:00:12. > :00:13.Winners and losers. The row continues over who'll pay the most
:00:13. > :00:17.following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
:00:17. > :00:21.George Osborne insisted all sections of society will have to
:00:21. > :00:25.contribute, but Labour says it's the poorest working families who'll
:00:25. > :00:29.be hardest hit. Feeling much better. The Duchess of
:00:29. > :00:32.Cambridge leaves hospital after four days of treatment for severe
:00:32. > :00:36.pregnancy sickness. Two more years for Virgin to run
:00:36. > :00:41.the East Coast Main Line as the Government is criticised over the
:00:41. > :00:49.handling of the original deal. Waiting times are up in England
:00:49. > :00:53.according to a survey of patients in A&E.
:00:53. > :00:57.23 hundreds now. No England player has more. Alastair Cook scores more
:00:57. > :01:01.test centurying than any other England player in history.
:01:01. > :01:05.Later on BBC London: More than a third of the capital's councils are
:01:05. > :01:09.unlawfully housing homeless families in B&Bs. A new report is
:01:09. > :01:19.released following this man's death about the way people are removed
:01:19. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:35.Very good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. So just who were
:01:35. > :01:39.the winners and losers in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement?
:01:39. > :01:43.That's the question politicians have been arguing about all morning.
:01:43. > :01:47.Labour have claimed that poorer working families will be worse hit,
:01:47. > :01:51.whereas the Government says a squeeze on working age benefits is
:01:51. > :01:55.fair on people who go out to work and pay tax. Well, this morning,
:01:56. > :01:58.one of the main credit rating agencies said the UK's triple-A
:01:58. > :02:02.status is under threat after the Chancellor acknowledged the
:02:02. > :02:04.Government would miss its debt- reduction target. More from our
:02:04. > :02:09.Political Correspondent, Carole Walker.
:02:09. > :02:13.The Chancellor wanted to highlight the positive news. No rise in fuel
:02:13. > :02:16.duty, extra help for business, but the cap on benefits is part of a
:02:17. > :02:21.programme of austerity measures that will last much longer than
:02:21. > :02:25.he'd hoped. And he's facing a warning that our international
:02:25. > :02:27.credit rating is under threat. Mr Osborne admitted if health service
:02:27. > :02:33.downgraded, it would damage the country's economic credibility and
:02:33. > :02:36.hit interest rates, but he said the risk was now less than when the
:02:36. > :02:41.coalition took power. Things have changed a lot under this Government.
:02:41. > :02:44.We've got interest rates down and a lot of credit rating agencies when
:02:44. > :02:47.they give advice about what Britain should do, the one thing they say
:02:47. > :02:51.Britain shouldn't do is set out deliberately to spend and borrow
:02:51. > :02:54.even more. You have got to remember, my critics are saying, Britain's
:02:54. > :02:59.got a debt problem, let's add to the debt.
:02:59. > :03:02.In Commons yesterday, the Shadow Chancellor struggled to get his
:03:02. > :03:06.message across. Today, he attacked measures which he said would hit
:03:06. > :03:10.many ordinary working families and accused George Osborne of trying to
:03:10. > :03:14.sneer benefit claimants. referred to the people with the
:03:14. > :03:18.course tains drawn when others go to work -- course tains drawn. He
:03:18. > :03:21.wants to pretent this is about the feckless workshy. Personally I
:03:21. > :03:25.think that's quite offensive to lots of people looking for work in
:03:25. > :03:28.this economy when there's not enough jobs. What he didn't tell
:03:28. > :03:32.you, the complete conof the statement is that 60% of people
:03:32. > :03:36.who're hit are working people. didn't say how Labour would vote
:03:36. > :03:40.when the plan to increase most working age benefits by just 1% for
:03:41. > :03:44.three years comes to the Commons. The Tories believe it's a move that
:03:44. > :03:48.will have popular support at a time when public sector workers are
:03:48. > :03:51.facing a pay freeze, but it's a difficult issue for the Liberal
:03:51. > :03:56.Democrats. The Deputy Prime Minister said the
:03:56. > :04:00.Lib Dems had prevented their Tory coalition partners from going even
:04:00. > :04:04.further. They wanted �10 billion worth of welfare cuts. We have
:04:04. > :04:07.agreed on �3.5 billion. They wanted to freeze all benefits, we haven't
:04:07. > :04:11.frozen them. They are going to increase by less than inflation,
:04:11. > :04:16.but they'll increase by 1%. There were proposals to take benefits
:04:16. > :04:20.away from larger families that I didn't want. The coalition plan to
:04:20. > :04:25.mend the economy has done little to ease the worries of workers at this
:04:25. > :04:29.Derbyshire clothing factory. Life's quite difficult at the moment. We
:04:29. > :04:32.have a newborn baby to look after, we have milk, nappies and medicines
:04:32. > :04:37.that she might need. With a pension and a little wage and what have you,
:04:37. > :04:40.I've got to say, I'm dreading the future. The festive season will be
:04:40. > :04:43.tough for many and the Prime Minister's admitted there are chill
:04:43. > :04:49.winds across the economy. He said the Government is taking difficult
:04:49. > :04:54.decisions to give the economy a chance for the future.
