this is bbc news, the headlines at 5pm: counting the cost of storm eunice — three deaths and more than 190,000 homes across the uk still without power as the big clean up gets underway. the wind and the rain is hampering efforts to repair storm damage and to restore power to people's homes. ukraine's president says international rules protecting countries from attack, are no longer working, amid fears of a russian invasion. the security architecture of our world is a brittle and obsolete. the rules are no longer working. they are not catching up with threats to

overcome them. and as reports emerge of shelling in eastern ukraine, the prime minister issues a new warning about the consquences of any russian invasion. if ukraine is invaded, and if ukraine is overwhelmed, we will witness the destruction of a democratic state, a country that has been free for a generation, with a proud history of elections. and a first medal at the winter olympics for team gb — a silver in the men's curling, losing to sweden in the final.

the government says around 190,000 homes are still without power after one of the worst storms to hit the uk in decades. three people died in storm eunice yesterday, a fierce winds toppled trees and sent debris flying. there are still yellow weather warnings in wales and southern england for potentially damaging winds, and in parts of yorkshire, lancashire and the peak district for what could be disruptive falls of snow. 0ur correspondent jenny kumah has more. one of the worst storms to hit the uk in decades. now the work begins to repair the damage. how much is it? here on dartmoor in devon, the gray family have been without power since yesterday morning. they have a wood burner to keep warm and means of heating food, but they are having to live a simpler life without electricity. i feel for the guys who are out there working, doing all the work. it's not an easy life

forthem, is it? we're 0k, we've got hot water. we've got candles and heating. you know, it's a bit different for us, but sometimes it's nice. a yellow weather warning is in place and the wind and the rain is hampering efforts to repair storm damage and to restore power to people's homes. across the country, more than 200,000 homes remain without power. passengers at london paddington rushing to get one of the few trains to the west country. the transport secretary said teams had been working through the night to get transport links back up and running, but he expects disruption to last for another day or two. trains are in the wrong locations. there is still debris being removed from our roads. airports are expected to be very busy, people catching up with flights, and potentially queues at ports, so expect disruption and check before you travel. we're still on a yellow warning today as well, so it's still windy out there, but things are returning to normal.

among the swathes of places wrecked by the ferocity of the wind was dartmoor zoo, where several trees fell down, damaging a perimeter fence. if the wallabies had been in this section, they'd have been through there and probably happily cavorting all across south devon. but luckily, they're on the other side because of the bird flu. we had to keep the birds separate. in london, with more than eight million residents, the scale of the clean—up became clearer. sections of the roof of the 02 arena in london were shredded by high winds. after the fury of yesterday in wales, there are still wind warnings which could hamper clear—up work. jenny kumah, bbc news. let's get more on the travel situation. simonjones has been at paddington station in central london, which has seen a lot of people trying to travel despite rail operators advising against making journeys. well, it's been another really difficult day on the railways.

yesterday, 61% of all the services across the railway network were either delayed or cancelled, largely due to the storm, and that pattern has continued into today. now, many rail operators, like the one running trains from here down to the south—west, are urging passengers not to travel at all. but despite that, paddington is extremely busy because i think many people were caught out yesterday when services were stopped and they got stranded in london and they've been desperately trying to get home, but there haven't been that many trains, so when a train arrives, people desperately rush onto the platform to try and get on board. sometimes they don't succeed and have to come back onto the concourse and wait for further trains, and that can be quite a long wait. why is it taking so long to sort things out? well, i think so many trees came down yesterday in the storm that network rail engineers have had to spend the time checking the track for debris and also for damage. that is taking time, plus, of course, still some warnings in place for wind for the whole

of southern england, the south—west, and large parts of wales. so once again, the advice is don't travel unless you have to, but certainly people here are keen to make journeys. simonjones on the travel disruption. lots of people have seen extensive damage to their homes. with me is gail pocknell. her neighbour's chimney blew off during the storm and came crashing in to her house. yesterday afternoon i had walked out, took the dogs out, walked back through the kitchen and just sat down and suddenlyjust heard this enormous crash and yes, i think what had happened was something and flown up had happened was something and flown up to my son's bedroom and then we went had taken the chimney stack after that and that just tumble

