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Backing for tougher regulation are you ready . And its into the ring for rio why the former england and man united defender is launching his boxing career. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news, the lionesses say they are right behind their manager as they prepare to face russia and the start of their world cup qualifying campaign. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Another major hurricane is sweeping through the caribbean just a fortnight after Hurricane Irma devastated some of the islands. The latest category 5 storm hit the island of dominica overnight with winds of 160 Miles Per Hour. The nations president said the devastation was mind boggling. He said roofs had been ripped off the homes of everyone he had managed to speak to, including his own. The storm is now heading towards guadelope where theres a Communications Blackout and also the British Virgin islands. Well have a report from there in a moment. But first our correspondent jon donnison has the latest. A single hurricane is horrific enough. Maria is the fourth to hit the caribbean in less than two weeks. The French Island of guadeloupe, among the latest places to ta ke guadeloupe, among the latest places to take a pounding. In nearby martyn meade, people found themselves overwhelmed by floodwaters. Martin eeko. At daybreak they were waking up to see the damage. The island of dominica also suffered. This unverified video was posted online as the hurricane hit and the lights went out. The church roof has blown in. My neighbours roof, blown. Maria also hit dominica, where even the Prime Minister wasnt spared, taken to social media to say that his roof had gone and his house is flooding. From space you can see the scale of the hurricane. Maria is tracking north east towards the british territories of antigua and barbuda, anguilla and the virgin islands. In the Us Virgin Islands they havent begun rebuilding after being flattened by hurricane armour. Two weeks later they are bracing themselves again Hurricane Irma. Buildings, houses, businesses, everything devastated. We are paralysed but this is what we have to go through. Been here before, done it before and well do it again. On the island of saint thomas, Tristan Joseph again. On the island of saint thomas, tristanjoseph already lost everything to irma. Now he must face another battering from Hurricane Maria. Yeah thats what im preparing for now, again the double header. Preparing for now, again the doubleheader. These caribbean communities are going to need help. The british governments Emergency Cobra Committee has met. With maria they will be keen to avoid a repeat of the accusations that they were too slow to respond to Hurricane Irma. Hms ocean, the navys largest ship, will arrive in the caribbean carrying aid this weekend. Its been more than a decade since the atla ntic more than a decade since the atlantic Hurricane Season has been as devastating as this. It could still have some way to run. The season still have some way to run. The season does not officially end until november. John donaldson, bbc news. Some of the islands in the path of Hurricane Maria have barely starting cleaning up after the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Irma. Our correspondent jeremy cooke reports from the British Virgin islands which could be hit hard again tonight. It is a race against time. Battening down, shoring up, bracing for the storm to come. The fear, the forecast is that Hurricane Maria is about to sweep through these already devastated islands. If irma was the knockout punch, whats predicted next feels like a low blow. For francine, its all too much. Because all the shelters are full. This is the devastation. You notice i have on different shoes. I cant find any clothes. We really need help here. Theres a lot of people suffering. Are you Strong Enough to take this again, another hurricane . Well, no, but what can we do . Hope and pray. Sorry, dad. Its terrible. We dont know what to do. I believe that the last time, goodbye, weve got to face it. We wish you all the best. Good luck. Yeah, thank you so much. The harsh reality here is that all the tonnes of debris cant be fixed down or made safe before the next hurricane is due to hit. The last thing these communities need. Theyve been doing their best to move these mountains of wreckage to the side of the roads, to make some sort of sense of what is total chaos. But with winds now predicted to once again top 100 mph, every piece of this wood and plastic and these Metal Roofing sheets become potentially deadly airborne missiles. Adding to the problems here, the drains are clogged with debris. More flooding seems inevitable. Frightening times, arent they, with this other hurricane coming in . Yes, it is, definitely. Im frightened. A lot of loose debris all over. The trees act like a barricade to the strong winds. All the leaves are gone, some of the trees have fallen. The trees are on the hillsides, so if we have a lot of rain we will have some erosion and potential mudslides. Thats a big concern. Everyone here is doing all they can to prepare. More than 20,000 british citizens facing their second potentially devastating hurricane in as many weeks. Jeremy cooke, bbc news, on the British Virgin islands. Well, a