tonight at ten, the united nations is warning of catstrophic consequences for millions as yemen's war intensifies. gunfire saudi coaliton and government forces advance on the port of hudaydah, but rebel houthi fighters are digging in. the saudi—led coalition‘s aim is to strike a strategic, symbolic and financial blow to the houthis, but this advantage comes at a heavy cost. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, is in saudi arabia for talks to try to help bring about a ceasefire. also tonight: a couple who named their baby after adolf hitler are among three found guilty of being members of a banned neo—nazi group. it's a really dangerous, well—structured organisation. at the heart it has a neo—nazi ideology that seeks to divide communities. the prime minister says "significa nt issues" continue to block the path to a brexit deal with the eu. we have a special investigation looking at the children in england

spending days in school isolation booths designed for disruptive pupils. 31 people are now known to have died in some of the worst wildfires in california's history. # spider—man, spider—man. ..# and the creative mastermind behind marvel comics, stan lee, has died at the age of 95. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, early success for england's women as they look for their first win of the twenty20 world cup against bangladesh. good evening. the united nations is warning of catastrophic consequences as the fighting intensifies in yemen.

air strikes from a saudi—led coalition, which is backed by the us and britain, fighting houthi rebels backed by iran have nearly doubled in the first week of november, compared to the whole of the previous month. now there are real fears that the port city of hudaydah, which receives vital aid supplies for millions of people, could be destroyed. reports suggest 150 people have been killed there in the last 2a hours, with much of the fighting in residential neighbourhoods our correspondent nawal al—maghafi is in the rebel held city of sana'a. pushing towards the city — coalition troops led by the saudi and emirati forces are attempting to take the strategic port of hudaydah from houthi rebels. for three years, the conflict in yemen has been stuck in

a painful stalemate. this offensive could change the course of the war. but it comes at a heavy cost. a father in despair — he clutches the lifeless body of his three—year—old daughter. what do i do now, he cries. greed has become routine for the people of yemen. this time, a family killed in a coalition air strike as they sheltered in their home. the un has warned his current offensive could cost up to 250,000 lives. dawn, and the family begins to re m ove lives. dawn, and the family begins to remove the bodies. the fighting around the city has intensified since the us and uk called for a ceasefire. the houthi leadership say the coalition couldn't maintain this

offensive without the support of their main allies in the west. translation: the coalition is joined between the saudis, the us and the british, britain is directly involved in the aggression against the yemeni people. britain and america denied they are involved in any targeting in yemen, but of more than 500,000 people have fled since this offensive started. schools like this offensive started. schools like this are no longer places of learning, they are now homeless for dozens learning, they are now homeless for d oze ns of learning, they are now homeless for dozens of families. children's classrooms now turned into makeshift bedrooms. they fear the winter months. the people here rely on the charity of others living nearby to survive. this family has seven children. along with everyone else, they face violence and hunger. translation: we are victims here, we

face the threat of delft that any second,it face the threat of delft that any second, it can be a missile or warplane, we never know if we will make it until tomorrow, we are only alive because of god's mercy. the battle for hudaydah is having a catastrophic effect on an already dire humanitarian situation. the saudi—led coalition‘s aim is to strike a strategic, symbolic and financial blow to the houthis, but this advantage comes at a heavy cost and will no doubt leave yemen hungrier, poorer, and still at war. this is one of the last functioning hospitals inside hudaydah. children lie week, facing hunger. these pictures were shot three weeks ago. yesterday, the fighting reached the hospital. those who were strong enough lead for safety. for months, aid agencies have been warning that yemen is on the brink of the worst famine in100 years. yemen is on the brink of the worst famine in 100 years. every day this offensive continues, that threat looms ever closer. nawal al—maghafi,

bbc news, sana'a, yemen. well, the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, is in saudi arabia for talks, and he's been discussing the conflict in yemen with king salman. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale is here. james, what is jeremy james, what isjeremy hunt hoping to get out of these talks? well, i have spoken to his team, they are rushing for the airport to head home, and they are putting two things. they are claiming that the saudis are willing to allow 50 houthi rebels to be evacuated by the un to man for treatment. the reason this matters is that it was one of the pretext given early in the year, in september, by the houthis, to pull out of peace talks, so what he is trying to do is remove some of those barriers to some kind of process taking place to end hostilities. 0n a second front, he's claiming that the saudis and emirati is also willing to agree, or at least engage with the idea of no longer launching

