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A new Archbishop of Canterbury. BBC News understands it will be the | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby. The former oil executive became an | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Archbishop just a year ago. David Cameron warns against a witch | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
hunt of gay people, following recent allegations of paedophilia, | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
related to high-file politicians. China begins a once in a decade | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
power transfer. The outgoing President issues a warning about | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
the urgent need to tackle inequality and corruption in the | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
country. A cancer surgeon is facing a criminal inquiry after | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
accusations he carried out operations on healthy women. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Bradley Wiggins suffers broken ribs after a collision with a car. Later | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
on BBC London: The 14-year-old killed by a driver who had been | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
taking drugs. Now schools warn of the dangers. On trial for fiddling | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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her expenses, but this former Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
News at One. The BBC understands that the Bishop of Durham, Justin | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Welby l be named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, in | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
secretary session to Rowan Williams. He is known for his opposition to | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
same-sex marriage and his support for women clergy A formal | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
announcement will be made tomorrow morning. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
It was just one year ago that Justin Welby made the traditional | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
entry to Durham Cathedral as the incoming Bishop. Now he is set to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
be named as the spiritual leader of the Church of England and nearly 80 | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
million Anglicans around the world. This is what I wear to.... Among | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
those he has been chosen over, the Archbishop of York, famous not | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
least for cutting up his dog collar in protest against President Mugabe. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
And the Bishop of London, who had to deal with weeks of anti- | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
capitalist protests on the steps of St Paul's. Justin Welby started out | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
his working life in business, spending 11 years as an oil | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
executive. Then he sensed a call to the priesthood and was ordained. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Reconciliation and conflict- resolution has been a major part of | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
his ministry on his way -- ministry. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
and his wife had six children, but have known tragedy. He understands | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
something of the sort of darker side of life. He's had personal | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
tragedy in his life. He's had a child that has died in a car crash. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
That has given him a sort of, I think a richer understanding of the | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
complexity of the world. Besides the more head-line grabbing | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
divisions that he will inherit over such as homosexuality, he will be | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
faced with the financial structures. Filling the pews in the towns and | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
the cities and the rural areas, a challenge where his managerial | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
experience could be a benefit. Today, people in his present dicesy | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
gave their reaction. It is nice for Canterbury. It is a shame he's | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
going. He has really inspired us, in a way that we needed to be | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
inspired. I think he can do that for the whole church. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
And like Archbishop Rowan Williams before him, Justin Welby is likely | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
to find his biggest challenge is holding that whole church and the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
leaders together. Quite a task considering he has been a bishop | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
for less than a year. Quite an experience at the top of the Church. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
That will be tested in all sorts of ways in the coming months. At the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
start of his tenure in office. Outside the Church he is a member | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
of the commission on banking standards. He has made it clear he | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
relishes the opportunity to speak out in public and political life. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
We will have more of that, I am sure. Within the Church, one issue | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
which has been a particular problem, though it may be near solution for | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Rowan Williams, is women Bishops. There is the possibility that will | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
be passed later this month. However, on the issue of homosexuality, most | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
certainly will be a difficult and divisive one for him as it was for | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Rowan Williams. There are those who are looking for more radical steps | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
on what they would call inclusiveness in the Church, who | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
will be weary of him. But professional colleagues, friends | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
are saying today he's a man of tremendous courage of very deep | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
faith, of very deep personal faith, rooted in Evangelical Christianity. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
We will hear from him tomorrow to find out more. Indeed. Thank you. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
David Cameron has said he is determined that the inquiries into | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
child abuse at children's homes, the BBC and children's hospitals | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
should bring the truth to light. He did not want them to turn into a | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
witch hunt against gay people. In a television interview, Mr Cameron | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
urged people with evidence against paedophiles to go to the police. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
There is a danger, if we are not careful that this could turn into a | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
sort of witch hunt, particularly against people who are gay. I am | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
worried about the sort of thing you are doing right now, giving me a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
list of names you have taken off the internet. If anyone has any | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
information about anyone who is a paedophile, no matter how high up | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
in British society they are, that is what the police are for. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
political correspondent is at Westminster for us. Expand on what | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
he had to say and this issue of a potential witch hunt against gay | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
people? This was a significant move by the Prime Minister to respond to | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the welter of speculation about the latest allegations of child abuse, | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
