in mumbai, though, bhoomi was starting to rebuild hers. hello there.ake the headlines over the next few days. we have another named storm following on from storm babet. this time it's ciaran, expected to arrive wednesday night into thursday. yes, damaging gusts of winds, but more importantly, widespread heavy rain falling on already saturated ground. that could cause some issues. before that, though, we've got an amber weather warning that remains in force until 9:00 this morning. we're likely to see this relentless feed of wet weather, with that easterly winds. so a further 70—100 millimetres of rainfall where we've already seen some flooding. so there could be some further issues this morning. we'll also see some wet weather as well spilling across parts of north west england, down through lincolnshire, east midlands, over into the london area. south of that slightly brighter skies for a time, but by the end of the afternoon, more wet weather starting to push into the south west where we had flooding at the weekend. scotland drier with some sunshine

in mumbai, though, bhoomi was starting to rebuild hers. hello there.thanks to a ridge of high pressure. we've had some sunshine, chilly nights, mind you, with some frost and fairly cool days. tuesday, the last of this settled, chilly weather, because by wednesday onwards, we start to see low pressure taking over, bringing gales, heavy rain, but also milder air too. now, this area of low pressure has been named storm babette by the met office. that's going to continue to push northwards, affects our shores wednesday, thursday, merges with a larger area of low pressure, and that area of low pressure itself will affect us for the end of the week and into the weekend. so rainfall totals really mounting up across the board, but particularly so across more northern and eastern parts of the country. and we do have some concerns for eastern scotland, which could see heavy and persistent rain throughout this week, which could lead to localised flooding. of course, the ground is pretty saturated here as well. however, for tuesday, it's a fine day. chilly start t

in mumbai, though, bhoomi was starting to rebuild hers.tory, head to the action line at the website below. hello. a big change in the feel of the weather this weekend. it's been unseasonably mild and that mild weather has brought quite a bit of rain during the day. on friday, it brought half a month of rain to places like santon downham but already, the changes were with us further north, and that's all courtesy of the wind direction. now, that rain, having cleared away, has allowed this blast of north—westerly winds to sweep southwards. now, really tightly packed isobars mean we've got severe gales in some northern parts of scotland but it's the wind direction coming down from the arctic that will affect all parts this weekend and make it feel much colder — even colder because of the wind chill, which is bringing through wintry showers across the hills, notjust for scotland, perhaps the sperrin and antrim mountains and into cumbria eryri as well, snowdonia, so a much colder night. some frost to hit across north east england and the glens

in mumbai, bhoomi is starting to rebuild her life. special bbc investigation are available on the bbc news website. in new york, the trial of the ftx crypto exchange founder sam bankman—fried is under way. he has pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of ftx, the now—bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange he ran. 0n the witness stand today is a key member of his inner circle, caroline ellison, who is continuing her testimony from yesterday. 0ur north america business correspondent erin delmore was at the court and joins us now. tell us more about who caroline is and what the testimony was about. caroline ellison is the star witness for the prosecution. this was reflected yesterday in the level of excitement at the court in an absolutely packed cortez. she is the former ceo of a crypto hedge fund founded by sam bankman—fried and was personally close with the defendant. they dated off and on for a number of years and even live together in a $30 million penthouse in the bahamas with executives from both comp