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Ros im ros atkins. Outside source. China ing givihildren priority placements in schools. K ical staff are most at r of dying from theirus. Theuiseship still moored off japan and its been under quarantine for two weeks with more than50 people onboard. And there are different ways of passing time on the ship. O keep he crew trying everyones spirits up. Harvey weinsteins lawyers have ot to talk to the press after she wrote an article warning jurors not to be swayed by what they read in the press. Here live in new york as the jury considers its verdict. And were going to talk about michhel bloomberg. Been a contender for the democratic president ial nomination for months but he hasnt actuay debated the other candidates. Thats about to change on wednesday. Well look at his policies and how hes spending his billions. Eos weave new information on the nature of th coronavirus. Here are the latest figures from china telling us that the death toll is now over 1800. And the number ofnfections is over 73,000. We also know the death rate in a province, the center of th outbreak, is 2. 9 . In oth words, close to three in 100 infections leads to death. E death rate in the rest of chinas much lower. T we dont properly understand why. We do know that 81 of cases are mild. 14 are severe. 5 are critical. Men are mre likely to die than women. And that children aregenerally not severely affected. Unfortunately the same is not the highest fatal rate is for for more on this new study, heres Steven Mcdonald in beijing. Reporter in one way its great that 80 of the people who have this virus, its relatively mild. But 5 are in pretty serious condition. Now, again, 5 doesnt sound like lot. But 5 of a few hundred people wouldnt be too bad. If youhave 5 of tens of thousands of people, i mean, more than0,000, we dont even really know how many people have been infected, that is in raw mbers, a lot of people who are in a pretty serio condition. Reporter were also told several medical professional din china had and more than 3,000 Health Workers have been infected. Ros onhouesday aital director in the city of wuhan, right in the center of the outbak,ied. Here we have the director general of the world health deepest condolences. G his saying the doctor touched and saved numerous lives during this coronavirus outbreak. And central to the chinese response to this crdeepening is is to issue more and more restrictions on what people can do our reporter in hong kong explains. Reporter in the pvince where it all began, they still have this lockdownment nearly 60op million being told you cant go out and about. The use of cars is not allowed at the moment. Many of the shops are shut. Its only the pharmacies and places where you can get basic Food Supplies that are still open. s only every third day that someone in the family is able to veure out and ge more supplies. So it is a pretty bleak picture. And of course if you look a the whats happening in beijing, the capital, people who are arring there are bein told to quarantine themselves for two weeks. Very,ery sweeping measures being employed in lots of different places around mainland china. Ros not everyone is staying put. 25,000 medical rockers workers from all over china hav traveled to the province to help and theyre i often workingn new facilities like this one. Another 10 new hospitals are planned and the authorities are now offering incentives to Health Workers to come to the province. Reporter the children of frontline medical workers in the province will be offered prioriss acpriority placements in schools. So Young Children will be given priority placements in really good kindergartens, all the way up to University Place placements. Children who write their university entrancexams are get extra points added on to their exam total. In china thats a really big theres a lot of pressure on children toet into good schools. So that might tip the balance pl for some p who are considering whether they should go and work there. Hi ros has spread toot least 29 countries worldwide. You can see them all marked in red. We know the big concentration outside of china is in japan. In fact, o specifically this cruiseship, the diamond princess. There are now over 450 cases onboard, out of what was over 3 1 2 how to 3500 crew anrsd passen thatumber is down. We have these pictures of southe korea gettiny to fly its citizens home on a president ial plane. We also know canada, australia, the u. K. , israel and hong kong are looking to heir people off the ship as well. Meanwhile, thousands ofeople remain stuck onboard and evidently thats affectingff people in ent ways. Here are some of the kitchen staff making a successful attempt to distract themselves and to go viral. That videos been posted online. This also lets also talk about japan. It imposed a 14day quarantine period on thisnhip. Thats babeled an unprecedented failure by one expert. Either way, thatlan comes to an end on wednesday. Heresn what exactly that means for the passengers. Reporter quarantine will ficially end on the 2,000 or more passengers still onboard who have tested negative will be ship. D to sta leavinghe they can walk out of this gate, hail a cab, get on a bus. Butnshat haphen is much less clear. The British Government says it is sending a plane uo pickp the british passengers. Whether they may face further quarantine when they get back to britn. Ros from japan to africa because we have our first case of the coronavirus there. Thisas detailed on frida p thient is reportedly not egyptian, though we dont know where theyre from. And isow in isolation in hospital. Bear in mind china is one riof s main trading