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Winners and losers. The row continues over who'll pay the most | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
George Osborne insisted all sections of society will have to | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
contribute, but Labour says it's the poorest working families who'll | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
be hardest hit. Feeling much better. The Duchess of | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Cambridge leaves hospital after four days of treatment for severe | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
pregnancy sickness. Two more years for Virgin to run | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
the East Coast Main Line as the Government is criticised over the | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
handling of the original deal. Waiting times are up in England | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
according to a survey of patients in A&E. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
23 hundreds now. No England player has more. Alastair Cook scores more | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
test centurying than any other England player in history. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Later on BBC London: More than a third of the capital's councils are | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
unlawfully housing homeless families in B&Bs. A new report is | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
released following this man's death about the way people are removed | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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Very good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. So just who were | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the winners and losers in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement? | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
That's the question politicians have been arguing about all morning. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Labour have claimed that poorer working families will be worse hit, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
whereas the Government says a squeeze on working age benefits is | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
fair on people who go out to work and pay tax. Well, this morning, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
one of the main credit rating agencies said the UK's triple-A | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
status is under threat after the Chancellor acknowledged the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Government would miss its debt- reduction target. More from our | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Political Correspondent, Carole Walker. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
The Chancellor wanted to highlight the positive news. No rise in fuel | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
duty, extra help for business, but the cap on benefits is part of a | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
programme of austerity measures that will last much longer than | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
he'd hoped. And he's facing a warning that our international | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
credit rating is under threat. Mr Osborne admitted if health service | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
downgraded, it would damage the country's economic credibility and | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
hit interest rates, but he said the risk was now less than when the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
coalition took power. Things have changed a lot under this Government. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
We've got interest rates down and a lot of credit rating agencies when | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
they give advice about what Britain should do, the one thing they say | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Britain shouldn't do is set out deliberately to spend and borrow | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
even more. You have got to remember, my critics are saying, Britain's | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
got a debt problem, let's add to the debt. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
In Commons yesterday, the Shadow Chancellor struggled to get his | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
message across. Today, he attacked measures which he said would hit | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
many ordinary working families and accused George Osborne of trying to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
sneer benefit claimants. referred to the people with the | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
course tains drawn when others go to work -- course tains drawn. He | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
wants to pretent this is about the feckless workshy. Personally I | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
think that's quite offensive to lots of people looking for work in | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
this economy when there's not enough jobs. What he didn't tell | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
you, the complete conof the statement is that 60% of people | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
who're hit are working people. didn't say how Labour would vote | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
when the plan to increase most working age benefits by just 1% for | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
three years comes to the Commons. The Tories believe it's a move that | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
will have popular support at a time when public sector workers are | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
facing a pay freeze, but it's a difficult issue for the Liberal | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Democrats. The Deputy Prime Minister said the | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Lib Dems had prevented their Tory coalition partners from going even | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
further. They wanted �10 billion worth of welfare cuts. We have | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
agreed on �3.5 billion. They wanted to freeze all benefits, we haven't | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
frozen them. They are going to increase by less than inflation, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
but they'll increase by 1%. There were proposals to take benefits | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
away from larger families that I didn't want. The coalition plan to | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
mend the economy has done little to ease the worries of workers at this | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Derbyshire clothing factory. Life's quite difficult at the moment. We | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
have a newborn baby to look after, we have milk, nappies and medicines | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
that she might need. With a pension and a little wage and what have you, | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
I've got to say, I'm dreading the future. The festive season will be | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
tough for many and the Prime Minister's admitted there are chill | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
winds across the economy. He said the Government is taking difficult | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
decisions to give the economy a chance for the future. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
We will get the latest political reaction from Westminster with | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Norman Smith in just a moment. First, there's been an awful lot of | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
