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unlawful killing. Mark Duggan's death sparked the summer riots in | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
2011. His aunt calls for no more violence but says she will continue | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
fight for peaceful answers. The not so merry Christmas for some | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Britain's biggest retailers as figures reveal a large fall in | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
sales. The bodies of four US servicemen are removed from a crush | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
sit-in Norfolk after their helicopter came down on Tuesday | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
night. A major incident is declared at an AMD unit in Belfast because of | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the huge backlog of patients. Staff described horrendous scenes. Nearly | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
300 flood warnings and alerts still in place across the UK as the water | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
just keeps on rising. Later on BBC London, emotional scenes as ten fire | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
stations across London close for good and the Met's efforts to build | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
trust with London's vacuum unit is following the inquest into Mark | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
Duggan's death. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:06. | :01:27. | |
BBC News At One. The ant of Mark Duggan, the man whose fatal shooting | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
by police two and a half years ago sparked the summer riots, says she | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
doesn't want any more violence, but Carole Duggan says a peaceful fight | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
for answers will continue. An inquest into his death concluded | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
yesterday that it was a lawful killing. This morning the Prime | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Minister said he respected Carole Duggan for pursuing the case through | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
the courts rather than on the streets. The header of the | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Metropolitan Police Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe set has been meeting | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
community leaders to discuss ways of rebuilding confidence in the police. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
After the verdict the social should -- the soul-searching has begun. The | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
inquest into Mark Duggan's killing may have indicated the Metropolitan | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Police but it hasn't helped improve its relations with many black | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Londoners. Today, the capital's Mayor urged people to put matters in | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
perspective. Well, I hope that underscores for us in London is the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
massive restraint of our police in the way that they handle the use of | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
force. 10,000 times in the last four years they have been out on armed | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
deployments. Only on six occasions have they fired their weapons. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Split-second decisions are called for by our police and of course they | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
are much more difficult if somebody is carrying a lethal weapon. There | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
have been a total of 25 fatal police shooting is in a decade. 19 of them | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
found by inquests like Mark Duggan's to be lawful. Police can | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
fire at someone if they have and honestly held and reasonable belief | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
that they are a threat to life. And they are instructed to shoot to | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
stop, that means firing into the upper body. This police exercise | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
shows a hard stop as it should be carried out. According to officers | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
they follow the same correct procedures in the case of Mark | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Duggan. When police shot down the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby in | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Woolwich last year, a camera caught the split-second decisions in play. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
And more and more forces are planning to fit video cameras to | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
officers, so there is an accurate record. I will not be able to roll | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
out cameras to all firearms officers overnight but by the 1st of April we | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
want to test body cameras are not some of our firearms operations | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
because we have nothing to hide, we want to be transparent and if we can | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
help everyone have greater confidence by having those video | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
cameras there, that can only help, can't it? In Tottenham, scene of the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
riots, a vigil for Mark Duggan is to be held this weekend. Community | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
leaders have had talks with the Met's commissioner. We have just | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
looked at the best way forward to ensure that the concerns that the | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
family genuinely have about the verdict can be expressed in an | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
effective fashion at the vigil this weekend. In the short-term police | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
hope things will stay calm. Building trust among many black Londoners | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
will take much longer. Our legal correspondent Clive | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Coleman is here with me now. Mark Duggan's and saying she is going to | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
continue a peaceful fight for answers. What options are open to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
her? The difficult and complex because there is no right to appeal | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
the conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the decision was irrational. What you can do is seek to appeal the | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
conclusion of an inquest jury. You can't do that on the basis that the | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
decision was irrational. What you can do with Sita judicially review | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
the inquest. Now, under our system what you would have to argue is that | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
the coroner, because the judicial review was a mechanism for | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
challenging the decisions of public bodies, a jury is not a public body, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
it is a collection of citizens doing their civic duty. You can challenge | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the way in which he handled the inquest, the way in which he | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
