is clear from this is that uk sport wa nt to clear from this is that uk sport want to make sure the governing body is fit for the future. so what exactly for this review look into? at the start, it will look into broader issues such as governance, culture and strategy within uk athletics, and then from then that work will be done in april time and will then lead into more focused work that could incorporate specific reviews into particular issues. this will work alongside reviews that uk athletics have already undertaken into the likely oregon project issue and safeguarding, but what is clear from today's announcement is that uk sport did not see those internal reviews are sufficient and that is why they have taken this action. as you saw from stuart's report earlier, and, well, just look outside the window in the next few days and it's not exactly playing outside weather. but even if it's warm and sunny, how safe is it to let your kids play outside? a new study of more than 90 sites across england have found more than a quarter have dangerous levels of air pollution that could harm

there were brexit party ‘s in the uk and also pro—european parties around the uk as well. —— brexit parties. hello there. it was another windy day on friday. as we head on into the weekend, low pressure will always be nearby. so it will stay rather unsettled. mild for most, and there will be some rain at times, but also some sunshine too. so here it is — low pressure to the north of the uk on saturday. this will bring some rain to northern areas. quite a few isobars on the chart there, hence the windy weather. and then this area of low pressure will arrive during saturday night into sunday. the very mild air will be pushed off into the near continent on saturday, and something a little less mild will move in. but it's still going to be pretty mild across the south. so, a blustery day for most. that weather front i showed you, affecting scotland, northern ireland and northern england with showery bursts of rain. could have a little bit of rain across the south—east, but that should clear away and then for many it will be sunshine and showers into the afternoon. most of those showers acro

the uk public think of eurovision. .. song. the uk public think of eurovision... it is different nowadays, it is contemporary and credible, so just get a decent song with someone who can sing and see how you do. for years we had israeli friends who said, we can't win, then they put in a decent song with a good singer and they won by a landslide. eurovision is huge outside of the uk. do we still have a big following for the contest?m is still huge in the uk, it is one of the biggest programmes for the bbc, it is massive in sweden, massive in germany, one of the biggest shows in the world. lets leave it there. baby steps, we are on the way. yes. thank you very much. good evening. a quiet night for many and some snow showers in the north, the risk of ice, but already by morning we are watching the next area of rain coming back into southern and western areas, said temperatures were left here but, for many a frosty start, there could well be some ice around to watch out for but as the day progresses, this rain will make its way northwards, a smattering of snow on the

the uk and the us on one side. but then each group has other relationships that will be impacted by it. so it is notjust straightening out one side. it is going to take several years before this settles out and we know what the world will look like. tourism is another important link. british visitors spent $141 million in new england every year. brexit should not affect that. but despite the uncertainty, some things never change. a nice cup of tea, for instance, on either side of the atlantic, can always be counted on to soothe the nerves. jane o'brien, bbc news, new hampshire. let's get some of the day's other news. a one—time aspiring actor says harvey weinstein subjected her to "degrading" abuse, in some of the most graphic testimony shared in his trial so far. jessica mann detailed a catalogue of abuse by the hollywood producer. his lawyers say emails prove his and ms mann's relationship was consensual. he denies the charges and all allegations of wrongdoing. the us has announced it is expanding its curbs on

i think all the plans risk making the uk a smaller, insular and more isolated place. he spoke about a truly global britain and being the best possible allies with the eu. i feel that was contradicted by what the prime minister said in his written statement today, that there would not be any regulatory alignment, any at all. the prime minister'sposition did receive firm support from some on the conservative benches. the eu has misjudged the metal of this government in thinking we will give away our fish again and accept all their laws in return for a free—trade agreement they need more than us. i congratulate him on his statement on site no more concessions. a labour mp wanted an assurance. will the secretary of state undertake that there was industrial organisations and the union to represent the workers concerned will be fully engaged by the government, not least because if they do get it wrong and there was a real risk of that, tens of thousands of workers will pay the price? there was also concern about the financial sector. given that 10p in every pound this gov

should the uk... a warning from the croatian presidency about what can be achieved in the uk's ii—month transition period. even if core elements of the future relationship notably the horizontal provisions and governance, and a level playing field can be agreed by the end of the year, the negotiations are expected to take longer, until all the matters covered by the political declaration have been addressed. while the european commission president turned to poetry. i want to use the words of the famous british poet george elliot. he said, "only in the agony of parting do we look into the depth of love." we will always love you, and we will never be far. long live europe. applause as a club of nations... one british conservative said the maastricht treaty was to blame. if at any stage britain had been able to have a trade—only association, of course that would've been enough. in fact, even as recently as february 2016, if david cameron had come back with any repatriation of power, can we doubt that

