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Flooding hits many parts of the UK as officials warn of some of the | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
worst weather for years. The South West bears the brunt as strong winds | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
combine with high tides to send massive waves crashing into the | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
coastline. There are severe flood warnings are in place for coastal | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
communities. Roads have collapsed and some towns are under water. The | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
levels here do rise remarkably quickly. Talking to the locals, they | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
haven't seen anything like this since 1999. This is the scene live | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
over Gloucestershire where earlier the river rose to a dangerously high | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
level. Also this lunchtime. A British man's been killed in Libya. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
It's reported he was shot along with a woman from New Zealand. One in | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
three people around the world are overweight with obesity rising | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
fastest in developing countries. And more misery for England down under, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
as they throw away another good start in the final Ashes Test. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
The latest figures showed the rate of cycling deaths on the roads | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
continues to get worse. And people in parts of Surrey and Berks warned | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
of possible further flooding. Hello. Good afternoon and welcome to | :01:16. | :01:35. | |
the BBC News At One. The Environment Agency has warned that weather | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
conditions in some parts of Britain could be the worst for five to ten | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
years. The South West saw the worst of this morning's storm with the Met | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Office warning of strong winds and rain in Scotland and Northern | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Ireland this afternoon. The Environment Agency has issued eight | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
severe flood warnings which indicate a risk to life across England and | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Wales, with heavy rain and gusts of 60mph. And there are now 136 flood | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
warnings in place, a lower category, which still requires people to take | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
action. In Scotland, a tidal surge is expected shortly around the Firth | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
of Clyde, Solway Firth and Ayrshire. The government's emergency committee | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
is due to meet around now to discuss the situation. In a moment we will | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
be assessing the weather conditions across the UK with our | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
correspondents Hywel Griffith in Newport in South Wales, James Cook | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
in Ardrossan in North Ayrshire and Andy Martin in Belfast. But first to | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Jon Kay who's on the beach at Perranporth in Cornwall. Kate, it | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
enormous waves against here this lunchtime but at least for now, they | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
are way outside the beach itself. A very different story along the coast | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
first thing this morning, though. The sea came all the way in here, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
going over the top of the wall, flooding properties up the road | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
which haven't been flooded for decades. The one advantage, though, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
living near a beach, there's a ready supply of sand, so people are | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
sandbagging this lunchtime, preparing for more storms yet to | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
come. Cornel's early morning wake-up call. This was nucleotide tide. As | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
the latest storm thundered in. -- Cornwall. Crowds gathered well | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
before dawn, warned by the authorities to keep a safe distance. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Look at that. Spectacular, isn't it? Fantastic. Have you ever seen at | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
this high before? No, I've never seen it like this before. It's an | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
absolutely awesome sight. Frightening power. You wouldn't want | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
to be in the sea or too close to it. It really is frightening. In this | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
fishing port, 20 properties were flooded as the already high tide was | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
whipped up further by howling winds. In the seaside town of | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Perranporth, similar story, just three days ago, they were | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
celebrating New Year's Eve in this pub and now they start the year | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
badly. This was the kitchen with six inches of water. Janine only took | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
over this cafe three months ago but last night, the sea came in. Now she | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
and her team are preparing for the next surge. She feels the council | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
should be compelled by law to provide sandbags for vulnerable | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
properties. The moment, that's not the case. There's no point in them | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
whilst we are flooding. We need them before that to prevent it. If you | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
had had moored sandbags in time last night, do you think your cafe could | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
have been saved? I don't think it would've been as bad as it was. This | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
afternoon, she has taken matters into her own hands, filling bags | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
with sand from the beach the next surge tonight. Another low pressure | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
system coming through this weekend and may move on into the weeks as | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
well to come. With the ground saturated, even moderate rain could | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
cause more flooding. The coast of west Wales have been battered by the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Irish Sea. This coastal road in Pembrokeshire ripped apart by the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
waves. And the Victorian prom at Aberystwyth has also been left in | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
tatters. Along the notorious River Severn in Gloucestershire, there's | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
been some flooding but it's not been as bad as feared. The wind is not | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
quite as high as it has been, so far. At least. Well, we saw the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
sandbags being filled up on the beach and this is where they end up | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
