:00:18. > :00:27.massive transport disruption. Crewe station is evacuated, motorways are
:00:28. > :00:31.closed and rail services suspended. I saw the roof lifted up, and then
:00:32. > :00:35.it kind of slid around the floor, and I didn't know what to do.
:00:36. > :00:37.The great storm began in the south-west and Wales, causing more
:00:38. > :00:42.damage. And with a month's rainfall expected by Friday, the floodwaters
:00:43. > :00:46.are set to rise. We will be looking at what is causing this extreme and
:00:47. > :00:50.prolonged wind and rain. Also tonight: You can't keep the
:00:51. > :00:53.pound - the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems unite against an
:00:54. > :00:56.independent Scotland. The face of Britain's first suicide
:00:57. > :01:00.bomber - the man from Sussex who blew himself up in Syria.
:01:01. > :01:09.And an undercover investigation into the booming trade in illegal ivory
:01:10. > :01:13.in China. And in Sportsday on BBC News, the
:01:14. > :01:16.weather played its part in the Premier League. Two matches were
:01:17. > :01:35.off, giving Arsenal the chance to return to the top with a win over
:01:36. > :01:38.Manchester United. Good evening. Now it's the turn of
:01:39. > :01:43.the north-west of England to feel the full force of the storms
:01:44. > :01:46.battering Britain. The Met Office has issued a red alert, meaning a
:01:47. > :01:49.danger to life, as rain and hurricane force winds of over 100
:01:50. > :01:51.hours per hour are lashing the north-west coast tonight. It is
:01:52. > :01:54.playing havoc with transport links, with the M6 closed, Crewe station
:01:55. > :02:00.evacuated, some rail lines suspended and thousands of passengers stuck on
:02:01. > :02:05.trains. Winds of over 100 miles an hour began earlier today in the
:02:06. > :02:08.south-west. You can see it here on satellite image, the weather system
:02:09. > :02:12.working its way up through Wales and the West Midlands. 125,000 homes are
:02:13. > :02:14.now without power, and a man has died in Wiltshire, electrocuted
:02:15. > :02:21.while trying to move a tree brought down by power cables. Our first
:02:22. > :02:31.report tonight comes from Judith Moritz, who is live for us in
:02:32. > :02:35.Blackpool. How bad is it there? It is still extremely windy here. The
:02:36. > :02:39.high winds were forecast to arrive along this stretch of coastline at
:02:40. > :02:44.about two o'clock this afternoon, and right on cue, they arrived,
:02:45. > :02:48.slamming into the seafront. They have been ripping through Blackpool
:02:49. > :02:52.all afternoon. They are starting to drop slightly, but it is still very
:02:53. > :02:56.difficult here. As you can see behind me, the seafront has now been
:02:57. > :03:01.closed because parts of it are too dangerous for people to walk along.
:03:02. > :03:04.But it has not just been in Blackpool. There has been
:03:05. > :03:07.disruption, delay and dismayed across the whole of the north-west
:03:08. > :03:11.of England. In Blackpool, they live for the
:03:12. > :03:17.summer season. But today, the resort for the brunt of winter. Glamorous,
:03:18. > :03:21.it wasn't. The promenade was battered and bruised by
:03:22. > :03:23.extraordinary high with is. Firefighters have a working at full
:03:24. > :03:27.stretch, trying to keep up with demand as emergency calls surged.
:03:28. > :03:36.They opened an extra call centre to cope. Currently, chimney stacks and
:03:37. > :03:39.roofs are being torn away from buildings. Firefighters are
:03:40. > :03:44.generally assisting members of the public who are in need. Blackpool
:03:45. > :03:48.had been forecast winds of up to 100 miles an hour, and the conditions
:03:49. > :03:53.worsened steadily throughout the day. It is now just after 7:30pm,
:03:54. > :03:58.and the wind is continuing to pick up speed, with debris now blowing
:03:59. > :04:03.across the roads. Some emergency workers have told me they may still
:04:04. > :04:06.have to close the whole of the Blackpool promenade. A short time
:04:07. > :04:10.later, the road was closed and traffic diverted. Elsewhere, the
:04:11. > :04:16.wind caused damage and disruption on the road is. Mercifully, the driver
:04:17. > :04:21.of this car in South Manchester was not in the vehicle when it was
:04:22. > :04:24.crushed. M62 motorway was closed to high sided vehicles, this lorry
:04:25. > :04:29.getting into trouble on the trans-Pennine route. And there was
:04:30. > :04:32.significant disruption on the railways, with cancellations on the
:04:33. > :04:35.West Coast Main Line and Crewe station evacuated you to building
:04:36. > :04:40.damage. As injures were taken to a nearby hotel. Going back to
:04:41. > :04:46.Warrington. Not happy at the moment, got nowhere to stay. We have
:04:47. > :04:49.the waiting for a train for a long time. We might get home around one
:04:50. > :04:54.o'clock two o'clock. Tonight, residents at a block of flats in
:04:55. > :05:02.Trafford were stranded after the building 's only staircase crashed.
