Translator we will be securing hospitals to specialize in covid19. Two hospitals will now exclusively care for coronavirus patients, each offering about 100 beds. Officials plan to secure 200 more covid19 beds spread across 14 hospitals. Ministers and experts met on friday to discuss antivirus measures. The experts proposed using a fofourstage classificatation sm to monitor the coronavirus situtuation. The approach would use six criteria, including case numbers and the percecentage of coronavirus tests which provide posititive results. S. They say many parts of the country are in stage two, seeing a gradual spread. The head of the expert panel says at stage three, officials should ask bars, which arent following virus prevention guidelines, to close. Translator when the situation is classified as stage four, logically speaking, its time to issue a state of emergency declaration. The minister in charge of the Coronavirus Response says the priority must be supporting the medical system.
Ill be back tomorrow. Mike will be here at the top of the hour. Now on bbc news. Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The International Outcry prompted by chinas imposition of a draconian new National Security law in hong kong has been long and loud, but will it make any difference . Inside the territory itself, protests have been muted and the main pro democracy activist movement, well, its disbanded itself. My guest today was one of the founders of that movement, nathan law. He is now in exile here in london. So, is chinas hardline hong kong strategy working . Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for the invitation. Lets begin with your current situation. Why did you decide to flee hong kong . Well, as we all know, the hong kong government, well, at least accepted, or the Central Government directly enacted, the National Security law in hong kong, which. It is written in such a broad and fake term that could well possibly be used as a legal weap
Is there live in an attack air in techie that japans Prime Minister says he expects south korea to work on rebuilding trust after seoul ended an intelligence sharing agreement between the neighbors this comes amid a trade route and a dispute over compensation for South Koreans who were forced into war time labor by the japanese government bride reports from Seoul South Korea says it had been hoping until the last minute to avoid pulling out of the pact blaming japan for whats now become the most serious deterioration in relations in decades young japan created a green change in bilateral Security Cooperation we have determined it would not serve our National Interest to maintain an agreement to exchange sensitive military information. The intelligence sharing agreement was set up 3 years ago to counter the nuclear and missile threats from north korea its breakdown comes at a time of increased missile testing by pyongyang what anymore because the south korean decision completely misjudg
The chances do you think of a breakthrough. Well it depends what you mean by a breakthrough its quite possible although were not expecting a press conference that there will be some sort of agreement in the next few hours on what we believe president mccraw is going to suggest some months allowing certain countries for a limited time to purchase Iranian Crude Oil because at the moment those purchases are under those u. S. Sanctions so they want theyre suggesting that there are waivers brought in at least for a just for a limited time so that discussions with the iranian government can begin in earnest of course theyre well aware also of the tensions in the gulf with the seizure of those tankers they want something the french government wants something that they can bring to the table at the g. 7 meeting this week a. Its micro himself admits that there are divisions within the g 7 over iran but whats not clear right now is whether such proposals will get any headway with President Trump
But the good news is the severe storms have continued to ease as weve gone through the last few hours so some if you but hopefully nothing more than that big sway the crowd heading across said the northwest pushing through the u. K. But in between all this cloud some very nice areas of weather this is a view in the english countryside heading down tools of. Sunshine within the clouds now as we continue into friday there is more rain and some thunderstorms quite scattered but along the line of the alps and that rain and just pushing further tools east rather murky day across into west and central ukraine kiev weve got. And then the next system really is waiting in the wings across northern sections of the u. K. This is where as hes in pretty strong winds and also the chance of more rain but not just that what we have got between the systems is some very warm as a look at these how much is 32 celsius in paris 28 in london 30 in these how much is are actually as much as 8 degrees above th