in particular, of course, the claim that a senior Conservative from the | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Thatcher era may have been involved in child abuse in North Wales. That | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
is now the subject of an inquiry. The Prime Minister believes there | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
is a danger of people being smeared unfairly by this. He wants anyone | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
with information to go to the police. He was pressed in that | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
interview about the renewed idea of having an overarching inquiry into | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the allegations of abuse in a series of different institutions, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
not just the North Wales children's homes, but in the NHS, the BBC and | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
so on. He says he feels at the moment it is more important for the | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
police to look at specific allegations and try and get to the | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
truth this that way. Interestingly enough, he didn't rule out a wider, | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
overarching inquiry in the future. Thank you. China's President Hu | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Jintao has told the Communist Party Congress that the party could be | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
undermined if it fails to tackle corruption. He was speaking at the | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
start of a meeting which will power transferred to a new set of leaders. | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
They came from across China - the hand-picked delegates from a | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
Communist Party, more than 80- million strong The opening of the | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
18th party Congress marks the start of China's leadership change. Its | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
political theatre on a grand scale and designed to showcase unity. | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
After a decade in power, President Hu Jintao is stepping down. His | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
awkward style has not always won him public affection. Under his | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
leadership, China has become the world's second largest economy. As | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
he was speaking, his successor, Xi Jinping, looked on. | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
He was surrounded by former leaders. You don't rule alone in China. | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
President Hu spoke of the country's achievements, but warned that | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
corruption could prove fate toll the party. TRANSLATION: We must | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
maintain a tough position in cracking down on corruption at all | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
times and conduct thorough investigations into major | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
corruption cases. All those whovy alate state laws - whoever they are | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
- must be brought to justice, without mercy. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Away from the Congress, normal life continues. In China the party | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
decides t public has no say. The future of one-billion plus people | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
will be decided by a handful of men. This woman says that President Hu | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
has done a great job. She is confident he will pick the right | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
successor. This man does not want to talk about politics. He says he | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
will get in trouble as soon as we leave. It is a reminder that | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
despite all the remarkable changes, China remains an authoritarian | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
state. With growing expectations, the Communist Party is under | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
intense pressure - to deliver. China may be richer than it was ten | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
years ago, but it is not necessarily better off. There is | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
growing resentment here over the growing gap between the rich and | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
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Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, is in Beijing. What | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
changes are we likely to see in terms of the relationship with the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
west? I don't think we will notice much difference, to be honest. The | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
big area for China at the moment is the Far East. Its relationship with | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Japan - a very difficult relationship, of course. I don't | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
think it will be a different country when it comes to dealing | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
with either Britain or the United States or Europe or anybody else. I | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
think we'll just see a continuation of the same kind of rule. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Domestically, it will be something else. Thank you, we have to leave | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
it there. Thank you. The Bank of England has announced that interest | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
rates will be kept at their record low of 0.5%. It has ruled out | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
pumping more cash into the economy. It is an important decision by the | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Bank of England - no more new money at this stage to be scattered | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
around the economy. �375 billion has been created so far under the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
policy known as quantitative easing. The bank could have opted for more, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
but did not. One, the economy appears to be stabilising. The | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
second is that quantitative easing has reached the limits of its | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
effectiveness. It is not stimulating the credit growth to | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
businesses, to consumers. The Bank of England does have another plan | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
under way to boost lending by the banks, so it may wait to see how | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
that develops. Business leaders say quantitative easing should not be | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
axed. They should keep Q E.ON the table. If the economy weakens, if | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
the storm clouds come back and rain on us again, then of course the | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
bank must hold QE in reserve. effective has the money creation | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
programme been so far? What benefits has it brought to the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
economy? Well the bank argues without it the recession would have | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
been worse and unemployment higher. There are some sceptics who are not | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
so sure. It was supposed to help companies like this drilling | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
business raise cash. It believes the Bank of England policy will | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
help eventually, but has not done much so far. I don't think it has | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
yet. I think it will in time. Certainly the initial quantitative | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
easing put in there was absorbed by the banks and used to recapitalise | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
themselves. I believe there is lending out there. Much will decide | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
on -- depend on what happens in the Failure to resolve the debt | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
problems could tip the US into recession and the UK would get | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
