this is bbc world news — the headlines: 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. globally, the number of people who have tested positive has passed 460,000, with more than 20,000 recorded deaths. spain has now recorded more coronavirus deaths than china. madrid says 738 people with the virus had died in the past day, taking the total to more than 3,400. prince charles has been tested positive for coronavirus. his spokesman has said the heir to the british throne has mild symptoms and is now self—isolating in scotland. 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.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are laura hughes of the financial times and harriet line from the press association. tomorrow's front pages, starting with: the daily mirror leads with the huge response the nhs got when asking for volunteers to help deal with the crisis. the express goes with the same story, saying over half a million people have signed up. the mail also leads with the volunteers, along with the news that the prince of wales has contracted the virus.

the financial times reports calls to speed up the rollout of testing for nhs staff. the times says the government has ordered three and a half million testing kits which could be ready to use "within weeks" if they are shown to work. the telegraph also goes with that story, claiming these tests could allow the economy to get back on its so let's begin. if you could both waive and acknowledge it's working. you are in very minimalist surroundings allowing me to interpret nothing about what he might say. i speak of the telegraph. there is the queen holding a telephone audience with borisjohnson. holding a telephone audience with boris johnson. these holding a telephone audience with borisjohnson. these are pictures that i haven't seen since i was a boy in the 1980s. that i haven't seen since i was a boy in the 19805. this that i haven't seen since i was a boy in the 1980s. this is exactly the kind of phone people would imagine that the queen has. very old

school and you can't see the front of the phone. we don't know whether oi’ of the phone. we don't know whether or not she presses the buttons or dials them around. the pictures are not giving anything away in that regard what it is interesting is buckingham palace chose to put this picture out. it's quite extraordinary for the queen to hold an audience with the prime minister via the telephone. reasons for doing so via the telephone. reasons for doing so up to plain, given the situation but the fact the picture has been put out clearly shows that buckingham palace were keen to emphasise that the queen definitely is in good health. after the news today that her son, the eight of the throne, prince charles has developed coronavirus and of course he is in his early 70s, 71 and this is a real concern. he is in the vulnerable age category and people of course, their thoughts turn to the queen. the last

meeting, she of course is in her early 90s and will be at the very high risk therefore if she caught the coronavirus. and she is still at work. laura, i'm looking at the micro picture of borisjohnson standing up respectfully. you worked out he does have his hand in his pocket there but clearly these audiences, we don't get to see this audiences, we don't get to see this a lot. no, plus they've given us no real details about when these conversations happened between the prime minister and the monarch. i think it's part of the government's messaging, the optics year of the queen being involved in this unprecedented moment in our history. remember this is unprecedented moment in our history. rememberthis isa unprecedented moment in our history. remember this is a queen who seemed huge crises in the uk. she is dealt with so many prime ministers and i think the public would be comforted in some way to know she is involved in the mess she put out a week or so

ago, urging the public to work together. i think it's part of the government strategy as well in a way tojust try government strategy as well in a way to just try and reassure people and keep reiterating this message on public duty, public service and everybody collectively working together to try and get out of this unprecedented situation. harriet, we're going to move to the times 110w. we're going to move to the times now. on the front page, they run an photo of the queen and the rents on march nine. when they were at mount westminster abbey. they are following the story closely. 3.5 million to be ordered. it's good to see the word hope on the front page. what is your analysis of the story? a few of the paper is clutching at this story. there is something on the horizon. the antibody test which

could be rolled out within weeks or be bought on line from places like amazon. an antibody test is something the prime minister said would be a total game—changer because not only would it enable individuals to know whether or not they have had coronavirus, and there area they have had coronavirus, and there are a lot of reports that there might well have been a lot of people having had it without displaying symptoms, those individuals would then be able to return to work, go about their daily business in the economy would be able to get going a bit more quickly than it otherwise would but for wider society, for the government to know how many people have benefit did and actually how dangerous this virus is and how deadly, whether that 1% death rate is correct or it might be a lot lower. it even more people than they think it had coronavirus and just not shown symptoms. laura, that original report about the potential

