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Tonight at ten: Severe weather causing problems in | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
many parts of Britain, as the holiday weekend approaches. More | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
than 300 flood warnings and alerts in force, as roads and railways are | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
disrupted. People are told to prepare their homes for worse | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
conditions over the next few days. We are going to be having people | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
manning the incident rooms and out on the ground right across the | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Christmas period. The warning comes on the eve of one | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
of the busiest days of the year on the roads. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Also tonight: In Afghanistan, David Cameron | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
visits British forces after announcing that 4000 will return | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
home next year. The High Court has been told that a | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
seven-year-old boy with cancer should receive radiotherapy, | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
against his mother's wishes. The pay-off for the BBC's former | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Director-General was a cavalier use of public money, say MPs. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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And why the end of the world might be good news for some Mexicans. And | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, England's cricketers have | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
lost their first international against India. The hosts won by | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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five wickets, with 13 balls to Good evening. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
There are more than 300 flood warnings and alerts in force | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
tonight in parts of England, Wales and Scotland. Heavy rain has caused | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
disruption for motorists and rail passengers and more rain is | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
expected tomorrow, on one of the busiest days of the year on | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Britain's roads. One of the worst affected counties is Hampshire, so | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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let's join Robert Hall in village For much of today, a single brick | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
wall was all that stood between this village and the flood water | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
raging down from the hills a couple of miles inland. Thankfully, due to | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the efforts of the council staff and the extra sandbags that were | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
provided in a great hurry earlier this afternoon, the defences held. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
But that was not the case in communities stretching from the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
south coast to Scotland, and there is more bad weather on the way. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Lazy streams swollen to fast- flowing rivers, sandbags once again | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
in demand. This evening, councils and emergency services are looking | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
back at another testing day, and forward to a difficult Christmas | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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period. A miserable morning among so many. Dark skies over the New | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Forest, and puddles which merged into streams, flowing across the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
routes to work and to Christmas shopping. Early risers from | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Cornwall to Aberdeenshire had been met with persistent rain and roads | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
which could so easily catch out the unwary. Near the town of | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Brockenhurst, a police community support officer rescued a father | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
and daughter from this vehicle as the water rose around it. I had | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
been on routine patrol coming across. You can see the Porsche in | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
there, with two occupants trapped in the vehicle. We got it out | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
before the car went on the water completely but they are very cold | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
and waiting for an ambulance. Government have echoed calls from | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
emergency services for drivers to be vigilant and take account of the | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
way flooding can change the landscape. We have people driving | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
through Ford's. Please do not do that. It is incredibly dangerous. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Please stay at home. Do not make the journeys unless you absolutely | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
have to command if you do, go the safe route. Further east, the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Environment Agency issued a severe flood alert in the village of | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Wallington, near Fareham. Council teams hurried to strengthen a | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
cracked retaining wall, as the river level rose and a high tide | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
approached. Villagers prepared to evacuate, and remembering the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
damage caused by previous floods, they did what they could to protect | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
homes and property. You have done as much as you can do. You just | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
wait and hope that these will not be tested. If we are lucky, they | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
will not be tested. If they are, I hope their work. As the rain fell, | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
the volume of calls for help Rose. Fire crews helped council staff to | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
keep floodwater moving in Cornwall. Environment Agency teams mobilised | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
to prepare flood defences on the River Severn and the River Avon. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Communities in the Somerset Levels, once again watching their farm land | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
disappear across the flood plain. Muddy water spilling across roads | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
which had barely been opened in recent weeks. Right across the | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
country, the ground is saturated. We have had rain over the last few | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
weeks, more rain this week, and is looking like an unsettled picture | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
over the following days, right over the Christmas period. And the rain | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
rolls on, bringing with it flood warnings extending into the weekend, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
