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Fierce fighting in Afghanistan - the town where more than 100 British | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
troops died, now reported to be almost entirely under | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Afghan soldiers under attack - Sangin, once held by British forces, | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
is said to have fallen to the militants. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
We did hear from families who said all the blood that British troops | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
have paid has been in vain - what do you say to them? | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
They are too far away and they don't see the reality. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Afghan commanders have appealed for more Nato support | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
to help their troops, who are thought to be surrounded. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
amid warnings there is more torrential rain to come. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
A row over finances in the NHS, as Labour claims billions of pounds | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
of extra money will be swallowed up to balance the books. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
An early Christmas present for motorists in Scotland, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
as the Forth Road bridge reopens earlier than expected. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
And the three-year-old who saved her unconscious mum | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
The Forth Road Bridge reopens to cars, vans and buses in time | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
But lorries will still have to go the long way round. | :01:15. | :01:26. | |
And a court rules that government plans for alcohol minimum unit | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:30. | :01:42. | |
Tonight, one of the main towns in Helmand province is reported | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
to be back in the hands of the Taliban. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Sangin saw some of the fiercest fighting during the 13-year | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
More than 100 British troops were killed there. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Now the local governor has been airlifted out and officials say | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the militants have taken over the main police base | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
The fighting in Sangin is ongoing, with British-backed Afghan troops | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
There have also been clashes further south, at Marjah. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil sent this report from Kabul. | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
As the Taliban announced victory in Sangin district, Afghan troops are | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
fighting desperately to push them back, not just from the strategic | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
town but from other districts in Helmand Province. It looked as if | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
things could get better for the Afghan soldiers. Supplies were | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
airdropped and additional troops arrived. But it seems this happened | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
too late. Some, however, are still willing to fight. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
TRANSLATION: We are ready to defend our country. Even if we lose our | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
lives. And when we get the order, we will fight the enemy. Here in Kabul, | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
the acting Afghan Defence Minister insists the army is still resisting | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
and that the operation is still ongoing. What do you say to British | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
families who have lost relatives in Sangin in particular, who say the | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
British military have provided support, training, money, they have | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
paid with blood, only for the Afghan army to fail? The British and other | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
nations have contributed, brought in their blood and contribution and | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
sacrifice, that is always appreciated by the people of | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Afghanistan. But at the same time, only in one year we took over the | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
responsibility. We were thinly spread throughout the country. And | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
we were trying our best to hold all those areas. The latest fighting in | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Helmand has exposed significant weaknesses both among the Afghan | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
army and the government in maintaining a solid there. On | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
security after the withdrawal of Nato forces. And it is in that | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
weakness that the Taliban found a chance to regroup and deal heavy | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
blows to Afghan troops across the country. Many families have fled | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Sangin to the provincial capital. TRANSLATION: We left home with the | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
clothes on our backs. Yesterday I returned to go to town. I went to | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
the market and saw Taliban militants there. People are stuck in their | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
homes. In a statement today, the Taliban condemned the British troops | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
for returning to Helmand Province to support Afghan forces. They said the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
British Government has broken its promise to the people not to return | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
to the Afghan war. More than 100 British troops were killed in Sangin | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
alone. As the Taliban continue to tighten their hold on Helmand | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Province, many will continue to ask why those lives were lost. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
And Shaimaa is in Kabul now - how much information are you able | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
to glean about what's actually happening on the ground? | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Well, it is a very fluid and confusing situation, which makes it | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
very difficult for journalists to find out exactly and verify the | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
reports which are coming. But we do have reports of heavy fighting still | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
ongoing, with the Taliban militants having the upper hand this time. We | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
know of at least four Afghan soldiers dead. There are other | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
reports of as many as 20 and 15 wounded. They have been airlifted | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
from Sangin into Camp Shorabak, what used to be Camp Bastion. We also | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
know that the district governor has been airlifted out of Sangin. A few | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
