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Panic hits global markets amid fears about the state of China's economy. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Shares plunge worldwide as China - the world's second biggest economy - | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
suspends trading for the second time in a week. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
The Chancellor George Osborne warns of a difficult year ahead | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
This year opens with a dangerous cocktail of new threats | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
A man's shot dead in Paris - police say he was carrying a knife, | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
a fake suicide vest and an Islamic state emblem. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
No sparkle for Marks Spencer as the boss announces he's stepping | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
down early after disappointing Christmas sales figures. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The sister of missing EastEnders actress Sian Blake says her partner | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
must face justice amid fears he's fled the country. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And making plenty of room for wheelchairs - | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
a one-off concert in Glasgow tonight to show just how inaccessible many | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30: A murder investigation is underway | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
after an 82-year-old woman is killed in her own home in Fife. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
And severe flood warnings for Aberdeenshire as more heavy rain | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
across the north-east brings swollen rivers and travel disruption. | :01:21. | :01:39. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
There's been turmoil and panic on global markets today amid fears | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Shares plunged after trading was suspended on Chinese markets | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
The Chancellor George Osborne warned that the British economy is facing | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
a "dangerous cocktail of risks" from abroad including the slowing | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Chinese economy and instability in the Middle East. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
He said that Britain must get its house in order. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed has more. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
A crisis in China, where the markets were once again shut down after a | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
sharp correction downwards. Falling stock markets across the west. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Collapsing oil prices as fears grow of a global economic slowdown. The | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
world economy is once again under pressure. The Chinese economy has | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
been slowing for some time. There is now uncertainty on its next step and | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
policy. The concerns are not just about China but, if China undertakes | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
a certain policy, that may have implications for other emerging | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
markets, for the exchange rates, policy and growth, so we may get a | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
bigger it to the global economy more broadly. The Chancellor chose today | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
to send out a warning. After a New Year marked by terminal -- turmoil | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
on the markets, there were global risks to the UK economy. Britain | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
faces a dangerous cocktail of risks from abroad, falling stock markets, | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
instability in the Middle East, but the best antidote to that is to fix | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
our own problems, and that means big challenges. The main Chinese stock | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
market fell 7% and the price of oil dropped to a 12 year low. In the UK, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
the Chancellor said that an interest rise was now on the agenda of | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
America raised its rates. It is no wonder that people are starting to | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
talk about what a rise in interest rates might mean for us all. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Inevitably, with the US Federal Reserve having made their decision | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to raise rates last month, there is a discussion about how and when we | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
begin to move out of a world of ultralow rates. In Cardiff, I asked | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
what people were most concerned about. Interest rate rises, because | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
we have been very fortunate for the last number of years that they | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
haven't gone up and people have been able to afford extra luxuries. Their | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
upside as well as downsides. Very good for savers. Of course, they | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
have been having a rubbish time for many years. George Osborne has | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
focused on the global risks affecting the economy, risks from | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
overseas and far-away, but many of those risks are here in the UK. The | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
government is poor at delivering infrastructure projects and business | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
leaders are not happy. They want much more to be done to rebalance | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
the UK economy towards manufacturing and exports to our key economic | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
markets overseas. They have forgotten the terrible ways in which | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
markets can bite back... For economists, the warning note is | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
clear. The Treasury is worried about the public finances and they have | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
sent him on a scare mission to recognise that we still have a | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
deficit, debt is high, 80% of GDP and rising. China is the world's | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
second-largest economy and the country's growth figures, to be | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
published on January 19, could be the lowest for 25 years. This global | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
economic turmoil does not appear to be temporarily. | :05:21. | :05:21. | |
Our political correspondent Vicki Young is in Westminster. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Is this a change of mood from the Chancellor? | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
His team say that he has always been a cautious Chancellor. That is why | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
he talks so much about balancing the books, getting the country to live | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
within its means, and they say it is his job to flag up the risks that | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
there are two people, whether they are coming from volatility in the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
world market or a possible rise in interest rates, which could make | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
