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To predict the final costs of the controversial hs2 project, according to a new report. The National Audit office blames the government for not understanding the complexity and risk. Serena williams is out of the Australian Open. The 7 time champion loses in the second round in melbourne will she ever win that elusive 24th grand slam title . My my good morning. The other driver only cloudy day out there today. A bit of miss dennis around this morning but its all changed through the weekend. Bring you all the details throughout the morning. Its friday the 24th of january. Our top story. Chinese authorities have confirmed 25 people have now died from a new respiratory virus that has infected more than 800 people in the country. There are concerns that the coronavirus may have reached the uk 1a people here have been examined, and so far, five have been confirmed negative. Nine are still awaiting test results. Stephen mcdonell is in beijing, where large gatherings to celebrate the Chinese New Year have been cancelled. Stephen, whats the latest there . Right across china celebrations which are normally associated with the Lunar New Year are being called off. As you mentioned, the temple fairs in beijing cancelled. In guangdong cinemas have been closed for the duration and many cities near wuhan following the lead of that city where the outbreak of the coronavirus first happened and have shut down all public transport systems within the city and leaving the cities. One the problems is the Health System in wuhan has been swamped with people and some have been sick have left wuhan to go to shanghai or beijing or dalian seeking treat and, theyve taken the virus with them. Weve had people who have died in Hubei Province, it is the province that rings beijing and in the north east of china, weve heard of another death. People have died, its spreading to other parts of china. This is why authorities are taking these drastic measures. I dont think anybody believes its going to stop the problem. They arejust believes its going to stop the problem. They are just trying to slow the spread of this to prevent it becoming even worse than it already is. After seven oclock, we will get the latest situation. The number of cases affected. The director for Health Protection medical directorfor director for Health Protection medical director for Public Health england will be speaking to us just after seven oclock. The United States has officially turned down an extradition request for the American Woman charged over the death of the british teenager harry dunn. He died when his motorbike was hit by a car owned by Anne Sacoolas near an raf base in northamptonshire in august. The home office has described the decision as a denial ofjustice. Simonjones reports. It was here that harry dunn was killed last august as he was riding his motorbike. He was hit by a car allegedly being driven on the wrong side of the road by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a us diplomat. She returned to the us, claiming immunity from prosecution, describing what happened as an unintentional accident. Describing what happened as an unintentionalaccident. Eversince, harrys family have campaigned for her to return. They made a direct plea to donald trump at the white house and help protest outside raf croughton where Anne Sacoolas was based. Now they are told the us will not agree to their extradition but insist they wont give up. This extradition request hangs there forever, its not going to go away. This administration will go away and we will wait, if we need to, the next five, ten, 15 years. I can assure you Anne Sacoolas will be coming back one day, this is far from over. The home office asked for Anne Sacoolas to be returned to the uk earlier this month but at the time, the Us State Department said that would be a highly inappropriate move so that would be a highly inappropriate move so it cant have come as a surprise here that the formal extradition request has now been rejected. Nevertheless the government says its disappointed at what appears to be a denial of justice. The Prime Minister had issued this warning last week on brea kfast. Issued this warning last week on breakfast. I think the chances of america actually responding by sending Anne Sacoolas to this country are very low. Thats not what they do but we will continue to make every effort that we can. The British Government says that its urgently considering its options but it may now have to rely on the political rather than legal route. The Us Government has expressed sympathy for the family of harry dunn, but says that honouring the extradition request would have set an extraordinarily troubling precedent. Our washington correspondent, chris buckler, sent this report earlier. After the crash in august in which harry dunn died, Anne Sacoolas initially Lisa Northamptonshire with their enquiries but she then left their enquiries but she then left the country without informing them and return due to the United States and return due to the United States and is the wife of the us diplomat, she claimed what is known as diplomatic immunity. Essentially thats a interval that someone who is serving a government overseas should not be prosecuted in that country and it also applies to some spouses. Now, after that, country and it also applies to some spouses. Now, afterthat, harry dunns family made numerous attempts on appeals for her to return to the uk and to face justice. However, those fell on deaf ears and you might remember harry dunns harry dunns family came here to the United States and even to the white housein United States and even to the white house in order to raise attention to the case and make those appeals to Anne Sacoolas time and time again. After a ll Anne Sacoolas time and time again. After all that failed, and extradition request was issued for her to be returned to the uk by the american authorities but in a statement by the state department, it is very clear that they are turning that down. The Us State Department said if the United States we re Department Said if the United States were to grant the uks extradition request, it would render diplomatic immunitya request, it would render diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set in extraordinarily troubling precedent. They do go on to say that the government here again expresses its sincere condolences to the family but of course that is far short of what they really want and that is for Anne Sacoolas to face this charge of causing death by dangerous driving. The construction of the controversial hs2 railway line is billions of pounds over budget and years behind schedule. The National Audit office says the department for transport failed to understand how complex and risky the project would be. The government says its already acting on the watchdogs recommendations. Our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. As work to build a new high speed line goes on in birmingham, criticism from the governments spending watchdog over management of the budget for hs2, which has ballooned. Todays report says the government and hs2 limited underestimated the scale and complexity of this project, and thats one of the region is why the budget has risen so much. This is the vision for that site once a station is built here. The National Audit office says risks and uncertainty werent properly but says the budget for phase one of hs2 is now robust. Theyve done an awful lot of work to understand the cost and they now have a better estimate of how much it will cost and how long it will take to build the railway between london and birmingham. That said, the programme as a whole is at a very early stage and risks remain. Some conservatives have urged the Prime Minister to rethink. Other seniorfigures say hs2 has to go ahead. This part of the country, the north, turned decisively to the conservative party and the Prime Minister has talked about levelling up. This is literally the investment that will level up the economy. The cost of the second phase of this project, linking the city to leeds and to manchester, is more uncertain because its at a much earlier stage. A final decision is due next month. Tom burridge, bbc news, in birmingham. Sopranos actor Annabella Sciorra has testified in Harvey Weinsteins trial that he raped her at her home 25 years ago. Shes the first accuser to take the stand against the former hollywood producer. She told the court he forced himself into her apartment and attacked her. Weinstein denies all charges, including rape and sexual assault. An nhs trust being investigated for at least seven preventable baby deaths was paid a bonus £1. 5 Million Pounds for claiming it provided good maternity care. East Kent Hospitals nhs trust said it had met all required Safety Standards to receive the money. This week it was subject to an unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission. Our social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports. Sheuey Shelley Russell lost her daughter following a maternity error. Her baby was stillborn after a midwife failed to act on a suspicious heart rate reading. They came in, said to me, yes, herfeet looks ok, are you happy, she said to me, and i said to her, if youre happy, im happy. He scanned Hospitals Trust apologised yesterday after the bbc revealed there had been some preventable baby deaths at the trust since 2016. It was discovered they received almost £1. 5 million in 2018 from Service Initiative aimed at demoting good maternity care. To get the money, east kent told nhs officials they we re east kent told nhs officials they were taking steps to reduce errors. A payment included £500,000 that came from trusts that didnt rate their own carers highest highly as east kent did. The trust said the money helped fund new equipment. Eternity care in east kent is expected to be heavily criticised today following the death of harry richard, who was just a week old when he died in 2017. Over the past three weeks, a number of witnesses have told the coroner there were a series of failures in harrys care for which the trust is already apologised. Tesco is to scrap packaging on several tins. Tesco says the price of multi pack purchases will not be affected. Football fans experience such intense levels of physical stress whilst watching their team that they could be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack. The university of oxford tested saliva from brazilian fans during the famous 2014 world cup semi final which they lost and found levels of the hormone cortisol rocketed, which can increase Blood Pressure and put strain on the heart. Previous research has shown an increase in heart attacks among fans on important match days. Im not mega surprised about this. They look more sad but stressed. What do you think . I find that so relatable. The stress and watching foot ball relatable. The stress and watching football matches. It gets to the point we had to walk out of the room. Is it only put all . You are a by room. Is it only put all . You are a rugby fan. Thats the point of it. If you dont get worked up, there is no point. I do start to worry. There are times in certain matches i have to text my dad, are you 0k . He gets very hat up. I get that from him, the fact that im like that. Dont tell him that. Thats probably going to make it worse. Its the worst thing, anyone who gets worked up about football, rugby, hockey, its the worst thing you can say. Its notjust a the worst thing you can say. Its not just a game. The worst thing you can say. Its notjust a game. The early hours of this morning. Just a couple of hours ago over in melbourne at the Australian Open. Big shock in the last couple of hours at the Australian Open Serena Williams is out. She lost to chinas wang qiang in the third round in melbourne. Williams is still one grand slam title short of margaret courts record of 24. The wait to equal that record goes on. Roberto firminos late winner for liverpool over Wolverhampton Wanderers means that they have won 22 out of 23 games this season in the league, and are 16 points clear of second placed manchester city. There was a shock in the fa cup last night as League One Side tranmere beat premier League Watford in their third round replay. Tranmere will now play Manchester United at home in the fourth round on sunday. And the fourth and final test between england and south africa gets underway in a couple of hours time. England are 2 1 up, as they try to win their first test series in more than a year. Outside tranmere last night, huge queues already. They are going to be hosting Manchester United. How big is their stadium . Do we know . 16,000. You need to get how that co m pa res to 16,000. You need to get how that compares to old trafford. Phenomenal. Brilliant. Heres sarah with a look at this mornings weather. Good morning, sarah. Good morning to you both. The weather is not changing ina you both. The weather is not changing in a hurry so what you had yesterday and the day before that you will see once again. Most of the country looks dry with High Pressure in charge but a lot of clouds, a great picture out there. The High Pressure that has been with us for a few days now will gradually drift off across Continental Europe as we head through the weekend and that will open the doors for weather fronts to move in from the atlantic. All change especially by sunday before here and now a fairly cloudy story out there across the uk. Some of that cloud is low enough to give us of that cloud is low enough to give us mist and fog patches as well. A little rain here and there for parts of Northern Ireland and western scotla nd of Northern Ireland and western scotland with a weak weather front. Further south, the cloud is thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle temperatures around eight or nine degrees, similar to the last few days. Into this evening and overnight we see some of that air pushing across the north west of scotla nd pushing across the north west of scotland and elsewhere mostly dry, again quite cloudy and mild with all the cloud around acting as a blanket we will not see any frost tonight so most of us start saturday with the temperatures and mid single figures. We still have High Pressure to start saturday morning gradually that will ease away towards the south east. There is a weak weather front once again reaching across the north west of scotland. A similar start to what we have out there today, mist and low cloud but a bit more breeze developing through the south west during the day which will help to break up the cloud, particularly in the east. 8 10 degrees at the top temperatures on saturday but a couple of showers across the west of the uk later on in the afternoon. Heading three saturday into sunday you can see the mile there with us, those yellow colours, that gets pushed away to the east and we see a return of the blue colours, the cold air mass from the west. By sunday, initially heavy burst of rain across parts of scotland england and wales and that slowly pushes eastward through the day. Following on from the west clear and cold conditions but sunshine returns to Northern Ireland and to scotland with a couple of wintry flurries over high ground. Temperatures in the north about 5 6d and towards the south east we will see nine or 10 celsius once again. As we head through the early part of next week, low pressure is in charge so i changed to wet windy and cold conditions as well. This is how monday and tuesday are looking. It is colder than we have seen recently with spells of sunshine but also some blustery showers and a windy day for many of us on tuesday. Lets take a look at todays papers. The coronavirus features on most of the front pages this morning with the mirror saying the uk is on red alert. The article says six people in the uk believed to be chinese nationals are being tested for the virus. The daily mail suggests there may be a seventh suspected case, at the Hillingdon Hospital in west london although Public Health england refused to comment. Meanwhile, the times says that the number of people in the uk who have been tested for the virus stands at more than a dozen. The times says it understands Public Health england has ruled out the virus in five patients but tests on nine others were continuing. And the top story on the bbc website reports that some major Lunar New Year events in beijing and hong kong have been cancelled in a bid to contain the virus. We will talk to someone from work hand injusta we will talk to someone from work hand in just a few minutes. We will talk to someone from work hand injust a few minutes. A journalist who has just arrived there who to give us the