we've new information on the nature of the coronavirus. latest figures from china put the death toll at over 1800 — and infections at over 73,000. the death rate in hubei province, which is the centre of the outbreak, is 2.9%. in other words, close to 3 in 100 infections lead to death. curiously, the death rate is much lower — disha hello, i'm ros atkins, 0.4% — elsewhere in china. this is outside source. but we don't understand why. this we do know that 81% of cases are mild, is outside source. 14% severe and 5% critical. that men are more likely to die than women. china's offering the and that children are generally children of medical staff battling the coronavirus not severely affected. outbreak priority placement in schools. new figures show medical the same isn't true staff are most at risk for the elderly. of dying from the virus. the highest fatality rate is for those aged 80 and over. for more on this new study, here's stephen mcdonell in beijing. this cruise ship off japan has been under quarantine for two weeks — more than a50 people on board have the virus. as more and more passengers are repatriated, the crew is doing its best to keep spirits up. harvey weinstein‘s lawyer has been warned not it is great that 80% of people to talk to the press, after she wrote an article warning jurors not to be swayed by what they read in the press. are only getting this wildly, we'll be in new york as thejury considers its verdict in weinstein‘s but the fact that 5% of people are getting affected severely sex crime trial.

is in raw numbers a lot of people who are in a pretty and michael bloomberg's been serious condition because of a contenderfor the democratic the numbers affected. presidential nomination for months — but hasn't debated the other candidates. that's about to change. we'll look at his policies, and how he's spending his billions. on tuesday, a hospital director in the city of wuhan died. dr tedros, the director general of the world health 0rganistion, tweeted this, central to the chinese response to this deepening crisis is to issue more and more restrictions on what people can do. nick beake in hong kong explains. in hubei province where it all began, they have still got this lockdown. nearly 60 million people being told you can't go out and many of the shops are shut and it is only every third day that someone can go out and get more supplies, so it is a pretty bleak picture. if you look at what is happening in the

capital, people who are arriving there are being told to quarantine themselves for two weeks, so very sweeping measures being employed in lots of different places around mainland china. not everyone is staying put — 25,000 medical workers from across china have travelled to hubei province to help. and there are more hospitals too. this is one facility that's been built — another ten are planned. and the authorites are offering incentives to health workers to come to hubei. here's celia hatton. the children of the front—line medical workers in hubei will be offered priority placements in schools, so young children will be given priority placements in kindergartens, all the way up to university places. children who write their university exams are going to be getting extra points added onto the exam total.

in china, that is a really big deal, as there is a lot of pressure on children to get into good schools. that might actually tip the balance for people considering whether they should go and work in hubei. the virus has now spread to at least 29 countries worldwide. the biggest concentration outside of china is in yokohama in japan — on this cruise ship, the diamond princess. on this cruise ship, there are a50 cases on board — out of what was over 3500 crew and passengers. that number is down after hundreds of americans were flown home. and also because here you have south korea preparing to fly its citizens home on a presidential plane. we know that canada, australia, the uk, israel and hong kong are looking to get their people off the ship. meanwhile thousands remain stuck on board. evidently that's affecting people in different ways. here are some of the kitchen staff making a successful attempt to go viral. a british couple who've been sharing regular updates

from the ship on their facebook page posted this today. "there is going to be a time of quiet. "we have been proved positive and are leaving "for hospital soon. "blessings all!" sally and david abel are among 7a britons on the diamond princess. their son has been speaking to the bbc. i got an e—mailfrom my dad, saying, "your mum and i "have tested positive. "we are going to..." the words were, he is going to a hospital. i facetimed them straightaway. i haven't actually spoken or seen... spoken to or seen my dad, only got through to my mum, but i heard my dad in the background not sounding too great. japan imposed a fourteen day quarantine period on the ship. that's been labelled an unprecedented failure by one expert. either way, it comes to an end on wednesday. here's rupert wingfield—hayes on what that means for the passengers. quarantine will officially end and the 2,000 passengers or more still on board who have tested

negative will be allowed to start leaving the ship. they can walk out of this gate, hail a cab, get on a bus, but what happens then is less clear. the british government says it is sending a plane to pick up the british passengers, but it hasn't yet said when or whether they may face further quarantine when they get back to britain. laura westbrook, south china morning post in hong kong. you've spoken to people on board the diamond princess — what have they been telling you? yes, iam yes, i am in touch with a couple of passengers on the cruise ship. they are under a lot of mental stress at the moment. the person i spoke to isa moment. the person i spoke to is a doctor, and a dentist by training, and one of the issues he raised with me was wildly passengers are being quarantined on the ship, the crew members were still moving around the ship and until

