this is my office and this is where i've been sleeping for the past couple of weeks. the chairman, 28—year—old edward bell, has taken to sleeping here, even spending his own money to ensure people receive help. very young guy involved in this. what's the motivation for you? well, i've always absolutely adored the older generation. i had a lot of elderly great uncles and my grandparents meant the absolute world. and to see clients that we see, it brings it all back to me, because sadly they've all passed, so it's important that we help them, because they can't help themselves. this food parcel, the third the charity has delivered to the close in two days, is for 83—year—old ron kant. his bowls games have been cancelled. he doesn't use the internet, so he's trying to create his own entertainment. boring. boring, to be honest with you.

i go into the garden and mess about in the garden and do two or three things to keep me occupied. and how can i say it, i've got a shoot, what i do, with guns and things like that, pellet guns, and i put the box outside in the garden and have a practice out there, so... he laughs practice with pellet guns? i've been in the army, so... the area is known locally as god's waiting ground. almost 40% of the population is over 65, one of the highest proportions in europe. many of the people on the close have lost their husbands or wives, but for one resident, the lockdown has led to her partner moving in. since this started, i said, you either stay in your home alone for a few months or you can stay here, and he stayed here. how are you getting on? lovely! you know, we help each other. we got things in the garden he can do that i couldn't

do, i can't lift. a kind word, a friendly wave, and a gracious gesture are all helping the close to cope. but like us all, the residents want their freedom back. just because you've lived your life doesn't mean you don't have a life to live. michael buchanan, bbc news, holland—on—sea in essex. some of the biggest names in music have joined forces in a globally televised concert to celebrate healthcare workers. lady gaga, sir paul mccartney and billie eilish were among those who performed songs from their homes. the rolling stones even managed to play from four separate locations. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson was watching. # when i saw her today at the reception # a glass of wine in her hand... one world together at home has already been dubbed the living room live aid. the rolling stones filmed their parts individually on mobile phones. # so i went down to

the demonstration... charlie watts clearly didn't have a proper drum kit to hand. there was a beatle via broadband. sir paul mccartney. let's tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the health care systems all around the world. so that a crisis like this never happens again. # i'm still standing betterthan i everdid... and sir eltonjohn‘s piano had been wheeled into the garden. # smile though your heart is breaking. # smile, even though it's aching... the event was curated by lady gaga, who opened the show with a charlie chaplin classic. # sunny, you smiled at me...

# sunny, you smiled at me and relieve the pain billie eilish played a cover of the 19605 standard sunny. while taylor swift showed off some very natty wallpaper. a uk version will be shown on bbc one tonight, with extra british performances. calling it the wi—fi woodstock might be a bit of a stretch, but there won't be many more occasions when one of the beatles and the rolling stones appear on the same bill. colin paterson, bbc news, the living room. and you can see a lot more of that in a special programme, one world: together at home,

on bbc one this evening at a 7.15. we're back with the news at ten. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hi, your sports news. we start in italy, where players and coaching staff at a.s. rome have agreed to go without their salary for four months to help the club to be the financial crisis caused by coronavirus. in a statement, they say the players will forgo the wages they were due to receive between march and the scheduled end of the season injune and the players will top up the wages of other club employees that have been placed on the italian government social safety net scheme to ensure they receive their regular monthly income. there are fears over

the longterm impact of covid—i9 on women's football. the world players‘ union fifpro is warning that investments in the women's game may stall. but england and manchester city's jill scott's been telling us she believes there's still lots to be positive about. with the domestic season on hold, she's been speaking to jane dougall about the sport, and also showing off some unique talents. i decided i need to up my game and i had been hitting the weights! lots of footballers have been entertaining fans and themselves while on lockdown. jill scott's team, manchester city, hasn't had a match since february but it is understood when safe, the fa is considering completing the women's super league season at st george's park over the course ofjust six weeks. if its a lot of games in a week, that is two games less, i don't know how well that would go for me. if that's the right thing to do, first, everybody‘s safety, stopping this cruel disease is the

