welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: a trail of destruction left by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the united states. russia suspends all manned flights to the international space station after the crew of a soyuz rocket were forced to make an emergency landing. mum's the word. researchers in china say they've created baby mice with two mothers and no father. a special report from kabul on the taliban and islamic state prisoners jailed for violence and disruption. hello to you.

people on florida's gulf coast have spent the day assessing the damage to their homes and businesses from one of the strongest storms that's ever hit the united states. hurricane michael tore into north—west florida as a category 4 on wednesday, with winds over 150mph, that's 2a0kph. two people, including a child, were killed by falling wreckage. emergency workers say the town of mexico beach was worst hit. the bbc‘s gary o'donoghue was there. two days ago, this was an ortley beach front community, home to around 1200 people —— orderly beach. but street after street, michael tore through this town, uprooting and smashing everything in its path. this is what the federal emergency director is calling ground zero. mexico beach, where hurricane michael came ashore yesterday with those winds of 155 mph. it's com pletely those winds of 155 mph. it's completely devastated the street down to the city, just two houses

left standing, and people's things all over the street, microwaves, mattresses, kitchen sinks, you name it, the stuff of everyday life turned into detritus in their matter ofa turned into detritus in their matter of a few hours. around the town, friends and neighbours are doing their best to consult one another. hard to do when your dream retirement home has ended up your dream retirement home has ended up like this. i think there's a lot of anger and shock and, you know, just emotion, you know, that is at its peak right 110w. you know, that is at its peak right now. i think we just need a few days to digest what has happened and see how the rebuilding is going to happen. mexico beach was also the maximum point of the storm surge. the water here rising eight feet at the height of the onslaught. 0ne resident said she had five feet of water in the downstairs of her house. the floors and the furniture 110w house. the floors and the furniture now ruined. i was in and out of the closet, i went to check on my

husband, and i wasjust a basket case. to hear that roar is just... just amazing. it's so loud. 30 miles west of mexico beach, the hurricane's aftermath proved a temptation some couldn't resist. this was a family dollar store and when we arrived there were a whole bunch of people who were helping themselves to pretty much everything inside, mainly the cigarettes and the batteries, they were taking those away in bike falls and while we've been here, a whole load more people have been coming back and doing exactly the same. it's a bit ofa doing exactly the same. it's a bit of a freefall. but for the time being the priority is seeking out anyone that might need urgent help as the rescuers make their way to some of the more isolated communities. life will not be back to normal here any time soon. gary 0'donoghue, bbc news, florida. ive now to tallahassee, florida, and vicki eichstaedt from the red cross. —— live now. thank you for talking

to us, i know the power is very patchy, which is why we are talking on the phone, how are things?m tallahassee things are starting to return to normal. power is coming on sporadically. very few stores are beginning to open on generator power. lots of cleanup going on here of... of detritus, trees down, lines down, that kind of thing, also powered down with lines affecting roads and that sort of thing. but very slowly starting to come back. roads and that sort of thing. but very slowly starting to come backlj guess it is mercifully rare to see a category for hurricane making landfall, but pretty rough i know andi landfall, but pretty rough i know and i gather that the further west to go towards panhandle, it's really quite catastrophic there? it absolutely is. tallahassee only

suffered from the outer bands of the storm, and really got off fairly likely. but the further west to go from here, there's absolutely catastrophic damage. how was it overnight? a lot of people i've talked to who been through hurricanes talk about the sound of it being particularly terrifying, especially, of course, in the dark? yes, andi especially, of course, in the dark? yes, and i think there's not a way to compare it or to try and paint a visual picture of that sound. you can talk about freight trains moving very fast. you can talk about the sound of wind in a tunnel, but that doesn't come close. the sound is deafening. good luck with you and everything the red cross are doing. thank you so much for giving us some of your time. you're most welcome.

thanks. russia has suspended manned flights to the international space station, while it investigates what went wrong with a soyuz spacecraftjust after take off from kazakhstan.|t was dramatic and dangerous and it hasn't happened for decades, but the crew, a russian and an american, survived the emergency landing unharmed. and there is liftoff of the soyuz ms—10... a burst of fire and noise, as a soyuz rocket lifted its crew into orbit. at first, this was a routine launch to the international space station. then came this. less than three minutes into the flight, the commander, alexey 0vchinin, reported an emergency. the booster system had failed. the launch had to be aborted. moments later, the two men were plunging back to earth in their tiny capsule. the crew did train for this

nightmare scenario, the gruelling g—force their bodies would have to endure. but russia's soyuz rocket hasn't failed on launch in over three decades. for american nick hague, it was an abrupt end to his first ever mission. he was due to spend six months in orbit. ever since yuri gagarin launched into orbit, russia has been immensely proud of its space programme. this accident, then, will be a major blow. but it is notjust a matter of prestige. russian rockets are currently the only way up to the international space station. what happens now, then, is a big question. rescuers were quick to reach the remote landing site, hugely relieved, too, that the crew emerged unharmed, even walking. but all soyuz flights have now been suspended as an investigation is launched. the safety measures of this space — of this launcher are very good, and the two astronauts are well, they are in good shape. so therefore i think we should

