robin brant, thank ou.ornia, with people waiting hours to be admitted to hospital and patients lining hospital corridors. many people travelled across the united states during the christmas period, fuelling the number of infections in the state. sophie long reports. the pressure on los angeles' health care system has reached new, dangerous and desperate levels. ambulance teams have been told not to take those unlikely to make it to hospital, and doctors must decide who should receive the shrinking supplies of oxygen. heartbreaking choices for medical workers and for the families of the hundreds dying here every day. nurse bernie duran is both. covid claimed his father leo's life just after christmas. when it happens to you and you see a loved one that you can't help, you can't hold their hand just so that they know that you're there for them, that was very, very difficult for me. the risk of contracting the coronavirus here in los angeles has never been greater than it is now. one in five people tested are

robin brant, bbc news, wuhan.stay at home for two days to halt the spread of an coronavirus outbreak. the government plans to test every resident in the densely populated area and process the results within 48 hours. those who test negative will then be allowed to return to work on monday morning. our correspondent in hong kong, martin yip, explained more about the outbreak. the record shows there is a small section of the chosen area, in the market, one year ago or two years before the pandemic, before the anti—government protests, there would have been a tourist spot with tens of thousands of people filling the street every night but today is filled with thousands of police officers and medical workers in full protective gear and residents in the area lining up in the street to be tested. on the president's order, the first is the pandemic broke out a year ago, the first is the pandemic broke out a yearago, wuhan the first is the pandemic broke out a year ago, wuhan was a starting point. one year on, this was th

our correspondent robin brant says there've been months of neogiations, raising suspicions that china resisted because they don't think this is necessary, china doesn't want to look back and focus on mistakes made, it wants to look forward as what it sees as success in containing this virus. it sees the potential for more of a blame game led by a group of foreigners and the chinese government has its official verdict on what happened, that paper was published in the middle of last year and the verdict there was success in winning the war against this virus. nonetheless, there has been intense global pressure of course, to address where this virus came from, and to answer that question about how it got into the human chain, because to make sure that there won't be a further fire, so to speak, going forward. so the team are here, they are going to be heavily reliant on their chinese hosts for access to public places like that market, a couple of miles over the river there in wuhan where we saw the first significant cluster, heavily reliant on chinese counterparts for access to research

the rest of the group will spend two—weeks in quarantine in a hotel. 0ur correspondent robin brant says suspicions that china may not be fully co—operating. the chinese authorities have resisted because they don't think this is necessary, china doesn't want to look back and focus on mistakes made, it wants to look forward as what it sees as success in containing this virus. it sees the potential for more of a blame game led by a group of foreigners and the chinese government has its official verdict on what happened, that paper was published in the middle of last year and the verdict there was success in winning the war against this virus. nonetheless, there has been intense global pressure of course, to address where this virus came from, and to answer that question about how it got into the human chain, because to make sure that there won't be a further fire, so to speak, going forward. so the team are here, they are going to be heavily reliant on their chinese hosts for access to public places like that market, a couple of miles over the river there in wuhan where we saw the first si

the first cases of covid—19 were found at a market in the city, and our china correspondent robin branthere it all started. a year on, the second—floor shops at huanan market are open. it looks like it's business as usual, but not everyone can get in. and there was very little sign of what happened beneath here on the ground floor. a cluster of the first cases were found here in december 2019. it was shut down, boarded up. investigators took samples, a clean—up quickly followed. what you see in there is a place frozen in time. it's boarded up on the ground floor and the sign over the entrance has been long ago taken down but somewhere in there, around one of those old stalls, is a place where the world first came to know about �*the virus�*. exactly a year ago today, the cooking stopped. she was one of wuhan's 11 million locked down, the city shut off from the world. this place is now known for one thing, and that's never going to change, but a year on, some here are convinced by china's propaganda. this city stopped exactly a year ago. it was a brutal solution to what went on to become

robin brant is in wuhan for us. why have there been so many delays?is is necessary, china doesn't want to look back and focus on mistakes made, it wants to look forward as what it sees as success in containing this virus. it sees the potential for more of a blame game led by a group of foreigners and the chinese government has its official verdict on what happened, that paper was published in the middle of last year and the verdict there was success in winning the war against this virus. nonetheless, there has been intense global pressure of course, to address where this virus came from, and to answer that question about how it got into the human chain, because to make sure that there won't be a further fire, so to speak, going forward. so the team are here, they are going to be heavily reliant on their chinese hosts for access to public places like that market, a couple of miles over the river there this in wuhan where we saw the first significant cluster, heavily reliant on chinese counterparts for access to research that has been carried out over t

