this is bbc news. the headlines at five: large parts of britain's rail network grind to a halt as 50,000 workers stage a walkout in the biggest rail strike so far. the action is getting stronger, and the public are behind us, so we are committed to it. we want a resolution. if the government can change their attitude, we can get a resolution very quickly. what we require is a change to discuss meaningful reform. we want to give our staff a pay increase, but it has to be self funding from within the industry, because we can't afford to keep taking taxpayers' money. the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman in the donetsk region from russian troops, just a day after moscow

annexed the area. russia's defence ministry admits its troops have withdrawn to avoid being encircled. it isjust troops have withdrawn to avoid being encircled. it is just 2a hours after donetsk was formally annexed by moscow. as conservatives gather in birmingham for their annual conference, prime minister liz truss admits there has been "disruption" in the uk economy following the mini—budget. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges before being released alongside nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe says he's dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. more than 50,000 rail workers

are taking industrial action today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. members of four unions are taking part in the strike in a long—running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. some parts of the country are still seeing trains, and others none at all. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin reports. another train strike, and it's the biggest yet. karen from staffordshire is running the london marathon tomorrow to fundraise for the hospital where she had breast cancer treatment. news of the strike meant she had to make other plans to get there. so, for me, thisjust blew everything apart. i couldn't even begin to think of how we would get there. so ijust worried. and until we knew what our plan was, ijust panicked, just just worried about it. the red lines on this map are the only parts of the rail network which do have services today.

where trains are running, they started a lot later than usual and they'll finish a lot earlier than normal as well. there are no trains running between london and some other major cities, including edinburgh, newcastle and brighton. why is this all happening? well, the train drivers union aslef is demanding a pay rise amid high inflation, the rmt wants that for its rail worker members too, and it argues job security and working conditions are under threat. both unions insist they didn't target the london marathon. whenever we put strikes on, it's going to inconvenience people. we don't want to do that. we'd much rather have a settlement. we'd much rather get out of this dispute so that our members can provide the service. we have to keep the dispute going. we've been going nearly six months now, and we have to keep the momentum going. we've got full support from the public, we believe. there's many people that, even the people that are inconvenienced, that are supporting us every day, we're on these picket lines. the industry argues the pandemic has

left a financial hole and changed the way people travel. we want to give our staff a pay increase, but it has to be self—funding from within the industry, because we can't afford to keep taking more taxpayers' money. so meaningful reform means that we can generate money, that we can then say to government, "we believe that this is a sensible deal, that we can "give our staff a pay increase." rail bosses and unions say they'll keep talking, but more strikes could be coming down the line. let's cross to london euston, where we can speak to our correspondent sanchia berg. it looks like they have locked you out, sanchia? yes, that's right. the station is closed. they are not allowing people in and out, no trains have been coming in and out throughout most of the day, and in fact on won't start up again until about seven or 8am. as you said, the picture across the country, as here, is that this strike has affected

services for more severely than the previous ones, so what has happened is that as we have major events this weekend, we have the london marathon in london, and we have the conservative party conference in birmingham, there has been a lot of publicity around this disruption, and most people who would normally had to euston are aware of this and have made alternative arrangements, that we did earlier today find a few people who had not known about the disruption and had been caught out. i've got no train, - so now i'm having to... i have called my husband, he will drive two hours - to here to pick me up. i think they could do it better, in the sense that you could have the council, take care of it all, i don't know how you do it in england. but not affecting other people. loads of people are working, especially, or travelling. it's affecting the daily earners of today. i would say i do have sympathy for it, even being a tourist - i understand if they are looking

for better wages, it makes - a lot of sense to me. if this is how they are making - an impact on the changing people's minds, then so be it. so, more strike days are scheduled for next week, there will also be a new ballot, the rmt confirmed, for strikes to go into november. that ballot is set to take place next week, we understand. employers have said that strikes are a kind of war of attrition that benefit no one, and they have suggested that many workers may be interested in considering the offer that they have made to the workers, an offer of a pay rise of 8% over two years. they say that people are losing out, that people are losing several thousand pounds each through the course of these strikes. sanchia at london euston railway station, thank you very much. sanchia mentioned the conservative party conference, which opens tomorrow in birmingham, and today,

prime minister liz truss has admitted for the first time that there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget last week. the government unveiled £16 billion of tax cuts funded by borrowing last week, but did not accompany it with the usual economic assessment of the plans, carried out by the office for budget responsibility, an independent body set up by george osborne when he was chancellor. that appears to have spooked investors. a short time ago, i spoke to our political correspondent ione wells, who said the chancellor's so—called mini—budget last week had irked some conservative mps to the point where they aren't planning to pitch up for the gathering. that's right. certainly, the views are mixed. i'm hearing from some conservative mps that they don't plan to turn up at all. others who feel that it is important for them to be here and show their support for the government at this time. i think what's really interesting about the context of this conference is, often party conferences like this are sometimes a bit of a bubble, potentially feel a little

