:00:11. > :00:15.The man they blame finally showed up and got it both barrels. At least it
:00:16. > :00:21.is nice to see this time you have a pair of wellies on. What do you
:00:22. > :00:25.expect us to do? Sort the rivers out. That is precisely what we are
:00:26. > :00:31.going to try to do over the course of the next few months.
:00:32. > :00:37.Newsnight went where Lord Smith didn't go. It is bloody awful isn't
:00:38. > :00:46.it. It's awful, it is awful, it is awful. The French median who
:00:47. > :00:49.inspired the -- comedian infamous Quennelle salute talks to us.
:00:50. > :00:55.The Prime Minister has been trying to love bomb the Scots, from the
:00:56. > :01:02.Olympic Velodrome. We took one of his feistier backbenchers to Glasgow
:01:03. > :01:07.for a chance of doing some woulds. The Sochi Opening Ceremony had all
:01:08. > :01:25.the colours of the rainbow, was it just a Russian fairy tale? Good
:01:26. > :01:32.evening, the residents on the Somerset levels have to wait a long
:01:33. > :01:46.time for a great panjandrom to come and see them. And then along came
:01:47. > :01:51.two. Water has wreaked havoc. The Prime Minister arrived and said it
:01:52. > :01:54.was like a biblical scene, and promptly assured the Government
:01:55. > :01:58.would do everything to help. The money is there the councils will do
:01:59. > :02:01.everything they can, the military will do everything they can and we
:02:02. > :02:05.will go as fast as we can. These things take time to get right. We
:02:06. > :02:10.are facing extraordinary weather events. Earlier the embattled Lord
:02:11. > :02:15.Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, refused to apologise for the
:02:16. > :02:17.response to the flooding crisis, and insisted he was still proud of the
:02:18. > :02:22.agency's work. That wasn't good enough for one landowner who managed
:02:23. > :02:26.to make his point face-to-face. People whose homes are under water
:02:27. > :02:30.and under threat, we have had this for too long now, five weeks,
:02:31. > :02:34.Morland has had it for the same time. REPORTER: What do you say to,
:02:35. > :02:38.that he says you should resign? I have no intention of doing so, there
:02:39. > :02:42.is important work to be done, getting the dredging started as soon
:02:43. > :02:48.as is possible to do so. The weather may have been mercifully dry for the
:02:49. > :02:51.visitors from London, but residents had been warned to expect more
:02:52. > :02:56.strong winds and cleave rain this weekend. Much of the focus has been
:02:57. > :03:00.on just a few villages in the Somerset level, but what is it like
:03:01. > :03:05.for communities up the river, away from the cameras and the concern? We
:03:06. > :03:19.travelled further inland to talk to the people battling in the water in
:03:20. > :03:24.Stoke St Gregory, Burro Bridge and CKerlow. It is a lifestyle farming,
:03:25. > :03:27.you work every day of the year, you have no day off ever. You have
:03:28. > :03:33.always to be here and be around. That is why the community is so
:03:34. > :03:39.important. Farming communities and people in the no and those on the
:03:40. > :03:43.river bank were saying sooner or later there was going to be a
:03:44. > :03:53.disaster and this is the disaster we are having. I can't remember what
:03:54. > :04:03.normal is at the moment, I'm firefighting all the time. Hello we
:04:04. > :04:08.need able bodied people, Gerald has cleared a shed and ready to receive
:04:09. > :04:17.50. I have someone ring me about Land Rovers and things, it is coming
:04:18. > :04:23.over here isn't it. I don't know how I'm going to keep my battery going.
:04:24. > :04:26.For the villagers we have all pulled together but we don't know what we
:04:27. > :04:29.are actually meant to be doing for each other, we don't know where this
:04:30. > :04:36.water is going to be, where it is going, who is getting flooded and
:04:37. > :04:40.who is not. It is pandemonium. It is man power to clear a shed out,
:04:41. > :04:45.I have two lads coming from Taunton now, a couple more if possible.