partners so theres Constant Movement of china and africa. O and from we know that several african countriesnt haveduced extra screening on flights arriving from china. And the countries including botswana, kenya, ethiopia, ghana and ivory coast have placed some people in quarantine, but so f all tests have been negative. There is particular concern that if he virus were totake hold in africa, it would be incredibly difficult toontain. Heres the director general of the World Health Organization talking about this lt week. If this virus makes it to a weaker health system, it will create havoc. Ros we know from the Ebola Outbreak in west africa in 2014 that the risks of epps in africb are consid. Heres another expert on why the coronavirus is a particular concern to the continent. We know that fm our seasonal influenza work africa is a continent which suffers a high impact from seasonal influenza. It is likely that the african continent will experience a high impact should there be a global outbreak. Ros currently only a handful of african countriesre able to test for the virus. Ive highlighted three here. South africa. Kenya and senegal. For more on the preparations being made across the continent, herethe bbcs reporter in joe heansburg. Reporter not just Southern Africa but across the continent theyre applying what the w. H. O. Has recommended which is, one, making se that paramedics that need tbe trained are dskilled an also making se that people know howto do the basic to take the basic precautions, including washingands and getting medical kit. But separate to that, theyve if also ided a few Centers Across the continent but also, and here ia, south afr that would be looking at cases that have been confirmed. Its important at this stage that the treatment plan is that people who are spected to beyi ca the disease should be isolated until they theyre diagnosis has been confirmed, that theyre treated as people who could possibly pass on the virus. Ros much more information on the coronavirus via the c website, bbc. Com news. Next in new york, the jury in the Harvey Weinstein sex crime trial has started to consider its verdict. If found guiy he could fe life in prince. He faces five counts relating to ases by two women ana unanimous decision is needed for a guilty verdict on each of the fiverg c. The former Production Assistant alge that weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006. The former actress says he raped Harvey Weinstein has plead not guilty to all charges. Weve heard a lot of detailed testimony from those women, making allegations. Whats the b defenseeing from mr. Weinstes lawyers . Reporter well, mr. Weinsteins lawyers nove really hit a only the credibility of the women, trying to poke holes in their story, but also the wholes public int in this case and its connection to the Metoo Movement. When it comes to the women, they have produced emails that they say shows that the relationips were consensual. Showing that the women wanted to stay in to hh witHarvey Weinstein and from their convinces the jury that these at were loving relationships or at the ry least that these women thought they could use Harvey Weinstein to gethead in thei careers. Now, the lawyer during cross examination was very tough on the women. Jessica mann, the one accused him of rape, started sobbing and broke down on the stand. Because of how tough that was, erhaving to read a le she had written to weinstein, speaking to him glowering t. From her perspective she said it had been a degrading relationship, that he the power in. And so that certainly is what prosecutors tried to refocus jurors toward during this whole back and forth cross examination with these women. N ros we d just hear from the two women making the allegations. We heard from other women as al wellng about their experiences with mr. Weinstein. How do tsthose onies fit into the jurys calculations . Reporter its really theill cosby retrail. Vered the first timet ended in mass trial. For the second time aroun prosecutors were allowed to bring in other women who could establish a pattern of behavior to show that bill cosby had done thiso other women as well. Theres a little bit of power in numbers. You would sothink. Hats what the prosecution has done here as well. They have four additional women whve very strikingly similar accounts of how Harvey Weinstein as well tried to dangle Job Opportunities with them, allegedly atta, ck thd then tried to force their silence by threatening their careers. So its really for the prosecution just, again, the power of numbers showing that this is a patternof behavior. Whether the jury believes that is t big question. Ros please stay with us. Were going to bring up a tweet News Reporter say today in ed the trial, the prosecutor accuses weinstein lawyer for borderline jury tampering after she wrote this article over the weekenin impljurors to do the right thing by acquitting weinstein. This is the article in questionn publishe in newsweek. Ill bring out one quote from mreiteins lawyer. Judges instruct jurors to avoid all Media Coverage and outside influences in making their decision. Butn a high pfile case like Harvey Weinsteins, does anyone think thats realistically possible . Deite the judge telling her at the about the jury system, she told the judge thise was about tury system as a whorblinge the judg wasnot overly impressed, responding, i would cyoaution about the tentacles of your Public Relations jughernaut. So judge is unimpressed by that but in reality, what account judge do about it . Can the judge do about it . Reporter the judge in this case decided to just essentially give the lawyer a warning. But weve seene this c again