This is bbc news. Welcome if youre watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top stories china changes the way it counts the coronavirus the numbers have soared to a new high. Italys parliament votes to allow ex interior minister Matteo Salvini to face trial for stopping migrants from landing. The pope says no to married priests, not even in the worlds most remote regions. And a turtle as big as a car scientists in south america unearth a fossil of giant proportions. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus epidemic has reported a sharp rise in the number of confirmed deaths after changing its methods of diagnosis. Hubei province said there had been an additional 2a2 fatalities, more than double the Previous Daily record. Its also announced nearly 15,000 new cases. The change in diagnostic approach comes days after Top Health Officials in hubei were sacked. 0ur correspondent, nick beake, has t
into a post pandemic recovery, with a legally binding target to halt the loss of species by 2030. bringing together all the different actors in those landscapes the farmers, the conservation groups, the water companies, the house builders, the local government then this really could work. and if you see the power of a legally binding target that we ve seen on climate change which has really shifted the dial in this country then i m very hopeful that something comparable on nature will begin to move us in the right direction on that subject, too. the new plans set out to tackle the nature and climate crises together, by planting more trees and also restoring 35,000 hectares of peatland an area about the size of the isle of wight. but that s only about 5% of the peatland in england. so this is black lake. a promise to phase out the sale of peat in garden centres has been welcomed by conservation groups, but they say it s long overdue. it d be deeply embarrassing if, by the time
called it revolutionary. though homosexual sex has been legal injapan since 1880, same sex couples are often banned from mutual hospital visits and find they cannot rent flats. a rare species of bird in australia has become so endangered it s forgetting how to sing its own song. there are only about 300 regent honeyeaters left in the wild, and because they rarely hear each other, some have started imitating the songs of other species. victoria gill reports. birdsong. with only 300 left in the wild, the striking regent honeyeater and its song are disappearing from their native south eastern australia. researchers had set out just to find and monitor the remaining birds when they noticed that some honeyeaters no longer sang the right tune.
of other species. victoria gill reports. only 300 left in the wild, the striking regent honeyeater and its own disappearing from their native south eastern australia. researchers had set out to find and monitor the remaining birds, when they noticed that some honeyeater is no longer saying the right tune, songbirds around the world like these familiar uk species learn to sing in very much the same way that humans learn to speak, they listen to and copy other adults. ~ . , adults. what we re finding is that the population - adults. what we re finding is that the population is - adults. what we re finding is that the population is now i adults. what we re finding is| that the population is now so small and so sparsely distributed that some young males are actually unable to find other males to learn their songs from, and so they are ending upjust learning songs from, and so they are ending up just learning the
birdsong. and, why this is so unusual the bird that s now so rare in the wild, it s forgotten how to sing its own song. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s olly foster. rachel blackmore has had another winner at the cheltenham festival. the first race of the day was the ballymore novices hurdle, just over two and half miles, blackmore, who won the champion hurdle yesterday, was on the six quarters favourite, bob olinger, also trained by henry de bromhead, and she came home well clear for another grade one win. the big race on day is the queen mother champion chase just after three, there s commentray on 5live sports extra. three weeks after breaking his leg