then i will have to leave it at that and call it a day there. uefa has postponed the finals of the champions league, and the europa league. with no new dates arranged. european football's governing body, took the decision, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, which has halted leagues around the world — and postponed euro 2020 this summer. a working group — which was established last week will now look at what options are possible. but the finals in turkey, poland and vienna respectively, will not now be happening in may. the azerbaijan grand prix has become the eighth race of the formula one season to be postponed because of the coronavirus. the street race in baku was due to take place on seventhjune, but organisers have said they will work closely with f1 to find a date later in the year. the next race on the calendar, is the canadian grand prix on 14th june, which is yet to be moved. former scotland rugby union international rory lawson said he was ‘totally floored' and felt empty — after living with the coronavirus in quarantine.

the 39—year—old told us the virus left him physically drained and also how he worries for player welfare, in light of delays to the regular season. if we don't get this rate, then sports will take an awful long time to recoverfrom it. i think, for me, you know, if i think about the domestic leagues, the premiership and rugby premiership super bowl, the guinness pro 1a rugby etc, a lot of guys are under contract. it's easy to say, well, how do we finish the season? because we must finish the season, but if this goes on until, i don't know, let's sayjune— july as an example, i know that a lot of people's contracts, if they are finishing this year, will finish at the end of may, maybe even the end ofjune. so they will be contracted, will they be cut loose? who knows? when you restart? so, you know, it's a big question, i'm sure there is an awful lot rory lawson there. and that's all the sport for now.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kevin schofield, editor of politics home and lucy fisher, defence editor at the times. tomorrow's front pages are in and all lead on the prime minister's address setting out tough new measures to tackle coronavirus in the uk. ‘johnson forced to close britain‘ reads the front of the financial times — as the prime minister announces all non essential shops will close and gatherings will be broken up by the police ‘national lockdown‘ say the daily mirror — who quote borisjohnson saying ‘many more will die and only drastic action can help the nhs.‘ with a similar headline,

the metro has a picture of a packed london tube train with its passengers ignoring social distancing carrying a desk thumping picture of the prime minister the daily express headline reads ‘you must stay at home... for all our sakes.‘ turning to the i and it's a similar story — ‘lockdown uk. public told: stay indoors.‘ and with public gatherings of two or more being restricted, the guardian quote the prime minister simply saying ‘stay at home, this is a national emergency.‘ so let‘s begin. they did express, you must stay at home for all of our sakes. yes, pretty stark message from the pie minister. i think it was inevitable after a weekend of so many people ignoring the warnings and the order

by the prime minister initially to stay at home and if you had to go out keep at least two metres away from one another. so many people flouting those rulings and taking it back that the government had no other option than to come down much, much harder and you got to imagine it was pretty black—and—white terms that if you go out you were at risk. notjust your that if you go out you were at risk. not just your own life that if you go out you were at risk. notjust your own life but that if you go out you were at risk. not just your own life but the thousands of other lives and no idea what that might take on board. the guardian, prime minister, stay at home, this is a national emergency. of course there will be many and there are many who have said that there are many who have said that the government should have done this

sort of lockdown earlier than they have done it. that's right. i think there will be a lot of questions as to why these measures have come so late. certainly borisjohnson in recent days has projected very much that liberal streak that we know him for talking the importance of these things and also the difficulty. i live in london and no guardian, very difficult for many people and families, couples two people working from home in difficult things that he‘s asking the country as level of empathy he showed tonight that he acknowledge the damage these measures will do to people‘s lives. and we see the cases of confirmed coronavirus cases where thousands of

people have died from the virus and the world health organisation has one of the panda bigots accelerating. and this is the time enough of these tough measures. i‘m just glad to see the smaller reprieve that for the moment the parks will stay open. that could change people do not obey. his son because the house arrest, but actually the reality is these measures, they could be tougher still. there is still scope for a cu rfew still. there is still scope for a curfew if the government wanted to go further and match with some other countries have done. yeah, i think the difficult thing is that his natural political instincts are to give people personal freedom natural political instincts are to give people personalfreedom and in many ways he‘s been dragged to this position. not what his advisers were

briefing and that italy had gone down the wrong road. but i think the weather is really taken hold in the path of the uk appears to be on is really terrifying for those in government and they don‘t want to see the scenes that we have seen in italy. that was one of the things that the prime minister hammered home tonight that the nhs is essentially on the brink, and that u nless essentially on the brink, and that unless people show some personal responsibility and stay indoors and help slow the spread of the virus than the nhs will certainly not cope. the struggle went a little bit further, it could go where people still don‘t take on board this message, and certainly it will be a very different britain to wake up to tomorrow morning. that is certainly the telegraph io, tomorrow morning. that is certainly the telegraph lo, the end of freedom says the telegraph. obviously it is

