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A police search is underway for a five-year-old boy with | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Ashya King needs constant medical care. | :00:14. | :00:29. | |
Ashya is in a wheelchair and is fed through a tube. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
The feeding system is battery operated and that | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
We'll have the latest on the police search. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Tesco issues another profits warning and says its new Chief Executive | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
will take up his job earlier than planned. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Ukraine says it wants to join NATO, as fighting intensifies | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
against pro-Russia forces in the east of the country. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Hospitals in England are to be ranked according to how healthy | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
UKIP says more MPs, Labour and Conservative, are preparing to | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Breaking all records, the giant waves battering the west | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Westminster Council call for tougher legislation to tackle the increasing | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
Westminster Council call for tougher legislation to tackle the number of | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
rough sleepers in the West End. Deep or areas have worse transport | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
links? -- do poorer areas?. A major police search is continuing | :01:20. | :01:42. | |
for a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
from hospital by his parents, There are serious concerns | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
for the life of Ashya King, His parents removed him | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
from Southampton General Hospital Hampshire Police believe | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
he's been taken to France. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
is outside the hospital. Police said they are extremely | :02:02. | :02:14. | |
concerned for the health and safety of Ashya King. He was taken from | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
this hospital by his parents yesterday afternoon. They are | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
liaising with French police, looking at CCTV to track down him and his | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
family who are believed to have travelled to France yesterday | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
evening. The police say unless the five-year-old boy is found his life | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
could be in danger. This is the moment Ashya King was led from the | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
hospital by his father. He can be seen in the body he needs to move | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
around. The police say he has a brain tumour -- buggy. This was | :02:47. | :03:00. | |
Ashya with his mother. It is not clear why his parents removed them | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
from the hospital. It is believed one member of the family may be a | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Jehovah's Witness, although it is not clear if this is connected to | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the removal. Police only found out he was missing last night. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
If he does not receive urgent medical care or the wrong | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
treatment is given his condition will become life-threatening. It | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
seems he was taken around 2pm yesterday. They travel to Portsmouth | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
to catch the ferry. They arrived in France that HB and last night, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
believed to be driving their people carrier. His brother recently spoke | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
on YouTube about the family's distress caused by his medical | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
condition. I have not slept anything. I have been awake all | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
night worrying. We love you so much. We are all here for you. The family | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
also posted this video showing a beast and tripped his aim where it | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
is believed they now people are smacked a recent trip to Spain. | :04:05. | :04:18. | |
French police said this morning they are carrying out a widespread | :04:19. | :04:33. | |
birch, looking at CC TV -- CCTV. We have had a statement from the | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Jehovah's Witnesses then that they have confirmed that his parents were | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Jehovah's Witnesses but there is no reason to suggest that it is for | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
religious reasons he was removed. The search for the five-year-old boy | :04:50. | :05:02. | |
goes on. Shares have fallen sharply in Tesco after announcing a further | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
profit warning. In a statement to the stock | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
exchange, the supermarket cut its The firm says | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
its new chief executive, Dave Lewis, will now begin work next week, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
a month earlier than planned. Here's our Business Correspondent, | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Emma Simpson. These are tough times for Britain's | :05:19. | :05:19. | |
biggest retailer. Household spending is still under | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
pressure and it is being squeezed Three years ago Tesco's trading | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
profit was nearly ?4 billion. Today it warned annual profits | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
for this year would be less than The numbers are going | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
in the wrong direction. This is the second profit warning | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
from Tesco in just two months. Despite a ?1 billion plan to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
revitalise its business, A sign of just how urgent things | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
are, the new boss Dave Lewis is starting on Monday, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
a month earlier than planned. What is on his shopping | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
list to turn things round? The first thing is to focus | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
on reinvigorating the brand. The last ten years | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
the Tesco brand has been They need to focus | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
on giving it a distinct identity. In terms | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
of pricing we may see further price reductions but we do not | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
expect any drastic price cuts. This is Lidl's new | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
multi-million pound TV campaign. The discounters are upping | :06:29. | :06:41. | |
their game to attract new shoppers. They are stealing all | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
of the big supermarket's lunch. What we are seeing is the end | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
of an era where supermarkets were virtually guaranteed growth | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
year-on-year. We have seen structural changes | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
in terms of growth, online, increased competition from | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
the big four and the discounters It is becoming increasingly | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
