:00:10. > :00:19.An emergency appeal is launched to help those who suffered in the
:00:20. > :00:21.Philippines typhoon. Bad weather and blocked roads are preventing tonnes
:00:22. > :00:29.of aid supplies from reaching the victims. It is now the fifth day
:00:30. > :00:33.since the storm. There is still a sense that aid is still not getting
:00:34. > :00:40.in here. There's desperation and anger as hundreds of thousands are
:00:41. > :00:52.still without shelter or food. Some of them are dying from hunger so we
:00:53. > :00:56.need the help and assistance. Tonight the death toll remains
:00:57. > :00:59.unclear, the full extent of the damage is still emerging. In the
:01:00. > :01:04.countryside, farmers have lost all their crops.
:01:05. > :01:08.And the day's other main stories: EDF breaks ranks with a smaller
:01:09. > :01:11.energy price rise, but it depends on ministers cutting the green levy.
:01:12. > :01:14.Cheaper fuel, lower air fares - two factors pushing inflation down to
:01:15. > :01:17.its lowest level for more than a year.
:01:18. > :01:28.And Sir John Tavener, one of Britain's leading classical
:01:29. > :01:35.composers, has died. Coming up, FIFA will use Switzerland
:01:36. > :01:53.as it strokes testing base for the World Cup. -- drugs testing base.
:01:54. > :02:06.Good evening. I am at a collection point for local charities here.
:02:07. > :02:11.Internationally, the United Nations has launched a ?200 million appeal
:02:12. > :02:17.for the relief operation getting under way in the Philippines. The UN
:02:18. > :02:23.has described the situation as unprecedented. The full-scale is
:02:24. > :02:28.still not clear. The Filipino president says the death toll may be
:02:29. > :02:33.about 2500, but that is way below the United Nations estimate. What is
:02:34. > :02:39.beyond doubt is that more than 9 million people are in need of aid.
:02:40. > :02:42.Our first report tonight is from Rupert Wingfield-Hayes who's in the
:02:43. > :02:51.city of Tacloban, and his report contains some graphic images.
:02:52. > :02:58.The last thing people in Tacloban need now is more water, but today it
:02:59. > :03:03.rained and rained, and rained. In most places when the rain comes
:03:04. > :03:10.down, people go inside. Here, for most, there is no inside. So they
:03:11. > :03:14.huddle under whatever cover they can find. Although some seemed
:03:15. > :03:21.blissfully unaware of the misery all around them. As we head into town,
:03:22. > :03:26.we come across this extraordinary scene. Hundreds, maybe thousands of
:03:27. > :03:32.people waiting patiently beside the road. Many have been here since
:03:33. > :03:40.before dawn in the hope of a few kilos of rice. What are you doing
:03:41. > :03:49.here? Waiting for rice. Are you hungry? Do you have any food? No
:03:50. > :03:53.food? This is the really big issue, people lost all of their food and
:03:54. > :03:59.their rice was damaged in the storm. It is now the fifth day since
:04:00. > :04:04.the storm, supplies are running out. There is still a aid is not getting
:04:05. > :04:11.in here. Planes are coming in but we don't see any of it here. As we head
:04:12. > :04:24.towards the airport, our driver suddenly down. Overcome by the
:04:25. > :04:34.strain of the last few days. Beneath the surface, people here are being
:04:35. > :04:39.stretched to breaking point. But Tacloban's airport, US aircraft are
:04:40. > :04:47.landing, perhaps the desperately needed aid has started to arrive.
:04:48. > :04:51.But no, the plane is empty. It is here to evacuate US citizens.
:04:52. > :04:57.Anybody who can and is now getting out, and you can understand why.
:04:58. > :05:02.Just a few hundred meters away, the doll lies beside the body of a dead
:05:03. > :05:09.child. You can see over there, that aeroplane is at the end of the
:05:10. > :05:17.runway at Tacloban's airport. We are just 500 metres away from the
:05:18. > :05:22.airport terminal and I can see ten bodies on the side of the street
:05:23. > :05:29.here. Just this short distance, and nothing has been done about it. By
:05:30. > :05:35.the time we head back, their patience has gone. The crowd we saw
:05:36. > :05:41.earlier waiting for rice are now looting. Tonight is the fifth since
:05:42. > :05:53.the Typhoon/ . People are feeling increasingly abandoned and alone.
:05:54. > :06:01.The first British aid flight landed here in Cebu a few hours ago, but
:06:02. > :06:05.getting the aid out from here to the remote areas is proving to be a huge
:06:06. > :06:10.logistical challenge, especially with those warnings of more bad
:06:11. > :06:15.weather to come. Earlier today I took a flight from here heading
:06:16. > :06:21.towards Tacloban and I got a sense of the challenges that lie ahead.
