hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. global financial institutions are trying to limit the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. the us central bank has slashes interest rates by 0.5% — citing the ‘evolving risks‘ from the coronavirus. while the world bank has just announced funding for countries dealing with outbreaks. meanwhile the global death rate from the coronavirus is 3.4% — which is far higher than the seasonal flu. the who is warning that despite these new figures, hoarding masks and goggles is putting medical workers at risk. shortages are leaving doctors, and nurses and otherfront line health workers dangerously ill equipped to care for covid—19 patients.

meanwhile, many of you around the world are wondering, is it still 0k to shake hands? this is what people in wuhan are doing. in other stories we'll cover — the eu pledges $780 million in aid to greece as thousands of migrants try to cross the border from turkey and it's super tuesday in the us — the most important day so far in the democratic race to take on donald trump in this year's election. around the world financial insitutions are working to limit the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. the us federal reserve has cut interest rates by 0.5% — the biggest cut since the 2008 financial crisis. and now the world bank has announced it will provide up to $12bn

in immediate support for countries coping with the impacts of covid—19. we can speak to the president of the world bank who is life with us from washington. thank you very much indeed for your time today. which countries do you want to receive this money? the countries will be expressing needs and there will be a needs assessment, it will be ideal if quite a few countries, a lot of countries get support and assistance. the reason for that is this is a global public good. what we are trained to do is limit the transmission of the disease but also ca re transmission of the disease but also care for patients. and so if as more countries try to have preventative measures that's going to help with the crisis. of these loans or are these grants? some of both. the

world bank, as you may know it makes both grants from a low interest rate loa ns both grants from a low interest rate loans and then somewhat higher interest rate loans from all of our instruments will be used for this effort. just mentioning the from the federal reserve has made this dramatic intervention today for the first time a thing since 2008, it is clearly worried, how worried is the world bank? is hard to assess some of the variables, the economic variable and also the health variable. my super these go out to the communities that are affected and their families of people that have died or are ill right now, and we are assessing and monitoring the situation and above all with the world bank is trying to do is be active in response in order to meet the needs of various developing countries. it's important that that availability of financing be

expressed and countries will be thinking about the types of things they need in the crisis situation. there are few institutions in the world better it than yours at assessing the state of global economy, help us out. as people watching all around the world, how would you compare the 2008 crisis with the potential threat that the coronavirus opposes to the global economy? i don't want to so much try to make comparisons, the world is different now, for one china is a much bigger economy relative to the global gdp that it was in 2008. so there are differences and also there's more connectedness of the world economy supply chains, so on that ground it's, of course, very serious from an economic standpoint but also the world response is robust, going on now and i think that will help as well. interesting

that will help as well. interesting that you emphasise the increased role of the quote global economy, would you agree the stress fact that there's downsides to an increasing globalised economy, that it leaves individual nations and companies more exposed? i think what i would focus on more is the importance of prevention and of good health systems as countries face more and more proximity, more and more global trade, i think we have to think that global trade and commerce are very important to economic growth, we don't want to lose that but we also wa nt to don't want to lose that but we also want to be prepared for the interactions for harmful interactions. each country can try to do the best that it can with its own sanitation and health care systems, and these are some of the things the world bank has substantial skills in. the world bank was involved in and helped

after the sars crisis which was in the early to thousands, 2002 and 2003, and with other crisis. there substantial experience to think about how patients can be cared for, how the transmission mechanisms can be reduced. we are looking at technical assistance, policy advice and other techniques to help countries. i'm interested to know which countries you are particularly mighty to help, i can think of italy, the country with the most cases in europe, iran has a very serious outbreak of south korea and of course china as well as other countries, are there particular countries, are there particular countries you cannot access this help or on the flip side you are particularly focused on?” help or on the flip side you are particularly focused on? i want a more focus on availability of assistance primarily for developing countries, you mentioned some developed countries in the world bank would not normally be operating

in those, so with regard to developing countries we will be assessing the needs of the countries, the countries are in the process of expressing their needs, that might be, for example, for medical equipment orfor that might be, for example, for medical equipment or for supplies that could be used in emergency rooms, four bags, for medical waste and all sorts of goods and services that will be very helpful to countries and particularly the world bank works in poorer countries that may be don't have the capacity to respond as much as we would like. we know one country whose economy is under severe pressure because of western sanctions if iran, is that a country which could access your health? there are several thousand cases there and there also doubts about the level of medical facilities in iran. i don't want to get into individual countries, but more that what we are announcing

todayis more that what we are announcing today is $12 billion in a package that will make financing available for countries around the world, developing countries and will be especially targeted for poorer countries. thank you very much indeed forjoining us. the world bank announcing that it's making available up to $12 billion forfunding that it's making available up to $12 billion for funding as you heard the president of the world bank say there to assist developing countries responding to this outbreak. we will return to the coronavirus story later in the programme. it's super tuesday in america. 1a states are voting for the democrat that they would like to take on donald trump in november. here are the contenders. first senator bernie sanders — here he is campaigning in utah. he's the most left wing of the candidates — his signature policy is a new healthcare system for all. and he's ahead in national polls. next former vice presidentjoe biden. he had been the front runner. here he is in texas.

