i'll have the latest from the middle east where israeli warplanes have carried out more air strikes in beirut after hezbollah rockets killed seven people here in israel. hello and welcome. i'm luxmy gopal. the spanish government says "dozens and dozens" of people remain missing after catastrophic flash flooding. at least 158 people are now known to have died, mainly around valencia and malaga, in spain's worst flooding disaster in generations. many roads, bridges and rail tracks have been destroyed — while power and internet continue to be disrupted. from the city of valencia, our correspondent bethany bell sent this report. rescue teams are still searching for missing people. people have been lifted to safety from houses, other teams have the grim task

of recovering dead bodies. officials here say dozens remain unaccounted for and it is not possible to assess the full impact of the flooding. homes, businesses and shops have been destroyed. volunteers have arrived to help with the clean—up. the scale of the flooding is huge. these satellite pictures show valencia a few weeks ago, and what it looks like now. survivors have told us how they felt abandoned by the authorities. translation: i am sorry, it is just helplessness, impotence. | the government, they don't do anything. every four years or two years, i am starting over again. we are not thieves.

i work as a cleaner at the school for the council, but we have to eat. look what i picked up. food for the baby. it is wet, so i don't know if i can use it. people are struggling. in some places there is no water or electricity and the internet is down. and there is mud everywhere. bethany bell, bbc news, valencia. just to bring you some breaking news coming in at the moment, we are getting reports that in orlando in florida police officers are reporting... responding to reports of a mass shooting. we understand that police may be holding a press conference at some point soon. we will try to bring you that

when that happens but these are images you are seeing of a police presence, emergency services in downtown orlando where there are reports coming in that they are responding to a mass shooting in florida. we will bring you more on that of course as soon as we get it. a bbc investigation has revealed that the metropolitan police was told of allegations of sexual assault by mohamed al fayed a decade earlier than they have acknowledged in recent statements. samantha ramsay was 17 when she reported al fayed in 1995 after he sexually assaulted her in harrods. until now, the met has said its first report dated from 2005. samantha has since died but, as our investigations correspondent daniel de simone reports, her family say the met dismissed her report and told the bbc that multiple women could have been saved from sexual abuse if the force had acted. everybody that

met her loved her. she is missed. it is a big hole in our lives. samantha ramsey moved to london in 1995 aged 17 to pursue her dream of working in harrods. her mum and sister say what happened there changed her life. after being sexually assaulted by mohamed al fayed in his office she told a harrods supervisor. the supervisor came back with mohamed al fayed and they both berated her then. it was brief, abrupt, quite aggressive. and she came out of that feeling quite threatened. it ended with "you will not tell anyone about this because we know where you live, we know your family." she was immediately fired and quickly told the met she had been sexually assaulted. she passed the police station and went straight in.

i know she was told "ok, we will take this down, write it down and add it to a pile of other female names we have who have made the same complaint against mohamed al fayed." nothing will be done, it is your word against his." she left despondent. she had done the right thing, reported it, but we never heard anything back ever. the met said its first report of sexual abuse by mohamed al fayed was in 2005 but sam's report was a decade before, meaning the met knew about him much earlier. i believe that a lot of people, women, could have been saved going through what she went through if the met police had listened to her. the met says there is no history of sam's case on its computer systems but the paper—based report from the 90s might not have been digitised.

the met said it's found reports from 21 women who accused mohamed al fayed while he was alive. he was not charged. 60 further women have come forward in the past weeks. the handling of mohamed al fayed is not a matter of distant history. it also sheds light on how police deal with violence against women and girls today. sam died in 2007 in a car crash. her family say mohamed al fayed's abuse and not being listened to by police altered the course of her life. she was never right after what happened in london. it really changed her outlook on life. we had 12 years of erratic behaviour after that. suicide attempts. she never really found her place in life.

