hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. he announced it alongside israel's prime minister, calling it the "deal of the century", and an opportunity for the palestinians. after 70 years of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have. but palestinians in gaza have been marching against the plan. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called it a "conspiracy that will not pass". the new coronavirus that started in china is continuing to spread. president xi jinping says the situation is grave. and scientists say one of antarctica's largest ice sheets

is melting faster than imagined — we have a special report. donald trump has unveiled his middle east peace plan. he's called it the ‘deal of the century‘. many palestianians have a few other phrases for it — they weren't consulted. the plan offers a two—state solution of a kind. and the president began with one of israel's top priorities. under this division, jerusalem will remain israel's undivided, very important, undivided capital. both israel and the palestinians hold competing claims to the holy city— and palestinians insist that eastjerusalem be the capital of their future state. president trump is instead proposing the creation of a palestinian state with a capital in easternjerusalem.

but as the bbc‘s washington bureau chief paul danahar points out. here's president trump again. i want this deal to be a great deal for the palestinians. it has to be. today's agreement is a historic opportunity fo the palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own. after 70 years of little progress this could the last opportunity they will ever have. and here's president trump's proposed, conceptual map for peace.

he says it illustrates the territorial compromises that israel is willing to make. here's paul danahar again. more on that later — first, here's israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu who said it was one of the most important days of his life. for too long, far too long, the very heart of the land of israel, where our patriarchs prayed, our prophets preached and our kings ruled outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory. well, today, mr president, you are puncturing this big lie.

it's an 80—page plan — so a lot to digest. and before it was even announced, the palestinians said they would reject the proposals — they weren't consulted on them. since then, palestinian president mahmoud abbas has spoken. translation: i would like to say to them, trump and netanyahu, thatjerusalem is not for sale. and all our rights are not for sale, and are not for bargaining. applause. and your deal, the conspiracy, will not pass. also hamas — the militant group based in gaza — has said the president's statement is aggressive. sami anu zuhri, hamas "trump's statement aboutjerusalem is nonsense and jerusalem will always be a land for the palestinians". and this is what's been happening in gaza — more large protests.

from gaza to the west bank — barbara plett usher is in ramallah — with more on what palestinian president mahmoud abbas has said. it was quite a strong denunciation of the donald trump plan. he said no a thousand times, no, no, no. he particularly mentioned donald trump's comments about the debt capital ofjerusalem going and he said jerusalem is not for sale and he did not call for action, but he did say that this would spur palestinian efforts to bridge the divide in the national movement for palestinian authority and has spoken to the leaders in gaza and went to visit gaza in order to work out a joint response to this. he said the

palestinians needed to build on the international sport they did have the rights and congress as well as the rights and congress as well as the european union. but he did not mention something that is most contentious of many palestinians and thatis contentious of many palestinians and that is the ongoing coordination between the palestinian authority with israel in terms of security. so quite a strong rhetoric against what has happened and a strong statement about the need to do something about this division in the national movement, but not really any change announced anyway in terms of the status quo of how things are operating. and what about speaking directly with donald trump or benjamin netanyahu directly with donald trump or benjamin neta nyahu about directly with donald trump or benjamin netanyahu about this plan oi’ benjamin netanyahu about this plan orany benjamin netanyahu about this plan or any other plan he may have? he has not spoken with donald trump or the trump administration for more than two years. the palestinians of boycott of this process after the donald trump administration moved to

jerusalem and recognised jerusalem as israel's capital and they said we know where this is going. there is no point in engaging with it and he saidi no point in engaging with it and he said i was right, i was right to say that all along. some people said to wait and see what the plan actually is but now that we've seen the plan, we concede this is where it headed. and so he has made no suggestion that this is going to change as he has rejected the plan put forward by donald trump and the president of the united states has said he's going to have the palestinians some time to try and rethink whether they're going to change the position and some of the reporting of that, it was suggested that donald trump is even thinking after him, there will be more compliance. we do not know if that is true but mr abbas has been acquired from this response and he said he rejected a phone call to even talk about the release. israel was created in 1948 under a un plan which envisioned

a jewsish and a palestinian state. after a war — only thejewish state came into being. there's been a dispute over land ever since. in the 1967 war, israel captured east jerusalem and the west bank from jordan — that created a quarter of a million palestinian refugees. hundreds of thousands of israelis moved in. according to the israeli settlement watchdog peace now, at the end of last year over 413,000 israeli settlers lived in the west bank, in 132 settlements, regarded by most of the international community as illegal. the areas in orange here are under palestinian civil control. the faint purple marks israeli military and civilian control, notice how each palestinian area is surrounded by israeli controlled territory. the darker purple marks settlements. the status ofjerusalem remains one of the hardest issues to resolve — both sides claiming it as their capital.

