rod dennis, thank you. m dennis n your area, you can find out more, on your local bbc online pages. or, tune in, to your local radio station. the us government says it‘s sending two aircraft to japan on sunday to evacuate american citizens quarantined on board a giant cruise ship in the japanese port of yokohama. there are now 355 cases of the coronavirus infection from the ship. china has insisted the outbreak of the virus is gradually coming under control after the latest figures showed a drop in the number of new cases for the third consecutive day. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes is in yokohama where the virus infected ship is in port. presumably that is it behind you. the situation on board seems to have got worse, not just the situation on board seems to have got worse, notjust because people have been stuck for days on end. presumably the food is more basic than they started with, and they are bored, it is the spread of the virus seems to be getting worse. that is right. that is the diamond p

we will hear more from rod blagojevich during a news conference outside his chicago home at noon eastern time. in the meantime, dennis desousa was pardoned by donald trump and says it doesn't matter if blagojevich was guilty. it only matters if the punishment truly fits the crime. >> justice is not just a matter of did you do it. if you are speeding and some gives you three years in prison, of course you did but the penalty is disproportionate. even in the mike wilkin case, mike milken was the poster boy in the 1980s. a lot of people on wall street hated him and he became a political target and they got him. blagojevich i don't doubt he was part of a cesspool of corruption in chicago but looks like he was singled out and targeted and the penalty grossly disproportionate so i think trump is say enough is enough. i'm not going to pardon blood go eventually it is not that he didn't do something wrong but he got something in excess of what he should have gotten. >> blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. he served we 7. more on this later in the show as well. new overnight a new case of coronavirus confi