in the second article of impeachment. president trump is acquitted by the senate of all impeachment charges. and how should you pay for the bbc‘s programmes on tv, radio and online, as ministers say it's time to look at the licence fee. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news: tottenham and southampton battle it out for a place in the fifth round of the fa cup. good evening. the chinese authorities are warning that they face a severe shortage of beds and equipment to treat the growing number of people with coronavirus, as it spreads rapidly across the country and abroad. nearly 500 people have now died and tens of thousands of others have been infected. 7a million people are now under some sort of travel restriction, with many being told not to leave their homes. meanwhile, thousands of passengers and crew on two cruise ships have been placed in quarantine after a number of people on board tested positive for the virus. 0ne ship is docked in hong kong; the other, this one, the diamond princess, off the coast of japan. more on that in a moment, but first, john sudworth reports from beijing. wuhan is a city at war, with an invisible enemy. and they're trying everything they can to defeat it. state media is now full of images of an heroic struggle — the brand—new hospitals held up as proof it's one they're winning. but xiao huang is not so sure. it took him days to find his grandad a bed in this hospital corridor. shortly after this video was taken, he was dead. he fears his grandmother, who also has the virus, is dying too. "if they'd been admitted earlier, of course, things would have been better", he tells me. wuhan is overwhelmed by illness, with hundreds more cases than available beds, and these patients hooked up to makeshift drips. one woman, who doesn't want to be identified, tells me that her uncle's death won't even be counted in the official statistics. "there are so many cases like his", she says. this is the death certificate. he never made it to hospital. it's thought the virus may be less contagious than seasonal flu. all of this might the transmission, as far have been prevented. as is understood from current in mid—january, knowing the virus evidence, is face—to—face. was already spreading fast, the authorities allowed this massive when a patient coughs on someone who is not infected, community banquet to go ahead — they can become infected from the droplets that putting the economy and political occur in that cough. stability ahead of public health. it's not propelled by a sneeze, which aerosolises virus in the air with the epidemic raging, and spreads it from person to person travel records show five million at a distance. people were able to leave wuhan unlike flu, that may help prevent before the city was the spread of coronavirus, finally locked down. and reduce the risk of a pandemic. with infections now taking hold fergus walsh, bbc news. across china, other cities have begun imposing restrictions. 00:04:12,962 --> 2147483051:38:51,195 in nanyang, hangzhou, wenzhou, 2147483051:38:51,195 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 harbin only one person per household in the last half an hour, the us senate has found president trump not guilty of abuse of power and the obstruction of congress in his historic impeachment trial. donald trump had been charged with high crimes and misdemeanours by the members of the house of representatives but, as expected, the republican majority in the senate cleared him — which means he'll fight for re—election in november. 0ur north america editor jon sopel reports. senators, how say you? is the respondent, donald john trump, guilty or not guilty? a impeachment. mr alexander, not guilty. miss baldwin? guilty. and then the verdict. it is then ordered and adjudged donald trump equated of the charges and said articles. but the charges and said articles. but the wall of republican unity was broken by mitt romney. the former presidential candidate with a bombshell speech, said he would vote to convict the president of the abuse of office. the great question the constitution tasked senators to a nswer the constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level ofa high egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanour. yes, he did. with the impeachment process now behind him, donald trump is seeing his approval ratings inching up. the republican party is standing right behind him and the democrats have had a shocking few days after the shambles of the iowa caucus. it's all turning out to be a very good week for donald trump. cheering and last night he delivered a highly partisan state of the union address that could have been for a republican rally. but the shadow of impeachment couldn't be missed is donald trump pointedly snubbed the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who led moves to impeach the president. her outstretched arm ignored. and there speakas much disdain was etched on herface as speakas much disdain was etched on her face as the president made his remarks. and then, in an extraordinary act of defiance, or petulance, opinion is divided, nancy pelosi ripped up her copy of his speech. in his speech, the president focused on the strength of the economy, something he hoped would be his trump card in this election year. jobs are booming, income is soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and oui’ falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. applause but to look at the faces of those listening. loving from one side, loathing from the other. a microcosm of america, a foretaste of how bitterly contested this election will be. jon sopel, bbc news. the way in