millions of people immediately feel less better off. I think the problem | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
is that he is also looking at a political argument. He is trying to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
counter the argument from his SNP and Labour opponents who say, the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
economy is ticking along nicely, this is the time to borrow more and | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
to invest, and they say that George Osborne hasn't done enough of that | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
to protect people and bring security. We hear job -- George | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Osborne talking all the time about fixing the roof while the sun is | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
shining. It sounds like he will be up there for some time. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
A man carrying a knife has been shot dead outside a police | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
Police say he was wearing a fake suicide belt and was carrying | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
the emblem of the Islamic State group. | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
It happened exactly a year after the attacks on the satirical | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Our Paris Correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
In northern Paris today, the now familiar feeling of France coming | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
under attack. Exactly one year since gunmen burst into the offices of | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Charlie Hebdo, a loan assailant armed with a kitchen knife. Just | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
after 11:30am, he approached the police station here, in the | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
capital's 18th district, where officers shot him dead. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
TRANSLATION: They told him to get back and he did, but then he stepped | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
towards them again. They want him once more. He lifted his arms and | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
they shot him three times. On his body, a harmless home-made device | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
made to look like a suicide belt. And, say police, an image of the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
flag used by Islamic State. Some eyewitnesses say that the man | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
shouted Allahu Akbar as he ran towards the police station. This | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
time, the only casualty was the attacker himself. But, on the | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
anniversary of the shootings at Charlie Hebdo, it is a reminder of | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
the threat that France still faces, one year on. News of the assault | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
trickled through the lines of police officers gathered at their Paris | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
headquarters today. They had come to hear President Hollande pay tribute | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
to three of their colleagues killed in last January's attacks. Hard to | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
imagine then that it would be just the beginning. | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
TRANSLATION: We are now facing hardened fighters who have decided | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
to kill, even at the cost of their own lives. Their attacks are | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
coordinated from abroad, ordered by the organisation called Islamic | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
State. That is why I say that we are at war. Charlie Hebdo itself marked | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
today's anniversary with a special edition, aimed at none other than | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
God himself. It's pointed headline, the killer is still out there. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Investigators don't yet know what links, if any, today's attacker may | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
have had with jihadist networks. Amid this week's commemorations, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Paris is remembering its victims with the sound of sirens once again | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
ringing through its streets. In the past hour, a view more details about | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the possible identity of the attacker has begun to emerge. Early | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
reports say that he may be a Moroccan born man, 20 years old, who | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
police questioned in 2013 about a robbery. Whoever he turns out to be, | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the key questions for the terrorism enquiry now getting under way here | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
is what links you may have had or not with the jihadist networks here. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
The chief executive of Marks and Spencer, Marc Bolland, | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
It comes as the high street giant posted a poor performance | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
in its clothing and general merchandise division over | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
the Christmas period, with sales plunging by almost 6%. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Our Business Correspondent Emma Simpson has more. | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
There was glitz and glamour in the run-up to Christmas. But it is now | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
the exit for the boss of M After their worst Christmas in women's | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
fashion. Marc Bolland has been nearly six years at Marks Spencer, | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
one of the biggest, most high-profile jobs in British retail, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
so was he pushed? Two words, categorically not. People will look | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
back and say that Mark had the courage to do some of the difficult | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
things, to really put in place the infrastructure for the future. He | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
has modernised the business, revamped the website, turned around | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
food, but women's fashion, which drives most profits, has yet to be | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
fixed. This is the fifth year of falling sales. This winter, the warm | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
weather hasn't helped. We didn't want to buy. These heavy coats at | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
M What we wanted to wear were these lighter items, but they didn't | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
have enough of them in stock. Marx has had the odd bestseller. Remember | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
this skirt? Ultimately, it is all about the product and making sure | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
that those who want it get it. There has been a good response for the | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
last few seasons in the fashion press but we are not really seen | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
those styles and the right kind of sizing options in their regional | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
stores, and I think a lot of customers find it frustrating. In | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Bristol, a glimpse of what M are up against. This woman loves the | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
food but not the clothes. Every time I browse through the stores at the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
