06/12/2013 BBC News at One

Millions of people around the world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela

as leaders pay their respects to South Africa's first black

president. The man who unified a nation and brought an end to

apartheid died peacefully last night at the age of 95. Thank you for the

gift of Madiba. Thank you for what he has enabled us to know we can

become. This is the scene outside Mr

Mandela's house, as the people of South Africa prepare to begin three

days of national mourning. The union and South African flags

fly half mast over Downing Street. David Cameron says one of the

brightest light a world has gone out. Today is a day to focus on his

legacy, on his life, on his work and above all, on the inspiration that

he will give to millions of people across our world.

We will bring you the tributes and reaction from South Africa and

around the world. The other main news...

Swept into the sea, hundreds of people can't the cost after the

highest storm surge for 60 years hits the East coast of Britain.

I will be reporting live from Boston in Lincolnshire, where the

he toured the capital, and just weeks after his I

in Lincolnshire, where the record tidal surge caused widespread

flooding and misery. And in sport, England are battling

to save the second Ashes test and the series.

Welcome to the BBC News at one. He was, said Archbishop Desmond

Tutu, a precious diamond who proclaimed a message of forgiveness

and reconciliation. He was one of many voices painter be today to

Nelson Mandela, the man who became South Africa's first president of

the post-apartheid era and died last night at the age of 95. Flags over

Downing Street and Buckingham Palace are at half mast. In Soweto, where

Mr Mandela used to live, hundreds of people have been singing and dancing

in spontaneous celebration for the man they called the father of the

South African nation. It is South Africa's first day

without Nelson Mandela. For many, and idea as applicable as

inevitable. He was not just the sole architect of South Africa after

apartheid, but as the first democratically elected South African

president, he is ensured a place in the country's history. Many have

chosen to pay their homage to Nelson Mandela here, at site is hope in the

Johannesburg suburbs, introduce South African style. This leafy,

normally quiet residential area, was used to having the prisoner turned

president, the world's must revert elder statesman, in its midst. But

with him no longer among its people, it was different. The people have

said the national mood of mourning. It is a sad day in South Africa. We

have lost a great role model. The greatest thing is that at least his

legacy will live on. We are lucky to be in an area where there was such a

great man who had so much to give us. News of Nelson Mandela's death

came late in the evening here, but South Africans awoke to newspaper

headlines and front pages that sought to do justice to this painful

watershed time in the history of the nation. President Jacob Zuma

announced what he called the moment of our deepest sorrow. Our nation

has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father.

Although we knew that this day would, -- this day would come,

nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss. South

Africa appears to be unifying in sorrow, in itself a reflection of

the reconciliation that Nelson Mandela sought to bring about in

this nation where racial division was more institutionalised than any

other. There has been remarkable change in places like Soweto, but it

is a goal yet to be fully achieved. Nelson Mandela's fellow Norberg

peace laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, led a service of thanks in

Cape Town's St George 's Cathedral, so often a focus for true test and

morning during the days of apartheid. Lord, thank you for the

gift of Madiba. Thank you for what he has enabled us to

know what we can become. And from FW de Klerk, this tribute. He was a

great man. He was a very special man. I think his greatest legacy to

South Africa and to the world is the emphasis which he has always put on

the need for reconciliation. Many mourning publicly today speak

of the life of a public legend, but the personal loss to, especially

those who felt he brought them chances in life they would have been

denied. And now, South Africa will discover the influence of his

legacy, rather than his physical presence, which seemed to offer hope

to so many matter how little they saw of him in the final years of his

life. Mr Mandela died just a few months before this country's next

election, which is historic as it is 20 years after 1994, the first

nonracial election. There are questions to be asked about how his

legacy will play into election campaigning and its outcome. For

now, the emphasis here is all on mourning, which is expected to

intensify in the lead up to his burial.

Around the world, flags are flying at half-mast as leaders remember

Nelson Mandela and pay tribute to him. The Queen said Mr Mandela had

worked tirelessly for the good of his country. Barack Obama spoke

about how he was one of the countless millions who drew

inspiration from Mr Mandela's life. Our diplomatic correspondent has

more. In Trafalgar Square in London this

morning, the flag on South Africa House was at half-mast. Down below,

the messages, flowers and other tributes were beginning to pile up.

Passers-by, quietly adding their tokens. Among the mourners who came

to sign the book of condolence, David Cameron. The abiding memory I

have is just seeing him in Johannesburg talking about the

people who had imprisoned him and the suffering he had undergone, and

yet his total lack of malice towards those who had done this to him.

