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this is bbc news. the headlines at 2pm. the eleven britons evacuated from wuhan in china have landed in france on their way to quarantine on the wirral. meanwhile, the first death from coronavirus outside china is reported — in the philippines. the prime minister lays out his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. we'll be looking ahead hello. to tonight's bafta awards. this is bbc news. the headlines: joker leads the way with 11 the 11 britons evacuated from wuhan nominations but it's the first world in china have landed in france war epic "1917" which is tipped on their way to quarantine to take the top prize of best film. on the wirral. england hope to kick off their six nations campaign the latest figures from with a win against france public health england say there are no new confirmed cases of the virus. in paris this afternoon. the first death from coronavirus outside china is reported in the philippines. the prime minister lays out his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. we'll be looking ahead
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to tonight's bafta awards. joker leads the way with 11 nominations eleven more british nationals are being flown back to the uk from wuhan, but it's the first world war epic, 1917, which is tipped to take the chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. the top prize of best film. not long now until england kick off their six nations campaign they're on a flight which touched against france in paris. down in the south of france in the last hour — it starts at 3pm. from there they'll be brought back to this country for two weeks isolation. meanwhile the first confirmed death from coronavirus has been reported outside china, we have a special programme on the in the philippines. ba fta we have a special programme on the the disease has now killed bafta awards. and we will be on the more than 300 people. dan johnson has more. red carpet. now on bbc news, after in wuhan at the centre of this quite a week, it is the week in outbreak, more people are making people are making a move, trying to outrun the virus. a plane carrying 11 british citizens and french nationals is due to land shortly near marseilles. then they will continue on to the uk, arriving later this afternoon. we have just received a letter saying that one or two people who didn't make the original flight to actually
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on their way here today. in quarantine on the wirral, the original group of 83 are expecting new arrivals, but they will be monitored separately. it doesn't affect the period we will be in isolation. they have consulted with clinical experts to get the best advice on that. they will be given exactly the same support as us and they will have the same initial screening checks as well. the government rolled out these adverts this morning, offering advice on what to look out for and how to stop the virus spreading. the foreign secretary says more flights could follow, bringing back some of the estimated 30,000 brits across china. the challenge we have got is to make sure that we can provide to the uk for those that need it, in cooperation with the chinese authorities. in relation to the flight on friday, that required not just the permission for the flight to go back, but permission to go through the roadblocks to get
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to the collection points. and we worked around the clock to make sure that those that wanted to get back could do so. in newcastle, a student from york and their relative are still being treated in isolation. they are the only two confirmed cases here so far. and in the philippines, there is the first evidence that as this virus reaches beyond china, death comes with it. a 44—year—old man from wuhan seems to have been infected before travelling and died before being admitted to hospital in manila. ——after being admitted. the one he came with has also tested positive. ——the woman he came with. back in wuhan, the massive new hospital authorities raced to build has opened in a week. it shows the scale of the response of this outbreak. with more than 14,000 cases and over 300 deaths, the coronavirus is still far from being under control. dan johnson, bbc news. from being under control. the from being under control. french health minister h briefing
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the french health minister has been briefing the french passengers who have landed in france. they have now landed, the plane is landing. they are initially going to be taken to a firefighters training centre, according to the french government, thatis according to the french government, that is in provence. it is there they will be isolated. the child protection spokesman for the regional government said that all the people arriving today on the flight the people arriving today on the flight have been able to benefit from the tests. they know they are not showing signs at the moment. the same as those hospitalised on the wirral here. it is the fact they are not showing signs that they can be put into isolation. it is logistically quite a complicated operation because at every stage, the health authorities have got to have different options to deal with different people depending on whether or not they are showing symptoms. the two chinese nationals who are in hospital who were, one of them as a student at york university, she was obviously going to be isolated from anyone else who
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might carry the virus would not actually show symptoms. that process will continue in all of the countries affected over at least the next couple of weeks as more cases emerge. 0ur correspondent, danny savage, is at arrowe park hospital on the wirral for us where medical teams are awaiting the arrival of the 11 extra people going in to quarantine. this is what he could tell as. these two grey buildings behind me at arrowe park hospital on the wirral were 83 british people are in quarantine at the moment after arriving from wuhan in china on friday. now, they will be joined later today by 11 more british citizens and that second wave of arrivals was really always on the card because so many of them missed the flight initially on thursday. they have been scooped up by the french authorities, they are on that flight with many other nationalities, which will land in marseille this afternoon. we understand then they will be
