thank you martin bentham and sian griffiths. goodbye.be decide slight update from bbc weather as they are watching storm that we can't have another storm approaching the uk. it's not going to just pass right across the uk tha nkfully to just pass right across the uk thankfully that we can't have another storm approaching the uk. it's not going to just pass right across the uk thankfully but it's close enough to bring a strong disrupted name throughout the weekend. had he said it would rain as well. it won't clear until the sunday. met office amber warnings for rain. lots of weather warnings. most high—profile are for rain across southern and western england. in southern scotland where that rain will be coupled with snow. a couple is not the landline and look at the warnings the way you the end of the night veins affecting southern england and wales. drying in the morning, it doesn't last very long before the rain pushes across all pipes and saturday. most persistent rain in afternoon. pushing through mud rain. east england getting windy

thank you, martin bentham and sian griffiths. goodbye. good evening.ts news. just one place to start. manchester city have been banned from european football for the next two seasons after being found to have breached licensing and financial fair play rules. the club say they are disappointed but not surprised by the ruling and intend to appeal. sam lee is the athletic‘s manchester city correspondent. the information coming our way towards the end of last year was that a decision was coming in december and that manchester city would not get a champions league and, potentially not even a fine. pa rt and, potentially not even a fine. part of that was there was confidence at the highest levels of the club that even if they did get a ban from the champions league they would be able to overturn it on appeal and i think that will be potentially hard to three and four of this situation. what surprises me, everything. everything. it did not seem towards the end of last year that city would be banned but now they have been and for two seasons. it is a huge case

professor sian griffiths and alexandra from the who. goes to a school in cornwall and recently came back from a ski trip in italy. and while we've been talking, it's been announced that the health secretary matt hancock will update mps on the coronavirus outbreak later today. he will make a statement to the house of commons after prime minister's questions and you can see that live on the bbc news channel. and if you want to get more of the facts on coronavirus, you can go to the bbc website — bbc.co.uk/health. i was on the nhs website this morning and it was really clearly written, well explained and seemed really sensible. coming up later in the programme. the grammy award—winning singer duffy has posted on her instagram account that she was raped and held captive for several days by an unnamed attacker. the welsh singer, who had disappered from the limelight, also said she was ok and safe now. and we've been out with new recruits on the latest initiative to train thousands more detectives. we have a big shortfall across england and w

with me are martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard and sian griffiths, education many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the mirror leads with a story that prince andrew stayed with a fashion tycoon who's accused of raping ten women. the mail has the same story — of prince andrew links to the billionaire peter nygard. the guardian leads with a new police scheme that has reduced reoffending rates, and could transform how the justice system deals with violent crime. the express looks ahead to storm dennis — which is expected to bring torrential rain and 80 mile per hour gales across the uk tomorrow. the i headlines the same story — as the met office issues weather warnings for large areas of the country tomorrow. the independent says borisjohnson has cancelled a planned trip to the us amid tensions with donald trump over the decision to allow huawei a role in the uk's 5g network. let's start our discussion with the mirror. and also a story being covered with the daily mail. mirror. and also a story being covered with the daily maillj mirror. and also a story

professor sian griffiths chaired hong kong's inquiry into the sars epidemic in 2003.changed since then and how sars compares with the covid—19 strain of coronavirus. the difference between sars and this virus is in the scale, but sars was a coronavirus. this is a coronavirus. and the viruses seem to behave in a fairly similar way and that they're spread through droplet spread. this virus is more infective, and can be quite mild. 80% of cases are thought to be quite mild. it may be even more, because some people may not even report that they've had the infection. sars taught us that we need to share information, and we are sharing globally information, which is why you're able to report today about korea and italy, that we understand the spread of disease globally. sars taught us that we need scientists to pull together to understand the disease, clinicians to pull together to understand how the disease plays out once people have caught it, and you've seen much more communication. and again, i think sars taught us that we need to keep the public updated with scientific

another look at the papers with martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard and sian griffithscation editor at the sunday times. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the premier league champions, manchester city, have been banned from the champions league for two seasons by european football's governing body, uefa. they have also been fined £25 million pounds for serious breaches of uefa's club licensing and financial fair play regulations. manchester city say they are disappointed but not surprised, and will appeal the decision. olly foster has the latest from manchester city's etihad stadium. the main accusation is that they overinflated, how much money in revenue they were getting from the main sponsor, etihad airlines. the convocation, the grey area here, is that etihad are owned by the club's owners, the ruling family from abu dhabi. now, the £25 million fine, they are not going to worry about that. a drop in the ocean really. but what is really going to hurt is european exclusion from uefa competitions, kicked out of the champions league. that is the one trophy in this r

to tell us more is professor sian griffiths, a public health expert who co—chaired the hong kong government'sews. first off, as you have been watching the coronavirus story canal, what has been paramount in your mind? i think paramount would be that inevitably, the cases are starting to spread, once we saw the cases coming up from china then we saw the epicentre and a very korea, and iran. it became almost inevitable that it was affecting other countries. at the current time the world health organisation are telling us that because we can see the chain spread for most of the cases this does not qualify as a pandemic and we still have a very narrow window of opportunity to contain the disease. but i think one of the phrases i heard from the world health organisation directed generalised that to be needed and all government, also cite the approach meaning we need to try to contain the disease as far as possible. and be prepared to begin to spread a more alarming rate. yes, doctor michael ryan said this is a reality check. you need to be ready, speaking to countries around the world. how does wh

