this is bbc news. the headlines at two. a moment of sporting history — kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. iam the i am the happiest man to run under two hours, to inspire many people, to tell people no man is limited, you can do it. translation: my stomach was in knots, but now i'm feeling better, i am very happy thattel idea there's been fierce fighting in north—eastern syria, as turkish military continue their offensive against kurdish forces. typhoon hagibis makes landfall near tokyo, amid severe flooding and landslide warnings — it's the biggest storm to hitjapan for 60 years.

coming up — the latest gossip about brexit from westminster and brussels — in brexitcast. that's in half an hour on bbc news. 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 in one 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. ade adedoyin reports. 15 seconds... eliud kipchoge came to vienna with his sights set on one thing. running the quickest marathon ever. and from the word go, he was on track and well ahead of pace. the detailed planning was paying off. special shoes propelled him further forward with each pace. they calculated the optimum course and weather, taking into his account, his biorhythms and even projecting a laser onto the road. but all of this means he can't be ratified as a world record by the world athletics governing body. as the finished approach, the pacemakers stepped away and kipchoge strolled into history. into the final 20 seconds. eliud kipchoge! looks over his shoulder. 1:59:40 the unofficial time! i want to inspire many people,

to tell people, no human is limited, you can do it and expect all other runners around the world to run under two hours. already a great athlete with world and olympic titles, kipchoge will now be remembered forever. ade adedoyin, bbc news, vienna. thousands crowded to watch kipchoge‘s race on big screens in his home town of eldoret in kenya. the biggest cheers, of course, came from his mum's house. and she shared herjoy , and relief. translation: my stomach was in knots. but now i'm feeling better. i'm very happy that eliud has broken this record. back in vienna, kipchoge‘s coach, patrick sang, summed up the athlete's achievements. a special moment for the sport, for eliud, for the people behind him, including me, and it's, we gota

wonderful performance, wonderful feelings, we are going to go home a very happy lot. with pacemakers or not pacemaker, the distance was for the full marathon, the legacy of the whole experience is that it's telling us the message that we can ta ke telling us the message that we can take home is that no human is limited, that whatever we have been doing and thinking that this is the limit, the limit now is going to change, for everybody, for every human being at their work stations, whatever sector you are in, people are going to think positive, people are going to think positive, people are going to set their limits a bit higher than what our correspondent celestine karo—ney is in eldoret where eliud lives. to watch in his home village 300 kilometres from the capital nairobi i watched it with the people who had a deep connection with eliud. his

mother, friends, neighbour, to see the motions going through their faces as eliud, they watched each and every step as he went closer to that record and for each and every one of them you could see the emotions as they questioned themselves, will he, will he not? you know, and it was a really exciting to watch them at the end of their celebrating, in fact as eliud lifted his hands when he noticed yes, he could run under two hour, the celebrations had long begun in his mother's house, it was a really quite, it was quite a moment, it was one of those where were you kind of moments in life, and i think for many of those who were there today, especially in his village, they got that message that eliud has been trying to pass of no human is limited. when we spoke to them afterwards, all of them shared that message, they were yes, they impressed by what he did and they we re impressed by what he did and they were inspired by what he did. this is what some of them had to i is a a the race. it's good and i think it

if really someone wants to go for what she really wants you can really do that, if you really believe in yourself and trust in yourself. no human is limited to his abilities. this is history to be made. made. we are happy. he has told us he will do it, and that is why we we love him. we come last night waiting for this record to happen and it has happened finally. everybody in his village says eliud has been the kind of very disciplined person, in fact i asked his mother what kind of a child was he growing up. she said this was someone he growing up. she said this was someone who was listening, disciplined, obedient. i guess it shows even in his athletic,s you know, everywhere he goes, he does, he seems to touch people in a very positive way, and that is exactly what the message that, the people in

his village were passing through today, so, i guess it's something that they will keep celebrating, they keep celebrating, many of them just for the record did not really understand that this will not be an official world record but when i asked, many of them said we have made history, that is torrential rain and tornado—like winds are lashing large parts of japan, as the country endures what could be its worst storm for 60 years. the eye of typhoon hagibis made landfall shortly several hours ago in izu peninsula, southwest of tokyo. more than seven million people have been urged to leave their homes amid severe flood and landslide warnings. train services have been halted, and more than a thousand flights grounded. one man was killed in chiba, east of tokyo, when high winds flipped his car. 0ur correspondent in tokyo rupert wingfield—hayes has the latest. we're getting very, very big gusts of wind here now in the middle of tokyo, this is really the peak of the storm now, the winds have not been quite

