:00:23. > :00:30.More wind and rain is forecast for the UK.
:00:31. > :00:33.Joy for Australia as they crushed England to seal a five - zero Ashes
:00:34. > :00:55.whitewash. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister
:00:56. > :01:01.has promised to protect state pensions if the Conservatives win
:01:02. > :01:04.the next election. David Cameron continued to bowl the so-called
:01:05. > :01:14.triple lock which means pensions continue to rise in line with
:01:15. > :01:24.prices, wages, or two wonder half -- 2.5%. More pennies in the pension
:01:25. > :01:28.pot, as the Prime Minister Mrs, with his renewal of the existing policy
:01:29. > :01:33.on the state pension if the Conservatives win then general
:01:34. > :01:36.election. The so-called triple lock guarantees the state pension will
:01:37. > :01:45.rise in line with whichever is highest, wages, prices, or 2.5%. I
:01:46. > :01:49.want people when they reach retirement to know they can have
:01:50. > :01:53.dignity in their old age. People who have worked hard, provided for their
:01:54. > :01:59.families, they should then know that they will get a decent state pension
:02:00. > :02:03.and they don't have to worry about it lagging behind prices. This is an
:02:04. > :02:07.idea that has to be paid for by those who are working and not
:02:08. > :02:13.everybody thinks it is reasonable to ask them to pay more. It seems
:02:14. > :02:21.extremely unfair on young people who face a terrific amount of high costs
:02:22. > :02:22.and will be paying for these higher pensions. It also seems
:02:23. > :02:29.unaffordable. Richer or poorer, the pensioners are
:02:30. > :02:33.the age group most likely to vote. The Conservatives see this is the
:02:34. > :02:41.first plank of their election manifesto. Labour originally
:02:42. > :02:53.supported the idea but will be under pressure to keep it if they win the
:02:54. > :03:24.next election. The trimming back of pensioner benefits has not been
:03:25. > :03:27.ruled out. More heavy rain and strong winds are
:03:28. > :03:31.forecast for all areas of the UK today. The Met Office says the rain
:03:32. > :03:36.will fall on ground already saturated, and with rivers already
:03:37. > :03:40.swollen, more flooding is likely. 72 flood warnings are in place across
:03:41. > :03:42.England and Wales - most of them in southern England and ten in
:03:43. > :03:45.Scotland. And in Northern Ireland, the risk of flooding is highest
:03:46. > :03:48.tomorrow. Chris Eakin is in Malmsbury in Wiltshire. It is about
:03:49. > :03:52.looking to see how the rainfall affects river levels. If you take
:03:53. > :03:56.for example where I am, on the upper reaches of the River Avon which ends
:03:57. > :04:01.at Bristol, the water level has dropped overnight because there was
:04:02. > :04:05.a bit of respite, but it will react extremely quickly to the new rain
:04:06. > :04:11.which falls this afternoon, and that is why there is still a flood
:04:12. > :04:15.warning here, one of 72 that you mentioned in England and Wales.
:04:16. > :04:19.There is one in Sunderland in the north-east as well so this is not
:04:20. > :04:28.just about the South of England. Northern Ireland are getting a lot
:04:29. > :04:40.of rain today, and then as we go into next week we will see winds and
:04:41. > :04:53.high tides. For those affected by localised flooding, today is a
:04:54. > :04:56.waiting game again. The US Secretary of State, John
:04:57. > :04:59.Kerry, says America is not planning to send troops back to Iraq despite
:05:00. > :05:03.al Qaeda-linked militants seizing control of the key city of Fallujah.
:05:04. > :05:06.Mr Kerry promised to help fight the militants, but said he was confident
:05:07. > :05:08.the Iraqi government would win. It comes after Iraqi officials
:05:09. > :05:13.acknowledged losing control of the city, which is 50 miles west of
:05:14. > :05:21.Baghdad. Australia have crushed England
:05:22. > :05:25.five-nil in the Ashes. In front of a packed ground in Sydney, they bowled
:05:26. > :05:28.out England cheaply again to win the final Test by 281 runs. It's only
:05:29. > :05:32.the third series whitewash in the 130 year history of the contest -
:05:33. > :05:34.all of them have been Australian triumphs. From Sydney, our chief
:05:35. > :05:52.Sports Correspondent Dan Roan reports. The urn had returned, the
:05:53. > :05:56.whitewash was complete. Earlier Australia had compounded England's
:05:57. > :06:01.agony. In the first innings Alastair Cook had gone second ball, today he
:06:02. > :06:06.lasted until the second over. We knew what would happen next. They
:06:07. > :06:09.may have been tempted to blame their tools, but the senior batsmen know
:06:10. > :06:23.they have not been good enough here, Kevin -- Kevin Pietersen failing and
:06:24. > :06:29.other batsmen then came and went in the blink of an eye. The only two
:06:30. > :06:34.Englishman who leave here with them reputations intact, Ben Stokes and
:06:35. > :06:42.Stuart Broad did at least go down with their bats swinging, but the
:06:43. > :06:46.rout was complete. England losing by 281 runs, losing 5-0 and losing
:06:47. > :06:53.perhaps like they have never lost before. We have obviously let the
:06:54. > :06:57.supporters down because we have not played very well and the results
:06:58. > :07:01.suggest that. The players have a feeling they have let themselves
:07:02. > :07:06.down because we have not performed. It is only Stuart Broad and Ben
:07:07. > :07:12.Stokes who have delivered close to their potential. Everyone else will
:07:13. > :07:17.be hurting. This has arguably been England's worst tour other, and the
:07:18. > :07:22.team will come under scrutiny. The inquest will now begin, but with
:07:23. > :07:32.another Ashes series as soon as next year, answers are needed fast.
