Summary
All roads lead to coronavirus… but there is still some politics to talk about before we take break for a while. For more from Emily, Jon and Anthony, tune in to The Coronavirus Newscast on BBC Sounds, where they’ll be popping up.
Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | A few of you will have seen by now that we are pausing America's. |
| 0:09.9 | It's a really sad moment for us because we were just getting going. |
| 0:13.2 | And a big thank you to all of you who've sent in lovely messages. |
| 0:18.2 | We are not going away. |
| 0:20.9 | We'll be back before Glastonbury. |
| 0:22.4 | We might even be back before the Eurovision. |
| 0:24.1 | We'll be back before a lot of these big, seminal moments. |
| 0:28.1 | We hope. But we're pausing it just because we've got staffing problems like everyone else. |
| 0:33.1 | And we're putting a lot of our resources right now into corona podcasts. |
| 0:38.3 | They are going to be taking place daily. |
| 0:40.1 | So the newscast becomes the coronavirus podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | And we'll be chipping into that because of course this is a huge story in the United States as well. |
| 0:50.6 | Well, I am not speaking to you from as the BBC's North America answer. |
| 0:54.3 | I had come to see my son last week in Australia |
| 0:57.6 | and all I can say is it's been the most stressful week because of course when we when I flew out of Washington |
| 1:02.8 | aeroplanes were flying normally and borders were open and that has changed. |
| 1:07.0 | And so I'm sort of scurrying back while I can. |
| 1:11.8 | Em, you're in London? |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, I'm in London just watching the schools. |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, like so many people have got a kid back to do GCSEs |
| 1:20.4 | who really thinks he's now going to have six months at home on the sofa |
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