this is bbc world news today. i'm lucy grey, our top stories: the first coronavirus death in europe, a chinese tourist in his 80s, dies after being diagnosed in france. troops are deployed in the north of england, as storm dennis hits the uk and northern europe. canada leads renewed calls for iran to hand over the black boxes from the ukrainian airliner brought down over tehran in january. the only remaining alternative now is to send it to a third country which would be in this case france which would be in this case france which has offered to assist because i think france understands the international committee has a lot of questions. and us astronomists are to ramp up their search for extra—terrestrial life.

hello and welcome to world news today. an 80—year—old chinese tourist has died in france from the new coronavirus after he travelled there from hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak. it's the first fatality from the disease in europe. it comes as the head of the world health organization has said that the outbreak is still an emergency for china and it is impossible to tell where the epidemic will spread. more than 66,000 people are known to be infected and more than 1500 have now died in china. a who mission has arrived in the country to analyse the severity of the virus. 25 countries remain affected by covid—19. with the latest from from hong kong, here's nick bea ke. china has declared war on an invisible killer — sending more doctors

as well as soldiers into the worst—affected area. but now the new coronavirus has claimed its first victim outside asia — an elderly chinese man who had travelled to france. translation: last night, i was informed of the death of an 80—year—old patient who had been hospitalised at the bichat hospital since the 25th of january and who was suffering from a coronavirus lung infection. back in china, all those returning to the capital beijing after what's been an extended holiday have been told they must quarantine themselves for two weeks. passengers of many nationalities are still stuck aboard the diamond princess off the coast of japan. 285 people have now tested positive for the virus on the ship and america says it will remove all of its citizens tomorrow and fly them home. there is no such escape from wuhan, the chinese city where the outbreak began. officials have reported more than 2&00 new cases there and 140 new deaths.

"139. in the rest of the world we only have 505 cases and two deaths while in china we have more than 66,000 cases. let me be clear. it is impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take. beijing claims it's acted quickly and decisively to try to stop the spread, but few are willing to predict what the global impact of this crisis will be. nick beake, bbc news, hong kong. the head of the world health organization says it's too early to know if the outbreak will turn into a global pandemic. earlier i spoke to margaret harris, a spokesperson for the who. i asked if countries outside asia are making enough preparations. europe has strong health systems and very good communication systems and there has been good risk

communication in europe. people understand what this is and ideally, people will present early if they have symptoms or if there is any concern that they may have this virus. the biggest problem is what we are calling the infodemic, there are rumours swirling around and people are listening to the rumours and are more frightened than they should be so more often the fear of the virus is more dangerous than the virus itself. people are talking about how little was being spent on things like this... we are talking about supporting in the most fragile health system so we know of about 30

to 40 health system so we know of about 30 to a0 countries that have very fragile systems that we are working intensively with to build up their systems but we do lack the funds and the resources to get those countries ready. the who has arrived in china today to analyse the situation. are you satisfied with the amount of information that you are getting from the chinese authorities and how much access you will get whilst you are there? we are getting a great deal of information from the chinese authorities but one of the problems is, there is so much information. it is, there is so much information. it isa is, there is so much information. it is a very large outbreak so getting the detail on that information, getting the specific things that can help people make the right decisions is often problematic so having a mission like this enables the experts from the rest of the world to sit with their counterparts in china and do a deep dive, going to what's been going on. remember, when you have an outbreak like this people are working so hard that they don't have time to take a pause and look at what has happened and what

might be the best thing to do. a mission like this let people know what is working and what is not working and how can we all help to make it better. canada hosted a meeting today at the munich security conference along with the four other countries, which lost citizens when iran's military shot down a ukrainian passenger plane five weeks ago, killing all 176 people on board. canada is pushing iran to release the black boxes from the crash so their data can be properly analysed by facilities in france. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet sat down with the canadian foreign minister after the meeting in munich and asked him whether any progess had been made. after 30 days of trying, you have to come to the conclusion that you need to look at another alternative and we know at that point that the french have offered that they have the latest technology, they have the expertise, to read the contents of the black box, to download the content and to do that in a transparent fashion.

