:00:07. > :00:12.Britain is sending its biggest aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious,
:00:13. > :00:16.to help with the aid effort in the Philippines. Desperate to get out,
:00:17. > :00:20.American transport planes begin moving victims of the Typhoon out of
:00:21. > :00:26.Tacloban, one of the worst hit areas. Finally we are seeing a
:00:27. > :00:29.really large scale operation starting here, bringing in the sort
:00:30. > :00:38.of aid that the people here so desperately. I am Tim Willcox live
:00:39. > :00:41.in Tacloban, where a curfew is in place. Thousands of survivors
:00:42. > :00:48.waiting for that aid finally to reach them. Also this lunchtime, a
:00:49. > :00:53.final warning, the government could strip Birmingham Council of its
:00:54. > :00:56.troubled Children's Services Department by Christmas. Prince
:00:57. > :00:59.Charles and Camilla arrive in Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Summit
:01:00. > :01:07.amid controversy about human rights issues. Applause rings out for
:01:08. > :01:13.cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar as he plays his final Test in Mumbai.
:01:14. > :01:17.Warming up for the South Pole, Prince Harry and a team of wounded
:01:18. > :01:23.servicemen and women set off there for charity this weekend.
:01:24. > :01:26.Later on BBC London former Transport Secretary calls for an urgent review
:01:27. > :01:30.of cycle superhighways after another death. And the police commissioner
:01:31. > :01:31.who would like to see his Surrey fourth merge with a neighbouring
:01:32. > :01:52.county. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:53. > :01:57.BBC News at One. The Prime Minister has announced that Britain is
:01:58. > :02:00.sending its biggest aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious to help with that
:02:01. > :02:04.aid effort in the Philippines. It will not arrive for ten days but
:02:05. > :02:06.when it does it will be used in the relief operation cost of the ship
:02:07. > :02:11.can also produce drinking water. In the meantime millions of people are
:02:12. > :02:15.still in desperate need of vital supplies. Tim Willcox is in
:02:16. > :02:17.Tacloban, a city home to more than 200,000 people that was flattened by
:02:18. > :02:28.the Typhoon last Friday. You join me live in Tacloban, a
:02:29. > :02:33.scene of utter devastation but where aid has finally almost a week after
:02:34. > :02:38.Typhoon Haiyan finally begun to arrive. But the agony of the people
:02:39. > :02:44.here continues. The road to the airport and port crammed with
:02:45. > :02:48.families desperate to leave, covering their noses and mouths with
:02:49. > :02:54.Klos as they shuffle past scores of bodies now in body bags lining the
:02:55. > :02:58.roadside. The first big ship to arrive in the portal Tacloban came
:02:59. > :03:04.here this morning with aid but it may take several days for that
:03:05. > :03:08.essential aid and supplies to meet the people who need them most. This
:03:09. > :03:13.report by our correspondent Jon Donnison.
:03:14. > :03:20.It has been slow coming. But for people living amid the wreckage in
:03:21. > :03:25.Tacloban relief is beginning -- been -- beginning to arrive. This is the
:03:26. > :03:30.first ship carrying aid to dock at the city's port since the Typhoon
:03:31. > :03:36.struck almost a week ago. On, water and some medical supplies but it is
:03:37. > :03:41.not being distributed yet and it will not go far -- on board. At the
:03:42. > :03:45.same time as aid is finally coming in hundreds of families are still
:03:46. > :03:54.trying to get out. This ship is being used to evacuate 1000 people.
:03:55. > :04:02.This student is one of those who has decided to go. Why are you leaving?
