:00:15. > :00:20.unlawful killing. Mark Duggan's death sparked the summer riots in
:00:21. > :00:23.2011. His aunt calls for no more violence but says she will continue
:00:24. > :00:27.fight for peaceful answers. The not so merry Christmas for some
:00:28. > :00:32.Britain's biggest retailers as figures reveal a large fall in
:00:33. > :00:35.sales. The bodies of four US servicemen are removed from a crush
:00:36. > :00:39.sit-in Norfolk after their helicopter came down on Tuesday
:00:40. > :00:44.night. A major incident is declared at an AMD unit in Belfast because of
:00:45. > :00:50.the huge backlog of patients. Staff described horrendous scenes. Nearly
:00:51. > :00:56.300 flood warnings and alerts still in place across the UK as the water
:00:57. > :00:59.just keeps on rising. Later on BBC London, emotional scenes as ten fire
:01:00. > :01:04.stations across London close for good and the Met's efforts to build
:01:05. > :01:05.trust with London's vacuum unit is following the inquest into Mark
:01:06. > :01:27.Duggan's death. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:28. > :01:30.BBC News At One. The ant of Mark Duggan, the man whose fatal shooting
:01:31. > :01:34.by police two and a half years ago sparked the summer riots, says she
:01:35. > :01:38.doesn't want any more violence, but Carole Duggan says a peaceful fight
:01:39. > :01:42.for answers will continue. An inquest into his death concluded
:01:43. > :01:44.yesterday that it was a lawful killing. This morning the Prime
:01:45. > :01:49.Minister said he respected Carole Duggan for pursuing the case through
:01:50. > :01:51.the courts rather than on the streets. The header of the
:01:52. > :01:59.Metropolitan Police Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe set has been meeting
:02:00. > :02:01.community leaders to discuss ways of rebuilding confidence in the police.
:02:02. > :02:04.Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports.
:02:05. > :02:08.After the verdict the social should -- the soul-searching has begun. The
:02:09. > :02:11.inquest into Mark Duggan's killing may have indicated the Metropolitan
:02:12. > :02:16.Police but it hasn't helped improve its relations with many black
:02:17. > :02:21.Londoners. Today, the capital's Mayor urged people to put matters in
:02:22. > :02:25.perspective. Well, I hope that underscores for us in London is the
:02:26. > :02:29.massive restraint of our police in the way that they handle the use of
:02:30. > :02:34.force. 10,000 times in the last four years they have been out on armed
:02:35. > :02:38.deployments. Only on six occasions have they fired their weapons.
:02:39. > :02:44.Split-second decisions are called for by our police and of course they
:02:45. > :02:49.are much more difficult if somebody is carrying a lethal weapon. There
:02:50. > :02:55.have been a total of 25 fatal police shooting is in a decade. 19 of them
:02:56. > :02:58.found by inquests like Mark Duggan's to be lawful. Police can
:02:59. > :03:03.fire at someone if they have and honestly held and reasonable belief
:03:04. > :03:06.that they are a threat to life. And they are instructed to shoot to
:03:07. > :03:13.stop, that means firing into the upper body. This police exercise
:03:14. > :03:18.shows a hard stop as it should be carried out. According to officers
:03:19. > :03:22.they follow the same correct procedures in the case of Mark
:03:23. > :03:27.Duggan. When police shot down the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby in
:03:28. > :03:31.Woolwich last year, a camera caught the split-second decisions in play.