caught in the down-drought. A criminal investigation has been | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
launched by West Midlands Police after a surgeon was suz pented by | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
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be the -- suspended by the General Ian Paterson - a breast cancer | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
surgeon, now suspended from working as a doctor and under investigation | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
by the police. Operations he carried out at a number of | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
hospitals in the West Midlands on more than 1,000 women are claimed | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
to have been unnecessary, inappropriate or unregulated. One | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
of his former patients is Gail Boichat. She had a mastectomies 17 | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
years ago. In February this year doctors told her she had not needed | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
the operation because she had never had a life-threatening cancer. | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
don't feel good about yourself because of the scar. You think, I | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
shouldn't look like this now. I should never have looked like this. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
You just get up and you deal with that day, every day. Mr Paterson is | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
also accused of carrying out so- called cleavage-sparing operations | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
on women with dangerous cancer. The procedure which is unregulated | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
involved leaving behind some potentially dangerous cancerous | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
tissue and putting women at risk. The solicitor representing 90 women | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
said it has been a devastating experience. Women who have been | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
diagnosed with this illness deserve the best-quality health care. They | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
have been let down by Mr Paterson. What we are trying to do is secure | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
some compensation for them so they can have a better quality of life. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
The Heart of England NHS Trust, which covers hospitals where Ian | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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The Medical Defence Union has said Ian Paterson is co-operating fully | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
with the investigation. The Tour de France champion and Olympic gold | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
medal winner, Bradley Wiggins, is recovering in hospital after | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
colliding with a car. He was knocked off his bike near his home | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
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The aftermath of another British road accident. But this was no | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
ordinary cyclist. The victim was none other than the sporting hero | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
of 2012, Bradley Wiggins, Tour de France and Olympic champion rushed | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
to hospital after a training-ground came to a painful end. He said he | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
think he had broken his ribs. He wasn't a lot of pain. He is very | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
lucky that when the lady was pulling off and turning right, when | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
she hit him, a car coming behind him has not squished him. Bradley | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Wiggins was knocked off his bike, right here, and it's easy to see | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
how the incident could have happened. This garage may be in the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Lancashire countryside but it sits right on a dual-carriageway. It is | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
busy at the best of times. But especially around 6pm in the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
evening when the accident occurred. More than 100 cyclists have been | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
killed in Britain already this year, and those who ride on the roads | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
near up Bradley Wiggins's home think his escape should walk -- | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
serve as a warning to motorists. There is a general lack of | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
knowledge about cycling. Maybe some motorists think we are going slower | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
than we are. Bradley Wiggins Ben Knight here in hospital and should | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
be back in the saddle shoon -- spent the night in hospital and | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
should be back in the saddle up soon. Another reminder of the | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
perils of the sport, even when you are the best in the world. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The BBC understands that the new | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury will be the Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
a former oil executive who became a Bishop less than a year ago. Coming | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
up: Behind enemy lines: The Indian Princess who became a British | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
heroine during the Second World War. A statue in her honour is unveiled | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
today. Later on BBC London: A rematch for | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
the first ever FA Cup final, 140 years later. And a letter from the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Queen for the oldest person to become a British citizen. Join us | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
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There are calls for a million people to volunteer to become | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
"dementia friends", volunteers able to spot signs of the illness and | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
help sufferers. It is part of Government plans to raise awareness | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
of the condition, which affects nearly 700,000 people in England. | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes has the story. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
At a day-care centre in Aldham, John Starkey and his mother are | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
already preparing for Christmas. John is a full-time carer for his | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
mother who has been diagnosed with dementia. Here, his mother is | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
amongst understanding friends, but outside she needs a little more | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
consideration. There are times when she cannot perform as everyone else | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
can. You just need that little bit of extra time to do things, and | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
that little bit of extra space to do an activity or action. If people | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
were a bit more patient with her, then the results from her are | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
better. In centres like this up and down the country there are always | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
warm welcomes for people with dementia and their carers, but the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Prime Minister once everyday places like supermarkets, banks and GP | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
surgeries to become more accessible for people with the condition. And | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
that is where the dementia friends come in. Ministers are calling for | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
1 million volunteers with government-funded training to raise | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
awareness of the condition. Part of the challenge is not just what | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
happens in the NHS, where there are pockets of excellence, but lots to | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
do, but also what happens out and about in society where we need a | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
