Union oks a new sea and their patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean and russia has big plans for facial recognition we take a closer look at the legal attempts to shut it down. And far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 from holders our hell out of saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. Welcome to the program more than 300 americans have been flown home after 2 weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship as the fight to contain the coronavirus continues the diamond princess which is docked in yokohama has become the biggest single cluster of infections outside china with more than 450 people unwell in the epicenter of the outbreak more than 70000 people have been confirmed to have the virus in china with nearly 1800 deaths among them the peoples daily newspaper reports that the high ranking director of a 100 hospital has died from the virus well the lockdown in chinese a cities is continuing and one of the countrys most important political ga
Libya starting sea and air patrols and heavy clashes reported between the saudi military and tribal forces in the east of yemen. So the World Health Organization is saying the china coronavirus officially known as coded 19 is less deadly than previous outbreaks like but it is more infectious this is according to data thats been pulled from a chinese medical report it says 80 percent of those who contract the virus only have mild symptoms and will recover another 14 percent are suffering from the severe complications of pneumonia with 5 percent in a Critical Condition and for 2 percent of patients it is proving deadly older patients are the one of the high risk and although it is as we said less deadly than sobs because of the infection right its ended up killing many more people in. Similar timeframe that will make sense well the World Health Organization had said that the data is giving us a clearer picture of the impact of the virus. The did also appear to show a decline in new cases
All the sport katie shanahan. Hello, simon. Arsenal and everton are edging closer to appointing their new managers. Arsenal are in talks with their former captain, mikel arteta. While everton are hoping to secure their number one target, Carlo Anchelotti. Thanks, katie. And darren has all the weather. Thanks very much. Good afternoon. Our weather is a fairly quiet right now, more overnight frost tonight and fog around, too. On the other side of the atlantic the weather has much more energy, some storm damage to look at in the United States later in the programme. Thanks, darren. Also coming up and how pop star Ellie Goulding came to the aid of a driver being shunted sideways by a lorry. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. He boris he johnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting borisjohnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting since his election victory and promised to pass a law ruling out any extension to the Brexit Process beyond the end of next year. The uk is schedu
Itv star Caroline Flack will not be presenting the new love island after being charged with assault. A lucky escape on one of londons busiest roads and the celebrity who came to the rescue. And coming up on bbc news, questions asked over liverpools decision to send a youth side to play in the league cup whilst their first team will play in qatar, despite their poor human rights records. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. John worboys, the serial sex offender whos been injailfor ten years, has been sentenced again this time, two life terms for attacking four more women. The court heard that worboys, who drugged women in the back of his black cab, remains as dangerous as ever. He now calls himselfjohn radford. As our special correspondent lucy manning explains, the women came forward last year after the controversy surrounding the possibility of his release. The black cab rapist would have been freed. Instead, he could now spend the rest of his life in prison. The authoriti
And two metal detectorists are found guilty of stealing and concealing a viking hoard of coins and jewellery worth millions of pounds much of which is still missing. Jeremy corbyn has unveiled labours general election manifesto and vowed to transform the United Kingdom if they win. He unveiled the wide ranging plans in birmingham promising what he called a green transformation of the economy and a manifesto for hope. A Labour Government would nationalise rail, mail, water and energy companies. They would build at least 150,000 new council and social homes every year until 2025. And mr corybn said thered be a one off windfall tax on Oil Companies to pay back the damage done to the climate. Thered be big tax increases on higher earners and companies to pay for the plans. A leading Economist Says the scale of the proposals is enormous. Heres our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg and a warning her report contains flash photography. Is it time . Time for a much bigger state . Time for a go