this is bbc news, the headlines... collapsed walls and trees on the railway — storm eowyn continues to batter ireland and the uk, bringing record gusts of 114mph. we hearfrom one of the youngest suivivors from the auschwitz concentration camp in poland, as the 80th anniversary of its liberation approaches. 52 years injail for the killer of three primary schoolgirls from southport. the local mp says the sentence is "too lenient." after weeks of backstabbing, deceit and round tables, the traitors season three comes to an end tonight. let's return to storm eowyn which is bringing potential life threatening winds to ireland and the uk.

a rare red warning for northern ireland and the scottish central belt, which means a danger to life is now in place. many schools and large parts of the transport network will be closed in these areas. more than 700,000 homes and businesses in the republic of ireland and 93,000 in northern ireland are without power with me is our weather presenter ben rich. a red weather warning, which is rare? , . , , ., rare? yes, and this is an extremely _ rare? yes, and this is an extremely powerful - rare? yes, and this is an i extremely powerful storm, unusually powerful. we have not seen one like this for quite some time. the red warning is the highest category warning the highest category warning the met office will issue. we can look at some of the weather graphics, covering northern ireland and scotland. the met office issues weather warnings 0ffice issues weather warnings on a kind of impact scale, when theyissue on a kind of impact scale, when they issue a red warning it means there is a very high likelihood of the very highest impact, so a danger to life.

does that mean the storm itself is the problem, or is it the conditions it is coming into that have gone before rates? there is an assessment is made of the conditions before too but actually i think this job isjust so big but actually i think this job is just so big that the storm itself is causing the impact. it is northern ireland, south—western and central parts of scotland, the central belt of scotland, the central belt of scotland, the central belt of scotland looks like it could turn very nasty indeed to the afternoon, wind gusts widely to 80 or 90 mph but 100 mph ransom exposed coasts and hills, so regardless of the conditions in the first place a storm like that will cause major impact. there is a much broader and the weather warning covering really the northern half of the uk, some very strong, destructively strong winds in this area and there are weather warnings covering the whole of the uk not only for the wind strength but also rain and snow in the north. but it is the power of

the storm, this is how it has developed on the satellite picture, developing from the big stripe of cloud, you can see a book appearing and the storm deepened very rapidly, the area of low pressure deepened by 50 millibars in 2a hours. there is a term explosive cyclogenesis, a weather bomb, you might have heard that use, that would need a drop of 2a millibars in the centre of the low, we have more than double back. notice that hoop of cloud pointing across northern ireland, south—west scotland, there is some suggestion that in that area we have a sting jet which is why very, very strong winds from high in the atmosphere to low levels and that may be responsible for the strength of the wins, wind gust of 114 mph on the west coast of the republic of ireland —— responsible for the strength of the wins. that is a record wind gust for the republic of

ireland and after the wind gust was recorded we did not get any further measurement so it may be that the measuring equipment was not able to deal with that. plenty of other gusts in the uk not too far behind. £1 plenty of other gusts in the uk not too far behind.— not too far behind. q rig is often on — not too far behind. q rig is often on the _ not too far behind. q rig is often on the list. - often on the list. cyclogenesis, sting jet, it is always in education listening to you. —— capel curig is always on the list. how long will it last?— always on the list. how long will it last? we have 80, 90, ma be will it last? we have 80, 90, maybe 100 — will it last? we have 80, 90, maybe 100 mph _ will it last? we have 80, 90, maybe 100 mph gusts - will it last? we have 80, 90, maybe 100 mph gusts in - will it last? we have 80, 90, maybe 100 mph gusts in the | maybe 100 mph gusts in the north of northern ireland and that it transfers into central and southern parts of scotland, the west coast of south—west scotland will turn extremely windy but there could be impacted in places like glasgow and edinburgh, strongest winds things get better, quieter weather for a time over ti winds push through tonight and they and edinburgh, strongest winds push through tonight and they stick around northern scotland stick around northern scotland tomorrow. in terms of when weather for a time over the tomorrow. in terms of when things get better, quieter things get better, quieter

