have a miles an hour. the met office have a various weather warnings in place. this one is for wind and an amber weather warning in place towards the south and east. wherever you are, stay across the forecast. this is bbc news, the headlines. as alan steele, who was on his honeymoon, is one of 61 the number of people infected with people now being treated. thousands of remaining passengers are being held in quarantine on board. things are happening. literally every hour, something is changing. in china the authorities get heavy—handed, forcing people suspected of having the virus into quarantine. more than 600 people have now died and more than 30,000 are infected. also tonight. a gp from east london is given three life sentences for commiting dozens of sexual offences against female patients. i was getting to the point where i didn't like myself very much because i wasn't being honest with myself.

after 26 years of marriage — the tv presenter philip schofield goes on live tv to reveal that he is gay. calls for more support for children who experience or witness domestic violence or abuse. that should reveal the sun as it's never been seen before. the solar orbiter, set to launch next week, that should reveal the sun as it's never been seen before. coming up on sportsday on bbc news, we'll be live in edinburgh ahead of round two of the six nations. the calcutta cup is up for grabs, with both scotland and england smarting from opening defeats. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a british man who was on his honeymoon is one of 61 passengers on a cruise ship off the coast of japan who've now tested positive for coronavirus. alan steele from wolverhampton has

been taken off the diamond princess for hospital treatment. around 3,500 people are still onboard the ship — which has been quarantined for two weeks. more than 31,000 have been infected, and 630 have died, almost all of them in china. here, a third person who has tested positive in the uk is in hospital in london. he'd been to a business conference in singapore. here's our medical correspondent fergus walsh. some passengers have called it a floating prison. three days into the two week quarantine offjapan. passengers are being allowed to exercise on the deck wearing facemasks. but dozens on the diamond princess have been removed to hospitalfor princess have been removed to hospital for treatment. among them, alan steele. on his honeymoon. he's among nearly 80 british people on board. 41 additional passengers have been found positive, testing for the

coronavirus, one of whom is a friend of ours on honeymoon who has been... was going to be split from his wife, on their honeymoon. he is going to be taken to a medical facility and she'll have to remain on board. there's still a lot we don't know about the virus and the next few weeks will be crucial in determining whether a pandemic, a global epidemic, can be averted. it is spread through droplets, face—to—face contact within a couple of metres of an infected person. the incubation period is up to 14 days. it now looks less likely that people spread the infection before they have symptoms. the virus causes a fever and a cough. the majority have mild symptoms but it can cause breathing difficulties and viral pneumonia, as the lung tissue becomes inflamed. most of those who have died are elderly with underlying health problems but not all. doctor welin lang —— doctor li

wenliang, one of the first people to raise the alarm about the virus, was just 34. he risked infection with close quarters with patients.“ many patients are coming in at the same time, in the case of a health ca re same time, in the case of a health care worker working with infected patients, it could be that the amount of virus in the body increases rapidly before the immune system has the chance to deal with it, which could lead to rapid onset severe disease. the world health organisation has warned of a global shortage of facemasks and other protective equipment, in part because people who don't need them are buying them. the world is facing this —— severe disruption in the market for personal attractive equipment. demand is up to 100 times higher than normal and prices are up to 20 times higher. the last

evacuation flight of british nationals from wuhan is due to revive on sunday, with passengers then being taken to quarantine in milton keynes. fergus walsh, bbc news. the death of a chinese doctor who tried to warn about the coronavirus outbreak has sparked widespread public anger and grief in china. li wenliang — who was in his early 30s — died after contracting the virus while treating patients in wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. in december, he sent a message to medics warning of a virus he thought looked like sars. but he was told by police to "stop making false comments." our china correspondent john sudworth reports. in some cities, those suspected of being sick of being rounded up. with multiple unverified videos showing the quarantine squads at work. it's all adding to a growing sense of

disbelief and dread. i don't want to be taken away like that, a child can be taken away like that, a child can be heard saying. but now the fear is turning to angen but now the fear is turning to anger. doctor li wenliang was one of the first to report science of the new strange virus. but his online posts were censored and the police made him sign this confession along with seven others, for spreading rumours. his death, from the virus, envious wuhan hospital has prompted an outpouring social media. the # i want freedom of speech, viewed nearly 2 million times before being blocked. doctor lee was the first whistle—blower, but no one cared, this man tells me. are you angry?