:04:54. > :04:59.We will get the latest political reaction from Westminster with
:04:59. > :05:02.Norman Smith in just a moment. First, there's been an awful lot of
:05:02. > :05:10.number crunching this morning. In the past few minutes, the Institute
:05:10. > :05:14.for Fixical studies has released its spwerpre takes of the figures -
:05:14. > :05:21.- interpretation of the figures. What are we hearing, Hugh? We have
:05:21. > :05:23.had a string of people going in, as well as analysts and media, to the
:05:23. > :05:28.Institute for Fiscal Studies number crunch presentation at this
:05:28. > :05:31.conference centre. The headlines are this, and of course they've put
:05:31. > :05:35.some interpretation out already, but they confirm that the capping
:05:35. > :05:38.of benefit increases at 1% will create real losses for poor
:05:38. > :05:42.households with the least ability to cope with real falls in their
:05:42. > :05:45.income, althe They point out that benefits rising in line with
:05:45. > :05:50.inflation in previous years, the last couple of year that, was above
:05:50. > :05:53.earnings. So in a sense, benefits recipients were doing slightly
:05:53. > :05:58.better than average earnings in the run-up to this announcement. They
:05:58. > :06:02.also point out the richest in society will be hit as well because
:06:02. > :06:05.of the pension changes. In terms of public spending and further
:06:05. > :06:11.austerity, they point out that what's been inked in by George
:06:11. > :06:14.Osborne now going right through to 2017 - 18 is a dilemma if you like,
:06:14. > :06:18.that if you continue whoever's in Government then continues to
:06:18. > :06:21.protect health and schools and not wut welfare any more and not raise
:06:21. > :06:25.taxes, then other departments like police, Local Government defence
:06:25. > :06:32.and so on will face cuts of 16% on top of existing cuts meaning cuts
:06:32. > :06:35.of a third since 2010. The IFS says that's inconceivable that actually
:06:35. > :06:42.whoever's going to implement this will have to raise taxs or start
:06:42. > :06:44.looking at health and schools. Let's put all of this to our
:06:44. > :06:47.Political Correspondent, Norman Smith at Westminster. Who the is
:06:47. > :06:54.going to have to pay then? The Government has to pal lance the
:06:54. > :06:58.books. Who is going to have to pay? Kate, that is the question. --
:06:58. > :07:08.balance. One to have Government's central mantras has been that it's
:07:08. > :07:12.those with the broadest sholdwhors should have the heaviest burden. --
:07:12. > :07:17.shoulders should have the heaviest burden. When you look at the
:07:17. > :07:22.figures, the bottom 50% lose out, primarily because of this 1% cap on
:07:22. > :07:27.future rises in the working age benefits. That is not just those
:07:27. > :07:30.people characterised as lying in bed asleep with the curtains drawn
:07:30. > :07:33.while families go out to work in the early hours. There are
:07:33. > :07:39.themselves in many instances working families in receipt of Tax
:07:39. > :07:43.Credits. Why this matters is because these are, if you like, the
:07:43. > :07:46.working poor, the strivers who the Prime Minister's pledged to protect.