latest from there who to give us the latest from the area. Too early for the papers to talk about the tennis this morning. It is dominated instead by liverpool. We spoke earlier about stressful matches. For both liverpool and wolves last night it was a stressful game. Liverpool are now 16 points clear and they have been already and they have not lost at all this season, unbeaten in 40 games now. If wolves had beaten them it would have been a huge story. And it would have been a huge story. And it was one all four most of the game. It was one all for them majority of the game. Ultimately wolves didnt look like a better outfit last night. They found some kind of formula. Maybe if you are a fan of liverpool you would saying thatis fan of liverpool you would saying that is exactly the sort of contest you need. That is how you need to be tested. I dont know if anybody wants to be tested in that way. They wa nt wants to be tested in that way. They want that invincible title. They could happily go the whole way to win games the way they are doing. This is a story here referring to the northampton derby. The coach there, for someone like this, he was working in a supermarket the day he scored his First Premier League goal at the age of 16 and he will be facing his old hero in this match in the fourth round of the fa cup. And thatis the fourth round of the fa cup. And that is what the fa cup is about, isnt it . Do you want an animal story . Yes. Here we go. Holly, do you have any pets . I know charlie has a dog and i have stop would you think of pampering your pet in this way . This is lewis the cat receiving a hot stone massage. And luigi who is having a soak. What kind of animal is luigi . A pig. And this is percy a horse with rollers in his hair. And this is inca getting his nails failed here and then he has a face towel and cucumbers and there are doubts about whether or not these animals are happy while this is happening. They all are alive and well and emma from devon says they enjoy it. They say they love it. They are used to her crazy ideas. Enjoy it. They say they love it. They are used to her crazy ideaslj dont they are used to her crazy ideas. dont believe it. Cucumbers on the eyes . Holly, please look away now. If you are unhappy about slug. No, where is the picture . Here you go. I will tell you this story anyway. Experts from the Royal Horticultural Society, there are some slugs, the Royal Horticultural Society are asking volunteers to collect slugs to research slug diversity. So lets hear from to research slug diversity. So lets hearfrom one of to research slug diversity. So lets hear from one of their experts who says that slugs are misunderstood. Very much so says an expert slug research, a doctoral student of entomology. So they are trying to find out all the different types of slugs. Collect them and send the details in, if that is your thing. Many different sorts of slugs are there . Many. Too many. I can come back to you on that. I would like an update please. There is a green salad slug from the ukraine, a spanish slug first found in 1954, 40 different sorts of slug in the uk and only nine of them a serious pest stop so the other 31 you need to be nice too. Now you know. Time now is 6. 23. We will have the weather for you shortly. Chinese Authorities Say the number of deaths from the coronavirus has reached 25. Restrictions have been imposed in all cities including work hand which is at the centre of the outbreak. We are talking to a journalist from the New York Times who is in were hand. Chris, thank you for getting onto the phone with us. We understand you have just arrived what are you seeing and what is the situation like. I have been here since yesterday. This is my second day here so i have been out on the streets again today looking at the situation. Still very anxious, the hospitals are still crowded with patients who are worried that they may contract the virus. Is there a general feeling of calm or of understanding of what authorities are trying to do thereby restricting travel and Movement Ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations . I would say its not panic but there is certainly an undercurrent of anxiety in the population here. They are still not sure how far the virus has spread. It is difficult to confirm which cases are an ordinary cold and flu and which are the pneumonia caused by this virus. There is a level of anxiety here, especially anxieties about how long the city will be under lockdown and what will happen, for example, with Food Supplies and other needs of the population. My understanding is that the number is now around 830 people who have been in fact now around 830 people who have been infact did. Now around 830 people who have been in fact did. One of the problems, i suppose, of this is trying to contain it. How disciplined is the population being about adhering to what authorities are saying in terms of restrictions . Well, restrictions now apply to a population of about 22 million in this province here. Especially in the big city of were hand. So far it is striking how excepting people are. When i came yesterday i thought it might require a big Police Presence to make sure people will stick by the restrictions but i should say that we do not see many police around. Someone standing in front of me now he was a bit anxious about having a foreigner reporting but i will deal with that after this call. So more police on the streets . What can they try to enforce . Many people are wearing face masks and there are concerns about this being airborne . There are fewer police, actually, then i would have expected given the scale of this. Most people are quite conscious now about wearing face masks. Including most older people. And especially these big heavy facemasks that take some getting used to. Thank you very much for jumping on the phone to us and bringing us up to date. That is chris buckler, a journalist with the New York Times. Time now for the news, travel and weather where you are. Good morning from bbc london, im Victoria Hollins. Figures obtained by bbc london show the number of reported Sexual Offences in pubs, clubs and bars has gone up by nearly a third in the past three years. Last year, a total of 470 were reported to the met police 75 of which were rape. Now victims and Campaign Groups are wanting more to be done to tackle the problem. Currently when a license premises applies for an alcohol license they have to speak certain actives like how are you going to prevent crime and disorder . How will you protect children . What they do not have to do is speak specifically to prevention of sexual violence. I would like to see that being made a specific licensing objective. And you can hear more about this on inside out london. Thats on bbc one, monday evening at 7 30pm. Its emerged that a car park in buckinghamshire where an elderly man slipped and later died wasnt being cleaned as recommended. Following the 85 year olds death, the multi storey at Wycombe Leisure Centre was closed whenever rain was forecast as a precaution. Now, after advice from the health and safety executive, work is underway to resurface the entire car park. Wandsworth and pentonville are among the first prisons to get state of the art body scanners. The new x ray machines will be able to show banned items hidden inside peoples bodies. Extra measures also include phone blocking techology. Its part of a government push to tackle violence and drugs in some of the countrys most troublesome jails. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. On the tubes theres no service on the picadilly line between heathrow 2 3 and heathrow terminal 5, thats because of a signal failure. Minor delays on the metropolitan as well. And on the overgound theres no service between South Tottenham and barking. Aldgate east, theres one lane closed southbound approaching whitechapel high street due to roadworks. Now the weather with Elizabeth Rizzini. Good morning. No big surprise but todays weather is looking remarkably similar to what we had yesterday and indeed the day before that. Cloudy, grey and damp once again. Poor visibility on many of the roads this morning, a lot of mist in macau there keeping layers of low cloud as we had through the day, when will stay late and top temperatures will reach seven or eight celsius, two in central london. High pressure dominates the weather at the moment so no big changes until we get to the second half of the weekend. Overnight tonight again it will be cloudy and we will see more mist and make reforming into tomorrow morning where we get close spells temperatures could job temporarily down to two or three celsius otherwise we start the day tomorrow ona otherwise we start the day tomorrow on a misty note of four or five celsius. Tomorrow will turn windy and it should be dry with a lot of cloud but the wind will help to mix the cloud up so there could be bright spells perhaps at times. The change comes in on sunday with sunshine through the morning, rather windy and then some afternoon rain. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Hello. This is breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. Its 6 30. Well bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. With just six months to go until the Tokyo Olympics were talking to britains most decorated female olympian, katherine granger, about team gbs medal hopes. From the fishing villages of hong kong to the ruined temples of thailand Michael Portillo has travelled by train across South East Asia for his new tv series. Hes with us after nine oclock. And the singer james blunt is here too hell tell us how his fathers illness has led to him writing one of the most moving songs of his career. Its been confirmed by authorities in china that 25 people have now died from a new respiratory virus that has infected more than 800 people in the country. There are concerns that the coronavirus may have reached the uk. 14 people here have been examined, and so far, five have been confirmed negative. Nine are still awaiting test results. Severe travel restrictions are in place in the chinese city of wuhan where the virus originated. The family of harry dunn say they will not stop fighting forjustice after a request to extradite the woman accused of causing his death by dangerous driving was turned down. The Us State Department says that sending Anne Sacoolas back to the uk would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent. The home office has called the decision a denial ofjustice. He department for transport has underestimated the complexities of building the hs2 railway line between london and the north of england. The National Audit office says the risks of the project were not adequately managed and lessons need to be learned. The government says it will make a final decision on the fate of the project next month. The american actress, Annabella Sciorra has told Harvey Weinsteins trial that he raped her 25 years ago. Shes the first accuser to take the stand against the former hollywood producer but her allegations are too old to be included on the charge sheet. Weinstein denies all charges, including rape and sexual assault. Tesco is to scrap Plastic Packaging on multipacks of tins. The supermarket says the move will stop 350 tonnes of waste polluting the environment each year. Tesco says the price of multipack purchases will not be affected. Disappointment in melbourne. Yes, Serena Williams is out. Somewhere she is usually comfortable, in australia. Four months ago, she absolutely hammered her. Zhang won just one game. Did she play badly . Her opponent played very well. A huge shock very early on. John watson is there for us. Serena came into this tournament hoping to equal margaret courts record of 24 grand slam titles. You do have to wonder. Its tough when you consider how tight it is at the top of womens tennis. Serena williams will be running out of opportunity. She has reached for finals. That was here at the Australian Open. She has lost all of them. His earliest exit from the Australian Open in 14 years. It goes to show how big the field is. Perhaps out of Serena Williams, how ha rd perhaps out of Serena Williams, how hard she is finding it and how good the other players are. A lot of u nforced the other players are. A lot of unforced errors out there. Despite the fact that zhang played so well, its as if serena didnt play her best, a lot of unforced errors. It sometimes feels as if it can be a bit of a battle against herself and thatis bit of a battle against herself and that is how it felt like it played out today stop speaking of people playing their best, novak djokovic, no problems. We are not surprised by that. Novak djokovic, he is the reigning champion. When it comes to the hard courts here in australia, he is brilliant. He canjoin his match. Its hard to see beyond the likes of novak djokovic, roger tu row, rafael likes of novak djokovic, roger turow, rafael nadal. Should we talk about the younger players. Roger federal. Novak djokovic looking like the man to beat. Roger federer. John, we will leave you in the sunshine. Enjoy the rest of your day. Liverpool are on course to smash manchester citys record points tally in the premier league. Theyre 16 points clear at the top of the league after beating wolves 2 1, Roberto Firmino with the late winner. Theyve won 22 of 23 games this season, and if they carry on at this rate theyll easily pass the 100 points that gave man city the league title in 2018. There was a shock in the fa cup last night as tranmere who play in league one beat watford of the premier league. Their third round replay went to extra time at prenton park, and it was striker paul mullin who was the hero for tranmere. It sets up a real glamour tie for them they now host Manchester United in the fourth round, that games going to be played on sunday. In exactly six months, well be getting ready for the opening ceits exactly six months to go until the start of the Tokyo Olympics and team gb will be hoping to improve on the record tally of 67 medals it won at the rio games in 2016. We can speak now to sailors john gimson and anna burnet, who are team gb hopefuls theyre currently training in geelong. Near melbourne and have some news for us. We do. Wejust we do. We just found we do. Wejust found out we do. We just found out we qualified and got the spot so we are very excited. Obviously to be here this morning with you. Anna, youre going to be flying the far flag in the nacra event. It is a catamaran but its on hydrofoil. When we are racing, we lift up out of the water and basicallyjust racing, we lift up out of the water and basically just rip racing, we lift up out of the water and basicallyjust rip around very fast. This is huge news for you. Congratulations to both of you. How are you feeling . To be honest, we just had a year of trials. We are feeling very relieved right now. Its really given us a good run for our money. Its been quite Good Practice for away and put us under a lot of pressure. High pressure situations, it is given us the ability to deal with. Team gb did well in this event last time. Are you hoping to better that . I think weve got an amazing opportunity. We won a silver medal at the olympic test event this year so were to build on that and weve only got six months, its not that much time. Hopefully we will come away with a metal. To john and anna, thank you for coming onto breakfast for telling us your brilliant news. We hope you get a bit of time to celebrate. Brilliant news. I love the stories like this. Six months to go. Its going to come so quickly. Talking to some more would be olympians. And Dame Catherine granger on as well. Just days before the second phase of the Grenfell Tower inquiry gets underway, bbc breakfast has learned that councils still dont know the full extent of dangerous cladding in the uk. Figures are published for the type of cladding used on grenfell, but local authorities werent able to provide a clear picture for other types of dangerous materials including the cladding which caught fire at a student block in bolton last year. Graham satchell reports. At the base of Grenfell Tower, the writing on the wall is a call for justice. Many here, there are still questions to be answered. Its why for survivors like tiago alvez, resumption of this enquiry is critical. The second phase of this enquiry is probably most important part, get to the bottom of why this fire happened in the first place, get into the minds of the people who allowed Something Like this to happen and hopefully we will get to the bottom of this and bring the people who need to be brought to justice justice. The next part of the enquiry vital because of a number of people now affected by cladding on high rise blocks. The latest government eggs for england show there are 265 residential tower blocks that still have acm cladding, the type and grenfell. In wales, 11 blocks. Two in scotland and none in Northern Ireland but there are other types of cladding. At this far in bolton last year, it was hpl or High Pressure laminates cladding that caught fire. Every tower block in the country is being tested by the government hasnt published figures on buildings with hpl cladding. So we did a freedom of information request to all local authorities across the country asking about different forms of cladding. 