bit detached from the outside world at times. this one, it feels like every word that is at here by the prime minister and by the chancellor has the potential to have a real—world impact on, as you say, the markets, who were spooked by that budget which the chancellor announced the other day, which has led to things like, for example, the pound reaching that record low the other day. on conservative mps, some of whom backed a totally different economic plan in liz truss' rival rishi sunak over the summer. and on the public as well, and remember, we have had a series of polls over the last couple of days since that mini budget suggesting that the public have swayed more towards labour than they have since about 2001. so the context of this conference is certainly a very interesting but certainly a very interesting but certainly a very difficult one for the prime minister and chancellor, who were very much need to convince both conservative mps and their members here that they have a plan to lead them through this. the membership voted for liz truss, albeit her margin of victory was i think smaller than in previous

leadership contests over rishi sunak, the former chancellor whose resignation helped bring down boris johnson. the choice between their economic visions could not have been more stark, could it? they plumped for liz truss, now that economic vision looks in some difficulty, and as you say, somehow, she has got to convince the party bear and the public and the investors worldwide that the plan will work. that's right, and there are certainly mixed views about how to do this, but i think the big theme that i'm picking up from speaking to conservative members but also mps is a need for communication. speaking to some of her supporters, some of them are expressing surprise that there is surprise about the plans that liz truss has announced, given, as you say, that these were widely trailed throughout her campaign. for example, they mentioned that she had already outlined in lots of detail that she would cut that rise to national insurance and that plan

rise to corporation tax, saying that the only real big surprises with things like cutting the top rate of tax for the highest earners and also scrapping that cap on bankers' bonuses. so some of her supporters are a bit surprised at the level of surprise there has been to some of her plans. some of her critics, and i should say, these include mps who backed liz truss, though, are worried that these plans have not been communicated particularly well. i was speaking to one who did back liz truss in the leadership contest who said that it feels like the way that her plans have landed me in the public now think she is economically incompetent. so certainly, i think there will be a big challenge for her bow to convince the public but also some of those mps who backed her that they can still have confidence that her plans will lead to growing the economy long term, which is what she and the chancellor have been saying in the newspapers today, urging people to stick with them and back them on this. ione wells in birmingham. prime minister will be interviewed ahead of the opening day of the party conference morning with laura

kuenssberg, slightly earlier than usual at the time of 8:30am. also on the programme, labour's shadow chancellor rachel wreaths. 0f chancellor rachel wreaths. of course, it is half an hour early because of the london marathon. in the last hour, the russian news agency ria, quoting the defence ministry in moscow, said russian troops have now left the strategic town of lyman in eastern ukraine. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town, which isjust inside the russian—occupied donetsk region. the minister spokesman, quoted by russian news agencies, said the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. the minister spokesman, quoted by russian news agencies, said the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. let's get more from our europe regional editor, paul moss, who has been watching developments. a lot is changing in that part of the ground, isn't it? and there is a lot of movement, even though it's

not clear who has control. there is a lot of movement. _ who has control. there is a lot of movement, and _ who has control. there is a lot of movement, and both _ who has control. there is a lot of movement, and both sides - who has control. there is a lot of. movement, and both sides agreeing who has control. there is a lot of- movement, and both sides agreeing on that. this morning, we were hearing that the russian army had been effectively encircled, surrounded by ukrainian troops, now we are hearing the russians have withdrawn to "more favourable lines", which is a euphemism if i have ever heard one. but we are seeing ukrainians waving the ukrainian flag and sticking one to the outskirts of the town as if to the outskirts of the town as if to emphasise their success. first of all, i think this is important because of the nature of this town. it is a logistical hub with very good railway connections and has been very good for the russian war effort. is been very good for the russian war effort. , . been very good for the russian war effort. ,. effort. is a basically getting su lies effort. is a basically getting sunplies in? _ effort. is a basically getting supplies in? indeed, - effort. is a basically getting. supplies in? indeed, indeed, effort. is a basically getting - supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's wh the supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's why they made _ supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's why they made such _ supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's why they made such an _ supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's why they made such an effort - supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's why they made such an effort to i supplies in? indeed, indeed, that's. why they made such an effort to take the town back in spring. lyman was very heavily pummelled by attacks. the russians took it over. the key part of their operations since then. but also, we have to think about the timing of this, bearing in mind it was only yesterday that vladimir putin had his grand ceremony in moscow where he announced that

