06/12/2015

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:01:19. > :01:50.Thunderous tides scurrying through the ornamental gardens and under

:01:51. > :01:55.minding foundations of bridges. The owners the victims of some of the

:01:56. > :02:05.highest water levels ever to hit the region. Today we are expecting a

:02:06. > :02:09.peak of 7.9 metres. That is significant, above anything that has

:02:10. > :02:15.been modelled, this is an extreme weather event. Not just Cumbria was

:02:16. > :02:20.effective, this is the Scottish Borders, 300 houses, 600 people had

:02:21. > :02:25.to be evacuated as the river rose relentlessly. Water levels are now

:02:26. > :02:30.falling but are still dangerous. Stay away from the river and

:02:31. > :02:31.bridges, let the council get on and clean-up, they've been out in force

:02:32. > :02:41.this morning with road sweepers. For many families this been a

:02:42. > :02:45.traumatic weekend, six people were rescued the coastguard from a

:02:46. > :02:49.flooded house in Caernarvon overnight. Others were today walking

:02:50. > :02:53.warily through the flood, to assess the damage and retrieve vital

:02:54. > :03:01.supplies for the days, weeks and months that it may take to get their

:03:02. > :03:04.houses habitable again. Parts of Cumbria had almost doubled their

:03:05. > :03:12.usual December rainfall this weekend. I have not seen it like

:03:13. > :03:16.this in 43 years. The Lake District is living up to its name today (!)

:03:17. > :03:22.for all of the wrong reasons, in this valley, some traffic was

:03:23. > :03:27.moving, just, but the landscape is inundated, livestock have been

:03:28. > :03:30.trapped, and travel is difficult. Rail services have been disrupted,

:03:31. > :03:41.landslides have blocked some roads. With a gap in the rain for some, the

:03:42. > :03:42.clean-up is under way. Storm Desmond has left massive disruption in its

:03:43. > :03:48.wake. STUDIO: Forty eight severe flood

:03:49. > :03:51.warnings are still in place across Northern England and Southern

:03:52. > :03:52.Scotland, Our Correspondent Christian Fraser

:03:53. > :03:55.is in Keswick, we'll talk to him

:03:56. > :03:57.in a moment, but first to Danny Savage

:03:58. > :04:08.who's in Carlisle. What is it like there? You heard

:04:09. > :04:11.talk of water levels dropping in some places but that is not the case

:04:12. > :04:18.in Carlisle, this is Warwick Road, severely flooded, act in 2005. Last

:04:19. > :04:21.night we were standing half a mile down the road, where it was dry, but

:04:22. > :04:26.just after midnight the flood defences were overwhelmed, water

:04:27. > :04:29.gushed through and within one hour, the road was flooded, by this

:04:30. > :04:33.morning it was all the way up here, this is a real ongoing series

:04:34. > :04:38.incident here in Carlisle at the moment, we have the emergency

:04:39. > :04:43.services here coordinating rescues, the RNLI are going out in boats, and

:04:44. > :04:48.the situation is this, there is also a electricity substation under

:04:49. > :04:51.threat from flood water. If that goes, 60,000 homes in Carlisle are

:04:52. > :04:57.potentially going to be left without power. That is a serious worry this

:04:58. > :04:58.afternoon that it will happen. It may have stopped raining but

:04:59. > :05:08.floodwaters are still rising. Give us a sense of what is happening

:05:09. > :05:12.where you are, Christian. Blue sky at the moment, mercifully, the rain

:05:13. > :05:16.has stopped falling, you can see the River Greta behind us, swollen and

:05:17. > :05:20.angry. The river level has fallen as we have been standing here, last

:05:21. > :05:26.night it was up to the roof of this shelter, and the power of the water

:05:27. > :05:30.has slammed trees up against the shelter and it was broken over the

:05:31. > :05:33.wall that was built in 2009. Residents alongside the River tell

:05:34. > :05:38.me that it was forcing its way through the floor, between chimneys,

:05:39. > :05:42.and over the door, there was no way to stop it. When you look at the

:05:43. > :05:45.aerial pictures above Keswick, you can see that although the river

