health chiefs as the number of coronavirus passes 3,000. benjamin netanyahu claims victory in israel's third election in a year, can he finally formed government? a boost forjoe biden‘s presidential bid as pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar endorsed him had a super tuesday. the bbc has uncovered evidence that police stood by as religious violence swept the indian capital of delhi last week. and we talk to the british author hilary mantel about the final long—awaited bookin about the final long—awaited book in the blockbuster trilogy on the court of king henry

viii. the coronavirus outbreak has taken the world into uncharted territory according to the world health organization. globally, deaths have passed 3000, most are in china where the outbreak began stop over the outbreak began stop over the past day, there were nine times more new infections outside china that inside. italy, one of the worst countries affected, saw a jump in its death toll on monday from 3a to 52. a symbol of how far and wide the coronavirus has spread, the most visited museum in the world, the louvre in paris, has been forced to close its doors to the public. there are four main hotspots for the virus across the globe. china has seen nearly half of all deaths, they have more than 80,000 infected people. south korea has 4,300 cases. and both italy and iran have both over 1,500 cases each. in the last 2a hours,

there were almost nine times more cases reported outside of china than inside china. in the us, three more deaths were reported on monday at a nursing home in washington state. we are now starting to find more covid—i9 cases in washington. they appear to be acquired locally here in washington. and we now know that the virus is actively spreading in some communities here in washington. the majority of confirmed infections in the us so far are people who were passengers on the cruise ship diamond princess. a couple who were quarantined on board and are now at an air force base in texas just learned they cannot leave as somebody in the group has tested positive for coronavirus. ourfeelings and emotions have been a roller coaster. we are feeling frustrated, we are feeling shocked that we were supposed to go home and now we are not. we are disappointed. we miss our family. we miss ourfriends. we miss our life.

as tensions rise, president trump faces criticism that his administration has been slow to respond to the outbreak. we are talking about a vaccine, maybe a cure is possible. we will see about that. but we are talking about a vaccine. the president has tied his economic fortunes to the stock market. wall street rallied on monday after huge losses last week. amid hope the federal reserve will cut interest rates this month. but as testing for the coronavirus expands here in the us, it is likely more cases will be detected and it is unclear how far the virus is spread already. providence, regional medical centre in washington state treated the first person diagnosed with the virus in the us. doctor amy phillips as its chief ethical officer. respeaking to hanau from seattle. thank you very much for your time. i know you are

very well prepared there, what do you think of the who means by uncharted territory and do you feel the virus, the outbreak can be contained in a meaningful sense? i think they we re meaningful sense? i think they were going to have to do up our game in terms of testing for the virus in order to understand how far and deep it spread across the country at least. at the moment, we've only really been testing people who are quite severely ill. but those people had to get that illness from somewhere and do so we illness from somewhere and do so we need to now going after the contact tracing to be able to understand whether our community reservoirs so we can actually put in mitigation strategies. have direct experience of this in your facilities, what it do to a hospital? were the men free hospital? were the men free hospital? it means that hospital? it means that hospital to be exquisite tivoli excellent and that they are following all of the measures they have to do in following respiratory transmission. that

means our masks and grounds and loves a nd means our masks and grounds and loves and all the services are cleaned with high level disinfectants and anything that can disinfectants and anything that ca n clea n disinfectants and anything that can clean the air, something like a fruit swallowed, you have to be in a negative pressure room so that germs can go out for the appropriate filter out two rather than out of the whole way. there must be so many places in the world that cannot reach that state and how concerned are you for that? i think that we have been living with germs like this for some time, think about influenza, this is transmitted very similarly the way influenza is. it's the same every year with endemic influenza around the globe and it kills anywhere between 20 and 60,000 people. i'm not sure about what they were what numbers are but that is a major, major disease that happens every year. the same things that you do to protect yourself from the flu, including covering your cough, washing your hands, making sure that if you touch a surface, don't touch your faiths or

mouth proceeding exposed to the virus. the same thing you have to do to protect yourself from coronavirus. the one difference is that you can get a flu shot and here in the us only about half a people do. we need to be doing any and all of that same thing for this new germ. when you're talking about your colleagues, what is it you're watching out for, what a warning signs will cause you alarm? the biggest warning sign right now is that we are still in the mist of flu season and we do tend to have a lot more hospital admissions for illness during flu season. we have pretty full hospital already and so as we start seeing more and so as we start seeing more and more people at more respiratory infections coming m, respiratory infections coming in, they are coming into an already strained system. and so right now, what we're really working on doing is making sure that we have good venues of care, everything from telehealth to home—based care, so that we don't have our acute ca re so that we don't have our acute care facilities are so