:07:46. > :07:51.Paradoxically, however, this is also a problem for Labour, because
:07:51. > :07:57.they have been unable to say whether they would vote against the
:07:57. > :08:02.cap on benefits. Now, they say that's because they've not seen the
:08:02. > :08:07.legislation, but one suspects also they know privately most polling
:08:07. > :08:13.soots kerbs to benefits is electorally popular.
:08:13. > :08:17.Thank you. Much more analysis on our website
:08:17. > :08:22.at www.bbc.co.uk/news, including how the Autumn Statement is most
:08:22. > :08:25.likely to effect you. Now, related in the past hour, the
:08:26. > :08:30.Bank of England has confirmed it's keeping interest rates at their
:08:30. > :08:34.record low of 0.5%. It's also decided not to extend its
:08:34. > :08:38.quantitative easing stimulus programme which has injected nearly
:08:38. > :08:46.�400 billion into the financial system. The cost of borrowing has
:08:46. > :08:50.been unchanged since March. The Duchess of Cambridge has left
:08:50. > :08:54.hospital after four days of treatment for acute pregnancy
:08:54. > :08:57.sickness. She told media she was feeling better. We can speak to our
:08:57. > :09:01.Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, who is there. How did she
:09:01. > :09:05.appear then, Nick, when you saw her?
:09:05. > :09:08.I think she looked pretty relaxed, though entirely understandably
:09:08. > :09:12.after three nights here being treated for this acute sickness
:09:12. > :09:16.condition, she looked perhaps rather subdued, certainly more sub
:09:16. > :09:19.died than we are accustomed to seeing her, but much better was her
:09:19. > :09:23.answer when reporters shouted a question as to how she was feeling
:09:23. > :09:27.and she took it carefully down the few steps from the hospital with a
:09:27. > :09:31.guiding hand from Prince William and then into the car and back to
:09:31. > :09:35.their home at Kensington Palace here in London where we are told
:09:35. > :09:39.there will be a period of rest. That, I'm sure, is going to be the
:09:39. > :09:42.priority now, her engagements oaf the next few days have been
:09:42. > :09:47.cancelled. I think rest will be what she needs and I wouldn't be at
:09:47. > :09:51.all surprised if we don't see very much of her in public now for these
:09:51. > :09:57.next few weeks. Indeed. Plenty for them to consider
:09:57. > :10:01.over the next few weeks? Yes. William in particular's got to
:10:01. > :10:07.take an important decision. He's got to decide by Christmas whether
:10:07. > :10:10.he's going to continue in the air- sea rescue squadron up at Anglesey.
:10:11. > :10:14.The remoteness of Anglesey was something that the couple greatly
:10:14. > :10:18.enjoyed in the early part of their married life together. But whether
:10:18. > :10:21.the Royal doctors will feel entirely relaxed about her being up
:10:21. > :10:24.there, I'm sure that there are excellent medical facilities up
:10:24. > :10:29.there, but after this episode, I'm sure they'll be having to consider
:10:29. > :10:33.a rather bigger package than was the case before and he must decide
:10:33. > :10:37.whether to remain in the air-sea rescue squadron beyond next summer
:10:37. > :10:42.or perhaps rejoin the Household Cavalry or perhaps take up full-
:10:42. > :10:47.time Royal duties and concentrate on that and, of course, on his
:10:47. > :10:51.prospective fatherhood. Thank you very much.
:10:51. > :10:54.Should sentences for sex offenders be tougher if their victims have
:10:54. > :10:57.suffered long-term psychological damage? The Sentencing Council
:10:57. > :11:01.thinks so. It's recommending new guideline force judges which would
:11:01. > :11:06.take into account the tactics used by offenders, particularly in cases
:11:06. > :11:08.of sexual exploitation and child grooming. With more, our legal
:11:08. > :11:13.affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman.
:11:13. > :11:17.Over a four-year period from the age of 11, Nick was sexually
:11:17. > :11:22.assaulted by a Scout master. Some years later, he went to the police
:11:22. > :11:28.and his abuser was jailed for six months, but Nick was so badly
:11:28. > :11:34.affected, he started to self-harm. Over the last 15, 20 years, to the
:11:34. > :11:43.point whereby I've had operations, I've had stitches, sutures,
:11:43. > :11:48.possibly in the region of over 600. Burning underneath here. I used to
:11:48. > :11:50.put my arm over the top of the cooker to get rid of the guilt.
