this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2. more than 30 flood warnings are 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. president trump warns saudi arabia will be punished severely, if claims it's involved in the murder of a saudi journalist are stood up. the chancellor is coming under growing pressure from his own mps to find extra funding for universal credit. also in the next hour — an amnesty on hospital equipment. patients are urged to return crutches, walking frames and wheelchairs to the nhs — so they can be reused or recycled. and in half an hour here on bbc news, britain's best new building takes a look at the candidates for this year's royal institute of british architects stirling

prize. good afternoon. parts of the uk are facing a second day of travel disruption with 30 flood warnings currently in place, including two in scotland, as storm callum continues to bring heavy rain and strong winds. 2,000 homes and businesses in england are without power, with some flood defences breached. people in one village in south wales spent the night on evacuation alert because of rising water levels, and passengers had to be rescued from a train stranded by flood water. tomos morgan reports. yeah, so it's streaming through the middle of the house at the moment. and you've made a drainage way

by taking out all of the... yeah, trying to keep it as central as possible. vicky's home has been ruined by storm callum. 0vernight the torrential rain that caused havoc across south wales has decimated herfamily home. i don't know how long it is going to take for it to go down. it is just waiting for everything to dry out, i guess, and see what happens from there. but a lot of people on the street don't have insurance or anything, so i don't know what they will do. or what i'll do. i'm not sure. the 29 houses on canalside where vicky lives were offered a voluntary evacuation last night, but all the residents refused and stayed with their belongings and homes. it is south wales that has borne the brunt of the storm. travel has been severely affected, with several roads remaining closed. here on the a470 between merthyr tydfil and the brecon beacons, ajcb has been called in to create extra drainage, as water pouring down

the mountain has been bringing debris with it, creating a huge risk for vehicles trying to pass on the road. train services have also been affected. a revised service is in place today. last night, these passengers had to be rescued from this train as the river burst its banks near aberdare. very dangerous for the train to move forwards or backwards at that point in time. the rail incident officer from network rail quickly assessed the validity of the line and made a decision at that point that it was wiser to evacuate the passengers rather than attempt to drive the train through the flood water. in carmarthen, thousands of homes have been without power and almost 80 flood alert and warnings remain in place, with the met office issuing an amber warning for heavy rain until this evening. for vicky and her neighbours, they are boxed in. water flowing from the back of the houses, and at risk of the canal overflowing from the front.

their clean—up operation won't be able to begin until this latest storm has run its course. tomos morgan, bbc news, the vale of neath. a reporter is in south west wales. we tried to get to the town of lampeter. this is the main road. and there are several feet of water on there are several feet of water on the main road. 0nly 4x4 vehicles are getting through and the town of lampeter has been cut off because the river has burst its banks and the river has burst its banks and the fields surrounding are com pletely the fields surrounding are completely flooded. president trump has said there will be severe punishment for saudi arabia if it is proved they were behind the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi. meanwhile the un

secretary—general has joined growing international calls to reveal the truth about the disappearance. turkey says it has audio and video evidence that he was murdered inside saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul. but the saudi interior minister described allegations that his country was responsible — as lies. bill hayton reports. jamal khashoggi walked through this door 11 days ago — 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. the 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. but the head of the united nations says that he's 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. we can talk to the editor of the

middle east website. he knewjamal khashoggi said when he saw him recently he could not have any sense his life was in danger. we were at a conference in london and he seemed his normal, cheerful, honest self. he did say to another friend in londonjust he did say to another friend in london just before he was worried about surveillance around him. but he thought he knew the rules. jamal khashoggi was not just he thought he knew the rules. jamal khashoggi was notjust a journalist but an insider. he had worked with saudi embassies in london and washington. he made a calculated risk. what he did not appreciate, i think, was what this particular regime would do and the lengths they would go to silence him. that was david hirst and we were joined earlier by someone from the policy institute at kings college london who said there has been more aggressive foreign policy. when he

came to power he was hailed as the great reformer and with that it would signal a new saudi arabia. during his time as defence minister and then crowned prince, we have seen a worrying trend that is more aggressive foreign policy. as suggested, yemen, the blockade of qatar, the argument with canada and domestically, repression has continued so while he has allowed women to drive and open cinema, there have been instances of journalists being repressed and any dissidents being crushed. pressure is mounting on the chancellor, philip hammond, to find extra money in the budget to support universal credit. the new system involves merging existing benefits into a single payment. this morning, one conservative suggested around 30 of her colleagues are concerned about how universal credit is working. the work and pensions secretary has admitted that some claimants will be worse off. 0ur political correspondent, matt cole, is here.

