onboard a cruise ship. we re live in japan. president trump took a victory lap like no other after his acquittal in the senate impeachment trial. it started at the national prayer breakfast where he served up a dish of insults against his political opponents and perceived rivals. and he took the shot at the religious faith of mitt romney and house speaker nancy pelosi. and there was more that came later at the white house. he held up the washington post, a newspaper he ridicules almost every week, with the headline, trump acquitted. this is not a news conference. it s not a speech. it s not anything. we re sort of it s a celebration. we ve been going through this, now, for over three years. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. and this should never happen to another president ever. it s been very unfair to the country. and we were treated unbelievably unfairly. and you have to understand, we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bull. i want to thank my legal team. you guys stand up. right at the beginning, they said, sir, you have nothing to worry about. all of the facts are on your side. i said, you don t understand. that doesn t matter. that doesn t matter. and that was really true. and the only one that voted against was a guy that can t stand the fact that he ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the presidency. say hello to the people of utah and tell them, i m sorry about mitt romney. i m sorry. okay? we can say that mike lee is, by far, the most popular senator from the state. you have some that used religion as a crutch. they never used it before. on article written today, never heard him use it before. if i didn t fire james comey, we would have never found this stuff. when i fired that sleazebag, all hell broke out. they were ratting on each other. they were running for the hills. dirty cops. bad people. if this happened to president obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already. i want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal by some very evil and sick people. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. and she wanted to impeach a long time ago. when she said, i pray for the president. i pray for the she doesn t pray. she may pray but she prays for the opposite. i doubt she prays at all. we did a prayer breakfast this morning. i had nancy pelosi sitting four seats away and i m saying things a lot of people wouldn t have said. but i meant everything. when donald trump attacked nancy pelosi for her faith, she was seated not far from her. the house speaker made no mention of the insults when she took the stage. but she did not let the president s remarks go unanswered. i don t know what the president understands about prayer or people who do pray. but we do pray for the united states of america, i pray for him, i pray hard for him because he is so off the track of our constitution, our values, our country, the air our children breathe and the water they drink and the rest. he really needs our prayers. it s a prayer breakfast. and that s something about faith. you know, it may not be something i agree with, but to go into the stock market and praising up his acquittal thing and mischaracterizing other people s motivation, he is talking about things that he knows little about. faith and prayer. and i don t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the united states, about dignity. dignity? is it okay to say four more years in the house of representatives? i mean, it s just unheard of. it s appalling the things he says and you say to me, tearing up his falsehoods, isn t that the wrong message? no, it isn t. it s just, i have tried to be gracious with him. i m always dignified. i thought that was a very dignified act, compared to my exuberance. that was not a state of the uni union. that was his state of mind. we were at a state of the union. where are we? where are we going? and the rest. not let me show you how many guests i can draw. and let me see how i can give a medal of honor do it in your own office. we don t come in your office and do congressional business. why are you doing that here? i feel very liberated. i feel very liberated. i feel that i ve extended every possible courtesy. i ve shown every level of respect. i extended the hand of friendship to him, to welcome him as the president of the united states, to the people s house. it was also an act of kindness because, he looked to me like he was a little sedated. he looked that way last year, too. he didn t want to shake hands. that meant nothing to me. it had nothing to do with my tearing up that came much later. he had shredded the truth in his speech. he s shredding the constitution in his conduct. i shredded his state of his mind address. let s get to the leader of political science. and he joins us this hour. thomas, you thought that relations between pelosi and trump were as bad as they were ever going to get before today, clearly, they ve gone a lot lower. and this is a total breakdown of whatever relationship was left. what from the implications moving forward? obviously, these two can t work together. you re right. obviously, these two can t work together. one of the things that really struck me most, john, is that over the last several months have been a lot of comparisons drawn between the impeachment of donald trump and the impeachment of bill clinton. and i think we can learn a lot about from how both presidents handled their acquittals in the senate. they couldn t have been more different. what we saw today from trump, speaking to nancy pelosi, was just pure defiance, a lack of remor remorse, a huge amount of vitriol. contrast that to clinton, after his acquittal, asked for the country s forgiveness, said he was humbled and asked the country to move forward. the country was divided after the clinton impeachment. nowhere near the levels of now. that s due to trump s rhetorics and the wittryi r wittry tri yo will make it very difficult to come together during the last months of trump s presidency. and the content of what the president was doing in the east room of the white house, it obviously seemed like he had this pent up frustration and bitterness and anger which had been brewing. but it was mixed in with fox news talking points and conspiracy theories that were lies. and it was a weird mix of a world that didn t seem to exist. i don t think i can say it better than you just did. one of the reasons that senators gave for acquitting donald trump, is he learned from this process. that s difficult to reconcile. the president continues to say he did nothing wrong in ukraine. that the impeachment was a witch hunt. his political opponents have been acting in bad faith and continue to do so. but just think about the mueller report. the day after mueller testified before congress, the very next day, john, trump was on the phone with president zell lensk trying to get the ukraine to big up dirt on the bidens. when there s no accountability, at the very least, it can t be ruled out. susan collins is right whtha he probably learned a lesson. but he learned that he can get away with it. the republicans don t hold him to account. and the system doesn t work when one party is beholden to the executive. that s where the problem lies with all of this. i couldn t agree with you more. what this does is create a culture of impunity. it does give donald trump license to behave in ways in the future that are inconsistent with the constitution. the president isn t just the precedent this will set for future presidents going forward. it s the potential precedent that it will set for donald trump because it is certainly not a foregone conclusion that he will lose in 2020. he could be given four more years. and i think what is really concerning to a lot of democrats is the idea of a trump presidency, totally unrestrained and totally unaccountable with the republican congress. we re out of time. you know, this seemed learning a lesson and being contrite. when he has shown any sign of contrition or learning a lesson and changing his behavior? i don t think it ease ever happened or happened now. thank you for being with us, thomas. appreciate it. thank you. the democratic national committee chair is calling for a recanvas of all of the results in the iowa caucuses. he tweeted, enough is enough. all of the numbers at the state to be recounted at the caucus sites. the former south bend, indiana, mayor, pete buttigieg is locked in a virtual tie with bernie sanders. cnn analysis shows errors in the count reported by the democratic party. and the candidates have moved on to new hampshire now, that holds its primary next week. but the bad taste of iowa lingers on. ryan nobles has our report. reporter: it s the caucus count that just won t end. iowa, you have shocked the nation. reporter: after three days of counting, the iowa democratic party is facing a new challenge. tom perez, the chair of the democratic national committee tweeting, quote, enough is enough. i m calling on the iowa democratic party to immediately begin a revcanvas. his request comes as the current results show a razor-thin margin between pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. the committee said it would begin the recanvas process. something that has not happened. it hasn t stopped pete buttigieg. we re going on to new hampshire victorious. reporter: and now, sanders, from declaring victory. in terms of the popular vote, we won a decisive victory. reporter: but the rules of the iowa caucuses make it clear, the winner is determined by the state delegate equivalence, not the popular vote. but for sanders, win, lose or draw, he s ready to put iowa in the rear-view mirror. his campaign announced a campaigning haul in january, his best of the campaign. and he invested more than $5 million of new ads. he s putting his energy and focus into new hampshire. do you think it s time to have the conversation about new hampshire? i think so, given we re in manchester, new hampshire. we re working really hard. reporter: and the race here has begun in earnest. he calls himself a democratic socialist. we ll see what donald trump is going to do with that. reporter: with former vice president joe biden, off of a disappointing showing in iowa, calling out sanders and buttigieg by name. i believe in raising the minimum wage to a living wage. if you want to call that socialism, that s socialism for working people. that s the difference between trump and me. reporter: meanwhile, elizabeth warren, on-track for a third place finish in iowa, is shifting her approach, pulling back ad spending in nevada and south carolina, hoping for a comeback in new hampshire. we try with our best with resources being a nonprofit and fund-raising is limited. limited funding for that. let s see if we can fix that. the federal government should be a better partner. our thanks to ryan nobles for that report. another group of democrats d consider at a cnn town hall. bernie sanders started with addressing divisions in the party. campaigns have become contentious. and people will say things about others. i have known joe biden for so many years. joe is a friend of mine. he s a decent human being. yeah. people are going to say things during the heat of the campaign. i want somebody s vote. i say something. somebody else says something. but at the end of the day, because of the threat that trump poses to the future of this country, because of this ugliness, because of his racism, and his sexism, and his homophobia and his zen phobia and his bigotry, because he is trying to divide our people up, i have zero doubt that we will bring the party together. because this president now believes and the senate gop has given him reason to believe, that you can get away with anything. that it s okay to lie and cheat and okay to involve foreign governments, in domestic politics for your own game. in all of this, the good news, if you can call it that, the silver lining is that this is 2020. this is an election year. and so, the senate may have been the jury yesterday. but we, the people, are the jury now. and the final verdict on the president and on the senate, is going to be up to us this year. i look at it this way. there were so many people in this race, as you know. and i am now in the top five. i think there s a lot of people that didn t predict i would get through that initial announcement speech in the middle of the blizzard. they were literally predicting i couldn t make it through the snow. then, they were predicting i wouldn t make it through the summer. and then, it was debate, debate, debate. every time i have exceeded expectations. and a quick programming note. remember to tune in to cnn on tuesday for our extensive coverage of the new hampshire primary. still to come, a doctor who tried to raise the alarm about the wuhan coronavirus is one of the victims of the virus. we re live to beijing in a moment. it s time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus 0% interest for 24 months on all smart beds. only for a limited time the wuhan coronavirus has kill eed 638 people. among the latest, the chinese doctor that first reported the new virus back in december, at the time, he was accused by chinese authorities of spreading rumors and he was warned not to speak about it. two more evacuation flights are on route to the u.s. with 200 people aboard. they re expected to land in the united states some time on friday. 