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claimed shells have been fired into its territory. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has the latest. another day of diplomacy. another day where ukraine could be closer to a war. that's the mood here in munich. the warning to moscow from washington... we have engaged in good faith. russia continues to claim it is ready for talks, while at the same time, it narrows the avenues for diplomacy. the image munich wants to send at this hour — ukraine's president zelensky meeting western allies like borisjohnson. ukraine's leader was advised not to leave his country now, but this show of support matters to him as the west faces off against russia. if ukraine is invaded, and if ukraine is overwhelmed, we will witness the destruction

of a democratic state, a country that has been free for a generation, with a proud history of elections. but even now, they're still talking about finding a way out. i think diplomacy has not spoken its last word. it is of paramount importance that we keep up the diplomatic channels. as far as i'm informed, tomorrow president macron will call president putin. but on the ground in eastern ukraine, tensions mount, residents being told to leave their homes by russian—backed separatists, to take refuge across the border. there's more incidents now of shelling with ukrainian forces, the worst in years. the mood here in munich is grim. conferences like this are meant to accelerate diplomacy to resolve major world crises.

but there's a growing pessimism that they can stop a conflict which would have massive consequences notjust for ukraine, but for all of europe and far beyond. lyse doucet, bbc news, munich. vladimir putin has been overseeing russian military drills today, as tensions continue over a potential invasion of ukraine. these pictures of the training operations have been released by the russian ministry of defence. the kremlin says ballistic and cruise missiles were tested as part of annual strategic nuclear exercises. russian authorities say land and sea—based targets were hit during the drills, which were observed by president putin and his ally, belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. the prime minister has been speaking to reporters in munich. he said that were russia to invade

ukraine it would be strategically impossible for russian troops. what is going on in eastern ukraine? we have had reports of missiles, false narratives, evacuations. has it begun, do you think, and has vladimir putin decided to invade? i think only one person really knows the answer to that question and that is vladimir putin. i think there's still time for wiser counsel, still time for common sense to win. we hope that president putin will think better of what i think would be an absolutely crazy and disastrous venture in ukraine. i think what is happening at the moment in donbas is what we would expect to happen, the kind of provocations that the russians engage in generally, and i'm afraid this could well be the prelude to bigger action. the americans seem to think he has decided. is our intelligence different to theirs?

i think certainly things are in motion, but the question is whether it can all be pulled back and whether the president of russia is still able to call this operation off. i think that possibility must logically still exist, and therefore i think it's absolutely vital that we have a path of dialogue and reason. you know, you just cannot see how this makes sense for russia. imagine the invasion of ukraine, a country of 45 million people, second biggest country in europe geographically, apart from russia itself, an absolutely colossal place. you can't hold it down. it would be a protracted, violent, bloody insurgency with the loss of life for young russians, as well as for ukrainians. the family of a british man killed by a shark in australia have

paid tribute to him, saying he had a "rare gift" in connecting with people. simon nellist, who was 35, died in the attack on wednesday off little bay — the first fatal attack in sydney for nearly 60 years. prime minister borisjohnson has returned his questionnaire about allegations of downing street lockdown breaches to the metropolitan police. around 50 people received the document, which has the same status as information given in an interview under caution. the prime minister has previously said he didn't believe he'd broken any rules but apologised "for the things we simply didn't get right". the nhs in england is going to stop using money donated by the betting industry to help treat gambling addicts.

the move comes after patients and medics raised concerns about a conflict of interest. a french modelling agent and a former associate of the late us financier and sex offender jeffrey epstein has been found dead in his prison cell in paris. jean—luc brunel was found in the early hours of this morning at la sante prison. the 76—year—old was detained since december 2020 as part of an inquiry into allegations of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. in august 2019, jeffrey epstein was found hanged in prison in new york while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. the post office scandal has been in the headlines all week after a public inquiry started hearing from those who suffered wrongful convictions and financial ruin. more than 700 branch managers were convicted and thousands of others lost their businesses when the post office's faulty accounting software made it look as though money was missing from tills.