the end of freedom in many ways, but only for three weeks. initially, anyway. three weeks is the period he outlined. obviously could be longer than that, have you got any potential projection of a timescale for this, do you think was yellow i go for this, do you think was yellow i 9° by for this, do you think was yellow i go by what borisjohnson himself had said, he hopes to turn the tide as he put it within 12 weeks, and it‘s not quite clear exactly what he meant, but we understand that by turning the tide he meant coming down from the peak, and reaching the peak and comment on the other side of it. i‘ll be surprised if i these measures lifted but be keeping review. there is a rest of fairly grim news today commit from it what hit home with the revelation that planners have been to visit these centres in london and i sleep colossal 100 acre site looking at as

a potential site for a field hospital. it could potentially house hundreds or thousands of coronavirus patients, and the thing that really hit home for me from the address to the nation tonight was the fact that while weddings and baptisms, and every other kind of mass gathering will be banned by funerals will not. there's clearly the sense that there are many that will be lost as this epidemic continues to excel or in the country, and keep in mind while waiting at the loss of freedom frames that. sorry, not a great line. let‘s director kevin just to look at the mirror. national lockdown. all of the front pages, at the root expect pretty unanimous in the root expect pretty unanimous in the way they have treated the story. it's the way they have treated the story. it‘s interesting the prime minister did not use the words lock although nicola sturgeon did afterwards when

she addressed scotland. i don‘t think there‘s any way you can describe it. incredible curtailing of people possibly individual freedoms but it‘s clearly for the greater good. you just have to hope that all the people who did not listen to the warnings over the weekend and went out and about maybe thinking ifeel fine, won‘t happen to me, is not that serious may be now will be taking on board but that means they are getting very serious now and people i‘ve got no option other than to try and stay indoors. very briefly, if it had not been for that glorious weather of the weekend in most parts of the country, and people had not gone out in such large numbers do you think we would have seen these measures at this time tonight? perhaps not as soon as tonight but it‘s very much the same

curb that italy was on two or three weeks ago and borisjohnson and the government are desperate to flatten that out and bring it down from the peak that it could potentially reach to try and take the pressure of the nhs. we think around seven and thousand former nhs workers have come back to work for the health service throughout this crisis, which is obviously great news and trying to step up production of personal protection equipment, ventilators but clearly at the moment the trend would suggest that the nhs is going to come under incredible pressure for the next two oi’ incredible pressure for the next two or three weeks. kevin schofield, lucy fisher, many things to both of you. kevin and lucy will be back at 11.30pm for another

look at the papers. goodbye for now. good evening. monday for most has been dominated by a dry and settled story. in fact the weather watch a picture here is essex but fairly indicative of many areas of the country. allowing for some spring blossom to flourish now. different story for the north and west and they cannot for some rain at times, from the weather front going to stubbornly sit with you for the next couple of days. will bring relentless rain for a time and strong gusty winds elsewhere. the isobars will open up and keep those clear skies. but of the north and south divide overnight tonight and frost out of the question, first thing tomorrow morning as temperatures hover around freezing but it will be a milder start at the north with the cloud around.

particularly for the northern and western aisles, gusts of winds in excess of 50 mph for time. could have as much of rain for these frontal system clear through. quite a lot of cloud generally through scotla nd a lot of cloud generally through scotland and northern ireland as well. elsewhere a little bit affair with her cloud along western fringes, but come further inland the light southerly breeze and plenty of sunshine despite that chilly start, temperatures are likely to respond to heights of 16 or 17 degrees. that‘s way above the average for this time of year. now it‘s almost a repeat performance, tuesday night into wednesday with clear skies across england and wales as temperatures are going to fall away again quite sharply. keep the claddagh ring to the north so it stays in the mild side. serve wednesday morning with that front sitting there. it is going to start to wea ke n sitting there. it is going to start to weaken off but producing this conveyor belt of rain brushing northern ireland and into the

northwest of the great glen merrily. elsewhere we keep sunshine and again relative spring warmth with heights of 16 degrees. that change will come to the end of the week is that weather front continues to seek south. it‘s what we can often not expecting any significant rain just the odd spot will do as it pushes south but more importantly it introduces a change of wind direction to a colder northerly source. as you head towards the week that he will really notice the difference of the feel of the weather although it will for many, stay predominantly dry.

this is bbc news, broadcasting in the uk and around the world. i‘m ben brown. our latest headlines: britain‘s prime minister, boris johnson, announces its stricter new curbs on life in the uk in order to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. the british public will only be able to leave their homes for a number of specific and very limited reasons and the police will enforce it. without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope. because there won‘t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses. a new warning from the head of the

world health organization, who