:00:08. > :00:10.Heavy snow brings severe disruption across the country. Roads and rail
:00:10. > :00:14.services are badly hit - at Heathrow, half the flights are
:00:14. > :00:20.cancelled. Fury over Russia and China's refusal to condemn the
:00:20. > :00:23.violence in Syria, which continues in the embattled city of Homs. The
:00:23. > :00:30.Queen attends church at Sandringham, as she prepares to mark her 60
:00:30. > :00:40.years as monarch. And in the Six Nations, Wales beat Ireland with
:00:40. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:54.Good evening. Freezing temperatures and heavy snow across most of
:00:54. > :00:59.Britain have brought severe disruption to the roads and
:00:59. > :01:02.railways. Many airports were also hit by the snow - Heathrow says it
:01:02. > :01:06.has had to cancel half of its flights today. Tonight, motorists
:01:06. > :01:16.are being warned of treacherous conditions as the snow turns to ice.
:01:16. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:22.Robert Hall is in West Malling, in Kent. We all watched the snow on
:01:22. > :01:27.the weather maps as it came across the country yesterday, reaching
:01:27. > :01:31.Kent last, but Kent appears to have borne the brunt of the cold snap.
:01:31. > :01:36.The roads here are clear, as are most main roads, but the more
:01:36. > :01:43.isolated you are, the more difficult your day has been. Not
:01:43. > :01:47.the start to a quiet Sunday that many might have wished for. The
:01:47. > :01:50.first serious snowfall in England this winter provide entertainment,
:01:50. > :01:56.but it also caused delays and frustration for those who needed to
:01:56. > :02:04.travel. Temperatures hovering around freezing, preserving the?
:02:04. > :02:06.snow, together with the accompanying hazards on the roads,
:02:06. > :02:09.provided the backdrop to the provided the backdrop to the
:02:09. > :02:14.conditions. It was clear that the gritting teams had successfully
:02:14. > :02:17.kept traffic flowing, but that there was much still to do. The
:02:17. > :02:21.further we travelled from major further we travelled from major
:02:21. > :02:29.routes, the more snow and / we encountered. In the East Midlands,
:02:29. > :02:32.even simple tasks, such as exiting a car park, were a struggle.
:02:32. > :02:38.actually saw a gritter getting stuck as well, we could not push
:02:38. > :02:43.that one out. Sharing a wedding breakfast in Uttoxeter, this couple
:02:43. > :02:46.had tried but failed to keep their reception going. We decided to pull
:02:46. > :02:52.the plug, to make saw that everybody did get home safely, that
:02:52. > :03:00.has to be the priority. So we had our first dance, and then recorded
:03:00. > :03:03.today. At a petrol station in Kent, murmurs of a rock band returning
:03:03. > :03:08.from a concert woke up bleary-eyed after treacherous road conditions
:03:08. > :03:12.forced them to spend the night in their van. We were halfway up this
:03:12. > :03:17.road, slipping on over the place, as soon as we saw the petrol
:03:17. > :03:21.station, we pulled in. We figured, as we had enough duvets and
:03:21. > :03:27.sleeping stuff, we figured it would be easy. But getting up this
:03:27. > :03:31.morning and having to DeGale way out... Visitors to Heathrow, who
:03:31. > :03:35.had first sight of the new snow clearing equipment, might have
:03:35. > :03:40.expected limited disruption on but in fact, half of all flights were
:03:40. > :03:43.cancelled. We will have to see how quickly alliance can get their
:03:43. > :03:47.aircraft back in the right place. Once the operation here is
:03:47. > :03:54.disturbed, getting the aircraft positioned, getting the de-icing
:03:54. > :03:58.done and so on, takes some time. Rail travel was also affected, and
:03:58. > :04:04.the disruption may well spillover into the start of the new working
:04:04. > :04:14.week. But, as ever, winter sports provided a welcome distraction,
:04:14. > :04:15.