earlier this morning, the chinese ambassador to the uk accuse the uk of overreacting by advising its citizens in china to return home. what do you make of the debate that is going on between trying to contain the spread and not overreacting? no one is certain about how bad this new coronavirus will be. there are sensationalist headlines in new —— in newspapers. they were saying yesterday that you need to follow the evidence and not treat the whole country as if it is the epicentre of the virus. it is not just the uk, the epicentre of the virus. it is notjust the uk, there are the us and others, overacting to the virus, closing borders and so on. you have to reassure the general public, which has always been a challenge when you have new and emerging infections which nobody is certain about how bad they will be. there was a virus that killed one in ten people, and we have this lingering memory of spanish flu at the beginning of the last century which killed more than a0 million people around the world. when there is a new infection, there is this in the back of their mind about ho

health officials here in the uk still out of the uk that this could be contained, in other words that the number of cases in countries like the uk might be in the dozens, but they are quite open with the fa ct but they are quite open with the fact that they think it's possible that things could get worse and you will end up with hundreds of cases more. yesterday the chief medical 0fficerfor england more. yesterday the chief medical officer for england said that measures like closing schools and mass crowd participation events would be actively considered in these circumstances and today we heard from jeremy hunt saying this was a tipping point, and he thinks the government here must start preparing people for the social cost if the number of cases accelerates around the uk, meaning possibly closures of schools. in china are holstered to an urban region was closed down and that is not possible ina closed down and that is not possible in a country like the uk or the democracies but certain measures they are actively thinking about but at the moment they think containment isa at the mome

next, we head to australia, where uk foreign secretary. dominic raab, is making his first foreign trip since brexit. the port macquarie news says britain is looking for a free—trade deal following its departure from the european union. the financial times reports on a potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer. scientists say they can now map the development of the disease which could lead to personalised treatment and a potential drop in mortality rates. germany's frankfurter allgemeine leads on the political upheaval in the eastern state of thuringia fter the far—right afd party helped removed the local state premier. there have been calls for fresh elections in the region. finally, the daily telegraph says social media bosses may be held personally responsible for harm online. the paper reports that ministers will propose a new ‘duty of care‘ law, requiring tech giants like facebook and google to protect children using the internet. with me, is jane foley, head of foreign exchange strategy at rabobank. you have been look

blustery but as a the northern uk and especially in scotla nd northern uk and especially in scotland in the kitchen at those temperatures are coming sunday. to be enforced stormy it is sunday and ends. that storm dennis is close to northern scotland, squeaking by her still very very windy and disruptive rains across the northern half uk. look at the amber warnings rain areas from the met office is within bees. it could be some spots getting more than a month's worth of rain and a greater likelihood of flooding. the worth going online and having these letters warnings online. even if you are saying it all began for it is better to be in the know. that's all for us here. have a good weekend. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00pm: manchester city has been banned from european competitions for two seasons and fined around £25 million for breaching financial fair play rules. the uk prepares for more torrential rain and winds of up to 80 mph. storm dennis is expected to batter the uk this weekend. a landmark free—speech victory at the high court for a man who was warned by police a

and you're an employee of uk athletics. so, uk athletics, why would you allow one of your staff to do that? uk athletics said: "a small number of british athletes have used l—carnitine fully in accordance with world anti—doping protocol. farah split from salazar in 2017 but questions about his influence persist. mark daly, bbc news. and finally, they say lightning never strikes twice, but surely not five times! and if it does, it might go viral. this is the south dakota state women's basketball tea m just messing around ahead of a game against north dakota. they're trying some pretty ambitious half—court shots, so that's two in a row! the team are known as the jackrabbits and they're also on a winning streak, so riding the crest of that wave and they kept on sinking one after another. these are notorioussly difficult even for professionals to make but here's the roll call: sydney stapleton, addison hirschman, paiton burckhard, jordan ferrand and lindsey theuninck with all the pressure on, and thankfully someone filmin

now let's turn to a uk success story. lord dolar popat came to the uk aged 17 with just £10 and now he's a successful businessman and one of the few asian peers in the house of lords. his book, a british subject, is what he describes as a love letter to the country that gave him everything. it's a timely testament to the importance of integration in britain. victoria craig caught up with lord popat, who's also the uk trade envoy to rwanda and uganda, to get his thoughts on immigration today. immigration was a key issue on the referendum that we decided to leave european union for that very reason. all i'm saying in my book to the new immigrants coming to this country that if you work hard, if you, you know, respect the value of this great country, you can integrate and make a success for yourself. and these are the immigrants that people will want to live in uk. you yourself have been a prolific entrepreneur. you started your own investment business. you went into care homes. you became a hotelier. what made you want to

