you're watching bbc news at nine with me, annita mcveigh. the headlines: an a&e doctor in worthing has tested positive for the coronavirus — the second health care worker in the uk to contract the disease. policing the internet — the media regulator ofcom is expected to be given powers to punish tech companies if they don't protect their users from illegal material. later, we'll be speaking to one of britain's leading voices on social media regulation — he's already said it's not going to work. the road to the us election — bernie sanders pips pete buttigeig to win the new hamsphire primary — he calls it "the beginning of the end for president trump". the government is accused of repeatedly failing to put people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate accomadation. the equality and human rights commission say

targets are being missed. and three sporting heroes talk about life with motor neurone disease. good morning — and welcome to the bbc news at 9. a staff member in the a&e department at worthing hospital has become the second health care worker in the uk to test positive for coronavirus. the department of health says that all services at the hospital are operating normally — and all eight of those infected across the country are in quarantine. meanwhile, the number of people infected with the virus on a cruise ship quarantined injapan has risen

to 174 — the highest number of cases outside china. in the last hour, professor neil ferguson, director of global infectious disease analysis at imperial college, has been talking to the bbc, he says the coronvirus risks becoming a new pandemic. i think we are in the early phases of a global pandemic at the moment. singapore is seeing local transmission. the fact we've only reported eight cases in this country isjust because, again, our surveillance is focused on travellers. we think probably we're picking up maybe one in three cases coming into the country at the current time. we'll know more in the next few weeks, when we start... i mean, surveillance has started in hospitals across the uk of pneumonia cases. that will give us a proper picture. well, the world health organisation are set to meet today in geneva — the chief scientist at the who has been speaking to the bbc about how the virus could spread over the coming months.

so, we have to expect the best but be prepared for the worst. so, there is a possibility — we've seen cases slowing down, the number of new cases is going down. the measures that china has ta ken to really contain the outbreak might work, and so it might end up as an outbreak that, of course, has unfortunately killed over 1000 people but can still be controlled and contained. 0n the other hand, we don't know. it might have already spread outside to many countries. as of now, we only have about 400 cases, but they could have already ceded other micro—clusters. so this may become, still, a global outbreak or even a pandemic. so, we have to be prepared for that and do everything we can to stop that from happening. let's talk now to our correspondent andy moore who joins us from outside worthing hospital. good morning to you. first of all, what more do we know about this second health care worker who has coronavirus? well, this news emerged

overnight. like a lot of news about coronavirus in the area, it's coming in piecemealfashion from people in the community. apparently staff at the community. apparently staff at the a&e department got a letter yesterday to say one of their collea g u es yesterday to say one of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus. the hospital itself is open as normal, people are coming and going. the a&e department is operating as normal but beyond that, we have no more information, certainly not from official sources. public health england say that patient confidentiality is the priority, so they can't release information about those who have the virus. so we don't know, for example, in what capacity the health ca re example, in what capacity the health care worker was working here, though we think they were probably a doctor. we don't know if they were actually at work in the period in between getting the virus in france and then officially being diagnosed. we don't know if they were in

face—to—face contact with very many people. so certainly those are the questions that are being asked by people in the community here. even the nhs trust here saying at the moment they can't release that information, it's being dealt with through official channels, through public health england. a lot of u na nswered public health england. a lot of unanswered question is, frankly. just to confirm, this individual is, according to what you are saying, one of the group of five british nationals who contracted the disease in france? that's right. in fact, five who contracted the disease in france and then were diagnosed in the uk. there are another five, france and then were diagnosed in the uk. there are anotherfive, of course, in that chalet, all a group of british people in that chalet, who are in quarantine in france as well. so they were all infected by this one man, steve walsh, who emerged and identified himself the other day. 11 people infected. so we now have a cluster of cases here in

the brighton area, we are about 12 miles away from brighton. coronavirus has a toehold in the uk, the authorities are trying to stop it spread any further. they say even though they cannot release information because of patient confidentiality, they say they will be in touch with anyone who has been in contact with those coronavirus sufferers. they say the process of getting in touch with them and stopping the spread of the disease is under way but concern is growing up is under way but concern is growing up and down the south coast. as i said, we are about 12 miles to the west. if you go about 20 miles to the east of brighton, there are two more schools which are telling pa rents more schools which are telling parents that teachers may have been in contact with somebody who had coronavirus. business premises in eastbourne, one has been shut, apparently. certainly, a lot of

public places now, pubs, doctors surgeries, schools, that are being linked in some way to these cases. they are not confirmed cases but certainly concern is growing. 0k, andy, thank you for that update. andy, thank you for that update. andy moore in worthing. 118 people are in quarantine in milton keynes after being flown here from wuhan in china. the epicentre of this outbreak. lavender au was on that second evacuation flight on sunday. the bbc has been speaking to her via a video call. sam read has this exlusive report. inside milton keynes, coronavirus isolation centre. through the blinds, you can make out the sky. this is the home had at least two weeks for the journalist who spoke to us online. we can't leave our rooms for the first 48 hours, because they are doing tests. they

