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Britain braces itself as more severe weather is forecast and | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
floods and power cuts continue to cause disruption. Warnings of 70 | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
mile an hour winds and torrential rain look set to bring more misery | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
to thousands. We are live in Somerset, where | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
council staff working to that night to prepare for what is to come. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Confidence not high at the EU budget talks - one Euro MP said it | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
would take a miracle for a deal to be reached. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Keeping the lights on and carbon emissions down - but it's customers | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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who'll foot the bill for the government's new energy plans. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Feeling the pressure - why some hospitals and residential homes | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
aren't looking after their patients properly. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And the perils of a postman - 3,000 were attacked by dogs last year. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Now there are calls for more protection. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
No wins this season, so QPR sacked their manager Mark Hughes. Harry | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC news at 1pm. Flooding has | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
caused chaos to many parts of the UK - there are severe delays on | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
roads and railways and weather forecasters are predicting more | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
torrential rain and gale force winds to come at the weekend. A man | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
died after his car became stuck under a bridge in a village south | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
of Bristol And a pensioner had to be rescued after his car became | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
trapped by rising water. There are currently more than 77 flood | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
warnings for England and Wales and five in Scotland. Our correspondent | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
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Robert Hall is in Taunton. Very busy day here. They have failed | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
8000 sandbags are so far at this depot in Taunton. Up in north | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Somerset, for a while, they actually ran out and have had to | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
replenish stocks. Every available person filling sandbags. The | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
priority is to be ready to help those most in need. With the storm | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
came tragedy. Travellers familiar with the Ford in the village of | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Chew Stoke could not have expected to a threat to life. But the volume | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
of flood water trapped his four by four against a wooden footbridge. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Emergency crews managed to release the driver from the car, but he | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
died before he reached hospital. The water would be just up to my | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
waist, standing in the road, so access was terrible. The water | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
going down there was a raging torrent. The gales and torrential | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
rain lashed England and Wales for much of the night. A resident | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
belong to these scenes in a North Wales. Water from the slopes of | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Snowdonia combining to create a flash floods, blocking the path of | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
rescuers trying to reach those most in need. Helicopters were called in | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
to aid the rescue of a woman whose car had been swept 100 metres down | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
a swollen river. Back in Somerset, the loss of a retaining wall in | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Bath allowed a massive boulder and tons of earth to slide across the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
road below, leaving one property perched precariously above the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
landslip. Water levels have been falling this morning, but | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
communities at risk of flooding were warned not to drop their guard. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
You have got to sign up for a Free Environment Agency flood warning. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
They are essential if you're at risk of flooding. In time a flood, | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
do tune into your local BBC radio station. At a motorway services | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
station, we saw preparations for the next band of bad weather. Heavy | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Poms and specialist rescued units from by the grades across the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
south-west will be moved to where they are most needed. Today's race | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
but was given emergency services and local councils time to read | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
group -- today's a respite. They know that all too soon they will | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
watch the blood Waters rising once more. It is not just here that | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
things are busy. The council teams across this county, across all the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
affected councils -- counties are out there, clearing drains, getting | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
roads reopened. The Cheddar gorge, there is so much rock on the road | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
being carried away by the water that drivers are getting punchers, | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
so they have had to close it and clear it. That is the picture that | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
has been repeated across this area. The skies may be blue, but there is | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
no respite. Let's look at what is to come with our weather presenter. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
People are very fearful about what happens if this continues in the | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
same vein or get worse. This is the calm before the next storm, if you | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
like. We see the flood warnings decrease over the next 24 hours, | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
but we are going to see more wet and windy weather coming in across | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
southern parts of England and Wales. We will see the rain arriving | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
through the course at Saturday, the Met Office have a weather warning | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
enforce the areas like Devon, Somerset, round about the Bristol | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