which the bbc is funded and how that money is collected looks set to become a major talking point in the weeks ahead. the government is launching a public consultation and a key issue will be whether failing to pay the licence fee should still be a criminal offence. the culture secretary, baroness morgan, is arguing that in the digital age, the way we get our news and entertainment is changing, and the bbc may have to change too. here's our media editor amol rajan. right, back to the studio floor... it's almost a century old, yet the chances of the bbc existing with its current funding model for another decade are receding — fast. the health of our oceans is under threat... three—quarters of the bbc‘s money comes from the licence fee, a compulsory payment for households who watch live television or the iplayer. it means bbc programmes, such as those starring sir david attenborough, are funded not commercially or by the state, but by the public. this morning, the culture secretary made the case for reform in the context of a revolution in global media. the bbc has a current charter that runs until 2027. there's always a review midway, and what we'll be doing is looking at the amount of the licence fee now and this issue around whether there should be decriminalisation of licence—fee evasion. the bbc says its focus is programmes, not prosecutions. there are some myths that need to be busted here. the current system works effectively. only a small number of people are prosecuted, and a tiny proportion of people — five in england and wales last year — went to prison not for failure to pay a tv licence, but for failure to pay a number of fines. it's fashionable to say that the bbc should be more like netflix, a subscription service worth around £125 billion today. but the comparison is lazy. netflix has racked up billions of debt on a spending spree and has negative cash flow of around £2 billion annually. where would the bbc get access to that kind of finance? and moving to a subscriber base would change the very nature of the bbc from a universal service to one tailored just to those willing to pay. the bbc licence funds content across tv, radio and online. but the younger you are, the less of it you consume. i don't think people really watch tv nowadays. and everything's online, isn't it? so... i know you can access bbc online, and that's free. i don't think we should be paying for it. i think that's outdated now. i think it's fine for the services that you get. ithink... we pay sky monthly, but a lot cheaper, and stop prosecuting people. # step into christmas... the bbc still produces big hits from gavin and stacey... to flea bag. but ultimately it can't do more and more with less and less. amol rajan, bbc news. one person has died and more than 150 people have been injured after a passenger plane skidded off the runway in istanbul. the boeing 737, operated by the turkish low—cost carrier pegasus airlines, broke into three pieces on landing. 177 people were onboard. the health secretary, matt hancock, says the government will adopt the recommendations from the inquiry into the disgraced surgeon, ian paterson. paterson is serving a 20—year prison sentence for wounding patients by performing unnecessary mastectomies and other surgeries. the report criticised "a culture of avoidance and denial" and recommended the recall of his 11,000 patients for their treatment to be assessed. the old bailey has heard how a man accused of helping his brother — who was the manchester arena bomber — had asked friends to buy him chemicals. hashem abedi is accused of working with his brother salman to make the bomb which killed 22 people at a pop concert in 2017. he denies murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. voters in ireland go to the polls this week in a general election. three years ago when leo varadkar, who is openly gay and mixed race, became the irish prime minister, he was seen as a symbol of modern ireland. but now he is facing a possible defeat, while there appears to be growing support for the irish republican party sinn fein. here's our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. the ancient west of ireland has seen rapid change. galway, now the 2020 capital of culture. never mind. but long—time resident nuala ward, the woman behind ireland's oldest gay pride, remembers a less liberal city. i came out as lesbian. i didn't know the word lesbian, and i didn't know what coming out was. leo varadkar has been symbolic of ireland transformed. the legalisation of abortion under his premiership, a watershed moment. yes, there's been enormous, huge positive change, and it is wonderful, particularly for our young generations, but we have a hell of a way to go. homelessness, our health—care system. there's been an awful lot of cuts in leo varadkar‘s time too. the high cost of living, hospital overcrowding and a major shortage of housing are turning people away from the main parties, while polls have indicated a dramatic increase in support for sinn fein. i think the housing crisis is so big that people are going out to vote on that topic. graduate niamh has struggled to rent a place. there are families that are living in emergency accommodation, and then you've got the other part of it, where there's the likes of me and other working professionals that are young that are just looking for a room to live in. hello, and you're very welcome to prime time: the leaders' debate... after a poll by the irish times suggested sinn fein were now in the lead, the irish broadcaster rte was forced to make a late change and include sinn fein president mary lou mcdonald in last night's debate. but in large