jean mackenzie in seoulj much. jean mackenzie in seoul for us. the middle east. i'll see you in a moment. hello there. well, storm babet continues to push northwards across the uk. its impacts are likely to be felt for much of the rest of the week. in fact, the met office has issued its highest level of alert. it's a rare red warning in force for rain, valid from 6:00 on thursday evening right through until midday on friday. it's for northeastern areas of scotland, parts of angus and southern aberdeenshire. the totals are really going to start to stack up. the rain is quite widespread across the uk as we head through the rest of the week, but nowhere more so than across northeastern areas of scotland, where there could be as much as two months�* worth of rainfall by the time we get to the end of the day on friday — around 200—250mm of rain. and that heavy rain is moving northwards — this is storm babet, of course. the winds are strengthening out towards the east coast of scotland. gusts of wind here of around 70mph. the winds lightening towards t

our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie reports. do you remember where you were? alleyway where she was almost crushed to death. there were people on top of you, trapping your legs. yeah. it was so painful, yeah. i couldn't move at all, even my fingers. i realised at that time, "oh, i'm going to die." people out to celebrate halloween funnelled into this alleyway from three directions until it became so tightly packed they couldn't move. some couldn't breathe. the pressure was so great, it ruptured the muscles injyoo—kun�* legs, paralysing them for months. are you fully recovered now? actually, no. i have pain on my knees and my foot. it's now well established how the authorities failed to keep people safe that night and save lives. but no—one has been held responsible. trials and investigations are ongoing, leaving thousands still nursing their physical and emotional scars. this is where the dead are remembered — a makeshift memorial set up by theirfamilies. they take it in turns to stand guard in case the authorities follow through on their threat to remove it.

jean mackenzie, bbc news, seoul. before we go, let's recap the israel gaza war.hostage in gaza is 224. it has been warned that number could rise and the israeli military has carried out a significant occasion into the gaza strip overnight. they released this video showing tanks and armoured bulldozers crossing the perimeter fence. of course, there is more on our website. you are watching bbc news. hello. our very unsettled, changeable spell of autumn weather continues through today and really for the remainder of october as well. we have got a bit of sunshine developing through the day, this is the picture a little earlier in newcastle county down. but some big shower clouds around too, so through today and the next couple of days, unsettled showers or longer spells of rain, some of them are going to be quite heavy and particularly wet weather for eastern scotland. so this is where we're expecting the rainfall to accumulate for the next three days. and you can see the green colours developing here across parts of aberdeenshire and eastern scotland where we could

district of the capital seoul when they became trapped in a narrow alley, 0ur seoul correspondent, jean mackenzietre of seoul and behind me is this memorial service which has been going on for nearly two hours and there are thousands who have turned out here. many have walked from the alleyway where there was a prayer service up here to city hall. there is a memorial set up by the families of the bereaved and you can see photos of them there. people have been queueing here all afternoon to leave white flowers there. there's also tension here because people are angry that a year on, no one has been held criminally responsible for what happened that night. that's despite an investigation saying that this had been a man—made design disaster. it was known to be preventable and that the authorities had not planned for the crowds and notably this evening, the president of south korea has chosen not to attend this this memorial event because he believes it's become politicised. it's this divide between the authorities here and the families of the bereaved and the survivors who feel that they have not ha

jean mackenzie, bbc news, seoul. stay with us here on bbc news. top business stories here next.the week ahead. on wednesday, we did have some sunshine around, but it was a very wet start to the day across southern counties of england, particularly through hampshire and the isle of wight. you can see flooded roads there in east cowes on the island, not far from the ferry terminal. and whilst we did have a met office amber warning out for that heavy rain, it was significant. some parts of the island, in knighton, for example, seeing three weeks' worth of october rainfall injust over 12 hours. looking to the next few days, we hold on to this static pattern, really, of low pressure systems after low pressure systems bringing outbreaks of rain and their associated weather fronts with the jet stream running to the south of us, directing them towards our shores. here is thursday. we've got outbreaks of rain from the overnight period working their way northwards towards the north—east of england and across parts of scotland as well. elsewhere through the midlands, in towards wales and t