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Are battling catastrophic conditions, as wildfires continue to rage on australias east coast. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougall. Hello. Both Raheem Sterling and joe gomez had trained together, despite Raheem Sterling being dropped after an altercation between the two. Sterling has admitted his emotions got the better of him. Are slight respite for the rain in the next 24 hours. We will take a closer look at what is causing a catastrophic australian wildfires. Also coming up, were out and about in Bishop Auckland. We are in the north east today, in Bishop Auckland, in a town that has voted labour in every election since 1935. Is that about to change . Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has heavily criticised the government for what he has described as a woeful response to flooding in yorkshire and the midlands. Five days after the flooding began, the Prime Minister will this afternoon chair a meeting of the governments Cobra Emergency Committee to discuss the issue. About 500 homes have been flooded and 1,200 properties evacuated. Five severe warnings remain in place on the river don in South Yorkshire. Tolu adeoye reports. They say its never been this bad. The village of fishlake near doncaster still submerged, hundreds were forced to leave their homes as the water moved in. Many parts remain under several feet of water. The Prime Minister is to chair a meeting of the governments Emergency Committee cobra in response to the floods but today the Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was too little, too late. The conservative governments response to the floods has been woeful. Just imagine if this had happened in surrey instead of yorkshire and the east midlands. I think thered have been a very, very different story. Meanwhile, the liberal democrat leader met with volunteers helping the effort near fishlake, the party has set out plans for a £5 billion fund to improve flood defences across the uk. Its a really inspiring sense of Community Spirit that is going on here and that gives great cause for hope, really but it is wrong that it seems to be just down to the local communities, important though this work is, this is clearly a National Emergency and the government should be declaring it as such. £2. 6 billion is being spent on flood defences in england in a scheme that started in 2015. For those affected now, there are serious questions about how this has been able to happen. I want to go back and see whats happening but there are no answers to the questions. You know, i need to know white did this happen, it hasnt happened in 100 years, you must have seen that loads of fishlake residents are saying exactly the same thing. The National Farmers union has called for a seismic change to cope with events such as this, an emergency appeal to support displaced families has raised more than £50,000 but thousands more will be needed to help those affected is what is a personal disaster for so many, turns political. We can talk now to Harry Gration, whos in one of the worst affected areas, fishla ke near doncaster. Harry, what is the situation today. Welcome to fishlake. So many people have tried to rally round to make this obvious distress more manageable. I want to show you around saint cuthbert church. It looks incredible. These are donations which had been made in the space of the last 72 hours or so. People are coming in and getting provisions, being helped by a Community Experience as well. I have two people here who i would like to talk to. A Church Warden and a lady who runs the old butchers cafe. It is lovely the church is right at the centre of things. The church has been here since the 11th century as a place of refuge and it is higher than surrounding areas, so it is still dry. We are using it for what its purpose was. Not only as a spiritual place but as a refuge for people. We have been inundated, as you can see, with so much good food and good things. Were really to everyone. Your cafe has been at the centre of things as well. How have you managed to help people really cope with this experience . We are trying to help the fire crews and the people trying to move the water in the village. From the brilliant donations people are bringing in. We are cooking food for the fire, the police, the rescue vote teams. For those in the village who do not have access to kitchens. They cannot get into their homes. We are doing our bit, cooking away. It has been a generational experience as well. Youngsters have been great, particularly the young adults, who can drive 4x4 is. The farmers had brought in tractors or that they have helped us to move things around and reach people the other services would have been overwhelmed by. They have been really great in facilitating that. Would you say that things are improving now . There is so much water out there, so many houses are flooded. The road from the house to the cafe, we can get in a land rover. It is accessible now to the centre of the village was that the difficulty for many people who are still here is getting the difficult items like the cattle feed and horse feed in. It is getting in and horse feed in. It is getting in and out of the village find that we wa nt and out of the village find that we want to try to help those who cannot get out of the village at the moment. We desperately need a decent weather forecast. It is dodgy for a couple of days time. They have brought in some huge pumps to move some of the