this is bbc news, the headlines: british prime minister borisjohnson has been taken to hospital, ten days after testing positive for covid—19 and going into self—isolation. his office says he's still suffering symptoms, including a high temperature, and has been admitted for tests as a precaution. he's expected to remain in hospital overnight. donald trump says there is light at the end of the tunnel as parts of america prepare to reach their peak in deaths in the coming week. that's as officials warn the death toll in places such as new york is a sign of trouble to come in other states. the queen has given a televised address in which she urged the people of britain

and the commonwealth to remain united and resolute in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. speaking from windsor castle, she said countries around the world werejoined in a common effort against the disease. scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after being caught visiting her second home — in breach of her own guidance. dr catherine calderwood made a public apology and received a police warning after she travelled from edinburgh to another home in fife for two consecutive weekends. alexandra mackenzie reports. this is a vital update about coronavirus. to help save lives, stay—at—home. coronavirus. to help save lives, stay-at-home. day after day, scotland's chief medical officer has told millions of people to stay at home to help save lives. but after pictures were published in the scottish son, catherine calderwood was forced to admit that she travelled from edinburgh to her second home in fife this weekend and last weekend. i have already issued a statement this morning abolishing —— apologising unreservedly for

travelling outside of my home are restrictions were in place was not as of this weekend, it is important to be clear that i was also there last weekend with my husband was up idid not last weekend with my husband was up i did not follow the advice i'm giving to others and i am truly sorry for that. nicola sturgeon initially said she would continue in her role, advising the scottish government. her advice and expertise has been invaluable to me and it continues to be so. if i am to do what i am to do to steer this country through this crisis to the very best of my ability, i need her to be able to focus on the job that she is doing. many have expressed their anger and disbelief at catherine calderwood's actions stop police scotland said they have spoken to her and emphasised that the stay—at—home rules apply to everyone. as we the stay—at—home rules apply to everyone. as we go the stay—at—home rules apply to everyone. as we go into a third week of lockdown which has been observed by most, the chief medical officer has now resigned from the scottish

government. now on bbc news — talking movies. hello, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, coming to you from my home on new york's upper west side. in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, we've been working together remotely and collectively as a programming team to look at the impact of the virus on the global film industry. of course, the struggles of the movie business pales in comparison to what's been happening in terms of the human cost of this disease, but in some parts of the world, the film industry has been totally crippled by the pandemic. china was the first major country

to be hit by the virus, and its nationalfilm industry has been severely hurt. production has been closed down, as have cinemas. with the impact of coronavirus waning in china, cinemas almost opened last weekend, but the government ordered them to remain closed at the last minute. when they do reopen, going to the movies isn't exactly going to feel festive. director and cinematographer yanqiu fei lives in shanghai. on the news, we learned that when the cinema reopens, they are going to follow a strict rule of disinfection for the whole cinema, and every audience will be requested to show their health qr code, also get their temperature checked. and the cinema will remain social distancing within the audience, meaning everyone will have an empty seat in between. oh, also you have to wear a mask all the time. for india, the world's largest producer of movies, the lockdown has taken the life out of bollywood and the big regionalfilm industries. indians love their movies, so the closing of cinemas has been very hard.

it's left us catatonic! we have no idea what to do because cinema is like, you know, a drug in ourveins, that we need our weekly fix, and we are completely lost without it. i don't think we've ever seen such a big devastation, actually, because it's a nationwide lockdown now for a few weeks — till april “i, actually, three weeks — so it's a big shock and i think — i mean, we've survived all kinds of other disasters — natural disasters, floods, famine, all kinds of stuff. riots, communal riots. but this — we've never seen something as comprehensive as this, because the whole nation is under lockdown. hollywood, of course, has been upended by the virus. bond. james bond. the newjames bond movie was the first major picture to be postponed. others have followed suit. the disaster has shut down production at virtually every

american movie company. it's completely stopped. initially, whenever, you know, the virus first started coming to the united states, it was that productions are being suspended for a couple months or a couple weeks. but now everything has stopped indefinitely. i'm thinking of, you know, bigger movies like fantastic beasts, the matrix 4 movie, every disney, marvel show, every netflix show, every hbo show, the friends reunion, for example, is, you know, postponed indefinitely until this is under control. i don't want to stay here. i'm sorry, i would never... hey, hey. see? right now, my priority is giving my baby somewhere safe, do you understand? some studio movies placed in cinemas were subsequently made available by the screening giants. this is a very significant move with ramifications for the entire industry. typically there are 90 days between when a movie finishes its run in theatres and is available on streaming or on demand, and for a long time, some studios and some streaming sites like netflix or hulu have been trying to chip away at that 90 days because it is a big loss for them, financially.