are treating us really well. they are treating us really well. they are nice, we can call and request things. lavender says she supports the quarantining. i think people are glad to be here and back in the uk. imean, i glad to be here and back in the uk. i mean, i certainly am. ithink my pa rents were i mean, i certainly am. ithink my parents were probably more worried than i was. so i am glad that i can tell them that i am say. lavender has been living in beijing forfour yea rs has been living in beijing forfour years but was visiting a friend in the source region when the lockdown started. some day, she boarded the uk government flight before being brought to milton keynes. no one inside he has shown any symptoms of coronavirus and health officials are keen to stress that people that live nearby are at no greater risk of catching the virus than anyone else in the uk. but yesterday, the government did enact special powers, which means if anyone tried to leave here, they could be stopped from doing so by police. there is no sign of that power being used, according to the boss of milton keynes

hospital, who isjointly running the centre. the additional powers that we re centre. the additional powers that were announced yesterday we don't believe we are going to have to use. 0ur believe we are going to have to use. our guests have been very compliant. they are very grateful for the support and for everything that people are doing here. they understand that this is a precautionary measure. lavender, who is holed up inside this room, is actually thinking about her parents, who live in london. one of the most upsetting things is virus —related racism. for instance, my mum was almost spat on in chinatown. 0ur family and friends, they go on the tube in london and people take a seat far away from them or kind of their children are being kind of marked at school, people running up to them and coughing and running away. some of these things are very small but they are still pretty hurtful. everyone here will be hoping test results, expected tomorrow, we'll come back negative.

i have heard it can lay dormant but i'm optimistic mick about my chances. health officials are also optimistic about all the people here but say a cautious approach is vital. the media regulator, 0fcom, is set to become britain's first internet watchdog, with the power to punish tech companies which expose users to harmful or illegal material. the plans which will be set out by the culture secretary, baroness morgan, include a statutory duty of care imposed on websites like facebook and youtube. here's our media editor, amol rajan. good afternoon... if you make a habit of asking young people across the country about their digital lives, you find a generation both addicted to smartphones and alert to their dangers. we just go past the terms and condition, just press agree, but really no—one actually takes time to actually read it. those dangers, which evolve every week, and test parents‘ tech savviness, have led to long—awaited legislation on online harms. its centrepieces are a statutory duty of care for companies that allow user generated content

and the appointment of 0fcom, as the uk's first internet regulator. but there's still no detail on what the penalties will be for companies breaking the law. why would a californian tech giant worry about a slap on the wrist from a british regulator? well, because i think there are a lot of users in britain. they've got a big footprint here. there are many platforms who, ideally, would not have wanted legislation. but i think that's changing. i think they understand that, actually, regulation is coming. we know that nine million girls in europe have experienced cyberbullying before the age of 15... for a lot of people this is long over due. seyi akiwowo hosts workshops, like this one to local counsellors, to help people what she calls digital self—care. when i first suffered abuse, the response from the tech companies was below par. and that's why i'm really excited by this online harms white paper and this bill, because it's actually now placing a duty of care and these tech companies. the internet has morphed — from the utopian vision of its founders into humanity's digital echo chamber, full of dark corners. reducing online harm

is a responsibility shared between citizens, companies, and governments. and these proposals could make britain a template for others to follow. the aim here is to give britain the toughest internet laws in the world, while protecting free speech and enterprise. yet without clarity on the punishments for offenders, it's impossible to know if that's what we'll soon get. amol rajan, bbc news. 0ur tech correspondent zoe kleinman is here. zoe, do we know yet any detail about exactly what 0fcom is being asked to do or what powers it will have, what new powers it will have? do or what powers it will have, what new powers it will have ?|j do or what powers it will have, what new powers it will have? i think thatis new powers it will have? i think that is the million dollar question. it's all very well giving 0fcom this response vanity and there has been lots of support for that, lots of people saying it is overdue, the tech phones have failed to self regulate. we have had example after example of bad stuff appearing online, people being very badly affected by and then theyjust

apologise and move on until it happens again. but the question is, how can 0fcom force them to comply? that is what we don't know. we have heard in the past and they have considered big fines, gdp our style phones, 40% of a company's turnover, which for a company like facebook would be huge. we had they might make individual executives responsible but we don't know the detail. we have not yet heard exactly what they are planning to do. and it was a question raised in that report, in terms of why should big tech firms, especially those headquartered outside the uk, listen to 0fcom ? headquartered outside the uk, listen to ofcom? right, i mean this is the big question as well, isn't it? baroness morgan was saying this applies to all companies that host what we would call user generated content, where people are uploading their own stuff online. that only applies to 5% of businesses here in the uk. all of the tech giants are

