this is bbc news. the headlines. the university of york says risk of infection is low after it revealed one of the two people in the uk to test positive for coronavirus, is one of its students. i want to reassure our students that we are working closely with the lead agency, public health england, and other agencies to manage the situation. public health england says 203 people have now been tested — with no additional positive cases. the uk enacts its most profound strategic change in a generation leaving the european union, after nearly half a century. as some celebrated,

others comisserated, including at this vigil in edinburgh. a 19—year—old man dies and a 22—year—old woman is seriously ill after they're believed to have taken the drug mdma at a student music event in warwickshire. the acquittal of president trump becomes all but certain as senators vote against calling witnesses at his impeachment trial. wales are on their way to a commanding win against italy as they start their defence of their six nations title in cardiff. and in half an hour —— a look back at the best stories and interviews from this week's victoria derbyshire programme.

the university of york says it believes the risk of other students catching the corona virus is low — after one of its students was diagnosed with the disease. that student is one of two chinese nationals being treated at a specialist unit in newcastle. elsewhere, more than 100 people evacuated from the chinese city of wuhan yesterday are spending 2 weeks in quarantine at a hospital on the wirral. dan johnson reports. to the absolute, you know, maximum that anyone could possibly expect... meet matt, one of the 83 people spending the next fortnight here in quarantine. the windows, i think maybe we can...? yes, we can actually open the windows and get some fresh air. usually home to nurses, this is where families are being monitored on the return from wuhan.

there is an army of people here who are looking after us extremely well. they were driven from the wirral from raf brize norton in oxfordshire last night. the coach company says the five drivers were told they didn't need protective clothing, but they will clothing, but they will have the next two weeks at home. in newcastle, two chinese nationals from the same family are being treated in an isolated facility at the royal victoria infirmary. one was a student at the university of york but it is not ——thought that they did not show symptoms on campus. the hotel room where they fell ill is being disinfected and officials say they are making good progress tracing those in close contact with the pair. we have not really got effective treatments for a novel virus like this yet. a vaccine would be some way off, we have not heard any discussion about antiviral drugs where we have had these kind of things before. it comes down, really, to mobilising the public to be sensible in terms

of practical common sense, everyday measures... in china, the virus has not affected 12,000 people and 259 have died. ——now affected. some countries are taking steps to ban chinese travellers, and the world health organization has declared an international emergency, with more than a hundred cases now in over 20 countries. they have brought us televisions, radios... back on the wirral, so far all is well. as far as we know, we are all both tickety and boo and in that order. but this is just the start of a two—week wait. one of the first two people to test positive for coronavirus in the uk, is a student at the university of york. the vice chancellor, professor charlie jeffery, sought to reassure students earlier, as did the student union president, samara jones. as you are aware, public health england has informed us that one

of our students has tested positive for coronavirus. this is one of two individuals who tested positive for the virus in the city. 0ur immediate concerns are for the infected student and family, along with the health and continued well—being of our students and staff and the residents and visitors of our city. we understand this development will cause concern and anxiety, but i want to reassure our students, staff and the wider community that we are working closely with the lead agency, public health england, and other agencies to manage the situation. we will continue to take direction from public health england. public health england has advised us that the risk of infection being passed to us on campus is low. the university is open and will continue to operate normally. i want to reiterate to students, staff, parents and visitors

that we are working with our partners across the city to ensure that york and the university remain a safe and welcoming place to live, work and visit. let me say also that the university of york is very much an international community. we are home to students and staff for more than 140 countries. we are enormously proud that we are part of the city and the warm welcome given to all of our community by the city. at times like this, we all, staff, students and friends across the city, pull together and support one another. we recognise that there is significant media interest in this situation and we would appeal to all of you to respect the privacy of those now under the care of the nhs and our wider community of staff and students. we are monitoring the situation closely and will continue to provide as much advice,

care and support as we can to anyone affected by this situation. thank you for coming today. our thoughts are with the students and the family affected. student community at york is a tight—knit global community and we will continue to support one another at this time. many students will be affected in different ways by today's news and i know many students will have questions or feel worried. the students union and graduate student association are working very closely with the university and collaborating with health authorities to ensure the students and members of our community have up to date and accurate information as soon as it is available. i would encourage students with any questions to keep an eye on the university website for any developments and key information. our dedicated helpline will remain open over the weekend. thank you.

