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Good afternoon. Rain and strong winds are continuing to hit southern | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
parts of the UK with warnings of more floods and gales to come. The | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Met office has warned of wins heading up to 80 mph. The | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Environment Agency has issued almost 200 flood warnings and three severe | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
flood warnings, which means that is a danger to life. Our correspondent, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Chris Buckler, is at Looe in Cornwall. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
The days of wind and waves have not gone away. You can see behind me, it | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
is extremely blustery, and that is true across the south coast. It was | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
not as rough night as many people predicted, but they are still | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
waiting to see what today will bring. That is particularly true in | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
communities like King Santa. Just up the coast, they are still counting | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
the cost of days of damage. -- Kingsand. The battered beauty of | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
this coastline is being tested. It has found itself on the front | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
line of this latest wave of winter storms, and the Cornish village of | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Kingsand has spent most of this week being pummelled by the sheer force | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
of water. People have spent days worrying about their own homes, now | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
they are united in concerns for this century-old clocktower. The | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
building's base has been eroded by wave after wave. Everyone is | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
rallying together to do everything they can to make sure that we can | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
protect and preserve that for the community and people in the future. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
You are still facing this? You cannot stop the weather. Each high | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
tide brings concern and there were real fears about last night but | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
today there is relief that the weather was calmer than earlier in | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
the week when property here was badly damaged. It is not just | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
buildings showing the scars. I was with my son, Sam. A huge wave hit | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
the door, took the door off its hinges. It broke the frame and took | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
the both of us up the hallway on our backs. If you think of the waves out | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
there, look behind you, a huge wave. You're still worried? Marginally. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
This is a community still standing after swells and storms. But they | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
are braced for more. And you can see the strength of the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
ways today. There are, of course, concerns as well. You only have to | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
look at the Environment Agency's website to see the number of flood | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
warnings in place. There are also questions about the government's | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
response to this. As far as the Somerset levels go, the Prime | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Minister was written to by a farmers' leader, requesting money | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
for maintenance and dredging. At the time, the then floods minister | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
rejected that request for cash. That has now changed. The department | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
responsible says the situation has changed. As the weather continues, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
many will be asking if it has all come too late. Our correspondent | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
there. Three Metropolitan Police officers | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
have been arrested on suspicion of possessing and distributing | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
"extreme" pornography via mobile phones. The officers are from the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Diplomatic Protection Group, which guards foreign embassies and | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
controls access to New Scotland Yard and Downing Street. Our home affairs | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
correspondent, Danny Shaw, is in Central London. What more can you | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
tell squares Mike these are more unwelcome headlines for the | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Metropolitan Police, and for the Diplomatic Protection Group. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
That is the unit that has been at the centre of the controversy | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
involving the former Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell. The so-called | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Plebgate affair. Three police constables from the group were | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
arrested in December on suspicion of the possession and distribution of | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
extreme images via their mobile phones. Scotland Yard says these | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
images were not of children but were often extreme sexual nature. The | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
allegations are that they were in some way legal images. A file has | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to determine whether charges | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
will be brought. Another officer with the group has been interviewed | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
in connection with the enquiry. One of the officers involved had been | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
placed on restricted duties as a result of the investigation into the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Andrew Mitchell affair. It is called operation Alice. He is now | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
suspended. The others are on restricted duties. The Metropolitan | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Police is conducting its own internal investigation to establish | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
whether these images were exchanged while the men were on duty for the | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
Metropolitan Police. Princess Cristina, the youngest | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, has appeared in court for | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
questioning, in connection with a corruption scandal involving her | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
husband's business affairs. Tom Burridge reports from the court in | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Mallorca. Captured by countless cameras, for | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
the first time ever, a member of Spain's Royal family arriving to be | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
questioned in court. Princess Cristina is being investigated over | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
a corruption scandal. Her husband is accused of defrauding millions of | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
euros of public money. And she is alleged to have used some of that | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
money to cover personal expenses. She will be questioned here, | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
opposite a photo of her father, the King. The scandal has damaged the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
popularity of King Juan Carlos and he has had a difficult few years. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
The low point, this photo taken when he was hunting elephants in Botswana | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
while his citizens were suffering a critical moment in the economic | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
crisis back home. There is no doubt that the scandal has caused | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
significant damage to the reputation of Spain's royals, so when the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
princess is answering questions in court, she will not only be | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
defending her credibility, but that of the monarchy in Spain. Tom | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
Burridge, BBC News. Woody Allen has denied his adopted | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
daughter's allegations that he sexually abused her, in a letter to | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the New York Times. Last week, in the same newspaper, Dylan Farrow | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
claimed the film-maker abused her in 1992 when she was seven years old. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Allen insisted his daughter had been "coached" into making the claims by | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
her mother, Mia Farrow, Allen's ex partner. | :07:04. | :07:07. |