:00:09. > :00:13.Flooding causes further damage and disruption to parts of the UK and
:00:13. > :00:17.more rain is forecast tonight. The South West of England is badly hit,
:00:17. > :00:21.blocking railway networks on one of the busiest weekends of the year.
:00:21. > :00:26.In Scotland, one of the worst affected areas is Aberdeen show,
:00:26. > :00:30.where dozens of people are forced to leave their homes. This is just
:00:30. > :00:36.complete devastation. And the people are traumatised to now,
:00:36. > :00:39.traumatised. Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust
:00:39. > :00:46.apologises to families and pays compensation after failings in its
:00:46. > :00:56.care. And it is the Christmas number one.
:00:56. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:13.The Hillsborough tribute single Good evening. The Environment
:01:13. > :01:17.Agency is warning of more heavy rain tonight, which could cause
:01:17. > :01:21.further flooding. 170 flood warnings are in force across
:01:21. > :01:24.England, Scotland and Wales. Transport has been disrupted after
:01:24. > :01:34.railway lines were blocked and there have been delays on the roads,
:01:34. > :01:37.too. On that in a moment. Though to the South West of England now,
:01:37. > :01:41.where it is the second flooding this month.
:01:41. > :01:45.They are tough enough to carry trains, but buckled under the sheer
:01:45. > :01:50.strength of this water. The rocks that support these railways
:01:50. > :01:53.sleepers simply swept away in its path. This main route disappearing
:01:53. > :01:59.under the swollen river X and cutting off much of the South West
:01:59. > :02:02.of England. As soon as the water stops flowing, it will take
:02:02. > :02:06.engineers 48 hours to replace that track and get his main line from
:02:06. > :02:10.Paddington to Plymouth back up and running. At the moment there is
:02:10. > :02:14.nothing they can do and the job now is to stop that water flowing down
:02:14. > :02:18.the track. And mainly to stop it reaching that road building behind
:02:18. > :02:24.the bridge in the background. That is where the signalling his house.
:02:24. > :02:28.If that floods, the line could be out for up to three weeks.
:02:28. > :02:33.Rescue workers used booms, giant bags that fill with water, to
:02:33. > :02:36.divert the river back to its natural path. As the water slowly
:02:37. > :02:43.lost its strength, it became clear this major route would be out of
:02:43. > :02:47.action until after Christmas. water has come down from the drains
:02:47. > :02:51.into the kitchen. David owns the Chinese restaurant next door.
:02:51. > :02:56.Instead of serving Christmas parties, he is watching beer
:02:56. > :03:04.bottles bobbing on his dining room floor. We have lost a lot of trade
:03:04. > :03:10.but also the insurance does not cover it because of the flood plain.
:03:10. > :03:13.In the South West of Scotland, the weather caused scenes of chaos. In
:03:13. > :03:18.Aberdeenshire, the river burst its banks and rescue teams were helping
:03:18. > :03:25.people flooded from their homes. This is just complete devastation
:03:25. > :03:29.and the people are traumatised now, traumatised. In South Wales, the
:03:29. > :03:38.heavy rain fell on already soaking ground. This money landslide heavy
:03:38. > :03:42.enough to smash through a back door. -- miniature landslide. Homes were
:03:42. > :03:45.evacuated, vehicles abandoned, with the flood water pushing into
:03:45. > :03:48.people's houses just two days before Christmas. You have lost
:03:48. > :03:56.your home and all of your belongings and you are never going
:03:56. > :04:00.to replace some of the Bibles that you had. -- valuables. Overnight in
:04:00. > :04:03.North Devon, police helicopter found a person in floodwater on
:04:03. > :04:08.their night-vision camera. The woman had been swept from her car
:04:08. > :04:18.and was later rescued clinging to a tree. Her husband had been with her
:04:18. > :04:22.and saw the fast-flowing current striker downstream. -- drag her
:04:22. > :04:29.down stream. I thought I would never see her again. Shaken up, but
:04:29. > :04:36.before I came down here, we are glad to be alive. Seen from above,
:04:36. > :04:39.it is clear just how much water has nowhere to go. For homeowners and
:04:39. > :04:46.emergency services alike, it is simply a nervous wait for more rain
:04:46. > :04:52.tonight. The flooding has caused huge
:04:52. > :04:56.disruption to those hoping to travel on one of the biggest
:04:56. > :05:01.weekends of the year. Many railway routes will not be running as
:05:01. > :05:05.normal until after Christmas. Passengers waiting at London's
:05:05. > :05:09.Paddington station. For those hoping to travel to the West
:05:09. > :05:15.Country, the signs warned that might take longer than planned. The
:05:16. > :05:19.trains have been leaving on time but they have not been there was
:05:19. > :05:25.one point went to the left as far as you could see it was just
:05:25. > :05:28.flooding. It looked like a train going through an ocean. I am going
:05:28. > :05:32.to go today rather than waiting to see if it is better tomorrow
:05:32. > :05:36.because nobody wants to travel on Christmas Eve if they can help it.