:06:22. > :06:27.Flying time to Tacloban, the heart of the disaster zone, is about 45
:06:28. > :06:33.minutes, but Captain Frederick warned us that we might have to
:06:34. > :06:40.dodge some storms on the way. So far, much of the aid effort has been
:06:41. > :06:45.concentrated on the big towns. From 300 feet above ground, you can see
:06:46. > :06:48.how many villages have been affected. Helicopter mercy missions
:06:49. > :06:55.would be ideal but there is a problem. One of the pilots had a bad
:06:56. > :06:59.experience where he landed and the people just run towards the
:07:00. > :07:06.helicopter and grabbed everything they could, which is dangerous both
:07:07. > :07:12.to the helicopter crew and the people inside Tacloban. I guess you
:07:13. > :07:19.cannot really blame them, they are desperate. Exactly, they need help,
:07:20. > :07:24.which is why they are desperate at times. Around this area the roads
:07:25. > :07:32.have been cleared but other infrastructure has been destroyed.
:07:33. > :07:40.Much of Leyte province is given over to agriculture like sugar cane and
:07:41. > :07:44.rice. Up here, you can see that Miles of crops have been destroyed.
:07:45. > :07:52.The farmers have lost their whole growing season. They will the
:07:53. > :07:56.dependent on food aid for months. Our pilot tried several passes but
:07:57. > :08:05.the weather was closing in, no choice but to turn back. The rain is
:08:06. > :08:10.too thick, we cannot really get through. You really get a sense of
:08:11. > :08:15.how difficult the aid operation must be. Filipinos are resilient, this is
:08:16. > :08:22.not the first storm they have had to weather and it will not be the last.
:08:23. > :08:30.Five days on, and people are becoming increasingly angry at the
:08:31. > :08:34.lack of food, shelter and medicines that has reached them. The
:08:35. > :08:39.government has pledged aid to every survivor, but many in the more
:08:40. > :08:43.remote areas have seen no official aid at all. Our correspondent has
:08:44. > :08:54.travelled from here to the far north of the country. On Cebu Island, the
:08:55. > :08:59.road north is littered with the remains of the storm. Holmes turned
:09:00. > :09:06.to matchsticks, trees stripped of flattened. Every village has a
:09:07. > :09:14.terrifying story of the night the storm hit. Where is your house? It
:09:15. > :09:20.is there. This woman was inside with her husband and three children when
:09:21. > :09:25.the roof came off. It came straight off here? They had to battle the
:09:26. > :09:31.wind to reach the safety of a neighbour's home. The rain is still
:09:32. > :09:37.falling, we saw two teams working on the power lines, a desperate task
:09:38. > :09:42.for so few people. All along the road, children have been sent out to
:09:43. > :09:50.ask for help but it has been slow in coming. These people managed to
:09:51. > :09:54.collect some sacks of rice, and drove up to the first place where
:09:55. > :10:03.they found people in need. It didn't take long. The line was soon down
:10:04. > :10:09.the road. We are packing rice and medicines. The further you go north,
:10:10. > :10:15.it is very badly affected. She was right, the wind tore off this roof
:10:16. > :10:24.in one place. So much damage, and four days on, help has not arrived.
:10:25. > :10:31.Please, we need help for our people because some of them are dying
:10:32. > :10:39.hungry. We need help and assistance from some kind-hearted people. On
:10:40. > :10:43.the northern tip of Cebu island, the storm hit the hardest. Some need to
:10:44. > :10:51.patch up holes, others need to start from scratch. Pretty much every
:10:52. > :10:55.house has either been flattened or had its roof taken off. The people
:10:56. > :11:00.here say the islands surrounding it are even worse. There are still so
:11:01. > :11:10.many remote places along the trail of disaster where people are
:11:11. > :11:15.desperately waiting for help. That was a report from the north of
:11:16. > :11:22.this island which has seen so much devastation. Let's speak to our
:11:23. > :11:25.correspondent in Tacloban. Rupert, there are these contradicting
:11:26. > :11:31.reports about the number of dead, the government here saying it is
:11:32. > :11:37.about 2500, the UN is saying it is more. I know it is difficult but
:11:38. > :11:43.what is your sense on the ground? It is hard to know how they would come
:11:44. > :11:48.up with any figure, quite frankly, because there is no systematic
:11:49. > :11:53.assessment of the death toll as far as we conceive. We haven't seen
:11:54. > :11:59.people to the houses counting the dead, but we have seen local people
:12:00. > :12:04.making their own mass graves. Yesterday we saw 30 bodies going
:12:05. > :12:14.into one mass grave, no record being kept as far as we could see. There
:12:15. > :12:21.are bodies on the road is all-around tackler -- Tacloban, but, as I say,
:12:22. > :12:26.no systematic assessment that we have seen. It has rained again
:12:27. > :12:31.heavily overnight so the situation is once again very miserable. There
:12:32. > :12:37.is a combination of people living in the open, there is standing water, a
:12:38. > :12:42.lot of water on the ground. I went to one place where it was nearly
:12:43. > :12:49.knee deep in black, stagnant water, and many people were injured in the
:12:50. > :12:53.initial storm on Friday. They have patched themselves up but there is
:12:54. > :13:07.no medical attention coming here. It is a hot, wet environment, perfect
:13:08. > :13:11.for the spread of disease. Thank you very much, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in
:13:12. > :13:15.Tacloban. That is it for the moment from us
:13:16. > :13:19.here, but I will be back later in the programme. Now it is back to the
:13:20. > :13:25.studio. George, thanks very much, let's look
:13:26. > :13:28.at the other news. EDF is to increase its prices from January.
