help to protect them. this population, the southern residents, is at risk of extinction from pollution and overfishing of the salmon they rely on. understanding how much it costs to care for the next generation of orcas is an insight into what these magnificent mammals need in order to survive. victoria gill, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. a lovely springtime image? isn't it. it's expected to get milder as we move through the weekend, even into next week high pressure brings a lot of fine, dry, settled weather. this glorious picture was taken by one of our weather watchs in herefordshire. today, there is a lot of sunshine around the country but the northern half of scotland will see the strongest of the winds—macro and will continue with blustery showers. we had a snow and ice macro warning,

you can see why we had the weather fronts across the uk, most of the showers affecting the north and west of scotland where the strongest of the winds are, gusting up to 50 miles an hour orso the winds are, gusting up to 50 miles an hour or so in the next few hours in the north, lighter winds further south. we lose the band of cloud we've had this morning so the skies should brighten up over the next few hours, a fine afternoon to come for most. top temperatures 9—10, a degree or so where we should be for the time of year. this evening and overnight it stays unsettled across the north of the uk, windy, cloudy, thick cloud pushing on towards irish sea coasts as well but under clear skies the midlands southwards it's going to be another cold one with frosts out of town, may be some mist and fog but the winds will be a bit stronger and as we had through friday high pressure to the south, again, weather fronts and lots of isobars across the north of the uk means it's cloudy and windy but our air source will come in around the area of high pressure off the atlantic so

generally mild, certainly through friday into the weekend. a lot of cloud in northern and western areas, outbreaks of rain in scotland, some splashes of drizzle in western england and wales. after a sunny start across the south and south—east it could turn cloudy into the afternoon so compared to today, tomorrow will be cloudier. through the week the high pressure holds on, continues to bring a lot of dry weather and pushes the weather fronts away from the north of scotland so many places dry on saturday but it's not going to be wall—to—wall sunshine. there will be quite a bit of cloud here and there with some glimmers of sunshine particularly northern and eastern areas but look at that, 11—13, may 14 celsius. a similar story, part two of the weekend, a lot of dry weather, variable cloud, some sunshine, the winds light for most particularly towards the south and the south—east and into double figures. the area of high pressure holds on into the start of next week's there were a lot of sunshine,

variable cloud. from onwards we may start to the change with rain trying to get in off the atlantic but that is the latest weather. see you later. thank you, stav danaos. a reminder of our top story... more than 17,000 people are confirmed to have died in the quakes that hit turkey and syria. that's all from the bbc news at 0ne. it's goodbye from me. 0n bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. the company that backed the failed european superleague, has returned with a revamped format for the tournament. that would see up to 80 teams competing. real madrid, barcelona and juventus were among 12 clubs to announce a breakaway super league in april two years ago. but the move collapsed within 48

hours after an outcry from fans, governments and players. but the move collapsed within 48 hours after an outcry from fans, governments and players. a22 sports management have released a ten—point manifesto stating it's "time for change". but the move collapsed within 48 hours after an outcry from fans, with a new esl would contain 60 to 80 teams each guaranteed a minimum of 14 matches per season and continue to play in their domestic leagues. well in response — spain's la liga is the first european league to response. they've tweeted this. "the super league is the wolf of little red riding hood. now they are disguised as open and meritocratic competition, but underneath there is still the same egotistical and elitist project. " united states forward alex morgan has become the latest voice to criticise unconfirmed reports that saudi arabia's tourism authority would be sponsoring this summer's women's world cup.

