this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: kurds under attack in northern syria say they will no longer prioritise guarding islamic state detainees if turkey's offensive continues. torrential rain and tornado—like winds claim at least nine lives injapan — in what could be the country's worst storm for 60 years. the president of ecuador places the country's capital, quito, under military control in an attempt to end days of violent clashes. an astonishing moment of sporting history as eliud kipchoge becomes the first person to run a marathon in under two hours.

i am the happiest of men to run under two hours, you know, to inspire many people, to tell people that no human is limited, you can do it. hello and welcome. kurds, who're under attack from turkey in northern syria, say they will no longer prioritise guarding detainees from the islamic state group, if the offensive continues. since hostilities began on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are thought to have died on both sides of the frontier, and more than a hundred—thousand people have fled their homes. much of the latest fighting has been in ras al—ain. our correspondent orla guerin is on the turkish side of the border. her report contains flashing images.

the front line in a conflict that is spreading fast. turning northern syria into a battleground. alarming washington and europe. the smoke is rising from the key town of ras al—ain. and inside the town, this pro—turkish fighter says "we've just arrived". and give thanks to god. then ducks to avoid incoming fire. but kurdish forces can't offer much resistance. ras al—ain has all but fallen and other towns are expected to follow. the turks and their allies are stamping their authority here. and syrian kurdish forces

are looking very much alone, urging the us allies to keep their side of the bargain after the kurds died in their thousands fighting islamic state. translation: our allies guaranteed us protection but they abandoned us without warning and decided unjustly to withdraw their troops from the turkish border. we call on our allies to fulfil their moral obligations. us forces aren't far away but they're holding fire as the kurds take heavy casualties. this footage, filmed exclusively for the bbc, shows american troops standing by at the edge of turkey's planned safe zone. even leading republicans accusing president trump of a shameful betrayal. and turkey's offensive is inflicting an agonising human cost. this motherfled ras al—ain,

carrying her sick daughter. she says the girl has had no food for the past four days and is barely alive. "what is this? " she cries. "erdogan, look at this." and in the kurdish stronghold of qamishli, mass funerals today for four dead. two fighters and two civilians. syria's kurds say they have given their blood to fight is for the world. but there is no help for them in their hour of need. typhoon hagibis has brought record rainfall, flooding and high winds to parts of central and eastern japan. at least nine people have been killed and millions of others

were advised to leave their homes. 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. on 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. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. that match between scotland and japan is going to go ahead. we will be speaking to a scotland fan later in the programme. stay with us to hear how excited she is that there is actually going ahead. the president of ecuador has placed the country's capital, quito, under military control in an attempt to end days of violent clashes between security forces and indigenous protestors. azadeh moshiri reports.

a sign that the state appears to be losing control, protesters occupy the roof of a government building. the violence appears to be worsening, more than a week after it began. the police response, teargas and hoses, while protesters build barricades and set fires to tyres. the demonstrators are demanding the government scrap austerity measures. fuel more than doubled when subsidies were removed. since the protest began last week, hundreds of people have been arrested, and at least one protester has died. reacting to these chaotic scenes, president lenin moreno has placed the capital under strict curfew and military control, insisting he would restore order in all of ecuador.

indigenous leaders have accepted to hold direct talks with the president, the first sign of a potential breakthrough. but for now, the country seems far from having order restored. rescue crews are trying to reach two workers trapped in the wreckage of a building under construction in new orleans. at least one person died and 18 others were injured when part of the new hard rock hotel collapsed. shaun hassett reports. get to the back... this is the moment when the upper floors of a building in downtown new orleans gave way. still under construction, it was set to be a new hard rock hotel, now it is a disaster site. there was lots of noise. we saw workers up there. i mean, it was crazy. ijust can't even imagine what was going on up there. it sounded like — we thought it was gunfire but it wasn't gunfire, it was a building collapsing. construction workers ran for their lives, as the building crumbled around them. some escaped injury

by a matter of metres. this man was on the 18th floor at the time. i turn around and i see one guy lose his balance and he kind of fell on the concrete and things werejust... smoke started coming from everywhere so i could not really see where, you know, the problem started at, but the concrete started falling. emergency crews were on the scene quickly, rescuing people from the rubble, then clearing the area around the building. a second part of the building fell off about an hour after the initial collapse. authorities say the remaining part of the building is structurally unstable and a further collapse as possible. they are also worried that a crane could come crashing down. obviously, this is very serious. and especially when you see the crane lifting away from the building. we know it is no longer secured to the building, and some of the building that collapsed is actually placing a load on the crane, pushing it back away

