's ‘game over‘ says the mirror as british sport is hit by the global pandemic with all premier and english football league matches cancelled until april. the telegraph says borisjohnson will follow suit and impose a ban on mass gatherings as early as next week. the times has more details of the government's emergency legislation with police set to be given new powers to detain people

infected with coronavirus. more coronavirus in the guardian — the paper says care homes are banning family visits in an effort to protect older residents. the daily mail leads with an admission from intensive care experts that treatment of the most vulnerable patients may be stopped if the spread of the virus escalates. the express says british scientists may be close to a breakthrough in developing a vaccine to treat the coronavirus. and let us have a look at some of those. michael, kick us off this time. the guardian, mass gatherings band as pm forced into a u—turn. they say he is forced into a u—turn. yesterday he was there at the press co nfe re nce yesterday he was there at the press conference where we had some fairly gloomy statements made about people losing loved ones early. then he said that they wouldn't be bringing in this ban on mass gatherings. this has been changed. it seems to have

beena has been changed. it seems to have been a briefing given saying it would be changed as of next week. they are saying there is this u—turn, but there is still this gap, still a seven—day gap with that happening. we had all the governing bodies, the sporting bodies today, on the premier league, scottish foot ball on the premier league, scottish football league, places like that, we've got the rugby, a lot of the racing cancelled. a lot of people have ta ken it racing cancelled. a lot of people have taken it upon themselves, governing bodies, to cancel it a nyway governing bodies, to cancel it anyway and get it out of the way. in the telegraph and the times, also, they are talking about this, saying 500 people could be the maximum of these gatherings. the telegraph suggesting it could be up to 5000. i think they are still working on the figures. people will still be wondering why we've got seven days to go with it. is that part of the scientific advice? is it something thatis scientific advice? is it something that is part of the staged plan that the government are looking at? but what we are getting in the front of the telegraph and the guardian is the idea that there has been a u—turn and it is seen as a witness

from the prime minister. and they are not countering that at the moment —— weakness. maybe we will set counter tomorrow. if you were relying upon the scientific advice, then public opinion or criticism or what scotland are doing or are doing italy is doing, should make no difference to you, scientific advice is what it is stop the fact that the scientific advisor best to have changed may mean some people have less faith in it, and if the prime minister is doing something in the face of the scientific advice because of public opinion, and we've got less faith in him. they can understand why they have had this cautious approach. if we have a 12 week period, before we hit the peak, let alone the time after the peak when we will still be having coronavirus cases, if they started doing all this now, in a month's time we would all be bored rigid and we will be out there, organising play dates for our children, having social events again, and going i'm not going back to work, but i have got to go to the cinema, i've got to get out of the house, i'm going mad.

they have said they will not shut the schools, but at the same time, it is here and there, they are saying they might add another week on either side of the easter holidays. and the only way to know whether the courses approach is right or the immediate lockdown approach is right is with hindsight. only time will tell the answer. whether you avoid the massive spy, what you have flattened the curve, whether you flatten the curve too much and have this bike later, so you can't do it perfectly, you can't predict what will happen. we know oui’ predict what will happen. we know our demographics and health system are not widely different to italy, but we know the problems are crowded in the north of the country where as oui’s in the north of the country where as ours appear at the moment to be more spread out. so there should not be so spread out. so there should not be so much spread out. so there should not be so much pressure on so spread out. so there should not be so much pressure on so few hospitals. we do know we have had more time to prepare and the nhs is building capacity to deal with more intensive care needs. so, in theory, it should work well. it will be like the millennium bug. there was all this planet, it will be awful, and it didn't happen and people thought

it didn't happen and people thought it was nothing to worry about. that is because loads of work was done to avoid the problems that were going to happen. the best possible thing here is that people will go that was com pletely here is that people will go that was completely over eggs, because they didn't notice the crisis, because it has been averted —— over eggs. didn't notice the crisis, because it has been averted -- over eggs. you get the feeling it has not been over eggs. maybe it is working on me. but from the last few days not make the tone has changed. you could see when borisjohnson came tone has changed. you could see when boris johnson came out yesterday, yesterday there was something different about him and he did look as though it had changed with him and he was taking it incredibly seriously. that first statement he came out with yesterday set the tone for the rest of the week. the other points made here is that if big sporting fixtures continue, police have to be there, the ambulance... it takes the pressure off the emergency services. but also you have to travel to those events on public transport, often, and you often gather in the pub before and

