a us navy hospital ship has docked in new york. the state's governor, andrew cuomo, has described the scale of coronavirus as "staggering" and warned that what's happening there will also happen in the rest of the country. president trump has said that the next 30 days are vital and that social distancing can save more than a million american lives. he said a million americans had been tested so far. in the uk, a brand new hospital has been built in a conference centre. the london nightingale hospital will be ready for up to 500 patients this week, rising eventually to 4,000 of all ages. there's been a sharp fall in new coronavirus cases in italy. 1,648 new patients were diagnosed in the latest daily tally. that's less than half of sunday's figure.

hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn stevens, deputy political editor at the daily mail, and jack blanchard, editor at politico london playbook. tomorrow's front pages. let's start with the daily mirror, that celebrates the uk's nhs workers with a headline commending their work and saying "give them all a medal." the times leads on the foreign secretary dominic raab‘s announcement that the government is to help stranded britons return home. it says the uk is planning the "biggest peacetime repatriation" operation, with plans to bring up to 300,000 people home, at a cost of up to £75 million. "get tough on cowards abusing the nhs," says the front page of the daily express.

the guardian leads on: "police warned against overreach in use of virus lockdown powers." the guardian reports that police forces crossed their power limits in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus. and i leads on the nationwide lockdown imposed to fight the spread of covid 19, "lockdown helping uk to beat virus." so, let's begin, and for those of you who were not with us last hour, john stevens from the daily mail is on the left, give us a wave, please, and in the red corner we've gotjack blanchard from politico london playbook. let's go with the daily mail to playbook. let's go with the daily mailto begin playbook. let's go with the daily mail to begin with. the headline, one infour mail to begin with. the headline, one in four hospital doctors off work. virus test fiasco means thousand stuck at home. these staff, daily mail says, if they had access toa daily mail says, if they had access to a test they could come back to the front line immediately. your paper is covering this, john. yes, one of the criticisms of the government has been that the increase in testing has been too

slow and one of the negative things that has come because of the lack of testing is that a lot of nhs workers have had to have time off work because maybe just one have had to have time off work because maybejust one member of theirfamily has because maybejust one member of their family has had because maybejust one member of theirfamily has had a cough and so they have had to contend themselves at home for two weeks when they could be at work. and so if we managed to increase testing and managed to increase testing and managed to increase testing and managed to get it to doctors, nurses and medical staff, they could see whether they actually have coronavirus and if they don't, they could go back to work. but the government has been rather slow with increasing testing, is repeatedly, we have heard promises they were going to get to 10,000 at the weekend, matt hancock, the health secretary, said they had 10,000. and today they admitted that even though they have the capacity to do 10,000 tests they are not actually doing them yet. jack, the who has said four weeks and weeks, "test, test, test". from your analysis, four weeks and weeks, "test, test, test". from youranalysis, is four weeks and weeks, "test, test, test". from your analysis, is that happening? not in this country, and not anywhere near the scale at which it is happening in those countries

which appear to have been more successful in tackling this virus than we have so far. and it is not true want of trying, certainly anymore, from our true want of trying, certainly anymore, from our government. they are desperate to increase the amount of tests. but it is not something you canjust of tests. but it is not something you can just snap your of tests. but it is not something you canjust snap your fingers of tests. but it is not something you can just snap your fingers and do. you need certain types of kit to do. you need certain types of kit to do it, you only have a certain amount of that lying around. and the problem now of course is that because the uk has lifted rather late to try to increase the amount of testing we are doing, every country in the world are scrambling around for these expensive contraptions and you can't just go and buy a few hundred more of the internet. we had a story in politico la st internet. we had a story in politico last week about a letter that went out to research facilities around the country from the government saying, please let us borrow your testing equipment, we will send the army in next week to come and get it. that is a sign of the desperation in downing street that they are feeling about trying to close this gap and the number of tests that are being done. it does rather feel like they had left it too late to get the levels of testing we have seen in countries