at these properties on the street. There are high tide the street. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
There are high tides denied with waves expected to be ten metres | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
high, so you can understand why people are taking precautions. The | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
parish council in Perranporth has asked people to come down to the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
beach later on and try to fill as many bags as they can to try to | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
protect as many oddities. It's strange, because the wind is | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
dropped, the rain is falling, but it's not that dramatic but, at the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
same time, there's more to come. The police say it's an ongoing major | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
incident and it's set to last into the weekend. OK, thank you for that | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
update. As we heard in that report, there's also been flooding in West | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Wales. About 30 properties have been affected in Cardigan where a | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
pregnant woman has been rescued and some people are trapped in their | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
homes. Hywell Griffith is in Newport for us with more. Give us the latest | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
update. Yes, high wind still whipping around the Welsh coastline. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
They arrived shortly after high tide this morning. That may just have | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
been enough to avert major flooding on the coastline for the Wii a share | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
in Newport on the edge of a static caravan park which had to be | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
evacuated -- we are here. Police said there was a red alert and they | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
should leave now. They came back this morning to find, thankfully, | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the water had not overturned these flood defences however, this | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
afternoon, they have been warned the high tide tonight expected that | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
8:45pm, may add further risk so they will be evacuated again this | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
evening. 870 miles of coastline in Wales flood alert all the way, so | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
places in Cardigan, further north already affected and concern this | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
lunchtime about North Wales. Its also had an impact on traffic and | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
travel. Roads are closed and a lot of the rail network is underwater. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
The line between here and Newport and Cardiff is underwater, and | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Swansea and West Wales also affected, are people trying to make | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
their way around the country having their journeys disrupted. And | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
concern about what the weekend may bring. Indeed, thank you very much. | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Scotland now then. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
currently issued 38 flood warnings, but at present none of them are | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
severe. Let's get an update. James Cook is in Ardrossan in North | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Aryshire. What's the situation there, James? Yes, quite serious, | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
really, in terms of the storm surge which is now just coming ashore. You | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
can see it is picking any moment now. You can see the force of that | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
water as it's coming over the shore front share in Ardrossan, breaking | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
against the shore front, and that's causing flooding to the roads. You | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
can see the roads here has been shut, and this is a similar picture | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
on the coastal road up and down the West coast of Scotland. At the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
moment, we are being told that there are problems with flooding here in | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Ayreshire and also in Dumfries and it and there have been problems | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
further north as well. More reports of damage flooding to property, no | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
reports, but it's only due to peak around now. High tide due at 1:20pm, | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
and this surge of water expected to reach its peak for the dubbing is | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
not gusting at their strongest levels but it's not been the kind of | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
storm which has caused the problem. It has been the coastal water which | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
is, sure, but winds gusting at more than 60 mph in parts of Scotland. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Nearly 40 flood warnings in place. The advice really is for people to | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
keep away from the coastline and to keep off roads which are shut. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Indeed. James, thank you bring much for that update for Scotland. The | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
predictions with regard to the level of flooding have been downgraded | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
slightly in Northern Ireland. Andy Martin is in East Belfast for us | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
now. Is that expected to change or has Northern Ireland seen the worst | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
of it? I think Northern Ireland, the worst of it is past. There were huge | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
concern is just under an hour ago that the high tide might cause | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
difficulties in this part of Belfast. You can see the railway | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
bridge behind me, normally there are metres of free air here but you can | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
see with a high tide is reached, and the difficulty, of course, is | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
that... It's very windy, but to the left of your screen is an intensely | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
built-up area of Belfast and there are thousands of homes here. There | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
have been thousands and thousands of sandbags put here in case the river | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
spilled over. That hasn't happened since 1974. The tactical support | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
group, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, are more used to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
getting involved in riot situations. They are on stand-by to pull anybody | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
from their houses should they get into any difficulties and the Coast | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Guard has been here at the high tide passed about 50 minutes ago and | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
there was no flooding. So Northern Ireland, for the most part, has | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
