hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. thousands of families in south korea are trying to trace relatives they fear might have died in a crush in the capital seoul, at least 153 people are known to have died, most of them teenagers and young adults celebrating halloween. i turn iturn around, i turn around, and i told the crowd, you can't come this way, people are dying. as mourners line the streets of seoul to pay their respects, south korea's president promises a thorough investigation.

translation: a tragedy and disaster that should not _ translation: a tragedy and disaster that should not have _ translation: a tragedy and disaster that should not have happened - translation: a tragedy and disaster that should not have happened took l that should not have happened took place in the heart of seoul. i hope the people who are injured will get better soon. kent police has confirmed a number of incendiary devices were thrown at a border force centre in dover this morning. there are unconfirmed reports the suspect later killed himself. as the controversy grows over the home secretary suella braverman and allegations of security breaches, her cabinet colleagure michael gove says she "deserves a second chance". voting is under way in brazi, will they re—elect the hard right current presidentjair bolsonaro, or his left—wing predecessor luiz inacio lula da silva? and england's women crush australia in a rainy encounter in the rugby union world cup quarter—finals.

iam back i am back at three o'clock, known bbc news... we are england: serving england, ai by night: against the clock i don't think people fully realise how much people do use the ai. it's really scary. you get cars which will come in within inches of you. the road surface has worn out. it's been down, some of it, for 30 years. it was so frustrating, sat in traffic all day, every day. we have major mechanical issues. we are kind of stuck in the middle of the ai. never, ever happened in my life before. so there's a lot on my shoulders. the amount of language has

been a bit atrocious. i can see you are all super keen! we've got six hours to do what we need to do. everyone's like, "quick, get signed off. we need to get out." time is not ourfriend now. this is the biggest project, both value—wise and duration—wise that i've ever worked on. in my role, i'm responsible ultimately for all construction works. i think there's probably a perception by the public that there's not a lot happening on road works. but, you know, to have 150, 200 people on site every night when the public are sleeping, if they could see that, if they could drive through and appreciate how much is going on, i think they'd be surprised. right.

you all right, lads? so, yeah, ifeel very responsible for everything that goes on out there. there is a lot on my shoulders. the scotswood project involves installing a new lane northbound and southbound throughout the ai through newcastle. i don't think people fully realise how much people do use ai. it's for things like food, clothing, going to hospitals and to improve them roads, it's very good for the community and for the northeast as a whole. hi, everyone. my responsibility is environmental compliance for the ai improvement schemes. we've got to do this to avoid environmental harm. so this can be things like waste management, water management,

protecting our watercourses, which potentially our scheme could affect negatively, ecology and training of people as well. any questions? i can tell you are all super keen! aye! being a lady in construction, it does not feel any different to anywhere else that i've worked before. i've got my areas of expertise. other people have got their areas of expertise. it's very inclusive. at the end of the start of shift briefing, you can tell that people are under a little bit of pressure because everyone's like, "quick, get signed up. we need to get out." but there's a lot of pressure on night shift. normally out there for half nine, by the time it's fully safe and it's all isolated and we've got maybe six hours to do what we need to do and get out of there so that our traffic management teams can reopen the road

for six in the morning. tonight there's a crew in tarmac—ing the road. they're resurfacing. we've got people putting new bits of barrier in. they can't start until we shut the road. it's not safe to work on the ai with it open. once we've got it all closed, that's ourjob done for the night. and then they'll come in, the contractors do what they've got to do and when they're finished, it's back on, thejob, starting again, reopening the road. traffic management is... i know people probably think we're annoying, but essentially what we do is we close roads. i've done traffic management for six years now. just having the freedom, you know, being outside, it's a lot better than being cooped up in an office. that's all sorted. i've got a one—year—old daughter, so i do see her a lot more than i would if i was on a day shift.

