see 15 or16 sunshine we will see 15 or 16 degrees. two very different weather types on tuesday. by tuesday night, we starting to see the weather from drifting southwards influencing the rest of scotland and northern ireland. some rainfall to come here. but for the bulk of england and welcome a bit chilly first thing and possibly a little bit mystified but we should still see 13 or 111. but after, thursday and friday we think that with the front will eventually reach seven parts across england i was but by then weakening because a comfort to the high pressure behind it we have got a cold window to come in arctic wind which will bring with it some wintry showers as well. heading towards the end of the week and into next week and the warnings are on the website.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the uk prime minister warns of tougher measures if social distancing advice isn't followed — he says people who are acting irresponsibly — are putting lives at risk. we will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and yes, of course, we will bring further measures if we think that is necessary. nhs england writes to one and half million of the most high risk people, who are told to not leave home for 12 weeks — to shield them from the coronavirus. spain's state of emergency has been extended for another two weeks — while in italy the death toll from the virus has risen again. germany bans gatherings of more than two people — in order to try and control the spread of coronavirus.

now on bbc news... the travel show. this week on the show: our look at the impact the global pandemic is having on international travel. i'm stranded. virgin cancelled my flight yesterday. we're trapped in our hotel for what seems like 15 days. i would love to get home, yeah. what are your rights if you've had trips cancelled? how do you cope if you're stuck in a country in lockdown and just what does the future hold for all our travels? just a year ago and the headlines from places like paris and venice were very different. we all learned the word ‘overtourism' as we saw that cafes and attractions of some of our most loved places heaving with holidaymakers. it's a very different picture now. many destinations are in lockdown as people are being asked to stay at home to protect their health and that of others. it means that tourists

are being left stranded, holidays cancelled and airline bosses are predicting a grim future. it's unsettling to see some of the biggest and most popular attractions totally deserted. the taj mahal, eiffel tower, even the popular disney parks in the us — all closed. the streets, especially in the european capitals, are looking empty. paris and madrid have already been on lockdown for most of this week. it's been five days so far lockdown in my own home. the real problem is that we don't know how long are we going to be here. i am one of the lucky ones because i live with my wife so, you know, we're together here. i think that's very important.

i fear for people who live alone, especially old people. hola! my mum lives in a different city in spain and she's there all by herself. she's 75 years old and that worries me. on the positive note, this crisis is bringing out the best in people. there's somebody we know who is an old woman, 80 years old. and it was her birthday. the neighbours left a little birthday cake with a candle. the old woman opened the doors, saw the cake and everybody, all the neighbours in the courtyard started singing happy birthday to her. # cumpleanos feliz! and she was very emotional and it was incredible.

every night, at 8pm, everybody goes out to the balconies and opens the windows and everybody claps. clapping. and we give this round of applause for the people working in hospitals, people who are working in the chemists, people who are making, really trying to fight this disease. so that's always a very special and emotional moment. i've never seen madrid like this. many governments, including the british foreign office have warned against non—essential travel anywhere in the world. airlines are struggling, many have grounded up to 90% of their fleets. research group the centre for aviation says, without a bailout, most of the world's carriers will be bankrupt by may. borders are closing, the eu, australia and new zealand

are among the countries to stop foreign arrivals. many cruise ships have ended their tours and flown all their passengers home. sporting events the world over have been cancelled, football's european championships, golf‘s pga championships and the opening races of the formula 1 season are all off. one of the most immediate problems is the number of travellers who found themselves stranded abroad miles away from home. we've been speaking to a number of you caught in that situation. my situation is that i'm stranded, virgin cancelled my flight yesterday, due to leave at 6:25pm from miami. i was told the day before that of the cancellation. the advice we've been given is quite confusing. i mean, i'm obviously not a fluent italian speaker so that's partly my fault. but generally, the advice given has changed every few days and varies by region quite a lot.

now is not possible to travel to the neighbouring islands or to the city unless you have a reason to do so. we also have curfew in place here between 10pm and 5am. we just want to get back to friends and family. i have a new grandson who is going to be six months old tomorrow. i haven't seen him for six weeks now. i've been told that i can book an alternative flight but i don't know if that is with the same provider. can i go with a different airline? will i be reimbursed for doing that? it is unsettling. there's so much happening everywhere. it is very easy to get caught up in the panic too when you speak to people. i would love to get home, yeah. here i am right now in the travel shpw hq in london and i'm joined by someone who will hopefully be able to untangle some of this and offer some clarity too — and that is our global guru, simon calder.

