Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am here in singapore, 1am in london and also 9am in north korea where we start our programme with a rare insight into one of the most secretive countries on earth. Every year, over 1,000 people flee north korea. We spoke to an unusual pair of defectors one of them was a prison guard who escaped with one of his detainees. The bbc koreans Hyung Eun Kim has their story. Rare pictures smuggled out of north korea. Footage kim jong uns government doesnt want you to see. Troops tend to cornfields, trying to feed the population. More soldiers browse government approved dvds. 0thers patrol the border with china. Its here where most of those who want to escape make the desperate dash for safety. Now two people who made it out want to tell their story. Were on our way to a safe house, where the defectors are being kept. Everything about their movements has to be kept secret for their safety. This man was a prison guard at a Detention Centre near the chinese border. Kim, whose name we have changed, was in prison for arranging phone calls between north korea and the outside world. Kim, whose name we have changed, was in prison for arranging phone calls between north korea and the outside world. Kim was eventually caught and brought to the mans prison. They drew closer and talked of a potential life outside north korea. Then, one night, they decided to make a break. They say they ran about 200 metres from the prison to the tumen river, which marks the border with china. They began to swim across in total darkness. But they finally reached the other side their first steps outside their homeland. The manner of their escape has put the north korean authorities on high alert. How do you feel about being one of north koreas most wanted men . Their hope is that by speaking out more North Koreans will be encouraged to defect, but the control of information is still so tight that only a few will be able to hear their story. Hyung eun kim, bbc news. Lets take a look at some of the days other news. President trumps former adviser roger stone has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for obstructing an investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. Hes maintained the case against him was politically motivated. Mr trump accused the jurys foreperson of being tainted, and has hinted he may pardon his ally. tx sot hes become a big part of the news over the last little while. And im following this very closely and i want to see it play out to its fullest, because roger has a very good chance of exoneration, in my opinion. Ive known. Applause. And you people understand it probably better than anybody in the room. Ive known roger stone and his wife, whos really a terrific woman, for a long time and rogers definitely a character. Everybody sort of knows roger. Everybody knows him. And most people like him. Some people probably dont. But i do and i always have. Also in the news today. Irish Prime Minister leo varadkar has resigned, but will remain as interim leader of fine gael while the countrys three main parties battle out deadlocked Coalition Talks after an inconclusive election. Attempts to elect a new Prime Minister in the Irish Parliament has ended without agreement. A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing at London Central mosque. An elderly man in his seventies was taken to hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life threatening. Scotland yard says it is not treating the incident as terror related. Australia is mourning the deaths of a woman and her three children who died after their car was set alight in brisbane. Police are yet to confirm reports that the father, ex rugby player rowan baxter, doused the family in petrol before stabbing himself to death. But they say there was a history of Domestic Violence and the Prime MinisterScott Morrison has said the victims were senselessly murdered. The womens t20 cricket world cup, hosted by defending champions australia, begins on friday. The io Team Tournament features the top nations in limited overs cricket, and also newcomers thailand. Australia and india are playing in the opening match in sydney. The final is scheduled to take place at melbourne on march the 8th, which is International Womens day. The head of the World Health Organisation has warned against complacency in the struggle to contain the new coronavirus after the emergence of new clusters of infection outside china. Singapore has one of the highest number of cases and one institution trying to contain the outbreak is the National Centre for Infectious Diseases which only officially opened in september. Its executive director professor leo yee sin told me more about the centre and how the staff are coping. Well, first of all, its a very new building. We moved in about a year ago, officially opened i think slightly less than half a year. It is a purpose built facility where we have at least 200 single isolation rooms with attached bathrooms, specifically built for singapore to be able to cope with situations like that. So we are very fortunate. Thats right. Over 200 rooms, this is an extraordinary number, as you say, it has been purpose built for it. At the moment, its actually treating the most number of patients, the majority of the cases of the 85 here in singapore. The centre, as we know, only opened officially in september, its been running for over a year though. It is a state of the art. I actually got to see it with you last year. So tell us, how much better equipped is it versus a regular hospital, for instance . Because its purpose built, so we have the size and number of isolation rooms with attached bathroom, and that is the very specific infrastructure of a vertical building, so we did put in a lot of design issues