:00:00. > :00:00.Millions of people in desperate need of help in the Philippines, amid
:00:07. > :00:11.warnings the devastation could be as bad as the Boxing Day tsunami. New
:00:12. > :00:14.footage shows the strength of Typhoon Haiyan - the wind reached
:00:15. > :00:20.speeds of almost 200mph as it battered the country last Friday. At
:00:21. > :00:23.least 10,000 people are dead five days after the disaster, and
:00:24. > :00:33.millions are hungry and need shelter. The other big thing now is
:00:34. > :00:40.food - look at this line, it stretches for hundreds of metres in
:00:41. > :00:49.both directions. You are waiting for rice? Are you hungry? Yes. Do you
:00:50. > :00:52.have any food? No. We'll be speaking to our
:00:53. > :00:54.correspondents who are in some of the worst-hit areas. Also this
:00:55. > :00:58.lunchtime... A warning to the energy industry not to treat customers like
:00:59. > :01:01.cash cows, as EDF becomes the latest energy company to raise its prices.
:01:02. > :01:04.A fall in the cost of transport leads to a surprise drop in
:01:05. > :01:06.inflation last month - it's down to 2.2%.
:01:07. > :01:09.And shopping vouchers to encourage more new mothers to breast-feed - a
:01:10. > :01:17.new pilot scheme will see if it works.
:01:18. > :01:23.Later on BBC London News, half the capital's A departments are not
:01:24. > :01:27.meeting the target of treating patients within four hours. And it
:01:28. > :01:28.has been confirmed that demand in the housing market far outstrips
:01:29. > :01:46.supply. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:47. > :01:49.BBC News at One. The United Nations has launched an appeal for almost
:01:50. > :01:52.?200 million to help relief efforts in the Philippines. Four days after
:01:53. > :01:54.Typhoon Haiyan swept across the country - survivors in some of the
:01:55. > :02:00.worst-affected areas are still waiting for help. At least 10,000
:02:01. > :02:04.people may have died and more than 11 million people are thought to
:02:05. > :02:07.have been affected by the storm. And now forecasters say another typhoon
:02:08. > :02:12.could hit the country in the next few days. We'll hear from our
:02:13. > :02:15.correspondents in Tacloban, a city which felt the full force of the
:02:16. > :02:28.typhoon and in Cebu, in the eastern Philippines, where aid is just
:02:29. > :02:32.beginning to arrive. Alastair Leithead has this report, and it
:02:33. > :02:36.contains some images which viewers may find distressing. The extent of
:02:37. > :02:39.this typhoon is only now becoming clear. Across the Philippines,
:02:40. > :02:43.buildings and homes have been destroyed, people left without
:02:44. > :02:46.shelter. Even solid concrete buildings, like the local school,
:02:47. > :02:55.could not withstand the power of the storm. Cebu Island was not the first
:02:56. > :02:58.place to be hit, but Typhoon Haiyan levelled buildings all the way along
:02:59. > :03:03.its destruct path. It is an overwhelming task, trying to restore
:03:04. > :03:05.power supplies which have been cut off across the entire north of the
:03:06. > :03:09.island, but you have to start somewhere. On the road north, with
:03:10. > :03:15.another tropical storm approaching, the extent of the damage edgily
:03:16. > :03:22.worsens. We stumbled across a home built to keep out the weather, but
:03:23. > :03:29.the storm came in anyway. -- gradually worsens. A very strong
:03:30. > :03:38.wind came in my house. We were afraid, and my grand daughter was
:03:39. > :03:42.shaking. This was the first truck of a to reach this area. When the
:03:43. > :03:45.people heard, they came running. A group of friends from the main city
:03:46. > :03:50.on the island loaded up a truck with whatever they could find - Rice,
:03:51. > :03:58.tins and water rumble we were trying to go around and look for a town
:03:59. > :04:01.which really needed help. It was taking too long for the aids to come
:04:02. > :04:07.in, and some of the roads were blocked, so we found this house, and
:04:08. > :04:09.we tried to find a spot for us to get our stuff ready. This is just
:04:10. > :04:15.one little feeding station that we have stumbled across on the long