but what happens with jewish settlements in the west bank and eastjerusalem. it has proved to be an equally intractable issue between israel and the palestinians, and rows about them have caused the collapse of numerous rounds of peace talks. these are some of the israeli settlements under construction in the west bank — isolated, protected, built very much with security in mind. president trump has said "no palestinians or israelis will be uprooted from their homes" — suggesting these existing jewish settlements in the israeli—occupied west bank will remain. a negotiated peace did seem possible almost 30 years ago. a series of secret talks in norway became the oslo peace process. famously there was this ceremony on the white house lawn in 1993 presided over by president bill clinton. israel's prime minister yitzhak rabin and the palestinian leader yasser arafat —

two bitter enemies — signed these documents promising to negotiate an agreement. it was an historic moment. the palestinians recognised the state of israel. the israelis accepted that the palestine liberation organisation represented the palestinian people. but cracks soon appeared and yitzhak rabin was assassinated by a jewish extremist in 1995. successive israeli prime ministers — including benjamin netanyahu — have all accepted the idea of a palestinian state, but have had different views of what it should actually be like. the timing of the announcement may have as much to do with the political and legal needs of donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, as it does with the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough.

both men face elections, and prosecution. mr trump is being impeached, on trial in the us senate for high crimes and misdemeanours. mr netanyahu has been formally indicted on criminal charges of corruption, bribery and breach of trust. this from the middle east correspondent for the independent: bibi dropped his bid for immunity after became clear the israeli parliament would vote against it. someone else who's reacted to today's news is the former prime minister tony blair — he was middle east envoy to us, russia, the un and the eu for eight years — and he's been talking to the bbc. one of the things with this administration is they'll, they'll do what they're going to do. it is a different form of diplomacy and international

policy in one sense, but on the other, what they will say is we offered the palestinian president the chance to engage in this and he's not engaged in this, so we're just going to like this. now, ithink, i completely understand how the palestinians would view that and look at it. but they've got to think strategically at this moment in time. what their options are and what is the right way to put this on the agenda with all the concerns that they have and to mobilise support from frankly, the only people who are really going to help them now are going to be the arab nations and the united states of america itself. the uk will allow the chinese tech firm huawei to supply kit for its next generation, 5g data network — despite the united states saying the company is a security risk. huawei equipment will be limited to parts of the 5g network that are low risk, it won't be allowed near military bases and nuclear sites, and it will only be allowed

to account for 35% of what is called the non—core network. that means huawei can provide kit for the lower part of the network, the periphery, including signal masts and stations, but not for the core, what is essentially the brains of the network, where your messages, phone calls and data are routed. this decision has major consequences for the uk's future technology and its diplomacy, and it wasn't made lightly. here's our security correspondent gordon correa. this determines the security of our data and telecoms network which will become increasingly important to our lives for the decades to come. more and more personal data will be children these networks and more of the infrastructure of our lives will depend on telecommunications. and whether it's not that it's the potential for espionage or sabotage

isa potential for espionage or sabotage is a really significant security risk. officials certainly believe that they can manage that risk, not eliminated, manage it. in other words they can reduce the risk, they can spot of something is happening he can deal with it and if it does happen. part of what made the uk's decision so challenging is how massive the impact of 5g will be for the uk, and around the world. it will be an exponential shift in what a cellular network can do for us. firstly, it is much faster. 10—20 times faster, meaning you can download a 1 hour video in 7 seconds, by which time the 4g network will have managed about 3% of the download. these speeds won't happen straight away — early on 5g technology will probably be used to beef up the 4g network — but as the use of 5g equipment spreads, this will become more achievable. and so will a great deal more. 5g devices will be able to communicate between each other, wirelessly, across the network. it is a major step towards making d riverless vehicles

a reality in the future. this new connectivity enables what is refered to as ‘the internet of things‘ — all your gadgets being connected, being able to exchange data with each other without bothering you. it will also be able to serve more devices in a given area — if you've ever had your phone stop working in a crowded place, you'll know how useful that would be. but the relatively unknown possibilities of this technology mean it is much harder to anticipate security concerns. but before we get on to those, it's important to point out the uk wasn't deciding whether to let huawei into its current telecomms network, it was deciding whether to ban it in the future. huawei equipment is already a big part of the 4g network in the uk. here's an expert from chatham house, an institute focusing on international affairs, to explain. these global chains all technology pretty much as global supply chains