investigate the case, and as soon as possible fly again. tonight, the astronauts were reunited with their families. for them, it was a moment ofjoy. for russia, though, a time of tough questions over what exactly went so wrong here. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. we'll get more on that a little later in the programme from a space policy researcher. researchers at the chinese academy of sciences are saying they've created created baby mice with two mums and no dad. the researchers say the bi—maternal animals were healthy and went on to have pups of their own. the team also had a go at mice with double—dads, but they died within days of being born. professor monika ward is from the institute for biogenesis research at the university of hawaii. professor, good to talk to you, what do you make of this? it's quite a

feat of genetic engineering, but what's the point? this is a very fascinating and comprehensive study that told us a little bit new about the special imprinted genes. the team, the chinese team, made some progress over what was known before. in 2004, a japanese group also developed offspring from the paternal parents, but the emphasis of this process was much lower and the mice were not normal. the new study shows plenty of the offspring could be obtained. they grew up well and they were able to have offspring on their own. however, there's still a lot more we don't know about these mice. you cannot ask a mouse she has a headache. i believe a lot of follow—up studies are necessary to investigate these mice and to be really sure that they are normal and

healthy. there's been some talk about it breaking the rules of reproduction, but i guess these things called rules are maybe for humans, that you need a dad and a mum, but not so in the rest of nature at all? well, if we're talking about the mothers, —— mammals, maternal and paternal parts are needed and they complement each other. for humans, we do need maternal and paternal genes. what we're doing now with assisted reproductive technologies and different genetic manipulations is ove 1120 m e different genetic manipulations is overcome this barrier and see if we can obtain offspring from only mums and dads, and that's what the team from china was trying to achieve. some female fish, reptiles, amphibians and some birds can go it alone. where do you hope that this might lead eventually? alone. where do you hope that this might lead eve ntually?|j alone. where do you hope that this might lead eventually? i think for 110w might lead eventually? i think for now it's teaching us a lot about imprinting genes. the technologies are being developed. perhaps in the

future we will be possible to obtain live offspring from two dads. we are definitely not yet there. even with the offspring from two dads... we need more investigations on the normalcy of these mice. thank you very much, monika ward. you're very welcome. ajudge in new york has dismissed one of the six sexual assault allegations against harvey weinstein. the dismissal relates to lucia evans, who accused the movie producer of forcing her to perform a sexual act. weinstein‘s lawyer claimed to reporters that this development taints the whole case. what happened here is harvey weinstein was so vilified that he was considered to be low hanging fruit. you just indict him and you worry about convicting him later. and, you know, what's happened is 110w and, you know, what's happened is now i'm drilling down on some of these allegations, and the district attorney's office is drilling down on these allegations, this case is

not what it was cracked up to be when it was first announced. kanye west has met president trump at the white house. in an epic monologue in the oval office, which seemed to leave the president fairly speechless, the rap star who now wants to be known as ye, declared himself a huge fan. he said mr trump made him feel like a superhero. he also said the best way to keep black americans off welfare and out of prison was to create more jobs. this is our president. he has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flysest planes, the best factories, and we have to make our core be empowered, we have to bring jobs into america because our best export is entertainment and ideas, but when we make everything in china and not america, then we're cheating on our country and we're putting people in positions to have to do illegal things to end up in the cheapest factory ever, the prison system. i'll tell you what, that was pretty impressive, folks! stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a special report from kabul on the taliban and

islamic state prisoners jailed for violence and disruption. parts of san francisco least affected by the earthquake are returning to life. but in the marina area, where most of the damage was done, they're more conscious than ever of how much has been destroyed. in the 19 years since he was last here, he's gone from being a little—known revolutionary to an experienced and successful diplomatic operator. it was a 20lb bomb which exploded on the fifth floor of the grand hotel, ripping a hole in the front of the building. this government will not weaken. democracy will prevail. it fills me with humility and gratitude to know that i have been chosen as the recipient of this foremost of eartlhy honours. this catholic nation held its breath for the men they call the 33. and then...

bells toll bells tolled nationwide to announce the first rescue, and chile let out an almighty roar. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a trail of destruction left by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the united states. russia suspends all manned flights to the international space station , after the crew of a soyuz rocket were forced to make an emergency landing. well, let's get more on that story now. and joining me now is bruce betts, chief scientist with the planetary society, which describes itself as the world's largest and most influential non—profit space organisation. he's in pasadena in california. first question, what went wrong?

