In fact on the b.b.c. News is read by Alan Smith the United Kingdom will tonight's n.x. The most profound constitutional legal and political change in its recent history as it formally ends 47 years in the European Union and its predecessor bodies there will be celebrations and protests reflecting the divisions Breck's it has created Boris Johnson is to hail a horse he will call the dawn of a new era but the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn will say the u.k. Is at a crossroads where the 1st Minister of Scotland tickler sturgeon is to argue her country is being forced out of the e.u. Against its will his Our political correspondent the curtly after years of polarized political debate during which point it seemed almost impossible that parliament would endorse any version of Bracks it at 11 o'clock tonight the u.k. Will formally leave the European Union in immediate practical terms little will change with trade and travel roosting the same until the implementation period expires at the end of the year but the u.k. Will be outside the e.u. And the process of negotiating a formal trade deal will soon begin with the inevitable challenges that will bring the prime minister will chair cabinet in Sunderland later a symbolic choice is the 1st city to declare for leave in 2016 Boris Johnson will present breaks it is a moment of national renewal and change pledging to bring the country back together and to take it forward and attempt again to strike a conciliatory tone within a u.k. Where breaks it is exposed stark divisions others will be less optimistic the European Union says it hopes to be able to maintain positive relations with the u.k. In the future but its lead breaks in negotiating Michel Barnier said it would defend its interests in trade talks over the next 11 months we are ready to negotiation for free and fair trade deal of pretty unfair the 2 worlds are equally important and the reason why we really ask for their foot in the framework of a level playing field in our trade relations and I all at this point is correcting this to by everybody in Ukraine. A plane carrying $110.00 passengers including $83.00 Britons is left with hand the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak to land at r f Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at lunchtime Simon Jones reports the plane chartered by the Foreign Office is carrying $83.00 British citizens and $27.00 foreign nationals it left hand several hours late to allow people additional time to get to the airport but some families said they were given too little notice to make it the British passengers will be taken to Arrow Park Hospital on the where all where they will be put into quarantine the foreign secretary Dominic Robb insisted officials had been working round the clock to organize the evacuation following criticism that the u.k. Offshore tears had been slow to act China says there are now 9 and a half 1000 cases of coronavirus in the country and that at least 210 people have died yesterday the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency the head of the w.h.o. Said there were fears the virus could hit nations with weaker health systems that were less able to cope the declaration of a global emergency means all countries are being urged to tighten controls to limit the cross border spread of the disease. The government's official review into h s 2 says it should go ahead and that building only one section of the railway doesn't make sense the review was led by former h.s.t. Chairman Douglas Ogilvie the government has yet to make a final decision about the high speed lines future transport correspondent Tom Barrett has read the full and final version of the report the official review of h s 2 strongly advices the government against cancelling the project it says only building either one of the 2 phases of the y. Shaped railway linking southern and northern England wouldn't be value for money it warns that the official estimate of $88000000000.00 pounds might not be enough and the project could cost more than $100000000000.00 but it says h.s.t. Were cut over crowding on the railways and helped rebalance the U.K.'s economy the idea that h.s.t. Will be cancelled feels even more unlikely. The u.s. Secretary of state Mike Pompei was in Ukraine for talks with the country's president followed him as Alinsky the visit coincides with President Trump's impeachment trial in Washington central to that is the claim that he ordered military aid to Ukraine to be withheld unless the government in Kiev investigated one of Mr Trump's Democrat rivals. The authorities in the Australian capital Canberra have for the 1st time in 17 years declared a state of emergency as the threat from wildfires intensifies once more residents on the southern fringes of the city have been told they should be prepared to evacuate as a heat wave and strong winds increase the fire danger extreme temperatures are also expected to hit Sydney and Melbourne 6 minutes past 6 is the time to have extreme temperatures let's go to the weather and Sara Keith Lucas is there for this morning good morning to you Justin We have got an exceptionally mild day ahead today temperatures well above average in the midst teens really across the u.k. But not only is it mild it's cloudy it's blustery a many of us will see outbreaks of rain as that cold front moves southeast woods today but the southeast of England and eastern England will hear you should stay dry through much of this morning it is fairly cloudy and breezy there will be rain arriving later on the softer nane but it's going to be fairly light in patchy by this stage and temperatures getting up to about 14 degrees in London today the southwest of England the Midlands Wales and all of northern England generally dry out there at the moment we've got the old spot to drizzle particularly towards the southwest but over the next few hours we see a cold front moving in from the northwest so some pretty heavy rain for this morning's rush hour particular for the northwest of England that rain then clearing its way southeast woods by this often into leaves some drier and some brighter weather and very mild temperatures could reach 14 or 15 degrees but it will be windy once again Scotland and for Northern Ireland today we could i Cloud the damp starts the day but the rain will move away towards the south and the east fairly quickly say a dry a spell of wet. But then further heavy showers push in from the Northwest could be the odd rumble of thunder particular the North West of Scotland further south and east you are across Northern Ireland it's gotten you should stay mostly dry but a bit of sunshine later again miles around 11 or 12 degrees and it stays unsettled by mild through the weekend Sarah many thanks indeed now at 7th past 6 time for our 1st look at the newspapers and this is a day when you may want to collect some souvenir issues as they all mock breaks it day pretty much front page of The Daily Mail imbued with the Union Jack and the headline a new dawn for Britain's 11 pm our proud nation finally leaves the e.u. And the big picture of the white cliffs of Dover those same cliffs feature on the front page of The Guardian but as you might expect a very different take they say small island after 47 years Britain leaves the e.u. At 11 o'clock