we can speak to luxmy gopal, who's in newcastle, the united kingdom is today beginning a new era outside the european union. at 11 o'clock last night, the legal ties which have bound britain to its european neighbours for almost 5 decades were cut. in a message released by downing street, borisjohnson said he wanted to unite the country, and expressed the hope that brexit would mark a moment of national renewal. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt, reports. there is no turning the clock back now. the uk became an ex—member of the european union at this moment. big ben chimes. cheers. in the shadow of the real big ben, some celebrated a long—held dream. we should celebrate the fact that, freed from the constraints of the european union, we once again will be able to find our place in the world. at holyrood, others sang to mark a moment they had hoped would

to mark a moment they hoped would never come. the fact of the matter is, that the only way back and regain our independence. and, on the cliffs at ramsgate in kent, a message to our nearest neighbours. today, one came back. in a letter on social media that starts, dear british friends, the french president emmanuel macron said the channel had never managed to separate our destinies, brexit will not do so either. so what practical difference will we notice this morning? well, none. the uk is now in a transition period will be keep following eu laws until the end of december while the government negotiate a new relationship with europe. downing street wants it done in time for new rules to start next january. despite warm words, the eu has made it clear that negotiations are unlikely to be easy. europe has no experience in negotiating trade agreements and this is a peculiar one

because normally negotiations are about trying to come together, but this time we are going to try and negotiate a trade agreement where somebody wants to pull away from us. i cannot get my head around that. i think it is going to be quite complicated. both sides are expected to set out their opening positions in the coming days, a new phase of uk history has started. what it will bring will take a little longer to find out. a 19—year—old man has died and a 22—year—old woman is seriously ill after they're believed to have taken the drug mdma at a student event in warwickshire. police said a number of other people were also taken to hospital, "suffering adverse effects", after going to a drum and bass event in leamington. donald trump is a step closer to being acquitted in the presidential impeachment trial after the senate voted against calling witnesses.

he's been accused of abusing his power and obstructing congress. 0ne senior democrat accused republicans of being accomplices to a ‘presidential cover—up‘. from washington, chris buckler reports. president trump left the white house to spend the weekend at his mar—a—lago resort in florida and he can afford to relax now after a vote that will cut short his impeachment trial. are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change his or her vote? if not, the yays are a9, the nays are 51. by the narrowest of margins, a request to call witnesses was rejected, two republican senators voted with the democrats to hear potentially damaging testimony and demand documents but that was half the number they needed. if the president is acquitted with no witnesses, no documents, the acquittal will have no value. among the people the democrats

wanted to call to give evidence wasjohn bolton, the white house's former national security adviser. in a forthcoming book, it is claimed he says mr trump told him of a plan to put pressure on the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, with the specific aim of forcing him to launch investigations into mr trump's political opponents. but the president's lawyers insist that transcript of their phone calls show he did nothing wrong. let me read you what our ukrainian allies said. "it was normal. "we spoke about many things. "i think when you read it that nobody pushed me". senators will convene again on monday for closing arguments and, then, on wednesday for a final vote. it would take two thirds of the senate to convict mr trump and remove him from office. and, across america, everyone knows there is no chance of that happening.

the palestinian authority has cut all ties, including security relations, with the united states and israel following president trump's new peace plan. at a meeting of arab foreign ministers in cairo, palestinian president mahmoud abbas rejected the us proposals and said he would take his case to the un security council. mr trump's plan includes recognition of israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and jerusalem being israel's "undivided capital". the arab league has also condemned the plan, saying it does not meet the aspirations of the palestinian people. residents to the south of australia's capital, canberra, have been put on alert over fears that bushfires may spread. a state of emergency was declared yesterday, the first in the area since deadly fires there in 2003. shaimaa khalil has more. the bushfire south of canberra at a national park behind me has

been burning for more than a week now. today was meant to be the worst day. it has already ravaged through 16,000 hectares, about 15% or more of the australian capital territory or the act. the head of the emergency services here has said there is no immediate danger to suburbs in canberra but said the situation can change for areas south of the capital. so, in the suburb of banks, where i am right now, people have been told to keep an close eye on fire activity. and you have the combination of sweltering heat. today has been a really hot day. the wind has been picking up in a tinder—dry landscape. that is how things can get worse. the fire itself has been behaving quite erratically, spreading in multiple directions. then of course there are the embers. theyjump way ahead of the main front, causing their own fires. we understand that embers from this place have caused spot fires in new south wales. that is really what is worrying people in the southern suburbs, the kind of damage that embers can cause. something else has been

weighing heavy on people here and that is the memory of the devastating fire of 2003, when four people were killed and 500 homes were destroyed. that is why the authorities are not taking any chances. a state of emergency has been called with constant warnings on the radio. we have seen aircraft fly over the blaze, dumping water and fire retardant. the military has been knocking on some people's doors advising people what to do in the case of evacuation. everybody now is watching closely and waiting to see how the fire is going to behave. the headlines on bbc news: the university of york says risk of infection is low, after it revealed one of the two people in the uk to test positive for coronavirus, is one of its students. the uk enacts its most profound strategic change in a generation, leaving the european union, after nearly half a century.

