This is the briefing, im ben bland. Our top story still no decision in iowa, the result of the caucus vote to select a democratic president ial candidate is delayed. China continues to struggle to contain the coronavirus outbreak, as the first fatality is confirmed in hong kong. A real test of faith, fifty years after it was promised, slovenia gets its first ever mosque. Protecting your children online. In a world where most 7 year olds already own a smartphone, Online Safety is becoming a big concern for parents and authorities around the world. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. An Industry Report says that half of 10 year olds in the uk own a smartphone. So, how do you limit the amount of time they spend on it . Should you limit it at all . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Voters in the american state of iowa have been holding caucus meetings to choose a Democratic Party contender to take on donald trump in novembers president ial election. The iowa Democratic Party says the publication of official
results has been delayed to check the figures are accurate. There are eleven hopefuls for the democratic nomination. A good performance in iowa provides Important Campaign momentum and often helps a candidate secure the partys nomination. Lets go live to des moines, iowa and join the bbcs katty kay and christian fraser. What more do we know about this delay . Its an almighty mess ive never seen anything quite like it coming out of iowa. The Democratic Party seems to have lost control of this process. Its a complicated system that they have set up where 1600 different locations around they have set up where1600 different locations around the state each have two report three different numbers, and there are mixed reports about what is going on. Do they have to tally all of those numbers by hand . As some of the technology not working . Whatever has happened, it is causing an awful lot of frustration here. One person
who was clearly very happy about this however is president trump. Has campaign has put out a statement, democrats are stewing in a caucus method of their own creation with this lobbyist train wreck and history. It will be natural for people to doubt the fairness of the process and these other people who want to run our entire healthcare system. So clearly he is making some kind of hay out of this. For democrats this was supposed to be the big exciting kickoff to their 2020 president ial Election Campaign and right now it is just looking like a real fiasco of a democratic process. Just explained to us why there is so much attention on this vote in iowa with yellow iowa is important because it is the first states that votes. That is frankly why it matters. The candidates will have meant much of their time campaigning over the past year here in iowa, meeting people in small farm villages, and small communities, you really do get
to meet the people. I always love coming to iowa, i love the caucus process. Its fun, engaged, people are very excited, the candidate come here a lot and you get to meet them. They have also spent quite a lot of money here, some 60 million. And then, if you win iowa, it gets you a lot of attention. The press talks about the fact of who one iowa. With a joe biden, was a Bernie Sanders, so traditionally iowa matters for that. This time around, the story out of iowa is not going to be who one. The story is going to be why couldnt the Democratic Party doa couldnt the Democratic Party do a betterjob . How strong is the correlation between whoever wins iowa winning the Democratic Party nomination itself . Historically and a Democratic Party, very strong correlation. Not so much on the republican side. This is because the republicans are
caucusing as well. They have already had their caucus had tonight and they have overwhelmingly chosen donald trump as their candidate. In past years, some republicans have one and not gone on to win the nomination be pretty much for the democrat dominic democrats, they do go on to win the nomination, the exception was bill clinton and that is because an iowa and was running and he was a very popular iowa senator so there wasnt much point campaigning against him, but otherwise this should be a good predictor. Hillary clinton one iowa, barack 0bama dead, but this time around, i dont think that candidate, whoever it finally turns out to be, is going to get much attention at all because then tomorrow we have the president s state of the Union Address and the impeachment trial is carrying on with a vote on wednesday. All right, katty kay there for
us all right, katty kay there for us in iowa. And Anthony Zurcher joins me now from Bernie Sanders campaign rally. What sort of sense are you getting off the mood there . The Bernie SandersCampaign Came in today thinking they had a good chance of winning the Iowa Caucuses. The polls showed them ahead, sometimes by a co mforta ble ahead, sometimes by a comfortable margin, so they we re comfortable margin, so they were expecting a victory celebration here tonight and quite honestly that was the speech that Bernie Sanders gave. He initially prefaced it saying that the results went on yet but when they come and he expected it to be a very, very good night and then he launched into what, by all accounts, sounded like the speech he wrote earlier today for a victory. He talked about this being the beginning of the m4 donald trump, all of the normal points that he likes to talk about, income inequality, healthcare, taxing