:04:46. > :04:58.Preferably people who can drive machinery as well. Lovely, thank
:04:59. > :05:03.you. People from a long way off, right up the top of Somerset were
:05:04. > :05:10.saying they will come and help. What can we do.
:05:11. > :05:14.Where are you guys from? I'm up the road I'm helping out. I have a wet
:05:15. > :05:20.room for disabled chap who can't get in I have a downstairs bedroom that
:05:21. > :05:25.can be used as a bedroom. Has the community helped more than the
:05:26. > :05:28.state? Without doubt. We have a police car causing an obstruction we
:05:29. > :05:32.have to take them out of the chain in a second. At the other side of
:05:33. > :05:35.grey bridge, if there is any police there get on the radio and find out
:05:36. > :05:42.who it is, they have two minutes. If your home is being inundated and you
:05:43. > :05:48.can't get to it, and he's going home to put more sand bags and do all
:05:49. > :05:53.that, they know this is the only access. We needor clear. We need
:05:54. > :06:00.access 24 hours a day. I know, I don't think they understand that.
:06:01. > :06:04.But they will in a minute. Hi, do you know who they are, he is
:06:05. > :06:08.beginning to lose it. OK. Really, really important. We will try our
:06:09. > :06:14.best. Thank you. We will try to get it moved for you. Did you just get
:06:15. > :06:19.the feeling that they thought I was just being a Payne? Where is the
:06:20. > :06:24.help? Where is the help in making the sandbags, where is the help
:06:25. > :06:30.ferrying people across getting to work or get their cars back or
:06:31. > :06:34.collecting their post. You were lucky, another few minutes you would
:06:35. > :06:38.have been moved. You want the media to be here, and you want to be able
:06:39. > :06:43.to tell a story and get it out there. You want to say, look, we
:06:44. > :06:49.need some help now, and you would think by now that the message must
:06:50. > :06:56.surely have got across that actually we do need some help. But it is not
:06:57. > :07:01.here, it is really not here. They a loving the forecast because it is
:07:02. > :07:06.getting, oh there is another storm on the way. Look the south west hit
:07:07. > :07:11.again, the message is obvious, we have made Prince Charles come down
:07:12. > :07:17.and visit you, look marvellous. But in reality we are already in chaos.
:07:18. > :07:21.The bank here has been shored up in order for that to stop seepage.
:07:22. > :07:31.There is a massive amount of sandbags just holding that bank back
:07:32. > :07:35.so that doesn't go. After this spill sway starts going, the waterfall
:07:36. > :07:42.effect, there is nothing else that is set up, so the water will then
:07:43. > :07:47.spill anywhere. So once it's all full, then it will just go,
:07:48. > :08:03.completely uncontrollably. I just genuinely hope that someone will
:08:04. > :08:07.Someone will come up with an ounce of common sense and think about what
:08:08. > :08:20.we used to do in the past and put that into action. We have nothing
:08:21. > :08:24.like this. Will Smith came in the last flood in 2012 that something
:08:25. > :08:28.had to be done and made an empty claim, it wasn't as bad as that
:08:29. > :08:32.then. I want to show him what it is like and what his empty promise of
:08:33. > :08:37.getting something done has created. The way things are at the moment.
