this is bbc news. the headlines at 12pm: 30 flood warnings are currently in place as storm callum continues to bring heavy rain and strong winds to many areas. as you can see, the river is still a lot higher than it usually is. usually you can see about a 12 foot drop down to the river but at the moment it is almost reaching the top of the bridge. the head of the un demands "the truth" over the disappearance of the saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi. it is absolutely central to make sure that the international community says clearly that this is not something that can happen. patients are urged to return crutches, walking frames and wheel chairs to the nhs so they can be reused or recycled. also coming up this hour: is it time to say "ta—ta" to the supermarket till? how customers may soon have to get used to a new way of paying for their shopping. the former france and arsenal striker, thierry henry is named as the new head coach at monaco — the club where he started his career.

and in half an hour here on bbc news, click speaks to director sir peterjackson about his work bringing archive footage from world war one into the 21st century. parts of the uk are facing a second day of travel disruption and flood warnings as storm callum continues to bring heavy rain and strong winds to many areas. one village in south wales has spent the night on evacuation alert because of rising flood waters and passengers had to be rescued from a train yesterday after it became stranded. our correspondent tomos morgan is in south wales. he sent this update on the disruption

caused by storm callum. storm callum has had a huge effect on south wales, flooding roads in the neath valley. it is really caused a huge issue. vehicles flooded, businesses flooded as well, and as you can see, the river is still hugely higher than it usually is. usually you can see a 12 foot drop down to the river, but at the moment it is almost reaching the top of the bridge. the fear is that as more rain pours down from the brecon beacons, this river could rise again and come onto this bridge as well and come onto this bridge as well and flood the place even further. and on the other side of the river, the floodwater from the rain has actually trapped a number of residents who are stuck now, there isa residents who are stuck now, there is a row of houses over there, in aberdulais and they can't get in and

out. underneath the railway tracks, there is about a foot and a half of water, which means no vehicles can come in and out. the residents there can't really get in and out. at the moment, although it has stopped raining, there is an amber warning in place for heavy rain until around 6pm this evening so this water is not going to go anywhere for some time. the flood warnings will remain in place for quite awhile. for the trains, there is an issue there as well. people are being told not to travel unless it is really necessary. there will be a reduced service as well. but as you can see, the effects of storm callum having a huge impact on the residents of the south wales valleys. earlier i spoke to bbc weather presenter alina jenkins. she started by explaining the areas most affected by the storm. storm callum has now moved away to the north of the uk. if you look at

the north of the uk. if you look at the graphic, there is an area of low pressure well to the north of the uk. there is a bit of tug of war between the two systems, so we have this really slow—moving front. and the concern is, we still have this amber warning across south wales because the rain is going to keep piling in along the front and have already seen in excess of 160 millimetres across parts of the brecon beacons. it gives you the idea of the amount of rainfall in less tha n idea of the amount of rainfall in less than 48 hours. you could face evacuation overnight, presumably if the water levels continue, and the problem will be rivers bursting their banks. that could well be an issue. we have the amber warning until 6pm this evening. the figure is around 160 millimetres. we know this is going to fall from the sky but what impact it can have once it falls on the ground, it can change

from hour to hour, but at the moment there are 32 flood warnings, that is there are 32 flood warnings, that is the second level of flood warning. we could see that from the picture isa we could see that from the picture is a little earlier. what is the picture looking like as this front moves away, once we get beyond 6pm? actually, the warning is valid until 6pm and the rain eases off for a time and then another pulse comes through so it is probably not going to be until tomorrow morning that we start to see that rain easing away and then the wind will drop, it will become drier, but then the rain will probably linger across eastern parts of england. we have got another 24 hours of rain to come, notjust across south wales but north—west england and scotland. we have got yellow warnings. so people really need to keep away and keep an eye on your information on the bbc weather website, listen to local radio. keep

up website, listen to local radio. keep up to date with your forecasts as well. we will have a forecast every half an hour but it does look like the wettest weather, the greatest concern is going to be across south wales and north—west england as well seeing very heavy rain today. we can bring you some pictures we have just had we can bring you some pictures we havejust had in. this is the train that became stranded yesterday in the cynon valley. the first reports at 3:30pm yesterday and the decision was made to evacuate passengers rather than try to force the train through the floodwater and when you see the conditions around it, that seems to have been a very wise thing to do indeed. the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, hasjoined growing international calls to reveal the truth about the disappearance of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. turkey says it has audio and video evidence that he was murdered inside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul. but the country's interior minister described allegations that his country was responsible as lies.

