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Deal with the education, the anger management. Intervene and save the system money, save the victims going through this lengthy trial. A powerful earthquake has struck the Southern Coast of mexico, killing at least 20 people. The 13 Year Old Girl whose organs were donated after her death has transformed more lives than any other organ donor in the uk. And, on track to do the double. Can chris froome add the Vuelta Espana title to his Tour De France victory earlier this year . Coming up in the sport on bbc news england lost dawid malan by the time rain stopped play on the second day of the deciding test against west indies at lords. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. At least 14 people have been killed and more than a Million People have been affected by the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma as it barrels through the caribbean. Millions of people are still under threat. The massive storm one of the most powerful Atlantic Hurricanes ever recorded was over haiti yesterday and caused widespread damage in the British Virgin islands overnight. Cuba is the next major country in its path its due to hit the island later today. Irma is then expected to make landfall in the United States over the weekend. In ourfirst report, jon donnison has the latest on the destruction across the region. Hurricane irma is proving to be relentless. The british territory of the turks and Caicos Islands among the latest places to be hammered. The wind has dropped but only slightly, still this was the moment irma passed over the British Virgin islands. And this is what is left in its wake. The major warning was when a skylight was blown off of our roof. You could hear the winds blasting through the upstairs of our house and at that moment, you thought the roof might go. That was the warning to get the hell downstairs into the basement, the most secure part of the building. A state of emergency has now been declared. All of us have been affected by irma, some more than others. Alongside the damage, there have sadly been reports of casualties and fatalities. I am truly heartbroken by this news. My thoughts and prayers are with each and every one of you. Viewed from space, irma looks almost serene but at 400 miles wide, its massive and it is now heading west to cuba. There, people are doing what they can to secure their homes and bracing themselves. Translation look at the state of the houses that people have here and you will realise the magnitude of the hurricane. What will happen to the town . What will happen to the people . Translation i do feel fear. How can i not feel it . What really worries me is that it will take the whole roof away. Just north in the bahamas they have also been getting ready for what could be a direct hit. People have been stockpiling fuel and food. Hurricane irma has already left a trail of destruction across the caribbean. The island of st martin is one of the worst affected areas. Dutch troops are on the streets to try to maintain order . The red cross says 1. 2 Million People have already been affected and that that figure could rise to 29 million by the end of the weekend when the storms due to hit florida. There, 7,000 National Guard have been brought in to help, with the National Weather Service Warning large parts of the state could be left uninhabitable for weeks or even months. With a storm surge of up to three metres expected, half a Million People have taken to the roads after being ordered to leave their homes. Two days after Hurricane Irma first hit land, the worst could still be to come. And another storm, jose, is sweeping in from the atlantic. Jon donnison, bbc news. The fringes of the storm have already begun to hit cuba. Will grant is in havana. The sense seems to be it will get worse where you are later in the day. Thats right, jane. Its been another anxious 2a hours for cubans, theyve had to watch this storm gradually get closer and see the destruction that its wrought across the caribbean in its path towards them, its been an unsettling time here on the island. We have seen the authorities here evacuate large parts of the east of the island and the northern coastline, thats obviously where a lot of tourists are based too, because of course people are heading to the low lying coastal zones, thats where resorts are and so on. There has been an effort to bring them here to other bigger cities. At this stage its beginning to turn into a crossing your fingers beginning to turn into a crossing yourfingers and beginning to turn into a crossing your fingers and praying situation. People are getting together with families, schools have obviously been cancelled for the day. We have just heard as well that flights out of cu ba just heard as well that flights out of cuba have been cancelled with the state run aviation companies. A precarious situation here in cuba and people waiting and watching. Thank you very much. Lets hear more about the situation in the bahamas. Our correspondent nick bryant reports from the bahamas on preparations there. Overnight this monster storm hit the turks and caicos and