this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the uk is expected to reach more than ten thousand today a leading scientific adviser warns there could be worse to come and the government should have acted earlier. the uk is likely to he certainly one of the worst if not the worst affected country in europe. the uk parliament remains on course to return on april the 21st a date agreed by mps before the easter recess with mps likely to attend virtually: spain's daily death toll from the coronavirus rises to 619, having falling for three straight days. the us overtakes italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world more

than 20,000 people have now died. in his easter message pope francis has delivered a prayer for those killed and suffering from coronavirus, that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide. and the legendary british motor racing driver, sir stirling moss, has died aged 90. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we are covering all of the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. in the past hour, the european death toll has gone past 75,000 with spain announcing the latest casualties. the number of dead there has risen

by 619 in the past 2a hours taking the total number of deaths to 16,972. here in the uk one —— here one of the government's leading scientific advisers has warned the uk is likely to be one of the worst, if not the worst, affected countries in europe by the coronavirus pandemic. it comes as uk dates are expected to pass 10,000 today. we will find that the figures later this afternoon. jacob rees—mogg has said that parliament will return on april the zist parliament will return on april the 21st to fulfil its essential constitutional functions. 21st to fulfil its essential constitutionalfunctions. it 21st to fulfil its essential constitutional functions. it is expected to reconvene using technology rather than in the usual way. elsewhere the us death toll overta kes way. elsewhere the us death toll overtakes attlee as the highest in the world, more than 20,000 people have died. the leader of the roman catholic church pope francis has urged people not to yield to fear over the virus. 0urfirst urged people not to yield to fear over the virus. our first report this hour is from simonjones.

tributes to the latest nhs workers to die after contracting coronavirus. nurse gareth roberts, described as "a kind and helpful person" by the cardiff and vale health board. sara trollope, seen here with the prime minister, a nurse said to have a total determination to get things right for her patients at hillingdon hospital. the health secretary, matt hancock, said yesterday that 19 nhs workers had lost their lives, and now another chief executive has had to break bad news to his staff. i had to share the news of the sudden death of one of our own. a much—loved member of our nursing team, julie 0mar. the government says it's looking into how nhs staff had become infected, but it's facing growing pressure to ensure that front line workers have all the personal protective equipment they need. i'm sorry if people feel that there have been failings — i'll be very, very clear about that — but at the same time, we are in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now. it is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on ppe

and the demand for ppe are going to be exponential, they're going to be incredibly high and, of course, we are trying to address that as a government. thanks, nhs, thank you. facing his own challenge, the prime minister. recovering at st thomas' hospital in london, he's paid tribute to nhs medics for pulling him through, saying "i cannot thank them enough. i owe them my life." simon jones, bbc news. earlier i spoke to our political correspondentjessica parker and asked her about comments from a government advisor that the pm and ministers should have acted sooner on coronavirus... this is sirjeremy farrar and he is on the sage committee as it is known, this key scientific committee which advises the government on its approach to tackling coronavirus, it has a number of scientists on it. the government has consistently said it takes a science led approach and listens carefully. as you say, in the interview on andrew marr, he said it was clear

it was going to be a global phenomena, but the speed and the pace could not have necessarily been predicted. sirjeremy farrar is also director of the welcome trust and he was also asked whether the uk was headed for the worst death rate in europe. the numbers in the uk have continued to go up and i do hope that we are coming close to the number of new infections reducing and in a week or two the number of people needing hospital reducing and tragically in a couple of weeks' time, the number of deaths reaching a plateau and coming down. yes, the uk is likely to be certainly one of the worst, if not the worst affected country in europe. sirjeremy farrar. how has the government responded? also on the andrew marr show this morning was alok sharma. he was talking about personal protective equipment this morning.

