we are the first us, thank you. we are the first fusiliers battle group deployed as pa rt of fusiliers battle group deployed as part of the united nations forward presence. we would like to take a moment of our day to say a massive thank you to all those in the nhs and although supporting the nhs back at home. you guys are in the fight of your lives, protecting our friends and families against the coronavirus. you've got this, keep up coronavirus. you've got this, keep up the good work and all the fusiliers behind you. applause studio: a show of support, a national round of applause for all nhs staff working tirelessly to save hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones, this is outside source. here's the very latest on the coronavirus from around the world.

there are nearly 500,000 cases of coronavirus reported around the world. the number of cases is likely to be much higher. this from the united nations. that was tweeted ahead of a video conference amongst the 620, the 20 largest economies in the world, where they pledged $5 trillion to help counter the economic impact of fighting the virus. here's one example of why that's needed. this map was released by the european border force, to show the status

of each country's border. every one one of them restricted or closed, and that is having a huge impact on europe's economy. but the impact of the virus on lives is massive too. spain hit a grim landmark today, as the death toll there went past 4,000, with another 655 deaths in the last 2a hours. like so many countries, spain is in lockdown, people ordered to stay at home, and that's now been extended for another two weeks. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez has been accused of failing to protect health care staff by the opposition there, as 14% of those infected are medics. for more here's guy hedgecoe in madrid. while the health care personnel in the country have been lauded as heroes, a lot of people believe that the health care system is rather underfunded in certain areas. and that has been exposed by this crisis. a whole batch of test gets were imported from china for use

this week and it turns out that many of those, one batch of those, is faulty or it is not as good as the government had hoped. there has been a sort of diplomatic issue today between china and spain over these kits, which the government had hoped would improve testing, so they are having to turn to other imports of test equipment in order to improve that aspect of their management of the crisis. the country with the highest death toll in the world is italy. over 600 people have died in the last 2a hours, over 8,000 people in all. there also appears to be an error in the data collected by the country's civil protection agency because it reported no deaths on thursday in the third worst—affected region, peedmont, which would be unprecedented. and there are fears that southern italy could be facing a similar outbreak to that experienced in the north of the country, where the outbreak in began. mark lowen reports.

cities like bergamo, the epicentre, where they blessed the urns of 113 victims, grouping together the fallen. wearing a sash of the italian flag is the mayor, who we reached. with the uk finally emulating the italian lockdown, a warning. translation: britain had an advantage of being two weeks behind italy with the outbreak. they should have used it better. i'm afraid boris johnson lost precious time. there is a risk it could cost many lives. losing those days could turn out to be a serious mistake. the containment measures may have started to work in northern italy, although there is again today an increase in new infections. but concern in the poorer south and here in the capital, where cases and deaths are rising. in rome, this hospital has opened a new coronavirus wing and is already under pressure. the peak hasn't yet been reached here.

with crematoria bursting, the army is clearing coffins away. it's that word again they are more used to, "war". man versus virus, and the latter is still winning. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. in africa, the country with the highest registered number of covid—i9 cases is south africa, with 709 being confirmed. the country is preparing to begin a 21—day nationwide lockdown at midnight tonight. andrew harding has been finding out how the poorer communities in cape town are preparing. in those poorer communities today, clear signs of trouble. the message about social distancing has not got through to some. what can i do if my tattoo is to be done? and millions of small businesses like this gym fear the government won't help them survive this lockdown. no, they're not helping financially to support our businesses.

so, you're on your own here? yeah, we're on our own. but the immediate challenge here is overcrowding and hygiene. no running water here and a0 people sharing this toilet. if i have that virus and i'm using this toilet, i'm going to infect 39 people. this is famously the world's most unequal society. the virus looks set to expose that cruel fault line, that chasm between the very rich and the rest, in the harshest possible way. in asia, india has had a second day of nationwide lockdown. this is the scene in kolkata, in west bengal. like many indian cities now, the streets are quiet, as the country moves to contain the spread of coronavirus. police are enforcing strict rules across the country, meant to limit the movements

of 1.3 billion people. but as our correspondent arunoday murkhaji, in the capital delhi, has been telling us, there's growing concern over access to essential supplies. the primary worry among citizens is to get access to essential supplies. while the announcement was made by the prime minister at the top, down below on the ground, where the police is implementing those orders, there seems to be some confusion. but in this regard, fresh guidelines are being issued, telling the police who they need to stop and who they need to give free access to, and officials say that in the next few days at least the supply of essential commodities is likely to be restored. the other big challenge for the government is to address the poor, the homeless and migrant labourers who were stranded without shelters. one country that appears to have succeeded with the coronavirus where others have failed, is south korea. it's managed to flatten the curve of new infections. and it's done it without china's extreme restrictions on movement or a large scale lockdown. laura bicker has been given exclusive access to one of the country's intensive care units