300 cases of the disease have been found outside of china, including 61 people on a cruise ship, outside of yokohama, japan. that s where matt rivers is joining us live. there s a lot of people on the ship behind you. and the conditions are not especially good. reporter: no. they re not, john. we have been talking to people on the ship who say they re only allowed out of their rooms for a certain amount of time each day. this is some 3,700 people or so stuck on that massive ship behind me. and they ll likely be there for roughly another two weeks or so, according to the japanese government. government officials here taking zero chances. they are clearly concerned that the people on the ship could infect people in japan. it s hard to blame the government from taking the caution. there were 20 confirmed cases on coronavirus, people infected. today, that number jumped by 41, bringing the total number of cases to 61. not everyone onboard the ship has been tested. we know that hundreds of people have been. but that number could very well rise over the next couple of day s. of the 3,700 people onboard, we know that 38 of them are americans. two of the americans were on their honeymoon onboard that ship. they say the conditions onboard are difficult. they re really frustrated. we messaged with them earlier today on whatsapp. they said, we just want to get the hell off of this ship. we are deathly afraid we re going to catch this virus being trapped on the ship. you can imagine what they re going through, john, being able to look out from the balcony, see land and see media crews and not be able to leave. this sounds like a holiday from hell. you have people on the boat. some have the virus and some don t. keeping them together is a guaranteed way that everyone ends up with the virus. is there anyway to prevent that? reporter: they re keeping people separated from going one to one. they re taking meals and shutting the doors. you re right. one thought, people are saying, why not get us into hospitals and secure areas? but what the japanese government is saying, if we know you re not infected onboard the ship, why are we going to bring you in our hospitals and expose you to more people? we can leave you on the ship in that quarantine. that s the argument there. it s not a good argument for the people on the ship. they are frustrated. you can completely understand why they want to get off. so far, the japanese government is not giving an inch of ground, in terms of acquiescing to those requests. they are keeping the people onboard the ship for the time being. matt, thank you. matt rivers live with us with the latest onboard the miserable cruise ship. hopefully it will be over soon. there s been an enormous reaction, to the death of the wuhan doctor that reported the virus in december. there will be an investigation of issues raised by the masses. we go live to beijing. what are the issues raised by the masses? reporter: they re saying what issues they will be looking into at all. but obviously, this is their attempt to contain the raw emotions in the past few hours after the death of dr. lee. this is anger and grief of people across the nation. across the political spectrum. we re talking about police officers, former government officials, dissidents and activists, really excited in a very unusual way, that they re mourning the pass of dr. lee when they re asking angry and soul-searching questions of what led to his death. dr. lee, was among the first to raise an alarm about this outbreak. he was warning his college friends something he was just doing as an instinct. instead of being recognized, he was threatened by police and forced to sign a confession. that s why the virus was not contained at its initial stage and led to what it is now, a global disaster. that s why this story has r resonated so well with people across the country because this is an unlikely tragic hero. people are asking other questions in terms of, you know, the government accountability and demanding an apology for dr. li, saying where is our freedom of expression, as they continue to work to delete messages and posts of this doctor. another thing we learned, as recently as yesterday on thursday, police in another province, southwestern province detained five medical workers, according to a media report, for filming and disclosing information in terms of what was going on in their hospital, amid this outbreak. so, history seems to be repeating itself. john? yeah. also, a lot of the blame is being directed at local officials which is how beijing likes it. steven jiang. donald trump always had a tenuous relationship with the truth. and now, facts will pay a big part of his campaign. we ll explain in a moment. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. welcome back, everybody. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m john vause with the headlines this hour. the death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 638. a chinese doctor that tried to warn about the virus istalitief. when he made his findings public, authorities accused him of spreading rumors and warned he would be prosecuted if he did remain silent. all precincts of iowa are in and it s a virtual tie between pete buttigieg and vermont senator, bernie sanders. the national chair is calling for a recanvas of the results. donald trump, claiming total vindication of his political impeachment trial. he mocked the faith of mitt romney and house speaker nancy pelosi. donald trump also distorted the truth through that white house celebration. he made misleading or false statements, alternative facts that were challenged and there were lies. here s a sample. let me tell you, if we didn t win, the stock market would have crashed. they made up facts. a corrupt politician named adam schiff made up the statement to the ukrainian president. he brought it out of thin air. brought it up. he s a failed screen writer. he went into politics after. they don t think it s corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month. and that s only ukraine. goes to china, picks up $1.5 million. and goes to romania, i hear, and many other countries. they think that s okay. the president s frequent use of alternative facts will be playing a central role in his re-election campaign. cnn s tom foreman reports. reporter: a torrent of unbridled praise for president trump raging attacks on his perceived enemies. i called the fake news the enemy of the people. reporter: and howls of fake news anytime his actions come under fire. people need to understand what the democrats did was dishonest and it was corrupt and it had no other motive than to take him out in 2020. reporter: that is what atlantic staff writer mckay compens jumped into a few months ago, when he created a facebook pseudonym, liked trump s re-election page and other supporters. and the seasoned journalist was unprepared with the tidal wave that flooded in. it s like you re fully imm s immersed and almost drawning in the sea of conspiracy theories and lies. reporter: time and again, he would watch news events during the day. was there a quid pro quo. reporter: say damming testimony in the president s impeachment trial. and within hours, it was recouched as mere speculation. i came to believe i believe. that s what i believe i believe i reporter: witnesses were cast as misleading. the investigation was called a coup. we cannot accept a second term for donald trump. reporter: and president trump was presented as the only possible savior. i m restoring government of, by and for the people. the overall effect of scrolling through this feed, being bombarded with one piece of kind of misinformation, propaganda, conspiracy theory after another, it starts to take a toll on you. reporter: in what way? well, i started to question every headline i saw from every news outlet and every website. reporter: and it is all expected to grow. this is not just one election or two election thing. this is a movement that will continue well past into the future. reporter: the architect of trump s online outreach, brad parscale, is his campaign manager now, operating from an office tower near d.c., called by some the death star. they re planning to spend more than $1 billion. and coppins, are worried that pro-trump forces are going to wage the most expansive disinformation campaign in u.s. history. all parties have echo chambers. but team trump is believed to use this method to push hard this election season. suggesting they re not promoting alternative realities but the only reality that matters. tom foreman, cnn, washington. when we come back, police in india have made an arrest of a shocking crime against a 5-year-old girl. and the crime happened on the grounds of the u.s. embassy. more on that live in deli in a moment. he wanted a man cave in our new home. but she wanted to be close to nature. so, we met in the middle. ohhhhh! look who just woke up! you are so cute! but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with homeowners insurance. yeah, it was really easy and we saved a bunch of money. oh, you got it. you are such a smart bear! call geico and see how easy saving on homeowners and condo insurance can be. the white house says the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is dead. he led the franchise in yemen. no word on when he died. but cnn reported that he had been targeted. the news follows two other military efforts to remove middle east leaders or terrorist leaders. last month, an american drone strike for iran s most senior general, sulejmanny, and al baghdadi died on his compound in northern syria. we go to india, where police have arrested a suspect in the rape of a 5-year-old girl. she was attacked on the grounds of the u.s. embassy in new delhi. this is what this story is awful in itself. and it is made even more worse by the fact it happened on the grounds of the american embassy. reporter: absolutely, john. let me tell you what we know. it was a 5-year-old girl, on the ground off of the american embassy, was raped, allegedly, by a neighbor. the latest government in india talks about how 93% of rape cases, the victim knows the accused. this is one such case. we got a statement, an official one from the american embassy, where they talk about condemning the incident. but they go on to talk about how prompt they were to help the family, the parents not only filing the complaint, but helping them with medical aid. and fully cooperating with the police. we spoke with the police. they say this man is in judicial custody. if you do remember, in 2018 in india, as far as rapes of minors and especially girls under the age of 12 is concerned, this man could face 20 years imprisonment if convicted. he could face a life term. in some cases it goes up to the death penalty. what we do know is after that law was amended, as far as minor girls are concerned under the age of 12, this case has to be investigated within the next two months. and the trial has to be completed within the next six months. john? thank you for the details and the update there. israeli police say a suspect has been arrested after a car rammed into a group of israeli soldiers thursday morning in jerusalem. 12 soldiers were wounded, a sign that tensions between israelis and flips are once again on the rise. the latest attack came less than 24 hours after three palestinians were killed in the west bank, during days of protest against u.s. president donald trump s middle east peace plan, the so-called deal of the century. more from cnn s oren liebermann. reporter: it s easy to look at the attacks and the uptick of violence and see they come in the wake of the trump administrati administration s peace plan and link the two. that may be the reason why we re seeing the sudden violence in the last 24 hours. but there s more to it than that. there are some attacks that may be related to the anger and the frustration over the peace plan. the palestinian factions has called for more to express an outright rejection and anger. there was a ramming attack against israeli soldiers in jerusalem, wounding 12. one of them was seriously injured. the suspect was arrested thursday evening in the west bank. simil similarly, shooting attacks in the old city of jerusalem and the central west bank, may have anger over the plan at their root. and that goes for rocket and mortar fire from gaza, as well. what happened in jeanine in the morn west bank is a different story. that starts early thursday morning, with israeli soldiers go in to demolish the home of a palestinian, convicted of murdering a rabbi two years ago. in the clashes that broke out, one palestinian was shot and killed. israel says he had shot with a sniper rifle at israeli soldiers who responded. a second palestinian was also shot and killed, a member of palestinian police. video posted by fatah, that controls the palestinian authority, saws the officer standing at his place of work, not taking part of clashes and protests, when he s shot and killed. the israeli military says it s investigating the incident. where does it go from here and does it get worse? it s tense and there s a tremendous amount of strain on israeli/palestinian coordinat n coordination, which is crucial to both sides. where does this go from here? it could spiral out of control quickly and one of the big questions is can both sides put a lid on it to stabilize the situation and do they want to? oren liebermann, cnn, jerusalem. former vice president joe biden may have finished fourth in iowa. but he s a big winner to one 12-year-old boy after biden opened up about his life long struggle with stuttering. in the southeastern u.s., they re battling flooding and tornadoes and the worst may be yet to come. stay with us. that s up next. a continuous glucose monitor, you don t have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you re doing. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us. a new kind of investor is changing things up. [ indistinct talking ] with an app that s changing the way we do money. download robinhood now. a soyuz capsule with christina koch landed in kazakhstan on thursday. she returns to earth after 328 days in space. the longest space flight by a woman. she took part in the all-female spacewalk with jessica myer. scientists are baffled by a giant galaxy that existed 12 billion years ago and probably died. the monster galaxy churned out stars at a fast rate when the universe was a young thing. then, suddenly switched off. it s the equivalent of 1,000 suns every year for millions of years. that s a lot of suns. the sintists can t explain it yet. but they might have to change their ideas about how early galaxies stop forming stars. how about that? a powerful storm system is causing trouble across the eastern u.s. two people have been killed, a number of others injured. two dozen tornados have been reported and rains caused flooding across the southeastern u.s. up north, snow and ice are hammering new england, making travel dangerous. and it s not over yet. derek van dam is following all of this. he has the latest. dvd, what s going on? john, the southeast was the battleground states between the warm and the cold air masses. that created the severe weather outbreak. but also, the heavy rain leading to flooding. check out this video. this is an amazon delivery truck driver being rescued from his delivery truck, as the floodwaters rose around him. this is just outside of atlanta, northeast georgia. when we talk about how much rain has actually fallen, we see a wide swath of generally 2 to 4 inches. but there s been locations across the carolinas and in portions of georgia and alabama, that have seen upwards of 6 and 8 inches of rainfall. a widespread flooding across location. but it s also been severe weather. when we tally up over the past 24 hours the amount of tornadoes reported, two dozen as you mentioned. also, nearly 170 reports of wind damage and 30 reports of hail. this was a major early spring severe weather outbreak that s not only led to tornadoes but also flooding. so, come back to see some of the damage that was leftover from these tornadoes. this, by the way, was an ef-1 on the enhanced fujita scale. this is a measurement of the damage and wind speed that tornadoes cause. you can see, complete lly obliterating the mobile homes in central alabama. one fatality coming out of this. but signature damage from an f- ef-1 tornado here to say the least. you can see that vehicle is damaged, as well. the line of storms that caused the havoc across alabama and into georgia earlier on thursday evening, is pressing south across southern florida. there s still a tornado watch in effect, just outside of ft. lauderdale and miami. that s set to exfipire in the nt hour or so. the severe weather threat is deanyod dimini diminishing. there s enough cold air to transition the rainfall to snow in places like nashville and knoxville and cincinnati, ohio. some of the rainfall moving across the new england states, of course, cold enough to bring in the rain/snow mix and some ice across upstate new york, as well as vermont, new hampshire. so, that s where we have winter weather advisories. that controversy about 30 million americans. but check this out. lots of wind associated with this. 70 million americans-plus, with some sort of wind advisory or warning through the course of your friday. so, we have a breezy, kind of an all-outright mess to start off the early weekend on the east coast. but the storm system should exit fairly quickly tonight and into the day on saturday. but not before leaving a nice koegt coating of ice along northern new england. that will create travel nightmares if you head to the airports across upstate new york and vermont and new hampshire. that s an area you want to double check your plans. i believe this will stay all-rain for the major east coast cities, from d.c. to philadelphia, new york and boston. you can see that indicated in the rain/snow accumulation. snowfall totals, across new england, 8 to 12 inches of snow by the time the storm system finally exits the region. what a wild past 24 to 48 hours across the southeast, to say the least, john. so, pack a good book, pack some patience and pleases and thank yous. three-hour delays across the southeast, as well. thanks. there was lots of talks about tax plans and health care and public schooling at the thursday town hall with u.s. democratic presidential candidates. all important policies to be sure. but senator bernie sanders was asked about his jewish heritage and how it impacts his politics. he said it does so profoundly. growing up poor and understanding his jewish background shaped his views. i remember as a kid, looking at big picture books of world war ii. and tears would roll down my cheeks when i saw what happened to the jewish people. 