as strong as was feared when this storm was moving towards the japanese coast earlier today. there are very strong gusts, but not so far here in the middle of tokyo the destructive winds that you know, that can come with such an enormous storm, but never the les i can tell you the streets round me here completely deserted. the odd taxi driving down the streets but not a person in the streets. incredibly deserted, eerily quiet in the middle of what is usually a very bustling city on a saturday night. what we have seen is an immense amount of rain falling over the last 12—18 hours, record amounts of rain in some areas, around mount fuji, where they saw around 500 millimetres of rain since friday. that has swollen rivers across the east coast of japan. and the three rivers round tokyo now are on a level five state of alert. that means that people living along the rivers have been told to evacuate.

that means tens of thousands of people have been told to go to shelters, to leave their homes because it is not clear whether these rivers are going to burst their banks tonight. let's talk now via webcam to mark stevenson. he's a scotland rugby fan in yokohama, waiting to hear if the team's scheduled match with japan will go ahead on sunday. welcome to you, thank you for being with us. no news as yet about that game, is there? no, we are expecting a pitch inspection i think about 6am oui’ a pitch inspection i think about 6am ourtime a pitch inspection i think about 6am our time tomorrow morning, so, got the evening to see how things go and give the best possible chance for the game to go ahead. that is ten hours or so from uk time. a o of fa ns hours or so from uk time. a o of fans are frustrated, what are your concerns? i think at the moment, the real concern is the flooding. we have just had the storm pass us, it is all quietened down, people are bah on the street, the winds have

died down as your previous reporter said, that you know, we have, don't appear to have had the destructive winds but we have had a lot of rain, we are right in the city, the stadium is further out, we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, but, if where we are is a good sign of anything to come it is a good sign, we will be hopeful the game can be played, whether that is behind closed doors or not. what warnings if any you been given advice by the authority, by the acou advice by the authority, by the acoll location where you are staying? so we were just advised to staying? so we were just advised to stay in, stock up on goods, so water, food and drink, stay indoors, while the storm passes through and we we re while the storm passes through and we were given evacuation details from the hotel in the event we have to get out quickly, fortunately, we don't seem to have been that affected by it and as i have said it seems to have passed any way, so hopefully we are in for a quiet

night now. we will see. fingers crossed the worse is over and done with, were you concerned at all, we re with, were you concerned at all, were you tempted to leave the area? no, not really. no. everyone was telling us that japan are geared up for these sort of things, so as long as you stay inside and follow advice everybody should be safe. and it certainly seems that way. we have had people, we have friends that decided not to come here and go to other places for safety and the opposite where people have come early so they are here, just in case the game goes ahead, but all the advice was good, following the official feeds on social media and so on, they are all giving good advice and it was simply stay in doors for the worse of it and you will be fine. as far as the game goes it a crucial game for scotland isn't it. a lot of fans are frustrated not least the team themselves that if the match is called off that is it for them. yes,

imean, to called off that is it for them. yes, i mean, to get to this situation, i think will be world or world wing by have a lot of questions to answer. we are frustrated as fan, the team are frustrate rapid. i don't think world cup or a team's world cup should end by a game being cancelled and missing out on the flay offs, so, yes, it is not good, it is not a good situation at all, and i am sure questions will be asked, everyone the fact the new zealand game is cancelled for example and not replayed because there is a lot of questions that will have to be a nswered questions that will have to be answered to. we hope for yours and all the fans sake, the game goes ahead. stay safe, thank you for talking to us. thank you. turkish forces have continued

to strike targets in north— eastern syria on the fourth day of their offensive against kurdish militias. pressure is building in the united states, to stop turkey continuing its military operation. kurdish authorities say more than i90—thousand people have been displaced as result of the turkish incursion, triggered by president trump's decision to withdraw us troops. turkey says it wants to create a 20 mile deep buffer zone across the syrian border — what it calls a ‘safe zone' — free of kurdish militias. from akcakale on the turkish side of the border, our middle east correspondent martin patience sent this report. despite the growing international pressure, turkey's not backing down. at the border, the build up continues. as turkey claims it's taking control of a key syrian town. this pro turkish fighter says they've just entered ras al—ayn. almost immediately, there's incoming fire from kurdish fighters. tens of thousands of civilians from the town have already fled. some are now sheltering in this school.

