europe in the coming week as people are traveling away from ok we'll have to leave it there passive penton head of the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm thank you for joining us here and. let's get around about some of the other stories making headlines thousands of iraqis demonstrated in central baghdad after a prominent cleric called for a 1000000 strong protest against the u.s. military presence of the country the cleric outsider opposes all foreign interference in iraq but has recently shown a closer alliance with iran. u.s. president trump says he will likely launch his long awaited middle east peace plan early next week trump was returning to washington from the world economic forum when he told reporters he believed his plan would be successful. a massive explosion has ripped through a building in houston texas and the blast injured at least one person and shattered windows across the district local reports say it occurred at an industrial site that's owned by a machining and manufacturing company. swarms of locusts are eating their way across large par

europe in the coming week as people are traveling away from ok we'll have to leave it there posse penton head of the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm thank you for joining us here and. now to some other stories making news around the world thousands of iraqis rallied in central baghdad after a prominent cleric called for a 1000000 strong protest against america's military presence in the country the cleric sattar opposes all foreign interference in iraq but has recently aligned himself more closely with iran. u.s. president trump says it is likely he will launch his long awaited middle east peace plan early next week trump was traveling back to washington from the world economic forum when he told reporters he believed it was a great plan that really would work. a massive explosion has ripped through a building in houston texas the blast shattered windows across the district but it's not yet known whether anyone was hurt local reports say it occurred at an industrial site owned by a machining and manufacturing company. german chancellor angela merkel has ar

american individuals which was imminent embassies potentially about to be attacked and we had to penton refusing to concede anything all we any closer to knowing the facts and. i don't think so as one of the senators put it he said we're not seeing evidence of this and that's had because i suspect that the evidence doesn't even exist and this is not only democratic senators and members of congress some republicans also from congress have been coming out against the administration basically asking for the justification of this massive aggression now they're warning might have retaliated once in a way to not as delayed this one specific at result but the proxy war is not going to go away and not something that's basically the big question here critics of the administration also asking and there's new reports by the way. and you see reports today that if i am president of the assassination 7. and so i got conditioned but now we're hearing all of these contradictory reports and statements from the administration that don't really match the initial adjust the vacation that they basically gav

let's get some more analysis on the story now we can speak to passy penton and he's the head of the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm pasi thank you for joining us as we saw there china is expanding its lockdown including more cities is this an effective way to contain the virus or is it coming too late. well these are very drastic measures that the chinese authorities have decided to take in response to this relatively large and rapidly evolving outbreak that they have on their hands these are measures that would could not be done in european. context. and they are taken with great expense to to the local and chinese governments as well as the economy in general in these cities. this is very much done to to minimize the possibility of infectious individuals appearing in other cities in china but also in other cities globalise so the chinese authorities are taking these measures very much to protect the global community. that's what makes this virus sell serious i mean how does it compare to regular winter flu outbreaks for example. so 1st of all this pirates ha

well joining us now is the posse penton in head of the european center for disease prevention and controln stockholm it's good to have you on the show we know that authorities in the origin of this outbreak they've just announced that transportation networks will be suspended airports train stations will be closed is this the right thing to do to contain the virus. well this is this is news to me actually so very interesting to hear that. in a country like china the public health authorities and alterity is have the possibility to to put in place quite drastic measure it to contain important outbreaks like the ones that we are looking at at this stage what we know of the virus itself and of the epidemiology so far as well as what the chinese authorities have announced is that this virus is spreading human to human we don't know how effectively to spread spreading human to human. and any measures that can decrease the contacts between ill individuals and the population in general are likely to have some kind of impact on to the transmission of this virus however these are dressing measures

europe in the coming week as people are traveling away from ok we'll have to leave it there posse penton head of the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm thank you for joining us here and. thank you let's check in now on some of the other stories making news around the world an anti-government protest that's taken place in the iraqi capital baghdad demonstrators want to bring attention back to domestic issues after the tensions caused by the killing of iranian general counsel of money and a senior iraqi militia leader by the u.s. . president trump a sad it's likely to launch his long awaited middle east peace plan for early next week trump is traveling back to washington from the world economic forum when he told reporters he believed it was a great plan that really would work. and at least 7 people have been killed in a fierce winter storm that has been battering spain for several days that's caused major flooding and brought extreme temperatures the regions of catalonia and the islands have been at the worst hit. german chancellor angela merkel has arrived in

the thousands filled the streets of paris in protest against controversial penton changes and from president presented his plan for reforming the system to his cabinet on friday. described as an experiment until the u.k.'s national health service is under attack in a bust of its kind legal challenge for prescribing a life changing drug to youngsters to change that child into a leading claimant explains why this latest case is so unique. this isn't looking at when asking young children. to consent to an experiment treat can be and can sense if we also don't know the outcomes the full side effects of what's going to happen to the. united nations where it counts refugees the right to asylum if they are threatened by environmental dangers the decision is creating fear in europe of mass immigration and we put the issue of the debate. that's just another way till a century exploited the un to advance borders and you know even of the most obvious level i come from leave and he was one of the kind of go people will be on the move and we have to start talking about how we deal with this. bringing you

westbound traffic on the penton street. now the weather with elizabeth rizzini.celsius. a bit of everything going on today really. it's a cloudy start, some early outbreaks of rain. it'll stay quite windy as we head through the morning, then the winds will ease down. some brightness and some sunshine, and then some showers as we head towards dark. these early outbreaks of rain are going to move their way south—eastwards as we head through the morning. an awful lot of cloud around. a very brisk south—westerly wind, gradually easing down. through the afternoon, some sunny spells developing and some cooler air by the time we get to the end of the day, when there could also be heavy thundery showers pushing in from the south, so watch out for those. and they're likely to rumble on as we head through the evening rush hour. gradually moving their way eastwards as we head through the night. so it will turn out to be a dry start to the day tomorrow. we've got more of a north—westerly wind. much cooler air, overnight lows of 4—5 celsius. tomorrow should stay dry and there