:13:29. > :13:32.The rise is less than half of those announced by four other major
:13:33. > :13:36.companies in recent weeks, but it seems there are still conditions
:13:37. > :13:41.attached. EDF announced its average gas and electricity prices will go
:13:42. > :13:46.up by 3.9%, that is in the New Year, contrasting sharply with the
:13:47. > :13:50.rises announced by SSE, npower, ScottishPower and British Gas, who
:13:51. > :13:54.of all increased prices by an average of around 9%. As John Moylan
:13:55. > :14:02.reports now, EDF is suggesting that the lower price rises depend on the
:14:03. > :14:06.Government cutting the green levies. Four weeks, big energy price rises
:14:07. > :14:11.have dominated the headlines and much of the political landscape,
:14:12. > :14:16.too, but now EDF has broken ranks, announcing the lowest increase yet.
:14:17. > :14:22.Instead of what the others have done, which is to increase more than
:14:23. > :14:28.twice, we roll back part of the increase now, so that our customers
:14:29. > :14:34.are going to benefit now from this review of the cost. That review is
:14:35. > :14:38.into the green and social taxes suppliers passed on to us. The
:14:39. > :14:44.Government is seeking to scale them back. If that happens, another big
:14:45. > :14:49.six supplier has said it will reduce bills, too. If the levy comes down,
:14:50. > :14:57.the price will come down, on the basis of EDF, our price would go up
:14:58. > :15:01.around 6%, so from ten down to six, that is about the amount, but it is
:15:02. > :15:05.critical how this happens. The biggest part of the Energy Bill is
:15:06. > :15:10.the cost of wholesale gas and electricity. Then there is the cost
:15:11. > :15:14.of getting energy to our homes. Suppliers claim that their profits
:15:15. > :15:20.are around 5%, less than the green and social levies, which are
:15:21. > :15:24.forecast to rise in the years ahead. Today's moved by EDF has put the
:15:25. > :15:28.pressure back on the Government. David Cameron has said he wants to
:15:29. > :15:32.roll back the green levies, but the key question for millions of
:15:33. > :15:39.households now is just how much the Government can reduce our energy
:15:40. > :15:42.bills. 50 pounds or ?60 seems to be the informed speculation at an
:15:43. > :15:47.industry conference today, where the Energy Secretary would not comment.