yes, a bit, she says, but more hopeless. if they listen to him, the situation would be better now. on a beijing river bank we find a tribute to the doctor. goodbye, li wenliang, it says. there can be no doubting just how sensitive a moment this now is for the chinese ruling communist party. the already simmering concern about the mishandling of the crisis, exploding into a public wave of anger and grief. and the death of a doctor, the systemic failings have been laid bare. the response, though, is likely to be more censorship. these videos of wuhan's hospitals, the conditions inside and the people queueing up for masks, we re the people queueing up for masks, were taken by a blogger. i spoke to him earlier this week. what are your thoughts about how long you can continue providing independent reporting from wuhan? translation:

i'm not sure. the censorship is so strict, people's accounts are being closed down if they share my content. his family say he is now disappeared. in this public health disaster, there are real political risks, and the orders are already being sent out. maintain stability, tighten control. johnson's worth, bbc news, beijing. our health editor hugh pym is outside st thomas' hospital where the third british patient with coronavirus is being treated. we've learned more about how this patient came to be infected. yes, he's being treated at the infectious diseases centre at saint thomases hospital. he was a business —— at a business conference in singapore. he flew back but was alerted by singaporean authorities that he'd come into contact at some stage with someone who tested positive,

presumably at the conference. he got home to brighton and felt unwell and call the nhs. he was advised to go to an nhs facility which was isolated where he could be tested. then he went home and isolated himself. the test came through positive and he was brought by ambulance here yesterday. nhs sources say he did the right thing, calling nhs111. he didn't go into a crowded hospital. we learned that the next planeload of british citizens from china flying in on sunday are going to be taken to a conference centre in milton keynes to be quarantine for two weeks. previous groups had been taken to arrowe park hospital in the wirral, and they are one week into that now. concerns about the care system have been raised after bbc news revealed the teenager who threw a boy from the top of the tate modern last concerns have been raised about the care system after it emerged that the teenager who threw

a six—year—old boy from the tenth floor viewing balcony at tate modern in london had warned he was planning such an attack. bbc news has obtained a recording ofjonty bravery telling carers he wanted to push someone off a tall building, almost a year beforehand. shamima begum, who left london to join the islamic state group when she was 15, has lost the first stage of her appeal against the government's decision to remove her uk citizenship. ms begum, who's now 20, was found in a syrian refugee camp a year ago. the special immigration appeals commission ruled that she had not been left stateless because she has a claim to bangladeshi citizenship. a gp from east london has been given three life sentences for commiting dozens of sexual offences against female patients. the old bailey was told that manish shah had exploited concerns about cancer to persuade patients as young as 15 to undergo intimate examinations. our correspondent helena wilkinson is outside court. this is the first time we can report the number of sexual offences committed by manish shah. many were

at the old bailey to see their former gp, a at the old bailey to see their formergp, a man at the old bailey to see their former gp, a man they trusted being sentenced. shah had been described asa sentenced. shah had been described as a caring and concerned family doctor when behind—the—scenes he was exploiting these women for his own sexual gratification. he would carry out intrusive examinations when they weren't medically necessary, often risking the female patients. today thejudge in her sentencing remarks said shah was a master of deception, using a mixture of flattery and fear and abused his position of trust. she also said that we may never know the full extent of shah's offending. some of the victims, still struggling to come to terms with what happened. thank you. the tv presenter phillip schofield has revealed he is gay. the 57—year—old, who has been married for almost 27 years, and has two daughters, went public on social media, and then appeared live on itv‘s this morning,

where he was interviewed by his co—host, holly willoughby. the presenter said his sexuality had "become an issue in his head" and he "needed to be honest with himself." ben hunte reports. live on morning television, phillip schofield is used to sitting and listening to other people, but today, he became the story. first, a statement, read by his co—host. "with the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, "i've been coming to terms with the fact that i am gay". every person that i tell, it gets a little lighter, and a little lighter, but, at the same time, you know, i have made this decision, which is essential for me, and essential for my head... yeah. ..and that's principally the reason that i've done this. support flooded social media. ant and dec said, "huge respect and admiration for our friend @schofe". dermot o'leary said he sends his love. phillip schofield began his career at children's bbc. he quickly became a household name.

