thousands of people stuck on a cruise ship in hong kong have been cleared to embarq.eanwhilpassengers on a cash -- cleareddisembark to disembark. this is the hong kong department of health. >> the people on board were happy to disembark and head for home. i have to clean all my stuff outside my room first. world dream was put into quarantine after officials discovered several passengers on a previous cruise had teststed positive f for the coronavirus. hong kong health officials were worrieied some of the staff may have b been infected, but testsf the 1800 member c crew all camee back negative. >>>> passengers on board had no contact with the confirmed cases. that --der put intoong has also place a mandatory two week quarantine. for all arrivals from mainland china. anyone who disobeys could face up to six months in prison. meanwhile, on another r crse ship off the japanese coast, only the sicick can leave. japanese officials imposed a two week quarantine for those aboard the diamond princess after discovering a passenger who had and barked in hong kong tested positive

there is a cruise ship wandering around asia, trying to find a port to embarq.e will let them. shery: they tried while, awayand, they were turned on concerns that there might be people on board with the coronavirus. february 1.d it was supposed to be a 14 day trip. they still have fuel and supplies. i have seen a ship docked where we have more than 100 people, confirmed cases of the rotavirus. -- the coronavirus. given that it is such a close environment, the concern is, will people just be spreading it around to each other? romaine: there has been some criticism of the way beijing have responded. we are from the prime minister of singapore. shery: he reassured them, something that played out well throughout singapore. videoeased a nine minute on sunday and said the fear viruse more harm than the itself. this wasd people that not as deadly as sars. there were long cubes around -- es around singapore but after this was released, things returned more normal. on whether or not you should be wearing these masks, on closing the border. we have not seen quite the poli

we're all still here aren't we you know it's like the embarq nothing's happened you know the beginning. of the. course when the who has the truth of being in the thick of things that is appropriate to party. what is the atmosphere like now. just as you've joined me. not the crowd at least 50000 people just broke out into a rendition of god save the queen that i. just could see. she is sadly being good at singing was a bit of a shitload of parts of the quote. that you're of. course you have the 11 my transition period and they're off but it will have to really be shot so it's pretty different here just what exactly not all that we live in style but for many here at least the future represents one of opportunity but of course in other parts of the country. you will be much less sort of later you're not admitted i hear. the whole approach ronnie you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel very pleased very pleased i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally fro

hsbc to be clear, when embarq on its ceo search, the chairman said it could take up to a year. everything came with, his credentials, his experience at hsbc, you're right. the expectation was he will be a shoe in. now they are hearing more about how there external candidates in the mix, largely because of the reasons that i alluded to earlier. withs you need someone experienceive engineering large-scale acquisitions, that is something you would expect hsbc to look at, at least candidates with that experience. guy: this is a massive bank. i'm generally usually -- i am genuinely puzzled at what could be a transformative action for hsbc. sree: if you look at their business mix, 90% of their profits come from asia. a very large portion of that comes from greater china, a region that has been lurching from one crisis to the next in the past year. if you look at their footprint in singapore, for instance, or in australia and new zealand, those are areas where it could grow for sure. it does not have that kind of dominance in those markets. if you look at their asset management unit,

it is broad but immensely admirable experiment of which we are all embarq. >> we can't leave you without you telling the story of the trips he used to take with your parents as a young man. >> the station wagon from hell. [laughter] >> people don't do this anymore. i must have been about eight. i told you, the polite word is precocious. but i had four siblings. we used to go for a month every's -- every summer, we would get in the station wagon and do a section of the country. the midwest, the deep south. guess who gets to set the itinerary? it was all set around presidential gate -- gravesites, we found out where wilkie was buried, we had to pay our respects. that sort of thing. the only concession that we made to the others was they got a swimming pool in the evening. that was a formal study. there is no excuse -- there is nothing quite like being there. i don't know how you feel, but, andrew jackson who is not on my hit parade of presidents goes to hermitage and you will walk away from there with a much more vivid sense of who he was come including his limitations. >> how did you get