this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at ten... storm ciara hits the uk with gale—force winds and torrential rain — it's set to cause huge disruption across the country. travel is already being badly hit — airlines have cancelled dozens of flights, and more than 20 rail companies have said their services will be affected. yesterday saw gusts of up to 75 mph across wales. there is predicted to be gusts even quicker today, up to 90 mph. the coronavirus crisis — a flight bringing 200 evacuees from wuhan back to britain lands at raf brize norton. a soldier who killed 26 people in a mass shooting in northern thailand has been shot dead by the security forces. counting begins in the irish general election as an exit poll puts the three main

political parties level—pegging. and in half an hour, tracy gee talks to the prison officers who have been violently attacked by prisoners. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the uk is braced for a day of disruption as storm ciara sweeps in from the west, bringing damaging winds and widespread heavy rain. flights, ferries and train services are all disrupted, while dozens of outdoor events have been abandoned. the met office has issued an amber warning for wind across england and wales until nine o'clock tonight, with gusts up to 80 mph expected to batter coasts and higher ground. in parts of scotland, there is an amber warning for rain,

with up to 10cm forecast, meaning homes are likely to be flooded. more than a hundred flood warnings are in place across the country, with the risk of communities being cut off by impassable roads. 0ur correspondent luxmy gopal is in dover. it is clear to see the impact it is having there, luxmy gopal. absolutely, i have been here since 5:30am and the weather conditions have worsened noticeably, the winds have worsened noticeably, the winds have heightened and the waves are bigger and rougher and lashing against the side of the marina here. unsurprising then to discover that actually it has had an impact on ferry services, with disruption and cancellations to services, notjust here, not just cancellations to services, notjust here, notjust cross—channel services here, but to irish ferry services here, but to irish ferry services and calmac services in scotland. in hull, p&0's ferry has been delayed until this afternoon because it was too dangerous for it to birth and it has had to go back out to sea. planes, trains and

automobiles are all affected. flights, as you mentioned earlier, they have had disruption to services with some flights cancelled, from heathrow, gatwick and london city airports. across the bail network there has been huge disruption with network rail having to impose a speed restriction of 50 mph for safety reasons. passengers may see extended journeys or reduce timetables. and a lot of rail operators are saying to passengers do not travel by rail today if you can avoid it. many of the tickets will still be valid tomorrow. drivers have been warned to take extra ca re drivers have been warned to take extra care on the roads because we are now being told to expect gusts of up to 90 mph, and that amber when the warning issued for much of the country, it brings with it the potential risk to life because of falling debris and big waves as you can probably see behind me. what is incredible is that in the past ever

since i have been here, i have seen some families driving here and getting out of the car to take photos of the sea, and that is not in keeping with what the authorities are telling us to do, their advice is to not travel unless it is absolutely necessary, and given all of the disruption and travel networks that we have just mentioned, the chances are that it will be harder than normal to travel to big you want to get to anyway. luxmy gopal, thank you very much for now. luxmy gopal in dover. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan is in aberystwyth this morning. they went has been ravaging the seaside town of aberystwyth all evening and all of this morning. you canjust evening and all of this morning. you can just see it smashing against the sides here, waves coming up onto the site and onto the pathway here overlooking the promenade in aberystwyth. yesterday saw gust of up aberystwyth. yesterday saw gust of up to 75 mph across wales. predicted to be gusts even quicker today of up to be gusts even quicker today of up to 90 mph up in north wales might

snowdonia. we have already heard about the several travel disruptions across the whole of wales. a lot of the rail has been cancelled in wales and they will be no bus replacement service in place, so please do check if you are thinking of travelling or make other plans. flights have already been cancelled as well, especially those coming back from ireland to wales after the rugby yesterday, and as you mention, the ferry services also disrupted. the amber warning for wind is in place for wales all day until 9p n this evening, and a yellow warning for rain as well, as the rain and wind continue to bash. the west coast of wales, really, from the southern coast of temperature, caledonian, anglesey, all across there, that is the area most affected. the people that live in the seaside towns, you will be the most likely to be affected by flooding, if it does happen, if this weather continues to be the savage across the course of

