From the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, and live now. The tick fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage, but its dwarfed in size by the kincaid fire, which has spread across the Sonoma County wine region in Northern California and now threatens homes in the San Francisco bay area. 50,000 people there have been ordered to leave. Were evacuating because this fire is very dangerous. And it is expected to move towards healdsburg and windsor this evening. The winds that we are going to experience will be much like what we experienced in october of 2017. We already have a fire burning and we have advance notice now, and that is why we are taking these precautions. We want you to start evacuating now. Water is continually being dropped by planes as firefighters try to contain the blaze on the ground. But days of forecast strong, hot, dry winds are going to make theirjob much more difficult. We are potentially going to see a historical wind event, and it h
The Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland has vowed to oppose the Prime Ministers brexit deal in the coming weeks unless he negotiates changes. Dup leader Arlene Foster told the Party Conference on saturday her mps would use their votes to defeat borisjohnson in westminster. Heres our ireland correspondent emma vardy and a warning, theres some flash photography in her report. What a difference this time last year, it was Boris Johnson walking onto this stage to rapturous applause. Today, he was scolded by the dup leader. Rather than have boris with us today, we have had to send him to the naughty step in Parliament Twice in this last week. Twice the party has refused to back the government on crucial brexit votes, saying borisjohnson sacrificed commitments he made to the dup in order to get a deal. We will not give support to the government when we believe they are fundamentally wrong and acting in a way that is detrimental to Northern Ireland and taking us in the wrong directi
Officials in california are warning that historically strong winds expected this weekend are likely to fan the destructive wildfires that have taken hold. A state of emergency has already been declared in los angeles and sonoma counties. Chris buckler reports. In several parts of california, families have been forced to flee as wildfires have learned through thousands of acres of dry land and into residential areas. We get a knock on the door at 3am from the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, and live now. The tick fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage, but its dwarfed in size by the kincaid fire, which has spread across the Sonoma County wine region in Northern California and now threatens homes in the San Francisco bay area. 50,000 people there have been ordered to leave. Were evacuating because this fire is very dangerous. And it is expected to move towards healdsburg and windsor this evening. The winds that we are going to experience will be muc
In the premier league. The gap is down to three points after a 3 0 win over aston villa. Good morning. We are heading for a sparkling sunday, a much better day than yesterday, right across the country. Lots of sunshine to be hard, but it is also going to feel colder. All the details coming up shortly. Its sunday, the 27th of october. Our top story the white house says President Trump will make a major statement later, following reports of a Us Special Forces operation against the leader of the Islamic State group. Mr trump himself tweeted that something very big had just happened, although he gave no details. Us media say mr trump authorised the operation targetting Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi in the syrian province of idlib on saturday. We can speak now to our middle east correspondent tom bateman, who joins us from the turkey syria border. Tom, whats the latest . Well, i think the fact president has made the tweet you talked about there, and also does the white house is saying a major state
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The white house says President Trump will make a major statement at the white house on sunday, following a tweet from the president saying something very big had just happened. No details have been given of what mr trump was referring to, but theres speculation that it could concern the leader of the Islamic State militant group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Us media reports suggest he was the target of a Us Special Forces operation in the syrian province of idlib on saturday. With me is our News Reporter gareth barlow. What more do we know . With regard to the Us Government and donald trump, very little. Late on saturday night he tweeted, very simply, something very because happen. No further detail and explanation. Over an hour later the white house put out a little bit more expansive comment saying the president of the United States would be making a major statement tomorrow. That is sunday morning from the white house but again no further detail or explanati