so that'sjenny gow in melbourne. where then, does this leave the season.f course was the opening race this weekend — that now is not going ahead. the competition then moves on to bahrain next weekend. we already know that is going to be held behind closed doors with no fans allowed in. after that, the first ever race due to be held in vietnam — that's at the beginning of april — but that is in serious doubt now after the country said it will refuse entry to anyone who has been to italy in the previous 14 days. that effectively rules out people from ferrari, alfa romeo, the tyre supplier pirelli and so on — so that race looks in jeopardy. and after that was china — and that as we know has already been cancelled so the fi calandar already in tatters. adam, we knew that the next big tennis tournament in miami was off, but the next five or six weeks of the tour have now been scrapped over the other side of the world, some huge developments as well today. we'll come on to an extraordinary tale in basketball injust a moment. first though, tennis. the atp tour, t

our fi reporterjennie gow is in melbourne gow is in melbourne.t i spoke to here today in the paddocks said as soon as one positive test comes back, he would suggest that the whole camp closed down. others have said if it's a matter of containment, and they can source how many people that one crew member has had direct contact with, you might be able to be confined within the presence of that team. there is i suppose hope for the other nine teams that you have to stay in a very small paddock which works in a very close—knit community, so more cases may well come to light and more tests could happen. a big decision for formula i and the medical authorities within victoria state in australia, where the race takes place, to make that call. manchester city's champions league tie against real madrid is likely to be postponed next week. real‘s players are in self—isolation after a real madrid basketball player — who shares the same facilities as the footballers — tested positive for the virus. the training facility has now been shut. spain's top divisio

our formula one reporterjennie gow is in melbourne.e latest, because there are conflicting reports? we understand the grand prix is not going ahead. it comes from the fact that neither the fia nor f1 have been able to give us an update yet. toa been able to give us an update yet. to a certain extent, everybody‘s just hanging by waiting to see what happens. fans have been flooding towards the circuit, trying to get in to redeem their tickets and see the racing. they are currently waiting at the gates. in large groups i have to say. some of the teams are at the track, some of the drivers have already left and are making their way home. it's a very mixed situation. we believe the delay is because of legality more than anything else. widespread speculation over whether it would go ahead. how much of this was propelled by the drivers, because we heard lewis hamilton was very critical? my understanding was that whilst lewis hamilton was very open yesterday, it was the teams and bosses that got together yesterday evening with members of the f

it took almost half a day before a decision to cancel was made and our f1 reporter jenny gow explainsolitics, to great certainties of life —— two. nobody wants to make the first move, and they —— the boss of formula 1 was coming over from vietnam to australia following meetings. so it has been a messy note for formula 1 and i don't think pr—wise it has been the smoothest of evenings for them. the press release says the 2020 australian grand prix has been cancelled. that is in contrast to the china grand prix which has been postponed at present. i don't think there were any plans, u nfortu nately, to i don't think there were any plans, unfortunately, to come back to melbourne until 2021, it is just a race that will have disappeared from the calendar. staying with that theme... the atp tour has postponed all play for six weeks due to what it calls escalating health and safety issues arising from the coronavirus outbreak. all tournaments on the men's atp tour and challenger tours have been cancelled until the 27th of april. the wta is yet to make its decision, but it's expected there wil

of the morning currently in melbourne but a very perculiar atmosphere — here's out f1 reporter jenny gowns i would say didn't come today, for anybody who lives locally, they can come for free on a thursday and experience what it's like in the paddock. it was very quiet. a lot of the big corporations in melbourne have said to their staff that they can't travel into the

i‘ve been speaking to formula 1 correspondentjennie gow in melbourne. from the moment mclaren said they had a positive result for coronavirus that put the writing on the wall. there was no response from formula 1, we stayed up all night waiting for it and then finally the teams and drivers said enough is enough and they forced the hand of f1 to make a statement and cancel the race. so it has been a strange night and as you can tell, i‘m in a taxi at the moment in melbourne just plotting my escape route. it does look like you are driving but i assume you‘re not. no. i have a nice man driving me. we will stop for a second. what does it say to you about the way the sport has dealt with this? i think it‘s — we are in unprecedented territory, arent‘t we, at the moment. no—one has gone through this before and the world as a whole is struggling to cope and i think sport had to make a decision on what they were going to do and you are talking about a lot of rights holders, commercial agreements, there is all sorts of financial and political things that come int

