hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the coronavirus crisis deepens in china. this is hubei province, the centre of the outbreak — and the death toll is up — and officials are being sacked. boris johnson's finance minister sajid javid has resigned after refusing to sack his advisers. here's his account. i was unable to accept those conditions. i don't believe any self—respecting minister would accept such conditions. so therefore i felt the best thing to do was to go. and mike bloomberg's turning to memes to get him to the white house. the idea is to reach votes regular ads don't touch. anthony zurcher will assess the new tactic. and the big bang is probably not what you think it is. scientists have a new theory of how the planets in our solar system formed.

the statistics around the coronavirus have been revised — upwards. 254 more deaths have been recorded. almost all of them were in hubei province where this outbreak began. there was also a huge increase in the number of cases — there are more than 48000 in hubei — that's up 15,000. this upward shift is — in part — because a broader definition of the virus is now being used to diagnose people. here's the world health organisation on that. crucially we understand that most of these cases relate to a period going back over days and weeks and are retrospectively reported as cases since sometimes back to the beginning of the outbreak itself. nationally, the number of cases is close to 60,000. the death toll in china is now 1350.

but in reality, it's higher. those who die at home are not being counted in officialfigures. and we know that people are choosing to do that. this article on the bbc news website details cases who say they don't want to be quarantined while seriously ill. that's they rather die at home. and while this crisis escalates, there's increasing pressure on the authorities — two officials in hubei have been sacked already. let's get more from stephen mcdonell in beijing. as to whether or not the dismissal of those two senior communist party officials on this very day is a coincidence, i'm not sure, but it doesn't look good for them. the hubei party secretary and the party secretary as well for wuhan city have both been removed, but somebody had to take a fall for this. there is a lot of public anger. a lot could've been done to bring this under control before millions of people left wuahn, and in fact, there's of a lot evidence showing that in those early days, they tryied to stop

information getting out. they tried to stop information getting out. and this is the bbc‘s celia hatton who will replace these officials. the two new men in place in hubei and wuhan are both loyalist to xijinping, especially the man in charge of the province. he comes from shanghai. he is a man known for tough security measures but also last year, he implemented a citywide recycling programme in shanghai. i know that probably doesn't sound that impressive, but in a city of 23 million, almost overnight to get all of those people to suddenly follow new rules, he pulled it off us and that programme are still in place and has been carried out across china. here is a man who is known for security and implementing really big projects overnight. well, those skills will be needed — as the scientists and officials try and fashion an effective response. for more on that, this david heymann — who directed the who's response

to the sars virus outbreak in 2003. we are all concerned about what we don't know. we know so far what is happening and what we can see, but what we don't know is the real potential of this virus. whether or not this eventually could become a disease endemic in humans like tb, influenza or others because influenza also comes from animals into humans, and it sometimes becomes a permanent resident. one other important detail is that we know this virus is not spreading quickly outside of china. here's david heymann on that issue. certainly it is spread throughout china. china is making every effort they can in the way they do best, to stop the disease. what is important though is those 2a sites outside of china and also cruise ships. that is where the information about how severe the diseases. will really come from. the patients are being monitored very closely as are the contacts. and we are learning a lot as we see what happens in these situations, which hopefully will lock down the disease in these countries and not permit it to spread through.

next to vietnam. a town of 10,000 is now under quarantine following five cases of the virus. this is one of the checkpoints on the outskirts of the town. now to cambodia — that us cruise ship which had been turned away by five countries — has finally been allowed to dock. it had spent two weeks at sea after searching for somewhere to stop — despite the fact there were no confirmed cases on board. passengers cheered and clinked glasses as they arrived in port — well they might. but they'll remain onboard for now as a precautionary measure. and then there's another cruise ship — the diamond princess — currently stuck in yokohoma in japan. it has 3,600 people on board. and no—one‘s getting off. because over 200 passengers and crew are now infected. rupert wingfield—hayes

