:00:00. > :00:08.Good news on the UK economy. Unemployment falls again, and the
:00:09. > :00:12.Bank of England predict that things will get better faster than they
:00:13. > :00:15.thought. In his quarterly report, the Bank's
:00:16. > :00:18.Governor, Mark Carney, left question marks about interest rate rises, but
:00:19. > :00:26.says there is no doubting the pace of the economic recovery. For the
:00:27. > :00:31.first time in a long time, you don't have to be an optimist to see that
:00:32. > :00:33.the glass is half all. The recovery has finally taken hold.
:00:34. > :00:36.We will have reaction to the governor's optimism and what it
:00:37. > :00:39.could mean for you. The other headlines this lunchtime: A plea for
:00:40. > :00:41.water, food and medicines, as survivors of the Philippines
:00:42. > :00:46.hurricane grow increasingly desperate.
:00:47. > :00:51.With aid beginning to arrive, ?13 million has been raised in the first
:00:52. > :00:54.24 hours of the DEC appeal. A race against time - doctors warn
:00:55. > :01:01.that without urgent medical supplies, many more could die.
:01:02. > :01:04.Plans for a two-tier accident and emergency system, put forward in
:01:05. > :01:07.response to the growing pressures on casualty departments in England.
:01:08. > :01:10.Charging ahead - a spending watchdog warns that households are facing
:01:11. > :01:16.another 17 years of above inflation pieces in energy and water bills.
:01:17. > :01:18.Back from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, Captain Heather
:01:19. > :01:28.Stanning prepares for the next challenge, going for Olympic rowing
:01:29. > :01:33.gold in Rio. Later on BBC London, another cyclist
:01:34. > :01:38.dies at a roundabout at the fourth to lose their life in a few days.
:01:39. > :01:40.And police defend the rise of Taser incidents. They have doubled their
:01:41. > :02:01.use in the capital in the last year. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:02:02. > :02:04.BBC News at ten one. There was good news on the UK
:02:05. > :02:07.economy today. The Governor of the Bank of England says the UK recovery
:02:08. > :02:10.has "taken hold". His comments came as the bank upgraded its growth
:02:11. > :02:14.forecast for the economy this year and next. That could herald a sooner
:02:15. > :02:21.than expected rise in interest rates. And unemployment has fallen
:02:22. > :02:24.again. In the three months to September, the number was down
:02:25. > :02:27.48,000 to just under 2.5 million. The Office for National Statistics
:02:28. > :02:37.said the number of people in work reached almost 30 million, the
:02:38. > :02:42.highest figure since records began. A big power in steering the
:02:43. > :02:46.economy, the Bank of England has changed its view about how fast it
:02:47. > :02:52.is recovering. Stronger optimism is backed up by jobs increasing and
:02:53. > :02:55.unemployment falling. Amazon in Swansea is one employer which has
:02:56. > :03:00.been taking people on at a faster rate than last year, starting in
:03:01. > :03:05.temporary jobs, some of them then moving up to full time. I came
:03:06. > :03:11.straight from university, so I wanted to use my degree. I came in
:03:12. > :03:16.here, not thinking I could use it, but thankfully, Amazon have grown
:03:17. > :03:20.around me and I have enabled to use my experiences inside. Unemployment
:03:21. > :03:27.has dropped to 7.6% of the workforce, down from 7.7. Youth
:03:28. > :03:32.unemployment is down nine hours, long-term unemployment down 19,000.
:03:33. > :03:36.The Bank of England's keep power is to change interest rates to spur or
:03:37. > :03:41.hold back the economy. That now depends on the unemployment figures.