:05:03. > :05:08.There was an almighty crash. I went out to have a look, and my car was
:05:09. > :05:11.parked underneath and it is now a writer. At Goodison Park, Everton's
:05:12. > :05:14.mat against Crystal Palace was cancelled, as was the Manchester
:05:15. > :05:19.City-Sunderland game, high winds disrupting the days of thousands of
:05:20. > :05:22.people across north-west England. The south-west of England and Wales
:05:23. > :05:25.took the brunt of the storms earlier today, with record winds. Almost a
:05:26. > :05:28.month's rainfall is expect to fall by Friday. The assistant chief of
:05:29. > :05:31.the defence staff said the UK is facing an almost unparalleled
:05:32. > :05:38.natural crisis. Hywel Griffiths is in Criccieth in north Wales for us
:05:39. > :05:46.tonight. What is the situation there? Finally, the wind speeds are
:05:47. > :05:51.starting to drop, but this whole coastline has spent the whole day on
:05:52. > :05:56.red alert. Just a few miles up the peninsula, wind speeds were recorded
:05:57. > :06:00.of 108 mph. Everyone I have spoken to today has said one thing over and
:06:01. > :06:04.over - they have never seen conditions like this on Britain 's
:06:05. > :06:08.shorelines. An offer of military assistance has been made to Wales.
:06:09. > :06:13.While things are starting to come down, it may take until daylight to
:06:14. > :06:22.really show the scale of the destruction caused.
:06:23. > :06:27.What will nature throw at us next? As hurricane conditions reached West
:06:28. > :06:34.Wales, they triggered sandstorms and carried heavy rain, leaving nowhere
:06:35. > :06:38.to hide. I am over 60 years old and I have never seen anything like
:06:39. > :06:43.this. It has been since Christmas. We have not had a break. Day after
:06:44. > :06:47.day. Dozens of schools were forced to close their doors. Few wanted to
:06:48. > :06:53.hang around to see what would happen. Horrendous, the worst
:06:54. > :06:58.weather. It is really bad. The children were coming out crying
:06:59. > :07:06.because the sound was hurting them. John Dunn decided to evacuate his
:07:07. > :07:10.home. The caravans on the site he runs risk being blown away. It is a
:07:11. > :07:15.nightmare. It feels like somebody is going to wake me up, but I know that
:07:16. > :07:19.is not going to happen. The gales have now started hitting the
:07:20. > :07:24.coastline. These winds are extraordinary out on the open sea.
:07:25. > :07:31.But what is exceptional is that they are hitting inland. The result was
:07:32. > :07:39.fallen trees and mangled power lines. Leaving nearly 100,000
:07:40. > :07:45.properties across Wales, the south-west and the Midlands without
:07:46. > :07:51.power. These exceptional conditions have swept around Britain's
:07:52. > :08:00.coastline. At Lyme Regis, the waves grew with every hour. Over in
:08:01. > :08:05.Ireland, Limerick boathouse, stripped of its roof. Once again,
:08:06. > :08:11.emergency teams have been tested. This driver had to be rescued from
:08:12. > :08:15.the River Wye. In Wiltshire, a man died after a tree brought down power
:08:16. > :08:21.cables. Forecasters say the winds will subside overnight. At
:08:22. > :08:26.Britain's wild winter just seems to rage on.
:08:27. > :08:29.Well, as we have seen, the storm is bringing a deluge of rain with it.
