this is outside source on bbc news, for viewers in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. there are now more than a million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world — 50,000 people have died. for the second week in a row, the us has posted record—breaking unemployment figures. the uk government answers criticism about a lack of testing for health workers. the first priority has to be the patients for whom the result of a test could be the difference

in treatment, that is the difference between life and death. clapping across the united kingdom to thank the national health service and other key workers. like a warm welcome. the spread of the coronavirus has passed a significant milestone in the past few minutes, bbut first let's get the latest figures. according to thejohns hopkins university, there are no more than1 million confirmed cases full of life, although the truth could be much higher. the global death toll vest, passed the micro passed 50,000 people. the uk wants to test 100,000 people a day by the end of april. spain has registered 950 coronavirus deaths in a single day, the highest daily number anywhere in the world. and in russia, president putin has extended the country's partial lockdown until the end of april.

the coronavirus crisis generates new and shocking numbers every day. but one figure released earlier — about the effect on the us economy, really stands out. unemployment claims there have surged to a record—breaking 6.6 million. that's on top of the previous week's record of nearly 3.3 million. here's the nobel prize—winning economist paul krugman. let's go to europe. spain's unemployment figures for march have just been released too. the country recorded its highest monthly increase ever. the number of jobless jumped 9.3% from the previous month. the total number of unemployed people in spain is now around 3.5 million. the european union is proposing a 100 billion euro rescue package for countries ha rdest—hit by the virus. the initiative is called sure — support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency. here's the president of the european commission.

it can mitigate the effects of the recession. it keeps people in work. it enables companies to return to the market with vigour. the commission will provide loans to those member states that need, states that need, them to strengthen their short—time work schemes. this scheme now exists in play straight across the european union. so sure can benefit all member states who want use it. that new initiative being announced there. here's our business correspondent michelle fleury on the us unemployment figures. this was an astonishing number. you have to remember that ago we were talking about 3.3 million americans filing for unemployment benefits. at the time, we were talking about that as record—breaking. yet just seven days later, the figure has

doubled to 6.6 million. and if you take the total — we're talking about 10 million americans over a two—week period who have lost theirjobs. it is unprecedented, the magnitude and the speed with which firms here are shedding workers. i think it helps to underscore the catastrophic effect this pandemic is having here on the american economy, but we're also seeing that repeated in other countries around the world. and just to put in context for you — when you look back at 2008's recession, in america, there were roughly nine millionjobs lost. now we are talking about 10 million in just two weeks. the figures are staggering, we say this so often. when it comes to europe, the continent is very badly hit with the coronavirus. talk us through how europe is comparing? yeah, italy and spain are obviously the two countries that economists are talking about the most as having been at the epicentre of europe's

coronavirus pandemic. in italy, the numbers people are talking about — again, to benchmark it to the 2008 recession, which is what many people still remember, they are saying this could be two times worse than what that was like for italy. it gives you a sense of scale of the depth of the problem, which is why policymakers are really scrambling to try to address this in different ways. in the us, we're seeing them signing relief aid. and in your introduction you mentioned what europe is doing with the sure act, with money being given to companies to keep people on the payroll. when it comes to the eu—proposed package, this initiative which is called a sure — how is it being received by member states? i think the test will come next tuesday. that is when finance ministers have to approve this. there is optimism

that there is enough of a consensus to get this done. but again, i hate to keep going on about 2008, but that is where people are looking. at the time, the question was, could the eu member states all come together and act as one? and they did a pretty good job, but there is a question about solidarity, and it is being revealed yet again. just last week, there was an issue about whether or not they would issue something called coronavirus bonds, backed by eu member countries. there was disagreement, you had stronger economies like germany unwilling to act as a backstop for what has long been seen as countries like italy and spain with weaker economic fundamentals. we're seeing those tensions on display again, which is why this will be a key test of how well they can come together. and i think many economists will see this as a good first step — if they can get it done.

a huge thanks to michelle for talking to us there. the british government has again defended the lack of testing of nhs front line workers as the coronavirus pandemic continues. the health secretary confirmed that just 5,000 nhs front line staff have been tested. that's only a tiny fraction of the half a million front line workforce. currently, there are around 10,000 tests being carried out a day, and hospital patients are being prioritised over healthworkers. today, matt hancock set a target to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day in england by the end of april. here's our political editor laura kuennsberg. nicola and her husband are both gps in cheshire. both stuck at home, both have been unwell. but with no test, they don't know — they can't know — if they have had the virus or not, and can't go back to work. i just can't see that this is right. we're both keen to work, both desperate to work.