:04:16. > :04:18.drive up to the north of Cebu Island. The further you go, the
:04:19. > :04:22.worse the damage gets and the greater the need for people to get
:04:23. > :04:26.food and water, whether it be from private organisations or from the
:04:27. > :04:30.government, they all need help as soon as possible. This is your
:04:31. > :04:35.house... ? This lady, her husband and her three children were lucky to
:04:36. > :04:40.is of five when their roof came off. They had to battle a gale to reach
:04:41. > :04:44.the safety of a friend's home. There are so many stories like hers in
:04:45. > :04:45.this neighbourhood. Across this battered island, there are many,
:04:46. > :05:01.many more. Tim Wilcox now joins us live from
:05:02. > :05:03.Cebu. The stories are still unfolding, the devastation
:05:04. > :05:11.extraordinary, so give us the latest. Well, there is a problem
:05:12. > :05:14.here at the moment in terms of this international airport in this city,
:05:15. > :05:20.which was meant to be the main drop-off point for international aid
:05:21. > :05:23.relief for areas like Tacloban, which is about a 45 minute flight
:05:24. > :05:28.away. The problem seems to be that some of this aid is arriving, and
:05:29. > :05:31.there is a bottleneck, which means the aid cannot be transported to the
:05:32. > :05:36.areas where it is needed most. I have been speaking to a Belgian crew
:05:37. > :05:40.who flew in this morning just before dawn. They had refuelled in
:05:41. > :05:44.Azerbaijan and in India, and when they landed, there was no connecting
:05:45. > :05:48.flight to take their aid across to where it is needed most. But is
:05:49. > :05:53.because the runway is too short for their aircraft to land. They need
:05:54. > :05:58.C-130 aircraft, which can take off and land on a shorter runway, but
:05:59. > :06:03.there do not seem to be enough of them available at the moment. They
:06:04. > :06:08.may be waiting to three days, with aid which could provide clean water,
:06:09. > :06:11.shelter and a mobile field hospital for 30,000 people, for up to one
:06:12. > :06:16.month, and they are frustrated because that aid can not get across
:06:17. > :06:19.to Tacloban, for example. What these people have been through is
:06:20. > :06:24.unthinkable, we are going to show some amateur footage of the wind, as
:06:25. > :06:28.it swept across the Philippines, and when you look at the pictures, you
:06:29. > :06:34.can see just how strong and violent these winds were. Yes, and when you
:06:35. > :06:39.look at those pictures, it is truly shocking. You are talking about
:06:40. > :06:45.winds of 235mph. But the crucial, most destruct thing is the storm
:06:46. > :06:53.surge which was created by this typhoon, waves of up to 20ft hi,
:06:54. > :06:59.which crashed into the town, where this footage was taken. Normally,
:07:00. > :07:02.typhoons in this area, and the Philippines is no stranger to
:07:03. > :07:08.typhoons, this being the 25th one this year, normally it leads to
:07:09. > :07:11.flooding and mudslides from the mountains, which is how people lose
:07:12. > :07:14.their lives, but this is completely different, this storm surge caused
:07:15. > :07:18.even more devastation than normal, making it most powerful storm this
:07:19. > :07:26.country has probably ever had to end your. Our correspondent Jon Donnison
:07:27. > :07:29.has managed to travel to Tacloban, where he has been hearing some of
:07:30. > :07:35.the stories of the loss and devastation there. It is a bleak,
:07:36. > :07:39.bleak situation for people living here. In this plot of land there are
:07:40. > :07:43.probably a couple of hundred families packed in, and not one of
:07:44. > :07:48.them has a roof left to put over their heads. We had a heavy night of
:07:49. > :07:56.driving rain, making a bad situation even worse. When a typhoon came, a
:07:57. > :07:59.wall of water swept in from the sea. Abel said they were up to their
:08:00. > :08:05.necks in sea water, doing anything they could to try and save
:08:06. > :08:09.themselves. -- people said. One man told me he went inside his toilet