hours ago, we spoke to a senator in Helmand Province who described a | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
dire situation. He said there is serious fighting going on and if our | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
support is not provided soon, all the soldiers including police and | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
army as he put it will be killed. He said, whoever is saying that this | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
fighting is not serious is responsible for the lives that will | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
be lost. A very, very strong statement from someone close to the | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
ground about the gravity of the situation. And also about how | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
underequipped and overstretched the Afghan troops are, and how in dire | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
need they are of a support, which they just do not have had the | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
moment. The devilment here is still defiant, still insisting that the | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Afghan troops are pushing back. But there is no doubt that they are in a | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
very critical position on how to move forward now against Taliban | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
insurgents. Dozens of homeowners in Cumbria | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
are mopping up today after they were flooded | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
for the third time this month. And there are warnings of more | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
stormy weather to come. The River Eden burst its banks | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
in Appleby, and many homes in Glenridding were | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
submerged once again. Forecasters say gale force winds | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
and more heavy rain are due over This is now becoming | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
all too familiar for newsagent Richard Maguire - | :06:47. | :07:05. | |
for the second time hit by floods. When I first saw it, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
it is horrifying, We cannot go on like this | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
all the time, not if towns like this We cannot have this | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
as a regular occurrence. The River Eden had | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
burst its banks, taken over the high street | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
and invaded homes. Well, the first time, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
a fortnight ago, was about here. Philip Mawdsley is still trying | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
to cope after the first flood here. Where do you begin when | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
you have lost so much? Just going to have | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
to get on with it. The next storm is due | :07:46. | :08:02. | |
to arrive on Christmas Day. The problem is that rivers | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
across Cumbria are full. The ground in places like Appleby | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
is absolutely saturated. So when it rains here, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
there is nowhere So, how can people move | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
on when they feel more The biggest issue here | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
is the impact on our town. It has the potential to destroy | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
the community, which... ..actually is a very, very, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
very strong community. There will only be two properties | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
occupied in the whole of this area on Christmas Day, | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
which is really sad. But it is still an anxious time, | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
because nobody is certain what the rivers here | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
will do on Christmas Day. Labour says the Government's promise | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
of an extra ?3.8 billion for the NHS in England next year will be | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
swallowed up by hospital deficits They claim very little will be left | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
to spend on improving services. But the Department of Health has | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
dismissed the claims, as our health editor | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Hugh Pym reports. It looked like an early Christmas | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
present from the Chancellor for the NHS in England - | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
a significant funding increase for next year, | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
announced in the November spending But now Labour says | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
the glitter is coming off. At the time, George Osborne | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
said he was giving the NHS money up front so it | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
could implement its own plan The opposition now | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
says the sums don't Most parts of the NHS | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
are in huge deficit. They are being given money next year | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
but it is not going to be enough Social care is being cut | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
and the Health Service will continue was an increase in funds | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
for the next year or ?3.8 But Labour says the deficits | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
at NHS trusts will take up ?2.2 billion, because this year's | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
likely overspend seems set Another ?1.1 billion will have to be | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
paid out by NHS employers So it is argued that does not leave | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
much for treating more But the Department of Health rejects | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
these assumptions and says plans to reduce spending on agency | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
staff will help hospitals NHS England's medical director, | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
interviewed on the BBC's today NHS England's medical director, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
interviewed on the BBC's Today Today Programme, said that | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
after covering next year's commitments, there would still be | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
more money for front-line care. We have been given | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
some additional money. Some of that will be used up | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
on dealing with the deficits Some of it will go to | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
some pension issues. But there is still some | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
very real money left. Beyond next year, NHS spending | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
will continue to rise, One former health financial watchdog | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
warns that life will not get any It does mean that the pressure | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
