As we discuss the oscars, coming up at 9 30. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. More travel disruption is expected today as the after effects of storm ciara continue to be felt across the uk. 62,000 households are without power. More than 200 flood warnings remain in place, 150 of them in england. Yellow weather warnings for snow, ice and wind are also in force for large parts of the uk. Further rail disruption is expected and commuters are being urged to check their routes before travelling. Yesterday, storm ciara brought winds of more than 90 miles an hour and some areas had six weeks worth of rain injust21i hours. Graham satchell reports. Rough seas off the coast of hastings and a lifeboat rights itselfjust in time. It was a day of remarkable lucky escapes. 0n dry land in central london, watch this. A taxi, a tree and a near miss. In bedfordshire, the driver of this car escaped with just minor injuries. It took the fire service more than an hour to cut him out. Storm ciara batted every corner of the country for more than 2a hours. That is intense in some places, the impact was devastating. Part of a guesthouse collapses into the river teviot on the scottish borders. Its foundations washed away. Siren wails. Hebden bridge in West Yorkshire. The siren a warning of heavy rain and floods to come. The rain was sideways and relentless. There were some pretty odd sightings, like this drifting downriver in the yorkshire dales. In ramsbottom in greater manchester, the river irwell burst its banks. Across the country there were more than 300 flood warnings. Residents in ramsbottom were rescued by the fire service. We just wanted to get out, really. Shes most important thing so we just wanted to get out. Its just fully submerged our house, living rooms flooded, kitchen, and we had to get the fire boat to get out. Ciara has caused widespread travel disruption, battering the coast in particular. The port of dover closed. Trees on Railway Lines meant Train Services were cancelled. Euston station in london packed with frustrated passengers trying to get home. All trains cancelled, so, ive either got to try and get to manchester and then get picked up there or try or get halfway. I think werejust i think were just trying to work out the best way to get back the moment. In the air, planes struggled. At heathrow, the approach was sideways, the touchdown hairy. Some brave souls soldiered on. This is honeywell fc in manchester valiantly playing their sunday league game. And near glastonbury, spare a thought for speedo mick. Mick is walking the length of the uk for charity in his swimming trunks. Getting a beating at the moment but we are still struggling on. There will be more bad weather today, but nothing stops mick. In a moment, well hear about the situation in cumbria from dave guest, whos in appleby. And well also get the latest on the impact for rail passengers from john mcmanus at euston. But first, lets cross to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire and join jayne mccubbin. What is the situation this morning . It is terrible down here and its history repeating itself. If you have a look inside this bistro, you will see what businesses are waking up will see what businesses are waking up to this morning. A terrible, terrible mess. This is a second time ramsey has had to deal with these floods. Yesterday, the flood level was up to about here. In 2015, in those famous boxing day floods, the water level. Look at the sludge here. The water level was up to about three metres eight, yesterday three metres five. Some flood defences have been put in, the floodgates have helped some businesses keep some of the water and sludge out. But look at the mess outside the rspca, they have been mopping up all morning. You can see nothing fully keeps this water away. This is the problem this morning. The river which is still quite high today but yesterday, it was almost at the top of the arches there. It is important to say that here in Hebden Bridge, after those famous boxing day floods, flood defence works were promised but they still havent begun. They are due to begin later this year. Flood defence work further up the river in my the right, they are due to come to an end this summer. But even though they are well under way there, that village was completely submerged in water. So there is some scepticism about the work that is going on and the impact it will have. Back to you. Thank you. Now we can go to appleby in cumbria and hear about the public mood therefrom dave guessed. This shop is one of many in the high street in appleby. The river eden ove rflowed street in appleby. The river eden overflowed something this main street. Here you can see the bridge that links the two halves. It normally takes a few minutes but now you have to take a 20 minute detail because they have closed off the bridge. The main street here sealed off. You might be able to see some off. You might be able to see some of the debris and beyond the tipper truck is the river eden. Very calm today but that wasnt the case yesterday. A sense of deja vu because in 2015, storm desmond visited with disastrous consequences and ciara caused chaos yesterday. Like jane was saying, they were expecting some improvements to flood defences here following the storms in 2015 but they say so far nothing has materialised. The people in these properties some of them put their own flood defences up. But a number of the shops were swamped yesterday. The big clean up in appleby continues this morning. Dave, thank you. We can go to the rail situation and here from john mcmanus at euston. What is the situation, are they travelling . People are travelling but the extent of the disruption now becoming clear as the morning progresses. Most importantly, if you are planning on travelling on the west coast between preston and scotland, im afraid you wont be going very far today. The line has been closed between preston and glasgow because of multiple flooding and further up into scotla nd flooding and further up into scotland between glasgow and fort william, multiple cancellations. 