area, south and west Wales as well. The accumulation of rain will be | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
around 20 to 40 mm. We have seen a lot of flooding in this area, we | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
have flood warnings in force right now, so any extra rain will | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
exasperate the problems. But it is a two-pronged attack, because the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
winds would become the main story, across parts of south-east England. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
Areas like Sussex, Kent, Essex and Suffolk, we will see winds of | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
around 60 miles an hour inland, 70 miles per hour around the coast. I | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
will have before round-up later on. European leaders gathered in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Brussels are pessimistic about the prospect of an agreement over the | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
future budget of the EU without another meeting. The leaders of | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
France and Germany have already said they doubt that an agreement | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
can be reached, and David Cameron has admitted not enough progress is | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
being made. Deep divisions remain between countries who want | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
reductions in spending and those who would like to see increases. | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
Mathew Price sent this report. On the horizon at dawn, just a | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
glimmer of sunlight. Just a glimmer of hope, too, that this summit | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
could end well. They call this the family photo. But it is a family | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
tearing itself apart over comparatively small amounts of | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
money. After a full day of one-on- one negotiations, the summit | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
meeting began just before midnight, with a reworked budget plan. The | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
French president of the hardest negotiation has yet to begin. The | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
latest proposal is better for France and others who want to see | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
agricultural subsidies protected. Better, too, for poorer countries | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
that want development spending maintained. But infrastructure | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
projects in transport, energy and broadband will get less funding, so | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
to you development aid and the EU's diplomatic Service. Back to work | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
this morning, Britain still playing hardball. There really is a problem | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in terms of there hasn't been the progress in cutting back proposals | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
for additional spending. It isn't a time of the tinkering, a time for | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
moving money from one part of the Budget to another. We need an | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
affordable spending cut. This is a tough balancing act for David | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Cameron. Back home he is under political pressure not to give an | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
inch, yet if he doesn't, he risks a frustrating many of the other EU | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
countries. The UK is already seen as a bit of a problem in Europe, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
and Britain's influence and its standing could be about to worsen. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
So where is all this heading? Countries like Spain, whose high- | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
speed trains were partially funded by the EU, are clear. They cannot | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
allow any Budget changes to hit their already struggling economies. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
But David Cameron and his allies, who met in the last few hours, are | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
equally determined they will freeze spending. | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith. A | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
family tearing itself a part, are they saying that report. Where are | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
the main sticking points now? main sticking points would not seem | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
to be the money. Because the difference between the big spenders | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
and the budget cutters is not insurmountable. This Putin point is | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
the politics, and here we are not just talking about Britain's tough | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
stance -- the sticking point. David Cameron's language has irritated | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
other leaders, but many countries have red lines. France will not | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
accept cuts in farm spending, the European Parliament were not accept | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
cuts to infrastructure project, and it is a bit like a particularly | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
dastardly Rubik's Cube. At the moment, EU negotiations have not | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
managed to align all the different red lines and all the different | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
domestic political considerations to enable a deal to be done, and | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
visit -- German Chancellor is warning through her aides that all | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
27 leaders may have to come back here next year and try again. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
you. The steel company, Tata, is to cut | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
900 jobs and close 12 of its sites in the UK. Most of the job losses | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
will be at Port Talbot in South Wales. Others will go in Yorkshire, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the West Midlands and on Teesside. Tata said the move was designed to | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
increase its competitiveness. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
is in Port Talbot. Very unwelcome news, particularly for those most | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
affected in South Wales. Yes, although most people here seem to | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
be accepting today is terrible news with a grim sense of inevitability. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Back in the summer, Tata had to reduce the number of hours and | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
change shift support workers here, so many will have seen it coming, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
particularly if they looked at the company's order book. There has | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
been a huge demand in steel -- drop in demand for steel across Europe, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the company said the order book is 25% down up. Unions have been | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
