and filipino superstar lea salonga talks to us about stage, screen and singing. # a whole new world # but way up here, it's crystal clear that i am in a whole new world with you...# live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. its newsday. -- its. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in wuhan in china, the centre of an outbreak of a newly discovered virus which is spreading across the country. the chinese authorities have now confirmed the virus has passed from person to person. the world health organization will convene its emergency committee this week to discuss whether it constitutes an international public health emergency. here's our medical correspondent, fergal walsh. it's official. china's mysterious new virus can pass from person to person. health authorities there are urging the public not to panic. most cases have come as a result of direct contact with animals, but human—to—human transmission means this virus is potentially a far bigger threat. the outbreak centres on the city of wuhan, population 11 million, where the sourc