hello, simon. you've just returned from the middle east. how was that journey, were you worried? pretty much from the off, it started falling apart. my flight from saudi arabia to cairo was cancelled so i eneded up travelling overland through saudi arabia, crossing jordan, israel, which was just about to ban anyone from entering abroad, and across the sinai desert to cairo. ifound myself coming up against another flight ban which was coming into it effect in a couple of days time. like many other people, i had little choice but to go straight to cairo airport and see what i could find to get out at any price. i talked to many travellers in the same position, including nikki fernandez. we were supposed to be flying out on saturday the 21st but then we heard first thing this morning from my mum that all flights from thursday onwards were being cancelled so we had to rush to get a flight sooner. was it a straightforward matter? did the airline change your flight ok? absolutely not, we heard nothing

from expedia who we booked through or with egypt air who we are flying with. we had to go through our concierge and we advised to go through the embassy but the british embassy was not opening their doors despite there being a queue of us and other nationals. they gave us the home office number, we telephoned those but they didn't respond. our insurance wasn't answering and expedia was not answering either so eventually we had to go straight to the airport to book an earlier flight. clearly you have done that. how much did it cost? an additional £630 each to switch to get earlier flights. simon, there are lots of people who are stuck somewhere and many people have lost a lot of money. what is your advice? it is such an unusual situation that at this stage it's a question of fly first, ask questions later. there are all kinds of experiences of people where the passenger rights rules should take effect but the airlines are simply ignoring them. they have very little choice they say. the situation is completely out of control.

travel insurance too. of course, many people are assuming that their problems will be covered by that but unfortunately, it won't be for possibly weeks or months and when the dust has settled and people actually find out what they can claim back. but it's going to leave many people out of pocket and of course, sadly, many great travel professionals out of work. your advice is to get that flight and get home. very much so. if you know that the government of the country you are in is banning international flights in two days time — just get online, find a flight, in extremis, go to the airport and see what you can find. most people, i hope, will be able to get out. tell me something, what are the most common problems hitting your inbox at the moment? at the moment, the most pressing is i'm in country x, trying to get home, help, what do i do? all i can say is, assume you won't get any help from your airline,

your insurance company, or even from your embassy. you have to make decisions now, there is no time to lose. spend what you need to, get family and friends to pay for your ticket — just get yourself out and then ask question later. nikki was referring to the fact that she couldn't get through to her own embassy. is that common? isn't that worrying? the normal workload of an embassy is maybe a handful of people every week, maybe lost passports, people getting into trouble with the law, a sickness case. they're simply not cut out for the situation of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of nationals all being in the same position of having to leave their country at top speed. i'm not really surprised this is happening. the systems we have in place simply never were designed for the worst emergency that has ever happened to travel. for the moment, simon, thank you very much indeed. still to come: a closer look at what this could mean for airlines as some

ground their entire international fleets. and, with many people still stuck abroad and others waiting for compensation, we put some fire questions to our global guru. if you're a regular viewer, you will know that we have a little travel show family who live and work all over the planet. and like many other people, they have been facing a complicated international travel situation — not to mention the various stages of lockdown, isolation and worry. so we thought it would be a good idea to catch up with them to see how they've been getting on. hey, it's mike and i am at the airport in cairo where it seems like it's business as usual for the most part. just more masks and gloves. i fully expect it to change when i get to heathrow and toronto pearson airport where i've heard things are crazy. my story didn't start here in cairo. it started in yemen.

an island called socotra off the yemen coast which is kind of like the galapagos of the indian ocean. a dream trip i'd planned for months and i'd just gotten there and was three days in and i gota knock on my tent at three or aam, saying that there is one flight off the islands and there will be no more indefinitely and you should probably be on it. hi, it's carmen here in tokyo where i feel it's a lot calmer than what i'm seeing elsewhere in the world. i guess japan had one of the first few cases of the coronavirus. so we've been living with these measures for quite some time. the panic— buying seems to have stopped. there is a little bit of social distancing but i don't feel there really is because i'm at the park and as you can see behind me, it's pretty busy. as a traveljournalist, i'm meant to be right now preparing for my trip to chile and south america, and of course that's not going to happen because the bbc, like most other companies, have cancelled