weather for things get better, quieter weather for things get better, quieter weatherfor a time over weatherfor a time over things get better, quieter things get better, quieter weather for a time over the weekend but some others weather for a time over the wee more jut some others weather for a time over the wee more wind )me others weather for a time over the wee more wind and others weather for a time over the wee more wind and rain rs weather for a time over the wee more wind and rain through see more wind and rain through sunday and into monday. ben ridge, thank you very much. there are mounting calls for a change to the law this morning, after a teenager who killed three young girls at a southport dance class, avoided a whole life sentence because he was nine days too young. axel rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack, will instead spend a minimum of 52 years behind bars. the families of the victims gave statements in court, a statement read out on behalf of alice's mum said "alice was our purpose for living. so what do we do now? the mother of seven—year—old elsie dot stancombe described how she had lost her "best friend" when her daughter was murdered. she said "we will not let you know anything about her because you don't deserve to know the extraordinary person she was."

while the families will always remember the events that unfolded on the 29th ofjuly, so too will people who live in southport. rogerjohnson went back to the town this week. nothing demonstrated the unity of this community better than the flowers which are filled the pavements around the street cordon last summer. mike ainscough tended to thousands of them outside his home. i had to do something for it. i couldn't just see the flowers standing against the wall, i started putting them in buckets and i ended up with 300 buckets outside. add to that 150 pot plants which eventually went to the botanic gardens and 15 sacks of cuddly toys which were brought indoors every night to stop them from getting damp. every toy cuddled another toy, bonding together. and when the riots flared, the people of

southport said "not in our name and came together again." with what has happened and the riots the next day that is not what southport wants and i think the message is very clear in southport that we don't want to be divided. there are no signs of last summer's violence on the town's mosque today, but the damage caused by last summer's attacks will take longer to fade. there has been a quiet dignity within southport when you think about everything that has happened, the scale of the trauma, and we have seen people just an exceptional acts of kindness for each other. on monday, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz—birkenau. 0pened by the nazis in occupied poland in 1940 as a concentration and labour camp, it ulimately became the most notorious extermination camp. more than a million people were murdered there, the majority of them jews. the 27th january also marks holocaust memorial day to remember the six million jews killed during the second world war.

lucy hockings has been speaking to tova friedman — and american author and therapist, and one of the youngest auschwitz survivors. tova survived the german extermination camp at the age ofjust six years old. originally from poland, she moved to the us with her parents. lucy started by asking tova about her feelings as the 80th anniversary approaches. what i want the world to do is to please remember. remember us. and let it be a lesson to the world — what can happen if we are not careful, and how we can easily destroy each other if we don't stop this horrible, terrible...fury that is around the world right now. so i want the world to remember us, and to learn from it.

so many of us struggle to remember things from when we were small. how much do you remember of your time there? i remember an awful lot because, as i mentioned before, i think that my mother would tell me. "yes," she said, "that smoke. "yes, burning bodies." she never covered up anything. and she said, "yes, those dogs, those german shepherds — "they are trained to kill, but only if you run, "so you are not going to run. "you're going to stand very... "you're going to stand very still." she taught me survival skills. that is an incredible gift, tova — those survival skills that your mother gave you, — but there were other things that happened in auschwitz that meant you survived when others didn't. can you tell us your story from then? well, at one time, i was beaten terribly because i couldn't stand still at roll call.

these roll calls were three hours, four hours. i was five and a half — i wasn't even six — and i was beaten by this gestapo — a woman, in fact — because she didn't like that i was moving around and not standing still. and i remember my mother's eyes said to me, "hold on. "don't cry." and she said something else years — or maybe months — earlier. "don't have eye contact." so i remember as this woman was beating me, i did not look at her eyes. i looked at her forehead. i didn't make a sound. because my mother had once told me, "the more "you show that they hurt you, the more pleasure they get." that was the... that was the mantra in auschwitz. don't show... don't give them the satisfaction. suffer in silence.

