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ferocious storms and tens of thousands without still without | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
power. As Britain counts the cost of the latest onslaught of extreme | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
weather, the Prime Minister warns flood levels are likely to rise | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
again. What we do in the next 24-hours is vital because trajly the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
river levels will rise again. Every sandbag delivered, every house | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
helped, every flood barrier put in place can make a big difference. In | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Hertfordshire, houses are evacuated after a huge sinkhole opens up. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Peace talks on Syria break down in are moany after less than half an | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
hour. And, Great Britain's Lizzie Yarnold collects her Gold medal in | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Sochi. Hello, very good evening to you, the | :00:49. | :01:08. | |
Prime Minister says the flooding crisis is set to get worse with | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
groundwater levels likely to rise in many places over the next few days. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
There are still 16 severe flood warnings, meaning a potential threat | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
to life, and tens of thousands of homes are still without power. Two | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
people died in last night's ferocious storms and more than 30 | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
people had to be rescued by the army from a seafront restaurant in | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Hampshire. Our correspondent, Chris Buckler, reports. At the edge of the | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
ocean lies evidence of its power. This seafront littered with the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
debris and destruction of a fierce storm. Cars were no match for | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
crashing waves, and this sea view put diners in the path of danger. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Today, rocks and shingle had to be cleared from the front of the marine | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
restaurant. They were thrown up by the sea, shattering windows, during | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
what was supposed to be a romantic meal on Valentine's night. The pebls | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
hitting the windows were just like bullets. Smashing the windows, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
smashing double glazing. Big boulders being hurled. That is when | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
the fear factor came into people. The army helped the emergency | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
services, rescue more than 30 people who found themselves trapped in the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
restaurant as it started to flood. We wouldn't have opened if we | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
thought it was going to be anywhere as near as bad as it was. This is | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
totally Steps exceptional. No-one was seriously injured here, the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
harsh extremes of this winter's weather have again claimed lives. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Out at sea an 85-year-old man was killed when a freak-wave hit a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
cruise ship. In London, a taxi driver died when masonry fell from a | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
building, crushing her car. Julie Sillito was 49 and had three | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
grown-up sons. Weather warnings are still in place and homes remain | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
flooded along the Thames. A calm has followed this latest storm, but the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Prime Minister knows that there are many families asking, when will all | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
of this finally go away? Tragically, these weather events have been | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
hitting community after community and doing that week after week. It | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
has been very, very tough for people. My heart goes out to anyone | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
who has been flooded. It's not just those flooded. Teams work to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
reconnect power to tens of thousands of family's homes today. The | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
conditions were dangerous at times. Along the south coast, police were | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
trying to keep people away from the waves and danger. Surrounded by all | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
of this debris you don't need too much imagination to realise the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
force of the waves last night. You can see just the big lumps here. | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Milford-on-Sea concrete beach huts, used so often in summer, haven't | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
survived the winter. I've got a bit of a beach hut. I went to a lot of | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
trouble to put a new lock on the door. I smeared it with marine | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
grease, I'm sure it still works, if I can ever find the door and wall | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
it's attached to! The possessions people once kept in those huts lie | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
scattered by the sea this evening. More lives affected by this wave | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
after wave of fierce weather. Chris Buckler, BBC News, Milford-on-Sea. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
As we've heard, despite the improving weather, flood levels | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
could peak again tomorrow. Our correspondent, Katy Watson is in | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Staines-upon-Thames, where there is currently a severe flood warning in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
place. Katy, are residents there prepared for more flooding? I spent | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
most of the days here in Staines at a school where there has been a | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
production line of people building sandbags, putting them on to lorries | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and taking them to areas that need the sandbags still. Some people are | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
disgruntled about what has been happening and whether the | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
authorities have done or haven't done enough. There has been a sense | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
that actually the authorities have got their hands full. The | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Environment Agency have their hands full. The way to get back to normal | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
really is for the community to get going. There have been charities | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
helping with the sand. The army on hand as well, trying to deliver | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
those sandbags, but the problem is that that pragmatism has to stay. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
That postivity has to remain. People here are fed up and tired. People | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
here want to get back to normal. That is the concern the weather, | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
hopefully there will be light relief there won't be any more rain. . . | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