all non—essential travel. this is christa in hertfordshire at home. i was supposed to be in rome last week and next week i was supposed to be in thailand but both have been cancelled. the other reason i'm at home is a few days ago, i started to get a few symptoms, a cough and though i'm almost certain it was nothing to do with the coronavirus, i self—quarantined. i'm on day five currently and who knows how many more will need to come. i'm just really hoping this can be resolved as soon as possible so we can get out there on the road and travel the world, which is what we love doing. that's how the current crisis is affecting members of the travel show team, but of course, the impact is far wider than that. with hotels, cruise liners, and restaurants all facing an uncertain future. and perhaps, when it comes to lost revenue, the biggest impact will be felt

by the airline industry. it's estimated one in ten jobs worldwide are dependent on tourism. in many places, especially in the developing world, it's now in the top two or three industries. tens, if not hundreds of millions depend on it for their livelihood. many of these people now face unemployment. airline bosses say the impact is comparable to the 2008 global financial crisis, the sars outbreak and 9/11. but it's widely accepted this is far worse and the effect will be long—term. we propose to introduce a temporary restriction on non—essential travel to the european union. a travel ban will be placed on all nonresidents, non—australian citizens coming to australia. we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days.

the boss of british airways has described the situation as a crisis of global proportions, like no other we have known. and joining me now is paul charles, an aviation analyst and communications expert who has worked in the airline industry for 20 years or so, thank you forjoining us. as an expert you have helped airlines steer through crises before. but in terms of scale, how would you compare this current situation with those? this is seismic, and airlines are on their knees. they have never faced anything on this scale and several of them are on a cliff edge anyway because of the position they were in before the coronavirus outbreak occurred. so there is no precedent to this? it is unparalleled? the ash cloud, financial crisis, sars, mers, were all much smaller scale and some of them were regional not global and the issue here is that we are dealing with a global crisis and that is why

airlines are cutting up to 90% of their capacity, running threadbare operations in most cases and they are not sure they will never get back to where they were at the start of 2020. we may be at that moment where government is clearly stretched and do not have all the resources in the world, they will have to say we do need to pick and choose in this industry. is it better to save one major airline in the country and to save a sector rather than let the whole sector go under? i think they are looking at airlines and saying maybe some do have to fail, notjust in the uk nor in europe but globally. and that will be a very testing period for some airline executives. how do you think airlines will respond to passenger worries? airline customer service teams have never been under so much pressure. this is unprecedented. understandably they are struggling to cope. the best advice really is to not contact your airline until three

days before you are due to travel if you have a booking already. there is no point clogging up the phone line or their e—mail by contacting them now if you are booked to fly in six months' time. they probably do not have answers and you do not need an answer at this stage, you can wait a little longer. but if you are flying within 72 hours you should try to contact them and that is where you prioritise. airlines themselves are saying please don't talk to us until 72 hours before the flight. we will get through the enquiries but it will take time. we will get through this and we have an inherent desire to travel, it is in our dna. the virus will not kill that off. we will want to travel again and the industry will recover. returning now to more of your stories of being stuck abroad. we had a number of you get in touch from peru after the borders closed on monday. the situation in cusco

is that the borders have been shut down over a very short period of time so we were not even given any warning and everything was cancelled. we're just trapped in a hotel for what seems like 15 days, it could be longer. i am in lockdown so the only reason i am allowed out is to go to the shop to get food or to go to a chemist. otherwise i am to stay inside and i will be stuck here for a while. our biggest concern is the lack of help from the british government. all the embassies in peru have closed down due to virus spread. i am feeling frustrated at the lack of information and, actually, even responses on twitter from different people, we get robot responses every time. "talk to your travel company," no matter what has been asked. we are trying to remain positive. we were lucky enough to secure an air bnb for the two weeks that the country is supposed to be

shut down, until april one. the advice i would give to any traveller stuck overseas right now is probably to get on twitter and see if there are other people in a similar situation because i found that banding together with people in the same situation in the same country, even in the same city has been really, really good and really supportive. we have shared advice and almost come together as a force. you are a stronger voice if you can get together than if you are on your own. just some of the people who contacted us after finding themselves stranded a long way from home because of the current crisis. i'm joined now by our global through simon calder who can hopefully offer advice. people say they have trouble getting through to their airlines and one person said they were on hold for three hours. what would your advice be if you cannot get in touch with your carrier?

