this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm. heavy rain and strong winds are battering parts of the uk as storm dennis arrives. the army has been deployed in west yorkshire. dozens of flood warnings are in place across the uk — forecasters say a months worth of rain could fall in some places. the storm is scuppering travel plans for many — hundreds of flights have been cancelled and train services are disrupted. france records the first death from coronavirus in europe as beijing orders everyone returning to that city from holidays to go into quarantine for m days or risk punishment. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers when their contracts are coming to an end.

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 — click meets former footballer rio ferdinand, who's on a mission to educate parents about the gaming habits of their children. the army have been called in to help shore up flood defences across west yorkshire, with large parts of the uk expected to be hit by severe rain and wind from storm dennis. the regular troops and reservists have been deployed to ilkley and calderdale.

the highways agency has warned of hazardous driving conditions and north wales police has urged people not to go out unless it's absolutely neccessary. matches in the scottish premiership at rangers and motherwell have been called off. british airways and easyjet have cancelled flights across the country for safety reasons. easyj et 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 250 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 preperation for storm dennis. helena wilkinson reports. a relative calm before the storm.

still clearing up from storm ciara last weekend, residents in the calder valley are bracing themselves for another onslaught. this area has borne the brunt of the bad weather. flooding is expected later, which could further devastate this community. the army has been deployed here in calderdale to help once the storm hits. the first thing they are going to be providing is reassurance reassurance to people that actually, we are doing everything we can to keep them safe during storm dennis. the second thing is that we're actually, with their engineering experience, basically checking our river walls and reinforce them where there are weaknesses. 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 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 at 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, where floods from last week's storm ciara hit. phil explained the prospect of the area being flooded for a second time in one week. last weekend, as you say, storm ciara had a devastating effect in the calder valley, places like mytholmroyd

and hebden bridge, hundreds of properties flooded and business owners and that followed the flooding of 2015, boxing day, and last weekend, that was the third time this valley has been affected in eight years. i should say that it is a fairly mizzling afternoon and we have drizzle and light rain and squally showers and it seems the main event has not yet begun but if you look beyond me you can see this temporary flood defence which has been put in about one hour ago, soldiers, around a0 soldiers from 4 scots based at the local garrison have arrived to help install temporary defences and they have started already to build the wall. these walls were designed after the 2015 floods and the engineering work started in 2016 but that has not been completed so clearly

there is a concern to the properties to my left. that they potentially could be flooded if storm dennis comes. and this water level below me rises, which people tell me it will do once the storm gets under later. and what advice are locals being given? the advice is for people to watch and wait and prepare if they can. somebody will walk through... they want people to make their own preparations so if they have flood defences underway or installed, then they put those up and take precautions and move furniture upstairs. the other advice is for people not to sightsee and come to the calder valley because with the road on single file at the moment while the temporary defences are installed, congestion is pretty heavy in this part of the world. what the authorities do not want is extra people clogging this up. this area is on an amber warning

along with other areas of the uk, including scotland, wales and the south—west of england. the advice for people who live here is to make sure you are prepared, prepare for the worse, they are hoping for the best. if you don't live in the area, stay away for the time being. because this storm is set to come in later this afternoon, and this river will rise very quickly like last weekend and that is when problems began. hopefully this temporary flood defence will prevent a repeat of what we saw last week but there are no guarantees. ijust wonder, from conversations you have had with people living there, what is the mood? are people fairly stoic? yes, the people have a certain amount of stoicism. you have to admire that tenacity in the face of adversity and they have been through this before many times. but each time they seem to come through and fight back.

there is a certain reluctance and resignation that whatever happens happens and all they can do is watch, wait and hope. we have been speaking to locals in mytholmroyd earlier today who shrugged their shoulders and said, here we go again. they know that work is being done to shore up defences and the contract to build proper stone defences has been going on for the last four years and i think some people have said to us that they cannot work out why it is taking so long, you hear the phrase that the chinese can build hospitals within weeks and yet here in this part of the world it has taken four years to build these flood defences and they are still not complete. a lot of people would like to see these flood defences completed much sooner than they have been. but i think the mood amongst people today is one of watching and waiting.