and after his campaign derailed badly in february — he took south carolin a a few days ago — and now has the endorsement of petter buttigieg and amy klobuchar — two other moderate candidates who dropped out. the democratic party establishment wants him — and perhaps just as much wants to stop bernie sanders. next here's senator elizabeth warren in california. she's further to the left than joe biden. her campaign is under pressure — but she's still in it. and is the only candiate in contention on either side who isn't a man in his 70s. and then there's mike bloomberg. this is one of his many many commercials. he has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars — but so far hasn't faced the electorate. that changes today. the ads have been slick, his performances in the debates haven't been.

we'll see which counts for more. and at stake today are 1357 delegates. that's more than a third of the total available in this democratic race. needless to say — do well today, you're in very good shape. james cook has more on the process. this light battling it out for ages but only for serious contenders now remain. democrats will choose their candidate in july at the remain. democrats will choose their candidate injuly at the party convention. state—by—state, party representatives in the hall noticed delegates cast their votes. but who decides how the vote? while that process is happening right now. it ta kes process is happening right now. it takes months, and is called primary season. takes months, and is called primary season. this year, the first democratic caucus in iowa was shambolic but pete booted just one it. josh. bernie sanders chimed in

new hampshire and in divide as well. zuckerman went to joe new hampshire and in divide as well. zuckerman went tojoe biden. which brings us to super tuesday, the 3rd of march reporting settled their primaries are more than a third of all delegates are awarded in just one day. almost 50% of the delegates awarded today will come from just two states. california — a15. and texas — 228. so they are the big prizes. here's the latest polling average out of texas. sanders and biden are neck—and—neck. while bloomberg and warren are hoverning around the 15% mark. over in california, bernie sanders has a more comfortable lead. sophie long is in los angeles. hello. so what is bernie sanders doing so right? welcome a bernie sanders the major from doing so right? welcome a bernie sanders the majorfrom him in los angeles and california and in texas

is welcome to the other big state you mentioned there is the hispanic, latino opposition. it is huge, across super tuesday state about a quarter of those voting are hispanic and bernie sanders has done very well with his outreach programmes. in the california state university at the moment of a huge university, some 26,000 students come you can see some of them queuing up behind make it without lang goes way out into the corridor and the voting booths over there, as spoken to a couple of the students as they finished voting and asked who you voted for and at least a couple of them spoken to has said bernie sanders, they also said they met him once before in 2016 when he was campaigning as well. bernie sanders really speaking to the latino community and others as well. it's expected to win california easily, he's been leading double—digit in the polls until very recently, but of course things have changed quite significantly over the past 2a hours. we don't yet know how they will translate in terms of super tuesday delegates. joe biden of course the former vice president escape they really got off to a

limping star but he had that resounding win in south carolina on saturday and as you mentioned there in your introduction to of his former moderate candidates have exited the race and endorsed him on a rally stage in dallas, texas last night. but what people are doing here in california across the state is try to make it easy as possible for people to vote, make voting processes as accessible as possible from a part of that as early voting, even this voting station has been open since saturday. the problem is for people likejoe biden he's got this boost in the polls, but many people here in california have already cast their votes come up to 40% we think. we wait to see how that translates. appreciate the update. we will be keeping an eye across super tuesday and at the results come in a few hours' time we will keep you well up to date whether you are watching in the uk or elsewhere on bbc world news. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come...

we'll have more on the spread of the coronavirus — and why stockpiling goggles and masks are impacting health workers. there's a fresh warning for users of smart devices to protect against being hacked. the national cyber security centre says live feeds can be accessed by criminals. technology ethics expert dr stephanie hare: the focus on today's story has been about security cameras that people might have around their home, possibly to ward off a robber or keep an eye on the dog, but it could also be baby monitors that are internet enables you can check or make it a notification on your phone if your baby starts crying you're peeking to see how everything is going, but really the broader principles that he thing is connected to the internet is stackable and that's within national cybersecurity is warning people you really need to secure notjust your wi—fi router, for instance or your la ptop wi—fi router, for instance or your laptop or your phone but any smart device you might have in your home.

