stadium thanks to goals from rudyje—stead and lewis wing, but lewis grabban‘s equaliser means middlesbroughation zone. as for forest, they remain fourth in the table. now to something that's affected nearly 100,000 people worldwide, spread across 60 countries and claimed around 3,000 lives. the coronavirus. it's not only having a devastating effect on lives around the globe, but sporting events as well. today the swiss football league has been suspended until at least 23rd march, and the international champions cup matches in asia this summer have been cancelled altogether. while england's cricketers won't shake hands on their tour to sri lanka. so how's it going to affect the premier league? jurgen klopp thinks it won't. how much sense it would make two delete all the results of this season delete all the results of this season and tell me who plays next year would be really interesting. it's a nice story but but when i saw it first time i thought wow, somebody thinks something like that so. somebody thinks something like that so. liverpool fans are not silly enough to believe these things

but lewis grabban's equaliser means middlesbrough stay in the relegation zone.ast over whether the six nations would continue this weekend. after ireland against italy was postponed, officials decided earlier today that the other two matches this weekend, england against wales and scotland v france, will go ahead as planned. our sports correspondent alex capstick was in paris, where world rugby held their meeting. here at the headquarters, the team have been practising ahead of their game against scotland over the weekend in edinburgh where they hope to reserve their unbeaten record in this year's tournament. a statement released earlier today says as it stands, that match will go ahead as planned. members of the six nations council have been meeting here in paris to discuss the ramifications of the coronavirus crisis. they will take advice from health experts and from governments. borisjohnson has had a meeting in london today in which he said the expected the disease to spread but they had a plan in which more details will be revealed in the next days and week

the first people i meet are on the 63, along the teesside coast and into middlesbrough. doing a thing about buses. is this a good bus? no, it's not? the journey is about nine miles, takes about 20 minutes and costs £6.50. what would it take to keep you on the buses? reduce the fares, because every few months the fares are going up and up and up. what do you think the general view is of buses amongst your mates? i think the general view is that, you know, pensioners use them because they've got free bus passes. they say it's a pensioners' service, you know? well, the prime minister wants it to be a bit more than that. the government has announced it's spending £5 billion on the bus and cycle networks. now, that's a lot of investment. but is it enough to get people back on the buses? this is stillington, a village of about 1,300 people six miles from stockton—on—tees. a minibus run by the council goes into town just four times a day. the first bus is at ten. with only 1a seats for the whole village, there's always a queue. tell us about the bus service for your village. it

let's speak now to the shadow transport secretary andy mcdonald, who joins us from his home in middlesbroughonald, really great for you to speak to us. the government is set to announce more help for the self—employed who currently might have to get by on just £94 a week if they lose work, presumably labour would welcome this. i wouldn't welcome them surviving on £94 a week. this has been too long in coming. there are people who want to do as borisjohnson has praise people for staying at home, doing the right thing. there's plenty of self—employed people, construction workers amongst them, that want to do workers amongst them, that want to d o exa ctly workers amongst them, that want to do exactly that but hitherto have been forced to go out of their homes every day to get on public transport in many cases, and go to work when their choice would be to stay—at—home. can be put right by making sure that they are financially secure, so when we come to the announcement tomorrow, i'm looking to see that rishi sunak put those workers with the announcement he's made, that's critically important to

we are bringing that down to near middlesbrough where we will make the gel, bottle it and dispatch itrmal wholesale retail chains as well, that is the plan. we will do that hopefully in the next ten days. we have been working on it for about a week so farand think we working on it for about a week so far and think we will have it up and running, we are installing it now, up running, we are installing it now, up and running by the end of this week. said that is your plan. what i meant by my question was you think you can do it relatively quickly, not that you had to speak quickly, i am sorry if that wasn't clear! that is fine, i took it for both. that is obviously some good news. the whole issue of ppe equipment goes far beyond hand sanitiser is but your point is that you are already in that realm of manufacturing, so what is driving you as a company to try and distribute the sanitiser free of charge, certainly to nhs hospitals, which is what i understand it happening? correct. we went to the government and said, we want to help in any way we can. we have people and expertise. one of t