14/11/2013 BBC News at One

Britain is sending its biggest aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious,

to help with the aid effort in the Philippines. Desperate to get out,

American transport planes begin moving victims of the Typhoon out of

Tacloban, one of the worst hit areas. Finally we are seeing a

really large scale operation starting here, bringing in the sort

of aid that the people here so desperately. I am Tim Willcox live

in Tacloban, where a curfew is in place. Thousands of survivors

waiting for that aid finally to reach them. Also this lunchtime, a

final warning, the government could strip Birmingham Council of its

troubled Children's Services Department by Christmas. Prince

Charles and Camilla arrive in Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Summit

amid controversy about human rights issues. Applause rings out for

cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar as he plays his final Test in Mumbai.

Warming up for the South Pole, Prince Harry and a team of wounded

servicemen and women set off there for charity this weekend.

Later on BBC London former Transport Secretary calls for an urgent review

of cycle superhighways after another death. And the police commissioner

who would like to see his Surrey fourth merge with a neighbouring

county. Good afternoon and welcome to the

BBC News at One. The Prime Minister has announced that Britain is

sending its biggest aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious to help with that

aid effort in the Philippines. It will not arrive for ten days but

when it does it will be used in the relief operation cost of the ship

can also produce drinking water. In the meantime millions of people are

still in desperate need of vital supplies. Tim Willcox is in

Tacloban, a city home to more than 200,000 people that was flattened by

the Typhoon last Friday. You join me live in Tacloban, a

scene of utter devastation but where aid has finally almost a week after

Typhoon Haiyan finally begun to arrive. But the agony of the people

here continues. The road to the airport and port crammed with

families desperate to leave, covering their noses and mouths with

Klos as they shuffle past scores of bodies now in body bags lining the

roadside. The first big ship to arrive in the portal Tacloban came

here this morning with aid but it may take several days for that

essential aid and supplies to meet the people who need them most. This

report by our correspondent Jon Donnison.

It has been slow coming. But for people living amid the wreckage in

Tacloban relief is beginning -- been -- beginning to arrive. This is the

first ship carrying aid to dock at the city's port since the Typhoon

struck almost a week ago. On, water and some medical supplies but it is

not being distributed yet and it will not go far -- on board. At the

same time as aid is finally coming in hundreds of families are still

trying to get out. This ship is being used to evacuate 1000 people.

This student is one of those who has decided to go. Why are you leaving?

Because to survive, no one, nothing is here, look at this. There is

nothing. At the gates of the port, many more desperate to leave but who

are disappointed when they are told this ship is already full. That aid

that has arrived here today is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what is

needed. You can see the scale of the destruction all along the shoreline

and that is just one part of this city. But the interesting thing is

the port itself has been largely undamaged and I -- and there have to

be questions about why it has taken so long to use the sport to get aid

in. -- port. People know that aid has been arriving for several days

but most are still waiting to get hold of it. They might have to wait

even longer. Look at the devastation here, look at the amount of time it

will take to clean up all of this mess. This money is from save the

children. He says it will be Saturday before they are able to

distribute anything. It takes a couple of days before the roads get

cleared and we can get the trucks in. We also need to bring the fuel

from outside. So many constraints that we need to navigate but we are

doing everything we can, working around the clock ourselves but it

just takes time and honestly, we are doing everything we humanely can.

But that may be little consolation for those still waiting. When all

the while the misery continues. That was the scene at the port

today. We flew in just before dusk and the airport was buzzing with

activity. US Marine helicopters and other aircraft alongside Filipino

flights bringing in high-energy biscuits, water and medicines for

the people here. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has spent the

day at the airport. So this is really what people here

have been waiting for, hoping for, for nearly a week since the Typhoon/

. What we are seeing here this morning is the outside world turning

up for the first time real force. These are the US Marine Corps. They

are coming in here essentially to take control of the airport and to

set up operations here. We have also seen French firefighters, Belgian

firefighters, Malaysia and engineers and we are seeing aids coming in

also now in large quantities. This is from Australia. This is from the

United States. This is just the beginning. More food, much more

food, is needed and it is to be distributed to people out in the

destroyed neighbourhoods. We have also seen today the Philippine

forces, the Philippine Government, also coming onto the streets in

force, clearing roads, picking up dead bodies, so finally we are

seeing a really large scale operation starting here, bringing in

the sort of vague that the people here so desperately...