:03:42. > :03:45.The governor, Mark Carney, framed a new policy in the summer called
:03:46. > :03:50.forward guidance, one thing the world's financial markets when UK
:03:51. > :03:54.interest rates would be raised from their rock bottom rate of 0.5%. He
:03:55. > :03:57.said it would happen when the percentage of the workforce who were
:03:58. > :04:02.unemployed fell to seven, and the forward guidance was that the
:04:03. > :04:06.threshold would be reached in 2016. Now it looks like we will get their
:04:07. > :04:12.year earlier. Jobs are being created at a rate of 60,000 per month. The
:04:13. > :04:15.economy is growing at its fastest pace in six years. For the first
:04:16. > :04:20.time in a long time, you don't have to be an optimist to see the glass
:04:21. > :04:24.is half full. The recovery has finally taken hold. On the ground
:04:25. > :04:29.and out what of the whole of the UK economy, the forecast for this year
:04:30. > :04:35.is raised to 1.6% from 1.4. Next year is predicted to be 2.8%, an
:04:36. > :04:40.even bigger upgrade. The economy is moving faster, and without the sort
:04:41. > :04:44.of price rises that many fear, there is still a long way to go to make up
:04:45. > :04:47.for what we lost in the recession, with the Bank of England saying it
:04:48. > :04:53.is a lot better than in the summer. There are 100 thousand more people
:04:54. > :04:57.in work than expected, so a return to higher interest rates is a relief
:04:58. > :05:01.for savers, but a worry for homeowners with mortgages could
:05:02. > :05:08.happen sooner. Our chief economics correspondent is
:05:09. > :05:16.here. Listening to the governor and the change of tone, Houston is the
:05:17. > :05:21.economy? I was struck by his tone. The Bank of England has not all
:05:22. > :05:25.castes like this for a while . For the government to talk about the
:05:26. > :05:30.glass being half full is quite something. Mark Carney criticised
:05:31. > :05:34.the Mervyn King, who did not have many opportunities to say that. He
:05:35. > :05:38.is saying it had taken hold, a crucial statement to make, that it
:05:39. > :05:42.is not a flash in the pan. As we heard, unemployment is falling, the
:05:43. > :05:49.biggest drop in the numbers claiming jobseeker's allowance since 2008.
:05:50. > :05:53.But the governor did add that to be sure of a sustained recovery, you
:05:54. > :05:59.need more business investment. You need real wages to pick up, in other
:06:00. > :06:04.words, to be above the rate of inflation. So it could take time for
:06:05. > :06:11.things to be absolutely certain, but he is up beat. So that is good news.
:06:12. > :06:17.But perversely, many will be concerned that that may herald a
:06:18. > :06:21.sooner than expected rise in interest rates. And the picture is
:06:22. > :06:27.even more confusing than it was. Back in August, they set out forward
:06:28. > :06:31.guidance that they would not even consider raising interest rates
:06:32. > :06:35.until unemployment got to 7% of the workforce, which looked unlikely
:06:36. > :06:39.before 2016. So it looks like three years of record low interest rates.
:06:40. > :06:42.Under their projections now, at 7% could even be reached by the end of
:06:43. > :06:47.next year. So they may consider raising interest rates possibly as
:06:48. > :06:51.soon as in a year's time. But Mark Carney and his colleagues may not
:06:52. > :06:56.raise interest rates than. There could be other factors, like low
:06:57. > :06:59.inflation. So there is no increased certainty about interest rates, and
:07:00. > :07:06.lots of mortgage payers and savers will still be wondering where it
:07:07. > :07:09.leaves them. Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the
:07:10. > :07:13.Philippines are growing increasingly desperate for food, water and
:07:14. > :07:16.medical supplies, as aid agencies struggle to get vital supplies to
:07:17. > :07:23.those who need it. Eight people were crushed to death after acute crowd
:07:24. > :07:25.stormed a rice warehouse on Leyte island. Here, the Disasters
:07:26. > :07:30.Emergency Committee has announced that more than ?13 million has been
:07:31. > :07:34.donated in the first 24 hours of its appeal. Thousands have died in the
:07:35. > :07:38.disaster. The Philippines government estimates around 2000, but the death
:07:39. > :07:45.toll could be much higher. More than nine merely unpeople -- 9 million
:07:46. > :07:49.people are in urgent need of aid. We will have reports from our
:07:50. > :07:52.correspondents on the ground in Tacloban, one of the worst hit
:07:53. > :07:55.areas, looking at whether any aid is managing to get through and how the
:07:56. > :07:59.hospitals are trying to cope. First, this report on how thousands of able
:08:00. > :08:03.spend yet another night in temporary shelter.
:08:04. > :08:07.There is not much left with a roof in Tacloban. The Astrodome arena was
:08:08. > :08:13.one of the few buildings big enough to withstand Typhoon Haiyan. It is
:08:14. > :08:18.now a shelter for hundreds of families who have lost everything.
