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Flooding causes further damage and disruption to parts of the UK and | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
more rain is forecast tonight. The South West of England is badly hit, | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
blocking railway networks on one of the busiest weekends of the year. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
In Scotland, one of the worst affected areas is Aberdeen show, | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
where dozens of people are forced to leave their homes. This is just | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
complete devastation. And the people are traumatised to now, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
traumatised. Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
apologises to families and pays compensation after failings in its | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
care. And it is the Christmas number one. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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The Hillsborough tribute single Good evening. The Environment | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Agency is warning of more heavy rain tonight, which could cause | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
further flooding. 170 flood warnings are in force across | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
England, Scotland and Wales. Transport has been disrupted after | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
railway lines were blocked and there have been delays on the roads, | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
too. On that in a moment. Though to the South West of England now, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
where it is the second flooding this month. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
They are tough enough to carry trains, but buckled under the sheer | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
strength of this water. The rocks that support these railways | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
sleepers simply swept away in its path. This main route disappearing | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
under the swollen river X and cutting off much of the South West | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
of England. As soon as the water stops flowing, it will take | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
engineers 48 hours to replace that track and get his main line from | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Paddington to Plymouth back up and running. At the moment there is | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
nothing they can do and the job now is to stop that water flowing down | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
the track. And mainly to stop it reaching that road building behind | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the bridge in the background. That is where the signalling his house. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
If that floods, the line could be out for up to three weeks. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Rescue workers used booms, giant bags that fill with water, to | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
divert the river back to its natural path. As the water slowly | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
lost its strength, it became clear this major route would be out of | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
action until after Christmas. water has come down from the drains | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
into the kitchen. David owns the Chinese restaurant next door. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Instead of serving Christmas parties, he is watching beer | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
bottles bobbing on his dining room floor. We have lost a lot of trade | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
but also the insurance does not cover it because of the flood plain. | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
In the South West of Scotland, the weather caused scenes of chaos. In | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Aberdeenshire, the river burst its banks and rescue teams were helping | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
people flooded from their homes. This is just complete devastation | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
and the people are traumatised now, traumatised. In South Wales, the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
heavy rain fell on already soaking ground. This money landslide heavy | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
enough to smash through a back door. -- miniature landslide. Homes were | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
evacuated, vehicles abandoned, with the flood water pushing into | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
people's houses just two days before Christmas. You have lost | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
your home and all of your belongings and you are never going | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
to replace some of the Bibles that you had. -- valuables. Overnight in | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
North Devon, police helicopter found a person in floodwater on | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
their night-vision camera. The woman had been swept from her car | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
and was later rescued clinging to a tree. Her husband had been with her | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
and saw the fast-flowing current striker downstream. -- drag her | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
down stream. I thought I would never see her again. Shaken up, but | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
before I came down here, we are glad to be alive. Seen from above, | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
it is clear just how much water has nowhere to go. For homeowners and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
emergency services alike, it is simply a nervous wait for more rain | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
tonight. The flooding has caused huge | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
disruption to those hoping to travel on one of the biggest | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
weekends of the year. Many railway routes will not be running as | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
normal until after Christmas. Passengers waiting at London's | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Paddington station. For those hoping to travel to the West | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Country, the signs warned that might take longer than planned. The | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
trains have been leaving on time but they have not been there was | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
one point went to the left as far as you could see it was just | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
flooding. It looked like a train going through an ocean. I am going | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
to go today rather than waiting to see if it is better tomorrow | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
because nobody wants to travel on Christmas Eve if they can help it. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
I knew it would be difficult so while out some extra time this end. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
Just go with the flow. -- so I allowed some extra time. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
services have been bridging the gap but that has meant delays. What can | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
you do? We thought we were going to catch a coach but now the trains | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
seem to be back on. We don't know what we are doing so it is | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
confusing. The weather has caused problems for drivers, too. This was | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
a section of the A90 in Aberdeenshire. Minor roads in some | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