annexation that you mention, and he said very grandly that the people in these areas will be russian citizens forever, and he also said that they would use all our strength and means to defend these areas. well, if all their strength and means ends up with a defeat only 2a hours later, it certainly doesn't look good. the optics, as they say, are bad, as indeed is the strategic defeat. what is happening elsewhere? there are reports of planes coming down on runways at one airport and interesting suggestions about what may be happening in crimea as well. well, this is a developing story. belbek is an airfield just outside sebastopol, the biggest occupy city in ukraine, and there has been what looked to me like an explosion. i cannot be sure. i saw some footage and photographs. the governor of crimea has said that a plane overshot the runway. this is possible, but let's bear in mind there have been several attacks inside crimea by ukrainian forces

which ukraine claimed. in august and september they managed to destroy russian military aircraft on the ground. at the time, the russian military were offered, i'm sure with black humour, their idea of a threat, they said the weather is going to be hot in crimea. there has been speculation that there may be ukrainian partisans operating behind enemy lines in crimea. if this is an attack, it may genuinely be an accident, but if this is an attack, again, it genuinely does look very bad for russia, on this weekend or weekend, when they are crowing about their success in annexing these four places. 0ne kind of potentially alarming development came almost simultaneously with the annexation announcement, which were reports that the director of the zaporizhzhia new plant had effectively been abducted whilst he was driving into work. —— nuclear plant. was driving into work. -- nuclear lant. , ., , , was driving into work. -- nuclear lant. , , plant. this has been confirmed. the russians have _ plant. this has been confirmed. the russians have certainly _ plant. this has been confirmed. the russians have certainly said - plant. this has been confirmed. the russians have certainly said he - plant. this has been confirmed. the russians have certainly said he was| russians have certainly said he was taken. quite why, we are not sure.

it is still unclear if he remains in custody, but this caused a great deal of alarm. ukraine and ukrainian nuclear energy people saying, look, this man is in charge of operations at zaporizhzhia and things could go very awry if he is not released. it is still not clear why they took him. we know there has been a lot of conflicts within the zaporizhzhia plant. there were reports of staff are being forced to work against their will, threats against them, but clearly, anything to do with this nuclear plant causes alarm, and when the boss goes missing, you start worrying. you do indeed. paul, thank you very much. greater manchester police have given an update on their continuing search of saddleworth moor after suggestions that potential human remains had been found on the moors. they have just released these photos. they are looking for the remains of 12—year—old keith bennett, lower who was a victim of moors murderers ian brady and his partner

myra hindley in the 1960s. he disappeared onjune 16, 1964 while on his way to see his grandmother in manchester. you will almost certainly have seen that photograph before, on the front of many newspapers today, and a toothy grinning boy with big ears and big gold rimmed spectacles. quite a haunting image. the last real image we have of him. the family had been alerted by greater manchester police that they had received an approach, and greater manchester police said today it was from the landowner of the site. they also put out a statement on social media saying they have not actually found anything as yet. there were reports that a jawbone or possibly a skull had been discovered by someone who was researching a book on the site, but apparently, they were actually informed by the landowner, gmp say. they will continue giving updates over the next few days. but so far, nothing found by specialist

officers who have spent since yesterday on that part of the more attempting to establish whether there are human remains there or not. it is the london marathon tomorrow. it's normally in april, but was delayed because of omicron. among those who'll be running tomorrow is someone who was for more than four years until this past march in a prison cell in iran. anoosheh ashoori is 68 and was released along with nazanin zaghari ratcliffe. i spoke to him earlier. running and running and running until i get to the finish line! is until i get to the finish line! is this your first marathon? i did until i get to the finish line! is i this your first marathon? i did a half marathon _ this your first marathon? i did a half marathon in _ this your first marathon? i did a half marathon in the _ this your first marathon? i did a half marathon in the 4th - this your first marathon? i did a half marathon in the 4th of - half marathon in the 11th of september. how did you get on? i did it

how did you get on? idid it in how did you get on? i did it in two hours and 19 minutes. i have to say, to a man 15 years younger than you, that sounds very impressive! it is fair to say, isn't it, that it must be a slightly strange experience even now going out for a run after what you have endured in the years since your release and the restricted physical space as well as the psychological trauma you endured. has running in any way help you with processing that? yes, in two ways, actually. to maintain my health, and also to fight insanity, because when you do exercises, especially running, it is really helpful. how are you adapting to being back home again? because you had this long period of separation from your wife, your daughters as well. your life has been in britain for many years, hasn't it? you were only back in iran because you are visiting your parents?— in iran because you are visiting our arents? , . your parents? yes. having returned, in fact, the —

