this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am... the uk braces itself for storm dennis. weather warnings are in place for many parts of the uk — and the army has been deployed in west yorkshire. the army are on their way, they are going to be deployed along the valley where they are needed. so, you know, we will see when they arrive. there is lots of, there's the flood warden groups along the valley, right the way from elland up to todmorden. they're going to be out all day. the storm is scuppering travel plans for many — hundreds of flights have been cancelled and train services are disrupted. manchester city say they'll appeal against their ban from european competitions for the next two seasons — after they were found to have broken financial fair play rules. the uk has held talks with china over giving beijing's state—owned railway builder a role

in constructing the h52 rail link. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end. and in her first podcast interview, the duchess of cambridge reveals her parenting inspiration comes form her "granny" who involved her as a child in arts and crafts, gardening and cooking. and in half an hour here on bbc news, dateline london takes a look at events in the uk through outsiders‘ eyes, and at how this week's issues are being tackled around the world. that is at 11:30am. hello, good morning. tens of thousands of air passengers are facing major disruption

after their flights were cancelled overnight as storm dennis brings chaos to half term holiday plans. the met office has issued eight weather warnings covering most of the uk this weekend and a major incident has been declared in parts of west yorkshire. british airways and easyjet have cancelled flights across the country for safety reasons. easyjet have confirmed they have cancelled 234 flights in and out of the uk. wind speeds are forecast to reach 70mph along coastlines and the environment agency warns homes are at risk of flooding there are more than 170 flood warnings and alerts across the uk. the armed forces have been deployed to west yorkshire to support the ongoing recovery from last weekend's flooding and in preparation for storm dennis. jon donnison reports. after last weekend's pummelling from storm ciara, britain is now bracing for storm dennis. in hebden bridge in west yorkshire, so often the victim of flooding, people are once again preparing for the worst. the anxiety levels

are a little high. but we have left the flood defences on the back door, we will put them on the front door tonight. and then we willjust wait and see and see what happens really. slowly move any valuables and things upstairs. just down the road in mytholmroyd, they are trying to shore up the only part built flood defences. it's terrifying, the impact on the community is massive. we have lost all the shops, all the businesses. just over your shoulder there is barbers, hairdressers, there's sainsbury's, all these places were rude. —— places are ruined. they will be brewing for months. it is going to happen again and again. many rivers, this is the ouse in york, are already at the limit. and with some places expecting a months worth of rain

over the next 48 hours, they are unlikely to hold. if we see some of the repeat totals we saw last weekend it some of our more sensitive catchments, we could see further flooding. but it is very uncertain at the moment and we are continuing to monitor that situation. last weekend's storm meant a miserable time for many people travelling. this was euston station in london after dozens of trains were cancelled. storm dennis is likely to bring the same. easy. once again, flying will not be for the faint—hearted. and with potentially hundreds of cancellations, there is expected to be further disruption at the country's airports. jon donnison, bbc news. our correspondent helena wilkinson is at gatwick airport. helena, it should be a big build up this weekend not least because of half term getaways. how is it looking at the moment? the winds have really picked up here and the storm hasn't even properly hit. we have struggled to stand up and stay steady at times. at this airport in particular this of course is easyj et‘s particular this of course is easyjet‘s main based and they have dozens easyjet‘s main based and they have d oze ns of easyjet‘s main based and they have

dozens of cancellations. it couldn't have come at a worse time with families trying to get away for the half term break and many of them are turning up here realising that their flights may be later on tonight may be cancelled. we know dozens have been cancelled here across the country. easyjet have said that they have cancelled around 230 flights at airports including luton and sta nsted airports including luton and stansted airport. airports including luton and sta nsted airport. so airports including luton and stansted airport. so that if you are flying with easyjet you can expect problems later on today. also british airways, we know they have cancelled a0 flights, they have told us cancelled a0 flights, they have told us they have grounded them. departures to and from heathrow, thatis departures to and from heathrow, that is for today, for this afternoon and this evening. so big problems if you are trying to get an aeroplane. and of course the issue is that many of these people who are trying to get away today are people who are trying to get away for the half term holiday and they aren't very flexible. and some of those people are being told they can either get a refund or they can

