who have lost their lives. boris johnson says he owes his life to staff at st thomas‘s hospital in london where he s spent the last seven nights. the urgent search for a vaccine billionaire bill gates speaks exclusively to breakfast about how he s trying to help. this is the whole world working on possibly the most urgent tool that s ever been needed. with sport in shutdown, another premier league club are furloughing some staff. sheffield united are the latest to take action, but will not use the governements job retention scheme and will keep workers on full pay. good morning. a mixed picture weatherwise. another warm day in the south. things turning colder for the north and heavy showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon. all the details coming up shortly. it s sunday the 12th of april. our top story: the number of deaths among patients with coronavirus is expected to pass 10,000 today. officials are continuing to press the message to the public to stay at home
we now bring a special programme with annie mcveigh looking at the effo rts with annie mcveigh looking at the efforts in the fight against coronavirus looking at information and advice from the experts. hello and welcome to this bbc news special. i m annita mcveigh. stay with us as we share the latest information, we ta ke we take you into an intensive care unitand a we take you into an intensive care unit and a hospital and let it show you what doctors are confronted with as they care for patients who have severe cases of covid 19. les chris morris from the bbc‘s reality check team will bust more of the myths that have sprung up more of the myths that have sprung up about the coronavirus, and a reminder that there s further advice news and information about coronavirus on bbc news website. but first, the dramatic spread of the pandemic has been health services in some countries under immense pressure through the sheer scale of people requiring specialist treatment. 0ur med
with me, mark kermode. rounding of the best new releases that are not available rounding of the best new releases that are now available to watch in your own home. this week saw the straight to streaming release of trolls world tour. the sequel to the 2016 animated hit that, let us not forget, was nominated for an oscar for best original song. # woke up in the morning light. # today is the day that i do everything right.# in that originalfilm, experience i likened to sticking your head into a candy floss machine, the happy huggy trolls were terrorised by carnivorous burgens from whom they had to be saved. crazy train plays. what s going on? i m queen barb of the hard rock trolls. in this sequel, the trolls are at war with themselves, having split into musical tribes of pop, country, funk, techno classical and rock. now thrash merchant queen barb is trying to invade all the other troll lands, silence the music and stealtheir magic strings, making them one nation under rock
in which the warring inhabitants of beat land and ballad isle are visited by space aliens. that film featured such rock royalty as lulu, ginger baker and the nashville teens alongside the likes of kenneth connor, frank thornton and terry scott. oh, and arthur mullard. trolls world tour boasts the voices of anna kendrick and justin timberlake, alongside ozzy osbourne, maryj blige, and george clinton. oh, and james corden. poppy. you know you can t go back on a pinky promise. with visual nods to mad max: fury road and jokes about the evils of yodelling and smooth jazz, trolls world tour throws a few comedy crumbs to the adults who would have been taking their kids to the cinema to see this, but are now probably doing the hoovering while the children crowd around the television. this is fairly formulaic dreamworks affair, lacking the visual or musical imagination of happy feet and having none of the pan generational appeal of a toy story movie even with its laudable message of
this week saw of the straight to streaming release of trolls world tour. the sequel to the 2016 animated hit that, let us not forget, was nominated for an oscar for best original song. # woke up in the morning light. # today is the day that i do everything right.# in that originalfilm, experience i likened to sticking your head into a candy floss machine, the happy huggy trolls were terrorised by carnivorous burgens from whom they had to be saved. crazy train plays. what s going on? i m queen barb of the hard rock trolls. in this sequel, the trolls are at war with themselves, having split into musical tribes of pop, country, funk, techno classical and rock. now thrash merchant queen barb is trying to invade all the other troll lands, silence the music and stealtheir magic strings, making them one nation under rock. all of which comes as a surprise to pop loving queen poppy, thatjust wants to give the world a hug and get everyone to live together in perfect harmony. yes, now