well, we don't know exactly what went wrong, but about two minutes into the rocket flight with the astronauts and cosmonauts on board, around the time the first stage boosters on the side were coming off the spacecraft something went wrong. and that caused them to go into an aborted mode, where the space capsule that the people on board was ejected from the rocket and as part of this emergency mode. and then they had a harsh but save descent onto the steps of kazakhstan. harsh but safe, as you say. they must have had a pretty rough time. for a while when they getting seven times their body weight? yes. usually things are done so that you limit the ‘g load,

the exhilaration is to 3g is. in these emergency bought loads, like this one, in order to get them down safely, they were experiencing about seven times the normal acceleration of gravity on the earth. quite the intense right for a while there. what happens next? there are other ways to get supplies to the international space station, are there other ways to get astronauts and cosmonauts up? there are not, at this particular time. there are other ways to get supplies up, there are american rockers scheduled to ta ke are american rockers scheduled to take supplies in the next month or so, but right now be soyuz rocket, which suffered the fady, is the only way to get astronauts up to space. we anticipate some time in the next yearin we anticipate some time in the next year in 2019 spacex and boeing will provide a us access, until they have resolved the soyuz issue in the near

term, first investigating what went wrong and then figuring out what can you do about it and can you convince eve ryo ne you do about it and can you convince everyone is as safe, no one else is going up. there are pre— astronauts on the space station right now. they are safe, they have got supplies, they have their own soyuz cattle to return to work —— three astronauts. that is scheduled for december. they cannot extend it too much because of things that degrade in space. thank you very much. good to talk to you. good talking to you. thank you. afghan voters go to the polls this month in important parliamentary elections amid a deadly cycle of violence. 15 members of the border police were killed on thursday by taliban insurgents in the north of the country. the taliban control more territory than at any point since the removal of their regime 17 years ago. meanwhile the islamic state group have been active there in recent years adding to the violence. but many extremists have been captured. the bbc‘s ben zand was given rare access to a jail in kabul. kabul, afghanistan, a city in

lockdown. the threat from groups like the taliban and the so—called islamic state were constant and real. the country has been in a state of war since the us invasion in 2001, and now attacks are worse than ever. if i was to find myself talking to the taliban or the islamic state on the streets of kabul. that would mean that mick has gone very wrong. realistically, the early way to do it is to speak to them ina early way to do it is to speak to them in a prison. iam headed to afg hanistan's biggest them in a prison. iam headed to afghanistan's biggest prison. i heard about a taliban commander who had been involved in numerous ied attacks. but would he tore? the prison was separated into an area for the so—called islamic state and one for the taliban. that might talk. the prisoners were those that are free to talk. first up were members of is. do you admit you are

members of is. do you admit you are members of is. do you admit you are members of ices or do you say you are innocent? if you are all not members of islamic state, are you happy to announce what they do, the tactics they use, the people they kill? do you think the act of beheading people, killing people is acceptable? when i asked that question though, you two both smiled. what is funny about the concept of killing people and blowing them up? it seems unusual if you're not of islamic state and you think what they do is wrong that she would be so they do is wrong that she would be so unwilling to comment on anything that they do. it seems like you are scared because you are in fact members of islamic state. the so—called islamic state clearly were not in impicciatore, so it was time to try the taliban. this guy is supposedly a member of the taliban. he was the taliban commander i had heard about. there

have been some pretty deadly suicide bombings killing many innocent civilians in kabul. do you condone asa civilians in kabul. do you condone as a tax? —— those attacks? why can you not have talks, ceasefire, communication? what if you get to the gates of heaven and you tell god you've killed all these people and he tells you they are innocent and that you have not been a good muslim? before we could challenge in though

we we re before we could challenge in though we were told we had to leave. your time is up. 0k. the guards were concerned with our safety. the taliban were angry at the interview. that was my chance to meet the guys who terrorised this place. they are the people literally killing civilians on an almost daily basis now. and you can see why, because death is really nothing to them. this is a country desperate for peace. but for many here it feels further away than ever. penzance, bbc news, kabul. —— ben zand. and you can see more of ben zand's film in the series the world's most dangerous cities, which you can see on bbc iplayer. we wa nt we want to bring you a story about windrush but we don't have that story at the moment. let me just... waiting to be told what we are going to next. i am going to bring you

this for a moment. a singapore airlines plane is currently in the air, for what the carrier says will be the longest non—stop passenger flight on record. it's currently about ten hours into the 19—hourjourney from singapore directly to new york. tickets aren't cheap on the airbus a350, there's no economy class on board. it's due to end its trip of 9,500 miles — that's almost 16,000 kilometres — at newark airportjust after 10.30 gmt on friday. that story of the windrush generation. cam morgan was one of the so—called windrush generation. the people came to britain in the 19505 the people came to britain in the 1950s and 1960s from kuraby and countries. he arrived ten years old in 1960 -- countries. he arrived ten years old in 1960 —— caribbean. he went back to jamaica to visit family. when he tried to return his passport was confiscated. he has managed to come

