things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
and drizzle around. as we go through the day, the winds will start to strengthen and we see rain pushing into northern ireland in western scotland. a mild day, 9 12 c. windy across western areas tomorrow evening, gusts of 40 15 mph, may be 70 mph gusts across north west scotland. a weather warning for that. the blustery and wet weather will sink south east into the first part of wednesday. it will try to clear but you can see another pulse of rain pushing in from the south west, and with that, the winds will once again strengthen. that takes us into wednesday night. this will be our stormy spell of weather. a very deep area of low pressure. gales are likely. that will cause some disruption. the wind is only slowly easing towards the end of the week. sophie. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall. still significant gaps between men and women s prize money in some sports including football, but a bbc study finds the majority now offer parity at the top level. a decade
Katie razzall looks at the faultlines on the question of scottish independence. I would hate to separate from the uk. I would love im quite happy to be part of the british isles, just not the uk. You havent really got the choice i youve got a really big hammer drill. Hello. Good evening. Remember those heady days when this election seemed boring . When we were sick of the stage managed, unwavering adjectives on offer . Many feared the electoral outcome had already been written on something more permanent than the fated ed stone. But this week shattered all of that. This was the script no one wrote. A week that began with a monumental uturn, soon forgotten in the torment of manchesters attack. And from its wake, a campaign that emerged refocussed on National Security and Foreign Policy. A poll today showed labour slashing the conservative lead to five points. Well be speaking to david butler in a moment the psephologist who has seen more from the frontline of electoral history than anyo
though you cannot have the ukrainians go on the offensive this year. they do not have the capacity to do so. so we re talking really about trying to stabilize the frontline, prevent further losses of ukrainian territory and maybe next year they can get into a position where they can try to take back some of the territory. you do believe that there is a scenario in which it s not just about defending, but going back on offense because they just try to counter offensive and it didn t work out very well. it didn t work out. i think they re going to try to go back and actually train the troops that the problem was that they didn t have sufficient training. they didn t have all the capabilities that they needed to go on the offensive. but the other thing that they re doing is these deep strike missions against the energy infrastructure in russia. we just had an incredibly powerful strike mission against the naval port in crimea, sevastopol, where they sank the only d deep submarine recove
he is the front-runner in this race by a wide margin. do not not think they should ayes or no, if he has the character to be president again? i think it s a knew nuanced question. they re not earning more votes by play collating to an anti-trump crowd. nikki haley is trying to build a pro-haley crowd. and ron desantis is doing the same thing. one-issue strategy. didn t work out. he s a good friend. he ran hard. it didn t work out. the republican base just wants to see how we will galvanize the