Welcome to breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. Our headlines today dramatic changes to life in the uk as the government advises everyone to avoid non essential contact and travel in the battle against coronavirus. I cannot remember anything like it in my lifetime. I dont think there has been anything like it in peacetime and we must accept that it isa peacetime and we must accept that it is a considerable psychological and Behavioural Change that we are asking you and asking the public, the nation to do. But i have no doubt that we can do it. Anyone over the age of 70, pregnant women, and those with certain Underlying Health conditions are being urged to be especially careful. New measures to boost business through the Coronavirus Crisis. The chancellor is preparing a new injection of cash as some pubs, bars, restaurants say new measures could push them out of business. The grand national is off but what about the euros . Uefa is expected to make a decision on the European Championship at an emergency meeting later. Amid the turmoil, we bring you the examples of kindness and compassion as the difficult times bring out humanity at its best. Good morning. For england and wales today cloudy with some sunny breaks, scotla nd today cloudy with some sunny breaks, scotland and Northern Ireland have a bright start with a few showers and some heavy rain later. All the details in 15 minutes. Its tuesday the 17th of march. Our top story. Stay at home whenever possible. Thats the message from the Prime Minister borisjohnson as the government introduces strict new measures to combat coronavirus in the uk. Charlotte gallagher has the details. Everyones way of life in the uk is now having to change because of coronavirus. Things we take for granted like meeting friends, going out for a meal and the theatre, we are now being told to avoid. People being aware of the symptoms of the virus, a High Temperature, cough, and breathing difficulties is key. If you or anyone in your household has one of those symptoms, then you should stay at home for 14 days. That means that, if possible, you should not go out even to buy food or essentials other than for exercise and in that case, at a safe distance from others. This is now the advice. Avoid gatherings in crowded places. If you can, work from home. Stop unnecessary visits to friends and family and care homes. Only use the nhs when you need to. If possible, avoid leaving your home. If you go out to exercise, keep distance from others. People over the age of 70 and those with certain Health Conditions and pregnant women are being told that the advice is particularly important to them. Infections in pregnancy is not a good combination in general which is why we are taking this precautionary measure to find out whether we should be including pregnant women in this group. In retrospect we may find it was overkill but we would rather be cautionary rather than the other way. Londons west end deserted, major theatres closing their doors. The attempts to slow the spread of coronavirus is affecting notjust Peoples Health and social life but peoples incomes too many people are angry that borisjohnson told people to stay away from venues, while not forcing them to close, which could have given them financial protection. This Central London restaurant was opened last night but many people stayed away. We want to support the staff, small community, with 18 people working here, making a living out of the restaurant, so we want to be here for our staff and for the local community as much as we can. Panic buying is happening at shops across the country. These people in wales do not agree with it. Coming here and finding more bread, no eggs, no toilet paper and things like that, it does give me a lot of concern. A lot of people elderly people use this supermarket and if we are greedy and take from them i dont think that would be showing community spirit. For now, schools remain open but this could well change stopping the government says by next weekend, people with the most serious Health Conditions must be largely shielded from social contact for around 12 weeks. More guidance may well follow stopping drastic measures to tackle a growing threat here. More guidance may well follow. Drastic measures to tackle a growing threat here. Our Political Correspondent helen catt is in westminster. First if we could lets talk about the Hospitality Industry. There are so much concern about that. the Hospitality Industry. There are so much concern about that. I think the government will have to face pressure a nswer the government will have to face pressure answer questions about why it has chosen to advise people not to go to restaurants and theatres but has not taken the extra step of saying we are formally going to close them and Business Owners say that will give them more options in terms of playing against insurance oi terms of playing against insurance or compensation. What we do expect to hear is significant additional Financial Measures from the chancellor. Less than one week ago he set out a budget and announced multi Million Pound, multi Million Pound packages to help the economy through coronavirus. We are in a different world from last wednesday so we are expecting to hear significant additional measures from him today. He is expected to appear at the daily news briefing that downing street is now doing. Labour in particular calling for more health that may help for the self employed because it is notjust the Hospitality Industry being hit the Hospitality Industry being hit the lead but would like see more help for employed