bigger understanding. At Swan first secondary school in Birmingham, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Edison Jones is laying out life as a carer. He has come to school with | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
his wife, Ruby, who has been diagnosed with dementia. They are | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
taking part in a project to raise awareness among school pupils in | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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England. You do not see dementia mentioned as a topic, and if you go | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
to any doctor's surgery and you look at the various notices, you | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
don't see anything. You cannot have an informed discussion with your GP | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
about dementia. The ambition behind the scheme is to transform | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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attitudes, not just in classrooms Plans for a radical change in the | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
role of army reservists, including an escalation of their readiness to | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
be sent on active service, have been outlined by the Defence | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Secretary. The size of the Territorial Army will be doubled to | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
30,000 recruits, and almost �2 billion will be spent on training | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
them. Here's our defence Reservists are already serving on | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
the front line in Afghanistan. Men like Ali, whose date Chine jobbers | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
in the construction industry -- volley. -- daytime job is in the | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
construction industry. Defence cuts are biting, leaving a smaller | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
regular force. It means reservists will be required to do much more. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
There is always a concern with how employable that you will be, | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
knowing full well that you have to let your employer know that you | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
have to go on operations every few years, potentially. That is why | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Philip Hammond has launched a consultation. He promises the | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
reservist better kit and training in return for greater commitment, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
and the numbers will double up to 30,000 from 15,000. Be is about | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
using the resources we have been a difficult fiscal climate -- this is | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
about. What we are talking about is increasing the reserve component of | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
our forces to bring it closer in line with our major allies. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Defence Secretary wants to make reservists like these into an | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
integral part of Diame. That is so they are no longer viewed -- viewed | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
as weekend warriors -- the army. Boosting the reputation and | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
increasing the numbers will be no easy task, not least for them and | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
their employers as they are asked to give up more time. It could make | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
life more difficult for bosses like this, Pat Mills. He runs a security | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
firm and wants to employ those with military experience. With more | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
emphasis on reserve forces the guys will be deployed more, so there | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
will be more pressure on the employers to fill the spaces. That | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
will encourage cost. Employers will be offered an incentive like extra | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
skills for staff, but defence does not come cheap. And someone will | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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have to pay for boosting the ranks G4S has lost its contract to run a | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
jail in East Yorkshire. The prism will return to the public sector | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
next year. Ministers say the decision was not related to the | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
firm's failure to provide enough security guards for the London | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
Games -- of the prison will return. Tens of thousands of residents in | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
New York and New Jersey have again lost power as a winter storm hit | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
areas still recovering from the devastating impact of last week's | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
Superstorm Sandy. Barbara Plett has The community at the edge of New | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
York was turned upside down by Superstorm Sandy. It was still | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
struggling to recover when another storm hit. Diggers worked as late | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
as they could to build some protection through the wind and | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
waves. It is barely a week since Superstorm Sandy came crashing into | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
the coast sending water surging up the beach and into the streets of | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
the community, flooding homes and causing damage. In New Jersey, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
people living in coastal areas were urged to evacuate. Some did, | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
fearing -- fearing a replay of the fury, but some have already seen | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
the worst. The bad weather complicated recovery. On Staton | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Ireland, officials had to suspend operations. It was grim news for | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
those shivering that heat and electricity. Tens of thousands of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
people lost power because of this winter storm. Some of them for the | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
second time. The storm cancelled nearly 2000 flights, created new | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
headaches for the public transport system and disbelief from battered | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
New Yorkers. We are laughing at it at this point because it is | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
unbelievable. You go from a hurricane into driving in the snow | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
in the same 10 days. It's pretty unbelievable. This is like insult | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
to injury. We had a Hurricane, now we're having a blizzard. In the end, | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
the storm was not as bad as expected, but there is the promise | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
of better weather ahead. It is a promise that people here will cling | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
A memorial service has been held in Enniskillen to mark the 25th | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
anniversary of the Remembrance Day bomb. 11 people were killed when | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
the IRA device went off without warning, as a large crowd stood | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
beside the town's war memorial. The names of the victims were read out | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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A statue will be unveiled today to a British war heroine who risked | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
her life by parachuting into occupied France. Noor Inayat Khan | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
was an Indian Princess who became a secret agent during World War Two. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
She was eventually executed by the Nazis. Robert Hall is at | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