your parents? yes. having returned, in fact, the first _ your parents? yes. having returned, in fact, the first four— your parents? yes. having returned, in fact, the first four months, - your parents? yes. having returned, in fact, the first four months, i - in fact, the first four months, i think i was overwhelmed with the joy of being released, but in the past couple of months, i am getting a lot of flashbacks and anxiety attacks that i have to deal with. and that is an ongoing process? yes. and that is an ongoing process? yes. and what about _ and that is an ongoing process? yes. and what about the _ and that is an ongoing process? yes and what about the impact on and that is an ongoing process? i2; and what about the impact on your family? because they went through this incredibly traumatic experience just as you did, and i am not for one minute minimising what you must have endured. 0ne minute minimising what you must have endured. one only has to read the interviews you have given to get a very small snapshot of what you had to put up with. but they had a sort of, i guess, a form of grieving for your absence as well. has it been a hard process to kind of re—adapted to each other? at hard process to kind of re-adapted to each other?— to each other? at first, let me 'ust exlain to each other? at first, let me 'ust explain this — to each other? at first, let me 'ust explain this invisible i to each other? at first, let me 'ust explain this invisible thing i to each other? at first, let me just explain this invisible thing which i l explain this invisible thing which i called the shrapnels of the thing that happened to us, to me, to all the inmates who are there. these

shrapnels are invisible, and these are the things that hit their families, their daughters, their wives, and all their parents. i have heard of many strokes. marriages breaking up. so these are the things that you don't see, and you don't see it in the news, and the lucky ones who manage to get back to their families, it is very difficult for them to adapt to their new life. their life is not going to be what it was before. no. anoosheh ashoori. good luck to him. in a few minutes, wejoined viewers on bbc one for the national and international news. now, look at the with darren. hello there. after all the cloud and rain we had yesterday, today has been a more straightforward mixture of sunshine and showers. brisk westerly winds. we continue to see the driest weather across more sheltered eastern parts of the uk. but if we look out to the west, this weather front is coming in from the atlantic and it will thicken the cloud and bring

some rain across more southern parts of the uk tonight and into tomorrow. and that thicker cloud starting to bring some rain before midnight into the south—west of england. and that thicker cloud will push some patchy rain east towards southern england and into south wales late on. keep temperatures up here, but further north west skies are clearer. those showers tend to fade away. winds are falling lighter and temperatures could be down to about 7 or 8 degrees. the winds will be a lot lighter tomorrow for the london marathon, which is good news, but there will be a lot of cloud and there could be some rain around, particularly in the morning. it should become drier, maybe a bit brighter into the afternoon as well. maybe a bit brighter this is where we have the rain first thing across southern england and into south wales. there could be some heavy heir bursts of reign mainly in the south—west of england in the morning. a lot of that reign becomes lighter and more patchy as it sinks its way further south in the afternoon. away from here, lots of sunshine around, some patchy cloud

and the odd lighter shower, i think, in the north—west of scotland. certainly fewer showers than today. a lot of places will be dry. maybe not quite as warm as today through the midlands and east of england, with averages of 17 or 18 degrees. it could turn pretty chilly overnight into monday morning thanks to that high pressure. but it will get bumped into by these weather fronts coming in from the atlantic, and many places will start the day dry on monday. there could be some early mist and fog patches across england and wales. 0therwise some sunshine. the cloud will increase across scotland and northern ireland, wind will pick up, gales in the north—west and this is where we will find some rain setting in during the afternoon. away from here, it's widely 18 or 19 degrees to start the week. it is going to be an unsettled week. we will continue to see weather fronts piling on from the atlantic, they get so far and then they start to stumble and then they will push their way eastwards again later on. so a very unsettled week ahead. some rain in the forecast most days across the uk.

there will be some sunshine around at times, but there will be some strong winds. at least it should be fairly mild.

good evening. more than 50,000 rail workers have walked out today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable is able to run. it's the first time four rail unions have taken action on the same day in their long—running disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin reports. shutters down, empty platforms — it's the most disruptive train strike yet. i've got no train so now i'm having to... i've just rung my husband, he's got to drive two hours, well, longer than that, down to here, to pick me up. everything has gone up in price so they need to be paid for the work they are doing. but i don't like the strike, no. so, for my money, 100% behind them, all power to them, - and i hope they win. karen from staffordshire is running the london marathon tomorrow

to raise money for the hospital where she had breast cancer treatment. news of the strike meant changing her plans to get there. so, for me, thisjust blew everything apart. i couldn't even begin to think of how we would get there. ijust worried, until we knew what our plan was, ijust panicked. ijust worried, until we knew the red lines on this map show the only parts of the rail network where some trains are running today. large parts of england, scotland and wales have none at all. where there have been trains today, they started a lot later than usual and they finished earlier, as well. nothing at all has been running between london and some other major cities including edinburgh, newcastle and brighton. the train drivers' union aslef is demanding a pay rise amid high inflation. the rmt wants that for its rail worker members, too, and it argues job security and working conditions are under threat. it says its current mandate for strike action lasts

