theirfame is spreading, with an appearance on television in the usa. this granddaughter and her- grandfather in the united kingdom are showcasing their beautiful voices and beautiful bond. - so many people around. the world are seeing this and really loving your videos. # i can't help falling in love with you. # this granddad and granddaughter plan to keep singing togetherfor as long as they can. andrea ormsby, bbc news. it's weather time which is all—important at the moment, chris fawkes is back with me. the met office have issued a rare top level

red level warning for extreme winds—macro particularly for the south—west but per day represents the calm before the storm and for many of us the weather is pretty decent through the rest of the afternoon. we have sunny spells around, scattering of showers particularly across north—western areas, a mild day for england and wales, temperatures close to normal for northern ireland and scotland but then the focus shifts to storm eunice and the first signs of this storm arriving will be overnight as rain and increasingly strong gusty winds work into what parts of the rain turning to heavy hill snow across parts of northern ireland, northern ireland and scotland as well. i'll take a closer look in more detail at these weather warnings. the red top level well of the warning is issued across parts of south—west england, southern wales. it's where we are looking at gusts of winds at 70—90 miles an hour, flying debris, rocks held from the ocean, coastal flooding,

hour, flying debris, rocks held from the ocean, coastalflooding, across the ocean, coastalflooding, across the large area of england and wales, the large area of england and wales, the 60-80 the large area of england and wales, the 60—80 mile an hour winds are going to be strong enough to blow down a number of trees so there will be widespread disruption from this. warnings have been out for four days and it's all the more remarkable given that eunice only started to form yesterday, would you believe it, but by the time we get to tomorrow morning it's going to be bringing these extreme winds across parts of south—west england and wales with gusts up to 90 miles an hour, coastalflooding a possibility under so not winds pushes eastwards across to east anglia and the sea of south—east, even in london gusts of 70 odd miles an hour, it will be dangerous and bring down trees. further north, scotland hills, northern ireland, the cumbrian felt and pennines could see snow coming down with blizzards. snow and gritters will not be able to keep up with that so they could be vehicles that will be stranded due to the heavy snow. think about changing your travel plans ahead of time. by the time we get to the weekend

eunice will be bringing some extreme winds across parts of northern europe but following eunice is another area of low pressure. it's going to continue to bring strong winds with bails—macro, even severe gales macro across the north west and we are looking at rain and showers on saturday and sunday but our main focus is on the multiple hazards that storm eunice is going to bring. 70—90 mile an hour gusts of wind, widespread disruption, a large number of trees blown over and heavy hill snow and blizzards. we could see further updates to the weather warnings later today or first tomorrow, stay in touch with the weather at the bbc. chris fawkes, you can stay up—to—date on the bbc news channel and the bbc local radio stations. that's all, on bbc one we joined the new steams wherever you are. i hope you have a good afternoon, goodbye.

good afternoon. we start in beijing, where the men's british curling team are battling for a sport in saturday's final, guaranteeing them at least a silver medal. they're taking on the united states in their semifinal, a team they lost to in the round robin format, their only defeat so far. they went behind early on, but pulled it back, at the end halfway through and team gb are 5—4 up. if they lose today it will be a spotin up. if they lose today it will be a spot in the bronze medal match on friday. eve muirhead's women's side beat the russian olympic committee to progress. the scottish skip delivered a fantastic final stone in the ninth end to score four and clinch a 9—4 win. team gb�*s last four place was confirmed when defending champions sweden beat south korea. and it's the swedes who'll face team gb in tomorrow's semi.

i am very proud of this team. i think we have a great chance out there. as a team we have played very well all week and as much as we have lost a few games i think all of us know those losses have not been through a lot of bad play, it has been inches here and there but that is curling. i can't wait to get out here tomorrow night. supporting the boys tonight in the semifinal and let's hope we can all do great britain proud. gb remain without a medal still, but with three days of competition remaining hopes have been raised of success in half pipe freestyle skiing thanks to british teenager zoe atkin, who cruised into the final, qualifying in fourth place. she said she may include some fresh tricks, in tomorrow's final, which she hopes will push her into the medal positions. she was born in america, and is the sister of izzy atkin, who won britain's first olympic medal on skis at the last games. i was really nervous. sometimes qualifying can be even more nerve—racking than finals. so, ijust wanted to put it down