0n the east coast line, pressed into oui the east coast line, pressed into our edinburgh, aberdeen and inverness, multiple cancellations. Trains running from different stations are not running at leadsom bus replacement services. Also problems in the south east between kent and london and on local services in West Yorkshire as well. Lots of cancellations and rescheduling of trains. Network rail saying check, check, check before you travel, even ifjust for a short journey for stop you could save yourself a lot of trouble and network rail issuing a plea to anyone who lives near a railway and has anything that needs to be secure down in high winds like trampolines, for example, please do it, network rail is saying. Trampolines seem to have played rather a large role in the disruption of railways yesterday. Thank you so much for that, all three of you. Great to get that, all three of you. Great to get that update. You can keep up to date with the changing weather developments in your area today, just head to your local bbc radio station, and of course, the bbc news website. Moving onto a coronavirus. The government has introduced new powers to deal with the spread of coronavirus, as it declares it a serious and imminent threat to Public Health. The uk has recorded four cases so far. Under new measures, the department of health says people with coronavirus can now be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave. Lets get more on this form our Political Correspondent iain watson. Tell us more. As you know, a couple of weeks ago, the first flight out of weeks ago, the first flight out of wuhan, british citizens on board came into the uk. People on board that flight had to sign a contract saying they are prepared to stay in quarantine for two weeks. That is a week longer than the assumed incubation period for the virus. However, one of the people currently in quarantine on merseyside has been threatening to leave today, as a government source would put it, to abscond and break the terms of the contract. It is very difficult for the government to enforce that contract. But they have done is effectively brought in emergency regulations. This morning. What they are intending to do is keep that individual in place until the 1a days are over, which is only a few days are over, which is only a few days away, i think it is thursday this week. Nonetheless, they were concerned about that specific individual, so what the regulations say now is where he is being kept, in arrowe park hospital, and the other designated isolation facility. Anyone coming from those areas in those facilities can now be kept against their will. If the police have to do enforce this, they will be offered protective equipment. I think there is a wider concern, a wider worrying government as well. That is what happens if even if the fatalities are relatively small, what would happen if this virus spreads within the united kingdom, people having to take time off work, for example, the pressure that would put on Public Services . Very keen to strengthen the regulations they have regarding isolation straightaway. Although they say this is described asa although they say this is described as a serious and imminent threat, thatis as a serious and imminent threat, that is essential in order to keep people in isolation, the risk of catching the disease is no greater today than it was yesterday. Thank you so much. We can turn out from the situation in the uk to the situation in china. This Uk Development comes as new figures from china show a record increase in the number of deaths from coronavirus. 97 people died on sunday the highest number of casualties in a single day. This brings the total number of deaths in china to 908 910 worldwide. Across china, 110,171 people are infected. Today, millions of people in china are returning to work after the Lunar New Year break that was extended due to the virus. 0ur china editor robin brant is in shanghai. Robin, i gave an update on the numbers there. I suppose what we didnt say is the number of infections seems to have stabilised. Are people drawing hope from that in china . Well, it is a sliver of optimism but the who yesterday urging real caution, saying it is still regarding china as being in the middle of a very intense outbreak. State run media here is making a lot of that, in particular what seems to bea drop of that, in particular what seems to be a drop in the growth of infection rates outside of that epicentre province. But nonetheless, the death toll continues to rise. That big single increase yesterday and also the number of confirmed cases. Today is meant to be the day when vast swathes of the country get back to work. I think, swathes of the country get back to work. Ithink, to swathes of the country get back to work. I think, to be honest, we are seeing a trickle here in shanghai. It is not partly the ghost town it was perhaps a week ago, but there is no sudden huge return to work, in terms of the shops and banks, in terms of the shops and banks, in terms of the factories. Things are beginning to return to normal but there is still a lot of nervousness. We are seeing some shops opening but we are seeing we are seeing some shops opening but we are seeing some we are seeing some shops opening but we are seeing some factories on the outskirts of the city opening but also much tougher restrictions on compounds and lanes where people live, in terms of who can go in and who can come out. Temperatures being taken. A lot of working from home, as well. The centre of shanghai is very much a Service Sector concentration and the guidance writ large seems to be people should stay at home and work at home for the next week or two. One more thing, the president pictured for the first time inspecting some containment effo rts time inspecting some containment efforts up in beijing. Those pictures coming out in the last hour 01 so. Pictures coming out