is at the port. so the number of infections onboard the diamond princess behind me here has again jumped today. 44 new cases confirmed today, that followed 39 cases yesterday. and that brings the total number of infections from the ship to 218. and that means as we know now that this is now the single biggest outbreak of the virus anywhere outside of mainland china. the japanese government has made a small concession to the criticism that has been building up the way it is handling this outbreak, they have said that very elderly people over the age of 80 will be allowed to disembark if they have underlying health conditions or if they are in one of those inside cabins that don't have many outside windows or balconies. expect to see that start happening maybe tonight or on friday. but there are many

questions that remain. first of all, obviously are infections still taking place and is the virus still circulating around the ship? nobody really knows. the other big question is why still has the japanese government not managed to test all of the passengers and crew on board. two weeks ago a group of british nationals that were evacuated from wuhan in china. after two weeks at a hospital in north west england, all 83 of them have released — all have been given the all clear. fiona trott was there as they left. a strange two weeks it has been for them, evacuated from china and coming here to the wirral, signing a form and agreeing to be quarantined, wondering do i have the virus and then getting used to the confinement itself. one man left earlier shouting "i am free." there is relief here this afternoon but also what is very clear is that all of the 83 people here are very grateful to the nhs staff for the care they have received. one of those who's been released is matt raw — and he gave us his reaction.

it is lovely. absolutely lovely to be out. i will no doubt be going out for a pint a little bit later. and who would blame him. not that matt is complaining about his ordeal. i would say that 99.9% of us, if not 100% of us are really happy to have been here. we are very grateful to have been here. the last thing that any one of us would've wanted is to have passed that virus on if we were infected to somebody else. you would have to live with that. if somebody does get sick from it and dies, we would have to live with that for the rest of our lives. of course, that is not who we are. most of us, we travel a lot, we travel extensively, and there and there are risks associated with that. so we do take ourselves seriously as ex—pats and of course we want to be as responsible as possible and if that means staying in quarantine for a couple of weeks, so be it.

much more information about the coronavirus online. let's talk about mike bloomberg. the world's ninth richest person, former new york mayor — and a man who wants to be president. he doesn't officially arrive on the ballot until march three — super tuesday — when the democratic party will hold primaries across 1a states. but he's very much in this race already. on wednesday, donald trump said he was more worried about facing bernie sanders. but today he tweeted... that sounds like someone who is maybe a little bit more bothered. and mike bloomberg hit back.

and it's evident mr bloomberg sees the president's wealth as an attack line. this was last week. who is the second one? well i spoke with our senior n0rth ameircan correpsondent anthony zurcher about the background to this spat. you have to remember these two individuals have history that goes back decades in new york city. the fact that this is becoming personal in a kind of new york city politics sort of way some, trading insults, shouldn't be too surprising, but it is a fight that michael bloomberg is looking for. he is seeking this out because i think he views this as elevating his standing among the democrats, proving he is somebody who can go toe to toe with donald trump and fight him in his own element on social media and come out the better. other candidates have tried

certainly but generally it is very difficult to take on donald trump in these sort of situations. in this curious situation, where he is campaigning but not even on the ballot yet. no, he is not on the ballot. he is doing something that is unorthodox in the history of modern american presidential primary politics. that is skipping iowa and new hampshire and the other early states and focusing solely on the super tuesday states, the whole handful of states across the country, some of them very large like texas and california that are holding their primaries, the first tuesday in march. the theory is he doesn't need to build up steam in iowa or new hampshire. he doesn't need to make a name for himself that way. he has virtually a limitless resource, $62 billion in personal wealth, that he can devote towards advertising in the states like california, like texas that are huge media markets that none of the other candidates, save for bernie sanders, can compete with because theyjust don't have the campaign resources. it is unconventional. it is never been tried before,

but in theory it could work because money is not an issue for him. well, elections aren't won by money alone — but it helps. bloomberg has already spent $300 million. that's more than all the other candidates put together — and more than barack 0bama spent on his entire campaign in 2012. and it's spending is having an impact. mike bloomerg reached 15% in one national poll this week — that puts him third. also bear in mind — he says he's willing to spend a billion dollars taking on donald trump — whether he is the democratic candidate or not. and much of that money will go on targetted ads. here's stef kight from axios on why. the trump campaign really found this a new way to use facebook, to benefit the campaign and push out ads. they really figured out a unique trick and they are kings of this kind of campaign advertising. so now we are seeing bloomberg who is spending even more than trump