avoided the difficulties. We are getting an indication some parts of | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
the coast around County Antrim are experiencing difficulties at the | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
moment but for the most part, Northern Ireland has got away | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
further -- fairly easily so far. Andy, thank you for your update. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
John Hammond is with me now. So John what's driving all this wet weather. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Where's it coming from? The atmosphere is fluid around the world | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
and it's something unusual is happening in one part of WorldCom is | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
more than likely because something unusual is happening in another part | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
of the world. In North America, it's pretty unusual in as much as we have | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
a very, very tight temper the contrast with intensely cold air | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
coming down from the Arctic. A lot of snow across North America and it | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
is this tight temperature contrast which drives the jet stream, | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
conductor Rod of the weather, and the stronger the Jetstream, the more | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
intense hour storm systems are. There it goes, whizzing up in the | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
atmosphere across the Atlantic, and it whips up the weather at the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
surface, and the stronger the Jetstream, the stronger the weather. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
That's what we have hard weeks and weeks and weeks of it. On the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
satellite picture comes you can see what's happening right now with yet | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
another series of storms heading our way and that's what's responsible | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
for the strong wind at the moment. If we look ahead through this week, | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
we can see more wind and more rain. Incidentally, for a time on | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Saturday, we could season snow across northern areas. More ice to | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
the West. The next explosion of storms underneath that Jetstream | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
which means more wind and rain for all of us through Sunday. We are | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
keeping a close eye on it but no sign of the weather settling down. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
The Jetstream remains very strong indeed. OK, a full update later on | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
in the programme. Thank you very much. And for the latest on the | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
situation you can tune in to your local BBC Radio station on FM, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
digital radio, and online. Now, in other news. The Foreign | :13:01. | :13:15. | |
Office has confirmed that a British man has been killed in Western | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Libya. His body, and that of a New Zealand woman, were found next to | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
their untouched luggage near a gas and oil complex. It's thought they'd | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
been shot. Our Correspondent, Nick Beake, is at the Foreign Office. | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
What more are you able to tell us? The Foreign Office has now confirmed | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
they know the identity of this British man who has been killed in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Libya. His next of kin have been informed. They happened, though, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
released his name. That hasn't been put into the public domain. In terms | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
of official information, there is little to go on. We are reliant on | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
reports and sources within Libya if we had time to build a picture of | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
what's happened here in the past 24 hours. For example, Libyan security | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
sources say that they think this man and woman he was with, who was from | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
New Zealand, were shot dead four that they were apparently found | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
surrounded by their luggage, which was untouched and, in terms of a | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
motive, that's very much unclear. Their bodies were found outside this | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
island gas complex which is about 60 miles to the west of the capital, | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Tripoli. Initial reports suggested they may have been teachers. We are | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
told that is not the case. There are reports they may have been teachers. | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
We are told that is not the case. There are reportedly worth workers | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
within that oil complex, which is owned by an Italian company. This | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
comes one month after an attack in the eastern city of Benghazi. An | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
American teacher was killed. He was out running when he was targeted and | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
shot dead. In the wake of that, the Foreign Office he said Westerners | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
should be aware of further attacks against them, in particular | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
spontaneous attacks. Now, we are waiting for more information from | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
the Foreign Office in terms of what has happened here in the past 24 | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
hours but it could be that we get that in the coming hours. OK, thank | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
you. There are fresh calls for governments around the world to tax | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
unhealthy foods to deal with rising global obesity. The Overseas | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Development Institute says the number of overweight and obese | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
adults in developing countries has quadrupled since 1980, contributing | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
to huge increases in health problems like diabetes and stroke. Tulip | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
Mazumdar has the details. Far too many sausages! Many of us no | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
doubt overdid it over Christmas, but there are fresh concerns about our | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
globally expanding waistlines. Researchers say it is particularly | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
alarming in the developing world, where people are choosing to spend | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
the increasing disposable income on unhealthy fast food. The future | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
diets report analysed existing data on global obesity rates. It found | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
that in 1980 one in five people worldwide were overweight or obese. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
