So the people in the philippines are on a state of high alert tonight, waiting to see what happens with taal volcano. Australias prime minister, scott morrison, has expressed regret over his handling of the bushfire crisis, following widespread criticism of his governments response. On Kangaroo Island, in the state of south australia, almost half the land has been scorched and scientists are worried about the fate of many endangered species. Our correspondent shaimaa khalils report from there contains images of animals killed in the fires. Its an ecological disaster so big the army have been called in to help. For the second time in less than a week, bushfires have ravaged stretches of land here, destroying Natural Habitats and killing tens of thousands of animals. I dont think anyone would like to pick up,
you know, deceased wildlife. Its not a fun task. Theres been a lot of devastation. It hasnt been easy for people, and well be here as long as they need us, and will do whatever we p
Where you can also follow the build up to the lunchtime kick off in the premier league, bournemouth taking on watford, both sides in the relegation zone. Thats all the sport for now. Time for the Weather Forecast with sarah. After a fair bit of fine and dry weather on sunday, Stormy Weather on the cards. Strong, disruptive winds on monday and into tuesday and some heavy rain around at times as well. As we head through the rest of sunday, largely clear skies with a few showers in scotland. Into this evening and overnight, some rain showers working across england and wales but generally clear skies. A cold night with temperatures close to freezing in the north. Frost free towards the south first thing on monday. Starting off on a dry note but there is a storm approaching from the west with lots of isobars indicating its going to be a very windy day, wherever you are. They will pick up. Sunshine for central and eastern parts but heavy rain working in from the west and gales developing. Fu
Storm brendan has swept into parts of the uk, hitting Northern Ireland and scotland with winds of nearly 90 mph. High winds are forecast across much of scotland and some schools are shut with delays to road, ferry and rail. Across the rest of the uk there is disruption, as our correspondent danny savage reports. As storm brendan swept in from the atlantic, it was ireland which bore the brunt. The weather was described as wild an apt description for the conditions in greyabbey. This is warrenpoint, in county down. The cars were stranded in floodwater, but this was one bus driver determined to get through. Oh, god in carrickfergus, just outside belfast, there was more severe flooding as the sea over topped defences. There were also power cuts to many homes in the region. 0n the other side of the irish sea, there was damage, too. This is gwynedd, in north wales, where a tree came down on a vehicle. Luckily, nobody was hurt. The concern overnight is that spring tides could bring some flood
Debenhams has begun closing 19 of its stores as part of plans to try to secure its future. In another blow to the high street, mothercare will stop trading today, with the loss of 2,800 jobs. Our business correspondent, emma simpson has more. From kirkcaldy in fife, and wolverhampton, to Walton Upon Thames in surrey, debenhams is pulling out. Not much left for bargain hunters, though. 50 stores are to go, the first wave this month, the rest in 2021, a restructuring to save the rest of the business. This is altrincham, one of six to close today. Once our generation is gone, in another30 years, therell be no shops. We used to buy quite a lot of stuff from there. Yeah, very sad, and i feel for the staff as well. Debenhams has been struggling for yea rs, debenhams has been struggling for years, weighed down with debt and falling sales. It did a restructuring deal to cut costs and close its worst performing shops. This year is make or break. For mothercare the challenges were too great. It
Competition act, it would be illegal if they were to talk to each other and coordinate fares, even though they are setting fares in one National Fares database. They are setting fares in one National Fares data base. And they are setting fares in one National Fares database. And we have fa res National Fares database. And we have fares regulation now which constrains operators and what they can do when british rail was pretty unconstrained in moving fears to solve the problem. And how big a saving can there be if people want to go this route . It depends. You will not generally find too many fa res will not generally find too many fares anomalies on major routes to and from london, except of the sort where you are crossing the peak, off peak boundary. It happens most with the base case savings on obscure routes like scarborough to exmoor, where you have a lot of different trains and companies and pricing managers and they are all pricing managers and they are all pricing different part