:00:09. > :00:12.weather moves in. The Prince is meeting residents affected by the
:00:13. > :00:20.flooding for weeks as he joins the Government in promising more money
:00:21. > :00:23.to help victims. Hundreds of acres of land are still under water and
:00:24. > :00:26.more storms are being forecast for the next couple of days. We'll have
:00:27. > :00:30.the latest from the Somerset Levels. Also this lunchtime. The boss of BP
:00:31. > :00:37.voices concerns about the impact of an independent Scotland on the oil
:00:38. > :00:41.business. My personal view is Great Britain is great, and ought to stay
:00:42. > :00:44.together in my view. Exploring for shale gas. The fracking company
:00:45. > :00:49.Cuadrilla announces two new exploratory sites in Lancashire.
:00:50. > :00:53.Most councils in England are paying too little for home care. The
:00:54. > :00:56.findings of a BBC investigation. And a fisherman who's washed up on a
:00:57. > :01:04.Pacific island says he's been adrift at sea for more than year.
:01:05. > :01:11.Tube staff prepare to go on strike tonight unless a last-minute deal
:01:12. > :01:15.can be reached. And police released CCTV footage of a man wanted in
:01:16. > :01:30.connection of a man -- murder in Earls Court.
:01:31. > :01:34.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. Prince Charles is
:01:35. > :01:37.visiting flood-hit communities in Somerset this lunchtime and talking
:01:38. > :01:42.to residents, some of whom have now been cut off by flood waters for
:01:43. > :01:49.more than a month. The Prince is donating ?50,000 from a charitable
:01:50. > :01:53.to help victims of flooding. The Government has also announced that
:01:54. > :02:01.it's providing another ?300,000. Our correspodent Clare Marshall is in
:02:02. > :02:05.Somerset for us now. Yes, that cash is really good news and will provide
:02:06. > :02:09.short-term relief. There are still some real problems. Just around the
:02:10. > :02:13.corner, it's completely cut off, still, so there is the business of
:02:14. > :02:18.daily life to be got on with, like going to do your shopping, and to go
:02:19. > :02:22.to the doctor. This also some real issues coming up about contamination
:02:23. > :02:25.of the floodwater that is stagnant now. It's been sitting there for
:02:26. > :02:29.over a month by the Prince of Wales turned up about an hour ago, a group
:02:30. > :02:36.of schoolchildren came out to greet him, it was a very welcoming
:02:37. > :02:40.atmosphere. This is the scene awaiting Prince Charles today. The
:02:41. > :02:46.Somerset Levels are a long way from drying out. The first village on the
:02:47. > :02:53.itinerary. Now there is only one way in. Here, a warmer reception than
:02:54. > :02:58.the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson got last week. I hope it
:02:59. > :03:03.raises the profile of the Somerset Levels and the plight we are all
:03:04. > :03:09.going through. And he will be able to knock on some doors and just, you
:03:10. > :03:14.know, what we're going through, he has come down to see for himself. It
:03:15. > :03:17.definitely helps the profile and he's been very sympathetic down here
:03:18. > :03:20.and hopefully he will get the opportunity to say thank you to some
:03:21. > :03:25.of the people who've been working very hard on our behalf. In the
:03:26. > :03:31.village hall comedy met local councils and members of the
:03:32. > :03:36.emergency services. -- the prince met. Now it is an insight into how
:03:37. > :03:40.locals are coping with this local disaster. The fact is showing he
:03:41. > :03:45.cares about what people are going through is very relevant. You know,
:03:46. > :03:50.it could have sent a minion or something but he didn't. He came
:03:51. > :03:55.down in person. The volume of water is staggering, millions of gallons
:03:56. > :04:00.are still is fooling around. -- swilling around. This is the river
:04:01. > :04:04.and the farmland. It is flowing back in as soon as is its pumped out.
