Hello and welcome to News Hour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
And we begin this programme in the Philippines,
which for the second time in less than a week is being battered by a super typhoon.
Close to a million people have been told to evacuate from the areas most likely to be affected,
particularly along the coast where flooding is expected.
Storm surges of up to three metres are also predicted and there are warnings of ferocious winds gusts of up to 230 kilometers an hour.
Typhoon Fung Wong was expected to make landfall within the past hour or so.
It's just a matter of days since Typhoon Kalmagi left at least 200 people dead in the Philippines.
Well, just over an hour ago we got through to Elisa Ventilacion,
who's in with the Philippines Red Cross in Aurora on the coast and right in the path of Super Typhoon Fung Wong.
In fact, you can here in the background the torrential rain as she gave us the latest.
Right now we have a strong winds with heavy and intense rain and there are also about 1m to 3m storm surge in some coastal areas.
So there are some areas which are not passable because of the landslide in the area.
So, Elisa, we can actually hear the rain very clearly.
It sounds torrential at the moment.
And you say there's high winds in this storm surge.
People were being urged to evacuate certainly from coastal areas.
And I wonder how that's gone, because if this storm surge is at one meter, as you say,
and there's torrential rain, surely flooding is going to be a real problem in low-lying areas.