Browse content similar to 30/12/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Michael Schumacher is fighting for life after undergoing brain surgery. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The former motor racing champion suffered head injuries in a skiing | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
accident in the French Alps. Doctors say he is lucky to be alive. | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
TRANSLATION: The helmet did help. Without it, he would not be here | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
now. Also this lunchtime - 14 dead in the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
second suicide bomb attack in Russia in two days. President Putin orders | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
a security clamp-down. 90 Conservative MPs urge the Prime | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Minister not to lift border controls on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
on first January. The final stumbling blocks - crucial | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
talks on the political future of Northern Ireland go down to the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
wire. And police are to change the way | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
they record crime to give the public a clearer idea of why some crimes go | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
unsolved. The seven-times Formula One world | :00:58. | :01:19. | |
champion Michael Schumacher is said to be "fighting for his life" after | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
a skiing accident in the French Alps. Doctors say he has suffered | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
severe brain trauma and remains in a critical condition. The German is | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
currently in a medically-induced coma at the University Hospital in | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Grenoble. Our sports correspondent Katie Gornall has more. Inside this | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
hospital, Michael Schumacher is facing the toughest battle of his | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
life. This morning, the doctors treating him spoke of just how | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
serious his condition has become. TRANSLATION: He is in a critical | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
situation, and we can say that he is fighting for his life. We cannot | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
tell you what the outcome can be yet. We are working permanently, our | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
buy our, but it is too early to say what is going to happen. Schumacher | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
was skiing off piste with his son yesterday in Meribel when the | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
accident happened just after 11 o'clock local time. He was taken by | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
helicopter to hospital in Moutiers, before being moved to the larger | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
University Hospital in Grenoble. It was here that he underwent immediate | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. The 44-year-old is a keen | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
skier and was wearing a helmet at the time of his accident, then he | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
fell and hit his head on a rock. Without it, doctors say he would not | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
have survived. With any brain injury, the critical thing is speed | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
of evacuation. If you are in the middle of nowhere, as was the case | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
with him, it has an effect. It appears that he was evacuated very | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
quickly, however, and sent on to a large hospital, where neurosurgery | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
was available in very good time. Schumacher's career was defined by | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
speed. The seven times world champion was unrivalled in terms of | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
success. He was the fastest and most talented racing driver of all time. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Undoubtedly he has been the most successful. If anyone knows how to | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
fight, to muster up inner strength and determination, then there is | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
absolutely no doubt in my mind that he is the best person to do that. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
COMMENTATOR: And Schumacher has brilliantly worked his way up... ! | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Now, Schumacher must summon up that same fight for his life. Yet with | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
each passing hour, concern for his recovery grows. Imogen Foulkes is in | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Grenoble for us. Imagen, clearly, this is a critical time for Michael | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Schumacher, but the hospital does have expertise on these types of | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
injuries? Yes, it does. This is the University Hospital of Grenoble, and | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
they have a specialist team for treating head injuries, and for | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
treating skiing injuries. All morning we have seen helicopters | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
coming in and out. I fear that some of them may also have been skiers | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
who have injured themselves. But for Michael Schumacher, I am afraid to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
say, the doctors did not look or sound especially positive. They said | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
this morning that he remained in a very serious condition, they said he | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
was fighting for his life. The one thing they did say was, at least he | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
was wearing a helmet, and that if he had not been, he would not have | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
survived that collision Security is being stepped up across Russia after | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
two suicide bomb attacks within 24 hours in the southern city of | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
Volgograd. This morning, a bomb exploded on a | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
bus, killing 14 people. Yesterday, at least 17 people died in an | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
explosion at the city's main railway station. Our Moscow correspondent, | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
Daniel Sandford, reports. The burnt, twisted, bomb shattered | :05:03. | :05:17. | |
remains of a rush-hour us in Volgograd. Many of the passengers | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
died almost instantly when a suicide bomber blew himself up as the people | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
around him headed to work. Or for a bit of last-minute shopping before | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
the New Year celebrations. A state of emergency has been declared in | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
the city after the second bombing within 24 hours. Yesterday, at least | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
one other suicide bomber attacked the city's main railway station, | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
killing 17 people. The widespread assumption is that the explosions | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
are linked to the Islamist insurgency against Russian rule in | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the nearby Caucasus republics, and that the attacks are timed to | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
coincide with the build-up to February's Winter Olympics. Two | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
suicide bombers in two days means the Kremlin has a problem. President | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Putin is going to have to move fast to reassure the Russian public that | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
he can keep them safe and to reassure the international community | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
that he can secure the socially Winter Olympics, which begin in less | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
than six weeks time. -- the Sochi Winter Olympics. President Putin has | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
insisted that the Winter Olympics will be safe, and today, the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
International Olympic Committee said it had no doubt that the Russian | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