there's different vectors come if you well that you could use to find out if somebody has a device in their home that is not secure. she was just their home that is not secure. she wasjust do over their home that is not secure. she was just do over the internet some of that could be done if you are near the property but some of it could be done if you're near the property but some of it can be done remotely via the internet. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story... global financial institutions are trying to limit the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. the world bank has announced $12 billion in immediate support for countries coping with outbreak. other stories around the bbc at least nineteen people have died after tornadoes tore through the us state of tennessee. in nashville, buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of people are without power. voting in the democratic primaries started late in some areas because of the damage. the spanish government has backed a proposed change to controversial sexual assault laws that would classify sex without consent as rape. there was widespread outrage

in spain caused when a group of men were initially cleared of gang—raping a teenager in 2016, and convicted of the lesser offense of sexual abuse. currently, spanish law requires evidence of violence or intimidation to prove rape. donald trump has spoken with the taliban's negotiator on the telephone. it is the the first known direct communication between a us leader and a top taliban official. it followed a dispute over a prisoner release that threatened a deal aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan. we heard from president trump a little while ago. i spoke to the leader of the taliban today, we had a good conversation. we agreed there is no violence and we don't want violence, we will see what happens. they are dealing with afghanistan but we will see what happens. do you believe this is a pandemic? we had a

good talk with the leader of the tele— band. —— tele— band. highly unusual move but the president specialises in that, what you make of this? leader we are talking about is one of those was representing the taliban in those talks with the united states and qatar and donald trump has talked to them again in the last half—hour about the conversation. he said he had a good relationship with them. that a long conversation and in his words he said he was interested in stopping the violence that they had the same goal. this is the first confirmed context that we know of between a us president and the

taliban since the afghan war began. the conversation happened and donald trump was talking about it as the taliban was breaking its partial cease—fire with government forces in afghanistan. 0f cease—fire with government forces in afghanistan. of have of incidents of clashes across at least a 16 provinces and dozens of clashes across the country. that was, as i say, as donald trump was saying he was interested in peace. he sang the afg ha n was interested in peace. he sang the afghan government is not setting up for that prisoner release and that's with undermining the deal and as such he is notjust sorted out bilaterally between the taliban and the us. that's the huge flaw in this deal with the united states is come up deal with the united states is come up with in the chart with the tele— band, it's that it did not involve the african governments and part of this deal was the taliban would

release around a thousand of its prisoners into afghan government forces and the afghan government would release 5000 taliban prisoners, not something that president psyche signed up to the taliban said they would not enter into talks with the afghan government which is supposed to start march until those releases ta ke start march until those releases take place. we did every partial cease—fire that has artie broken down. so although he talks about this as being the beginning of the end of the conflict and bringing back united states forces here at home the afghan government is certainly more sceptical. the world health organisation says 3.4% of the people who are known to have been infected with the virus have died. here's the who in geneva.

and there is now a total of 90,000 reported cases of covid—19 globally. and 3110 deaths. about 4.3% of people have died. by comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1%. 0n the face of it, this is a huge shift in the story — but we wanted to check. this is professor francois balloux from ucl‘s genetics institute. to some extent this is a bit expected. we had a certain number of cases and about 90,000 and about 3000 deaths. just a ratio of the number of deaths in a number of cases. so it should not have come as

a major surprise, but it was a bit shocking and it's how high it is, it will should be tempered a little bit because it does not take into account and we can only hope the number will go down a bit. there's a lot of focus on the mortality rate but a lot of focus on the speed of which this virus is spreading, what's your analysis of what we are learning about the global expansion of the virus? and looks like the epidemic at the global level is about doubling every seven days or so. each case in each infection seems to lead to another 2.5 new infections. this in itself is not remarkably high for an epidemic virus. it's kind of average. it's comparable to the seasonal flu, for instance, roughly.

to the us now. the central bank made a historic emergency decision to cut interest rates — it hasn't made this kind of surprise move since 2008. the goal is to cushion america's economy from the negative economic impacts of the coronavirus. here's the head of the us federal reserve — jerome powell. the virus, and the measures that are being taken to contain it will surely weigh on economic activity both here and abroad for some time. we are beginning to see the effects on the tourism and travel industries and we are hearing concerns from industries that rely on global supply chains. many are concerned though that the federal reserve made this decision and announcement in the wrong way. some say it could scare people more than reassure them because it's so drastic. here's stock broker peter tuchman on the new york stock exchange floor earlier today. to do in the middle of the day come in my opinion is irresponsible. catches people off guard. we saw 700

point reversal in the market and now it is fading fast. that kind of validates in my opinion that it's not the thing to do in the middle of the day, there was a unanimous decision by the fed but the market is, it's two narratives. it does not make the virus go away, it supports the banking system and its which narrative gets louder. they are doing it to support the markets, but that makes people fearful of, well be bad shape if they are doing such a large cut. stocks in the us initially jumped but then dropped after the rate cut, indicating traders were spooked by the fed move. there's also president trump to take into consideration. he likes the idea but seems to have quite different motivation.

