jumped. that is the scene in a very empty madrid. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, it is a dry sunday out there across much of the uk. a good deal of sunshine around, just a bit of patchy cloud here and there, and this is how it looks as we go through the afternoon. just 7 or 8 degrees along these north sea coasts. elsewhere, some of us are creeping into double figures. still a bit of patchy rain towards the western isles of scotland, and elsewhere it is dry. abundant afternoon sunshine. still breezy, but the wind is not as strong as yesterday. it does still feel a bit chilly in the breeze. overnight, the winds ease a bit further in england and wales, allowing a widespread frost to take hold. a patchy frost in southern and eastern scotland. towards the north—west of scotland, a chance of rain. increasing cloud into northern ireland. for most of us, temperatures are holding up. turning very wet for monday across the far north—west of scotland, especially into the western isles. increasing cloud and breeze for northern ireland. the best of the sunshine will again be across england and wales, and temperatures will be

a little higher tomorrow.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the british prime minister warns the national health service could soon be "overwhelmed" with coronavirus patients. borisjohnson urges people to "make the heroic and collective national effort" to slow the spread of the virus. he cautions against visiting loved ones on mother's day. nhs england writes to 1.5 million people, who are most at risk, strongly advising them not to go out for 12 weeks to protect themselves. more than a billion people in india are under a 14 hour—long curfew to try to limit the epidemic. in europe, italy edges closer to complete shutdown. spain races to create more space

to treat the sick after the number of deaths rises by a third. and in america, one in five people are ordered to "stay at home" as state authorities struggle to control the pandemic. before the papers, a full round up on sport from the bbc sport centre. here's richard ascomb. good morning. with most professional sporting events postponed or cancelled across the world, pressure is continuing to grow on the organisers of the olympic games. as it stands, the games are still set to begin injuly in tokyo but brazil, norway and slovenia's olympic committees have urged them to be postponed. as have the usa's athletics governing body. they've written a letter to the us olympic and paralympic committee asking for the games to be held at a different time. olympic hopeful and usa track and field board member

wallace spearmom says the issue of the disease spreading is much more important than sport. i had my first chance of making the olympic team in 200a. i made the team in 2008, i got third and got disqualified at the olympic games. afterfinishing, like i said, with the bronze medal taken away. 2012, ifinished fourth place. 2016, i got hurt. so this is my last chance to make an olympic games. and still it doesn't change any thoughts i have. i would never look back on this moment and say i wish something else could have happened. if we can save lives and i don't get a chance to redeem myself at the games, then it's still worth it. i don't care. it's bigger than me. i had my chances. i should have done a betterjob. everything happens for a reason. so, yeah, iwouldn‘t change my mind at all. southampton‘s chief executive has told the bbc that premier league matches could be televised every day while people are still confined to their homes because of the coronavirus outbreak. all football is currently suspended until the end of april,

but martin semmens believes football returning could be "good thing" for the country if it was safe to do so. semmens says teams are hopeful of completing the league by the end ofjune but did not yet know when play would resume. my my understanding, having spent a reasonable amount of time with the government, is that in the right situation and the right time, when everybody is safe and we are not using up everybody is safe and we are not using up resources, everybody is safe and we are not using up resources, the government would like us to get back to playing. they would like us to get back to playing because we are an entertainment, and we would be a sign that the country is coming back to normal. and if people are home for another month and there is a premier league football game on tv, that can only be a good thing. the former real madrid president lorenzo sanz has died after being hospitalised with coronavirus. he was president at the club from 1995 to 2000 in which real won the champions league twice. his son lorenzo discribed him as "one of the best, most courageous and hard working people". adding, "his family

and real madrid were his passion". former england cricket captain michael vaughan says he hopes that cricket can resume later in the year. the county cricket season was due to start next month, but will not start until at least the 28th of may because of the coronavirus crisis. england's international summer isn't scheduled to start untiljune when they start a three—test series against west indies. cricket is, like many sports, up in the airas to cricket is, like many sports, up in the air as to when they know when they can play again. they have made they can play again. they have made the right decision. day today we are getting different messages about this terrible virus. in cricket, we just have to go on the expert advice. if later in the summer cricket can take place, and the international calendar can take place from during the fourth, that would be terrific, but first and foremost, cricket like everyone else, is hoping that everyone stays safe, and sport really becomes secondary in what the country are