difficult shareholders. The board wants to | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
give the new boss is much room for manoeuvre as possible to do what he | :07:09. | :07:28. | |
thinks is needed to when shoppers Ukraine's prime minister has | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
signalled his country's intention Arseniy Yatsenyuk has already asked | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
the alliance for what he called "practical help" | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
in its battle against pro-Russia Today, the United Nations says more | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
than 2,500 people have died Here's our world affairs | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
correspondent, Nick Childs. Pro-Russian rebels continue a | :07:46. | :07:58. | |
fightback against Ukrainian government troops after weeks of | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
being forced onto the defensive. This is unverified footage but Kiev | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
and the west say this fightback has been fortified by escalating Russian | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
military involvement, prompting an emergency meeting of NATO | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
ambassadors. We expressed strong solidarity with the Ukraine. We will | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
meet next week with the Ukrainian president to make clear NATO's | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
unwavering support for Ukraine. I've fell -- how far will that support | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
call? The Prime Minister has said they will seek membership. The word | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
from Washington, the response is not military but diplomatic. Russia is | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
already more isolated than at any time since the end of the Cold War. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Investors are staying out, the economy is in decline. This ongoing | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
Russian incursion into Ukraine will only bring more consequences for | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Russia. EU leaders meeting in Russia this weekend -- meeting in Brussels | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
this weekend will look at further sanctions. How effective can they be | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
given the stakes for the Kremlin? The new satellite imagery that NATO | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
says Shaws Russian combat forces in and around eastern Ukraine, Moscow | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
still denies any such involvement. A defiant rally by Ukrainian loyalists | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
in a southeastern town under threat from the recent rebel successes. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Their opinion of the Russian president clear. In his latest | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
remarks, the Russian leader has responded with a Nazi analogy of his | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
own, accusing Kiev of an assault in Ukraine. The consequences of this | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
conflict are plain to see. A way out seems as elusive as ever. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
With me now is our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
Is joining NATO a shift in the dynamic? It is clear that Kiev is | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
frustrated. You can feel the anxiety. Yesterday they asked for a | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
stepped-up partnership and today the Prime Minister signalling he wants | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
to ask parliament to apply for membership. That is not the same as | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
getting out. NATO would have to agree. Although Western leaders are | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
expressing alarm at what looks like more blatant Russian intervention | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
than before, it is not the same as suggesting that they are appeared to | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
tackle Russia militarily. That is the ultimate nightmare. What can | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
they do instead? Warning about more sanctions, more support for the | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Ukrainian government economically and politically and Mellitah Relay | :11:11. | :11:27. | |
-- militarily, where are they getting their supplies? President | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Putin wants to have a solution on his terms. He will keep the conflict | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
going, sending a message they cannot expect to take on Russia and win. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
A former employee of Rotherham Borough Council has told the BBC how | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
girls as young as 11 living in care homes in the town were groomed and | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
The former care worker, who doesn't want to be identified, | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
said girls would tie bed sheets together to escape the homes, | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan has more. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Taxis were often key to the sexual abuse of children in Rotherham, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Transporting girls around the town or further afield to be exploited. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Gangs actively targeted children's homes in the town, | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
ensnaring vulnerable girls into their web of misery. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
This former care worker, who we are not identifying, spent four years | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
working in children's homes in Rotherham | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
There were phone calls right through the night, from 12 o'clock. | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
They would come sometimes returned by the police, sometimes came back | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Within half an hour or three quarters of an hour they would be | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Drivers were paid by the council to take the girls, | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
some of whom were just 11-years-old, from the homes to schools. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Quickly it started grooming them, giving them drugs and alcohol. | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
If they could leave by the fire escape they would leave by the | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
fire escape but sometimes to hide where they were going | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
they would put bedsheets together and climb out by the window. | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
From a second storey building that is dangerous as well. | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
What is it that makes a 13-year-old gets dolled up | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
at two or three o'clock in the morning, tie bed sheets together | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
These young people have already been sexually abused in many cases. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
There are some horrific cases of abuse within the family, | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
If they are providing that, plus drugs and alcohol and freedoms, | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
or perceived freedoms, then we are never going to be able | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
Attempts to stop the exploitation or punish the perpetrators failed | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