main focus. so as long as it was safe and all good to go, then i'm sure people would welcome that. england were scheduled to host the women's euros with the final in wembley in august 2021, now with the postponed olympics expected to take place next summer and the man's euros, that seems unlikely. the world players union is concerned that the postponement of leagues and major tournaments because of the pandemic could heavily impact on the women's game. yes, i think it is a worrying time for everyone and at the same time, we have to try and focus on the positives. we know that the olympics has been moved and that could look like an exciting three year period for the women's game. you would have the olympics and the home euros and the world cup as well, so hopefully we can get through it. we'll need to pull together we will have to see what damage has been done. the england midfielder is developing new skills during lockdown. her mother works at sunderland hospital and that has inspired her to write a poem about

the crisis. nhs workers, give them the crisis. nhs workers, give them the help they deserve. running on empty, not leaving anything in reserve. they our heroes and we shouldn't wait to recognise the great work and really appreciate. perhaps another career to fall back on when she retires from football! next to the us — where the only woman who's head coach of a men's basketball college team says she's relishing her new role at mesabi range college in virginia, minnesota. tamara moore played in the wnba for seven different teams between 2002 to 2007, and has been telling us she believes her wealth of experience gives her a great chance to succeed. they know that i've been to all of the steps that they want to go, whether that be drafted, i've been cut, i've been traded, i've been a starter, a nonstarter. i played internationally. so it's like i don't care if you're a woman, you've

been on the journey and they want me to help reach them. and finally — millions across the world have been showing their appreciation for healthcare workers in different ways. and now footballers like david beckham and marta have been paying their own tribute. the former england captain, real madrid's sergio ramos and several other stars have all been applauding the efforts of those working in healthcare across the world. it's part of a fifa campaign called "we will win." a total of 50 players joining in this one — past and present. great stuff. that is all your sport for now. goodbye. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments, both here and globally. first, the number of coronavirus deaths reported by uk hospitals has risen by nearly 600 since

yesterday, taking the total tojust over 16,000. it's the smallest daily increase in nearly two weeks, but figures published on sundays have tended to be lower. a delivery of vital protective equipment for healthcare workers to the uk has been delayed. the government said it was working to ensure the shipment from turkey — which includes 400,000 gowns — would reach frontline staff in the coming days. the education secretary has said he cannot give a date for when schools in england might re—open and argued that maintaining lockdown was the best way to save lives. it reports news on a sunday newspaper the government might open them in may. and the government has defended the prime minister's leadership as ‘focused and determined' following reports borisjohnson missed several emergency meetings on coronavirus in the buildup to the crisis. elsewhere, south korea has reported just eight new cases of coronavirus in 2a hours. the country had a major outbreak

in february, but has managed to control it with aggressive testing and tracing measures. restrictions on social gatherings will now be eased. frontline workers in india have told the bbc that they don't know the trule scale of the coronavirus outbreak, as the country is not carrying out sufficient testing. and new york's governor, andrew cuomo, says the coronavirus outbreak there is ‘on the descent.‘ new york is the epicentre of the epidemic in the united states. let‘s hear first about what mr williamson at the downing st briefing had to say about the issue of personal protective equipment for health staff, when he was asked by the bbc‘s health editor hugh pym why more wasn‘t done to stock up beforehand. well, what we‘ve seen, what we‘ve seen over the last few

months is an enormous effort — it‘s a national effort, but it‘s also an international effort to secure ppe from right around the globe. but we‘ve seen so many brilliant british businesses repurpose themselves in order to be able to provide it. and we‘ve seen many educational settings also being able to do it. but the government, from the first moment we were in a situation where the scientific advice was highlighting to us that we were facing a real challenge in terms of the coronavirus and this could potentially evolve into a pandemic, every resource of government has been deployed to notjust expanding what we need in terms of ppe, but also ventilators. and we‘ve seen a massive growth in the number of ventilators that we have available in our hospitals, and keep adding and building to the stock of what we‘ve got. let‘s talk to the senior conservative backbencher damian green. he was in his time first secretary of state in the government under