going through, and the whole world, at this stage. yes, worrying times for the sport, but like everyone in society we will knuckle down, we will fight through it, and i am sure we will be back later in the summer. the formula one world champion lewis hamilton says he's showing no signs of covid—19 after undergoing a period of self isolation. hamilton had been at an event in london earlier in the month, where other attendees had since tested positive for the virus. but speaking on his social media, hamilton insisted he has had zero symptoms and is feeling well. away from coronavirus, there is some heart—warming news from rugby's premiership. worcester warriors forward michael fatialofa, is making a remarkable recovery, after a life—threatening injury he suffered at the start of the year. fatialofa was taken to intensive care with a neck injury he suffered against saracens on the 5th of january. the injury happened just a minute after he came on as a substitute. but after 11 weeks in hospital... ..he‘s now managing to walk unaided. his wife tatiana posted this

video on social media saying "he was literally paralysed from the neck down ten weeks ago. you're witnessing a miracle that even medical professionals can't explain," and finally, with football postponed, one key question has been how are footballers staying fit? well, one premier league striker has shown us his regime. this is leicester city forward jamie vardy with his wife rebekah. clearly self—isolation is not getting them down with this well choreographed routine! that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's ben brown with the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are writer and broadcaster shyama perera and business journalist john crowley. thank you for being with us, not in the studio, but for our review of the studio, but for our review of the papers. the sunday telegraph carries a warning from the prime minister that the nhs could be "overwhelmed", like the italian health system, in just a fortnight, as official guidance paved the way for british doctors to prioritise the coronavirus patients who are most likely to survive. the sunday times reports that more than a million people most at risk from the coronavirus are being told to live in isolation at home for three months. the mail on sunday has borisjohnson giving a stark warning about what the nhs, as well as urging britons to celebrate mother's day remotely, by using video calls. the sunday people has a picture of a stern—looking borisjohnson, saying don't go and visit your mum. the sunday mirror carries the same story,

and adds there is an appeal for 50,000 nurses to help fight coronavirus. the sunday express quotes the prime minister, saying the threat now facing britain "cannot be sugar coated." it also reports the queen will address the nation in a tv speech. so, coronavirus dominating all of those front pages. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. let's start, first of all, with the sunday times, shyama. they have got that interesting column on the front page, which is saying, even in wartime, nobody dared to do this. you know, these measures that are being announced almost every day ta ke being announced almost every day take your breath away, don't they? absolutely. the economics editor makes the point that 11 days ago in his budget speech, the chancellor could joke about the fantasy

economics ofjohn mcdonnell, the shadow chancellor, but now he is undertaking a state intervention that goes beyond jeremy corbyn ‘s wildest dreams. these are stretch strange and wonderful times in some ways, if you are interested in how government works, not if you are worrying about your health. of course, what he is also warning in this piece is that what almost a lwa ys this piece is that what almost always follows is more austerity, and having just come out of a period of austerity, what does the future hold? so, of austerity, what does the future hold ? so, as of austerity, what does the future hold? so, as an economics editor, he is looking forwards, and saying how do we manage this? but he also makes the point that, after the second world war, our borrowing was 232% of gdp, and as someone who grew up and paid tax and has lived to paying off that debt because we only finished paying it off a few years ago, i never felt austerity in that sense, so never felt austerity in that sense, so hopefully, at some point, we will forget that we owe this money