By 2008, it had risen to one in three. The report also found that in | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
the developed world, countries like the UK and the US, rates went from | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
320 million up to 571 million. But in developing countries like Egypt | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
and Mexico, numbers almost quadrupled from 250 million up to | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
904 million. It is these sorts of greasy fattening, sugary processed | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
foods that are causing the problem. This class of drink has more than | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the daily recommended amount of sugar in it, around 13 teaspoons. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Get through enough of this often enough, and you risk getting serious | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
illnesses. The report says Western governments which have been dealing | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
with the obesity problem for longer have so far failed. It suggests | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
taxing unhealthy food. Things that change is the prices of food, I | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
think, would be particularly effective in changing consumption | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
patterns, and we know from the experience of the USA, where certain | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
states have introduced taxes on sweets, for example, that it does | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
affect the amount that is consumed. You cannot say to a slim person, you | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
have to pay extra for this because other people are abusing it. It is a | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
blunt tool, taxing, forcing people through their pockets. Much of the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
industry is not keen, Eva and argued the only thing that will get lighter | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
is people's wallets. -- keen either. Our main story this lunchtime: | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Flooding hits many parts of the UK as officials warn of some of the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
worst weather for years. Still to come, the British film tipped to win | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
at this month's Golden Globes, based on a true life story of slavery in | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
the American South, we will hear from one of its stars. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Later on BBC London, we meet the marathon man, David Bedford, the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
former athlete and race director has been awarded an OBE. And remember in | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Peter the wild boy, brought to London by George I and still | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
honoured today. Documents from 30 years ago released | :18:09. | :18:22. | |
this morning revealed that Margaret Thatcher secretly considered calling | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
up troops at the height of the miners' strike. Plans were drawn up | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
for thousands of members of the armed forces to drive lorries to | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
move coal to power stations. The Cabinet papers also reveal that | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Libyan officials twice want the Foreign Office of potential violence | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
hours before policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was murdered outside the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Libyan Embassy in London. News correspondent Ben Ando has more. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
It was one of the most violent and bitter industrial disputes in | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
British history. The year-long miners' strike from 1984 to 1985 saw | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
hundreds injured on both sides in brutal clashes on picket lines | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
between striking miners and the police. You are blocking the | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
footpath... Miners leader Arthur Scargill was himself arrested during | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
the Battle of Orgreave, and he claimed that the administration had | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
a secret it lists of pits earmarked for closure. We do not want to see | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
that closures and a rundown on manpower levels, bearing in mind | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
they have a hit list of 70 pits and a reduction of about 70,000 in | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
manpower. But Mrs Thatcher said the Government wanted to close just 20, | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
and in the end the strike bailed. The miners were defeated, and the | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
power of the trade unions was broken. Now records from the | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
national archives released under the 30 year rule show that Arthur | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Scargill was right, there was a secret hit list of 75 pits that had | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
been identified for closure over the next three years. The document was | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
marked that it was not to be copied or circulated outside the private | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
office. Mrs Thatcher's then an adviser says the need for secrecy | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
was clear. When you are in a negotiation of this kind, you want | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
to show as little of your hand as you can to those with whom you are | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
negotiating, particularly if the purposes of those people are | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
clearly, as they were in this case, malign. To learn after 30 years that | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
the leader had been right is now a bitter pill for those who fought and | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
lost. Not wrong in everything, he said that it was to butcher the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
industry, nobody ever disputed that from this side. He has been proved | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
right, there was an ulterior motive in what they were doing. One month | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
after the start of the strike in April 1980, Mrs Thatcher's | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
government was faced with a new crisis, the murdered in a London | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
street of a policewoman by a gunman hidden in the Libyan Embassy. That | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
the murder. Armed police surrounded the | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
embassy. WPC Yvonne Fletcher had been killed and 11 people who had | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
been demonstrating had been injured, but new documents show that | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
the British ambassador in Libya, Oliver Miles, had been warned by the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
authorities in Tripoli of possible trouble. I took it seriously, which | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
is why I reported it to the Foreign Office, but I did not believe it, | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