:04:05. > :04:10.This is the reality people hope Prince Charles will see. The storms
:04:11. > :04:14.have also battered other parts of the UK. Particularly hard-hit,
:04:15. > :04:18.Cornwall and Wales. It's been one winter storm after another. The
:04:19. > :04:21.temperature contrast has strengthened. The Jetstream has
:04:22. > :04:26.strengthened the Jetstream across the Atlantic. There's been a high
:04:27. > :04:29.number of storms this winter and further south than you would expect
:04:30. > :04:34.and there's no sign of the weather pattern changing for the next week
:04:35. > :04:41.or even two weeks. Today is just as valid to be calm and brief break in
:04:42. > :04:44.the weather. So the prince will be really experiencing how some people
:04:45. > :04:48.are dealt with getting about here this afternoon. He will be done in a
:04:49. > :04:52.boat, which are still operating, and also in a trailer on the back of a
:04:53. > :04:55.tractor. That is still how people are getting in and out of their
:04:56. > :05:02.homes. The question is, though, will he be drawn into the stormy question
:05:03. > :05:06.of dredging? Back to you. Thank you very much. The chief executive of BP
:05:07. > :05:08.has told the BBC that there are quite big uncertainties for the
:05:09. > :05:11.company if Scotland becomes independent. Bob Dudley said there
:05:12. > :05:14.was a question mark over which currency Scotland might adopt if
:05:15. > :05:17.there was a yes vote in September's referendum. He was speaking to our
:05:18. > :05:23.Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym who's with me now. A significant
:05:24. > :05:27.innovation? Indeed, so people is not many big companies have made a
:05:28. > :05:32.contribution to the Scottish independence debate. BP is a major
:05:33. > :05:36.operator in the North Sea. The biggest British operator in those
:05:37. > :05:41.fields. So Bob Dudley was unveiling as results today. He flagged up
:05:42. > :05:45.concerns that there wasn't any clarity, in his view, about which
:05:46. > :05:47.currency Scotland that would adopt and that was a concern to him and
:05:48. > :05:52.other businesses. Here's more of what he had to say. We have a lot of
:05:53. > :05:56.people in Scotland, a lot of investment in Scotland. I don't
:05:57. > :06:00.know, there's much debate about the currency, what would happen the
:06:01. > :06:05.currency and of course, connections with Europe and not. These are quite
:06:06. > :06:09.big uncertainties for us and, at the moment, we are continuing to invest.
:06:10. > :06:19.These projects are underway but it's a question. All businesses have a
:06:20. > :06:24.concern. My personal view is Great Britain is great, and a door to stay
:06:25. > :06:27.together, in my view. And quite striking there, he went on at some
:06:28. > :06:31.length and continue to answer questions I put to him, saying if
:06:32. > :06:35.Scotland's independent, BP would have to have two separate head
:06:36. > :06:40.offices and that would have cost imprecation. No sign of him backing
:06:41. > :06:45.away from the sensitive political issue. What has been the reaction
:06:46. > :06:47.politically? Alistair Darling has said he welcomes intervention and
:06:48. > :06:52.which is more businesses would do the same and Mr Dudley was right to
:06:53. > :06:55.be highlighting this uncertainty over the currency but, for the yes
:06:56. > :06:59.Scotland campaign, spokesperson said other businesses said they're quite
:07:00. > :07:02.relaxed about the issue of independence including some in the
:07:03. > :07:07.energy fields, so this shouldn't be regarded as speaking for a wider
:07:08. > :07:11.range of companies. The spokesperson also said, in their view, there were
:07:12. > :07:15.no problems over the currency and it would be negotiated if Scotland
:07:16. > :07:18.achieved independence. Thank you very much. The Energy firm Cuadrilla
:07:19. > :07:21.has revealed details of two new locations in Lancashire where it
:07:22. > :07:24.intends to carry out exploratory drilling for fracking. It plans to
:07:25. > :07:28.drill up to four wells each on sites near the villages of Elswick and