and if you dig deep enough, you'll find china and the supply chains when way or another. even if the us household name, a lot of them have their kid made in china. the market for supplying 5g equipment is incredibly concentrated and they are only really three vendors to choose from. and exists on top of infrastructure in which waterway has been providing this for 15 years. so u nless been providing this for 15 years. so unless you want to stop everything, rip out all of that of huawei equipment, who pays for that and how long does that take? you have to ta ke long does that take? you have to take into account an attitude of and amazing security risks in working with the reality on the ground. a good example of why took place in ethiopia the uk has designated huawei as a high risk vendor, a good example of why took place in ethiopia

a couple of years ago. addis ababa is home to the headquatrters of african union. the building was finished in 2012, thanks to $200 million provided by china. for a number of years it represented the growing unity between china and africa. china is the continent's largest trading partner. then in 2018 le monde afrique reported that the african union's computer system had been compromised. a computer scientist working at the au discovered that every night, between midnight and 2am data from the african union servers was being transferred more than 8,000km away — to servers in shanghai. it was noticed because there was a huge volume of server activity late at night when the offices were empty, which didn't make sense. worse still, it had been going on for five years. it was even reported listening devices were found after they swept the building for bugs. the main supplier of it equipment for the african union headquarters was huawei. there is no evidence they were involved,

they were not the only supplier. but these reports played into years of suspicions about huawei — that a large chinese company might find itself unduly influenced by the chinese government. the firm's founder has said he would "shut the company down" rather than aid "any spying activities". but those suspicions, held by the uk's intelligence allies, persist. and they put the uk in a difficult position. here's the home secretary priti patel. we make our own decisions as a sovereign country and government. we base that on evidence, we base that on the evidence has been presented to the national security council, which is the best world in the class evidence. and that information comes from gc hq, evidence. and that information comes from gc ho, our national cyber centre, for security and all of the key components that put the case together. they validated the evidence they are absolutely in

agreement with the regulatory approach that we are taking. we are taking creative new regime and basically banning quality from core aspects of our telecoms network and certainly, but also to recognise when it comes to america, they do not have huawei in any aspect of their system. we already do. the uk is part of an intelligence alliance that includes australia and new zealand and the us and canada — it's called five eyes. the us has been pressuring all members of five eyes to keep huawei out of their 5g networks for security reasons, australia and new zealand have already blocked the firm. canada hasn't made clear where it stands but it is currently detaining mung wan—jo, chief financial officer for huawei, and the daughter of the ceo, while the courts decid whether to extradite her to the us to face charges that she breached us sanctions against iran. huawei is on america's entity list, a blacklist of firms

with which the us will not trade. it has even warned the uk that it may limit what security intel it is willing to share with the uk, if huawei forms part of the uk 5g network. but as the uk just proved, it isn't working. here's a technology analyst to explain further. the united states has failed on the diplomatic front to try and remove huawei from its allies infrastructure. i think it has one weapon infrastructure. i think it has one wea po n left infrastructure. i think it has one weapon left and it is arsenal which is to go after huawei as a company. until it is no longer desirable to have huawei kids in your infrastructure. so where they cannot supply, they shrugged it off and i think we could see the united states become far

more aggressive towards that company to make it as least attractive as possible while it tries to build up its telecommunications capabilities. the us made a mistake, they took their eye off the ball and now they're caught out. here could also be major implications for trade. the uk officially leaves the eu at the end of the week, and will start negotiating trade deals. chief among them, a deal with the united states. today senator lindsey graham tweeted. i've been speaking to gary o'donoghue to get more reaction no official word from the white house but some senior republicans show straight there, very unhappy about what has happened. one said they were disappointed that the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives and another

senator, a republican saying that it would damage britain's national security. they have been very public, the administration about their opposition to this idea, not least mike pompeo, the secretary of state, steve and the president, all in the last week coming out and voicing their opposition. i do not think they're going to let this one go very easily. is the main point that american the uk should be as one on security issues or do they actually believe that america's security could be compromised by boris johnson's decision? what things they talked about regularly is intelligence sharing. the cia and services in print and come up were very —— in britain, will share an awful lot, as to people like the nsa care, the national security agency and the gc hq in britain. so that is of the americans believe is put at

risk and i have been on a couple of briefing calls in the white house and the last year on the whole 5g and the last year on the whole 5g and they really believe that this is and they really believe that this is a step change in security risk introducing huawei into the networks and that is why they banded here and they wanted their allies to do the same. the question is now, with the uk's step encourage others, particularly those in europe as well, to take and do something similarand god on well, to take and do something similar and god on the limb in opposition to the americans. chicago __ go opposition to the americans. chicago —— go out on a limb. this a chicago court has decided a british man dubbed the flash crash trader will avoid any additional jail time. navinder sarao traded on a us exchange back in may 2010 — from his parent's house in west london. he was accused of helping to trigger a flash crash — which temporarily wiped $1—trillion off the value of shares. his attorney says there had intially been concern mr sarao could face