:08:19. > :08:24.Thousands of people are camped here in filthy conditions. Seven families
:08:25. > :08:30.are living in this 110. Finally, there is a team of doctors, one of
:08:31. > :08:37.the first signs of help beginning to arrive. A stair landing is now home
:08:38. > :08:40.to this family. Lee managed to get his wife Jessica and his seven
:08:41. > :08:49.children here in hours before the typhoon hit. They have one-month-old
:08:50. > :08:56.twin boys. Lee tells me they have enough baby formula to last just
:08:57. > :09:00.four more days. He says only God is giving him the strength to carry on
:09:01. > :09:07.and that he is lucky his family is still alive. Thousands of people
:09:08. > :09:12.were seeking shelter here at the Astrodome when the typhoon struck.
:09:13. > :09:15.This was one of the main evacuation centres, but such was the size of
:09:16. > :09:24.the storm surge coming in from the ocean that the water came right up
:09:25. > :09:28.to this balcony. People can see aid is now being flown in in greater
:09:29. > :09:37.amounts. But little has arrived here yet. Jose is a schoolteacher. Like
:09:38. > :09:44.many, he feels abandoned. People of the world, come to my city. We need
:09:45. > :09:57.you. Please, come to my city. We need you. We need help. But until it
:09:58. > :10:07.comes, people likely are having to comfort their families as best they
:10:08. > :10:10.can. Many communities have no means of
:10:11. > :10:12.making contact with the rest of the country, making it difficult to
:10:13. > :10:16.build a clear picture of exactly where the need is greatest. The
:10:17. > :10:28.worst hit areas are also impossible to reach by road, so delivering aid
:10:29. > :10:32.by air has become essential. This is what the people of Tacloban
:10:33. > :10:37.have been waiting for. Finally, we are starting to see assignment of
:10:38. > :10:41.aid. These are high-energy biscuits brought by the world food programme.
:10:42. > :10:45.They have been delivered to the airport, but until now, there has
:10:46. > :10:50.not been the logistics, security or organisation to deliver them to the
:10:51. > :10:53.200,000 people of the city. Finally, we are seeing food but from this
:10:54. > :11:00.airport in these military trucks and head out towards the city. Behind
:11:01. > :11:03.here, you can see these US Osprey heavy-lift helicopter aircraft,
:11:04. > :11:08.ideal for taking aid from here to outline the village is which have
:11:09. > :11:13.been completely wiped up and have up to now received no assistance at
:11:14. > :11:18.all. All these people are trying to leave Tacloban. The lack of food,
:11:19. > :11:22.water my shelter and security is driving more and more to find any
:11:23. > :11:27.way they can out of the city. Flights are few and far between.
:11:28. > :11:30.They have the waiting many hours. And remember, a lot of these people
:11:31. > :11:34.have families and young children with them and have had to walk to
:11:35. > :11:41.get here. There is no fuel, no transport. They are exhausted.
:11:42. > :11:45.As desperation grows over a lack of food and water, doctors are also
:11:46. > :11:47.facing a shortage of medical supplies. Casualties are continuing
:11:48. > :11:53.to flock to the main hospital in Tacloban, where doctors say they are
:11:54. > :12:00.short of essentials. This is the main hospital in the
:12:01. > :12:04.middle of Tacloban. It is near the sea front. It was completely flooded
:12:05. > :12:08.during the storm surge. You can still see the mud on the ground, but
:12:09. > :12:11.they are getting it back up and running. This is where the
:12:12. > :12:15.casualties come when they are first admitted. You can see this young
:12:16. > :12:21.girl was brought in half an hour ago. She has a serious cut on her
:12:22. > :12:25.head. You can see that it is operating. It is typical of the
:12:26. > :12:28.laceration that has been left for a few days and starting to get septic.
:12:29. > :12:38.Behind us is where they bring the babies in. This little girl has a
:12:39. > :12:42.fever and diarrhoea. Again, typical of the symptoms of what happens when
:12:43. > :12:46.babies drink dirty water in an un-sanitary place. She has a high
:12:47. > :12:50.fever and is on a drip. They literally don't have enough water to
:12:51. > :12:55.give her to drink. There is medicine here, but it is very basic and the
:12:56. > :13:02.doctors we have been talking to say they need everything.
