this is bbc news. i'm julian worricker. the headlines at 12pm... a moment of sporting history — kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. i am the happiest man to run under two hours, i hope to inspire many people, to tell people no human is limited and you can do it. typhoon hagibis makes landfall in japan bringing torrential rain and strong winds — it's the worst storm to hit the country for 60 years. there's been fierce fighting around the town of ras al—ayn in syria — with conflicting reports as to who controls it. the head of the nhs warns the school gates have become a breeding ground for myths about the mmr vaccine.

coming up — click looks at whether electric cars are a credible replacement for petrol vehicles. that's in half an hour on bbc news. hello, good afternoon. the kenyan long—distance runner, eliud kipchoge has made history in vienna this morning, becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. the 34—year—old covered the 26.2 miles course in1 hour, 59 minutes and a0 seconds. but that time will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition. another reason for it not being recgonised, is the team of rotating pacemakers that he used, who were guided by a laser in the road,

which kept them within the two hour time limit. here's the closing moments of the run. 300 metres to go, he can see the finish line here! neil armstrong, we had on the moon in 1969. roger bannister, the four—minute mile 65 years ago. edmund hillary, the first man to climb everest in 1953. we have one minute to go. eliud kipchoge is on his way here. this humble farmer who used to run two miles to school every day and back, he used to go to the nearest town on his bike to sell milk at the local market and, now, through hard work and discipline... he is pointing! "come on," he says! eliud kipchoge has the hand of history on his shoulder! he has less than 200 metres to go! eliud kipchoge... let's keep an eye on the clock, into the final 20 seconds. eliud kipchoge! whoa!

1:59.40 the unofficial time. therre's his wife! eliud kipchoge storms into the history books in vienna! fantastic! 1:59.40 the unofficial time, the first man to run a marathon in under two hours. one final lung—busting stride for eliud kipchoge, one giant leap for human endeavour. eliud kipchoge was right — no human is limited. well, after the race, kipchoge compared his achievements to roger bannister‘s sub four—minute mile, more than 60 years ago. i am feeling good. it has taken 65 years for a human being to make history in sport. after roger bannister made history in 195a. it took another 63 years, i tried it and i didn't get it. now it is 65 years. i've tried and i am the happiest man

to run under two hours in order to inspire many people, to tell people that no human is limited, you can do it. i'm expecting more after seeing this, all of the world to run under two hours after today. 0ur sport presenterjohn watson has been watching the race all morning and joins us now from the bbc sport centre in salford. put this into some sort of context for us. it is a wonderful achievement, isn't it? yes, ithink symbolised by the pacesetters who helped kipchoge achieve that feat today, the way they celebrated at the end, they realise this is a unique piece of history and the fact they were there to achieve this alongside him was very special for them. but it is their presence and assistance that makes this time not an official world record. the three reasons this isn't a official world record is the presence of those pa cesetters, record is the presence of those pacesetters, the fact there were no

drink stations as you would normally see on a regular marathon attempt. it wasn't a race, was it? this was just kipchoge racing against the clock. but we were hearing about the list of achievements. you talk about sir edmund hillary ascent of everest, the first man on the moon, roger bannister‘s four—minute mile. it just goes to roger bannister‘s four—minute mile. itjust goes to show how much we love this see anyone attempt anything that has never been done. he attempted this two years ago in monza. he was 26 seconds short that day and of course he knocked 20 seconds of the target this time round. worth pointing out that he does hold the official world record as well, that was set in berlin one year ago. he now holds the unofficial world record, the sub—2 hour achievement. it has been a very special morning for eliud kipchoge and those pacesetters and his

friends and family who were there to watch in today. john watson there in sa lfo rd. watch in today. john watson there in salford. thank you very much. joining me now from her home near exeter is the british long distance runner, jo pavey. jo, jo, welcome. iwondered jo, welcome. i wondered what your thoughts where when you watch that earlier. it was so exciting. i think people are quite emotional towards the end, seeing his face and the cheering pacemakers coming in behind him. it was phenomenal. he really has pushed the limits of human endeavour. his famous phrase, "no human is limited," he has really achieved that. it was officially not an official race and there are factors that make it not an official world record but it wasn't about that, it was seeing what a human can achieve and it was phenomenal. i just loved watching it. so those factors you allude to. that doesn't detract from the achievement in your mind in any way? no, of course,