, temperatures eight oi’ half of the uk, temperatures eight or9 half of the uk, temperatures eight or 9 degrees. more showers into next week, at least it won't be as windy as it will be this weekend. darren, thank you. some breaking news, just coming in. we are hearing that a british man has died of coronavirus injapan. british man has died of coronavirus in japan. this is british man has died of coronavirus injapan. this is coming from the japanese health ministry. who have confirmed that a british man who had been on board the diamond princess cruise ship has died from coronavirus. much more on that on the bbc news channel throughout the afternoon. that's all from the bbc news at one good afternoon — it's 1:30pm, and i'm ben croucher with your latest sports news. england have won their second game in three days to put themselves in a good position to qualify for the semi finals of the women's t20 world cup. they beat pakistan by 42 runs in canberra. after making 158, with captain heather knight top scoring with 62, england bowled pakistan out for 116 with anya shrubsole and world

ftse 100 in the uk up 33 points. in is the first day of trading for the ftse 100 since the uk has officially left the eu obviously, the next question now is the free trade agreements and whether or not we can get to free trade agreements in the next 11 months we'll have 11 months to talk about that the picture for the ftse 100 is up 0.5%. dax up 0.4%. cac up a similar amount and the italian index up 0.4 of a percentage point as well the names underperforming, the sectors underperforming with exposure to china. miners, a lot are situn the uk, glencore, so that basket is about half a percentage point. oil and gas down a percentage point, no surprise given they have plunged brent at the lowest level in a year we have an emergency meeting coming up with opec to decide what to do on output cuts. auto down 0.1% tech sector up about 1%, so bucking the trend there. i want to take you to some bank and finance news julius baer shares are down after the company announced fresh midterm targets and cost cuts after seeing net prof

this goes beyond the uk. we are seeing regulation creeping in around the world, in germany and australia, and being welcomed by the tech companies who say this is too big responsibility for us, tell us what you want and we will make it happen. thank you for that update, zoe kleinman. china's national health commission has reported another 97 deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the total to more than 1,100. there are now more than 42,000 confirmed cases across china, and there are continued concerns about the virus‘s international spread. rich preston reports. it's beenjust over a month since the discovery of the virus, now officially known as covid—19. since then it's killed over 1100 people, surpassing the number killed by the sars virus in the early 2000s. that virus, of the same family as this latest strain, killed 774 people. tens of thousands of cases have been reported around the world. in china, streets remained deserted and buildings closed. elsewhere in the region, travel bans have been impleme

and that has a knock on effect on the uk. we're not picking it up yet at all in the uk. economic indicators, the survey indicators or other things. but if the world's slower than it otherwise would be, the uk is a very open economy, has an impact. but the most important thing is to make sure the system's functioning. we're very confident about that and we're on top of it. well, that's one thing. but you know, all the rules and, you know, planning around social distancing mean that businesses large and small have just got an enormous range of unpredictability. yes. and one of the things that's being clamped down on, of course, is business travel that affects the airline industry because people don't want to go to countries where they fear they might end up being quarantined and unable to come back. and i think the biggest example of that that we've had today is the cancellation of the geneva motor show, which was supposed to take place in switzerland next week. now, this is one of the biggest gatherings of the automobile industry of the year. you get more than 600,000 peo

no transmission within the uk. the containment strategy involves tracing the close contacts strategy involves tracing the close co nta cts of strategy involves tracing the close contacts of each infected person, asking them to self—isolate so they do not pass on the symptoms. that has been coordinated by nine regional public health england teams. they have ordered over 7000 tests to be done and only 15 have tested positive. what happens if the containment strategy fails?“ tested positive. what happens if the containment strategy fails? if it does fail, one hope is it will have delayed major outbreaks in the uk. the way it fails as a public health england officials cannot find those links in transmission and then the virus start circulating unbeknown to the health authorities. this could already be happening, so they are working with 100 gp practices and those practices are going to be testing their patients that come in with flu symptoms to see if it is circulating. if we can delay this to the spring or summer

to the uk. very briefly, here are the uk, obviously we have the national health service, we have drugs pricing, low drugs prices, food safety is a key issue and these are all major issues that are worrying a lot of people here when it comes to trade with the us. they are and i don't think people from england should worry too much because i don't think president trump and the us wants to block off access to american fighter pharmaceutical products or key ingredients or to make it harderfor british ingredients or to make it harder for british people to come over and visit the us and study here. i think that both sides will try to hush out a deal other president trump will be distracted by his recollection. good to talk to you daniel. thank you very much. us senators have voted against calling witnesses at donald trump's impeachment trial, a move which brings the end of the process much closer. the democrats failed to persuade enough republicans that witness testimony was necessary. the final vote

