this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am... the death toll from the coronavirus rises to 41, with authorities in china struggling to contain the outbreak as millions travel for the lunar new year. the virus has now spread to europe — the french health minister confirms three cases in france. translation: we have today the first european cases. it is possible we have them because we developed the test very quickly and we are capable of identifying them. a charity offering mental health support to military veterans says it can't take on new cases because of a funding crisis. at least 21 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. football is far too dependant on sponsorship from gambling, warns the sports minister. and foreign correspondents

based in london give us their take on china's handling of coronavirus outbreak. that's in dateline in half an hour. planes carrying specialist military doctors have arrived in the chinese province of hubei, where a new respiratory virus broke out almost a month ago. health officials say at least 1,200 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in china. at least 41 people have died, including a doctor treating patients in the city of wuhan. the city is one of a number that have been, in effect, locked down by the chinese authorities, to try to stop the virus spreading. state media say the authorities will build a second new hospital there. there are currently 1,287

confirmed cases in china. most of those cases are in hubei, the province which includes wuhan, a city that remains in shutdown. as chinese new year celebrations get under way, travel restrictions have been imposed on 13 chinese cities. and major events and venues across china have been cancelled or closed, including the disney resort in shanghai. elsewhere, here in europe, three cases have been confirmed in france. and four people have been diagnosed in australia. hong kong has declared an emergency in the province. simonjones has this report. for some, the holiday celebrations have begun. but in wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak of coronavirus, it looks more like a ghost town. home to around 11 million people, while the streets are empty, the hospital's aren't, overwhelmed with potential cases. the symptoms include coughs, fever and breathing problems. the city is now rapidly building a new hospital

which will have 1,000 beds. it could be ready within days, a sign of the concern about the virus. some tourists flying out of china to the us were relieved. we were cool at first but then when everything started shutting down we thought we should leave. i have been in and out of china a few times and this is one of the rare times that i felt like it was time for me to leave. in france though, confirmation that the virus has spread. translation: we have today, the first european cases. it's possible that we have them because we developed the test very quickly and we are capable of identifying them. tests in the uk have so far proved negative. we think there is a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues for a long time, or whether this turns out to be something which is brought under control relatively quickly by the considerable efforts of the chinese government. those efforts involve

travel restrictions in an increasing number of cities. medics from the military are being sent in to try to contain the outbreak. but the world health organization has not classed the virus as an international emergency, partly because of the low number of overseas cases. simon jones, bbc news. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonell is heading west out of beijing towards wuhan. he tweeted as he went — saying that chinese cities bordering hubei province, where the outbreak started, appear to be going into semi—lockdown. he also tweeted this photo taken on board a high speed train heading towards hubei province — it would normally be completely full around the lunar new year holiday. and he also posted this video of screening at a check point close to the border with hubei — where he and his colleagues had their temperatures checked before being allowed to proceed. he sent this report once he arrived in the province. this is hubei province, where this

virus this is hubei province, where this vii’us emergency this is hubei province, where this virus emergency started. as you can see, it's pretty quiet on the first day of the year of the rat. all of these shops are closed. there is pretty much nobody on the street here. when we came in, the police said we could enter this province, but they wouldn't let us back out. what this shows is that it looks like the proprieties —— the authorities are preparing to lock down this entire province of 60 million people. when you look around the streets here, this isjust one of the towns you come across when you first enter the province. those who are out on the streets are wearing masks. and you can understand why. people are very worried. hospitals here have been overwhelmed with the sick. there is footage on social media showing

medical teams crying, worked to their outer limit. we have seen doctors coming in from shanghai to help. military medics have also arrived to bolster the numbers. and still, the challenge is enormous, with the numbers going up and up. and people just don't know for how long it's going to be like this, for how long they have to stay indoors 01’ how long they have to stay indoors or risk being infected with this potentially deadly corona virus, which causes pneumonia. joining me now is professor robin shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity within the department of medicine at imperial college london. thank you forjoining us. how worried should we be, and how much should we expect cases in the uk?|j think should we expect cases in the uk?” think it's pretty inevitable that we will see some cases in the uk at some point, but we need to keep a