eliud kipchoge isjust a phenomenal athlete. he already has the official world record athlete. he already has the official world re cord for athlete. he already has the official world record for a marathon he did la st world record for a marathon he did last year in berlin. he has got the most perfect running style. he is just so determined physically and mentally. he is just just so determined physically and mentally. he isjust amazing. he inspires people with the comments he comes outwith. he doesn't say many words but when he does people listen because he is so inspiring. i think there are other factors like the laser lights they had beamed onto the road and the drinks from the bike which saves energy, the course was dead flat and it was just a repeated loop back and forth. but everything was made to be perfect but that was the whole point. it was meant to be a race. it was all about pushing the limits of human endeavour and seeing what a human could be capable of. that was really exciting. we haven't had a definite barrier broken since sir roger bannister back in 1964. 65 years we

haven't had a barrier like this broken and it was a really emotional moment. i think many people found that. it was a spectacle and as an athlete myself i don't know how he could deal with that amount of pressure, all that set up especially for him, all the people that had worked on it. he delivered. he is so strong physically and mentally. it wasjust amazing. he referred to this in the interview, he looked so fresh when he crossed the line, how much faster could he go in this? fresh when he crossed the line, how much faster could he go in this7m did seem like you could have gone faster. there were scenes of him running back and forwards high—fiving people in the crowd making sure they all enjoyed the moment as much as him. it was phenomenal. it was about making sure he broke that barrier. he kept that pace but there wasn't the scenes of him lying on his back. obviously the adrenaline of achieving something so

great gave him a massive surge of energy. he did look as though he could have gone even faster. even if he could, he has gone in history, he is the first person ever to do this. evenif is the first person ever to do this. even if people come along in the future and repeat the same performance or take it further, he has been the one. just like sir roger bannister is the first person to break the four—minute mile, he has been the first person to do this. people say it wasn't a normal race but it wasn't about that, it was about pushing the limits. he has been inspirational to athletes and people in whatever they do in life. you can achieve your goals and achieve things if you are determined and hard—working. if you get your heart and mind set on something you can achieve things. absolutely. jo, thank you very much. millions of people injapan have been urged to leave their homes as typhoon hagibis makes landfall. large parts of the country are being lashed by powerful

winds and torrential rain and there are warnings of flooding and landslides. flights and trains have been cancelled and two rugby world cup matches have been called off. one man is already reported to have died, after his car turned over in strong winds. 0ur tokyo correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes, sent this update. this behind me is the station in tokyo, and on a saturday afternoon this place would be jammed with tourists and shoppers. this here is the famous scramble crossing, one of the most famous sites in tokyo and normally on a saturday afternoon there would be thousands of people going across here but now it's pretty much completely deserted. that goes for the whole of tokyo, the greater tokyo area, everything has been pretty much shut down ahead of this storm, the whole metro system, the railways, both of tokyo's airports are closed down, as is the famous bullet train. and that is because, although it

doesn't look like it yet, in a few hours from now, we will have winds coming through here well in excess of 100 kilometres an hour. so, this is the tama river, one of the main large rivers running through tokyo, this is on the southern end of tokyo. you can see just how swollen it is already. there is now a flood warning in effect for people living on the banks of the river because, as you can see, it is already very, very high with more rain falling. this is the real danger for a typhoon of this size. huge rainfall has fallen over the last few hours up in the mountains to the rest of tokyo. now that rain is coming down the rivers, swelling them, and it's in danger of breaking the banks. this is just one of dozens of rivers along the coast here. it is always the big danger from these sorts of events is water. water is the thing that can do real damage, both if this river burst its banks, if it causes landslides in the mountains or if it reaches

the sea, as the typhoon comes up the coast in the few hours, it'll push a storm surge ahead of it, and as it meets the water coming out of these rivers that can cause flooding along the coast. that is the real test in the next few hours, to see what happens in these rivers hold. how high they go, and whether the flood defences hold. i'm joined now via webcam from tokyo by jake adelstein. correspondent for the daily beast in japan. how is itjust now? it is quite amazing. the rain is coming down so ha rd amazing. the rain is coming down so hard it is like being shot in the face of the bb gun. it is intense. you can hear the wind from the 17th floor of the building i'm in right now. it is going to get worse. it is an impressive storm. i think they

say it is the worst since 1958. fortunately there haven't been many casualties as yet but you can understand why people would cancel the world cup games. it is ferocious. and as you say, they could be many more hours of this. yes. it touched down at about 7pm away from tokyo. we are getting to the epicentre of this storm and already buildings are closing down. there is a skeleton crew running some of the subway systems but everything is shutting down, as it should be, because it is tremendous. you can't open an umbrella without it breaking apart in about five seconds. what sort of preparations we re seconds. what sort of preparations were people making in anticipation of this arriving? in tokyo people we re of this arriving? in tokyo people were duct taping their windows,