:04:03. > :04:14.Because to survive, no one, nothing is here, look at this. There is
:04:15. > :04:19.nothing. At the gates of the port, many more desperate to leave but who
:04:20. > :04:24.are disappointed when they are told this ship is already full. That aid
:04:25. > :04:30.that has arrived here today is just a tiny, tiny fraction of what is
:04:31. > :04:33.needed. You can see the scale of the destruction all along the shoreline
:04:34. > :04:37.and that is just one part of this city. But the interesting thing is
:04:38. > :04:42.the port itself has been largely undamaged and I -- and there have to
:04:43. > :04:49.be questions about why it has taken so long to use the sport to get aid
:04:50. > :04:53.in. -- port. People know that aid has been arriving for several days
:04:54. > :04:57.but most are still waiting to get hold of it. They might have to wait
:04:58. > :05:01.even longer. Look at the devastation here, look at the amount of time it
:05:02. > :05:06.will take to clean up all of this mess. This money is from save the
:05:07. > :05:09.children. He says it will be Saturday before they are able to
:05:10. > :05:13.distribute anything. It takes a couple of days before the roads get
:05:14. > :05:16.cleared and we can get the trucks in. We also need to bring the fuel
:05:17. > :05:21.from outside. So many constraints that we need to navigate but we are
:05:22. > :05:25.doing everything we can, working around the clock ourselves but it
:05:26. > :05:30.just takes time and honestly, we are doing everything we humanely can.
:05:31. > :05:38.But that may be little consolation for those still waiting. When all
:05:39. > :05:43.the while the misery continues. That was the scene at the port
:05:44. > :05:49.today. We flew in just before dusk and the airport was buzzing with
:05:50. > :05:51.activity. US Marine helicopters and other aircraft alongside Filipino
:05:52. > :05:57.flights bringing in high-energy biscuits, water and medicines for
:05:58. > :06:01.the people here. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has spent the
:06:02. > :06:06.day at the airport. So this is really what people here
:06:07. > :06:12.have been waiting for, hoping for, for nearly a week since the Typhoon/
:06:13. > :06:17.. What we are seeing here this morning is the outside world turning
:06:18. > :06:20.up for the first time real force. These are the US Marine Corps. They
:06:21. > :06:27.are coming in here essentially to take control of the airport and to
:06:28. > :06:33.set up operations here. We have also seen French firefighters, Belgian
:06:34. > :06:37.firefighters, Malaysia and engineers and we are seeing aids coming in
:06:38. > :06:41.also now in large quantities. This is from Australia. This is from the
:06:42. > :06:48.United States. This is just the beginning. More food, much more
:06:49. > :06:52.food, is needed and it is to be distributed to people out in the
:06:53. > :06:56.destroyed neighbourhoods. We have also seen today the Philippine
:06:57. > :06:59.forces, the Philippine Government, also coming onto the streets in
:07:00. > :07:04.force, clearing roads, picking up dead bodies, so finally we are
:07:05. > :07:11.seeing a really large scale operation starting here, bringing in
:07:12. > :07:14.the sort of vague that the people here so desperately...
:07:15. > :07:18.Security remains a problem. Curfew has been in place for the past hour
:07:19. > :07:24.and families we have spoken to talk about being holed up in their homes
:07:25. > :07:26.as armed gangs went around the town looking for food and cash. These
:07:27. > :07:32.families talking about people being shot, murdered and raped. All that,
:07:33. > :07:37.they said, in those few days when they felt the world has forgotten
:07:38. > :07:42.them. Back to you in London.
:07:43. > :07:45.Thank you very much. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious is
:07:46. > :07:48.now on its way to the Philippines to help with the aid effort. Our
:07:49. > :07:53.defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt is with me. She will not their --
:07:54. > :07:57.get there for ten days? It will take about ten days. She was tasked off
:07:58. > :08:01.the Horn of Africa when she was told to go across to the Philippines. She
:08:02. > :08:04.is not far away from Singapore we believe at the moment but it will
:08:05. > :08:08.take some time to get there. She is most likely to take over from HMS
:08:09. > :08:13.daring, the destroyer sent a few days ago. She will arrive by this
:08:14. > :08:17.weekend roughly and they will take part as part of a task force of
:08:18. > :08:20.international help along with American aircraft carriers and
:08:21. > :08:24.others such as Australia involved. What she can offer is a floating
:08:25. > :08:27.airbase, if you like, of a flight deck on which other people can also
:08:28. > :08:32.land the helicopters from which supplies can be taken and used to
:08:33. > :08:36.recce the kind of damage there is, do those kinds of assessments and
:08:37. > :08:39.also assist in perhaps if needed generating water because she can
:08:40. > :08:44.generate her own water supply. Clean drinking water is much needed but
:08:45. > :08:47.really it is the help they are bringing their that can be
:08:48. > :08:52.integrated into what the other people bring.