:11:50. > :11:54.Current guidance on for instance sexual assault focus on physical
:11:54. > :12:00.factors to determine seriousness. The new guidelines allow far more
:12:00. > :12:04.weight to be given to psychological harm. Just as modern societies are
:12:04. > :12:09.coming to terms with the full psychological effects that sex
:12:09. > :12:12.offenders can have on their victims, so too is the criminal justice
:12:13. > :12:17.system that.'s one of the principal reasons why the Sentencing Council
:12:17. > :12:21.have come up with new guidelines that cover 54 different sexual
:12:21. > :12:26.offences. We recognise that the psychological effects are every bit
:12:26. > :12:30.as important as the physical injury and the initial violation which any
:12:30. > :12:33.sexual offence involves. People's lives are affected, some times in
:12:33. > :12:38.the long-term, and if there is evidence of that available to the
:12:38. > :12:41.judge at the time of sentence, it's only right he should take it into
:12:41. > :12:45.account. The guideline also takes greater account of the grooming and
:12:45. > :12:48.exploitation of children and of the use of modern technology to film
:12:48. > :12:56.rape. The proposals have already been
:12:56. > :13:00.welcomed by victims like Nick. First Virgin Trains lost the
:13:00. > :13:04.licence to run trains on the West Coast Mainline, then that teal
:13:04. > :13:07.collapsed because of mistakes made by civil servants in the bidding
:13:07. > :13:14.process. Now Virgin has signed a new deal with the Government to
:13:14. > :13:20.keep the trains running for another two years, but it comes, that's
:13:20. > :13:26.until a new long-term contract can be awarded. Richard Westcott is at
:13:26. > :13:29.London's Euston station. What's in the report? Irbgs it's pretty
:13:30. > :13:33.damning reading for the Department for Transport. It talks about bad
:13:33. > :13:36.planning and bad management. It says they used the wrong figures
:13:36. > :13:39.and didn't take inflation into account. There's one very
:13:39. > :13:44.interesting element actually which looks especially bad for them. What
:13:44. > :13:48.it effectively says is that the rail minister at the time, threez
:13:48. > :13:51.za Villiers, was given inaccurate information when she was making the
:13:51. > :13:54.decision by officials -- Theresa Villiers. It doesn't say whether it
:13:54. > :13:58.was on purpose or a mistake. But she was making a decision using the
:13:58. > :14:02.wrong information. Now, there are other interesting elements. 24 had
:14:02. > :14:06.been rumours of an anti-Branson bias within the department. This
:14:06. > :14:09.report looked at e-mails, couldn't find evidence of that at all so
:14:09. > :14:14.that doesn't seem to have happened, but crucially what it doesn't say,
:14:14. > :14:17.is that the whole system is broken. It says they need to make big
:14:17. > :14:21.changes but they can continue with franchising roughly as it is now.
:14:21. > :14:24.Virgin continue to keep the trains running at least for the time
:14:24. > :14:27.being? Yes, we found out today they are
:14:27. > :14:31.going to run them for the next 23 months, that's going to give the
:14:31. > :14:34.Government enough time to sort out what they are going to do with
:14:34. > :14:36.franchising, how they are going to change things to make sure this
:14:36. > :14:40.doesn't happen again and run another bidding process which can
:14:40. > :14:44.take a year or so. If you are a passenger on this service, 30
:14:44. > :14:46.million use these trains every year, passengers, then you won't notice
:14:46. > :14:49.any difference, actually slight improvements in the service over
:14:49. > :14:53.the next two years or so. If you think by Sunday that train was
:14:53. > :14:57.meant to have a different colour scheme, it was nont say First on it,
:14:57. > :15:06.but it will be two years before we find out who'll be running this
:15:06. > :15:11.line long-term. Our top story: The Chancellor, George Osborne, has
:15:11. > :15:15.denied his autumn state will hit the working poor harder than the
:15:15. > :15:20.rich. I'm standing here tonne banks of
:15:20. > :15:27.the Thame where is in just a few hours, this icebreaker is going to
:15:27. > :15:31.set sail for Antarctic ka, an expedition led by Sir Ranulph
:15:31. > :15:36.Fiennes. Later on BBC London, we look around the home of London's
:15:36. > :15:39.most famous author before it opens to the public next week. Why a sex
:15:39. > :15:49.one win for Chelsea wasn't enough to keep them in the Champions
:15:49. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:56.There has been another night of violence in Northern Ireland,
:15:56. > :16:02.directed against members of the non-sectarian Alliance Party. The
:16:02. > :16:09.Union flag is said by them to be -- the problem being that the Union
:16:09. > :16:13.flag should fly over City Hall only on certain designated days.