on facebook ads and other television ads and network advertising and continuing to go after trump. one thing we have noticed in a lot of his ads is a really that's present himself as a stark contrast to trump. he goes after trump policies. he spends very little time going after other democratic candidates at this point. when pressed, he will criticise in kind of subtle ways but he is really all about running the general election. he is running his campaign as it is him versus donald trump you see that a lot in the ads he is putting out. and it's notjust conventional advertising —the bloomberg campaign has commissioned some of the internet‘s top—viral creators to generate content about him. a group called meme 2020 has been engaged to create sponsored content on instagram. here's one from kale salad — a meme page with more than 3.5 million followers — it's in the format of a message conversation between mr bloomberg and the account owner —

mr bloomberg politely asks if they could post a meme that compares him to kale ‘tough and tasteless, but good for you' — the page replies that it isn't that funny, so mr bloomberg says — i'll give you a billion dollars. there's many more like this and all of them state they are sponsored by mike bloomberg. the reaction has been mixed on social media. 0thers others are more impressed... back to anthony zurcher in washington for his assessment. the reality is that michael bloomberg is running his presidential campaign like a multi—billion dollar media empire, which he heads. so it is a different kind of strategy but when you have this kind of resources that he has, he can try different avenues, try different experiments or techniques that may be previous

campaigns have not been applied to traditional political campaigning. and i have been talking with some bernie sanders supporters over the past week. i was at his headquarters a few nights ago in new hampshire. i brought up michael bloomberg to them and boy, they do not like him. bernie sanders has campaigned against billionaires over the course of the past five years, and for them to face a prospect of a billionaire sinking resources into these kind of advertising campaigns and such a huge amount, they view it as just another example of a system that is out to get there guy. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come... will return to germany. —— we will turn to germany. ceremonies have been held. remembering the bombing of dresden — 75 years after britain started an aerial attack that devastated the east german city. president trump has said he doesn't mind if the philippines ends a long—standing military agreement, as it will save a lot of money. howard johnson reports from manila.

despite a six—month negotiation period before the termination of the pact takes legal effect, donald trump's comment sounded like a rubber stamping of the end of the visiting forces agreement. we help the philippines very much. we help them defeat isis. i get along with them. i have a very good relationship. but i really don't mind if they would like to do that. that is fine. we will save a lot of money. philippine president rodrigo duterte took the unilateral decision to cut the pact with america after it revoked the visa of a former police chief over allegations of gross human rights abuses connected to the country's war on drugs. us defence secretary mark esper called the decision by the philippines unfortune. it comes at a time of closer relations between the philippines and china, a country that is partly financing president duterte‘s flagship infrastructure building strategy.

0ur lead story is... china has suffered its worst day yet from deaths of the coronavirus, as numbers go up sharply partly to way it is changing the way it has started diagnosing those. in north—western syria there's been another major exodus of people fleeing a government offensive. in the past 48 hours, tens of thousands of syrians in western aleppo province and idlib havejoined almost 700 thousand others seeking refuge from the fighting. president macron has visited france's most famous glacier the "mer de glace" on the slopes of mont blanc to highlight climate change. the glacier is shrinking — with an average of 50 metres thickness lost during the 20th century. one of the world's most active volcanoes has erupted in indonesia. it's located in a densely populated area in centraljava. more on bbc.com.

germany has been marking the 75th anniversary of the destruction of dresden by british and american bombers during the second world war. tens of thousands of people were killed — with many dying in firestorms. thousands of tonnes of bombs and incendaries were dropped over three days between the 13th and 15th february in 19115. the allies were heavily criticised for this — the war was nearly over and many felt the attack was not justified. jenny hill reports from dresden. dresden has risen from the ashes, but it's dead are not forgotten. a city still a symbol of the horror unleashed by war. it is 75 years since allied forces dropped bomb after bomb on the city, an attack which even at the time ignited controversy. underneath their bombardment,

civilians suffocated and burned. their city destroyed. ursula was 1a. she recalls a firestorm so intense that she clung a lamp post to avoid being sucked the flames. translation: we stood clinging to the lamp post, then we saw our house collapsed. first the facade crashed down and the bricks rolled up to ourfeet, and my mother said, "now we have lost everything. now we are homeless." commemorations today in a city so famed for its culture and beauty that its people thought no one would attack it. translation: we recall both the suffering of people in german cities and the suffering that germans inflicted on others. we do not forget it was germans who started this cruel war. this is for germany are highly symbolic day. for many it's about memory, reconciliation.

