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The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tomahawk cruise missiles, warplanes, and drones were used in the attacks, | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
which targeted several areas - including IS strongholds. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Reports of up to 50 killed in the attacks - Syria's foreign | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
ministry said its UN envoy was given advance warning. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
A tide of refugees continues to flee the fighting - we'll have the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
latest from the border between Syria and Turkey. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
We'll be getting reaction to those air strikes - and assessing the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
likelihood of future British involvement. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Ed Miliband's big day - as he prepares to outline his ten-year | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
plan to save the NHS and to rebuild the UK economy. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
New warnings on ebola - the World Health Organisation warns that | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
the number of cases could reach 20,000 by November. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Tesco delivers a new financial director as figures show its | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
And a seal of approval as thousands of sea animals return home to the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
aquatic centre damaged in last winter's storms. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
A woman and child have died after being hit by a train in Slough. | :01:15. | :01:44. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
For the first time, the United States - along with five | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Arab nations - has carried out air strikes against so-called Islamic | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
The Pentagon said fighter planes, bombers | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
and cruise missiles were all used to target several areas, including | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
One report said that up 50 people had been killed. | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
European states - including the UK - did NOT take part. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, reports. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a US warship in the Red Sea | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
targeting jihadist positions in Syria for the first time. This is a | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
major escalation in the US-led campaign against the so-called | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Islamic State. This was the aftermath on one | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
position in north-west Syria. The US says it's disrupted plans to attack | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Western interests, but at least 50 militants are reported to have been | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
killed. There are unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Islamic State has been continuing its media campaign. It's put up | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
another hostage video of a captive British journalist, speaking under | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
duress. Senior US politicians seem to call the Islamic State nasty | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
names, awful, vile, a cancer, an insult to our values. But such petty | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
insults don't really do much harm to the most powerful jihadist movement | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
seen in recent history. On the streets of the Iraqi capital, | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Baghdad, the air strikes drew a cautious welcome from some. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
TRANSLATION: Definitely, this pleases us. We want the US and | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Western countries to take part in striking strongholds of terrorists | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
and criminals who are trying to destabilise the situation, whether | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
they are in Syria or in Iraq. In Damascus, Syrian officials say | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
they were informed hours in advance by US Secretary of State, John | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Kerry, that the air strikes were coming. Five Arab states also took | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
part in some form, according to the US. It is not clear to what extent. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
The participation of Sunni Arab countries is significant, although | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
no-one knows how long this coalition will hold. Everybody can agree on | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
one thing. ISIS is a threat to every country in the region and from that | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
perspective, they have decided this is the number one threat. We will | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
get back to squabbling amongst ourselves after this has happened. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
For now, we need to deal with this. On the ground in northern Syria, the | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
battles continue. These are Kurdish fighters. Islamic State forces are | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
advancing. Kurdish refugees are fleeing. Air power alone will not | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
end this conflict. Our political correspondent, | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Ross Hawkins, is in Westminster. No British involvement yet? No | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
British involvement yet, but a statement from Downing Street within | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
the last ten minutes or so saying the Prime Minister supports these | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
air strikes. He is going to hold meetings at the United Nations in | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
New York to see what more the UK could do to tackle the threat from | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
ISIS. That doesn't necessarily mean extra military action. We know that | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Labour want a UN Security Council Resolution. We are told they are | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
seeking to bring together widespread international support for action | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
against the Islamic State, but it is not clear what position they would | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
take if they sought a resolution and failed to get it. There are plenty | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
unanswered questions. Will Parliament be recalled? You would | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
assume it would be if military action did go ahead and there was | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
that plan. How far will David Cameron go in his support for the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
American campaign? And to what extent Ed Miliband is prepared to | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
give him political backing? Thank you. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
The UN Refugee Agency says Turkey urgently needs help to care for | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
130,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border in recent days. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
It says this is the largest influx in such | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
a short period since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
It says it needs a contingency to deal with more than 400,000. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
