Now claimed more than 300 lives and infected over 14000 people this morning the Philippines reported the 1st death from the virus outside China as our correspondent in Shanghai Robin Brandt explains the 44 year old Chinese man died in hospital in Manila yesterday he was from will harden where the overwhelming number of deaths have been reported the World Health Organization says he was infected before he arrived in the Philippines the total number of dead in China now stands at 30414380 are infected according to official Chinese government figures that suggest a steady double digit percentage rise is continuing China's premier has ordered the authorities to consider further extending the New Year holiday here to stagger the plans journeys of hundreds of millions of people South Korea is said to be considering temporarily closing its border to all visitors from China as the u.s. And Australia have done a 2nd flights carrying 11 u.k. Citizens who wanted to leave for Han is now on its way to France the prime minister is to make clear Britain favors a loose post Breck's a trade agreement with the European Union rather than one that would mean the u.k. Having to a bay rules laid down by Brussels by a strong Some will say in a speech tomorrow that he's prepared to accept some border checks on goods coming from the e.u. As our Political Correspondent Chris Mason reports in what's being described as a comprehensive speech the prime minister will say he wants to deal with the similar to the one that Brussels has with Canada itself a relatively loose agreement which gets rid of most imports actors on goods but as little for instance for trade in financial services Crucially though Downing Street is willing to pursue an even looser arrangements if necessary the government also wants to make progress in striking free trade agreements with countries such as the United States and Japan the only approach the negotiations need to be agreed by all 27 member states but that's unlikely to happen before the end of this month. The former president of the European Council Donald Tusk has said Brussels would have what he called empathy towards an independent Scotland joining the e.u. In an interview for the B.B.C.'s Andrew Marr Show Mr Turner squandered any application would not automatically be accepted but he said he felt very Scottish especially after breaks it a lot and I have no doubt that everyone will be enthusiastic here rather than more likely whatever in Europe but we're still 3 different from formalities but if you ask me about our emotions and the genuine feeling of course of the your will your witness I think Ali and Poppy the president of Ecuador the name Marino has apologized for saying women only reporter allegations of sexual harassment when they find the man ugly his comments prompted a furious reaction on social media as are America's editor Leonardo Russia reports speaking at an investment conference in the city of kill there called or imprisoned said that men faced a constant threat of being falsely accused of harassment Mr Moreno then said that women tend to overlook the situation in fail to press charges if the man is handsome the president who's 66 also joked that he was not a threat to women himself following an angry reaction on social media he apologised on Twitter instead he rejected all forms of violence against women British talent is expected to enjoy a strong night at the Bafta Film Awards in London the seeding but the nominations for this year's ceremony have been heavily criticised for their lack of diversity our entertainment correspondent Conan Patterson has this report if you don't get there in time. We will do 16 countries and the British World War one epic $917.00 directed by Sam Mendez is the favorite to win big at tonight's Bafta film awards it's already triumphed at the Golden Globes and the Producers Guild Awards and it would be a surprise. If it was not recognized in his home country all 20 of the acting nominations are white and for the 7th year in a role the directing category is all male this lack of diverse state prompted the boss of Bafta Amanda Berry to say she was disappointed with how members and voted and that the system used would be reviewed tennis Novak Djokovic will this morning try to win his 17th grand slam title at the Australian Open the Serbian fair will meet Dominic team of Australia in the final in Melbourne if he wins his 8th straight you know Open title track of it will also reflect the world number one ranking currently held by Rafael Nadal b.b.c. . 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Presto Soumaya at the climax of the Chinese opera Tosca. One statuesque Tosca soften the acute embarrassment when instead of throwing herself off the battlements and landing on a nice soft mattress she had it on a trampoline. She bounced up and down vigorously more than a dozen times before the cutting came down now unfortunate Tosca must have felt acutely embarrassed because she knew that she was a ridiculous sight and seeing up and down like that. Appearing ridiculous to others lies at the heart of embarrassment Charles Darwin in his book The expression of the emotions in Man and Animals listed several causes of blushing they include shyness which is caused by fear of being seen as an embarrassment guilt when found out breaches of etiquette and modesty particularly the fear of being seen as immodest wear here examples of all these causes of embarrassment and will have the pain embarrassment can cause and the damage that can come from fear of embarrassment but we also find that we sometimes gain from that theah. 