the headlines. the organisation behind the oscars has voted to expel the film mogul harvey weinstein. over the required two thirds of board members of the us academy of motion picture arts and skiens voted to throw him out immediately. a canadian man rescued with his family from the taliban—linked network in pakistan has been speaking about their ordeal. joshua boyle says one of his children was murdered and his wife was raped during captivity. reports from somalia say bomb blasts in the capital have killed at least 30 people and injured around 100. officials say a truck loaded with explosives was debt naded outside a hotel. the us backed coalition proceeding ragga says islamic state must surrender proceeding ragga says islamic state must surrender or proceeding ragga says islamic state must surrender or they'll be killed. syrian members of is have now left the city in a convoy of buses after

reaching a deal with local officials leaving only foreign extremists holding out. at ten, a round—up of the day's news. first, it's welcome to germany. more than a million refugees are now in germany, having escaped the brutality of the world's war zones. for two years, we have followed a syrian family in their struggle to adapt to life in a small east german city, and a german family also struggling to adapt to refugees moving into their hometown. there's a problem with racism all over germany.

it was never away, and it grew and grew. those who arrived at munich railway station last night were welcomed with cheers and applause. what happens to them after the applause dies down? gera, in the former east germany. a small city almost unfamiliar with immigration because of its isolated communist history, home now to a new population of refugees. around 2,000 are expected to arrive in the next few years.

hello! well, are you going to show me around? wow, that is a big handshake... this family is among them. they show me videos of life in syria, the war they fled. daham worked in electronics in syria.

his wife is from a family of farmers. da ham was imprisoned by the syrian regime, accused of being involved with rebels. he suffered beatings while locked up. daham fled, making the epicjourney overland across europe on his own. he got asylum in germany and his family were flown over by the german government as part of family reunification. l, m, n, 0, p... across germany, 500,000 people

applied for asylum in 2015. in gera, a small army of volunteers fills local community centres to welcome them. (speaking german). the arrival even spawned studies, local academics looking at their impact here. they are not experienced with any kind of lifestyle or ethnic diversity before 2012. the proportion of migrants is below 3%, and that is not what it is like in west german cities, for example. they don't have any knowledge about them, they are quite easy

to be manipulated by the right—wing extremist parties. do you think there is a problem with racism in a town like this? yes, there is a problem with racism all over germany. and it is increasing, it was never away, it grew and grew. watching as these huge changes unfold is this family. mum daniella, dad dirk, who has lived his whole life in gera, and their children. and on a trip to the city centre, dirk and daniella find refugees are already a key political issue in gera. vying for their future votes are both the far—right afd, who are broadly anti—islam and broadly anti—refugee. and the spd on the far left.

they are pro—refugees. it is now december, and that means the first time ever, the al—mohammed family gets to experience a german christmas market. on radio: ..opinion polls are turning, people are getting more and more worried about what we will do about the massive influx of refugees into the country. we're looking at 1.1 million... today in gera, a demonstration by pegida, a far—right protest group expanding all over germany. chanting in german. "abschieben, abschieben," is "deport them". "people should go to the toilet in front of refugee homes." speaking in german.

we are allowed to film... excuse me, can you stop blocking our camera 7 the black and the white, i won't touch it, the black and the white are northern prussia, and the white and the red are southern prussia. i'm here because i love my city, i love my country... what are you worried about? i am worried about my family. i am worried about my race, the german people. they lose their normal blood. so the crowd is shouting now,

"we don't want refugee homes". pegida. 200—ish against the refugees. dirk wasn't demonstrating in gera, but his views towards refugees have hardened since i was last here. and he thinks it is especially unfair that germany is welcoming

so many compared to the uk. lots of people will argue that germany is doing the right thing by being more generous. how many children are here? we have 299, and 12 from other countries. and how many refugee children? three. some of gera's other residents, like this teacher, are adapting to life more comfortably. speaking in german. this is nine—year—old mohammed, daham's son, who has just started school.

his classes are entirely in german. are you talking to pupils about refugees, about who they are, where they have come from? some people in gera think that it is too much, and they have problems for us, and so on, and so on, but i haven't got a problem with it. children are not responsible for all the problems we have got around the world. and so we have to welcome the children. i want to help them, that's it. toy chatters. the increasing hostility towards refugees in gera is a worry for the al—mohammed family. there have already been ten attacks here on refugees in their homes.

