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come. Welfare will be hardest hit, bearing almost half of the ?25

billion reduction. 2014 is the year of hard truths, the year when

Britain faces a hard choice. We will assess what the figures mean in

practice. Also this lunchtime, more storms across the UK as flood

warnings continued to disrupt travel for many returning to work. Jimmy

Savile's victims call for a single enquiry into how he got away with

his crimes. Protests over cuts to legal aid to disrupt court cases in

England and Wales as barristers and solicitors stage their first ever

walk-out. And the questions and recriminations continue following

England's whitewash. The coach and captain say they will continue their

positions. In BBC London: Health experts warn

the capital could be on the verge of a TB epidemic. And calls for Muslim

mothers to keep children safe from online extremists.

Good afternoon, welcome to the News at one. The Chancellor George

Osborne says a further ?25 billion of spending cuts will be needed

after the next election to reduce the country's deficit. Just under

half of that will come from welfare cuts. He said the economy was far

from fixed and 2014 would be a year of hard choices. Our political

correspondent has more news in Birmingham for us.

We saw a lock of the Chancellor at places like this last year talking

about economic growth. In the New Year the backdrop is pretty similar,

but the message has changed. Details about future prosperity and cuts and

creating what he described as a permanently smaller welfare system.

The Chancellor, back at work with a New Year 's resolution, to plan

another ?12 billion worth of cuts to welfare spending, a choice that he

says makes sense. When you see politicians on the telly who say

welfare cannot be cut any more, or even promising they will reverse the

changes we have already made, ask yourself this, what public services

with they cut instead? He is talking about spending after the next

general election. He plans an extra ?25 billion of cuts each year by

2017, of which ?12 billion will come from the welfare budget. He is

considering cutting housing benefits for under 25 's and stopping people

with big incomes are getting social housing. That would not be enough on

its own and the Lib Dems are not signed up to the plan. The only

people in society, the only section of society, which will bear the

burden further our working age people. But the policy is designed

to go down well in places like this, a few minutes drive away from where

he made the announcement in this conservative constituency. The

Chancellor is saying this is a choice, either cut services or spend

it on other services that people value. In my area there are a lot of

people who live on benefits and they seem to do fine, to be quite

honest. They have got nice cars and nice holidays. He is off his head,

to be truthful. Among those who are unimpressed, the Labour Party. He

has failed to admit the reason why more spending cuts will be required

is because of the failure of his economic plan. It may sound a risk

for him to promise more austerity as the economy is picking up, that he

has promised tough words with the audience here and beyond the factory

gates. He said hard truths are coming this year. He is trying to

say this is the only way to look at this question. He is beginning the

year by defining the political debate and hoping his opponents go

along with that. Labour will resist quite hard and they will say rather

than worrying about cuts that may or may not be need in the future, we

should be focusing on the cost of living and the crisis they say is

affecting people now. That is the political landscape, our

chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym is with us. Let's firstly drill