headquartered in the us or generally may be an island but not here in the uk. i think what she is hoping is that the market here is big enough that the market here is big enough that we have enough clout, if you like, there is enough interest in them complying. well ofcom only stepped in, as you say we don't know the details yet, but will it only step in if tech firms have been judged not to have self regulated enough or well these tech firms think, oh, well, let's ease off on the self—regulation because someone else is looking at it? what will be interesting to see is how it will work. will the tech phones have to report themselves to 0fcom if there, if something happens? 0r report themselves to 0fcom if there, if something happens? or will 0fcom get involved? if something happens? or will 0fcom get involved ? my if something happens? or will 0fcom get involved? my understanding is 0fcom will draw up a code of conduct, a duty of care, and that it will be up to the companies to comply to that. 0fcom are giving a check list that it will step in if they get it wrong. briefly, what sort of reaction has there been to this news as we await the detail?‘ lot of positive reaction to this. people feel there has been too many

exa m ples of people feel there has been too many examples of this not working out. but also there is concern about freedom of speech. if there is a big fine hanging over these companies, they will move quickly and that could lead to accusations of censorship. ok, zoe, thank you very much. we will have more on this story later on this hour. the headlines on bbc news: a second uk health worker tests positive for the coronavirus — public health england say they are contacting any patients they may have seen. the media regulator 0fcom is set to be given new powers to protect internet users from potentially harmful content. the government has been accused of failing to get people with autism and learning disabilities — into appropriate accomadation. from double beds to garden beds, we'll be looking at the team of researchers who have turned old matresses into a base for growing fresh produce. it's worked in a refugee camp injordan — now it's coming here.

the equality and human rights commission is threatening the government with legal action over what it's described as a "repeated failure" to move people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate homes. ministers insist they are determined to reduce the number of people living in secure hospitals. jayne mccubbin has been following the story. there was jack. it was like a prison, really. he told me the only way out of there was to die. there was stephen. and when i see him crying, he would scream, "mummy "no go, mummy no go". there was eddie. "get me out, get me out. "i just want to go home. "i want my mum.

i want my mum." she was told it would be a nine—month stay. and, um, it's six and a half years later. there was tony. if he'd killed somebody he'd be out now. he's done 16 years — that's a life sentence. i'm frightened he's going to die there. there was beth. they had no ability to manage her condition so they placed her in a seclusion cell and left her there for two years. i kneel on the floor with my hands on the doorway of that hatch and i put my chin on that hatch and i talk to my daughter. and there was ben. an injury that was described to us as something that would normally be seen in a car accident. why doesn't it matter? because it doesn't seem to matter. and there was stephanie. they can't hurt her now. she died locked in a single room for the best part of eight years. we have to stop this. and the government has repeatedly promised action. specific promises and deadlines set in 2010 after the winterbourne view

scandal, to get people out of inpatient care. repeated again the promise of homes not hospitals. fresh promises a new deadlines in 2015 and again in 2020, after the bbc‘s walton hall expose. but every promise has been broken, every deadline missed. so, today, unprecedented legal action is being launched to take the secretary of state for health to the high court. so, i think we've seen too much and we've heard too much. the hallmark of a civilised society, how we treat the most vulnerable people in our community. and what worries us is that we may be failing on that basis. the government says that it is committed to bringing numbers down and it will respond to the legal threat in due course. this is my museum. today, jack lives in his own house, which he's converted into his own natural history museum. and when we last filmed he bragged... i still like going to the actual natural history museum too. but in secret i think mine's better. after that he was invited over

to the museum as a special guest. his mum tells me that now he is living his best life, with lots of support. but over 2,000 more people remain locked away and their hope now lies with the high court. i love you, mum. the department of health and social care says it is committed to protecting the rights of everyone with a learning disability or autism, and is determined to continue reducing the number of people with these conditions in mental health hospitals. let's return to 0fcom now, because the media regulator is expected to be given powers to make it britain's first internet watchdog later, giving it powers to punish tech companies over harmful or illegal material. let's get more on this with chris stokel—walker, author of the book youtubers, and presenter of the upcoming radio 4 documentary called youtube, everyone's a star. chris, thank you forjoining us.

lots of questions raised by this development. fundamentally, first of all, do you think it can work, can 0fcom be given expanded powers, more resources to effectively police what these social media companies are doing? i think it is going to be very difficult, almost impossible. you have talked about the scale of all of this and having more resources . all of this and having more resources. youtube, for instance, has 10,000 moderators who are looking at all of the content posted on that platform. facebook has 35,000, solely devoted to make sure whether the content that is posted is good or bad and follows the rules. 0fcom has 1000 employees in total, so this will have to involve a huge step up in resources and a huge step up in staff to police this sort of stuff because the scale is enormous. 500 hours of footage are uploaded to youtube every minute. so trying to actually do this is going to be nigh on impossible, i think.