:08:10. > :08:13.and wrapped his hands around the toilet and clone for dear life and
:08:14. > :08:19.prayed. People are doing whatever they can to rebuild their lives and
:08:20. > :08:22.their homes. -- and prayed. People ask averaging around, they say they
:08:23. > :08:26.have only got a few days' worth of provisions left, and they say there
:08:27. > :08:31.is a real problem with dirty water. Here, people are scooping up the
:08:32. > :08:36.dirty water from this well. They are basically straining it through a
:08:37. > :08:39.T-shirt so they can cook with it. The people here say they have not
:08:40. > :08:49.seen any sign of the government in the past four days. We will sleep
:08:50. > :08:57.anywhere, but we need food, only food. No money, no televisions, no
:08:58. > :09:05.cell phones, no technology, food, we need food. There is a real risk in
:09:06. > :09:09.these coming days of disease spreading quickly in these
:09:10. > :09:13.conditions. People are showing remarkable resilience, they are
:09:14. > :09:16.doing their best to try and rebuild their homes and their lives. But
:09:17. > :09:28.where do you start? Getting the aid to survivors is
:09:29. > :09:32.proving to be extremely difficult, as you can see. The flooding of the
:09:33. > :09:38.streets of Tacloban is making it almost impossible, as Rupert
:09:39. > :09:41.Wingfield-Hayes reports. It has been raining here overnight. We have had
:09:42. > :09:46.torrential downpours. Everything is now swamped in this stinking
:09:47. > :09:54.Blackwater. And there is more rain coming. The fact is that maybe
:09:55. > :09:58.80-90% of the buildings along the coast have lost their roofs. So,
:09:59. > :10:02.even where the buildings have survived, people are effectively
:10:03. > :10:07.living in the open. The other big thing now is food. Look at this
:10:08. > :10:12.line, it stretches for hundreds of metres in both directions. Everybody
:10:13. > :10:20.is lining up here, pretty patiently. If I just speak to some of them...
:10:21. > :10:30.How are you? Fine. What are you doing here? Waiting. You are waiting
:10:31. > :10:41.for rice? Yes. Are you hungry? Yes. Do you have any food? No. Did you
:10:42. > :10:47.eat today? Yes. No food. No food. This is the really big issue now
:10:48. > :10:50.here, all of the food and rice belonging to these people was
:10:51. > :10:52.damaged in the storm. It is now the fifth day since the storm, and
:10:53. > :10:58.supplies are running out. There is still a sense that aid is not
:10:59. > :11:02.getting in here. The airport, there are planes coming in, but we do not
:11:03. > :11:05.see any of it here. The situation is becoming more and more tense, more
:11:06. > :11:12.and more hunger, people are getting increasingly desperate. And Jon
:11:13. > :11:18.Donnison joins us live from Tacloban. The question is really,
:11:19. > :11:23.when will the aid get there? Yes, and that is what everybody asking
:11:24. > :11:28.us. And they are getting desperate. A few hours ago, we were out at a
:11:29. > :11:33.big food warehouse which was being ransacked, absolutely chaotic
:11:34. > :11:38.scenes, as people stormed into this food distribution centre and started
:11:39. > :11:43.just streaming out, carrying sackfuls of anything they could get
:11:44. > :11:48.their hands on - noodles, biscuits, crisps, you name it. Truth is that
:11:49. > :11:54.the aid is not getting in. People are asking why that is. It has been
:11:55. > :12:01.five days now, they are seeing these planes coming in to Tacloban
:12:02. > :12:04.airport, but where is it? And also, you have got all of these people who
:12:05. > :12:09.have been killed, bodies which have not been buried, and clearly, the
:12:10. > :12:15.risk of disease? I think that is a real problem, there is no sanitation
:12:16. > :12:23.here. There are no toilets. So, the water everywhere is absolutely
:12:24. > :12:27.filthy. We saw a young family today, as we saw in that report earlier,
:12:28. > :12:31.sipping water through a T-shirt just to try and get it filtered so they
:12:32. > :12:34.could use it to cook. There is a sense that unless help comes, things
:12:35. > :12:42.are getting worse rather than better.