:08:53. > :08:56.You can find plenty more coverage of the Typhoon's impact and the global
:08:57. > :09:00.response on the BBC News website. You will find detailed maps of the
:09:01. > :09:04.affected areas, aerial pictures showing the extent of the damage and
:09:05. > :09:10.many of the video reports filed by our correspondence. All offer online
:09:11. > :09:16.at bbc.co.uk/news. Unite David Cameron has been warned by the Sri
:09:17. > :09:21.Lankan government not to quiz them over alleged war crimes in 2009. The
:09:22. > :09:24.Prime Minister has rejected calls to boycott a Commonwealth Summit in the
:09:25. > :09:27.country, saying he would use his visit to raise its human rights
:09:28. > :09:33.record but the Sri Lankans said he had no right to bring it up as he
:09:34. > :09:36.had not been invited on that basis. Our correspondence Charles Haviland
:09:37. > :09:40.sent this report. Mr Cameron says it is only by
:09:41. > :09:43.attending this summit and meeting the Sri Lankan president that he can
:09:44. > :09:47.raise difficult human rights issues. He will make one new departure will
:09:48. > :09:50.stop it will be the first foreign leader to visit the Tamil north of
:09:51. > :09:56.the island, the place where the long war was fought since independence in
:09:57. > :09:59.1948. The Government's war against the Tamil Tigers, a ruthless
:10:00. > :10:03.separatist group, lasted three decades and caused over 100,000
:10:04. > :10:07.deaths. After an all-out army offensive they were crushed four
:10:08. > :10:11.years ago. Both sides were accused of atrocities but with most Tiger
:10:12. > :10:17.leaders dead into the Government that gets the brunt of accusations.
:10:18. > :10:20.Mr Cameron has been in India and speaking to journalists that he
:10:21. > :10:24.repeated his message of toughness or the Sri Lankans. There needs to be
:10:25. > :10:27.proper enquiries into what happened at the end of the war. There is
:10:28. > :10:32.always the case for not going somewhere but I think actually we
:10:33. > :10:35.will get further by going and having conversations with the Sri Lankans
:10:36. > :10:40.about what needs to happen and shining a light on some of issues
:10:41. > :10:44.the problems that are there. Sri Lanka's Government was on the
:10:45. > :10:47.defensive. Speaking this morning the president said there had been --
:10:48. > :10:52.they had been suffering for 30 years, not just at the end of the
:10:53. > :10:56.war. If anyone who wants to complain about the human rights violation in
:10:57. > :11:05.Sri Lanka, whether it is torture, whether it is rape, you must respect
:11:06. > :11:08.the system of the country. Meanwhile the Prince of Wales, representing
:11:09. > :11:11.the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, flew in with the
:11:12. > :11:15.Duchess of Cornwall. They will attend a reception for his 65th
:11:16. > :11:21.birthday before he opens the summit tomorrow.