recently, he says that people had been provided food on open trolleys and only the hot meals we re trolleys and only the hot meals were being covered with aluminium foil, but there was still a tea and coffee service, so he was concerned that if food was uncovered, that this could have an impact on the spread of the outbreak. so he and his wife decided not to eat any of the containers, they are so diving on pot noodles and bottled water. actually, the captain of the ship just yesterday that they are going to be getting food from outside the ship from an organisation outside the ship, so there is a lot of uncertainty on their ship, there is a lot of concern amongst passengers. it is obviously the biggest cluster of the coronavirus outside mainland china, but the doctor

who i spoke to is going to be among some of the hong kong people getting on these chartered flights that are leaving japan early on thursday, but then when they come to hong kong they will be quarantined for another 14 days over here. so that is how the authorities are approaching the particular cruise ship. what about the broader challenge at the coronavirus in hong kong? what are the restrictions in place at the moment? a lot of people are working from home. schools are shut. the government announced a 25 billion hong kong dollarfund to help tackle this crisis, which is going towards... it is going towards producing and subsidising businesses to produce more masks because that was one of the criticisms of the government in its reaction to this crisis that they were too slow and the government itself admits that it only has

enough funds —— masks for itself. unlike singapore and taiwan, people are having to buy their own masks. in the neighbourhood i live in, i see queuesin neighbourhood i live in, i see queues in pharmacies every day of people trying to buy masks, which used to cost a few dollars and now cost hundreds of dollars. people are spending their money to buy those masks and hand sanitiser as well. thank you very much. lower there from the washington post and there is much more information on the news website. on wednesday, mike bloomberg will take part in his first democratic debate. it'll be his first face to face showdown with the other candidates. he qualifies for the debate in nevada, because he's reached 10% in four national polls recognised by the democratic party. in fact he's up on that. he's currently polling second on i9% — ahead of former

vice presidentjoe biden. and a way behind frontruner, bernie sanders, on 3i%. bearing in mind, he skipped the first two votes in iowa and new hampshire — he's not doing too badly. being very rich is helping. this graph from quartz shows how he entered the race with a bang — he spent over 120 million dollars in the first two months. you can see here, donald trump's 2016 campaign, did its spending much later in the campaign. and mike bloomberg has kept going. he's now passed $400 million — more than all the other candidates put together. and much of it spent on adverts like this. go home to mummy! bye! what, are you going to cry? she is also guilty of stupidity. god, karen, you are so stupid! get them the hell out of here, will you? why don't you will make like

a tree and get out of here? if you're wondering where this money is coming from, well mike bloomberg is worth over $62 billion making him the ninth richest person in the world. and his spending makes him a target for his rivals. here's bernie sanders. we are a democracy, not an oligarchy. you're not going to buy this election. when they take a look at his record where he is one of the richest people of america and said, oh, we are going to cut social security and medicare, but we shouldn't be taxing the rich. if people take a look at bloomberg's record, he is not going to win this election. mike bloomberg isn't new to politics. he was the republican mayor of new york for more than ten years. in that time, he supported a new york police policy called stop and frisk. it disproportionately targeted black and latino men.

as this article says, he apologised for his support of it last year. then there's this recording of a speech a he gave in 2015. last week mr bloomberg said stop and frisk was a policy he inherited and he cut it back by 95% by the time he left office, but he should have done that faster and sooner. but that audio clip is from three years after he left office as mayor. here's one of his rivals, elizabeth warren,

here's the view of journalist michael tracey, that because something that michael bloomberg would push back on. let's start with this thing that he represented the republicans are now is trying to represent the democrats. for people new to mike bloomberg, how does he explain that one? he explains that the republican party moved away from him, while he may have been in the realm of the republican party in new york at the time that he

was mayor of that city, he felt like the party itself, particularly on a national level, became much more conservative and so he was out of place in it. first he became independent and then he more recently registered as a democrat. he is very mainstream or even possibly left of mainstream views, on things like climate change, on gun control, risk of smoking and other things like that, so i think he feels like he came more of a fit for the democrats as time went on. what kind of a speech are you expecting tomorrow when he finally takes tomorrow when he finally takes to the stage with his rivals?|j think to the stage with his rivals?” think we will definitely hear about stop and frisk. joe biden has said he will bring that up and former progressives, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren in particular, i'm sure they're going to go after him as a kind of out of touch billionaire trying to buy his way into a presidential election. they had already labelled him as an

