hello. police in the uk and the us are now investigating sexual assault claims against harvey weinstein. this man is at the top of a very particular iceberg. i don't think you can describe him as a sex addict, he is a predator. this north american couple has been released by the taliban after being held for five years. donald trump spoke after the release. the pakistani government's co—operation is a sign that it government's co—operation is a sign thatitis government's co—operation is a sign that it is honouring america's wish that it is honouring america's wish that it is honouring america's wish that it do more to provide security in the region. we will also bring you up to date with the wild fires in california that have destroyed entire neighbourhoods and we will talk about the worst flooding in vietnam's history. 26 people are now confirmed to have

died in california's wild fires. this is the state's greatest loss of life from a fire event in 84 years. when you look at some of the pictures that have come in you really understand the scale of what's happened and these wild fires in california are still not under control. entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed. these pictures are from one county, residents in one city of 5,000 people in napa county have been told to evacuate. no one is being allowed to stay. if you look at this map we also saw this yesterday, all the orange circles mark different active fires. there are concerns that winds may be fanning those, although in some places the winds have not materialised which is welcome news. yesterday on the programme i showed

you pictures from a town called sa nta you pictures from a town called santa rosa. this is two more. this is an aerial picture from before the fires. this is taken from exactly the same place after the fires. it's absolutely shocking. we know 40,000 homes in santa rosa are without power and many homes have been com pletely power and many homes have been completely destroyed. this time yesterday we heard from cbs correspondent greg mills in santa rosa. i have been speaking to him again. he is at exactly the same spot. they have some containment, 22 fires in this area and the biggest fires in this area and the biggest fires they have containment meaning they've stopped the progress but it's only i% of the fire. they've 99% of the fire they haven't stopped. hey, that's a step in the right direction. they were feeling they weren't making any progress at all. this is day four. the reason being all the vicious winds we have had to deal with, especially monday, wednesday and a little bit of today,

today hasn't been nearly as bad as they expected, a light breeze so that's good. 3500 homes and buildings were burned down here and we are giving a different perspective here in santa rosa. the fire trucks are here and some home owners going through the sad task of seeing if they can salvage anything out of their house that burned down. as far as you can see row after row, street after street, every single house burned down. more than 1,000 is the estimate by some people that work for the city of santa rosa and have lived here a long time. they believe at least 1,000 homes here we re believe at least 1,000 homes here were burned down. have you been able to speak to those people who have come back looking for belongings? we have. we have spoken to them. just devastated, that's the one word they keep using. i am devastated by this. they also go over and stare at the property and you can understand why,

they're probably a little bit in shock because you look at this, all you are seeing is concrete and a washer dryer or something like that. that's all you have left and you are thinking my goodness, the memories that were built up and we lived here for ten years or 15 years, a house contains memories, it's notjust beds and washers and dryers and that type of thing. they're devastated, that's the word they use and tears coming too. it's very difficult. those whose homes survived and you have to go a while to find anybody whose home survived the fire, but they feel incredible guilt. two sides of the emotional puzzle. just quickly, we have heard reports of winds fanning some of the fires. how serious is that, can we expect the fires to increase significantly? hard to say. we were supposed to get winds here of 45mph today and we have winds that are going about two 01’ have winds that are going about two or threemph. if it's like this on

the front line they're going to make progress which will be great. the progress which will be great. the progress is there because of the vicious win, the winds are driving the fire here and there. when you drive around here outside of this neighbourhood you will see where it hop—scotched, embers will go flying and destroy a building here but two buildings will survive and then it will go across and jump over a street and take out a lot of vegetation and a house there. the embers are the big deal because of the wind, it carries the hot emmers, puts it where it wants and that causes another fire. we will move from california and one natural disaster to vietnam and a different one. it is suffering terrible floods at the moment. the death toll is currently 52. that's well beyond any previous flooding disaster. some of the latest pictures that have been coming in you get an idea of the scale of what's happening. several days of

heavy rain causing flooding and landslides. thousands have been evacuated. hundreds of troops are involved in the rescue effort. as well as that, 16,000 homes are estimated to have been completely submerged. this rain's been caused bya submerged. this rain's been caused by a tropical depression that we know has been over the centre of vietnam and the north of the country as well. unfortunately, the forecast is not good. let's speak to the bbc‘s reporter in hanoi joining us live here. thank you for your time. can you give us an idea of the scale of the rescue operation under way? what happened as you just mentioned, the floods and landslides as a result of the they call tropical depression, but that exactly where the problem lies, despite not becoming a tropical storm and acquiring a name, the depression