back. june kelly was at the airport to meet him. ken morgan landed at gatwick airport on an early morning flight. back in the country where he grew up. but for 25 years he was barred from living here. home is not paradise. it isa living here. home is not paradise. it is a real place. england is home. good or bad. it was the emergence of the windrush scandal which finally exposed what had happened to him. you can't take the british out of me. it is impossible. but you don't realise it until you're in a spot. now 68, he was on a visit to jamaica in 1993 when he says officials in the british high commission that banned him from returning to the uk. they claimed he didn't have a proper british passport. i cursed england. i cursed the english. and then i said, to hell with them, to hell with everything. i said i'm from east london and there is nothing

here that can beat me. and, today, finally, a first whims of the area in east london where he lived from the age of ten. at first glimpse. he was heading for an overdue with his cousin. ken! how are you? and his aunt, adelaide, who's 95. 0h cousin. ken! how are you? and his aunt, adelaide, who's 95. oh my god. she is the one who raised ken. how is the family? they are good. i am glad to see him. glad that he headed for the post office, hoping to pick up for the post office, hoping to pick upa for the post office, hoping to pick up a biometric card. he faced another bureaucratic setback. they said it is not there yet. they

looked. they did not see it. they said maybe in a couple of days. ken will have a lot to take in. so many changes up to 25 years away. but he was determined his first meal here was determined his first meal here was going to involve some traditional british grub. tastes like home. absolutely. june kelly, bbc news. east london. that story happier than some. the plumb bob's goalpost spent today assessing the damage to their homes and businesses from one of the strongest onset of ever hit the united states —— people on florida's goalpost. the category 4, up to 240km/h will wince, two people including a child were killed by falling wreckage as the storm edit suite north—east. more on all the news for you on the website. thank you for watching. —— made its way north—east. hello there.

storm callum is approaching, and it is set to bring us some pretty wet and windy weather over the next few days. on thursday, it was a breezy day with a few showers around. this was the picture as we ended the day, taken by one of our weather watchers in reading, and now our attention turns to the west and this is storm callum, this developing area low pressure. as it moves in on friday and lingering into saturday, it will bring particularly windy and wet weather on the cards too. the rainfall totals could be mounting up, particularly in parts of south wales, where we've got an amber warning for the heavy rain, 40—60 millimetres of rain, could be even more over high ground, up to 100 over the two days. so this is how friday is looking then. let's focus in on the regional detail. on friday morning, look at the wind speeds, 50 or 60mph, maybe a bit more than that on exposed irish sea coasts, and heavy rain in the south—west of england, wales and the midlands. northern ireland will have seen the worst of the wet weather by sam friday morning, but very windy here and wet and pretty windy conditions in the bulk of scotland and northern england too, with those strong gusty winds. so particularly windy in the north and west too, but wherever you are,

you'll notice the strength of the winds. down towards the south—east of england and east anglia, you're more likely to stay dry for a good part of the day, and still pretty warm, temperatures once again up to 22 or so in the south—east. cooler further north and west, but actually mild wherever you are, but we've got strong winds and heavy rain to contend with too. so this area of rain becomes quite slow—moving through friday evening and into saturday morning, especially heavy in wales. and remember, we've got that amber warning in force for heavy rain in south wales, maybe flooding and disruption to transport as well. as we move through the weekend then, the trailing weather front from storm callum stays put through the day on saturday. it's just slowly edging a bit further eastwards. again, parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england, wales and the south—west of england

seeing the bulk of that heavy rain. strong winds again, especially down towards the midlands and the south—east of england. with that mild air in charge, in the sunshine, we could see temperatures up to 24, well above average for this time of year. as we move into the second half of the weekend, we'll see the rain edging its way further eastwards. perhaps a soggy start for london and the south—east. some rain and even snow over the mountains of scotland. when the rain and hill snow clears to the east, an improved today in much of the country but temperatures will be almost 10 degrees cooler on sunday than they are on saturday. into next week then, still pretty unsettled and breezy, with some showery rain at times. bye— bye. this is bbc news. the headlines: the scale of destruction wrought by hurricane michael in the us is becoming clearer. the storm hit florida and then made its way northeast. video shot from a helicopter shows rows of houses near coastal areas ripped from their foundations. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without electricity. russia has halted manned missions to the international space station

while an investigation is held into why the crew of a soyuz spacecraft were forced to make an emergency landing minutes after lift—off. the russian cosmonaut and his american colleague are spending the night hospital under observation. scientists in china say they've managed to genetically produce healthy baby mice with two mothers and no father. they took an egg from one female mouse and a type of stem cell from another. they then used gene editing to delete some of their dna to make them compatible. it's just after half past two in the morning.