tv BBC News BBC News February 2, 2020 11:00am-11:30am GMT
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:003m... the first death from coronavirus outside china is reported, in the philippines. in china, the number of cases continues to rise. meanwhile, 11 more british nationals are on their way back from wuhan, the chinese city at the centre of the outbreak. the prime minister reveals his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. we'll be looking ahead to tonight's bafta awards. joker leads the way with 11 nominations but it's the first world war epic 1917 which is tipped to take the top prize of best film. england hope to kick off their six nations campaign with a win against france in paris this afternoon. and coming up, carrie gracie and her guests will ponder the uk's post—brexit future — that's in dateline london at 11:30.
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more british nationals are being flown back to the uk from wuhan, the centre of the outbreak of the new strain of coronavirus. the centre of the outbreak they are travelling on a french flight which will arrive at lunchtime. the bbc understands there are 11 britons on the plane, it comes as the first confirmed death from the new coronavirus has been reported outside china — in the phillipines. the victim was a 44—year—old chinese man from wuhan who was visiting the philippines. the disease has now killed more than 300 people. simonjones reports.
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the checks that have become part of daily life in areas of china continue to try to try to stop the rapid spread of the virus. but now, for the first time, a death outside of the country, in the philippines. people there had already started queueing to buy facemasks even before news of the fatality emerged. the world health organization says he was a 44—year—old man from wuhan, who was visiting the philippines. he appears to have been infected before arriving there. over the course of the patient‘s admission he developed severe pneumonia. in his last few days the patient was able and showed signs of improvement. however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within the last 2a hours, resulting in his demise. an increasing number of countries have started imposing travel restrictions on chinese citizens. the us and australia among those to deny entry to all foreign visitors who had recently been to china. though there is a warning that that may have limited effect.
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whenever people want to travel they will. and if the official paths are not open they will find unofficial paths. the only way to control and check, to identify travel history, to try to monitor who's coming across your border and to see whether they have any signs of infection is through official border crossing points. other countries are continuing to repatriate their own citizens. france transported a group from their embassy to wuhan airport. they will spend 1a days in quarantine at home. it's thought there are 11 british nationals on board the flight. in wuhan, the construction of a new hospital to deal with the sick continues. with the rapid spread of the virus, for the authorities, it can't come soon enough. simon jones, bbc news. meanwhile, a uk—wide advertising campaign has been launched by the government to advise the public on how to slow the spread of coronavirus. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports.
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public health officials have to tread a delicate path between informing people on the best way to avoid infection by the coronavirus and spreading panic. so a uk—wide advertising campaign now aims to offer measured, straightforward advice. for example, use and then dispose of tissues when you cough or sneeze, wash your hands properly using soap and water, and those who've returned from china in the past 14 days are asked to stay at home if they start to feel ill, rather than rushing to hospital where more people could be infected. it's likely that those most at risk from the virus are the same groups vulnerable to winter flu and other seasonal bugs — the frail and elderly or those with compromised immune systems, like people living with diabetes. meanwhile, efforts to trace those who may have come into close contact with the two chinese nationals who fell ill in york are continuing. officials at the university of york, where one of them is studying, say the risk to staff and other students is low. dominic hughes, bbc news.
