professor david rothery. sounds fascinating, doesn't it?rn territories of a filming mission which went slightly wrong. this drone was being used to get footage of crocodiles, but one of them decided to take a bite. in case you missed it, here it is again in slow motion. there you go. amazingly, the drone kept filming, but when it was recovered, it had suffered quite a bit of damage. there is a lesson — don't get close to crocodiles. i'm on twitter. thanks very much for watching. more rain and wind on the way. it is autumn, after all, but for some of us, saturday may end up being a bit of a write—off. and in fact, over the next few days, the weather will remain very unsettled, spells of heavy rain, gales at times and even the possibility of some travel disruption. and the atlantic is looking a lot more vigorous in its weather patterns in the last few days. we're seeing low pressures forming, propelled by a powerfuljet stream. and you can see a low pressure anchored just to the northwest of the uk, another one to the south forming, and that's

bills, boy bung volcanoes, which is fascinating in itself, and it has been great to talk to you, david rothery. thank you so much for sharing some light on this unusual situation. we do appreciate it. you're welcome. a child to has been killed in oman as tropical cyclone shaheen, hits the gulf states authorities urging thousands of people to flee coastal areas and hurts to emergency shelters or flights to and from the capital. muskets have been postponed or canceled shaheen as bringing high winds. and heavy rain, while our weather presenter corelogic is here to explain what's going on, kara, thank you. hello. yes, this area of the world rarely sees these kinds of weather systems. never mind these kinds of weather conditions. and in fact, this is the 1st tropical cyclone that's going to make landfall in oman. it's currently swirling to the north of muscat. you can see the stance they're bringing the extreme wet and windy weather with it. we've already seen flash flooding ahead of it. moving in land, we're talking winds of up to 139 kilometers per hour. so pretty damaging a storm surge of up to

we're joined now by professor david rothery, who is part of the team overseeing the progress of the mission. that is a safe orbit and we hope to operate their for up to four years getting an awful lot of scientific data from a wide range of scientific data from a wide range of instruments. notjust european but a japanese spacecraft travelling with us which is why we can't do much science because we have the japanese spacecraft on my way and the propulsion unit on the other. in orbit we separate and everything can turn on and do i hope a really great job. today's pictures are a teaser for the great things to come we hope. another four years until we get the real close—ups. it is more than that, it is just before christmas 2025 we get into orbit, then we have to live it into our science orbit, so it is april 2026 when the real data will flow. this is a marathon, a day to talk about marathons. the bepi colombo is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. we look forward to speaking to you in 5.5 years! i hope they take the lens cap off! yes, somebody�*s head will be on the block if it doesn't! h