he says there clearly is a need for more ppe and he accepted there has been a challenge. we have been talking about that quite a lot over the last few days, these consistent reports that front line workers, nhs workers and social care workers are not necessarily getting all the gowns, gloves and masks that they need in order to tackle this virus and stay safe. on this claim that the uk could be one of the worst affected, if not the worst affected, this is what he had to say. i certainly regret that people have lost lives throughout this process but as i said, this is a global pandemic and different countries have adopted in different ways, based on their health systems and other parameters that they have in their countries. but we have followed the medical and scientific advice. we are seeing a flattening but we need to wait until we are past the peak before we start to look at issues such as lifting any guidelines

or restrictions that we have in asking people to stay at home. the business secretary there. we know that the intention certainly is for parliament to return, as planned on april the 21st. that is right, parliament was due to return then and there were some doubts because it was not like you would see all mps returning and sitting in that quite small chamber for obvious reasons, but today sir keir starmer, the new labour leader said parliament does need to be recalled in some way and the leader of the house of commons has said it will happen but they are looking at technological solutions and i am not sure what you will see, they are still working it out, whether it will be a mix of video conferencing and maybe a small number of people in the chamber. i think we will find out more in the coming week, but sir keir starmer was also interviewed on sky and he was asked what he made of the government response so far and whether the government is taking the right steps at the right time and he said the figures have been alarming.

what we all want, the whole country wants and the labour party wants and the government wants, is to see that figure flatten and hopefully start going down, the figure for hospital admissions, the tragic death figures, we want to see them going down and whatever measures are necessary now for the government to take, whether it is increasing capacity in the nhs or lockdown, to get those figures down, we will support it. of course there will be questions in due course about what happened when, but the most important thing is we do have that unity of purpose, which is to try and get those figures down and we will support the government in that. we will ask challenging questions, difficult questions about where we go next, what has happened in the past, but i think the whole nation desperately wants those figures to go down. some of the things that he says the government needs to be scrutinised, such as ppe which ijust mentioned. the government has said that millions of items of ppe have been sent to front line

staff across the uk, they have acknowledged there are supply challenges but particularly distribution challenges. another thing that keir starmer said he wants transparency on is the exit strategy, how is the uk going to get out of this lockdown process? we know a strategy is being worked on but ministers want to focus minds on just sticking to the social distancing measures at the moment. there are also a number of powers which you would imagine would be temporary powers, such as those that the police have been given. they should not be necessary after the pandemic has ended, but there has got to be some way of getting them off the statute books. the emergency legislation that was brought in by the government to allow them quite wide—ranging powers to deal with this unprecedented situation, they did have a sunset clause of two years, but the labour party, under the leadership ofjeremy corbyn pushed for a vote for every six months to look

at the powers and see if they were still right to be in place. that is what the government agreed to and there is a clause where these powers will be reviewed every six months by parliament and i think opposition parties would say that is another reason why it is important that mps are sitting in one form or another. jessica parker, thank you very much. spain's daily death toll from the coronavirus rose to 619 on sunday, after falling for three straight days, the government said. the country, one of the worst hit by the pandemic, has now recorded 16,972 deaths from covid—19. the number of confirmed cases rose by 11,167 to 166,019, although health chiefs say the pandemic has peaked, they have urged the population to strictly follow a national lockdown which was put in place on march 1a in order to slow the spread of the virus. the restrictions will remain until april it went for the other the government has said it expects to

announce another further to week extension. masks will be handed out at railway and metro stations for monday are some companies reopen after what has been called a two—week hibernation period. the united states has now overtaken italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world. more than 20,000 people in the country have died. new york state has become the centre of the outbreak, accounting for around half of those deaths. the state's governor andrew cuomo described the figures as ‘horrific‘ but pointed to a stabilisation in the number of new deaths. the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. the number of hospitalisations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau, which is what many of the models predicted, that it wasn't going to be a straight up and straight down, it was going to be a straight up, you hit the top number and your plateau for a period of time. that looks like what we are doing. the country's most senior disease experts say federal social distancing measures are slowing

the spread of the virus and must not be lifted prematurely. but on friday president donald trump said he wanted to get the economy moving again after it was revealed that 16 million americans had lost theirjobs in recent weeks. mr trump announced a new council of advisers to help him decide when to relax social distancing measures. i don't know that i've had a bigger decision than that, when you think, right? think of that decision, somebody said it's totally up to the president. this morning, it's totally up, and it is. i don't know that i've had a bigger decision. but i'm going to surround myself with the greatest minds, not only the greatest minds, but the greatest minds in numerous different businesses, including the business of politics and reason. and we're going to make a decision and hopefully it's going to be the right decision. i will say this, i want to get it open as soon as we can. we have to get our country open, jeff. let's take a look at some more stories making the news around the world...