:11:22. > :11:25.Letts speaks our correspondent James Robbins, who is in Colombo. Don't
:11:26. > :11:28.raise human rights issues is the message from the Sri Lankan
:11:29. > :11:34.Government, but how much pressure is David Cameron and to do so? I think
:11:35. > :11:37.the Prime Minister is determined to raise those issues. It was always
:11:38. > :11:41.made very clear that the reason he did not want Britain to boycott this
:11:42. > :11:45.summit, to stay away, because he thought it was better to engage, to
:11:46. > :11:51.shine a spotlight as he puts it, on Sri Lanka and to try to use this
:11:52. > :11:54.summit to put far greater pressure on President Rajapaksa to bring
:11:55. > :11:58.forward all sorts of reforms right through the judicial system right
:11:59. > :12:03.through the police force and to achieve genuine reconciliation after
:12:04. > :12:06.a separatist war which he undoubtedly won and where his
:12:07. > :12:09.crushing victory was allegedly accompanied by appalling war
:12:10. > :12:13.crimes. There is no question that the Prime Minister thinks he has to
:12:14. > :12:17.raise this, he wants to raise it and tomorrow he will absent himself from
:12:18. > :12:20.a significant part of the day on the opening day of this Commonwealth
:12:21. > :12:23.Summit to fly to the North, as Charles Haviland was telling us, to
:12:24. > :12:29.make the point there in person on the ground. James Robbins from
:12:30. > :12:33.Colombo, thank you. New figures show that the economic
:12:34. > :12:41.recovery in the Eurozone and the 17 countries that use the euro has
:12:42. > :12:45.slowed. Economic output com -- increased by 0.1% compared with 0.3%
:12:46. > :12:49.between April and June. Growth in Germany slowed to 0.3% and in France
:12:50. > :12:56.the economy shrank. Here retail sales fell by 0.7% in October with
:12:57. > :12:59.mild weather affecting sales of winter clothing. The Office for
:13:00. > :13:03.National Statistics said sales volumes are still up 1.8% on this
:13:04. > :13:08.time last year, which indicates increased consumer confidence.
:13:09. > :13:15.The NHS hospital trust at the centre of the scandal about delayed cancer
:13:16. > :13:19.treatment has been put into special measures. The announcement by
:13:20. > :13:23.Colchester Hospital was made by Monitor. Birmingham Council could be
:13:24. > :13:27.stripped of its troubled Children's Services Department by Christmas if
:13:28. > :13:29.standards do not improve. The Department for Education will step
:13:30. > :13:33.in if inspectors decided has not improved when they return in a few
:13:34. > :13:38.weeks. The department is the biggest of its kind in England and has been
:13:39. > :13:42.rated as inadequate for four years. Last month the chief inspector of
:13:43. > :13:46.Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said the city's failure to protect
:13:47. > :13:48.vulnerable children was a national disgrace. Our social affairs
:13:49. > :13:53.correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.
:13:54. > :14:00.Two-year-old Gianni Williams was beaten to death, his small body
:14:01. > :14:03.found with 37 separate injuries -- Keanu Williams. His mother Rebecca
:14:04. > :14:13.Shuttleworth is serving a life servants for his murder. Tara Robins
:14:14. > :14:15.new Keanu and says she was duped. I genuinely believe innocent until
:14:16. > :14:20.proven guilty and when she was found guilty, I wanted nothing to do with
:14:21. > :14:27.her. I felt sick I had befriended her and I tried to help her. Keanu
:14:28. > :14:31.was one of several children who have died in recent years in Birmingham.
:14:32. > :14:37.Failings by social services contributed each death. Across the
:14:38. > :14:40.city nearly 2000 children are being protected but too many have simply
:14:41. > :14:45.slipped through the net and Children's Services here have been
:14:46. > :14:49.rated inadequate since 2009. Burning's problems are not solely of
:14:50. > :14:53.the Council Cosma making. There is a huge demand for services here in the
:14:54. > :14:57.city. There is a large, young, diverse population here, often
:14:58. > :15:01.living in some of the most deprived communities in the country. The man
:15:02. > :15:06.currently running Children's Services says an Ofsted review later
:15:07. > :15:10.this month will leave ministers with an unenviable task. The city is
:15:11. > :15:15.clear that given that it hasn't improved since 2009, it has lost the
:15:16. > :15:19.right to a full hand on the tiller in determining where it goes from
:15:20. > :15:22.here, so that is why the decision is with the Secretary of State. It is
:15:23. > :15:27.an enormously difficult decision that faces the Secretary of State
:15:28. > :15:30.because there are no easy answers. Doncaster lost control of its
:15:31. > :15:35.Children's Services earlier this year. Trust has been created to run
:15:36. > :15:40.that department, but Birmingham is a much bigger problem and staff are
:15:41. > :15:43.anxious. We have had lots of changes of management, lots of
:15:44. > :15:48.reorganisations of services, block -- none of which seems to have made
:15:49. > :15:52.a significant difference. So staff are wary. After years of failure a
:15:53. > :16:02.decision on how best to protect children in Birmingham is imminent.
