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severe flood warnings are still in place | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
for northern England, after record levels of rainfall left homes | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
flooded, bridges washed away and tens of thousands without power. | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
Streets underwater and cars submerged in Carlisle, | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
Hundreds have been rescued from their homes and | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We are told that it was going to be after these defences, it was a once | :00:28. | :00:41. | |
in a 250-year event. And here we are, ten years later. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Workers are battling to restore electricity to | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
around 40,000 homes, after some flood defences failed. | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
Questions will be asked about whether everybody has got ready, the | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
authorities are ready for the sheer scale of the kind of rainstorms we | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
are seeing now. We'll have the very latest tonight | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
from the worst-affected areas. Counter-terrorism police are | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
investigating the knife attack at a London tube station, which left | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
one man seriously injured. France's far right Front Nationale | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
party, is on course to win 30% of And what's behind the doors | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
of this living advent "Extreme and unprecedented" is how | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
the Government has described the torrential rainfall that's caused | :01:29. | :01:55. | |
severe flooding, leaving hundreds of homes submerged, across northern | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
England and parts of Scotland. The Army's been called | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
in to evacuate people in Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
where some flood defences were Tonight, around 40,000 homes are | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
without power, after flooding A second | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
in Carlisle is also under threat. There are no trains running | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
between England and Scotland through Preston, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
while road restrictions are in place And dozens of severe flood warnings | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
are still in place in northern England, indicating | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
a risk to life, though there are The city of Carlisle is one | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
of worst-affected areas. From there, | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Danny Savage has the latest. On the flooded streets of Carlisle | :02:40. | :02:51. | |
tonight, rescue boats are busy. It's dangerous work. They have to dodge | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
hazards like submerged cars. This crew, from Greater Manchester Fire | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Rescue, are out looking for those desperate to escape their freezing, | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
dark homes. Is that your tights. One woman throws a key down for the | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
rescuers to let themselves N but there is no escaping getting wet. A | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
few doors away, another family have had enough. So after three-quarters | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
of an hour out in the flooded streets of Carlisle tonight, we have | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
a full boat. We have three ladies from the same address. Another lady, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Kay and two dogs. Too. This is what is happening tonight. Many hours | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
after it flooded, people are still being rescued. It is pretty scary. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
You have no electricity, no light, no nothing. We didn't have enough | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
food. We started to worry. We didn't have a toilet. Our toilet is | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
downstairs. It was pretty frightening. Earlier today you could | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
see the full extent of the damage to this city. Hundreds of homes have | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
been washed out. Houses, which have all been repaired in the past, after | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
flooding, are ruined again. This is the A69 heading out of the city, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
passable only by boat. It flooded so quickly last night, that they didn't | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
have time to move their cars and fled upstairs. We will come in and | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
have a chat. Ron and Denise Wood were flooded ten years ago. They're | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
cold, wet and angry. We were told that it was going to be, after these | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
defences, it was a once in a 250-year event and here we are, ten | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
years later. Are you angry or... Angry, very angry. I feel like we've | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
been fed a bit of false information, I think. At the top of the road | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
another resident watched the water creeping ever-nearer. The sun may | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
have been shining, but the water was still rising. I think it would be | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
unfair to blame the Environment Agency, really for this. It is one | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
of those things that happens. I think maybe the flood defences held | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
it back for a while but it was probably just too much. Just too | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
much. I mean, I don't know - how high can you build the wall, really? | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Power to many of these houses has been lost and power cuts are | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
widespread across the affected region tonight. In Scotland, Hoik | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
was badly-hit, too, roads were washed away and sandbags brought out | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
N more remote areas, rescue helicopters were deployed this. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Family was rescued off a roof in Cumbria. The water levels are | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
dropping in Keswick but not before homes and businesses were ruined. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Most people have given up on the idea of trying to stay in their | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
homes and abandoned ship. Many have needed basic first aid treatment, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
too, another part of a huge recovery effort to deal with multiple | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
locations, destroyed by floods. The Environment Agency has | :05:44. | :05:58. | |
acknowleged some flood Almost 14 inches, 340mm, is believed | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
to have fallen in the Lake District in just 24 hours and that would be | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
