but his work turns these numbers into lives, giving them a human form, helping us to at least try to make sense out of so much senselessness. john maguire, bbc news, at the somme battlefield. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willets. the weather dominic king. —— dominating. it has been, particularly hurricane michael a phenomenally strong storm, one of the most powerful to hit the us mainland, almost category five and it is ripping through the south—east, moving through georgia and into the carolinas and there is and into the carolinas and there is a concern of more flash flooding, following on from florence. on to oui’ following on from florence. on to our shores and this is the start of storm callum, nothing in comparison to michael but it will bring wet and

windy weather. it will develop through this evening and overnight and it has prompted the met office toissue and it has prompted the met office to issue an amber warning for the rain, particularly for south wales. it will be a main event for most of us it will be a main event for most of us and there it ain't splashed or two ahead of it, sharon was in the north—east of scotland and rain behind it —— showers. between there is some sunshine and is quite warm but that will fade with the rain and further west you could see some late sunshine. 22 is what we expect this afternoon. through the evening and overnight, the rain moves out of the way and we bring in the start of storm callum. with it, gale forced winds will usher the wet weather in. cool further east and north—east but for most, a mild and windy night. tomorrow some areas might escape the rain, perhaps in the far south—east and north west in the first pulse clears, but the reason for the warning is because the rainjust sit

there tomorrow, tomorrow night and saturday. it pulses across south—west england and wales, northern england, with a steady gale for many areas, even in land it will be much windier tomorrow with branches and the odd tree down, gusts up to 70 mph or even higher. if you see the sunshine, still quite warm. it will also be a wind event, windier tomorrow for all of us and potentially damaging winds. you can see that front on friday night still sitting across northern england and parts of southern scotland and wales. it might push further north for a time wales. it might push further north fora time and wales. it might push further north for a time and allow some warm weather to return to the south and east, and some sunshine. some uncertainty in the detail of these weather fronts, but then uncertainty in the detail of these weatherfronts, but then it looks like it will move away. more rain on saturday night and sunday in parts

of wales, northern england, before it will clear and it will be fresher to end sunday. looking like the better day of the weekend at the moment but still some uncertainty. the warnings are all on the website but there is an amber, the met office. thank you. the weather is the main story. the third strongest storm in recorded history to hit the us mainland, hurricane michael, continues to sweep across the south east of the country. it's killed two people, including a child, in florida. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it'sjust good afternoon. it's just after 130. i have your latest headlines. doug ellis has died aged 94. he sold the

clu b to ellis has died aged 94. he sold the club to the american businessman randy lerner, he made his name on the holiday business, and was made life president and 90 in 2012 for services to charity. the club have posted their condolences and described ellis as a man who gave his life to the club. a minute ‘s silence would be held at their match at home to swansea on the 20th of october. john terry is villa's new assisatnt manager. it's his first coaching role , following his retirement from playing last week . he'll work alongside dean smith, who left brentford to take over as manager. smith a life long villa fan has extensive knowledge of working in the championship — terry capatined villa last season, taking them to the play—off final where they lost to fulham tottenham defender danny rose and southampton goalkeeper alex mccarthy have both withdrawn from the england squad for the nations league matches against croatia tomorrow and spain next week .

(00v) both players arrived in camp with pre existing injuries, and returned to their respective clubs before the team departed. england face croatia in rhi—ekka and spain in seville on monday. scotland have a nations league match against israel tonight, but manager alex mcleish is not underestimating a team ranked 55 having won their opening game in the competition against albania— but mcleish expects a tricky test if they're to make it two wins from two. they haven't won in a wee while. i know their coach, and he's trying stamp his personality. we saw the russians in the world cup. they were seven games before without a victory, and all of a sudden they blitzed their own world cup. wales are at the prinicpality to play spain in a friendly later and they do so without gareth bale who's injured. wales manager ryan giggs hopes he will be back for the nations league match against ireland next week.