number crunching this morning. In the past few minutes, the Institute | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
for Fixical studies has released its spwerpre takes of the figures - | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
- interpretation of the figures. What are we hearing, Hugh? We have | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
had a string of people going in, as well as analysts and media, to the | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Institute for Fiscal Studies number crunch presentation at this | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
conference centre. The headlines are this, and of course they've put | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
some interpretation out already, but they confirm that the capping | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
of benefit increases at 1% will create real losses for poor | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
households with the least ability to cope with real falls in their | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
income, althe They point out that benefits rising in line with | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
inflation in previous years, the last couple of year that, was above | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
earnings. So in a sense, benefits recipients were doing slightly | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
better than average earnings in the run-up to this announcement. They | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
also point out the richest in society will be hit as well because | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
of the pension changes. In terms of public spending and further | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
austerity, they point out that what's been inked in by George | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Osborne now going right through to 2017 - 18 is a dilemma if you like, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
that if you continue whoever's in Government then continues to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
protect health and schools and not wut welfare any more and not raise | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
taxes, then other departments like police, Local Government defence | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
and so on will face cuts of 16% on top of existing cuts meaning cuts | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
of a third since 2010. The IFS says that's inconceivable that actually | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
whoever's going to implement this will have to raise taxs or start | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
looking at health and schools. Let's put all of this to our | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Political Correspondent, Norman Smith at Westminster. Who the is | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
going to have to pay then? The Government has to pal lance the | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
books. Who is going to have to pay? Kate, that is the question. -- | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
balance. One to have Government's central mantras has been that it's | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
those with the broadest sholdwhors should have the heaviest burden. -- | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
shoulders should have the heaviest burden. When you look at the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
figures, the bottom 50% lose out, primarily because of this 1% cap on | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
future rises in the working age benefits. That is not just those | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
people characterised as lying in bed asleep with the curtains drawn | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
while families go out to work in the early hours. There are | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
themselves in many instances working families in receipt of Tax | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Credits. Why this matters is because these are, if you like, the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
working poor, the strivers who the Prime Minister's pledged to protect. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Paradoxically, however, this is also a problem for Labour, because | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
they have been unable to say whether they would vote against the | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
cap on benefits. Now, they say that's because they've not seen the | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
legislation, but one suspects also they know privately most polling | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
soots kerbs to benefits is electorally popular. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Thank you. Much more analysis on our website | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
at www.bbc.co.uk/news, including how the Autumn Statement is most | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
likely to effect you. Now, related in the past hour, the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Bank of England has confirmed it's keeping interest rates at their | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
record low of 0.5%. It's also decided not to extend its | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
quantitative easing stimulus programme which has injected nearly | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
�400 billion into the financial system. The cost of borrowing has | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
been unchanged since March. The Duchess of Cambridge has left | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
hospital after four days of treatment for acute pregnancy | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
sickness. She told media she was feeling better. We can speak to our | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, who is there. How did she | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
appear then, Nick, when you saw her? | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
I think she looked pretty relaxed, though entirely understandably | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
after three nights here being treated for this acute sickness | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
condition, she looked perhaps rather subdued, certainly more sub | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
died than we are accustomed to seeing her, but much better was her | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
answer when reporters shouted a question as to how she was feeling | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
and she took it carefully down the few steps from the hospital with a | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
guiding hand from Prince William and then into the car and back to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
their home at Kensington Palace here in London where we are told | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
there will be a period of rest. That, I'm sure, is going to be the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
priority now, her engagements oaf the next few days have been | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
cancelled. I think rest will be what she needs and I wouldn't be at | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
all surprised if we don't see very much of her in public now for these | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
next few weeks. Indeed. Plenty for them to consider | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
over the next few weeks? Yes. William in particular's got to | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
take an important decision. He's got to decide by Christmas whether | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
he's going to continue in the air- sea rescue squadron up at Anglesey. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