air strikes with the idea of no longer launching airstrikes in with the idea of no longer launching air strikes in civilian areas, if the houthis themselves are willing to stop sending shells into riyadh, into saudi arabia. now, the problem with all this is that all of these talks and private communications and assurances given in private, we have yet to see any of this making a difference on the ground, and as we saw in that report, in recent days, since talk of a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities has begun, the fighting has actually intensified as both sides seem to wa nt to intensified as both sides seem to want to maintain as much ground as they possibly can be for any kind of discussions take place, potentially in stockholm later in a month. jeremy hunt did discuss the jamal khashoggi affair with the saudis, and he is reporting back that he believes there will be judicial steps soon. there is still a lot of confusion about that, we are waiting for the turks to complete their investigation, whether or not these audio tapes exist, the canadians are saying to do, the french have cast

doubt on that. so he is pointing to some progress, we might seejudicial steps soon. ok, james, thank you, james landale there. three people have been convicted of being members of the banned neo—nazi group national action. adam thomas and cloudia patatas, whom the jury heard had named their baby boy adolf out of admiration for hitler, were convicted at birmingham crown court, along with daniel bogunovic. we can now report that ten people have been found guilty of being members of national action this year, including a serving soldier. daniel sandford has the story. we're going to have white families and white children! a provocative national action demo before it was banned as a neo—nazi terrorist organisation after celebrating the murder of the labour mpjo cox. 0n the left here, giving the nazi salute, was the group's main organiser in the midlands, alex deakin. an open nazi, he recruited university students and even schoolchildren, and after the ban he took his members underground, borrowing tactics from so—called islamic state

and communicating using an encrypted chat group named after the ku klux klan. he and seven members have now been found guilty of belonging to a banned group. they are learning from other terrorist organisations how to communicate, how to radicalise, how to recruit individuals, how to gather weaponry and equipment. there's so much concern about the growing threat from extreme right—wing groups that the security service, m15, has taken over from the police in gathering and analysing intelligence on them. these groups are now being dealt with in the same way as other terrorist organisations. perhaps the most dangerous man in the midlands group was mikko vehvilainen, a serving lance corporal in the british army. he wrote about creating civil disorder and attacking national infrastructure and accumulated a personal arsenal of guns, crossbows and knives. he had access to young soldiers in his regiment, the royal anglian, and recruited at least three

to the neo—nazi cause. convicted of being a memeber of national action in april, he's been thrown out of the army, along with one of his recruits. one of the most extreme people in the midlands group was adam thomas, who also wanted to join the army. he and his partner, claudia patatas, gave their baby the middle name adolf, after adolf hitler. amazingly, just two years earlier, adam thomas had been in israel and trying to convert to the jewish faith, but by the time of their arrest, patatas and thomas were stockpiling weapons for the race war they thought they was coming, including a £1,000 crossbow. adam thomas even discussed stealing an assualt rifle from the army, and with his friend darren fletcher, seen here on the left, he talked about killing mps. and it's not been just talk. in wales, a former national action member, zach davis, was convicted of attempting to murder a sikh dentist. another, jack renshaw,

admitting plotting to murder his mp in lancashire. and a third, jack coulson, was found guilty of building a viable pipe bomb in yorkshire. national action was banned almost two years ago, but counterterrorism detectives are still unearthing signs of it operating after the ban and are still investigating some of those who founded the group. daniel sandford, bbc news. theresa may says brexit talks are in the endgame but negotiations are immensely difficult, and a deal on how the uk leaves the european union will not be struck at any cost. the prime minister is still hoping to announce a draft agreement with brussels by the end of the month, triggering a special eu summit. but now several cabinet ministers have told the bbc that mrs may should drop her current strategy for brexit, as they believe it won't get through parliament, and some are suggesting she should walk away from talks. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. her report does contain some flash photography. fanfare

