contagious among humans we have such evidence collected and will hunt to patients from the city guangdong had not been to but they caught the virus after their family members came back from. the double science correspondent atika williams has been on the story since the 1st this is what reporter derek welcome does it look like people have enough information on what precautions to take well the w.h.o. has posted an extensive list of things that people can do to protect themselves interestingly the consensus is still very much out on the masks whether or not they actually do protect you but the come these commonsense measures include things like for example avoid close contact with anybody who's suffering from acute respiratory infections or wash your hands frequently particularly if you had contact with someone who's been sick avoid unprotected contact with farm animals if you can if you possibly can practice cough etiquette a very very important thing when you're in public and you have to cough make sure that you catch that cough in a handkerchief or a tissue of some kind so they're not y

meantime the country's transportation lockdown has been transported to the city of guangdong. president xi jinping has ordered all pea, approximately 2,000 people torque be treated in centralized quarantine. globally almost 40 cases have been confirmed in more than one dozen countries and territories. now canada also has a suspected case as well. our david culver has been covering this story from the start. he's live in beijing. many developments here, david. where do you want to start? >> well, natalie, just in the past hour, we've got some significant developments, that coming from the national health commission. as you mentioned, president xi jinping has come out with this urgent order toward local officials in particular to by all means stop the spread of this virus. well, the health officials coming out with incredible numbers. i'm going to walk you through some they announced in the past hour or so. one, they're deployed 1,600 medical perns knell to the wuhan prorchs to treat those infected. that's in addition to the 1 3rkz 00 or so on the ground, both military and civil

meanwhile, the transportation lockdown has been extended to the southern port city of shan tu in guangdong province. ships, vehicles and people will be banned from entering or leaving the city beginning on monday. president xi jinping ordering all infected people, approximately 2,000 patients at this point, to be treated in what's called centralized quarantine. globally almost 40 cases have been confirmed in more than a dozen countries and territories, and it seems more every day. our david culver is live in beijing. david, you know, of course china often known for playing down bad news, but you have the president xi saying china is facing a grave situation. there's also ramped up action on the ground. what does all of this signal? >> reporter: he was very stern in his warning and in his orders to local provinces to carry out as many actions as possible to stop the spread of this virus. now, michael, i was just monitoring a press conference with the national health commission. the numbers here are staggering. here's what they're doing, and it's a rare press conference given we're in the mi

meanwhile, there are two patients in guangdong who have not been to wuhan, but caught the virus after. thus as of now, we can confirm the cases of the coronavirus being passed from person to person definitely exist. so the disease can spread from humans to humans. should this worry us? professor raina macintyre is an infectious diseases expert at the university of new south wales. it's always a concern when a virus can be transmitted between people, because that means it can spread much more easily than if it's just going from animal to human. and ms macintyre, this basically revives memories of the sars virus from 2002—04, which was also a coronavirus that killed more than 700 people. from your point of view, could this morph into sars, or even worse? well, the genetic sequencing of this new virus shows that it is most closely related to sars, as opposed to any other coronavirus. however, when we look at the death rate, the death rate from sars was in the order of 12%. and so far, there's only been three confirmed deaths from over 200 cases. so the death rate seems to be lower than w

on flights out of han in particular but we're already finding cases in shanghai for example or in guangdong where there are major international transit hubs and that's going to challenge not just the chinese authorities to contain it but also the regional and international ports as world to deal with this badly how much does the concern grow if the virus spreads to a poor country let's take me in more as an example of a country whose health sector is not as developed may not be able to respond as quickly. yes so i think that that's probably where the major concerns are because we are aware that countries that have a very developed a robust health infrastructure probably able to contain any cases that arrive in that country and identify them very quickly and trace any contacts and so the likelihood of of a disease spreading in a country like that is much more limited but if you take a country that doesn't have ready access to testing facilities that perhaps doesn't have the personality infrastructure to implement any kind of screening or monitoring of people who've arrived in the country and

be passed from person to person note by and it's usually some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other 111 where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu han late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of their passengers from move this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new lunar new year but many are also traveling overseas and from will higher and it's now possible to fly to 40 international destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just china's problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars severe acute respiratory syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong that 1st china's leaders asserted there had been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city

also that one don't you only on compared to patients and guangdong who had not been su hon.ut caught the virus after their family members came back from the lan xi you quite djallin going to be. there's been a sharp increase in confirmed cases now there's more than two hundred and twenty mosost of these in wuhuh. state media has reported that some medical workers helpiping patients with the virus have also been infected. the chinese president says curbing the outbreak is a top priority. it hasn't detererred millions from packing into trains a and headig homeme f for chinese new year bt people are worried. when i trust the government but i'm still scared because there's no cure for the virus. if i think it should be okay long as we take personal protection measures. to the t. out. in thailand's japan and south korea some people who visited wuhan have been reporteted infected the world health organizazation is hololding a meeting on wednesday to assess whether the outbreak is an international emergency. angola says old possible m meansill be used to bring back isabel dos santo

