the soldiers fired indiscriminately. many people died. they are sometimes described as the world's most persecuted minority, driven from their homes, the rohingyas now have to find a way to rebuild their lives. sanjoy majumder, bbc news, bangladesh. now it's time for newsnight, with kirsty wark. ang sang suu kyi, once feted as the woman who can do no wrong on the world stage. now she's being cast as the bad guy in the rohingya crisis. her office is accusing international aid workers of helping terrorists. there's talk of crimes against humanity and even cancelling her nobel prize. is it true? we ask a human rights activist and a campaigner for burmese democracy. also tonight... not good. believe me, not good. he's not wrong. hurricane irma continues to bring havoc and death to the caribbean, as it heads towards

cuba and florida. we'll hear from an eyewitness to the strongest atlantic storm in a0 years. and eurythmics‘ dave stewart returns to the stage, flying solo. but what about his other half? i think annie and i...will bejoined at the hip for ever. # who's that girl...? we're bound to do something. yeah, i would say we definitely will. good evening. fake news — not two words from donald trump, but from the famous nobel peace prize—winning leader of burma, ang sang suu kyi, praised by everyone from barack obama to angela merkel. she is seeking to deflect the rohingya crisis that has so far sent almost 150,000 rohingya muslims fleeing over the border into bangladesh. her government denies the burmese military have laid land mines along

the border between the two countries, but the bbc said there have been at least three injuries from land mines just this week. at westminster, the labour mp yasmin qureshi called the recent violence against the rohingya a campaign of "ethnic cleansing", and she went on to condemn the international community for "effectively remaining silent as we watch another srebrenica and rwanda unfold before our eyes. ang sang suu kyi insists that the crisis is being distorted by a "huge iceberg of misinformation" promoting the interests of terrorists. here's our diplomatic editor, mark urban. these scenes are causing a global impact. an exodus of rohingya muslim refugees fleeing security operations by the armed forces of burma, or myanmar. today, the head of the un criticised that government's offensive and urged the granting of full human

rights to the rohingya. i appeal to all — all — authorities in myanmar, civil authorities and military authorities, to indeed put an end to this violence that, in my opinion, is creating a situation that can destabilise the region. and the crisis is doing nothing for the international reputation of aung san suu kyi, either. 0nce imprisoned and a symbol of the country's yearning for democracy, she has since 2015 been a leading member of the government. now she is denouncing the press for reporting the rohingya mission, making references to fake news and an "iceberg of misinformation". from her education in britain to today's crisis, it's been a long journey.

she kind of melded very brilliantly for a while the whole western, british democratic politics with this kind of discourse, you had 0xford, with the burmese buddhism that she grew up in and with the whole independence philosophy of her father. these were very disparate things which she melded very successfully. but that is a hard mix, orfix, to maintain indefinitely, both from a psychological point of view and from a practical point of view, and unfortunately, i think that she's lost the plot. during the long years of house arrest, aung was championed by leaders the world over. in fact i very often thought i'm quite free, i don't know why people say i'm not free. i'm free. because i was free up there. after her release five years ago, she campaigned for democracy and human rights.

the belief in spiritual freedom does not have to mean an indifference to the practical need for the basic rights and freedoms that are generally seen as necessary that human beings may live like human beings. a basic human right which i value highly is freedom from fear. but aung is no nelson mandela. she is very much an insider, her father having founded modern burma and belonged to its military elite. and in the current confrontation between the army and the muslim minority, she stands against militancy and with the mainstream. well, i'm upset that she hasn't abided by her own values and the values which made her such a great person, the values which are important. she's there, she's queen bee, she's got the power, she's got the following,

