pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana. you have been watching newsday. the lead in the race for an electric—car future. under babita sharma in london. before we go, there was an eerie red sky that appeared across much of the uk on monday afternoon. incredible. the bbc‘s weather team says it is due to the remnants of hurricane 0phelia dragging in dust from the sahara. the debris going into the airfrom portugal and sahara. the debris going into the air from portugal and spain sahara. the debris going into the airfrom portugal and spain fires also played its part. they are reflected in longer wavelengths, making it appear red. we captured it on camera. the worst of the winds affected the south of ireland. our friends experience winds gusting up to nearly 100 miles an hour that even here in the uk, we had winds in excess of 70, 80 and even 90 mph. here is the ex— hurricane, what is left over. still very powerful winds. gale force winds blowing through the irish sea will still be moving across northern ireland, scotla nd moving across northern ireland, scotla

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.d to try to keep swimmers safe from the risk of shark attack. specially fitted drones are being used over the surf along the coast of new south wales and as well as giving early warning about sharks, they can also help swimmers who run into difficulties at sea. hywel griffith has been to see them in action. a shadow in the sea or something more sinister? from the beach it's hard to tell but from the skies the drone has a clear view. it feeds into deep learning software which it is claimed has a 92% success rate in spotting sharks as well as less threatening species. every time it sees a dolphin, whale or a swimmer in distress, it learns their shape. launched along the beaches of new south wales, the drones can patrol for 40 minutes. daniel was one of the first to train as a lifesaver pilot. i can't physically run out and grab a board and paddle out and save someone, but sitting on the beach we have an eye on the sky and we are just another layer of protection, really. the drones don't

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.much of the uk on monday afternoon. the bbc‘s weather team says it is due to the remnants of hurricane 0phelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the sahara. debris going into the atmosphere from forest fires in portugal and spain is also playing a part. the dust causes light to be refracted and reflected in longer wavelengths, making it appear red. well, it's certainly been a very dramatic period on the weather front and the remnants of hurricane 0phelia still barrelling across the uk. but the worst of the winds affected the south of ireland. our friends there experienced winds gusting up to nearly 100 miles an hour that even here in the uk, we had winds in excess of 70, 80 and even 90 mph. here's the ex—hurricane, what's left over. still very powerful winds. the core of that storm with some of the gale force winds blowing through the irish sea will still be moving across northern ireland, scotland and northern england during the course of tuesday morning. that nasty low still wit

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.first public appearance since it was announced in september she is pregnant, but suffering severe morning sickness. here she is in london, dancing with paddington bear. and before we go, there was an eerie, red sky that appeared across much of the uk on monday afternoon. the bbc‘s weather team says it is due to the remnants of hurricane 0phelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the sahara. debris going into the atmosphere from forest fires in portugal and spain is also playing a part. the dust causes light to be refracted and reflected in longer wave lengths, making it appear red. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @duncangolestani. stay with us on bbc news. well, it's certainly been a very dramatic period on the weather front and the remnants of hurricane 0phelia still barrelling across the uk. but the worst of the winds affected the south of ireland. our friends there experienced winds gusting up to nearly 100 miles an hour, but even here in th

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.nth, on how it's tackling the profusion of fake news and misleading information online — a trend that's come into sharp focus in the wake of last year's presidential election. here in the united kingdom, one growing area of public concern is the exposure of children and young people to unreliable information online, with some calling for news literacy courses, to help people distinguish fact from fiction. our media editor amol rajan reports from birmingham. the 45th president of the united states uses the term fake news to describe stories he doesn't like. we are fighting the fake news. it's fake, phoney, fake. that shouldn't distract us, however, from the fact that the internet is awash with information that can't be trusted. but what effect is this having on our children, the smartphone generation, who are bombarded by information on a daily basis? here at cardinal wiseman school in birmingham, we set pupils a difficult test to gauge their news literacy. you're going to be looking at