1st here is a highly entertaining example of embarrassment caused by fear of being seen as immodest and indecent it's an extract from the vet James Harriet's book orderings wise and wonderful list Harriet I would be great Troy if you would come and see my dog certainly what's the trouble where. He seems to suffer from a set amount of fact I beg your pardon he has excessive flat in what way exactly where I suppose you describe it asked. When did you mean his stomach now not his stomach he passes. A considerable quantity of wind from his. Eyes are yes I quite understand but that doesn't sound very serious do you think it's necessary for me to see you oh yes indeed Mr Harry I wish you would come as soon as possible the laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town Mrs Romney has self let me in and I felt a shock of surprise at my 1st sight of her it wasn't just that she was strikingly beautiful everything about her suggested for studiousness and delicacy Cedric is in the kitchen I'll take you through I had another surprise when I saw Cedric an enormous Boxer hold himself on me in delight I tried to fight him off but he kept at me panting extatic into my face and wagging his entire rear end sit down boy he said friendly. Yes I can see that how often does this excessive flatus occur as if in reply and almost palpable sulfurous wave arose from the dog and added around me it appeared that the excitement of seeing me had activated Cedric's weakness I was up against the wall and unable to a bay My 1st instinct to run for cover so I held my hand over my face for a few moments before speaking is that what you meant Mrs Romney waved a lace handkerchief under her nose and the faintest flash crept into the pallor of her cheeks Yes she replied almost inaudibly Yes that is. Mrs Romney too embarrassed described her dogs embarrassing behavior because she feared she would be seen as immodest or indecent . The singer missed unget was embarrassed by her who knew him Addis situation by being seen naked in the bath through an open window she cried in Hora he saw me nude all nude. Well some say. No. You. Absolutely lose. Missed unget with e.u. Mother news. What we think of as breaches of a ticket by others can cause us embarrassment particularly when those others are close to us family members for instance in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice the heroine Elizabeth is acutely embarrassed by her mother then her sister then her father all of whom she feels make her look ridiculous in the eyes of Mr Darcy who she was particularly keen should not think ridiculous 1st Elizabeth was embarrassed by her mother's gushing conversation about her other daughter's impending marriage to miss the big. It was an animating subject and Mrs Bennet seemed incapable of the teak while enumerating the advantages of the match his being such a charming young man and soon reach and leaving but 3 miles from them where the 1st points of self graduation and then it was such a comfort to think how fond of the 2 sisters were of Jane and to be satin but they must desire the connection as much as she could do it was more ever such a promising thing the younger daughter does as Jane's meringues to create Glee must throw them in the way of other rich men she concluded with no many good wishes that lady Lucas might be equally fortunate they were evidently and triumphantly believing there was no chance of it in vain did Elizabeth endeavor to check the rapidity of her mother's words Opus waited to describe her felicity in a less or double whisper for to her in expressible vexation she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr Darcy who sat opposite to him. Then Elizabeth Sr embarrassed her by seeing Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on Mary with most painful sensations and she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was ill rewarded at the close the memory on receiving amongst the thanks of the table the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favor them again after the pause of Hotham in it began another Mary's powers were by no means fitted for such a display have voice was weak and her manner affected Elizabeth was in agonies and to cap it all Elizabeth's father embarrassed her too she looked at her father to entreat his interference less merry should be singing all night he took the hint and when Mary had finished his 2nd song said aloud that will do extremely well child you have to light it as long enough let the other young ladies have time to exhibit Mary their pretending not to hear was somewhat disconcerted and Elizabeth sorry for her and sorry for her father speech was afraid her anxiety had done no good to Elizabeth it appeared that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could join the evening it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit or Fina success children are particularly sensitive to embarrassments their parents cause them even when the embarrassments would appear to an adult quite mild like those listed by Lynette Craig in her poem and embarrassing. You all so embarrassing you sing in the street bright red nail polish you shout comment so my friends can hear when I'm on the phone you put your arm around dad in public you discuss my think that with the assistant in the dress shop you check to babies in supermarkets. Me on the The Platters song Smoke Gets In Your Eyes about the embarrassment to form a love of feels when he cannot hide his to guys the root of the word embarrassment means to block or obstruct it's quite true that just being embarrassed can block actions which may be risks but the risks well worth taking t.s. Eliot described the fear of the embarrassment the fear of appearing ridiculous which blighted the life of j. Alfred Prufrock because of the inertia it created and indeed there will be time to wonder do my Dad and do I dare time to turn back and descend the stairs with a bold spot in the middle of my head they will say how his hand is growing thin my morning coat my color mounting firmly to the chin my necktie rich and modest but inserted by a simple pin they will say but how his arms and legs a sin do I Dad disturb the universe in a minute and it's time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known the Mon already known them all have known the evenings moaning This afternoon I have measured my life with coffee spoon I know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from my father room so how should I presume and I have known