Hello. Its great to have you with us. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. And it is valentines day. The 14th of february. The uk chain pound and has sold 1a,000 Engagement Rings ahead of it. How would you feel about getting or giving a £1 Engagement Ring . Let us know what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Hello, welcome to the programme. Another 116 people have died from coronavirus in the chinese province at the centre of the outbreak according to the authorities there. Almost 5,000 new cases were detected in hubei far fewer than on wednesday, when officials changed the criteria they use to diagnose patients to use a broader definition. 0ur correspondent, nick beake, joins me now from hong kong. Nick, just explain for us kind of where we are in terms of the spikes and the plateauing of the numbers of new cases and deaths from this virus. Hello, yes, it is quite tricky to get your head around what is happening here. All along we been relying on the official figures that china has been giving out. As you say, that increasing the number of cases, 5000, on the surface of it, thatis 5000, on the surface of it, that is concerning. They think its worth stressing that this time yesterday there was quite a lot of alarm because the number of new cases and the number of new cases and the number of new cases and the number of reported daily deaths really did shoot up, and the exportation for that from the chinese was that they were now re calculating things in a slightly different way. So in simple terms you had to have a lab simple terms you had to have a la b test simple terms you had to have a lab test before you are officially declared to have had the coronavirus. Now the authorities are saying if you have been to a doctor and the doctor thinks yes, you probably doctor thinks yes, you probably do have it, after looking at your chest, you will be included in the statistics. So that, broadly, is why we have come to this point. The authorities are trying to point out that outside hubei province, the main epicentre, for the tense consecutive day the number of new cases has fallen. And kameni, whats the situation around the cruise ship that has now docked in cambodia, having been turned away by five other asian ports . Yeah, good news for the people on board the ship. Five Different Countries said no to providing a berth. Lots of people stuck on board. We saw this morning that people have been allowed off. It is peoples but they were given flowers a nd peoples but they were given flowers and to cambodian soil, this was at one of the ports. For those particular people, clearly, something that has turned out well for them. Bear in mind no one on board actually tested positive for the coronavirus. It was the fear of the possible spread which we assume that five countries including thailand and taiwan and japan all to say no we wont take you. Cambodia did. And for those passengers after quite a difficult time on board, they getting off the ship and will presumably be flying home, where ever that will be. Nick beake, many thanks. Nick beake in hong kong. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the us senate has voted to try and restrain the president s ability to attack iran. The resolution requires donald trump to seek explicit authorisation from congress before starting hostilities. He has promised to veto the measure. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, has more details. Iran war powers resolution would have required President Trump to seek congressional approval before mounting any further military action against iran. And it comes in the wake of the drone attack in iraq just under six weeks ago that killed a Senior Iranian general, general Qasem Soleimani. That attack considerably escalated tension between iran and the united states. In this vote eight republicans crossed the floor, if you like, voted with the democrats. Not enough though for the 2000 supermajority that would have basically overridden any prospect of a president ial veto which President Trump has vowed to impose because he says such a resolution will be taken asa sign such a resolution will be taken as a sign of weakness by officials in the iranian hierarchy two thirds. President trump was my decision to mount that attack against general suleimani caused a lot of anguish general suleimani caused a lot ofanguish in general suleimani caused a lot of anguish in some parts of congress. They felt the president had overstepped his remit, if you like. And there was particular disquiet over what was seen as dismissive responses from intelligence brief is after that attack to congressional inquiries for the future policy the jump administration was looking to employ in the middle east. The Trump Administration has insisted the general Qasem Soleimani was plotting attacks against american personnel and properties in the middle east. But as yet to provide comprehensive proof of the nature of that plot. David willis there. The us attorney general, william barr, has criticised donald trump for tweeting about high profile criminal cases handled by his department. Its work has come under intense scrutiny in recent days following the announcement it would seek a shorter prison sentence for mr trumps long time friend, roger stone who was found guilty of lying to congress. In an interview with abc news, mr barr insisted he always acted independently and urged the president to end his social media commentaries. To have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do myjob and to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that were doing our work with integrity. And im not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody. And i said at the time, whether its congress, newspaper, editorial boards, or the president. Lets brief you on some of the other stories making the news. Aid agencies in yemen say getting help to 80 of the population who are dependent on aid has reached breaking point. For months, agencies have faced obstacles from houthi official such as denial of permits and threats to staff. Agencies warn that future funding is at risk. Around 20 gunmen in honduras have assaulted a Court Building to free alexander mendoza, a notorious leader of the ms 13 crime