oligarch, an egotistical oligarch. in elizabeth warren's words, that is. they will attempt to reframe him as a republican in sheep's clothing who is too far to the right. i think his debut is eating into their support too much among their support too much among the centrists in the race. so you might be hearing something about the allegations of sexual abuse that have been going around in the media as well. couple of other things to mention. his campaign is taking various forms. they have been paying popular instagram accounts to post memes, making jokes about mike bloomberg asking them to make him look cool. but his social media can also be very aggressive,

last week he tweeted president trump and on the money, this time article details his pledge to spend another $300 million — and that he's willing to spend $1 billion to defeat donald trump — whether he is the democratic candidate or not. we're also told his campaign now employs 2,000 people. and many of them will be focused on 3rd march — super tuesday — when 1a states vote for their democratic nominee, and for the first time mike bloomberg will be on the ballot. let's talk about joe let's talk aboutjoe biden because for bloomberg to do well, joe biden has to not do well. i have numbers showing any signs of getting back on track? joe biden's numbers haven't created entirely, and i know there was concern after his performance in iowa that

the bottom would drop out, but it hasn't happened. across the south, there are some states where joe south, there are some states wherejoe biden, south, there are some states where joe biden, if south, there are some states wherejoe biden, if not holding onto a lead, is still in second place. 0bviously onto a lead, is still in second place. obviously the trend is not good for him and he is running low on money. i think he's going to take a decent performance in nevada this weekend and a win in south carolina, hopefully giving him a bounce to go in to tuesday and pull off some wins there. thank you very much. remember, anytime there is a big list political development the us, we'd be news website. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. a boy scout story.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is: china's published the biggest study since the coronavirus outbreak began — revealing the particularly high risk to medical staff, but that more than 80% of cases are mild. jordan has condemned the plans to build a male line beneath jerusalem's old city. the extension to the tel aviv client would include a title to the western wall in jerusalem and that would be close to the holy site for the city. the bbc arabic. there packers and hell stay out working holiday geezers now be able to stay longer if they help out on farms that were affected by the bushfires. if you say, these and hell stay out working holiday geezers now be able to stay longer if they help out on farms that were affected by the bushfires. if you say, the and let people work in the same place for human food agency

saysin same place for human food agency says in a swarm of locusts has arrived in south sudan, plus the word food crisis across africa if the patient was not brought under control. now i did nothing story towers. as time passed those being parted are a convicted security fraud in the 90s and this news has been criticised by some. campaign manager says it's very hard to think. who else has been pardoned? you have got the former mayor from illinois, the head of the police here, but during this altogether, what you have is a

series of white collar criminals. the faces, if you like, of corporate greed and wrongdoing, you are amongst those who have been pardoned or received communications of their sentences by the president. that is leading to some raised eyebrows. you mentioned michael milken. he really was very well known as a formerjunk bond really was very well known as a former junk bond king really was very well known as a formerjunk bond king here on wall street. he was the face of the insider trading scandals backin the insider trading scandals back in the 1980s and was originally sentenced for ten yea rs originally sentenced for ten years in prison for crimes working at an investment bank and was basically banned from the securities industry. since then, he has really sought to try to burnish his reputation. and as you saw, donald trump today when he announced was being pardoned, he praised his work for cancer treatment and again, this will certainly please michael milken, who has sought to try and repair his reputation. i guess we should try to point out that all of

these clemency is... theyjust make different selections as to who gets them. if you look back to bill clinton, mark rich was one individual who often gets pointed to when there is a raised question. you mentioned matthew miller and the point he was trying to make was this collection of white—collar criminals, a series of then you can add to if you look at some of the other received pardoned from donald trump in the past. there are always... these things are subject to scrutiny and accusations of rewarding friends of the president. also, several of them are helping fund to trump a's several of them are helping fund to trump as election campaign and also has ties with the head of the us treasury.” know you have an update on what