no. After an 11 day stand-off, those under siege were allowed to leave. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
The documents reveal Mrs Thatcher saw this as a pragmatic decision to | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
protect Britons in Tripoli, even if it meant the suspected killer of | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Yvonne Fletcher went free. Benefit fraud costs the country more | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
than ?1 billion per year, and that figure has not fallen in the past | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
five years. The Government is trying to find the best way to bring it | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
down and is trialling six project around the UK, each with a different | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
way of tackling the problem. Local government correspondent Mike | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Sergeant explains. Some cases have hit the headlines. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Like the drag queen who fraudulently claimed tens of thousands of | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
pounds, the superfit boxing instructor who receives disability | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
benefits, or the livestock trader who said he could barely walk but | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
was filmed working vigorously. The Government want anyone suspected of | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
benefit cheats or concerned about their own situation to get in touch. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
People tend to see benefit fraud as something that is not against | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
anybody in particular, because it is against the Government, but it is | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
very serious, a criminal offence, and it is an offence against the | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
likes of us, the taxpayer. Benefits cheats often begin the deception | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
slowly, almost casually, maybe they take on a couple of extra hours' | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
work per week or moving with partner without telling the authorities, but | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
in time the fraud can bring a significant cost to the taxpayers | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
who do play the rules. Benefit investigators, like these in | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Cardiff, are beginning pilots in six areas of the UK, a mixture of | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
internet ads, newspaper campaigns and letters. The idea is to compare | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
different methods of alerting the public to find out what works best. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Fraud accounts for a small fraction of the welfare bill but still costs | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
the taxpayer ?1 billion per year. Overpayments because of error cost | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
even more, 1.6 billion. Those who failed to disclose information they | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
say ?2000 fine or a possible prison sentence for serious offences. -- | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
faced eight ?2000 fine. You may have made a mistake, but let us know nice | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
and early so we do not go down the route of conviction. Critics say | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
previous attempts to raise awareness have not had much effect on the | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
level of fraud detected, that ministers say the message needs to | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
go out that cheats should be stopped. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Fans of the Formula One champion Michael Schumacher have gathered | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
outside the French hospital where he remains in a critical condition | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
after suffering head injuries while skiing at the weekend. They marked | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
his 45th birthday by joining a silent vigil. His family has | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
remained at his bedside. 12 Years A Slave is an unflinching | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
portrayal of slavery in the American South from British director Steve | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
McQueen. So far it is jointly leading the nominations for the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
Golden Globe awards alongside American Hustle. Based on the true | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
story of a freeman sold into slavery, it stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
and Will Gompertz has been to meet him. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
Solomon Northup is an expert player of the violin. I was born a freeman, | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
lived with my family in New York until the day I was deceived, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
kidnapped and sold into slavery. True story, did you know it | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
beforehand to me I had never heard of him. I had never heard of Solomon | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Northup or the kidnappings in the North that happened. | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
I am a freeman. You have no right whatsoever to detain me. You are | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
nothing but a Georgia away. When you went out to Louisiana, when you went | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
out in New Orleans and talk to people about what you were doing, | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
was the story still in the soil? Do people still connect with it, or was | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
it fresh to them as well? There are places which have a rich investment | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
still to what happened in there, whereas there are places that are | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
tending to museums, for example, you can talk to people who are the | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
descendants of the plantation owners, in the times of slavery. And | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
then there are other places in Louisiana which seem very removed | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
from all of that, almost as if it never happened, you know. And so | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
there is that kind of psychology as well, but on the plantations you | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
feel that there is a real sense of dancing with ghosts, that everything | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
is still, you know, very much alive and present, in the soil. | :26:05. | :26:19. | |
SINGING It is highly likely you will be short listed for an Oscar | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
nomination for the performance. Similarly, your mate Idris Elba, who | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
played Mandela, another staggering performance, he could get short | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
listed. How does that feel? I spoke to Idris the other day, and it is | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
amazing, it is really great, and I am really excited about the prospect | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
of that. Who is going to get the schedule me who knows? It has been | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
such an incredible journey that whatever happens now, regardless of | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