matt, tough choices, , for mr hammond? the budget is two weeks away and the issue of universal credit is bubbling up. all existing benefit claimants on the six benefits that will be rolled into universal credit, they will be moved on to that system next year, but despite government promises of money to ease the transition there are fears some families could lose hundreds of pounds, maybe £1800 a year per family and it is claimed they could bea family and it is claimed they could be a need for up to £2 billion to be pumped in to fix that and today we heard of the work and pensions committee heidi allen who said she and at least 30 other tory mps support the idea of pushing money m, support the idea of pushing money in, which could spur the chancellor

to act because there are votes on this issue, transferring people, next month in the commons, that would give an opportunity for unhappy mps to rebel and remember the chancellor is under pressure because theresa may said in her conference speech that austerity was over $0 conference speech that austerity was over so people are expecting. conference speech that austerity was over so people are expectingm conference speech that austerity was over so people are expecting. if you invest, where will the money come from? that is the big question, where he will find the cash. he intimated that while he is a low tax tory he intimated he might put up taxes in the budget and the problem he has is that he might make other tory mps who do not like taxes going up tory mps who do not like taxes going up very unhappy. we have heard him mooted the idea that perhaps he might cut the relief on pensions savings. that has gone down badly with some so he has a fine balance

tojudge. some suggested with some so he has a fine balance to judge. some suggested the ma nifesto to judge. some suggested the manifesto commitment to raise the threshold of income tax might be quietly dropped to make a fume or quit, to be blunt, but difficult decisions to make. talking about juggling. -- decisions to make. talking about juggling, —— to make more money. there are talks this weekend in brussels and officials will push on through. there is a summit wednesday at which the eu will assess whether we are in a position that a deal is looking likely and sufficient progress for them to arrange a summit in november. look out on monday when officials are due to go to brussels, behind—the—scenes folk, if you like, if dominic raab, the brexit secretary also goes, which would suggest progress is likely and worth remembering, if it looks like the deal is on, the chancellor has

put aside about £15 billion in the event of the no deal and so if it looks like a deal is happening that money might come back into play possibly for things like universal credit. thank you. let's take a look at other stories making the news this afternoon. thousands of patients with incurable breast cancer are being denied a dedicated specialist nurse, according to a leading charity. the government promised all cancer patients would have access to their own nurse by 2020. but according to figures gathered by breast cancer care, almost three—quarters of nhs trusts across the uk are not providing them. the department of health said it's "committed to increasing the capacity". small demonstrations have been taking place near a site in blackpool where fracking was scheduled to begin today. on friday, the high court rejected a last—minute challenge by environmental campaigners. the energy firm, cuadrilla, says bad weather has forced it to postpone drilling. it hopes to begin extracting

gas from shale rock at the site on monday. a man has died and another is seriously injured after a stabbing in hainault last night. one man was pronounced dead on the scene, and another was taken to hospital in a critical condition after the incident in northeast 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. so far this year, the total number of murders in london has reached 100. 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 reuse or as a donation to charity. hospital bosses say it's to reduce costs and the 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 it's 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. the headlines on bbc news: strong winds and heavy rain brought by storm callum have continued to batter northern ireland and western parts of britain. president trump says saudi arabia will be punished severely if claims it's involved in the murder of a saudi journalist are substantiated. patients are urged to return crutches, walking frames and wheelchairs to the nhs, so they can be reused or recycled. at least 12 people have been