it's extremely doubtful for tomorrow. he's got some muscle fatigue from the weekend. nothing serious. we are monitoring its daily. we give him every chance for tuesday. yet, so just daily. we give him every chance for tuesday. yet, sojust monitoring it. britain's number one kyle edmund is a step closer to a first atp tour title after reaching the quarter finals of the shanghai masters.) edmund, who is ranked 14th in the world, took a tight first set on a tie break before taking the second set 6—3 to beat chile's nicolas yarry. but a tough test awaits if he's to reach the last four, he faces the world number five alexander zverev.. he's been helping to try and restore some normality on his home island after those flash floods which killed at least ten people.hejoined other volunteers in saint lourenc in trying to clear mud and water that remained following tuesday night's flooding. nadal lives six miles from the worst hit area... that's all your sport. you can keep

up—to—date on the bbc sport website. we have lots of condolences coming in on the death of doug ellis. back to you. that wasjohn back to you. that was john watson with the sport. good afternoon, you are watching bbc news. let's take a look at our other stories this lunchtime. we've had a fairly warm autumn so far but with winter looming, health chiefs in england are urging children, pregnant women, older people and those with certain health conditions to have a flu jab. but this year there's a special focus on another group nhs workers, who are more likely to be exposed to flu.

those who refuse it could be moved to roles away from patients. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. the laundry room at royal blackburn hospital, not a part of the nhs that many of us think about, but the staff here do vital work to keep the hospitalfunctioning. 100,000 pieces of washing are dealt with here each week. so, if this team is hit by flu, it can really throw a spanner in the works. so, you're ok to go ahead? yes. that's why becky and her colleagues are encouraged to take the flu jab... lovely. ..with nurses coming to them to make it easier. last year i got a flu really bad, so i definitely advise to have it done. it's not nice when you have the flu, is it? i couldn't get out of bed. last winter was the worst flu season in a decade and sickness among staff added to the pressure on the nhs. in england, just 64% of health workers took up the offer of a free flu vaccination. which arm do you want?

left arm? this year all front line staff are expected to have the flu jab. excuse me, lads, we are doing the flu injection, have you had yours? it's not compulsory, but those who don't will be asked to explain the reason. the flu jab for me is the most important thing we can do in the nhs, because we are not only looking after the staff, we are looking after the families, the patients we serve and helping to prevent hospital admissions at the front door. the idea behind encouraging every single member of staff at the nhs to have a flu jab is to shore up the health service ahead of what could be a pretty tough winter, by reducing sickness rates. now, as it happens, here at the royal blackburn they have a pretty good record when it comes to encouraging staff to have the jab. more than 90% are expected to do so. but across the country it's a very different picture. vaccinating staff in a single hospital is one thing, but what if your teams work across thousands of square miles and are always on the road?

last year the east of england ambulance service struggled to reach even half of their workers, so this year there are more clinics in more places to try and encourage crews to get vaccinated. health care professionals not getting immunised can increase the risk of patients getting the flu, so absolutely one of the things we want our staff to consider is the impact on their vulnerable patients, especially if they choose not to have the flu jab. look out for your left arm. some people can't be vaccinated, they might have an allergy, for example, but nhs bosses are urging those who can, especially health co—workers, to get a jab, protecting themselves and their patients. dominic hughes, bbc news. a chinese intelligence officer has appeared in a court in the us charged with spying. the us justice department says yanjun xu was extradited from belgium on tuesday.