clothes, I think that the style is just meant for a slightly older | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
market. Pauline always used to shop here, but not so much now. I am not | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
very tall. They don't go for short people any more. Hazel and Gillian | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
like fast fashion. Marks and Spencer are three or four times the price of | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
prime. You don't get the quality but you don't always need something to | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
last for ever. -- the price of prime arc. At least the new boss knows the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
challenges. He has been with Marks Spencer for years and he now has to | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
bring the pizzazz back to women's fashion. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
The family of the missing Eastenders actress, Sian Blake, | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
has appealed to her partner to come back to Britain and answer questions | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Arthur Simpson-Kent travelled to Ghana days after Miss Blake | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
Three bodies have been found at the family home in Kent. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly reports. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Sian Blake claimed -- came from a close family who are now forced to | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
face losing her and her two boys. Zachary was eight and her younger | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
son, Amon, was four. Sian's partner and the children's father, Arthur | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Simpson-Kent, is missing and is known to have travelled to the West | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
African state of Ghana before Christmas. Today, Sian's sister, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Ava, and her mother, Pansy, were asked about the man being sought. I | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
want him back for justice because I want to know how and why it | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
happened. It was three weeks after the former EastEnders actress and | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
her sons were reported missing that three bodies were found in the back | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
garden of the family home in Erith south-east London. Today, we heard | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
about the relationship between the younger child and his father. They | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
called him proper, pop of this. But Sian Blake's relationship with her | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
long-time partner was said to be over. The relationship had come to | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
an end but she hadn't quite made the decision to leave. I think she also | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
wanted to do it in a way to cause a minimum of discomfort to him as | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
well. Now this family will have to live with a triple loss. I've just | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
lost my sister and my nephews. I'm not going to see them grow up. I'm | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
going to miss Sian will stop she was my sister and somebody... Somebody | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
that I loved. Loved the boys. We've lost a generation. We can never | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
replace them. As the investigation continues, the search goes on | :14:15. | :14:15. | |
Our top story this evening... overseas for Arthur Simpson-Kent. | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
There's been turmoil on global markets amid fears | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
Shares plunged after trading was suspended on Chinese markets | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
And still to come: A state of emergency is declared | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
in California after a major gas leak forces thousands from their home. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
A year since free school meals were introduced for our youngest | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
pupils, is it radical social policy, or a middle-class subsidy? | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
And minnows East Kilbride gear up for their chance to reach the last | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Hundreds of farms were hit hard by last month's floods, | :14:51. | :15:08. | |
with some losing large numbers of livestock. | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
Now the government is considering paying farmers to allow their land | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
to be flooded during periods of heavy rainfall. | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
The idea would be to prevent the water from reaching more | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
In one of the worst hit counties, Cumbria, more than 600 | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
hundred farms were flooded, and at least 2000 sheep were killed, | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Our Environment Correspondent Claire Marshall has been talking to some | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
This Cumbrian hill farmer is off to inspect what is left | :15:27. | :15:40. | |
James watched the flood waters engulf 160 others. | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
This is the Fire Service trying to do their best. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
There was nothing anybody could have done any different. | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
It is just absolutely torture to watch it. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Along with the towns and cities rural Cumbria was hit hard. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
These were trapped on a dwindling strip of land. | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
The waters thundered down the valleys. | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
This is one of the many rivers that flooded. | :16:07. | :16:23. | |
You can just about see the tide line here. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
If this had been allowed to flood it could have saved urban areas | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Today, the government has said it wants to pay | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
farmers to let their land be flooded. | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
David is one farmer who could benefit. | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
If there was a possibility where it is going to save housing | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
and such being flooded we would seriously look at it. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Yes, we have to have a bit of an incentive because at the end | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
of the day we have to get our land back | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
into top shape to produce crops that work for our business. | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Right now he does not have time to think about | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
He is still dealing with these latest floods. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
It will take months and tens of thousands of pounds to do | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Going to have to build it all back up as a retaining wall. | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
A member of the farmer network arrives. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
They are doing a survey of all the damage. | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