The remoteness of Anglesey was something that the couple greatly | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
enjoyed in the early part of their married life together. But whether | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
the Royal doctors will feel entirely relaxed about her being up | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
there, I'm sure that there are excellent medical facilities up | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
there, but after this episode, I'm sure they'll be having to consider | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
a rather bigger package than was the case before and he must decide | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
whether to remain in the air-sea rescue squadron beyond next summer | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
or perhaps rejoin the Household Cavalry or perhaps take up full- | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
time Royal duties and concentrate on that and, of course, on his | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
prospective fatherhood. Thank you very much. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Should sentences for sex offenders be tougher if their victims have | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
suffered long-term psychological damage? The Sentencing Council | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
thinks so. It's recommending new guideline force judges which would | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
take into account the tactics used by offenders, particularly in cases | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
of sexual exploitation and child grooming. With more, our legal | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Over a four-year period from the age of 11, Nick was sexually | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
assaulted by a Scout master. Some years later, he went to the police | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
and his abuser was jailed for six months, but Nick was so badly | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
affected, he started to self-harm. Over the last 15, 20 years, to the | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
point whereby I've had operations, I've had stitches, sutures, | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
possibly in the region of over 600. Burning underneath here. I used to | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
put my arm over the top of the cooker to get rid of the guilt. | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Current guidance on for instance sexual assault focus on physical | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
factors to determine seriousness. The new guidelines allow far more | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
weight to be given to psychological harm. Just as modern societies are | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
coming to terms with the full psychological effects that sex | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
offenders can have on their victims, so too is the criminal justice | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
system that.'s one of the principal reasons why the Sentencing Council | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
have come up with new guidelines that cover 54 different sexual | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
offences. We recognise that the psychological effects are every bit | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
as important as the physical injury and the initial violation which any | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
sexual offence involves. People's lives are affected, some times in | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the long-term, and if there is evidence of that available to the | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
judge at the time of sentence, it's only right he should take it into | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
account. The guideline also takes greater account of the grooming and | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
exploitation of children and of the use of modern technology to film | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
rape. The proposals have already been | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
welcomed by victims like Nick. First Virgin Trains lost the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
licence to run trains on the West Coast Mainline, then that teal | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
collapsed because of mistakes made by civil servants in the bidding | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
process. Now Virgin has signed a new deal with the Government to | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
keep the trains running for another two years, but it comes, that's | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
until a new long-term contract can be awarded. Richard Westcott is at | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
London's Euston station. What's in the report? Irbgs it's pretty | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
damning reading for the Department for Transport. It talks about bad | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
planning and bad management. It says they used the wrong figures | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
and didn't take inflation into account. There's one very | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
interesting element actually which looks especially bad for them. What | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
it effectively says is that the rail minister at the time, threez | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
za Villiers, was given inaccurate information when she was making the | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
decision by officials -- Theresa Villiers. It doesn't say whether it | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
was on purpose or a mistake. But she was making a decision using the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
wrong information. Now, there are other interesting elements. 24 had | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
been rumours of an anti-Branson bias within the department. This | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
report looked at e-mails, couldn't find evidence of that at all so | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
that doesn't seem to have happened, but crucially what it doesn't say, | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
is that the whole system is broken. It says they need to make big | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
changes but they can continue with franchising roughly as it is now. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Virgin continue to keep the trains running at least for the time | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
being? Yes, we found out today they are | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
going to run them for the next 23 months, that's going to give the | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Government enough time to sort out what they are going to do with | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
franchising, how they are going to change things to make sure this | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
doesn't happen again and run another bidding process which can | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
take a year or so. If you are a passenger on this service, 30 | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
million use these trains every year, passengers, then you won't notice | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
any difference, actually slight improvements in the service over | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
the next two years or so. If you think by Sunday that train was | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
