Meghan did together shortly after their engagement. But how things have changed. Harry is walking away from royal duties and walking away toa from royal duties and walking away to a very large extent from britain. It is canada that he and megan now seem to regard as home but the government ofjustin trudeau has said that once the couple step back from the royal role, canada will no longerfund the from the royal role, canada will no longer fund the cost of their protection. That poses a problem, if the canadians wont pay for their security that leaves either the british taxpayer or of course the couple themselves. The sums involved wont be small, almost certainly more than year and there are other issues, British Police officers arent normally permitted to carry firearms outside the uk. They are all questions to be resolved. For harry this morning, at the abbey road studios, the focus was on the invictus games, an anthem called unbroken and an opportunity to sing
withjon bon unbroken and an opportunity to sing with jon bon jovi. But unbroken and an opportunity to sing withjon bonjovi. But there is to stretch the musical metaphor, a long and winding road ahead of him. Nicholas witchell, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Its not getting any better, im afraid, the winds will be strengthening and before then, weve got some more heavy rain to come and that may well lead to further flooding. Not just that may well lead to further flooding. Notjust rain that weve seen today, theres been a bit more snow, this weather what your picture taken in its tablature. And if we show you the radar picture, you can see all that wet weather thats been coming in from the south west, weve had some snow over the hills in Northern England for a while. Snow continuing over the hills in scotland, i think for Northern England it will turn back to rain and peter out, drier weather coming into Northern Ireland, and many parts of england and wales, temperatures will reach double figures. Snow in scotland petering out during this evening and the rain easing off of the eastern side of the uk but look what is coming from the uk but look what is coming from the west, another spell of rain,
this will be heavy, accompanied by strong and gusty winds, sweeping eastwards. That rain and what we see at the moment is all going to add up and the heaviest rain unfortunately is over the hills in the west and perhaps over the hills of wales that could be 70 millimetres or more in the next 12 18 hours. That band of rain sweeping eastwards during tomorrow morning, away from scotland, we get sunshine for a time and as the wind strengthens we blow in some heavy showers, gets wetter in Northern Ireland, later on gets wetter in Northern England and scotla nd wetter in Northern England and scotland with some snow over the hills. Temperatures were 5 degrees, not an awful lot warmer further south across the uk because the winds are going to be strengthening through the day, turning very windy across many areas of the uk. The reason for those strengthening winds that we see on saturday and overnight into sunday morning is storm jorge. That will bring some travel disruption i suspect during this weekend. The strongest of the winds by the end of the day and overnight across these areas could be gusting 75 miles an
hour, especially when the heavy showers, along stop the wetter weather should be moving its way northwards into scotland, thats going to bring some more snow over the Higher Ground. There is storm jorge, close to the north west of the uk, still some windy weather for Northern Areas i think on sunday, another little weather system coming in from the English Channel, but will drop the winds, bringing wetter weather through the English Channel across southern parts of england, slowly clearing the south east. The snow continues in the highlands of scotland, lots of snow to come here, elsewhere some sunshine, blustery winds and those showers could be wintry over the Higher Ground but it wont be as windy for the southern half of the uk, temperatures eight oi half of the uk, temperatures eight or9 half of the uk, temperatures eight or 9 degrees. More showers into next week, at least it wont be as windy as it will be this weekend. Darren, thank you. Some breaking news, just coming in. We are hearing that a british man has died of coronavirus injapan. British man has died of coronavirus in japan. This is british man has died of coronavirus injapan. This is coming from the Japanese Health ministry. Who have confirmed that a british man who had been on board the diamond princess
cruise ship has died from coronavirus. Much more on that on the bbc news channel throughout the afternoon. Thats all from the bbc news at one good afternoon its 1 30pm, and im ben croucher with your latest sports news. England have won their second game in three days to put themselves in a good position to qualify for the semi finals of the womens t20 world cup. They beat pakistan by 42 runs in canberra. After making 158, with captain Heather Knight top scoring with 62, england bowled pakistan out for 116 with Anya Shrubsole and world cup debutant sarah glenn both picking up three wickets. Their final group game is against west indies on sunday in sydney. It was just a bit overwhelming, this is all kind of knew to me as well. It was just a bit overwhelming, this is all kind of knew to me as welllj think its really special to get the win with the girls, to share that