Security remains a problem. Curfew has been in place for the past hour

and families we have spoken to talk about being holed up in their homes

as armed gangs went around the town looking for food and cash. These

families talking about people being shot, murdered and raped. All that,

they said, in those few days when they felt the world has forgotten

them. Back to you in London.

Thank you very much. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious is

now on its way to the Philippines to help with the aid effort. Our

defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt is with me. She will not their --

get there for ten days? It will take about ten days. She was tasked off

the Horn of Africa when she was told to go across to the Philippines. She

is not far away from Singapore we believe at the moment but it will

take some time to get there. She is most likely to take over from HMS

daring, the destroyer sent a few days ago. She will arrive by this

weekend roughly and they will take part as part of a task force of

international help along with American aircraft carriers and

others such as Australia involved. What she can offer is a floating

airbase, if you like, of a flight deck on which other people can also

land the helicopters from which supplies can be taken and used to

recce the kind of damage there is, do those kinds of assessments and

also assist in perhaps if needed generating water because she can

generate her own water supply. Clean drinking water is much needed but

really it is the help they are bringing their that can be

integrated into what the other people bring.

You can find plenty more coverage of the Typhoon's impact and the global

response on the BBC News website. You will find detailed maps of the

affected areas, aerial pictures showing the extent of the damage and

many of the video reports filed by our correspondence. All offer online

at bbc.co.uk/news. Unite David Cameron has been warned by the Sri

Lankan government not to quiz them over alleged war crimes in 2009. The

Prime Minister has rejected calls to boycott a Commonwealth Summit in the

country, saying he would use his visit to raise its human rights

record but the Sri Lankans said he had no right to bring it up as he

had not been invited on that basis. Our correspondence Charles Haviland

sent this report. Mr Cameron says it is only by

attending this summit and meeting the Sri Lankan president that he can

raise difficult human rights issues. He will make one new departure will

stop it will be the first foreign leader to visit the Tamil north of

the island, the place where the long war was fought since independence in

1948. The Government's war against the Tamil Tigers, a ruthless

separatist group, lasted three decades and caused over 100,000

deaths. After an all-out army offensive they were crushed four

years ago. Both sides were accused of atrocities but with most Tiger

leaders dead into the Government that gets the brunt of accusations.

Mr Cameron has been in India and speaking to journalists that he

repeated his message of toughness or the Sri Lankans. There needs to be

proper enquiries into what happened at the end of the war. There is

always the case for not going somewhere but I think actually we

will get further by going and having conversations with the Sri Lankans

about what needs to happen and shining a light on some of issues

the problems that are there. Sri Lanka's Government was on the

defensive. Speaking this morning the president said there had been --

they had been suffering for 30 years, not just at the end of the

war. If anyone who wants to complain about the human rights violation in

Sri Lanka, whether it is torture, whether it is rape, you must respect

the system of the country. Meanwhile the Prince of Wales, representing

the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, flew in with the

Duchess of Cornwall. They will attend a reception for his 65th

birthday before he opens the summit tomorrow.

Letts speaks our correspondent James Robbins, who is in Colombo. Don't

raise human rights issues is the message from the Sri Lankan

Government, but how much pressure is David Cameron and to do so? I think

the Prime Minister is determined to raise those issues. It was always

made very clear that the reason he did not want Britain to boycott this

summit, to stay away, because he thought it was better to engage, to

shine a spotlight as he puts it, on Sri Lanka and to try to use this

summit to put far greater pressure on President Rajapaksa to bring

forward all sorts of reforms right through the judicial system right

through the police force and to achieve genuine reconciliation after

a separatist war which he undoubtedly won and where his

crushing victory was allegedly accompanied by appalling war

crimes. There is no question that the Prime Minister thinks he has to

raise this, he wants to raise it and tomorrow he will absent himself from

a significant part of the day on the opening day of this Commonwealth

Summit to fly to the North, as Charles Haviland was telling us, to

make the point there in person on the ground. James Robbins from

Colombo, thank you. New figures show that the economic

recovery in the Eurozone and the 17 countries that use the euro has

slowed. Economic output com -- increased by 0.1% compared with 0.3%

between April and June. Growth in Germany slowed to 0.3% and in France

the economy shrank. Here retail sales fell by 0.7% in October with

mild weather affecting sales of winter clothing. The Office for

National Statistics said sales volumes are still up 1.8% on this

time last year, which indicates increased consumer confidence.