gang. At least three soldiers and police were killed and several others wounded. Mendoza was awaiting trialfor murder. The United Nations says more than 800,000 people have been displaced in North Western syria since december. The government, backed by russia, launched a new offensive on the region around that time, after donald trump decided to pull his troops out of the country. A group of British Business people helped the Italian Mafia make millions of pounds through fraud. Thats according to an ex mafia boss whos spoken exclusively from prison to the bbc. Gennaro panzuto is a state witness whose evidence has helped convict former camorra associates in naples. This report from dominic casciani. The secrets are being unlocked. A rare insight into one of the worlds most powerful mafia gangs. Im meeting gennaro pa nzuto, gangs. Im meeting Gennaro Panzuto, a camorra leader who murdered and is now confessing all. Translation one thing i do remember is the dull side of the body is falling after youve shot them side. Theyre asking you to kill somebody. Did you not think thats the wrong thing to do . Translation no, when you grow up translation no, when you grow up in translation no, when you grow upina translation no, when you grow up in a context like mine, for lots of kids like me, its normal. Gennaro panzuto was a teenage street thief who rose through the ranks to become a boss. In 2006 he was suspected of multiple murders as clan wa rfa re of multiple murders as clan warfare erupted. At the time Gennaro Panzuto was, sure, a dangerous criminal enables, in italy. Went on the run to northern england, were local businessmen hit him in this ca rava n businessmen hit him in this caravan park. They sent up companies to dodge tax on goods sold both at home and in naples by the camorra. Its known as carousel fraud. Carousel fraud is really, really profitable, a good tool really to Money Laundering or to move money. So its really important to organised crime groups . Yeah, its a paradise. In 2007, pa nzuto was captured. Its a paradise. In 2007, panzuto was captured. He took the rest up of cooperating with prosecutors, telling them about his british helpers. No one was arrested. In his home city, naples, pa nzutos evidence arrested. In his home city, naples, panzutos evidence has helped the fight against the camorra. We are out on patrol the police on some of the toughest estates. All the mob leaders are injail, got but the clans, many led by teenagers, are still at live. This is police. This is a place where drugs are sold . This is a co nsta nt where drugs are sold . This is a constant daily battle for these Police Officers on naples flying squad, trying to stop these types of crime, drug dealing, and the fear is that the money made here is funnelled into some of the most dangerous crime groups in the world. Ina dangerous crime groups in the world. In a prison at the other end of italy, panzuto thinks the camorra is finished. But why did he turn against them . Translation for love of my partner. For love of my children. Whats the personal price for you in doing that . Too much. Too much. Too much. Hell soon be released, but will always be looking over his shoulder. Dominic casciani, bbc news. You can see more of that story on our world confessions of a mafia killer on bbc news this weekend. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come scientists rewrite the text books on how the planets in our solar system were really formed. We system were really formed. Will look at spanish architects we will look at spanish architects audis most iconic buildings in barcelona. Theres mr mandela. Mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. Irans spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini has said hes passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. The people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks for the ousting of their former president , ba by doc duvalier. Because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special, secure box in the stud farms central block. Shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. There stepped down from the plane a figure in mourning. Elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories. Head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. Youre watching the briefing. 0ur headlines china has confirmed 5,000 more cases of patients with the new coronavirus and 121 deaths. Donald trumps attorney general says he wont bow to political factors, amid questions over his agencys independence. La pedrera is one of the most iconic buildings by spanish architect gaudi, in barcelona. Its a sweeping arc of grey stone, all curves and a tourist landmark attracting around a million visitors a year. It was commissioned as a block of rented apartments over a century ago. The surprising thing . Its still a home, as the bbcs sergi forcada has been finding out. From outside in one of the major avenues in barcelona, la pedrera looks like many other Tourist Attractions with lines of visitors queueing to get in and taking pictures of the uneven stone facade designed by gaudl uneven stone facade designed by gaudi. Most tourists though are unaware about to enter a landmark three women can go home. I didnt know anyone was leaving her at all. I would be co mforta ble leaving her at all. I would be comfortable living here. Maybe another time another day when theres a lot of people visiting but the item when is quiet, why not . One of the three remaining tenants is this writer. She moved to la pedrera over 30 years ago and it took her a while to get used to tourists. Translation at the beginning i was annoyed having so many tourists at my home and especially in the entrance. I had to keep elbowing people with my bags and little children but now, ifeel with my bags and little children but now, i feel really accompanied by the security personnel, hostesses and tourists. Like the whole construction, it is a continuing curve and without threat was, it is difficult to place furniture. The building is also full of security cameras and smoke detectors and while anna feels very safe, she feels controlled. Translation ifi feels controlled. Translation if i could think there was more smoke than usual, they called me and control my