hejoins us on sports day.t i spoke to you you are wearing a very similar cap with a toronto logo on. if you just crouch down, there we go, beautiful. the ottawa aces. you are following the same journey, are you? use the term businessman loosely as well. people think i am kind of a psychopath. for even conceptualising a canadian team are now a second canadian team, i think that is a better term for me. how similar will the path be and how similar has it been so far? well, i will tell you. it will be similar in the path that we will rise up from league i and hopefully get to super league and hopefully get to super league and hopefully do a little bit of winning on the way, pick up some silverware, some trophies. it has been a very different journey, some trophies. it has been a very differentjourney, whereas we had an expansion team, ottawa is a club i moved to from hamill hampstead. it has been a different process of relocation rather than expansion. it isa relocation rather than expansion. it is a different ci

hejoined he joined just hejoined just now, he joined just now, thanks so hejoined just now, thanks soso much forjoining us. have you ever seen anything like this for?|j forjoining us. have you ever seen anything like this for? i have in fragile in failed states. and i have in communities that have been hit by big natural disasters. we have not seen big natural disasters. we have not seen this happen on this scale that we are seeing it happen right now, which is worldwide. 0n we are seeing it happen right now, which is worldwide. on friday, donald trump announced a national emergency and more money available to fight this. over the weekend, the federal reserve in an emergency session slashed interest rates to almost 0%. can governments do much more to the shore of the markets to give investors confidence? so governments can protect the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population, and they should. they can also protect the crucial sectors of the economy and help the health sector. they can do all that. they can also make difficult decisions about bailouts, but what they canno

hejoins me now he joins me now from hejoins me now from liverpool.re seeing as to how the outbreak is developing, as expected? well, i think it's the latest information is confirmed, it looks as though we have moved from containment to community spread, and thatis containment to community spread, and that is an escalation of the situation. i am afraid to show so farfor situation. i am afraid to show so far for the last two or three weeks has not been impressive. we had been playing catch up now. what i have been reading in the sunday papers, the plan that is going to be revealed this week is the sort of things we should have been sharing with the public two or three weeks ago. i think the big problem now, as we move into a more accelerated scenario, is of building trust when the public is being kept largely in the public is being kept largely in the dark until now, so that is a problem. the reproductive rate of this virus, the number of people getting infected for each case, you know, seems to be about 1.4 or saying. if that is going to be the case w

hejoined sale nearly two years after a spell in france with toulon.0 tries in 44 tests for england but hasn't been capped in more than a year. we've become used to seeing great britain win time after time in track cycling with a0 olympic medals won since lottery funding began in 1997. but, the six—time olympic champion sir chris hoy has said he doesn't expect gb cyclists to dominate at tokyo this year, after watching britain come seventh in the medal table at the track cycling world championships in germany. michael redford reports. when the rio olympics were on the horizon in 2016, great britain's track cycling team were on top of the world. now with tokyo just around the corner, they seem to have been brought back down to earth with a bump with a series of disappointing results. laura left bruised and beaten, injuries not allowing her to reach her brilliant best. there is a silver one but finished every second behind the netherlands. a silver in the women's tea m netherlands. a silver in the women's team pursuit was a gold never looked likely, the u

hejoins me now. tell us what some of those changes were.hard in the last couple of days to work out what to do for students if we have to close and what we can do online for them to continue learning. we are finding it really hard to make some decisions because one of the things we are worried about is that we have a lot of young staff here who have their own children so if we close they will be working at home. how much can we ask of them when they have young people to look after, their own children to look after, their own children to look after, will be really hard. so we have made some changes around the online connectivity with students and staff. i havejust left online connectivity with students and staff. i have just left a meeting with my senior team and my subject leaders and they are planning how they can upload materials online so if we close next week for the week after, for a long easter holiday, then at least stu d e nts easter holiday, then at least students can keep learning, especially year 11 and years 12 and 13, who have

and he joins me night—time industries association and hejoins me now.bat —— trade body that looks after the maintained economy and advanced sector and we are open to not only crops and venues are open to not only crops and venues and bars and live spaces and cultural spaces and pop ups but also the massive infrastructure of businesses that support the night—time economy and advanced sector and i remain premise is to maintaina sector and i remain premise is to maintain a sustainable environment for our members who are a massive pa rt for our members who are a massive part of the cultural sector in this country. what have your members been saying since the news was broadcast earlier today? what is the reaction? i think of the last couple of weeks it has been very tough since the pm announced that people should not go out to clubs or bars, there's been a downturn in trade. it's been difficult trading circumstances and what we have been doing is trying to get some clarity across all spaces on how exactly these provisions will work from the budget which was