with them, and getting 100 wicket as well. A brilliant achievement. South africas win over thailand was even more impressive. They won by 113 runs, and that took them to the top of englands group. Lizelle lee hit 101 runs from just 60 balls as south africa posted a hefty total of 195. Thailand were bundled out forjust 82 in reply. South africa have won both their matches so far, and they have a superior net run rate to england, whore second. 0n the mens side of things, england will be without Paceman Mark Wood for their upcoming tour of sri lanka hes suffering with a side strain. He was injured at the end of the end of their last tour, to south africa, and scans confirmed a small tear. Hell be replaced by lancashires saqib mahmood. The test squad sets off on monday. The three british sides left in the Europa League have avoided each other in the draw for the last 16. Rangers will play bayer leverkusen, wolves will take on 0lympiakos who knocked out arsenal. And after their 5 0 victory over club bruges last night, the 2017 champions, manchester united, have been drawn against the Austrian League leaders, lask with the first leg, in linz, on march 12. The impact of the coronavirus in sport is increasing, with many events affected and surely more to follow. And now Newcastle United have banned handshakes at their training ground, in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. Manager steve bruce said it was the sensible thing to do. There is a ritual here where everybody shakes hands with everybody shakes hands with everybody as soon as we see each other every morning. We have stopped that on the advice of the doctor. I think we are like everybody else, thankfully, we have a super doctor here, he will keep us informed on what we have to do. We are like everybody else, glued to the tv, not sure where it will go next. Lets hope it doesnt get any worse in this country. In berlin, danish cycling Michael Morkov is in solitary confinement
arriving arriving to compete at the Track Cycling World Championships from the uae tour a race thats been cancelled due to two suspected cases of coronavirus. Morkovs team says its a precaution and that hes showing no symptoms. Riders, including chris froome, are being placed on lockdown in their hotel whilst testing is carried out. Cyclings governing body the uci says it is doing everything within its power to ensure the health of riders and people concerned. Ben ainslie has made the perfect start as Great Britains captain on the opening day of the sailgp season in sydney. He skippered the team to three wins out of three, giving Great Britain a Comfortable Lead heading into the second and final day of racing. This is the second year of sailgp, where seven nations compete against each other with five events taking place through the year, including the isle of wight in august. There have been strong words from british swimmers after chinas three time olympic champion, sun yang, was banned for eight years, for missing a drugs test in september 2018. Sun was initially cleared,
but the World Anti Doping Agency were successful in their appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. It was his second offence. Peaty said for anyone thats been banned once, potentially, its a mistake. Youre looking at it twice youre a fool. Holly will have more for you in the next hour. In the last few minutes, its been confirmed that a man from the uk, who had been on board the cruise ship diamond princess, has died from the coronavirus. Hes the first briton to have died after catching the virus. Here, there have been three more confirmed coronavirus cases of the virus today bringing the total to 19. 0ne one in the uk has been in wales, the first patient in wales confirmed with coronavirus. My colleague, carrie gracie, has been speaking to our health correspondent, james gallagher, in an edition of your questions answered. I promised you an addition or not coronavirus, the health impact, here it is. James, thank you for coming in to do with these questions. Lets begin. Lorrie on email asks, how long do symptoms last in an otherwise healthy person . It depends how severe an infection you get. We think the incubation period, the time of developing symptoms as it is about a week. Over the course of next week
after that, you can have symptoms like coughing and fever, that might be the end of it for some people. But for others, it could get worse, they could develop things like pneumonia and breathing difficulties. In the most extreme of cases, multiple organ failure, that maybe will play out a couple of weeks after that. The full course of the disease could be about three weeks. We have heard a lot about elderly people and people with pre existing conditions. Sarah on email asks, are babies and toddlers more at risk . Children seem to be spectacularly spared spectacularly spared by this virus in terms of developing the severest symptoms. We havent had a lot of information about newborn babies specifically, but there are some protection for even the youngest baby through breastmilk. Neil on email asks, can you please explain the concern and procedures being put in place for covid 19 when the mortality rate is so minimal compared with unfluenza. I think people would argue whether it is so minimal in comparison to influenza. A hypothetical scenario