ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. next, it is time for sport today.from the bbc sport centre. i'm tulsen tollett. coming up on this programme: formula 1 cancel the australian grand prix but what will happen to the calendar now? the atp tour has been suspended for six weeks, with the women's tour also set to postpone events. and no end in sight as the us women's team cover the badges on their playing shirts in protest at us soccer‘s comments over equal pay. hello there, and welcome to the programme. all of that and more to come but we start with the news that this weekend's season opening australian grand prix has been called off. it comes following a day of speculation after a mclaren team member tested positive for coronavirus in melbourne. it's understood ferrari's sebastian vettel and kimi raikonnen of alfa romeo had already flown out of the country in anticipation of the race being cancelled. it took almost half a day before a decision to cancel was made and our f1 reporter jenny gow explains why. it comes down to finance and politics, to great ce

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz. raining across some western and southwestern parts of the uk, but there is not an awful off of

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. stay with us on bbc news.ou clean your smartphone — and how? we have all the answers. today, we have closed the book on apartheid and that chapter. more than 3,000 subway passengers were affected. nausea, bleeding, headaches and a dimming of vision — all of this caused by an apparently organised attack. the trophy itself was on the pedestal in the middle of the cabinet here. now, this was an international trophy, and we understand now that the search for it has become an international search. above all, this was a triumph for the christian democrats of the west, offering reunification as quickly as possible, and that's what the voters wanted. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: president trump has declared a national emergency in the united states, unlocking billions of dollars of federal funds to fight the coronavirus. the world health organization says the epicentre of the pandemic has now moved from china to europe — with 1,200 deaths reported in italy. let's stay in the us. i've been speaking to peter

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin.es of coronavirus there six weeks ago. more than 15,000 people are infected. but today italy's government said there were signs that the lockdown imposed on northern italy was starting to work. 0ur italy correspondent, mark lowen, is in rome. sophie, italy hasjust sophie, italy has just seen sophie, italy hasjust seen its biggest daily rise in cases since the outbreak began. tonight, all catholic churches across rome are being closed, unprecedented in modern times. alone, of course, with the closure of shops, restaurants, schools and a raft of other venues. the milan stock exchange has just had its biggest ever one—day fall. the economic impact is huge, and of course the impact, also, on a very struggling health care system now. when i spoke to the italian foreign minister today, he said there should bea minister today, he said there should be a single european unit, coordinating the resupply of all hospitals and clinics across europe in need. but he also sounded a note of optimism. he

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. now, let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories.ano sala wasn't licensed to fly the aircraft. the air accidents investigation branch has now published its findings into what happened. sala, who was 28, and pilot david ibbotson, died in the crash in the english channel, two days after the striker signed for cardiff city, in january last year. in the trial on sexual assault charges of scotland's former first minister, alex salmond, a worker for the snp has claimed he kissed her on both cheeks then tried to kiss her on the mouth. the witness, known as womanj, said the alleged attack, shortly before the independence referendum in september 2014, had been "like an awful nightmare". mr salmond denies all 14 charges against him. the colleague of a police officer, killed after being dragged behind a carfor more than a mile, has told a court that pc andrew harper's feet were "whipped out from under him" as he ran after a suspect. pc andrew shaw had responded to a report of a stolen quad bike with pc harper in berkshire in august last year. t

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. let's take a brief look at some of the day's other stories.iliano sala was not licensed to fly the aircraft. that's according to the air accidents investigation branch, which published its findings today. 28—year—old sala and pilot david ibbotson died in the crash in the english channel, two days after the striker signed for cardiff city injanuary 2019. in the trial on sexual assault charges of scotland's former first minister, alex salmond, a worker for the snp has claimed he kissed her on both cheeks then tried to kiss her on the mouth. the witness, known as womanj, said the alleged attack, shortly before the independence referendum in september, 2014, had been "like an awful nightmare". mr salmond denies all 1a charges against him. the colleague of a police officer, killed after being dragged behind a carfor more than a mile, has told a court that pc andrew harper's feet were "whipped out from under him" as he ran after a suspect. pc andrew shaw had responded to a report of a stolen quad bike with pc harper in berkshire, in august last year