apple has been saying a bat coronavirus as well. yes, they obviously had to shut down production during the coronavirus, but have now had to reopen production. they have not been able to scale up and was forced to put out numbers and say how this was going to affect revenue for the 30 months of this year. what happened was investors were pretty surprised that a company as savvy as apple was forced to reduce it to projections by as much as it has. look back to the trade dispute between the us and china and how successful apple was at negotiating for that process, and here they are saying that essentially the coronavirus has proved too difficult for them and they expect to see reduced supplies of iphones in the months ahead. and obviously the demand for

china, a huge market for them, as taking a big hit. and in a lot of companies, there isn't a plan b as there is no other country that can generate the supplies they require. and during the trade dispute, one at the things we saw was a rethinking of the assessment of thinking where you could get supplies. china is the white house at the world and there has been a shift towards week diversifying their supply chain. that means countries like cambodia or mexico. but the problem you have is that it ta kes a the problem you have is that it takes a long time and to train up takes a long time and to train up workers and the plants, and in the meantime the coronavirus is exposing those fault lines in the supply chain. thank you very much.

apple said its sales would be hit by the coronovirus outbreak — fanning concerns the virus will damage the weather is about to turn quite u nsettled the weather is about to turn quite unsettled here in the uk but also across other parts of western and northern europe. passing the atla ntic northern europe. passing the atlantic here developing more weather systems more powerful weather systems more powerful weather systems more powerful weather system stranded my big jet stream. a temperature contrast between northern climes and he said and clients. we had that strong judging every kink in wobble generates a new area of low pressure. that is what we're going to be sitting next few days. to the

south of these weather systems is a big area of high pressure. largely weather across the portugal spain and much of the mediterranean. this is what defines what it is. midweek received a first big weather system moving across the uk bringing outbreaks of rain and stronger plans. that weather systems will be spending a little bit deeper into europe as well. to the south, we have high pressure, find where they spent all the way to rome. buying the odd shower. this way the system onceit the odd shower. this way the system once it moves across the isles and the north sea and it will actually scan it maybe at western parts of the norway expecting an awful amount of snow falls towards the second half of the week. once i'm back in excess of one metre of snow. this season, scandinavia hasn't seen an awful lot of snow at all. this is what it looks like twice the end of the week i mentioned decent wallows in depth and jet stream. different

weather conditions. powerfuljet strea m weather conditions. powerfuljet stream means a stronger and so it's here whereas the other side have a depth at which means colder weather heading towards eastern europe. in the eastern mediterranean. most major towns and cities across western europe on the night on the mild side certainly landed in paris. the mediterranean, still under the influence of that high pressure so that means they will decide whether they are for lisbon, and run. that ta ke they are for lisbon, and run. that take a look at the other side of that centre time it may have been talking a lot about cheyenne and a heat waves and fires they had been experiencing. i napped a pair of what is happening. yes there are heat wave conditions across more northern parts of australia, and not as extreme as we have been seeing in the last months, but also some storms here we could see potential tropical cyclones in the next few days or so. it are the temperatures are some major cities. they

exchanged at all, 29 to be very modest 21 expected to dry. thank you uk the summary is that we are expecting wind and rain over the second half of the week and the weather update join us on the wetted channel and another half an hour.

hello, i'm ros atkins, welcome to outside source. china's offering the children of medical staff battling the coronavirus outbreak priority placement in schools. new figures show medical staff are most at risk of dying from the virus. this cruise ship offjapan has been under quarantine for two weeks. more than a50 people on board have the virus, but the crew is doing its best to keep spirits up. the crew will have to start a new quarantine when the last passenger

leaves the ship. harvey weinstein's lawyer has been warned not to talk to the press after she wrote an article warning jurors not to be swayed by what they read in the press. we'll be in new york as the jury considers its verdict in weinstein's sex crime trial. there are still severe flood warnings in some parts of england and wales. we'll look at the damage and the question of whether the prime minister should visit the affected areas. and michael bloomberg's been a contender for the democratic presidential nomination for months, but hasn't debated the other candidates. that's about to change on wednesday. we'll look at his policies and his spending. africa recorded its first case of coronavirus on friday, and it's in egypt. the patient is reportedly not egyptian and is now in isolation in hospital.