in terms of how the movement of the individual, how the material moves within the building, as well as particularly paying a lot of attention in terms of the air movement. So we have, altogether, close to 150 what we call negative pressure isolation facilities. Those are the state of the art, top class kind of isolation facilities within the building. They just want to mention the building isjust one element in terms of how we put together the response effort. Ncid, we have the whole string of all the expertise within that organisation, that includes the clinical provisions, we have a team of medical doctors, nurses, and all support staff, and in addition to that we have the National Public health laboratory, where the lab provides all the support to the clinicians in terms of Laboratory Diagnosis and confirmations. They must be incredibly busy dealing with the many patients they have at the moment. Tell us about what singapore has learned from sars, because as you say it is a new building, took over from the Communicable Disease centre, which was at the forefront of the sars outbreak 17 years ago. What lessons have we learned . I think first of all the biggest lesson is that sars really hit us hard and we were relatively unprepared, our infrastructure was not up to par at that point in time. And many of us will remember within five weeks we built makeshift isolation facilities. I think we learned from that. And one of the important things is be ready. Professor leo yee sin there. The south Korean Defence ministry has ordered a lockdown for all personnel after another search soldier was confirmed as having coronavirus. All leave has been cancelled. Special care zones have been set up after clusters of coronavirus were found there this week. A man from new zealand who strangled a british backpacker and hid her body inside a suitcase has beenjailed for at least 17 years. The 28 year old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty last year. He had met ms millane via a dating app in december 2018 on the night before her 22nd birthday. You walked into our lives and destroyed grace in the pursuit of your own sexual gratification. Now my family will never be the same. So many other innocent people, including your own family, have had their world destroyed. I want you to know i dont think of you, because if i did, that means i care about you and i simply dont. 0ur correspondent Shaimaa Khalil described what happened in court. It has been a very emotional day in court. Three of macro map ons family, including her mother, all made statements. Her mother address the killer directly and said, you have ripped a hole in my heart. She also said im absolutely heartbroken that you have taken away my daughters future and robbed us of any chances of creating memories with grace. She also went on to tell him the tears ive shed are never ending at the thought that i will never kiss my grace, goodbye. Now, at this point, i would say, most of the people in in the room were emotional. But, actually, the killer himself, who at no point before that showed any emotion, bowed his head and appeared to be wiping a tear. After that, the prosecution and the defence both made their arguments and the judge passed that sentence. A life imprisonment with 17 years in prison without parole. With that ending a case that has shocked and gripped new zealand, but also devastated the millane family. We have referred to the killer there not by his name. Can you explain to us why that is . Thats right. The court order, it remains of suppressing his identity and the reasons why the identity are suppressed also cannot be revealed by court order, which means that the media, we cannot explain the reasons why we cannot name him. This actually has been quite controversial. It has sparked a debate online, for example, with many asking why grace, the victim, has had her name, her picture, her identity, very intimate details about her private life shared publicly across the world with the man remaining anonymous. But as it stands, he is sentenced to life imprisonment but his identity remains anonymous until a further court order. That was Shaimaa Khalil at the high court in auckland. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme vigils in germany for the nine immigrants killed by a far right gunman. Also on the programme we speak to actor Daniel Radcliffe about his new film based on a true story of Political Prisoners in apartheid south africa. Nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan, the last soviet troops were finally coming home. The withdrawal completed in good order, but the army defeated in the task it had been sent to perform. Malcolm has been murdered. That has a terrible effect on the morale of the people. I am terrified of the repercussions on the streets. One wonders who is next. As the airlift got under way, there was no let up in the eruption itself. Lava streams from a vent low in the crater flow down to the sea on the east of the island, away from the town for the time being, but it could start flowing again at any time. The russians heralded their new Generation Space station with a spectacular night launch. They called it mir, the russian for peace. This is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im Lewis Vaughan jones in london. Our top stories. The bbc has heard from two people a prisoner and a guard who managed to escape from a jail in north korea. President trump has said hed love to see his former advisor roger stone exonerated after he was sentenced to a0 months in prison for lying to congress. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. The french publication le figaro looks at germany reaction to last nights mass shooting in hanau. Showing the vigil held in the city this evening, it says germans are shocked and alarmed by the increase of far right violence in the country. A picture of the first spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates features on the front page of the International New york times. It is undergoing advanced tests and simulations in a laboratory in the university of colarado. It willjoin probes from more established space powers traveling the 300 million miles to mars this summer. The front page of the Philippine Star has quite an unusual wedding snap. Some 220 couples have tied the knot in a joint ceremony in the filipino city of bacolod, but all the couples wore face masks amid fears of contracting novel coronavirus. So how did they manage to kiss the bride . A striking image there and we will stay with that issue of coronavirus. The World Health Organization has spoken repeatedly about an infodemic a flood of false information about the virus, causing unnecessary fear and panic. Residents of a central ukrainian town clashed with police on thursday as they tried to prevent more than 70 evacuees from china from being quarantined there. Jonah fisher has this update from the scene. So. You can see on board, these are some of the poor people who have spent the last 2a hours being brought out of china, here to ukraine and, as you can see here, it has had a very Strong Security presence alongside them. Hundreds of riot police have had to be deployed to this village in central ukraine because there has been such an angry response from the villagers here. They blockaded the road for most of the day. They simply have not accepted what the ukrainian authorities have been saying, namely that all the people on that plane from china had been tested several times for the coronavirus and that none of them had been found to be infected. People here simply do not trust what they have been told by the government. Theyve been keep on saying, why does it have to be here . And many of them are very worried that this will lead to infection spreading here. These people on these buses are a mix of ukrainians and other nationalities. They will spend the next 1a days in this Government Medical facility while they serve their quarantine. On wednesday, a gunman in germany killed nine people in the western town of hanau. The authorities are treating the incident as a terror attack, and believe the shooter was motivated by far right racist ideas. Many of his victims were members of the citys turkish community, who were at two local smoking cafes. It is also believed he killed his mother, before taking his own life. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee is in hanau. The aftermath of what now looks to have been a premeditated racist attack in the quiet german town of hanau, filmed by those watching on in flats above. The suspected gunmans target, to shisha bars, cafes for smoking scented tobacco and popular germanys turkish and kurdish community. Eyewitnesses have described the panic during the attacks that killed nine people, five of them of turkish origin. One of those wounded, muhammad, described what happened from his hospital bed. Translation he shot straight to the head of everyone he saw. And he fired at us, i hid behind the wall and as i moved, he shot me in my arm. Police say the government, named as 43 year old German National tobias r returned to his home, killed his mother and himself. Forensic teams have been searching his property and car. Investigators are also scrutinising his website which contained a written manifesto reporting to espouse deeply xenophobic views and painting a picture of a man with deep Mental Health issues. Talking of the state trying to get into his brain. There are Big Questions now how German Authorities can stop right wing extremism and the rise in the number of attacks. In the past year there has been an assassination of a german politician and an attack on a synagogue in the east of the country and three days ago authority say they dismantled an extremist right wing cell, and now this incident. The local mp told me of existing tensions in the town and said extremism was an issue which she claimed could be linked to the growth in populism. You really have to put signs, stop signs there and really set red lines. And be far more strict on hate speech. This evening, some of the ethnic minority families living here have told me they are too afraid to go out tonight, worried that a threat may still exist but many people of hanau are gathering, laying flowers and tributes to those who have lost their lives. Gavin lee, bbc news, hanau. A new film called escape from pretoria tells the true story of two Political Prisoners who managed to break out of a notorius south africanjail in 1979. Timjenkin and stephen lee had been imprisoned on charges of producing and distributing pamphlets on behalf of banned organisations including the African National congress. The role of tim jenkin is played by Daniel Radcliffe whos been speaking to the bbcs kasia madera. Defendant number one and chief bomb maker, timothy jenkin, you are sentenced to imprisonment for a total of 12 years. As soon as i read the story and found out about the escape and the nature of the escape, ijust thought it is so genius and so brilliant, i was like, how has this story not already been told, like, how do normal people not know about this . Laying out the most pernicious aspects of this anc ideology, that all races are equal, and all this sort of thing. In the run up to this film, i read tims book and actually that was really interesting in terms what apartheid was but also what the day to day life was of people who were resisting apartheid. And it is a fascinating part of the story which is they would probably not have been able to do this escape had they been a black because, even down to the way