still turned really nasty and as we all know the relief operation now is under way but they send tens of thousands of troops to affected area but unfortunately several provinces are affected, in central vietnam and the north of vietnam. we are talking about 8,000hecta res of land the north of vietnam. we are talking about 8,000hectares of land growing rice that was damaged and about 40,000 animals killed or washed away. can you give us more details on the forecast? i close my window because of of the sound, disrupting the programme, but it's actually starting to rain now and the forecast is there will be more rain in the next day or two. by sunday or monday there will be more rain and that's what the government here is

really worried about because all the flooding and landslides already affected the area in many places. we are talking about reservoirs in the country as well. i happen to be in the biggest hydro—powered dam about a week ago and this evening it's reported that eight of the gates have been... it's dangerous because it makes the downstream more affected. briefly, how unusual is whether of this type in vietnam? well, i think what happens is the storm season, if you like, usually it happens betweenjuly and september but i think climate change

is probably one of the factors here. usually when i was smaller i used to wear kind of autumn clothes or even a sweater, but this time of the year iam a sweater, but this time of the year i am still wearing t—shirts. 0bviously, i am still wearing t—shirts. obviously, the weather changing in vietnam over time. i am going to interrupt you there, i need to leave it there, but thank you very much. i have also seen vietnamese government officials saying they believe the storms are being caused by climate change. that issue is live once more. remember if you want more details on the stories we are covering, including those floods in vietnam, the latest on the harvey weinstein scandal, and that north american family being released by the afghan taliban you can get that through the bbc website. the two primary palestinian factions

have reconciled after a ten—year rift. this is a moment of huge significance for palestinians. this is the moment it happened. the deal was signed in cairo. it was there because egypt has been facilitating the talks. the deal covers security, administration and border crossing arrangements. here is a fatah spokesman. translation: i expect after there are meetings at the end of this month in cairo for the factions and palestinian leadership, after that, god willing, within a month at the most mahmood abbas will be in the gaza strip. that would be huge news. since 2007 while fatah has controlled the west bank, gaza has been controlled by hamas. we dug up this area. it is detailing how hamas

defeated fatah in elections and then violence and separation followed. let's learn more about the deal signed today. according to the deal signed today, the fatah—backed government will move into gaza and take over administrative responsibilities so hamas is going to hand this government the full control of the gaza strip by the 1st december and we also understand that the fatah—backed government will be managing gaza's border crossings with egypt and israel. but this is just the beginning of maybe a long pi’ocess just the beginning of maybe a long process of negotiations between both sides because the egyptians have called on all the palestinian factions who signed today's deal to come back to cairo in november and hold further talks. today is by all means a major breakthrough, a milestone achievement, but there are much more important issues that need

to be settled and need to be agreed on. the most important of them is the armament of the hamas group, they have an armed wing with more than 20,000 fighters. it has always presented itself as the movement of resistance, movement of liberation against the israeli occupation and it has always said that it is not willing to hand over its weapons to any party. 0n the face of it, this unity deal does remove one of the many complications in the middle east, but not necessarily. this was the response of the israeli prime minister. he considers hamas a terrorist organisation. he said: it's worth adding notjust israel, but us and the eu designates hamas asa but us and the eu designates hamas as a terrorist organisation. earlier i spoke to tom bateman, one of our

correspondents for more details on this israeli reaction. i think the view from the israeli government is that on the one hand whilst they regard the humanitarian situation in gaza as volatile and potentially threatening to israel simply because of the uncertainty it brings to the territory, and they would like some resolution to that. on the other, they believe that hamas involved in any reconciliation with the palestinian authority which is internationally recognised they see asa internationally recognised they see as a threat and see it as a group that threatens the destruction of israel, they don't think the group has denounced that in any way so they're concerned by this. they're not leaving much room for manoeuvre in their position, should we assume while the partnerships remain united with hamas as part of that unified front, any idea of talks around the peace process should be parked intr

else? when it comes to the peace process we have to accept at the moment there isn't one. the americans are saying they're going to come up with their proposals, their plans for how they see any potential future talks panning out. we are all still waiting for that. that deadlock is nowhere near resolution in the immediate future anyway. as for the impact of what's happened today on that wider issue of any peace negotiation, i think you have to look at the dynamics within the palestinian factions and whether or not this will change anything on the ground because that's the key question, what the people of gaza are concerned about, with that dire humanitarian situation there. while both factions are saying this is a breakthrough and amid the warm embraces and rhetoric of unity, we have to treat this with some big caveats because previous attempts at reconciliation have failed although the egyptians

