storm bert brings high winds, rain and snow. 60,000 homes in the republic of ireland are without power after the storm struck overnight. a massive air strike on a multistorey building in the heart of lebanon's capital leaves 11 people dead and 63 injured. hours later, there is still a massive operation here to remove the rubble, a search effort is also under way. just moments ago, we saw a second body being removed from under the rubble. and a un aid convoy arrives in a camp in darfur, sudan for the first time since a famine was declared there in august. hello, i'm catherine byaruhanga.

two amber weather alerts — meaning a risk to life and property — and several yellow alerts — indicating that some disruption to travel or daily activities is possible — are in place in the uk. weather forecasters are predicting storm bert will bring up to 20 to 30 centimetres of snow across scotland and parts of northern and central england. weather warnings for heavy rain and high winds are also in place across the uk, including most of northern ireland, wales and cornwall. a crash has closed the m71; motorway in south lanarkshire, where weather conditions are said to be very poor. 60,000 homes in the republic of ireland are without power after the storm struck overnight. northern ireland has been under a similar alert since midnight, as storm bert makes its way across the uk. storm bert has been battering the country since first thing this morning. this is lame regis in dorset. heavy winds gusting up to 70 mph with warnings that trees might come

down in some parts of the country. it's the snow and ice that are causing most problems so far. this is renfrewshire, west of scotland, with drivers struggling on the road. there has been an amber weather warning in place for much of scotland and the northeast of england for heavy snow. it looks like a picture postcard in selkirk in the scottish borders but authorities are saying some rural areas could be cut off. gritters have been out since the early hours, with national highways describing some routes as treacherous. farmers have also been helping to clear the roads.— to clear the roads. these extremes _ to clear the roads. these extremes seem - to clear the roads. these extremes seem to - to clear the roads. these extremes seem to be - to clear the roads. these - extremes seem to be coming more frequently but one thing is for sure, across the country today, farmers are going to be out tending to their livestock. travel has been widely affected with trains, ferries and some flights cancelled or diverted. the advice for those thinking of travelling in the worst

affected areas is clear. if you don't need — affected areas is clear. if you don't need to _ affected areas is clear. if you don't need to travel, - affected areas is clear. if you don't need to travel, don't i don't need to travel, don't travel at all. work from home, stay home this weekend. it's essential you don't travel in this weather because it is causing disruptions. there already been _ causing disruptions. there already been flooding - causing disruptions. there already been flooding in l already been flooding in northern ireland. this is dundonald. more than 1,000 homes in wales are without power. storm bert is likely to cause more disruption is that day goes on. the m74 the m711 is no open, in south lanarkshire, following a crash due to the poor weather conditions —— it is now open. 0ur correspondent nick has the latest. our correspondent nick has the latest. . ., , latest. the weather centre has 'ust told latest. the weather centre has just told us _ latest. the weather centre has just told us there _ latest. the weather centre has just told us there has - latest. the weather centre has just told us there has been - latest. the weather centre has just told us there has been a i just told us there has been a gust of 105 mph recorded over the cairngorms where there are blizzard conditions. we don't life pictures from edinburgh ——

we've got life pictures from edinburgh. scotland has been quite badly hit and although the police are urging people not to go out, a lot of people have gone out in their cars, causing traffic build—up around areas. also in edinburgh, lothian buses, the largest municipal bus company in the uk, 700 buses operating on 70 routes, they have had to suspend all of their bus services in and around the edinburgh area because the conditions are too hazardous. they've apologised but say that at the moment it isn't safe for them to go out. that's causing problems. one of the bridges in scotland has had to close because there was a fear that ice could fall from the actual cables over the bridge onto cars below. certainly it has been a problem of snow in scotland, also in north yorkshire and the northeast of england. fora yorkshire and the northeast of england. for a time, yorkshire and the northeast of england. fora time, there

yorkshire and the northeast of england. for a time, there were problems at newcastle airport. we are now hearing that flights are resuming from newcastle airport but the railways as well and that area, there are delays and there will be some cancellations. the other big problem is the winds. that has been causing problems in the southwest and also in wales. we've seen pictures from lyme regis and porthleven of those harbours where you can see the waves and gusts and the isles of scilly of 67 mph. very strong winds. that could lead to some trees coming down. this is going to be localised in particular areas but we are also now seeing power cuts. there are around 1,000 homes in wales but don't have any power and there are areas in devon where there have been some power cuts down there. what happens when there is the strong winds? you can often see that these power lines will

