India and bangladesh are on high alert as we come on air. Theyre evacuating milions of people from the bay of bengal as one of the biggest cyclones in 20 years, powers towards them. Cyclone umpun is expected to make landfall later on wednesday. With winds of up to 185 kilometres an hour set to wreak havok on the region, as it still grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. There are fears that those fleeing the cyclone could end up spreading covid 19. Louise lear has been tracking its progess from the bbcs weather centre. Its still an extremely severe cyclonic storm, and it has the potential to cause devastating impacts across parts of northeastern states of india and also bangladesh. Notjust due to the strength of the winds and the huge storm surge across low lying areas of 4 5 metres high, but its the flooding rain. Now, if we take a look at the latest on the satellite picture, this storm has been forming and growing across the bay of bengal for nearly a week now. It looks likely to ma
Only one mourner today christina, from the council. People who might otherwise have been with us here today, roys family and friends, are absent, and so it falls to us few here to pay our respects and to bid farewell to him. Relatives, out of touch for years, care home staff in isolation. So, its left to strangers to say goodbye. He was born in october 1937, shortly before the second world war, but roys was a tough childhood, and in fact he never got to know his mum, who passed away. The actualjob is to arrange the funeral, but a funeral is a farewell and it is a summing up. We have to have something to say it would be too sad not to. So, christina set to work trying to find loved ones, building a picture of the man and his life. They do come into your affection, little snapshots of their personality, that you think, oh, i would have liked them. You know, and so, youre not going along just with a lanyard on as a council worker, tapping your hand, going, when is this finishing so i can
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