:05:36. > :05:42.I knew it would be difficult so while out some extra time this end.
:05:42. > :05:48.Just go with the flow. -- so I allowed some extra time.
:05:48. > :05:53.services have been bridging the gap but that has meant delays. What can
:05:53. > :05:57.you do? We thought we were going to catch a coach but now the trains
:05:57. > :06:01.seem to be back on. We don't know what we are doing so it is
:06:01. > :06:06.confusing. The weather has caused problems for drivers, too. This was
:06:06. > :06:11.a section of the A90 in Aberdeenshire. Minor roads in some
:06:11. > :06:15.areas have become impassable. This video shows the surface of one road
:06:15. > :06:20.in Somerset torn apart by flooding. More overnight rain could bring
:06:20. > :06:29.further disruption. The two are over rain is already saturated so
:06:29. > :06:34.rainfall will cause problems. -- because of the rain, the ground is
:06:34. > :06:38.already saturated. Tomorrow could prove to be challenging for
:06:38. > :06:42.travellers with long journeys still ahead of them.
:06:42. > :06:48.Our correspondent is in the village of Saltford in Somerset tonight.
:06:48. > :06:53.More rain on the way. What kind of impact is it likely to have? Well,
:06:53. > :07:01.a lot of people across a wide area are understandably anxious about
:07:01. > :07:08.the next few days and the Christmas holidays. Take this river, the
:07:08. > :07:13.River Avon, fill to the brim once again. People here have been hit
:07:13. > :07:16.twice in the last couple of weeks. Could it possibly happen again?
:07:16. > :07:21.Sadly the answer is that there will be more flooding somewhere in the
:07:21. > :07:25.country over the next few days. The Environment Agency is saying
:07:25. > :07:29.tonight that more rain is coming in, and particularly vulnerable places
:07:29. > :07:33.in Cornwall and North Devon, that have had a hammering over the last
:07:34. > :07:37.few days, could well get a hammering again tonight and into
:07:37. > :07:44.Christmas Day itself. One Environment Agency officer said to
:07:44. > :07:47.me that the whole country is so saturated, so soaking wet, that
:07:47. > :07:53.there is nowhere for the water to go. Until we get a sustained dry
:07:53. > :07:58.period, this is going to become quite normal. This is not good news
:07:58. > :08:03.for the next few days. That is it from here for now. We will have a
:08:03. > :08:07.weather update after this bulletin. Thank you.
:08:07. > :08:17.You can keep fully up to date on the flooding by visiting our
:08:17. > :08:21.
:08:21. > :08:25.website. And more specifically on In other news, the Health Secretary
:08:25. > :08:29.Jeremy Hunt says he is disgusted and appalled by the accounts of
:08:29. > :08:32.failures of care at Worcestershire Acute Hospital Trust. The families
:08:32. > :08:40.of 38 people have taken legal action after claims that patients
:08:40. > :08:45.were left starving, dehydrated and unwashed. The trust has apologised
:08:45. > :08:49.to families and agreed to pay compensation.