parts of ireland, the party still struggles to shake off its historical links to the ira. i think they've become the voice of the left in ireland, but their history makes it difficult for a lot of people to be able to reconcile their progressive policies with their bloodied past. younger people are judging based on policies. sinn fein‘s past is less important? yeah, i guess so, i mean, i'm focusing on the future. the surge for sinn fein has become the shock of this election, but because of the party's old connections, fianna fail and fine gael insist they won't go into coalition with them, and no party is expected to win an overall majority. brexit hasn't been a major topic. there's broad agreement about the country's approach, but whoever emerges as taoiseach will influence the trade deal the uk is hoping to achieve. and while scars still remain from ireland's strict past, it's the new social problems that's driving voters' thirst for change. emma vardy, bbc news, dublin. two avalanches have killed at least 38 people in eastern turkey. many of the dead were rescue workers looking for survivors of the first incident which happened yesterday in van province. it is unclear how many people remain buried under the snow. the number of new cars sold last month fell by 7.3%, despite the number of electric vehicles being bought nearly doubling. the society of motor manufacturers and traders said 11,700 fewer new cars were registered injanuary than during the same month in 2019. they blame the fall in sales on the confusion over diesel and clean air zones and weaker consumer confidence. the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has told the bbc that she fears she is being "squeezed" by her rivals — sir keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey — for the labour leadership. she said under her leadership the party would be "more professional", and there would be a "leap of credibility". in the latest in our series of interviews with the leadership candidates she has been talking to our political editor, laura kuenssberg. the whole approach is just wrong. an awful lot went wrong for labour. she's lagging behind her rivals in this race. people are giving us their e—mails... but could emily thornberry, london mp and shadow foreign secretary, be the person to put it right? the labour party doesn't need to go through some kind of great existential crisis about who it is that we are. i think we know who we are, and we're proud of it. i think whatjeremy brought to us was an authenticity and an ability, and a confidence to speak from the heart. i think there were some terrible tactical errors in relation to the general election. and i have been open about the disagreements i had. you were in the room... yes. ..you were part of the team that led the labour party to an historic defeat. do you think, then, this isn't a crisis for the labour party? no, but i think what we should be doing is not going back to having this crisis about who are we, what are we doing. i don't disagree with anything that was in the manifesto, i'll be honest with you. but there was far too much of it. there was far too much of it. we were announcing four orfive policies a day. i mean, i couldn't keep up with it, let alone anybody else. you were part of the misjudgments that got the party to that place. so, i ask again, why should you be, how can you be part of the solution? what i'll say is that politics is a team sport. and i was part of a team. and i did what i could do to try to make things go the right way. but, in the end, it is a matter... all you can do is advise if you're not the leader. i believe it is my duty to stand up at this stage and say, i can help sort things out. with me as leader, we would be doing things in a different way. how would it be different? we would be more professional. we would be more believable, we would be more credible, and people would say, oh, thank goodness the labour party's back. there's a lot of meet and greet to do. she's less than a fortnight to scoop up support from unions or local labour parties to get into the last round. thank you, thanks a lot. bye — bye. the contest has been dominated so far by two others, keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey. why do you think you're so far behind? unfortunately, the labour party can very easily fall into the good old way of fighting things in the labour party — it's left versus right. for the leader to take us forward, we need to have the best candidate. so, to a certain extent, it's a good old—fashioned squeeze. and i've had people saying to me, well, emily, i was going to support you, but we've got to stop keir starmer, so i'm voting for rebecca long—bailey. and then i've had other people to saying to me, i was going to support you, but i can't, because we've got to stop rebecca long—bailey, so i have to vote for keir. and i'm going, hang on, hang on, isn't the thing to do to vote for the best candidate? do you have any tory friends? rebecca long—bailey said she didn't think she did, and keir starmer told us of course he did. i think i probably have some tory friends. particularly members of my husband's family. but i have never kissed a tory in that way. that would be true to say. making it to the top job right now seems unlikely. but emily thornberry has rarely gone down without a fight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. sir tom stoppard, the veteran playwright behind hits such as "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead" and "arcadia", has a new work called leopoldstadt, which has premiered in london. it follows an austrian jewish family during the first half of the 20th