fairly similar to sunday, between 12 to 15 celsius, fairly average for this time of year. low pressure stays with us really weak, still a showers around, some sunshine, particularly on tuesday, temperatures generally generally in the mid—teens. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm: turkish forces continue to strike targets in north—eastern syria, on the fourth day of their offensive against kurdish forces. two people are killed — as typhoon hagibis — the biggest storm to hitjapan in 60 years, makes landfall near tokyo. cheering. a moment of sporting history — as 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 in order to inspire many people and to tell people no human is limited, you can do it. two members of the public are praised for helping to stop a suspect who stabbed three people in manchester's arndale shopping centre

yesterday. and coming up in half an hour, david sillito reports on the shortlisted buildings — including the winner — for the 2019 riba stirling prize, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture. good evening and welcome to bbc news. there've been fierce clashes between turkish troops and kurdish militias in northeastern syria. much of the fighting has been in the border area near ras al—ain. turkey claims its military has entered the town, but the kurdish led syrian democratic forces dispute this. since fighting broke out on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are believed to have been killed —

and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes. ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone, across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. from akchakale on the turkish side of the border — our middle east correspondent, martin patience, has sent us 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. gunfire. allahu akbar. this pro—turkish fighter says they've just entered ras al—ain. almost immediately, there's incoming fire from kurdish fighters. gunfire. 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? this boy says he was at school when he heard an air strike nearby. he says the whole class dived under their desks. "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 about 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. martin patience, bbc news, on the turkish—syrian border. and martin spoke to us from akca kale earlier. bus—loads of fighters heading towards the border. as you were saying, they have the manpower, they have the weapons. they are, after all, a nato power. most people think it is only a matter of time until these key target towns fall under turkish control. they've already taken a string of villages from kurdish fighters. and we're also hearing news that pro—turkish forces have reached a key highway 20 miles

from the turkish border. so today was a day of significant military development. and despite all the international criticism, president erdogan says this offensive will continue. well, a little earlier i spoke to wa'el alzayet, who was a senior policy adviser to the us ambassador to the un, samantha power. he told me that washington was now weighing up what measures it could take to rein in the erdogan regime. sanctions could potentially hurt turkey, the turkish economy still has not quite recovered from the crisis that it went through a few years ago. it has been exasperated by tensions with russia, with iran and the ongoing syrian conflict. it could potentially have a devastating impact depending on the scope and the scale of these sanctions. the bigger issue here is that we have now an open conflict, at least in the rhetoric, between and within nato allies. this is extremely problematic from a geostrategic perspective.

i can only imagine how happy vladimir putin is currently right now. turkey served as the cornerstone of the transatlantic alliance to withstand soviet expansion after world war ii. and here we are, we cannot figure out how to assuage the security and political concerns of a nato ally and protect incredibly important counter—isis partners. it's very unfortunate. what's really important for your viewers and listeners to understand is that it did not have to get to this point. in 2014, 2015, there were plenty of opportunities to diversify our support for local counter—isis fighters and the international community, particularly the united states, chose only the ypg, knowing fully well that turkey would never accept them being the main leading force against isis. and we'll find out how this story, and many others, are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm

and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me tonight are joe twyman, who's director of the polling company, deltapoll, and the author and journalist, yasmin alibhai—brown. the biggest storm to hitjapan for 60 years has made landfall, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to the west coast. millions of people have been urged to leave their homes, ahead of the arrival of typhoon hagibis. from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports. this is the hii river near mount fuji. usually it is a clear mountain stream. today, it was turned into a raging, boiling torrent. across central japan, typhoon hagibis has dumped record amounts of rain. 0n the southern side of tokyo, the tama river is now close to bursting point. tens of thousands of people who live along its banks have been ordered to leave their homes.

the big dangerfrom 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, of course, when it reaches the sea. as night fell over tokyo, the eye of the storm approached, bringing winds gusting to over 140 kilometres per hour. this is the centre of shibuya, one of the busiest places normally in tokyo on a saturday night. i don't think i have ever seen it as deserted as it is tonight. in fact, the whole of tokyo is incredibly deserted. the centre of the storm has now passed to the north of the city and it does not appear to have brought the really destructive winds that were first feared. that is good news for everybody — including, of course, rugby fans. today, japan's rugby team had to wade their way onto a sodden field for some last—minute practice. saturday's big match between england and france had to be cancelled.