because it willjust become part of oui’ because it willjust become part of our normal taxation. john, how do you see it, as a business journalist? is is inevitably going to be followed by recession for a prolonged period, do you think? well, i think david smith has had a day or two to take it on and he sums it up well. he describes the economy is being nationalised. let's not forget, rishi sunak, less than a month ago, was not even chancellor. eight months ago, he was a parliamentary undersecretary of state. and now he is at the front of the government, pledging, it is the biggest fiscal intervention ever in peacetime, or wartime, biggest fiscal intervention ever in peacetime, orwartime, or otherwise. and it needs to be done, i think, for the most part people accept that this needs to be done at the moment to protectjobs while this needs to be done at the moment to protect jobs while we this needs to be done at the moment to protectjobs while we deal with the coronavirus. let's have a look at the sunday telegraph. nhs is

facing italian style crisis if we don't stay—at—home. that is the warning from the prime minister, and these figures that we are seeing out of italy, the hundreds of people who are dying there every day, that is the nightmare scenario for this country as well, isn't it? it is the nightmare scenario. of course, what we are now starting to get is coping mechanisms, and also what we should be looking out for, particularly interested me in the sunday telegraph piece was baroness barron, who is the loneliness minister, who is writing in the sunday telegraph today about reaching out to those in isolation. she says that in her own family, there are up to 50 people writing each other, or e—mailing each other long letters every day to lift that sense of isolation. i know my own mother has been on whatsapp talking to everybody who is still alive on herfriends talking to everybody who is still alive on her friends list. i sit on the board of a charity which has

just brought out a loneliness report. it isn't actually launched until next month, but it is about the fact that many young people are isolated and lonely in their everyday lives, which is how we put together a uniformed youth groups especially for them, to create that sense of family. but you have to think about those young people at the moment who are distance even in a home situation. there is nothing worse than where you are going through that period of life when you think you must have been adopted to be left with your entire family all around you, and unable to escape them. ifind it really around you, and unable to escape them. i find it really interesting because it might just them. i find it really interesting because it mightjust hone our minds and think about problems that we hear about every day, but have never personally experienced until this moment. john, that piece in the telegraph, it highlights this deal that the nhs have done with the private health sector, which is going to bring in about 20,000 staff from the private sector, 8000 beds,

1200 ventilators. i suppose that is an example of what borisjohnson has been calling the heroic collective effort, really. everybody knowing that they have got to pull together 110w that they have got to pull together now because this crisis is just going to get worse if the italian example is anything to go by. yes, absolutely. any good news where we can work collectively together to combat this virus is obviously to be welcomed. of course, there are reports as well about industries coming together to try to build more ventilators. but this is the ramping up ventilators. but this is the ramping up message ventilators. but this is the ramping up message i feel from the prime ministerand up message i feel from the prime minister and the government. i think the messages that he has been giving through press conferences this week, the messages had been a bit mixed. if anything, the strand of conservatism that runs in boris johnson 's veins, civil liberty, the right to gather whether that is in a pub or wherever you are, and people

need to listen to this message. people need to listen to the message that you need to think about social distancing, think about how you interact with people, and keep it to an absolute minimum. let's go to the sunday people. quite a few of the papers highlighting this is mother's day. boris johnson papers highlighting this is mother's day. borisjohnson says to stay papers highlighting this is mother's day. boris johnson says to stay away from mum. you know, it is a grim necessity, isn't it? for most people, just going to see their mother could be quite a dangerous thing to do. absolutely. you have to resist the temptation. happy mother's day, mum, if you are watching! this really does bring it home, but how well it brings it home iam not home, but how well it brings it home i am not sure, when you are conversely seeing pictures of people still going to parties, and just basically taking all of that business behind closed doors, but it doesn't mean, you know, that they are behaving. i speak as a mum of

twentysomethings, who are quite clearly bending the rules. and i hope they stay away from me. going back to the sunday times, their main story is stay home alone to save your life. this is to the 1.5 million people who are particular vulnerable. a lot of people with underlying health conditions, cancer patients, people who have been suffering from respiratory diseases, transplant patients, they are all going to get a letter from their transplant patients, they are all going to get a letterfrom their gp, oi’ going to get a letterfrom their gp, ora going to get a letterfrom their gp, or a text, telling them to stay at home for 12 weeks. yes, and this is not even to go out and get any food. so that is an incredibly stark message, and a scary message, to deliver to those people. they are calling on an army of volunteers to come and help these people and deliver food and essential medicines around to their doors. as you were saying earlier, we all have to pull

