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. Millions of people in california face having their power cut as the Emergency Services continue to battle rapidly spreading wildfires. Chris buckler reports. Forced to flee as wildfires have burned through residential land. We got a knock on the door at 3am from the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, now. The fire in los angeles cou nty leave, now. The fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage but it is 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. We are evacuating because this fire is very dangerous and it is expected to move this evening. The ones th
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 today her mps would use their votes to defeat borisjohnson in westminster. Heres our ireland correspondent emma vary 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 direction. Las
After officers charged barricades built by the demonstrators. More rallies are planned for sunday. A 25 year old man, maurice robinson, has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after 39 bodies were found in a refrigerated lorry trailer in britain. A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the deaths. Now on bbc news click. This week, its the 50th birthday of the internet. We will hear how it was switched on, how democracy could be rebooted, and how hard it is to tell apples from. Apples. Every single day, we upload four million hours of video to youtube. We send 682 million tweets. We post over 67 million instagram pictures. 4. 4 billion of us use the internet and collectively, we create 2. 5 exa bytes, thats 2. 5 million tb or 2. 5 quintillion bytes of data every single day. And a significant proportion of all of that data searches, views, messages, social media, video streaming, goes through here. This is telehouse north, one of the m
In connection with the deaths. Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uks leading commentators with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. This week, trick or treat . A halloween brexit perhaps gives way to a december election and a new years resolution, but will borisjohnson be running the country by then . And will the uk be governable who evers in charge . In washington, donald trump declares a big success in Northern Syria as he tells the middle east to solve its own problems. Two leaders anxious to escape foreign entanglements. With me, to discuss them, mina al oraibi, editor in chief of the national, the canadian broadcaster jeffrey kofman, bronwen maddow, director of the uks institute for government, and a former Foreign Editor at the times and the british political commentator, steve richards. Borisjohnsons brexit deal has already achieved something his
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