a new British record. Millions of pounds has been spent | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
on Carlisle's defences, Our Science Editor, David Shukman, | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
took to the sky, The skies above Cumbria have cleared | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
but the legacy of Storm Desmond I'm above the city of | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
Carlisle and the sheer scale and depth of the floods is | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
extraordinary. Most striking the depths on residential streets. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
He floodwaters not only rising above Slnchts We can see people working | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
here, in the substations, on the edge of Carlisle, trying to make | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
sure this substantial isn't put out of action. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
This isn't only affecting the people who live here. It is having a huge | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
impact on transport, the major rail link through here has been UK and | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
this is a place, bear in mind, that was just given five years ago, a new | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
?38 million flood defence scheme. The violence, and the volume of the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
floodwater have taken everyone by surprise. This was Northumberland. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Hillsides have been scoured by the torrents. And at uswater, one of | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
Three Bridges in the county washed away -- Ullswatre. In Cockermouth, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
water has poured into the streets. We filmed these scenes this | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
afternoon and as in Carlisle, this was a place that was meant to be | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
made safer. With flood defences upgraded after a devastating flood | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
six years ago. Now the nightmare was returning. It's devastating. It is | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the third time in a very short period of time that it has happened. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
It's really dreadful. Dreadfully upsetting. It is heart-wrenching, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
heartbreaking to see hour town be destroyed again in this way. They | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
just got going again nicely and got set back. It is dreadful. New | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
barriers along the river here did hold back some of the water. But a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
lot spilled over the top and ministers are once again under | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
pressure it give more communities better protection. Unfortunately | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
there are unpredictable weather events. It isn't going to be | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
possible to protect everybody everywhere, but that's why we are | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
investing billions in improving flood defences everywhere, listening | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
to communities. A lot of this is about getting the right response in | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
place. A major road through the heart of the Lake District, wrecked | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
by rainfall that might have set a new record. And this disaster | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
reopens a long-running dispute over which areas should be protected and | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
how much the taxpayer should spend to keep people safe. So, on the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
approach to Christmas, there are many places reeling from the floods | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
and now wondering when the next storm will come. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Let's join Danny Savage in Carlisle tonight. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Given the huge scale of the flooding, how are the authorities | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
coping? Clive, they have been doing quite well, really but they have | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
pulled in resources and help from a much bigger area than Cumbria and | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
North West England. The lifeboat crew I was out with during daylight | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
hours today were from Weston-Super-Mare, some of them, | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
others from South Wales. There are rescue boat crews here from York and | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Lincolnshire. They have been brought in from a very big area to help with | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
this relief operation. That doesn't mean that Cumbria's emergency | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
services and authorities can't cope with this, they can and they have | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
done in the past but the problem is you have had all the elements of the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
worst floods here in the last decade, rolled into one incident | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
which has stretched services and it means that hospitals n Lancashire, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
for example, are still running on generator power, because of power | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
cuts but they are seeming fairly resilient at the moment, Clive. Many | :10:03. | :10:03. | |
thanks. And you can get more detail | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
on the flooding, and advice Counter-terrorism police are | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
investigating a knife attack on the London Underground, | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
in which the suspect is said to have It happened at Leytonstone | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
tube station last night. One man suffered serious stab | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
wounds but is The suspect, who's 29, | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
was later tasered and arrested. Our Home Affairs Correspondent June | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Kelly has more. 7.00pm and dozens of travellers stop | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
their Saturday night facing After reportedly shouting, | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
"This is for Syria", he used it on Captured on mobile phone footage, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
people shouting to The police dealing with | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
this were local officers. They used a taser stun gun | :10:58. | :11:07. | |
on the suspect. It took more than one | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
attempt to overpower him. From one onlooker there was | :11:13. | :11:26. | |
a strong, simple message to the And nearby, from the local mosque | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
today, there was a statement. We are extremely saddened | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
by the events that occurred at Leytonstone underground station | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
yesterday evening. This was | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
an individual that we do not know. He is not a member of the | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