russia has reported the largest daily increase in new coronavirus cases since the start of the outbreak. two thousand one hundred and eighty six were confirmed infected with covid—19 in the last 2a hours. a total of one hundred and thirty people have now died from the virus. dutch security officials have reported a surge in attacks on mobile phone masts blaming extremist protesters who are against the roll out of 5g networks. 0fficals say the damage could hinder calls to emergency services. attacks on 5g masts have increased after conspiracy theories emerged falsely linking coronavirus symptoms with the technology. at a meeting of its ruling party the north korean leadership called for stricter measures to counter the spread of covid nineteen. pyongyang has already closed its border with china and further restricted the movement of people and goods. north korea has not admitted to any cases of the virus.

the french government has called for an army of workers to help in the field in the weeks ahead to meet labour shortages caused by the coronavirus. around a third of a million season farm workers come to france every year, mainly from eastern and southern europe and north africa. but because of travel restrictions, there are fears make many crops may go unpicked. for farmers, forfarmers, life goes on, crops cannot wait to be sown or planted or picked, the nation still has to be fed. the question is, in the time of coronavirus, who is going to do all that work. some growers have seen business boom. this organic nursery has suddenly found scores of new customers who want to produce delivered to their doors during the quarantine. more staff are needed

badly. translation: we have the good fortune to have a website and as a result our online sales have shot up. demand is 4096 more than usual and that means a lot of extra work on the sale side, which means we need to take on people in the production side. but the seasonal workers from abroad who normally help with the harvests, like the asparagus harvest right now getting under way, because of the virus, they are not coming. and so the french government has teamed up with afarming french government has teamed up with a farming website to launch an appeal. people from the towns, temporarily out of work, are urged to come to the field to help and already 200,000 have signed up. translation: quite honestly, if no one comes to work in the forms, then in the weeks ahead we will be facing real supply problems for certain produce. it is already what has happened in italy who are few weeks ahead of us. there won't be zero production, but shortages. one man who has answered the call is this

man, a computer worker. he was put in charge with the grower of hobbs who needs labour because of the absence of his regular migrant staff from eastern europe. translation: i don't see myself as a soldier. more as someone who really wants to help in this terribly difficult time. i think farming is another profession, so if there is a lack of manpower, i want to play my part. spring has come to france now and the growing season is under way, very soon and the growing season is under way, very soon the need for farm labour will be intense. if the migrant workers continue to stay away, france may have no other option but its army of city pickers. you scoville, bbc news, in central france. doctors and nurses on the front line of the uk's coronavirus pandemic are at risk of developing anxiety, burn—out, or even post—traumatic stress disorder as a consequence

of their experiences in the country's hospitals according to the british psychological society. experts fear that they're exposure to things the general population would never encounter loss of patients, illness of colleagues, high levels of stress in addition to increased exposure to the virus itself could contribute to mental health problems further down the line. let's speak now to andrew molodynski a consultant psychiatrist who leads on mental health policy at the british medical association. thank you very much forjoining us. of course seeing death in hospital and in care homes is sadly an everyday occurrence for health care workers, why is this so much different! firstly thank you for having me on to talk about this and you're absolutely right, doctors, nurses, social care workers, police officers, it goes with the territory, unfortunately, that we do see people and help people through their final see people and help people through theirfinal moments see people and help people through their final moments and ultimately see them die. what is different at

