:00:00. > :00:21.One of the most powerful storms ever recorded hit the Philippines. I
:00:22. > :00:24.think the house is actually shaking. Typhoon Haiyan strikes with winds of
:00:25. > :00:26.more than 200 miles an hour, knocking out power, triggering
:00:27. > :00:30.landslides and flooding towns and villages. Hundreds of thousands of
:00:31. > :00:34.people have been forced to flee their home. We will be speaking to
:00:35. > :00:37.our correspondent in the capital Manila.
:00:38. > :00:40.Also this lunchtime: A warrant is issued for the arrest of the terror
:00:41. > :00:43.suspect who escaped wearing a burka. He was facing 20 charges for
:00:44. > :00:47.breaching previous terrorism prevention orders.
:00:48. > :00:49.Only 6% of tip-offs about illegal immigrant are investigated, even
:00:50. > :00:53.fewer result in someone being removed from the UK, says a new
:00:54. > :00:56.report. Campaigners call for the British
:00:57. > :01:00.Army to stop recruiting under 18-year-olds.
:01:01. > :01:05.The price of insuring against clinical negligence at birth. It
:01:06. > :01:09.cost almost a fifth of the NHS maternity budget in England.
:01:10. > :01:18.And the BBC's former political editor, John Cole, has died. The
:01:19. > :01:23.really intriguing bit which still remains is to macro people... He
:01:24. > :01:29.passed away yesterday after a long illness.
:01:30. > :01:31.Later on BBC London: Thames Water is told it cannot increase bills by ?29
:01:32. > :01:34.next year. And jailed for murder, now Nicola
:01:35. > :01:36.Edgington is told she cannot appeal against her conviction Good
:01:37. > :01:56.afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:57. > :02:01.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. One of the most
:02:02. > :02:04.powerful storms ever recorded is sweeping across the Philippines,
:02:05. > :02:11.with gusts of wind approaching 200 miles an hour. Nearly three quarters
:02:12. > :02:15.of a million people have been forced to leave their homes as power lines
:02:16. > :02:18.and trees were brought down, roofs were ripped off. At least four
:02:19. > :02:21.people are known to have died. Our correspondent Jon Donnison has just
:02:22. > :02:28.sent this report from the capital, Manila.
:02:29. > :02:35.This could be the most powerful typhoon ever to hit land. From dawn,
:02:36. > :02:48.winds of up to 200 miles an hour started to battle the Philippines'
:02:49. > :02:57.central islands. In the eastern province of Leyte, streets were
:02:58. > :03:02.turned into rivers. TRANSLATION: As always, no storm can bring a united
:03:03. > :03:08.Filipino people to their knees. It is my hope that we'll stay safe in
:03:09. > :03:12.the coming days. Some have chosen to stay put. It is real hard to see
:03:13. > :03:19.what is happening outside because it has got worse over the past few
:03:20. > :03:26.hours. I think our house is actually shaking. I think it will still get
:03:27. > :03:32.worse. I just want it to stop. This is the first time in 22 years and it
:03:33. > :03:44.was very scary. Most of the Peep will have not slept because of this
:03:45. > :03:48.typhoon. -- most of the people. The wind here is whistling. It is so
:03:49. > :03:55.strong. The heavy downpour is continuing. I wish I can describe
:03:56. > :04:01.it. The Philippines are used to typhoons. They have had more than 20
:04:02. > :04:05.this year but none of this strength. As evening comes, people across the
:04:06. > :04:10.Philippines are facing a difficult night. The capital, Manila, has
:04:11. > :04:14.largely avoided the brunt of the damage. Elsewhere, aid agencies are
:04:15. > :04:18.saying the damage could be unprecedented. One United Nations
:04:19. > :04:23.official told me thousands of homes could have been damaged or
:04:24. > :04:27.destroyed. Already, many families here have lost everything, but it
:04:28. > :04:31.may be days before we know the full extent of the damage and the number
:04:32. > :04:38.of lives which have been lost. With me now is BBC weather presenter
:04:39. > :04:44.Nick Miller. Could this be the strongest storm ever recorded? It is
:04:45. > :04:49.difficult to say exactly where this will fit in global weather history.