on sunday, hejoined people across france voting in municipal elections.ess on monday, he said too many people had not been respecting measures introduced to date. he said people should not leave home, except for essential reasons, from midday tuesday, orface punishment. translation: any and all infractions to these rules will be penalised. i speak to you which much solemnity. listen to medical advice which is to stay at home and avoid unnecessary contact. this is the most important. tonight i impose new regulations. there will be controls and limitations. the best one you should apply to yourselves as citizens, i call on your sense of civic duty and solidarity. the external borders of the european union and the wider group of nations that belong to the schengen zone could be closed for up to 30 days. the head of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, proposed the plan, which has yet to be confirmed by member states. she said it would stop non—essential travel, but that returning eu citizens, workers who commute across borders and people delivering

theo leggett is our business correspondent and hejoins me now.e that had been in financial difficulty for some time. just a very good ago it was taken over by its current owners and they promised to put it back on a steady footing but clearly that didn't work. a few weeks ago without the airline had been brought back from the brink when a deal was done between those shareholders and the government and the government agreed to defer certain liabilities for the company, to review a air passenger duty and to talk about alone. there was a loan that was meant to be in the pipeline of up to £100 million. that clearly hasn't materialised and on top of that you have had coronavirus. to what extent has coronavirus. to what extent has coronavirus played a part in this? virgin atlantic, which led the consortium that took control of flybe, says this was about coronavirus, and the entire industry has been hit badly because people do not want to travel at the moment. they are worried about coming into contact with people who have the virus and they are worried

sam cowie is a journalist in brazil and hejoins us now from sao paulo.. thank you very much forjoining us. firstly, we saw president bolsonaro their shaking hands and he has been in quarantine. what is he saying about his own diagnosis? he has already said that he does not have the coronavirus and he gave an obscene gesture outside the presidential palace to the press, noting that his test had negative results. since then it is understood he is undertaking more tests and has entered or had entered, at least, a period of isolation which was expected to last for at least seven days. now wendy pro—government rallies kicked off today across the country and wendy pro—government rally advanced on the presidential palace and the capital, that was the second instance of when mr bolsonaro left his self—imposed, his advised isolation period. he went out to meet the demonstrators and took photographs with them, shook hands. earlier in the day before he met them personally it was understood he left isolation at the presidential palace in a car and accompanied a prot

hejoins me now. thanks for being on the briefing. tell me why you think sd briefing.inting is a game changer in this crisis? thank you for having me. well, in general, 3d printing — the main advantage of 3d printing at all levels is to kind of step in when the supply chains are broken. so when things cannot get from one place to another, you can bring them on location. —— print them. that is one of the biggest advantages of 3d printing. and in this kind of emergency we are going through it can become... inaudible davide sher, we are hoping to be able to hear you. you froze for a moment there was i'm sorry! can you hear me? you froze very few seconds. we hope the line remains intact because we wa nt the line remains intact because we want to hear what you have to say. could you just explain why you think 3d printing is so important? hospitals could print the ventilators they could desperately need, is that what we're looking at? absolutely. i hope i made point before. the benefit of 3d printing is it can step in when the supply chains are broken. when things cannot get

hejoins us now from surrey. what is the impact as things stand?... asa as it stands, businesses will get 80%... as a result of the coronavirus. if you are self—employed, i think universal credit, which pay something like £94 a week, that is not going to be enough. neil, i am afraid you are coming in and out. we're kind of hearing every other sentence. we better leave it here. we will try and re—establish the connection and we will come back to you when we can, but for the moment, thank very much. tributes have been paid to the country singer, kenny rogers, who's died aged 81. best known for hits like coward of the county and the gambler, he had 20 number ones in the us country charts. david silltoe reports. # baby when i met you, there was peace unknown. # i set out to get you with a fine tooth comb. # i was soft inside. # there was something... my mom said it very well one day. she said, "that boy never worked a day in his life. "all he ever did was sing." he'd grown up in houston, one of eight children in a poor family in the city's housing proj

hejoins me now from chicago.ert, thanks for joining robert, thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. are you surprised by this move?” here on bbc news. are you surprised by this move? i think there's some inevitability to it. he ran a remarkable campaign and, as he said, he did make the improbable possible, but the path to his victory seemed to narrow. i do think that there is some question as to the exact impact of this withdrawal. there was a morning console poll a couple of days ago that second choices to buttigieg, his own supporters' second choices, 61% we re supporters' second choices, 61% were for biden and 21% for sanders, i9% for biden, i9% for elizabeth warren and another 17% elizabeth warren and another i7% for bloomberg. there's not a definitive break to biden in that respect, but the one thing that respect, but the one thing that would be helpful to biden is by narrowing the field, this increases the odds a number of these candidates may reach the 1596 these candidates may reach the 15% of viability le