paul charles was saying a moment ago that many airlines are overwhelmed. they certainly are. if you have given it your best shot and could not get an answer in a reasonable time then you need to make your best decisions and spend whatever you need to, keep receipts and make a reasonable claim afterwards. and, by the way, in many cases airlines are saying just accept a voucher for future travel online. if your flight is actually cancelled, which is happening a lot, you are entitled to a cash refund and a voucher might not do you any good. hold out for real money. mick tweeted us saying he had a holiday to venice booked to leave two weeks ago. uk government advice was to not travel to northern italy so why have my insurance company rejected the claim ? how are insurance companies responding to the situation and what is your advice in this situation? like everybody else, travel insurers are in uncharted territory. they are understaffed and their finances are under

tremendous pressure, so it does not surprise me that mick has been refused. in his case he can go to the financial ombudsman service in the uk who, if he thinks he has a valid claim, will make the insurer pay it. the travel show has viewers around the world and there will be local laws which may or may not offer some help. all i can say is that the insurance industry is not going to be in a hurry to pay people out because this will cost it millions. ——billions. a tweet here from a viewer in the uk that after a six nations match was cancelled in paris he got a full refund from the hotel but the train company charged him £70 to change his rail ticket and offered no refund. what would your advice to him be? we heard from so many sports fans who had been planning trips based on a particular event which is then being cancelled and they are saying what do we do? i am afraid in his case and in many others, the train company

is perfectly able to take him to paris and back. but the fact that he does not want to go is not their problem. they are applying terms and conditions as they are entitled to. so at least be glad you got the refund on the hotel. finally, a tweet from anthonyjohnson who told us "i just ended a trip in southern argentina. it took four days and four flights to finally get home. i would like to send my appreciation to all airline staff still working across the world. without them i would never have gotten home." it is a great story and all the way through at a time when the industry of human happiness has neverfelt so miserable and there has been so much despair, people who sadly know theirjobs are on the line are still delivering absolutely top class professional safe service to get people where they need to be. a positive note for ending on in a negative situation. thank you forjoining us, simon.

we have had to cancel or postpone many of our travel plans which means that the travel show will be looking a little different for the time being at least. however, fingers crossed we will be you on the road again doing what we love doing, making programmes that hopefully you enjoy. from me and the rest of the travel show team, wherever they are in the world right now, it is goodbye. good evening it has felt chilly in the breeze over the weekend that will chill, and change the wind

direction for the start of the week. however we will still have frost by night even though it will remain a lot of dry weather and high pressure hanging on. in the north and west we will see the rainfall and a net office warning of a from 100 mm of rainfor office warning of a from 100 mm of rain for monday, tuesday, wednesday. particularly the highlands and islands of scotland. it will be moving and as we go to the night time as well stop the temperatures will become a widespread frost, colder than last night for some and quite a sharp frost. even some nest and fog picked up from nest and breeze. hazy sunshine increasing first northern island and parts of scotla nd first northern island and parts of scotland with proximity of the letter found. rain for the western isles, northern isles and mainland, for most of us, as we lose the breeze, we will realise double figures for the east coast where it

has been chilly all weekend. winds remain light overnight so widespread frost and nest and fog in some areas as well. the rainfall is pushing closer in and winds up strengthening. gals potentially through monday and into say across northern and western scotland. some clad and some spots of rain and close by to northern island and here, with light winds and plenty of sunshine, we will have 15 or 16 and thatis sunshine, we will have 15 or 16 and that is 61 fahrenheit. drifting southwards influencing the rest of scotla nd southwards influencing the rest of scotland and northern ireland, and with both england and wales at that chilly and possibly some nest and fog but we should see some 13 or 111 and thereafter we think the weather front will eventually reach the southern parts of england and wales had by then we think weakening because he comes into the

high—pressure and behind it however we have a cold wind coming and i ta ke we have a cold wind coming and i take land which brings with it some wing showers as well as we head towards the and into next weekend. the warnings are on the website.

this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines. germany bans all social gathering of more than two people as it attempts to stem the spread of the pandemic. italy announces a slight decrease in the rate of new infections — for the first time since the pandemic took hold. the uk prime minister warns of tougher measures if social distancing advice isn't followed — he says people who are acting irresponsibly — are putting lives at risk. and if you are used to going to church on sunday — how about a virtual church service?