:03:32. > :03:36.And more and more forces are planning to fit video cameras to
:03:37. > :03:41.officers, so there is an accurate record. I will not be able to roll
:03:42. > :03:44.out cameras to all firearms officers overnight but by the 1st of April we
:03:45. > :03:47.want to test body cameras are not some of our firearms operations
:03:48. > :03:52.because we have nothing to hide, we want to be transparent and if we can
:03:53. > :03:55.help everyone have greater confidence by having those video
:03:56. > :04:00.cameras there, that can only help, can't it? In Tottenham, scene of the
:04:01. > :04:04.riots, a vigil for Mark Duggan is to be held this weekend. Community
:04:05. > :04:07.leaders have had talks with the Met's commissioner. We have just
:04:08. > :04:14.looked at the best way forward to ensure that the concerns that the
:04:15. > :04:18.family genuinely have about the verdict can be expressed in an
:04:19. > :04:22.effective fashion at the vigil this weekend. In the short-term police
:04:23. > :04:30.hope things will stay calm. Building trust among many black Londoners
:04:31. > :04:34.will take much longer. Our legal correspondent Clive
:04:35. > :04:36.Coleman is here with me now. Mark Duggan's and saying she is going to
:04:37. > :04:40.continue a peaceful fight for answers. What options are open to
:04:41. > :04:45.her? The difficult and complex because there is no right to appeal
:04:46. > :04:49.the conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that
:04:50. > :04:51.the decision was irrational. What you can do is seek to appeal the
:04:52. > :04:54.conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that the
:04:55. > :04:56.decision was irrational. What you can do with Sita judicially review
:04:57. > :04:59.the inquest. Now, under our system what you would have to argue is that
:05:00. > :05:02.the coroner, because the judicial review was a mechanism for
:05:03. > :05:07.challenging the decisions of public bodies, a jury is not a public body,
:05:08. > :05:11.it is a collection of citizens doing their civic duty. You can challenge
:05:12. > :05:16.the way in which he handled the inquest, the way in which he
:05:17. > :05:20.directed the duty -- the jury, arguing that there was an extent
:05:21. > :05:23.that no reasonable jury properly directed could have reached that
:05:24. > :05:28.decision. Now, that has happened in the past. It is unusual, it is
:05:29. > :05:31.difficult, but there have been successful challenges. If fresh
:05:32. > :05:35.evidence were to come to light than the attorney general can go back to
:05:36. > :05:38.the High Court and seek to have the jury conclusion quashed. We saw that
:05:39. > :05:42.in relation to the independent panel that looked at the Hillsborough
:05:43. > :05:46.disaster. The attorney went back and got not achieved. Clive, thank you
:05:47. > :05:50.very much. Some of Britain's biggest retailers have seen a sharp fall in
:05:51. > :05:54.sales after what has been described as a very challenging Christmas.
:05:55. > :05:58.Tesco and Marks and Spencer both struggled but it was Morrison's that
:05:59. > :06:02.fared the worst as difficult market conditions pushed sales down by
:06:03. > :06:06.5.6%. There is our business correspondent Emma Simpson.
:06:07. > :06:10.They are free of Britain's biggest retailers and today they are all
:06:11. > :06:16.reporting poor Christmas sales. At Marks and Spencer it -- its food did
:06:17. > :06:20.very well but there was another slump in women's clothing, despite a
:06:21. > :06:25.revamp and a new much talked about autumn winter collection. Sales in
:06:26. > :06:30.general merchandise were down just over 2% in the last three months.
:06:31. > :06:34.Food is delivering and closing isn't and the furniture is doing quite
:06:35. > :06:39.well so clothing must be doing even worse. Very, very disappointing. M
:06:40. > :06:42.is a great brand, still a very strong company, still plenty of
:06:43. > :06:48.scope to turn it around but there is no sign it is happening yet. M say
:06:49. > :06:52.sales in women's clothing improved in the run-up to Christmas and that
:06:53. > :06:55.will give the boss Mark Bonner and some breathing space. He insisted
:06:56. > :07:02.again today that turning things around at this high-street giant
:07:03. > :07:07.will take time. It's also taking time at Tesco. Britain's biggest
:07:08. > :07:11.supermarket is battling to revive its fortunes, with new stores like
:07:12. > :07:18.this want try to woo shoppers. It's Christmas figures to our
:07:19. > :07:22.disappointing. With sales down 2.4%. Tesco's online business did far
:07:23. > :07:26.better, with double-digit growth. Christmas has proved that having a
:07:27. > :07:33.strong digital services key for most retailers. Morrison's aren't online
:07:34. > :07:37.yet. It's had a miserable Christmas. A time when the
:07:38. > :07:42.supermarkets should be doing a roaring trade, in an unscheduled
:07:43. > :07:49.update today it reveals its sales had fallen by more than 5%, a real
:07:50. > :07:52.festive shop. Morrisons' numbers are dire and they will use part of the
:07:53. > :07:55.excuses them not being online and that is certainly some of the story,
:07:56. > :07:59.not being online erodes your growth but this is a more fundamental
:08:00. > :08:03.problem of a company that essentially has lost its way in
:08:04. > :08:07.terms of positioning. Three Christmas losers. It shows that
:08:08. > :08:10.household budgets are still being squeezed and that the high street is
:08:11. > :08:16.more crowded and competitive than ever.
