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and i have turned out. thanks for your time. thank you. finally, this is what cork city's ground looks like after storm ophelia blew the roof off one of the stands at their turners cross ground. the team are due to play derry city at home tomorrow night, with cork needing just a point to clinch the league of ireland title. as you can see, as you can see, severe damage as you can see, severe damage to their homes and ground. no announcement has been made about the game. that's all from sportsday. goodbye. more now on storm ophelia, an amber
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warning is in place in northern ireland, west wales, the isle of man and south—west scotland. we can speak to our correspondent who is in caimryan in the south—west of scotland. it looks blustery, bring us scotland. it looks blustery, bring us up to the latest. the amber warning applies to the south—west corner and caimryan was on the edge of that. in the last few hours conditions have deteriorated. you can see perhaps older my shoulder of the twinkling lights, that is the ferry terminal, the main ferry service between scotland and belfast. the lights are on but for the moment it is tied up and going nowhere until conditions improve. around half past four we started to
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get the full force of ophelia in this part of the world, winds reaching about 60 mph making conditions for —— making conditions difficult for people. it is having an effect and there are concerns it has the potential to cause problems into tomorrow. i mentioned the ferry cancellations, those of applied here and to some of the island ‘s services. there have been cancellations to flights, and hear trees have been blowing over and beyond that there is a yellow warning which stretches much more widely across the south and the west of the country. of course as storm ophelia goes through the night it will move northwards. it is the storm that was once a hurricane, and as it moves northwards it will lose power but has the potential to cause problems as it moves north. so people trying to get around
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tomorrow, particularly in the central belt, commuters are being warned to prepare for potential disruption. whether it is trees blowing onto roads or railways may be affected in the same way so the advice to people is to check before they leave in the morning, check travel reports and things like that. if they do have to go out, to be prepared on dulcimer lee to take care. steve, thank you. the prime minister is in brussels for a dinner with eu leaders and talks to try to end the stalemate over brexit negotiations. downing street says theresa may will be talking about a range of issues during talks with the head of the eu commission, jean—claude juncker, and michel barnier. the meeting comes after last week's negotiations ended in deadlock. downing street says the dinner meeting had been planned for some time. our reporter is in
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brussels now, and adam, i know you are not quite in on that dinner. how would it be to be a fly on the wall? what are you hearing? sadly my invite must have been lost in the post. the commission being the organisation that runs the brexit talks on a technical basis, the boss michel barnier, the eu chief negotiator is there sitting opposite his opposite number david davis, and i saw the british ambassador to the eu in one of the cars as they went in earlier. behind the scenes people are saying not to expect any big breakthroughs from this dinner, although you never know there might bea although you never know there might be a joint statement issued by both sides after they have finished eating very shortly because the meal finishes in about ten minutes. but let's look at the context in which this dinner is happening. the fifth round of brexit talks last week in
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brussels, some progress on technical terms but no great strides forward and certainly not enough to allow the talks to move on from this first phaseis the talks to move on from this first phase is about withdrawal issues to talks about the future relationship ora talks about the future relationship or a transition phase, which is what the uk government really wants. at the uk government really wants. at the end of this week eu leaders will all be here at the end of the week for a all be here at the end of the week fora summit. all be here at the end of the week for a summit. theresa may will leave them and they will discuss their own version of how the brexit talks are going. michel barnier a and jean—claude juncker will brief the leaders on the progress so far. it wouldn't be a giant leap of logic to think perhaps theresa may was getting her version in first and may be urging michel barnier and jean—claude juncker on what they should say to the other leaders to discuss how brexit is going. just briefly, we keep hearing the clock is ticking, it now looks like it could be another three months before we even start to move on to talk
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about the final brexit deal. this is looking more and more likely that we could be heading for this no deal brexit. the eu side say they want to avoid that at all costs. they don't like to talk about the no deal scenario because they say it is not something they aspire to and it is something they aspire to and it is something they aspire to and it is something they are actively trying to avoid. in terms of the timetable we know there will be a summit and three further rounds of brexit talks between the uk and eu, and then another summit of leaders in december. michel barnier said that with a bit of political will he could imagine some of these issues being surmounted by december, and donald tusk, the president of the european council, has basically set that as a deadline and says if sufficient progress has not been achieved then everyone needs to sit down and think about where this is heading. adam fleming in brussels,
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many thanks for that and we will be back to you for more on those talks later. a lot of whether going on. ben rich has the details on the latest on those hurricane winds. certainly a lot going on today, the impact of storm ophelia, and the skies turning red, dust being dragged up from the sahara and smoke from portuguese wildfires, but further west the impact has been much more severe. this storm has approached our shores and brought very strong winds indeed. the strongest winds of all were found across the republic of ireland where the winds reached almost 100 mph. in wales, 90 mph was the strongest. the
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wind is still picking up at the moment across northern ireland so we still have this met office ample warning to be prepared for the strength of the winds. the windiest so strength of the winds. the windiest so far across northern ireland, west wales, parts of the isle of man and dumfries and galloway. as we go through the night these winds easing, the strongest winds transferring further north and east so transferring further north and east so if you have travel plans through tonight or indeed tomorrow morning it is worth staying tuned to the forecast and your local radio station will update you on travel problems. overnight the winds easing, not as mild as last night but not cold by any means. tomorrow wendy starts. in the far north—east of england, central scotland could see 70 mph wind gusts and that could cause problems for the morning commute. a lot of clout and some outbreaks of rain. rain into the far
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south—west later, a slice of bright weather for many of us, temperatures reaching 17 degrees. later in the week, the isobars quite widely spaced meaning the winds will be much lighter. wednesday looks likely to bring this band of rain erratically northwards. some brighter spells as well and we stick with that slightly cooler, fresher feel with highs of 18 degrees. summing things up this week, it has been a stormy start for some. midweek looks considerably quieter but then for the end of the week we are watching developments closely because there could be more very wet and windy weather. more details on the weather warnings on the bbc weather website. you're watching beyond one hundred days.
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