now it is starting to hit the bahamas as well. No longer category five, category four but it still packs winds of over 150mph and brings the storm surges 20 feet high. Five low lying islands here are particularly under threat which is why theyve mounted the biggest evacuation operation in its history, hundreds brought here to the capital nassau. It seems especially cruel that they are being hit again, less than 12 months ago they were pulled by hurricane matthew. The Prime Minister will chair an emergency cobra meeting this afternoon to discuss the response to Hurricane Irma. The royal navy delivered aid and three flights took off this morning taking marines and engineers. Another will leave raf brize norton later today, carrying troops and rations. It comes amid criticism that the uk hasnt responded quickly to the disaster. Duncan kennedy reports from raf brize norton. The loading operation at brize norton included tents, water and medical supplies. 30 loads at first, with more to come. Everything from ready made meals to an industrial fridge unit. Around 70 Royal Marines are also on board with a range of skills and experience of working in disaster areas. The base commander rejects claims britain has been slow to respond. Its very important that we understand the effects of the hurricane, where is open to us, where we can get to safely and thats what we have been doing the past 2a hours. Now we are ready to make the right judgments past 2a hours. Now we are ready to make the rightjudgments about where they can deliver that aid and we will do that as quickly as possible. The french have already established a base and its operation seems more advanced. British naval helicopters have been in anguilla working off a Navy Auxiliary vessel but its the speed of britains input thats been criticised today. What we definitely need to see is a sustainable, if not continued and permanent commitment to support the development of anguilla, at present, we have had precious little support of significant quantities and we need that now. Britain says it has responded as rapidly as possible. And is now offering more than £30 million of help. The fact is we had a royal naval vessel in the region because we knew the hurricane was coming. This is hurricane season. In fa ct, coming. This is hurricane season. In fact, we are always prepared. This is one of a number of rafjets heading to the region. In all there will be Something Like 300 Royal Marines on the ground over the space of the next two or three days. Even when they arrive there, no one is fully clear yet what their operational role is going to be and where they can get to. The race to get help to the people of the caribbean now involves operations from more than a dozen countries. The government is also sending longer term relief aid to the caribbean from the uk aid Disaster Relief stockpile in kemble in gloucestershire and phil mackie is there for us. Whats happening there, phil . Its been very busy here, jane. This vast hangar is filled with aid material, you can see pallets ready to be loaded. I think thats the third lorry load we have seen this morning. All kinds of stuff here, from vehicles, even a mobile field hospital. This is whats going out to the caribbean. These pallets contain this sort of equipment, for instance, portable lanterns that can be charged using this, it uses solar power. But, you can use that to charge up your phone and probably most importantly of all, this little water container. You power in the water container. You power in the water and it comes out clean, filtered and drinkable at the end. This is run by difod, you heard the secretary of state talking in that report about the effort going on, theyve obviously been criticised. Theyre saying originally this was going to go out to gibraltar to be loaded on to hms ocean which might mean it didnt reach the caribbean for at least a week or so. Now theyve charter flights. Three lorry loads will be getting to the caribbean in the next couple of days. Theyve said shelter kits have already arrived on anguilla and are about to be delivered to the British Virgin islands and its doubled its presence and theyve promised its not short term relief t will be long term relief planned for the british territories which have suffered because of Hurricane Irma. Thank you. The storm has already had a deadly impact across the caribbean. Matt taylor from the bbc Weather Centre is here to talk us through what the next few days have in store. Yes, certainly not done yet. As you heard, the recent areas to feel the wrath of Hurricane Irma have been low lying areas of turks and caicos and the southern bahamas. These are low lying areas, nothing to stop the path of that raging storm as it goes across. Nothing to hinder its progress. It has weakened a little to category four but still winds of over 150mph. And they could still strengthen over the days. Its continued to push west wards, it may clip the northern portion of cuba. The crucial thing could be where the eye of that storm is. The strongest of the winds. If it remains over open waters it will maintain strength. The water is key to keeping the ingredients