more time behind bars. we are incredibly grateful. there was a huge worry when we took the case that he was in jail, he was facing allegations that he caused this trillion dollar market loss and facing an amount of time that would have effectively put them in jail for the rest of his life. those who did not follow the story, how did he manage to wipe that kind of value off the shares of this house in london. what he was doing was doing something called spoofing, which puts forward all of these trades but actually not following through with them and profiting on that intent to get those shares. so that is something that is illegal and he amassed and all of the trades, $70

million, as correctly pointed out from the comfort of his bedroom and his parents home in west london. then go to 2015, when he was arrested and spent four months in prison in london. he decided to plead guilty to lesser charges and cooperated with us authorities and both of the prosecution and the probations had said that they did not think he should serve any more jail time not think he should serve any more jailtime and not think he should serve any more jail time and that said, the judge issuing the sentence today for that it was important that he really learned some kind of lesson, which is why she imposed a one year of house arrest. life with new york. if you want more details on that story 01’ you want more details on that story or indeed, any of the stories across outside source, he can get that to the bbc news app. coming up in the second half, will speak to the environment correspondent about going to one of the most remote

places and act in antarctica. hello there. thank you forjoining me for this extended look at some of the weather from across the globe. we started in australia as of north—south split, you can see on the satellite picture, the lump of cloud towards the north, bringing in some heavy foundry downpours and the pressure certainly dominating here and these heavy downpours across parts of northern territory in queensland could cause some issues with flooding. try her towards the south as high—pressure wards on with northerly wind for a story here is the rise in temperature feud spreading across the west. so temperatures climbing back into the low to mid 40s and that increasing risk of bushfires once more and here is the city outlook for melbourne temperatures peaking on friday. 22

celsius but the he looks fairly short, dropping back down is moving to sunday and the start of next week. and into the east, madagascar have seen some flooding and it is a drier picture there with one or two showers but it is the seasonal rain that could cause some issues with flooding. the eastern areas of parts of kenya, uganda, some heavy rain and it could cause and heavy issues of flooding. and from flooding in madagascar to flooding in brazil. eastern areas of brazil, the state has seen some flooding as a result of the exceptional amount of rainfall and over the next few days, there are still a few showers to come but it does look like those showers will tend to ease as the week progresses in this front towards the south gradually pushing its way north, he could bring the risk of some issues with flooding in parts of argentina, paraguay and uruguay in the coming days. across

north america, more unsettled weather towards the area of low pressure but we have seen quite a lot of weight and windy weather will bring for the rain and snow to parts of british columbia in the pacific northwest. this towards the south and east bring some heavy rainfall as it tracks eastwards. taking a look at the city outlook in vancouver, some wet weather to come and temperatures picking up by a few degrees towards the end of the week. in the uk, we have seen some snow on tuesday and a very wintry scene sent in by weather watcher in the real story here is that is going to turn milder through this week with dragon some milder airfrom the milder through this week with dragon some milder air from the southwest and out spread across the country and out spread across the country and the pressure sure we can see some unsettled picture and strong blustery will winds with areas of snow and gradually working east but the temperature on thursday in barcelona, and 11 in paris. in the coming few days it will be milder

but it comes with some unsettled weather as well. goodbye.

hello, i'm ros atkins. this is outside source. president trump has revealed his middle east peace plan. he announced it alongside israel's prime minister, calling it the "deal of the century", and an opportunity for the palestinians. after 70 years of little progress, this could be the last opportunity they will ever have. but palestinians in gaza have been marching against the plan. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called it a "conspiracy that will not pass". we're reaching the end of the first phase of president trump's impeachment trial. we'll have the latest from washington. the new coronavirus that started in china is continuing to spread. president xi jinping says the situation is grave. and scientists say one of antarctica's largest ice sheets is melting faster than imagined. we have a special report.

in the us senate, president trump's legal team has finished its defence in the impeachment trial. here's one of the president's personal attorneys. it is our position legally the president at all times acted with perfect legal authority inquiring in matters of our national interest, and having received assurances of those matters, continued his policy that his administration put forward of what really is unprecedented support for ukraine. this is the end of the beginning of the trial. next, senators will have 16 hours to ask questions — that will take around around two days. then, either late this week or early

next, we expect a vote on whether to allow more documents as evidence, and more testimony from witnesses. all the democrats in the senate are expected to vote for more evidence. chuck schumer is their leader. in a few weeks or a few months to my republican colleagues in a few weeks or a few months do my republican colleagues want to pick up the paper and read one of the witnesses they blocked had crucial information about the president's misconduct? that the documents they voted to hide turned out to shed real damning light on the truth? aleem maqbool is in washington and has been following the impeachment trial for us. they focus in today in concluding those arguments the way that they have carried out the defence of the last couple of days which is really to focus on the process of it all. not necessarily looking at what donald trump is accused of and trying to say that was wrong. they focused at the very end on playing clips of democrats back when bill clinton was being impeached. those democrats saying