:08:30. > :08:32.Today, the prime minister repeated his pledge that no money will be
:08:33. > :08:38.spared to help flooded communities get act on their feet. -- back on
:08:39. > :08:40.their feet. He said ?5000 will be available for businesses and
:08:41. > :08:45.homeowners to protect their properties in the future. There will
:08:46. > :08:48.be a ?10 million fund for farmers, and businesses could qualify for a
:08:49. > :08:51.100% rate relief for three months. Robert Hall has been assessing the
:08:52. > :08:54.extent of the damage across southern England and how the armed forces and
:08:55. > :09:03.emergency services are coming together to help.
:09:04. > :09:10.Stormy skies and another city under threat. The peaceful waters of this
:09:11. > :09:15.river have become a torrent, and historic Winchester is preparing to
:09:16. > :09:21.defend itself. But extra sandbags and help from the Navy will not be
:09:22. > :09:24.enough to protect nearby homes. River keeper Myles Gascoigne and his
:09:25. > :09:29.neighbours have taken matters into their own hands. We can look after
:09:30. > :09:32.ourselves. We have a fireman, a builder and a river keeper in the
:09:33. > :09:38.street. We can deal with water and sand and stuff all the time anyway.
:09:39. > :09:44.Even before this latest storm, the river is carrying 15 tonnes of water
:09:45. > :09:49.every second. It travels through the centre of Winchester, and beneath
:09:50. > :09:52.that, the ancient Watermill. As this channel gets blocked or
:09:53. > :09:56.overwhelmed, the river will have nowhere to go. So the Environment
:09:57. > :10:02.Agency is creating a flood north of the city, forcing you river onto
:10:03. > :10:06.farmland with an artificial way. There is a lot of flood plain
:10:07. > :10:11.available in the fields, so that will flood first. Our engineers are
:10:12. > :10:16.monitoring this to make sure we will not increase flood risk upstream.
:10:17. > :10:18.The prime minister, who chaired two meetings of the COBRA emergency
:10:19. > :10:22.planning group today, dog parliament that he stood by his pledge that
:10:23. > :10:26.money would be no object in the relief effort. But he warned that a
:10:27. > :10:33.further 1000 homes were at risk. Away from Whitehall, the water was
:10:34. > :10:36.creeping up ?10 million worth of barriers in Bewdley. The River
:10:37. > :10:41.Severn in Worcestershire last picked at this level 14 years ago, and it
:10:42. > :10:46.has not finished rising yet. Worcester's defences were breached.
:10:47. > :10:48.More than 50 people had to be evacuated from this sheltered
:10:49. > :10:55.housing complex. The Thames Valley remains a landscape of muddy water
:10:56. > :10:58.and ruined homes. The army, emergency services and volunteers
:10:59. > :11:05.have been working to reassure and respond to fresh calls for help. At
:11:06. > :11:10.Gold command in third, rehearsals have proved their worth, but this
:11:11. > :11:14.emergency is unprecedented and relentless. We are working long
:11:15. > :11:18.hours and very hard, but considering what members of the public are going
:11:19. > :11:21.through, it is the least we can be doing. Tonight, Wraysbury in the
:11:22. > :11:25.Thames Valley saw reinforcements from London's Fire Brigade, the
:11:26. > :11:32.legacy of another storm is travelling downstream. Long hour
:11:33. > :11:37.swollen rivers, this miserable winter seems un-ended.
:11:38. > :11:41.So what has been causing the exceptional and prolonged rain and
:11:42. > :11:49.winds battering so much of UK? Our science editor explains.
:11:50. > :11:52.Violent swirls of storms, pictured from space. Britain is in the top
:11:53. > :11:57.right corner. You can sometimes make it out through the clouds. These
:11:58. > :12:01.satellite images, gathered over the past fortnight, show a conveyor belt
:12:02. > :12:05.of weather systems. So what is behind this barrage of bad weather?