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana. let's move from that to another story.rban skylines. but what sets him apart is that his sketches are done entirely from memory. he's now finished drawing the new york city skyline after only looking at it for 45 minutes. rachel stanton has more. an entire city captured on canvas. created by british artist stephen wiltshire, it took five days to complete. after a 45 minute helicopter ride around manhattan, he created the straw of the empire state building and the new york city skyline entirely from his photographic memory. diagnosed with autism at just three photographic memory. diagnosed with autism atjust three years old, he found it hard to relate to the world. turning to art helped him a great deal. his extraordinary artistic ability has captured the attention of many people across the globe. i'm very proud, as his sister, to see him become the advanced in what he's doing, and what better to do a job that is not only a job, but is a bonus that you like doing and he is able to travel the world and do it. his talent has

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana. the somali capital mogadishu on saturday now exceeds 300, according to officials. one of the trucks exploded close to a fuel tanker, creating a massive fireball. it's the deadliest attack in somalia since the islamist militant group al shabaab began an insurgency there a decade ago. an academic at birmingham university — said to be among britain's most prolific paedophiles — has pleaded guilty to blackmailing adults and children online into carrying out "degrading" sexual acts. matthew falder, 28 years old and a cambridge graduate, admitted more than a hundred offences, it took 30 minutes to list them all. our midlands correspondent sima kotecha is at birmingham crown court. the crimes listed are horrific, what more can you tell us about this case? doctor matthew falder lived and minor and posting and distributing indecent images of children online. the cps said in a statement that matthew falder is a highly manipulative individual who used his knowledge of computers and the internet

pallab ghosh, bbc news. i'm joined be john stephenson, ceo of stop ivory.ernment have set out to achieve. and the conditions of the consultation that they have set out. they very much meet the requirements that millions of us have been campaigning for for requirements that millions of us have been campaigning forfor a long time. the devil will be in the detail. we'll see what emerges from the consultation. what the government has set out is welcomed by us. in terms of elephant poaching, extraordinary numbers of elephants are dying. i read 55 african elephants a day are dying. there was a great elephant consensus done last year, so the numbers are pretty exact. at any one stage, those numbers can go up and down, but if you draw a line from the 18th century to today, there is not much longer to go, and that line is a straight line downwards. by and large, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes. this is a move by the british government, but one country acting alone can't stop this trade. we would argue the british government has actually come to this late in t

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.sations should be remanded in custody while they remain under investigation on suspicion of sedition. they alleged that the head of the catalan national assembly and the head of another group who were key to planning the referendum on independence which the spanish government has said was illegal. so thatis government has said was illegal. so that is two leaders of the catalan independence movement, remanded in custody. the firm behind a multi—billion pound train has apologised — after passengers on board the very first service on the great western line faced delays, and water pouring from the air conditioning. the hitachi trains started running today on the line from bristol to london. scott ellis was on board. out go the old 125s. in come the new hitachi 800s. loosely based on the japenese bullet train, only this one back—fired. a broken air con putting the dampeners on launch day. the water went all over my laptop. what do you think so far, then? pretty terrible! seats had to be cor

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.to prove it? in 1916 we didn't for example have computers so the technology is a great step for science. it's not the first time we have heard gravitational waves, right? no, in fact the first time they were heard i was here in the bbc studios talking about them so what's different this time is the source. before we have black holes colliding, this time we have neutron stars. it's estimated the stars but collided work one or two solar masses about the size of a city, say washington, dc, so very dense objects we had never observed before. can you explain the sound to me? because it sounds like an elastic band twanging, i would have thought the light comes before the sound so how does that work? this is in fact one of the great things about this observation. in fact, the sound that we play for people is not actually what is going on here, it isa actually what is going on here, it is a conversion. we take the ripples of space and we convert them in two sounds so we can hear them. the ripp

pallab ghosh, bbc news, livingston, louisiana.d to look at that story a second time, you can find it in the science section of the bbc news website. it is reasonable to say i wouldn't cover every regional election in venezuelan on the programme, but these ones matter, there is an economic crisis and a profound political crisis there and this election is the latest development. the president's socialist party won 17 of 23 state governorships, the opposition has dismissed the whole thing. a victory for the president and his government. he spoke to venezuelans after the victory, and he said it proved that the democracy still worked. it was a result that government supporters in this poor part of caracas have hoped for on sunday. translation: this poor part of caracas have hoped for on sunday. translationzli this poor part of caracas have hoped for on sunday. translation: i will support this government onjuly died, long live the revolution. —— until i die. died, long live the revolution. —— untili die. with died, long live the revolut