and then how divisive impeachment would be. so, that's where they have sort of been focused on yesterday, they focused a lot onjoe biden and his son hunter biden on nepotism, un—corruption. earlier today there is talking about how the whistle—blower‘s complaint should have gone to congress, should not have gone to congress, should not have been made public. so, really scratching around the main tenant of the impeachment allegation which is that donald trump of course withheld military aid to ukraine and took ef start at these investigations into joe biden and his son facade —— i took ef. they skirted around the big talking point of the last couple days which wasjohn bolton, the most recent national security adviser to the white house who in his manuscript of his book is saying he actually had a conversation with donald trump directly tying him to this plan of withholding aid from

kyiv. that was skirted around today as actually republicans did not use the full time that they were allotted to make their arguments, they seeded back time and as you rightly said in your introduction, this has now carried on to tomorrow where we start the question and a nswer where we start the question and answer session over a couple of days with senators being allowed to question what they have heard. i was mentioning this issue that won't go away of whether new witnesses will be heard. really we are monitoring the republicans because without them this isn't going to happen, has there been any further shifts on that issue? this is all about the republicans and what they do. they need or at least democrats who want more witnesses to be called specifically, john bolton. that is top of their list of witnesses they wa nt top of their list of witnesses they want called, they would need four republicans to ineffective vote against the white house. a couple, mitt romney being one of them, susan collins being another, have suggested that they would vote for

more witnesses to be presented in the senate trial in the interest of getting the whole truth out and what is supposed to be a fact—finding mission in this trial. but that still leaves another couple. there area still leaves another couple. there are a couple who have suggested in the past that they might think about having witnesses presented, but nothing firm as yet. but certainly thatis nothing firm as yet. but certainly that is what all the focus is on and that is what all the focus is on and that vote will come potentially friday or saturday. there is your update on the impeachment trial. with picture and update on the coronavirus. president xi has described the coronavirus as a "demon". and we know that more than 100 people have been killed across china. this more detailed map shows that the number of confirmed cases in china is now passed 11,500 — over 2,700 of those are in hubei province where the virus was first detected. outside china, the world health organization says

there are more than 50 cases. we have highlighted some here. australia, singapore, and japan all have four cases. thailand has eight cases. the latest case to be confirmed is in bavaria in germany. that's the fourth case in europe. there are no reported deaths connected to this virus outside of china. well, for more on how the virus has spread here's celia hatton. as we are getting the news of these cases that have popped up in different countries around the world from japan to germany, what is interesting about the cases we are hearing about today is that some of them are cases where the virus is appearing in people who have not travelled to china, people who simply had contact with chinese travellers. so, really, that is something governments around the world a re something governments around the world are going to be on alert for. russia has closed most of its border with china. and hong kong is cutting ferry and rail links to the mainland.

here's hong kong's leader carrie lam. translation: one of the keys to controlling the epidemic is to substantially reduce the flow of people between the two places. in other words, we are notjust talking about mainland visitors to hong kong, but also hong kong travellers to the mainland. and the number of commuters must be reduced substantially both ways. the world health organization has issued this travel advice, including maintaining hygiene standards, and avoiding close contact with live animals in markets or anyone with a heavy fever or cough. that alone won't do it though. experts are warning that some people can take more than a week to develop symptoms. certainly wearing masks like these can help prevent hand—to—mouth transmissions — only though if the filters are changed frequently and disposed of safely. it's worth addding that infectious disease experts say there's little need to wear face masks

outside of china. more macro solutions are imposing travel restrictions and treating patients in isolation. and given there's no vaccine for the virus — these isolation tactics remain central to the response. let us focus on one place close to wuhan which we've been talking about a lot. the city of sheeang yang about 300km north—west of wuhan. she told us about her situation. we can hear from we can hearfrom one wall stjournal reporter who is there the hotel we're staying at, they have asked guests to quenching for 1h days,. that seems to be the for the incubation safe where you would be infecting someone else. but outside of that, a lot of people are self quarantining in their own homes. we took a walk around when we first got here and there were not a lot of