virus can be passed from person to person i mean that you saw some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other one where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu hand late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of air passengers from who had this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new lunar new year but many are also traveling overseas and from will hand it's now possible to fly to 40 international destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just china's problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars severe acute respiratory syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong at 1st china's leaders asserted there have been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city mayo

people are heeding the advice to wear face masks when they go out in public and across the border in guangdong province it's now mandatory to wear your face mask in public if you don't you face a possible possibility of being fined or even sent to jail. no sense of panic but is there is skepticism there about the information they're receiving from the mainland. absolutely and of course there is a very good reason for that china exercises very strict censorship and strict censorship is not what you need i guess during a public health emergency like this so people don't know what to believe because the trouble with censorship is that it does breed skepticism so certainly medical officials i've been speaking to here in hong kong don't necessarily buy all that they are being told they point out for instance that they believe this taurus actually 1st started to appear and there's evidence of this at the end of november but it wasn't until the end of december december 31st that medical officials. actually notified the world health organization we also know stan that between the 7th of january and th

we've got cases that were confirmed outside of the 1st time yesterday in beijing and in guangdong and now today we've got more potential cases in other provinces so we've got suspected cases in situ one in you 9 guangxi and chandon which are in different areas of the country so i think the concern is how fast this is spreading so we've heard from don't understand who is china's key expert on this and he admitted that that there has been human to human transmission and that in fact about a dozen medical staff who are treating patients have been infected and it's thought that it's it's potentially that they were infected by one person and he was mentioning that the priority now is to stop what he called super spread is one person who might be affected by the virus was potentially able to infect a number of people this is the peak travel season in china the government is always both of the during chinese new year you see between 2 to 3000000000 trips of people made across the country and rouhani as a city is not a small city it's about 11 has a population of that and 11000000 people who

that up to 20 cities could be affected of course at the moment we only have confirmed cases in in guangdong in shanghai and beijing and suspected cases in other provinces throughout china are also hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in australia as you mentioned earlier but also potentially in the philippines and katrina are really looking at the worst time of year for this to happen with chinese new year this weekend could this potentially get out of control. potentially i think that's why if this is a major concern for the government why president xi jinping on monday evening released a statement saying that this is going to be a priority for the government to make sure that the people have a safe and a stable chinese new year we have hundreds of millions of chinese traveling across the country and outside of the country for this major public holiday this is the christmas of china and millions of people going in and out and hunted self is a major transport hub a population of 11000000 people so the government know that this is also not this is really yes as you ment

that up to 20 cities could be affected of course at the moment we only have confirmed cases in in guangdong in shanghai and beijing and suspected cases in other provinces throughout china rosso hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in history earlier but also potentially live from this is a major concern for the government and why president xi jinping on monday evening released a statement saying that this is going to be a priority for the government to make sure that the people have a safe and a stable chinese new year we have hundreds of millions of chinese traveling across the country and outside of the country for this major public holiday this is the christmas of china and millions of people going in and out and hunted self is a major transport hub a population of 11000000 people well earlier i spoke to benjamin khouri who is a specialist on infectious diseases at the peter doherty institute for infection and immunity he says it's possible that the virus will mutate as it transfers between humans. all indications would suggest that this does is a virus that has cro

mainlandging on the and the central study of wuhan, north and beijing, and south in guangdong.hey are stepping up testing at ports and airports worldwide for symptoms that include fever and coughing. global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm su keenan. this is bloomberg. >> the international monetary fund is trimming its outlook for global growth, still seeing expansion this year but at a slightly weaker pace than previously. they said the economy will expand 3.3% this year, down slightly from its projection in october. >> in october, we were able to forup the economic forecast our judgment on the economy. now it is four words. stabilization, sluggish recovery. asiat's bring our chief economics correspondent. it was a pretty mixed bag. what was your take away? it felt like whatever positive aspects came out of the trade deal. >> lifting sentiment for everybody now. the survey shows that executives are still worried. the big takeaways were the imf seeing a lift, stabilization for

translation: this lady has come back from her hometown in guangdong. out, they want to be safe. children are staying inside and adults are only going out to buy food. hong kong is now waiting nervously to see what happens in the next few days, will the controls work, or will this epidemic spill across the border? root winfield hayes, bbc news, hong kong. half past ten here in the evening in brussels, which means by my calculations, 25 and half hours away from brexit happening, and let's try and consider where the eu is heading now that the uk is out. over the years, eu treaties have consistently contained a clause expressing the aspiration of achieving "ever closer union". back a few years, the uk's former prime minister david cameron unsuccessfully tried to remove the phrase when he was pursuing reform of the eu. questions remain about whether there ought to be a limit to that ambition. here's a tweet from the atlantic magazine's tom mctague. certainly the uk had enough sway that it negotiated opt outs of integration it wanted no part of — the euro be