from the collapsed site. it is not clear at this stage what triggered the collapse. shaun hassett, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. a us diplomat‘s wife who left the uk, despite being a suspect in a fatal crash, has said she would like to meet the parents of the british teenager who died. harry dunn was killed when his motorbike collided with a car being driven from a us military base in august. a british government source says the uk is still a long way from agreeing a final brexit deal with brussels and talks in the coming days remain critical. intense technical discussions with the eu have been taking place this weekend ahead of a european council meeting next thursday. poland's populist government is being put to the test on sunday, as voters go to the polls for a general election. the right—wing law and justice party, which came to power in 2015, face a challenge from the centrist civic coalition alliance and left—of—centre lewica. the far right party, confederation, is hoping to enter parliament for the first time.

california has become the first us state to ban the manufacture and sale of animal fur. from 2023 residents will no longer be able to sell or make clothing, shoes or handbags from fur. the move has been celebrated by animal rights groups who have been calling for a ban for some time. but this is not my victory. this is the victory of activists that as you have said to have been working for many years. the united states humane society, animal hope and legislation,

and many, many advocates from all over the country who have fought to make this happen. explain to me what is included in this painfuljob as i understand it doesn't apply to things like leather and cowhide, does it? it allows leather, cowhide, shearling, from sheep, goat fur, because these animals primarily being raised and slaughtered for food. the fur is a by—product of that food production. we also have quite a rigorous way of legislating the conditions, in the united states, the animals are raised in and how they're slaughtered. that's not the case of the exotic first this bill is targeting who are slaughtered overseas, far away from regulators, often left in leg traps for days and raised in inhumane conditions. so we think it's a reasonable approach and one that makes sure that if you buy a garment in california that it's at least as reasonably cruelty free as we can assure you. there has been a backlash from the fur industry. they say that basically, you know, you will force a lot of businesses to close down without any kind of compensation or redress and that also this will make and create a huge black market,

because the demand will still be there even if the supply isn't in the same way. well, the city of los angeles, the largest city in california, which is a large estate in the united states, has already done this. and we haven't seen this kinds of affects. furriers can sell shearling, they can sell items made from leather, cow fur if they so choose. i'm not saying there won't be any impact on anybody, but i don't believe that this is going to be a hugely devastating impact and we certainly haven't seen that in los angeles or san francisco, which also has banned fur. are you expecting this to take off in the rest of the country, do you think? i hope so. we've already seen fur bans in the new york legislature and hawaii. so i do think this is a movement. we have had comments from people saying things like, wow, i thought we had on this years ago. in terms of the fur industry, they came forward and offered to try to set up a cruelty free sort of brand that would try to guarantee that they were manufactured in a cruelty free way, but they had many years to do that

and they haven't done it. and there's also no way of really guaranteeing compliance. so they of course opposed the bill but they didn't give us any indication that they've worked on this issue for years, even though, as you mentioned, it is something people have talked about for decades. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we take a special look at how social media makes big profits out of our personal data. parts of san francisco least affected by the earthquake are returning to life, but in the marina area where most of the damage was done, they are more conscious than ever of how much has been destroyed. in the 19 years since he was last here, he has gone from being a little—known revolutionary to an experienced and successful diplomatic operator. it was a 20—pound bomb

which exploded on the fifth floor of the grand hotel, ripping a hole in the front of the building. this government will not weaken, democracy will prevail. it fills me with humility and gratitude to know that i have been chosen as the recipient of this foremost of earthly honours. this catholic nation held its breath for the men they called the 33. and then, bells tolled nationwide to announce the first rescue and chile let out an almighty roar. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: kurds under attack in northern syria say they will no longer prioritise guarding islamic state detainees if turkey's offensive continues. torrential rain and fierce

winds have claimed nine lives injapan in the country's worst storm for 60 years. how many of us really know what we're agreeing to when we click to accept the terms and conditions as we access websites and apps? often, we're handing over valuable personal data for free, and, as our media editor, amol rajan, explains, it's a commodity that's increasing in value. very, very few of us give any thought to what we're signing up to when we give away our personal data online. all around us are machines whose very raison d'etre is to know us better than we know ourselves. alexa... what's the weather in london today? in london it's 19 celsius with clear skies and sun. com pa nies a re co nsta ntly developing their profiles of us. thank you.

