Takes off today. But some big names are missing in action. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, the tv audience for sunday nights oscars hit an all time low. So wed like to hear from you why do you think that is . Are you bored of awards ceremonies . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Join the conversation. The authorities in china say the coronavirus epidemic has now killed more than a thousand people. On the highest day of mortality so far, hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, registered one hundred and three deaths. An advance team of medical experts from the World Health Organization has arrived in china to try to answer the many unresolved questions about the epidemic. The who is also holding an International Conference in geneva to try to accelerate the development of drugs and vaccines to help fight the virus. Gareth barlow reports. Bussed from their homes and into quarantine, hong kong on high alert after confirming more cases of the coronavirus. One day after the chinese president xijinping made one day after the chinese president xi jinping made a rare public appearance amid the rate, beige and confirmed more than 1000 have now died from the virus and more than 42,000 people are known to have been infected. A key component of the authorities efforts to contain the is 14 days quarantine. For people subject to 14 days quarantine, i understand sometimes it is difficult to stay at home for a full two weeks. But they are doing a service for this fight against the virus. By staying at home. Around the world, 25 countries have reported cases of the coronavirus. In new york, this robot was warning people about the disease. Your health may be at risk. I recommend you visit a doctor. In the uk, emergency laws have been introduced to allow forcible detention to keep people in quarantine. Today, the World Health Organization is convening in two day meeting in geneva to accelerate the development of drugs, diagnostics and vaccines. But despite the clamour to contain the coronavirus, the who says it is important to put the outbreak into perspective. We have to strike the right level of alert because it is important the world knows that there is a new disease but at there is a new disease but at the same time we have to balance this. The show must go on. People must get up and go to work. Our economy and our civilisation, our society cannot be paralysed this. Tea m cannot be paralysed this. Team from the who has arrived in china to work with authorities to gain a greater understanding of the virus and how it affects people. The hope will be with the number of new infections having decreased on monday, alongside a concerted effort to the public and professionals that there is the potential to gain control over this deadly disease. Our correspondent nick beake is in hong kong. I understand there have been evacuations under way in hong kong today. That is right. Hong kong today. That is right. Hong kong is one of many cities desperate for them not to be a major outbreak in their particular city. As we heard in that report there they have been taking precautions, in particular dozens of people removed from one particular tower block because two people had tested positive for the new coronavirus. Even though they did not live on the same level, authorities or they may have been a risk that the disease could be moved through the various piping or some of the internal infrastructure of the building and the reason they are so building and the reason they are so worried is because they look back 17 years ago to the sars outbreak year which really hit hong kong hard and that is one of the things they have been doing to try and stop the spread of the disease. At the moment in hong kong what is the mood like in regards to concern about this and how debilitating is it because of that was to mark people are concerned and, asi mark people are concerned and, as i say, it may have been 17 yea rs as i say, it may have been 17 years ago, that outbreak, but people remember that nearly 300 people remember that nearly 300 people he died the people are taking our precautions. There is information about good hygiene and washing your hands, that kind of thing and people are aware. But everyone has one eye on mainland china, like we all do, and the news overnight was not good that 1000 people have now died after contracting the coronavirus. 103 people in harbour province, the epicentre of this virus are they reported to have died in a single day. I should tell you is that authorities there say the number of new cases fell by 20 day on day and of course the caveat there is that we must rely on the word of the authorities. But if that is to be the case, a promising sign. President xijinping has been out and about donning a facemask in white overalls, entering hospitals to thank the medical staff for their efforts and insisting that china will win this battle. We know it is an almighty battle that they do face. Thank you very much for 110w. New hampshire is now in the spotlight, as voters in the us state get ready for tuesdays primary, on the heels of that chaotic caucus in iowa. President trump has been holding a rally in New Hampshire as the democrats competing to take him on, also try to hunt down every last vote. Chris buckler reports from New Hampshire. President ial hopefuls spend millions of dollars trying to win the New Hampshire primary. It is still early in this series of state by state votes that are being used by the democrats to select a challenger to donald trump. At two candidates hope that here they can cement their permission that my position as a front runner. So far, vermont senator Bernie Sanders seems to have captured the progressive vote and Pete Buttigieg is leading