Across the Atlantic, when news of Nelson Mandela's death came after

darkness, the American flag was also raised to half-mast on the White

House and President Obama made a heartfelt tribute which was deeply

personal. I am one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from

Nelson Mandela's life. My very first political action, the first thing I

ever did that involved an issue or policy or politics, was protest

against apartheid. In New York, the passing of a great leader was

mourned both in Times Square and at the United Nations, where diplomats

in the Security Council paused in silent tribute. Across the globe,

messages from world leaders have poured in. China's president

recalled Mandela's friendship with China. India's Prime Minister

lamented the passing of a giant among men. Russia's president called

him an outstanding politician. Brazil THE COMMENTATOR:

Brazil's president warned his loss. We have lost a true hero. President

nestled Mandela -- Nelson Mandela lived an extraordinary life in an

ordinary way. The Queen said she remembered her meetings with Mr

Mandela with warmth and was deeply saddened. Prince Charles, who took a

round Brixton, recalled his courage. He seemed to have touched

everyone who met him. Former US president will Clinton said, -- Bill

Clinton said he had lost a true friend. Tony Blair praised him as a

great man who had made racism not just a moral, but stupid. And

Charlize Theron said his impact would live for ever. By chance,

there was a film of his life in London last night. We were just

reminded what an extraordinary and inspiring man Nelson Mandela was and

our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.

More members of the Royal family were at South Africa House this

morning for a towering figure for it -- whose impact on the world has

surely been monumental. Nelson Mandela's legacy is the

so-called rainbow nation that South Africa is today. He fought to end

white minority rule. When the tables were turned and non-whites gained

power, he spoke of reconciliation, not retribution or revenge. Our

diplomatic correspondent looks back at his life and the way he inspired

ordinary South Africans. Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in

South Africa's Eastern Cape, a member of the local tribal royal

house. In the 1950s in Johannesburg, when he set up as a lawyer in

partnership with Oliver Tambo, their work challenged apartheid. Our part

-- apartheid was the edifice of law which favoured South Africa's white

minority. The state crushed all opposition or defiance. Many would

feel it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and

nonviolence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks

on and on an unarmed and defenceless people. Mandela led an armed

campaign of ANC sabotage against the state. He was eventually arrested

and charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government. At his

trial he made a three-hour speech on the dock, including a pledge to give

his life if necessary. The words echoed down his 27 years in prison

and were an example which inspired so many others. Antoinette Peterson

is still coming to terms with her loss as a schoolgirl in the 1970s.

Look at her screaming grief. It is June, 1976 and her 13-year-old

brother, Hector, has just been shot and killed by the police. He was the

first victim of the Soweto uprising. I never thought I would talk about

it. Every time I spoke about it I was traumatised. And then I realised

that if he can do it, so can I. This woman used to teach in a white only

skill and believed Mandela was a terrorist, now she rejoices in

multiracial education. In the 1990s, she was scared when Nelson Mandela

was freed from prison. Was it going to be safe for white South Africans?

Will we be able to move around the way we used to? Are we now going to

be able to throw into jail because we are white? He started talking and

reassured people that this country is going to work together and is

never going to have apartheid. That set our minds at rest. There are

thousands, millions of South Africans with similar stories, and

they help to explain why Nelson Mandela was such a hero. He was a

giant of his age. When he was finally released from prison in

1990, it was his sheer stature, physical, moral and political, which

transformed South Africa. He had to negotiate an end to white rule but

also had to confront black people fighting and killing each other.