until late november. we will be commencing a re—ballot next week so that process will be underway and we expect a very healthy return and a fresh mandate that will go through to the middle of next year, if that is what is needed, but we don't want that. we would rather get a settlement and get this dispute out of the way and get back to normal. rail industry bosses say they want to give a pay rise but the impact of the pandemic on finances and travel patterns means reforms must be agreed to afford it. we're looking to standardise areas of working practices that will then allow us to be able to give staff an increase but we can't forget there is a £2 billion funding gap and there is no new money. we have got to generate that money from within the industry. negotiations continue and the new transport secretary recently met with the rmt and aslef leaders, but there has been no breakthrough and unions have made it clear that more strikes could be coming down the track. katy austin, bbc news. also walking out today,

royal mail workers are on their second day of a 48—hour strike in a dispute over pay and conditions. the communication workers union says the walkout by around 115,000 of its members is the biggest strike of the year. a royal mail spokesman described the action as "reckless" because it would weaken the company's finances and jeopardise workers' job security. the prime minister liz truss has admitted there has been "disruption" in the uk economy following the mini—budget last week. the government unveiled £115 billion of tax cuts funded by borrowing but did not accompany it with the usual economic assessment of the plans. this worried investors. it comes as the conservative party conference is set to get underway in birmingham. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young is there. the prime minister is due to arrive shortly. how much pressure is she going to be underfrom her own party? she has only been prime minister

less than a month, but of course the economic intervention has caused ructions, notjust in the market but in her party, so the question is, the next four days they have got to mull over those decisions and in her case, they have got to defend them, and she has done that in a newspaper article, following the same theme as before, saying she's trying to do things different ligament she wants to bring growth to the country and that means that it's going to be disruption in the short term and not everyone will like what we are doing, she said, but she is trying to say they have a plan. ministers have talked about a bigger picture and a package of measures which we will hear about in the coming weeks but one of the things tory mps are concerned about is the talk now of spending cuts, trimming the fat as one cabinet minister said, but some are saying if you are going to cut the top rate of tax, 45p, for the wealthiest, you don't put up benefits in line with inflation, they say that is going to jar. the big question is whether we are going

to see any rowing back from any of that, by liz truss and her ministers, and if not, what will those unhappy tory mps decide to do about it? vicki young, many thanks. and tomorrow liz truss will be interviewed by my colleague laura kuenssberg. tomorrow morning we will be speaking live to the prime minister liz truss. join me then, here in birmingham, at the earlier time of 830 on bbc one. see you then. the cost of gas and electricity for millions of households has risen from today — with a typical annual bill going up to £2,500 — twice as high as last winter. but the government has brought in a number of measures to try to help with the increase, as our business correspondent simon browning reports. in different corners of the country this afternoon, protests. coordinated demonstrations about the cost of living. from today 25 million households are paying more for their energy.

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homes, but fuel poverty charities are already concerned. the homes, but fuel poverty charities are already concerned.— homes, but fuel poverty charities are already concerned. the level of su - ort are already concerned. the level of support for — are already concerned. the level of support for everybody _ are already concerned. the level of support for everybody has - are already concerned. the level of support for everybody has been - support for everybody has been really welcomed but the depth and the severity of the issue for millions of householders is not being satisfactorily affected by this price support, so for some households they simply need more financial support to get through the winter. fin financial support to get through the winter. ., , financial support to get through the winter. . , ., �* , financial support to get through the winter. . , , winter. on a visit to british gas yesterday _ winter. on a visit to british gas yesterday the _ winter. on a visit to british gas yesterday the prime _ winter. on a visit to british gas yesterday the prime minister i winter. on a visit to british gas i yesterday the prime minister said winter. on a visit to british gas - yesterday the prime minister said it was important that government took steps to deal with the costs faced by households, by putting in place its energy plans, but liz truss said she did not want to raise taxes but instead increase borrowing to pay for the sport. the price cap will soften the impact of high energy costs, but as bills increase, the advice is to use less as you can as the colder months arrive. —— if you can. simon browning, bbc news. russia says it has pulled its troops out of the town of lyman in the eastern donetsk region, after they were surrounded by ukrainian armed forces. video footage shared online shows ukrainian soldiers

waving their national flag on the outskirts of the town. lyman was a key strategic target, used by russia as a major logistics hub. at least 23 people have been killed in florida by hurricane ian which has since been lashing the coast of south carolina. storm surges have flooded parts of the historic city of charleston and hundreds—of—thousands of homes and businesses are without electricity. a huge clean—up operation is under way in florida. early insurance estimates put the cost of the damage there at a minimum of $40 billion. football, and the premier league has returned after the international break. arsenal remain top of the table after beating north london rivals tottenham hotspur 3—1 at the emirates. adam wild reports. as the premier league resumes, rivalries renew, but in truth, some are never really too far away. still, with the impressive start to the season both arsenal and spurs are enjoying, this north london derby felt just a little different. amidst the intensity,

the atmosphere, a partey... commentator: chance to shoot. 0h! thomas partey�*s precision was perfect. spurs, though, would find a way back when richarlison�*s path was blocked. the referee offered a more simple route. no one has scored more in this fixture than harry kane. he never looked like missing here. but the quality of the first half made a mistake at the start of the second all the more surprising. spurs goalkeeper hugo lloris inexplicably letting the ball through his hands. gabrieljesus with the game's turning point. spurs, a goal down, moments later, a man down. emerson royal's challenge was as high as it was reckless. it would be his final contribution. the final word, well, that was arsenal's. granit xhaka's, to be precise. many spurs fans leaving long before the end. arsenal savouring every second. adam wild, bbc news. we're back with the late news at 10:05. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye.