directed the duty -- the jury, arguing that there was an extent | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
that no reasonable jury properly directed could have reached that | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
decision. Now, that has happened in the past. It is unusual, it is | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
difficult, but there have been successful challenges. If fresh | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
evidence were to come to light than the attorney general can go back to | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
the High Court and seek to have the jury conclusion quashed. We saw that | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in relation to the independent panel that looked at the Hillsborough | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
disaster. The attorney went back and got not achieved. Clive, thank you | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
very much. Some of Britain's biggest retailers have seen a sharp fall in | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
sales after what has been described as a very challenging Christmas. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Tesco and Marks and Spencer both struggled but it was Morrison's that | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
fared the worst as difficult market conditions pushed sales down by | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
5.6%. There is our business correspondent Emma Simpson. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
They are free of Britain's biggest retailers and today they are all | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
reporting poor Christmas sales. At Marks and Spencer it -- its food did | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
very well but there was another slump in women's clothing, despite a | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
revamp and a new much talked about autumn winter collection. Sales in | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
general merchandise were down just over 2% in the last three months. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Food is delivering and closing isn't and the furniture is doing quite | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
well so clothing must be doing even worse. Very, very disappointing. M | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
is a great brand, still a very strong company, still plenty of | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
scope to turn it around but there is no sign it is happening yet. M say | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
sales in women's clothing improved in the run-up to Christmas and that | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
will give the boss Mark Bonner and some breathing space. He insisted | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
again today that turning things around at this high-street giant | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
will take time. It's also taking time at Tesco. Britain's biggest | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
supermarket is battling to revive its fortunes, with new stores like | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
this want try to woo shoppers. It's Christmas figures to our | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
disappointing. With sales down 2.4%. Tesco's online business did far | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
better, with double-digit growth. Christmas has proved that having a | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
strong digital services key for most retailers. Morrison's aren't online | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
yet. It's had a miserable Christmas. A time when the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
supermarkets should be doing a roaring trade, in an unscheduled | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
update today it reveals its sales had fallen by more than 5%, a real | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
festive shop. Morrisons' numbers are dire and they will use part of the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
excuses them not being online and that is certainly some of the story, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
not being online erodes your growth but this is a more fundamental | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
problem of a company that essentially has lost its way in | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
terms of positioning. Three Christmas losers. It shows that | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
household budgets are still being squeezed and that the high street is | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
more crowded and competitive than ever. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Well, it's a very different story for the luxury car-maker | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Rolls-Royce. It set a new sales record for the fourth year in a | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
row. 3630 cars were bought in 2013. Sales were up 17% in the Middle East | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
and 11% in China, 100 new jobs are being created by the company at its | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
factory in Goodwood in West Sussex. Well, this morning the chance to -- | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
the Chancellor George Osborne repeated his view that Britain's | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
economic recovery is not yet secure and there was still more to do. I am | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
the first to say this economic recovery is not yet secure. We have | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
to work through the long-term economic plan that is turning | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Britain around and we need to make sure that we get balanced growth | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
across the whole country and we get investment and exports alongside | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
consumer spending and that is exactly what our economic plan is | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
designed to deliver. The Chancellor speaking earlier this morning. Our | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
chief economic correspondent Hugh Pym is here. It is a very mixed | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
picture, isn't it? Indeed I don't think these retail numbers today | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
tell us the recovery of slowing down. I think it reinforces the | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
point that there is a battle going on on the high streets for the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
shoppers' pound and online as well and although Tesco and Morrison had | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
a very challenging Christmas, we earned yesterday that Waitrose had | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
sealed sales grow, Aldi and Lidl say they have had a record Christmas and | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
although M faced certain challenges we learned last week John | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Lewis has -- House of Fraser and next all saw sales growth although | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
high-street spending may not have grown overall very much it probably | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
did grow although consumers are little bit cautious. They are still | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
spending their money. Remember, retail money accounts for about one | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