after, so you are in situations with maybe more likelihood of transmission. it is notjust the event itself, there are lots of things to be concerned about. susie, the i weekend is going to summing it allup the i weekend is going to summing it all up with the headline, the uk puts life on hold. i've fashioned it just some bullet points that mass gatherings will be bad, companies will introduce more widespread working from home —— band. donald trump has become subdued. he has declared this national emergency three days after telling people to stay calm. we carried the press conference for an hour and he did not look subdued from where i was sitting. he has his moments. although they didn't have free testing to start with, they only had free testing for those who didn't have insurance, but those who had insurance still had to pay for their treatment, so the tests didn't get taken up. and the americans decided they were not going to use the chinese testing kits, they were going to have their own testing kits, and they didn't work. so the testing was very hit and miss way very long time. now they have introduced free testing, everybody, even those with insurance, will mean

that more middle—class awaba road will turn up and lock up the system. still have the issue of how to pay for treatment when people are through an emergency phase. and it is quite likely, eye would have thought, alljoe biden has to do if he is the opponent in november and the general election is to say to the general election is to say to the american public "bodies are piling up in the streets" if that's what happens. so let's have a socialised healthcare system like written, they have had such a good coronavirus outbreak, much better than ours, and he will have a landslide. you use the word subdued. he looked rattled. he was trying to use the old donald trump style and be offhand with this thing, but it didn't seem to be working. be offhand with this thing, but it didn't seem to be workingm doesn't work. it seemed inappropriate this time. he is put so inappropriate this time. he is put so much of political capital in a booming stock market and it has chris collett has had to close several times. and he put so much stock in dismantling obamacare and how atrocious socialised healthcare

would be, at the point when people say we do need to act electively only to help each other. one other bullet point, you mentioned that, it is to introduce much more widespread working from home. that is viable up toa working from home. that is viable up to a point. but only up to a point. well, it is. you can see it is a theme again. it is on the front of theme again. it is on the front of the i, on the telegraph, is something the government will try to work with businesses to do. obviously there will be a lot of people who won't be doing it. princess taxi drivers and things like that. retailers. millions of people that work in retail. we are a services —based economy. there are things some of us can do a tabletop eye work from home most days anyway. but in order to come in and work on television you have to travel and see other people. everybody needs to have meetings and communicate. it's more effective. working from home isn't in your pyjamas all day with your feet up having jaffa case, despite my best efforts. it's not.

myself as well. the daily mail. michael, inevitably, because it is the scottish daily mail, concentrating on the first death. the word war footing. that is on the front of the scottish daily mail. on the front of the english daily mail they are talking about some of these intensive care units in england are war zones, people coming intensive care units in england are warzones, people coming in intensive care units in england are war zones, people coming in and being treated. they have a similar theme both sides of the border. it is clear from this they talk about routine operations being cancelled. they have had the first death, surgeries have been postponed to free our vital staff and equipment, all intensive care units are banning visitors. it is having huge affects, huge strain already on the nhs, both sides of the border. this will only continue. on the front of the english daily mail they are talking about taking people off ventilators who are in a worse case than some others who may benefit from it.|j suppose it is because you have so

