this is bbc news, i'm ben brown. the headlines at ten: remembering the fallen — after attending a concert last night, the royalfamily and senior politicians will be at the cenotaph in central london this morning. 10,000 veterans will march past the cenotaph war memorial after a service of remembrance led by her majesty the queen. floods in south yorkshire continue to cause chaos with seven severe warnings still in place, meaning there's a danger to lifem despite better weather today. we have got blue skies, it looks picturesque until you actually get into the village and you see

the devastation that has been caused to homes and businesses. it's complete... devastating is an easy word to use, but it's completely devastating and it's heartbreaking. in the election, there's a row over spending after the conservatives publish what they claim would be the cost of a labour government. fears that extreme weather conditions in australia could fuel more bushfires. three people have already lost their lives. and it's been described as the biggest internet event in history. british youtuber ksi beats his american rival logan paul on a split decision in los angeles. good morning to you. the royal family and senior politicians will join veterans in central london in the next hour, as the uk marks remembrance day.

there are two minutes silence at 11 o'clock, as people up and down the land honour those who lost their lives in conflict. as part of the commemorations, the royal british legion is trying to encourage young people to observe the silence by turning off their mobile phones. robert hall reports. on the streets of birmingham an army of poppy sellers. the last big push before britain's remembrance weekend. millions of us wear the flower which grew on the battlefields of the first world war, but is it enough to inspire new generations? the world is going so much faster so it's just about trying, for everybody, adults notjust children, to slow down, to think about everything and remember. ra njit, volunteering for the first time, believes remembrance has to move online. the younger society is too heavily influenced with social media now. it's the technology

that they have at their disposal. i think if they were to research it, it is probably the best platform to use. let's break the silence on the two minute silence and pause. this campaign from the royal british legion is a beginning with a simple message to all of us. so if we give them a second, or two minutes, is that really too much to ask? but will the initiative help to engage more of us with remembrance? poppy seller helen joined me at aston university to find out. most people don't go out of the way to buy the poppy because itjust seems like effort to do so. especially with my work with the students' union, we've realised that it's not necessarily collecting shrapnel in a box and going around knocking on doors, if we have more of an online presence. ijust feel like the poppies are more aimed towards the older generation, maybe. now they have started to go into other things that are notjust the poppy,

wristbands and things like that. i think it's a good idea. you can be silent and still be on your phone or texting, so by doing a cleanse for a few minutes to think about remembrance, i think that's a really good idea. robert hall, bbc news, birmingham. our correspondent sarah campbell is at the cenotaph in central london. thousands of people here taking their places, ready for the two—minute silence which will happen at 11am, just before then, the queen will take her place on the balcony of the foreign office, senior members of the royal family, politicians, religious leaders will congregate around the cenotaph to honour that two minutes and observe the two—minute silence. it is a hugely important day, notjust for the 10,000 veterans who will be

marching past the cenotaph after the service, but also for the hundreds of serving personnel he will be taking part in many different capacities during the day. i am pleased to say i have one of them here today. gunner rebecca alice, you are with the king's troop royal horse artillery, people will know you have a very important role on the day, firing the gun marking the beginning and the end of the two—minute silence. you have done this twice before, what were your collea g u es this twice before, what were your colleagues be doing right now? right now, they will be riding down to whitehall, getting the horses and the guns ready, getting them ready to fight for the minutes silence. the guns ready, getting them ready to fight for the minutes silencem is quite important, do you feel a lot of pressure, is it a huge honour to be in the team? it is a massive honour to be able to fire the guns to mark the silence of the country. what does it mean to you? i know you are only 22. you have been in the army for nearly six years now already. what does taking part in the ceremony here today and