for more on this, let's go to samira hussain in new york. help me understand the position here. he's not talking about the virus, he is talking about the fact that he feels other countries have a competitive advantage, just explain that for us, please. the president has always believed that key for the american economy is to have lower interest rates. much lower interest rates, that means that people will be borrowing money more and will be spending more money for that will spur more economic activity. so he's a lwa ys spur more economic activity. so he's always put a lot of political pressure on the federal reserve to keep cutting interest rates. remember these two bodies are meant to be absolutely separate, so it's actually rail that we are seeing the president applying that clinical pressure and even more rare to hear him call out the federal reserve for not doing enough. and clearly the federal reserve is worried this is quite a drastic action, help us understand the thinking and why something this drastic is necessary.

the federal reserve on friday said they are ready to help the us economy if it can, when it can if it deems that it is necessary. it seems a more upbeat tone than it took on friday. then they took this drastic move of making an emergency rate cut. this is something we have not seen since the financial crisis and before that we saw this kind of an emergency rate cut done in the wake of the slip september 11 terrorist attacks. at a very rare move. but they did in the hopes that it would try and stabilise us financial markets, but in fact we have not seen that effect and we see that the dowjones industrial average seen that effect and we see that the dow jones industrial average closed a little while ago down about 800 points. so investors are still really spooked. thank you very much indeed. live with us in new york. 0ne indeed. live with us in new york. one question we have heard asked again and you get the coronavirus is how does it compare with seasonal flu ? how does it compare with seasonal flu? in a couple of minutes we come back we're going to work through all

of the different ways that we can compare these two diseases, and hopefully that will help us answer it. hello there. it's a fairly quiet weather story across the globe at the moment, if we start off in north america on monday we had some heavy rains we had some tornado activity. that system has eased away, still some pretty intense showers though left behind through the ohio valley down into atlanta, georgia. the highness ofjesus piles of sunshine, and warmer than it would be this time of year but along that west coast abridge columbia in particular to an unsettled spelt with snow on the leading edge of rain close to the leading edge of rain close to the coast. try settled and sunny however down through california. that's north america predict look at the city forecast of the next few days still a little unsettled for vancouver, but not as bad as it has been. beautiful spots of sunshine for los angeles in cooler through to

new york. africa of breezy conditions through tunisia and a few scattered showers running across the far north coast. some heavier rain for tanzania and into mozambique for the potential still may be for a strong system to develop close or just off the shore of madagascar are, so we still keeping an eye out for that. heavy rain recently moving its way across southern areas of japan all had inches whether front thatis japan all had inches whether front that is slicing down through china, some heavy rain are here to the north of that it's dry and u nsettled, north of that it's dry and unsettled, 7 degrees the high into beijing. seems pretty intense showers through malaysia and indonesia at the moment, nothing particularly untoward. the city forecast still shows a good deal of dry weather in a few sharp showers into bangkok thursday and friday. let's ta ke into bangkok thursday and friday. let's take a look at australian alchemist are looking at some heavy rain all across the interior of australia just drifting its way eastward through new south wales and certainly good news here, it's however a lot of heavy rain in a

short space of time has the potential to produce of localised flooding, but the bushfires now all have been extinguished in new south wales and that certainly welcome news. as for new zealand piercing shall rearrange using away and the pretty picture here as you can see in the city forecast for the next five days. bring to come for sydney and melbourne, slowly improving they are. finally over towards europe we re are. finally over towards europe were still things are pretty u nsettled. were still things are pretty unsettled. 0ne whether front stripping its way out of scandinavia through western russia, a brief low behind and for another area of low pressure expected to move and that will bring rain and some of the heavy towards france. the latter stages of the working week. it's an u nsettled stages of the working week. it's an unsettled theme, it's a mild scene particularly across russia where temperatures have been for the above average for most of the winter season. and you can see some rain to come and so those temperatures on the high side. for the next few days relatively dry and relatively quiet.

more details on the uk coming up in half an hour's time.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. global financial institutions are trying to limit the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. the us central bank has slashes interest rates by 0.5%, citing the ‘evolving risks‘ from the coronavirus. and in the past half an hour, the world bank has promised 12 billion dollars in funding to developing countries dealing with outbreaks. meanwhile, the global death rate from the coronavirus is 3.4 percent, which is far higher than the seasonal flu. the who is warning that despite these new figures, hoarding masks and goggles is putting medical workers at risk. shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and other front line health workers dangerously ill equipped to care for covid—19 patients. meanwhile, many of you around

the world are wondering, is it still 0k to shake hands? this is what people in wuhan are doing. in other stories we‘ll cover, the eu pledges 780 million dollars in aid to greece as thousands of migrants try to cross the border from turkey. and it‘s super tuesday in the us, the most important day so far in the democratic race to take on donald trump in this year‘s election. from the outset, this coronavirus has been compared with flu. let‘s see how that works. first, the coronavirus appears to be deadlier. us authorities list flu‘s mortality rate at around 0.1%. the who says the mortality rate amongst known cases of coronavirus is 3.4%. 0n the face of it, over