the rich, the establishment lined up against him, so if you were expecting something unusual from Bernie Sanders because of these unusual circumstances, thatis these unusual circumstances, that is not what he delivered. And then in terms of the result, if it does go on Bernie Sanders favour, what does that do in terms of the direction it ta kes do in terms of the direction it takes the Democratic Party . think it would be very good news for Bernie Sanders to get this when under his belt. He lost Iowa Caucuses by a very small margin four years ago. He looks to be in good shape and the primary, candidates who have won, gerald ford, al gore, john kerry, all of them went on to win the partys nomination so to win the partys nomination so he would have had a lot of momentum going into the whole raft of states that begins weighing and after that. Super tuesday, we see california and texas. There was a feeling among the Bernie Sanders supporters that i spoke with here at campaign stops
yesterday and saturday, that they were poised to become the front runner in the democratic race for the nomination if they w011 oui. Race for the nomination if they won our. Now of race for the nomination if they w011 oui. Now of course race for the nomination if they won our. Now of course it is all thrown into question. I have a feeling they are going to still claim victory here, they are still going to think that they are poised for a success that they are poised for a success despite the fact that the results are taking a little longer to come in. When you look at the demographic of those voting in iowa, would it bea those voting in iowa, would it be a political earthquake . Would it be seen as that if Bernie Sanders as the outsider, the further left wing candidates were to win it, or does the demographic there tend to lend itself more to his favour . The iowa Democratic Party is the more white, more liberal, older, so a liberal demographic certainly helps Bernie Sanders. He is going to have to win in Southern States and other states that have a
more diverse tomography than an iowa. In 2016, what happened was he came very close in iowa, he won New Hampshire in a landslide and then he went to other states that were more diverse and that is where Hillary Clintons firewall kicked in because she did very well with black voters. That is something thatjoe biden is carrying on in places like South Carolina and across the south, so will Bernie Sanders be able to change that sort of a dynamic this time around where he wasnt able to and 2016 . There are some indications that he is doing better in his hispanic outreach and a place like nevada, but thejury is and a place like nevada, but the jury is still out, by and large stopping the test will come later but to have that kind of momentum from an iowa victory, i think that would be key for him. Is there a chance that once we eventually get the result, that we see candidates potentially drop out at this
stage, or not . It depends on what the results come out as. Amy klobuchar, a senator from minnesota, she is relying on a very strong result here. She is running low on money, she has put a lot of resources into iowa, she is not doing as well nationally in the polling. She needs iowa as a springboard and honestlyjoe biden, there were some indications that he may have a less than stellar performance here in iowa and if he doesnt finish in the top two or three, if he doesnt look strong here. Hes not going to drop out, but he has owned many questions compared to Elizabath Warren and Bernie Sanders and pete buttigieg. Also, if he doesnt do well, it raises questions of whether he is the proper standard there for the Democratic Party. If he struggles, i think a lot of voters may start looking around to see if there was someone, anyone else who can top Bernie Sanders. If Bernie Sanders does well here, if he does well inNew Hampshire, he is going to ta ke New Hampshire, he is going to take a lot of incoming fire from the democratic establishment who are going to be desperate to look for somebody to stop him, because many of him as an outsider, someone many of him as an outsider, someone who is not a member of the Democratic Party for much of his career, and a view that asa of his career, and a view that as a threat to win the election against donald trump, but if he gets into the presidency, to be a threat to the democratic establishment, kind of in the way donald trump was able to remake the republican establishment when he slipped in despite that establishment lining up against him during that republican primary in 2016. 0k, many thanks indeed. As we were just saying, we are waiting to hear the result from iowa delayed by technical problems. Not entirely sure what is causing the delay. Lets speak to chris buckler. Is there any sense of the cause of the delay there . Elizabath warren on stayed behind me, seeming very neat, but if you talk to people who have been campaigning for her, there is no doubt that there is a great deal of anger and frustration about the way all of this has been handled. You take a look at the different statements and im sure youve talked about about this, ben, but you have on one hand the Democratic Party saying as far as they are concerned, this was not a problem, this was about quality checks for data, trying to look at it in that way. A statement from joe bidens Campaign Making very clear that as far as he is concerned, this was a problem with the app that was being used to report the details. And the telephone system that was a backup plan, thatis system that was a backup plan, that is also having problems as well and it leaves you in this remarkable moment where you