observing the silence, what will you be thinking of? it is very important to me, i have a lot of friends and family in the army. when i grew up, my dad was away on tour in bosnia and kosovo. not only remembering the ones who have fallen but the ones that i have given their time and effort to help us now. exactly. presume you have got friends... the kings troop, ceremony rail, but it does have an operational role as well. he will have trained with people who may be out in operation at the moment. there are thousands of troops stationed around the world at the moment in various different deployments. yes, not only are some of my friends and the trip, some of my friends from phase one and phase two have gone off to different regiments and on various operations. the royal british legion, that

campaign is targeted at young people to put the phone down for the treatments. do you think people need to be told? does the younger generation understand what sacrifices were made? not everyone is educated on what happened, but i think it is massively important that the campaign happens because a lot of people gave their lives and their families to help us out. i'm sure two minutes of them not being on the phone with the time of the hands. two minutes of them not being on the phone with the time of the handslj think so. you will be thinking of your friends and family, you mentioned your father your friends and family, you mentioned yourfather in your friends and family, you mentioned your father in the armed forces during the two—minute silence. i will be. what is the atmosphere like at the cenotaph? they may national service of remembrance. i think everyone is very proud to be at the cenotaph. it isa very proud to be at the cenotaph. it is a big honour and very proud to be at the cenotaph. it is a big honourand is very proud to be at the cenotaph. it is a big honour and is something to say you have done and be proud of.

an important day. thank you for joining us today. thank you. in less than an hourat joining us today. thank you. in less than an hour at the royal family will start taking their positions around the cenotaph. they will be joined by five former prime ministers and also the main political leaders from the parties today, a day when political rivalries are put aside, to think about something much more important, which is remembering those who have given so much over the years in service to their country. back to you. thank you. thousands of people are facing a third day of chaos from severe flooding in parts of england with damaged homes, disrupted businesses and travel disruption. seven severe flood warnings are in place on the river don in yorkshire meaning there's a danger to life. there's also concern that water levels are rising on sections of the river trent near newark. andy moore reports. the village of fishlake on the lower reaches of the river don where almost the entire community, that's hundreds

of people, have been forced to leave their homes. the waters here are showing little signs of receding and the levels could remain high for some time to come. elsewhere, on other rivers, like the lower reaches of the trent in nottinghamshire, water levels are still rising. the only way in or out of fishlake was by boat or on the back of a farm trailer. we're all right to get rescued, but we didn't expect it to be as deep as this. this is... we've never seen anything like this before. i only moved in five weeks ago. for this woman, rescue couldn't come soon enough. i am waiting for a transplant. absolutely devastating. and this was the view from inside one of the flooded homes, wading through the cold, dirty floodwater. this is my kitchen. living room. a brand— new kitchen.

derbyshire and the town of matlock have also been hit hard by the floods. the woman who died after being swept away by the water near darley dale has been named as the former high sheriff, annie hall. she was described as a special person and an inspirational force for good. for some, the flood levels are falling and the clean—up can begin. for others, the misery is likely to continue for days to come. andy moore, bbc news. local residents have been let down by local authorities, that's according to local business owner pam webb. pam runs a luxury spa hotel in fishlake that has been flooded, i spoke to her earlier. we saw what was coming down from sheffield and the meadowhall centre and that area of the don, we knew at some point it was going to come this way. what we didn't know and what wasn't translated to us was how much came and how fast it came. now, this could be...

this is my personal opinion but it's also supported by a number of people around this area who've got much more in—depth knowledge than me, that something has given somewhere to sacrifice probably bigger populated communities and has therefore had the decision to flood fishlake. there's so many new homes now being built around this area, we don't have flood plains any more. one of the farmers was interviewed yesterday for a broadcast, who was saying, the ditches aren't dredged like they are, there isn't any of investment in there any more and then what consequently happens is what has happened over the last 2a, 48 hours. but why has doncaster council not been in attendance to at least help with the evacuation of elderly and vulnerable people? i was speaking to a search and rescue crew who attended on friday evening. they have no local knowledge. they did not even know the road

outside my property had two dikes at either side. they didn't even know that. nobody from doncaster council was there to say to them, right, these people are vulnerable, these people are... this is how the land lies. they were from nottinghamshire, north wales, cumbria, some of that crew should've finished at 7am yesterday morning. just very briefly, pam, how long do you think it will take you to restore your business to the way it was, and how long will it take and how much will it cost? that is the total devastating feeling at the moment. i do not know. i cannot answer that question until... i contacted my insurance company yesterday, they wanted to get a loss adjuster out but they can't even get into the village. your reporter was saying they can't. they're using boats at the moment, that's what the emergency services are using, they are using a boat to get in. i don't know.