i'm joined now via webcam byjim dale — senior risk meteorologist at british weather services. i have to start by asking, where are you and why? this is the lie in high wycombe and i guess this is a commercial risk, if you like, this isa commercial risk, if you like, this is a heated swimming pool and obviously it is very empty and nobody will be swimming were coming here easily in the rain. it is not too windy but it is getting up there so too windy but it is getting up there soi too windy but it is getting up there so i guess this will be amplified across the country in terms of the leisure areas. i know you normally advise on hurricanes so what have you been doing a of storm dennis? he first noted storm dennis on monday so we first noted storm dennis on monday so we got rid of one storm and were

already plotting the next and in between then and now, what we have been doing is updating the various places that we are attached to, sporting arenas particularly. logistics firms, etc, so they can prepare themselves, whether it is safety, how the clubs repair for the match, all the risk. but it is different aspects and they make the final decisions and we just advise as to what is coming and have a chat and communication is important to make sure everybody does the right thing at the right time. make sure everybody does the right thing at the right timelj make sure everybody does the right thing at the right time. i wonder how you assess the risk? very difficult. how long is a piece of string? it is ever—changing. we can only do our best, we are looking at the charts all the time and we are listening and observing and we are seeing were the heavy rain is on the stronger winds so all of this is plotted and we try to predict, like

a weather forecast, and plotted and we try to predict, like a weatherforecast, and put plotted and we try to predict, like a weather forecast, and put that in place for the location in hand and advise at that point and those places will have critical points by which they will make their own decisions, whether they decide to postpone or play a game in a certain tactic away or whether it is a logistics firm, whether or not they put people driving on that day. it is very important to say that they make the decision and not ourselves, we are advisers. can you put this storm into context? how does this compare to other storms you have advised on? no storm is ever the same and at this moment i would suggest that at this moment, for most parts of the uk, this might be classed as a standard winter storm, a lot of wind and rain, not too unusual but i think the worst is yet to come, certainly in terms of the

wind in the rain, that will only build and you have talked about the river levels and that is only going to go in one direction so this is a storm, a winter storm, it is an amber storm, so it is up there with the danger to life so don't put yourself in the wrong position, is what we are saying. watch and wait and make sure you do the right thing at the right time. always good to talk to you. thank you. 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. 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 1h 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 it's 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 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. 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 headlines on bbc news... 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 train services are disrupted. france has recorded the first death from coronavirus in europe as beijing orders everyone returning to that city from holidays to go into quarantine for 1h

days or risk punishment. and days or risk punishment. in the sport... birmingha to and in the sport... birmingham at up to tenth place in the premier league after a hard —fought to tenth place in the premier league after a hard—fought game in terrible weather, beating southampton 2—1. liverpool are in at norwich later on. in the semifinals of the welsh 0pen, ronnie 0'sullivan is facing kieran wilson, he has a 3— to lead, it is the best of 11 in cardiff. and jesse knight has won in glasgow with a personal best time. you can watch that on bbc one and i will be back in the next hour for you. 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 sportjournalist at the german magazine der spiegel. he told my colleague shaun ley how his investigation led to manchester city's ban. it was part of our football league's revelations. we went through a lot of material, millions of documents and we had a team at der spiegel 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 ta ken 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 if 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. that was christoph winterbach from der spiegel. a british man who was detained in egypt for allegedly ‘patting' an airport security guard on the back has been released. tony camoccio was falsely accused of sexual assault after the incident at hurghada airport earlier this month. the campaign group detained in dubai said the case had been dismissed due to lack of evidence and the 51—year—old was on his way back to the uk. 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. if we are completely honest, many of us could not say off the top of our head when our phone, broadband or pay—tv contract is ending and that means we might miss the event and automatically be put onto a higher rate and that means that the cheaper deal we might have signed up to immediately when we took out the contract for one year or two years won't apply any more and we automatically are paying more. what is going to happen is these providers will have to get in contact with customers between 10 and 40 days before the contract is due to come to an end and they need to outline their options, say how much you are currently paying and how much you could pay if you go up to the standard rate and then tell you what your options are, how you can quit the contract without having to pay a penalty.