that should be sweeping across the uk through the morning. there's actually a little bit of sunshine in the forecast as well. so, let's have a look at the forecast through the early hours then. so, rain already across the south—west of the uk and through the nights, making its journey towards the north of the country, but never reaching scotland. in fact, most of scotland, that is, at 5:00 in the morning is clear, and there's also a touch of frost. but in the south, it's a different story. it's mild and it's wet — you can see where the heavy rain is around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. now, by that time we get to around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning, the weather will have improved already across the far south—west of the country, and then by mid—morning, we've got some sunshine in the midlands, and by late morning, even some sunshine getting into parts of yorkshire. but the far north of england and scotland in for a wet morning and afternoon, and also the possibility of a bit of temporary snow there falling across the scottish hills. a v

should the uk... a warning from the croatian presidency about what can be achieved in the uk's ii—month transition period. even if core elements of the future relationship notably the horizontal provisions and governance, and a level playing field can be agreed by the end of the year, the negotiations are expected to take longer until all the matters covered by the political declaration have been addressed. while the european commission president turned to poetry. i want to use the words of the famous british poet george elliot. poet george eliot. she said, "only in the agony of parting do we look into the depth of love." we will always love you, and we will never be far. long live europe. applause as a club of nations... one british conservative said the maastricht treaty was to blame. if at any stage britain had been able to have a trade—only association, of course that would've been enough. in fact, even as recently as february 2016, if david cameron had come back with any repatriation of power

what would that mean forthe uk? would give us? what would that mean for the uk? so essentially, as compared to world trade organisation rules, it means that you don't have ta riffs rules, it means that you don't have tariffs and we possibly have marginally better access in terms of providing services and some facilitation is at the border, but essentially we do move into a world of border checks, of exporters having to prove that they are, that what they are exporting to the eu was made in the uk, not from another country, and we lose various other aspects of cooperation. so this doesn't include, for example, cooperation on science or research. it's very much about reducing my having no tariffs on goods. it will bea having no tariffs on goods. it will be a big difference compared to today. if this canada style deal with —— canada style deal cannot be agreed, what are the alternatives in terms of a looser trade arrangements? people have been talking about an australian style deal. what does that mean? i think thatis deal. what does that mean? i think that is w

this morning the last uk evacuation flight morning the last uk evacuation flight out of the chinese city of wuhan, the epicentre of the virus, touched down at raf brize norton carrying around 200 british and foreign nationals. we have not got everybody out. unfortunately two people felt the temperature checks early this morning and they have had to go back into wuhan. a convoy of buses transported those british citizens who need it back to our hotel and conference centre in milton keynes. 0ut hotel and conference centre in milton keynes. out of china but still not in the clear. we understand there are about 150 passengers on these coaches who have now been evacuated from wuhan. all of them are for the moment in good health. this will be their home for the next two weeks, where they will be kept in isolation. the coronavirus has now killed more than 800 people, surpassing the number of people who died from sars in 2003. more than 37,000 people are known to be affected across the globe, a figure that continues to rise sharply. the question remains as to whether we are in a live phase and t

it is very unusual because it will affect pretty much the whole of the uk. these tightly packed isobars indicate widespread severe gales through the course of sunday and on top of that there is some very wet weather as well. so, the met office have amber warnings out which indicates a threat to life and significant disruption for england and wales for those severe gales but the likelihood is that could be extended further north and it will be very windy for northern ireland and for scotland as well. if that weren't enough, we've also got an amber warning out for parts of southern scotland, particularly the boarders, a couple of rivers concerning here, that there could be so much rain on the slow—moving band of rain through the night that it will lead to river flooding and flash flooding, so that is a concern as well. not just for southern scotland, though, we have that slow—moving band of rain from northern ireland, north—west england and wales, too. in fact, most of us will see rain by the end of the night but those areas could see a0 millimetres plus

we are up to 19 cases now in the uk. but health officials still feel we are at the containment phase, it is possible this can be contained. what does that mean? yes, we will get more cases but probably people who have come from elsewhere in the world, caught the virus elsewhere and come into the uk, their contacts can be traced and it can be limited. the problem is when you start getting transmission within the uk. then you move into a new phase of may be hundreds of cases. no one is making any secret of the fact that in whitehall they are making any plans for that to happen. we heard from the chief medical officer for england yesterday, that actually if we moved into that phase, if we got to that, schools might be close. you might insist closing down mass spectator participation events like sport. nothing definite, but those plans have been talked about. today, jeremy hunt, the former health secretary came out and said he thinks we are at a tipping point now, that it is a very serious global situation. particularly, as

twenty cases have been confirmed in the uk. alarm over the outbreak has sent global stock markets into a steep dive — with the ftse 100 dropping nearly 13% this week. fears of a major international military confrontation — after an attack by government forces in syria leaves dozens of turkish soldiers dead. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello there. bottom club norwich city desperately need a win in the premier league tonight. they're at home to lecicester and go into the match six points off their nearest rivals, and eight points points from safety. they're about 15 minutes into ther action at carrow road and it's currently goalless. no jamie vardy for leicester because of a calf injury. in scotland hibs are playing inverness caledonian thistle for a place in the scotish cup semi finals. it's still nil nil. hibs thiught they had a penalty after 7 minutes, but the referee adjudged martin boyle to have dived. brave decsion from the ref tv replays were pretty inconclusive as to whether the keepers