speaking to reporters, she says she finds news bizarre.— finds news bizarre. earlier this month the _ finds news bizarre. earlier this month the co-hosts _ finds news bizarre. earlier this month the co-hosts had - finds news bizarre. earlier this| month the co-hosts had asked finds news bizarre. earlier this - month the co-hosts had asked fifa to month the co—hosts had asked fifa to the situation. i think it is bizarre that fifa has looked to have a saudi sponsorship for the women's world cup when i, myself, would not be supported and accepted in that country so ijust do not understand it. the football association's announced ambitious new plans to ensure every girl with talent has access to high—quality training. funding from the premier league will go to recruiting coaches, and the fa has set a target to almost treble the number of girls on the "elite pathway". it's after some coaches said despite the lionesses winning the european championship last summer, they're still only

scratching the surface of the talent in the country. they don't want to lose it to overseas clubs.— they don't want to lose it to overseas clubs. ~ ,, :: " overseas clubs. three the wsl, 2011, we had many — overseas clubs. three the wsl, 2011, we had many players _ overseas clubs. three the wsl, 2011, we had many players in _ overseas clubs. three the wsl, 2011, we had many players in america. - overseas clubs. three the wsl, 2011, l we had many players in america. when we had many players in america. when we established the league, the players came back and we are trying to offer an opportunity to have an education alongside their playing career so women's performance centres, offering scholarships for players and clubs is a big part of that otherwise it will be an alternative for the players to go abroad. wales coach warren gatland has made some huge changes for this weekend's six nations game against scotland.

alun wynjones, taulupe faletau and justin tipuric have been left out of wales' starting team for saturday's six nations visit to scotland. it includes first wales starts for exeter chiefs pair dafydd jenkins and christ tshiunza while tommy reffell completes a new—look back—row. ken 0wens, adam beard and jack morgan are the only forwards kept in. worcester warriors are no more — the new owners of the rugby union club have announced they changing the name. they've also withdrawn from the rfus process to enter into the championship due to the instability of the league. the club will now be rebranded as sixways rugby. jim 0'toole, who led the atlas takeover alongsidejames sandford, said "the sad fact of life is that the worcester warriors brand and the worcester warriors business is gone. more on that and old today's sports news on the website. we will bring you the latest from the sports centre throughout the afternoon. goodbye from me. thank you very

much. more now on our top story — the number of people killed by the earthquakes in turkey and syria on monday, has now risen to more than 17,000. turkish and syrian communities across the uk are gathering supplies to send to survivors of the earthquake. the biggest turkish community mosque in the uk is in north london and has been inundated with donations. here's luxmy gopal. this is a picture of generosity that we've been seeing in collection hubs and makeshift drop off points at places across the country where people have been bringing boxes and boxes of donations for people affected by the earthquake. we've got clothing, blankets, nappies, sanitary products, medication. and in fact, like many other places here at this mosque, they've asked people to stop bringing in donations, because they've simply been inundated and overwhelmed by them. well, i'm joined by the senior imam. thank you forjoining us. how much does it mean to you to see this amount of generosity? oh, it means a lot. i mean, it's overwhelming.

and it's amazing how the community has come together. the diverse community within london have got together and donated so much. the disasters emergency committee is launching an appeal today. what does that mean to you? that means a lot. it's really heart—touching, and it means a lot that, you know, and seeing on ground as well, where every nation has come together and given their support. and it shows us that we've still got that human value, and we're regaining it, hopefully. and what sort of support is there for members of your mosque who know friends and family who have been affected by the earthquake? we're trying to give counselling. we are giving them our condolences. we are supporting them. we are checking up on them. and we're constantly sort of trying to find out, because as you can imagine,

i mean, everybody is hoping for their loved ones to come out of the rubble. however, when they get the tragic news, we need to be supportive. thank you for speaking to us. and if you have a look, the volunteer effort continues, because the last few boxes of items are being packed up, ready to be sent off later this week. why did you decide to come along and volunteer? i mean, yeah, a lot of people have died, but also people have been injured. it's a really bad situation back there. it's cold. people have no place to stay. they have no houses. it's really bad. and as you can see here, there are also boxes, and they need help to carry these boxes so that these people can actually receive the help they need. yeah, right now we are just packing up some clothing and some essential needs, like nappies, toothpaste, underwear, stuff like that. thank you, i'll let you carry on