209 local authorities responded and what we now know is that one in three high rise residential blocks have some form of cladding. 99 are covered in hpl cladding. 99 are covered in hpl cladding although the final figure will be much higher. We also asked nhs trusts about hospitals. 75 hospital buildings have acm cladding and 50 have hpl but that is by no means the full story because a number of trusts and councils wouldnt give us the information. Here in Tower Hamlets for example which has 700 tower blocks, they said it is too early to know how many buildings are covered in hpl cladding and Enfield Council said to tell us the information would constitute an endangerment to the Mental Health of the residents in the blocks. We showed ourfindings to tiago alvez. This really is a scandal that needs to be taken very, very seriously. Someone needs to address this because it and if someone doesnt, there will be more lives lost in the future. What started as a tragedy at granville has now spread across the whole country. This is leads. We bought this place debris 2017 so only three yea rs this place debris 2017 so only three years ago. this place debris 2017 so only three years ago. Grenfell. We were excited, it was our first time by i suppose. We always worked very hard to what weve got suites and achievement. Abbys will develop pa rt last achievement. Abbys will develop part last october. She got a letter saying her building was missing fire brea ks saying her building was missing fire breaks and had damnable hpl cladding. Its one of 13 high rise blocks and leads the fire service saysis blocks and leads the fire service says is unsafe. We are facing bills of £25,000 £30,000 for the remedial works. Its outrageous. Its shocking. How does the building, freeholder, the head leaseholder, responsible person expect us to pay . We wanted to start afamily expect us to pay . We wanted to start a family but we cant start a family. We are trapped in the situation we live in an unsafe building and we cant pay to fix it. What are we expected to do . You just left here to suffer on our own. Cafe in manchester, we meet a group who now represent thousands of residents in 33 different buildings, all now identified with unsafe cladding. We are trapped physically as we cannot sell. We are trapped mentally with the stress and anxiety and we are trapped financially as well and that is an ever increasing picture we are seeing at the moment. The stories here are depressingly similar. Lives on hold facing crippling costs to repair something that isnt their fault. So why are these developers, these builders, they are allowed to build these properties, cut corners, sell them on the big profits and in my case, they declare themselves bankrupt of they declare themselves bankrupt of the original developer doesnt exist so we cant chase them so where do we go . Weve got a government in power now you could make changes to the law and do that quickly and it doesnt feel like they are. It doesnt feel like they are. It doesnt feel like anyone is really listening so yeah, its heartbreaking, to be honest. The government told us its committed to bringing about the biggest change in building safety for a generation and will start naming and shaming Building Owners who havent started remedial work but more than 2. 5 yea rs remedial work but more than 2. 5 years after the fire at Grenfell Tower, there are still thousands of People Living in hundreds of tower blocks that are unsafe. The time is 16 minutes to seven. We will talk to sarah. I was listening to your last report, when you are telling us what was happening and i felt a bit sorry for you because its basically dull and grey so how do you make for five days of dull and grey whether interesting . You have used all your words now, what are you going to use now . It is definitely deja vu because the weather is not changing in a hurry. So what you had yesterday on the day before you have again today and tomorrow. I mostly dry picture out there but there is a lot of cloud around. A few breaks in the cloud so mist innocent murkiness of the High Pressure that has been with us will eventually slide away towards the near continent and that will open the doorfor a near continent and that will open the door for a weather front to move m, the door for a weather front to move in, particularly during the second half of the weekend. A change to something wet and windy on sunday but hero now, business as usual. A familiar dory with a lot of cloud, a couple of weeks in the cloud so someplace is dropping to freezing overnight. There will be some drizzly rain for Northern Ireland and the western half of scotland in the cloud is big enough for the odd spot of drizzle. Damp, cloudy, temperatures eight or nine degrees. As we head through the evening and overnight we will keep some patchy rain across the western half of scotla nd rain across the western half of scotland for a time. Most other places tonight will be reasonably mild and cloudy. Temperatures are not falling too low, probably around four or five degrees for most of us but again, mist innocent perhaps the odd fog patch to start the weekend. So saturday again is similar to today, lester got that area of High Pressure to the south east. High pressure to the south east. High pressure in the north west of scotla nd pressure in the north west of scotland bringing High Pressure later in the day. Still quite cloudy, mostly dry, late in the day a couple of showers working from the west so the south west of england, wales and the western half of scotla nd wales and the western half of scotland could see the odd shower further east you should stay dry with a bit more of a breeze tomorrow which should help break up the cloud, perhaps a glimpse of blue sky here and there. Heading three saturday night into sunday the mild has been with us is pushed away towards the east and that will allow cold air to come in from the atlantic. All change by sunday. Heavy bursts of rain in western scotla nd heavy bursts of rain in western scotland and wales, the western half of england as well that will push its way eastward slowly through the day full Northern Ireland will have a return to sunny skies quite quickly through the day on sunday with a couple of showers moving in from the west that will be wintry over the high ground of scotland. Images were scotland and Northern Ireland 5 6d. England and wales still mild, nine or 10 celsius. With low pressure approaching early next week it will feel quite different so in terms of something wet here whether windier and colder as well. This is monday into tuesday, you can see a this is monday into tuesday, you can seea dip this is monday into tuesday, you can see a dip in the temperatures and a return to some sunny spells with some blustery showers and it looks like a wet and windy day to come on tuesday. Back to you both. So windproof here tuesday. Thank you, sarah. 6. 48 now. Millions of multipacks of tinned food are sold by supermarkets every year, but as most come wrapped in plastic, that generates a huge amount of unecessary waste. Now tesco has decided to scrap the packaging, which they say will stop 350 tons of plastic polluting the environment each year. Emma simpson reports. Multipacks. We love them. Buy more, save more. Baked beans intend tomatoes to pastor, tuna and source. Are a big seller. We buy more than 200 million multipacks a here at our main supermarkets alone. Tescos is now getting rid of this wrapping from every single tin, saving 350 tons of Plastic Waste a year. It is what we think is the right thing to do. Also it is what our customers wa nt do. Also it is what our customers want us to do on their behalf. They challenge us to say ask if classic is necessary. Sometimes it is and where necessary we need to reduce it toa minimum, where necessary we need to reduce it to a minimum, recover it and recycle it. But where it is not necessary or cannot be recycled we need to remove it from business entirely. And that means getting big suppliers on board. This is the largest food factory in europe, heinz in wigan where they make a billion tins a year. And 40 are multipacks. Plastic villas nonrecyclable that make the plastic film is nonrecyclable. They are ditching it for tescos but they would like to move go further. This is a third of the total shrinkwrap and what we expect is that consumers will learn how to shop in a slightly different way and hopefully we can eliminate shrink wraps. Getting rid of all this plastic wrapping seems such an obvious thing to do. Of course it is just a tiny fraction of the plastic that still ends up in a shopping trolley. But the pressure is on to remove it, especially from young people. Dear tesco, we are concerned about Plastic Packaging. These Primary School children in kent have just recorded an open letter to all supermarkets to do more. We look forward to your reply. They have a mountain to climb. But there is a lot going on and waitrose is trailing bring your own containers and plastic free fruit and vegetable is available at morrisons. Sainsburys have reduced reusable grocery bags. When it is as bad as that, that is just ridiculous. Grocery bags. When it is as bad as that, that isjust ridiculous. Not for much longer. Tesco says the price of the till will not change but the real deal will be doing away with pointless packaging. 350 tons of plastic each year you dont think about it. What you think about isa bargain. Think about it. What you think about is a bargain. You get them cheaper if they are than they are individually but there is packaging and there are consequences. Nine minutes to seven. Good morning to you. The controversial hs2 Railway Project is under fire for being behind schedule and over budget. Bens in birmingham at the site of what is supposed to become the citys newest train station. Can you tell us about the location . It is likely to be an important place of everything comes about. Yes. That it is a big if. National audit office came out this morning with a damning report saying that we will probably really know how much this project could cost. But for a sense of where we are, this is a station right in the centre of birmingham. If you know this place it is just down from new street. And it is just down from new street. And it will be the centre of a vast site for haters too. The first phase of the site. A 25,000 square foot side that will link london and birmingham in the first phase of this project. But, remember, many questions over the cost on the date. When will it be delivered . The cost on the date. When will it be delivered . Lets the cost on the date. When will it be delivered . Lets ring you through what we know so far. As i touched on, the first phase is between london and birmingham. There is a long time for that though. Originally proposed open in 2026 but now not until 2031. The plan is to build capacity and bring down journey time. After that moving on to leeds and manchester but that is not expected until 2032 or 2033 at the earliest. And the cost has escalated. And that is what people have concern about. It was £30 billion when learned but those costs have escalated. Now it is 55 billion, and by the governments own calculations it will cost 88 pounds and a leaked report this week suggests it could cost even more, up to £100 billion. There is a lot of concern about the budget and crucially about when it will be delivered. So lets talk about some of those issues and whether it will be built on time and budget. Lets get the view of my guests. Adrian ouine is a rail expert and critic of hs2. He writes for the adam smith institute. Victoria hills is the chief executive of the royal Town Planning institute. Victoria, are you surprised by any of these findings . Not built on time, not built on budget and the cost may actually never be known. With many of these Large National Infrastructure Projects we must accept that they are difficult, complex and expensive. There is need foran complex and expensive. There is need for an open and honest conversation from the start about the complexity involved. But one of the challenges here is that it is notjust about a training track project, it is about a broader Regeneration Project. All of the regeneration that will come with this, the wider benefits, the freeing up of local capacity for local trains and local communities, the government talks about levelling up the government talks about levelling up and delivering on net zero. It is a significant opportunity here to maximise those broader benefits but i think some of that has gotten lost in the story of hs to and i think it is important now the story of hs2. Is important now the story of hsz. But is important now the story of hs2. But this is notjust about an Infrastructure Project in getting people from a to b. Those who will benefit those who benefit from regeneration. We are still in the middle of a massive Regeneration Project in our and it is about enabling people to have better choices on public transport by freeing up more trains, more investment in rail outside of london, much needed at this particular moment. We have been looking at those pictures across the site here and it is a huge site. Adrian, some of the problem is that this is called hs2, high speed two. But it is notjust about speed, it is about capacity. We need more trains and more tracks to get people around the country. We do. But is this the best way of delivering that extra capacity . It will relieve the west coast mainline and to a lesser extent the midcoast and east coast. That is an intercity route. A percent of rail travel is use intercity services, the rest commuter or local services. So the vast majority of commuters going into Birmingham Manchester and leeds are not coming in on Long Distance services. So those commuter lines in the north of england and here in the midlands that really need investment andi midlands that really need investment and ifear midlands that really need investment and i fear that spending 20 years and i fear that spending 20 years and 100 billion dollars on haters too will not deliver the benefits that have been promised. Victoria, why are we so bad at this . Why cant we build important big projects like this and on budget . We can and we have. Look at the Olympic Games, phenomenal success. Where things went awry here is that perhaps we we re went awry here is that perhaps we were not as open and transparent at the start about the complexity. This is not a race to the bottom on how cheaply we can deliver projects. We need to be open and transparent. These projects are complex and expensive. If we want to deliver on that zero, we want to deliver sustainability and enable people to travel around more by rail and give those People Public transport choices, then we need to accept we have to invest. So lets have an open and transparent conversation about it. Lets get the final figure sooner rather than later and lets move on with investing, in local services in h is to but, actually, in local rail capacity across the country. London is relatively well serviced by rail services. Many people commute in and out by rail but they cant do in the rest of the country because the rail service is not there. So we need an open conversation about what is needed to deliver on these sustainable transport ambitions. Great to talk to you both. The conversation will continue. I know we will speak more later. Later on we will also have a look inside the site for a sense of what is going on. And the question thatis what is going on. And the question that is asking, what happens to the stuff already built. But for now, the news, travel and weather where you are this morning. Good morning from bbc london, im Victoria Hollins figures obtained by bbc london show the number of reported Sexual Offences in pubs, clubs and bars has gone up by nearly a third in the past three years. Last year a total of 470 were reported to the met police 75 of which were rape. Now victims and Campaign Groups want more to be done to tackle the problem. Currently when a licensed premises applies for an alcohol license they have to speak to certain objectives like how are you going to prevent crime and disorder . How will you protect children . What they do not have to do is speak specifically to prevention of sexual violence. I would like to see that being made a specific licensing objective. And you can hear more about this on inside out london. Thats on bbc one, monday evening at 7 30. Its emerged that a car park in buckinghamshire where an elderly man slipped and later died wasnt being cleaned as recommended. Following the 85 year olds death the multi storey at Wycombe Leisure Centre was closed whenever rain was forecast, as a precaution. Now, after advice from the health and safety executive, work is underway to resurface the entire car park. Wandsworth and pentonville are among the first prisons to get state of the art body scanners. The new x ray machines will be able to show banned items hidden inside peoples bodies. Extra measure also include phone blocking techology. Technology. Its part of a government push to tackle violence and drugs in some of the countrys most troublesome jails. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. On the tubes theres no service on the picadilly line between heathrow terminals 2 3 and heathrow terminal 5, thats because of a signal failure. And on the overgound theres no service between South Tottenham and barking. Minor delays also for tfl rail. This is the a 13 heading into town. Time now for a look at the weather. Good morning. No big surprise but todays weather is looking remarkably similar to what we had yesterday and indeed the day before that. Cloudy, grey and damp once again. Poor visibility on many of the roads this morning, a lot of mist and murk there keeping layers of low cloud as we head through the day, wind will stay light and top temperatures will reach seven or eight celsius, maybe nine in central london. High pressure dominates the weather at the moment so no big changes until we get to the second half of the weekend. Overnight tonight again it will be cloudy and we will see more mist and murk reforming into tomorrow morning where we get close spells temperatures could drop temporarily down to two or three celsius otherwise we start the day tomorrow on a misty note of four or five celsius. Tomorrow will turn windy and it should be dry with a lot of cloud but the wind will help to mix the cloud up so there could be bright spells perhaps at times. The change comes in on sunday with sunshine through the morning, rather windy and then some afternoon rain. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Good morning. With Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. Our headlines today 25 people are now known to have died as china battles to contain a coronavirus. Nine people in the uk are being tested for the illness. The usa says it wont extradite a woman over the death of teenager harry dunn. The uk government describes the decision as a denial of justice. The true extent of unsafe cladding on uks tower blocks. A breakfast investigation looks at whether lessons have been learned from the grenfell fire. Over budget and behind schedule. Its impossible to predict the final costs of the controversial hs2 project, according to a new report. The National Audit office blames the government for not understanding the complexity and risk. Serena williams is out of the Australian Open. The 7 time champion loses in melbourne, will she ever win that record equalling 24th grand slam title . The mostly dry theme to the weather continues for today and tomorrow but we have got quite a lot of low cloud, mist and merc. Ill bring you all the details in about 15 minutes. Its friday the 24th of january. Our top story. Chinese authorities have confirmed 26 people have now died from a new respiratory virus that has infected more than 800 people in the country. There are concerns that coronavirus may have reached the uk 14 people here have been examined, and so far, five have been confirmed negative. Nine are still awaiting test results. In a moment well speak to our scotland correspondent lorna gordon where theres a number of suspected cases but first lets speak to our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. Stephen, whats the latest there . Well, the concern here is that not only the death toll going up, not only the death toll going up, not only do we now have more than 800 people infected but several of those debts are now outside wuhan. One in Hubei Province which is close to where i am standing and another in the north east s authorities across china are taking quite drastic measures to stop people from gathering in big crowds. Here in beijing, the traditional temple bears that you would have for the Lunar New Year have been cancelled. In Guangdong Province, cinemas have been shut down for the entirety of the festival. In shanghai, they are preparing to close disneyland. Other cities in wuhan closing that closing public transport. That means only not only moving in and out but also within the city, public transport has been shut down. This is a way of trying to stop the situation from getting worse. The hope is it. It from escalating. Hundreds of thousands of people left before the transport gate was put in place because of the five day incubation period. They probably didnt know they were sick. They could have taken the disease to other tiny cities. Lets get the latest from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon in glasgow what we know about the situation in scotla nd what we know about the situation in scotland is that five people are being tested here in scotland but they are being tested on a precautionary basis. We dont know if they are all in hospitals and dont know exactly which hospitals they might be in. It ensures some of them are here in the glasgow area and some of them are over in the lothians, around the edinburgh area. Two of them presented to the Health Authorities after returning from wuhan and they have been diagnosed as having flu. It is of course the flu season. They are doing these additional tests for coronavirus as additional tests for coronavirus as a precautionary measure. It is understood one of those being tested isa understood one of those being tested is a student with edinburgh university. Other big cities across the uk have a lot of Chinese Students. Strong links with universities in china. Interesting to note a small group of academics return from wuhan last week. No Health Concerns have been raised. One of those members of staff, imposed isolation, the Scottish Government says this is precautionary. There are no confirmed cases here and the risk to the public remains low. Just a bring the public remains low. Just a bring the numbers. And just after seven oclock this morning well be speaking to Public Health england about the risk to the uk. The United States is officially turned down an extradition request for the woman charged over the death of teenager harry dunn. The family of harry dunn say they will not stop fighting forjustice after a request to extradite the woman accused of causing his death by dangerous driving was turned down. This extradition request hangs there forever, it is never going to go away. This administration will go away. This administration will go away and we will wait if we need to for the next five, ten, 15 years. I can assure you that Anne Sacoolas will be coming back one day, this is farfrom will be coming back one day, this is far from over. The Us Government has expressed sympathy for the family of harry dunn, but says that honouring the extradition request would have set an extraordinarily troubling precedent. Heres our washington correspondent, chris buckler. After the crash in august in which harry dunn died, Anne Sacoolas initially assisted Northamptonshire Police with their enquiries but she then left the country without informing them and returned to the United States and as the wife of the us diplomat, she claimed what is known as diplomatic immunity. Essentially thats the principle that somebody who is serving a government overseas should not be prosecuted in that country and it also applies to some spouses. Now, after that, harry dunns family made numerous attempts and appeals for her to return to the uk and to face justice. However, those fell on deaf ears and you might remember harry dunns family came here to the United States however, those fell on deaf ears and you might remember harry dunns family came here to the United States and even to the white house in order to raise attention to the case and make those appeals to Anne Sacoolas time and time again. After all that failed, and extradition request was issued for her to be returned to the uk by the american authorities but in a statement by the state department, it is very clear that they are turning that down. The Us State Department said if the United States were to grant the uks extradition request, it would render diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent. They do go on to say that the government here again expresses its sincere condolences to the family but of course that is far short of what they really want and that is for Anne Sacoolas to face this charge of causing death by dangerous driving. The construction of the controversial hs2 railway line is billions of pounds over budget and years behind schedule. The National Audit office says the department for transport failed to understand how complex and risky the project would be. The government says its already acting on the watchdogs recommendations. Our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. As work to build a new high speed line goes on in birmingham, criticism from the governments spending watchdog over management of the budget for hs2, which has ballooned. Todays report says the government and hs2 limited underestimated the scale and complexity of this project, and thats one of the region is why the budget has risen so much. This is the vision for that site once a station is built here. The National Audit office says risks and uncertainty werent properly but says the budget for phase one of hs2 is now robust. Theyve done an awful lot of work to understand the cost and they now have a better estimate of how much it will cost and how long it will take to build the railway between london and birmingham. That said, the programme as a whole is at a very early stage and risks remain. Some conservatives have urged the Prime Minister to rethink. Other seniorfigures say hs2 has to go ahead. This part of the country, the north, turned decisively to the conservative party and the Prime Minister has talked about levelling up. This is literally the investment that will level up the economy. The cost of the second phase of this project, linking the city to leeds and to manchester, is more uncertain because its at a much earlier stage. A final decision is due next month. Tom burridge, bbc news, in birmingham. An nhs trust now under investigation by englands Health Watchdog for preventable baby deaths was paid a bonus £1. 5 million for claiming it met all required Safety Standards. It comes after the bbc found the deaths of at least seven babies at east Kent Hospitals nhs trust could have been avoided. The trust was also subject to an unannounced inspection from the Care Quality Commission this week. The american actress, Annabella Sciorra has told Harvey Weinsteins trial that he raped her 25 years ago. Shes the first accuser to take the stand against the former hollywood producer but her allegations are too old to be included on the charge sheet. Weinstein denies all charges, including rape and sexual assault. Football fans experience such intense levels of physical stress whilst watching their team that they could be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack. The university of oxford tested saliva from brazilian fans during the famous 2014 world cup semi final which they lost and found levels of the hormone cortisol rocketed, which can increase Blood Pressure and put strain on the heart. Previous research has shown an increase in heart attacks among fans on important match days. So if they tested the saliva from 2014, its now 2020. It took that long. Sometimes Research Takes a long. Sometimes Research Takes a long time and i guess thats the answer. Lets get in touch with them and we will find out. Well bring you right up with all the weather as well. Lets get more on our top story a coronaVirus Outbreak in china. Wuhan may not be a well known chinese city like beijing or shanghai. But the place where this virus emerged has connections to every part of the globe. The city has a population of around 11 Million People and has temporarily shut down as it tries to halt the spread. 26 people are known to have died in china. The virus is spreading across the globe with cases in the us and saudia arabia. 14 people in the uk have been tested for the strain with five confirmed negative and nine still awaiting results. Lets speak to professor paul cosford, medical directorfor Public Health england who is in our paris bureau. Very good morning to you. Thank you for your time this morning. I wonder if, we talked about those cases in the uk. Can you give us the updated figures. My title is emeritus medical directorfor figures. My title is emeritus medical director for Public Health england. The figures at the moment, we update our figures at midday every day because the situation obviously changes every day. The figures we had as of midday yesterday, 571 people, another 12 elsewhere. 17 of those have died. Those figures will increase today. In terms of testing, we are testing anybody who meets the criteria. As you said, we can tested five confirmed negative, another test. The numbers are not the important thing. When somebody has been to wuhan in the past 14 days and has respiratory system dims that would represent this virus and be infected, we ask them to phone nhs 111 and we can arrange testing and any appropriate treatment if its needed. Can you give us a sense of how many people have presented themselves, even initially, saying they are concerned about the conditions they are feeling, in the uk. I havent got a precise figure how many people have made contact with their gp across the country or with their gp across the country or with nhs 111 with their gp across the country or with nh5111 but with their gp across the country or with nhs111 but were clear that the people who need to be in with us are those who have been to wuhan in the past 14 days and have respiratory symptoms. That is a cough, sneeze, shortness of breath or fever. Those of the people who make contact with us and we can then deal with. These new viruses that emerged from time to time, we do know that they occur. We have a whole range of plans in place for such an eventuality. That is what is happening here. Its very early days obviously. This is a coronavirus, they range from everything from a common cold to sars, as happened nearly 20 years ago. And we are collecting all information we can to understand the nature of this virus. The good thing is that the majority of people do seem to be making a full recovery. Of course, there is a small number of people who have died in china as a result of this infection so we are looking very carefully at whats on to make sure we are as prepared as we possibly can be. We were speaking to our scottish correspondent and there were a few cases of people who had been to wuhan. She was saying that one of those would been on the journey has voluntarily put themselves in quarantine, just stayed away from other people. Is that what someone should be doing if they have come from one of those areas known to be affected . From one of those areas known to be affected . Our advice is very clear. If you have been to wuhan and you have symptoms, cough, cold, fever, shortness of breath if you have those symptoms and have been to wuhan in the last 14 days than you need to make contact with us. It is sensible when you make contact with us, and that is an h as 111, while you make contact with us, keep yourself away from other people because, of course, if you happen to because, of course, if you happen to be in effect did it is important to avoid spread. But that is why we wa nt to avoid spread. But that is why we want to know early when someone is worried so we can provide appropriate advice. All our gps and hospitals across the country have had information, a letterfrom the chief medical officer and the medical director for chief medical officer and the medical directorfor nhs chief medical officer and the medical director for nhs england chief medical officer and the medical directorfor nhs england as well as from ourselves and Public Health england to help them know exactly what to do to make sure that if somebody does present and are worried that they