A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi
i was the first female bowler, was number one, so really enjoyed that moment. got that golden armband also, but at the same time, it s a lot of responsibility. when it comes to cricket, india is unstoppable. i m not being facetious when i say this but i actually prefer watching women s cricket now. when i watch women s cricket, there s a certain freshness to it. yeah, i do feel proud that - women s cricket is progressing and i m really confident that it will keep - progressing from now. it s getting there, it s getting there. i think without the women s ipl or should i say when the women s ipl happens it will reach another level. the way team has transformed, it definitely shows that there is a lot of scope of forming a very strong side in the coming years. the skill levels are just fascinating when you see that. it s like, wow. i mean, how did we miss all this all these years? definitely the dream hasjust begun. - the dream is to win - the world cup for india. when you t
the turkish president says 41 people are now known to have died in a coal mine disaster in the north of the country after rescuers recovered the last dead body. recep tayyip erdogan has been visiting the site of the tragedy at amasra on the black sea. now on bbc news, the rise of women s golf in india. 20 years ago, professional golf for women in india didn t exist. i fell in love with putting when i was five and a half. my teachers weren t very happy that i would take so much leave from school to play tournaments. i was so thrilled and happy. i was lost in the moment, oh my god, is it real? we ve had multiple indian winners in ten years. accessibility to golf. is a challenge and not just in india. today i would say a0 50% of the kids that i train are girls, it s a profession that parents are highly encouraging their children to go in. my goal is to win the olympics and a pga us open. it hasn t always been this way forfemale golfers in india. amateur status went hand in han
a powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the capital manila is located. super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km/h. our weather forecaster helen willetts has more. hello. this large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. once it moves out into the south china sea s open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. so some des
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