with the efforts. so it's now about the next threat, which is the freezing temperatures that are facing the survivors there. and so all of these items are going to be packed up to be sent off later this week. darren edwards from shropshire has become the first person in a wheelchair to complete the world marathon challenge. mr edwards, a former army reservist, kicked off the challenge in antarctica on 31st january and completed seven marathons across all seven continents, in a week — and has raised around £50,000 for the armed forces para—snowsport team, during the challenge. earlier, my colleague, shaun ley, caught up with darren and bagan by asking him how he felt after the challenge. it hit me on the flight home last night and this morning how

fatigued i actually was. until then, you are still on the go and you're trying to do everything in quick succession in that week that you just pull yourself through it. it's once you stop it and get back into a proper bed for a good night's sleep, you wake up the next morning and realising how tired you are. and sore i should imagine? yes, and sore, sore arms and shoulders, they are hurting today. how did the wheelchair stand up to it, you must put quite a lot of pressure on your equipment as well as your body? yes, with antarctica being the first marathon of the seven, the toughest first and there were so many unknowns about the surface whether it would be compact snow, how cold it would be. we looked at options to best make it as foolproof as possible so i had an off road thing custom—built for me which would stand up to the tests of antarctica in terms of all those variables that you cannot control.

then i used that same piece of equipment for the remaining six so it was a little bit overkill for the six marathons. it looked like it could conquer the world and it did, i guess but it was perfect for antarctica because if i turned up in what i sit on day to day i would have got about a foot off the plane and get stuck and done .2 rather than 22 miles. it is a fantastic achievement and i hope you are right and proud of it and i hope you will be celebrating, you have earned it. it is fantastic, you raise the money, how do you hope it will be used? the target was £80,000 and hopefully we can still make headway towards that because that will be for injured veterans learning to ski with a para— sports team. it was not a random figure. that is the cost of teaching 50

newly injured service men and women to ski because for me, i had a climbing accident six years ago which changed my life and left me with a spinal injury, paralysed from the chest down. the charity got in touch two years after that to say, do you want to fly out to norway and learn to ski in a different way? and i did. it was the first time post injury i was back in the mountains on snow and not stuck for the first time and i realised how important it was to try and reconnect with the first time. and connect with nature regardless of disability. so i know how powerful that can be. for people in the first 12 months post injury, i was always really keen to find a way to give back and who knew it

but doing seven marathons in seven days on seven continents was the way to do that. it made the task a bit easier because even in the tough moments when it was —20 in antarctica or in the heat and humidity of brazil, it was the reason why. to try and have a positive impact on people's lives. it mitigated any temptations to give up even in those tough moments. we are so glad you did it as we are sure you are, everyone who knows and loves you must be hugely proud of what you have done. congratulations from us. you mentioned brazil and antarctica, south africa, dubai, australia, spain and brazil. it isa it is a phenomenal achievement. i hope you get that target, if anyone deserves that you do. thank you forjoining us.

wiltshire's chief constable says good officers are leaving policing because of poor rates of pay. the home office has responded to kier pritchard's comments, saying it recognises the cost of living pressures, and officers of all ranks had a £1,900 pay rise this financial year. mr pritchard is retiring after 30 years and our reporter dan 0'brien has caught up with him. from fresh—faced pc on the local beat, to the chief constable who led his force through covid and novichok. our focus has been on trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill. kier pritchard is about to retire from the wiltshire force. on day one of his five years in charge — literally hours after taking the helm — word came through of the nerve—agent attack on the streets of salisbury. i think as, then, the scenario unfolded, it absolutely changed everything about the security and the state of normality in this country.

and i... never before had we seen a nerve agent attack on the mainland in britain. to see it go from a small, beautiful part of the community in salisbury to being the centre stage of global news was utterly surreal. now, as he prepares to retire, a strong message for the politicians. we should not be talking in the 21st century about having a food bank for public servants, let alone police officers who are putting their lives on the line each and every day and making life—and—death decisions that can have massive consequences for their future. i have the utmost admiration for every one of them. so i am kind of really concerned about that. the chief leaves at a time when the wiltshire force is in special measures and facing huge pressure to improve. there will be people running, i'm sure, a commentary on, "well, you're leaving because the force has gone in to engage into kind of special measures." that is absolutely not the case.