like south korea or indeed in germany. jack, thanks. we will look at the next paper now, the daily express. the headline, "get tough on cowards abusing nhs heroes", a story about a yob, in the daily express' words, who spat at three police officers after claiming he was infected with the virus. it is a very captivating headline but when you read it it doesn't look like this is particularly representative of the country as a whole. we have clapped for nhs staff, there has been pictures of special parking for people, donations for people. this is an interesting headline but not necessarily representative of what is happening in the country? this is a handful of idiots around the country, people who cough on emergency workers, people who cough from the police, should be punished. this story is talking about a man in brighton who coughed on three police officers, saying he had coronavirus and was going to infect them. he has been caught today and was just given 12 weeks behind bars. so with everything that the police and the

emergency services have to deal with at the moment the last thing they wa nt to at the moment the last thing they want to deal with this idiots like this. i think most people around the country should think, you know, people acting like this should be punished. we are going to move to the daily mirror now. the headline, "give them all and all". stars back mira campaign, pm supports legends tojoin the mira campaign, pm supports legends to join the nhs for honours. mira campaign, pm supports legends tojoin the nhs for honours. no call for honours would be complete without legends and stars backing it, i guess. jack, without legends and stars backing it, iguess. jack, is without legends and stars backing it, i guess. jack, is it the right time for metals? no, it is not the right time for metals, but it is a nice idea. i don't want to slug this campaign. it is important that the people on the front line of this battle, which in this case it is not soldiers, it is nhs staff, who are putting their lives on the line to fight this on behalf of us all, do realise just how much we as a country appreciate this. you've got to remember that doctors and nurses did not sign up to be putting themselves in harm 's did not sign up to be putting themselves in harm '5 way, they are signing up to help people, of course, and to work hard, of course, but this is what we're going to be facing in our intensive care units

in the next few weeks, something the nhs has never seen before, in terms of the risks, the actual physical risk, to and nurses. we've seen numbers of them tragically dying in other countries which have already been overwhelmed. i think it is really important understand how much we appreciate that. however, as we we re we appreciate that. however, as we were saying before, it is much more important that they are given the protective gear they need to keep themselves safe, and we are hearing again and again from doctors and nurses but that problem still has not been solved. and we are now approaching the peak of this virus outbreaks, so the time is running outbreaks, so the time is running out for this to be fixed. a fascinating point you make about the fa ct fascinating point you make about the fact that they were not soldiers, they did not sign up to go to war, they did not sign up to go to war, they signed up to heal people, not necessarily to die on the front lines themselves. john, moving across to you, we have had cupping for nhs workers, we have had the talk of medals in the daily mirror, we have had amazon wish list. i have seen we have had amazon wish list. i have seen doctors in the media saying, thatis seen doctors in the media saying, that is all very well, but give us the kit we need to be safe. the same

question to you, too early for medals? no-one is going to argue that our medical staff —— that our medical staff are not doing an importantjob. medical staff are not doing an important job. 0ur hospitals medical staff are not doing an importantjob. 0ur hospitals have more and more people would coronavirus and we have seen the scenes from italy, whether hospitals have been overwhelmed. i think this will be an awful nightmare for nhs staff in the next few weeks. anything we can do to recognise them, we should be doing. john, thank you. the headline in the i, lockdown helping uk to beat virus, strip social distancing rules to slow spread of infection in uk are making it difference, says the chief scientific advisor. jack, should we be getting carried away by daily numbers? should we be extrapolating too much? how do you analyse these numbers as they come in every day?” think you have to trust in the most senior scientific advisor we have in this country, which is patrick vallance, and he has stood there in downing street this evening and said, it is early days, but the

signs are that this is starting to work. frankly, for a country that has been having an awful lot of bad news, for a planet that has been having an awful lot of bad news for the last few weeks, i think we'll ta ke the last few weeks, i think we'll take what we can get. here is somebody saying, look, we might be turning the corner, brilliant. that's all quietly celebrate to ourselves. but it is very early days, we shouldn't be getting carried away. if people start going out again one mixing together freely, all that hard work is immediately undone. this is going to bea immediately undone. this is going to be a long haul. we heard about the medical officer saying on sunday that these measures could be in place for months, maybe six months, maybe longer. so we are only a week and a bit in here, aren't we? we definitely don't want to get carried away. but if it is starting to work, but is a great sign for everybody. and fascinating the paper decided to put it on its front page. john stevens put it on its front page. john steve ns fro m put it on its front page. john stevens from the daily mail, question to you about how your paper decides whether to put a really scary story on the front page are a slightly more uplifting story? i have seen over the last week have