tonight the biggest gamble in a generation at the Times is wrapped in a big picture of Big Ben saying base it it's time inside some details of what's likely to be happening in the negotiations about what kind of future relationship that we're likely to have at the end of this year and they're talking about a speech that Boris Johnson is going to make on Monday when he say he's ready to accept the off the shelf model 1st proposed by him Michel Barnier the so-called Canada model Financial Times Britain bows out of the you with a mixture of optimism and regret is its headline Johnson has dawn of new era low key celebrations the f.t. Says and the focus of course switching to trade talks about which we'll be talking in just a 2nd in the Telegraph This is not an end but the beginning in a broadcast of the nation of 11 here the moment the u.k. Finally breaks free from the e.u. As the Telegraph puts it the prime minister will urge the country to look forward not back this is not an end but a beginning he'll say a moment of real national renewal and change in the Telegraph has an 8 page supplement to mark a campaign its own campaign it says that changed history the storm. Of the Telegraph and breaks in the eye has begun I catch ing front page U.K.'s leap into the unknown reflects their. Less sanguine view of what we are doing they've got today over a beautiful shot from space night time picture of Europe from space and you can see the lights on around the place and you can also see very clearly the fact that we are slightly separated from it by dint of the channel but also the size really of the u.k. When compared to Europe the hugeness of this island of Europe and the obvious question that the photograph raises in a way what is the future relationship going to be it's certainly very striking image and the mirror of people a lot of papers I think has a different front page killer flu a 150 Brits in quarantine and one quote from Andy knows but whose is a pretty living in virus hit Chang Dude you can't help but feel freaked out it's like a zombie apocalypse 10 past 6 is the time well we don't leave the year for another 17 hours but already the battle is moving on to the trade talks the discussion of them the u.s. Sector state might pump a in town yesterday in an interview with n.b.c. Said that agricultural negotiations would be contentious I'm sure they're good shoes will be difficult Our ask will be as it's been in the other negotiations we need to be open and honest about competitiveness we need to make sure we don't use food safety as a ruse to try and protect a particular industry and then we need to have a hard conversations about the places we have opportunities to give and take and then deliver on our comes that benefit the agricultural sector and most importantly consumers this is how are the Conservative Party chairman James cleverly responded to that on last night's question time there is no desire to scrap Austar or animal welfare standards offered hygene why didn't they do what I'm saying it's what about the didn't ever get those. The simple truth is the British people didn't want it to happen and therefore it will not happen where on this program we'll be hearing from Annette Platters The n.f.u. President will be speaking the former brags of ministers Steve Baker as well and to the case for me you commission of trade Jonathan Hale will also hear from Europe as a catcher Adler courses I sat down with both eased trade negotiator Michel Barnier and the European Commission president us live on delayed who told her that the post breaks it trade negotiations would be tough the closer they look a wants to be to the single market the more they have to respect the rules of the single market if they do not want to respect the walls and the standards of the single market the more distant Of course they will be so this is the one where we have to negotiate and away from trade because of course it is not all about trade we'll get reflections from 2 of the U.K.'s longest serving Emmy pieces they bid goodbye to Brussels will have a s.n.p. In Scotland will approach the next phase of BRICs it talks and I thought for the day this morning comes from Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury who may well have some thoughts on how to leave and remain voters begin the process of reconciliation come 11 pm tonight but the time now is 12 minutes past 6 and corona virus outbreak has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization So what does that mean in practice but let's talk now to Robyn Brandt He's our China correspondent in Shanghai And Robyn what can you tell us about the numbers of deaths so far that time Chinese officials have been talking about. Well these are official Chinese government figures that we've been discussing every day we have to rely on those 213 are now dead according to the government from this type of coronavirus That's up about 25 percent on yesterday so we're seeing a similar rise every day across this week the number infected that's now almost 10000 up to 990 that's up about 20 percent of the number of suspected cases that's now over 15000 that also up by around about 25 percent so we're seeing a steady rise 30 across this week day today according to the official numbers from the Chinese government in terms of w.h.o. Declaration all of that essentially tells the world how serious the World Health Organization believes this type of coronavirus is it means certain protocols we put in place about borders about travel across borders but the reality is look at what Virgin are doing British Airways some other airlines in terms of suspending their flights these things are already happening interesting context on the w.h.o. Declaration the head of the organization was here just 2 days ago meeting with senior officials in Beijing heaping a huge amount of praise on them on personally President Xi Jinping as well saying they had nothing but confidence in what the Chinese were doing nonetheless that's been followed by this declaration something I don't think the Chinese officials wanted to see and why do you see that declaration has taken place. Well I think simply because there are cases spreading outside of China. They are small in number but we are seeing human to human infection in places like Japan in places like Germany these are people contract in this brought this type of Corona car virus having had no contact themselves with the city of knowingly with the people in the city of will hand you know we're also seeing action taken unilaterally by places like the u.s. Overnight advising against all travel to China all travel to China for all u.s. Citizens and saying those who are there should get out so the action taken by various governments is significant significant enough for the w.h.o. More than just in terms of a medical emergency to regard it as a something that threatens these countries as well Robin thanks very much a quarter past 6 is the time those who for an interest rate cut have been disappointed of course by Mark Carney's last act as governor of the Bank of England Rob Young has more mad and the rest of the days for the yes good warning of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep rates on hold despite the signals a cut was likely we'll explore why and we listen in on the debate going on in