third of overall household spending. We learn from Rolls-Royce, | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Rolls-Royce cars, they are booming, they are creating jobs through | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
exports, just the sort of recovery that many economists say we want, a | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
more balanced recovery, and although the Chancellor was sounding a note | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
of caution it looks as if the fourth quarter of last year did see pretty | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
robust growth and that looks likely to continue in 2014. | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
The government is holding another meeting of its emergency committee | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
COBRA this afternoon as floodwaters continued to rise. The number of | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
people who have died during the storms and floods over Christmas and | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
New Year has now risen to eight. Nearly 300 flood warnings or alerts | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
are still in place across Britain. Our correspondent Sarah Campbell is | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
in Sunbury-on-Thames in Surrey. Sarah. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Yes, the majority of those flood warnings suddenly the southern | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
England are along the banks of the River Thames and if you look behind | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
me you can certainly see why. To give you an idea of the depth, that | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
is the top of a park bench that you can see there and across the water | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
on the other side, there are no longer pathways because they are all | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
under three feet of water. A shopping expedition to buy | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Sunbury's must have clothing, a pair of waders. I take it and go. The | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
houses here are inches away from the water which now surrounds them. Two | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
women in their 90s were taken from the island by the Fire and rescue | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
services. Those that remain can only watch and wait. We are upstairs, so | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
not life-threatening danger but I don't know what will happen in the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
future. That is it, really, it is frightening for anyone who lives on | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the river. Across the swollen river some properties are now under water. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
So when did this war to start coming into your kitchen? This started | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
coming in at the beginning of the week and we can't see it ending at | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the moment as the river is rising and we have been told to expect | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
about another six inches but as you can see the pump is on most of the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
day and the night. Elsewhere the floodwaters have again proved fatal. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
In with them in Oxfordshire the police say a 73-year-old cyclist | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
fell from his bike on this road and was later pronounced dead in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
hospital. With water levels still rising in many areas I would ask the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
public to continue to take heed of the Environment Agency is warnings. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
We must remain vigilant and I will recharge -- I will be chairing a | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
further COBRA meeting this afternoon. The waters have provided | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
some unusual photo opportunities. Wake boarding in Downing Street. But | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
for those living in places like Ray Zebre in Berkshire, properties and | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
safety remain at risk. These are worrying times. Worrying times here | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
in southern England but also elsewhere. There four flood warnings | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
in Scotland and one in Wales. 140 properties have flooded there since | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
before Christmas and my colleague reports now from Newgale on the | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Pembrokeshire coast. Blue skies and a stiff breeze, | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
today, Newgale could hardly be more different to the explosive seas of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Monday. Force ten wins, high tide and torrential rain huddled the | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
coastline. It meant this serve shop got an awful lot closer to the surf. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
The biggest worry is when the shingle bank is gone, the protection | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
is gone, the waves can strike the front of the Chopin as you can | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
imagine a wave hitting lowdown on the front of shop can knock the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
front off and that is what happened 24 years ago. That is what I was | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
expecting. When that didn't happen and we only got a little bit of | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
flooding in the shop, I felt quite lucky. The clean-up is under way. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Machine take days to undo the damage done by mother nature in days. The | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
urgent review of flood defences announced by the Welsh government on | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Sunday is yet to get under way. No further information is expected this | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
afternoon. Repairing the damage she is fairly straightforward, just put | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
the stones back to where they used to be but other parts of the Welsh | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
coastline have seen some serious structural damage and councils here | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
say they can't afford to fix it. The Welsh government says it can't write | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
a blank cheque. The worst of the weather has certainly passed here | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
but the effects of these storms will be felt for a long time to come. | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
If there is a positive here in Sunbury-on-Thames, what people are | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
saying to me is the sense of community spirit. Everyone really | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
rallying around to help each other. But I have heard fierce criticisms | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
of the Environment Agency, saying people have had people have had | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
information too little too late and they all want to know when the | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
waters are going to subside. There is much more on the weather in | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
your area on our website. You can get detailed forecasts by entering | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