overwhelmed with patients that we can't get in encase they have a heart attack or car accident. a lot to talk to you more but i'm sure will be back to you later. thank you amy. benjamin netanyahu's to you later. thank you amy. benjamin neta nyahu's party appears to have won the most seats in the election results. it puts him on 37 says, well ahead of the chief rival benny gantz who is on 34. jeremy bowen has the latest. netanyahu's bowen has the latest. neta nya hu's followers were waiting for the exit poll outside his election night headquarters. it was the highest turnout since 1999. netanyahu, mobilised his supporters. when the poll came m, supporters. when the poll came in, it was clear that he had out campaigned and out thought his opponent benny gantz. i

went to israeli towns in range of policy and rockets to understand neta nyahu's political base. this ex— army man, head of security in his town, drove me and he voted for netanyahu. he shut off the massive project to build an underground shield, 40 to 80 metres deep all along the gaza border to stop palestinians digging attack tunnels. across the wire, more than 2 million palestinians live in gaza under a blockade since hummus took power they are in 2007. this area is poor and working class, netanyahu area is poor and working class, neta nyahu territory. she area is poor and working class, netanyahu territory. she said he would win big time. only he likud party and its allies have activists at the polling station. the main opposition, blue and white is not represented here. it isjust the right wing. a few miles

away, this woman voted for the opposition, she believes negotiation not confrontation will make her granddaughter safe. her village backs onto the border with gaza, she's had friends killed by palestinian rockets, intense times, they expect attacks. last week at this time, we are running back and forth to the safe house because of rockets. netanyahu, the parameters of the many yea rs, the parameters of the many years, he says he is mrs security, he can keep you safe. ido security, he can keep you safe. i do not want to vote for him? because he has had over a decade to do it and not only has he not kept me safe but my life is in danger more today thanit life is in danger more today than it was ten years ago. adele believes only a peace deal with hamas in gaza will keep a family safe, even before the election, it was clear that that was a minority view in

israel. benjamin neta nyahu that was a minority view in israel. benjamin netanyahu is israel's longest serving prime minister. he presents himself as israel's essential man stop his supporters say he is a political magician. go vote, go vote! is a proud day, this is a democracy. the opposition leader benny gantz, a retired general, relatively new to politics has never matched netanyahu's politics has never matched neta nyahu's trial and ruthlessness. during the campaign, gantz accused him of lying and cheating his way to victory. at likud election night hq, victory. at likud election night h0, no—one seemed worried that neta nyahu is night h0, no—one seemed worried that netanyahu is going on trial in two weeks charged with bribery, corruption and breach of trust. president trump's electoral lifeline, the so—called deal of the century, offering a plan for victory over palestinians on israel's terms may well have sealed it for netanyahu. terms may well have sealed it for neta nyahu. the terms may well have sealed it for netanyahu. the likud supporters in this i believe

that mr neta nyahu supporters in this i believe that mr netanyahu has won, that he will be able to and israel's political deadlock by forming a majority governments that will be able to push through his agenda, including the annexation of territory the palestinians want for a state. if the exit polls are correct, this looks to be a hammer blow for those who still believe in peace by creating a palestinian state alongside israel and another victory for the global wave of populism. jeremy bowen, bbc news, tel aviv. let's round up bbc news, tel aviv. let's round up more of the news this morning. the taliban are to resume attacks on government forces in afghanistan just days after signing an agreement with the us, millburn as a big step towards peace. that deal included a commitment to peace talks of the afghan government. the taliban is both person so this won't happen unless 5000 taliban prisoners are released. mrtrump has taliban prisoners are released. mr trump has told columbia eight will need to resume aerial spraying to destroy

illicit crops of cocoa, the raw material for cocaine. aerial fumigation was suspended in 2015 when the supreme court ruled that the herbicide used could cause cancer and poison the land. jack walsh, who transformed general electric into america's most valuable company has died at the age of 84. he ran a ge from 1980 want to 2000 and wind, overseeing a growth of market value from $12 billion to trump tweeted that jack welch was a business legend. the former us vice presidentjoe biden who is seeking to become the democratic party ‘s nominee has been endorsed by his former rival pete buttigieg who withdrew from the race on sunday and on monday, amy klobuchar quit the race. the minnesota senator has also endorsed mr biden. what i want all of you to do is to vote for joe. vote for decency, vote for

dignity, vote for a heart for our country. that is what he will bring to the white house and with that, i give you, the next president of the united states, joe biden! cheering let's speak now to the director of the project new models of policy change at the think tank new america who is just outside washington now. what do you make of all of this, these in dos endorsements, we should say bernie sanders are still the front runner but this looks like the democratic establishment trying to push forward the alternative it would prefer. we should say that senator elizabeth warren and the billion and former mayor of new york michael bloomberg are still in the race but very much you have buttigieg and klobuchar who both were seen at one point as possibly the younger darlings around him meet the democratic