Many thanks. Residents of a street in Hemel Hempstead were forced to | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
leave their homes after an enormous sinkhole opened up. They were | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
evacuated by police early this morning as soon as the 35 foot wide | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
hole was discovered. Jeremy Cooke reports. On the corner of a road, on | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
a suburban estate early morning drama. The ground collapsed. A | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
sinkhole, 35 feet wide, 20 feet deep, undermining the house and the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
road. The fear is that more will go, so the residents are evacuated in a | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
hurry. I just heard police knocking on the door at 7.30 am to say, "you | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
need to see rack wait, there is a sinkhole outside." I didn't get time | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
to grab anything, not even my purse or clothes. We had to get out. Local | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
residents tells us they are in no doubt that all of the torrential | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
rain of recent weeks has a lot to do with this. A reminder that all this | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
water causes problems on our coasts, with our rivers and underground as | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
well. It's not the first sinkhole to appear in recent times. This is High | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
well. It's not the first sinkhole to Wycombe, two weeks ago. The M2 in | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Kent, just a few days back. Sinkholes have not been caused by | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
the weather, they've been triggered by the weather. The cause is the | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
existence of a a cavity at depth, be it artificial or natural. The | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
trigger is actually that water passing through the ground. At the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
moment, this increased number is largely a result of the increase in | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
rainfall. The weather may be improving, but in London and beyond | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
the issues remain. Croydon's underwater treatment plant is | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
threatened with flooding, a major pumping operation continuing, 24/7 | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
to stop contamination. In many places, the impact of the floods is | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
plain to see, water everywhere. It's becoming increasingly clear that | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
underground boreholes are full to capacity. Groundwater, at record | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
high levels. Bringing landslides and sinkholes. Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Hemel Hempstead. The Foreign Secretary says the collapse of the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
latest round of Syrian peace talks is a "serious setback". William | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Hague blamed the break down on President Assad's regime. The UN | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
envoy, who has been mediating between the two sides, apologised to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
the Syrian people for the lack of extraordinary press. Our | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has this report from the Syrian city of Homs. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
It's been a week where there was some rare good news. Food and | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
medicine finally went in to the besieged old quarter of Homs. More | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
than 1,000 people were brought out, during a temporary truce between | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
rebel fighters and the government. Resolving Syria's deep humanitarian | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
crisis needs a political solution. That helped push the warring parties | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
to attend peace talks in Geneva. The second round ended today in complete | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
failure. They couldn't agree on an agenda, nor even a date for the next | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
meeting. The disheartened UN envoy ended the session with a direct | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
message to the Syrian people. I'm very, very sorry and I apologise to | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
the Syrian people that their hopes, which were very, very high that, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
that something will happen here, I think that, you know, what has... | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
The little that has been achieved in Homs gave them even more hope that | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
maybe this is the beginning of the coming out of this horrible crisis | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
they are in. The Syrian government held the other side responsible for | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
this failure. At the end, today, the international mediator came to the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
meeting with a draft agenda. We immediately accepted the draft | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
agenda, while the other side did not. The Foreign Secretary, William | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Hague, put the blame elsewhere. The failure to agree an agenda for | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
future talks is a serious setback, he said. Responsibility for that | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
lies squarely with the Assad regime. For millions of Syrians, forced to | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
flee their homes into neighbouring countries, the Geneva talks never | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
held out much hope of ending their suffering. Many of these refugees in | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Jordan saw them as irrelevant. TRANSLATION: We can only rely on God | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
and ourselves. Geneva II is a farce. None of them have a conscience. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
No-one cares about the Syrian people. No-one had high expectations | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
of these peace talks, even as they went on, thousands of people were | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
killed here in Syria. For western governments it was the only strategy | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
they had to try to end a brutal conflict around the negotiating | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
table. There is no military solution, as you can hear, inside | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
either. The only certainty is that this war looks set to continue. Many | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
fear it will only get worse. Lyse Doucet, BBC News, Homs. Now then | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
time for all the sports news, here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
Sport Centre. Hi, Lizzie. Thanks very much, Ben. Good evening. Well, | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
it's been another action-packed, but mixed day for Great Britain at the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Winter Olympics with more cheers for Golden girl Lizzy Yarnold as she | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
collected her skeleton medal, but more heartache for Elise Christie in | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
the speed skating. Andy Swiss reports from Sochi. Disqualified on | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Thursday, surely it couldn't happen again? Elise Christie's dreams of | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