you look at these incidents on tv before but until you are part of it... it could be 12, 18 months. what i do want to say is, in the words of delia smith to norwich united fans, where are you? and that appeal is to doncaster council. where are you? come and help us. at least communicate, tell us what we're expecting. can we coordinate with the environment agency? are the pumps going to be switched back on? because how is this water going to go? there is so much water around this area that you can see, never mind what you can't see. so what is the disaster recovery plan? please tell us. pam webb who runs a luxury spa hotel in fishlake. she is clearly distraught and very angry about the flooding that has seriously affected her business. now, to the election.

labour has criticised conservative attempts to unpick their spending plans as the political parties continue their general election campaigns. the conservatives say labour's spending plans would cost the country an extra £1.2 pounds over the next five years. but labour has dismissed the figures as "fake news", calling them an "incompetent mish—mash of debunked estimates and bad maths". our political correspondent, helen catt, is here. how did they arrive at this 1.2 trillion figure? it is a big figure. they have taken labour‘s policies from the 2017 manifesto and attach a cost of that. they had taken the promises that this might have made sense, and they've attached it to that. they have come up with this one big figure. there are a couple of issues with that. none of the parties have yet published a ma nifesto for parties have yet published a manifesto for this election. labour will not decide what policies are going into theirs until a meeting that they have next weekend. you

can't actually know whether those policies will be what is the final offering that is put to voters, which makes pitting an accurate title in it very difficult. there is another issue as well, some of the estimates that the conservatives have based this on focus of things like denationalisation, days have come from a business group, the cbi, and that estimate itself has been queried —— renationalisation. sajid javid was on andrew marr earlier,, these are conserved the party figures, not treasury figures, he doubled down on defending how the conservatives have come up with this figure on andrew marr. we have taken their manifesto from a couple of years ago, which they still stand by. if they have withdrawn a policy, we haven't taken that into account. but you haven't counted it properly. you haven't costed the 2017 pledges fairly. every single costing in this dossier that we have published today has either come from labour's own figures.

most of them, actually, over 50% of the costings are from labour's own figures. the rest of them have either come from independent external sources and in some cases, yes, we have had to work them out ourselves but we have done that in a reasonable way and we have set out exactly in the document how we have done this. what of labour thing about this? the underlying point of this is absolutely true, they would spend more, they have been upfront is that over the week. they have an ambitious plan. john mcdonnell said he would invest in uk spending. in these figures, they have described them as a incompetent mishmash of debunked estimates and bad mass, they have been dismissive at theirs. angie gwynne was also speaking to andrew marr this morning and he said that these do not stack up —— andrew gwynne. an absolute work of fiction by the conservatives. you can't trust a word that johnson

and his ministers say on this issue. we will have a fully costed manifesto in due course, when we launch that. and, you know, the challenge is actually for the conservatives to fully cost their own manifesto, something they didn't do in 2017. the manifestos will be out over the next few weeks and then we will see what they are and if they will be costed. helen, thank you very much. and if you find some of the language used during the election is confusing, log on to the bbc website, and you'll find an election jargon buster to translate those political terms in to plain english. meanwhile, the green party has also been putting forward its plans if it were to win the election. speaking on the andrew marr show, green candidate caroline lucas defended the pledge to invest 100 billion pounds a year to fund the party's climate policy.