hello, this is bbc news. 27 people are now known to have been killed by hurricane ian, which has been lashing the coast of south carolina after bringing widespread destruction to florida earlier this week. the historic coastal city of charleston has been lashed by winds and heavy rain. the bbc�*s nada tawfik is in south—west florida

and has sent this report. the category one storm made landfall friday afternoon near georgetown, just north of the historical city of charleston, with winds of 85 mph. its powerful storm surge downed power lines, plunging 400,000 people into darkness and left some stranded. at pawley�*s island, local police captured the end of a pier collapsing before it floated away. 0fficials did not feel evacuations were necessary, but they have urged residents to avoid going out. if you don't need to go outside in the wind right now, stay inside. if you don't need to drive anywhere, don't drive. be careful and be smart. still, the damage was nowhere near as devastating as in florida, where the coastguard had to rescue people by helicopterfrom barrier islands cut off from the mainland. and beach destinations along the south—west coast,

such as fort myers, were battered and forever transformed. clearly, there is still a lot of clean—up ahead, and besides the personal loss from this storm, businesses are now going to be suffering, too. right ahead of what should have been a busy tourist season here, the beaches, the marinas are devastated. the storm—weary lined up for hours to purchase petrol and water. they all said this was unlike any storm they had ever experienced. honestly, it's sad. hearing all the stories about it, my friend's house — underwater. so, everyone i grew up with, everyone that i knew, their houses are all underneath water, and it's sad. after making landfall twice in the united states, ian is forecast to weaken rapidly. it will now move inland. people in tunisia have taken to the streets this week, to protest the high cost of living

and food shortages. more than half of the population is now living in poverty, and almost 700,000 people have left the country heading for europe since the start of the year. anna foster reports from the capital, tunis. "i'm telling you to take care of your country. "don't leave." this is the angry new conversation on the streets of tunisia. food is more expensive than ever before. each month, inflation hits a new record high. translation: there's no oil or sugar, - sometimes there's no bread. how can people live? what can people do? more than a decade ago, a tunisian fruit and vegetable seller set himself on fire. mohamed bouazizi's death caused widespread protests against the high cost of living. the arab spring uprisings were supposed to spark change. for walid, they did — but not in

the way he'd hoped. me, myself, i remember them every day... one of his best friends was killed, and while demonstrating walid was shot — he lost his right leg. translation: i sacrificed my leg for l the sake of improving the situation | in my country. unfortunately, jobs and national dignity haven't been achieved over the past 12 years. for a time, there was change. but injuly, tunisians voted for a new constitution, which concentrated power in the hands of the president, kais saied. it undid many of the democratic gains made since the arab spring. the rising cost of living is directly affecting the political system here. 11 years after protests that removed a dictator, tunisia is back in the grip of one—man rule. but so many people i speak

to here tell me that even though their hard—fought freedoms are being lost, they see a forceful leader as the only way to get the economy back on its feet. living standards in tunisia are now worse than when the arab spring began — the number of families in need has tripled since 2010. hannan�*s husband isn't at home — he's meeting the people smugglers who've offered him a seat on a dangerous boat journey to italy. the family's life is desperate. they can't afford fruit for the children any more, or meat orfish. translation: if you go outj to the street and ask people to choose between dignity and bread, they will choose bread, because they don't care about dignity any more because people have got hungry. imagine he goes on the trip and dies on the sea, we will be lost. if he dies, we will be automatically homeless. this country has known some

of history's most famous battles. now its people are facing a new fight — simply to survive. anna foster, bbc news, tunis. it's less than two months now until the football world cup kicks off in qatar. excitement is building for supporters all around the globe. a lucky few will travel to see the matches in person — while many more will be watching on television. but some are showing their enthusiasm in a very particular way. the bbc�*s tim allman explains. football fever on a somewhat smaller scale. before every major tournament, people start collecting sticker books. but this year, for some, it's not been that easy.