:12:43. > :12:47.HMS Daring is on its way to the Philippines right now to help
:12:48. > :12:51.support the operation. The commanding officer is on the line to
:12:52. > :12:59.us now from on board the ship. First of all, explain how far away you are
:13:00. > :13:02.from the Philippines now. We are about 1400 miles away, and we are
:13:03. > :13:12.making good headway. When you get there, what will you be able to do
:13:13. > :13:18.for these people? Well, I heard your previous reporters talking about
:13:19. > :13:21.distribution issues, and we can take stores on board and move them around
:13:22. > :13:27.the coastline to some of the more remote communities. I have got a
:13:28. > :13:29.helicopter, I have got boats, I can reach the more remote communities
:13:30. > :13:35.and make sure that they have got water, first of all, and also help
:13:36. > :13:39.them with electricity restoration and get them blankets to make sure
:13:40. > :13:45.they are warm. I can make water on board myself to support smaller
:13:46. > :13:47.local communities, as well as providing first aid provisions for
:13:48. > :13:52.some of these communities which have not had any support to date. You say
:13:53. > :13:57.you are still a feud thousand miles away, when do you think will
:13:58. > :14:01.arrive? I should be there by the morning of the 16th. We have got
:14:02. > :14:06.about 1400 miles to run, and we are making best speed to get around the
:14:07. > :14:10.east coast. We are still in negotiation with the UK and with the
:14:11. > :14:14.authorities on the ground to make sure that our efforts are best
:14:15. > :14:21.targeted to meet our unique attributes. What do you think of the
:14:22. > :14:27.task ahead? It is a daunting task it is one for which my ships company
:14:28. > :14:31.are well prepared. We train in this kind of stuff before we come away.
:14:32. > :14:35.We have a mock-up village to prepare for this kind of exercise. We are
:14:36. > :14:46.very much prepared. Commanding officer, boxed over joining us.
:14:47. > :14:57.The Prime Minister has announced that the UK is sending a team of
:14:58. > :15:01.addition medical experts. And a reminder that there is more on the
:15:02. > :15:04.impact of Typhoon Haiyan with updates from our correspondents in
:15:05. > :15:09.the Philippines on the BBC News website.
:15:10. > :15:17.The time is 1.15. Our top story this lunchtime. Millions of people in
:15:18. > :15:20.desperate need of help in the Philippines amid warnings the
:15:21. > :15:28.devastation could be as bad as the Boxing Day Tsunami. And coming up
:15:29. > :15:33.later, I will be reporting from this Red Cross depot in Bristol. Three
:15:34. > :15:39.trucks of aid leaving here today heading for the Philippines.
:15:40. > :15:43.800 years old, and now dying. Specialists try to save one of
:15:44. > :15:49.London's oldest trees from decay. And strides being made by a charity
:15:50. > :15:54.for children, introducing them to 4-legged friends.
:15:55. > :15:59.Yet another energy company has announced it is putting up its
:16:00. > :16:02.prices. EDF says average gas and electricity bills will rise by 3.9%
:16:03. > :16:08.from January, but points out the rise is half that of rivals. But the
:16:09. > :16:11.company has warned that there could be further price increases if the
:16:12. > :16:16.Government does not make its expected reduction in the "green
:16:17. > :16:19.levy" on energy bills. The Energy Secretary Ed Davey today told gas
:16:20. > :16:21.and electricity firms that they risk being perceived like "greedy
:16:22. > :16:24.bankers", and must not treat customers as "cash cows". Simon
:16:25. > :16:35.Gompertz reports. No let up from the autumn price
:16:36. > :16:42.hikes. SSE started it, then three more. Now 2.5 million EDF customers
:16:43. > :16:52.face a hike, smaller one. No move yet from E.ON. The rise of 3.9% is
:16:53. > :16:58.less than half the typical increase. There is a warning. EDF will slap
:16:59. > :17:00.more on bills if the Government doesn't cut the green levy that
:17:01. > :17:09.suppliers have to pass on to households. Instead of having to
:17:10. > :17:13.increase it more than twice what we have done, we have said that he will
:17:14. > :17:19.hold back half of the increase now so that our customers can benefit
:17:20. > :17:24.from the review of the cost. Of the money EDF is putting on the average
:17:25. > :17:31.bill, ?49, ?24 come from higher transmission cost. ?10 from
:17:32. > :17:34.installing smart meters. ?8 for discounts for vulnerable families
:17:35. > :17:41.and VAT. ?6 for supporting renewables. And only ?1 from higher
:17:42. > :17:45.energy costs. The sting in the tale is that cost of installing
:17:46. > :17:52.insulation and energy efficient boilers. The focus of the
:17:53. > :17:58.suppliers' attacks after Labour promised it would freeze prices. The
:17:59. > :18:03.company says it is up to the Government to act and pay for green
:18:04. > :18:07.measures out of normal taxation. Let's get to each and every element
:18:08. > :18:13.of that bill and see how it could be minimised, what should be paid for
:18:14. > :18:17.in the way that it is what should be paid for differently, and let's get
:18:18. > :18:20.that in place rather than doing an accusation and counterclaim, the
:18:21. > :18:27.kind of lunch and Judy that we have seen so much of the last few weeks.