this is an example from amazon of what is collected and analysed. content you viewed or searched for. the apps that we look at are part of an attention economy. in return for — often free — services, you donate attention and data. this is what you signed up for with facebook. we receive information about your online and offline actions and purchases from third—party data providers. that said, it's the world wide web which specialises in turning your personal information into a commodity. with starbucks, the website activity is linked to your social networks to allow them to track the activities of their members. all around us, invisible but forever accumulating, is an almost unimaginable amount of data. every time we look at our phones or make an electronic transaction, we're adding to it. and while you or i may not give this much thought, the most powerful companies in human

history certainly do. for them, your data is gold dust. this lawyer, who successfully brought a case against cambridge analytica, says it is about power as much as privacy. if the product is free, where is the cost? i think to most of these companies, you, the user, are not the customer. the customer is normally an advertiser that takes your personal information. it's about you having a say and some control over how that information gets used. surveillance capitalists take your private human experience, they turn it into behavioural data, they package it as predictions of what you will do now, soon and later, and they sell that to business customers who have a very serious commercial interest in knowing about what you're going to do in the future. in a world in which data is the most powerful commodity, the question of who owns and controls our data needs to be given much deeper thought. at the moment, a few — mostly californian —

companies are setting the terms of the debate. amol rajan, bbc news. very interesting. more now on the typhoon which has affected large parts of japan. the severe weather has affected the rugby world cup, but in the last hour it was announced that scotland's crucial match against the hosts will go ahead. had the game been cancelled, it would have been recorded as a draw and scotland would have been out. we now speak to scotland rugby fan, amanda gautherin whojoins me now, from yokahama. iam imagining, i am imagining, taking a wild guess, that you are very happy this match is going ahead? we are delighted. we have been waiting on this news for a few days since knowing if the typhoon was coming. we had a couple of earthquakes as well. everyone was

really nervous. we are all heading towards the stadium very soon. you have lived through an absolutely massive typhoon, what was it like? we got warned by the authorities 2a hours that everything was going to shut down. shopping centre, transport and we were told to stay indoors. we could go out and get essential supplies, food and water and then we stayed in throughout the store. it was weak, it got stronger, then died down again and all of a sudden the whole building shook and that was the most scary part. the earthquake, 5.7 in the epicentre, lasted for a couple of minutes. we are trying to translate warnings from local authorities. the storm

itself had a big impact, not only on potential matches in the right but also on infrastructure like trains and buses. what is happening in that sense? are people going to be able to get to the match from elsewhere? this morning, when we were waiting on news, we'll looking at the trains. they started running about an hour ago. running every 20 minutes on a slower service. the buses are running as well so hopefully all the fans will be able to get out there. i think everyone is leaving early. blue skies but a lot of wind, very warm, about 25 degrees. it might have an impact on the game. if it had not have taken place, scotland would be out. has there been any reaction from japan

fa ns there been any reaction from japan fans about the fact the match is going ahead? are they happy about it? we met a family a few minutes ago. they were delighted. i think the japanese people are really embracing the bulk up. not all of them are fans from before and they are them are fans from before and they a re really them are fans from before and they are really enjoying it. for them this is massive. obviously, they do not want the same outcome as we do but we're going to a wonderful time. enjoy the match and best of luck to scotland. come on, scotland! there have been big celebrations in kenya and elsewhere, after the long—distance runner, eliud kipchoge, became the first person to complete a marathon in under two hours. in a feat of seemingly super—human endeavour, he made it through the finish line in one hour, 59 minutes and a0 seconds. the reigning olympic champion, who also holds the official marathon record, was cheered on by huge crowds around a specially—designed course in the austrian capital,

vienna. i've been speaking to olympic medallist and us marathon record holder, deena kastor. i began by asking how thrilled she was to hear the two hour marathon time barrier had been broken. it's not a record but history has certainly been made. and it's the eve of the bank of america chicago marathon so there's a lot of excitement going into tomorrow's race. but to wake up this morning and see that he had broken the two hour barrier was certainly something to celebrate, that it is actually humanly possible. it was at all costs race. to me, kipchoge is the undisputed, history's best marathon runner. much like paula radcliffe is on the women's side. and it's because they own the world record in certified courses, not because they have broken any other barriers, like this two hour one. so for me, last year, kipchoge got there world record at the berlin marathon.