in argentina, there is a major shortage of stickers. shops have sold out, albums are yet to be filled. however, some are luckier than others. translation: my dad said, "i hope we get messi". - he opened it, and we got messi. i went around the house, shouting, "i got messi! "i got messi!" here in buenos aires, they are literally queueing around the block. desperate times call for desperate measures. translation: i arrived at 5:00 in the morning and discovered l they are selling stickers here, one of the few places you can find them right now, because they are not available anywhere. in mexico, santiago fills up his sticker book, but he has to glue it in. his father couldn't afford the real thing, so he had to improvise, printing off copies from the internet —

although santiago doesn't seem to mind. translation: i had this light bulb moment. - i couldn't do anything else. i got home, i gave him the album. i said to him, "take this, son." he hugged me, he kissed me, and he said, "daddy dearest, "i love you. "i love you, i love you." the devotion, the obsession, is clear. just imagine how excited they will be when some actual football gets under way. tim allman, bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for click.

music plays sniffs 0oh! sniffs there was another whiff of something there. sniffing i don't know, grapefruits? is it the sea? today, i'm having a rather smelly experience while trying to solve a mystery from history. this is one of the most famous shipwrecks in the world. the mary rose was king henry viii's favourite warship, and in 1545, while battling the french, it sunk under mysterious circumstances.

for more than 400 years, it lay on its side at the bottom of the river solent. but amazingly, the starboard half was preserved under the silt, which led, in 1982, to one of the most complex maritime salvage operations in history. and now, exactly 40 years on, i've donned a bluetooth—connected backpack that will release different smells as i chase around the mary rose museum, in portsmouth, trying to work out why the ship went down. right in the bowels of the ship now, and i'm smelling tar. it's like the roadworks outside my house! we've got a genuine mystery here. we don't know why the mary rose sunk on 19july1545, and now,

we're giving you the chance to, through following these clues, work it out for yourself. my dad was a sailor for the spanish merchant navy. he's from the sahara desert in north africa originally. myjob is to meet the characters and watch the scenes that might explain the sinking. i think i'm gonna fire the cannon now, which is gonna put a hole in that wall. chuckles getting the smell... a bit of gunpowder there. laughs the backpack is loaded with different scent bottles, each triggered by the scenes in the augmented reality app, the idea being to make this whole experience even more immersive. in terms of where we process smell in the brain and where we process memory in the brain, they�* re very closely connected, they're linked, they're in close proximity. so, actually, that's why smell and memory work together. so, you smell a smell and it'll take you back maybe to your childhood.

you know, you might smell cabbage cooking and it will remind you of school dinners in the canteen. it's kind of very subtle. it's not in your face — cos it's literally not in your face, it's just around you, so there's just that kind of ambience of, in this case, a recently fired canon. yes! looks like you owe me three groats. glass smashes 0oh, stale beer! is that you or me? the smells themselves have been created specially by a perfume company whose task was, let's say, not to be sniffed at. sometimes they send the scent and you smell it, and you're like, "yeah, i did not want a soil—inspired perfume, "i actually want soil," you know, "so could you just go again on that?" and they tried to make us some rotten meat for in the hulls — the cook's clue, if you got to that clue — and itjust smelt nothing like rotten meat.

it smelt like a really nice, you know, austin, texas barbecue. and i was, like, "guys, yeah, it's not gonna fly," so then we changed that one because they also stored the beer and the meat together, so we were like, "0k, we're not gonna get rotten meat." some things are really hard to, you know, recreate. we'll go with the beer, so, yeah. the ship is heaving dangerously. she doesn't feel stable. 0oh, she's doing a sharp left turn. i think she's gonna lose it on the bends. yep, she's going down. shouting at the end of the experience, the mary rose is doomed to sink once more for reasons that we'll never know for sure. but this time, having met an incompetent captain, a vengeful shipmate and heard about the many mistakes that were made on board, visitors get to give their thoughts on why the ship went down. 0k, time for a look at this

week's tech news now — and the ceo of apple, tim cook, has told the bbc there's no good excuse for the lack of women in the tech sector. he said more needs to be done to educate young people in the skills that they need for the industry, such as coding. nasa says it could be a couple of months before it knows if an experiment to change the course of an asteroid has worked. it crashed the dart probe in the rock deliberately to see if the same technique would work to stop future objects from hitting earth. over the next two months, we're going to see more information from the investigation team on what period change did we actually make, because that's our number two goal. number one was hit the asteroid, which we've done, but now, number two is really measure that period change and characterise how much ejector we actually put out. london's natural history museum is going to digitise their environmental research onto the cloud for the first time. they say the new data platform will give hundreds of scientists access to their resources, allowing them to track and respond

to the biodiversity crisis. and this camera could unlock a whole new underwater world. how? well, it doesn't need a battery. it's wireless, allowing it to go deeper and for longer than cameras have gone before, and engineers at mit have designed it to convert sound travelling through water into power. artificial intelligence. it trawls through data faster than humans can. and it learns, making suggestions our brains might not have considered. so, a! has the potential to make any industry smarter. but here in the netherlands, it's being used to sniff out something i am especially keen to explore. more than 10 million data points are being used to try to create any person's unique, personalised perfume. first up, some questions

in the centronics app. "if you could be somewhere else right now, where would that be?" hmm. 0oh, by the ocean. some directly related to perfume, but others not so much. we cast a pretty wide net of questions because in the long run, we're also a bit of a science adventure and project to really understand, you know, why is it that we like what we like. the ai generates three scent recipes using algorithms that scan the data in different ways. i named mine after my daughter zena, kitty, our producer, and click, obviously. with some automated magic, ingredients are pumped out on demand. it is a complicated craft and so technology is sort of giving it a little push to get started.