rebook their flight. but if they try and rebook their flight, rebook their flight. but if they try and rebook theirflight, some people have been told that actually you won't be able to get on a plane until midweek, perhaps wednesday of next week. in the last five minutes oi’ next week. in the last five minutes or $0 next week. in the last five minutes orsoi next week. in the last five minutes orso i did next week. in the last five minutes or so i did speak to british airways in terms of tomorrow. they are not expecting at this stage to be cancelling any flights but today, absolutely huge disruption if you're trying to get on a plane. helena wilkinson at gatwick, thanks very much. i'm joined now via webcam by heather shepherd, who's from the charity national flood forum and advises people on how to recover from flooding. i suppose the first thing i should say to you is good morning and welcome. the second thing i should say to you is what is the biggest concern right now? because presumably it is notjust clearing up presumably it is notjust clearing up it is trying to prevent or at least minimise the damage you may face. yes, and our helpline has been inundated with calls, vertically from people who have already

experienced flooding in set one and are preparing now to be flooded again. but also —— who experienced flooding in storm ciara. but also they are battling now with the insurance process and all that that involved as well. once people have endured whatever today brings, what should they be doing in terms of assessing the damage and ensuring that they get a prompt response from their insurers? i mean, the first action that people need to take after a flood is to ring their insurance company. things automatically go into place in the insurance industry to ensure that they are kept in contact with. usually the first thing is a surveyor will come down to note the devastation that has happened within the property and the process moves on from there. it is not a quick process. 0ften on from there. it is not a quick process. often we hear people's

expectations not managed, where they assume they might be in after a couple of months. but really, on average, people are out of their homes for 16 to 18 months and often well beyond this time as well. and once the claims have been made, how is this likely to change the industry? because there has oppositely been concern about the long—term viability of flood insurance, given obviously the effects of climate change and also given the kind of range of damage that seems to occur year in, year out in some parts of the country. yes, for the insurance industry you have... which helps people gain accessible, affordable insurance. but actually what the government needs to do is be far more ambitious about how we approach and tackle flooding. this is not something that is going to go away. this is only going to increase. and the height of

the water also, i see over many yea rs of the water also, i see over many years of working in flood risk, is increasing as well. so we need to think bigger and we need to be a lot more proactive. and is there anything else people could do in terms of thinking ahead when they know that weather is expected to deteriorate in maybe five or ten day's time. because this is u nfortu nate day's time. because this is unfortunate timing with two storms with barely seven days in between. not all events are like this. other things that people can do when they know that something is in the air, as it were? i think if you have flooded aware you are going to be very aware of the effects that it has an number one you need to look after yourself because there is evidence of the impact of mental health and physical health issues that affect people who have been flooded. sometimes we have to accept that we will flood. i flood myself and the best thing to do is make your property resilient and allow

the water to go in and go out and just enable yourself to be able to clearup, mop up just enable yourself to be able to clear up, mop up as quickly as possible. for those who haven't flooded, i think the first thing you need to do is check whether they are at risk and sign up to the environment agency flood warning system. that is really imperative because without knowledge you are left in the dark. as to taking action, should the be a time that you are at risk. there are lots of interventions that can be used. we are looking at the moment across the board, all agencies and authorities about a broad approach to flooding, so about a broad approach to flooding, so that is notjust barriers but also looking at natural flood management along with what people can do personally in the way of putting in property flood resilience and resistance. at the shepherd of the national flood forum thank you for speaking to us on what is likely to bea for speaking to us on what is likely to be a very busy weekend for you. for the latest information on strom

dennis in your area you can look out on the bbc news or local radio which will bring comprehensive coverage is a lwa ys will bring comprehensive coverage is always of what is happening stop and as the weather deteriorates during the week keeping up—to—date on what is safest to stay. premier league champions manchester city have been banned from european competition for two seasons and fined £25 million. european football's governing body uefa found the club had carried out ‘serious breaches' of its regulations. the club said it was ‘disappointed but not surprised' by the decision and said it would appeal. christoph winterbach is a sports journalist for the german magazine, der spiegel, who broke the story into uefa investigating manchester city. hejoins us from hamburg. what did you find out about what manchester city was doing? well, it