so that works for me. hey. what's happening? becoming a dad was probably the best thing that's ever happened. want some water there? it's something i've never, ever wanted when i was a bit younger. but then, obviously, i meant my partner. and eva's just amazing. we live two minutes from the seaside. so she loves the fresh air. she loves being out and about. here we are. in we go! i try to get enough sleep so i'll not be tired for the night shift, but at the same time, i want to get up and see some daylight. good girl. but then i want to go and pick eva up straight at the way and have a few hours with her.

trickiest part is coming to work. you know, before i come to work, my partner's always bathing eva. you dancing? and i would like to get involved with that, you know, pull out the bed. that's the hardest part, because i hate saying bye to them. such a clever girl, aren't you? it's really scary. there are cars which will come within inches of you. and i really don't understand why. because if it was flashing blue lights, people would slow right down. enjoy working and fronting the cones out. you know what i mean? this job is completely different from otherjobs because its safety orientated.

so if a car does come flying towards us in lane two, it'll hit the back of my crash cushion and the cushion willjust fold in like that. and it'll take the impact. and hopefully protect the people in front. i can't stress enough — it's really dangerous. because if you step a foot out of place someone could get injured and possibly die. and it has happened before. so it could happen again. there's been a fatal within traffic management where i think a car was getting chased through roadworks and the driverjust hit one of the vans and they killed the lad that was in it. but it shouldn't be happening. shouldn't be deaths on the road.

one death's one too many. i do like to try and get out on the site at least once a week at night time to see what's going on. before working on this particular project, i commuted through this route for about eight years and it was so frustrating. sat in traffic all day, every day. my night shift visits are mainly just to see progress on site, to speak with all the different contractors to make sure everything's going all

right and any issues. off and running now. i am a road surfacing supervisor, which is basically repairing the roadways throughout the country. ian is very knowledgeable, very experienced. so who do you want us to ring if there is an issue? so my phone's usually busy, shall we say. for the last two months, leading into completion and opening the road, ian's team are definitely the most important on site. i've been in this industry approximately 30 years now. thisjob is as close to i've been working at home for many years. i like seeing other parts of the country, but north east's fun.

so i'll push straight. push straight through. road surface is worn out. it's been down, some of it, for 30 years. as we're widening the road from two lanes to three, it's getting a new surface, all of it, so hopefully it should be quieter — the new surface for the residents. so hopefully they will be a bit happier. the planer at the moment is removing the old road surface. so it's milling it up, cutting it off, putting on top of lorries and sending it to our recycling plant.

the fact that we can't keep digging holes for getting stone, a certain amount of material is recycled back into the surface now. just to make sure everything keeps going in a circle and we just keep on going till the night's over. relatively relaxed at the moment. you know, we're getting going. when there's other people out on site they go, "oh, i love the smell of tarmac and..." i just... i can't even smell it any more. like, it'sjust in the background all the time. it's generally the time of the project when tarmac is going down, you know you're nearly finished. so that's always a good sign.

we've been in construction phase forjust over two years now. we're a few months off finishing, so we're nearly there. my boss likes to remind me now and then when our target open date is. yeah, it is quite a lot of pressure to take on at times, but we've got a really good team. i hope when this airs, we've made it. that's the tarmac paving machine, and it's only had a minor breakdown. it's going in a limp mode, basically like your car does, you know, when it's not happy. once you've cut into the road, you can't open it until it's put back. so it doesn't help with the stress. definitely not. there's a lot of things that can go wrong on night shift. it can be a lot of plant machinery breakdowns. so we have to have a lot of contingency plans in place to see, you know,

if this happens, what do we do? we've sent our low loader to pick up the back—up machine. he should be in the next hopefully half hour, a0 minutes, if that. and then we'll get going again. but obviously, it's delayed things. it's not ideal. it'sjust, it's time, isn't it? time is not our friend now. i love doing night shift. it does feel busier on the run up to the road reopening. we do have to go out a little bit more at night. so just going to take a water sample out with that new manhole. things might get forgotten about, missed — the procedures or maybe it's not getting followed quite as effectively. just to make sure that it's not got any suspended solids in it. our work can affect the watercourses, if any sediment, which is basically soil

or concrete wash—off, get in at these watercourses, it can negatively impact and possibly pollute them as well and reduce the biodiversity. if we find newts, it could potentially start the night works because the newts are protected by legislation. the reason for the fence is because we're within 500 metres of their breeding ground and at this time of year they're migrating to their breeding grounds. so we put the fence up to protect the works from the newts and they don't come onto the site. ijust love being out on site just in the thick of it, making sure that we're doing things correctly, complying with the legislation, protecting the environment. that's the main thing.