but would you consider iran's request from the foreign minister saying, give us the technical support to examine the black boxes in iran? couldn't you do that? well, the experts have spoken. the experts have said it's not the type of equipment that you can transport. it looks more like a lab, for those who are watching at home, it's not like a piece of equipment you can put in a luggage, it is the software, the harware you need to have to do that, especially when the black boxes have been damaged. so what we are saying is that we saw that you requested that, the answer has come back to say on the equipment side there is no way we can send that in iran, therefore the remaining alternative is to send it to a third country which would be in this case france which has offered to assist because i think france understands that the international committee has a lot of questions and i always say that the best antidote to conspiracy is transparency. have you made any other progress here on the other big issue

which is compensation? you say, many say, that 57 of the passengers out of 176 were canadian. iran says they were iranians, they of course have the two passports, so the compensation you are asking for, iran says, cannot accept. is this something where, can a compromise be found? are you finding it? what we have hopefully established by now is that the compensation to be paid to the heirs of the victims will be the same to everyone and we also said that this process of negotiation, of a global settlement, should start quickly. i remember meeting this young girl who lost both parents. this is a tragedy. let me bring it back to... for canada, this has been a national tragedy. families have lost their loved ones. i was with prime minister trudeau, we went to meet families,

grieving families, who said, stand up for us, stand up to the regime. make sure they are accountable. we want closure. we want accountability, we want justice, we want transparency. that is what animates me every time i meet them. and that is why prime minister trudeau said he wanted to attend the meeting you had with the foreign minister of iran even though it was at a foreign minister level but some of the families are expressing concern about the look of that, the photos of a smiling encounter, holding hands. was that a mistake? well, the prime minister came with one purpose, to make sure that the iranian counterpart understood how seriously that issue was. not only for the grieving families in canada, not only for the government of canada but i think for the world. i think having a prime minister come in a room and state that, itjust reinforces the message. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet talking to the canadian foreign minister francois—philippe champagne. also making headlines today at that security conference in munich

was the us secretary of state mike pompeo. he came with a warning that other global powers should not necessarily be trusted, when they appear to be undermining the international community in their own interests. huawei and other chinese state backed tech companies are trojan horses for chinese intelligence. russia's disinformation campaigns, trying to turn our citizens against one another. iranians cyber techs plague middle east computer networks. so, leaving aside russia and iran, what are we to make of mr pompeo's comments on china? recent years have seen growing hostility between beijing and washington in areas such as cybersecurity, technology and trade. and china is also building huge infrastructure projects, including the belt and road initiative. and even an offer to build the uk's second high speed rail line linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds in just five years and at a much lower cost than estimated by the british government.

and that came on the same day that senior australian mps have cancelled a planned trip to the uk as tensions heighten over the role of huawei in building britain's 56 network. to talk more about the security concerns over china, isabel hilton joins me in our studio. strong words today from mike pompeo and from the defence secretary talking about how if you don't understand the threat from china and huawei, you can undermine nato even. it is so stark, their warnings from the us, what do you make of what has been said? i think undermining nato, you might ask president qiang how committed he is to nato. what makes pompeo's case difficult... —— president trump. that is not to say

that they are entirely wrong about china because china is a state, it has a strategy, it had an industrial strategy at home which was to build national champions by excluding others from the market and now it has an international strategy of undercutting the competition by subsidising its big companies at home and then looking partner countries into arrangements which could be leveraged for other things. so, you take on a big commitment from a chinese company if the proposing company which is to modify that or to find it is not it is advantage or cancel it it will find the power of the chinese state turned on it so if, like britain for example, you are thinking of negotiating a trade agreement, you can bet your bottom dollar that every trade agreement you have in

existence will be leveraged for that trade agreement. talking about h there and the british government considering that offered to have it done much quicker and cheaper than other companies. —— hs2. that would infuriate the us, surely? yes, we also took me about huawei and that is how we ended up with huawei. in 2003, when the uk was updating its telecommunications, huawei came in with a very low price and huawei has been doing that consistently. that drives out the competition... also, this is a government in a hurry, it says it wants to do things more quickly, the cost of hs2 is estimated to be more than £100 billion. yes, but there is more to it than price. you have to think about what the dependency implies

for your future security, future and current alliances and since the united states of china are in a declared strategic competition, the eu are in a strategic competition with china also, people are having to work out what that means for specific partnerships. britain has just left a powerful trading rock, it is on its own, trying to get trade deals with both the us and china, this is an extraordinary difficult decision. each side will demand the loyalty that they seek and china will use this and this would be very bad for relations with the us and that is a problem that britain has. that is more to think about here than just price. britain has. that is more to think about here thanjust pricem britain has. that is more to think about here than just price. it will be interesting to see where it goes. thank you for coming in. let's take a look at one of our main stories this hour...