:16:13. > :16:18.Yes, this street in the middle of Carrickfergus is just about
:16:19. > :16:22.returning to normal. The office which was attacked last night, it
:16:22. > :16:26.is remarkable that it is still standing. Nearly 100 people tried
:16:26. > :16:32.to burn it down last night. It was one of a number of attacks in
:16:32. > :16:37.different parts of Northern Ireland. The latest victims of violence in
:16:37. > :16:41.Northern Ireland, a young family attacked in their own home as a
:16:41. > :16:46.result of a row over a flag. A paint bomb was thrown at the house
:16:46. > :16:50.last night. Fortunately, the little baby was not playing with her toys
:16:50. > :16:56.at the time her mum and dad belong to the Cross Community, Alliance
:16:56. > :17:01.Party. Its support for the removal of of the Union flag from Belfast
:17:01. > :17:07.City Council sparked a series of attacks by loyalists.
:17:07. > :17:11.I had gone to bed with Grace. The bed is below the window, whenever I
:17:11. > :17:16.realised what happened, the Buckingham Palace fell off the
:17:16. > :17:22.window there, when I realise what had had happened, it, I was
:17:22. > :17:27.extremely upset. I could not stop shaking and was beside myself. You
:17:27. > :17:32.can see how jumpy we are. 20 miles away, an Alliance Party party
:17:32. > :17:36.office was destroyed, after a protest by more than 1,000
:17:36. > :17:38.loyalists in Carrickfergus. The outbreak coming a day before the
:17:38. > :17:40.American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is due to visit
:17:40. > :17:44.Northern Ireland. I would like Hillary Clinton to
:17:44. > :17:47.come to Carrickfergus, to see what a full front l attack on democracy
:17:47. > :17:51.is like. The police say that the violence
:17:51. > :17:57.has to stop now. The world is watching.
:17:57. > :18:03.It will make its judgment on the events of the next few days.
:18:03. > :18:09.That judgment will affect people's jobs, tourism, economic development
:18:09. > :18:14.and the hope of our young people. Although the Union flag has gone
:18:15. > :18:18.from Belfast City haul it will be flown on special occasions, but
:18:18. > :18:23.loyalist protests continue, with more and more flags today being put
:18:23. > :18:26.up around this city. Well, across Northern Ireland this
:18:26. > :18:30.morning, the churches, the politicians, the people have
:18:30. > :18:35.appealed for peace. What is not clear, is whether those loyalist
:18:35. > :18:40.protestors are listening. Mark, thank you very much.
:18:40. > :18:44.In the past few minutes, the coffee chain, Starbucks has been giving
:18:44. > :18:48.details of how much money it will give HM Revenue & Customs after
:18:48. > :18:53.criticisms it paid nothing in Corporation Tax last year. Let's
:18:53. > :18:58.speak to our Business Correspondent, Emma Simpson with a brief reminder
:18:58. > :19:02.of the back ground to this controversy.
:19:02. > :19:06.Starbucks is one of three companies slated by MEPs on the Public
:19:06. > :19:10.Accounts Committee for not paying enough Corporation Tax. They were
:19:10. > :19:14.accused of immorale tax avoidance in a highly critical report.