try and educate the site team to use this correctly. it's not a rubbish bin. i would actually say it's my dream job. when the road's closed, we'll usually leave two people on a closure point, and that ensures that no members of public come through. i've heard of stories where people are pulling up to closure points and, you know, they're not happy. theyjust want to be through. so they will get out and attack the operatives with — it could be weapons, it could just be spitting at them, which is horrendous. so, yes, it can be a dangerousjob with members of the public. one of the biggest risks of night shift work is people driving into our road closure.

that can be by accident, or sometimes it can be on purpose. we've got a lot of people on foot on that road, working. the site traffic travels at ten mile an hour and a car comes through at 70, 80 mile an hour... it really does scare the team. that is a danger to life. there's a few people in traffic management. they've got their sons in. and it's i think it's a big thing because of how dangerous it is. i wouldn't be letting her get into the traffic management. definitely not. you know, why would you want your daughter to work on the roadway, when it's this dangerous? yeah. so their life is on the line.

he's the back—up paver here. that's what i've been waiting to see. if you have a small hiccup, at the beginning of a shift, it's amazing how you never seem to recover. and it always puts more stress on the end of the shift. we probably won't get as much material laid as we would hope tonight, but we'll do our best with the time we've got left. we have mechanical issues. fairly major mechanical issues. we've got... well, how would i put it? both pavers are incapacitated. neither is laying. we are kind of stuck

in the middle of the ai. you don't want to appear on the radio just letting all the drivers know that the motorway is shut for overrun roadworks. there's plenty of people doing myjob, all been in a similar position where you think, "oh, my god, we're on the radio." we're famous now. we've made the radio. it's not a nice feeling, to be truthful. the first one started the night with re—genning, then it's just stopped. so we've only laid 200 tonne, like... he's probably pulling the hair out of his leg cos he'll actually have to explain tomorrow why what's happened happened. never ever happened in my life before. i'd buy a lottery ticket if i was that driver. you very rarely get two. it's unheard of. we have fitters, mechanics on call all through the nightjust in case there's an issue. northbound junction 78. off slip, we're here.

there's a fitter coming up now — hopefully he can find a way to get round this system or find out why it's not cleaning itself. but obviously you're looking at a lot of money stacked down there in the backs of lorries. they are loaded with tarmac. you have a certain time window to get that material laid before it cools. so that becomes rubbish. it goes back to the recycling plant. obviously it's a tremendous amount of moneyjust wasted. i left school with very poor a—levels, couldn't get in to university, so picked up an apprenticeship and worked my way up on the tours. it's given me a great understanding of what's going on out in site,

what the teams face on site, what challenges they face. we're off to see barry, who was a site manager for one of our specialist subcontractors. barry is a good laugh. was only talking about fishing. we're talking about something i know now instead of work. but he is also very experienced and very knowledgeable, knows his craft inside out. fetch it back a bit more, steve. teams with special skills are not necessarily available in the east, so they travel from outside the area to come and work on the project. we live in doncaster so we travel up to the north east and stay up here. we've been everywhere, from scotland to southampton. it's all right. it's better than where i live, to be fair. - yeah, better — nicer place. always looks good when we do it. it always looks good. we make it look easy.

but i don't let them bother you during the day when you're asleep. i need beauty sleep. i'm not like you — i need it. laughter. when you're certainly on a night shift, when you're out on site monday to friday, working ten—hour shifts, you need that craic with your fellow colleague and you want to be enjoying your work. full ppe. you know that. ten out of ten. bang on, great stuff. sojust need to do a bit of noise monitoring up here, cos there's noisy works going on, so there's like residential houses up there. john's dead canny. he is very knowledgeable about health and safety, and then he comes to me for the environment advice. you can well imagine that people who are trying to sleep do not want them noisy works on the night shift on the roads, waking them up.