trumpets can't drown out the turmoil. the prime minister had hoped by now to clinch her brexit deal but a pact with brussels isn't ready and some of her colleagues even believe she should ditch her plan or walk away. at a grand banquet in london tonight, she said she would stand firm. the negotiations for our departure are now in the endgame. we are working extremely hard through the night to make progress on the remaining issues in the withdrawal agreement which are significant. i will not compromise on what people voted for in the referendum. this will not be an agreement at any cost. and there is no shelter for her in parliament — and maybe not in cabinet either. allies hope she can find full support, but these don't sound like the words of a minister eager to sign up now. the important thing is that there's two checks on this deal. there's cabinet and there's parliament. so cabinet'sjob is to put

something to parliament that is going to deliver on the referendum result, and we need to work together as a cabinet to do that. i'm going to be supporting the prime minister to get a good deal for the country. lovely to see you. the brexit secretary is trying to make it work, but they might need more than a cup of tea to stiffen the nerves this week. sources suggest if the cabinet can't agree in the next couple of days, the government can't stick to its timetable of a deal with the eu this month. leaving behind my cup of tea. they may not want to say it publicly, but there are nerves at the top table over whether the uk could be stuck in a relationship with the eu even after brexit, with no way out. the prime minister is trying to get the very, very best deal for britain and our negotiating team are out in brussels. i wish them all good luck in making sure that we get absolutely the right deal. but the prime minister's allies believe she has to push on, though we understand there was widespread discontent in the heat of the summer over number ten's preferred proposal

struck at her country house, chequers. multiple ministers, remainers as well as brexiteers, calling the proposals worrying. it was and is a very unhappy compromise. but the prime minister and her allies are determined to push on. last week, cabinet agreed they had to try to get a deal this month. that means signing something of this week. but that seems to be slipping. three different cabinet ministers have told me theresa may has to ditch her current proposals because they simply won't get enough votes in here, in parliament. 0ne told me to continue this way would be to self—harm. another suggested it is time for her to walk away. the government seems to be running into trouble everywhere. labour's trying to make ministers publish their legal advice on brexit and might get enough support from others in a vote tomorrow to force them. of course, governments need confidential legal advice, but there are exceptions to that rule,

and we are in exceptional circumstances. we have what will be a legally binding treaty, and mps are going to be asked to vote for it. in those circumstances, we need to see the legal advice that sets out the base upon which our votes are being asked for. cabinet will gather once more tomorrow, but it seems again they will delay rather than decide. there is simply no refuge for theresa may or her government right now. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. the government says it has no immediate plans to loosen the rules on when police officers can stop—and—search people in england and wales. senior officers had been in talks with the home office about potentially lowering the threshold that requires the police to have " reasonable grounds for suspicion" to stop and search someone. but today, the policing minister nick hurd said there were currently no plans to change the rules. more than 200 schoolchildren in england have been kept in isolation booths for five? consecutive? days.

a bbc investigation also found that 5,000 children with special educational needs were put in isolation rooms?last year. they're facilities where disruptive pupils are placed to remove them from classrooms, but keep them in school. however, some experts say pupils are being detained too frequently, and for far too long. our special correspondent ed thomas has this exclusive report, 7 beginning?with the story of one pupil, ?who says he spent three months?alone?in a classroom.? the shelves, the windows, the bare walls — it was like that every single day. every single day. let me know if you get tired. i was quite athletic, i was happy. then i felt ill and that's where it all went downhill. how many tramadol did you have to take this morning? just the one. they put me in a room in my own so i was in isolation. how did you learn? i didn't. ijust copied out of gcse revision books. but nobody‘s ever marked the work.

that would happen for months. it was like they forgot about me. i didn't exist. casey says for three months he was in a room on his own. are you feeling 0k? yeah. his school disputes the length of time he was there. they insist, despite their best efforts, he was repeatedly disruptive. we've obtained these pictures of isolation units. they're now widely used across our schools. some resemble classrooms but most are lined with so—called consequence booths, where pupils sit at partitioned desks, facing the wall in silence. paul dicks has spent the last 15 years visiting isolation rooms as a school behaviour consultant. i've seen 50 children in isolation booths — children with asperger‘s and autism. i met one child who'd spent 36 days in isolation. that is not an education,