will be put somewhere where they will not infect other people while they are assessed and while we can get them tested. Could you tell us a little about, internationally, we look at what is happening in china and as i understand it, three cities now, maybe a total of 22 Million People are on some form of lockdown. This is unprecedented in terms of how a city could be isolated in some way. Were looking at the images that we see moment of people wearing facemasks. The practical measures and this possibly work was to mark what is your analysis . Of course you can see everything that the chinese authorities are doing and it is important if that advice is followed. What we are seeing at the moment is that the vast majority of cases are in work and with some spread to other parts of china. Where there is contact between humans, that causes spread, that seems to be where the outbreak is at the moment. But as you said in your report we have seen as of yesterday lunchtime, 12 cases in other countries around the world. We would not be surprised if people return from china to the uk with the infection. The important thing to know is that at the moment, if you will are ill, make contact with us quickly. Does a mask it being transferred or stop someone contract . Were not people to use a facemask, as i speak at the moment. But of course we monitor carefully all the developments. These are early days yet with this virus. The vast majority of people who are infected seem to be getting better. Those who have done particularly badly and died seem to be people who have other conditions that might make them more likely to suffer badly with this virus. This is early days so we are updating our information daily and as soon as we know any more information we provide that to our colleagues in the nhs and obviously to the public. Thank you very much for your time this morning. And as the professor was just saying, they are expected to update figures if there are is any change at midday today for england. Coming to 20 minutes past seven, thank you forjoining us this morning. Heres sarah with a look at this mornings weather. We have established it is grey and dull but you will try to make it interesting. That sums it up. A grey and dreary direct damp day but for most places a lot of dry weather and we have had a lot of dry weather and we have had a lot of dry weather for the last five days or so. And we have seen a wet autumn and a wet winter so far so this respite is welcome. Uninspiring conditions because we do have all that low cloud. Mist and fog around as well but High Pressure has been in charge, gradually over the next few days that will slip away towards the south east. It will eventually open the doors for weather fronts to move in from the atla ntic weather fronts to move in from the atlantic and by the time we reach sunday there will be a real change as things turn unsettled from sunday all voids. For here and now this is what it looks like. A lot of low cloud around with mist and fog first thing across parts of england and wales. A few brighter spells across Eastern England, is scotland as well. A bit of rain for the western half of scotland and ireland. Temperatures out there are typical of this time of year, about eight or nine degrees. Not particularly warm where you have grey skies through the day. Through the evening and tonight we keep the cloud with a bit of rain across the western half of scotland. That should clear away overnight. Couple mist and fog patches reforming. Temperatures holding up. We start on saturday morning is quite similar to what we have today. High pressure in charge again, mostly dry with a weak weather front moving into the far north west ringing simmering to the north west ringing simmering to the north west of scotland later in the day. Also a few showers for Northern Ireland, wales and the western parts of england and scotland. Further east, youre more likely to stay dry through day and with more of the trees tomorrow perhaps a few more spells of sunshine breaking through that layer of cloud. Temperature is similarto that layer of cloud. Temperature is similar to what we have out there today, 8 10 degrees. Reasonably mild at the mild air that is with us at the moment is squeezed away towards the east as we move through saturday night into sunday and we will see this cold and fresh air moving in from the atlantic. In between those two air masses, the weather front brings us rain on sunday, initially for scotland, wales, western parts of england as well pushing eastwards through the day and a return to sunny skies over Northern Ireland with a couple of showers around. Some of those wintry over the high ground of scotland. Temperature is still reasonably mild on sunday towards the south east and colder in the west which sets us up foran colder in the west which sets us up for an unsettled wet and windy spell of weather as we head into next week. Thank you very much. The time now is 7. 22. Just ahead of the start of phase two of the Grenfell Tower inquiry on monday, bbc breakfast has learnt that the extent of the cladding problem is greater than the official statistics published by the government. There are 278 high rise residential blocks still with acm cladding the type used on grenfell across the uk. But there are other types of cladding which put buildings at risk of fire too. Through freedom of information requests we have identified at least 99 high rise blocks covered in High Pressure laminate or hpl which is the type of cladding that caught fire at a Student Housing block in bolton last year. But as Many Councils could not or would not tell how many high rises have this type of cladding, the true figure is likely to be far higher. And from london we can now speak to roy wilsher whos chair of the National Fire chiefs council. Thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much for talking to us this morning. For anyone who has just heard our research after this freedom of information request, one of the impressions they may get is that there are a lot of high rise buildings with unsafe or highly flammable cladding that has not been addressed by local authorities. What is your impression of this situation now . I think it is a concerning situation. We have been dealing with the acm cladding, and that is a particular type of cladding system. The aluminium composite material with unmodified polyethylene core. That is the really dangerous cladding and we have been dealing with that for a few years. And some forms of hpl, and this is where the difficulty is, hpl is a catchall title but it does not catch every cladding system. There are many different types of hpl. Finding those that are unsuitable to be on the sides of buildings, particularly high rise buildings, is the next stage of what we are looking into. How concerned should people be . Someone living in a high rise building this morning watching this programme, how concerned should they be . The impression i am getting from the report is that the authorities are not on top of it and you explained why it is difficult to find but regardless of that, there isa find but regardless of that, there is a safety problem. There is a safety problem in this country and it is 20 years of building Safety System failure that we are trying to deal with. As i say, the highest risk is that acm cladding and we know where those are and we are dealing with them. We are concerned that some of the building members are not moving as quickly as they should so we are chasing them as ha rd should so we are chasing them as hard as we can. Sorry to interrupt you, explained to me please those who are not chasing this, who are not doing it as quickly as they can. Who are they and what level of level of authority are they at . Why are they not doing this as quickly as possible . The answer to why is the question we would all like. Some blame money, some still claim that the cladding system complies with building regulations. What a problem has been over the last few years is that we have not really had the legislation, the correct legislation to chase those people, whether it was the housing and all the fire safety audit. It was never written for this type of situation. The government are doing something about that and in the meantime we will do all we can to make sure that acm cladding is removed and remediated as soon as possible. So what happens when an authority or a business, Business Owner Building Owner says its find this cladding complies and you say it does not. What happens next . Immediately next, and we are very close to doing this, we have a joint Inspection Team between Fire Services and local authorities to try and use the housing act and the Risk Assessment risk housing act and the Risk Assessment Risk Assessment but we are use close using the fire safety audit force people to make this change. That may not work and magistrates may not agree but we as a Fire Rescue Service will do all we can to keep people safe. Does it feel that there is. I dont know, that we resist having more legislation or rules and more red tape does it feel that the system at the moment does not protect those people who are effectively vulnerable and who safety is at risk . This system should have protected. It is quite clear in legislation that any external wall should not aid the spread of fire. That should have been followed. Why was not followed will be followed up in phase two of the enquiry. At the moment we have not really got the legislation to force people to remove it. The government are changing that but it will take a while. We will use all the powers we have at our disposal to do what we can. Tell me, are there any buildings that you know have been inspected and you know that they are at risk and they are in breach of safety, people are u nsafe in breach of safety, people are unsafe in these buildings but you cannot do anything about them. We have done some things. The interim measures, no, this is not criticism of you. This is actuallyjust because of the system, because the system because of the system, because the syste m d oes because of the system, because the system does not appear to be protecting people quickly enough in a timely enough manner. Have you looked into building, said to the authority or Building Owner that this is unsafe and not been able to do anything about it because of the system, because of these acts, because they do not have to act immediately . There are two bits to that question. Firstly we have been unable to force people to remove cladding but we are going to try and use our powers to do that. In the interim we have put in extra Safety Measures such as banning barbecues on balconies, having people awake 24 hours a day to check if there is a fire, changing from a stapled evacuation strategy to a simultaneous evacuation strategy. There are things we can do to make sure people can stay in their homes. But they are interim measures and only should last a few months not yea rs. Only should last a few months not years. Thank you very much. Chair of the National Fire chiefs council, thank for your office this morning. Time is now 7. 29. Time for the to get the news, travel and weather where you are. Where you are. Good morning, im Victoria Hollins. Figures obtained by bbc london show the number of reported Sexual Offences in pubs, clubs and bars has gone up by nearly a third in the past three years. Last year a total of 470 were reported to the met police 75 of which were rape. Now victims and Campaign Groups want more to be done to tackle the problem. Currently when a licensed premises applies for an alcohol license they have to speak to certain objectives like how are you going to prevent crime and disorder . How will you protect children . What they do not have to do is speak specifically to prevention of sexual violence. I would like to see that being made a specific licensing objective. And you can hear more about this on inside out london. Thats on bbc one, monday evening at 7 30. Thousands of hgv drivers have been warned they face £550 a day fines if they fail to take part in a london scheme to reduce road deaths. Under the new rules, lorries will need permits based on their safety features, in order to operate on the capitals roads. But its thought many drivers will miss the deadline for applying. Transport for london says hgvs are disproportionately involved in fatal collisions. A group of health trusts in South East London have reversed a ban on single women having ivf treatment on the nhs. They were criticised for a policy document which implied lone mothers could be a burden on society. The clinical commissioning groups say theyve brought their rules in line with the rest of london. Fertility charities have welcomed the u turn. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. On the tubes, theres no service on the picadilly line between heathrow terminakls 2 3 and heathrow terminal 5, thats because of a signal failure. And on the overgound theres no service between South Tottenham and barking. Theres the usual queues on a102 blackwall lane approaching the blackwall tunnel. Now the weather with Elizabeth Rizzini good morning. No big surprise but todays weather is looking remarkably similar to what we had yesterday and indeed the day before that. Cloudy, grey and damp once again. Poor visibility on many of the roads this morning, a lot of mist and murk there keeping layers of low cloud as we head through the day, wind will stay light and top temperatures will reach seven or eight celsius, maybe nine in central london. High pressure dominates the weather at the moment so no big changes until we get to the second half of the weekend. Overnight tonight again it will be cloudy and we will see more mist and murk reforming into tomorrow morning where we get close spells temperatures could drop temporarily down to two or three celsius otherwise we start the day tomorrow on a misty note of four or five celsius. Tomorrow will turn windy and it should be dry with a lot of cloud but the wind will help to mix the cloud up so there could be bright spells perhaps at times. The change comes in on sunday with sunshine through the morning, rather windy and then some afternoon rain. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Hello this is breakfast with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. Its just after 7 30. Heres a summary of this mornings main stories from bbc news. Its been confirmed by authorities in china that 26 people have now died from a new respiratory virus that has infected more than 800 people in the country. There are concerns that a coronavirus may have reached the uk. 14 people here have been examined, and so far, five have been confirmed negative. You do happen to be infected its important we avoid spread that thats why we want to know early when somebody is, so we can give appropriate advice. Although gps across the country, hospitals have information, had a letter yesterday from the chief medical officer in the medical directorfor from the chief medical officer in the medical director for nhs from the chief medical officer in the medical directorfor nhs england as well as from ourselves in Public Health england to help them to know exactly what to do to make sure that if somebody does present with worries and they meet our criteria, they will be put somewhere where they will be put somewhere where they wont infect other people while they wont infect other people while they are assessed and while we can get them tested. Its been a week of negative headlines for the controversial hs2 Railway Project. Bens live in birmingham at the site of what is supposed to become the citys newest train station. Whats the latest . Another day and another report into the future of hs to and how much it could cost and be delivered. This time from the Government Spending watchdog. They say this project was flawed from the start and we never know how much it will actually cost because as you might remember, the estimate for it originally was about £30 billion but its now £55 billion and 88 and then a leaked report suggesting it could cost more than £100 billion. This site hereon because on street will be the birmingham end, the first phase which connects london with birmingham, due to the operating and its still a bit darker in birmingham but you get a sense of the west coast main line at the back of the shot the site in front of it we re of the shot the site in front of it were ground works are already under way for that station and all the lines on platforms that will be built here. But the big problem is, lets just the first stage. The next phase will will take it to leeds and manchester needs to be signed by the government and subsequent plans, still question mark over