meant to have a different colour scheme, it was nont say First on it, | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
but it will be two years before we find out who'll be running this | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
line long-term. Our top story: The Chancellor, George Osborne, has | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
denied his autumn state will hit the working poor harder than the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
rich. I'm standing here tonne banks of | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
the Thame where is in just a few hours, this icebreaker is going to | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
set sail for Antarctic ka, an expedition led by Sir Ranulph | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Fiennes. Later on BBC London, we look around the home of London's | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
most famous author before it opens to the public next week. Why a sex | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
one win for Chelsea wasn't enough to keep them in the Champions | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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There has been another night of violence in Northern Ireland, | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
directed against members of the non-sectarian Alliance Party. The | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
Union flag is said by them to be -- the problem being that the Union | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
flag should fly over City Hall only on certain designated days. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Yes, this street in the middle of Carrickfergus is just about | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
returning to normal. The office which was attacked last night, it | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
is remarkable that it is still standing. Nearly 100 people tried | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
to burn it down last night. It was one of a number of attacks in | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
different parts of Northern Ireland. The latest victims of violence in | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Northern Ireland, a young family attacked in their own home as a | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
result of a row over a flag. A paint bomb was thrown at the house | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
last night. Fortunately, the little baby was not playing with her toys | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
at the time her mum and dad belong to the Cross Community, Alliance | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
Party. Its support for the removal of of the Union flag from Belfast | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
City Council sparked a series of attacks by loyalists. | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
I had gone to bed with Grace. The bed is below the window, whenever I | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
realised what happened, the Buckingham Palace fell off the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
window there, when I realise what had had happened, it, I was | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
extremely upset. I could not stop shaking and was beside myself. You | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
can see how jumpy we are. 20 miles away, an Alliance Party party | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
office was destroyed, after a protest by more than 1,000 | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
loyalists in Carrickfergus. The outbreak coming a day before the | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is due to visit | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Northern Ireland. I would like Hillary Clinton to | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
come to Carrickfergus, to see what a full front l attack on democracy | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
is like. The police say that the violence | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
has to stop now. The world is watching. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
It will make its judgment on the events of the next few days. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
That judgment will affect people's jobs, tourism, economic development | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
and the hope of our young people. Although the Union flag has gone | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
from Belfast City haul it will be flown on special occasions, but | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
loyalist protests continue, with more and more flags today being put | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
up around this city. Well, across Northern Ireland this | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
morning, the churches, the politicians, the people have | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
appealed for peace. What is not clear, is whether those loyalist | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
protestors are listening. Mark, thank you very much. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
In the past few minutes, the coffee chain, Starbucks has been giving | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
details of how much money it will give HM Revenue & Customs after | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
criticisms it paid nothing in Corporation Tax last year. Let's | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
speak to our Business Correspondent, Emma Simpson with a brief reminder | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
of the back ground to this controversy. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Starbucks is one of three companies slated by MEPs on the Public | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Accounts Committee for not paying enough Corporation Tax. They were | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
accused of immorale tax avoidance in a highly critical report. | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Starbucks is a company with more than 750 shops it is everywhere on | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
the High Street, more than a third of the market. MPs heard it had | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
sales of about �398 million. Now what puzzled the MPs is the fact | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
that Starbucks say it is has not made a profit in the last 14 out of | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
15 years of trading here in the UK. Of course, if there are no profits, | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
there is no Corporation Tax. Now, Starbucks and other big | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
companies are not doing anything illegal. What Starbucks told the | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
MPs was heavy trading losses were incured due to mistaings in the | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
property strategy, but it has sparked a huge controversy. It has | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
clearly been stung by the criticism. This lunch time it announced some | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
changes. Now, what are they? Well, in the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
last few minute, Starbucks said it will pay in the region of �10 | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
million in Corporation Tax per year for the next two years. That is in | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
addition to other taxes that it pays. Also they would say that they | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
would pay more regardless of weather the company was profitable | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
or not. The UK boss describing it as an unprecedented commitment. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Saying that the decisions were the right things to do. That they have | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