:08:17. > :08:19.Well, it's a very different story for the luxury car-maker
:08:20. > :08:24.Rolls-Royce. It set a new sales record for the fourth year in a
:08:25. > :08:31.row. 3630 cars were bought in 2013. Sales were up 17% in the Middle East
:08:32. > :08:35.and 11% in China, 100 new jobs are being created by the company at its
:08:36. > :08:39.factory in Goodwood in West Sussex. Well, this morning the chance to --
:08:40. > :08:42.the Chancellor George Osborne repeated his view that Britain's
:08:43. > :08:47.economic recovery is not yet secure and there was still more to do. I am
:08:48. > :08:49.the first to say this economic recovery is not yet secure. We have
:08:50. > :08:54.to work through the long-term economic plan that is turning
:08:55. > :08:59.Britain around and we need to make sure that we get balanced growth
:09:00. > :09:03.across the whole country and we get investment and exports alongside
:09:04. > :09:06.consumer spending and that is exactly what our economic plan is
:09:07. > :09:10.designed to deliver. The Chancellor speaking earlier this morning. Our
:09:11. > :09:15.chief economic correspondent Hugh Pym is here. It is a very mixed
:09:16. > :09:18.picture, isn't it? Indeed I don't think these retail numbers today
:09:19. > :09:21.tell us the recovery of slowing down. I think it reinforces the
:09:22. > :09:25.point that there is a battle going on on the high streets for the
:09:26. > :09:29.shoppers' pound and online as well and although Tesco and Morrison had
:09:30. > :09:33.a very challenging Christmas, we earned yesterday that Waitrose had
:09:34. > :09:36.sealed sales grow, Aldi and Lidl say they have had a record Christmas and
:09:37. > :09:40.although M faced certain challenges we learned last week John
:09:41. > :09:44.Lewis has -- House of Fraser and next all saw sales growth although
:09:45. > :09:48.high-street spending may not have grown overall very much it probably
:09:49. > :09:51.did grow although consumers are little bit cautious. They are still
:09:52. > :09:55.spending their money. Remember, retail money accounts for about one
:09:56. > :09:59.third of overall household spending. We learn from Rolls-Royce,
:10:00. > :10:03.Rolls-Royce cars, they are booming, they are creating jobs through
:10:04. > :10:06.exports, just the sort of recovery that many economists say we want, a
:10:07. > :10:10.more balanced recovery, and although the Chancellor was sounding a note
:10:11. > :10:13.of caution it looks as if the fourth quarter of last year did see pretty
:10:14. > :10:18.robust growth and that looks likely to continue in 2014.
:10:19. > :10:22.The government is holding another meeting of its emergency committee
:10:23. > :10:25.COBRA this afternoon as floodwaters continued to rise. The number of
:10:26. > :10:29.people who have died during the storms and floods over Christmas and
:10:30. > :10:32.New Year has now risen to eight. Nearly 300 flood warnings or alerts
:10:33. > :10:37.are still in place across Britain. Our correspondent Sarah Campbell is
:10:38. > :10:40.in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey. Sarah.
:10:41. > :10:44.Yes, the majority of those flood warnings suddenly the southern
:10:45. > :10:47.England are along the banks of the River Thames and if you look behind
:10:48. > :10:51.me you can certainly see why. To give you an idea of the depth, that
:10:52. > :10:55.is the top of a park bench that you can see there and across the water
:10:56. > :11:00.on the other side, there are no longer pathways because they are all
:11:01. > :11:04.under three feet of water. A shopping expedition to buy
:11:05. > :11:12.Sunbury's must have clothing, a pair of waders. I take it and go. The
:11:13. > :11:17.houses here are inches away from the water which now surrounds them. Two
:11:18. > :11:21.women in their 90s were taken from the island by the Fire and rescue
:11:22. > :11:27.services. Those that remain can only watch and wait. We are upstairs, so
:11:28. > :11:31.not life-threatening danger but I don't know what will happen in the
:11:32. > :11:35.future. That is it, really, it is frightening for anyone who lives on
:11:36. > :11:39.the river. Across the swollen river some properties are now under water.