information for this week, one pointed out to me that the majority of visitors come from beijing or guangdong where there has not been the outbreak mgm is proactively following government regulations vigilantly enacting hygiene pl they are prioritizing the health of their guests and of their employees, all the casino stocks in macao have taken a hit this woke mgm did gain back more than a percent of ground today. still the gaming analysts i talked to expect share prices to suffer more before they're on the mend the question is will the week's impact stretch on be enough to impact the quarter results brian. >> we'll find out contessa, thank you very much. anybody on the desk buying any of these casino stocks on this week >> no we talked about this earlier in the week and wynn resorts topped at 150 in the spring over the summer we said it's been in a strain from 105 to 150. held that 105 level. we talked about getting back to that that level. and that happened. despite it's got from 150 to 139 appear where it is in a straight line i don't see any compelling reason to buy this stock into earning

that up to 20 cities could be affected of course at the moment we only have confirmed cases in in guangdong in shanghai and beijing and suspected cases in other provinces throughout china rosso hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in australia but also potentially from this is a major concern for the government and why president xi jinping on monday evening released a statement saying that this is going to be a priority for the government to make sure that the people have a safe and a stable chinese new year we have hundreds of millions of chinese traveling across the country and outside of the country for this major public holiday this is the christmas of china and millions of people going in and out and hunted self is a major transport hub a population of 11000000 people security forces are trying to clear protestors in iraq is a new wave of demonstrations spreads across the country. in the southern city of basra police officers attempted to remove barricades while in baghdad protesters for back against security forces with rocks and fire bombs at least 5 protesters

in guangdong province, cinemas have been shut down for the entirety of the festival..t has been shut down. this is a way of trying to stop the situation from getting worse. the hope is it. it from escalating. hundreds of thousands of people left before the transport gate was put in place because of the five—day incubation period. they probably didn't know they were sick. they could have taken the disease to other tiny cities. let's get the latest from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon in glasgow what we know about the situation in scotla nd what we know about the situation in scotland is that five people are being tested here in scotland but they are being tested on a precautionary basis. we don't know if they are all in hospitals and don't know exactly which hospitals they might be in. it ensures some of them are here in the glasgow area and some of them are over in the lothians, around the edinburgh area. two of them presented to the health authorities after returning from wuhan and they have been diagnosed as having flu. it is of course the flu season. they ar

virus can be passed from person to person by means it's usual some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other one where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu hand late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of air passengers from who had this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new lunar new year but many are also traveling overseas and from will hand it's now possible to fly to 40 international destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just china's problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars severe acute respiratory syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong at 1st china's leaders asserted there have been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city mayo

can be passed from person to person not from the usual you some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other 111 where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu han late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus and. we interrupt that report to take you back to washington d.c. and will present and impeachment proceedings getting underway there let's listen in to what's going on in the senate. the sergeant in arms will make the proclamation. here you here you here e or persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment or the senate of the united states is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against donald john trump president of the united states. majority recognized lodges for the information of all senators the trial brief filed yesterday by the parties have been printed and are now at a huge senators. the following documents will be submitted to the senate for printing in the senate journal the precept issued january 16th 2020 the writ of summons i

virus can be passed from person to person note that usually some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other 111 where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu hand late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with the mandatory screening of air passengers from move this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new lunar new year but many are also traveling overseas and from will have and it's now possible to fly to 40 international destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just china's problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars severe acute respiratory syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong at 1st china's leaders asserted there have been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city m

in guangdong province, cinemas are closed for the entire period, and in shanghai they are preparing todisneyland. and in the province next to wuhan, other cities, more cities are following the lead of wuhan, shutting down all public transport. that means nobody coming in and out of those cities. even within the cities, nobody moving around. we've now had people who have died outside of wuhan as well. somebody in hubei province quite close to here, another person in the north—east. as people in wuhan have struggled to find a spot in the hospital, people have been sick and travelled elsewhere, so they have gone to shanghai or they have gone to dalian or beijing, seeking treatment. as they go, they have taken the virus with them. this is why the authorities are concerned that it could become much worse. that the real figure could be very quickly thousands of people infected rather than hundreds. and indeed, it is why other countries in the region are also concerned. earlier, the medical director for public health england, emeritus professor paul cosford, said it would be ‘highly likely‘ t