china is one of africa's main trading partners so there is constant movement of people and goods between the two. we know that several african countries have introduced extra screening on flights arriving from china, and that countries including kenya, ethiopia, ivory coast, ghana and botswana have placed some people in quarantine, but so far, all tests have been negative. there is though particular concern that if the virus were to take hold in africa, it could be extremely difficult to contain. here's the director general of the world health organisation on this issue last week. if this virus makes it, it will create havoc. —— make it to a week without assistance. we know from the ebola outbreak in west africa in 2014 that that the risks of epidemics are considerable. here's another expert on why the coroniavirus is a particular concern to africa. we know that africa is a continent which experiences a very high impact from seasonal influenza and therefore, it is likely that the african continent will experience

a high impact should there be a global outbreak. currently only a handful of african countries are able to test for the the virus. they include kenya, senegal and south africa. for more on the preparations being made across the continent, here's pumza fihlani in johannesburg. not just southern africa but across the continent, they're applying what the who has recommended, which is one, making sure that paramedics that need to be trained are upscaled and also making sure that people how to take the basic precautions including washing hands and using medical kits. but separate to that, they've also identified a few centres across the continent, but also here in south africa, and that would be looking at cases that have been confirmed. it's important at this stage that the treatment plan is that people who are suspected to be carrying the disease should be isolated until the diagnosis has been confirmed, that they are very much treated as people who could possibly pass

on the virus. in new york, thejury in the harvey weinstein sex crimes trial has started to consider its verdict. if found guilty, mr weinstein could face life in prison. he faced five counts relating to allegations by two women, and a unanimous decision is needed for a guilty verdict on each of the five charges. former production assistant mimi haleyi alleges weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006. former actressjessica mann says he raped her in 2013. harvey weinstein pleaded not guilty to all the charges. the bbc‘s nada tawfik has been covering the story from new york. she explained harvey weinstein's defence. mr weinstein's lawyers have really hit at not only the credibility of the women trying to poke holes in their story, but also the coming you know, hold public interest in this case, and its connection to the me to movement. so, when it comes to the women, they have produced

e—mails that they say shows that the relationships were consensual, showing that the women wanted to stay in touch with harvey weinstein. and from their perspective, they are hoping that convinces the jury that these were loving relationships, or at the very least that these women thought they could use harvey weinstein to get ahead in their careers. now, donna, the lawyer during cross—examination was very tough on the women. just a command for the one who has accused him of rape actually started sobbing and broke down on the stand because of how tough that was, having to read a letter she had written to weinstein. speaking to them in glowing terms, but from her perspective, she said that it had been a degrading relationship, that he held the power in. so that's certainly what prosecutors tried to refocus jurors toward during this whole back and forth cross—examination with these women. we didn'tjust hear from the two women making the allegations, we heard from other women as well, talking about their experiences with mr weinstein.

how do those testimonies fit into the jury's calculations? yeah, you know, it's really interesting, because i covered the bill cosby retrial. remember, the first time ended in a mistrial, but for the second time around, prosecutors were allowed to bring in other women who could establish a pattern of behaviour to show that bill cosby had done this to other women as well. there is a little bit of power in numbers, you would think. so that's what the prosecution has done here as well. they have four additional women who have very strikingly similar accounts of how harvey weinstein as well tried to dangle job opportunities with them, allegedly attacked them in, and then tried to force their silence by threatening their careers. so it's really for the prosecution, just again, the power of numbers showing that this is a pattern of behaviour. now, whether the jury believes that is the big question. tasneem nashrulla is a buzzfeed news reporter.

here's the article in newsweek from saturday. in it donna rotunno says "judges instructjurors to avoid all media coverage and outside influences in making their decision." "but in a high—profile case like harvey weinstein's, does anyone think that's realistically possible?" donna rotunno told thejudge her article was about the jury system as a whole, and not intended to address thejury. the judge told her not to talk to the press until the jury reaches its verdict and said "i would caution you about the tentacles of your public relations juggernaut". that's not the only thing he said. let's hear again from nada tawfik again. well, thejudge in this casejust decided to essentially give donna rotunno a warning, but we've seen this come up again and again during the trial. i mean, even at the start of the trial, prosecutors were worried about donna rotunno putting down the women and the press, essentially trying to say that harvey weinstein, yeah, he might not have a great

reputation, but the #metoo movement had made him a target and his conduct was never criminal. so you have a really back and forth between prosecutors and the defence fighting this case out in the public as well. from donna rotunno's perspective, she saying that harvey weinstein has been accused of being a serial predator. it's a formal charge in this case, but still she took issue with him being called that in the press and so for her, she sees it as a strategy of trying to get media attention on mr weinstein's side as well. i think what's so interesting is that he has had such a big downfall from grace that it's a very, very hard narrative for donna rotunno to put forward, but it is one she's trying to hit back against to give her client an edge in this case. hsbc is the biggest bank in europe, and it's announced plans to cut around 35,000 jobs after a drop in profits in 2019. let's be clear, it still made 13.3 billion dollars,

