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America's east coast battles with the aftermath of one | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
of its biggest ever snow storms with millions of people affected. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
The death toll has now risen to 18 people as 11 states declared | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
In Washington DC - airports remain closed | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
as the transport system buckles - thousands of flights | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
We'll be live in Washington for the latest. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The government considers taking in thousands of unaccompanied child | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
refugees - amid warnings about the risks they face. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
A special report from the Iraqi town riven by sectarian attacks. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
And the wickets tumble in South Africa as England feel | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The authorities in the United States are battling to restore power | :00:50. | :01:20. | |
to hundreds of thousands of homes and clear blocked roads and rail | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
lines - in the aftermath of this weekend's massive snowstorm. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
At least 18 people have been killed after a metre of snow | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Parts of the east coast are at a standstill, | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
with a state of emergency declared in 11 states, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
including New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
There's been massive travel disruption - | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
with both of Washington DC's airports closed. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker is in Washington now. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
After the blizzard, the battle begins to clear up, and this was | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
forecast, this was billed as an historic storm and it has delivered. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
It is the second highest snowfall since the 1860s and the disruption | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
could last into the working week. The snow has finally stopped, but | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
millions of people woke to mountains of snow on their doorsteps, and BD | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
out begins. Those stuck on this freezing motorway in Pennsylvania | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
have finally been moved, they have been stranded since Friday night. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
We've got no food, but we got water. We have not had any food since | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
yesterday. The disruption could last days, in New York where the snowfall | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
broke records, businesses tried to reopen, and officials lifted a ban | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
on travel, but that came with a warning. If you do not need to be on | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
the roads, you do not go on the roads, there are still dangerous | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
spots and spots with black ice and this is still about getting the | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
emergency crews out there. In the nation's capital airports remain | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
closed, thousands of flights have been cancelled, and they are trying | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
to clear runways, but airlines have warned it could be days before | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
things return to normal. People are beginning to venture out, but that | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
brings further risks. Five people have died shovelling snow during the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
storm, most are thought to have had heart attacks, and emergency crews | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
say they will be busy over the next few days. The injuries we would | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
expect to see will be the strains and broken bones, mainly from | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
slipping and falling, that paying the late into the snow shovelling | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
and one of the worst thing is, of course, that we don't want, but does | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
occur, the heart attack related to the strenuous activity. But there is | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
beauty in the aftermath of this storm, and fun to be found. The new | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
landscape has brought new possibilities. And they are enjoying | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
it while it lasts. STUDIO: These are extraordinary scenes, is the worst | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
of the weather over? The sun is out, it's a beautiful day across the East | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Coast and many people are trying to go out to enjoy this weather, but | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
that is when the risks begin. Over the last few days the warnings were | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
there, people were told to stay inside, but now as they venture out | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
on roads and on foot, emergency crews say they are gearing up for | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
what could be a very busy time and then there is the clear up. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Emergency response teams are out, trying to make the roads clear, and | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
in certain areas like West Virginia, where they have had over a metre of | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
snow it could be possible for days. You heard about the airports, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
flights could be disrupted well into the working week. And when it comes | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
to the cost of this clear up, it could be substantial, that is | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
estimated to be around $1 billion. Thanks for joining us. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
The International Development Secretary, Justine Greening, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
has confirmed that the government's considering calls to take in three | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
thousand unaccompanied child refugees, who've reached Europe | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
Ministers have come under growing pressure - | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
with charities warning that children who arrived in Europe alone | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
These, the forgotten victims of Syria's Civil War. Some children | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
fleeing the conflict, they risk the hazardous trip to Europe, but | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
thousands of them are riding without their parents. Earlier this month a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
cross-party group of MPs urged the Prime Minister to give them more | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
comfort and support, and to bring 3000 of them to Britain. The | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
government has been signalling that this is under serious consideration. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
We've been right at the forefront frankly of helping children who have | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
been affected by this crisis and we will continue to look at how we can | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
do that over the coming days and weeks. How big is the scale of the | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
crisis? Last it was estimated that 26,000 children arrived in Europe | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