that brings the total number of cases in the uk to 23. meanwhile, public health officials are trying to establish how a man from surrey became the first — and so far only known person — to contract coronavirus within the uk. that patient is being treated at a specialist nhs infection centre in london. helena wilkinson reports. this is what health officials were potentially worried about, the first transmission of the virus within the uk. we know the man went into this health centre in surrey after feeling unwell to see a doctor. he tested positive for the virus. the surgery has now reopened after being deep cleaned. i think they're doing what they can, really. i mean, obviously, it was a bit unusual to think that haslemere could be the first place it's been transmitted without an obvious cause. my husband has got a poor immune system and respiratory problems. so perhaps i'm a bit more concerned than others might be, but just be sensible. today, efforts have been made to try and find out who infected the man from surrey and, also, has

this is when theirjourney to the uk began on friday night. they left the diamond princess in yokohama and were loaded onto buses for the airport in tokyo. the diamond princess was carrying 78 britons. over the past week, some were evacuated to hong kong. it is understood that other british nationals are members of the crew who could be staying on board. at least four british passengers contracted the virus on the ship. two of them are david and sally abel who also have pneumonia. at first they were relieved at the hospital care they received injapan. today their family are anxious and angry. my dad is saying, i can't do any more of this, son, you need to get me out of here. it is like prison in here. we have got no washing facilities, we have one toilet to share, we have a small window in a hotel room which overlooks a brick wall which is six inches away. we have no natural daylight coming into the room, it is awful, no treatment. the journey for these passengers is not over yet and although they are back on uk soil, they are still farfrom ho

the uk government has picked up that responsibility, but also the uk government is making special money available to parts of england and they should be doing the same with wales. the letter also asks for a direct fund to the welsh government to cover the cost of one year of council tax and business rate exemption for all affected properties, which has been offered in england. and concludes by saying... the uk treasury has been asked to comment. a severe flood warning has been issued for the river severn at shrewsbury. the environment agency is warning of a danger to life as river levels continue to rise following recent heavy rain. the agency predicts the severn will reach levels not seen for two decades. further downpours are forecast for the area overnight. airports in the canary islands are reopening after a dramatic saharan dust storm stopped all air traffic to one of europe's most popular holiday destinations for much of the day. parts of gran canaria and tenerife were blanketed with the dust, which blocked out the sun. winds of up to 75 miles an hour buffeted the islands during t

where do you envisage the relationship between the eu and uk financial services ending up? a slightly different limb to that, where would you like it to be? because it's slightly different from where you think it is going to end up. regulatory cooperation post the referendum has remained very strong and we have very deliberately on both sides gone out of our way, very strong relations with our continental counterparts. and we have been very keen to make sure those were not eroded. secondly, i think you have to have mechanisms to say ok, at the end of the day, we each take our decision but the process by which we reach the assessment is not going to be done on a separate planet as it were. we do have strong effective coordination who want to understand what each other is doing. history will tell us that there is plenty of scope otherwise for this not to work effectively. it is only back to 2012 when some remember the then european commissioner for financial services was accusing us of seeking competitive advantage while imposing higher capital requirements on banks. we thoug

but flooding across the uk is estimated to cost £1.1 billion every year. one idea is to try to hold water back in the uplands, rather than resorting to hard concrete, using nature instead. all options are going to be needed as the climate changes. we're getting more moisture held in a warming atmosphere, so there's quite a lot of evidence to suggest that yes, overall, we are experiencing climate change, and we may expect to see more events on a par with these, or potentially even worse, into the future. back beside the river trent, the waters are receding a bit, but more rain is on the way. and with it more pressure on the government to offer more help. david shukman, bbc news, in derbyshire. and for the latest information on storm dennis, tune into your bbc local radio station, or visit our website, bbc.co.uk/news. the government has published details of its proposals for a points—based immigration system in the uk, saying visas will not be available for low—skilled workers. ministers say they want to move away from a reliance on what they call cheap

the uk wants to do it separately, piece by piece. the eu wants to put everything together, everything contingent on another part of the deal. is it really important at the outset before you start negotiating your red lines, to really set out how you want to go about between negotiation and takes precedence? absolutely, both sides will have those red lines and their bottom line is ready to go already. i think the eu is claiming up front they wa nt the eu is claiming up front they want some kind of alignment, they wa nt want some kind of alignment, they want the uk to stay close to the eu. i think business wants that as well, uk businesses want that. it is a matter of ultimately how close will we stay. and then there are are other issues that have come up that have to be agreed by a certain date like fisheries rights and that is already written into the political declaration to be sorted out in some degree byjuly. those time constraints that are already built and will set some of that priority in the negotiation. ok, thank you very muc

