live from london. this is bbc news: storm eowyn continues to better ireland and the uk — bringing a record gust of 114mph. almost a million are without power across the republic and northern ireland — with people urged to stay at home. donald trump visits north carolina and california — hit by wildfires and floods. we'll get the latest from our correspondent. and a new world record — we hearfrom german engineer rudiger koch who spent four months living underwater. hello, i'm matthew amroliwala. storm eowyn has brought potentially �*life threatening' winds to ireland

and the uk — with the loss of power and services and the closure of schools, rail, ferries, roads and transport hubs. millions have been urged to stay at home, as 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 are closed in these areas. and as you can see from this map, it's a giant storm where coastal areas could see winds of more than ioomph. an amber weather warning is in place, for the rest of scotland, northern england and north wales. in a moment i'll talk to david wallace lockhart in glasgow. but first, this report from chris page. after gathering force over the sea, storm eowyn hit ireland with its full fierceness. early this morning, winds which were already strong, turned savage.

at galway aquarium, the gusts pushed flood water into the car park. further north, the town of westport in county mayo took its share of the battering. looking out to sea, the winds are at their maximum strength, and it's obviously too dangerous to go outside into a storm of that ferocity, so we're sheltering in a tunnel. the west coast of ireland is particularly exposed to storms rolling in across the atlantic ocean. there have been plenty of them over the years, but people in westport are saying today they've never seen anything as bad as storm eowyn. today's been a struggle for anyone who's had to go out. roads are dangerous with thousands of trees down. public transport is off. airports are open, but hundreds of flights have been cancelled. we are expecting flight operations to return to normal schedule by mid—afternoon, but that's weather permitting. so it's important that passengers, before they come out to the airport, continue

to check with their airlines just to get the latest up to date information on theirflight. for the first time, a red weather warning has been issued across the whole island of ireland. that means on both sides of the irish border all schools are closed. many businesses are allowing staff to work from home. the emergency services say the vast majority of people are staying inside. we're really thankful that the public have taken that public safety advice about trying to stay at home and reduce their travel, so we'll continue to reiterate that advice around, you know, don't travel unless you absolutely need to. pictures like these show what a storm of this magnitude can do. in county tyrone in northern ireland, farms and houses have suffered damage. and in county down, this leisure centre in bangor has taken a hit from the extreme gales. after a morning of disruption, the scale of the destruction will only become clear after storm eowyn has blown through.

chris page, bbc news. joining me shortly is ben schofield in manchester but first david wallace lockhart in scotland. it lockha rt in scotland. it lockhart in scotland. looks pretty rough where you are? it looks pretty rough where you are? , ,., ., ., are? yes, in south lanarkshire, not1 are? yes, in south lanarkshire, not 1 million — are? yes, in south lanarkshire, not1 million miles _ are? yes, in south lanarkshire, not 1 million miles from - are? yes, in south lanarkshire, not1 million miles from here, l noti million miles from here, we have had winds of over 100 mph recorded, and we are actually shielded by quite a big building where we are standing, but a few people, one got knocked over by the wind, and a hat was blown off and it went straight into the river clyde, which is more like the sea today. this particular bridge over the clyde, it has plastic sheets as part of the roofing and we have watched as some of them have actually been

ripped off, so that gives you a sense of the damage and the great strength of wind we are seeing. there are no trains today across scotland and we are not actually going to have trains until at least midday tomorrow, even though the red warning is due to end at five o'clock. massive disruption to flights from airports and to the ferry services in scotland. it feels as though people have really paid attention to the stay—at—home message that has come from the authorities, people getting one of those emergency alerts on their phone, many people getting that yesterday evening, telling them only to travel if it is absolutely necessary. there has been widespread disruption with trees falling onto roads and power cuts in parts of scotland as well. it is stressing why

this is one of those red warnings that comes with the risk to life warning that comes with it because these are pretty strong winds. glasgow is used to the wind but not on a level like this.— level like this. david, thanks forjoining — level like this. david, thanks forjoining us. _ level like this. david, thanks forjoining us. ben _ level like this. david, thanks forjoining us. ben schofield| forjoining us. ben schofield is in manchester. what is it like where you are? welcome to a rather sunny — like where you are? welcome to a rather sunny but _ like where you are? welcome to a rather sunny but very - a rather sunny but very blustery west yorkshire and we are over the m62 not far from huddersfield, and a lovely beauty spot is just over to my left. the traffic is flowing rather well in this part of the world, it heads off to manchester in that direction and it becomes the highest motorway in england as it travels west. there are parts of the major road network that are closed today, the humber bridge and the river severn

crossing, closed to high sided vehicles at least, and the a 66 which links scotch corner with carlisle and penrith is closed to all traffic today, notjust high sided vehicles, that was from midnight overnight. you can see why because there are at least four reports of overturned lorries on the road today, one of which was on the a 19 in county durham, and another one on the m6 near carlisle and two i have seen reported by highways england, one near darlington and another near durham. there is real jeopardy out on the roads although drivers here seem to be taking it safely as possible. the advice is to slow down in case of debris to avoid any problems there and of course to have both hands on the will encased of gusts like