30 times more deadly. but many, many cases of coronavirus are going undetected, so in fact, the mortality rate may be very close to the flu. here‘s professor marc lipsitch of harvard university. i liken it a bit to a dark room where there are people sitting in rows so you can‘t see, and as the lights begin to go up, you think, "0h, some people walked into the room," but in fact, those people have been there for a while. but even if the corona virus mortality rate does drop to 0.1%, that‘s still potentially very serious. the who estimates between 290,000 and 650,000 deaths a year are connected to the flu. so if millions of people contract the coronavirus, the death toll can still run into the hundreds of thousands. next, there‘s the speed at which the coronavirus is spreading. this is one us vaccine scientist. you know, one of the things we've learned, this virus is so highly transmissible that you can be caught off—guard pretty quickly and as a

consequence, things can move quickly so you have to watch out. but the who has said that while the spread of coronvirus is concerning, it‘s not as contagious as influenza. next how do the symptoms of flu and coronavirus compare? they‘re similar. coro navi rus often starts with a high fever, followed by a cough. later it can lead to shortness of breath. some patients require hospital treatment. this is the experience of one woman in singapore. when i was going through the critical stage, one of the things that i encountered was really breathing. it felt my lungs were going into overdrive, were really making an effort. you know, it's not like normal days, right? we're not even conscious of how we breathe. it was just so labourious trying to get from my bed to the bathroom, which was like, i don't know, five metres away. just walking to the bathroom, and it was just challenging. i don't know about long—term impact.

the only thing i know is that i cannot walk for long, simply because i will feel a little bit short of breath and i feel the need to sit down. like julie, the majority of people have recovered. but like flu, this coronavirus can lead to other issues such as pneumonia and severe acute respiratory syndrome. they in turn can lead to multiple organ failure and, in some cases, death. and as with flu, those over 70 years old and with the pre—existing respiratory conditions are more vulnerable. all of which makes these two diseases sound very similar. but here‘s who on why this coronavirus is something different. we can‘t treat covid—19 exactly the same way we treat flu. covid—19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. that means more people are

susceptible to infection and some will suffer severe disease. so coronavirus is possibly more deadly but less contagious than flu. but there‘s a huge caveat here, scientists have studied flu for centuries. they‘re only just starting to study this coronavirus. also, flu isn‘t constant. sometimes it‘s much deadlier than normal. for example, the spanish flu outbreak in 1918 which killed 50 million people. so in short, while i‘m doing my best, comparing these two is tricky. my colleague lauren moss can explain further. that's really what everyone wants to know, but the first important thing to point out is that seasonal flu and coronavirus are not directly comparable. coronavirus is a brand—new pathogen, there is no vaccine and people don't have any kind of immunity to it yet. more cases are emerging every day and health experts are working around the clock to try and respond to what more is being discovered about the virus and how it behaves.

0ur scientists are working to find out more about it on a daily basis, but probably realistically, we're looking to the middle half of next year before a vaccine is readily available. animal tests are being carried out now, but then me but to get to the stage of human trials, and then there's the big hurdle of getting over mass—producing it. everyone's been told that the most important thing that we can do to curb the spread of coronavirus in the uk and beyond is to make sure we wash our hands thoroughly several times a day with hot water and soap for 20 seconds. there are lots of numbers you‘ll hear in the news coverage of super tuesday. 1a states voting, more than 1,300 delegates up for grabs. we‘ve asked some of our bbc colleagues to help us explain some other numbers to keep an eye on. the first is 15. christian fraser explains why.

and democratic primary, states or delegates, the candidates based how many votes they get. to get any law, candidates has to get at least 50% of the vote. most years, that doesn't make much of a difference because by this point in the race, they're usually two candidates left. but this cycle, there are five still in the race on super tuesday. that makes the 15% hurdle really important. if they bernie sanders or joe biden wins a state, but lots of other candidates get over that 15% hurdle, then the delegates get chaired out more widely, meaning the winner gets less. if the other candidates get over the hurdle, the winner gets more and that's what's making this contest so hard to call. the next number to remember is 170 million. it‘s a huge figure and could have a big influence on how people vote. here‘s nick bryant. $170 million is what mike bloomberg has said spent at super tuesday

advertising. that small change for the world‘s night riches person. but he‘s on his carpet bomb the super tuesday state with television advertisements. —— ninth riches person. it‘s hard to turn on the tv without seeing the face of the former new york mayor, but the money -- his former new york mayor, but the money —— his money bought him political love. the polls suggest not. many of motors see this as him using his wealth to buy the presidency. he thoughtjoe biden was weak. he wa nted thoughtjoe biden was weak. he wanted to block the candidacy of bernie sanders. the irony is that biden has surged and bloomberg has continued to help the man he entered the race to stop. and then there‘s this number, 1,991. gary 0‘donoghue is in north carolina and he explained this one for us.

