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One of the most powerful storms ever recorded hit the Philippines. I | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
think the house is actually shaking. Typhoon Haiyan strikes with winds of | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
more than 200 miles an hour, knocking out power, triggering | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
landslides and flooding towns and villages. Hundreds of thousands of | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
people have been forced to flee their home. We will be speaking to | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
our correspondent in the capital Manila. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Also this lunchtime: A warrant is issued for the arrest of the terror | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
suspect who escaped wearing a burka. He was facing 20 charges for | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
breaching previous terrorism prevention orders. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Only 6% of tip-offs about illegal immigrant are investigated, even | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
fewer result in someone being removed from the UK, says a new | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
report. Campaigners call for the British | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Army to stop recruiting under 18-year-olds. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
The price of insuring against clinical negligence at birth. It | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
cost almost a fifth of the NHS maternity budget in England. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And the BBC's former political editor, John Cole, has died. The | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
really intriguing bit which still remains is to macro people... He | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
passed away yesterday after a long illness. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Later on BBC London: Thames Water is told it cannot increase bills by ?29 | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
next year. And jailed for murder, now Nicola | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Edgington is told she cannot appeal against her conviction Good | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:37. | :01:56. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. One of the most | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
powerful storms ever recorded is sweeping across the Philippines, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
with gusts of wind approaching 200 miles an hour. Nearly three quarters | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
of a million people have been forced to leave their homes as power lines | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
and trees were brought down, roofs were ripped off. At least four | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
people are known to have died. Our correspondent Jon Donnison has just | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
sent this report from the capital, Manila. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
This could be the most powerful typhoon ever to hit land. From dawn, | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
winds of up to 200 miles an hour started to battle the Philippines' | :02:36. | :02:48. | |
central islands. In the eastern province of Leyte, streets were | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
turned into rivers. TRANSLATION: As always, no storm can bring a united | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Filipino people to their knees. It is my hope that we'll stay safe in | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
the coming days. Some have chosen to stay put. It is real hard to see | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
what is happening outside because it has got worse over the past few | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
hours. I think our house is actually shaking. I think it will still get | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
worse. I just want it to stop. This is the first time in 22 years and it | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
was very scary. Most of the Peep will have not slept because of this | :03:33. | :03:44. | |
typhoon. -- most of the people. The wind here is whistling. It is so | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
strong. The heavy downpour is continuing. I wish I can describe | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
it. The Philippines are used to typhoons. They have had more than 20 | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
this year but none of this strength. As evening comes, people across the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Philippines are facing a difficult night. The capital, Manila, has | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
largely avoided the brunt of the damage. Elsewhere, aid agencies are | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
saying the damage could be unprecedented. One United Nations | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
official told me thousands of homes could have been damaged or | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
destroyed. Already, many families here have lost everything, but it | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
may be days before we know the full extent of the damage and the number | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
of lives which have been lost. With me now is BBC weather presenter | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Nick Miller. Could this be the strongest storm ever recorded? It is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
difficult to say exactly where this will fit in global weather history. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
A lot of the wind speeds we are talking about are estimates are not | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
recorded on the ground. A lot of the equipment on the ground may have | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
been destroyed by the strength of the wind. It looks like the closer | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
you are to the centre of the storm, you could have been facing gusts of | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
up to 200 mph. Further away from the centre of the storm, the winds are | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
not that strong. We know back in 1996 the strongest storm recorded | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
was 253 mph. This is clearly a storm you rarely see on Earth. It is | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
travelling across the central Philippines. Where it is headed to | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
next? The it has not lost a huge amount of strength because of its | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
encounter with the Philippines. Normally it would be the other way | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
round. There is a very destructive typhoon. It may weaken a little bit | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
but it may get significant power by the time it gets to Vietnam on | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Sunday. This is a part of the world which has had several tropical | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
weather systems recently so the ground is saturated. It cannot take | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
much more. It is not just the wind but the amount of rain we could be | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
facing in Vietnam as well. You can keep up-to-date with the progress of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
the storm this afternoon on the BBC website. We will be speaking to our | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
correspondent live in the Philippines near the end of the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
programme. An arrest warrant has been issued by | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
a judge at the Old Bailey for Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, the terrorism | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
suspect who disguised himself in a burka and went on the run of week | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
ago. It has emerged he was facing 20 charges for breaching different | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
terrorism prevention orders before he disappeared. Our home affairs | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
correspondent June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
had a case listed here this morning. I case involving him has also been | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
going on down the road at the High Court. While his legal footprint is | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