a 19—year—old man dies and a 22—year—old woman is seriously ill, after they're believed to have taken the drug mdma at a student music event in warwickshire. in sport, the opening weekend of six nations, defending champions wales state smash italy 14—0. i went to ta ke state smash italy 14—0. i went to take on scotland and england take on france tomorrow. more now on the uk's withdrawalfrom the eu — our correspondent gavin lee is in malaga, looking at what this is going to mean for british expats in europe.

i have been spending my time on the coast of costa del sol, a popular place for residents, thousands of residents living across spain and many year. i've spoken to residents throughout the day and spanish businesses. this is a form for these fruits that we use as vegetables, avocados. a huge farm. it is the only part of europe that produces avocados that go straight to the supermarkets in the uk we go to tesco and sainsbury‘s. let us get a sense of what this means for businesses and the owner here. give mea businesses and the owner here. give me a sense of your thoughts. you have had meetings with the bosses of sainsbury‘s and tesco, what are you seeing? they say we need to wait to

seeing? they say we need to wait to see what happens with brexit, they are out of the european committee, but the decision of what happens to the goods is not done yet. it needs to be discussed politically. why be worried if you don't have any change? we don't know what is happening. it will stay the same until the end of the year, we know that, but by next year, if there are suddenly tariffs in fruit and vegetables, could that affect your expert to the uk? the business in terms of spanish fruit is 30%, the british market is very important, english supermarkets like our products because we are close and we have a reduced carbon footprint. to

be close means fresh fruit and better quality for customers. could there be tariffs on avocados?” better quality for customers. could there be tariffs on avocados? 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 correspondent, dan whitworth, spoke to shaun ley, about the impact the delays are having. ultimately, you can talk about as many figures or numbers as you want, at least part of the story is people. i want to give you one example. a gentleman we are speaking to who we are calling allen, he has a dispute with the child maintenance service, who, of course, comes under the auspices of the dwp, and regardless of the rights or wrongs of his individual case, some numbers for you here now. he initially complained to the child maintenance service in november 2017. it took a year and a half to exhaust their complaints process,

that brings us to summer 2019. he was then allowed to apply to the independent case examiner. it is a little bit like the ombudsman for the dwp. they said yes, we will investigate your case, but... this was the summer of last year? this was the summer of 2019. but it is going to take a year and a half before we even investigate and i know, from data we have found out, that investigation will likely take six months. add all of that... that takes us to the beginning of 2022. around about summer 2021, but if you add all that up, that is essentially nearly a four year waiting in this case. he has described his life as flatlining during this time, he has described that delay is obscene. it is extraordinarily long. how is the process supposed to work? supposedly it isn't one person with a desktop? no, no, no. that would take a while. the independent case examiner, as i said, it is a little bit like an ombudsman for the dwp, you have to exhaust the complaints process with your individual organisation, like the child maintenance service. then you go to the

independent case examiner. you have to be, sort of, accepted by ice, and then you have to wait for this investigation to start. that whole process we have found out, through a freedom of information request, there is an 18 month gap, if you will, between the independent case examiner accepting your case and starting to investigate and when that case is investigated, there should be a 20 week target. most of the cases are missing that and most of the cases are hitting around six months. so we have big numbers of cases on backlog, what is a dwp saying itself about all this? it has actually held its hands up a little bit. we asked for a ministerial interview and they said no. but they did give us a statement. i have it here. "we understand the impact that waiting for an investigation can have on people and their families," it says, "we are hiring and training new staff as quickly as we can", and it does say "we have cleared more complaints last year than the year before," just adding finally, "the vast majority of complainers are satisfied

with the service they receive." 2019 brought another year of record—breaking temperatures, rising sea levels and melting ice caps. but have you ever wondered how scientists know the true extent of the climate crisis? they have to put up with some pretty extreme conditions. 0ur chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt, has been on a tour of the most remote campsite on earth. right, so up here we have the massive thwaites glacier. the work these scientists are doing should help us all, giving us a much clearer understanding of how sea level could rise worldwide and that is why we are camping here. this is the residential area, this is where we sleep. these are scott tents, after captain scott. james. how are you? can we see inside? by all means, be my guest. check out his crib. you've got everything you're going to need to be in the tent for a long time.

