hello this is bbc news. the headlines. heavy rain and strong winds are battering parts of the uk as storm dennis arrives — the army has been deployed in west yorkshire. the storm is scuppering travel plans for many — hundreds of flights have been cancelled and trains 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 hs2 rail link. from today, companies good afternoon. which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services communities across the uk are bracing themselves for a weekend will have to alert customers of heavy rain and strong winds when their contracts as storm dennis arrives. the army has been deployed are coming to an end. to west yorkshire to help, after warnings from meteorologists that this weekend a months worth now on bbc news inside out, of rain could fall in some parts stuart maconie tries to track down of the north of england. northern soul fans seen dancing tens of thousands of air passengers in photos of the last all—nighters have already been disrupted at wigan casino in 1981. after their flights were cancelled. train operators, too,

have warned of delays. helena wilkinson reports. hello, welcome to inside out. coming up on the programme... a relative calm before the storm. we investigate the new type of investment scheme that is already costing people thousands. still clearing up from sturm last they offer high rates, unrealistic, weekend, residents —— still clearing unsustainable rates of return. alarm bells should ring. up weekend, residents —— still clearing up from storm ciara last weekend, residents in the calder valley are we hear from those who feel bracing themselves for another that the lake district is at risk onslaught, this area has borne the brunt of the bad weather, flooding of becoming a theme park. the lake district, is expecting later which could in many ways, is strong. further devastate this community. it needs improvement. the army has been deployed here in there are certain things calderdale in west yorkshire later which could make it better, to help once the storm hits. the but not this assault, first thing they are going to be not this, we will change it into a noisy theme park. providing is reassurance, to people that actually, we are doing everything we can to keep them safe and a blast from the past, during storm dennis. the second how the discovery of some thing is that with their engineering experience, they can basically check the river walls and reinforce them when they are weak. as well as the army, volunteers are preparing for what is to come. across most of the

country, there are severe weather warnings in place. forecasters say that a month's warnings in place. forecasters say that a months worth of rain could fall in some places. this is sidmouth in devon, where storm dennis has already made an entrance. and there is already massive disruption for travellers on trains and airports. this is gatwick, where passengers are facing cancellations. it's notjust here at gatwick where there's disruption — thousands of easyjet passengers have had their flights cancelled at airports across the country. british airways has had to ground a0 of its flights in and out of heathrow when the storm is likely to be at its peak. experts are warning storm dennis could cause more damage to communities already still recovering from last weekend's storm. helena wilkinson, bbc news, gatwick airport. phil bodmer is in mytholmroyd in west yorkshire. phil — are villagers resigned to the prospect of being flooded for the second time in a week?

yes, i think they are, with a heavy heart, i think. yes, i think they are, with a heavy heart, ithink. as yes, i think they are, with a heavy heart, i think. as you know, they we re heart, i think. as you know, they were affected by storm ciara last weekend. what we have got at the moment is squally showers. it would appear the moment is squally showers. it would appearthe main moment is squally showers. it would appear the main event has not begun. this below me is the river calder. local people have been telling us today that when the rain does come, they are expecting up to four inches over the next 24—48—hour is and the river will rise very quickly. what you can see our temporary flood defences being put up to protect the burnley road and the houses and properties behind them. about 30 minutes ago, personnel, soldiers from catterick garrison arrived on site to assist the contractors who are building these temporary flood defences on the main road. this is an area which is under an amber rain warning at the moment, alongside other amber warnings in the uk, in scotland, wales and the south—west of england. i think people here are hoping for the best but deep down, they are fearing the worst. feel,

but —— the calm before the storm. thank you forjoining us. and for the latest information on storm dennis in your area, you can find more on your local bbc online pages or tune into your local radio station. we will have full coverage and keep you right up—to—date. france has recorded the first death from coronavirus in europe, an 80—year—old chinese tourist. only three deaths had previously been reported worldwide outside of mainland china. in china, beijing has ordered everyone returning to the city from holidays to go into quarantine for 14 days or risk punishment in the latest attempt to contain the virus. 0ur correspondent nick beake is in hong kong. china has declared war on an invisible killer — sending more doctors as well as soldiers into the worst—affected area. but now the new coronavirus has claimed its first victim outside asia, an elderly chinese man who had travelled to france.