he starred asjoseph in the west end, and he remains one of the most recognisable faces on british tv, presenting several programmes, like dancing on ice, and this morning, filmed at television centre. some people are questioning why this matters. well, this is an important moment for lgbt people, for someone as famous as phillip schofield to come out and immediately receive such support from his colleagues here and elsewhere shows the amount of progress that has been made in just a few decades. however, not everyone's coming out experience will be as positive. the lgbt foundation in manchester says older people face particular challenges. they have memories of a time when being lgbt wasn't spoken about, or a time when homosexuality was illegal, for example. so i think there is the culture that has now changed, thankfully, but it is kind of the hangover from that, and the stigma that people still feel around it. a very personal announcement,

and campaigners hope that this moment may help others struggling to come to terms with their own identities. ben hunte, bbc news. the time is 1814. our top story this evening. a british man on his honeymoon is among dozens more passengers on a cruise ship off the coast of japan to have now tested positive for coronarvirus. and still to come, we speak to the director of the acclaimed film, harriet, ahead of this weekend's oscars and the controversy over diversity in this year's nominations. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: we are live in edinburgh and dublin for round two of the six nations. ireland and wales get set to go head—to—head after opening wins for the two new coaches in charge. it's estimated that one in six children witness or experience some form of domestic abuse or violence.

specialist counsellors say there are not enough services tailored for children who've experienced domestic abuse, so thousands do not receive the care they need. asjeremy cooke reports, if the damage is left untreated, the consequences can last for decades. i still remember hearing my mum's screams. i remember her black eyes, split lip. herfear as the door went. dad had come home in one of those moods, which means we should all run for cover. it's hearing your mum's screams... ..which i'll recall for a long while yet. carl is 52, a survivor of childhood domestic violence. now he's written down the boyhood memories that have cast their shadow over his entire life. memories of how his mum, his brothers and he were repeatedly beaten by his dad. you wonder, if you say something, that's going to spark him off to become violent.

you wonder, are you going to sleep tonight? i used to get lots of nightmares as a kid. an enormous amount of nightmares. the police were never phoned. they never got called to our house, through all of it, because i don't think my mum knew that she could. did she get any help from anybody? no. did you? no. decades after carl's nightmare, nspcc research says that one in six children suffer or have witnessed some form of domestic abuse. daddy got really angry. he chucked the breakfast over mummy‘s head. he put his fist through doors. he smashed up furniture. these sisters and their mum needed help. just wonder what was going to happen next. i could see that they were experiencing a lot of the fear and anxiety that i was experiencing. if you compare what our life was like when we lived together and now,

it's a lot more peaceful now. the family got support from school through operation encompass. it works when police immediately alert teachers about children caught up in abuse and violence. we wanted a safe and secure place, so we actually worked with him. teachers are learning much more about what's at stake. we know that the impact of domestic abuse is really significant. we know that that goes on to impact on all of our development, learning, health, into adulthood. has it stayed with you? i probably don't trust people as much as i should, i guess. i think that sense of being let down does, erm, eat away at you. a rare look at a unique service. how did you cope in the beginning? natasha benjamin is a specialist counsellor, determined to stop the long—term damage of domestic abuse.