and so i think now, now that we are seeing new releases come on streaming, on demand, so much quicker, that might be a really lasting change. normally at this time of the year, the movie industry would be looking forward to the cannes film festival, which is held in may. but cannes has been postponed, as have dozens of other film—related events. but festivals are adapting. south by southwest was cancelled but it's been showcasing films in its line—up by putting them online. case in point, a short horrorfilm called regret, from director santiago menghini. they could have easilyjust closed down the festival and just said, sorry, just the circumstances are what they are and operate, you know, with the intention of starting up next year. but they didn't.

they actually came back to us and said, look, we're really working on something for everyone to have an opportunity to show yourfilm. even now, since they've announced this platform, it's been released, i have been getting a lot of great feedback and something i wouldn't have had if it wasn't for their initiative and their effort to really help the film—makers. i would have been left basically abandoned. clearly, the globalfilm industry is being rocked by the pandemic, the damage will almost certainly continue to be done, and experts believe it will take months, even years, for the movie business to recover. now let's move to pandemic—themed films. movies that deal with pandemics, like steven soderbergh‘s contagion, have been streamed in record numbers in recent days by audiences preoccupied by current events. but as emma jones reports, contagion is just one of many films that speak to our predicament. 100 years ago, a deadly influenza virus infected hundreds of millions of people. this is pandemic, a documentary investigating virus outbreaks and how to prevent the next one. eerily, it arrived on netflix around the same time as the public became

aware of a virus called covid—i9. since then, it's been streamed millions of times, presumably for the benefit of hindsight. within one month, a virus can spread throughout the country. a month after that, widespread throughout the world. actually experiencing contagion has resurrected steven soderbergh‘s 2011 film of the same name, which has been watched again by millions with fresh eyes. made with the advice of medical experts, contagion is a sober examination of a pandemic spreading across the world with now all—too—familiar themes. it really foretold what we are experiencing today. it's obviously in greater numbers in the film, but in terms of the way it spread — it starts in hong kong, this fictional virus in the movie, and it spreads via the way that this current virus spreads.

the average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute. the question is not if we'll get patients, it's when we'll get them. 93 days by steve gukas, starring danny glover, actually deals with a historic outbreak of ebola in nigeria, which was contained. but hollywood has also treated sickness as a standard blockbuster plot device, an enemy to be defeated. what chance did 1995's outbreak, caused by a monkey smuggled into california carrying a lethal virus, have against these a—list actors? we've got 19 dead, we've got 100 more infected. it's spreading like a brushfire. what are you talking about? if one of them's got it, then ten of them have got it now! it's notjust films about pandemics which play upon the human fear of infection. that fear also stalks a whole movie genre, the horrorfilm, where often an epidemic can unleash a future that nobody‘s quite bargained for. what's interesting is how many different monster movies seem

to reflect our fears of infection and disease. if you think about any dracula film, there's that fear that something might come from across the sea, from another land, and it might infect our country and spread out throughout society, and how scary that is. zombies used to be these shambling reanimated corpses that lurched through graveyards. it really changed with 28 days later, the film directed by danny boyle and written by alex garland. because in that, they are no longer reanimated corpses, they are people who have been infected by a virus. it has those scenes of an empty london, which we are seeing in reality at the moment. world war z with brad pitt. in that film, it's really about globalisation — about how these infections don't just take over a city or a building, but can spread throughout the world. is anyone doing better than we are? the isolation that an estimated quarter of the globe

are experiencing now has been anticipated in films such as i am legend, where will smith seems totally alone in a post—apocalyptic new york, to oldboy by park chan—wook, where the main character is locked up for 15 years without human contact. but if alone is bad, alone with someone else can be worse. just look at what happens in the lighthouse by robert eggers, where two men are isolated for weeks on an island. in a couple of years, we're going to see the creative effects of the coronavirus outbreak in cinemas. what you think we're going to see? it is going to be heavyweight political dramas, of course, with actors pretending to be donald trump. there's going to be slasher movies and stalker movies with people being chased through the empty streets during the eerie lockdown. heist movies set at the same time,

people robbing banks with no—one around. there are going to be romantic dramas, romantic comedies with people falling in love over social media or people falling in love across the street from each other but, of course, they can't get close because of the lockdown. there are going to be so many films set during this crisis that we are going to get sick of them. watch this. it's transmission. so we just need to know which direction. until now, hollywood's portrayal of infection always brought along a solution — a vaccine, or perhaps brad pitt. the time of coronavirus means this generation of moviegoers could find it much harder to accept that a hero really can come and save the day. it's mutating. with everyone cooped up in their homes with nowhere to go, the pandemic has led to a huge increase in streaming in recent days. so much so that the surge in streaming may forever change the way in which we watch movies in the future, perhaps hastening the demise of the traditional cinema. i certainly hope