:12:06. > :12:10.Bizarrely, the story begins in Southeast Asia, with dark clouds
:12:11. > :12:14.over Indonesia. Heavy rain and massive flooding were part of an
:12:15. > :12:20.unusual weather pattern that sent ripples through the atmosphere
:12:21. > :12:22.halfway round the world. The best explanation from the Met Office is
:12:23. > :12:26.that there has been a kind of weather chain reaction. That heavy
:12:27. > :12:31.rainfall in Indonesia disrupted the jet stream, which races over the
:12:32. > :12:36.Pacific Ocean. In turn, this dent in the jet stream far in the north
:12:37. > :12:41.diverted it over North America. This helped create the conditions for the
:12:42. > :12:46.so-called polar vortex. That led to extreme cold, reducing extraordinary
:12:47. > :12:49.scenes like these in many parts of the United States. It is thought
:12:50. > :12:53.that what happened there had an influence ultimate Leonidas. That is
:12:54. > :12:59.because the pattern of weather in America are affected the course of
:13:00. > :13:04.the Atlantic jet stream. It has been flowing unusually rapidly and
:13:05. > :13:07.driving storm after storm our way. The British don't control their own
:13:08. > :13:14.weather. It is part of the whole global system. We sit at the end of
:13:15. > :13:17.the Atlantic storm track. So we might be aware that these storms
:13:18. > :13:21.tend to come from the West over the Atlantic, but they don't just start
:13:22. > :13:27.there. The whole thing is part of this global system. So what about a
:13:28. > :13:34.possible influence from us, from the greenhouse gases that belch out from
:13:35. > :13:37.chimneys? Good man -- man-made climate change be making the weather
:13:38. > :13:42.more violent? Researchers say there are some signs that global warming
:13:43. > :13:45.may be involved. The waters of the Atlantic are warmer than they have
:13:46. > :13:49.been for 60 years. That heats the air and let it hold more moisture.
:13:50. > :13:53.And the number of intense Atlantic storms has been rising over the past
:13:54. > :13:57.century. But working out a human influence is very difficult. Met
:13:58. > :14:04.Office scientists cannot give a definitive and about climate change,
:14:05. > :14:08.but what about the recent extremes? Is this what we are going to be
:14:09. > :14:11.facing in the future? The indications are that our weather
:14:12. > :14:17.will become more variable and volatile, and therefore, how we
:14:18. > :14:21.adapt to that will be critical. The Met Office it self was blasted by
:14:22. > :14:26.gales today. The question is whether global warming will make scenes like
:14:27. > :14:34.this more likely, something scientists are desperate to answer.
:14:35. > :14:39.You can get all the latest on the severe weather and the flooding on
:14:40. > :14:43.the BBC website. There are of course updates on your BBC local radio and
:14:44. > :14:46.TV stations. The BBC has learnt that the
:14:47. > :14:48.Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are to announce
:14:49. > :14:51.tomorrow that an independent Scotland would not be allowed to use
:14:52. > :14:53.the pound, whoever forms the next Government. The Scottish Government
:14:54. > :14:56.has accused Westminster of bullying and intimidation. Our Political
:14:57. > :15:03.Editor, Nick Robinson broke the story and is here. This is a very
:15:04. > :15:08.serious salvo by the three Westminster parties, uniting against
:15:09. > :15:12.an independent Scotland. It is not often that you get George Osborne,
:15:13. > :15:16.Ed Balls, Danny Alexander for the Lib Dems, all saying the same thing
:15:17. > :15:21.on the same day, and reaching agreement. They really want to end
:15:22. > :15:24.the doubt in Scottish voters' minds. Whoever wins the next Westminster
:15:25. > :15:30.election, whatever happens, whoever is in the Treasury, the outcome will
:15:31. > :15:34.be the same. In other words, all the parties say they would not agree to
:15:35. > :15:38.share the pound, to share control of the vital decisions that underline
:15:39. > :15:41.the pound. It will come on the day that the Treasury will produce a
:15:42. > :15:45.review, written by civil servants and not politicians, that says if
:15:46. > :15:49.you do want to share currency, like the arguments over the euro, you
:15:50. > :15:54.have to agree to underwrite each other's banks and budgets, share
:15:55. > :15:58.decisions in effect on tax, spend and borrowing, as well. What these
:15:59. > :16:04.three men are doing tomorrow is to say they simply would not reach that
:16:05. > :16:06.agreement. The SNP is saying this is classic bullying, classic threats,
:16:07. > :16:11.you can't believe what they were saying now, and they will do
:16:12. > :16:15.something different later. They argue that the rest of the UK would
:16:16. > :16:18.have an interest in sharing the pound with Scotland because it would
:16:19. > :16:23.put unnecessary costs on business to do anything else, and the Scots
:16:24. > :16:28.might refuse to pay their share of the debt. But it is a big move and
:16:29. > :16:33.it is controversial. Thank you. Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh for us.
