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winds to the uk, particularly across scotla nd winds to the uk, particularly across scotland with severe gales in the north. further rain in the forecast this week and we still have the rain in the hills to run down into the rivers so there still is the risk this week of further flooding. the reality dating show love island returns tonight with a tribute to its former host caroline flack, who took her own life at the weekend. counting the cost of the coronavirus. digger makerjcb cuts production from today because it can't get the parts it needs from china. i'll be taking a look at how other businesses are being affected. harry greg has died. he played under sir matt busby and 121 caps for north island. he was 87. it's monday, february the 17th. our top story: nearly 300 flood warnings remain in place across the uk this morning, in the aftermath of storm dennis. major incidents have been declared in south wales and parts of england, and there have been multiple landslides and floods, some trapping residents. hundreds more have been rescued from their homes in worcestershire and shropshire. graham satchell has more. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in a caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes were flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally. . absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in her front room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a months worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust 48 hours. it did — it did stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! oh, my... at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. on the welsh border at hey—on—why, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but a0 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. it tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again, families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart mcbain only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. in a moment we'll speak to jayne mccubbin who is in york, which is expecting high water in a few hour, but first, let's speak to breakfast‘s john maguire who is in the rhondda valley. we saw some of those images a little while ago, the problems in wales. how is it looking this morning? we we re how is it looking this morning? we were seeing how is it looking this morning? we were seeing some how is it looking this morning? we were seeing some of the pictures from here yesterday in grandpa's mac report. he talked about some of the ca i’s report. he talked about some of the cars being up. this, rather ironically, is called oxford street. the electricity is just being restored here in the last hour since we have been here. no—one at home this morning but look at the way some of these cars have just been picked up by the force of the floodwaters and jumped down in all sorts of strange angles. one car right in the middle—of—the—road day when we have seen people just heading into work this morning, they have just had to manoeuvre their way into this. some of the white cars show you the mud and there is mud all the way along the road here beneath my feet. as you go and look along the front of the houses here, all sorts of everyday, ordinary items have just been all sorts of everyday, ordinary items havejust been picked up by the force of the floodwater and jumped wherever nature has decided it is appropriate to do so. the houses have been marked by the emergency services to let emergency crews just to double check cash back double check they have been here. the water level will have been up above my waist. it came up quickly and dropped quickly which is so often the case. the river taff had burst its banks just a way up. we will be able to see more with a bit of daylight. water had come down here, an absolute raging torrent that as you can see from what has been left in its aftermath will have caused a lot of damage. as i say, things getting back to some sense of normality. at least the streetlights have been switched on and the power is back. 2000 other properties do not have power. it is going to be a long day and weeks and months ahead for people to recover. let's get the latest from wales now. jayne mccubbin. there are 16 flood warnings in york. this is one of the main town city centre car parks. it is completely underwater because the river has spilt over. the river is meant to be way beyond the tree line which is probably too dark for you to see at the moment. where we're stood now is where the two rivers c0 nve i’g e stood now is where the two rivers converge and behind me is the barrier which famously failed in the boxing day 2015 floods. the first real test of the new investment that was pumped into that barrier which is capable of controlling some a0 tons of water every single second. the first real test of that extra investment was last weekend storm ciara. the flood warnings in place today show that the water levels are going to be likely higher than last weekend today at 1015 when the water levels peak. so york is bracing itself for whatever storm dennis throws at this city today. the council has been out all weekend bringing out sandbags, trying to do everything they can. if you want to keep up to date with all the latest on storm dennis, you can watch us on the go via the bbc iplayer app. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. meanwhile, fellow itv stars have been paying tribute to her, as simon jones reports. enter the flack! # foryourlove... caroline flack became synonymous show love island, though she had stepped back from presenting it after she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. tonight, love island will return with a tribute to her. but some have called for this series to be scrapped completely. itv, though, said after careful consideration with caroline flack‘s representatives, the show will go on. it added, "she will be forever in our hearts," a message echoed on last night's dancing on ice. we'd like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember caroline flack in light of yesterday's awful news. we wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends. many of us here on the show knew caroline as a friend and we will all miss her terribly. as she recently posted, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind". caroline! this was caroline flack in happier times, winning strictly come dancing in 201a. recently, she has struggled after her relationship with her boyfriend, lewis burton, became the subject of a court case. she denied assaulting him, but was banned from contacting him. he denied being a victim and didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. it's led to questions about the decision to persist with the case and about the pressures faced by tv celebrities from the press and social media. an online petition calling for a government enquiry into the british press and their practices was attracted more than 200,000 supporters, while love island fans prepare to say an emotional farewell. simon jones, bbc news. if you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised this morning, you can find help and support on the bbc‘s actionline website, at bbc.co.uk/actionline. hundreds of american passengers have been evacuated from a quarantined cruise liner off the coast of japan, while 78 britons remain stranded on board. there's been criticism that the uk authorities haven't done enough to help the 78 british passengers and crew who have been forced to stay on the diamond princess since it was hit by the coronavirus. let's get the very latest on this now, from our correspondent nick beake, who's watching the situation from hong kong. nick, bring us up—to—date. as some of these other nationals get taken off the ship. good morning, charlie. this is the biggest outbreak outside mainland china and the people on the ship injapan have been there for nearly two weeks now. the americans have decided enough is enough so as we speak, some of those citizens have been taken off as they are now flying back home. in contrast, the brits are not and we have heard from some people on board that they have felt forgotten. of course this ship has been controversial because the japanese authorities have been criticised, lots of scientists saying, look, this is not the best idea to keep people on board in a very confined space, knowing that other people are unwell. as you say, different countries are taking a different countries are taking a different approach and we will have to see what happens with the brits on board. meanwhile, in hubei province, mainland china, where this outbreak began, some 15 million people are in lockdown, they have been told they cannot lose their homes —— leave their homes. the only exception is that every three days, one member of the family can go out to get some supplies but it shows you how seriously the authorities in china are taking this and what they are trying to do so depot —— desperately to try and contain this outbreak. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. but it's also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, as hugh schofield reports. alexis louvet drives a bus from a north paris depot. he spent much of the last three months on strike against the pension reform. in the current system, he enjoys a special status. he can retire at 57. but he insists it's not that that he's trying to protect. translation: the impact would be to lower the level of people's pensions. already, many pensioners are living in absolute misery and this law would make things even worse. it's not acceptable. since early december, the country's been in ferment over pension reform. the rolling transport strikes may have stopped, but there have still been weekly protests as the government negotiated the final touches to its draft bill. it's already been several months in preparation, but now, finally, the pensions reform bill is coming before the national assembly. given president macron's huge majority here, there's no question that it will eventually become law. but the whole process could still take several months, more time for the opposition and the protests to make themselves felt. the government says it's time for the protesters to stop and let the democratic system proceed. chanting the truth is pensions are only part of it. for many on the left, like these university lecturers protesting about cuts, president macron's whole programme is wrong because they say it favours business and the rich. all those people who are, like, on strike, they are notjust about "i want a good pension." they are about "i want a good life, i want a life with dignity, i want a life where i'm not, like, counting money, euro by euro." polls show that pension reform is not popular. people feel anxious about losing protection. for the left, that makes it a very useful cause, a banner headline for all the other reasons they oppose president macron. hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. sir eltonjohn was forced to cut short a concert in new zealand on sunday, after falling ill with walking pneumonia. the 72—year—old musician was visibly upset after losing his voice midway through his set at auckland's mount smart stadium. here's the moment he had to stop, captured by one of the fans who was there. iamso i am so sorry... cheering and applause. that is agony to watch. he looked clearly very upset to do that.|j that is agony to watch. he looked clearly very upset to do that. i am surprised he was able to sing at all. i have some sadness to bring you this morning. harry gregg has died at the age of 87. he was one of the busby babes and survived the munich air disaster of 1958. gregg was a goalkeeper, playing under sir matt busby at manchester united during the 1950s and 60s. he played an heroic club on that night of the crash. pulling people out of the plane. he has died in hospital in northern ireland at the age of 87. he also won 25 caps for northern ireland. tottenham are up to fifth in the premier league, thanks to an injury—time winner from son heung min at aston villa. elsewhere, arsenal beat newcastle a—nil. it was a fantastic way to end england's tour to south africa. captain eoin morgan was man of the match, as they chased down a mammoth 223 to win the decider and take the t20 series. rory mcilroy blew his chance to win the genesis invitational in los angeles — he had a share of the lead going into the final round but he hit a triple bogey as he lost sight of winner adam scott. it has been a good week for rory but perhaps not such a great weekend. we know it has been difficult overnight for people with all the weather happening. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. pictures like this we have seen a lot of during this weekend. today the forecast is quieter. having said that, we are not out of the woods just yet. currently there are five severe flood warnings in force. this number has literally gone up. 323 flood warnings out across england, wales and also scotland. today, storm dennis will continue to push towards scandinavia but it is still going to be windy. the met office still has a wind warning out. 60 — 70 miles in the north—west of scotland. in addition to that, it will not be bone dry. sunshine and showers. the show is coming in from the west and moving experts. some with hail and thunder and lightning. when looking nine and 11 degrees but it is academic. overnight, it still is going to be a blustery night and prospered. still a lot of showers packing in on the wind and some of those are still wintry. this morning, the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. through the rest of tuesday, a chilly day, still mastery winds, still a packet of showers and if this area, they align and become more organised so some of these will be heavy with some hail, thunder and lightning in their as well. 7— 10 degrees the temperatures. we had so much rain at the weekend, it was notjust falling at lower levels and into the rivers but also into the hills and we still have the rain to come down from the catchment areas so still a risk of flooding. into wednesday, this ridge of high pressure but this next system of high pressure but this next syste m co m es of high pressure but this next system comes in from the west. we start off on wednesday on a largely dry note, sunshine around. it is not going to be as windy until we see this next system coming in from the west then the wind will strengthen and heavy rain coming your way, moving from the west towards the east. and we're not done with this just yet. the weekend, we could see again some gales and heavy rain. we will keep you posted on that. thank you very much carol. let's take a look at today's papers. the telegraph reports the government has been told ‘pull its finger out‘ by one of its own mps, after storm dennis brought widespread disruption this weekend. the mirror says hundreds of homes and businesses were hit, in what it calls the worst deluge in recent years. the paper also carries tributes to caroline flack, who died at the weekend. (guardian)the guardian says the guardian says another doctor who worked at the same private healthcare firm as the rogue breast surgeon ian paterson, has been accused of subjecting scores of his patients to unnecessary operations. and online, the mail says more than a million students will be affected, when university lecturers strike over pay and conditions this week. good morning. iwant good morning. i want to start with the front page of the times, still some way to go on brexit, a friendly reminder. the government chief negotiator for brexit will outline out negotiator for brexit will outline our future with the eu. jean—yves le drian, the french negotiator, saying there is of this deadline. the prime minister categorically said that brexit will be done. this is in the telegraph. gps is brilliant until it does not work anymore. bees do not have that problem. despite having the brain the size of a pinhead, they can navigate five miles. researchers are brain mapping the neurons of bees to work out why their navigational system is so spot—on. so far they have about 2596. .. spot—on. so far they have about 2596... iam spot—on. so far they have about 25%...iama spot—on. so far they have about 2596... i am a fan of actual maps in the car, just in case. the next step is to put bees into a chamber to see how they make their decision. is to put bees into a chamber to see how they make their decisionlj is to put bees into a chamber to see how they make their decision. i love it when the papers cannot agree on what they are thinking. the back page of the mirror, they are talking about manchester city charged by uefa. ada suggested that pep guardiola should leave manchester city. back page of the times, pep guardiola will stay. mixed messages but also perhaps understandable. a little bit of confusion about what happened. charlie, this one is for you inside the mirror, i know it is only monday and it is not until next weekend, but the buildup to the six nations clash between ireland and italy... what is all that? this is the island coach, he is going to make sure that england do not have a very nice time. is it calling it the hurt arena? that is the papers line. you know in playgrounds they have that bouncy material. apparently nearly 100,000 people a year in england suffer hip fractures and falls, the most common deaths for those over 75. if you fall under that it those over 75. if you fall under thatitis those over 75. if you fall under that it is not as bad? yes. it could reduce interest for those who lose their footing. and it is sustainable as well. if you are a fan of coldplay, they will be a tape—recording, a cassette going up for sale... remember tape—recording, a cassette going up forsale... rememberthose, tape—recording, a cassette going up for sale... remember those, charlie! the first recording of chris martin, a three—minute track called electric thunder, it won a music petition at his school and someone else's mum recorded their son but this song as well so this will be going up for sale. the competition in 1989 and he said the track was quite original and he says shows signs of real talent. 12 years old chris martin was, his first recording. signs of real talent. thank you very much. following caroline flack‘s death, more than 200,000 people have supported an online petition calling for a government inquiry into the practices of the british press. let's speak now to emma bunning, who runs a talent agency representing reality tv stars including ex—love isla nd co ntesta nts. thank you forjoining us. lots of people have signed this. what do you think can be done to help?” people have signed this. what do you think can be done to help? i think it isa think can be done to help? i think it is a two prong effect. i think there needs to be some responsibility taken from the british press and i also think it needs to be may be some extended after—ca re needs to be may be some extended after—care from the tv companies making these shows. tell us about the impact the british press and perhaps social media has had on some of your clients? i have had a few clients who suffered at the hands of the british press. one client in particular who really felt that she was close to the edge and, at that point, went into rehab and sought therapy. and she has come back from that. i had another clyde who had such disgusting comments made about his child, he came off twitter. —— client. lots of examples of them being vilified on line, having to talk through these situations because they are incredibly damaging and one of my clients has recently left because she wants to take a bit ofa left because she wants to take a bit of a break from the public eye because it has been so difficult for her. on social media, is there any way that things can be changed? there is a movement to be more kind et cetera but how would you change things? i do not know. as long as we have freedom of speech in this country, it is a difficult situation. unless there is some way of monitoring on line, social media, which i do not see how that is possible, it is something we will come up against time and time again. we know that there have been changes made for example with some reality tv programmes, with support, do you think it is sustainable and should they be doing more? in the time i have been doing thisjob, i have noticed tv companies taking more responsibility. they have a psychic chat before any client goes into a show. and afterwards. and during that check in with them regularly. we need to see that. of time extended but how long is a piece of string? that is the tricky question. it is not just string? that is the tricky question. it is notjust people in the public eye that are perhaps affected by things that are said about them. how do you change things?” things that are said about them. how do you change things? i do not know that you can. i think it is having an awareness and when people go into shows like love island, i think they are having conversations with producers that you are potentially going to be subjected to this but whether that is taken seriously enough, i do not know. i think sometimes there is such a degree of hungerforfame sometimes there is such a degree of hunger for fame that maybe they do not think about the ramifications and what they're going to be subjected to and maybe is something that needs to be looked at seriously at the casting process and having more than a chat with a psych before going on to show. you cannot stop people commenting on this start to monitor social media but i do not if that will ever happen. thank you very much forjoining us this morning. coming up, i look at the damage caused by storm dennis. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm geeta pendse. parts of surrey remain flooded this morning following storm dennis over the weekend. leatherhead and other areas in the mole valley saw the river swell. parts of south london and hertfordshire were also affected by fallen trees. residents in some parts of london have said they feel powerless to do anything about trafficking in their area. people in ilford and edmonton say they're being threatened by criminal gangs and that young girls are being trafficked from romania and exploited. campaigners say the girls are often recruited from a very young age. they are targeting the schools, they are targeting the child protection facilities so the girls, whether they are over 18 or a little less under and have forged papers, and up in london. and you can see more on this story on inside out london, tonight at 7:30 on bbc one. 20 years after south london's tramlink began, the possibility of an extention has moved a step closer. transport for london says a link between colliers wood and sutton is it's preferred option for expansion. but it admits it still needs to find most of the money to fund it. that's over a00 million pounds. let's take a look at the travel situation now. on the trains there are cancellations to and from stansted airport affecting sta nsted express, greater anglia and crosscountry services. a look at the cameras and in dagenham queues are building up on the a13 into town from the goresbrook interchange. now the weather with gillian brown. good morning. after another very stormy weekend you will be pleased to hear we do have some bright spells on the way today. however, there will be accompanied by blustery showers because it will feel quite windy indeed. this is the detail. through the morning, those showers will push through. i think in places locally they could be quite heavy and you could see thunder or hail as well. during the meantime, we will see some brightness, some sunshine, temperatures up to ten or 11 degrees. and then as we look forward to the rest of the afternoon and into this evening, those showers are going to stay with us for a time and again, they could still break heavier, mastery. as we hit tuesday, we will see them dry up and dry weather temperatures through to around three degrees. —— blustery. it isa around three degrees. —— blustery. it is a mixed bag of sunshine and showers as we look through tomorrow and wednesday before temperatures creep up again towards the weekend. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it's back to charlie and louise. bye for now. hello this is breakfast with charlie stayt and louise minchin. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning. we'll hear how amazon has withdrawn potentially unsafe child car seats from its sites worldwide — after they were discovered for sale by bbc. hollywood super—producer paula wagner will be here to tell us how she's bringing the smash hit pretty woman to london's west end. and we'll meet the brother and sister behind the bafta award—winning comedy "this country", which they created between working night shifts as office cleaners. good morning, here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. nearly 300 flood warnings — five of them severe — remain in place across the uk this morning, in the aftermath of storm dennis. major incidents have been declared in south wales and parts of england, and there have been multiple landslides and floods — some trapping residents. hundreds more have been rescued from their homes in worcestershire and shropshire. a petition dubbed caroline's law, which calls for new legislation around media regulation in the wake of caroline flack‘s death, has now got more than a20,000 signatures. friends, celebrities and former love island contestants have been paying tribute to the presenter, who had also co—hosted the x factor and won strictly come dancing in 201a. 78 british passengers and crew remain stranded on a cruise ship that's been quarantined off japan since it was hit by the coronavirus. hundreds of american passengers were evacuated from the diamond princess cruise liner last night. the uk authorities have been criticised for not doing more for the britons on board. 355 cases of the disease have now been confirmed on the ship. another doctor who worked for spire healthcare has been suspended after concerns were raised about his work at its hospital in leeds. it's the same healthcare provider that worked with the breast surgeon ian paterson who performed hundreds of unnecessary operations. spire said mike walsh had been suspended and around 50 of his patients had been recalled. you are up—to—date with all of the latest headlines. sally has some sad news this morning. yes, it will sum up news this morning. yes, it will sum up and earoffer news this morning. yes, it will sum up and ear offer many people, this name. that man there, harry gregg. he is often called the man of new —— munich because of the role he played in that disaster on the screen there. he was capped 25 times for northern ireland. he passed away overnight surrounded by his family. he was dubbed the hero of munich after hearing —— helping save others from the wreckage after the crash including a mother and baby and his teammate sir bobby charlton husserl —— who still survives, of course. i wa nt to —— who still survives, of course. i want to share with you this quote from the late, great george best. george best used to clean his boots and he said about harry, "bravery is one thing but what harry did was about more than bravery, it was about more than bravery, it was about goodness". that is harry gregg who has died at the age of 87. tottenham are up to fifth in the premier league after a dramatic 3—2 win over aston villa. they were leading 2—1, when villa defender bjorn engels looked to have salavaged a point for his side. but in the 9ath minute son heung min scored the winnerfor spurs. arsenal have moved into the top half of the table after a a—0 win against newcastle at the emirates stadium. nicolas pepe amongst the scorers for mikel arteta's side. that's only their seventh league win of the season. celtic won their seventh league match in a row with a hard fought victory at aberdeen. kristofer ayer scored the winner late on to make it 2—1 and ensure they stay ten points clear of rangers at the top. the celtic manager, neil lennon described it as "a magnificent three points". rangers beat livingston 1—0 in a game that was put back 2a hours due to a waterlogged pitch. scott arfield's second half winner left them with a glimmer of hope of catching their old firm rivals. england's cricketers rounded off their tour to south africa with a memorable win in the final t20 international. they pulled off one of the highest run chases in the history of the shortest format of the game, as our sports correspondent andy swiss reports. commentator: and it's england who take the spoils... happy? just a little, but who could blame them? english cricket has seen a few unlikely wins recently and this was right upper there. earlier, south africa's batsmen had seemingly smashed them out of sight. england could only green. improbable run chases are england's speciality. jos buttler set them on their way before the workers began to clash. with south africa sensing a comeback, enter ben stokes... with predictable results. it is not easy to upstage that but eoin morgan somehow managed it. 15 offjust 21 balls, tickling his own england record. remarkably, they won with nearly and over to spare in the end, one of the greatest run chases in t20 history. amazing game of cricket. certainly to keep south africa to 220 seemed like a good job now but at the time seemed as if we would have to ask a lot of our guys to get there and then our batting performance today i thought was outstanding. for t20 cricket, they would be hoping this isjust the start. andy swiss, bbc news. how about this for a comeback? bristol bears where1a—0 down to northampton saints with 30 minutes to play yesterday in rugby unions premiership, but in 12 glorious minutes, the bears scored 17 points, with lewis theed's try putting them in front for the first time. they won by 20 points to 1a. great story. no wonder he got kissed. shaun murphy has won the welsh open are a thumping 9—1 victory over kyren wilson in cardiff. the former world champion was at his brilliant best as he led 7—1 after the afternoon session. he duly won the two frames he needed in the evening to claim his first ever welsh open crown and with it the 70,000 pounds winners cheque. katie ormerod, is on track to become the first british woman to be to be a world cup champion on snow. ormerod finished in third in calgary which puts her in first place overall in the slopestyle world cup. i wish i could do that! this morning on breakfast, lots of coverage on the damage caused by storm dennis. storm dennis caused havoc over the weekend and he isn't finished yet. we'll be bringing you the latest from across britain this morning. breakfast‘s jayne mccubbin is in york, which is expecting high water in a few hours. how are they preparing, jayne? they are preparing and so far so good here in new york. behind me, this is not meant to be the river booze, it is meant to be the city car park. —— river ouse. it is com pletely car park. —— river ouse. it is completely submerged. even though the river ouse has burst its banks, even though this is what has come a pairand even even though this is what has come a pair and even though it is going to get worse in the next few hours, so far, so good for. this is all under control. let me tell you about where we are. this is the river ouse behind me and it meets with the river foss. as it meets, there is the foss barrier. aimlessly in the boxing day floods in 2015, the foss barrier failed. boxing day floods in 2015, the foss barrierfailed. —— boxing day floods in 2015, the foss barrier failed. —— famously. boxing day floods in 2015, the foss barrierfailed. —— famously. and some 200 houses were flooded and this area was really significantly impacted. when that happened they pumped an awful lot more money into the foss barrier to make it more resilient, make it work better, and the real test of that investment came last weekend with storm ciara stop it passed that test. the question is, can it passed that test again in the next few hours with water levels are still rising? let me introduce you to dave. good morning to you, thanks forjoining us. morning to you, thanks forjoining us. you are from york rescue. you are ready to come to the aid of anybody who might need that help today. tell us how worried you are? it concerned about some of the properties and villages downstream of york. the centre of york is still within the flood defences so that is fine. there are some properties are still at risk, though. tell us what this place would likejust still at risk, though. tell us what this place would like just 2a hours ago and where you think it is going to be in the next few hours. s 2a hours ago this was dry behind us, even 12 hours behind us, this was nice and dry. in the near future, the next couple of hours, the river is still predicted to rise about another half a metre. that is still going to be within the fixed flood defences of york. it is so far so good and if the foss barrier continues to do what it is going to do, people will be saved, properties will be safe? properties on the river foss will still be protected. the buildings are still dry so that side of it is fine. fascinating talking to you earlier because you said flood defences really, notjust releva nt said flood defences really, notjust relevant here in this area that way, way upstream, beyond this city with other rivers. we get the catchment area for the river ouse comes from the swell. the various flood defences are built up there, what they end up doing is channelling the water down to the river ouse so all of that catchment comes through york and that is why about 24—36 hours after the rain is on york, we get the effects here. good luck for everything you do today. spare i thought for the local football team which once again has been completely submerged. they have put out an appealforfunds submerged. they have put out an appeal for funds they never future is injeopardy if appeal for funds they never future is in jeopardy if they can't get on top of these situations. good luck top of these situations. good luck to them. more from us later this morning. get in touch with us this morning. get in touch with us this morning if you have been in —— effected by the floods. the town of hawick in the scottish borders was badly hit by storm ciara last week. you might remember seeing a building collapsing into the river teviot. it was a guest house and a bistro. so let's hear what impact storm dennis had. we can speak to stuart marshall, from the hawick volunteer flood group. good morning. how are things? it is a lot quieter in hawick that it was on the weekend. we had our main road closed in the evening. and everyone is right next to the river river teviot. we have two rivers running through it and both went into severe flood warnings so we had evacuation processes in place. it was quite a dramatic time for hawick. how many people had to be evacuated?! street elected to leave their properties. 22 people went to the local leisure centre and many people went to stay with relatives in higher parts of the town. what about damage, this people who had to leave their homes, what damage you have they suffered? extensive damage to a few properties and a couple of local businesses as well. it is a very worrying time for people in the town. it is something that happens a lot in hawick at the moment and that is what we want the flood protection scheme up and running. it would be free if we can get it operational. lot of questions being asked by communities like yours about what preparations there are, what planning in place. what is the picture for hawick? when the alarm goes, where the flood group go where we need to sandbag, knock on doors, help people with flood prevention products, covers that need to be put on. it is a worrying time for hawick. 2005 we had a big flood. it is happening too frequently now, to be honest. is it tenable, being in a place like that, which goes back yea rs place like that, which goes back years and years, is it tenable for people to carry on like this without further money being put into protection? the flood scream itself will be in the region of £50 million of investment. it will protect a thousand properties and homes within the town. it is much needed and i think it will make a huge difference and will protect hawick one in 75 yea rs and will protect hawick one in 75 years flooding event. you have been doing a greatjob, i hope the situation improves for you. so many people affected in lots of different areas but carol can tell us the details. we start off with the flood warnings. five severe flood warnings in force. for in the river tyne, one in the river why and that meant danger to life. flooding is expected and take immediate action for these warnings. these figures will fluctuate. what has happened today, a day of sunny spells. at the moment it still is windy. you can see by looking at the isobars. when wanting out for northern 70 miles per hour, including orkney for the rest of scotland, northern england, wales, northern ireland, up to 60 miles per hour gusts. up to eight o'clock this morning. the winds will ease a little bit but it was still be a windy day. some showers, some heavy with hail and thunder and lightning. through this evening and overnight, it will still be a blustery night in prospect. a good packet of showers coming our way prospect. a good packet of showers coming ourway and prospect. a good packet of showers coming our way and still some wintry nurse on the tops of hills and mountains. the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. tomorrow is also going to be a blustery day. it will feel quite cool and further showers coming. we start to see them organising themselves in a band coming south. some of those again it will be heavy with hail and thunder and lightning. temperatures at about five in the north, 210 we push down south. we still have the rain that is falling into the hills to come down into the rivers so with the showers, there is still a risk of localised flooding. into tuesday night and wednesday, a very temporary ridge of high pressure stop temporary because of the next area of low pressure is not too far away. not much in the way of wind and starting off with some sunshine. this weather front comes in introducing heavy rain and that rain will be pushing from the west towards the east. on thursday, we're looking at winds and heavy rain coming in from the north and pushing southwards. that leaves us into an u nsettled southwards. that leaves us into an unsettled weekend where once again we could be looking at gales, severe gales and also some rain but i will keep you posted on that. and we will pay close attention today. we talked a couple of weeks ago about the potential affect of coronavirus on businesses and the economy. now we're starting to see some real impacts. nina's here. what's the latest? we said didn't we a couple of weeks ago that the fact that va chinese manufacturers are closed for business would have an inevitable impact on british biz — and here we are. and nowjcb has become the first big uk employer to reduce operations as a direct result of the virus. from today it's working week will be cut from 39 to 3a hours across 11 uk plants their staff will still be paid but it will have an inevitable impact on productivity. their salary and pay will remain with the same but it will have an impact. we have a number of supplies, a few dozen in china, both first—tier and second—tier. 25% are not back at work and even those back at work are not running at full capacity. the once back at work are running but we cannot move goods around the provinces so supply situation is quite critical right now. the fashion industry is also feeling the effect. the chinese markets account for 1/3 of global luxury goods sale. footfall in china's boutiques and malls has plunged so sharply that many are shortening business hours or shutting completely. burberry fox eampls hve closed 2a of its 6a burberry stores in mainland china. the world's biggest technology fair the annual mobile world congress in barcelona has been cancelled. others are seeing participants pull out. like at the singapore air show. the number of exhibitors who've said they're not going has topped 70 including us giant lockheed martin and canada's bombaaardier. what about the big picture? what about the big picture7m what about the big picture? it is tricky to predict. the international monetary fund has said it's too soon — the impact on supply chains, exports, on business travel and tourism — most experts think that the total cost of all of this will be higher than the last big epedemic — that's sars back in 2003. sars cost the world economy £6a billion at that time the chinese economy made up a% of global one — now it's 16% — so we can expect it to be much bigger. thank you. amazon has withdrawn potentially unsafe child car seats from its sites worldwide, after bbc panorama discovered they were for sale. it follows an investigation by trading standards. here's our business correspondent, katy austin. a child car seat destroyed in a 30 miles per hour test. it was carried out in 2013. amazon was then alerted. we took down products that we re alerted. we took down products that were not compliant and unsafe. rachel blair, a former amazon safety inspector also said she made —— i was told they were compliant in those countries and that it would not be happening. those car seats we re not be happening. those car seats were tested and were shown to result in bodily harm to the infant in it. under investigation has begun after panorama found what appeared to be similar products still for sale. amazon has withdrawn them worldwide. it later said safety is extremely important to us, we regret that these products were available for third party sellers. —— from. it says it is contacting customers to explain the situation and issue a refund. it says they will continue to improve technology and assure only safe and compliant car seats are available worldwide. katy austin, bbc news. you can watch more on that story on panorma tonight on bbc one at 8:30. you're watching breakfast, still to come this morning: we'll hear how calls for the introduction of caroline's law, against excessive media intrusion, are gaining momentum following the death of love island presenter caroline flack. to get in touch about that story. we're talking about the results about what has happened with storm dennis as well. lots of flood alerts. we can have a look at what is going on at york who are expecting the high tide later this morning but the river should not be where it is right now. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm geeta pendse. parts of surrey remain flooded this morning following storm dennis over the weekend. leatherhead and other areas in the mole valley saw the river swell. parts of south london and hertfordshire were also affected by fallen trees. residents in some parts of london have said they feel powerless to do anything about trafficking in their area. people in ilford and edmonton say they're being threatened by criminal gangs and that young girls are being trafficked from romania and exploited. campaigners say the girls are often recruited from a very young age. they are targeting the schools, they are targeting the child protection facilities so the girls, whether they are over 18 or a little less under and they forge papers, end up in london. and you can see more on this story on inside out london, tonight at 7:30 on bbc one. this evening on inside out, we'll be finding out how dolls made in camberley are helping elderly people with dementia. sandy payne makes reborn dolls, lifelike replicas of babies. each takes about three months to make and can sell for up to a thousand pounds. as well as being collectable, owners can form an emotional bond with them. now the dolls are being used by some residential homes to soothe dementia sufferers. let's take a look at the travel situation now... the overground is currently part suspended. but there's good service on all other tube lines. on the trains there are cancellations to and from stansted airport affecting sta nsted express, greater anglia and crosscountry services. a look at the cameras and in dagenham queues are building up on the a13 into town from the goresbrook interchange. in shadwell one lane is closed in both directions on the highway at the junction with garnet street due to water mains work. in southfields there are gas mains work and temporary traffic lights on penwith road eastbound. now the weather with gillian brown. hello there, good morning. well, after another very stormy weekend, you will be pleased to hear we do have some bright spells on the way today. however, they will be accompanied by some blustery showers, because it is still going to feel quite windy, indeed. but this is the detail. so through the morning, those showers will push through. i think in places locally they could be quite heavy, you could see maybe some thunder or some hail as well. during the meantime, we will see some brightness, and some sunshine, with temperatures up to 10 or 11 degrees. and then as we look forward to the rest of the afternoon and into this evening, those showers are going to stay with us for a time and again, and again, they could still bring heavier, blustery spell or two. as we hit the early hours of tuesday, i think we will see them dry up and we'll see some dry weather, with temperatures through to around three degrees. and into the next couple of days, it is a mixed bag of sunshine and showers as we look toqwards tomorrow and wednesday before temperatures creep up again towards the weekend. at least it is getting a bit warmer. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. good morning welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and louise minchin. our headlines today: a danger to life. there are five severe flood warnings in place this morning as storm dennis continues to batter the uk it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... we've got the dogs out so that is all that matters. hundreds of other flood warnings are in place. in south wales, police have declared a major incident after landslides and severe flooding. storm dennis still producing strong winds today, particularly so across the north and the west of the uk. blustery showers, some of which will be heavy and through this week, there is still the risk of further flooding and more rain. the reality dating show love island returns tonight with a tribute to its former host, caroline flack who took her own life at the weekend. counting the cost of the coronavirus. digger makerjcb cuts production from today because it can't get the parts it needs from china. i'll be taking a look at how other businesses are being affected. harry gregg, survivor of the munich air disaster, has died. goalkeeper gregg played for manchester united under sir matt busby and won 25 caps for northern ireland. he was 87. it's monday, february the 17th. our top story: nearly 300 flood warnings remain in place across the uk this morning, in the aftermath of storm dennis. major incidents have been declared in south wales and parts of england, and there have been multiple landslides and floods — some trapping residents. hundreds more have been rescued from their homes in worcestershire and shropshire. graham satchell has more. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in a caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally. . .absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in her front room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a month's worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust a8 hours. it did — it did stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! my god... oh, my... at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. on the welsh border at hey—on—why, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but a0 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. it tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again, families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart mcbain only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. let's get the very latest now. in a moment we'll speak to jayne mccubbin who is in york, which is expecting high water in a few hours, first, let's speak to breakfast‘s john maguire in the village of nangarw in wales. really serious problems there, john. yes, there is a some semblance of hope. the electricity was restored, the lights, the streetlights and indeed the properties. they were all abandoned overnight. this red and white club ‘s have been placed along all of the houses to let the emergency services and the authorities know that the houses have been checked after they were abandoned. boats were used yesterday to ta ke abandoned. boats were used yesterday to take people out. this is oxford street, ironically in nantgarw. the water would have been up to my waist. look at what it did do all of the cars, just picked them up, almost as if they were a inner child's toybox and just dump them at various points along the road. one here right in the centre that is causing problems of people trying to get to work this morning, causing a blockage. we saw a fuel tanker that had to obviously reverse. look at the way these vehicles have all been, as i say, just dumped by the raging torrents. remember, with floodwater, everything it touches it taints, it is absolutely filthy. it goes through a house, it ruins everything. you can see all sorts of different every day i —— items being dumped out into the street either force of the water. it went away, it receded, as fast as it came up yesterday but as you can see and imagine, it gives you a real picture of the extent of the damage and of course it is notjust here, it is right across the uk because of the way that storm dennis swept through and damaged and affected so many communities. let's speak to brea kfast‘s jayne mccubbin who is in york for us. john was saying about people watching those river levels very closely and sometimes it —— sometimes it is quite hard, when we getan image, sometimes it is quite hard, when we get an image, to get the reference points. explain where you are and what this would normally look like. let me give you those reference points. have a look at this way. you will see the top of the hedge and a tree line and beyond that the bridge. at is the river ouse which has clearly burst its banks. everything you can see on my side of that headline and the tree line is actually one of the main car parks in york city centre. nobody is going to be parking their car here today because the water levels as they stand now are due to rise in the next couple of hours. it is changing all the time of the latest environment agency information is that at 10a0 five today, this area will be at the highest level stop the highest level since those devastating floods in 2015 which caused so much damage to this place and that is the concern. beyond me is the foss barrier. you can't really see, it is just around the corner, that the foss barrier was put in place to try and stop these levels of flooding. it failed in 2015 but the hope is it will do its job this time round. the environment agency was here yesterday, though, the environment minister was here yesterday and said he will keep a close eye on this changing situation because water levels, even without rain, are expected to continue to rise. back to you. will be speaking to the environment minister a little later. we will be keeping a close eye on problems. keep us posted as well if you are near the floods. keep us posted on your situation and of course you can watch us on the go by the bbc iplayer add to, if you wa nt to by the bbc iplayer add to, if you want to keep up—to—date on the weather situation. all the details with carol about today's weather as well, coming up. if you want to keep up to date with all the latest on storm dennis, you can watch us on the go via the bbc iplayer app. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. meanwhile, fellow itv stars have been paying tribute to her, as simon jones reports. enter the flack! # ready for your love... caroline flack became synonymous show love island, though she had stepped back from presenting it after she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. tonight, love island will return with a tribute to her. but some have called for this series to be scrapped completely. itv, though, said after careful consideration with caroline flack‘s representatives, the show will go on. it added, "she will be forever in our hearts," a message echoed on last night's dancing on ice. we'd like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember caroline flack in light of yesterday's awful news. we wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends. many of us here on the show knew caroline as a friend and we'll miss her terribly. as she recently herself posted, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind". caroline! this was caroline flack in happier times, winning strictly come dancing in 201a. recently, she has struggled after her relationship with her boyfriend, lewis burton, became the subject of a court case. she denied assaulting him, but was banned from contacting him. he denied being a victim and didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. it's led to questions about the decision to persist with the case and about the pressures faced by tv celebrities from the press and social media. an online petition calling for a government inquiry into the british press and their practices has attracted more than 200,000 supporters, while love island fans prepare to say an emotional farewell. simon jones, bbc news. the time now is ten minutes past seven. sally is here with sport and you will start with a tribute to a remarkable life. well, harry gregg, named many people will rememberfor top well, harry gregg, named many people will remember for top let us look at a picture of him. he has died overnight at the age of 87. he was one of the famous busby babes. that was a manchester united team that was a manchester united team that was involved in the munich air disaster in 1958. he was the manchester united goalkeeper, keeper for northern ireland and he was a hero on the night of the air disaster. that is the only way you can describe him. he has been called the hero of munich. people people from the wreckage, including... a mother and a baby. this is him at the time. a real, real hero in many, many ways. also basically one of the best goal keepers that manchester united has ever had. i think you kept something like a8 clean sheet. he was assigned from doncaster and they paid £23,000 for him which was a record at the time. he got a signing on fee of £30 and he said he decided to sign for manchester united within ten minutes of meeting sir matt busby. they had a meeting and he said within ten minutes he knew. he died surrounded by his family at the age of 87. the number of people now known to have coronavirus in china has passed 70,000. in hubei, where the outbreak began, another 100 patients have died, taking the countrywide total to 1,800. let's get the very latest on this now, from our correspondent nick beake, who's watching the situation from hong kong. this continues. any sinuses began to become under control? -- any sign. they will tell you that outside hubei province the number of cases has fallen every day for the last fortnight but if you look at hubei province where this outbreak began and also the city of wuhan, 11 million people in particular, it is still extremely grim what the authorities have set over the weekend is if you are living in that province, some 58 million people, they are now effectively in lockdown for top it will cannot leave their houses unless there is an emergency. the only exception is that every three days someone within your family can go out to get food and medicine but many of the shops there are actually shut and this is an illustration of what the chinese authorities are desperately trying to do to try and stop this virus spreading any further. at the same time, the biggest outbreak outside mainland china has been off the coast of japan and we are hearing that some american citizens are now being taken off but so far, the british people on board the ship remain on board and some say they desperately want to leave. they feel they have been forgotten. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. but it's also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, who since december have staged a series of strikes and demonstrations to try to force the government to back down. a song recorded by coldplay‘s frontman, chris martin, when he was just 12 years old, has been put up for sale by one of his former schoolmates. the singer won a school competition with the composition in 1989. he performed the piece with a group of fellow pupils at exeter cathedral school. the tape was discovered by simon corser, who said the song was "very catchy" and everyone else in the competition "didn't stand a chance". you see his name on the sheet there, christopher martin. we want to hear it. we want to see this. do you remember those? a lot of our focus on storm dennis and the problems it is causing. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. environment agency five emergency warnings. on the river tyne and river wye. and over 300 warnings for floods across england, scotland and wales. this means flooding is expected so take action now. what is happening today, we have sunny spells and blustery showers. the wind warning for northern scotland and orkney at 70 miles per hour and for the rest of scotland, northern ireland, northern england, wales and south—west england 60 miles per hour gusts. it will slowly ease as we go through the course of the day. an array of showers, some thundery with some hail. as we head on through this evening and overnight, we will still have blustery conditions bringing ina still have blustery conditions bringing in a lot of showers from the west of the ease. hail and thunder and lightning mixing. wintry end of the hills and mountains in scotland. also the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. tomorrow, a lot of showers coming in, mastery day in prospect. organise themselves into bands. one moving across england and wales, another one following in hot pursuit and of these two will be heavy and thundery with some hail and wintry across the hills and mountains of scotland. we're not out of the was just yet. the weather remains unsettled this week with showers and longer spells of rain and this again the potential for some really strong winds once again and some heavy rain but i will tell you and some heavy rain but i will tell you more and some heavy rain but i will tell you more about that in about half—an—hour. following the death of caroline flack this weekend, questions have been raised about the crown prosecution service's decision to pursue a court case against her. the love island presenter was due to stand trial next month, over an alleged assault of her boyfriend, despite him not wanting to press charges. let's speak now to the former chief prosecutor nazir afzal. good morning to you. a lot of questions being asked at this point in time about whether or not the crown prosecution service was treating this as some kind of a show trial because of who she was, they we re trial because of who she was, they were treating it differently. what light can you shed on?” were treating it differently. what light can you shed on? i do not believe that is the case. they will give us some insight into what evidence they have had in this case andi evidence they have had in this case and i am 100% certain thatjust followed the evidence. during my career there were six people who took their lives during cases i prosecuted and i have not forgotten any single one of them. they live in questioning whether or not you made the right decision and i suspect the prosecutors involved in this case are doing the same thing and i hope they are getting support as well. at they are getting support as well. at the end of the day, theyjust follow the end of the day, theyjust follow the evidence. yes, the complainant withdrew his support for the prosecutor but undoubtedly they felt they had enough, a 9/11 recording, a body can one by police, and other evidence. we as a country have said we should take domestic abuse seriously. when you have three quarters a million reports police every year, only 10% of those reports and in prosecutions. 120 people are murdered in domestic violence situation and if they intervene earlier, maybe somebody would not suffer more serious harm so would not suffer more serious harm so they are doing what we asked them to do and obviously i feel tremendously at fault caroline's family but, at the same time, the prosecutors were just doing their job. when they are doing theirjob, do they take into consideration the vulnerability of the but also to the person who might have been involved? absolutely you are required to. the evidence is there. is there enough evidence is there. is there enough evidence is the first test. the second is is it in the public interest to prosecute. could we have done this differently? could she have been given a warning or a caution? could it be a different charge? and part of that would involve looking at the vulnerability of the person but what they have to do is await the defence lawyers telling them we have various issues we wa nt telling them we have various issues we want you to be aware of and i am hoping this was the case here. when they look at the vulnerability they have two way that up with the seriousness of the effect and i mention a moment ago how domestic abuse is a massive epidemic anything country and apparently, there was lots of blood as part of the evidence. they took this as a serious offence. in these circumstances it was for them to bring this prosecution and what may have caused this terrible event, i know you're talking about social media. we have all been attacked and, back into the day, when people we re and, back into the day, when people were being prosecuted, you did not get a pylon where armies, people come for you. we have a law in this country that once somebody is charged, people stop talking about the case. they did not happen here. they were acres of coverage, acres of stuff on social media and a question why nobody did anything about that. people expressing concern about the two parties here. they were kept apart and not allowed to be together by order of the court. given that the alleged victim and it is case did not want to press charges, what of that decision? a lot of people are finding that very troubling. the court make a judgement. invariably in matters of domestic violence, they will have conditions until the trial. that is the standard procedure. this is a different set of affairs but the prosecutor would have asked the police why the complainant does not wa nt to police why the complainant does not want to pursue the case. is it to rest? pressure? was he ashamed? did he blame himself? they would have put that before the court and made a judgement. does it make any difference? they would have said the court said the trial will happen very quickly, in the meantime, keep them apart in case there are allegations, there is collusion or some intimidation. and that is what would happen in any case. in any case. you have talked about how the cps handled it. will they be an investigation into how it was handled? absolutely, it happening every single one of my cases. they would want to look at the audit trail, the decisions taken, when you send a letter... and how... absolutely and that is a very good point. we do everything by letter and by e—mailand point. we do everything by letter and by e—mail and you do not realise what impact that might have on the other person. the defence should talk to the client rather than sending it directly to her but there will be an investigation. consistently, the cps has said all cases are treated the same. is that actually the case? if you have what is obviously a case, is it necessarily dealt in the same way in terms of who makes the final decision? the decision is taken by the reviewing lawyer. i have no doubt that the lawyer in this case, realising there is public that make whatever the word is... greater attention, would take it to a senior prosecutor but it will still be a decision taken by that lawyer. thank you very much for talking to us. if you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised this morning, you can find help and support on the bbc‘s actionline website, at bbc.co.uk/actionline. we're talking about storm dennis this morning. another story... a leading cancer charity is calling for a ban on sunbeds, after it emerged many tanning salons in england don't need a licence. the subject is one close to the heart of bbc reporter, laura may mcmullan, after she was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma five years ago, following years of sunbed use. two weeks ago she had herfinal scan, and has been declared cancerfree. she has this report. a bronzed healthy glow but in reality there is no such thing as a safe hand. the use i was addicted to sunbathing and using sunbeds and i was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 201a. i do not think people realise how dangerous melanoma can be. it starts with a mole or in my case, a little red spot on the back of my leg. within six months it had spread to the lymph nodes in my groin. anthea was also diagnosed. it started with a little spot on her ear and for her it has led to life changing surgery. my it has led to life changing surgery. my whole ear has been amputated and the sacred operation or slavery glands, lymph nodes, inner ear, taken. like me, she used sunbeds for many years. nobody should have to live with what i am living with. the guilt that i feel to my husband and children that this was all self—inflicted but it was self—inflicted but it was self—inflicted with no level of knowledge of the dangers. people younger than me continue to use them, i think not knowing any of the dangers. melanoma cases have increased by almost 50% in the last decade but it seems people are still getting mixed messages. that is why gillian, founder of melanoma uk, has launched a campaign to ban sunbeds. we felt we owed it to families of patients who have passed away to actually get up and do something so we took the lead from australia and brazil who have already banned sunbeds and we thought, we're going to do what our patients are asking us to do what our patients are asking us to do and see if we do the same. i took these concerns to the sunbed association stop let's be clear, there is no link between the sunbed use and melanoma. we have asked for a roundtable meeting to discuss this very point. they will not meet with us. i have to question why. the research they refer to is flawed and has been proven to be subsequently flawed and they will not listen to that and we have to say, why not? usa oncologists, consultants, dermatologist all around the world are all wrong? —— you are saying. they are using the same research which is flawed. the evidence linking sunbed to melanoma is incontrovertible. there is a clear link, there is no argument to say there is not. i got into cancer research uk, skin cancer cases can be preventable, but because irreversible damage. laura may mcmullan, bbc news. you can see the full story on inside out west midlands tonight at 7:30, and of course, on the iplayer. you're watching breakfast, and we're live in locations right across the uk this morning, assessing the devastation caused by storm dennis. let's speak now to breakfast‘s jayne mccubbin, who's in york for us. you are on watch this morning because watching the river levels, already causing some problems and could be worse later on at this moment? —— this moment. could be worse later on at this moment? -- this moment. that's right. 16 flood warnings for this area saying what are levels are expected to rise to a high point in around 10a5 this morning and they will be the highest water levels devastating boxing day flood. have a look behind me, all of this is not the river. this is rising all the time but so far so good in york because if you have a look at the other camera on the top of the satellite truck, you will get a sense of how important the area we're standing this is where river foss meet the river ouse and the false barrier controls around a0 tons of water. —— foss. this is to make sure flooding does not happen. iam make sure flooding does not happen. i am told so far so good, it is absolutely doing its job even though it looks quite bad. we will have more from john in wales and talk into the environment minister as well but first the news and travel and whether where you are this morning. i do hope you are dry. good morning from bbc london, i'm geeta pendse. parts of surrey remain flooded this morning following storm dennis over the weekend. leatherhead and other areas in the mole valley saw the river swell. parts of south london and hertfordshire were also affected by fallen trees. residents in some parts of london have said they feel powerless to do anything about trafficking in their area. people in ilford and edmonton say they're being threatened by criminal gangs and that young girls are being trafficked from romania and exploited. they are targeting the schools, they are targeting the child protection facilities so the girls, whether they are over 18 or a little less under and they forge papers, end up in london. and you can see more on this story on inside out london, tonight at 7:30 on bbc one. dolls made in camberley are helping elderly people with dementia. sandy payne makes these lifelike dolls. each takes about three months to make and can sell forup to £1,000. now they are being used by some residential homes for people with dementia. i think they are very therapeutic to certain people. my mother has alzheimer's and is in a nursing home andi alzheimer's and is in a nursing home and i am seeing the pleasure that having one of these dolls has given to her. so much so that the owner of the nursing home asked me to make a couple for them. let's take a look at the travel situation now. the circle line is part suspended because of signal failure at gloucester road, the overground is also part suspended. and severe delays on the district line.there are severe delays on tfl railfrom paddington to heathrow terminal a and reading. there are cancellations and delays fo great northern and thameslink services to and from king's cross and moorgate. that's due to a fault with the signalling system. on the roads in whitton there are queues approaching the hospital bridge road roundabout towards twickenham. in shadwell one lane is closed in both directions on the highway at the junction with garnet street due to water mains work. now the weather with gillian brown. hello there, good morning. well, after another very stormy weekend, you will be pleased to hear we do have some bright spells on the way today. however, they will be accompanied by some blustery showers, because it is still going to feel quite windy, indeed. but this is the detail. so through the morning, those showers will push through. i think in places locally they could be quite heavy, you could see maybe some thunder or some hail as well. during the meantime, we will see some brightness, and some sunshine, with temperatures up to 10 or 11 degrees. and then as we look forward to the rest of the afternoon and into this evening, those showers are going to stay with us for a time and again, and again, they could still bring heavier, blustery spell or two. as we hit the early hours of tuesday, i think we will see them dry up and we'll see some dry weather, with temperatures through to around three degrees. and into the next couple of days, it is a mixed bag of sunshine and showers as we look toqwards tomorrow and wednesday before temperatures creep up again towards the weekend. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it's back to charlie and louise. bye for now. hello this is breakfast with charlie stayt and louise minchin. nearly 300 flood warnings, five of them severe, remain in place across the uk this morning, in the aftermath of storm dennis. major incidents have been declared in south wales and parts of england, and there have been multiple landslides and floods, some trapping residents. hundreds more have been rescued from their homes in worcestershire and shropshire. a petition dubbed caroline's law, which calls for new legislation around media regulation in the wake of caroline flack‘s death, has now got more than a39,000 signatures. friends, celebrities and former love island contestants have been paying tribute to the presenter who had also co—hosted the x factor and won strictly come dancing in 201a. more than 70,000 people are now reported to have coronavirus in china, with the number of deaths reaching almost 1,800. the world health organisation are speaking to beijing officials about how to manage the outbreak. 78 british passengers and crew remain stranded on a cruise ship that's been quarantined offjapan since it was hit by the virus. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. but it's also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, who since december have staged a series of strikes and demonstrations to try to force the government to back down. let's return to our main story now and a clean—up operation is underway in parts of wales today after storm dennis caused landslides and flooding — leaving schools closed, homes wrecked and transport networks severely disrupted. the village of nantgarw, north of cardiff, was badly affected. we can now talk to mike evans, from natural resources wales, who is there now. these cars behind you have just been taken there by the floods, have they? yes, indeed they have. first of all, we would like to say our thoughts and sympathies are with eve ryo ne thoughts and sympathies are with everyone who has been affected by the plot —— floods over the weekend. we had extremely high rainfall as a result of storm dennis. a month's worth of rain fell on the beacons in today's little bit is difficult to predict what is going to have been and what is going to spill out of the rivers —— what is going to happen. tell us about what is going on at the moment. other rivers stable? what is happening? the river taff behind us in nantgarw is now going down. the forecast for the week is going to be showers so we will be keeping an eye on the levels of the rivers in wales but generally, the situation will improve through the week if the weather stays as forecast. what should people be doing right now? they have to try and clean up what has happened already. for those who have been flooded, yes, there is a clear up going on. for ourselves, emergency services, local authorities will be looking at the storm incident and how our defences perform. try and learn lessons for how we deal with such incidents in the future that i would like to say this is unprecedented and it has been the biggest weekend at natural resources wales has ever experienced. flooding is imminent and there is a risk to life. is it that flood defences aren't working or is it that there aren't sufficient flood defences? the flood defences work up to a level but we can't promise that our flood defences will defend against every incident. the storm we had last week, storm ciara, left the river level is high and the ground is saturated to any rain we had on top of that was always going to cause brisbane —— problems and dennis was an extraordinary storm. these things will happen when you have such extreme weather. mike evans from natural resources wales. sally has the sport. i am talking about an important name in football history. harry gregg, his picture is behind you, he has died at the age of 87. he was a survivor of the terrible osby manchester united —— terrible osby manchester united —— terrible munich air disaster. he played under matt busby. he pulled people from the wreckage, including a mother and baby and sir bobby charlton. listen to what he said. s they were a broken club. manchester united were a broken club like most clubs had been. they had lost so much and lost so many. it is a long, long, long time ago and i would be telling lies if i said that i thought about it all the time. in fa ct, i thought about it all the time. in fact, i would go insane. i know what idid,i fact, i would go insane. i know what i did, i know who i saw, i remember the baby. i know when i found bob andi the baby. i know when i found bob and i know when i found all the rest of them. i know i was very fourth —— fortu nate. of them. i know i was very fourth —— fortunate. you couldn't live with it. you couldn't live with it every day. you would go completely and totally insane. i amjoined now by abc sports football reporter simon stone. i know that you cover manchester united extensively stop just described to us how important a figure harry gregg has been for the club. i think it is fair to say he isa club. i think it is fair to say he is a hero. he always said he didn't wa nt is a hero. he always said he didn't want his life, his career, to be defined by munich but that is exactly what it was. he pulled teammates, he put passengers out of the plane at munich, having survived the plane at munich, having survived the crash and even more remarkably, he played again 13 days later. when you consider the area that we are in now in terms of people suffering, mental health issues, the fact he was able to do that and he only missed two games until the end of the season, it is quite remarkable, really. there is no way that his importance to manchester united, to that dark day in munich, can be overstated. and how did those events affect him later on in life? we have seen a clip of him talking but how did he manage with what happened and what he had seen? for a long time, he kind of buried it and didn't talk about it and it was only in later life, i remember before the 50th anniversary of the crash in 2008, i spoke to him then and he found it difficult to go over those days and as the clip that you have seen there, it was troubling for him. he didn't go back to old trafford after two nt 18 but i think it found —— —— to old trafford in 2018. he was regarded as a hero at the club and thatis regarded as a hero at the club and that is his status. away from that, he was also, let's face it, a brilliant goalkeeper wasn't he? that is right. he was unfortunate in the sense that he arrived at the club just after they won league titles with busby babes and was part of this rebuild process. injuries prevented him being inside. he left before the team that won the european cup again, he came back as a goalkeeping coach but yes, he was an essential part of the rebuild after munich even if he wasn't there on the greatest day in 1968 when so matt busby finally won the european cup. simon, great to talk to you. he kept a clean sheet after he played. the mental strength he showed at that time was absolutely incredible. manchester united has just tweeted," thoughts and prayers of everyone at the club go out to harry's family and friends. let's bring you some of the other main sports stories now — and tottenham are up to fifth in the premier league after a dramatic 3—2 win over aston villa. they were leading 2—1, when villa defender bjorn engels looked to have salavaged a point for his side. but in the 9ath minute son heung min scored the winnerfor spurs. celtic are are still ten points clear of rangers at the top of the scottish premiership. a 2—1victory at aberdeen was their seventh league win in a row — kristofer ayer with the winner. rangers beat livingston. england's cricketers rounded off their tour to south africa with a memorable win in the final t20 international. they pulled off one of the highest run chases in the history of the shortest format of the game, captain eoin morgan with a man—of—the match performance, hitting 57 offjust 22 balls as they won by five wickets to take the series. eoin morgan has had a great few weeks. hearing him talk after that yesterday, rocksolid captain. see on, sally. —— see you later on, sally. the people of york are in for a nervous morning as storm dennis continues to cause problems today. they‘ re expecting high water at half past midday and hoping it won't match the 17—foot rise which caused such devastation on boxing day in 2015. brea kfast‘s jayne mccubbin is there to tell us the latest. everybody here in new york is on standby, wondering how bad it is going to get because this is the river ouse. it is actually a public car park. river ouse has spilt over, burst its banks, you couldn't see where it should be beyond the tree line and here it is in the public car park this morning and it will get worse. in the really bad floods 2000, the water level was at about 5.a metres high. in the terrible boxing day floods, it is estimated it will get about a.8 metres high. there are 16 flood warnings in place for york. have a look at the camera on the sub —— top of the satellite truck and you can see how significant the place we are stood in really is because on one side you have the river foss and on the other side the river ouse and where they come together, you