many elements and announcements all in sucha many elements and announcements all in such a short space of time that when you see it listed like that it begins to look quite alarming. yes. and if you are going to have something like this for 12 week there will be a great deal of worry. and afair there will be a great deal of worry. and a fair bit of fatigue with the whole thing. it makes you think that the year or two we had discussing brexit was an absolute walk in the park of wonderful, varied news. brexit was there. i think newspaper so brexit was there. i think newspaper so far have kind of got the tone right. i don't think there has been too much panic and going around. not too much panic and going around. not too much panic and going around. not too much criticism of the coverage. i think over the next week or so with the way things are changing we do have to keep an eye on the headlines, we have to keep an eye on the well—being headlines, we have to keep an eye on the well— being of headlines, we have to keep an eye on the well—being of people headlines, we have to keep an eye on the well— being of people who read the well— being of people who read the papers it does have that impact, if you read day after day after day, if you read day after day after day, if you read day after day after day, if you have weeks and weeks of this, june might be the peak, that is three months away. if people are going to work in shops and supermarkets close down, will be fewer newspaper sales. editors will

be keen to ensure their readership stay steady or don't declined too much. but also, every editor in every edition of their newspaper, whether it is coronavirus or not, they want to have some light and shade, they want funny stories, animal stories, they want interesting pictures. they want other stuff. you've got the first few pa g es other stuff. you've got the first few pages of every newspaper, see all our coronaviruses, it is wearing. you can't do that all the time the next 12 weeks. wearing. you can't do that all the time the next 12 weekslj wearing. you can't do that all the time the next 12 weeks. i think at the same time it is almost like during wartime when newspapers have to become incredibly accurate at all times. obviously we have to at all times. obviously we have to at all times. but particularly we have to make sure everything is correct and give the right information to be and don't create panic. what of this ft we can story about british airways, because there are quite serious concerns about the impact this will have on the actual survival? the travel industry itself is currently

facing its biggest crisis on record and we have the british airways chief executive warning staff, in what everyone says is a doom laden memo, entitled the survival of british airways, cutting jobs, suspending roots, aircraft are being locked up, and ba says it is under immense pressure. but this will be everywhere. this is in every sector of the economy. obviously they will be hit very quickly stop people aren't travelling anywhere, they are scared to go anywhere, more state occasions than anything else the summer. occasions than anything else the summer. people aren't going to be flying. a huge amount ofjobs in there. they are talking about air france and klm, saying it has drawn down1.1 france and klm, saying it has drawn down 1.1 billion of its revolving credit facility. so they are struggling. this is all over the world. ba alone has 45,000 jobs in this country. it is something that is. if they were too, for example, decide they were not going to have any flights and they not going to be able to take off, and put most of

their staff to make you can't send them home and keep paying them if they are not working at all, to send them home and perhaps to fire them all and say we are closing down the airline and will restart in expensive we are all still here. in that instance, we have 45,000 people suddenly on the doll. there is nowhere else they can go, no other airlines going, the government will have to find a way to pay all of us if we were to all lose ourjobs to be at home and keep the economy ticking over until such a point that it picks up again. obviously we had the budget this week, although that feels like weeks ago. and within that budget, obviously rishi sunak made an announcement about a particular sum of money that would be dedicated towards elements of this, but that now looks like it will need to be topped up. this, but that now looks like it will need to be topped upm this, but that now looks like it will need to be topped up. it is not going to be enough. we were saying in the break earlier on, this can go one of two ways. either people become, you know, globally, we

become, you know, globally, we become more introverted, more insular, more about looking after yourself, the individual comes first. or we go the other way and become more socialised and say, you know what, we actually need a universal salary for everybody. we need more socialised healthcare. we need more socialised healthcare. we need more socialised healthcare. we need more connectivity and communication between countries. we need to be experts in china to be more open with the experts in the uk and the us. things like that.“ more open with the experts in the uk and the us. things like that. if it is, as we keep saying, that figure is, as we keep saying, that figure is 12 weeks until bp, so after that people will be desperate to fly around. people will be desperate to have holidays. people will be desperate for leisure time. but they will be broke because they will have lost theirjobs. well, true. we will have to rebuild. the chancellor will have to rebuild. the chancellor will have everybody knocking on his door. yes, he has not taken on thejob have everybody knocking on his door. yes, he has not taken on the job at an easy time. i don't think there are any pandemics that haven't caused a big social change in their wake, especially the ones that are well known in history, whether it is the black death or the plague spanish flu, they have always been linked to major social changes