6 million people were killed by hitler. a few years ago, my wife and i and my brother and his wife went back to the town to poland where we were shown an area where the nazis had put some 300 people and just mowed them down, in a ditch. so, that had how horrible people can be to other people in the names of racial superiority, or et cetera, certainly has been with me for my entire life. and that is why i will do everything i can to end the kind of divisiveness that trump is formenting in this country. we are one people. i don t care if you re black, white, latino, native american, gay, straight, that s not what it s about. we re human beings. we share common dreams and aspirations. so, you know, the pain that my family, my father s family suffered in poland, is something that has impacted my life, absolutely. cnn town hall, the night earlier, former vice president joe biden, opened up about his lifelong struggle with stuttering. his honesty has been encouraging others to speak out. here s alex signs with this report. reporter: braden likes drawing and basketball. and now, he shares a personal connection with joe biden. i felt like i a really close vibe between us. he had the same thing going on. reporter: brayden s father took him to see biden in new hampshire, knowing he, too, grapples with stuttering. we wanted to show brayden that stuttering isn t a limit in life. and it hasn t stood in the way of joe biden. reporter: the former vice president opened up about his lifelong struggle and the message he gives to kids coping with the same issue. i find myself really tired. i catch myself saying something like that. it has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient, it has nothing to do with your intellectual makeup. it s important for them not to judge themselves by their speech. not let that define them. reporter: it s a moment that highlights one of biden s key attributes to run for president, empathy. he mentions his stutter on the campaign trail and in some interviews, including a recent in-depth sitdown with the atlantic. biden says he keeps in touch with more than a dozen people who studder. some approaching him at campaign events to mention that bond. by the way, you know i used to be a bad stutterer. and i ve spoken a lot about it. involved with the national organization, as well. don t it does not define you. i know. it cannot define you. reporter: brayden harrington had that chance, too, when he met biden after his speech this week. it was shocking to shake somebody s hand who, like, has the same trait as me, and has the same thing going on. i met him. i could tell when i met him, you see the face. you can see the anxiety in their ca faces. reporter: biden invited brayden backstage, explaining how he prepares for his speeches. he showed me how he put diagonal lines through the words to pause, take no breaths and pause to chill out a little bit. reporter: the former vice president discussing that technique in his cnn town hall. what i do if i say, the democratic presidential town hall is tonight on cnn. i ll say, the presidential town hall. slash. is on cnn tonight. slash. it s going to have the following people. slash. anderson cooper is going to speak. slash. it forces me to think in terms of not rushing. reporter: biden ultimately asked for brayden s number, telling him he ll check in from time-to-time, to talk through their mutual challenge in life. he took the time to say, i want you to go out back. i know this isn t easy for us to talk right now. and i want to take some time, you and me, one-on-one. and that s a really kind act. it s kind of cool to shake a dude s hand and have, like, having him call me, like, and other kids. reporter: now, brayden showed us his journal where he wrote down the memory with joe biden when he leaves the house. his father told me he s and independent. he went to the joe biden event undecided. now, he and his wife will be voting for biden in the new hampshire primary. they re were both impacted by that moment in such a big way. arlette saenz, cnn, new hampshire. i 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voiceover: live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. i m glad you could join us. it s 1am in london, 9am here in singapore and also in beijing, where china s leader has made a rare public appearance to highlight the government s efforts to fight the coronavirus. speaking to medical workers, xi jinping called for more decisive measures to combat the outbreak. the latest figures released in the past hour by chinese authorities put the total number of deaths from the virus to more than 1,000, with some 40,000 cases confirmed. celia hatton has our first report. china s president, the man at the pinnacle of the communist party making his first public appearance in days amid a national crisis. xi jinping told workers at this beijing health facility that he had confidence china would overcome the epidemic. but in a sign of the times, he took all the necessary precautions. it s a special period , he said, so i d like not to shake hands. appearing on chinese state television, mr xi also addressed rising economic anxieties, missing the government would work to prevent large scale lay offs. that pledge comes as millions of people in china returned to work after the lunar new year break, which was extended from january 31 to curb the spread of the virus. but precautionary measures remain in place. work hours are staggered to prevent rush hour crowds. several major cities including beijing and shanghai remain quiet as many factories and offices are still closed. translation: actually, i still think it s a normal life. it s fine as long as we pay a little attention to it. for example, disinfection and being careful not to have close contact with people. but masks are not enough to convince people to leave their homes. in this beijing shopping mall, temperatures are being checked at the entrance but there were few shoppers inside the stores. the world health organisation has expressed concerns about the spread of the virus beyond china s borders, stressing their object remains containment. in recent days we have seen some concerning instances of onward transmission from people with no travel history to china. the detection of this small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a biggerfire. however, the outbreak continues to affect those well beyond wuhan. more people have tested positive on a cruise ship quarantined off japan. the diamond princess ship is on a two week quarantine of yokohama after a passenger tested positive for the virus. he d left the ship earlier when it docked in hong kong. and in the uk, more people tested have also contracted the virus. that news comes as the government issued new powers in england to keep people in quarantine to stop the disease spreading. from beijing, confidence the illness will be contained but elsewhere realisations that the impact of this outbreak will continue to extend well beyond china. celia hatton, bbc news. let s stay with the coronavirus outbreak, which is having knock on effects around the world, including on the economy and big events. many aerospace companies have decided not to attend the singapore airshow, which starts on tuesday, because of concerns over the virus. there are over a0 confirmed cases in the city state. monica miller is at the airshow and she described the precautions being taken to ensure people are safe there. well, this is the biggest event in asia of its kind and organisers say that they have put every precaution in place and what that means, as my crew and i found out this morning, is that several miles away from here you enter a medical tent with your vehicle. you have to get out of the vehicle and the temperature is taken. and then when you get a clean bill of health you go through security, multiple steps, because this airshow is focused on the defence industry, so we went through three checks to do that. but they also have a no contact policy which means no shaking hands which is difficult when this is an event to meet face to face to make deals. but they are adamant about not shaking hands. you can wave, you can bow, but you also need to keep your distance. and there is plenty of sanitiser and all precautions that you can personally take. it is something that they are not taking this lightly. so, given all of these precautions and the dangers of this virus, why have the organisers decided to carry on with this event? well, there have been roughly 70 participants that have dropped out, or exhibitors that have dropped out. but when they did the risk assessment, there were still hundreds of people. 0rganisers say that less than 8% of exhibitors have dropped out and they said that when they looked at the value of what the conference had to offer to these hundreds of participants and the fact that they felt they could contain this, they decided to go on with it despite the government elevating that level to orange, which is the same level it was elevated to during the sars period. more on that later. also making news today, in australia high tides are expected on tuesday morning along the entire new south wales coast. in places, they could add to flooding caused by the heaviest rain in the region in 30 years. despite the massive disruption the floods have caused, the rain has come as a much needed reprieve, putting out 30 bushfires over the weekend. president trump is to visit india later this month for a two day trip. he ll visit delhi and gujarat which is prime minister narendra modi s home state. the two leaders are said to have a close relationship. last year, mr modi visited the us and attended a huge rally in houston which was dubbed howdy modi . the us has charged four chinese military officers over the huge cyberattack on credit rating giant equifax. more than 147 million americans were affected in 2017 when hackers stole sensitive personal data including names and addresses. turkey says its military has struck more than 100 syrian government targets, following an attack on turkish troops in syria. turkey says it was responding to the deaths of five of its soldiers in idlib province. the syrian army is mounting an offensive there against rebel and jihadist fighters. counting is still under way in the irish general election but the left wing republican party sinn fein has taken the largest share of first preference votes ahead of the two centrist parties, which have dominated the government for decades. the result is tight and no one party is expected to be able to form an outright majority. now this is a guinness world record for the largest aerial firework being broken in the united states. the firework was launched on saturday from a steel tube buried in the side of emerald mountain in colorado. it weighed nearly 1,300 kilograms and it measured just over 1.5 metres long. thousands of chinese students who study in australia will miss the start of the academic year. they re banned from entering australia because of the coronavirus outbreak. many see the travel ban as unfair and want the start of term delayed. in 2018, over 38% of overseas students in australia were from china. education for international students is australia s third largest export, and the sector is eager to ensure the travel ban doesn t cause long term problems. the vice chancellor and principal of university of sydney has issued a statement which says: we re working hard to ensure the best possible outcomes for all our students. as we navigate these uncertain times, it is important that we not allow panic or anxiety to create division. well, abbey shi is the general secretary of the students‘ representative council at the university of sydney. she is chinese, but arrived back in the country before the travel ban. she s helping to support and pass on information to those students stranded in china. she told me how universities might be reaching out to the chinese students. it s my understanding that the university is trying to figure out an online solution to cater to students‘ needs. so the university is looking at having courses delivered online. the start of the term is still two weeks away and you basically organised a petition calling for the start of the term to be delayed. what has been the reaction of the vice chancellor and the principal to this petition? are they planning to move the term forward so to allow a lot of the students from mainland china to come back? at the moment i don t think there is a blanket policy plan to move the starting date forward or backwards to accommodate the students that are to be coming back. and also because there is no definite data on when the travel ban will be ended. so i think the university is just having the term start as usual. you are doing a monumental task here, keeping in touch with many students outside australia. how many of them are in touch with you? well, i have a chat group with altogether 2,000 students. they are stranded in china at the moment. many of them are people i have known for years. i miss them a lot. i hope i can see them soon. i m sure you miss them a lot and their situation is currently ongoing in mainland china. how frustrated and angry are they that they cannot return to school on time? you are right. it is not only the academic progression being affected, they also have a an attendance issue with student accommodation, some even have pets with accommodation issues. and they themselves are miles away and they cannot come back because of the travel ban. that was abbey shi, a student leader at the university of sydney. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: celebrations in seoul as the south korean movie parasite scoops the top prize at the oscars. also on the programme indian students use their art to speak out about controversial laws on citizenship. there s mr mandela. mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran s spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini has said he s 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 farm s 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. this is newsday on the bbc. i m rico hizon, in singapore. i m kasia madera, in london. our top stories: china s leader makes a rare appearance to address the coronavirus outbreak as the number of deaths grows to more than 1000. international aerospace companies stay away from the the singapore airshow, as fears of the virus hit the global economy. and a story from bbc sport brazilian football legend pele is reluctant to leave his house because he cannot walk unaided, according to his son. many of his recent public appearances have been in a wheelchair. let s take a look at some front pages from around the world: the coronavirus continues to dominate coverage this article in the japan times looks at the use of artificial intelligence to track people suspected of having the illness. the range of technology being utilised includes security cameras that can gauge a person s temperature and identify them even if they are wearing a face mask. the arab news reports on the increased risk of a direct confrontation between turkey and syria after five turkish troops where killed in idlib on monday. the assault on a military base comes a week after eight turkish troops were killed in a similar attack. and finally, the independent is one of many front pages featuring the triumph of south korean film parasite at the 0scar‘s. it has become the first non english language movie to take out the top prize of best film at hollywood s biggest award ceremony. congratulations to parasite. bernie sanders and pete buttigieg have both requested a partial review of results from the democratic party presidential caucus in iowa. mr buttigieg narrowly beat mr sanders in a chaotic contest in which technical problems delayed the result for days. the party says it will review the requests to see if they meet the requirements. that s iowa. on tuesday we move onto new hampshire. jane 0 brien has been out with campaigners who ve been knocking on doors. hi, how are you? hunting for election gold on the streets of manchester voters who have not yet made up their minds. you can send out thousands of pieces of mail, you can send out a tweet that reaches a million people, but ultimately face to face conversations is still what people like. voters don t live on twitter, they live behind their doors. around half of new hampshire voters a registered around half of new hampshire voters are registered independent but can still vote in the democratic primary. they could decide the outcome. because of a couple of trends in our politics, we do not talk to them. we really focus on making people afraid of the other party, instead of wanting to come to our party, and campaigns really focus on who they know will vote. and now they can do a youtube pre roll ad instead of doing a tv ad to everybody and that means a lot of these people are being left out of the process and we need to talk to them. this our place? yep. ca nvassers know exactly who they are targeting thanks to apps that reveal personal data and likely preferences. we know the woman who lives in this house voted in the last two general elections but has never voted ina primary. she probably supports gun control, but is less likely to support the minimum wage. she definitely supports a woman s right to have an abortion and might have a college degree. from small country towns in the mountains to the seaside, candidates have spent months campaigning for every single vote. but new hampshire is not going well forformer vice president, joe biden, who is now fourth in the polls and could be in real trouble. i do have concerns about, more about to be honest about his age. it is not age, it is energy. and i am here today to find out if he has the energy to do it, and i do not know the answer to that question. i want some fire and some fury, i want some really good. how are they re going to attack trump that s my most important thing how are we going to beat him. are you not hearing that at the moment? not yet. some experts say the polls have too much influence and could be damaging the election process itself. mobilising independence is essential if democrats are to beat donald trump in november but as disappointing turnout in iowa showed, getting them excited about the candidates is another matter entirely. jane 0 brien, bbc news, new hampshire. now you may remember the backlash and protests over the controversial citizenship laws in india, the bill which gives immunity to religious minorities from three neighbouring countries, except for muslims. as young students speak up against this new law we talked to some to find out why they re using art to express their opinions. my name is simeen, i am 21 years old, i am a second year student of fine arts injamia millia islamia university. me and my friends have been painting on the walls in support of the protests that are happening. the other day when the cops entered the campus, i was very scared and i had to run and climb this wall to be safe. so the very next day, i stepped out of my house with all the pains and i started painting and it is a way to deal with all the trauma i had to go through. each and every campus is coming together, it is not one campus. it becomes the responsibility of each and every artist like us especially young artists, because we have youths and they relate to us. at protest sites we have music, it always helps. music helps us to go on and on. the great and the good of hollywood were out in force at the oscars on sunday night. here on newsday we ve been watching the success of parasite. director bong joon ho is being hailed in his native south korea and around the globe for making history, after his film parasite became the first foreign language film to win the best picture award. parasite is a social satire about two families from different classes in seoul. here s a little taster. i really want to see it. parasite became the star of the night. apart from best film it won three other awards best international feature film, best director and best original screenplay. earlier i spoke to hyun jin cho, director of the london korean film festival she says the enitre film community is pleasently surprised. let s listen in. it is amazing. the international film community are happily surprised by the news. awards from the academy international, we know is really amazing and a great news. what is brilliant is bong joon ho was saying how they wanted an international board and he was laughing saying they were local awards what is brilliant is bong joon ho was saying how they wanted an international board and he was laughing saying they were local awards but what does this mean for korean and asian cinema? it is really encouraging. with the academy awards, we have been making a lot of interesting, great piece of cinema but this recognition from this kind of notoriously narrowminded sort of america cinema focused towards giving this award means that perhaps more internationalfilms can be part of this major film play. this can be an encouraging moment notjust for careers in but for cinema around the world. what was it about this film that resonated on such a wide audience because it works on so many different levels. we can talk about parasite for half an hour easily but maybe two factors, as you mention, it tackles this timely issue of inequality and class disparity, really sharply but without losing a sense of humour, and also cinematically it is really inventive, it mixes different genres, you cannot pin it down to one genre. it is action, furlough, social commentary and black humour. thriller. everyone is attracted to this combination and it made the film exciting. what is it about south korean cinema that makes it so competitive and compelling? we have amazingly talented filmmakers, working independently and also with smaller budgets. they have been working very hard but also korean society is extremely dynamic. we had this interesting history over the last half a century. we had a war, dictatorship, oppression, amazing demonstration movement, in some sense we had a difficult social situation which inspired a lot of artists to react and create something original, maybe that is something we can give it credit for. i cannot wait to watch that film. you have been watching newsday. i m kasia madera in londonand i m rico hizon in singapore. stay with us. coming up in asia business report .how going solo injapan is becoming more acceptable in a society known for its group mentality. this is a beach in sydney is covered with foam. the recent storms in new south wales have caused flooding in many parts but they have been churning up the ocean and all these gunk and turning it into foam. and while it was a novelty it was not so pleasant for residents. hello. sunday was very much all about the windy weather, thanks to ciara. monday things took a turn for the more wintry, and for today, well, we re left with a combination of the two really. strong chilly winds, gales for some, and some wintry showers feeding in. there is ciara now, sitting across scandinavia. but we ve still got lots of isobars on our charts, still noticeable winds and the showers getting blown in with the colder air sitting across us, are likely to be wintry. just follow the arrows back across the atlantic, and you can see basically that air spilling out of greenland, all the way down from the poles. so a cold start to tuesday and, where we have the wintry showers, there will be the risk of ice around for the first few hours of the day, at least. there will be a lot of sunshine away from the showers. but some of the showers are going to feed in thick and fast and that will mea accumulations of snow, maybe even as far south as the moors of the south west, across parts of shropshire the mountains of north wales, and the winds still very gusty too. so that will mean blizzards and the possibility of drifting snow. so some dangerous conditions to be found across particularly the northern half of the uk and it is cold. factor in the wind, it will feel a little bit chillier than these highs ofjust 6 8 degrees would imply. through the evening and overnight, things change just subtly. the wind will ease a little but still plenty of showers feeding into the northern half of the uk. to the south, largely clear skies, again, temperatures in the towns and cities dipping down a degree or so of freezing. or so above freezing. but in rural areas there will be a frost. so again, especially where we have had showers, the risk of ice first thing on wednesday. wednesday the winds are a little light right the way across the uk but still a threat of some showers in the north. perhaps a few outbreaks of rain further south. still quite gusty winds but nothing in comparison to sunday, monday and tuesday. but you can probablyjust see it creeping in there, to the south west of the uk, we have another area of low pressure waiting to come wing its way across us, on thursday. so for thursday, we are back into another spell of strong winds as this low winds its way in from the atlantic, and then, hot on its heels, looks like there will be another one pushing in through friday. perhaps a little break in the weather first thing on friday but again it is setting us up for what looks like will be a potentially even a stormy weekend ahead. so the weather still set to bring us some challenges, i think, in the next few days but for today, it s a cold wind and wintry showers to look out for. i m kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story is the coronavirus outbreak. more than 1,000 people have died so far, with over 40,000 confirmed cases. china s president made his first public appearance in days and met with health workers. the world health organization has expressed concern over the spread of the virus outside china. south koreans have been celebrating the four 0scars won by the film parasite, the first foreign language movie ever to win the best picture award. and video of a record breaking firework is getting a lot of attention on our website. it is in fact the world s largest firework. at nearly 1,300 kilograms, it weighs as much as a family car and it was successfully launched at a winter carnival in the us state of colorado. that s all. stay with bbc world news.