are have failed although the egyptians a re clearly keen have failed although the egyptians are clearly keen for this one to work, to be seen as the brokers in this, quite a lot still has to be sorted out, not least the issue of hamas' armed wing and who will have control of that. will they take orders from the palestinian authority? will they disarm as israel and other countries want? all of that is yet to be decided. more talks are still planned. while we have a show of unity, there's still a lot of detail to get through. let's talk about donald trump and puerto rico. the president is threatening to pull back relief workers from the island. before i read the tweet on this first of all, context. puerto rico was hit by hurricane maria three weeks ago. 3. 4 million people live there, they're us citizens. it's estimated 83% of the island is without power. all the areas marked in grey do not have

power at the moment. now to the tweets. first of all, donald trump quoted a well—known us anchor. the president went on to say, electric, and all infrastructure was a disaster before the hurricanes. he added, we can not keep the first responders in puerto rico forever. as we often do on donald trump matters we turn to dc. i wanted to know if it's true puerto rico's infrastructure and its electricity was particularly bad before the hurricane. definitely it's true, they were having crushing debt. there were banks in the us that had filed a lawsuit against puerto rico to reclaim funds. they were facing a huge budget crunch and there was plenty of blame to go around. some of it was through mismanagement on pa rt of it was through mismanagement on part of the puerto rico government. it was a problem they were facing

before this hurricane. in terms of the people that donald trump wants to pull back will they actually have impact on how quickly the fundamental problems like electric get resolved? well, obviously having the people on the ground, the us military, fema, clearing roads, allowing construction workers to get in and put up power lines, it's going to have a real impact. it's not something that's going to be able to be done overnight as far as getting drinking water, electricity across the country that is an important first step. but there are concerns about what this is going to do to the puerto rico economy, if they were struggling to get tax revenue to pay bills that's only going to become a bigger problem now because essentially large portions of the island have no yk at this point, they depend on tourism, that's dropped off. they're going to be facing an even bigger budget crunch in months and years. we saw

this tweet from pj crowley, used to bea this tweet from pj crowley, used to be a spokesman under the 0bama administration. now the us is pulling out of unesco. i think america's going to be a player for a i think america's going to be a playerfor a while i think america's going to be a player for a while longer. nonetheless, these are hugely symbolic acts from donald trump. absolutely. you have to think back. this is what he campaigned on, putting america first was the way he phrased it. but less active involvement in international organisations only really interacting with other nations as far as how it would advance us interests, particularly us economic interests, particularly us economic interests, so now we are seeing all of this play out. it's a different sort of attitude certainly than we saw over the past eight years. getting back to the puerto rico question, one more thing is that the key pa rt question, one more thing is that the key part of that donald trump tweet was talking about congress has to

decide how much to pay. that's the question here. they're in a budget crunch in washington, we have to figure out how to come to help puerto rico and donald trump was essentially saying we are not going to have our coffers open forever for puerto rico. that will cause controversy but it was his bottom line, it's all about the money. controversy but it was his bottom line, it's all about the moneylj also want to quickly mention iran. is it right we are expecting a statement tomorrow, friday, on whether donald trump will recertify the iran deal? right. tomorrow, 12. 45 local time is when his speech is supposed to be. there is a briefing later tonight from the white house to give details. all indications are that he is not going to recertify iran, that he may designate the iranian republican guard as a terrorist organisation and essentially this is going to throw this back into congress because they're going to have to decide, congress, whether to reimpose

sanctions, it's another area where donald trump is handing an issue off and we will see the republican congress try to come to grips with it. of course we will have full coverage of that donald trump announcement on iran as soon as it comes through. next a report from the bbc‘s frank gardner. a british woman who travelled to syria four yea rs woman who travelled to syria four years ago to act as a recruiter for the islamic state group has reportedly been killed in a drone strike. sally anne jones was originally from kent in the south—east of england. she became nicknamed the white widow and was a high profile supporter for is and used social media to encourage western girls tojoin used social media to encourage western girls to join them. iconic, threatening and british. the jihadist recruiter and convert sally—anne jones from kent. she fled to syria in 2013 and joined so—called islamic state. she was married to this man, junaid hussain, a computer hacker later killed in a drone strike. together, they plotted attacks on the west and gave instructions on bomb—making.

sally—annejones made this syrian city her home, raqqa, now heavily damaged by air strikes. msjones was trying to leave, reportedly to come back to britain. but us and british intelligence had her in their sights. the missile strike by a us drone reportedly killed her injune, close to syria's border with iraq. it's not known if her son was with her. her death would bring to at least six the number of british jihadists with is killed in drone strikes. i think what we saw with the cluster of britons is they were involved in actively trying to direct plots in other countries. we've seen this happening in the united states, the uk and other countries as well, so they are targeting individuals they see as a specific threat. we know from research there were some british individuals involved in this direction.