the moderates. It is clear thatjoe bidens Campaign Sees him as a threat. Joe biden helped lead passage. They released an attack ad. He installed equity flights under bridges. Mocking mr buttigieg and his achievements of their ofa and his achievements of their of a small city in indiana. President trump is watching the fight and stalking his potential opponents. In New Hampshire, he held a packed rally on the eve of the primary and launched his own attacks on all democrats. My only problem is im trying to figure out who is im trying to figure out who is their weakest candidate stop i think they are all week. The president ial election is still months away but it is clear for donald trump that the fight has already begun and thats even though the democrats are only starting the long process. We will be live to New Hampshire shortly to talk some more about that event taking place later today. Lets brief you on some of the other stories making the news. Final results in irelands general election has confirmed a political earthquake. The left wing nationalist party, sinn fein, has won more votes than either of the two long dominant centrist parties, fianna fail and fine gael. Its now the second Largest Party in parliament. Greece has announced plans to open new migrant detention centres on outlying islands, as it tries to speed up the asylum process for more than 40 thousand applicants. A greek government spokesman described existing camps as anarchic, and said the new centres would be controlled, closed facilities. Aid agencies and the United Nations are warning that up to six Million People in yemen a fifth of the entire population are being denied desperately needed aid because Houthi Rebels are stopping it getting through. The houthis, backed by iran, control much of the north and west of the country. Theyve been fighting the government backed by saudi arabia, the us and the uk for the past five years. Our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has been given rare access to yemen, and reports now from hajjah. A frontline of hunger. This is hajjah, yemens north west, lives broken by war and want of everything. At a un food hand out, anger explodes. Hungry, hungry, this man shouts. And his friend says, we dont have houses, we dont have anything. Now, even this aid may be at risk. Theres talk of a suspension or scaling back in response to unprecedented houthi obstruction. There are literally millions of people who need assistance across all of yemen who are not receiving this because of bureaucratic impediments, because the agreements that they need to reach with the authorities are not being signed because these agreements are being delayed. The impact on people is simply enormous. In the houthi controlled north, aid workers told us of their frustrations and fears, too worried to speak on camera. One shared these words. There is now an extremely hostile environment for aid workers, they said. More and more of our National Staff are threatened, detained and harassed. We face interference, they said, in everything we do. This is one of many battle grounds, un warehouses. The houthi official in charge of aid in hajjah brought us here, to the place where the un says its food was looted. He wanted to show us this cockroaches and tattered sacks, proof, he says, of un failings. We see this too. Look at the date. Good food, sitting here for months, says the un, without permits to deliver it. Translation we are not interfering in the distribution of the World Food Programme aid. They are just making excuses for their mistakes. Blaming the government is not reasonable or acceptable. Another warehouse, more goods waiting to clear. The houthis say they want more control over this aid, even a levy on aid budgets, red lines for humanitarians. In the midst of the worlds worst humanitarian crisis, theres another growing and deeply worrying crisis, arguments over the very distribution of this life saving aid that millions of yemenis rely on. If this isnt resolved soon, more lives could be lost. A treacherous mountain road, a truck tipped over, an angry scramble to salvage precious food. A week of tough choices about how to save the worlds biggest humanitarian mission. Lyse doucet, bbc news, hajjah. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come in it to win it our sports team will have all the latest including this intriguing winter event where taking part is more important than getting to the finish line. Theres mr mandela. Mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. Irans spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini has said hes passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. The people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks for the ousting of their former president , ba by doc duvalier. Because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special, secure box in the stud farms central block. Shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. There stepped down from the plane a figure in mourning. Elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories. Head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. Youre watching the briefing. Our headlines the World Health Organisations holds a special two day meeting to accelerate the development of vaccines to contain the new coronavirus. Campaigning for crucial votes democratic president ial candidates blitz the new hamsphire state ahead of the first primary election. Lets stay with that now. Michael ceraso has worked on three democratic president ial campaigns and is the founder of consultancy winning margins. Hejoins us from New Hampshire. Do tell. What do you think might happen at this primary . It is all to play for, isnt it . I believe so. And if you think about, a little