let s go back to the united states. we have been talking about the campaigning in new hampshire. joe biden, who did not do very well though, has already flown to south carolina. let s hear what we have to has to say. carolina. let s hear what we have to has to say. i got $70 billion coming to hbcus. we saved the ottawa buildings, obamacare, we stop insurance companies from discriminating against people pre existing conditions. on top of that we build an economy that donald trump is bragging about. this guy squandered his father s 14, now he is squandering the economy we gave him. don t think i m kidding. i m not. so, mr president, instead of talking about impeaching barack obama, you should be saying thank you, president obama, thank you, thank you, thank you. folks, we have so thank you, thank you. folks, we have so much more to do. a promise you, as your president, you will be partners and shaping the policy to make sure that everything american has an opportunity. the thing that i ve never like today was chairman of thejudiciary i ve never like today was chairman of the judiciary committee fears, i don t know what you need best, eilertsen. you know what you need best. we don t listen enough. we ta ke best. we don t listen enough. we take for granted. you know what you need. you know what your families need. you know what your families need. and i ve never not listened to you. first we need to defend and build on obama care. donald trump wa nts to build on obama care. donald trump wants to get rid of it. even some of the folks in my own outfit, in the primary, want to take it away. but i ll never let that happen. folks, and was proud to serve as president obama s vice president for eight yea rs. obama s vice president for eight years. it was the honour of my life. and he became a close personal friend, our granddaughters and his daughters are best buddies, they went to school together in for ten years. but they still hang out with one another although they go to different schools. where are you? i am at the university of michigan? what are you doing there? they came up what are you doing there? they came up to see my. anyway. all inu is i get to pay for the ticket. anyway. i was never prouder than the day we past obamaca re. was never prouder than the day we past obamacare. and here s what we are going to do. we are going to expand it. we are going to get rid of all the executive orders that have curtailed it. we will increase funding. too many families are dealing with cancer, diabetes. african americans, dealing with cancer, diabetes. african america ns, maternal health disparities. look at them. in the united states of america today, today! there is an incredible disparity. it is sinful. it s sinful. it s an indictment of the entire system. and by the way, you will know, education is a great equaliser. we need to treated that way. every child has the same capacity when they are born. everyone of them has the same capacity. child deserves a great educator no matter your zip code or income level. i ve put my money where my mouth is. we need funding to give teachers the funding for the pay raise they need. we are losing. we have 115,000 teachers short. it will be a quarter of a million short by 2025. he will get shortchanged? you are downright they are. who will. we will give outages a pay raise. we will continue the criminal justice reform the president and i started. we are going to and all private prisons. and no more jail time for addiction. you go into mandatory treatment. build more treatment facilities! cheering. and make sure marijuana convictions, their entire record is expunged and when asked if ever arrested, you will be able to say legally, no, i have not. folks, let s think about this. there s so much, and by the way, all these days that are out there legalising marijuana and legalising medical use of it, we should take a big chunk of those profits and put them into prison reform and treatment. treatment, treatment, treatment. we have to be a country of second chances, for god ‘s sake. no, think about it. we ll talk about second chances. what we do? someone gets out of prison or out of a tough spot we say you are denied all the things that can help you. we are going to give you 25 bucks and a bus ticket. you end up under a bridge. we need to eliminate all those barriers to success. gotta make sure all the collateral consequences eliminated. people coming out of prison and coming back from serving their time and out of recovery, they should be able to get gra nts recovery, they should be able to get grants and housing. they should be able to get all the things that give them a chance. and while they are there we should be teaching them skills. it makes no sense, it makes no sense to keep it a penal system. look, we are a great country and we have great people, we have the greatest workers in the world, but you should be paid like we are the greatest workers in the world. applause . the background i d come from, not dissimilar, except he was in louisiana and i was in pennsylvania. too many families working their tails offjust to make ends meet. too many people i know did what my dad doing, and you know here now in south carolina, made what they call the longest will up a short flight of stairs to tell their son or daughters, sorry, we can t leave there anymore, mummy and daddy don t have a job, you will go and live with grandma for a while. i will make it, will do it. i ll come back and when i can get a place we will bring you all together again. people having trouble keeping the roofs over their heads. when my dad walked up over their heads. when my dad walked up those stairs i remember, 21146 n. washington ave, was in third grade, he looked at me and said i promise you be all right. he believed it was. he believed in. he was right. then if you took a shot, you got a chance, you re able to do it. today think of all the people who can t look at the kids and say we are going to be able to do it, because the deck is stacked the waiters today. it really genuinely is. we have two thirds, we have over 50% of the people who are working class or middle class thing that children will never achieve the same standing they have. what a god awful thing. it s. itjust they have. what a god awful thing. it s. .. it just makes they have. what a god awful thing. it s. itjust makes me mad! look, we are going to invest in our families and our communities. we are going to invest in roads and bridges, broadband, water system, school buildings, rural infrastructure, we will invest in the 102030 plan to get finally to those areas that have been left behind, the bulk of what needs to be done. cheering. and by the way, oh no apologies to anybody for it. it is in the interests of everybody, the wealthy comedy semi wealthy, the middle class, the working class, that everybody does better. when they do everything works for everybody. everything. we ve got to make sure black and brown families and businesses have the same ability to accumulate wealth. look, folks, you live in a black neighbourhood you have the same exact house as the guy who lives across the highway in a white neighbourhood, the same house, the same condition, yours is valued at less. you pay more for insurance. how do you get a chance to accumulate wealth?! well, tell you what, that s not how you are going to fulfil their dreams. they really mean it. you know, we re not going to invest in tax cuts for the wealthy incorporations. the system is already rigged their favour. that $1.9 trillion that donald trump gave way to the top 2%, we are going to invest in families instead stop by cheering. i really mean it. i mean it. so, we re just watching joe biden as he to his supporters in south carolina. and ijust should explain that really, because we have been focusing on new hampshire, that is where the democratic primary is, polls have closed their as people have been choosing the democratic nominee for president to take on donald trump. now, in new hampshire joe biden didn t do very well. who did well was bernie sanders, and there are his supporters waiting patiently there. they have been there for a while, actually, practising the cheering and clapping. at the moment they are looking around waiting for bernie sanders to come onto the stage. and when he does we will bring that to you, of course. right here on bbc world news. next, moving on to other news. india s governing hindu nationalist bjp have suffered a humiliating defeat at an assembly action in delhi. it took place against the background of ongoing protests against the government s controversial new citizenship act. ra nsley controversial new citizenship act. ransley budget often has more from delhi. the leader of india s common man s party has just pulled off a victory few in india have managed. overcoming the popularity of prime minister narendra modi s bjp party for the second time and winning the majority of seats in delhi s assembly elections. many saw these assembly elections. many saw these assembly elections. many saw these assembly elections as a referendum on the government s citizenship amendment act, which offers amnesty to illegal immigrants from some neighbouring countries, but not if they are muslim. victory for the common man s party, to have anotherfive yea rs man s party, to have anotherfive years running delhi. but a bruising loss for the bjp and prime minister modi, who hoped they be celebrating today. let s get some of the day s other news: the usjustice department has intervened to override its own prosecutors and seek a lower prison sentence for donald trump s former adviser roger stone. the intervention came just hours after the president complained on twitter that stone s recommened sentence of seven to nine years was a miscarriage ofjustice. all four prosecutors on the case have since resigned. stone is convicted of lying to congress and witness tampering. part of the amazon rainforest has started to emit more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, according to research seen by the bbc. scientists from brazil s space research institute say part of the south east, which is about a fifth of the total area, appears to be no longer able to store carbon dioxide. defence lawyers for harvey weinstein have rested their case in his rape trial without calling the former film producer to give evidence. the lead defence lawyer is due to present her closing argument on thursday, followed by the lead prosecutor. the jurors heard testimony from six women who accuse harvey weinstein of sexual assault. they faced aggressive questioning by mr weinstein s lawyers, who then called only a handful of witnesses for the defense. it is time for sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme. one of the shocks of the asian champions league so far, the former winner ‘s thrust at home. you can plasma steps down as the interim head coach after ten weeks in charge. and new zealand hand india their first one day series whitewash in more than three decades. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with football and tuesdays games in the asian champions league. it wasn t a great day for some of the former winners of the competition, withdraws. in a shock home defeat. colin harrison reports. champions of the uae, a record 13 times, and champions league finalist 2016, they were expected to start this campaign with a home win. yet pedro desilva s team we re a home win. yet pedro desilva s team were second best throughout. indeed, the main surprise was it took them so the main surprise was it took them so long to break down. with half time looming they headed into a deserved lead. many times of a fight back were snuffed out, adding two more in quick succession, within minutes of the restart. this made it 3-0. but minutes of the restart. this made it 3 0. but still the iranians won t finish. mohammed made it a fourth late on to make them the early leaders in group d. in that same group al sadd came from behind to lead 2 1, the qatari and champions we re lead 2 1, the qatari and champions were put in front early in the second half. they had to settle for a point in the hand when abdul rifled home an equaliser for the saudis. 2 2 the final score. in group c, the qatari side began their campaign witha group c, the qatari side began their campaign with a home win. the croatian striker, european champions league winner with bayern munich backin league winner with bayern munich back in 2013, set them on their way to victory over persepolis, scoring a 2 0 win. fc tokyo are back in the champions league for the first time infour champions league for the first time in four years. and they shocked the 2012 leaders by taking the lead through diego olivero midway through the second half of the game in south korea. they were heading for a famous win until there was an own goal with less than ten minutes to goal with less than ten minutes to go to earn a barely deserve 1 0 draw. in the day s other game, judge our lost at home. melbourne victory one 1-0 lost at home. melbourne victory one 1 0 in group b. the games in beijing and hong kong were both postponed because of the coronavirus. and they have been rescheduled for april. in europe, the holders up through to the semifinals of the french cup. they won 3 0 to seal their place in the last four. despite big investment and a promise to make them title contenders, jurgen klinsmann has stepped down as hertha berlin s interim head coach afterjust 10 weeks in charge. the former germany and usa coach was named manager until the end of the season back in november. but won just 3 of his 9 league matches in charge, they re currently 14th in the bundesliga. klinsmann s managerial career began back in 2004, when he took charge of the german national team. he led them to third place at the 2006 world cup. from there he spent a season as head coach of bayern munich but lasted only 43 matches in charge. he nextjob was head coach of the usa where he won the concacaf gold cup with them in 2013. and then came hertha berlin where klinsmann made a surprise return to management in november. he ll return to his previous role on the club s supervisory board. originally, klinsman was part of the advisory board for hertha but then they sacked their coach in late november last year and then he took over. they looked around, who can be allocation now? it can be klinsman. he is famous and let s take him as the coach. he took over and then you know what you get when you bring in juergen klinsman as a coach. we have seen juergen klinsman as a coach. we have seen it with via munich and with the german national team a few years ago, klinsman to revolutionise hertha berlin and its structures. he brought in new players, coaches, new star. he wanted to turn hertha into a bundesliga contender and that was the same here in berlin with a big clu b the same here in berlin with a big club like psg in paris and other famous clubs in london. in the end, it only took ten weeks, the whole revolution and hertha are still stuck in the relegation battle. 