down into the figures. We are learning for the first time that if

he is still in office in 2016 - 2017, he wants to see 25 billion of

spending cuts on top of those that have already happened. Half of those

will be cuts from the welfare budget. This was implicit in the

Autumn statement numbers we got before Christmas, but he is inking

in a bit more detail. The cuts will be at the same rate as we have seen

in the current Parliament, cuts to departmental spending as well as to

welfare. No more deeper austerity, but continued austerity. To get to a

balanced budget you need to carry on with spending cuts for the next few

years. It was a tough message and things are not going to get any

easier for the foreseeable? We have had a warning from the official who

has to go out and borrow money on behalf of the Government, Roberts

Damon. Although we have got this austerity programme, the Chancellor

has to borrow ?100 billion this year and reduce it slightly in the

following year. The head of the debt management office says it is

becoming a bit more challenging to sell that debts to investors. They

start switching to other opportunities. Although the deficit

is lower, it does not get any easier selling that debt. Huge waves are

battering the southern coast of the UK as forecasters warned exposed

areas could see a fresh round of flooding. Waves up to eight metres

have been seen of lands and in Cornwall and road and rail

disruption has caused problems for many people returning after the

Christmas break. The Environment Secretary is chairing a meeting of

the emergency Cobra committee. Our correspondence is a new gale in

south Wales for us with more. Wellcome and for a fourth day part

of the Pembrokeshire coast is being pummelled by the waves. The flood

defences are struggling to cope with that mixture of high tide, strong

winds and heavy rain. It is not just west Wales that has been bearing the

brunt of this weather. Other parts of the UK have been struggling as

well. This is farmland in Somerset. This particular farmhouse is still

on dry land, but some have not been so lucky. Whole communities are shut

off. David and Tracey Bradley have been making daily trips by canoe to

fetch essential supplies. When the water starts coming down a stock up,

but you always run out of fresh produce and things like that. Those

are the things people want and basic medical supplies. Environment

Secretary Owen Paterson is chairing a Cobra emergency meeting to ensure

agencies are ready to respond. Today he promised more investment in flood

protection to help people in future. We are determined to carry on

long-term flood schemes. We will be spending ?2.3 billion in the cause

of this Parliament. We have a more ambitious programme going up to

2020. In West Wales force ten wins and a high tide sent waves crashing

into the coast line, Aberystwyth once again bearing the brunt as

students had to be evacuated from seafront halls of residence. In

Pembrokeshire seat flood defences struggled to cope. This is the main

road that leads through this part of Pembrokeshire and it is completely

covered by shingle. A few days ago that was part of the sea wall. The

waters are coming over again today because the flood defences cannot

cope with day after day of such ferocious weather. It is certainly

spectacular, but locals say they have never seen such conditions. I

have lived here all my life and I have never seen anything like this

before. I have seen high tides, but this is exceptional. Areas like this

are suffering for a third day. The only consolation is better weather

is forecast for tomorrow. Believe it or not better weather is forecast

for the remainder of the week here in West Wales. That is when the

clean-up operation will begin and that will be a huge job of work. The

Welsh Government has ordered a review of coastal defences, but they

will be constrained as to how much financial assistance they will be

able to offer. Thank you very much for that.

Jimmy Savile's victims are calling for a single inquiry into how the TV

presenter managed to evade justice. They say the current multiple

investigations will not answer the key questions of how he operated and

warned without a single inquiry the truth may not be uncovered. Welcome

to January the 1st... It is years since the scale of Jimmy Savile's

offending was revealed by police and it led to enquiries by the police,

the Crown Prosecution Service, the BBC, the NHS. But frustration is

growing. I met one victim who wishes to remain anonymous. He says he was

assaulted by Jimmy Savile when he was 15 during a visit top of the

Pops in Manchester in 1964. It was unbelievable what he did to me with

both of his hands, unbelievable, and I was totally shocked and I froze.

He wants to know why Jimmy Savile was not caught and feels there are

too many enquiries. If there was just one inquiry led by someone

competent and then we might know exactly why Jimmy Savile got away

with serious sexual abuse for 50 years. And he is just one of many.

One solicitor says the current process is flawed. There is no

compulsion, there is no ability to propel the production of documents

or the production of people to appear before those enquiries and to

be questioned and to be subjected to tough questioning. The Government is

waiting for the enquiries to report and the NSPCC rig geek -- agrees a

review of their findings would be the best option. I know there is a

call for one overall inquiry, but the danger is lessons are pushed off

into years in the future. But amongst victims a growing feeling

that one inquiry with powers to question anyone, see any document,

is the only way to get real answers. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel

has been injured in a ski accident. She partially fractured her pelvis

in a cross-country skiing trip. She has had to cancel several trips in

the coming weeks so that she can rest. Let's speak to our Europe

correspondent Matthew Price who is in Brussels. How is this going to

impact on her political schedule? She has had to cancel a few meetings

this week and is not making a planned trip to Poland. This is

your's most influential politician and it will influence her schedule

for the next week or so. We learned about are just a few hours ago. It

actually happened on the Swiss Alps in the Italian border just before

Christmas. She is a keen skier and she had a fall whilst she was a

cross-country skier. She was not going at any particular speed. She

had a full and she got what she thought was a bruise, but when she

had it checked out last Friday a doctor said it was a partial

fracture of her pelvis. When she walks she will have to use a walking

frame for the next couple of weeks. As we said at the beginning it does

impact on her schedule possibly for the next three weeks. But they do

insist in Berlin today she is still the German Chancellor and she is

still doing her job. Protests by barristers and solicitors here have

disrupted proceedings at criminal courts in England and Wales. They

are angry at plans to cut the legal aid budget by ?220 million over the

next few years and they say it could see lawyers' fees reduced by as much

as 30%. This has not happened before, barristers and solicitors

downing wigs and briefs and bringing the criminal courts to a standstill.

They are careful not to call it a strike, but that is what many will

think it is. They are protesting against the Government's proposed

reforms to legal aid. The Government wants to cut ?220 million from the

budget. Lawyers' fees in very complex cases are due to be cut by

30% and in other cases by 17%. Barristers and solicitors say this

dispute is about more than just money. They say it is about quality

and legal representation that any member of the public can expect.

There will be nobody of ability to prosecute serious cases. Rapists

will not be doing the 100 years time, but they will be living next

door to the public if their convictions fail. Janis Sharp's

son, Gary MacKenzie and, received hundreds of thousands of pounds of

legal aid when he was defending himself on charges of hacking into

US computers. It is not sensational to say he would have taken his own

life. He would have. But because we had that hope and that trust, it

gave us time to get more medical evidence and medical experts and so

on. It was massively important. But the government says the legal aid

system is simply too expensive. We are talking about tax payers money

who are giving money to the legal aid budget. I have to ensure that

that money goes as far as possible. At the end of the day, I am

confident that that budget will be adequate to make sure that those who

qualify for legal aid are properly represented. This half day of

action, though unprecedented, will delay not jeopardise trials. But if

this dispute isn't resolved, murder, rape and other trials due to start

after April could be put at risk. The president of Saddam, Omar

al-Bashir, is in South Sudan for talks with his counter port on the

continuing conflict there. More than 1000 people have died in the

violence between government troops and rebels since December, with more

than 200,000 civilians having fled their homes. The conflict started as

a political struggle between factions following the split from

Sudan in 2011, but there is real concern that the country is being

split along tribal lines. That is a real concern, isn't it, from what

you have seen on the ground? That's right. What you've got here is an

army fighting a rebel army, but that rebel army is mostly made up of

sections, tribal sections, of the army that have split off. So you

have troops fighting troops. They are all well trained. They've got

heavy arms, and there are many of them, so it makes it a very

dangerous situation. We have recently travelled up to some of the

areas where there has been the most serious fighting, and the general

leading the convoy was attacked and ambushed three times. They are some

distance away from taking back Bor and another city that is still under

control by the rebels. While these talks are going on, a cease-fire has

not been agreed. The incentive for both sides is to gain as much ground

as they can, so that when the cease-fire is called, they will have

more to bargain with. The longer they talk, the fighting it -- the

harder it is for the fighting to stop. Then you have this crisis with

over 200,000 people displaced and living in these camps.

Thank you. Our main story this lunchtime: The job is not even half

dumb - the Chancellor says the economy is on the rise but more cuts

will have to come. Welfare will be the high dust hit.

-- the hardest hit. And conflict on the high seas as an Australian group

chases Japanese whalers. Almost... And as the BBC's

Stargazing Live returns to the screens, we meet some of those

leading the way in space exploration.

Parts of the United States are braced for more record-breaking low

temperatures as a polar vortex brings more freezing weather. The

whirlpool of frigid, dense air has already brought temperatures down to

their lowest ever recorded levels, but forecasters are warning that

conditions could get even worse in the next few days, with temperatures

as low as minus 50 degrees. The National Weather Service says the

conditions are life-threatening across many states. Our world

affairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge, reports.

