This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Tensions rise over both hong kong and the Telecoms Firm huawei. China ambassador london says if the uk wa nts to ambassador london says if the uk wants to make china a hostile country that will have to bear the consequences. The uk foreign secretary hits back. The real issue here is one of trust. Whether china can be trusted to live up to its International Obligations, and its international responsibilities. Dominic raab also names police in will be able to search homes without a warrant under chinas new security law. It will help keep afloat galleries, theatres, Jeffrey Epsteins longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is moved to new york to face charges she recruited girls for him to abuse. India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world and theres no signs of slowing. And the great Ennio Morricone one of hollywoods most iconic composers dies at the age of 91. We hear a wonderful tribute from the composer, jean micheljarre. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here britains relations with china are fraying fast. Whether its the future of hong kong
or britains reliance on chinese technology, the two countries are increasingly at loggerheads. This morning, the Chinese Ambassador to china warned the uk not to interfere with hong kong following the imposition of a new National Security law in the past hour, britians foreign secretary dominic raab rejected chinas accusation that the uk had indulged in gross interference over beijings imposition of the new legislation. Also today, the Prime Minister has insisted he will think very carefully about allowing the chinese firm huawei a role in the uks 56 network. With me is our Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams the ambassadors been sending strong warnings paul . Uk china relations rapidly deteriorating. Yeah, you have a very toxic confluence of issues at the moment. With the long running dispute over the future of hong kong
which has taken a further step forward in terms of the confrontation between china and the uk in recent weeks, with the chinese ina uk in recent weeks, with the chinese in a position of the new security law and oppression responding by offering a pathway to citizenship for as many as 3 million hong kong citizens who might want to leave in the event of that law being imposed. And then on the other hand in evident British Government rethink on whether or not to allow the chinese tech giants into the infrastructure for britains 5g data network. Those two issues both enoughin network. Those two issues both enough in themselves are raging together at the moment, and thats why when the Chinese Ambassador held a Virtual Press conference this morning he sounded more than usually frustrated and angry. To treat china as an enemy is completely wrong. Its not in your interest. That reminds. Brezinski, the american
strategist, who had to normalise relationships between china and the United States, and he himself, a participator, happened to participate in this process of normalisation between china and the United States. Brezinski had a very fine line by saying, if we make china an enemy, china will become an enemy. So we want to be your friend. We want to be your partner, but if you want to make china a hostile country, you have to bare the consequences. Now of course the British Government argues that it is not questioning beijings good faith. In some ways
the, when it comes to the issue of huawei it is about american sanctions, but on the issue of hong kong the British Government feels it cannot stand by while china imposes a new law which would really undo much of the fabric that hung congress have enjoyed since the handover 20 years ago. It would jeopardise suppression presciently held freedoms that we seen that on the streets of hong kong over the past year. Now the British Government really arguing that it has to be standing by the interests of hong kong citizens. And this is what dominic rob, the British Foreign secretary had to say this of just short time the real issue here is one of trust time ago. And whether china can be trusted to live up to its International Obligations and its international responsibilities, and thats a message that we are telegraphing, along with many of our allies and Many International partners around the world, to beijing, particularly in relation
to what we have seen in hong kong. Briefly on this because we are about to play the clip from Boris Johnson talking about that decision, when is the timeline and when are we likely to get that decision . Theres been a considerable shift since the original announcement under theresa may, hasnt there . Theres been a shift since january when the British Government announced it would not let huawei take up around 35 of the sg let huawei take up around 35 of the 5g network. Theres been a rethink, a report drawn up in recent weeks thats now been submitted to the government and that report, as we understand, says that because the United States has imposed sanctions on huawei it means that the technical offer being made to the British Government is no longer a safe and secure as it might be
