b in . M12 0 w amgzggfi iiulei tamgzgfi iiulei afigfait, t6a166. ; ;§;6a he afiglaitg he t 6a 6 61 16; 6a itu16. Twit. Itu16. eu 9 11. Through the night, the rain and showers will ease away and windfalls are light and sky is clear, so temperatures likely to fall quite sharply and the blue tones denote where they will fall below freezing, so do expect a frost first thing on monday morning, with a shock to the system but monday will be predominantly dry, settled in sunny and a little bit milder from tuesday onwards. Hello, youre watching a bbc news. I am ben brown. The headlines. The Health Secretary warns that measures to combat coronavirus will disrupt the lives of everybody, and older people and those with Health Conditions will be asked to stay at home. President trump and borisjohnson discuss the pandemic by phone. Number ten says they agreed on the importance of co ordinating international action. Supermarkets urge shoppers not to buy more than they need, amid growing evidence of panic buying. The Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to spain, after a state of emergency was declared there last night. In france, the government orders the closure of most public places, including all cafes, restaurants, cinemas and non essential shops. Usually at this time wed be catching up with the latest results
after a bumper saturday of top level sport. Not so this weekend almost all professional matches or events have been abandoned, so were using this as an opportunity to find out whats happening at grassroots level. Richard askam is at unsworthjunior Football Club in manchester. Thank you very much indeed. As you know, most elite professional sport is either postponed or cancelled. At grassroots level, things continue. This is unsworth junior grassroots level, things continue. This is unsworthjunior football clu b this is unsworthjunior Football Club at whitefield, near barry, in greater manchester. As you can see, a practice match is going on at the moment, some of the boys played a competitive game yesterday, the girls will play one this afternoon as well. I am joined by the co chair of the Football Club, chris lines. Thank you forjoining us. A difficult decision, talk about that and whether you are happy you have made the right one. We are hoping
and believe we have made the right decision. The schools remain open, Lancashire Football Association gave us Lancashire Football Association gave us guidance on friday afternoon to see that grassroots can continue as normal. Our Football League set to continue playing as normal. So, the boys played yesterday and the girls are playing this afternoon. There are playing this afternoon. There are other leagues in the area who have cancelled. 500 plus people, so i understand their decision. The guidance from the lancashire fa was to continue. You can see from the turn of this morning that the pa rents turn of this morning that the parents have voted with their feet. If they didnt want to be here they would not bring the children out. Children have school tomorrow. We have training on tuesday and friday. If the schools were too close, i am sure we would make a decision as a clu b to sure we would make a decision as a club to stop all football activity, but until then, we will continue as planned. It is a difficult decision, thank you, chris. We have a couple
of pa rents thank you, chris. We have a couple of parents here. Natalie and david. How are you . Thank you for speaking to us. You have a son that plays on this club. How happy or worried are you, or otherwise, naturally, about the decision to carry on playing . While the boys continue at school, we are taking it day by day and looking at the advice. We are not too worried. The boys are interacting with each other at school. Every day they are doing pe. Until that changes in the school says it is closing, we are happy for them to keep coming. He loves coming, he gets good exercise and loves coming here he gets to see his friends. He would be more isolated at home and then start to panic about it. So we are not too worried about it. So we are not too worried about it. So we are not too worried about it at the moment. David, i guess that is why it is a difficult decision. You can see how much the youngsters enjoy this. That is part of the consideration, even though we are any serious situation. Yes, it was a difficult decision. As we have seenin was a difficult decision. As we have seen in the media at the moment, the advice from Public Health england and the advice from the league is
that we are good to play. The last thing that we need was for these quys thing that we need was for these guys to be sat in their bedrooms isolated from their friends. They wa nt to isolated from their friends. They want to carry on as usual, and we wa nt want to carry on as usual, and we want that, to take their minds off things, at least for an hour or two. They can have fun, exercise with their friends, they can have fun, exercise with theirfriends, and they can have fun, exercise with their friends, and carry they can have fun, exercise with theirfriends, and carry on they can have fun, exercise with their friends, and carry on as normal, as much as we can at the moment. Thank you for speaking to us, enjoy the football. We have another couple of youngsters here. Ben and alfie. Is this ben . This is ben. Hello to you both. We have been watching you, some great stuff and great goals. Tell me, firstly, if you couldnt play football, how much ofa you couldnt play football, how much of a problem would it be for you and how would you feel . of a problem would it be for you and how would you feel . I would be disappointed on board. We are used to it. We like enjoy it. And we would miss seeing your friends because most of them dont go to the same school and if the school closes, we would not see them. And
