In fact on the b.b.c. News is read by Alan Smith the United Kingdom will tonight's n.x. The most profound constitutional legal and political change in its recent history as it formally ends 47 years in the European Union and its predecessor bodies there will be celebrations and protests reflecting the divisions Breck's it has created Boris Johnson is to hail a horse he will call the dawn of a new era but the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn will say the u.k. Is at a crossroads where the 1st Minister of Scotland tickler sturgeon is to argue her country is being forced out of the e.u. Against its will his Our political correspondent the curtly after years of polarized political debate during which point it seemed almost impossible that parliament would endorse any version of Bracks it at 11 o'clock tonight the u.k. Will formally leave the European Union in immediate practical terms little will change with trade and travel roosting the same until the implementation period expires at the end of the year but the u.k. Will be outside the e.u. And the process of negotiating a formal trade deal will soon begin with the inevitable challenges that will bring the prime minister will chair cabinet in Sunderland later a symbolic choice is the 1st city to declare for leave in 2016 Boris Johnson will present breaks it is a moment of national renewal and change pledging to bring the country back together and to take it forward and attempt again to strike a conciliatory tone within a u.k. Where breaks it is exposed stark divisions others will be less optimistic the European Union says it hopes to be able to maintain positive relations with the u.k. In the future but its lead breaks in negotiating Michel Barnier said it would defend its interests in trade talks over the next 11 months we are ready to negotiation for free and fair trade deal of pretty unfair the 2 worlds are equally important and the reason why we really ask for their foot in the framework of a level playing field in our trade relations and I all at this point is correcting this to by everybody in Ukraine. A plane carrying $110.00 passengers including $83.00 Britons is left with hand the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak to land at r f Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at lunchtime Simon Jones reports the plane chartered by the Foreign Office is carrying $83.00 British citizens and $27.00 foreign nationals it left hand several hours late to allow people additional time to get to the airport but some families said they were given too little notice to make it the British passengers will be taken to Arrow Park Hospital on the where all where they will be put into quarantine the foreign secretary Dominic Robb insisted officials had been working round the clock to organize the evacuation following criticism that the u.k. Offshore tears had been slow to act China says there are now 9 and a half 1000 cases of coronavirus in the country and that at least 210 people have died yesterday the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency the head of the w.h.o. Said there were fears the virus could hit nations with weaker health systems that were less able to cope the declaration of a global emergency means all countries are being urged to tighten controls to limit the cross border spread of the disease. The government's official review into h s 2 says it should go ahead and that building only one section of the railway doesn't make sense the review was led by former h.s.t. Chairman Douglas Ogilvie the government has yet to make a final decision about the high speed lines future transport correspondent Tom Barrett has read the full and final version of the report the official review of h s 2 strongly advices the government against cancelling the project it says only building either one of the 2 phases of the y. Shaped railway linking southern and northern England wouldn't be value for money it warns that the official estimate of $88000000000.00 pounds might not be enough and the project could cost more than $100000000000.00 but it says h.s.t. Were cut over crowding on the railways and helped rebalance the U.K.'s economy the idea that h.s.t. Will be cancelled feels even more unlikely. The u.s. Secretary of state Mike Pompei was in Ukraine for talks with the country's president followed him as Alinsky the visit coincides with President Trump's impeachment trial in Washington central to that is the claim that he ordered military aid to Ukraine to be withheld unless the government in Kiev investigated one of Mr Trump's Democrat rivals. The authorities in the Australian capital Canberra have for the 1st time in 17 years declared a state of emergency as the threat from wildfires intensifies once more residents on the southern fringes of the city have been told they should be prepared to evacuate as a heat wave and strong winds increase the fire danger extreme temperatures are also expected to hit Sydney and Melbourne 6 minutes past 6 is the time to have extreme temperatures let's go to the weather and Sara Keith Lucas is there for this morning good morning to you Justin We have got an exceptionally mild day ahead today temperatures well above average in the midst teens really across the u.k. But not only is it mild it's cloudy it's blustery a many of us will see outbreaks of rain as that cold front moves southeast woods today but the southeast of England and eastern England will hear you should stay dry through much of this morning it is fairly cloudy and breezy there will be rain arriving later on the softer nane but it's going to be fairly light in patchy by this stage and temperatures getting up to about 14 degrees in London today the southwest of England the Midlands Wales and all of northern England generally dry out there at the moment we've got the old spot to drizzle particularly towards the southwest but over the next few hours we see a cold front moving in from the northwest so some pretty heavy rain for this morning's rush hour particular for the northwest of England that rain then clearing its way southeast woods by this often into leaves some drier and some brighter weather and very mild temperatures could reach 14 or 15 degrees but it will be windy once again Scotland and for Northern Ireland today we could i Cloud the damp starts the day but the rain will move away towards the south and the east fairly quickly say a dry a spell of wet. But then further heavy showers push in from the Northwest could be the odd rumble of thunder particular the North West of Scotland further south and east you are across Northern Ireland it's gotten you should stay