congregation of Leytonstone mosque. We strongly condemn any sort | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
of violent acts and terrorism. Islam does not allow | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
and does not have any place During the day, Leytonstone tube | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
station reopened and details emerged of how one victim, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
said to be stabbed in the neck, There was no way anybody would go | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
near him because he was a very strong man | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
and he was punching like a boxer. Within hours Scotland | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
Yard said it was being treated as a terrorist incident and appealed | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
for any mobile phone footage. We are pursuing a number of lines of | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
inquiry at the moment but at this particular stage and this time, | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
motive is not that clear, so we want We want to know exactly what | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
happened, precisely, So, 24 hours after the mayhem here, | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
detectives will be working to establish the background | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
of their suspect. His beliefs, his associates, | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
his mental state. And underlying all this will be | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
the fundamental question of whether they knew about him before | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
the attack and if so, how much. There has been a large police prens | :12:54. | :13:05. | |
a the this flat in Leytonstone. Forensic officers have been at the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
scene. Meanwhile a 29-year-old man remains in custody. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
President Obama is to make a rare televised address from the Oval | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Office in the next few hours, to try to reassure Americans about the | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
Today, church services were held in California, to | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
remember the 14 people shot dead in San Bernadino, in an attack that's | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
being treated as "an act of terrorism". From there, Laura Bicker | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
We are here to stand by the families. This service is not just | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
about remembering those killed. It's to try to deal with division and | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
develop trust. The local Islamic centre opened its doors to all | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
faiths, to remind this city that Muslims stand with them in | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
condemnation of the attack. But emotions are still raw here, along | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
with disbelief. To see it so close, this is something that really can | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
happen and is happening anywhere and everywhere. What is going on in the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
world, in Paris and other places, amean to allow it on our doorsteps | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
is negligent from our Government, I feel. The FBI has raided another | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
home in San Bernadino. The house is thought to be belonged to the friend | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
of the couple who bought the assault rifles. Investigators now believe | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
that Syed Farrook and his wife were planning another attack. Barack | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Obama is preparing to address the nation from the Oval Office for only | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the third time in his presidency. He says he will use every single aspect | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
of power to destroy the Islamic State. His critics, including a | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
frontrunner for the republic Presidential nomination say he has | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
been slow to act and understand the terror threat We are having this | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
radical terrorism. A lot of people don't want to say T not a lot. We | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
have one person, President Obama.ed until he admits it is a problem | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
we'll never solve it. But others believe we need to do more to work | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
with America's 3 million Muslims. If you are a law-Ayerza biding, | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
peace-loving Muslim, you need to be with us against those distorting | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Islam. For most in San Bernadino, the wider political debate is | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
passing them by. They are still grieving and their thoughts are with | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
the 14 lives lost. Well, they are still gathering here to pray after a | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
the shooing which has hit at the heart of America's worst fears and | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
that is why, in just a few hours' time, the President will make this | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
very rare address from the Oval Office. He will say he will do | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
everything within his power to defeat Isis and he'll hope to | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
reassure critics, who say has underestimated a threat which they | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
now see on their doorsteps. Many thanks, lawyeria. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Exit polls tonight suggest France's far right Front Nationale party | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
could take as much as a third of the vote in the first round of | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
It's the first major test of public opinion since gunmen from the | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
so-called Islamic State group killed 130 people in Paris last month. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
The leader of the Front Nationale, Marine Le Pen, has called the | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
result "magnificent" and said it proved the FN was "without contest, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
Our Paris Correspondent, Lucy Williamson, joins us now. | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
Snr Lucy, looking at the results tonight, does that bold claim from | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
marine will he pen ring true? Well, I think if there was any remaining | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
doubt that there was now a third force nor French politics that died | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
tonight. -- Marine Le Pen. The Front Nationale seems to have got one in | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
three votes today, in some areas more than 40% A little bit will be a | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
boost from last month's attacks in Paris and the fears that surrounded | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
it but this is a result that has been building for sometime now. The | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Front Nationale has been expanding its share of the national vote for | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