the day. —— 9p n this evening. —— 9pm this evening. let us show you the pictures that we have had in from cumbria. there is the potential for flooding for many communities. this is the river kent near kendall in cumbria, which has a swollen up to say the least! people needing to stay well clear of that particular river at the moment. 0ur correspondent helena wilkinson can give us a round—up of the impact the storm is having so far. yes, and we have seen, haven't we? really severe weather out there, sweeping across the country at the moment. the severe gales and heavy rain. there is a huge disruption for travellers, if you are going by plane, british airways have said that they have cancelled dozens of

flights from heathrow, gatwick and london city airports. those are both domestic and international flights. ferry passengers, if you are going to get a ferry today you might well be affected. p&0 have cancelled some ferries between dover and calais. highways agency have treated in the last half an hour or so to say that on the roads there are reports of debris in carriageways across the country. i think particularly, and we have just seen on the coast there, that is bearing the brunt of this very severe weather. reports of trees having come down in various areas, the dartford crossing as well has been closed as well, so huge disruption. yes, if you don't need to go anywhere, the temptation will be to stay put and keep warm, because the risks are too great. yes, they are, and what we have seen as well, trees falling down. that is one of the main issues, that debris has been falling in some places. so,

the advice really is, if you can stay in and not go out, then do that. in terms of the trains, some of the train companies are actually seeing two passengers, do not travel if you can avoid it today. do not get on a train. if you do, you will face quite severe disruption. yes, there is a speed restriction in place of 50 mph. for the moment, helena, thank you very much. you can keep up to date with the changing weather developments in your area today, just head to your local bbc radio station, and of course, the bbc news website. let's bring you some breaking news now — a british man in majorca has tested positive for coronavirus. he is one of four members of a british family taken into observation in majorca on friday after coming into contact with someone in france who was later diagnosed with the virus. the man's wife and two daughters have tested negative for coronavirus. a plane carrying british nationals home from the coronavirus—hit city of wuhan has landed at raf

brize norton in 0xfordshire. there were more than 200 people on board the flight, including government staff, military medics and foreign nationals. the foreign office said it was the second and final flight to be chartered by the government out of the chinese city. but the british ambassador to china has told the bbc that two britons were refused permission to board this last flight. that's the fourth group of british citizens that we've managed to get out. so that is good news. we have not got everybody out, we know that. unfortunately, two people failed temperature checks early this morning. they have had to go back into wuhan, and we are in touch with them, and we will try to support them to get them onto another country's flights. so, if there are any brits that we aren't in touch with, we very much hope that they will get in touch with our consular assistance teams, which are operating 2a/7, and let us know, because we are advising people to leave wuhan.

barbara woodward, the british ambassador to china. we are just hearing that passengers held on a cruise ship in hong kong for testing for the coronavirus have now been told that they can leave the ship. this ship is called the world dream, and they have all been tested, and there is no infection amongst any of them. there are at least 60 british passport holders are believed to be on board that a true ship but they are now free to leave it. —— cruise ship. well, the evacuated passengers are expected to arrive at a hotel in milton keynes in the next hour, where they will be isolated for two weeks. 0ur correspondent jon donnison is there. what awaits them, jon donnison?

basically, this is normally a training and conference centre just outside of milton keynes, and we are expecting them any moment, actually. that plane touched down at brize nortonjust after that plane touched down at brize norton just after 7:30am. we that plane touched down at brize nortonjust after 7:30am. we believe there was a delay because of the awful weather, but they were due to arrive by bus here within the next few minutes. we have been told that there will be around 150 people evacuated from wuhan who are staying here. they are all apparently at the moment in good health. we heard they are from the british ambassador that two people were not allowed onto the plane because they had high temperatures, but all of the people currently staying here are in good health and they will be here for two weeks. what facilities have been made available to them? well, look, we have been told that they will have access to things like netflix, there will be amazon kindle tablets, computers for them to read and so

on. but essentially they will be twiddling their thumbs for some time. no one else will be staying here while they are here, as you would expect. some of the conference centre staff have decided to continue to work, but what we have been told by nhs staff is that the kind of work crews will be divided into two teams, some will have contact with those 150 people, and some who were not. and the question is, what happens after those two weeks? many of those people might have their lives fully established in china, they might have been over there for several years, what do they then do? remain in the uk or head back? yes, lots of questions that they will not know. but a concerning time for people, given the fact that we are seeing more and more cases cropping up in different parts of the world. that is right. this morning we have had that confirmation that there is now one confirmed case of a british citizen, a gentleman who is on holiday with