afterwards. which way is it to go? how unofficial will it be? we will have to wait and see. susie, the matt cartoon on the front of the telegraph. does that tell the story for you? yes, bless him. if you show the early signs of becoming an armchair expert in myself isolate in 2021. i would say go further, maybe 2050 stop there is plenty of them, isn't there? there are a lot of medical officers down in the pub or on twitter. we always check out in just very, very carefully. let's finish with the front. it is a spectacular front, actually, finish with the front. it is a spectacularfront, actually, of the sport telegraph. one word, shut down. the day ‘s sport grinding to a halt. we have done some delving, we're halt. we have done some delving, we' re pretty halt. we have done some delving, we're pretty that is earned field. in field, yeah, liverpool obviously two games away from winning the league title. —— anfield. jurgen klopp put out a pretty league title. —— anfield. jurgen klopp put out a pretty classy statement today, reflecting that,

yes, they were on their way to the title, but people are dying. we will see what they are going to do about the title, what happens there. reading around the various sports pages that were dropping tonight, it does seem as though they are already talking about the premier league being finished for the season. there are going to be people disappointed, it plays a big part in people's lives, sport, however, ithink that at the right decision today. lives, sport, however, ithink that at the right decision todaym lives, sport, however, ithink that at the right decision today. it is a combination of the duty of care to spectators and fans, having them all in the same place where they may be transmitting infections. there is the pressure it might put on emergency services you the pressure it might put on emergency services you have to have police and ambulances at the grounds for the sort of thing. and there is also the fact that he found some spectators are not turning up, you are not making the money on the gate,itis are not making the money on the gate, it is not worth putting the match on in the first place, you cannot pay your own bills. so everything just starts... again, pots of these clubs, it is notjust the premier league, you have to go down all the divisions in scotland where isn't much tv money. they have

atv where isn't much tv money. they have a tv money now, if they have completely lost prize money? there will be lots of financial pressure on the clubs as well. with the premier league, i suppose liverpool have as good as one it. in that sense, it is easier to stop it this season than if it were another season. what it shows is that even the big clubs have to see a need to shut down, perhaps financially. what a house of cards the 21st century is. it only needs a couple of little things and suddenly everything sta rts things and suddenly everything starts falling apart, and the world as we know it is not as it was. you have summed up the interesting times very nicely. that is all for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages online on the bbc news website. it is all there for you seven days a week. and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you susie and michael.

good evening. it's the day that football in the uk joined other major sports around the world by suspending play because of the coronavirus. the premier league, the efl, the spl are all on hold as well as leagues in wales and northern ireland. the premier league says it hopes to resume on april the 4th and will reschedule the displaced fixtures. but it raises big questions about when the season will be completed, if at all, with liverpool desperately close to theirfirst league title in 30 years. uefa, which has suspended the champions league and europa league, is meeting next week to discuss postponing euro 2020 which could allow the domestic season to be extended into the summer. the chairman of the welsh rugby union has admitted their decision to postpone wales's fixture against scotland in the six nations tomorrow was made after seeing a raft of other sporting events being cancelled.

the match was set to be the only six nations fixture taking place on the final weekend of the tournament after italy england and france ireland were previous postponed due to coronavirus concerns. as late as this morning the fixture at the principality stadium was still on. that was this morning, before we understood what the other sporting bodies were doing as well, in terms of the efl, i mentioned, the premier league, and indeed, as i say, the celtic versus rangers match. plus, worldwide, we know other major sporting events such as the australian grand prix of the players championship in jacksonville, were also being pulled. so i think we made a decision, we spoke to government, as i say, in terms of whether their stance has changed. the stones had not changed up until the weekend. but our boards, we decided the right decision was to call off again. the london marathon has been moved from april until the 4th of october.

