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Hello, good evening. Forecaster are warning of more bad weather ahead as | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
homeowners face another night without power. Round 3,000 homes | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
across the UK remain without electricity tonight, power | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
distributors have faced criticism for being too slow in reconnecting | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
households. Flood warnings are in place with heavy rain forecast for | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Monday. The Cabinet today held a meetle of COBRA to discuss the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
official response. -- meeting. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
It has been a miserable Christmas season for those pummelled by the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
worst of this winter weather. The rain lashed, the wind whipped and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
broken power lines plunged millions into darkness. Everything is going | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
to have to go. It is contaminated. Year in Yalding they have been | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
clearing up after flooding which went through the homes of Sue and | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
her neighbour. It will take weeks but the power is coming back on This | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
is the freeder room. There is one freezer here, look, full up to the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
top. Whichly have to throw away. It is heartbreaking. So things are | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
looking good for in weekend? I can't say with confidence that every | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
single individual will have power, but things are looking promising, we | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
hope we will get the majority of people on today, and there will be | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
some mop up work to do tomorrow. In other part there's is more work to | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
do. In Cumbria almost 1,000 homes are without power, along with | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
another 1500 in Wales. In Hampshire, too, some are | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
struggling with a lack of electricity, this family hasn't had | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
any running water since money as they use an electric pump We are in | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the dark literally, because if we, it is Saturday morning, if nothing | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
is done until Monday, we will be out of water. It could be tomorrow. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Businesses too have been badly affected. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
This hotel owner was flooded out on Christmas Eve. He is worried about | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
what the future holds. It is very depressing, Christmas Eve I felt | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
like breaking down and crying, to be honest. I didn't enjoy ringing up | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
everybody that booked for Christmas Day lunch on Christmas Eve and | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
telling them we couldn't do Christmas Day, hopefully I won't | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
have do the same for New Year. The water level is still high here, but | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
it is falling. And the good news is the lights are coming back on. But | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
with more torrential rain expected to sweep across the UK from Monday, | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
there is a real possibility of more flooding, and more power cuts next | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
week. Well, ass you can see, our political | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
correspondent joins us from Westminster. So what did come out of | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
that COBRA meeting? Well, today's meeting, the emergency meeting was | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
largely response to what David Cameron was told during his own | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
visit to the flooded areas in Kent. He was told what the concerns of | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
residents were, they were saying we can't get through to the local | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
council, or we have difficulty talking to a human. We are getting | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
recorded messages, difficulty getting through to power companies. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
So local councils will be told that funding will be available so they | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
can properly staff emergency helpline, over the New Year period | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
when further bad weather is expected and they can have staff available to | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
respond to residents. Power companies have been told they have | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to come up with a clear public time line for reconnecting customer, I | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
can't tell you what that will be. But the power companies have health | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
and safety concern, we will find out a clearer time scale of when people | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
will get their power back later. The man who is leading negotiations to | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
try to resolve issues concausing division in Northern Ireland has | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
called for a final agreement to be reached by Monday. Negotiations | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
broke up before Chris has but Richard Haass returned to Belfast | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
today to resume those discussions. Violence, a sign of instability, | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
borne out of decades of division, images all too often familiar with | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Northern Ireland, that most people don't want repeated. Trouble blamed | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
on contentious, unresolved issues like parade, how to deal with the | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
legacy of our past and flags. Hope you had a good holiday. Dr | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Richard Haass and Megan O'Sullivan are back in Belfast, to try and get | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
the five main parties to reach agreement. A final opportunity to | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
come together, on an agreement, that we believe could and would change | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
Northern Ireland for the better. The First Minister says they | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
although Dr Richard Haass has only signed up to the New Year Progress | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
has been made over the period of time that Dr Richard Haass and Megan | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
O'Sullivan have been here, but there is still a lot of work to be done, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
we need to look at the issues seriously, we don't need lecturing, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
we are wear of the importance of getting a resolution, we are trying | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
to do that. The Deputy First Minister says a no deal will be | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
embarrassing. I think this presents a greatest opportunity we will | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
possibly ever have, to move forward in a way that gives people | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
confidence that politicians have the ability to take difficult decisions. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Dr Richard Haass failed to get all party agreement before Christmas. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
That deadline has shifted to just before the New Year. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Politicians here today though, appeared slightly more optimistic | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
that a deal could be reached. A soldier who was killed in action | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
in Afghanistan before Christmas has been named by the Ministry of | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Defence. Captain Richard Holloway was 29 and served with the Royal | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Engineers he was from County Durham, he was shot during an operation east | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
of the capital Kabul. More than 70 passengers and crew | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
onboard a research ship in Antarctica are waiting to be rescued | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
after a Chinese vessel was forced to turn back, having been trapped since | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Christmas Eve the Russian ship is waiting for an Australian ship to | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
come, to her rescue. So close, but yet so far. The | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Chinese ice break e the Snow Dragon came within sight of the stranded | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
research vessel, but was forced to turn back after the ice proved just | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
too thick. The Russian registered ship had been | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
chartered by the Antarctic expedition to follow the route taken | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
by a famous Australian explorer one hundred years ago. After | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
experiencing the ultimate in a white Christmas, the 74 passengers and | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
crew onboard were undismayed. Hemmed in by the ice the scientists | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
continued with their experiments. Supplies are plentiful and the ship | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
itself is in no danger. The ship has been trapped by pack | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
ice since Christmas Eve. The Snow Dragon got to within several miles | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
of the stranded vessel before being forced back by the ice. Now hopes | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
rest on the arrival of a more powerful ice breaker, which should | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
reach the scene within 24 hours. Communicating via satellite from the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
deck of the ship, the expedition's leader said a change in the weather | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
could work in their favour. If the winds reverse and it does happen and | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
suddenly it comes from the west or the south, it would take the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
pressure off the sea ice packing in and open up, at the moment the | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
forecast isn't for that. If all else fails and the Snow Dragon has a | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
helicopter onboard, which could shuttle the stranded passengers and | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
crew of the ship to safety. England's cricketers have suffered | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
yet another battle collapse and look to be heading for a fourth straight | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
defeat in the Ashes. At the start of day three they had been odds on to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
win their first test of the series but it went badly wrong with a | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
catastrophic innings in which they lost their last five wickets for six | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
runs. English cricket may be under a cloud | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
but here prospects seemed brighter. In soaring temperatures a chance to | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
turn up the heat on their opponents. The morning after their best day of | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the series England needed just one more wicket to press home their | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
advantage, unfortunately for them, Australia added 40 run, the tourists | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
frustration at boiling point when Brad Haddin was finally caught for | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
65. England's lead was 51. Useful but now they had to build on it. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Alastair Cook setting about the task fluently. England were about to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
collapse, not once but twice. First Cook trapped by Mitchell Johnson and | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
a ghastly spell of three wickets for one run as panic set in. | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
England were left in crisis. Just as in the first innings everything | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
seemed to depend on Kevin Pietersen, this boundary giving England a lead | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
of 2 hundred. He was taking to chances, pulling away late when | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
distracted. A furious Johnson letting him know what he thought of | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
that as the bad blood that has marred this resurfaced. In a tour | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
full of batting hour or shows England were about to undoe | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
themselves. Spinner Nathan Lyon with five victims including Pete son as | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the tourists crumbled. Australia couldn't have made a better start in | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
chasing their 231 run target. England are in danger of going 4-0 | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
down. England have somehow turned a hugely promising position into a | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
perilous one, Australia still have work to do, but England may just | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
have squandered their best chance of avoiding a whitewash. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
We are back with the late news at | :10:32. | :10:32. |