without their families, escaping from Syria, Afghanistan and some | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
countries in Africa, and it is believed that many simply disappear | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
after they arrived. The call for the UK Government to take in 3000 | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
unaccompanied children would be in addition to 20,000 refugees the UK | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
has already pledged to take direct from refugee camps. Our teams across | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
Europe are welcoming refugees and we have been seeing tens of thousands | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
of children coming through who have already suffered extremely harrowing | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
experiences in the region where they have come from, and now they are | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
alone in Europe, the children are at risk of falling prey to people | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
traffickers, prostitution, drugs, all sorts of abuse. I'm told the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Prime Minister has not made up his mind on whether to take more | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
refugees, he knows he could be on the brink of a referendum campaign, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
an immigration is a major issue. Labour's leadership is urging him to | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
do more, they say if he helps his European partners tackle the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
migration crisis, well, that could then give him a better deal to take | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
to the British people. But some politicians including a former | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Labour minister Frank Field are warning that there are risks in | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
taking in more known children. They say this could lead to subsequent | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
demands for their relatives to be brought to Britain. Many people are | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
moved by the plight of refugees, but some MPs say the Prime Minister must | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
be careful to listen to wider concerns about immigration. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said it | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
would be "a mistake" for David Cameron to hold | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU as early | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
There's been speculation a vote could take place then | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
if the Prime Minister manages to agree a deal on EU reforms | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
But Nicola Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
that that would confuse voters because of elections due to be held | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
You might interpret it as being a bit selfish. | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
The Scottish election is in May, indeed the Welsh | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
and Northern Ireland, London elections, in May. | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
I think to have a referendum campaign starting in parallel | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
would be disrespectful to those important elections. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
The number of profit warnings issued by UK listed companies has reached | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
the highest level since the start of the last recession. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
The data's been compiled by the consultants EY and comes | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
amid growing concern for the strength the global economy. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Our business correspondent Joe Lynam reports. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
Companies who supply the oil sector, smaller general retailers and some | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
listed firms in the leisure and hospitality sectors, | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
are just three of the types of businesses which have issued | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
the most profit warnings at the end of last year. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
The last time there were as many in a single quarter was the start | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
of 2009 when Britain was in the middle of its deepest | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Back then, there were 126 profit warnings by listed companies. | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
In the last three months of 2015 there were 100 profit warnings | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
The thing about a profit warning is that it's really the board having | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
to explain to the market that they got it wrong. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Maybe their views of the outcome of the rest of the year is not | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
In that regard, the fact we are in a more volatile world, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
makes profit warnings more likely to occur. | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
So I think it reflects the volatility we are seeing | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
And most of that volatility stems from a slowdown in China. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
If the world's second-biggest economy is not building or buying | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
as much, the rest of the world feels it. | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
And there was even a warning from the Chancellor. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
Last year was the worst for global growth since the crash. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
This year opens with a dangerous cocktail of new threats | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
It's clear that there are some sectors of the economy | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
which are struggling at the moment, in particular manufacturers | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
and exporters, and policymakers are concerned with Mark Carney's | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
suggestion it is another reason to leave interest rates | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
The world economy might have issues, but things are looking positive | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Growth is one of the fastest in Europe. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Unemployment is at a near record low. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
While employment is at a record high. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
But Britain is not immune from the major global slowdown, | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
which these profit warnings might be signalling. | :10:14. | :10:33. | |
The Iranian transport minister says Tehran will sign a contract this | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
If confirmed, it would be the first big commercial | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
contract to be announced since the lifting of international | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
sanctions imposed because of Iran's nuclear programme. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Yesterday China announced a trade deal with Iran worth ?400 billion | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
The latest attacks in Iraq by the Sunni militants - | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
of the so-called Islamic State - has set off a spiral | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Since the US-led invasion in 2013, Iraq's Shia Muslim majority have | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
largely held the power, sidelining many Sunnis, | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
This month an attack on a cafe in the town | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
