Is infectious before symptoms show, making it harder to contend with. After more clashes in iraq, the shia cleric Muqtada Al Sadr tells his supporters to clear the streets to avoid an escalation. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 9 00 in the morning here in singapore, its 1 00am in london and it is 5 00 in the afternoon in california, where one of the all time greats of basketball, kobe bryant, has been killed in a Helicopter Crash. Reports say his helicopter went down into a hillside in calabasas in fog, killing nine people in all, including kobes teenage daughter. This report from our correspondent chris buckler, in washington. Whether they cheered him orfeared him, all basketball fans recognised kobe bryant as one of the sports greatest players. His entire 20 year career was spent in an la lakersjersey. His death on the outskirts of the city has left people across the United States grieving. He was on board