12 games for klinsman and only nine points are now he is gone. nba legend lebron james is in line to make a return to the us olympic team with the prospect of winning a third gold medal. james, who missed the rio games in 2016, is one of five lakers players named in the usa s provisional squad of 44 for this year s tokyo olympics. he was in the american team that won gold in 2008 and 2012 and says he wants a crack at another olympics. my name is in the hat, you know, it is or was predicated on one, my body. how my body is feeling at the end of the season. i hope to make it a long play off run. and then where my mind is and then where my family s head is. there are a lot of factors but my name is in the hat. is it cool to see that there are five you guys on the list? spectacular. fantastic. we are well represented with the lake show. it is a pretty cool thing. new zealand s cricketers avenged their recent 5 nil defeat in the t20 series against india by completing a 3 nil clean sweep in the odis. they won tuesday s final match by 5 wickets and that meant a first one day whitewash for india for 31 years. india batted first and kl rahul top scored with 112 as they made 296 for 7 from their 50 overs. hamish bennett was the pick of the new zealand bowlers, taking 11 611. openers martin guptill and henry nicholls both made half centuries at the start of the black caps reply, and colin de grandhomme steered them to victory, with an unbeaten 58, as they reached their target with 17 balls to spare. when you have some tough days and results don t quite go your way, it is trying to stick with that and know that if you are able to do that, building performances and other small improvements than you can help turner s results around. there were some fine in that t20 series, as they were in this series. it s always about learning and trying to get better from these performances. england have announced their test squad for the tour of sri lanka next month with record wicket taker james anderson left out. he cracked a rib on during the test series in south africa and will stay at home to focus on being fit for the english summer. tennis, and the number 2 seed stefanos tsitsipas is through to the 2nd round of the rotterdam open but he had to come from a set down against hubert hurkacz, the world number 29 from poland. tsitsipas who wonthe season ending atp tour finals in london in december took the deciding set 6 1 to seal his place in the last 16. the greek who made his debut on the main atp tour in his event three years ago will now play slovenia s aljaz bedene for a place in the quarter finals. in the same half of the draw, felix auger aliassime is through to the last 16 after beating germany s jan lennard struff in three sets. the canadian took the decider 6 3, and he ll now face grigor dimitrov for a place in the quarter finals. the number 5 seed fabio fognini is out. he was beaten in straight sets by karen khachanov. the russian who s ranked 17 in the world after a poor end to last year enjoyed a comfortable 6 3, 6 3 victory to seal his place in the second round where he ll face dan evans of great britain. another russian through to the last 16 is andrey rublev. the number 7 seed beat georgia s nikoloz basilashvili in straight sets 6 2, 6 3, the score. he ll now face alexander bublik from kazakhstan. you can get all the latest sports news at our website that s bbc.com/sport. but from me, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. there really is an awful lot of weather getting thrown our way over the next few days. eventually we ll get into something milder and wetter from the atlantic. right now it s cold air and a cold wind driving across the uk and that s pushing in all these shower clouds answer more to come, mainly for the northern half of the uk where, earlier on, of course, it was particularly treacherous across parts of southern scotland. now the winds are easing down a little bit, allowing temperatures to fall away close to if not below freezing. ice more likely across scotland, northern ireland, and north west england. this is where we are seeing showers continuing overnight and into the morning. and again, some snow, even to low levels for a while. gradually through the day we will see the winds easing down a bit. we will also see the showers become fewer, more places turning dry, particularly northern ireland and much of england and wales during the afternoon. some sunshine around here. temperatures similar to what we had on tuesday, but because it won t be as windy it probably won t feel quite as cold. now towards the south west we will see some changes later on in the day as the cloud thickens and we start to see some showers coming in here. that s ahead of this main rainband that sweeps its way eastwards, heading northwards it then meets the cold air and slows down. so we will find a mixture of rain and some snow, even to lower levels for a while overnight before lifting onto the hills as that wetter weather slowly peters out. to the south will have some showers, gales running through the english channel, temperatures may make double figures across the southernmost parts of england. but if you are stuck under that cold, wet weather in the north east of england then temperatures only four degrees at best. it should be drying off overnight and by the time we get to early friday may well be some ice, some frost, and a few pockets of mist and fog, too. it won t be as cold though for northern ireland, because here winds will be picking up by the morning and we will have some rain, too. the stronger winds will push the rain eastward, snow more likely over the mountains of scotland this time. the rain turning lighter as it runs across england and wales. but because it s a southerly wind those temperatures will be higher. it will be turning milder everywhere. probably not much rain for eastern england until the evening as that weak weather front move through. and then we look out into the atlantic, deepening area of low pressure heading towards iceland. this is storm dennis. probably not quite as severe as storm ciara was last weekend, but this weekend we are expecting some widespread gales, the winds could be still gusting, 60 70 mph, probably the biggest impact is likely to be across england and wales from the strength of the wind and some more rain, which will be heavy at times, and that will lead to some more flooding. in syria, rebel held idlib province, hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing from the presidents forces. turkish backed rebels have responded by shooting down a helicopter they say was going to bomb civilians stop this port by quentin somerville contains some distressing images. the long and winding death of rebel held idlib is quickening. another 700,000 people fleeing. among them, in the traffic heading north, this family. this is the biggest exodus since syria s war began. they fear what s behind them more than what lies ahead. translation: we are fleeing from our village towards the turkish border because we are in fear for our children and women. they ve packed up everything they can carry, knowing that they will likely never be back. translation: we re leaving our house because of the army. the army executes those who stay here. bashar al assad s forces are tearing at their heels. air strikes and artillery are redrawing the landscape here as the regime captures more and more territory. the world has stopped counting syria s dead, but in idlib, they don t have that luxury. in the blanket, the charred corpse of another victim. here, they knew the regime warplanes were coming and ran for cover, but their homes gave them little protection. i can t recognise him. my father or my brother? i don t know , he says. the turkish backed rebels and islamist extremists are losing idlib, but today they had a small victory, the downing of a helicopter. the helicopter behind me belongs to the regime, he says in turkish. it was dropping barrel bombs on innocent civilians, women and children. there is no peace here, even for the dead. returning regime soldiers film themselves desecrating the grave of a rebel commander. the living here are running out of breathing space. ahmed hasjust been dug out of the rubble after syrian jets attacked a market in idlib city. 17 people died around him. the pleas for a ceasefire, some respite, are ignored. girl cries. in a nearby bed, an 11 year old screams from shrapnel wounds. she and ahmed will recover, but then what? they will likely end up here, joining many of idlib s other children, clinging on in the sprawling camps at the country s edge with turkey, a place where people are corralled and forgotten. once again, idlib is asking for help, but the world has left it and syria behind. quentin somerville, bbc news. we will be back in just a couple of minutes time we will be live in new hampshire but for the moment, i am lewis vaughan jones and this is bbc news. welcome to bbc news. i m katty kay, live in new hampshire, where results are coming in from the democratic primary. here with jane o brien. bernie sanders appears to be in the lead, with pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar not far behind. it looks like another bad night forjoe biden. and andrew yang says he will suspend his campaign. michael bennett also says he will suspend his campaign. i m lewis vaughan jones in london. our other main story: a new name, but the same threat, the death toll rises from what is now the covid 19 outbreak.
live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news it s newsday. good morning. it s midnight in london, 8:00am in singapore and in china, where the world health organization is seeking further clarity from beijing about recent changes in how coronavirus cases are being diagnosed. the number of confirmed cases in china increased by 4,823 and 116 new deaths reported on thursday. there are now over 50,000 cases of coronavirus in the hubei province of china. john sudworth reports from beijing. china s at war with this virus, flying in extra supplies and a reinforcement of 2,600 extra troops. but there is still deep confusion about the enemy they are fighting, how many it has infected and how many it is killing. until now, only those with a positive lab test were counted as confirmed cases, but lab tests take time. now patients confirmed by much quicker ct scans are being included. it s slightly less reliable, but it means the number of cases has rocketed. what s far more worrying is the big leap in deaths. the sudden increase is made up of those patients who only had ct scans, not counted before. but are those extra deaths added up from across the past three weeks or are they a new daily count, pointing to a hidden number of similar daily deaths? china hasn t told us. it has been focused on messages of loyalty. these patients had been sworn into a communist committee and it s been settling political scores, removing the boss of the province where the outbreak started. the media are showing hard working heroes stories, too. it is a driver s wedding anniversary. come home soon his sign says. his wife s a nurse looking after virus patients and contact with the outside world is forbidden. from beijing, i ask if china can beat the virus. of course we will win, he says. even in china s capital, the impact is felt. this shop is keeping a safe distance from its customers. china is now portraying this as a patriotic fight involving the masses, the enforcement of strict quarantine measures, and the mandatory wearing of face masks. of course, viruses don t listen to propaganda. they are best beaten with good data and an open and transparent public health policy. there s no shortage of fighting spirit, but there s so much we still don t know about how this is going to end. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. more on the coronavirus coming up. let s take a look at some of the day s other news. there s been a shock resignation from the british prime minister s government, with the chancellor of the exchequer, sajid javid, unexpectedly quitting his job just as boris johnson was reshuffling his cabinet. mrjavid made the decision after rejecting mrjohnson‘s order to fire his entire team of aides. the conditions that were attached was a requirement that i ve replaced all my political advisers. you know, these are people who have worked incredibly hard on behalf of not just the government incredibly hard on behalf of notjust the government but incredibly hard on behalf of not just the government but the whole country, done a fantastic job. why was unable to accept those conditions. don t believe any self respecting minister would accept such conditions. so therefore i felt the best thing to do to go. also making news today, south africa s parliament was suspended for a short while after disagreements broke out before president cyril ramaphosa s state of the nation address. he has set out the government s objectives for the year, focusing on south africa s struggling economy and promising to host an extraordinary summit of the african union to finalise a continental free trade agreement. president donald trump says that the united states is very close to a peace deal with the taliban guerrillas in afghanistan. his comments come as the two sides agreed a 7 day reduction in violence, in what is seen as a step towards the possible withdrawal of american troops. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo called it an important breakthrough but added that talks were still complicated. the united nations says more than 800,000 people have been displaced in north western syria since december. the government, backed by russia, launched a new offensive on the region around that time, after donald trump decided to pull his troops out of the country. the us government has filed new charges against the chinese tech giant, huawei, and its chief financial officer, meng wa nzhou who s currently fighting extradition from canada. she is wanted in the us on charges of fraud and sanctions violations. the new charges include plotting to break the law on corruption and racketeering, and to steal trade secrets from six american technology companies. huawei has consistently denied any wrongdoing. locations featured in south korea s oscar winning movie, parasite, have been enjoying a business boom since its triumph last weekend. the thriller won four 0scars, including best picture, the first non english language film to win the top prize since the academy awards began in 1929. scientists in the antarctic have registered a temperature above 20 degrees celsius for the first time in history. it was registered on seymour island and is almost a full degree higher than the previous record on signy island in 1982. the antarctic is the world s biggest reserve of ice, and the scientists, who collect the data every three days from monitoring stations, have described the new record as incredible and abnormal . let s now go back to our top story on the coronavirus and how the number of cases is being recorded on a daily basis in china. i spoke to professor ben cowling from the university of hong kong about what china s new methodology entails. we know there s limitations on how many people can be lab tested every day, so it makes a lot of sense for the chinese government to go over to reporting the probable cases, patients with symptoms consistent with coronavirus, pneumonia, rather than the laboratory cases. in terms of the number of infections, we know there are many more infections than just the patients with ammonia, because the majority of people infected with this coronavirus will not develop pneumonia. the predictions that were made by some of my colleagues in hong kong where that there may be hundreds of thousands of infections over a period of time. and that was under the assumption, perhaps, that there was nothing being done by the chinese authorities to slow down transmission. now, in the past two weeks, we have seen a lot of efforts that have been made to slow down transmission as possible. those measures can probably delay some of those infections from occurring while the measures are in place, but if the measures were to be removed, then we could probably expect more infections to occur again. unless of course the virus has disappeared. but it has showed no signs that it is going to disappear. some critics have always said that china may be underreporting the cases. at the same time, the number of deaths outside china remains relatively low. so why are so many more remains relatively low. so why are so many more people dying within china? this is a slow moving disease. so the people that have died, the average time they have stayed in hospital is weeks, not days. so we have seen a lot of cases outside of china, some of those are still in severe condition, but maybe we need to wait a little bit longer to have a full picture of severity of angina, actually, the move yesterday to report the probable cases and not only the laboratory confirmed cases is a good move. and that s going to lead to larger numbers being reported and, hopefully, let us track a little bit better what s going on with the