0fcom surely isn't expected surely to look at everything each of the social media companies has on its platforms. presumably it is going to step in if the tech firms have been judged not to have handled something themselves and then to make a judgment on that. still a lot to do but not on the scale that you mentioned a second ago? yes, absolutely. not every bit of content uploaded to these platforms does break those rules but you have to remember that the tech firms do have in place a lot of algorithms that will help try and identify this information and find out what is maybe not appropriate through computer vision and things like that, which they will then refer to human staffing. which i'm not entirely certain 0fcom will be able to do. it is good we are seeing some sort of movement on this, because for many years, journalists like myself and people at the bbc have been saying there are major issues with these digital platforms. but i'm just not sure that a uk only

regulator can really effectively police and international, supranational, global organisation like social networks. we have seen this news welcome by various campaigning groups. the nspcc is one thatjumps campaigning groups. the nspcc is one that jumps to campaigning groups. the nspcc is one thatjumps to mind. what sort of penalties do you think 0fcom might need to be able to hand out, to really have teeth in this area, to make a difference? let me give you an example. just last week, youtube announced it alone had made $15 billion last yearfrom announced it alone had made $15 billion last year from ad revenue alone. that is an enormous business. that doesn't actually encompass the entirety of the size of youtube. the fines we have seen from the information commissioner's office and elizabeth denham, the chief of that, welcome to this news today. the sort of finds the ico are putting out our very small in comparison to these large companies. soi comparison to these large companies. so i think it would have to be

enormous fines there are probably beyond the actual reality of the situation here. so not entirely convinced that this will be anything more than a symbolic gesture. what about the argument that baroness morgan makes, that big tech firms headquartered outside the uk will nonetheless listen to 0fcom because the market here is very important to them? this is exactly the point. actually, we have seen an example of pressure from politicians pushing social networks to actually take action. for instance, youtube in the last 18 months or two years, has actually made some pretty good strides, in terms of cracking down on some of the issues that it had with its platform. that has been because of the looming spectre of regulation coming down the line first whether or not it is necessary to go the next step and actually put that into action or if you can just trust that the kind of looming threat would actually make people

make changes i think it's probably the answer. ok, thank you very much for your thoughts on that story today. students have told the bbc that universities are using gagging clauses to "silence" allegations of sexual assault. an investigation has found that nearly a third of universities have used non—disclosure agreements in the past four years following student complaints over issues such as bullying, lack of disability support and poor quality teaching. the government has called the practice unacceptable and is legislating to stop them being misused. rianna croxford reports. do british universities have something to hide? 0ur do british universities have something to hide? our investigation has found widespread use of gagging clauses across the uk. students are asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to stay silent on serious issues, like sexual assault. that is what 0livia, not her real name, says happened to her when she spoke to

university staff. he told me not to tell my parents, to not tell my friends, to basicallyjust be quiet about it. she reported being raped by another student on campus. her university asked her to sign a contract which said she would be expeued contract which said she would be expelled if she goes public. contract which said she would be expelled if she goes publicm contract which said she would be expelled if she goes public. it felt like something to be ashamed of, something i couldn't talk to anyone about and i couldn't raise issues about and i couldn't raise issues about how the uni handled things. the police dropped her case saying it would be hard to prove in court, so her university won't investigate. i've been waking up multiple times a night to check my doors were locked and still having nightmares. nearly and still having nightmares. nearly a third of universities have used nondisclosure agreements for resolving student complaints, paying out more than £1.3 million since 2016. i feel they treated out more than £1.3 million since 2016. i feelthey treated me like dirt. like an inconvenience. somebody to get rid of. this former 0xford somebody to get rid of. this former oxford university student has broken her nda to talk to us at the risk of

being sued. she was paid off after raising concerns about the treatment of suicidal students. there were a numberof of suicidal students. there were a number of students we knew were suicidal. i saw no responsibility or no care of students well being. why do you think it is important to speak out, why now?|j do you think it is important to speak out, why now? i have witnessed and experienced so many problems and if people don't speak out, things will never change. oxford university says it doesn't comment on individual cases but confirmed it did carry out a review into student welfare after the complaint, adding it provides a high level of support to students. 0ur it provides a high level of support to students. our investigation also found not all students got a pay—out. 0livia didn't. she signed her nda so that neither her or the student she accused could contact each other. basically to feel safe, i had to promise never to tell anyone orface

i had to promise never to tell anyone or face expulsion. they should acknowledge there is a problem and try and take steps to tackle it. the government has told bbc the use of ndas is unacceptable and is clamping down on the practice was the lawyers say universities are often using these to protect their reputations but students wonder... he was protecting them? rianna croxford is with me now. you have been looking into this per year, what are the results of your investigation? i started to looking at nondisclosure agreements of staff who similar allegations of sexual harassment and bullying. then one student got in touch with me and i started wondering, how big is this problem? lawyers say there is a huge abuse of power here. we're talking about students who are not receiving legal advice, signing agreements that say they can be expelled or sued and allotted the students have talked about almost being

traumatised by that experience. lots of them are getting in touch with now and the office for students has said it will look into investigating some of the universities that have been flagged. pretty negative reaction from the universities uk? yes, it represents most of the main institutions and it said ndas should be used to silence complaints and stu d e nts be used to silence complaints and students should be empowered to speak out when they have concern. thank you very much. i am joined by the lawyer mark stephens via webcam. good morning, how widely used are nondisclosure agreements and do you think there is ever a place for there? like the recipe for coca—cola, for example. there? like the recipe for coca-cola, for example. inaudible hello? nondisclosure agreement, but if you are talking about... inaudible