theresa may and her deputy for an extended period. thank you for being with us on bbc news. you know a lot about how governments prepare for potential emergencies. i want to talk a bit about that and the concerns raised about preparedness ina concerns raised about preparedness in a moment. picking up on what gavin williamson had to say about personal protective equipment, i suppose the government must rather regret having talked up this techie delivery yesterday as coming today when it hasn‘t been delivered? delivery yesterday as coming today when it hasn't been delivered? -- turkey. deliveries around the world are always complex, i understand the raf is waiting for it, the problem is at that end and it will arrive tomorrow. it is delivering the extent of the ppe required is of course complicated and the expansion of the number of places that receive it and need it is huge. the government is used to delivering it to roughly 230 hospitals around the country. there are now 58,000

different ca re country. there are now 58,000 different care settings that need ppe. so does every last piece of kit arrive on the minute in every last place? probably not. but there is a huge amount, more than a million pieces have gone out. and everyone is doing their best to make sure that more and more of it can get out as time goes on, because it does get used very quickly. a lot of it can only be single use. and that is one of the issues, that you need a co nsta nt of the issues, that you need a constant flow of deliveries, it‘s not just a constant flow of deliveries, it‘s notjust a case of one big delivery gets you through the month. this is not a question of, you promise one thing and didn‘t deliver it, it is not like the run ofjournalists challenging politicians that happens in the normal cut and thrust. the point is surely that is chris hobson of nhs provider said earlier this afternoon, until the stuff is here and you can count it, it is really not very prudent to start talking up things until you are sure what you

have got, is that not in a sense the lesson of this saga about personal protective equipment? well, i think the government knows that it‘s got to keep this constant flow. as i say, this one flight with a huge amount on it from turkey apparently was not available today and it will be there tomorrow. but i think the wider point is that the system is trying to do more than it has ever done before. it is certainly doing it better week by week. but there will always be difficulties and frictions. i think it would be foolish to deny that. because as i say, it is a much more difficult task than has ever been set before. but different settings, whether hospitals now have a much better system, and that is rolling out to gps and care homes and so on. all of this is part of the issue of how

well prepared we were and one of the points of having resilience planning, which is something you will know about in your time in government, is that you are prepared for when the worst thing happens. and one of the criticisms that has been raised is that perhaps the government took its eye off the ball. it is notjust this question of whether the prime minister skipped a few cobra meetings because he had other commitments, because of them ministers can share those meetings and i think i am right in theresa may‘s time, you chaired a number of cobra meetings, but it is about having a system place where people issue warnings as scientists say they did back in the middle of february, the government response to those warnings. in this case, it builds up stock so when the worst happens, you are prepared for it and not trying to build up stocks in the middle of the crisis which is what appears to be happening now. there are stocks there all the time and you are right about cobra, used to tear it when i was first secretary of state and other ministers cherish

frequently, so that line of attack is simply false. the point about the scientists is really interesting. because it is not the case that the government ignored any warnings from scientists. the government has got a panoply of scientific advisers organised in committees and throughout january and february and into the middle of march, those committees were giving the government advice which the government advice which the government was following. the idea in the wake of the sunday times story that somehow the government ignored the scientific warnings is simply not true. and this is not just a government mp saying that. the minutes of the meetings are out there on the internet. the difficulty you will know, i don‘t know about these committee meetings andi know about these committee meetings and i can‘t claim knowledge of this, but one thing that happens in cabinet minutes is that differences are suppressed because a view is taken at the end of a meeting and you summon taken at the end of a meeting and you summon up the common view. peter

