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Thousands of people are stranded at airports across Britain as hundreds | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
of flights are cancelled or delayed. An air traffic control problem has | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
affected most major airports since this morning and has yet to be | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
fixed. South Africans celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela, as more | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
details are announced of plans to honour the former president. And | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
clean up operation - home and business owners count the cost after | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
the most serious tidal surge in 60 years. | :00:31. | :00:51. | |
Good evening. Thousands of passengers have spent the day | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
stranded on planes and in airports after a fault at an air traffic | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
control centre. More than 200 flights were cancelled at Heathrow, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
with most of the other major airports in the United Kingdom and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Ireland affected as well. Passengers and airlines have expressed anger | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
about the delays. The problem is supposed to be fixed within the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
hour, but the disruption it's caused will continue throughout the evening | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
and into tomorrow. There has been a restriction on the | :01:16. | :01:29. | |
number of lights that can go to or from the United Kingdom. The age: 30 | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
flight from Heathrow to Bill in this morning, going nowhere. Just one of | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
many planes trapped on the ground due to technical problems with air | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
traffic control. This is where it went wrong, the National air traffic | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
control service. A problem switching from night to day operations caused | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
the chaos. Engineers said it was linked to voice communications, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
including telephones. At fixing it is proving difficult. We are not | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
100% resilient, as today has shown. But every time we have a glitch like | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
this, one of the things that we do with great effort afterwards is to | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
look at exactly what happened and why, and to make sure we don't have | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
it happen again. There is some movement today. Traffic control said | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
80% of flights have been operating. But that still leaves 20% grounded, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
affecting hundreds of planes and thousands of passengers. We tried to | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
check in, and they wouldn't let us. They said it would take a long time | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
to find out if the flight had been cancelled. Now we have to wait eight | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
hours for the next one. I came in from Trinidad, landed at Gatwick, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
transferred to Heathrow. It's just chaos, queues everywhere. I've come | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
in to find my flight is cancelled. Travel experts are warning there may | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
be more trouble ahead. Even if the system is fixed right now, there is | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
a terrible backlog of planes waiting to depart, particularly from | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Heathrow and quick. On top of that, you have pilots and aircraft in the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
wrong places. I'm afraid it's going to be pretty miserable for the rest | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
of the day. Air-traffic controllers now say they understand what has | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
caused today's chaos and they are hoping to fix the fault sometime | :03:26. | :03:26. | |
this evening. Let's get a few more details with | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
Richard Wescott at Stansted Airport. What confidence that the problem | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
will be fixed soon? I have just got off the phone to the air-traffic | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
controllers. There is still no news. They are still hoping to get it | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
fixed within an hour. Even if they do, expect delays. They are | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
inevitable, not just tonight but tomorrow as well. As ever, if you | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
are travelling, check with your airlines. Don't go thinking this is | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
some kind of high-tech computer that has gone wrong. What has happened is | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
there is an internal phone system. The controllers literally use | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
telephones to swap data about the flights. It's very important stuff. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
That system has not worked properly today. They literally could not open | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
as many work stations as they needed to cover a normal Saturday. Hence we | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
have had this reduced service. To give you some idea of the scale of | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
this, it has affected 8% of flights across the whole of Europe. 8% | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
delayed. The South African government has | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
given more details of plans to honour the former president, Nelson | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
Mandela. His funeral cortege will travel through the streets of the | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
capital, Pretoria, on three days, before his burial next Sunday. | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
On the rough edges of Johannesburg, a sombre mood today. A young Nelson | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Mandela once lived on this corner, long before he went to prison. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Signing a book of condolence in the courtyard is Clara Letswala. When | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
she was a schoolgirl, she met Mandela here, and again years later, | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
when he returned as an old man. He was a very good man. He was a man of | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
passion. Today, this is still a poor, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
sometimes violent neighbourhood. But Mandela's name prompts only | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
gratitude and respect here. We are what we are today, even though we | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
don't have good houses and some of the others have houses, and we're | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
still struggling to get houses. But for him, he has done a lot for us. | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