:07:29. > :07:35.Little Plumpton. Our Business Correspondent John Moylan is at
:07:36. > :07:39.Elswick. John, the reaction? Yeah, the reaction is pretty mixed,
:07:40. > :07:44.really, but it's big news, I guess, in this emerging world of the
:07:45. > :07:46.fracking industry in Britain and is the first time one of these
:07:47. > :07:51.companies have said, not only do they intend to drill, but they do
:07:52. > :07:55.intend to frack and use this controversial fracking process which
:07:56. > :07:59.is cause controversy in different parts of the world. Last year
:08:00. > :08:02.Elswick you talk about having sex site in Lancashire but today it was
:08:03. > :08:07.going to focus on two, but in each of those two site, they want to
:08:08. > :08:11.drill four Wells each. The importance of that is if we're going
:08:12. > :08:14.to have viable shale gas industry in the future, to make a difference to
:08:15. > :08:22.our energy bills, and these could be the sites will we get an idea of
:08:23. > :08:26.whether this will happen. The company has been leafleting local
:08:27. > :08:32.people. About 170 homes in the vicinity of the sites. They say they
:08:33. > :08:35.have had a positive response on the doorstep. The environmental groups
:08:36. > :08:40.are not positive, not happy about this. Greenpeace told us today
:08:41. > :08:43.public support for this is flagging. Opposition is mounting. Friends of
:08:44. > :08:48.the Earth also say plans will be met with stiff opposition by local
:08:49. > :08:57.people. If the go ahead, it could be fracking in black usher --
:08:58. > :09:01.Lancashire by next year. John, thank you very much. An inquest has opened
:09:02. > :09:04.into the death of a female military police officer who was found hanged
:09:05. > :09:10.after saying she had been raped by two fellow Royal Military Police.
:09:11. > :09:17.Anne-Marie Ellement surge was being bullied by other soldiers and nobody
:09:18. > :09:21.believed her allegations. Anne-Marie Ellement was found dead in 2011.
:09:22. > :09:26.Following severe depression after claiming she'd been raped by two
:09:27. > :09:30.army colleagues. At today's inquest, her sister Sharon in the
:09:31. > :09:37.red skirt spoke briefly on the way in. A day of justice. Her other
:09:38. > :09:41.sister Katrina also stopped. Why was she bullied? Why didn't she get the
:09:42. > :09:44.care that she needed? When she joined the army, you know, they were
:09:45. > :09:50.supposed to look after her, just like she was giving them everything
:09:51. > :09:54.she could possibly do. The inquest heard from members of the Royal
:09:55. > :09:57.Military Police. In particular, from a female corporal who was the
:09:58. > :10:02.girlfriend of one of the men accused of raping Anne-Marie Ellement. The
:10:03. > :10:04.corporal, can't be named for legal reasons, spoke of learning about
:10:05. > :10:10.boyfriend had had sex with Anne-Marie Ellement. The corporal
:10:11. > :10:14.said when she heard that she felt anger, frustration and upset towards
:10:15. > :10:22.Anne Marie. She also said it was possible that she called Anne Marie
:10:23. > :10:24.a slag and would make her life hell and make a paper watches done. The
:10:25. > :10:28.coroner then ask the corporal whether she called Anne-Marie
:10:29. > :10:35.Ellement names? The corporal denied it and the coroner said, it did you
:10:36. > :10:41.say to her you're the girl who cried rape? The corporal denied it and
:10:42. > :10:44.said it was not true. The family of Anne-Marie Ellement said that
:10:45. > :10:48.Corporal and others bullied her in the months before she took her own
:10:49. > :10:52.life. They also say the army didn't provide an Marie with support after
:10:53. > :10:59.the alleged rape. Something the Army deny. Being quest continues. The row
:11:00. > :11:06.over alleged vote rigging by the Unite union in Falkirk has been
:11:07. > :11:09.reignited. An internal Labour Party report has been leaked which
:11:10. > :11:12.concludes that there is no doubt that union members were recruited to
:11:13. > :11:15.the Labour Party in Falkirk without their knowledge. But Unite says