she's where she wants to be. she's not particularly bothered, as far as i can tell, about what the outside world thinks any more. with the campaign against the rohingyas still underway, the burmese government is taking a defiant line — but the humanitarian consequences of the operation have caused some at least to think again about aung san suu kyi. akshaya kumar is the deputy united nations director at human rights watch, and she joins us from new york. good evening to you. first of all, can you describe what you think is the plight of the rohingya people just now? what our researchers have been able to find is incredibly disturbing. we know that almost 150,000 people have been forced to flee for their lives across a dangerous river into bangladesh. many are hungry and tired and many are reporting that they've lost their family members in attacks by the military,

by security forces. they feel persecuted and this doesn't come just from this incident but also from the systematic discrimination that this community faces for so many years inside myanmar. you will have heard today that this has been called fake news by ang sang suu kyi? that's right. she says we are dealing with a terrorist threat, and i have to say that yes, there have been some pieces of misinformation, some photos circulated from other conflicts which are purported to come from the crisis. with what we've found independently, through our own satellite imagery analysis, is that over 20 different unique locations in the northern part of rakhine state are on fire.

these fires can be seen from space. not all of this can be dismissed as fake news. what power do you think ang sang suu kyi has to stop this? well, in some ways, burma's government is now split between the military and the civilian side, but what ang sang suu kyi has is quite unique because she is a nobel peace laureate, is the power of her voice, her conviction and the power to stand up for all people within the country, including the much maligned and attacked rohingya community, and today she just hasn't done that. in the lectures for the bbc she talked about basic human rights for all — now, was thatjust for public consumption or do you really believe that she is equivocating over this or that she genuinely believes?

does she believe the range or do not have the same human rights? it is hard to know what's actually motivating her at this point in time. there could be some political calculations. she is at the end of the day an elected politician. but her words, the words, they stand for themselves. she has spoken out for human rights for all people, whether they be citizens or not. so, any of this domestic rhetoric that says these people do not belong here should not matter, because they don't deserve to be killed and persecuted and driven from their homes by rapes or killings by the military. finally, do you think there is something the nobel peace committee should do, there is talk of rescinding her prize which they say they can't do, but should there be some censure? the prize itself is irrevocable but it does stand for some principles.

we've already seen a few nobel laureates reach out and asking ang sang suu kyi to do the right thing and to stand up. many more of these laureates can do that and we can only hope that their voices will prevail on her to take the right decision to cooperate with the un and to stop obstructing the delivery of aid and to allow independent human rights investigators in to determine what is the truth and what is fake news. labour mp rushanara ali is the chair of the all—party parliamentary group for burma. good evening. do you think that she was massively lauded by barack obama, angela merkel, the bbc lecture, she opened your party's headquarters — was it a huge miscalculations? i don't think it was a miscalculation. i think the international community rightly agonised her sacrifice

and her fight for democracy in her country. and that was the right thing to do. but i think what we failed to do is to recognise that the transition to democracy was not going to be a smooth one, and one of the things that i and many other parliamentarians, one of the challenges which we expressed would continue, was that if we remove sanctions very rapidly, we would lose the leverage to influence the government, which even with democratic transition, it is an in perfect —— imperfect democracy, 25% of parliamentarians are still from the ruling military, who control defence and security and much else, they hold the balance of power ultimately. maybe there was a miscalculation. we heard her biographers say that she was very much steeped in the military, she was part

of the whole state idea and perhaps she was pulling the wool over our eyes? i wouldn't say that but i think that sometimes, because of her persona, because of her campaign and being under house arrest, many of us, i did and many of us... were beguiled? looked to her as a symbol. and it's been deeply disappointing that she has not stood up for the rights of the minority is, particularly the rohingya. i visited burma in 2012 after the attacks on rohingya muslims, where over 100,000 were displaced, and subsequently, they don't recognise the rohingya, they don't recognise the disappeared ones. exactly, she consistently accused... she was never clear about the rohingya, she always equivocated about the rohingya. yes, and many parliamentarians in this country and in other countries raised alarm bells about that. so what happens?