We love that man. So the mood is down. Everyone is just thinking of | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Mandela. Today, Mandela's grandson Ndaba joined the crowd still | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
gathering outside the family home in Johannesburg. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
South Africa is gearing up for a momentous week, with vast crowds | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
gathering, thousands lining the roads. Every world leader is heading | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
to town. The mood here for now is wavering between sorrow and | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
celebration. If you look at the crowds that are | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
gathering, this is the South Africa that Nelson Mandela created for us. | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
Even though he is not with us, he continues to unite this country. I | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
believe our leaders and the future leaders must learn from this great | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
man. Do you think they are learning? Not enough, honestly speaking. | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
Tomorrow there will be more singing as the first remembrance services | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
begin. Nearly 160 countries have struck a | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
deal which it's hoped could boost global trade. The World Trade | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Organisation agreement will cut import barriers and help developing | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
nations subsidise their farmers to safeguard food supplies. | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
Thousands of people are returning to their homes on the east coast of | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Britain after what the Environment Agency described as the most serious | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
tidal surge in 60 years. 14,000 homes were flooded, including 300 in | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Boston in Lincolnshire, from where Ed Thomas sent this report. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Clearing up and bringing Boston back to life. The floodwaters have gone, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
but the mess hasn't. The bottom oven was filled with water. Some here | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
have had their lives turned upside down. Only last week, Rebecca Callow | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
won a business award. Now her home, car and cake shop have been ruined | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
by the floods. It feels like my heart has been ripped out, because | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
everything, from the past year, I have put into this business. It was | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
a 48-hour battle for the Environment Agency, police, council and | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
firefighters to hold the waters back here. Today, the Environment | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Secretary came to Boston to thank them for their efforts. I'd really | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
pay tribute to the Environment Agency, local councils, the | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
emergency services, who have been planning well in advance. That work | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
came to fruition. Also, they moved very quickly. Here in Boston there | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
was a breach of the defences, the Environment Agency moved rapidly | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
during the night and a number of properties were saved. But we have | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
to remember this was really exceptional. It took just minutes | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
for this street to flood. It will take weeks to clear up. This will | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
give you some idea of just how ferocious the tidal surge was. The | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
height of the wet bricks gives you some clues about what the water | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
did. Compare that to the flood defences along this lane. Look at | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
the height of the sandbags. It's clear the homes and businesses here | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
did not stand a chance. Forecasters say the worst is over. But what | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
isn't known is the cost of repairing the homes and businesses battered by | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
the waves and storms. England are heading for a big defeat | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
in the second Ashes Test match at Adelaide. The Australian fast bowler | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Mitchell Johnson took seven wickets as England's batting collapsed | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
leaving them a difficult task to avoid going 2-0 down in the series. | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
There is a famous tale about the band playing on while the ship | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
sinks. The jaunty Adelaide jars, England disappeared. Joe Root | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
withstood the pace only to throw his wicket away against spin bowling. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Self-inflicted woes. Kevin Pietersen's approach to adversity | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
was one of those Pietersen shots. Australia predicted he would play | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
it. Was batting possible? Certainly for Michael Carberry, who helped | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
England to 211-3. 160, he fell. Wonderful catch from Warner which | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
put England's drops into context. Now over to Mitchell Johnson. Matt | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
prior lasted four balls. Broad went to the first he faced. Graeme Swann | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
stood around for seven. Anderson, another first ball duck. Broken | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
stumps me much more than words about open arms. No need to speak. In the | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
midst of this, Ian Bell attacked, knowing he had run out of partners. | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
He finished on 72 not out. Monty Palis are showed courage. No | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
disgrace for him. But seven wickets for Mitchell Johnson. Do in which | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
batsmen have the stomach to face him? Australia already lead by 530. | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
At some point, they will make England bat again and unleash | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Mitchell Johnson again. And there is no hiding place. Unite I in today's | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
Premier League games there were wins for Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Stoke | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
and Norwich and Newcastle won at Old Trafford for the first time in 41 | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
years. The only goal of the game was scored by Yohan Cabaye, who slotted | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
the ball into the net after 61 minutes to add more pressure on | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
United boss David | :11:19. | :11:20. |