beatings, hunger, freezing weather, being barefoot — that's a survival skill. don't let them know who you are. eye contact is something that people recognise. don't look into anybody�*s eyes. that is an incredible survival skill for such a little girl, as well, to have learned, and being taught by your mother. but what about... ? i understand that there was a trip for you to the gas extermination chamber, and itjust happened to be that one day that it malfunctioned. we really don't know what happened because we don't have the exact date. but i remember going there and i remember... i thought to myself, "why are people unhappy?" because i and my whole group —

my whole barrack of children — were going to the gas chamber together. we were like... we were in pairs. and when we got there and we were undressed... you know, one of the ways that they dehumanise us is undressed us. people without clothing have much less identity. we had no hair, no clothes, tattooed. and here we stood, waiting for the shower door to open. we knew what it was. everybody knew. except they gave us some kind of a small towel and said, "ok, here are your... "make sure you find your clothes when you come out." did we...?

were we going to come out? i don't know. it's very hard to contemplate your own death. but i remember standing there, shivering, very, very hungry. and yet, i was waiting for the door to open so we could go in because i thought, that's... that's life. that's how it is. tova friedman. we will be marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz over the coming days. and on monday 27th january, on holocaust memorial day, lucy hockings will be presenting from auschwitz where survivors and world leaders will come together for day of commemorations. the children's charity barnardo's has opened its archives to a camera crew for the first time to reveal the history of fostering in the uk. the charity, which has run fostering services since the victorian era, hopes sharing the historic images will highlight the current shorage of carers,

and encourage more people to come forward. 0ur reporter tim muffett went to take a look. so this is the barnardo's archive. the records of the children who have been in our care. it's the records for about half a million children. we really have a collection that shows, really, social welfare throughout the last 150 years. when thomas barnardo moved from dublin to london in 1866, cholera had left thousands of children orphaned in the city. so impactful... we've been given rare access to the archives of the charity he set up, which still bears his name. here we have the story of william crook. he's aged 16 and four foot ten,

which gives you an indication of malnutrition that was happening in the area of east london. you also get william's own voice in a statement about why he was coming into the charity's care, and about the help that he might have needed. why is that unusual? it's just actually very unusual for us to have the voice of the children in the victorian period. now, peter, what would you like santa claus to bring you? i would like santa claus| to bring me my mother. this footage is from 1933. as well as setting up residential homes for children, barnardo also played a key role in the concept of fostering or boarding out, as it was first known, which began in 1886. so that was really placing children in the community with families that would be able to provide them with care. he called it a hopeful experiment. within years, it had really started to flourish, which carries right through to our work today. oh, how are you, are you all right? 0h, pretty good. nice to see you, you 0k?

0wen is one of more than 40 children fostered by charles and diane hubbard. there's a shortage of foster carers, so we looked into it, went through the process, went to all the meetings and everything. and we decided we could do it, didn't we? yeah. she genuinely made it feel like i was part of a family. she wouldn't treat me any different than she would to her own son. so it was like, when you're in that environment, not only helps you as a person do everything, but it makes you feel so much more comfortable and you don't realise you're in care. you don't realise you're with a foster family. it's one in1 million, isn't it? it's amazing. thanks. thank you. wow, that's amazing to hear. he's only saying all. that because we still give him food parcels! charles and diane have recently been awarded an mbe for their services to fostering. very proud. because we made a difference to children's lives, haven't we? yeah. when they've come to stay with us, yeah. it's amazing.

charles, diane and owen have been invited to barnardo's to see the charity's archives themselves. if you think about it, it's lovely, isn't it? you're remembering people from the past. given that you've lived in foster care, do you feel some kind of connection? yeah. it's nice, you know. being alone isn't. you'd like to think that somewhere up there, they'll be looking down and happy that someone's finally reading about them, what they went through, how they looked, so they can get their story to other people to help other kids. my parents didn't keep me, couldn't keep me, didn't want to keep me. abandoned as a baby, jean—shefali was just one month old when she was moved into a barnardo's home. two years later, she was placed with a foster family who cared for her until she was 17. just used to say i'm anglo—indian. outside of the family unit, people used to say to me,

you know, "where do you come from?" 0r "go back to your own country." it was at a time in the '50s when there was a lot of prejudice. and my foster mother, really, she didn't know quite how to handle it. i didn't have a narrative of my family, and i didn't have a narrative of how come i was fostered. anyone who's been cared for or fostered through barnardo's can access files the charity has on them, as can their descendants. in some places, it was quite hard to read. it told me about who my parents were. it told me their names, i actually had a name. these records mean so much to so many of us, actually finding out the truth, even if i didn't like some of those truths. making sure that cultural identity is respected and cared for. jean—shefali is now an ambassador for barnardo's, and offers advice on fostering or adopting children from different cultural backgrounds.