:13:03. > :13:10.Tim Willcox is in Cebu. Time is crucial? It is. I am at eight is to
:13:11. > :13:14.be sure centre here in downtown Cebu, run by the charity world
:13:15. > :13:18.vision. Volunteers have been coming from local depots with rice, food,
:13:19. > :13:24.water, cooking oil and other essentials. These will then be taken
:13:25. > :13:28.by boat to the worst affected areas, or flown in. They are not taking the
:13:29. > :13:32.risk of road convoys with lorries because of the security situation.
:13:33. > :13:38.Let's speak to lose from world vision. How dangerous is it for your
:13:39. > :13:43.teams on the ground? In Tacloban, it is dangerous. We had a team go in
:13:44. > :13:48.and it took them two days to get there on a trip by road which would
:13:49. > :13:52.normally take two hours. But are they being attacked or threatened by
:13:53. > :13:56.people who are so best that they are prepared to descend on aid convoys
:13:57. > :14:01.and take what they need? This team wasn't, but reports of that
:14:02. > :14:05.happening have increased. Why has it taken so long to get aid in? The
:14:06. > :14:10.typhoon was on Friday. People are still sleeping in the open and do
:14:11. > :14:13.not have enough water or food now. There are a few reasons. The
:14:14. > :14:19.Philippines was hit by a super-tight which knocked out the infrastructure
:14:20. > :14:25.and telecoms. It is an Archipelago, so access is difficult. But
:14:26. > :14:31.shouldn't law and order have been imposed earlier? It is easier to say
:14:32. > :14:35.that with hindsight. This brought people behave in desperate ways. It
:14:36. > :14:43.is easy to underestimate the desperation people quickly feel when
:14:44. > :14:48.they don't have food or water. We have been reporting on what has been
:14:49. > :14:51.happening ten miles away from Tacloban, where eight people were
:14:52. > :14:57.crushed in that desk at rush for food in a rice warehouse. People are
:14:58. > :15:10.really now wanting food and aid as quickly as possible. There is
:15:11. > :15:18.comprehensive, coverage on the BBC website. You will find detailed maps
:15:19. > :15:26.showing the extent of the damage and video reports filed by our
:15:27. > :15:33.correspondence on the ground. A serious case review into the death
:15:34. > :15:37.of Hamzah Khan - the four-year-old boy who was starved to death by his
:15:38. > :15:40.mother -- says he was let down by the systems supposed to protect him.
:15:41. > :15:44.It also found that Hamzah's death could not have been predicted. His
:15:45. > :15:47.body was found in his cot in 2011, nearly two years after he died. The
:15:48. > :15:49.Department for Education said the report left too many questions
:15:50. > :15:56.unanswered. Ed Thomas has the details. Four-year-old Hamzah Khan
:15:57. > :16:02.was starved to death by his mother, an alcoholic known to police, social
:16:03. > :16:05.workers and health visitors. She hid her abuse from all those agencies
:16:06. > :16:13.while she slowly killed her child. Today, eight senior executives said
:16:14. > :16:17.his death was not preventable and refused to say sorry. This is not a
:16:18. > :16:27.whitewash. I am in independent person and my home -- whole career
:16:28. > :16:30.is based on that. The children's minister said he was not satisfied
:16:31. > :16:48.with the serious case review and said... The father of Hamzah Khan
:16:49. > :16:58.was criticised in the report. He was separated from his wife at the time
:16:59. > :17:00.of the death. We live in a society where our children are registered
:17:01. > :17:10.with doctors and schools. They are failed. They are failed big-time.
:17:11. > :17:19.Nobody chased anything up. Amanda Hutton was last month after a court
:17:20. > :17:26.heard she left Hamzah Khan in a travel cot for many months, when she
:17:27. > :17:30.drank whiskey. Pictures were shown of her home and one senior detective
:17:31. > :17:35.said he had never seen anything like it. Hamzah Khan would be left in a
:17:36. > :17:40.dark room as punishment. Neighbours could hear children crying and
:17:41. > :17:46.shouting next door. Nobody realised that the four-year-old was starving
:17:47. > :17:52.to death. The serious case review blamed systems, and not people, for
:17:53. > :17:56.Amanda's hidden neglect. It said that lessons had been learned. Too
:17:57. > :18:06.late for Hamzah Khan. The child that pleaded for help which never came.