areas have become impassable. This video shows the surface of one road | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
in Somerset torn apart by flooding. More overnight rain could bring | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
further disruption. The two are over rain is already saturated so | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
rainfall will cause problems. -- because of the rain, the ground is | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
already saturated. Tomorrow could prove to be challenging for | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
travellers with long journeys still ahead of them. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Our correspondent is in the village of Saltford in Somerset tonight. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
More rain on the way. What kind of impact is it likely to have? Well, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
a lot of people across a wide area are understandably anxious about | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
the next few days and the Christmas holidays. Take this river, the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
River Avon, fill to the brim once again. People here have been hit | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
twice in the last couple of weeks. Could it possibly happen again? | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Sadly the answer is that there will be more flooding somewhere in the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
country over the next few days. The Environment Agency is saying | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
tonight that more rain is coming in, and particularly vulnerable places | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
in Cornwall and North Devon, that have had a hammering over the last | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
few days, could well get a hammering again tonight and into | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Christmas Day itself. One Environment Agency officer said to | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
me that the whole country is so saturated, so soaking wet, that | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
there is nowhere for the water to go. Until we get a sustained dry | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
period, this is going to become quite normal. This is not good news | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
for the next few days. That is it from here for now. We will have a | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
weather update after this bulletin. Thank you. | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
You can keep fully up to date on the flooding by visiting our | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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website. And more specifically on In other news, the Health Secretary | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Jeremy Hunt says he is disgusted and appalled by the accounts of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
failures of care at Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust. The families | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
of 38 people have taken legal action after claims that patients | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
were left starving, dehydrated and unwashed. The trust has apologised | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
to families and agreed to pay compensation. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Thirsty but their drinks were left out of reach. Not washed for 11 | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
weeks. Left to sit in their own excrement and in one case allowed | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
to starve to death. These are just some of the many damning claims | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
about standards at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch in | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Worcestershire. After legal action, the hospital now agrees that care | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
was not good enough. 78 year-old David died in September, 2010, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
after suffering Alzheimer's. His daughter believes he was neglected | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
by staff. Although she did not complain at the time she now wishes | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
that she had. I bitterly regret not complaining about it. At the time, | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
because there was so much going on, and he had had a lot of care when | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
he came out of hospital, we did not actually make an official complaint | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
which I regret. I feel like I let him down. In a statement, Jeremy | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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Last month, the trust wrote to the families and patients involved and | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
apologised for the lack of care. They also send them around �10,000 | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
each in compensation. But managers have not admitted any legal | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
liability. The hospital says it has now turned things around. As a | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
consequence of rigorous clinical governance, changes have been made | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
to make sure patient care is excellent which has resulted in a | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
trust producing a standard of the tour mortality index below the | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
national average. -- Hospital mortality index. Hospital is also | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
looking at ways for patients to give immediate feedback about the | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
care they are receiving, which could avert the neglect that took | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
place at the Alexandra Hospital. Serie activists say that 90 people | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
were killed today in an air strike on a bakery in Hama. -- Syrian | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
activists. Halfaya was recently seized by the rebels. Women and | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
children are among the dead. Bernard Hogan-Howe has said there | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
will be a ruthless search for the chief in the investigation into the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
accusations that Andrew Mitchell called police when plebs. He denies | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
that and says he was the victim of a smear campaign. Bring us up to | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
date with the developments today. You might have thought that back in | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
September an argument over whether a Government minister could take | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
his bike through the front gates was quite trivial. But tonight it | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
is so serious that the top cop, Bernard Hogan-Howe, broke into his | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Christmas break for 24 hours to ensure that there would be a | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
relentless search for truth about the incident. He has been verbally | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
battered by some Conservative politicians. First of all Andrew | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Mitchell himself. He said that the allegation that he called police at | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
Downing Street pleb was concocted to injure the Tory party and | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
destroy his career. And then his colleagues said there was need to | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