authorities would be up to the task. It is most likely that the bombs are | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the work of Islamists from the nearby Caucasus republics of | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Chechnya and Dagestan. The Olympics are the perfect platform for them to | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
use violence to undermine the Russian government and President | :06:46. | :06:46. | |
Putin. 90 senior Conservative activists are | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
urging David Cameron not to lift border controls on Romanian and | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Bulgarian migrants on first January. They have written to the Prime | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
Minister, saying the restrictions are needed to prevent a | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
destabilising wave of mass immigration. Our political | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
correspondent, Iain Watson, is in Downing Street for us. They have | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
left it awfully late - what are they expecting the Prime Minister to do | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
at this stage? With just two days to go until these restrictions on | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Bulgarian and Romanian migrants are lifted on New Year's Day, David | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
Cameron is under pressure to take a tougher stance. What those activists | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
want to see is David Cameron firstly recalling Parliament this week to | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
impose new immigration restrictions on those people, and secondly, to | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
follow the example of Spain by putting temporary limits on the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
number of migrants that can come here. But the European can say is | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
that all countries in the EU, including Spain, have to lift every | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
restriction by the 1st of January just so, I suppose, given that the | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Conservatives will be disappointed by that kind of reaction, what is | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
the significance of this letter from the activists? You could say that it | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
shows a deep unease within the Conservative Party, that UKIP seem | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
to be making the running on immigration. They have imposed the | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
maximum restrictions that they possibly can under European law, say | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the government. Labour says it is a sign of panic. But quite frankly, | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
David Cameron could suffer more political damage from critics on his | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
own side. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
urged the people of Scotland to reject independence when they vote | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
in the referendum next September. In his New Year message, Mr Miliband | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
also pledged that his party would continue to focus on people's | :08:37. | :08:37. | |
concerns about the cost of living. The way police forces in England and | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
Wales record offences is being changed, to give a clearer idea | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
about why some crimes are not solved. Currently, cases that don't | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
result in a charge or caution are recorded as undetected, but that | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
will be replaced by several new categories such as "prosecution | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
prevented", if for example a suspect is too ill to stand trial. | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
Currently, 70% of cases are recorded as undetected. Here is our home | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds. At North Point Shopping Centre in | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Hull, the problem is shoplifting, but the 98% of those caught are | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
first-time offenders, or low level offenders. The manager of the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
shopping centre has started banning people, rather than pushing for | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
charges. We are actually going to stop them offending again, which | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
will decrease time locally. -- decrease crime locally. But for the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
police, that means no crime has been recorded as detected, which does not | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
look good on the crime figures. The new framework is designed to change | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
that. The lease will still recorded somebody is charged or cautioned. -- | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
police will still record if somebody is charged or cautioned. But there | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
will be more than a dozen new categories, including community | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
resolution, where the crime is resolved without charge, for | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
example, by banning shoplifters. Others include investigation | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
complete, when the case is closed unless more evidence comes to | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
light. Crime is definitely falling on all measures we have. But clearly | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
there have been some problems with measurement, so we need to restore | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
public confidence. Even more importantly, the police need to have | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
information from the crime figures which enables them to cut crime. The | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
Government says changing the recording of crime gives the police | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
a wider range of outcomes and more discretion. But some police forces | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
say the system could be more bureaucratic. | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
The political parties in Northern Ireland are meeting in a final | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
attempt to reach agreement on issues left outstanding from the peace | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
process. The three contentious areas are parades, flags and the past. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
From Belfast, Andy Martin reports. The last-gasp, after six months of | :10:50. | :11:06. | |
negotiation. Dr Richard Haass has extended his deadline before, but he | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
is adamant that today is the day he intends to bring these protract it | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
talks to a close. And this is what he is trying to draw a line under. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
The writing on the streets, often caused by disagreements between | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
loyalists and Republicans, like what flags can fly where and when, what | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
parades can take place in what areas. How to deal with thousands of | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
unsolved murders, from 30 years of conflict. Now is the time to deal | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
with it. We have created an opportunity, with Richard Haass and | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
his team. Let's hope we can do it today. I am fairly confident that we | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
should be able to do that. Dr Haass is proposing that new commissions | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
should be created, one to reinvestigate murders, another only | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
to establish the truth of what happened. Contributors to the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
commissions would have immunity from having any information they give | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
used against them in court. There are still sticking points, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
particularly for unionists, over how parades will be managed, but this is | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
make or break time. Deal or no Deal, Dr Haass will be on a plane back to | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
America in the morning. You can see more on all of today's stories on | :12:27. | :12:29. |