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let's hear from our correspondent 0livia richwald, who is outside the university of york where it's been confirmed one of the uk patients studies. what is the latest you have from there? it's business as usual here at the university. although it's a sunday and cold and rainy so there are not too many people milling about. here at the university of york there are 1500 chinese students studying and york is a popular place for chinese tourists as well. yesterday we had the news that of the two confirmed cases of coronavirus, one of them is a student studying here and a relative. however, the university of york have moved to reassure staff and students that the risk of anyone else picking up the infection from that student is very low and that's because that student wasn't known to come onto the campus before or during any symptoms. that student, and we don't know if it is a man or and we don't know if it is a man or a woman, and their relative have been taken to newcastle where they
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are still being treated at specialist hospitals there. we don't have any update on their condition. meanwhile investigations are continuing to try to find out if they came into contact with anyone else here in york or in the uk during their travels. we understand that one member of staff at the hotel where they stayed has been issued with some advice, and york's chinese community are also working to trace the movements of the family and they have managed to determine they travelled here in a small family groups and are not likely to use the train. however, the incubation period for the coronavirus is between two and 1a days so it could be quite some time before york is given the all clear. across the country we are awaiting the arrival of 11 more evacuees from wuhan in china. we understand they will lend later today and they will be taken up to the world to join 83 other evacuees at the arrowe park hospital. they will all be kept in
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isolation for 1h days and carefully monitored in case they developed any other symptoms. but the good news here at the university is that public health england have managed to rule out any close contacts. 0livia richwald, thank you. we can show you live pictures from france. this is a facility where people on that french plane that is coming out of wuhan in china are going to be taken as a precaution and have a of wuhan in china are going to be taken as a precaution and have 8111 day quarantine period. this is rather like the facility in birkenhead at arrowe park hospital where the british people are being taken for their 1a day quarantine. this is a fire brigade training facility where the group of evacuated citizens from wuhan will be held in quarantine. the french government has charted that flight to evacuate citizens from wuhan as they try to get their people out of
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china. it's an airbus 380 super jumbo that took off yesterday. it is due to return to france at around lunchtime. it is not heading into paris. we are not sure exactly where it will land but the french citizens on that plane will be taken to that facility. 0ur correspondent robin brant is in shanghaifor us, and he told me china is facing increasing global isolation because of this coronavirus. we have seen borders increasingly being closed around china. vietnam is the latest to do that, the russians and mongolians have already done that. these are measures partly that the world health organization and the authorities in beijing a week ago believed were not necessary, but things are changing very rapidly. in terms of what the chinese government is trying to do to contain the spread, yet again today we are seeing
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further measures to extend china's lunar new year festival. the prime minister urging provincial governments to stagger the return of people. the big concern is that today should be the day when up to half a billion people get back on trains, planes, in buses, their holiday over, and head back to their cities of work or where they live. that presents a big opportunity for this virus to continue in its contamination, continue its spread. so the government is trying to postpone it for now. or at least stagger people's return. robin, what sort of damage is this doing to the chinese economy? that is the next big question. this is the world's second biggest economy, an economy already dealing with a slowdown in its growth. growth here in china is at a level that has not been seen for 30 years.
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for the past year the government has been trying to soften that blow, to protect people from a change that many people have not seen for a generation. factories, offices, everywhere essentially, certainly here in shanghai, the country's commercial capital, is shut down, it's not business as normal. no schools are open. the economy is kind of grinding to a halt. the question is, what can the government do in the weeks and months afterwards to try and negate the impact of that on an economy that is already, as i said, dealing with a slowdown in growth it has not seen for a long time. for instance, the stock markets will open in shanghai shenzhen and shenzhen down south tomorrow, they will resume trading for the first time since the new year break. the central bank will inject up to $175 trillion, meant to send a message of stability. it will be interesting to see
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what investors do tomorrow as a gauge of their sentiment about how they think the chinese government has dealt with it and where they think this is going as well. robin brant with the latest from shanghai. the prime minister is expected to say that he will not accept alignment with eu rules when post—brexit trade negotiations get under way next month. borisjohnson and the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, are due to set out what they hope to achieve from talks tomorrow. the two sides have until the end of the year to agree to a deal. well, the prime minister is thought to be prepared to accept a ca nada—style arrangement. canada's free—trade deal with the eu is known as the comprehensive economic and trade agreement and it took seven years to negotiate. most, but not all, of the agreement is in force. but what does it do? the deal eliminates 98% of all tariffs on goods traded between canada and the eu. most were removed when the agreement came into force in 2017 and all tariffs will disappear after seven yea rs.