and again during the trial. Even at the start of this trial, prosecutors were worried about donna putting down the women in the press, essentially trying to say that Harvey Weinstein, yeahn he migt have a great reputation, but the Metoo Movement had made him a target. And his conduct was never criminal. So you have really a back and forth between prosecutors the defense fighting this case out in the public as well. From donnas perspective, shes saying that Harvey Weinstein has been accused o beg a serial predator. Its a formal charge in this case, but still she tk issue with him being called that in the press. And so for her she sees it as a strategy o trying to ge Media Attention on mr. Weinsteins side as well. Rei think whats so ining is at he has had such a big downfall i from grace thatts a very, very hard narrative for donna td. Put forw but its one shes trying to hit back against, to give her client an edge in this case. Ros thank you very much indeed. We wilawait the conclusions of the jury. Now in a few minutes onceoutside so were going to talk about the boy scouts of america, because its filed for bankruptcy as it faces increasing legal costs over numerous sexual abuse cases. Ros five months after voting ok place, the winner of afghanistins presid election has been announced. Only a small propoion of the untry voted. The final result comes at a crucial moment as attempts begin to focus on ending 18 years ofl co. Bear in mind an agreement between the u. S. And the taliban could be announced soo if an initial reduction in violence is successfully observed. Were in kabul. Reporter we now know that the president will continue to lead the country through this crucial period. But hismain rival has consistentlylleged fraud and se declared t results illegal. And there are concerns that if his Supporters Co out onto the street, then a backdrop of political instability could make those talks between afghan politicalfigures and the taliban even more difficult. Ros imos atkins withou outsidee. With you from usual from the bbc news room. Our lead story is chinas published the biggest study of the coronavirus yet. Revealing the particularly highr to medical staff. But the more than 80 of cases are mild. Here are some of the main stories from bbc world service. Jordan has condemned israels decision to move ahead with plans to build a railwa line and station beneath jerusalems old city. This eension to the tel avivjerusalem line would include a tunnel leading to the western wall in jerusem and would be closed to muslim close to muslim holy sites in the city. Backpackers in australia are working on working holiday visas may be able to stay longer if they can helput on farms that were affected by the bush fires. Vi thess let people work in the same place for six months but thats been upped to 12. The u. N. Food agency says a swarm of locusts has arrived in south sudan. E u. N. S warning of a possible food crisis if it was not brought under control. Thats on bbc. Com news. Now, on wednesday, Mike Bloomberg is going to take part in his fatirst demo debate. It will be his first face to face showdown with the other candidates and he qualifies for this debate in nevecause hes reached 10 in four national pedolls, recogny the democratic party. In fact, in some of those polls hes well above that. Here he polls second on 19 . Well clear of foresr vice ent joe biden on 15 . If away behind the frontrunner bernie sanders, who is on 31 . He skipped the first two votes in iowa and n hampshire you wont think hes doing too badly here. Being very rich is helping his mpaign. This is a graph we saw from heurts showing his spending since he entered race. The first two months. Lion in this line here is dona trumps spebleding through his campaign in 2016. You can see the two are barely comparable. Sa Mike Bloomber hes going to keep going. Hes already passed 400 million in spending. Candidates put together. Other and much of it is being spent oe isements like this. Go home to mama mommy. B. I. A. What, are you going to cry . Also guilty of stupidity. God, you are so stupid. Get him the hell out of here. Tree and get out of here. A ros if youre wondering where this money is coming fm, here are the richest people in the world. Mike bloomberg is ninth on that list. He has over 62 billion. Making him the ninth richest. H anes spending, well, makes anm a target for his rivals. Heres berniers, for ample. We are a democracy, not an oligarchy. Youre not going touy this election. When they take a look at his record, where hes one of the richest people in america and said, we have to ut social security, medicare and medicaid, but we shouldnt be taxing the rich, i think when people loo bloombergs record, hes not going win this nination. Ros Mike Bloomberg isnt new to politics. He was the republican mayor of new york for more than 10 years. In that time he supported a new stop lice poli called and frisk. It disproportionately targeted black and latino men and, as youll see in this bbc coverage from back in 2019, hes now pologized for his support of that policy. But theres also this recording of a speech that he gave in 2015. Murders and murderers and murder victims [indiscernible] you can just paint the desxecriptionx it and pass it out to all the cops. Theyre male minorities [indiscernible] true in new york and virtually every city. E way you get guns out of hands is throw them against the wall and frisk them. Ros last week mr. Bloomberg said stop and friss success a cy poe inherited and he cut it back by 95 by the time he left office but t t he shou have done it faster and sooner. But that audio clip is froar three after he left office, as mayor. This is the response of democratic rivals. One his saying, look, bloombergs and frisk devastated black and brown communities. For years he used racistju ifications to justify the practice and more comments are alreadyesurfacing. This is the analysis of the says, stop andrisk wasnt an effective crime control policy under bloomberg. He presided over nearly 700,000 stops in 2011 alone. Found 1. 