the moment is the scale and the pace of this trauma and also that it is happening amongst people who would not normally be dying, which is very different. that is different to nursing people who we know are approaching the end of their lives, this condition is sudden and for the vast majority of us, relatively harmless, but in the front line, in hospitals and in social care settings, it is very far from harmless and it is difficult to change its course. so many health workers are immensely dedicated to the patients they are supporting. how will they know that they are not coping. sadly they may not know until this is over or in the maintenance phase, so i have worked on the nhs for 25 years now and the teams in the nhs are generally speaking amazing and will seek support from each other to get through this. they will deal with the intense anxiety, the anxiety of cats unit themselves, the anxiety of

friends and colleagues catching it, the anxiety that we all have of taking it home and also witnessing and trying to deal with the almost apocalyptic scale in some units of what is happening. we may not realise that until after it has finished and our concern is that there will be a vast number of front line workers who are going to require some kind of medical and psychological help and support as we go through this and come out the other side. government ministers say there is a helpline people can call if they are feeling stressed but we are not just if they are feeling stressed but we are notjust talking about doctors and nurses, there are a care home staff, people who work in mortars, clea ners staff, people who work in mortars, cleaners as well, what sort of support ideally should they be getting? absolutely, there is a whole wealth of less talked about workers in the nhs and in social care, firefighters and police and the numbers are vast, a helpline is great, it is certainly a start, but i think what we need to be doing, reasonably urgently, is making

provision for the mass treatment of people with trauma symptoms. we already have systems to deliver therapy, but at the best of times, those are enormously stretched and have long waits, so we need to make provision now for the extra number of people who are coming, to give them treatment without them having to wait for months or even years for it. fascinating to talk to you, thank you so much for giving us your time today. thank you very much. the british motor racing driver, sir stirling moss, has died at the age of 90. sir stirling was widely known as ‘the greatest driver to never to win the world championship'. katie gornall, reflects on his life. he was described as the greatest driver never to win the world championship. but he was one of the most talented men ever to sit behind the wheel. racing ran in the family. his father alfred had raced in the 1920s and his mother competed in hill climb events. he won the british grand prix

in 1955 and finished second in the world championships. he also won the gruelling thousand mile italian race, shattering the previous record time. in 1957 he raced in a new british car and once more he won his home grand prix but once more the championship eluded him. for the third year running he finished behind the argentine ace fangio. the prize slipped from his grasp again in 1958 at the moroccan grand prix. despite winning the race, he lost the crown to mike hawthorne byjust one point. he won at monaco again in 1961 but his lotus was no match for the all conquering ferraris. it was to be his last full season. in april 1962 his lotus slewed off the track at goodwood at 120 mph. he suffered multiple injuries and was unconscious for four weeks. his racing days were over.

stirling moss, good morning. he received a knighthood in 2000, with his name still indelibly linked to the sport. i would not swap my era for now even though i would be better off, i am fascinated by what they are doing. technically it is amazing. it is not quite what it was. in 2010 he survived a fall down a lift shaft at his home but he was back behind the wheel within months and at the age of 85, he took lewis hamilton for a spin. his competitive spirit never fading. he was a gifted driver whose preference for unreliable british cars probably cost him his championship. but he had no regrets. a reflection on the life of sir stirling moss who has died at the age of 90. jenny gow joints now, legend is an overworked word, why is

it so appropriate for stirling moss? i suppose if you look at any sport, they have their own cornerstones and he was definitely the cornerstone of formula 1 motor sport. he wasjust he was definitely the cornerstone of formula 1 motor sport. he was just a phenomenal talent and a very gentle man as well as being hugely fun. mercedes, who he started driving fourin mercedes, who he started driving four in 1955 issued a very short statement on social media saying that today the sporting world lost not only a true icon and a legend, but a gentle man. the team and the mercedes motorsport family have lost a dearfriend, sir stirling we will miss you. i think that sums up the feeling of everyone in motorsport or any sport who had respect for sir stirling. i was reading about how he famously lost out in the 41 title in 1958 effectively because he had been almost too sportsmanlike for his own good towards his rival mike hawthorn. they were great friends and there was a lot of friendship in