level of proportion about how worried we should be, given that there are relatively few number of infections so far, and with some fatalities. to some respect, the co nsta nt fatalities. to some respect, the constant updating of the number of fatalities sounds dramatic but, if you think about influenza season in the last few seasons globally, there we re the last few seasons globally, there were about 31,000 deaths from influenza, so 42 is a relatively small figure at the moment, but the situation needs to be monitored very carefully. the reason for the concern, then, we are seeing this lockdown in china, is because it is new and we don't know enough about how it is spread? that's right. we know there seems to be person to person spread of the virus. the lockdown will help to reduce the speed that it is transmitted, but that on its own is not going to stop

the virus from spreading, just slow it down. who is most vulnerable, if people do get this virus? is it mainly the elderly? mostly, from the early reports, it is people who are older or have some underlying respiratory problems, and that is typicalfor any respiratory problems, and that is typical for any infectious virus that comes in this way. and what about finding a treatment or a vaccine? how close are we to that? it is early days, and finding a vaccine using conventional technology usually takes a couple of yea rs. technology usually takes a couple of years. there are a number of groups, including ourselves at imperial, working very hard to come up with new candidates. we have two new candidates we are working on in the laboratory, and we will have models by the middle of next month. we could accelerate that into a clinical programme within a period of months, if we are asked to

respond. don't you normally have to look at any potential side effects ofa look at any potential side effects of a vaccine and test those for rolling it out publicly? yes, it would be a very selective programme, but because we cannot use vaccines based on genetic technology, it means we can move much faster and there is a higher safety threshold. —— a very accelerated programme. but all the tests need to be done before it would be evaluated in human studies, and that would be for any of the groups working on vaccine candidates around the world. it's a very active space right now, with multiple groups trying to come up with a solution. obviously, everybody travels these days internationally for work and pleasure. if you look ahead for the next few weeks and months, what would you see the forecast for the spread of this to be?” would you see the forecast for the spread of this to be? i think it's difficult to predict right now. it is something that is change on the ground day by day. it could start to

tail off ina ground day by day. it could start to tail off in a matter of weeks. that would be, you know, a good outcome, 01’ we would be, you know, a good outcome, or we could see that slowly it sta rts or we could see that slowly it starts to spread and we see it dispersing to other parts of the world. looking forward, we don't know whether there would be a second wave that might occur next winter, and certainly to be prepared for that would be very sensible. are you confident the chinese are doing everything they can? have they been as open with the scientific community as they could be, and have they been getting onto this quickly enough? yes, this has been very different from the chinese authorities to previous outbreaks, particularly the sars outbreak. i have been to wuhan and worked with some of the investigators at their institute of virology, and the scientists on the ground have been very quick to make the sequence of this virus globally available, and that has meant that many groups now are beginning to come up with

diagnostic assays and start to work on the design of new vaccines. thank you forjoining us. i am grateful for your time. bbc newsnight has learned that labour has experienced a surge in membership since the general election. constituency labour parties have reported rises in local membership amid the ongoing leadership race, which will seejeremy corbyn's replacement elected in april. 0ur political correspondent john 0wenjoins me now. we don't know who has joint, whether they are in the middle of the left 01’ they are in the middle of the left or where, but can we guess? we don't know, so this is an interesting piece of analysis from our collea g u es piece of analysis from our colleagues at newsnight, slowing something of a surge of membership in local constituency labour parties since the election, an average of around 20% increase amongst those constituency parties that newsnight spoke to, and that potentially tra nslates spoke to, and that potentially translates to tens of thousands of new members of the labour party. now, you are right to say we don't

know exactly what is motivating those new members, but it is difficult to ignore that there is a leadership contest, and for those whojoined leadership contest, and for those who joined the party before january the 20th, they will be eligible to vote in that contest. so there is some speculation inside the party that what we are seeing is something ofa that what we are seeing is something of a reversal of what we saw in the leadership contest of 2015—16, when many thousands of people joined the party in order to back the left—wing candidate of the time, jeremy corbyn, and we could now be seeing people joining corbyn, and we could now be seeing peoplejoining the party in order to back more centrist candidates, in particular keir starmer, so it could potentially be good news for him, less good news for left—wing candidate rebecca long—bailey, somebody who is seen as being very close to jeremy corbyn. somebody who is seen as being very close tojeremy corbyn. now, we don't know exactly what is motivating those members, but one potentially interesting piece of evidence is that, in keir starmer‘s constituency, we have seen an increase of about 1000 new members,

