proceedings are now live so we can t say what happened. needless to say it s been an extensive search, 200 officers involved in members of the public, as well. you heard there from detective superintendent bassford his thanks for the help they ve had from the public notjust in the search button locating the couple who have been on the run since the first weeks of january. but clearly that s not the outcome anybody who s been following the story would ve wanted, and our hearts go out to the extended family on that development from brighton this evening. we will of course continue to cover the breaking news from brighton, i ll hand you to outside source. multiple carriages came off the tracks, and intern caught fire. the extent of the destruction became clear in daylight. the front carriages of the passenger train were mostly destroyed. many of the victims are thought to be university students. survivors describe panicked scenes as they tried to escape. let s hear from one. tra
accidentally or otherwise, from here, the wuhan institute of virology, in the chinese city where the virus was first recorded. but there is no scientific evidence of that, as we will look at shortly. lam iamjust i am just going to stress this. first, let s look at what the director of the fbi, christopher wray, has told fox news. this was china s response. translation: the united states one down at once translation: the united states one down at once against translation: the united states one down at once against theirs translation: the united states one down at once against theirs at i translation: the united states one down at once against theirs at the i down at once against theirs at the laboratory leak theory which will not discredit china but which will further lower its own credibility. we urge the us to respect science and facts, to stop politicising the origin tracing of the coronavirus. china saying categorically this theory is not
pointing to a lab leak. ..which brings us to the other theory that scientists say is more likely. the natural origin theory that covid originated from a natural spill over from infected animals. supporters of that theory say covid emerged in bats, thenjumped to humans, most likely through another animal. as we ve reported. here s victoria gill. in the initial outbreak, when there was a cluster of pneumonias that were sometimes sadly fatal, that trickled down back triggered our warning signs of a global outbreak triggered. we were looking for people who are very sick. now we have the missing pieces of that puzzle. there were two key things that scientists did in this study, it was essentially looking at how those cases mapped out around the
here to figure out exactly what happened there. it s important to say here, there is no evidence that it leaked from a lab. so let s look at why this theory emerged. this place wuhan s huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. and if you look at this map you can see the market is near the wuhan institute of virology a lab which conducts research into viruses like coronaviruses. the theory is it could have leaked from the lab and spread to the wet market. in 2021, experts from the world health organization went to wuhan to carry out a joint investigation with china. they said the lab leak theory was extremely unlikely . but that investigation has been criticised. our correspondent in beijing, steven mcdonell explains.
it is not a polite tennis match. this is an existential struggle over what life would look like in the zist what life would look like in the 21st century. and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. so relations between the us and china are tense right now. not only over tiktok. there s also another spat going on. this one is about the china covid lab leak theory. nearly three years on since the start of the pandemic, it s back in the news, with new allegations from the us, and pushback from china. that theory is that coronavirus may have escaped, accidentally or otherwise, from here, the wuhan institute of virology in the chinese city where the virus was first recorded. but there is no scientific evidence of that, as we will look at shortly. first, let s look at what the director of the fbi christopher wray has told fox news: the fbi has for quite some time now assessed