:11:40. > :11:42.So when did this war to start coming into your kitchen? This started
:11:43. > :11:46.coming in at the beginning of the week and we can't see it ending at
:11:47. > :11:50.the moment as the river is rising and we have been told to expect
:11:51. > :11:55.about another six inches but as you can see the pump is on most of the
:11:56. > :11:59.day and the night. Elsewhere the floodwaters have again proved fatal.
:12:00. > :12:03.In with them in Oxfordshire the police say a 73-year-old cyclist
:12:04. > :12:07.fell from his bike on this road and was later pronounced dead in
:12:08. > :12:10.hospital. With water levels still rising in many areas I would ask the
:12:11. > :12:14.public to continue to take heed of the Environment Agency is warnings.
:12:15. > :12:18.We must remain vigilant and I will recharge -- I will be chairing a
:12:19. > :12:22.further COBRA meeting this afternoon. The waters have provided
:12:23. > :12:27.some unusual photo opportunities. Wake boarding in Downing Street. But
:12:28. > :12:35.for those living in places like Ray Zebre in Berkshire, properties and
:12:36. > :12:38.safety remain at risk. These are worrying times. Worrying times here
:12:39. > :12:43.in southern England but also elsewhere. There four flood warnings
:12:44. > :12:47.in Scotland and one in Wales. 140 properties have flooded there since
:12:48. > :12:50.before Christmas and my colleague reports now from Newgale on the
:12:51. > :12:55.Pembrokeshire coast. Blue skies and a stiff breeze,
:12:56. > :12:59.today, Newgale could hardly be more different to the explosive seas of
:13:00. > :13:04.Monday. Force ten wins, high tide and torrential rain huddled the
:13:05. > :13:09.coastline. It meant this serve shop got an awful lot closer to the surf.
:13:10. > :13:12.The biggest worry is when the shingle bank is gone, the protection
:13:13. > :13:15.is gone, the waves can strike the front of the Chopin as you can
:13:16. > :13:19.imagine a wave hitting lowdown on the front of shop can knock the
:13:20. > :13:23.front off and that is what happened 24 years ago. That is what I was
:13:24. > :13:27.expecting. When that didn't happen and we only got a little bit of
:13:28. > :13:32.flooding in the shop, I felt quite lucky. The clean-up is under way.
:13:33. > :13:38.Machine take days to undo the damage done by mother nature in days. The
:13:39. > :13:42.urgent review of flood defences announced by the Welsh government on
:13:43. > :13:46.Sunday is yet to get under way. No further information is expected this
:13:47. > :13:49.afternoon. Repairing the damage she is fairly straightforward, just put
:13:50. > :13:53.the stones back to where they used to be but other parts of the Welsh
:13:54. > :13:56.coastline have seen some serious structural damage and councils here
:13:57. > :14:00.say they can't afford to fix it. The Welsh government says it can't write
:14:01. > :14:03.a blank cheque. The worst of the weather has certainly passed here
:14:04. > :14:12.but the effects of these storms will be felt for a long time to come.
:14:13. > :14:15.If there is a positive here in Sunbury-on-Thames, what people are
:14:16. > :14:17.saying to me is the sense of community spirit. Everyone really
:14:18. > :14:20.rallying around to help each other. But I have heard fierce criticisms
:14:21. > :14:25.of the Environment Agency, saying people have had people have had
:14:26. > :14:28.information too little too late and they all want to know when the
:14:29. > :14:34.waters are going to subside. There is much more on the weather in
:14:35. > :14:42.your area on our website. You can get detailed forecasts by entering
:14:43. > :14:45.your postcode@BBC.co.uk /weather. A senior U.S. Air Force officer has
:14:46. > :14:48.paid tribute to the four American servicemen who died in Norfolk on
:14:49. > :14:52.Tuesday night when their helicopter came down during a training
:14:53. > :14:55.exercise. The men's bodies are being recovered from the site today.
