have arrived on the island of symi to look for him. joe inwood has the latest. they are certainly made it to the first village as there was concern he had something that happened as he made away from the beach where he was with his wife to the village of pedi. i have spoken to somebody directly involved in the search and rescue operation this morning. they now think that, rather than continuing in a straight, direct route to the town of symi,, he actually doubled back around the bay and went for a much longer walk through a mountainous region. it s not certain exactly that is the route he took but that is the working hypothesis. it is worth pointing out that the route they think he took is far less used, far more rugged, and he was doing this in the heat of the day. it is nine o clock local time and it is already pretty hot. by 130, and i was out at the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are realfears the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are real fears that if
many of us. but the wind is going to be the main feature. damaging winds likely to bring transport disruption with large waves and flooding and we are likely to see power cuts as well. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: storm ciara hits the uk with gale force winds and torrential rain it s set to cause huge disruption across the country. travel is already being badly hit airlines have cancelled dozens of flights, and more than 20 rail companies say their services will be affected. there s been gusts of 75 mph yesterday. we are expecting possibly more than that today some predicting around 90 mph. the coronavirus crisis a flight bringing 200 evacuees from wuhan back to britain lands at raf brize norton. a soldier who killed 26 people in a mass shooting in northern thailand has been shot dead by the security forces. counting begins in the irish general election as an exit poll puts the three main political parties level pegging. before the papers sport and for a f
And im jane hill at and imjane hill at hull minster, tonight we wait to see which artist has been awarded the most prestigious prize in british contemporary arts, the turner prize. More at half past. We are getting reports of a passenger train in germany colliding with a Freight Train in meerbusch, near duesseldorf. Local police and the Fire Department say at least 50 people have been injured. Details are still coming in. We are going to keep assuming that for you, this is the latest picture we have from the scene, so far the only picture we have. You can see the train appears to have buckled after a collision. It appears to have collided with a Freight Train. Details as soon as we get it, a close up of the commuter train and the damage that appears to have been done. You can see the third window from the left, looks like a doorway partly caved in. We will give you a reminder of where. Looks to me from that mapping that it is a suburb of dusseldorf as much as anything else. Likely to b
Delay, but prince harry and his fiancee, meghan markle, finally make it to cardiff and wow the crowds. And coming up on sportsday Johanna Konta says theres no catastrophe, after her shock defeat in the Australian Open to a player outside the worlds top 100. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The uk is in the grip of the worst flu season for seven years. The latest figures show that the number of people who went to their gp with suspected flu rose by 40 in the past week, with similar numbers in the rest of the uk. The cold weather is keeping up the pressure on accident and emergency units. In wales, dozens of senior doctors have written to the Welsh Government saying that Patient Safety is being put at risk to an unacceptable degree. They said planning for a winter crisis had been inadequate and the nhs in wales is chronically under resourced. Heres our wales correspondent, sian lloyd. Weve heard of emergency units across the uk in crisis but today doctors in wales raised
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