standing water back into the river where it has dropped. They are praying it will make a big difference and the weather will not be too bad. Fishlake has not flooded for 100 years prior to this. They moved the river done after it flooded last time. I have some pictures in my house of that. We will see them another time. There are feeling is that things are getting better. Thank you. Im joined by hannah cloke, who is a professor of hydrology at reading university. Shes also an independent scientific adviser to the Environment Agency and worked on the Governments National Flood Resilience review. Thank you so much for coming in stop first the subject of warnings. We dont really want people to be reduced to prayer and hope in the future, do we . Of course not. It is dreadful to see these scenes. We know we can provide early warnings that it seems some of the warnings did not get through this time, or we re did not get through this time, or were not as accurate as he wanted them to be. Why do you think that was . 0ne them to be. Why do you think that was . One reason is was because the atmosphere is very chaotic. We have to get the water in our computer models from the atmosphere all the way across the land and down the rivers and that is really complicated to do. One reason is it is really difficult. It is not possible to have a clear prediction of how much rainfall and where the water is going to go when it is on the ground. It is very difficult to pinpoint when and where the flood will be, yes. Another question which has arisen in fishlake and other communities which had been badly affected is defences. Have they been enough . They will only protect up to a certain level. When you are designing it, you only have a limited amount of information to do the design with. You take the best estimate you can at the time. These big floods are a bit like buses. They come in pairs or threes and they take you by surprise. We have to update that information. At the time, they were designed very well, but we have seen them over the top. There was a residual risk. The homeowners and Business Owners did not really know about that risk. Did you think Climate Change is a factor here, a growing factor . If so, there may be a need to tear up predictions and expectations of how many bettors are going to come at once and to accept there are committee usual metaphor, more buses to come at once. We know across the uk, Climate Change will make things worse in some cases. change will make things worse in some cases. To use your metaphor. These types of winter flags can be very difficult to untangle but we should be preparing for these scenarios, where there are more buses. Winter floods. Scenarios, where there are more buses. Winter floods. A lot of questions are being asked about building on flood plains. We should not be building on a flood plain, thatis not be building on a flood plain, that is not a good idea. We are a little bit. To do that because there is nowhere else to build there is such a pressure is nowhere else to build there is such a pressure on is nowhere else to build there is such a pressure on building, so we had to be more resilient, built on stilts and take other measures to keep people more safe if they live there. Hank you for coming in. Thank you. The labour party says its foiled what it says was a large scale cyber attack against its systems. The party says some Election Campaigning activities were slowed but they dont think there has been a breach of data. The National Cyber Security Centre has said labour notified them swiftly and the attack was not successful. 0ur Cyber Security correspondentjoe tidy reports. Keeping a Campaign Like this in full swing isnt easy, behind the speeches, door knocks and bus tours, there are Computer Systems and now we know someone, somewhere, has attempted to bring the Labour Party Campaign to a halt. The Cyber Attacks that have taken place took place yesterday against the labour party platform. It was a very serious cyber attack, we have a system in place in our office to protect us against these Cyber Attacks but it was a very serious attack against us, so far as we are aware none of our information was downloaded, and the attack was actually repulsed. The party wouldnt say what systems were affected but insiders sent us this screen grab of one of the Campaign Tools they use, it says the software is experiencing issues. Labour hq maintains the attack failed and all systems stayed online but, clearly, some were failing entirely. The type of cyber attack used is known as a distributed denial of service, or ddos attack, they can be sophisticated but often they are more basic, ready made kits can be bought online and launched from a hacker s bedroom for example. Labour has not pointed any fingers yet but it says its seen similar attacks range from russia and brazil. With this type of attack what happens is the hacker hijacks thousands and thousands of badly protected computers around the world and sends them as an army, gets them to do their bidding and tries to overwhelm a particular website or online resource, it may be that the attack is pointing back to russia or brazil or who knows where, doesnt necessarily mean its a smoking gun that those are the countries involved. Election campaigns have been targets for hackers before. In the 2016 us president ial election, hillary had her e mails stolen and posted online, the Us Department ofjustice went on to charge 12 russians. Labour will deliver that real change, thank you very much. With no data or secrets stolen, this incident looks to be far less serious but it may act as a warning to the party and others, that during this volatile election period, attacks can come from unexpected places. Lets talk now to emily 0rton, from the Cyber Security firm darktrace. Thank you for coming in, and ellie. What is your assessment at this point . As the report mentioned, the denial of Service Attack that this was is very denial of Service Attack that this was is very common. Denial of Service Attack that this was 15 very common. denial of Service Attack that this was is very common. Emily. Since oui was is very common. Emily. Since our company was founded we have had these attacks. 