few moments agojeremy gave us this update on the worsening situation as Hurricane Maria moves closer. The problem is that the hurricane is coming to these islands in a number of hours, but the island has already suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Irma. The whole of the British Virgin islands, every island is pretty much coated with debris, whether that is roofing sheets that have been blown from the roofs of the buildings, splinters of wood, household daybreak, all of it is lying in piles around the island and if we get wind, as predicted, of 80, 90, 100 if we get wind, as predicted, of 80, 90,100 mph, the fear is that if we get wind, as predicted, of 80, 90, 100 mph, the fear is that pretty much every single piece of that could become potential ammunition for the hurricane in a number of hours, which is causing huge concerns for the people here. Matt taylor is here. Another hurricane, did we expected to be as as this . We did not expected to be this strong and not as soon, it will have a devastating in dominik. It is a phenomenal building strength over the last 24 hour is. Within 2a hours it became a category five storm, 165 mph wind barrelling across tommy neeger across dominica. It has strengthened and become category five once more. Showing no signs of weakening over the coming days. The reason is to do with the upper atmosphere, there is no strong wind to tear the storm apart and it is being fed by very warm waters. This chart, the yellows and oranges showed the temperatures in the caribbean above average for the time of year. The unusually warm waters are feeding the storm to make it stronger. We will maintain category four, maybe five as the season moves west over the next 24 36 hours. It is likely to pass to the south of the British Virgin islands. The us islands taking a direct hit. Damaging wind over the British Virgin islands. Perhaps the greatest concern is the storm piling into puerto rico, pitting some thailand, meaning we could see some catastrophic flooding and mudslides before the storm weakens before going to the turks and take silence. The storm still has some way to go the turks and kite silence. Myanmars leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has insisted her government has made every effort to bring peace to Rakhine State where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been driven from their homes. Shes been under International Pressure to stop the military crackdown which began in response to attacks by rohingya militant groups. In geneva, the head of the Un Fact Finding Mission on myanmar says his team has received widespread allegations of mass killings which they intend to investigate. Jonny dymond reports. The exodus of the rohingya continues. A treacherous escape from burnt out villages and savage assaults. More than 400,000 have fled myanmar in under a month. Its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, pushed back at the swell of International Condemnation of her government and military. Action will be taken against all peoples, regardless of their religion, race or political position, who go against the laws of the land and who violate human rights. Aung san suu kyis star has fallen fast. The newly elected leader was once the darling of the west, feted after years of house arrest by myanmars military rulers. But she no longer has time for questions. Have you become an apologist for ethnic cleansing . Do you have something to say . Her countrys military stands accused by the United Nations of ethnic cleansing. The defence minister denied it. Its not because of the soldiers, he says. The rohingya are lying on purpose. In fact our people, he said, are the ones facing ethnic cleansing. The rohingya were the ones who started attacking the security forces. Aung san suu kyi said the burning of rohingya villages as stop. Aung san suu kyi said the burning of rohingya villages has stopped. There have been no conflicts since the 5th of september and no clearance operations. We too are concerned. We want to find out what the real problems are. But the burning has continued. The bbc filmed rohingya villages being torched within the last fortnight, well after she said it had finished. Human rights campaigners are critical. At times it was a mixture of untruths and victim blaming. I think for us, really, it seemed like an attempt to downplay the situation when we have people across the board in bangladesh who are documenting the most horrific abuses as part of this campaign of ethnic cleansing. For the refugees, a question. Are they safe to go back . Are they welcome . On this, from Aung San Suu Kyi, they heard nothing. Jonny dymond, bbc news. Well, lets speak to our correspondentjonah fisher whos is in myanmar. You were there when Aung San Suu Kyi made her speech earlier. She is clearly in a difficult position. She is in clearly in a difficult position. She isina clearly in a difficult position. She is in a very difficult position, the speech was billed as a last chance for Aung San Suu Kyi to salvage her International Reputation and i think, in what weve seen since that speech, she has failed in that respect. One detail id like to pull out, when she said she was determined to find out why the rohingya were fleeing into bangladesh and she wanted to talk to them, have people talk to