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the eu and canada have opened up public contracts to one another which means canadian companies can pitch to build french railways while spanish builders can bid to construct schools in canada. but the agreement does not fully remove regulatory barriers as canada is not a member of the single market which means its products are still subject to border checks. as the agreement is not a customs union or a single market, canada and the eu are both free to do trade deals with any other country. well, a little earlier i spoke to our political correspondent tom barton for some analysis of the next brexit phase. if you thought you had heard everything you were going to hear about the relationship between the uk and europe by brexit day? well, think again. it's still going on. it will be going on at least until the end of this year. a speech on monday from borisjohnson setting out what he has as his ambitions
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for the trade negotiations. aiming, as you say, for a deal similar to the one the uk has with canada. but make it clear, actually he's willing to go for a looser arrangement even than that if necessary, if terms can't be agreed. and in particular, he's going to make it clear that on one issue that the eu have been talking about recently, regulatory alignment, what the eu call a level playing field, essentially making sure notjust the ways in which things are made conform to certain standards, but things like employment laws and environmental regulations, are also set at the same level. borisjohnson is going to make it clear that britain won't swallow that and the foreign secretary saying something very similar on the andrew marr showjust now. we just need to be very clear that the canada style agreement doesn't involve regulatory alignment. it's not what the political declaration says. it obviously defeats, as you said in your earlier interviews,
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the point of brexit, so we would expect to be treated, first of all, in the same way third countries are with the rest of the eu, like japan, like south korea, like canada, but also for the undertakings that the eu have made to be lived up to. so i think it's more of a question of getting clarity at the outset, so we are not going to be aligning with eu rules. that's not on the negotiating table. it's not even an issue of red lines. it's not even in the negotiating room. so, dominic raab essentially saying they gave this deal to canada without asking for regulatory alignment, a level playing field, so you should be able to give the same deal to the uk. the eu, though, are keen to stress that there are big differences between britain and canada when it comes to the european union. primarily, location, and we can't be expected to be treated the same. this was the irish politician leo va radkar also speaking to andrew marr. canada isn't the uk. you know, you are geographically part of the european continent, we share seas, we share air space, and our economies are very integrated. and one thing we feel very strongly
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in the european union is that if we are going to have tariff—free, quota—free trade with the uk, which is essentially what we have with canada on almost everything, then that needs to come with a level playing field. so that's leo varadkar. time is short, there's only a few months to negotiate this trade deal, whatever sort of trade deal that turns out to be. yeah, absolutely. so, we are in a transition period at the moment, rules stay the same, everything about the relationship stays the same until the end of this year. but after that, nobody knows what it looks like. they have 11... 0r, given negotiations won't start until march, ten months to try to sort this out. the canada deal took seven years to negotiate. we are starting, of course, from a very different position. we are very closely aligned at the moment, but there will be tough talk from both sides over the next few weeks and months. it's going to be a tough, tough battle and it'll be very interesting to see how it plays out. tom barton, our political correspondent. the headlines on bbc news... more than 300 people have now died
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from the coronavirus outbreak as the first death outside china is reported in the philippines. more britons fly home from wuhan — the chinese city at the centre of the outbreak. they'll be taken to arrowe park hospital on the wirral. and the prime minister reveals his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. sport now, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good morning. starting with tennis because dominic thiem is dominating in the final of the australian open. the favourite, novak djokovic, took the first set, but thiem won the second and has just taken the third 6—2. there is also some british success to tell you about in melbourne because in the last few hours joe salisbury has won his first grand slam title alongside partner american rajeev ram in the men's doubles. he joins jamie murray as one of only
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two british winners of the men's doubles title at the australian open in the open era. it's unbelievable. i think i've dreams of this moment many times. and now it's finally happened, it feels a bit strange, a bit surreal. i don't think it's really sunk in quite yet. it still feels a bit like a dream, but, yeah, we arejust so, so a dream, but, yeah, we arejust so, so thrilled that we've finally done it. and congratulations tojoe salisbury. moving on to the six nations rugby. so england and france meet later today in paris, in what will be england's first game since losing the world cup final three months ago. 23—year—old george furbank will make his england debut at fullback and eddie jones believes the northampton player is made for international rugby. he's one of the first players i noticed when i came back from the world cup. very composed, good core skills. got good positional sense will stop when we got him into the
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camp he showed all those things under pressure and he thoroughly deserves the opportunity. liverpool managerjurgen klopp says his team are "not even close to being perfect" despite their 22—point lead at the top being the biggest by any team at the end of a day in english top—flight history. that's after beating southampton 4—0. liverpool were sloppy at times but alex 0xlaide—chamberlain eventually gave them the lead just after the break. captainjordan henderson was also on the scoreheet with mo salah scoring twice in the win. great britian‘s hockey goalkeeper maddie hinch has criticised rules which saw australia awarded a win for today's pro league game, despite gb leading 1—0. anna toman had scored from a penalty corner to put gb ahead, but then at half time thunder and lightning in sydney meant the game had to be called off.