formula 1 at that time because mortality rate was so high. people got on with each other because she did not know if you are going to come back from a race or not. yes, mike hawthorn and he basically went to the stewards and set actually i don't think he should be disqualified and in his own history and gentlemanly rivalry with mike handed him the championship and did not win himself. everyone recognises, he should have won many championships are never dead. how many other people must he have inspired? drivers who have also managed to get to the top of the sport, british and foreign? he was quite critical of michael schumacher at times which seems incredulous, because almost nobody is or was, but he had so many fans in the paddock because he spoke his mind, as did so many of his generation. just a few yea rs many of his generation. just a few years ago, he and lewis hamilton spent time together as you saw at

the obituary package, driving around silverstone. he was really one of those people who was the life and soul of formula 1. he stepped away from public life a few years ago and the paddock was a slightly sadder place for it and i think the passing of legends of the sport, like himself and nicky louder last may, it isa himself and nicky louder last may, it is a time when we have to reflect, it is amazing that they made it to this age, but it is sad for the sport and greater public that they are —— back with his greater names are now disappearing. thank you forjoining us. questions around the world a re —— the focal for an —— the focalfor an immediate ceasefire and global conflicts. if a few hours he will go on to deliver

an easter message from his private library instead of addressing the crowds that usually fill that beautiful basilica, st peter's square in city. this is biggest —— this is bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather... hello still some very warm and sunny weather around but the chill has reached scotland and northern ireland and in fact easter monday for all of us is going to be quite a bit colder, that temperature is going to drop like a stone by more than 10 degrees in some areas. 0n the satellite picture, see with the clouds are coming from, straight out of the north, out of the no regency, so—called scandinavian air will be spreading across the uk. this is what it looks like as far as the temperature goes, at apm, five in aberdeen, 21 in london, a huge temperature contrast. where we have

the weather front moving through, there could be showers and thunderstorms through the evening across parts of wales in the midlands. you can see the arrow is coming in from the north, cold air from the north, a frost in scotland first thing on monday, still around 9 degrees across the south. you will definitely notice the chilly wind on monday, particularly on the north sea coast, the coast around east anglia, the south—east of england, and also the channel coast as well. you can see those blue colours, knobbly air spreading into parts of europe as well. it is notjust us thatis europe as well. it is notjust us that is cooling down, other parts of the continent as well. here is monday, a chilly northerly wind with occasional areas of cloud, perhaps overcast in places, the winds, these are the average wind speeds on the arrows here, if you double them, you get gas, gusts in excess of 30, perhaps even if two miles per hour,. look at that temperature, from 25 on sunday in london down to 12 degrees, a huge drop in the space of a day.

here is tuesday, high pressure is over us here is tuesday, high pressure is over us and there will be plenty of sunshine around and of course the sunshine around and of course the sun is strong, so it does not feel that cold, if you're out and about, but it is still going to be quite a bit colder compared to recent days. you can see around 13 degrees air across you can see around 13 degrees air a cross m ost you can see around 13 degrees air across most parts of the uk. that is on tuesday. the high pressure is still with us tuesday into wednesday, there will be some overnight frosts as well and high pressure basically means dry weather conditions, so as far as the eye can see, the weather is going to remain chilly but at least dry and with the end of the way, perhaps those temperatures picking up a little bit across some parts of the uk. goodbye.

this is bbc news, the headlines... as the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the uk is expected to reach more than 10,000 today a leading scientific adviser warns there could be worse to come and the government should have acted earlier. the uk is likely to be certainly one of the worst if not the worst affected country in europe. on april the 21st — a date the uk parliament remains on course to return on april the 21st — a date agreed by mps before the easter recess with mps likely to attend virtually: spain's daily death toll from the coronavirus rises to 619, having falling for three straight days. the us overtakes italy to have the highest death toll from coronavirus in the world — more than 20,000 people have now died.