come down in these winds and that will lead to localised power cuts in some areas. the next issue we are going to see is probably flooding because we've had the snow and particularly in north yorkshire, the temperatures are rising so that means that the snow that fell this morning is now beginning to melt and that will build up in the rivers and so there are now a number of flood alerts and flood warnings in force. that applies to scotland. it applies to areas of england and we are also seeing a rise in those of flood alerts in wales. so across the whole of the uk, there have been problems. also in the republic of ireland, storm bert hit the republic of ireland first last night. there was a red warning in force and county donegal sought some really heavy flooding, and there are

thousands of people in the republic of ireland who are without power. 16,000 in that county donegal area where there has been serious flooding. there has also been flooding in northern ireland. we were hearing from one of our correspondence in belfast that she had been to one street where there was flooding and people were dealing with that. also some of the train lines in northern ireland have also been affected by that flooding. translink saying check before you travel. we even heard that one of the gritters that had gone out to try and stop the snow from forming got stuck while it was out gritting. nikki, thank you. bbc weather presenter chris fawkes gave me the latest situation across the uk.

one of the biggest problems is this heavy snow as storm bert works into the cold air. we are seeing snow turn to rain across north yorkshire and we are seeing some of the snow turn to rain in county durham so it's increasingly raining across the far north of england, even over high ground but we still have snow in scotland and a met office weather warning for amber. the warning across northern scotland will be in force until about 5pm with further significant accumulations of snow, but it's notjust in the hills, we've seen impacts in central lowlands of scotland, and some of the main waterways have been struggling as well. we've seen some very slow—looking traffic across perthshire and livingston as well, to name two examples.

you can imagine some of the minor routes would be really, really difficult so i think the main message for people who are planning to travel around is to check conditions before you do so. this was one of our weather watcher pictures and you can see how horrendous conditions were earlier in this part of scotland. this follows from a period of cold weather in the uk. are these related? yes, it has been brought about by cold northerly arctic winds and it is happening as storm bert runs into the cold air, causing the snow we are seeing at the moment, which increasingly will be confined to scotland as the milder air works in. we've had gusts of 67mph in buryhead in devon and also the isles of scilly, and we could see gusts of 60 or 70mph in the irish sea coasts through the afternoon. inland areas, gales, pretty widely, those could be strong enough to bring down tree branches so there could be localised disruption due to the winds.

if that weren't enough, we are now starting to see the impact of the heavy rain. that is in terms of the risk of flooding. the largest rainfall totals, high ground could see as much as 150mm of rain, enough to cause flooding problems, but it is gradual accumulations of rain. in other words, for communities across wales and southwest england, the risk of flooding will increase hour by hour through the rest of today, tonight and into tomorrow. you can keep up—to—date with storm bert on our website, we have a life paid without the flood alerts due to the heavy rain in different parts of the country —— we have a live page. 3,000 homes are without power in the southwest of england and wales. keep up—to—date on the bbc news website.

there are no "red lines" when it comes to support for ukraine and president zelensky could fire french long range missiles into russia. that's according to the french foreign ministerjean—noel barrot. he's been speaking to laura kuennsberg in an interview to be broadcast on sunday. we will support you train intensely for as long as necessary because our security is at stake. each time the russian army progress by one square kilometre, the threat gets one square kilometre closer to europe. negotiations have taken place through the night and into the afternoon at the cop29 climate conference in azerbaijan with no sign of a breakthrough. countries can't agree how much richer nations should pay developing countries to tackle global warming. reports say the eu, the us and other wealthy nations have now raised their offer. 0ur climate editor justin rowlatt has the latest from baku. well, we were told 6am this morning — that's 2am uk time — it is now after one in the afternoon. so, this has been going on a long time.

what we hear is that the offer from richer countries has actually been raised now to $300 billion. i know it sounds like an incredibly large amount of money, but the problem is we've got a clause in the effectively saying that developing countries need $1.3 trillion a year in order to transition to renewable energy and adapt their countries to make them more resilient to climate change. the very next clause says — or it will say, if i'm right about the 300 billion — that richer countries are going to payjust 300 billion, so a tiny fraction of the total. and that's the problem. negotiators are trying to bridge that gap. there's another issue here, which is that a group of of of fossil fuel—rich countries led by saudi arabia have chucked into the pot the idea that they don't want to see the language that was adopted back in dubai last year at the cop conference last year. then it was agreed that the world would transition away from fossil fuels. i know it's amazing — after 28, it was the 28th iteration of these talks,