it's a custodial sentence. he says he's seeing more and more schools using isolation as punishment. where's the regulation around it, and the reporting? i ask the same question all the time, how many children here have additional needs? and the answer is always the same — all of them. but if it allows other children to carry on? totally unneccessary. separate them, help them to get back into the classroom, calmer and ready to learn, perfect. it is almost like we now believe that imprisoning children is the route to better behaviour. show me the evidence. 0ur information requests asked more than 1,000 secondary schools about their use of isolation. 600 replied. more than 200 schools in england use them, a dozen in wales, six in scotland and none in northern ireland. we've learned that more than 200 children spent at least five consecutive school days in isolation booths for a single punishment. we've found out that 5,000 pupils with special educational needs attended isolation and dozens

of those had education, health and care plans — pupils with complex needs. we've obtained the rules for hundreds of isolation units. two, which include bathrooms, don't allow children to leave for the entire day. not even to go to the playground or canteen. we have also been sent these pictures from a primary school — a room of isolation booths and a seclusion room. staring towards the wall? well, hopefully they won'tjust be staring... richard sheriff is the executive head of 13 schools. would you keep a child in here for a week? no. he believes isolation can be effective but only for short periods. would you ever have a child with special educational needs in here? it's extremely unlikely. any child with autism spectrum disorder, asperger‘s, for them it would be really hard, and you are just setting them up to fail. but he also says he understands why schools need sanctions. there is a gathering storm in the system regarding student behaviour. we have seen cuts in services

in local authorities and also the ability of schools to purchase a well—run alternative provision. schools are at a moment in history where they are less well funded than they have been in the past, where they haven't got the means to deal with all these ills. government guidance in england says schools are free to decide how long children should spend in isolation but it should be used reasonably and constructively. it only takes two or three pupils to persistently wilfully misbehave for that lesson to be completely decimated. this is the independent adviser on behaviour to the department for education. we've heard of over 100 children spending more than five days in isolation. is that excessive? it depends what is happening to them in isolation. i actually think it is a positive thing to do sometimes. it can prevent fixed—term exclusions by keeping them in the school, being looked after by the school, because a lot of the children we teach, for example, are at risk ofjoining gangs... in a booth, staring at the wall? well, some isolation places are like that.

that can be for a day or an hour or longer but very frequently these places are where children are given lessons and work. is it painful for me to touch you? no. for casey, his time on his own has had a lasting impact. i went into a deep depression. i locked myself in my bedroom every day after i'd come home. i shut the blinds and was in complete darkness. it felt like being isolated was normal. i wouldn't expect them to treat a dog like that. it was just vile. the department for education says children should be in isolation no longer than necessary, and that the health, safety and welfare of pupils must always come first. ed thomas, bbc news. at least 31 people have now died in the deadliest wildfires on record in california. more than 200 others are missing. hot, dry winds are continuing to help the fires spread,

and hampering attempts by thousands of firefighters to get them under control. the number of dead in the town of paradise, where thousands of buildings have been destroyed, has now reached 29. two others died further south near los angeles, after flames ravaged beach resorts including malibu. from there, danjohnson hasjust sent us this report. they are called the devil winds, and they are doing the devil's work. a hot dry, breeze that carries a wall of flame over these hills, straight through anything in its way. thousands of homes have burned to the ground, some gone in a matter of minutes. here in malibu, leafy coastal neighbourhoods have been charred to ash. the wind blew across it, and the firestorm started coming down the hill, and we had to run to the ocean. then itjust blew through here like a tornado. the rich and famous haven't been spared. welcome to my home in malibu.

this is film star gerard butler returning home to find there is very little left. this guy right here, tyler, saved the whole block. and on the edge of calabasas neighbours who ran for their lives have today been reunited. he put that tree out right there. tyler and his wife saw homes across the street burning, so he got his family to safety and then stayed to fight back the flames with his garden hose. there was a point i was standing on the roof saying, "i'm not going to make it out of here." the fire had surrounded us. you thought you were going to die? yeah, 100%. i was looking at a way to get away. the only way i could have gotten away was to jump off my back roof. it appears that they are starting to get a handle on it, despite the wind. today, others were at risk as the winds drove the flames on, taking more ground, threatening more homes. they are using every tool they have got. there are thousands of firefighters out on the ground and they have had success here.