century. he talked to our arts editor, will gompertz, about the play and his roots, bothjewish and british. in his 60—year—plus career, the playwright tom stoppard has explored many a topic. it was philosophy injumpers... to begin at the beginning is god. ..quantum physics in hapgood... an isotope solution, if i open the case, i give a geiger reading. i love you. ..and a troubled marriage in the real thing. so you'll forgive me anything, is that it, hen? i'm a selfish cow but you love me? austria is officially innocent. the estatic multitudes who welcomed hitler — innocent victims. now, at the age of 82, he's tackling, for the first time, his jewish background, in an epic new play that follows the life and losses of an aspirationaljewish family living in vienna. the play actually starts in 1899 and is in four time periods, between then and, ultimately, 1955. i just wanted to show a family which was fairly representative of those families whose photographs, to this day, you encounter every now and again and it's always the same photograph of a different family, in a strange way. this is one such photograph. it's of tom stoppard's mother's family in what is now the czech republic. both his mother and father werejewish and left the country when hitler moved in. his father was killed in singapore, his mother remarried a british army officer and moved to england, where the past was rarely mentioned nor enquired about by her playwriting son. 0n the whole, it's a terrible thing to have to say, but i wasn't that interested. i was deeply interested in the english roots which i didn't have. do you feel bad about that, in hindsight? well, i do feel bad about it in hindsight, in the sense that it would have entailed a kind of embracing ofjewish race. even though i'd never actually felt jewish and never thought of myself as a jewish writer. 0n the contrary, i was proud to be an english writer. american dollars have kept us afloat. leopoldstadt is not a directly autobiographical play, but it is a profoundly personal reflection on a culture and a troubled history from which the boy tomic straussler, subsequently called tom stoppard, would emerge. will gompertz, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. the first fatal collision of its kind in this country. her boyfriend is now calling for tighter regulations. here's our transport correspondent, tom edwards. keep the chest nice and high, sit the weigh into the heels... jake is a personal trainer. he lost his partner emily last summer, after she was involved in a collision with an hgv while riding an e—scooter. it has been devastating. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm katie shanahan, coming up on the programme tonight. spurs soldier 0n to the fa cup fifth round, as southampton are knocked out israel folau's new move to catalan dragons pushes the super league to want more authority when it comes to controversial signings. and, how could the coronavirus affect upcoming sports events? the chinese grand prix is the latest one in real doubt. hello and welcomne to the programme, the final fa cup fourth round replay is done and dusted and what a match it was at the tottenham hotspur stadium. spurs went ahead against southampton, then went behind, before finally rallying to win 3—2 in the 87th minute. imran sidat watched the drama unfold. we may only be in february that this was already the third meeting between these two sides this year. both managers were not happy about getting a part of their winter break for this replay. he had reason to chair as both of their efforts found their way into the big diffraction. southampton had their chance to hit back immediately but he was work. the chances kept coming and he big edge they took that momentum into the second half, and when he got another chance he wasn't to be done out. his 17th goal of a quite remarkable season to be. his 17th goal of a quite remarkable season at southhampton. that seemed to force a below par spurs into action as he pulled that level. the pain now since a winner? moments later he was through and down he went to the penalty. he doesn't himself down and made no mistake to set up a fifth—round meeting against norwich. he may not have wanted the fa cup to disperse trophy drought. my team to within the limits. it limits me when players are available, not available. it limits them because two days ago, it was such an incredible match. especially for lucas it's almost genetic for some. to pray every minute like they are playing. selby suffered. we played against a very good team, we played against a very good team, we played against a very good team, we played against a team that was the best on the patch. they were better than us. we deserved to randall. celtic remain seven points clear at the top of the scottish premiership. their old firm rivals rangers won 2—1 at home to hibernian. but celtic enjoyed a thumping four—nil victory at motherwell. 0dsonne edward scored twice for celtic, but the pick of the goals was the third, a rocket from callum mcgregor. that's celtic‘s 11th consecutive domestic away win. elsewhere there were wins for st.johnston, kilmarnock and ross county. while the match at the foot of the table between st.mirren and hamilton finished 1—all. to rugby league as the super league has voted at a board meeting today to have more influence to prevent controversial signings in the future. this follows israel folau's move to catalans dragons. the australian rugby player has not played for 10 months after being sacked by rugby australia for homophobic comments. but he's being given another chance in rugby league,

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