contracted coronavirus, although we are told he is also in good health. hejust has mild are told he is also in good health. he just has mild symptoms and is still working from home. it has not gone down too badly but there are of course fears because he's in his 70s but that also the queen who was in her 90s and if she was to contracted, it would be in that high risk category. laura, i assume there isa risk category. laura, i assume there is a micro picture of borisjohnson. have you seen that on that front page? standing up respectively. he would not sit down when he spoke to the queen. clearly, it's an important moment. normally this audience would be meeting in person where as now it's on the phone. laura, your thoughts? he does have his hand in his pocket. laura, your thoughts? he does have his hand in his pocketlj laura, your thoughts? he does have his hand in his pocket. i missed that! more interestingly, as the press never really find out about the conversation, we don't necessarily know when they are happening. we wouldn't really get any detail from the call and the

fa ct any detail from the call and the fact that they put those pictures out is a, to show the country that the queen is in good health because a lot of people will be very worried following the news of prince charles, but also people would like to know that —— the queen has been through huge events in this country's past. when she came out and she said that public message and urged everyone to follow the social distancing advice and to look after each other, it's all part of trying to put some positive news out there so to put some positive news out there so people feel like they're part of a collective effort to tackle this. 0k, a collective effort to tackle this. ok, i think there was a claim once about the queen and all those audiences. famously, no word ever seeps out about that but as you say, we now have a photo. let's move on to the times. they decided to have an archive photo of the queen and prince charles. i think that's important because he met her most

recently important because he met her most rece ntly o n important because he met her most recently on march the 13th. we're obviously looking at prince charles‘s movements given he has normally a incredibly busy schedule. i don't think it really comes as a surprise that a member of the royal family on the front line has contracted coronavirus. of course, they go around the country meeting hundreds of people from all walks of life, from all corners of the uk and the world. there royals as with —— and has had a number of engagement over the last few weeks. we know he last saw the queen, i think it was the 12th of march and the day after is when doctors say he would have actually become contagious. doctors are saying that actually there's not really a ny are saying that actually there's not really any risk that he would have given it to the queen. there's some sector acreage in that baby caught it from prince albert. —— some

speculation that he caught it. i think that's certainly not a dead certain that there is any number of people that he would've come into contact with, he could have given it to them. hopes rise for virus test, 3.5 million test to be ordered within weeks. if they were, potentially the situation do you think? the prime minister said himself that these tests would be —— which show whether or not you've had the virus. we know that most people who have had coronavirus are then no longer so accessible to it and therefore you can tell if you had it. -- and therefore you can tell if you had it. —— so acceptable to it. you might be passing sin comes off as

just a little call. the question of course is how many people don't know that they've had it and there been some studies in the last couple days suggesting that number might be a lot bigger than we think. these would be good on both an individual basis and that individuals would be able to go out and carry on their daily business, going back to work, going shopping, helping caring for others, particularly forfront—line workers. if they know that they bought it and they know that they are safe to be at work, but also for the wider public health it would be really interesting to just how widely this is spread and how many people have had coronavirus. those figures would be very, very interesting for the government and for anyone modelling this disease. and of course, laura, if we turn to you, the word of that report i think it was by an oxford organisation, more people might have been affected that came out in your paper, the financial times. that was yesterday so we financial times. that was yesterday so we won't talk about that too

much. 3.5 million test, what do we need to be careful with on this given that the fact that we are not science journalists, we are trying to catch up with everything? the times want to lead with the word hope. the interesting thing for me is that we have this really encouraging news to come out in the morning and then professor chris whitty who is the chief medical officer later in the press co nfe re nce officer later in the press conference stood alongside boris johnson. he actually cautioned, wait, we need to test these tests to make sure they work because a test thatis make sure they work because a test that is bad is worse than no test at all. even if we find they work, priority must go to our nhs front—line workers social care workers. he said actually, everyone calm down, it's not that likely that we will see online deliveries next week. there were reports we might be able to go on to get amazon orders

of these mass tests. the reason is hopeful is that if they do work, and these can be rolled out and there is easily as they say they are, this is huge news for the economy because it means we can see if we have it or not as harriet mentioned, if we are immune to it, we can get back to work and get the economy moving again as opposed to leaving this locked down for a long period of time. ithink locked down for a long period of time. i think it's 3.5 million test that they've already ordered. if not entirely clear it's100% accurate. i'm gonna jump entirely clear it's100% accurate. i'm gonnajump in, entirely clear it's100% accurate. i'm gonna jump in, we're in a move to the financial times. the first paragraph, you wrote this article yourself. i'm not going to read you yourself. i'm not going to read you your own article, but for the benefit of our viewers, the headline is "president rises to speed up virus testing for front line health staff." please to explain —— please ask wayne how important that is.