but that's down 33% on 2018 and much worse than analysts had predicted. part of the problem was a weaker than expected performance in europe. the company had to write—off more than 7 billion dollars in its european investment and commercial banking business. here's one analyst reacting to the cuts. we got to remember this is a ruthless industry where they're constantly looking to make more and more money. as you said, we're talking the billions of dollars per quarter, so this is something where they're constantly having to evolve. they're looking at their market and saying, "where is our strong point?" well, half of our profit comes from asia. europe's a slowing economy, we're not seeing the kind of growth that we were expecting to be generated over the last couple of years. the us, massive investment banking. in this competition that we can't really compete with. deutsche bank

follow suit as well. this is the latest ba n k follow suit as well. this is the latest bank to accept it can't compete on those levels. it's time to go back to our core markets where we make most of our revenues and become massive players in this region. now the bank employs 235,000 people worldwide. its chief executive says that number will fall to 200,000 over three years. and hsbc isn't the only bank laying off staff in europe. this graph from the financial times shows that others like deutsche bank have also made cuts. in hsbc‘s case though, asian markets account for 90% of its profits, so the cuts will focus on europe and the us. here's the bbc‘s global trade correspondent dharshini david. the market was looking for about $20 billion in profits and got 30 points three, what's gone so badly wrong?

it actually survived the financial crisis, but that is affected by things like major money ordering prices and now we've seen a problem coming out of essentially, it's down to the european investment and commercial banking and what they use, they're talking about goodwill. what does that actually mean in plain english? means they're too optimistic about the path of the global economy. they had to adjust those expectations and therefore, they're not doing so well. all of this underlines why it is they are 's shifting focus and going through massive restructuring because what they're saying is that they need to go back to it through school. —— back to its roots. most of our profits come from asia and we need to focus more on that. back to the

us. the boy scouts of america has filed for bankruptcy. it's facing hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits involving thousands of alleged abuse victims. it was founded in 1910. and last year it was revealed that almost 8,000 boy scout leaders had been accused of sexual abuse since 19114. this new york times article describes how a researcher hired by the boy scouts spent five years reviewing data known as the "perversion files". they were held at the boy scout's texas headquarters and contained information on volunteers whose involvement in the group had been ended because of "reasonable allegations of child sexual abuse." the files also revealed there'd been more than 12,000 victims in that time. and the boy scouts‘ troubles go even further back. in this article in the new york times from 1935, the organisation described having files on hundreds of people who'd been leaders in the scouts but had been labeled "degenerates. " the court papers for bankruptcy

protection were filed in delaware. all civil lawsuits against the boy scouts have now been put on hold. trusha patel goffe is an attorney with anderson advocates that represents some of the victims. the boy scouts have said that their file —— filing for bankruptcy is really the way to handle the number of claims against it but what it does for survivors, and have asked the boy scouts time and time again to divulge the information that they had for decades on the problem of abuse, that will remain secret through the bankruptcy process. they are survivors who feel re—victimized by the news of the bankruptcy. help me understand given that the alley

allegations are of many thousands of crimes, can the authorities not insist that the boy scouts divulge further information? shown that responsibility life with the authorities rather than the boy scouts or victims? the boy scouts do have a responsibility to kids, to the families who have chosen to participate in the programmes and as it stands, they possess a national database of this information and have for decades. so the obligation is really on the entity, the boy scouts, to make that information known. in a few minutes we will look at the case of wikileaks founder julian assange. he's still in prison, fighting extradition to the us. supporters says he's no longer being held in solitary confinement and his health is improving. another winter of flooding has raised questions about britain's defences. under current plans a third of the five billion pounds budgeted for flood defences over the next six years is to be spent

in london and the southeast. 0ur science editor david shukman has this report. the river tearing along at record height in wales. the torrent so large, it's even overwhelmed the water treatment works. in derbyshire, the river trent has burst its banks flooding one village after another. a pub landlord shows me his cellar where the food and drink are now ruined. the beer barrels are floating. it wasjust coming up from about eight o'clock in the morning into the day, and by nine o'clock it was in the water. yet again, the country faces the difficult challenge of how to stay safe from flooding, how much public money to invest and crucially, where to spend it. warnings from climate