that. The National Audit office has been looking at all the different reports, coming up with its own numbers and this project, flawed from the start. The government hadnt worked out the complexity of what they were getting into. Have a listen. Hsz is significantly overbudget and overscheduled. The department and h52 ltd underestimated this national programme. Theyve done a lot of work to understand the cost and they have a better estimate of how much it will cost and how long it will ta ke it will cost and how long it will take to build the railway between london and birmingham. Risks remain. One of the biggest issues and speaking to the boss here as i did six months ago, as the site was getting under way, the problem is perhaps the rain. They are calling it hs2, high speed but this isnt just about speed, its also about yesterday capacity. A very busy line for commuters and extra train could be put on. The debate continues. The official government report is due any time so may get indication. Big questions. The work already been done if the project doesnt get the green light. Thanks very much. Holly is here with the sport and all eyes on australia. Serena williams is gone. It was in the early hours of this morning. This is somebody, she played at the us open in just this is somebody, she played at the us open injust a matter of months ago and Serena Williams absolutely hammered her on that occasion in 44 minutes. This time around, really impressive result. Or Serena Williams, the 7 time champion, she is out. She lost her third round match to chinas wang qiang in melbourne in a performance which included 56 unforced errors. It means williams remains one grand slam title short of margaret courts record of 24, having been stuck on 23 for three years now. No such problems for another seven time champion though. Novak djokovic is comfortably through to the fourth round. He beatjapans Yoshihito Nishioka to remain on course for a 17th grand slam title. Liverpool are on course to smash manchester citys record points tally in the premier league. Theyre 16 points clear at the top of the league after beating wolves 2 1, Roberto Firmino with the late winner. Theyve won 22 of 23 games this season, and if they carry on at this rate theyll easily pass the 100 points that gave man city the league title in 2018. There was a shock in the fa cup last night as tranmere who play in league one beat watford of the premier league. Their third round replay went to extra time at prenton park, and it was striker paul mullin who was the hero for tranmere. It sets up a real glamour tie for them they now host Manchester United in the fourth round, that games going to be played on sunday. Its exactly six months until the start of the olympics in tokyo when british athletes will be looking to make history once again. Rio will be a hard act to follow when team gb recorded their best results since 1908 with a total of 67 medals. Lets remind ourselves of some of those moments from 2016 andy murray is an olympic gold medallist. Hes got it. Yes, we will see you in tokyo. Were joined now by Lutalo Muhammad and mahama cho, who are up against each other for the last remaining place on team gbs taekwondo squad. Its very unusual when we get in these situations. You have to fight it out for the final place. Are you getting on . Actually, its not that unusual in our sport. It happens every olympic cycle because we can only take one but it is what it is andi only take one but it is what it is and i think gb should be in good spirits because they are going to have a really good chance of having a new gold medal. I suppose the thing is, you want to win, you both absolutely want this with all your hearts but you want to get it for being the best, not because the other has failed. Thats it, isnt it . You are constantly pushing each other. Thats what makes the process a bit easier. That they are going to have a great chance of doing really well. If its not me, im so glad its going to be my brother and my friend. Thats a lovely sentiment. Gives a sense of how it works knowing someone so well and fighting against, you been in this situation and competitions. Fighting someone from a rival country. How does that work. Every day we are together, we now trades very well. When it comes to crunch time, its really truly about being able to know what could work against your opponent. Weve beenin work against your opponent. Weve been in this cambridge very long time. Very good results as well. Itsjust great to time. Very good results as well. Its just great to see the establishment of what weve done is going to be great to go forward to go going to be great to go forward to go to the Olympic Games. So you dont hold back when you are hitting each other. You guys are going to do a demonstration force a bit later. Its full contract. Do you know how ha rd its full contract. Do you know how hard you get . I kick wanted to really ha rd. Hard you get . I kick wanted to really hard. That is the sport. In our sport, you have to really give 11096 our sport, you have to really give 110 to get the results you want. Youve been to all this before. So close. We watch those images of you. It was so emotional. How do you feel . Should we said . Letsjust have a look. It was so close. I was a second away from being olympic champion and accomplishing my gene. I dont want to cry on tv. I was so distraught. Im sorry sorry for the people that stayed up late to watch and cheer me on. To let them down at the last second. That is hard to watch. I dont know what that is like for you. When that was playing, there was a pat on the knee from your great bible. You must know. When you saw that, you mustve watch that as well. Was owned just after you . I was the next up. Its hard when you come through the room where the interviews and you just lost, you are losing a metal. Its not a nice feeling but i think we are therefore other emotionally as well. Both on the same journey together. Its hard when we come up short. Can i give you a tip, never be embarrassed about crying on tv. Obviously at this moment in time, you guys are completely focused on your sport. It takes a toll on the body and later on, youre going to wa nt body and later on, youre going to want careers, maybe you going to punditry but when people know you have personalities, thats what people like, they connect with it and they cheer for people they like. And honestly, thats why im not embarrassed about it. It was a second away from winning an olympic gold medal so i was in a very emotional moment and i can look back on itand emotional moment and i can look back on it and be glad i shared that emotion. Im sure the British Public that when watching got to share that moment with me. There is a Silver Lining in everything. We will get a demonstration from you in the minute. Were to batter each other. As long as they are not uttering us. Volunteering for charlie to be a guinea pig. We would love to do that. Did we volunteer . I dont remember that. We had a boat there. Thank you and see you later on. Katherine grainger, who is britains most decorated female olympian, and now the chair of uk sport, knows what it takes to become an olympic medallist. Shejoins us from our london newsroom. Thank you forjoining us. It is going to be hard, looking ahead, six months until tokyo and thinking back to rio, we saw moments earlier on, trying to recreate that magic also how is it going . Fantastic. As soon as it clicks over into a olympic year it feels real for everyone whether you are an athlete or you support the system. Six months is still very close, but still a long time and performance bought. It brings a close, brings it home that we are down to months now and it is crucial. So notjust about metals but there is almost a feeling with tea m but there is almost a feeling with team gb that it is a gentle slope. Is there a Culture Shift away from it just is there a Culture Shift away from itjust being is there a Culture Shift away from it just being about is there a Culture Shift away from itjust being about the medals . Absolutely. And i think people still wa nt to absolutely. And i think people still want to see amazing moments. The compilation card at the start of this bit was about brilliant athletes and incredible performances. You were talking about your athletes and it is not always just the gold medals. It is incredible personalities doing Amazing Things that the public want to say. So it is notjust about trying to find success by exactly the number of medals we get and if it is the best team ever but also about the other impact the athletes can have. The Natural National lechery has supported athletes for a long time and that impact has been positive. We want to maximise that as much is the success. The Olympic Games are something you have been through and you know how those athletes feel. Who should we look out for, people like kj t. It will be hugely exciting for them. The brilliant thing at the moment, we have people like jason kenny coming up, have people like jason kenny coming up, names we have people like jason kenny coming up, names we already know and names we have huge expectations of and they will have or themselves as well. Every four years however new names come out. I was with lauren price who will be trying to take a title at the limb olympics. An up and coming gymnastics World Champion and then we have potentially someone who will make history if she can qualify. Sky brown, our skateboarder. History if she can qualify. Sky brown, ourskateboarder. If she disqualifies she will be 12 years and 12 days old at the opening ceremony, the youngest athlete in history to take part for team gb. Every four years we see history made and that is what will happen with this team again. We could sit here all day and talk about athletes, couldnt we . Thank you forjoining us on couldnt we . Thank you forjoining us on breakfast. There is some serious warmup going on. So taylor andjoe, serious warmup going on. So taylor and joe, you will talk us through what you are about to do . You have some type on. You are all warmed talk us through it. So firstly we will show you the most basic and common kick, a roundhouse to the body that looks like this. But what we are famous for is dynamic head shots. So we will raise the tempo a little bit and do the same thing but without that slip. To the head. First up, can ijust say listening to that, the noise that it makes, that thwack, that obvious impact is quite something. How hard is it . I wa nt to quite something. How hard is it . I want to feel it. I dont. I am going to get told off for this. Dont hit me. I wont hit you. I am a professional. Hold it here as hard as you can. I will hold it in front just like this. Gee what did that feel like . So is another one. Spinning kick. And that is a spinning kick to the head and that will be a valuable point. If you score that in the olympics you are on your way. I know these are not ideal circumstances for you to show us ideal circumstances for you to show us how you do your thing but that is brilliant. All the best for you both. Whoever gets it, the friendship and the love you have for each other that we saw here today, it left you both. Thank you both. And in answer to your question, i was gripping onto that, both hands, quite hard and i have never sworn on our but i came close. And that pop sound, that impact. Sarah. You should be grateful you are in a safe studio over there because it not heated in here. My six year old has taken up tae kwon do so i will ask him to try that move on me later. Out there today it is witty grey and cloudy for most of us. Largely dry once again today so a similar yesterday and the day before and tomorrow as well. Deja vu out there today. We have a big area of High Pressure that has been in charge of the weather that will gradually slip away across europe as we head through the weekend. Weather fronts will start to move in from the west bringing wet and windy weather by sunday but for today it is a cloudy grey story, a bit of rain for parts of Northern Ireland in western scotla nd of Northern Ireland in western scotland as well. Elsewhere the clouds just for can for couple of spots of drizzle. Some mist and fog patches that should lift through the day. The top temperatures are eight or nine degrees with a few bright spells across parts of england and eastern scotland. Through the evening and overnight we will see some rain across western scotland for a time some rain across western scotland fora time and some rain across western scotland for a time and that clears off northwards and then cloudy again some mist and some fog patches here and there and temperature overnight down to about four or five degrees for most of us. Generally a frost free start to saturday but it will be murky first thing. Through saturday High Pressure still with us, gradually fading away with a weather front moving into the north west of scotland. Some rain in the far north west later in the day, publish our software across the western half of the British Isles, dry on the east once again it is looking like a cloudy grey sort of day. The temperature is out there this morning are similar to what we have had over the past few days, up to eight or nine degrees on saturday but it will be all change as we have a weather front moving in from the west bringing not just a weather front moving in from the west bringing notjust wet a weather front moving in from the west bringing not just wet and a weather front moving in from the west bringing notjust wet and windy weather but also some Colder Weather by sunday. Thank you very much, sarah. It is so good to see that yellow colour. The time is now 7. 52. Lets return to one of our main stories. The america government has turned down an extradition request for the woman charged with causing the death of 19 year old harry dunn by dangerous driving. Harrys family have been campaigning since december for Anne Sacoolas to be sent back to the uk, but hopes were dashed yesterday when the us secretary of state, mike pompeo rejected the request. We can speak now to the dunn family spokesman, radd sieger. Good morning to you. It is official, this is come directly from the us authorities, the extradition will not take place. How have the family reacted . Not take place. How have the family reacted . Good morning. Let me assure you that no hopes were dashed last night and Anne Sacoolas will absolutely be coming back to fight despite the development yesterday. That is the point i have been making for many weeks now, and a point been making for many weeks now, and a point i will continue to make. We a lwa ys a point i will continue to make. We always knew that secretary pompeo had the political decision in this hands and he has made it now. But he will not be around forever. And he is simply following orders from President Trump who will be gone one day whereas that extradition request will be there for ever and we will simply enact our next steps with the British Government today, you can see how furious they are from their statement overnight. This decision will not be taken lying down. And in fa ct will not be taken lying down. And in fact when i spoke to the parents last night, it was quite late, they went to bed peacefully, taking this decision in their stride and we knew it was coming. It is just a step along the way. You said that he was furious . Someone was furious about this decision, who was that . The person i spoke to last night was Andrea Leadsom, our constituency mp. She meets the Us Ambassador and at nine oclock this morning and i would love to be a fly on the wall during that meeting. She spoke to the home secretary last night who then, as you will have seen, should that statement where they said it is a denial ofjustice and they are urgently considering their options. I fully expect to come out swinging today, as will the campaign. We are not going anywhere. Anne sacoolas will come back, she must come back, it is the only way. If it takes two yea rs, it is the only way. If it takes two years, three years, five years, ten yea rs, years, three years, five years, ten yea rs , we years, three years, five years, ten yea rs, we are years, three years, five years, ten years, we are more than equipped to deal with this the hard way. Clearly we would have preferred to take the easy way but this is President Trump being President Trump and everyone else has to follow this orders. He has taken a wrecking ball to the greatest alliance in the world and there is not a lot that any of us can do at the moment. But she will be coming back one day i can promise you that. Outside of that you mentioned that long term you have prepared the family to wait for a change administration, whatever it ta