ben hunte, bbc news. headlines coming up injust a moment but first let's get a look at the weather.of with you because if it is not going to be —— already raining it will be. by the end of the night particularly elite parts of central, southern scotland and parts of england, concedes that it will wind surface water around. travel disruption as well. it has been hammering it down this evening and turning m q been hammering it down this evening and turning m 0 wells and that is pushing its way northward and eastwards and heaviest rain later in the night, and you will notice very few from wet weather overnight and although northern ireland will turn dry and quite windy here through the night and to produce not dropping huge amount and let's focus on where that wet weather will be. it will fragment at bit in western scotland and some will seat morning sunshine but heavy to make more persistent rain in central and southern scotland. down to the eastern side of the penn nines, heaviest rain will be in northeast england, down to east midlands. less of that, it will be a few showers from no

ben hunte, bbc news. let‘s get a look at the weather with matt taylor.iven the ground is saturated in many areas get ready for some flooding. here is the big picture, these areas of cloud, the weather fronts pushing eastwards overnight. maybe one or two showers later, drying up in west wales and south—west england. but elsewhere, the rain sets in and it becomes heavier and more persistent as we go through the night. particularly southern scotland, northern england. temperature is not dropping away too much, 9— 12 degrees as we start the day. let‘s focus on those wetter areas. maybe hit and miss across scotla nd areas. maybe hit and miss across scotland by nine o‘clock, but central areas really still quite heavy. the eastern pennines fairly wet. is yorkshire, lincolnshire, parts of the is towards east breezy around those is then closed and particularly windy. a bright, sunny start towards west wales, and south—west england. it is hours for north—west wales, many western areas have a better day than today. temperatures fairly similar to today‘s values, 12—

ben hunte, bbc news.ld championship gold, saying she is a clean athlete despite her coach being banned for doping violations. the bbc‘s ade adeoyin has more. well, sifan hassan created a bit of history tonight. she became the first athlete to win the 1500 metres and the 10,000 double. it has been a difficult week for the athlete from the netherlands after she claimed that gold in the 10,000 last saturday, her coach alberto salazar was banned by the us anti—doping agency. and when i spoke to her after the semifinal, she said people have questioned her integrity, and that she had worked very hard to be here. a few days ago, the ioc president asked for all athletes associated with alberto salazar to be tested. to that, she reacted angrily when i spoke to her at track—side after the race. she said she is open to be tested every day. she said they are clean, and she said she would never do anything to tarnish her reputation. shelly—ann fraser—price of jamaica claimed her second gold medal at these games. herja

ben hunte, bbc news.ing pretty unsettled this weekend, we have a band of rain slowly pushing into the west, that‘s going to bring cloud and rain to western areas today, and tomorrow it will be stalled across eastern areas to bring a quite a lot of rainfall, in fact. this is the weather front i‘m talking about, slowly pushing in off the atlantic. so turning wetter and windier across western areas, particularly northern ireland, western scotland and around irish sea coasts. further east, it should be dry, some hazy sunshine here. best of the sun in north—east scotland and the northern isles, but it will be turning windy across many northern areas. temperature wise, around the mid teens to around 16 or 17. overnight that rain band pushes its way eastwards and grinds to a halt across the east, some heavy bursts of rain likely and the met office have yellow weather warnings for this rain across the eastern side of the country through sunday, as we could see some localised flooding. it will slowly improve for s

ben hunte, bbc news.st transgender singer to perform with the english national opera in london. she transitioned in 2014, but continues to play male characters due to her deep baritone voice. she's been speaking to our arts correspondent, david sillito. hi. my name is lucia lucas and i am a professional opera singer. she sings opera. i am not trying to be a pioneer. i am trying to see how far i can get this to go and how long i can stay in the business because i hope that people in the future won't have the difficulties that i have had. lucia lucas. it has been more than five years since she decided the time had come to be her true self. the director of the opera at the time said... "just one question — what happens to your voice?" i said it doesn't change. i've done some research on that and for better or worse it doesn't change. and so with that baritone voice she makes the journey each evening from she to he. tonight, a debut for english national opera. ladies and gentlemen, you have 15 minutes. there