have the foss barrier over the top trying to control the flow of water into york. at the moment it is doing itsjob but will it continue to do so? they hope so. come and read rachel who is the local mp. i have been out talking to residents and they are incredibly stressed, not knowing what will happen to their properties. temporary measures, sandbags, tarpaulins have been put in place. some properties will flood in the city but residents are also frustrated and angry that since the boxing day floods in 2015 and many of the resilient and community schemes are still not in place and of course that would protect whole sways of houses. people feel it is inevitable that will be flooded today. somebody tweeted when we were in the calder valley saying how is that china can build a hospital in a week while we cannot put flood defences under the serious floods of 2015. you share this frustration? absolutely. we know with climate change, the more frequency of the weather events, that we will see flooding and we need a proper strategy around sustainable management and here in york we would in effect from that. the environment secretary has been in york meeting people and talking to people you have probably spoken to people you have probably spoken to as well and he said he will keep a close eye. what is the question you would like answered from him? we do not want to talk, we want action. also management up string so the volume of water does not come through. we do not want higher and higher balls, we want less and less water. what are some of the measures people, and local authorities and government can take? barriers at crossroads are needed but also making sure property schemes are put in place. money is not working well together. individual spent make most of the money available. many people just cannot afford the premiums also. really appreciate your time. spare a thought this morning, why don't you, for the local football team, not! don't you, for the local football team, not 1 million don't you, for the local football team, not! million miles away from where we stood right now and in 2015 it was hit badly by those boxing day floods and in storm ciara last weekend they were underwater again and they say that anything 125 year history, they have never had it so bad and it is a season could be the last because of this flood. they have put out an appeal for funds. become more resilient is the key word last weekend and this weekend, resilience. we will have more from johnin resilience. we will have more from john in wales and from the environment secretary at the top of the programme. to get in touch with us with any questions you have to put to him. just looking over some of the flood damage in york, and we are keeping you up—to—date right across the uk. the environment secretary will be speaking to us at just after 8am this morning. we can speak to carol right now and so many people effected in lots of different areas? yes, whether watch is starting to sending some pictures. currently, the environment agency has five severe flood warnings in force and that means danger to life, with over 300 flood warnings and that means do ta ke 300 flood warnings and that means do take action, flooding is expected and these flood warnings are across parts of england, scotland and also wales. to focus on the severe flood warnings for a minute, there are fourin warnings for a minute, there are four in the river tyne and one in the river wye in river photo, i have just received a tweet and the river wye is at its highest recorded level and still rising. take immediate action and listen to what the emergency services are telling you to do. today we are looking at sunny spells and blustery showers and winds. gusts across the north of scotla nd winds. gusts across the north of scotland and orkney. we're looking at gusts up to 60 miles an hour in these other areas. the then start to ease a little bit but it will be still a blustery day with a plethora of showers moving in quite quickly. some will be heavy, some will have hailand some will be heavy, some will have hail and thunder and lightning. temperatures 7— 11 degrees. as we head onto this evening and overnight, we will still have blustery conditions with showers packing in, still winter in the hills and mountains. this morning, that could be the risk of eyes on untreated surfaces first thing tomorrow morning. tomorrow a similar data today in the sense that it will be blustery, showers packing in. —— similarto be blustery, showers packing in. —— similar to today. shall start organising themselves into bands. moving across internet wales, another one following hot on its hills. we see green and yellow ‘s, this indicates heavier bursts. thunder and lightning embedded in there as well. ridge of a pressure sentencing down first thing wednesday before the next area of low pressure its attending front come our way. was that often are quite noted during the course of wednesday morning with some sunshine but through the day, as at the front approach from the west, the wind will strengthen and we will see more persistent rain, moving west to east and that will exacerbate the current situation. on thursday, more wet and windy weather spreading towards the south—east leading us into an uncertain weekend weather is a potential for us to have further heavy rains and once again gail's or potentially severe gales but i will keep you posted on that as we approach it. thank you very much carol. from today the machinery manufacturer jcb is cutting production as a direct result of supply chain issues caused by the coronavirus. so what other impact has there been on businesses an the economy? nina is here. china feels like the other side of the world because it is but we are so the world because it is but we are so intertwined with them that when a quarter of their manufacturers stop producing it will impact british industry. if you're not in the market for buying a digger, we are likely to feel the impact on the high street as well. in 2018, the european union imported over £20 billion worth of clothing from china and many uk and european fashion retailers rely on china for supplies. uniqlo have started moving they work to vietnam away from china to protect them against that. if you look at the tourism industry, they are already feeling the impact. there were nearly 400,000 visitors from china to the uk in 2018 spending around of £650 million. the popular places where chinese tourists go are already feeling the pinch. starting from right about the end of january, we have seen something like a 20% decline so we expect to lose in february around 5000 chinese visitors across the whole month. it isa visitors across the whole month. it is a little uneven so we're just coming out of the chinese new year travelling so we have seen a bigger head earlier on and the chinese audience is in smaller per cent at the back of february. but 50,000 across rabbit will be the coronavirus impact. there's obviously been a big impact on outbound tourism. british airways and virgin atalantic have withdrawn flights between britain and mainland china. and the cruise industry is expected to be particulalrly badly hit. cruise lines globally are denying boarding passengers who have travelled from, visited or travelled through airports china, including hong kong and macau in the ia days before embarkation. the 2020 chinese grand prix scheduled for april has been postponed. and stormzy is rescheduling some of the gigs on his world tour because of coronavirus. he was due to play shows in malaysia, singapore, japan, china and south korea next month. massive ripple effects for months. if you think that the sars cost £42 billion and at the time the chinese economy was 4% and now it is 16% so we can expect it to be more. you might have seen the news over the weekend of the iconic british brand, laura ashley, known for the floral print and the report they are in trouble. they have confirmed end of the last hour that they have asked foran the last hour that they have asked for an advance on a line of around 10" for an advance on a line of around 10-- £20 for an advance on a line of around 10—— £20 million. reductions in sales of around 11% last year that they have asked for this money in advance to help them get out of trouble. what they have said is that if they do get this money, not to panic, there is a robust plan in place and the board of directors is confident and optimistic that recent appointments will get them out of trouble but they have said that if they cannot secure this £20 million early, all appropriate options will be looked at so if they cannot look at this immediate cash injections they will have to look another appropriate options so we will be keeping an eye on that story. this is kind of the tip of the iceberg, the economic effects. thank you. you're watching breakfast, still to come this morning. we'll hear how calls for the introduction of caroline's law — against excessive media intrusion — are gaining momentum following the death of love island presenter caroline flack. do get in touch with us about that. we're also at the impact of storm dennis. so many different incidents across large parts of the country. we will look at the impact on homes and the rest of it, transport. extraordinary pictures of cars floating, of landslides. it has been quite devastating for loss of communities. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm geeta pendse. parts of surrey remain flooded this morning following storm dennis over the weekend. leatherhead and other areas in the mole valley saw the river swell. parts of south london and hertfordshire were also affected by fallen trees. residents in some parts of london have said they feel powerless to do anything about trafficking in their area. people in ilford and edmonton say they're being threatened by criminal gangs and that young girls are being trafficked from romania and exploited. they are targeting the schools, they are targeting the child protection facilities so the girls, whether they are over 18 or a little less under and they forge papers, end up in london. and you can see more on this story on inside out london, tonight at 7:30 on bbc one. dolls made in camberley are helping elderly people with dementia. sandy payne makes these lifelike dolls. each takes about three months to make and can sell for up to a thousand pounds. now they are being used by some residential homes for people with dementia. i think they are very therapeutic to certain people. my mother has alzheimer's and is in a nursing home and i am seeing the pleasure that having one of these dolls has given to her. so much so that the owner of the nursing home asked me to make a couple for them. let's take a look at the travel situation now... the circle line is part suspended because of signal failure at gloucester road, the overground is also part suspended. and severe delays on the district line. there are severe delays on tfl railfrom paddington to heathrow terminal a and reading. there are cancellations and delays fo great northern and thameslink services to and from kings cross and moorgate. that's due to a fault with the signalling system. in shadwell one lane is enclosed in both directions due to water mains works. now the weather with gillian brown. hello there, good morning. well, after another very stormy weekend, you will be pleased to hear we do have some bright spells on the way today. however, they will be accompanied by some blustery showers, because it is still going to feel quite windy, indeed. but this is the detail. so through the morning, those showers will push through. i think in places locally they could be quite heavy, you could see maybe some thunder or some hail as well. during the meantime, we will see some brightness, and some sunshine, with temperatures up to 10 or 11 degrees. and then as we look forward to the rest of the afternoon and into this evening, those showers are going to stay with us for a time and again, and again, they could still bring heavier, blustery spell or two. as we hit the early hours of tuesday, i think we will see them dry up and we'll see some dry weather, with temperatures through to around three degrees. and into the next couple of days, it is a mixed bag of sunshine and showers as we look toqwards tomorrow and wednesday before temperatures creep up again towards the weekend. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it's back to charlie and louise. bye for now. good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and louise minchin. our headlines today: a danger to life. there are five severe flood warnings in place this morning, as storm dennis continues to batter the uk. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... we've got the dogs out, so that is all that matters. hundreds of other flood warnings are in place. in south wales, police have declared a major incident after landslides and severe flooding. storm dennis are still bringing very strong winds today, particularly in the north and west, showers in the forecast, but as we go through the next few days, showers or rain could exacerbate the current situation. the reality dating show love island returns tonight with a tribute to its former host caroline flack, who took her own life at the weekend. harry gregg, survivor of the munich air disaster, has died. goalkeeper gregg played for manchester united under sir matt busby and won 25 caps for northern ireland. he was 87. laura ashley asks its bank for more cash. the struggling homeware retailer is in talks about getting early access to a loan, warning if it doesn't get the money it needs now, they'll have to look at other options. it's monday february 17th. our top story is that nearly 300 flood warnings remain in place across the uk this morning, in the aftermath of storm dennis. major incidents have been declared in south wales and parts of england, and there have been multiple landslides and floods — some trapping residents. hundreds more have been rescued from their homes in worcestershire and shropshire. graham satchell has more. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in a caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save is his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally, absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in herfront room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a month's worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust a8 hours. it stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! my god. oh, my. at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. on the welsh border at hay—on—wye, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but a0 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. it tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart mcbrain only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. if you want to keep up to date with all the latest on storm dennis, you can watch us on the go via the bbc iplayer app. love island returns to itv2 tonight after two episodes were cancelled following the death of former host caroline flack. her management criticised the crown prosecution service for refusing to drop charges against her ahead of her trial next month, but on this programme the former chief prosecutor said said the correct procedure was followed. when the formal discontinuance has taken place, which may be today, there will be some insight into what evidence they had in his case. i am 100% sign certain they simply follow the evidence. during my career, there was something like six people who took their lives during cases i worked on, i have neverforgotten any single one of them. they have a massive impact on you, they leave you questioning whether you made the right decision, and i suspect the prosecutors involved in this case will be doing the same thing, i hope they us are getting support too. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster of 1958, has died. he was 87. gregg played under sir matt busby at manchester united, and was capped 25 times for northern ireland, where he passed away surrounded by his family. let's get more from sally now. of this is an amazing life. we have added a little clip from him already this morning, he talks about his actions in the aftermath of the munich air disaster, in which he helped rescue his team—mates, a mother and child, sir matt busby, who was his boss at the time. he played an incredibly important role on that night. we also heard him say he didn't want his life to be defined by that, he didn't want to be just defined by that, he didn't want to bejust remembered defined by that, he didn't want to be just remembered for that, he was frankly a brilliant goalkeeper. he played less than a fortnight after the munich air disaster, kept a clea n the munich air disaster, kept a clean sheet. he was a record—breaking signing for manchester united, £23,000, and he said he knew within moments of meeting sir matt busby that he wa nted meeting sir matt busby that he wanted to play for him. so hugely significant name from that era, and this morning, in the last hour or so, manchester united themselves have paid tribute to harry gregg. this is what they have tweeted. with deepest sadness, we have learnt of the passing of former player harry gregg obe... gary neville, who played for the clu b gary neville, who played for the club for many years, has tweeted: sir alex ferguson has always said that harry gregg was his hero. what a thing. thank you. hundreds of american passengers have been flown home after being evacuated from a quarantined cruise liner off the coast of japan, while 78 britons remain stranded on board. there's been criticism that the uk authorities haven't done enough to help the british passengers and crew who have been forced to stay on the diamond princess since it was hit by the coronavirus. let's get the very latest on this now, from our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes, who's in tokyo for us. what is the latest? as you said, those americans got to get on their planes and go back to the states early this morning, it took all night for them to be brought off the ship, tested, you know, to see if they had a fever or any symptoms, then taken to the airport, put on then taken to the airport, put on the plains, and they should now be arriving in the us any time now. since then, we have heard from the australian government, saying they will do the same with 200 australians on board the ship, but the australian government, like the americans, have said, you get on this point when we send it, but if you don't, you cannot come back to australia until at least the beginning of march, so they are putting them under tremendous pressure to take this evacuation flight pressure to take this evacuation flight saying, you are on your own for the next two weeks. the question thenis for the next two weeks. the question then is what happens to the brits, and we still do not have an answer from the british government, an explicit answer about what is going to happen to them. we understand they are going to be tested in the next couple of days on board the ship, and then on wednesday, if they test negative, they will be released from the ship, but will they then be allowed to get on planes, commercial flights back to britain? we simply do not know. so many questions, but thank you very much. laura ashley has asked its bank for extra cash to allow it to keep trading. the owner of the furnishing retailer is in talks to get early access to a loan after sales fell by more than 10% last year. it's warned it will have to consider other options if it doesn't get the money. laura ashley was founded in 1953 and has more than 100 uk stores. so storm dennis has caused real problems all over the weekend, carol has a look at what is going to happen next. morning. iam i am starting with flood warnings, there are five severe flood warnings in force, that means danger to life. four of these are on the river teme, one is on the wye, and i'vejust seen a tweet that in hereford, where we have a severe flood warning, the river is now at its highest recorded level and still rising. there are also over 300 flood warnings, that means flooding is expected, take action, and that is across scotland, all of england, and also across parts of wales. so do take extra care. today we are looking at sunny spells and blustery showers, that sounds fairly innocuous, but of course we don't need any more water coming out of the skies. the met office still has a one in four winds across the north of scotland, 70 mph in orkney, and across western areas, gusting up to about 50—60. that warning expires at 11 o'clock this morning, the winds will ease a little bit, but still a blustery day with a lot of showers packing in. through this evening and overnight, blustery conditions and a lot of showers, still some snow on the tops of the hills and mountains, the risk of the hills and mountains, the risk of ice first thing tomorrow morning. roughly between two and 5 degrees as overnight lows. similar day tomorrow, blustery, further showers, still wintry in the hills and mountains in the north, but through the day they align themselves into a more organised band, and like today they are going to be heavy at times with some hail and thunder. before i 90, with some hail and thunder. before i go, iwant with some hail and thunder. before i go, i want to warn you that the rest of the week does remain unsettled, with showers or longer spells of rain, potentially pretty windy and wet this weekend. more of that in roughly half an hour. let's return to our top story now and the ongoing disruption caused by storm dennis. that caused by storm dennis. is bad! that landslide was in the rhondda valley in south wales yesterday morning, and you can hear the shock in the voices of the people who filmed it. and this was just down the road — or what was left of it — in pontypridd. that's supposed to be the main high street, which you can see is totally submerged. england saw a record number of flood warnings yesterday, and hundreds remain in place today, from cornwall and most of the south coast up to carlisle and into scotland. there are five severe warnings still in place. that means there is danger to life. half of those severe warnings are on the river teme in shropshire and worcestershire. breakfast‘s john maguire is in the rhondda valley. we have been looking at where you are this morning, extraordinary pictures, cars picked up and floated down the road. yeah, louise, i have been doing this job for 25 years, i have done flood in almost every winter, and i have never seen anything like this, the force of the river taff, as it came down through the village of nantgarw, really incredible, dumping the cars, just bashed into each other, dumped where the torrent decided to give up and dump them. good morning to you, neil, you have literally just arrived good morning to you, neil, you have literallyjust arrived back, having not been at home last night, we asked him for a couple of words, thank you very much, what was it like? i came home saturday evening, took the dog for a walk, went to bed, and! took the dog for a walk, went to bed, and i thought that was it. i had a phone call from the neighbour at four o'clock in the morning, saying, we have got water coming in. it was seeping through the front door. ijust it was seeping through the front door. i just couldn't it was seeping through the front door. ijust couldn't believe it looking at the window, and within an hour, the level was rising and rising, i was counting how many stairs had gone, three steps, and over the front wall within no time at all. so we went upstairs, and we we re at all. so we went upstairs, and we were in total shock, you don't know how to react, never been flooded before, been here 25 years, seen nothing like it. always look at the level of the river, i walk the dog over there, but the level is never anywhere near bursting its banks. obviously, something has come down from further upstream, you know? otherwise how did you manage to get out of your house? boat. fire and rescue said they lifted a lot of manuals to try to dispose the water, so manuals to try to dispose the water, so it is basically not safe to walk, because the water is so dirty, we had to rescue the dog out, some friends from cardiff came for the dog. we walked through water that way, they made us further up the estate to take him to safety, and we got rescued by boat there, and we walked up, luckily enough we have got friends coming up the top, we stayed there, we have just come home. i know you have a lot of work to do, thanks very much indeed, we will let you crack on. we will take you up the main street in nantgarw, oxford street, it is called, ironically. look at this car, just abandoned in the centre here... apologies, we have just lost john maguire in nantgarw, but we can see the impact that it has had, in lots of other places as well, jayne mccubbin is in york, where river levels are rising, again causing problems. absolutely, i mean, everybody is carrying about their business as normal in the york, but braced for the worst, because we understood not next to the river cruise, which is meant to be 100 metres down that way, this is a public car park, and you know that moment when you leave your car in a car park overnight and think, it will be fine, i will pick it up in the morning. not for that person, no way. the river ouse has burst its banks, it has happened in 2015, and before that in the year 2000, but the water level is expected to peak at around the water level is expected to peak ataround10:a5 the water level is expected to peak at around 10:a5 this morning, expected to be the highest water level since those devastating floods of 2015. the council has been out all weekend distributing about a000 sandbags to homes around the area, rodding drains to make sure that they can cope with as much water as comes their way, and we are next to the foss barrier, which had £7 million with of investment after the 2015 floods to try and make it work better, because it failed then, and iam better, because it failed then, and i am told by the environment agency that so far, so good, it is doing exactly what it needs to do. but you will have heard some frustration from people that promises made back in 2015 for more, better flood defences has not been delivered. so there is some concern that homes will be encroached today, but at the moment we are not sure how bad it is going to get. back to you. jayne, thank you very much. kathryn sta nczyszyn thank you very much. kathryn stanczyszyn is in tenbury wells in worcestershire, tell us what the situation is there, morning. yesterday people were told to evacuate because of the river teme bursting its banks here, and we know that the levels overnight reached just under six metres, just shy of the highest ever recorded level back in 2007, but people here say that actually the impact on some ice has been greater this time. 70 businesses were evacuated in the town of tenbury wells, also around a5 homes as well, and that has meant quite a large number of people have had to go to other places, we have heard from some who actually moves to frans' heard from some who actually moves to fra ns' houses heard from some who actually moves to frans' houses and then had to be evacuated from there as well because of the seriousness of the situation. we are at the local high school, this is what has been set up overnight, a big hole with inflata ble overnight, a big hole with inflatable beds, blankets, people have been looked after very well. this is the kitchen area this morning, where people have been waking up and having some breakfast, and nikki is one of the volunteers who has been here all night. you we re who has been here all night. you were not expecting that on a sunday. no, it hasjust been so shocking. obviously, we flooded in 2007, and we are used to having a bit of rain, but we had no idea that, you know, the enormity of what would happen happened, so the high school has been open since six o'clock yesterday morning, we have had staff on hand and volunteers around the clock, the donations have been amazing, we have been able to feed and house people and keep them warm, especially the vulnerable, yeah, amazing. do you have any questions for the environment agency? this did happen here previously, and in some ways the impact has been worse this time. have you got questions for them? what are we going to do to re cover them? what are we going to do to recover from this? we have got to where we are today, and we are here again, why are we here? why has nothing been put in place to stop this happening to the town? simon, you were here last night, and it is really impacting the community. yes, but it has been amazing, the way that the community, at short notice, has come together to enable us to support those hit by the disaster. ben, you were told, yeah, you need to get out. yeah, yeah. we moved in in november. we were told by the estate agent when we moved in, they said, will it flood? no, no, no need to worry about that! and you have been here overnight. i'm just going to come around to these last two people we need to speak to, isaac and bear, what happened? our house got flooded, we had to get rescued on about, then we got picked up, because the water was too deep, then we had to go in a land rover to the high school. pretty scary. yeah. yeah, it was. they have had some brea kfast, yeah, it was. they have had some breakfast, so they are feeling better now. tenbury wells is still partly shut off, although the water levels are partly shut off, although the water levels a re now partly shut off, although the water levels are now receding, but we have also got problems in herefordshire, we know the river wye is very high there also. college kathryn sta nczyszyn, there also. college kathryn stanczyszyn, thank you. george eustice became the environment secretaryjust four days ago, so it's fair to say he's had a challenging start to his newjob. he joins us now from westminster. good morning, thank you for your time. iam good morning, thank you for your time. i am not sure how much you could hear that, we were in worcestershire, tenbury wells, simon and nikki in that rescue centre, and nikki asking a very obvious question, which is what are we going to do to recover, and why are we in this position again? will we are, sadly, suffering more and more of these extreme weather events, and with this particular storm, because it came on the back of other storms and the land was already saturated, and the land was already saturated, and there were quite widespread impacts right across the country, but now it was done in the catchment of the seven macro and in places like tenbury wells. —— the river severn. we have done a lot of work over the last five years to invest in flood defences, 600 projects protecting over 200,000 properties, and there is more work under way, with £a billion committed in the next five years. i know that in tenbury wells there are some difficulties in having flood barriers because it is quite a flat area, it is not always part of the solution, just pushing the water elsewhere. but there are suggestions, i know, full of flood water retention area, and that is something i am willing to look at. we were told a moment ago that some a5 homes in that one place have been evacuated. are you telling those people that they are just going to have to put up with that, that is what life is going to be like? we are seeing more of those events, but we do not take it lightly, we are doing a lot of work to try to manage flood water. it is the biggest element of spending in my department, we will be spending a billion over the next five years, and in particular, what we want to do, which is very relevant to areas like the west midlands and worcestershire, is try to manage water better upstream, so using nature based solutions, natural dams, natural flood plains, nature based solutions, natural dams, naturalflood plains, so that we can hold water upstream and prevent it getting down to some of those lowland towns like tenbury wells, which have been most severely affected. the light i am not sure if you have updated figures in terms of flood risk areas right now, what is the situation that you are hearing, the situation that you are hearing, the latest? we don't expect much more rainfall, there may be more showers on wednesday, but none that will particularly compound the problem is our current prediction. the biggest issue is water working down the river courses, so we do still have some concerns, for instance, on the river ouse in yorkshire, but we have concerns in shropshire, tewkesbury, we are keeping a close watch there. we do have flood defences there, temporary defences when there are flood risks that can be removed at other times of day, they are all in place, and our teams are of day, they are all in place, and ourteams are on of day, they are all in place, and our teams are on the ground trying to manage the situation. a place like york, our cameras are there, people very worried there, 10:a5 is expected to be the highest river level there, and we can see a live image on our screens now, we know a lot of money was spent there, some £17 million spent on a barrier in 2015 because of the problems then, but nonetheless we are hearing from locals that they are very frustrated and angry there are still things that could be done that are not being done, you know, barriers on roads, really basic stuff. are you just kind of trying to hold back the tides here, and these things are going to happen anyway? that is what people are thinking on the ground, that there is nothing that can be done. well, these events are becoming more frequent, and we have to manage them. i was in york yesterday, we have got £18 million with a project around york, including managing the water upstream, improving the capacity of the false barriers so that it can pump 50 tonnes of water per second to move it out of the foss into the ouse. we have planning to protect communities alongside the river ouse, that is something i visited yesterday, it is sometimes complicated in that residents have said, yes, why hasn't this been done, but others were anxious about access to the cycle lanes along the side of the river, and that sometimes quite a lot of community issues and differences of view is that you have to manage to get these projects right. george eustice, thank you very much for your time, george eustice, environment secretary, speaking to us this morning. keeping you up to date with the problems of storm dennis and those floods all across the uk. and of course it is really important to know exactly what is going to happen next, carol will have a weather forecast in about 15 minutes. right now, the news, travel and weather good morning. sterne dennis are still close by in the uk but not quite as wet or windy as it was over the weekend. however still flood warnings in force, five severe flood warnings in force, five severe flood warnings throughout this morning, the flooding risk continuing throughout the day, perhaps into tomorrow as well. there is a storm dennis, moving its way out towards scandinavia, but white lines so close together across the uk, certainly throughout this morning it's quite windy, the strongest wind across scotland, northern parts of england, gusts of 60, 70 miles an hour, the wind easing during this afternoon. in terms of the weather, it's going to be a much quieter really. heavy showers moving their way south and east, there will be sunny spells in between the showers across england and wales, perhaps more persistent rain across scotland and northern ireland, and the showers turning wintry over higher ground. maximum temperature is getting up to 6—10d. to this evening and tonight we continue with this showery theme, especially in northern parts, some snow over the higher ground of scotland. temperatures dropping down to close to freezing in parts of rural scotland, in england and wales, temperatures 2—ad. tuesday, we will still see a mixture of sunny spells, showers, some of the showers merging together to give lengthy spells of rain, especially into the afternoon. this banter showers moving south and east, heavy at times, lots of rain fell in a short space of time, not too persistent, further wintry showers across scotland. the middle pa rt showers across scotland. the middle part of the week, small ridge of high pressure developing as we go into wednesday before more weather systems into wednesday before more weather syste ms m ove into wednesday before more weather systems move into the end of the week. remaining quite unsettled. brief dry day on wednesday for many of us, rain then spreading in and by thursday quite wet and windy once again. goodbye. this is worklife from bbc news, with ben bland and lewis vaughan jones. taxing the tech titans — large technology companies often have small tax bills. we look at the latest efforts to get them to pay more. live from london, that's our top story on monday 17th february. as mark zuckerberg heads to a top level eu meeting saying facebook is willing to pay more tax, we look at how that might happen. also in the programme, as japan seeks to hold back the spread of the coronavirus, the country's economy hits