:18:07. > :18:12.The top story this lunchtime... Good news on the UK economy. Unemployment
:18:13. > :18:18.is falling and the Bank of England addict things will get better faster
:18:19. > :18:24.than they thought. Coming up, we will be here at a barracks where an
:18:25. > :18:31.army captain receives a middle of a different kind. On BBC London... A
:18:32. > :18:38.scheme which tries to keep girls out of trouble in Tottenham. South
:18:39. > :18:51.London singer Gabrielle tells us why she is ready to rise again.
:18:52. > :18:54.We have been reporting concerns about the growing pressure on
:18:55. > :19:00.accident and emergency. A major review on emergency care has called
:19:01. > :19:04.for a two tier system of departments. Under the changes,
:19:05. > :19:08.expertise dealing with heart attacks would be concentrated in up to 70
:19:09. > :19:13.hospitals and that seems crucial because 40% of people who attend
:19:14. > :19:21.accident and emergency do not need treating there. The A department
:19:22. > :19:26.at Bradford Royal infirmary is one of the busiest, seeing more and more
:19:27. > :19:34.patients. It has been acknowledged that they are under stress. Medical
:19:35. > :19:40.science has advanced, the demographics have changed. The
:19:41. > :19:46.review of emergency care has said many people could be treated closer
:19:47. > :19:50.to home. Last year there were 1 million avoidable emergency
:19:51. > :19:56.admissions. It is thought 50% of 999 calls could be managed at the scene,
:19:57. > :20:02.and 40% of A patients are discharged, requiring no treatment.
:20:03. > :20:10.Review requires power medics -- paramedics to take more care at
:20:11. > :20:15.scene. At present, patients face a confusing array of out of hours and
:20:16. > :20:20.emergency services. The frail and elderly make up a significant number
:20:21. > :20:22.of patients being admitted at accident and emergency departments.
:20:23. > :20:30.In Bradford, they are trying new ways to deal with older patients.
:20:31. > :20:35.The key issue to combat this is to rapidly diagnose what the problem is
:20:36. > :20:40.and ensuring that those who need to stay doomsday and those who do not
:20:41. > :20:47.are supported at home. This review warns there is no simple solution to
:20:48. > :20:53.the crisis but the kind of ideas they are trying in Bradford to
:20:54. > :20:58.relieve pressure on hard-pressed emergency departments and the good
:20:59. > :21:03.for patients as well. This is the kind of scheme the review once more.
:21:04. > :21:13.A team in Bradford comes to see this 88-year-old and his wife in their
:21:14. > :21:20.home. It keeps him out of hospital. They are wonderful. They are. 24
:21:21. > :21:27.hour care. Specialist emergency care centres would deal with serious
:21:28. > :21:30.problems and A department 's words have more basic services. This
:21:31. > :21:37.review is clear and the current system is not sustainable.
:21:38. > :21:39.There is bad news for people who think they are paying too much for
:21:40. > :21:45.their energy. The public spending watchdog says we could face 17 more
:21:46. > :21:52.years of above inflation increases in energy and water bills.
