louise cullen, bbc news in downpatrick.hallow quake of magnitude 5.6 hit the remote hill district of jajarkot, which is about 500 kilometres west of kathmandu. strong tremors were felt in the capital and in indian cities including delhi. hospital officials in jajarkot said they were treating more than 40 injured people rescued from the rubble of their homes. a new foundation to help those struggling with addiction has been set up in the name of the late friends actor matthew perry. he was best known for playing chandler bing in the tv sitcom but had battled with addictions to alcohol and drugs for much of his life. he was found dead last week at the age of 54. tributes have been pouring in since his death over the last week or so and this foundation has been set up in his memory. stay with us here on bbc news, you can follow me on twitter. thanks for watching. hello there. given how wet it has been, flooding will still be a concern over the days ahead. we have had some rain around today, some heavy showers here in sussex al

in northern ireland, water pumping has started in the flooded areas of downpatrick.es down, armagh and antrim were hit by heavy rain this week. but for many businesses it could be a while until they are able to assess the damage on their premises. as our northern ireland environment correspondent, louise cullen, reports. unprecedented, apocalyptic, and now the aftermath. after two days of drier weather, it is time to push the water back. the pumps have been working away for hours here, pumping thousands of litres two kilometres away from here. the water level has receded, but it has been far from a simple operation. the complications we are encountering, obviously everyone has heard downpatrick is basically in a bowl, so there is a lot of floodwater draining down into this bowl. the water levels in the river are quite high, thankfully they are now subsiding. this is as close as this local person can get to her shop floor. my stock is just floating about. it is very hard for a family business. we have been here for 100 years almost and my grandfather started it up. it

in northern ireland, water pumping has started in the flooded areas of downpatrick.e hit by heavy rain this week. but for many businesses it could be a while until they are able to assess the damage to their premises. as our northern ireland environment correspondent, louise cullen, reports. unprecedented, apocalyptic, and now the aftermath. after two days of drier weather, it is time to push the water back. the pumps have been working away for hours here, pumping thousands of litres two kilometres away from here. the water level has receded, but it has been far from a simple operation. the complications we are encountering, obviously everyone has heard downpatrick is in a bowl, so there is a lot of floodwater draining down into the bowl. the water levels in the river are quite high, thankfully they have now subsided. this is as close as she can get to her shop floor. my stock is just floating about. it is very hard for a family business. we have been here for 100 years almost and my grandfather started it up. it is hard for everybody but we are a lovely community an

you saw those pictures of downpatrick in northern ireland.ses. the pumps behind i to homes? a lot of damage to homes. and businesses. the pumps behind me started work last night at around midnight but the floodwater has been sitting here for a couple of days and that is because the services have had to wait until the river levels dropped because they had nowhere to pipe two. they are actually removing 6000 litres of water a minute. 100 litres a second. it gives you the idea of this year scale of the flood that has happened here in downpatrick. some services have been told there is a lot of oil floating on the surface as well and that compounds things as well because it is a bit of a hazard. it has affected home heating where two—thirds of houses here are heated with all your so that has come out of houses and businesses and floating on the surface of the water. the owners will be waiting to get into their premises and trying to get an idea ofjust how much damage has actually been done. for the moment, thank you. the british actor and comedian

dozens of offices, shops and cafes are still under several feet of water in the town of downpatrick.. a man who killed a trainee solicitor as she walked home from a night out in east london last year has won an appeal to reduce the minimum term of his life sentence. jordan mcsweeney was jailed for at least 38 years for murdering and sexually assaulting zara aleena, but three appeal court judges have now reduced it to a minimum of 33 years. 0nce known as the "king of crypto", the former billionaire sam bankman—fried has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering by a court in new york. prosecutors said he stole at least $8 billion, and he now faces decades in prison. our new york business correspondent erin delmore reports. from the financial front pages to a federal prison, sam bankman—fried's fall has been as swift as his rise. until last year, he was the most prominent mogul of the crypto world. he ran the world's second—largest crypto exchange. as cryptocurrencies like bitcoin soared in value, so did his personalfortune which, at one point, totalled $26 billion. but as their