billion pounds a year over ten years is what we think is necessary to try to reach net zero by 2030. we think the government's target of saying we are going to get the necessary emissions by 2050, another 30 years away, is simply not to up to scrutiny and it is like dialling 999 and sink and have a fire engine pleasing 30 years time? it is not what i think is an emergency. we are convinced we are going to spend this money wisely, i have been working on the idea of a green new dealfor over ten years, i am pleased to be in the group of the environment and an economist who came up with this deal. it will mean decarbonising transport, the way we use our land, the way we heat our homes. it will have huge positive benefits in terms of like people not dying from air pollution and the cost of the nhs of air pollution, people living in cold times. we think this will pay for itself because there will be more jobs, taxes will be coming back into

the revenue. quite honestly, the idea that when we are facing a climate emergency, we will be sitting around saying i do not think we can afford to tackle it, i do not think feature donations will forgive us think feature donations will forgive us for that. caroline lucas from the green party. that is our latest news bulletin. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's jane. england's cricketers have won the t20 series against new zealand after a tense fifth match which went to a super over. in scenes reminiscent of the summers world cup, they were tied after 11—overs each — the match shortened because of the weather. so — it went to a super over. england batted first and scored 17, they then restricted new zealand to just 8 runs from their over. a much more comforable margin than at lord's. it means england win the series 3—2. former england bowler steve finn, who was part of the test match special team, said it was an encouraging performance. it all looks very healthy at the moment. a series like this where guys come in and stake a claim on their

first series, to really put their hand up and say, i belong in international cricket and i can perform to the best of my ability. continuing what you do on county cricket and doing that on the international scene, i think the guys have done that year. it increases the group of players we will pick from when we pick the team for next year. in football, the hotly anticipated match between leaders liverpool and defending champions manchester city takes place later at anfield. it's their first meeting of the season and the result could be indicative as to where this season's title goes. city won the premier league byjust one point last season and were the only team to beat liverpool in the competition. this time though city are already six points behind jurgen klopp's undefeated side, and their boss pep guardiola knows they're in a battle to retain their title. we have to play our best game.

everybody in the stadium has to be absolutely top shape. the guys who sell the hotdogs have to be in a top shape. so everybody has to be from the first second come early in the stadium, go inside, nothing to do outside, wait for the team warming up, be there, all that stuff. well, could leicesterjoin liverpool and manchester city as title contenders? they're now in second place after a 2—0 win over arsenal. tottenham's disappointing run of form continues. they were held to a 1—1 draw at home by sheffield united. george baldock with this fortuitous equaliser for the visitors. united could have won it, because they had a goal very controversially ruled out by var, which judged this to be offside. just look at the margin. ifjohn lundstram's boots were one size smaller he might have got away with it. there was a record attendance england women's game

at wembley stadium last night, with more than 77,000 fans piling in to watch the lionesses. ellen white got an equaliser. a late goalfrom germany ellen white got an equaliser. a late goal from germany condemn them to a 2-1 goal from germany condemn them to a 2—1 defeat. it means they have one win in the last seven matches. there have been medals for british athletes at the world para—athletics championships in dubai this morning. hannah cockroft took gold in the t3li100m in what was a new world record. it's also her fifth consecutive world title. she was joined on the podium by a familiar face too, fellow—brit kare adenegan took silver. it's been described as the biggest internet event in history. the re—match between youtubers logan paul and ksi in los angeles ended with a split decision, in favour of the brit ksi. they have a0 million subscribers between them, and they also have a long running feud. this was their first fight as professionals,

having drawn their amateur bout in manchester last year. and it was ksi, who's from watford, who just edged it over the american logan paul. we will have more support for you later. —— sport. australia's prime minister scott morrison has dodged questions about climate change while visiting areas impacted by bushfires in new south wales. at least three people have been killed and authorities fear that number will rise. forecasters say high temperatures and strong winds will make conditions dangerous while fire chiefs have warned the outskirts of sydney could face a ‘catastrophic‘ danger from wildfires. freya cole reports. the scale of devastation is starting to emerge. hundreds of homes have been burnt to the ground, all that is left is charcoal and ashes, skeletons of a family home which will never be the same again.