robin brant is in wuhan.s facing a resurgence in the number of new locally transmitted cases. the authorities are very much focused on trying to peron up further outbreak. this team is focused on looking back and trying to work out how and where this whole thing started. now the two week period of quarantine for the ten member team and during that time we are told they will be in touch with chinese counterparts, videoconferencing every day and after that there will be a further two week period of fieldwork. they will visit the market not far from here where the original cluster of cases was found a year ago. will they go to the now infamous work and institute of urology? the place not far from here where the decades china has studied corona viruses. will they go further south to the province of yunnan, home to the cave where the bats live which are believed to be the original source of this coronavirus? at this stage we do not know. what we do know is that they are reliant on their chinese hosts for access to

our china correspondent, robin brant, is in wuhan. problematic. this team is here and they are ready to get going, and the key thing, as i think your clip alluded to, is what kind of access they are going to have, what kind of access to crucial places in wuhan and beyond, in other parts of china. and what kind of access are they going to have a research material which china has been gathering over the last year. wejust has been gathering over the last year. we just don't know at this stage what the answer to those questions are, but they will be crucial to the ability of these investigators to try and work out how it started, where it started, how it started, where it started, how it started, where it started, how itjumped from bats to possibly other animals and then humans, because that is what at the heart of trying to work out this problem. their arrival coincides with the first death from covid—i9 reported in china for quite some time. the authorities _ in china for quite some time. he authorities here in china for quite some time

quarantine in a hotel before visiting different sites under chinese supervision. 0ur correspondent robin brantestigation team to do there. it has taken a long time to get them here, it ended with two people staying in a hotel room under quarantine for a fortnight and then leaving. a baker team is here now and they're here for around a period of time up until the very end of theseissues of time up until the very end of these issues last week. and still deciding on dates and arrangements up deciding on dates and arrangements up until last week. they are now in quarantine for a period and that is the most significant question. what kind of access are they going to get and the city where the press reports of cases where. what kind of access are they going to get to research material. human and animal samples. the kind of data material that chinese authorities and chinese scientists have been gathering over the last year. the answer is we do not know at this stage. it may be because it's not been made public but maybe at this stage they don't know either. the research team arrived on the same day t

our china correspondent robin brant joins us live from wuhan. the oriainal are there, what happens next? well, the original plan _ are there, what happens next? well, the original plan was _ are there, what happens next? well, the original plan was to _ are there, what happens next? well, the original plan was to come - are there, what happens next? -ii the original plan was to come in july but that ended with two people sitting in a hotel for two weeks and then leaving. they are here now, there were technical hitches even last week in terms of visas and agreeing dates and arrangements, but they got here from singapore today and so the work starts now. it is a year since the outbreak. that's a significant period of time. one of the biggest questions here is not just what kind of access will they get, what kind of collaboration and cooperation will they get from their chinese hosts, their chinese counterparts and scientists, but what are they going to be able to see if and when they go to that market when we saw that first cluster of cases a year

in quarantine before visiting different sites under chinese supervision. 0ur china correspondent robin brantll be in a hotel under quarantine for two weeks. they will be daily conference calls with their chinese counterparts, and after that, and further two weeks of visits. the key question is access. what kind of access will they get two crucial places here in wuhan and possibly beyond across the rest of china, but what kind of access also get research material? the chinese side and authorities have been gathering over the last year. at this stage, we just don't know. all this is over the last year. at this stage, wejust don't know. all this is in the context as well of people on both sides talking about the science and how important it is, but at what we have here now and for several months is a very established propaganda campaign. china's state media talking about whether in fact the coronavirus outbreak even began here in wuhan or in china. was it in italy or spain earlier? that is designed to undermine the very reason that the who team are here in the first place. the pandemic is putti

our china correspondent robin brant joins us now from wuhan. robin, good to see you.rmation was coming out last ear, ., , , ., much information was coming out last ear. . , , ., ., much information was coming out last ear. ., , ., ., .., year. it has been a long time coming but they are — year. it has been a long time coming but they are here i year. it has been a long time coming but they are here now, i year. it has been a long time coming but they are here now, a i year. it has been a long time coming but they are here now, a year i year. it has been a long time coming | but they are here now, a year almost exactly since the outbreak began here in wuhan. this is a city back to normal, a handful of men fishing on the water's edge. they are here and looking back as to how the fire started so to speak with and i am trying to prevent a repeat of this global pandemic. it is a ten member team, they arrived about three hours ago. they are not going anywhere for two weeks because they had to quarantine. during that period there will be daily video conferences with their ch