:14:56. > :15:05.Investigators say it will be awhile before they can establish exactly
:15:06. > :15:08.what happened. Black reports. They died in an exercise training how to
:15:09. > :15:18.save others. Today, at the scene, there is increased activity. But the
:15:19. > :15:25.bodies of the four men remain on site. Police say removing the bodies
:15:26. > :15:28.will take several hours, and could take the rest of the day. The
:15:29. > :15:32.problem is they want to make the process as dignified as possible for
:15:33. > :15:39.the crew members who lost their lives. They also need to preserve
:15:40. > :15:43.vital evidence. Here, senior officers said their colleagues had
:15:44. > :15:49.paid the ultimate sacrifice. A lot of people who owe their lives to
:15:50. > :15:53.them probably will have no idea. Families around the world this
:15:54. > :16:01.morning, having breakfast with their sons, daughters and their family,
:16:02. > :16:07.their motto is, these things we do that others may live. Investigators
:16:08. > :16:11.say it is to way to speculate on the cause of the crash. Historically,
:16:12. > :16:15.this is an aircraft with an excellent safety record, but it
:16:16. > :16:21.could be many months before we know the real reason as to what went so
:16:22. > :16:26.tragically wrong. The time is just after a quarter
:16:27. > :16:30.past one. The top story: At the family of Mark Duggan call for no
:16:31. > :16:33.more violence and say they will take -- peacefully fight the inquest
:16:34. > :16:40.verdict of a lawful killing. And what happens when Hell freezes over.
:16:41. > :16:49.Later on BBC London News: The rain keeps coming. 40 flood warnings or
:16:50. > :16:52.-- along the Thames. And as London's air ambulance celebrates
:16:53. > :17:06.its 25th anniversary, we spend a day with its life-saving crew.
:17:07. > :17:11.For almost 75 years it lay undisturbed at the bottom of the sea
:17:12. > :17:14.off the coast in Kent. But then, in June, what's thought to be the last
:17:15. > :17:17.remaining German Dornier bomber from World War II was finally brought to
:17:18. > :17:21.the surface. The aircraft, which was one of the mainstays of the German
:17:22. > :17:24.bomber fleet during the Battle of Britain, is now being restored at an
:17:25. > :17:26.RAF Museum in Shropshire. Sian Lloyd is there.
:17:27. > :17:31.It looks like a crumpled wreck, but gradually every part of the last
:17:32. > :17:37.remaining Dornier 17 bomber is being brought back to life. 73 years on
:17:38. > :17:40.the sea bed have taken their toll. By the engine is beginning to look
:17:41. > :17:47.recognisable again. The barnacles and seaweed have been washed away by
:17:48. > :17:53.citric acid... Simple lemon juice. Cleaning the aircraft is an
:17:54. > :17:57.intensive job. Direct had been covered in 3.5 tonnes of sand and
:17:58. > :18:00.marine debris. Conservationists are making progress on the fusillade
:18:01. > :18:07.chip, but it will be at least two macro years before they can begin to
:18:08. > :18:12.rebuild it. We are trying to get this citric acid onto the metal. The
:18:13. > :18:20.problem is all of these accretions. It is like us are left by the sea
:18:21. > :18:25.life. -- a cement. We are trying to remove it with a tool softer than
:18:26. > :18:28.metal. It was lifted out of the English channel six months ago,
:18:29. > :18:32.virtually intact. The wings were later removed for the journey by
:18:33. > :18:38.road to the RAF Museum's conservation centre. It is thought
:18:39. > :18:43.the plane was shot down on the 26th of August, 1940. When it's wing tip
:18:44. > :18:49.hit the water, the bomber spun and tipped onto its back before sinking
:18:50. > :18:57.on the Goodwin Sands. Two of the crew survived, two died. The Dornier
:18:58. > :19:02.17 was a mainstay of the German fleet, attacking British cities in
:19:03. > :19:09.the battle of written. They went out of service in the mid-1940s, and it