black and white prisoners were searched going into prison, there was still sort of more dignity afforded to the white prisoners in terms of how they were searched. This is an extremely tense film you are literally gripping the edge of your seat when you watch it how do you convey that across . I have to say a huge amount of that is down to director francis hannah. You felt the sense of tension in the script but then there was always a part of me that was going, well, when you watch it you willjust be watching me make a key. So much of that tension is dependent on the shots he choses to use, and the way he uses music, and the way he uses editing. We do not get to see what they do not see until they see it but we do get to hear it, so sound was an important element. So i think these sort of techniques meant that you were really with them, over their shoulder, the whole time and trying to keep the camera in their perspective was one way to make sure that you felt now they are here, now they are there. Will they make it, wont they . No, no, no. What responsibility is it to get tims story right . For someone to object against an injustice is a very important thing. For someone then to suffer as a result of that injustice showed they are really sticking their neck out, but for someone then to say, im going to go beyond those things and really try and find my version of fighting back this is a political act. Breaking out is a political act. You have been watching newsday. Im Lewis Vaughan jones in london. And im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Stay with us. Why baby yoda is big business we take a look at the merchandise spawned by disneys latest delivery. We knew yoda when he was not a baby and you have some favourite quotes . I never understand what he is saying. I dont understand what baby yoda is at all but you are a proper fan, arent you . I am. And my favourite must be do or do not there is no try. How wise. Stick with us for more wisdom here on newsday. Hello there. The weather is staying unsettled to end the week and indeed into the weekend we have got more rain at times, also some strong winds, thanks to an active jetstream bringing areas of low pressure in. For friday, its going to be a very windy day, and most of the rain would be across Western Hills, across the northern half of the country. Here it is on the pressure charts. You can see lots of isobars across the country, so it will be windy and these weather fronts bringing outbreaks of rain to parts of northern ireland, particularly western northern ireland, into western scotland, north west england and, at times, into northern and western wales. Further south and east, it should be drier and brighter but a very blustery day for all. Those winds gusting 30 110 miles an hourfor many. Parts of south east scotland, east of the pennines, could see gusts around 60 miles a hour so these, in their own right, could cause some transport issues. Temperature wise, though, milder than what it was on thursday. Temperatures 10 12 degrees. Now, as we head through friday night, it stays wet across Western Hills in the north, but it looks like some of that rain will start to push a little bit further southwards, so affecting parts of South West England and in towards wales. Of course, anymore rainfall here is extremely unwelcome. Lots of showers piling into scotland. Temperatures falling here so theyll be wintry on the hills. But it will be milder across the south. That weather front pushes its way southwards and eastwards into saturday, bringing an unwelcome band of rain there, but further north, it stays very windy indeed. A real squeeze in the isobars there and there will be lots of showers. These piling into much of scotland, some heavy with hail, thunder, and also settling snow on the hills and maybe some blizzard conditions as well with the strength of the winds. Further south, rather cloudy, outbreaks of rain, mainly towards the west but it will be another mild day in the south 11 14 degrees, but colder further north. And then as we move through saturday night, this next feature runs into england and wales which could bring a spell of unwelcome rain once again. Further north, it will be quite windy with further showers but at least the good news is, through sunday, that rain should clear away quite quickly and then skies brighten up quite nicely, with plenty of sunshine around, so a welcome day of drier and brighter weather but it will feel a bit colder. That settled spell of weather, thanks to this ridge of high pressure, will be short lived because, across the atlantic, we will see the next very deep area of low pressure moving in on monday. Pushing towards the north of the uk to bring a spell of severe gales and further rain at times. So with more rain in the forecast for the next few days, flooding could be a further issue so just head on line to the bbc weather website to check out the weather and flood warnings. Mel me i should im Lewis Vaughan jones with bbc world news. Our top story. In an exclusive interview, the bbc has spoken to two people a prisoner and her guard who managed to flee north korea. They described inmates serving long sentences for watching foreign films or taking drugs and others jailed for arranging phone calls between north korea and the outside world. President trump has raised the possibility that he could pardon his former adviser roger stone, whos been sentenced to three years in jail for lying to congress. And this story is trending on bbc. Com. A religious group in south korea has been identified as a coronavirus hotbed, amid a sharp rise in confirmed cases in the country. The sect in the city of daegu accounts for 30 of 53 new cases. Thats all. Stay with bbc world news. 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