The NHS hospital trust at the centre of the scandal about delayed cancer

treatment has been put into special measures. The announcement by

Colchester Hospital was made by Monitor. Birmingham Council could be

stripped of its troubled Children's Services Department by Christmas if

standards do not improve. The Department for Education will step

in if inspectors decided has not improved when they return in a few

weeks. The department is the biggest of its kind in England and has been

rated as inadequate for four years. Last month the chief inspector of

Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said the city's failure to protect

vulnerable children was a national disgrace. Our social affairs

correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.

Two-year-old Gianni Williams was beaten to death, his small body

found with 37 separate injuries -- Keanu Williams. His mother Rebecca

Shuttleworth is serving a life servants for his murder. Tara Robins

new Keanu and says she was duped. I genuinely believe innocent until

proven guilty and when she was found guilty, I wanted nothing to do with

her. I felt sick I had befriended her and I tried to help her. Keanu

was one of several children who have died in recent years in Birmingham.

Failings by social services contributed each death. Across the

city nearly 2000 children are being protected but too many have simply

slipped through the net and Children's Services here have been

rated inadequate since 2009. Burning's problems are not solely of

the Council Cosma making. There is a huge demand for services here in the

city. There is a large, young, diverse population here, often

living in some of the most deprived communities in the country. The man

currently running Children's Services says an Ofsted review later

this month will leave ministers with an unenviable task. The city is

clear that given that it hasn't improved since 2009, it has lost the

right to a full hand on the tiller in determining where it goes from

here, so that is why the decision is with the Secretary of State. It is

an enormously difficult decision that faces the Secretary of State

because there are no easy answers. Doncaster lost control of its

Children's Services earlier this year. Trust has been created to run

that department, but Birmingham is a much bigger problem and staff are

anxious. We have had lots of changes of management, lots of

reorganisations of services, block -- none of which seems to have made

a significant difference. So staff are wary. After years of failure a

decision on how best to protect children in Birmingham is imminent.

It is 1.15. Our top story this lunchtime: American transport planes

begin moving victims of the typhoon out of Tacloban. Britain is sending

its a guest aircraft carrier, HMS illustrious. And still to come: The

television presenter whose job may have saved her life.

Later on BBC London, we hear from a theatre project that supports

vulnerable young people thanks to Children in Need. And can you spot

the difference between these two logos? Spurs have asked a Hampshire

football club to change theirs. It's a year since 41 Police and

Crime Commissioners were elected across England and Wales. The

controversial, high-profile positions were created to replace

police authorities and to ensure that forces are run effectively. But

12 months later, a BBC survey suggests more than a third of adults

don't know they have a Police and Crime Commissioner. And questions

have also been raised about some of the people who've been appointed and

doubts over whether it has actually saved money. Let's get more now from

Matthew Amroliwala, who's in central London.

Sophie, thank you. This was a flagship policy for the Government,

a huge change in policing. Big powers that these new police

commissioners. But what about the basics in the last 12 months? Had it

cut crime? Has it changed priorities for police? Is it more efficient?

Have the new commissioners held the police forces to account? This

report from Mike Sergeant. The way in which the police respond

to emergencies hasn't changed, but each forces now held to account by a

politician. In Norfolk, less than 15% voted in the election when

Stephen bet was chosen as Police and Crime Commissioners. But he says his

policing background gives and advantages -- gives him an advantage

over many others in a similar position. Tried get your head round

what the police do at how they do it, to gain their trust and

loyalty, and to understand how you deal with problems, what is

operational and what is not, are problems for other PCCs, as they are

political opponents and they do not understand.