:19:10. > :19:12.was thought that none have survived. The Dornier was nicknamed the flying
:19:13. > :19:17.pencil because of its narrow fusilade should. When you are
:19:18. > :19:21.crouching inside, you can see why. There would have been four
:19:22. > :19:27.crewmembers cramped inside this narrow space. Eventually it will be
:19:28. > :19:31.rebuilt here inside the museum's workshop. But for the moment, only a
:19:32. > :19:36.few pieces are ready to be worked on. Beth is one of the six
:19:37. > :19:43.apprentices who were involved in the intricate task of restoring each
:19:44. > :19:48.item once they are clean. This small strip of aluminium was found near
:19:49. > :19:53.the release system. The German instructions can still be seen. The
:19:54. > :19:58.idea would literally be to pick and flick the corrosion rather than
:19:59. > :20:03.against the artefact underneath. This oxygen cylinder is one of nine
:20:04. > :20:08.recovered from the plane, and looks as good as new. This has had about
:20:09. > :20:12.12 hours work on it. But there is plenty of work ahead, and funding to
:20:13. > :20:22.be found, before the plane will be ready to go on show at the RAF
:20:23. > :20:25.Museum in London. A hospital in Belfast declared a
:20:26. > :20:29.major incident last night because too many people were waiting to be
:20:30. > :20:32.seen in A At one stage, 42 patients were waiting on trolleys at
:20:33. > :20:34.the Royal Victoria after a big increase in the number of sick
:20:35. > :20:37.people attending the hospital. Staff described what they called
:20:38. > :20:39.horrendous scenes. The Belfast Trust said the situation was brought under
:20:40. > :20:45.control just before midnight. Andy Martin has more. Patients had to be
:20:46. > :20:50.redirected to three other hospitals last night. Staff at the Royal said
:20:51. > :20:54.they were at breaking point. 42 people were left on trolleys, and
:20:55. > :21:01.patients spilled over into other areas. It was pure Hell. It was
:21:02. > :21:08.something you would only see in poor countries. By 9pm, and major
:21:09. > :21:13.incident had been declared and staff answered calls to come in and help
:21:14. > :21:15.their colleagues. The Royal Victoria Hospital is Northern Ireland but
:21:16. > :21:24.that primary care centre. What is worrying staff is that what happened
:21:25. > :21:29.last night was not prompted by any sort of flu bug or virus. We know
:21:30. > :21:34.there are problems around staffing levels. There were problems with the
:21:35. > :21:41.yearling -- dealing with, for instance, a car crash. But Northern
:21:42. > :21:47.Ireland does has at -- have a greater number of emergency
:21:48. > :21:52.departments. So what caused this incident? The Belfast health trust
:21:53. > :21:58.says that on a normal night, 28% of those attending will be admitted.
:21:59. > :22:05.Last night the figure was over 40%. The Health Minister described it as
:22:06. > :22:11.a one off. We had an unreachable -- unusual number coming through. The
:22:12. > :22:16.situation was responded to. It is unfortunate for those who needed
:22:17. > :22:19.care and were in the Department. Two units shortened opening hours last
:22:20. > :22:22.weekend. Health officials will be keen to establish whether it
:22:23. > :22:31.contributed to last night's problems.
:22:32. > :22:34.Thousands of people are fleeing a city in South Sudan as government
:22:35. > :22:38.forces advance on the rebel-held town of Bentiu. The city, in an area
:22:39. > :22:41.which is rich in oil, has been held for the past couple of weeks by
:22:42. > :22:47.forces loyal to the country's former Deputy Prime Minister. Alastair
:22:48. > :22:50.Leithead reports. We are in the sense of Bentiu, a
:22:51. > :22:54.town controlled by rebel forces for two macro weeks. That could be
:22:55. > :23:00.changing. A lot of people have been racing to get out of here. The
:23:01. > :23:04.rebels have come back into town. Now we are here in a UN compound.