it is with sadness. i don't want to be leaving at the point when we are where we are, but this is the situation and all i can do is look in the mirror and reflect on, "what have i done? what's the force done? is it in the best shape that it can be right now to accelerate from here and continue to make the improvements?" his successor is catherine roper from the met in london, who takes over at the end of this month. top of her list will be to get the force out of special measures and fit for the future. dan 0'brien, bbc points west. liverpool's fundraiser extraordinaire speedo mick is making his way through cumbria today — on his latest charity walk. mick cullen is going from john 0'groats to lands end — raising money for mental health charities — wearing just his swimming trunks. he's already passed £100,000 — and ian haslam has been with him this morning. hello and welcome to the lancashire—cumbria border. we are here with speedo mick

who is on another one of his marathon walks. mick, what day are you on now? i am on day 43, day 43. day 43. are you feeling the cold? iam. i felt the cold every single day of this walk. it has been... yeah, it has been terrible. tell me why you are doing this latest walk. we are trying to raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention, which has skyrocketed since the pandemic. and obviously it is a cause close to your heart, isn't it? what kind of response have you had from people you see when you do your walk? a lot of families coming out who have been sharing their tragic stories of family members taking their own lives and connecting, basically. plus, we are raising a smile and a few spirits as well because of the nature of how i am doing it. doing the walks. very quickly, tell me about your mountain climbing and your press up to the top. well, you know what i mean, i put the commandos through their paces.

0n the 4th of february when we when we climbed the mountain. they were dithering at the top of that mountain and there was me like that. what temperature was that? well, on the top of there, i'm not really sure. at scafell pike. but on the top of ben nevis it was —18 with the windshield. -18. so that is why the commandos come out... you are almost commando in them, aren't you? iam. very quickly, is this your last one? it is my last walk, you know what i mean? i'm tired. i'm getting on a little bit and, you know, i'm just tired. i think i might have just done enough. members of the public are being warned to stay away from the base of cliffs after footage has emerged of people clambering over the debris of a landslip in dorset. the most recent cliff fall was at west bay. as emma ruminski reports, geologists say the cliffs have become more active in the last decade.

you never know where or when it will happen, but when it does, it's over in seconds. luckily, the beach at west bay was empty when the environment agency caught this rockfall on camera at 11:00am on the 18th of january. there are great big cracks that are millions of years old going into the cliff, which are natural planes of weaknesses. and you've got the sea riding up the beach here and undercutting the cliff which weakens them further of course. and eventually gravity just takes hold. especially if the cliffs have soaked up a lot of rainwater, so if we've had a lot of rain, rainy weather over the winter, they get very heavy, and if you watch that video you can see the sort of pop in the cliff face and this cloud of dust comes out and if something has given then the whole thing just comes down. the falls are so dramatic the temptation is to explore them, but photographerjames loveridge says no fossil or photo is worth the risk. especially a lot of visitors don't seem to notice some of the dangers of walking along the clifftop. and especially on the beach below. hopefully my photos and videos

are raising a bit of awareness, because the rock falls can happen at any time of day. the one at west bay a couple of weeks ago was about 11:00am, i think. and we've seen ones in the past that are in the middle of the summer. james also studied coastal engineering, and he's often out photographing the erosion from a distance with his drone. he's captured everything from walkers clambering over this slip at hive beach last year, to people walking very close to a crack at the top the cliff near west bay in 2017. his latest pictures reveal a big crack that's formed on doghouse hill at seatown. the remnants of a slip he filmed back in april two years ago which has since washed into the sea. within a year even the biggest slips disappear into the water. yeah, looks like quite a big area, about 60 feet wide, and it's dropped by three or four feet, i think _ and it's right next to the big rock fall from 18 months or so ago,

so it's opened up more recently. it looks like that's going to go any time, really. the beaches on thejurassic coast are world famous and thousands visit without incident, but a young woman lost her life to a sudden rock fall back in 2012. this last decade, geologists say, the cliffs have become more active. emma ruminski, bbc spotlight on thejurassic coast. many of us have lived through an it revolution in the past few decades — we've seen computers become incredibly fast and powerful — but now we might be about to see another huge leap forward. researchers at sussex university say they've made a critical breakthrough in creating so—called "quantum" computers, which work in a different way to traditional machines — and could take a few days to solve problems that currently take months or years. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh reports.