there for that storm to maintain its strength. We need temperatures over 27 degrees for hurricanes to last. All the yellow colours where we have that, notice in around cuba and also florida, the orange colours, temperatures are above 30 at the moment. As it moves over that there could be potentially further strengthening. Into the weekend its for the storm to take a sudden northern track, pushing in somewhere between key west and miami and piling across the entire length of florida, perhaps dropping up to 350 millimetres of rain. The residents of florida are rightly concerned, the last category five storm to hit was a devastating one. The strongest and most devastating storm in floridas history, hurricane andrew, the warnings may have improved, building methods may have improved but people fear devastation could be on power on par with that. Katia could push into mexico through this weekend and also the devastated island of barbuda could get that as well. Miami, all eyes are there in the caribbean. Thank you very much. To miami now. As weve been hearing, florida is bracing itself for the storms impact over the weekend and more than half a Million People have been ordered to leave their homes in the state before landfall on sunday. The head of the federal Emergency Agency there has said the storm will devastate the United States. Cbs correspondent meg oliver is in miami. Whats happening there, meg . Jane, the director of fema also said he can guarantee that nobody in florida has ever experienced anything like irma. As you can imagine, ominous words. People are doing their best to prepare, this gas station is boarded up, its still open and they have some supplies but they have run out of gas along with the other gas station across the street and several other stations throughout the area. Meantime, people lucky enough to fill up with gas after waiting in long lines yesterday are now trying to outrun this terrifying storm. Miamis mayor called it a nuclear hurricane. Today, is the final day, preparations need to be made and people need to evacuate if they have been ordered to do so. Theyre also asking if you have family orfriends theyre also asking if you have family or friends in theyre also asking if you have family orfriends in florida and you can go there to be safe, thats a better option. They really are discouraging people from getting on the highways any later than right now. We know that shelters have started to open up and people are flooding those shelters. Theyre asking them to bring three days worth of food and water. This is going to be a catastrophic, epic storm. We have no idea what the aftermath is going to look like. They are going to need supplies. Thank you very much. You can keep up to date with all the elements surrounding Hurricane Irma. There is lots of background, information and maps on the bbc website. Now well take a look at the rest of the main stories this lunchtime. A review of the criminaljustice system in england and wales has found bias and discrimination in its treatment of people from black and minoirty ethnic backgrounds. The inquiry, commissioned by the government and led by the labour mp david lammy, raises particular concerns about the treatment of young people. The report calls for some prosecutions to be dropped, if suspects complete a drug or alcohol rehabilitation programme. Elaine dunkley reports. Noel williams was 11 when he first got involved in gangs. By the age of 13, he was in for robberies and drug dealing. I was in and out of the system. Went there three times. A lot of bullying goes on, and as we say, a lack of prison staff, so they dont really pick up on certain things. People are self harming. If theyre not cutting their arm, they are trying to kill themselves. He has now turned his life around but believes race and ethnicity play a part in how you are treated and punished within the criminal justice system. I feel its unjust. Of course, its unjust. And if you look at the sort of sentences that we get, they are longer, harsher, and people are coming out not rehabilitated. Sometimes theyre coming out and reoffending at a more accelerated rate than their counterparts. The lammy review makes a number of key recommendations, which include allowing some prosecutions to be deferred and possibly dropped if a Treatment Programme for issues such as drug or alcohol problems is successfully completed. Removing identifying information about ethnicity when cases are passed from police to prosecutors so racial bias doesnt influence charging decisions. And not declaring criminal records for minor offences when applying forjobs. I am very concerned about the youth justice system, and thats the pipeline into our adult prison system, so its very, very serious that the figures are quite as bad as they are. Im very worried about our prison system, where i do think there are still prisons where it is clear that there is an overt discrimination going on, and some of the treatment is just unacceptable. The government says it will look very carefully at the reviews finding. What struck me about the report too was the reality that very large numbers of british people