your [email protected] /weather. A senior U.S. Air Force officer has | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
paid tribute to the four American servicemen who died in Norfolk on | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Tuesday night when their helicopter came down during a training | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
exercise. The men's bodies are being recovered from the site today. | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
Investigators say it will be awhile before they can establish exactly | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
what happened. Black reports. They died in an exercise training how to | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
save others. Today, at the scene, there is increased activity. But the | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
bodies of the four men remain on site. Police say removing the bodies | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
will take several hours, and could take the rest of the day. The | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
problem is they want to make the process as dignified as possible for | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
the crew members who lost their lives. They also need to preserve | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
vital evidence. Here, senior officers said their colleagues had | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
paid the ultimate sacrifice. A lot of people who owe their lives to | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
them probably will have no idea. Families around the world this | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
morning, having breakfast with their sons, daughters and their family, | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
their motto is, these things we do that others may live. Investigators | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
say it is to way to speculate on the cause of the crash. Historically, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
this is an aircraft with an excellent safety record, but it | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
could be many months before we know the real reason as to what went so | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
tragically wrong. The time is just after a quarter | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
past one. The top story: At the family of Mark Duggan call for no | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
more violence and say they will take -- peacefully fight the inquest | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
verdict of a lawful killing. And what happens when Hell freezes over. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
Later on BBC London News: The rain keeps coming. 40 flood warnings or | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
-- along the Thames. And as London's air ambulance celebrates | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
its 25th anniversary, we spend a day with its life-saving crew. | :16:53. | :17:06. | |
For almost 75 years it lay undisturbed at the bottom of the sea | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
off the coast in Kent. But then, in June, what's thought to be the last | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
remaining German Dornier bomber from World War II was finally brought to | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
the surface. The aircraft, which was one of the mainstays of the German | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
bomber fleet during the Battle of Britain, is now being restored at an | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
RAF Museum in Shropshire. Sian Lloyd is there. | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
It looks like a crumpled wreck, but gradually every part of the last | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
remaining Dornier 17 bomber is being brought back to life. 73 years on | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
the sea bed have taken their toll. By the engine is beginning to look | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
recognisable again. The barnacles and seaweed have been washed away by | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
citric acid... Simple lemon juice. Cleaning the aircraft is an | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
intensive job. Direct had been covered in 3.5 tonnes of sand and | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
marine debris. Conservationists are making progress on the fusillade | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
chip, but it will be at least two macro years before they can begin to | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
rebuild it. We are trying to get this citric acid onto the metal. The | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
problem is all of these accretions. It is like us are left by the sea | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
life. -- a cement. We are trying to remove it with a tool softer than | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
metal. It was lifted out of the English channel six months ago, | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
virtually intact. The wings were later removed for the journey by | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
road to the RAF Museum's conservation centre. It is thought | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the plane was shot down on the 26th of August, 1940. When it's wing tip | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
hit the water, the bomber spun and tipped onto its back before sinking | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
on the Goodwin Sands. Two of the crew survived, two died. The Dornier | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
17 was a mainstay of the German fleet, attacking British cities in | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
the battle of written. They went out of service in the mid-1940s, and it | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
was thought that none have survived. The Dornier was nicknamed the flying | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
pencil because of its narrow fusilade should. When you are | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
crouching inside, you can see why. There would have been four | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
crewmembers cramped inside this narrow space. Eventually it will be | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
rebuilt here inside the museum's workshop. But for the moment, only a | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
few pieces are ready to be worked on. Beth is one of the six | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
apprentices who were involved in the intricate task of restoring each | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
item once they are clean. This small strip of aluminium was found near | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
the release system. The German instructions can still be seen. The | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
idea would literally be to pick and flick the corrosion rather than | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
against the artefact underneath. This oxygen cylinder is one of nine | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
recovered from the plane, and looks as good as new. This has had about | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
12 hours work on it. But there is plenty of work ahead, and funding to | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
be found, before the plane will be ready to go on show at the RAF | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
Museum in London. A hospital in Belfast declared a | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
major incident last night because too many people were waiting to be | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