they have beaten back the flames. but the problem is, new fires keep breaking out. there's a warning that californians may have to learn to live with this. this is not the new normal. this is the new abnormal. this new abnormal will continue, certainly in the next ten, 15, 20 years. containing the fires is the priority and counting the lives lost but the winds have picked up once more. five days in and the golden state still burns. danjohnson, and the golden state still burns. dan johnson, bbc news, and the golden state still burns. danjohnson, bbc news, california. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. the families of ten people killed in what became known as the ballymurphy massacre in west belfast in 1971, have attended the opening of new inquests. they've been campaigning to clear the names of their relatives, after their deaths in three days of violence involving british soldiers and paramilitary groups at the height of the troubles. lord lester is facing suspension from the house of lords

for allegedly sexually harassing a woman. the conduct committee recommended he should be suspended untiljune 2022. the peer, already suspended from the liberal democrats, described the allegations as "completely untrue". the england and liverpool footballer daniel sturridge has been charged with misconduct in relation to alleged breaches of the football association's rules on betting. the fa says the allegations relate to a period injanuary this year. somalia has for decades been ravaged by civil war, with tens of thousands of people being killed, and millions displaced from their homes. the islamist extremist group al—sha bab has established strongholds in the south and centre of the country, and it's extremely dangerous for journalists trying to cover the conflict. in all, 38 have died in the last few years. as part of the bbc‘s beyond fake news season, looking at threats to free and independent media around the world, our africa editor fergal keane reports now from somalia. this is the story of young africans,

risking everything in the cause of truth, in a place where nearly a0 journalists have been killed in less than a decade, where many are trying to rebuild a broken nation in the face of violence and division. and where honestjournalism calls for extreme bravery. fake news here is the same as fake news everywhere. lies masquerading as truth, propaganda being peddled as fact. the big difference, of course, is that fighting that fakery in somalia is the most dangerous job in the world ofjournalism. jamal khashoggi... hussein mohammed has been threatened by al—shabab and government forces. he spends much of his time trying to untangle the lies and false claims on social media, going out every day to check his sources. when you have more sources, you have more information. i try to get more different sources

when an event is taking place. that is the best way i deal with fake news. getting the facts means facing the horror that can involve somalia. —— engulfs somalia. a year ago, more than 500 people were killed in mogadishu in the worst terrorist attack in african history. we retraced the journey hussein made that day. i saw many people bleeding. as a journalist, we can't feel what other people feel. even standing here now, it's very dangerous. yeah. somebody can drive up, there could be a drive—by shooting or a bomb. to live in somalia is always very dangerous. we feel many threats, many insecurities. and you know, journalists are always killed in somalia. among the murdered, hindia mohamed, killed in 2015, a mother of five. as a woman journalist, she was a particular target of al—shabab. her husband, also a journalist, was killed three years earlier by the organisation.

today, her 19—year—old sister takes care of the couple's orphaned children. translation: she was the eldest daughter in ourfamily and i followed her example. when i graduated, i wanted to work like her. after she died, i thought, "i will be killed like her". so i decided to give up my plans for the future. but she says it is still her ambition to some day become a journalist. across town in a fortified hotel, a protest, demanding state protection for journalists. they have come to meet the information minister. many are young women. it is a striking image of change and defiance in this society. listening to the minister's promises of help is the radio presenter hussein. he always says such a speech and every government official tells you that they are

committed to protect you and you know, every year, manyjournalists are killed in somalia. in the audience, the father of a journalist shot by police. he is still waiting for the state to give him answers. foreign correspondents like me come and go, but hussein and his colleagues stay here and they could be killed any time. today, tomorrow, the day after. their courage is quite extraordinary and i can't stress enough how important it is, not just to the story of this country, but to the story of a changing africa. somalia will always owe a debt to the young men and women who struggled and sometimes died here for the truth. fergal keane, bbc news, mogadishu. the man behind marvel comics, stan lee, has died. he was 95.

he had a hand in creating several marvel characters, including iron man and the incredible hulk, which have appeared in some of hollywood's highest grossing films. lizo mzimba looks back at his life. # spider—man, spider—man. .. in comics... # does whatever a spider can...# in cartoons... in cinema... stan lee's creations have captivated fans for decades. he started in publishing in the 1930s at the company that would eventually evolve into marvel, where he helped create characters ranging from iron man and the x—men to black panther, and oversaw the development of many more as part of the marvel universe. i would be writing the stories, along with the artists we'd be working with, and we would all be hoping somebody would buy the comic