:04:15. > :04:22.even a few centimetres of snow can provide mass entertainment. The
:04:22. > :04:26.partial thaw has helped the gritting teams get some of the
:04:26. > :04:29.roads open again, but we are not out of the woods yet. If you are
:04:29. > :04:36.heading for work or school in the morning, you will still need to
:04:36. > :04:39.As Robert mentioned, there have been delays at many airports today,
:04:39. > :04:41.but the worst-hit has been Heathrow, where half of today's flights were
:04:41. > :04:44.cancelled in advance to attempt to prevent delays. Our transport
:04:44. > :04:53.correspondent, Richard Westcott, joins me now - a sensible move or
:04:53. > :04:57.an admission of failure to cope? Well, I guess it depends if you're
:04:57. > :05:02.a customer who had to sit watching planes landing and taking off on an
:05:02. > :05:06.empty runway, or, if you are the airport, where you say, they were
:05:06. > :05:11.preventing disruption. They have come in for a lot of stick today.
:05:11. > :05:15.Effectively, they cancelled 100 -- hundreds of flights before a single
:05:15. > :05:19.flake of snow landed on the runway. They said that was much better than
:05:19. > :05:23.having customers arriving at the airport, then cancelling flights,
:05:23. > :05:27.and having customers having to spend the night there. If you cast
:05:27. > :05:32.your mind back to Christmas time last year, this place was crippled
:05:32. > :05:35.for four days by heavy snow. People were spending the night in here.
:05:35. > :05:40.This is their big plan to try to prevent that. But I'm sure there
:05:40. > :05:45.are plenty of customers in there, looking at those planes, wondering
:05:45. > :05:52.why their flight had to be rebooked. If you are flying tomorrow, it is a
:05:52. > :05:55.normal schedule, but check with The American Secretary of State,
:05:55. > :05:58.Hillary Clinton, has called on "friends of democratic Syria" to
:05:58. > :06:00.unite and rally against President Assad's regime. Here, the Foreign
:06:00. > :06:03.Secretary, William Hague, accused China and Russia of "turning their
:06:03. > :06:06.backs on the Arab world" after they blocked a UN resolution condemning
:06:06. > :06:09.the Syrian government. Syrian forces today continued their
:06:09. > :06:14.offensive on the embattled city of Homs, where dozens were killed in a
:06:14. > :06:24.major assault on Friday. Here's our diplomatic correspondent Emily
:06:24. > :06:28.
:06:28. > :06:31.The epicentre of Syria's uprising. These latest pictures from Homs
:06:31. > :06:41.appear to show government forces shelling districts held by army
:06:41. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:45.defectors. President Bashar al- Assad may have been feeling
:06:45. > :06:50.relieved as he celebrated the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. He may
:06:50. > :06:53.have seen the veto as a green light to crack down on his opponents,
:06:53. > :06:57.violence some Western opponents will want to blame on Russia and
:06:57. > :07:00.China. Increasingly, given what happened yesterday, Russia and
:07:00. > :07:05.China will be held responsible for this continuing, appalling
:07:05. > :07:09.situation. They did not cause the situation, but they are standing in
:07:09. > :07:12.the way of the United Nations Security Council. Western
:07:12. > :07:19.governments are furious that the Russians and Chinese vetoed the
:07:19. > :07:20.resolution, even after it had been watered down. The problem is,
:07:20. > :07:26.Russia and China value their friendship and you lucrative trade
:07:26. > :07:29.with Syria, and they did not want to be seen to take sides, or to be
:07:29. > :07:35.paving the way for any possible future foreign intervention. Russia
:07:35. > :07:40.also aims to do its own peace brokering in Damascus. So, what can
:07:40. > :07:45.the international community do now? Faced with a neutered Security
:07:45. > :07:51.Council, we have to redouble our efforts, outside of the United
:07:51. > :07:55.Nations, with those allies and partners who support the Syrian
:07:55. > :07:59.people's right to have a better future. These pictures show the
:07:59. > :08:03.mass funeral of dozens of victims in Homs. There may be many more
:08:03. > :08:08.scenes like these, if President Assad uses the diplomatic latest to
:08:08. > :08:17.try to crush the opposition. Members of the Free Syrian Army
:08:17. > :08:20.The Government is to vote against a new pay package being proposed by
:08:20. > :08:22.Network Rail, after it emerged that its chief executive could be in
:08:23. > :08:25.line for a bonus worth nearly �350,000. Transport Secretary
:08:25. > :08:28.Justine Greening said she would attend the company's annual meeting
:08:28. > :08:36.on Friday to cast her vote. Our political correspondent Gary
:08:36. > :08:40.O'Donoghue is with me now. Can the Government stop the bonuses, Gary?