:08:38. > :08:41.I'm not sure if we can continue. This event to be the end of our
:08:42. > :08:45.business. It is bloody awful isn't it. It is
:08:46. > :08:56.awful, it is awful, it is awful, it is awful. We have been inviting Lord
:08:57. > :09:02.Smith to appear on Newsnight all week. Again tonight we were told he
:09:03. > :09:12.wouldn't be available for us. The French comedian Dieudonn M'bala
:09:13. > :09:15.M'bala, he of the infamous Quennelle gesture, sent a message to the Prime
:09:16. > :09:18.Minister, following the decision to ban him entering the UK. He
:09:19. > :09:24.previously declared he would travel to Britain to support the West Brom
:09:25. > :09:31.player, Nicholas Anelka, who used the gesture when he scored against
:09:32. > :09:34.West Ham. Anelka who denies malicious intent face as
:09:35. > :09:44.disciplinary hearing. In Dieudonn's letter, written by his lawyers,
:09:45. > :09:50.which Wednesday "all truths begin as blasphemy". He argues the Quennelle
:09:51. > :09:51.is a humorous guessture, invented by the artist Dieudonn and used by him
:09:52. > :10:31.for many years. R Nicholas Anelka claimed he used
:10:32. > :10:35.the salute to mock the French establishment in solidarity with his
:10:36. > :10:55.comedic hero, and the letter takes up that theme, just a tad pompusly.
:10:56. > :11:00.As Dieudonne can't come to Britain, Newsnight went to him. Steve Smith
:11:01. > :11:07.hopped across the channel to Paris this morning to meet him in the
:11:08. > :11:12.theatre where he's performing. Most people in the UK became aware of you
:11:13. > :11:18.because of the incident involving Nicholas Anelka. Did you ask him to
:11:19. > :11:23.make that gesture? TRANSLATION: No, I didn't ask him directly. He did it
:11:24. > :11:28.to pay me a tribute because he's a friend. It is a gesture with
:11:29. > :11:36.panache, one of emancipation and courage. But it is caused a great
:11:37. > :11:44.deal of offence, people believe it is an inveted Nazi salut
:11:45. > :11:58.TRANSLATION: That's a very funny definition. It is just not truee.
:11:59. > :12:04.People who claim it is an inverted salute have their own agenda, they
:12:05. > :12:12.want to see anti-semitism wherever and however to justify their own
:12:13. > :12:17.solutions. Those who claim the Quennelle is an inverted Nazi salute
:12:18. > :12:24.are crazy. Why is it that people have been photographed making this
:12:25. > :12:28.salute in front of synagogues and in front of the Holocaust memorial and
:12:29. > :12:35.Auschwitz. TRANSLATION: That's the problem, all of that stuff is just
:12:36. > :12:41.exaggeration, around 100,000 photos have been taken and you are talking
:12:42. > :12:45.about three photos taken in front of symbolic places that represent
:12:46. > :12:49.Judaism. That is not even one in 1,000 of the photos that have been
:12:50. > :12:57.taken. Why try to sum up a much bigger movement in just a few Motos.
:12:58. > :13:11.So you condemn, that you think those people were wrong to make that
:13:12. > :13:13.gesture in those places? places? Think those people were wrong to
:13:14. > :13:16.make that gesture in those places? Ou You are asking me to condemn
:13:17. > :13:19.people and set myself up as judge and jinx in your society do what you
:13:20. > :13:24.have to do, put them in prison, that is not my job, I would rather judge
:13:25. > :13:28.you. You come here to me and I'm speaking to you and giving you a bit
:13:29. > :13:34.of my time talking about subjects that are obviously important to you.
:13:35. > :13:38.This gesture isn't anti-semetic for me, if people do the Quennelle and
:13:39. > :13:41.are anti-semetic, go and talk to them. How many people hate black
:13:42. > :13:45.people and do sketches about black people, do things that you could
:13:46. > :13:49.judge to be racist. Go and speak to them. It is a bit tiresome to
:13:50. > :13:53.systematically be put in the position of having to justify
:13:54. > :13:59.yourself. I don't have to justify myself to you. OK, let's talk about
:14:00. > :14:05.what you are responsible for. And that is your act. Your performance.