that's the number you need of pledged delegates to get yourself over the top to get a majority of those delegates heading into the convention injuly those delegates heading into the convention in july to those delegates heading into the convention injuly to grab those delegates heading into the convention in july to grab the lamination, and to fight donald trump in november. it's a magic number. it's a number everyone is striving to get to, and the nearer you get to it, the more likely it is you get to it, the more likely it is you will be the nominee. the difficulty is rather that you might get to a point if there's still two or three people in the race where no one can mathematically actually get to that point, and that's when you get questions of a contested convention and potentially people arguing over whether or not a plurality ought to be the reason you give someone the nomination. as you study the situation across the 1a states, what are the key dynamics we should look out for? going back to this 15% threshold, it's incredibly important. ironically, if there's

more people getting over that 15% threshold, if elizabeth warren starts to get over 15% and some of the states, if mike bloomberg does, that starts to distribute the delegates more evenly among the candidates and that makes a contested convention more likely. so the quicker they get down to a smaller number, the more likely it is you're gonna get a clear winner. if you don't, you will get a fight for the next few months.|j if you don't, you will get a fight for the next few months. i see a little activity behind you as people go about voting. tell us a little bit more about the process and who gets to vote. pretty quiet one here. we had 217 people bloat here as of about five minutes ago, and that's an almost eight hours. —— people vote here. not exactly a flood of activity here. but the process is a primary, in this particular stage are eithera

primary, in this particular stage are either a registered democrat or republican. if you are unaffiliated, you have to choose which primary to vote in. north carolina, incredibly important. 0ne vote in. north carolina, incredibly important. one of those battle ground states. it was the sixth most marginal state in the last general election. donald trump one here by three points. there's a lot to fight here in terms of the democrats. let‘s go back to the spread of the coronavirus. this is from the us. this came from reuters. that‘s up from 18 cases a day earlier, so this is the largest outbreak to emerge from local transmission. there‘s another important development in italy. it has biggest cluster of cases in europe — and in the last few hours,

500 new cases have been confirmed — taking the total to over 2,500. we‘re told authorities are now considering a new quarantine red zone in the city of bergamo. there are already two other red zones in the regions of lombardy and veneto. next to iran which is also facing a major outbreak. the number of cases has gone up by 50 percent for the second day in a row. there are now over 2,300 cases, though there‘s evidence to suggest the figure is far higher. the authorities are introducing a range of measures — including the temporary release of over 50,000 prisoners in tehran to try and stop it virus spreading in prisons. there‘s a reported comment by an iranian official that the british—iranian charity worker nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe could be among those released from evin prison. there is no confirmation at all that has happened.

stay with us on 0utside source, still to come... we‘ll have the latest on the eu‘s response to a new wave of migrants trying to cross from turkey into greece. antarctica recorded its highest temperature earlier this month, reaching more than 20 degrees centigrade. it‘s bad news for the extraordinary marine life that lives in the icy waters of the world‘s coldest continent. 0ur chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt, has been to see the impact that the changing antarctic environment is having. antarctica is the most extreme continent on earth. few animals can survive the bitter cold. but one antarctican environment is surprisingly stable — the ocean. but it is cold, minus two celsius. it is the coldest place on earth that marine animals live. like everywhere else in the world, the antarctic

environment is changing. in some places, the water is already warming. a huge challenge for animals that have never experienced any change. so, some of the incredible antarctic animals are in this tank. anne todgham is a marine biologist and you have been studying these animals for years. so they have antifreeze proteins inside of them that keep them from freezing. they have different red blood cells that are in fact not red. they have compensated for the cold so they can go about their daily lives and actually thrive in an environment that most animals would find very stressful. the big question for anne is how well these extraordinary creatures will be able to adapt. they have compensated for the cold so they can go about their daily lives and actually thrive in an environment that most animals would find very stressful. the big question for anne is how well these extraordinary the results so far are not promising. i‘m actually pretty worried. i wish the data was wrong. i wish i didn‘t have to be worried, but there are lots of things that are going to change in the ocean and these animals are being stressed to their max. you may wonder why we should worry about the fate of a few unusual

species, but the scientists here say we should think of what is happening as a warning. if these animals can‘t survive in ourchanging world, what does that say about our future? justin rowlatt, bbc news, antarctica. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story? global financial institutions are trying to limit the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. the world bank has announced $12 billion in immediate support for developing countries coping with outbreak. other stories around the bbc. at least nineteen people have died after tornadoes tore through the us state of tennessee. in nashville, buildings have collapsed and tens of thousands of people are without power. voting in the democratic primaries started late in some areas because of the damage. the spanish government has backed a proposed change to controversial sexual assault laws