people out. we can look outside the window and there is a handful of cars, buses still running but eve ryo ne cars, buses still running but everyone is wearing masks and there are very few people out and about. for more on how people are coping being confined indoors in china, here's celia hatton again. the government is really trying to keep people's spirits up. so you can watch a life of feet of the hospitals, the temporary facilities that are being built outside of wuhan. millions of people are tuning into those live feeds watching those hospitals go up. we are also seeing every time a survivor, someone who has pulled through this virus and is being released from hospital, we are seeing images of those popping up in china state run media. you can see the media trend keep people's spirits up, and we have seen people being very resilient doing creative things such as playing ping—pong across kitchen tables people who are stuck in quarantine. i really think

that the chinese government is really racing against the clock here. here in the uk the foreign office is warning britons not to travel to mainland china, unless their journey is essential. ian thompson has dual us—uk citizenship —and he lives in wuhan. here he is talking to the bbc at the airport while waiting to being airlifted out by the us government. it has been a bit of a nightmare i have managed to get onto the fight here today which is heading out towards alaska and then onto california. this is the only fight the us have got so far. —— the only flight. china is urging its citizens not to travel abroad while japan, france, germany and south korea have announced special flights to bring back their nationals from wuhan. the us has said it will evacuate its diplomatic staff. here's one expert's view on the current threat level from there. right now, we think the risk to the general public in the united states is low. but risk is dependent on exposure and while the vast majority of americans will not have any

exposure, some people will and therefore will be at greater risk for infection. for example health ca re for infection. for example health care workers caring for patients with infection and other close contacts. let's speak to jao—yin fung, bbc chinese in washington. help me understand these evacuations, how many people are involved? we understand that the us andjapan are involved? we understand that the us and japan are sending planes to wuhan to evacuate citizens. in the case of the us, there will be more than 200 people flying out of wuhan. most of them are tip a mess of the us and their family. most of them are tip a mess of the us and theirfamily. this is a measure taken during the sars outbreak... we have five confirmed cases in the us. the patients had recent travel history to wuhan as we just heard earlier in the programme, the cdc says that the current risk

to the american public remains to be low. but they also advised that travellers should cancel the nonessential trips to china. in terms of the world health organisation mac is it saying in line with what these governments are saying is i —— wjoe mack? line with what these governments are saying is i -- wjoe mack? they say to... they changed the risk level from moderate to high, but it has not been announced as a global emergency. i have talked to some public health experts who urged the who to make such an announcement because according to them, even though the virus is not as deadly as the sars virus, it is understood to bea the sars virus, it is understood to be a highly contagious. it can pass to many different people. they urged the who to announce a global emergency over to better prevent

echo by outbreak a. i know the primary focus of the chinese authorities is people's health but presumably there is an economic dimension to this story which is becoming more and more important to president xi. it will be their situation because the lunar new year period is also an important time for business and consumption but also almost everything is shut down at the moment and people are advised to stay at home. we can see from some videos trending on social media that residents in wuhan were shouting from the window to each other saying a phrase which can be loosely translated to "stay strong wuhan". the people pops our parity is positive mental health and news rather than shopping at the moment. thank you very much for the update, we appreciate it. stay with us on outside source. still to come, we have a special report from west antarctica,

on the alarming melt rate of a glacier the size of great britain. the grenfell tower public inquiry has been shown emails suggesting that companies directly involved in the building's refurbishment, knew the cladding they'd specified, would fail in the event of a fire. the evidence was highlighted by the firm celotex, which manufactured the insulation panels, as it defended suggestions it hadn't made clear the product would burn. here's tom symonds. the morning after the worst fire in british peacetime history. already, the questions being asked, why did it spread so fast? the inquiry‘s answer so far, the grey cladding panels were largely to blame. good morning, everyone, welcome to today's hearing. the key question for the next phase is why they were used. craig hall qc represents celotex. celotex‘s sole role was as a manufacturer and supplier of insulation products.

today, he revealed e—mails about the cladding from 27 months before the fire. in one, the technical manager of harley facades, which designed the cladding, said it would be gone rather quickly in a fire. the same month, the fire consultant from exova writes that... if there were flames, this would cause zinc cladding to fail. and an architect responds, thanks, this was my point as well. metal cladding always burns and falls off. none of the individuals involved in that march 2015 e—mail exchange have yet sought to explain how the knowledge that the cladding would fail in the event of a fire with external flames can be reconciled with their responsibilities. now, who was responsible and for what are two other key questions for this inquiry. and those e—mails will be closely scrutinised in later hearings. but the bereaved and survivors are increasingly angry

at the evidence they are hearing. tomorrow, the inquiry will hear from the royal borough of kensington and chelsea. tom symonds, bbc news, at the grenfell tower inquiry. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is from washington. president trump has revealed his plan for peace in the middle east. it's been welcomed by irsael but roundly rejected by the palestinians. here are some of the main story is from bbc world service. syrian government forces are assaulting the rebel stronghold of maraat al—numan. it's the second biggest town in the mainly rebel—held province of idlib. american forces have recovered two sets of human remains from the site where an air force plane crashed in central afghanistan. the plane came down on monday in an area partly taliban—controlled. us officials are investigating what caused the crash. fro mbbc afghan.