Day-to-day decisions are still taken by the police in this control

centre. The Police and Crime Commissioners isn't allowed to

interfere with operational policing. Their job is to hold the force to

account and set the wider strategic priorities. The Police Federation

which represents officers said many questions had been raised about the

expenditure of commissioners, and whether some are getting too

involved in operational policing. But their effectiveness would

ultimately be for the public to decide.

Have you heard of the PCC? I have, but I don't know what it is dealt. I

don't see if it has made any difference. Too much politics and

the law don't mix. I took part in the election, but I have heard no

good or bad things about it since. That is not particularly unusual. A

BBC commissioned poll found that 62% were aware of the existence of a

commission in areas that have one. 34% believe the individual has had a

positive impact on reducing crime. Some of the PCCs have faced

controversy over their expenses and staff appointment. In the past few

days, Stephen bet has paid back ?3000 he claimed for mileage.

Ministers say that there will always good to be difficulties with such a

significant change. The Government thinks that the important thing is

that the voters do have more of an influence now on policing and crime.

Let's speak to Tony Lloyd, the chair of the Association of the PCCs.

Success or expensive failure? It is a measured success. We are one year

in, I didn't think we should judge until we have everything in perfect

working order. Commissions are moving in the right direction,

moving the relationship between the police and the community, the most

report -- important relationship, in the right direction. More than 50%

of people think it has had no or a negative impact on crime. We have

got to get across the message that there has been a positive impact. In

one area we got rid of targets for the police, meaning that instead of

police doing the unpopular thing of being given a quota, a number of

motorists to pick up for speeding or whatever, now they can concentrate

on doing what they should do which is to talk about road safety and

help make our roads safer. It is about making the roads safer, not

simply nicking people. Tony Lloyd, thank you for your time. Plenty more

on the police commissioners on the BBC News website. But now back to

the studio. Matthew, thank you very much. A

breakfast television presenter in America is having a double

mastectomy today after discovering she had breast cancer after she was

persuaded to have a mammogram live on TV. 40-year-old Amy Robach who

presents ABC's Good Morning America says she hopes her story will

inspire every woman who hears it to get tested for breast cancer.

It was just six weeks ago that pink took over GNA. I had no idea how

quickly my life was about to change. We have made a real commitment to

bring you what you need to know to be healthy and informed.

We were kicking off breast Cancer awareness month, with real survivors

and celebrities alike. I want to say I was happy to do my part, but

honestly, I was a little reluctant at first. You are being so strong

today. I had been asked if I would get a mammogram on air to demystify

it for women who might be nervous. I am 40, and I have been putting it

off. The truth is, I had been putting

their soft for a year. Between flying all over the world for work,

and running around to school with my kids, to ballet, to gymnastics, I

just kept putting it off. That morning, I did a piece explaining

why had agreed. And I started to think, if I have put it off, how

many other people have put it off as well? I went in to see Robin

Roberts, and she said if one life is saved because of early detection, it

is all worth it. And now to a very brave moment for our dear colleague,

Amy Robach. Inside the van I was calm, and there wasn't anything to

be scared of. It was over in a few minutes, and then my smiling friends

were waiting for me. It hurt so much less than I thought it would. It was

nothing. She was so nervous this morning, and she is so happy right

now! And that was it, or so I thought. Short time later, I was

asked to come back for more scans. Last week, a tornado of tests.

Doctors move quickly when they are concerned. Finally, the diagnosis

that is still hard for me to say at loud. I have breast cancer. I know

that I have a fight ahead of me, but I also know that I have a lot worth

fighting for. And I am so grateful that I got that mammogram that day

on GNA. If I got the mammogram on air and it saved on life, it is all

worth it, she said. It never occurred to me that that life would

be mine. Amy Robach, a presenter on Good

Morning America. India is saying farewell to the

cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who's regarded by his admirers as the

