and there is also other stuff, peas and so on, a full load. marco is one of thousands of truck drivers restocking the nation's larder. it's been really busy, so we've been going back and forth from this place in belgium where we usually load five or six lorries a week. it's been 15, 20 so far. food is important. morning, driver. morning, you all right? ready for another chaos day? yeah, we are. those deliveries matter in the nation's supermarkets. keeping lockdown uk fed. filling empty shelves, pat is a minimum wage hero. i do get concerned about being amongst the crowds that we are in amongst at the moment. in all the years i've worked

in a supermarket, 30—odd years, i don't think i've known it this busy at christmas time. it really has been manic. panorama asked other minimum wage workers to get in touch and, across the country, people responded. i'm rhys, i'm a 25—year—old porter, i work at colchester general hospital. hi, i'm steph, i'm working a 15—hour shift today with natasha. it's been a busy morning, probably done about a 25 drops or so, been all around the sort of da rtford, millions fighting the disease on a minimum wage. richard bilton, bbc news. you can see more on that story and the low—paid workers keeping the country going on panorama: lockdown uk. that's on bbc one tonight at 8.30pm. now, a soprano singerfrom ipswich was due to take part in the london landmarks half marathon last weekend. that was cancelled, for obvious reasons. not one to be deterred,

fiona wilson came up with a plan b. she can't do the run in london, of course, so. . . she can't do the run in london, of course, so... she has decided to run over 13 miles around the garden. she has mozart playing and she is dressed as mozart, like, well, obviously! that's her husband narrating. fiona managed to run 7.5 miles in her back garden before becoming rather dizzy... and no doubt are distracted by the dog. and having to finish the remaining distance at her local park. she was raising money for the british lung foundation. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. good evening. we have closed out our month of march with sunny spells and scattered showers. this was barnsley earlier on this afternoon. most of the show is filtered in of the north sea and were gci’oss eastern the show is filtered in of the north sea and were across eastern england and, as the afternoon progressed, we

saw them creep further west. quite a lot of cloud out to the west, we have also seen a rash of showers gci’oss have also seen a rash of showers across northern and eastern scotland. those showers may well continue through the night but, elsewhere, they are going to fade away and winds will fall light and with this skies clearing, we could actually see those temperatures falling away. so where we get gaps in the cloud, we could have a low single figures to greet us first thing tomorrow morning. so it may well be a chilly start to our tuesday but it will be sunny for some of us, just like today, however, the cloud will quickly bubble up in places and it will stay pretty overcast into the afternoon. a north—westerly wind will feed some showers into scotland along the fringes of northern ireland and north—west england and temperatures a little subdued for the 1st of april. only highs of 8—11. the high pressure is gradually drifting away and as —— this way and as we move into wednesday, we see subtle changes developing into the far north—west. it will take its time, bring outbreaks of rain to the north

great glen —— great north glen and gale force winds. elsewhere, we keep the cloud and 12 degrees to high. the next few days will stay relatively quiet across the country, a few showers around and, for many others, it is going to stay pretty cloudy. that is it. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me , and, on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.

hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre. let's start with the new dates announced for the tokyo olympics, as the rescheduled games will now start on the 23rd ofjuly, 2021 and run until the 8th of august. that after being postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. the games will still be called tokyo

2020, and the paralympics will start now on the 24th of august next year. our sports news reporter laura scottjoins us live now. laura, they may have taken their time to postpone the games initially, but this decision over the new dates has been pretty swift. exactly. we had the postponement last tuesday and we thought it might ta ke last tuesday and we thought it might take a few weeks for them to nail down the states but actually it has come today. they had a teleconference with the key parties involved and they have come up with these new dates which is pretty much almost exactly a year to the day behind. developments were interesting because it was as recently as this morning uk time that we heard they were still considering these two options, whether they went for a spring games 01’ whether they went for a spring games ora whether they went for a spring games or a summer games. whether they went for a spring games or a summer games. we thought the decision might not come until later