establishment would coalesce, both looking at their polling numbers, saying that they're not slated to do very well tomorrow innovators in 14 states pick about a third of the delegates who ultimately choose nominee. seeing that they were likely to be very badly embarrassed tomorrow and choosing to get out way of they still have some influence. then ironically given that there is no love lost between the two of them given that they had fielded rather nicely in the last debate, they both ended up flying to dallas to endorse biden within the space of a few hours in the same evening. what you think there's latest development is meant michael bloomberg? when wondering is where going to say tomorrow and what i suspect the candidate ‘s internal polls show is that bloomberg has peaked and had his moment already and we are foreseeing this kind of amazing natural experiment in american politics of just, how natural experiment in american politics ofjust, how much support can money by you.

bloomberg, has only participated in the last two debates, hasn't been as visible in american politics over the last year. it looks very much as if nobody thought that he would do well enough to pose a challenge to biden or more importantly, to sanders who is still leading in all the polls. as you said, is seen to pose a major challenge to this interest democratic establishment. what is your sense of where things are heading? how do you think will turn out super tuesday? it could be in california and texas. sanders will come out of tomorrow with a significant lead. the real question is

whether he does well enough that he can get anywhere near a majority or whether we will go all the way down to the line with him having the most votes but his opponents can say, well, you are not anywhere near having a majority. just finally, if you don't mind, what are you making from the warnings of the us secretary of state and the attorney general that malign actors seem to be interfering with the elections. not only about what they are saying that the fact they are choosing to say it. well, u nfortu nately choosing to say it. well, unfortunately it is very clear that still on social media channels in particular, you have a lot of outside actors, a lot of bots, a lot of misinformation being spread. we are also reached a very worrying point in american democracy where senator sanders and others perceive that this warning was issued today in order to make americans less trusting of whatever the results are tomorrow and to so more discord among democrats.

and the fact we have reached the point where there is this level of mistrust both between and within the parties is really concerning. thank you so much. thanks for having me. stay with us if you can. much more to come on bbc news including mr. we will hear from british author hilary mantel on her long—awaited hilary mantel. —— including this. 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 head of the world health organisation says the outbreak of the new coronavirus has entered uncharted territory, but can still be contained. with official results yet to be announced, israel's prime minister bejamin neta nyahu has claimed victory in the country's third election ina year.

it remains to be seen whether he can form a government. the bbc has uncovered evidence that police in the indian capital delhi acted alongside hindu rioters during a wave of attacks on muslims last week. the death toll in the religious violence has now risen to 46 — the deadliest in more than 3 decades. india's hindu nationalist government is coming under increasing pressure as more allegations emerge of police complicity in the clashes. the bbc‘s yogita limaye sent this report. a warning — you may find some of it disturbing. they are meant to protect all of india's people but here the police are seen with hindus, throwing stones towards muslims. videos like these have been emerging since the violence last week. we went to the street where the footage was filmed — a predominantly hindu one.

himanshu rathore described how the police helped them. "we didn't have enough stones here so the police brought us some and told us to throw them." across the road, we find the burn out house of a muslim man. "i saw the police come in with the rioters, who set the shops on fire in front of them," bura khan told me. we've been able to investigate how events unfolded at this one location, but on several instances now we have been told by people that the police were either complicit with or turned a blind eye to hindu mobs and used excessive force against muslims. this muslim man was beaten to death by the police. faizan was 23. in another video, he is seen lying unconscious with four other men. some of them are forced to sing

india's national anthem to prove their patriotism. at the faizan's home, preparations for his funeral were being made when we went. "he couldn't stand up or sit down. my brother was in so much pain. his whole body had turned black and blue. he was beaten in such places that i can't even express it," faizan's brother naim told me. rafik was one of those beaten with faizan. there's barely any part of his body that hasn't been wounded. "i'm too scared to go and get myself treated. the situation outside is so bad. the government has ruined india," he says. the delhi police did not respond to the allegations. the violence has torn apart a neighbourhood in delhi but its ripples have been felt around the country. among muslims, there's a deep sense of insecurity in an india under

hindu nationalist rule. yogita limaye, bbc news, delhi. years ago, you might not have thought that people were interested in the historical detail of the life of thomas cromwell. he was one of the most powerful men in england five centuries ago but novels about his life i damn hilary mantel have now sold more than 5 million copies around the world and after an eight year wait, the third instalment is out. the author has been speaking with our arts correspondent rebecca jones. 480 years ago, thomas cromwell was here at the tower of london awaiting execution. what better place then to discuss the final novel in hilary mantel‘s turbulent tudor history. but at 900 pages and with a vast cast of characters, she acknowledges it's

a challenging read. i can't deny it's demanding, but i make no apologies for asking a lot of commitment from a reader. the mirror and the light completes the story of henry viii's chief advisor thomas cromwell, begun in wolf hall and bring up the bodies. our case is slander. both were prize—winning novels adapted successfully for stage and screen. and hilary mantel says our relentless scrutiny of the monarchy, especially royal wives, spans the ages. i think there's still an intense concentration on the bodies of royal women. we only have to look at what happens when our royal ladies give birth, they are perceived as public property in the same way that tudor women were perceived.