mark, i'm afraid we are having problems with that line. u nfortu nately, we problems with that line. unfortunately, we have to cut that short. apologies for that. let's instead go to the weather forecast. carol is ready and waiting as ever. thank you for stepping into the breach, thank you. always a pleasure. good morning, everybody. the met office is a warning of snow and ice across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. if you are travelling, bear that in mind. with this transient ridge of high pressure today, the weather a little more settled than yesterday the stock we still have the snow showers and will see the totals accumulate, especially on higher ground. the wind not quite as strong as yesterday. it will still feel quite cold. there will be some sunny spells to look forward to. through the afternoon, the cloud will thicken across the south—western quarter of the uk, with some showers ahead of the band of rain coming our way. this rain will be heavy and persistent as it pushes northwards and eastwards, with gusty winds around it. as it engages with the cold air in northern england,

northern ireland and southern scotland, it will fall as snow. but for tomorrow morning's rush hour, look where we do have their snow, pushing northwards across northern england in three parts of scotland as well. some nasty travelling conditions, gales across southern and coastal counties. a little milder in the south tomorrow but still cold in the north. hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. the headlines: an a&e doctor in worthing has tested positive for the coronavirus — the second healthcare worker in the uk to contract the disease. policing the internet — the media regulator 0fcom is expected to be given powers to punish tech companies if they don't protect their users from illegal material. the road to the us election — bernie sanders pips pete buttigeig to win the new hampshire primary —

he calls it "the beginning of the end for president trump". the government is accused of repeatedly failing to put people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate accommodation. the equality and human rights commission says targets are being missed. the race to be labour's next leader is well under way, with the field now narrowed to just four candidates. this week, local labour parties will be nominating their favourites, before the ballot is opened to all party members. tens of thousands of people have joined labour since the election and will get a vote in this contest. political correspondent alex forsyth went to worksop in nottinghamshire to meet some. the one quality these labour members wa nt the one quality these labour members want from the next leader. they are all from the bassetlaw bachelor party which met this week to decide which candidate to back, then members will make the final choice.

and more than 100,000 people have joined the party since the election, to have their say. take gary and kathleen. born and bred in north nottinghamshire, they have been labour voters for decades. gary used to work in the coal pits. you first joined the party as a teenager but left last year, fed up with this direction. now he has rejoined the vote for the next leader. we need somebody who is going to put it across that the labour party is for the people, and to make sure that we get a good living wage, good services and not carry on cutting. kathleen has become a party member for the first time. i want that labour leader to be concerned with what bassetlaw is, we need to spend our own money on our town and a hospital, then it was all taken down to london and we didn't have a say. you feel like this community has

been overlooked? definitely, yes. that's a familiar sentiment here. it was one of many places across the midlands and north that voted tory for the first time in years at the election. this was a mining community which supported labour for decades until last year and the biggest challenge for those wanting to be labour leader isn'tjust winning support from party members, but winning back voters in places like this. what do you think the next labour leader needs to be like? it's got to be someone that's going to listen to what the people want, and not what they want.|j to listen to what the people want, and not what they want. i haven't seen and not what they want. i haven't seena and not what they want. i haven't seen a contender where they've got that, that they make you feel like you can put your trust in us. do you think people will vote labour again? if they change, then yes. but it has got to be turned around, definitely, big changes have got to be made.

that is laura's haud, the daughter ofa miner that is laura's haud, the daughter of a minerfrom that is laura's haud, the daughter of a miner from worksop, that is laura's haud, the daughter of a minerfrom worksop, she that is laura's haud, the daughter of a miner from worksop, she signed up of a miner from worksop, she signed up as of a miner from worksop, she signed upasa of a miner from worksop, she signed up as a labour member and once the next leader to focus on policies that help communities like hers. sta rt that help communities like hers. start listening to the people, not just members but people who used to vote. listen to average working people and also somebody that can bring the party back together, so none of this divide. laura was at the local labour meeting this week, the local labour meeting this week, the first she had been to. there was a lot of talk of unity but what direction labour might go in still isn't clear. wiped out on the doorstep because people didn't like jeremy and what the labour party of jeremy and what the labour party of jeremy offered. unity, competence, truth... there is certainly different views about what members want. what they decide will be

crucial for the party's future. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. the wildlife photographer of the year entries always spark plenty of interest around the world. the main prizes were awarded last october, but fans of the annual competition were asked to rank some of the images that didn't quite win its top prizes, and today, the people's choise winners have been named. some 28,000 voted for sam rowley‘s "station squabble", a shot of two mice fighting over a crumb, as their favourite in this "best of the rest" category. it is absolutely phenomenal, that shot. other popular shots included this dramatic picture of a couple ofjaguars tackling an anaconda — by michel zoghzhog. an unfortunate orang—utan being exploited for performance, taken by aaron gekoski.