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transferred on another flight into raf brize norton near 0xford and then brought by bus up here to merseyside to the wirral later today. similar to the operation which happened on friday. we also understand that once they arrive here, the 11 new arrivals will be kept separate from the 83 people already here in quarantine. so they will be in the same building, but kept separate from them. meanwhile in york, over on the other side of the pennines, the search is still under way for anybody who had close contact with the two confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the uk. they have been offered health advice once they have been traced and contacted. and of course, we also had the two people who did prove positive in the tests last week and they are still being treated in the infectious diseases department at the royal victoria infirmary in newcastle. but here on merseyside today, we are expecting those 11 other arrivals being flown from china back here to be put into quarantine. we can speak now to professor john ashton, who is a former regional director of public health in the north west
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of england and president of the faculty of public health, which sets standards for practitioners in the uk. he joins me from yorkshire. you are having a busy weekend! it is like being back in thejob, isn't it? it is, actually. although most recently, i have been working with merseyside police on violence prevention. it is interesting to compare the cultures of the different organisations when you are looking at command and control structures, which the police are very into, and when you have a command and control structure for dealing with an outbreak, the dilemma that the nhs and public of england have is switching from command and control into public participation. that is now what is really needed here to avoid panic and to get the preventive measures in place if this virus really does arrive in the uk. people have been very calm and sensible about the so
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far. but in terms of numbers and if we start to have cases that emerge in the general population out of nowhere, presumably that then becomes the stage at which this becomes the stage at which this becomes more complicated, because then you are getting people with the rumour mill. we know where people have been at the moment, we can see the logic as to why they have been infected. that is right. if you look at social media, as i was doing overnight, there seems to be an undercurrent of panic in china. the conditions there where you have a distrust of central government, it makes it more difficult. that is why it is so important here to establish good communications between public health, nhs and so on, and the local populations. i feel quite strongly that we are doing this too much from the centre at the moment. the local public health directors need to be more involved with this. they know
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their local populations and they are trusted by their local populations. iam afraid trusted by their local populations. i am afraid that people don't trust london in the loving end of the south—west of the regions. people certainly don't trust politicians on these kind of question. and with the different groups, talking about the people coming back on the french plane, coming from france now to brize norton and then onwards if necessary to the wirral, this check at every stage to see if they have developed symptoms, presumably there are powers to isolate those people from those who might not show any symptoms but have been quarantined ona symptoms but have been quarantined on a precautionary basis. yes, and i'm not party to what those arrangements are. i'm sure the medical director at arrowe park will be able to tell you what those arrangements are. that is very much arrangements are. that is very much a clinical matter. they will have them. we have robust clinical and
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laboratory arrangements in here. i don't worry too much about that. what i really do worry about, though, is engaging with communities. think about the 1500 people coming back from wuhan in the last couple of weeks. a lot of those will be chinese originally or chinese families, and probably have gone back to their chinese communities within the uk. the people who will know how to engage with those will be the local directors of public health and their teams. that is what needs to happen here. professor, thank you very much. the foreign secretary dominic raab has said britain is seeking a canada—style trade agreement with the european union which would mean not having to follow eu rules and regulations. the prime minister will set out his negotiating position with brussels in a speech tomorrow. here's our political correspondent tom barton. gone with a bong on a gong. this was borisjohnson
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at 11pm on friday night. but while brexiteers celebrated, conversations about britain's relationship with the eu were far from over. are you trying to shift the goalposts? before trade negotiations have even got under way, a row is breaking out over how closely britain's regulations on things like workers' rights should mirror those of the eu. the foreign secretary saying that following the eu's rules would defeat the point of brexit. we would expect to be treated, first of all, the same way third countries are with the rest of the eu, like japan, like south korea, canada, but also, with the undertakings that the eu have made to be lived up to. i think it is more a question of getting clarity at the outset. we are not going to be aligning with eu rules. that is not on the negotiating table, that is not even an issue on the red lines. it is not even in the negotiating room. but while britain may now have left the club, european leaders insist we should
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still follow some of its rules. britain may want a deal similar to canada, but, they say, there are some big differences. canada isn't the uk. you are geographically part of the european continent. we share seas, we share airspace, and our economies are very integrated. one thing we feel very strongly in the eu 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. labour's shadow chancellor says that keeping eu rules would be a good thing. all the eu is asking for is that actually we all agree there are protections. of course, any country can go above those protections, but we need a baseline of protections. 0n the one hand, he is saying there will be, and on the other side he's saying it won't happen, sabre— rattling, and it won't happen in negotiations. but the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says britain
