jonathan beale, bbc news, on hms queen elizabeth.garam at the bbc sport centre. today's 40th london marathon turned into a sprint with ethiopia's shura kitata speeding to the finish line to win the men's title. brigid kosgei retained her marathon title. and thousands of runners around the world found creative ways of covering the 26.2 miles, as our sports correspondent, joe wilson reports. so began london's first autumn marathon. covid changed everything and changed nothing. the course was lots of st james' park, but still the same distance. this weather demanded more endurance than ever. brigid kosgei was streets ahead by the time the women's elite race finished. she has been in the course, the rain and her rivals. but not a day for world records. a day for perseverance. very, very tough race, because it rained all the way. even our legs were freezing. by late morning, the elite men were doing their laps here. the mass participation was happening everywhere. 45,000, doing marathons, wherever, however they could. the miles still matt

defence correspondent jonathan beale was the reporter on the spot. bbc invited on board hms queen elizabeth to witness, for the first time, the carrier launching and landing both british and american f—35jets. noise drowns out speaking. if you did not quite catch all of that, you are not alone. mike was one of those straining his ears and had this response... at times, audiences have problems notjust with hearing bbc news outlet, but also with seeing it clearly. take the broadcast on monday of the speech by chancellor of the exchequer, rishi sunak, at the conservative party conference. conducted online this year. it prompted this phone call from an anonymous viewer... i'm disgusted to see that the insert box with the person signing for the hard of hearing has been covered up by one of your banners. i'm not hard of hearing myself, but in this day of equality for the disabled, surely the bbc have more sense. and it's not the first time this sort of thing has happened. you seem too fond of over applying banners over news events. 0bscuring a lot of the i

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detained when members of the special boat service stormed the vessel. 0ur defence correspondent, jonathan bealesual has this been? it is exactly what the elite sbs train for, they did this a couple of years ago when a cargo ship in the thames estuary was taken. they did this operation under the cover of darkness, you and i would call it abseiling, they call it fast rope down onto the ship from the helicopter. a team of 16 using what was described as overwhelming force, that means they were armed to the teeth and taking control of that ship within nine minutes. essentially this was a textbook operation, what they trained for, as isaid. we operation, what they trained for, as i said. we had from the defence secretary ben wallace, who said he authorised this military response because what was emerging was a clear threat to life, he said, with increasingly hostile behaviour by the seven stowaways on board. there are unconfirmed reports that some of those stowaways had armed themselves with sharp objects and knives. that hasn't been confirmed by the police yet. we believe that they got on the ship w

let's get more from our defence correspondent jonathan beale. what has gone on here?ed with trident nuclear armed missiles. this particular officer was the duty weapons engineer, he had been on shore. suspicion was he'd been drinking. he came on duty for his watch and the crew smelt the signs of alcohol consumption, raised the alert and he was immediately removed from command, from his role being in charge of those nuclear weapons and sent home. the defence secretary ben wallace has been here on salisbury plain talking to british soldiers. he said he would raise this matter with the first sea lord but he made clear there were checks and balances on these nuclear submarines and, in this case, it worked. as soon as the suspicions were raised, that particular officer was removed from command. it isn't the only thing that has gone wrong on this trip. it has been in kings bay in georgia, in the us, where they load up the trident missiles. there have been, since that incident occurred about a month ago, an outbreak of covid among the crew, with reports and suggestions in so

jonathan beale, bbc news, on board hms queen elizabeth.irmed she is self—isolating after coming in to contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus. in a tweet, ms von der leyen said "i've been informed that i participated in a meeting last tuesday attended by a person who yesterday tested positive for covid—19. in accordance with regulations in force, i'm therefore self—isolating until tomorrow morning. i've tested negative on thursday and am tested again today." now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell hello. after what has been a weekend of basically relentless rain for some, a little bit of a breatherfor the next few days. i can't promise you an entirely dry story, they will still be some showers around the same area of low pressure that brought all of the brain this weekend. that is still with us for the centre is pulling off into the north sea. for today a front in the west would bring more clout and some rain through the afternoon for northern ireland, wales and the south—west of england. the wet weather

defence correspondent jonathan beale was the reporter on the spot. sail anywhere in the world. if you didn't quite catch all of that, you're not alone. mike habben was one of those straining his ears and had this 01:54:52,549 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 response: at times, audiences have problems notjust with hearing bbc news output but also with seeing it clearly. take the broadcast on monday of the speech by chancellor of the exchequer rishi sunak at conservative party conference, conducted online this year. it prompted this phone call from an anonymous viewer. i'm disgusted to see that the insert box with the person signing for the hard of hearing has been covered up by one of your banners. i'm not hard of hearing myself but in this day of equality for the disabled, surely the bbc can have more sense. it's not the first time this sort of things happened, you seem too fond of over applying banners over news events, obscuring a lot of the information. as that viewer suggested, this is not the only occasion we've heard a complaint of this sort. last wee