heard that loud and clear from the customers. So clearly, Starbucks is | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
trying to draw a line under this, putting the pressure on other big | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
companies like Amazon and Google. Again in the past few minutes we | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
have heard that the PR consultant, Max Clifford has been arrested on | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
suspicion of sexual offences. Hes with detained by officers from | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
Opraegs You tree -- Operation You tree, set up after the | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
investigation of Jimmy Savile. What, do we know? Well, we heard from the | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
police that they arrested a man, the BBC understands that the man is | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Max Clifford, the celebrity publicist. A source close to him | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
confirmed that he is helping the police with their inquiries. He was | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
arrested to help the police with Operation Yewtree. That | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
investigation is concerned not solely with child sex abuse, but | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
concerned with sex offences. Max Clifford was arrested on suspicion | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
of sexual offences this morning, he is being questioned as a Central | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
London police station. Thank you very much. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Egypt's Republican Guard has told protestors to disperse from outside | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
of the Presidential Palace. The unrest in which five people have | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
been killed and 350 have been wounded has been caused by anger | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
over a controversial draft constitution, that give the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
President sweeping and irversible new powers. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Waiting times are getting longer at A&E Department in England, | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
according to a survey of patient business the health regulator. The | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Care Quality Commission study revealed that 33% of people that | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
they spoke to spent more than four hours at A&E. The Government's | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
target is for no more than 5%. The Health Correspondent has more. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
A&E Departments are often the front line of the health service. Like | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
all parts of the NHS in England, they are under pressure from an | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
ageing population and tighter finances. Now, the pressures seem | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
to be impacting. This survey looked at A&E Department waiting times in | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
England. 46,000 patients responded. The figures show a third of them | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
reported waiting more than four hours. That is an increase on 2008 | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
when the figure was 27%. In 2004, less than a quarter of patients had | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
to wait that long. Official figures from the Department of Health show | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
just 4% of patients wait four hours or more. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
The surveys are important indicators as to how people feel. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Therefore we should take them seriously. We should look at the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
results, think about what they can do within their own individual | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
hospital to get this better. The Department of Health says that | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
most patients wait 40 minutes before they are first seen. The | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
doctors and the nurses are giving the sickest patients the highest | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
priority. A&E saw more than 21 million people last year. They are | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
busier than ever, but the perception among the patients seems | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
that they are waiting longer. Cricket and the England captain, | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Alastair Cook made history by scoring more Test match centuries | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
than any other English player. England were 216-1 against India in | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Calcutta. A lovely day in Kolkata to watch | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
the batting. India counting the run. Panathinaikos finished with four | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
wickets. India were 316-all out. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
Stoney salvaged a 506789 stand by as India maid a serious error. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
Dropping Alastair Cook, his situation on sinful, Cheteshwar | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Pujara with guilty hants. Cook kk made 17, then he resumed normal | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
service. Showing the ball the way to the boundary, the timing was | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
great. Alastair Cook bats look clockwork, wake up and he is still | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
going. Alastair Cook helping himself as he came the youngest | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
player ever to score 7,000 runs in Test Matchs. A few Indian fielders | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
starting to feel their age. A neat decollection and Alastair Cook was | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
on his way. -- deflection. The 23ered Test | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
Match of his career, an English record. He overtook boy by boy, and | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
past Colin Cowdrey who played from the mid-50s toed mid-07s. Kevin | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Pietersen is behind him -- India would like to get rid of him this | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
week. England are one down, 100 behind, Alastair Cook-not out. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Now, six months of crossing hostile terrain in temperatures of minus 90 | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Celsius, it is not for the faint of heart, but that is what Ranulph | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Fiennes is setting out to do. Dubbed Coldest Journey, it involves | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
leading a team on foot across the Antartica in near-permanent | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
darkness and in the superlow temperatures of winter. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Matthew Price is on board. Well, it has been very cold on the | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Thames this morning, but nothing compared to the temperatures that | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
this ship will experience in just over a month's time when it gets to | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Antartica. Prince Charles is expected here any minute now to | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