0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. it's not easy to explain what happened at the worst moments of your life. each victim has shared memories they'll never forget, for treatment many feel they can never forgive. this inquiry will last a year or more, with a0 people sharing their stories these first two weeks, their evidence covering all corners of england and wales, from devon to derbyshire, the heart of london, the home counties and the yorkshire moorlands. the inquiry is then moving to cardiff, then leeds, with plans afoot to hear evidence in scotland and northern ireland too. for every witness, the financial cost has been huge, with many losing everything. when i went to the doctor, i was diagnosed with depression because i had just felt worthless. i felt absolute...

i've got a wife and children at home — i couldn't provide for them. when they'd gone to bed or gone to school, ijust... i didn't know what was going to happen, i didn't know what i was going to do, i didn't know how we were going to keep the house. in the 40 or 50 years we have run the post office, what have we got to show? nothing. we couldn't even get our children married. we couldn't look after them. we couldn't do anything for them. i feel a failure myself. as the first witness, baljit told the inquiry that there had been times he had considered taking his own life, a psychological impact echoed by many giving evidence this week. at that point, i also considered... please take a moment if you need. at that point i also considered ending my life.

and i talked to myself and i thought about my family and i thought about graham, and i knew i had to return and face whatever they were going to find and i did not know what they were going to find. i still don't feel i am the same - person and i do get angry at times. ijust don't trust anybody any more. it is really difficult. it nearly killed me, you know. and for people to say it is all right, it doesn't matter — it does matter. it devastated our lives. for many, the impact on their children is the most painful consequence. we were still very close, but again, it was hard, because he went through a lot and people were attacking him in the street, verbally, because of me.

i had a call because he had taken an overdose and he was crying to me on the phone. susan explained that when police came to question her, she was worried how her nine—year—old twins would get home from school. they said i couldn't go and collect the children from school, they would collect them in the police car and they would take them to the station and they would have to stay there until they finished questioning me. now what mother wants that for her children, to be taken to a police station, to sit there worried, frightened, while their mother is being questioned for...they wouldn't have known why? all victims called for better and faster compensation, answers from the post office and realjustice. i would like a better apology for what they've done to me| than this rubbish from tim parker. it is the most feeble - apology i've ever received for anything in my life.

who knew? i can't believe alarms weren't going off between the bottom, the investigators, the auditors, the top, the board. who signed all these prosecutions off? did nobody ever say, "this isn't right?" i can still hear to this day the sound of that cell door slamming behind me. i want someone on the other side to be charged and jailed like i was. colletta smith, bbc news. to the winter olympics where team gb has won it's first medal at the winter olympics in beijing. the men's curling team took silver, coming second to sweden in the final. it comes on the last but one day of the games. laura scott reports. bittersweet smiles, knowing only too well what could have been if sweden hadn't been on fire on the ice. this had been billed as a clash of curling's titans. 0nto that one, onto the other one... oh, and he's done it. but anything britain could do,

sweden could do better. he's done well, very well. splitting these familiar rivals was, at points, too close to call. time to bring in the curling compass. a shot for great britain. it was close. but whether in the smash—up job... it's like the demolition derby when he comes to play. ..or the cagey game of chess, the swedes just had the edge. bruce... after nearly three hours of tactics and tension... it's got to hit that red. ..the red stone in the house brought the gold medal home for sweden. sweden have won the gold medal. heartbreak for the british team after the narrowest of defeats. not the golden moment they so badly wanted, but once the obvious disappointment subsides, this team will celebrate the silver medal that finally puts team gb on the medal table on the penultimate day of these games.