everywhere there is still no sign of him. It is now a week since Somali | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
born Mohamed Ahmed Hamnett went on the run. Disguised as a woman, he | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
slipped out of a mosque dressed in a burka. Police have been searching | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
for him ever since. Today, a judge at the Old Bailey issued an arrest | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
warrant for him after he failed to appear for a hearing here. His | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
lawyer spoke about his alleged torture in Somaliland. We have the | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
most serious concern in relation to a young man who is hideously | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
tortured in Somaliland for two months, was forcibly and illegally | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
deported to this country and where the question has been repeatedly | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
raised of the complicity of the British authorities, the security | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
services, in that unlawful removal. While in East Africa, Mohamed Ahmed | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Mohamed is said to have fought with the terrorist organisation | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Al-Shabab. It emerged when he disappeared from this mosque in | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Acton in west London, he was facing court for 20 alleged breaches of the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
terrorism order he is subject to. Ports and borders have been on alert | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
but a week on there is no sign of this high-profile fugitive. These | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
breaches of the terrorism order involve things like failing to | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
report to the police. His lawyer Gareth Peirce said this morning that | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
his defence would have been he breached the order so mini times | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
because he was suffering from the effects of torture. He is claiming | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
that the British government was complicit in that. There has been a | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
hearing taking place on all of that this morning and lawyers for the | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
government said they may seek to have this whole case stopped because | :08:53. | :09:02. | |
of his disappearance. Thank you. Fewer than one in 50 tip-offs about | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
suspected illegal immigrants result in a person leaving the country, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
that is according to a report by a group of MPs. The Home Affairs | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Select Committee claims there was a backlog of more than 400,000 | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
immigration and asylum cases when the UK Border Agency was scrapped | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
earlier this year. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is here. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
The Government insists it is getting tough on illegal immigrants. It | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
does. It has introduced a number of policies. The backlog has dropped | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
recently. But what a big backlog it is. Nearly 500,000 cases when the UK | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Border Agency was scrapped at the end of March and of course these | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
figures which have come out today about the low number, the low | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
proportion of phone calls from members of the public about illegal | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
in the cases which actually involve action and enforcement. The | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
government says a lot of these tip-off smite be wrong. There is a | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
lot of error and vagueness in that. Nevertheless, this report reads like | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
a bad school report for the government. It criticises the | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Government over the recently changed policy over the ad fans which are | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
going around London urging illegal immigrants to go home of their own | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
accord -- add vans. The immigration bill has its second reading soon. A | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
number of policies cracking down on private landlords, introducing | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
charges for people who use the NHS from abroad, those things will be | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
problematic and it wants to see how they will pan out. The government | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
says it is reducing the backlog. Thank you. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
The Japanese car-maker Nissan says it will reconsider its investment in | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the UK if Britain leads the European Union. The company's Chief Executive | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
made comments on a visit to Sunderland where the company employs | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
6500 workers. If a decision has to be made we will have to reconsider | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
our strategy. Personally, I do not think this is the most probable | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
scenario, but if this scenario becomes real, it will be a major | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
factor happening and we will need to consider what does it mean for us, | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
for the future. His comments come on the day the EU referendum Bill | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
returns to the Commons with Conservatives being urged to back | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
calls for the vote to be held next year before the general election. | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
David Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on EU membership in | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
2017. Our political correspondent is in Westminster for us. Any chance | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
the timetable could be brought forward? I think it is very | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
unlikely. The Conservatives are committed to a referendum in 2017. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
They hope this will can assure that will happen by nailing it down in | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
law. It is a backbench Bill. Most of them fall because they do not have | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
adequate support but this one is backed by the Conservative front | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
bench. There is an amendment by another Conservative backbencher. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
His idea is to bring the whole thing forward to next year, to get it | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
done, to ensure the Conservatives can see off the threat of the UK | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Independence Party but it does not look like many conservatives will | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
back that amendment. What about Labour and the Liberal Democrats? | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
They are not keen and they think it is irrelevant. There has been a | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
slightly arcane procedure in the Commons this morning where Labour | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
and Liberal Democrat MPs have been talking nonstop, verbosity from all | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
of them pretty much, to try and talk it out so the bill runs out of | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
parliamentary time. Meanwhile, the Conservative MPs are here on a three | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
line whip as it is known, but they have been told to zip it, to sit on | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
their hands and say nothing so time does not run out. There will be | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
plenty more days for discussions about Britain and Europe and our | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