:14:06. > :14:15.You are a comedian, you say, but what sort of comedian makes jokes
:14:16. > :14:23.about the Holocaust or jokes that brag bracket Jewish reporters with
:14:24. > :14:26.gas chambers? TRANSLATION: I have never approached the Holocaust in
:14:27. > :14:30.any other terms than the logic of competition amongst victims. It is
:14:31. > :14:33.important for me to make chore to the public that no-one suffering is
:14:34. > :14:43.above any other, there is no hierarchy of suffering. I have no
:14:44. > :14:49.sympathy for anti-semitism. So for instance quite a common trait of
:14:50. > :14:54.anti-semitism is a belief that the Holocaust didn't happen, or was in
:14:55. > :15:02.some way exaggerated, so what is your position there, do you accept
:15:03. > :15:07.that as a historical fact. TRANSLATION: Look, I'm a comedian.
:15:08. > :15:12.But that's not an excuse, you are also a man, walking around and
:15:13. > :15:19.talking to people. Is it an all-purpose excuse to say I'm just a
:15:20. > :15:24.humourist, it doesn't matter what I say? TRANSLATION: But, you, you are
:15:25. > :15:28.a man who presents himself as someone serious, a journalist, I'm
:15:29. > :15:34.here to make people laugh. When you ask me questions about the Holocaust
:15:35. > :15:36.with that superserious long face, I say to myself clearly I'm not going
:15:37. > :15:44.to make you laugh about that subject, but I think you need to. I
:15:45. > :15:50.think it would be interesting to hear one of your jokes, can you tell
:15:51. > :15:56.us one of your jokes? TRANSLATION: That will cost you 35 euros, go and
:15:57. > :15:59.ask at the till there. You know perfectly well your act has created
:16:00. > :16:05.a lot of controversy, it is not just me sitting here, you have been
:16:06. > :16:17.fined, your show has been banned at times by the French. My country has
:16:18. > :16:20.refused you entry. TRANSLATION: I'm not responsible for the recent ban
:16:21. > :16:23.in England. I wanted to go there to play my show. I think my lawyers
:16:24. > :16:27.have sent a letter to your Government, to Mr Cameron to explain
:16:28. > :16:36.to him that this whole situation is not only unjust, but ridiculous. So
:16:37. > :16:39.I think I will come to London to perform within the year, in 2014. I
:16:40. > :16:48.think probably between September and December, at that point you are more
:16:49. > :16:55.than welcome to see what I do. What makes you think you will be allowed
:16:56. > :16:59.in? TRANSLATION: Can you seriously imagine that my ban in England
:17:00. > :17:03.protects the English from any risk or invasion or any sort of
:17:04. > :17:06.terrorism. It is so stupid that I think the English will wake up. You
:17:07. > :17:19.have got a Home Secretary who is almost as stupid and ridiculous as
:17:20. > :17:23.our own. Dieudonne and Steve Smith. Well before the Prime Minister
:17:24. > :17:27.winged his way to Somerset, he waded into the debate over Scottish
:17:28. > :17:30.independence with a speech we previewed last night, delivered from
:17:31. > :17:36.the site of the London Olympics. It was designed to evoke the spirit of
:17:37. > :17:40.the games and rouse a so far unconcerned population of the rest
:17:41. > :17:46.of the United Kingdom. For all of them to tell Scotland, "we want you
:17:47. > :17:52.to stay"! The Scottish leader, Alex Salmond retorted that instead of
:17:53. > :17:57.delivering the sermon from mount owe limb police, and come and speak to
:17:58. > :18:03.him. The Tory MP who is half Scottish and a staunch unionist is
:18:04. > :18:08.no firty, he went in the company of Alan Little to try to love bomb the
:18:09. > :18:10.Scots. What did you think of the Prime Minister's speech? I thought
:18:11. > :18:15.it was really moving, one of the best speeches he has made. Why did
:18:16. > :18:27.he make it? I think he made it because, or I guess he made it
:18:28. > :18:30.because he feels like I do,est speeches he has made. Why did he
:18:31. > :18:33.make it? I think he made it because, or I guess he made it because he
:18:34. > :18:35.feels like I do, that one of the problems is the English, Welsh and
:18:36. > :18:40.Northern Irish people have not talked about their love of Scotland.
