Birthday. He is prince andrews birthday. He is described as a disgraced duke and says the government will not fly the union flag on state loadings for the occasion this year. But as the headline points out, Westminster Abbey will stick to its tradition and ring it spells when he turns 60 later this month. Finally an mp caused controversy here in the uk when she wore an off the shoulder dress in parliament. The website she brought it from her since sold out and she is now auctioning off the item for charity. Well, no off the shoulder dress is here with me. So we will come to that in a moment. I am so we will come to that in a moment. Iam intrigued so we will come to that in a moment. I am intrigued to know whether you have managed to sell off anything online that you did not want and perhaps made something in the process. We will deal with that later. Firstly, the serious situation covered by the New York Times. This is becoming like a wartime
level of action in wuhan and yet despite all the action, the number of infected people with corona virus spikes and the number of deaths continues to rise. The New York Times has a very detailed piece this morning with a lot of facts and figures about what is going on in wuhan and what appears to be happening now is that there is literally a house to house test going on across the state as to whether or not people are contracting the virus and if they are contracting the virus they are contracting the virus they are contracting the virus they are being taken to quarantine locations and the whole hills system, because the supply chain is in lockdown, the whole hills system really is creaking now and as you say, the numbers in wuhan itself
arkwright staggering. In terms of those who are contracting the virus, there are now 4. 1 mortality rate compared to the rest of the country which is on 0. I7 . 0ver rest of the country which is on 0. 17 . Over 600 rest of the country which is on 0. I7 . Over 600 people now who have perished as a result of this. This is now an extreme approach that is being taken. And it seems, it is sunny, well, not sunny but when you look at the situation, what is difficult about it is that we are still in the phase of trying to contain it and limit it and we are not even into the point of a drug emerging that could actually stop it or deal with the symptoms. This piece points out that at what point are we in the cycle of the evolution of this . Of this
crisis . The piece harks back to 1918 and the spanish flu pandemic. That killed more people than died in the first world war. So nobody really knows where this is going to go next, containment is the approach of chinese authorities and we are seeing from the approach of many western states as well who are flying western nationals out of china and certainly they are no longer flying to china but no one at this point, no hills professional can give us any sense as to the future course of this virus. Lets turn now to the financial times. This is quite an exclusive that the paper has here about a rather terse phone call between the us president and the british prime
minister over huawei. With a powerful picture as well. It is on the front page, President Trump looking quizzically at the british prime minister. So last tuesday when the uk cabinet made a decision that it would allow huawei to provide the exhilaration of broadband across the uk, the 5g network, they said, look, we will limit them to non core activity, basically go faster but nothing that would endanger the British State or british secrets and british security. This is com pletely british security. This is completely against where the us wa nts to completely against where the us wants to go. It appears, according to this ft at least, that there was a bust up between the us president and
borisjohnson between the us president and Boris Johnson and, yet, between the us president and borisjohnson and, yet, and this shows the quick quixotic nature of President Trump. A few hours later he is ina trump. A few hours later he is in a press conference with netanyahu in a press conference with neta nyahu talking about in a press conference with netanyahu talking about this good friend borisjohnson. So once again, the uk relationship with the United States is in the spotlight but also how the uk is trying to, in a way, look both ways to get want a trade deal with the United States but it also wants to maintain a deep Trading Partnership with china. The german newspaper now. And a political storm in one particular state, in an eastern state of thuringia. Why is this a controversial thing . Thuringia is one of the states in germany, the former east of germany before reunification. The alternative for deutschland, the far right party, the party that would probably take germany out of the eu, that has a very hard line on immigration in response to Angela Merkels policies, they have basically ditched their own candidate in the election in the parliament to become state leader and they supported the free democrats, the liberal party. A centre right party but not as far to the right as the afd. And there is a picture of thomas kemmerich, the leader, shaking hands with the af de. That is a no no for many german politicians. And he has decided, literally within 2a hours, i cannot be state premier with the afds support so premier with the afds support soiam premier with the afds support so i am going to resign and we need to do this again. Angela merkels party, the cdu, had
