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More weather misery as winter storms cause fresh disruption for large | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
parts of the UK. There are problems on the roads and railways - | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
thousands of homes are still without power. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
A huge explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut kills five people | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
including the former Finance Minister. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
And in sport - finally, a good day for England in the fourth Ashes test | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
in Melbourne. Good afternoon. Powerful gales and | :00:33. | :00:55. | |
heavy rain have returned to the UK, causing further disruption. Around | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
15,000 homes are without power across England, Wales and Northern | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Ireland. Rail services have been disrupted and many roads are closed. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The Met Office is warning of gusts up to 80mph in north Wales and | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
northern England. And there are still more than 50 flood warnings | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
across the country. Judith Moritz is in Blackpool for us now. Yes, they | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
are used to a recent Blackpool, you can see the Scots just behind me | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
there, they are specially made to withstand high winds -- the | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
sculptures. They have needed to be today will, with peak winds reaching | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
80 mph. Even here where I am standing, we have had to find a | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
sheltered spot to broadcast from, that was measured at 40 mph. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
Blackpool's seafront is often bracing in winter, this morning it | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
was being buffeted by particularly high winds. The Gaels sliced across | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
the sea, having been forecast to reach speeds of up to 80 mph across | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the coast of the Northwest. High winds have brought power lines | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
down. In Northern Ireland, 20,000 homes had to be reconnected | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
overnight and this house in County Down caught fire when an electricity | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
pole fell on the roof. Unfortunately, for a lot of people | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Christmas has in effect been cancelled. Engineers, people working | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
in our network companies, have been working around the clock since | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Monday. They are part of the local communities they serve, so they are | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
their own neighbours may want to get people back on as soon as they can. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
On the rail network there has been disruption and delay across several | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
lines. Some passengers at Victoria Station were in for a long wait. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
There is not even a seat here, so standing for three hours is bad. I | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
have been here since seven, couldn't get a train, had to get a coach. The | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
only one I could get was seven in the morning to meet these are 12, so | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
I have been here five hours. It wasn't just the railways, the roads | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
in the south of England still bear the marks of the Christmas floods, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
and that's the bad weather moves north, the authorities are keeping a | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
close eye on the changing situation. Previous experience has taught us | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
that it is important to have cruise on stand-by when we have the high | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
winds, there are going to be a number of trees falling over | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
particularly with the ground being as sudden as it is, so it is | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
important to get the road reopened as quickly as practical. The | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
holidays have been a wash-out for this family in Surrey. Their home | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
flooded on Christmas Day and now they are spending the end of the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
year dealing with the damage. The worst of the weather has now moved | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
the North of England and Scotland, and his later, but for some, this | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
will be a Christmas they would rather forget. -- and will ease | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
later. As we speak, there are still 7000 houses without power in Cumbria | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
and here in neighbouring Lancashire, as you can see it is still a | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
question of battening down the hatches. As we've been hearing, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
strong winds and flooding have caused major disruption on the | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
transport system today. Roads have been closed and railways are | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
operating reduced services. The East Coast Mainline, Virgin Trains, South | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Eastern and Arriva services have all been affected as Network Rail check | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
routes for fallen trees. Jane Francis Kelly is at Victoria Station | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
in London for us now. Well, it's been a very frustrating day for some | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
travellers here at Victoria. Passengers have been looking at rows | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
of screens on which they asked seeing cancelled and delayed trains, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
and that is because South-eastern Trains were told to cancel their | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
services until noon. The man in charge of the smooth running of the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
network is here. Give us an idea of what's happening in the rest of the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
country. We have a mixed picture, some places are running city well, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
the Midlands, the North, Scotland are in good shape, but the problem | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
we have got now is flooding from all the rain we have had. It was | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
difficult getting everybody where they wanted to be on Christmas Eve. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
We have now spent 48 hours clearing up the remains of the trees, a lot | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
of landslips, mudslides, and on top of that we have the weekend of | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Christmas engineering works which kicked in on Christmas Eve so places | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
like the Tory today, we have landslips in Kent, Sussex towards | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Dorking, we have a big one on the main line out of Waterloo on the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
line down to Portsmouth. So what passengers are facing today is some | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
destruction anywhere because of engineering works, they would have | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
been bussed substitutions... What about Scotland and Wales? We have | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
some flooding, in the far north we have clear that out, there is a lot | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
of wind up there, we're robbers with the trees and the overhead wires | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
between Preston and Glasgow. Was it a mistake to tell South-eastern | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Trains to cancel? It's what we have done, I have explained before, this | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
is what we do when we have big storms. It would be stupid to get | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
the emergency services to come and rescue when everybody is so | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
stretched. What we did again last night and last weekend, what I did | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
with the previous dorm is to stop, check the network is safe before we | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
let people run. -- the previous dorm. We have been told that train | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
services in Northern Ireland are running smoothly but check before | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
you travel. A former Lebanese Cabinet Minister | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
is among at least five people who have been killed in a huge explosion | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The explosion is said to have taken | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
place in the city centre, near government offices and the | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
parliament building. Mohammed Chatah was a leading aide to the former | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Prime Minister, Saad Hariri. Our Correspondent Kim Ghattas is in | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
Beirut, at the scene of the explosion. The Lebanese people were | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
trying to enjoy the festive season, the holiday season. Thousands, if | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
not hundreds of thousands of Lebanese across the country were | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
enjoying this holiday period, thousands of people flying in from | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
around the world to be with their family here in Beirut. A lot of them | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