his family in majorca, his wife and two young daughters have tested negative, he has tested positive. and then we had that family and the french alps yesterday, news of that, and we have had five people testing positive including a nine—year—old boy. and meanwhile, in terms of global cases, some 37,000, and that figure is roughly doubling every five days. for the moment, jon donnison, thank you very much, speaking from milton keynes. well, the number of people who have died from the new coronavirus has exceeded the number killed in the sars outbreak nearly 20 years ago. the latest figures show that more than 800 patients have died in mainland china and hong kong. china's ambassador to the uk has been speaking to andrew marr this morning and tried to reassure people, despite the rate of infection increasing rapidly. i think people should not be panicking. if you compare the fatality case, and that currently is

296, fatality case, and that currently is 2%, much lower than the ebola virus. that is a0%. and even lower than sars, which is 10%. and a lower than the hini of 2009, that is i7%. so, there is no reason to be panicked. the chinese government has adopted the most comprehensive strict, conventional, controlled measures. you have done some extraordinary things as a government, you have effectively quarantined, put a roadblock as it were, around entire cities and big parts of the transport system and the economy has closed down whilst this has gone on. how long will discontinue for? at this moment, it is very difficult to predict. we will have an inflection point. we hope it will come sooner.

the isolation quarantine measure has been very effective. so far, the most cases are concentrated in hubei province and wuhan. hubei province is about the size of england, plus scotland, and the population is about england plus wales. so, this is such a large area and... 65 million people, around about that? 59 million people, but the measures have been affected —— effective, otherwise it would have spread to otherwise it would have spread to other parts of china, and the chinese people are making contributions, not only for the safety of life and health of ourselves, but also to that of the people of the world. looe xiaoming,

the chinese ambassador to the uk. let us return to storm ciara. alex burkill is a meteorologist at the met office in exeter. tell us about the character of the storm. it is covering the whole of the uk. we have that yellow water warning which is covering the entire uk and a very large amber warning as well. that is where we most likely will see the significant impacts from the very strong winds. i have never seen an amber from the very strong winds. i have never seen an amber warning this large, whichjust goes never seen an amber warning this large, which just goes to show how widespread the impacts are going to be due to storm ciara as we go through the day. notjust the ones however, it is also heavy rain, we have seen in excess of 100 millimetres over parts of northern england and northern wales and that is leading to funding. we have strong winds and also heavy rain. -- leading to flooding. how unusual it

isa leading to flooding. how unusual it is a storm like this? not that unusual to get areas of low pressure from the atlantic, which is what we have at the moment. so far, this winter season, we have not had a huge amount hitting the uk. this is a little bit different to what we have had so far. what is unusual perhaps is how widespread the impacts will be, and also, worth noting how strong the jet stream has been, and it is that which has been causing the energy or giving the momentum to this low pressure. we have had a great —— jet stream of around 250 mph over the atlantic, thatis around 250 mph over the atlantic, that is why it is so unsettled and u nsta ble across that is why it is so unsettled and unstable across the uk. how long will it be with us? storm ciara will last through much of the day, we will see very strong winds. it is worth noting that has some bands of rain sweep across the country, it is not just coastal parts rain sweep across the country, it is notjust coastal parts like the dizzy gusts of 70 or 80 mph, and land areas which do not usually seal of ones, so anywhere could get

strong winds, but after today it will clear, however there is further windy weather coming in. we will see some wintry showers across parts of scotland, in particular, but also over other areas of the north and feeding a little bit south as we go into the new working week. that brings different hazards, likely to see some hail, lightning, thunder. but also the risk of sleet and snow building up of a higher ground, particularly towards the north. alex, thank you very much for joining us. the headlines on bbc news... storm ciara hits the uk with gale—force winds and torrential rain — it's set to cause huge disruption across the country. the coronavirus crisis — a flight bringing 200 evacuees from wuhan back to britain lands at raf brize norton. a soldier who killed 26 people in a mass shooting in northern thailand has been shot dead by the security forces. sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's holly.