:16:03. > :16:09.It is 1.15. Our top story this lunchtime: American transport planes
:16:10. > :16:15.begin moving victims of the typhoon out of Tacloban. Britain is sending
:16:16. > :16:21.its a guest aircraft carrier, HMS illustrious. And still to come: The
:16:22. > :16:26.television presenter whose job may have saved her life.
:16:27. > :16:28.Later on BBC London, we hear from a theatre project that supports
:16:29. > :16:32.vulnerable young people thanks to Children in Need. And can you spot
:16:33. > :16:35.the difference between these two logos? Spurs have asked a Hampshire
:16:36. > :16:43.football club to change theirs. It's a year since 41 Police and
:16:44. > :16:46.Crime Commissioners were elected across England and Wales. The
:16:47. > :16:49.controversial, high-profile positions were created to replace
:16:50. > :16:54.police authorities and to ensure that forces are run effectively. But
:16:55. > :16:58.12 months later, a BBC survey suggests more than a third of adults
:16:59. > :17:02.don't know they have a Police and Crime Commissioner. And questions
:17:03. > :17:05.have also been raised about some of the people who've been appointed and
:17:06. > :17:10.doubts over whether it has actually saved money. Let's get more now from
:17:11. > :17:20.Matthew Amroliwala, who's in central London.
:17:21. > :17:24.Sophie, thank you. This was a flagship policy for the Government,
:17:25. > :17:28.a huge change in policing. Big powers that these new police
:17:29. > :17:33.commissioners. But what about the basics in the last 12 months? Had it
:17:34. > :17:38.cut crime? Has it changed priorities for police? Is it more efficient?
:17:39. > :17:43.Have the new commissioners held the police forces to account? This
:17:44. > :17:47.report from Mike Sergeant. The way in which the police respond
:17:48. > :17:53.to emergencies hasn't changed, but each forces now held to account by a
:17:54. > :17:57.politician. In Norfolk, less than 15% voted in the election when
:17:58. > :18:01.Stephen bet was chosen as Police and Crime Commissioners. But he says his
:18:02. > :18:06.policing background gives and advantages -- gives him an advantage
:18:07. > :18:12.over many others in a similar position. Tried get your head round
:18:13. > :18:18.what the police do at how they do it, to gain their trust and
:18:19. > :18:22.loyalty, and to understand how you deal with problems, what is
:18:23. > :18:28.operational and what is not, are problems for other PCCs, as they are
:18:29. > :18:31.political opponents and they do not understand.
:18:32. > :18:36.Day-to-day decisions are still taken by the police in this control
:18:37. > :18:39.centre. The Police and Crime Commissioners isn't allowed to
:18:40. > :18:42.interfere with operational policing. Their job is to hold the force to
:18:43. > :18:47.account and set the wider strategic priorities. The Police Federation
:18:48. > :18:50.which represents officers said many questions had been raised about the
:18:51. > :18:54.expenditure of commissioners, and whether some are getting too
:18:55. > :18:56.involved in operational policing. But their effectiveness would
:18:57. > :19:03.ultimately be for the public to decide.