created in the most sterile of environments, this chip is at the heart of a new technology called quantum computing that works in the world of the very small, at the scale of atoms. sealed away in a steel container, it operates in a completely different way. today's computers solve problems in a simple, linearfashion, one calculation at a time. in the quantum realm, a particle can exist in two places at the same time, and they can be strangely connected and mirror each other�*s movements instantaneously. all of this could mean that the computers of the future could be unimaginably powerful. quantum computers have the potential to do millions of calculations all at the same time. the problem has always been transferring information between quantum chips quickly and reliably. researchers here have solved that problem.

what we have achieved here is the ability to connect multiple quantum computing chips together in order to realise extremely powerful quantum computers capable of solving some of the most important industry and societal problems. one of the uk's leading engineering firms, rolls—royce, want to use quantum computers to speed up the design of theirjet engines. there's a number of things that we can use quantum computers for. specifically with this project, it's computational fluid dynamics, and effectively taking calculations today that we actually can't do, we can't do them today, and if we could, they'd take many months or years, and just the potential of doing those in days would just transform our design system. 0ne ion influences the other one... but although a big scientific problem has been solved, the researchers say in the journal nature communications that it'll take more time before we can have a practical quantum computer.

it's not solely just a physics problem any more. it's an engineering problem, a computer science problem, and also a mathematical problem. i'm optimistic in how quickly quantum computing can really become relevant to us in our everyday lives. firms such as google, microsoft and ibm are all racing to develop the next generation of quantum computers, which may now be a big step closer. pallab ghosh, bbc news, brighton. now it's time for a look at the weather hello. not much going on with the weather for the next few days because high pressure is dominating. remaining dry unsettled, variable cloud with some sunshine. quite a bit of sunshine around today but some showers and strong winds across the north of scotland because weather france will be breezing the

north of the uk. it did start grey across southern britain, that will move away allowing sunshine. blustery showers in the northern half of scotland. it will be blustery because it will be windy across the north of the country. for many others, temperatures around where we should be, perhaps a degree orso where we should be, perhaps a degree or so above, from 7—10. 0vernight, central and southern areas remained dry and clear, further night north it will be breezy, rain for west of scotland. less cold. we will see some frost, just enough breeze to disperse any mist and fog patches. high pressure to the site on friday, lower pressure to the north. windy with outbreaks of rain. dragging on milder airfrom the

with outbreaks of rain. dragging on milder air from the south—west so it will be on the mild side heading through friday afternoon. dry and bright and sonny across southern areas, the cloud will build across the northern half of the country. bringing rain to scotland, mostly in the west. we could be up to 13 celsius in the north—east of scotland, nine further south. celsius in the north—east of scotland, nine furthersouth. into the weekend, high—pressure dominates, bringing a lot of financial dry weather but don't expect wall—to—wall sunshine, quite a lot of cloud around and some areas look great in the north and east. very mild for all areas, temperatures above the seasonal number, 10—13 celsius. a lot of weather around for part two of the weekend, some sunshine, and for most of us it will remain on the mild side.

this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines: rescue efforts continue as over 17,000 people are now known to have been killed following monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria. the world health organization warns that, without shelter, water, fuel or electricity, many more people who have survived the quakes but lost their homes could die. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, takes his plea forfighter jets to european union leaders after his surprise visit to the uk yesterday. ukraine is going to be a member of the european union. ukraine is winning. planned strike action by firefighters is postponed after employers make a new pay offer to be considered by union members.

the former mp, jared 0'mara, is sentenced to four years in prison