:16:34. > :16:36.What are the currency options for an independent Scotland? The Scottish
:16:37. > :16:40.Government set up a fiscal commission to look into possible
:16:41. > :16:45.options should Scots vote for independence. They investigated four
:16:46. > :16:49.potential scenarios. Scotland joining the euro, Scotland setting
:16:50. > :16:55.up its own independent currency, looking to countries like Sweden and
:16:56. > :17:01.Norway for samples of that, and the idea of an informal currency union,
:17:02. > :17:05.like with informal states like Monaco and Lichtenstein who are tied
:17:06. > :17:07.to the euro and the Swiss franc for examples of that scenario, and then
:17:08. > :17:13.of course this formal currency union. Fiscal groups said Scotland
:17:14. > :17:15.could choose any of these options and be a successful independent
:17:16. > :17:19.country but the Scottish Government said it believes in a formal
:17:20. > :17:25.currency union and is sticking to that line tonight. They say there is
:17:26. > :17:29.no plan B. This is set to run and run. Thank you.
:17:30. > :17:32.Interest rates are likely to stay at their record low level of half of
:17:33. > :17:35.one percent for another year. That was the guidance from the Bank of
:17:36. > :17:38.England Governor, Mark Carney, today. The bank has revised its
:17:39. > :17:40.forecast, saying the economy will grow faster than its earlier
:17:41. > :17:43.prediction. But Mr Carney warned that Britain's recovery was neither
:17:44. > :17:52.balanced nor sustainable as yet. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh
:17:53. > :17:56.Pym reports. They like low interest rates at this
:17:57. > :18:01.Barnsley engineering business. The Bank of England unveiled its
:18:02. > :18:05.guidance policy last summer in a bid to provide more certainty about
:18:06. > :18:09.rates. So the company felt confident enough to invest in this new laser
:18:10. > :18:13.cutting machinery. It arrived this week. What I would like to say to
:18:14. > :18:18.the Bank of England is carry on doing what you are doing. Forward
:18:19. > :18:21.guidance and people being clear and people understanding what they know
:18:22. > :18:26.going forward is a great thing. It has helped us get where we are now.
:18:27. > :18:56.But Mark Carney has had to adjust forward guidance because the economy
:18:57. > :18:59.has not developed as he expected. Growth will be higher and inflation
:19:00. > :19:02.lower than forecast. The line now is that when rates to rise, they will
:19:03. > :19:04.not go up by much. Even in the medium-term, the level of interest
:19:05. > :19:06.rates necessary to sustain low unemployment and price stability
:19:07. > :19:08.will be materially lower than before the crisis. He suggested the first
:19:09. > :19:11.increase might be in the spring of next year with rates of just 2% in
:19:12. > :19:13.2017. This is certainly a change of tack by Mark Carney. Interest rates
:19:14. > :19:16.had been focused on unemployment falling to a certain level but now
:19:17. > :19:18.that the 7% figure has been breached, they will concentrate
:19:19. > :19:20.instead on a range of economic variables. One former bank
:19:21. > :19:22.policymaker thinks the change of direction, required because the bank
:19:23. > :19:28.got it unemployment forecasts wrong, is not helpful to the wider economy.
:19:29. > :19:31.The benefit of forward guidance is that it gives people more confidence
:19:32. > :19:34.and certainty about what will happen in the future, but when the advice
:19:35. > :19:39.that is provided by the Bank of England is then changed quite
:19:40. > :19:43.significantly in the space of six months, that then adds to confusion
:19:44. > :19:47.about what will really happen. The bank says it has moved on to a new
:19:48. > :19:51.phase of forward guidance. The challenge now is to communicate
:19:52. > :19:55.exactly what that means for businesses and households. Hugh Pym,
:19:56. > :19:58.BBC News. The BBC has learned the identity of
:19:59. > :20:01.the first British suicide bomber to blow himself up in Syria. He's been
:20:02. > :20:04.named as Abdul Waheed Majid, a 41-year-old from Sussex. He's
:20:05. > :20:06.believed to have carried out a suicide truck bombing in Aleppo last
:20:07. > :20:09.Thursday. Anti-terrorism officers have spent the morning searching his
:20:10. > :20:17.address in Crawley. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.
