in the gulf of oman on thursday. the us has released a video which it says proves iran's involvement. the uk has said its own assessments have concluded that iran was to blame. this is bbc news, i'm ben bland. our top stories: the world health organisation says the ebola outbreak in eastern congo is not an international public health emergency. the united states releases what it more than 2,000 people have says is video evidence of iran's contracted the disease since august last year. involvement in thursday's attack on two tankers in the gulf of oman. iran denies the claims. the world health organisation has stopped short of declaring days of heavy rain and flooding an international public health in central and southern parts emergency over the ebola outbreak of china have killing in eastern congo. dozens of people. days of heavy rain across southern thousands more have been rescued, china leave dozens dead, with many more evacuated with tens of thousands from their homes. events marking the second forced from their homes. anniversary of the grenfell tower block fire have been taking place in west london. 72 people were killed when a fire in a flat spread rapidly, the pope's message to big engulfing the building. hello. the weekend isn't looking as business on climate change — he tells executives urgent action wet as its dean but there will still is needed to limit global warming. be some rain or showers around at times because low pressure still is we have failed to listen to the raf helicopters have dropped close by towards the north—west of

more than 100 tonnes of gravel the british isles and around that to reinforce flood defences in lincolnshire, spiralling with a disturbance, fruits of scientific analysis, and which breached after more than two doomsday predictions can no longer months of rain fell in the space bringing bands of showers away in be met with irony or of a few days. what will be a fairly easy, not the village of wainfleet, near skegness, has seen homes flooded and residents evacuated, particularly warm weekend but a bit with unseasonably heavy rain warmer than it's been for some of prompting flood warnings across parts of the midlands, the northwest, and wales. us. warmer than it's been for some of us. sunshine, the chance of catching danny savage reports from wainfleet. showers on easy weekend and we start off on saturday morning quite wet in northern ireland, some rain here towards western parts of scotland through parts of wales and into western england so this first disturbance is to move east during the day. showers will become more several streets in the small town of patchy as that happens but still the wa i nfleet now several streets in the small town of chances that moves further east wainfleet now look like this after catching wanted to heavier ones. five days of rain. the nearby river ahead of it, sunny spells and a was overwhelmed. i think it was a shower, behind it sunny spells and wa nted shower, behind it sunny spells and wanted to showers developing. a breezy day, temperatures close to 20 little bit more urgency last night, once the power went off. 0bviously celsius in the warmest parts of eastern england though most of us in the dark it is difficult. the will fall a few degrees short of that. another disturbance bringing in more showers. this time it looks ca i’s in the dark it is difficult. the cars are underwater, nobody even had like showers towards southwest the chance to move their cars? cars are underwater, nobody even had the chance to move their car57m came over pretty quickly. the river england. clear spells elsewhere. as i’u ns came over pretty quickly. the river runs between two high banks but

yesterday one of them gave way. the surrounding land is lower, so a wide we go deeper into the night. area was very quickly flooded. that chillier spots will be dipping down close to mid single figures. that paul goes down six foot. you have a ta kes o nto close to mid single figures. that takes onto part two of the weekend. another look at the big picture. swimming pool in your garden, which has now turned into... one big pool! it's vu. low pressure is close by, no hurry to move away. again, these laura has only lived here for a few weather disturbances moving the west. the first of them with showers months. now she has had to move out indefinitely. i'm shocked. it'sjust doesn't happen to that river. i'm in north england, south—west just shocked. i didn't expect this. scotland, pushing further north are you insured? yes. but that could across scotland, another one developing with potentially have the downpours towards northern ireland, maybe to wales in the south—west as ta ke are you insured? yes. but that could take a while. yes, but we are all well. the chance of a shower elsewhere. if anything, alive, that's the main thing. next well. the chance of a shower elsewhere. ifanything, sunday well. the chance of a shower elsewhere. if anything, sunday is looking a bit breezy. still close to door, paul can only look in from the outside. he doesn't want to open a 20 across parts of eastern england, door in case it lets in water. it was like a war zone last night, as we take a look into monday. showers around. slowly trying to toing and froing with the truck some edge a bit further east. must‘ve sandbags, everybody pulled together, it was a really good effort from the each anglia and south—east england local community. and raf chinook was looks good. if anything, a few degrees warmer. things to turn brought in to drop a huge blocks of ballast to try to plug the gap and

mainly dry for degrees warmer. things to turn mainly dryfora degrees warmer. things to turn abridged banks, but the land here is mainly dry for a time on tuesday and a bit warmer. but then went from so abridged banks, but the land here is so low in places that much of the water which got in will have to be mid—week and then for the rest of the week, a few showers around 00:03:07,932 --> 2147483051:38:19,334 things will turn a bit cooler once 2147483051:38:19,334 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 again. pumped out. —— the gap in the breached bank. now on bbc news, in this cricket world cup year, we meet the players trying to take their team to the next level, and hoping their lives might just be transformed in the process. this is the stuff of fairytales! who would have thought? afghanistan will play in the second world cup. from the refugee camps of pakistan to top—flight competition, afghan cricket has had an amazing journey.