place within it. Thank you. The BBC's former political editor | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
John Cole has died at the age of 85 after a long illness. He joined the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
BBC in 1981 after a lengthy career in newspapers and he remained at the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
helm throughout the Thatcher era. He retired from the BBC after the 1992 | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
election but continued to broadcast and write for many years. He died at | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
his home in Surrey yesterday. Carol Walker looks back at his life. | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
John Cole was a familiar figure to many viewers as he brought home the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
drama and intrigue of the political scene for more than a decade. The | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
really intriguing thing is the position of Sir Geoffrey Howe... | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Westminster is still reverberating from the shock. Born in Belfast, he | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
joined the Belfast Telegraph at the age of 17 and worked on the Guardian | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
and Observer before joining the BBC in 1981. With his trademark overcoat | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
he covered the political upheavals during the era of Thatcherism, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
recession and union unrest. What he became was the figure for the | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
British people who would tell them what was going on and what was | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
really going on. In that era, people often talked in code about change. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
It was very interesting. John got to the bottom of that and became the | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
person for the British people, it is not too much of an exaggeration, he | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
became the person who told them what at Lee was going on. Rather | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
dramatically I appeared on radio 4... He was satirised by Spitting | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Image and Private Eye. John Cole may have been slightly irritated but it | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
only added to his popularity. One of many memorable interviews was with | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Margaret Thatcher just after the bomb exploded at her hotel in | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Brighton. You hear about these atrocities, these bonds, you do not | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
expect them to happen to you. -- these bombs. But life must go on as | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
usual. And your conference will go on? All right, John, the conference | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
will go on as usual. John Cole was trusted by the politicians and the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
BBC and listeners. He could listen calmly. He would think clearly and | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
speak fairly. When it came to the BBC I think the two were well | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
matched. When he retired from the BBC, John Cole wrote several | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
well-received political books. He will be remembered for his calmness | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
and unique insights, a trusted guide to the drama of political life. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
The BBC's former political editor John Cole who has died at the age of | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
85. The time is 1:15pm. Our top story this lunchtime: One of the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
most powerful storms ever recorded hits the Philippines. The gusts of | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
wind 's are up to 235 mph. Thousands have been forced to flee their | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
homes. And still to come: Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, the Queen opens | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
the new headquarters in armed forces charity London. Later on BBC London: | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Taking a trip back in time. University students bring Tudor | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
London back to life. And in sport, the Staines Town manager dreaming of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
an FA Cup giant killing as his team travel to Brentford. | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
The Palestinian authorities investigating the death of their | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
former leader, Yasser Arafat, say scientific tests on his body show he | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
did not die naturally. The allegation follows a report | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
published earlier this week by Swiss scientists, which found that Mr | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Arafat's exhumed body contained 18 times the normal level of the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
radioactive element, polonium. But Israel has dismissed any suggestion | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
that it was involved. Our Middle East correspondent | :17:14. | :17:14. | |
Yolande Knell reports. Emotional scenes back in 2004. | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat did not know he was bidding a final | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
farewell to his supporters. He had been suddenly taken sick at his | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
headquarters and doctors could not work out what was wrong. He was | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
flown to a hospital in Paris where he died. It was only last year that | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
new research suggested that the late leader might have been poisoned with | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
a radioactive substance. Then his body was exhumed behind the screens | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
so samples could be taken. Today, Palestinian investigators gave their | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
response to the findings of the foreign teams that carried out the | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
test. Both reports, the Swiss and Russian, confirm the findings of the | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
ongoing investigation. Yasser Arafat did not die of old age, he did not | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
die from disease, he did not die a natural death. Scientists found | :18:12. | :18:24. | |
higher levels of polonium ( dashed to ten, the same substance used to | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
kill a Russian agent in London in 2006. The test cannot say all sure | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
if Yasser Arafat was poisoned. If more of the substance had been | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
extracted it could have left a tell-tale signature. If you have a | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
large enough sample of polonium, you can look at the radioactive | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
spectrum. Then you can get an indication where it might have been | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
made based on impurities in it, and that will tell you if it is from a | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
nuclear reactor, and natural source, it was refined, and maybe which | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
reactor it came from. The Palestinians are accusing Israel of | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
killing their president and will continue to investigate the case. In | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
a new statement, Israeli officials denied any responsibility. Yasser | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
Arafat now lies here in his grave where visitors can come and pay | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
their respects. His loss as a leader of the Palestinian nationalist cause | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
is still strongly felt, but nine years on, it's still possible that | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
the exact cause of his death will never truly be known. | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, is travelling to Geneva to | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