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tonight at ten — storm dennis rages across the uk, as the emergency services rush to help communities around the country. residential streets turned into rivers in the worst affected areas as heavy rain fell on ground already saturated by last week's storm. towed to safety in knee—deep water. people in south wales endured some of the worst conditions. as we were trying to block the front door, it was all pouring in through the backdoor as well, and there was nothing we could do. we'll be live with our correspondents across the country, with disruption expected to continue into tomorrow. and the other main stories on tonight's programme. itv cancels tonight's edition of love island following the death of the show‘s former host caroline flack, who took her own life. america sends two planes to take home us citizens quarantined — britons on board are critical of the uk government. for coronavirus on a cruise ship in japan. britons on board are critical of the uk government. and victory for england's cricketers as they win their t20 match against south africa and clinch the series. good evening. the uk was battered by storm dennis throughout the day, with heavy rainfall and high winds leading to major incidents being declared by emergency services in south wales and in parts of england. south wales police have been dealing with multiple landslides and floods, some of them trapping residents. there are over 700 flood warnings and alerts in place for england, wales, and scotland. england faced a record number today including currently four severe flood warnings, meaning a danger to life. rail services and flights were affected across the country. well, communities were already coping with the aftermath of storm ciara last weekend, and some found themselves in the middle of major disruption once again. in a moment we'll hear from our correspondentjon kay of a rescue in tenbury wells in worcestershire, but first, tomos morgan is in pontypridd in the south wales valleys. tomos. tha nkfully thankfully this evening, the river tough behind me is far lower than it was earlier today, when it burst its banks, flooding the high street here. the south wales valleys has borne the brunt of storm dennis, it is estimated that a month's borne the brunt of storm dennis, it is estimated that a months worth of rain has fallen in 48 hours. there has been flooding and landslides, many communities having to be evacuated. the police have declared a major incident and the welsh government will provide extra funding to councils to help with the cleanup operation, which, after today's events, will know doubt take quite some time. residents will never have witnessed anything quite like this. their road, turned river. cars submerged, as storm dennis poured. caroline has lived here for years. she was rescued alongside her 96—year—old father, whose birthday it is today. the only thing i've managed to save is his medals from the war. ruined, everything. i lost everything. i've got a photo, you know. at the time ijust grabbed every towel, blanket i could find and pushed up against the front door, just thinking it was going to come in through the front door, because we'd already had sandbags there because sometimes the floods a small amount with the drains. but that's when we were trying to block the front door, it was pouring through the back door as well and there was nothing could do. here in nantgarw, just north of cardiff, over 100 homes have been ruined by the rain. rescue services have been here since 5am, taking residents from their home to safety, after storm dennis wreaked havoc across south wales. after the met office issued its highest red warning for rain this morning it was clear the welsh valleys would suffer. at around lunchtime a major incident was declared here. by then, though, pontypridd high street had already been under water for several hours. across south wales, other communities like here near brecon, have also needed the emergency services to help them to safety. the residents of aberdulais near neath were evacuated in the early hours as the river neath burst its banks. as the day wore on, water levels began to subside and some wanted to take stock of what's now a disaster site. louise's hair salon was the end terrace of this wrecked street. all her hard work and her livelihood, now ruined. i've been here six years now. i've loved every minute of being here. and obviously you can see the devastation now. you can see on the walls here how high it must have been at one stage. this is the dirty room now. all gone. a lot of hard work. there's nothing salvageable here. there's nothing. we're going to have to get rid of everything. further weather warnings remain in place for wind and rain until tomorrow. last week, ciara bruised the country. this week, dennis has battered south wales. tomos morgan, bbc news, in the south wales valleys. a race against time in tenbury wells tonight. the water, still rising. the river teme has burst its banks. one by one, rescue boats bringing people from their flooded homes. it's going underwater slowly. the kitchen, the living room, so... but we got the three dogs out. that's all that matters. it's shocking, never seen it this high up before. never like this? nothing this bad. being carried by the fireman was rather inelegant! but anyway i'm very thankful to them for collecting me. carol thought her house would be safe but tonight she's one of more than 100 evacuees in this worcestershire market town. our house is flooded completely. must be terrifying. absolutely, yeah. i don't like water at all. and i'm not very good with my balance because of arthritis. a bit scary. what state is the house in? terrible. wrecked, really. how long have you lived here? 11 years. ever seen anything this bad? no, never, no. i don't want to see it again. very upsetting. these rescue teams are going to be working through the night, going down the streets, house—to—house, trying to find if anyone is still trapped inside. from the river clyde in glasgow to the far south—west of england, dennis has been an unwelcome weekend guest in almost every part of the uk. vast areas overwhelmed by huge quantities of rainfall. we are doing more and more than ever before in terms of investing in flood defences, protecting more homes than we have been able to before but we are seeing a higher frequency of these sorts of freak weather events. absolutely terrifying. we could lose everything. butjules in tenbury wells says communities like hers need more protection. they could have put nonreturn valves on the drains, to stop that. they could have built flood defences down there. they haven't done anything. the government say they are doing more than has ever been done. i think they are in big areas but not little towns like this. we are last on the list of priorities, aren't we? one more rescue. this time, this family. including 16—year—old winston. it's quite scary. thinking i'm going to fall off. they were carrying you tight. yes, 0k. tonight, they're on their way to an emergency shelter and tenbury wells is pretty much cut off. jon kay, bbc news, worcestershire. well, in a moment we'll speak to fiona trott in york. but first let's go to our scotland correspondent alexandra mackenzie in the scottish borders. the area around there has experienced some of the worst conditions in scotland today? yes, you're right. three rivers here last night reached record levels and following a day of heavy rain, it led to serious flooding both here in hawick and in the surrounding villages. so, many people had to be evacuated from their homes as the water levels began to rise. 0ne evacuated from their homes as the water levels began to rise. one man said that he quickly had to pack a bag for himself and his ten week baby as his house began to flood. 0ne baby as his house began to flood. one had to be rescued by the emergency services as their car span of the road and was rammed into a fence. they were taken to hospital but have since been released. now, the flood levels, or the river levels, here have peaked, we are not expecting any further floods here in the borders, it is this wind which is going to be the problem both overnight and tomorrow morning. fiona, in york, a rough weekend but tomorrow brings fresh challenges?m does, this lake is actually a city ce ntre does, this lake is actually a city centre car park. the levels here have risen by 50 centimetres over the last 12 hours. it is why this york area is a main priority for the environment agency, and the city council flood plan is in place, meaning the floodgates on the river 0use are closed, the barrier is an operation to stop water from the 0use backing up into the river foss. the army has been handing out hundreds of sandbags but the latest production from the environment agency is that the highest level in the next 36 hours will be at 4.5 metres, at around 12.30 tomorrow afternoon. so, not those record levels we saw back in 2000, when they reached 5.4 metres. right now, there are 29 flood warnings in place in north yorkshire, nine in and around york. there were four this afternoon. so tonight, here in york, it is all about preparation. fiona trott in york, and alexandra mackenzie in hawick, thank you very much. itv cancelled tonight's edition of the reality tv show love island following the death of its former host caroline flack. tributes continued to pour in today to the 40—year—old, who was found dead in her london flat yesterday. this report from helena wilkinson has flash photography. a hugely popular and successful television presenter, caroline flack television presenter, caroline flack was a natural. she made presenting look easy. it appeared to be a glamorous life, but one that was very much in the public eye, and under constant scrutiny. today her friend, laura whitmore, who replaced her as a presenter on love island, didn't hold back. there was grief, as well as anger. anyone who knew caroline knew that she was vivacious, loving and had a passion for life. to the press, the newspapers, who create click bait, who demonise and tear down success, we've had enough. you don't have to tear down someone to feel good about yourself. it was december when she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, lewis burton. there was a media scrum at her first court appearance where she denied the charge. she wasn't allowed any contact with mr burton. he denied being a victim and he didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. today he posted this message. "my heart is broken and we had something so special." he appeared to criticise the way the case was handled, saying, "i was not allowed to be there this time. "i kept asking and asking." questions, too, from her management, who labelled it a show trial. the crown prosecution service says it won't comment on this case. this is itv headquarters. the broadcaster earlier decided not to show tonight's episode of love island out of respect for caroline's family but itv said the programme would return tomorrow night, and include a tribute to the television presenter who they say will forever be in their hearts. as tributes continue, there are questions about why this has happened, and calls, too, for more compassion. weeks before her death she wrote of the weight of media intrusion, saying, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind." helena wilkinson reporting there. and if you're affected by any of the issues in our report, information and support is available from bbc action line, and there's the number for you on the screen now. further restrictions have been imposed on people living in hubei province in china, the area at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. only one person from each household will be allowed out every three days. meanwhile, british passengers who've been quarantined on a cruise liner off japan have criticised the uk government after the us sent two aircraft to bring home american citizens. there are now 355 cases of coronavirus on the ship. from yokohama, rupert wingfield—hayes reports. only those american guests who are disembarking the diamond princess tonight... for the americans at least, this is the moment that for many could not come soon enough. 0n the dockside, the buses lining up ready to take them to tokyo airport and an evacuation flight home. 355 passengers aboard the diamond princess have now been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. in the last two days, there has been a steady stream of ambulances removing them from the giant ship. 70 cases today alone. when i got through to american gay courter in her cabin, she was busy packing, more than eager to get off the ship. i do not feel safe on this ship. i do not know how more of us who've been sitting here for 12 days are getting contaminated, but something is going wrong. this is a failed quarantine. but i think we have figured that in the first few days when the numbers kept rising. it is very clear from the statement that the us government has made that it is worried the quarantine on board the ship is not working, and that its citizens are in danger, and that's why it has decided to take them off. several other governments have now followed, including canada, hong kong and taiwan. so, the pressure is really now on the british government to make a response. in a statement today, the foreign office said it shared us concerns about the potential risk of exposure, and it was working urgently to find the best way to keep british nationals safe from infection. united kingdom... but for british passenger david abel, that was not nearly enough. this afternoon he took to social media to express his frustration. it feels that we have been forgotten, that you don't really care about us, and that you're actually not wanting us to come home. at tokyo's haneda airport tonight, the us—chartered planes touch down. the american evacuees now face a gruelling flight, and another quarantine. but those we spoke to say they prefer that to spending another day on a ship where they do not feel safe. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in yokohama. almost two years ago, blackburn in lancashire was selected for a social cohesion pilot by the government, to try to break down ethnic and religious divisions. now, there are signs that different communities are beginning to come together. as part of a new bbc season, crossing divides, our home editor, mark easton, reports now. blackburn's white british and muslim asian communities are said to live parallel lives. neighbourhoods, schools and workplaces are deeply segregated here. but with government backing, blackburn has been testing ideas to reduce racial tensions and form friendships across the traditions. did you watch the documentary? this person mixes paint and paper and passion to emphasise what unites rather than divides. shared feelings, common humanity. we have had so many people getting involved from so many different communities, and it is so relatable, and creativity is a fantastic tool to bring people together. the council is exploring the idea of a new bus routes to encourage more mixing between white and asian communities, working class neighbourhoods which share the struggle to make ends meet in a deprived town. blackburn was once regarded as a northern powerhouse. but the end of the cotton mills and the long decline of the local economy opened up some community divides. now, government promises to revive england's northern powerhouse are seen as key to preventing the social fabric from tearing still further. i've not seen you for ages. i know! chloe and shabnam represent a story of hope. local blackburn girl meets afghan asylum seeker and become best friends. you look very sweet. they met training to be community ambassadors, with an inspiring commitment to bring their town together. me and shab, we are a similar age, we have a lot of common interests, so, literally, when she came along, we kind of clicked. yeah, we talk on social media and, yeah, we go for nando's! the challenge is significant. far right groups have been active in blackburn. this club, though, uses martial arts to fight prejudice. not one of these people on here, on social media, will put anything extreme. if they are from a certain background, they won't share any of tommy robinson's stuff, because they've got to come and train with them on a monday. i was excluded for being aggressively racist and violent to two young muslim lads. like, the majority of my best mates are now muslim lads. you're not really mixed where i'm from, and coming here, everyone's altogether and everyone is mixed and that is the nice thing about it. what do you reckon to him? he's a good lad. and what do you reckon to him? he's a good lad, he is a good mate of mine now. there is no easy win, but perhaps this once great mill town can take the strands of different traditions and weave them together to create a strong and durable future. mark easton, bbc news, blackburn. with all the sport now, here's karthi gna nasegaram at the bbc sport centre. rita, thank you. good evening. england's cricketers have yet again come through a thrilling game to win in spectacular style. in their last twenty20 international against south africa, they needed to hit 223 runs, their second highest successful run chase in t20 matches. they reached their target, winning by five wickets. the victory means they also take the series 2—1. andy swiss reports. commentator: and it's england who take the spoils... happy? just a little, but who could blame them? english cricket has seen a few unlikely wins recently and this was right upper there. earlier, south african batsmen had seemingly smashed them out of sight. england's bowlers could only grin and bear it as the hosts racked up a massive 222. surely victory was in their grasp. but england are no strangers to unlikely run chases, and jos buttler set them on their way. when he and jonny bairstow both fell, though... ..south africa sensed a comeback, but not for long. who else but ben stokes smashing it into the top tier of the stand, while eoin morgan conjured something even more special, a 50 offjust 21 balls, equalling his own england record. the result — one of the greatest run chases in t20 history, with nearly an over to spare, too. amazing game of cricket, to keep south africa to 220 seems like a good job now, but at the time it seemed as if we would have to ask a lot of our guys to get and are but informants performance today was outstanding. and with the world cup in t20 to come, they will be hoping this is just the start. andy swiss, bbc news. it's time to pop out of the room if you don't want to know today's football results as match of the day two follows soon on bbc one. a 94th minute winner from son hyeung—min gave tottenham a 3—2 victory over aston villa. the win meansjose mourinho's side move up to fifth place in the premier league. in the day's other game, arsenal beat newcastle 4—0. in the scottish premiership, celtic remain ten points clear at the top of the scottish premiership after their 2—1 win over aberdeen. the celtic manager, neil lennon described it as "a magnificent three points". also today, there were wins for second—placed rangers and for hibernian. women's fa cup holders manchester city are through to the quarterfinals for the seventh year in a row after thumping ipswich 10—0. birmingham city beat sunderland 1—0. the other games were postponed due to the weather. katie 0rmerod is on track to become the first british woman to be a world cup champion on snow. 0rmerod finished in third in the event in calgary, which keeps her in first place overall in the slopestyle world cup. there's more on the bbc sport website, including the latest on british tennis number three kyle edmund, who is playing in the new york 0pen final against andreas seppi and rory mcilroy in action at the genesis invitational in califrnia. hello. this is bbc news. just a bit more now on the dimond princess cruise ship we understand that this is concerning the diamond princess cruise ship that is currently quarantined off of japan. cruise ship that is currently quarantined off ofjapan. according to local reports, chartered flights carrying us passengers have now left japan. so those planes were brought in by the us government and they have now left japan. thousands of passengers are facing major disruption at heathrow airport, after a systems failure affecting all terminals. travellers described the situation as ‘chaos‘ — with departure screens not working — and no announcements — leaving people unsure where to go to catch their flights. the airport have said, they're experiencing technical problems, and have deployed ‘passenger ambassadors‘, to show people to their gates — but it's not yet known when the problems will be resolved. sam mills is a ba passenger, who fears he's missed his flight back home to pittsburgh in the states. he spoke to us from a queue at heathrow airport. i arrived initially in the baggage trays were not working to the belt to the backs to the planes so they had to put my back behind me at about one p.m. and i got through security relatively quickly and arriving and the flight board not updating, 2pm onwards was continually getting delayed. no gate information for my flight, and then unfortunately i was asking a ba representative, they told me not to worry, and i checked the flight every five minutes or so to make sure the gate hadn't popped up. as soon as it popped up, it said that it had been moved out at that point. what is that we view now? can you be put on another fight or are you stranded? as of right now unfortunately i am stranded. there is a line through and defeat this way and in both directions of people waiting for the line at british airways service desk. the light has not moved in about half an hour and we have all been standing here now with no communication from british airways whatsoever... and in terms of things like food and water and keeping yourself up, have you got access to that or the staff helping you with any of that? this has been a point of discontent among so out of the passengers around me that we have not been given any information, nobody from british airways going up and down the line, we are apprehensive to leave the line to get anything to eat and drink... i'm frustrated with losing my place in the line and having to go back two or three hours back to the end of the line. had the extra investors as we have heard about been able to tell you when things will be able to be fixed? —— extra ambassadors? we have not been told anything from anyone from pitch airways. and it is not spilt over... and they have not said anything over the pa system in a while. what is your plan? i will wait in this line to see once i get to the desk before... and see what kind of accommodation they can provide and find my way home as quickly as possible. sam mills, we will leave it there for now and good we and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers rob merrick, the deputy political editor at the independent, and ruth lea, who's an economics adviser for the arbuthnot banking group — that's coming up after the headlines. time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello there. storm dennis has been bringing significant disruption to parts of the uk. again we have had strong winds bringing battering waves to the coast but it is the rain that has been causing major problems. we have had hundred and 69 millimetres of the past couple of days and all of that rain over a months worth has been falling off the bracken is and into the valleys. we have a severe flood warning enforce near nice and we have several severe flood warnings between ludlow and a distant. —— neath full dot aside from those major warnings, we have well over 300 flood warnings in force elsewhere. some communities, the flooding could continue to get worse before it gets better even as the rain becomes less intense. storm dennis's final swansong as it passes close to the north of scotland is a swathe of powerful winds. it could see gusts in scotland of 75 mph or so and could see disruption as we head into monday morning across the north of scotland

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and the former manchester united goalkeeper harry gregg, who survived the 1958 munich air crash, has died at the age of 87. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. communities across britain are facing another day of flooding and travel chaos as storm dennis continues to batter the country. police have called off rescue efforts for a woman missing near tenbury in worcestershire, saying they are now mounting a recovery operation. almost 300 flood warnings are in place — including five severe warnings in worcestershire, shropshire, and herefordshire, which indicate a danger to life. the heavy rain is causing travel disruption with some roads being closed, and damaged rail lines meaning cancellations and delays. our news correspondent graham satchell has this report. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in their caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save is his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally, absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in her front room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a months worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust 48 hours. it did stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! my god. oh, my. at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. on the welsh border at hay—on—wye, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but a0 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. in tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart mcbain only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. rachel maskell, mp for york central, said a little earlier that the government hasn't done enough to protect communities against the floods. i've been out talking to residents and of course they are incredibly stressed, not knowing exactly what is going to happen to their properties. a lot of resilience measures have been put in place, temporary measures, sandbags and putting those tarpalines up to make sure that water doesn't ingress in properties. but some properties will flood in the city. but residents are also very frustrated and angry in the fact that we are over four years since the boxing day floods of 2015 and many of the resilience schemes for properties but also community schemes like over the river, are still not in place. and of course that would protect whole swathes of houses. so there is a mix of emotions, i will say, amongst the community. people feel inevitable that they are going to be flooded today and it is how they can mitigate that. it is interesting, somebody tweeted me when we were in the calder valley just before the weekend, saying, how is it that china can build a hospital in a week when we can't put in proper flood defences after the last very serious floods in 2015. you share this frustration, don't you? absolutely. i mean, there is no excuse for this. we know with climate change, we know with more frequency of weather events that we are going to see flooding in our country and therefore we need a proper strategy around sustainable management of our conditions, particularly around flooding. and here in york we'd benefit from that. the environment secretary george eustice said the government is investing in better flood defences as severe weather becomes more common. we are seeing more of these sorts of events but we don't take it lightly. we are doing a lot of work to try to manage our floodwater. it is the biggest element of spending in my department. we will be spending 4 billion over the next five years. and in particular, what we want to do, and it is very relevant to areas like the west midlands and worcestershire, is try to manage water better upstream. so using nature—based solutions, natural dams, natural flood plains, so that we can hold water upstream and prevent it getting down to some of those lowland towns like tenbury wells, which have been most severely affected. let's talk to our wales correspondent tomos morgan, who is in nantgarw in south wales. what is the situation there? good morning. well, just have a look at the wall here, you can just see the line of where the water came up to in the early hours of yesterday morning. it has decimated this street in set one, just north of cardiff. you can see the floor as well, the wooden flooring has com pletely well, the wooden flooring has completely come up off the floor from where it has been. this has been caroline jones's from where it has been. this has been carolinejones's home. you have been carolinejones's home. you have been here for seven years and you have spent that time making it into the home you have always wanted it to be. what was it like this morning seen it in this state? it is devastating. i don't know where to begin. this is my home, it is my pride and joy. i just begin. this is my home, it is my pride and joy. ijust don't know where to start and i'm still traumatised about what happened yesterday. what are your plans over the next few days? you obviously haven't got anywhere to sleep or put your possessions that are safe. have your possessions that are safe. have you been able to think about that?” am just taking everything hour by hour. i'm waiting for the insurance assessor to come round. i stayed la st assessor to come round. i stayed last night in a hotel, i don't know where i'm going to stay. i am just taking everything as it comes. i am just trying to take it all be honest. and you were telling me earlier about when that stream and torrent of water came in, you were forced upstairs. but your dog was downstairs. so we didn't really realise, at half past five we were aware that there was a flood warning. we looked outside and there wasjust a warning. we looked outside and there was just a torrent, it was just a river, torrent not far from the top of the window sill. we realised obviously the dog was downstairs. richard had to run downstairs, swim through the lounge because the dog was in the bathroom on the verge of drowning and he had tojust drag the dog out upstairs. it was really frightening. what has been the worst thing about this experience for you? i think the speed. i think not been aware, ididn't i think the speed. i think not been aware, i didn't realise the big build—up, obviously i knew there was a storm brewing. i didn't think, like everyone, it would affect us. the frightening mess of it, the level of the water. you have had amber warnings before because actually the river is not too far away. but nothing like this has ever happened. no, you don't think anything like this will come to destroy your home or your life. you have spoken to the insurance company, you are covered thankfully. yes. is that any consolation though? yes. is that any consolation though? yes. is that any consolation though? yes. ijust needed to have a conversation with the loss adjuster. i don't know when i can move back in i don't know when i can move back in i don't know when i can move back in i don't know how long these things take. i really haven't a clue, i am going to take baby steps. do you think anything is salvageable looking around here. now, looking at the furniture, there is murder, there is storage. i have had to open kitchen doors, nothing is opening. it isjust ravaged. i cannot believe the floor, it isjust ravaged. caroline, thank you very much and good luck. the welsh government has said they will pledge extra funding for councils light in this area so that they can help with people like caroline as this clean—up continues. but as you have seen and as we have seen from all the pictures over the last 2a, 48 seen from all the pictures over the last 24, 48 hours, that clean—up operation is going to take quite some time. thank you very much. absolutely incredible hearing what is happening there. there are 16 flood warnings in place from the environment agency and the waters are expected to peak at the highest levels since the devastating 2015 floods around about 1045 this morning. have a look over here and you will see what has happened. so the river whose is actually about 100 metres away from us. all of this in the foreground is actually the public car park in the centre of york. you can see the pay—and—display machines over there in the distance and see how far the river whose has come in. as i say, the highest level expected since those 2015 floods... back then into the foss barrier, the main defence in this area. which if we use the mast cam on the top of the satellite truck you will be able to see better where we are. on one side of us we have the river foss, on the other side the river who is and where they meet is the foss barrier. that at the moment after £70 billion worth of funding the moment after £70 billion worth offunding can the moment after £70 billion worth of funding can try and control some 50 tonnes of water every second to try and stabilise the rivers where they need to prevent flooding. i'm told by the environment agency who are in the area this morning, it is absolutely doing its job are in the area this morning, it is absolutely doing itsjob because are in the area this morning, it is absolutely doing its job because at the moment there are no houses or premises flooded further upstream. so that is good news but they are preparing for the worst. the council has been out all weekend handing out some 4000 sandbags, going down into the drains and making sure they are clear, doing all they can to try and make the city resilient. that is the key word, resilience. they say they are doing a good job so far so they are doing a good job so far so they arejust are doing a good job so far so they are just waiting to see how bad things get. just yesterday the environment secretary was in york having a look at how things were going, saying they will keep a watchful eye on it. because even without rain the waters here are expected to rise. but so far, so good. and york i'm told is still open for business. spare a thought though for tadcaster albion, it's the local football team in this area. it has been going for an hundred 25 years but they say that this season could be their last season this season could be their last season because of the continued flooding. not just from season because of the continued flooding. notjust from storm ciara last weekend but also from storm dennis and they are really struggling. they have thrown out an appealforfinancial struggling. they have thrown out an appeal for financial help this morning, saying they really might not be around much longer if things, events like this which were once considered a once—in—a—lifetime event continue to happen with this kind of severity and this kind of frequency. for the latest information on storm dennis in your area, information on storm dennis in your area , you information on storm dennis in your area, you can find out more on your local bbc online pages or tune into your local radio station. the met office is buying a supercomputer capable of quicker and more accurate forecasts. the project will cost one point two billion pounds over the next decade. the met office says it'll also help our understanding of the effects of the changing climate. it will enable us to deliver more accurate, even more timely, more localised predictions for both weather and climate. that will enable people to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive ahead of time in the case of severe weather. the headlines on bbc news... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. and in sport, harry gregg, survivor of the munich air disaster has died at the age of 87. he was one of the busby babes at manchester united and one several caps for northern ireland. talk them up to fifth in the premier league after a late winner at aston villa. and rory mcilroy blows his chance to win his first event since returning to the world number one spot. initialling three behind the winner at the genesis invitational. i will be back with more on those stories at about half past. we will see you then. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. meanwhile, fellow itv stars have been paying tribute to her, as simon jones reports. enter the flack! # ready for your love... caroline flack became synonymous with the show love island, though she had stepped back from presenting it after she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. tonight, love island will return with a tribute to her. but some have called for this series to be scrapped completely. itv, though, said after careful consideration with caroline flack's representatives, the show will go on. it added, "she will be forever in our hearts," a message echoed on last night's dancing on ice. we'd like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember caroline flack in light of yesterday's awful news. we wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends. many of us here on the show knew caroline as a friend and we will all miss her terribly. as she recently posted, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind." caroline! this was caroline flack in happier times, winning strictly come dancing in 2014. recently, she had struggled, after her relationship with her boyfriend, lewis burton, became the subject of a court case. she denied assaulting him but was banned from contacting him. he denied being a victim and didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. it's led to questions about the decision to persist with the case and about the pressures faced by tv celebrities from the press and social media. an online petition calling for a government inquiry into the british press and their practices has attracted more than 200,000 supporters, while love island fans prepare to say an emotional farewell. simon jones, bbc news. well, as you heard in that report a number of people are discussing the role both social media and the tabloids played in the death of caroline flack. let's talk to kyle taylor, executive director at hacked 0ff. i think the total number of people signing petitions for changes to the way media report a celebrity's life is up to now 800,000. what is your view of what we should take from what has happened here? well, first and foremost i think we need to remember that there are so many people in vulnerable positions like this. whether you are a celebrity or an ordinary person, these types of things deeply affect people and at the end of the day she was just a human being. at that sensitivity is not there in the press stop from our perspective it is wonderful to see people coming together and really wanting to do something around press reform. as you have seen by over 800,000 signatures for caroline's law. delivers an enquiry gave us the solution that we need. it is simply that the press did not take it up and they were given the option to try and get them to do it. it is yea rs try and get them to do it. it is years and years later they didn't do it. so for us, another inquiry, the risk is much higher that it will be three orfour risk is much higher that it will be three or four years down the line two sorry, i just want to come three or four years down the line two sorry, ijust want to come in because obviously we are talking about what has happened here specifically. she was somebody in the public eye who was accused of something, charges were brought. she was facing a trial. what was done wrong around the reporting around that? well, the core piece is what is in the public interest. it is absolutely arguable that it was in the public interest for people to know facts about the charges and the trial and the case. but if you look at the number of stories and the framing of the stories around this, it is difficult to see the public interest in producing fake reading cards about her and talk into unnamed so and so who is a friend. well, what friend is giving that sort of information around someone? it is not that you can't report on it it is simply reporting on in the public interest. we have to remember there are lots of other people out there are lots of other people out there also and to what end is simply reporting on the gossip around her? and this is the balance that has to be struck between victim led journalism that is unaccountable and what is in the public interest. what we know is the bbc and broadcast are independently regulated by 0fcom. the proposal by the government is that social media platforms and user generated content will be statutory regulated and yet with the press there is no equivalence. and what we're saying is they should be a level playing field. you should adequate recourse for... whether it is... is it fair though in the wake of this and so much is unknown, to be pointing the finger at the press? no, iam be pointing the finger at the press? no, i am not pointing the finger at the press. you have to look at the samaritans advice which is that is the last thing we should be doing right now because there are lots of other vulnerable people out there. i know as well that in the current regulators guidance on how to report on these issues and not to pontificate about the cause. but the newspapers aren't even following their own gardens. the problem is that this is not a one—off event, this is a regular occurrence. we work with dozens of victims every month of press abuse, dozens and dozens month of press abuse, dozens and d oze ns of month of press abuse, dozens and dozens of people whose lives have been ruined by victim journalism. so, yes, absolutely, lets wait to fully understand her individual motivations but this is a pattern of behaviour and we know what the a nswer behaviour and we know what the answer is. the answer is compulsory regulation so that anyone has recourse for wrong. it doesn't stop the paper is printing anything, not at all, itjust makes them accountable for the things that they do print. and we believe that victims, individuals and the public deserve that. we expect it from broadcast and we expect it from online. why is it that we don't expect it newspapers? the director of hacked 0ff, thank you. if you or someone you know of hacked 0ff, thank you. if you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this report you can find help and support on the bbc‘s action line website and... 78 british passengers and crew remain stranded on a cruise ship that's been quarantined offjapan because of coronavirus. while, hundreds of american passengers who'd been on the diamond princess, have been flown out by their government and arrived home in the united states where they'll be placed in quarantine for another fortnight. back injapan, the national health ministry has confirmed an additional 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on the ship taking the total number of positive cases on the diamond princess to 454. and following the evacuation of us citizens — australia, canada, south korea, italy and hong kong have also made plans to evacuate their nationals from the ship. chinese officials say the outbreak has now infected more than 70,000 people in the country. and has killed nearly 18 hundred people. rupert wingfield hayes is in tokyo for us, where the authorities have confirmed the increase in cases on the diamond princess cruise ship. it's about 20% of those tested today have turned out to be positive. that follows 70 new cases yesterday, 67 the day before and we are now in day 13 of what is supposed to be a quarantine. and this, if you talk to public health experts about this say, it points to the fact, or at least the strong suspicion, this quarantine aboard the diamond princess cruise ship is not working properly and that infections are probably still continuing to happen on that ship. and that is of course the reason why the us government and others are now moving to take their people off. the us carried out an evacuation last night. that aircraft has recently touched down, or those two aircraft have recently touched down in california, with those people on board. the australian government is organising an evacuation flight for later in the week for its 200 australians on board and other countries are following. what we haven't heard of yet, or not a clear answer, is from the uk government as to what it is going to do about those 80 something, i think 80 odd british people, including 57 passengers, who are stuck on board that ship. people have been taking to social media to express their concerns. over the last few days we have noticed very much that when they are on social media talking to their friends and talking about the situation on board, that it is very noticeable that anxiety level, the fatigue just rising in those passengers as they wonder what is going on. why are other nationalities been taken off the ship? i think last night the removal of 380 americans certainly has changed the mood there dramatically. and people who are not being told they are going to be evacuated feel they are being forgotten or left behind. we have just had word that a spokesman for boris johnson we have just had word that a spokesman for borisjohnson has said the government is in contact with those 74 britons on board the diamond princess cruise ship, trying to gauge interest in a possible repatriation flight. that is a development in that. they are not affirming that they will be repatriated but they're discussing with the people on that ship has been quarantined now since the 3rd of february, whether there is interest in a repatriation flight. we will keep you updated on that. meanwhile here in the uk, health officials are to tell schools that they do not need to close or send staff and pupils home, if there's a suspected case of coronavirus. public health england is expected to issue new guidance today. it's expected to say that if a case is confirmed, health protection teams will get in touch with the head teacher. the french foreign minister has warned the uk to expect a bruising battle with the european union in negotiations for a trade deal after brexit. speaking at a conference in munich, jean—yves le drian said he believes the two sides will — quote — ‘rip each other apart‘ when talks begin next month. he said it would be difficult to achieve the british government's aim of reaching an agreement by the end of the year. translation: i think that on trade issues and the mechanism for future relations, which we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart, but that is part of negotiations. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. any reaction to that, norman? well, downing street have put out a statement saying pretty firmly to the french, well, we don't want your sort of deal, we don't want some sort of deal, we don't want some sort of deal, we don't want some sort of special arrangement, we want exactly the same deal that you have given to countries like canada, japan, south korea. we are not interested in aligning with eu rules, a so—called level playing field, where we continue to abide by eu rules on things like work as's rights or the environment or state aid. we want the freedom to diverge. what it tells us i think bluntly is these negotiations are going to be extraordinarily bruising and difficult because the two sides seem to be pulling in opposite directions. with the eu insisting that we must stick to certain eu rules, so we don't threaten to undercut, if you like, eu companies. and the british government saying, no, that is not what brexit is about. and on top of that, it was interesting, the french foreign minister particularly raise the issue of fish and access to british fishing waters, which of course is crucial to many continental countries, including france. but as we know, boris johnson countries, including france. but as we know, borisjohnson has already said that he envisages british fishing waters been first and foremost for british boats. all of which suggests these negotiations, already difficult because there is only going to be a year to conclude them, arejust going to be so, so tough to reach some sort of agreement on. thank you, norman. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. hugh schofield is in paris. tell us more about what they're trying to do and why it is so controversial. well, as you say this is the biggest change to the pension system which was in place since the second world war. it is for that reason very controversial. there are two aspects to it, one the easier aspect which is emmanuel macron one saying i want everyone to have the same system, it is an issue of equity. at the moment there are lots of different rules and there are certain sectors, railway workers famously where there are very privileged advantages which allow people to retire early and so on. so one aspect of this is systemic change putting everyone on the same basis, that you pay in in the same way and you take out in the same way. the other aspect which is more controversial and some people say emmanuel macron run is trying to introduce by sleight of hand is an issue of all of our societies are having to face is demographics. 0n the face of it, this is not about getting people to work longer. in practice this is what he is trying to do, he is also trying to fold into this reform change that france recognises that people are going to have to work longer in order to make the pension system survived. that has provoked though a lot of anguish and unrest and as we've seen there has been this rolling programme of disputes and protests by unionists and union members or militants of them in any case. and that is the context in which this bill now arrives in parliament ahead of a long, long period of debate, which could indeed drag on through the summer. thank you very much. hugh schofield in paris. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king. we have seen on the news the impact of storm dennis, quite widespread flooding and still some severe flood warnings in force this morning, five of which are across parts of worcestershire, herefordshire and we continue to see some flooding over the next 24 hours. the water, the rainfall we had over the weekend, makes its way down the rivers and catchments. we have some showers today, moving their way towards the south—east. there could be one or two might grow heavy downpours, but sunny spells for many of us. showers, turning wintry over the higher ground of scotland. maximum temperatures, eight or 11 celsius. snow and ice across parts of scotla nd snow and ice across parts of scotland tomorrow morning. elsewhere, clear spells. quite a chilly night, down to one, two or three celsius. 0n chilly night, down to one, two or three celsius. on tuesday, more showers, may be some prolonged spells of rain as it moves south and east woods. sunny spells in between, blustery conditions, temperature six or 11 degrees. goodbye for now. hello this is bbc newsroom live with joanna gosling. the headlines... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. the on board the ship. government says it is getting in touch the government says it is getting in touch with them to see if there is an appetite for them being evacuated. amazon is forced to withdraw unsafe car seats from its website — after a bbc investigation finds multiple non—compliant products for sale and coming up — as a leading cancer charity calls for a ban on sunbeds, we hearfrom one woman who says she lost her ear to her tanning addiction. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good morning. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster of 1958, has died. he was 87. gregg played under sir matt busby at manchester united and was capped 25 times for northern ireland, where he passed away surrounded by his family. he was dubbed the hero of munich after helping save others from the wreckage after the crash, including a mother and baby, and teammate sir bobby charlton. manchester united have published words of condolence on their website. sir bobby charlton wrote: "i was proud to call him a team—mate. for all the matter of fact things harry said about that night in munich for me he will always be remembered as a heroic figure." and sir alex ferguson said: "harry was a man of great character and a true legend at our club. i loved his company and the many pieces of advice he gave me. my thoughts and prayers are with carolyn and his family at this very sad time." of course there are many tributes being made — and we've heard from sammy mcilroy, also a former manchester united and northern ireland player, who recalled their time together at united. i remember working with him in the 70s at manchester united. fantastic character. when harry spoke, you had to listen. he was that type of man. genuine man. spoke his mind, told the truth, wouldn't have anything else but the truth. as i say, it's very sad. i knew he wasn't too well. still very sad to hear when he passed away. you touched on what he did at munich, which was absolutely unbelievable. he was a brave man as a goalkeeper, and a brave man off the field as well. and what he did at munich was incredible. sammy mcilroy talking about harry gregg, who's died at the age of 87. tottenham are up to fifth in the premier league after a dramatic 3—2 win over aston villa. they were leading 2—1, when villa defender bjorn engels looked to have salavaged a point for his side. but in the 94th minute son heung min scored the winner for spurs. racing through to givejose mourinho's side a victory. arsenal have moved into the top half of the table after a 4—0 win at home to newcastle. nicolas pepe amongst the scorers — that's only their seventh league win of the season. celtic are still 10 points clear of rangers at the top of the scottish premiership. a 2—1victory at aberdeen was their seventh league win in a row — kristofer ayer with the winner. celtic manager neil lennon described it as "a magnificent three points". rangers beat livingston 1—0 in a game that was put back 24 hours due to a waterlogged pitch. scott arfield's second half winner left them with a glimmer of hope of catching their old firm rivals. british number three kyle edmund has won his first atp event for 16 months. he beat italy's andreas seppi in straight sets, in the final of the new york 0pen. he said it was down to a lot of hard work throughout the year, and a lot of ups and downs that you don't see behind the scenes. rory mcilroy blew his chance to win the genesis invitational in los angeles. he had a share of the lead going into the final round but he hit a triple bogey on his way to a two—over par round of 73, and he lost sight of winner adam scott. katie 0rmerod is on track to become the britain's first female world cup champion on snow. 0rmerod finished in third in the latest event in calgary, which puts her in first place overall in the slopestyle world cup. she's been on the podium in every event so far. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. see you then, thanks, gavin. let's get more on the flooding brought by storm dennis which is continuing to cause disruption across the country. five severe flood warnings, meaning there's a risk to life, remain in force in parts of shropshire, worcestershire and herefordshire. severe storms and floods have been experienced across the country for the last two weekends. with such extreme weather becoming more common, is this the new normal and what can we do about it? with me is robin tuddenham who is chief executive of calderdale council — in west yorkshire — hejoins me from todmirden. i am alsojoined by drjess newman, who is a flood scientist at the university of reading. thank you both forjoining us. robin, what is the situation where you are? hi, joanna. iam in robin, what is the situation where you are? hi, joanna. i am in the town hall, one of the six flood hopes. we are still in recovery mode. we had a significant flood event with storm ciara. 1200 residents and businesses flooded, and it is our third flood event. each one of these should have been a one in 100 years flood event. the weather is changing and that is hitting as hard in calder valley, in calderdale, west yorkshire. what are your thoughts on preparedness? it shouldn't be happening is frequently according to previous predictions, but it is, so our lessons learned each time and changes made to help the community? our residents and businesses have become very resilient to these impacts and we are well prepared. we have support from the environment agency and government, a programme of £74 million of investment in flood defences. a lot of that is still to be completed. however, walls are not the only answer. i think it is children 45 councils that have declared a climate emergency. we declared a climate emergency. we declared a climate emergency. we declared a climate emergency on boxing day 2015. that was after storm eva. we are living the emergency in calderdale, u nfortu nately. emergency in calderdale, unfortunately. jess, what is going on, when robin says they have been hit by three events which should have been a one in a 100 year event? yes, it's distressing to hear that these events are happening. as you say, they have been assigned as a warning 100 years event. it is very difficult to say exactly what the cause is. we have had people talking about climate change. whilst that is almost definitely part of a root cause, it's difficult to a tribute one or two—man show events to climate change. it requires further looking into. —— one or two events. but these are peoples lives on the ground, and that is what we need to focus on, making sure that people are put first on preparedness is in place. do we have to expect this is the new normal and we have to get used to it? it's hard to say. personally speaking, we should think that may be this is to be expected and will become the new normal. i feel that is the better way forward than pretending or hoping it is not going to be like that. actually, we need to look forward in a more long—term solution to help the people both up in the north, but also across the uk, who are experiencing these sorts of events. in that case, robin, it's going to be an expensive business protecting communities from the weather. you said a lot of money has been spent, 2.5 billion spent since 2015 and the government has a commitment to spending 4 billion in the next five yea rs. spending 4 billion in the next five years. where do you want the money spent? where do you think the solutions are? the problem is that we are spending money on capital investment and one—off projects for defences. that is important, but only part of the answer. i've written to the new secretary of state for the environment, george eustice, to say we need revenue support. last week we had 1200 properties affected, we have the challenges of austerity and local government, loss of funding, health and social care winter pressures and preparing for storm dennis. that is why we got in touch with the government to call for military assistance on thursday, when we saw the weather get bad. we should get a tier one status, we need flood prevention, national flood management, response team and support for the mental health impacts. we have support for mental health impacts that are very serious for residents and businesses staying in calderdale long term. you said a lot of things that i would like you to explain so it is completely clear to explain so it is completely clear to the audience, what does tier 0ne mean, and for the people affected, what does it live look like? tier 0ne status, it is a bit similar to the language around terrorism, we need to prevent, prepare and protect. we need the same status that the city of london gets to prevent terrorism for flooding. we need to face these issues long term. that is the tier 0ne recognition. we are not really getting that, it is one—off funding. people are stoical, but also scared. a very scary scenario on friday and saturday. we know this is not going to go away and we have a long—term challenge in calderdale. can everywhere really be protected in these situations that are predictable, but not always com pletely are predictable, but not always completely so. it's really difficult and robin touched on some important issues. it's not just and robin touched on some important issues. it's notjust about making sure funding is available as floods happen and immediately following them, it's got to be a long—term solution that is put in place. there is only a finite amount of resources , is only a finite amount of resources, and where to prioritise isa resources, and where to prioritise is a difficult decision. i was pleased to hear robin talk about the potential for national flood management. these are measures that can be put in place, options, rather than building walls or hard defences that we are used to seeing, it's about make sure we can do things with the natural environment such as woodland planting so hopefully they can reduce flooding. but all of these come at a cost, and it a fine balancing act to make sure resources are put where they are needed. 0ur government should definitely be looking towards this is a potential long—term solution. looking towards this is a potential long-term solution. can ijust add, the cost of natural flood management isa the cost of natural flood management is a lot less than some of the walls and defences. we have an amazing organisation called slow the flow. there is evidence the work they did since 2015 reduce the impact, they did amazing work on tree planting. we need to work with landowners and people like yorkshire water, national trust, and we are getting support from them, that is key to our long—term future. amazon has withdrawn potentially unsafe child car seats from its sites worldwide, after they were discovered for sale by bbc panorama. it follows an investigation by trading standards. here's our business correspondent katy austin. a child car seat destroyed in a 30 miles per hour crash test. it was carried out for surrey trading standards, in 2013, who then alerted amazon about similar products listed on its uk site. we took down products from amazon.co.uk that were not compliant and unsafe. rachel greer, a former amazon product safety manager also recommended that similar seats be taken down from sites in the us and europe. she says her bosses refused. i was told that they was not proof that they were non—compliant in those countries and that that would not be happening. those car seats were tested and were shown to result in bodily harm to the infant that would have been in them. six years after the car seats were withdrawn from amazon uk, surrey trading standards has begun a new investigation, after panorama found what appeared to be similar products still for sale. amazon has now withdrawn them worldwide. amazon later said... it says it is contacting customers who purchased them... it says... you can watch more on that story on panorama tonight on bbc one at 8:30. a leading cancer charity is calling for a ban on sunbeds, after it emerged many tanning salons in england don't need a licence. the subject is one close to the heart of bbc reporter laura may mcmullan, after she was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma five years ago, following years of sunbed use. two weeks ago she had her final scan, and has been declared cancer free. she has this report. a bronzed, healthy glow. but in reality there is no such thing as a safe tan. for years i was addicted to sunbathing and using sunbeds and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2014. i don't think people realise how dangerous melanoma can be. it starts with a mole or, in my case, a little red spot on the back of my leg. within six months it had spread to the lymph nodes in my groin. anthea smith was also diagnosed with melanoma. it started with a little spot on her ear and for her it has led to life—changing surgery. my whole left ear has been amputated and then, second operation, i had my whole inner ear, middle ear, all my salivary glands on my left side, all my lymph nodes, full temple bow taken from my skull. like me, she used sunbeds for many years. nobody should have to live with what i am living with, all for a tan. the guilt that i feel to my husband and children that this was all self—inflicted but it was self—inflicted with no level of knowledge of the dangers. so people younger than me continue to use them, i think, not knowing any of the dangers. melanoma cases have increased by almost 50% in the last decade but it seems people are still getting mixed messages. that is why gillian nuttall, founder of melanoma uk, has launched a campaign to ban sunbeds. we felt that we owed it to families of patients who have passed away to actually get up and do something so we took the lead from australia and brazil, they have already banned sunbeds and we thought, you know what, we're going to do what our patients are asking us to do and see if we can do the same. i took these concerns to the sunbed association. let's be clear, there is no link between the sunbed use and melanoma. we have asked for a roundtable meeting to discuss this very point. they will not meet with us. i have to question why. the research they refer to is flawed, it has been proven to be subsequently flawed, and they will not listen to that and we have to say, why not? you are saying that oncologists, consultants, dermatologists all around the world, they are all wrong? what i'm saying is, they are all using the same research which itself is flawed. the evidence linking sunbed use to melanoma and other skin cancers is incontrovertible. there is a clear link, there is no argument to say that there is not. according to cancer research uk, more than 86% of skin cancer cases are preventable, with an overexposure to uv rays causing irreversible damage. laura may mcmullan, bbc news. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. iam ben i am ben thompson and these are the top business stories. amazon says it regrets that dangerous child car seats were found again, for sale on its website. the firm has faced repeated complaints about the products that in one test broke apart if involved in a 30mph crash. it has now removed the listings. the chief executive of shoe retailer shoezone has told the bbc it will close up to 100 stores if business rates do not change and if vat rates increase. anthony smith said that 10 years ago rates would have accounted for just 26% of the chain's rental value, but now are more than half. heathrow airport has apologised for disruption after the west london hub was hit by "technical issues". passengers described the situation as "utter chaos" after a problem with the airport's it system meant passengers couldn't find correct boarding gates. heathrow says the issues have now been resolved. good morning. let's get news from the property sector. property prices continue to rise — up by 0.8% this month — just £40 short of a new all—time high. the figures show momentum building ahead of the annual uptick in sales, in the spring. property website rightmove says visits to its site hit a new record of over 152 million last month. miles shipside is a director at rightmove. nice to see you. it's that time of yearagain, nice to see you. it's that time of year again, after the winter, after christmas, people put off trying to buy somewhere and they now think as spring approaches now is the time to do it. this year is different because of last year's uncertainty of brexit and the election? indeed, after three and a half years of brexit uncertainty or dither and delay, to use the prime minister's phrase, the whole moving public have decided that 2020 is the year to move. importantly, it's just decided that 2020 is the year to move. importantly, it'sjustaround site traffic being up on rightmove, it is feeding into sale is agreed, early birds are getting in already even though the spring market is still to come. there is demand, talk me through what that means four passes. some would say it has been subdued for so long, people are not making big decisions. you are telling me that prices going up accordingly because the demand is back? it's back to the basics of economic supply and demand. those sales agreed, up 12%. new supply to the market, encouragingly that is up, but only by 2%. now we are in a situation where the number of properties coming to market have been falling, year on year, except for this month. so it's encouraging that sellers are coming to market in greater numbers. but that is a mismatch. 0nly greater numbers. but that is a mismatch. only 2% more new sellers, 1296 mismatch. only 2% more new sellers, 12% more sales agreed. the issue, as always, is supplied, whether there are the right properties for sale that people are looking for. lots of one bed flats, not many big houses. how does that figure in these latest stats ? how does that figure in these latest stats? there is lots of pent up demand after three and a half years of uncertainty across the board. first—time buyers are particularly active. they are obviously looking at smaller properties. but families have postponed their moves as well. you can't delay a family move forever because kids keep growing. we are seeing activity across the board. big boost in activity in london. london is often a barometer of the housing market. sales agreed are up 26% in the last month, compared to a year ago. london appears to be recovering, having beenin appears to be recovering, having been in the doldrums for three years or more. talk to me briefly about the picture across the country. there is always a stark difference. london has perhaps struggled of late, but now it is back, you say. what else are we seeing? it's pretty much across the board. the pent—up demand has been a national issue, and now, with spring ahead, people seem and now, with spring ahead, people seem to have a 2020 vision that this year might be the year to move. we will see whether that comes into reality in 2020. it is early days yet. in terms of traffic, sales agreed and more properties coming to market, lots of people seem to be thinking that 2020 as the year to move. we will talk about this soon, iam sure. in other business stories we're following... french rail giant alstom has announced it is in talks to buy the train business of bombardier, a canadian transport company. bombardier, which has had trouble recently over failure to pay its suppliers on time, is expected to value its train division at nearly £5.5 billion. the number of landlords renting privately to tenants has dropped to a seven—year low, according to a report in the ft. there are 223,000 fewer amateur landlords than there were two years ago. changes to stamp duty for second homes and buy—to—let has dampened enthusiasm for smaller landlords. discount luxury shopping outlet bicester village is feeling the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. visitor numbers have fallen sharply, with fewer chinese visitors coming to the uk. more than 72% of chinese visitors to the uk go shopping during their trips, according to research by visitbritain and there were 415,000 visits from china to the uk in the 12 months to september. clearly quite an impact there. let me show you what is happening on the markets. pretty quiet. not a huge amount of moving those numbers. you can see the ftse100 abated up 1%. in germany, reflecting some of the gains we saw in asia. a pound will buy you $1.30. it was up significantly in the wake of the coronavirus outbreaks, there was a lot of concerns. but brent crude is back down. more from us in the next hour. we have seen storm dennis moving its way up towards scandinavia. but the effects of storm dennis are still being felt. this is the scene in hereford, some flooded properties. the rainfall takes quite a while to move down the river systems, the catchments, so there are still a lot of flood warnings in force. five severe flood warnings around herefordshire and worcestershire. this is storm dennis. through the night at move north and east woods and is now pushing its way into scandinavia. the white lines are still fairly close together. isobars across the uk, blustery conditions, particularly in northern areas. we still have some rainfall in some areas. heavy showers towards southern areas, continuing with some showers down this afternoon, so there could be one or two ago heavy downpours. the most frequent showers in scotland and northern ireland, snow on higher ground. there is also plenty of dry and sunny weather between the showers. maximum temperature is getting up to eight or 11 celsius. the wind will ease off during the afternoon as well. through tonight, wintry showers continuing in scotland, the risk of some ice in tomorrow morning. temperatures are getting down to the fairly low single figures, two mcgraw three celsius for many. clear skies means it will be a chilly start to tuesday morning. that will bring more showers. the showers are most likely across northern areas with snow on higher ground. showers moving through england and wales. you will notice this bundle showers moving south eastwards. for a time, more prolonged, more persistent heavy rain moving south and east. either side of that, there will be some sunny either side of that, there will be some sunny spells. temperature seven or 11 celsius. still fairly breezy conditions. it stays windy for much of this week. during wednesday we have this ridge of high pressure making things a little more settled for a time before further weather system spread in during the afternoon. dry and sunny for many of us on afternoon. dry and sunny for many of us on wednesday morning. more rain spreading to northern ireland coming to scotland, wales and south—west england. some weather warnings, yellow warning is in force for wednesday and into thursday for parts of wales. more rainfall falling on very saturated ground is going to cause some problems. it stays really quite unsettled as we go through the end of the week as well. further rain in the forecast, strong wind, and we are keeping a close eye on the situation for the weekend, potentially turning very wet and windy. stay tuned to the forecast. goodbye. you're watching bbc newsroom live — it's midday and these are the main stories this morning... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk, after the heavy rains and wind brought by storm dennis. this is my home, this is my pride and joy. ijust this is my home, this is my pride and joy. i just don't this is my home, this is my pride and joy. ijust don't know where to start and and joy. ijust don't know where to startand i'm and joy. ijust don't know where to start and i'm still traumatised from what happened yesterday. a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board. amazon is forced to withdraw unsafe car seats from its website — after a bbc investigation finds multiple non—compliant products for sale. coming up — as a leading cancer charity calls for a ban on sunbeds — we hearfrom one woman who lost her ear to her tanning addiction. and the former manchester united goalkeeper harry gregg, who survived the 1958 munich air crash, has died at the age of 87. good afternoon. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i'm joanna gosling. communities around britain are facing another day of flooding and travel chaos as storm dennis continues to batter the country. police have cold off a rescue operation in worcestershire — it's feared a woman has died in the floodwaters. there are five severe warnings in worcestershire, shropshire, and herefordshire — which indicate a danger to life. meanwhile, more than 220 flood warnings are in place, meaning more disruption to rail, roads and infrastructure is expected. and with 287 flood alerts throughout england and wales, the environment agency is warning the public to be prepared for more flooding and to avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water. our news correspondent graham satchell has this report. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in their caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save is his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally, absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in her front room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a month's worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust 48 hours. it did stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! my god. oh, my. at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. 0n the welsh border at hay—on—wye, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but 40 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. it tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart mcbain only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. rachel maskell, mp for york central, said a little earlier that the government hasn't done enough to protect communities against the floods. i've been out talking to residents and of course they are incredibly stressed, not knowing exactly what is going to happen to their properties. a lot of resilience measures have been put in place, temporary measures, sandbags and putting those tarpaulins up to make sure that water doesn't ingress in properties. but some properties will flood in the city. but residents are also very frustrated and angry in the fact that we are over four years since the boxing day floods of 2015 and many of the resilience schemes for properties but also community schemes like in clementhorpe, over the river, are still not in place. and of course that would protect whole swathes of houses. so there is a mix of emotions, i would say, amongst the community. but people feel inevitable that they are going to be flooded today and it is how they can mitigate that. it is interesting, somebody tweeted me when we were in the calder valley just before the weekend, saying, how is it that china can build a hospital in a week when we can't put in proper flood defences after the last very serious floods in 2015. you share this frustration, don't you? absolutely. i mean, there is no excuse for this. we know with climate change, we know with more frequency of our weather events that we are going to see flooding in our country and therefore we need a proper strategy around sustainable management of our conditions, particularly around flooding. and here in york we'd benefit from that. the environment secretary george eustice said the government is investing in betterflood defences as severe weather becomes more common. we are seeing more of these sorts of events but we don't take it lightly. we are doing a lot of work to try to manage our floodwater. it is the biggest element of spending in my department. we will be spending 4 billion over the next five years. and in particular, what we want to do, and it is very relevant to areas like the west midlands and worcestershire, is try to manage water better upstream. so using nature—based solutions, natural dams, natural flood plains, so that we can hold water upstream and prevent it getting down to some of those lowland towns like tenbury wells, which have been most severely affected. that is the environment secretary george eustice. well, our wales correspondent tomos morgan who is in south wales — has been finding out what the reality of having your home flooded is like . just have a look at the wall here, you can just see the line of where the water came up to in the early hours of yesterday morning. it has decimated this street in nantgarw, just north of cardiff. you can also see the wooden flooring, it has come off the floor where it has been. this is carolinejones's home. caroline, you have been here for seven yea rs, you caroline, you have been here for seven years, you spent all that time making it into the home you wanted it to be. what was it like when you came in this morning and saw it in this state? it is devastating. i don't know where to begin, this is my home, this is my pride and joy. i just don't know where to start and i'm still traumatised about what happened yesterday. what are your plans over the next few days? you obviously don't have anywhere to sleep, to hold your possessions that are safe. have you even been able to think about that? i am just taking things hour by hour. i am waiting for the insurance assessor to come round. i stayed last night in a hotel, i don't know where i'm going to stay. i am just taking things as it comes. i am just trying to take it comes. i am just trying to take it in to be honest. and you were telling me earlier about when that stream, that torrent of water came in here, you were forced upstairs but your dog was downstairs. so we didn't really realise, at half past five we were aware that there was a flood warning. we looked outside and there was just a torrent, it was just a river torrent not far from the top of the window sill. we realised obviously the dog was downstairs. richard had to run downstairs, swim through the lounge, because the dog was in the bathroom on the verge of drowning and he just had to drag the dog out and upstairs. it was really frightening. what has been kind of the worst thing about this experience for you? i think the speed. i think not really being aware, i didn't realise with the big build—up, obviously i knew there was a storm brewing. i didn't, like anybody, think it would affect us. and the frightening nurse of it, the level of the water. you have had amber warnings before because actually the river is not too far away, it is 30 metres away. but nothing like this has ever happened. you never think something like this is going to come and destroy your home or your life. so looking ahead now, you have spoken to the insurance company, you are covered thankfully. yes. is that any consolation though? yes, ijust needed to have a conversation with the loss adjuster. i don't know when ican the loss adjuster. i don't know when i can move back in, whether it is going to be christmas... you know, i don't how long these things take, i haven't a clue. i have to take baby steps. do you think anything is salvageable looking around here? no. imean, salvageable looking around here? no. i mean, looking at ours furniture, there is murder, there is sewerage. i have tried to open kitchen doors and nothing is opening. it isjust ravaged. the floor, i cannot believe the floor, it is just ravaged. caroline, thank you very much. good luck as they clean up starts here. well, the welsh government has pledged more money, extra money for councils in this area here so they can help with people like carolyn as this clean—up operation starts. and as you have seen from all the pictures over the last 24, 48 hours, that clean—up operation is going to ta ke that clean—up operation is going to take quite some time. and that is tomos morgan reporting. we'rejust hearing borisjohnson tomos morgan reporting. we'rejust hearing boris johnson is tomos morgan reporting. we'rejust hearing borisjohnson is not expected to visit any flood hit areas today. downing street says the prime minister being kept up—to—date as he works from the country retreat usually used by the foreign secretary. asked why he is not personally visiting the areas, the spokesman said the premise will receive extra updates. it is right that the environment agency is leading on this. and for the latest information on storm dennis in your area, you can find out more, on your local bbc 0nline pages, or, tune in, to your local radio station. the met office is buying a supercomputer capable of quicker and more accurate forecasts. the project will cost £1.2 billion over the next decade. the met office says it'll also help our understanding of the effects of the changing climate. it will enable us to deliver more accurate, even more timely, more localised predictions for both weather and climate. that will enable people to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive ahead of time in the case of severe weather. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. meanwhile, fellow itv stars have been paying tribute to her, as simon jones reports. enter the flack! # ready for your love... caroline flack became synonymous with the show love island, though she had stepped back from presenting it after she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. tonight, love island will return with a tribute to her. but some have called for this series to be scrapped completely. itv, though, said after careful consideration with caroline flack's representatives, the show will go on. it added, "she will be forever in our hearts," a message echoed on last night's dancing on ice. we'd like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember caroline flack in light of yesterday's awful news. we wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends. many of us here on the show knew caroline as a friend and we will all miss her terribly. as she recently posted, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind." caroline! this was caroline flack in happier times, winning strictly come dancing in 2014. recently, she had struggled, after her relationship with her boyfriend, lewis burton, became the subject of a court case. she denied assaulting him but was banned from contacting him. he denied being a victim and didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. it's led to questions about the decision to persist with the case and about the pressures faced by tv celebrities from the press and social media. an online petition calling for a government inquiry into the british press and their practices has attracted more than 200,000 supporters, while love island fans prepare to say an emotional farewell. simon jones, bbc news. let's talk to professor jonathan shalit — chairman of the talent agency intertalent and a friend of caroline's thank you forjoining us. it has just been devastating obviously to hear about what has happened. what are your thoughts and feelings today? my thoughts are shock. i want today? my thoughts are shock. i want to be clear because i'm not here to send a relationship i didn't have, i was a work associate of caroline. i certainly wouldn't consider myself a close friend but i was certainly someone, or close friend but i was certainly someone, or she close friend but i was certainly someone, or she was someone close friend but i was certainly someone, or she was someone i close friend but i was certainly someone, or she was someone i used to run into regulate and had a warm relationship with. and i think like many people i was struck by her warmth, her charm, hersmile and many people i was struck by her warmth, her charm, her smile and the fa ct warmth, her charm, her smile and the fact that she was friendly to everyone. i mean, to me, and i say this very sadly, it was inevitable, andi this very sadly, it was inevitable, and i don't mean inevitable to caroline necessarily but inevitable to people in the public eye. we saw an mp who was murdered a few years ago because what has happened now is getting out of control. you just commented about the online petition requesting an inquiry into the media. we had that some years ago into the levenson enquiry so that would be a repeat of the levenson enquiry. i think people know what the problem is, we don't need another inquiry to know what the problem is. we know that people are vicious online, people troll people online and they speak and do things that are completely unacceptable online. and i think the questions are why and is it permissible? and i think the biggest problem is anonymity. when a newspaper journalist is a leader column, you know who they are so can challenge that person who they are and a publication governed by law like this television programme now. you can only say things within what the law permits. but online people say things way outside the law which if they said it in other circumstances they said it in other circumstances they would be arrested and charged. you say things are going out of control, how do you bring that under control? well, i don't how much you can because online international companies, which emanate far from our shores. so we have to look to facebook and twitter, to instagram, to all those online platforms that put messages out there. i think the only one we control at the moment is daily mail topcoat uk because that isa daily mail topcoat uk because that is a british originating site. i give you an example of what i think could happen. people should not be allowed tojoin, when could happen. people should not be allowed to join, when they make their comments, and do it anonymously. i think if anonymity was taken away from people in what they say they would take that he might think twice about the awful things they say. because everybody scrolls down the e—mail comment sometimes and they're quite horrible what people say. i once tweeted about my daughter and her birthday and she had a nice new outfit and i tweeted happy birthday to my beautiful daughter. and i got people re—tweeting or tweeting back, your daughter is ugly. and it was like, where did that come from? i was just been a lovable father saying something warm about my child and yet i got this venom back at me because i commented on her looks in a way that dad would. you can only amplify that to somebody who has a considerable following on social media. in most walks of life people who follow you are your friends and supporters. but it seems online your enemies also follow you because people troll you with terrible things that we know about. so, it is likely there are people watching who have put comments online anonymously that have not been pleasant, what would you say to people who might be watching who might be doing that?” would say to those people what you say to people could really hurt them and potentially could lead to terrible circumstances. ask yourself when you write about someone anonymously, would you write about that person using your own name? would you say that to someone's face? if not, don't do it. it is very simple, my granny used to say if you haven't got something nice to say about someone, don't say it. and i think many grannies would properly say across the world. so think about what grannies say to their grandchildren. if it is not nice, don't say. there is no need to be unpleasant to people unnecessarily. 0bviously unpleasant to people unnecessarily. obviously if it's a family or friend and you want to offer constructive criticism, that is a very different message because that is one of love and friendship. but to someone you don't know, back off, there is no need to be negative and vitriolic to people. such to those vitriolic people. such to those vitriolic people who are watching me now, please think about that. thank you very much. if you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this report, you can find help and support on the bbc‘s actionline website, at bbc.c0. uk/actionline. the headlines on bbc news... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. sport now. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster has died at the age of 87. he passed away surrounded by his family. he was dubbed the hero of munich after helping save others from the wreckage after the crash, including a mother and baby and team—mates bobby charlton. manchester united have published words of condolence on their website. sir bobby wrote i was proud to call him a team—mate for all the matter of fact things harry said about that night in munich. for me he will always be remembered as a heroic figure. and sir alex ferguson said harry was a man of great character and a true legend at our club. i loved his company and the many pieces of advice he gave me. i thought and sympathies are with his family at this very sad time. of course there are many tributes been made and we heard from another manchester united and northern ireland player who recalled their time together at united.” ireland player who recalled their time together at united. i remember working with him in the 70s at manchester united. he was a big character. when harry spoke, you had to listen. he was that kind of man, a genuine man, spoke his mind, told the truth, wouldn't have anything else but the truth and, as i say it was very else but the truth and, as i say it was very sad. i knew he wasn't too well and still very sad to hear when he passed away. what it was absolutely unbelievable. he was a brave man as a goalkeeper and a brave man as a goalkeeper and a brave man as a goalkeeper and a brave man off the field as well. and asi brave man off the field as well. and as i say, what he did at munich was incredible. sammy mcilroy remembering harry gregg who has died at the age of 87. on to tennis and british number three kyle edmond has won his first atp event for 16 months. he beat his italian opponent in three sets out the final of the new york open. he said it was down toa new york open. he said it was down to a lot of hard work through the year and to a lot of hard work through the yearand a to a lot of hard work through the year and a lot of ups and downs that you don't see behind the scenes. rory mcilroy blew his chance to win the genesis international in los angeles. he had a share of the lead going into the final round but he hit a triple bogey on his way of a two over par round full stop he lost sight of the winner adam scott. and thatis sight of the winner adam scott. and that is all the sport for now. joanna will have a feeling that we will have more for you in the next half an hour. a 38—year—old man has been charged with murdering schoolboy rikki neave more than 25 years ago. the body of the six—year—old was found in woodland in peterborough in 1994. james watson is accused of strangling the schoolboy and will appear in court on thursday. more than 70 britons stranded on a coronavirus—hit cruise ship could be flown home, downing street has confirmed. a number ten spokesman said those on board the diamond princess, which is docked in yokohama, off the coast of japan, were being contacted about the possibility of a repatriation flight. it comes after hundreds of american passengers who'd been on the diamond princess, have been flown out by their government and arrived home in the united states where they'll be placed in quarantine for another fortnight. back injapan, the national health ministry has confirmed an additional 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on the ship taking the total number of positive cases on the diamond princess to 454. and following the evacuation of us citizens — australia, canada, south korea, italy and hong kong have also made plans to evacuate their nationals from the ship. chinese officials say the outbreak has now infected more than 70,000 people in the country and has killed nearly 1800 people. rupert wingfield hayes is in tokyo for us, where the authorities have confirmed the increase in cases on the diamond princess cruise ship. we are now in day 13 of what is supposed to be a quarantine. at this, if you talk to public health experts about this so it points to the facts, or at least the strong suspicion that this quarantine aboard the diamond princess cruise ship is not working properly. and that infections are probably still continuing to happen on that ship. that is of course the reason why the us government and others and am moving to take the people. the us carried out an evacuation last night, that aircraft or those two aircraft have recently touched down in california with those people on board. the australian government is organising an evacuation flight later in the week that its 200 australians on board and other countries are following. what we haven't heard of yet or not a clear a nswer haven't heard of yet or not a clear answer is that the uk government as to what it is going to do about those 80 something, i think 80 odd british people including 57 passengers who are stuck on board that ship. people have been taking to social media to express their concerns. 0ver to social media to express their concerns. over the last few days we have noticed very much that when they are social media talking to their friends they are social media talking to theirfriends and they are social media talking to their friends and talk about the situation on board that it is very noticeable that anxiety levels, the fatiguejust rising in noticeable that anxiety levels, the fatigue just rising in those passengers as they wonder what is going on. why are other nationalities been taken off the ship? ithink nationalities been taken off the ship? i think last night the removal of 380 americans certainly has changed the mood there dramatically. and people who are not been told they are going to be evacuated feel like they have been or left behind. meanwhile, here in the uk, health officials are to tell schools that they do not need to close or send staff and pupils home, if there's a suspected case of coronavirus. public health england is expected to issue new guidance today. it's expected to say that if a case is confirmed, health protection teams will get in touch with the head teacher. the french foreign minister has warned the uk to expect a bruising battle with the european union in negotiations for a trade deal after brexit. speaking at a conference in munich, jean—yves le drian said he believes the two sides will — quote — ‘rip each other apart‘ when talks begin next month. he said it would be difficult to achieve the british government's aim of reaching an agreement by the end of the year. translation: i think on the trading mechanisms that we are going to start on we are going to rip each other about but that is part of negotiations. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. what's the reaction being, norman? downing street this lunchtime say they want a deal based on friendly cooperation. not much of that in evidence at the moment. indeed, all the signs are that these trade talks are going to prove incredibly difficult because you get the sense that both sides are pulling in opposite directions. the french foreign minister clearly signalling that they want britain to sign up to eu rules and regulations on things like work as's rights, the environment, state aid, that kind of thing. when we know that downing street have made very, very clear they want the freedom to diverge, to go our own way. number ten this lunchtime saying we want a dealjust like canada and canada doesn't have to sign up to all these eu rules and regulations, so why should we? add to which, it was noticeable that the french foreign minister specifically raised the issue of fishing full stop and why that matters is because obviously it fishing is hugely important to some european countries, in particular france. suggested there would be no compromise on the eu position on demanding access to british waters. when at the same time we know downing street and the prime minister have said that they envisage british waters will be first and foremost for british boats. so we have very, very fundamental stumbling blocks it seems to me to getting a deal. added to which of course the timeline is incredibly tight, just a year to strike that agreement. 0n the other hand, perhaps, may be, this isjust pre—emptive positioning, a bluff if you like, before the really tough negotiations begin. but we are going to find out pretty soon. thanks, norman. amazon has withdrawn potentially unsafe child car seats from its sites worldwide, after they were discovered for sale by bbc panorama. it follows an investigation by trading standards. here's our business correspondent katy austin. a child car seat destroyed in a 30 miles per hour crash test. it was carried out for surrey trading standards, in 2013, who then alerted amazon about similar products listed on its uk site. we took down products from amazon.co.uk that were not compliant and unsafe. rachel greer, a former amazon product safety manager also recommended that similar seats be taken down from sites in the us and europe. she says her bosses refused. i was told that there was not proof that they were non—compliant in those countries and that that would not be happening. those car seats were tested and were shown to result in bodily harm to the infant that would have been in them. six years after the car seats were withdrawn from amazon uk, surrey trading standards has begun a new investigation, after panorama found what appeared to be similar products still for sale. amazon has now withdrawn them worldwide. amazon later said... it says it is contacting customers who purchased them... katy austin, bbc news. you can watch more on that story on panorama tonight on bbc one at 8:30. now it is time for a look at the weather. good afternoon. it's a little bit quieter out there but we still have hundreds of flood warnings. five of those are still severe across parts of south wales and shropshire. if you take a look at the radar, you can see plenty of showers piling on from the west. eastern area seeing the best of any drier or brighter moments. the showers will continue as well. some of them quite sharp, and they will turn increasingly wintry to the tops of the mountains as well. values this afternoon between eight and 11 degrees. with further showers continuing overnight and temperatures falling to low single figures, ice could be an issue in scotland and northern ireland. there will be fewer in sheltered eastern areas, but we do it all again tomorrow. plenty of showers piling in. some of them, through the afternoon, could merge together for longer spells of rain, down to the midlands, in areas where we don't really need it down to south wales. we need to keep an eye on that. the wind could really pick up on that. the wind could really pick up as the rain rattles through. plenty of showers carrying on behind. hello this is bbc newsroom live with joanna gosling. the headlines... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. a 38—year—old man has been charged with murdering schoolboy rikki neave more than 25 years ago. amazon is forced to withdraw unsafe car seats from its website — after a bbc investigation finds multiple non—compliant products for sale and coming up — as a leading cancer charity calls for a ban on sunbeds, we hearfrom one woman who says she lost her ear to her tanning addiction. more now on our main story. communities across britain are facing another day of flooding and travel chaos following the torrential rain and strong winds brought by storm dennis. 0ur correspondent jayne mccubbin is in york — earlier she explained how residents are coming to expect these floods more frequently in the future. there are 16 flood warnings in place from the environment agency and the water levels are expected to peak at their highest levels since those devastating 2015 floods around about 1045 this morning. have a look over here and you will see what has happened. so the river 0use is actually about 100 metres away from us. all of this in the foreground here is actually the public car park in the centre of york. you can see the pay—and—display machines over there in the distance and see how far the river 0use has come in. as i say, the highest level expected since those 2015 floods. now, an awful lot of money was invested back then into the foss barrier, the main defence in this area. which, if we use actually the mast cam on the top of the satellite truck, you will be able to see a bit better where we are. we've got on one side of us the river foss, on the other side of us the river 0use and where they meet is the foss barrier. that, at the moment, after £70 million—worth of funding, can try and control some 50 tonnes of water every second to try and stabilise the rivers, where they meet and prevent flooding. i'm told by the environment agency, who are in the area this morning, it is absolutely doing its job because at the moment there are no houses or premises flooded further upstream. so that is good news but they are preparing for the worst. the council has been out all weekend handing out some 4,000 sandbags, going down into the drains and making sure they are clear, doing all they can to try and make the city resilient. that is the key word, resilience. and they say they are doing a good job so far, so they are just waiting to see how bad things get. just yesterday the environment secretary was in york, having a look at how things were going, saying they will keep a watchful eye on it. because even without rain, the waters here are expected to rise. but so far, so good. and york, i'm told, is still open for business. spare a thought though for tadcaster albion, it's the local football team in this area. it has been going for 125 years but they say that this season could be their last season because of the continued flooding. notjust from storm ciara last weekend but also from storm dennis and they are really struggling. they have thrown out an appeal for financial help this morning, saying they really might not be around much longer if things, events like this, which were once considered a once—in—a—lifetime event, continue to happen with this kind of severity and this kind of frequency. with such extreme weather becoming more common, we have been exploring whether this is the new normal and what can be done about it — with drjess newman, who is a flood scientist at the university of reading and robin tuddenham who is chief executive of calderdale council — in west yorkshire. we are still in recovery mode. we had a significant flood event with storm ciara. 1200 residents and businesses flooded, and it is our third flood event. each one of these should have been a one in 100 years flood event. the weather is changing and that is hitting as hard in calder valley, in calderdale, west yorkshire. what are your thoughts on preparedness? it shouldn't be happening is frequently according to previous predictions, but it is, so our lessons learned each time and changes made to help the community? 0ur residents and businesses have become very resilient to these impacts and we are well prepared. we have support from the environment agency and government, a programme of £74 million of investment in flood defences. a lot of that is still to be completed. however, walls are not the only answer. i think it is 245 councils that have declared a climate emergency. we declared a climate emergency on boxing day 2015. that was after storm eva. we are living the emergency in calderdale, unfortunately. jess, what is going on, when robin says they have been hit by three events which should have been a one in a 100 year event? why is it happening like this? yes, it's distressing to hear that these events are happening. as you say, they have been assigned as a one in 100 years event. it is very difficult to say exactly what the cause is. we have had people talking about climate change. whilst that is almost definitely part of a root cause, it's difficult to a tribute one or two events to climate change. it requires further looking into. from a scientific perspective. but these are peoples lives on the ground, and that is what we need to focus on, making sure that people are put first on preparedness is in place. do we have to expect this is the new normal and we have to get used to it? it's hard to say. personally speaking, we should think that may be this is to be expected and will become the new normal. i feel that is the better way forward than pretending or hoping it is not going to be like that. actually, we need to look forward in a more long—term solution to help the people both up in the north, but also across the uk, who are experiencing these sorts of events. in that case, robin, it's going to be an expensive business protecting communities from the weather. you said a lot of money has been spent, 2.5 billion spent since 2015 and the government has a commitment to spending 4 billion in the next five years. where do you want the money spent? where do you think the solutions are? the problem is that we are spending money on capital investment and one—off projects for defences. that is important, but only part of the answer. i've written to the new secretary of state for the environment, george eustice, to say we need revenue support. last week we had 1200 properties affected, we have the challenges of austerity and local government, loss of funding, health and social care winter pressures and preparing for storm dennis. that is why we got in touch with the government to call for military assistance on thursday, when we saw the weather get bad. we should get a tier 0ne status, we need flood prevention, natural flood management, response team and support for the mental health impacts. we have support for mental health impacts that are very serious for residents and businesses staying in calderdale long term. you said a lot of things that i would like you to explain so it is completely clear to the audience, what does tier 0ne mean, and for the people affected, what does it live look like? 1200 properties are affected. tier one status, i've worked on this for yea rs, one status, i've worked on this for years, and i've also worked around terrorism in london. we need to prevent, prepare and protect. we need the same status that the city of london gets to prevent terrorism for flooding. that needs to be sustained, it needs to be focused on areas like ours which will face these issues long term. that is the tier 0ne recognition. we are not really getting at. we spent time asking for grants, and we got one off fundings. residents and businesses are very resilient. people are stoical, but also scared. it was a very scary experience on friday and saturday. thankfully it did not hit us again, but we know these things are not going to go away and we have a long—term challenge in calderdale. can everywhere really be protected in these situations that are predictable, but not always completely so. it's really difficult and robin touched on some important issues. it's notjust about making sure funding is available as floods happen and immediately following them, it's got to be a long—term solution that is put in place. there is only a finite amount of resources, and where to prioritise is a difficult decision. i was pleased to hear robin talk about the potential for natural flood management. these are measures that can be put in place, options, rather than building walls or hard defences that we are used to seeing, it's about make sure we can do things with the natural environment such as woodland planting so hopefully they can reduce flooding. but all of these come at a cost, and it a fine balancing act to make sure resources are put where they are needed. 0ur government should definitely be looking towards this is a potential long—term solution. can ijust add, the cost of natural flood management is a lot less than some of the walls and defences. we have an amazing organisation called slow the flow. there is evidence the work they did since 2015 reduce the impact, they did amazing work on tree planting. we need to work with landowners and people like yorkshire water, national trust, and we are getting support from them, that is key to our long—term future. scotland's first minister has appointed a new finance secretary following the resignation of derek mackay earlier this month. 29—year—old kate forbes has been promoted by nicola sturgeon in a reshuffle of her cabinet. derek mackay resigned from his post, admitting he had ‘behaved foolishly‘ by sending hundreds of messages to a 16—year—old boy. now time for a business update. iam ben i am ben thompson. amazon says it "regrets" that dangerous child car seats were found again, for sale on its website. the firm has faced repeated complaints about the products that — in one test — broke apart if involved in a 30mph crash. it has now removed the listings. the chief executive of shoe retailer, shoezone, has told the bbc it will close up to 100 stores if business rates do not change and if vat rates increase. anthony smith said that 10 years ago rates would have accounted for just 26% of the chain‘s rental value, but now are more than half. heathrow airport has apologised for disruption after the west london hub was hit by "technical issues". passengers described the situation as "utter chaos" after a problem with the airport‘s it system meant passengers couldn‘t find correct boarding gates. heathrow says the issues have now been resolved. let‘s get more on the economic impact of the coronavirus. factories have been forced to slow production because of a shortage of china—made parts, global commodity prices are down, as demand from chinese factories for oil and gas has slumped, and travel firms have suffered as the number of passengers has fallen sharply. but how long could the downturn last? our global trade correspondent dharshini david has been finding out. the birthplace of sir winston churchill. a stunning example of baroque architecture. blenheim palace, just outside 0xford, would normally attract 50,000 visitors in february. but this time demand is down, as travel restrictions in china hit. in the last few weeks, it would have been quite significant. this would have been a busy period for chinese new year tourism. we expect across february to lose about 5000 chinese visits. that would be about 10% of our natural february audience. is a similar story of the historic university town a few miles away. it‘s the blend of heritage, culture and access to luxury shopping that makes this area so attractive to chinese tourists. over 400,000 visited the uk last year. that is dropping sharply. 0ne company here had told us typically sees 50 customers per week from china for its walking tours. now it‘s not seeing any. nearby, the plough inn shot to global fame when the chinese president and former prime minister david cameron stopped by for a pint of greene king ipa in 2015. as the coach parties followed, the pub was bought by a chinese investor, earning him a slice of the £10 billion tourists spend in the uk every year. the draw here is sitting at the same bar, with a plate of fish and chips, as their leader. yeah, that‘s what it is. they want to emulate the leader. they take all the selfies, and it isjust so, i suppose, they can go back home and say we've done it, we'd been there. in recent weeks, the last three weeks is zero. there have been no chinese tourists at all. it's just one of those things. hopefully this virus then get sorted out pretty sharpish and we can get back to seeing more visitors. even bicester village, a popular shopping spot for tourists looking to avoid high import taxes on luxuries at home feels unusually quiet. while its owners refused to comment, retailers here confided that sales are down sharply, with poor weather not helping. 2 million people across the uk rely on tourism for a living. the virus that exerting a high human cost thousands of miles away is having a considerable financial side effect here. we will talk more about that later. in other business stories we‘re following, french rail giant, alstom, has announced it is in talks to buy the train business of bombardier, a canadian transport company. bombardier, which has had trouble recently over failure to pay its suppliers on time, is expected to value its train division at nearly £5.5 billion. the number of landlords renting privately to tenants has dropped to a seven—year low, according to a report in the ft. there are 223,000 fewer "amateur landlords" than there were two years ago. changes to stamp duty for second homes and buy—to—let has dampened enthusiasm for smaller landlords. shares in the fashion and home retailer laura ashley have fallen 41% after warning it was in talks with its lender about funding to allow it to continue trading. it said if it could not get the "requisite level of funding" then it would need to "consider all appropriate options". sales at the firm fell by nearly 11% in the second half of last year. not much moving in the market. there is not a lot of economic data. in germany, the da acts is up slightly. following that lead in asia. we talked about the impact of the coronavirus on things like commodity prices, oil has been down. i itv shares, also in the headlines. its shares, also in the headlines. its shares are down 0.4% so far. more from me later. hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — a woman is believed to have died in floodwaters in worcestershire. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship. new pictures of the flooding affecting south wales. these aerial pictures arejust affecting south wales. these aerial pictures are just through of nantgarw, an area that has been particularly badly affected, a village near cardiff. you may have seen an our reporter village near cardiff. you may have seen an our reporter tomos morgan was inside one home, where they had been affected by flood waters. the owner of the home describing how they had not been expecting anything like that. they didn‘t expect it to come with such speed. she and her husband went upstairs to stay safe from the flood and the dog had to be rescued by swimming through the floodwaters. a lot of people have been affected by the waters, talking about the sheer speed in which they hit. most of it has subsided now, but the aftermath is going to be painful for those who are left dealing with it. these pictures are from merthyr tydfil, many areas affected. 0bviously, from merthyr tydfil, many areas affected. obviously, as i say, it‘s going to be something where there are going to be many people having to deal with this for some time to come. pontypridd, the latest pictures. a leading cancer charity is calling for a ban on sunbeds, after it emerged many tanning salons in england don‘t need a licence. the subject is one close to the heart of bbc reporter laura may mcmullan, after she was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma five years ago, following years of sunbed use. two weeks ago she had her final scan, and has been declared cancer free. she has this report. a bronzed, healthy glow. but in reality there is no such thing as a safe tan. for years i was addicted to sunbathing and using sunbeds and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 2014. i don‘t think people realise how dangerous melanoma can be. it starts with a mole or, in my case, a little red spot on the back of my leg. within six months it had spread to the lymph nodes in my groin. anthea smith was also diagnosed with melanoma. it started with a little spot on her ear and for her it has led to life—changing surgery. my whole left ear has been amputated and then, second operation, i had my whole inner ear, middle ear, all my salivary glands on my left side, all my lymph nodes, full temple bow taken from my skull. like me, she used sunbeds for many years. nobody should have to live with what i am living with, all for a tan. the guilt that i feel to my husband and children that this was all self—inflicted but it was self—inflicted with no level of knowledge of the dangers. so people younger than me continue to use them, i think, not knowing any of the dangers. melanoma cases have increased by almost 50% in the last decade but it seems people are still getting mixed messages. that is why gillian nuttall, founder of melanoma uk, has launched a campaign to ban sunbeds. we felt that we owed it to families of patients who have passed away to actually get up and do something so we took the lead from australia and brazil, they have already banned sunbeds and we thought, you know what, we're going to do what our patients are asking us to do and see if we can do the same. i took these concerns to the sunbed association. let‘s be clear, there is no link between sunbed use and melanoma. we have asked for a roundtable meeting to discuss this very point. they won‘t meet with us. i have to question why. the research they refer to is flawed, it has been proven to be subsequently flawed, and they won‘t listen to that and we have to say, why not? you are saying that oncologists, consultants, dermatologists all around the world, they are all wrong? what i‘m saying is, they are all using the same research which itself is flawed. the evidence linking sunbed use to melanoma and other skin cancers is incontrovertible. there is a clear link, there is no argument to say that there isn't. according to cancer research uk, more than 86% of skin cancer cases are preventable, with an overexposure to uv rays causing irreversible damage. laura may mcmullan, bbc news. you can see the full story on inside out west midlands tonight at 7:30 on bbc one, and of course, on the iplayer. france‘s controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it‘s the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron‘s programme of reform. but it‘s also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, as hugh schofield reports. alexey drives a bus from a north paris depot. he spent much of the last three months on strike against the pension reform. in the current system, he enjoys a special status. he can retire at 57. but he insists it‘s not that he is trying to protect. translation: the impact will be to lower the level of people‘s pensions. already, many pensioners are living in absolute misery, and this law will make things even worse. it‘s not acceptable. since early december, the country has been in ferment over pension reform. the roving transport strikes may have stopped, but there have still been weekly protests as the government negotiated the final touches to its draft bill. it‘s already been several months in preparation. but now, finally, the pensions reform bill is coming before the national assembly. given president macron‘s huge majority here, there is no question that it will eventually become law. but the whole process could still take several months. more time for the opposition under protests to make themselves felt. the government says it is time for the protesters to stop and let the democratic system proceed. the truth is, pensions are only part of it. for many on the left, like these university lecturers protesting about cuts, president macron‘s whole programme is wrong because they say it favours business on the rich. all those people who are on strike, they are notjust about i want a good pension, i want a good life, i want a life with dignity, i want a life where i am not counting money, like euro by euro. polls show that pension reform is not popular. people feel anxious about losing protection. for the left, that makes it a very useful because, a banner headline for all the other reasons they oppose president macron. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. we have lost the heavy persistent rain and severe gales, a strong deli pack of storm dennis is now setting off in scandinavia. still plenty of isobars on the chart, still under the influence of low pressure, still plenty of showers piling on from the west. that will be the story for the rest of the afternoon. we still have five severe flood warnings in south wales and parts of shropshire. there will still be some showers in the area, although the most widespread ones will be further north and west. slowly but surely, the wind will start to ease into the afternoon. the highest values ranging from eight or 10 degrees. as you go to the evening we will continue to see plenty of showers, most of those into the north—west. some of these will turn increasingly wintry to tops of the mountains. further south, temperatures falling away. ice could be a problem in scotland and northern england as we see single figures greeting us on tuesday morning. tuesday will be a chilly start for some, still plenty of showers around further north and west you go. it‘s almost a repeat performance on tuesday. showers piling on from the west. as we go through the afternoon, we could see a spell of showers emerging and for longer spells of rain, pushing in from north west england, the midlands and unfortunately in the areas where we don‘t need it, where we see the worst of the flooding. if that happens, the wind could really pick up with this band of squally showers. the highest values on tuesday afternoon are 5—11. those values will ease away. we see a ridge of high pressure building for wednesday. wednesday looks likely to be the best day of the week, just like we had last week. it will start to dry with some sunshine coming through. you can also see clouding over quickly from the west. northern ireland, western scotland, a wet afternoon here. some of that rain will gradually push into north west england and wales. for many, a relatively dry day with highs of seven or 10 degrees. thursday, into friday, i‘m afraid we see yet more wet and windy weather around. one area of low pressure moves its way through on thursday, only to be replaced by yet another. perhaps not quite as severe as dennis, but it is still going to stay pretty u nsettled. still going to stay pretty unsettled. thursday, into friday, wet and windy weather moves its way across the country and it looks likely that we have got more to come into the weekend. hundreds of flood warnings still in place after storm dennis brings misery and travel chaos across the uk. in some places more than a month‘s worth of rain fell in just 48 hours — there‘s heartbreak for families whose homes have been ruined. this is my home. this is my pride and joy. i just don‘t know where to start and i‘m still traumatised about what happened yesterday. we‘ll be reporting from around the country. also this lunchtime... love island back on air tonight for the first time since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. a possible rescue flight for britons quarantined on this cruise ship off japan because of the coronavirus. a killer trying to come to terms with what he‘s done: one of the bali bombers begs forgiveness from a victim‘s family.