what about you, alfie, how much do you enjoy football and how much would you miss it . I would miss it a lot. It is a weekly routine. You go to training on tuesday and friday, then you will play a match on saturday. And then it is a bit boring if it is called. Exactly. Are you concerned . Not really, because, well, if we live in an area that is not close to where it has been, so, yes. I have been watching both of you, you are great players and scoring goals. I know you cannot shake hands, show us what you do when you score. We do that with the elbow. And if it won . I like that. Do that again. There we go. Get back to the football. Really appreciate that. That is what the youngsters are doing when they score a goal. Hopefully that gives you a sense of what people are talking about here, what people are talking about here, what they are feeling. From unsworth junior Football Club, back to you. Hello, and welcome to our sunday morning paper review. With me are dave wooding the Political Editor of the sun on sunday and sienna rodgers, who is the editor of labour list. Lets take a look at the front pages. The telegraph says that Boris Johnson will demand the uks biggest businesses transform their Assembly Lines to produce ventilators in a bid to help the nhs. The express says government plans could see people over 70 asked to self isolate. The war on the virus has begun, says the sunday mirror, as ministers plan to use 8,000 private hospitals beds for infected patients. The people says the nhs will pay nearly £2. 5 million a day to use the private beds. The mail on sunday has more details of the governments plans that
could see the army called in to help guard hospitals and supermarkets. More on coronavirus in the sunday times the papers says families could be forced to self isolate if one member has symptoms of the infection. And the observers lead is a warning from some of the uks top scientists, who say ministers have been too slow in their measures to delay the spread of coronavirus. Well, that is just a look at the front pages. Let us take you through them in more detail. Sienna, lets start with the sunday telegraph and the Prime Minister puts industry on a war footing to the Prime Minister puts industry on a warfooting to equip the Prime Minister puts industry on a war footing to equip the the Prime Minister puts industry on a warfooting to equip the nhs for the battle ahead. A lot of military type terminology used at the moment. Definitely. Obviously, we know one of the biggest problems will be the resources that the nhs has, as whether staffing it is difficult to resource the nhs so quickly, because this stuff cant happen overnight. The Prime Minister
is asking manufacturers, including rolls royce, to produce these ventilators, because we are going to need, i mean, multiple times more than we already have to deal with this. I think the fact that it says the Prime Minister is urging or asking, is concerning. Perhaps the government should be telling manufacturers to do this. But that is quite difficult, because we have an unregulated economy and we have to switch quickly to actually Tell Companies what to do in order to do with this crisis. Dave, other companies will be prepared to go along with us, do you think, to help in this National Effort . In journalism, we use the word war quite a lot, whether it is on poor school standards, whatever. Ithink this is one justifiable use of that word. It is effectively the biggest crisis in peacetime, but it is similartoa war crisis in peacetime, but it is similar to a war in that we need to get behind the National Effort. Similar to a war in that we need to get behind the National Effortm was like we need a wartime spirit any sense. Yes, the Prime Minister is suggesting that as all the factories produced arms and munitions during the war, what we need now is to produce things to help patients, the medical kit, including those ventilators and he has promised to buy all of them. I think that is a good positive step. 0k, think that is a good positive step. Ok, lets go to the observer, siena. Thats another line on this, getting everybody to help, relay, which is the nhs and private hospitals, joining forces to fight this outbreak. Yes, the nhs as we know does not have enough beds or i beds, and they will have to increase that capacity enormously over the next few weeks. And i mean immediately, as soon as possible. In order to do that, i think there is a discussion of either taking or paying for private beds to be used by the nhs. It says here, the headline is that