from our black and ethnic minority communities lack confidence in the criminaljustice system. Its one of the largest reviews of its kind in highlights that radical reform is urgently needed to bring fairness to the justice system. Elaine dunkley, bbc news. The time is 17 minutes past one. Our top story this lunchtime Hurricane Irma continues to cut a trail of destruction through the caribbean. At least 14 people have been killed and a million affected. And still to come its been a frustrating morning at lords, but can englands cricketers recover from a bad start with the bat in the decisive third test . Coming up in sport fifa are to investigate tottenhams dele alli after tv pictures showed he made an offensive gesture during englands 2 1 win over slovakia on monday. The midfielder said it wasjust a joke. A 13 Year Old Girl who died from a brain aneurysm has helped a record eight different people, including five children, through Organ Donation. Jemima layzell, from somerset, who died in 2012, donated her heart, pancreas, lungs, kidneys, small bowel and liver. Jemimas parents said she was clever, compassionate and creative, and would have been very proud of her legacy. Helena lee has the story. This isjemima, the 13 year old who, after she died, transformed more lives than any other donor. In 2012, she collapsed while preparing for her mums birthday party. Four days later, jemima died from a brain aneurysm. It was only recently that staff at nhs blood and transplant discovered her special status. Her organs were donated into eight different people. Five of those were children. No one else in the uk has helped that many through Organ Donation. Jemimas parents say they are extremely proud of their daughter. Her legacy, her name, will continue. She hasnt died in vain. She has saved the lives of eight others, but shes also helping other families with brain injury through her charity. I think shed be completely overwhelmed. She would think it was extraordinary, and i dont think she could quite believe it. She was quite a modest person, and to think that everyone was talking about her, shed be a real mix of embarrassed and proud at the same time. Last year, a56 people died waiting for a transplant, including 1a children. There are currently 641a people on the transplant waiting list. That includes 176 children. There are thousands of people waiting for a transplant. Three People Per Day die. If you would be willing to accept an organ, you should be willing to donate, and thats what were asking people to consider and then make that decision that they will support Organ Donation. Jemimas parents say their sure she would be proud of her legacy. They hope other families will be encouraged to talk about Organ Donation and sign up to the register. Helena lee, bbc news. At least 20 people have been killed after an earthquake with a magnitude of eight struck southern mexico. The quake, which the president described as the strongest to hit the country in the past 100 years, struckjust off the pacific coast, shaking buildings in the capital, mexico city, hundreds of miles away. The tremor is reported to have lasted about a minute. Sarah campbell has this report. Mexico is a country used to earthquakes, but not of this magnitude. This was a Bowling Alley in the Southern State of chiapas. 600 miles away, in mexico city, the tremors lasted for up to a minute. Some people left buildings, preferring to stay outside on the street. Many could still remember the last massive earthquake in 1985, which killed thousands. It was pretty violent. I was a child when this earthquake in 1985 happened, and this was the biggest one, and it was pretty violent. A lot of panic scenes on the street, and in my building also, so really, this earthquake was something huge. As pictures start to emerge from the worst hit areas, the death toll has continued to rise. The fear is there may be more to come. Translation so far, there have been 65 after shocks. The strongest was magnitude 6. 1. However, its possible that over the next 2a hours we could see a shock that is as strong as the earthquake. The epicentre was a0 miles down, just off the southern mexican coast. Tsunami warnings have been issued to surrounding countries. In mexico itself, as daylight arrived, the extent of the damage will become all too clear. The un has called for urgent action to end the recent surge in violence in myanmar. The Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai says her fellow peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi should do more to protect the Rohingya Muslims fleeing the Ethnic Violence in the region. The unhcr estimates that more than a quarter of a Million People have sought refuge in neighbouring bangladesh in the past two weeks. The population of two refugee camps at coxs bazar, near the border with bangladesh, has more than doubled in a fortnight, with 70,000 people setting up camp there. Sanjoy majumder is there and sent us this update. Those are relief trucks bringing in aid for the rohingya refugees, mostly local volunteers, but some International Groups as well food, medicines, some have been distributing clothes. And it is