openshaw, who is on one of these advice committees, he said he was not at the key committee and he said although he was worried about how serious it was, he cannot seriously —— honestly say he would have dissented when it said it should not be left at the level of concern it was and should not be raised to a higher level. so i take the point about that, but leaving minutes aside, it is not a question about ignoring, it is recognising the scale of the potential problem. nobody is saying scientists said there is a crisis and ministers stuck theirfingers in there is a crisis and ministers stuck their fingers in their ears, it isa stuck their fingers in their ears, it is a question of how responsive the system has been, how well prepared. this matters notjust for the benefit of hindsight for people to smugly criticise, but because it is about how we will prepare for future crises of this kind because sadly, we cannot know this will not occui’ sadly, we cannot know this will not occur again sadly, we cannot know this will not occuragain and sadly, we cannot know this will not occur again and there might not be a second wave of this particular virus. all of that's true, i com pletely virus. all of that's true, i completely agree with all that. and i think that the central purpose of

government policy throughout this has been to make sure that the health service can cope with the demand put on it by this sudden extra spike of this very serious virus. and that is what has happened. the nhs has not fallen over, everyone in this country, from ministers downwards, was struck with horror by those terrible scenes we saw from northern territory of hospitals that simply couldn‘t cope with the number of people coming in through the draws —— northern italy. and they have been working really hard, the whole system, to make sure that doesn‘t happen here and it has not happened here. we have seen su ccesses not happened here. we have seen successes like the nightingale hospital is a new hospitals we have built in big population centres to cope with any possible extra demand over and above what can be coped with in our existing hospitals. and asi with in our existing hospitals. and as i say, so far, the system has held together and has been able to cope. we arejust held together and has been able to cope. we are just beginning to see the numbers admitted to hospital

coming down. but certainly not soon enough to lift any of the restrictions that we have got. but i think that the planning for this virus, as a country, we should not beat ourselves up. actually, the nhs is coping with what is an unprecedented surge of demand. and coping partly because of the heroism of the health workers that everyone goes out at eight o‘clock every week one night to applaud. damian green, former secretary of state, thank you very much. thank you. we know that healthcare workers have a higher risk of contracting covid—19, and have heard devastating stories about many who have died. infection rates among doctors and nurses are higher in some countries than others, and there have been calls all over the world for the provision of that vital personal protective equipment for all. earlier, i spoke to howard catton, the chief executive of the international council of nurses. he was talking to me from geneva.

we have been really concerned for a number of weeks now about the level of health worker infections. the who put it at about 23,000 globally, but that‘s based on 50 countries. we think it‘s much higher than that. we‘ve seen infection rates of 10—15% in italy and spain. we know from sars, it‘s up to 20%. tragically, we are also seeing reports of deaths of healthcare workers and nurses around the world. we believe over 100 nurses have tragically lost their lives. and the cause, a key cause, is the lack of protective personal equipment. but an additional major shortcoming we have is that countries are not collecting the data about health worker infections and health worker deaths in a standardised way. this isn‘t collecting data for data‘s sake. this will add to the science,

so that we know who contracted the virus, when, how the disease may have progressed as well. we‘ve called on g20 leaders, we‘re calling on governments as well, they need to collect this data. what measures, counts. nurses and health workers count more than ever before. it‘s very hard, isn‘t it, to overcome, though, the very practical difficulty of supplying the amount of personal protective equipment that‘s going to be needed in the timescale to meet this challenge that is right now? you‘re right. it‘s a huge challenge, and that‘s why we‘ve written to the g20 leaders to say, you need to step in and work together on this. please, do not politically self—isolate. work together to negotiate contracts. help with the distribution across borders, with customs issues. work together to help with issues like flights as well. work together to demand the data,

the information on the number of deaths that we‘re seeing as well. and the other call, i think, that we would make now to g20 leaders, to all leaders, we are hearing the applause and the recognition of health workers. when that falls silent, when we move beyond this, what has been exposed is the weakness in our health systems — that needs investment. g20 leaders could be giving some reassuring messages and commitments now about how they will support health workers and improve preparedness in the future. that is at least one thing we can do, isn‘t it, look at what we learn from this experience once it‘s over and plan for the future? there are those who say, actually, though, we knew this was coming. there were lots of predictions about viral infection, about vulnerability. george w bush, i think, made a famous speech about this when he was still president of the united states. we‘ve had sars, we had the other infections as well. should we have prepared for this better? absolutely, of course we should have done.