:04:50. > :04:53.A lot of the wind speeds we are talking about are estimates are not
:04:54. > :04:56.recorded on the ground. A lot of the equipment on the ground may have
:04:57. > :05:00.been destroyed by the strength of the wind. It looks like the closer
:05:01. > :05:06.you are to the centre of the storm, you could have been facing gusts of
:05:07. > :05:11.up to 200 mph. Further away from the centre of the storm, the winds are
:05:12. > :05:21.not that strong. We know back in 1996 the strongest storm recorded
:05:22. > :05:26.was 253 mph. This is clearly a storm you rarely see on Earth. It is
:05:27. > :05:33.travelling across the central Philippines. Where it is headed to
:05:34. > :05:37.next? The it has not lost a huge amount of strength because of its
:05:38. > :05:44.encounter with the Philippines. Normally it would be the other way
:05:45. > :05:51.round. There is a very destructive typhoon. It may weaken a little bit
:05:52. > :05:56.but it may get significant power by the time it gets to Vietnam on
:05:57. > :05:59.Sunday. This is a part of the world which has had several tropical
:06:00. > :06:05.weather systems recently so the ground is saturated. It cannot take
:06:06. > :06:10.much more. It is not just the wind but the amount of rain we could be
:06:11. > :06:14.facing in Vietnam as well. You can keep up-to-date with the progress of
:06:15. > :06:22.the storm this afternoon on the BBC website. We will be speaking to our
:06:23. > :06:26.correspondent live in the Philippines near the end of the
:06:27. > :06:30.programme. An arrest warrant has been issued by
:06:31. > :06:33.a judge at the Old Bailey for Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, the terrorism
:06:34. > :06:38.suspect who disguised himself in a burka and went on the run of week
:06:39. > :06:40.ago. It has emerged he was facing 20 charges for breaching different
:06:41. > :06:43.terrorism prevention orders before he disappeared. Our home affairs
:06:44. > :06:54.correspondent June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed
:06:55. > :06:59.had a case listed here this morning. I case involving him has also been
:07:00. > :07:02.going on down the road at the High Court. While his legal footprint is
:07:03. > :07:08.everywhere there is still no sign of him. It is now a week since Somali
:07:09. > :07:14.born Mohamed Ahmed Hamnett went on the run. Disguised as a woman, he
:07:15. > :07:19.slipped out of a mosque dressed in a burka. Police have been searching
:07:20. > :07:23.for him ever since. Today, a judge at the Old Bailey issued an arrest
:07:24. > :07:29.warrant for him after he failed to appear for a hearing here. His
:07:30. > :07:38.lawyer spoke about his alleged torture in Somaliland. We have the
:07:39. > :07:43.most serious concern in relation to a young man who is hideously
:07:44. > :07:50.tortured in Somaliland for two months, was forcibly and illegally
:07:51. > :07:56.deported to this country and where the question has been repeatedly
:07:57. > :08:04.raised of the complicity of the British authorities, the security
:08:05. > :08:09.services, in that unlawful removal. While in East Africa, Mohamed Ahmed
:08:10. > :08:12.Mohamed is said to have fought with the terrorist organisation
:08:13. > :08:17.Al-Shabab. It emerged when he disappeared from this mosque in
:08:18. > :08:21.Acton in west London, he was facing court for 20 alleged breaches of the
:08:22. > :08:26.terrorism order he is subject to. Ports and borders have been on alert
:08:27. > :08:31.but a week on there is no sign of this high-profile fugitive. These
:08:32. > :08:34.breaches of the terrorism order involve things like failing to
:08:35. > :08:37.report to the police. His lawyer Gareth Peirce said this morning that
:08:38. > :08:41.his defence would have been he breached the order so mini times
:08:42. > :08:45.because he was suffering from the effects of torture. He is claiming
:08:46. > :08:49.that the British government was complicit in that. There has been a
:08:50. > :08:52.hearing taking place on all of that this morning and lawyers for the
:08:53. > :09:02.government said they may seek to have this whole case stopped because
:09:03. > :09:04.of his disappearance. Thank you. Fewer than one in 50 tip-offs about
:09:05. > :09:08.suspected illegal immigrants result in a person leaving the country,
:09:09. > :09:11.that is according to a report by a group of MPs. The Home Affairs
:09:12. > :09:13.Select Committee claims there was a backlog of more than 400,000
:09:14. > :09:17.immigration and asylum cases when the UK Border Agency was scrapped
:09:18. > :09:21.earlier this year. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is here.