so we've got a light source that also is a heater. we've got a stove... scott himself could have used this. i think he actually used this one. so the idea is that you could get stuck in a tent like this for days and you'd be able to survive for days. we normally have a 20—day food box outside so, if it's a really big blow, you have everything you need to be self—sufficient for a long time. now, we come to the delicate subject of the antarctic toilet. and you have choices here. you've got the pee stick here or the toilet tent. ok, so what you've got is a big hole in the snow and then this like throne which for some reason — no—one can explain why — is called a johnson box. one more lunch, do you think? yeah. so this is a water treatment plant. the purest water in the world. fresh, glacial water. turn on the furnace. let's get it in.

it's pretty basic, we start with a little bit of water to make melting easier and it's fresh antarctic snow, fresh to drink. sausages and rape seed oil. you get them out in the frying pan and, oh, beautiful. spam. this is tinned cheese. slightly processed, slightly plasticky, melt it out, you get a cheese fondu, you get your biscuits in there — oh, it is perfect. special antarctic recipe. the best thing about antarctic camping, the tents? the white and blue colour scheme, i think that's really beautiful. and i decorate my own home with that. the friends you make, while you're out here struggling. also the sun dogs, the bright crystals that you get in the air, sparkling everywhere and what it does to the sky and the ground. it's just a sense of quietness and peace and it is absolutely beautiful. back to our top story, the university of york says it

believes the risk of other students catching the corona virus is low after one of its students was diagnosed with the disease. it comes as more than 100 people evacuated from the chinese city of wuhan yesterday are spending 2 weeks in quarantine at a hospital on the wirral. earlier doctor connor bamford, a virologist at the wellcome—wolfson institute for experimental medicine at queens university in belfast, told us what we don't know about the virus. we have known about the virus last month so we have a lot of standard questions, but a lot of the ones are how is this virus transmitted? especially if you are asymptomatic 01’ especially if you are asymptomatic or show mild symptoms, how likely are you to be transmitting the virus? how well is it equipped to cause severe infections? these infections can be fatal but nearly 196 infections can be fatal but nearly 1% of these infections are deadly,

we doubly know that. viruses transmit or infect in different ways. clarify how this particular coronavirus is transmitting. we know it will cause a lung infection, pneumonia, so you will get symptoms like coughing and shortness of breath and a fever, this will lead to it being spread by the respiratory system. so, a carfor a sneeze, we will send out droplets with virus in it and can be picked up with virus in it and can be picked up by with virus in it and can be picked up by another person. this virus is transmittable up by another person. this virus is tra nsmittable but it up by another person. this virus is transmittable but it is not one of the most tra nsmittable transmittable but it is not one of the most transmittable or contagious, this is probably likely because it needs a short distance between people with large contact, larger droplets. a virus remains within the human population, the longer it has to develop and mutate. how big a risk as this? viruses

mutate all the time but it doesn't mean it changes. at the minute, this virus is able to infect people and transmit and cause disease, so even the virus that has mutated a snowy massive problem. there are outstanding questions about the virus. we had in that advice coming from public health england following the university of york confirmation that it was one of their students, they talk about close contact. they talk about two metres from the patient within 15 minutes. how do we know that if we don't know enough about the virus? how do we know how long we should be within that facility? i imagine this is based on oui’ facility? i imagine this is based on our best guess versus other related viruses, we have a lot of experience

with influenza and other human coronaviruses, and we know that viruses coming out of china and europe that actually it isn't the most contagious but it is still contagious. it probably needs a short distance. the two metres and 15 minutes is a way to prioritise individuals to follow—up but we know that you can transmit this virus when you're mild symptoms. we know you can maybe contaminate a surface that could pick up the virus. these are still outstanding questions that need to be answered but i think this isa need to be answered but i think this is a way to prioritise certain people. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello there. it is turning into a decidedly mixed weekend of weather. southern areas have some sunshine through the day. there are some outbreaks of showery rain, which will clear as we go through this evening, and then a zone of dry weather and starry skies. but only briefly. later, we bring this rain in from the south—west, some of it on the heavy side, the wind picking up and the air

turning increasingly mild. 11 degrees in plymouth to start tomorrow morning. compare that to —1 in aberdeen. as we go through the day, it is all about this band of rain which will be moving its way quite slowly north eastwards. some uncertainty about how far north the rain will get across scotland but there is some snow likely to be mix again. to the south, some sunshine but some hefty showers too. to the south of wales and england, there is likely to be a lot of cloud with rain coming back into the channel islands. very mild in the south, at 12 to 1a degrees. colder than the north and then, on monday, there will be some blustery weather, particularly in the north of the uk, but dry in the further south. it will calm down for the middle of the week. hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: the university of york says risk of infection is low, after it revealed one of the two people in the uk to test