your colleague has talked about the ghost of srebrenica, the ghost of rwanda — can anyone stop her? well, it's not just ang sang suu kyi, it's the military, it's the military who is dictating what is happening and it is convenient for them that much of the attention is on her, understandably. except that if she is queen bee, she could exert more power? she should use her voice, that's true, and she hasn't, and that's deeply disappointing. but what we really need to do urgently is to apply serious pressure through the international media and the international community and the united nations on the military, because they are prosecuting these murders, they have killed thousands and thousands of people, half a million people have been displaced and art in refugee camps in chittagong in bangladesh. thousands of people have been displaced.

this remark about fake news is shocking. but the focus has got to be on holding the military rulers to account, because they're still calling the shots. however, who are the ones to put russia on burma? i wonder if there is the possibility that all of those people, angela merkel, barack obama, should be shaming her into standing up to the military? what i would say is that she needs to stand up to the military, but the international community and western leaders need to stand up to burma's military. the united kingdom, i coordinated a letter to borisjohnson last year after the last episode of violence that resulted in thousands of people being killed and displaced and we got a response from a junior minister. this time he took a good few days before he made a statement, which was pretty tame, frankly. and we are still providing military training, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds,

and those issues need to be reviewed. it's questionable whether that kind of effort is actually going to work, because it's not so far, the military are doing nothing but causing greater harm and prosecuting murder. do you think that now and forever more, ang sang suu kyi's reputation is tainted? absolutely, but the reputation of the country overall is tainted. we've got to exact greater pressure both on her and on the military. thank you forjoining us. it's been just 2a hours since the home office plans for immigration post—brexit were leaked by the guardian. under the draft plan, firms would have to recruit locally unless they could prove an "economic need" to employ eu citizens. now, we must emphasise that the government has said these plans are just a draft,

and since it was put together, there have been six more versions of the plan. still, firms that rely on eu workers have warned of the "catastrophic" impact of the proposals and the "massive disruption" they will cause to uk business. david grossman has been taking a look. how many coffees, how many experiments and how much fruit did eu migrants provide britain with today? the brexit vote showed that for many, the rate and scale of eu migration has been too great. how to cut it without damaging the economy is a difficult balancing act. thanks to a leak in a policy document, we have clues now as to what whitehall is thinking. it is only a draft so i suspect it will go to a few changes but it is broadly on the right lines. it is to be welcomed, if implemented as proposed, and we would see a considerable significant reduction in the numbers coming from the eu which is what people broadly voted for a year ago. according to the document, the unrestricted flows of eu

migrants will come to an end. in the future they will be filtered, allowing only those who make a valuable contribution to enter. that will be based on skills and salary and social impact. to be considered valuable to the country as a whole it says that immigration should benefit not just the migrants themselves but also make existing residents better off. the government says it will not comment on the substance of the leak. we are told this is an old draft, but theresa may was clear today that post brexit much will have to change. we continue to believe that it is important to have net migration at sustainable levels, the tens of thousands, because of the impact particularly it has on people at the lower end of the income scale in depressing wages. but some economists say there is little evidence that eu

migrants suppressed wages. britain needs overseas workers because unemployment is low and there is no obvious alternative to the workers, they say. the employers we have spoken to have talked about targeting former offenders, women going back to the labour market after a period out of work, always talking about school leavers. they are desperately trying to tap into those sources of labour but the fact is that those sectors have always employed migrants and always been unattractive to british workers said it is hard to see how any group or even set of groups is going to meet employers need if there was a reduction in eu migration. workers would, according to the document, be treated differently based on their level of skill. higher skilled workers would have the chance to come to the uk for three to five years while lower skilled workers would just have two years residency and rights to bring family and this could be restricted.

