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live from london, this is bbc news. super typhoon fung-wong makes landfall in the philippines. at least two people have already died with nearly a million forced to evacuate the philippines’s most populous island, luzon. this is not the first typhoon this season, but it might be, in terms of its size, the biggest. and it is carrying huge quantities of rain. king charles leads the nation in a two-minute silence to remember those who have died in conflict, as part of remembrance sunday commemorations. the uk will deploy troops to belgium after suspected russian drone activity was reported near the country’s airports. us senators hold a rare saturday session to try to find a solution to the record-breaking government shutdown, now in its 40th day.

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hello, i’m martine croxhall. a powerful super typhoon has made landfall in the philippines. known as fung-wong, the typhoon crossed the coastline in the country’s north at 9:10 in the evening local time. this is the view of the typhoon from space - giving you an idea of the scale. the storm has now reached super typhoon status - meaning the sustained winds are in excess of 240 kilometres per hour or 150 miles per hour. fears of heavy rain and storm surges have forced people from their homes - with some seeking shelter in churches. this storm is just days after another typhoon killed at least 200 people in the philippines and left a trail of destruction. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head sent this report from the philippines.

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well, the wind is really picking up here in eastern luzon. we can’t go out any further away from our hotel, there’s debris flying around out there. you can see the trees blowing behind me, and there are great sheets of rain driving across the roads. this is not the first typhoon this season, but it may be in terms of its size, the biggest, and it’s carrying huge quantities of rain. and that’s what’s really worrying the authorities here. for the moment, people are sheltering in any solid buildings they can find. earlier today we watched coastal areas evacuating people, leaving anywhere near the sea, or any low lying or flimsy houses, and moving into sports centres, city halls, any kind of solid building where they can shelter for the night while these driving winds cross the country. but that rain brings with it the risk of landslides and of flash floods. and remember, it was flash floods that killed so many people just a week ago in the central philippines, caught them completely by surprise.

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so it’s not until this storm has done its worst and passed us that we will know how much water has been left, and how much damage that may have done. people here are generally pretty resilient, but they are getting an awful lot of typhoons now, this has been a very tough year. they’ve had a bad earthquake as well, and the emergency services have been at full stretch. but right now it’s night time for everyone who’s in this area is take shelter and simply wait until the storm eases. what is a super typhoon and how do they differ from the usual typhoons? super typhoons are extremely powerful tropical cyclones in the western pacific. they have sustained winds of at least 150mph - about 241kmh. they form over warm ocean waters near the equator and can cause catastrophic wind, rain, and storm surge damage. the strongest storms on earth, they often span more than 500km across. super typhoons can double their wind speed in under a day.

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king charles has led national commemorations for those who died for their country - in two world wars and other conflicts. a two-minute silence was observed at the cenotaph in london. services also took place in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. graham satchell reports. choral singing. in glorious autumnal sunlight, the cenotaph in whitehall, the annual focus of a moment of national remembrance. in roman numerals on the side, 1945. it’s the 80th anniversary of the end of world war ii, and centre stage this year, 20 world war ii veterans, and the youngest is now 98. the real heroes are out there lying under crosses, that is how i feel about it. we are lucky to be here.

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i am so proud of the men, the ladies, the uniform, everything. it is not difficult to feel a bit emotional. in timeless fashion and largely unchanging form, the ceremony of remembrance has taken place in every peacetime year since 1918. at 10:58, the king led out the royal party, and with him, prince william the prince of wales and prince edward the duke of edinburgh. princess anne, the princess royal, is at a remembrance service in australia. the king’s brother, andrew, is no longer a serving member of the royal family. a salute in readiness for the national two minutes’ silence when those who lost their lives in the two

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world wars and other conflicts are remembered. big ben tolls. after the sounding of the last post, the king laid his wreath on behalf of the nation against the cenotaph’s northern face, and the prime minister, sir keir starmer, and other political leaders laid their wreaths, followed by high commisioners and military chiefs. and then it was the turn of the veterans, some

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10,000 men and women, to march past the cenotaph. pride of place, the world war ii veterans. the youngest marching today - just eight, the oldest - 104. they march in remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. graham satchell, bbc news. uk military personnel have been sent to belgium, to help defend against suspected russian drone incursions. speaking to the bbc sir richard knighton said his belgian counterpart had asked for assistance earlier this week. our global affairs correspondent joe inwood has more. brussels airport, the busiest airport in belgium was briefly shut down by what are thought to have been drones in the sky. we have seen some pictures of them, it’s very, very hard to see but there is something in the sky above the airport and that caused a huge amount of disruption, obviously, a lot of cost, a lot of journeys ruined.