The refugees are fleeing an advance by Islamic State | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
militants, who have seized parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Our correspondent Mark Lowen is on the Turkish-Syria border. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
How are they coping with this? Well, with great difficulty. Turkey had | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
over a million Syrian refugees on its territory before this recent | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
wave. It is now very overstretched. Many of the Syrian Kurdish refugees | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
had long called for air strikes to stop Islamic State advance and to | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
help them back to their homes. Most of them do not want to be here in | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Turkey. Now, they wait to see the fruits of that military campaign. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Age is no barrier when the desperation to flee is so strong. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
More arrive today, Syrian Kurds escaping the trauma of the Islamic | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
State advance on the city of Kobane. The youngest, terrified by the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
experience. Turkey is a safe haven under strain, struggling with over | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
130,000 refugees since last Friday. The new arrivals settle where they | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
can. Most border crossings have been closed as Turkey tries to stem the | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
flow. Those who fled welcome news of the air strikes on IS, hoping it | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
could allow them to return home at some point. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
TRANSLATION: The Americans must bomb because IS are killing us. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
This man was a teacher in Kobane, here since the weekend. He says | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
military action is a rare piece of good news. I feel happy. I am | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
grateful, I am joyful to America, to its partners. I am so happy. Could | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
the US and its allies have been spurred into this action by this | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
refugee influx and the advance of Islamic State towards Turkey? The | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
militants are close to the Turkey border, a vital NATO member. With | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
waves of people coming every day, perhaps that gave Washington the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
final push to strike. Humanitarian agencies have set up | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
medical facilities to deal with the crisis. New arrivals are vaccinated, | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
but many suffer from dehydration. Some have simply entered the world | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
as refugees. TRANSLATION: Nobody was expecting | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the war in Syria to last for three years. Nobody predicted more than | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
100,000 refugees would come here. If they keep coming, this crisis will | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
get worse. Yesterday we had two doctors here. Now we have six. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
The political tension continues, a stand-off between Turks and Kurds, | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
two people who fought a 30-year civil war here. The refugee wave has | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
brought hostility back to the surface. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
The military action they wanted has finally come. Can it halt this | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
crisis and the march of Islamic State? | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
Simon, Turkey declined to be part of the military-led coalition. It said | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
it would not allow its bases to be used for air strikes. It would | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
support the operation in a humanitarian capacity, but when it | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
made that pledge, it did not expect the sheer numbers to have come in | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
the space of the last five days. Thank you. | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, is here. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Looking at these air strikes, how surprising is that? We knew that | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
something like this was on the cards. The United States was | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
bullying a coalition. It was clear there would have to be strikes in | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Iraq and Syria where IS strongholds are, if there was going to be any | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
hope of degrading these extremists. What is interesting is that it is a | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
whole array of Sunni-Arab allies who have joined the US in the strikes. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
We don't know how much they are involved in the military action. It | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
has been an intensive night of strikes. Over 50 strikes across | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
northern and eastern Syria, so it is very dramatic. What it does do is | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
raise lots of questions. How effective is this going to be? | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Everyone was anticipating this, including the extremists, who it is | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
thought dispersed some of their fighters and equipment from their | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
strongholds in Raqqa, so how far has this night degraded them? How far | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
have there been civilian casualties? That raises the question, are there | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
going to be more? If this is going to be a sustained campaign, what | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
about the non-allies? Syria, Russia and Iran? We know they were | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
informed, all the foreign ministers at the United Nations. But if there | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
is a sustained campaign, how will they react? Thank you. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
And you can keep fully up-to-date with all | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
the developments throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Ed Miliband is putting health at the centre of a ten-year plan to | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
reverse the damage he says has been done by the Conservatives. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
The Labour Leader is about to deliver his last big | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Labour Party Conference Speech ahead of next year's general election. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Details are expected on a tax on expensive homes, a so-called mansion | :11:16. | :11:16. | |
tax - to fund NHS spending - as our political correspondent, Chris | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
There is no shortage of people here trying to drop ideas into Ed | :11:21. | :11:40. | |
Miliband's head. Passage checked and security negotiated, those will on | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
the front row will be smiling. He will be setting out Labour's vision | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
for the future. It will be a great speech. Ed's speeches are always | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
strong and powerful. It will be setting out - I can't tell you what | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