because they will have to rely on other technology. It cant access american microprocessors and software. Thats because in the British Government arguing the security of the network is absently paramount. Thats because the government to rethink probably in the next week to three weeks that we will find out what the outcome of the rethink is. Paul adams, will find out what the outcome of the rethink is. Pauladams, thank you very much for that analysis. The Prime Minister has been speaking about the controversy over 5g and the uks decision to grant a role to the chinese firm huawei. To treat china as an enemy and downing street confirmed its reconsidering huaweis involvement. Lets just hear what mrjohnson had to say this lunchtime. Im very, very determined to get broadband into every part of this country, you know, reaching out across the whole of the uk, and were convinced that we can do that, but im also determined that the uk should not be vulnerable to high risk state vendors so we shall have to think carefully about how we handle that. We will have to come up with the right technological solutions, but we also need to make sure that we can deliver the broadband that the uk needs. A week after china imposed a new National Security law full details of the powers that it gives hong kongs police have been published. These include control over the internet and bank accounts, and the right to conduct searches without warrants. Also part of the legislation schools have been ordered to remove all books that dont apply with the National Security law. People under investigation will be prevented from leaving hong kong. And foreign organisations or agents will have to provide information on their activites concerning hong kong. 0ur correspondent Danny Vincent is there and sent this report. The young yet familiar faces of protest in hong kong. Joshua wong shut down his political movementjust minutes after the National Security law was passed. He was already facing charges
of illegal assembly. It is still the time not to surrender, to stand and fight. Do you have a message for Boris Johnson . We urge the world no matter borisjohnson or any Prime Minister around the world that they should realise that hong kong should not be silenced. Pro democracy campaigners say hong kong has changed almost overnight. High profile activists likejoshua wong say that they could soon be targets of this new National Security law. The effect has been chilling. Demonstrators today protested with blank sheets of paper. Worried that their words could be classed as subversion and lead to life imprisonment. Pro democracy books likejoshua wongs have been removed from public libraries. So for me the most important thing is not to give up, not to surrender and not to give up my belief on protecting
our hometown. Outside the uk consulate a small group of pro beijing demonstrators gathered, angered at the British Government pledge to offer a path to citizenship to millions of hong kong residents. And in london the ambassador to the uk was firm. Hong kong affairs are chinas internal affairs and need no external interference. One important task of the National Security law is to prevent, suppress and punish collusion with a foreign country. Or with external elements who endanger National Security. All of the external elements to endanger National Security. Hong kong is now caught in the middle of a war of words. Critics fear the former british colony is becoming just another chinese city. Void of the politicalfreedoms that it was promised. Ina in a separate diplomatic development, dominic raab has announced sanctions against 49 foreign nationals and organisations who have committed what he called the greatest human rights violations. Almost all from russia oi violations. Almost all from russia or saudi arabia. James robbins explained earlier how he described the measures as the morally right thing to do. The foreign secretarys main focus has been announcing unprecedented sanctions against more than 40 foreign nationals. Mostly from russia and saudi arabia. Who britain accuses of gross human rights violations. In russia for their part in the murderof violations. In russia for their part in the murder of serge magnitsky, in saudi arabia for their part in the torture and murder of jamaal
khashoggi, the journalist. This is unprecedented because britain is taking action outside the eu post brexit coming out with their own sanctions regime. I think the choice of saudi arabia as a target is interesting because it raises questions about the future of some of the arms contracts from saudi arabia, britain is the second largest arms supplier to the kingdom. Does it raise questions about the future security of the jobs and pretend that depend on their contracts . I put that directly to the foreign secretary, he did not talk about the jobs, but he did say that sometimes inform policy you have to do the morally correct thing. A little bit of reaction from russia because the Reuters News Agency said that moscow refers the right to respond to sanctions announced by the uk. Also a reaction from the us, mike pompeo in the last few minutes handling these post brexit sanctions