hejoins us now from berlin. thank you forjoining us.s saying the number of cases rise quite rapidly. why not fatalities. why is that? several reasons i think. most people would agree the primary reason is because essentially the initial outbreak here in germany was driven by younger people, younger people with milder symptoms and rarely ever dying from the disease. so essentially, that coincidence brought germany a bit of time. initially, the outbreak happened in areas where they celebrate carnival and then of course it was also driven by people coming back from their ski holiday in italy and austria, which became later hotspots of the virus in europe. and then the virus engulfed kindergartens in schools. so the initial wave was then pushed up, the age letter and it takes a while to get to the old and vulnerable. however, people are saying we will get there so we are about to experience a sort of dramatic change in that regard u nfortu nately. dramatic change in that regard unfortunately. there has been criticism of the united kingdom's

hejoins me now from southampton. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news.ask you first of all if you can explain to us the value that a ventilator might have in treating somebody with severe symptoms from coronavirus? of course. about one in 20 people who are infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced critical care, and some of those will need help breathing and that is where the ventilator comes in. the ventilator is just a sophisticated device for helping gas getting into the lungs and helping it to get out as well. where you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that at present the uk has about 5000 ventilators available? today that at present the uk has about 5000 ventilators available7m does not surprise me. we have not beenin does not surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5000, for what we would be currently using them for, would probably be a surplus but the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system in people that need intensive care, so we are short and we wi

hejoins us now from his home in east london. what was the holiday like?ought in in sri lanka while you were there. you're right. it was kind of like, you know, leaving home and we didn't realise the extent of what was happening at home and abroad. basically the restrictions were tighter and tighter as the time progressed. how well looked after we re progressed. how well looked after were you , progressed. how well looked after were you, though? how much information where you given? we were pretty lucky i think because we spoke to some long—term residents who had been living there and if the sri lanka government had laid out terms then they would follow through with them. the lockdown on the friday of the 21st at 5pm, that was enforced by the police and army troops, immediately. they did what they said they were going to do, basically. how touch and go was it for you to get a flight? it was fine, we stuck to the original schedule. people we knew that were away, they decided to cut short their trip because they didn't know about the borders being closed. 0n

hejoins me now from houston, texas. thank you so much forjoining us, peter hotez.rus itself because the key thing is many of the public are getting infected but health workers becoming infected has become a huge worry for people like you? yes, absolutely and thanks for having me on today. one of the things we noticed it coming out of wuhan, the chinese reported that in the epidemic in wuhan there were more than 1000 healthcare workers infected, with six deaths, and about 16%, about 1a.8%, were seriously ill and many required icu admission so and many required icu admission so that was a wake—up call that oui’ so that was a wake—up call that our healthcare workforce is highly to this virus and infection. it occurred to us here in the united states, and of course locally, that things good full down quickly if large numbers of the healthcare workforce went down and couldn't fight this infection, and the snowball effect of it becoming both demoralising and if healthcare workers feel they're not being adequately protected... we are worried things could break down and co

despite the anxiety that the country, the whole country is feeling about the coronavirus, can hejoincording our thanks to everyone who works in this place, and will keep the show on the road, because doesn't that set the best possible example to the rest of the country that we should keep things going and remain calm, in order to make sure that we carry on making rational decisions in this crisis. jacob rees—mogg agreed, but not everyone was quite so relaxed about the risk at westminster. an snp mp suggested the commons should look at alternatives to the traditional voting system where mps troop through the division lobbies a process that can take up to 15 minutes. we could use the deferred decision procedure, instead of having to stand in lobbies for up to 20 minutes in an extremely confined space with 600 other people. that could be done from the budget debate onwards, for as long as this emergency lasts. we could also look at ways in which people are able to vote without having to be here for an extended period of time. jacob rees—mogg had checked out the health risks of voting. a

hejoins me now from new york the virus obviously a really hot topic but trying to stem the spread createss. i often say to my patients the fear of contagion is more they relent than the actual illness itself. there's so much panic and mania around what everyone is afraid of that we actually sometimes have irrational thoughts and frighten ourselves more than we need to. the awareness of mental health has increased so much in recent yea rs, has increased so much in recent years, but maybe loneliness and the kind of problems that causes hasn't had so much attention? i would agree. so now we find ourselves throughout the world in social isolation or confined indoors shelter, we find we're actually lonelier. we find we're living with people who we not want to be with. we go to work and we get along better with them but we are now in this kind of quarantine. it's very important we understand loneliness isn't pure by the presence of a friend, that's only one part of the cure, loneliness is cured by having a sense of hobbies, a sense of religion and spirituality, being involved in work and feelin