them and find out why they were fleeing. There has been huge coverage from bangladesh over the last couple of weeks, a lot of direct accounts from rohingya about what is happening to them, almost without exception saying they are fleeing atrocities being committed by the burn me is military and that the burnley s military and that the burnley s military and that the burnley s military and rakhine youngsters have been burning the villages. She is not getting good information. The second thing, it is difficult to say of someone of her stature, she may be being wilfully dishonest to try and protect what is a very delicate relationship with the burnley s military here. The un estimates at least [too thousand Rohingya Muslims have now crossed the border into bangladesh. Our South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has sent this report from the city of coxs bazar on the border. Well there was a real sense of un reality. All the things she talked about, the deep rooted problems in Rakhine State, the need to address reconciliation, that is all well and good. The problems were there before this crisis. There was no problems of the scale of what her own armed forces have done here the. Un calls it ethnic cleansing, anybody who has seen it, would call it that, a deliberate strategy of wiping out the muslim villages and driving them out in the most appalling conditions. You have had 400,000 people arriving here in the space of the last three weeks, every one has given the same account that their villages were attacked by the military, they were chased out, told to leave n some cases shot, other abuses took place and they fled carrying very little. No acknowledgement of that at all in Aung San Suu Kyi speech. There was a bizarre statement that the military operations finished on 3rd september. I heard gunfire on 7th september. I heard gunfire on 7th september and saw villages being burnt then and watched people doing continue under the noses of the burmese authorities. We have seen columns of smoke from here in bangladesh across the river two days ago, clearly villages still being burnt. You wonder really whether she is in denial or has somehow cut herself off from the reality. Police now say that the death toll in the Grenfell Tower fire injune may not be quite as high as previously thought. It was believed that around 80 people had died in the fire. Detectives have also revealed that 240 people managed to escape the blaze between midnight and 8 oclock the following morning. Our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw is at scotland yard. Police have been giving more detail about the scope of their investigation . Yes, sophie. This is a huge investigation. The biggest inquiry undertaken by the metropolitan Police Outside Counter Terrorism and its going to be some months, i think, before police get to a stage where they can start questioning possible suspects. And this is because of the amount of information that they have to go through. They have received 31 million documents. That has to be searched to see the releva nce that has to be searched to see the relevance of that material and have 2,a 500 people they need to speak to and they are conducting a forensic examination of Grenfell Tower, bit by bit, to see the fire safety precautions, fire doors and the piping in place. When that is in place and it wont be until the new year, there will be a reconstruction process to test some of the fire precautions in place. That is an investigation. What we have also learned today is that police do not believe it was more than 80 people who died in the fire. They believe it was a little less than that. That is partly because theyre investigating alleged cases of fraud, where people have allegedly falsely claimed that they had loved ones who died in the fire. There are also case that is they believe people have claimed theyve lost property in the fire, those are also being looked into and there are four cases, in which people who have flats in grenfell cases, in which people who have flats in g re nfell tower cases, in which people who have flats in Grenfell Tower say theyve had property or money stolen. In one case a considerable amount of money, thought to run into hundreds of pounds. Thank you. People in the uk are making more attempts to find jihadist material online than those in any other european country thats according to research by a think tank. It has been studying extremist content posted by the so called Islamic State group, as our security correspondent Gordon Corera reports. Every week, so called Islamic State turns out on average 100 pieces of propaganda. And even as it faces defeat on the battlefield, in this online war, it shows no sign of giving up, seeking to turn people towards violence. This is a whole new domain of warfare, right along with ground, sea and air. You now have cyberspace a new battle space, if you will. Ive talked with the leaders of a number of these different firms and they are working this very hard. A new study by the think Tank Policy Exchange says that the uk ranks fifth as the country where people most frequently clicked on such radical content, the highest in europe. In the wake of recent terror attacks, the government has been trying to put pressure on Big Technology Companies Like twitter, facebook and