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but we try to keep them in our site. in memory‘s eyes, the busby babes are immortal. the red devil spirit lives and never died. harry gregg, the hero of munich, who has died at the hero of munich, who has died at the age of 87. time for a look at the weather. we certainly lost the persistent rain, but we are still reeling from the after—effects, with over 200 flood alerts still in force, three of them at the moment severe across parts of shropshire and monmouthshire. you can see this is storm dennis at the start of the weekend, with the centre of the low to the north—west. look at this plume of cloud. it brought this conveyor belt of rain across parts of south wales and in two parts of the midlands as well. that relentless rain now has eased off into the near continent, but it is still windy. strong, blustery winds to the north—west driving shower scene as we to the north—west driving shower scene as we speak. to the north—west driving shower scene as we speak. those are set to continue through this afternoon. sheltered eastern areas will see fewer showers. still a blustery afternoon, though the winds will start to ease as we go through the day. temperatures of 8—iidc. as we go through the evening, we will see a rash of showers continuing to the far north—west, these likely to turn increasingly wintry to the tops of the mountains in scotland. with temperatures falling close to freezing, ice could be an issue through scotland and northern england first thing in the morning. fewer showers further south, but it will be a chilly start to tuesday. almost a repeat performance of what we have got today, i'm afraid. plenty of showers from the word go, driven in by this brisk westerly wind. some of the showers are heavy with hail and thunder, and as we go through the afternoon, more of an organised band of rain moving through the north of england, down just where we don't need it through the midlands and parts of south wales, and that could be accompanied by squally winds. that mini front wheel ease away and we will see a ridge of high pressure building on wednesday. wednesday looks likely to be the best day of the week, so if you can get out and enjoy this brief window of dry weather for some of us, do so, because already, out into northern ireland, western scotland and north—west england and wales, is more wet and windy weather to come. at the end of the working week, thursday into friday, it will be dominated by areas of low pressure. we will see one system moving through only to be replaced by yet another weighting in the wings for friday. again, plenty of isobars on the chart. thursday and friday look likely to be wet and windy. i can tell you i have just likely to be wet and windy. i can tell you i havejust had likely to be wet and windy. i can tell you i have just had a sneak preview into the weekend and it stays pretty unsettled as well. not great news, i'm afraid, ben. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me good afternoon, it's just 1.30, and this is your latest sports news. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster of 1958, has died. he was 87. gregg played under sir matt busby at manchester united and was capped 25 times for northern ireland, where he passed away surrounded by his family. he was dubbed the hero of munich after helping save others from the wreckage after the crash, including a mother and baby, and teammate sir bobby charlton. sir bobby's words of condolence have been pubished on the manchester united website. he says, "i was proud to call him a team—mate. for all the matter of fact things harry said about that night in munich for me he will always be remembered as a heroic figure." and sir alex ferguson said: "harry was a man of great character and a true legend at our club. i loved his company and the many pieces of advice he gave me. my thoughts and prayers are with carolyn and his family at this very sad time." of course there are many tributes being made — and we've heard from sammy mcilroy, also a former manchester united and northern ireland player, who recalled their time together at united. i remember working with him in the ‘70s at manchester united. fantastic character. when harry spoke, you had to listen. he was that type of man. genuine man. spoke his mind, told the truth, wouldn't have anything else but the truth. as i say, it's very sad. i knew he wasn't too well. still very sad to hear when he passed away. you touched on what he did at munich, which was absolutely unbelievable. he was a brave man as a goalkeeper, and a brave man off the field as well. and what he did at munich was incredible. sammy mcilroy remembering harry gregg, who's died at the age of 87. pep guardiola has told friends he intends to stay at manchester city, despite the club's two—year ban from the champions league. his current contract expires next year although it does have a break clause at the end of this season and it was thought he would activate it, if city's appeal against the ban fails. however, it's understood guardiola has said he won't be leaving early, no matter what the outcome, and he's still committed to the club. porto striker moussa marega walked off the field during a league game yesterday, in protest at racist abuse. marega scored the winning goal against guimaraes and celebrated by pointing to his skin, in response to comments from some home fans, who'd targeted him throughout the match. he was booked for his reaction and a few minutes later, with the abuse continuing, he headed for the dugout. team—mates and opposition players tried to persuade him to stay on, but he was eventually substituted. porto's match report described it as "a sad situation that should make the guimaraes club and portuguese football blush with shame". kim clijsters is preparing to make her second comeback to competitive tennis, at the wta event in dubai. the four—time grand slam champion has been away for eight years, raising her three children. she initially retired in 2007 to get married and start a family, before returning two years later and winning three of those major titles. she has a tough re—introduction though — herfirst—round opponent in dubai is garbine muguruza, the former wimbedon champion and finallist at the australian open this month. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc dot co dot uk slash sport thank you very much indeed. communities across britain are facing another day of flooding and travel chaos following the torrential rain and strong winds brought by storm dennis. our correspondent jayne mccubbin was in york nthis morning — she explained how residents are coming to expect these floods more frequently in the future. there are 16 flood warnings in place from the environment agency and the water levels are expected to peak at their highest levels since those devastating 2015 floods around about 10115 this morning. have a look over here and you will see what has happened. so the river ouse is actually about 100 metres away from us. all of this in the foreground here is actually the public car park in the centre of york. you can see the pay—and—display machines over there in the distance and see how far the river ouse has come in. as i say, the highest level expected since those 2015 floods. now, an awful lot of money was invested back then into the foss barrier, the main defence in this area. which, if we use actually the mast cam on the top of the satellite truck, you will be able to see a bit better where we are. we've got on one side of us the river foss, on the other side of us the river ouse and where they meet is the foss barrier. that, at the moment, after £70 million—worth of funding can try and control some 50 tonnes of water every second to try and stabilise the rivers, where they meet and prevent flooding. i'm told by the environment agency, who are in the area this morning, it is absolutely doing its job because at the moment there are no houses or premises flooded further upstream. so that is good news but they are preparing for the worst. the council has been out all weekend handing out some 4,000 sandbags, going down into the drains and making sure they are clear, doing all they can to try and make the city resilient. that is the key word, resilience. and they say they are doing a good job so far, so they are just waiting to see how bad things get. just yesterday the environment secretary was in york, having a look at how things were going, saying they will keep a watchful eye on it. because even without rain, the waters here are expected to rise. but so far, so good. and york, i'm told, is still open for business. spare a thought though for tadcaster albion, it's the local football team in this area. it has been going for 125 years but they say that this season could be their last season because of the continued flooding. notjust from storm ciara last weekend but also from storm dennis and they are really struggling. they have thrown out an appeal for financial help this morning, saying they really might not be around much longer if things, events like this, which were once considered a once—in—a—lifetime event, continue to happen with this kind of severity and this kind of frequency. the met office is buying a supercomputer capable of quicker and more accurate forecasts. the project will cost £1.2 billion over the next decade. the met office says it'll also help our understanding of the effects of the changing climate. it will enable us to deliver more accurate, even more timely, more localised predictions for both weather and climate. that will enable people to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive ahead of time in the case of severe weather. and for the latest information on storm dennis tune into your bbc local radio station or visit our website. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter, caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. earlier i spoke to professor jonathan shalit — chairman of the talent agency intertalent and a friend of caroline's. my thoughts are shock. i want to be clear because i'm not here to pretend a relationship i didn't have, i was a work associate of caroline. i certainly wouldn't consider myself a close friend but i was certainly someone, or she was someone i used to run into regularly and had a warm relationship with. and i think like many people i was struck by her warmth, her charm, her smile and the fact that she was friendly to everyone. i mean, to me, and i say this very sadly, it was inevitable, and i don't mean inevitable to caroline necessarily but inevitable to people in the public eye. we saw an mp who was murdered a few years ago. because what has happened now is getting out of control. you just commented about the online petition requesting an inquiry into the media. we had that some years ago, the levenson enquiry so that would be a repeat of the levenson enquiry. i think people know what the problem is, we don't need another inquiry to know what the problem is. we know that people are vicious online, people troll people online and they speak and do things that are completely unacceptable online. and i think the questions are why, and is it permissible? and i think the biggest problem is anonymity. when a newspaperjournalist does a leader column, you know who they are so can challenge that person, and a publication governed by law like this television programme now. you can only say things within what the law permits. but online people say things way outside the law which if they said it in other circumstances they would be arrested and charged. you say things are going out of control, how do you bring that under control? well, i don't how much you can because online international companies, which emanate farfrom our shores. so we have to look to facebook and twitter, to instagram, to all those online platforms that put messages out there. i think the only one we control at the moment is dailmail.co.uk because that is a british originating site. i give you an example of what i think could happen. people should not be allowed to join, when they make their comments, and do it anonymously. i think if anonymity was taken away from people in what they say they would think twice about the awful things they say. because everybody scrolls down the daily mail comment, sometimes and they're quite horrible what people say. i once tweeted about my daughter and her birthday and she had a nice new outfit and i tweeted happy birthday to my beautiful daughter. and i got people re—tweeting or tweeting back, your daughter is ugly. and it was like, where did that come from? i was just being a lovable father saying something warm about my child and yet i got this venom back at me because i commented on her looks in a way that dad would. you can only multiply that to somebody who has a considerable following on social media. in most walks of life people who follow you are your friends and supporters. but it seems online your enemies also follow you because people troll you with terrible things that we know about. the headlines on bbc news... hundreds of flood warnings still in place after storm dennis brings misery and travel chaos across the uk. love island back on air tonight for the first time since the death of its former presenter caroline flack. a possible rescue flight for britons quarantined on this cruise ship off japan because of the coronavirus. more now from our crossing divides series. last month, the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz camp, with survivors sharing their experiences of the brutal nazi regime. eva kor was subjected to horrific experiments in the camp — but she spoke later of forgiving her captors. eva recorded the audio to this short animated film shortly before her death earlier this year. one day, in 19114, my family and i were arrested, packed into cattle trains with no food or water. we were taken to poland and left on the selection platform in auschwitz. a nazi guard spotted me and my identical twin sister miriam, clinging to my mother. he tore us from my mother's arms and lead us away. i remember looking back at my mother. i did not know at that time that i would never see her again. on the filthy floor were the scattered corpses of three little girls. their bodies were naked, their eyes were wide open. it was a horrifying look. i have never seen anybody dead before. so, that hit me very, very hard, and i made a silent pledge that i will do whatever is within my power to make sure that miriam and i will not end up on that latrine floor, and that we somehow will survive and walk out of this camp alive. we were naked for hours. and every part of our bodies was measured. it was horrible and humiliating. "too bad. she's so young. she has only two weeks to live." i knew he was right, but i refused to die. if i died, miriam would have been given a lethal injection so he could cut open both of our bodies and compare the autopsies. for the following two weeks, i was between life and death. and all i remember, crawling on the bare floor, because i could no longer walk. and as i was crawling, i would fade in and out of consciousness. i kept telling myself, i must survive. nine months later, we returned home, only to find that nobody else from our family survived. to find only three crumbled pictures. and that was all that was left of my family. in 1987, i donated one of my kidneys to save her. but she died in 1993, and i was devastated. she was the only one from the family who was alive. i was angry. i was heading to germany to meet a nazi doctor. i was unbelievably nervous and scared. dr munch, at the time, was 82 years old. he greeted me with kindness, respect and consideration. i was blown away. a nazi treating me with respect! dr hans munch was a bacteriologist at auschwitz. but he also had a secondary job, he was stationed outside the gas chambers. and when people were dead, he would sign one death certificate, no names, just the number of people that were murdered. and he said to me, this is my problem, this is a nightmare that i live with. i asked him if he was willing to go with me to auschwitz and make the same statement that he made to me. and he said he would love to. i knew that was a crazy idea, to thank a nazi, a survivor of auschwitz to thank a nazi. people would think that i have lost my mind. i tried to figure out how to thank him. and after ten months, a simple idea popped into my head. how about a letter of forgiveness from me, the survivor of auschwitz? i knew that it was a meaningful gift for him. but what i discovered for myself was life changing. that i had the power to forgive. no—one could give me that power, no—one could take it away. to challenge myself, i decided i could even forgive mengele, the person who had put me through hell. it wasn't easy, but i felt an enormous weight had been lifted from me. i finally felt free. who decided that i, as a victim, must be, for the rest of my life, sad, angry, feel hopeless and helpless? i refuse it. you can never change what happened in the past. all you can do is change how you live after it. my sister and i were made into human guinea pigs. our whole family was murdered. but i have the power to forgive, and so do you. eva kor, he was subjected to horrific experiments in auschwitz during the war. —— who was. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. but it's also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, as hugh schofield reports. alexis louvet drives a bus from a north paris depot. he spent much of the last three months on strike against the pension reform. in the current system, he enjoys a special status. he can retire at 57. but he insists it's not that he is trying to protect. translation: the impact will be to lower the level of people's pensions. already, many pensioners are living in absolute misery, and this law will make things even worse. it's not acceptable. since early december, the country has been in ferment over pension reform. the rolling transport strikes may have stopped, but there have still been weekly protests as the government negotiated the final touches to its draft bill. it's already been several months in preparation. but now, finally, the pensions reform bill is coming before the national assembly. given president macron's huge majority here, there is no question that it will eventually become law. but the whole process could still take several months. more time for the opposition under protests to make themselves felt. more time for the opposition and the protests to make themselves felt. the government says it is time for the protesters to stop and let the democratic system proceed. the truth is, pensions are only part of it. for many on the left, like these university lecturers protesting about cuts, president macron's whole programme is wrong because they say it favours business and the rich. all those people who are on strike, they are notjust about i want a good pension, i want a good life, i want a life with dignity, i want a life where i am not counting money, like euro by euro. polls show that pension reform is not popular. people feel anxious about losing protection. for the left, that makes it a very useful cause, a banner headline for all the other reasons they oppose president macron. an update on the weather now. it isa it is a quieter story across the uk. we have lost the heavy persistent rain and severe gales, as storm dennis is now setting off in scandinavia. still plenty of isobars on the chart, still under the influence of low pressure, still plenty of showers piling on from the west. that will be the story for the rest of the afternoon. we still have five severe flood warnings in south wales and parts of shropshire. there will still be some showers in the area, although the most widespread ones will be further north and west. slowly but surely, the wind will start to ease into the afternoon. the highest values ranging from eight or 10 degrees. as you go to the evening we will continue to see plenty of showers, most of those into the north—west. some of these will turn increasingly wintry to tops of the mountains. viewer showers further south. temperatures falling away. ice could be a problem in scotland and northern england as we see single figures greeting us on tuesday morning. tuesday will be a chilly start for some, still plenty of showers around further north and west you go. it's almost a repeat performance on tuesday. showers piling on from the west. as we go through the afternoon, we could see a spell of showers merging to longer spells of rain, pushing in from north west england, the midlands and unfortunately in the areas where we don't need it, where we see the worst of the flooding. if that happens, the wind could really pick up with this band of squally showers. the highest values on tuesday afternoon are 5—11. those showers will ease away. we see a ridge of high pressure building for wednesday. wednesday looks likely to be the best day of the week, just like we had last week. it will start off dry with some sunshine coming through. you can also see clouding over quickly from the west. northern ireland, western scotland, a wet afternoon here. some of that rain will gradually push into north west england and wales. for many, a relatively dry day with highs of seven or 10 degrees. thursday, into friday, i'm afraid we see yet more wet and windy weather around. one area of low pressure moves its way through on thursday, only to be replaced by yet another. perhaps not quite as severe as dennis, but it is still going to stay pretty unsettled. thursday, into friday, wet and windy weather moves its way across the country and it looks likely that we have got more to come into the weekend. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm... hundreds of flood warnings still in place, after storm dennis brings misery and travel chaos across the uk. hereford and surrounding areas are among those inundated. ijust can't believe how my home, my home has been ravaged in the last couple of hours, you know, it only took a few hours and it's destroyed. more than 200 flood warnings are in place across the uk — including five severe warnings in england — as families and businesses count the cost, the government defends its response we are monitoring things very closely, in particular the river seven at ten, shrewsbury and tewkesbury are areas we are looking at very closely. itv‘s love island is back on air tonight for the first 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almost as high as the devastating floods of 2015. other headlines: love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. hundreds of americans are on their way home after being quarantined on a coronavirus—hit cruise ship off japan, raising questions over whether the british passengers will be taken off too. amazon is forced to withdraw unsafe car seats from its website — after a bbc investigation multiple noncompliant products for sale. a leading cancer charity launches a campaign to ban sunbeds in england. and coming up in sport — former manchester united goalkeeper harry gregg, who survived the 1958 munich air crash, has died at the age of 87. good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. communities around britain are facing another day of flooding and travel chaos as storm dennis continues to batter the country. almost 300 flood warnings are in place — including five severe warnings in worcestershire, shropshire, and herefordshire, which indicate a danger to life. the heavy rain is causing travel disruption with some roads being closed, and damaged rail lines meaning cancellations and delays. our news correspondent graham satchell has this report. a helicopter hovers over the welsh town of crickhowell. from on board, you can see the coast guard getting ready to rescue people trapped in their caravan. it was a weekend of devastating floods and emergency rescues. in nantgarw near cardiff, the river taff burst its banks. it left cars submerged, more than 100 homes flooded. the fire service made journey after journey, bringing out families with young children, and the more elderly on stretchers. make some space! my dad, who's 96 — it's his 96th birthday today — the only thing i've managed to save is his medals from the war. within minutes, two or three minutes, itjust filled the house. and what is the state of the house currently downstairs? totally, absolutely wrecked, ruined. everything, i've lost everything. it'sjust full of mud. in pontypridd, claire showed us the inside of her home. she had three feet of water in her front room. claire does have flood defences, but more than a month's worth of rain has fallen in south wales injust 48 hours. it stop the water, but the water's just coming over the top. but the levels of water were up towards the gate, so the gate did stop it, but then itjust came over the top of the gate and over the top of the wall. storm dennis battered the whole country all weekend. this is glasgow and the river clyde. whoa! my god. oh, my. at tylorstown in the rhondda valley, a dramatic landslide. 0n the welsh border at hay—on—wye, watch as cars slowly start to drift away, lifted by the power of the water. newcastleton in the scottish borders, the clean—up here now well under way. but a0 people were forced from their homes. it was biblical, the amount of water through here, tragic. in tenbury wells in worcestershire, a late—night rescue — again families evacuated as the river teme burst its banks. it's going underwater slowly — the kitchen, living room, so... but we got the three dogs out, so that's all that matters. back in wales, spare a thought for the landlord of the chainbridge inn near usk. stuart only took the pub over in october. it can't be good, no, but i'm going to keep my head up, keep my chin up and paddle forward as they say, and i will be here for the summer and i will be open for the summer. it's not going to beat me. it will be a day of cleaning up, and in some parts of the country, nervously watching rivers as they continue to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. environment secretary george eustice said the government is investing in betterflood we are seeing more of those events, but we do not take it lightly, we are doing a lot of work to try to manage flood water. it is the biggest element of spending in my department, we will be spending 4 billion over the next five years, and in particular, what we want to do, which is very relevant to areas like the west midlands and worcestershire, is try to manage water better upstream, so using nature based solutions, natural dams, natural flood plains, so that we can hold water upstream and prevent it getting down to some of those lowland towns like tenbury wells, which have been most severely affected. let's speak to our correspondents who are in different areas that have been badly hit by storm dennis. first to our news correspondent kathryn stanczyszyn, who's in tenbury wells in worcestershire. yes, good morning, youjoin me yes, good morning, you join me at the 0rmiston academy, this is tenbury wells' high school, and it has been turned into an evacuation centre. dozens of people came here, there is a hole me were inflatable beds were blown up, blankets were used, and there is a large kitchen area where people have been having breakfast this morning. we know that 70 businesses were evacuated, and more than a0 homes as well, some people chose to stay elsewhere, many came here instead, and i have been looked after. we know that the level of the river teme, which burst its banks, reached just ten centimetres off the highest ever recorded level, back in 2007, but once people have been telling me is that it seems that the impact has been greater for some reason, that where the water has travelled, the sort of impact on businesses certainly seems to be greater. it was pretty isolated yesterday because of the bridges, you weren't able to get out of tenbury wells. the water has receded quite a lot this morning, and many of the streets that were completely impassable yesterday, you now can actually walk up and down. i am joined by the representative from the volunteer group, because as well as the fire service and emergency services, there is a volunteer search and rescue. this is another room in the school that you have been using. we are a class in this area as the wet area or wet room for us area as the wet area or wet room for us guys, area as the wet area or wet room for us guys, so area as the wet area or wet room for us guys, so it is where our volu nteers us guys, so it is where our volunteers who have been out in the floodwater in full ppe, we can come back here and keep decontamination quite low in one area. a bit of a mess room as well, people drinking coffee. yes, coffee, food, getting some rest. you have been up for how long? i was here since yesterday at three o'clock, through the night, knocking on doors, just advising people whether they want to be evacuated or stay, giving them advice, really. if they do want to be evacuated, we evacuated people yesterday, brought them to the high school for them to come in and get their heads down here, food and drink, you know, keep their morale up, really. is it shocking, the impact? i think people were taken by surprise. definitely, it is unprecedented, the water around here, people who now tenbury well, it has come up to the main bridge, thatis it has come up to the main bridge, that is closed, and on the high street, sometimes waist height, but it isa street, sometimes waist height, but it is a lot of water. and of course vulnerable people, some people have stayed in their homes, you have been going to check on them through the night. yes, one lady who is wheelchair access, on the second story of a building, they wanted to stay, they were happy to stay, other families with children there, they are so families with children there, they are so high in the town, they think the water will not get to them. and now, of course, it is starting to recede, people returning back to their homes, talking about how brilliant it is that there have been volu nteers brilliant it is that there have been volunteers like this coming together in the community to help. there has been flooding in other parts of the country as well, including in south wales, let's cross tojohn maguire in pontypridd. thank you, i amjust in the small village of nantgarw, which was right in the centre of all the weather events here, it was a red warning, declared as a major incident by local police. this area, 0xford incident by local police. this area, oxford street, water would have been here 2a hours ago, waist deep, and you can see the damage it has left in its wake. they were just paged you can see the damage it has left in its wake. they werejust paged up and dumped back, all now filled with mud, just have a look inside, and we now, with floodwater coming inside a car 01’ a now, with floodwater coming inside a car or a house, it absolutely taints what it touches. just behind us, all of the buildings here, all of the homes were evacuated, people coming back for the first time to try to assess the damage. you can see the emergency services would have put these ribbons up, plastic ribbons upon the doors just to warn people, is to let their colleagues know that the houses have been cleared. this carjust the houses have been cleared. this car just abandoned here the houses have been cleared. this carjust abandoned here by the floodwaters, by the riverjust in the middle of the road. power was restored since we have been here, but something like 2000 homes across south wales were without power. i wa nt to south wales were without power. i want to look at another vehicle, this one abandoned, dumped, as i say, by the water, not by people. look at that, the other side of the flood defences, that is where the river taff is, it broke its banks further on upstream, and as i said, turning 0xford further on upstream, and as i said, turning oxford street here into an absolute deluge, a river. boats were used to get people out of their houses and to get them to safety last night. earlier on this morning i spoke to the leader of the local council, andrew morgan, and he told me this was an unprecedented event. the scale of the flooding across the whole county has been phenomenal. the amount of property is flooded, damage to infrastructure, three bridges have been damaged and will need replacing, flood defences have failed ina need replacing, flood defences have failed in a number of areas, need replacing, flood defences have failed in a number ofareas, and a numberof failed in a number ofareas, and a number of homes have been damaged, some up to the first floor. we're probably looking at 200 businesses as well, so in terms of our county and our council, it is the biggest flood event for 30 more years, and right across the county, it has stretched resources. this council is named after the three rivers here, they were all in flood, so that gives you an idea of the scale of the issues, thousands of people involved from all across the emergency services, the volu nta ry the emergency services, the voluntary sector as well, trying to firstly turn back the floodwater, but when they realise that the game was up, to make sure that they got people to safety. flood waters have receded, people returning to their homes for the first time to assess the damage, but i know in the north of england, in turn one, the waters are still rising, and we can talk 110w are still rising, and we can talk now to jayne mccubbin. as you say, still rising down here, 16 flood warnings in place from the environment agency, and the water levels are expected to peak at their highest levels since there was devastating 2015 floods at around about 10:a5 this morning. have a look over here, and you will see what has happened. the river 0use is about 100 metres away from us, all of this in the foreground is a public car park in the centre of york. you can see the pay and display machines over there in the distance, see how far the river has come in. as i say, the highest level expected since those 2015 floods. an awful lot of money was invested then into the foss barrier, and if we used a camera on the top of the satellite truck, you will be able to see where we are. on one side of us, we have got the river foss, on the other side the 0use, and where they meet is the barrier. that can try to control some 50 tonnes of water every second, to try to stabilise the rivers where they meet and prevent flooding. i'm told by the environment agency, who are in the area, that it is absolutely doing itsjob, area, that it is absolutely doing its job, because at the moment there are no houses or premises flooded further upstream. so that is good news, but they are preparing for the worst. the council has been out all weekend, handing out some a000 sandbags, going down into the drains and making sure they are clear, doing all they can to try to make the city resilient — that is the key word, resilience. they say they are doing a good job so far, just waiting to see how bad things get. just yesterday, the environment secretary was in york, having a look at how things were going, saying they would keep a watchful eye on it, because even without rain, the waters are expected to rise. but so far, so good, and york, i am told, is still open for business. spare a thought, though, for tadcaster albion, the local football team thought, though, for tadcaster albion, the localfootball team in this area. it has been going for 125 yea rs, this area. it has been going for 125 years, but they say that this season could be their last season because of the continued flooding, notjust from storm ciara last weekend but also from dennis, storm and i are really struggling. they have thrown out an appeal for financial help this morning, saying they really might not be around much longer if events like this, which were once considered a once—in—a—lifetime event, continue to happen with this kind of severity and frequency. back to you. that is sad news about tadcaster albion, thanks obviously tojohn tadcaster albion, thanks obviously to john and kathryn tadcaster albion, thanks obviously tojohn and kathryn as well in other parts, storm damaged country. and for the latest information on storm dennis in your area, you can find out more, on your local bbc online pages, or tune in to your local radio station. the met office is buying a supercomputer capable of quicker and more accurate forecasts. the project will cost £1.2 billion over the next decade. the met office says it'll also help our understanding of the effects of the changing climate. it will enable us to deliver more accurate, even more timely, more localised predictions for both weather and climate that will enable people to make better decisions ahead of time in the case of severe weather. the headlines on bbc news: hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — following a weekend of torrential rain brought by storm dennis love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. hundreds of americans are on their way home after being quarantined on a coronavirus—hit cruise ship off japan, raising questions over whether the british passengers will be taken off too. in sport, harry gregg, survivor of the munich air disaster, has died at the munich air disaster, has died at the age of 87. he was one of the busby babes at manchester united and w011 busby babes at manchester united and won 25 caps for northern ireland. totte n ha m won 25 caps for northern ireland. tottenham are up to 50 in the premier league thanks to an injury time winnerfrom son heung—min premier league thanks to an injury time winner from son heung—min at aston villa. and england ended their tour to south africa with victory in the t20 decider, captain eoin morgan man of the match as they chased down a mammoth 223 to win. more on all of those stories in the next half hour. itv will tonight screen the first episode of love island since the death of its former presenter caroline flack. she took her own life on saturday. the show had been pulled for two consecutive nights as a mark of respect. meanwhile, fellow itv stars have been paying tribute to her, as simon jones reports. enter the flack! # ready for your love... caroline flack became synonymous with the show love island, though she had stepped back from presenting it after she was accused of assaulting her boyfriend. tonight, love island will return with a tribute to her. but some have called for this series to be scrapped completely. itv, though, said after careful consideration with caroline flack's representatives, the show will go on. it added, "she will be forever in our hearts," a message echoed on last night's dancing on ice. we'd like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember caroline flack in light of yesterday's awful news. we wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends. many of us here on the show knew caroline as a friend and we will all miss her terribly. as she recently posted, "in a world where you can be anything, be kind." caroline! this was caroline flack in happier times, winning strictly come dancing in 201a. recently, she had struggled, after her relationship with her boyfriend, lewis burton, became the subject of a court case. she denied assaulting him but was banned from contacting him. he denied being a victim and didn't want the prosecution to go ahead. it's led to questions about the decision to persist with the case and about the pressures faced by tv celebrities from the press and social media. an online petition calling for a government inquiry into the british press and their practices has attracted more than 200,000 supporters, while love island fans prepare to say an emotional farewell. simon jones, bbc news. if you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this report, you can find help and support on the bbc‘s actionline website. 