speaking to management, they are keen that redundancies will be made | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
on a voluntary basis. However 500 jobs at this plant a loan, it is | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
difficult to see that can be achieved. Is there any silver | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
lining in the company saying it is investing it for the longer term? | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Yes, they are in the process of rebuilding a blast furnace here at | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
Paul toppled -- report will but, which suggests they are investing, | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
however it is the medium and short Christmas up for workers that they | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
will be worried about. Most workers are added restrictive, managerial, | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
the white-collar workforce. They will be the ones, sadly, looking | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
for new jobs in the new year. Gas and electricity bills are | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
likely to rise in the coming years, after the Conservatives and Liberal | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Democrats reached a deal on energy policy. The Government's long- | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
awaited energy bill will allow energy companies to charge | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
customers more to create a new, greener, energy infrastructure but | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
ministers say it will mean lower bills in the longer term. Our | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
business correspondent John Moylan reports. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
How can we keep the lights on, meet our environmental commitments and | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
ensure affordable energy fall? That is what Lib Dem and Tory ministers | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
have been arguing over four weeks, but now they have reached a deal to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
stop and -- at its heart is an increase in the funding of green | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
energy, to �7.6 billion a year by 2020, three times the current level. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
But it will be paid for by a levy on how bills, from around �20 today | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
to as much as and �95 by the end of the decade -- on our bills. We are | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
putting investment in to clean energy, that will cost some money. | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
It is about 2% of people's bills, by 2020 it will be about 7%. I'm | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
not going to hide that from you. But we are going to save energy and | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
save money. The reforms I announced will also help people, and the net | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
effect will be built that are lower than they would otherwise have been. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
The detailed will come in at the station next week. It is designed | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
to kick-start investment in low carbon regeneration Costa the | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
French energy giant EDF will shortly decide on building the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
first nuclear plant in decades in the UK. There is still work to do. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
There are still detail to be finalised, but the broad direction | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
is clear. It is very clear that we need affordable, secures a low | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
carbon energy, and we need investment that will generate jobs | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
and to give the UK economy a real boost at a time when we needed. | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
we are not going green at any cost. In America the discovery of the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
trail that has seen prices plummet. Could the same happen here? The | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Chancellor has left the door open for the future, but other states | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
the plan to clean up electricity by 2030 is a big mistake. There is a | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
huge amount of uncertainty left, because the big decision over | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
whether or not there is a goal in 2030 to remove carbon from power | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
stations has been kicked into the long grass until after the general | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
election, so that its huge amount of uncertainty for investors about | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
whether or not the government is really serious about green energy. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
But for many households, the news of higher prices will be a concern. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Consumer groups today called for the government to step up measures | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
to tackle rising bills, especially those on low incomes. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Vicki Young. Mixed | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
reception on this. Politically it has been a difficult one. It really | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
has been a difficult, a total nightmare for the coalition. There | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
have been difficult discussions and conversations. On the one side you | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
have the Lib Dems are pushing their green agenda, wanting that more | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
specific target of reducing carbon emissions, wanting a big boost for | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
clean energy supplies, and on the other hand, the Treasury and George | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Osborne, instinctively against subsidies, not wanting to be tied | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
to those targets. It resulted in open water in the energy department, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
with a Tory minister coming out against windfarms and having to be | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
slapped down in public by his Lib Dem boss. Today the Treasury have | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
held this as a decent compromise, they say it all centres around | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
growth. The industry now has stability, they can now invest, | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
they say it is good for jobs. As ever, all about bills are likely to | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
More than a quarter of hospitals and care homes inspected in England | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
last year failed on at least one essential standard of care, | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
according to an independent health watchdog. The Care Quality | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Commission found that 10% of hospitals failed to treat older | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
patients with dignity and 15% didn't manage to give people the | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