and after school, talk turns to returning to syria. a subject daham and his wife don't agree on. you want to go back? so this is a big debate? she wants to go back and you want to stay. daham is still learning german, still training for a job,

desperate to work. news on car radio: whether merkel or schultz becomes chancellor, one thing is certain — the german political mainstream is set to move to the right. 1.5 years on, and daham finally has the job he was waiting for.

this looks — everything here looks so complicated. stephan is daham's new boss. we had the idea of actually looking among those people who came in 2015, 2016, who we assumed there would have been quite a few qualified workers. why did you think that? well, because, here, the saying is that syrians are the engineers of the middle east. by late 2017, daham's daughter is about a foot taller, and the population of gera is visibly changing. the number of people in the city defined as foreign has doubled from around 2,500 to almost 5,000. a third are syrians.

when did you open? ah! hello! the family have been allocated a bigger house now, because there's a new baby — their first born in germany. may i sit next to you? you're so german! apart from her getting noisier... how has life changed since i was last here? september's german election saw huge gains for far—right party the afd,

alternative for germany. in gera, they won more votes than angela merkel‘s party, who won. so there's another one. a party with posters like these took almost 30%. look how big you are! hello! nice to see you again. dirk and daniella don't even usually vote. in fact, dirk hasn't for decades. but this time, they both turned out for the afd. what does the government need to do to make you feel happier, to make you feel like people are integrating more? do you think your views are racist?

for daham, for very different reasons, life is also increasingly frustrating. he got asylum for three years.

but the rest of his family have a different immigration status — a protection status — and have to have it renewed every four months. it feels like life is still very difficult. do you think it would be any better anywhere else? do you feel like this whole journey

is easier for men than women? do you feel like you've had to make a huge sacrifice? hello. autumn storms are nothing

unusual but the storm that's going to affect parts of the uk over the next couple of days is notjust the commonal garden autumn storm. this one has been a hurricane and a short time ago this was a category three hurricane, this is the furtherest east across the atlantic we have seen east across the atlantic we have seen a east across the atlantic we have seen a category three hurricane on record. ahead of the storm for the time being we are feeling the effects of some warm air wafting up from the south. particularly where we have seen from the south. particularly where we have seen sunny from the south. particularly where we have seen sunny skies and that will continue to be the case during sunday. where we have the brightest weather, particularly for central and eastern parts of england, temperatures will lift, perhaps up as high as 22 or 23. more cloud further north and west and for northern ireland and scotland we will see outbreaks of rain. heavy at first, turning lighter through the day. and strong winds which will only gradually ease. through sunday night we will continue to see pulses

of rain across northern areas, stays largely dry further south. but notice the big wind arrows beginning to show up down to the south—west. that's a sign of what is to come on monday. remember hurricane ophelia, by monday it won't be a hurricane but it will still be an intense storm, look at the white lines on this chart, some very strong winds indeed. the strongest winds of all likely to be across the south of the republic of ireland. for the western side of the uk could see 70 to possibly 80mph wind gusts in the most exposed spots and those strong winds eventually will transfer to scotland. further east you will wonder what the fuss is about because winds won't be as strong and what we will feel in eastern areas is warm air indeed. maybe 2a cannot be ruled out. the windiest weather moves its way northwards and eastwards into the first part of tuesday. still a potential for gales across parts of scotland on tuesday morning. outbreaks of rain here as

well. things gradually calming down further south. a cooler fresher feel to the weather as well. 13—18, maximum temperatures. we will lose that low pressure finally clearing to the north—east by wednesday. this frontal system down to the south could introduce cloud and showery rain into south—east areas during wednesday. uncertainty about that. then a wednesday. uncertainty about that. thenafairamount wednesday. uncertainty about that. then a fair amount of fine weather, some spells of sunshine. here is our next atla ntic some spells of sunshine. here is our next atlantic frontal system pushing in later in the day on wednesday. that first front will probably fizzle away quickly but this next area of low pressure that looks likely to develop into thursday will have a bit more live about it so we will see once again strengthening winds and heavy bursts of rain, could be gales for some exposed spots in the west. those temperatures around 13—17. so that's how things look by the time we get to thursday. what about further ahead into next weekend? thejet strea m ahead into next weekend? thejet stream fairly energetic at the moment, strong winds, high up in the

atmosphere blowing across the atlantic. where we see the dips in the jet stream we can develop areas of low pressure. don't take this too literally but there is a chance into next weekend we could develop another area of low pressure. this one not starting life as a hurricane but still a pretty intense storm system which could bring spells of rain and gales but there will be brief brighter interludes and temperatures will be above average. plenty going on with our weather throughout the next ten days.