and as with most gps, we would work through a minor illness. we don't take time off lightly. after days of accusations of missing targets and mishandling, the health secretary — just back at work after the virus himself — was trying to show the government is getting a grip. i understand why nhs staff want tests, so they can get back to the front line. of course i do. but i took the decision that the first priority has to be that the patients, for whom the result of a test could be the difference in treatment that is the difference between life and death. he called on business to help, outlined nationwide sampling, and eventually an antibody test that could diagnose big chunks of the population. but tests for health workers are what matter here and now. i am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. that is the goal, and i am

determined that we will get there. can you give us a firm date by when any nhs staff that needs a test will get a test? because in a fast—moving crisis like this, the end of the month is still a long time away. i'm delighted we have now managed to test 5,000 nhs staff. i will, over the coming weeks, seek to ensure that every nhs front line staff member who needs a test gets one. remember, there are two kinds of test — one to show if you have had the virus after recovering. but the one these nhs staff are queueing up for at a superstore car park—turned—testing drive—thru, records if you already have the virus right now. if the drivers of these cars are negative, they could get back onto the desperately—stretched wards as doctors and nurses. that's why it is so urgent now. we should be the first! so that we can look after our patients. i'm very sad.

it was quite efficient, and it allows us to go back to work as soon as we could, really. so that's the best thing we can do for our nhs staff, to be honest. privately, the government has admitted it has been slow to make this happen. testing has become the most acute political problem in this crisis. the senior labour mp dawn butler — who lost her uncle to the disease — in grief and anger, insisting the government needs to test everyone who works in hospitals without delay. we are going to need a strategy for community—based testing for the majority of population over the time. because that is the route out of lockdown. but a former cabinet secretary — no stranger to managing crises — suggests there might be deeper roots to the problem. does it seem to you that the government was too slow? i think when we look back on it, i think all of us should take a share of the blame here. pandemics, even in my time, was top of the risk register.

did we do enough to build a spare capacity? get the materials in hand and have enough protective equipment? probably not. but let's not worry too much about the mistakes of the past. even if testing centres become a familiar sight, with no cure, no government can make coronavirus go away. but the actions they take can make a difference to how it affects us all. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the uk has carried out 163,000 tests for coronavirus, which works out as 2115 people in every 100,000 in the uk being tested. but how does that compare to other nations? well in denmark, the number of tests per 100,000 is 515. in germany, over 1000 tests can be done, per 100,000.

but lagging behind the uk and other european nations is france where the test rate is just 160 per 100,000. let's speak to our political correspondent leila nathoo. she's in westminster. when it comes to testing in the uk, we heard from the health secretary that number will increase by 100,000. that's right, he set out the scope of the end of the month, he will submit to the testing after the 100,000. it is hovering at the 10,000 mark at the moment, certainly below where officials and ministers themselves wa nted officials and ministers themselves wanted to be. we had an admission because get up 25,000 tested at a previously, personal and submitted to the target of 250,000 is that prick yourfinger

to the target of 250,000 is that prick your finger previously sent that hancock says he had to topic you had to explain that a bit, especially if you didn't have the laboratory capacity such as germany, shortages of chemicals and testing kits, some kits being proposed to him but actually have the accuracy that would be required. so he set out to explain why the uk is where it is, but then set up a school in which the government will be judged upon. by the end of the goal of april, the school is a long ways away. thoughts can still happen, we are still at the beginning of the month. we will have to see how the government will deliver that, they're talking about scaling up existing nhs laboratory testing in the community as a percent of sample, bringing in private providers. clearly the priority at the moment is to get a hs capacity

up the moment is to get a hs capacity up to its maximum by letting it adjust staff be tested so those who are self isolating because they or theirfamily are self isolating because they or their family members have symptoms can get back to work. so the 100,000 is clearly the number that hancock wa nted is clearly the number that hancock wanted to give as the government does not commitment to get that testing wake up. crucialto does not commitment to get that testing wake up. crucial to get those nhs front line staff tested. when it comes to this whole issue, it is incredibly clear most people are scared, but it is political but the opposition he reported becoming increasingly vocal about this? at the start, we want them to the start of the uk, dashed rewinding, there isa of the uk, dashed rewinding, there is a consensus that was a crisis facing the country, and politicians we re facing the country, and politicians were not breaking ranks. but this issue of testing has been a very, very impressive one, one that labour has been talking about. they probably welcome this goal to 100,000, they need to be withheld. i think the issue of testing puts the

various topic was the government to slow to act in the first place? was —— why was testing not aggressive at the beginning? right now can nhs staff knock at the test in order to get to work with those who are off with symptoms or self isolating, and what is the strategy of the future? this is something they were talking about that the community will be the root of these restrictions. so you can only release these restrictions if you get community testing and the idea of testing people who have had the disease so we can get an idea of the disease so we can get an idea of the spread. so i think the testing issue speaks to the various points in this crisis, and it is something that has caused the opposition parties to criticise the government on. we are definitely seeing that. thanks as always. spain has registered 950 coronavirus deaths in a single day, the highest daily number anywhere

