that real nuisance through the week. that means some subtle differences. it's starting to drag in, and it's a pretty cool source that will have an impact on field full of chilli in comparison to the last few days and temperatures struggling. we've still got that weather front, we get there by then. the odds spotter it'll drizzle. a very chilly start for some, temperatures will recover and we stay dry, settled with some sunshine coming through. let's move towards the start of the weekend. there is that front finally using away. the high—pressure set to move gci’oss away. the high—pressure set to move across the uk and that means it's going to be another chilly start or saturday morning, could be a frosty one gci’oss saturday morning, could be a frosty one across scotland and northern england as well. it will be a dry

and sparkling one with some sunshine coming through. it looks as though it's going to stay predominantly drives we go through the day on saturday. the frost will lift and will be a settled day. that nagging easterly breeze, making it feel cooler than these temperatures suggest. as we move out of saturday into sunday, a case of a repeat performance almost. we see weak weather fronts introducing a performance almost. we see weak weatherfronts introducing a bit more cloud into the far north—west but again, it stood —— should stay largely dry and the winds perhaps a bit brighter, should feel better when the sunnier moments. a brief bit of exercise. top temperatures ranging from seven to 11 degrees. trying to push in from the north—west. not much in the way of significant drain. the winds will swing more around to a southerly direction. the degree also warmer when we see that sunshine. when we

see sunshine on offer, temperatures up see sunshine on offer, temperatures up to 11 degrees but some of that wetter weather pushing into the north—west. that will start to bring some rain eventually. it's going to ta ke some rain eventually. it's going to take time in doing so. again, only up take time in doing so. again, only up to the extreme north—west. certainly more cloud across northern ireland and north—west england. the best of the sunshine, sheltered eastern areas, highs of 12 degrees. after that dry start to the week, it looks likely we will see a spell of wet weather for a time and that wayne is going to push its way steadily south and east and then allow another area to build but low pressure is trying to push in from the atlantic all the time so a level of uncertainty towards the end of next week and how long, who knows?

whatever you're doing this weekend, ta ke whatever you're doing this weekend, take care. hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines: as the death toll in the uk increases to 144, the prime minister says it will take 12 weeks to turn the tide on coronavirus here.

the queen leaves london for windsor castle, issuing a message of solidarity to the nation amid the coronavirus outbreak. as medical chiefs warn the young that they're not immune to this virus, one patient tells people to pay attention. italy's death toll overtakes china's — almost 3,500 have now died. we report from inside one of italy's hospitals battling to keep patients alive. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with us remotely, broadcasterjohn sta pleton with us remotely, broadcasterjohn stapleton and kate proctor, political correspondent at the

guardian. not too far to bed tonight, you're not going to struggle home. thank you forjoining us, both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily mail looks at the prime minister's claim that coronavirus can be beaten within 12 weeks. orat or at least the tide turned on it. as does the metro, which says borisjohnson is confident we can turn the tide if britons follow government advice. the times shows the queen as she left buckingham palace earlier for windsor reiterating her call for britain to be strong in the face of this crisis. the daily mirror too shows the queen adding, quoting her majesty with the headline ‘our history has been forged by people coming together‘. the guardian's front page says trials for a coronavirus vaccine could begin next month. the financial times focusses on the chancellor's plans to help businesses as rishi sunak looks set to deliver a new rescue package to companies. and the independent shows a glimmer of hope as medical workers in china embrace to celebrate a day without any new cases of covid—i9.

let's make a start with the express. john, quoting boris johnson let's make a start with the express. john, quoting borisjohnson here, saying, "we can turn the tide in 12 weeks". how do you view that? does he think it will hopefully have peaked by then and we'll be through the worst of the acceleration? this isa the worst of the acceleration? this is a prime minister back to almost his ever optimistic, ever hope all best or worst, depending on your view of the prime minister, i suppose, and being enthusiastic about this problem are supported by the chief adviser and chief spy officer. i take that to mean it won't be over, we will have broken the back of it, though. no—one believes that. he did add that this will only happen if everyone plays

the game and stops socialising to the game and stops socialising to the extent they have been socialising, particularly down here in london, so far in this crisis. had been expected that actually he might introduce new regulations or new advice to say, you know, cut back on travel, for example, and even a sort of lockdown. in fact i gather in a briefing earlier, he almost tried journalists for suggesting that despite the fact he left that option open at his press conference yesterday and he still left that option open today. some would argue that if we are going to crack this, especially in london, two or three weeks ahead of the rest of the country with this problem apparently, we might have to resort to the sort of limitations imposed on people in other european capitals. and we've got a lot of teenagers no longer in school, kate, the exams are off, the message has