two more cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk. they've been taken to specialist centres here at the royal free hospital in london and the royal liverpool hospital. we'll look at what we need to do to try to stop the spread of the virus here. the containment measures in place are very important to buy us time, and it allows the nhs and gp surgeries and biotech companies to put procedures in place and to develop treatments and vaccines in a timely manner. new figures just released show the number of rough sleepers in england has fallen for the second year in a row. but more than 4,200 people are still on the streets on a single night — which is more than double the number from ten years ago. it's not about the rain, or any of that stuff. for me, the worst part about being out here is not being seen. we've been out overnight meeting rough sleepers in london and we'll bring you that film in just a few minutes. and in the next few minutes the court of appeal is expected to rule on whether plans to expand heathrow airport are illegal,

we know they will still be in the uk regularly. we're told after the end of march they will attend six of events. will have to leave that they are. many thanks. passengers have begun leaving a cruise ship that's been quarantined in japan for more than two weeks because of coronavirus. more than 70 britons were on board the diamond princess. four have tested positive for the illness. our correspondent laura bicker reports from yokohama. it's all over, at least for some. the lucky few shuffled through reporters eager for details after an outbreak of coronavirus turned a dream asian cruise into a floating prison. how do you feel? i'm ok, says this relieved passenger, but as those left behind waved them off, there are fears that they might not be ok. although they are getting to go home, concerns are beginning to grow. over the last two weeks, one in every seven passengers have contracted coronavirus which, critics say, proves that the japanese health authorities‘ quarantine measures have been wholly inadequate. now, japan says these

meanwhile, in the uk, the telegraph says employers are being told not to close offices and schools are being asked to stay open as the government attem pts stay open as the government atte m pts to stay open as the government attempts to well the rising panic over the spread of coronavirus. the independent say travel bargains are plenty to be had in coronavirus had europe, but there aren't many ta kers europe, but there aren't many ta ke rs co py europe, but there aren't many takers copy uncertainty surrounding the virus is badly affecting the travel industry with thousands of travellers abandoning expensive and much anticipated trips. retail giant tesco isjoining the anticipated trips. retail giant tesco is joining the cash free revolution in the uk after opening its first cashless store in central london. the outlet offers a range of payment methods but does not accept payment methods but does not a cce pt notes payment methods but does not accept notes or coins, and finally, as owning an iphone mean you are a goody two shoes? tech giant apple will only be let iphones be used in film

let's have a look at the big picture across the uk. as we head towards midnight, the rain reaches south—western part of the uk. notice that through the night for many of us across the north, and certainly scotland, it is a dry and clear night. there is a frost, there, in aberdeen and across the highlands. that wet weather, through the course of sunday morning, is going to spread northwards, so certainly reaching most of yorkshire by early in the morning, the south of scotland by mid—morning and certainly some rain on the way for glasgow and for edinburgh and also a bit of snow there possibly across the hills. however, to the south the weather it will improve. for example, for wales and much of the midlands, east anglia and the south, the afternoon on sunday isn't looking bad at all. bright, quite breezy and 1a degrees. the showers across the northern half of the uk will continue into sunday night, and then we are in for a spell of some pretty stormy weather, particularly in the northern half of the uk. so here is monday's weather m

of uk financial services equivalent standards by june. the government is trying to play hardball with this document, saying to the eu if the city's access to the european union is not guaranteed byjune — one of the least controversial issues, it says — then the uk could walk away from negotiations then, and focus solely on domestic preparations for leaving with no trade deal. we want to make sure that we get a good deal, in fact a series of agreements with the european union. we're confident that we will be able to make progress, but of course both sides will take stock in june and that will be an opportunity for both sides to see if appropriate progress has been made. this chemicals company in the west midlands explained to us last year how it needed to continue testing everything to eu standards. the boss here now accepts that things will change, but is still concerned about not having a trade deal with the eu. having read the document, i see some very positive sights in that document and there is certainly a degree of regulatory co

i do not believe that the uk will come... but that means it should not be a problem for the uk to agree on a number of ground rules. the eu's chief brexit negotiator there. he is saying that i don't want the uk to be this low tax, easy come easy go economy like singapore, but his conclusion is well if you don't want to be free and easy about everything, i don't see why you don'tjust sign up to all eu rules. can ijust interject, obviously there is a lot of talk about, we go into the detail of the mandate and that statement, there are no real surprises, we all know that the two sides are already kind of at loggerheads over these so called level playing field provisions and the indirect role of this ecj or the european court of justice, but i would say, are you really surprised? this is the start ofa really surprised? this is the start of a big negotiation, i would really surprised? this is the start of a big negotiation, iwould be gobsmacked if the eu were saying, all boris do what you like,... no no, you go ahead, it would be