indicating there is strong support for him inside the party. the uk's leading mental health charity for military veterans, combat stress, has told the bbc that it's unable to deal with new cases because of a funding crisis. from monday, former service personnel in england and wales will be redirected to the nhs for treatment. the charity receives more than 2,000 referrals every year and treats people suffering from the most complex mental health problems, such as post—traumatic stress disorder. earlier i spoke to sue freeth, the ceo of combat stress, she told me why they've seen got less money. the amount of money we've had from government has been declining, and that's partly due to decisions to redistribute the funds we previously had out in response to growing demand, and to get it closer to where people live, and we have no issue with the need to increase the amount of funds that go into supporting veterans and their families. however, for some time, we have been saying that our service complements what the nhs provides.

people have been stabilised from crises, and our service helps people to recover, and it is essential, life changing and life saving. most vetera ns life changing and life saving. most veterans who turn to us already have, 80% have already tried or used the nhs but it has not been sufficient to help them to make a full recovery. what do you do that is different? we have a multidisciplinary team, psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses, so we can work psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses, so we can work intensively ina way nurses, so we can work intensively in a way that the nhs is not able to in mental health for this group of people, and we can do it over a long period of time. we published a very good outcomes, which we have had for yea rs. we good outcomes, which we have had for years. we are internationally recognised for our work. for some time, we have been saying, by all means increase the amount funds, but not at the expense of the most poorly group of veterans in the country. what state people in when they come to you? many are at the

stage where they do not have any hope. some have attempted or are considering taking their own lives. 0thers considering taking their own lives. others are distraught, and their families are the ones who say, look, we need something, and because we work at people at their own pace, we can take work at people at their own pace, we ca n ta ke two work at people at their own pace, we can take two years before an individual is really ready to start their programme, but we don't... we work with people at their own pace, and that makes the difference, and they do their treatment and support with other veterans who have served in the armed forces and have similar military —related mental health needs, and that works well for them. there have been a number of conflicts in recent years, but are there certain conflicts which have triggered more patients coming to see you? what is it specifically that has made them up in this state?

we see veterans from all the conflicts the uk armed forces have fought in. the largest group to be vetera ns fought in. the largest group to be veterans who have served in northern ireland. a lot of people have served at one time or another there but, since afghanistan and iraq, in combination, younger veterans are turning to us. they had repeat, triple, sometimes quadruple deployments to iraq and afghanistan, and these had an accumulative effect on individuals. rescue workers in turkey are continuing to search for survivors after an earthquake in the east of the country killed at least 20 people and left more than 1,000 injured. state news media says among those found alive was a pregnant woman who was rescued 12 hours after the quake hit the small town of sivrice in elazig. the 6.8 magnitude quake caused buildings to collapse and was even felt in neighbouring countries. it's the second day of the first session of the uk climate assembly.

this is a citizens‘ assembly commissioned by six house of commons select committees last summer. the 110 assembly members will consider how net zero carbon can be achieved by 2050 with the least disruption to society. they will make recommendations to government, businesses and public. sir david attenborough will be speaking at the session later this evening. i'm joined now by the deputy leader of the green party, amelia womack. thank you for coming in. what is the point of this, and how does it work? this is that talking to citizens about what our future will look like to tackle the climate emergency, and making sure we have engagement at the grassroots. the citizens assembly has been a coming together of people from across the country, meeting the core demographics of the uk, even people who don't see the climate emergency is a priority have been invited. 0f climate emergency is a priority have been invited. of the 110, 16 people say they are not particularly concerned about the climate