peter bowes has more from los angeles. according to the us officials this goes back to 2013. yanjun xu was working for the government, but not always revealing his true identity. according to prosecutors he would invite experts, engineers from overseas, especially america, to visit china under the quys america, to visit china under the guys are america, to visit china under the guys are speaking to a university. but it was really to find out technical information about what they were working on. this specific case relates to a company in cincinnati, ohio. an aeronautics company making jet engines. they have a special technique, and there was a meeting in china involving one of the engineers. last year the fbi got involved, and yanjun xu was lured to belgium, for another meeting, and then he was eventually

arrested. he was clearly lured some way he could be arrested, and then taken to the united states, which has just happened. yanjun xu taken to the united states, which hasjust happened. yanjun xu has appeared in court accused of stealing, spying on the u s a, making specialist equipment. the german chancellor angela merkel‘s sister party in bavaria is bracing itself for humiliating losses, in what is likely to be an historic regional election this weekend. polls suggest that the csu — the bavarian version of mrs merkel‘s conservatives — will lose its majority, as voters turn instead to the far right afd and the green party. our berlin correspondent, jenny hill, explains. it is a country awash with tradition, but some have had their fill. october brings beer, and the ballot box, to bavaria. in this conservative kingdom, angela merkel‘s sister party

has reigned supreme. but the csu's majority is under attack from the far—right afd. the family business begins in1732... this election will define bavaria's identity, or "heimat". translation: heimat means that i can live in peace and quiet, with respect and tolerance for each other. that doesn't mean that i have to adapt to the people that come here with their cultures. germany feels restless, migration politics a source of protest. this anti—hate demonstration drew 20,000 to munich streets. we have a very special situation in germany, and for me, especially for me, it's important to show that we are for an open society. this issue happens to a lot

of countries right now, because everybody is afraid of, like, the refugees coming in. and yeah, i think that's also the reason why the right wing got so strong, yeah. but they won't rule the roost here. it is the green party who will collect the electoral prize. they are expected to come second, forcing the ruling csu into an unprecedented coalition. translation: bavaria has changed. many, whether it was those who were born here or those who moved here, don't feel that connected to its traditions. the csu missed the boat, didn't change with the people, and it tries desperately to reclaim heimat in bavaria. but society has moved on. you can't turn back time. what is happening here in bavaria illustrates the complexity of the challenge faced by europe's political establishment. it is notjust the rise of the far—right. it is that voters are deserting big,

traditional parties in favour of smaller, newer movements. the political landscape here used to be almost a certainty. now, it is fragmenting fast. europe's politics are shifting, with a force the old centre can no longer resist. the debate about racial profiling in the us has re—emerged after a babysitter in atlanta, georgia, claimed he was reported to police because he's black and the children he was looking after are white. corey lewis was leaving a sandwich shop on sunday with the two children when a woman approached him in the car park, then followed him home and called the police. mr lewis posted this on his facebook page i'm baby—sitting. i got two kids in

the back—seat with me. this lady is across the street. we just came out of and she's following me. this lady is following me. she's following me because i've got two kids, in the back—seat, but don't look like me. she doesn't even know, like... it's 2018, and this is what i've got to deal with. i can't go out with two kids that don't look like me without something being weird. you can see she's still not moving. the police are here now. the police! let's see what the police have got to say about this. apparently, she saw you at walmart. yeah. i'm baby-sitting. i'm baby—sitting at walmart. yeah. i'm baby-sitting. i'm ba by—sitting those at walmart. yeah. i'm baby-sitting. i'm baby—sitting those two kids. the children's mother told us media she was in a ‘state of disbelief‘ when police officers called her to confirm

mr lewis's identity. the story has been shared widely on social media with many people saying it is an example of racism faced by the african americans. in a moment we'll have all the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news... two astronauts make a safe emergency landing — after a rocket carrying them to the international space station malfunctions on ta ke—off. companies could be forced to reveal their ethnicity pay gap — under plans put forward by the government a british phd student has been held in solitary confinement in the united arab emirates for five months after being accused of spying. matthew hedges' wife says she is shocked more is not being done to help him. in the business news: a warning from the board of

patisserie valerie, the group have released a statement in the last few minutes saying that without an immediate injection of capital, the directors are the view that there is no scope for the business to continue trading in its current form. yesterday it was revealed that the owner of the carthy and cape group has uncovered and potentially fraudulent accounting irregularities. —— coffee and cake. the treasury is finalising plans to overhaul tax rules which allow self—employed people to avoid paying national insurance contributions. into the red. european stocks follow stock markets in asia and in the united states lower. it was a brutal open to trade — with stock markets falling by as much as 2% in the first 60 seconds of business. more in a moment. its a business of two halves. no, i'm not talking about football.