is going to be in it. So, those in the know like to tease and trade | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
union leaders chip in with what they would like to hear. He has to wear | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
trousers! He will talk to a much wider audience. British people have | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
to have a good look at him. He has to tell them I'm a decent, honest | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
man. When he makes it to the stage, what will we hear? We have borrowed | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
a pub campaign's bar game and added Ed Miliband's round of policies. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Half a dozen big themes form what Labour calls its plan for the next | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
ten years. The Conservatives say none of this would be possible if | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the economy is on its knees, as happened when Labour was last in | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Government. This is what the Conference Hall looks like before | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
the big speech. Ed Miliband will tell us you have made the | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
sacrifices, you know this country doesn't work for you. He know this | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
is is his last big speech before the general election. One thing looms | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
rather large here - next year. Come polling day, the power is in your | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
hands. Our health editor, Hugh Pym, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
is here. We keep hearing from Labour about | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
the NHS deficit. These proposals they are putting forward, are they | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
enough to plug that gap? Simon, many health experts have warned of a | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
looming funding gap in the next Parliament, after the general | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
election. In this Parliament, health spending on the NHS in England has | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
gone up above inflation, but it has not kept up with rising demand. The | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
NHS has had to make efficiency savings which have been achieved and | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
money put back into frontline services. Insiders around the NHS | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
are saying that can't continue for another five years. It does need | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
more public money. There has been some welcome for Ed Miliband, the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
political leaders saying this is what we do, we would raise tax here | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
on the mansion tax and maybe elsewhere and spend it on the NHS. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
To give you some idea of the scale of the challenge. The NHS spends | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
?113 billion a year at the moment in England. Some are saying there could | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
be a ?30 billion funding gap by 2020 if health spending is not increased | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
significantly above inflation. Those are the sort of big numbers that are | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
still being talked about. Thank you. Our assistant political editor, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
Norman Smith, is in Manchester. This is Ed Miliband's big moment, he | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
needs to galvanise the troops? It is a big moment, Simon. The clear hope | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
of those around Mr Miliband is that by pledging more cash for the NHS, | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
creating tens of thousands of new jobs, that will prove as iconic and | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
as popular a policy as his pledge last year to freeze energy prices. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
The hope will be that it will motivate Labour supporters and it is | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
evident that Mr Miliband is determined to put the NHS at the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
centre of their election campaign. Why? They believe the Government is | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
vulnerable on the NHS, because of anxiety over waiting times, the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
pressure on A and lingering unhappiness over the NHS reforms. | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
They also point to the Scottish independence referendum where they | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
say the SNP managed to garner a lot of support by saying only they could | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
protect the NHS. It's a stance that has risks and the risk is that this | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
will be seen as a defensive move, Labour back in its comfort zone | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
playing on home territory. The NHS has always been Labour and a Labour | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
issue. And the hope of the Conservatives is that this will be | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
seen as a reluctance in Labour circles to take them on over the | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
economy. Thank you. The US and five Arab allies have | :15:41. | :15:55. | |
launched strikes against the Islamic State in Syria. Still to come... A | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
total revamp, see animals return home after the storms damaged the | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
home. How a victim | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
of female genital mutilation is training other teachers to help | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
prevent the controversial practise. And from omnibus to battle bus - | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
how London buses did their bit There've been more stark warnings | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
today about the dangers posed by the Ebola virus with specialists | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
at the World Health Organisation claiming the number | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
of people with the disease could reach 20,000 by November | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
if swift action isn't taken now. Here, it's been revealed that 164 | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
NHS staff have volunteered to be part of the UK's efforts to contain | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
the Ebola crisis in West Africa which has already killed | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
around 2800 people there. Here's our health correspondent, | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Branwen Jeffreys. Empty roads, deserted streets. For | :16:46. | :16:59. | |
three days, everybody in Sierra Leone stayed at home. The quarantine | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
was imposed by government to fight Ebola. Volunteers went from home to | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
home and handed out advice on how to control the infection. In the | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
climate of fear, rumours have spread as fast as the virus. The lockdown | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
uncovered more than 90 dead bodies, themselves a potentially deadly | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
source of infection. There was lots of criticism about this at the | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
start, but in the end, the government has been able to reach | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
70% of households with important messages about Ebola. Clinics in the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