:19:04. > :19:08.Have you heard of the PCC? I have, but I don't know what it is dealt. I
:19:09. > :19:14.don't see if it has made any difference. Too much politics and
:19:15. > :19:20.the law don't mix. I took part in the election, but I have heard no
:19:21. > :19:24.good or bad things about it since. That is not particularly unusual. A
:19:25. > :19:29.BBC commissioned poll found that 62% were aware of the existence of a
:19:30. > :19:33.commission in areas that have one. 34% believe the individual has had a
:19:34. > :19:38.positive impact on reducing crime. Some of the PCCs have faced
:19:39. > :19:43.controversy over their expenses and staff appointment. In the past few
:19:44. > :19:47.days, Stephen bet has paid back ?3000 he claimed for mileage.
:19:48. > :19:51.Ministers say that there will always good to be difficulties with such a
:19:52. > :19:56.significant change. The Government thinks that the important thing is
:19:57. > :20:01.that the voters do have more of an influence now on policing and crime.
:20:02. > :20:09.Let's speak to Tony Lloyd, the chair of the Association of the PCCs.
:20:10. > :20:16.Success or expensive failure? It is a measured success. We are one year
:20:17. > :20:19.in, I didn't think we should judge until we have everything in perfect
:20:20. > :20:22.working order. Commissions are moving in the right direction,
:20:23. > :20:29.moving the relationship between the police and the community, the most
:20:30. > :20:35.report -- important relationship, in the right direction. More than 50%
:20:36. > :20:43.of people think it has had no or a negative impact on crime. We have
:20:44. > :20:49.got to get across the message that there has been a positive impact. In
:20:50. > :20:53.one area we got rid of targets for the police, meaning that instead of
:20:54. > :20:57.police doing the unpopular thing of being given a quota, a number of
:20:58. > :21:01.motorists to pick up for speeding or whatever, now they can concentrate
:21:02. > :21:09.on doing what they should do which is to talk about road safety and
:21:10. > :21:16.help make our roads safer. It is about making the roads safer, not
:21:17. > :21:20.simply nicking people. Tony Lloyd, thank you for your time. Plenty more
:21:21. > :21:23.on the police commissioners on the BBC News website. But now back to
:21:24. > :21:26.the studio. Matthew, thank you very much. A
:21:27. > :21:28.breakfast television presenter in America is having a double
:21:29. > :21:31.mastectomy today after discovering she had breast cancer after she was
:21:32. > :21:34.persuaded to have a mammogram live on TV. 40-year-old Amy Robach who
:21:35. > :21:37.presents ABC's Good Morning America says she hopes her story will
:21:38. > :21:48.inspire every woman who hears it to get tested for breast cancer.
:21:49. > :21:56.It was just six weeks ago that pink took over GNA. I had no idea how
:21:57. > :21:59.quickly my life was about to change. We have made a real commitment to
:22:00. > :22:03.bring you what you need to know to be healthy and informed.
:22:04. > :22:09.We were kicking off breast Cancer awareness month, with real survivors
:22:10. > :22:12.and celebrities alike. I want to say I was happy to do my part, but
:22:13. > :22:20.honestly, I was a little reluctant at first. You are being so strong
:22:21. > :22:26.today. I had been asked if I would get a mammogram on air to demystify
:22:27. > :22:31.it for women who might be nervous. I am 40, and I have been putting it
:22:32. > :22:35.off. The truth is, I had been putting
:22:36. > :22:41.their soft for a year. Between flying all over the world for work,
:22:42. > :22:46.and running around to school with my kids, to ballet, to gymnastics, I
:22:47. > :22:50.just kept putting it off. That morning, I did a piece explaining
:22:51. > :22:53.why had agreed. And I started to think, if I have put it off, how
:22:54. > :22:59.many other people have put it off as well? I went in to see Robin
:23:00. > :23:05.Roberts, and she said if one life is saved because of early detection, it
:23:06. > :23:11.is all worth it. And now to a very brave moment for our dear colleague,
:23:12. > :23:15.Amy Robach. Inside the van I was calm, and there wasn't anything to
:23:16. > :23:22.be scared of. It was over in a few minutes, and then my smiling friends
:23:23. > :23:27.were waiting for me. It hurt so much less than I thought it would. It was
:23:28. > :23:31.nothing. She was so nervous this morning, and she is so happy right
:23:32. > :23:38.now! And that was it, or so I thought. Short time later, I was
:23:39. > :23:43.asked to come back for more scans. Last week, a tornado of tests.