over a week ago in iowa, anybody thought the result of iowa were going to determine a lot of a lot of the momentum that were going to New Hampshire and that didnt happen. There were a lot of issues that came out of iowa, a lot of uncertainty. So i feel New Hampshire is a reset and soa i feel New Hampshire is a reset and so a lot of candidates who may have been dead on arrival coming into the New Hampshire primary, now get a chance to make their case to voters and with the media looking on, there is a lot of uncertainty and a lot of possibilities that can come out of the primary tomorrow. And how has the mess in iowa impacted this race, do you think . I think there was a reset. I think iowa, people thought it would be the start of momentum, but Bernie Sanders winning more votes and there was a lot of uncertainty around the process. A lot of voters outside of iowa it saying, wait, who actually won . You are going into New Hampshire now and New Hampshire has a lot more of a simplistic process. You go in, you pick up a printed ballot and you vote and at the end of the day, the ballots are cast, they are counted. Folks are going to have a decisive decision coming out of the New Hampshire primary and folks will have more certainty and i think the momentum will begin once we know the winner results in New Hampshire. And in the whole process of picking out the democratic candidate, how important is New Hampshire . Allah think it is important and more important than it was in 2016 because there are so many great candidates. The top five are great candidates. The top five a re pretty great candidates. The top five are pretty much clustered together. We see Bernie Sanders ina lot together. We see Bernie Sanders in a lot of these polls in New Hampshire with a sizeable margin head of the second place which looks like it is pete berner tojudge but at which looks like it is pete berner to judge but at the end of the day, people are saying there are a lot of undecided voters. Peter buttigieg was not the results tomorrow will impact how nevada voters will impact how nevada voters will cast their ballot and then South Carolina going into super tuesday. The other thing to think about is the winner, if you dont do well in New Hampshire, there are a lot of results that can come to that. Voters can reconsider. You will see poll numbers dropped and there will be a lot of impact and the Media Attention as well, how folks cover you, different media stations. Michael, we appreciate your analysis and will be watching extremely closely to see how it all pans out. Now its time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. Hello, im Gavin Ramjaun, and this your tuesday sport briefing. We start with the Asian Champions League and saudi Arabias Al Hilal got the defence of their title off to the best possible start, with victory, in their Opening Group game. It was a comfortable win for them, against debutants shahr khodro from iran. The saudi League Leaders controlled the game, andre carillo, and then star forward Bafetimbi Gomis completing the win at the zabeel stadium in dubai. And in tennis Grigor Dimitrov knocked out the 8th seed Denis Shapovalov on monday, at the world tennis tournament in rotterdam. The canadian was beaten in straight sets by a resurgent Grigor Dimitrov. The former world number 3 from bulgaria is working his way back up the rankings, after a couple of seasons blighted by a loss of form and then a shoulder injury. Dimitrov won in straight sets 6 3, 7 6. The number 6 seed, Roberto Bautista agut, is also through to the 2nd round, but he had to come from a set down to beat the hungarian qualifier marton fucsovics. After taking the second set on a tie break, the spaniard raced through the decider 6 1 the reach the last 16. Among those in action in the netherlands, on tuesday, will be the number 2 seed stefanos tsitsipas. He begins his campaign against polands hubert hurkacz. The greek says he always enjoys playing in rotterdam because it was in this tournament in 2017, that he made his debut on the main atp tour. Has myself as a junior because ijust has myself as a junior because i just playing has myself as a junior because ijust playing juniors has myself as a junior because i just playing juniors that year. And i wasjust i just playing juniors that year. And i was just excited and trying to catch up and i get the realisation understanding of how these players play because i know the level, it is different to juniors and obviously challenging. It was the first good experience. Theres a big game in the nba on tuesday. The Boston Celtics travel to the houston rockets. The meeting will affect both the eastern and western conference playoff races. The celtics have won seven in a row. Theyve only lost two of their last 12, thanks to jayson tatum and jaylen brown performing at ca reer high levels. It promises to be another good test for the rockets, a team looking to climb up the western conference standings. They havent lost to the celtics at home, since Kevin Mchales final game as the rockets head coach in 2015. Now heres something your unlikely to see at the Winter Olympics in beijing in two years time. Think of it as a kind of fancy dress sledding competition. Fairytale huts, jet planes and trucks were just a few of the eye catching designs taking part in the russian city of mamadysh over the weekend. This hut was cruising until an unplanned veer to the right. Spare a thought for this fella an intriguing invention there. Clearly not very stable though. Not sure exactly how many of these vehicles actually completed the 300 metre long track, but entrants were judged in four categories best costume, most creative sledge, distance reached and speed of ride. You can get all the latest sports news at our website thats