:15:48. > :15:51.Instead, he stepped up his attack on the firms. It is so difficult for
:15:52. > :15:55.people to work out what exactly they are paying for, and they fear the
:15:56. > :16:01.big energy comes at taking them for a ride. Fair or not, consumers look
:16:02. > :16:05.at the big suppliers and see a reflection of the greed that
:16:06. > :16:09.consumed the banks. Labour has promised to freeze energy prices if
:16:10. > :16:12.elected and accuses the Government of inaction. Here we have a
:16:13. > :16:16.stand-off with the EDF saying, unless you do something about the
:16:17. > :16:24.levies, we will put our bills, and Ed Davey is talking tough, but no
:16:25. > :16:28.amount of hectare -- hot air will keep homes warm. But the stand-off
:16:29. > :16:32.will not last long. Changes to those green and social taxes are expected
:16:33. > :16:37.to be announced on or before the autumn statement in just three
:16:38. > :16:40.weeks' time. Inflation has fallen to its lowest
:16:41. > :16:46.weeks' time. level form or than a year. It fell
:16:47. > :16:50.to 2.2% in October. Let's talk to chief economics correspondent Hugh
:16:51. > :16:56.Pym, who is with me. What are the factors involved here? This was a
:16:57. > :16:59.sharper than expected fall, and most analysts are recasting their
:17:00. > :17:03.predictions, writing them down for the next few months. Let's look at
:17:04. > :17:06.the factors behind the figures, first of all food prices, and worth
:17:07. > :17:12.remembering that although inflation did fall, they were up 4.3% over the
:17:13. > :17:17.year to October, still quite a lot. But clothing, a smaller increase, up
:17:18. > :17:25.1.4% over the year, and the big downward pressure on inflation came
:17:26. > :17:28.from fuel prices paid by motorists. They were down 4.2% over the year to
:17:29. > :17:30.October, so the pressure is easing a little bit on consumers, though with
:17:31. > :17:34.saying is inflation is well above average pay rises, and pressure is
:17:35. > :17:38.easing the Bank of England. Falling inflation, rising growth, they will
:17:39. > :17:42.present their latest forecast tomorrow, and it is a good backdrop
:17:43. > :17:46.for them. What everyone wants to know is when interest rates will
:17:47. > :17:52.start going up, and we may get more clues at that conference tomorrow.
:17:53. > :17:57.Now, new mothers in parts of England are to be offered up to ?200 in
:17:58. > :18:02.shopping vouchers to encourage them to breast-feed their babies. The
:18:03. > :18:05.pilot scheme is being targeted at areas of South Yorkshire and
:18:06. > :18:08.Derbyshire. Doctors say that the health and welfare benefits of
:18:09. > :18:13.breast-feeding needs to be more widely understood. Vouchers for
:18:14. > :18:17.Matalan, John Lewis, Mothercare and some supermarkets will be given to
:18:18. > :18:22.new mothers, and if successful, the scheme could be extended to other
:18:23. > :18:25.parts of England. Now, officials at Westminster have
:18:26. > :18:28.announced that there will be no investigation into the business
:18:29. > :18:33.dealings of the Conservative MP Mark Pritchard. The MP who represents the
:18:34. > :18:36.Wrekin in Shropshire had been accused of offering to use his
:18:37. > :18:41.contacts in Albania to set up deals in exchange for hundreds of
:18:42. > :18:43.thousands of pounds. He denied any wrongdoing and referred himself to
:18:44. > :18:46.the parliamentary commissioner for standards. The watchdog has now
:18:47. > :18:54.decided there is insufficient evidence for an inquiry.
:18:55. > :18:57.Sir John Tavener, one of the most celebrated British composers of the
:18:58. > :19:03.past century, has died at the age of 69 having suffered health problems
:19:04. > :19:05.for many years. His choral and orchestral compositions reflected
:19:06. > :19:10.his own religious outlook. His words were adapted by the Beatles at one
:19:11. > :19:13.stage at performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Arts
:19:14. > :19:20.editor Will Gompertz looks back at his life and many achievements.
:19:21. > :19:22.Religion was Sir John Tavener's inspiration and informed his music,
:19:23. > :19:28.which in turn gave purpose to his life. I know God exists, he said,
:19:29. > :19:45.when I am writing music. The reasons sacred music continues
:19:46. > :19:51.is because people have a first, I learned a bit about Indian music, I
:19:52. > :19:54.learned a bit about Arabic music and a various traditions to understand
:19:55. > :19:57.how they work, and then I tried to create a style out of these various
:19:58. > :20:08.traditions. Sir John Tavener grew up in west
:20:09. > :20:11.London, displayed an early talent for playing the piano, studied at
:20:12. > :20:16.the Royal Academy of music and turned to composition. He came to
:20:17. > :20:20.public attention in the late 1960s with an avant-garde post-modernist
:20:21. > :20:23.cantata based on the biblical story of Jonah. It was published by the
:20:24. > :20:42.Beatles on their Apple record label. I'm often surprised by the kind of
:20:43. > :20:45.people who like it. I usually find a considerable cross-section of the
:20:46. > :20:51.public seem to appreciate what I am doing. A lot of people who like pop
:20:52. > :20:54.music seem to like it. He enjoyed critical and commercial
:20:55. > :21:01.success in 1989 with The Protecting Veil, a BBC commission that was
:21:02. > :21:05.premiered at the Proms. I think he answered a need in people for
:21:06. > :21:10.something that was spiritual and serene, that took them inside
:21:11. > :21:17.themselves and also managed to place them in the context of the world.
:21:18. > :21:23.His name and music became known to a broad global audience in 1997, when
:21:24. > :21:31.his Song For Athene was played at Princess Diana's funeral.