together, notjust think saying earlier, we all have to pull together, not just think about ourselves and our families, but think of the most vulnerable who may live among us, our neighbours, people we know, who fall into this vulnerable range. this does not apply to everyone over 70. they should still practice social distancing. this applies to the most vulnerable members and those gp letters will go out this week. again, this is a ramping up in the message from the government, where it has, i feel this week, been a little bit open to interpretation. this is a real hardening of the message. what you have seen out and about, do you think people are observing the social distancing message? no, i don't. ithink everyone who is out there can't believe it, really. when you are out and about, and you are looking at people, that message still needs to come home. whether it is us on here,

whether it is the bbc or other broadcasters and newspapers, our own family members, we all have a responsibility to tell people. it is such an unnatural thing. as you say, oi'i such an unnatural thing. as you say, on mothering sunday, it is a dagger to the heart. i won't be able to visit my mother today. she won't thank me for this, but she falls into the over 70s range. we will just have to send hugs and kisses down the digital ether to our mothers today. i would just say to anyone, if you are in the at risk category, please don't go round and see them. we can skype, video conferencing, we can e—mail, we can telephone. there are ways to get through to people, sojust telephone. there are ways to get through to people, so just follow those instructions. yes, this whole crisis is going to improve everybody ‘s use of video technology, isn't it? shyama, the mail on sunday, boris: nhs is on the brink. what is

going to happen to the nhs when it is really, really tested in the next two or three weeks. we are two or three weeks behind italy at the moment. absolutely, it is basically just going over everything that has been said this week, which is the numbers of doctors and nurses, the shortages, but also the fact now that private hospitals have agreed to supply an extra 8000 beds, plus their staff, so that is fa ntastically their staff, so that is fantastically helpful. but it is looking bleak. even if we flatten the curve, i suspect we have come late to fattening that curve, so we are still going to get record numbers, i think, are still going to get record numbers, ithink, of are still going to get record numbers, i think, of very ill and dying, which is deeply... it is not scary so much as very, very sad. in the aftermath, when we start the postmortem of what was done, i am sure we will spot lots of errors that should have been put right straightaway. one of the errors

might be the way people have been hoarding in the shops and stockpiling. the sunday have telegraph got a story about that, saying that shoppers are hoarding food worth about £1 billion. in other words, in their cupboards and their larders, they have got about £1 billion worth of stuff that they don't immediately need, they are just stockpiling it for the future. and that has empty the shelves. we saw that angry and tearful critical ca re nurse saw that angry and tearful critical care nurse the other day saying how desperate it was that when she has finished her shift saying she cannot find anything in the shops. the government was saying yesterday that there is enough food to go around, so again, what we would just echo please, for heaven sakes, don't hoard. we have got enough food. the papers have got a role to play in this as well, and there is one paper at least today that is putting up pictures of empty shelves. on the one hand, we are telling the most vulnerable people to stay at home

for three months, and then saying, look the shelves are empty, so we do have to think about that. people will say, i'm going to have to be at home for three months, will say, i'm going to have to be at home forthree months, i will say, i'm going to have to be at home for three months, i better go out and buy whatever we can. the papers have to be extremely sensitive and aware of what message they are sending out. let's go to they are sending out. let's go to the express, finally. a special queen's speech, a royal message to the people. would that be a good idea, do you think? i think it would bea idea, do you think? i think it would be a great idea. at christmas, it is that one uniting moment, to sit around and watch the queen at 3pm. i think we are desperately short of m essa g es of think we are desperately short of messages of unity. rishi sunak did a good job the other day about little a cts good job the other day about little acts of kindness, and hopefully all of your areas have got whatsapp groups of volunteers who are there and ready to help people. but you know, pulling all of that together,