people and Jeremy Corbyn has criticised the government response in terms of critters communication. All the latest detailed government advice can be found at the gov. Uk website. Just follow the coronavirus link. You can also go to the nhs website and there is information on the bbc news website and app as well. Plenty of information your questions. Today we will be speaking to a doctor. If you are at home how you should you treat yourself obscenely things to talk about and stay with us all morning, we are here for you. How you should treat yourself. So many things to talk about. The European Union will close its external borders from 11 oclock today. The schenghen Free Movement zone will also be shut at the same time. The closures come as both france and germany ramp up their efforts to combat the spread of covid i9. Adam fleming is in brussels. Adam, do you know how long these closures will be in place . The first thing to say is that here in belgium we had a lot down imposed at midnight on friday where all bars and at midnight on friday where all bars a nd restau ra nts at midnight on friday where all bars and restaurants and cafe is closed and restaurants and cafe is closed and the only shops that were open on the weekend were supermarkets and pharmacies. We had a taste here of what will happen in the uk, although a more serious version here because the restrictions are stricter. It is really strange but normal life does curry on to an extent. Carry on to an extent. The big thing is the travel ban. A proposalfrom to an extent. The big thing is the travel ban. A proposal from the European Commission and the Civil Service of the eu it must still be approved for it goes into force and what it would do is stop non essential travel into the eu for people who are not eu citizens. There are big exceptions for example the uk because we are still in that post brexit transition period for britain so british people are still treated the same as eu citizens which means british people will still be able to go into the eu and the same for ireland because even though they are a member of the eu, they are not a member of the schengen borderless travel zone. Other exceptions include things like healthcare workers and people who are transporting goods and as i said it will last for 30 days when it is approved. The idea however is to encourage the eu members to lift restrictions a place on each other. But there is no guarantee that that will work. Great to hear from you this morning and thank you for that. The last flights to leave the uk for the us took off earlier this morning ahead of a travel ban on passengers from europe. President trump has urged his fellow americans to avoid groups of more than ten people, and to stay away from bars and restaurants. David willis is in los angeles. David, what else did donald trump have to say . He wants an end to home schooling, he wants old people to stay at home and an end to Leisure Travel to and an end to Leisure Travel to and to all schooling. But these are recommendations on the part of his administration, they are not the law andindeed administration, they are not the law and indeed there are many states and indeed individual cities here where they are taking tougher action than they are taking tougher action than the federal government is itself. Case in point, San Francisco which from tonight will be putting 7 million residents of that city and the surrounding area under lockdown. They will be denied the right to leave their own homes unless it is for essential tasks such as going to the dock or going to the grocery store. Those who disobey could face fines and the feeling is that while there is no plan at the moment for a nationwide lockdown here in the United States, President Trump feels there may be a need for tougher action in the weeks and months ahead. So we will have to wait and see what happens here following this experiment in San Francisco. Ten minutes past six. How are you feeling . I am fine, thank you. Ten minutes past six. How are you feeling . Iam fine, thank you. We have been talking so much about all sorts of things. So we have moved slightly away from each other, you may have noticed. We are both well and we are not in high risk groups. And we do still like each other as much as we did yesterday. But this is probably the new normal. Everyone needs to change slightly how they do things and this is how we will be doing things. I am slightly further away today than normal. We are all looking after each other this morning and i hope everyone at home is doing that as well. Great stories coming up in the newspaper about sport pulling together to help local communities but lets start with the business and because a big meeting will happen today, probably via videoconference. Uefa will discuss foot ball videoconference. Uefa will discuss football response to the outbreak. Its expected euro 2020 will be postponed for a year and we may find out how they plan to resolve the Champions League and Europa League competitions. Olympic games organisers will also be holding a teleconference today with International Sports federations. The main focus of the meeting is to discuss disruption to qualifying events for the games. Thats increased with the european boxing qualifying event in london now suspended. But two british boxers managed to secure their places for the tokyo games before it was cancelled. But there is some good news around, the scotland women player whod contracted coronavirus has now been released from hospital. Scottish rugby say the player is feeling back to normal and no longer needs to self isolate. Just a