scientists said storms are set to become more intense. the government is providing to point this building pounds over a six—year period. for every pound spent, this treasury expects a benefit of at least £8. a system favours cities. flooding across the uk is estimated to cost £1.1 billion every year. one idea is to try to hold water back in the upland rather than resorting to hard concrete, using nature instead. all options are going to be needed as the climate changes. back beside the river trent, the waters are receding a bit, but more rain is on the way. with it, more pressure on the government to offer more help. david shipman, bbc news, derbyshire. —— shukman.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is: china's published the biggest study since of the coronavirus the outbreak began — revealing the particularly high risk to medical staff, but that more than 80% of cases are mild. julian assange's spokesman says he's no longer being held in solitary confinement and his health is improving. the wikilieaks founder has been detained in a london prison for almost a year now. you'll remember these images from when mr assange was arrested last april at the ecuadorian embassy. he'd taken refuge there in 2012 to avoid extradition to sweden over a sexual assault case. that has since expired. he's now fighting an extradition request to the us where he's facing 18 charges of attempted hacking and breaches of the espionage act. the hearing is next week. on monday a group of doctors representing 117 physicians and psychologists from 18 nations

published this letter in the medicaljournal the lancet. it calls for an end to what they describe as the psychological torture and medical neglect ofjulian assange. mr assange's father is concerned too — here he is speaking to the bbc. to see the anxietyjulian has been under, it has had a profoundly debilitating effect. i can't speculate on to his state of mind, but i imagine that he would be very worried because being sent to the united states is a death sentence. the bbc‘s charlotte rose has the latest from outside belmarsh prison. we been getting a couple messages from the mp. what they are saying is

that mr assange's health is still not good. although he is improving, he is still locked up for 20 hours a day in his cell. they say that his physical health is being affected by the fact that he's had a long stay in prison and prior to that, in the ecuadorian embassy and his mental health is not good either because of that incarceration. he sometimes is disorientated and can't work out exactly what you want to say. they wouldn't comment on whether or not he was medically fit to stand trial, but a clear what message they want to give is that he's not a well man and he is being affected by his and incarceration. they wanted to tell people that there is an unequal news in the moment between the uk and the us when it comes to extradition. they try to dry up parallel of anne sacoolas who killed harry dunn. they say when the uk asked to the us to send her back to uk so she stand

trial and face justice here, the us refused. now the us is asking the uk to send julian assange over there to stand trial in america. they say that hugely unbalanced and hugely unequal, and it's something that borisjohnson should be bringing up with donald trump. more than 150 flood warnings remain in place across the uk. major incidents have been declared in south wales, herefordshire, worcestershire and shropshire, and homes along the severn river have been evacuated. let's take a look at some of the worst hit areas. drone shots of farm land covered in water in ross—on—wye. this is close to upton—upon—severn, flooding around severn river. the wye bridge is closed in monmouth in wales, emergency services rescuing people from care home in whitchurch in herefordshire

this shows emergency services rescuing people from an emergency home. there is there are six severe flood warnings in place in england — that means there is a danger to life. those warnings are all around the towns of hampton bishop, upton upon severn, ironbridge and uckinghall. emergency services have been working to rescue people from their homes. in monmouth, mountain rescue team members helped this man who was trapped in his house. and in gloucestershire, one woman had a narrow escape. we had a car that had, a lady had driven across a laying and didn't realise it was. she got stuck and she was there from eight o'clock yesterday morning so we got there today, had been there from 2a hours. the car was to merge completelyjust

above the roof, —— below the roof. we had to get the boat out, we can only do much. it's the second big storm to hit the uk in as many weeks — this is one mp. what we call one and a hundred year floods when they happen 14 years ago now happened three times in any one years. we've got these incredibly high levels of the severn here which are akin to what we saw in 2007, but elsewhere we see all—time record highs and we have a plan for that. anger is growing over the goverment‘s response to the floods. this is the front page of the daily mirror this morning — with the headlines "we're unprepared" and "pm must ‘wake up' to climate crisis". this is a headline from the yorkshire post — "borisjohnson missing in action." and this was a cartoon from the times newspaper monday, showing borisjohnson wanting to build a bridge in response to the flooding — a reference to his idea to build a bridge to northern ireland. on twitter the hashtag