:18:41. > :18:45.Tonight I persuaded him to come to a Glasgow pub where many of the
:18:46. > :18:50.drinkers were inclined to be yes voters or inclined that way. This is
:18:51. > :18:54.not a representative sample of the Scottish population, full
:18:55. > :18:59.disclosure. Could he persuade this sceptical crowd of the vert it is of
:19:00. > :19:04.a British patriotism. It is important to give English, Welsh and
:19:05. > :19:10.Irish people to a chance to say they love Scotland, and are committed to
:19:11. > :19:26.Scotland otherwise what is the UK if not about commitment and respect. It
:19:27. > :19:28.means basically nothing, unfortunately for youd to Scotland
:19:29. > :19:30.otherwise what is the UK if not about commitment and respect. It
:19:31. > :19:33.means basically nothing, unfortunately for you. I don't think
:19:34. > :19:36.it will matter to the way people are voting. I hope in my lifetime I will
:19:37. > :19:38.see an independent Scotland. Cameron today has done the yes campaign a
:19:39. > :19:44.lot of good. His remarks were facile and glib, and the reaction on
:19:45. > :19:48.Twitter today is unbelievable. People from England, Wales, tweeting
:19:49. > :19:54.to say, run, run, as fast as you can. By the way I'm still sitting on
:19:55. > :20:00.the fence, I'm worried about my own finances, naturally. Nevertheless I
:20:01. > :20:03.can understand... He as undecided but you might change his mind for
:20:04. > :20:07.him. Is there a sense of Britishness that is more than a sense of
:20:08. > :20:11.English, Welsh, Irish or Scottishness, is that gone, or
:20:12. > :20:15.something that is fading? Has it gone? It is not necessarily gone but
:20:16. > :20:19.I think there is a sense of self-Government in Scotland now
:20:20. > :20:24.because in a lot of different ways Scottish Parliament has done better
:20:25. > :20:29.than Westminster appears to be doing. What do you think about the
:20:30. > :20:35.question of whether there are ways of finding a more positive way of
:20:36. > :20:38.expressing a British identity while having a proud Scotland and being
:20:39. > :20:44.British in the way that was discussed is that possible any more
:20:45. > :20:49.or fading? I think it is a tough job really, and for me whether I have no
:20:50. > :20:53.doubt unionists will want to find as many positive things as they can
:20:54. > :21:00.find, but in general terms there is a real sense of Scottishness, there
:21:01. > :21:03.isn't a real great sense. The exchanges are polite, mutually
:21:04. > :21:07.respectful, but it is as though they are talking about two different
:21:08. > :21:10.countries. Easy to forget in here that the anti-independence Better
:21:11. > :21:15.Together campaign are still ahead in the polls. Then finally something to
:21:16. > :21:18.cheer Rory up. A no voter. Do you think we should be spending more
:21:19. > :21:25.time with each other, that the nations should be? I think we do
:21:26. > :21:30.already. I don't think that relations are that bad. I certainly
:21:31. > :21:35.don't think that Scotland would survive on its own without England.
:21:36. > :21:39.Did you feel you were part of their dialogue there? No, I felt in that
:21:40. > :21:45.conversation that we were coming from very, very different
:21:46. > :21:50.directions, and that you know, I think it is a challenge in politics.
:21:51. > :21:55.But what I really felt above all is that it didn't feel to me primarily
:21:56. > :21:59.to be about nationalism in an old fashioned sense. It felt to me as
:22:00. > :22:04.though this was really about party politics. These were people who, you
:22:05. > :22:08.know, I'm a Conservative MP and these are people who don't like
:22:09. > :22:14.Conservatives, some how that is becoming Scottish nationalism. Ahead
:22:15. > :22:18.of the Sochi winter Olympics there have been no shortage of photographs
:22:19. > :22:22.in the press and on-line reporting to demonstrate just how unready the
:22:23. > :22:27.Russians were. But, when the show began, it turned into a spectacular.