that, it has been an extraordinary time with films that I am deeply | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
proud of. Thank you very much indeed. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Now cricket, and it has been a familiar tale for England after the | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
opening day of the final Ashes Test in Sydney. The tourists made a great | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
start before the Australians once again took control and rally from | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
97-5 to finish 326 all out. In reply, England are 8-1. Dan Roan has | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
been watching the action. There are few better places to make | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
a fresh start, and in a city synonymous with New Year, English | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
cricket had made a resolution to turn the tide. The tourists had seen | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
another, a trio of players and debuts. Having wielded the axe, | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
England won the toss for the first time the series, and the decision to | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
bowl on a grassy pitch was clearly vindicated. Australia were reduced | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
to 97-5 shortly after lunch, the tourists finally getting it off | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
their chests. But as sure as night follows day is, Brad Haddin will | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
come to the rescue, and sure enough he was full of his usual swash and | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
buckle as the hosts recovered. These were not the debuts that the English | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
players had hoped for, Boyd Rankin was hamstrung, Scott Borthwick | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
simply hammered, as Brad Haddin took the game away from them. The | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
wicketkeeper was eventually out for 75, but his accomplice Steve Smith | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
continued in the same vein, bringing up a sparkling century in grand | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
style. But just as a weary England sank to new levels of despondency | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
came some late solace, Ben Stokes was the one ray of light on an | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
otherwise gloomy tour, wrapping up the tail with three victims in an | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
over. His six wicket haul gave the team something to celebrate, | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
Australia all out for 326. But by then the damage was done, and under | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
a ferocious evening assault from Mitchell Johnson, Michael Carberry | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
was out for a duck, England limping off on 8-1. You have to wonder once | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
again what might have been. We started really well, we had the 95, | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
and then Brad Haddin and Smith counter-attacked the start that we | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
got. We gave them too many. So a new year and some new faces, but the | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
same old story for England, failing to capitalise after a good start. | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
They now face a huge batting day, but in truth the prospect of a 5-0 | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
series whitewash remains all too real. | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
OK, time for a full look at the weather with John Hammond. | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
It is quieter down under, it is wild back home, as you are well aware. | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
This is the flood line number, more stormy weather in prospect. This is | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
today's beast, it is the winds of most concern, battering the western | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
and southern coasts. We have some footage from Ayrshire of flooding | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
taking place, very strong gusts indeed. Our attention turns to areas | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
further south later this afternoon and into the evening, with another | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
high spring tide expected, and in the last hour or so we have actually | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
seen gusts of over 90 mph along some exposed clifftops along the southern | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
coast of England. Inland, some really squally showers, a land | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
thunder mixed in, nasty driving conditions. -- hail and thunder | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
mixed in. Technically mild in the south, but it does not feel pleasant | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
with the wind and rain. Looking ahead towards this evening, very | :30:24. | :30:25. | |
windy with an ongoing risk of flooding in the south for a time, | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
the winds dying down, blustery showers rattling in, cold across the | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
North for some slippery surfaces later towards dawn. By that time, | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
more trouble brewing across southern counties of England, yet another | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
area of rain. A lot of uncertainty about the detail tomorrow, but the | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
prospect is there for a few hours of wet weather across southeastern | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
areas, just where we do not need it, and this area of rain looks like it | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
is moving across the country, engaging colder in northern | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
England, southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, bringing a real | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
risk of snow even at low levels. We could see some significant snow, we | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
will keep an eye on that one for sure. This is the picture for the | :31:08. | :31:09. | |
afternoon, brightening up, technically mild in the south but | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
cold with a risk of snow further south. That is Saturday. You have | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
probably heard all about Sunday, the next explosive deepening area of low | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
pressure, that means more wet and windy weather sweeping in from the | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
south-west. The winds and not of so much concern, it is the rain, with | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
another 20 millimetres in some places double that. Some areas | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
starting bright and cold in the East, but more trouble looming. To | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
sum up the weekend, if you really want to know, it is going to be | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
pretty rough, rain on Saturday, a risk of snow on Sunday, then wet and | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
windy weather spreading into more areas. | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
Thank you so much! That is our main story at 1:30, flooding heats many | :31:53. | :31:59. | |
parts of the UK as officials warn of the worst weather for years. That is | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
it from the News At One | :32:04. | :32:04. |