seen in A At one stage, 42 patients were waiting on trolleys at | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
the Royal Victoria after a big increase in the number of sick | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
people attending the hospital. Staff described what they called | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
horrendous scenes. The Belfast Trust said the situation was brought under | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
control just before midnight. Andy Martin has more. Patients had to be | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
redirected to three other hospitals last night. Staff at the Royal said | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
they were at breaking point. 42 people were left on trolleys, and | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
patients spilled over into other areas. It was pure Hell. It was | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
something you would only see in poor countries. By 9pm, and major | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
incident had been declared and staff answered calls to come in and help | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
their colleagues. The Royal Victoria Hospital is Northern Ireland but | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
that primary care centre. What is worrying staff is that what happened | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
last night was not prompted by any sort of flu bug or virus. We know | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
there are problems around staffing levels. There were problems with the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
yearling -- dealing with, for instance, a car crash. But Northern | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Ireland does has at -- have a greater number of emergency | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
departments. So what caused this incident? The Belfast health trust | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
says that on a normal night, 28% of those attending will be admitted. | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Last night the figure was over 40%. The Health Minister described it as | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
a one off. We had an unreachable -- unusual number coming through. The | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
situation was responded to. It is unfortunate for those who needed | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
care and were in the Department. Two units shortened opening hours last | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
weekend. Health officials will be keen to establish whether it | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
contributed to last night's problems. | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
Thousands of people are fleeing a city in South Sudan as government | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
forces advance on the rebel-held town of Bentiu. The city, in an area | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
which is rich in oil, has been held for the past couple of weeks by | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
forces loyal to the country's former Deputy Prime Minister. Alastair | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Leithead reports. We are in the sense of Bentiu, a | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
town controlled by rebel forces for two macro weeks. That could be | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
changing. A lot of people have been racing to get out of here. The | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
rebels have come back into town. Now we are here in a UN compound. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Basically, hundreds of people overnight came to this compound to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
try to get help. We came down with the UN humanitarian coordinator. He | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
brought these trucks. The idea was to pick up food in a warehouse on | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
the far side of town and then to take it back to their camp. When | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
they discovered all these people were here, they discovered they were | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
the priority. Now women and children first are being loaded onto trucks, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
and then the men will come. They only have the possessions they have | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
on them. Now they have to be taken back to the UN can. That is not as | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
easy as it sounds. The rebels have drawn a line in town. The rebels are | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
approaching up that road. This entire Convoy has to get up there | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
quickly, before fighting starts between the sides. That is why I | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
speed is very much of the evidence -- essence. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
At least 13 army recruits have been killed and more than 30 injured by a | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
suicide bomber at a military compound in the Iraqi capital, | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Baghdad. They're thought to have been signing up for an operation to | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
retake the city of Fallujah and other parts of Anbar province, which | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
were overrun last week by insurgents with links to Al-Qaeda. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
At least five people have been killed in an explosion at a chemical | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
factory in Japan. Police in the city of Yokaichi say 12 others have been | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
injured. The plant, owned by Mitsubishi Materials, makes silicone | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
products and car parts. The blast is said to have taken place during | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
maintenance work. Electric buses that can drive or | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
would they are set to begin service for the first time in the UK today. | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
They will operate on a busy route it Milton Keynes. They can remain in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
service longer by virtue of wireless booster charge they receive at the | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
start and end of the route. Morning in Milton Keynes, and the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
number seven is ready for a test run after a night of charging. It is one | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
of eight new buses along the 15 mile route used by 800,000 passengers per | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
year. Ordinarily such a legendary vehicles wouldn't last a day and | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
would have to return to the depot for a lengthy charge. But these | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
buses can keep on going, thanks to a booster charge they receive | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
wirelessly at the start and end of their route from a device buried | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
beneath the road. We have reached the end of the line. This is where | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
the bus recharges. It all by means of an -- electric plate. This goes | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
down to within four centimetres off the ground. A quick charge and we | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