trafficjams are gowing. this one stretches 50—kilometres.stretches 50—kilometres. but we've seen lots of messages of solidarity from those in lockdown. verona in italy — the national anthem being played at an empty fruit and vegetable market. italy's nationwide lockdown has been extended beyond the end of next week. northern italy is worst hit by the outbreak. some grim footage coming out of one affected town — bergamo. this video was posted on social media. it shows military trucks carring coffins of coronavirus victims to other provinces because the local crematoriums are struggling to cope. nearly a hundred people have died in the town. listen to this senior doctor at a hospital in bergamo. we are in full emergency with this coronavirus. 0ur health personnel, nurses and physicians are working around the clock my countless hours, to find this incredible situation. we do not know how long this pandemic will last. i have two messages, the first one is for the general population. please stay at home. his second message is for whoever wants to

with all the details, here's the bbc‘sjennie gow.ith eight races already called off in the british grand prix due to take place injuly which is one of the next to be under threat. but that cheaper said the teams were in constant dialogue with formula 1 and could have at least three races injanuary and change the format of a race weekend as well. currently the season is due to end on the 29th of november in abu dhabi. many athletes around the world are coming to terms with there not being a olympic games in tokyo this summer. instead, they'll have to wait until next year to perform on the global stage. at the 2016 olympics, rugby 7s made it's debut at the tournament, with team gb winning silver. earlier i spoke to england rugby 7s player, alex davis, who admits, that he was gutted to hear that the games had been postponed, especially after just returning from injury after 1a months out. for us it felt quite inevitable, but idid for us it felt quite inevitable, but i did guess it was going to be postponed at one time but we just weren'

here's our formula one reporterjennie gow.unced there will be no spectators allowed at the grand prix happening in two weeks' time. this will be the first timea grand weeks' time. this will be the first time a grand prix race has been held behind closed doors and whilst teams and drivers and personnel and media and drivers and personnel and media and all the logistics staff will be there, it will be a very different feeling to the bahrain grand prix. this is a direct result of coronavirus and bahrain have been very quick to treat, and find and isolate cases and they want to continue with a proactive stance put at the f1 paddock is getting ready to go to australia, many of the garages are set up at the albert park circuit so it is very much a watching brief. the new regulations coming in from italy make it quite difficult for the likes of pirelli, ferrari and alphatauri to address how they will move forward if they can't go in and out of the area where they are based. but for the time being, it is business as usual in formula 1

its goal now is to reate up to a million masks and gow most of the major league baseball and fanaticssay they're proud to support the rave health care workers who are fighting coronavirus even though food industry officials have said ov and over there are no food shortages, one concern as this pandemic growis that there may not be enough essentials left in grocery stores that has led of course as we l know to panic shopping. >>kron on talks with san mateo county supervisor david canada. he is working with the californ grocers association to try to lim have panic shopping and hoarding in his county. >>what we did with the grocery association colony grocers association. it is we've there instructing all their stores. they're major retailers toughout the state of california antelling them that they must limit purchases but make no mistake about it. we'r giving themabout a month a month and a half. if they're on a whole so monitor and regute tmselves. i think we're going to move forward always leglation as you now paper and plastics if you want to pay for plastic b. counties have. jurisdi

with all the details, here‘s the bbc‘sjennie gow.uly is one of the next to be under threat. but, place injuly is one of the next to be underthreat. but, he place injuly is one of the next to be under threat. but, he said that the teams are in constant dialogue with formula 1, they could have at least three races injanuary with formula 1, they could have at least three races in january and could change the format of a race weekend as well. currently, the seasonis weekend as well. currently, the season is due to end on the 29th of november. italy‘s sports minister is planning to extend the country‘s ban on all matches and competitions until the end of april. the lockdown currently taking place is due to expire on friday. but italian health experts say, they still need to continue to reduce the spread of the virus, which will probably last weeks beyond that... vinchenzo spadafora said that talks about restarting serie a on 3rd may were unrealistic, with some clubs like lazio and napoli pushing to restart training as soon as this week...

and if there's any question at all about who the threat was intended to, he said, you will you gow what hit you, if forward with these awful decisions. well, now, these are not awful decisions he's threatening over by republican lawmakers. because the republican lawmakers have nothing to do with the supreme court decisions. and he says, decisions. this was a threat to two of our supreme court justices. and that crosses the line from disagreement, as all of us probably in this body have done time to time, and should. because the supreme court's not perfect. they make mistakes. dred scott was, i think, probably the worst mistake the supreme court's ever made. but they have certainly made many more since then. not to that level. but it is fine in america to disagree with the supreme court. it's fine for senator schumer to do that. but not when he threatens and says, you will not know what hit you. of course the term hit is an assault reference, you will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. now, he could be speaking of this assault term figuratively. but regar