food and drink they needed. Our health correspondent, Adam Brimelow, | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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Sandra has so many fond memories of her father Eddie, a loving family | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
man, strong, brave and bright. But she feels this man who gave so much | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
was denied dignity and respect by his local hospital in his final | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
hours. He had been admitted with stomach problems, but she says he | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
was neglected and humiliated by staff as his condition deteriorated. | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
It was a bad dream, a nightmare. I don't understand how the elderly, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
who have paid their dues all their lives, in their hour of need a let | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
down by the system. If this was happening across the country to | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
children, there would be a national outcry. The trust says Eddie was | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
given active treatment throughout and the family was kept informed, | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
but some of the concerns in this case are reflected in the biggest- | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
ever assessment of health and social care in England. During | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
thousands of inspections, the Care thousands of inspections, the Care | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Quality Commission found a lot of excellent care, but more than a | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
quarter of services came up short hop on at least one of the 16 basic | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
standards. One in 10 NHS hospitals failed on dignity and respect for | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
older people. Even more missed the older people. Even more missed the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
mark on support with food and drink. The commission says poor staffing | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
levels were often done early warning sign for wider problems. | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
That can lead to a focus on task and not focusing on the care of | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
each individual and treating people as individuals. The danger is that | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
that leads to a culture where the unacceptable becomes the norm. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
commission says demand on hospitals and nursing homes are growing. They | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
are serving an older population with ever more complex needs, but | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
the government says there can be no hiding place for poor care. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Flooding has caused chaos to many | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
parts of the UK - there are severe delays on roads and railways and | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
weather forecasters are predicting more torrential rain and gale force | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
winds to come at the weekend. Coming up: | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
A slice of Monty magic - England's spin bowler returns to the Test | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Later on BBC London: The England women's rugby union | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
team are gearing up to take on world champions New Zealand in | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Surrey tonight. And we'll hear from this year's | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Unsung Hero, who has been recognised for his work to promote | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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Every year, thousands of postmen and women are attacked by dogs | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
while on their rounds and now the Royal Mail says it wants tougher | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
legal action to be taken against owners and the right to stop | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
delivering their post. One postman, who had been doing the job for 17 | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
years, was seriously injured by a dog attack and as our correspondent | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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Judith Moritz has been finding out, Louise Webster has been delivering | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
the post in Sheffield for five years. Meeting dogs is part of the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
job. It is mostly no problem, although she has been bitten twice. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
As it stands, if she is injured on public land action can be taken | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
against the dog owner, but on private property, it is a different | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
story. I like dogs, but I always think the owner is partly to blame | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
and they do have the attitude of you on my property, my dog can do | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
what it wants. I have to deliver to these properties. It went to the | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
bone. Paul Coleman knows only too well about dog attacks. Five years | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
ago he was on his rounds when two dogs called him. He was in their | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
grip for 15 minutes and still has the scars. They've left me 27% | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
disabled for life. I have nerve damage to my right leg. Really bad | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
scarring. And mentally, it did cause a lot of upset. Obviously | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
most postal deliveries passed off without any incident, but Royal | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Mail says there are around 3,000 dog attacks on postmen and women | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
every year. The Communication Workers Union, which represents | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
postal staff, says there are even more tax, around 5,000 a year. In | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law has already changed | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
or is being changed to cover a tax on private land, but in England | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
there's still a dig -- distinction between public and and private | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
property. I call it the garden fence well. If the attack takes | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
place on the public side, the law is adequate. Step on to private | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
property and the law has no sanction. Royal Mail has said it | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
plans to take a more robust approach in future and will look at | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
suspending deliveries to addresses where dog attacks have happened. | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Officials in Gaza says the Israeli military has shot and killed a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Palestinian man close to the border. He's the first person to die since | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Wednesday. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