probably done a mix. tonight you have a story about doctors having to stay away from work, which is a tougher one. how does that decision work among the editors about what to put on the front page? hope or dread? well, it is notjust a decision at my paper. we have had a mixture the past couple of weeks. it is important to get information out, people want to know what is going on, but they also don't want to know and gloom day after day. when there is an opportunity to show some hope, sharon uplifting story, i think we are keen to do that as a newspaper. that share some uplifting stories. the guardian, had binding something a lot of us have been talking about in recent days. police warned against overreach and of virus lockdown. lord powers, former supreme court chiefjustice, said the behaviour of w police was disgraceful. that refers of course to that in our viral picture of the drones in dublin. are we policing ourselves, or do we need the police

to intervene in ways like that? —— derbyshire. i mean, of course you need the police to intervene from time to time when appropriate, because if police see lots of people breaking the rules they will think they can end up breaking them themselves. —— if people see lots of people. so they have an important role to play and it is early days. 0ur police have never had to implement rules like this before. and of course you will get some of them who get it wrong. we have good policemen and bad policemanjust like in any other profession. i think the use of drones feels wrong, people don't really like this idea of these little robots flying around shouting at you. i don't really feel like that is the direction we want our country to be going on. perhaps they want to be shut out by human beings, not robots, i don't know? possibly. —— beings, not robots, i don't know? possibly. — — shouted beings, not robots, i don't know? possibly. —— shouted at. be flying around the hills and trying to shame people on social media doesn't seem like a very sensible approach to this. and as i say, if you give the

impression to the public that lots and lots of people are not following these guidelines, what that actually does is encourage them not to follow it, because they think, what is the point? and we have heard from the scientist saying the vast majority of people are following this and it is working, which is a positive message. what we don't need as the police trying to amplify the very few idiots who are ignoring it when what is really needed isjust a quiet word in the ear, you know? without drones. john, other police getting it right? in some cases there have been forces who went too far. there was a police force in warrington posting on twitter about how to find people for making non—essential shopping trips today. we have heard about local counsellors in some places want shopkeepers but they shouldn't be selling easter eggs in the run up to easter. —— warning shopkeepers. so there are examples where the police have gone too far. but like chuck said, we are in this for the long haul and it will become increasingly difficult with these measures as we go into the summer, it will be nicer

weather and people will want to go out and about. i think it is important that the police keep the trust of the public now, so when it becomes harder they also have their trust then. jack, a quick word -- question for you. are we going to get used to the lockdown measures and find they become second nature, are we going to get frustrated by them, briefly? great question, and nobody knows. nobody has ever tried this before. we have seen this happen in china but china is a very different society with a very different society with a very different type of government. the british government has never asked its people to do this before. i kinda feel like are going to go a bit stir crazy, when the weather gets nicer, asjohn says, and all desperate to get out and about and about and we have not been out for weeks. i think it is going to get difficult. there is certainly a few in downing street, one of the reasons they were reluctant to bring these measures in a couple of weeks ago when people started clamouring for it was because they know it is a long haul, and they were worried if they did it too soon people would start breaking the rules and dashing

out of their houses again just at the moment they didn't want them to do that. so i think the viewer numberten is that do that. so i think the viewer number ten is that there is a time limit to how long this can possibly be done for, but the truth is nobody really knows how long that is. we will get ourfinal really knows how long that is. we will get our final paper in and about a minute. in the times newspaper, £75 million our left for britons stranded on holiday. john stevens, from the daily mail, britain has got to get 300,000 people back home? yes, there are a lot of people out there still trying to get back. lots of airports are closed and lots of borders are closed. so people are struggling to get back on commercial flights. i think the government is going to charter hundreds of flights to bring people back. people have to pay between £250 £500 for a ticket back, and that compares to some people who have been told they will have to pay thousands and thousands, i think up to £40,000, to get back from new zealand. so this seems quite a sensible thing to do, though there has been some criticism the government has been moving too slowly on this. jack, in one