How serious has it been for farmers in the region? | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
Many farmers are telling me it is as serious as it | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
There have been floods in many valleys before in the Lake District | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
but never as many and never as concerted and the level of damage | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
across the county is quite horrific in many areas. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
In a changing climate farming may well need to adapt to help hold | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
The Prime Minister has been in Germany and Hungary today | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
to try to garner support for the changes he wants | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
The most controversial, a four year ban on migrant workers | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
in Britain being able to claim in-work benefits, | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
is proving a sticking point, but this afternoon Mr Cameron | :17:57. | :18:09. | |
said he was confident a solution could be found | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Our political correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
David Cameron wants a clutch of changes to Britain's relationship | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
That means persuading all Europe's leaders to back the deal. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
This morning BMW said it wanted Britain | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
to stay in the EU, and his reception from top German | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
David Cameron is a strong negotiator and David Cameron has | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
good and fair arguments for his position, and that is received | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
by all the other partners on the European level. | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
David Cameron's next stop in Budapest was likely to be | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
It seems he is not the first British Prime Minister | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Mr Cameron wants to stop workers from countries such as Hungary | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
claiming in work benefits like tax credits in Britain for four | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Many Eastern European leaders are opposed but after talks | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
with Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, David Cameron's aim | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
My proposal that people should have to | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
wait for four years before getting access to those benefits, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
I am open to listening to alternative solutions. | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
As we agreed at the European Council we should be looking for solutions | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Of the thousands of Hungarians working in Britain some | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
begin their journey here, but this recruitment agency | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
does not think new benefit restrictions would reduce migration | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
I believe people go to UK firstly because of the good salaries | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
and different benefits including tax credits are not a point | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
On many EU issues Hungary's Prime Minister agrees with David | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
He said a deal on benefits was possible but... | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
TRANSLATION: We would like to make it clear that we are not migrants | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
in the UK, we are citizens of the European Union. | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
We are free to work wherever we want in the EU. | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
The Hungarian Prime Minister has not simply rolled over | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
and accepted David Cameron's benefits plan. | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
This remains the very sticky part of this renegotiation. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
David Cameron is looking for something that satisfies | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Mr Orban needs something that does not discriminate against workers | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
from his country and others in central Europe. | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
This daylong dash through Europe may have encouraged | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
David Cameron a deal next month is doable. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
The referendum battle will then follow. | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Meanwhile, during the same trip to Germany, | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
David Cameron indicated a possible change of position | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
over the introduction of a sugar tax, something that's previously | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
It is beginning to look that way. David Cameron was asked by reporters | :20:37. | :20:56. | |
about a sugar tax and said the government should not be in the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
business of building things out. Very different to his rhetoric last | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
autumn when he seemed firmly against the idea of a sugar tax although he | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
said when it came to tackling obesity it would be better to make | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
progress on the issue without having to resort to a tax. The idea of a | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
sugary drinks tax, particularly on soft drinks, maybe 20p a can, is | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
being discussed at the highest levels of government and ministers | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
are weighing up the advantages of going ahead with this policy which | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
may be electorally popular, celebrities like Jamie Oliver | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
campaigning for it, against the possibility that it would hit low | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
income families who spend relatively more of their money on food and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
groceries. The industry would be against the idea of -- and campaign | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
against it. No final decisions have been made. The idea is on the table | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
certainly. Thank you. A state of emergency has been | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
declared in California after a major gas leak forced thousands of people | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
from their homes in Los Angeles. Since October, huge quantities | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
of methane gas have been escaping from an underground | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
storage facility. People have been complaining | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
of headaches and nausea. From Los Angeles, | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
James Cook reports. In these clear Californian skies, | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
there is a hidden menace. Every day thousands of tonnes | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
of methane are pouring out The leak has been going | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
on since October and people I had to go to the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
