let s begin with the coronavirus outbreak, because firms and factories in china are expected to get back to work this week after an extended spring festival break. but across the country, some factories will stay closed, including carmakers toyota and honda, and what happens in china matters for the rest of us. china alone now accounts for 39% of global growth. to give you a sense of scale, china is the world s largest oil importer, and so global oil consumption has fallen around 20% since the outbreak began. the spread of the coronavirus could also affect the phase one trade deal that the us and china worked out last month. our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani takes a closer look at what happens when the world s factory shuts down because of an international health emergency. from iphones to t shirts, to even your medicine, china is the factory for the world. more than a third of the world s clothes and shoes are made there, so when factories shut down and people
campaign for schools to teach self defence in her memory. they will be here to talk to us later. good morning. the government wants to ban petrol, diesel or hybrid cars as early as 2032. but are we really ready? i ll ask to the boss of one of the world s biggest car makers. good morning. late drama in south africa as england fluff their lines and lose their opening t20 international by a single run. good morning. we have a band of heavy rain moving northwards and eastwards. snow across northern england and southern scotland. that could be disruptive. behind it, some girls across southern counties and u nsettled girls across southern counties and unsettled weather right into the weekend with storm dennis. i ll have more later. good morning. it s thursday, february 13th. our top story: a further 240 people died from coronavirus in china yesterday the deadliest day of the outbreak. there was also a big increase in the number of new cases although doctors have started using a b
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