idea that more people have been infected was in your paper yesterday but we're going to look at what you are saying tomorrow. you've written the front page story tomorrow, the headline, pressure rises to speed up virus testing for frontline health staff. really, we've chosen to focus on the fact that there are still nhs workers in the frontline. notjust tests that show whether that had it in the past. in short they are not at risk of passing it onto the vulnerable patients come into contact with every single day. at the press conference this afternoon, he was repeatedly asked questions about why the uk seem to be flagging behind other countries were rolled out testing on a much larger scale and he wasn't really able to address that question. he said we were doing

more than some european countries and talked about increasing the numbers of daily tests very soon, he said. but that not specific enough, it's not clear enough. a lot of people who are incredibly worried about hurting those they have a duty of care to protect. it's still pretty extraordinary that weeks into this, given we've had weeks of warning, we knew this was coming, why were they not enough tests stockpiled, why do we still not have the capacity to test people at the frontline, just from looking at social media, you have all these terrifying images of young nurses and doctors talking about drawing up wills because they are genuinely worried about their safety and the safety of the people they are trying to treat. we chose to run with the mind because it feels like it but we also have mentioned this. potential new tests to allow us, which is incredibly helpful and useful but

the chief medical officer warned in the chief medical officer warned in the press conference earlier, we still need to make sure that we still need to make sure that we still need to make sure that we still need to make sure that it's accurate before rolling it out. and he cautioned the public not to get too excited, that it will be available on amazon or boots by next week which was suggested earlier in the day. we are going to move onto ‘the i', the headline there. and also the guardian says government fa ns also the guardian says government fans of criticism we plan to pay self—employed. the issue that they might be able to scramble bar £91; a week seems to be one of the big stories facing the government. the government were quick to step in la st government were quick to step in last week tell people in more normal employment, people who receive

monthly payslips through the paye syste m monthly payslips through the paye system and for those who are at risk of losing theirjobs, the government pledged to step in and pay up to 80% of their wages for the next few months. to make sure people aren't losing theirjobs because of this crisis. but notably, the chancellor did not provide any measures. of course, this is much more complicated to work out what a monthly salaries. it's been very difficult for the government to come up difficult for the government to come up with this. there are about 5 million people who are self—employed across the country that is hairdressers and childminders and all manner of roles. many of them struggling to get work. the

government is based real criticism for not acting sooner on this. we do acce pt for not acting sooner on this. we do accept expect to hear from the chancellor tomorrow. that's where we are expecting the new measures to be outlined. we will of course watch that. we are conscious we report these figures, 400 dead, without really explaining the faces behind them. the guardian has shown on its front page, the faces of two young women. 0ne, chloe middleton was 21, appears to be the youngest previously healthy victim of covid—19 in britain. i suppose, laura, newspapers like yours as well, the ft must be trying to bring home the individual stories. not a lwa ys home the individual stories. not always dismissing them as people who died with underlying health

conditions. again, this isjust on such a huge scale. the guardian have done a really good job in finding these two cases. quite shocking. for anyone out there who is not following the social distancing guidelines, these are two young women whose families say they had no underlying health conditions and for a long time, particularly my generation was dismissing this is something that wouldn't impact them personally. they might spread it but there was a belief that young people we re there was a belief that young people were invincible. this is the situation. they are telling people to stay at home. they see every single person that might think they have coronavirus out there but in those two stories, particularly the one from london, they were really

terrifying because your local nhs, you call 111, you call 999 a know it is coming to get you which is the official guidelines of these stories are official guidelines of these stories a re really official guidelines of these stories are really quite terrifying but they are really quite terrifying but they are also important just for reminding people how important it is to do what the government is telling us to do what the government is telling us to do. i'm going to move onto a final paper, the daily mail. it says some good news. a nation of heroes, talking about the 500,000 people signed up to be volunteers. we had the word hope in the times, we've now got the word good news in the daily mail. i think you can get a sense perhaps, some of these new newspapers are wanting to bring out elements that don't just newspapers are wanting to bring out elements that don'tjust make us dread picking up the newspaper. absolutely and there is so much horrible news around. those stories of the young women. the papers are very keen to try and find aspects of some cause for celebration for the