cut out the cancer of corruption at the police and David Davis wondered | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
if there had been a conspiracy. Despite the sound and fury, the | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
official police records says that Andrew Mitchell called police | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
officers plebs in September. And on the other side of this, he says | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
quite clearly that he did not. But there has been no conclusive proof | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
either way. Thank you. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Between 800,000 up to 1 million children in Iraq have lost one or | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
both of their parents according to research by UNICEF and the | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Government in Baghdad. It is a huge problem in a country with no child | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
protection laws and only a fraction of the support services needed. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Brothers Mustafa and Murtada are being cared for in a private | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
orphanage. They lost their mother in a shoot-out in the streets. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Their father disappeared during the height of the sectarian wars in | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
Iraq. At least they have each other. Safe, withdrawn 12 year-old has no | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
one. His parents were both killed in a bomb in 2005 which also | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
injured him. I don't remember them, he told me. I was small. A man came | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
and took me away. Afterwards he explained what had happened to them. | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
There is no life when you have lost your mother and father. Every | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
single one of these boys has a harrowing story. The sheer number | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
of orphans has created a social crisis. Some fear it could | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
exacerbate the security problems in Iraq. If they are not properly | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
looked after, they could be recruited by terrorists. These | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
orphans will be exploited and will be like bombs, threat to the Iraqi | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
security in the future. We came to see what life is like in a state | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
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run orphanage. And this is what we found. This is a dilapidated, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
unloved looking place. The 52 children here are properly clothed | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
and fed, but one staff member told us this orphanage was better | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
resourced in the days of Saddam Hussein. He felt like a bird in a | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
cage. Mustafa is the oldest boy in the orphanage and when he was 11 | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
both of his parents were killed. Every day I sit and cry. Maybe in | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the future we will be involved in crimes because there is nothing but | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
for us. A senior official told that he was doing what he could but the | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
orphans of Iraq are not seen as a political priority. The money | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
allocated formerly on that issue is very limited. I want to change and | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
reform the laws so that I can provide better services and welfare | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
for the children of this country. The needs of fast. With Barnes and | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
assassinations still happening here every day, the number of orphans | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
keeps growing. -- bombs and assassinations. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
The Queen missed the church service at Sandringham this morning because | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
she is suffering from a cold. A spokesperson said that she was | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
recovering and they're expecting business as usual next week. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
The Hillsborough tribute single topped the charts tonight to become | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
the 2012 Christmas number one. Justice Collective's version of He | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother sold more than a quarter of a million | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
copies, outselling the debut single of the winner of The X Factor, | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
James Arthur. Ahead of this evening's highly | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
anticipated announcement, there were tense faces inside and outside | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
the Radio One studio. This week had been seen as a battle between the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Justice Collective and James Arthur, the winner of The X Factor this | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
year. But in the end, Justice Collective won by more than 45,000 | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
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copies. 2012 your Christmas number one is the Justice Collective! | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
# With many a winding turn. The Hillsborough tribute single, a | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
reworking of The Hollies's He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother Features 20 | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
different artists. Including Sir Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
The money it raises will be used to provide legal support for the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Moments | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
after learning they had achieved the Christmas number one, members | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
of the group including Holly Johnson gave their reaction. It is | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
really exciting, actually. I am just so happy for the families. It | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
shows a wave of love and support for them and their plight. More | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
than for us. You know, people care. It is not a novelty record. It is | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
not a contestant from The X Factor. It is a really important cause and | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
this could have happened to anybody, any teenager, any family. And just | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
to know that the British public feel for the families and they are | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
right behind them is so important. Earlier this week a new police | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
investigation was announced in to Hillsborough and there will also be | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
inquests into the deaths of the 96 Liverpool football fans who died as | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
a result of the disaster. Beating the No. 1 spot today is not just | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
about the money the single will bring in. It has also been | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
invaluable in helping maintain public awareness of what the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
families have called their continuing fight for justice. | :17:48. | :17:52. |