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more on our website — bbc.co.uk/news — and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. chinese cities are a lot down and new year celebration i cancelled as the coronavirus death toll increases. we assess the market impact. as we welcome the year of the rat, we ask a feng shui master what the year may bring. it's friday, almost the weekend. good morning, asia. hello, world. glad you could join us for another action packed addition of asia business report. the coronavirus death toll has risen to 25. ageing

is cancelled or major public events for lunar new year as authorities try to contain the spread of the new virus. china has confirmed its first debt outside of hubei province where the outbreak began. let's listen in. this is an emergency in china. but it has not yet become a global health emergency. cancel journeys, and here is samir hussein in new york. it wasn't just airlines. and here is samir hussein in new york. it wasn'tjust airlines. if you look at hotels, they were also feeling a lot of pressure because of

the impact this could have in terms of tourism. both domestically within china and also moving abroad. investors are paying close attention to this new virus because the sars outbreak saw plunge in consumer spending affecting economies in the region. the shanghai compositing index fell by about 3% as investors offloaded stocks, restaurants, cinemas, airlines and theme parks. i asked an analyst injakarta what kind of impact he expects. asked an analyst injakarta what kind of impact he expectsm asked an analyst injakarta what kind of impact he expects. it will have negative effect on the chinese economy. i guess key point here is how long this virus will be around and how long this crisis will last and how long this crisis will last and how long that negative effect away on china. this could also have

away on china. this could also have a knock—on impact. it relies quite heavily on chinese tourists. and not just chinese tourists. we are talking about transport, manufactured products, primary exports. this will have a knock—on effect right through the entire region. it's quite significant the region. it's quite significant the region was expecting quite a strong pick—up in the first quarter of each year. on the back of an improving chinese economy. that does have the potential to nip that in the bud. we have some earning results from airlines affected by the grounding of the boeing 737 max in both american airlines and southwest say they are losing customers. india's second—biggest carrier spice jet also said it suspect ‘s substantial property. 28 planes are grounded and a further 200 on order. its founder and chief executive spoke to sally

bundock about its negotiations with boeing. first we want to get the aircraft backin first we want to get the aircraft back in the air as soon as possible, i think that's critical for us. in terms of compensation, we are discussing that with them. of course, no amount of compensation is going to make up for the losses that we've suffered in so many ways. what about your passengers, though. what if they don't want to get onboard a 737 max8 because of safety concerns. we have to face that if that happens and that is likely to happen but we do think however that the level of scrutiny this aircraft is going to at this time, we have no doubt this will be a safe aircraft. sustainability is high on the agenda at davos in coca—cola, which is a big reducer of plastic waste is under a lot of pressure. at the moment only 11% of its packaging is from recycled plastic. sally caught

up from recycled plastic. sally caught up with their chief sustainability officer and asked her what she made officer and asked her what she made of president trump was my comments about climate change. coca—cola of the straits in over 200 countries and james quincey our ceo was one of those who wrote an open letter to president trump to say we've got to focus on climate change, we're going to focus on what the paris accord is saying we need to do and we've set a science —based target and so there are other ceos who are similar minded to james quincey have done that. i think that is super important because in our system in the united states, at some point we will have a new leader. they may believe and support the issues that are happening or may not. the business cannot only respond to what the leader thinks, they need to respond to what they need to do. but it coca-cola, you have a huge responsibility. if you look at some of those organisations for two years now. the reality is if

you're a big business and the largest in the beverage injury, that's unfortunate. it bothers those of us who work there and we want to act to make those changes and we share the vision that we want to eliminate single—use plastics. we believe in a circular economies of the plastic is already out there, let's clean it up. you might have read about we just took a lot of marine plastic and created another bottle out of it. people put it was not possible. working to expand it but the other plastics we've been able to collect, we've taken the dissenters like one here in france and they can take one bottle, create another bottle with it and keep that same plastic that was in the pollution as part of the economy so you are not creating new. we share that we know that we have to eliminate over time single—use plastics but it won't disappear overnight. have you ever felt you're not safe when you use the dating gender? the company has announced a range of new tools to keep its 5