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but what’s quite interesting about this is the response of the belgians is to ask for help from nato members. so they have gone to the military alliance to ask for help and it does show their thinking as to who might have been responsible. we should say the belgian have said at the moment they don’t have any hard evidence certainly that they can publish that says that it was russia. but the belgians and the germans do seem to think that is where the finger should be pointed. so what sort of assistance is the uk providing? the uk is sending what’s called its counter un-crewed aerial systems wing. now this is an raf unit, we can see the pictures there. it is a unit that specialises in detecting and shooting down, if necessary, drones or any kind of threat in the sky. we should say this isn’t the first time that the british have sent this system abroad or these teams abroad. they are involved in the paris olympics, it’s understood as well as protect an eu mission in denmark.

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other countries further to the east in europe have reported issues with drones they believed to be russian. to what extent was that a different set of circumstances? specifically i think it was around september, there were three incidents, the one that was most troubling was the one that took place in poland. there, about 20 russian drones flew into polish airspace, some of them were shot down by nato jets. now, we should draw a distinction here. in that instance there was no doubting, where those were, these were drones that had come, they could track where they had come from, they were military-type drones. in this instance, we don’t know that that’s the case. they are separate incidents, but they are being seen, certainly by people who think this is where the threat comes from, as part of russia’s hybrid warfare, its attempts to destabilise the west and cause uncertainty. there’s not just drones involved in this, there is talk of poisonings, of sabotage,

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of killings as well. this is seen as this bigger picture of russia’s hybrid campaign against europe. at least one person has died, nine people have been rescued and dozens of people are missing after a migrant boat capsized near the thai-malaysian border. it sank near the southern thai island of tarutao. maritime officials say they believe those onboard were part of a group of 300 people who’d been travelling on a larger vessel before splitting onto smaller boats as they approached malaysian waters. search operations are under way for the other vessels. local media has suggested the migrants onboard where members of myanmar’s rohingya minority fleeing persecution. the culture secretary, lisa nandy, has said that the bbc is facing “serious allegations” about a panorama programme, which is reported to have misled viewers

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by editing a speech by us president donald trump. she said she was confident the bbc chairman samir shah was treating the issue “with the seriousness it demands”. it’s expected that mr shah will offer an apology when he reports to mps, as noor nanji reports. the panorama trump: a second chance was broadcast in october last year, just before the american election. one sequence featured this... we’re gonna walk down to the capitol and i’ll be there with you and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country any more. donald trump speaking on the day of the assault on the capitol building in january 2021. what sounds like one sentence is from different parts of the speech, 54 minutes apart. a former bbc external adviser, michael prescott, is said to have voiced concerns about the way the speech was edited in an internal editorial report seen by the telegraph newspaper.

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now the culture secretary has indicated the bbc has serious questions to answer. it isn’t just about the panorama programme, although that is incredibly serious. there are a series of very serious allegations made. the most serious of which is that there is systemic bias in the way the difficult issues are reported at the bbc. i’ve spoken to the chairman this week. i am confident he is treating this with the seriousness that that demands. the bbc has said it doesn’t comment on leaked documents, but says it’s taking feedback seriously and carefully. its chairman, samir shah, will report back to a parliamentary select committee tomorrow. the bbc is expected to apologise. while michael prescott is due to appear before the committee. i have never believed the great conspiracy theory that the bbc is some sort of terrible organisation, determined to lie to the world. i think it has faults and imperfections. the row over panorama comes as the bbc faces criticism on a number of other fronts, as well, including over

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its middle east reporting, and over its coverage of trans issues. not for the first time, the bbc is under scrutiny. the question is - will an apology be enough to take the pressure off? noor nanji, bbc news. israel has said they have received the remains of a body from the red cross. hamas says it belongs to a military officer, hadar goldin, who was killed in the gaza war of 2014. israeli forensic experts will carry can out forensic tests to determine the identity of the remain. people in iran’s second biggest city, mashhad, have been told to ration water as the country falls its worst drought in decades. according to officials levels at reservoirs supplying the northeastern city have fallen below 3%. similary in the captial tehran, city authorities announced on saturday that water would be cut during certain times of the day. with me is our reporter behrang tajdin.