:23:44. > :23:46.Doctors move quickly when they are concerned. Finally, the diagnosis
:23:47. > :23:53.that is still hard for me to say at loud. I have breast cancer. I know
:23:54. > :23:58.that I have a fight ahead of me, but I also know that I have a lot worth
:23:59. > :24:07.fighting for. And I am so grateful that I got that mammogram that day
:24:08. > :24:12.on GNA. If I got the mammogram on air and it saved on life, it is all
:24:13. > :24:14.worth it, she said. It never occurred to me that that life would
:24:15. > :24:18.be mine. Amy Robach, a presenter on Good
:24:19. > :24:20.Morning America. India is saying farewell to the
:24:21. > :24:25.cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who's regarded by his admirers as the
:24:26. > :24:28.greatest batsman of all time. The only man to have scored 100 Test
:24:29. > :24:32.centuries, he's now playing against the West Indies in his final match
:24:33. > :24:33.in his home city of Mumbai. Our correspondent, Andrew North, has
:24:34. > :24:45.been soaking up the atmosphere. It is the moment India hoped would
:24:46. > :24:49.never happen. Its greatest ever cricketer has come out to bat in his
:24:50. > :24:56.last test. The country is almost in morning. Who was Sachin Tendulkar
:24:57. > :24:57.playing? No one was talking about the West Indies. Today was all about
:24:58. > :25:09.one man. Fans were queueing for block after
:25:10. > :25:16.block to get a last glimpse of the man they call the master blaster. We
:25:17. > :25:21.are very lucky to what should his last match. They come from all over
:25:22. > :25:26.the world. Among them, this woman from London. All the dreams he has
:25:27. > :25:31.made come true, not just for me, for the country, for the team, for the
:25:32. > :25:37.fans. This is history in the making, and I'm feeling emotional. He is
:25:38. > :25:45.gone. He is not beaten, he is gone. If you score 100 centuries, you are
:25:46. > :25:51.not going to be beaten. He hit his first test century here against
:25:52. > :25:56.England when he was just 17. As he retires more than 20 years later, no
:25:57. > :26:00.batsmen has even come close to his record of 100 centuries in
:26:01. > :26:06.international cricket. This is game to be one of those where were you
:26:07. > :26:11.moments, when Sachin Tendulkar retires. Tickets have been
:26:12. > :26:16.reportedly changing hands for up to 40 times that face value on the
:26:17. > :26:20.black market. It is almost good buy for good, but his fans say that the
:26:21. > :26:27.Sachin Tendulkar effect will last for ever. For a country that is not
:26:28. > :26:28.always so sure about itself, he has given India believe they can be the
:26:29. > :26:36.best in the world. Prince Harry has been given a South
:26:37. > :26:40.Pole flag to take with him on his charity expedition to Antarctica.
:26:41. > :26:44.The group of wounded servicemen and women gathered in Trafalgar Square
:26:45. > :26:46.this morning. On Sunday they fly to Cape Town before heading for the
:26:47. > :26:52.South Pole. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports.
:26:53. > :26:56.He has known the heat of the Afghan desert during his army service. Now
:26:57. > :27:05.he is about to feel the numbing cold Antarctica as Harry said -- sets off
:27:06. > :27:12.with a team of wounded British servicemen and women for a trip to
:27:13. > :27:18.the South Pole. One of the British participant is Major Kate Philp. It
:27:19. > :27:23.is going to be gruelling. We will be skiing for ten or 12 hours a day.