and after i'd laid down the first round i thought, oh, the pressure is off. and i put an extra trick in there that i hadn't trained just to try it, and i'm really happy that i landed it and i'm in the finals tomorrow. britain's gus kenworthy, made into the men's final by the finest of margins. his second run, was much improved on his first, when he'd fallen, and he had a nervous wait before discovering he'd got the final qualifying spot for saturday's final. and one of the most controversial moments of these games, and perhaps olympic history, comes in the next few minutes when the 15—year—old, kamila valieva of russia competes, in the free skate, top of the standings after tuesday's short programme. but after her failed drugs test, the ioc has already said there'll be no medal ceremony if valieva wins. she is due out on the ice shortly. you can follow that across the bbc. england's next two home uefa

nations league matches — against italy and hungary — will be played at wolves' molineux stadium in june. the game against italy will be played behind closed doors following the unrest at the euro 2020 final at wembley. england play italy on 11 june and then hungary on the 14th. it will be the first time wolverhampton has hosted a match involving the england senior men's team since december 1956. in the women's game, two home nations are in action later. northern ireland face the faroe islands in a friendly while england's women are competing in the arnold clark cup. the inaugural tournament takes place just five months ahead of this summer's euros, which will also be in england. head coach sarina wiegman says the progression of the women's game will make this competition interesting. there are lots of teams because the game has developed so much and i think no more and more countries are

favourites in this turnout was up it is exciting. the games will be on a higher level than the tournament four years ago or the world cup for the european teams, so that will be really exciting. michael massey the race director who presided over the controversial finish to the abu dhabi grand prix last season that denied lewis hamilton that record eight drivers title will be replaced in his role in formula i head of the start of the new season. you can read more on that on the bbc sport website. i will be back a little later. good afternoon, you're watching bbc news. i amjane hill. the bbc has uncovered how a culture of complicity and denial conceals the true scale of clerical sex abuse in italy. despite having the most priests of any country and the seat of the catholic church on its doorstep, italy has not

documented the crime. calls are growing for it to follow france, which last year found over 200,000 cases there since the 1950s. mark lowen reports. in the shadow of the vatican are dark secrets that italy itself has buried. clerical sex abuse of minors, thought to be extensive but undocumented. with the most priests of any country and the seat of the catholic church in the heart of its capital, italy is failing to confront its sins. countless survivors have kept silent but one, who we will call mario, agreed to talk for the first time. he said he was abused. for 16 years from the age of eight by his local priest, who was accused of repeated premeditated rape. when i was very young, this abuse happened to me in the vestry.

in the vestry of the church! he told me it was a secret between him, me and jesus. but it was fully fledged sexual slavery. when mario soughtjustice, the bishop began a canon law or church trial by the vatican's congregation for the doctrine of the faith. we have obtained the verdict. while some details were disputed, he confessed the abuse took place. the trial recognised his guilt, he even paid mario 112,000 euros as a sort of damages. but he was not defrocked, as mario requested, instead banned from working with minors for life. when mario's case came to the italian courts, a time limit for trials or statute of limitations meant he was never convicted. it all shows the legal quagmire that has failed survivors. there are probably hundreds of thousands here, based on what countries that have investigated abuse have found.

the vatican still has a hold over some parts of italy, perpetuating the culture of silence here. we tracked down mario's abuser and asked him, is it appropriate he is still a practising priest? there are documents of a trial that reached its conclusions, i urge you to read them. i showed him thejudgment we had and public photos of him celebrating mass with minors present. those are people in general, not specifically minors. then i asked directly, is he a paedophile? this is what you are saying, thanks for your work. that is what your victim says, i add. in our search for the truth, we went up a level to the bishop. why, iasked, hadn't he defrocked the man? the victim was listened to. all the material was sent to the congregation for the doctrine of the faith.

it is they who issued the sentence, it wasn't the diocese. but being aware of his guilt, wasn't it immoral not to have advised the vatican to dismiss him? a defendant's guilt can be based on different facts. they could turn out to be of a different scale, a different time frame, a different reality. legal technicalities and interpretations of the verdicts have taken the place of accountability, as survivors wait for italy to look deep inside its soul and atone. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. more than 14,000 than 111,000 men to do more to find out whether they are at risk. our health care respondent dominic hughes has been to me to people whose lives have been touched by the

disease. he was my best friend. he was and he will always be my best friend. literally we used to say we were each other�*s twin, we had the same mindset and we were very, very close so it's very difficult without him. danielle wasjust 25 when her dad johnny died after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. he was only 63. they were really close so losing her dad to a disease that, if caught early enough, is very treatable has been hard to take. his diagnosis came as a shock so it was in 2015. he did have some symptoms, now i realise, probably must have started a couple of years beforehand. but for that diagnosis you just don't think it's ever going to happen to you, you don't think it's going to affect your family. johnny died two years after being diagnosed. the charity prostate cancer uk and the nhs are both worried there could be thousands of men who are living with the cancer but don't yet know it.