killed in an explosion at an election rally in afghanistan. police say explosives were stored in a motorcycle near the event in the province of takhar. officials say dozens of people have been injured in the attack. some are critical. this latest attack comes after a wave of others in recent weeks ahead of next saturday's parliamentary elections. the taliban and other islamist groups are opposed to the election process and have targetted campaign rallies to deter people from voting. but security is not the only thing affecting people. afghanistan is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. people are now growing increasingly disillusioned with politicians. secunder kermani reports now from herat. every day this five—year—old collects water from this pump for his family. this poor neighbourhood

on the outskirts of herat is not directly affected by the fighting elsewhere in the country, but hardly anyone has piped water, and electricity only runs for around four hours a day. the boy's father, a shopkeeper, says he will vote in the upcoming elections, but he does not have much faith politicians will improve life for his family. translation: in afghanistan, no—one who has been in power has ever done anything for the country. they are just corrupt. poor people have nothing. despite billions of dollars of aid, afghanistan is a country still facing massive challenges. outside a united nations office in herat, a sum of around 200,000 people recently displaced from surrounding provinces by drought. translation: there was no water at all and no food to eat. all the streams and wells dried up.

now we are helpless. last year around a quarter of the entire afghan population faced crisis levels of food insecurity. this year, because of the drought, that figure will be even higher. the country has a long way to go before it can address people's basic needs. there has, of course, been some progress over the past two decades. as a woman, nahid would not have been allowed outside her home alone under taliban rule. now she's an mp and is fighting for reelection. we are experiencing a very new era of politics as women, but according to the money that came to improve the situation, and the human rights, we actually are not satisfied, and i think part of this money went to the corruption, to the pockets of a few people that they really did not

have the willingness. internationally, these elections are seen as a dry run for the more important presidential elections scheduled for next year. will enough people feel safe enough to vote? will the results be marred by fraud? this is a young democracy, but already people's faith in it needs reviving. secunder kermani, bbc news. let's get more run the disappearance of the common and saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. he was last seen 11 days ago entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkish officials say they have audio and visual evidence that he was murdered inside the building. saudi arabia denies the allegations. president trump has said there will be severe punishment for saudi arabia if it is proved that it was behind the

disappearance of mr khashoggi. mr trump was speaking to the us television network cbs, and 60 minutes programme. jamal khashoggi, the saudi arabian journalist, was minutes programme. jamal khashoggi, the saudi arabianjournalist, was he murdered by the saudi arabians, and did the prince give the order to kill them? nobody knows yet but we will probably be able to find out. it is being investigated and looked at very strongly, and we would be very upset if that were the case. at this moment, they denied vehemently, could it be them? yes. your son—in—law has got on the phone and as the prince, did he denied? they deny it, they deny every way you can imagine. in the not too distant future, i think we will know an answer. let's see they did, what are your options? would you consider imposing sanctions as a bipartisan group of senators have proposed? imposing sanctions as a bipartisan group of senators have proposed ?m

depends on the sanctions. i will give you an example. they are ordering military weapons. everyone in the world wanted that order, china, russia, we wanted it, and we got all of it. every bit of it. would you cut that of? i will tell you what i do not want to do. boeing, lotte kopecky my do not want to hurtjobs. i do not want to lose an order like that. there are other ways of punishing, to use a word that it ways of punishing, to use a word thatitis ways of punishing, to use a word that it is a pretty harsh word, but it is true. tell everybody what is at stake here. there is a lot at sta ke. at stake here. there is a lot at stake. maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. there is something... you will be surprised to hear me say that. there is something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. we will have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. thousands of people are taking part in an anti—far right demonstration in the german

capital of berlin. it's been organised by an alliance of political parties, trade unions and organisations all calling for solidarity and an open and free society. it comes after a number of far right protests were held in cities across the country in recent weeks. 0ur correspondentjenny hill is in berlin and says the number of people on the streets is in the tens of thousands. well, the police were expecting 40,000. there are easily tens of thousands and it is difficult to tell for sure where we are standing, but this is a mass protest. it is unusual to see so many people coming out for one demonstration like this. almost without exception, the people i've spoken to say they are here because they're concerned the german society and politics is shifting too far to the right, and this has been organised by many different groups, many different individuals, but