9 of the time. Only he says the point of the policy was to imposeth fear o state and destroy Civil Liberties on a mass scale. Thats of course something Michael Bloomberg would deny. Lets bring in anthony from washssgton. I ghe points that ive raised here are just some illustrations of the fac theres much more scrutiny e coming mik bloombergs way at the moment. Reporter absolutely. Have prettyh an unfiltered o platform for getting his ssage out. Through all of these television and online advertisements. I wasooking at a pol earlier today, said 68 of americans s han a Michael Bloomberg ad. That is astronomical. Compare tha to 47 who saw a donald trump ad and only 40 who have seen bernie sanders. Now when he gets on this debate stage, hes going to h be to gik and forth with some of his opponents. Hes opened himself up now to more media scrutiny. Theres going to be more negative opposition reseisch thrown way. And that will be the real test to whethero he can stand up t it. Essentially the easy part so far is getting his name out there, getting his i. D. Awareness up. The question now is whether he can take a political punch. Ros what kind of performer is me . What have we learned from his time as new york mayor . Beuse i have to say, when i watched him launch his president ial bid, how shall i describe it . Low key would be generous . Er repo yeah. Hes not the most charismatic guy. He doesnt come across as a particularly vibrant public speaker. World. Al from the hes a numbers guy. Personality. Across in his now, i think one of the reasons why he seems to be doing so well is lot of people who were supporting joe biden up unt now, who was a frontrunner for uost of 2019, were doing so because they tt joe biden was the best position to beat donald trump. Michael bloomberg has very effectively kind t of takense people who were just looking for someone who could win and moveth or are starting to move them over to his camp. Because hes doing all of these ads, attacking donald trump. And all ofis really sha criticism, he has all of this financial resources. So theres a certain segment of the democratic electorate who may put aside these concerns the allegations of sexually harassing women, theallegations about how he handled stop and frisk and say, well, he might still win. Tas thank you very mu indeed. Were going to in the u. S. The boy scouts of america has filed for bankruincy. Its f hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits involving thousands of allegedabuse victims. It was founded back in 1910 and last year it revealed that almost 800 boy scout leaders had been accused of sexual abuse since94 this New York Times article describes how a researcher hired by theoy scouts spent five years reviewing data known as the perversion files. Then they were held at the boy scouts headquarters in texas and they contain information on volunteers whosenvolvement of the group had ended because of, this is a direct ote, reasonable allegations o child x abuse. The files also revealed that there had been more than 12,000 ctims in that time. The boy scouts troubles go even in this article, again in the New York Times, back in 15, the organization described having files on hundreds of people who had been leads in the scouts, but had been labeled denerates. An attorney with anderson advocates represents so of e victims. The boy scouts have expresd that this has been a leg t coming. Its been something that they have been csidering for some time now, given the number of sexual abue claims that are mounting thagains. In just the last year, three stes in the u. S. , new york, new jersey and california, changed their statute of limitations and what that didits opened up the courts to survivors to bring a lawsui those claims have bee mounting agait the boy scouts for some time. Ros given that thats the case, do you think it could have taken any other option than the one its chosen . The boy scouts have said that the filing for bankruptcy is really the way to handle the number of claims against it. But whatoe this also for survivors who have beeg seek transparency and have asked the y scouts time and time again to divulge the information that theyve had for decades on the problem of abuse in scouting, that will remain secret through the bankruptcy process. And so in that vein there are survivors who feel revictimized by the news of the ban ros help me understand one thing. Given that the allegations are of many thousands of crimes, can the authorities not insist that the boy scouts divulge further information . Shouldnt that responsibility lie with the authorities rather than either the boy scouts or victims calling for it . The boy scouts do have a responsibility to t kids,the families that have chosen to programs. E in their scouting and as it stands, they possess a National Database of this information. And have for decades. And so the obligation is really on the entity, the boy scouts, to make that information know ros that story is our lasone of this edition. Ank you very much indeed for watching. And ill see you soon. E. Bye narrator funding for this presentation is ma possible by. Man babbel, an Online Program developed byanguage specialists teaching spanish, french and more. In narrator fu was also provided by. 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