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Another battering from the weather is expected, with high tides and | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
galeforce winds threatening even more flooding. Five severe flood | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
warnings are in place as winds reach more than 80 mph. | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
A row over the schools Inspectorate Ofsted. Downing Street denies it is | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
trying to pack public bodies with its conservative supporters. | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
Nail-biting finale to England's Six Nations clash with France. | :00:40. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. The Environment Agency is warning | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
that high tides tonight could bring further flooding to areas already | :01:05. | :01:16. | |
hit by bad weather. Five severe flood warnings remain in place. High | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
winds are also causing problems. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy sent | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
this report from Northmoor, in Somerset. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
New month, same old weather. The destructive cocktail of wind and | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
high tides returning today. Per farm has been underwater for four weeks. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
It is heartbreaking, we don't know when it is going to end. The Devon | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
and Somerset Fire service today beefed up its flood training | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
operation. It is now the biggest they have ever organised. We have | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
eight high-volume pumps, removing 80 litres per hour, which is the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
equivalent of one Olympic size swimming pool every hour. Everywhere | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
you go, there are pumps pumping, from great big operations to others | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
that are much more modest. It is not just the industrial pumping going | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
on. A lot of ordinary people, fed up with waiting for the authorities to | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
take action are going it alone and storing their own pumps to try and | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
keep some of the water away from their homes. Tonight, the police | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
said they were expecting more of this. The weather, as usual, staying | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
one step ahead. Certainly the forecast I have heard today | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
indicates no letup in the first week of February, so we are expecting a | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
multi-agency response to continue for the foreseeable future. Coastal | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
areas took a particular pounding. This was Fleetwood. And this was the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
seafront in Aberystwyth. Although it's punchier left the destructive | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
force last month's storm. On the River, service today ignored | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
warnings to stay off the water. While some can find an escape in all | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
of this, most prisoners of this winter. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
--most are prisoners of this interminable winter. | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Three people have been arrested after a seven-week-old baby died | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
from severe head injuries. The badly injured child, who came from the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Clarksfield area of Oldham, died in hospital. One of those arrested is | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
believed to be the child's mother. The Conservatives have been accused | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
of trying to put Tory supporters in charge of public bodies. The claim | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
has been made by the Labour Peer Baroness Morgan, after she was told | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
she would not get a second spell as head of the schools inspectorate | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
Ofsted. Downing Street has rejected the claim, saying appointments were | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
made on merit and a number of former Labour Ministers had been given | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
jobs. Our Political Correspondent Tom Barton reports. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
It sends inspectors into our schools on a daily basis, checking the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
standards of teaching and care across England. Ofsted brands itself | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
as independent and impartial, but its outgoing chair, a Labour peer, | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
says the Conservatives are playing politics with her role. I am the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
latest of a fairly long list of people now who are non-Conservative | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
supporters who are not being reappointed. I think there is | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
absolutely a pattern, and I think it is extremely worrying, because I | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
think one of the really important things about public appointments is | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
they are made on the basis of merit. Sally Morgan isn't pointing the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
finger at Michael Gove, who appointed her to the job in 2010. In | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
fact, she insists they have not had a falling out. Instead, she is | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
blaming Downing Street, claiming there is a determined effort there | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
to recruit Tory sympathisers to public bodies like the Arts Council | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
and the Charity Commission. A senior source inside Number Ten has | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
described these accusations as baseless, while officials are keen | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
to point out there is a number of senior Labour figures in top jobs. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Simon Stephens, a former Labour adviser, is about to become the | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Chief Executive of NHS England, while two former Labour Cabinet | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
ministers are carrying out reviews for the coalition into pensions and | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
social mobility. There are hundreds of public bodies in the UK and who | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
runs them matters, because they control everything from the food we | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
eat, to the state of the roads to our gas and electricity. The | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Conservative Party Chairman insists the Government is simply focused on | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