there is some hope there. —— please explain. in that press conference, he was directing us asjournalist, why do we seek to be lagging behind other countries? wire me not doing more testing? wiring not getting tests to nhs workers who are in the nhs ata tests to nhs workers who are in the nhs at a sure if they pose a risk? they are not sure if they are passing it on to vulnerable patients. that feels like a really pressing issue at the moment. yes, we want to see if we have had this retrospectively, but more importantly, leaders of the nhs front light workers, nurses, doctors are warning that they're sharing mass, they don't have enough protective equipment, and again, this testing is so important. when you look at what the world health organisation has been saying, when you look at what other countries have been doing, the strategy really is, test, test, test when you know how many people about it. you can

help isolate places, you can manage it better. a few weeks ago when the government moved from the complainant phase to the delay phase —— containment pays, we stopped testing people. we are only tasting people who are in the hospital. —— testing people. they're actually not painting the full picture and that's a worry to some people because that means we might not have a grip on it that we should. thank you very much. harriet, i don't know if you had a chance to see i. it shows the namaste greeting the prime minister did, but the main headline is helpful that has become one of the critical issues. how on earth self—employed people may have been able to as a survival £91; a week if they lost theirjob. absolutely and it

affecting around 5 million people in the uk. last week, the chancellor richie sunak outlined a huge package of measures to help workers who receive their monthly salary —— richie sunak they were facing losing their dogs because —— job because of their dogs because —— job because of the virus and it's come with criticism that the self—employed have not been able to benefit from those same measures so far. the government is working to do this but people are losing theirjobs as we speak. many have already lost their jobs so those measures can't be, any sooner. we know the chancellor will outline these measures tomorrow at the daily press conference. we don't know any of the detail and there's a few mix reports in the papers as to quite how many people who are self—employed who will benefit from

this. of course, it's a normally complicated for the government to work out how to pay people who don't have a monthly income who are self—employed. —— a enormously complicated. i just self—employed. —— a enormously complicated. ijust want self—employed. —— a enormously complicated. i just want to move to the daily mail. what's your view on the volunteers and if you suddenly had no time at the fte, which particular volunteer role would you choose to do? it's really one of the more positive stories that have come out of this. a huge response to the government's called to the arms for volunteers. they got twice the numbers they anticipated and needed. they're now working out what they could do with these extra volunteers. we need to be making

sure vulnerable old people are getting deliveries and food, and that something people can do quite safely. laura, thanks. harriet, if you had to work for pa and volunteer, what would you do?” rather like the idea of calling out people who are lonely in their homes and just need someone who —— to talk to. some of those people just won't have any human contact, won't have anyfamily or have any human contact, won't have any family or friends calling. i just really feel for those people. it's been great to talk to you both, thank you so much. that's it for the papers this hour. laura and harriett will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers.

hello there, good evening. it's been a good of —— day of split weather fortunes. sunny skies for some but very grey skies for others. this is the satellite picture and you can see that stark difference, england and wales with sunny skies but across a good part of scotland and northern ireland, clouds sitting in place and will continue to do so over the next couple of days. still producing the onslaught of rain here as we go through the evening and tonight, but where you are underneath that bad a plough, temperatures will not drop too far. colder than that across the far north of scotland. skies are clearing here and certainly cold for their south across england and wales. could get down to “11 or minus five degrees. a chilly start to tomorrow, but a bright one. another sunny day for england and wales. still a strength of cloud affecting northern ireland and a good start of scotla nd northern ireland and a good start of scotland although part of scotland

is likely to have a bright day if not a rather cold one. temperature is just not a rather cold one. temperature isjust a not a rather cold one. temperature is just a little bit lower across the board than they have been over the board than they have been over the last couple of days. for friday, light winds for many. a little bit breezy for some eastern coast, lots of sunshine for england and wales. again, i stripe of funk cloud affecting northern ireland and scotland. the temperatures just to bea scotland. the temperatures just to be a little bit lower than they have been. that band of cloud will start to move southwards. that frontal system associated with the cloud will be pushing its way southwards into the start of the weekend and as it clears, it opens the door to some cold air which is going to plunge its way down from the north. i really truly feel to the things this weekend, particularly when you consider the strength of the wind. that will accentuate that coal field. saturday a largely dry day with some sunny spells. one or two wintry showers blowing into coastal district, temperatures to 6—11d.

back to cloud and say spells but slightly greater chance of seeing some wintry showers spending in from the northeast later in the day. on the northeast later in the day. on the thermometer, temperatures will read between 6—9d. that is below par for the time of year but will be a factor in the strength of the year, this is what is going to feel like for some. it will feel not better than freezing.

this is bbc news — i'm james reynolds. these are the latest coronavirus headlines from around the world: president trump says new york is by far america's biggest problem as half of all known us coronavirus cases are now in the state. an ice rink in madrid becomes a temporary mortuary as spain's death toll overtakes china's. prince charles is self—isolating at home in scotland after testing positive for the coronavirus — his symptoms are said to be mild. and in other news, an australian man accused of killing 51 people in attacks on two mosques in new zealand last year enters a surprise plea of guilty.