emergency, so concerned about the climate emergency, so it is a whole range of demographic of people and opinions to come together and talk about solutions, talk about the problem, and make sure they are feeling up to government from the grassroots and that there is engagement across the country of ordinary people about how to tackle this. they are being guided by various experts and hearing from expert speakers, but will this be more than a talking shop and a pr exercise? given the level of global expertise on this, what can we really learn from members of the public who don't have that? i think we haven't had enough engagement with the public on this in the past, and we have seen this donein in the past, and we have seen this done in other countries around the world in a way that means that people have felt engaged about these big questions. engagement does one thing that good ideas are another, aren't they? the government doesn't have to listen to the outcomes of this, andi have to listen to the outcomes of this, and i think that it's important, and andrea leadsom has said she will be interested in the

outcomes, but i think it's important, when we have engagement of people across the country, that the government will listen and make sure they look at taking action on some of the suggestions, so i think it's that step from government that would mean there would be better outcomes from these conversations. is anything emerged so far that is new? the conclusions will be coming out over time, and it's great to see so out over time, and it's great to see so many people there, including our green mp, caroline lucas, who is taking part. just seeing the fact that people are able to engage, and the people have been randomly selected, so they are not self—selected people. it is about making sure that a range of opinions are heard, and i think that's a powerful idea and outcome. 0n cue lovely. thank you for coming in. football is far too dependant on money from gambling sponsorships, according to the sports minister, nigel adams. his warning comes amid mounting scrutiny of the close relationship between the sport and the industry after a deal was struck for some fa

cup games to be shown exclusively on betting websites. here's our sports editor, dan roan. the last round of the fa cup was overshadowed by an outcry over a deal that meant some matches were only shown live on bookmakers‘ websites. there's since been a climb—down, but the controversy has reignited concern at how much betting companies use football to advertise. and having committed to reviewing gambling laws, the government says it now wants to see change. there is way too much dependency within football on gambling, for the sponsorship. that's plain to see. we have to look at this very, very carefully because problem gambling, you know, addictive gambling leads to serious social problems. and i am sure the football authorities are aware of that but they do need to look at different sources of income. meanwhile, the government has announced the paralympics have been added to the crown jewels list of protected sports events that must be shown on free to air television coverage. it's absolutely essential that the paralympics have parity with the olympics.

and if you look at the viewing figures over the years at successive games and how interested people are in the paralympic games, it's absolutely worth ensuring we level up. sports like para table tennis have enjoyed free to air coverage of the paralympics on channel 4 since london 2012, but terrestrial tv coverage is now guaranteed. my family are so supportive, family and friends are very supportive and a lot of them are coming out to tokyo. but in the future if they can't, if someone can't afford it or something, it's really nice knowing that they'll actually still be able to watch me back at home. this is the first change to the listed events in 20 years and there may be more to come. the government also now considering adding women's events like the world cup and the fa cup final in a sign of their growing popularity. dan roan, bbc news. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc

sport centre, here's ben. good morning. we'll start in johannesberg, where england have moved onto 300—7 in theirfirst innings at lunch of the second day of the final test against south africa. 0llie pope and joe root both made half centuries, but fell quickly as england lost 3 wickets for 11 runs midway through the morning session. sam curran the last to fall — out first ball as anrich nortje claimed all three batsmen. england lead the series 2—1 and will win it if they avoid defeat in johannesburg. ben stokes should expect to find out today if he'll be punished after swearing at a fan on day one. the all—rounder was reacting after he said he was verbally abused. england asked for added security at the wanderers, but officials have said throwing more people at the problem is not the solution. staff have been told to be more proactive in spotting abusive comments. this happens far too often. it happened at this ground the last

time england were there, players took a lot of abuse. there is a fine line between banter from the crowd and personal abuse, and personal abuse has to stop. people think, they pay their money and they can say what they want. you wouldn't say that in the street, you wouldn't pass somebody and come up with that, andi pass somebody and come up with that, and i think, as much as ben knows he shouldn't have reacted like that, something has to be done to stop it. approaching the end of day six at the australian open tennis. shocks in the women's draw, but no alarms for rafa nadal. john watson's been keeping across it all, and an eye on nadal‘s next opponent. what of the women's draw, john? n0 sound. we are having a few technical problems with that sound. we will try and get that back as soon as we can. rough and adele is through to the fourth round. nick kyrgios could be meeting him soon. —— rafa nadal is through to the fourth round. and injust over an hour,

