by only a simple joiner. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk being able to help out in these and around the world. times, and we are all very thankful uk police step up checks ahead of the easter weekend of the nhs at the moment as the government says it's too and the great work they are early to lift the lockdown. doing on the front line. let us not undo the gains we have we feel actually privileged to be able to help out made and waste the sacrifices we and put our work to good use. have made. we mustn't give the it's hard to quantify the admiration we now feel for those coronavirus a second chance to kill who risk their own safety to be more people and to hurt our country. beside loved ones he also said the prime minister when no—one else can. remains in intensive care, we do see death quite and continues to make positive steps forward. in the united states, another 6.6 million workers have a lot in thisjob. filed for unemployment in the past we are the last hand they probably week — 1 in 10 have now been laid off. held bar the nurse up in the ward. we're the last person they see. meanwhile there are warnings that the uk economy could shrink and ijust want to reassure people that if we take your family out, by around 14 % between now and june. we will love them like they're one of our own. thank you. the real heroes aren't used to the spotlight or curtain calls. hi there, i'm here with your latest they work behind the scenes. sports news. we start with the but tonight, once again, premier league captains helping they'll have our applause. emma vardy, bbc news. people on the front line of the nhs. there's been criticism from the government that they should be doing more during the pandemic and taking

a pay cut especially when some clubs and you can watch it on bbc one at have been for glowing staff. natalie pirks reports. —— furloughing. if eight o'clock. one man who i am sure will be applauding tonight is keith the football league with deep watson. he is 101 years old and this rivalries and players with deep is him giving the thumbs up to staff pockets. last night competition seized for one common goal. in a statement, the players initiatives in redditch where he has been that this is a critical time for our treated for coronavirus. he has country and for our nhs. recovered and is now heading home. great picture. time for a look at the weather. here's alina jenkins. another day where i'm going to tell you it has been the warmest day of the year so far. 24.4 celsius, compare that to scotland where we it's a brainchild ofjordan have had the wind off the cold north henderson. the amount donated will sea and much more cloud. overnight be anonymous and decided by each individual squad. i this pushes slowly northwards be anonymous and decided by each bringing outbreaks of rain into the individualsquad. i moved be anonymous and decided by each individual squad. i moved welcomed by other people merely accountants. northern highlands, not really it's the power of everyone coming amounting to much. a few breaks in the cloud behind that. it's a fairly together. it's one football club mild night for most of us, donating somewhere whether it's local or to the nhs, which is great particularly across scotland where

it was very chilly last night with but i think it shows we are united temperatures freezing. for good as one, really. this is a great opportunity for players to show how friday much of the same for england much the nhs means to us. and wales, more sunshine across north—east england but the chance of showers across northern england and scotland. much warmer across they have been healed —— football north—east england and scotland, have been feeling the heat. the most warmer still across a large swathe of england and wales with you can take a pay cut and play your temperatures getting up to 24 part. matt hancock tweeted he warmly celsius. even higher on saturday where we will see plenty of sunshine and high pollen levels across much welcomed this bighearted decision, but many feel now his focus should of england and wales, and northern move elsewhere. we see these boys ireland for a time. starting to turn cooler across scotland, northern ireland and northern england, but become millionaires, we see more still holding on to the warmth across much of england and wales. than change is afoot as we going to all of sport has been feeling the easter sunday, generating showers, particularly across england and heat. players have taken wage cuts wales. such is the nature of across the board. today, southampton showers, not everyone will see them became the first premier leave club but some thirsty gardens may get a to agree a deferral for the next drink on sunday afternoon. windy and

three months to ensure non—playing cooler across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. it staff receive their salaries. doesn't last for very much longer everything is changing. sports though, through easter monday the cold air spreads across all of the landscape perhaps forever. natalie pirks, bbc news. uk. it should be mainly dry on easter monday but it will be feeling the scottish football season has been pushed further back until the 10th ofjune much colder. at the earliest. thank you. the spfl season was halted on the 13th of march, and stopped a reminder of our top story... until the end of april. however, no football will be played police step up checks ahead of the for at least three months. member clubs are set to vote this easter weekend. the deaths of 881 week on ending the lower league season 110w. more people have been recorded in the last 24 hours. with the olympics postponed until next year, many sports have that's all from the bbc news at six. 00:03:33,175 --> 2147483051:38:31,302 on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s 2147483051:38:31,302 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 news teams where you are. had to revise their qualification for the games. british canoeing had already named its squad for the slalom events and has announced today that they won't be re—selecting the team. that's angered the olympic champion joe clarke who missed out on the squad and feels their should be fresh qualification for 2021. olly foster reports: this is a lockdown training regime ofa this is a lockdown training regime of a future olympian. bradley, like thousands about pleats around the world, trying to stay in shape. in