the city of London about life after brakes it so the Bank of England kept rates unchanged at 3 quarters of one percent poor economic data from the end of last year was overtaken by emerging evidence of a slightly stronger economy but the Bank of England said there's still a lot of uncertainty even a chance the economy is currently in recession and you sentence as a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee and now as a senior advisor to Cambridge econometrics morning Andrey Good morning it was another split 72 on the committee does this reduce the likelihood of a cut at the next meeting in March. I think if the 4 can stand out the way in which the bank is expecting. Independent economists are expecting I don't think we need to say an interest rate cut interest rates are already at a very low level they have been for over 10 years and therefore. The benefit of a cup would be very modest amazing make the problem of trying to gradually inch up interest rates in the long term more difficult so moving right around them when they are at this low level doesn't have much of an impact I think is a very good argument to say it doesn't and then once interest rates go up 2 percent The main impact of having very low interest rates it is reducing them with a sort of. Desire to improve confidence as we saw in 2009 but keeping them at such a low level doesn't necessarily help the economy over the longer term the bank has asked the city watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate a jump in the pound just seconds before the interest rate announcement which is raising suspicions of the leak how serious could this be. I'm well the monthly Policy Committee makes its decision on the day before the interest rate. Montreux policy decision is announced so there is confidential information circulating around in the bank quite long so I think it's probably something that is worth looking into you know it could just be something coincidental zones we shouldn't jump to conclusions Ok now it was Marconi's final interest rate meeting as governor of the bank what do you think his legacy will be. Think in some respects I think he's done a good job in terms of putting the financial system in a much more Sam places and the various stress tests the bank has done for the commercial banks shows that is the case I think the big area of disappointment. Is monetary policy has been adrift we've had this very low level of interest rates and even though he's talked about the need to gradually raise interest rates when it's all when it's come down to it the m.p.c. Is not being prepared to act. Whereas over in the United States they did at least raise interest rates and I would have preferred to see that policy here in the u.k. So you know there's some good things on the financial front but I think there's a monetary policy has been a bit of it is Ok under sentence Thank you well negotiations on the case trading relationship with the e.u. Are due to start soon one of the toughest areas is expected to be banking as Islands Prime Minister that he said clear Brad could put it there could be a tradeoff over fishing rights and financial services the city of London and related sectors make up about 110th of the u.k. Economy and there is a debate in the SEC's about whether to hug the e.u. Close or forge a new independent path will bring you a flavor of that debate the chief executive of Hermes Investment Management 2nd you say that favors staying close to the rule book for us as the firm the European markets are the major market the major market present in a major market in that sense it's of course very important to us London by itself is a center but it does what it does to the rest of the world the us and Europe Europe is a much bigger market for us and rightly we think of it as a home territory it doesn't matter whether we're actually within one new union or not canonically speaking what matters is that the regulatory framework is such that we find it easy to do equivalence and to go from one place to the other if some people are calling for there are radically different rules in the u.k. Compared to the European Union does that pose a problem or not it poses a problem only insofar that there's a cost associated then it's not that people in the u.k. Will stop selling stuff to the European at least finance it just means that they will have to have 2 compliance regimes one for the stuff they sell within the you. And one for the stuff they sell to Europe and that's simply an added layer of cost but as a herd Look I think people sometimes exaggerate them isn't there also a danger if the u.k. Decides to hard e.u. Rules incredibly close in the sense that the u.k. Would become a rule taker the e.u. Would grant the u.k. What is called equivalent status but it could also take that away with a month's notice this is forgive me emotive language so when I get onto an airplane I am very pleased that we are a rule taker but it comes to innovation safety standards as I'm equally pleased that the United States is a rule taker and Europe is it will take and sometimes we see diversions by the way but in a globalized industry you have to have equivalences at least in standards so I think the u.k. Always has a choice we can choose not to sell us stuff to Europe in general and we can choose to try to sell for stuff to somewhere else we're in the business therefore ultimately what we sell is savings if you look at the savings pool around the world the very biggest pool is the United States and you have to be United States rules if you can to go into that I think at the end of the day common sense as we have to follow the rules of whatever market we hope to do business with and if that means as more cost and therefore lower margins cost of doing business if there's a new deal breaks it does that pose no problem at all that if you're saying different regimes they really matter when it comes to financial services I think if there's a no deal it'll be harder to arrive at where we want to arrive to smoothly with equivalence over the long period do I see a danger not a possibility or probability but a danger that London loses this prominent place as number one in the world yes Secondly savey from Hermes Well there are some especially in the insurance sector you see breaks it as an opportunity to scrap some rules to strike out in the long term other parts of the city like the idea of change as well. Runs para bellum investments my preference in overall would be to to stick close to the one last introducing some. More favorable environment for for business so what European Union rules would you get rid of the well being of businesses is fundamentally linked as you know to access to capital allowing banks to have more capital available for lending Now whether that means reducing the and down in tax on banks or relaxing capital controls generally making funding more available I think also you know lifting some of the restrictions around bank of bonuses there's been a lot of banker bashing over the years and I think to a certain extent people need to take responsibilities for their for their decisions when it comes to lending but banking has become a profession that people fall into when they can't get into private equity the u.k. Needs a healthy banking sector so a lot of the bank of bonuses