also supported this guide to become state premier and they are feeling very sore today as well. It looks like they may go into new elections or maybe a bit of a political mass. Front page of the times. The bells will ring for prince andrews birthday Westminster Abbey but the flag will not fly. This is another bit of a model. We are feeling our way through lots of oils at the moment. Suggesting that they are stepping back from public duties. We had that with harry and meghan at the start of the year. But in this rinse andrew stepped back after that infamous interview with the bbc in november last year full so, with the bbc in november last yearfull so, yes, with the bbc in november last year full so, yes, Westminster Abbey will ring the bells and traditionally does that for the senior royals. It will ring them again but the government has ordered that flags will not be flown to celebrate this birthday. To be honest with you, when i walked down whitehall, there are a lot of flags flowing most of the time so flags flowing most of the time soi flags flowing most of the time so i dont know if we will
notice and a great difference. The row seem to have emerged from the city of liverpool in the north of the uk. That is right. They steadfastly said they will not be flying any flags and that posed the question to the uk government as well and they decided to follow suit. But the bills will peel follow suit. But the bills will peel. And this last one, from the bbc news website. It is ha rd the bbc news website. It is hard knowing the etiquette and the ins and outs in the rules of parliament and apparently an off the shoulder dress is a 110 110. Off the shoulder dress is a nono. Apparently. But i think it is unfortunate. Animal serious note to this which is that she said she had broken herfoot that she said she had broken her foot so she was leaning on the dispatch box. Her dress slipped back and the torrent of abuse that she then got from people on social media was,
again, unfortunately quite vile. She is turning this to her advantage and she is optioning the dress for a charity. Inevitably, in the world we live in, sales of the dress online have gone through the roof. And the proceeds from the roof. And the proceeds from the auction will go to girl guiding. In every sense, hats off to tracy. I think she is making the most of this. But she is also making a point, frankly, that online abuse is not acceptable. Absolutely. Great to talk to you and thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on those. We will speak again shortly. Thank you for watching. Stay with us here on bbc news. We have plenty more to come. We have some very windy weather on the way and over the next few days, actually, the wind will pick up day by day. As we go through friday afternoon we could see gusts reaching 50 or 60 mph around Western Areas of scotland. Become much more widespread on saturday for both scotland and Northern Ireland and the wind will get stronger as well. Gusts reaching 60 or 70mph, potentially disruptive gusts of wind. Worse is to come. On sunday, storm ciara arrives, bringing strong winds across all of the uk but the strongest reaching in excess of 80mph, damaging winds are on the way. For the time being, although there are pictures of frost around at the moment, as the breeze picks up across Western Areas that will increasingly lift the frost. As we head into friday morning, the frost will become confined to central and eastern parts of the uk. A cold start to the day with a fair bit of sunshine around. Northern ireland will see thicker cloud in the afternoon and patches of rain and then we get the wind starting to ramp up in the west of scotland as we head through friday afternoon
and on towards the evening time as well. In fact, as we head through friday night, it looks like being a blowing and blustery night as a band of rain pushes its way eastwards, all of us will notice those wind increasing in strength. But because it will be a windy night, it will also be relatively mild with temperatures potentially no lower than 10 degrees or so. That takes us on into the weekends windy weather forecast. Look how tightly packed the isobars are on saturday, particularly as the weather front approaches off the atlantic. Saturday, many of us will have a dry bright start to the day with wind strengthening through the day and becoming very strong for Northern Ireland and scotland, potentially disruptive. Rain and some hill snow in the forecast for scotland,
so we could have some weather impacts around as we start the weekend. Its on sunday that storm ciara arrives. Here it is, and on and ahead of this cold front, we will get some very squally winds indeed and then we will get another swathe of strong winds, tucking around the southern flank of the area of low pressure. So there are multiple zones of strong winds that are forecast for sunday across the whole of the uk. Quite widely, inland 50 60mph gust of the windiest areas could get gusts in excess of 80mph. These are damaging, disruptive gusts of wind so we are likely to see transport disruption and we could also see some power cuts as well so stay tuned with our latest weather forecasts over the next few days. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. The teenager who threw a toddler of the tate gallery had warned a carer he was planning to throw someone off a building. Thousands are stranded on a quarantine ship off the coast of japan. Cheaper gas and electricity. 11 Million People could have
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