isolation. —— thousands of athletes. he secured his team gb spot over six months ago, but fear he might lose it after the game's postponement. british canoe teams a stick with their chosen teams. it's notjust been difficult for myself, for my family and friends, they're having to keep me together. this is something i've worked for for the last 15 years of my life. to be selected at the end of last summer was absolutely amazing. such a good feeling which i now feel like i'm feeling which i now feel like i'm feeling it again, but they really had to keep me confident and positive through this whole period. ‘s qualification was all the more impressive because he denied the olympic champion the chance to retain his title. joe clark won gold in rio and feels he should have been given a second chance to make the

team. all his tokyo training may now be in vain. but he might look to challenge the british canoeing decision to honour their initial selection. i really don't understand to be honest. it's such a long time until the 2021 olympics and so much can change. it might not necessarily be me who get selection but the best person will be chosen. if it's the same person, it's the same person. at the end of the day, you can all compete in sports to be the best and put yourself under the start line to test your skills. we're all highly competitive people. we want to be out there waiting, but for me with everything going on itjust felt like few people are trying to capitalise on these unfortunate events. these are turbulent times for everyone. elite athletes need to see a finishing line. the target of

tokyo will be on a more distant horizon now. olly foster, bbc news. at 8 o'clock tonight there's another opportunity to clap for carers, as people show support for the nhs, and to mark the moment the turf at twickenham rugby stadium has been changed to a message of support, with the rfu's chief executive bill sweeney saying — there are no crowds at the home of rugby right now but the sound of a nation appaulding is as loud as any rugby crowd. we pay tribute to all our nhs heroes. there's more on the bbc sport at awe website. that's all from sportsday. we'll see you again soon. hello, you're watching bbc news. foreign secretary has said that the uk must continue with a strategy for tackling the coronavirus and it's too early to ease movement restrictions which have been in place for nearly three weeks. dominic raab has been chairing a cobra meeting involving the

government ‘s of wales and scotland indicating they will continue restrictions beyond next week. the foreign secretary also led today's government news we think. let's recap what was said. a number of people in the uk reported to have died from coronavirus in the last day is 881. that brings the total number in the uk to almost 8000 heat. more number in the uk to almost 8000 more data is being gathered on the impact of social distancing. he added it was too early to lift the lock sound receptions and said we are not done yet, we must keep going he gave an update on the health of the prime minister where he has been treated for coronavirus. he said the prime minister is making positive steps forward since being admitted to hospital on sunday evening and he

remained in good spirit. let's have a listen to what the foreign secretary had to say about the lockdown measures in place. secretary had to say about the lockdown measures in placeli secretary had to say about the lockdown measures in place. i know some people will start wondering is it time to ease up on the rules? i have to say thank you for your sacrifice, but also we're not done yet. we must keep going. let mejust explain a little bit about why that's so important. today, i chaired a cobra meeting with senior ministers, officials and representatives from scotland, wales, northern ireland as well as the mayor of london so we could take steps where we are right across the united kingdom. at this stage the government is gathering the relevant data to attain the effects that we put in place. while the early signs suggest we are having the impact we need to see, it's too early to say that conclusively. we will keep the

measures we put in place under review. as we said, on many occasions now, we will be guided by the science at all times. we don't expect to say more on this until next week. let me just beat again very clear. the measures will have to stay in place until we got the evidence that the ratios we move beyond the peak. the foreign secretary speaking a little earlier at the downing street briefing. the all the armour society has written to matt hancock calling for more action to stop the spread of covid—19 and care homes. —— alzheimer's society. yesterday 50 residents died in a care home after an outbreak of coronavirus. around 70% of the 400,000 residents of care homes show problem when staff can't

get the equipment they need and patient can't be tested for the virus. let's speak to the chief executive of emma ha, the largest charity care provider in the uk. —— mha. telus first of all what are the together challenges predict the map presented by dementia patients in respect to covid—19? presented by dementia patients in respect to covid-19? thanks for having me on, rita. the challenges relate to the anxiety and confusion that people living with dementia already experience, i think we can appreciate that with the additional safety a nd appreciate that with the additional safety and additional isolation issues that are necessary with covid—19, that increases that sense of anxiety and worry. there's another challenge as well in terms of the fact that quite a number of people living with dementia will also do what's called purposeful wondering, which is where they will attract some routes they will walk