and the threat of travel disruption to much of the UK just when we | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
needed it least. The trouble is that even when the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
rain stops, it is never for long enough. It might clear the roads, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
but the ground water is still high, and when the next weather front | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
comes in, back comes the flood water. They are several weather | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
fronts on the way, with rain and wind. Scotland has been warned of | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
coastal flooding, just as we are planning to get on to cars and | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
trains to visit relatives for Christmas. The warning tonight is | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
that there may well be disruption to travel. If you have to travel by | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
road, prepare for delays and take care. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
David Cameron has been visiting British forces in Afghanistan, a | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
day after the Government announced that nearly 4000 troops will return | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
home by the end of next year. He said that British forces had paid a | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
high price over the past 11 years but their presence had reduced the | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
number of terrorist plots hatched in Afghanistan. James Landale is | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
travelling with the Prime Minister and sent this report. The winter | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
sky over Afghanistan. On the ground, it is cold but relatively peaceful. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
The weather making fighting hard and travelling tricky, as David | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Cameron found when his arrival in Helmand was disrupted by fog. The | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Prime Minister came to tell British troops himself that within months | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
thousands of them would start leaving, a draw down based on the | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
success they had had been building up the Afghan army, he said. But | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
after 11 years of conflict, at what price? 458 dead, many more gravely | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
injured. Has it been worth it? While it is still a difficult and | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
dangerous place, when I sit in Downing Street and look at where | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the plots we face in terms of terror, where they come from, far | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
fewer come from this part of the world then used to be the case when | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
we first came to the Afghanistan, so we have Maint -- made real | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
progress, but it is difficult and we have paid a high price. That is | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
forward operating base, servicemen and women enjoyed the distraction | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
of so it -- enjoying a meal and a game with the Prime Minister. What | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
pleased them most is the idea of going home. And their boss, who | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
commands more than half of all British troops, insisted Afghan | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
forces were now ready to take their place. The insurgency is still | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
there. It has not gone, but it does not dictate things. Afghan security | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
forces are in control. We -- people enjoy the protection of their | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
security forces and it is appropriate that we had more of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
that control to the Afghans. Cameron is getting a clear message | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
from his commanders - it is right to withdraw and the Afghan army is | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
growing in confidence. But the insurgency has not gone away and it | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
may come back in the summer. This conflict is not over yet. But for | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
now, a time to sing carols in a cold Helmand night. Moments pies | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
for mulled wine, but tidings of comfort and joy from the Prime | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Minister that just maybe there will not be too many more Christmases | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
like this. -- no mince pies. A High Court judge will decide | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
tomorrow whether a seven-year-old cancer patient should receive | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
treatment that doctors say he urgently needs. Neon Roberts' | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
mother is against using radiotherapy because of fears it | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
could cause him lasting damage. But the court heard that the child's | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
father disagrees. Branwen Jeffreys reports. Sally Roberts spent | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
yesterday in hospital with her son. Today, she was back at the High | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
Court, taking on both doctors and her former husband. Neon Roberts is | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
just seven. He has a common type of brain cancer. Doctors want to give | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
him the standard UK treatment, described as the gold standard, | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
because it offers more than 80% survival. And his dad agrees. But | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Sally Roberts does not want him treated with these machines. They | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
target invisible cancer cells with radiation. She is worried about the | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
side-effects. Experts say these are well known and can be minimised. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Radiotherapy could affect a child's ability to learn, and therefore | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
they might need more support in school. It can also affect the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
hormone levels in the brain. But this is less of a problem, as it | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
can be monitored and corrected if necessary. On October 25th, Neon | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
had an operation to remove a brain tumour. Radiotherapy and | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
chemotherapy were meant to follow, but between 3rd December and 6th | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
December, Sally Roberts and Neon went missing. After a High Court | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
hearing on 7th December, the court was told that more tumour had been | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
found in the same place. On the 18th, Mr Justice Bodey ordered | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
another operation on the honour should go ahead. That happened | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