:11:16. > :11:17.there's no evidence to support the fresh allegations. They are
:11:18. > :11:24.demanding an independent inquiry. Our Political Correspondent Ben
:11:25. > :11:28.Wright reports. It's been a long and bitter fight between Labour and its
:11:29. > :11:32.biggest trade you a back, Unite. Last summer, Labour halted a
:11:33. > :11:35.selection of its Parliamentary candidate for Falkirk amid
:11:36. > :11:39.allegations the contest is being fixed by Unite. An internal enquiry
:11:40. > :11:44.was launched and the party's leader Ed Miliband said it was a sort of
:11:45. > :11:46.machine politics he wanted to end. Unite has denied doing anything
:11:47. > :11:51.wrong and the report was never published but now, it has been
:11:52. > :11:54.leaked to the Guardian newspaper. The 20 page report concludes that
:11:55. > :12:02.new members were recruited without their knowledge. They were pressured
:12:03. > :12:04.into competing direct debit forms by Unite. And members were recruited in
:12:05. > :12:10.an attempt to manipulate party processes. But Unite called the
:12:11. > :12:13.leaked report a stitch up and a union backed candidate forced to
:12:14. > :12:16.quit the Falkirk selection race said none of the allegations were
:12:17. > :12:21.supported by the evidence. As far as I'm concerned, we have a new
:12:22. > :12:26.candidate, and we are campaigning for a Labour victory at the next
:12:27. > :12:30.election. For months, Labour has refused to publish its report into
:12:31. > :12:34.the Falkirk selection saga but today it appears, in a newspaper, just as
:12:35. > :12:38.the party's National executive meets to discuss changes to Labour's
:12:39. > :12:43.century-old link to the unions, if the plan was agreed and future trade
:12:44. > :12:47.unionists were to choose to become individual members of the Labour
:12:48. > :12:53.Party. Instead of dealing with numbers of levy paying members,
:12:54. > :12:59.which were pushed around as if they were just numbers on a piece of
:13:00. > :13:02.paper, actual individuals will now be attached to each local
:13:03. > :13:06.constituency party. The plan pushed forward by Ed Miliband will to the
:13:07. > :13:09.process for electing Labour leader scrapped and replaced with one
:13:10. > :13:15.member, one vote, but the Tories are unimpressed. They simply do not
:13:16. > :13:18.remove the unions, Unite in particular, who have given ?10
:13:19. > :13:22.million to Ed Miliband since it became leader. It doesn't remove
:13:23. > :13:26.them from the process, the setup, and this means more power to the
:13:27. > :13:30.unions. The facts of what happened in Falkirk are still fiercely
:13:31. > :13:32.disputed, but a new arrangement between Labour and the unions will
:13:33. > :13:38.probably be the result. Our Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith
:13:39. > :13:44.is in Westminster. How damaging is this report? Sophie, at one level it
:13:45. > :13:49.is damaging. Today is more about dragon slaying, or the appearance of
:13:50. > :13:57.it, with Ed Miliband smiting the over mighty union powers, because
:13:58. > :14:02.surely an extraordinary coincidence that, on the very day Labour's
:14:03. > :14:07.national executive committee meet to consider the union reforms, Mr
:14:08. > :14:10.Miliband put together in the wake of Falkirk, this reporter drops from a
:14:11. > :14:14.clear blue sky, after being locked away for months, enabling Ed
:14:15. > :14:21.Miliband to metaphorically point to it and say, there is the Dragon of
:14:22. > :14:23.union power I come to smite. And that certainly is the view of the
:14:24. > :14:28.unions themselves who believe the supporters been leaked by those
:14:29. > :14:35.around Ed Miliband, to strengthen his case for reform. Albeit Mr
:14:36. > :14:39.Miliband's people deny it. Not only other forms likely to be approved by
:14:40. > :14:44.the NEC, the unions themselves are remarkably relaxed about them. Some
:14:45. > :14:48.of Ed Miliband's critics wonder if this really was the big shake-up of
:14:49. > :14:57.the unions, surely they would be putting up a much bigger fight?
