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The worst storm to hit England and Wales in years is already affecting | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
parts of the South West. The Met Office says it will bring | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
hurricane force winds that could bring down trees and cause major | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
structural damage. Rail,ferry and air services will be | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
disrupted. We'll have the very latest on the storm's progress. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight, Lou Reed, the influential singer, songwriter and | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
guitarist, has died. A series of co-ordinated bombings in | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Baghdad leaves 50 people dead and many others wounded. | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
And victory for Sebastian Vettel in India sees the German driver crowned | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
Formula One world champion. Good evening. The worst storm to hit | :00:50. | :01:16. | |
the country in years is already affecting parts of Britain. Southern | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
England, South Wales, parts of the Midlands and East Anglia will be | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
affected overnight. Torrential rain and winds of up to 80 miles per hour | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
have been forecast tonight and into tomorrow morning. The Met Office has | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
warned there could be flooding, with the strong winds bringing down trees | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
and causing structural damage. Some rush-hour rail services have already | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
been cancelled, while people are being advised to delay their | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
journeys on the roads. And Heathrow Airport says throughout tomorrow it | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
will be scaling back flights. Other airports have also been affected. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
We'll have more on all the transport implications in a moment, but first, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
let's go live to Cardiff Bay, one of the places where the storm is | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
expected to cause major problems and join our correspondent Hywel | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Griffith. The worst of the weather is due to | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
hit here at around one end, and then it will start working its way | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
eastwards across southern Britain, testing all the plans put in place | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
by authorities over the last few days. -- at one end. However, sadly, | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
this afternoon the emergency services were already called into | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
action at the beginning of what would be a very challenging 24 | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
hours. Searching in severe conditions. A | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
lifeboat team looking for 14-year-old -- a 14-year-old boy | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
last scenes and off the coast this afternoon. High winds and heavy rain | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
have already hit southern Britain, leaving their mark. South Devon. Too | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
much wind for this turbine. In London, a car crushed by an uprooted | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
tree. In Shawlands firms are already bracing themselves for a deluge of | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
claims. -- insureds firms. Travel disruption is already guaranteed for | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
the morning. Many early trains have been cancelled. The morning commute | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
will have to wait. We don't expect to run any trains before 8am | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
tomorrow and that is because we need to check the route is clear and | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
clear any trees that have fallen across the route. Those | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
cancellations could spread eastwards with the storm. And keep coming | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
through the day. This will impact up to Birmingham, Nottingham and the | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Midlands. If we get through this in the morning and restore the service | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
in the afternoon and are able to start a good service on Tuesday, in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the circumstances, I will be pretty pleased. Councils are also gearing | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
up for the gathering storm. Thousands of sandbags are on | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
stand-by in case of floods. They have been told to prepare for the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
biggest operation in a decade. This is the most prepared we have been | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
for the last ten years. We have everything ready. We have sandbags | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
on the vehicles. We have volunteers. They are ready to clean up. We are | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
prepared but hopefully it doesn't hit us. Out over the Atlantic, the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Saint Jude storm is creeping closer. Named after the patron saint of lost | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
causes, it is causing real concern. I'm not going out tomorrow, that is | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
all I have got to say. Reading the reports, it is going to be pretty | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
bleak. Lock the garage doors. That is all we can do at the moment. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
There are some who can relish these conditions, but foremost, now is the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
time to plan for a bumpy night ahead. -- for most. | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
For those who want to prepare, the advice is to make sure everything is | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
secure in your garden. On a night like this, the best advice is to | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
stay indoors overnight and not go out to make any unnecessary | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
journeys. Let's get more on all the possible | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
travel implications for tomorrow morning's rush hour and join Jon | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Brain, who's at Waterloo Station in London. Jon, what are we expecting? | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
I think there could be quite a few empty desks at workplaces across the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
country in the morning. Many commuter services look like they are | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
going to be completely wiped out. Network Rail will be sending teams | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
out first thing to check for any overnight damage and it is only when | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
those areas declared safe that passenger trains will be able to go | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
through. But already, three companies have advised passengers | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
not to travel at all tomorrow. Several others say they will not | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