Philip has been visiting the Field of Remembrance. When Prince Philip | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
came here an hour or so ago he had personal stories from the 3000 or | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
so veterans and family members who were here. This is a story that is | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
not often told, a story commemorated a couple of miles away, | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
a woman from an unlikely background cent on a secret mission, who paid | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
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The on June 17th, 1943 a lone aircraft slipped over the coast | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
occupied France. On board, another agent to join the hundreds working | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
with French resistance groups. She was known as Nora Baker, but the | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
truth was different. Nora Baker was, in fact, Noor Inayat Khan. Born | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
into an Indian royal family. A sensitive young woman who enjoyed | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
literature and music but to found the courage to risk her own life | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
behind enemy lines. -- who found. She was a gentle writer of | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
children's stories and a musician but she was transformed. She was a | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
tigress in the field. This post war documentary revealed the secret | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
world of wartime agents. She spoke perfect French and knew how to | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
operate a radio, and had a determination which more than | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
matched her male colleagues. It is a difficult line of approach, but | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
we can manage it. A also in the documentary, the pilot who flew | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
dozens of moonlit missions and said farewell to men and women whose | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
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life expectancy in France averaged There is no long lobby at the | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
moment that women should be honoured, and I think they were | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
wonderful and I totally agree. first mission to occupied Paris was | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
to be her last. Betrayed and arrested, she fought back so | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
fiercely that she was classified as dangerous. She briefly escaped but | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
was recaptured and taking in change -- chains to Dachau concentration | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
camp. One day in late summer, three and other -- 3 and -- her and three | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
other agents were brutally executed. She was 33 years old when she died | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
and her last word is said to have been liberty. Today's ceremony in a | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
peaceful London square well- recognised her courage and | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
sacrifice of so many others on a war-torn continent far from home -- | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
It is another story amongst so many stories, and when you hear the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
facts you wonder why it hadn't been told before. The truth is the | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
missions were so secret and the work of the Special Operations | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
Executive so secret that they were not talked about. In fact, the | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
family had a painful time. They did not know how or where she had died | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
until many years later. Once the facts emerge, the campaign emerged | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
for her to be remembered in their different way. The first stand- | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
alone memorial to an Asian woman erected in the UK. It is | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
significant and it brings her family and surviving agents from | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
England... What a shame. I was going to say thank you for bringing | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
us such an extraordinary sort -- story. Let's take you to the | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
Fairly quiet for many of us today. What you have today we will most | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
likely keep for the afternoon. There is some sunshine out there, | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
but it doesn't last beyond the afternoon. Behind me, this ominous | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
cloud is gathering and that will bring rain by tea time into the | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
Highlands and the Islands of Scotland. There is a little around | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
her south-western England. Cloud has been coming and going but it is | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
pleasant and the winds have eased down since this morning. The | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
temperatures are a bit above what we've seen this week which is about | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
average for the time of year. Pleasant weather. Western areas | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
seeing thicker cloud and the odd drizzly shower. By the afternoon, | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
the rain is knocking on the door of the Highlands of Scotland. That is | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
the big change with the wind strengthening and ushers in rain to | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
the western areas. A damp evening if you're travelling here. Further | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
south, we keep the clear skies, so a chilly night, but in contrast a | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
wet and windy one further north. The rain is slowed to go south so | :29:25. | :29:31. | |
we could have 20 or 30 mm of rain in Scotland. In the south, lighter | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
winds, a touch of patchy ground frost and maybe some mist and fog. | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
We are split three ways tomorrow. The south and east see the best of | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
the dry and bright weather but for Wales and northern England the rain | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
could be throughout the day. In the north, it brightens in Northern | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
Ireland but there will be a rash of showers. We are talking hailstones, | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
thunder, sleet and snow over the hills of Scotland. Decidedly | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
miserable under the band of rain which Peps up across Wales. That is | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
tied in with this weather front which sort of stays put as we start | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
the weekend. By that stage the rain will move into southern and eastern | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
parts, so we are rather wet in the East on Saturday and it could be a | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
late evening until it clears, but then we will see fewer showers but | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
they will come in on a chilly breeze with Hale, thunder, sleet | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
and snow in the hills. Sunday looking like a quieter day of the | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
weekend. Less showers, but a cold start and back to business by | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
Monday as the rain arrives again. Just to reiterate, the weekend look | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
showery with most of the showers on Saturday. Hopefully a dry day on | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Sunday but a chilly breeze and the frost first thing on Sunday morning. | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
A bit of a mixed bag. Enjoy the sunshine if you see it today and | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
there is plenty more where there on Thanks. Now a reminder of our top | :30:55. | :30:59. |