78 british passengers and crew remain stranded on a cruise ship that's been quarantined offjapan because of coronavirus. meanwhile, hundreds of american passengers who'd been on the diamond princess have been flown out by their government and arrived home in the united states where they'll be placed in quarantine for a fortnight. an additional 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on the ship, japanese media said today, citing new figures from the health ministry. that takes the total number of positive cases on the diamond princess to a5a. let's speak to our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes, who's in tokyo. rupert, a sharp rise suddenly in the number of infections. yeah, this is more bad news, i have to say. again, another really large increase in the number of infections on board that ship today, 50a people tested, 99 of them positive, about 20% of those tested today, and that follows 70 new cases yesterday, 67 the day before, and we are now in day 13 of what is supposed to be a quarantine. if you talk to public health experts about this, they say it points to the fact, or at least the strong suspicion that this quarantine aboard the diamond princess cruise ship is not working properly and that infections are probably still continuing to happen on that ship. that is, of course, the reason why the us government and others are now moving to take their people off. the us carried out and evacuation last night, two aircraft have recently touched down in california with those people on board. the australian government is organising an evacuation flight for later in the week for its 200 australians on board, and other countries are following. what we haven't heard of yet, not a clear answer, is anything from the uk government as to what it will do about those 80 something, i think 80 odd british people, including 57 passengers stuck on board that ship. rupert, some of those passengers naturally getting frustrated. 0h, very much so. people have been taking to social media to express their concerns, you know, over the last few days we have noticed very much that when they are on social media talking to friends and about the situation on board, that it and about the situation on board, thatitis and about the situation on board, that it is very noticeable that the anxiety level, fatigue, just rising in those passengers as they wonder what is going on. last night, the removal of 380 americans certainly has changed the mood there dramatically, and people who are not being evacuated are feeling like they are being forgotten or left behind. rupert, thank you. meanwhile, here in the uk, health officials are to tell schools that they do not need to close or send staff and pupils home, if there's a suspected case of coronavirus. public health england is expected to issue new guidance today. it's expected to say that if a case is confirmed, health protection teams will get in touch with the head teacher. and in hong kong, armed robbers have stolen hundreds of toilet rolls, as panic buying caused by the coronavirus is creating shortages or masks, toilet roll and disinfectant across the territory. police said a truck driver was held up early monday by three men outside a supermarket in the mongkok district who took toilet paper worth nearly £100. toilet rolls have become hot property, and supermarkets have found themselves unable to restock quickly enough, leading to queues and shelves stripped bare within moments of opening. the french foreign minister has warned the uk to expect a bruising battle with the european union in negotiations for a trade deal after brexit. speaking at a conference in munich, jean—yves le drian said he believes the two sides will "rip each other apart" when talks begin next month. he said it would be difficult to achieve the british government's aim of reaching an agreement by the end of the year. translation: i think that on trade issues and the mechanism for future relations, which we are going to start on, we are going to rip each other apart, but that is part of negotiations. 0ur assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster. is not cheerful language! sorry, norman, could you start that again? ijust think, you know, the language gives us a clear sign of how bruising these trade talks are going to be, because if you listen to the french defence minister, you get a clear sense that the eu and britain are pulling in opposite directions, the eu clearly want in the uk to align to existing eu rules on environment, workers' rights and taxation, the british government in response in no, we don't want to align, we want the freedom to diverge, and we are after the same sort of deal that countries like canada and japan have, we are not looking for special treatment, but we don't want to be stuck with eu rules. the other thing which the french defence minister flagged rules. the other thing which the french defence ministerflagged up as the issue of fishing, and this is really shaping up to be a real showdown. now, obviously, french perspective, flourishing is a crucial industry, but borisjohnson has made very clear that he expects, after brexit, british waters to be first and foremost for british fishing boats. the french minister saying, no, there will be no compromise, they want access for french boats, pointing out that something like 70% of the catch of british fleets is actually exported to the rest of the eu, and i think there was an implicit threat there that if we seek to plight up on fish, they may say, you simply can't land your fish in fish, they may say, you simply can't land yourfish in eu ports. i think we are shaping up for some very difficult talks. the question is whether this is all bluff, a bit of pre—fight position, or is this actually the outlines of what could be very, very difficult talks indeed. norman, why haven't they began yet? 0bviously, all the shadow—boxing is one thing, we keep being told time is short and it will being told time is short and it will be difficult to get a deal done by the end of day, why haven't we started ? the end of day, why haven't we started? the bottom line is that the 27 countries need to sign off on the remote for the negotiating package, the european parliament has approved a d raft the european parliament has approved a draft negotiating mandate and so i expect they will be good to go by the end of the month, and actually tonight david frost, our chief negotiator, will set out the british position in a lecture in brussels, so we are, position in a lecture in brussels, so we are, if you like, getting to the end of the pre—sparring stage, and we will soon be moving into the actual negotiations. hmm, thank you, norman. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster of 1958, has died. he was 87. gregg played under sir matt busby at manchester united and was capped 25 times for northern ireland. one of the so—called busby babes, he was dubbed the hero of munich for his actions after the disaster. having survived the impact, he managed to free himself before helping pull others to safety from the burning wreckage, including a mother and baby and team—mate sir bobby charlton. in a moment the weather, but first let's here's victoria derbyshire with what she's got coming up in her programme at ten. good morning. this morning, children and teenagers who look after their pa rents, and teenagers who look after their parents, siblings. new research today, seen by our programme suggest that young carers spend an average of 25 hours a week looking after loved ones, the equivalent of a £12,000 a year part—time carers job. so why is it kids are having to do these adultjobs? why is it a cce pta ble these adultjobs? why is it acceptable for a 13—year—old to be administering medication for that sick parent? for a teenager to have to deal with a parent having an epileptic fit? for an 11—year—old to miss sometimes a quarter of her lessons in any year because she is the only one looking after her mum? if you care for your mum or dad, or your child looks after you, please do get in touch this morning, send us an do get in touch this morning, send us an e—mail, and join us live at ten on bbc two, the bbc news channel and online, and we will also bring you the latest on the weather. that sounds like an important programme with tuning in for. victoria mentioned the weather, all important, carol. this morning. i'm going to start off with flood warnings, the environment agency have five of them in operation. just under 300 flood warnings, flooding expected and you must take action. we have met office warnings for wind across the north of scotland, here we could have gusts as much as 70 miles an hour, for the rest of scotland and northern england, northern ireland, wales and the south—west, gusts up to 60 miles an hour. these will ease as we go through the morning but we are still looking at blustery winds today blowing in a packet of showers, some will be heavy and thundery with hail. this evening and overnight at blustery winds bringing in showers, wintry in the northern half of the country, the risk of ice on untreated services and very similar weather today for tomorrow. feeling chilly, more rain in the forecast on wednesday and thursday. hello, this is bbc news with carrie gracie. the headlines... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — following a weekend of torrential rain brought by storm dennis going underwater slowly. but we got the three dogs out, that's all that matters. love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship amazon is forced to withdraw unsafe car seats from its website — after a bbc investigation finds multiple non—compliant products for sale and coming up — as a leading cancer charity calls for a ban on sunbeds — we hear from one woman who says she lost her ear to her tanning addiction. time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. well — it comes as no surprise that a number of the papers lead with questions surrounding caroline flack's death. the love island presenter was due to stand trial next month. the former chief prosecutor spoke to bbc brea kfast chief prosecutor spoke to bbc breakfast this morning, explaining how the cps would have come to the decision to continue the prosecution. at the end of the day, they follow the evidence, the complainant withdrew his support for the prosecution but undoubtedly, they thought they had enough, they had a 999 recording, they had body worn cameras one by the police, they had medical evidence, they would have had other evidence, they have to ta ke had other evidence, they have to take domestic abuse seriously because we as a country have said we should take domestic abuse seriously, when you have three quarters of a million reports to police every year. the most read stories, let's look at these, plus brexit trade warnings. the flood threat, let's look at the most watched stop the turning addiction story. i won't tell you about that. but let's look at the second most watched. rather beautiful film, very sad, second most watched. rather beautifulfilm, very sad, love second most watched. rather beautiful film, very sad, love story in russia. the film maker and photographer won an award, world press photo award for the photo at the top of that, really about the lives of the lgbt community in russia under the social stigma and the risk of physical attacks that increased in the country since the law banning so—called gay propaganda in 2013. i won't tell you about all the things that couple say about their lives. it has a sad ending, rather beautifully shot and important film. take a look if you have a moment. that's it for today's morning briefing. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's sally nugent. good morning... we start with a footballing legend, we use that word so much but in the case of this man, so true. harry gregg, a survivor of the munich air disaster of 1958, has died. he was 87. gregg played under sir matt busby at manchester united and was capped 25 times for northern ireland, where he passed away surrounded by his family. he was dubbed the ‘hero of munich‘ after helping save others from the wreckage after the crash, including a mother and baby, and teammate sir bobby charlton. gregg spoke to bbc sport in 2018, on the 60th anniversary of the crash. united were a broken club, like most clu bs would united were a broken club, like most clubs would have been. and i say broken, and completely and totally, financially, they had lost so much in so many. it's a long, long, long time ago and i would be telling lies ifi time ago and i would be telling lies if i said i thought about it all the time. in fact, if i said i thought about it all the time. infact, i know if i said i thought about it all the time. in fact, i know what i did, i know who i saw. i remember the baby andi know who i saw. i remember the baby and i know when i found bob and all the rest of them, i know i was very fortu nate. the rest of them, i know i was very fortunate. you could not live with it. you could not live with it every day, you would go completely and totally insane. manchester united have tweeted a tribute, saying... "it is with deepest sadness that we have learned of the passing of former player harry gregg 0be. the thoughts and prayers of everyone at the club go out to harry's family and friends." some of michael wright spoke to me some time ago. i remember working with him in the 70s, great character, when harry spoke you had to listen, he was that type of man. a genuine man, spoke his mind, told the truth, would not have anything else but the truth. very sad, i knew he wasn't too well. still very sad to hear that he has actually passed away. you touched on what he did. at munich. absolutely unbelievable. brave man as a goalkeeper and a brave man of the field as well. what he did at munich was incredible. —— sammy mackle roy. tottenham are up to fifth in the premier league they were leading 2—1, when villa defender bjorn engels looked to have salavaged a point for his side. but in the 9ath minute son heung min scored the winnerfor spurs. arsenal have moved into the top half of the table after a a—0 win at home to newcastle. nicolas pepe amongst the scorers — that's only their seventh league win of the season. celtic are still ten points clear of rangers at the top of the scottish premiership. a 2—1victory at aberdeen was their seventh league win in a row — kristofer ayer with the winner. celtic manager neil lennon described it as "a magnificent three points". rangers beat livingston 1—0 in a game that was put back 2a hours due to a waterlogged pitch. scott arfield's second half winner left them with a glimmer of hope of catching their old firm rivals. it's football all the way on most of this morning's back pages. the guardian features a shot of son celebrating his late winnerfor tottenham and also report that arsenal manager mikel arteta had been in touch with pep guardiola, and says manchester city are "suffering" after that two—year ban from the champions league there's a different take in the daily express, with the headline "juve got to go", suggesting that guardiola will leave city to take over atjuventus. the daily mail have better news for city, saying their star players will stick with the club, despite the ban. british number three kyle edmund has won his first atp event for 16 months. he beat italy's andreas seppi in straight sets, in the final of the new york 0pen. he said it was down to a lot of hard work throughout the year, and a lot of ups and downs that you don't see behind the scenes. england's cricketers rounded off their tour to south africa with a memorable win in the final t20 international. they pulled off one of the highest run chases in the history of the shortest format of the game. with a target of 223 to win, openerjos buttler got them off to a quick start with a half century. and captain eoin morgan produced a man—of—the—match performance, hitting 57 offjust 22 balls, as they won by five wickets to take the series. coming up later, there's live commentary from tonight's premier league match between chelsea and manchester united on bbc radio 5 live — coverage begins at 7 o'clock. and over on sports extra it's chelsea against liverpool in the women's fa cup, followed by the draw for the quarter—finals. that's all the sport for now. france's controversial new pensions bill comes before parliament in paris today. it's the biggest overhaul of the pension system since the second world war, and the centrepiece of president macron's programme of reform. but it's also become the focus for his left—wing opponents, as hugh schofield reports. alexis louvet drives a bus from a north paris depot. he spent much of the last three months on strike against the pension reform. in the current system, he enjoys a special status. he can retire at 57. but he insists it's not that that he's trying to protect. translation: the impact would be to lower the level of people's pensions. already, many pensioners are living in absolute misery and this law would make things even worse. it's not acceptable. since early december, the country's been in ferment over pension reform. the rolling transport strikes may have stopped, but there have still been weekly protests as the government negotiated the final touches to its draft bill. it's already been several months in preparation, but now, finally the pensions reform bill is coming before the national assembly. given president macron's huge majority here, there's no question that it will eventually become law. but the whole process could still take several months, more time for the opposition and the protests to make themselves felt. the government says it's time for the protesters to stop and let the democratic system proceed. the truth is pensions are only part of it. for many on the left, like these university lecturers protesting about cuts, president macron's whole programme is wrong because they say it favours business and the rich. all those people who are, like, on strike, they are notjust about..."| want a good pension." they are about "i want a good life, i want a life with dignity, i want a life where i'm not, like, counting money, euro by euro." polls show that pension reform is not popular. people feel anxious about losing protection. for the left, that makes it a very useful cause, a banner headline for all the other reasons they oppose president macron. hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. anne—elisabeth moutet is a columnist at the sunday telegraph. she joins us now from paris. i know some of the unions were calling for a big day of boycotting transport. what's happening? there has been so much time in which everything was locked down and it's already caused so much to the strikers who have not received pay when they are on strike. during the day it doesn't mean the reform itself is not viewed with fear and hostility but lots of people in france. what is going to happen in terms of the parliamentary debate and presumably the vote that follows, will this reform go through? it will go through because the parliament, there is a massive majority that mr macron 12 and a half years ago. the debate however will be, the position is up in arms, the constituents are up in arms, many people are running in the municipal elections and they are afraid of losing them and it's a reform in which it is totally unclear, there is a vote on a bill that hasn't been through committee, but it's being run through parliament and that is completely unclear in terms of position, it's so vague unclear in terms of position, it's so vague and so contradictory even the mps don't quite know what they are voting on. and so presumably the next moves in this, it sounds like sound and fury on the floor of parliament but actually, it will go through, he will get his way. people like the bus driver that we saw in oui’ like the bus driver that we saw in our report will face a later date when they can get their pension. yes, in effect, that is true. that was supposed to be a movement in which everyone had the same system but there contradictory negotiations. you already have something like 1a out of 30 plus categories of people who did not have the same pension as everyone else who had been guaranteed a separate treatment, the date when all of this starts is different depending on professions so it's more complicated than the supposedly simple universal regime that people we re simple universal regime that people were supposed to get at the beginning. in a word, a system that was supposed to simplify exactly going to complicate? it's more or less the case, exactly, yes. thank you. the headlines on bbc news... hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across the uk — following a weekend of torrential rain brought by storm dennis love island will air for the first time tonight following the death of its former host caroline flack. a further 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus on a cruise ship off the coast ofjapan — 78 british passengers and crew remain in quarantine on board the ship now — back to our main story — there are still five severe flood warnings in place across england after storm dennis caused devastation across the uk. rachel maskell, mp for york central, said a little earlier that not enough has been done by the government to protect against floods. i've been out talking to residents and of course they are incredibly stressed, not knowing exactly what's going to happen their property. a lot of measures have been put in place, temporary measures, sandbags and tarpaulin to make sure water doesn't ingress into property but some properties will flood in the city. residents are also frustrated and angry the fact that we are over four years since the floods of 2015 on boxing day, many resilient schemes and community schemes are still not in place and that will protect whole swathes of houses. there is a mix of emotions. people feel it's inevitable they will be flooded today and it's how they can mitigate that? it's interesting, someone mitigate that? it's interesting, someone tweeted me when we were in the calder valley before the weekend, how is it that china can build a hospital in a week, when we can put in properflood defences after the last very serious floods of 2015? you sure this restriction. absolutely, there's no excuse for this, we know with climate change, with greater frequency of weather events we see flooding in the country and we need a proper strategy around sustainable management of our conditions, particularly around flooding and here in york we benefit from that. amazon has withdrawn potentially unsafe child car seats from its sites worldwide, after they were discovered for sale by bbc panorama. it follows an investigation by trading standards. here's our business correspondent katy austin. a child car seat destroyed in a 30mph crash test. it was carried out for surrey trading standards, in 2013, who then alerted amazon about similar products listed on its uk site. we took down products from amazon.co.uk that were not compliant and unsafe. rachel greer, a former amazon product safety manager also recommended that similar seats be taken down from sites in the us and europe. she says her bosses refused. i was told that there was not proof that they were non—compliant in those countries and that that would not be happening. those car seats were tested and were shown to result in bodily harm to the infant that would have been in them. six years after the car seats were withdrawn from amazon uk, surrey trading standards has begun a new investigation, after panorama found what appeared to be similar products still for sale. amazon has now withdrawn them worldwide. amazon later said... it says it is contacting customers who purchased them... it says... katy austin, bbc news. you can watch more on that story on panorama tonight on bbc one at 8:30. a leading cancer charity is calling for a ban on sunbeds, after it emerged many tanning salons in england don't need a licence. the subject is one close to the heart of bbc reporter laura may mcmullan, after she was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma five years ago, following years of sunbed use. two weeks ago she had her final scan, and has been declared cancer free. she has this report. a bronzed, healthy glow but in reality there is no such thing as a safe tan. for years, i was addicted to sunbathing and using sunbeds and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 201a. i do not think people realise how dangerous melanoma can be. it starts with a mole or, in my case, a little red spot on the back of my leg. within six months it had spread to the lymph nodes in my groin. anthea smith was also diagnosed with melanoma. it started with a little spot on her ear and for her it has led to life—changing surgery. my whole left ear has been amputated and then, second operation, i had my whole inner ear, middle ear, all my salivary glands on my left side, all my lymph nodes, full temple bow taken from my skull. like me, she used sunbeds for many years. nobody should have to live with what i am living with, all for a tan. the guilt that i feel to my husband and children that this was all self—inflicted but it was self—inflicted with no level of knowledge of the dangers. so people younger than me continue to use them, i think, not knowing any of the dangers. melanoma cases have increased by almost 50% in the last decade but it seems people are still getting mixed messages. that is why gillian nuttall, founder of melanoma uk, has launched a campaign to ban sunbeds. we felt that we owed it to families of patients who have passed away to actually get up and do something so we took the lead from australia and brazil, they have already banned sunbeds and we thought, you know what, we're going to do what our patients are asking us to do and see if we can do the same. i took these concerns to the sunbed association. let's be clear, there is no link between the sunbed use and melanoma. we have asked for a roundtable meeting to discuss this very point. they will not meet with us. i have to question why. the research they refer to is flawed, it has been proven to be subsequently flawed, and they will not listen to that and we have to say, why not? you are saying that oncologists, consultants, dermatologists all around the world, they are all wrong? what i'm saying is, they are all using the same research which itself is flawed. the evidence linking sunbed use to melanoma and other skin cancers is incontrovertible. there is a clear link, there is no argument to say that there is not. according to cancer research uk, more than 86% of skin cancer cases are preventable, with an overexposure to uv rays causing irreversible damage. laura may mcmullan, bbc news. you can see the full story on "inside out west midlands" tonight at 7:30 on bbc one, and of course, on the iplayer. the travel restrictions imposed on those living in china is having an impact on the travel and hospitality industry across the world. chinese people now make up1 in 8 of tourists globally. our trade correspondent dharshini david has been to 0xfordshire to see how some of the most popular attractions have been affected. and we must warn you, there is some flash photography in her report. the birthplace of sir winston churchill, and a stunning example of baroque architecture. blenheim palace, just outside 0xford, would normally attract 50,000 visitors in february. but this time, demand is down as travel restrictions in china hit. in the last two weeks it will be quite significant, this would have been a busy period for chinese new year tourists and we expect across february to lose 5000 chinese visits, about 10% of the natural february audience. it's a similar story in the historic university town a few miles away. the blend of heritage, culture and access to luxury shopping that makes this area so attractive to chinese tourists. 0ver a00,000 visited the uk last year. but that's dropping sharply. 0ne property here told me it typically sees 50 customers a week from china for its walking tours, now it's not seeing any. nearby the plough inn shot to global fame when the chinese president xi and former prime minister david cameron stopped by for a pint in 2015. as the coach parties followed, the pub was bought by a chinese investor, earning him a slice of the £10 billion tourists spend in the uk every year. a draw here is sitting at the same bar with a plate of fish and chips as their leader. that's what it is. they wanted to emulate the leader. they take all the selfies and it's just so i suppose they can go back home and say, we've done it, we've been there. in recent weeks it's been, the last three weeks, zero. no chinese tourists at all. it's just one of those things. i hope this virus then gets sorted out pretty sharpish, we can get back to seeing more visitors. even bicester village, a shopping spot for tourists looking to avoid high import taxes on luxuries at home, feels unusually quiet. its owners refused to comment, retailers here confided sales are down sharply. with bad weather not helping. 2 million people across the uk rely on tourism for a living. the virus that is exerting a high human cost thousands of miles away, is having a considerable financial side effect here. president trump welcomed nascar fans to the start of the daytona 500 in florida with a lap around the track in the presidential limousine, the beast. he led the a0 racing cars around the track before pulling over to let the real race get underway. the daytona 500 is often known as the super bowl of stock car racing and has been the nascar season opener since 1982. president trump follows in the tyre tracks of ronald reagan and george w bush who also attended nascar events at the florida speedway. a visibly upset sir eltonjohn has been forced to cut short a concert in new zealand afterfalling ill with a mild case of pneumonia. the musician lost his voice mid—way through his set at auckland's mount smart stadium on sunday. sir elton appeared to break down in tears as he leaned on his piano and shook his head. the audience applauded the singer as he walked off stage, helped by several assistants. he does look absurd. —— he does look very upset. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king. sta u nto n staunton is moving away, things gradually improving, river is taking some time to respond to the rainfall. 116 millimetres fell in south wales, among the ‘s worth of rain falling at the weekend. five severe flood warnings in force from the environment agency, a number of flood warnings in place, the number starting to come down. staunton is moving away to scandinavia, quite a few isobars here in the charts, her scotla nd few isobars here in the charts, her scotland gusts of 60—70 miles an hour, the wind gusts moving as we go into this afternoon. there are some showers in the forecast, quite heavy at the moment in south wales, the south—west of england. drifting further east, plenty of dry weather with sunny spells in between the showers, more frequent showers coming into scotland, northern ireland, sunshine towards the east of scotland, maximum temperature 8-11d. of scotland, maximum temperature 8—11d. through tonight we continue with showers, those will be wintry over higher ground, some snow here. so perhaps for the north pennines, elsewhere clear skies going into tomorrow morning. 0ne elsewhere clear skies going into tomorrow morning. one or two showers coming in overnight lows, 1—3d. throughout tuesday, zero showers in the forecast. showers moving their way west to east, merging together to give longer spells of rain across north—west england, wales, drifting south and east, heavy downpours associated with that and some squally winds, something to bear in mind. sunshine either side, squally winds, something to bear in mind. sunshine eitherside, wintry showers across scotland into the afternoon. maximum temperatures on tuesday 5—11d. into the middle part of the week high—pressure starting to nudge its way in, things becoming u nsettled to nudge its way in, things becoming unsettled for a time during wednesday before further rain moves its way in from the west. dry and bright start to the day on wednesday. cloud increasing outbreaks of rain moving as the day goes on, snow over higher ground of scotland, rain turning heavy, temperatures 7—10d. 0r scotland, rain turning heavy, temperatures 7—10d. or the rest of the week, continuing to see quite u nsettled the week, continuing to see quite unsettled weather, sunny spells of rain at times, strong winds likely, temperatures 7—11. hello, it's monday, it's ten o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire, and we're live from new broadcasting house. storm dennis brings another weekend of misery and devastation, dumping a month's worth of rain in some areas. more than 300 flood warnings are still in place including five severe warnings in england, which mean there is a danger to life. also, research seen by this programme shows young people spend an average of 25 hours a week looking after mums, dads and brothers and sister. this morning, we'll talk to children and teenagers about why they are having to do the job of caring whilst also trying to go to school. love island is set to return to our screens this evening following the death of its former presenter caroline flack, but many questions still remain over whether more needs to be done

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