in seoul, to find out how. all of the patients struggling to breathe in this icu are over 65. they are one of a dwindling number of people who need critical care in the country. the benefits of flattening the curve mean there is even time to smile. translation: those who come to the icu are really bad cases, so it's hard to completely predict whether they will live or not. but when these tough cases gets better, it's especially rewarding. this is the key to saving lives, according to south korean health officials — staying ahead of the virus by tracing potentially infected patients and testing them. but doctors are worried about a second wave of covid—i9 and say this country needs to be ready. translation: can we respond as well as we did in the first wave? will there be five, ten times more patients?

i do not know, we do not have immunity. so all countries' scientists should work together to develop a treatment and a vaccine. there's also a new threat from overseas. thousands of arrivals from europe, and many from the us, are now being tested to prevent a fresh outbreak. south korea may be breathing a sigh of relief now, but this crisis is far from over. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. stay with us on outside source, still to come. over 3 million people in the us file claims for unemployment benefit. it may be just the start. the two main symptoms of coronavirus to look out for are a continuous, dry cough and or a fever. if you are sneezing a lot,

have a runny nose or a headache, you may be ill, but you probably don't have coronavirus. so, how high a fever is a coronavirus fever, and what exactly is a continuous dry cough? well, it is when you cough and there is no mucus or phlegm. basically no gooey substance in the tissue. this is not the odd cough here and there, it has to be coughing regularly for no other reason. such as clearing your throat or smoking. so, how high a fever is a coronavirus fever? well, if you have one you will know about it. technically, it is a body temperature above 37.8 celsius or 100 fahrenheit, but if you don't have a thermometer, basically you will feel hot and your chest and back would be hot if someone touched you. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story? another surge in coronavirus infections in italy,

as leaders of the g20 say five trillion dollars is being injected into the global economy. the death toll in the united states has now passed 1,000. new york state is the epicenter. it's now counted more than 37,000 positive cases. that's almost half the total for the whole us. the state's also recorded its biggest daily rise in deaths — 100 people in the past 2a hours, bringing the overall number there 385. here's new york's governor andrew cuomo. when you have older, sicker patients, who are staying on ventilators longer, they usually have a worse outcome, right? and i think people get that from their usual experience.

what we're seeing now is, that is happening, we've had people on for a very long time, and they haven't gotten better and they are passing away. so the number of deaths is at 385, it's up from 285 and since we still have a large number of people on ventilators for a long period of time, the experts expect that number to continue to increase. emergency services are being inundated. magazine writer michael brendan dougherty says... new york city is scrambling to prepare hospitals for an influx of new patients. at one hospital in queens, people have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed. a refrigerated truck has been

stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. these are the lines outside that hospital for people waiting to get tested. 13 coronavirus patients have died here in 2a hours. this is outside another manhattan hospital. a makeshift morgue. and have a look at this. a huge field hospital being built in miami. up to 250 covid—19 patients could be treated here at a time.

alongside the physical disease affecting tens of thousands of americans, is the economic impact which affects millions. almost 3.3 million americans filed unemployment claims last week — more than four times the previous record. let's have a look at how that compares to the past 20 years. and this graph from cnbc shows the past 50 years. north america editorjon sopel shared it and says... and north america reporter anthony zurcher says... "the latest unemployment numbers were predicted to be really bad. they turned out to be catastrophic."

that is the word to sum up what is going on here. he's written an article for our website which says... "the government—ordered shutdown hasn't just shuttered businesses temporarily, it has vapourised the jobs of millions of americans." many of whom are the particularly vulnerable hourly service workers who live paycheque to paycheque. he says the test now will be whether the multi—trillion—dollar relief will do enough, quickly enough, to stem the bleeding. here's samira hussain in new york. it is absolutely incredible. we're about 3.3 million americans lost theirjob and one week. not one month, not six months but one week. and it completely obliterated any previous record back in 1982 we thought that the highest number of unemployment insurance claims were made was 66 5000.

were made was 665,000. this isjust staggering and itjust goes to showjust how ravaging the economic impact of coronavirus will be right here in the united states. and remember, this isjust the first real piece of economic data. it does not actually include people that are self—employed. that means the part of the gig economy and it also, according to some experts, it is suggested it doesn't truly reflect how many people have filed foran insurance, unemployment insurance. because systems were just so overloaded by this many claims that it is possible that initial claims were not really even all accounted for in this number. so it is pretty certain that we are going to see this number is going to go up again. president trump's democratic rivals have begun highlighting previous comments he made, downplaying the threat of the outbreak.