bill hayton reports. jamal khashoggi walked through this door 11 days ago and was never seen again. leaks to localjournalists suggest turkish police have documented evidence that he was interrogated, tortured and murdered within these walls. translation: government officials say they are going to publish the evidence soon. police have all the evidence, except for one thing — where is the body? that is what they are investigating. as investigations continue into what happened in these buildings, senior saudis have denied the claims. interior minister prince abdulaziz called them "baseless allegations and lies," but the head of the united nations says he is concerned about a breakdown in international law and order. i'm feeling worried with this apparent new normal because these kind of incidents are multiplying and it's

absolutely essential to make sure that the international community says clearly that this is not something that can happen. and the fact that khashoggi was an american resident has also put the us government in a difficult position. donald trump has said he won't cancel a $110 billion arms deal with saudi arabia, despite the allegations. the country is an important partner for western governments — many will attend a big investment summit there later this month. however, as several major media organisations and business leaders have already pulled out, more may follow, depending on the news from istanbul. bill hayton, bbc news. i'm joined by abdel bari atwan, arab affairs writer and journalist, who has known jamal khashoggi for many years. a sad occasion for you because you

knew jamal khashoggi very well. a sad occasion for you because you knewjamal khashoggi very well.|j have known him for 35 years and we work together. he is a very decent man, very polite, and he accepted other points of view. he worked for the government for more than 30 yea rs the government for more than 30 years and he was very loyal to the saudi royal family. he decided to speak up because the situation in his country was unbearable. he cared about the future of his country. he wa nted about the future of his country. he wanted people to live normally. they have got money, they have got everything, so why they should be in such a stressful situation? why do they fight a war in yemen and committing war crimes? that was his message actually. it still isn't clear, because for all the allegations that have been made, quite strong allegations by the turkish government, they haven't presented any evidence yet to justify their claim that he was killed inside the consulate. we heard the saudi interior minister say it was lies. if there is a death

case, we must have a corpse, we must have the body. until now, we don't, but in the middle east it is com pletely but in the middle east it is completely different. they dismember the bodies. they sometimes use simple chemicals or something to destroy it completely. we don't know yet. the turkish government, which should give us answers for many, many claims, like he was dismembered, he was killed, he did not leave the consulate, something like this, but this man actually was a victim. 11 days since he disappeared. we're risky? this is the biggest question. if the saudis say he walked out again, why isn't there cctv footage to show that and where is he now? the turkish government, according to reports today, want to actually use chemicals inside the consulate to find if there is any evidence of

blood having been spilled and then cleaned up. saudi arabia is disputing that at the moment but the two governments are cooperating on this. i am surprised. you accuse the government of killing the man and invite them to be part of the investigation, it is unbelievable. it is ridiculous. anyway, we must have answers. definitely there are cameras, definitely there are methods, if there is blood, they must check it to find out about it. the president has been engaged for some time in a fairly apparent conflict with the saudi regime in terms of taking different positions on some of the big dispute is happening. this is a really useful place for him, isn't it? he has put saudi arabia on the back foot. must there be some suspicion that tu rkey‘s there be some suspicion that turkey's motives are not the purist? maybe it is a crisis which actually