:14:58. > :15:01.Thank you very much. Most local authorities in England are paying
:15:02. > :15:04.less for home care than the recommended amount. The BBC has
:15:05. > :15:15.found four councils out of more than 100 who responded paid more than the
:15:16. > :15:21.?15 per hour suggested. Janet pickles provides much more
:15:22. > :15:24.than tea to Dennis. The carer gives the widower much-needed support,
:15:25. > :15:31.including important freedom to stay at home. We are friends, think it is
:15:32. > :15:41.true to say now, and I welcome her visits. We talk sensibly most of the
:15:42. > :15:47.time! And it is companionship. Dennis pays for his care so the
:15:48. > :15:51.company employing Janet can charge and what they think is a fair price
:15:52. > :15:54.for decent care. But for the many agencies providing care at home to
:15:55. > :15:59.around half a million people in England, they are being paid by
:16:00. > :16:04.local authorities and the situation is very different. The UK Homecare
:16:05. > :16:10.Association calculates councils should pay a minimum of ?15.19 per
:16:11. > :16:17.hour for decent care. But using Freedom of Information requests,
:16:18. > :16:21.Radio 4's programme found just four out of 116 councils were paying at
:16:22. > :16:28.least that figure. Three were paying less than ?10 per hour. This company
:16:29. > :16:31.refuses to bid for council contracts. It is impossible to
:16:32. > :16:36.deliver quality care for the hourly rate being offered. We have to cut
:16:37. > :16:41.to the corners, cram into vehicles, and that is not acceptable. Local
:16:42. > :16:44.authorities say they have had huge budget cuts in recent years and
:16:45. > :16:55.spending on local care has been reduced. It is up to each council to
:16:56. > :16:59.decide how they spend the money. And you can hear more about that
:17:00. > :17:05.story in the Radio 4 programme this evening at 8pm.
:17:06. > :17:10.Our top story this lunchtime, with more storms on the way, Prince
:17:11. > :17:12.Charles visits flood hit communities in Somerset and joined the
:17:13. > :17:18.Government in promising more money to help it ends.
:17:19. > :17:21.And still to come, a warning that batteries in mobile phones and
:17:22. > :17:26.cameras could be a fire risk on board planes.
:17:27. > :17:30.Later on BBC London, the family of this Luton man who died in police
:17:31. > :17:37.custody demand answers over his death.
:17:38. > :17:38.And a surprise win for Chelsea, as they beat Manchester City on home
:17:39. > :17:49.soil. It is the world's most popular
:17:50. > :17:53.social networking site, one of the greatest internet success stories of
:17:54. > :17:57.all time, and today, Facebook is celebrating its 10th birthday. It
:17:58. > :18:02.was created by a student in his bedroom at Harvard and now more than
:18:03. > :18:06.750 million people use it everyday. But the road to success has been far
:18:07. > :18:13.from smooth and some question how long it will survive.
:18:14. > :18:19.Status update - it is my birthday. After ten years of posting, poking
:18:20. > :18:22.and sharing, Facebook now has more than a billion users. It has brought
:18:23. > :18:27.people together all over the world and finally it is making lots of
:18:28. > :18:32.money. It does it by using your personal information, your likes,
:18:33. > :18:37.which is how it sells advertising. Facebook office last year were $1.5
:18:38. > :18:41.billion. I think people have slowly realise we are the product, and that
:18:42. > :18:45.is slightly disconcerting. That actually the information we are
:18:46. > :18:50.supplying is what is keeping this going, creating the advert revenue,
:18:51. > :18:54.the sales, the shares. More and more people are realising that and
:18:55. > :18:59.feeling more uneasy, possibly leaving for that reason. This is
:19:00. > :19:03.Facebook's London headquarters. Protecting people's data and
:19:04. > :19:07.ensuring privacy has become a key issue. Last year they admitted they
:19:08. > :19:09.had received almost 10,000 requests from American government agencies to
:19:10. > :19:16.access people's personal information. It is important people
:19:17. > :19:21.know they are in charge of their data and privacy, so we create the
:19:22. > :19:26.framework within which people can do this. Are you talking to government
:19:27. > :19:30.spy agencies? I am not talking to any government agencies... We work
:19:31. > :19:34.very closely with governments around the world and there are requests