greatest batsman of all time. The only man to have scored 100 Test

centuries, he's now playing against the West Indies in his final match

in his home city of Mumbai. Our correspondent, Andrew North, has

been soaking up the atmosphere. It is the moment India hoped would

never happen. Its greatest ever cricketer has come out to bat in his

last test. The country is almost in morning. Who was Sachin Tendulkar

playing? No one was talking about the West Indies. Today was all about

one man. Fans were queueing for block after

block to get a last glimpse of the man they call the master blaster. We

are very lucky to what should his last match. They come from all over

the world. Among them, this woman from London. All the dreams he has

made come true, not just for me, for the country, for the team, for the

fans. This is history in the making, and I'm feeling emotional. He is

gone. He is not beaten, he is gone. If you score 100 centuries, you are

not going to be beaten. He hit his first test century here against

England when he was just 17. As he retires more than 20 years later, no

batsmen has even come close to his record of 100 centuries in

international cricket. This is game to be one of those where were you

moments, when Sachin Tendulkar retires. Tickets have been

reportedly changing hands for up to 40 times that face value on the

black market. It is almost good buy for good, but his fans say that the

Sachin Tendulkar effect will last for ever. For a country that is not

always so sure about itself, he has given India believe they can be the

best in the world. Prince Harry has been given a South

Pole flag to take with him on his charity expedition to Antarctica.

The group of wounded servicemen and women gathered in Trafalgar Square

this morning. On Sunday they fly to Cape Town before heading for the

South Pole. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports.

He has known the heat of the Afghan desert during his army service. Now

he is about to feel the numbing cold Antarctica as Harry said -- sets off

with a team of wounded British servicemen and women for a trip to

the South Pole. One of the British participant is Major Kate Philp. It

is going to be gruelling. We will be skiing for ten or 12 hours a day.

Keeping that up for ten or 12 hours a day for two weeks, possibly longer

if the weather is unkind. It is over 335 kilometres, so physically

gruelling. Two and a half years ago, a team from walking with the wounded

successfully completed the 200 mile trip to the North Pole. On that

occasion, Harry spent several days with them during the final stages of

their preparations in Norway. The training included learning how to

deal with sudden immersion in freezing water. That was tough

enough. The challenges of the Antarctic, of course, are much

greater. This time, he will be going all the way with them. He has taken

part in training exercises, including a night in an industrial

freezer earlier this year when they learned what -50 centigrade feels

like. In Trafalgar Square this morning, he spoke of the

determination of the wounded war heroes. They are going to achieve

something quite remarkable, and in doing so will prove to everybody

else that even when you have lost a leg or an arm, that you can achieve

pretty much anything if you put your mind to it. The three teams are due

to arrive in Antarctica next week. Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Phil Avery. Good afternoon. We will have a

flavour of that sort of weather coming to the British Isles, but not

just yet. There is an author Western wind across the British Isles today,

fondling showers through the Irish Sea and down into northern Wales.

Somewhere else that is very exposed is the north-eastern quarter of

Scotland. Come the mid part of the afternoon, we will still have one or

two showers across the western side of Wales. Away from the breeze, ten

or 11 Celsius, quite pleasant in the sunshine. The showers will stay on

the western side of Wales. And all the while, windy conditions rattling

those showers into the higher ground in the north of Scotland, where we

see them converting to snow very readily above four or 500 metres. As

the skies begin to clear, once the sun is down, we will have a bit of a

problem with frost. I mention it for the extent rather than the

intensity. You will notice that across that north-western corner,

not such a problem. Quite a breeze yet again, another windy day across

this north-western quarter, and the clouds sufficiently thick

eventually. Elsewhere, you will be scraping the car first thing across

a large part of England and Wales away from the coast. We will keep

temperatures up to nine or ten Celsius or so. A lot of isobars

across the northern half of the British Isles particularly. This

weather fronts spreading a band of cloud and rain ever further towards

the south, and it will take time to get down across the British Isles,

so that a game in the southeastern corner, the day will start clear,

but it will be wet and windy across the northern areas. The cloud will

thicken up and bring the prospect of rain. Temperatures at their

warmest, oddly, across the North. Then we still have that fund to

content with through Sunday, sinking further towards the south. Something

a little cooler on the way for the start of next week. If you want our

thoughts on how that will affect you from Tuesday onwards, it would all

be there for you on the website. At half past one, a reminder of our

main story this lunchtime. American transport planes begin moving

victims of the Philippines typhoon out of Tacloban, one of the worst

hit areas. Britain is sending it biggest aircraft carrier to help

with the