219 and we've got cases that were confirmed outside of the 1st time yesterday in beijing and in guangdong and now today we've got more potential cases in other provinces so we've got special cases in sichuan in you 9 guangxi and chandon which are in different areas of the country so i think the concern is how fast this is spreading so we've heard from john schon who is china's key expert on this and he admitted that that there has been human to human transmission and that in fact about a dozen medical staff who are treating patients have been infected and it's thought . it's potentially that they were infected by one person and he was mentioning that the priority now is to stop what he called super spread is one person who might be affected by the virus was potentially able to infect a number of people he's also recommended that anybody in watch who has symptoms be restricted from leaving. i think one of the things that is a comfort at the moment if there is any of that in this story is that all the people who have who are suspected have the virus or who have confirmed to have had the vir

is i think you know deepening concern more people now are wearing face masks across the border in guangdong province in fact the authorities now say that it's mandatory to wear a face mask when you go out in public when you go to a shopping mall on public transport if you don't you risk a punishment although what that punishment would be hasn't yet been specified thanks for that update that said adrian brown there in hong kong let's bring you more now on our top story the death of u.s. basketball star kobe bryant he's been killed in a helicopter crash just outside of los angeles marc spears is seeing n.b.a. writer for e.s.p.n. the undefeated and joins us now from oakland california thank you for your time mark are covers being honored at the grammys of same tributes are pouring in far and wide not just from the basketball world what is his legacy to you. this is a really hard day. this is something we should be talking about now or we're not only talking about you know an amazing basketball player but an amazing person somebody that was just on the start of her career in entertainment. and

be passed from person to person noted by them that you saw some cases happened in 2 places one in guangdong the other 111 where human to human transmission has been confirmed that the disease was 1st identified in wu hand late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of air passengers from who had this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new lunar new year but many are also traveling overseas and from will hand it's now possible to fly to 40 international destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just china's problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars severe acute respiratory syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong at 1st china's leaders asserted there had been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city mayor

in beijing, the temple fairs that you normally have at this time of year have been called off, in guangdongnemas closed for the entire period. in shanghai they are preparing to shut down disneyland. and in the province next to wuhan, other cities, more cities are following the lead of wuhan, shutting down all public transport. that means nobody coming in and out of the cities, even within the cities, nobody moving around. we now have people who have died outside wuhan as well, somebody in a province quite close to here, another person in the north—east. people in wuhan have struggled to find a spot in the hospital, people have been sick, they have travelled elsewhere, they've gone to shanghai oi’ elsewhere, they've gone to shanghai or beijing seeking treatment. as they go, they've taken the virus with them. this is why the authorities are concerned that it could become much worse, that the realfigure could be could become much worse, that the real figure could be very quickly thousands of infected rather than hundreds. and indeed, it is why other countries in the region are also concerned.

that up to 20 cities could be affected of course at the moment we only have confirmed cases in in guangdong in shanghai and beijing and suspected cases in other provinces throughout china are also hearing that this virus there might be some cases not only in australia but also potentially from this is a major concern for the government and why president xi jinping on monday evening released a statement saying that this is going to be a priority for the government to make sure that the people have a safe and a stable chinese new year we have hundreds of millions of chinese traveling across the country and outside of the country for this major public holiday this is the christmas of china and millions of people going in and out and 100 self is a major transport hub a population of 11000000 people. right americans of the biosecurity program at the institute at the university of new south wales joins us live from sydney by skype it's good to have you with us a critical thing here is that we've seen this now move from human to human transmission what are the risks now involved given that we've c

in guangdong province cinemas are all shot for the entire spring festival period.es and even within the cities, no public transport and these are the drastic measures that are being taken by the government here. to try and not fix this problem but restrict it, to try and make it not as bad as it might become. and the world health 0rganisation become. and the world health organisation has said frankly, they can understand why the chinese authorities are doing this. of course, the fear is that it could become like sars. in 2002, more than 600 people died, 8000 people infected. this time, the proportion of those who contracted the disease who have died is much smaller and they want to keep it that way. but they want to keep it that way. but the fear is that there are so many more people travelling now in china and abroad. six times as many people flying out of china every year than they were in 2002 when the sars outbreak occurred. and this is why there is a fear that this could become a global problem and by the world health organisation is still monitoring it. steph

from its origins in the central city of wuhan to the north in beijing and self to guangdong. authorities worldwide are stepping up testing in ports and airports for symptoms that include fever and coughing. meanwhile, the first day of the extradition case against huawei 's cfo has seen her defense team denounced u.s. fraud charges as a faÇade. lawyers say she should not be sent to the u.s., because her defense to not meet canada's legal test for extradition. the hearings are her first chance to avoid being sent to the u.s. where she is accused of lying to banks about huawei's links to iran. civil authorities in iran have released a second report into the downing of that ukrainian passenger point saying it was hit by two missiles after takeoff. all 176 people on board the boeing jet died when it came down outside tehran on january 8. iran initially blamed technical issues but later admitted the plane had been wrongly identified as a cruise missile. u.s. have the reached the truth on digital tariffs that will mean neither side imposes duties this year. tweeted thatron he and hi