translation: last night, i was informed of the death of an 80—year—old patient who had been hospitalised at the bichat hospital since the 25th of january. he was suffering from a coronavirus lung infection. back in china, all those returning to the capital beijing after what's been an extended holiday have been told they must quarantine themselves for two weeks — the latest drastic order. it's not clear if it will apply to foreigners, too. passengers of many nationalities are still stuck aboard the diamond princess off the coast of japan. 285 people have now tested positive for the virus on the ship, and america says it will remove all of its citizens tomorrow and fly them home. there is no such escape from wuhan, the chinese city where the outbreak began. 0fficials report more people catching the virus and more people dying from it. beijing claims its acted quickly and decisively

to try to stop the spread, but few are willing to predict what the global impact of this crisis will be. nick beake, bbc news, hong kong. and within the last few minutes, it's been announced that the last people being held in quarantine at arrowe park hospital on the wirral, after returning from china, have been allowed to leave. 94 people were transferred there in the last few weeks. separately, all but one of the patients being treated for the virus at other nhs trusts have now been discharged after twice testing negative for coronavirus. the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, has been knocked out of the labour leadership race after failing to receive enough support from local constituency parties. rebecca long—bailey, sir keir starmer and lisa nandy have all made it onto the final ballot paper. labour members will begin voting a week on monday. the result will be announced on the 4th april. china's state railway company has offered to build the entire hs2 high

speed rail line linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds in just five years. in a letter, seen by building magazine, beijing says it could also deliver the project at a much lower cost. government officials said "preliminary discussions" had taken place, but no "concrete commitments" had been made. the duchess of cambridge has said her "amazing granny" is the inspiration for the way she parents her own children. in an interview for the podcast happy mum, happy baby, the duchess said she wants to replicate the experiences she shared with her grandmother, like being outdoors and cooking, with prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis. i had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of time to playing with us, doing arts and crafts and going to her greenhouse, doing gardening stuff and cooking with us. 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.

with all the sport now, here'sjohn watson at the bbc sport centre. such as it is, with the terrible weather being predicted this weekend. good afternoon. we will start with the big news in the world of football regarding the premier league champions. 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 finanicial fair play rules financial fair play rules by inflating sponsorship deals to cover their expenditure. it leaves questions over the immediate futures of manager pep guardiola and some of their leading players. pep guardiola has stated he expects to see out his contract which runs until next year but there is speculation the development may change things. i spoke to the football finance expert dr rob wilson earlier. they might have

expected the fine but i don't think they expected the two—year ban. but this will have implications for other teams across european football, their player recruitment strategy, not to mention whether the manager will stay on. do they will have a team that does not play champions league football, for example? it makes it very difficult, murky waters to wade through. to really have a similar fight, what they have said is they have a big sponsorship deal with etihad airways who sponsor their shirts and that kind of thing and instead of doing a transaction between manchester city, so let's call that organisation a and etihad organisation bay, the money has come from other organisations, which is probably owned by the ownership of the football clu b owned by the ownership of the football club and that is what financialfair football club and that is what financial fair play tries to stop, to limit owner investment and make sure you can wash your face financially based on your own income and the earned income you can generate and not depend on owner investment. that is really important if you think about the context of football. we have sat here before talking about bury, for example, and