was part of our football leagues revelations. we went through a lot of material, millions of documents, and we had a team at the paper and with our partners at european news media. we looked into the books and the e—mails of manchester city as well as uefa and we found out that there was a clear case, at least from what we have seen regarding the sponsorship income that manchester city declared towards uefa. so it seems that they overstated sponsorship income, wearers they we re sponsorship income, wearers they were actually expenses from the club ownership. uefa tries to prevent clu bs ownership. uefa tries to prevent clubs from paying as much money as they want, they want to balance their expensive expenses with their income and they want to prevent clu bs income and they want to prevent clubs from over spending and going bankrupt. this was against the

ambition of the club leadership from manchester city, which is governed from the state leadership in abu dhabi. it appears like they didn‘t adhere to the rules that everyone else in europe had to stick to. once this has been established obviously that uefa has found manchester city guilty of this offence and it has imposed a fine and a ban, how does it compare that with other action that uefa has taken before, disciplinary action, against clubs for this kind of abuse? are they been treated fairly or is this a more severe punishment than you would have expected ? more severe punishment than you would have expected? this is a very severe punishment. it is the hardest that we have ever seen to any club. but this is an extraordinary case as well because these investigations against manchester city have been ongoing for quite some time. there was already a settlement between manchester city and uefa back in 201a. after we published our

articles, uefa found that they felt misled by manchester city, even back then, for these investigations. so then, for these investigations. so the rules are quite clear for uefa, if they find that a club does not stick to their rules, the hardest punishment they can hand out is banned them from the competition is that uefa organises. and this is a significant step because these competitions are very lucrative for each individual club because they can makea each individual club because they can make a lot of money with that. and with manchester city now sits out two years it‘s going to be a huge gap in their income. so they are going to miss out on a lot of money. uefa are really hard to take a step like that if they wanted to be taken seriously in the future because if they didn‘t, if they hadn‘t punished manchester city for those blatant wrongdoings that seem to be the case then all the other clu bs to be the case then all the other clubs in the europe could have seen that there is a simple way to

circumvent the rules and the uefa control bodies don‘t really act on it. thank you very much for speaking to us on bbc news. an elderly chinese tourist in france has died of coronavirus, the first fatality in europe. meanwhile, health officials in china say another 1a3 people have died from the virus, most of them in hubei province, where the outbreak originated. it brings the total number of deaths caused by the infection in china to more than 1,500. the uk braces itself for storm dennis. weather warnings are in place across many parts of the uk and the army has been deployed in west yorkshire. manchester city will be banned from european competitions for the next two years. they were seen for the next two years. they were seen to have broken fair play rules.

the uk has held talks with china over giving the state owned rail company a role in building the hs2 rail link. and staying with that story... the government has held talks with china over beijing‘s state—owned railway having a role in constructing the hs2 high—speed rail line. crcc has offered to build the entire line linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds injust five years and at a much lower price. a review into hs2 said the cost of the project could exceed £100 billion. i‘ve been speaking to our political correspondent matt cole, and i asked how serious was the government was taking the offer from the chinese? the department of transport says there have been preliminary conversations and indeed have put out a short statement that tells us that the dft is always keen to learn from the experience

of others and to consider approaches that offer value for money to the tax payer. but i think those preliminary discussions, it could just be to the extent of, hello, we are the china railway construction corporation. we can build you a fast railway and the government department of transport might have said, that‘s very interesting. thanks very much. this is where the process is up to. so not too detailed, not least because that first section from london to birmingham of the hs. then there are questions about how you could do something so fast. this is not china, this is a country where the levels of bureaucracy are a lot higher, planning regulations, people complaining about the blight on the home. bit beyond birmingham, that potentially might be sooner but