that that was finally recognised, that fossil fuels were key to this. anyway, they want to roll back from that. so that's what's in play. the negotiating rooms... we're in, actually, the olympic stadium. i know it doesn't look like that, it's been made over into a conference centre. they're up on the second floor, shuffling between different rooms, trying to find a compromise. and, you know, obviously, the fact that, you know, nothing's happening here tells you that they haven't yet got there. now, there is kind of goodwill here that people would like to see a deal, i think it's fair to say, but they are clearly not managing to find one quite yet. just to bring you some breaking news from baku, from our correspondent. she is reporting that cop29 talks appear to be on the verge of collapse after the least developed country group walked out of its meeting with the cop29 president to discuss the new proposed cash offer from discuss the new proposed cash offerfrom rich discuss the new proposed cash offer from rich countries, discuss the new proposed cash offerfrom rich countries, we are hearing that rich countries are hearing that rich countries are proposing $300 billion a

year by 2035. the least developed country group ones that to go up to $500 billion —— wants that you go out. our correspondent is reporting that talks appear to be on the verge of collapse after the least developed country group walked out of the talks at cop29. negotiations had already overrun by one day. we will bring new developments as we get them. in a dramatic outburst in the philippines, the vice—president says she made plans to have the president assassinated if she herself was killed. sara duterte has told reporters she spoke to a hit man about killing president ferdinand marcos and his wife if she ends up dead. the two politicians — from powerful political families — ran on a joint ticket in elections two years ago, but have since fallen out. the president's office says any threat on mr marcos' life has

to be taken seriously. to lebanon now, where israel has carried out a powerful air strike on central beirut overnight. lebanese media says an eight—storey residential building collapsed after being hit by several missiles. lebanon's health ministry says 11 people have been killed and more than 63 injured. search and rescue efforts are under way. eyewitnesses say the explosions shook the city. israel's latest attack comes despite renewed efforts for a ceasefire. since the escalation of the conflict in september, israeli air strikes have killed several top his brother leaders in beirut. 0ur middle east correspondent hugo bachega says this part of beirut had yet to be targeted but the building was flattened by multiple strikes. it appears we have lost those

pictures from hugo's report, he was reporting from the scene of the strike in beirut where 11 people have been killed in an israeli air strike. now it's time for a look at today's sport with gavin. formula one is in las vegas this weekend and we could get to see the drivers' championship decided in sunday's race. all max verstappen needs to be crowned champion for the fourth year in a row, is to finish ahead of briton�*s lando norris. it was however another briton, george russell, who took centre stage in qualifying. he claimed the fourth pole of his career after beating ferrari's carlos sainz by a tenth of a second. verstappen will start from fifth, right in front of norris' mclaren. i had a bit of a moment on my first run, we had to change the front wing, and i thought i wasn't going to make the flag, but so happy.

we have to do a deep diving to understand why it has been so quick because it has been a real surprise. when it comes to the debate about the best strikers in the world, well england's harry kane, has staked his claim, after becoming the fastest player to reach 50 bundesliga goals in a season. the england captain set the record in his 43rd league game for bayern as they won 3—0 at home to ausburg on friday night. seven games faster than erling haaland, the previous record holder. kane scored all three goals, which was also his seventh hat—trick of the season. the win helped bayern increase their lead at the top of the table to eight points. it wouldn't be possible without the team for sure, setting me up, creating the chances, so today it didn't look likely with a few minutes left and being 1—0 up, but you have to keep going into the final whistle, and i'm always ready and alive, no matter what minute of the game, and it was nice to score a couple towards the end and get another hat—trick. welsh rugby union is in a dark place at the moment and there could be more soul searching

in cardiff this weekend. they round off their autumn international series against world champions south africa. lose today and they stretch their record run of defeats to 12, and sign off from 2024, without a single victory. although there is pressure on their head coach warren gatland, the players say he isn't panicking. he's been fine, just go out there, trying to give us a bit more confidence not to go into our shells, make sure we play our best. india are building a big lead against australia in their second innings in perth. they picked up the last three wickets of the aussies before lunch on day two, bowling them out for 104. they have batted the tourists into a stong position ending the day unbeaten, with india 172 for the loss of no wickets. 218 runs ahead. we have some problems to solve ahead of us, we are well behind the game at this stage. that's

not to see that tomorrow can't change, test cricket ebbs and flows, and we've all been a part of a game when you've been well ahead and it can twist and turn, so we are here to work on 20 odd overs tomorrow. we've got to work out a way to navigate through a few batters before the second ball arrives and that could be our entry point back into the game. patrick reed went under the magical mark of 60 to take the lead at the hong kong 0pen. the 2018 masters champion started with five straight birdies and carded 11 on the day for a round of 59. the americanis three clear of the field at 18—under—par. i know where i stood after i made the putt on 15. i didn't tell my caddie or anything after i made the putt on 17. one more and we get 59. he said, just focus on the tee shot, so he kept me focused, i

wasn't worried about the past are focusing on the future, i was able to hit two shots. chelsea are leading leicester in the first game of the premier league. you can follow everything pre