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according to the rules, because australia won yesterday's game, they get double points and so were awarded the overall win. reacting to the decision on twitter, maddie hinch wrote: "makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. . . winning1—0 at half time only for some obscene t&c‘s to determine the outcome & be left with absolutely nothing! !" earlier, great britain's men were heavily beaten by the kookaburras. they lost 5—1 in their second match, having drawn 4—1; in the first. both men and women play new zealand next weekend. another sporting event has been called off as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in china. the formula e race due to take place in sanya next month has been postponed. sanya is around 1,000 miles from centre of the outbreak in wuhan. 0rganisers say they hope the sixth race of the season could still be held at a later date, but had to act after the world health organisation declared
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the virus a global emergency. the world indoor athletics championships and snooker‘s chinese 0pen have also been postponed, while 0lympics qualifying skiing and boxing events have been cancelled. the nfl season comes to its usual glitzy end tonight with superbowl 5a. the san francisco 49ers take on the kansas city chiefs in miami. the chiefs haven't been to a super bowl for 50 years, but they have the best quarterback in the league, patrick mahomes. could he be the difference? this is so tough to call. both these teams are dynamic in their own right. they have stars on every side of the field. i'm just excited to be pa rt of the field. i'm just excited to be part of it and witness this greatness go down. the 49ers have a greatness go down. the 49ers have a great running game. i love kyle shanahan, their head coach and i love the way he calls plays. but, man, this san francisco 49ers defensive line is so dominant, the best unit in the game at that position and they are going to try
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to get after patrick mahomes. i tell you what, no matter how good he can throw, if he's on his back, those throws are not going anywhere. we'll be building up to superbowl 5a on the bbc sport website and if you're up for a late night it's live on bbc one with coverage starting at 11:25. the israeli military says it's hit a number of targets in the gaza strip belonging to the palestinian group hamas.the military said it was responding to rockets fired from gaza, which it says were aimed at israeli civilians. there've been reports of rockets and shells being fired into southern israel on a daily basis since last tueday — when us president donald israel on a daily basis since last tuesday — when us president donald trump announced his plan to resolve the israeli—palestinian conflict. the plan has been strongly rejected by palestinians who see it as heavily favouring israel. clarence house has defended the prince of wales after he travelled in a private helicopter to make a speech about reducing aircraft emissions. prince charles flew from highgrove
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to cambridge for the talk. it's estimated the journey, which cost around £12,000 caused 2.5 tonnes of carbon emissions, which is considerably more than the 0.2 tonnes that would have been released had he travelled by car. clarence house said the prince offsets his carbon footprint every year. a scientific expedition to the galapagos islands has discovered two species of the galapagos tortoise, which were previously believed to be extinct. it's an exciting find for scientists who say one of the young females could be related to a tortoise called lonesome george — a gentle giant who died almost eight years ago and was thought to be the last of his kind. gail maclellan explains. nestled into the crevices of wolf volcano, the highest peak of the galapagos islands, are 30 prehistoric giants. until now, scientists thought they had become extinct.
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translation: 29 have genetic ancestry of the extinct floreana tortoise and one female juvenile tortoise is of genetic ancestry of the extinct pinta tortoise. the last known pinta tortoise died eight years ago. his name was lonesome george and he was 100 years old. he didn't produce any offspring, although scientists had encouraged him for years. but this new discovery could help track down a direct descendant. scientists also hope to facilitate breeding of both the pinta and floreana tortoises to help grow numbers of the fragile species. translation: hopefully, in the very near future, we can bring back two species that are extinct, and with captive breeding and scientific work we can recover them. it's an exciting opportunity to rebuild the ecosystem, but it might require a little patience. gail maclellan, bbc news.