sentence, what is politico's headline tomorrow? the headline is all about the tests. they have to increase the testing now, because in age staff needed. john stevens, deputy political editor of the daily mail on the left, and jack blanchard, editor of london politico playbook on the right. thank you. that is it for the papers tonight. thank you to john that is it for the papers tonight. thank you tojohn and chuck. it will ta ke thank you tojohn and chuck. it will take another look at the papers the same time tomorrow. but first, let's get more more one of those stories making the headlines. the money pledged by the government to bring home british nationals who are stranded abroad. the announcement was made this afternoon by the foreign secretary, dominic raab. 0ur step—by—step action plan is aiming to slow the spread of the virus, so fewer people need hospital treatment at any one time, therefore protecting the nhs's capacity. at

each point, we've been following the scientific and medical advice and we've 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 frontline so that we give people the ca re frontline so that we give people the care they need when they need it most. that's why we are instructing people to stay at home so we can protect our nhs and save lives. i can report that through the government's ongoing monitoring and testing programme, as of today, 134,946 people have now been tested for the virus. 112,805 have tested negative. 22,141 have tested positive. of those who have contracted the virus, 1408 have airy saddle died. we express our deepest

condolences to the families and friends of those who have passed away, and i think those figures are away, and i think those figures are a powerful reminder to us all of the importance of following government's guidelines. we must stay at home to protect our nhs and save lives, and i'd like to thank all of those involved on the frontline, in particular all those in the nhs, for their battle against this virus, the amazing doctors, the amazing nurses, all those support staff working day and night, and thousands of other key workers, from teachers to supermarket workers, our fantastic diplomatic network, who are all, as a team, working round—the—clock to get us through this unprecedented coronavirus challenge. this is a united national effort and the spirit of selflessness ‘s by so many is an inspiration. i want to turn to what we've been doing to support british people travelling around the

world. coronavirus hasn'tjust challenged us at home, it's the greatest global challenge in a generation. as the country's work to secure generation. as the country's work to secure their borders and stop the further spread of this deadly virus, we appreciate an unprecedented number of uk travellers are trying to get home. we're not talking a few hundred, even if you thousand, with talking about hundreds of thousands of people travelling around the world. so with that in mind, on the 17th of mind, we advised people against all non—essential travel around the world, and on the 27th of march, we advised all uk residents to currently travelling abroad should return home. hundreds of thousands of have already done so, but many travellers haven't yet managed to get home, from young backpackers to retired couples on cruises, and we appreciate the difficult predicament that they find themselves in. we also recognise the anxiety of families here in the uk

who are concerned to get their loved ones home. it's a worrying time for all of those who have been affected. i want to assure them that this government, their government, is working round—the—clock to support, advise and help british travellers get home. i've spoken to more than 20 foreign 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. 0ver access to them by british travellers. over the weekend i spoke to foreign ministers from australia, new zealand, india and brazil and pakistan and i also spoke to the ethiopian prime minister and in all of those cases urged them to work with us to keep commercial routes flying. given the scale and complexity of this challenge, it inevitably requires a team effort, so the foreign office is working with other governments as a

particular focus on transit hubs, and we are also working with the airlines to keep as many flights running as possible. we've got a lot more to do, but we've already helped hundreds of thousands of britons get home. the first priority has been to keep as many commercial flights running as we can, and that's based onjust running as we can, and that's based on just purely the scale and the number of people who want to come home. as a result of those efforts and the cooperation we've seen from the spanish government, we've enabled an estimated 150,000 uk nationals to get from spain. 0n other commercial routes that have come under pressure, we've worked with partner governments and airlines to get back a thousand 500 uk travellers from morocco, around 5000 uk nationals from cyprus. that gives you a sense of the scale of the challenge and the numbers of british travellers abroad. now, in circumstances where commercial flights can't operate, we've already

