questions and sharing a bench with senior cabinet members on let's go straight to the correspondent charlotte potts who is standing by in london charlotte a critical time for the country at this moment how could this diagnosis now impact the prime minister's ability to govern. well he's saying as we just heard that he is now isolating and that he's planning to govern the country via video conference and telephone calls from his home he's saying that he has symptoms but of course he's in the beginning of the illness and in comparison to other world leaders and quarantine such as he actually has the virus with which comes cases with fatigue and exhaustion now if it gets worse we have to say he's 55 and in good health as far as we know so he's not a risk group but if it was to get worse then his designated survivor the man who will step in and govern the country would be foreign secretary dominic robin that was already decided last week as a precaution. we have now boris johnson seen in the house of commons we were just watching the video there as recently as wednesday we also have the u.k.'s health m

brent: dw's charlotte potts in london, thank you very much. you are watching "dw news." after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." in just a few moments, after the day, we have extensive coverage of the crisis on our website, dw.com. don't go away. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] twenty four now france twenty four .com. comments advisers say france should extend it flopped down twenty sisix weeks from fifteen dayays recommendation comomes as the country tightens its rules on physical exexercise and open up markets. in his prime minister announces a total lockdown in the country of one point three billion people this is the world's most expensive a stay at home with a cat. also coming up this hour on france twenty four the tokyo olympics a prospective twenty twenty one. due to culvert nineteen you know comes amid mounting es

brent: dw's charlotte potts joining us from london. thank you.ears are growing in spain that the health care system there won't be able to cope much longer. it is the worst affected european country after italy, and doctors and nurses say they are approaching their limits. correspondenent philip schultz s this reports. philip: doctors and health care workers are spain's new heroes. their work has never been as crucial as it is now. over time, emergency measures and preparations for wrist-case and argues are the order of the day. staff are too overwhelmed to speak with the media. eventually, we managed to reach a spanish doctor by telephoho, who is w working acrososs the br in france. >> how are you and your colleagues failing? -- feeling? >> i have been workiking 20 yeas to save people''s lives, to make them h have a better polity life -- a better quality of life. and in only two or r three w we, the lack of accommodadation of really good meaeasures has destroyed all of the work i have done for 20 yearars. >> w what can each of u us do n? >> if w