that isn't the case. anyway, streaming is now very popular. i spoke to movie lovers in the us, india, china, germany, japan and denmark, and it was no surprise to find that all of them in the midst of this pandemic have been streaming movies, sometimes for hours at a stretch. there are no movie theatres, there is nowhere else to experience moving images other than on your computer screen, so i think that streaming platforms have become the full—on opportunity for people to watch film and tv now, so it's a historic high. so what films have people been watching in their homes? sergei lives in tokyo. i've definitely been watching several pandemic films. the one most watched lately, i think, is outbreak. i hear from most of my friends, they do watch those films lately. especially now, like, in the last week, because everyone is depressed, in general. your town is being quarantined. movie lover fatima, who lives in arizona, has rather different tastes.

i have a few friends who are watching some more of those dystopic pandemic movies, but i find myself drawn more to movies that draw a sense of comfort, the feel—good kind, just to comfort myself during these uncertain times. it is hard to single out the ideal movie to watch in these pandemic times. you know, the movie that almost everyone i know has been turning to for comfort, suddenly, seems to be moonstruck, the romantic comedy starring cher and nicolas cage that's set in brooklyn heights. if you're based in new york like i am, it's a nice reminder of what it like outside. do you love him, loretta? i love him awful. that's too bad. she loves me. it's the right amount of escapism, without seeming too sickly sweet. the pandemic hasn'tjust prompted millions to drift to streaming platforms, but it's also had an impact on film—makers. in delhi, the pandemic has given director tariq vasudeva much food for thought.

what it makes me think is once this is over, there has to be a shift in how people are approaching cinema, and how much they are... how much they are exploring the idea of unity. with audiences becoming so accustomed to streaming movies at home during the pandemic, there are concerns that once the coronavirus outbreak has subsided, cinemas will remain empty, they could just disappear. jad salfiti is a british journalist based in berlin. there are many, many excellent independent cinemas here in berlin, and they are the ones that will be hit the hardest. there is no end in sight for self isolation, they are going to be closed at least until the end of april, so it's not clear what will happen to many of these independent cinemas. but some moviegoers take a more optimistic view. actually, when the cinemas open again, i think that people are going to go to the cinemas a lot, at least the first couple of weeks, and then it's probably

going to tone down a bit and be just like before. because right now, i think a lot of people are tired ofjust, like sitting at home and streaming. i mean, it's ok, but sometimes it's also nice to, like, get out of the house, meet with some friends and see something on a big screen. but with all this streaming taking place, it's become clear that in the midst of this pandemic, the magic of cinema still prevails. it is definitely helping to take people away from disconcerting realities. as esteemed film—maker david lynch once stated, cinema is like opening a door and going into a new world. while the streaming giants are getting most of the attention in these days of social distancing, there is a host of smaller streaming platforms online offering some great alternatives. from his home in connecticut, film critic noah gittel has been looking at what's available

beyond the mainstream. like many people around the world, i've had some extra time at home lately, and i'm spending it watching movies. what i've discovered is that there's a whole world of cinema beyond the usual suspects of streaming services and for those smaller streamers looking to break out, this could be the moment. international streaming services that could see a boom in viewing numbers include spuul, which focuses on indian content and has over 1,000 films and series, as well as asian crush, which focuses on asian cinema and could be a destination forfans of parasite, this year's best picture winner from korea. other services such as mubi, which features a hand—picked selection of award—winning cinema that is curated monthly, shudder, a haven for horrorfans and shout factory tv, which specialises in cult and b—movies, are all offering free

or low—cost trials, hoping to lure viewers that are looking for titles beyond the offerings at netflix, amazon and hulu. i think that these companies, they recognise that they have an incredible opportunity here to reach audiences that might not otherwise be kind of compelled to search for something that they don't already have. so they are reallyjust trying to lure them with an extended free trial and then, of course communal, the hope with any free trial is that people either forget to cancel or like it enough to keep subscribing. in fact, the streaming service landscape is getting more crowded now than ever, with theatrical distributors and physical cinemas themselves even getting into the game. film and video distributor kino lorber has launched virtual marquee, partnering with 150 american independent theatres to stream the films that they would have been showing in cinemas and splitting the revenue. they started their programme

with bacurau, an award—winning brazilian western that was slated to open on march 6th. what's interesting about our programme is that although this was developed as kind of an interim, as a stopgap to allow theatres to recapture revenue while the physical doors were closed, we see this as a way of creating a virtual expansion of the screening opportunities. even if they go back to normal, they are very pressed, most of the time, to play films quickly, move them out, they are locked in calendar schedules and such. well, suddenly with the kino marquee programme they will have now virtual screens to play on. it is a change that could stretch to all corners of the movie world, with ripple effects that are hard to predict. at least for now, independent cinema seems to have an advantage — while new blockbusters are being postponed to later this year or even 2021, the latest