epidemic and whether it s reached a peak and how long it might last for. thanks very much to epidemiologist, professor ben cowling, speaking from hong kong. we turn to space. a strangely shaped object spotted by a nasa probe in a far flung corner of the solar system has overturned the long standing theory about how planets are formed. a new study found the process could have been less violent than scientists originally believed, with matter gently clumping together to form planets. so rather than a big bang, it was more of a gentle merging. this report by our science correspondent, pallab ghosh. billions of years ago, the planets in our own solar system formed. it was a violent process of rocks crashing together and merging until they became worlds, which included our own earth. or so we thought. today, at a news conference in seattle, nasa scientists said that that theory, held for the best part of 60 years, was completely wrong and that the building blocks of planets slowly merged together. it is a wonderful scientific present and the results that have just been described to you are, in my view, watershed. the sun is right in the middle of the solar system. closest to it are the four small rocky planets, including the earth. then further out are four much larger planets, the most famous of which is saturn. then at the edge is tiny pluto, three billion miles away. it is just one of thousands of rock and ice in an outer zone called the kuiper belt. these are unused building blocks, left over from the creation of the planets 11.5 billion years ago. nasa s new horizon spacecraft reached one of these objects, named arrokoth, last year. it is only now that scientists have been able to study it in detail. it consists of two boulders fused together. look closely at the join and there is no evidence of a violent impact, no cracks, rather a slow coming together, notjust of these two boulders, but a gradual accumulation of all the ice and rocks that built the planets we know today. objects in the kuiper belt are of great significant to us. they sit a long way from planet earth, but they are significant because these were formed at the very birth of the solar system. they all sit a long way from the sun, so they aren t corrupted by radiation from the sun. they re like a time capsule of the prevailing theories about how the solar system was formed. this gives us strong evidence that it wasn t a violent collision of various objects, but sort of gently coming together. textbooks about the origin of the solar system will now have to be rewritten. the scientists say, in thejournal science: instead of the violent start we once imagined, its beginnings were more gentle and tranquil. pallab ghosh, bbc news, seattle. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: australia s bushfires are now contained for the first time in six months. also on the programme: the growing popularity of online dating in pakistan s conservative society. there s mr mandela. mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran s spiritual leader ayatollah khomeini has said he s 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 farm s 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. welcome back. this is newsday on the bbc. i m marika 0i in singapore. i m nuala mcgovern in london. our top stories: china has confirmed 4,000 new cases of patients with the new coronavirus and 116 new deaths in hubei province. a shake up in british politics with a cabinet reshuffle. the chancellor, sajid javid, resigns after he s ordered by borisjohnson to sack his advisors. let s take a look at some front pages from around the world. the japan times is leading with our main story the latest on coronavirus. it s focussing on those quarantined on the cruise ship in yokohama, and japan s new policy to allow passangers aged 80 or over to disembark if they ve tested negative. staying on coronavirus the business standard is looking at how one man s loss is another man s gain. it says india has raised more than $7 billion in bonds since january as china s market has been squeezed by the coronavirus scare. and the new york times has this feature on two brothers in delhi who started a wildlife rescue sanctuary for black kites, a bird common in delhi, and is often injured due to paper kites a popular pastime in india. germany has been marking the 75th anniversary of the destruction of dresden by british and american bombers during the second world war. between the 13th and 15th of february 1945, thousands of tons of bombs and incendaries were dropped on a city famous for its beauty and architecture. tens of thousands of civilians were killed many dying in firestorms. jenny hill reports from dresden. dresden has risen from the ashes, but it s dead are not forgotten. a city still a symbol of the horror unleashed by war. it is 75 years since allied forces dropped a bomb after bomb on the city, an attack which even at the time ignited controversy. underneath their bombardment, civilians suffocated and burned. there city destroyed. ursula was 1a. she recalls a firestorm so intense that she clung a lamp post to avoid being sucked the flames. translation: we stood clinging to the lamp post, then we saw our house collapse. first the facade crashed down and the bricks rolled up to ourfeet, and my mother said, now we have lost everything. now we are homeless. commemorations today in a city so famed for its culture and beauty that its people thought no one would attack it. translation: we recall both the suffering of people in german cities and the suffering that germans inflicted on others. we do not forget it was germans who started this cruel war. this is for germany a highly symbolic day. for many it s about memory, reconciliation. for others though it s about defiance too. the far right is once again making its presence felt in this country, seeking to redefine germany s second world war history. there are few survivors left to tell the tale of dresden, but by honouring its dead the city intends to keep the memory alive. jenny hill, bbc news, dresden. now to australia, fire officials in new south wales have confirmed that all the bushfires in the state are thought to be contained. this development is partly due to heavy rain over the weekend, which brought flooding in some areas. our correspondent shaimaa khalil is in sydney with the latest. it s one extreme to another. in new south wales, it has been thrashed by record rainfall and floods, more than it is seen for decades. it has been raining constantly in sydney 110w raining constantly in sydney now with massive disruptions to roads, to schools, to transportation and emergency services are warning that there could be more rain and the risk of floods here in the state of new south wales and queensland. now despite all of this, many people have actually been celebrating this change of weather. it has been a hot, long, brittle summer for new south wales that has been the worst affected by the bushfires andi worst affected by the bushfires and i can tell you, no one is happy about the change of weather, extreme as it is, more than at the firefighters who have been trying for months to contain these fires and now finally, for the first time, although fires in the states have been a contain. what does that mean contained? to all the fires around ? that mean contained? to all the fires around? no, there are some fires still burning, 2a fires still burning across new south wales. what that means effectively is that firefighters are able to surround these blazes with containment lines, keep control of them and prevent them from expanding and control really has been the key word here or this season and the main challenge. we ve seen over the past few months these big fires, they merge into a mega blazes with fronts that go four kilometres wide and firefighters simply tell us they are just absolutely impossible to control. and what they needed was more rain and thatis they needed was more rain and that is what has been happening because of this consistent rainfall, these fires are now under control. it is not to say that there aren t fires and other states as well and here in new south wales but now at a significantly lower level and 110w significantly lower level and now what they have to do is make sure they keep them contained and of course keep an eye on the weather. i m sure it is so exhausting, for these teams working so long. with turn to the people who have been directly affected. so heartbreaking some of their stories that saw fire engulfed their homes. what is happening, how they people returning? many people have returned to their areas and of course, some people, have had nothing to return to. more than 2000 homes have been destroyed but really, the massive destruction is on so the massive destruction is on so many levels. where talking people s homes, wildlife, bushland and the recovery really is slow going. this is going to cost the government a lot of money, the insurance companies are still battling the best way of how to handle this because of the mere scale of the disaster. what is also done is made australians rethink how they are handling oi’ rethink how they are handling or how they are looking at the climate debate, putting more pressure on the government. will have to wait and see if that translates into anything in terms of climate policies but people going back to their homes, student starting school, people trying to reopen their businesses, all of that has been really slow going just by the mere scale of the fires only destruction they have caused all of these mums. and just briefly, there was such anger and we saw people outside their homes against the government as you talk about climate policy. do you think thatis climate policy. do you think that is still there? how would you gauge the public mood?|j think you gauge the public mood?” think it is still there. the urgency of its hasn t been the same as when the fires were still going but mind you, again, we going from one extreme to the other matters really if you look at twitter and social media for example. many people are saying that we have left for extreme fires and is now are living for extreme floods, clearly something has to be said about climate, clearly the government can t avoid at any longer. so yes, the debate is still there, the pressure is still there. whether the government is going to respond with anything that is concrete, remember scott morrison is a big supporter of the coal industry, whether that is going to change. will have to wait and see. it s valentine s day and online dating has become a huge part of our lives. but in the conservative pakistani society, it s a relatively new concept. a matchmaking forum on facebook called ‘skip the rishta or matchmaking aunty‘ has built up nearly 3,000 members in less than a year. and that s where aisha and ahad met after years of matchmaking efforts by theirfamilies. shumaila khan from the bbc urdu service has spoken to the couple. translation: semi times for matchmakers, people came to meet me and then got up and left. sometimes, they were happy with me but other times, there is a consulting with god, i was not right for them. i was fed up. translation: usually with the girl would come, bring the tm parade in front of you like some sort of cattle. i really don t like it translation: two we met through this online forum, skip the rishta or matchmaking aunty and started talking. first online, then rely. then we arranged a meeting of our families. translation: she was the afl file talk to. our hobbies were similarand many file talk to. our hobbies were similar and many other things just matched. but first, the date,it just matched. but first, the date, it was actually after our engagement. translation: i wanted to make sure that he came from a good, well educated family. i was a lwa ys well educated family. i was always frank about myself. i love animals. even posted in my profile on facebook but hey would bring my cuts along with me everywhere. translation: the clear advantage of this and similar online groups is that members are able to talk to each other directly on their own. translation: i think that a profile shouldn t be excessively lengthy but it should be reflecting your personality and what kind of personality and what kind of person you. the other details can person you. the other details ca n always person you. the other details can always be exchanged by calling and talking to each other was i m the only daughter and ahad is also the only child so we and ahad is also the only child so we obviously can t control ourfamilies as so we obviously can t control our families as much as we wanted. we only wanted a simple marriage ceremony but it was a proper one with all of those traditional receptions and other rituals. a valentine story for you. you have been watching newsday. i m nuala mcgovern in london. and i m mariko oi in singapore. stay with us. i ll be back with business news. we will be bring you the latest on us china trade war as the two countries are set to cut some tariffs on each others goods. and before we go, we d like to leave you with these pictures. a four month old polar bear cub went on its first outdoor outing at vienna s schoenbrunn zoo on thursday, with the animal park s director calling it a fantastic moment. how cute is he? the cub is vienna s first birth of a polar bear in 12 years, and visitors to schoenbrunn zoo have been invited to come up with name proposals. what would you call him? we have to think about that before our next edition of newsday but thatisit our next edition of newsday but that is it for us. that s all for now stay with bbc world news. storm dennis on the way this weekend not just with disruptive winds and flooding rain as well. one arena bearing that weather front banks up in front of a looker much rain is going to come from dennis on the weekend. this trailing weather front has a long levels tells of prolonged rain, particularly into parts of england and wales and areas that have seen a lot of rain recently and some flooding. we are going to see some further flooding flooding. we are going to see some furtherflooding in places. the met office has a number ofamber places. the met office has a number of amber warnings in force for the rain and we look at those and other warnings in just a moment. and for friday, another spell of a rain living cell. quickly phenomenon ireland and scotland, coupled with snowmelt in southern scotla nd with snowmelt in southern scotland and a bit of flooding in some spots. becoming patchy in places further south across england and wales. gusty winds though, particularly towards the north and north west of scotla nd the north and north west of scotland with further blustery ‘s showers moving through here. one evening, rang up a bit once it reaches south east england and east anglia. many overnight on saturday morning, it is the lull before the storm and will, dry weather first thing on saturday but it s not going to last. storm dennis does bring rain in right across the uk over saturday. outbreaks of heavy rain at times and the wind strengthening particularly