will still be on in the subsequent To generate enough | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
efficiency to live with what will be relatively small | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
increases after that first year is going to be a big | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
challenge for the And as the NHS faces that big | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
challenge, it seems unlikely the Chancellor will | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
want to hand over A brief look at some | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
of the day's other news stories. The UK economy grew less this year | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
than previously thought, according to the Office | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
for National Statistics. Gross domestic product, GDP, | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
expanded by just 0.4% in the third quarter due to slower than expected | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
growth in the services sector. It means the Bank of England | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
is widely expected to hold back from increasing interest rates | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
until well into 2016. The Scottish Government's plans | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
for a minimum price for alcohol would contravene | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
European trade laws. That's the ruling of | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
the European Court of Justice. Instead, judges said that tax rises | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
on alcoholic drinks was likely to be The case will now go to the Court | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
of Session in Edinburgh for a final The former England football player | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
and coach Don Howe has died He played for West Brom and Arsenal, | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
and earned 23 England caps before establishing himself as a renowned | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
coach for club and country. A nine-year-old boy from Cornwall | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
has become one of the first in the world to have testicular | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
tissue frozen to help him have The procedure was carried out | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
by surgeons in Oxford before the boy underwent treatment | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
for a brain tumour, Our health correspondent | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
Dominic Hughes has more. His family say nine-year-old | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Nathan Crawford loves his bike, his scooter and is | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
mad keen on science. But he is also battling | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
a brain tumour which can only be treated | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
through powerful radio- and chemotherapy that | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
could leave him infertile. So, in a short operation, surgeons | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
and the John Radcliffe Hospital So, in a short operation, surgeons | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford removed | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
a wedge of testicular tissue and have frozen it | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
in the hope that it can one day be reimplanted and allow | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Nathan to become a father. Funded by a charity, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
this rare technique is not This cancer survivor, | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
diagnosed in his late teens, says it could relieve | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
pressure on both children and parents at a very | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
stressful time. To comprehend just | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
the disease itself So, to be a child | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and to be faced with I don't believe he will be able | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
to understand entirely Each year in the UK, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
around 1,500 children are diagnosed Over 80% survive the disease, | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
but around 10% of them are left Last year a woman in Belgium became | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
the first in the world to give birth after ovarian tissue | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
that was frozen when she was still Experts believe this latest | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
development is a big step forward for young | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
cancer patients. I think the important things are, | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
it gives them hope - firstly, that they are going | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
to survive their treatment, because we are talking about | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
something which is for the future. But also it gives them hope that | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
when they do survive, they are going to have the same | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
options as everybody else. Nathan has now started treatment | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
to shrink the tumour in his brain. His family say he is coping well, | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
and like any nine-year-old, Almost three days after a landslide | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
in China, a man has been pulled alive from the rubble | :14:41. | :14:52. | |
in the city of Shenzhen. A huge rubbish dump collapsed | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
and buried dozens of buildings in a pile of earth | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
and construction waste. The 19-year-old man survived | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
by eating the seeds and fruit that Rescuers used special radar | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
detectors to seek survivors. When they found signs | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
of life, they dug. After 67 hours buried | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
under a mountain of mud, 19-year-old Tian Zeming is pulled | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
out of the darkness. He survived in a pocket | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
of air created by rafters He lived on oranges he found | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
around him, and on hope. On Sunday the waste swept down | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
and covered the industrial estate. Many fled but many were trapped | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
and are still missing. TRANSLATION: The Fire Department has | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
found vital signs at three spots. We are now working at these points | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
to see if others are trapped there. As work continued today, | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
questions were being raised about why so much waste soil | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
from construction was stored exactly Social media postings | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
critical of the authorities Tian Zeming is | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
recovering in hospital. At the site the search | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