good morning. saqib mahmood has marked his england debut with a wicket, as they bid to level the one—day series against south africa. they won the toss and put the home side into bat injohannesburg — and there's been a strong bowling display so far — mahmood removing reeza hendricks. and adil rasheed has just taken the wicket of temba bavuma — south africa are 89—2 in the 21st over. england's women are out of the t20 tri—nation series in australia, after losing to the home side. australia will play india in the final — it's not the best preparation for the t20 world cup. england only have three more games before their first cup match on march the 23rd. they reached the final last time out, when they were beaten by australia. after all four home sides were in six nations action, only one can now win the grand slam — and that's ireland, after they beat defending champions wales by 24—12 in dublin. jordan larmour scored the first of four tries as they earned a bonus

point and ended wales's unbeaten six nations run at eight games. ireland were a far more threatening force than they were against scotland last weekend, sending out a real statement of intent ahead of the meeting with england at twickenham in two weeks' time. a perfect performance is hard to come by. we will be our own worst critics, i'm sure, we've got an honest bunch in there. but a pleasing place to be isn't it, you know, two from two and that's what the six nations is all about, momentum, and we roll on from here. england head coach eddiejones was critical of some of the scotland fans‘ behaviour. england won back the calcutta cup, beating scotland 13—6 at a wet and windy murrayfield. the conditions really were awful, and it was a low scoring affair — the only try of the game coming from ellis genge late n the second half. and head coach eddiejones was deeply unimpressed by the booing of captain 0wen farrell, as he lined up his kicks. that's an old —fashioned

calcutta cup game isn't it? swirling wind, heavy rains, aggressive crowd without much manners. yeah, you've got to be at your best to win. without much manners, where you getting a bit of stick out there, did you sense it? i thought you were supposed to show kickers respect. you mean the booing that was coming when the kickers were taking? i thought you were supposed to show kickers respect? the match between scotland and england and the women plus mac six nations has been postponed due to the bad weather. you can follow the other action on the bbc sport website. there was more success

for great britain in hockey‘s pro league with the men claiming theirfirst win of the campaign — beating new zealand 3—0. the women meanwhile drew 2—2 in their second tie in auckland, before winning the shootout 5—4 to claim the bonus point and move to fifth in the standings. that's all the sport for now. the labour party has formally reported members of sir keir starmer‘s leadership campaign team to the information commissioner, accusing them of hacking into the party's membership database. sir keir and his team are strenuously denying the claim. joining me now is our political correspondent susana mendonca. what has happened? we understand that two members of sir keir starmer plus mac campaign team, including a compliance officer, have been reported by the labour party to the information commissioner. they have accused them of what is known as a data scraping, hacking information off of the labour membership database off of the labour membership data base and using off of the labour membership database and using that information for their campaign. sir keir starmer and his team have flatly denied this and his team have flatly denied this and have said it is a politically motivated attempt by those within

certain upper echelons of the labour party to try to derail his campaign to become the next leader and, of course, rebecca long—bailey is another of the candidates who are certainly seen as someone, those within the labour party close to jeremy corbyn, would choose as the placement leader. sir keir starmer has said this is politically motivated. the party... the campaign tea m motivated. the party... the campaign team have examined whether they were loopholes, but they decided not to proceed with that. they also point to questions around rebecca long—bailey plus mag use of membership lists. we understand that they have raised concerns about that, and so in terms of rebecca long—bailey, we understand that there were links circulated to volu nteers there were links circulated to volunteers who had access to the membership database and 13 has said that that was completely innocent. so, there are a lot of questions around the use of databases and this is something that the labour party has said that it has told all of its candidates to be very careful about. and the impact it is having on the contest? it shows that things are

getting ugly and as we get close to the 1st of april, the end state, and we find out who the winner is, i think all of the candidates are getting more worried about the outcome. in terms of sir keir starmer, we understand he has been gaining support within the constituency labour parties, including jeremy corbyn's on constituency of islington north, where he was selected over rebecca long—bailey, and there is a sense that it long—bailey, and there is a sense thatitis long—bailey, and there is a sense that it is a very tight race and that it is a very tight race and thatis that it is a very tight race and that is leading to it being concerns in the different teams about the ways that they can perhaps put their own candidate ahead of the other. in terms of the hustings, there was meant to be won today in dudley, that has been cancelled, but that is because sir keir starmer is having to ta ke because sir keir starmer is having to take some time off from campaigning at the moment because his mother—in—law was involved in an accident and is it in a very serious condition in hospital. and that was one cancelled yesterday. we are expecting more hustings over the coming weeks and the new leader of the labour party will be in place on the labour party will be in place on