:19:14. > :19:19.Starbucks is a company with more than 750 shops it is everywhere on
:19:19. > :19:25.the High Street, more than a third of the market. MPs heard it had
:19:25. > :19:29.sales of about �398 million. Now what puzzled the MPs is the fact
:19:29. > :19:33.that Starbucks say it is has not made a profit in the last 14 out of
:19:33. > :19:38.15 years of trading here in the UK. Of course, if there are no profits,
:19:38. > :19:42.there is no Corporation Tax. Now, Starbucks and other big
:19:42. > :19:48.companies are not doing anything illegal. What Starbucks told the
:19:48. > :19:51.MPs was heavy trading losses were incured due to mistaings in the
:19:51. > :19:55.property strategy, but it has sparked a huge controversy. It has
:19:55. > :19:59.clearly been stung by the criticism. This lunch time it announced some
:19:59. > :20:03.changes. Now, what are they? Well, in the
:20:03. > :20:06.last few minute, Starbucks said it will pay in the region of �10
:20:06. > :20:11.million in Corporation Tax per year for the next two years. That is in
:20:11. > :20:15.addition to other taxes that it pays. Also they would say that they
:20:15. > :20:20.would pay more regardless of weather the company was profitable
:20:20. > :20:24.or not. The UK boss describing it as an unprecedented commitment.
:20:24. > :20:28.Saying that the decisions were the right things to do. That they have
:20:28. > :20:33.heard that loud and clear from the customers. So clearly, Starbucks is
:20:33. > :20:37.trying to draw a line under this, putting the pressure on other big
:20:38. > :20:42.companies like Amazon and Google. Again in the past few minutes we
:20:42. > :20:48.have heard that the PR consultant, Max Clifford has been arrested on
:20:48. > :20:57.suspicion of sexual offences. Hes with detained by officers from
:20:57. > :21:03.Opraegs You tree -- Operation You tree, set up after the
:21:03. > :21:10.investigation of Jimmy Savile. What, do we know? Well, we heard from the
:21:10. > :21:14.police that they arrested a man, the BBC understands that the man is
:21:14. > :21:23.Max Clifford, the celebrity publicist. A source close to him
:21:23. > :21:28.confirmed that he is helping the police with their inquiries. He was
:21:28. > :21:33.arrested to help the police with Operation Yewtree. That
:21:33. > :21:38.investigation is concerned not solely with child sex abuse, but
:21:38. > :21:41.concerned with sex offences. Max Clifford was arrested on suspicion
:21:41. > :21:48.of sexual offences this morning, he is being questioned as a Central
:21:48. > :21:53.London police station. Thank you very much.
:21:53. > :21:57.Egypt's Republican Guard has told protestors to disperse from outside
:21:57. > :22:02.of the Presidential Palace. The unrest in which five people have
:22:02. > :22:06.been killed and 350 have been wounded has been caused by anger
:22:06. > :22:09.over a controversial draft constitution, that give the
:22:09. > :22:12.President sweeping and irversible new powers.
:22:13. > :22:16.Waiting times are getting longer at A&E Department in England,
:22:17. > :22:19.according to a survey of patient business the health regulator. The
:22:19. > :22:24.Care Quality Commission study revealed that 33% of people that
:22:24. > :22:31.they spoke to spent more than four hours at A&E. The Government's
:22:31. > :22:34.target is for no more than 5%. The Health Correspondent has more.
:22:35. > :22:39.A&E Departments are often the front line of the health service. Like
:22:39. > :22:42.all parts of the NHS in England, they are under pressure from an
:22:42. > :22:47.ageing population and tighter finances. Now, the pressures seem
:22:48. > :22:51.to be impacting. This survey looked at A&E Department waiting times in
:22:51. > :22:55.England. 46,000 patients responded. The figures show a third of them
:22:55. > :23:00.reported waiting more than four hours. That is an increase on 2008
:23:00. > :23:04.when the figure was 27%. In 2004, less than a quarter of patients had
:23:04. > :23:08.to wait that long. Official figures from the Department of Health show
:23:08. > :23:11.just 4% of patients wait four hours or more.
:23:11. > :23:15.The surveys are important indicators as to how people feel.