national spirit and the stories that la st national spirit and the stories that last night, the government set out this call for 250,000 volunteers to come forward to help those who are most vulnerable, the 1.5 million people were having to self isolate for 12 weeks, not leave their homes at all. i want an army of volunteers to come forward to help deliver their shopping and talk to them and they hope to move to 250,000 within a few days. the estimation the government were working on and they got that amount in 24 hours which was astonishing. harriet, final question. you're bothjournalists but let's say you could be volunteers. what volunteering would you do? i quite like the idea of calling up the people who are on theirown, spending 12 calling up the people who are on their own, spending 12 weeks in isolation, i think that seems like quite a nice way to be able to help. laura? i would deliverfood. also realise i don't have a so i'm not sure that's helpful and i'd probably be better chatting on the phone.

phone helping for both of you. thank you so much forjoining us. that's it for the papers tonight. thank you to my guests, laura and harriett. in a moment, it will be time for our sports bulletin. before that... self—isolation, just like social distancing, has become a popular topic during the coronavirus pandemic, and how do you keep your mental well being when you're minimizing contact with other people? my colleague matthew aamroliwala spoke to the astronaut chris hadfield, from nasa, who has spent more than 160 days in space and asked him about the best ways to self—isolate. i think there are two big parallels between the type of experience of the astronauts up on the space station right now, and tim peake and ihad, and station right now, and tim peake and i had, and what a lot of people are experiencing around the world.

number one, this is this threat, this omnipresent danger that's a lwa ys this omnipresent danger that's always around you. that weighs on your my man you need to find a way to cope with it. the other is your unusually physically isolated from eve ryo ne unusually physically isolated from everyone else. the world is in your window on a spaceship, it can't be more exaggerated, there's no way you can visit everyone else so we as astronauts need to find a way of not just coping but productive and motivated and happy and content to live in those environments so we work hard at it, understanding the danger but also finding a way to make the most of where you are and the people you're with. i'll come to how you did that in a moment but i suppose you had to cope with two of the things that everyone around the world in lockdown are coping with, a, isolation, but then living in very close confinement with others. in your case, the other astronauts on board the space station. theirs may be an interesting way to look at it. the

first astronauts to fly in space and the first on the space station had it extremely difficult because there wasn't any sort of electronic way to communicate with others. the first on “— communicate with others. the first on —— skylab and the russian one. now on the iss, much like everyone in the uk and everyone watching, you can pick up your phone and basically talk to everyone in the world, like you and i right now, talking halfway around the world effortlessly to each other, including video, and that really helps a lot even though you're ina that really helps a lot even though you're in a small confined space, you're in a small confined space, you have the entire world because of technology, a recently developed technology, a recently developed technology, the entire world right in front of your eyes and that's a boon. i don't think there's ever been a better time to have to deal with this kind of pandemic and the isolation. your absolutely right in terms of families and people keeping in with loved ones. what about structuring a

day, how important was that?|j loved ones. what about structuring a day, how important was that? i don't wa nt to day, how important was that? i don't want to miss the very first step, and that is don't stay unfamiliar with the actual danger. i thought the previous segment answering direct questions was helpful, but it also reflected the unease of people. get right into the details, go to an authoritative source, not an opinion or rumour, but the authoritative medical sources, and they‘ re or rumour, but the authoritative medical sources, and they're all over the internet, and find out the causes, rules and symptoms and what we are meant to do now so you have comfort in that and we're afraid of the unknown. 0nce comfort in that and we're afraid of the unknown. once you have that, then, as you say, matthew, it's really important to build yourself a schedule under these new set of circumstances. your life is disrupted, 0k, get overthat, then you need to say, "ok, given these constraints and understanding the risks, this is what i want to get donein risks, this is what i want to get done in the next hour or six hours