The Israeli army said that it had fired warning shots after seeing a | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
group of men approaching the border. The man widely praised for his part | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
in brokering that ceasefire, the Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
is now being accused of staging what amounts to a coup in his own | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
country. He's passed a decree giving himself sweeping new powers | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
that can never be revoked. Critics say he's appointed himself Egypt's | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
:21:36. | :21:37. | ||
"new pharaoh." From Cairo, Jon Tahrir Square, where Egyptians | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
gathered to at Bourrust Hosni Mubarak 18 months ago. Today the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
crowds have already started protesting against any edict they | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
say could turn President Morsi into a new dictator. Every bit as | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
powerful as the man he replaced. is the first dictator in Egypt. He | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
has more power than more -- Mubarak. Nobody can really oppose his | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
decisions any more. Under the decree, President Morsi has | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
announced that none of his decisions can be challenged by the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
courts and there's no parliament at the moment either. He is sacking | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
the prosecutor-general and calling for new prosecutions against former | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
regime officials accused of being behind the killing of protesters. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
If this edict is accepted, it would give Egypt new President more | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
powers than even Hosni Mubarak ever claimed. It is a remarkable turn of | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
events. President Morsi is still basking in the kudos he won working | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
with the Americans to negotiate the Gaza's ceasefire. Now he is trying | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
to use that international prestige to stamp his authority on Egyptian | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
domestic politics. But he is also in a lot of trouble at home. For | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
the last week, protesters have been battling on the edge of Tahrir | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Square with riot police. On his side of the many thousands of | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Muslim Brotherhood supporters who have come out to demonstrate in his | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
favour. The President will be hoping to overwhelm the opposition | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
that is bound to be both from the Liberals and the judges, furious | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
about this attack on their independence. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Every year, hip replacements change the lives of thousands of people - | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
giving them back their mobility and freedom. It's now one of the most | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
commonly performed operations in the UK with success rates that are | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
among the best in the world, but how did the treatment come about? | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
The idea came from a pioneering British surgeon with a love of | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
engineering. Our correspondent Dominic Hughes has been finding out | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
how an annoying squeak helped Sir John Charnley develop an idea which | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
:23:48. | :23:51. | ||
has been improving patients' For the past five years or so, | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
former teacher Harry Hagen has had a troublesome hip. Now he is having | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
a total hip replacement, a procedure first carried out 50 | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
years ago to the day in Wrightington Hospital in Lancashire. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Before the operation, I ask Parry what he hoped to get out of it. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
hope to be back to a 35-year-old! Seriously, I want to be able to run | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
a little, take long walks in the countryside, play some tennis, get | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
back to the gym. And take up what I would consider to be a normal | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
lifestyle for someone who is fit and well other than my hip. It was | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
at Wrightington that Sir John Charnley, a surgeon with a love of | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
engineering, if developed a Redruth -- revolutionary artificial hip | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
joint and surgical technique that has stood the test of time. It was | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
a steal implant that sat in a tough plastic cup, replacing the ball and | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
socket in the hip weakened by conditions like arthritis or wear | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
and tear. Sir John died in 1982, but his wife remembers how his idea | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
came after he saw a patient suffering from an unusual problem | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
with an existing hip implant. patient came to John because her | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
squeak upset his wife so much. When they were having breakfast together | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
or a meal together and he leaned forward to get the salt, it's great | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
and it made her feel sick. That started John thinking about what | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
was going on in the joint. Then of course he had this engineering bent | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
and he redesigned nature. That work means surgeons from around the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
world now come to Wrightington Hospital to study the techniques | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
used here. This is one of around 50,000 total hip replacement | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
operations carried out in the UK each year. There have been some | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
modifications, but essentially it is the same procedure developed by | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Sir John Charnley 50 years ago in this hospital. The procedure has | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
become the gold standard for this kind of operation and it has spread | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
around the world. How significant is the development of the | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
technique? As an orthopaedic surgeon, I am biased and I will | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
tell you hip replacement of the number one innovation, but I don't | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