what happens when owner investment does not come through. financial fair play is important but it perhaps has some pretty ropey regulations. liverpool take their 22—point lead in the premier league to norwich city later. that's one of two games today. in the early kick—off, it's i—i between southampton and burnley. the visitors took the lead inside the first two minutes, through ashley westwood, before danny ings equalised. 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. and england'sjodi ewart—shadoff had a nightmare third round at the australian open. she was tied for the overnight lead in adelaide but she's now nine shots behind inbee park. 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 took 0lympic silver in slopestyle at the 2014 games in sochi. we're looking forward to one of the most prestigious events on the athletics calendar, the indoor grand prix in glasgow. among the british athletes competing are world heptathlon champion katarina johnson thompson — she's in the long jump — and laura muir, who has the i,000m world record in her sights. i've run thei kilometre 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 is going to be really close but hopefully i will be on the right side bit but the last lap will be tough. 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. especially here with a massive home

crowd. looking forward to it. and the coverage from glasgow starts straight after this bulletin on bbc one, continuing throughout the day on the red button and the bbc sport website and app. that's all the sport for now. back to you. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 5.10. until then, have a lovely afternoon. hello. you're watching the bbc news channel with shaun ley. the uk is preparing to be hit by winds and rain from storm dennis. severe weather warnings are in place for most of the uk — and forecasters say a month's worth of rain could fall in some places. flights to and from heathrow and gatwick have been cancelled. and north wales police have told people to only venture out ‘if absolutely necessary‘.

earlier, i spoke to heather shepherd, who's from the charity national flood forum and advises people on how to recover from flooding. she told me they have been handling a lot of calls from people worried about their properties. the national flood forum has been absolutely inundated with calls and particularly from people who have already suffered flooding in storm ciara and are preparing now are to be flooded again. but also the restoration for those who feel that perhaps storm dennis is going to miss them, that they are battling now with the insurance process and all 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. and usually the first step is a surveyor will come down to look at and note the devastation that's happened within the property and the process moves on from there. it is not a quick process. often, we hear people's expectations are not matched, —— 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 obviously 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 here in, year out

in some parts of the country. yes, i mean, for the insurance industry we have flood re—in place at the moment, which helps people gain affordable, accessible insurance. but actually what we need to do, all the government needs to do, is be far more ambitious about how we approach and tackle flooding. this isn't something that is going to go away. this is only going to increase and the height 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 can do in terms of thinking ahead when they know that weather is expected to deteriorate in maybe five or ten days‘s time because this is an unfortunate combination, two storms, one after the other, only with seven days in between, barely that actually, to clean up. not all events are like this. anything that people can do when they know that something is in the air, as it were? i mean, i think if you flooded before you are going to be very aware of the effects that it has.

and, number one, you need to look after yourself because there is no 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. iflood, 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 clear up, mop up, as quickly as possible. and for the latest information on storm dennis in your area, you can find more on your local bbc 0nline pages or tune into your local radio station. 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 sport journalist at the german magazine, der spiegel. he told me how his investigation led to manchester city‘s ban. 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, whereas they were actually expenses

from the club ownership. uefa tries to prevent clubs from paying as much money as they want, they want to balance their expenses with their 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 says it has found manchester city guilty of this offence and it has imposed a fine and a ban, how does it compare with other action that uefa has taken before, disciplinary action, against clubs for this kind of abuse? are they being treated fairly or is this a 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 2014. after we published our articles, uefa found that they felt misled by manchester city, even back 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 ban them from the competitions that uefa organises. and this is a significant step because these competitions are very lucrative for 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 really had 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 clubs in 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. 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. earlier, i spoke to our business correspondent katy austin, who explained which customers would benefit from the changes. you might not realise that you are out of contract and then you might have signed up to a really good, cheap or discounted offer initially but that is no longer going to apply.