my mini perfumes are made in minutes. i was pretty impressed with the essence of zena. mmm! oh, i really like it! and my second scent was a pleasant surprise. here's kitty. 0oh, my gosh! that's so different. very rich and deep and woody. and now i'm going to hand you over click. so, this is the first ever bbc click perfume. this is not nice. it's sophisticated, like the click team, but i wouldn't buy this. two out of three isn't bad, though. the app asks for feedback to improve, and 40,000 people have already used the machine. will the ai learn over time, get smarter and be more likely to give three bottles that i love? all three. that is the ambition, to ultimately one day not even

have to give you three. of course, i thought i could outsmart the a! by tweaking the formula of my favourite scent. you know... you prefer the other one! i prefer the other one! i would've thought that by adding what i thought my preferences were, it would enhance the scent. but actually, i prefer the original. so for now, i think when it comes to perfume, i am prepared to put my preferences in the hands of ai. away from the shop floor, i wonder — could this system really dent the $40 billion perfume industry? hi. how are you? this is where we really build the machines. so, this is basically giving you the possibility, really, to dive in deep and it has over 200 — 10 to 20 ingredients. you know, the urban legend is 700 people are deciding for 7 billion people how the world smells. so, by developing their own system

that cuts costs and sits away from the beauty aisle, the team are opening up to new audiences and genders. this is our next thing that we're going to do. if people do it online, then they can follow it with cameras on a machine. but the machine has some way to go to understand the eclectic global demand. when it's really geographically far apart, then the system has to be retrained. it develops new preferences in certain areas and so that's one of the reasons actually really why we're travelling around, to get more input from different people, totally different cultures. this intelligence may be artificial, but it does appear to have real power to recognise and interpret the essence of you. and on that note...get it? i do! ..that�*s it for the short version of the programme. the full—length one can be found on iplayer. thanks for watching. we'll see you soon. bye— bye.

hello there. after a ll after all the cloud and rain yesterday, today has been a more straightforward mix of sunshine, rain and showers will stop the drives weathered across the more sheltered and eastern parts of the uk. to the west, this is where the front is coming in from the atlantic, thickening the cloud and bringing rain across more southern parts of the uk tonight and tomorrow for a while. that cloud bringing some rain before midnight into the south—west of england, and it will push that you rain further east across southern england and into

south wales later on. where skies are clear a further north though showers tend to fade away and the winds are falling lighter and temperatures could be down to 7 or 8 degrees. the winds will be a lot lighter tomorrow for the london marathon, which is good news, but they will be a lot of cloud, and there could be rain around particularly in the morning. it should become dry and may be a bright orange of cloud, and that could be rain around particularly in the morning. it should become dry and maybe brighter into the afternoon. this could be some heavier bursts of rain mainly in the south—west of england in the morning, allow of it becomes lighter and patchy as it sinks further south in the afternoon. away from here, some patchy cloud and at the lighter shower in the north—west of scotland, certainly fewer showers than today, a lot of places will dry. maybe not as warm as today in southern and midlands. it could be chilly on monday morning thanks to that ridge of high pressure. it will

get pumped into by these weather fronts coming in from the atlantic, and many places will start the day dry. the cloud will increase across scotland and northern ireland, the wind will pick up, cold in the north—west, and this is where rain sets in during the afternoon. away from here temperatures widely18 or 19 degrees to start the week. it is going to be a very unsettled week, with fronts continue to pile in the from the atlantic. they get so far, then they will stumble, then it may push eastward later on. an unsettled week ahead, rain in the forecast most days in the uk. sunshine around at times, but that will be strong winds, at least now it will be fairly mild.

this is bbc news. the headlines at six: the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman in the donetsk region from russian troops, just a day after moscow annexed the area. large parts of britain's rail network grind to a halt as 50,000 workers stage a walkout in the biggest rail strike so far. the action is getting stronger, and the public are behind us, so we are committed to it. we want a resolution. if the government can change their attitude, we can get a resolution very quickly. what we require is the trade unions to discuss meaningful reform. we want to give our staff a pay

increase, but it has to be self funding from within the industry, because we can't afford to keep