saying the sanctions regime marks the beginning of a new era for uk sanctions policy and cooperation between our two democracies. That has come from the us secretary of state reacting to the sanctions in the last little while. Leading figures in the arts world have welcomed the governments announcement of emergency funding to protect the future of theatres, galleries and museums all of which have been hit hard by the pandemic. At least one major theatre has already been forced to close. The rescue package of 1. 57 billion pounds will come in the form of emergency loans and grants. The government says more than 700,000 people are employed by the uks galleries, museums, heritage sites, music venues and independent cinemas. Labour have criticised the cultural lifeline as too little, too late. The culture secretary 0liver dowden says the government is confident the emergency package will protect the majority ofjobs in the culture sector but not all. 0ur arts editor Will Gompertz has the details. Last week theatres across the country were desperate, saying they were cash strapped and on the verge of bankruptcy. What a difference weekend makes. The tone has dramatically changed after the government announced a £1. 5 billion rescue package for the arts and entertainment sector. It shows real vision on the part of the chancellor of the exchequer and the secretary of state. It is urgently needed and i think it is fantastic that they have really recognised the huge work and the importance to Great Britain in all sorts of ways. So it is a big relief. The chancellor and the culture secretary were treading the boards at the globe in london, promoting their sizeable cash injection which will save manyjobs and venues but not all. Sadly, not everybody will be able to survive and not everyjob will be protected and sadly,
i have to be honest with you, of course we will see that it is why we have set up these clear criteria, the stubble to protect the so called crownjewels, things that really define us as a nation, nationally and internationally. Secondly and just as important to me and the government, to protect those little local venues, whether that is theatre or the gallery which is often the only place people can go to to access culture and that is just as important to protect. The east riding theatre in yorkshire is the sort of little local venue at the government says it wants to protect but its artistic director isnt reassured. Quite a few theatres have felt they are on death row and hopefully this is the lifeline that will bring them back to life. But whether it will come to us, we dont know, we dont know, we have to wait and see about applications and just pray that it does. And, you know. If it doesnt, i dont know what were going to do. The funding package is aimed at businesses, not individuals, which means the tens of thousands of freelancers that work in the arts, have seen their income vanish because of the pandemic, will not be directly receiving the new money. Most of my colleagues, as are my, looking the other temporary work to get through it. Were just trying to eke out our savings if we have them and hope that something, some contracts will come in when the theatres reopen. Its a bit of a waiting game and i think the people who can afford to hang in there for a few months well go back into the industry but i know from speaking to colleagues, some are thinking about getting out because the money will not come to them fast enough. Oh no they wont. Probably, be any panto this year. The governments financial lifeline will help theatres survive missing out on the annual cash cow this
christmas but the money is only a short term measure. What venues really need is permission to reopen to full houses, which means a relaxation in the social distancing rules. Without that, they might well be back at the chancellors door in a few months time asking for another £i. 5 billion. Will gompertz, bbc news. The british sprinter Bianca Williams has told the bbc the number of people having recorded as having died in the uk from coronavirus is 16. Bring the total number of those who have died after testing positive for coronavirus to 44,236. It comes as the person responsible for the uk Contact Tracing app says she is confident it will be effective however baroness would not be drawn on when it would
be up and running. 0ur Health Editor gave this update. It became clear this is not going to be achievable and officials would not respond well just to getting a message like that on their smartphone. That they would rather have it conveyed via phone by an official. Those effectively abandoned, but officials today at a lower committee so that they were confident there would be a good and trustworthy app introduced at some stage. That would not say when. The understanding is that would be used to convey information to people, for example if they live in an area with the numberof example if they live in an area with the number of cases going up there will be one to be extra careful or they recently visited somewhere where theres been an increase in cases. In effect a personal information conveying system but not a co nta ct information conveying system but not a Contact Tracing one. Thats all considering to point in the right
direction but lets look at the daily reported death chart for the uk. And you can see it is pretty bumpy as we noted earlier that weekend can be much lower than weekdays because of reporting but the orange line is the rolling average from the trend coming down. You can see flattening out a little bit there and its a reminder this is not going away. But it is still out there. The remote that the viruses out there and continuing warnings that did not read the wrong missions into this. The coronavirus will be with us for some time. The british sprinter Bianca Williams has told the bbc that she feels hurt and scared by the actions of the metropolitan police after she, along with her partner ricardo dos santos, were stopped and handcuffed in london on saturday while their three month old son was in their car. The commonwealth gold medallist says they were targeted because they were black and driving a mercedes. Scotland yard says the driver sped
off when asked to stop our home editor mark easton has the story. Police in north london stop a mercedes and demand the occupants,