:18:28. > :18:30.People are pretty fed up, and if they want to avoid the reputational
:18:31. > :18:35.damage that we saw for the banking industry, and I still think they
:18:36. > :18:40.can, they need to work with us, to be on the side of the consumer. As
:18:41. > :18:44.prices escalate, energy companies have managed to divert some of the
:18:45. > :18:48.flak. Now the Chancellor will be under pressure to do something in
:18:49. > :18:51.his Autumn statement in a few weeks. Our political correspondent Norman
:18:52. > :19:02.Smith is at the energy conference in Central London. The key here is that
:19:03. > :19:07.EDF are turning the pressure back on the government. They are playing
:19:08. > :19:11.political hardball, throwing down the gauntlet to the Government and
:19:12. > :19:14.saying, if you get some of these nasty green bits and bobs that you
:19:15. > :19:20.insist we put in the bills and we can keep price rises down. But woe
:19:21. > :19:23.betide you if you don't do that, we will have to do the same as every
:19:24. > :19:28.other big energy company and include a much bigger price rise. So they
:19:29. > :19:31.are trying to turn the tables in the energy debate and say it is
:19:32. > :19:36.government policy driving much of these big price hikes. They are
:19:37. > :19:42.trying to crank up the pressure on the Chancellor ahead of next
:19:43. > :19:46.autumn's statement. All of the signs are that Mr Osborne may indeed do
:19:47. > :19:49.that, and that may create the competitive pressure that forces
:19:50. > :19:53.other companies to follow EDF's example. But the Government isn't
:19:54. > :19:57.going to abandon these levies, it will simply pay for them
:19:58. > :20:03.differently, from the pot marked general taxation, so what in time
:20:04. > :20:11.may be better news for the average energy payer may not be great news
:20:12. > :20:14.for the average taxpayer. Norman, thank you.
:20:15. > :20:18.Inflation has dropped to its lowest level in more than a year. A fall in
:20:19. > :20:22.the cost of transport, both fuel and air fares, means it plummeted to
:20:23. > :20:24.2.2% in October, down from 2.7% in September as measured by the
:20:25. > :20:27.Consumer Prices Index. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym is
:20:28. > :20:34.here with the details. It was expected to fall, but not by so
:20:35. > :20:42.much. Indeed, Sophie. Analysts were caught by surprise. They have been
:20:43. > :20:45.recalculated, because some important constituents exerted more downward
:20:46. > :20:51.pressure than they thought. Let's take a look at some of the details.
:20:52. > :20:56.First of all, transport costs were down 1.5%, a whole range of fares
:20:57. > :21:09.and so on, but it also includes motoring costs will . Petrol was
:21:10. > :21:13.down 4.9 p in the month. Another factor was education costs, student
:21:14. > :21:18.fees and so on. That looks pretty sharp increase for the month, all to
:21:19. > :21:23.do with higher tuition fees, but the increase wasn't nearly as big as
:21:24. > :21:26.last year. But it is important to remember that inflation is still
:21:27. > :21:32.running at three times the rate of the average pay rise.
:21:33. > :21:37.And people will be wondering whether it has any impact on interest rates.
:21:38. > :21:44.It certainly gives the Bank of England breathing space, and means
:21:45. > :21:49.that it is less likely that interest rates will go up sooner rather than
:21:50. > :21:55.later. The key thing for the Bank of England is unemployment. They have
:21:56. > :21:58.said they won't even think about increasing interest rates until
:21:59. > :22:05.unemployment comes down to 7% of the workforce. It is currently 7.7%.
:22:06. > :22:08.Hugh Pym, thank you very much. The Home Office has confirmed that
:22:09. > :22:11.the Government is considering if it is able to make terror suspects
:22:12. > :22:13.stateless by stripping them of their British citizenship.