start any services before at least 9am. For people hoping escape the | :05:50. | :06:02. | |
storm altogether by flying out, there are also potential problems. | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Heathrow Airport has asked all airlines to cut their schedules by | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
20%, so already there have been dozens of cancellations. But you | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
should check with your airline before setting out on your journey. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Thank you. And for the latest on the weather | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
and those services that may be affected, have a look at the BBC | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
News website. There'll of course be updates on BBC local radio as well. | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
Lou Reed, the influential singer, songwriter and guitarist who helped | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
shape nearly half a century of rock music, has died at the age of 71. He | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
co-founded the '60s cult group The Velvet Underground and later | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
established a successful solo career. His best-known hits included | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Perfect Day and Walk On The Wild Side. Lizo Mzimba looks back at his | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
life. # I'm waiting for my man... | :06:50. | :07:07. | |
He was a musician and songwriter whose work influenced generations. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
He originally helped establish The Velvet Underground in the 1960s. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Their complex yet accessible lyrics did not produce much in the way of | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
commercial success but in musical terms it was ground-breaking. | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
Credited with being instrumental in the development of punk and the | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
alternative rock scene of the 1970s. He and the band also came to the | :07:29. | :07:40. | |
attention of anti-war hole, who helped produce their first album, | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
and throughout his career, he paid tribute to his contribution. If it | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
hadn't been for Andy, I wouldn't have had the chance to do anything. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
So why are everything to anti-war hole. Thank you. -- I owe everything | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
to Andy. After The Velvet Underground went their separate | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
ways, Lou Reed embarked on a solo career. His 1972 album Transformer | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
produced by David Bowie, a huge admirer, produced his top 20 hit | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
Walk On The Wild Side. It's controversial subject matter brought | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
him a new wave of fans, and although his subsequent albums were far more | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
experimental, one was an hour of electronic feedback, you always said | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
the most important thing was to try to move people. -- he said. For me, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
any kind of good song stimulates emotion. What are the thing is there | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
that makes people get up and dance? -- what other thing? I mean, you | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
can't hold it in your hand. It is sound. In the UK, his only number | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
one came when he and a range of other artists performed Perfect Day | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
for a BBC Provo released for Children in Need. -- promotional | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
video. But he will be remembered not for chart success but as one of the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
most influential musicians for 40 years. Few did more to help shape | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
the history of music. Lou Reed, who's died at the age of | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
71. The chairman of the Conservative | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
Party says the BBC could have its licence fee cut. Grant Shapps says | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
the corporation needs to rebuild public trust and become more | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
transparent. In a statement, the BBC says transparency was key and so was | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
freedom from political pressure. The BBC's Royal Charter is due for | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
renewal in 2016. Scientists say they've uncovered 11 | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
new genes which are linked to Alzheimer's disease, significantly | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
increasing understanding of the most common cause of dementia. After a | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
study of 10,000 people in 15 countries, the research has been | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
published in the journal Nature Genetics. Alzheimer's affects nearly | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
half a million people in the UK. A wave of car bombings in Iraq has | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
killed more than 50 people and wounded several others. There were | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
11 explosions in the capital Baghdad in less than an hour. Sectarian | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims is at its worst level in six | :10:31. | :10:31. | |
years. Carnage on the streets of Baghdad. | :10:32. | :10:48. | |
They structuring morning rush hour in a series of co-ordinated blasts. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Busy streets, markets, residential areas, all were targeted. Amongst | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
those killed in the attacks were people queueing to collect their | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
wages. TRANSLATION: They cannot drive | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
through this area so how can a car bomb into here and go off? It is a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
catastrophe! What happened here today is a catastrophe. A child, | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
woman and father, three members of the same family, have been killed. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
Today's bombs targeted mainly Shia areas. It is the latest of sectarian | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
violence in a country torn apart by conflict between militant groups. In | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
recent months, the government has toughened security measures. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Checkpoints that divide Baghdad streets have been strengthened. Dogs | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
now patrol the areas. There is no letup in violence despite new | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
security measures introduced by the government in recent months. In the | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
number of attacks has reached the highest level since the peak of the | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Sunni and Shia clashes almost six years ago. Today's attacks have | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
heightened fears among the Iraqi people that their country is sliding | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
back towards another lovely sectarian conflict. -- bloody | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
conflict. Syria has met an initial deadline to | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