for others though it's about defiance too. the far right is once again making its presence felt in this country, seeking to redefine germany's second world war history. there are few survivors left to tell the tale of dresden, but by honouring its dead the city intends to keep the memory alive. jenny hill, bbc news, dresden. the turn to some of the big business stories. amazon has won an injunction to delay a ten billion dollar deal between microsoft and the pentagon. samira hussain is in new york. what does this have to do with amazon? and mossad had long believed it was the front runner in getting this contract. —— amazon had believes. it is worth $10 billion. it isa believes. it is worth $10 billion. it is a big chunk of change. but it was eventually awarded to microsoft, so was eventually awarded to microsoft, so amazon went to court to say that

look, the reason why microsoft ended up look, the reason why microsoft ended up getting this contract is because they were unduly influenced by president trump. it is no secret that president trump has lobbied a lot of thanks towards amazon, particular because of the coverage that the newspaper, the washington post, gives of the president and his administration, let's not forget, mr jeff pazo is the owner of the washington post. what happens now that this injunction has been granted? —— that this injunction has been granted? —— jeff pazo split up now you have to wait until the court case makes its way through the courts. what this injunction does is it stops the pentagon and microsoft from doing any work until they can sort of rectify this other lawsuit that amazon has against them. thank you. stay with us. another story i wa nt to you. stay with us. another story i want to ask you about. another big court battle in the offing... the us has added to the list of charges against chinese telecoms company huawei.

let us know about that please. huawei and its subsidiaries are being accused by the department of justice that they use confidential agreements to get intellectual property from six american technology company. and then a while way allegedly use the information for its own gain. in thejustice department says this went on for yea rs. department says this went on for years. in they ended up being able to financially gain from it. this of course is in addition to the charges that have already been levied against huawei by the us government last year and that includes violating us sanctions against iran. do the chinese and huawei felt like this is all connected to the broader trade war or are these two com pletely trade war or are these two completely separate things? we haven't heard directly from any representatives huawei just of yet but if you look at the way they have reacted to that lot of the other charges that have been levied against them, there were certainly a toner which they rejected the allegations and said this was all

very political in nature. remember, all of these charges come in the same week that we saw both the uk and germany say yes to allowing parts of huawei technology into their telecommunications outfits and their telecommunications outfits and their respective countries. remember, the president did not like hearing that at all. and the president has been wanting to try and isolate their dominance within the western world. finally a question about the process. when a company question about the process. when a com pa ny faces question about the process. when a company faces charges, how does that work through the courts as opposed to an individual facing work through the courts as opposed to an individualfacing charges? work through the courts as opposed to an individual facing charge57m just takes a long time for it to make its way through the court system and so then these individual companies depending on what the charges are and how they relate within the government, they may or may not still be able to do business. in the case of amazon, microsoft and the pentagon cannot do any work. in the case of huawei however, it is already banned at least us companies, from doing a lot

of business with them. so that is becoming a lot more complicated. thank you for taking us through those doors. british rapper stormzy has joined a growing list of musicians to postpone or cancel tours to china and asia. all to do with the coronavirus. the bbc‘s leisha santorelli spoke to matthew amroliwalla about it. so many fans will be disappointed they don't get to see stormzy in the flesh or the boston symphony perform, but they have said that either they will have the organisers reschedule the dates or they will issue refunds and for individuals not to cancel the tickets, but to wait for the organiser to tell them how to proceed. but a lot of companies are taking steps to help affected customers, whether you are an aviation company or an event organiser, to a small or medium company affected by the quarantine, so we are seeing the chinese government issued financial assistance to small and medium enterprises but even seen giant private companies in china like ali baba extend financial