yesterday. And today, the surly Roberts requested a further delay | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
to the court case. Mr Justice Bodey rejected the application for | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
further delays, saying there is not the luxury of time in this case, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
and adding that there needed to be decisions made about me on's | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
treatment. The role of the judge is to consider the child's welfare, | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
his best interests, and in doing so he will be considering both the | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
views of the parents, and also the views of the medical evidence, the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
risks and benefits of treatment. Clearly, this is a very emotive | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
decision and it highlights the difficulties we have about values | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
and what we mean by best interests. Tomorrow, Neon's mother will get | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
one more chance to try to produce evidence of a credible alternative | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
treatment. Then it will be up to the judge to decide what happens | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
next. A former Radio One producer has | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
said he vehemently denies allegations put to him by police | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
investigating sex abuse claims against Jimmy Savile and others. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Ted Beston, 76 and from Bromley in south London, was released on bail | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
yesterday after being questioned by officers on suspicion of sex | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
offences. Detectives investigating whether a | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
police officer lied about witnessing an incident in Downing | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
Street involving the former Government chief whip Andrew | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Mitchell have made another arrest. The 23-year-old suspect has been | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
questioned and released on police bail. Mr Mitchell admitted swearing | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
at officers but has always denied claims that he called them "plebs". | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
The head of the Police Federation has promised to apologise to Mr | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Mitchell if he's been the victim of an injustice, as Tom Symonds | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
reports. The CCTV pictures show what happened in the darkness of | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Downing Street that night, but not what was said. Andrew Mitchell | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
insists he did not call the police clubs. His reputation hangs on the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
police investigation, and now a second arrest has been made. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Officers investigating the circumstances surrounding a police | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
officer's claim to have witnessed an incident in Downing Street in | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
20th September 12, have arrested a man on suspicion of intentionally | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
encouraging, or assisting the commission of an indictable offence. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
This is a live, fast-moving criminal investigation. Scotland | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
Yard have said little more about the arrest but it is likely to be | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
connected with information police received last week, and the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
subsequent arrest of a serving police officer. Detectives want to | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
know if he was involved in a conspiracy with someone else. It is | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
alleged that this officer falsely claimed in an e-mail passed to | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Number 10 that he had seen it all happen through the Downing Street | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
railings, including Mr Mitchell swearing. The Cabinet Secretary was | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
asked to investigate by checking the CCTV footage, to see if someone | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
could have been close enough to witness the encounter. Today, the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Prime Minister confirmed that had raised suspicions. I made sure this | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
individual was asked whether or not he was a police officer, and he | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
flatly denied it. So I take full responsibility for it. But, of | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
course, we knew this e-mail was unreliable so it did not affect my | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
judgment, Hulton Abbey, about whether Andrew Mitchell should stay | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
in the Government. The judgment was that the row had got so toxic that | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Mr Mitchell had to go. But the suggestion that he might be the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
wronged party has led to Conservative fury at the way the | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
police campaign against him. police must be above politics in | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
our country. The Police Federation decided to become a lobbying, an | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
extremely aggressive lobbying body, determined to get a minister, a | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
cabinet minister. Some local branches of the Police Federation | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
free be linked plebgate to police cuts, but following recent events, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the tone has softened. I will wait to see what happens in relation to | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
the investigation and if he has been done a calumny in relation to | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
what has happened, I will be one of the first to apologise. Under the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
shadow of that possible calumny, a false accusation, Andrew Mitchell | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
visited his local police station today. The pictures confirm that | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
efforts were being made to keep Coming up on tonight's programme: | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
The story of the Gloucestershire woman spared the death sentence for | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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drug smuggling in Bali. The White House has dismissed the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Republicans' latest proposals for avoiding huge tax rises and | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
spending cuts in the new year as an "exercise in futility". The budget | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
changes, the so-called fiscal cliff, will be triggered automatically in | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
