cajole, negotiate and advise" the public to follow lockdown restrictions as law enforcement leaders said they don't want to be compelled to take more draconian measures that are being commonly used abroad. the express picks up of matt hancock's promise that millions of new antibody tests will help britain defeat coronavirus. it also reports a study claiming 50% of us may have been infected. the times also picks up on the briefing by the health secretary, where he revealed a quarter of a million people are being recruited for an nhs volunteer army. but according to the guardian, a massive nhs recruitment drive to help contain the pandemic risks being undermined by the prospect of doctors quitting over fears of inadequate protective equipment. and the financial times focuses on chancellor, rishi sunak‘s warning that the pandemic would inevitably lead to businesses collapsing. so, let's begin... and the financial times focuses on chancellor, rishi sunak‘s warning that the pandemic would inevitably

lead to businesses collapsing. that's the flavour of the front pages. let's kick off. the daily telegraph has an extraordinary picture, really which i suppose in many ways sums up the whole crisis. the prime minister having a sort of skype, or i'm not sure what form of technology he is using, but holding a cabinet meeting, a virtual cabinet meeting with all of his ministers. yes, actually following by example, basically. all supposed to be doing all of this now and he was having his meeting with his senior ministers from downing street via skype as we have been having relations with lots of our family and friends. he is doing exactly the same thing. so after last night public announcement or which was watched by an extraordinary number of people think people said 27 million people tuned in, and that we are all being told to stay at home the prime minister is doing just that. some or all of his cabinet.

let's also look at the other front—page headline which is that the police are using persuasion rather than punishment, this is been a question, releases the prime minister announced those restrictions, how would they be enforced by the authorities? absolutely. other european nations have gone a lot further than the uk has so in giving police powers almost calling on peoples papers regarding weather outside. but as man cut —— matt hancock said today they're going to the traditional british policing system with encouraging and first warnings and ta kes encouraging and first warnings and takes it comes to public order. it will be interesting to see whether the public response well. the government pushed as far as it well can. some of them are so answering

that call. you would how many prime ministers in the past are having that power. if we look at the metro they have gods police breaking up groups define the lockdown with some idiots even having barbecues, that was a scene in the west midlands, think of a group of around 20 people having a barbecue the police force to intervene. there's still some people have not got the message. yes, you me because he is on social media with lots of examples of people taking to social media to call out their neighbours, for example for having garden parties, obviously the weather is amazing at the moment, so people are wanting to be outside and congregating. it's quite difficult for the police at this point as andy was saying, we do have a tradition here of policing by consent, and they are not used to having powers they have to disburse

huge numbers of people like this in such a kind of uniform pet fashion. quite difficult, particularly when we have seen the fact that we have 20,000 fewer police officers that we would want and is going to be a massive recruitment drive in order to drive up those numbers, so that the big tall task for them to be able to deal with this and have been speaking to a senior police officer this evening with saying that very little guidance had been dribbled down about what they were supposed to do if there were people who are persistently breaking the advice that's given to them by the government. let's look at the other bit of the metro front page which is that hospital that's being built, well converted actually, the excel centre in london come the documents converted to a makeshift field hospitalfor 4000 converted to a makeshift field hospital for 4000 patients and that just gives you an idea, i suppose of what the authorities are expecting in terms of the number of people infected with this virus and who are going to need treatment. absolutely,

and as for us to understand it is notjust infected with and as for us to understand it is not just infected with the virus, though also others that will be in ca re though also others that will be in care but don't need oxygen which will free up ventilators and existing hospitals. you have to take a step back and look at news like this and we become use to a new normal of unprecedented events, we are looking through this and a picture of the centre in the paper today, it was crazy. it was people dressed up as, characters, that's not changing into a field hospital in the middle of east london. we are going through extreme your time so we took a step back and think about out we took a step back and think about our own we took a step back and think about our own activities with they are precedented as well in terms of that lockdown. the biggest week for the national health services it was formed, and i think that is not an exaggeration, is it? not even necessarily this week because the

coming weeks, but we don't even know when the peak of this epidemic will be, infact when the peak of this epidemic will be, in fact our medical correspondent tonight was saying it may not be until may but the coming weeks certainly are going to be huge for the national health service. yes they are, it is actually right it will come down to a net peak occurs and that's why we are doing all of this social distancing of the whole point of it is to try and flatten that peak so that the nhs does not come to the utterly overwhelmed. and of course i think we're going to see this is a bit like brexit last year. every week we thought it was unprecedented as another unprecedented as another unprecedented week and i think that we are going to continue to see that with this crisis as it moves forward the nhs is going to become pretty much a corona health service which is going to be totally dedicated to try and keep people pumped full of oxygen and uses limited resources they have and is ventilators that we have heard an enormous amount about the not being enough of them and trying to keep people alive. of