join international talks on Iran's nuclear programme. There's growing | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
optimism about the talks. The US Secretary of State John Kerry, who's | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
just completed a tour of the Middle East, is also flying to Geneva to | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
take part in the talks. Our Tehran correspondent James Reynolds is in | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Geneva. A growing sense of momentum. What are they are hoping will be | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
achieved? The beginning to an end to a decade of conflict. We have heard | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
that William Hague is in Geneva and he smiled when he arrived, but he | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
did not say anything to reporters, because the foreign ministers are | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
here to arrange a first step deal. They will not say what it is, but we | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
can guess. Iran might have to restrict its enrichment of uranium. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
The West, in exchange, might agree to lift some sanctions. That will be | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the beginning of the process. Not every country likes it. Israel | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
believes that the Iran nuclear programme should be dismantled | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
altogether, not restricted, and Benjamin Netanyahu called it the | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
deal of the century for Iran, but nothing has been agreed. Campaigners | :20:36. | :20:47. | |
are calling on the Ministry of Defence to stop recruiting | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
underrating soldiers into the Army. A campaign calls for an end to the | :20:54. | :20:54. | |
practice. Put through their paces, teenagers | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
at this military preparation College are hoping to be Army and Navy | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
recruits within a year. At 16, they think they are ready for the rigours | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
of a military life. At the age I am I think I would be ready, seeing the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
things I have, and the experiences. It would be tough, that also | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
amazing. It has crossed my mind, but I will give everything to be | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
successful and I know the different risks I am taking, but I'm willing | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
to do it and I'm happy with my choice. British soldiers do not | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
enter combat until they are 18, but in a letter signed by church leaders | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
and campaigners, the Ministry of Defence has been accused of | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
recruiting children that are too young to realise what lies ahead. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Are they sufficiently aware of the rigours of the training that is | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
involved? And what might actually faced them if they are deployed into | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
a combat zone at the age of 18? It is a question of whether they are | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
ready for it, physically, and possibly more importantly, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
psychologically. South Wales is an area where Army recruitment has | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
traditionally been strong. In a place where youth unemployment is | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
high military career straight out of school is clearly attractive. But | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
that attraction can fade. In 2012, 800 and 8016 -year-olds enlisted. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
But 410, nearly half of the intake, then left during training. But some | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
argue that that is still an advantage to them. It is a great | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
opportunity. It gives young people, training, life skills and technical | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
skills. And a wide range of skills, actually, that they can then use | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
throughout their life. The Ministry of Defence stresses that all | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
underrating soldiers need parental consent to enlist. And the Ministry | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
have no plans to change their system. For every child born in | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
England the NHS has to pay out almost ?700 for insurance against | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
clinical negligence. The public spending watchdog, the National | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Audit Office, says the cost of the cover equates to nearly a fifth of | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
the maternity budget for the NHS in England. The government says Britain | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
is still one of the safest places in the world to have a baby. Our Health | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
At three days old, baby Miguel and his mother, Daniela, I enjoying some | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
tranquillity. -- are enjoying. He was born on a typically busy | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
maternity unit on Liverpool women's Hospital. In England the number of | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
births has increased by almost a quarter in the last decade and is | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
currently at its highest level for 40 years. Now berths with more | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
complications. We have an increased complexity with delivery, some | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
through patient choice where they choose to deliver when they are | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
older. Some through lack of mobility through an obese population, and | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
some women with complications it would never have had a successful | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
pregnancy before. Today's report into maternity services paints a | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
mixed picture. In 2011, one in 133 babies was stillborn or died soon | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
after birth. An improvement, but still higher in other parts of the | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
UK. The number of legal claims for negligence is up by 80% over the | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
last five years, coaching -- costing the NHS more than ?480 million in | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
insurance cover, around ?700 for every baby born. Clinical negligence | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
is a big issue for maternity and when claims are settled they have to | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
cover the cost of claim -- caring for a baby through the whole life, | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
so the settlements are large. At the moment clinical negligence, cost the | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
NHS about a fifth of the total spend on maternity services. Part of the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
pressure on the maternity unit relates to the number of midwives. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
The government says more students are in training, but the reports | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
predict significant shortfall in the number of qualified midwives | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
available in the future. Ministers insist that more midwives are on the | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
way. We have 1500 more midwives working in the NHS than three years | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
ago. There are 5000 more in training and were making sure that we have | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
more specialist obstetric doctors available on labour wards, more of | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
the time. There are many positives in the report. 80% of mothers say | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
the care was excellent or very good. There have been improvements | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
