headlines this hour. millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as the region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site, in the recently liberated city of izyum. camilla, the queen consort, pays a personal tribute to queen elizabeth, saying she has been part of our lives forever. she s got those wonderful blue eyes that when she smiles, you know, they light up her whole face. i ll always remember that smile. that smile is unforgettable. this is a moment for the people of the united kingdom and around the
back to you, i m sure i will be here with more from the queue, as it will not stop for another 16 hours or so. studio: remember, there is the website for. four million people injapan have been urged to leave their homes as the country prepares for one of the most destructive typhoons in years. winds of more than 90 miles per hour have been battering the coast, and at least 25,000 properties are already without power. our tokyo correspondent, rupert wingfield hayes, reports. this typhoon is a huge and angry storm, the like of which japan has rarely if ever experienced before.
across and close to its centre, the winds are gusting to over 150 mph. as it swept ashore this morning in southern kyuushuu, the government issued an emergency alert, one which has never been declared before anywhere on the japanese mainland. translation: there is a chance we will see winds of a kind - we haven t experienced before. we could also get big swells, storm surges and record rain. only part of the threat. it is also carrying vast quantities of water, and that is now falling right across the eastern half of kyuushuu. as much as half a metre of rain could fall in less than 24 hours. kyuushuu is very mountainous and the danger will then be of landslides and even more so of flooding. there is too much water coming down for the rivers to handle, so the japanese government has told nearly 3 million people they need to leave their homes and head to local evacuation centres.
millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as the region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site, in the recently liberated, city of izyum. and we meet the artist behind the striking portrait of the queen which was broadcast around the world on the news of her death. hello, and welcome. people are still queueing, some of them have been queueing all night long, but i have to say, everyone i ve spoken to is that they are very glad to have been in that queue. the
but hundreds of thousands more will likely choose to ignore that advice and ride out the storm at home. it will be a very tense night for them and for the authorities. river levels across the area and southern honshu are expected to peak sometime in the next 12 hours, putting japan s flood defences under severe strain. it would only take one breach for towns to be inundated in minute, giving people no time to escape. japan is used to typhoons, but the storms are getting bigger and more frequent, and defences that worked in the past may not be enough for monster storms like this. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says investigations into possible russian war crimes are continuing