life, unintentionally, but they know who is in the house and my mood. There is no privacy. La pedrera was designed as a residential building mainly for rented apartments. A century ago, up to 120 people lived here by the other three tenants left which acts the question, what is the future for this building . Translation this is the big question, what will happen when the three of us are no longer here . For now, when people leave, flats are turned into offices. The owners of this landmark, local cultural foundation, hope to keep residential tenants for a long time but they admit that the building might be for business and cultural names in the future. In the meantime, anna and the other tenants in la pedrera have no intention of moving out of gaudis most famous home. Scientists say they have a new theory for how planets in our solar system formed. The established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever larger clumps until they became worlds. New results suggest the process was less catastrophic with matter gently clumping together instead. The newer gentle clumping theory was developed 15 years ago by professor Anders Johansen at lund 0bservatory in sweden. Im delighted to say he joins us now. Im delighted to say he joins us now. Professor, 15 years ago, you came up with this vary. Why is it taken so long for it to take hold . It has taken a long time because when you make theories for how planets and small bodies form in the solar system, you want to go out there and check what they actually look like anything so very long time to fly out into the solar system and to study small bodies. So that as well as well as they can so long for confirmation of this very. Casting my mind back to my school days, the big bang was in all the textbooks, they going to have to rewrite all of this textbooks . Well, i think our view of the world is changing all the time, that is one of the chimes about science. The textbooks have been written two rewritten about what information in the last 15 or 20 years and also from studying the solar system and planets around other stars. And i think these new discoveries will certainly lead to new textbooks and new cha pters to new textbooks and new chapters in textbooks. To new textbooks and new chapters in textbookslj suppose the other question is, even established very like the big bang is now being replaced bya big bang is now being replaced by a new theory, how can we be sure that this new ferry is actually the one and it wont be replaced in some decades from now . That is a big question. Furthermore, big bang isa question. Furthermore, big bang is a strong view that as a strong view that is stood for many decades and was sent for many decades and was sent for many decades and was sent for many decades more. But in science, theories are there to replace other theories and when people like me make theories, the important thing is that people go out and build instruments and satellites and build facilities that can check these theories. They do it, the manager changes over time but maybe less and less so that we get a more realistic view of how the universe works. And professor, just for those of us who obviously dont work in your field, what do you find most exciting about the new theory that you have established . My theory involves how you get from dust grains to planets and my theory is that the screens grow from a limited size pebbles that gently come together to form matter for asteroids and whats exciting about this vary and about this new observations is that when you have this gentle collapse to form asteroids, then dont have very violent collisions, no craters or anything like that. That means that if you guide in the solar system and study asteroids or what they call comments and hype about objects in at the outer solar system, they re very objects in at the outer solar system, theyre very pristine and fond of such a gentle way and fond of such a gentle way and havent changed for billions of years. This way, we got in the solar system and study the minor bodies there, we can look back in time 11. 5 billion years when the solar system formed. Fascinating stuff professor. Thank you very much for speaking with us. Now its time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. Hello, im Gavin Ramjaun and this is your friday sport briefing. It was a case of ronaldo to the rescue forjuventus, in their coppa italia semi final at milan. He scored a last minute penalty, to share the spoils in the first leg. Milan took the lead in the second half, thanks to croatian forward ante rebic. Milan aiming to win the italian cup for the first time in 17 years. They were reduced to 10 men, shortly after taking the lead. Theo hernandez sent off, after receiving a second yellow card. Juve were awarded a last minute penalty, and it was left to cristiano ronaldo, who held his nerve, to fire home 1 1 the final score, with the second leg on march fourth. Golf and matt kuchar leads after the first round of the genesis 0pen at Pacific Palisades near los angeles. He shot a bogey free round of 64 on thursday thats 7 under par. This was his second shot to the par 4 fifth and led to one his seven birdies. Kuchar is three shots clear of a group of five players, including Wyndham Clark and russell henley. Rory mcilroy is playing his first tournament since returning to the top of the World Rankings for the first time in five years and hes a further shot back on 3 under par. Chelsea have reached an agreement to sign the ajax winger hakim ziyech. The 26 year old Moroccan International is Frank LampardsFirst Signing since chelsea had their transfer ban lifted. He will remain at ajax for the remainder of the season, and subject to personal terms, will make the move to Stamford Bridge this summer in a deal worth a reported 113 million. Its the nba all stars next week and the lakers will go into it as the team to beat in the western conference. Thats after they beat second placed Denver Nuggets in a titanic clash on wednesday. Star man lebron james and Anthony Davis were in top form and well see how they fare when team lebron takes on team giannis next week. Wolves take on leicester later on friday, as the English Premier League gradually returns from its winter break. Leicester still very much in the hunt for a Champions League spot, in third place. But wolves can jump up to sixth with a win a molyneux. Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers is impressed with what his opposite number, Nuno Espirito santo, has done this season. He has done an excellentjob there and they defend deep, family counter attack and have some really talented players. So we anticipate, like we do in every game and a particular way from home, is that it is a really tough game. Hes more used to the sunny climes of miami about to start the season with his mls franchise. But Global Football star David Beckham has been spotted in rather unglamorous setting in the uk. The former Manchester United and real madrid player, was spotted at somersets clevedon town to watch 17 year old son romeo, as he played for his schools u18s in a friendly against clevedons u18 side. It ended in a 5 3 win for the home side, and beckham posed for a team picture on twitter with clevedon, at the end. You can get all the latest sports news at our website thats bbc. Com sport. But from me, Gavin Ramjaun and the rest of the sport team thats your friday sport briefing. He is a briefing on some of the key events happening later in the coming hours. The first London Fashion week of the you get started, for showcasing the womens autumn 2020 collections. The start of the Munich Security Conference as defence and Foreign Ministers from around the world meet to discuss the most pressing Security Issues of the moment. Also, todays the day china halves the tariff rise on us goods that came into effect last september. This marks now the first round of cuts since the first round of cuts since the phase i trade deal was signed last month. Hes one of the movie worlds most iconic characters and the theme tune from his latest installment has just been released. His name bond, james bond. The grammy Award WinningBillie Eilish sings the title track for no time to die. The american singer has just turned 18 and is the youngest artist in history to write and record a song for the bond franchise. Lets have a listen that id fallen for a lie you were never on my side fool me once, fool me twice are you death or paradise . Now youll never see me cry theres just no time to die when her secret finds its way out, it will be the death of you. Before we go id just like to introduce you to a four month old polar bear cub who went on its first outdoor outing at Viennas Schoenbrunn zoo on thursday. The cub is the first polar bear born in vienna for 12 years, and visitors to the zoo have been invited to come up with possible name. And today, valentines day, i was asking you about pound land selling at 40,000 Engagement Rings at £1. That is just over a dollar each. Of you have been in touch. Nothing so they love you more than a £1 ring, i wouldnt be thrilled if i got one of those. Remi said, to put a price on gift so i wouldnt mind forand says, a price on gift so i wouldnt mind for and says, looks like folks are hedging their bets on a high risk proposition. If your partner says no but ends up your partner says no but ends eping your partner says no but ends up keeping the ring. More coming up later, see you soon. Hello. Storm dennis on the way this weekend, nowhere escaping the strong winds, disruptive in places but concern growing aboutjust how much rain will come from storm dennis. Now during friday, there is one rain band bearing south. But look how different, how much wetter this weather system looks over the weekend from storm dennis. Yes, very windy but several spells of prolonged rain, particularly to england and wales and areas that have seen a lot of rain on saturated ground and the risk of saturated flooding going up over the weekend. The met office has a number of amber warnings in place for rain covering parts of england and wales and so it is worth heading to the website to find out about all the warnings and what they mean for where you are and do that well ahead of the weekend where of course the weather will be stormy. Before we get to storm dennis, there is this next speel of rain to move south during friday. Mainly starting drier but the rain moving quickly through Northern Ireland and then across scotland coupled with snowmelt in southern scotland could bring flooding in a few spots here. It does turn patchy as it works forever south across england and wales. Behind it, once you see the back of the rain, it will brighten up with a few showers. Gusty winds, particular across the north and north west of scotland in excess of 60 mph in a few places here. Showers continue to friday evening. The rain, once it reaches east anglia and south east england that will pep up during friday evening but for many of us going into saturday morning, it is the lull for storm dennis. It may be starting dry on saturday morning but its not going to last because it is during saturday that we will see it all going downhill very quickly. Plenty of rain then moving in and again this is the start of prolonged rain, particularly parts of england and wales and the wind strengthening especially during saturday afternoon and evening before easing a bit on saturday night and picking up again during sunday. And of course, this rain here will be creating some really difficult travelling conditions coupled with the strong gusty winds inland around 50 mph and stronger winds around the coast, particularly in the west and south. It is getting milder but again, it is very wet and very windy. So, more rain, particularly into england and wales on saturday night and into sunday. Getting windier again on sunday. Itll be the end of the day before it finally clears away from south east england so the risk of flooding increasing as rain totals mount. And as storm dennis gets closer to scotland and Northern Ireland to end sunday, could well be another swathe of damaging winds arriving at the end of the day. This is business briefing. Im ben bland. Uneasy riders. Willa legal crackdown see the wheels come off the multibillion dollar e scooter business . Plus, another awkward call for huawei as the us piles on more charges, including stealing trade secrets and racketeering. And on the markets, stocks turn negative as fears grow about the scale of the coronavirus outbreak