06/12/2015 BBC Weekend News

Thunderous tides scurrying through the ornamental gardens and under

minding foundations of bridges. The owners the victims of some of the

highest water levels ever to hit the region. Today we are expecting a

peak of 7.9 metres. That is significant, above anything that has

been modelled, this is an extreme weather event. Not just Cumbria was

effective, this is the Scottish Borders, 300 houses, 600 people had

to be evacuated as the river rose relentlessly. Water levels are now

falling but are still dangerous. Stay away from the river and

bridges, let the council get on and clean-up, they've been out in force

this morning with road sweepers. For many families this been a

traumatic weekend, six people were rescued the coastguard from a

flooded house in Caernarvon overnight. Others were today walking

warily through the flood, to assess the damage and retrieve vital

supplies for the days, weeks and months that it may take to get their

houses habitable again. Parts of Cumbria had almost doubled their

usual December rainfall this weekend. I have not seen it like

this in 43 years. The Lake District is living up to its name today (!)

for all of the wrong reasons, in this valley, some traffic was

moving, just, but the landscape is inundated, livestock have been

trapped, and travel is difficult. Rail services have been disrupted,

landslides have blocked some roads. With a gap in the rain for some, the

clean-up is under way. Storm Desmond has left massive disruption in its

wake. STUDIO: Forty eight severe flood

warnings are still in place across Northern England and Southern

Scotland, Our Correspondent Christian Fraser

is in Keswick, we'll talk to him

in a moment, but first to Danny Savage

who's in Carlisle. What is it like there? You heard

talk of water levels dropping in some places but that is not the case

in Carlisle, this is Warwick Road, severely flooded, act in 2005. Last

night we were standing half a mile down the road, where it was dry, but

just after midnight the flood defences were overwhelmed, water

gushed through and within one hour, the road was flooded, by this

morning it was all the way up here, this is a real ongoing series

incident here in Carlisle at the moment, we have the emergency

services here coordinating rescues, the RNLI are going out in boats, and

the situation is this, there is also a electricity substation under

threat from flood water. If that goes, 60,000 homes in Carlisle are

potentially going to be left without power. That is a serious worry this

afternoon that it will happen. It may have stopped raining but

floodwaters are still rising. Give us a sense of what is happening

where you are, Christian. Blue sky at the moment, mercifully, the rain

has stopped falling, you can see the River Greta behind us, swollen and

angry. The river level has fallen as we have been standing here, last

night it was up to the roof of this shelter, and the power of the water

has slammed trees up against the shelter and it was broken over the

wall that was built in 2009. Residents alongside the River tell

me that it was forcing its way through the floor, between chimneys,

and over the door, there was no way to stop it. When you look at the

aerial pictures above Keswick, you can see that although the river

level has fallen, large parts of the town are still underwater, and

Derwentwater, all of the way down to the lake, about a mile and a half

away, there is one giant lagoon, one expanse of water. Water cascading

from the hillside down the hillside, over the road, and into this valley

bottom. It will take several days, if not weeks for the water that is

standing in towns like this one up and down Cumbria to subside

completely. say it is treating a knife attack

on three people at an underground

station in east London The attacker reportedly shouted

out, "This is for Syria". One man is being treated

in hospital for serious injuries From Leytonstone,

June Kelly reports. VOICEOVER: 7pm, Saturday evening,

dozens of Tube travellers are confronted by a man wielding a

knife. Before he began his rampage, the man is said to have shouted,

This is the Syria, he attacked three people, one reportedly stabbed in

the neck after being beaten and kicked, according to a station

shopkeeper. -- "This is for Syria." Nobody was in the station at that

time, when he was stabbing. Nobody can help the victim. This was very

scary. There was no way anybody would go near him, he was a strong

man. He was punching like a boxer. The suspect ran out of the station.

I could hear pleading for help. It was a female, shouting for help,

help, help, people began running out from the station, and then, the man

went out, and began chasing the girl around the statue. Back inside,

mobile phones recorded how members of the public shouted at the man to

lay down his weapon. Police dealing with this were local offices, none

of them had a firearm. They used a Taser stun gun on the suspect. It

took more than one attempt to overpower him. From one traveller, a

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

treated as a terrorist incident, which was announced within a few

hours by the Metropolitan Police. It is an appalling act, but we cannot

allow it to affect the way that people live their lives and the

community functions, and that is absolutely right. Leytonstone

station has reopened as counterterrorism officers tried to

establish the motivation for the attack. It is the counterterrorism

command that will establish whether it was Islamism inspired, by now

they will know whether this man was on their radar and the radar of the

security services. We understand that a residential address is being

searched, in east London, they will also be looking at this man's

associates and whether he was mentally ill.

STUDIO: Foreign patients who visit England could face charges

such as blood tests, prescriptions and physiotherapy.

The government wants to extend charges paid by visitors from

outside the European Union and will begin a consultation next week.

Doctors' leaders have said they are concerned about the proposals.

The Labour MP Tristram Hunt has called on the party leader,

Jeremy Corbyn to "step back" from the anti-war campaign group,

He called it a "disreputable organisation"

and said he hoped Mr Corbyn would not go ahead with plans to attend

And, France is voting in the opening round of regional elections

since the attacks in Paris last month.

The polls are being closely watched for signs that sympathy for the

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel,

including all the latest developments on the flooding.