The big freeze is already biting hard across a swathe of the American

midwest. High winds and snow already making any kind of getting around

difficult, and in many places treacherous. It is set to get a good

deal colder than this. A polar vortex, as it is called by experts,

bringing some of the lowest temperatures in years. Hundreds of

flights have already been cancelled, and little wonder.

Officials are investigating a crash landing at this snowy airport in

Aspen, Colorado. One person was killed. The private Jet flipped over

and burst into play the Dutch burst into flames. This jet came off a

taxiway at New York's JFK. And the pilot of this light aircraft was

forced to land on a snow lined New York highway. The city of

Indianapolis banned anyone from driving other than in an emergency

or to seek shelter, and the last time it issued such a travel warning

was in 1968. This weather combination that we are seeing right

now with all the snow and the cold is unlike anything we have seen in

decades. I cannot emphasise that enough. But in Wisconsin, no one was

going to let the extreme weather prevent a key national sporting

event from going ahead. Some fans went to extreme lengths to fight the

freeze. Layers, four layers of long johns, sweat pants, sweatshirts and

a coat. America is braced for more of this and for what has been called

a storm for the record books. The inquest into the death of PC

David Rathband is taking place today. PC Rathband was found dead 19

months after being shot and blinded by gunman Raoul Moat, who went on

the run after shooting his ex-girlfriend and killing her

partner. Ed Thomas reports. Could more have been done to support

PC death -- PC David Rathband before his death. The officer was found

hanged in his home, 18 months after he was blinded by killer Raul Mote.

Today, his family arrived at his inquest, still looking for answers.

The evidence that the coroner has given shows that David was let down

by the people who might have prevented his death. The inquest

might be a foregone conclusion to many, but our hope is that David's

death was preventable. This was PC Rathband before he was shot, bring

the job he loved as a traffic officer. But in July 2010, Raoul

Moat tried to kill him, after vowing to attack the police. He was shot

twice at point-blank range. A week later, Mode shot himself dead. PC

Rathband received massive public support, but the inquest heard how

he struggled to cope. His widow, Cafu Rathband, spoke of how he

started an affair with another woman. -- cat Rathband. The court

was told that David Rathband hang -- phoned his wife and threatened to

hang himself. For his body was found, Catherine Rathband visited

her estranged husband. She told the coroner that he looked awful and was

crying. She told the court that this was a pattern of behaviour and she

did not think he would take his own life. She also asked the police to

check on her husband. A text message was sent to his liaison officer. By

the time police arrived, he had already died. The inquest into his

death is expected to last five days. A 36-year-old man has been found

guilty of dangerous driving after he was filmed in August last year

driving for about 30 seconds with both his hands behind his head.

Magistrates told him the video evidence was conclusive. Danny

Savage is at Scarborough Magistrates' Court. Kate, this dates

back to August the night last year, when this very police van was parked

on a moorland road near Whitby, catching speeding motorists. But the

operator of this band said he was shocked and surprised when he saw

this - 36-year-old David Newton driving along with both his hands

behind his head for about 30 seconds, driving at about 62 miles

an hour. The operator of the fan swung the camera around and filmed

him as he went by driving along the road. A couple of days later, a

policeman went knocking on Mr Newton's door. He said that it was

him driving at the time and that it was a stupid thing to do, but in

court today he tried to argue that what he was doing was careless but

not dangerous, and that he was controlling the steering wheel using

his knees. The magistrates decided that what he was doing was very

dangerous driving, and they found him guilty of dangerous driving here

today. He was sentenced to a 12 month ban from driving, community

work, court costs, and will have to take a extended -- and extended

driving test, which will no doubt focus on keeping both hands on the

wheel. Australian anti-whaling activists

say they're pursuing a fleet of Japanese ships involved in the

killing of four whales in the Southern Ocean. The activists say

the whales were killed within an internationally-recognised whale

sanctuary. From Sydney, Jon Donnison, reports.