:09:22. > :09:30.The Government insists it is getting tough on illegal immigrants. It
:09:31. > :09:36.does. It has introduced a number of policies. The backlog has dropped
:09:37. > :09:42.recently. But what a big backlog it is. Nearly 500,000 cases when the UK
:09:43. > :09:45.Border Agency was scrapped at the end of March and of course these
:09:46. > :09:51.figures which have come out today about the low number, the low
:09:52. > :09:55.proportion of phone calls from members of the public about illegal
:09:56. > :09:57.in the cases which actually involve action and enforcement. The
:09:58. > :10:06.government says a lot of these tip-off smite be wrong. There is a
:10:07. > :10:10.lot of error and vagueness in that. Nevertheless, this report reads like
:10:11. > :10:14.a bad school report for the government. It criticises the
:10:15. > :10:21.Government over the recently changed policy over the ad fans which are
:10:22. > :10:27.going around London urging illegal immigrants to go home of their own
:10:28. > :10:33.accord -- add vans. The immigration bill has its second reading soon. A
:10:34. > :10:36.number of policies cracking down on private landlords, introducing
:10:37. > :10:40.charges for people who use the NHS from abroad, those things will be
:10:41. > :10:44.problematic and it wants to see how they will pan out. The government
:10:45. > :10:49.says it is reducing the backlog. Thank you.
:10:50. > :10:54.The Japanese car-maker Nissan says it will reconsider its investment in
:10:55. > :11:01.the UK if Britain leads the European Union. The company's Chief Executive
:11:02. > :11:06.made comments on a visit to Sunderland where the company employs
:11:07. > :11:13.6500 workers. If a decision has to be made we will have to reconsider
:11:14. > :11:17.our strategy. Personally, I do not think this is the most probable
:11:18. > :11:21.scenario, but if this scenario becomes real, it will be a major
:11:22. > :11:28.factor happening and we will need to consider what does it mean for us,
:11:29. > :11:31.for the future. His comments come on the day the EU referendum Bill
:11:32. > :11:35.returns to the Commons with Conservatives being urged to back
:11:36. > :11:40.calls for the vote to be held next year before the general election.
:11:41. > :11:45.David Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on EU membership in
:11:46. > :11:49.2017. Our political correspondent is in Westminster for us. Any chance
:11:50. > :11:54.the timetable could be brought forward? I think it is very
:11:55. > :12:00.unlikely. The Conservatives are committed to a referendum in 2017.
:12:01. > :12:05.They hope this will can assure that will happen by nailing it down in
:12:06. > :12:08.law. It is a backbench Bill. Most of them fall because they do not have
:12:09. > :12:14.adequate support but this one is backed by the Conservative front
:12:15. > :12:16.bench. There is an amendment by another Conservative backbencher.
:12:17. > :12:21.His idea is to bring the whole thing forward to next year, to get it
:12:22. > :12:24.done, to ensure the Conservatives can see off the threat of the UK
:12:25. > :12:29.Independence Party but it does not look like many conservatives will
:12:30. > :12:33.back that amendment. What about Labour and the Liberal Democrats?