11 days' time unless Congress can reach a deal. There are warnings | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the cuts would cause huge damage to the US economy and to global | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
recovery. Our North America editor, Mark Mardell, reports from | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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Washington. The latest on the fiscal cliff... Fiscal cliff... | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Fiscal cliff. The ugly phrase on everyone's lips - fiscal cliff - is | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
what America could tumble off in just 11 days' time. If the | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
President and the warring parties in Congress can't agree, there'll | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
be automatic savage cuts and brutal tax rises. Neither side are budging | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
much. Republicans blame President Obama. He blames them. It is very | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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hard for them to say yes to me. But at some point they've got to take | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
me out of it and think about their voters. For weeks the White House | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
has said that if I moved on rates, that they would make substantial | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reforms. I did my part. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
They have done nothing. Few doubt that falling toff cliff would be | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
dramatic. It would be automatic spending cuts worth more than $1 | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
trillion. Taxing for households would go up by about �2,000. Most | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
economists say the USA would be pushed back into recession and | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
global growth for 2013 could be halved. The US defence budget alone | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
would face a cut of $500 billion. Companies like eeds are nervous. | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
Job would go but it is already hurting business - EADS. People say, | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
"Do I really have the confidence level necessary to make an | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
investment in a particular asset when I know little about where this | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
is going?" It is not just the big boys who worry about staying aloft. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Scaled down, this toy shop has ha the same fears. The boss wants to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
open another store, but not if customers will have less money. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
People are going to have to pay more taxs. Everybody is going to | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
have to pay more taxes. People may spend less money, the economy goes | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
back into recession. The calamitous effect of failing to do a deal are | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
deliberate, designed to focus minds. But it's a dangerous thing, | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
fighting on the edge of a cliff. You can fall off without really | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
meaning to. And you can find more detail on the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
so-called fiscal cliff and the proposals for dealing with it on | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
the BBC News website - bbc.co.uk/news. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
The Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, has rejected strong | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
criticism from MPs of the �450,000 pay-off to George Entwistle when he | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
resigned as Director General in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
The Public Accounts Committee accused the Corporation of a | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
"cavalier use of public money". But Lord Patten said the settlement had | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
saved the BBC a lengthy legal battle which would have resulted in | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
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greater costs, as David Sillito reports. For those in charge of the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
BBC the papers were grim reading today. Chaos, confusion, melt doub, | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
the verdict on how it handled the dropped investigation into Jimmy | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Savile was damning. So too is a new report into the �450,000 payout to | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
the former Director General, George Entwistle. The man on the right | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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here, the BBC chairman, Lord Patten paid twice to avoid a costly legal | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
battle. This looks wrong and it might have been a better call to | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
say OK, we'll pay him what we are contractually due and challenge him | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
to take the BBC to court. chairman said his hands were tied | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
and he felt the treatment being meted out was shabby given that he | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
explained. If we hadn't done the settlement there and then we would | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
have to do a more costly settlement where a constructive dismissal and | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
probably an unfair dismissal on top of that. And the BBC is till | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
digesting the pages of the Pollard Report and the stinging criticisms | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
about its inability to deal with a crisis, find out facts, and, | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
crucially, its lack of leadership. And one of those leaders, the BBC's | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
director of news, Helen Boaden, today returned to work the day | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
after her deputy had resigned. REPORTER: Do you think it is right | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
thaw kept your job at the BBC? That's for others to decides. I'm | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
just going in to do my job. REPORTER: How do you restore trust | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
in BBC News? It has never diminished. It is still the most | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
trusted news in this country. Pollard said during the Savile | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
crisis her department had been in virtual meltdown. The pressure is | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
on for real change. The really important thing is there needs to | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
be a fundamental overhaul of the entire management structure of the | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
BBC that. Doesn't just mean shifting a few people around. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
the BBC will have to brace itself in the coming months for more | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
revelations. The second inquiry looking back over 40 years of the | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