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what is the situation like at what is the situation like at the the moment? in several major cities cities including five of the seven seven most popular cities in iran, iran, reservoirs are either dry or or very close to that point. you you know, autumn is the start of of the rainy season in iran, but but this year there hasn’t been any any ran in 15 out of 31 provinces, provinces, especially those who were were already facing water crisis. crisis. there hasn’t been any rain rain at all. the head of the national national climate centre has warned warned in the next ten days or so so there is no rain forecast. the the cities, including tehran, mashhad, mashhad, these are all running out out of water, there is no water left. left. because of that, the authorities authorities are basically begging begging people to cut use and are are planning to cut water at certain

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certain periods, partly to stop the the leaking. because the infrastructure infrastructure is very old, very very leaky and if they basically basically turn off the taps for the the city, at least if people change change the time of their use, there there would be less water leaking leaking out of the pipes. how much much of this is to do with climate climate change, can they tell? it it is not easy to determine but if if you look long-term averages of of rainfall in iran, in only three three decades it has fallen by 20%. 20%. it used to be around 250 millimetres millimetres per year, it is now around around 200 millimetres per year. year. but for the past five years, years, iran has had bouts, which which means less than average rainfall. rainfall. it is kind of exacerbated exacerbated the situation to the the point that we are at a point

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point of crisis in many cities. on on thursday the president warned warned that if in the next month month or so rain doesn’t fall into into iran or areas close to tehran tehran they might have to evacuate evacuate the capital, which is a a city of around 10 million people. people. why has the infrastructure infrastructure been allowed to get get into this bad state? like a lot lot of other stuff, mismanagement, mismanagement, not enough money, money, the country has been facing facing an economic crisis for the the past two decades, partly due due to the sanctions that were put put on iran as a result of its nuclear nuclear activities and nuclear ambitions. ambitions. these have caused... so so every year the government says says it is going to invest a certain certain amount of money in the infrastructure infrastructure and capital investment investment projects. and by the end end of the year, half of it or even

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even less is spent because they don’t don’t have the money so they say say by not spending on infrastructure, infrastructure, this is a story that that has been going on for many, many, many years and we are seeing seeing it through right now. thank thank you very much. the news of draught in iran comes as this years climate summit is set to get under way in belem in brazil on monday - and for much of the next two weeks several world leaders will be notable only by their absence. india, china, russia and the us are not attending this year’s summit amid waning enthusiasm for tackling the climate crisis amid the worldwide cost of living crisis and increased conflict. so nearly a decade after the paris agreement - where parties agreed to keep the increase in global warming to under 1.5 celsius degrees over the next century - how did we get here? dr simon evans, deputy editor of climate change news website carbon brief explained why progress on the issue had stalled.

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it’s certainly the case that, you know, it’s certainly in the period that i’ve been covering climate change, this is one of the most fraught in terms of the sort of geopolitics of it. you know, the attacks on, on climate action from right wing populist politicians and particularly president trump, but not only also in, you know, in the uk, we’ve had the fracturing of the kind of political consensus around the need to take action on climate change. and so, yeah, it’s been seen as a real test of this multilateral regime. can countries work together to, you know, to advance action on climate change? can they continue to make progress? i mean, i think it’s worth reflecting on where we’ve got to, you know, nearly a decade since the paris agreement was sealed ten years ago. at that time, you know, it looked like global warming was heading for something like 3.5 or even four degrees this century. now, the latest projections from the un

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environment programme earlier in the week were saying more like 2.5 degrees, depending on how completely countries fulfil the pledges that they’ve made. so, you know, that’s a significant amount of progress. it’s obviously a long way from being enough to keep warming to 1.5, which was the aspiration, as you mentioned, of the paris agreement. but it’s nevertheless, you know, we’ve come a long way since then. us senators will reconvene for a rare sunday session to try to find a solution to the record-breaking government shutdown. republicans have rejected an offer by democrats to pass the current funding bill, in exchange for a one-year extension to health care subsidies. the 40-day shutdown has sidelined many federal workers and affected food welfare payments as well as causing the cancellation of thousands of flights due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. but the republicans and democrats are still far apart. i know many republicans stormed out the gate to dismiss this offer, but that’s a terrible mistake. our offer is not a new policy. this is not negotiating in a shutdown, it’s simply