since april 2020 more than 58,000 men have begun treatment for prostate cancer but that's 111,000 fewer than would have been expected when compared with pre—pandemic numbers. one in eight men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. men over 50, black men and those with a history of it in their family are at even greater risk. my dad's 80th there. that was the case for andrew. his dad had lived with prostate cancer for years. that was after the operation. then in 2020 a routine screening blood test revealed some worrying signs and a prostate cancer diagnosis soon followed. his advice for other men now is simple. don't just sit there thinking it will be right like i did, there could be something happening there and one thing i found out since about prostate cancer is that it's very aggressive and once it takes hold of the rest of your body it canjust be a chasing game. i was very lucky, i didn't

need any radiotherapy, didn't need any chemotherapy. the operation did it for me. for andrew the road to recovery has been hard at times but he's now back to running and playing five—a—side. a simple blood test saved his life. i think i've used all my luck up in one go and if that's the only luck i'm going to have in my life, i'll take that. one disease, two very different outcomes but the same message for thousands of men thought to be living with prostate cancer. where i am now in life compared to what the alternative could have been, it's a no—brainer. if anyone is worried about it, just go take a test. raising awareness now is key to recognising the symptoms and get treatment if you do have cancer, it's to get that early treatment and save your life. dominic hughes, bbc news.

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the headlines. i red weather warning has been issued for parts of south—west england and south wales as storm eunice prepares to sweep through tomorrow.— as storm eunice prepares to sweep through tomorrow. russia says it is movin: through tomorrow. russia says it is moving trocips _ through tomorrow. russia says it is moving troops away _ through tomorrow. russia says it is moving troops away from _ through tomorrow. russia says it is moving troops away from ukraine'sj moving troops away from ukraine's were there but the foreign secretary says there is no evidence in the west mustn't be lulled into a full sense of security. and a british man has been named as the victim of a fatal shark attack in australia. the first in sydney nearly 60 years. thousands of men from yemen who worked at factories in the midlands have been left penniless after their state pensions stopped suddenly. the men worked there for decades and paid into the uk tax system, but the department for work and pensions can't explain why their payments have stopped.

caroline gall has been investigating. desperate for the pensions they worked for and are owed by the british government, he is one of hundreds of yemeni men who came to work in the factories and foundries of the west midlands in the 1960s. when i was in britain, i did not ask for benefits or insurance. i relied on the sweat of my brow, and i do not know why this has happened to us. most of them worked in factories, foundries. a lot of them lost their hearing. a lot of them have lost limbs working 30, 40 years in factories in the west midlands. after working here for decades, he retired to his home land and says he was receiving his state pension payments from the british government until the money suddenly stopped three years ago. the west midlands yemeni community has seen their homeland torn apart by war, and it is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the un.

it also hit the banking system, with the national bank of yemen pointing to conflict as a partial reason as to why 2,500 pension payments have stopped. but for ahmed, it is taking too long to resolve. he says his weekly £35 state pension payment suddenly ceased in 2016. solicitors send letters. we fill in applications, and they have not responded to us. we are here to request, give us our pension. mine and my wife's. the department for work and pensions says it understands the men's frustration and can't explain what has gone wrong. in the uk, i met the community leaders who have been helping the men pursue their cases. we see that as an equivalent to the windrush issue with the afro—caribbean. we see this as a pension scandal. how much money are you thinking people are owed in total? i would say in the hundreds of thousands. there is a disparity between the national bank of yemen and the department for work and pensions over how many people are affected by this. however, the government says

a solution has now been negotiated to resume payments to the majority of people, although no date has been set and hundreds may still be overlooked. meanwhile, back in yemen, in a country where people already feel abandoned by the outside world, the men and theirfamilies can only hope the money reaches them soon. a couple from gosport who paid nearly a thousand pounds for a public bench, with a plaque in memory of their son, are furious that an arrangement made with their local council almost ten years ago has now changed. they've been told a renewal fee is due every five years or the bench will be re—allocated to someone else. sean killick has more. well, i'm here at a very breezy stokes bay, and dotted all along the promenade are scores of memorial benches. last november, gosport borough council introduced a new policy whereby after ten years loved ones would have to pay £50 every five years to renew the benches, and if the council can't trace any loved ones, those benches will be

offered to other people on the waiting list. well, over here are angie and dave day. this bench is in memory of your son, dan, isn't it? that is correct, yes. what's your reaction to this new policy? well, we took the the agreement out with the council eight years ago when we puchased the bench, and they said that after we paid the £1000 to purchase the bench, they would then maintain it for life. they've now come out with this new policy without any consultation. all the bench owners should be aware that if they cannot be traced by the council, then there's a possibility that their plaque will be removed from the bench and somebody else's plaque would be put on it. and to us that is a desecration of a memorial. and the council are saying that you can't put flowers on the bench any more? yes.