tiny bit of good news. We are trying our best to give you is much clear and Accurate Information as we can today. I know if you are watching this morning you may have loads of questions. You may have listen to what Prime Minister in the scientific advisors and the chief medical officer said yesterday. If you have questions we will try and thresh through as many as we can today. We have experts on this show and we will try and go through that health advice. I know people probably has specific questions only releva nt to probably has specific questions only relevant to yourself but there are broader questions that we will try and address today. And, also, carol is with us as well. How are you this morning . I am good. Good is with us as well. How are you this morning . Iam good. Good morning everyone. Today we have mixed fortune with the weather. To start with if you are in scotland and Northern Ireland you will get a bright start and a chilly start sunshine and showers but you will have rain later if you are in england and wales, cloudy with sunny breaks, mild but then it will be windy in parts of north west england and wales later as well. So a mixture of weather today. We also have a weather front sinking self that has been doing so overnight producing cloud, patchy rain as well and there it is on the charts and we can see quite nicely. That cloud dropping into far south east corner eventually. After some bright spells of sunshine and showers for scotland and Northern Ireland it wont be too long before we see the rain piling in across both Northern Ireland and scotla nd in across both Northern Ireland and scotland with some of that getting in across Northern England as well. Temperature ranging from six degrees to 14. It temperature ranging from six degrees to 1a. It will be windy later and across parts of west wales and also north west england. Through the evening and overnight that front producing this rain continues to sink south and in doing so it will wea ken sink south and in doing so it will weaken so the rain comes patchy. A few clear spells ahead to where you have a clear spell it will be cooler and then behind it, again, clear spells and some showers, wintry on the tops of the hills in the mountains. Look at the difference in temperature. Cold enough for some frost in sheltered glens in scotland but nines and tens, not a bad maximum daytime temperature at this time of year. Tomorrow we start with a band of rain, not particularly heavy and all this cloud around it. Thats across southern parts of england and wales as we move further north we are back into sunshine and showers with those showers still wintry on the hills and mountains in scotland. Here it will be windy from the central belt northwards. The temperatures, well, call on the north and are looking at 7 10 as we push further south. Mild and we could see 16 with any lengthy breaks in the cloud. As we had three thursday we still have the weather front that have been with us and we will continue to do so and it looks like it will pivot and move north once again. Hardly an isobar in the chart on thursday although the wind will pick up the English Channel later on. Quite a bit of cloud and the chance of spots of rain across parts of wales and the south west, moving across scotland and Northern Ireland, lengthy spells of sunshine. Temperatures to about 9 degrees. On friday, the weather front is still with us producing some rain in the Channel Islands, sweeping into the south western southern coastal counties. Windy as well in the English Channel, noticeably so and it isa English Channel, noticeably so and it is a cold north north easterly coming down the north east so wherever you are it will feel cold. Low temperatures but there will be windchill on friday as well. Thank you, carol. See you in 30 minutes. Time now for a look at todays front pages, which are of course, dominated by one story. Britain shuts up shop thats the headline on the front of the daily mail, which says the uk is now facing the biggest shutdown of normal life since world war ii. And we are trying to make sure we are not overcrowding the sofa, like sally was saying. The daily mirror calls for people to stay safe, while also warning that the measures announced by the Prime Minister yesterday could be in place throughout the summer. Time to get anti social, says the metro. The paper reports that owners of pubs, clubs and other social venues fear they wont be able to claim for lost business on insurance after the government called for people to avoid them, but stopped short of closing them down officially. And the stage reports on the immediate closure of all plays and musicals, as theatres go dark to adhere to the latest coronavirus guidance. So many changes across so many parts of our lives. We will look at the inside pages as well. Looking at the impact on the Hospitality Industry, Kate Nicholls has said this will be catastrophic for the industry. She has described this as a handbrake turn rather than a slow motion car crash, and she said last night they have already been job losses in the Hospitality Industry. And just look at those pictures, Trafalgar Square almost emptyjust before the announcement yesterday. Edinburgh airport check in completely empty and a worker putting on a brave face, wearing that mask. Inside the guardian, thisjust face, wearing that mask. Inside the guardian, this just shows that every element of life is being affected at the moment. Labour are asking the government to think about low income earners who are renting, who could be evicted from their property. They wa nt extra be evicted from their prop