got to be impressed upon them of the importance of social distancing? exactly, but that is so difficult to do and this evening we have a huge amount of confusion over the situation with schools because the government said if you're a key worker, someone who works in the nhs, police officer, fire, then you are somebody allowed to continue sending their children to school and it's going to be a skeleton school structure. there's a bit of confusion as to whether that will apply to families where one parent isa apply to families where one parent is a key worker or both parents, although the impression i have is it will apply if you have one parent who is a key worker. but, you know, going into friday, these measures are supposed to be rolled out on monday, in time for monday, and people still don't know where they're going to send their children. i think that was a really keyissue children. i think that was a really key issue that needed to be addressed today and we didn't hear it, i understand we're going to hear more tomorrow. let's look at the

guardian... of these key workers, obviously ambulance drivers and fire officers and police are key workers but what about other areas of employment? do they qualify and what are they going to do about their kids? they don't know. how many teachers do they need to cope if they don't know how many kids will be there? that's before we talk about the disadvantaged children they want to support. the guardian, trials to begin for a covid—i9 vaccine next month, we've got the test for the virus, they want to if you have the antibodies against it with a test, john, so they are trying to accelerate the research towards a vaccine? yeah, and that is terrific news. as everyone with any knowledge of this will tell you, it's going to be at least 12 or 18 months before that's on the market, it has to be tried and tested quite properly to a great degree. meanwhile, you know, the editor—in—chief of the lancet is

talking today on twitter about the reality of life on mother earth, as it were, of people trying to battle this, health workers et cetera, saying health workers are even coughing and having a fever and they aren't being tested at the moment, there's no advice for walk—in centres and a whole lot of areas where they need help and advice and they're not getting it. a long way to go even at that stage before we start developing a vaccine. kate, the suggesting is they will have to the suggesting is they will have to the intention is to increase the number of people tested each day? we've gone from a position of not testing too now seeing this as a huge priority. when i say not testing, i mean of course people have been tested in a hospital setting but not in the community. borisjohnson talked setting but not in the community. boris johnson talked about the aim of having 25,000 tests per day and then he threw in a number today of an overall hope of getting that up to 250,000 through time. this might be something that is simple in terms

of its structure, format, as simple as something that replicates a pregnancy test, that's one of the ideas that's out there. the idea is to get the mass testing done as quickly as possible. people are even saying today, "why is it not happening soon enough? " saying today, "why is it not happening soon enough?" but i think the government is making this happening as quick as possible, they just want a test possible to be delivered to someone's home and you can home test yourself if through a fingerprint or something like that. the government was talking about that testing today but it has huge ambitions to get up to this 250,000 ambitions to get up to this 250,000 a day test level. john, on the daily mirror, the queen's rallying, as the paper describes it. talk to us briefly about that. indeed, back at windsor castle with the duke of edinburgh tonight having issue this statement which invokes history and reminds the nation that in times like this, not that there have been many precisely like this, but in

times of crisis we've overcome these problems by getting together and urging people to get together again and quite properly paying tribute to all those on the frontline, scientists, the doctors, nurses, the public sector workers who are doing so public sector workers who are doing so much to help us all. kate, inside the daily mirror there is a photograph of an ambulance worker standing ina photograph of an ambulance worker standing in a supermarket aisle and carrying an empty basket and the shelves have been stripped there by locusts despite, that's the headline, despite people being asked not to, the panic buying is still going on. we're being firmly by government that there's enough food, that they're working very hard to boost those supply chains. we've seen some of the big supermarkets hiring thousands of staff to try to make sure food is distributed quicker, yet where still seeing these pictures day after day and i think if you're an emergency worker, a key worker, an nhs worker and

you've finished a really long shift and you go to the supermarket and there is no food, it's a really appalling state of affairs and i can't believe we're still seeing pictures like this. people need to shopin pictures like this. people need to shop ina pictures like this. people need to shop in a different way. we are being told repeatedly by the government that there's enough food, people need to shop differently, though, and you need to make sure you're thinking about other people. while we have positive messages from so while we have positive messages from so many different areas of society, these images are shaming the british reaction to the virus. john, we know some of these stores have opened it specifically for older people so they can get in without contacting others. we know marks & spencer is dedicating certain hours so nhs staff ca n dedicating certain hours so nhs staff can shop. you just wonder what people are doing with all this food. it's not the way they normally shop, it is not dialling! they are coming out with armfuls of toilet roll ——