barnardo's, you know, have improved in that area greatly. becoming a foster carer is a big decision. placements don't always work out. but the shortage of volunteers is of huge concern to many. it means that, just like 150 years ago, too many children today are missing out on a loving home. tim muffett, bbc news. the 0scars nominations are out, with the brutalist being one of this year's most nominated films with ten nods including best film, and best actor for adrien brody. he's hoping for a second academy award after winning in 2003 for the pianist. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. post—war america, and hungarian immigrant laszlo is trying to rebuild his life through his work as an architect. speaking rather appropriately,

surrounded by the brutalist buildings of london's barbican centre, adrien brody explains how the role has a personal right —— resonance. it's an opportunity for me to honour my ancestral struggles — my mother and my grandparents�* hardships and loss in fleeing hungary in the �*50s and the details and hardships that they experienced that very much parallel the lived experience of my character. feel free to call me elizabeth. felicityjones plays his wife but says it can be a struggle finding female parts like this where the character is independent and intelligent. where? oxford — to study english. i mean, i find... i've got to find someone who has some kind of, um, spunk or, you know, has some fight in them — some sense of defiance is so key. so when i read the script,

it was an absolute no—brainer. they do not want us here. who do you mean? the people here. they do not want us here. the relationships in the film might be intimate and personal, but they're set against a backdrop that is epic in so many ways — not least the film's length. it clocks in at over 3.5 hours. are audiences potentially going to be put off by something of this immense length? for me, i think the length of a movie is similar to the length of a book. you know, a double album, you know, painting with a big canvas. and at the end of the day, especially because the film has an intermission, you know, it's only 100 minutes on each side, so it's not so bad. the film gathered ten 0scar nominations, including a best actor nod for adrien brody. even before they were announced, brody said how thankful he was for the recognition the film has gained. i did not realise these images were still available, much less of any consequence.

i'm just really grateful and, um, i'm very appreciative of having had a chance to flourish in a work that i've dedicated a life towards. when that is received with respect and appreciation, it's very rewarding. in just over a month's time, adrien brody will find out whether he's won a second best actor oscar and whether the film has won best picture. lizo mzimba, bbc news. after weeks of backstabbing, deceit and round tables, bbc 0ne's the traitors series three comes to an end tonight. host claudia winkleman welcomes a group of strangers to play the ultimate murder mystery game, in the hope of winning up to £120,000. the show has gripped the nation as 22 contestants arrive at a scottish castle

as faithfuls eventually find out their fate in the game and whether they'd be able detect the traitors amongst the group and banish them. the programme has won a host of awards including at the bafta tv awards in 2023. let's speak to marc pos in den bosch in the netherlands. he is the co—creator of the original format of the traitors, which is based on his dutch show de verraders. ifi if i had said that properly, i probably haven't, but marc can tell me! he came up with this format alongsidejasper hoogendoorn. and after many years of struggling to get it to air, he succeeded, and it has gone on to become a global success. welcome to bbc news and forgive my terrible dutch pronunciation. where did the idea come from full the traitors?—

idea come from full the traitors? ., ~ , ., ::' traitors? thank you. in 20151 read a traitors? thank you. in 2015| read a book— traitors? thank you. in 2015| read a book which _ traitors? thank you. in 2015| read a book which is - traitors? thank you. in 2015| read a book which is a - traitors? thank you. in 2015| read a book which is a real i read a book which is a real dutch history story about a mutiny on a ship, and at the end of that real story people slaughtered... there was a murder party, everybody was almost murdered and a few left because they did not know at mutiny who was a loyal, all faithful, or who was a mutiny. so i thought how does this behaviour look like, not the murdering itself, but how does it look like when people don't trust each other and can't trust each other and can't trust anybody because it is something what we humans need to have, you always need to trust someone. from that vision i had this plan, first it was the working title the mutiny is because i envisage it on a ship, but that was not