this video from egypt has gone viral. it's a father shielding his daughter on railway tracks as a freight train roars past. the father's been hailed a hero but the authorities suggested they were trying to cross the tracks rather than using a tunnel to reach their platform. either way they're both fine which is the main thing. this is the tip of the thwaites glacier. many scientists say it's the most important glacier in the world. they call it the doomsday glacier. this is why. it's absolutely massive — roughly the size of britain, and it's collapsing at a rate of 3km a year. here's what makes it so vulnerable. if you strip away the ice, most of this part of the continent is below sea level. this means the ice is exposed to the deep warm ocean water that circles antarctica. that warm water is now also flowing into the coast, melting the ice it comes into contact with, causing the ice above to break away. and because the seabed

here also slopes downwards, more and more ices becomes exposed, accelerating the glacier‘s retreat. all of that leads to rising sea levels. ice loss from thwaites is contributing to a 0.2mm rise in sea level per year. take the glacier as a whole, and there's enough water locked in to it, to raise the world's sea level by more than half a metre. and it doesn't end there. here's the thwaites glacier in the west antarctic ice sheet. this is a vast basin of ice that contains the potential for another 3m in sea level rises. and if thwaites goes — then we're told much of the west antarctic ice sheet will too. that's an apolcalyptic scenario. sea rises of that degree would swamp cities like new york, bangkok, and shanghai, and there are many others on that list. the importance of sea levels isn't just about where water sits on a normal day.

it also affects storm surges. take london. if the sea level increases by a metre, then a storm surge that would come every thousand years is likely to hit once a decade instead. so, this glacier that is remote even by antarctic standards, is relevant to us all. and this is how remote. it's 1,600km from the nearest research station. until now, no one's attempted a large scale scientific survey of it. this is the webpage of the international thwaites glacier collaboration. it's a five—year, $50 million uk—us effort, and their team has just returned from the front of the glacier. here's one of the scientists involved. this ice here is very accessible to change. if we are thinking about what is sea—level going to be like in ten years, this glacier is the place to be and this is the location to be asking these questions at. we are standing right on it.

until this year only four people had ever been to the front of the glacier. justin rowlatt went with the scientists. getting here is not easy. it takes five weeks just to get the science teams and their equipment to the front of the glacier. this is a historic moment, the first time in a ministry to drill down through this glacier. —— the first time anyone has tried to drill down. the 600 metres of ice below me is the most important point of all. the point at which the ice meets the ocean water. it is difficult work, but deploying instruments under the ice is the only way to begin to understand the processes at work here and to make accurate predictions about how sea levels will rise in the future. this is a world first, the first time anyone has seen the place where this glacier goes afloat, the point where it begins to melt. from the most remote part of the antarctic — to the os set. here'sjustin rowlatt himself.

the remoteness is a massive challenge. there were a huge amount of resources put into get this team of scientists out there. we had a fleet of planes doing multiple journeys just to get the scientists out there. the british antarctic survey brought tonnes of equipment and fuel to an ice shelf and unloaded it, and then these specialist snow vehicles dragged it ten miles an hour all the way up to the west and articulates the sheet. this is a place that is 1,000 miles of ice between you and the nearest research station. —— west antarctic ice sheet. it is the middle of nowhere. from there we had from the glacier and it was three, 400 miles. we had to have an intermediary camp where we had people with bladder is full of fuel so load the planes and then had to refill on the way back, so all of that infrastructure had to go in place before we could even begin to

think about getting to the front of the glacier and doing any research. the scientist you were travelling with must have known that the news wasn't going to be good, so how does what they discovered compared with what they discovered compared with what they discovered compared with what they were anticipating? so, there are very good satellites that measure what the ice is doing. they bounce lasers off the ice so they can tell how thick it is, how it is moving with the ocean, they knew this glacier was nothing. but they weren't certain was the process by which it was melting whether they suspected deep warm water the service antarctica was coming ashore and nothing the glacier. drilling down, testing the water allowed them to prove which they did that this water is present but also help some understanding that they put estimates done or to find out the salinity, turbulence, to find out what the glacier done in the past, loads of experiments to try to understand. how the processes by which this glacier is changing but