give them an official send-off, but there have been parties and events | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
on board this ice-breaker all morning. It is a South African ice- | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
breaker. There are South African schoolchildren, waiting to bid | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
farewell to Ranulph Fiennes as he sets off on his latest polar | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
adventure. They clustered here on the Thames, | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
the greatest living explorer with a national treasure, Joanna Lumley, | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
there so see them off. She is not mad enough to go, but he is. | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
He showed me the route... Up to the cev as zone, then a dog-leg, over | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
this huge icecap where Captain Robert Falcon Scott died 100 years | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
ago, so, 2,000 miles, ie rave -- arriving before the end winter. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
We filmed training for this in February. Two men ski up front | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
checking for cev asses. Behind them, in the near-permanent darkness, two | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
bulldozers drag their supplies. Here they are being loaded on board. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
To get the permit to attempt this, the team must be self-sufficient. | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
Dragging supplies is the only way to guarantee that. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
The vehicles that I would think, personally, are a bigger problem | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
than the people. Minus 808 Celsius could be damage to lung tissue when | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
you are breathing in, skiing, but in the seeks -- vehicles you have | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
steel and rubber, they don't like minus 70 Celsius. | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
In over a month's time, the bow of this ship will be pushing its way | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
through the sea ice around Antartica. When it has found a | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
place to wedge itself into the ice chef, the crane there will unload | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
the gear and the vehicles, the equipment that they need to get | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
across one of the most dangerous terrains in the world at the most | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
inhospitable time of the year. For a pensioner who has seen it all, | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
there is more to practise, here how to get out of a crevasse, he hopes. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
Soon it could be for real, Antartica, next stop. | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
Well, a few minutes ago, Ranulph Fiennes said, "This is the most | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
greatest and challenging expedition of all time." I asked him if he | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
thought it would work, he thought he does not know. He does not know | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
if humans can tolerate the long touches for that length of time. | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
They don't know if the machinery will make it through, either. They | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
will begin to find out soon as they set off from here in the Thames, | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
bound for Antartica. Well, we thought it was bad here | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
Well, we thought it was bad here with minus 12 Celsius? Yes, winter | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
beginning to bite now and through the next 24 hours some problems for | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
some. For some place as spell of heavy rain, but also some snow and | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
ice could be an issue just about anywhere. All of that compounded by | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
the cold winds. It was a frosty start this morning. The | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
temperatures below freezing. The temperatures are struggling to | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
recover over the east of the country. What we have got is our | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
wet weather pushing in from the west. It is bumping into the cold | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
air. It caused ice problems as far south as Wales and the south-west. | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
It also brought some snowfall. That is over the high grounds of | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
Scotland. Still more snow to come for the west of Highlands, but by | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
3.00pm, the significant snowfall will be for the Cumbrian fells and | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
the Pennines, where across the trans-Pennine routes there could be | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
disruption. Even at lower levels, don't be surprised if you see snow | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
mixed in with the rain. In the south it is cold and the | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
cloud and breeze is adding to the raw, cold feel to the day. Over the | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
south-west, rain is pushing into the north coast of Devon. Here the | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
rain is falling on saturated ground, that is not good news. A wet | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
afternoon for Wales. A soggy story also for Northern Ireland and the | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
wind picking up too. Through this evening, the wet weather is coming | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
to the south and to the east. In the south this will be falling | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
mainly as rain, but a few showers chasing on behind. The bigger | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
problem will be the ice. The temperatures are to plunge. Towns | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
and cities close to freezing in the country, below so ice could be a | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
risk just about anywhere tomorrow morning. There is an added | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
complication as well. We are watching this clump of rain in the | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
south-east. It is to edge to the south and to the east. There could | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
be sleet mixed with this, maybe a spell of wet snow. Perhaps a | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
covering. That is one we are keeping a close eye on. Through the | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
day, the showers continuing over the east coast. The brightness | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
there in the west. Temperatures looking better, but in the wind it | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
will feel raw and cold. The weekend is looking quieter. A fair amount | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
of brightness in the south. Cloud that could bring rain to the north. | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
Milder for a time, but into next week it looks like the temperatures | :31:43. | :31:45. |