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agreeing to maintain current funding levels. a one-year extension is something many republicans themselves have said they want. it’s something a great many americans support. 55% of trump supporters support it, after all, so it’s alarming that republicans even refuse to acknowledge we have an immediate crisis right now that needs fixing. the democrat leader’s proposal is a non-starter for the republican majority. the democrat leader wants to believe that this is a “simple proposal”, that it is some sort of compromise, but it is not. one of the most pressing arguments during the shutdown is over the issue of snap benefits. these are welfare payments - which were previously known as food stamps - made to an estimated 42 million americans on low incomes to help them pay for groceries and other essentials. here is jennifer lemmerman who works at a foodbank

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in boston explaining how the stoppage is affecting them. it is really chaotic right now for families who aren’t sure what to expect. they really can’t plan in this environment. here in massachusetts, we do know that some families, about half of families and folks who are participating in the snap programme have received their benefits, they’ve received full amount. and that’s because before the, you know, supreme court ruling when the federal judge ruled that 100% of benefits should go out, massachusetts was able to act really quickly and get out the benefits that had been missed thus far. so about half of the recipients here in massachusetts had missed payments since the november first shutdown of snap, and they now do have that on their cards. but about half are really in limbo right now, and they don’t know what’s going to come next. you know, the people who are participating

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in the snap program, the majority of them are seniors, people with disabilities, children, there working families who don’t make enough wage to be able to afford the high cost of living in a state here, like here in massachusetts, and this really allows them to put food on the table. and so when this is taken away and when this uncertainty is sort of over the entire program, it makes it really impossible for families to plan and to know that they’re going to be able to put food on the table in the coming days and weeks. you know, it just honestly, uh, it doesn’t bear out the facts right now. we know that there is a contingency fund for this exact purpose. it’s to keep snap going in the event of a government shutdown or an emergency. and it is there and ready to be distributed. and so the idea that because the government is shut down, snap has to shut down as well, is simply just not true. and so we are really fighting to make sure

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that people can be sure that they are going to get their benefits. and we are really advocating that contingency fund get used and that people get the benefits that they need. it’s actually been a really tough month for a lot of folks who participate in this programme, because the first round of changes from that piece of legislation, the one big beautiful bill, were set to take effect on november 1st. that happened to also be the first day that due to the government shutdown people started to see that their benefits were not being put on their card. so there’s been a lot of uncertainty. people were already trying to figure out how they might be impacted by the changes that were passed into law. and now on top of it, there’s a, you know, this sort of shadow of are they going to send the benefits out? are they not going to send them out? and whether people will be getting those in the coming weeks? many people know about the famous truce of christmas 1914 when british and german soldiers stopped fighting,

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but a newcastle university professor says a similar, just as remarkable, event also took place in the second world war. nick megoran travelled to japan in june as part of a team researching a ceasefire between us and japanese soldiers on aka island in 1945. jo lonsdale reports. the battle of okinawa in 1945 was one of the most brutal of world war ii. amid this bloodshed, lieutenant colonel george clark was tasked with taking aka island for the americans, but instead of fighting, he used loudspeakers to appeal for a surrender and persuaded japanese pows to help negotiate a truce. nick megoran has published research on the cease fire of christmas 1914, but knew nothing of this later event during the second world war until he was sent

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we seem to have lost that report. not report. not to worry, we will see see whether we can go back to that. the world of music has been celebrating its legends. the rock & roll hall of fame is welcoming a new class of inductees, honouring artists whose influence has shaped generations and defined the sound of our times. for the first time the list includes chubby checker, the 1960s icon who sparked a dance craze with the twist. it gives me a stitch just to think about that one! the late english singer joe cocker, the icon cyndi lauper and the ground-breaking hip-hop duo outkast. with that - making landfall in the philippines, sustained winds winds of 185 kilometres an hour and

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and gusts of 235 kilometres an hour, hour, according to the country’s country’s meteorological service. service. we have got time to show show you a few pictures from hawaii. hawaii. they always look particularly particularly dramatic at night. this this is the volcano, one of the well’s well’s active volcanoes and it has has been p ridley thing since 2024. 2024. it is spewing lava from its its summit, that began on friday. friday. official think there is an an uptick in activities this

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