:12:34. > :12:37.They are not keen and they think it is irrelevant. There has been a
:12:38. > :12:41.slightly arcane procedure in the Commons this morning where Labour
:12:42. > :12:45.and Liberal Democrat MPs have been talking nonstop, verbosity from all
:12:46. > :12:49.of them pretty much, to try and talk it out so the bill runs out of
:12:50. > :12:52.parliamentary time. Meanwhile, the Conservative MPs are here on a three
:12:53. > :12:57.line whip as it is known, but they have been told to zip it, to sit on
:12:58. > :13:02.their hands and say nothing so time does not run out. There will be
:13:03. > :13:11.plenty more days for discussions about Britain and Europe and our
:13:12. > :13:14.place within it. Thank you. The BBC's former political editor
:13:15. > :13:19.John Cole has died at the age of 85 after a long illness. He joined the
:13:20. > :13:23.BBC in 1981 after a lengthy career in newspapers and he remained at the
:13:24. > :13:26.helm throughout the Thatcher era. He retired from the BBC after the 1992
:13:27. > :13:29.election but continued to broadcast and write for many years. He died at
:13:30. > :13:38.his home in Surrey yesterday. Carol Walker looks back at his life.
:13:39. > :13:43.John Cole was a familiar figure to many viewers as he brought home the
:13:44. > :13:49.drama and intrigue of the political scene for more than a decade. The
:13:50. > :13:53.really intriguing thing is the position of Sir Geoffrey Howe...
:13:54. > :14:00.Westminster is still reverberating from the shock. Born in Belfast, he
:14:01. > :14:04.joined the Belfast Telegraph at the age of 17 and worked on the Guardian
:14:05. > :14:11.and Observer before joining the BBC in 1981. With his trademark overcoat
:14:12. > :14:17.he covered the political upheavals during the era of Thatcherism,
:14:18. > :14:20.recession and union unrest. What he became was the figure for the
:14:21. > :14:25.British people who would tell them what was going on and what was
:14:26. > :14:31.really going on. In that era, people often talked in code about change.
:14:32. > :14:34.It was very interesting. John got to the bottom of that and became the
:14:35. > :14:38.person for the British people, it is not too much of an exaggeration, he
:14:39. > :14:47.became the person who told them what at Lee was going on. Rather
:14:48. > :14:52.dramatically I appeared on radio 4... He was satirised by Spitting
:14:53. > :14:57.Image and Private Eye. John Cole may have been slightly irritated but it
:14:58. > :15:01.only added to his popularity. One of many memorable interviews was with
:15:02. > :15:06.Margaret Thatcher just after the bomb exploded at her hotel in
:15:07. > :15:12.Brighton. You hear about these atrocities, these bonds, you do not
:15:13. > :15:17.expect them to happen to you. -- these bombs. But life must go on as
:15:18. > :15:26.usual. And your conference will go on? All right, John, the conference
:15:27. > :15:32.will go on as usual. John Cole was trusted by the politicians and the
:15:33. > :15:37.BBC and listeners. He could listen calmly. He would think clearly and
:15:38. > :15:42.speak fairly. When it came to the BBC I think the two were well
:15:43. > :15:46.matched. When he retired from the BBC, John Cole wrote several
:15:47. > :15:50.well-received political books. He will be remembered for his calmness
:15:51. > :15:56.and unique insights, a trusted guide to the drama of political life.
:15:57. > :16:02.The BBC's former political editor John Cole who has died at the age of
:16:03. > :16:07.85. The time is 1:15pm. Our top story this lunchtime: One of the
:16:08. > :16:15.most powerful storms ever recorded hits the Philippines. The gusts of
:16:16. > :16:23.wind 's are up to 235 mph. Thousands have been forced to flee their
:16:24. > :16:26.homes. And still to come: Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, the Queen opens
:16:27. > :16:31.the new headquarters in armed forces charity London. Later on BBC London:
:16:32. > :16:33.Taking a trip back in time. University students bring Tudor
:16:34. > :16:37.London back to life. And in sport, the Staines Town manager dreaming of
:16:38. > :16:45.an FA Cup giant killing as his team travel to Brentford.