in the week and that is certainly with the organising committee had indicated. but then it came just an hour or so after this executive board meeting finished and we have now got those confirmed dates for next summer. good for athletes to have a clear timeline to be able to plan towards? yes. i think they are really pleased to have some clarity and some certainty and it means that they can now plan their seasons for next year but also in the short term now focus on themselves and their families at this difficult time and not be worrying about the games so they know now that there is a good 15 months or 60 months and they don't need to think about that in the short term. —— 16 months. it also means what they are planning for is larded with a plan for this year with the same sort of climate, the heat and humidity. it will mean that

there is a shift in the calendar and their championships that were due to be held next year will now be shifted like the world athletics championship. we know that that will now be in 2022. so there is still some adapting to be done but what we have heard from the chair of the british olympic association athletes committee is they are really happy to have that clarity and relieve the decision has been made it pretty swiftly. laura, thank you very much for joining swiftly. laura, thank you very much forjoining us. well, the british and irish lions say there will be no "direct clashes" with the games next summer. the rearranged olympics overlaps with the test series against the world champions south africa, but the games against the springboks will kick off at 6pm local time. that's1am in tokyo. the series starts on the 24th ofjuly in johannesburg. it will be a busy summer. some domestic rugby news, and saracens back—rowerjackson wray has become the latest player to pledge his future to the club

despite their relegation to the championship when the current season ends for salary cap breaches. england's billy vunipola announced last week his intention to remain with sarries despite them dropping out of the premiership. newcastle united have become the first premier league club to place their non—playing staff on temporary leave because of the coronavirus pandemic. the managing director, lee charnley, e—mailed club employees on monday to say the decision was taken to safeguard the future of the club. staff including those from the club's academy and foundation charity have been instructed to apply for the government's job retention scheme. owner mike ashley was criticised last week after charging fans for season tickets in the 2020—21 campaign despite the premier league currently being suspended. aston villa footballerjack grealish says he is deeply embarrassed and has apologised on social media for going to a friend's house at the weekend, breaking government guidance on staying at home. pictures emerged online on sunday that appeared to show the villa skipper following an incident in which a range rover

crashed into parked cars. he has since been fined by the club. hi, everybody. i just hi, everybody. ijust want to do a quick video messesjust hi, everybody. ijust want to do a quick video messes just to say how deeply embarrassed i am by what has happened this weekend. i know it is a tough time for everyone at the moment, being locked indoors for so long and obviously i got a call off a friend asking me around to his and i stupidly agreed to do so. i don't wa nt i stupidly agreed to do so. i don't want anyone to make this a mistake that i did and so obviously i want to stay home and follow the rules and the guidelines of what we have been asked to do. and i know for a fa ct been asked to do. and i know for a fact that i will be doing that in the near future now and obviously i urge everyone to the same. i hope eve ryo ne urge everyone to the same. i hope everyone can accept my apology and we can move on from this and hopefully obviously in the future we

can all be out enjoying ourselves again. once this has all boiled over. so cheers, guys, thank you. world champion billyjoe saunders has had his boxing licence suspended by the british boxing board of control after he released a video advising men how to hit theirfemale partners. in the video, saunders uses a punch bag referring to domestic violence. he later apologised, saying he would "never condone domestic violence". promoter eddie hearn said he is "appalled" by the "idiotic" video. some sad news from the world of cricket, and lancashire cricket club have announced the death of their chairman, david hodgkiss. he died after contracting coronavirus. hodgkiss, who had underlying health issues, had been chairman since 2017 after almost two decades on the club's board. the county released a statement saying... "he was much loved by everyone at lancashire and respected throughout the cricketing world."