for those people here, the latest batch of refugees to come in. Because there is no space anymore left in the camps, theyre just sitting by the side of the road. If you come over here, you can see that theyre even cooking a mealjust here in this temporary kitchen that theyve set up. Now, its been raining overnight, so conditions are really, really difficult. Theres so much mud and water everywhere, and you can see women and children just sitting here, absolutely no protection, just by the side of this busy road. Now, over the last 2a hours, 18,000 new refugees have come in, and the situation is becoming close to a crisis point. Ive been travelling up and down this road for the past seven days, and ive never seen it so crowded. Its getting to a point where bangladeshs Prime Minister said yesterday, she wants pressure to be put on myanmar to take all these people back home, back to where they belong. Sanjoy majumder on the myanmar bangladesh border. The Democratic Unionist Party says one of its mps, ian paisley, has rightly referred himself to the parliamentary commissioner for standards. The Daily Telegraph claims he failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds in hospitality from the sri lankan government. Ian paisley said the article was devoid of fact or logic. Bbc northern irelands Political Editor Mark Devenport is in belfast. Explain more about this, mark. The front page story on the Daily Telegraph today was about ian paisley, north antrim mp and son of the late founder of the Democratic Unionist Party. It is said he took himself and his family to sri lanka on two separate holidays in 2013, all expenses paid by the sri lankan government. When you added the business lights, helicopter flights and hotels together, it came to around £100,000 in hospitality which had not been declared in the mps register of interest. Ian paisley responded first by social media and then via a letter from his lawyer, saying this story was devoid of logic and fact and he would be referring himself to the parliamentary commissioner for standards. The dup, who play a vital role in westminster at the moment, propping up the conservative government, saying they think he has made the right move and they are looking forward to the outcome of the investigation by the standards commissioner. Mark devonport, thank you. After cycling more than 2000 miles in three weeks, britains chris froome is on course to become only the third man to complete the vuelta a espana and Tour De France double in the same year. The four time tour winner leads the race by a minute and 37 seconds with two competitive stages to go ahead of sundays parade into madrid. Andy swiss reports. Thed behind the handlebars chris froome within touching distance of a remarkable double. Not for nearly a0 yea rs has remarkable double. Not for nearly a0 years has a cyclist won the tours of france and spain in one summer, a total of a200 miles in barely two months, perhaps the ultimate feat of endurance. Wearing the leaders red jersey, froome is on the road to glory. He began yesterdays stayed with a lead of one minute, supported bya with a lead of one minute, supported by a phalanx of Team Sky Riders coming he set about extending it. He had struggled earlier in the week, but this time he found another gear, powering across the line with his nearest rival trailing behind him. It means froome now has a commanding lead, and he says the help of his team mates has been crucial. Lead, and he says the help of his teammates has been crucial. They have been amazing the last three weeks, and they have always been there for me when i have a tough days, and on better days like today, they were there to increase the pace. Nice to increase my lead by 21 seconds. That quite significant and imight seconds. That quite significant and i might need every second i can get. If froome can hold on, he willjoin a highly select group. Only two men have ever won the tours of france and spain in one year. For froome, it would cement his status among the true greats of his sport. Two tours, two titles, one extraordinary athlete. Andy swiss, bbc news. Its been a frustrating morning at lords, with rain delaying much of the mornings play in the decisive third test match between england and the west indies. There was just enough play for england to lose a wicket, and at lunch, theyre on 6a 5. Our Sports Correspondent joe wilson is at lords for us and sent this report. There is a reason why cricket isnt played in the autumn. This test match is stretching the season. But the play we see is fascinating england batting, trying to seize any moments they had vital time for the aspiring dawid malan. Yes, i can do this. At the crease here, maybe the worlds best all round cricketer. Ben stokes batting. And perhaps it was his growing stature that drew the Prime Minister to laws. Stay prepared for anything. Suddenly, malans innings was over. England we re malans innings was over. England were five wickets down, and the drizzle turned heavy. Even if the west indies captain would try to ignore it, where i yougov in . Englands batsmen sought the chance to leave before any more damage was done