:21:53. > :21:59.A powerful political row has ignited over the price of energy. For the
:22:00. > :22:04.government, gas and electricity companies, it is said, cannot treat
:22:05. > :22:11.customers as cash cows. Ed Miliband is promising a 21 month price
:22:12. > :22:14.freeze. A shock to the system, never mind 20 months, a report from the
:22:15. > :22:22.government's spending watchdog says prices could rise for 20 years. The
:22:23. > :22:26.Department for energy and climate change is predicting that energy
:22:27. > :22:31.bills will rise by 18% by 2030. One of the recommendations is that the
:22:32. > :22:37.government is as transparent as it can be about the likely impact on
:22:38. > :22:56.bills. A report for the National Audit Office says... If all of that
:22:57. > :23:02.is putting your gas at peak, big energy companies said today that
:23:03. > :23:07.tariffs could rise by 50% by the end of the decade, and they say it is
:23:08. > :23:10.high time that politicians at Westminster starts discussing how we
:23:11. > :23:15.can have secure energy supplies at an affordable cost. If we are going
:23:16. > :23:20.to make large-scale investment, whether in renewable or an renewable
:23:21. > :23:27.energy, nuclear or gas, large-scale investment is required. That is
:23:28. > :23:31.going to have an effect on the bills. The reason why prices are
:23:32. > :23:37.going up right now is because the energy companies are earning large
:23:38. > :23:41.profits, paying big dividends, paying big salaries to their chief
:23:42. > :23:46.executives, rather than focusing on consumers. It is clear. No matter
:23:47. > :23:51.who is in power, the pressure on energy prices will remain high. The
:23:52. > :23:56.political decision will be how the cost can be made more affordable for
:23:57. > :23:59.the less well off. Olympic gold medallist Heather Stanning has
:24:00. > :24:02.returned from a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan - and is already
:24:03. > :24:05.focused on the 2016 Games. Captain Stanning maintained her punishing
:24:06. > :24:08.exercise regime during the time she spent in Helmand Province - she's
:24:09. > :24:11.now preparing for the Team GB rowing trials later this month as she aims
:24:12. > :24:14.to compete in Rio. Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt is at
:24:15. > :24:24.Baker Barracks on Thorney Island in Hampshire. Heather Stanning was one
:24:25. > :24:28.of 150 troops at this parade ground here, receiving their Afghanistan
:24:29. > :24:33.medals, their post-operational tour medals. Their families were watching
:24:34. > :24:38.proudly, and for Heather Stanning and her family this will have
:24:39. > :24:44.brought back memories of that emotional moment at the summer 2012
:24:45. > :24:49.Games. The Olympic champion, great wooden! The moment is that Heather
:24:50. > :24:56.Stanning and her rowing partner powered to victory. It was their
:24:57. > :25:04.first gold of the Olympic Games. The result of years of hard work and
:25:05. > :25:08.training. Today, the moment that Captain Heather Stanning and her
:25:09. > :25:14.colleagues were awarded their medals for a different type of service to
:25:15. > :25:19.the country. Six months in Helmand province on operational tour. We
:25:20. > :25:26.filmed with Heather in Afghanistan at Camp Bastion, where the Olympian
:25:27. > :25:32.was just another officer. Even there, she managed to squeeze in
:25:33. > :25:35.several hours of training every day, fitted around her work and the
:25:36. > :25:42.austere surroundings of the British camp. You even knew they were
:25:43. > :25:49.sharing the place with a 2012 sporting champion. -- few people. I
:25:50. > :25:57.do not think people realise who she is. To most people, she is a normal
:25:58. > :26:03.army officer in Afghanistan. For Heather Stanning and her team, it
:26:04. > :26:06.was a gruelling six-month, working in a Portakabin, hardly the way most
:26:07. > :26:16.Olympians will have spent a year. It is the path she chose. Lots of
:26:17. > :26:23.people ask me what I learned at Sandhurst. The stuff I learned as a
:26:24. > :26:29.sports person has deftly helped me. Her task was to run one of the
:26:30. > :26:40.team's surveillance plants which keep British troops safe in Helmand
:26:41. > :26:44.province. A demanding task and a lapse in concentration can mean the
:26:45. > :26:48.difference between life and death. A time of enormous pride for the
:26:49. > :26:54.families and friends here during that medals Parade. Enormous relief
:26:55. > :27:00.that they are back safely from province, and for Heather Stanning,
:27:01. > :27:05.the start of another training regime and the hope that she will add to
:27:06. > :27:07.her medals collection. More now on the devastating typhoon that's hit
:27:08. > :27:10.the Philippines. A special conference is being held in London
:27:11. > :27:16.to try to ensure that humanitarian aid gets through to those who need
:27:17. > :27:22.it. The DEC appeal - launched last night - says that more than
:27:23. > :27:25.?13-million has been donated so far. More than 600,000 people have been
:27:26. > :27:28.displaced and many of their relatives in this country have had
:27:29. > :27:31.no contact with them since the typhoon struck. Sophie Hutchinson
:27:32. > :27:35.reports. Lily Matthews has been desperate for
:27:36. > :27:39.news of her family back in the Philippines. Today, for the first
:27:40. > :27:50.time since the typhoon, she spoke to a cousin. My brother is missing. My
:27:51. > :27:57.nephew and his family have survived but they are hungry right now. They
:27:58. > :28:04.are asking for food, shelter and water. At Heathrow Airport this
:28:05. > :28:08.morning, the first registered medical team prepared to set for the
:28:09. > :28:14.Philippines. It was made up 12 volunteer doctors and nurses, all
:28:15. > :28:20.expert at operating in emergency situations. With the terrible
:28:21. > :28:25.destruction and the affect on the health service, there will be many
:28:26. > :28:30.people who are injured, and you have wounds which have not been treated.