it's the first time it's been postponed since its launch in 1981. organisers say the world is in an unprecedented situation, grappling with a global pandemic and public health is everyone's priority. the first golf major of the year, the masters, has also been postponed. it is one of the biggest events of the golfing calender, and was due to begin on the 9th of april. there's no golf scheduled on the pga tour until the middle of april at the earliest. fred ridley, the chairman of augusta national where the masters is held, said that the health and wellbeing of everyone associated led to this decision. earlier the players championship in florida was cancelled afterjust one round. there has been some sport taking place today. over 68,000 people were at cheltenham to watch the gold cup. they saw 100—30 favourite al boum photo ridden by paul townened beat santini by a neck, to become the first horse since 2004 to successfully defend the gold cup. the last horse to win it more than once was best mate, who won the race three times between 2002 and 2004. al boum's trainer is willie mullins.

he isa he is a laid—back course, very laid—back. like his jockey, he is a laid—back course, very laid—back. like hisjockey, paul is very laid—back. all came in with a lot of pressure this year, being the number onejockey lot of pressure this year, being the number one jockey for the first time in cotton for us. and, you know, he stabbed his name on cheltenham and stamped his authority. so i'm really pleased for paul. there has been a big shock in the super league, as salford produced a stunning fight back to beat the leaders wigan. salford were trailing 14—2 at one stage, but three second half tries, including this effort from kevin brown, sealed an 18—14 victory. leeds could have replaced wigan at the top tomorrow but their game against catalans has been postponed because of coronavirus fears. that's all the sport for now. hello again. yesterday we had a

glorious start to the day. clear sunny skies, glistening snow on the mountain tops in scotland. sunny skies, glistening snow on the mountain tops in scotlandm sunny skies, glistening snow on the mountain tops in scotland. it really was a perfect start. but it wasn't like that everywhere. we did have some showers around as well. the heaviest show was developed in a line stretching more or less from merseyside towards the midlands, and in tamworth we had quite a different look to the skies through the afternoon as the clouds developed here. a few heavy downpours and one or two here. a few heavy downpours and one ortwo rain here. a few heavy downpours and one or two rain barriers spotted out and about as well. at the moment on the satellite picture we have an area of cloud working in. this is an area of low pressure but it is weakening quickly, because system to the west is developing very quickly, and the development really is swamping this initial system. so what that means is, over the next few hours, as this boundary rain pushes ease, it is weakening and fragmenting all the time across england and wales, turning increasingly light and patchy, whereas the raining western has a bit more oomph to it as it comes in, and indeed there will be

snow in the hills of scotland, 200 metres of elevation or so north of the central belt. over the weekend, rain at times, and settled, quite windy. also some sunshine. many other start on a grey note. sunshine moves into northern ireland for retirement and spreads into england, wales and western scotland, and then in the afternoon and expanded rain comes through very quickly in northern ireland and gets into western parts of scotland, lyndon wales. it is a mild day with temperatures around 14 degrees or so around parts of the south—east. quite windy for many of us. as we go through the night time, this weather becomes quite slow moving across wales and south—west england, whereas over the hills we could get around 30 or 40 millimetres of rain. mild and quite a windy night, temperature is nine or 10 degrees in england and wales, cooler and further north in scotland and northern ireland. now, on sunday, our weather front, as it northern ireland. now, on sunday, our weatherfront, as it moves northern ireland. now, on sunday, our weather front, as it moves east, decelerates, slows down, really drags its heels as it moves into east anglia and south—east england. behind that front, a fresh feeling to the weather. sunny spells. there will be some showers, and they will

be happy with hail and thunder at times across northern areas. temperatures around eight or nine in the north, 11 or 12 further south. into next week, dry with some sunshine, turning mild across southern areas, but still a number of showers and cooler times further north. that's your latest weather.

this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: president trump declares a national emergency — unlocking billions of dollars to fight coronavirus in the us. to unleash the full power of the federal government i am officially declaring a national emergency. two very big words. as italy struggles to cope, the world health organization says europe is now the epicentre of the pandemic. more cases are now being reported every day that were reported every day that were reported in china at the height of its epidemic. more european countries seal their borders — and the uk prepares emergency legislation to ban mass gatherings. and the pandemic wipes out most of the world's major sporting