employers who still had to recruit low skilled workers from abroad might have been paid a skills tax to help train uk workers. the implication is that employers might have just pay a bit more to attract uk workers. none of our research suggests that the reason we can't get workers is because of pay, there are cultural issues white uk workers do not want to do these jobs. we can work on that. there might be scope in the future for looking at automation and technology at an answer to replacing some of these jobs but the facts on the ground are that overseas workers currently primarily from the eu make up a lot of these jobs. agriculture and horticulture rely on them at the moment. even in high skilled sectors like science and research which would supposedly be favoured in the new system, there is concern. 0ur scientific workforce in the uk is made up of a wide range of people from all over the world and a wide spectrum of different talents and skills, from the technicians

and from the early career researchers right through to professors and ceos. the risk of putting salary and other criteria like qualifications on a migration system is that you may inadvertently cut out access to the uk from some of those people. you could have a ph.d in science and be extremely expert in your field and not meet the current salary threshold for migrants from outside the eu which is around £21,000 a year. immigration is where two brexit realities collide, one economic and one political. picking its way through this is one of the most significant challenges faced by the government. david grossman reporting. 0ur political editor, nick watt, is here. this has caused quite a reaction. london mayor sadiq khan said it would strangle the london economy and nicky morgan said

she was concerned about it. the significance of this if it is the first definitive account of how the uk will seek to control immigration when we have left the eu and as david was saying, it will be a relatively benign system for higher skilled workers but there will be more restrictions for low skilled workers. it was interesting today, jeremy corbyn was silent on this. i spoke to a number of pro—european tories and one pro—european cabinet member said that they hope that when people look at this they will see that it is not that bad, quite soft, and it seeks to answer the dilemma. how do you take back control of immigration and bring the numbers down but do it in a way that does not harm the economy? one thing i have learned this evening, an idea from this draft that has been absolutely rejected is that in the transition period immediately after we leave the eu there is an idea for eu citizens who want to stay in the uk for a little longer would have

to give their fingerprints. i spoke to a senior cabinet member who said absolutely no way, that is out. what about the idea of transitional arrangements? what does this tell us? 0verlooked in this document is the most detailed account of how the government will deal and manage with this transitional period which is officially known as the implementation phase. ministers are been quite cagey about saying how much it'll last. in this document it says it will last for at least two years and, on the rules for migration in that transition period, they hug the rules on eu free movement very closely. if talks about how you would have to register, that is consistent with eu law and in fact that is the rule that applies in germany. it is interesting, there

is a cabinet committee that oversees this negotiation, six members, and they recently agreed there should be this transition which is following on from the intimidation phase outlined in theresa may's lancaster house speech. they did not agree the timing but what i have learned is that boris johnson is pushing back and he is saying, make sure this last no longer than one year. that is not what is in this document. stay put because i will come back to you. well, one of the key sectors that could be affected by these leaked proposals is hospitality and tourism. 4.6 million people work in the industry, an estimated 700,000 of which are from the european union. joining me now is ufi ibrahim, the chief executive of the british hospitality association. good evening. i know that the hospitality industry has been kicking up today but you would say that because, in a sense, a lot of what you do survives on cheap labour and a lot of european nationals are prepared to come and work for the lowest

wages within the law. the prime minister talked today about depressing wages by employing eu nationals but there is no evidence to support that and in fact the evidence suggests otherwise. the truth is that in the united kingdom at the moment we have the lowest level of unemployment that we have had for the past a0 years. any further southern or material change to the supply of labour to the uk workforce would be significantly damaging for an industry that already find it very difficult to find people to actually employed here in the workforce. perhaps it is because the conditions are not attractive enough in that there is not enough support and training and i would put it that perhaps the hospitality industry has been quite lazy because they're rather half a million unemployed between 18 and 2a, and actually you could encourage them more through colleges and on—the—job training but it is easier to pick up an incredibly enthusiastic person

from europe who speaks three languages and is prepared to work long hours and for low pay. at an industry we reject the argument that the british individual is not attractive to work in our industry. what are you doing to attract them? 0ur industry employs 3.2 million people directly in the uk, 700,000 of which are eu nationals. 75% of waiters are from outside the uk. going back to the original question, in our industry we have serious numbers of people who started out at the entry level and have made it to being the senior executives in the business and in fact two thirds of all senior level executives in the industry started with very little qualifications and experience and started at that low level which proves the point that the industry is actually one of the great meritocracy is of the uk. huge training possibilities and development possibilities. that is the opposite to one