ben hunte, bbc news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with ben rich.way slowly eastward through the rest of this afternoon and on into this evening. i will show you the radar picture, which shows rain over recent hours, rain spreading into many western parts. this could cause one or two spotters it works eastwards across the uk over the next 12—24 hours. sting predominantly dry and eastern areas, the best sunshine in 0rkney and shetland, rain rolling into the west with brisk winds as well, particularly for western and northern parts of scotland. through tonight, the heavy rain becomes slow moving, causing problems, localised flooding, certainly poor travelling conditions. it will dry out in western parts by the end of the night, pretty mild, 9—12 degrees. tomorrow, eastern areas could see quite a lot of rain, some problems with that, further west turning drier with some sunshine. hello this is bbc news. the headlines.

ben hunte, bbc news. don‘t forget, all of our top stories on the website.you want it. you can reach me on twitter — i‘m @ regedahmadbbc. hello. after a thoroughly wet night across many parts of the uk, there could be a lot of surface water, a lot of big puddles around if you are about to head out onto the roads on sunday morning. the greatest concern — parts of central southern scotland, northern and eastern england, where the rain will be at its heaviest and most persistent first thing. and of course, with the ground saturated, that flooding could be a little bit worse. so be prepared for some travel disruption. this is the culprit, a weather front which has been pushing its way eastwards overnight. ahead of it, some stronger winds, strong winds developing in its wake. but a lot more in the way of dry, clearer weather to the south and west later on. but let‘s focus on the rain band for the morning. it is going to be across much of scotland. heaviest and most persistent through central and eastern areas, particularly towards those eastern coasts where there

ben hunte, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather. good afternoon to you.ast for the next 2a hours, some eastern areas have had a dry start to the day, but through the afternoon and into tonight that will not last, the rain will arrive across all parts of the uk. this is how things look through the rest of the uk, rain splashing across northern ireland, the western side of scotland, further east more in the way of dry weather, some brightness, the best across the northern isles, temperatures between 12 and 17 degrees, turning breezy across northern and western scotland. through this evening and tonight, a band of heavy and persistent rain trudging its way quite slowly eastwards, big puddles, surface water and spray on the roads, poor travelling conditions, 9-12d, but roads, poor travelling conditions, 9—12d, but things are starting to dry out across the west. in due tomorrow, that rain lingers across eastern areas for a good part of the day, so much so there could be localised flooding. further west, a better chance of dry weather and perhaps some spells of

so we sent ben hunte to new york to learn some attitude. this one should be good.d me in so many ways. before i started voguing i was a less confident person than i am now. it's helped me break out of my shell and be more expressive, not be afraid to be like, boom, this is me. voguing, a dance, a culture and for many, a lifeline. 0riginally born out of the harlem renaissance in the 1920s, through time, voguing became a form of expression for a sometimes marginalised community. most voguers were lgbt people of colour and the surrogate houses and families at the centre of the subculture provided a vital support when the hiv pandemic hit in the late ‘80s. the dance poses were inspired by fashion runways and magazines, hence, the name vogue. and during balls, members of the different houses came together to compete against one another. today, lessons are popping up everywhere and i'm off to pick up some moves. hello! hey, man, how's it goin‘? good, how are you doing? good, welcome. thank you. so i got our vogue essentials class today that we're going to be doing here a

so we sent ben hunte to new york to learn some attitude. this one should be good.d me in so many ways. before i started voguing i was a less confident person than i am now. it's helped me break out of my shell and be more expressive, not be afraid to be like, boom, this is me. voguing, a dance, a culture and for many, a lifeline. 0riginally born out of the harlem renaissance in the 1920s, through time, voguing became a form of expression for a sometimes marginalised community. most voguers were lgbt people of colour and the surrogate houses and families at the centre of the subculture provided a vital support when the hiv pandemic hit in the late ‘80s. the dance poses were inspired by fashion runways and magazines, hence, the name vogue. and during balls, members of the different houses came together to compete against one another. today, lessons are popping up everywhere and i'm off to pick up some moves. hello! hey, man, how's it goin‘? good, how are you doing? good, welcome. thank you. so i got our vogue essentials class today that we're going to be doing here a