and rarely was there a night, says the former care worker, when a girl | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Malaysia Airlines is to cut almost a third of its staff as part | :13:43. | :13:55. | |
of a recovery plan after being hit by two disasters this year. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
The airline will become completely state owned, and a new chief | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
Investigators continue to hunt for MH370, the Kuala Lumpur to Beijing | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
flight which went missing in March, while the MH17 air crash in eastern | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
The aviation industry was put on red alert by Iceland this morning, | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
following an eruption near the site of the Bardarbunga volcano. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
The fissure eruption began in the early hours, though | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
so far it's produced no explosions similar to the one that caused chaos | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
Iceland's Meteorological Office said the activity has now subsided. | :14:32. | :14:40. | |
For the first time, there are to be mandatory food | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
Hospitals will have to serve fish twice a week, have tap water | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
available at all times, and their menus must reflect seasonal produce. | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
The plan brings England into line with arrangements in Scotland | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
and Wales but campaigners say it is still "woefully inadequate". | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
Serving up salad in a hospital kitchen for the | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
cameras, but the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt keen to get the message | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Hospital meals do not always look this freshly prepared. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Many rely on heating up food they buy in. | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
Some spend much less than others, even though eating well is crucial | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Now they are being told to offer healthy food and plenty of choice. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
When a person is in hospital they are in a very vulnerable state | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
at the best of times and one of the things they should not have to worry | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
about, really, is whether they are going to get food and drink that | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
they recognise, that is familiar, that they can swallow, that somebody | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
It is not the first time ministers have tried to improve hospital food. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
Now they say it will be written into hospital contracts. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
I think all of this is about looking after patients in the way | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
that you would want your own friend or family to be looked after. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
This is part of a real change in the NHS where trusts are making | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
a big effort to put patients first, and for patients the quality | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
of food they get is one of the most important things of all. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
He has got Crohn's disease and needs to eat carefully. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
He has campaigned about hospital food, posting pictures on his blog. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Throughout my 30 year journey I have either been coping on bringing | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
in my own food or, as has happened in to past, doing rotas with staff, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
The Campaign for Better Hospital Food says the plan isn't ambitious | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
With ratings due to be published online, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
any dishing up less appealing meals could face greater pressure. | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
A search is under way for a five-year-old boy with | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
Police say it's vital he receives medical treatment today. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
And still to come, almost half of Syria's population have fled | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
More than three million are now refugees. | :17:14. | :17:25. | |
I will have the sport and BBC News. We will tell you which teams Celtic, | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Everton and Tottenham will face in the Europa League. The draw has | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
taken place this lunch time. The United Nations Refugee Agency | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
says Syria is the biggest humanitarian emergency | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
of our era, and that the world's response so far has | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
fallen far short of what's needed. In a new report, it says almost | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
half of the 22 million population has been forced to abandon their | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
homes and flee for their lives. More than half | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
of those uprooted are children. The three-and-a-half year conflict | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
has created more than three million refugees, and within Syria itself | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
a further six and half million Our Middle East correspondent | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Jim Muir reports. Dawn breaks over one of the refugee | :18:10. | :18:25. | |
settlements in Lebanon. But every new day he brings yet more desperate | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Syrians seeking refuge. Syria's neighbours have been swamped by a | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
tide of refugees. Three years into the war, it keeps on coming. All | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
over Syria's neighbours, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and here in northern | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Iraq, camps like this have sprung up to cope with some of the 3 million | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
refugees who have poured out of Syria. For everyone who has left, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
two others have stayed behind, having lost their homes. Any seeking | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
refuge now have already been seeking refuge a long time, some of them | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
displaced several times along the way. They are being displaced more | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
than once for sure inside Syria before reaching safety in | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
neighbouring countries. Right now in Syria, there are over 6 million | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Syrian refugees in turn lead displaced. At least one in ten | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Syrian refugees have been forced out of their homes over three times. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
TRANSLATION: I really hope we can go back. This man says he is worried | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
that if they do, something bad will happen. Violence between the rebels | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
and the regime continues to tear the country apart. Now there is the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
fresh complication of the self-styled Islam at a militants | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