eve ryo ne many different individuals, but everyone is marching up and a hash tag which means indivisible. they say they want an open and fair society and many of those i have spoken to say they are concerned that the world is seeing germany through the prism of some of those pictures that you probably saw on your screens in the autumn, from places like chemnitz, where the far right were protesting, sometimes very violently against migration policy, angela merkel and so on and thatis policy, angela merkel and so on and that is concerning people here. they say germany is not like that, and it is not the country people like this wa nt to is not the country people like this want to 11. they say enough is enough and they are taking to the streets to make their point. hyperinflation has returned to zimbabwe, a decade after it destroyed the country's economy and a year after robert mugabe was forced out of office. local and international businesses have been closing their doors and the value of a fragile local currency has plummeted. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports from harare. zimbabwe is supposed to be on the mend, but right now, it doesn't feel like that.

0n the streets, hyperinflation is back. how much for one carrot? ten cents each. yesterday, how much for one carrot? five cents. as prices soar, people are panicking about how to feed their families. inflation here is too much. every day, every hour, every minute, the prices are changing. so what's going wrong? the politicians who kicked robert mugabe out of power last year insist they are taking tough steps to fix a broken economy. that means new taxes, and changes to a fragile local currency. people have to be patient, and this is the starting of bigger things. we have started on a very good note and the government is committed to reforms, so we need people to really be patient. but zimbabweans are not reassured. i remember coming here a decade ago.

empty shelves and devastating hyperinflation. people's savings were wiped out. well, i have just spent nearly a trillion dollars and i have got three tins of baked beans and some tomatoes to show for it. no wonder a nation cheered when president mugabe was finally pushed out a year ago. but the same party is still in power, and euphoria has turned to alarm. it is a complete dog's breakfast, a man—made dog's breakfast and one which is ridiculous because we have gone through this pain before, so it is a very depressing situation. there is no quick fix. cholera has now erupted in harare, the result of collapsing infrastructure, a reminder of the looting and the misrule of the mugabe era. it is no wonder that zimbabweans are worried. they fear that inflation will destroy their savings again,

they fear that this government will prove as corrupt as the last, and they fear that getting rid of robert mugabe may have been the easy part. for now, long queues for scarce petrol. and plenty of disillusionment. i was really, really optimistic. and now? it does not look like much has changed. instead, security is being tightened here as the new zimbabwe struggles. andrew harding, bbc news, harare. 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... hares 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. goody bags filled with commemorative fridge magnets, ponchos and chocolate coins from yesterday's royal wedding have been put up for sale on auction site ebay for up to £1,000. the bags were gifted to 1,200 members of the public who were in the grounds of windsor castle to follow the marriage of princess eugenie, the queen's granddaughter and ninth in line to the throne, to jack brooksbank. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. fantastic weather today. i have got it wrong, i am off tomorrow. sorry. i wish we could control it. we have so many computers. maybe we

could do that, but no. tomorrow, and you'd be off, across many parts of the country, it will be raining. there is more rain on the way that will start tonight and into tomorrow morning, but for some force, the weather tomorrow will be better. this is what is happening now. we still have a warning from the met 0ffice, still have a warning from the met office, we have had more than a millimetres of rain in the south of wales already. still the warning in force but the rain will peter out and this is the next dollop of lane. —— dollop of rain. it reaches the south west, central, midlands, wales as well, and the north west on sunday morning. note that where it has been raining is dry and watch what happens, the rain sweeping across the midlands into northern england, parts of east anglia. london will get rain as well but the back—end of the afternoon is looking better, so maybe you will dry weather. scotland and northern ireland at least, where it is

pouring right now, the good news is if you want some sunshine, it is heading your way tomorrow. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. strong winds and heavy rain brought by storm callum have continued to batter northern ireland and western parts of britain. president trump says saudi arabia will be punished severely if claims it's involved in the murder of a saudi journalist are substantiated. the chancellor is coming under growing pressure from his own mps now on bbc news, a special programme looking at the contenders and winner of this year's riba stirling prize for architecture.