and the team is now among the top ten in the world. but this isn't just a sport. it is a passion that unites a country torn apart by a0 yea rs of unites a country torn apart by a0 years of war. rashid khan has got it! with celebrity players in international leagues. doing well, to bring the smiles on the faces of people back home. in this world cup year, we need to do players the sport to the next level. —— we meet the players. and hoping their lives will be transformed in the process.

hazrat hopes this will be his year. until he was 15, he had only played cricket with a tennis ball. now, at just 21, he is hoping to make the afg ha n just 21, he is hoping to make the afghan squad for the 2019 cricket world cup.

since then, hazratullah has gone on to become a world—class batsman. in 2019, he broke a world record,

hitting 16 sixes in a match against ireland. and he hopes this will be enough to book him a place in the world cup squad. a big smile on his face, and why not? cricket was almost unheard of in afghanistan 20 years ago. at the time, many afghans were living as refugees in pakistan to escape taliban rule.

and it was here, in the refugee camps of tissue are, but they learned the game of cricket. —— camps of peshawar. resonance i was one of the pioneers of afg ha n resonance i was one of the pioneers of afghan cricket. —— reza hamatzi.

after the fall of the taliban, players began to return to afghanistan, and cricket began to flourish. but in a country struggling to rebuild itself, sport was not a priority. afghanistan in trouble, they need 39

to win. scraping together what little money they had to finance a foreign tour. the team's breakthrough came when they defeated jersey in division five in 2008. the afghan team reached the qualifying stage of the world cup in south africa in 2011. but they were knocked out by canada. afghanistan's dream of reaching the 2011 world cup is over.

the team wouldn't get through to the world cup until 2015. when they went on to win one match against scotland. this year, they are hoping to improve their record. raees has now retired and is looking for the next generation of talent. raees knows what he is looking for.

he found one of the country's biggest stars, rashid khan, at a scouting event like this several yea rs scouting event like this several years ago. rashid is a legspin bowler who became the youngest ever captain ofan bowler who became the youngest ever captain of an international cricket tea m captain of an international cricket team when he led the afghan side at just 20. given! he has given it, rashid khan has got it! my mom was telling me, you have to be a doctor. never had a doctor in my family. ijust told my family, look, you are expecting me to bea family, look, you are expecting me to be a doctor but i love cricket, you know? i have enough skills, i can do it, i can go forward and i can do it, i can go forward and i can have a good future. my nephew,

my brothers, they are together in one i’ooiti my brothers, they are together in one room and they are watching my game, and if i do not perform, my mother says they do not eat. i am always trying to do as good as possible and bring the smiles on the faces of the back home people as much as possible, because they have, the only hope is cricket, they are watching on tv and it is something to celebrate there. rashid now plays in the ipl in india and other international leagues. the rock star, rashid khan. but although he is not often in kabul, rashid is still a national icon, who is carrying the country's hopes ahead of the world cup. we call this mural the and of hope. —— ambassadors of hope. i think every

single person who passes by this, you will see it, they say, thank you for painting. but living in afghanistan is not easy. we are a lwa ys afghanistan is not easy. we are always concerned about security issues that we have. standing on a main road and couple the resource —— a lwa ys main road and couple the resource —— always a chance of explosions, suicide attacks, kidnappings, all about. —— main road in couple. —— kabul. security is a serious concern here. deadly attacks happen almost every month. and even cricket, the source of such national pride, has been darkened. in 2018, eight people were killed during attack on a match in jalalabad and in 2017, a suicide attack on a cricket ground in kabul

killed three people. the team captain was part of the team playing that day.

i'll but in a blow to the fans, cricketing authorities have decided that for overseas teams, the risks are too great. the team is no longer allowed to play international matches at home in kabul. the stadium outside delhi has become the afg ha n stadium outside delhi has become the afghan national team's home ground.

ashgar has captained the team for yea rs. ashgar has captained the team for years. he hopes they will be able to play to a home crowd. and he has high hopes for the world cup. in preparation for the world cup,

the team will be taking part in a training camp in south africa. but before they leave, there is time to celebrate all they have achieved so to celebrate all they have achieved so far. the training camp will take the team thousands of miles from the security threats in kabul. and it will be the first world cup to of hazratullah

away from home. but while they will be looking forward to the trip, it will be the first long separation away from family, like his nephew.

but the team know there is lots of work to do if they are going to make the semifinals. the team have finally arrived in the ukfor the team have finally arrived in the uk for the world cup. where they will play a series of one—day internationals in scotland and ireland before starting the competition. it's a chance to get used to the conditions of the uk but it's cold and wet and most of the

tea m it's cold and wet and most of the team are fasting for roma done so they won't be easy games. and there has been a sudden change of captain. asghar, a captain with yea rs of of captain. asghar, a captain with years of experience, has been replaced by gulbuddin. he is playing in the ipl in india. it is a real blow for team morale.

with the pressure mounting before the game, hazrat courses family for some support.

when afghanistan last played scotla nd when afghanistan last played scotland in the world cup qualifiers, they lost, so they are keen to set their record straight. and prove they are worthy of a place in the competition. for hazrat, this isa in the competition. for hazrat, this is a chance for him to earn his place in the final spot. after a slow start with afghanistan conceding 315 runs to scotland, the pressure is on the batsmen like hazrat to turn the game around. but just a few minutes after going to the pitch, he is caught out.

it's a tight match but in the end, 00:24:26,045 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 rain holds play.