this is exposing the fragility of our preparedness plans. i‘ve heard of people having to create stockpiles because there‘s none there. we have a 6 million shortage of nurses around the world. we know that there may have been some simulation exercises, but it hasn‘t properly been rehearsed. and what we‘re seeing is just how intertwined our health and our well—being is to our economic prosperity, to our national security. our ability to go for a walk in the park to visit your elderly relative on their birthday are all impacted because we have not seriously invested in health. and that‘s why i think g20 leaders, other country leaders, could come out now... we‘re not asking them to go into great detail, but to come out now about the level of commitment that they will be making to health in the future. because we all know

that we could well be, very likely to be heading to a recession. and during times of recession, history tells us that people‘s ears are a little more silent in relation to the calls for health funding. so, make that commitment now, alongside your applause, please. now a look at some updates from other parts of the world. south korea has reported only eight new coronavirus cases in a day. it‘s the first time in two months that the country has recorded a single—digit rise in infections. the governor of new york andrew cuomo says the state is continuing to see a reduction in both covid—19 hospitalisations and deaths. he said that all indications are that the infections have passed their high point. he added that the state would now begin "aggressive" antibody testing to identify people who‘ve had the virus. israel has begun easing some of its coronavirus restrictions. some types of shops are being allowed to reopen, though not shopping malls. new cases of covid—19 peaked in israel at the end of last month, but reported numbers have fallen

in the past two weeks. thank you for watching us. and you can keep up with all the latest on bbc news. time for a look at the weather, with nick. your garden will see plenty of sunshine this week. but you will have to do the water and because it is looking dry across the uk. as i show you the big picture, you won‘t be surprised to find high pressure. that is why it is so settled in the week ahead. very brisk easterly breeze, the isobars fairly close together during the first half of the week. it may make it feel a little cooler than the sunshine and temperatures might suggest. now, as we temperatures might suggest. now, as we look through the rest of tonight, some high cloud spilling and across parts of southern england and the channel islands, you may get an isolated shower. most avoid a frost, but there are parts of scotland, especially the highlands, that will

be colder than this, may be down to -5 in be colder than this, may be down to —5 in the cold spots, temperatures rebounding quickly in the sunshine tomorrow morning. any early cloud in the far south—west of england will disappear and then it is sunshine just about across the board on monday. the wind is in play these are the average speeds in the easterly wind gusts especially in england and where is, around 30 to 40 england and where is, around 30 to a0 mph. that is significant. this is the temperature of the north sea, around 7—9d and the breeze is flowing a distance over that north sea, said the area is being pulled closer to that temperature. along the north sea coast, ten to 1a degrees, whereas elsewhere, temperatures will be in the mid—to—high teens. a little change for tuesday, although later in the week, we will find that breeze easing a little bit. even along the north sea coast, it will feel a bit warmer. tuesday still brings the chance of an isolated shower towards the channel islands, far south—west of england, parts of west. —— parts of england, parts of west. —— parts of wales. more cloud and a similar

contest of wales. more cloud and a similar co ntest a nd of wales. more cloud and a similar contest and temperatures between the north sea coasts and further england and warm spots in the west nearer 20 celsius. highs in control later in the week and some weather systems to try to get a bit closer from the atlantic. ride into the weekend can expect a bit more cloud. it will turn a bit cooler and there is a chance of a shower. but even going into the weekend, although you notice temperatures have come down a little bit, there is still no sign of any widespread rain must in most places will remain dry. andrew april really is shaping up to be a very dry and quite one month. that is how it is looking.

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now on bbc news, a special programme — global questions: coronavirus crisis. hello and welcome to this edition of global questions, with me, zeinab badawi. it is four weeks since the coronavirus lockdown in britain and the busy streets of london are unusually quiet, like in so many cities around the world. and governments everywhere are desperately trying to stop the spread of a virus which is new and vicious and about which we know very little. that is the topic of this global questions. the coronavirus crisis, our health.