redemption turned to another nightmare. She seemed to be safely | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
through her 1500m heat, the referee spotted she had skated just inside | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the black finish line, and not over it, technically, she hadn't | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
completed the race and was therefore out. It was all also a day for | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
British delight. After yesterday's victory in the skeleton, Lizzie | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
Yarnold was getting used to life as an Olympic Champion, something she | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
told me she owes to her friends and family. Seeing the tears and the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
pride in their eyes reminded me of how much we've all been through | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
together. There's been a lot of hard times and a lot of good times. And, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
it's been a long five years competing in in the skeleton, being | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
part of that time, but I couldn't have done it without them. This | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
evening, Yarnold, watched by her mum and dad, received her Gold medal. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
The smiles mingled with tears. So composed in competition, finally the | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
emotions overflowed. For the British fans then a first golden moment here | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
in Sochi. At the half way point of these Games, there will be | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
confidence of more medals to come. Andy Swiss, BBC News, Sochi. A | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
French athlete has broken the 21-year-old world record for the | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
pole vault. Renaud Lavillenie leared the bar at 6.16 metres in a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
competition in Ukraine today. That's a centimetre higher than the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
previous record set by Sergey Bubka in 1993. There were three matches in | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
the FA Cup fifth round today. Wigan are through to the quarter-finals | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
after beating Cardiff 2-1. Elsewhere, Sunderland were 1-0 | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
winners over Southampton and Manchester City won the battle of | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the big guns, beating Chelsea 2-0. Patrick Geary reports. Jose Mourinho | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
has a way of commanding attention. This week he used one of his | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
significant moves, impress conferences he has been playing mind | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
games with his rivals, only Manchester City weren't playing | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
ball. Rather they were, right around the defence. Mourinho tactically out | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
manoeuvred City's manager in the League, here they were allowed to | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
play to their strengths. No-one can match them in attack. Nasri made it | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
two, Manchester City are through. Joining them in the quarter-finals | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
are Wigan, the team that beat them in last year's final. The man who | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
scored the goal then got an even better one this time to see off | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Premier League Cardiff. Watson was again the hero for the now | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Championship club. There was a sleepy feeling at the early tie in | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Sunderland, Craig Gardiner gave the Stadium of Light a spectacular alarm | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
call. Southampton woke up and did enough to create an equaliser. It's | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
just somehow Rickie Lambert didn't score it. With that went | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
Southampton's lost hope of escape and Sunderland's Cup form continues. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
There were victories in the Scottish Premiership for Dundee United, | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
Hibernian and Motherwell, while Inverness drew with Hearts. In | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Paisley, Adam Rooney's penalty was the only goal in second-placed | :14:33. | :14:44. | |
Aberdeen's 1-0 win at St Mirren. Some of the biggest names in | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
football have being paying tribute today to Sir Tom Finney, who died | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
last night aged 91. Famous, not only for his goals, but also for his | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
loyalty to his club, Preston North End. From Deepdale, Stuart Flinders | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
looks back on the career of one of the greatest England players of all | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
time. In death, as he had been in life, Sir Tom Finney was applauded | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
enthusiastically here today. Preston North End supporters celebrated his | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
life before his team's match against Leyton Orient this afternoon. Those | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
who played on the same pitch as him recall it as a privilege. I always | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
looked at him being a national sporting icon. You know, I would | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
rank him as probably one of the greatest sports men which we | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
produced really in these islands. Sir Tom made more than 400 | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
appearances for Preston between 1946 and 1960, he is one of England's | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
all-time highest goal scorers. He remained at Deepdale throughout his | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
career. The club refusing a move to Italy at a time when his wages were | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
?14 a week. I think the greatest personal satisfaction I got was | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
being fortunate enough to be born I think with the skill which enabled | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
me to play a game I love play and would willingly have play for | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
nothing. He could become a professional football his father | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
insisted he finish his apprenticeship as a plumber, a trade | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
he returned to. Many of these supporters are too young to have | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
seen him place. His remained the most famous face in Preston long | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
after he retired. His modesty is as legendary as his talent. Sir Tom | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Finney who died last night. That's the sport. Back to you Ben. Very | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
much. That is it from us tonight. Can you see more of all of today's | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. Good night. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Good evening, whilst I can't promise you a turn around in the weather in | :16:42. | :16:53. | |
the week ahead, I can bring some light at the end of the tunnel | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
perhaps in terms of things becoming just a little quieter. Overnight | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
tonight certainly a big change from last night, the wind, which | :17:03. | :17:03. |