:27:24. > :27:29.Keeping that up for ten or 12 hours a day for two weeks, possibly longer
:27:30. > :27:34.if the weather is unkind. It is over 335 kilometres, so physically
:27:35. > :27:37.gruelling. Two and a half years ago, a team from walking with the wounded
:27:38. > :27:41.successfully completed the 200 mile trip to the North Pole. On that
:27:42. > :27:47.occasion, Harry spent several days with them during the final stages of
:27:48. > :27:50.their preparations in Norway. The training included learning how to
:27:51. > :27:55.deal with sudden immersion in freezing water. That was tough
:27:56. > :27:59.enough. The challenges of the Antarctic, of course, are much
:28:00. > :28:04.greater. This time, he will be going all the way with them. He has taken
:28:05. > :28:08.part in training exercises, including a night in an industrial
:28:09. > :28:13.freezer earlier this year when they learned what -50 centigrade feels
:28:14. > :28:16.like. In Trafalgar Square this morning, he spoke of the
:28:17. > :28:22.determination of the wounded war heroes. They are going to achieve
:28:23. > :28:26.something quite remarkable, and in doing so will prove to everybody
:28:27. > :28:33.else that even when you have lost a leg or an arm, that you can achieve
:28:34. > :28:37.pretty much anything if you put your mind to it. The three teams are due
:28:38. > :28:41.to arrive in Antarctica next week. Time for a look at the weather.
:28:42. > :28:51.Here's Phil Avery. Good afternoon. We will have a
:28:52. > :29:02.flavour of that sort of weather coming to the British Isles, but not
:29:03. > :29:05.just yet. There is an author Western wind across the British Isles today,
:29:06. > :29:12.fondling showers through the Irish Sea and down into northern Wales.
:29:13. > :29:18.Somewhere else that is very exposed is the north-eastern quarter of
:29:19. > :29:21.Scotland. Come the mid part of the afternoon, we will still have one or
:29:22. > :29:29.two showers across the western side of Wales. Away from the breeze, ten
:29:30. > :29:38.or 11 Celsius, quite pleasant in the sunshine. The showers will stay on
:29:39. > :29:41.the western side of Wales. And all the while, windy conditions rattling
:29:42. > :29:47.those showers into the higher ground in the north of Scotland, where we
:29:48. > :29:53.see them converting to snow very readily above four or 500 metres. As
:29:54. > :29:58.the skies begin to clear, once the sun is down, we will have a bit of a
:29:59. > :30:05.problem with frost. I mention it for the extent rather than the
:30:06. > :30:10.intensity. You will notice that across that north-western corner,
:30:11. > :30:14.not such a problem. Quite a breeze yet again, another windy day across
:30:15. > :30:18.this north-western quarter, and the clouds sufficiently thick
:30:19. > :30:21.eventually. Elsewhere, you will be scraping the car first thing across
:30:22. > :30:26.a large part of England and Wales away from the coast. We will keep
:30:27. > :30:32.temperatures up to nine or ten Celsius or so. A lot of isobars
:30:33. > :30:37.across the northern half of the British Isles particularly. This
:30:38. > :30:41.weather fronts spreading a band of cloud and rain ever further towards
:30:42. > :30:44.the south, and it will take time to get down across the British Isles,
:30:45. > :30:49.so that a game in the southeastern corner, the day will start clear,
:30:50. > :30:55.but it will be wet and windy across the northern areas. The cloud will
:30:56. > :31:01.thicken up and bring the prospect of rain. Temperatures at their
:31:02. > :31:05.warmest, oddly, across the North. Then we still have that fund to
:31:06. > :31:09.content with through Sunday, sinking further towards the south. Something
:31:10. > :31:13.a little cooler on the way for the start of next week. If you want our
:31:14. > :31:15.thoughts on how that will affect you from Tuesday onwards, it would all
:31:16. > :31:23.be there for you on the website. At half past one, a reminder of our
:31:24. > :31:27.main story this lunchtime. American transport planes begin moving
:31:28. > :31:32.victims of the Philippines typhoon out of Tacloban, one of the worst
:31:33. > :31:33.hit areas. Britain is sending it biggest aircraft carrier to help
:31:34. > :31:34.with the