for any sign of buried life In Afghanistan, the town where over | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
100 British soldiers died is almost And still to come, | :16:28. | :16:39. | |
a canine conundrum - do dogs tune into each | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
other's emotions? And coming up on Reporting | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Scotland at 6.30: Tens of thousands hit the trail | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
as they head off for the great And meet Dancer the reindeer, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
who has taken some time out to deliver presents | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
to children in Glasgow. Today is expected to be one | :16:59. | :17:13. | |
of the busiest days on the roads over Christmas as millions begin | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
to head off to see friends and families over | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
the festive period. In England hundreds of miles | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
of roadworks are being temporarily And in Scotland there | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
was good news for drivers when the Forth Road Bridge, | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
which has been closed for repairs, In a moment, Sian Lloyd | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
on the great getaway, but first our Scotland | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
correspondent, Lorna Gordon. Christmas has come early | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
for these drivers. For just under three weeks the road | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
network in the east of Scotland had been cut many half after | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
the Forth Road Bridge was closed But now it's working once again, | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
with cars, small vans, Engineers dangling high | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
above the Forth have been working hard to repair the cracked steelwork | :17:57. | :18:15. | |
that forced the bridge to close. Its shutdown led the traffic jams, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
long detours and packed trains for those who chose | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
the leave the car at home. Local businesses that rely | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
on the bridge for trade have been Christmas is normally our busiest | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
time of year and it has been absolutely dead, but hopefully our | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
friends from over the water But while the bridge re-opening has | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
delighted most motorists, large lorries are still barred | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
from it until a permanent repair The impact on the haulage industry | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
could run to ?40 million. For us it is adding | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
on a 60-mile round trip, The closure is costing | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
her company dear. From our point of view we operate 15 | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
lorries and on average most of them will be crossing the bridge each | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
day, so the cost for us is running The effect could be catastrophic | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
on us and other hauliers. For some the transport disruption | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
and worries continue, but for others the partial | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
re-opening of this crossing is a much welcomed early | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
gift for those heading It's a journey millions of us | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
are making over the holiday season, But hitting roadworks along the way | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
is dampen the festive spirit. The people who control the network | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
say they're doing their bit to keep We like to try and give something | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
back to the motorist over There is an awful lot | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
of work goes into planning The predominant schemes we've had | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
to leave on are for safety reasons During this year's getaway 31 | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
million car journeys will be taken, but there will be fewer | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
roadworks along the way. 400 miles are being lifted, | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
leaving 196 miles of It's been absolutely | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
awful this morning. Traffic's been horrendous on the M6 | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
and then we've got M25 to look But something nice when you get | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
to your destination? Hopefully a nice | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
dinner this evening. We were aware it is probably | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
the busiest time of year, the busiest day of the year | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
to travel, but needs must and we want to be with the family, | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
so we are on our way. Whether you're making a long journey | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
or travelling locally, the advice from motoring | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
organisations is the same. Try to avoid peak times, | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
and think of an alternative route. Experts say cheaper fuel prices | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
at the pumps have helped increase Despite the improvements, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
queues look set to continue in places, with Christmas Eve | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
expected to be the peak time Manchester United manager Louis van | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
Gaal has walked out of a press He answered just three questions | :20:59. | :21:14. | |
before bringing the conference Has anybody in this room not a | :21:15. | :21:35. | |
feeling to apologise to me? I was already sacked, I have read, and | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
enjoy the wine and a mince pie. Goodbye. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Our sports correspondent, David Ornstein, is in Old Trafford | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
There has been plenty of speculation about his future. Is he on his way | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
out? In short, Sophie, no. This was an extraordinary news conference. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
You saw then Louis van Gaal asking the media to apologise for their | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
coverage of Manchester United's recent slump. They've not won in six | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
games. That is an experience they haven't had since 1998. It is one of | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
the biggest clubs in the world, so accustomed to success. On the one | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
hand this could have been seen as an opportunity to gavelise the fans, | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
the players and staff. On the other hand, could this be Louis van Gaal | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