:07:33. > :07:35.A massive rise in cash machine fraud is being fuelled by international
:07:36. > :07:37.criminals targeting the UK, according to an undercover
:07:38. > :07:39.investigation by the BBC's Inside Out programme. It's discovered
:07:40. > :07:42.evidence that sophisticated equipment is being sold to thieves
:07:43. > :07:48.so they can steal money from people's bank accounts. Mary Rhodes
:07:49. > :07:51.reports. Toni Nicholls knows how it feels to become a cashpoint victim.
:07:52. > :07:57.She had ?700 taken from her account at this supermarket cashpoint. I was
:07:58. > :08:08.really upset, crying, thinking I had lost this money. Until then, there
:08:09. > :08:11.was nothing suspicious. The thieves trapped her card and watched enter
:08:12. > :08:17.her PIN, when she walked away, they withdrew her card and all her cash.
:08:18. > :08:22.Other thieves are more sophisticated, like these ones
:08:23. > :08:25.caught on CCTV. They are fitting a false front to this cashpoint with a
:08:26. > :08:35.special device to read the information from cash cards. They
:08:36. > :08:43.have also fitted a camera to record PIN numbers. They are not the only
:08:44. > :08:47.ones active. This man, who says he is from America, is boasting about
:08:48. > :08:51.the equipment he claims he's sold to thieves in the Midlands. We posed as
:08:52. > :08:56.potential buyers to get him to talk. He said for $1000 he would supply
:08:57. > :09:03.everything we needed. The UK is very good. It has always been a good
:09:04. > :09:07.hotspot. You guys deal with pounds, that is why the Russians and
:09:08. > :09:15.Bulgarians tried to go there. The money there is extremely good. We
:09:16. > :09:18.discovered other websites offering the same type of equipment. Fraud
:09:19. > :09:24.investigators have promised to act on our findings. This is an area
:09:25. > :09:35.where there are increases and we are doing all we can to reverse that
:09:36. > :09:39.trend. We will add this to the list of cases we take up on behalf of
:09:40. > :09:45.people and try to get the people behind it. You can see more on that
:09:46. > :09:54.story on Inside Out in the West Midlands tomorrow night at 7:30pm.
:09:55. > :10:00.One of football's all time greats, the Portugal and Benfica striker
:10:01. > :10:05.Eusebio, has died aged 71. He played 64 times for his country, scoring 41
:10:06. > :10:14.goals, and was the top scorer in the 1966 World Cup. Patrick Gearey looks
:10:15. > :10:24.back at his meteoric career. Eusebio... Oh, my word! The pictures
:10:25. > :10:29.might be dated, the technique can still be admired. 1966 might be
:10:30. > :10:35.remembered as the year England won the World Cup, but Eusebio was the
:10:36. > :10:39.star of the tournament. He had no choice but to represent Portugal and
:10:40. > :10:46.drove the side forward, often appearing to win matches on his own.
:10:47. > :10:51.In the quarterfinal in 1966 Portugal were trailing, but Eusebio changed
:10:52. > :11:07.everything. Defeat turning to victory by one man. In all, Eusebio
:11:08. > :11:15.scored 44 goals for Portugal. He had come to prominence scoring twice for
:11:16. > :11:19.Benfica in 1962. He was to become a personal -- prolific goal-scorer for
:11:20. > :11:23.the club and defenders knew they had to stop him somehow. Nobby Stiles
:11:24. > :11:28.here with a typically robust attempt. Eusebio was rarely
:11:29. > :11:37.ruffled, his engaging demeanour was well-known and well used by
:11:38. > :11:51.Portugal. Eusebio Da Silva Ferreira, a and national icon. That
:11:52. > :12:02.is all from me. The next news is on BBC One at 5:35pm. Goodbye for now.
:12:03. > :12:07.There are signs that over the week ahead, this would be some
:12:08. > :12:10.improvement in the weather. But it has certainly been a very stormy
:12:11. > :12:11.spell for all of