and daniel de simone joins me now. what more do we know about these revelations? i what more do we know about these revelations?— these revelations? i think for these revelations? i think for the met this _ these revelations? i think for the met this is _ these revelations? i think for the met this is an _ these revelations? i think for the met this is an issue - the met this is an issue because in the past few weeks they said they had 21 women who came forward while al fayed was alive and they said the earliest was in 2005. this account of samantha runcie's sexual assault on her reporting it to the met puts it much earlier, 1995. the met has not denied this took place, they had said there is no record on their computer systems but lots of reports back then were paper—based. they are being more contrite than in previous statements, saying they recognise the way they handle the post has not inspired confidence and they are pledging to do better, but i think there will be a concern

amongst many that 21 people on their own figures came forward to accuse mohamed al fayed while he was alive —— saying they recognised the way they handled things in the past has not inspired confidence. he was not inspired confidence. he was not charged when he was alive. samantha in 1995, it raises the question of whether anyone else came forward not in the computer systems and i think that will be a concern for many. that will be a concern for man . ~ . that will be a concern for man , ~ ., ., , , , that will be a concern for man. ., ,., many. what happens now? about the met is doing _ many. what happens now? about the met is doing a _ many. what happens now? about the met is doing a big _ the met is doing a big investigation relating to al fayed who is dead so cannot be charged, but others have been implicated. charged, but others have been implicated-— charged, but others have been imlicated. ~ . , ., ~:: implicated. the met has had 60 more women — implicated. the met has had 60 more women coming _ implicated. the met has had 60 more women coming forward i implicated. the met has had 60 more women coming forward in | more women coming forward in the past few weeks so this is an extraordinary situation, i can't think of anything where 21 people accuse a person while he is alive and he was not charged at 60 further have come forward. the met is under pressure to do a proper inquiry and look at whether anything was missed in the past,

including other people. the figure of 60 was a couple of weeks ago so more people might have come forward and i think the met will have to come out and speak more about this and there are calls for an independent review of how he was handled while alive by the met. ~., , ., was handled while alive by the met. , ., , ., , ., was handled while alive by the met. ., ,., , met. many more questions to be answered- _ daniel, thank you. and we'll be speaking to harriet wistrich, director of the centre for women's justice, about this story later this hour. let's talk about the flooding in valencia and the impact it has had. our correspondent nicky schiller is in valencia. we have heard about more rain overnight, how is that affecting conditions? absolutely, there was more rain in this area of valencia which means there is way more modes that you can see here on the ground, this is literally everywhere. —— way more sack.

the treat gives you an idea of what is going on across the city. you can see what the water level was like when the floods ahead, it is a metre, 1.5 metres. you can see people clearing out their homes, there is a teddy bear that has been covered in mud, tractors are here trying to move some of the cars. this car has just been moved in the last little while. you have people coming out with buckets and spades and brooms and i have seen hundreds and hundreds of people coming here to help. they had been bringing buckets and spades. one lady said she went to a local hardware store and they had run out of brooms so they made her something she could use and it was basically a pipe with foam on the bottom. it is a bank holiday here in spain, so people who would normally have been working are coming out to help the people of this area of

the city. five kilometres away in the heart of the city you would not know there has been a flood, whereas this area has been completely devastated by the water. i think there is a real community spirit now where people in the city are wanting to come and help the people who do not have very much. they are without power, there is very little water, food and medicine. on that point the city council has opened up a church nearby and last night hundreds of people were bringing donations of food, baby items, things like nappies, toiletries, clothes and so much water they had to form a human chain to get the water into the church so they were able to distribute that after. there is a fear that we could be enforceable rain, there is an amber warning in force for parts of the country and there will be a concern among the authorities that that

may cause more problems —— there is a fear that we could be in for more rain. they are still trying in those cut—off areas to get to people and there is the fear that the death toll will rise when they do that. fit. death toll will rise when they do that. �* . , death toll will rise when they dothat. ., , ., , do that. a really worrying time. do that. a really worrying time- nicky _ do that. a really worrying time. nicky schiller - do that. a really worrying time. nicky schiller in - time. nicky schiller in valencia, thank you. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