we've got values that we shouldn't be exceeding, and if we do exceed them, we've got to take action. so the sound here seems to be acceptable. we do have a lot of fun. what do you think about the new top gun? it's f a b. what does that spell? fab. he is a bit of a moaner, but he probably says i'm a bit of a moaner as well. so, yeah, it's good going out withjohn. john likes going out with me. sometimes. we do have a bit of a laugh and a joke, but you've kind of got to as well at that time of night. i think that's us done for the night. 0k, jamming. 0k, champion. it's cleared. we've got it going.

so, aye, we've got one of them going. yeah, we're going to try and get the one that can't on top of a loader. we regenerated it and off we went. i dare say ian'sjust gone from stressing like thatjust to get back to the calm, normal self again. bit of a relief, i must say. it's always worrying when you've got that much money tied up, like, to be fair. better than we thought or hoped for. that's three load down, isn't it? so we'll keep on going. it is 20 to four. the road opens without an issue now. what do you say you've been swearing as much since that microphone...? i haven't been swearing as much, but honest, the amount of language has been a bit atrocious. you do get a sense of accomplishment

when sections are complete. i suppose that's the big thing. you've actually achieved something. i was at one point i had a feeling that we weren't going at all again. we'll get there. we'll not lose that much. so it'sjust a little after four in the morning. get myself packed up and head home. ijust feel really, really tired. i don't know if i've got like... my craic is not as good as it was at the start of the shift. sun starting to go up. birds are chirping. you just think, "i just want to get back into bed." well, that's it. that's the end of the night. it's been trying, but it's down. so that'll have to do for the tonight.

we'll go again tomorrow. without the breakdown. it's really rewarding when it's all open. there's no roadworks. when we drive up, we can, you know, we can see it with friends and family that we helped to do that. it's definitely the best part of the night. it should be done in the next ten, 15 minutes, then on the way home. so when i used to get stuck in traffic before i worked on the road, it wasn't the best and you didn't like it. but now i understand why we're doing it and why there is traffic. everybody wants to go home safe at the end of the day. so that's why we're stuck in traffic, it's to protect the workers. nobody likes sitting in roadworks.

i don't like sitting in roadworks. and the one thing i'm looking forward to when the road gets reopened is my family and friends stop texting me and ringing me and asking when it's going to be reopened. i think the majority of people, the first time they drive up might go, "well, that seems all right." and then it's just the norm. and really that's what you want, to be fair. members of public happy. and then that's that, really.

hello, there. exceptionally mild for the time of year over the last couple of days but things are expected to turn cooler through the upcoming week, closer to the seasonal norm, because of a change to westerly wind. low pressure bringing spells of wet and windy weather. quite an autumnal week coming up. we lose the showers this evening over many areas and overnight showers in southern and western areas but a lot of dry weather, temperatures 9—12. the breeze is going to pick up out west. low pressure pushing into western areas slowly through the day ringing persistent and heavy rain at times. the shower around, but many places starting monday on a fine note, some

sunshine. turning wetter in northern ireland and for much of scotland heading through the day. temperatures up to 18 in the south, the mid—teens in the north. this is bbc news, with the latest headlines. at least 153 people, most of them teenagers and young adults celebrating halloween have died in a crush in the capital seoul. president yoon suk—yeol promises a thorough investigation. translation: a tragedy and disaster | that should not have happened took| place in the heart of seoul. i hope the people who are injured will get better soon. kent police has confirmed a number of incendiary devices were thrown at a border force centre in dover this morning. as the controversy grows over the home secretary, suella braverman, and allegations of security breaches, her cabinet colleagure michael gove says she "deserves a second chance". voting is under way in brazil —

will they re—elect the hard right current presidentjair bolsonaro, or his left—wing predecessor