ben hunte, bbc news. coming up in a few minutes after the weather...he travel show heads to greece, as the acropolis museum unveils its newest excavation, to mark the tenth anniversary of the attraction. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello. it's looking pretty unsettled this weekend, we have a band of rain slowly pushing into the west, that's going to bring cloud and rain to western areas today, and tomorrow it will be stalled across eastern areas to bring a quite a lot of rainfall, in fact. this is the weather front i'm talking about, slowly pushing in off the atlantic. so turning wetter and windier across western areas, particularly northern ireland, western scotland and around irish sea coasts. further east, it should be dry, some hazy sunshine here. best of the sun in north—east scotland and the northern isles, but it will be turning windy across many northern areas. temperature wise, around the mid teens to around 16 or 17. overnight that rain band pushes its way eastwards and grinds to a halt across the east, some heav

gay times is now europe‘s longest running lgbt publication and ben hunte has been looking at how it‘s east london, you will find a treasure trail of queer history. one of the things we have seen within this magazine, within the first edition, is media watch. talk me through what media watch was. it was basically a look at what was being said in the national media about the lgbt community at the time. "loonies who want to send to family life." and even more relevant, "save the children sordid sex lessons." reading some of the headlines here, they aren‘t too dissimilar to some of the headlines that we actually see today. of course, predominantly targeted at what was called the gay community then, but within lgbt communities, some of these headlines being targeted towards people with a trans experience now, quite often in well—known media titles. today, the 500th edition has changed quite a bit. the magazine has diversified, and so has the business model. the magazine now really only represents a tenth of the gay times organisation. we work much more with the community in content channel

tablets can stop a person from becoming infected, but places on the trial have been restricted as ben hunteeople identified by hiv consultants who acquired the virus whilst waiting for a place on the impact trial. he says he couldn't afford to spend £30 a month buying prep privately. trying from two different clinics to get onto it, and not being able to get onto it, and then getting hiv, i was very, very angry. why is it that you weren't practising safer sex whilst waiting? i generally had regular partners, as opposed to casual ones. one slipped through the net somehow, or he's lied. the bbc has learned that the pill costs the nhs £11 a month while someone is sexually active, compared to 100 to £500 per month to treat an hiv—positive person for life. hiv professionals gathered in london one prep available to anyone in a high—risk group. nhs england are funding the drug through the trial, but it's local authorities that fund sexual health clinics. now it's available as the unbranded generic version, which is much less expensive, but the reality of creating more sexual health appointments wh

but the nhs said: ben hunt, bbc news, london.taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the moon". james gallagher reports. it's a small step for thibaut, but could this be a giant leap in paralysis? thibaut‘s arms and legs were paralysed after a fall damaged his spinal cord four years ago. but when he's strapped into this robotic suit he can use his thoughts to move again. he told me learning to walk came quite quickly, but using the exoskeleton to precisely bend and stretch his arms or rotate his wrists took much longer. so how does the exoskeleton work? well, first, thibaut has implants resting on the surface of his brain, they are reading his thoughts, his brain activity, his brain waves, and they are being beamed to a computer. now, the computer has to rapidly digest that information and transform that brain activity into instructions which are sent to the exoskeleton. from thought to movement, it takes less than a third of the second. thibaut first used his brain implants to control a computer game