around and if you're trying to isolate, it's very difficult to do that. the challenge at all of this —— the heart of all this is testing the equipment, because if we have those we can better identify which residents were actually suffering from the virus. which warrant, and then you can deploy your staff are more effectively. if you're able to have testing for our staff, we would then be able to have more of our staff back in work because at the moment, or mha, we are running 10% with our staff off self isolating and that is replicated across the ca re and that is replicated across the care home sector. and must be very bewildering for dementia patients to make some sense of what's going on. how would you say that your care homes are coping at the moment, given the lack of what you've seen? it's a stretch. we're very fortu nate, it's a stretch. we're very fortunate, we have specialists staff

within our homes, like activity coordinators and therapists who are working to keep day—to—day life as normal as possible. we issued special guidance to support our staff to do this and we have surgery once a week with our dementia patients —— it comes back to then having the right protective equipment to manage these cases effectively and what we found over recent weeks as there hasn't been either an adequate or consistent supply, either an adequate or consistent supply, so we had to put in place a tea m supply, so we had to put in place a team to be constantly moving two moving supplies and seeking supplies, not only from governments but other provider. what messages have you had from government about an increase in supply? particularly about protective equipment. we have been representing to the government throughout this that the supply is inadequate and inconsistent. we know that they are working on the supply to chain, but the details aren't yet

fully clear. we are also petitioning the government in relation to testing and i think it's somewhat disingenuous that the government have not to this point, although they said testing has been going on and care homes, it was only two days ago we had the first contact from a local authority saying there be testing available in the area for social care staff from our home. we are going to have to leave it there. thank you so much for talking to us. that's sam monahan, ceo of mha, a large charity provider. the foreign secretary has said that the uk must continue with its social distancing strategy for tackling the coronavirus and it's just too early to ease movement restrictions, which have been in place for nearly three weeks. we can speak now to the shadow health secretaryjonathan ashworth. we been listening to the foreign secretary, what did you make

of what he talked about in terms of the lockdown and the inability at the lockdown and the inability at the moment to ease the restrictions? we understand why the lockdown how to continue, because it's so, so important that we delay the spread of this virus. it's about saving lives and protecting the nhs, making sure the nhs has the capacity they are to treat people if they get the virus. so if the government decides next week that it has to continue with the lockdown, and that is based on clear medical advice, then of course, we will support it. but i do think the british public who are showing tremendous resolve in following the guidelines who are at this weekend will have to make sacrifices, i think the british public need that clarity and transparency from government about what the next steps are in the strategy and about what the future looks like. many fear we could be an aversion of a lockdown for some time

to come, so we need some further clarity on government —— from government on that. are you talking about a timetable or are you talking about a timetable or are you talking about measures that might be used once a lockdown eases?” about measures that might be used once a lockdown eases? i think it's a combination of both. i think we need to understand what happens next in government strategy. i, for example, would recommend government that they really look at expanding the testing in the community and to expand what's called contact tracing. if an individual thinks they been in contact with someone with a virus, the individual is traced and told isolate as well. south korea and germany are doing that, they're ramping up their testing. we aren't to so much yet. it's just level with the public about where we think we're going nextin about where we think we're going next in terms of axing this lockdown and what the strategy is going forward. when you asked people to adjust their behaviour because of an

epidemic, you need to be clear with people every step of the way. is there not, can you not understand a natural reluctance in ministers to not want to go into details about the next level, about the next step in the strategy? because they don't actually yet know when the lockdown is likely to be eased. actually yet know when the lockdown is likely to be easedlj actually yet know when the lockdown is likely to be eased. i think people would understand that, but we just need the clarity, that's the reason why ministers are holding back. but i making these points not as any point of criticism. i'm just making these points as a suggestion that i think the british public would appreciate the greater clarity because we been in this lockdown or well have been in this lockdown for three weeks. i am nothing but praise for how the british public are handling this and the way i look services have responded, but i think in order to keep people in this lockdown, which i think we probably will have to do to continue to get

