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A fleet of speedboats is ferrying thousands of stranded passengers from an island airport cut off by a powerful typhoon which has hit Japan. Kansai International Airport lost its link to the mainland when high waves and strong winds drove a tanker into a bridge. Robin Brant reports from Tokyo.

Jebi was the 21st typhoon of the season for Japan, but it was the strongest to hit in 25 years. One of the country's busiest airports was worst affected. At one point, only a runway was visible at Kansai International. Much of the rest of the concrete was submerged. The water has almost all receded now, but thousands are still stranded after a bridge connecting the airport to the mainland was damaged by ship blown off course. More than a million homes here are still without power.

President Trump has condemned a new book in which members of his administration are quoted calling him an idiot and describing the Trump White House as Crazytown. Bob Woodward, who helped expose President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate Scandal nearly half a century ago, portrays the administration in chaos. From Washington, here's Nick Bryant

The detail says senior aides tried to prevent Donald Trump from wielding his presidential pen, hiding official documents from his desk to stop him withdrawing the United States from the NAFTA free trade agreement and ignoring his suggestion to assassinate the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. They quote the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly describing the President is unhinged. "He's an idiot, is pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in Crazytown." The White House claims the book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees.

The former governor of the Bank of England has launched a stinging attack on Britain's preparations for Brexit, calling them incompetent. Mervyn King, who led the bank for a decade until 2013, told the BBC there was a lack of planning for the possibility that no deal would be struck, and this undermined Britain's negotiating position.

"If a government cannot take action to prevent some of these catastrophic outcomes, whatever position you take on the EU, it illustrates a whole lack of preparation. It doesn't tell us anything about whether the policy of staying in the EU is good or bad. It tells us everything about the incompetence of the preparation for it. "

Lord King has previously spoken with optimism about leaving the EU. The British government insists progress is being made with the talks.
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