kes. Change administration, whatever it takes. In the immediate term, what would you like to see from the uk government, click given that they clearly disagree and have made it manifest, with what the us have decided. What do you want next from borisjohnson decided. What do you want next from Boris Johnson and the decided. What do you want next from borisjohnson and the British Government . First of all this is one of the darkest days in the history of the darkest days in the history of this great relationship. It is an assault on the relationship. Boris johnson wanted to be Prime Minister. This is a severe test for him. I wa nt to this is a severe test for him. I want to see him come out today and rise to the challenge. He has not spoken to us yet. Lets invite the family and myself in, look us in the eye and tell us what you are going to do. One of this citizens was killed by an American Driver who then got on a plane and went home. Were not going to stand for it, what he going to do . There are a range of options that are open to the government. We meet with Andrea Leadsom this afternoon and i hope to speak to other government ministers during the course of today and we will plan together. I hope we can be on the same page, the campaign and the government but with charlie but, charlie, we will not take this lying down. We will come out and fight. Any campaign has ups and downs but rome was not built in a day. Charlotte is determined. She promised her son as she has told you many times, to getjustice for him. She went to bed last night and she said everything is fine. She will come out and talk with people today and we will simply carry on our campaign. Thank you very much for your time this morning. That is the spokesperson for the family of harry dunn. We will see you at eight oclock with the headlines. But find out what is happening now where you are. Good morning from bbc london, im Victoria Hollins figures obtained by bbc london show the number of reported Sexual Offences in pubs, clubs and bars has gone up by nearly a third in the past three years. Last year a total of 470 were reported to the met police 75 of which were rape. Now victims and Campaign Groups want more to be done to tackle the problem. Currently when a licensed premises applies for an alcohol license they have to speak to certain objectives like how are you going to prevent crime and disorder . How will you protect children . What they do not have to do is speak specifically to prevention of sexual violence. I would like to see that being made a specific licensing objective. And you can hear more about this on inside out london. Thats on bbc one, monday evening at 7 30. Thousands of hgv drivers have been warned they face £550 a day fines if they fail to take part in a london scheme to reduce road deaths. Under the new rules, lorries will need permits based on their safety features, in order to operate on the capitals roads. But its thought many drivers will miss the deadline for applying. Transport for london says hgvs are disproportionately involved in fatal collisions. A group of health trusts in South East London have reversed a ban on single women having ivf treatment on the nhs. They were criticised for a policy document which implied lone mothers could be a burden on society. The clinical commissioning groups say theyve brought their rules in line with the rest of london. Fertility charities have welcomed the u turn. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. Minor delays now on the piccadilly line and the london overground is still part suspended between barking and Upper Holloway because of the derailment of a Freight Train earlier. On the roads, traffic is slow london bound on the air 20. Time to have a look now at the weather. Good morning. No big surprise but todays weather is looking remarkably similar to what we had yesterday and indeed the day before that. Cloudy, grey and damp once again. Poor visibility on many of the roads this morning, a lot of mist and murk there keeping layers of low cloud as we head through the day, wind will stay light and top temperatures will reach seven or eight celsius, maybe nine in central london. High pressure dominates the weather at the moment so no big changes until we get to the second half of the weekend. Overnight tonight again it will be cloudy and we will see more mist and murk reforming into tomorrow morning where we get clear spells temperatures could drop temporarily down to two or three celsius otherwise we start the day tomorrow on a misty note of four or five celsius. Tomorrow will turn windy and it should be dry with a lot of cloud but the wind will help to mix the cloud up so there could be bright spells perhaps at times. The change comes in on sunday with sunshine through the morning, rather windy and then some afternoon rain. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. Our headlines today. 25 people are now known to have died as china battles to contain a coronavirus. Nine people in the uk are being tested for the illness. The usa says it wont extradite a woman over the death of teenager harry dunn. The uk government describes the decision as a denial ofjustice. We arejust we are just two grown men saying goodbye. Dedicated to his seriously ill father. Singerjames blunt will be here to tell us about his most personal song yet. Over budget and behind schedule. Its impossible to predict the final costs of the controversial hs2 project, according to a new report. Iam here i am here in birmingham, work is well under way on the site of the controversial rail line. Serena williams is out of the Australian Open. The seven time champion loses in melbourne, will she ever win that record equalling 24th grand slam title . Good morning. Another cloudy and great sort of day, mostly dry, similar tomorrow, great sort of day, mostly dry, similartomorrow, expect things great sort of day, mostly dry, similar tomorrow, expect things to turn wetter and windier from sunday. All the details in 15 minutes. Its friday the 24th of january. Our top story. Chinese authorities have confirmed 26 people have now died from a new respiratory virus that has infected more than 800 people in the country. There are concerns that coronavirus may have reached the uk 14 people here have been examined, and so far, five have been confirmed negative. Nine are still awaiting test results. In a moment well speak to our scotland correspondent lorna gordon where theres a number of suspected cases but first lets speak to our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. Good to see you. What more can you tell us . The streets are pretty quiet and nearly all chinese cities, including beijing. People not inclined to leave their homes because they dont want to risk catching this deadly disease. Those who are in the streets, nearly all are wearing face masks to try and reduce the risk, public events, which are normally held here when the spring festival happens, are being called off so there are no temple fairs in beijing, in Guangdong Province the cinemas were closed, in shanghai disneyland is shut down. Weve had people dying, outside of wuhan, there is one in vision close to the north of the country. Thats why so many cities around wuhan are following the lead and shutting down public transport, no transport in and out of the city, even within cities no public transport. It shows the extent to which the authorities are worried, they are trying to not completely stop this disease, they are trying to stop the spread of it, they dont wa nt to stop the spread of it, they dont want the situation to get worse. All across the country we hear hospitals are preparing entire floors because they think theres going to be an influx of sick patients and hundreds of those infected could very soon be in the thousands. Thank you for bringing us up to date with the preparations and the situation. Lets get the latest from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon in glasgow. Bring this up to date with what the authorities are saying about the suspected cases. The Scottish Government has set up an incident tea m government has set up an Incident Team to monitor the situation as it develops. At the moment five people tested here in scotland but they are being tested on a precautionary basis. Its understood at least some of them are chinese nationals. At least one of them is a student across in edinburgh. And that points to one of the big issues, there are a lot of Chinese Students at universities here in scotland and indeedin universities here in scotland and indeed in big cities across the uk. There are strong links between the universities here in scotland and china. A group of academics recently returned from wuhan back to dundee university, they all seem fine. Another small group returned to Aberdeen University in the last few weeks, one of the members of staff there is him self imposed isolation as a precautionary measure. The advice to students and more widely as if anyone has travelled to wuhan and become unwell within 14 days of that visit, particularly with respiratory symptoms, coughs, sneezes, chills, fever is, they should phone nhs111 or their fever is, they should phone nhs111 ortheirgp and fever is, they should phone nhs111 or their gp and they will be tested if required. But important to emphasise these are all precautionary measures. Here in scotla nd precautionary measures. Here in scotland there are no confirmed cases of the Scottish Government says the risk to the public is low. Lorna, for the moment, thank you. The United States has officially turned down an extradition request for the American Woman charged over the death of the british teenager harry dunn. He died when his motorbike was hit by a car owned by Anne Sacoolas near an raf base in northamptonshire in august. His family says it will not stop fighting forjustice. No hopes were dashed last night and Anne Sacoolas absolutely will be coming back, despite the development yesterday. That is a point i have been making for many, many weeks now, but it is a point that i will continue to make. We always knew that secretary pompeo had the political decision in his hands. He has made it now but he will not be around forever and he is simply following orders from President Trump who will be gone one day, whereas that extradition request will be there forever. The construction of the controversial hs2 railway line is billions of pounds over budget and years behind schedule. The National Audit office says the department for transport failed to understand how complex and risky the project would be. The government says its already acting on the watchdogs recommendations. Our transport correspondent tom burridge reports. As work to build a new high speed line goes on in birmingham, criticism from the governments spending watchdog over management of the budget for hs2, which has ballooned. Todays report says the government and hs2 limited underestimated the scale and complexity of this project, and thats one of the reasons why the budget has risen so much. This is the vision for that site once a station is built here. The National Audit office says risks and uncertainty werent properly managed but says the budget for phase one of hs2 is now robust. Theyve done an awful lot of work to understand the cost and they now have a better estimate of how much it will cost and how long it will take to build the railway between london and birmingham. That said, the programme as a whole is at a very early stage and risks remain. Some conservatives have urged the Prime Minister to rethink. Other seniorfigures say hs2 has to go ahead. This part of the country, the north, turned decisively to the conservative party and the Prime Minister has talked about levelling up. This is literally the investment that will level up the economy. The cost of the second phase of this project, linking the city to leeds and to manchester, is more uncertain because its at a much earlier stage. A final decision is due next month. Tom burridge, bbc news, in birmingham. An nhs trust now under investigation by englands Health Watchdog for preventable baby deaths was paid a bonus of £1. 5 million for claiming it met all required Safety Standards. It comes after the bbc found the deaths of at least seven babies at east Kent Hospitals nhs trust could have been avoided. The trust was also subject to an unannounced inspection from the Care Quality Commission this week. The american actress, Annabella Sciorra, has told Harvey Weinsteins trial that he raped her 25 years ago. Shes the first accuser to take the stand against the former hollywood producer but her allegations are too old to be included on the charge sheet. Weinstein denies all charges, including rape and sexual assault. Tesco is to scrap Plastic Packaging on multipacks of tins. The supermarket says the move will stop 350 tonnes of waste polluting the environment each year. Tesco says the price of multipack purchases will not be affected. The time now is nine minutes past eight. Those are your main stories this morning. Lets get more on our top story, a coronaVirus Outbreak in china. Wuhan may not be a well known chinese city like beijing or shanghai. But the place where this virus emerged has connections to every part of the globe. The city has a population of around 11 Million People and has temporarily shut down as it tries to halt the spread. 26 people are known to have died in china. The virus is spreading across the globe with cases in the us and saudia arabia. 14 people in the uk have been tested for the strain with five confirmed negative and nine still awaiting results. Joining us now is virologist and former World Health Organisation adviser dr tom fletcher good morning to you. Can you pick up on the last statistic that we were hearing from our scotland correspondent about pending tests. We know there are a number of people waiting for results of tests but could you talk through that procedure . Why does it take this length of time to find out if someone has this particular virus . Sure. The first stage is the person presents to a Health Care Facility ortheirgp and are presents to a Health Care Facility or their gp and are recognised as potentially being at risk of this infection, normally associated with travel from wuhan. After that they are taken to hospital location, there is often a regional Infectious Diseases unit and they will be seen by specialists. At that stage it might be agreed to meet the case definition, this looks like it could bea definition, this looks like it could be a case in the right testis end, these tests are quite specialised, not done in every laboratory, they are sent down to places like Public Health england which will run the tests trying to detect the virus from those swabs but also later from blood. Weve been talking about this andi blood. Weve been talking about this and i think we said around 830 people have been infected, at the moment we understand 26 people have been killed. What are your concerns having had experience of seeing viruses spread, what are your concerns now. Its very difficult to predict but what of the potential pitfalls now . I think the first thing to say as the director general of the who said last night this is an emergency within china, the numberof an emergency within china, the number of cases an emergency within china, the numberof cases in an emergency within china, the number of cases in a relatively short period of time is clearly concerning. There is now human to human transmission between cases. Originally it was thought it came from animals, banks . Thats right, the initial cases roll into this wholesale Seafood Market in wuhan but subsequently as clear cases confirmed havent visited that market and its clear now its spreading between people. To pick up on your point before i interrupted you, now its on your point before i interrupted you, now its human to human, what is the potential impact, what should people be concerned about . Obviously extending within china and then internationally and thats what the committee was meeting last night about. The key thing is for countries to have a strong Public Health infrastructure so if cases are reported such as into the uk they are recognised quickly, isolated and appropriate facilities and managed appropriately. The scale of the task facing chinese authorities is as i understand it, unprecedented. The idea of locking down a city of 11 million, to other cities understood to be under the same sort of restrictions. I mean, is that doable . This is uncharted territory, isnt it . You are right, it is toa territory, isnt it . You are right, it is to a degree but china has experience of managing a of severe respiratory infection, sars emerged almost 20 years ago but you are right. To take measures such as restricting movement in cities is huge. In west africa similar things to place during the ebola virus. With variable degrees of success. Take us through that. Variable degrees of success. Inevitably we are hearing about, five day period of incubation, people coming and going, may tens, hundreds of thousands of people in this situation . The problem of the incubation period is clear, people can travel before they are sick so point of entry screening doesnt always work but in terms of restricting the movement of people in and out of the city, its probably a short term fix to allow additional Public Health restrictions to be put in place. Stay with us. We can go to wuhan. We are going to talk to a doctor who lives there. Thank you so much for joining us. I know at short notice. You are in wuhan. We know this is where the virus first emanated from, we understand. What can you tell us about what is happening in wuhan, how people are reacting and how concerned they are considering effectively the city is unlocked and . China is kind of interesting, its a whole different animal, ive lived here for about 15 years. The chinese, the local people will react sometimes very cautiously when there was the nuclear thing injapan, with the earthquakes. The local people sometimes are either one way or the other, they want information, we cant get it, its harder to get, its hard for the translation and then on top of it, other foreigners are kind of like, its bogus, there isa are kind of like, its bogus, there is a lot of lies online, the new slice so why bother . So they dont give Accurate Information or try to find out if its true or not, they just ignore it all. So theres different people reacting in very different people reacting in very different ways. And now they are starting to take more where is the correct information coming from . And when you say they are taking it more seriously, how has that changed in terms of how people are reacting and behaving now . in terms of how people are reacting and behaving now . I actually spoke to the cbc earlier today. Which would have been their evening time. And i spoke directly so i didnt get online with their response type teams and things like that so i could get more information, i havent gotten an update yet but i was trying to verify our people actually passing out from this . Are these bogus videos that people are using old ones and saying its from the flue or from the virus . 