#wheresboris has been trending. but not everyone agrees. here's the environment minister rebecca pow. it's absolutely tragic for those people who have been flooded and that's about between 500 and a thousand homes and my heart goes out to those people, but if it wasn't for the money that this government and successive governments have invested in the last 20 years, on a flood of the scale, one would have expected between 7000 and homes to

be flooded. so the work that's been going on with the money going up and every sending round —— spinning round is definitely protecting increasing number of za properties and that's what we should be doing. now while the water levels may have receded today, the worst is not yet necessarily over. here'sjon kay in tewkesbury. people here have been receiving those alerts on their mobile phones. water levels have risen and we see in the authorities here closing roads in and out of this town. the authorities try to keep ahead of things, try to plan, try to keep people safe. meanwhile in their homes, people are just hoping that it's not as bad as those notorious floods here back in 2007. and here's phil mackie in worcester. i'm on top of one of the flood barriers it's holding back one of the rivers. it's dropped but it's gonna come back up tomorrow and if you look across, these are the properties it's protecting. as you can see, water is seeping through and coming up, getting towards those

properties which have been safe. it's not been good news for everybody. there are people who have been flooded, especially around here over the past few days. i'll see you tomorrow at the usual time. bye—bye. hello there. even though we've seen some more salary weather, there are still some rivers that have been reacting to the rain from the weekend from storm dennis. that's left some record river levels that we've seen. this was the scene in worcester. the showers that we have seen afterfading worcester. the showers that we have seen after fading away overnight, they will be replaced by the next weather system coming in from the atla ntic weather system coming in from the atlantic and it will being more wind

and rain. sunshine forthe atlantic and it will being more wind and rain. sunshine for the eastern side of the uk, will see some patchy lighter rain here but we will get rain arriving in the west. that's gotta be heavy harassed over the hills and those temperatures will be around 9—10d. we could get some heavy rain over the hills of wales and the northwest of england overnight and into thursday. the next weather front actually is quite active. it will bring some heavy burst of rain because of milder air ahead of it, cooler air behind it. that band of rain which will be heavy will sleep its way very quickly southeastern. it will brighten up, and change the direction to see some sunshine but also some showers. those showers will turn wintry over the hills. it will turn wintry over the hills. it will feel colder because the winds will feel colder because the winds will strengthen and we very well may have some gales and those temperatures will be back down to 5-6d temperatures will be back down to 5—6din temperatures will be back down to 5—6d in the afternoon for scotland and northern ireland. remains windy during thursday night and then the

win strengthens again on friday. there's another weather system coming in from the atlantic. this one is moving very quickly. may be severe gales towards of the western hills and that rain probably wettest across north wales. further south, largely drier. pretty mild as well. those temperatures 11—12d. that band of rain sweets its way south, it's during friday night. the weather front weakening in the rain becoming lighter, so not too much rain for south wales and then we still got some really strong winds to come for the first half of the weekend. this time we're getting into cooler heirs, back into the showers, again wintry over the high ground. if anything, the temperature is dropping throughout the day. 6—8d further north. that shower he airstream is going to be replaced by

another area of rain and low pressure. uncertainty about the exact position, but it looks like it will be more than half of the uk that sees most of the rain in the morning. some snow over the mountains of scotland, rain moving southwards in the afternoon, probably turning lighter but it will be pretty windy i had of that rain. gales quite likely. colder towards the north. we've got the jet stream sitting close to the uk for the weekend and it's bringing milder air across southern areas, colder air to the north. the position is going to change and probably sweep colder air down across more areas next week. we still essentially have a strong jet strea m still essentially have a strong jet stream across the uk and for the most part, we end up with low pressure driven toward the north with higher pressure towards the southwest. some uncertainty again about the position of low pressure, but the theme is still unsettled, and it will be pretty windy at times as well.

tonight at ten p m, storm dennis forces mass evacuations as part of the uk are devastated by flooding. there are several warning still in place, some classed as severe, meaning a danger to life. the level of water we are talking about is actually quite humbling and phenomenal. 160 acres and four foot of water, its millions and millions of water, its millions and millions of tonnes. tonight, with record amounts of water thundering down the river severn, more communities are at risk of.

so what is the state of the flood defences and is enough money going to the right places? also tonight, passengers quarantined ona also tonight, passengers quarantined on a cruise ship over the coronavirus will be allowed to leave. a british couple infected