i'm talking about wh smiths. when was the last time you went into your local whsmith? where was it, on the high street? or was it at the train station, or at the airport, for example. because the answers to those questions will help you understand what's going on with its profits. profits are down, down about 4% overall. but in its travel division — we're talking about airports and railway stations — profits there are up 7%. and this is where the stationer thinks the future is. people on the move — people waiting for a train or a plane & perhaps a bit peckish & looking for something to read. you look at the other side of the business — and things are not looking so great. profits are down 3%. sadly no surprise that the retailer is deciding to close some high street stores and is going to review the whole of this side of the business. earlier we spoke to michael hewson, chief market analyst at cmc markets. whsmith management have really, i

think, been benign in their neglect towards the retail business. when you look at their double insurance on the high street, where you find them, the company has been voted, by which earlier this year, the uk's worst retailer. there is reason for that. significant underinvestment in the high street retail part of the business. i think they need to decide what they want to do with the business. they are focusing on the international side of it, opening new shops in a post like madrid and brazil, but ultimately, i think they are doing that to the exclusion of the high—street business. it really does show. the market is punishing them for that. they've announced a 15 million share buy—back, rolling share buy—back, and i can't help but think that money would be better spent revamping their retail offering. let's take a look at the other business stories. bmw is taking to the wheel of its previous joint venture in china.

it wants to pump a lot more cash into its production capacity there. the move comes amid china's plans to relax rules forforeign car companies operating in its enormous market. how do you fancy buying a paper? the whole title, that is. if you have a spare 220 million lying around now you can. in fact you can get more than 200 titles, including the yorkshire post & the i, for that price. the publisher, jonston press has put itself up for sale. would you like to spend 19 uninterrupted hours on a flight? for all the av geeks out there, now you can. singapore airlines has just launched the worlds longest non stop flight. the routew is between singapore and london. you'll need deep pockets for the extra leg room though. the flight only has first and business class seats available. and more youngsters are falling prey to money scammers than ever before. identity fraud is up 24% in a single year. most cases inolve debit, credit and store cards. european stocks have fallen sharply as concerns about a trade

war and higher us bond yields have stoked concerns among global investors. investors have started to sell down us government bonds, the ious it issues to fund its deficit, thinking that they are no longer a good value investment. and this has worried investors. trade tensions between china and the us had weighed on asian markets for most of this year, while trade tensions between the us and the eu had hit european markets. concerns about the political situation in italy were also adding to market nervousness. some more details are emerging from patisserie valerie, their share price isn't here because it's not traded on the ftse, but they have released a statement saying that without immediate injection of

capital they are of the view that there is no scope for business to continue trading in its current format. yesterday she is in the company were suspended after the company were suspended after the company announced a potential material must statement. basically, financial irregularities. there are 206 stores across the chain, and employs around two, 2500 staff. that's all the business news. lost cities remain hidden all over the world. but innovations in laser technology are now helping archaeologists to find them. the method has been used to rediscover one ancient settlement outside johannesburg — home for many centuries to the tswana tribe. the bbc‘s nomsa maseko went in search of this lost city. a reconstruction of what kweneng city would've looked like 200 years ago.