stockpiling. i went this morning and there was no toilet rolls, no bread, no eggs, but generally speaking it's not like that but what are they doing? to supermarkets dedicating time for older people and if i could get up early myself i would take advantage, but a great idea, and also for nhs workers, you have to applaud that but it's a shame it's being done because of the unadulterated greed of others. i'm busy emptying my freezer so my poor kids no longer in school will be faced with very peculiar meals. fish and chips! that would be communal garden... very odd commune, combinations will be coming out onto the plate. the financial times... at the plate. the financial times... at the press conference today, kate, we heard borisjohnson say the press conference today, kate, we heard boris johnson say we the press conference today, kate, we heard borisjohnson say we will support business and business needs to support its employees. there's a huge amount of worry for people about making ends meet if they're not able to get to work or even if

they've got a job people have already lost theirjobs. ican name people have already lost theirjobs. i can name to people this week you have been told they need to take immediate unpaid leave or they've just been sacked and that means wages are stopping immediately. i felt that borisjohnson wages are stopping immediately. i felt that boris johnson could wages are stopping immediately. i felt that borisjohnson could have may be given a slightly stronger message. i know we're going to hear from the chancellor tomorrow but it seems to be very soft in terms of businesses. we really don't want you to sacked people. but without providing those concrete financial measures, businesses have just gone ahead and made those very stark decisions right away. there is an expectation of what the chancellor might do tomorrow. whether that's looking at national insurance, the tax breaks but even though those things might be down, it could be extremely helpful. there are talks of loans being easily accessible, people have already lost theirjobs

and what are they supposed to do? they supposed to now sign on with universal credit —— credit. we are going to get more information. people are also saying, it's ok for the government giving them loans but these loans take a long time. people say, we've lost 90% of our business and we need the money now. to keep people in work, as long as, of course, they don't get rid of them ata course, they don't get rid of them at a later date. the bank of england cut interest rates, the lowest in its 300 year history. 0.1% were just tells you how much they are trying to bolster the economy, it's clear they are not going to be enough. that reduces the amount of money they are paying on alone but there needs to be wage subsidies according to unions and business leaders.

needs to be wage subsidies according to unions and business leaderslj needs to be wage subsidies according to unions and business leaders. i do think this is going to lead to a massive, massive structural change into how we deal with crises like this. that is worse than anything in the financial crash. we are hearing suggestions with herded from labour and the sn e and also other groups. some kind of emergency income so rather than trying to fiddle around and move things down, certain amount of money to be able to keep going. also trying to double statutory sick p5y~ also trying to double statutory sick pay. there will be a huge realisation that people are £94 a week in terms of statutory sick pay is not enough. it might mean this think about a whole different range of things. a travel map the london

it says, there is a little replica of what would normally be the tube map of course. instead of the stations we are used to like piccadilly circus and the like, we've got bedroom, kitchen, living room, hall. wheelie bin. that is quite a long way from the living room no doubt. it's making a point to quite cleverly to make londoners stay home a bit more. it does feel a bit like that. three months of this, we came back on the weekend, we are not at the end of week one. in the same house, at the same time, even with my darling, stimulating, lovely wife. it's a challenge. we thought she might pop up and say hello. she set up all this for me. she is the

brains of the operation as you well know. we're going to finish with something i know will appeal to both of you because of where you began your journalistic careers of you because of where you began yourjournalistic careers and it's what some of the local newspapers are choosing to do with their front pages tomorrow. when you are on your own, we are there with you. papers like the dorset echo, the bolton news, the ipswich star, they are all going with the same headline and it shows how close to their readers local newspapers are. many of whom are hanging on by a thread quite often at the moment. this is a really nice initiative. 80 regional newspapers with the same front page and the messages, we are here for you during this time of isolation. we are the voice of your local community, we are there to entertain you but pick up a paper. we're going to have many, many hours at home and ijust think if

to have many, many hours at home and i just think if you people to have many, many hours at home and ijust think if you people can start supporting local papers and tuning into that, i think people would get a great amount of value from it. hats off to all those regional papers were fighting for the local communities. because they will get out there and they will speak to people. and tell the story of every community they are serving. they're having a time recently and one thing that irritates me, we do miss our local paper. well why didn't you go in by it? if you bought it, it wouldn't be out of business. hats off to whoever thought about it. the manchester news, i used to write a column or the regional and local papers arejoining column or the regional and local papers are joining in. column or the regional and local papers arejoining in. perfect idea, well done. we usually saved by a paper tomorrow but we don't care. by one 01’ paper tomorrow but we don't care. by one or two. a national one at a local one. that is it the papers.