manchester united and england forward marcus rashford says helping children is his top priority at the moment after working to get food to those who relied on free school meals. rashford has been working with charity fareshare to help children in the north west after schools were closed across the country. when i heard about the schools shutting down, and that obviously means free meals for some kids that they're not getting at school. i remember when i was in school, i was on free meals and my mum wouldn't get around until six o'clock, so my next meal would have been around eight o'clock. but i was fortunate. there's kids in much more difficult situations that don't get that meal at home, so basically when i heard the schools were closing, i wanted to try and make a positive influence and make sure these kids were getting the meals that they need. we managed to get to the 100,000 mark, which means that we get

to feed 400,000 children. so, i'm injured right now, so, for me, it's just about patience. i do feel a lot, like, ten times better than how i did feel a month, a month and a half ago, and so things are moving in the right direction. finally, social media has never been more important given the millions of people in self—isolation at the moment. notjust for information and news, it's also providing a welcome outlet for frustrated sports commentators to get creative with a whole new audience. olly foster reports. this could be quick. the pig has gotten this could be quick. the pig has gotte n off this could be quick. the pig has gotten off to an absolute blinder here! who says sports are not in lockdown? he is working with pictures of his grandchildren in the background and yes, they'll be so proud of grandpa tonight! this is about making people laugh and realising that being stuck at home does not have to be an awful experience. we have all got to get through this together and with a sense of humour and a little twist

on traditional sport, we can do that. being graced by two of the greats, saskia and alex. rob is even roped in some of his former olympians for the new show. roped in some of his former olympians for the new showm roped in some of his former olympians for the new show. it is saskia who wins the battle of brea kfast. saskia who wins the battle of breakfast. nikki was one of the first a few weeks ago to make the everyday exhilarating. he has got a decent star and now on the outside and nowjamie decent star and now on the outside and now jamie has decent star and now on the outside and nowjamie has dragged over the shoulder and leggings is going to get there. she does it again, three titles in three days! mark church and his daughter delivering a daily dose of the export possibly iconic moments. what can you tell us about this young man? one working some of this young man? one working some of this young man from the garden, evident. it is quite a lot of fun and we did not like it was going to be but it was actually a lot of fun. i think she is enjoying it a bit more now than when we started because i think really she did it to keep daddy amused when we first started. daddy was feeling a bit sad about not having any work like a lot

of people. so putting us on people's faces that's the most important thing and! faces that's the most important thing and i think we will keep doing that every day and say we all come out the other side of this crisis at the moment. earlier this month, andrew carter was trying to stay impartial and scotland beat france in the six nations. try for scotland and for sean maitland and the clock goes red! now he is doing this. both settling quickly into rhythm. to the contrast styles. see the heavy tail use can be happy to be alive amazing. there is more out there, you decide to find it. i love that dark one. i love the ball to be honest. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. but now back to tampa. thank you very much, sarah. hello, this is bbc news.

so, let's remind ourselves of the main points from today's news conference. the prime minister is still self—isolating after testing positive for covid—19, so the foreign secretary dominic raab led today's update, which focused on the repatriation of britons. here are the main developments. the government has to look at it with major airlines to help bring home stranded britons. the £75 million to be spent on chartering flights and there could be as many as1 million brits stuck flights and there could be as many as 1 million brits stuck overseas due to lock downs imposed by other countries. the deputy chief medical officer said social distancing is having an effect on reducing contacts between us all in the past week and we have seen a dramatic reduction in the number of people using public transport. but he added that he is still expects a number of infections and deaths to rise over the next two — three weeks. we hear

more from that now. our step by step action plan is a me to slow the spread of the virus of your people need hospital treatment at any one time thereby protecting the nhs's capacity. at each point, we have been following the scientific and medical advice and we have been very deliberate in our actions, taking the right steps at the right moment. we are also taking unprecedented action to increase nhs capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds, key staff, life saving equipment on the front line so that we get people the care they need when they need it most. that is why we are restricted people to stay at home so we can protect our nhs and save lives. i can report that to the government's ongoing monitoring and testing programme, as of today,