dozens of offices, shops and cafes are still under several feet of water in the town of downpatrick.rt. in italy, large areas of tuscany have also been hit by flooding, leaving six people dead and several others missing. it follows the heaviest rains to hit the region in 50 years, brought by storm ciaran. rivers have broken their banks, inundating homes, fields and an industrial area near florence. more rains have been forecast for the weekend. the bbc has been told that the sixth suspect in the racist murder of stephen lawrence over 30 years ago tried to stab a black security guard, while saying he had "killed before". the victim of the attack, in 2015, said matthew white told him there had been no consequences for, as he put it, "killing stephen". 0ur correspondent daniel de simone reports. it's britain's most notorious racist murder. 30 years ago, stephen lawrence was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus, by a gang of young white men in eltham, south london. five prime suspects became infamous. two were finallyjailed in 2012. a lead attacker with fair hair was never identified

down here in downpatrick, engineers have been looking at the scale of the problems but they think theyow because at the moment the river is still at such a high level they wouldn't be able to make any real progress. so tonight unfortunately in northern ireland, flooding is causing disruption and destruction. flooding is causing disruption and destruction-— flooding is causing disruption and destruction. , ., ., ,. , ., the covid inquiry has heard that the former health secretary matt hancock wanted to decide "who should live and who should die" if hospitals became overwhelmed. the man who led the nhs until 2021, lord simon stevens, told the hearing that he wanted to discourage the idea that a secretary of state should decide. fortunately, he said, "this horrible dilemma" never crystallised. hugh pym is here. tell us more about what simon stevens was saying. we tell us more about what simon stevens was saying.— tell us more about what simon stevens was saying. we heard in the in t ui that stevens was saying. we heard in the inquiry that in _ stevens was saying. we heard in the inquiry t

look at the scene here in what is usually the main shopping street in downpatrick.r being the burial place of saint patrick. usually a thriving town, but dozens of businesses here have been affected by the devastation which has come after heavy rainfall earlier this week. engineers from the northern ireland department of infrastructure, the local government department, has been assessing what has been happening here. they say that they don't think there will be able to start pumping and draining floodwater away from here until possibly tomorrow because local rivers are still at such a high level they say they wouldn't be able to make enough meaningful progress. all day local people here have been coming to take a look at the scene. shop owners have been trying to assess the damage to their businesses, restaurant owners, too. at the moment there are about a hundred people here, some of them hugging each other, encouraging each other and what has been a really distressing day here. in the time of portadown and county armagh also very serious situation. some homes ther

but just look at weather and sunshine, butjust look at the scale of the flooding still here in downpatricksiness are under several feet of water. offices, shops, cafes suffering incredibly severe damage. as you say, this is the result of heavy rainfall earlier in this week. engineers have been preparing to start pumping water away from here but they haven't been able to begin because simply gave nowhere to pump the water. the ground is saturated after what was, according to the met office, the october ever in the history of northern ireland, since records began, and also many rivers have overspill their banks, so they are watching the levels of those rivers and as soon as they are reduced to a certain level, then the pumping here can begin, but it's not certain exactly when that can happen. in the meantime, businesses here say they need urgent help, including financially.— here say they need urgent help, including financially. chris, thank ou. the bbc has been told that the sixth suspect in the racist murder of stephen lawrence more than 30 years ago tried to stab a black security guard in

in northern ireland, water pumping has started in the flooded areas of downpatrick.heavy rain this week. but for many businesses, it could be a while until they are able to assess the damage on their premises — as our northern ireland environment correspondent louise cullen reports. in many southern counties, it's been raining on an off for the last nine days. it's created such a democrat seems like this in sussex. muddy roads and flooded homes, like this one belonging to andrew. he says it's devastated his family's life. it's catastrophic, really. it's game over, really, for us here. yeah, we are going to get relocated through the insurance company. but yeah, what do you do is make you tell me. a number of other families what do you do is make you tell me. a number of otherfamilies have had to move out from here as the waters rise. local people tell us that when storm ciaran passed through here on wednesday and thursday, the water levels started to go down — but they now say with all this additional rain in the past 24 hours, they've started to rise yet again. nearb