0r using old ones and saying its from the flue or from the virus . Or is it real . They have no information on that right now. So again, its not confirmed or denied and i cant find anybody to confirm it. In a couple of days i will be going to the hospitals. You are talking about the centre for Disease Control and prevention. That youve been talking to. With this, i suppose there is scaremongering, what needs to be done and you can kind of understand, you had the sars outbreak and there was ebola in africa and people are concerned about the spread. And authorities are being quite clear, is it understandable, yet . It wasnt, because quite frankly, i worked with the School Educational systems as well, i work with the universities, the doctor programmes and things like that as well. Theres a lack of information. People take it very, 0k, we have to use a lot of this toxic cleaner that is making people sick or getting sick or getting bronchitis but they dont tell us why. The government says we have to do it and there was a very good says we have to do it and there was a very good reason. Says we have to do it and there was a very good reason. There was a lot of misinformation in the beginning. Ididnt even of misinformation in the beginning. I didnt even realise until yesterday morning how serious this was because im here, i kind of ignore things a little bit too until the city got locked down. Like i said, we need nor information, i think the World Health Organisation, ive been trying to contact them, i think they need to start thinking about this on a global level. To me, ive never seen Something Like this, im not young, ive seen a lot of things coming and going and i wish people would take things more seriously, i wish other people would stop posting, we had a rumour yesterday saying they were going to spray the entire area from the air. And move people between five and nine. That was a false rumour. Doctor diana, we are out of time but you say youre going to one of the hospitals, maybe perhaps we could talk to you tomorrow once youve been to one of the hospitals and give us more information but i will say thank you so much for your time today. Thank you. And doctor fletcher, you were listening to some of that, in amongst what is barely a concerning situation, the issue of information and how we can rely on given where its happening, your reflections . Given where its happening, your reflections . As you can hear from her theres obviously a degree of fear locally which is common amongst any outbreak when its emerging and information is developing quickly. I think what is clear, this outbreak is different from previous outbreaks, the information is being spread locally and from what i understand from colleagues at the World Health Organisation, that information is getting out to local populations and has being shared well, in terms of new cases in china, new provinces affected, thats been openly reported. Theres various resources in the media that are accurate, the bbc website gives are accurate, the bbc website gives a pretty accurate tally of cases and where they are located, as does the World Health Organisation and the ce ntre World Health Organisation and the centre for Disease Control. Its 18 minutes past eight. Sarah will bring us minutes past eight. Sarah will bring us up to date with the weather. Sarah, good morning. Good morning to you. A bit of an uninspiring day in terms of weather, this picture from one of our weather watchers in hampshire. Mist and foreground, many of us waking up to quite a murky start. There is not mist and foreground, many of us waking up to quite a murky start. There is not mistan quite a murky start. There is not mist an fogey before, look out for many of us but its a great picture, mainly cloudy, most places largely try during the course of the day. Big area of High Pressure, been in charge for several days, gradually drifting towards the near continent as we head through the next couple of days. By sunday, thats when we open the doors to atlantic weather systems wringing wet and windy weather but for the here and now, mostly dry, a few spots of rain especially in Northern Ireland and western scotland with this weak weather front. Elsewhere, western scotland with this weak weatherfront. Elsewhere, cloud thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle but predominantly astride. One or two brighter spells potentially for Eastern England and scotland, fairly limited and temperatures round about eight or 9 degrees, fairly light winds. Into this evening and tonight, we keep all of the cloud, some light rain across northern and western scotland, some spots of drizzle elsewhere but for most of us frost free with that blanket of cloud. One or two club breaks mean you could see a little bit of rust in the most prone spots but saturday morning starting with mist and fog. Very similar day tomorrow to what we have today. We still have this big area of High Pressure in charge of the weather. A weak weather front moving to the north west, especially later in the day we see patchy rain across the north west of scotland, some showers for western parts of the British Isles, should stay largely try in the east. A little bit more ofa try in the east. A little bit more of a breeze blowing in, that will help to break up cloud. Some glimpses of blue sky especially in the east, temperatures similar to today, around 8 10d. Reasonably mild air thats been with us still with us air thats been with us still with us tomorrow but as we had three saturday night into sunday, as this weather front moves from the west, thatis weather front moves from the west, that is going to bring colder and fresher air from that is going to bring colder and fresher airfrom the that is going to bring colder and fresher air from the west. In between the air masses we have this weather front, rain across scotland, western parts of england and wales, the band of rain edging its way eastward, turning quite breezy. Northern ireland will see a return to sunnier and fresher conditions, some showers around, wintry over the Higher Ground of scotland. Temperatures in belfast and glasgow around five or 6 degrees per tonne towards london, still around 10 celsius on sunday. Then it is all change from sunday onwards into the early pa rt change from sunday onwards into the early part of next week. Is more u nsettled, early part of next week. Is more unsettled, wet and windy weather. Feeling colder for a unsettled, wet and windy weather. Feeling colderfor a time unsettled, wet and windy weather. Feeling colder for a time as well. Monday into tuesday, going to be a mix of sunshine, scattered blustery showers. Watch out for a particularly windy day to come on tuesday. Back to you. Sarah, thank you very much. See you later. The time isa you very much. See you later. The time is a 21 am. Do you want a shock statistic . You know when you bite multi tins. Baked beans, whatever, tesco says the plastic around it accou nts tesco says the plastic around it accounts for 350 Million Tonnes of Plastic Waste and what its decided to do is say no more. Charlie has lost his mind, thats why hes not talking. His microphone. Lost his mind, thats why hes not talking. His microphone. No one is going to notice what i do. Do you wa nt to is going to notice what i do. Do you want to know why . The microphone drop . The weather you thought you sat on something uncomfortable and he thought one of the springs had gone on the sofa. Something has happened under here, it suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Its not that comfortable anyway, it got worse. Lets go back to the story. We had better news that we are getting a new sofa this week. We got slightly distracted but the story you started to tell, everyone does this, you go into a supermarket, everything is packaged in plastic, you think youre a bargain. They are changing the plastic, 350 Million Tonnes of Plastic Waste from tesco alone, its amazing how much of an impact this will have. Emma simpson has more. Multi packs. We love them. They are a big seller. We buy more than 200 million multipacks every year. But the main supermarkets alone, tesco is now getting rid of this wrapping from every single ten, saving 350 Million Tonnes of plastic every year. Its what we think is the right thing to do. It is what our customers would want us to do on their behalf. They challenge us to say is plastic completely necessary . In some cases it is and where its necessary we need to reduce it to an absolute minimum and recover it and recycle it but where its not necessary or it cannot be recycled we need to take it out of the business completely. And that means getting big suppliers on board. This is europes largest food factory. Heinz in wigan, they churn out a billion tins a year. 40 are multipacks. Plastic film is not recycla ble. Multipacks. Plastic film is not recyclable. Heinz is ditching it for tesco. But would like to go further. We are making the first move but its also the largest move so this represents about a third of our total shrink wrap in the industry. And of course, what we expect is that consumers will learn how to shopin that consumers will learn how to shop ina that consumers will learn how to shop in a slightly different way and hopefully we can eliminate shrink wrap from other retailers as well going forward. Getting rid of all this plastic wrapping seems such an obvious thing to do. Of course, its just a tiny fraction of the plastic that still ends up in a shopping trolley. The pressure is now owned to remove it. Especially from young people. Dear tesco, we are writing to you because we have great concerns about plastic pollution. These plastic wrappers are pollution. These plastic wrappers a re often pollution. These plastic wrappers are often unnecessary. These Primary Schoolchildren in kent have recorded an open letter to all the supermarkets to do more. We look forward to your reply. Theyve got a mountain to climb but there is lots going on from waitrose trialling bring your own containers to plastic free fruit and vegetables at morrisons and reusable produce bags at sainsburys. Consumers notice. Morrisons and reusable produce bags at sainsburys. Consumers notice. really do get upset about the amount of plastic i take home when ive been out shopping. When its as bad as that. That isjust ridiculous. Not for much longer. Tesco says the price at the till wont change. The real deal will be doing away with pointless packaging. Emma simpson, bbc news. We are used to be able to buy six packs of three, you buy them separately and it still the same price as if you were saving on the multipack. Pricing becomes relevant. The whole idea is, they are cheaper, arent they . The advertiser so you should buy more, you get them cheaper, if thats the incentive, in theory if you think its a good idea and its only tesco doing this, we understand as emma says heinz is talking to other supermarkets as well. Tell us what you think. We do change your Shopping Habits if you knew a supermarket was actively trying to minimise how much plastic it is contributing to pollution . Its worth a thought. Its 8 26am. Lets see what else is coming up. We arejust we are just two grown men saying goodbye. You can see james blunt singing, this is his new single, sitting next to him as he delivers that song is his dad. Hell be on the sofa a little later talking about what is a very moving story about what his dad needs and the song is very much about how he feels about his father. She would say his father is still alive. He is ill but they are hopeful. We are going to get loads more from james later. Find out whats happening for you are. See you again in a couple of minutes. Hello once again. As has been the case for much of this week, friday will be another fairly quiet day of weather because we still have an area of High Pressure dominating the scene but things will change during the course of the weekend as the isobars begin to squeeze together. There will be more wind on saturday and then quite a wet spell of weather as that front struggles to make its way across the British Isles during the course of sunday. That is all some way off. Again, across england and wales we have to contend with a little bit of mist and fog in the first part of the day, slowly lifting into low level cloud. The north east of scotland probably has some of the brightest weather but there will be one or two showers in the mix. Later in the day, the cloud thickens. In the west of scotland, though, there could be the return of some rain having had rain in the first part of the day across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland. The evening and overnight, not a great deal changing, the breeze mayjust freshen up across this North Western quarter. Not a cold night by any means at all so there wont be very much in the way of frost to start the weekend. But saturday begins to see that change with initially the wind freshening across the north and north west of scotland. A cloudy and rather murky start again for many parts of the British Isles and then eventually the cloud thickening to see some rain getting into the far north west. At the same time, we mightjust see one or two showers breaking out towards the south of wales and the south west of england as the cloud thickens here during the course of the day. The front will be really quite active because it is the last of the relatively mild airs being chased away by something a good deal cooler and fresher but sunday is that day of transition, pushing the rain slowly, slowly across scotland into the heart of england, through wales as well. Probably not getting down into the far south east until quite late on in the day and brighter skies but a fresher feel for proceedings getting into ireland to finish off the day. This is worklife from bbc news, with victoria fritz and david eades. A spent force. Not us cash is in decline, but in a world of digital payments, who gets left . Live from london, thats our top story on friday the 24th of january. The elderly, the disabled and the less well off. Theyre the most likely to be left behind from the cashless society. Also in the programme. Chinas deadly Virus Outbreak spreads minds start to focus on what this might mean for the worlds second biggest economy