:22:14. > :22:16.Ministers hope the move, which would apply to foreign nationals who
:22:17. > :22:18.settled in the UK, would make it easier to deport people deemed a
:22:19. > :22:24.security risk. How do you encourage more women to
:22:25. > :22:28.breast-feed their babies? Well, some new mothers are to be offered up to
:22:29. > :22:31.?200 in shopping vouchers to see if that works. The pilot scheme is
:22:32. > :22:34.taking place in parts of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, where the rates
:22:35. > :22:37.of breast-feeding are low. If the scheme proves successful, it could
:22:38. > :22:43.be rolled out nationwide next year. Here's our health correspondent Jane
:22:44. > :22:48.Dreaper. New mothers are told breast is best
:22:49. > :22:52.for their baby's health, but breast-feeding rates remain very low
:22:53. > :22:57.in some part of the UK, with babies in well-off areas for times more
:22:58. > :23:00.likely to have breastmilk. Researchers think that offering
:23:01. > :23:03.shopping vouchers could hold the key to persuading women to breast-feed.
:23:04. > :23:12.This early stage of the study begins today. It would involve up to 132
:23:13. > :23:15.mothers. If they breast-feed for six months, they will get shopping
:23:16. > :23:26.vouchers worth 200 towns in five stages. The midwives or health
:23:27. > :23:31.visitors will fill out a form. The initial reaction is, you can't do
:23:32. > :23:34.that. But once people start thinking about it and realising the
:23:35. > :23:37.importance of breast-feeding to babies, mothers and society, and the
:23:38. > :23:41.fact that the UK has one of the worst breast-feeding rates in the
:23:42. > :23:46.world, they will think, let's give this a try. But in Sheffield, the
:23:47. > :23:51.city where the research is based, some mothers are questioning whether
:23:52. > :23:54.vouchers are the right way forward. You're already saving money if you
:23:55. > :23:59.breast-feed anyway because you don't have to buy the formula. So there is
:24:00. > :24:04.already a financial incentive. I think it is much more important to
:24:05. > :24:07.give people support. The people I know who didn't breast-feed, it
:24:08. > :24:10.wouldn't work, and it is kind of insulting to them because they did
:24:11. > :24:14.want to breast-feed and they couldn't. Breast-feeding helps tops
:24:15. > :24:20.babies from getting infections and other health problems, but it is not
:24:21. > :24:23.always straightforward. There are a small number of mums who will have
:24:24. > :24:26.difficulty breast-feeding, and if you offer vouchers, they will feel
:24:27. > :24:31.disadvantaged by that because they will not be able to take it up. If
:24:32. > :24:36.the researchers Sheffield managed to dramatically improve rest feeding
:24:37. > :24:39.rates in deprived areas, this would lead to a debate about offering
:24:40. > :24:43.vouchers more widely. But the results won't be clear for
:24:44. > :24:46.at least another two years. Back to our main story - the
:24:47. > :24:50.aftermath of the devastating typhoon in the Philippines. Britain is
:24:51. > :24:53.deploying a Royal Navy warship and donating ?10 million to help the
:24:54. > :25:00.millions of people affected by the disaster. Volunteers at the Red
:25:01. > :25:03.Cross centre near Bristol are preparing to send emergency supplies
:25:04. > :25:16.to the Philippines. Our correspondent Jon Kay is there.
:25:17. > :25:21.The blankets, the rice, the water. Those kinds of things that people in
:25:22. > :25:25.the Philippines needs are not coming from here. That sort of stuff is
:25:26. > :25:31.stored by charities all over the world. The hope is that that can get
:25:32. > :25:38.there sooner. The stuff leaving today is stuff like this, giant
:25:39. > :25:42.inflatable tents. This warehouse has been sending out hardware, the kind
:25:43. > :25:46.of things that rescue teams and aid workers need to build bases and do
:25:47. > :25:49.their work on the ground. When we got here this morning, this whole
:25:50. > :25:55.area was full of stuff, but in the last hour or so, the first
:25:56. > :26:00.consignment has gone. The start of a 7000 mile journey.
:26:01. > :26:04.From the Red Cross warehouse in Bristol to the Philippines. That is
:26:05. > :26:12.the stuff that will get there today, with the generator. This kit is
:26:13. > :26:15.heading for emergency teams on the grounds that they can build rescue
:26:16. > :26:21.centres and coordinate the aid effort. Inflatable tents for the
:26:22. > :26:27.teams, takes about eight minutes to inflate them, gives a safe working
:26:28. > :26:30.environment. We are sending to generators to run communications,
:26:31. > :26:35.computers, satellites, printers and so on. And in here we have the
:26:36. > :26:38.food, high energy, and it will hopefully keep the team sustained
:26:39. > :26:44.for the time that they are working in the operation. Long hours,
:26:45. > :26:52.difficult job? They work about 18 hours a day. ?25 will buy what water
:26:53. > :27:04.purification tablets for ten families from on. Tonight, this
:27:05. > :27:10.Advent -- advert will be screened by the disaster committee. People can
:27:11. > :27:14.give items in kind, and that will be shipped across, but that might be
:27:15. > :27:19.too late. Money can get there quicker, and we can buy food and
:27:20. > :27:24.medicines locally. From Cornwall, this charity is sending practical
:27:25. > :27:28.help. In each box there is a shelter and essentials for one family. But
:27:29. > :27:34.getting it to those who need it would be easy. The roads are blocked
:27:35. > :27:38.and communications down. We hear that petrol is now being rationed.