:16:46. > :16:48.The Palestinian authorities investigating the death of their
:16:49. > :16:50.former leader, Yasser Arafat, say scientific tests on his body show he
:16:51. > :16:58.did not die naturally. The allegation follows a report
:16:59. > :17:01.published earlier this week by Swiss scientists, which found that Mr
:17:02. > :17:06.Arafat's exhumed body contained 18 times the normal level of the
:17:07. > :17:13.radioactive element, polonium. But Israel has dismissed any suggestion
:17:14. > :17:14.that it was involved. Our Middle East correspondent
:17:15. > :17:25.Yolande Knell reports. Emotional scenes back in 2004.
:17:26. > :17:29.Palestinian President Yasser Arafat did not know he was bidding a final
:17:30. > :17:32.farewell to his supporters. He had been suddenly taken sick at his
:17:33. > :17:37.headquarters and doctors could not work out what was wrong. He was
:17:38. > :17:41.flown to a hospital in Paris where he died. It was only last year that
:17:42. > :17:45.new research suggested that the late leader might have been poisoned with
:17:46. > :17:53.a radioactive substance. Then his body was exhumed behind the screens
:17:54. > :17:56.so samples could be taken. Today, Palestinian investigators gave their
:17:57. > :18:04.response to the findings of the foreign teams that carried out the
:18:05. > :18:07.test. Both reports, the Swiss and Russian, confirm the findings of the
:18:08. > :18:11.ongoing investigation. Yasser Arafat did not die of old age, he did not
:18:12. > :18:24.die from disease, he did not die a natural death. Scientists found
:18:25. > :18:27.higher levels of polonium ( dashed to ten, the same substance used to
:18:28. > :18:32.kill a Russian agent in London in 2006. The test cannot say all sure
:18:33. > :18:37.if Yasser Arafat was poisoned. If more of the substance had been
:18:38. > :18:40.extracted it could have left a tell-tale signature. If you have a
:18:41. > :18:43.large enough sample of polonium, you can look at the radioactive
:18:44. > :18:48.spectrum. Then you can get an indication where it might have been
:18:49. > :18:52.made based on impurities in it, and that will tell you if it is from a
:18:53. > :18:57.nuclear reactor, and natural source, it was refined, and maybe which
:18:58. > :19:00.reactor it came from. The Palestinians are accusing Israel of
:19:01. > :19:05.killing their president and will continue to investigate the case. In
:19:06. > :19:10.a new statement, Israeli officials denied any responsibility. Yasser
:19:11. > :19:16.Arafat now lies here in his grave where visitors can come and pay
:19:17. > :19:20.their respects. His loss as a leader of the Palestinian nationalist cause
:19:21. > :19:23.is still strongly felt, but nine years on, it's still possible that
:19:24. > :19:33.the exact cause of his death will never truly be known.
:19:34. > :19:37.The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, is travelling to Geneva to
:19:38. > :19:39.join international talks on Iran's nuclear programme. There's growing
:19:40. > :19:43.optimism about the talks. The US Secretary of State John Kerry, who's
:19:44. > :19:46.just completed a tour of the Middle East, is also flying to Geneva to
:19:47. > :19:49.take part in the talks. Our Tehran correspondent James Reynolds is in
:19:50. > :19:56.Geneva. A growing sense of momentum. What are they are hoping will be
:19:57. > :19:59.achieved? The beginning to an end to a decade of conflict. We have heard
:20:00. > :20:04.that William Hague is in Geneva and he smiled when he arrived, but he
:20:05. > :20:09.did not say anything to reporters, because the foreign ministers are
:20:10. > :20:13.here to arrange a first step deal. They will not say what it is, but we
:20:14. > :20:18.can guess. Iran might have to restrict its enrichment of uranium.