but there is hope that japan will be able to take on scotland on sunday in a match that will decide which team goes through to the knockout stage of the rugby world cup. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. i'm joined by dr mohammad heidarzadeh, assistant professor of civil engineering at brunel university in london, who is a specialist in the impact of typhoons. thank you for coming in. it's a pleasure. first off, looking at what typhoon hagibis is doing, what can you tell us about this? this is a special typhoon because they are different types, some are unique in terms of bringing a lot of rain, sun typhoons has a very high winds and some typhoons make a lot of

landslides but this is a type of typhoon that brings a lot of rain. the rainfall being injapan in the last 2a hours was the last league same as the total rainfall in the uk in one year. in london we had only 600 millilitres of rainfall in one year, but just the 600 millilitres of rainfall in one year, butjust the last 600 millilitres of rainfall in one year, but just the last 2a 600 millilitres of rainfall in one year, butjust the last 2a hours, we had 950 millilitres of rainfall in japan. we are just looking at the pictures. the amount of water is incredible. you can see on the screen. what does that do to infrastructure? what is the biggest risk? two main risks. the first is flooding, which is obvious. the next one which is more dangerous is landslide. because of too much rain and flooding, we will have some problems with instability of

land. landslides are the main problem in japan. just last year, we had a typhoon in japan and japan. just last year, we had a typhoon injapan and that typhoon made 2000 landslides in hokkaido, for example. this is just made 2000 landslides in hokkaido, for example. this isjust a picture of the seriousness of the situation. i've been reading that some reservoirs have had to let out some water to try to ease the pressure. japan is very used to natural disasters. yes. yes, sadly so. what sort of preparedness do they have in place? obviously, japan is one of the very well developed countries in terms of facing the disaster, they have very good infrastructures. last year, i was injapan for the surveys of the typhoon that was a category five typhoon. the number of deaths was 89. this really

shows... for comparison, a category five typhoon in the caribbean just two years ago, hurricane maria, had hundreds of deaths. japan is very well prepared. they have very good infrastructure in terms of controlling the flooding with dams. sometimes when we have a lot of water, we have to release some of the water through the reservoirs. i know there was a 5.5 earthquake that also struck. i mean it just earthquake that also struck. i mean itjust all came earthquake that also struck. i mean it just all came at the earthquake that also struck. i mean itjust all came at the same time but ina itjust all came at the same time but in a different area i understand. yeah. ijust want but in a different area i understand. yeah. i just want to touch on climate change because, obviously, you are involved in civil engineering. and how weather is affecting us and it will affect our surroundings and where we live. is this something, as a civil engineer, you have to take into consideration? that weather patterns are going to affect how we live and how we plan oui’ affect how we live and how we plan our living areas?

obviously, we have more storms this year, this is very obvious and cannot be denied. not only more storms, but also more severe storms. just japan, for example, i was injapan a few weeks ago. if you remember, we had another typhoon in japan. i ago. if you remember, we had another typhoon injapan. i was there a few weeks ago. imagine we had a category five typhoon a few weeks ago and again today another category five typhoon. typhoon hagibis injapan 110w. typhoon. typhoon hagibis injapan now. this is very obvious that climate change is affecting us. when we look at the records of the past 100 years, we have much more storms, much more flooding, much more damage. just one more example of the disaster today. many of the places, many of the cities injapan, they recorded the maximum rainfall in the past 80 years. this is a very... big warning to all

of us to acknowledge this change and hopefully to prepare for making more investment for infrastructure, for making our societies, our communities more say. thank you very much. it's a pleasure. —— communities more safe. you are watching bbc news. the bbc understands that a proposed law designed to increase legal protections for uk veterans who served in northern ireland has been dropped from the queen's speech on monday. a former head of the army, lord dannatt, told the bbc that the move was very disappointing. in july, boris johnson had promised that he would stop soldiers facing prosecution over historic allegations. the speed people in their 40s walk is a sign of how much their brains, as well as their bodeis, are ageing. that's according to an international team of scientists who've described the finding as an "amazing surprise". in a study of 1,000 people

in new zealand, they found that not only were slower walkers' bodies ageing more quickly, but their faces looked older and they had smaller brains. doctor leena rasmussen led the research and spoke to the bbc earlier. we measured it in three ways. in this study where all the data is coming from. we measured the average speed at which people are walking, the normal pace. and we measured the maximum speed without running and we measured a dual—task gait speed, meaning people had to recite alternating letters of the alphabet while walking. and each of these three measures are equally associated with accelerating ageing measures we have been investigating. we found in this study that people among the as—year—olds that we studied that the ones... the 20% slowest walkers had multiple signs of accelerated ageing, compared to the fastest walkers in the

study. there is definitely differences, and also across age and stuff but if you look at a population where everybody is the same age, you'll see that the ones who are slower, they will probably have the fastest ageing within that group. but there is obviously differences across age groups as well. the headlines on bbc news... 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. the kenyan athlete eliud kipchoge makes history after becoming the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre.

