Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The 39 people found dead, in a refrigerated lorry, in essex are believed to be chinese nationals. Police are yet to confirm that, and are still in the process of trying to identify them. Paramedics made the discovery shortly before 2am on wednesday, sparking one of the uk biggest murder inquiries. Police say the lorrys cabin came via holyhead. Officers, in Northern Ireland, have raided two houses and the National Crime agency said it was working to identify organised crime groups who may have played a part. The lorry driver, mo robinson, from county armagh, has been arrested on suspicion of murder by essex police. Prosecutors in belgium have, this morning, announced that the trailer arrived in zeebrugge, on wednesday afternoon. In zeebrugge, on tuesday afternoon. It then left, the same day, en route to the uk and arrived in purfleet, on the river thames, where it then left the port, shortly after 1am, on yesterday morning. A0 minutes later, p
Today we have showers moving northwards, a lull behind with some sunshine and more rain spreading in from the south west, moving north east through the day. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. Its thursday, october 11. Our top story the most powerful storm in decades to hit the southeast of the United States is now heading towards georgia after leaving a trail of destruction in florida. Hurricane michael brought storm surges of up to three metres to north west florida, ripping up trees and tearing roofs from buildings. One person was reportedly killed by a falling tree. Our north america correspondent Chris Buckler reports. Hurricane michael came crashing into the florida coastline with extraordinary strength. At their height, the wind reached speeds of around 155 miles an hour, easily exceeding early expectations, and making it close to the most powerful category of storm. You see what it did around here. It snapped trees like they were toothpicks. It was nothing to it. Im g
A warning over the struggle to access vital nhs services across england we look at the areas worst affected. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im joanna gosling. A russian soyuz rocket has made an Emergency Landing in kazakhstan after suffering an engine malfunction shortly after blasting off. The spacecraft was due to take two new astronauts, one russian and one american, to the International Space station. The crew sustained no injuries during Emergency Landing. Heres a nasa translation of a recording of the Mission Control at the moment the boosters failed. Emergency of the booster, two minutes, 45 seconds. The emergency is the failure of the booster. Failure of the booster. Our correspondent, andy moore, is with me. Everyone is ok, but how dramatic was theirs . This was dramatic. It is not supposed to happen. Normally these launches of russian rockets to the space station pass without comment. It is like bus, basically. Wejust ignore it and it goes on very smoothly. What
Windy weather. It will develop through this evening and overnight and it has prompted the met office toissue and it has prompted the met office to issue an amber warning for the rain, particularly for south wales. It will be a main event for most of us it will be a main event for most of us and there it aint splashed or two ahead of it, sharon was in the north east of scotland and rain behind it showers. Between there is some sunshine and is quite warm but that will fade with the rain and further west you could see some late sunshine. 22 is what we expect this afternoon. Through the evening and overnight, the rain moves out of the way and we bring in the start of storm callum. With it, gale forced winds will usher the wet weather in. Cool further east and north east but for most, a mild and windy night. Tomorrow some areas might escape the rain, perhaps in the far south east and north west in the first pulse clears, but the reason for the warning is because the rainjust sit there tomor
Former aston villa chairman doug ellis who has died at the age of 94. More on that and all the other sports stories and Helen Willetts will have the forecast for us. An amber warning is will have the forecast for us. An amberwarning is in will have the forecast for us. An amber warning is in force from the met office after heavy rain in south wales courtesy of storm callum. Also coming up, the man who tackled a London Bridge terrorist armed only with his skateboard posthumously receives the george medal for bravery. His parents collected the award. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Two astronauts bound for the International Space station have made an Emergency Landing in the kazakh desert after a fault developed with the booster rockets on their soyuz spacecraft. A rescue team has located the pair an american and a russian who are said to be safe and well. Andy moore reports. And there is lift off of the soyuz msio to the International Space station carrying nick hague and alexey