Way better numbers anticipated coming through. This is in yuan terms. March exports thought to be down 12. 8 . Official number suggesting they were down just 3. 5 . Imports year on year from 7 . 2. 4 . Ht increase of that is what we have at the moment coming through with the latest data from china and the department. Lets have a look at what else is going on. Hong kong schools have been closed since late january. Little hope classes will be resuming soon amid this coronavirus. They wonder there could be an exodus of students. Issue with thehe hong kong education secretary, kevin yeung. Kevin good morning. Did theseow long schools stay closed, secretary . Kevin it is difficult to tell. Health of our students is always our first priority. Are stillage we monitoring closely the coronavirus,f the whether the situation in hong kong and other places in the world, before we could finally make a decision when our schools could resume. What needs to change for you to actually change your policy
against afghanistan, winning by ten wickets. it followed a batting collapse from the visitors, who lost their last nine wickets forjust 82 runs. sri lanka s prabath jayasuriya took five of them. next, let s update you on the english premier league, where the title race has stepped up a notch after arsenal cut the gap to two points at the top of the table with a 3 1win at home to liverpool. bukayo saka opened the scoring for arsenal, before liverpool equalised through a gabriel own goal. then a defensive mix up between virgil van dijk and alisson allowed gabriel martinelli to put arsenal ahead, before liverpool had ibrahima konate sent off, then leandro trossard made it 3 1 for arsenal. that win moves them up to second in the table, but manchester city could overtake them when they visit brentford on monday evening. well, we know in the past how difficult it has been. only one it was always tight and we lost the two games we played last season. we know the standards that they
thanks very much. we ve got a bit of sunshine breaking through the cloud today. but on the whole, it is a cloudy but very mild start to the new week. the thickest cloud is further north across northern parts of scotland. it has been very grey and gloomy and very wet. there has been over 100 millimetres of rain in highland scotland. 0rfrom that slow moving weather front producing this band of thick cloud. that move southwards over the next few days and following on from that, we see this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air isjust in this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air is just in the finals of scotland. way from here, we have mild south westerly winds and temperatures at 12 degrees quite widely. across england and wales, cloudy and quite windy overnight. some further light rain or drizzle here and there in the hills. but the main band of rain is moving southwards across scotland overnight into northern ireland. allowing some wintry showers in