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin.es of coronavirus there six weeks ago. more than 15,000 people are infected. but today italy's government said there were signs that the lockdown imposed on northern italy was starting to work. 0ur italy correspondent, mark lowen, is in rome and sent this update. italy has just seen its biggest daily rise in cases since the outback began. tonight, all coupling churches across rome are being closed, unprecedented in modern times. along with the closure of shops, restaurants, schools and a raft of other venues as well. the malan stock exchange has had its just everyone they fall —— milan. economic impact is huge and also the impact ona economic impact is huge and also the impact on a very, very struggling healthcare impact on a very, very struggling healthca re system impact on a very, very struggling healthcare system now. when i spoke to the italian foreign minister today, he said there should now be a single european union co—ordinating the resupply of of hospital clinics in need —— e

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin.es. the pilot of the plane that crashed killing the footballer emiliano silo wasn't licensed to fly the aircraft, that's according to the air accidents investigation branch, which published its findings today. sala who is 28 and pilot david albertson died in a crash in the english channel two days after the striker signed for cardiff city in january last year. in the trial of sexual assault charges of scotland's from her first minister, alex sammons, worker for the snp from her first minister, alex sammons, workerfor the snp claimed he kissed her on both cheeks and then tried to kiss her on mouth. the witness known as womanjay then tried to kiss her on mouth. the witness known as woman jay said then tried to kiss her on mouth. the witness known as womanjay said the alleged attack shortly before the independence referendum in september 2014 had been like an awful nightmare. mr salmon denies all 14 charges against him. the colleague ofa charges against him. the colleague of a police offi

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz. there is some rain on the way tonight. if it hasn't reached you already, it's been raining across some western and southwestern parts of the uk, but there is not an awful off of it. —— an awful lot. you can see it moving across western areas. it may stay dry through the course of the night. just about cold enough for some wet snow there across the scottish hills. saturday starts off fairly cloudy with patchy rain in the morning, but then the weather will improve. we're expecting along the irish seacoast. —— expecting sunshine. during the course of saturday afternoon, so weather will come and go, the rain that is through the course of the weekend. we are also expecting similar whether through sunday as well. both saturday and sunday, a mixture of rain and sunshine. this is the bbc news the latest headlines for now. the world... the world health organization declares europe the focal point of the global coronavirus outbreak. europe has not become the epicentre of the epidemic with more

ed thomas, bbc news, dublin. being advised to self—isolate for seven days as efforts continue to try to tackle coronavirus. the government has announced it's moving from the contain to the delay phase of its response. i got to be clear, we've got to be clear, this is the greatest public health crisis for a generation. some people compare to seasonal flu. alas, this is not right. 0wing to seasonal flu. alas, this is not right. owing to the lack of immunity, this is easily more dangerous and is going to spread further and i must level with you, level with the british public, more families, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time stop 0rganisers have cancelled this weekend's australian grand prix because of coronavirus. the decision was made just hours before the first practice session was due to get underway in melbourne. on thursday world champion lewis hamilton said he was stunned the race was still going ahead. as new zealand approaches the first anniversary of the country's deadliest m

ed thomas has been looking at how measures in the republic contrast with those on the uk side of theool run, just silence. ireland has woken up to isolation, an invisible virus that's changing lives. whoa! what? he attacked. how did you do that? danielle now stays at home with her sons, with a makeshift kitchen classroom and a sense of being alone. day—to—day life, we've completely hunkered down. we're not seeing friends, we're not seeing family. so, it's pretty isolating. i couldn't ask anybody to help, because... so you said to your family, "stay away?" i rang my dad this morning and i said, "listen, "i'm not going to see you for 2—3 weeks." we were due to go and see them this weekend, and ijust said we will do a facetime. that's it, i'm not risking it. they're too precious. all schools and colleges are now closed. no face to face, all on audio. yeah, no face to face. for katie, a psychology student, lectures are online. a sudden end to her final year. it's quite saddening. you want to see your friends and just have a good college experience. so i feel that my college experience ha

