did on the site, i'm still getting used to this new way of doing things, looking to the left another red. do you want to take us away first on the time stories on the schools? this is totally unprecedented, even on the second world war, british schools stayed open but on friday, the prime minister announced today that they are going to shut and he is also saying that exams in the summer are being cancelled, so you have all of these students and school veteran floods of tears because they were expecting to sit there a levels and now they're worried that if they don't get the right grades, assessed them, that they want get the necessities that they want. most

ta ke necessities that they want. most take these exams quite seriously and the idea is that schools will basically be shut but the key workers children and the children we re workers children and the children were vulnerable will still go to some kind of school there and they may not get the same kind of teaching and moving to another school if there is a local school where they can merge all of the plans. they have not been fully set out yet, but there's no real information about the promise that these students were supposed to sit there at the a levels will still get grades, because that is with the premise stress has promised. turning to you, as we are hearing from ross, skeletons schools, the way of the future for the next 13 weeks or so and they have said no time, but

looks like the government will be 13 weeks minimum and they said this is worth pointing out that we've had a nation wide close—down of the school system ever. not even in the second world war did this happen. absolutely and the question that arises, if you rememberthe prime minister said arises, if you rememberthe prime ministersaid in his arises, if you rememberthe prime minister said in his first address to the nation last thursday is that he said the supportive group burden on grandparents to look after children. and as ross said quite rightly, certain children of key workers will still be at school and those that need, but nevertheless, this again to a certain extent is the government reacting or if you would like you turning in a very quick space of time in my worry is how prepared are we to weather the sink and work—out properly and apart from the course, my own nieces about

to start or a levels will probably be happy to know that her exams but you know, the point is how are we going to cope with this because this is an unprecedented situation. the prime minister also said the children that are not in school should not go to grandparents because they are the most vulnerable in that group of older people is the very group for the death rate is highest and where the virus can be most fatal, so it is not quite clear and basically i think that parents are going to have to be at home with their children and if they're trying to work from home and look after their children, that is going to be quite challenging i think. quite challenging as anyone who has known who is traded. do you want to take up who is traded. do you want to take up the question of the financial times, london prepares to go into lockdown. the ft are doing quite a lot on tomorrow mornings idea of the

london lockdown, aren't they? yes they are and we have seen the scenes in the past couple of days where waterloo station, the square is completely deserted and when i was in london, so few people there and store prices up and going down and we've been seeing that as a universal phenomenon but one reason the gift for sterling taking a hammering is because the brokers who play the market feel that we, the british government, will be behind the curve in coping with this virus and therefore we have hammered sterling as a result of that. and the effect of the fall and the stock market that will have on order people with their savings and so on, i think it is quite a serious matter about how low sterling is falling

i'iow. about how low sterling is falling now. and taking the other point that the article makes and quotes someone saying it is the brexit transition is effectively like an underlying condition so the virus that you harder in these market pressures are harder in these market pressures are harder given that. i think there's a deep concern in the markets now that basically the uk will be unable to get any kind of deal agreed in the timescale that is currently in uk law and the prime minister has said that he will not extend the brexit transition but people are saying that looks as if we are going to have to, otherwise there will be no deal at the end of this year in the markets are deeply concerned that that would be a serious threat to oui’ that would be a serious threat to our economy, if you have not got enough already at the moment because

companies hopefully will start to be coming out of the problems of the coronavirus later this year but then they might face the problems of a new deal brexit straight afterwards. and that would be really difficult for so many british businesses who, at the moment are going to so much already. the corporate sector is dealing with unprecedented pressures , dealing with unprecedented pressures, not only have its markets dried up but it cannot necessarily keep all of its staff and he may have to pay the staff, but it does not necessarily got customers and does not know when this is all going to be at an end. but it occurs to me that the brakes and negotiations will have to maintain social distance, between the negotiators, the european negotiators in the left do it on skype. the latest ones are cancelled just now so i think we are

already behind and there was not much time in the first place. everyone is going to have to get used to doing their interviews and meetings in their everything on social life on skype, just like we are having to do here. let us turn to the next one. a photograph on the independent supermarket limits to stockpiling as we see lots of people converging on a store in the thing about these pictures is these are younger people and this is a very difficult circumstance for order people. and i can taste my own personal experience this morning going to my local sainsbury's and the lady at the table made it very clear that i could not buy it more than two items at the grocery, i read that it was three items but instead is only two, but there were i'io instead is only two, but there were no limits on the financial times that i could buy. on sunday, it was very clear, my life for shopping —— my wife was shopping and even a