in one breath we are told not to stockpile, and in the other breath we are told not to go shopping and not to go out, so what are we supposed to do? is it sensible do not have extra food in the house, or is it sensible instead to keep going out every week, shopping with other people all around you ? out every week, shopping with other people all around you? i don't know. i think we need those unifying moments. as well as the queen, the bbc and media companies need to actually think about creating unifying moments across the day. we have learned that borisjohnson ‘s 5pm pronouncements get audiences of up 5pm pronouncements get audiences of up to 10 million, so we know that people are looking for a way of getting information and pleasure and humourand fun in getting information and pleasure and humour and fun in a united way that gives them something to talk about with each other. so i think the queen will set the ball rolling, and hopefully everybody is going to take up hopefully everybody is going to take up where she leaves off. that is

true, isn't it, john? people are looking, whether it is from the queen, the prime minister or wherever, they are looking for leadership. i suppose whatever your politics, people are looking to those prime ministerial press conferences to hear, not only information, but also messages to the whole nation. yes, and they need to be clear, unvarnished, and done with a sense of punished the macro purpose. —— with a sense of punished the macro purpose. — — purpose. with a sense of punished the macro purpose. —— purpose. she is our most experienced public service. she has seen so much. she has only spoken to the nation on these special occasions a couple of times, most re ce ntly occasions a couple of times, most recently around the gulf war, diana, princess of wales, and her own mother 's death in 2002, and this is an opportunity to bring the country together. she is above the political fray, so i think it is hugely important. good to talk to both of

you. remotely, iam important. good to talk to both of you. remotely, i am afraid, for now. very good to see you, thank you for being with us. that's it for the papers. 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. if you miss the programme, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, and goodbye. hello. it's a dry sunday out there, across most of the uk. notjust dry, but there's a fair amount of sunshine as well. that's all because it's high—pressure close to the uk, seems like it's a long way away but its influence is still being felt across the british isles in terms of settling the weather down, making most places dry,

and allowing a good deal of sunshine out there. the exception, north, north—west scotland staying mostly cloudy, a bit of patchy rain in the western isles, some of that continuing into the afternoon. elsewhere, we've seen some cloud this afternoon, a lot of that will be clearing away to allow abundant sunshine. there's still this east—south—easterly breeze. it is a bit lighter than it was yesterday, still noticeable and particularly across these north sea coasts holding temperatures seven or eight celsius, whereas elsewhere, many of us creeping into double figures. into tonight, that breeze eases a bit further in england and wales, with clear skies there will be a widespread frost taking hold. frost in southern and eastern scotland as well but north west scotland into northern ireland, there is a breeze there. some cloud around, still a bit of rain into the western isles, temperatures here though are holding up. elsewhere, it's going to be a frosty start to monday, temperatures going down to —5dc across parts of north—east england, for example, to start the day tomorrow.

a lot of fine weather to come, again particularly in england and wales, barely a cloud in the sky. some brightness in scotland and northern ireland will turn increasingly hazy but no brightness for the north west of scotland and the western isles, it will turn very wet here into the afternoon. a burst of quite persistent heavy rain around, and a brisk breeze. where you have the sunshine, temperatures will be a little bit higher. this weather front bringing the rain to north, north west scotland, is still there on tuesday. so initially this week it's in no hurry to move away, that means another very wet day for some of us here on tuesday. the rain totals will start to mount. could see a few spots of rain elsewhere, in scotland and northern ireland, increasing cloud and breeze. still a lot of fine weather through much of england and wales, and here temperatures are a little bit higher. so for some it's turning milder. that's not going to last, the weather front towards the north—west as the week goes on will sink south, it will tend to weaken and as that

clears on through, we are left with a bright end to the week, a few showers and a chilly northerly breeze.

if this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines. the prime minister warns the national health service could soon be "overwhelmed" with coronavirus patients. london's mayor urges people to act responsibly. u nless unless people stay at home, unless people stop using public transport u nless people stop using public transport unless it is essential, unless people stop interacting with each other, more people will die. borisjohnson urges people to "make the heroic and collective national effort" to slow the spread of the virus. he cautions against visiting loved ones on mother's day. nhs england writes to 1.5 million people, who are most at risk, strongly advising them not to go out for 12 weeks, to protect themselves. more than a billion people in india are under a 1k hour—long curfew