deal and the rally was canceled >> in the past hour we spoke live with willie battersby candidates ed thomastells us why he thinks early voting in the state may affect joe biden's numbers in california. >> understand there's so many people in california have artie cast their vote. which means that the effective south carolina may not reflect itself in the early fall. going forward, it will dramatically reflect itself. >> mayor brown is hosting a traditional election day lunch tomorrow at john's grill and eunice. it begins at 11:30 bit it is free for everyone including everyday voters. stay with ktvu , will have the latest results tomorrow starting at 4:00 p.m. and continuing for the next 7 1/2 days. here on ktvu fox 2 and ktvu plus >> this video was widely shared out there on social media last week it shows the victim being threatened by a man who then takes the can that the older man had collected. 56-year-old jonathan emerson surrendered police at the bayview station yesterday. he was booked at two counts of burglary and two counts of elder abuse police arrested another man they say record

ed: okay. i understand your frustration. new york city is particularly hard hit. questioning his patriotism calling him unamerican is something i'm sure thomasd to. >> good. >> ed: in the meantime you are questioning thomas massie and rightly so. why is he holding this up? i have a question for you coming from a democrat. andrew cuomo. here he have is yesterday on his frustrations with the bill you are passing. listen. >> the congressional action in my opinion simply failed to address the governmental need. i spoke to all the officials involved, i spoke to our house delegation, i spoke to our senators, and i believe what they did failed to meet the governmental need. i'm disappointed. >> ed: please answer your own democratic governor. you are there in washington and helping to negotiate this. you've got chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate was at the table with the treasury secretary and your governor said you failed and didn't provide enough money to new york. >> first of all andrew cuomo who has shown great leadership taught much of the rest of the country how to lead is correct. new york city, new york state still needs more

and, jim, we saw these athletes rise up, when the international olympic committee president thomas bach didded ed nnot lev really failed them. >> of course, listen, their health is going to be primary to them. no one more so perhaps than olympic athletes trying to be at peak form here. i imagine just before i let you go, christine, next year, you move it to next year, that's the current plan, can you move all these things? the athletes schedules, the olympic villages meant to be -- they were going to turn them into apartments next year. how to you manage that? >> as will said, as we all said, never have we seen anything like this. they'll do their best. the olympics is the one thing that can pull this off. you look at citizens and say for the good of our country and our city, we want you to do this. don't move into these apartments for a year. where do those people go? maybe there is a staggering of the venues, make an olympics spread out over more time if tokyo can't handle everything. maybe you would do something you would have events in another city. not saying that's on the table at all. i th

. >> ed lavandera in texas, brian thomas in falls church, virginia, just outside washington, d.c.rian? >> reporter: the rush hour push is on at graham road elementary school falls church, virginia, a busy precinct. we have been here for about 12 hours sampling voters, putting their vote in the tabulator over there. in a little more than an hour, this station is going to close, and we'll get results. what we have been doing, wolf, we have been sampling voters all day long for the last 12 hours. i heard you talking with david chalian, many voters made up their minds last minute, over the past 72 hours, i can tell you my team and i have sampled over a hundred voters who have come through here. what we picked up is very very strong support for joe biden. and that theme playing out in this precinct, very strongly, people making up their minds either at the last minute or since maybe saturday when biden won the south carolina primary, they sensed his viability. they have also picked up on pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar dropping out of the race, throwing their support to joe biden. tha

as you said, that would have beenec ed after super tuesday, but you did have joe biden limping along in the race and come up with a victory in south carolina thomashe is the one that membe of some of the top democrats have thrown their weight behind. and people like amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg, although they have done reasonably well in iowa and especially new hampchire, which are pretty mu allhite states, they were not doing well in nevada and especially south carolina, so they made ise dn to throw in the towel ahead of super tuesday. amy klobuchar has said she will joe biden mr. buttigieg has not made an official announcement, but there are reports he also will do s and they will both appear with mr. biden at a rally in dallas tonight. ros: good couple days for mr. biden, good coue of weeks for bernie sanders. where does this leave mike bloomberg? >> is the wildcard because he has spent millions and millions of dollars in advertising, buying himself a place in the race, ieffect. but he hanot been we and the debates and has not been on the ballot yet. he has been pressed i somalso to just throw in the towel, as well, but he has said that he