could give him some pressure on the saudi government to strike a deal because we listen to president trump of the us saying the crime did not ta ke of the us saying the crime did not take place on their soil, so they have a $110 billion arms deal which they are not going to swallow the bill, they are going to go ahead with it. i am thinking, there will be deals on the table, whether between turkey and the saudi arabia... because of the consequences, if he has been killed in the manner that is alleged, were written to disrupt the long established relationships between saudi arabia and britain or saudi arabia and the united states, that could be dramatic. it can be dramatic, definitely. i believe this is the last straw. i believe saudi arabia is cornered. they cannot go

ahead with this kind of policies, arresting dissidents, committing war crimes forfour arresting dissidents, committing war crimes for four years now, arresting dissidents, committing war crimes forfour years now, people are starving in yemen, so i think it isa are starving in yemen, so i think it is a clear message, but the pressure should be put on the saudi government by britain, by the united states, by western governments. the message is very clear, the saudi message is very clear, the saudi message is, no dissidents can be protected by the west. this is the free world, we can reach you there and kill you. jamal khashoggi, i know him personally, he wanted to stay in this country because he feels safer here. his solicitor advised him to apply for political asylu m advised him to apply for political asylum in britain, this is the only way, but he doesn't want to be characterised as a dissident. no, i ama characterised as a dissident. no, i am a writer, a speaker, a person, so

i don't want to be described as a dissident. so there is a responsibility on this country, the united states, the western world to protect those people. so pressure needs to be applied by western governments. thank you very much. thousands of incurable breast cancer patients are being denied a dedicated specialist nurse, according to a leading charity. three years ago, the government promised all cancer patients would have access to a designated nurse by 2020, but figures from breast cancer care show that almost three quarters of nhs trusts across the uk are not providing them. the department of health said it is "committed to increasing the capacity" of specialist cancer nurses, but the charity says more needs to be done. fracking for shale gas will not begin today after bad weather caused delays. energy firm cuadrilla has drilled two wells at its site in lancashire and will try to start again on monday. the company was given the go ahead to start fracking after a failed legal challenge. campaigner bob dennett took his fight to the high court but lost the case.

it will be the first instance of fracking in the uk since 2011 when it was linked with earthquakes. a man has died and another is seriously injured after a stabbing in hainault on friday night. one man was pronounced dead on the scene, and another was taken to hospital in a critical condition after the incident in north—east london. meanwhile, in a separate incident in hackney, a man suffered gunshot injuries and was taken to hospital. police said it is believed he was shot at by two people on a moped. last month the total number of murders in london reached 100. the headlines on bbc news: forecasters are warning more strong winds and torrential rain are on the way in northern ireland and western parts of britain from storm callum. the head of the un demands "the truth" over the disappearance of the saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi. patients are urged to return crutches, walking frames and wheelchairs to the nhs so they can be reused or recycled. an amnesty is being launched

by the nhs to stop thousands of nearly—new crutches and wheelchairs going to waste. patients will be able to return equipment for re—use or donation to charity. hospital bosses say it's to reduce costs and impact on the environment. jo black reports. crutches, walking frames, wheelchairs. if you're injured or struggling to walk, they're invaluable, but many of us are hanging onto these devices and cluttering up our homes. now, we're being encouraged to give them back. health bosses say returning equipment like this not only saves the nhs money but also helps to reduce waste. within our budget, that's £125 billion. to date, this perhaps has been seen as a small value item, that the cost of things like crutches is relatively low compared to many of the other things that the nhs is dealing with, so i don't think it's had sufficient priority within the nhs. a set of crutches costs approximately £7. a walking frame, around £18.