looking for places to go if the river overflows. a lot of people buying groceries at the last minute. the stores were sold out of water, eggs, basic supplies and things. they have been power outages in the past and people wondering what they will do if they run out of power. it is impressive about how quickly tokyo is impressive about how quickly to kyo ha s is impressive about how quickly tokyo has been to prepare by shutting everything down. you made a reference to it a moment ago, clearly the rugby world cup is on at the moment but there are serious doubts about some of the games that we re doubts about some of the games that were due to happen over the last 48 hours —— over the next 48 hours? yes, nobody knows how much damage it will do to the stadiums. the hmmfi will do to the stadiums. the forecast is for sunshine by tomorrow afternoon which would be great because i am rooting forjapan and i would love to see them play

scotland. that would be nice. but will that happen? i don't know. well, we will find that in the next few hours. thank you very much, jake. the united states has warned turkey that it's prepared to impose "crippling sanctions" if it continues to take military action against kurdish forces in northern syria. last night it was revealed that us troops had come underfire from turkish positions, but turkey has denied deliberately targeting american soldiers. 0ur middle east correspondent martin patience is following all the developments — i spoke to him a short while ago from sanliurfa on the turkey—syria border. the latest we are getting is from the turkish defence ministry, and they say they have retaken a town from kurdish control. that town is one of the key targets of this offensive. we've seen fierce fighting inside that town between kurdish fighters, the turkish military, as well as turkish backed syrian forces.

that gives you an indication of how complex the battle field is. from turkey's point of view, this offensive is continuing and it is achieving its objectives. we are also hearing reports that turkey has pushed up to a main highway which is about 20 miles from where i am standing and that highway is key because that would mark the border of what turkey is calling this safe zone. from turkey's point of view, this operation is going as planned. from the kurdish point of view, a real sense of betrayal. they are on the run and according to aid agencies, 100,000 kurds have fled from the border areas and they are pushing into southern syria. from the people i've spoken to on the ground, a real sense of chaos and fear as well. and for those fleeing the area, what sort of help is there available?

they're pushing out of the area of operations into towns and villages, still controlled by the kurds. some of them i was speaking to have been moving in with their families. there is some aid assistance in those parts of syria but the reality is for many they've simply left their homes, if they are lucky, with what they can carry. i spoke to one woman and she said the shelling just started, we ran out onto the street, families were split up, chaos, fear, these people have lost everything and most think they will never return to their homes again. what are the concerns that have been aired about so—called islamic state prisoners in the area? what is the latest on that aspect of this? that is the big fear because we know the one thing islamic state thrives on his case and that was what we are seeing

islamic state thrives on ——is chaos and that was what we are seeing in north—eastern syria, chaos as the turkish offensive continues. it is the kurds who have been looking at leading the fight against the islamic state but also they've been in charge of the detention of thousands of is prisoners and we saw yesterday that five of those prisoners escaped, the kurds have been very clear — if we are fighting the turkish military, we won't have the manpower to look after all these prisoners. what many fear is a prison break from is. they've done it in the past and they could do it again. i suppose everything you say illustrates the vast gulf there is between the political talk around the world and the reality on the ground. people have heard words in syria before. there is so much noise they probably haven't heard anything. there is nobody in syria from the kurdish point of view expects the international community to come to the rescue. they feel they've been

betrayed by america, although, ironically, it could be america that stops this offensive. what we are seeing is growing political pressure from washington on the american president. he himself has said he may carry out sanctions on turkey, which would hurt the economy, but, for now, the turkish president says this offensive will continue and i think what we will see in the next couple of days is a big push because turkey might acknowledge there is a ticking clock on this, and the longer this offensive goes on, we will see more and more international criticism. martin, thank you. the headlines on bbc news... the kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge makes history after becoming the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. typhoon hagibis makes landfall in japan bringing torrential rain and strong winds — millions of people have been urged to leave their homes. there's been fierce fighting around

the town of ras al—ayn in syria — with conflicting reports as to who controls it. cardinal newman has been named as the first british saint of the modern age. the prince of wales willjoin thousands of catholics from england and wales in the vatican tomorrow, for the canonisation of the victorian priest and poet. joining me now is catherine pepinster, the former editor of the catholic weekly and the tablet. a little more about cardinal newman first of all. what did he do or what did he stand for? he had a very long and very interesting life. he began life as an anglican, a member of the church of england, a priest. he was an academic, a fellow at oxford. he decided through many years of

thought and troubled thought that he should leave the church of england and become a catholic, which was controversial at the time in the victorian age. he lost friends. he lost the friendship of relatives even. but his canonisation tomorrow recognises that he was a very holy person, he was dedicated to god and to his fellow man. he was an author of many, many books but he was also a priest and then eventually became a priest and then eventually became a minister in birmingham. i imagine birmingham will be celebrating this day tomorrow. the decision that is arrived at here, how was that mate and who makes the ultimate call on something like this? there is a great deal of investigation that goes on, looking at a person's life and the person's writing, seeking