134,946 people have now been tested for the virus and won have tested negative. 22,141 have tested positive. of those who have contracted the virus, 1408 have very sadly died. we express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have passed away and i think those figures are a powerful reminder to us all of the importance of following the government guidelines. we must stay at home to protect our nhs and save lives. and i want to thank all of those involved on the front line in particular all of those in the nhs for their battle against this virus. the amazing doctors, the amazing nurses, all the support staff working day and night. the thousands of other key workers from our teachers to supermarket workers to our fantastic diplomatic network who are all asa our fantastic diplomatic network who are all as a team working around the

clock to get us through this unprecedented coronavirus challenge. this is united national effort and the spirit of sinlessness shown by so many is an inspiration. —— selflessness. i now want to turn what we have been doing to support the british people travelling around the british people travelling around the world. coronavirus is notjust challenged us at home, it is the greatest global challenge in a generation. and as the countries worked to secure their borders and stop the further spread of this deadly virus, we appreciate that an unprecedented number of uk travellers are trying to get home. we are not talking a few hundred or even a few thousand, we're talking about hundreds of thousands people travelling around the world. so with that in mind on the 17th of march, we advise people against all nonsense will travel around the world. and since the 23rd of march, we we advised that all uk residents who were currently travelling abroad should return home. hundreds of thousands have already done so. but

many travellers have not yet managed to get back home. from young backpackers to retired temples on cruises and we appreciate the difficult predicament that they find themselves in. we also recognise the exacting —— anxiety of families here in the uk who are concerned to get their loved ones home. it is a worrying time for all of those who have been affected. and i want to assure them that this government, their government is working around their government is working around the clock to support, advice and to help british travellers get home. i spoke into more than 24 ministers around the world in the last week or so to support this effort to keep airports and ports open and to facilitate access to them by british travellers. over the weekend, facilitate access to them by british travellers. overthe weekend, i spoke to four ministers from austria, new zealand, india and brazil and pakistan and also spoke to the ethiopian prime minister and

in all of those cases urge them to work with us to keep commercial roots flying. given the scale and complexity of this challenge, he and emily requires a team effort. so the foreign office is working with other governments with their particular focus on transit hubs and we are also working with the airlines to give us many flights running as possible. we have got a lot more to do but we have already helped hundreds of thousands of britons get home. the first priority is meant to keep as many commercial flights running as we can. and that is based onjust running as we can. and that is based on just purely the scale and the number of people who want to come home. and as a result of those efforts, and the corporation we have seen efforts, and the corporation we have seen from the spanish government, we have enabled an estimated 150,000 uk nationals to get back from spain. on other commercial roots and for under pressure, we have worked upon the governments and airlines to get back

8500 uk travellers from morocco, around 5000 uk nationals from cyprus. they give you a sense of the scale of the challenge in the numbers of british travellers abroad. the circumstances where commercialflights abroad. the circumstances where commercial flights cannot operate, we have already chartered flights which proved necessary to return 1400 uk nationals on flights for example from china at the outset of this crisis and more recently from peru. we have not faced challenges like this and getting people home from abroad on this scale in recent memory. airports are closing down or preventing airlines from operating ona preventing airlines from operating on a commercial basis. local authorities have placed restrictions on movement that prevent people from getting to the airport. and the critical transit hubs that we rely on for long—haul flights are also shutting down or in some cases limiting theirflights. shutting down or in some cases limiting their flights. some of these restrictions have been done with very little notice and some

with very little notice and some with no notice at all which makes it very difficult to respond. so international collaboration is vital. as i said, it is a team effort and it involves government working with other governments but also working with the airlines. so with that in mind, i can today announce a new arrangement between the government and airlines to fly home tens of thousands of stray british travellers where commercial flights are no longer possible. partner airlines include british airways, virgin, easy check, check to and tighten and this list can be expanded. under the arrangements we will put in place and what we are targeting flights from a range of priority countries starting this week. and let me explain a little bit about how this will work in practice. where commercial roots remain an option, airlines will be responsible for getting passengers home. that means offering alternative flights at little to no cost where roots have been

cancelled. and it means allowing passengers to change tickets between carriers. so for those still in those countries where commercial options are still available, don't wait. don't run the risk of getting stranded, the airlines are standing by to help you and please book your tickets as soon as possible. where commercialflights tickets as soon as possible. where commercial flights are no longer running, the government will provide the necessary support for special charter flights to bring the necessary support for special charterflights to bring uk nationals back home. once special charter flights have been arrangement we will promote them to the government travel advice and by the government travel advice and by the british embassy or high commission in the relevant country. british travellers who want to have a seat on those flights will book and pay directly through a dedicated travel management company. we designated £75 million to support those flights and the airlines in order to keep the cost down and affordable for those seeking to return to the uk. and in arranging