pallab ghosh, bbc news. harvey weinstein, has been accused of decades of sexual harassment against young women. mr weinstein produced hit films like pulp fiction and the king's speech. actresses told the new york times that harvey had pressured them, in return for help making them famous. mr weinstein says the way he behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, for which he apologised. he's now taking a leave of abscence. last night you might have caught sight of a very large and very bright moon in the sky. it's called the harvest moon as it's the first full moon since the autumn equinox, which is when the sun shines almost directly over the equator. and it caught your eye from scotland to surrey and you've been sending in pictures of that harvest moon in your droves! this one came from jon in hampshire, who took it while night fishing on the river hamble. molly sent us this beautiful picture, looking at the moon through the london eye. while emma in surrey sent us this fantastic close up w

pallab ghosh, bbc news. the headlines tonight. mps wanta conservative party chairman said 30 mps want a leadership election. uk productivity falls again. uk workers are producing less than many of our neighbours. catalan is pushing ahead to declare independence from spain while madrid hosts regional elections to try to stem the crisis. it's time for news watch. this week, how a cough became headline news. welcome to news watch. several coughs and unwelcome interruption is, letters falling off a sign, should that have been the headline from the theresa may conference speech this week? and after the las vegas shooting, how much of the distressing footage should the bbc have shown. we will discuss both thoseissues have shown. we will discuss both those issues shortly with the controller of bbc news channels. first, political party conferences can be dull affairs, but the last day of the conservatives' gathering in manchester this week was not short of incident. how those incidents were reported by the bbc, though, led to hundreds of

musical instruments and some cultural objects would still be allowed. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghoshsks, taken from 6000 elephants, slaughtered in kenya for their ivory. their number has declined by almost a third this decade and almost 20,000 are killed each year. the government says they want to ban ivory sales in the uk and has launched a 12 week consultation on its plan. thousands of elephants are being killed every year simply to fuel the illegal ivory trade, we have to act. i'm announcing consultation on a total ban for every product, to ensure that we stamp out this evil trade and make sure that one of the most iconic and beautiful animals in the world is there for the next generation. chiswick auctions sells ivory objects more than 100 years old. the current rules allow the trading object created before 19a7, such as these 18th—century miniature portraits of these figures. under new proposals, their sale would be banned, that is something the antiques industry thinks is unfair. if you criminalise something, this underground market may appear, a black market, and you cannot co

palla b pallab ghosh will explain all.t. it has made a discovery that has shaken the scientific world. two stars colliding. the two stars got closer and closer until they merged, resulting in a huge shock wave that rippled across the universe. the massive explosion led to the production of rare elements, such as gold and platinum. neutron stars are what is left over when a normal star dies and collapses in on itself. they are so densely packed that a teaspoon would weigh 1 billion tonnes. here is the actual sound of the collision. the explosion was picked up in the control room. it took place 130 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and it was so far away that it is only now just reaching us. we have been waiting for this for so long. we did not know if we were lucky and this happened to be an event that happened relatively close to earth, or perhaps there are many more neutron stars than we thought. we do not know that yet, but we will know. within seconds, telescopes all over the world were pointed at the c

responsible for creating all the gold and platinum in our universe. 0ur science correspondent, pallab ghosh got closer and closer until they merged, resulting in a huge shock wave that rippled across the universe. the massive explosion led to the production of rare elements, such as gold and platinum. neutron stars are what is left over when a normal star dies and collapses in on itself. they are so densely packed that a teaspoon would weigh 1 billion tonnes. here is the actual sound of the collision. the explosion was picked up in the control room. it took place 130 million years ago, the dinosaurs roamed the earth and it was so far away that it is only nowjust reaching us. we have been waiting for this for so long. we did not know if we were lucky and this happened to be an event that happened to be an event that happened relatively close to earth, or perhaps there are many more neutron stars than we thought. we do not know that yet, but we will know. within seconds telescopes all over the world were pointed at the colliding stars and this is what they saw. the collision created distortio