:19:35. > :19:37.from time to time which we have published and shared with you, and
:19:38. > :19:41.you have all of that information. We would like government is to be more
:19:42. > :19:44.open about the information they are cresting because, at the heart of
:19:45. > :19:48.it, the most important thing for us, as I have said, is to co-operate and
:19:49. > :19:54.make sure our users are very confident in the platform and how we
:19:55. > :19:59.protect their data. The content on Facebook can be banal, profound,
:20:00. > :20:03.heart-warming, sometimes deeply offensive. Some of it is so
:20:04. > :20:08.offensive, like videos of beheading, that we cannot show it. So what
:20:09. > :20:12.responsibility does Facebook have for the material that people choose
:20:13. > :20:19.to post? Is it ever acceptable, for example, to see videos of people
:20:20. > :20:23.being beheaded? I think we have to understand what Facebook is setting
:20:24. > :20:27.out to do, and we are very simple in that we are a mission -based
:20:28. > :20:31.company, and our mission is to make the world more open and connected
:20:32. > :20:34.and allow people to share information. Anything? To share
:20:35. > :20:42.information that is relevant to them. But like beheading?! For
:20:43. > :20:45.people to share information that is important to them. There are some
:20:46. > :20:52.people, like the Prime Minister, who think that action is irresponsible.
:20:53. > :20:57.There may be a minefield of privacy and content worries for Facebook on
:20:58. > :21:03.its 10th birthday, but has proved remarkably enduring and profitable
:21:04. > :21:08.and is now an essential part of day-to-day life. British military
:21:09. > :21:12.advice was given to the Indian authorities ahead of the 1984
:21:13. > :21:15.massacre of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, but it had a limited
:21:16. > :21:20.impact on the operation, which resulted in up to 3000 deaths.
:21:21. > :21:26.That is what a UK government investigation has found. Documents
:21:27. > :21:31.published last month suggested and SAS officer had ordered for the
:21:32. > :21:34.attack inside the Golden Temple. In a Commons statement, William Hague
:21:35. > :21:39.said a review had concluded that additional advice had limited
:21:40. > :21:43.impact. The report finds that the nature of the UK's assistance was
:21:44. > :21:47.purely advisory, limited and provided to the Indian government at
:21:48. > :21:50.an early stage, that it had limited impact on the tragic events that
:21:51. > :21:54.unfolded at the Temple three month later. There was no link between the
:21:55. > :21:59.provision of this advice and defence sales, and that there is no record
:22:00. > :22:04.of the government receiving advance notice of the operation. Our
:22:05. > :22:08.political correspondent is in Westminster, and William Hague was
:22:09. > :22:12.speaking a short time ago. What did he say? He is still on his feet but
:22:13. > :22:15.very much stressing the sensitivity of events in Amritsar, which
:22:16. > :22:24.unleashed a wave of violence across India, and, as he put it, Sikhs
:22:25. > :22:27.still feel the pain. This was a very thorough investigation and the
:22:28. > :22:31.Cabinet Secretary looked at 23,000 documents. What he was trying to get
:22:32. > :22:34.to the bottom of was, why on earth was advice given on the storming of
:22:35. > :22:38.this temple? He says it was because they request was received and the
:22:39. > :22:43.British High Commissioner said it would be good for our relationship
:22:44. > :22:47.with India if we responded. He says a single UK military adviser went to
:22:48. > :22:51.India for about a week but he says his advice was that any storming of
:22:52. > :22:57.the temple should only be as a last resort, they should be an element of
:22:58. > :23:00.surprise to keep casualties to a minimum and helicopters should
:23:01. > :23:03.possibly be involved, and the UK government should not contemplate
:23:04. > :23:07.any more sort of assistance beyond that. So that is why they have
:23:08. > :23:11.concluded it was purely advisory and had a limited impact. But it is
:23:12. > :23:15.interesting, too, William Hague talking about the strong, positive
:23:16. > :23:18.relationship between the government and the Sikh community. He says this
:23:19. > :23:24.report should offer reassurance to them. There is a warning that at in
:23:25. > :23:28.mobile phones and cameras could be a fire risk on aeroplanes.