:08:49. > :08:53.Thirsty but their drinks were left out of reach. Not washed for 11
:08:53. > :08:58.weeks. Left to sit in their own excrement and in one case allowed
:08:59. > :09:01.to starve to death. These are just some of the many damning claims
:09:01. > :09:05.about standards at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch in
:09:05. > :09:12.Worcestershire. After legal action, the hospital now agrees that care
:09:12. > :09:16.was not good enough. 78 year-old David died in September, 2010,
:09:16. > :09:20.after suffering Alzheimer's. His daughter believes he was neglected
:09:20. > :09:27.by staff. Although she did not complain at the time she now wishes
:09:27. > :09:31.that she had. I bitterly regret not complaining about it. At the time,
:09:31. > :09:35.because there was so much going on, and he had had a lot of care when
:09:35. > :09:40.he came out of hospital, we did not actually make an official complaint
:09:40. > :09:50.which I regret. I feel like I let him down. In a statement, Jeremy
:09:50. > :09:57.
:09:57. > :10:02.Last month, the trust wrote to the families and patients involved and
:10:02. > :10:07.apologised for the lack of care. They also send them around �10,000
:10:07. > :10:13.each in compensation. But managers have not admitted any legal
:10:13. > :10:20.liability. The hospital says it has now turned things around. As a
:10:20. > :10:24.consequence of rigorous clinical governance, changes have been made
:10:24. > :10:27.to make sure patient care is excellent which has resulted in a
:10:27. > :10:33.trust producing a standard of the tour mortality index below the
:10:33. > :10:37.national average. -- Hospital mortality index. Hospital is also
:10:37. > :10:41.looking at ways for patients to give immediate feedback about the
:10:41. > :10:47.care they are receiving, which could avert the neglect that took
:10:47. > :10:56.place at the Alexandra Hospital. Serie activists say that 90 people
:10:56. > :11:05.were killed today in an air strike on a bakery in Hama. -- Syrian
:11:05. > :11:10.activists. Halfaya was recently seized by the rebels. Women and
:11:10. > :11:18.children are among the dead. Bernard Hogan-Howe has said there
:11:18. > :11:21.will be a ruthless search for the chief in the investigation into the
:11:21. > :11:28.accusations that Andrew Mitchell called police when plebs. He denies
:11:28. > :11:33.that and says he was the victim of a smear campaign. Bring us up to
:11:33. > :11:38.date with the developments today. You might have thought that back in
:11:39. > :11:43.September an argument over whether a Government minister could take
:11:43. > :11:47.his bike through the front gates was quite trivial. But tonight it
:11:47. > :11:51.is so serious that the top cop, Bernard Hogan-Howe, broke into his
:11:51. > :11:55.Christmas break for 24 hours to ensure that there would be a
:11:55. > :11:59.relentless search for truth about the incident. He has been verbally
:11:59. > :12:03.battered by some Conservative politicians. First of all Andrew
:12:03. > :12:09.Mitchell himself. He said that the allegation that he called police at
:12:09. > :12:14.Downing Street pleb was concocted to injure the Tory party and
:12:14. > :12:18.destroy his career. And then his colleagues said there was need to
:12:18. > :12:24.cut out the cancer of corruption at the police and David Davis wondered
:12:24. > :12:26.if there had been a conspiracy. Despite the sound and fury, the
:12:26. > :12:30.official police records says that Andrew Mitchell called police
:12:30. > :12:34.officers plebs in September. And on the other side of this, he says
:12:34. > :12:40.quite clearly that he did not. But there has been no conclusive proof
:12:41. > :12:45.either way. Thank you.
:12:45. > :12:48.Between 800,000 up to 1 million children in Iraq have lost one or
:12:48. > :12:53.both of their parents according to research by UNICEF and the
:12:53. > :13:01.Government in Baghdad. It is a huge problem in a country with no child
:13:01. > :13:05.protection laws and only a fraction of the support services needed.
:13:05. > :13:08.Brothers Mustafa and Murtada are being cared for in a private
:13:08. > :13:11.orphanage. They lost their mother in a shoot-out in the streets.
:13:11. > :13:18.Their father disappeared during the height of the sectarian wars in
:13:18. > :13:22.Iraq. At least they have each other. Safe, withdrawn 12 year-old has no
:13:22. > :13:30.one. His parents were both killed in a bomb in 2005 which also
:13:30. > :13:35.injured him. I don't remember them, he told me. I was small. A man came
:13:35. > :13:41.and took me away. Afterwards he explained what had happened to them.