of Muqdadiyah killed nearly 30 people - | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
many of them Shia - and was followed by deadly revenge | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Our correspondent Jim Muir reports from there. | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
We travelled into Muqdadiyah with the main Shia armed faction | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
On the surface, life seemed to be more or less back to normal. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
This is the cafe wrecked by a double suicide bombing | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
So-called Islamic State said it did it. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Clearly the aim was to provoke trouble between Sunnis and Shia | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
They come from rival branches of Islam, whose differences | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
are currently sharply dividing the whole region. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
It's in mixed areas like this that the future of Iraq | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
If coexistence between Sunnis and Shia does not work here, | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
the chances of it working anywhere else in Iraq do not look good. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Just across the road, the result of an outburst of revenge | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
A Sunni mosque, partly reduced to rubble, at least four others | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Two journalists from a local TV station who tried to film | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Less than an hour's drive away Sunni families were on the move, | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
but they are not fleeing, they are coming back. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
These people ran away two years ago when the militants took over, | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
but now they feel safe enough to come back, | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
encouraged by the government and the Shia factions | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
This woman says she and her family are glad to be back. | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
The two older ones remember our house here and are excited to be | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
There was a big reception to welcome hundreds of Sunni families home. | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
The head of the biggest Shia armed faction told them | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
But in Iraq, it's actions that count. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Iraq's future will only be assured when all those who were uprooted | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
are back in their homes, and there are more than 3 | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Eight staff at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is home | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
to the burial mask of the pharaoh, Tutankhamum, are to face charges | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
of negligence over the botched reattachment of its beard, | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
it's after an investigation into how the blue and gold beard | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
came to be detached and then glued back on. | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Prosecutors say large amounts of glue were used, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Three dead sperm whales have been washed up | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The whales found near Skegness, are believed to be | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
from the same pod as a whale which died earlier this | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Scientists have taken samples from the whales as part | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
With all the sport - here's Lizzie Greenwood Hughes | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
It has been a busy day to cricket fans, England fought to stay in | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
contention in the fourth Test match in South Africa, on their former | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
players was excelling in the Big Bash in Australia, it highlights the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
contrasting formats in the sport, competing for attention. -- one of | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
their former players. In century, the tradition, the third day the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Test match between South Africa and England, technique, stamina, | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Saturday, Joe Root making another half-century. Meanwhile, in | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Melbourne, Australia, it was the Big Bash, England's former batsman Kevin | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Pietersen made 74 from 39 balls for the Melbourne Stars, in the final of | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
the Australian 2020 competition, record crowds, razzmatazz, it is | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
what Australian cricket uses to find a new audience. Test matches offer | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
different rewards, a young fast bowler can put every ounce of energy | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
into taking wickets, with fielders circling the catches, South Africa | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
have lost this series already, but the emergence of talented young | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
black players has been significant. England were all out, 342, 133 | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
behind. By now, the Big Bash final had been decided, the match was won | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
with a six, naturally, with three balls to spare by the Sydney | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Thunder, they also triumphed in the inaugural women's tournament, | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
several English players flourished in both competitions. The Test match | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
continues, Anderson struck, but South Africa's second innings, 42-1 | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
at the close. Sunday's cricket displayed the choice, it is a | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
sport's ongoing challenge to make room for it all. Arsenal's hopes of | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
going back to the top of the Premier League are looking slim, they are | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
playing Chelsea with ten men after her Mertesacker was sent off early | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
in the second half for a foul on Diego Costa. Yeager Costa then | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
scored five in its later -- Diego Costa. Chelsea are still leading 1-0 | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
with 25 minutes left to play. Swansea's new manager got off to a | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
winning start with a 2-1 victory at Everton, and there were two red | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
cards but no goals in Hamilton's draw with Hearts. The quarterfinal | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
line-up for the European Champions Cup has been decided, the big | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
winners are Exeter and Northampton. This try from James Short helping | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Exeter beat the ospreys 33-17, and it means Wales fail to have a team | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
in the last eight of the top Europe incumbent vision for a fourth year | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
in succession. -- top Europe incumbent issue. -- top European | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
competition. There's more throughout the evening | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
on the BBC News Channel, we are back with the late news | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
at 10pm - now on BBC 1 it's time | :17:00. | :17:00. |