where it is identical to influenza, what would you do . Influenza is already around the world, it bounces around, you cant stop it, the best you have is the flu jab but you can still get the flu after having that. This is a virus that hasjust emerged. There may still be a capacity to stop it ever spreading around the world, to limit it and wipe it out basically, that is why there has been such a massive reaction. This is an unknown quantity, were learning more every day, but there is a capacity. The window of opportunity is narrowing but it is still there to stop this spreading around the world. That is why there has been such a massive response. Amanda on email has written into say, i returned from barcelona last week, i feel like ive got a cold, got sniffles and a headache. Where could i get tested to check . Well, dont. Go in anywhere to get tested. If you are concerned, then dial nhs111. It is worth remembering that barcelona does not have a massive outbreak. The risk is minimal, it is probably Something Like a normal winter bug that loads of us get at this time of year. The official advice is, stay at home, dont go to your gp surgery, and call 111. William on email says, my boss and co workers have gone to north italy for a non work long weekend. Small office, one room, can i stay away from the office to protect myself . You probably want to ask your boss, not me. It is worth remembering the foreign and commonwealth advice, it is advising not to travel to 11 small towns in specific
parts of northern italy. The question really is, where in northern italy are your co workers going to . If it is a low risk area, then nothing really needs to change. If the co workers are going to the specific going to the specific towns with quite a lot of quarantines are going on, then that is a different question. John on email asks, should the church be using the common cup for Communion Services . Today, we are up to 19 cases of coronavirus in the uk. The distinction is that they have all come from abroad, the virus is not spreading in the uk. So the danger of taking your communion wine is no greater than it was last winter in terms of spreading other bugs. Of course, if there was a massive coronavirus outbreak, then that might be a potential source of infection, if we have an outbreak in the uk. Trevor reason, from middlesex, on email asks, i am travelling to london on packed trains and underground trains where we barely have space to stand. Surely this must be the highest risk area of transmission. Should we still travel this way . You can probably rewind my answer and substitute communion wine with trains. Until we have an outbreak in the uk, then there is no major risk on the trains than there is any other winter with the winter bugs. Things like public transport, mass gatherings, schools, whether there should be changes, that starts to kick in once that is an outbreak in the uk. That is when we consider those things, not today. One more coming from yours truly. I was reading that Newcastle United have started a policy of no handshakes in the office, what do you think . Same answer . It is good advice, in general, hand hygiene is a crucial way to stop viruses spreading, including coronavirus. If you had the coronavirus
and coughed all over this desk, and i touched it, then my face, that is one of the major ways ways that virus spreads. Theres a little bit of common sense of keeping your hands clean. You can get in touch with your questions about the current both general and travel related. We will be talking about later to travel experts, that is at half past three. You can see ways to get in touch with us on the screen right now. Just to remind you of that breaking news at this hour, that a british man who had been on board the cruise ship, diamond princess, injapan has 110w ship, diamond princess, injapan has now died from coronavirus. There we re now died from coronavirus. There were hundreds of passengers on board, they were in the quarantine
as it was moored in yokohama in japan. Several of the british passengers were complaining about the length of time it took to get them off the ship and have them evacuated back home. The Japanese Ministry of health are saying that the man who has died as the six person to have died who was on board the diamond princess cruise ship. He is the first british citizen to have died from coronavirus. Now, in the uk, 19 people is the latest figure of the number of cases that have been diagnosed with the illness. This british citizen who was on board the diamond princess, the first British National to die of coronavirus. Freefall three former barclays executives have been acquitted of charges of fraud in the only criminal trial of senior bankers in the uk
for events in the 2008 crisis. Rogerjenkins, tom kalaris and Richard Boath were accused of conspiring to commit fraud in connection with barclays efforts to raise billions of pounds privately which enabled the bank to escape being nationalised by the government. They denied all charges. Andy verity has been following the trial. Former Senior Barclays executive rogerjenkins, once described as the best paid banker in the city, along with former senior banker tom kalaris and a lower ranking executive, Richard Boath were accused by the Serious Fraud office of committing a fraud in the midst of the 2008 crisis. Charges theyve spent a year on trial denying. In may 2008, barclays, like other banks, was running dangerously low on cash. Regulators were pressing the bank to beef up its finances and put billions more aside in case some of the loans it had made werent repaid. Directors set in motion a plan to raise funds privately from sovereign wealth funds around the world, with tom kalaris coordinating it. One of then, deputy chief executive bob diamonds trusted lieutenants. Rogerjenkins, the head of