taking over large parts of the north and east, murdering large prisoners | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
as part of a deliberate reign of terror. -- Islamic. Given that, the | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
prospects for the tide being reversed soon look very slim. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
And there's plenty more about this online, including an explainer about | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
the forces fighting the conflict, maps showing the key battle areas, | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
and an interactive guide to how the Syria war created one of the biggest | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
The UKIP leader Nigel Farage says if his party wins the Clacton | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
by-election, he expects more defections from both | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
He was speaking as he joined the town's MP Douglas | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Carswell on a constituency walkabout a day after Mr Carswell's defection | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
Our political correspondent Sean Curran reports. | :20:28. | :20:40. | |
You support me, I will support you, all the way. Take on Europe! A day | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
out with a difference. Barely 24 hours after Douglas Carswell's | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
defection, he was out on the campaign trail with his new leader. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
There will be a by-election in Clacton in a few weeks, but what | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
about other MPs? Will they be tempted to follow his example? Lets | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
see what happens in this by-election. If Douglas wins, which | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
I believe he will, there will be others. Not just from the | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Conservatives but the Labour backbenches too, they might think, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
do you know what, UKIP might be for me. For now, the attention was on | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
this man. The former Conservative explain why he had switched sides. | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
Advisers told me that his plan was to persuade voters to stay in. Once | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
I realised that, my position became untenable. Before I knew that, I | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
thought the in-out strategy was right, but when I realised it was | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
all about winning the next election, not about real change, I | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
thought enough is enough. Senior Conservatives think he has made a | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
mistake. If he wants a referendum, it would be delivered by a | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Conservative government with Conservative MPs. That is the choice | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
people will face, whether at a by-election in Clacton or the | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
general election next year. A simple choice. Any other vote does not | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
deliver the referendum that the people in this country want. So far | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Douglas Carswell's fellow Eurosceptics have insisted they will | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
stay put. That has not ended the speculation about more defections, | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
and that is only likely to increase when MPs return here next week. What | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
happens next is down to voters in Clacton. They could return the first | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
UKIP candidate to Parliament and put more pressure on David Cameron. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
The water industry regulator says household bills should fall | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Ofwat says average water and sewerage bills should drop | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
by around 5% in real terms between 2015 and 2020. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
The figure, which excludes inflation, | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
is based on Ofwat's initial consideration of price proposals put | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Its final ruling will be made in December. | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
The World Health Organization has warned that as many as 20,000 | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
people could ultimately be infected with the ebola virus and it says it | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
needs almost half a billion dollars to contain the current outbreak. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
It was reported in West Africa in March and has since become | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the deadliest spread of the disease since its discovery in 1976. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
The most recent figures suggest more than 3,000 cases have been reported, | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
including more than 1,500 deaths in four countries. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
In Liberia alone, more than 600 people have lost | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
Our correspondent Tamasin Ford has been to the Liberia-Ivory Coast | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
border, where preparations are being made to prevent ebola | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
And unnerving silence replaces the normally vibrant border. All | :23:37. | :23:49. | |
official crossing points into Liberia and Guinea were closed at | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
the weekend. The latest government efforts to avoid ebola. Trucks are | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
already beginning to pile up on this side of the border. Authorities say | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
health is more important than trade, but people here have no idea when | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
the borders are going to reopen. People are suffering financially, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
but many are relieved the borders are closed. This lady's family are | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
on the other side and she can't come back. She says it is difficult but | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
the fear of ebola is worse. TRANSLATION: I am afraid of death | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
because it is not a trip that you can return from. We have been told | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
not to eat bush meat, not to shake hands and not to have sex. Beyond | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
these mountains lies Liberia, where ebola is now out of control. To the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
east is Guinea, thick and porous rainforest is all that separates | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Ivory Coast from the two worst hit ebola nations. This is one of five | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
treatment centres in the region. Doctors are practising what to do if | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
a suspected case lives. Every detail is considered. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
TRANSLATION: We have done the maximum possible to be ready and | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
vigilant to control the situation. As soon as any suspected case | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
arrives. You can never be ready enough, but I think we are strong | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
enough to fight this epidemic. The heat inside the suit is the biggest | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