for the afternoon and into the evening before debating a bit into sunday night in the morning. when gusts and 50 mph around the coast towards the west and south touching 70 mph. perhaps in a few spots, really difficult travelling conditions. on the face of it, mild, but very wet and windy in places. heavy rain continuing across large parts of england and wales into the night on sunday. sally clearings southward on sunday but it looks like the winds will pick up looks like the winds will pick up again this on sunday. i disguise and if few showers following on behind turning a bit cooler too. looking at the weather warnings, the met office, amber warnings for rain. across a large part of southern and western england and into wales, 20 to a0 millimetres. higher amounts, particularly in these areas and some of the hills of wales and south west england could end up with over a hundred millimetres of rain so that risk of flooding increasing over the weekend. another amber warning area kicking in on sunday too for further prolonged area kicking in on sunday too forfurther prolonged rain across southern england. in terms of the wind, widely, going to see gusts inland around 50 or so but is the post that will see stronger winds a time, touching 70 mph. storm dennis gets closer to scotland to and sunday and here in northern ireland, we could well see a number sway for potentially damaging winds moving on through. that is your latest about storm dennis. i m nuala mcgovern with bbc world news. our top story. china has announced a,000 new cases of patients with the new coronavirus and 116 new deaths in hubei province. the authorities have introduced a new method of diagnosis. beijing has sacked two of the most senior communist party officials dealing with the crisis. there s been a shock resignation from british prime minister boris johnson s government, with the chancellor of the exchequer, sajid javid, unexpectedly quitting hisjob. he d been due to deliver his first budget in four weeks time. and this video is trending on bbc.com. researchers in the antarctic have registered a temperature of nearly 21 celsius for the first time in history. the scientists, who collect the data every three days from monitoring stations, have described the new record as incredible and abnormal . that s all. stay with bbc world news.
returning on asian markets. we start with the rise of electric vehicles, because on wednesday, britain s transport minister suggested a ban on new petrol and diesel cars could bejust 12 years away. some chinese cities want to do it by 2030, and norway has set a deadline of 2025. but is the auto industry moving fast enough? ford is now taking orders for its mustang mach e, the longest range electric suv on the market. it can travel up to 370 miles on a single charge. ford is also electrifying all the models in its range, from the fiesta to the transit van. it is part of a wave of investment by carmakers. last year, the auto industry spent $225 billion developing electric vehicles, but at the moment, the impact is tiny. barely more than 2% of vehicles sold globally last year were electric, and according to one estimate, in five years time that figure will still be less than 8%. the pressure to change is taking its toll on some of the giants of the industry. this week, mercedes owner daimler revealed the worst annual results in a decade, hit by costs of the diesel emissions scandal and investment in electric. the boss is pledging a major shake up of the company. translation: shake up of the company. we have flexed our mental translation: we have flexed our mental switch towards sustainable mobility for mercedes benz. we talk about modern luxury becoming sustainable modern luxury, and this is the promise of the mercedes benz brand, a promise for a better future. it mercedes benz brand, a promise for a betterfuture. it is not just about our products. we are tackling the issue holistically, from the supply chain through to our own production, and the way our products use energy, that is produced, where possible, with renewables. anjan kumar looks at the electric vehicles market for the research firm frost & sullivan. good morning. so what do you make of this new deadline set by the uk government? well, i think it s quite challenging to achieve the deadline, because when you are looking to impose ioo% when you are looking to impose 100% renewables, it is notjust the sales of electric cars. you need to look at infrastructure, you need to look at the supply chain, you need to look at, you know, the phase out of the existing engine cars, and the retooling of a lot of factories that needs to be happening, and what will happen to the jobs as well, that are there in place. a new skill set needs to be brought in, and most importantly, infrastructure should be ready. they should be enough infrastructure, and also the customer should be ready to buy an electric car by then. so do you think this deadline, as it were, will move, it will become later and later, really? because it is unrealistic? it isa because it is unrealistic? it is a bit challenging, is what i would say. but if you want to meet the deadline, there are a lot of aspects that you need to look at. but if you do not do that, then of course it has to move. i mean, the uk government looked at 2040, and then they pushed it back to 2035. now it could possibly be 2030 or 2032. asi could possibly be 2030 or 2032. as i said, it isjust 22% of electric cars in the uk. norway has a deadline of 2025, but about 30% of the cars in norway that are selling are electric, so that are selling are electric, so they have a head start over there. so i would say it would be challenging. a lot of things, if the ecosystem is not built, they will have to move it forward. we have to leave it there, i m afraid. because we re out of time. thank you for sharing your opinions on that. and let us know what you think as well, if you are switching, you have already switched to electric vehicles, what is the experience like for you, and what are the challenges. do get in touch. let s go to silicon valley now, where a representative from the world health organization has been speaking to tech firms about misinformation on the coronavirus. as the outbreak has grown, so have the number of links for fake treatment and false information about how the disease spreads. the who said it needs the help of social media firms if it going to prevent this misinformation from causing more damage. from san francisco, the bbc‘s technology reporter zoe thomas has more. caused caused by bat soup, cured by garlic, and cases as far away as fargo, north da kota, far away as fargo, north dakota, these are some of the lies about coronavirus that have spread on social media. the world health organization has referred to it as an infodemic. tens of thousands of people have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. the who says false information is making that situation worse. andrew patterson travelled to silicon valley to ask tech giants for their help tackling the crisis. actually, the spread of misinformation and false information about the virus itself has spread faster than the virus, and has got into more people s lives and infected more people. companies including google, facebook and air b&b will meet with him to hear what additional steps the who would like them to take. hear what additional steps the who would like them to takelj think what would be very exciting is to see this emergency changed into a long term, sustainable model where we can have responsible content on these platforms, and standard operating procedures which will take away misinformation. facebook has said it is using its network of third party fact checkers to fight false claims, and google said ina fight false claims, and google said in a statement it was committed to providing timely and helpful information stop battling fake news is not a new challenge for social media firms, but the health risks associated with the coronavirus outbreak have added a new sense of urgency. the battle against false information isn t limited to us based sites. social media companies in india and china are battling it as well. mr patterson said he planned to travel there next to talk about how tackling the challenge of this infodemic can help limit the damage of the coronavirus epidemic. let s go to india now, where inflation has soared to its highest in almost six years. prices in shops were rising at an annual rate of 7.59% in january, despite faltering economic growth. so what is going on? arunoday mukharji is in delhi. tell us more about this issue with prices going up. well, theseissues with prices going up. well, these issues have breached the mid term estimates of about 4%, and this is the fourth consecutive month that these figures have breached their estimate, so it is certainly not looking very good. vegetable prices since last year have gone up by about 50%, and essential commodities that are very critical to indian households have gone up drastically. so for instance, the price of pulses over the last one year have gone up by 16%, eggs have gone up by 10%. you also have spaces going up by 10%, you also have spaces going up by10%, and you also have spaces going up by 10%, and the big key commodity, that is onions, very important for the indian diet, has gone up by 247%. what this does is reduces the flexibility for the reserve bank of india to go ahead and cut lending rates to try and boost consumption at a time in the indian economy is growing at a dismal 4.5%, the lowest in six yea rs. dismal 4.5%, the lowest in six years. so that is the larger dismal picture when it comes to the economy. all right, thank you so much. really interesting situation in india there. now let s brief you on some other business stories: the world s largest mobile phone showcase, mobile world congress, has been cancelled over coronavirus concerns. organisers said it had become impossible for the annual event to go ahead as planned later this month in barcelona. bt, facebook, lg, nokia, sony and vodafone were among the high profile exhibitors to have pulled out, citing coronavirus fears. more than 100,000 people usually attend, about 6,000 of whom travel from china. food giant unilever has vowed to stop marketing its products to children by the end of this year in order to tackle rising obesity rates. the firm, which owns wall s ice cream, says it will limit the use of cartoon characters in its advertising and stop using social media stars or celebrities who primarily appeal to children under 12. tesla is recalling 15,000 of its model x suvs in the us and canada because of a potential issue with corroding bolts that can lead to a loss of power steering. the recall affects most model xs built before mid october 2016, but not cars built after that date. us regulators say there have been no crashes or injuries. that s it for the business briefing this hour. a british asian singer who has had millions of views on youtube is warning young people about heart attacks. arjun‘s wife died suddenly and unexpectedly six months into their marriage. he is now organising a concert to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease to young people. the bbc asian network s shabnam mahmood has his story. singer arjun has notched up millions of views on youtube, including his latest video, dedicated to his wife ofjust six months. # my baby girl, can you see me down here? it was the first time i was able to directly put my feelings onto paper after about a year and a half, i m trying to work out how to deal with things. part of my therapy was to write it down ina of my therapy was to write it down in a song. the first time i had seen a footage from the wedding was actually in the video. weirdly enough, so that was quite painful. natasha passed away due to a sudden cardiac arrest in september 2018. she just collapsed, cardiac arrest in september 2018. shejust collapsed, she just collapsed, and we called 999, and was doing cpr, for, like, a long time. that was quite a harrowing process, and then that was it. she was declared dead on the spot. nice to meet you. for the first time since his wife s death, arjun has agreed to have a heart checkup. every week, over12 young people aged under 35 in the uk die from heart related conditions. in 80% of cases, there are no prior symptoms. and, on what should have been his second wedding anniversary, he is organising a concert with a host of stars in memory of his late wife. he is hoping the show will raise money for the charity cry, cardiac arrest and the young, which offers screening tests to those at risk. this is the briefing from bbc news. the latest headlines: china s ruling communist party has sacked two top officials in the province at the centre of the coronavirus epidemic. the announcement was made shortly after hubei reported a huge increase in the number of cases and deaths. the italian far right leader matteo salvini has responded defiantly after he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity. mr salvini now faces a trial for illegally detaining migrants at sea when he was interior minister last year. now it s time to look at the stories that are making the headlines in the media across the world. we begin in spain, where the front pages are dominated by a coronavirus cancellation. the mobile world congress won t go ahead in barcelona. and it s not the only event falling victim to the virus. as the bangkok post reports, the chinese grand prix is also being postponed to try and stop its spread. onto the financial times, and a big pledge by bp. it says it ll become carbon neutral by 2050, and for a company whose annual emissions roughly match a country like the uk, it s no mean feat. the i paper says british plans for a web watchdog are being watered down after a backlash by the tech giants. and finally, fast company among the sites covering new thinking at the body shop, where it s first come, first served for their job applicants. of course, a well known retailer on the uk high street. with me is andrew tuck, editor of monocle, a global news and business magazine. we picked out one of the main daily papers in spain but all of the papers in spain have this on theirfront of the papers in spain have this on their front page. the mobile world congress cancelled. if you did not know what the event was before today you do know. it is an important industry event began with mobile phones but all take players come to barcelona every year. 110,000 people rock up in the city so it is vital for barcelona. 500 million euros of wealth is generated during the event and it is suddenly cancelled. the people and the authorities in barcelona, the mayor, they say they have had a couple of cases, nothing to be concerned about. and that is of coronavirus? exactly. but the pressure is coming from big corporations saying they do not feel comfortable sending stuff there. they have responsibility to their staff and they say we cannot put you in this environment. big chinese companies had already pull back numbers of people coming and begun to wonder whether it was sensible for them to be