which was very controversial at the time I think are the kind of things that should probably be lifted on the retail banking side frankly I think also making it easier for people to have a mortgage because people need to have a life as well as a career and often the 2 go hand in hand in terms of the choice about whether they want to live the various provisions you mentioned were put in place to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis there isn't there a risk in getting rid of those kinds of rules there's no doubt that there is a risk again it is a balancing act between becoming a nanny state where on the one hand I understand regulations in order to protect individuals when it comes to food and health care and education it has gotten to the point where it is a bit of a nanny state where people aren't empowered sufficiently to make their own financial decisions for example in terms of the mortgage I mean limiting bankers' bonuses may well discourage certain types of rogue behaviors but I think those rogue behavior is still overall the minority when it comes to banking activity want to get even further and deregulate in a way that some people about Ok did saying London could become what they called Singapore on Thames and really improve London's competitive list compared to New York or Hong Kong and rely on the e.u. Much less I. I agree that that is one way to proceed but doing that will as you say almost certainly turn your back on the you which will introduce I suspect but I'm not sure obviously significant tariffs for what is there are likely to be our largest trading partner so the question about whether or not to turn our back on the you is whether we're able to fast forward in 5 or 10 years from now and determine whether we think the you will still be on the U.K.'s largest trading partner then or way that there is an intentional decision to reduce our trade our level of trade activity with. Rami because he's there well our markets get this morning as far Tamal the chief market strategist at the private bank Kleinwort morning morning some investors calling for the London Stock Exchange to open a few hours are fewer hours of trading in the day starting at 930 rather than 8 to try to improve what they call cultural diversity in the city is that a good idea yes if you look across the backing space then there's a lot of rules that are somewhat anachronistic that hearken back to a previous age where there was just men working and there was less domestic expectations except we don't live in our world anymore we've benefited tremendously from diversity inclusion in the workplace not just you know as a as a fig leaf to to those concepts but but genuinely at the bottom line with groupthink being reduced except So absolutely I think that it can be done working hours are a lot less in the u.s. Stock market which is a much bigger market seems to work perfectly fine let's talk about the consumer goods giant Unilever it is reviewing whether to set its ti business which of course includes p.g. Tips so as the couple had its day is a profitable business although the. Mass of consumer goods giants like Unilever will have a huge product portfolio that is constantly under strategic review and the copper perhaps has had its days as sad as it as it is to say but preferences change flavors change you know the the young today drink less tea if. Look at the if you look at the data less traditional tea but they're drinking more of the other kind you know the green teas in the some of the more expensive righties except if the Unilever you know the powers that be decide that their money is better invested nothing Astra growing brand then good and if you look at the stock price jump yesterday after the announcement you would say yes it's true they know brands a matter how loved in a previous ages it is beyond the chop No indeed there's no sacred cows when it comes to when it comes to strategic reviews companies do that constantly thank you from time with how Bruce thank you very much indeed and now at 26 minutes past 6 time for the sport galleries here Good morning Martha just in a very good morning to you the football transfer window closes at 11 o'clock this evening at Manchester United have completed the biggest deal so far signing Bruno Fernandez from Sporting Lisbon the fee is $47000000.00 pounds which could rise to $67000000.00 depending on performance Sheffield United have signed an order and would field player Sunda Burke from Belgian side gang pro club record 22000000 the 6 Nations Championship starting this weekend Anthony Watson has been ruled out of the England side to take home France on Sunday because of calf injury it's expected that either all the Thornley or George Firbank will come into the side to make their debut Wells play Italy and Ireland face France tomorrow it's also the start of the women's 6 Nations Championship in England captain Sarah Hunter will be my guest in an hour. We're going to when the opening game of the new Super League season defeating Warrington 1610 they had Captain Chris Hill sent off his own correspondent Dave warts a terrific contest to kick off the new season Warrington were down to 12 men for most of the match up the hills 23rd minute sending off down to 11 for some of it when Cooper was Symbian late on but their incredible resilience kept them in the game Wigan needed and hypnotic individual try from Bevan French to get them up and running and a late leader Marshall score to give them a 6 point lead going into the final 15 minutes even then they were forced to hang on in the face of Warrington spirited approach a brilliant run from Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell has given him a share of the lead at the side to Gulf International McDowell hit 8 birdies will start the 2nd round with a one stroke lead he last won the tournament 6 years ago I feel like to welcome trending in the right direction I've got a lot work to do you know I'm still outside of the world's top 100 on norm but are not I'm focused and motivated I'm going to got the right should I want stuff to wait and see maybe happen this week it may happen then a few weeks time it may happen next year but so I will be working hard towards who opens the world number one Brooks kept is 6 shots off the lead here the racing selections both run Chepstow 10 minutes to 2 it's number 5 for D'Leo valorous and then at 4 o'clock number one Bob forte is going next week on b.b.c. Radio 4 Alex Edelman is enlisting the help of his peers. In this student union I'll be asking people here what's cool and what's not cool about their lives today is that cool what does Alex Edelman consider cool the way that house flies rub their hands together like they're planning a major high. Oh yeah he's a cool guy so I walked in to this restaurant and I see these 2 cute girls at a table and they discount. And I'm like what's. In there go can we order. Join Alex Edelman's big group b.b.c. Radio. It was 630 comedy for Wednesday evening. And it's coming up to 6 30 in the morning you're listening to today on b.b.c. Radio 4 with Justin Webb and Matthew Carney Here's a summary of the news from Alan Smith the u.k. Will officially leave the European Union as he left on o'clock tonight 47 years after the country joined the block the prime minister is due to make what Downing