and this year kenenisa bekele, an ethiopian, wasjust a couple of seconds off his record. so in my euphoria i would have loved to have seen these two go head to head in a certified course to see if they could break two hours under all of the rules and regulations that this sport has. that is what it has had to do with. there has been a little bit of talk of, well, look, he had the pacesetters, he had the special shoes, he had the course done in a certain way. it is not really, it is not really ioo% fair. right. he didn't have to show up on a specific date with a specific time. he got to choose that. so there are a lot of factors that came into play. but to see now, much like roger bannister‘s sub four minute mile, to see that the barrier can be broken. i hope we can celebrate equally the person that can do it under all the rules and regulations that have been followed in the history

of our sport. do you expect that than to happen under official rules at a competition at some point. do you think that now that this has happened people will no longer think, wow, two hours, it's that impossible dream. it is so doable now? i absolutely do. they thought it was possible even before kipchoge did it today. i thought it was possible. and i hoped i would be alive to see it. so amazing that we could see such a wonderful display, a real teammanship. running seems like an individual sport, marathoning in particular seems like a lonely venture, but you could see through all of the collaboration between his pacesetters and all of the people who came together to make it happen that it was certainly a team effort and he gave tribute to those people that helped him throughout the course and the buildup and today. it was beautiful to see the pacesetters in the finishing sprint behind him truly celebrating before he crossed that finish line.

you can reach me on twitter. i'm @bbcmaryam thank you so much for watching. hello. our fairly changeable theme to the autumn weather is set to continue over the next week or so. low pressure in charge. this was the picture taken saturday afternoon in northumberland. we did have a bit of sunshine around here and there. i think sunshine will be in shorter supply for the north—east of england, in particular, on sunday. we've got some heavy rain at times. there will be some drier and some sunnier weather pushing in later on in the day. so a bit of a mixed story for sunday's weather. we'll have quite a few weather fronts on the map as you can see. low pressure still driving things, sitting out was the west. we start off the day, a bit of brightness around, dry weather initially across the far south of england and east anglia. but fairly quickly the rain will sweep in here. lots of rain across the bulk of england and wales, moving north—eastwards.

scotland and northern ireland start off with some mist and some fog patches, perhaps even a touch of frost for rural eastern scotland. but the rain will move in from the south, affecting many eastern parts of northern ireland, southern and eastern scotland too. but some sunshine returning towards southern england and wales. the winds generally less of a feature than they have been recently, but it will turn quite breezy across central and southern england, i think, behind that area of rain. now, temperatures around about 11—16 degrees. not great if you're stuck under the cloud and rain across the north—east of england, for instance. that rain will clear away towards the north sea through sunday night. so a bit of a quieter picture over night into monday. most places looking frost free. could just be a touch of frost for the most prone spots across northern scotland. some mist and some fog possible first thing monday morning. but we start the new working week, once again, with low pressure in charge. and we've got this waving weather front sitting close to the south—east of england on monday. some uncertainty about the exact positioning of any rain. but it does like we could have some heavy, possibly thundery downpours across southern and south—eastern england as well. a bit of rain also

for northern ireland, which could fringe into the likes of pembrokeshire and also cornwall. but actually elsewhere, quite a lot of dry weather. some sunny spells for northern england, eastern scotland as well. and those temperatures will be around about 12—16, fairly typical for this time of year, but things are set to stay really quite unsettled as well for tuesday. still some rain, especially for north—east england and eastern scotland. it does look like that should clear away fairly quickly on tuesday, so not a bad day. lighter winds, just a few showers. a respite, i think, after the recent rain in the south during the day on tuesday. 12—16 degrees the top temperatures, but more rain waiting out in the wings towards the west, and that sets us up for unsettled picture again through wednesday. into thursday, sunny spells, some blustery showers around and temperatures generally in the mid—teens. bye for now.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the fighting in north—eastern syria has intensified as the turkish army face stiff resistance from kurdish forces. the fighting has already left around 50 civilians dead. the kurd said they will no longer prioritise guarding detainees from the islamic state group if the offensive continues. typhoon hagibis has hitjapan with record—breaking amounts of rain. at least nine people have been killed and 15 people are reported missing. the storm has disrupted the rugby union word cup, but organisers have confirmed the match between scotland and the host nation will go ahead. the president of ecuador has placed the country's capital, quito, under military control to end days of violent clashes between security forces and indigenous protestors. in a tv address, mr moreno said the army would enforce a curfew and take all measures necessary to re—establish order.