Eventually, four years later, the country's first democratic

multiracial elections delivered Mandela and the ANCA landslide

victory. -- the ANC a landslide victory. It was an astonishing

testimony to one-man 's greatness. Let's take you back to Soweto. You

described scenes of celebration earlier. It seems even in death,

Nelson Mandela has the ability to inspire. It should be said, this is

the street where Nelson Mandela's old home in the 1940s and 1950s was,

and it is a street which is visited by people from around the world

every day. That atmosphere has not particularly changed today. But

mixed in with it is that sense of loss and sorrow. There is no doubt

about that. I think we will see it reflected across the country. And

particularly perhaps that will be the case in the Eastern Cape, the

place where he was born, where he grew up, the place that still feels

he is their son, as we move towards his funeral next week. In terms of

an official capacity, what happens next? There will be three days of

mourning. We then have what in this part of South Africa will be the

major event, it will be a service of national mourning, in the 19,000

capacity stadium which is located just between Soweto and

Johannesburg. That will be a huge event, as indeed will, in a

different kind of way, the funeral and burial. The issue is that where

he will be buried is a very remote place. So, given that governments

all around the world will be sending leaders and dignitaries and

admirers, and celebrities and many other people will be wanting to be

part of the ceremonies, there is an enormous logistical challenge for

the government. It is obviously one they will have been preparing for,

but now they face the reality, a big test for the government of this

country over the next nine or ten days. Communities here have also

been mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela, but also celebrating his

life. He was made an honorary freemen of Leeds during a visit in

2001. He took to the stage in Millennium Square that day. Our

correspondent was at the concert and has returned to the square.

Why did one city do so much for one man? The people of Leeds stood

firmly behind Nelson Mandela. This was his thank you to them during his

visit to Yorkshire in 2001 after being made a freemen of the city.

Fortunately, I am a pensioner. Secondly, I am unemployed. And

thirdly, I have a criminal record. The support for Nelson Mandela in

Leeds began in the 1960s after his arrest. The ANC leader was made

honorary president of the students union at the University of leads. In

1973, a nuclear particle discovered by scientists in Leeds was named

after Mandela. Throughout the 1980s, students in the city protested for

his relief. -- for his relief -- for his release. This man spent time in

prison with Nelson Mandela, and he led the cause to free his friend. He

was like a father. When I am going there, I am the youngest prisoner on

the island. A lot of people look at me as their son. He used to talk a

lot, he was a great talker, but he was also a great listener, he would

listen to you. This garden in leads was named after Nelson Mandela. He

opened it during his visit to the city. He told the people here it was

a gesture which made him feel at peace. I am very happy indeed to

open this. Not only to have got the freedom of the city but to have seen

the garden. On his visit to the town in 2001, it to decades of support

from this city. There were thousands here that day, and I was one of

them. There was a sense of excitement, but nervousness as well

- what would this man think of them and their city? But with a single

moment, all of those fears were allayed, as Nelson Mandela raised

clenched fist, a sign of solidarity, in recognition of what the people of

Leeds had done in his name. It is something this city can feel rightly

proud of. We will return to this story later on in this specially

extended bulletin. Also to let you know come tonight on BBC One, you

can see a special programme, presented by David Dimbleby. That is

at nine o'clock. Now, we turn to the weather. Parts of the UK were

battered by storm force winds yesterday. A predicted tidal surge

has now hit coastal towns. Thousands of people have been evacuated from

their homes as a precaution against flooding. In Norfolk, a lifeboat

station has been washed into the sea. Our correspondent Ben Ando is

in great Yarmouth for us. As you said, many homes have been flooded.

In some cases, a couple have been washed away. While nobody would be

able to minimise the impact of that devastation for those people, it is

also fair to say, I think, in the aftermath of this storm, that

meticulous planning and the flood defences installed across the east

coast have minimised the impact for many, many more people. More than

half a century after the devastating floods of 1953, once again, the

waters of the North Sea have risen to take back we claimed land on the

east coast. A combination of storm force winds and high tides created a

huge surge of water which threatened a vast expanse of low-lying coastal

areas. At Hemsby on the north Norfolk coast, the water tore away

cliffs, sending these homes tumbling into the sea. No one was hurt.

Further down the coast, in great Yarmouth, 9000 households were

advised to evacuate. Some stayed, however. In some cases, the water

stopped just inches from the door. You have to take that risk when you

move into a place like this, unfortunately. Just around the

corner, this local businessman was less fortunate. We have probably got

about six inches of water, but it slopes away, so we have got about

two feet of water in the workshop. It is high tide, and water levels

but last night, the high tide was combined with a storm surge,

bringing the water all the way up to here. Another high tide is forecast

for tonight, but the Environment Agency says it appears as though the

worst has passed. From Cleethorpes and Austen in Lincolnshire, the

surge moved down during the night reaching as far as Kent in the South

Coast. Water levels were raised by up to two metres, testing flood

defences. In some areas soldiers were called in to key installations.