that would classify sex without consent as rape. there was widespread outrage in spain caused when a group of men were initially cleared of gang—raping a teenager in twenty—sixteen, and convicted of the lesser offence of sexual abuse. currently, spanish law requires evidence of violence or intimidation to prove rape. the migrant crisis on the greece—turkey border continues to intensify. the eu has pledged 780 million dollars to greece because of the sharp increase in number of people trying to cross the border. that increase was caused by turkey deciding last week that it would no longer stop migrants trying to reach the eu. thousands of people are now stuck in an area between turkey and greece. the eu‘s most senior officials were there today. among them were european commission president ursula von der leyen, and president of the eu council charles michel.

they‘re being briefed by the greek army here. the eu has confirmed it‘s sending one hundred border guards and seven coastguard vessels. here‘s ms von der leyen. we have come here today to set a very clear statement. of european solidarity and support to greece. 0ur‘s solidarity and support to greece. 0ur ‘s first priority is making sure order is maintained at the greek external border, which is also european border, and fully committed to mobilising all the necessary operational support to the greek authorities. many migrants have gathered in turkey‘s western province of edirne. because of that, roads leading to a key border crossing on the evros river are closed, and the situation on the border is tense. these are migrants waiting with their belongings on the banks of the river. the greek government says it‘s stopped 211,000 people from crossing just since saturday.

these are clashes from the weekend. migrants threw rocks over the border at greek police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon. another route into the eu is by boat. this is the island of lesbos. one child died on monday while trying to reach lesbos. those who reach lesbos are then moved to camps. one of those camps is called moria. it‘s overcrowded, and people there have criticised the conditions. the government says it‘s going to close the camp and transfer people to a detention centre on the mainland. greek police say 1000 migrants have arrived on the eastern aegean islands since sunday. and this is how the coastguard has addressed the issue. this video emerged yesterday. the coastguards fire rubber—coated steel bullets into the sea to try and warn people off. they also used boat hooks apparently to repel migrants. that‘s illegal under

international law. tensions on lesbos are high. the bbc‘s gabriel gatehouse is in lesbos and sent us this. what‘s happening is the police trying to push everyone away from this area. there are a couple hundred migrants and refugees here. some of them who have come in the past two days, but many of them have been here for months if not years, and they‘re desperate. they are desperate to get off this island. i think they thought that there was a chance of a boat to athens, and that‘s why they all came out here. i don‘t think that‘s turned out to be the case. now they‘re all being pushed on. commotion earlier we saw scuffles and tensions have definitely been rising. notjust in the last few days but in the last month or so between the migrants and refugees

and the police on the one hand, but also between some local people who have been hosting these people now for five years. for have been hosting these people now forfive years. for one reason or another, maybe it‘s the newcomers from turkey, may be something else, but things have reached a bit of a tipping point. tensions are rising. turkeyjustifies its decision to allow people to push on to the eu by saying it cannot cope with the new wave of syrian refugees that‘s been created by escalating violence in idlib in syria. in 2016, turkey agreed to take in syrian refugees who‘d arrived on the greek islands during the peak of the refugee crisis a year earlier. in return turkey received $6.7 billion in eu funding. now though, president erdogan now says his country is at capacity. these figures explain why he might feel that way. turkey already hosts 3.7 million refugees, most of them syrians. another million syrians have fled to turkey‘s border since december. many are now living in huge

sprawling camps like this one, and president erdogan says the eu is not doing its fair share. he‘s been repeating that message over the past few days. no one has the right to play with turkey's on her. the eu still continues to practice double standards. turkey, which host the most number of rectory dues in the world, continues to provide international production to those who want production. —— most number of refugees. refugees are freed to lead the country and for to their destination. but the eu doesn‘t see it that way. greece has called turkey‘s move a "coordinated and massive nature" of illegal migration, and adds "instead of curbing the traffickers‘ channels of migrants and refugees, has itself turned into a trafficker."

here‘s the prime minister today. this is no longer a refugee problem. this is no longer a refugee problem. this is no longer a refugee problem. this is a blatant attempt by turkey to use desperate people to promote this political agenda. greece has introduced tough new measures for migrants, some of them controversial. here‘s jonah fisher on the greece—turkey border. lots of people are a bit worried about greece‘s decision to cancel the assessment of asylum claims here in greece. they have announced that if you get arrested here, having crossed the border illegally, you won‘t have your claim assessed and you will have to stay here in a detention centre. you are effectively being sent back right —— right back to turkey and that is in breach of most international conventions on how refugees should be treated. benjamin neta nyahu was