the uk's immigration system is changing. from next year, people who want to work in britain will be treated the same if they are from the eu or outside it. the government says top priority will go to those with the highest skills and the greatest talents. on a visit to imperial college in london, home secretary priti patel mapped out the way ahead. she wants the brightest and best to work and study in the uk, at high—tech laboratories like this, where they do groundbreaking research on carbon capture. but importantly now, this basically redefines our immigration policy so the brightest and best, people with skills need to come to the uk and we will no longer have the routes for cheap low skilled labour that has dominated immigrationa and our labour market for far too long in this country. the new immigration system is about points, with people wanting to come here needing at least 70 to apply. 50 points will be awarded if you speak english and have a skilled job. 20 points come from a £25,000 salary or working in a sector

that should be sweeping across the uk through the morning. there's actually a little bit of sunshine in the forecast as well. so, let's have a look at the forecast through the early hours then. so, rain already across the south—west of the uk and through the nights, making its journey towards the north of the country, but never reaching scotland. in fact, most of scotland, that is, at 5:00 in the morning is clear, and there's also a touch of frost. but in the south, it's a different story. it's mild and it's wet — you can see where the heavy rain is at around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. now, by that time we get to around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning, the weather will have improved already across the far south—west of the country, and then by mid—morning, we've got some sunshine in the midlands, and by late morning, even some sunshine getting into parts of yorkshire. by mid—morning, we've got some sunshine in the midlands, and by late morning, even some sunshine getting into parts of yorkshire. but the far north of england and scotla

so once again, the uk relationship with the united states is in the spotlight but also how the uk is trying to, in a way, look both ways to get want a trade deal with the united states but it also wants to maintain a deep trading partnership with china. the german newspaper now. and a political storm in one particular state, in an eastern state of thuringia. why is this a controversial thing? thuringia is one of the states in germany, the former east of germany before reunification. the alternative for deutschland, the far right party, the party that would probably take germany out of the eu, that has a very hard line on immigration in response to angela merkel‘s policies, they have basically ditched their own candidate in the election in the parliament to become state leader and they supported the free democrats, the liberal party. a centre—right party but not as far to the right as the afd. and there is a picture of thomas kemmerich, the leader, shaking hands with the af de. that is a no—no for many german politicians. and he has decided, literally within 2a hours, i cannot b

i do not think so, the uk is not a closed market. it can tax products to producers but not ones it does not produce. thank you very much. it is worth saying that many spanish companies here in malaga exports got whiskey and the feeling is there is a reissuance over the limbo, the residents here... like i've spoken to of estate agents in the costa del sol say we have seen lots of english people not being the number one buyer outside of the spanish, it is the dutch and the danes changing the dynamic of this place as they are buying more than the brits. it be interesting to see if that continues towards the end of this year. we have heard just here that if you feeling reassured. more than a thousand people with the most serious complaints about the department for work and pensions, face a delay of 18 months before their cases are even investigated. radio a's, money box programme, has found the independent case examiner is also regularly missing targets on how long investigations should take, once a case has been opened. 0ur corresponden

on the uk element, is that it is a big moment for the uk, why is it such a big moment for us? it's huge. not least, we built the overall mission, delivered in partnership with the european space agency. it's a european space agency mission and we are part of that organisation faster but also, we we re organisation faster but also, we were the real brains behind the mission. four out of ten instruments we re mission. four out of ten instruments were led by uk scientists, we were driving the agenda. tell us more about the instruments. we got the sense one at the drivers for this mission is to protect some of the kit that drives columns and other things in space? that's right. it's incredible. the sun so important, the engine house of our whole solar system and yet there is so much we don't know about it. this mission will give us unprecedented detail on the surface of the sun and tell us about the magnetic field. if you put those two together, you can start to understand when and how these big eruptions happen from the surface of the sun. so these are the things that give rise t

the weather system coming towards the south of the uk and still the cool fresh air strea m the uk and still the cool fresh air stream for tuesday. we are in a new month and we should be feeling a bit more like spring but not sure we will. not as windy but we are sunshine and showers and again because it is cold enough it will be wintry over the hills. temperatures reaching 9 degrees with the chance of rain in the south—east of england. we are still in that showery airstream on wednesday with the bulk of the showers towards the north—west of the uk and the driest sunniest weather towards the south and east. still those temperatures are no better than 6— 9 degrees. the more uncertainty than normal, this is one computer model, the gfs with the jetstream. it amplifies as it heads in from the atlantic and it is not as strong. without amplification, it leads to an area of high pressure building across the uk. but there is only a 30% chance of that happening. what is more likely as this, this is a different computer model, the ec model. the jetstrea m computer model, the ec model. the

