and if healthcare workers feel they're not being adequately protected... we are worried things could break down and collapsed very quickly, and we've been writing and speaking about this for the last couple of days and then, of course, right on cue, within 2a hours welcome to bbc news. of this, we've had two i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: healthcare workers in california now infected in the us election according to reports. campaign, mayor pete this is going to be an area buttigieg pulls out. it could be a boost of extreme vulnerability here in the united states and i would imagine globally, forjoe biden's campaign. you can imagine in the middle east or africa, where healthcare workers don't have adequate personal protective equipment, there are concerns the new what we call ppe, i think this coronavirus could have been circulating in the us is going to become a major for weekss. up to 1,500 people issue going forward. you've personally been working on a vaccine, may be infected. towards a vaccine, what are your views on the vaccine? turkey sends refugees do you think we are 18 to europe to try to force months away from one, backing for its or is it more complicated than that? i think it's really campaign in syria. hard to predict. there's a lot of new, we'll hearfrom asia bibi, exciting technologies out the pakistani christian woman who spent years on death row. there for advancing vaccines — rna vaccines, dna vaccines, she reveals how her faith helped her through the ordeal. we're using a more conventional recombanent protein approach and a number of these strategies are being supported

by a new international global pete buttigieg has dropped fund vaccines partly out of the race to be headquartered in london called cepi, coalition for epidemic the democratic candidate preparedness innovations, to take on president trump for the us presidency. that's the exciting part, the 38—year—old former mayor enjoyed a successful but the bad news is we start to his campaign, still have to do a lot but it lost momentum of safety testing. in recent weeks. he narrowly won the iowa typically this can require a year or two at least caucuses early last month to show and came in a strong second that the vaccine is both place in the new hampshire safe and effective. primary, but faltered badly in we also know with coronavirus saturday's south carolina vote. vaccines and other respiratory he made the announcement vaccines, there's this paradoxical what we call immune a short time ago at a rally enhancement where the vaccine in his hometown of can actually make things worse. south bend, indiana. this was a phenomenon discovered with a respiratory today is a moment of truth. virus vaccine in the ‘60s, and we saw in laboratory animals with experimental vaccines after the original sars came out in 2003. after a year of going that's a long way of saying everywhere, meeting everyone, this is not going to go fast. defying every expectation, that safety testing can't be seeking every vote, the truth is the path has narrowed compromised, it's very hard to a close, for our candidacy to compress timelines, if not our cause. so we're seeing a lot of biotechs and mid—sized biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies promising we'll and another of those have a vaccine in weeks. values is responsibility, and we have a responsibility to consider the effect you can forget it — of remaining in this

race any further. because of the immune our goal has always been enhancement phenomenon, we're looking at at least to help unify americans, a year away before we have a vaccine, and i'm to defeat donald trump and to guessing probably longer. win the era for our values. let me know honestly, how worried are you about applause the new coronavirus? robert kraymer is a democratic strategist. hejoins me now from chicago. robert, thanks for joining robert, thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. are you it's clearly worrisome. we saw the devastation this virus caused in wuhan, surprised by this move?” particularly amongst selected age groups, individuals over the age of 60 here on bbc news. are you surprised by this move? i think there's some inevitability to it. he ran a remarkable are especially vulnerable, campaign and, as he said, he did make the improbable pretty high fatality rates, possible, but the path to his those with underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, and obviously victory seemed to narrow. i do our healthcare workforce. think that there is some we're seeing case fatality rates of 2% overall. question as to the exact impact many were saying that's of this withdrawal. there was a probably not the case, there's probably a lot morning console poll a couple of people with low—grade of days ago that second choices infectionis that we're missing, but then the world health 0rganization gave us a very to buttigieg, his own chilling statement last week supporters' second choices, 61%

we re supporters' second choices, 61% were for biden and 21% for saying we think the 2% fatality rate is real. sanders, i9% for biden, i9% for the reason that significant is it is so highly contagious. on average a single individual elizabeth warren and another will infect three or four 17% elizabeth warren and another people, so it's two or three i7% for bloomberg. there's not times more containjust a definitive break to biden in than seasonal flu and as many as ten times more serious that respect, but the one thing in terms of fatalities that respect, but the one thing that would be helpful to biden than seasonal flu, so we'll have our hands full. is by narrowing the field, this increases the odds a number of this is quite a serious these candidates may reach the pathogen, and that's why 1596 these candidates may reach the 15% of viability level in some the world health organization of the upcoming primaries and, asa of the upcoming primaries and, as a consequence, peel off some delegates intentionally away from bernie. why do you think and the director—general, this happened before super tuesday? i think there was probably a good of discussion with some of the other candidates with respect to doctor tedros, appropriately declared an emergency exactly that question. if he of international concern a few weeks ago, especially worried doesn't think he can make it, about the countries that don't have the capacity to manage complex epidemics or narrow the number of people in public health crises. in many respects the public the field so the 15% viability health emergency was not declared so much for the uk threshold can be reached and or the usa, although we're certainly concerned, sanders doesn't run away with but you can imagine as this virus goes into sub—saharan it. i don't know that will be africa, we've got 1—3 million chinese living there now, the actual outcome, but i the belt and road initiative in the middle east, suspect that was the principal