of the contributors of the film who said they found it hard to attract uk born people do thesejobs. it suggests that with a bit more effort you could employ british people in britishjobs as it were. i think the reality is that all businesses including the hospitality industry have come to rely on the strategic advantage of being able to have an eu workforce. that is an absolute reality. but it is also... the experience of most people i would suggest is that those workers are extremely good. but the point is that has allowed you to sit back and say, we are not going to do as much as we could. you are talking about taking ten years as it were to fill the gap but you have known since lastjune, this has been accelerating what you do to attract local workforce. for the past three years we have been the only industry in the uk is leading campaigns

like the big conversation which have created 67,000 new career starts for british youngsters under 25. there are very few industries in the uk that have gone the extra mile to be able to attract those sort of individuals. but the point is that in the uk there is a fundamental issue around vocational education. government cannot push the whole burden of the private sector, they must accept responsibility... what do you want the government to do to change the way that kind of education is delivered? at the centre is launching any proposal for immigration policy, the uk government must ensure that they consider a holistic mix of policies that will be required to ensure that industries like ours will not be harmed and that includes educational policy. the department for education must come forward and propose ways in which they will promote vocational education and i want to give you an example of something which we are very concerned about.

we were dismayed when the t—levels were announced and the government said they were postponing the introduction of t—levels in the uk, the equivalent to a levels in vocational education, to prepare an industry like ours and that has been postponed to 2019 and furthermore they have said our industry will not be integrated into the t—levels in the first round. how was it possible that the government that is serious about making brexit success is not willing to provide the whole mix of policies that industries like ours need to do that? thank you forjoining us. nick watt is still with us. what is going to happen with the eu withdrawal bill tomorrow? it is highly likely it will get a second reading, labour will vote against it but the pro—europeans in the tories are keeping their powder dry for when the bill is considered

at committee stage after the conference season in october. interestingly it had been assumed that might be the high noon moment when they try to amend the bill to but the single market element in there. they are not going to do that, they are going to concentrate on one key area, what they regard as a power grab by the government. when all this eu law is brought on to the uk statute book, when there are thousands of delusion that might need to be taped as they will be done through the so—called henry viii clauses, ie by ministers without a debate in parliament and they will focus on that. tory whips are reasonably confident they should survive this and it will go through in october. thank you. there has not been a storm like it for three decades. hurricane irma is making its treacherous way, with winds of 185mph and gusts of 220mph from the altantic to florida, battering the caribbean islands, heading to puerto rico, haiti and onto cuba and florida, where storm surges could be 11ft.

earlier this evening, we managed to get through to rupert passat, who is holed up with his family in the capital of the british virgin islands. we had a great view of the main harbour at road town on tortola. what does it look like when you can see out? well now we are actually still partially in the storm. but it's total devastation. there are roofs that have come off. where they keep all the catamarans and what have you, it is all smashed and they're all piled on top of each other. yeah, it's a mess. because the eye of the hurricane has come straight through road town harbour, so we got the first half, so to speak, of the hurricane. and we didn't really know what to expect. we were jumping from one room to another. it was scary stuff.

we set up in one of the bathrooms and heard lots of noises, water started coming through the ceilings, so we vacated that room and went into the living room and we ended up in the other ensuite. what were the authorities telling you to do? there's been plenty of advice and warnings. there's the department of disaster management which has been texting and e—mailing everyone, just to make sure that you're secure and not to go out. i mean it was crazy, it was total mayhem. what was it like when you were actually in the bathroom with the children and you could hear it battering? terrifying, absolutely terrifying. at the beginning, we were just sort of, not casual about it butjust not really expecting what was going to happen.

