This is bbc news with the latest headlines. As the cost of dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis now stands at nearly £190 billion, the chancellor warns there could be worse to come with a significant increase injob losses. Is unemployment going to rise, are people going to lose theirjobs . Yes. And the scale of this is significant. We are entering one of the most severe recessions this country has ever seen. Pressure is now growing on the government to open up beauty salons and gyms in england. Dozens of people have spent the night in temporary accommodation, after a crane collapsed on a row of houses in east london. A woman died in the incident in bow. As the us breaks its record for the most new coronavirus cases
reported in one day President Trump threatens to cut off funding for us schools which fail to reopen. Hello, and welcome to bbc news. Im annita mcveigh. The chancellor, rishi sunak, has this morning been defending his £30 billion package of measures designed to save jobs an
The prince soon, then. Bloody hell the prince chats to younger fans alongside the exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. exhibition, which documents British Racing over the years. I now officially open the silverstone experience. For lewis hamilton, there is no stepping back as he goes for a seventh world title. For harry and meghan this is their last engagement as senior royal family members is on monday. Time for a look at the weather. Heres stav da naos thank you, ben. Good afternoon. Before we move on to the weekend, lets enjoy todays sunshine. The weather watcher shows blue sky over Central London after yesterdays washout. You can see a lot of sunshine around over the next few hours. Some fair weather cloud in the far east. We have some cloud and
showers for scotland into Northern Ireland and western wales and the south west. Some wintriness over the high ground of scotland. After that cold frosty start, a chilly afternoon, but we will have sunshine. That first
To the south and takes a low dives to the south and takes a low pressure away. Mid week it buckles north turning things wet and windy but at the end of the week back to square but at the end of the week back to square one, but at the end of the week back to square one, sitting in the chillier air with square one, sitting in the chillier airwitha square one, sitting in the chillier air with a showery north westerly weather regime. For the following week, still chilly with temperatures a couple of degrees below average. Many of us should see some distance both of sunshine but there will be showers in the air will be cold enough for them to be wintry across high ground and then through the middle of the week, windy spell of weather. Not named storm type weather. Not named storm type weather but the windiest of the five days of the week ahead and probably the wettest as well. In the short term it is that wintry weather for a bring our focus to as we had through tonight and particularly for
Running on stock markets in the United States and europe. The dowjones index in new york has slumped more than 6 since opening on monday. Earlier, europes stock exchanges all ended the day about 2 down. The global total of covid 19 cases is now above 80,000, with a sharp rise in cases in south korea. More than a dozen people were killed in the indian capital, delhi, in the worst rioting between hindus and muslims for decades. And trending on social media is the moment two of the worlds most famous young women campaigners met. Nobel peace prize winner, malala yousufzai, told climate activist, greta thunberg, she was the only person she would skip school for. Thats all. Thank you for watching bbc news. More on our web site
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The key to italy so far. They have done so many tests. I feel like they are communicating pretty well what is going on but this is a difficult thing to control and obviously it is changing very quickly. I know you are not in the quarantine area but i know the mayor where you area but i know the mayor where you are has put steps in place a bet museums and restaurants, whats the situation . Where we are right now, like the rest of italy, all the Public Schools are closed, many public offices are closed. My accountant is closed, the pharmacies and public shops like that, they are having policy is what you can only go in one at a time. The mayor are shut down places like the Wedding Reception venues and also the cinemas as well. There is already
steps in place to get things going. Are very good of you to take time to speak to us and bbc news, and look after yourself. No doubt coronavirus will be on the front pages of many of the newspapers tomorrow and we of course will be taking a closer