how do you explain it to a child? "there was shelling", says this man. "i had to flee my house in the middle of the night. we didn't know where to go. we walked ant six miles. and i'm sick and i don't have any medicine." but turkey's president says his fight is not against the kurdish people. translation: the west and the us all together say to us "you are killing the kurds." the kurds are our brothers and sisters, our fight is not against the kurds, it is against terrorist organisations. driven from their homes

by the fighting, that's not how these people feel. there are also reports that pro turkish forces have reached a key highway, 20 miles deep into syria, away from the turkish border. jan egeland was a former key adviser to the un special envoy for syria between 2015 and '18. he chaired the humanitarian task force responsible for the safety and protection of syrian civilians. he explained the number of people this offensive is already affecting. this is a region with more than two million civilians all together under the control of the syrian defence forces, so—called, of those, 1.3 million already need humanitarian assistance, so for every war day now, this is the fourth war day tens of thousands of new people are

displaced, on top of thes a mum mick needs in this area, all an argument for a ceasefire, mediation from the west, this insanity has to stop. turkey has very generously received more than three million syrians already. it is the most generous nation on earth, in terms of receiving refugees, european, we europeans can learn from turkey in that respect, but now they are displacing, turkey is the one displacing, turkey is the one displacing so people cannot go to where they sought refuge before on the turkish side, they flee from turkey, these people are not co mforta ble turkey, these people are not comfortable to go into assad government areas, so they end up fleeing inside this area from one displacement camp to another, again an argument for us saying it is not an argument for us saying it is not a tsunami, it is not a natural disaster, this is man—made from a to zand it disaster, this is man—made from a to z and it is the two allies of washington, of london, of brussels,

that are now clashing, and engulfing civilians, in cross fire. as humanitarians it is our role to be there in the hour of greatest needs of civilians but it very hard to provide real time assistance in a, ina to provide real time assistance in a, in a war zone, where you don't know what will happen next, and when there is cross fire and there is bombing, hundreds and hundreds of places have already been hit by air raids, or artillery, you know, fire, even the american soldiers say there have been close to being hit. it needs a ceasefire. the headlines on bbc news. the kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge makes history after becoming there's been fierce fighting in north—eastern syria, as turkish military continue their offensive

against kurdish forces. typhoon hagibis makes landfall in japan bringing torrential rain and strong winds — millions of people have been urged to leave their homes. 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, in the words of nhs england's chief executive, "simple and free and it can save lives." but simon stevens is worried. what are the points you think people need to learn from your experience? the percentage of children receiving the first dose of the vaccine is down for the fifth year in a row in england.

he says parents looking for information online are often being confronted by fake news. writing in the daily mail, he warns... the prime minister recently echoed his concern. i'm afraid people have just been listening to that superstitious mumbojumbo on the internet, that anti—vax stuff, and thinking that the mmr vaccine is a bad idea. that's wrong. here at the department of health, there has been much discussion about what should be done to increase vaccination rates. the health secretary, matt hancock, recently said he was seriously considering making vaccinations compulsory for schoolchildren in england but some in the medical profession warned that could make parents suspicious. simon stevens acknowledges there has been a lively debate on the issue,

though he stopped short of saying whether he believes vaccinations should be mandatory. he does, though, pledge that the nhs will make it easier for parents to get their children vaccinated and he has welcomed a commitment by social media firms to counter misinformation online. simon jones, bbc news. british and eu officials have begun a weekend of intensive discussions in brussels aimed at reaching a brexit deal. the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier gave the green light yesterday for the talks to take place amid speculation that the two sides might be edging towards an agreement. detectives are continuing to explore possible motives for a knife attack on five people in the centre of manchester yesterday. three of the victims were treated for stab wounds following the incident at the arndale shopping centre. a ao—year—old man has been detained under the mental health act. four major payments firms — including mastercard and visa — have pulled out of facebook‘s project to launch its own cryptocurrency. the scheme — called libra — has been strongly criticised by american regulators,