charted flights which prove necessary to return 1400 uk nationals on flights, from, for example, china, at the outset of this crisis, and more recently from peru. we've not faced challenges like this in 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 event people from getting to the airport, and the critical trends would hubs we rely on for long haul hubs are also jotting down or in some cases limiting theirflights. jotting down or in some cases limiting their flights. some of these have been done with no notice or little notice, which makes it very difficult to respond. international collaboration is absolutely vital. as i said, it's a tea m absolutely vital. as i said, it's a team effort and 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 stranded british travellers where commercial flights are no longer possible. partner airlines include british airways, virgin, easyjet, jet2 and titan, and this list can be expanded. under the arrangements we are putting in place, we will target 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 routes remain an option, airlines will be responsible for getting passengers home, that means offering alternative flights at little to no cost where routes have been cancelled. it means allowing passengers to change tickets, including queen carriers. 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, please book your tickets as soon as you, please book your tickets as soon as possible. where commercial flights are no longer running, the government will provide the necessary financial support for special charter flights to bring necessary financial support for special charterflights to bring uk nationals back home. 0nce special charterflights to bring uk nationals back home. once a special charter flights have been nationals back home. once a special charterflights have been arranged, we will promote through the government travel advice and the british embassy and high commission in the relevant country. british travellers who want a seat on those flights will book and pay directly through a dedicated travel management company. we've designated £75 million to support those flights and the airlines in order to keep costs down and affordable for those seeking to return to the uk. and in arranging these flights, our priority will be the most vulnerable, including the elderly or those with particularly pressing medical needs and also looking in particular at countries where we've got large numbers of uk tourists struggling to get home. uk travellers, if they haven't already done so, should check the foreign

0ffice 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 the social media of the uk embassy or high commission in the country they find themselves so they can be directed to accurate, real—time information from the local authorities. for any questions that can't 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, we've redeployed people to assist in the call centre and we've tripled our capacity. yesterday the call

centre answered 99% of calls and help thousands of richest travellers to get the answers they need. so, for those stranded all four families nervously waiting news and wanting to see their loved ones return home, we are doing everything we can. we've improved our advice and boosted the call centre so travellers get better and swifter information. we've put in place this arrangement with the airlines so we can reach more british citizens in runnable circumstances abroad where commercialflights runnable circumstances abroad where commercial flights aren't 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 bring people home. we've not faced an international challenge quite like this before, but together we are going to rise to it. and, 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. in more ways than one a lot has changed over the last week, none more so in weather where we saw on tuesday last week the feel of late spring in the north coast of wales, 19 celsius, 63 fahrenheit. a week later, we are lucky if we get to nine in the same spot, even with some sunshine continuing. that colder theme continues through this coming 24 hours, but a little less chilly, high pressure has moved further west so the winds more westerly tha n further west so the winds more westerly than northern and notice the gaps in the isobars, starting to widen, indicating it won't be as windy. a noticeable north—westerly breeze in parts of northern scotland bringing a few rain showers, a few rain showers in northern ireland and northern england but many will stay dry. sunshine coming and going through the day, the best of which will be in southern counties, east anglia channel islands, sunnier than recently, and the breeze won't be as strong as it has been, feeling that

little bit less chilly. elsewhere, light winds, continuing through tuesday night into wednesday. cloud amounts large in the night, a few showers in the north and west, where the cloud breaks, a bit of frost around, the greatest chance in clear skies in southern england, frosty is to begin wednesday. a chilly start, that ridge of high pressure just in, but changes through the day in the north with the isobars tightening up, coming closer, the breeze picking up and that weather front bringing difficult rain, 0rkney and shetland. away from that, a few showers, plenty of cloud around for the vast majority, sunshine later in the vast majority, sunshine later in the north of scotland and while we could see temperatures peaking at ten, it will drop because cold air

is on its way. this low pressure goes from iceland to norway. cloudy to begin with on thursday, sleet and snow abundantly, temperatures in low single figures, 12 or 13 in the south—east. milder air returns from the south.

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