and a touching portrait of a conservation ranger and the baby black rhino he's looking after, shot by martin buzora. absolutely wonderful images. let's talk about movies now. the ‘suicide squad' spin—off film, starring margot robbie, is now the centre of a lot of debate online amongst devoted dc comics fans. 0n the warner brother's website, the film is still called "birds of prey and the fantabulous emancipation of one harley quinn". but thousands of theatres have updated their websites and marketing material to "harley quinn: birds of prey". are speculating, birdsofprey (& the fantabulous emancipation of one harley quinn)‘ has now been retitled by wb to "harley quinn: birds of prey" in the wake of its low

box office opening. many fans are disappointed that the name has been shortened. thomas wrote... 0thers others were more pessimistic. mark cassidy said... 0ver over the last few days storm ciara has been dominating the tabloid front pages and many people'ssocial media feeds. now it is time for storm dennis. brace yourself, was the headline in the daily star today warning readers of a second weekend of dangerous weather. storm dennis, or dennis the menace as the tabloid

dubs it, is on its way apart. melissa writes... andy says... number one is the news that bernie sanders has won the latest, second stage of the democrats contest to ta ke stage of the democrats contest to take on president trump in the us presidential elections. number two is the coronavirus, and that wonderful photograph of the mice on the london underground is number three. going down to most watched, i won't tell you too much about it because we are about to talk about the story, but it is a story about how mattresses could solve hunger.

if you are wondering how on earth that could be, let's find out more about the team of sheffield university researchers have turned old mattresses into beds for growing fresh produce. their first project in a refugee camp injordan has been a huge success, now they've brought the idea home and are developing it further here in the uk. tony ryan is a chemistry professor from the university of sheffield and one of the lead researchers who established the project in jordan. hejoins me now. very good to have you with us, professor ryan, for what is an amazing science story. this began in a refugee camp in jordan. it was a very hot day, and you wandered into an old warehouse and what did you find?|j you wandered into an old warehouse and what did you find? i was there looking at recycling. i found a warehouse of old mattresses that they couldn't get out again because they couldn't get out again because they had been used. i had just started a phd student on the project

to grow plants in polyurethane forms isa to grow plants in polyurethane forms is a new hydroponics substrate so i sent an excited message back to sheffield to say i know how we can help people in refugee camps to feed themselves. explain hydroponics, thatis themselves. explain hydroponics, that is a key concept in all this. in hydroponics you take the soil away and the water does all the work. it provides the nutrients and the thing that the client is growing injust the thing that the client is growing in just literally holds it upright. if you buy tomatoes, lettuce, a not in soil, most in a greenhouse, not in soil, most likely grown in rockwall, in a hydroponics factory, essentially. this is idealfor the refugee camp where the soil is not very fertile. how did the plants do? it took a little while to get it to work because the mattress firm is not

designed for that purpose. back in sheffield, we make new firms that are designed for this hydroponic culture so that farmers had to be convinced to use foam, then work out how to do it in the most productive way, so how to change the watering schedule, which fertilises the use, and basically they taught themselves how to do it, then they taught us, so it was a great co—creations. how to do it, then they taught us, so it was a great co-creations. you had the refugees from syria not having to solely rely on charities forfood having to solely rely on charities for food but being able to produce food themselves. explain how the story goes from jordan to an abandoned school building in sheffield. we started off on the high—tech route, and that worked well, in terms of designing firm for specific crops. if you say hydroponics to a teenager they start to giggle because they think it is

about growing marijuana so there are lots of hydroponics around under the radar and the lots of hydroponics around under the radarand the uk, lots of hydroponics around under the radar and the uk, and what we wanted to do was create urban farms, so that in areas of food poverty and food deserts in the uk, we would enable people to grow their own fresh thing is, herbs, salad, lettuce, and that's why we set up in this school. you are looking at how this school. you are looking at how this can be sustainable, good for the environment. what could the applications potentially be, looking at the word —— work you have done in jordan, for parts of the world where people are struggling to grow food because of drought and poor soil quality and so on? hydroponics uses far less water than conventional horticulture. the thing we are doing, we have a just giving campaign called desert gardens to move this from the one refugee camp we have worked on, to others, and

two other displaced communities. you can grow staff in yoghurt pots, a bit of phone, you can grow mint, a couple of tupperware boxes, we had people harvesting strawberries. it is not going to feed your whole family but it will improve your diet and it will give you fresh green things and some fresh fruit, and you can grow things on a windowsill, in a garden, and because of the way that you grow them, there's not much water evaporation, so you can keep all the water around the roots. fascinating to talk to you about this, professor ryan, what you can come up with after seeing a warehouse full of old mattresses. professor tony ryan from the university of sheffield, thank you very much. that's it for today's morning briefing. sport now, and for a full round—up

from the bbc sport centre, here's sally. i saw some of your interview with those three sports men now suffering from motor neurone disease. very moving. tell us more. it has been an incredible couple of weeks spending time with temperatures professional sportsman now diagnosed with varying stages of motor neuron disease. we have been running it all morning on bbc one and hopefully we will show you a bit of it now. it is humbling to see and hopefully a powerful message from them, so coming up in just a moment. first, it's been an amazing 12 months for the growth of women's football with the world cup in france last year getting unprecedented global attention. voting is now open for the bbc women's footballer of the year 2020 — and it's quite a shortlist. i'm delighted to bejoined by our sports reporter sarah mulkerrins who can tell us all about the nominees.