thanks for being with us here on bbc news. israel has bombed the southern suburbs of the lebanese capital beirut for the first time in almost a week. it comes a day after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met visiting us officials to discuss a possible deal to end the war in lebanon. let's go live tojerusalem. ben brown is there for us. ben, authorities also saying hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern israel? that's right. that is despite

this relentless campaign we have seen over the last few weeks by israel and the military to destroy hezbollah targets in lebanon. in the last 204i targets in lebanon. in the last 2041 was hezbollah rockets have been coming into northern israel and causing the worst fatality rate we had seen for several weeks. seven people dying altogether, five around one town northern israel. this is an israeli farmer and four thai agricultural workers who were killed when hezbollah rockets landed there, and not long after that an israeli woman and her adult son were killed in an olive grove near a kibbutz on the outskirts of haifa. this will no doubt reinforce israel's determination to keep on hitting targets, hezbollah targets, in lebanon. we had seen overnight then hitting for the first time in a few days

targets in the southern suburbs of beirut were hezbollah traditionally have their stronghold, air strikes carrying on. joining me now is our correspondent emir nader, who's in beirut. heavy air strikes overnight, tell us more about them. we have had _ tell us more about them. we have had no _ tell us more about them. we have had j-lo an _ tell us more about them. we have had j—lo an israeli air strikes _ have had j—lo an israeli air strikes in _ have had j—lo an israeli air strikes in beirut, almost a week_ strikes in beirut, almost a week without them. —— we have had a _ week without them. —— we have had 6 ml — week without them. —— we have had a lull. that neighbourhood in the — had a lull. that neighbourhood in the south of beirut has hezbollah presence and support, almost _ hezbollah presence and support, almost a — hezbollah presence and support, almost a week without air strikes _ almost a week without air strikes where the focus of israet's _ strikes where the focus of israel's military activity and air strike _ israel's military activity and air strike activity have been elsewhere in the country, there in the _ elsewhere in the country, there in the eastern area of the bekaa _ in the eastern area of the bekaa valley and the south of the country. we have not heard

of any— the country. we have not heard of any casualties yet but we have — of any casualties yet but we have seen many videos emerging of what _ have seen many videos emerging of what seems to be very widespread damage in that very packed — widespread damage in that very packed residential neighbourhoods, including buildings that have collapsed, rubble — buildings that have collapsed, rubble across the road and the lebanese _ rubble across the road and the lebanese authorities will be obviously looking for any signs of casualties last night in this— of casualties last night in this neighbourhood. in beirut for marry— this neighbourhood. in beirut for many days we have had the sound — for many days we have had the sound of— for many days we have had the sound of the drone that has hung — sound of the drone that has hung over the city of beirut, even — hung over the city of beirut, even though they haven't had those — even though they haven't had those direct air strikes on the area — those direct air strikes on the area untit— those direct air strikes on the area until now. and i guess the question— area until now. and i guess the question following last night's air strikes is whether that might— air strikes is whether that might herald a new round of renewed _ might herald a new round of renewed air strikes on the capitat _ renewed air strikes on the caital. . ~' ,. renewed air strikes on the caital. ., ,, y., ., capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you _ capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you very _ capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you very much, _ capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you very much, and - capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you very much, and all i capital. thank you. emir nader, thank you very much, and all of| thank you very much, and all of this coming after the lebanese

prime minister said he was cautiously optimistic may be a ceasefire in days or even hours. it does not look that way, we had us negotiators in jerusalem talking to the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that the us secretary of state antony blinken has said there has been good progress on those american attempts to get an end to the fighting in lebanon, but lots of analysts and us officials say they are not really expecting any breakthrough until after the us presidential election next week.— election next week. back to ou. election next week. back to you- ben — election next week. back to you. ben brown, _ election next week. back to you. ben brown, live - election next week. back to you. ben brown, live in - you. ben brown, live in jerusalem, thank you. with just a few days left until the us election, the race between donald trump and kamala harris remains as tight as ever. the republican and democratic presidential candidates have both headed west to the battleground states of nevada and arizona. our north america correspondent emma vardy sent us this 15