celebrating here in this glitzy part of town, where you have French | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
restraints and designer boutiques. But it was all brought to a very | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
abrupt and violent end earlier this morning. Horrorstruck the heart of | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
Beirut at 9:30am this morning as people drove to work over the copy | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
by the sea. The beautifully rebuilt centre of town, the scene of | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
devastation for the first time in years. TRANSLATION: We were inside | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
and felt glass breaking and coming in. Then we heard the sound, an | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
explosion happened. We waited until it was over and then we went out and | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
saw this. TRANSLATION: I think all this terrorism is damaging the | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
country and the people. What more can we say? . Help this country. | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
Pataki was this man -- the target was this man, Mohammed Chatah, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
soft-spoken and a voice of moderation in a polarised country. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Crucially, he was a key adviser to Saad Hariri, the leader of the | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
political bloc opposed to Styria's government and its ally here in | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
Lebanon, Hezbollah. Saad Hariri is already -- has already indirectly | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
accused Hezbollah of being behind the killing. Lebanon is living | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
through crises, all compounded the war next door in Syria. There has | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
been no Cabinet here in Beirut for nine months already. Hezbollah, a | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Shia group from Lebanon, is fighting alongside President Assad's forces | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
in Syria, and in the hometown of Mohammed Chatah, cine militants | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
regularly cross into Syria to support the rebels there. Hezbollah | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
has also paid the price of its role in Syria, with suicide bombings | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
targeting areas where it operates in southern Beirut. Lebanon is facing | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
multiple crises, it is a complex country and it is still haunted by a | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
long series of unresolved assassinations. But increasingly, | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
with every bit of violence and every assassination here, there is a sense | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
that the crisis in Lebanon is tied to the war in Syria and Lebanon's | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
fate is increasingly tied to the outcome of the conflict across the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
board. The inquest into the death of a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
British doctor who died in prison in Syria has been opened and adjourned. | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Walthamstow Coroner's Court in north London heard that the Syrian | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
authorities believe that Abbas Khan killed himself. His family insist he | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
was murdered. The police are investigating the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
death of a man at a house in Nottingham. A woman was taken to | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
hospital with what are described as potentially life-threatening | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
injuries. Two children were also found at the property in Bircotes | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
but they were uninjured. Police are still at the scene and are | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
investigating the circumstances of the man's death. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian have left Russia, | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
after being freed from prison as part of an amnesty by President | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Putin. They were among 30 people arrested during a protest about oil | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
drilling in the Arctic. Our World Affairs Correspondent Rajesh | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
Mirchandani reports. Along but welcome journey begins the | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
these Greenpeace activists, five per and and one Canadian flew out of St | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Petersburg earlier today. Freed after a Russian government amnesty | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
saw charges against them dropped stop most were relieved but still | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
defined. To receive amnesty is strange because we are being | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
forgiven for crime we didn't commit but I'm happy this is over and we | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
can move on with our lives now. But Russia sees it differently. Industry | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Matic encounter in September, its authority surrounded and fired near | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
a Greenpeace vessel in Arctic waters. The protesters want to stop | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
drilling in the Arctic. 30 were arrested, including Kieron Bryan | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
here. They were charged with hooliganism, which could have meant | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
several years behind ours. With the accused said the prison they will | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
help was like a concentration camp. A few days ago, except pieces were | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
granted after Russia's parliament approves an amnesty bill. That move | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
also bought freedom from members of the punk band Pussy Riot, jailed for | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
singing protest songs in the Cathedral and for the tycoon could a | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
costly, who spent ten years in prison on tax evasion charges. | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
President Putin's decision to ease off on his opponents comes just | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
weeks before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics. But now, the anxious | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
relatives like this one, family reunions are all that matter. I | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
think we're going to open a few beers and really enjoy the fact that | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
he is back, almost for Christmas. We're properly going to have another | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Christmas day and enjoy the fact he's around again. Today, the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
British government welcome to the protesters's return but said it | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
still has concerns about Russia's legal system. | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Cricket, and England are in a good position after the second day of the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
fourth Ashes test in Melbourne. After being all out for 255, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
England's bowlers got them back into the game, restricting Australia to | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
164 for nine at the close. Our Chief Sports Correspondent Dan Roan | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
reports. Generation has passed since | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Australia's greatest fast bowler struck fear into English hearts, but | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the first hour of day two, it felt like the MCG had gone back in time. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Mitchell Johnson evokes memories of Dennis Lily in the face and in pace. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Once again at his vicious best. Tim Bresnan didn't know what hit him. -- | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
hopes hinge on Kevin Pietersen but having daily added to his overnight | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
67, four hours of maturity undone in a moment of madness. With cricket | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
resembling a blood sport, Johnson went hunting again. Stuart Broad's | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
scalp insured as defining series. England were all out for 255. That | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
seemed inadequate but England's bowlers had other ideas as Shane | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Watson fell before lunch. Suddenly Australia knew they were in a fight. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Rogers was felled by Stuart Broad and the hosts were 62 -- 62-3. | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
Rogers propped up the innings with a dog of 50 but England have | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
remembered how they used to win Ashes series. The tourists took | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
control. Brad Haddin has been a thorn in England's side, again | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
threatening to rescue his team but he could do nothing about the late | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
flurry of wickets. Australia, 164 - nine at the end. England had fought | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
that, if only the series were still alive. We were really hungry to get | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
something out of this tour. I thought we chased everything, I | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
thought Cook sets in good fields, it was a complete performance. After | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
England's best day on tour, they may have the chance to seal would be a | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
morale boosting consolation win. The Ashes are long gone, of course, but | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
this still felt like an important first stage in England's road to | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
recovery. There'll be more news from | :15:13. | :15:13. |