starting to feel the pressure? Manchester United, let's not forget, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
are only fifth in the Premier League. Did but it doesn't get | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
easier. They face a trip to Stoke City on positioning day. Two days | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
later they welcome champions Chelsea here to Old Trafford. | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
A three-year-old girl from Nailsea near Bristol who called 999 | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
when her heavily pregnant mother fell down the stairs has received | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
Emma Bazzard ran to get the phone, gave it to her mum who managed | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
Ambulance Service, tell me exactly what's happened. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
Did mummy and the baby fall down the stairs at the same time? | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
Alright my darling, we're going to help mummy, OK. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Alright my lovely, bear with me a second. | :23:24. | :23:36. | |
Stay on the phone, I'm not going to hang up | :23:37. | :23:37. | |
Today, Emma, who's just turned four, met the call handler, | :23:38. | :23:59. | |
She gave me all the information. It was amazing. I was stunned she was | :24:00. | :24:12. | |
only three. Listening back to the audio and hearing how calm she was | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
considering I was unconscious is amazing. The detail she was able to | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
give makes us cry every time he listen to it. I'm not surprised. One | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
clever little girl. Now, they're known as "man's best | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
friend" but can dogs really Well, scientists in Italy | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
are claiming they can copy each other's facial expressions | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
and display basic empathy. We share our lives with them, | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
but are they more like us This is a fragment of the hours | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
of video filmed by researchers in They say there's clear evidence that | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
dogs mimic facial expressions and movements, mirrored behaviour | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
which helps them establish a bond. Talk to any dog owner | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
and the chances are they will tell you that for at least some | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
of the time their animal can But can that same empathy | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
really exist between dogs? She'll smile if another dog | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
is friendly and wagging the tail. I know that sound crazy, | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
but you have to know your dog. Since we first reported | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
the findings, a growing pack of owners have been sending | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
us their own evidence Shared emotion or just our tendency | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
to humanise our pets. We all humanise, we all behave very | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
anthropomorphically towards dogs. Even if we try hard not to, | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
we are probably doing it. Until now the split-second copying | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
of behaviour has only been identified in humans | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
and some primates. Scientists agree more | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
research is needed. What all the people who've studied | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
canine science over the past 20 years have now agreed is that dogs | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
are incredibly good readers They don't necessarily have | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
to and indeed they may not be able to understand the thought | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
going on behind it. Centuries of domestication have | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
taught dogs to read our emotions, and when it comes to some daily | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
pleasures, their communication Good evening to you. We've got storm | :26:08. | :26:24. | |
Eva approaching, impacting Northern Ireland as well as north-western | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
parts of Scotland and the Northern Isles over the next 12 hours or so. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
Tomorrow all of us will feel a bit of this storm but not its full | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
force. It will sweep to the north-west. Gusts of 70 miles an | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
hour off western parts of Scotland and the Northern Isles. To the | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
south, rougher weather. At 8 o'clock in the morning, this is a selection | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
of some to which motorways. Early in the morning through the M 5, M4, | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
M40, through the Midlands and the Pennines, heavy rain passing | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
through. It also will produce very strong gusts of wind. Conditions on | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
the roads for a time tomorrow morning will be pretty atrocious. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
But the weather will improve. By the afternoon we'll start to see | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
sunshine. But that's not the end of it. On Boxing Day, more heavy rain. | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
The advice is stay tuned to the weather forecast, as it will be | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
changing from day-to-day. In the afternoon of Christmas Eve we've got | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
sunshine, one or two showers. Brisk winds and gales raging in the far | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
north of Scotland. Temperatures relatively mild, around 13 in | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
London. Colder in Scotland. 6 to 8 Celsius. Christmas Day itself, the | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
forecast remains unchanged. Mild. However, first thing in the morning | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
there could be frost in Scotland. Maybe one or two wintry showers. | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
Rain sweeping across the country. Mild in the south, 13, maybe 14 | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
Celsius. Colder in Newcastle, around 5. On to Boxing Day. This is the | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
real trouble heading our way. This line of rain just about lining up | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
where Cumbria is. We could expect 60-80 mm of rain, 20 is enough to | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
cause problems. We already had 20 or so last night. Not great for Boxing | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
Day. Fierce fighting in Afghanistan. | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
Sangin, where more than 100 British soldiers died, is now almost | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
entirely under Taliban control. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
so it's goodbye from me, | :28:30. | :28:32. |