rationale for the move before you get the idea. super tuesday. how do you think buttigieg's let's get some of the day's other news: iraq's prime minister—designate, mohammed allawi, has supporters, those really keen withdrawn his nomination, hours after parliament supporters, those really keen supporters, feel right now again failed to approve about the fact he's pulled out? his proposed cabinet. in a damning tweet, mr allawi accused iraqi politicalforces, because he came from virtually without naming them, nothing, didn't he, do of not being serious about reform and something quite impressive. yes, he did. and in any campaign when the candidate protesters' demands. you've invested your heart and soul in withdrawals, that's a several thousand people have disappointing development and rallied in central prague against the czech republic's i'm surea billionaire prime minister and the way his government disappointing development and i'm sure a number of them will treats public institutions. be disappointed. the effect of prime minister andrej babis is facing police charges over an eu subsidy fraud. his withdrawal on the immediate the eu has also launched super tuesday election is mitigated by the fact huge a probe into his dual role as a politician distributing eu numbers of people will vote in subsidies and entrepreneur their election on tuesday will receiving them. all already have voted in early voting, particularly in california. i might add in massachusetts, for instance, he was sharing a lot of the vote the greek government has announced it's suspending the processing of asylum with elizabeth warren and that applications and will might help boost elizabeth immediately return anyone who enters the country illegally. there. the exact final impact it comes after days of clashes we're not going to see luckily, at its land border with turkey. several thousand migrants pretty quickly, until three are demanding to be allowed to cross, after turkey days from now. i know it's announced it would no longer

early days but who is your stop migrants who wanted to go to the european union. money on, robert? the odds are 0rla guerin reports from pazarkule on the border between turkey and greece. best still... i think bernie sanders is the likely nominee. i'm a big fan personally of at first light, they joined elizabeth warren if you are the migrant trail from turkey. heading for the river meric, able to continue to hang on and all that separates them from build her support. biden has a head of steam coming out of europe. south carolina, but he's going to have to do a lot to broaden his base to include this small group manages to cross, reaches the shores particularly hispanic voters. of greece, which fears the big problem in the general election we have is not so much a new flood of refugees. swing voters who might otherwise vote for trump, it's at border crossings mostly assuring the people who with turkey, it's been voted for obama on the one hand pushing them back. greece doesn't want a repeat of 2015. and then didn't vote or voted caught up in the chaos this afternoon, reza, for third—party, those people an iranian we met who have got to be back with us in the fall, and that's what biden hopes to meet london. has to show that he can do. they're pushing us bernie i think can do that. by water, teargas. .. coughs robert kraymer, good to talk to you, thank you very much for it's not fair. your analysis stop eager to to

be with you. ——. good to be and the young have been in the firing line, like 1—year—old yeshar, whose with you. family is from afghanistan. scientists in the united states say "the greeks a shot at us the covid—i9 virus may have been spreading undetected and threw tear gas at him," in washington state says his father, ziman, for the last six weeks, "he could have died." infecting up to 1,500 people. but for turkey, which has been over the weekend, a man in his fifties from the northwestern sheltering almost 4 million state became the first confirmed fatality from the virus in the us. syrians, the refugees are now a short while ago i spoke with professor peter hotez, human bargaining chips dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. being used to put i put it to him that the safety of health care workers pressure on europe. is becoming a major issue. well, families are still arriving here and they're not coming by accident, they're being encouraged to travel by the turkish authorities led to believe they can enter europe. one of the things we noticed it instead they are stuck coming out of wuhan, the chinese reported that in the epidemic in wuhan here with no way to cross there were more than 1,000 healthcare workers infected, with six deaths, and about 16%, into greece and they and their about 14.8%, were seriously ill children are having to camp out and many required icu admission in the cold. so that was a wake—up call that our healthcare workforce is highly to this and this is what awaits virus and infection. them now at the border, a battleground. greece says it won't

allow a free—for—all. it occurred to us here turkey says it's in the united states, and of course locally, overwhelmed by refugees. that things good full down quickly if large numbers it's determined that europe of the healthcare workforce will share the fallout went down and couldn't from syria's long fight this infection, 00:07:10,441 --> 2147483051:40:19,936 and the snowball effect of it 2147483051:40:19,936 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 becoming both demoralising and brutal war. 0rla guerin, bbc news, on the turkey—greece border. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the 220—year—old piano that's seen war and peace in paris, the north african desert and new york, and could fetch more than $1 million at auction. first, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. then suddenly, the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards, and it was just a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb. on a remote pacific atoll, the americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb

dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier, and so my heart went bang, bang, bang! the constitutional rights of these marchers are their rights as citizens of the united states, and they should be protected even in the right to test them out, so that they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy — i know you don't want to say too much about it — but does it worry you that it's going to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yes, but i hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the democratic party presidential contender, pete buttigieg, is pulling out of the white house race. it's expected to boost joe biden‘s chances. scientists in the united states say the covid—19 virus may have been spreading undetected in washington state for the last six weeks,

infecting up to 1,500 people. asia bibi, a pakistani christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has said she hopes to be able to return to pakistan one day. she's been in paris for the release of her memoir, finally free, in which she recounts her time injail — and her brutal treatment by guards. in the second part of an interview with the bbc‘s mishal husain, ms bibi says herfaith helped her through the ordeal. nearly ten years ago, a christian woman from pakistan's punjab province was sentenced to death for blasphemy. it was a case that sparked international attention and outrage. and even after asia bibi was finally acquitted by pakistan's highest court, huge protests prevented her immediate release. she now has a new life and here in paris, she has been telling me her story. translation: i suffered a lot inside the jail.

i cannot even tell you what happened to me. i lived through all of this misery but god gave me patience and i got a lot of strength. you cannot imagine but i have witnessed miracles. it is difficult for you to talk about because you write in the book about how you were held by the neck and how difficult that time was for you. what was it that gave you hope in this period? translation: my strength came from my faith and i learnt that you should be courageous and you should be strong in yourfaith. and you should never lose your faith. after everything you have been through, how would you describe your emotions today? do you feel bitterness, anger? translation: no, i'm not angry at all. i've forgiven everyone from my heart. and there is no hardness in me, there is patience in me because i learned how to be patient after having

to leave my children behind. it surprises me even, how have i learnt to be so patient? how can any mother be patient after leaving her children? but god made me patient and i conquered the hardships thrown my way through patience. there are people injailfacing blasphemy charges today, people like shagufta kausar and shafqat emmanuel. what would you say to them? translation: i can give them hope. i'm now free, i'm outside. so i want to request all media that they should work for shagufta as well so that she is also freed and i can tell her that there will be a day when she will also be free. asia bibi's long ordeal is now over but the issue of blasphemy in pakistan is not. there are still christians and muslims being targeted by the law today. the question is, whether the country will take action to prevent abuses and to

protect its citizens whatever the religion. we put allegations about misuse of blasphemy laws to the authorities in pakistan. they said pakistan has taken considerable steps to prevent its possible misuse and constantly reviews its implementation. the cases of blasphemy are brought before the court and follow due process of the law. about the allegations of abuse in prison, they responded: torture, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment to any prisoner is not allowed in the prisons of pakistan israelis go to the polls on monday for the third election in less than a year, to try to break the country's political deadlock. a key stumbling block to forming a governing coalition has been corruption charges against prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who's due

to stand trial this month. here's our middle east editorjeremy bowen. on the sea of galilee, the bible says jewish fishermen who followed jesus used to debate the future. modern israeli fishermen at election time still do. on this boat, prime minister binyamin netanyahu's supporters, led by the skipper menachim lev. he values the bounty from the lake and the strength he sees in netanyahu. he thinks his father, who survived auschwitz, would have approved. he is from here, he is from the holocaust. and my father tell me one thing — don't trust nobody in your life, trust only yourself and do everything that is good for you. the crew unites around

fish, not politics. this man is voting for the centre—left opposition, worried that the cost—of—living is pricing young israelis out of their future. a lot of young people want to move from israel. it is something that is happening. but hopefully something will be better, i don't know. amid the electoral pyrotechnics, retired general benny gantz, the opposition leader, has had to deny claims from the netanyahu camp that he made sex videos. netanyahu, he says, is trying to lie and cheat his way to victory. the prime minister is claiming credit for donald trump's so—called deal of century — an attempt to end the conflict on israel's terms. it allows israel, in defiance of international law, to annex settlements on land palestinians want for a state. this is shilo, where they're building a new school. the settlers want two election victories this year — binyamin netanyahu and trump.