barclays capital in the middle east, seen here on the left, had got to know sheikh hamad bin jassim al thani, the Prime Minister of qatar, and convinced him to invest £2. 3 billion in barclays, along with sovereign wealth funds from china, japan and singapore. Each investor would get a fee of 1. 5 . But then the qataris demanded more than double that. The court heard confidential phone calls where Richard Boath kept raising concerns. All investors were supposed to be paid the same, but the message came back from the top the bank wouldnt pay more to everyone. If we were receptive to that fee number are we going to apply that
across the whole transaction . No. Its on the side. The qataris would be paid their extra fees £112 million via an agreement for advisory services. Then when the crisis worsened in october, barclays needed billions more. The qataris again demanded extra and barclays added a further £280 million. Here at the old bailey, the prosecutors case was that those advisory agreements were pretend, an attempt to disguise the extra fees being paid to the qataris, and that the defendants caused the bank to lie in public documents, saying no extra fees have been paid. The defendants pointed to evidence that what theyve done was approved at the top of the bank and that the board of directors knew about it. The court heard that the banks lawyers, including the big city firm clifford chance, advised that it was legal as long as the qataris would be giving valuable services in exchange for their extra money. Today, the only criminal prosecution of senior bankers since the crisis finally drew to an end. Andy verity, bbc news at the old bailey. This evening in paris theyre holding the cinema awards ceremony known as the cesars the french equivalent of the oscars. Topping the list of nominees is the film, an officer and a spy or jaccuse in french by the 86 year old french polish director, Roman Polanski. But theres fury among feminists and metoo activists, because of the long standing allegations aimed at polanski of rape and sexual abuse. Hugh schofield reports from paris. The film is about a jewish man a soldier hounded by society, and the fight to clear his name. The dreyfus affair is a subject which Roman Polanski says he has always wanted to treat, and the result is a cinematic triumph. Happy audiences and 12 nominations at the annual awards. But whatever its success, the film jaccuse comes weighted with controversy. This is where the cesars
the french oscars are going to be held. You can see theyre putting the final touches to the outside right now. And this is the focus of the row. Already on an adjacent wall theres graffiti against Roman Polanski. The point is, were living now in a post metoo world and Roman Polanski is a director with a past. Wherever he goes in public now, Roman Polanski is dogged by the 1977 scandal when, after admitting unlawful sex with a 13 year old, he fled the united states. There are other allegations of rape and abuse, mainly also from the 19705. The last was made just two months ago. Feminists say that with this background, its disgraceful Roman Polanski should be honoured for this film. But for them, its typical of the french cultural elite. I think there is really a strong specificity in france to say that it doesnt matter. It doesnt matter, you have the power,
you are an artist, you are a genius, so you can rape and we dont care. This is still the case in france. Roman polanski does not give many interviews but in paris match magazine recently he said this and pola nskis supporters say his work should be allowed to stand for itself. I think we should differentiate what is the moral behaviour of a creator which can be very bad and must be judged as everybody else, because a creator is not above the law. His films, his creations why punish a film for the bad behaviour of his film maker . Polanski says he himself has felt hounded by society with its changing sexual values. For his accusers, any hounding is belated and richly deserved. Hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. Astronomers have detected what they describe as the biggest known explosion in the universe since the big bang. Its five times bigger than anything theyve previously observed. The blast which came from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy hundreds of millions of light years away was detected by telescopes in western australia. The light from the explosion has been travelling for about 400 million years. Dr Tamela Maciel is an astrophysicist at the National Space centre. She spoke tojoanna gosling on the Victoria Derbyshire programme this morning. Its incredible, the impact. So, for us, when the scientists first got the data in and they were looking at the gas and the dust around this cluster of galaxies, they noticed there is a little divot in the bottom bit, and they thought this could be from an outburst from a black hole. But its so much bigger