figures provided by the department of health show that last year, 212 trusts spent £6.4 million on walking aids, and half of that was on crutches. here at the mid essex hospital trust, reusing and recycling equipment is a big thing. around 2,000 pieces have been returned this year — that's a saving of £25,000. but returning nhs equipment can be confusing. there's no national policy. some hospitals tell people they don't need the items brought back, and quite often, patients forget they have even got them. yes, they are some of the cheaper and smaller items used by the nhs but if returned, they could make a big difference. jo black, bbc news. i'm joined now via webcam by lucy watson from the charity the patients association. thank you very much for being with

us. thank you very much for being with us. does this amnesty feel like a decision that is long overdue? yes, i think it does. what wheen —— what we know from patients is that they wa nt to we know from patients is that they want to return the equipment and trusts often say that they can't haveit trusts often say that they can't have it back and people find it really difficult to take equipment back. the other thing often is that if somebody has died, people often wa nt if somebody has died, people often want all that equipment to be removed because they want to be able to remember the person who died as they were before they became ill, and that equipment still there is a memory they don't want to have. are you able to get a sense of why there is this reluctance to go through the hassle and cost of actually retrieving equipment which might actually be more valuable than the cost of getting it back?|j actually be more valuable than the cost of getting it back? i think that has been one of the challenges, as we understand it, for the nhs,

that hospitals say it is more expensive for them to arrange to ta ke expensive for them to arrange to take the equipment back and to decontaminate it than to buy new. it can't be beyond the wit of people to find an arrangement where it could be cost—effective. maybe it needs to be cost—effective. maybe it needs to be organised across a bigger area than just each hospital doing be organised across a bigger area thanjust each hospital doing its own thing. that is one of the problems that arises when you have these different units with different budgets and different cost centres, that they find sometimes it is cheaper to just buy new, but it is not very efficient and in an age where we are supposed to be concerned about impact on the environment, trying to recycle and make the best use of things, it does seem perverse make the best use of things, it does seem perverse that a national health service can't come up with a way of doing this and benefiting from the economies of scale. absolutely, and in essex they found a way to do that so in essex they found a way to do that so it must be possible across the nhs to learn how they are getting it

right in essex and how they can make that work across the country. in the end, these are relatively small amounts of money set aside against the budgets we are talking about. this is not a magic bullet for helping the nhs. that is absolutely true but what patients feel, they know that the nhs is in hard circumstances and they want to do their bit to help by returning equipment and it is always good to look at the small budgets and save money that as well as the big things where we can save huge amounts of money. thank you very much. wise words there. an outbreak of the disease myxomatosis is being reported in british hares for the first time. scientists fear it could infect hares in a similar way to rabbits, killing huge swathes of the population. countryfile's tom heap reports. myxomatosis is a viral disease causing inflammation of the eyes, ears and lungs with death following extensive convulsions. it's been present in uk rabbits since the 1950s, often killing 99% of the population

in an infected area. but now, similar symptoms have been seen in brown hares in different areas across east anglia with hares in distress, dying and unable to run from humans. britain's leading authority on hares and rabbits, dr diana bell from the university of east anglia is leading the investigations. i wasn't expecting myxomatosis in hares. and i really hope that... hres have no protection in this country. 0n the continent, there is a closed season for shooting hares, not in the uk, so what i would hope for is an immediate ban on hunting. the scientists are awaiting postmortem confirmation of the virus. that could tell them how itjumped from one species to another and, most importantly, how virulent it could prove. tom heap, bbc news.

let's get more from dr diana bell from the university of east anglia. you'll have seen her in that report as she's behind this research. thank you very much for coming into the studio and talking to us. what first alerted you to the possibility that myxomatosis might have got across to his? i first heard reports in mid—september of a hare that was showing odd symptoms, didn't run away from a dog, and was found a few hours later. we asked a member of the public to take photographs and we collected the body. we were expecting it to be a different disease, which has jumped expecting it to be a different disease, which hasjumped from

rabbits to hares on the continent and killed large numbers. but it wasn't that. and then a few days later i had a second case, and then a third, and i realised something was happening, i contacted the wildlife trust, we did a press release and on thursday and the response from the public, we just said, have you seen any dead hares to mark can you let it snow? the response has been amazing. it has been terrifying, actually, because we have got reports from scotland, all the way down the country, of dead hares in large numbers. all the way down the country, of dead hares in large numbersm all the way down the country, of dead hares in large numbers. if it is myxomatosis, what is the implications for the hare relation? we are in uncharted waters.