bbc. Com sport. But from me, Gavin Ramjaun and the rest of the sport team thats your tuesday sport briefing. Kenya is to hold Public Memorial Service for the late president Daniel Arap Moi who died last week at the age of 95. Our correspondent, anne soy, joins us now from nairobi. Tell us more about the day ahead. As you can see here, entertainment is going on in the background. Songs have been sung here this morning in praise of Daniel Arap Moi. This isa praise of Daniel Arap Moi. This is a start contrast to 202, many canyons were against him. But today the stadium is already full. 2002. This is already full. 2002. This is a completely different show here today. Some would say that in18 years, here today. Some would say that in 18 years, hes urged to redeem his image and that is because of the failures of his successois. Because of the failures of his successors. It also, we have been listening to some of the people who suffered torture and he was in power and they have been coming to pay their tributes to him and saying that they forgive him and they think that he was a statesman during his 24 year tenure. Thank you, and. We will be lied to the singapore airshow to find out how that is going as well in the light of the coronavirus and the fact that many have decided not to exhibit there this year. But we have been asking you about the oscars. A p pa re ntly asking you about the oscars. Apparently sunday night cosmic ceremony saw the lowest tv audience ever so we are asking you, are you fed up with awards ceremonies . Do theyjust not draw you anymore as something to sit and watch . As ever, you have not held back with your views and so far we have had many, views and so far we have had any views and so far we have had many, many responses. None of you are that positive about watching the oscars live or even other awards ceremonies as the case may be. We have heard from many of you. We have stinky beer who says i and eve ryo ne stinky beer who says i and everyone i know quit watching the awards when they became overtly political. Nobody wants to see rich elites complaining. Their opinions are meaningless. Rachel sherman says that she got tired of the hypocrisy of hollywood so i watched the Westminster Dog Show instead. Dogs are much more adorable and less obnoxious than the hypocrites of hollywood. Peter stevenson says at one time it was a celebration of the Entertainment Industry and now it is everybody on the bandwagon and who can if the best speech, this is how i am going to save the world. Tired of preachy celebrities. Jonathan says who is anyone interested in a hall full of rich boomers slapping each other on the back in another country . It is lame and i am sick of hearing about it. Is there anyone there batting for there anyone there batting for the oscars or the Golden Globes of the baftas or whatever other awards ceremonies . We havejust had a raft of them. If you are afan, get had a raft of them. If you are a fan, get in touch and fly the flag for these awards ceremonies because so far, all of you are pretty negative. As i mentioned, iam back with of you are pretty negative. As i mentioned, i am back with s must briefing. We are not only looking at the singapore airshow but also the conference industry. Mobile World Congress is taking place in barcelona sue. Soon pulled up many big names and take a staying away because of the coronavirus. 0011. Because of the coronavirus. Soon. I will see you very soon for business grieving. Business briefing. Hello. Sunday was very much all about the windy weather, thanks to ciara. Yesterday things took a turn for the wintry and today, a mix of the two. Strong chilli wins with gales in places and some wintry showers that will give accumulations of snow are particularly across the hills. Here is storm ciara standing across scandinavia. Still isobars. If you follow the wins, the coal air is coming all the way from greenland. Wins. Cold air. Winds was of further snow showers through tuesday and they will come in thick and fast. About 100 and hundred metres, accumulations of snow. Maybe as far south as the moors of the southwest. Not as strong as a sunday, the gusty winds, but drifting snow if. Temperatures on the chilly side around the 6 7d mark and you have to factor in the wind. A cold day to be had. Through the evening and overnight, the showers keep unpacking and across the northern half of the uk. Largely fine with clear spells to the south. The wind eases back a little but another widespread frost so again, the case of ice, particularly across the northern half of the uk where we will see showers into wednesday morning. Wednesday day, lighter winds. Notable but still some wintry showers in the north and some showers in the north and some showers of rainjust showers in the north and some showers of rain just creeping into the south. These are at gust strength for wednesday. Significant gust to be had in their beds in the south west, what is heading away for thursday, another will area of low pressure. Continue with strong winds throughout the week ahead. A little brief ridge of high pressure. Blink and you miss it. It comes things down. For thursday and friday, another area of low pressure approaching and it looks like we could hang onto those very strong winds and wet weather well on into the weekend. Today, the case of cold winds and look out for those wintry showers. This is the business briefing. Im sally bundock. As the coronavirus death toll within china tops 1,000. We examine how the outbreak is affecting the global conference industry. Despite the virus outbreak, the singapore airshow takes off today. But some big names are missing in action. And Financial Markets are a bit more upbeat in asia today with a record close the night before on wall street