than weve ever seen before that they initially discounted that, because the amount of Energy Required is colossal. As you said, five times bigger than anything weve seen before. But recent follow up data in different wavelengths of light have actually shown, yes, this is from a supermassive galaxy, kind of, punching its way through, sending out a jet of plasma and radiation that is millions and millions of light years long. You could fit 15 of our own galaxies inside this, sort of cavity, this divot, that has been carved out. So absolutely enormous, and really, really interesting to discover. So what can we learn from it . Well, it definitely pushes the envelope up, in terms so what can we learn from it . Well, it definitely pushes the envelope up, in terms of the power that we know supermassive black holes can have. Its not just about regulating things. I think sometimes black holes get a bit of a Bad Reputation they just swallow everything and kills stuff off. But, actually, we know they can go through this active phase, where they send outjets of material
and radiation, and this can kind of stir things up a bit. It can actually be beneficial and trigger new stars to form, or galaxies to form, in a different way that we dont fully understand. So its about understanding this sheer, colossal impact that a black hole can have on its environment. And that teaches us about how galaxies form. The birth on an endangered type of elephant has been caught on cctv at chester zoo. The calfs arrival brought an end to a 22 month pregnancy for its mother, sundara, with just 20 minutes of labour. Mum and baby are asian elephants, a species listed as endangered by the International Union for conservation of nature. Welcome to the world. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren bett. More rain today, more rain tonight,
that will lead to some further flooding problems over the next few days. Further flooding problems over the next few days, notjust rain thats been falling again, weve seen some snow. This picture taken by a weather watch in staffordshire and it has been over the hills in the north. Theradar picture over the past three hours, rain has been pushing in from the southwest leading edge. Weve seen some snow over the hills in Northern England. Now arriving in scotland, it will stay snowy in the hills here through this afternoon. Probably turning back to rain in Northern England. The rain easing off in Northern Ireland here and for england and wales. Well, temperatures may get into double figures with south westerly winds colder in scotland. That snow just peters out during the evening. And then as the night goes on, we see the next band of rain coming in from the west. This is heavy rain, it will be accompanied by some strong and very gusty winds as well. And that rainfall is just going to add up from today and tonight on top of what weve had already. And the highest rainfall totals are going to be over the hills in the west. In wales, for example, another 70 or more millimeters of rain on the way. Just what we dont need. That rain band is going to sweep
very quickly away from eastern parts of england, sunshine and showers come rattling in as well. Very gusty winds, longer spells of rain for Northern Ireland, wetter weather for Northern England, central southern scotland, some snow on the hills. And temperatures about four or five degrees at best. Not a great deal warmer further south. Its getting colder through the day, even though were seeing some sunshine away from those showers. And it will feel cold because weve got some very strong and gusty winds widely as we head into the afternoon and evening. And this is of course due to storm jorge, thats going to bring very windy weather overnight and into the start of sunday, as well. The main core of winds here where were going to find gusts of 75 miles an hour and particularly gusty when those showers come rattling in. That wetter weather will be moving its way northwards across scotland, bringing some more snow over the Higher Ground. Thats jorge sitting close to the north west of scotland, still quite windy. For many Northern Areas on sunday. That weather front, though, will reduce the winds further south, it may well bring a spell of rain across more southern parts of
england through the English Channel. So more snow, though, for the highlands, a lot of snow to come. Elsewhere, some sunshine and some showers, which could be wintry over the hills as well. Another chilly sort of feeling day. Not as windy for the southern half of the uk, where temperatures are 8 or 9. Hello, youre watching afternoon live, im martine croxall. Today at 14 00. A man who was on the diamond princess cruise ship has become the first briton to die from the coronavirus. Three new cases are confirmed in the uk and there are growing fears about the global spread of the virus. A lot of our attention has been on italy and japan. What happens in iran and africa is probably more significant in terms of the risk of this turning into a pandemic where the spread across borders becomes not possible to contain. As stock markets across the globe suffer their worst week since the financial crisis of 2008, the bank of england warns that the virus could have an impact on the uk economy. The teenage activist Greta Thunberg leads thousands of people on a climate change
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