and like in other areas such as downpatrick, this damage will take months to repair.of england which will see more of this as heavy rain keeps coming. louisa pilbeam, bbc news. the british actor and comedian russell brand, has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in the us state of new york. the accuser is a woman using the alias "jane doe" who claims mr brand assaulted her when she was an extra during filming of the romantic comedy "arthur" in new york thirteen years ago. a number of women have recently accused russell brand in the british media of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour, but this is the first accusation filed in court. he has denied taking part in any non—consensual sexual activity. an investigation by the times, the sunday times and channel four reported claims of sexual assault on the part of russell brand involving four women, one of whom alleged he raped her at his home in los angeles. he denies all the allegations. these and this latest allegation all relate to a period when russell brand, seen here at the premiere of his film ge

and like in other areas such as downpatrick, this damage will take months to repair. coming. louisa pilbeam, bbc news. a new foundation to help those struggling with addiction has been set up in the name of the late friends actor matthew perry. he was best known for playing chandler bing in the tv sitcom but had battled with addictions to alcohol and drugs for much of his life. he was found dead last week at the age of 54. the family of the late former italian prime minister, silvio berlusconi, are reported to have stopped the payments he'd set up for each of 20 young women who took part in his notorious "bunga bunga" parties. mr berlusconi is said to have arranged the payments as compensation. each woman received nearly $2,700 a month for more than a decade. hundreds of public swimming pools have closed since 2010, but today some of them are getting a lifeline to help stay afloat. the first £20 million of government funding is being spent to help those most at risk of closure — but campaigners say much more needs to be done. celestina olulode reports. a quick last sw

i mean, in downpatrick rivers.e're just heanng at the minute, we're just hearing that market street is heavily flooded and the water can't get away because of the tributaries to the quoile river are at a very high level. now that brings in some questions, but it also brings in questions of planning where our local councils and this just isn't in northern ireland, it's the whole way through the uk, our councils talking to one another because these rivers run through many different council areas and where councils in one area see fit to let building happen on a floodplain will of course it then swells somewhere else and comes out somewhere else. and earlier on i spoke with carla lockhart to find out what her thinking was. >> there's total devastation here in portadown. we've seen homes destroyed. we've seen businesses having to cease trading some of which are only getting back up and running today. look, this has been a long running issue. i do firmly believe we need to get better at planning, planning laws. we need

. >> the land has been so saturated that in downpatrick , saturated that in downpatrick, the river quoilebusiness that we do not know what the future holds. but the one point we want to make is that we need help . we need help from the help. we need help from the government . government. >> we need money and we need it now. >> it's a very bad situation and the council has a lot to answer for, i believe, for not looking at this . at this. >> the jobs they've been doing are very, you know , putting a are very, you know, putting a patch on the on the job and instead of doing the job right and getting the drainage and some sort of way of control , the some sort of way of control, the floods , it's not just short term floods, it's not just short term , it's a long term with more rain arriving next week, many here are understandably anxious as dougie beattie . gb news, who devastating. >> good luck with everyone sorting that out. right. you've been getting in touch on fireworks and bonfire night. alex says people with autism like myself can be sensitive to the sound and fireworks can give me mi

our ireland correspondent chris pagejoins us now from downpatrick in northern ireland. what has happened? | wednesday, the floods started is here. what has happened? i wednesday, the floods started to come _ wednesday, the floods started to come in — wednesday, the floods started to come in. just down where the traffic lights _ come in. just down where the traffic lights are _ come in. just down where the traffic lights are it — come in. just down where the traffic lights are it started to come up into saint — lights are it started to come up into saint patrick's avenue. we were told to _ into saint patrick's avenue. we were told to put _ into saint patrick's avenue. we were told to put sandbags down it will not rise — told to put sandbags down it will not rise any more and nothing will happen _ not rise any more and nothing will happen. by— not rise any more and nothing will happen. by thursday morning, the water— happen. by thursday morning, the water was — happen. by thursday morning, the water was up to the height of the sandbags — water was up to the height of the