of course where this gets interesting is it‘s the politics of chinese company again bidding for major contracts in this country. we have had the who are in recent times over the phone company who are way. the chinese company huawei possibly been a big part of the 5g roll—out. so when a chinese company suggesting it is potentially going to be involved. matt called their reporting on the government‘s possible use, possible use, of a chinese company to build hs2. labour‘s emily thornberry is out of the party‘s leadership race, after falling short of enough backers to move through to the final stage of the contest. despite a desperate last minute scramble ahead

of the midnight deadline, the shadow foreign secretary failed to win enough support to make it through to the final ballot. frontbenchers sir keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey, along with backbench mp lisa nandy, had already made it to the next round. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end. the media regulator, 0fcom, says about 20 million people are currently out of contract — with many likely to be paying higher prices than they need to. our business correspondent katy austin, gave us more details. you might not realize that you‘re out of contract and then you might have signed up to a really good, cheap or discounted offer initially, but that‘s no longer going to apply, you‘re automatically going to be jacked up to a higher standard rate. now, the change that‘s coming in means that the provider will have to contact you, whether that‘s email or text or another way between ten and a0

days before the contracts come into the end. and they have to give you all the information about how you can quit the contract, how you can sign up for a new one, what the latest deals are and all the information tailored to you. and the idea is that will really help people save money. and 0fcom thinks that in the case of broadband alone, it could save people about £150 a year. and this is something that affects a lot of people, as you say, 20 million overall. and we think every single day about 25,000 people come out of contract. so this is something to pay attention to and it‘s not something tojust ignore. if your provider gets in touch and says, hey, you‘re out of contract soon, would you like to do something about it? and presumably with the amount of switching that they‘re trying to encourage in other ways, the government certainly tried to encourage in energy supply, for instance, that that will keep the deals competitive. the regulator will argue here that the way you‘ll keep your providers competitive

is if they‘re forced to keep chasing your business. absolutely. and actually, 0fcom says some providers already are better than others at telling you your contract‘s going to end. there are sometimes concerns that if you stop people going up to the highest standard rate, that will mean providers no longer offer the very cheapest deals at the start. but 0fcom says it‘s optimistic and it says actually some providers have already said that when you switch to a new deal, they will offer you the cheapest deals that new customers are already getting. the duchess of cambridge has said her parenting inspiration is her "amazing granny" who involved her in arts and crafts, gardening and cooking as a child. in her first podcast interview, she said she wants to make sure she gives similar experiences to her children. 0ur royal correspondent sarah campbell reports. do they like brussel sprouts too? i never knew that. the last few weeks have seen the duchess of cambridge interact with children, their parents and carers across the uk, from a children‘s centre in cardiff, a women‘s prison in surrey, a farm in belfast,

and a cafe in aberdeen. hello, everybody. catherine, who has spent eight years exploring issues around children and their development, wants to spark a national conversation about the importance of the early years. but it is rare for her to speak about her own views. at this nursery in south london, she was joined by giovanna fletcher, who hosts the happy mum, happy ba by podcast. on its latest edition, catherine talks about her childhood, and experiences she hopes to pass on to her own three children. i had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of time to playing with us, doing arts and crafts and cooking with us, and i try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that i give my children now. catherine also talked about her passion for the outdoors, where she spent much of her time as a child. that passion was clear from the child—centred garden she helped to design at last year‘s chelsea flower show,

a garden that was enjoyed by her own three children. they are not going to have much chance of today. we will begin with big news. manchester city say they‘ll appeal what they call uefa‘s ‘flawed‘ and ‘prejudicial‘ punishment, a two year ban from european competition and a £25 million fine. the club are accused of breaking financial fair play rules by inflating sponsorship deals to cover the club‘s expenditure. it leaves questions over the immediate futures of manager pep guardiola and some of their leading players. earlier i spoke to the football finance expert dr rob wilson. manchester city might have expected what was coming, i don't think they ever really expected a two—year ban. put the fine to one side

for a moment because that is a bit of change to them, really. but if you look at how this is going to have indications for other teams across european football, their player recruitment strategy, not to mention whether managers will stay on, have a team that doesn't play champions league football for example, it will make it very difficult and murky waters for them to wade through. and it all relates to them breaking uefa‘s financial fair play rules, brought in a few years ago to make sure clubs were living within their means. the understanding is city have inflated a sponsorship deal to make it look like money that is coming in is coming in legitimately when it is actually coming in from the club‘s owners. what they‘ve done is to simplify this they have said they have got a big sponsorship deal with etihad airways that sponsor the shirt and that type of thing, and instead of doing a transaction between manchester city, organisation a and etihad, organisation b, the money is actually coming from organisation d, e or f, actually probably from the owner of the football club.