jones was useful to is for publicity purposes but now the group is on the verge of military defeat in iraq and syria, her death will have little impact on its already shrinking fortunes. the former punk rock singer from kent, who turned 50 this year, is now likely to be one more of the hundreds of western recruits to is to perish in the collapse of its caliphate. we are going to finish with a bbc reality check which throws up interesting information about healthcare in nigeria. it's to do with a claim gathering a lot of attention on social media in nigeria. it started with one tweet from a venture capitalist who said. his claim specifically related to the availability of these machines.

they're treat cancer with radiotherapy. we are going to reality check that claim. we know the international atomic energy agency keeps a list of these facilities around the world. according to its latest data nigeria has three of these machines and a fourth is under construction. the population is around 186 million. so that means if we include the 4th facility in the calculations around 46 million people share each of those machines. compare that with other countries, and you can see that nigeria has one machine for many more people than a lot of other countries. but if we compare it with pets in the us which after all was the centre of this slightly odd claim that went viral, according to the national cancer centre, there are 97 million pets, dogs and cats in the us, and they have access to 76 machines. if we do the maths on that, you end up in a situation where there is a machine for every

1.2 where there is a machine for every 1. 2 million pets. that seems better than the numbers for nigeria. is it as clear as that? as is often the case with numbers things look different depending on what perspective you are looking from. according to the world health 0rganisation there are 100,000 nigerians diagnosed with cancer every year in nigeria. that compares to 12 million cats and dogs diagnosed with cancer every year in the us. that means that for every radiotherapy machine there is 25,000 patients in nigeria, but for every machine in america there is 150,000 pets that need it. technically if you compare the number of machines compared to the number of cancer nigeria has more machines. the situation in nigeria is still bleak. there are currently only three radiotherapy machines working in the whole of the country, with a fourth

currently being repaired. thank you for watching. i will see you next week. bye. hello. all the weather charts are pointing to a stormy start to next week. we will come back to that because thursday wasn't a bad day. we had more cloud coming into the north and west with a weather front approaching through the afternoon and friday looks more cloudy, you can see why. here is the cloud and low pressure, that weather front is back out across the atlantic. it will be with us in some way for much of the weekend now. driven in by this area of low pressure, we will see bumps along the weather front. through the night it turns increasingly windy and wet for the north and west. there could still below cloud across southern and eastern areas first thing friday. a little bit on the cool side here but for most much milder and damp as you can see for the rush hour, particularly wet across scotland and northern ireland. come the afternoon things brighten up and dry up nicely. temperatures may dip a

little bit, 16-19 in nicely. temperatures may dip a little bit, 16—19 in the rain, but it will still be brighter and more cheerful here and for northern ireland. although that rain is slow to clear from antrim and down. it will rain for much of the day across parts of cumbria and north wales, a concern clearly for cumbria because we had wet weather the other day and could have another 60, 70 millimetres of rain here. some brightness, not as much across southern and eastern areas because this weather front which starts to push further north saturday and further still on sunday as this high pressure establish it is self across the south—east. the importance of thatisitis the south—east. the importance of that is it is the wind direction that is it is the wind direction that starts to pull up these warm winds i talked about. that is still on the cards, temperatures into the low 20s, even up into parts of the midlands and northern england through the weekend. chillier to the north, particularly ifwecan you are stuck under the cloud. saturday morning, a lot of misty low cloud further south. so a while before the

grey weather lifts and it brightens and there will be sunshine. where we see the sunshine 18—20 is on the cards. some wet weather developing late on for parts of northern ireland and particularly north—west scotland. here wet and often windy. elsewhere on sunday the chances are we will see more sunshine breaking through the clouds and temperatures will be higher still. these are conservative, we could see 22 or 23, both sunday and monday. but monday we have another concern, this is hurricane 0phelia. by the time it reaches us it will be a tropical storm but it will still have hurricane force winds, gusts of 70mph. widely 60mph further north to monday night and into tuesday. it is still with us. it looks like it's going to be a major storm and it's going to be a major storm and it's going to be nasty indeed. the devil is in the detail. still some uncertainty, clearly it could be

even further eastwards and that will mean that there is a risk of disruptive weather, damaging winds, even further east. that's the detail that we are playing with. at the moment it looks like it's the west of the uk where we will see the worst of the weather. it will still be with us in the north—west on tuesday before it whisks out of the way. a potentially very stormy spell of weather monday and tuesday. the biggest storm of the season so far. if you have plans, please stay tuned because warnings are already out. they're on the website. for the rest of the week it's looking wet and often windy. clearly the concern is what's happening for the beginning of the week. we will keep you updated. also tonight: in brussels, the eu's chief negotiator says the brexit talks are deadlocked over the so—called divorce bill, but progress is still possible before the end of the year.