hejoins me now. thank you for being with us. being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. what is your reaction to what we're seeing here? this is what we had been feeling and unfortunately we anticipated a week or so ago what we are seeing is the risk of health—care facilities being overwhelmed, particularly by the need to care for people who are having trouble breathing. they may need oxygen or ventilators. and tragically many health care workers becoming infected. that's why it's important to do the physical distancing, stay at home and that is a warning, to every city ever in the world to take this by this very seriously. because there is no city anywhere in the world that can withstand this kind of huge increase. we need better tools to control it. right now we are very blunt instrument, stay home. the president is suggesting that counties across america be categorised as high—risk or low—risk and social—distancing be relaxed based on that. what do you make of that plan? physical distancing does have to be released but we thi

we can speak now to jesse mckinley, the new york times albany bureau chief — hejoins me now from albany why this apparent u—turn from donald trump on quarantining new york? well, think that the action by the president came after a number of angry remarks from the governor of the state of new york, as well as other governors concerned about exactly what this quarantine would look like that. the president made this remark kind of casually this afternoon, but it set up a great deal of alarm against not only are residents of new york city, but environments around the city, which is suffering a pretty high toll right now from coronavirus stop the newest numbers out of the city this evening were that 222 people have died injust evening were that 222 people have died in just the last 2a hours. that's leading to concern not only about the virus itself, but about possible restrictions. and after the president made these remarks, people were even more upset. so i think the president heard that and then backtracked quite quickly. you know the area well, do you think such a quarantine would have be

hejoins us now from pittsburgh.rillion is a number that most of us find really difficult to conceive of or get into. i wonder if i canjust break it down. imagine family of two adults, two younger children. if the adults both lose their jobs, would this package when they could make it through the crisis? it remains to be seen and it depends how long the crisis last. they would be eligible for unemployment benefits and with other stimulus that would account for thousands of dollars. that should get them through a couple of months. if the economy gets into recession we would have to revisit that but this could make up for some lost income to allow families to pay the bills. this bill will provide loans to small businesses. if those small businesses. if those small businesses meet certain conditions and terms of keeping on their workers and continuing to pay them and pay rent and so forth, those lies will turn into grants so they will not have to repay them. this could make the difference between closing and staying ope

hejoins me from leeds. welcome to you both. thank you for taking the time to answer questions.ne comes from elaine. "it is clear that the symptoms of the virus are fever and persistent cough. but are the early symptoms different? "i have currently got sore throat, feel achy and a headache. "could this be the start of the virus?" that is a really good question. we know that the vast majority of people will have a fever and a cough as part of the illness, but there is as part of the illness, but there is a whole myriad of other symptoms. so a whole myriad of other symptoms. so a sore throats, headaches, aches all over, sometimes diarrhoea and vomiting, and we are also hearing loss of sense of smell and taste, all being part of it. it is an emerging illness. we are learning more and more each time. so if that lady has got a sore throat and a headache, i would take it as the coronavirus. don't take any risks, self—isolate for 14 days. the vast majority get a fever and cough, but there are other symptoms as well. "my husband is over 70 but i am not. should we both be self—isolating?

beckham had a huge impact on the mls when hejoined la galaxy as a player back in 2007, and was the catalystplayers to move to america. he now co—owns inter miami and they face los angeles fc later — six years after the former england captain bought into the franchise. britain's heather watson has won her fourth tour tennis title and her first since 2016, after victory at the mexico open. she wasted nine match points, but eventually came through in three sets against canada's leylah annie fernandez. she'll move into the world's top 50 again as a result. harlequins moved into the top half of rugby union's premiership, surprising leaders exeter in the dying moments at the stoop. trailing deep into added time, and with a man advantage, quins were awarded a penalty try, giving them a 34—30 win, and bonus point too. leicester and saracens also won yesterday. st helens ran in five tries to beat bottom side toronto in the super league and move up to second themselves. jonny lomax scored two tries for the saints and the newly promoted canadian outfit. they were struggling throughout. coach kristian

hejoins me now. vitally important. 50% of the british economy is self—employed.ers, you name it who are desperate for cash. does this help them equipment if the majority of their income is coming from self—employment and if their income is below £50,000 a year, it looks like this scheme really is very generous, more generous than what is put in place for employees. so it is a big offer for that group of the self—employed indeed. a big offer for that group of the self-employed indeed. can we be clear they can receive this money from jane and will come back to that point, as well as working. they can bring some income in as well. yes, where exit employee will be not able to work for their employer and their employer can to work for their employer and their employercan claim to work for their employer and their employer can claim 80% of their salary, the self—employed will not have that requirement it seems based on this so they continue to work. they may be less able to work at the moment if they are a plumber or a hairdresser as you say. and they will get what loo