:23:29. > :23:32.That is according to the safety regulator. The Civil Aviation
:23:33. > :23:36.Authority says powerful lithium batteries can catch fire or explode
:23:37. > :23:40.if they developed a fault. Our transport correspondent's report
:23:41. > :23:43.contains some flashing images. They might be small but if they go
:23:44. > :23:59.wrong, they pack a hell of a punch. The average airliner will have
:24:00. > :24:06.hundreds of lithium batteries on-board, in our phones, laptops,
:24:07. > :24:10.cameras and tablets. It's very rare for them to end up like this. We
:24:11. > :24:16.forced these to fail by heating them up. But Britain's is safety watchdog
:24:17. > :24:20.has told the BBC it is especially concerned about people flying with
:24:21. > :24:25.untested counterfeit arteries bought online. Any fire on an aircraft is a
:24:26. > :24:30.serious incident and it can result in the loss of an aircraft. That is
:24:31. > :24:34.why it is so important a very stringent international safety
:24:35. > :24:39.standards are adhered to. When you saw how dramatic that was, it was a
:24:40. > :24:45.normal laptop artery. There is the before... And there is no after. It
:24:46. > :24:48.has completely disintegrated. Just imagine something like that
:24:49. > :24:53.exploding on an aircraft. And batteries have already gone wrong.
:24:54. > :24:58.In April 2012, a flight attendant on the US aircraft described a shooting
:24:59. > :25:01.fire in the aisle from a passenger's burning battery. They
:25:02. > :25:06.managed to put it out with wet towels from the drinks cart. In
:25:07. > :25:12.September, another flight attendant and two passengers were burnt
:25:13. > :25:16.dealing with an overcoat overheating -- overheating phone. There have
:25:17. > :25:23.been similar incidents around the world. The standard procedure for
:25:24. > :25:29.dealing with this is as follows... This training video is about to go
:25:30. > :25:34.online so that airport workers and passengers understand the risks.
:25:35. > :25:39.Still, one testing expert is keen to dampen fears. Most batteries go
:25:40. > :25:42.through an extensive quality control process. And although they are
:25:43. > :25:46.putting working to increasing the capacity of these batteries, they
:25:47. > :25:50.will continue doing work on improving the safety mechanisms
:25:51. > :25:55.built into them. If you are flying with lithium batteries, the
:25:56. > :25:59.regulators advise you to take up any exposed metal connectors or put it
:26:00. > :26:08.in a plastic bag. And always carry them in your hand luggage. 2013 was
:26:09. > :26:13.the safest year in aviation history. But the threat from fire remains as
:26:14. > :26:17.great as ever. A fisherman who was washed up in a
:26:18. > :26:21.boat on an island in the Pacific says he has spent more than a year
:26:22. > :26:27.adrift at sea. The man thought to be from El Salvador says he is survived
:26:28. > :26:30.by drinking turtle fish and birds with his bare hands. The man told
:26:31. > :26:35.officials he had set out from Foucault on a shark fishing trip in
:26:36. > :26:42.December 2012 but was blown out to sea. -- set out on a shark fishing
:26:43. > :26:47.trip. Unsteady on his feet and helped by a
:26:48. > :26:52.nurse, Jose Salvador Albarengo steps of the vote and towards a waiting
:26:53. > :26:58.ambulance. He was lost at sea for 13 months, drifting across the Pacific,
:26:59. > :27:02.exposed to the elements. Other than a swollen ankles and a weak immune
:27:03. > :27:06.system, his health is said to be good. After medical checks, he spoke
:27:07. > :27:31.about the moment he was washed ashore on a coral.
:27:32. > :27:41.This is how Jose Salvador Albarengo has told his story. He set out from
:27:42. > :27:46.a village in Mexico, the vote was blown out to sea, and then an 8000
:27:47. > :27:48.mile ordeal in which he says a teenage fisherman with him died.
