the bright colours is the centre of the rainfall which will then move inland. a few things we need to take note of here, these are the main headlines. we have landfall during the afternoon, sunday afternoon local time, so a few hours away. it s expected to be a category four, so stronger than katrina was on landfall. the storm surge is the most worrying element of this. you have sustained winds but the storm surge could be four metres above sea level. if it coincides with high tide that makes it even more dangerous. it s the north eastern quadrant of the storm that you really need to watch. if you think about the winds rotating around the hurricane, pushing a wall of water on the track that hurricane, where you have landfall it is areas to the east of landfall which includes mississippi which will see the largest storm surge. of course that is a huge concern. people remember 16 years ago today in fact, katrina, the devastation in new orleans. there was a big issue with the le
worker shortages caused by a perfect storm of issues including brexit changes and the pandemic, could threaten availability at christmas. the government is facing growing calls for a temporary visa scheme to try to fill the gap. our business correspondent katy austin reports. preparing these turkeys for christmas involves 100 extra workers who used to come in from eastern europe. because of brexit, we don t have that guaranteed labour that we ve had for the past 30 years. the bigger companies that supply all the supermarkets, they had made the decision to cut their production by between 20% and 25%, which is huge. so, there will absolutely be a shortage of quality british turkeys. other areas of food production are also having problems. a shortage of meat processors has caused a backlog of pigs on farms. the government is basically saying that furlough is coming to an end at the end of september, so you can have all of those people and that will resolve your issues. now, thos
threat of those receding in the next few hours. sunshine for much of scotland and northern ireland with the cloud draped around coastal areas and in the central belt of scotland highest temperatures, 24. 20 and 21 more like it in england and wales, better than yesterday where we had cloud. not much cloud tonight for the southern half of the uk. cloud moving from the north means it won t be as cold in scotland and northern ireland and northern england as it was bocelli further south with the clear skies and early sunshine. more cloud across the northern half of the uk compared with today, pretty cloudy in eastern scotland and north east england. spots of drizzle with cloud bubbling up but decent spells of sunshine and top temperature going to be 20 or 21. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the ministry of defence confirms the final uk flight for civilians has left kabul. further flights will bring home uk diplomatic staff and military personnel. the us military says one o
neville. senator tim scott doubling down on his belief that the u.s. is not a racist nation. it comes amid fallout over major pushback on the south carolina republican over his rebuttal to president biden s address to congress wednesday night. thank goodness, finally our president, vice president, one of the leaders in the democrat house, jim clyburn, have come forward and saying what i ve been saying for a long time, america is not a racist country. is there a lingering effect after a couple centuries of racism in this country, the answer is absolutely. arthel: alex hogan has more on the speech fallout. reporter: hi, arthel. senator tim scott reaffirming some of the statements and coming on the back and forth we ve seen this past week. he did address this once again today and repeated the statement that we ve heard this past week, that he believes america is not a racist country. the question we should be debating and fighting over is how do we resolve those issues goi
that to landing ships had been struck as well as communications centres. they have not really provided much evidence. as you said, we do know that sevastopol itself was attacked overnight. the russian proxy governor in sevastopol talked about air defences shooting down at least ten missiles, but what emerged also was some very striking video footage of a powerful explosion rocking the city. and that seems to have occurred in the same place as a building that was covered in satellite masks. we have yet to independently verify this, but there are reports in the ukrainian media that the main communication centre of russia s black sea fleet was the building targeted, there have been things on social media where windows in one of these buildings is shown to have been blown out. certainly a very large mast. but at this stage we cannot confirm that. russia does not usually confirm such strikes. we do know that ukraine has been hitting the russian black sea fleet quite heavily and ha