This drill and the suicide of a well known television presenter sparks shock in Britain with thousands paying tribute to her on social media that s all coming up on the newsroom Hello this is the b.b.c. News if you know MacDonald there s been a drop in the number of new cases of Corona virus in China for the 3rd consecutive day official said more than 2000 people were confirmed infected on Saturday the vast majority were in who be Province over 1600 have now died from covert 90 mm The Japanese health ministers are known 70 more cases of the disease on board a cruise liner docked off the port of Yokohama more than 350 people are now known to be infected 2 thirds have yet to be tested our correspondent in Tokyo Rupert Wingfield he s has more details the Diamond Princess is now by far the biggest coronavirus hotspot outside China the ship is in its 11th day of quarantine health experts say if the quarantine were effective the number of new cases of the virus should now be starting to dec
Police dealt with a complaint about allegedly transfer pick tweets was too heavy handed and could have a chilling effect on freedom of speech there s been a sharp rise in the number of cases of mumps in England most of them young adults who didn t have the m.m.r. Vaccination a woman has been told that her Islamic wedding ceremony is not recognised in law and that she is therefore not entitled to a divorce settlement from a strange part of Manchester City football club have been banned from European competition for the next 2 seasons after being found to have committed serious breaches of u.a.e. For financial fair play regulations the reigning Premier League champions have also been fined 20 $5000000.00 pounds the club said they were disappointed and would appeal against the outcome of what it called a prejudicial process sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports the financial fair play rules are designed to level football s funding playing field to ensure that success is not simply boug
Cabinet meets lights. I mean sports Tyson Fury say he needs a knock out stiff he wants victory in Vegas. Vic s is b.b.c. 5 live with the b.b.c. News on 5 live at 4 o clock here s cover McGrath James Callum is the 1st meeting of Boris Johnson s new cabinet lights are following yesterday s event for reshuffle source Chancellor resign as our political correspondent Nick Oddly the most noticeable absentee will be Sajid Javid he refused yesterday to sign up to a plan to shoot advisors with number 10 ultimately he took the decision to resign last night and a parting shot he said No self respecting Minister could have accepted the Prime Minister s demands the new chancellor is Rishi Chirac and he s due to deliver a budget and less than a month passengers on a cruise liner which was turned away by full of countries because of fears over the corona virus have been allowed off in Cambodia no one in boards tested positive that opened it see for 2 weeks the un is warning of a famine in East Afric
A senior Communist Party official has been sacked in the Chinese province at the center of the corona virus outbreak where a sharp rise in deaths from the disease has been reported who Baze Health Commission said 242 people had died in a single day more than double the previous highest daily total It also reported nearly $15000.00 extra cases of infection after including those diagnosed using a new clinical method yesterday the World Health Organization said there were signs the outbreak was stabilizing in China but officials there have been accused of underreporting cases our correspondent Nick Baek reports from Hong Kong Chinese state media said the party chief Zeon Childline was being replaced by a senior official from Shanghai who s close to President Xi Jinping his deputy was also relieved of his duties there was no explanation for the moves for the past week officials have reported a consistent fall in the number of new cases of Corona virus but these latest figures from who by
Mr Javid says he was told to fire his team of advisers if he wanted to stay in the job a condition he said he couldn t accept he s been replaced by Rishi soon Ike The B.B.C. s Nick ately says it s possible the prime minister was orchestrating Mr staff its departure there s speculation about maybe Boris Johnson knew all along that he was ad making too many demands of Sajid Javid and this made it easier to pick someone new into the job maybe he wanted regime slack the whole time the truth is we ll never know for sure sometimes these mark of alien things do go on in Westminster among the other changes the Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith has been sacked despite him playing a leading role in restoring a devolved government to stall month last month he s been replaced by Brendan Lewis and other news the head of n.h.s. England warned more people may have to stay at home and isolate themselves to prevent the corona virus from spreading in the u.k. Simon Stevens says more than 80 peopl