can hop back onto the bus and continue the service. Milton Keynes | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
shopping Centre, please. This is the first of our exciting new electric | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
buses. This is going to be an electric bus that recharges with no | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
contact charging. The advantage of using an electric bus is that we can | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
improve the carbon footprint of Milton Keynes. We wanted to be the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
first use of power in Milton Keynes. -- we want it. The new buses will be | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
rolled out at the end of January. All anybody should notice is that | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
the buses are a bit quieter than they used to be. We have seen plenty | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
of extraordinary scenes like this in the past few days. | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
After days of record breaking temperatures in the United States, | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
forecasters say an end is in sight for many parts of the country, where | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
temperatures have plunged well below zero for several days, including a | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
town in Michigan called Hell, proving that Hell really can freeze | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
over. From there here's Rajini Vaidyanathan. | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
The road to Hell. This quaint hamlet in America's midwest has become an | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
empty expanse after days of snow, wind and subzero conditions. It | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
might look nice but it doesn't feel so good here in Hell. Temperatures | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
are teeth chattering. At 12 degrees Fahrenheit, that is -11 Celsius. A | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
few hours ago, it was even colder. This small town is covered in a | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
blanket of snow. Helen is quite literally frozen over! -- Hell. | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
Hardly anybody is willing to brave the weather. Nobody has got a taste | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
for the cold right now so John has been forced to close his ice cream | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
shop. When we hit 19 below zero, it has been 100 years since anything | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
like that has happened here. We get some cold days, but not like we have | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
had. Weather forecasters here in the US are blaming this bitterly cold | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
spell on what is known as a polar vortex. Severe gusts of Arctic winds | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
are bringing with them frighteningly cold temperatures. It will take some | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
time for the piles of snow disappear. For now, many residents | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
will continue to stay indoors. Others simply don't have a choice. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Nothing like that coming our way, just a touch of Frost. Isn't that | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
right, Peter? The weather is settling down nicely. This is the | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
first day since the start of December with no weather warnings | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
anywhere in the UK. Temperatures will fall away tonight. We may have | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
some icy patches by the end of the night. Still lots of flood warnings | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
in force as a result of all the wet weather over the last few weeks. But | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
we are in a window of something more settled at the moment. For the rest | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
of today and overnight, apart from a few showers and western areas, most | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
places will stay dry. The cloud will continue to come and go. The | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
temperatures will go up and down and to some extent. A touch of Frost | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
almost anywhere in the latter part of the night. The lowest | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
temperatures are likely in the North East of Scotland. Let's take a | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
closer look around at 8am tomorrow. Still the odd shower drifting into | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
the southwestern parts of England, but no great amount of rain coming | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
out of them. Temperatures are still fairly close to freezing. The odd | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
patch of Mr Rand is well over the hills. Watch out for some icy peak | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
-- patches. Some patchy rain moving in, just fringing on to the western | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
parts of Scotland. The north-east of Scotland has a sharp frost, | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
potentially. Through tomorrow we see the area of rain creeping its way | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
further east. It is going to be quite patchy. One or two heavy | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
bursts in western Scotland, the hills of Wales, but the further east | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
you are, the better your chance of staying dry. Relatively mild in the | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
South still. Then the rain gradually pushes through Friday night into the | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
early part of Saturday. A bit of Frost behind it as skies start to | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
clear. Cold enough for some snow showers. Saturday is a lovely day, | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
bright, crisp and blue skies for most of us. It is going to feel | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
chilly but nothing out of the ordinary for the first part of | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
January. Look out for a sharp frost on Saturday, though. Even in towns | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
and cities, it will be below freezing. Much lower in rural spots. | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
But the second half of the weekend, it starts fine, but you can see | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
another weather system pushing our way. We will gradually find the wind | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
increasing in western areas after chilly start on Sunday. Outbreaks of | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
rain as well but most places get away with a try and find day, albeit | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
on the chilly side. The rain, we need to watch. It is still rather | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
soggy at the moment. need to watch. It is still | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
At half past one, reminder of our main story: The aunt of Mark Duggan | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
has urged no more violence and says there should be a peaceful fight for | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
answers to his death. That is all from the News | :31:10. | :31:11. |