the first of saturday's 10 fa cup fourth round ties will be getting under way. griffin park, the venue as championship brentford host premier league high fliers leicester. on air on bbc one at 12:15 with a special fa cup channel on the bbc iplayer, which includes classic fa cup ties from the past, as well as coverage from the weekend's games. you're up to date with the bbc sport centre. details of all the australian note on the website. belinda bencic is out. plenty more through the day. tomasz schafernacker has the weather. for many of us, a gloomy day today, overcast pretty much across the whole country. there is a change on

the way to stop from tomorrow, we expect some rain. it will be a brief speu expect some rain. it will be a brief spell of rain, but it could be quite heavy. let's look at the big picture. it was the uk, and a big low— pressure picture. it was the uk, and a big low—pressure out in the atlantic, south of iceland. this is a cold front approaching the uk, and we will start to see the wind is freshening at the clouds increasing across the later on today. the picture this afternoon, freshening winds and maybe some spots of rain in the western isles, but for the vast majority of the uk it is a cloudy day with maybe a little bit of drizzle from thicker cloud here and there. nine in london, belfast and there. nine in london, belfast and stornoway. through tonight, we see those winds increasing in the north—west, perhaps up to gale force. here comes the weather front, bringing spells of rain overnight in northern ireland and scotland. for england and wales, i think a dry night for you, with temperatures no lower than around about 4 degrees,

so lower than around about 4 degrees, $03 lower than around about 4 degrees, so a frost free night. tomorrow, the weather front is going to start to introduce colder air to north—west parts of the uk, all the way from the north atlantic. that also means there is a chance of some wintry weather sunday night into monday in the north. we will look at that in a second. tomorrow, rain across western areas in the morning, and then that weather front moves east, so then that weather front moves east, so the afternoon in the east should be wet, at least at times. in the west, you can see be wet, at least at times. in the west, you can see some be wet, at least at times. in the west, you can see some sunshine coming through on sunday afternoon, just before sunset, and that colder aircoming off the just before sunset, and that colder air coming off the atlantic. 5 degrees in belfast. sunday night into monday, i mention some wintry weather, and here it comes for northern ireland, scotland, the pennines and yorkshire in the early hours of monday, so early on monday across northern areas, especially some higher roots in the hills, there could be some wet snow. chilly in the north on monday. 5 degrees

for the lowlands of scotland. still just about double figures across the south. that sets the trend for early next week. it will be a bit colder and just a bit more unsettled.

hello, and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie. this week, coronavirus makes for an unhappy lunar new year for millions in china. india's controversial new citizenship law: government and protestors dig in. signed, sealed and delivered within days. britain is.. finally... about to brexit. my guests this week: agnes poirier of french news weekly, l‘ express. suzanne lynch of the irish times. political commentator steve

richards. broadcaster and journalist ashis ray. thank you all so much forjoining us. a week ago, it was mostly business as usual in china. now tens of millions are under virtual lockdown and many lunar new year celebrations have been cancelled. is china handling coronavirus well and if this turns out to be the rehearsal for a lethal virus pandemic, is the world ready? agnes, why don't you start us off with then an assessment of how china is doing? i should really call it a corona virus. we will have to call it 2019 novel the coronavirus. no i remember the sars epidemic and i see a real difference because they were gathering sars up, although the

mortality rate wasn't actually that great. it was about 10%. and it looks like this virus, the mortality rate is rather low at the moment. but they have, at a distance of course, as i am not in china, but it looks as if they have reacted rather soon, quick and transparency and clarity is key to avoid panic. they also put whole cities on lockdown. a lot of china's families are remaining at home, etc, they are going to build a hospital in ten days, as only the chinese can do. of course, it is only 17 years ago that the chinese were not in as big trouble as they are today. but even though we know now that the virus has reached europe, i don't feel that the same sense of panic because you know, it is always scary, and epidemic, as such. but it has

already been sequenced, we know