st helens have beaten salford red devils 23 points to 6 to win superleague's grand final at old trafford. st helens finished top of the regular season leaders, salford were big underdogs, st helens finished top of the regular season as runaway leaders, salford were big underdogs, and saints went ahead with tries from morgan knowles and zeb teyer. salford began the season as 150—1 outsiders to reach the final but answered back before half—time through jake bibby. st helens were always in control and after the break they stretched their lead with another try, this time mark percival finding a way through. 23—6 it finished, st helens lifting the trophy for the first time since 2014. ireland secured their place in the quater finals of the world cup with a 47—5 win over samoa. tries from rory best, tag furlong and this one from jonny sexton set ireland well on their way, but then bundee aki

was sent of for a high tackle meaning ireland had to play more than 50 minutes with just 14 men. but they went on to secure that all important bonus point try — who else butjonny sexton clinching it. ireland now have to wait to see what happens between scotland v japan to see whether they go through as pool winners or runners up. the republic of ireland have maintained their unbeaten record in euro 2020 qualifying, drawing 0—0 with georgia in tibilisi. the result means ireland stay top of their group ahead of denmark, who beat switzerland. in a largely lacklustre match of few chances, ireland had the opportunity to grab victory late on but brighton's aaron connolly missed two good chances. the republic's next match is away at switzerland on tuesday. there has been british success at the world gymnastics championships today with olympic champion max whitlock

regaining his title in the pommel horse event after an impressive routine in stuggart. ireland's rhys mcclenaghan finished third, becoming the first irish gymnast to win a world medal. for whitlock, though, this is his third world title. this time, for some reason, i'm speechless. i can't believe it. i got so emotional. i've got pins and needles in my fingers. i'm so happy. i'm so happy with that, it's unbelievable. a medal too forfor britain's becky downie. she led for much of the uneven bars event, only to be pushed down to second by belgium's nina derwael, who was the final competitor. and it's proven to be a day to rememberfor the downie family as becky's younger sister ellie took bronze in the vault. the vault was won by america's simone biles. it was her 23rd world championship medal, equalling the record

held by vitaly scherbo. kenya's eliod kipchoge has become first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. he crossed the line in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in vienna this morning. in the build up to his attempt, the olympic champion compared the feat to being the first man on the moon. 0ur reporter ade adedoyin was there. 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 place. on track and well ahead of pace. the detailed planning was paying off. some 41 pacemakers have been employed by the organisers to be part of this challenge and every time they go past this point near the finishing line, they rotate. just one of the many steps that have been taken by the organisers to ensure that kipchoge ducks under that two—hour mark. special shoes propelled

the kenyan further forward with each pace. they had calculated the optimum course and weather, taking into account his biorhythms and even projected a laser onto the road. but all this means it can't be ratified as a world record by athletics' world governing body. he's pointing. "come on", he says... as the finish line approached, the pacemakers stepped away and kipchoge strode into history. into the final 20 seconds, eliud kipchoge... ..looks over his shoulder. 1:40 the unofficial time. i'm the happiest man to run under two hours. in order to inspire any people. in order to inspire many people. to tell people no human is limited. you can do it. i expect more of that, for all of 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. what a moment. that's all the sport

for now. thank you. let's get more on that historic achievement from eliud kipchoge. and speak now to former team gb athlete, liz yelling, who competed in the marathon at the 2004 and 2008 olympic games. she joins me via webcam from poole. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. your reaction to that incredible news? it looks like we've lost layers for now but hopefully we will come back to her. —— lost liz. to find out what she makes of eliud kipchoge's achievement. riot police have clashed with indigenous demonstrators in ecuador‘s capital, quito, for the tenth day in a row. police fired tear gas and protestors responded with homemade mortars and fireworks. demonstrators are demanding the return of fuel subsidies, scrapped by the government last week.

a worker at manchester's arndale shopping centre and a member of the public have been praised for helping to stop a suspect who stabbed three people at the centre yesterday. counter terror police continue to lead the investigation into the attack. a 40—year—old man has been detained under the mental health act. mark edwardson reports. we think first this morning of those recovering from their injuries. at the arndale centre today, a very public show of support and reassurance for the people of greater manchester from its mayor, his deputy, and manchester city council's leader. greater manchester always does what it does best, which is to come together, bring things under control, reassure the public. that's what we're doing this morning. an enhanced police presence too, officers — some armed with submachineguns — on patrol as shoppers went about their business. we'd planned to come here all week anyway, so yesterday was no deterrent whatsoever for us. it'sjust going back

to work, isn't it? just a normal day, nothing to worry about. we are going to get over it, we will be there together, we will stand for each other. every time we have had an incident in the past, that rich diversity of the city comes together as one, as mancunians, and says, we are going to get on with life. police say a man with a knife lunged at people in the shopping centre yesterday. three are being treated in hospital for stab wounds, two others were also hurt. a 40—year—old man from manchester was arrested on suspicion of terror offences, before being detained under the mental health act. one of the things i'm asking the chief constable to consider is more use of stop and search powers. greater manchester police have been making more use of those powers over the course of 2019. actually, there has been a fall in knife crime here over the summer months. police are investigating whether the alleged attacker had any political, religious or ideological motivation. mark edwardson, bbc north west tonight,