what he has done in the past, how much it might retreat, how did wes antarctica melted it melt in the last into when we were in the last ice age between now? this is how they are defying their understanding of what is happening so they can input accurate figure is into a prediction of what is meant to happen in the future so they can tell policymakers to say this is how big your seawall is going to be if you're going to protect new york, shanghai, bangkok, calcutta, london. if we look at this story in a very simple way, it seems to be about warmer oceans affecting glaciers which in turn melts, which in turn risk higher sea levels. is that too simplistic in understanding what is happening? it is, we were with glacier outages have been doing this for yea rs glacier outages have been doing this for years who were in the 60s, talking to them, they thought antarctica is so cold that the glaciers will never melt. this is a revelation to them, but what is happening is still very cold in antarctica as i can testify. —20

when we were there and that is the summer. the weather patterns on the coast of antarctica are changing and warm water which has always been off the coast of antarctica is now coming ashore. it's an indirect link, but what it does mean is this warm water is coming ashore and because the whole thing is submarine, the whole of wes antarctica is simmering, once you have water coming in, there is nothing to stop atjust continuing to melt the ice back. answer that is both fascinating and important too. if you want more and that's right, get it through the bbc news website. or the bbc news app. what's reminder of an important decision taken by president trump today. he standing alongside benjamin netanyahu went ahead with announcing his proposed middle east peace plan. the palestinians were not involved in the preparation of that, they fell out with the trump administration a couple of years ago but mrtrump and administration a couple of years ago but mr trump and mr netanyahu are pushing ahead with a plan for a two state solution and again if you want

details about announcement, you can get it online from bbc news. see you tomorrow. hello there. january 2020 for many has been pretty grey and wet at times but some of us on tuesday morning were greeted to a winter wonderland, take a look at this beautiful weather watcher from fort william in highland, lotsof snow here. there were plenty of frequent showers just being blown in around this low pressure affecting the far north and west. showers and rain primarily at lower levels as we went through the day, but it did bring some snow with it to higher ground as well. pretty chilly as well on tuesday, a cold start to wednesday morning too, and still with some showers coming into the far north—west, it's worth bearing in mind that we could have some ice around first thing in the morning. so, some difficult conditions on the road, the ice very

hit and miss depending on where the showers have been. and then as we go through the day, we will start to see more persistent rain pushing into the far north—west affecting northern ireland, scotland, and north—west england. some of that rain could be quite heavy, a good inch in places. for england and wales, a few isolated showers particularly further west, but also some dry sunny spells as well. now, as we move out of wednesday towards thursday, that terrain will continue to push its way northwards across scotland. little more in the way of cloud around and a milder start to thursday morning. temperatures hovering to around 5—8 degrees. so, we will start off thursday with rain topping and tailing the country but a south—westerly flow will also drive milder air right across the uk as we go through the day. so, the yellow tones denoting temperatures just above where they should be for the time of year. so, we will have to keep an eye on some rain pushing through the channel coast, also some who wet weather still in the far north of scotland.

sandwiched in between the two, a channel of cloud, misty, murky conditions first thing, cloud thick enough, a spot or two of drizzle. look at the highs though. 9—13 degrees. as we move out of thursday into friday, still under the influence of these frontal systems pushing in from the atlantic. so, further wet and at times windy weather to come. gales particularly on exposed north—west coast. that will bring some rain on friday. so, it's a wet and windy start to the day. the rain slipping slowly south and east as we go through the afternoon. a trail of showers packing in behind. again, those temperatures sitting above where they should be for the time of year, could be a very mild day on friday with highs for some at around 14 degrees. but as we move out of friday into saturday, the bulk of the rain will ease away. saturday looks like being a day of sunshine and blustery showers. and then we will start to see a bit of a change. so by saturday afternoon, temperatures sitting between 9—12 degrees and then from saturday, we start to see that area of low pressure drifting away. and high pressure potentially builds. so, those weather fronts

move out of the way, and we see these high pushing and across the country for the early part of next week. and what that's going to do is it will move this milder air out of the way and we see it return to something more seasonal, certainly colder, and something that we've not had yet this winter is the wind direction coming from the north—east. and that's going to make it feel pretty chilly on those exposed east coasts into next week. so, it's worth bearing in mind as we head towards the weekend, it's going to be unsettled and mild but next week, probably from tuesday onwards, quieter but noticeably colder. particularly along the east coast. more details when we get them. take care.

tonight at ten, the chinese technology firm huawei is allowed a restricted role in the uk's 5g mobile network. the firm won't be given access to sensitive areas, such as military bases and nuclear sites, and ministers reject american claims that it's a security risk to the uk. i don't think we should, you know, it gets so paranoid that somehow this is going to lead to big brother from china watching us. and from china watching us. i am in washington with ti angry and i am in washington with the angry reaction from american politicians to the uk government decision. we'll have the latest from washington on the response to the uk government's decision. also tonight... as the coronavirus infects more people in china and beyond,