:05:46. > :05:50.level has fallen, large parts of the town are still underwater, and

:05:51. > :05:54.Derwentwater, all of the way down to the lake, about a mile and a half

:05:55. > :05:59.away, there is one giant lagoon, one expanse of water. Water cascading

:06:00. > :06:03.from the hillside down the hillside, over the road, and into this valley

:06:04. > :06:08.bottom. It will take several days, if not weeks for the water that is

:06:09. > :06:09.standing in towns like this one up and down Cumbria to subside

:06:10. > :06:13.completely. say it is treating a knife attack

:06:14. > :06:21.on three people at an underground

:06:22. > :06:23.station in east London The attacker reportedly shouted

:06:24. > :06:27.out, "This is for Syria". One man is being treated

:06:28. > :06:30.in hospital for serious injuries From Leytonstone,

:06:31. > :06:43.June Kelly reports. VOICEOVER: 7pm, Saturday evening,

:06:44. > :06:49.dozens of Tube travellers are confronted by a man wielding a

:06:50. > :06:55.knife. Before he began his rampage, the man is said to have shouted,

:06:56. > :06:58.This is the Syria, he attacked three people, one reportedly stabbed in

:06:59. > :07:03.the neck after being beaten and kicked, according to a station

:07:04. > :07:10.shopkeeper. -- "This is for Syria." Nobody was in the station at that

:07:11. > :07:19.time, when he was stabbing. Nobody can help the victim. This was very

:07:20. > :07:26.scary. There was no way anybody would go near him, he was a strong

:07:27. > :07:34.man. He was punching like a boxer. The suspect ran out of the station.

:07:35. > :07:38.I could hear pleading for help. It was a female, shouting for help,

:07:39. > :07:45.help, help, people began running out from the station, and then, the man

:07:46. > :07:49.went out, and began chasing the girl around the statue. Back inside,

:07:50. > :07:53.mobile phones recorded how members of the public shouted at the man to

:07:54. > :07:58.lay down his weapon. Police dealing with this were local offices, none

:07:59. > :08:03.of them had a firearm. They used a Taser stun gun on the suspect. It

:08:04. > :08:07.took more than one attempt to overpower him. From one traveller, a

:08:08. > :08:15.strong message to the knifeman. You are not Muslim, bruv! It is being

:08:16. > :08:20.treated as a terrorist incident, which was announced within a few

:08:21. > :08:26.hours by the Metropolitan Police. It is an appalling act, but we cannot

:08:27. > :08:28.allow it to affect the way that people live their lives and the

:08:29. > :08:33.community functions, and that is absolutely right. Leytonstone

:08:34. > :08:37.station has reopened as counterterrorism officers tried to

:08:38. > :08:44.establish the motivation for the attack. It is the counterterrorism

:08:45. > :08:49.command that will establish whether it was Islamism inspired, by now

:08:50. > :08:54.they will know whether this man was on their radar and the radar of the

:08:55. > :08:57.security services. We understand that a residential address is being

:08:58. > :09:00.searched, in east London, they will also be looking at this man's

:09:01. > :09:08.associates and whether he was mentally ill.

:09:09. > :09:13.STUDIO: Foreign patients who visit England could face charges

:09:14. > :09:16.such as blood tests, prescriptions and physiotherapy.

:09:17. > :09:19.The government wants to extend charges paid by visitors from

:09:20. > :09:21.outside the European Union and will begin a consultation next week.

:09:22. > :09:24.Doctors' leaders have said they are concerned about the proposals.

:09:25. > :09:26.The Labour MP Tristram Hunt has called on the party leader,

:09:27. > :09:29.Jeremy Corbyn to "step back" from the anti-war campaign group,

:09:30. > :09:31.He called it a "disreputable organisation"

:09:32. > :09:35.and said he hoped Mr Corbyn would not go ahead with plans to attend

:09:36. > :09:46.And, France is voting in the opening round of regional elections

:09:47. > :09:50.since the attacks in Paris last month.

:09:51. > :09:53.The polls are being closely watched for signs that sympathy for the

:09:54. > :10:07.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel,

:10:08. > :10:10.including all the latest developments on the flooding.