Today at five severe flood warnings and evacuations as river levels continue to rise in some parts of england and wales. More rain is forecast and some rivers are reaching their highest point ever recorded. Here in worcester, the river levels are going down slightly at the moment but but they are going to come back up tomorrow as we see moment but but they are going to come back up tomorrow as we see some of the worst flooding this region has ever seen. Well have the latest from the affected areas. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm a british couple on board a cruise ship quarantined injapan say theyve tested positive for coronavirus, as the Foreign Office says its working to get all brits affected back to the uk. My mum, she breaks into tears
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System that will bring some Stormy Weather through the second half of the weekend to our shores. It will be carried across by a fast moving jet stream arriving as storm ciara through the second half of the weekend. The met office has named that storm storm ciara and it is the winds that we are particularly keeping an eye on. It looks like we will see strong, damaging and potentially destructive winds across the uk later saturday and on sunday. More on that in a moment. First, todayis more on that in a moment. First, today is the calm before the storm. Beautiful sunshine in this photo sentin beautiful sunshine in this photo sent in by a weather watcher earlier. There will be patches of mist and fog slow to clear, but are generally dry and fine afternoon. Good spells of sunshine and areas of cloud. Temperature is around 6 iidc. This evening and overnight, it remains settled, we see clear spells, patches of cloud. Again, a few patches of mist and fog reforming. More low cloud for eastern
And a government adviser resigns, after a wave of criticism of his past comments about eugenics and race and coming up on bbc news the Champions League knockout stages get under way later. Liverpool play Atletico Madrid at the stadium where they lifted the trophy last season. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Evacuations are taking place in shropshire and herefordshire amid severe flooding in parts of the uk. One woman died after being swept away in worcestershire, hundreds of homes have been flooded after the rain caused by storm dennis, and the river wye in monmouth has reached its highest level on record. There are nine severe flood warnings in place seven in england and two in wales meaning there is a danger to life. And there are 162 flood warnings in place across england, wales and scotland which mean immediate action is required. 0ur correspondent phil mackie is by the river severn in worcester. Yes, this is a flood event like we havent seen for at least a decad
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Coming up on afternoon live of course the hong kong banking all the sport holly hamilton. The Champions League returns tonight, into the business and now, place, so historically that is where it is made his money. At the moment, the knockout stages. We will be looking at a liverpools return to the boss is saying that interest real madrid, while there is more bad rates around the world of very low news forJose Mourinho. Right now, the uncertainty around brexit really affected him and so lots of issues in europe, whereas in thanks holly and nick asia the prospects were higher and miller has the weather. Growth prospects were a bit better, more bad news with those flood so Growth Prospects were a bit better, so that could be where the situation warnings. Is there more rain on the to that. Cupidity way way . It is a short answer, simon, thats all the business news. And you wont like it. Billie eilish, the 18 year old who swept the grammies earlier this month, will be performing her also co