in the world. it's the sixth day in the row that the daily death toll had risen above 800. more than 10,000 people have now died in spain. france's death toll has passed 4,500. and there've been almost 111,000 deaths in italy. 0ur europe correspondent, mark lowen is in rome. hoping for a sign of life. when the disease hits, it decimates. fighting it demands precision and speed to cope with these numbers. this is one of spain's biggest hospitals, in catalonia. but it could be anywhere else that the virus has struck, for this is its hallmark — to plunder a country, overwhelming its hospitals. the doctor shows just one of the patients here needing

assisted ventilation. there are 200 in this intensive care unit. catalonia, spain's wealthiest region, is at its limit. look how vulnerable we are when it hits, a complex living soul stripped bare, lying face down to help clear the lungs, a basic technique to battle a stronger killer. spain, as elsewhere, is short of supplies for its medics who make up around 15% of all cases. they tried to prepare for the front line, it is taking its toll. emotionally you are also worried because you are worried about yourself, your safety, you worry about your patient, your own families, lots of people have relatives or friends who are at home unwell. it is quite stressful. after a record daily rise in deaths, spain says it is now flattening the curve and the infection rate is reducing but it will not be quick.

nor will it in france where deaths there have jumped to more than 4000, a specialist plane was configured to transfer the sickest to germany for treatment. european states using every tool at their disposal. germany, with far fewer deaths of its own, also took in patients from italy, critically ill loaded into air ambulances. a virus that knows no borders is taking a worldwide effort to confront it. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. such a difficult situation. stay with us on 0ustide source. still to come: we look at the challenge of bringing news about the coronavirus to the public, in the middle of a lockdown. it's feared the virus could quickly spread through what's thought to be asia's largest slum,

dharavi in mumbai, after a case was detected there. the infected man's home has been sealed off, and dozens of people quarantined. more than 300 cases have been detected in maharashtra state and 13 people have died. the bbc‘s mayuresh konnour reports. mumbai is the financial capital of india and, obviously, one of the most popular cities in the country, but dharavi is the highly densely populated area in the city. over 1.5 million people reside in just over 600 hectares of land. it is that populous, that dense. so, now the challenge for the administration is to find out how many high—risk contacts are there in this slum area, to find them out, to isolate them and test them and, if they come back positive, then quarantine them, but that is a huge, mammoth task.

this is 0utside source, live from the bbc newsroom. there are now more than one million confirmed cases of covid—19 worldwide, according to johns hopkins university. the coronavirus pandemic has presented media organisations around the world with a number of new challenges and opportunities. for example, visits to newspaper websites here in the uk have surged. but publishers are seeing a drop in profits because companies are spending less on advertising. television news also faces its own challenge — with record numbers watching bulletins, but advertising drying. here's our media editor amol rajan.(vt good evening. 0ur headlines this morning...

britain's coronavirus crisis... in a crisis... coronavirus. it's horrible. pandemic. ..especially one in an information age... hand sanitiser. covid—19. ..trusted news becomes a trusted commodity... social distancing. ..for which there is a high demand. coronavirus. britain has a range of regulated public service broadcasters doing their best to produce world—class journalism. ratings for news programmes across all channels are soaring with many presenters broadcasting from home. published data showing that transport use across the country... but actually producing broadcast news is exceptionally hard in a global pandemic. i'm just going to script a line about northern ireland at this point. innovation is the only solution. there is plenty of it about. recording. the nhs scheme only covers england. in northern ireland... here, correspondentjudith moritz is at home in manchester working on a bbc news piece with her cameraman and editor, rob wood, who is nearly 30 miles away in derbyshire. the nhs scheme only covers england... news reports are the result

of teamwork between correspondents, producers, camera operators and studio editors. oh, and children too, who can make their presence felt when correspondents work from home. keeping both staff and contributors save is a priority. video interviews have become the norm of late. keeping two metres away from interviewees can be hard but boom mics allow sound to be captured safely in high quality. good morning, its seven o'clock, the headlines this morning... and it's notjust television. kitchens and front lounges have been converted into makeshift radio studios, like those of the today programme. here is the bbc‘s david sillito using a duvet to improve sound quality. furnishings can absorb sound and reduce echo. to a much greater extent than is generally acknowledged, journalism is the product of a particular energy, camaraderie and culture from within a newsroom, like that of the bbc. it is hard to replicate that when, like these designated key workers, you are sat two metres apart.