getting the best people for the job. We have to make sure that we have | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
the right people in place to deliver Government policy. There is now | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
likely to be pressure on Number ten to steer clear of Conservative Party | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
supporters when the head of Ofsted is appointed. Already, Liberal | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Democrats are privately saying whoever gets the job should do so | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
based on their experience and their knowledge, rather than their | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
political affiliations. The US Secretary of State John Kerry | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
has sharply criticised Ukraine over its handling of anti-government | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
protests. It comes after allegations that a senior opposition leader was | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
abducted and tortured. The demonstrations in Ukraine, over the | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
country's ties with the European Union and Russia, began last | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
November but turned violent last month. Duncan Crawford's report from | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Kiev contains images you may find distressing. | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
Entrenched in their positions. Anti-government demonstrations show | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
no sign of ending. But this front line now feels like it has become a | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
tool wrist attraction as well as a battle zone. And despite the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
freezing temperatures, the protests see more determined than ever. We | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
will stay here, we will fight for our country. We will fight for our | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
freedom. People's anger has been fuelled by the latest allegations of | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
torture. Dmytro Bulatov, a well-known activist, says he was | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
kidnapped and repeatedly beaten for eight days. He is now being treated | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
in hospital. TRANSLATION: The most horrifying thing is they crucified | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
me, they nailed me to something. Police have suggested the kidnapping | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
was staged, a theory dismissed by protesters the American ambassador | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
paid a visit earlier in a show of solidarity. Dmytro Bulatov remains | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
in hospital here, he is under police guard. The fact that US and EU | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
officials came here today reflect the growing international pressure | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
over what is happening. Russia has already warned the West against | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
interfering, but Western pressure is growing. At a conference in Munich, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
it was all smiles to begin with. But the world's top diplomats couldn't | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
pretend along. Ukraine, just the latest incident to stir up angry | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
exchanges between the West and Russia. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
TRANSLATION: Why don't we condemn those who seize and hold government | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
buildings, attack and torch the police, use racist, anti-Semitic and | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Nazi slogans? The vast majority of Ukrainians want to live freely, in a | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
safe and prosperous country. And they are fighting for the right to | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
associate with partners who will help them realise their aspirations. | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
This whole crisis started at the Ukraine scrapped plans for closer | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
ties with the EU -- after. In favour of Russia. But no these protests | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
have become about much more, a direct challenge to the President's | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
rule, and people of all ages are being drawn into the conflict. | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
OK, we turn to sport now with rugby, and it was a nail-biting finale to | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
England's match in the Six Nations just now. In the end, France one, | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
26-24. -- won. Better news for Wales as they beat Italy 23-15. Joe Wilson | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
has been watching. A new Six Nations, same old stuff, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
please, Cardiff requested. Wales favourites again. Who was going to | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
stop them this season? Italy? Well, nearly. When you are three minutes | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
into your debut defending the line, just get something on the ball. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Horrible for Italy, lovely start the Wales. After a second try by | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
half-time, Jamie Roberts breaking through, finished by Scott | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
Williams. But what next? Suspicions of an Italian forward pass here. Not | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
so, said the officials, and what followed was unmistakable skill and | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
speed. Campagnaro, a 20-year-old, calmly and quickly bringing his team | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
back into the match. So Wales knew about Campagnaro now. Leigh | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Halfpenny passed the ball straight to him. With every stride to the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
line, Wales suddenly contemplated the possibility of defeat. In the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
end, despite Campagnaro's her relics, Wales hung on to win 23-15. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
-- heroics. Nothing rampant all resplendent about his performance. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
The best thing Wales can say is they began with a victory and in Paris, | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
France and England would settle for something similar. England feared | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
the match was over as soon as it started. France scored the strike | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
after 30 seconds, the ball bouncing their weight. How about bouncing | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
back? England lead in the second half until, with three minutes to | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
go, France worked a move to the wing for the decisive score. Breathtaking | :10:40. | :10:42. |