all kinds of evidence. but the catholic church also requires there to be miracles for somebody to have prayed asking this potential is saint to intercede for them and to enable them to be cured of a particular illness. there was one miracle for cardinal newman which led to his beatification, which is the state before full canners —— before full canonisation. -- before full canonisation. he mentioned were people in birmingham might think but more broadly when a decision like this is taken and i refer to the modern age, what does it mean to catholics here? refer to the modern age, what does it mean to catholics here ?|j refer to the modern age, what does it mean to catholics here? i think that there is celebration that

cardinal newman, a brit, has been made a saint. it is the first brit to be canonised in over 50 years. i think they see cardinal newman and someone to look up to, a thoughtful person who wrote a great deal about faith and they find a very inspiring. in fact, faith and they find a very inspiring. infact, people faith and they find a very inspiring. in fact, people who are catholics might know him because he wrote the words of a great piece of music by elgar. hymns have been taken from that. it is notjust the writings though it is the life that he led. he was a very pastoral figure did a lot for very poor people. he was an intellectual but there was a lot more to him than that and that is what people are recognising tomorrow. catherine, thank you very much indeed. there's a warning that parents' chatter at the school gates

has become a ‘breeding ground' for harmful myths about the safety of vaccinations against conditions like measles. nhs england chief simon stevens has spoken out after the latest figures showed a rise in the number of measles cases — and fall in the take—up of all routine jabs for under—fives in the last year. simon jones has more. the jab against measles, mumps and rubella is simple and free and can save lives but simon stephens is worried. what point do people need to learn... the percentage of children receiving the first dose is down for the fifth year in a road in england. he says parents looking online for information are often confronted with fake news. writing in the daily mail, he warns... the prime minister recently echoed his concerns.

i'm afraid people have been listening to that superstitious mumbojumbo on the internet with anti—vaccination stuff and thinking the mmr vaccine is a bad idea, that is wrong. the department of health have had much discussion about increasing vaccination rates. the health secretary matt hancock said he was seriously considering making vaccination compulsory for schoolchildren in england but some in the medical profession warned that could make parents suspicious. simon stephens acknowledges there has been a lively debate on the issue but stops short of saying whether he believes vaccinations should be mandatory. he does pledge the nhs will make it easierfor parents to get their children vaccinated and he has welcomed the commitment by social media firms to counter misinformation online. simon jones, bbc news.

scientists say that the speed at which people walk in their 40s can reveal a lot about how fast their brains are ageing. they've been studying a thousand people in new zealand from birth to the age of 45 — testing every aspect of their physical health. they found slower walkers' bodies were ageing more quickly —— and they had smaller brains. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina. for parts of northern ireland and scotland it is a mainly dry weekend but for others more rain is any forecast. the focus today for the rain is southwest and southern counties of england, south wales and east anglia. mainly dry to the north of this but still some sharp showers, for northern and western scotland particular. northern ireland and north—west england. wind is not as strong as recent days and temperatures reaching 16 celsius in the sunshine or 12 where there is rain. the rain pushes northwards this evening and overnight, as far

north as southern scotland by the end of the night. dryer was clear skies are further north in scotland dryer with clearer skies. and also northern ireland. more rain to come tomorrow across england, wales and southern scotland. large the driver northern ireland. further north across scotland, drier and brighter from the west across the afternoon.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge makes history after becoming the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. typhoon hagibis makes landfall in japan bringing torrential rain and strong winds —

it's the worst storm to hit the country for sixty years. there's been fierce fighting around the town of ras al—ayn in syria — with conflicting reports as to who controls it. the head of the nhs warns the school gates have become a breeding ground for myths about the safety of vaccinations. sport and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. let's get straight to the action at the rugby world cup, ireland on course for the bonus point victory they need to reach the quarterfinals. rory best, tadg furlong and jonny sexton means ireland are already thre etries to the good — four earns them a bonus point. they have though had a player sent off, bundee aki given a straight red card for a high tackle in 29th minute. in what is the only match being played today, two were cancelled because of typhoon hagebiss.

scotland will learn tonight if their match with japan tomorrow goes ahead, there's a pitch inspection at10pm. the scottish rugby union believe they have a legal case against the game's governing body. gregor townsend's side facing elimination from the tournament if the game is cancelled. and with irleand winning comfortably, they must beat japan if that game goes ahead. and if you wanted to knowjust how bad the weather is injapan at the moment... have a look at this... it's the japanese team trying to navigate their way out to training in tokyo ahead of that crucial match against scotland tomorrow. some of them happier than others to get their feet wet. kenya's eliud kipchoge has become the first person to run a sub two hour marathon. his time of1 hour 59 minutes and 40 seconds was completed in vienna this morning but wont go down as an offical world record