:20:18. > :20:21.Snapshots from Syria of the man police suspect of being the first
:20:22. > :20:25.British suicide bomber in that country. He is Abdul Waheed Majid,
:20:26. > :20:30.and today police raided his house in Sussex. All day, detectives from the
:20:31. > :20:35.South East counterterrorism unit have been searching this home in
:20:36. > :20:39.Crawley. Neighbours say he left for Syria months ago with an aid
:20:40. > :20:43.convoy. His relatives are still hoping that the bomber was not him.
:20:44. > :20:50.The family is actually quite shocked, devastated. We are quite
:20:51. > :20:54.confused because we are getting all this news, unconfirmed news, from
:20:55. > :20:59.different sources. All they are actually hoping and waiting that
:21:00. > :21:07.somebody somewhere will confirm whether he is. But police suspect
:21:08. > :21:11.that he was the man who drove this makeshift armoured dumper truck
:21:12. > :21:16.packed with explosives into a prison wall in Aleppo. Jihadist groups said
:21:17. > :21:25.the bomber was British and held it as a martyrdom operation. So why in
:21:26. > :21:29.a conflict that has already killed over 100,000 people should last
:21:30. > :21:33.week's suicide bombing in Syria worry the authorities back here? The
:21:34. > :21:36.answer is that if the British jihadist carried it out, then it
:21:37. > :21:41.risks setting a precedent for others to copy in this country. Especially
:21:42. > :21:48.those returning home radicalised from the horrors of the battlefield.
:21:49. > :21:52.We have seen on social media, these guys imbibe the full culture after a
:21:53. > :21:57.while. They put up pictures of Bin Laden, they glorify attacks like
:21:58. > :22:00.9/11. Unfortunately from our perspective at least, the longer
:22:01. > :22:04.people spend in Syria, the more brutalised and radicalised they
:22:05. > :22:09.become. In Crawley, the investigation is not over. Police
:22:10. > :22:13.will undoubtedly want to question all of his associates, but they are
:22:14. > :22:16.warning that without DNA proof they will never be able to confirm
:22:17. > :22:21.publicly if he was indeed the bomber.
:22:22. > :22:24.Two men have been found guilty of helping the multiple murderer Joanna
:22:25. > :22:27.Dennehy. She has already admitted killing three men in Cambridgeshire
:22:28. > :22:30.last March. The prosecution said Gary Stretch and Leslie Layton were
:22:31. > :22:32.manipulated by Dennehy but revelled in bringing suffering and misery
:22:33. > :22:35.upon their victims' our correspondent Ed Thomas, who's been
:22:36. > :22:42.following the story, has sent this special report.
:22:43. > :22:46.A female serial killer like no other. Joanna Dennehy wanted to kill
:22:47. > :22:53.as many men as she could, painfully and violently. Today her accomplices
:22:54. > :22:57.were found guilty at Cambridge Crown Court. This man, seven feet three
:22:58. > :23:02.Gary Stretch, helped Joanna Dennehy. So, too, did petty criminal
:23:03. > :23:08.Leslie Layton. For the first time, those who faced the killer can tell
:23:09. > :23:13.their stories. What could you see her doing? Stabbing me repeatedly.
:23:14. > :23:18.She was stabbing me in the chest. Speaking exclusively to BBC News,
:23:19. > :23:23.John Rogers was stabbed 40 times by Joanna Dennehy as he walked his dog.