:23:15. > :23:18.Therefore we should take them seriously. We should look at the
:23:18. > :23:24.results, think about what they can do within their own individual
:23:24. > :23:28.hospital to get this better. The Department of Health says that
:23:28. > :23:32.most patients wait 40 minutes before they are first seen. The
:23:32. > :23:38.doctors and the nurses are giving the sickest patients the highest
:23:38. > :23:42.priority. A&E saw more than 21 million people last year. They are
:23:42. > :23:46.busier than ever, but the perception among the patients seems
:23:46. > :23:52.that they are waiting longer. Cricket and the England captain,
:23:52. > :24:01.Alastair Cook made history by scoring more Test match centuries
:24:01. > :24:07.than any other English player. England were 216-1 against India in
:24:07. > :24:12.Calcutta. A lovely day in Kolkata to watch
:24:12. > :24:19.the batting. India counting the run. Panathinaikos finished with four
:24:19. > :24:25.wickets. India were 316-all out.
:24:25. > :24:30.Stoney salvaged a 506789 stand by as India maid a serious error.
:24:30. > :24:35.Dropping Alastair Cook, his situation on sinful, Cheteshwar
:24:35. > :24:40.Pujara with guilty hants. Cook kk made 17, then he resumed normal
:24:40. > :24:45.service. Showing the ball the way to the boundary, the timing was
:24:45. > :24:49.great. Alastair Cook bats look clockwork, wake up and he is still
:24:49. > :24:55.going. Alastair Cook helping himself as he came the youngest
:24:55. > :25:00.player ever to score 7,000 runs in Test Matchs. A few Indian fielders
:25:00. > :25:06.starting to feel their age. A neat decollection and Alastair Cook was
:25:07. > :25:15.on his way. -- deflection. The 23ered Test
:25:15. > :25:22.Match of his career, an English record. He overtook boy by boy, and
:25:22. > :25:28.past Colin Cowdrey who played from the mid-50s toed mid-07s. Kevin
:25:28. > :25:37.Pietersen is behind him -- India would like to get rid of him this
:25:37. > :25:43.week. England are one down, 100 behind, Alastair Cook-not out.
:25:43. > :25:47.Now, six months of crossing hostile terrain in temperatures of minus 90
:25:47. > :25:51.Celsius, it is not for the faint of heart, but that is what Ranulph
:25:51. > :25:58.Fiennes is setting out to do. Dubbed Coldest Journey, it involves
:25:58. > :26:03.leading a team on foot across the Antartica in near-permanent
:26:03. > :26:08.darkness and in the superlow temperatures of winter.
:26:08. > :26:11.Matthew Price is on board. Well, it has been very cold on the
:26:11. > :26:16.Thames this morning, but nothing compared to the temperatures that
:26:16. > :26:19.this ship will experience in just over a month's time when it gets to
:26:19. > :26:24.Antartica. Prince Charles is expected here any minute now to
:26:24. > :26:29.give them an official send-off, but there have been parties and events
:26:29. > :26:34.on board this ice-breaker all morning. It is a South African ice-
:26:34. > :26:38.breaker. There are South African schoolchildren, waiting to bid
:26:39. > :26:42.farewell to Ranulph Fiennes as he sets off on his latest polar
:26:43. > :26:48.adventure. They clustered here on the Thames,
:26:48. > :26:54.the greatest living explorer with a national treasure, Joanna Lumley,
:26:54. > :27:03.there so see them off. She is not mad enough to go, but he is.
:27:04. > :27:06.He showed me the route... Up to the cev as zone, then a dog-leg, over
:27:06. > :27:14.this huge icecap where Captain Robert Falcon Scott died 100 years
:27:14. > :27:18.ago, so, 2,000 miles, ie rave -- arriving before the end winter.
:27:18. > :27:26.We filmed training for this in February. Two men ski up front
:27:26. > :27:29.checking for cev asses. Behind them, in the near-permanent darkness, two
:27:30. > :27:34.bulldozers drag their supplies. Here they are being loaded on board.
:27:34. > :27:37.To get the permit to attempt this, the team must be self-sufficient.
:27:37. > :27:42.Dragging supplies is the only way to guarantee that.
:27:42. > :27:46.The vehicles that I would think, personally, are a bigger problem
:27:46. > :27:51.than the people. Minus 808 Celsius could be damage to lung tissue when
:27:51. > :27:57.you are breathing in, skiing, but in the seeks -- vehicles you have
:27:57. > :28:02.steel and rubber, they don't like minus 70 Celsius.