critics have pointed to tweets like this one. that was tweeted on march 9 — the same day all of italy went into a national lockdown in a desperate effort to stop the spread of the virus. two democratic groups have started running multi—million dollar ad campaigns in swing states, criticising president trump's handling of the crisis and they're not pulling any punches. here's one from a group called priorities usa.

let's get a reaction to that and everything else in the usa today. katty kay is in washington. is that stimulus going to work? nancy pelosi was speaking today saying they are going to have to look at more because of those jobless numbers you just mentioned. 3.3 million. for context, that is already morejobs lost 3.3 million. for context, that is already more jobs lost in america than were lost during the whole of the 2008, 2009 financial crisis. during the great depression, 13 millionjobs were lost, during the great depression, 13 million jobs were lost, but that was over the course of three years. this has only been a week the us has been

shut down and already we have 3.3 million filing for unemployment, probably more wanting to do so. so, with that kind of economic devastation i don't think anyone on capitol hill is cutting themselves that this massive stimulus package that this massive stimulus package that has been put out is going to be the end of it. interesting. we have been showing people the images from new york. i want to go to them. the human cost as opposed to the economic cost and it is an extraordinary, new york state has become less epicentre and this feuding seems to be between the governor of new york and president trump miss keep an eye on louisiana as well by the way because we're starting to get reports from new o rlea ns starting to get reports from new orleans known as a party town that it could be another big hotspot, not as reported as much as new york but still another problem. there is friction with governors and the government throughout the country with the federal government, the

white house, donald trump, saying it is up to governors and up to states to get hold of ventilators to get hold of the protective equipment that they need and those states saying that they need a coordinated effort. because here is what is going on. we found it in the last day or two that individual states are competing against each other for ventilators, for masks, for protective gowns and shields for goggles, and that is driving the price up. of some of these protective equipment that the doctors and nurses so badly need which is why you have people like andrew cuomo saying they should not be done on a state—by—state basis, it needs some kind of federal coordination to make sure that the people who really need the supplies are getting them and that states are not competing with each other or competing with the federal government for the scarce resources that there are. thank you very much for keeping us date. extraordinary scenes, extraordinary times, not just in the us but around the world. keep watching, we will pen you are

the very latest on the coronavirus outbreak from around the world. we saw some very big differences in the weather across the uk today. the sunshine in cumbria helped temperatures up to 18 degrees where underneath that low cloud damp weather in edinburgh it was only 7 degrees. that cloud as still around covering much of scotland overnight, bringing some further rain and drizzle, some misty weather, it may well be damp at times in northern parts of northern ireland. either side of that, some clearer skies with a widespread frost again in england and wales like last night. we may well have a frost again in the north—west of scotland. here the north of that band of cloud we should see more sunshine arriving through tomorrow across northern scotland. central and southern scotland, still a rather dull and misty with a bit of rain and drizzle around at times. it may well brighten up across northern ireland,

the best of the sunshine is for england and wales. probably more of a breeze here than there was today so a breeze here than there was today so temperatures not going to be quite as high. still, as we head into the weekend, this is when we will see the biggest of the changes to come because we still have high pressure to the north—west of the uk, intensifying, the winds will be strengthening, changing direction as well. we will drag down colder air from the north and it will feel cold in the wind as well. the wind starts to pick up on saturday and as you can see, there is much more cloud, not just across scotland can see, there is much more cloud, notjust across scotland and northern ireland but across england and wales. one or two light showers near some eastern coast but on the whole it will be dry. temperatures peaking at around 12 degrees this time for more southern parts of england and wales. the wind will be picking up through the day and that will make it feel colder as well. as we move into sunday, we move the clocks forward of course. into british summertime. it is going to

feel cold on. again some cloud, showers more likely in the north—east of the uk but the temperatures of seven — nine more typical of january and when you temperatures of seven — nine more typical ofjanuary and when you add on the strength of the wind, it will be strongest across other parts of and it will feel more two or three degrees. quite a shock to the system. still quite chilly into the early pa rt system. still quite chilly into the early part of next week but still generally dry and quite cloudy. a wind will tend to ease, would be as cold by day but could be colder at night.

you're watching bbc news. there's been a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus deaths and cases in the united kingdom. a further 115 people have died in the uk after testing positive for coronavirus — that's the first time the death toll has surpassed 100 in a single day. that brings the total number of deaths in the to 578 and the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 11,658 — an increase of over 2,000 compared to yesterday. earlier this afternoon, the uk's the chancellor, rishi sunak announce his plans to help the self— employed — he's called it ‘fair