assistance to affected sellers and so forth, so governments and companies are trying to do what they can to try to alleviate a bit of that financial pain that is being incurred. thank you and a reminder that the coronavirus as oui’ thank you and a reminder that the coronavirus as our lead story and we have seen some quite dramaticjumps in the statistics around this crisis in part because the crisis is worsening but also because the chinese are changing how they are diagnosing the virus in that is partly causing the jump diagnosing the virus in that is partly causing thejump in diagnosing the virus in that is partly causing the jump in the numbers. we have seen in the hubei province where the crisis originated alone over 200 new death register and also the number of cases and who mayjump by and also the number of cases and who may jump by over 15,000 and also the number of cases and who mayjump by over 15,000 up to 48,000. so really significantjumps but also do they bho has been keen to come out and say this looks perhaps more dramatic than it is. —— world health organisation. however we also learned today that the way the debts are being recorded are not being recorded the people dying at home so the death toll we are being

given may actually be higher still. the numbers are moving but we know the crisis continues to be serious. see you in a minute. now on the bbc news channel at his newscast with adam fleming, katie aller, laura coombs berry, and chris mason. you messages earlier saying that remind me, shocked out to freddie and downing street. —— laura kuenssberg. and margaret beckett by mistake. i don't understand any of that means. a lot of things to unpack. a lot of things to unpacklj a lot of things to unpack. i was going to remind you. i do think he would read it out. remind me of the substance. we need to say hello to freddie and rick freddie and ryan who work in number ten and downing st this morning to say when is the next newscast and give us a shout out. job done. people and data entry listening to this important podcast. number two, once a reshuffle had a

very near accident because there was a plant in government to find a new department until somebody noticed the acronym west p e in is. and that government department never came into being. what would've been the business? aycock up if it had. welcome to newscast. laughter. newscast from the bbc. going to pizza expression walking is an unusual thing for me to do. you are a white privilege smell. nobody has a white privilege smell. nobody has a clue what brexit is. this is not an elitist issue. this of the quality of life issue. i urge everybody to find closure and let the healing begin. you have sunk to my dream and childhood which are empty words. you are failing us. chris at westminster, what about

margaret beckett he needs his? the margaret beckett he needs his? the margaret beckett he needs his? the margaret beckett thing has nothing to do with the department that never came to be. somebody told me this week when i was researching the history and a reshuffle of the going bad, that actually margaret beckett becoming for secretary with the product of a reshuffle under the new labour government when the dominoes fell on the wrong place. and it was a bit of an accident. now i haven't put that to her, and if she is hearing this, she may feel very differently. but that is part of it reshuffling mythology, including somebody who didn't get a job because the post that had his name on it fell off of the board and the only realise one all the jobs have been given out they had to make a job for her. laura and westminster. panama westminster. and we are joined. former special adviser to sajid javid. she used to be a thing. he used to be a thing westminster. sajid javid. she used to be a thing. he used to be a thing westminsterlj still he used to be a thing westminster.” still think he might be a thing. a very interesting few months i've

had. it is the thing that all political journalists and had. it is the thing that all politicaljournalists and obsessions live for, a reshuffle. and then they will be thinking briefly in the first few weeks of 2020 that news was a very 2019 thing. and that these were the calm waters of a majority government and everything is predictable and nothing much happens. and then this. news happens. and then this. news happens. this is how would looked and sounded when the big bit of news about sajid javid resigning as chancellor was broken in her ear on her phone. takes me a quote. you turned it down because of pm said you wanted him to stay, but he had to replace his whole team of advisers? ok, thanks, bye. sojust explained us...

so just explained us... thankfully it's not the first time i showed up on tv looking like a proper muppet. so it was the day of the reshuffling, they even put out a preview of it the night before saying these are the people who will be promoted, and everyone thought it would be interesting but it might not be interesting, because the big jobs would go — a few people had been fired in the morning, then you got that phone call explaining that? so sajid javid the chancellor had quit, deciding to resign because borisjohnson said "i love you to stay all niles chancellor but only if you stack your whole political tea m if you stack your whole political team because there will be this fabulous, in his view was quote joint team of number ten and 11 to do all the things they want to do. which is maybe not unprecedented if you go back in history, but blimey, thatis you go back in history, but blimey, that is a big change in government. and that is a really big deal because number ten and 11 work as these