there is no surprise that these five players were playing at the world cup in france. it dominated the headlines. these players dominated those matches. starting with the defensive midfielderjulie ertz you are such a powerful part of that usa team, she plays a club football in the us with the chicago red stars. brought them to the league play—off final. and the co—captain of the us, megan rapinoe guiding her team to back—to—back road cops, she won the golden boot and the golden ball. and you have players from elsewhere, a lot of people will know about lucy bronze, the england right back who plays her club football for lyon, they did the treble last year, the champions league, the league title and the french cup. and help england

to the semi finals in france. and two players that domestic football fa ns two players that domestic football fans will know, we have sam kerr, who scored five goals for australia at the world cup, and she hasjust signed for chelsea, so of people can her. she is the all—time top goal—scorer in both the american league and the australian league. she might have some competition from another striker plying her trade in england, the dutch star viviana medham who plays for arsenal who won the wsl in england last year. she was also the top scorer. a very tough shortlist to pick from. you can go on to the bbc sport website to vote until the 2nd of march at 9am. all of the profiles are bare, so you can learn about them all and ta ke so you can learn about them all and take your pick. how did we get to this list of nominees? this is

compiled by 50 people all around the world involved in the women's game, journalists, administrators, coaches, players, former players, and they come up with a long list that gets whittled down to these five list, then it goes down to the public list, then it is for people within the game to promote the people who have been good on and off the pitch, then putting it out to the pitch, then putting it out to the public vote which helps grow the profile and interest in the women's game and gets more people involved and participating in it. sarah, thank you. now to a really powerful interview this morning with three men who we are used to seeing at the top of their game. doddie weir, rob burrow and stephen darby are all linked now by the fact they are living with motor neurone disease, an illness with no cure. for the first time the three of them have spoken openly with each other about the impact their

diagnosis has had. i sat down to talk to them. mnd is a part of our lives but i don't want it to take over our lives. the average life expectancy is 1—3 years. i'm over that, still smiling. i am not giving in until my last breath. too many reasons to live. i know this is a club you never wanted tojoin and a team you never wanted to be on. how much does it help to sit here and be able to talk to each other today? it's through unfortunate circumstances we have come together, but it has been turned to a positive and i think this things, talking about what we're going through and talking about mnd and how devastating a disease it is, it's important

that we raise that awareness and get that message out there. telling yourwife, mother, dad, brother, family, friends, that is the most difficult thing. it has been very difficult. my wife has been on the journey with me as well. she was there when i first heard i got mnd. she was in tears. then i did the dreaded google. it came up with mnd. i was like uh—oh. ijust want i just want to ijust want to get on with life, ta ke ijust want to get on with life, take the kids to school. for me, the immediate future is normality.” take the kids to school. for me, the immediate future is normality. i am further down the line, for the days, and weeks and months we have, being here with these boys and your good

self is a very special day. don't ta ke self is a very special day. don't take anything for granted. it doesn't really take a lot to be happy. so just enjoy today. gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. that was a humbling day i spent with those three sportsman who spoke so honestly about their situation. the full interview will be on bbc iplayer right now, a good 10-12 be on bbc iplayer right now, a good 10—12 minutes talking with them in detail about what has got them to this point, what their hopes are for the future and what more could be done for people with mnd. that's all the sport for now. 0fcom has been giving expanded powers to punish social media companies if they don't protect users from illegal, harmful

material. 0ur tech correspondent zoe kleinman is here. the announcement about this was embargoed until half past nine. it is now passed this, so do we know any more now the embargo has been lifted about any penalties 0fcom might be able to place on tech companies? is important to stress this is the government's first response to its online harms consultation it ran last year. it saysis consultation it ran last year. it says is going to reveal more details in the spring. it has not given any exact details for that. that is the big question everyone is asking. it is all very well giving 0fcom this power, this regulatory role, but if it hasn't got any teeth, then is any us —based tech company going to listen to it? and that's the crucial issue we don't yet know. even though the embargo has been lifted, the detail isn't there. when might we

hear about that? it should be forthcoming in the spring. we got to bearing in mind that baroness morgan will be leading it, there will be a new appointment, lots of shuffling going on. this is going to be the next big step. and this is something 0fcom itself is going to have to think about, now it has been given this role. we've heard within the last few minutes that 0fcom has appointed a new boss, dame melanie dawes, and she will have to think about this. what matters are just showing that tweet now, where she has been appointed. and that big agenda, this policing the internet idea, is going to be a big part of that. and ofcom is already quite busy. it oversees media here as the media regulator. another big question is, how is it going to do this? will it split itself? big team