course not knowing when that peak is in seeing what's happening in italy and of course reports from spain yesterday, this would be a lot of preparation done in those weeks or days before we get to that peak to make sure we are as prepared as we can possibly be. let's go to the times. call for army of volunteers, quarter of a million people needed to help the health service, this is amongst other things to deliver supplies to the one and a half million vulnerable people who are being shielded from coronavirus. in quite a dramatic picture of military trucks crossing westminster bridge from the logistic brigade delivering a consignment of medical masks to st. thomas hospital, but we are being asked to are a bit and this is a call for an army of volunteers as the times puts it. yes, there's almost of the of the dunkirk spirit in it. the government has been talking about this this evening, thoughts of people looked at measures around with shielding and

for those protecting vulnerable people and wondered how they can do this with groups of people and neighbours have not spoken to each other in years becoming best pals offering fresh fruit and vegetables for each other, i think the government should try to harness some of that with his volunteer call as well as answering the need for logistics which is what a cynical way of looking at if you bring people into as a part of a government effort government might recognise it won't criticise the effort which, they have up until this point have criticised somewhat. on the front of the sun come in the national health service call for the quarterfamiliar national health service call for the quarter familiar volunteers but also highlighting the death toll which hasjumped highlighting the death toll which has jumped 87 highlighting the death toll which hasjumped 87 in the highlighting the death toll which has jumped 87 in the last 24 hours and that is giving us an indication of how steep the rise in the number of how steep the rise in the number of fatalities is from the

coronavirus. exactly. i've got a friend whose keen to join the volunteer force, but i think underlying that we also need to see come in at the other people have highlighted this to the nhs staff have not been tested yet and given the infection rates that we are seeing in the death toll from the fa ct seeing in the death toll from the fact that there have been estimates over one intent of this people getting infected are nhs workers i think it does underline this need to make sure that we have got adequate testing facilities to make sure that people who are out there, particularly volunteers as well as oui’ particularly volunteers as well as our dedicated nhs staff are actually receiving all of the help that they can so receiving all of the help that they can so that they can know if, for example, if they had the coronavirus oi’ example, if they had the coronavirus or if they got the coronavirus to make sure they are not taking it on towards with them and making the situation worse. that, for me is really key, it's great to harness that kind of spirit of the plates or get people working to try and help oui’ get people working to try and help our very diligent nhs staff, but at

the same time need to make sure that that testing is they to make sure that testing is they to make sure that there is not any greater harm being brought to people there. thank you, caroline. just a quick last mention of your paper which was talking about the mayor of london being underfire talking about the mayor of london being under fire on talking about the mayor of london being underfire on two productions, this is the problem we are still seeing, tube trains absolutely rammed packed with passengers at rush hour. it's strange the last few days, the mayor of london and the government over what has happened in the mayor has reduced the number of services. distal people coming into work... the mayor has said is partly the government fault for not making it clear what is essential with production workers and freelance workers. the government has said

today in a press conference that there's no reason white tube services has been reduced, there's no sign is going away soon. inaudible. all right, andy, thank you very much for that. many thanks to both of you. that's it for the papers this hour. andy and caroline will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. good evening. tuesday brought us the warmest day of the year so far. in north wales thermometer creeped up just above 19 celsius. another mild day to come across the uk again today, because we are pulling our

air infrom today, because we are pulling our air in from the south, around the western flank of this area of high pressure here. a front sitting to the northwest just like pressure here. a front sitting to the northwestjust like we did yesterday were not moving any great hurry, set to produce for the great epics of rain for northern ireland and for western scotland. a flute was a bit of help from the hills and mountains as the day pans out to be brightness to the southeast of northern ireland and across eastern scotland. the clouded rain will keep things cooler here so temperatures going into double figures, for the south and we are looking at the mid—teens once again. wednesday evening and overnight into thursday the front does not really move, but it does move enough to allow skies to clear across the northwest of scotland to patchy frost here first thing on thursday, and with the clearest guys further south if rusty start to thursday across south wales, central and southern england. what we are essentially having the next few days asa essentially having the next few days as a playoff between two areas of high pressure. in ourfrontjust gets stuck in the fairly flappy combat, shall we say with nothing to

really move it on. thursday we have the front not much brees around to move anything on a great hurry but tended to lose rainfall along the length of the front because the high—pressure, is, if you like squeezing the life out of it. semper fi inventive cloud very slowly trying to slide its way south across the uk. chillier to the north of scotla nd the uk. chillier to the north of scotland to the south, perhaps targeting 13 or 14 degrees, perhaps a little bit more cloud on friday. it takes until the weekend the high—pressure on the atlantic to start to win out and then as it does so start to win out and then as it does so pushed its way and we change our wind direction. no longer a mild southerly, plunged into a much chillier northerly or northeasterly. the big change to the way things will feel come the weekend. a chance for some showers as well across eastern parts of the uk and even turn wintry at times. overall still a lot of fun with her to come in our outlook thanks to the dominance of high—pressure the biggest change

will be that drop off in temperatures at the weekend.

this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. our top stories: a huge temporary hospital is being builtjust outside london, as britain sees a big jump in the number of coronavirus deaths. france's death toll rises above 1,000, as the country struggles to keep up with the speed of the virus. india puts more than a billion people into lockdown, as the prime minister says it is essential to prevent the country being set back decades. but, amid warnings that the us could be the next epicentre of the pandemic, president trump says he hopes that it will soon be business as usual. i hope we can do this by easter. i think that would be a great thing

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