:08:40. > :08:44.Well, they say they cannot. They say that while the Department for
:08:44. > :08:48.Transport does have a vote at this meeting, that's where Justine
:08:48. > :08:53.Greening is going next Friday, that she's only one vote out of 78, and
:08:53. > :08:58.that anyway, it is an Advisory vote to the remuneration committee.
:08:58. > :09:00.Labour say that they do have bigger powers than that, they say the
:09:00. > :09:04.Government could sit on the remuneration committee, if it chose,
:09:04. > :09:08.something which Labour chose not to do when it was in pole. Also there
:09:08. > :09:12.are other powers which could have stopped this process in its tracks.
:09:12. > :09:15.-- in power. The important thing is that both parties are fighting for
:09:15. > :09:19.the same piece of ground. They know there is a great deal of public
:09:19. > :09:29.anger, following things like the bonus for the chief executive of
:09:29. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:38.By The Queen and Prince Philip braved the cold this morning to
:09:38. > :09:41.attend church at Sandringham, on the eve of an important milestone
:09:41. > :09:43.in the Diamond Jubilee year. Tomorrow marks 60 years since her
:09:43. > :09:51.accession to the throne. Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,
:09:51. > :09:55.reports. It is an anniversary tinged with sadness, since it marks
:09:55. > :10:01.the death of her beloved father. On the eve of accession date, the day
:10:01. > :10:05.she succeeded to the throne in 1952, the Queen went to morning service
:10:05. > :10:10.at a church near the Sandringham estate. With her, the Duke of
:10:10. > :10:14.Edinburgh, fully recovered, it would seem, from the operation two
:10:14. > :10:20.days before Christmas, but feeling the cold on a day when Norfolk was
:10:20. > :10:30.not a place to linger outside. For the Queen, there were flowers and
:10:30. > :10:36.
:10:36. > :10:44.thanks for the 60 years of service She had last seen her father at
:10:44. > :10:48.London Airport on 31st January 1952. She was departing on an overseas
:10:48. > :10:56.tour. Unknown to her, her father had lung cancer.
:10:56. > :10:59.NEWSREEL: It was a farewell. It was also, as events turned out, goodbye.
:10:59. > :11:05.Elizabeth's was in can you when her father died. She was given the news
:11:05. > :11:11.by her husband. -- Elizabeth was in Kenya. She began her reign, which
:11:11. > :11:15.was to become the second longest in British history. And it is that
:11:15. > :11:23.which will be marked by the diamond jubilee. It is hard to imagine it
:11:23. > :11:33.in the depths of winter, but by the spring and summer, how long reign
:11:33. > :11:36.