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at least 20 people have died in a stampede during an outdoor religious service in tanzania. the pentecostal service was taking place last night at a stadium in the northern town of moshi. according to a local official, worshippers were rushing to be anointed with holy oil when the stampede occured. margot robbie, renee zellweger and al pacino are just some of the stars up for awards at tonight's baftas ceremony in london's royal albert hall. the nominations have been criticised for their lack of diversity, with all the acting nominees being white, and no female directors being recognised for the seventh year running. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. the british world war i epic 1917 is the runaway favourite at tonight's bafta film awards. and with your help i'd like to keep it that way. it's already triumphed at the golden globes
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and the producers guild awards, and it would be a major surprise if it was not now recognised in its home country. from the moment it was announced that renee zellweger had been cast as judy garland in judy, she was being tipped for award success. and her "reneessance", as it has been dubbed, should result in a best actress win — her first bafta for 16 years. joker has the most nominations, with 11. it's the first—ever comic book film to be nominated for best picture. oh, my gosh! one of the oddest situations tonight is that in best supporting actress, margot robbie... i don't want to be on tv, i want to be on fox! ..finds herself up against margot robbie. she's nominated for both her role in bombshell and in quentin tarantino's once upon a time...in hollywood. and much has been made about the lack of diversity in this year's baftas. all 20 acting nominations are white and best director is all—male for the seventh year in a row.
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the situation should provide plenty of material for graham norton, who is hosting for the first time. and the red carpet arrivals can be seen live on the bbc news channel in a special programme from 5:15 this afternoon. colin paterson, bbc news. well, as colin mentioned, the baftas have been criticised for a lack of diversity. with no black actors nominated for the main acting awards there's frustration from black and ethnic minority film—makers. here's more now from our entertainment correspondent brenda emmanus. music plays. for 15 years the screen nation film & television awards has been celebrating black creative talent, from big names to rising stars. but the glitz and glamour of this annual awards ceremony doesn't hide the fact that a cycle of frustration exists amongst these creatives — fuelled by the lack
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of acknowledgement from the uk film industry. hailed as one of the pioneers of black independent cinema, director and writer menelik sha bazz is uninspired by the progress he's witnessed in a 30—year career. i'm disappointed with the current situation, because i see a great deal of talent that has basically been wasted. and it seems now we're in this situation where we have no writers that are present in tv, we have hardly any directors and talent or any expression of the black experience. since the ‘70s, the award—winning director has himself been documenting the black british experience. what do you believe needs to be done? the tv industry and the film industry regulate themselves, unlike other industries. and i think there needs to be a change in the way that the industry operates.
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38, living at home, alone, with your mother! chirps is a romantic comedy written and directed by kolton lee. from the generation of directors that followed menelik shabazz, he faced constant barriers to his ambition to bring alternative black voices to the screen. if i try to portray a story that didn't adhere to the kind of stereotypes that we normally see of black people in this country, stories around crime, stories around drugs, stories around music — if i stepped out of those stereotypes, i wasn't really going to get anywhere, nobody was interested in those kind of narratives. when we talk about lack of diversity, i think what we're talking about actually is inequality and i think people should call it what it is. this debate has been going on for decades and it is kind of time it stops now. how about we make a film? it could be a big collaborative project. dear babylon is one of several films directed by ayo akingbade, a promising second year student at
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the royal academy schools in london. i feel like my younger generation, we care but we don't care. we just need to make our stuff, even if the industry doesn't support. i feel like eventually they'll come around. but i don't want to wait until i'm 60 saying i've finally got recognition. from pioneers to promising future stars, it has been a long journey for these three generations of black film—makers. but ayo's optimism and the call for change may mark a turning point. brenda emmanus, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. lots of big puddles around after a night of heavy rain in england, wales and northern ireland with that rain spreading north across scotland. cold in places and they could be ice across the roads in northern scotland in the coming hours. cloud breaking up further south but heavy showers into northern ireland, south—west
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scotland, north—west england and north and wales, could come with the odd rumble of thunder but generally a mild day for many and with the wind lighter than yesterday you will notice it when the sun is out. cold air pushed out of the way as we go into the evening so any snow still around will turn back to reign with lots of showers to come through the night over the northern half of the country with the breeze picking up. then something drier further south but as we go into tomorrow morning it will start to turn fresher during the day because of a dry and bright start through central and eastern areas, showers in the north and west, more persistent rain in the channel islands later. later in the day and into the evening rush hour, the potential for damaging and disruptive wind across parts of central scotland. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: as the number of cases continues to rise — the first death from coronavirus outside china is reported, in the philippines.
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