reporter: faust co-authored an op-ed in "the washington post" that empty hotels be used to isolate people with coronavirus until the virus goes away. in san francisco, eric thomase, the tech world is jumping in with donations. cupertino based apple is spending millions of n95 masks to medical workers. tim cook tweeted 2 million will go out to the u.s. and europe. and they committed $15 million about help global response efforts. and shapement of 40,000 n95 m s masks just arrived in thanks to facebook. the masks will be distributed to fist responders. facebook is donating 700,000 masks and 1.5 million pairs of gloves around the world. >>> here's a sight among the bay area shelter in place order. not so much social distancing here at the beach. it was packed yesterday. cars stretched as far as you can see. you saw the same lines in many parks and beaches. last night marin county fire tw theomnity's frustration with the large amount of people traveling to the coast today and not adhering to the shelter order. the influx of people is putting our vulnerable residence at risk. please stay home. >>> and some local residents had to go home. >> reporter: across the bay

faust coauthored an op-ed in "the washington post" recommending that empty hotels be used to isolate people with coronavirus until the virus goes away. in san francisco, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> the tech world is jumping in donations. apple says that it's sending millions of n-95 masks to medical workers. ceo tim cook said 2 million masks will go out to health centers in the u.s. and europe. last week apple announced that the company would commit $15 million to help global response efforts and the shipment of 40,000 n-95 masks and 62,000 surgical masks arrived in marin county courtesy of facebook. county officials tweeted their thanks to the company yesterday and the masks will be distributed to health workers and first responders. facebook is also donating more than 700,000 masks and 1.5 million pairs of gloves around the world. >>> with schools all around the bay area closed right now, likely until fall, many are trying to keep the kids on track with their education, but it's not easy. but we visited a school in the east bay this past week that is making it happen in a very determined and clever way. abc 7 news anchor dan ashley shows you their combination

thomas, abc7 news. >>> meantime, a bay area doctor who is also worried about the lack of protective gear has written an op-ede to coronavirus calling it nothing short of criminal. this doctor does not mince words when saying she is frustrated that the u.s. did not act sooner to control the outbreak. she says our leaders should have been like leaders of other countries like south korea that took the virus seriously and made sweeping changes immediately. >> it wasn't a patchwork response. our response, you know, will have one school district closed while the one next door is open. we have county workers who are expected in california itself. there are county workers who are supposed to show up to work and show up to the office. we know that this will spread the virus. we know that. this isn't something new. and so where is the leadership around that? if we know that people should be sheltering in place. >> the doctor says without proper equipment like masks and respirators, health care workers' lives are at risk. >>> apple is donating millions of n95 masks to help out medical workers around the world. apple's

faust coauthored an op-ed in "the washington post" recommending that empty hotels be used to isolate people with coronavirus until the virus goes away. in san francisco, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >>> the tech world is jumping in with donations to help this morning. cupertino-based apple says that it's sending millions of n-95 masks to medical workers. ceo tim cook tweeted 2 million masks will go out to health centers in the u.s. and europe. last week apple announced that they would commit $15 million to help the global response efforts. great news there. and the shipment of 40,000 n-95 masks and 62,000 surgical masks just arrived in marin county, courtesy of facebook. county officials tweeted their thanks to the company yesterday and the masks will be distributed to health workers and first responders. facebook is also donating more than 700,000 masks and 1.5 million pairs of gloves around the world. >>> with schools all around the bay area closed likely until the fall, trying to keep the kids on track with their education, but it's not easy. but we visited a school in the east bay this past week that is making it happen in a very determined and clever way. abc 7

ed nearly 2 million covid-19 testing swabs to the u.s. and help repatriate nearly 200 americans. johning us now deputy commander, general thomas.hearing stories of americans abroad who want to come home what's your focus? >> well, the dod's priorities really got three big focuses, and they are protecting the poorest so we've got to make sure that our airmen and all of the soldiers, sailors, and marines are ready and capable and they got to be healthy to do that. we got to maintain our missions, still defend the nation, go in and everybody think they can take advantage of us and then help where we can and so you've given great examples where air mobility command has been able to roll in, move things from overseas back to help our citizens here in the united states. we're doing other things in support of fema in coordination with u.s. north com, so there's a lot going on as we work to support the nation. pete: lt. general you mentioned a couple of interesting things and it's true having been in the military. if you don't preserve your own force and stay vigilant against external threats that might try to take advantage of somethi