you are automatically going to be jacked up to a higher standard rate. now the change that is coming in means that the provider will have to contact you, whether that is e—mail or text or another way, between ten and 40 days before the contract‘s coming to the end, and they will 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 — 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 is not something to just ignore if your provider gets in touch and says hey you are 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 areas, the government is certainly trying to encourage, in energy supply for instance, that that will keep

the deals competitive. the regulator would argue here that the way you‘ll keep your providers competitive is if they are forced to keep chasing your business. absolutely. and actually 0fcom says some providers already are better than others at telling you your contract is going to end. there are sometimes concerns that if you stop people going up to the higher standard rate that will mean providers no longer offer the very cheapest deals at the start. but 0fcom says it is 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 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, department for transport, is always keen to learn from the experience of others and to consider approaches that offer value for money to the taxpayer. 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‘s department for 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 hs2 line, the contracts are signed, that would mean millions and billions of pounds worth of contracts to break to bring in a chinese operator. and then there are of course the questions about how you could do something so fast. this is not china, this is a country

where the levels of democracy, if i can put that diplomatically, are a little higher. where you have planning rules, regulations, people appealing about the blight on their homes, things are slower for a reason. now, the bit beyond birmingham, which is not due for completion until 2040, although boris johnson does say he wants it by 2035, that potentially might be sooner. but of course i suppose where this gets interesting is the politics of a chinese company again bidding for major contracts in this country. we have had the hoo—hah over huawei... pleasure you had to say that! thanks very much. ..over recent times. that is still a live issue. the anger from the us and other countries, potentially australia too, over the chinese company huawei potentially being a big part of the 5g mobile phone network roll—out. these are significant issues, so when a chinese company is suggesting it is going to get involved potentially,

possibly, in another big infrastructure company... that was matt cole speaking to me a little earlier. a british asian singer arjun, who‘s had millions of views on youtube, is warning young people about heart attacks. arjun‘s wife died suddenly and unexpectedly six months into their marriage. he‘s now organising a concert this weekend to raise awareness of the risk of heart disease to young people. it‘s the first time he‘s spoken about his loss to the bbc asian network‘s shabnam mahmood. singer arjun has had millions of views on youtube, including for his song dedicated to his wife ofjust six months. that was the first time i have been able to put my feelings on paper. i think part of my therapy was to write it down in a song.

the first time i had seen our footage from the wedding was in the video weirdly enough, so that was quite painful. natasha passed away due to a sudden cardiac arrest in september 2018. she just collapsed and obviously i called 999 and was doing cpr for a long time, that was quite harrowing. and that was it, she was declared dead on the spot. for the first time since his wife‘s death, arjun has agreed to have a heart checkup. every week, over 12 young people aged under 35 in the uk die from heart—related conditions. in 80% of cases, there are no prior symptoms. and on what should have been his second wedding anniversary he‘s organising a concert with a host of stars in memory of his late wife. he is hoping the show will raise

money for a charity, cardiac arrest in the young, which offered screening tests to identify those at risk. shabnam mahmood, bbc news. if you‘re looking for inspiration for weekend plans then this might just have you reaching for your skates and heading to the ice rink. meet mio. he‘s two—years—old and loves to play ice hockey. he‘s becoming a bit of a sporting prodigy in norway and he even sleeps with his stick and gloves. in fact, mio is considered to be so good that he‘s started training with six—year—olds. good luck to him! now it‘s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello, there. storm dennis is bringing extremely windy weather across the uk throughout this weekend. but i think of even more concern is the rain associated with the storm. the met office amber warning in some spots are likely to see a whole

month‘s worth of rain through the weekend. that wet weather continuing to push its way eastwards through this afternoon, thoroughly soggy in many spots. very windy as well, widely we will see wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour, even inland but for some coasts in the west and also the north, gusts of 70 miles an hour or more. temperatures, yes, it is mild, ten to 14 degrees but remember with the wet and windy weather out there it is not going to feel great at all if you are out and about. now, through this evening and tonight, this band of rain will continue its progress across england and wales, some of that torrential with some squally winds. something clearer into northern ireland and scotland, some starry skies but some showers too. a chilly night here, mild in the south. a lot of rain to start tomorrow across england and wales. 00:28:42,509 --> 2147483051:51:05,969 something brighter in the north 2147483051:51:05,969 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and it stays windy.