Celebrities in california have shared their fears as raging wildfires spread towards their homes. New evacuation orders were issued as a huge wildfire flared up again in Santa Barbara county. The blaze, which has been named the thomas fire, is the Third Largest in the state since reliable records began, covering almost 1,000 square kilometres. Meteorologists say fresh northerly winds are likely to drive the flames towards the pacific coast. Sarah corker has the latest. Fierce winds are driving one of the biggest fires in californias history towards the wealthy neighbourhood of montecito. They have already destroyed more than 700 homes. Now, another 18,000 are at risk as the flames move towards the coast. Strong winds out north pushing the fire back downhill, so extremely gusty, cold, and the relative humidity has been low, a very hazardous firefight. This area north west of los angeles is home to many celebrities, including oprah winfrey, who tweeted and earlier this week, including 0p
Helped foil a terror attack. Russian agents raided a flat allegedly used as a base to plan an attack on the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg. The officers seized explosives and weapons. Seven people were detained on charges of being members of so called Islamic State. The suspects were reportedly planning to carry out a Suicide Attack at the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg on saturday. President putin has thanked the us for its help. The bbcs david willis has more from washington. He says this isnt the only recent call between the leaders. It appears to be a telephone conversation, the second between these two leaders in the space ofjust three days, in which Vladimir Putin thanked donald trump and asked him to convey russias thanks to the cia and to its intelligence officials for the information that was needed to foil this attempted attack, or alleged attempted attack, on St Petersburg, on the cathedral there, an iconic cathedral, and other parts of the city which are known to be of
Period for airlines. Last year, monarch became the Third European carrier to collapse, following air berlin and alitalia. Its one of the factors helping iag, along with improving fares after a spell which saw low fuel prices force airlines to flood the market with cheaper tickets. And last was particularly tough, iag suffered a major it collapse that stranded 75,000 passenger and cost iag 103 million. The airline launched a Budget Airline called level last year, offering fares from barcelona to several us cities for 137 one way. This transatlantic market, the most lucrative in the world, saw budget carriers boost capacity on these routes by 68 last summer. With me is daniel roeska, transport analyst at bernstein research. Thank you forjoining us. Let us start on what you can expect. Generally the picture looks very rosy for iag. Absolutely. What were seeing is that the trading is exceptionally good. Signal factors are up. You mentioned the mike mack consolidation. There is out of the u
Making mistakes and it will make changes to win back its licence. And all eyes on the turner prize. We look at the four nominees in the running for one of the art worlds most prestigious awards. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that a future Labour Government would consider cancelling pfi contracts, the controversial schemes which enable some public building projects to be funded with private money. The shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell made the commitment at the labour conference in brighton. He said pfi contracts were likely to cost the Public Sector more than 200 billion pounds over the next few decades and it was time to reduce the cost to the tax payer. After he spoke the party said it would review the contracts. During the day labour also suggested the uk could remain in a Single Market and some form of Customs Union following brexit. Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports from brighton. All smiles as they try to put on a united front, but theres no hiding it. Its plain
How his cricketing fathers suicide has affected his game. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The met office has warned of potential danger to life as the remnants of hurricane ophelia hit the Irish Republic and head towards Northern Ireland. Troops have been deployed in coastal areas in the republic, in whats expected to be the most severe storm to hit ireland in half a century. Already more than 3,000 people are without power in cork and kerry this morning and many planes, trains and buses have been cancelled. Storm 0phelia hit the south west coast of ireland a short time ago with gusts of 92mph. It moves on to Northern Ireland and parts of west wales this lunchtime with wind speeds expected of up to 80mph. The storm is then forecast to head north to central and southern scotland tomorrow, sparing eastern parts of the uk. Well, schools north and south of the irish border have been closed for the day. Sarah corker looks at the preparations for the arrival of storm 0phelia. Wit