BBC and Jimmy Savile has only just begun. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Prosecutors in Bali are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
British woman who's accused of trying to smuggle more than �1 | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
million of cocaine onto the island. Lindsay Sandiford, who was arrested | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
in May, had been facing the death penalty. Another British woman, | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Rachel Dougall, was sentenced to one year in jail. From Bali, | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Karishma Vaswani sent this report, which includes some flash | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
:21:05. | :21:06. | ||
photography. Covering her head from the glare of the cameras as she | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
entered the coofplt 56-year-old Lindsay Sandiford listened intently | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
to her translator as an Indonesian prosecutor read out his demand. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Lawyers could have asked for the death sentence for the mother of | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
two from Gloucestershire, but instead they demanded 15 years, | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
saying she's co-operated with the police. Still, Mrs Sandiford was | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
visibly agitated after the court proceedings. Throughout the trial, | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
she's said she was coerced by the others involved in the case into | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
bringing the cocaine from Bangkok to Bali. Mrs Sandiford was arrested | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
in May when she entered Bali airport as a tourist. Police | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
paraded her in front of the cameras, with the 4.8 kgs of drugs they say | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
they found in the lining of her suitcase. And this is the woman Mrs | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Sandiford says forced her into it. Rachel Dougall from Brighton. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Initially Bali police thought this mother of a six-year-old was a | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
major player, but today they sentenced her to a year in prison | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
for the charge of failing to report a crime, saying her involvement was | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
minor. I'm just happy to be reunited with my baby, thank you. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
But for Lindsay Sandiford the wait isn't over yet. Her verdict is | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
still a few weeks away. Lindsay Sandiford's trial and that of the | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
three other British national it is involved in this case here the Bali | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
has put the international spotlight on Indonesia's strict drug laws. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
The maximum penalty for drug trafficking here is death by firing | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
squad. This peaceful holiday spot draws mofls tourists here every | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
year. The authorities want to ensure that nothing ruins that | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
image and they won't hesitate to enforce the law. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, says his organisation will | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
release a million more secret documents from many countries next | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
year. He was speaking from a balcony at the Ecuadorean Embassy | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
in London, where he claimed asylum six months ago to avoid extradition | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault. | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
In Mexico the state of Yucatan is expected to draw a record surge of | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
tourists, eager to test the ancient Mayan prediction that the world | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
will end tomorrow. Or to be more precise, that the Mayan calendar, | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
devised 5,000 years ago, reaches its last day tomorrow. The notion | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
of an imminent apocalypse is affecting people in other parts of | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
the world, including China and France, as Nick Higham has | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
:23:50. | :23:59. | ||
Whatever else it may be, the end of the world is good for business. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, site of the ancient Mayan civilisation, is | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
enjoying a tourist boom. Experts say it is not clear whether the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
Mayan prophecies really do mean the end of the world tomorrow. Some | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
speak of apocalypse, the end of the world, of rising flood and fire. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
But others speak rather of a transition from one great cycle of | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
human time and experience to a new cycle which will be much more | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
positive, both for human kind and the planet. In China, one inventor | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
has created an end of the world pod for those hoping to survive | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
Armageddon. In Britain there are plans for parties. I could do a | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
party tomorrow but at the end of the day, if it is the end of the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
day tomorrow the party's not going to happen is it? So just get one | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
last one in. No-one knows what the end of the world might be like, but | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
John Martin imagined in this painting. The seventh day | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
adinventists forecast the end of the world in 1874. And Sir Isaac | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Newton thought Christ's millennium would begin and the world would end | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
in 2000. But the prize for persistence goes to Harold Camping, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
who predicted the end of the world six times between 1949 and 2011. He | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
was wrong every time France the village of Bugarach has been sealed | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
off by police and surrounded by journalists after rumours spread | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
that the local mountain would prove a safe haven tomorrow. The locals | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
feared an onslaught of new age survivalists. We don't think the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
world will end. REPORTER: You came here for the fun of the story? | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
The same as the journalists, come to meet some crazy people and maybe | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
see some UFOs if we are lucky. Though it might take more than a | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
UFO to survive this if it turns tout Mayans were right after all. | :26:02. | :26:05. |