youtube to do more to take the material down. And the author of todays report says there is more they could do. If you look at the struggle against, for example, child pornography, it does seem that both the Tech Companies and the government have put in place a framework that is more robust and does seem to be more effective. We were asking the question in our report, are the lessons that can be learned from the struggle . The Companies Say they have been making strides. Facebook says its using new technology to try and take down material and accounts faster. But polling suggests three quarters of the public think they could do more. And todays report says tougher measures, like an independent regulator with the ability tofine or even prosecute when needed. Some experts who work on counter radicalisation caution that taking down extremist content wont eliminate the problem. I think we all have to do this without simply thinking legislation is the way forward and we need to be more preventative for the communities, young people and organisations like ours, who are working with Technology Companies. With so called Islamic State continuing to use online material to try and recruit, radicalise and even train people in bomb making, todays report is another sign that pressure on Technology Companies to do more is growing. Our top story this lunchtime another category 5 hurricane sweeps through the carribean. Dominica has been devastated and the the British Virgin islands lie directly in marias path. Its terrible. We dont know what to do. Coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes a british para athlete is set to hand back one of her medals, saying that a member of the team had an unfair advantage. President trump will slap the right people and hug the right people when he makes his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly later today, according to the Us Ambassador to the un, nikki haley. The president himself says itll be a big day at the un, with many good things and some tricky ones happening. Our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, is in new york for us. Thats what he tweeted a short time ago but it is rogue regimes he is focussed on and how to deal with them yes a big day and a big speech at the United Nations, you can tell by the level of activity outside the un headquarters. President s, Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers have been piling past for hours to get their seats inside the United Nations General Assembly to hear President Trump speak for the first time to this world body. The leader who campaigned on America First will be addressing this heart of the worlds greatest multilateral organisation. He will take that traditional president ial motorcade, never mind trump towers is a few streets away. He will have his all bells and whistles motorcade sweep into the United Nations. What will he say . Well i think all ears will be sharp listening for what about north korea. The crisis, the world seems to be unable to stop. What about climate change, as the horrendous storms whip the caribbean. There are some indications from some of his aides that he could reconsider pulling out of that climate pact and yes, the rogue regimes. Notjust kimjong un of north korea, but the country that President Trump has in his sights, and that is iran. Is he going to pull out of the Historic Iran Nuclear deal . These are the big issues on the agenda. They are hoping he will give them some clarity about where he wants america to go and whether hell take the world along with him. Thank you. The liberal democrat leader, sir vince cable, will close his Party Conference in bournemouth this afternoon by insisting that britain needs what he called political adults from all parties to come together to stop the uks withdrawal from the eu. He will also repeat his call for any deal with brussels to be put to a referendum and warn ministers against acting like dictators, as our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports. Theyve spelt it out time and time again but the liberal democrats main message on their pro eu stance has so far failed to win over the voters. Now, with a new leader at the helm, the partys promising to reach out. Were about more than brexit. We are notjust ukip in reverse. Obviously, as it happens this is the big issue of the day, and weve got a very clear and united view about it. But i want the party to be a source of new ideas, the kind of things weve been looking at how do you help the Younger Generation in a very disadvantaged position in the housing market, in relation to education and many other things . The lib dems are the fourth Largest Party at westminster. But vince cable believes politics is now so volatile its impossible to predict what might happen. He insists his party could make a breakthrough. He even suggested its perfectly plausible that he could become Prime Minister. Hello, we meet you again. Lib dems look to sir vince as a heavyweight politician. A former business secretary and one of the few to predict the financial crash. They hope in him the partys in safe hands. Lib dem membership might have doubled since referendum but translating that surge into success at elections is a much bigger challenge. One the party must rise to, or else risk drifting off into political