:28:31. > :28:34.Millions of lives wrecked within a matter of hours. The challenge of
:28:35. > :28:38.bringing help to these people is colossal. The disasters and
:28:39. > :28:46.emergencies committee has impaired the typhoon to the tsunami in 2004.
:28:47. > :28:52.Their appeal, launched yesterday, has already raised ?13 million. The
:28:53. > :28:58.level of need in the Philippines is immense. We need resources so we can
:28:59. > :29:06.respond to the food, water and shelter needs on the ground. In
:29:07. > :29:12.addition, the UK Government has pledged up to ?15 million but that
:29:13. > :29:20.is a long way off from the estimated total needed according to the UN to
:29:21. > :29:25.help rebuild these people's lives. If you want to donate money to the
:29:26. > :29:25.disaster emergency committee, you can
:29:26. > :29:38.If you want to donate money to the disaster call them...
:29:39. > :29:43.Now I look at the weather. Here is Elizabeth. . We have some fine
:29:44. > :29:49.weather outdoors and some sunshine for many of us. It is mainly across
:29:50. > :29:55.southern and eastern parts of the UK. For others, it is a different
:29:56. > :29:59.story. There is a band of clouds moving across northern and western
:30:00. > :30:03.parts of the UK, and it is producing heavy rain and the wind is
:30:04. > :30:09.increasing, reaching gale force across northern Scotland. As we go
:30:10. > :30:14.through this evening, the band of rain will break up but there will be
:30:15. > :30:20.some heavy, prolonged showers across north-western parts, driven by the
:30:21. > :30:24.strong north westerly wind. It will not be as cold as last night with
:30:25. > :30:29.temperatures staying up at five, six or seven degrees. Let's take a look
:30:30. > :30:35.at tomorrow morning in more detail. The first thing you might notice is
:30:36. > :30:38.it will feel chilly, despite the lack of frost. There will be some
:30:39. > :30:43.bright weather, possibly in southwestern England. There will
:30:44. > :30:47.still be some cloud in the South East for a time, and there will be
:30:48. > :30:53.some showers blowing down from Manchester and the Midlands. The
:30:54. > :30:56.showers across north-west Scotland will start to fade away and any
:30:57. > :31:01.wintry showers will disappear. That is the set-up for the morning,
:31:02. > :31:08.strong north-westerly winds throughout the day so it will feel
:31:09. > :31:11.chilly. Showers in the north and west but many eastern parts will
:31:12. > :31:18.have a fine day with good spells of sunshine. Temperatures, on the face
:31:19. > :31:22.of it, will be similar to today, around nine or 10 degrees. Taking
:31:23. > :31:27.into account the strength of the wind, it will feel chilly. For
:31:28. > :31:31.Friday, we are looking at the change in the weather. An area of high
:31:32. > :31:36.pressure coming in starting to settle things down. Winds will be
:31:37. > :31:41.lighter, but still chilly across the South East. It should be a fine day
:31:42. > :31:48.with the best of sunshine towards the eastern areas. More persistent
:31:49. > :31:53.rain towards the far north-west. The weekend is mixed. Rain at times,
:31:54. > :31:58.mainly in the north. You may want to spend some time over the weekend
:31:59. > :32:02.preparing yourself for next week. We are expecting it to be much colder
:32:03. > :32:05.and we are talking about frost, ice and maybe some snow. Thank you. That
:32:06. > :32:06.is all