think I am wrong. It ranks alongside the delivery of | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
penicillin, coronary neat scenting, but above all it has had a huge | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
impact on its patients' lives around the world, delivering pain | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
rely -- pain relief. For some surgeons, this hospital is almost a | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
place of pilgrimage. Most patients walking around today thanks to a | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
replacement hip have no idea of the debt they owe to Sir John Charnley. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Reports from Italy say two men in their 20s have been charged with | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
attempted murder in connection with an attack on Tottenham fans in Rome | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
yesterday. A group of Spurs supporters who'd travelled to see | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
their team play Lazio were attacked in a city centre bar. One remains | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
in hospital with stab wounds. Mark Hughes has become the second | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Premiership football manager to be sacked in as many days. Queens Park | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Rangers are currently bottom of the Premier League without a win in 12 | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
matches. QPR face a tough game away at Manchester United on Saturday. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Monty Panesar marked his return to the England cricket team with a | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
four-wicket haul on the first day of the second Test in Mumbai. But | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
after England's early success, India fought back and at the close | :27:23. | :27:33. | |
:27:33. | :27:36. | ||
were 266-6. Our sports reporter, Defeat can change minds, it has | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
certainly changed the team. England added a spinner in them by, but | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
initially success came from bowling straight and true. Anderson trapped | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
Gambia second ball and after that India settled so England cent for | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
spin. Panesar into the side and into the wickets. Sehwag first and | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
then 10 talker. To do this to the Little Master in his home town is | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
almost disrespectful. The surface was paying no attention to | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
reputation. Panesar tented Virat Kohli after lunch and Graeme Swann | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
did for you Frosch. India 119-5. Even the seemingly under his | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
missable Pujara almost succumbed. An unwise reprieve for a man | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
England hadn't got out all tour. And he wasn't just staying there. | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
As well as occupying the crease, he was adding runs. For a time he was | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
supported by MS Dhoni, India's captain, and even when he became | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
Panesar's fourth victim, Pujara was unfazed. He had grown used to | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
seeing others come and go. His century added to a double century | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
in the last Test. A new Indian sensation. Ashwin was pulled along | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
in his wake, gaining more confident with every trip to the boundary. He | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
passed 50 and India past 250. In this match up on this pitch, | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
batting is unlikely to look so easy again. | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
again. It is time to get a full weather | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
forecast. A lot to go through. Indeed. Today is the calm between | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
two storm systems. Yesterday's rain is now whetting the French. A few | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
showers in the north-west today, but I draw your attention to this | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
cloud north-west of Portugal. Chris is the next area of low pressure. | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
For most of us today it will be a quiet day. Those areas that have | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
been badly affected by flooding will stay largely dry with a fair | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
amount of sunshine. The cloud melting away across South East | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
England so hazy sunshine forecast for Sussex and Kent. A few showers | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
for the north and west of Wales, generally clear. A few showers for | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
north-west England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Co little bit | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
of snow over the tops of the high ground. It will also be pretty | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
windy, but for most of us it is quite a quiet day, or relatively. | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
Overnight, for winds will fall light and we will have clear skies. | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
In rural areas, there will be a widespread frost. Some patches of | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
mist and fog as well. Some icy stretches especially where we have | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
seen showers today and also where we have any water seeping off those | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
saturated fields. For weekend, we have got more stormy conditions on | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
the way. Another area of low pressure heads away. It should be a | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
quiet start with most of us having a frosty but sunny start of the day. | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
But this lump of cloud enveloping southern counties of England, | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
pushing on towards central and southern Wales, the Midlands and | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
East Anglia Evans -- in the afternoon. As we go through | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
Saturday night, the rain will not be as intense as yesterday, but it | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
will fall for a longer period of time. A Met Office amber warning is | :30:57. | :31:04. | |
already in force for western and southern Wales. 20 to 40 mm likely | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
to cause some further flooding issues. As that band of rain clears, | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
the winds will pick up around the south coast. Enough to topple some | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
trees, perhaps, and caused transport disruption. By Sunday, | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
the wet and windy weather will have pushed into Scotland with eastern | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
areas of Scotland bearing the brunt. It will turn drier and brighter | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
elsewhere for a while, but more rain in the south-west on Monday. | :31:31. | :31:36. |