:21:32. > :21:38.He had suffered from ill health for many years, starting with a stroke
:21:39. > :21:43.in his 30s. He nearly died in 2007 following a heart attack, but he
:21:44. > :21:47.continued to write music. He was an original, deeply spiritual composer,
:21:48. > :21:55.and he was one of the outstanding musical talents of his generation.
:21:56. > :22:05.The composer Sir John Tavener, who has died at the age of 69.
:22:06. > :22:11.That is all from me, back now to the Philippines to join George Alagiah
:22:12. > :22:16.in the city of Cebu. Thanks, Huw. Well, the disasters and
:22:17. > :22:20.emergency committee in Britain says it has been overwhelmed by the
:22:21. > :22:25.response that it has had to its appeal. The Queen has tonight sent a
:22:26. > :22:32.personal donation and expressed her condolences to the people of the
:22:33. > :22:34.Philippines. The UN says that getting aid through to those who
:22:35. > :22:42.needed is going to be difficult and it is going to be slow. Fergus Walsh
:22:43. > :22:48.looks now at the huge logistical difficulties of this operation.
:22:49. > :22:51.More pictures have emerged of the terrifying onslaught of Typhoon
:22:52. > :22:58.Haiyan as it ripped through a beach resort in Tacloban on Friday with
:22:59. > :23:02.winds gusting at nearly 200 mph. Some water and food supplies arrived
:23:03. > :23:09.at Tacloban airport today, but the amount is tiny compared to the vast
:23:10. > :23:14.and unmet need. The scale of the disaster has shocked aid
:23:15. > :23:16.organisations. People were expecting a typhoon, and they got the
:23:17. > :23:21.equivalent of a typhoon and a tsunami. They were not expecting
:23:22. > :23:24.this at all. We do not know how many people have died. International
:23:25. > :23:27.teams are facing massive challenges. The Philippines
:23:28. > :23:33.comprises more than 7000 islands, 2000 of them inhabited. As the
:23:34. > :23:39.typhoon swept westward, it caused devastating damage across a huge
:23:40. > :23:43.area. Two island provinces were worst hit. Bridges have collapsed,
:23:44. > :23:47.roads are blocked, and phone networks are down. This was the 25th
:23:48. > :23:53.typhoon to affect the region this year, and more may be on the way.
:23:54. > :23:58.Nearly 10 million people need urgent aid, and more than 600,000 are
:23:59. > :24:01.homeless. The number needing medical help is unknown, and emergency
:24:02. > :24:08.surgical teams from Britain are flying out tomorrow. Our principal
:24:09. > :24:13.focus will be an untreated, open wounds that are now at risk of
:24:14. > :24:18.becoming infected, and if they are not treated appropriate surgery, by
:24:19. > :24:22.appropriate medical intervention, these become septic and the patient
:24:23. > :24:27.dies. The first British aid flights loaded with tense landed this
:24:28. > :24:32.evening at Cebu airport, but bad weather has meant many other planes
:24:33. > :24:35.are grounded. Help is also coming by sea. The Royal Navy destroyer HMS
:24:36. > :24:39.Daring is en route from Singapore and should arrive on the 16th. An
:24:40. > :24:45.American flotilla is sailing from Hong Kong. I have got boats, a
:24:46. > :24:49.helicopter, I can get these items into the more remote communities and
:24:50. > :24:55.ensure they have water as well as help them with the provision of
:24:56. > :25:00.electricity restoration. I can make water on board myself. ?25 buys
:25:01. > :25:04.water purification tablets for ten families... An appeal by the
:25:05. > :25:10.Disasters and Emergency Committee raised ?1.5 million in the first few
:25:11. > :25:11.hours, but much more is needed. Rebuilding the shattered communities
:25:12. > :25:24.of the Philippines will take years. Naturally enough, we have
:25:25. > :25:29.concentrated on the international aid effort here, but one thing needs
:25:30. > :25:32.to be stressed - just how resilient the people in the Philippines are.
:25:33. > :25:37.Flying over yesterday, I saw families,, going back to their
:25:38. > :25:41.families and beginning to rebuild the place, and as people here know,
:25:42. > :25:46.this is not the first storm and not the last storm, indeed there is more
:25:47. > :25:50.predicted, but they are ready for it. The other thing that needs to be
:25:51. > :25:54.said, having reported on the great Boxing Day tsunami, for example, is
:25:55. > :25:58.that this aid operation is not needed for weeks or four months. It
:25:59. > :26:03.will go one, I think, for many years to come. That is the sense I get,
:26:04. > :26:09.travelling over the countryside and seeing the extent of the
:26:10. > :26:10.devastation. That is it from us here can be,