Street is calling an address to the nation an hour before hand when he will say the BRICs it is a moment of real national renewal the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn has described Britain is standing at a crossroads and urged the country not to turn inwards the presidents of the European Commission on the line has expressed sadness but said the e.u. Was determined to fight for its own interests in the trade talks to come the Union flag will be removed from all e.u. Institutions today one of them will be placed in a museum in Brussels a plane carrying 83 British people has left to hand in the Chinese city at the center of the current virus outbreak Richard Jewel to land at r e f Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at lunchtime China says there are now 9500 confirmed cases in the country and at least 210 people have died the onus is known to have spread to 19 other countries and the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak a global health emergency the government's official review into h s 2 strongly advises against canceling the project the b.b.c. Has seen the final version of the report which says that only building one section of the railway which will link southern and northern England doesn't make sense the u.s. Secretary of state might Pompei o is in Ukraine for talks with the country's president followed him as Alinsky The meeting comes as president trumps impeachment trial takes place in Washington central to that is the claim Mr Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to try to force it into investigating a political rival. The Financial Conduct Authority is investigating a jump in the value of the pound yesterday which occurred just before the Bank of England announced it was leaving interest rates unchanged it's prompted speculation that some investors may have known the bank's intentions before the decision was made public thank you and it's 29 minutes to 73 and a half years since the referendum tonight at 11 o'clock will be leaving the European Union but another deadline starts until the end of this year will remain bound by many e.u. Rules is if we've never left but when that transition ends the government wants to have a new future relationship in place let's talk now to Norman Smith our assistant political editor Norman It's the day that many people feared would never happen many people hoped would never happen what's the government going to be doing. Well Boris Johnson is taking his cabinet to Sunderland will hear from him shortly before cabinet and he's recorded a video message for later in the day and I guess his message is twofold really one is an appeal for unity after the sort of 3 years of fractious to think that now is a moment for all sides to try and come together to bind the wounds and so to that extent I think there will be an absolute ban on anything remotely resembling a champagne corks popping no triumphalism and I hope that this can mark if you like a fresh start for the nation and the 2nd part is that this is a moment of opportunity that we can in his view take back control of our own destiny and part of that is about trying to ensure that those who feel they've been left behind ignored forgotten will now be prioritised hence his decision to hold the cabinet in Sunderland but I mean it does strike me it's it it is also a moment of change for Boris Johnson because he has led so far as prime minister pretty much in campaign mode in Promises mode now he has to move to delivery mode yes to make good on his promises about the benefits of bricks and really he has no excuses anymore because it has happened he's won the election he has a huge helping majority he has a compliant party he has an opposition in disarray there is now nowhere for Boris Johnson to hide when it comes to delivery and just briefly what about labor in all of this. What is the moment of change very obviously for them to you know many many labor folk obviously passionately. E.u. They now have to think again because quite clearly by the next election 5 years on we will be in 5 years outside the e.u. Who knows they may be 10 years out of power so they have to. Rethink not just their policy it's but their whole psyche if you like their approach to Europe and being outside the e.u. We get a little bit of that today kid Starmer in a speech will suggest that all 3000000 citizens in this country should be given the right to vote that he says so that we show we we welcome them we want them here we don't simply tolerate them but also to show he wants us to remain as close as possible to the e.u. Norman Many thanks the time 26 minutes to 7 What difference does it make that the w.h.o. Now say the corona virus outbreak is now a public health emergency around the world health editor was announced that he well the answer is just in for the u.k. It doesn't make any practical difference because the u.k. Like most other developed economies has a well prepared health care system a lot of precautions are being put in place and there is a focus on it it's really aimed at other economies where maybe if the health care system isn't so well established and where help may be needed to control the spread of the virus in other words checks on people arriving in the country and it's a call to arms if you like for the research world to focus as much effort as possible on trying to work up a vaccine and to stop this virus spreading globe which they were already doing. Well they were but I think it's it's an important move because it's it's telling everybody that this is not on the control the there is concern about how much this can spread that hasn't been made in the deaths outside China but clearly the international health world does not want this to to spread exponentially and to to carry on as it is no but there was a think it is going to mean is that also it was what's behind this is a sense that there is an inevitable way in which it does spread and there are deaths possibly quite a lot of them outside China yes the death rate it's quite crude at the moment they're on telly broad enough figures to make a firm judgement the death rate is is relatively low as things stand and there is a hope that is that it will stay like that $213.00 deaths in China there are 10000 cases but it has spread to 18 other countries including France Germany and Italy in Europe nothing yet in the u.k. Although 161 tests have been carried out but certainly international experts for all just say there's no room for complacency here at Nuremberg complacency but they also tell us and they've been telling us on the program the last few days that when you compare it to seasonal flu and indeed the 2 other more serious things actually at the moment there is the rule of the sun in a cause for panic. No no cause for panic in that city the measure of the message coming from the U.K.'s public health leadership they have moved the risk level it was very low it moved up to low last week it's no moderate they're saying that should make any difference to to the public but it's a sign of the U.K.'s preparedness for cases to develop here the view is that it is very very likely that there will be a case in the u.k. Hasn't happened so far so that state of preparedness they say is is a sign of how seriously they're taking it with British passengers