that is what financial fair play was brought in to stop. limiting your owner investment, make sure you can wash your face financially based on your own income and the income you can generate and not depend on those owner investments. british number three kyle edmund is through to his first atp semi—final since lastjune, after coming from behind to beat kwon soon—woo in three sets at the new york 0pen. but number one dan evans is out of the rotterdam 0pen — he lost at the quarter—final stage to the defending champion gael monfils. gus kenworthy has won his first world cup gold since switching from the united states to compete for great britain. kenworthy took the ski half—pipe title in calgary, making him the first british man to win the event. he won 0lympic silver in slopestyle at the 201a games in sochi. rory mcilroy is playing in his first event since going back to the top of golf‘s world rankings. and he‘s been pretty impressive so far — he‘s two shots off the pace at the genesis open in los angeles

after a second round of 67. the american matt kuchar still leads. there‘s live sport on the bbc this weekend, with one of the most prestigious events on the athletics calendar — the indoor grand prix in glasgow. and we‘re looking forward to seeing training partners laura muir and jemma reekie in action. reekie recently broke three british indoor records in a week — two of them belonging to muir — she goes in the 1,500 metres. and muir has the thousand metres world record in her sights. i‘ve run the1 km before. i‘ve got the british and european record for it. hoping to get the world record for it, to go one step better. i know it will be tough, but i feel i am close. i think it will be close, and i hope i am doing the right thing, but that last lap will be difficult. it is essentially to run an 800 m and keep going. so yeah, it‘s going to be hard, but i‘ll work my best to do it. looking forward to it.

it's amazing and i learned so much from her and i learned what hard work is and it is lovely. we are also great friends as well. to have that friendship in such a hard sport when we are on camp quite a lot and away quite a lot, andy and lawro have become like second family to me, yeah. that‘s all the sport — now here‘s the weather with ben rich. hello there. last weekend was all about one storm this time it is storm dennis. heavy rain, that is what the met office has issued an amber warning for. the dental for significant flooding in some parts of the country. this is a satellite picture from earlier, you can see the band of cloud working across the atlantic. a wrap rapidly deepening

area which has been named storm dennis. very wet weather indeed. a really soggy afternoon indeed, heavy and persistent bursts of rain, perhaps something a little brighter for west of scotland and northern ireland later on in the afternoon. as far as the wind gusts go, 50 to 60 miles an hour, parts of the north and west gusts of 70 miles an hour or even a touch more. it is mild, temperatures between ten and 1a degrees but remember we are going to have that wind and rain, so it will not feel great out there at all. through this evening and overnight rain across england and wales, a narrow band of torrential downpours with squally winds which could cause damage. northern ireland and scotland, clear spells but a chilly night, an exceptionally mild one further south of 12 or 13 degrees but a very wet start for much of

england and wales tomorrow. the rain dragging its heels across the south—east. further north and west brighter day tomorrow with sunshine. a scattering of showers too some of which will be wintry over the north. not quite as windy as today but still pretty gusty. temperatures a little lower, six to 10 degrees through the middle of tomorrow afternoon. as we go through tomorrow night the winds are likely to pick up night the winds are likely to pick up again across parts of scotland is storm dennis, our area of low pressure passes close to the uk. a lot of isobars on the chart, gusts of £70 an hour or more including through populated places like glasgow and edinburgh. we have the wind, we have the rain as well of course. these areas are the spots covered by that met office amber warning. it will be wet wherever you are. into the start of next week it looks a little quieter. it stays windy but not as windy with sunshine and