this place is usually densely packed but, like millions of others also facing logistical challenges, most editors and producers are now working from home. i'm working on a piece with david hockney... apps such as skype and zoom are therefore replacing face to face daily editorial meetings. jonty, what do you think about using that clip that we've already laid down? we can do that. broadcasting is always a technical adventure but right now, more than ever. amol rajan in central london, working with producer elizabeth in kent and editorjonathan in north london, bbc news. city am, a free business newspaper in the uk, has stopped producing its printed edition. its editor, christian may joins us now. when it came to her decision to do this, what was the thinking behind that? because cam is one of those papers handed out in the mornings during rush hour ash city of course

for people not travelling support of the change came very quickly. for 15 yea rs the change came very quickly. for 15 years we produced a daily business and financial newspaper in the city of london. reprinted about 100,000 copies and are distributed at about 1000 locations across london in the southeast. quickly over a period of a few days, the number of commuters on the bank of the flow into london dried up, which was a heavy fit of the formal lockdown which spelled the formal lockdown which spelled the end of that that work for us. now that was joined by the other people of the advertising market drying up, understandably people just putting puddles on the print advertising campaigns. for us, we had to quickly and completely change the movie produced the newspaper. everybody was working from home, the entire system is remote. we

continued printing newspapers and distributing them in the last few days of that operation remotely, but the decision was taken to suspend production is up we still produce the newspaper which we posted online, and the website, like a lot of these websites is enjoying extraordinary levels of traffic as people try to understand what was happening, particularly in london. but even last for days, the economics have been so difficult for us economics have been so difficult for us that we have had to furlough and put on paid leave a large number of the staff. so we are nowjust poking the staff. so we are nowjust poking the macro focusing purely on the internet website support of luck, i hope the staff come back soon and we will see a printed edition of paquin on the streets of london soon.

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it isa it is a very testing time. notjust because it is difficult for the country but testing has become the seemingly most important thing in the whole coronavirus story at the moment. there are multiple different kinds of tests floating around which you would do on different people for different reasons. we will untangle all of those spaghetti hoops of testing throughout this episode but first of all, let us zoom out the big picture. laura, why has testing become such a big issue politically? well, i think it is the first time when has been broad political consensus when has been broad political consensus that the government and found themselves on the back foot and the main reason they found themselves on the back foot is not just because the numbers of people being tested has gone up very slowly, it is the has kept saying that they were going to stick to these testing targets and it hasn't

happened. boris johnson talked about a quarter of happened. boris johnson talked about a quarterofa happened. boris johnson talked about a quarter of a million tests, a target of 10,000 that wasn't then met, so besides the fact that this is very urgent for many nhs staff who are at home are not able to go to work because they don't know if they have a virus or not, it has become a political problem because communications had been messed up and the government has come under a lot of criticism. basically, they are seen to be too slow off the mark, last night we saw boris johnson in his self isolation bunker tried to claim that they are on the case. we are increasing testing and i want to say a special word about testing because it is so important and as i've said for weeks and weeks, this is the way through. this is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle, this is how we will defeat it in the end. he sounds quite under the weather in that clip doesn't he? he did look a bit rough,

unlike matt hancock, who has also had coronavirus, who came bouncing back today. yes, he had a lot to say over a news conference that lasted more than one hour but was half an hour late. anyway, fergus, while we are still zoomed out looking at the big picture, why is this testing issue so important medically and health—wise? issue so important medically and health-wise? big picture, because you need to do a swab test for the antigen which shows who has current infection which is important for front line workers who may be isolating at home because one of their children orfamily isolating at home because one of their children or family members isolating at home because one of their children orfamily members has gone down with something and they have to sit there for 1h days. the test so far have been in recent weeks reserved for sick patients in hospital and there was being tested, but not enough nhs front line workers, only a tiny proportion are

being tested and many of them are off work so, testing as the who keeps saying, test, test, test. now, this is just keeps saying, test, test, test. now, this isjust a keeps saying, test, test, test. now, this is just a feeling and i am not an expert in the science, but i think testing has become a very important symbol to people about both the state of the country and how bad this virus actually is, how the government is handling the situation as a government and also, because we keep being told that eventually, testing will be the way out, and once you can test everyone to see if they have got it or had it, that is when people can start going back to work, back to the pubs, so that wraps up into all of those things and becomes an incredibly emotive issue as well. laura, you mentioned matt hancock bouncing back to work, chris you are watching, paint the same. the news co nfe re nce watching, paint the same. the news conference keeps getting pushed back, he bounds in at half past five, he has been in isolation for the past week or so and there has been particularly in the last 24

hours lots of questions