0n the spectrum it is at the low end but it is a wake up call that Political Parties are being targeted. I would expect them to receive attempts against their network on a daily basis. It is really a question of trying to catch these things early and stop them, which seems to have happened on this occasion but it is the tip of the iceberg. When we look at the more sophisticated and come with very attackers making internetworks persisting inside systems for a long time, that is really where the attack landscape is going and what Political Parties need to be prepared for. That kind of attack, as we saw in the story with the story on Hillary Clintons e mails, that kind of attack can change how they feel about candidates. Most attacks we are seeing at the moment are people who get in and try to change data, undermining confidence we have in certain data, whether it is Campaign Strategies or voter information, changing who they are targeting with a wrong message, for example. Really devious work and misinformation that can be spread by more sophisticated attacks. Is it your sense that the Political Parties are on top of this . Since 2016, awareness has been growing and suitable measures had been taken against. I work with elliptical parties and warn them about these things. We are looking at a feature of sophisticated targeting, like ai attacks. How will you respond to that . We are going to have to use ai in defence and we are going to have to up ourgame. In defence and we are going to have to up our game. There is a lot of work to be done. We had a further line through from the National Cyber Security Centre and they are still saying difficult to have tribute responsibility to a particular group. Would you echo that . Attribute responsibility. Absolutely. We will never know the providence of some of these attacks. These are global networks. Just because a seller that is in russia 01 because a seller that is in russia or somewhere else, doesnt mean the attacker is there. Thank you. The veteran labour mp, frank dobson, has died at the age of 79. Mr dobson served as Health Secretary in tony blairs government. He served as mp for holborn and st pancras in Central London for more than 40 years before standing down in 2015. Labour candidates and officials have been paying tribute to mr dobson, and the current conservative Health Secretary, matt hancock, also praised his years of devotion to the health service. Youre watching afternoon live. These are our headlines. Borisjohnson will hold an emergency meeting over flooding in parts of england amid opposition criticism that the government hasnt done enough. Labour says its been hit by a sophisticated and large scale cyber attack on its digital platforms but that no data breach occurred. 3,000 Fire Fighters are battling catastrophic conditions as wildfires continue to rage on australias east coast. In sport, Raheem Sterling admits his emotions got the better of him after an altercation with his International Team mate, joe gomez. Gareth southgate has dropped the Manchester City striker for englands match against montenegro. Joe gomez appeared to have a scratch under his eye at training. Andy robertson pulls out of the match against cyprus with an ankle problem. A blow for wales as Jonathan Davies will be out for six months after surgery for a knee injury. It means he will miss their six nations. lets return to the general election and throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. We will be visiting 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. Today, were focussing on Bishop Auckland, which is in the north east of england. This seat was labour in the last election and is bordered by three other labour constituencies, plus one conservative and one independent. Its worth noting that the independent seat of penrith and the borders was held by the former tory mp rory stewart. He was a conservative when he won by almost 16,000 votes. Hes now stood down so its one to watch. Bishop auckland itself, the labour incumbent only won by 502 votes in the last election. So can labour retain the seat . The conservatives came second in the last election and with just a few hundred votes in it have targeted the seat. Lets go over there now. We are being treated to some inclement north east weather this afternoon. That is all right. We have a good story to tell here today. Let me tell you a bit about Bishop Auckland. It is a tale of two towns. I had been struck by some of the new investment. Here is the ancient part of the town. Down there is auckland castle, which gave the town its name. Lots of scaffolding down that a new investment. A city financier has come in here and say to the council and precious artwork inside. Lots of people coming back to the town to have a look. It was newly reopened last week, the castle. People are com