and the winds picked up. now we can see what's happened, all the trees have gone. as i say, all the boats are all smashed up. it's a complete mess, actually. do you have food and drink? had you got provisions in? yeah, we certainly planned for it. we had at least five days to plan for this. obviously, we got plenty of water, provisions, the odd drop of red wine and managed to get a bottle of glenfiddich. but it's actually been so serious that we haven't really had a chance to have any of that yet! if you don't mind me saying, rupert, you do sound quite traumatised. i am, yeah, stressful, very stressful experience. it's hard to understand or to know how they're going to clear this up. just an absolute mess. and are you managing to keep

in touch with friends roundabout? i must say, i must say, the one thing that we've been able to do is use the internet. that's been an absolute plus. and what do you think happens next for you and the family? well, i think, if ijust take a breath, i think we're just going to spend the next few days here and obviously regroup, between mopping up the water, there is plenty of water that has come into the apartment. so i think we will regroup. by the looks of it, as we look down on to the capital which is road town, itjust looks... i just don't know where to start with this. i think they're going to need external help to be honest. it's just a mess. i've never seen such devastation to be honest. there are 50ft catamarans in the bay

that have been turned over. but at least you're all safe. ah, yes. i'm very relieved, even though the storm is still here and it's still hammering down, but we feel that we've seen the worst of it, which is good. rupert, thank you very much indeed. we go to great lengths on newsnight to bring new voices to the programme, but occasionally, we reluctantly cede a bit of airtime to rock'n'roll royalty. tonight we bring you an exclusive jam and interview with one—time member with annie lennox one half of the eurythmics, and a hugely successful songwriter and producer. one of his early lp covers listed edward de bono, the father of lateral thinking, among the credits. and stewart's own thoughts have been sought out by such movers and shakers as charles saatchi, richard bra nson and nelson mandela. 0n the eve of some rare concert dates in the uk to mark his 65th birthday, dave stewart has been talking

to stephen smith. i very rarely have played live in england. and i'm going to the sunderland empire and playing live, where i've never played since i was about 16 or 17. so, that is obviously going to be pretty emotionalfor me. # here comes the rain again # falling on my head like a memory # falling on my head like a new emotion... when you're an ultimate rock insider like dave stewart, you can fly over the best session musicians from the states for your homecoming gigs and rehearse them in a huge studio in the basement of a london hotel which you just happen to have co—founded. # so baby, talk to me. # like lovers do # walk with me

# like lovers do # sweet dreams are made of these # who am i to disagree #. stewart has come a long way from the early days of the eurythmics, when a lack of funds led to inspired lateral thinking. annie and i, in a boardroom with, like, gold albums... sort ofjuxtapose it and inject some kind of, you know, flip it. a cow comes walking in the boardroom, like a huge cow, which is very difficult to get the cow to do this. because you couldn't sort of key it in in those days. oh no. this was a real huge... friesian. cow, yeah, wandering around and annie was a bit nervous about it. # some of them want to use you #. we didn't want to do anything that had anything to do

with the pop charts or anything. # some of them want to abuse you #. we just wanted to experiment. # some of them want to be abused #. and they put it on in mtv in america and itjust exploded at the same time as the single was going up the charts. and we ended up being number one. and this video was just on like every bloody 15 minutes or something, so annie and i arrived and it was like being a newscaster or something when you're on every night but you're on like 20 times a day. so everybody knew who we were. i'm sure many of our viewers who have fond memories of the eurythmics would wonder, is it possible you will do something together, an album, a short tour, what do you think? i think annie and i will bejoined at the hip for ever. # who's that girl running around with you we're bound to do something,

and in what shape orform it might be, we don't know. but yeah, i would say we definitely will. stewart has written for and collaborated with everyone who's anyone in rock aristocracy. dylan, bono, one or two others. # there's nothing wrong with you i can't fix #. and his original way of thinking has been sought out by the great and the good. listen, nelson mandela wants to talk to you on the phone. and there was a speakerphone and it was like... like nerve—racking, and he came on the phone and he was very funny. he went, "0h, hello, dave! so good of you to take my call!" and i was like, yeah, all right! and then he was talking about,