hejoins me now.e you been hearing about people who are not covered by what the government has announced ? not covered by what the government has announced? there are a lot of people are very worried right now. people have been laid off or have dramatically reduced workloads, they don't have fixed hours or levels of pay, many of these people would be classified as workers, they work for another company, but they are not on paye, so they are not getting any sort of income protection. universal credit is absolutely not up to the task and they really need some action from the government now to protect them. yes, and by definition, if they are not being paid, they can't get work through no fault of their own, they can't pay the rent or mortgage, they may have children. this is very difficult, it isa children. this is very difficult, it is a huge number of people, isn't it? absolutely. this isn'tjust about the income protection, this is also the issue of sick pay. so even people who do qualify for statutor

hejoins me from his buckinghamshire home. johnny, so lovely to see you.lways talk straight to the camera when i was doing television. i talk straight to them now. very much individually. i've never been a teacher. i've only been a communicator, and that's what ido been a communicator, and that's what i do quite well. it's what i'm used to doing. there has to be some lightness and jokes and fun in it and that's what happens with all my math. one of my children love numbers and one of them doesn't. that's ok because she's really good at other thing, but you're brilliant at other thing, but you're brilliant at making # and used to tell stories. used to tell us about the greeks and how they did it. that's right. the greeks didn't give their numbers names. one was a, two was b, three was he. but they did geometry. they could explain the earliest greek mathematician, he knew the distance of the horizon depending on where your eyes were above the sea level. if they were two metres high, you can see five km. you had to be two times two or four times as high to se

hejoins me now via webcam.ere is still quite small but clearly the government is ratcheting up its management of this virus, how would you characterize where we are? the reason they are being cautious is because now we have some degree of experience with what is happening in other countries, including country va ry other countries, including country vary like this one so if you look at what happened in italy we have insight now into that trajectory this is likely to take. though the numbers appear quite low one has to remember that those are the cases we know about and there are probably lots of cases, a bit like an iceberg with much of that invisible underwater. that are probably lots of cases because in the majority of people this particular infection does not cause over symptoms and they do not know it and are passing it on. there is part of the reason that although there is a handful of cases, eight people have contracted the virus without leaving the country and now it is within the population. exactly and

hejoins us now from florence, where he's on lockdown.could start with you first, lots of questions coming in about the testing process. most to do with what is happening in the uk but also internationally. i don't know if you caught the government press conference a couple of hours ago saying we would be testing 25,000 people a day well saying le a day well before the end of march, yet we struggled to get to 10,000. why? the testing that i think has been referred to herein as the virus detection test is the one where if you are infected and cinematic. 0verexposed in incubating then you have the ability to detect the presence of the virus. now this is an enormous undertaking to scale up. what you require is a law of traded people, equipment and reagents and the scale to than a sample and move samples around where the plates where testing is. that reallyjust ta kes a where testing is. that reallyjust takes a while to scale. i think we are doing quite well i can always be doing better. but it is really the time delay in getting things to wo

cliff walker is the deputy executive director of the texas democrats, hejoins us now.is one of these candidates the person that can flip texas from republican to democratic? well, first, thank you for having me. second, i should note that as the texas democratic party we administer the primaries in the states i'd be cautious not to say anything that might be perceived as advantage in the candidate but i will say that the changes in texas are largely stretchable. we have over 3 million people or approaching that you have registered to vote since 2016. the majority are overwhelmingly majority democratic. there is a clear path for us to win for the ticket as well as flipping oui’ for the ticket as well as flipping our legislative chamber and also picking up a us senate seat. can we talk about michael bloomberg. he spent $400 million, it is a dated driven campaign during delete drilling into the numbers and people say that going back into 2016 the democrats didn't have a very good ground game. that is strength, do you think? i can say that there has clearly been an investm

one of the world health organisation's six special envoys is dr david nabarro, and hejoins me now fromiently to talk to us. the government in downing street is saying we are not moving on to the delay face yet, we are still in containment. what is your take on the uk government response?” containment. what is your take on the uk government response? i was impressed to hear the words of the prime minister as well as the chief medical advisors. it all makes sense. what we are seeing around the world is that different countries are recognising the severity of the different outbreaks that are taking place and are all moving forward with strategies, and it was particularly relevant that the chief medical officer said we may well need to enhance what we do and have more robust action within the next ten days, and i noted the prime minister kept on slipping and maybe we will have to do that, and my only comment would be that most other countries are finding that they have to be ready to enhance the action they are taking to take the sting out of these outbreaks and to limit them and delay the

hejoins me now. briefing a bit of rain and noise as well. taking us by surprise these packages.ers, helping small business at a very difficult period and with some pretty uncertain factors coming up towards us. what is your take? it is good that the government bowed to union pressure in terms of confirming sick pay for day one, but there's still too million workers who work less than £118 a week and will not qualify in their put in the position of deciding whether to go into work when they're not well it should be at home. so there's no help from them in this package?” at home. so there's no help from them in this package? i would like to see the government change the rules of all workers are protected with sick pay and a decent rate from day one. but this has been a spin, spin, spin budget. but we need to do now is get around the table, unions, government and business so that we target that support where it is needed most, including, if necessary , needed most, including, if necessary, which subsidies will keep them open. what are your members sing today about the kind of packa