here in the uk forecasters are warning that a month's rain could fall overjust a few hours. hundreds of flights have been cancelled, and the army has been deployed to shore up flood defences in some of the worst—affected areas. ireland has issued country—wide severe weather warnings. forecasters say winds are expected to gust at up to 120 kilometres per hour — that's 7a miles per hour. and it's a similar story in iceland where a number of communities are already reporting power cuts, as the winds bring down cables. here in the uk, many celebrities have been paying tribute to radio and television presenter caroline flack, who has been found dead in her london flat. she was due to stand trial on the ath of march accused of assaulting her boyfriend. ms flack began presenting love island in 2015, having fronted a series of the x factor, and winning strictly come dancing in 201a. she stood down from the dating show after she was charged with assaulting her partner lewis burton in december. coming up on bbc world news:

we'll hear from the us scientist leading an effort to ramp up the search for extra—terrestrial life. nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan, the last sovereign troops were finally coming home. completed in good order but the army defeated in the task it was sent to perform. wonders who is next. as the lf got away, lava streams flow down east of the island. it

could start flowing again at any time. the russians heralded their new generation space station with a spectacular night launch. they called it the ration for peace. —— the russian. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines: an 80—year—old chinese man has become the first person to die in europe after contracting the new coronavirus, known as covid—19. he died in hospital in france. troops are deployed in the north of england, as storm dennis hits the uk and northern europe. ben croucher has all the sport. liverpool have moved 25 points clear in the premier league following a 1—0 win at norwich city. jurgen klopp's side now have 76 points after 26 games — that's more than when manchester

united won the league in 1997. sadio mane scored the game's only goal 12 minutes from time. well after the game klopp offered his sympathy to his opposite number at manchester city pep guardiola and his players. on friday, city were handed a two year ban from european football for breaking financial fair play rules by inflating sponsorship deals to cover their expenditure. to be honest, ifeel for pep and to be honest, i feel for pep and the players because they did nothing wrong, they just played players because they did nothing wrong, theyjust played sensational football and he helped each league to improve football but then in the end we all have to respect the rules andi end we all have to respect the rules and i have no idea if they did or not but we will see what happens. so the implications of the ban

for city could be huge. is there any chance that this will be overturned by the court of arbitration for sport? here's the bbc‘s football reporter simon stone. manchester city feel as though they are being victimized in terms of they are being singled out for breaches when other clubs have not been, and they are looking at psg in particular who they had a case brought against them by uefa that was they were ruled to have not not broken any rules. and then uefa looked at that again and said, no, they have broken rules. we need to bring it again. and they missed their own deadline. so cas threw that case out. so psg effectively received no punishment. israel folau made his long awaited sporting comeback on saturday, and made an instant impact as catalan dragons beat castleford in super league.

he scored six minutes into his debut in perpignan. folau's move to the french side has been controversial — as 10 months ago he was sacked by rugby australia for homophobic remarks. i thought he played really well, obviously scored with his first touch settled his nerves. he was nervous before the game. i was probably most impressed with his defence and before the game said he was clearly going to be an attacking threat but his defence was great, for him to play his first game of by for him to play his first game of rugby league and he trained for probably ten days with the team in total and come up with that sort of defence performance, it really gives us encouragement defence performance, it really gives us encouragement going forward. what would you say to those supporters, campaign groups who are still unhappy that he is out on the pitch? nothing, we have said it all in a statement before. we will let him get on the field and as time goes

on, obviously, israel will get his opportunity. former world number one inbee park will take a three shot lead into the final round of the australian open golf in a few hours. the south korean lies on 15 under par after a third round of 68 in adelaide with compatriot ayean cho in second place. park's hoping to win her first title in two years and inch closer to a spot in korean team at the tokyo olympics. matt continues to lead in the united states. rory mcllroy, the world number one, is just two shots behind with six holes still to go in his third round. you're up to date from the bbc sport centre. thank you. scientists are ramping up their efforts in the search for signs of alien life. a us government—funded agency is embarking on a collaboration with seti, a private organisation dedicated to the search for extra terrestrial intelligence.

they will do a big "sweep" of the skies using 28 giant radio telescopes, at the very large array observatory in new mexico. they will be using a range of techniques to detect signatures that indicate the possibility of alien life. for more i'm joined by tony beasley in seattle. he's the director of the us national radio astronomy observatory, which runs the very large array. such a great name that. thanks for joining us, just explain, you're doing this big sweep. what exactly is that you are looking for? so, the radio telescopes at the national science foundation operates here in the us continuing to do their normal radio and astronomy research, looking at different parts of the sky but over the next few years what we will be doing is putting additional hardware on the back of the telescope to listen along and to see if we can detect signatures,