myxomatosis has been in rabbits in the uk for 60 years and the big question is, why hasn't itjumped before? the obvious suggestion would before? the obvious suggestion would be that there has been a mutation in the virus, which means it is more likely to jump to hares. certainly the strain of myxomatosis that has gone through uk rabbits this autumn has been very virulent. it has killed a lot of rabbits. but there could be a change in vector, so there are lots of things we need to do. so you need more evidence, you need more corpses, not to put too fine a point on it. exactly. i'm worried that there's more than one disease going on. we have definitely got rabbits, we have got hares with myxomatosis symptoms, but we are reminded that other diseases kill ha res reminded that other diseases kill hares at this time of year. what i am getting our photographs and reports of myxomatosis, but we need

to scream and to see exactly what is killing them. the older viewers will have memories, certain people of my mother was my generation, for example, of the devastation caused by myxomatosis back in the mid—50s, wiping out by some estimates 99% of the rabbit population at that stage. you say there is still myxomatosis in the rabbit population now. is it less virulent? i have actually worked for about 25 years on myxomatosis in rabbits and what we see our annual epidemics, annual outbreaks, and it only affects at one time of year, and it still kills between 60% and 100%, because all oui’ between 60% and 100%, because all our young are attacked, but those that recover, and they can recover from the full—blown symptoms in rabbits, will then be immune for the rest of their lives, which can be

nine years, so it becomes an endemic disease in rabbits and we have to see if that is what is going to happen in hares. thank you very much. thank you very much for coming in and heroically holding on to the microphone for us. you did brilliantly to concentrate with that going on. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. we still have the amber warning from the met office across south wales for the heavy rain through the rest of saturday. it is valid until six o'clock this evening. we could see 160 millimetres of rain. the rain is most persistent across northern and western parts of the uk. we have got showers but also a good deal of sunshine for eastern counties through the afternoon. it is a windy day, at the —— especially across

england and way. the wind not as strong as yesterday across northern ireland and scotland. between 12 and 14 celsius in the north, warmer in the south—east. the rain will slowly start to clear away eastwards tomorrow, some spells of sunshine behind it. on monday, sunniest in the north and west, showers in the east. this is bbc news. 30 flood warnings are currently in place as storm callum continues to bring heavy rain and strong winds to many areas. the head of the un demands "the truth" over the disappearance of the saudi arabian journalist jamal khashoggi. patients are urged to return crutches, walking frames and wheel chairs to the nhs so they can be reused or recycled. hello there and welcome

to the programme, where we start england were awarded a 31 run wind using the duckworth—lewis method of calculating the score, so the next match is on wednesday. thierry henry is heading back to where his career began. the frenchman has been appointed as head coach of monaco. henry, who leaves his post as belgium's assistant manager, has signed a contract

untiljune 2021. the club are third from bottom in ligue 1 and sacked manager leonardojardim on thursday. henry began his professional career at the club and helped them win the league in 1997. henry is arsenal's record goalscorer and also played forjuventus, barcelona and new york red bulls. warrington play wigan in a repeat of the 2016 final that wigan won. it's a swansong for wigan coach shaun wane, who's departing after more than 30 years with the club as coach and player. for the wolves, well, they hope to win a first domestic title since 1955. i feel excited. i feel sad that i am leaving my dream job. but really excited that we are here for this final game, the grand final, so it would be perfection, it would be my dream, andi would be perfection, it would be my dream, and i would walk out of her a very happy man. from when i first arrived, it is not about me, it is about the team and

the club. what i have driven from november, it still stands, and i would be ecstatic for the players. after defending champions leinster started their defence of the champions cup with a win over wasps, bath are in action this afternoon against toulouse. exeter meet munster in pool four, scarlets host racing metro, and edinburgh play montpellier. this english golf player shows the lead —— shares the lead in south korea. joint on the leaderboard alongside the united states rival. she is only 23. final day, chasing a win.