when you're not feeling good, how can people comfort you best? it's why natasha works exclusively with children. they need to be nurtured, and that does not happen when you live with domestic violence. she is treating these girls as she's treated others. like tia, who's lived with a coercive and controlling father. she attempted suicide. i tried to take my own life because i thought if ijust get the blame for everything, then why don't i remove myself from the situation? tia's mental health is now improving after months of focused support. i think i've come quite a long way because i wouldn't allow myself to be where i am now. ——because i wouldn't have imagined myself to be where i am now. but this specialist help is rare and natasha believes that many

thousands of children are still struggling alone. just like carl, all those years ago. if you could talk to the ten—year—old you were, what would you say to him? oh, god, that's hard. i'd tell him, you don't deserve this. i wouldn't be able to tell him anything else because he wouldn't have anything else... he would have nowhere to go. and it's not his fault. that report was byjeremy cooke. details of organisations offering information and support with domestic violence are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 888 809. a new record has been set for the number of migrants trying to reach the uk by crossing the channel. it

brea ks the uk by crossing the channel. it breaks the previous record of 90 set yesterday. doctors are warning that a shortage of contraception because of manufacturing supply issues is causing chaos and could result in unplanned pregnancies and abortions. leading sexual health experts in the uk have written to ministers explaining that the shortage is already creating serious problems. a number of daily pills and a long—acting injectable contraceptive are thought to be affected. catherine burns reports. amelia can't use her usual contraception at the minute. normally she inject herself at home once every three months with something called sayana press. i used to do it in my tummy. so literally pop the needle in your tummy squeeze it and that's it, done. but there is a national shortage. amelia's had to go into a clinic for a different type ofjab. it's like a thicker injection, so it hurts more! and especially because it does go in your bum cheek. it's not very nice to sit down on it. the shortages also affect some types of the contraceptive pill as well as hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women. hrt should be back in stock soon but there's no date for when the contraceptive supplier will be back to normal.

there are always alternatives but they might not suit everyone. other women have got in touch with bbc news with their stories about being left without their contraception. problems getting hold of the pill and issues with side—effects. sexual health leaders are worried this may cause more unplanned pregnancies. they want the government to tackle this urgently. this comes at a time when it's already harder for women to get hold of the right contraception for them. about two thirds of councils in england have cut their sexual health budgets in the last few years, which means longer waits for appointments. and so these shortages are being seen as a double whammy against women and health professionals. the shortage of hormones is an absolute scandal. it affects women throughout their life course. if it was a man's problem i'm sure that the government or somebody would have sorted out by now.

but amelia and thousands like her are still left frustrated, with no idea why this is happening or when their contraception will be back in stock. the government says it is doing everything it can. catherine burns, bbc news. a new mission is set to launch next week that will reveal the sun as never seen before. the spacecraft — called solar orbiter — is a joint european space agency and nasa mission — and was assembled at airbus in stevenage. it's been said to be the uk's most important mission for a generation. our science correspondent rebecca morelle has more. incredible images of the sun. its turbulent surface, revealed in fiery detail. but the view of our star is about to get much better. this is solar orbiter. it's jam—packed with instruments and will take images from closer to the sun than any spacecraft has before. temperatures will reach 500 degrees, which has meant using some unexpected materials. obviously it gets extremely hot and we had to develop special technologies and coatings for the spacecraft, just

because the environment‘s going to be so hostile. in fact, one of the coatings we had to develop is based on using baked animal bones and that's at the front of the heat shield, to stop it from getting too hot. solar orbiter has a long and difficult journey ahead. after leaving the earth it will take about two years to get into prime position, orbiting closer than the planet mercury to the sun. but every time the spacecraft passes behind our star, it will lose contact for weeks and if anything goes wrong it could be burned to a crisp. gradually, though, the spacecraft will lift its position, letting us see the sun's poles for the very first time. what i love is that you can see this fantastic structure on the side here, a structure that's lofted up into the atmosphere of the sun, and we call that a prominence. at the royal astronomical society, solar records reveal dramatic activity which can impact us. it's called space weather and can knock out navigation and communication satellites