these flights, our priority will be these flights, our priority will be the most vulnerable, including the elderly or those particularly pressing medical needs and also looking in particular at countries where we have got large numbers of uk tourists struggling to get home. uk tourists struggling to get home. uk travellers if they have not already done so should check the foreign office travel advice and that advice is under constant review and it can help travellers find out more details about how to access the flights under this arrangement. they should also follow this with immediate review or in the commission where they find themselves so they can be drifted to accurate real—time information from the local authorities. for any questions it cannot be answered in that travel advice, or by the uk embassies or high commission, we also have our call centre working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. i know it's been difficult to get through for some travellers. just to give you a sense of the sheer volume, on average we normally

receive 1000 calls a day to that call centre. last tuesday, we had nearly 15,000, the highest on record. so we boosted our resources and redeployed people to assist in the call centre and we have tripled our capacity. yesterday the call centre answer 99% of calls and helped thousands of british travellers to get the answers they need. so for those stranded or for families nervously waiting news and wanting to see their loved ones return home, we do —— we are doing everything we can. we have improved the advice in the confidence travellers get better and swifter information and we have put in place this arrangement with the airlines so we can this arrangement with the airlines so we can reach this arrangement with the airlines so we can reach more this arrangement with the airlines so we can reach more british citizens in vulnerable circumstances abroad where commercial flights are not running and we are working intensively around the clock with all of our partner countries and governments around the world to keep open the airports, the ports and the flights to read people home. we have

not faced an international challenge quite like this before. but together we are going to rise to it. of course here at home we can all support our nhs by continuing to follow the guidance to stay at home, protect our nhs and save lives. hello there. lighter winds today, but it has not been as cold. it has been showery for some, with threatening looking cloud across barnsley over the reservoir. we have also had some pretty stubborn cloud on the north and west, as you can see from this weather watcher in cumbria. generally speaking, there has been a lot of cloud around through the course of the day, particularly into the afternoon, and the showers have been through northern and eastern scotland, eastern england, stretching down into the midlands and a little bit further south as we went through the afternoon. now, one of the reasons that we've had lighter winds is the high pressure is sinking down to the south—west and the isobars are opening up, and so the winds

are going to continue to slacken off through the evening and overnight, with the showers fading away as well and clear skies developing, so we could see some breaks and a chilly night to follow. low single figures where we get some breaks in the cloud. so, it is going to be a chilly start to tuesday morning, but again, we will see plenty of cloud developing as we go through the day, and it will be a fairly overcast story. the winds will change direction in a subtle way, really. they're coming in from the north—west, and that will feed more cloud and a few showers into northern scotland and across to northern england. temperatures a little bit disappointing for the beginning of april, highs of 9—11 degrees. the high will continue to drift south—west, and eventually we will start to see a weather front starting to threaten into the far north. it's going to take its time in arriving on wednesday, but it will start to bring a change to the story for much of scotland. so, clouding over, outbreaks of rain to the north—west of the great glen and the winds will strengthen here. quite a cloudy day generally

on wednesday, so the temperatures struggling a little again, 9—12 celsius the high. as that front pushes through, it is going to introduce colder air across scotland as the winds revert back to a more northerly direction. we could see showers tied into that low pressure, turning wintry to the tops of the hills across the north and west. so, although we stay slightly milder across the south, with that northerly flow into scotland, it means a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather. so, turning increasingly windy, with gales to the north, but a little bit milder across the south and hopefully a little more sunshine coming through. that's it. take care.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the global number of deaths from covid—19 has risen to more than 35,000 — with the majority of deaths in europe. in the uk — the death toll has risen to more than 1400. it comes as the government's chief scientific adviser says social distancing is having an effect in reducing the number of contacts. we see a massive reduction in the amount of transport being used, germanic fallen footfall, we know in places of restaurants and pubs where people aggregate have been close. we are seeing a big change in contact.