christmas, the huge queues at supermarkets, boyd is interesting is that people were shopping at the supermarkets for food, but they are not going to marks and spencers or other places to buy other things, so from what we should realise is that the grocery stores will of course do business, but the other part of the economy will be very badly hit by this virus and that will be a very big impact on the economy. in for the supermarkets trying to everybody down, but it's evidently not yet really working. it is not working in this latest suggestion on the front pages that london may be about to go into lockdown once more, driving people to go to the supermarket and buy as much as possible now before they may be confined to their homes and all of this panic is really unhelpful and there are some photos of older people staring at empty

shelves because everyone else got there first and they've ended up not being able to buy anything. supermarkets are doing an amazing job in the amount of deliveries that they're taking in, they are tremendous and the weight that they have changed around all of their stores and try to make sure that their suppliers have as much as possible, people arejust their suppliers have as much as possible, people are just buying everything they can manage to lay their hands on going in at four o'clock in the morning and by the time people get their at a normal hour, everything seems to have gone and it is really tricky. just before he finished for this hour, let us ta ke he finished for this hour, let us take a look at the front page of the mail, blast off, barry. this is yet another one bites the dust in terms of things we might want to watch on the tv while all of this is going on. absolutely in the aston burry is so on. absolutely in the aston burry is so much a part of our lives and the product of the great 605 music

revolution, not to have that on and that shows that, ok, we have been told that the virus may peak in may orjune, but the effect of this will ride on for a very long time and so we are really looking well into the autumn before we see anything like a normal life and a5 autumn before we see anything like a normal life and as you said, glastonbury could provide some solace and comfort in these times and it will not be there, will have to do that later. it will be a long time before the end of the summer but the venues in the events have to make a decision because they later they leave it to cancel, the longer, they leave it to cancel, the longer, the more expensive it will be to cancel. we still have tickets to glastonbury and we were looking so much to going and suddenly cancelled, they wanted to do this for yea rs cancelled, they wanted to do this for years and suddenly, it is not

available. but it will be able to go next year, we will all get to go next year, we will all get to go next year. i know, so many people have their hopes crushed in so many different directions, but thanks to you too, you do not crush hopes on the papers. that's it for the papers this hour. mihir and ros will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers. thank you both and goodbye for now. hello, quite a cold night ahead for us hello, quite a cold night ahead for us and i'll be particularly blurry of some sunshine today in northern ireland and in scotland because skies are clear with quite a sharp frost on the way in the coldest rural spots across northern england in north wales but also in england, we have cloud and we will have some rain with temperatures holding up because the cloud and rain is

hanging around anywhere within the zone and we will see some rain at times but particularly for parts of south west england, across commitments anglia, this is where temperatures are holding up and in the blue of that trust in the countryside, minus five celsius or so. countryside, minus five celsius or so. but at least three of the frost, you start to see tomorrow, the odd shower running in and many places you will stay dry and some high cloud pushing and across north wales northern england in the early sunshine and that weather system of the rain sticks around south wales for the midlands to east anglia, trying to nudge a little further forward , trying to nudge a little further forward, went across the southern areas and the beat of colder air and 50 or 60 celsius or so and you'll feel much cooler tomorrow. to go to still outbreaks of rank —— 15 to 16. outbreaks, for the morning of —7 in the highlands of scotland and a lot of dry and sunny weather to follow,

the breeze coming in towards parts of eastern england, patch ring to the south and should begin to ease away. easterly wind east northeasterly wind, starts fresh on friday with temperatures around seven to 10 celsius but it will feel colder and the wind. and that is because things are settling down and turning drier but it will feel colder and the wind. and that is because things are settling down and turning tribe with an easterly wind and settling the weather down, putting things dry and it is coming in from the east so that is a chilly direction and the isobars are getting closer together indicating a stronger wind, so already it has been a chilly air and we factor in the wind, it will feel of the still because of the particularly across the southwest of the uk on saturday. but his selection of places to shave for the weekend forecast and pretty much on in the same boat, a lot of dry weather to come, increasing sunshine on sunday and yes the chilly breeze, but a on sunday.

this is bbc world news i'm kasia madera. our top stories: schools across britain will close as the death toll claims to 104. all children except those of key workers and the most vulnerable will stay at home from next week. after school shut the gates from friday afternoon. they will remain closed for most people, so the vast majority of people further notice. level and gcse exams due to take place in june are level and gcse exams due to take place injune are cancelled in england and wales. we have worked so ha rd england and wales. we have worked so hard and the past two years it's alway5 hard and the past two years it's always had that long and goal, and it has always had that long and goal, and it ha5ju5t got always had that long and goal, and it has just got to the point where thati5

it has just got to the point where that is in sight