the is already known them all the lies that fix human a formulated phrase and when I am formulated sprawling on a pin when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall and how should I begin to spit out all the buttons of my days in ways and oh should I presume j. Alfred Prufrock does not dare to presume he doesn't overcome his fear of embarrassment but in the poem sharing Eve's apple John Keats suggests that we should not let embarrassment caused by modesty the embarrassment Eve felt when she became aware she was naked stand in the Way of Love own blast snarks Oh oh blush not know or I shall think you know him and if you smile blushing while then maiden heads are going there's a blush for want and a blush for shan't and a blush for having done it there's a blush for thought and a blush for nought and a blush for just begun it all sign on its own sign not so for It sounds of Eve's sweet Pippin by these loosened lips you have tasted the pips and for in an amorous nipping will you play once more a nice cut core for it only will last Are you thought. And we have the prime of the kissing time we have not one sweet tooth. There's a side for I and a so if an a and a sigh if I can't bear it own what can be done shall we stay or run our cuts for sweet apple and sharing that fear of losing the good opinion of others can act as a spur to keep us up to the mark the Peronist on day Previn said if I miss a day or practice I know it if I missed 2 days my manager knows it and if I miss 3 days my audience knows it so if you're being embarrassed by a poor performance in front of an audience spurred him on to keep practicing. And him is only going to prevail taking on the challenge for which he must a practice very hard he's playing Sug Iraq man in office suite number 2 for 2 pianos with Vladimir Ashkenazy. Avoiding embarrassment can produce results like that stunning performance but it can have extremely serious adverse consequences that can be used and cause death in a contribution to the online magazine of the organization medicine unboxed Grace Williams puts it even more strongly embarrassment could in fact be considered one of the biggest killers worldwide this disease is mechanism of action is to prevent voices being heard whether it attacks the patient trying to symptoms or the health care professional trying to ask the right questions importantly for patients embarrassment can prevent a Texan of disease 40 percent of 10000 Hong Kong residents identified embarrassment as a barrier to screening for color rectal cancer a disease which kills over $15000.00 people in the u.k. a Year and a wage early presentation can alter the survival rate. Embarrassment could be considered by some as an epidemic which affects so many people that a large proportion of potential patients may not associate the symptoms they have with the disease this is due to the voice of those able to educate being prevented from being added by the niggling infection of embarrassment in the general population this prevents presentation until the discomfort overcomes the embarrassment which is often too late. The 17th century composer. Goodies tedium. While conducting a performance of this work to celebrate the French King Louis the 14th recovery from surgery the composer wounded his foot with a long conducting staff used in those days to beat time by hitting the grog. The Cure recommended for his wound was after Taishan. Was so embarrassed by the thought of losing a leg that he refused to accept the doctor's advice. Thanks he died when the room became gang bring us. Out of embarrassment can stand in the way of communicating with God for instance Nada is saying grace before a meal can seem rather peculiar not the thing to do at a fashionable dinner party. The poet Wendell Berry once described a hesitant race which dropped with a soft come up indicating that at the least it didn't go down very well and possibly that it was embarrassing in his poem embarrassment Wendell went on to suggest that if someone says in public what they really want to say to God it would be extremely embarrassing do you want to ask the blessing no if you do go ahead he went ahead his prayer dressed up in Sunday clothes rose a few feet and dropped with a soft film if a lonely soul did ever cry out in company its true outcry to God it would be as though at a sedate party a man suddenly removed his clothes and took his wife passionately into his arms we've heard a lot about the harmful side of embarrassment how fear of it can cripple us as it crippled Prufrock how it killed the Luly the composer and still does kill many people today how it can damage relationships particularly within families how it distressed Mr get in her bath and rendered Mrs Romney quite unable to describe her dog's symptoms to the vet these are the negative effects of the embarrassment which blocks or obstructs but on Diprivan has shown there can be a positive side to the fear of embarrassment and if you can't avoid embarrassment there is a way of dealing with it which we haven't discussed and that is laughing. Once the initial shock is over we do often have a good law for bar top embarrassments and that is what Ella Fitzgerald did when she couldn't remember the words in this live performance recorded in Bali in 1960 the 1st recording of a woman singing Mack the Knife Ella Fitzgerald just kept going with humorous improvised lyrics and a wonderful imitation of Louis Armstrong. Yeah Fitzgerald completely behind on the bar Strada about singing all the wrong words is today's edition of something on the stood the program was presented by Mark Tully The readers were some of the bon Francis Scott and Matt out is it was produced by Frank Stanley not unique for b.b.c. Radio 4 and if you'd like more information on any of the music and readings featured in today's program you can call the writer for information line here's the number it's 037010400 or you can indeed go to the b.b.c. Writer for website. This week we brand new comedy from Alex Edelman. 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