hand over detailed plans to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Inspectors have had until today to check all 23 sites declared by the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
Syrian government. By the middle of next year, the country's chemical | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
weapons arsenal must be destroyed. The mother of the young | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl found in a Roma camp in Greece has denied | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
that she sold her daughter. Speaking to the BBC, Sasha Ruseva says she | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
gave Maria away and didn't take any money. She was speaking to our | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
correspondent Steve Rosenberg in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
This report contains flash photography. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
They had gone to ground. But today, Sasha and her husband made a bizarre | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
reappearance. We found them in a bog area and television studio with some | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
of their children. -- all dairy and television studio. -- bog Aryan. The | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
noise was too much for one to bear. TRANSLATION: I want Maria! That is | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
all I want now! I want her back from Greece! The mother argued she was no | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
criminal and said she regretted she had given away her daughter Maria. | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
After the show, Sasha spoke to us. Did you sell your child? | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
TRANSLATION: I didn't receive any money. If had I would have bought | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
something because we don't have anything. I've gave the girl to a | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
woman who doesn't have any children. It was Greek police who found Maria | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
and arrested the couple who had been raising her. The child is now being | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
cared for by a children's charity. If Maria came home, what would you | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
say to her? TRANSLATION: If she came back my | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
would tell her the truth. I was taking care of your brothers and | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
sisters. And the Lady I left you with said she would take good care | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
of you. What happened in the studio this afternoon was an extraordinary | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
trial by television. But with prosecutors already having launched | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
from preliminary proceedings, the parents could soon face more | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
questions, this time in a court of law. Today, Sasha was a TV star. The | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
centre of attention. But she knows that she and her husband could be | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
arrested for what they did to one of their children. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
At least 16 women in Saudi Arabia have received fines for driving in | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
defiance of the country's ban on women getting behind the wheel. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Activists say more than 60 women took part in the protests yesterday, | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
with dozens of videos being posted online. | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
Now with all today's sport, here's Karthi at the BBC Sport Centre. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Good evening. We start with the Berkeley 's Premier League and Match | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Of The Day and sports league follow us, so pop out of the room if you do | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
not want to know the results. Fernando Torres scored a 90th minute | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
winner after a mix-up with Manchester city. Chelsea move up to | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
second in the table. After playing in that match, Manchester city's | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
Yaya Toure rate met with the head of beef's antiracism task force. The | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
two had a good conversation. -- FIFA. Sunderland beat Newcastle | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
thanks to a late goal in the Derby. It lifts them off the bottom of the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
table. Swansea and West Ham played out a goalless draw while Tottenham | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
beat whole 1-0. -- beat Hull. Sebastian Vettel described it as one | :16:05. | :16:24. | |
of the best days of his life. The 26-year-old won the Indian Grand | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Prix to claim for Formula One championship and take a special | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
place in the sports history books. Who can blame Sebastian Vettel for | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
acting like a boy racer after clinching his fourth title in a row. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
It was time to celebrate! Victory had was been on the cards in India. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
He started from pole and although he came under pressure from the off, he | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
kept the lead. The only man who could stop him was Fernando Alonso. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
But the Spaniard was doomed from the start. He lost part of his front | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
wing and then bumped into Jenson Button like a fairground dodgem | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
car. He slipped out of the points, meaning Vettel didn't even have to | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
finish to become champion. But the German wanted to win it in style | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
after his first pit stop saw him drop down the order. He charged his | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
Red Bull back of the field, moving up to second with just a third of | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
the race gone. After the last round of pit stops, Vettel inherited the | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
field and went on to win by almost 30 seconds. Fantastic! You are a | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
four times world champion! Iowa's try to think back, think back where | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
you started and Formula One was so far away. He is only the third man | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
to win four championships in a row but you get the sense he won't stop | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
until he becomes the most successful driver the sport has ever seen. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
New Zealand made a successful start to their campaign of Rugby League | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
beating Samoa 40-24. They scored a hat-trick. Elsewhere, France beat | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
Papa New Guinea 9-8. Serena Williams has become the first | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
female tennis player to win more than ten 10 million -- $10 million | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
in a year. That is all the sport. That's all from me. Jay Wyne will | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
have the latest update on the storm shortly, but first on BBC One, it's | :18:34. | :18:35. |