mostly dry but a bit of sunshine later again miles around 11 or 12 degrees and it stays unsettled by mild through the weekend Sarah many thanks indeed now at 7th past 6 time for our 1st look at the newspapers and this is a day when you may want to collect some souvenir issues as they all mock breaks it day pretty much front page of The Daily Mail imbued with the Union Jack and the headline a new dawn for Britain's 11 pm our proud nation finally leaves the e.u. And the big picture of the white cliffs of Dover those same cliffs feature on the front page of The Guardian but as you might expect a very different take they say small island after 47 years Britain leaves the e.u. At 11 o'clock tonight the biggest gamble in a generation at the Times is wrapped in a big picture of Big Ben saying base it it's time inside some details of what's likely to be happening in the negotiations about what kind of future relationship that we're likely to have at the end of this year and they're talking about a speech that Boris Johnson is going to make on Monday when he say he's ready to accept the off the shelf model 1st proposed by him Michel Barnier the so-called Canada model Financial Times Britain bows out of the you with a mixture of optimism and regret is its headline Johnson has dawn of new era low key celebrations the f.t. Says and the focus of course switching to trade talks about which we'll be talking in just a 2nd in the Telegraph This is not an end but the beginning in a broadcast of the nation of 11 here the moment the u.k. Finally breaks free from the e.u. As the Telegraph puts it the prime minister will urge the country to look forward not back this is not an end but a beginning he'll say a moment of real national renewal and change in the Telegraph has an 8 page supplement to mark a campaign its own campaign it says that changed history the storm. Of the Telegraph and breaks in the eye has begun I catch ing front page U.K.'s leap into the unknown reflects their. Less sanguine view of what we are doing they've got today over a beautiful shot from space night time picture of Europe from space and you can see the lights on around the place and you can also see very clearly the fact that we are slightly separated from it by dint of the channel but also the size really of the u.k. When compared to Europe the hugeness of this island of Europe and the obvious question that the photograph raises in a way what is the future relationship going to be it's certainly very striking image and the mirror of people a lot of papers I think has a different front page killer flu a 150 Brits in quarantine and one quote from Andy knows but whose is a pretty living in virus hit Chang Dude you can't help but feel freaked out it's like a zombie apocalypse 10 past 6 is the time well we don't leave the year for another 17 hours but already the battle is moving on to the trade talks the discussion of them the u.s. Sector state might pump a in town yesterday in an interview with n.b.c. Said that agricultural negotiations would be contentious I'm sure they're good shoes will be difficult Our ask will be as it's been in the other negotiations we need to be open and honest about competitiveness we need to make sure we don't use food safety as a ruse to try and protect a particular industry and then we need to have a hard conversations about the places we have opportunities to give and take and then deliver on our comes that benefit the agricultural sector and most importantly consumers this is how are the Conservative Party chairman James cleverly responded to that on last night's question time there is no desire to scrap Austar or animal welfare standards offered hygene why didn't they do what I'm saying it's what about the didn't ever get those. The simple truth is the British people didn't want it to happen and therefore it will not happen where on this program we'll be hearing from Annette Platters The n.f.u. President will be speaking the former brags of ministers Steve Baker as well and to the case for me you commission of trade Jonathan Hale will also hear from Europe as a catcher Adler courses I sat down with both eased trade negotiator Michel Barnier and the European Commission president us live on delayed who told her that the post breaks it trade negotiations would be tough the closer they look a wants to be to the single market the more they have to respect the rules of the single market if they do not want to respect the walls and the standards of the single market the more distant Of course they will be so this is the one where we have to negotiate and away from trade because of course it is not all about trade we'll get reflections from 2 of the U.K.'s longest serving Emmy pieces they bid goodbye to Brussels will have a s.n.p. In Scotland will approach the next phase of BRICs it talks and I thought for the day this morning comes from Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury who may well have some thoughts on how to leave and remain voters begin the process of reconciliation come 11 pm tonight but the time now is 12 minutes past 6 and corona virus outbreak has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization So what does that mean in practice but let's talk now to Robyn Brandt He's our China correspondent in Shanghai And Robyn what can you tell us about the numbers of deaths so far that time Chinese officials have been talking about. Well these are official Chinese government figures that we've been discussing every day we have to rely on those 213 are now dead according to the government from this type of coronavirus That's up about 25 percent on yesterday so we're seeing a similar rise every day across this week the number infected that's now almost 10000 up to 990 that's up about 20 percent of the number of suspected cases that's now over 15000 that also up by around about 25 percent so we're seeing a steady rise 30 across this week day today according to the official numbers from the Chinese government in terms of w.h.o. Declaration all of that essentially tells the world how serious the World Health Organization believes this type of coronavirus is it means certain protocols we put in place about borders about travel across borders but the reality is look at what Virgin are doing British Airways some other airlines in terms of suspending their flights these things are already happening interesting context on the w.h.o. Declaration the head of the organization was here just 2 days ago meeting with senior officials in Beijing heaping a huge amount of praise on them on personally President Xi Jinping as well saying they had nothing but confidence in what