obscurity. Police have named one of the victims of a crash on the m5 motorway on saturday which left four people dead. 46 year old Adrian Beaumont from bristol died at the scene. His partner and their two children remain in hospital. Rochdale council has apologised to young people who were sexually and physically abused while they were in the care of the local authority. Many of the assaults took place at two schools run by the council over a period of almost 50 years. The councils chief executive said he couldnt turn the clock back but he would make sure that it did its best to safeguard children and young people now and in the future. More than 100 firefighters have spent the night tackling a fire at a north london warehouse. Dozens of fire engines were sent to the scene of the blaze on White Hart Lane in tottenham, after the alarm was raised just after 8. 00pm last night. One person was taken to hospital. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Now, rio stepping into the ring. Two years after retiring from football, the former england football captain says he has decided to launch a new career as a professional boxer. The 38 year old says he wants a new challenge. Our Sports Correspondent Richard Conway is here. It will be a new challenge. Gone are the days when sports stars retire to open a pub or run a sports shop. Rio says he wants to be a professional doctor. It has been backed by an online company. He says he is taking it seriously. Sniefs the utmost respect for the boxing fraternity. Im not coming here saying im going to bea im not coming here saying im going to be a world champion. Im saying there is loads of hurdles to get over and ill meet them head on. Im like an armchairfan over and ill meet them head on. Im like an armchair fan anyway. Over and ill meet them head on. Im like an armchairfan anyway. Im sitting there like everyone else saying, i could do that. Why is he not throwing a left or a rate . Anyhow ill find out, training wise, how hard it is to get to the point of getting into the ring. He knows how serious he will have to take that. The first task is to convince the british board of boxing control to give him a professional licence and then he says he will advance him to get through. The Company Behind him have form in thisser why. They dock victoria pentle tonne from a track rider to a horse rider. And rio says he has the determination to ta ke rio says he has the determination to take this challenge on. Back to our main story, the second category 5 hurricane sweeping through, the second in two weeks, 110w through, the second in two weeks, now our correspondentjeremy cook is in the British Virgin islands. Weve heard it has devastated dominica, they must be bracing themselves there. They are. And it comes hot on there. They are. And it comes hot on the feels of Hurricane Irma two weeks ago which caused catastrophic damage in the British Virgin islands. The problem s although hurricanes are part of the rhythm of life here, this is a second blow in as many weeks and frankly, a lot of people are very fearful here today. A lot of eyes, of course on the Weather Forecast and looking at the track of hurricane marieia. They know it is a powerful hurricane but the difference, 25 miles difference about the track of the eye could make all of a difference between the speed of the winds and that will be crucial. Because that could mean the difference between 50, 60 Miles Per Hour winds, that might be ok. But if they get it in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour, you are looking the a all of this debris, which could be swept up of this debris, which could be swept up by of this debris, which could be swept up by Hurricane Maria, thrown around the islands once again, every piece of it potentially a deadly missile. So we are looking at a very, very difficult few hours ahead. Thank you. Heres matt taylor in the weather studio. Thank you rvings welljo updates on that throughout. In the uk a different story by contrast. Into the seeing now of morning mists. This was the scene in bingley this morning. To go with the mist was a notable autumn chill across most parts of the uk. Three degrees this morning. A big change on the way as milderair morning. A big change on the way as milder air pushes in, and most will start tomorrow with double figure temperatures. Out there today, the satellite reveals a clear satellite temperatures. Out there today, the satellite reveals a clear day for many. Good sunny spells. Probably the sunniest, driest day of the week. One or two isolated showers but most stay fine. Cloud increasing into the west and in Northern Ireland, particularly fermanagh, we could see rain before the afternoon is out. Afternoon temperatures, not farfrom is out. Afternoon temperatures, not far from recent days is out. Afternoon temperatures, not farfrom recent days but is out. Afternoon temperatures, not far from recent days but given is out. Afternoon temperatures, not farfrom recent days but given more sunshine, it certainly feels more pleasa nt sunshine, it certainly feels more pleasant out there. Tonight, temperatures taking a dip a few east and fog patches. A few splashes of rain in areas. The wettest weather into Northern Ireland and western parts of scotland. Temperatures will be on the up later. Some starting the day with