be set up just to manage this? that seems like an almighty role for an already stretched regulator. as 0fcom already stretched regulator. as 0fco m get already stretched regulator. as 0fcom get stuck into this we will see much more detail emerging about the practicalities of this enormous task. a commentator i spoke to said that if you consider the number of people at these social media platforms employed to regulate content in—house, then, in his opinion, he thought this isn't going to work. how can 0fcom then possibly manage all of that? but 0fcom would be like a second tier, there would be like a second tier, there would be in—house regulation, then 0fcom might adjudicate on that if they feel it is not working. we understand that 0fcom will draw up a duty of care, if you like, plan, and it will be up to the tech firms to follow that duty of care plan. whether that will be in the form of a check list, are you doing these

things, yes or no, or then reporting themselves to 0fcom if something goes awry, that is detail that we have to see. the tech companies are throwing a lot of star power and money at this in the past and it has been difficult for them but they have admitted that they want vegetation. this goes beyond the uk. we are seeing regulation creeping in around the world, in germany and australia, and being welcomed by the tech companies who say this is too big responsibility for us, tell us what you want and we will make it happen. thank you for that update, zoe kleinman. china's national health commission has reported another 97 deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the total to more than 1,100. there are now more than 42,000 confirmed cases across china, and there are continued concerns about the virus‘s international spread. rich preston reports. it's beenjust over a month since the discovery of the virus, now officially known as covid—19.

since then it's killed over 1100 people, surpassing the number killed by the sars virus in the early 2000s. that virus, of the same family as this latest strain, killed 774 people. tens of thousands of cases have been reported around the world. in china, streets remained deserted and buildings closed. elsewhere in the region, travel bans have been implemented and in japan, over 170 people on board a cruise ship docked in yokohama have tested positive for the virus. more than 3500 are on board, unable to leave. in wuhan, where the virus started, the first of several coronavirus patients have been released from hospital. the concern is now for those countries without the infrastructure and control of wealthier nations. i have a great concern that if this virus makes it to a weaker health system, it will create havoc.

chinese authorities have been criticised for their handling of the outbreak. the first report of covid—19 was made to the who december 31st, 2019. the source was identified as this fish market. health officials at the time said the situation was in hand but, since then, the virus has spread rapidly and the fatality rate has risen steadily. now, as we mentioned in the morning briefing, lots of people on social media talking about storm dennis, hot on the heels of storm ciara. let's check out the weather forecast with alina jenkins. before then, we have still got disruptive weather to talk about, in the form of snow and ice across parts of scotland, northern england and northern ireland, this was sheffield a short

time ago. elsewhere in the uk we have blue skies and sunshine, so some big contrasts. taking a look at the bigger picture, this is what is heading our way overnight. we have this cold north—westerly wind, not as cold as recently but still pushing snow across northern ireland, scotland, northern england and north wales. that will tend to ease off as the day wears on but keeps going across northern and western scotland with a more general speu western scotland with a more general spell of rain for the far north—east of scotland. showers developing across wales, south—west england, with some spells of sunshine for much of england and wales and northern ireland into this afternoon. feeling cold, but the wind strength not as strong and bitter as it has been recently. 0vernight, clear skies initially, then wet and windy weather sweeps as we a cross then wet and windy weather sweeps as we across england, wales and northern ireland, bumping into cold air, with the potentialfor significant snow in northern england and southern scotland, and dry and very cold across the far north of scotland, —10 across the snow

fields. disruptive travelling conditions through the central belt and the far north of england, then persistent rain, snow to clear from the north—east of england and eastern scotland. elsewhere, sunshine with strong winds developing for western channel coast, with gusts of up to 70 mph across parts of south—west england. temperatures starting to climb a little across much of england and wales, but still feeling fairly cold across scotland. briefly, we see a ridge of high pressure going into friday morning. things looking dry and fairly cold for many as we start friday. doesn't last long. the next atla ntic friday. doesn't last long. the next atlantic system pushing in from the west, pushing another spell of wet, windy weather with milder air combined with snowmelt giving the potential for flooding across parts of scotland, so an unsettled day on friday, temperatures starting to climb into double figures for much of england and wales, around eight celsius in scotland but the big story, storm dennis approaching the

uk going into saturday and sunday. heavy rain, persistent rain through much of the weekend, coupled with some strong winds. and gusts widely getting up to 70 mph with the potential for very heavy rain. lots of warnings in place. all of the details are on our website.

hello, it's wedensday, it's 10 o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire, and we're live from new broadcasting house. why are so many patients with learning difficulties and autism still being held in secure units like this? this footage we've been shown by a parent of a patient locked behind this door, at a st andrew's facility, raises questions about the controversial practice of seclusion, where patients can be locked away for long hours. the equality and human rights commission is taking legal action against the government over the repeated failure to move these patients into appropriate accommodation, arguing that it breaches their human rights. also today: an a&e doctor working at worthing hospital in west sussex is among the eight people who have

tested positive for coronavirus in the uk. experts say they think we're in the early phases