in the last hour or so. Very interesting. One last question on public mood. At the end of last week, a lot of anger and grief about the death of that whistle blower doctor. Questions about the credibility of the government, given how long it had taken it to declare an emergency and so on. Has the mood calmed down over the last 48 hours or so . I dont think it has, to be honest. Some of that anger, frustration increased questions about honesty that we saw around the death of the doctor have. They havent gone away. The uproar on social media was huge but people still remain very anxious about what to do, where to 90, anxious about what to do, where to go, if theyre going to be a further wave spread, particular as this vast return, accidents of Migrant Workers into cities like shanghai, as that begins to happen, will that bring another wave of contamination . Robin, thank you very much for that update from shanghai. We will talk to you later. Sinn fein has described irelands general election as a big statement of change, after it made strong gains in the results declared so far. The nationalist party secured more first choice votes than either fine gael or fianna fail, which have led irish governments for decades. The Prime Minister, leo varadkar, said that once the final result was clear it could take months to negotiate a coalition. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page joins us now from dublin. Everyone still absorbing this transformation of the electoral scene . Yes, that is right. There is a lot of uncertainty. Its very unclear at the moment who will move into that place over there, the headquarters of the Prime Minister. The Coalition Building process will certainly be very complex but what is clear is there has been a huge shift in the irish political landscape. Sinn fein topping the poll in terms of the top preference vote. 25 of voters place their number one beside a sinn fein candidate on the ballot paper. And of oil coming in on the 22 second. And the party led by the current Prime Minister in third on 21 . So though sinn fein have won this first stage, if you like, of the electoral process , stage, if you like, of the electoral process, it is actually unlikely they will run now as the Largest Party in the irish parliament. Sinn fein strategist themselves didnt see a surge of this magnitude coming their way. At the moment, analysts think its likely that fianna fail will be the Largest Party. In the campaign, they said they wouldnt do a coalition with sinn fein. Last night, lee varadkar said a coalition with sinn fein. Last night, lee varadkarsaid he a coalition with sinn fein. Last night, lee varadkar said he would stick with that position. But the leader of fianna fail when questioned wouldnt give in a definitive answer. He said people had come out to vote in numbers and he respected that, that there were still significant policy differences between his party and sinn fein but things would be teased out over the next number of days. So the way forward is nothing but. Certainly not at all straightforward. A lot will come down to the very final numbers. Counting will continue through today. 160 seats in the irish parliament, still more than half of them to be filled and you can expect the race for the final seats in a number of constituencies to be very tight indeed. Thank you. The headlines on bbc news. Travel chaos, flood warnings and powercuts the disruption from britains most severe storm in seven years continues. The uk declares coronavirus as a serious and imminent Public Health threat. The status gives the government more powers to isolate those with potential infections. Sinn feins election surge irish Prime Minister leo varadkar says Coalition Talks will be complicated. Vote counting is still under way. And the bbc new special as we look at the glitziest night of the year, the oscars. For the first time in the 92 year history of the oscars, a Foreign Language film has won the best picture award. South korean film parasite beat the likes of british world war one epic 1917 and the joker. 0ur correspondent, david willis, was there. Tonight we celebrate all the amazing talent in this room a tribute to diversity at the start of an Academy Awards in which the spirit of inclusion had seemed to be sorely lacking. Happy black history month. Janelle monaes rousing performance coming on a night when the acting categories were the least diverse since the fallout from 0scarssowhite. That campaign pushed the academy to expand its International Voting ranks, possibly paving the way to this watershed moment at the Academy Awards. Bong joon ho parasite, the story of a poor south korean family insinuating itself into the life of a very rich family, swept the board, collecting oscars for best original screenplay, best international film, and best director for its creator bong joon ho, who paid tribute to his fellow contenders. Our great martin scorsese. Cheering and applause. This belongs to a lot of people. The veteran british cinematographer, roger deakins, was honoured for his his work on the world war i drama 1917. And sir elton johns song from rocketman, im gonna love me again, was named best original song. Brad pitt was named best supporting actor for his role in once upon a time in hollywood, and it was a film about about the cruelty of the old Hollywood Studio system that won Renee Zellweger a best actress 0scar for her role in sjudy. Laura dern was named best supporting actress for her role in marriage story, and Joaquin Phoenix walked off with the best actor award for his performance injoker. Parasite. But this was the night that parasite made history becoming the first Foreign Language film to carry off 0scars biggest award of the night, best picture. Hollywood may still be grappling with the thorny issue of diversity, but parasites victory is seen as a sign the academy is ready to embrace great films from any country, in any language, at last. David willis, bbc news, at the Academy Awards. A bbc news investigation has