firefighters are making the most of a slight reprieve in conditions, but the end isn't insight. forecasters say another burst of hot, windy weather is on the way, putting even more people at risk. we need people to obviously understand that when they do ask for assistance that a fire truck may not be able to turn up. the winds at those kind of strengths, we may not be able to get you aerial support. we are trying to encourage everybody to use this weekend to prepare. while the prime minister and his entourage are given a tour of an evacuation centre, he shares a moment with an elderly resident caught up in the middle of this bushfire crisis. for many, emotions are running high about the bigger issues at stake. we have been telling the politicians the same message for over ten years and they are not listening. this is real. only on thursday, 11,000 scientists issued a very simple,

four— page statement saying, we have to declare a climate emergency. speaking to the bbc, scientists say bushfires in australia are getting worse. i think there are obviously polarising views on some of these aspects. what is clear is that we are seeing conditions which we haven't before. a frightening word of warning ahead of another stifling australian summer. freya cole, bbc news. just before 11, we'll be crossing live to the cenotaph, for the ceremony. so a little bit earlier than usual, here's the weather with ben rich. hello. after all the rain we've had to contend to with this week, today is our chance to draw breath. through this afternoon, it stays predominantly dry with some spells of sunshine.

still one or two showers peppering northern scotland and eastern coastal counties of england, some patches of cloud elsewhere, but for most, it will be blue skies overhead. the winds relatively light, so even with temperatures ofjust six to 11 celsius, it won't feel too bad out there. however, cloud will take on a northern ireland later, we'll see outbreaks of rain here this evening. as that rain gets into scotland, we'll see snow developing over high ground, could well see a covering of snow, say, above 250 metres. some wintriness over the hills of the pennines, rain further south, an increasingly blustery night and not such a cold one as we've had over the last couple of nights. tomorrow, then, outbreaks of rain to clear from eastern england. the rain lingers across the northern isles for a time. then it's a day of sunny spells and showers, some of the showers heavy and thundery, winter over high ground in the north. a wintry day and a rather chilly one as well. hello this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines...

after attending the festival of remembrance last night, the royal family and senior politicians will be at the cenotaph in central london this morning. floods in south yorkshire continue to cause chaos with seven severe warnings still in place — meaning there's a danger to life — despite better weather today. in the election, there's a row over spending after the conservatives publish what they claim would be the cost of a labour government. a warning that extreme weather conditions in australia could fuel more bushfires. three people have already lost their lives. we'll cross live to the cenotaph just before 11 — but now on bbc news — newsbeat‘s steffan powell has exclusive behind—the—scenes access into the methods of one of the gaming industry's most successful men.

death stranding, one of the most hotly anticipated games in years. the first title from legendary metal gear creator, hideo kojima, since setting up his own company. people haven't seen that stuff before. we've had a unique insight into how he works, from coming up with the concept and writing the story to directing every detail of the music, design and composition. this is how hideo kojima makes his games. we visited once before, in 2016, when this was a brand—new studio. i think it is going to be

something really special. now we are back as the only people in the world being allowed behind—the—scenes to see the team here in tokyo put the finishing touches on a title that has had the games industry scratching its head for three years. i forgot how bright it was in here! i first walked into this room about 2.5 years ago. kojima productions had been up and running for matter of months. death stranding, it was just a short and a strange trailer, to be honest. now, the game isjust hours away from being finished and we are here to see it go gold, which basically means it is ready for release. game studios do not usually let cameras poke around the office before the title comes out but something tells us this studio wants this game to have a message.

one — they do not want to get lost in the mystery surrounding the release. the first thing on the agenda is to find out if we are right. what better way to do that than to sit down with the man himself?