laura scott in beijing. well, laura caught up with the gb team shortly after they picked up their medals in beijing. i'm joined by our medallists. they've got their silver medals around their necks. we're going to speak to the skipper. a few hours on from that defeat, how are you feeling? it is getting a wee bit better every moment that passes. obviously very chuffed to have a medal around my neck, proud of all of us, and to ——wish it was a different colour, but incredibly proud of all of us, and to have this medal is feeling good. how special does it feel that you have got team gb onto that medal table on the penultimate day of these 0lympics? it does feel good. i think the pressure was building a wee bit, and we to come out and get a medalfor them. it feels really good that we were able to do it for them and hopefully we can get a few more tomorrow. and inspire some people back home, i'm sure. yeah, i hope so. i hope that curling can take

off a bit back home. if we have been able to inspire anyone or encourage participation, then i feel like we've done a good job. british curling fans have more to look forward to, and they have to set their alarms even earlier tomorrow or perhaps not even go to bed, because 20 years on from rhona's stone of destiny in salt lake city, it is all about eve muirhead's team here in beijing tomorrow as they have their own shot at goal. good luck to them. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. today, for many, it's been a day to assess some of the damage brought by storm eunice. but on top of that, we've also seen some tricky weather conditions out there today — a spell of heavy rain and, at times, some snow moving across the peak district and up into the pennines as we speak. at the same time, north of that, it was a beautiful day. after recent heavy snow eased on friday in scotland, we had blue sky and sunshine. beautiful in perth and kinross. this has been the story, then, over the last few hours — the wet weather pushed in from the west and you can see where the snow was across parts

of derbyshire, south yorkshire, easing away off to the east before another system moves in through the night tonight, bringing yet more wet and windy weather with it. in fact, we will see widespread gales on exposed coasts once again as we head into tomorrow. so the rain first thing quite light and patchy across central and southern england, but some heavier bursts of rain across southern parts of northern ireland, moving into northern england and eventually into wales. that's going to gradually drift its way steadily eastwards throughout the day. for scotland, for northern ireland, sunny spells and blustery showers, but we could see gusts of winds in excess of 55—60 mph on exposed coasts, 45—50 inland, so another pretty windy afternoon. mild with it across england and wales —11—13 celsius. a little bit cooler with those wintry showers continuing in scotland. now as we move out of sunday into monday, still low pressure sitting to the north of the country, still plenty of isobars on the chart. it's going to drive in plenty of showers first thing, with the strongest of the winds first thing on monday morning, again gusting close to 55—60 mph. but as we go through the morning

on monday, the winds should start to ease and so too should some of those showers. so into the afternoon, we'll see more in the way of sunshine coming through, so despite the wind direction swinging around to a north—westerly, with a little bit more sunshine coming through now and we're in the middle of february, temperatures will still hold up into double figures for many. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, it's a similar weather story really. low pressure sits up into the north. plenty of isobars on the charts, still unfortunately wet and windy at times. and you can see that on the outlook tuesday into wednesday. wednesday, a bit of a respite across england and wales, with a little more sunshine to look out for.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says international rules, protecting countries from attack, are no longer working, amid fears of a russian invasion. as reports emerge of shelling in eastern ukraine, borisjohnson issues a new warning about the consquences of any russian invasion. counting the cost of storm eunice. three deaths and more than 190,000 homes across the uk still without power, as the big cleanup gets under way.

now on bbc news, it's time for global questions. hello and welcome to global questions, with me zeinab badawi, in nairobi. kenya is in a tough neighbourhood. it's surrounded by countries that are mired in conflict. somalia has long battled extremist insurgents. south sudan has known little piece. and ethiopia is in the throes of what many describe as a civil war. plus, there have been several military takeovers in the past year, which have prompted fears that the army is making a comeback in african politics. applause.

you join us in central nairobi, where a local audience here will be putting their questions about conflict and army coups in africa. so, let me introduce my panel to you straightaway. adan keynan, senior mp from the ruling coalition here in kenya, and he is a member of the national assembly's defence and foreign relations committee. ethiopian—born gabriel negatu, who has held many senior official positions in africa and is currently managing director at invest afrique. and murithi mutiga is africa programme director at the conflict resolution, the icg, that's the international crisis group. that's our panel, welcome to you all, give them a round of applause. applause. and remember, you too can join the conversation. it's #bbcglobal0uestions. now, before we take our first question from our audience, i thought it would be a good idea to just give you a brief overview of the topic in hand, just to provide you with a bit

of background about army coups and conflict in africa.