or today", and if you look at how this flowed in china, we are probably in for a six week or two month stint of dealing with this, so you got six weeks or two months to do something different with your lives. it doesn't have to reflect what you normally do. for a lot of people it will be a really interesting opportunity but don't let it overpower you and crush you, recognise this is just a new sort of chance to try some things and learn to play stairway to heaven or paint or phone a relative and bake a cake together that you were trying to learn somebody else's recipe or read or write, whatever it is you've been hoping to do, put that into your schedule and get at it. its really interesting, as you were giving me that answer, we were broadcasting the pictures from the space station from earth and it underlines the fa ct we from earth and it underlines the fact we are all in the same boat on this particular one and there are so seldom times you can say that. in

terms of your training as an astronaut, were you specifically trained on how to cope with the isolation with all the things you've taken us through, or where you thrown into it in a way like all of us thrown into it in a way like all of us has been? we train from it from a theoretical point of view talking to psychologists and behavioural psychologists, site... anyway, psychiatrist and psychologist, but also we do practical training. we go out and live in the wild and live under the ocean for a couple of weeks. i was a commander of a crew living in a habitat at the bottom of the sea where you couldn't return to the sea where you couldn't return to the surface because of the physical danger. talking to the experts and trying to put those into practice and trying different techniques to cope with it. may one other thing to remember is if you are with this group of people specifically, they are your crew, so try and go out of

your way to do something nice for each one of them everyday and also notice that if everybody is behaving like a jerk, then it might be you thatis like a jerk, then it might be you that is a jerk, so take a little time to look at yourself and recognise you might be part of the problem also. it might take a little shift of behaviour. we are almost out of time, a quick twin thought, what was it like to be in isolation? you had your scientific tasks but you also had downtime, so what did you also had downtime, so what did you do in that downtime? now more than ever it is important to have a hobby or start a new one, i encouraged everyone on my crew to do that so when you have downtime there is something you're excited to go and do. on board a spaceship, it's almost all magnificent. i've been around the world to,000 600 times, you get to see the world as one place. i never really had downtime, there was always this huge list of

things i wanted to get done, play music, write about it, experience it, take photos, not miss the experience. it doesn't have to be as bad as everyone would think and it ta kes a bad as everyone would think and it takes a shift of personal behaviour and perspective. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun, thanks forjoining us. international olympic committee president thomas bach has indicated that the postponed tokyo 0lympics could be held in the spring of 2021, as a special task force looks at all options. some visitors took the opportunity to watch a small ceremony in iwaki, north—east of tokyo. with plenty of precautions, the flame was displayed after its journey from greece, and an olympic cauldron was lit. bach says yesterday's decision to postpone the games was a tough one. it was very hard to take because first of all, we had to consider the dreams of the olympic, which we

wa nted dreams of the olympic, which we wanted to make coming true. given the latest worldwide dramatic developments in the spreading of the virus, we did not see the opportunity any more to organise the 0lympic opportunity any more to organise the olympic games which safeguard the health of every participant. with that postponement in mind, amir khan believes the boxers thinking of turning professional instead of waiting another year should reconsider. khan won silver at the athens games in 2004. i think the best decision i made was to stay amateur and go to the 0lympic to stay amateur and go to the olympic games, because it gives you, like, a head start in a way. when i turned professional after the 0lympic turned professional after the olympic games, people knew who amir khan was. i think sports men and women should hold tight and they should wait until the olympics,

because that gives them a quick platform. i just feel that, because that gives them a quick platform. ijust feel that, you know, it is another year, another year of know, it is another year, another yearof training, know, it is another year, another year of training, preparing. stay strong, because having that ground from the olympics or other major competition will give you a head start going into the professional ranks. amir khan there. vicky holland was the first british woman to win an olympic triathlon medal, with bronze in rio. she also won the last world cup event in australia just before the season was cut short due to the virus, and while she understands the need to postpone the games, she says it'll make things more difficult for her. those who are earlier on in their careers will feel like another year, they can put another year of strength work in and do a lot more endurance work in that year, but i'm someone endurance work in that year, but i'm someone probably towards the end of my career and i was looking at one more push going into this summer and possibly thinking about winding things down a little bit. for me i've got to think, 0k, there's another winter to go now and winter