if we take broadband, where 25,000 people get out of contract every day, 0fcom thinks these new rules could save customers about £150 off their annual bill. tensions between the united states and europe have come to the fore at the international security conference in munich. the us secretary of state mike pompeo hit back strongly at accusations that the united states no longer believes in the international community. he told the conference that nothing could be further from the truth. mr pompeo went on to attack chinese and russian influence. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, is in munich and earlier sent this update. it is day two of the munich security conference, a conference whose theme this year is westlessness — a world where the west is either absent or increasingly irrelevant. day two has started off

with duelling narratives and the us secretary of state says that is not true, the west is winning and we are winning together. the french president talked about the west weakening. where does the truth lie? with us to discuss this is the former secretary of defence from the us. you have been listening to these, is the west winning, is it still in a leading role? i think the discussion has been about western values and western values still are the dominant values through the world. the aspirations of all people to be free, for that kind of liberty to express themselves. so in that context, if you balance that against the autocratic systems, china or russia or turkey, or any place else, you would say that the western values are still dominant. on a military level, what you are not seeing

in the rhetoric is to say we are pulling out and we are not committed but in fact the rhetoric does not reflect the reality, the reality is we are putting more money into nato and the european theatre than ever before. all of the countries i have talked to are very happy with the us commitment to their security and to nato's security and so the rhetoric is the us is not as committed but the reality is we are even more committed. if you look at some of the battlefields that you spent a lot of time looking at when you were secretary of defence, whether it is syria, libya or yemen, the united states is not calling the shots any more, it is regional powers and so many regional powers that it makes the situation worse, not better. whenever the united states reduces or diminishes its presence, other countries move in and they don't necessarily share those values or ideals so that is one of the great paradoxes, that we want to disengage

somewhat, not have so many countries so dependent on the united states and yet other countries don't have either the military capacity, the economic prosperity, the international diplomacy to be able to carry the load. the question is, can the eu do more, they are doing more on the military side, they are certainly being encouraged to do more in terms of diplomacy and investment and human interest. so the united states will... i frankly do not approve of the unilateralist approach, my background has been multilateralist and that is changing. you are seeing the united states saying we would like more ability to act with allies when we need to but basically to take action without being encumbered or restricted by other countries. that is the policy of the president and that is basically what is being carried out.

william cohen talking to lyse doucet in munich. 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 prince george, princess charlotte and prince louis. catherine was speaking after lauching a major survey on childhood last month, as our 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. if you're looking for inspiration for weekend plans then this mightjust 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. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello, there. the wind is howling at the rain is tumbling through the country as we see storm dennis having an impact and it might well be the amount of rain that has the biggest impact with numerous amber warnings from the met office for high ground on the met office for high ground on the southern opulence. gusty winds, 60 mph, some thundery downpours chasing into scotland and northern ireland this evening as persistent rain is followed by showers, it stays wet across england and wales and further heavy rain over the

hills, increasing the flood risk in the transcoder in scotland and northern ireland but very mild for england and wales what it is a wet and windy start on sunday morning. the rain sinks to the south—west and we get brief respite but there are lots of showers packing in from the north—west and wintry over higher ground in scotland, where it is colder here. the winds are not quite as strong for england and wales but strengthening for scotland and northern ireland and we are drawing down colder air with temperatures at six or seven in the north.

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. dozens of flood warnings are in place across the uk. forecasters say a months worth of rain could fall in some places the storm is scuppering travel plans for many — hundreds of flights have been cancelled and trains services are disrupted. france has recorded the first death from coronavirus in europe — as beijing orders everyone returning to that city from holidays to go into quarantine for 14 days or risk punishment. from today, companies which provide phone, broadband and pay—tv services will have to alert customers