:28:02. > :28:06.In over a month's time, the bow of this ship will be pushing its way
:28:06. > :28:12.through the sea ice around Antartica. When it has found a
:28:12. > :28:17.place to wedge itself into the ice chef, the crane there will unload
:28:17. > :28:21.the gear and the vehicles, the equipment that they need to get
:28:21. > :28:25.across one of the most dangerous terrains in the world at the most
:28:25. > :28:32.inhospitable time of the year. For a pensioner who has seen it all,
:28:32. > :28:37.there is more to practise, here how to get out of a crevasse, he hopes.
:28:37. > :28:42.Soon it could be for real, Antartica, next stop.
:28:42. > :28:48.Well, a few minutes ago, Ranulph Fiennes said, "This is the most
:28:48. > :28:53.greatest and challenging expedition of all time." I asked him if he
:28:53. > :28:57.thought it would work, he thought he does not know. He does not know
:28:57. > :29:01.if humans can tolerate the long touches for that length of time.
:29:01. > :29:06.They don't know if the machinery will make it through, either. They
:29:06. > :29:11.will begin to find out soon as they set off from here in the Thames,
:29:11. > :29:17.bound for Antartica. Well, we thought it was bad here
:29:17. > :29:24.Well, we thought it was bad here with minus 12 Celsius? Yes, winter
:29:24. > :29:29.beginning to bite now and through the next 24 hours some problems for
:29:29. > :29:33.some. For some place as spell of heavy rain, but also some snow and
:29:33. > :29:36.ice could be an issue just about anywhere. All of that compounded by
:29:36. > :29:39.the cold winds. It was a frosty start this morning. The
:29:39. > :29:43.temperatures below freezing. The temperatures are struggling to
:29:43. > :29:47.recover over the east of the country. What we have got is our
:29:47. > :29:52.wet weather pushing in from the west. It is bumping into the cold
:29:52. > :29:55.air. It caused ice problems as far south as Wales and the south-west.
:29:55. > :30:00.It also brought some snowfall. That is over the high grounds of
:30:00. > :30:04.Scotland. Still more snow to come for the west of Highlands, but by
:30:04. > :30:09.3.00pm, the significant snowfall will be for the Cumbrian fells and
:30:09. > :30:15.the Pennines, where across the trans-Pennine routes there could be
:30:15. > :30:19.disruption. Even at lower levels, don't be surprised if you see snow
:30:19. > :30:23.mixed in with the rain. In the south it is cold and the
:30:23. > :30:27.cloud and breeze is adding to the raw, cold feel to the day. Over the
:30:27. > :30:32.south-west, rain is pushing into the north coast of Devon. Here the
:30:32. > :30:37.rain is falling on saturated ground, that is not good news. A wet
:30:37. > :30:41.afternoon for Wales. A soggy story also for Northern Ireland and the
:30:41. > :30:45.wind picking up too. Through this evening, the wet weather is coming
:30:45. > :30:50.to the south and to the east. In the south this will be falling
:30:50. > :30:54.mainly as rain, but a few showers chasing on behind. The bigger
:30:54. > :31:00.problem will be the ice. The temperatures are to plunge. Towns
:31:00. > :31:04.and cities close to freezing in the country, below so ice could be a
:31:04. > :31:07.risk just about anywhere tomorrow morning. There is an added
:31:07. > :31:12.complication as well. We are watching this clump of rain in the
:31:12. > :31:17.south-east. It is to edge to the south and to the east. There could
:31:17. > :31:20.be sleet mixed with this, maybe a spell of wet snow. Perhaps a
:31:20. > :31:26.covering. That is one we are keeping a close eye on. Through the
:31:26. > :31:30.day, the showers continuing over the east coast. The brightness
:31:30. > :31:34.there in the west. Temperatures looking better, but in the wind it
:31:34. > :31:39.will feel raw and cold. The weekend is looking quieter. A fair amount
:31:39. > :31:43.of brightness in the south. Cloud that could bring rain to the north.
:31:43. > :31:45.Milder for a time, but into next week it looks like the temperatures