These are the pictures that infuriate many environmentalists.

They filmed by the anti-whaling group, Sea Shepherd. They apparently

shows three dead Minke whale is on board one of five Japanese ships in

the icy waters of the Southern open -- Southern Ocean. The bloody decks

suggest another whale was killed and had already been cut up. The

activists save the whales were caught within a whale sanctuary, a

50 mile -- a 50 square kilometre area around the Antarctic. The

sanctuary was set up in 1994 to detect Wales, and there was a

moratorium on all commercial whaling. But the Japanese say their

whaling is carried out for research reasons. The environmentalists

reject that. Japan upholds this lie that it is scientific research. Have

a look at the footage from the slaughter of the last 24 hours.

There is nothing scientific about this. A spokesperson at the Japanese

Foreign Ministry denied that Japan was exploiting a loophole, and said

it was carrying out its legitimate rights. Australia is taking Japan to

the International Court of Justice in an attempt to get it to cease

whaling. Environmentalists here have criticised the Australian government

for not doing enough to stop the Japanese.

England cricket coach Andy Flower says he is determined to stay on and

help rebuild the team after its crushing 5-0 defeat to Australia in

the Ashes series. He and captain Alastair Cook have come under

pressure to resign, but he says it's time for a new start. Our sports

correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Sydney.

The morning after the Tour before. Regrets but no resignations. I don't

feel pride in the way we have played this test series. So why would you

not resign, if you are not proud of what happened? Why have you decided

to stay? I am proud of my involvement in England cricket, and

I am proud of the results we have had over the last however many years

that we have all been working together. Defeat by 281 runs in

Sydney sealed a 5-0 whitewash, and all this after England beat

Australia 3-0 last summer. But while Andy Flower and England's captain

Alastair Cook will keep their jobs, what now looks certain that the team

who left the field yesterday will look very different when it plays

again next summer. It does feel like the end of some type of Iraq, and

there will be some type of new start. -- some type of Iraq.

Preparations for the new one-day series started today, and some are

now calling for a complete change in approach. The players, the

management, the hierarchy of the ECB, they have to look at the way

that England have played for the last two years or so now. OK, they

have won games, but you have to be dynamic. You have to win games.

Having enjoyed the good times, England's captain and coach are now

experiencing some of the worst. Their true test is about to begin.

Time for a look at the weather now. Chris Fawkes is here.

There are over 100 weather warnings in force. Today we are going to see

a lot of blustery showers. The radar picture picks up the showers pretty

well. The heaviest downpour is working in from northern England and

into parts of Scotland this afternoon, bringing a real risk of

hail and thunder. There will be plenty of downpours elsewhere. In

the south-west of England, with strong winds, there will be ten

metre waves battering the coastline. Don't go to to near the coastline as

we could see some coastal erosion. Gusty winds across England and

Wales, gusting up to 70 miles an hour around the coast of Wales.

Northern Ireland and Scotland also seeing plenty of showers. A real

risk of hail in the showers across Scotland. Overnight and night, the

strong winds will continue to blow in further showers. There will be a

lengthy spell of rain across southern counties of England, where

we have most of the flood warnings in place at the moment. Another ten

to 20 millimetres possible here. Tuesday, having another day of

sunshine for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The weather is then set to

get quieter as we head through the afternoon. The showers fewer in

number and some sunshine poking through. And it stays dry. Tuesday

night, another band of rain works its way in from the south-west. The

risk of further localised flooding. Wednesday will generally be a

quieter day. A few showers across the north of the British Isles. A

dry start to the day for some with some welcome shout -- welcome

sunshine, but we will then see the next band of rain working its way in

from the South West. Southern counties may see another ten to 20

millimetres of rain. If you are bored of all this wet when -- wet

weather, the weather looks to improve on Thursday. Meanwhile, the

weather gets worst across North America. This area of low pressure

will bring blizzards across Canada. Really miserable weather.

Temperatures in New York, maximum temperatures, hit -10 on Tuesday.

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