in maternity care, but they're still too much variation between the very | :25:34. | :25:34. | |
best and the rest. The Queen has opened the new | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
headquarters of an armed forces charity in London today as the | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
country prepares for Remembrance Sunday this weekend. A service has | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
also taken place near Royal Wootton Bassett to remember more than 400 | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
members of the UK armed forces who have died in Afghanistan since 2001, | :25:53. | :25:53. | |
as Richard Lister reports. As preparations for Remembrance | :25:54. | :26:05. | |
Sunday continue, the Queen's focus today was on military veterans. She | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
opens a new headquarters which supports those that served in the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Army, navy and air force. It was a chance to think about their future | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
before their reflections on the Tom flicks of the present and past this | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
weekend. Near the town of Royal Wootton Bassett, a service to open a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
field of remembrance was underway. In the torrential rain, they stood | :26:27. | :26:27. | |
for two minutes of silence. This is one of six such remembrance | :26:28. | :26:40. | |
fields in the UK, and more than 45,000 crosses have been planted in | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
memory of those who fought and died for their country. Emma Hickman's | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
fiance was among them. She never met her dad. One day she will be able to | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
plant her own cross. It's so emotional to see how many people do | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
support the troops, past and present. It is very, very moving. | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
These remembrance fields will stay open for people to pay their | :27:10. | :27:10. | |
respects for another ten days. Let's get more on our top story, the | :27:11. | :27:22. | |
huge storm, described as one of the most powerful typhoons ever | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
recorded, that has hit the Philippines. Our correspondent John | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
Donnison is in the capital, Manila. The storm is still sweeping across | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
central Philippines, night-time, so it will be a long time before we can | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
establish the extent of the damage. That is right. We hope to fly down | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
to one of the worst affected areas in the next few hours, and until | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
people actually get there and take a proper look at some of the eastern | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
provinces and the islands that were worst hit from dawn this morning, we | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
won't know the full extent of the damage. At the moment the number of | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
casualties are relatively low, 34 we have had reported, but when I spoke | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
to United nation 's officials, they said unless they had taken a look | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
they would not know how many houses have been destroyed or damaged and | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
they were talking about the possibilities of hundreds of | :28:11. | :28:11. | |
thousands of homes being destroyed or damaged. Many people here will | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
spend a very difficult night in some sort of temporary accommodation. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
Thank you very much, John. The pale comparison to what is going | :28:22. | :28:32. | |
on in the Philippines, but we have heavy rain on the rainfall picture. | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
That has developed today, affecting the South west, south Wales, and it | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
is heading east over the next few hours and into south-east England | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
just in time to the rush hour. Heavy bursts of rain, surface water and | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
spray, difficult driving conditions. Following on from that area of rain | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
as it edges further east, bearing down on the south-east, heavy | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
showers coming into western areas. Although it will be brightening up | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
in the South West and Wales, the showers will still be quite heavy, | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
some torrential downpours possible in Wales and north-west England. A | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
lot of rain in a short space of time. Rumbles of thunder, but also | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
dry and bright spells in between. For Northern Ireland and western | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
Scotland, the showers keep coming. Also some sunshine between those. | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
Still quite windy in northern Scotland, but not as windy as it has | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
been. The wind will ease during the rest of the day, not too many | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
showers across the eastern Scotland and North East England, so some of | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
the driest weather is on offer here, but then we are back into the rain. | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
This is where we think it will be at 4pm, affecting parts of the | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
Midlands, Lincolnshire, into the South Midlands, then some heavy | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
bursts within this. Before it pulls away, the winds will strengthen in | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
the far south-east. The risk of coastal gales. Once it's gone, the | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
rest of the night is clear spells and showers, most frequent in | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
western areas. It turns chilly in north-east Scotland, so maybe below | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
freezing. Even in the karma parts of central and eastern England, you | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
could be getting close to freezing for a ground frost -- the more karma | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
parts. Saturday morning, Chile, showers from the word go. Across | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
southern areas, virtual repeat of what we had today. Another spell of | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
rain moving through. Sunshine and showers following behind. In the | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
sunshine it won't feel that warm. Be prepared for a cold night on | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
Saturday. As we start Remembrance Sunday, widespread frost, one of the | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
coldest mornings of the season so far. Although it is cold, it will be | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
dry and there will be plenty of sunshine for the Sunday services. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
And for much of the UK, the dry weather will hang on for the rest of | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
the day. Yes, a dry weekend day. But you will notice more rain coming | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
into Northern Ireland, western fringes of England and Wales by the | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
end of the day. That will move east on Sunday night. We are facing more | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
rain as the weekend comes to an end. The normal be feeling a raft of | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
Typhoon Haiyan. -- Vietnam's will be feeling the raft of Typhoon Haiyan. | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
At 1:30pm, a reminder of our main story this lunchtime: one of the | :31:12. | :31:19. | |
most powerful storms ever has hit the Philippines with gusts of 200 | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
mph. Still to come on the BBC News Channel in the next half hour: | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
That's all from the | :31:25. | :31:25. |