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baghdadi's death is a combination of years-long hunts after he declared a caliphate in iraq and syria in 2014. cnn international correspondent bendeman is live for us in beirut. ben, explain the significance here. why is al baghdadi's death such a big deal? this is bigger than osama bin laden, according to the president. >> reporter: the difference between osama bin laden and abu bakr baghdadi ran a country, what was essentially a country, iraq and syria. it was the size of great britain and ruled more than 12 million people. that state was created very quickly. this was a man who really knew how to run a terrorist organization and turn it into, albeit, a very briefly lived terrorist state. and for him to be eliminated, certainly it does represent an important milestone in the fight against isis. however, even the pentagon's inspector general in august came out with a report that said that between syria and iraq, there are between 14,000 and 18,000 isis fighters still on the loose. isis still operates through affiliates in west africa, in libya, in egypt sinai peninsula, in afghanistan, in the philippines. it has sleeper cells i

hunt with the back story. jonathan. >> good evening. she said she told them in 2017 she was raped by music mogul ben simmons and ac callaway sexually assaulted following months reed investigated the claims and happened over legal documentation and more than a dozen corroborating witnesses but said nbc lawyers killed the story and said reed told her she had quote never been through anything like this. abrams wrote, i'm one of the many survivors that nbc silenced and witnessed how they treated top talent for trying to break a story on sexual predators. this is a much bigger issue than the cover-ups and the media is supposed to be a watchdog for abuses of power. nbc universal declined to comment and referred us instead tie statement from june 2018 that said, quote, when msnbc pursues any investigative story, our mission is always to be as thorough as we can to scrutinize sources and corroborate information before we report. anything else falls short of our journalistic standards. and reed released a statement saying abrams insisted her allegations against simmons and callaway be included in the piece and that nbc was unable to confirm significa

ben holland. then. democrats launch a new impeachment offensive after the white house refuses to cooperate. >> they know they can't won the 2020 election, so they are pursuing the insane impeachment witch hunt>> chris: we will ask our sunday panel about the latest of elements and where prospects for impeachment stand now. and our "power player of the week," an exiled journalist fighting for women's rights back in her homeland. >> i had two options. to stay in iran and keep silent or leave iran and be loud. >> chris: all right now now on "fox news sunday." ♪ >> chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. there are now reports turkish-backed militias are committing atrocities against the kurds as part of the turkish invasion of northern syria. eyewitnesses backed up by videos say militias are executing kurdish fighters and civilians and there is also evidence the turks are hitting prisons holding thousands of isis fighters allowing some to escape. in a moment, we will talk with the secretary of defense, mark esper. but first, let's get the latest from steve harrigan, who is live inside syria. steve. >> chris, reports of those possible atrocities are spreading like wildfire here across

now the hunt is on for the traffickers who promised the victims a life in the uk but locked them in a sealed shipping container and doomed them to a cold, terrible death. beng like this could happen near their homes and businesses but some of them have told us they are not entirely surprised. they come up, they can't speak english, they hand you a phone, you speak to someone on the other end of the home and they ask if they can be taken to an address. it is normally around london. i've seen six people get out of a lorry in the same location. my best friend has seen people going out of a lorry, scattering in all directions. everybody has had experience that i know, especially in the area, and it seems funny no one seems to care about it. so, this morning, one man remains in police custody in essex, being questioned. those raids ben was describing a northern ireland overnight. this investigation is going to be long and complex and it cove rs going to be long and complex and it covers potentially an entire route, an entire chain of potential incidents. police in belgium are trying to establish how long that container had been in belgium before it crossed the

‘gay times‘ is now europe‘s longest running lgbt publication and ben hunte has been looking at how its ago as a monthly voice for gaia this. here in the national lgbt archives you will find a treasure trove of queer history. almost half a century later, some of the pages still feel relevant today. one of the things we have seen within this first edition is media watch. can you tell me what that was? it was a look at what was being said in the national media about the lg bt said in the national media about the lgbt community at the time. loonies who want to censor family life. even more relevant, save the children from sad sordid sex lessons. these headlines are not too dissimilar to what we still see today. predominantly targeted at what was called the gay community then but some of these headlines were being targeted towards those of trans— experience these days. today, the 500th edition has changed quite a bit. the magazine has diversified and so has the business model. the magazine only represents a 10th of the organisation now. we work much more with the community on social platfo