who worry it could be used for money laundering. the government is planning to change the law to reduce disruption to passengers when an airline goes into administration. the announcement, due in the queen's speech on monday, follows the collapse of monarch and thomas cook — which triggered huge repatriation operations. our business correspondent, katie prescott, has more. when thomas cook and monarch went under, the airline regulator, the civil aviation authority, had to cobble together aeroplanes from around the world to bring stranded holiday—makers home. even though many passengers were not covered by the industry's atol scheme, a decision was taken to repatriate them to avoid people facing long waits to get back. in effect, they built a shadow airline recreating travel schedules out of other company's transport operations costing more than £100 million. this new legislation will allow the caa to use an airline's existing infrastructure,

current planes and members of staff, aomething that hasn't previously been possible due to the uk's insolvency laws. keeping the fleet flying is one of the recommendations from the review into airline insolvency which came out in may this year, following that monarch collapse. it looked into the protections available to air passengers. the hope is this will reduce the need for government intervention and spending in any future cases. katie prescott, bbc news. and — before we go — how quickly do you walk? well, research out today has found faster walkers, in their 40s, age more slowly. using a simple test of gait speed, scientists found slower walkers' bodies not only aged more quickly — but their faces looked older — and they had smaller brains. cardinaljon henry 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. (read 0n) of the victorian priest and poet. earlier, my colleague julian worricker spoke to catherine pepinster, the former editor of the catholic weekly and the tablet who expalined a bit more about cardinal newman. 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 cardinal and ministered to the poor of birmingham. i imagine birmingham will be celebrating this day tomorrow. the decision that is arrived at here, how is that made? 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 saint to pray for them, 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 canonisation. then there was another one which caused the pope to decide he should be a saint. there are many people in rome conducting these studies. you mentioned what 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? i think that there is celebration that cardinal newman, a brit, has been made a saint. it is the first brit to be canonised for nearly 50 years. i think catholics here regard cardinal newman as someone to look up to, a thoughtful person who wrote a great deal about faith and they find that very inspiring.

in fact, people who aren't catholics might know him because he wrote the words of a great piece of music by elgar. and certain 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 and 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. a spanish parachutist was left dangling in front of king felipe as he came into land at the annual national day parade in madrid. it was all going so well. an appreciative crowd applauded as the parachutist descended gracefully to earth, trailing a spanish flag, impeccably unfurled, until his glide was brought

to an abrupt halt by the lamp standard. as the daredevil pondered his predicament, the applause resumed. king felipejoined in. wounded dignity aside, there appeared to be no lasting damage. now it's time for a look at the weather. . ladder anyone? good . ladderanyone? good afternoon . ladder anyone? good afternoon to you, not a great afternoon for pa rachuting, you, not a great afternoon for parachuting, certainly in the south pa rt parachuting, certainly in the south part of britain, you would need about a part of britain, you would need abouta 2,000 part of britain, you would need about a 2,000 foot cloud base at least and you will struggle for that anywhere near this weather front. further north a different story, no continue plaints please. the showers in the north and west of scotland, one or two in northern ireland being ushered along by a breeze, elsewhere, it is all sitting there this afternoon, certainly in the southern county, the best of the temperatures in the sunshine, round

about the humber, 15, 16, something of that order. 0vernight we will push this cloud and rain further away towards the north across the greater parent of england and wales, further north again, skies clear, particularly in the north east of scotland, you could end up with a touch of frost but it is a dank old do start the day on sunday in england and wales, maybe dry weather in the south—east, that may not last, but eventually we will push the rain up to the north, south—east scotland, further north and west in scotland, further north and west in scotland, northern ireland, and eventually wales and the south—west, you get to see a bit

this is bbc news, the headlines: the kenyan athlete makes history after becoming the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. the typhoon makes landfall injapan, the worst storm to hit the country for 60 years. fierce fighting in northeast in syria as turkish militants renew their offensive against kurdish forces. cardinal newman has been named as the first british saint of the modern era. now, any programme reported on

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