the Chinese were doing nonetheless that's been followed by this declaration something I don't think the Chinese officials wanted to see and why do you see that declaration has taken place. Well I think simply because there are cases spreading outside of China. They are small in number but we are seeing human to human infection in places like Japan in places like Germany these are people contract in this brought this type of Corona car virus having had no contact themselves with the city of knowingly with the people in the city of will hand you know we're also seeing action taken unilaterally by places like the u.s. Overnight advising against all travel to China all travel to China for all u.s. Citizens and saying those who are there should get out so the action taken by various governments is significant significant enough for the w.h.o. More than just in terms of a medical emergency to regard it as a something that threatens these countries as well Robin thanks very much a quarter past 6 is the time those who for an interest rate cut have been disappointed of course by Mark Carney's last act as governor of the Bank of England Rob Young has more mad and the rest of the days for the yes good warning of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep rates on hold despite the signals a cut was likely we'll explore why and we listen in on the debate going on in the city of London about life after brakes it so the Bank of England kept rates unchanged at 3 quarters of one percent poor economic data from the end of last year was overtaken by emerging evidence of a slightly stronger economy but the Bank of England said there's still a lot of uncertainty even a chance the economy is currently in recession and you sentence as a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee and now as a senior advisor to Cambridge econometrics morning Andrey Good morning it was another split 72 on the committee does this reduce the likelihood of a cut at the next meeting in March. I think if the 4 can stand out the way in which the bank is expecting. Independent economists are expecting I don't think we need to say an interest rate cut interest rates are already at a very low level they have been for over 10 years and therefore. The benefit of a cup would be very modest amazing make the problem of trying to gradually inch up interest rates in the long term more difficult so moving right around them when they are at this low level doesn't have much of an impact I think is a very good argument to say it doesn't and then once interest rates go up 2 percent The main impact of having very low interest rates it is reducing them with a sort of. Desire to improve confidence as we saw in 2009 but keeping them at such a low level doesn't necessarily help the economy over the longer term the bank has asked the city watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate a jump in the pound just seconds before the interest rate announcement which is raising suspicions of the leak how serious could this be. I'm well the monthly Policy Committee makes its decision on the day before the interest rate. Montreux policy decision is announced so there is confidential information circulating around in the bank quite long so I think it's probably something that is worth looking into you know it could just be something coincidental zones we shouldn't jump to conclusions Ok now it was Marconi's final interest rate meeting as governor of the bank what do you think his legacy will be. Think in some respects I think he's done a good job in terms of putting the financial system in a much more Sam places and the various stress tests the bank has done for the commercial banks shows that is the case I think the big area of disappointment. Is monetary policy has been adrift we've had this very low level of interest rates and even though he's talked about the need to gradually raise interest rates when it's all when it's come down to it the m.p.c. Is not being prepared to act. Whereas over in the United States they did at least raise interest rates and I would have preferred to see that policy here in the u.k. So you know there's some good things on the financial front but I think there's a monetary policy has been a bit of it is Ok under sentence Thank you well negotiations on the case trading relationship with the e.u. Are due to start soon one of the toughest areas is expected to be banking as Islands Prime Minister that he said clear Brad could put it there could be a tradeoff over fishing rights and financial services the city of London and related sectors make up about 110th of the u.k. Economy and there is a debate in the SEC's about whether to hug the e.u. Close or forge a new independent path will bring you a flavor of that debate the chief executive of Hermes Investment Management 2nd you say that favors staying close to the rule book for us as the firm the European markets are the major market the major market present in a major market in that sense it's of course very important to us London by itself is a center but it does what it does to the rest of the world the us and Europe Europe is a much bigger market for us and rightly we think of it as a home territory it doesn't matter whether we're actually within one new union or not canonically speaking what matters is that the regulatory framework is such that we find it easy to do equivalence and to go from one place to the other if some people are calling for there are radically different rules in the u.k. Compared to the European Union does that pose a problem or not it poses a problem only insofar that there's a cost associated then it's not that people in the u.k. Will stop selling stuff to the European at least finance it just means that they will have to have 2 compliance regimes one for the stuff they sell within the you. And one for the stuff they sell to Europe and that's simply an added layer of cost but as a herd Look I think people sometimes exaggerate them isn't there also a danger if the u.k. Decides to hard e.u. Rules incredibly close in the sense that the u.k. Would become a rule taker the e.u. Would grant the u.k. What is called equivalent status but it could also take that away with a month's notice this is forgive me emotive language so when I get onto an airplane I am very pleased that we are a rule taker but it comes to innovation safety standards as I'm equally pleased that the United States is a rule taker and Europe is it will take and sometimes we see diversions by the way but in a globalized industry you have to have equivalences at least in standards so I think the u.k. Always has a choice we can choose not to sell