difficultj situation there for you, thomas, and the other residents of killybegs. for clean—up and recovery following storm bert. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. a number of unidentified drones have been spotting flying over a number of british airbases that are used by the us air force. the incidents involving the unmanned aerial systems took place at three rafs sites in the east of england this week. a spokesperson for the us air force declined to say whether the drones were considered hostile but did go on to say they had the right to protect�* installations. 0ur correspondent graham satchell gave more details. well, the american air force have confirmed that there were a number of what they call small unmanned aerial systems — we would call them drones — that have been buzzing around over these air force bases in the east of england over the last couple of days, last week. they say the number of drones fluctuated. they ranged in size and configurations. and they say they were actively monitored. they wouldn't go into much detail about what that actually me

but this was an event from basically on higher ground around killybegs.e was a very heavy snowfalls during the night, um, which i wasn't even aware of at all. i went to bed about 12:00 and it was raining, but it seemed grand. and then there was very heavy snowfalls and then extremely heavy rain on top of that as well. so there was a massive flood basically, and it all came down. it came down the street and that done the damage. so there's even if there was, there was plans to put in some flood protection works for the sea from the sea side of it, but that wouldn't have made any effect to this and protected against this damage at all, because this came all from the land, the land end of things and higher ground. a british businessman caught on camera confessing to illegally selling millions of pounds of luxury perfume to russia is not facing criminal charges, the bbc has learned. david crisp was arrested last year but his case was later dropped by hmrc, the tax collecting agency which is also responsible for enforcing sanctions. selling luxury goods to rus

in southern ireland, the town of killybegs has seen homes, charities, and official buildings affecteds burst its banks. storm bert has also caused significant travel disruption and danger on the roads. tragically, three men have died as a result of the storm. a man in his 60s lost his life when a tree fell on a car on a road in hampshire. two other fatal collisions occurred as the storm gripped england. louisa pilbeam reports. the uk and ireland are dealing with the mess caused by storm bert today. and the wild weather is not going away. new weather warnings are in place for either for heavy rain, strong winds or flooding. yellow warnings, meaning travel disruption and moderate danger are likely, are in place from scotland down to the south coast of england, and more than 200 flood alerts. northern ireland has seen some of the worst flooding with 6500 homes without power at one point and roads and railways submerged. we're the only ones out of the houses. we left and moved the cars, doing all the sandbags. and while we were out, the water reached the properties and we can't get back i

ireland affected by the impact of storm bert and you can see the cars that have been submerged in killybegs. we are monitoring the situation. northern ireland has also been affected by the same weather alerts and warnings coming in from that part of the country, from that part of the country, from northern ireland but also from northern ireland but also from donegal in ireland. chris fawkes joins us with the latest. chris fawkes “oins us with the latest. ,, ., �* ., , , latest. storm bert has been causina latest. storm bert has been causing some _ latest. storm bert has been causing some significant - causing some significant problems this morning. 0ne causing some significant problems this morning. one of the problems is this heavy snow has stormed —— storm bert works into the cold air. we are seeing rain across north yorkshire and we are seeing some of the snow turned to rain in county durham so it's increasingly reading across the far north of england and over high ground but we still have snow in scotland and a met office weather warning for 0ffice weather warning for amber. it is acros