:13:41. > :13:45.There is no life when you have lost your mother and father. Every
:13:45. > :13:51.single one of these boys has a harrowing story. The sheer number
:13:51. > :13:54.of orphans has created a social crisis. Some fear it could
:13:54. > :13:59.exacerbate the security problems in Iraq. If they are not properly
:13:59. > :14:03.looked after, they could be recruited by terrorists. These
:14:03. > :14:07.orphans will be exploited and will be like bombs, threat to the Iraqi
:14:07. > :14:17.security in the future. We came to see what life is like in a state
:14:17. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:22.run orphanage. And this is what we found. This is a dilapidated,
:14:22. > :14:27.unloved looking place. The 52 children here are properly clothed
:14:27. > :14:31.and fed, but one staff member told us this orphanage was better
:14:31. > :14:37.resourced in the days of Saddam Hussein. He felt like a bird in a
:14:37. > :14:43.cage. Mustafa is the oldest boy in the orphanage and when he was 11
:14:43. > :14:46.both of his parents were killed. Every day I sit and cry. Maybe in
:14:47. > :14:51.the future we will be involved in crimes because there is nothing but
:14:51. > :14:56.for us. A senior official told that he was doing what he could but the
:14:56. > :15:01.orphans of Iraq are not seen as a political priority. The money
:15:01. > :15:04.allocated formerly on that issue is very limited. I want to change and
:15:04. > :15:09.reform the laws so that I can provide better services and welfare
:15:09. > :15:13.for the children of this country. The needs of fast. With Barnes and
:15:13. > :15:19.assassinations still happening here every day, the number of orphans
:15:19. > :15:22.keeps growing. -- bombs and assassinations.
:15:22. > :15:27.The Queen missed the church service at Sandringham this morning because
:15:27. > :15:31.she is suffering from a cold. A spokesperson said that she was
:15:31. > :15:35.recovering and they're expecting business as usual next week.
:15:35. > :15:39.The Hillsborough tribute single topped the charts tonight to become
:15:39. > :15:43.the 2012 Christmas number one. Justice Collective's version of He
:15:43. > :15:46.Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother sold more than a quarter of a million
:15:46. > :15:52.copies, outselling the debut single of the winner of The X Factor,
:15:52. > :15:56.James Arthur. Ahead of this evening's highly
:15:56. > :16:00.anticipated announcement, there were tense faces inside and outside
:16:00. > :16:03.the Radio One studio. This week had been seen as a battle between the
:16:03. > :16:08.Justice Collective and James Arthur, the winner of The X Factor this
:16:08. > :16:18.year. But in the end, Justice Collective won by more than 45,000
:16:18. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:24.copies. 2012 your Christmas number one is the Justice Collective!
:16:24. > :16:28.# With many a winding turn. The Hillsborough tribute single, a
:16:28. > :16:38.reworking of The Hollies's He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother Features 20
:16:38. > :16:42.different artists. Including Sir Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams.
:16:42. > :16:45.The money it raises will be used to provide legal support for the
:16:45. > :16:49.families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. Moments
:16:49. > :16:53.after learning they had achieved the Christmas number one, members
:16:53. > :16:58.of the group including Holly Johnson gave their reaction. It is
:16:58. > :17:02.really exciting, actually. I am just so happy for the families. It
:17:02. > :17:08.shows a wave of love and support for them and their plight. More
:17:08. > :17:12.than for us. You know, people care. It is not a novelty record. It is
:17:12. > :17:17.not a contestant from The X Factor. It is a really important cause and
:17:17. > :17:20.this could have happened to anybody, any teenager, any family. And just
:17:20. > :17:25.to know that the British public feel for the families and they are
:17:25. > :17:28.right behind them is so important. Earlier this week a new police
:17:28. > :17:31.investigation was announced in to Hillsborough and there will also be
:17:31. > :17:36.inquests into the deaths of the 96 Liverpool football fans who died as
:17:36. > :17:41.a result of the disaster. Beating the No. 1 spot today is not just
:17:41. > :17:44.about the money the single will bring in. It has also been
:17:44. > :17:48.invaluable in helping maintain public awareness of what the
:17:48. > :17:52.families have called their continuing fight for justice.