two years or so and even though it has problems in the second round of | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
elections, turning that into power, the mainstream parties tend to come | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
together and work together to keep it from power, that's the real | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
question we are looking at in this election as well - what will happen | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
on snubbed will the mainstream parties again come together? Even if | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
the Front Nationale wins just one region, it is very important for | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
them, because their eyes and all eyes here are starting to turn | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
towards the presidential elections in France in less than 18 months' | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
time. #12k3w4r Lucy, thank you. Lucy Williamson in Paris. -- Lucy thank | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
you. Sepp Blatter, the President | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
of world football's governing body FIFA, is being investigated by the | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
FBI, concerning his alleged role in a bribes scandal which saw sports | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
officials paid $100 million. Mr Blatter had denied knowing | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
about the bribes, but the BBC's Panorama programme has | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
seen a document which suggests the FIFA boss knew about the payments | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
all along, and did nothing. The net is closing in on | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Sepp Blatter. The suspended Fifa President is | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
already under investigation by the Swiss authorities, following | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
allegations of corruption. Now, the BBC can reveal, | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
that Blatter is also being investigated by the FBI for his role | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
in a bribe scandal from the 1990s. A sports marketing company | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
called ISL, paid a total of $100 million to sports | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
officials, including former Fifa President, Joao Havelange and former | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Fifa executive, Riccardo Teixeira. In return, ISL was repeatedly | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
awarded the contract to market the World Cup to advertisers | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
and broadcasters around the world. Sepp Blatter denied knowing about | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
the bribes and took no action. He even allowed Mr Teixeiri to take | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
part in the notorious vote You have to ask yourself why did he | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
seek to protect these people and not just protect them | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
but allow them to continue to play an active role in some of Fifa's | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
most important decisions. Now the Panorama programme has seen | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
a letter, obtained by the FBI, which suggests Sepp Blatter knew | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
about the bribe payments all along. The letter, | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
apparently written by Joao Havelange, | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
talks about the payments he received It says, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
"I emphasise that Mr Blatter had full knowledge of all activities | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
and was always apprised of them." Blatter declined to comment | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
on the letter. The Panorama programme has also been | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
told about how much money the Qataris spent winning the right | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
to host the 2022 World Cup. Former FA Chairman, Lord Treisman, | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
was given a figure of ?117 million, by sources close to British | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
intelligence. That's almost six times what England | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
spent trying to win 2018. I just take | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
the straightforward view that it should be possible, when you look at | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
the money that people have spent, to know exactly how it was spent and | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
whether it was legitimate or not. In a way, the problem is that | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
goodness knows, it's not transparent The FBI has already charged 39 Fifa | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
officials with corruption And you can see the full Panorama | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
investigation, 'FIFA, Sepp Blatter and Me', that's tomorrow night at | :20:32. | :20:45. | |
8.30, here on BBC One. Millions of advent calendars | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
of course mark You can make your own, | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
or buy them filled with chocolate, But now a new type of calendar, | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
pioneered in Sweden, is gaining It's a living advent calendar, | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
with the goodies behind real doors, as Duncan Kennedy explains | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
from Winchester. And a new one when it comes | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
to celebrating Christmas. Real Advent doors are being | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
swung open everywhere. But inside, instead of chocolate, | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
it's Christmas performances. Every kind of door across the city | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
is being used, with everything from sugarplum fairies in front rooms to | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
memories of Christmas underground The live Advent calendar concert is | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
a way of the city coming together to share in collective activity over | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
this really special time of year. Advent calendars first appeared | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
in Germany around 1850. They were made of wood and usually | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
depicted scenes from the Bible. The first live Advent calendar is | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
using real wood doors seems to have started in Sweden | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
about ten years ago. Now | :22:15. | :22:15. | |
the idea has come here with places from Cornwall to Cumbria joining | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
in this new festive phenomenon. It is different because you actually | :22:18. | :22:29. | |
go into the door, It's not often Christmas gets | :22:30. | :22:42. | |
a noncommercial new twist. Here, behind | :22:43. | :22:55. | |
the city's doors, they are really I'm closing the door on our | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
programme tonight. You can see more on all of today's stories, including | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
the latest on the flooding on | :23:07. | :23:07. |