the power granted by westminster, the uk parliament. but there was nothing in that agreement that precluded having a referendum in the future and nothing that took place in the smith commission that precluded having another referendum. there may be nothing written down but it is quite clear that borisjohnson, who has a mandate and a majority of 80 in the westminster parliament, he said in his formal response to nicola sturgeon‘s saying "we must have a second referendum, it's the only democratic thing to do," borisjohnson said that a referendum, another one, would quote, continue the political stagnation that scotland has seen for the last decade. it simply will not happen. but the uk we voted to remain a part in 2014 no longer exists. the game has changed because we left the european union. we left the european union as a united kingdom, as the scottish people had voted to be a part of that united kingdom. having been told that the united kingdom was a family of nations and we were to leave the uk, scotland explicitly voted to remain.

the government the security of the uk is its top priority. the next 11 months will share what concessions is prepared to make to keep people safe. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: an amazing find, a scientific expedition to the galapagos islands discovers two species of a tortoise previously believed to be extinct. this is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian soil. south africa's white government has offered its black opponents concessions unparalleled in the history of apartheid. and the anc leader, nelson mandela, is to be set free unconditionally. ..four, three, two, one... a countdown to a critical moment. the world's most powerful rocket ignited all 27 of its engines at once. and apart from its power, its this recycling of the rocket, slashing the cost of a launch, that makes this a breakthrough in the business of space travel. two americans have become the first humans to walk in space without any lifeline to their spaceshi

and this morning, the last uk evacuation flight this morning, the last uk evacuation flight out of the chinese city of wuhan, epicentre of the virus, touched down at raf brize norton, carrying around 200 british and foreign nationals. we have not got everybody out, we know that. unfortunately, two people failed temperature checks early this morning, they have had to go back into wuhan. a convoy of buses transported those british citizens who made it back to a hotel and conference centre in milton keynes. at of china, but still not in the clear. we understand that there are about 150 passengers on these coaches who have now been evacuated from wuhan. all of them are, for the moment, we are told by nhs staff, in good health. this will be the home, though, for the next two weeks, where they will be kept in isolation. the coronavirus has now killed more than 800 people, surpassing the number who died from sa rs surpassing the number who died from sars back in 2003. more than 37,000 people are known to be affected across the globe, a figure that continues to rise sharply. the question remai

we're moving into colder air more widely across the uk at the moment. yesterday, of course, we had quite a snowy scene across the northern half of the uk, notjust in scotland but also for northern england and the hills of northern ireland. further south there is still flooding, a major concern particularly on the river severn, and there is a lot of rain from this area of cloud here in the hills of wales that will be feeding into the river systems. that cloud brought the snow more recently in the north—east of scotland, that's pushing away, and instead we are drawing down colder air. this is proper polar maritime air, the air coming all the way from iceland and greenland, and it will feel colder. there could well be some icy patches around overnight and into the morning, especially across the northern half of the uk. and tuesday will be a day of sunshine and showers. those winds blowing in some showers almost anywhere really. the more frequent ones will be across the western side of the uk, with some snow over the hills, but there'll be some heavy show

it was assembled in the uk — and is being described as, "the most significant uk investment in a space science mission for a generation". the probe is protected with special heat shields. it will study the inner workings of the sun to help us better understand it's affects here on earth. earlier, the international director of the uk space agency alice bunn told my colleague carrie graice it's a really big moment for the uk. we built the overall mission. so airbus uk had the overall control of the mission, delivered in partnership with the european space agency, as it is a european space agency mission and we are part of that organisation. but also, we were the real brains behind the mission, so four out of the ten instruments were led by uk scientists, this so we really were totally driving the agenda here. and tell us more about the instruments. we got the sense there from rebecca that one of the drivers for this mission was to protect some of the kit that drives comms and other things in space. absolutely. it is incredible really because the sun is so important. right, it's the engin

having had we been told that the you —— uk was a family of nations and we would leave the uk, scotla nd nations and we would leave the uk, scotland voted to remain. actually, there was a very crucial poll last week that showed that 73% of scottish people wanted to stay in europe. so we were being taken out against their wishes. europe. so we were being taken out against their wisheslj europe. so we were being taken out against their wishes. i have seen the poles on the latest showed 52% of scottish people approve of the idea of independence to in some respects you write hide in the poles but the problem is that you appear to be sending a message to the scottish people that somehow a second independence referendum is within reach when frankly it is not. and some of your former colleagues, people likejim sellers, a former deputy leader of the snp have accused nicola sturgeon of wilfully misleading supporters by suggesting there is a pathway to a second referendum when there is not. there is a pathway to a second referendum when there is notlj respectfully say to jim, dear and old frien