arriving back Brize Norton heading up to hospital and in Merseyside for 2 weeks Corinth starting from lunchtime today yes and we'll be talking more about that it Tempah 7 and indeed it attend a hearing from a public health expert who thinks that that is not the right way to treat those people huge pain thanks it's 22 minutes to 7 the torturous twists and turns in the negotiations over the Irish border were nearly a 7 time is the 300 mile from here itself in the Northern Ireland the focus has shifted to the Irish Sea and what kind of checks there might be with Great Britain once our future relationship with us decided Chris page on Correspondent joins us now from the border near Londonderry and hi chris and how is it begs that being mocked in these border areas. Yes well it wasn't that long ago Martha that this border was the brain teaser to beat them all everybody agreed the objective to keep the fronts here the way it is not a free flowing no checks no barriers of any sorts and that's of has been achieved because basically Northern Ireland will continue to follow some e.u. Rules with the rest of the u.k. Will so the nationalists living in these border areas even though the problem has been result make no mistake they still don't like the idea of the toll they would see it while Republicans would see it as the copper fastening of the petition of violence a divergence between the 2 states there's still of course a level of uncertainty as to way it will work it's the 56 percent of people in Northern Ireland filtered to remain the overwhelming majority of people in border areas did super tonight around the time the u.k. Will be leaving the European Union there will be demonstrations held along this border including here in the northwest of Northern Ireland for unionists. Northern Ireland were unionists Well they are very much concerned about the prospect of checks on goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of the u.k. But really this week they've been emphasizing what they would see as the positives of leaving the European Union so there will be again some celebrations if you like including one at the gates of storm and tonight for people who are in favor of the most about those checks what kind of impact could that have on the Northern Ireland economy Yes Well the real issue is on goods moving from Britain into Northern Ireland and Wales across the Irish Sea to this parts of the u.k. The goods that are to stay in Northern Ireland Well technically they don't need to be checked they were still within the u.k. Market but goods moving into the Irish Republic Well they're moving into the e.u. Single market so how do you check the goods moving into Northern Ireland aren't moving across the border will that will necessitate that by the sounds of things somewhere. Of checks on goods arriving in Northern Ireland the nature and extent of those checks will be determined by the outcome of the trade negotiations the government's maintains that will be unfettered access for businesses in Northern Ireland terms of there are 2 that you carry to the u.k. Markets a huge market for Northern Ireland and says many of them Chris page in a dairy thank you but let us at 27 have a look at the papers the news websites and there are some big features souvenir editions is there and in the papers in this day and age I suppose some might anyway but you want yellowing ones rather how do they give it a go well here we go again because you've got special pull outs to mark the U.K.'s exit from the e.u. Leading the way the Express which has an 8 page spread with the headline yes we did it the paper congratulated self on winning its 10 year crusade for Britain to leave calling the greatest campaign in newspaper history the Daily Telegraph goes one better though claiming its own efforts to change the course of history and propelled a newspaper columnist into Downing Street the Daily Mail held today as a new dawn for Britain echoing the address that Boris Johnson is going to get to the nation the Financial Times says the prime minister has ordered the must be no triumphalism adding that although breaks it has a planning a party in Parliament Square but his departure will be a moment of profound sadness for half the country the Daily Mirror points out that e.u. Supporters will stage protests in Liverpool Doncaster and Herrick it and remain as will gather next to the London Eye to create a sea of people holding candles and torches on their mobile phones the Dell Express says Boris Johnson will mark the occasion with a low key drinks party for number 10 stuff the Daily Star revels in the fact that people can celebrate in the pub as it's also the end of dry January then America leads with the preparations for the British nationals nationals being flown home to escape the corona virus outbreak and says officials are still trying to locate around 500 people who recently arrived from work on an academic tells the paper that 8 people who won't last month about the virus on a Chinese messaging site have been a rest. Stood and made to sign a document promising not to spread false news a-g. Pieces out in the our news paper how she's dealing with a virus she explains that n.h.s. Guidance tells her to consider a patient's symptoms and travel history but avoid examining them and to isolate anyone suspected of having the disease a man who arrived at Heathrow from China at the start of the outbreak complains in the Daily Express about the poor response he chooses border guards of laughing at him for wearing a face mask and said he had to beg the authorities to be tested have post u.k. Reports of former employees or received death threats while in office no longer have police protection after losing their seats the site says Some were told before the election it was too dangerous seemed to use public transport and the now been left with no parliament funded security or guidance the former Labor politician John Mann complains that the provision should be removed gradually warning that threats don't just go away and the children's commissioner uses a letter in The Daily Telegraph to criticize Facebook's head of Global Affairs the Nick Clegg for pushing back against planned reforms to protect children online and Longfield said she was surprised by his recent interview with this program in which he insisted that it would be hard to police such a large platform she accuses the firm of being too reliant on its users to report harmful content time 70 minutes to 7 am the main headline this morning is that Britain is going to formally leave the European Union at 11 o'clock tonight but most e.u. Laws will remain in force while both sides like a shared the future relationship. 