have candidate onstage, yes, taking selfies, but also some making victory speeches, and for this big night for the democrats, they are trying to explain this mess. We did receive a speech from Elizabath Warren on which she concentrated on president donald trump. She didnt talk about this problem, she tried to avoid this whole issue, but at the same time, you imagine there is just a at the same time, you imagine there isjust a great at the same time, you imagine there is just a great deal of frustration with that campaign as much as any others about the way this has been handled. 0ne interesting thing that she did say during this speech was that as far as she was concerned, it was too close to call. Be that as an indication that they have got some information about the voting, and they might well chair, but i suspect the Democratic Party doesnt feel it has an awful lot to chair about. Indeed chris, it is easy to get carried away and had the chairs and think, have they heard something that we
havent . But indeed we were hearing chairs from the Bernie Sanders campaign as well. If it turns out to be a close result, and there is this issue around the system of the tallying or the system of the tallying or the reporting of results, do you get the sense that there will be questions and challenges over the outcome, or do you think it is not going to go to that . The Democratic Party has said that the integrity of the result is in this, and that is why they are making the checks. But if it is as close as Elizabath Warren has suggested it might be, this isa has suggested it might be, this is a difficult a way fight. We have always known that, between Elizabath Warren, Bernie Sanders, joe biden, and pete buttigieg, and you get the impression that the campaigns will be asking questions if the results do not go in their favour. That doesnt mean it is going to go further than that
but what it has done is tarnish this system and remember, this year the democrats will vote to reveal more information than ever before. They plan to reveal details of the first vote, and then what is a second vote, and then what is a second vote, and then finally the numbers of delegates that will represent each candidate as they went to that national convention. Instead, they will be left being able to reveal no result, on the big night for the Democratic Party, when they have the chance to show off some of the front to challenge donald trump for the election, and instead, we have the Trump Campaign putting up statements that just called campaign putting up statements thatjust called this a train wreck, and indeed, donald trump of course is due to give his state of the union speech in 2a hours time. All of the Democratic Party that hope to get the Media Attention is now going to find themselves with comment after comment that suggests that they have been in charge of a mess, and i would be very surprised if mr trump
doesnt make some comments about it in the next 2a hours time. Thanks very much indeed. We will of course bring you that result as soon as we get it. The delays are ongoing in the iowa caucus, but we are keeping across that. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come hitting the right note. The choir of young women who escaped the atrocities committed by the Islamic State. This is the moment that millions in iran had been waiting for. After his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of Ayatollah Khomeini on iranian soil. South africas white government has offered its black opponents concessions unparalleled in the history of apartheid. The ban on the African National congress is lifted immediately, and the anc leader, nelson mandela, is to be set free unconditionally. Four, three, two, one. A countdown to a critical moment. The worlds most powerful rocket ignited all 27 of its engines at once. And apart from its power, its this recycling of the rocket, slashing the cost of a launch, that makes this a breakthrough in the business of space travel. Two americans have become the first humans to walk in space without any lifeline to their spaceship. One of them called it a piece of cake. Thousands of people have given the yachtswoman Ellen Macarthur a spectacular homecoming in the cornish port of falmouth after she smashed the world record for sailing solo around the world non stop. You are watching the briefing. 0ur headlines still no decision in iowa. The result of the caucus vote to select a democratic president ial candidate is delayed. China continues to struggle to contain the coronavirus outbreak, as the first fatality
is confirmed in hong kong. Lets stay with that now. There are now over 20,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, and 425 people have died from the illness, the vast majority in china. The authorities there are struggling with the scale of the outbreak, despite a huge push to build new hospitals in record time. And we have heard in the last few hours that hong kong has reported its first death from the coronavirus, which originated in the chinese city of wuhan. 0ur corresponded robin brant joins us now from shanghai. Do we have any more details about the death in hong kong at the moment . Well, we know this mans age. He was 39. Its not clear at this stage whether he had any Underlying Health issues which may have incr