and cause power failures. in the same way as we have terrestrial weather in the earth's atmosphere, we have space weather in the atmosphere of the sun, in which we live. so, we are excited about getting up close and personal with the sun so that we can understand the origins of space weather and ultimately develop our physical knowledge so that we can better protect space weather in the future. ——predict space weather in the future. the spacecraft‘s instruments will be switched on soon after launch but it will take years for all of their results to come back. only then will we be able to truly shed light on our star. rebecca morelle, bbc news. hollywood is preparing for the biggest night of the film calendar — the oscars, on sunday — but like other award shows this season, it's facing criticism that it's failed to recognise women of colour. among the omissions is the director of the acclaimed film "harriet" — about harriet tubman — an african—american woman who escaped from slavery and went on to become a leading activist. our arts editor will gompertz reports. god was watching, but my feet

was my own — running, bleeding, climbing, nearly drowned, nothing to eat for days and days — and i made it. i thinkjust having a black woman in the title role has been challenging, you know, for hollywood, you know? you'll be ready. but why is it challenging? i think thatjust believing that women in leading roles, women, not to mention black women, can really be a box office draw... a woman—led picture, you know, can make money at the box office and be successful. her film harriet did just that, although it did take a very long time for a movie about the famous 19th—century abolitionist to get made. in hollywood, i learned that actually people are frightened easily — intimidated is the word i should use. people are very intimidated of black women. i need thoughts here. i need ideas. would you say hollywood is intrinsically racist and sexist? well, yeah, of course. i mean, we have to look at it. it's very provable. i think people are unconsciously racist.

just hold on and suck in. a feeling that hollywood perpetuates racial stereotypes goes back a long way, with classics such as gone with the wind caricaturing a black woman as a deferential domestic servant known as mammy. so, she would often be this sassy black woman with kind of broken vernacular, so a lot of "honey child" and things like that. i never seen no marl... hattie mcdaniel won an oscar for her performance. that was 80 years ago. cynthia erivo could win for playing harriet on sunday, at an academy awards were she is the only non—white acting nominee. it's embarrassing, you know? hollywood, that is supposed to be, you know... this is our dreams, this is our best self, this is our most aspirational self that we are presenting, and hopefully related to who we really are in the time capsule of this moment, and so it's bizarre, it's weird and it's embarrassing. it does take time to change, but the feeling here as we approach

sunday's academy awards is, for the oscars, that time really is up. will gompertz, bbc news, los angeles. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. there is a big storm heading our way? the message is that for some of us way? the message is that for some of us this may be one of the worst we have had in a number of years. i wa nt to have had in a number of years. i want to point out that the storm is still a way across the atlantic and things can change. the best case scenario is that the winds would be quite as strong as we think, but it's inevitable that we'll be in for a very blustery day. i want to show you pictures from eastern parts of the united states. i'm not saying this is what we will definitely get, but this storm caused a lot of problems there, pulling down trees and causing disruption, and we may well get disruption and damage from storm ciara as well. short term, the

weather was relatively quiet in eastern parts, but it will be blustery and western coastal areas, with showers. that is not the storm but just turbulent weather in advance. if you have any plans, saturday is the day to do it. for many parts of the uk, it is looking fine, especially central and eastern areas, but we have a spell of gales and rain in advance of the storm. here is one where the front, then there is a brief gap year, and here is that nasty area of low pressure thatis is that nasty area of low pressure that is coming our way. it is a large storm, so that means there are gale force winds spanning a large area. it approaches scotland and western areas first. the winds will be west or south—westerly through the day. coastal areas could get winds possibly around 70 or 80 miles an hour, and widely we will have 60.

for inland areas, 60 is pretty rare for bigger towns and cities. our infrastructure sometimes struggles to cope. this wide area of yellow is the met office warning for strong winds. there is an amber warning in the south—east where we are confident the winds will be stronger. severe gales in line, dangerous conditions around coast, and power disruptions possible as well. that's all from the bbc news at six. 00:29:30,292 --> 2147483051:51:29,860 on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s 2147483051:51:29,860 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 news teams where you are.