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should aim for the loosest possible trade deal. what they fear is a competitor on their doorstep. that terrifies them. what we should be doing in our national interest is to make sure that we are a competitor on their doorstep. at stake, the ease with which we can sell products and services to our nearest neighbours. expect some tough talk from both sides over the coming months. tom barton, bbc news. 0ur political correspondent tom barton is here. is an element of this about playing to the gallery at home? putting pressure on before the negotiations begin? 0r pressure on before the negotiations begin? or is this being taken very seriously in brussels, this warning that the government will not follow eu rules? i think there is absolutely no surprise anywhere that at this stage in this process, the government is saying exactly this. we are at the start of a negotiation. the government wants to sound tough. not just for a negotiation. the government wants to sound tough. notjust for a british audience, but to try to persuade the
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other side of this negotiation that they mean what they say. it is going to bea they mean what they say. it is going to be a very short timetable. the negotiations won't get properly under way until march because the eu, monday they are pushing their proposals for how they want negotiations to go forward, but they have to be signed off by the 27 remaining eu countries. that won't happen until march. we have ten months to do that. it's not very long. this is part of the government's attempts to try to get momentum moving behind their case. we were talking to david henning and little earlier and david is a former trade negotiator and he says that the bottom line everyone understands is that if we go for eu rules, we won't sell any products. cutting your nose despite your face is not
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going to happen. the bottom line is what rules you apply, to what things they apply, what areas you say you are not prepared to do it because you want to do something with some body else, then those are the products than you will no longer sell or services you will no longer provide. that is presumably what makes it such a completed business. it is not a one size fits all deal. nobody is suggesting that the british government is saying that for this particular widget or that particular machine we are not going to follow eu rules. it follows that ifa to follow eu rules. it follows that if a manufacturer wants to sell something to your, it has to abide by the regulations and that of the market they are selling into. what we re market they are selling into. what were talking about here, the level playing field question, is the question of the stuff that sits around that. workers' rights, environmental regulations. there the government is saying, look, you gave canada the exact deal we want and you haven't expected canada to sign up you haven't expected canada to sign up to any of these things so why
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should you expect us? the eu's point, as you head from leo varadkar, is that that is fine, but between us and canada is 3000 miles of sea, whereas its between us and canada is 3000 miles of sea, whereas it'sjust between us and canada is 3000 miles of sea, whereas its just 20 between us and canada is 3000 miles of sea, whereas it'sjust 20 miles between us. that is the difference, the eu is very concerned, in fact, as you head nigel farage say, it is concerned about the uk becoming a competitive nation sitting on their doorstep. their interest is whining that in as far as they can. they don't want the independent uk to steal their markets. 0ne don't want the independent uk to steal their markets. one of the questions that has been raised which is less clear at this stage is the imprecations for the future of the uk. we had leo varadkar talking about the issue of the northern irish border and how that will be worked out and we know that there was a deal done, but there are arguments over how many checks will be involved. but the other question is about scotland, of course. that was quite an interesting view and
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conversation andrew ma had with donald tusk this morning. we had nickel surgeon talking about bringing forward a referendum. today you have donald tusk saying that if he had still been doing hisjob, i think it would been incredibly undiplomatic if he had said this in hisjob, but he said undiplomatic if he had said this in his job, but he said that he would feel very scottish after brexit and brussels would be an enthusiastic supporterfor the brussels would be an enthusiastic supporter for the reapplication of eu membership by an independent scotland. donald tusk really throwing a bit of a cat into the metaphorical debate around scotland. how well represented his views really are in europe we don't know. because of course, within the member states, spain for example is very cautious about the separatist
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question. so it may be one be quite as easy as donald tusk was have you believe you. certainly interesting and typically undiplomatic intervention from mr tusk. we like those. thank you, tom. the headlines on bbc news... more evacuated britons are closer to arriving in the uk after touching down in france from china. meanwhile, the first death from the coronavirus outside china is reported in the philippines. and the prime minister lays out his demands for a post—brexit trade deal. four victims of jeffrey epstein have written an open letter to prince andrew urging him to talk to the fbi about his relationship with the convicted sex offender. published in the mail on sunday, the letter headlined ‘the world is watching' says that
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epstein's victims have lived a life of suffering, shame and humilation. they ask the duke to co—operate with the us authorities and to take the ‘decent and moral path'. prince andrew denies any wrongdoing. residents in wakefield have been allowed to return to their homes following a huge fire at an industrial bakery. more than a hundred firefighters were at the scene of the blaze at westgate retail park yesterday. it was feared the building may have contained asbestos, however the fire service confirmed that none was released into the air. at least twenty 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 at london's royal albert hall. the nominations have been criticised for their lack of diversity, with all 20 acting nominees being white. 0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports.