the 4th the labour party will be in place on the 11th of april. the labour party will be in place on the 4th of april. thank you very much. susana mendonca. a thai soldier who carried out a mass shooting spree has been killed by security forces. 26 people are known to have been killed in the attack and 57 others wounded. officials say that the gunman shot a colonel at an army barracks and stole weapons before opening fire in a buddhist temple and a shopping centre in the city of nakhon ratchaseema. aaron safir has the latest. a 15—hour stand—off finally over. thai security forces emerged from the terminal 21 shopping centre in nakhon ratchasima. a lone gunman shot dead, but not before he took more than 20 lives. for a long time, it was not clear how this stand—off would end. hundreds of people enjoying a weekend shopping managed to escape the rampaging gunman. an earlier attempt to flush him out

failed with one member of the security forces killed. inside, people ran and hid wherever they could, as news of the attack spread. translation: i saw the security guard officials and a motorcycle taxi driver running for shelter. i didn't know what was going on, and then i heard people shouting, "they're shooting, there's a shooting." police have identified the gunman as 32—year—old jakraphanth thomma, a junior army officer. he was caught on cctv at the shopping centre, moving with an eerie calm. but his rampage began elsewhere, at an army base, where he killed two people, including his commanding officer. he also stocked up on weapons and ammunition. and in the early hours of the attack he posted messages on facebook saying, "death is inevitable for everyone," and at one point asking, "should i give up?" the posts were quickly taken down, but not before they could be seen by people in the area, who are struggling to make sense of what they witnessed. there were bodies in the street,

there were cars with bullet holes in them. and very graphic images on social media that were luckily taken down, but very graphic. thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, but a mass shooting like this is something shocking and new for the country. with this shooting now over, questions will be asked about what motivated the attacker and how to prevent something like this happening again. aaron safir, bbc news. votes are being counted in ireland's general election, with an exit poll indicating a tie between the three main parties. it suggests that the centre—right fine gael party, led by the prime minister, leo varadkar, won about 22% of first preference votes, with the centrist fianna fail and left—leaning sinn fein, only fractionally behind. before the election fianna fail and fine gael — which have dominated irish

politics for decades — said they would not enter a coalition with sinn fein, citing its links to paramilitary violence during the conflict in northern ireland. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah. thank you. it is all about storm ciara today. bringing some destructive weather around the british isles. the met office has issued an amber warning for the entire uk. everywhere are seeing strong winds and heavy rain for the rent that is leading to flooding problems. likely custody of between 60 and 80 mph fairly widely. higher in scotland and are in some coasts and hills where we have had gusts of more than 80 mph. heavy rain and the most persistent moving south across england and wales mac across this cold front. heavy showers for the north—west with hail and thunder. mild but exceptionally windy. the damaging winds will continue through the rest of the day, transport disruption quite widely as well as

us disruption quite widely as well as us very large series of waves around the coast. very strong winds continued this evening and overnight and there will be heavy showers once again following a sleet and snow over the highest ground of northern england, scotland and england, with an icy start to your monday morning. hello this is bbc news with martine croxhall. the headlines: storm ciara hits the uk with gale—force winds and torrential rain — it's set to cause huge disruption across the country. travel is already being badly hit — airlines have cancelled dozens of flights and more than 20 rail companies have said their services will be affected. yesterday saw gusts of up to 75 mph across wales. there is predicted to be gusts even quicker today, up to 90 mph. the coronavirus crisis — a flight bringing 200 evacuees from wuhan back to britain lands at raf brize norton. a soldier who killed 26 people in a mass shooting in northern

thailand has been shot dead by the security forces. counting begins in the irish general election as an exit poll puts the three main political parties level pegging. now it's time for inside out. welcome to the programme, i am kealy donovan. tonight we hearfrom the prison officers speaking out about the violence that they've been subjected to behind prison walls. i actually thought i'm not coming home. i wasn't going to survive. also tonight, the people risking a big fine or worse to buy cut price fuel. why are you filling the car with red diesel? so we saw you in the garage a moment ago.