manchester. let's get more on that historic achievement from eliud kipchoge. we will find out what the former gb athlete liz yelling thought of him. shejoins me via athlete liz yelling thought of him. she joins me via webcam from poole. hello! what did you make of the news? i thought it was incredible. hello! what did you make of the news? ithought it was incredible. i just thought it was a bit of fun. the way they can take away those uncontrollables that most of us have when we enter the race, such as the weather, the undulations of the course. and the kind of biorhythms. they have controlled those factors to create a perfect storm where he can perform at his absolute best. to create a perfect storm where he can perform at his absolute bestlj presume there's a lot that the sporting world can learn from that. although it is not an official record. there must be a lot of

statistics in there that can be taken statistics in there that can be ta ken forward statistics in there that can be taken forward and people can benefit from. it wasjust a really interesting experiment of human capability. if you are able to control the controllables to a certain extent, you can allow a certain extent, you can allow a certain individual to perform the best in that moment. but, practically, in terms of giving eve ryo ne practically, in terms of giving everyone or every elite at least —— everyone or every elite at least —— every elite athlete, he was selected because he was probably the most capable man on the planet in the moment. and itjust kind of all fell to that moment. the two hour barrier has been spoken about for many yea rs. has been spoken about for many years. he has raised marathons and proved that he has got very close to the two hour barrier. he was the perfect choice. the control factors that you've mentioned, the advantages that were given to eliud, do you think that take something

away from the achievement? no, not at all because he still has to run it with his own body. it's just an interesting concept to take away those factors. to have pacemakers all around him that take away the wind and the resistance factor you have confidence knowing that you are running at the right pace and very consistently. you are kind of the most perfect course with no undulations and twists and turns. from that perspective, it was just an interesting concept. i don't think it's necessarily something you do all the time but i think the two hour barrier was an exciting thing to have a stab at. do you think the two hour barrier, that record, can be smashed under normal race conditions? well, never say never. because it's a bit like the four minute mile, once someone had done it, other people believed it was possible. it's a bit like this. maybe now people believe that a

sub—2 hours is possible that many others will follow suit. and in race conditions perhaps. when you are running a marathon, we all hear about hitting the wall, but from your own experience, you achieved was it 2:28.23 back in 2008? what is the toughest factor for a marathon runner to overcome? the hardest part is the training. to get to the start line in one piece, having banked all yourtraining, line in one piece, having banked all your training, avoided illness and injury, that's the biggest hurdle. 0nce injury, that's the biggest hurdle. once you are on the start line and you have that fitness, it is executing your race plan. i would say the training leading up to that point is probably the hardest part to get right! how long does it take you to get to that start line in terms of training? it varies from person to person. but if you are a well trained athlete, and runners

that run all year round are used to doing marathons, they will have typically a three—month build—up towards a marathon. a specific training block. if you are a new athlete, you may need to do a little more bass training before you move into that phase. —— base training. typically it is a 12 week block. some people take longer, some people ta ke some people take longer, some people take less. finally, very quickly, the state of a marathon runner and particularly eliud kipchoge's lungs and heart must be incredible. from your experience, what does the human body go through? the human body is incredibly adaptable. he's been running for many, many years, as i did from a child. and you have a massively enhanced heart that can pump much more blood around the body than an untrained athlete. your lung capacity, you know, will be much greater than the average person. and your ability to pump oxygen into the

blood much quicker. training creates massive adaptations in the body. 0bviously, eliud has a natural capacity for that, as well as the training on top. thank you very much indeed. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. good evening. we had a bit of sunshine around across many northern parts of the country on saturday. plenty of cloud and rain further south in general. this was the picture in stirling, we had a bit of blue sky but some cumulus clouds as well. through the course of this evening and overnight, the showers for parts of western scotland will tend to ease away but we'll stick with a pretty soggy picture across southern england. that rain moving northwards across tonight across the bulk of england and wales, not a particular cold here but further north under the clearer skies of scotland and northern ireland, there could be a touch of frost and the odd mist and fog patch first thing on sunday. which will be pushing its way north and east. some sunshine returning to much of england and wales through the afternoon. a

few isolated showers. temperatures around 11—17 degrees and there will be some rain lingering for north—east england throughout the day. monday brings more rain for northern ireland and the south—east of england but elsewhere, quite a lot of dry weather on the cards at top temperatures 11 to 17 degrees. goodbye for now. hello this is bbc news. turkish forces continue to strike targets in north— eastern syria, on the fourth day of their offensive against kurdish forces. two people are killed — as typhoon hagibis — the biggest storm to hitjapan in 60 years, makes landfall near tokyo. a moment of sporting history — as kenyan athlete, eliud kipchoge, becomes the first person to run