in control of the virus, then people just need to know the facts and have a greater understanding of what happens next. ijust wanted to ask you about your point that we need much more testing. this is the point that has been made up by many people, politicians and non—politicians. the fact is we can only test as many people as we have test and we don't have enough test yet. that's absolutely right. that's why we were called on to look up ways of expanding testing. that's what germany was doing. last week, matt hancock said we would have 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month and we will start using industry and the parties across the country so we welcome that. we're still not seeing the progress we would like. —— progress across the country. it's by precise community testing across the country, so let's

use this time of the locks down to get that testing capability and play. do you think that not being quick enough about testing, ordering test, would you lay some blame on that at the government or public health england? because it has been suggested that it's that organisation that was slow, rather than minister. if you read the newspapers, there's all kind of speculation about whose fault it is. at some point, ministers will have to explain why we do these test —— don't do these test as quickly as other countries. we got to get through this. we have the national effort. one of the most important tools is expanding community testing and tracing, and i'm really looking for a national strategy from the government on that one. very good to talk to you, jonathan ashworth. thank you so much. this pandemic is

taking a terrible toll on people suffering from other illnesses. among them are people who desperately need organ transplants, many of whom have been waiting for a long time. the uk's organ transplant network it said it could be forced to close. there's a lack of intensive care beds and a much greater risk of transplant patients if they catch the virus. we can speak to the chief executive of the british liver trust, pamela. this is a very difficult state of affairs for people who are waiting for an organ transplant. just talk us through some medicine behind it. why is there a greater risk for patients if they catch covid—19?|j is there a greater risk for patients if they catch covid-19? i think the transplant patients are very vulnerable, very vulnerable indeed, and that is because they are

suppressed and therefore they cannot afford to get coronavirus. so it is, they are very high risk. at the moment, there a very strong case, not having transplants because there isa not having transplants because there is a balance of risk between having a transplant in a normal circumstance, or were they may get the virus which will would make it even worse. most people on the list, it's safer for them to wait, and that's why we at the british liver trust are so keen that people take government advice and they stay at home. do you have any sense of how

many people this affects? how many people are having to put their transplants on hold ? people are having to put their transplants on hold? well, i think on the transplant list, it's a very difficult time because you're always waiting for the right donor to come along and you never know when that will be. so it is a very difficult life when you're waiting on a transplant list. some people die on the list because the right donor hasn't come along and so having lust transplants because it's not safe necessarily to do toe means there is a possibility that more people will die. —— less transplants. a possibility that more people will die. -- less transplants. there are fewer people who are able to donate? i think what allows... the level of

donors at the moment has been changed so you therefore —— and therefore there are fewer donors. obviously you're not able to donate if you passed away because of coronavirus. there are fewer donors and you have to be so... it's such advanced clinical medicine that it is very difficult and the best thing we can do, we hope this pandemic passes quickly. we hope everybody ta kes passes quickly. we hope everybody takes the right route and say that home, which allows the nhs to deal with the pandemic because they absolutely have to, which will save lives in the immediate term, but also allow the nhs to get back to normal in due course to help more transplant patients. 0k. we're not going to have to leave it there. thank you so much for talking to us. pamela healy there. time now for a look at the weather. here's alina

jenkins. west sussex saw the warren state of the year the today. the warmest day so farfor wales, but the year the today. the warmest day so far for wales, but across northeast england and scotland, it's been colder and cloudier with the wind off the north sea and this frontal system generating much more cloud. overnight, it pushes its way northwards, bringing some patty, light rain to the far north of scotla nd light rain to the far north of scotland in the northern idols. not really amounting to much. some brea ks really amounting to much. some breaks across scotland, northern england and northern ireland. for many, not much lower than seven or eight celsius but five or six across scotland. most of the uk is mostly dry on friday, but heavy showers developing across the far north of england and scotland later in the day. still very warm across england and wales, a much warmer day for the

sick scotland with a bit more sunshine and a change in wind direction. on saturday, more sunshine, more wards. a cloud developing across parts of northern ireland, northern and western scotland, may be a bit of patchy rain across the western aisles later in the day. starting this turns —— starting just turns cooler. through easter sunday, and atlantic system pushing in from the west. likely to generate some showers on easter sunday, this time across england and wales. not everyone will see them but they could bring quite a bit of

rain. cloudier and windier across scotla nd rain. cloudier and windier across scotland and northern ireland and northern england. parts of east anglia and southeast england where we will miss the showers. notice what it does to the bars. a real squeeze in those bars so some stronger winds developing on monday. we lose the warmer air we've been seeing recently. some outbreaks of 00:25:23,358 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 rain on monday, that will clear.