producible, but then i thought the traitors in a castle would be a better idea.— be a better idea. people absolutely _ be a better idea. people absolutely love - be a better idea. people absolutely love it, - be a better idea. people absolutely love it, but i be a better idea. people i absolutely love it, but how difficult was it to get it produced in the first place? not only produced but to get it to have a broadcaster, to get somebody to buy it. in the first years we couldn't sell it. mostly the commissioners said to us, if you know who the traitors are, why is it fun to watch? that is my vision, as a viewer, how does treason look like? it was a difficult sell, but then we sold it and it was immediately a hit in the uk. in the first year we were broadcasting it there was the interest of the uk and the usa

too so that was amazing. haw too so that was amazing. how surprised _ too so that was amazing. how surprised are _ too so that was amazing. how surprised are you _ too so that was amazing. how surprised are you that - too so that was amazing. how surprised are you that it - too so that was amazing. how surprised are you that it took off given how difficult it was to get broadcasters interested? sometimes you have to believe in something and be stubborn. every year i came to the same commissioners in my country, not again, the traitors! yes, but i enhanced it, it took off and for me as a format and for us in our team it was kind of a fairy tale. there is no science to creating a world phenomenon. you have clearly done it and i am glad to see you are reaping the rewards of success. marc pos, creator of the traitors, thank you very much for your time. let's quickly take you out and about to look at the impact of storm eowyn. this is a small

town on the coast of anglesey not far from holyhead where you can see the impact this incredibly ferocious storm system is already having. a reminder that the rare red weather warning is now in effect across that swathes of ireland, northern ireland and the central belt of scotland. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith—lucas storm eowyn is moving its way in from the west and it's going to bring a very windy day wherever you are today, especially so across northern parts of the uk. various warnings in force, including two red warnings from the met office across parts of northern ireland, central and southern scotland. also red warnings for the isle of man, too. here is this area of low pressure associated with the storm system — it's been deepening rapidly. lots of isobars, particularly on the southern edge of that area of low pressure, so the strongest winds tracking across the republic of ireland, northern ireland, into central and southern scotland — it's here that we've got the red warnings in force. widespread gusts —

80mph, 90mph, we could see 100mph or more. in fact, we've already had a 114mph gust in the republic of ireland. but more widely, away from the red warnings, also amber warnings — they last longer. there could be gusts over the hills and around the coasts of 80mph or 90mph, so severe disruption likely right across the northern half of the uk. for england and wales, after the morning's rain clears away towards the east, we're left with sunshine, but still windy conditions here — gusts of 40mph, 50mph widely. more than that over higher ground. still windy but not quite as windy as this morning across northern ireland. 40mph to perhaps 80mph for many of us — this is the gusts of wind we're likely to see. now that is in relative shelter — in exposure, they will be stronger than that. it will not be warm, with temperatures around 6—9 degrees when you add on the wind chill. heavy rain also across parts of scotland lasting through to the evening. snowfall over higher ground — could be 25 centimetres, in fact. blizzard conditions for a time across parts of scotland. 0vernight tonight, some wet weather across parts

of southern england, and a cold night with temperatures falling to freezing or a bit below that, we are likely to see some icy stretches taking us through to saturday morning. saturday thankfully a little quieter, the centre of storm eowyn has moved off to the north—east by this stage, still a bit of rain across parts of south—east england which should clear through the day. gales still expected across parts of northern and western scotland, perhaps first thing for northern ireland, too, but for most thankfully a much quieter and less windy day. more rain in the west later on, and feeling chilly — only around 6 or 7 degrees. more outbreaks of rain on the way for sunday, but thankfully the winds will not be as strong and as disruptive and dangerous as they are out there today.

live from london, this is bbc news. storm eowyn continues to batter ireland and the uk, bringing a record gust of 114mph. irish water has urged its customers to conserve water. a red "danger to life" warning is in force across much of ireland, northern ireland, the isle of man, and parts of scotland, with flood alerts in many parts of the uk. the in many parts of the uk. republic of ireland over 700,000 the republic of ireland over 700,000 people without power. the figure 7