well, we just put discrete flowers. we've got a holder on the back of the bench and people say it's lovely, you know, to see flowers on the bench. angie and dave, thank you. well, the council says there's been considerable consultation, they're running out of room for any new benches, and that it's always been the council's policy that it retains the ownership of the benches and has never permitted anything other than a single plaque to be placed on them. france has announced it is withdrawing its troops from mali, where they've been fighting a jihadi insurgency for ten years. a statement issued jointly with european allies and canada said multiple obstructions by mali's ruling militaryjunta were making it

impossible to operate there. but it also said — the allies would continue joint action against terrorism in the sahel region, and would seek to expand the scope of their operations to include niger and the gulf of guinea. the joint statement came ahead of an eu—africa summit in brussels. this is how the french president, emmanuel macron, explained the decision to pull the troops out of mali. translation: we cannot engage militarily side by side _ with de facto authorities with whom we do not share a strategy or objectives. that is the situation in mali today. the fight against terrorism cannot justify everything ad must not, by using a pretext as being the ultimate priority turning into an exercise of indefinitely maintaining power. they cannotjustify an escalation in violence by using mercenaries whose violent acts are documented in the central african republic and whose use of force is not in line with any rules or conventions. new research has suggested that orangutans have an instinctive knowledge of how to use tools.

orangutans at zoos in norway and the uk were presented with a box wrapped in silicon — and they used stones to hammer and cut their way inside. the researchers say it indicates that our shared predecessors were using tools 13 million years ago. an exhibition opens in paris today, displaying the original manuscript of antoine de saint—exupery�*s book "the little prince" for the first time in his native france. the aviator�*s wartime book is one of the best selling and most translated works ever published — into at least 300 languages. dozens of drawings by saint—exupery will also be on show. if you've ever had a picnic or an "al fresco" meal ruined by dive—bombing seagulls, we've got the perfect spot for you. it is rather a long way though. this is the popular bar and restaurant area

near sydney opera house, where dogs are now on patrol to chase off hungry gulls. one restaurant owner said aerial attacks on their customers' food had reduced by 80% since the patrols began. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. we have extreme winds on the way but a reminder of what storm dudley did to parts of scotland. we had a top gust of 7a miles per hour reported and there have been reports of widespread and severe disruption on scotrail services as a result of trees being blown over onto tracks, but now the focus is on storm eunice. the met office have issued a rare top—level red weather warning for this affecting parts of south—west england and wales. gusts could reach 90 miles per hour. flying debris.

we are expecting widespread disruption and significant damage but across this area in england and wales, we are also looking at some damaging gusts of wind. storm eunice continues to develop. it is this area of cloud that continues to racing off the atlantic. it will be bringing some fierce winds our way. the first signs of rain associated with the storm will be working in overnight across parts of the uk. starting to turn to snow across the high ground in the north. all the while the winds will really start to ramp up as we head into the first part of friday morning. a closer look on these extreme winds. across wales and south—west england we are looking at those gusts of 70—90 mph. flying debris, large and dangerous waves. significant coastal flooding as well. that's why the strong winds will be putting across the midlands into east anglia and south—east england even in the greater london area, quite likely to see gusts into the 70s. a large amount of trees coming down

with those strong winds. further north for northern ireland, northern ireland and scotland a different hazard over the high ground, looking at 10—30 centimetres of snow. blizzard conditions. vehicles may become completely trapped and stranded because this snow will come down very heavily. snow clouds and gritters would be able to keep up with the rate off snowfall. on into the weekend it stays very windy. gales or even severe gales across north—western areas and an unsettled weekend with rain or showers affecting many areas. however our main focus continues to be on storm eunice. a quick reminder of what this damaging dangerous storm will bring. gusts of 70—90 miles per hour, heavy snow and blizzards, we are expecting widespread disruption.

this is bbc news. the headlines. a red weather warning is issued for parts of south—west england and south wales as storm eunice prepares to sweep through the country tomorrow. it comes as scotland and the north of england recoverfrom storm dudley, which caused widespread travel problems and powercuts. russia says it's moving troops away from ukraine's border — but the foreign secretary says there's no evidence, and the west mustn't be lulled in to a false sense of security. we are expecting a joint statement by the foreign secretary after a meeting with her ukrainian counterpart in kyiv shortly. a british man is named as the victim of a fatal shark attack in australia — the first in sydney

for nearly 60 years. more than 111,000 men across the uk are thought to be