i'm proud to say that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. i'm proud to say i once wrote to the wedding page for the hinckley times. kate and john, lovely to have you here remotely. the return of football has been further delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic but a meeting today, has determined that finishing the current season remains the priority. the fa, premier league, efl,

all scottish football and the women's game have all agreed on a postponement until the end of april. this is the part of the statement that explains today's developments in english football. the fa's rules and regulations state that "the season shall terminate not later than the 1june". however, the fa's board has agreed for this limit to be extended indefinitely for the 2019/20 season. additionally, we have collectively agreed that the professional game in england will be further postponed until no earlier than 30 april. bournemouth are one of the premier league teams desperate for the season to continue. they're in the bottom three so if it were to end now with the current positions determining theirfate, they could be relegated. despite their top flight status, their captain would be more than happy to support players fromm teams in lower divisions struggling financially. being a premier league player and like so many others, we are in a fortu nate like so many others, we are in a fortunate position, we are very privileged. it's like you said, further down the line, if that was an option, i'd be more than happy to

help out. i apply my trade and made my career in the lower leg so there is no doubt we love to be able to help —— help out at the opportunity came out. one other piece of football news today and that's the sad death of former cardiff midfielder peter whittingham. he was 35. whittingham reached two cup finals with cardiff who say they are heartbroken. he had been in hospitalfor more than a week after suffering a head injury in a fall in a pub in wales. he started his career at aston villa and played for england under 21s. the monaco grand prix has been cancelled as the effect of the coronavirus outbreak reaches deeper into the formula one season. it's the first time since 1954 the principality won't host its marquee race. the dutch and spanish grands prix were postponed today so the season can't start untiljune 7th in azerbaijan at the earliest. the sport has also delayed all its significant rule changes, due to come into effect next year until 2022. the british olympic

association says it will not endanger the health of athletes by encouraging them to prepare for tokyo 2020 if it's not safe to do so. criticism is growing of the organisers' determination not to postpone the event due to start injuly. the traditional handing over of the olympic flame to representatives of the host city has taken place in athens today although normally a crowd would be present for the ceremony. many athletes are in limbo as they're unable to train or qualify for the games while restrictions remain because of the coronavirus outbreak. in the current climate, with the olympics in july in in the current climate, with the olympics injuly in three months‘ time or whatever, it‘s not an option. again, that will be reassessing the situation in a few months‘ time. in the grand scheme of things, it‘s probably going to be more sensible to delay it. i can

tell you now, the best efforts across the world, people deliver the best results. it's really, really difficult to keep my training. it's not like i'm an able—bodied athlete, i can't go and run, i can't go in cycle so it is really difficult for us cycle so it is really difficult for us to keep fit. if the paralympics to go ahead, there will be potential medallists. the preparation profiles, the team, allowing them to qualify who want qualified and celebrate an olympic games in an olympic year as it should be and i think for all involved, a slight delay is probably the best option. we had a mix of weather across the

uk on thursday. this is how the things worked out in the highlands of scotland. we had this pesky slow—moving weather front across england and wales, bringing different weather conditions altogether. low cloud, drizzle, mist. quite chilly for some of us as well. that front going so mist and help fog patches, it keeps temperatures up. five or six degrees in the south. the fosters going to be more extensive. the lowest temperatures in scotland could get all the way down to —6 minus seven celsius. a cold start of the day. friday, this area of high—pressure pressure strengthens. the result is the winds are going to strengthen. particularly across england and

wales. and especially around the headlands of south—west england we will see gusts of around 40 miles per hour. noticeable around the coasts and hills of wales. could be an odd light shower blowing into northeast england. it will stay damp and drizzly cross parts of the south the best of the sunshine generally the best of the sunshine generally the further north that you happen to live. what about the weekend? our area of high pressure is going nowhere too far too fast and that means it will stay largely fine the winds coming from scandinavia doing across northern europe is not going to be the warm wind we have during the weekend. the wind at its chile is to cross eastern areas of england, the eastern coast of scotla nd england, the eastern coast of scotland as well and it‘s a day whether cloud is going to vary quite a bit from place to place. my tone cloudy for a time in northern ireland we may see patches of cloud form across the north sea to affect some of these eastern areas of england and scotland as well. temperatures 8— 11 degrees, but on the cool side. at least it‘s a fine

and dry weekend for most of us. we have more dry weather to come on sunday, the cloud varying from place to place. apps thickening for a time, threatening an odd spot of rain but for most of us, drive. around 8— 11 degrees.

this is bbc news. i‘m lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: italy‘s death toll overtakes china‘s — almost 3,500 have now died. we report from inside one of italy‘s hospitals battling to keep patients alive. as the us tells its citizens to avoid any travel abroad president trump orders the fast—tracking of an anti—malarial drug to treat covid—19. we are working on scaling these to allow many more americans to access different drugs that have shown really good promise. australia bans non residents from coming to the country, as it ramps up measures to control the spread of coronavirus. as japan comes under increasing pressure to postpone the olympics, athletes are still training,

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