hejoins us now from leigh.w there is more accountability in the system and that hopefully should mean in due course better services. but what exactly due course better services. but what exa ctly d oes due course better services. but what exactly does that mean in practical terms? if i'm getting on a train later this morning, what will be different about that service and about the people running it? well, as you quoted me as saying, i think people shouldn't expect dramatic improvements. the railways take a long time to change. i've learned that myself over the last couple of yea rs. that myself over the last couple of years. but i'm confident in the team that has been put in charge of this andi that has been put in charge of this and i think we are looking at some timetable changes. they may come later in the year, but that is at the heart of this. there are too many trains going through the city centre of manchester. and those trains are queueing and that causes disruption right across the north. while it won'

hejoins me now.ina so far. the figures we've had from their is that 1596 figures we've had from their is that 15% of the over 80s are fatally exposed to the virus. whereas for the younger population, under 50s, the younger population, under 50s, the fatality rate is a lot lower. what advice would you give people because elderly, sick residents, they rely on visitors, many of them, don't they? well, we've been in touch with a number of leading care home providers this week and almost all of them are giving out advice to avoid nonessential visits to their loved ones and obviously minimise interaction where you can. what does that mean in practice? the problem is once the virus gets into a care home, you have to take urgent and quite extreme measures? yes, absolutely. i think obviously they are looking at a number of ways in order to screen these people, they've been looking at screening people from the category one and two macro countries that are most exposed to the virus. they are looking at a number

let's speak to the conservative mp andrew murrison, who's also a doctor, hejoins me now on the line.in your take of the development of the last few hours. this shows that we are all susceptible to this virus, i am very sorry that borisjohnson and members of his top team have succumbed to this but all credit to them to continuing to work, it shows that this disease can range from the very severe indeed down to people not having symptoms at all and lots of things in between, so it is an extraordinary virus that we are learning about all the time. they have been many comments in the last week or two, we have got used to the 5pm press briefings, there have been a lot of observations, a lot of public activities have been carried out with senior cabinet ministers not standing are required two metres apart. does this reinforce to the public that this is what we should all be doing? 0r public that this is what we should all be doing? or we should be doing social distancing i think there has been some confusion on this point over the last two days. itjust shows that this is completely new and

hejoins me via webcam from walton—on—thames. thank you for being with us. last two weeks from self—employed people all over the country who are desperately worried. they have seen their income fall off the edge of a cliff. we are looking for a reassuring announcement today from the chancellor that will let people sleep a bit more soundly at night. we are looking for something akin to what he did for the employees last week, where he offered to protect 80% of their income. so, it has got to be as good as for salaried workers? it is as simple as that? i think that is what we are looking for. the self—employed don't come to the government with their hands out. they are self—sufficient people, but these are unprecedented times. we have seen an unprecedented package for businesses and employees and we are looking for parity with that. for businesses and employees and we are looking for parity with thatm your role as director of lizzie at the association, you have been working with the government to try to come up with some kind of mitigation package in dealing w

hejoins us now from salford. what are your concerns? good afternoon.gh levels of anxiety, and that is crippling with what we are facing at the moment. what is your advice to manage this? first, manage how much news you are taking in. we have a 24—7 news cycle and if you are constantly watching the news, that will only make you more anxious. maybe have a preset time where you will check what is happening. if we are going to have daily bulletins going forward from medical advisers, maybe that is the time to check the news and monitor what is happening, just once a day. is it important for there to be transparency on the latest developments so that there is at least some sense of knowing as much as you can about where we are going? absolutely. that is why we would advise that following the official briefings would be the best place to get that information and not looking at other sources, particularly social media, where sometimes things get distorted and it is not always accurate and up—to—date information. stick to the official briefings. but to look af

hejoins us now. it is lovely to see her smiling face this morning.sn't there for us. asa in the guidance wasn't there for us. as a dental community we quite early on recognised how ppe and aerosols that would create from our treatment was endangering and passing on the covert virus. it wasn't what we wa nted covert virus. it wasn't what we wanted to happen at that point in time. a couple of weeks ago we decided to put our drills down and, u nfortu nately, we decided to put our drills down and, unfortunately, we had to step away from treating our patients. luckily this week the chief dental officer has come out and shut down all dental practices across the country for the safety of not transmitting covid—19. so it has been a great effort. it was a sad time for us in the clinic because, you know, we are used to helping people. we felt as if we were not able to do our part for the nhs. but, if we were not able to do our part forthe nhs. but, luckily if we were not able to do our part for the nhs. but, luckily enough, we have been able to volunteer over