:11:36. > :11:39.will be marked by events in this Now, with news of the Six Nations
:11:39. > :11:43.and the rest of the sport, here's Celina Hinchcliffe. Ireland versus
:11:43. > :11:46.Wales was an enthralling match in Dublin, a real classic. The
:11:46. > :11:49.momentum swung back and forth between the two teams and it
:11:49. > :11:53.finished in dramatic style. Wales snatched a 23-21 win with virtually
:11:53. > :12:01.the last kick of the game, as Tim the last kick of the game, as Tim
:12:01. > :12:05.Franks reports. This had promised to be the tastiest clash of the
:12:05. > :12:10.weekend, and so it proved. Wales were in Irish territory for much of
:12:10. > :12:15.the first half. Jonathan Davies gave them the lead. Irish got a try
:12:15. > :12:22.with pretty much their first concerted attack. The difference
:12:22. > :12:26.came down to Wales' huge 3/4. George north, a mere teenager,
:12:26. > :12:30.smashed the Irish defence before popping up an exquisite pass to
:12:30. > :12:35.Jonathan Davies. How different it might have been had Bradley Davies
:12:36. > :12:42.been given red, rather than yellow, for this. Ireland took advantage of
:12:42. > :12:50.the extra man, Tommy Bowe going over. But it would not be enough.
:12:50. > :13:00.George off got a try for Wales, then Ireland committed their own
:13:00. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:04.foul, and Leigh Halfpenny converted From a rugby classic to a football
:13:04. > :13:07.classic - an astonishing match at Stamford Bridge in the Premier
:13:07. > :13:10.League, with six goals to tell you about. Chelsea scored the first -
:13:10. > :13:14.well, to be precise, United's defender Jonny Evans did, with an
:13:14. > :13:19.own goal. 30 seconds into the second half, and Juan Mata's strike
:13:19. > :13:25.was unstoppable. Chelsea then went 3-0 up when David Luiz's header
:13:25. > :13:27.came off Rio Ferdinand's shoulder. Chelsea cruising, you might think.
:13:27. > :13:30.Well, United had other ideas - Wayne Rooney despatched a quick
:13:30. > :13:35.penalty after Patrice Evra was fouled, and when the second
:13:35. > :13:37.presented itself, you just knew the comeback was on. Chelsea had never
:13:37. > :13:46.given up a 3-0 lead in Premier league history, but Javier
:13:46. > :13:56.Hernandez powered his header past Peter Cech. Never write off Sir
:13:56. > :13:59.
:13:59. > :14:03.And on Match Of The Day 2 later, you can see a fantastic goal at St
:14:03. > :14:13.James's Park, from new boy Papiss Demba Cisse, who came off the bench
:14:13. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:17.to get a stunning goal, as Newcastle beat Aston Villa.
:14:17. > :14:20.Rangers' woes continue as they crashed out of the Scottish Cup at
:14:20. > :14:24.the fifth round stage. They lost 2- 0 at home to Dundee United. And
:14:24. > :14:27.Hearts face a replay after drawing 1-1 with St Johnstone. In the Third
:14:27. > :14:29.Test, England will have to produce one of their best ever batting
:14:29. > :14:33.performances to avoid a series whitewash against Pakistan. They
:14:33. > :14:37.need to score 324 in their second innings to win, and will resume on
:14:37. > :14:39.36 without loss. But at least there is a glimmer of light, after a day
:14:39. > :14:47.when Pakistan threatened to move out of sight. Joe Wilson reports
:14:47. > :14:52.from Dubai. Nearing 30 degrees, but still, at the stadium, England
:14:52. > :15:02.started to freeze. England needed a handful of wickets in the morning -
:15:02. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:12.they got one. Younus Khan was out, having made 127. This was an old-
:15:12. > :15:18.fashioned, painstaking six-hour hundred. But Monty Panesar claimed
:15:18. > :15:24.a couple of lbws after lunch. His delivery to get rid of Akmal was a
:15:24. > :15:31.cracker. But what about Graeme Swann? His turn - two quick wickets
:15:31. > :15:35.for him, and at tea, Pakistan were eight wickets down. Azhar Ali's
:15:35. > :15:39.442nd ball was his last. Graeme Swann finally got him, after the
:15:39. > :15:45.highest score of his career. He had given Pakistan a great chance for
:15:45. > :15:49.victory. Soon, England were batting again, 323 behind, and almost