million users safe. more of us are making love connections on line but have you felt u nsafe connections on line but have you felt unsafe or in need of help allowed dating someone you've met on an on line dating up. quoting thinks it may have a way to address this issue. the popular dating at is introducing a new photo verification system will place a blue checkmark on profiles. no more catfish fishing hopefully. it's also rolling out new features that detect offensive comments and that you share details about upcoming dates. to deliver this, in the's parenting company has partnered with new light, safety tracks people's locations and can send that information to emergency services when an alarm is triggered stop as the privacy concerns, the company says it won't have access to the location data. if all goes according to plan, match says it will extend its feature to other

popular at like okcupid, match and hinge later in the year. this will help address criticism that dating apps have not done enough to protect users from abuse on and off the platform. as ever, though, the challenges balancing privacy concerns with safety needs. according to the chinese calendar, we say goodbye to the year of the pig and welcome the year of the rat tomorrow. an important tradition. chinese geomancy, feng shui, offering forecasts on what the year may bring. this year there is overflowing of water. metal and here is too much water. in an attempt to

make rash decisions which is no good. generally we would say elements that would be good this year would be violated. in the wood related industry. as we enter the year of the metal rat, it's a very challenging start especially with the coronavirus. we will see spread of infectious diseases. sometime in 2019. i would of infectious diseases. sometime in 2019. iwould predict of infectious diseases. sometime in 2019. i would predict this year, there would be more water related disaster. like typhoons, heavy downpours. earthquakes and even automobile disasters. and a reminder to all the viewers that lunar new year approaching this weekend, many markets in the region i shut from

today and for some, right up until monday. singapore, vietnam and china. one market though, that is the decay. also the all ordinaries index down by 0.4. let's take a look before we go at the shoulder la nterns before we go at the shoulder lanterns in various cities across china as part of celebrations for the upcoming spring testable. and as you mentioned, the chinese zodiac is represented by animals. it is currently the year of the white metal rat. see you again in the next hour. bye for now. this is bbc news — the top stories this hour: severe travel restrictions have been imposed in more cities across the chinese province of hubei, which is at the centre of an outbreak of a new virus that has killed twenty five people. he government of myanmar has responded defiantly to a ruling by the un's top court ordering the country to bring in emergency

the husband of a british iranian woman the husband of a british—iranian woman who's been held in iran for nearly four years has urged borisjohnson to be tougher with tehran in order to secure her release. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe was detained on secret charges and later imprisoned after being accused of spying, which she denies. richard ratcliffe went to downing street with their five—year—old daughter. caroline hawley reports. a day off school for gabriella ratcliffe. she agreed to accompany her father to meet the prime minister on the promise of a burger lunch when they were done. the five—year—old last saw her mother on a prison visit, before she returned here to be with her uk family late last year. richard hasn't seen his wife since 2016. he believes she's being used by iran as a pawn in a dispute about a british debt going back decades for an arms deal

that was never fulfilled. the last time richard ratcliffe met borisjohnson was in 2017, when, as foreign secretary, he was under fire for wrongly suggesting nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe was training journalists at the time of her arrest. i acknowledge that the words i used were open to being misinterpreted and i apologise. this meeting, mr ratcliffe said, had been warm, but there had been no breakthrough. i stand here with my wife still in prison and things are not moving. i think there does need to be a really clear targeted consequence for the revolutionary guard, who are holding nazanin and many others, that they don't think of this as a clever tactic, and we are in that place where, you know, nazanin, her mummy, is being held and used as a chess piece. gabriella came away with a soft toy version of the downing street cat, who she met. so, there was plenty of sympathy, it seems, for the family's plight,

but no sense of any solution in sight, and the current high tensions between iran and the west can only complicate her case. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has now spent nearly four years behind bars. she's on medication for depression and is taking beta blockers to calm her down. today, her husband had to admit he was not hopeful for her release. caroline hawley, bbc news. thatisit that is it for me. i am on twitter. now on bbc news, sport today. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: day five of the australian open

where this crowd behind may have just seen the world number one book her place in the final 16. liverpool's unbeaten run in the premier league continues as roberto firmino scores the winner at wolves. and no decision yet on whether england bowler joffra archer will return for the fourth test against south africa. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with tennis at the year's first grand slam in melbourne. the australian open has moved into day 5 and we can join our reporterjohn watson. there has already been a victory for the top seed, ashleigh barty. the home crowd must be excited. yes, they were indeed. you can probably imagine that this is the australian support, the australian faithful here on day five watching on the big screen to my left. a huge cheer went up screen to my left. a huge cheer went up when ashleigh barty, the world number one book her place in the

final 16 with an