:22:28. > :22:33.In which the athletes almost played second fiddle to the lavish
:22:34. > :22:39.performances. # Back in the USSR. ?30 billion,
:22:40. > :22:44.that price tag should be able to include a good bash. 2,900 athletes
:22:45. > :22:50.from 45 countries crowded into the stadium. As with all glitzy parties
:22:51. > :22:54.it was made clear who the host was. The games have been dogged with
:22:55. > :22:58.tales of corruption, warnings of bombs and toothpaste, they have also
:22:59. > :23:01.been overshadowed by protests from the gay community, and in support of
:23:02. > :23:07.them by the absence of notable western world leaders. For just a
:23:08. > :23:10.moment there was a hiccup. A slight mal-Police Station with one of the
:23:11. > :23:15.makes but I think we get the idea. It wasn't a night for nay sayers, as
:23:16. > :23:23.a smooth story of Russia's history unfolded, from the Gauls to the time
:23:24. > :23:27.of tolls toy. There was even an Iron Curtain, who knew the 60s hung
:23:28. > :23:35.behind it. This was a potted history. Here was Stalin, and no
:23:36. > :23:41.mention of Solzinizen. But the corks popped, the flame is lit, and the
:23:42. > :23:45.world is waiting to see what the most expensive games ever will
:23:46. > :23:49.bring. What to make it all, I'm joined by historian and Russian
:23:50. > :23:53.export. When you looked at that, did you think there was an essence of
:23:54. > :23:57.Russian creativity, about the story and delivery? I thought the delivery
:23:58. > :24:02.was strangely Soviet in some ways. The spectacular, it is the sort of
:24:03. > :24:08.thing than an authoritarian regime does well, the Chinese did it well.
:24:09. > :24:12.The North Koreans? Exactly. In some ways it was quite Russian, a smooth
:24:13. > :24:19.depiction of Russian history with lots of bits left out, notably
:24:20. > :24:24.Stalin. For me also. And Lenin? Also just the fact that Sochi is on the
:24:25. > :24:32.site of two genocides and there are two significant accept teen rows, 18
:24:33. > :24:37.-- sent teen rows, the last of the Cecascians were forced out of Sochi,
:24:38. > :24:43.600,000 of them died on the way to the ottoman empire, where they were
:24:44. > :24:47.forced to go. The games will end on the 23rd of February, the 70th
:24:48. > :24:52.anniversary of the Stalinist expulsion of the Chechens. None of
:24:53. > :24:58.that was reflected in the story. Whether nations are obliged to
:24:59. > :25:02.pinpoint on their negative aspects or not I don't know. Did the
:25:03. > :25:06.Americans do that in Atlanta about the native Americans? I don't know.