difficulty, he says. Two or three hours are the most anyone can last. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Countries have been accused of abandoning the ebola hit nations. | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Closing borders and suspending flights. But the Ivory Coast says it | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
will do anything it can to fight ebola. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
This is Hurricane Marie barrelling across the Pacific towards | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
And being pushed ahead of it, some of the biggest waves southern | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Sightseers and surfers have been drawn to | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
But dozens of people have had to be rescued along the shoreline because | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
of the size of the waves, and in Malibu, one surfer was killed, | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Some came just to watch the spectacle | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
The surfers rode the best waves Southern California | :26:14. | :26:23. | |
If you can read the conditions and you respect the ocean and you know | :26:24. | :26:45. | |
your limits, it's OK out there. Some surfing legends tested their limits. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Riding under a pier is not for the faint-hearted. | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
Laird Hamilton is one of the world's best surfers. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
These are the days that I wait for all my life, | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Today was like a little price of heaven. I try to serve the best and | :27:02. | :27:14. | |
this was the best I have ever had. Lifeguards warned people not to risk | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
the riptides and strong currents, let alone the battering that comes | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
with being dumped into the surf. Only enter this water, | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
this is dangerous, dangerous water, If you have a lot of experience | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
behind you. Even the most experienced surfers are becoming so | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
tired battling the energy of the waves and the current, they become | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
tired and I have seen some of them having to actually be rescued as | :27:41. | :27:53. | |
well. One man died after collapsing on Malibu beach. Many were exhausted | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
and needed to be pulled out of the water. For thousands of servers | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
waiting to catch that perfect wave, all the way down the coast of | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Southern California, they have a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean to | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
thank. It is sending in the swell from hundreds of miles away, causing | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
waves to crash into the coastline. Some homes on south-facing | :28:11. | :28:22. | |
coves have been flooded. The water goes straight through, so | :28:23. | :28:31. | |
I am sure that if you own one of the houses it is an Irving. Sand is | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
being piled up against the swell. -- it is unnerving. The waves of 2014 | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
will be remembered by the surfers and their tales of catching the big | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
one will no doubt be told for years to come. Let's take a look at our | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
own weather prospects. Nothing that while for us today or | :28:52. | :29:00. | |
for the weekend. This afternoon, some hefty and blustery showers. We | :29:01. | :29:09. | |
have our own area of low pressure towards the North West which has | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
already brought hefty showers overnight into Northern Ireland and | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
Scotland. We have some heavier showers targeting Wales and the | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
south-west of England in the next couple of hours, drifting across | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
into the Midlands. A rough rule of thumb today, the further east you | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
are, the better the chance of staying dry. And seeing sunshine. | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
Some of the showers across Scotland becoming quite slow moving in the | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
lighter winds. Some rumbles of thunder with those showers through | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
the afternoon. Northern Ireland looking a bit clearer, perhaps a | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
view showers to the north and south but not bad. Sunny spells and | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
showers for England. Wales and the south-west, more cloud and | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
persistent rain from time to time. Quite a bit of cloud in eastern | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
areas, but highs of 20-21. Worth taking the umbrella this evening. | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
Showers across the British Isles for a time, but as we go into Saturday | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
morning, things start to become quieter. The wind becomes lighter | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
and hopefully the worst of the showers will be to the east. | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
Saturday not looking bad, a promising start to the weekend. | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
Still some showers to the north and west, we can't promise unbroken blue | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
skies but there should be a lot of dry weather, some decent bright | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
intervals, hopefully some sunshine and temperatures into the high teens | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
or low 20s. Over the two days, Sunday is the most promising because | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
high pressure will build in a little ridge from the south. That should | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
mean a lot of dry weather on Sunday, plenty of sunshine and a warm feel. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
But notice something trying to contest that on Sunday afternoon. A | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
weather front that could bring wet and windy weather into Scotland and | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
Northern Ireland before the date is out. Central and eastern areas | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
should see a good deal of sunshine. The weather system will swing south | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
on Monday and Tuesday, which could lumber us with murkier conditions | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
towards the south, but it is this you need to focus on from | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
Wednesday... The high pressure is building, which will do a good job | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
of settling down the weather, allowing us to see largely dry | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
conditions, quite a bit of sunshine, but most excitingly it looks like | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
the second half of next week could be rather warm. | :31:21. | :31:29. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
A search is under way for a five-year-old boy with | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
a brain tumour taken out of hospital by his parents. | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
Police say it's vital he receives medical treatment today. | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
That's all from us, now on BBC One it's time | :31:40. | :31:42. |