:23:05. > :23:09.Basically, hundreds of people overnight came to this compound to
:23:10. > :23:12.try to get help. We came down with the UN humanitarian coordinator. He
:23:13. > :23:16.brought these trucks. The idea was to pick up food in a warehouse on
:23:17. > :23:20.the far side of town and then to take it back to their camp. When
:23:21. > :23:25.they discovered all these people were here, they discovered they were
:23:26. > :23:29.the priority. Now women and children first are being loaded onto trucks,
:23:30. > :23:32.and then the men will come. They only have the possessions they have
:23:33. > :23:37.on them. Now they have to be taken back to the UN can. That is not as
:23:38. > :23:42.easy as it sounds. The rebels have drawn a line in town. The rebels are
:23:43. > :23:45.approaching up that road. This entire Convoy has to get up there
:23:46. > :23:49.quickly, before fighting starts between the sides. That is why I
:23:50. > :23:56.speed is very much of the evidence -- essence.
:23:57. > :24:01.At least 13 army recruits have been killed and more than 30 injured by a
:24:02. > :24:04.suicide bomber at a military compound in the Iraqi capital,
:24:05. > :24:07.Baghdad. They're thought to have been signing up for an operation to
:24:08. > :24:10.retake the city of Fallujah and other parts of Anbar province, which
:24:11. > :24:15.were overrun last week by insurgents with links to Al-Qaeda.
:24:16. > :24:19.At least five people have been killed in an explosion at a chemical
:24:20. > :24:22.factory in Japan. Police in the city of Yokaichi say 12 others have been
:24:23. > :24:25.injured. The plant, owned by Mitsubishi Materials, makes silicone
:24:26. > :24:29.products and car parts. The blast is said to have taken place during
:24:30. > :24:34.maintenance work. Electric buses that can drive or
:24:35. > :24:38.would they are set to begin service for the first time in the UK today.
:24:39. > :24:42.They will operate on a busy route it Milton Keynes. They can remain in
:24:43. > :24:49.service longer by virtue of wireless booster charge they receive at the
:24:50. > :24:53.start and end of the route. Morning in Milton Keynes, and the
:24:54. > :24:57.number seven is ready for a test run after a night of charging. It is one
:24:58. > :25:02.of eight new buses along the 15 mile route used by 800,000 passengers per
:25:03. > :25:06.year. Ordinarily such a legendary vehicles wouldn't last a day and
:25:07. > :25:12.would have to return to the depot for a lengthy charge. But these
:25:13. > :25:14.buses can keep on going, thanks to a booster charge they receive
:25:15. > :25:20.wirelessly at the start and end of their route from a device buried
:25:21. > :25:24.beneath the road. We have reached the end of the line. This is where
:25:25. > :25:31.the bus recharges. It all by means of an -- electric plate. This goes
:25:32. > :25:35.down to within four centimetres off the ground. A quick charge and we
:25:36. > :25:43.can hop back onto the bus and continue the service. Milton Keynes
:25:44. > :25:46.shopping Centre, please. This is the first of our exciting new electric
:25:47. > :25:53.buses. This is going to be an electric bus that recharges with no
:25:54. > :25:57.contact charging. The advantage of using an electric bus is that we can
:25:58. > :26:04.improve the carbon footprint of Milton Keynes. We wanted to be the
:26:05. > :26:09.first use of power in Milton Keynes. -- we want it. The new buses will be
:26:10. > :26:11.rolled out at the end of January. All anybody should notice is that
:26:12. > :26:20.the buses are a bit quieter than they used to be. We have seen plenty
:26:21. > :26:22.of extraordinary scenes like this in the past few days.
:26:23. > :26:25.After days of record breaking temperatures in the United States,
:26:26. > :26:28.forecasters say an end is in sight for many parts of the country, where
:26:29. > :26:31.temperatures have plunged well below zero for several days, including a
:26:32. > :26:34.town in Michigan called Hell, proving that Hell really can freeze
:26:35. > :26:41.over. From there here's Rajini Vaidyanathan.
:26:42. > :26:52.The road to Hell. This quaint hamlet in America's midwest has become an
:26:53. > :26:57.empty expanse after days of snow, wind and subzero conditions. It
:26:58. > :27:05.might look nice but it doesn't feel so good here in Hell. Temperatures
:27:06. > :27:13.are teeth chattering. At 12 degrees Fahrenheit, that is -11 Celsius. A
:27:14. > :27:18.few hours ago, it was even colder. This small town is covered in a
:27:19. > :27:28.blanket of snow. Helen is quite literally frozen over! -- Hell.