:20:19. > :20:22.The West, in exchange, might agree to lift some sanctions. That will be
:20:23. > :20:27.the beginning of the process. Not every country likes it. Israel
:20:28. > :20:32.believes that the Iran nuclear programme should be dismantled
:20:33. > :20:35.altogether, not restricted, and Benjamin Netanyahu called it the
:20:36. > :20:47.deal of the century for Iran, but nothing has been agreed. Campaigners
:20:48. > :20:53.are calling on the Ministry of Defence to stop recruiting
:20:54. > :20:54.underrating soldiers into the Army. A campaign calls for an end to the
:20:55. > :21:03.practice. Put through their paces, teenagers
:21:04. > :21:09.at this military preparation College are hoping to be Army and Navy
:21:10. > :21:15.recruits within a year. At 16, they think they are ready for the rigours
:21:16. > :21:19.of a military life. At the age I am I think I would be ready, seeing the
:21:20. > :21:26.things I have, and the experiences. It would be tough, that also
:21:27. > :21:29.amazing. It has crossed my mind, but I will give everything to be
:21:30. > :21:33.successful and I know the different risks I am taking, but I'm willing
:21:34. > :21:37.to do it and I'm happy with my choice. British soldiers do not
:21:38. > :21:42.enter combat until they are 18, but in a letter signed by church leaders
:21:43. > :21:45.and campaigners, the Ministry of Defence has been accused of
:21:46. > :21:51.recruiting children that are too young to realise what lies ahead.
:21:52. > :21:54.Are they sufficiently aware of the rigours of the training that is
:21:55. > :22:00.involved? And what might actually faced them if they are deployed into
:22:01. > :22:04.a combat zone at the age of 18? It is a question of whether they are
:22:05. > :22:08.ready for it, physically, and possibly more importantly,
:22:09. > :22:13.psychologically. South Wales is an area where Army recruitment has
:22:14. > :22:16.traditionally been strong. In a place where youth unemployment is
:22:17. > :22:23.high military career straight out of school is clearly attractive. But
:22:24. > :22:29.that attraction can fade. In 2012, 800 and 8016 -year-olds enlisted.
:22:30. > :22:33.But 410, nearly half of the intake, then left during training. But some
:22:34. > :22:40.argue that that is still an advantage to them. It is a great
:22:41. > :22:46.opportunity. It gives young people, training, life skills and technical
:22:47. > :22:54.skills. And a wide range of skills, actually, that they can then use
:22:55. > :22:58.throughout their life. The Ministry of Defence stresses that all
:22:59. > :23:02.underrating soldiers need parental consent to enlist. And the Ministry
:23:03. > :23:08.have no plans to change their system. For every child born in
:23:09. > :23:10.England the NHS has to pay out almost ?700 for insurance against
:23:11. > :23:13.clinical negligence. The public spending watchdog, the National
:23:14. > :23:16.Audit Office, says the cost of the cover equates to nearly a fifth of
:23:17. > :23:20.the maternity budget for the NHS in England. The government says Britain
:23:21. > :23:22.is still one of the safest places in the world to have a baby. Our Health
:23:23. > :23:28.Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:23:29. > :23:34.At three days old, baby Miguel and his mother, Daniela, I enjoying some
:23:35. > :23:38.tranquillity. -- are enjoying. He was born on a typically busy
:23:39. > :23:41.maternity unit on Liverpool women's Hospital. In England the number of
:23:42. > :23:45.births has increased by almost a quarter in the last decade and is
:23:46. > :23:49.currently at its highest level for 40 years. Now berths with more
:23:50. > :23:55.complications. We have an increased complexity with delivery, some
:23:56. > :23:59.through patient choice where they choose to deliver when they are
:24:00. > :24:04.older. Some through lack of mobility through an obese population, and
:24:05. > :24:08.some women with complications it would never have had a successful
:24:09. > :24:13.pregnancy before. Today's report into maternity services paints a
:24:14. > :24:18.mixed picture. In 2011, one in 133 babies was stillborn or died soon
:24:19. > :24:22.after birth. An improvement, but still higher in other parts of the
:24:23. > :24:26.UK. The number of legal claims for negligence is up by 80% over the
:24:27. > :24:32.last five years, coaching -- costing the NHS more than ?480 million in
:24:33. > :24:36.insurance cover, around ?700 for every baby born. Clinical negligence
:24:37. > :24:40.is a big issue for maternity and when claims are settled they have to
:24:41. > :24:45.cover the cost of claim -- caring for a baby through the whole life,
:24:46. > :24:49.so the settlements are large. At the moment clinical negligence, cost the
:24:50. > :24:54.NHS about a fifth of the total spend on maternity services. Part of the
:24:55. > :24:57.pressure on the maternity unit relates to the number of midwives.