Our engineers are out now, checking the safety of the defences. On the

soft defences, shingle banks, for example, in Norfolk, we know we have

got damage. Several hundred people spent the night in emergency

shelters. Many are now preparing to return home. While there remains

much work to be done, along the east coast there is a sense that the

forces of nature were tamed, in stark contrast to the destruction

the last time the waters rose this high, 60 years ago. To put it in

context, back in 1953, more than 300 people were killed on the east coast

of England and in Scotland by the devastating floods. While yes, there

are repairs to be done, and yes, there is another high tide forecast

tonight, and yes, there will still be some homes flooded and people

evacuated, it is clear that for the most part, the planning and the

flood defences installed since then did their job. Back to you. Further

up the coast, up to 200 homes and businesses were flooded in Whitby in

North Yorkshire. The Environment Agency has 14 severe flood warnings

in place in England. Dan Johnson has sent this report. It came and went

quickly, but it has left the misery and ruin in its wake. The residents

of church street had two feet of water through their homes. I kept

looking out and thinking, it is going to get into this house. This

ex-fishermen had help in cleaning up this morning, but there is anger

here that there was not more flood protection. It was not rocket

science what was going to happen yesterday. Sandbags would have saved

these places, we could've done a good job with a few sandbags. Storm

surges brought huge waves and an exceptional tide last night, which

topped the harbour wall. Businesses like this one so the damage will run

into thousands. We have flooded once like this before, but it was just a

trickle, we had to clean the door out. Since then they have put in

flood areas and stuff, but they have all been breached. Is Mrs like this

pub did get sandbags. In many cases, they were not much use. The

Environment Agency said this was an unprecedented storm surge, the worst

in 50 years, but there are plans to improve the flood offences here in

future. The water came right up to here... It is little consolation to

those who have two clear up and carry on, and many here are wary of

what the next high tide may bring. Ben Brown is in Boston in

Lincolnshire. To have -- 200 properties there are still

evacuated. What is the latest? At about seven o'clock last night, the

flood waters from that tidal surge came crashing over the flood

defences. In this street, you can see is of the damage, a wall

demolished, this is carpet from inside the house, absolutely soaking

wet. They are throwing that out, they do not have insurance. On that

side of the street, they put up some makeshift flood defences, and those

seem to have done the trick. But on this side, the water came in, it was

needed at times. Let's speak to one householder here, who has had to

pull up all her floorboards because it has been so wet. How shocked were

you when the flooding came in? Absolutely horrified. It was

absolutely to refit. It was just bubbling up and coming straight

over, through the front, through the back, it was terrible. Have you had

enough help from the authorities? No help whatsoever, none. Absolutely

nothing, no sandbags, no offers, nothing. So, a pretty devastating

situation here in Boston, especially just in the run-up to Christmas real

misery for the people here. Our main story - millions of people

around the world have been mourning the death of Nelson Mandela, as

leaders pay their respects to the father of post-apartheid South

Africa. With the highest storm surge for 60 years

are at half mast. In Soweto, where Mr Mandela used to live, hundreds of

people I Mr Mandela used to live, hundreds of

for 60 years on the east coast, most flood defences appear to be holding,

but flood warnings remain in place. Later on BBC London, a special

report from Seville, with a key adviser to the mayor looking at how

to make cycling in the capital safer. And after the flooding, we

look ahead to this weekend's weather.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has made claims of strong economic

growth, but that claim has come under scrutiny today, with some

economists warning that the recovery may not be sustainable. Let's get

more from Hugh Pym. What exactly have they said? Well, the Chancellor

was out and about this morning, visiting the JCB plant in

Staffordshire, which has been creating jobs, and he said

manufacturing was key to getting the recovery going. He keeps using the

phrase responsible recovery, by which he means a balanced recovery.

Yes, Manufacturing has been doing pretty well so this year, but many

economists have looked at the upgrade to the growth forecasts

which we got yesterday and said actually, it is quite largely based

on household consumption, people spending more. How are they spending

more? Actually, everyone knows, who has not had much of a pay rise this

year, that inflation is running well ahead of pay rises, so they are

getting squeezed, so where is the money coming from? To a certain

extent, they are running down their savings. Is this a responsible time

to do that, well, that is a matter for debate. The Institute for Fiscal

Studies has come out with its verdict, and they say, yes, we are

getting more growth, borrowing is down, but if you look at the

underlying structural deficit, that has not improved at all, in fact it

has got slightly worse. They look at Mr Osborne's claimed that in

2018-19, there will be a small surplus on the public finances, with

no borrowing, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies says, to get that, it

will need even more austerity, really pretty tough spending cuts in

that particular year, to get into surplus. So all of this is possible,

as set out yesterday, but it is going to need just as rigorous a set

of spending cuts after the election as what we will be seeing for the

next couple of years, and there is a bit of a question over whether that

can be achieved or not. We return now to our main story, the death of

the former South African president and anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson

Mandela. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, when he was imprisoned for his

beliefs, people in the UK were at the forefront of the campaign to

free him and bring an end to the apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela

visited the UK on several occasions, including his state visit

is 1996, as Razia Iqbal explains. I love each and everyone of you. I

would like to put each and everyone of you in my pocket and to return

with you to South Africa. The prisoner who became the president

had a special place in the soul of a nation thousands of miles away from

his home. From streets to squares and statues, signposts of a

relationship which did much to raise awareness of the struggle against

apartheid outside South Africa. But also, a measure of the mutual

affection and affinity between Nelson Mandela and the United

Kingdom. It is hard to imagine a place he was held in higher esteem

than in the London Borough of Brixton. It is a place he asked to

go to during his 1996 state visit. It was a tremendously exciting day.

None of us had ever expected that Madiba himself would come to

Brixton. In 1981, when there was all of the troubles here, we identified

what was happening, it was the most extreme version of what we were

experiencing. So, he embodied all of these hopes and dreams, and this is

the heart of the black community in the country, like Harlem, and he was

coming here. Many who waited to see him that they were not even born

when he was released from prison, but that did not matter. The

anti-apartheid movement here was spearheaded by charismatic South

Africans in exile. But there were many British volunteers as well. The

movement ran on a huge amount of conviction, belief and very little

money. We were activists, we went and did things, we demonstrated, we

leafleted, we went to concerts, we boycotted, we picketed shops. There

was a tremendous positive feeling that we were involved in something

which was really positive. Trevor Phillips was a student when he

joined the anti-apartheid movement and he met I was dimly aware of

Nelson Mandela at the beginning. I think he grew on us as a figure the

longer he was in jail, because it just became clear, this guy could

make or break, and he became, what happened to him became symbolic.

British trade interests were targeted, and calls for bans on

South African products increased. But Margaret Thatcher did not

agree. I think Margaret was hostile to the idea of sanctions, because

she was concerned about doing damage to the people of South Africa,

without persuading the leadership. The vast majority of British people

were not persuaded by their own government. London remains the focus

of the anti-apartheid campaign, and there was a massive concert in

London, which was beamed around the world. It was Mandela's story which

galvanise people across generations, colour and creed.

Mandela's warm relationship with the UK continued, and he never forgot

the part of this country played in the struggle for his freedom.

Throughout the morning, flowers and tributes have been left at the

statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square. Our chief

political correspondent, Norman Smith, is there. We can see some of

those floral tributes. Yes, the Mayor of London has urged Londoners

and others who want to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela to come to this

statue, which he himself unveiled in 2007. Let me just read you some of

the tributes which have been placed around him. One message says, you

taught the world that one man can change the world. Potential will

move to Parliament next week, -- attention will move to Parliament

next week, when MPs and peers will be paying tribute, remembering

Nelson Mandela. It will almost be an unprecedented occasion. And then,

they are also examining a possible occasion when ordinary people,

so-called civic society, people who were associated with Nelson Mandela

threw his political struggles or charitable work or his foundation,

they can have their own day in the historic Westminster Hall, and that

would be an unprecedented occasion, a unique event, which underlines

what a unique political figure Nelson Mandela was.

Throughout the apartheid era, much of the sporting world boycotted

South Africa as a means of focusing attention on what was going on

there. Not only that, after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela

soon realised that sport could be used to help unify the divided

nation and should the world a new South Africa, as Andy Swiss reports.

It was an image which United a nation and enraptured the world, a

black South African president in the jersey of white South African sport.

Just a few years earlier, it would have seemed unthinkable, but at the

1995 Rugby World Cup final, as Nelson Mandela handed the trophy to

Francois Pienaar, South Africa's years of division turned to

collective celebration. We have 65,000 South Africans here today. We

did not have city 5000 South Africans, we had 43 million South

Africans. Nelson Mandela had unified nation, in politics, and now in

sport. It remains a defining moment. People were still happy to see

Nelson Mandela hand over the trophy. It unified the country. A keen

amateur boxer in his youth, Nelson Mandela always believed in the power

of sport and after his imprisonment, sport tried to exert that power.