what we are experiencing at the moment. . ., ., , moment. thanks for “oining us. hamas have t moment. thanks forjoining us. hamas have released _ moment. thanks forjoining us. hamas have released the - moment. thanks forjoining us. | hamas have released the names of the four hostages who will be released tomorrow, the next stage of the hostage release and prisoner swap programme. we can go to our correspondent who is waiting to tell us more of the details. what have we learned? in the details. what have we learned?— learned? in the last few minutes. _ learned? in the last few minutes, hamas - learned? in the last few minutes, hamas have i learned? in the last few- minutes, hamas have made this announcement, giving the names of the four hostages who will be released tomorrow. as we expected, they are four women and they are members of the idf, and i can give you the names. the first soldier to be released tomorrow is karina, and the second is danielle. the

third is nama on the fourth hostage is liri. for their families it is a huge moment of relief, but what happens now in the next 2a hours is crucial. we saw what happened last week with the first round of hostages being released but these are the four names and what will happen is that hamas will hand over the women to the red cross and they will then deliver them to idf forces that remain in the gaza strip. that is what will happen and we anticipate it will take place tomorrow. but of course just like we saw last weekend, there might be some delays in this process stop this is what we are hearing from hamas, these are hearing from hamas, these are the four names they have just released. we are the four names they have

just released.— are the four names they have just released. we wait for any israel reaction. _ just released. we wait for any israel reaction. so _ just released. we wait for any israel reaction. so what - just released. we wait for any israel reaction. so what are l just released. we wait for any| israel reaction. so what are we likely to see over the weekend in terms of the exchange. the first art in terms of the exchange. the first part is — in terms of the exchange. the first part is the _ in terms of the exchange. the first part is the four— in terms of the exchange. tue: first part is the four women being released and being brought back to israel to their families, and if you hours later the choreography will be that the next tranche of prisoners in israeli jails, palestinian prisoners, and worth stressing that last week there were 90 women and children who were released, but what we are hearing is now that people will be released from prison are people serving much more serious offences, some having been convicted of murder and serving 15 years, for example, and 80 is the number we have heard talked about, but we have heard talked about, but we have heard talked about, but we have to wait and see if that is accurate. so first of all

the israeli hostages will be released and then the palestinian prisoners will be released and the hope is the process will continue during the initial six weeks of the deal and the fighting does not start again. this is what we expect to take place over this weekend. expect to take place over this weekend-— weekend. aside from those developments, _ weekend. aside from those developments, we - weekend. aside from those developments, we will- weekend. aside from those | developments, we will keep weekend. aside from those i developments, we will keep a close eye on any updates, and in terms of the situation, of the ceasefire deal with lebanon, what is the latest? this is a second ceasefire agreement and we are looking at this because it was at the end of november that this truce was reached between israel and hezbollah, the iran backed militant group, and as part of this ceasefire deal at the end of november it was stipulated that after 60 days, the israeli troops would all withdraw from southern lebanon. about six weeks before the truce was signed, the israelis went in as

part of the ground incursion, more than a million people in lebanon were displaced as a result but the deal was done and this 60 day deadline comes up and this 60 day deadline comes up this weekend. the office of the israeli prime minister, netanyahu, basically says the troops will remain in southern lebanon, and the israelis are blaming the lebanese state saying the conditions of the deal have not been met, and they say at this point they will miss the deadline and in the days to come they will continue to liaise with the trump administration, about what will happen next. crucial to all of this is the response from hezbollah because previously they have said any missing of the deadline is completely unacceptable so we don't know what hezbollah will don't know what hezbollah will do next and of course they are hugely weakened by the israeli operations that took place but we don't know where this leaves

the ceasefire, that until now has remained intact.- has remained intact. nick in jerusalem. _ has remained intact. nick in jerusalem, thanks - has remained intact. nick in jerusalem, thanks for- has remained intact. nick in | jerusalem, thanks forjoining jerusalem, thanks for joining us. jerusalem, thanks forjoining us. the crucial new details that have just come from hamas, it is worth repeating the breaking development, the four hostages who will be released will be karina, danielle, nama and liri. that hasjust will be karina, danielle, nama and liri. that has just been released in the last few minutes and we will bring reaction as that comes in. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

now to the us — the end of an extraordinary week — which has seen the inaugeration of donald trump for his second term — a tsunnami of executive orders — and most recently the declassification jfk assasination files.

later today, president trump will be visiting north carolina and california — to see the aftermath of floods and wildfires. let's speak to caitriona perry who's in washington for us now. scientists point to global warming and say we will see more of the extreme weather events whether it is flooding or wildfires, and that is interesting given his position on global warming.— interesting given his position on global warming. on globalwarming. indeed, one ofthe on globalwarming. indeed, one of the first— on globalwarming. indeed, one of the first things _ on globalwarming. indeed, one of the first things he _ on globalwarming. indeed, one of the first things he did - on globalwarming. indeed, one of the first things he did on - of the first things he did on monday was to bring the us out of the paris climate accord again, and he has already rowed back on a number of environmental regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in this country and to protect other elements of the environment. he is very set on reversing that, putting america first, tapping the natural resources that are in

this country, and we will probably hear that later today. he is on his way to north carolina and he will go to asheville in the west of the state which was really badly impacted by hurricane helene, huge areas were washed away, and then he will go to california where ten wildfires are still burning around the los angeles area and he will do a tour of the pacific palisades and meet some of those affected as he will also in