7 minutes to 7 President Trump's plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians has been given a cautious welcome by the British government but Labor's describe it as a monstrosity that Susan Hume reports after many decades of conflict a new peace process underway President Trump and Israel's President Netanyahu of unveiled their plan for Middle East peace Mr Trump has called it his deal of the century and in London there was surely lots of e-mail traffic as foreign office experts crafted a careful stance which neither backed the plan nor through it we haven't endorsed this but we welcomed its publication and we hope that it will be the start of negotiations that will lead to a solution that both parties to this dispute can accept the Foreign Office Minister Andrew Moore Rison who argued that any plan could be the basis of talks and that was better than the current stalemate but that wasn't how Labor shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry saw it at all this is not a peace plan it is a monstrosity and a guarantee that the next generation of Palestinian Israeli children like so many generations before them will grow up knowing nothing but fear violence and division she said it destroyed any prospect of an independent contiguous Palestinian state legitimized Israeli settlements and put the whole of Jerusalem under Israeli control so she wanted to know why on earth our prime minister and affluent section I just going along with this sham of a peace deal back to be welcoming it and saying that Palestine should get behind it she called it a shameful betrayal and carry don't Barack ing Andrew Maris and as he said that at the moment there where no negotiations just a vacuum this has been years in just Station America is one of our closest allies I think actually we we own America and its president at least. The time to consider this plan that that said this is not our plan and are put on opposite that this is not our plan well that sounded a bit limp to the s.n.p. Spokesperson. Donald I get that the United Kingdom government finds itself in a tough position but simply uttering the words that this is not our plan clearly isn't going to cut it and he was one of a number of M.P.'s on all sides who feared president Trump's plan was tantamount to an annexation of land by Israel but a conservative Robert Cortes thought critics of the proposals shouldn't be too hasty we are dealing with one of the world's longest running most complicated conflicts and if these proposals really get represent a step towards negotiations and accept we're going we should be giving them fair consideration the minister agreed saying it could represent at least baby steps towards talks a live Dan Layla Moran so baby steps not towards peace but apartheid this is a scam and the minister wonders why those of us with Palestinian families also anyone else who believes in the international rules based Oda is suggesting that Alan government should reject this this is an insult the Palestinians weren't consulted the minister insisted other international figures including the E.U.'s foreign affairs chief had suggested this could be a route towards talks a conservative Bob Seeley thought the plan was certainly honest about the realities which is that the Palestinians are fearful of friends and every time there is going to be something with the words peace and plan they will be offered less and less land whether one likes I don't know I just want to check with the Minister is the government indorsing the plan or is the government simply welcoming a document in relation to the Middle East that has the guts peace and plan on it but we're welcoming the release of the release of this plan. We're no way door seeing other planets not really for us to do now Emily Thornberry Labor's shadow foreign secretary is a spirited speaker but that can get one into trouble occasionally she'd started off her contribution with an apology during a Labor leadership hustings she had said she hated the s.n.p. In what she admitted was the heat of the moment there is no place for hatred in our politics and you'll see that on almost every forum cause policy issue including this one we have opposed the Tory government together and I'm sorry for what I said the s.n.p. Stewart Malcolm McDonald accepted the apology with an invitation and I think the will of only differ the most sincere apologies achieved a lot and can I extend perhaps invitation as my plus one to Lorax London s.n.p. Bond. I would cherish your show have a great time that sounds like a freight doesn't it. Threaten with nothing worse than a haggis Emily thorn preach chortle cheerfully Susan Sheehan reporting and there's more from yesterday in Parliament on Radio 4 longwave and digital radio at half past 8 12 minutes to 7 is the time let's have a look at our puzzle for the day has been set by Bobby Segal and Susan are correct and here it is this Sunday the 2nd of February is going to be a palindrome day that's where the digits of the date when written forwards are the same is written backwards it's the only date this century that will be a palindrome in both the American and the u.k. Date formats but you didn't know that the u.k. Is date format is they date month month yeah yeah yeah yeah if you see what I mean and as you will know it's the opposite in the United States so on Sunday the u.k. Date is in a palindrome with 0 to 0 to 2020. When is the next time that the u.k. Will have a palindrome. And can we celebrated its 11 minutes with a special newspaper edition. Inside pages 678910 Central anyway as we prepare to leave the e.u. Tonight I correspond junk a has been in Cornwall where more than 56 percent of people voted for breaks at this point across the county receiving very large amounts of e.u. Funding over the decades. A fight over pilchards never gets you happy but as an 11 o'clock tonight the rowdiness maybe elsewhere are going to be slower to cross over the. U.k. Independence or break away from 40 years of misery like many Cornish fishermen Chris voted for breaks it thinking it would be good for his industry but although he'll be celebrating tonight he's still not sure what league will mean speak to me in 2 years once the transition period sorry but we don't want the European fleets in our wars taken official life unless you confident. We're still in them but do you think you're going to feel liberated on Friday night do you think you're going to feel like you act side of the European Union just to get a feel that you've got what you voted for and I think it's going to be on the media but this is different so I get married it's no different. You're married to. The bottom branch you take back control and in 26 days Boris Johnson kicked off the vote campaign here in Cold War on veiling his red bus with its n.h.s. Pledge and posing with a pasty at Truro markets over there I don't know what. He was a lot shorter not stopped to pick up some market trade to Heather remembers that day . Rolo to Baggs you wrote back then Heather was a remainer but after 3 and a half long years she's now reconciled to Boris Johnson's breaks it tonight what he says is what he does so he's not sort of shilly shally and not coming up with the goods so he won you over Yeah but we've yet to write the page to see what happens so fingers crossed. Fingers crossed is that a way to embark on a new chapter of history Well there's not a lot I can do about it since oh yes. Where the vote leave bus one sparked by meet some college students waiting for a coach. Eating at 11 o'clock on Friday night. Probably sleep in. This is our favorite to be fair very few people I spoke to seemed to be aware of tonight's moment of history but students like Katie still have passionate views like on the impact of bricks it on cold walls economy I think there's a lot of things that we've been looking forward to they just won't go ahead because we don't have the money without the we're not going