guestsjoining me tonight are martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard and sian griffiths. it is approaching 7:19pm. the headlines on bbc news... within the last few minutes, manchester said has been banned from competitions for two seasons, and find a £25 million for breaching fairplay rules. the uk prepares for more torrential rain and winds of up to 80 mph. storm dennis is expected to batter the uk this weekend. a landmark free speech victory at the high court, for a man who was warned by police about allegedly transphobic messages on social media. a high courtjudge has ruled that police acted unlawfully when they turned up at a man's workplace after he posted comments online about transgender people. harry miller took the humberside force to court after they recorded his tweets as a hate incident, despite conceding that he'd committed no crime. the judge said the force's actions were "disproportionate" and that britain didn't have gestapo or stasi—style police. clive coleman's been following the case. emerging victorious. former policeman harry miller, whose comments o

guestsjoining me tonight are martin bentham, home affairs editor at the evening standard and sian griffithseditor at the sunday times. sam lee is with us. thank you for joining us here and bbc news. what surprised you on this decision by uefa 7 surprised you on this decision by uefa? well, where to start? certainly the information flowing my way, our way towards the end of last year was that a decision was first of all coming in december and that manchester city would not be getting a champions league band potentially not even a fine. part of that was there was confidence at the highest levels of the car that even if they did geta levels of the car that even if they did get a band from the champions league, they would be able to overturn it. i guess that will be potentially part two, part three or pa rt potentially part two, part three or part for the situation. but what surprises me, everything. absolutely everything. it did not seem towards the end that city were going to be banned but of course they have been and for two seasons. it is just a huge case. i suppose manchester city think th

thank you very much, professor sian griffiths.for some of us are looking quite wintry, not exclusively across the hills. quite a lot of hail out of some of the showers in the south—west, they are pretty lively and staying that way through this afternoon, tracking further eastwards. gusty winds in the south—west and along the south coast, more showers across northern england tucking into the midlands and east anglia, further showers for northern ireland, northern and western scotland. through the evening, a messy rush hourfor the south—east, showers in the east tending to clear overnight, whereas in the west they will keep piling m, in the west they will keep piling in, up to 80 centimetres of snow on high ground. ice could be a problem just about anywhere. still showers for england and wales first income but generally clearing up as the day goes on, continuing across scotland and northern ireland, chilly, factor in the wind, temperature is a bit deceptive, feeling closer to 2—3d when you step outside. hello this is bbc newsroom li

professor sian griffiths, thank you for your thoughts on that story this morning. patients in england have tested positive for coronavirus bringing the total number of cases in england to 17. if you take into account the case in northern ireland and the case in wales that we have been told about this morning, it brings the uk total to 19. this information coming from the england chief medical officer professor chris whitty. more detail on this, in terms of the welsh case, which the chief medical officer for wales has been announcing this morning, the person there had been diagnosed with the virus after travelling back from italy. 0n the latest two cases in england, we know both patients contracted the virus in iran, which is another hotspot, a global hotspot for coronavirus, as we have been telling you this week. concerns that iran had not been dealing with the outbreak of the virus as other countries had. so both these two new cases in england, the patients contracted the virus in iran. for the case in wales, the patient contracted the virus in italy. we can now g

let's speak now to sian griffiths. of hong kong, and chaired the hong kong's government inquiry into the sars outbreak. thank you for being with us. what do you make of the way the chinese authorities have handled this whole crisis? i think that it's a double side because initially, we thought we we re side because initially, we thought we were getting all the information from wuhan but it shows that we now know we were getting an earlier. once the central authorities understood the size and problem across the illness they were dealing with, they did make available immediately, they do what the virus was which enabled the work that's been going on over the vaccine and understanding the mutations of the virus. i think now we are getting much better information, but obviously wuhan is under a lot of stress. the change in the case definition signifies that there may be many more cases which we had suspected anyway. people have been talking about these undiagnosed cases. some may be more serious and that's why be seen this

let's speak to professor sian griffiths, who chaired hong kong's inquiry into the sars epidemic in 2003rive at the moment is to contain the disease where it occurs. so there is an outbreak in this area of lombardy, where the mayor has thrown a ring around 50,000 people. i think it is to communities, to actually stop people travelling in and out to try to contain the virus there because they have had a couple of deaths and they have seen an increase in the number of cases. this action is very much a microcosm of the action taken in china and its debts with the who'5 policy of containment. trying to contain the disease because this is a highly infectious disease. it has been found to be not as serious a science. it is about 80% of people seem science. it is about 80% of people seem to be recovering, but we are still in the early stages, so we don't really know about the disease and we need to keep learning about it, so the advice at the moment is containment. we have seen in italy football match is cancelled, public areas closed. we are seeing pictures now of people wearing masks. how wil