Overseas teams largely boycotted South Africa during the apartheid

years. After he became president, he embraced the sporting world. His

arrest man -- charisma was key to South Africa hosting the World Cup

in 2010. Sport has the power to change the world. On the world's

biggest stars lined up to meet him, from David Beckham to Muhammad Ali,

who said that Nelson Mandela had taught forgiveness on a grand

scale. His final appearance was at the 2010 World Cup final in

Johannesburg. Already, the sporting world is paying its respects. There

was a minute's silence before the Ashes Test in Adelaide, the first of

many tributes to a man whose belief in sport was that it had the ability

to transform a nation. In the last be moments, President Zuma has said

the funeral of Nelson Mandela will take place on Sunday, 15th December.

You watch that report. Extraordinary scenes, what are your thoughts from

a national prospective? We need to remember what the Springboks

symbolised for a black South Africans. It was a sign of

oppression, a sign of racial segregation, a sign that said, if

you are wearing that shirt it means you are my enemy. A black South

African would not be seen dead wearing a Springboks jersey. But

because Nelson Mandela wanted to unite a very racially divided nation

that was at the brink of civil war, he wore it as a sign of trying to

symbolise this reconciliation that he kept talking about and preaching

about when he became president. And of course, when he was released from

prison. That Rugby World Cup in 1995, when South Africa won, and

Nelson Mandela showed the players Pae hands, he called all of them by

name anti-was wearing the jersey. -- and he was wearing the jersey. It

was a sign of saying that South Africa was going to become a rainbow

nation. From a personal perspective, you and your family have lived

through these periods. How do you reflect on what Nelson Mandela has

done for South Africa? He has done a lot in terms of trying to shape

South Africa not to fall into a hopeless disaster that people

thought it would become because all of a sudden a black man was leading.

All of a sudden, black people had rights, human rights in South Africa

when for many decades, they were treated as subhuman by a minority

group. There was a lot of that going on. What he symbolised and what the

hope is right now in South Africa is that South Africans will carry this

torch that he has held until he took his last breath. Mandela took his

last walk to freedom yesterday. It is now up to South Africa to take

that and continue and make South Africa prosper, with all its flaws.

There is hope. Thank you for your thoughts.

It is time to take you to the weather. Plenty of flood warnings

still in place. Of course we are still focusing on

the north sea coast itself around East Anglia. Let's have a look at

the next high tide. We have already had it again. The next in Great

Yarmouth is at 10:44pm. The storm surge from the wind has gone but we

still have high tides to content with on the coast and the Thames

Barrier will be closed this afternoon and into this evening. For

weather, like rain and some sleet, and some snow for some this evening

and overnight. Let's have a look in more detail. Pretty chilly with

temperatures around East Anglia and into Lincolnshire. Barely above

freezing at this stage. In the south-west, this is where we will

have the least cold weather. Notice this line of light rain nudging into

the north-west of England, Northern Ireland, southwestern Scotland and

the West Midlands, this weather front is nudging into the Arctic are

after the storm. -- Arctic error. The thought is that through this

evening there will be sleet and snow in lower ground in part of Scotland

and England. There is the possibility of freezing rain and the

risk of ice. Late in the night and as we get into the early hours of

Saturday, the milder Atlantic are starts to push in and clear away the

Arctic error towards the east. It is pushing unless cold air across the

UK. It means tomorrow, temperatures will be a little bit higher. They

will be around seven, eight or nine degrees, fairly cloudy with some

spots of rain. Yes, a bit of a breeze but no gale force winds

inland. On Sunday, high pressure is towards the south of the country but

there are still weather systems in the North. A decent breeze in

northern areas with some rain. Temperatures getting up to about 10

degrees. You are wondering what the weather will be like after all of

the horrendous weather and this is the outlook - generally speaking, it

is looking mostly settled with light winds.

That is all from this specially extended programme. There will be

more throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel. In a moment we

will join our news teams where you are. For the moment, we believe you

with some images of the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to

continue talking peace and nonviolence against a government

whose reply is only savage attacks on and on and defenceless people. --

on an unarmed. It is an idea for which I am

prepared to die. One of the things that is difficult

for me to comprehend is that I spent such a long time here.

There is Mr Nelson Mandela, a free man. We have realised our greatest

dream of being free at last in our own country.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land shall

again experience the oppression of one or another.

It is time for new hands to lift the bat on. It is in your hands now.