:27:49. > :27:53.After being rescued on the Marshall Islands, she said thoughts of his
:27:54. > :27:58.family had kept him going. His sister says their mother never gave
:27:59. > :28:03.up hope he was still alive. Individual in Mexico where he
:28:04. > :28:09.worked, a former employer has confirmed he set off on a local boat
:28:10. > :28:14.in late 2012. -- in the village in Mexico. He was presumed drowned. It
:28:15. > :28:20.is thought a new world record for the biggest wave ever surfed was set
:28:21. > :28:24.on Sunday by a plumber from the UK. 34-year-old Andrew Cotton rode the
:28:25. > :28:28.80 foot wave off the Portuguese coast. He will have to wait until
:28:29. > :28:31.May for confirmation he has definitely broken the record but he
:28:32. > :28:37.described the experience as very intimidating, PR and far from
:28:38. > :28:41.perfect. -- people. Time for the weather.
:28:42. > :28:50.Hello. We have more pressure of waiting to unleash some wins and
:28:51. > :28:55.very, very heavy rain. Many of us will see some decent sunny spells
:28:56. > :28:59.this afternoon as we go through. So let's take a closer look. For
:29:00. > :29:03.Scotland, a few showers here generally moving to the north-east
:29:04. > :29:07.of the country as we head to the afternoon. Showers reasonably well
:29:08. > :29:14.scattered so some sunny spells here as well. Should stay dry in Northern
:29:15. > :29:18.Ireland and the same, too, across much of England and Wales. In the
:29:19. > :29:22.sunshine, temperatures in London peaking at around 10 degrees. The
:29:23. > :29:26.winds. To ramp up across the south-west of England and we are
:29:27. > :29:32.looking at the next storm system coming in off the Atlantic. This is
:29:33. > :29:41.the storm system as we have been monitoring it for a few days. Very
:29:42. > :29:45.deep, low pressure. It spells out more severe gales and heavy rain,
:29:46. > :29:50.not that we need any more of that. This evening, we will see the winds
:29:51. > :29:54.gusting to 70 or 80 miles an hour as our band of rain spirals northwards
:29:55. > :29:58.into Scotland by the end of the night. It will technically be a mild
:29:59. > :30:01.kind of night but it is the wind and rain that will cause fairly big
:30:02. > :30:06.concerns over the next few days. The winds will be at their strongest as
:30:07. > :30:11.they head across the English coast on Wednesday. More wet weather
:30:12. > :30:16.spiralling in here over Dorset. And we will probably have picked up
:30:17. > :30:19.another 22 for 30 millimetres of rainfall, bringing more localised
:30:20. > :30:22.flooding and the wet weather spiralling into Northern Ireland.
:30:23. > :30:26.Scotland still cold enough for some snow over the tops of the mountains.
:30:27. > :30:31.So the impact we could see is trees being blown over by 60 mile an hour
:30:32. > :30:34.gusts inland, the risk of flooding from rain and dangerous conditions
:30:35. > :30:40.around the coastline, with large and battering waves pounding the shores.
:30:41. > :30:43.As we head into Thursday, a quiet spell of weather, with the overnight
:30:44. > :30:48.rain clearing into Scotland, but then another area of low pressure
:30:49. > :30:52.moving up from the South in the afternoon bringing with it more
:30:53. > :31:00.rain. So, another 20 to 30 millimetres of rain with this. As we
:31:01. > :31:05.go through Thursday evening, it is a spec -- it is expected to move
:31:06. > :31:10.northwards. A stormy spell of weather with no sign of it ending
:31:11. > :31:13.any time soon. As we go into the weekend, another deep area of low
:31:14. > :31:14.pressure bringing gales and severe gales and more heavy rain on the
:31:15. > :31:23.way. A reminder of our main story -
:31:24. > :31:28.Prince Charles has visited flood hit communities in Somerset and prompted
:31:29. > :31:31.the government to give more money to help victims. There will be more on
:31:32. > :31:32.that through the