hidden in plain sight. the ruins of an ancient settlement, rediscovered about 60 kilometres south of johannesburg. people from the tswana tribe occupied this area long before europeans encountered them in the early 1900s. this city is one of many which collapsed during what became known as the difeqane civil wars in southern africa. these structures are very easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for. just a pile of rocks jutting out from the landscape. archaeologists have excavated this site for years, but now laser technology has allowed researchers to see the extent and size of the settlement that's believed to have housed over 10,000 people. professor karim sadr, an archaeologist at wits university,

led this project. it's very similar to radar, radar is essentially radio detection and ranging. and radar sends out pulses of radio waves and the radio wave hits an object and comes back and because we know the speed at which it travelled, we can figure out how far away that object was. the same principle applies here, lidar is light, detection and ranging and they send out instead of radio waves, they send out laser pulses. i mean, on google earth satellite imagery you can see the ruins but you don't realise how dense and how many features there are. and with lidar, we suddenly started seeing roads and fields, all the stuff we couldn't see before. the ancient settlement has been a reclaim by the bakwena tribe and now the landless and dispossessed descendants meet every month in a grade one classroom in soweto. we renamed the site as kweneng city because it has now been established beyond doubt that the greater part ofjohannesburg has been built on the ruins of the city.

this significance is to reconstruct our community and secondly also to deal with restoration of our dignity, of our clan. researchers say it did take another two decades to uncover all the secrets hidden beneath the long grass. nomsa maseko, bbc news, johannesburg. much more coming up from 2pm. right now we catch up with the weather prospects. he is heaven. thank you very much. this is the how mccain, this is as it made it has ripped through the south—east of the states, across georgia into the carolinas, they will be an awful

lot of wet weather. as we cross the atla ntic we lot of wet weather. as we cross the atlantic we have our own storm brewing, nothing in comparison, but this is storm cal. callan will bring windy and wet weather. not that the isobars, tightly windy and wet weather. not that the isoba rs, tightly packed. windy and wet weather. not that the isobars, tightly packed. it's the long stretch of rain which will meander across southern areas, according to the met office there is an amberwarning for according to the met office there is an amber warning for heavy rain for friday and saturday. so let's have a look what's happening here and now. it's not too bad out there. some rain and sunshine, and men more rain to come. the rest of the afternoon isa to come. the rest of the afternoon is a sunshine sandwich. more cloud around, not as nice as it was for yesterday. temperatures in the low 20s, some late sunshine in the west. weekly about all away as we go through this evening, and overnight. it will be cool and clear in the north—east for a time, for most of us, the mild south—westerly winds

return, and by morning winds would be blowing that rain across northern ireland, scotland and wales. it's going to be mild for most of us, and a thoroughly miserable and wet rush hourfor a thoroughly miserable and wet rush hour for many. that band of rain clears away, but next one comes in, and stays stuck in a similar position for 48 hours. to the south and east of that, and much windy day tomorrow. pleasant, warm and dry, but heavy rain in wales, northern england and scotland, hopefully some dry weather for northern ireland. but, clearly, the temperatures will be tempered a little bit. the heaviest rain could lead 100 millimetres, possibly double over the hills, strong gusts of wind is, widely 40 to 50 or as high as 6070 in northern anne western areas. through the irish sea this weather system continues to blow the rain. very windy on saturday, as well as

very wet. the rain may be pushed further northwards, some uncertainty as to where it will wiggle. we will see some very warm sunshine in the south and east, and into sunday, that all comes back southwards, and it looks like a fairly good weekend. hello, you're watching afternoon live. i'm ben brown. today at 2pm... two astronauts make an emergency landing — after their russian soyuz rocket malfunctions en route to the international space station. there has been an issue with the booster and we are standing by for information as we continue to get it from the russian flight control team, but everything seems to be fine with the group. one of the worst storms ever to hit the us mainland continues to sweep across the south—east of the country. our roof came in from the top part to the bottom, so everything is gone but i'm just glad that we may it

u nsafe but i'm just glad that we may it unsafe because i thought i was going to be trapped in there and not be able to get out. the former prime minister sirjohn major warns universal credit could be as damaging to the conservative