:27:29. > :27:32.Hardly anybody is willing to brave the weather. Nobody has got a taste
:27:33. > :27:37.for the cold right now so John has been forced to close his ice cream
:27:38. > :27:43.shop. When we hit 19 below zero, it has been 100 years since anything
:27:44. > :27:49.like that has happened here. We get some cold days, but not like we have
:27:50. > :27:52.had. Weather forecasters here in the US are blaming this bitterly cold
:27:53. > :27:58.spell on what is known as a polar vortex. Severe gusts of Arctic winds
:27:59. > :28:04.are bringing with them frighteningly cold temperatures. It will take some
:28:05. > :28:08.time for the piles of snow disappear. For now, many residents
:28:09. > :28:15.will continue to stay indoors. Others simply don't have a choice.
:28:16. > :28:22.Nothing like that coming our way, just a touch of Frost. Isn't that
:28:23. > :28:27.right, Peter? The weather is settling down nicely. This is the
:28:28. > :28:32.first day since the start of December with no weather warnings
:28:33. > :28:37.anywhere in the UK. Temperatures will fall away tonight. We may have
:28:38. > :28:41.some icy patches by the end of the night. Still lots of flood warnings
:28:42. > :28:44.in force as a result of all the wet weather over the last few weeks. But
:28:45. > :28:51.we are in a window of something more settled at the moment. For the rest
:28:52. > :28:55.of today and overnight, apart from a few showers and western areas, most
:28:56. > :28:58.places will stay dry. The cloud will continue to come and go. The
:28:59. > :29:05.temperatures will go up and down and to some extent. A touch of Frost
:29:06. > :29:09.almost anywhere in the latter part of the night. The lowest
:29:10. > :29:13.temperatures are likely in the North East of Scotland. Let's take a
:29:14. > :29:17.closer look around at 8am tomorrow. Still the odd shower drifting into
:29:18. > :29:21.the southwestern parts of England, but no great amount of rain coming
:29:22. > :29:25.out of them. Temperatures are still fairly close to freezing. The odd
:29:26. > :29:33.patch of Mr Rand is well over the hills. Watch out for some icy peak
:29:34. > :29:37.-- patches. Some patchy rain moving in, just fringing on to the western
:29:38. > :29:41.parts of Scotland. The north-east of Scotland has a sharp frost,
:29:42. > :29:46.potentially. Through tomorrow we see the area of rain creeping its way
:29:47. > :29:50.further east. It is going to be quite patchy. One or two heavy
:29:51. > :29:53.bursts in western Scotland, the hills of Wales, but the further east
:29:54. > :30:00.you are, the better your chance of staying dry. Relatively mild in the
:30:01. > :30:06.South still. Then the rain gradually pushes through Friday night into the
:30:07. > :30:12.early part of Saturday. A bit of Frost behind it as skies start to
:30:13. > :30:16.clear. Cold enough for some snow showers. Saturday is a lovely day,
:30:17. > :30:20.bright, crisp and blue skies for most of us. It is going to feel
:30:21. > :30:24.chilly but nothing out of the ordinary for the first part of
:30:25. > :30:29.January. Look out for a sharp frost on Saturday, though. Even in towns
:30:30. > :30:33.and cities, it will be below freezing. Much lower in rural spots.
:30:34. > :30:37.But the second half of the weekend, it starts fine, but you can see
:30:38. > :30:41.another weather system pushing our way. We will gradually find the wind
:30:42. > :30:45.increasing in western areas after chilly start on Sunday. Outbreaks of
:30:46. > :30:49.rain as well but most places get away with a try and find day, albeit
:30:50. > :30:54.on the chilly side. The rain, we need to watch. It is still rather
:30:55. > :30:59.soggy at the moment. need to watch. It is still
:31:00. > :31:04.At half past one, reminder of our main story: The aunt of Mark Duggan
:31:05. > :31:09.has urged no more violence and says there should be a peaceful fight for
:31:10. > :31:11.answers to his death. That is all from the News