peter drobac is an expert in infectious diseases at oxford university, and hejoins me now. we are now? here in the uk, i think we are now? here in the uk, i think we are at sort of a transition point, where we expect the number of cases to rise significantly sometime over the next couple of weeks. we don't know exactly when, of course, and i think the response here in the uk to this point has been very exceptional, but i do think it is time to really consider seriously some of the social distancing measures that you mentioned, like closing of large gatherings, and some pre—emptive working from home, possibly even closures of schools. what evidence we do have about dealing with respiratory viral epidemics like this suggests that social distancing works best when it is implemented before the surge in cases rather than after. what bike i was going to ask you exactly that point about it, because it feels like it is a wait and see in the meantime it is getting out there, and then is there a danger of getting to a point where the social distancing is a waste of time? not that it'

with me is tom macinnes, chief analyst at citizens advice — hejoins me from east london. faces. backa people looking at your content. it is, different faces. back a couple of weeks, people were worried about things like cancelling a holiday, getting money back for cancelled flights. then we saw a huge increase in people being worried about sick pay, reading about what their entitlement was to sick pay. last week we saw a growth in everything, so redundancies, people looking for advice on redundancy, as well as universal credit, things around self—employment. we saw a rise 27 fold in the number of people who are looking for advice on how to chop up their prepayment metres when they can get out of the house and can't afford to. it is a broad range. as this goes on, the people working in the support surfaces that administer these, there will be a shortage of staff there. that's right. we are trying to make sure that our advice is as up—to—date as possible, so we have people working on improving and updating this all the time. if people need help from citizens advice they can

hejoins me now. peter, thank you for taking the time to talk to us.ut to the pub, let‘s take the pub people, especially people who need fresh food and fresh drink and so on. and we can do that quite easily. i am thinking of the most isolated people in the communities. and a lot of pubs are very community focused now, and we are itching to do something. we do not want to lay off our staff, we have got the freshest food possible, and my fear, especially having gone to a large supermarket yesterday, but there was no hygiene practice in place whatsoever, i think we are the most hygienic option at the moment to get food to people in their homes where they need it, especially in the rural areas. so you, like a lot of other people in so many sectors, are thinking imaginatively about how you can cope with few weeks, potentially month‘s, head. so how would that work? somebody can phone in an order or sending work? somebody can phone in an order orsending an work? somebody can phone in an order or sending an order online, and you would deliver this to their doo

hejoins me now from west london. professor marshall, thank you so much for talking to us.the gps you represent? this is a massive challenge for general practice. we know that tens of thousands of gps across the country are rising to this challenge. they're working flat out, they're increasingly on the front of care for people with covid, they will be dealing with more patients who are infected, and increasingly sick patience who are infected as well, so what we are concerned about is the availability of the protective gear that we need. we hear what ministers are saying, we understand how frustrating it is, the logistic challenges that they're experiencing, but what we're hearing from gps around the country are three concerns. the first one is about the availability of the protective equipment. is there enough out there and is it getting to the right places? there remains gaps. the second is about the quality of the protective equipment. 0urgps given quality of the protective equipment. 0ur gps given adequate cover? at the moment, it comprises a face mask a plastic apron a

over time, that will shift. 0ur health correspondent was at the briefing and hejoins me now.heard one or two say we might be able to get rid of the virus. professor chris whitty said it would be highly improbable, to go away. it is here, we need to manage it. long term they hope for a vaccine but that we know is a year or 18 months away at best. what we need to do it he says is help the nhs cope, that is why we are trying to suppress the cases so we do not see a flood of people needing hospital treatment and needing to go to intensive care. it was interesting towards the end of the briefing where he was asked, they we re briefing where he was asked, they were asked the message about social distancing, is it landing? people pretty much going out and about as normal. talking about younger and colder people. the chief scientific adviser answered this question, he said young people must stop going to pubs and rations. whilst young people tend not to be badly affected, very few end up in hospital, he said that help of —— sort of behaviour help spread the virus and puts the colder

hejoins me from haringey in north london. good morning. thanks forjoining us.o hear from the chancellor? what we need to see is a recognition that we have now certainly move from just a medical crisis into our economic crisis and its important to understand as a lwa ys its important to understand as always when we go into economic crises the exact nature of the one we face and in this case it is one thatis we face and in this case it is one that is going to be particularly felt ha rd est by lower that is going to be particularly felt hardest by lower earners, low income families because they are the ones that work in the sectors hit most by the social distancing measures we are putting in place. for good reasons, to tackle the medical emergency, but they are having very fast and that economic effects. secondly, the nature of this challenge is that we cannot say too firms and to families, when it will end and that is particularly dangerous because it means firms, fa don't know what the end of the tunnel is, they might lay off workers and families don't know how