independent films are nowjust a click away. around the world, the film—making community is responding to the pandemic with stories directly related to the impact it is having. ten directors in greece have just completed short films on the subject and some are very moving. "life can find a home during the pandemic" is the theme of ten new short films completed by top greek film—makers, at the behest of a film festival when it postponed its documentary festival last month. it's artistic director would like creativity to flourish in this time of darkness. art can be made in any situation as long as there is an artist or an audience. —— and an audience. our partners implement creation,

give the means to this hope. we are asking film directors to make a movie in their confinement. it is a liberating action, because there is no borders within four walls. we are staying home, washing our hands properly and making films without disinfectant. among the films made for this endeavour in the past few days was one shot within the home of a director. the camera pans across piles of books in her home. i decided to do it because at the time i was rearranging the books on the book shelves in the house. by doing this, i was coming face—to—face with my past and my previous lives, so this three minute film is about the experience of time, the fact we are constantly in a rush and suddenly we're forced to sit back and look at our lives, look at ourselves and look

at our role in society and the world. another short film is called foghorn, defined by that sound. it is an abstract work featuring wetlands and animals. it makes use of previously shot material. my film ended up to be about some pretty bleak atmosphere of the city, athens in silence, in contrast to the happiness of animals that see human action not being there any more. the man behind this collective creative endeavour was motivated by a desire to help the film—making community but also wants to give people hope and demonstrate that art can play a role in bringing that about. we are strong, we are fighting.

the last years, during this big economic crisis particularly in greece, we questioned the role of the artist and said it was not important, and now billions of people are inside their homes, consuming art. and so it is the fundamental of our society and existence. the completed films will be shown on the youtube channel for the film festival. the endeavour is just one of the many ways in which film—makers and film festivals are responding to the pandemic, when the desire to be creative trumps the stress and anxiety that could be holding film—makers back. well, that brings this special edition of talking movies to a close. we hope you have enjoyed the programme. please remember you can always reach us online,

and you can find us on facebook and twitter. from me, tom brook, and the rest of the talking movies production team in new york and beyond, it is goodbye, as we leave you with a great clip from a hollywood classic which might lift your spirits in the midst of these very difficult times. # i'm singing in the rain. #just singing in the rain. # what a glorious feeling, i'm happy again. # i'm laughing at clouds so dark up above. # the sun's in my heart, and i'm ready for love. # let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place...#

hello there. the weekend brought plenty of sunshine for many of us and temperatures responded accordingly. sunday was the warmest day of the year so far, 22.2 degrees, the highest which we recorded in west wales. but for monday, something a little bit cooler. there will be some sunshine around, yes, but there will also be some showers. so that plume of very warm air that wafted northwards across the uk through sunday is being replaced by something cooler from the atlantic, moving in behind this frontal system. now, this frontal system will bring some outbreaks of rain through monday morning, the front becoming very slow moving, actually, across east anglia and the south—east. you can see these outbreaks of rain only slowly trudging eastwards and then for east anglia and the south—east the rain likely to turn heavier for a time during the morning. behind it, though, we see brighter skies and sunshine, one or two showers across england and wales, one or two more for northern ireland and scotland,

some of which could be possibly heavy and thundery. fairly windy across the far north—west. temperatures down on where they have been but 12—18 degrees, that is still respectable for this time of year. now, as we move through monday night with light winds and largely clear skies overhead, it is going to turn cold, certainly a colder start to tuesday morning. temperatures in towns and cities very close to freezing. some spots in the countryside probably will get down to freezing. so there could be a frost for some on tuesday morning. potentially one or two fog patches around as well. tuesday is all about high pressure building its way in from the new continent, so that promises a lot of dry weather. yes, that chilly start, but we will see plenty of sunshine. the winds come back up from the south so there will be some warmth in that sunshine with top temperatures in london getting to around 20 degrees. further north, for glasgow, more like 14—15, always some patches for northern ireland and north—west scotland, turning any sunshine quite hazy. some frontal systems trying to push

in from the atlantic and the squeeze between the two will bring a renewed surge of warm air from the south. notice scotland holds onto something colder, but elsewhere temperatures climbing, 23 degrees is likely in the south. it does look like we will see some outbreaks of rain moving on from the west on friday.

hello, this is bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm simon pusey. our top stories: the british prime minister, boris johnson, is admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. americans are told to brace for what could be the hardest week of their lives but the president says there is hope. things are happening. we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. and hopefully in the not—too—dista nt future, we'll be very proud of the job we all did. the queen delivers a rallying call to the uk and the commonwealth, stressing the value of self—discipline and resolve. i hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded

to this challenge.