signals coming from other civilisations in the foreground or the background associated with the objects we are routinely observing. so the life you are looking for, it isn't tiny little organisms, it is life that can use technology? it is sophisticated alien life you are looking for? that's right. there are other records in the science community to try and detect the bio signatures of simple life like bacteria and other organisms but specifically hear what we are doing is looking for radio signals and looking for evidence for complex technological advances. how long are you going to do this for? when will you going to do this for? when will you give up? i think we are going to do this for the time being. this is a relatively straightforward thing for us to do. it doesn't interfere with our normal astronomical observing and if you do analysis of how long it might take before you

will detect a signal, you can come to any answer that you want. in the meantime, in doing this type of research, you also develop technologies and it is an interesting topic and it is a way of attracting people to science and thinking about larger problems and so thinking about larger problems and so it is a good activity for us to do alongside our normal astronomical observing. 0k, do alongside our normal astronomical observing. ok, so most importantly, what would you do if you did see a sign? what would you do if you did see a sign? well, there are protocols that have been agreed by the international astronomy community about ways of first verifying an international signal. that would probably be the first thing that people would try and do and then there is discussion of protocols that might be used to announce the signal and talk about what it implies. it is hard to actually say. i think that at the time that a signal would be a month, year, 100

yea rs signal would be a month, year, 100 years in the future and whatever happens, it would be a results are exactly how that is represented in society is unclear. what would you say, you must have talked about it, you are at a conference at the moment with your astronomer call friends, —— astronomical friends, ?|j think there are two separate issues there, one is detecting a signal and sending a signal in response is a complex issue, it is a different topic in some ways. i think in knowing there was complex life out there in space is a fascinating topic but exactly what signal we would send back is unclear. of course, simultaneously here we are continuously sending out radio signals into the universe so it is quite possible someone observing us right now. yes, great stuff. thank you for talking to us. that was tony

life from seattle. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of my team on twitter, i'm @lucyegrey. storm dennis continues to batter britain. we have had some very windy weather today, top gusts of 91 mph recorded in wales but it has been windy everywhere. we have also had lots of heavy rain. rain has started because in for flooding lots of heavy rain. rain has started because in forflooding problems lots of heavy rain. rain has started because in for flooding problems as well. there are in excess of 70 flood warnings currently in force and those continue to rise hour by hour so more flooding is likely. on top of that, we have more heavy rain top of that, we have more heavy rain to come with the met office and but whether winning staying in force until sunday afternoon. this is a strong get dennis, the big problem is this where the front that stretches for a couple of hundred

miles and we will get pulses of heavy rain working on. the other issueis heavy rain working on. the other issue is that winds are blowing parallel to the front and that means it won't move very far very fast and what that means is that overnight tonight, the rain if anything is going to get heavier across wales, south—west england and also the west midlands and these areas have only got some rivers in flood, we are more likely to see things turn very nasty for a time here overnight and on into sunday morning with a significant risk of some disruption here. it does state mulled over night for england and wales. there will be more rain in northern england but if then as the rain is as overnight, there will be water running down the river catchments and further north, a chilly start to the day. for sunday, that rain could be even slower to clear over southern england and east anglia is about that in mind. the winds get very strong through the english channel coast, could be 60 to 70 mph. inland, gusts of 50 to 60 manpower so very blustery conditions

stop further showers going on across the north and west and given the strength of the winds, it is going to feel cold. as we had three sunday evening and sunday night, if anything the winds will get even stronger across northern areas of the uk but particularly so in scotla nd the uk but particularly so in scotland where across northern areas we could get gusts of 70 or even 80 mph so there is the risk of some transport disruption for scotland as we edge on into monday morning for the money will be a day of sunny spells and blustery showers. the winds will take a long time to calm down, temperatures on the face of it falling a few degrees but feeling again quite cold given the strength of the wind across northern areas. that is your weather.

this is bbc world news, the headlines. troops are deployed to west yorkshire as heavy rain and strong winds batter parts of the uk. storm dennis could bring a months worth of rain in some places. the love island presenter, caroline flack, has been found dead at her london flat. the a0—year—old had been due to stand trial next month for assault. a lawyer for her family has confirmed that she took her own life. an 80—year—old man becomes the first to die in yourfrom coronavirus. he died in hospital in france.

and us astronomists are to ramp up their search for extra—terrestrial life, and call for more funds for their research. at ten o'clock, martine croxall will be here with a full round up of the days news. first our world. panzuto was a mafia boss, for years he played a key role in the naples‘ camorra, but now he has turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. this film contains descriptions of violence which some viewers may find upsetting. naples, where police waged a constant battle against organised crime. we are now in the torretta district, one of the poorest areas of naples, as the officers look for sentinels, lookouts. the camorra is the city's mafia, one of the world's most deadly and secretive criminal networks. but now, one of its bosses and killers is breaking