the nhs and private hospitalsjoin forces to fight the crisis. But, as the sunday people pointed out, it might cost the nhs 2. 4 million each day in order to use those beds. So, you know, this is a bit like a wartime sort of situation, and i think there is a lot of good arguments to be made that those beds need to be taken by the nhs, not for the taxpayer to pay such huge amounts for them, because Everyone Needs to pull together. Is there a sense that the money is no object in terms of what the government spends on this at the moment . Rishi sunak, the chancellor, in his budget, only a few days ago, feels like an age ago he said that money would be made available for whatever is needed. But even a few days into this crisis, you can see the bill going through the roof faster than the numberof going through the roof faster than the number of people who have been struck down with this virus. But, yes, borisjohnson has said that he will buy these beds. I think sienna
is correct. There must be a deal, perhaps they will come to a deal where he buys them for a cut price figure. Commandeering is something you do do any time of war. Exactly. Lets go on to the mail. They have the angle that the army might be called in both to guard hospitals and also supermarkets. Because we have seen so much of this panic buying, havent we . Can you really see that happening . You sense when you walk through the streets of london. I cant speak for other cities, because i have not been around them since this happened, but you walk around the streets of london and you feel a. An eerie silence. Normally the populous areas are different. But it is very quiet, almost a ghost town like feel. The mail on sunday are saying that the hospitals, if people were to become
desperate for treatment and they we re desperate for treatment and they were not getting treatment, then they would have to put on some kind of security. The supermarkets are complaining about people panic buying. If that was to escalate into looting, that would be another problem need to be tackled. So public order is another issue perhaps in the background at the moment, but it is something nevertheless that the government has to prepare for. Sienna, the story in the mail talks about emergency legislation being put before mps in a matter of days, with lots of different provisions, including measures to speed up cremations and burials. Yes, this came out over the weekend, and it is included here. We will be seeing the details of this d raft will be seeing the details of this draft legislation, which apparently they are aiming to push it through Parliament Within the next two weeks. And we will see some more details on tuesday, i think. It includes measures. Extra police powers, but also, yes, speeding up cremations and burials. So some of those safeguards introduced after
doctor Harold Shipman on that scandal, so some of that stuff is going to be reduced. Sojopp so doctors checking less on the bodies in that sort of thing. This kind of talk is quite scary, but those kind of measures will have to be taken. Dave, of course, there has been some criticism and rumblings of criticism of the government under Boris Johnson in the last few days, that may be draconian measures like those that sienna mentioned should have been considered earlier and that the government has not taken a dramatic enough step soon enough. What is your reading of that . We were saying before that this is dominating the news agenda and will do for someones on the way that brexit dominated the news agenda for 3. 5 years, four years. Another similarity i have noticed is the polarisation of Public Opinion on this. There are people, one taxi driver who was taking me around the other day, said, what is a problem, it isjust a virus, the flu, lots of
people die of the flu every year. We are going into panic mode. Some people are like that. Seizing on the underground trains are not washing their hands or worrying about anything. Then you have the other people at the other extreme who are ina people at the other extreme who are in a virtual panic mode and Walking Around with masks on their face, plastic gloves etc. So, it is difficult to see through that on what boris is doing. They have a plan which the have been recommended to them by their scientific and medical advisors, and really we have to put our trust in them. It is different from the way that it has been done in italy, but they are having problems, too. But time will tell if borisjohnson has having problems, too. But time will tell if Boris Johnson has got this right or not. Sienna, we looked at the front page of the mail, but going inside, they have a focus on some of this panic buying, a panic buying rampage as they suggest, sparking concern in number ten. And we have pictures of empty shells in
sainsburys, stripped by 7am. Tesco left looking like a riot zone, says the mail on sunday. There are some pretty extraordinary scenes. These photos are awful. You were seeing lots of streets in london were like a ghost town, but my local yesterday, it was packed, my local supermarket. People were shopping. Especially dry goods, pasta, rice, people taking all of these dry goods, because they are stockpiling. We might come to it, but there was a poll, people in favour of food rationing. That is because people are looking at the shelves and are getting worried that they will not getting worried that they will not get these nonperishable foods for
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