it is simply turning the individual woman back into a breeder. i did wonder what you made of the treatment of the duchess of sussex. do you think she's been a victim of racism? it brings me back to this question of the body. it does include the skin, so racism is a factor. i think it's more deeply embedded in people's consciousness than any of us are willing to admit. couldn't it have been managed with less bloodshed ? hilary mantel‘s already adapting her new book for the stage and she says she'd now rather work in the theatre than at home writing novels. i spent enough time sitting in a room by myself and, you know, i'm not sure i want to die at my desk. so we've got to be sane about this.

dame hilary mantel ending that report by rebecca jones. so many people waiting for that book. just briefly reminder. these pictures coming in of members of the greek coastguard. pushing away vessels trying to reach greece from turkey. thousands have gathered in the turkey border with greece after they announced they would no longer prevent migrants and refugees leaving for the eu. turkey is trying to increase pressure on the west to help with the syrian conflict. and before we go, we'd like to leave you with these pictures. this is british designer stella mccartney's show at paris fashion week. she sent models in giant animal outfits down the catwalk to promote her animal free clothing range. her fashion brand has worked without leather, animal fur, skins or feathers since it was launched back in 2001. her message is that the animals we usually see in fashion

shows, are dead. that is it for now, thank you so much for watching. hello. i know there's still significant flooding around but isn't it nice to get away from february's relentless grey and of course wet and see something brighter, bluer in the skies, many of us did during monday. there were still some big showers around, no—one is suggesting this week is dry, but there is some texture in the sky for the time being. things are a bit quieter than they have been and we'll get a bit of sunshine again in the day ahead but there will also be some showers around. the big picture showing a few disturbances moving around the uk with showers on tuesday but we're eyeing up another area of low pressure in the atlantic

and this looks like bringing another spell of rain to many of us during wednesday into thursday, as we'll see in a moment. tuesday's start, cold, frosty for some of us, icy patches where we have had a few showers. one area of showers clearing away from north—east england, eastern scotland first thing and another pulling away from northern ireland and wales during the morning but then this has to feed around scotland through england. a shower could be heavy and wintry on hills, some hail possible too. behind it, the sun comes back and a lot of it for northern ireland in the afternoon and increasingly so for wales and western parts of england. some of us have temperatures in double figures and most of us will not. it is breezy, quite blustery out there with some of the showers, but it's nowhere near as windy as it's been. and actually, with mainly light winds and clear skies on tuesday night, that means there'll be a widespread frost around but then look at this cloud and some rain heading in towards south—west england, south—west wales. the temperature not going down too far, and actually

recovering later in the night. that rain is from that area of low pressure i showed you. some uncertainty as to how far north it will get on wednesday, but every new forecast u nfortu nately takes it further north, so that does mean a spell of rain heading through much of england and wales towards northern ireland, perhaps even southern scotland as well. not necessarilyjust rain. some hill snow more especially into the pennines for a time, as overnight and into thursday the outbreaks of rain continue through parts of england and wales and then on thursday will slowly clear from the east and south—east of england. behind that, yes, it will be turning drier on thursday. will get a bit brighter too. temperatures pretty much where they are going to be throughout the week. but then there's another area of wet weather aiming at us for friday. this weather front has to move through and then low pressure looks to be coming in for the weekend. so what does that mean over the weekend? it means there'll be another spell of rain heading our way, unfortunately. and the winds will start to pick up as well. although with that, the temperatures will recover a few degrees but it does mean not as much of that sunshine.

this is bbc news, the headlines:

the head of the world health organization says the outbreak of the new coronavirus has entered uncharted territory, but can still be contained. the number of people killed worldwide is now over 3,000. italy has seen a jump in its death toll from 34 to 52. israel's prime minister benjamin neta nyahu has declared victory in the country's third election in a year. but exit polls suggest he could still fall short of being able to form a coalition government. mr netanyahu has been seeking re—election while facing a corruption trial, which begins later this month. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has been endorsed by pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar. the endorsements come a day before crucial super tuesday primary votes in which 14 states will decide who they want as democratic party candidate. bernie sanders remains the front runnerfor the nomination.