:25:07. > :25:12.That was obviously something very cloud in its omission. But they were
:25:13. > :25:20.never going to put up a big image of Stalin, that was never going to
:25:21. > :25:24.happen. And yet you had tolls toy and Tchaikovsky. That struck me
:25:25. > :25:29.rather ironic being a gay composer at a time of antigay legislation in
:25:30. > :25:36.Russia. I'm not sure he would be too happy having the music used for an
:25:37. > :25:40.Olympics. Never watched an Opening Ceremony where I was so conscious of
:25:41. > :25:44.Putin. He was watching and checking, when the he fifth ring didn't come
:25:45. > :25:50.out you thought Putin and all the things happening recently and how
:25:51. > :25:55.again on the toes people were perhaps. It is very much his games,
:25:56. > :25:59.it was his personal choice to hold it in Sochi, it is crazy, a
:26:00. > :26:02.subtropical resort. They have the whole of Siberia, plenty of snow
:26:03. > :26:10.there, it would be cheaper. Perhaps they could build up some of the
:26:11. > :26:16.mbling infrastructure of Siberia instead he does it in the Soviet Las
:26:17. > :26:21.Vegas. One area where the idea of building the 20th century Russia
:26:22. > :26:25.into a kind of major military machine, a building with the steam
:26:26. > :26:29.train and so forth. That actually, as you say, it was very
:26:30. > :26:37.Soviet-style, but rather a beautiful style, some of the avant-garde style
:26:38. > :26:44.and Kandinsky, and all the artists, that can't be forgotten? Yes, but to
:26:45. > :26:51.try to alie the avant-garde with the bowls Vic, and then straight to the
:26:52. > :26:56.Sputniks and the Soviet rock 'n' rollers all having a great time and
:26:57. > :27:01.playing to post society nostalgia for that era. I felt slightly
:27:02. > :27:06.uncomfortable with that, visually it was stunning. There are rumours that
:27:07. > :27:12.Putin is trying to rehabilitate Stalin, he was never going to make
:27:13. > :27:16.that fly today? Do you think it marred to Russians watching that? I
:27:17. > :27:20.think it is a piece of propaganda and very effective. They would have
:27:21. > :27:23.come out of that today thinking very good about themselves as Russian,
:27:24. > :27:27.they would have thought Putin had done a good job in terms of
:27:28. > :27:31.presenting Russia positively to the world. A piece of propaganda, very
:27:32. > :27:38.effective. And yet you have the Germans with the rainbow uniforms on
:27:39. > :27:41.a direct reference to the harsh gay crackdown. Do you think Russians
:27:42. > :27:46.seeing that will have noticed that, would that really be uppermost in
:27:47. > :27:53.their minds? I don't think so, probably more listening out for the
:27:54. > :27:56.rumours about Kabaya, the athlete who is purportedly even putten to's
:27:57. > :28:00.wife but certainly a mistress, who was allowed to carry the torch. That
:28:01. > :28:04.sort of thing would be more in their minds, and the antigay legislation
:28:05. > :28:08.if anything is probably quite popular. Just one very final point,
:28:09. > :28:12.would it matter to Russians the absence of the western leaders and
:28:13. > :28:16.what their absence signified? Again I think probably not. I think they
:28:17. > :28:19.probably have their attitude of you know we can take pride in what we
:28:20. > :28:23.have done regardless of what the west thinks of us, and we can think
:28:24. > :28:35.good of ourselves as a result of this. Thank you very much. Just
:28:36. > :28:41.tomorrow morning's front pages now: They have that fifth ring not
:28:42. > :28:47.opening, and product samples not what we think they are. And sorry
:28:48. > :28:56.the hardest word for the flood chief. The Daily Mail spending our
:28:57. > :29:11.foreign aid on British victims of flooding MPs tell Cameron.
:29:12. > :29:18.That's all for tonight. Believe it or not. It is 50 years to the day
:29:19. > :29:22.since Beatlemania first hit the United States. When the Fab Four
:29:23. > :29:26.were met in New York by screaming fans and cynical press. Soon they
:29:27. > :29:31.were won over. Any doubts about the Beatles reception in America were
:29:32. > :29:36.disspelled the moment they touched down. New Yorkers turned out in
:29:37. > :29:41.force, and making allowance for the American accent the screams were
:29:42. > :29:54.genuine. John, Paul, George and Ringo had found a new world to
:29:55. > :29:57.conquer. Some press conference. For half an hour there was so much den
:29:58. > :30:02.you couldn't tell a word? REPORTER: Will you please sing something?
:30:03. > :30:10.Sorry, next question! REPORTER: Can you thing? No, we need money first
:30:11. > :30:13.claim --! . The crowds cheered them all the way to the hotel. The
:30:14. > :30:37.Beatles are the top pop music This winter is already breaking
:30:38. > :30:42.records for wind and rain, there is more where that came from. Severe
:30:43. > :30:43.gales affecting lots of Wales, south-west