kentaro iwata is a professor of infectious diseases who has previously worked on the fight against ebolai felt much safer when i was in africa. because you know where the virus doesn't exist. and you know where the patient is. but inside the diamond princess, you have no idea where the virus is. we are seeing people disembarking from the ship and mixing with the general population. how concerned are you by that? very concerned. this is one reason why australia, canada, britain are now insisting their nationals must go through another 14 days' quarantine when they return home. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, yokohama. matthew smith is an american passenger still on board the ship. he hasn't been allowed to leave because he is waiting to find out if he is clear of the virus. it explains how he is feeling after spending so long in quarantine. well, as you can imagine, it is wearying to have been confined to a small space, basically a bedroom and a living area. we've taken... it's been easierfor us because we know we have it much better than passengers in smaller caverns, than passengers i

kentaro iwata is a professor of infectious diseases who has previously worked on the fight against ebola. i felt much safer when i was in africa. because you know where the virus doesn't exist. and you know where the patient is. but inside the diamond princess, you have no idea where the virus is. we are seeing people disembarking from the ship and mixing with the general population. how concerned are you by that? very concerned. this is one reason why australia, canada, and now britain are now insisting their nationals must go through another 14 days' quarantine when they return home. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, yokohama. let's have some breaking news now. eight breaking news now. people have been killed eight people have been killed in separate shooting incidents in the german town of hanau. it is 25 kilometres east of frankfurt. our correspondent joins us online now from berlin. according to german media, shots were first fired in a shisha are in town and that is where it seems the first people we re where it seems the first people were killed. after that eyewitnesses say that o

kentaro iwata is a professor of infectious diseases who has previously worked on the fight against ebolawhen i was in africa. because you know where the virus doesn't exist. and you know where the patient is. but inside the diamond princess, you have no idea where the virus is. we are seeing people disembarking from the ship and mixing with the general population. how concerned are you by that? very concerned. this is one reason why australia, canada, and now britain are now insisting their nationals must go through another 14 days' quarantine when they return home. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, yokohama. a lawyer forjulian assange says president trump made an offer to pardon the wikilea ks founder if he said russia was not involved in leaking e—mails from america's democratic national committee during the 2016 election. the bbc‘s rich preston has this report. the e—mails were released by wikileaks injune and july 2016, just months before the us presidential elections. they were hugely embarrassing and seen as massively damaging to the democratic presidential nominee, hillary clinton

. >> reporter: the most scathing criticism from infectious disease expert kentaro iwata, who took to youtube to express his outrage over what he saw on a visit to the ship. >> no green zone, no red zone. everywhere could have virus. there was no single professional infection-control person inside the ship. >> reporter: iwata has dealt with both ebola and sars outbreaks and is now in self-quarantine. >> i'm very scared of getting infection myself, and very scared of infecting my family, too. >> reporter: professor of asian studies at temple university in tokyo, jeff kingston says the government's shoddy crisis management on the cruise ship is of concern ahead of the summer olympics in japan. >> they released all the people who tested negative. this may be an epic mistake on the part of authorities. >> reporter: globally, new pockets of infections have also sprung up, with the most troubling in south korea. the majority of them are linked to a church in daegu. worshipers have been confined to their homes. schools have been closed, and the u.s. military base in the area has restricted t

rupert wingfield hayes spoke to professor kentaro iwata — an infectious disease specialist at kobe universitytine procedures. for safety reasons, rupert conducted the interview via skype. i was surprised to see the mixture of what we call the red zone and the green zone, which is a clean zone, free of virus, because this is the the first thing we do in infection control measures everywhere in the world. you deal with ebola, you deal with sars, you have to distinguish between where the virus doesn't exist and where the potential for the virus could exist. and i was so scared that anybody could have a virus, that everywhere could be contaminated by a virus. so i got shocked, and i was scared of having infection, and i still am scared of developing the disease in the next couple of days. how would you go about setting up a green zone and a red zone in a cruise ship? the easiest way is to put everywhere in the cruise as a red zone, so you can remove every headquarters which is inside the cruise ship right now to outside the cruise ship. there, it's a virus—free environment, so you could do any ki

infectious disease expert kentaro iwata visited the "diamond princess" and was scathing on youtube how the epidemic was handled. >> there was nobody in charge of infection. infection prevention. >> reporter: of the 300 americans that were evacuated from the "diamond princess" nearly all of a group of 13 quarantined in omaha have tested positive for the virus. in the crisis epicenter of wuhan millions have been on lockdown for nearly a month. british citizen conor reid is trapped in a city where he tells us war time measures are in place. you can only go outside briefly every three days. food has to be ordered by a group messaging system. >> we purchase all our food on that platform and from there they get delivered to the central community area, so to speak. >> reporter: there's a lot at stake for japan should the olympics be disrupted. they already spent $28 billion on infrastructure including building this stadium and there's about $6 billion in sponsorships. >> debora patta in tokyo. thanks. >>> a man survived a fiery inferno in indiana thanks in part to the heroic action of a new m