is white house as a triathlete stop we do try to escape the winter in little bit. we've actuallyjust been in australia, so that's something we will try to plan in for next year —— is quite path as a triathlete. the rugby football union are braced for losses of up to £50 million over the next 18 months as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. chief executive bill sweeney says the closure of twickenham during the pandemic will have a significant impact on revenues. the rfu have also provided a relief package of £7 million to help struggling community clubs, mainly through loans. the organisers of wimbledon say a decision regarding this year's tournament will be made next week. the all england lawn tennis club say they are continuing to evaluate all scenarios for the championships, with suspension a possibility. playing behind closed doors has been formally ruled out as an option. some of the premier league's biggest stars have today launched #footballunited, a new initiative with the aim of raising £100,000 to help local communities through the pandemic.

arsenal's hector bellerin, manchester united's aaron wan—bissaka and chelsea's reece james are among those backing the project. proceeds will be collected by the national emergencies trust and used to support elderly and vulnerable people. the footballers already signed up are using the hashtag football united, to try to get other professionals involved with the campaign. the national league clubs are understood to have told brighton have started a campaign for those to donate match tickets to frontline nhs staff. the club have set aside 1000 tickets per game for when the premier league returns. bournemouth took up the challenge as well, saying they would offer the same next season. the national league clubs are understood to have told the football association they want their season brought to an immediate halt, following a conference call on tuesday. it means all levels of the non—league game are united in their desire to end the season, given there is no realistic possibility of starting again in the foreseeable future. barrow would be in line

for promotion, with notts county one of five sides that could challenge them for that spot. this halt would allow clubs to cut costs at a time when many are facing financial hardship. there's plenty more reaction and anaylsis on the olympics and paralympics being moved to next year. just go to the bbc sport website and app. bye for now. hello there. for the next couple of days, we're going to see quite a contrast from north to south. much like wednesday, this weather front will continue to lie across scotland and northern ireland, bringing a band of cloud here, some spots of rain, brighter to the north of it and, of course, to the south of it, we're continuing with the sunny theme. thursday starts off chilly again, but we're going to hold on to the sunshine pretty much all day here. scotland, northern ireland — cloudier skies here. some spots of rain.

like i mentioned, it will be brighter across the north—west of scotland, for the northern isles, western isles, maybe one or two showers here but it will feel quite chilly — single figure values there. further south, those highs of 13 or 14 degrees. maybe not quite as high as what we've seen over the last days. now, as we head through thursday, again, it's this area of cloud holding on across scotland and northern ireland. so here temperatures won't fall much below five or six degrees, but again, for england and wales, with those clear skies, it's going to be another cold and rather frosty start to friday morning. friday is a similar story to thursday. again, largely cloudy skies in the north. some brightness to the far north of scotland. and, after a cold start, england and wales seeing plenty of sunshine. maybe a bit more of a wind across the south—east, that will take the edge off the temperatures, highs of around 11 or 12 degrees. a bit cooler still. that band of cloud across scotland and northern ireland, you see this weather front here, it sinks south right across the country and then into saturday and sunday, we open the floodgates to a much colder northerly wind, and it really will

feel noticeably cold. may even see a few wintry showers pushing into the north and east of scotland, and down the eastern side of england. the picture generally for saturday is for a largely dry one for most of us. variable cloud, some sunny spells. really will feel quite cold and raw, especially in exposure to that wind in the north and east. those temperatures ranging from around six to ten or 11 degrees in the south. sunday is even colder. again, a largely dry one, variable cloud, some sunny spells. we'll see a few wintry showers in northern and eastern coasts. if you factor in the wind, it really will feel colder. those temperatures showing up on the thermometer ranging from around seven to nine degrees. add on the wind, it's going to feel more like low single figures for many of us, so a real noticeable chill in the air this weekend. and the cold air sticks around through next week as well, but at least with high pressure still nearby, many of us will stay dry with some sunshine.

this is bbc news i'm james reynolds. our top stories: president trump says america is gaining ground against coronavirus but new york fears the worst. an ice rink in madrid becomes a temporary mortuary as spain's death toll overtakes china's. in britain — the rush to get protective equipment to an overstretched health service — amid warnings that some london hospitals are running out of capacity 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.