emergency room because I was violently throwing up | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
and had a severe migraine and I was in severe | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
pain for three days. Using an infrared camera the scale | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
of the leak becomes clear. The methane is spewing | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
from an underground storage facility Activists say it is the worst | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
environmental disaster since the Deepwater Horizon oil | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
spill in 2010 and it could go It is an ongoing thing and I know | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
everyone thought this happened on October the 23rd | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
and we have a situation This community is under | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
a constant assault. The company involved, SoCal Gas, | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
insists the fumes leaking from these hills do not pose an imminent | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
threat to public safety. People here are still | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
worried both about their Experts say the leak so far amounts | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
to a quarter of California's entire annual emissions of methane, | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
a potent greenhouse gas. Begging the question, | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
what is all this doing It's a one off concert designed | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
to highlight the difficulties that many disabled people have getting | :23:38. | :23:49. | |
access to their favourite bands. It has just got under way in | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Glasgow. It's a sell out and it's hoped it | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
will draw attention to just how much Fewer than half of music venues | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
across the UK are even wheelchair accessible, and where there | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
is access fewer than 1% of tickets are for disabled | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
customers on platforms. Our disability correspondent | :24:13. | :24:13. | |
Nikki Fox is in Glasgow now. I am somewhere that makes their | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
sponsored very different from the average gig. This platform holds up | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
to 30 wheelchairs. On average you are lucky if you normally get three | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
or four spaces. You have a great view. There's also a high dependency | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
back room that has been installed. There around 70 where. There are | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
going to be some BSL interpreters on stage and you might see some guide | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
dogs. The person who thought it up is passionate about this. He has had | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
trouble himself accessing music. He is a real music lover. It takes a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
lot of effort to transform a venue like this and made it fully | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
accessible and one of the promoters, Geoff Ellis, the man behind the in | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
the Park, says this is not financially viable on a large-scale | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
because the work involved is so intense. It is a sell-out. It is a | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
one-off, but do you think it will make a difference? It is hoped so. | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
Soon you are going to see a band performing and I spoke to them and | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
they said that they hopes this will be the catalyst for other venues and | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
promoters to think about accessibility and disabled people. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
This is being done on a large-scale, for everyone with every of | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
disability. It is big. It is hoped that other venues will think there | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
are other things they can do. Bands like this want to perform to | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
everyone with every kind of disability so hopefully change will | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
come. This has proved that it least it can be done. Enjoy. | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
I am going to take you to Scotland because we have to max severe flood | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
warnings issued at indoor and Invergowrie. Flood warnings mean a | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
danger to life. We have a number warnings in force from the Met | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Office across the north-east of Scotland, but most of north-east | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Scotland is pretty wet at the moment. Elsewhere the rain has | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
cleared through. We have called air so some of the rain will turn to | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
snow overnight. Particularly across the hills but not exclusively. We | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
have this next fly in the ointment across Northern Ireland and into | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
southern Scotland. Perilously close to the central Olins. It is going to | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
be a nice eve. The risk of snow. -- icy. Not a particularly pleasant | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
rush hour if you are caught in the showers with the risk of sleet and | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
snow back but they should move through and there will be some | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
sunshine in between. Nowhere near as windy as today. The rain should | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
become limited to Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. Elsewhere hopefully | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
drying up a little for the north-east of Scotland but chilly | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
and cold enough for wintry weather. Into the weekend we have another | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
area of low pressure coming in sitting across the country. Where it | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
lies will determine where we see the wettest weather but clearly there | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
will be more wet weather. The risk of further flooding. Change on the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
way thereafter. Cold weather over the weekend but more rain | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
potentially Monday. Thereafter we might see something drier. Plenty of | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
warnings on the website. There's been turmoil | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
on global markets amid fears Shares plunged after trading | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
was suspended on Chinese markets The Chancellor George Osborne warns | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
that the British economy is facing a "dangerous cocktail of risks" | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
from abroad, including the slowing Chinese economy and instability | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
in the Middle East. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
so it's goodbye from me | :28:42. | :28:45. |