:23:24. > :23:28.He only survived after days of emergency surgery. He said, look,
:23:29. > :23:35.you are bleeding. I had better do some more. When it did finally stop,
:23:36. > :23:44.I just thought, well, this is it. I am going to die. This police CCTV
:23:45. > :23:48.was taken minutes after she attacked John Rogers. Joanna Dennehy was
:23:49. > :23:49.calm, even joking. Listen to her answer when asked if she is
:23:50. > :24:05.dependent on drugs. That hectic week began here in
:24:06. > :24:10.Peterborough with three murders. The first to die was her boyfriend,
:24:11. > :24:15.Lukasz Slaboszewski. Next was John Chapman, her housemate. The final
:24:16. > :24:22.victim was Kevin Lee, her landlord and lover. All stabbed through the
:24:23. > :24:26.heart. The bodies were taken here, dumped and forgotten. Murdered by
:24:27. > :24:32.Joanna Dennehy. Someone they thought was a friend, someone they could
:24:33. > :24:36.trust, and instead they were all killed for her own enjoyment. And
:24:37. > :24:40.all this from a mother once responsible for two children. By the
:24:41. > :24:45.time she killed, Joanna Dennehy was an alcoholic who had abandoned her
:24:46. > :24:51.family. I hope that she never sees daylight again ever. This is her
:24:52. > :24:55.sister, in her first TV interview. She said Joanna rebelled. The child
:24:56. > :25:00.they once knew became someone they no longer recognised. There was a
:25:01. > :25:05.girl that we loved who then turned into a monster. I don't think you
:25:06. > :25:12.can actually describe it any other way. Can you understand at all why
:25:13. > :25:15.she has done this? Know. And to be honest I don't think I would want to
:25:16. > :25:22.understand how a human being is capable of doing so much damage. So
:25:23. > :25:25.what motivated Joanna Dennehy? A psychopath with several personality
:25:26. > :25:31.disorders. On the run from police, she came to this house. Inside was
:25:32. > :25:48.Sean Keeble, one of the few to ask her why. She just felt happy that
:25:49. > :25:51.she was a murderer, sort of thing. She told us she was wanting to write
:25:52. > :25:53.a book about it, she was wanting to be a serial killer, someone
:25:54. > :25:55.well-known. And maybe be famous. With it, no remorse or regret,
:25:56. > :26:02.Joanna Dennehy will be sentenced next week.
:26:03. > :26:13.We reported last night on the fight against ivory poachers in Kenya. The
:26:14. > :26:16.trade in white gold is still big business, much of it fuelled by
:26:17. > :26:19.demand from China. Some ivory sales are legal there but there's a huge
:26:20. > :26:21.illegal trade too. Our Beijing Correspondent Damian Grammaticas has
:26:22. > :26:23.been tracking down China's illegal ivory traders and seeing how they
:26:24. > :26:26.operate. 5000 miles from Africa, China, with
:26:27. > :26:29.its new drive to consume. A new taste for luxury. Ivory is sought
:26:30. > :26:35.after here, sold openly and legally. The problem is, behind the legal
:26:36. > :26:39.trade is an illegal one. Critics say this is what allows it to continue.
:26:40. > :26:48.To show you, we need a hidden camera. Each piece must be sold with
:26:49. > :26:51.a credit card-sized photo ID that proves the ivory is from Government
:26:52. > :26:58.stockpiles, not smuggled. But look closely. The picture does not match
:26:59. > :27:02.the carving. The ID is for a different boat. Nearby, we find more
:27:03. > :27:08.IDs that don't match. But as soon as we ask about them, the seller shuts
:27:09. > :27:11.up shop. China is now tackling the illegal trade. Ivory seized by
:27:12. > :27:17.customs has been crushed in the run-up to the London conference,
:27:18. > :27:21.smugglers arrested. But still, Chinese buyers want ivory. Some
:27:22. > :27:26.believe it brings good luck. Others see it as a safe investment, sure to
:27:27. > :27:30.appreciate as elephants get rarer. 30,000 are being poached in Africa
:27:31. > :27:35.each year. To avoid the crackdown, ivory traders are turning to the
:27:36. > :27:43.internet. Online sales are illegal, but they are not hard to find. We
:27:44. > :27:48.made contact with a dealer and set up our cameras. He produced a carved
:27:49. > :27:54.tusk, illegal African ivory, asking price ?7,000. Other dealers have
:27:55. > :27:58.been put in jail, he said, and it's getting harder to smuggle tusks.
:27:59. > :28:06.That means the price of ivory is going up. TRANSLATION: There are
:28:07. > :28:09.lots of ivory collectors, but there is less and less ivory available
:28:10. > :28:14.now, so the price is shooting up every day. And while the buying goes
:28:15. > :28:16.on, so does the killing, demand for ivory here fuelling far-off
:28:17. > :28:27.slaughter, pushing Africa's elephants towards extinction. Damian
:28:28. > :28:31.Grammaticas, BBC News, Beijing. Before we go tonight, a reminder of
:28:32. > :28:34.the chaos being caused by the winter storms. Winds of up to a hundred
:28:35. > :28:37.miles an hour have been battering the West coast of Britain. Transport
:28:38. > :28:40.links on road and rail have been cut causing chaos for passengers. And
:28:41. > :28:47.heavy rain is causing more misery as flood waters are on the rise.
:28:48. > :28:48.That's all from us. Over