:24:58. > :25:03.The government says more students are in training, but the reports
:25:04. > :25:05.predict significant shortfall in the number of qualified midwives
:25:06. > :25:10.available in the future. Ministers insist that more midwives are on the
:25:11. > :25:14.way. We have 1500 more midwives working in the NHS than three years
:25:15. > :25:21.ago. There are 5000 more in training and were making sure that we have
:25:22. > :25:27.more specialist obstetric doctors available on labour wards, more of
:25:28. > :25:30.the time. There are many positives in the report. 80% of mothers say
:25:31. > :25:33.the care was excellent or very good. There have been improvements
:25:34. > :25:34.in maternity care, but they're still too much variation between the very
:25:35. > :25:40.best and the rest. The Queen has opened the new
:25:41. > :25:43.headquarters of an armed forces charity in London today as the
:25:44. > :25:48.country prepares for Remembrance Sunday this weekend. A service has
:25:49. > :25:52.also taken place near Royal Wootton Bassett to remember more than 400
:25:53. > :25:53.members of the UK armed forces who have died in Afghanistan since 2001,
:25:54. > :26:05.as Richard Lister reports. As preparations for Remembrance
:26:06. > :26:10.Sunday continue, the Queen's focus today was on military veterans. She
:26:11. > :26:15.opens a new headquarters which supports those that served in the
:26:16. > :26:18.Army, navy and air force. It was a chance to think about their future
:26:19. > :26:22.before their reflections on the Tom flicks of the present and past this
:26:23. > :26:26.weekend. Near the town of Royal Wootton Bassett, a service to open a
:26:27. > :26:27.field of remembrance was underway. In the torrential rain, they stood
:26:28. > :26:40.for two minutes of silence. This is one of six such remembrance
:26:41. > :26:44.fields in the UK, and more than 45,000 crosses have been planted in
:26:45. > :26:50.memory of those who fought and died for their country. Emma Hickman's
:26:51. > :26:57.fiance was among them. She never met her dad. One day she will be able to
:26:58. > :27:02.plant her own cross. It's so emotional to see how many people do
:27:03. > :27:09.support the troops, past and present. It is very, very moving.
:27:10. > :27:10.These remembrance fields will stay open for people to pay their
:27:11. > :27:22.respects for another ten days. Let's get more on our top story, the
:27:23. > :27:24.huge storm, described as one of the most powerful typhoons ever
:27:25. > :27:30.recorded, that has hit the Philippines. Our correspondent John
:27:31. > :27:34.Donnison is in the capital, Manila. The storm is still sweeping across
:27:35. > :27:38.central Philippines, night-time, so it will be a long time before we can
:27:39. > :27:41.establish the extent of the damage. That is right. We hope to fly down
:27:42. > :27:45.to one of the worst affected areas in the next few hours, and until
:27:46. > :27:49.people actually get there and take a proper look at some of the eastern
:27:50. > :27:53.provinces and the islands that were worst hit from dawn this morning, we
:27:54. > :27:58.won't know the full extent of the damage. At the moment the number of
:27:59. > :28:03.casualties are relatively low, 34 we have had reported, but when I spoke
:28:04. > :28:06.to United nation 's officials, they said unless they had taken a look
:28:07. > :28:10.they would not know how many houses have been destroyed or damaged and
:28:11. > :28:11.they were talking about the possibilities of hundreds of
:28:12. > :28:17.thousands of homes being destroyed or damaged. Many people here will
:28:18. > :28:21.spend a very difficult night in some sort of temporary accommodation.