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the british world war i epic, 1917, is the runaway favourite at tonight's bafta film awards. and with your help, i would like to keep it that way. it has already triumphed at the golden globes 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 asjudy garland in ‘judy‘, she was being tipped for awards success. do take any thing for depression? four husbands. and her renaissance, as it has been dubbed, could result in a best actress win. her first bafta for 16 years. for my whole life, i didn't know if i even really existed. ‘joker‘ has the most nominations with 11.
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but i do and people are starting to notice. indeed they are. it is the first ever comic book film to be nominated for best picture. # send in the clowns. its star, joaquin phoenix, has been dominating the awards when he won at the recent screen actors guild awards, he celebrated in a rather unusual way, by heading straight from the ceremony to the local slaughterhouse. there he joined animal activists in comforting pigs before their imminent demise. one of the oddest situations tonight is that in best supporting actress, margot robbie, finds herself up against margot robbie. she is nominated for both her role in bombshell
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and in quentin tarantino's 0nce 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. colin patterson, bbc news. let's return to the coronavirus outbreak — and as concern grows about the financial impact of the epidemic, china's central bank has announced it will shore up the economy when markets open tomorrow, for the first time since the lunar new year holiday. our business correspondent, katie prescott, is here. hello, katie prescott, is here. katie. it is obviously... the markets hello, katie. it is obviously... the markets reopen, if you're going to have an impact, now is when you make your announcements. what shall we read into this? they are giving a sign that they are prepared to step in if the economic impact of the coronavirus carries on and is a major problem. we are talking about quarantining tens of millions of people, factories closing down, you mention the lunar new year holiday, it is normally a time that chinese people will be spending a lot of
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money. that is not going on. i spoke to an economist yesterday who said that if this continues into mid—february, we could see two percentage points off chinese economic growth. that is a third. we are on the second of every now. it is the length of the time that the fm continues, i think, that is going to bite. and within china there are lots of things and it is hard to transport goods and there are practical not cons. that is regardless of whether you are in a town or city that has been affected. there is a global impact, because china makes up 20% of the world's gdp. it is a really a consumer of goods. but also manufacturer's a lot of goods. is the factory of the world. there is going to be an impact in the uk even if they don't deal directly with china. and even
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if the uk might not deal with china as much as were closely —— as much as much as were closely —— as much as with two countries closer to home. countries tightening their belt also has an effect. and tourism, the number of chinese tourists that travel around the world, and that isn't happening. people here can't travel to china so business people who are expecting to go to trade fairs in china, they can't. that has an effect on their business. it has an effect on sourcing products. we don't know how it might affect supply chains yet. if you think of a company like bloomsbury the book publisher, they wish their books in china. it will be over the coming weeks that we will see the star to unfold. —— they publish their books in china. 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
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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. 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.
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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. sunday is groundhog day in the us and canada, with celebrations taking place for the 134th year. in pennsylvania, punxsutawney phil, the groundhog, has made his annual appearance at gobblers knob to decide whether we're in for an extended winter or an early spring. my my forecast on a day that is a palindrome will cause some to cheer and some to moan. so do i hope you
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think it is neighbourly for their is no shadow of me, spring will be early. it is a certainty! early spring, ladies and gentlemen. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. from our much less sophisticated weather forecasting techniques, here's what i have for you for the next days. some rain moving northwards today and some of that is falling as snow in scotland. further south we close out the afternoon rather mild indeed. through tonight, lots of showers racing in from the west and some will be heavy and it is still wintry over high ground in the north. lows of between three and 9 degrees and there will be a brisk wind out there as well. tomorrow will be quite a windy day thanks to
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this area of low pressure. some brisk winds on its southern flank, particularly in down towards the south. we have a system bringing rain across the channel islands and there may be some cloud and patchy rain across the far south of england. some of those showers for the north will be wintry. it is increasingly windy in the north and north—west of scotland. perhaps a bit cooler than the temperatures suggest. a quick note about monday night, it looks very windy for a time. particularly on the western side of scotland with gusts of 75 to 80 miles an hour but even some gusts of wind blowing through the central belt. that could cause some travel headaches through monday night and 00:28:45,164 --> 2147483051:51:07,987 into the early hours of tuesday 2147483051:51:07,987 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 morning.
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