you know, he wanted to turn the most negative number in his life of 30 odd years, a prison number, he was only called by 46664, he wanted to turn it into a positive number. and i said, what about making it a telephone number? and then nelson mandela himself made the message when you rang it, "hello, this is nelson mandela" and blah blah. and then they could hear songs. and the longer they stayed on the phone, the more they were donating to launch, you know, the foundation. # walk with me, baby # is there any truth in the story that you once entertained the notion that dogs might be able to talk, and you could investigate that and perhaps invest in it? well, no, it was actually not dogs. i once had the notion that hairless cats could possibly talk and be very

comforting to older people. did you get anywhere with that? i didn't get too far with it, no, because when i announced this idea at a press conference with annie in australia, i just was talking about it and then we arrived in new zealand and the hairless cat society turned up to meet me. were they keen or...? no, they weren't keen, they thought i was, you know, kind of taking the mickey out of them. but i wasn't. stephen smith reporting. and if you fancy catching dave stewart live, he's at the shepherd's bush empire on friday and the sunderland empire on sunday. that's it for tonight. before we go, another reminder of hurricane irma, the worst atlantic storm in nearly four decades, still heading towards cuba, the bahamas and florida. terrifying and destructive as it is, though, some caribbean islanders are apparently determined to keep calm and carry on.

good night. wind buffets microphone and trees the hurricane is making the headlines which is no surprise when we consider how powerful this storm is. sustained winds around 185 mph, thatis is. sustained winds around 185 mph, that is the steady wind lowing close to the centre of this storm system which as you can seat has been sliding across the eastern caribbean. during tomorrow it will

continue to move west, clipping the north of haiti and the dominican republic and then pushing towards cuba. we will keep close eye on it keep you up—to—date. wet and windy weather back home but nothing on that scale. we have our own area of low pressure up towards the north—west. isobars are squeezing together and that means the wind will pick up. through tonight it is fairly quiet was clear spells and by the end of an idle ready some rain splashing into northern ireland and western scotland. that will go south and east tomorrow and even certain south—east after a bright start things will cloud over. at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon a lot of rain pushing across scotland, heavy rain pushing across scotland, heavy rain out west where it will also be turning windy. northern ireland and england sing outbreaks of rain with temperature around 15 or 16 degrees did it through lincolnshire, anglia in the south—east, a chance of bright spells into the afternoon. the odd shower is well and through wales into the south—west cloudy

with some showery rain at times and increasingly blustery. during tomorrow now we will stick with the blustery wind. these bands of rain working southwards and eastwards. some clear spells as well was clear spells in aberdeen. unsettled look to the weather on friday with bands of showers moving in. this area of rain is persistent and slow moving across southern england and south wales. is a throughout the day in store. there will be bright spells further north and west between the showers. cool winds with highs of up to 18 degrees. the weekend looks u nsettled to 18 degrees. the weekend looks unsettled and dare i say it quite autumnal. cold, windy with some rain at times. the rain on saturday will come in the form of heavy showers. 14-18 come in the form of heavy showers. 14 — 18 degrees. cloud pushing in from the west, outbreaks of heavy rain and increasingly strong winds and western areas on sunday night

some western parts are likely to see gaels. wet and windy weather in the forecast both here and across the caribbean as that hurricane continues to cause major problems. i'm sharanjit leyl, in singapore. the headlines: hurricane irma kills at least two people as it rips through the caribbean. it's now headed for puerto rico where residents are bracing themselves for one of the atlantic's worst ever storms. the full force of hurricane irma is still hours away and you can still feel its effects. myanmar‘s government rejects accusations that its armed forces are targeting rohingya muslims, as thousands continue to flee violence. you can see what a dangerous voyage it has been for them, the boat is listing dangerously on its side. i'm alpa patel, in london. also in the programme: we'll be putting memory master ya njaa wintersoul‘s powers of recollection to the test.