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
have been felled guilty of advocating a violent revolution against the chinese state stopping there were sentenced to up to three years in detention. now on bbc news, elite cricketers can come from any level of society in india, thanks to that ubiquitous nature of the sport. this episode tells the stories of three star players. of course it s not easy as a poor villager to come to mumbai and being with the smart kids because you feel you don t know how to speak english. if because you feel you don t know how to speak english. how to speak english. if you can t afford. how to speak english. if you can t afford, you how to speak english. if you can t afford, you can t - how to speak english. if you can t afford, you can t play | can t afford, you can t play cricket you are an equal part on the playing field. that is a great social equaliser. doesn t give a poorer person any inferiority complex. a poorer person any inferiority comlex. w a poorer person any inferiority co
you are an equal part, you re on the playing field. that is a great social equaliser. doesn t give a poorer person any inferiority complex. yeah, cricket certainly feels like a great social leveller in india, doesn t it? and i think of some of the incredible success stories. it s fascinating to see them come in, put in the hard yards, come from very difficult backgrounds, circumstances whatnot, it is the social leveller. it is absolutely the case. if you see in india there are a billion people and they are everywhere, everyone wants to play, everyone is in a rush and they are competing all the time, you need to be like, if you go in small place, if you go in small gully which we say like really small street, everyone is just trying to play and enjoying the game and it s like, so many people of course in india and they want to be there but if you want to be there you have to be really good. when you come to india whatever you hear about the passion, you can t see it or feel it
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
when i came here back to india to set up my business in the financial services space, i always heard that there were only two religions in india, cricket and bollywood. i don t have the right thought, but our deal is humongous for cricket, it is one of the best leagues in the world, the ipl has you know become one of the most popular leagues and i think it is one of the top ten leagues in the world. in india, the culture is such that when a son is born, in the family, even to this day, the parents either want him to be a cricketer, a test cricketer or a bollywood star. we talk about the stories i of these players and the fact that you can come from nothing and succeed, and the ipl has i given that opportunity - for so many players to come from nothing and succeed. the ipl for me means the opportunity, you know, you re never going to get the opportunities the ipl presents in any other part of cricket in the world. we are the envy of the world. the ipl is the envy of the world.