Of arson all day. And indonesias plans to move jakarta, the worlds fastest sinking city, to the jungle covered island of borneo but at what cost . Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1 00 in the morning in london, and 8pm in new york, where stock markets have fallen sharply for a second day in a row. Investors are increasingly concerned about the coronavirus. The dow closed down by more than 3 again, and that comes after markets in asia and europe also fell sharply. We have asia markets reopening again falling this morning. The global total of covid 19 cases is now above 80,000. The vast majority are in china, where the rate of new infections is now slowing but theres been a significant rise in south korea. Officials say they want to test around 200,000 members of a religious sect, which is at the centre of the outbreak, as laura bicker reports. Save the people of daegu is the cry as the president arrive
Wanting to crack down on protest and rebellion. A senior officialfrom the World Health Organization has warned countries around the globe to prepare immediately for the further spread of the coronavirus. Theres particular concern about the number of cases in iran. The Deputy Health minister there whos been at the forefront of efforts to control the spread of infection has now tested positive for the virus. Our correspondent Rana Rahimpour from bbc persian has the latest. Here in tehran the authorities spray disinfectant outside the home of a man who has died from the coronavirus, officially, 16 people have died and 95 are infected, but many believe the real figures to be far higher. On monday, irans Deputy Health minister, here on the left, publicly denied a cover up, while he himself looked unwell. 2a hours later, he took to twitter to reveal he had been diagnosed with the virus. Translation i would like to inform you that i also have got corona. I had fever from yesterday. My primary
Further north, clear skies, but some wintry showers and snow on the hills across scotland. It will be cold here with frost and ice but less cold in the south because of the rain. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines an infant school in berkshire is the latest place to close, after one of its staff tests positive for coronavirus, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the uk to 23. Labour calls for home secretary priti patel to attend the commons tomorrow to explain allegations from her departing Civil Service chief that she bullied staff. It comes as the Prime Minister and his partner Carrie Symonds reveal their engagement and a new arrival, which is due at number ten in the early summer. In the us, democrat president ial candidate joe biden wins his first primary in South Carolina, boosting his chances of being his partys candidate to take on donald trump in novembers election. Now on bbc news, the capital in the sea exploring indonesias plans to move its capital from the climate
Airasia flight 8501. It was en route from the city there on the bottom part of your screen surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air Traffic Control early undsunday morning. It was a short flight just under two hours long. The pilot at some point well into the flight i believe asked to change routes because of the weather. And soon afterwards contact with that airport airplane was lost. This is a picture of the plane were talking about. Its an airbus a320. We do know how many people were on that flight now. 162 on the flight manifest. Thats 155 passengers and seven cry. Most on board were indonesians with three south koreans, one singaporean, one from malaysia and one french person on board. We have also learned of the passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. The ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong. We havent heard from them in a while. If we get any updates from the Airline Company itself
Just hours ago, bad weather descended on the search area in the java sea. Do you think that the numbers of bodies recovered will be growing rapidly . Translator we dont know. Because the victims, i believe most of them are still inside the aircraft and they have their safety belts buckled. We hope that the evacuation process will go fast. Cnns gary tuchman is in surabaya where the doomed flight began and where the victims will make their final journey home. Reporter carol, ten bodies have been recovered from this airasia plane. There are still 152 souls no the rofd. Behind me the Crisis Center at this airport where their loved ones took off from people getting counseling getting religious counseling, getting food, bat water, watching newscasts, hoping for any word about the recovery of the bodies of their loved ones. Most of them have come to terms with the fact that their loved ones did not survive that terrible accident. Right now theres no longer a mystery about where this plane wen