it is very important for us, both elections, and we are engaged in all sorts of personalities and organisations and groups to assure both here and there that as much as possible, we get the people in office that we want. nearby, palestinians were on a hilltop they believe settlers might grab. the old issues don't go away. and, as ever, it's come down to control of the land — that's always been at the centre of the conflict, a century ago and today. by morning, israeli forces were driving palestinians off the hill. the last real chance of a negotiated peace was collapsing when these young men were babies. the big changes — political and diplomatic and especially president trump's out and out support for the israeli government — is sharpening

the conflict on the ground and you can see it in places like this. conflict is normal for yet another generation — the election won't change that. jeremy bowen, bbc news, on the west bank. a very different story involving israel now. a rare piano that's been described as immortal goes up for auction in israel next week. the piano of sienna — which is more than 220 years old — has spent its life at the world's fair in paris, in a second world war african battlefield, and has travelled from new york to tel aviv — and is expected to fetch more than a million dollars. stay tuned for this story from rich preston. with an unusually ornate design, the instrument has had quite a life. it was made in 1799 according to the winners auction house in jerusalem 1799 according to the winners auction house injerusalem by the children in based harper

scored at maker sebastian much easier and has been described asa easier and has been described as a visual masterpiece. he died before he could finish it but he is descendents finished for him endeavour to his granddaughterfor a for him endeavour to his granddaughter for a wedding gift. it appeared at the world's fair in paris in 1867 before being given to italy's then prints and future king, humberto the first before falling into nazi hands. the piano surfaced again after the 1942 battle of el alamein in egyptin 1942 battle of el alamein in egypt in a crate with a mind at all. translation: when the british forces opened it, they we re british forces opened it, they were astonished to see a piano inside buried in the desert sand. from there, it ended up with an israeli piano merchant to fixed it up and took it to new york where it was displayed in steinway hall. translation: it was displayed as a kind of a wonder in the most well—known

piano shop in new york and became a pilgrimage for pianists and enthusiasts. now, its owner says it is time to let go of this beautiful creation and for the next chapter in its life to begin. it goes under the hammer on tuesday. rich preston, bbc news. what a wonderful story. thank you so much for your company. plenty of more to come. goodbye. hello. with rivers running high and many a field still under water, we could do with a little bit of better weather news and to a certain degree, we'll get that this week. no, not going be completely dry but certainly compared with recent weeks, won't be anywhere near as wet or as windy. the jetstream is taking a more southerly track but what that does mean is we're into slightly cooler air, so certainly chillier and by night with frost more likely. that's how we start the monday morning commute with more in the way of frost and even

some ice around with showers continuing through the north and west overnight. not quite as frosty towards southern counties of england. outbreaks of rain and a bit of sleet and wet snow first thing in the morning. clearing away from east anglia and the south—east quite smartly but then brightening up. showers in the west, a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow. few in number to begin with, becoming a bit more abundant during the afternoon, but not as many as we saw for the weekend. more of you on monday will spend the day completely dry or if not, just one or two showers passing your way. the temperatures around 7—10 degrees at their highest. winds will overall be light, not going to feel quite as cold in the afternoon as it has done, but the breeze will be picking up across the north—west later. gail's for a time for monday night into tuesday. more on the way of showers starting to develop through the night and they will push their way eastwards. a bit of snow across parts of scotland, even in the hills of northern ireland and northern england later on. temperatures will be close to freezing in many areas so frost and ice the greatest risk. the coldest of the weather first thing on tuesday morning towards the east.

the set up for tuesday, that weather front taking showers eastwards initially. more rain bearing weather fronts diverted down towards france and iberia thanks to that southerly tracking jetstream. they could be close enough to produce some rain over the southernmost counties of england and over the channel islands. more showers around tuesday morning — a wintry mix. those will clear away and it's back to sunshine and showers for many into the afternoon. showers mainly across some western areas. temperatures similar to those on monday. then, as we head into the middle part of the week, it looks like many will still stay mostly dry with showers around here and there. the chance of rain closer to the south coast on wednesday but overall, we're continuing with that largely dry story. changes a little bit towards the end of the week, thursday night to friday, we will see a weather front push its way across — bringing a spell of rain briefly. showers following on its wake and then a chance of some more wet and windy weather towards the end of the week and into next weekend. by and large, still the rivers responding to the rain we saw over the last few days and with some rain forecast towards the end of the week, never stay too far away from the flood warnings and

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this is bbc news, the headlines: pete buttigieg — the first openly gay us presidential candidate — is to end his bid for the white house. his decision to drop out comes just ahead of what's known as super tuesday, when 14 states hold primaries. his withdrawal is likely to benefit the campaign ofjoe biden. scientists in the united states say the covid—19 virus may have been spreading undetected in washington state for the last six weeks, infecting up to 1500 people. a state of emergency has been declared. one man is now confirmed to have died from the virus in the us. several thousand migrants are demanding to be allowed to cross into greece, after turkey announced it would no longer stop people trying to enter the european union.

turkey is seeking western support for its operations in syria. an extraordinary meeting of eu foreign ministers has been called at athens' request.