the winner of israel‘s election but — his party — and others allied to it — came out just short of the number of seats needed to form a government. so it‘s back to the negotiating table. that‘s something israel‘s politicians have been doing a lot recently, this was after all the third general election in less than a year after previous votes ended in deadlock. anna foster has this update from jerusalem it's interesting because the boats are still being counted at the moment. —— the boats. you were just talking about coronavirus. 0f moment. —— the boats. you were just talking about coronavirus. of course we had an education in israel on how to vote in the time of coronavirus. they had special polling stations set up. and what they are doing is actually counting those votes which are being double bagged, they been processed by people in full suits, gloves, masks. they been destroyed once they been counted. there are still those sort of 4000 or so votes

to be counted. soldiers both as well. you're not quite at the stage where benjamin can declare victory, even though he did that last night. what it's all about now is how he can try and get those extra seats that he needs. it not quite as easy asjust that he needs. it not quite as easy as just attempting an that he needs. it not quite as easy asjust attempting an mk that he needs. it not quite as easy as just attempting an mk for one other party. if you do that, you face sanctions. you can never be a deputy minister in the government. you wouldn't be able to stand again for any of the parties so it is difficult for him to do that. it's difficult for him to do that. it's difficult for him to do that. it's difficult for him to sway people over. he's got a lot of work to do if you want to try and form a government before he goes on trial in two weeks' time. just before i leave, we‘ve been talking about the virus across the hour. these are from you —— wuhan. this is how some people are saying hello. tapping foot is starting since shaking hands

is out. we will be back tomorrow with more updates. bye—bye. hello there. the first few days of the new month have been much quieter. it‘s been a case of sunshine and showers. however, as we head into the weekend, whilst no name storm, it will be turning wetter and windier and not more u nsettled wetter and windier and not more unsettled theme continues at least into the start of next week. we‘ve got a break from the sunshine and showers on wednesday. that area of low pressure is pushing a bit further north now and bringing with it cloud and rain. i had of that, we‘ve got a cold and frosty start. some sunshine, some patchy rain spilling from the southwest and heading through wales into the midlands. some snow over the welsh hills and perhaps into the peak district as well. and of that, we

look at some sunshine and scott lynch i was in the northwest. showers in southwest england and wales. —— scotland. that rain continues to move its way northward into northern england. not expecting huge amounts of rain. 10—15 mm or so. the rain will actually ease away during wednesday night and thursday morning. but we have another area of low pressure. this could bring some rain through the english channel into the far south of england. some heavier rain too. elsewhere it‘s sort of improving as you had further north, brightening up still. showers around mainly for scotland and northern ireland and temperatures around the x — 7 degrees for large parts of the uk. as we move away from the south, we will find some low pressure for the end of the week. no great big temperature changes, so it‘s very light and patchy rain for the most part. he‘ll snow over the hills in the north.

probably more weight to the showers coming in across the western side of the uk and again, some snow over the higher ground. temperatures again 7-8, higher ground. temperatures again 7—8, maybe 9 degrees. i into the weekend, we have a deeper area of low pressure approaching from the atlantic. the winds are going to be strengthening. some fronts are on the way. that first one will bring some thicker cloud, some drizzly rain mainly to the western hills. the second front looks more active. this will produce some heavier rain across scotland and northern ireland. later in the day over the irish sea, into western parts of england and wales. it will be windy with some mild when temperature is in double figures. however, more rain not good news. that ring to be quite heavy as it sweeps its way eastwards a cross quite heavy as it sweeps its way eastwards across england and wales on saturday night. —— rain. it‘s colder air coming in. on saturday night. —— rain. it‘s colderair coming in. strong to on saturday night. —— rain. it‘s colder air coming in. strong to gale force winds on sunday. it‘s sunshine and showers after that. those could be heavy with some hail and some

thunder. wintry over the hills in north. temperatures probably dropping more as the day goes on. for the outlook, as you can see here from our city forecast, there‘s no sustained smell of a dry weather. it looks very unsettled. the reason for thatis looks very unsettled. the reason for that is really a strongerjet stream that is really a strongerjet stream that across of the atlantic and that will be airing straight toward the uk. for the most part, it‘s on the colder side of thejet uk. for the most part, it‘s on the colder side of the jet stream. with that stronger jet stream, we will pick up another area of low pressure bringing some more rain early in the week, then back into the showers and probably another run upbringing so wet weather in from the atlantic later on. the wettest of the weather likely.

tonight at ten, the government unveils a detailed plan, for what would happen in the event of a widespread outbreak of coronavirus. it deals with a scenario in which one in five workers could be off sick, schools closed, and the armed forces called in to help. i fully understand public concern, your concern, about the global spread of the virus, and it is highly likely that we will see a growing number of uk cases. we‘ll be looking at areas of public life that could be affected — including major sporting events. injapan, the olympic authorities say this summer‘s games are still going ahead, despite the doubts of