:27:39. > :27:44.So there will be huge challenges over those last few miles to get
:27:45. > :27:48.that aid to the people who need it. Back at the Red Cross, the first
:27:49. > :27:53.consignment is loaded up and almost ready to go. Next stop, Stansted
:27:54. > :27:59.Airport, which should we in the Philippines by Thursday.
:28:00. > :28:03.The first load has left this depot, but staff expect there will be more
:28:04. > :28:07.to go. They say they are ready and willing, able to help the Sims the
:28:08. > :28:19.next call comes through. Jon, thank you. The Disasters
:28:20. > :28:22.Emergency Committee launches its appeal campaign this evening. If
:28:23. > :28:37.you'd like to contribute to the aid effort, you can call the DEC.
:28:38. > :28:43.Time for a look at the weather. Here's Elizabeth Saary.
:28:44. > :28:54.Good afternoon. The beautiful weather that we will see this
:28:55. > :28:57.afternoon is not going to last. Overnight tonight, high-pressure
:28:58. > :29:01.moving in, giving us quiet conditions and also some frost and
:29:02. > :29:09.fog. Wet and windy conditions coming to many of us by Thursday. But here
:29:10. > :29:14.is what we have for the moment. Some sunshine in merging across many
:29:15. > :29:19.parts of the UK, but quieter across the north and west of Scotland. They
:29:20. > :29:22.could be some snow above the higher ground. For the rest of us, with
:29:23. > :29:28.that ridge of high pressure across us, a fairly quiet night. A little
:29:29. > :29:34.foggy in places, but it will also be very cold. These are the values in
:29:35. > :29:43.towns and cities, but in the countryside, it could be down to
:29:44. > :29:45.freezing or a touch below. A cold and frosty start, potentially a
:29:46. > :29:50.little fog around across southern parts of the UK come the morning.
:29:51. > :29:55.Light winds, and of the sunshine gets to work, it will clear a way
:29:56. > :30:01.that mist and fog rapidly. As we had our way northwards, a little more
:30:02. > :30:03.cloud coming into Northern Ireland and across the north-west of
:30:04. > :30:11.Scotland. This is heralding the arrival of that weather system.
:30:12. > :30:14.Cloud will continue to pile in across the north and west of the UK.
:30:15. > :30:20.The wind will become stronger and stronger, gale force across the
:30:21. > :30:25.north-west. Elsewhere, it will remain dry, thickening cloud across
:30:26. > :30:30.northern England and Wales. Across the South and East, Tim ages should
:30:31. > :30:34.eventually reached 10 Celsius, but feeling chilly if you are in the
:30:35. > :30:38.north in the West. Overnight Wednesday night, that rain comes
:30:39. > :30:42.southwards, so by the Earth Day, we are all into those strong
:30:43. > :30:45.north-westerly winds. So although temperatures will reach double
:30:46. > :30:51.figures once again in the south, it will feel colder than that. We still
:30:52. > :30:58.have a chilly wind on Friday, and could once again see some mist and
:30:59. > :31:01.fog problems. More chilly nights to come as we head towards the weekend.
:31:02. > :31:06.At half past one, a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. Millions
:31:07. > :31:10.of people in desperate need of help in the Philippines amid warnings the
:31:11. > :31:15.devastation could be as bad as the Boxing Day Tsunami. The United
:31:16. > :31:18.Nations appeals for nearly ?200 million to help the victims of the
:31:19. > :31:21.devastating typhoon. Much more on this story throughout the day on the
:31:22. > :31:23.BBC News Channel. That's all from the News at One this lunchtime, so
:31:24. > :31:25.it's goodbye from