:28:22. > :28:32.Thank you very much, John. The pale comparison to what is going
:28:33. > :28:38.on in the Philippines, but we have heavy rain on the rainfall picture.
:28:39. > :28:42.That has developed today, affecting the South west, south Wales, and it
:28:43. > :28:46.is heading east over the next few hours and into south-east England
:28:47. > :28:51.just in time to the rush hour. Heavy bursts of rain, surface water and
:28:52. > :28:55.spray, difficult driving conditions. Following on from that area of rain
:28:56. > :28:59.as it edges further east, bearing down on the south-east, heavy
:29:00. > :29:02.showers coming into western areas. Although it will be brightening up
:29:03. > :29:06.in the South West and Wales, the showers will still be quite heavy,
:29:07. > :29:10.some torrential downpours possible in Wales and north-west England. A
:29:11. > :29:14.lot of rain in a short space of time. Rumbles of thunder, but also
:29:15. > :29:18.dry and bright spells in between. For Northern Ireland and western
:29:19. > :29:22.Scotland, the showers keep coming. Also some sunshine between those.
:29:23. > :29:25.Still quite windy in northern Scotland, but not as windy as it has
:29:26. > :29:30.been. The wind will ease during the rest of the day, not too many
:29:31. > :29:33.showers across the eastern Scotland and North East England, so some of
:29:34. > :29:36.the driest weather is on offer here, but then we are back into the rain.
:29:37. > :29:40.This is where we think it will be at 4pm, affecting parts of the
:29:41. > :29:46.Midlands, Lincolnshire, into the South Midlands, then some heavy
:29:47. > :29:51.bursts within this. Before it pulls away, the winds will strengthen in
:29:52. > :29:54.the far south-east. The risk of coastal gales. Once it's gone, the
:29:55. > :29:58.rest of the night is clear spells and showers, most frequent in
:29:59. > :30:05.western areas. It turns chilly in north-east Scotland, so maybe below
:30:06. > :30:08.freezing. Even in the karma parts of central and eastern England, you
:30:09. > :30:12.could be getting close to freezing for a ground frost -- the more karma
:30:13. > :30:17.parts. Saturday morning, Chile, showers from the word go. Across
:30:18. > :30:21.southern areas, virtual repeat of what we had today. Another spell of
:30:22. > :30:28.rain moving through. Sunshine and showers following behind. In the
:30:29. > :30:33.sunshine it won't feel that warm. Be prepared for a cold night on
:30:34. > :30:36.Saturday. As we start Remembrance Sunday, widespread frost, one of the
:30:37. > :30:40.coldest mornings of the season so far. Although it is cold, it will be
:30:41. > :30:44.dry and there will be plenty of sunshine for the Sunday services.
:30:45. > :30:49.And for much of the UK, the dry weather will hang on for the rest of
:30:50. > :30:52.the day. Yes, a dry weekend day. But you will notice more rain coming
:30:53. > :30:55.into Northern Ireland, western fringes of England and Wales by the
:30:56. > :31:01.end of the day. That will move east on Sunday night. We are facing more
:31:02. > :31:08.rain as the weekend comes to an end. The normal be feeling a raft of
:31:09. > :31:11.Typhoon Haiyan. -- Vietnam's will be feeling the raft of Typhoon Haiyan.
:31:12. > :31:19.At 1:30pm, a reminder of our main story this lunchtime: one of the
:31:20. > :31:22.most powerful storms ever has hit the Philippines with gusts of 200
:31:23. > :31:24.mph. Still to come on the BBC News Channel in the next half hour:
:31:25. > :31:25.That's all from the