hejoins us from his home in staffordshire. thank you forjoining us.to get new powers on thursday, banning gatherings of more than two people. how easy or difficult is that going to be to enforce ? difficult is that going to be to enforce? i think it is going to be very difficult to enforce unless we see further reduction in the number of people out. the government has closed down a number of business centre facilities. i think there will need to be another change in the public mood because we can then really reduce the number of people that are out there travelling on the road and foot, it gives the police some chance to intervene but fines will be used certainly in the initial phase in very few cases. the m has got to be for the vast majority of the public to support this and change their behaviour and absolutely work with the police and cooperate with the police so that there is the least amount of enforcement required. are there in fa ct enforcement required. are there in fact police numbers available to enforce this? no. and that is really the cas

hejoins me via webcam. hello there. thank you so much for joining us.bout decisions ta ken throughout and we have been hearing about decisions taken throughout the day by ministers and by had teachers and by ministers and by had teachers and by school staff on how they are going to safeguard children‘s education in the weeks ahead. this decisions will also affect whether this one and a half million children who usually receive free school meals will be hungry in the weeks ahead. and the secretary of state for education announced last week where he sees this programme going, if we are to continue this prevention for children so we are talking about schools and the tensions remaining open as collection points for parents to come and get food to take home for their children but clearly he thinks that will take time to build up said that will take time to build up said thatis that will take time to build up said that is the kind of moderate feeding britain, and that weeks ahead. the secretary of state need the voucher scheme that can in for today for pa ren

hejoins us from glasgow this morning. thank you very much.e a cough, new consistent cough and a fever you should stay home. the mass gathering thing that we implemented at the end of last week in scotland, starting today, is to free up resell losses. we will need all the nhs resources we can get. it will not be an easy few months. so paramedics, ambulances, doctors, we decided that any mass gathering of over 500 that needs any resources will not happen from today. can i also ask you about school closure. this is a question we getan school closure. this is a question we get an awful lot. it seems to be from those who listen carefully to what was being set at various conferences last week, at some stage those school closures look like they will happen. why not implement that now? what is the thinking behind that? there is no plans for a blanket school closure in any of the four countries and we are trying as much as we possibly can to make these decisions uk wide. so the clinical advisors, the four chief medical officers and the politicians hav

hejoins us now. what do you have in store, andrew?rtly hold joe wicks responsible for our so big tool. all those lunges at that time of the morning is not good for me. coming up in the next half—hour on breakfast, the world's oldest man turns 112 today — we'll find out how bob weighton plans to mark his big day while keeping himself safe from the coronavirus. hello, this is breakfast with rogerjohnson and nina warhurst. here's a summary of this morning's main news. things will get worse before they get better — that will be the message from the prime minister as he writes to every household in britain. urging people to stay at home to save lives, borisjohnson's letter also says the government will not hesitate to bring in more drastic measures to help stop the virus from spreading. president trump has said he will not put new york and two neighbouring states on lockdown — but he has issued official advice for residents to avoid non—essential travel for the next two weeks. mr trump had earlier told reporters he was considering a period

hejoins us from our london newsroom. thank you very much indeed for joining us.ransmission in the uk. what we don't know is exactly how widespread that will be. all of our efforts at the moment are still to identify anybody who has got the illness, to identify their contacts and isolating them, and doing all that we can to reduce the spread of infection. that's important because that will reduce the intensity of infections so that the intensity of infections so that the challenges we may inevitably face with this will be reduced as faras we are face with this will be reduced as far as we are able to reduce them. you seem to be indicating that widespread infection is inevitable. can you put a number on it? no, we can't put a number on that until we know. i wouldn't say it is inevitable but it is highly likely. the point of that is we have to be prepared for a range of different eventualities. it is not clear, if you look at the experience in other countries, some countries do appear to have managed to have get this a little bit more under control. we have seen the

hejoins us from nottingham. i believe you are cringing listening to yourself. which we certainly have already seen nurses and doctors and medical staff in belfast preaching that same message, stay—at—home. do you think, is it getting through?” message, stay—at—home. do you think, is it getting through? i think it definitely needs to. whether it is not, not too sure. when i went out early on saturday, to what i thought was an open space, with my three children, it was a national trust property and by the time we were leaving, there were trafficjams and people walking on the paths and i think it's that idea that while it may not seem, if you are within two metres, you can spread it, and if we stayed home now, it will be two weeks down the line that we save lives. your wife is a paediatric doctor, you're a gp. the pair of you are fully immersed in the medical profession. in terms of the challenges ahead, what you anticipating? what is going to be the real challenge? i think we've beenin the real challenge? i think we've been in the preparation phase. com pletely b