to have those grants that make things happen because we're quite out of the way it's our future and other people have decided it for us we don't want it to be a kind of waving chanting thing doing no the Cold War for your group is planning a silent candlelit vigil for tonight although Charles and French born Emmanuelle say they do accept bricks it is now happening I am not going away I'm not going to just disappear vanish and I am a dual citizen I have to count shares have been brought up in one country and I have been made an adult and another I will not go away you know we are still Europeans in the geographical sense even though sadly a majority of our citizens in the government decided to exclude us from our natural Nigel's etc just displaying the. Union Jacks even though Cold War voted leave by a bigger margin than the u.k. Average I couldn't find many places planning bricks it parties for tonight the House of Commons bottle of Paul but at the Conservative Club Annette is getting ready she accepts many people are bored by breaks it but she says tonight isn't about gloating It's about moving on because it's taken such a long time to get here we're better than some of what we've been doing over the last 3 years which is dark in a falling out so we may not get on with it get out and make Britain great again and what would you say to the people who are going to be on the street out there who are very unhappy and who are marking this in a more somber way. And have a drink with us you know what we've talked about the last 3 years I know it's going to take time to finish off but then we can start to focus on other things and work together to get. Some views from Cornwall where John k. Reporting so beyond that pasty of independents what kind of relationship are we going to have put the European Union in the future it's been reported that Boris Johnson is prepared to accept the same kind of free trade deal as kind of the negotiated Let's talk to Chris Morris our reality check correspondent Breck's in veteran And Chris what would that deal look like. Well it's something that Mr Johnson's talked about for some time super Canada Canada plus new going to give a speech on Monday and which is going to set out the broad outlines of his future trade policy the thing about the Canada model it is not the frictionless trade it borders that we were promised under tourism A's government this is different there will be border checks for example under the Canada model when Canadian goods come into the e.u. There have to be checks on 100 percent of documents and the identity of people bringing them in 10 percent of consignments of milk and of meat products have to be physically inspected so you need vets you need animal health experts and food experts that borders that a lot of paraphernalia are involved which is what makes some industries who rely on frictionless borders a little bit nervous they are going to have to adjust they've been told to this new reality they know that that is the broad outline of where they're going what they're still looking for is precise detail Canada style deal but one of the precise details and the one thing of course that there's very little of in the e.u. Canada deal is provision for the services sector which is so important in the u.k. So a lot still to be negotiated more immediately when leaving the European Union tonight what will actually change. On practical terms in 99 percent of people notice no change whatsoever I mean the big thing is that you know symbolically legally we're no longer part of the European Union after nearly 50 years and that's that's a big moment in our history what it means practically is there will no longer be any British any peace at the European parliament there won't be a British commissioner in Brussels no u.k. Judges and the European Court of Justice but of course there is this 11 month transition period which means that all the new rules and regulations stay in place so we're still in the single market in the Customs Union this time tomorrow which means that that frictionless trade which is talk we've just talked about will continue will still pay the same budget payments into the e.u. Budget there will still be free movement of people in both directions so until the end of this year British people can go and live and work in the rest of the e.u. And vice versa so really that the big practical changes don't come until the end of the year when the transition period comes to an end Chris Morris reality check many thanks Well the weather still beats the same at 3 minutes to 7 we find out from Sara from well just in we have got some very mild weather on the cards over the next few days the temperatures up in the midst teens well above average really for this time of year it's also blustery and cloudy and many of us will see outbreaks of rain at times today too starting off across England and Wales and in the southeast of England and eastern England where you can get a largely dry picture quite cloudy day through this morning later into the softer noon they'll be a band of rain moving in from the west so right at 3 o'clock softening some heavier bursts of rain for London towards the southeast too it will be blustery through the day with temperatures up to about 14 degrees the southwest of England in the Midlands Wales and all of northern England Well here we're going to see a band of rain moving in from the northwest over the next couple of hours so some pretty heavy bursts of rain for this morning's rush hour particular for the northwest of England where it could be quite low. Standing water around temperatures though a very mild 14 possibly 15 degrees in one or 2 areas that rain will clear away towards the east as we head on through softening a bit of late brightness but it will be windy all day the Scotland and Northern Ireland because the rain at the moment 3 counties down towards Dumfries and Galloway Tse that rain will clear away towards the southeast over the next hour or say so dry conditions plenty of heavy showers they working in from the northwest of Scotland with could be some hail and some thunder but it is mild but temperatures around 11 or 12 degrees thanks Sara now I've really been enjoying this trauma the 2nd sleep and you can catch up with it on b.b.c. Sound. Coins and plastic bag news from the Elizabethan era the latest thriller by Robert Harris the plates commemorating the royal wedding plastic bottles of all shapes and varieties 20 plastic bricks all of them it was illegal to possess sect 800 years in the future the Primate of the collection one of the devices used by the ancients to communicate read on b.b.c. Radio 4 by Michael Maloney he turned it down on the back was the ultimate symbol of the controls hubris and blasphemy the 2nd Sleeper by Robert Harris available now on b.b.c. Sounds in the us now on this program people were all reacting to the news they'll be hosting the Brits quarantined after coming back from China you're listening today with Justin Webb and Martha Carney. It's 7 o'clock on Friday the 31st of January the headlines the u.k. Will formally leave the European Union tonight after almost half a century of membership a moment Boris Johnson will describe as not an end but a beginning senior officials have spoken of their sadness at Britain's departure and have to.