worst affected countries are overwhelmed and desperately trying | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
to care for the infected. In the next few weeks, there could be | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
thousands more cases. More help is on the way, including from the UK. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
In the last few days, 164 NHS staff have been volunteering. It is tiring | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
work. Working in that humidity, working in those suits is buried the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Hill debating stop when people are tired, people might take short cuts | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
are not realise they're not adhering to the protocol. We are conscious of | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
that. In Oxford, healthy volunteers are helping with trials of the | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
vaccine. The first were injected last week. The race is on to find | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
out if it is safe and effective, but that could take months to establish. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
In west Africa, British research money will pay for more trials. They | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
hope to test for potential treatments. It won't save lives now | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
but it could reduce the terrible death toll in future. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
The mother-in-law of the main suspect in the disappearance | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
of 14-year-old schoolgirl Alice Gross has told the BBC she hopes | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Zalkalns was jailed for murdering his wife in Latvia in 1998. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Forensic tests are being carried out on a knife found in a river close to | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
where Alice was last seen - and police continue the search. | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
In Latvia, and mother shares the anguish over Alice's disappearance. | :19:10. | :19:25. | |
Her daughter married the man who is now a suspect in the case. Arnis | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
Zalkalns, who adopted his wife's Sir nine, lured her to a forest two | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
years after the wedding and use an iron bar and a knife to murder her. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
TRANSLATION: He is a threat to society. If he has done this to one | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
person he could do it to another as well. Alice Gross was last seen at | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
the end of August, captured by CCTV, walking across a bridge. The same | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
camera filmed Arnis Zalkalns crossing a bridge on a bike 15 | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
minutes after Alice. He went missing six days later. The search for clues | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
has concentrated on the canal and the overgrown tanks of the River | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
Brent in London. Yesterday, officers found a 6 inch knife which is being | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
examined by forensic experts. The police say they have no evidence at | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
the moment to indicate that Alice has come to any harm, but the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
disappearance of Arnis Zalkalns has filled his mother-in-law with | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
foreboding. TRANSLATION: A person like that is sick. He should be put | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
into a hospital. If someone does something like that, completely | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
drunk or so jealous that he cannot control his feelings, then you could | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
almost forgive him, but doing it consciously, with a clear mind, | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
waiting for the moment to do your dirty work, that I cannot | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
understand. The family of Alice Gross continued to wait and hope for | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
news of her safe return. A woman and a young child have died after being | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
hit by a train at Slough in Berkshire in what police say are | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
suspicious circumstances. The train station has been closed while | :21:15. | :21:15. | |
officers examine the scene. Troubled retailer Tesco has | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
announced that its new chief financial officer, | :21:20. | :21:20. | |
Alan Stewart, is to start work today, more than two months earlier | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
than originally planned. His first job will be to deal with | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
the disclosure yesterday that the company had overstated its latest | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
profit estimate by ?250 million. Our business correspondent | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Emma Simpson reports. The turmoil for Tesco is on the | :21:32. | :21:44. | |
front page. Amid the headlines, there have been questions about the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
gap at the top of the financial team. Today it parachuted in a new | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
financial officer from Marks and Spencers. He is and has started in | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
his job after a personal appeal from the new Tesco job to let him start | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
two months earlier than planned. -- new Tesco boss. There have been | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
profit warnings without the CEO on board. So, this is an embarrassing | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
situation. It is resolved now and as soon as he can start the accounts, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
then as soon as Tesco can focus on the important job of fixing its UK | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
trading. Tesco's blooms are laid bare in new industry figures. In | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
2007, Tesco had a 32% share of the grocery market in the UK. That is | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
down to just under 29%. Each percentage point lost represents ?1 | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
billion of sales. What has changed in the marketplace is that we are no | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
longer seeing the growth in the market. Tesco have previously lost | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
share but they have not gross sales. With the market static, Tesco have | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
not even managed gross sales and we are seeing their sales declining. If | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
that was not enough, Tesco's business in South Korea is under | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
investigation over allegations that customer information was sold to | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
insurance companies. Tesco is cooperating, saying it takes data | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
protection very seriously. This retail juggernaut has been one of | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Great Britain's great corporate success stories but right now, it's | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
problems seem to be piling up as the share price continues to fall. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly will get | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
their first chance to debate last week's 'No' result in the referendum | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Scotland's outgoing First Minister, Alex Salmond and the Welsh First | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
Minister, Carwyn Jones will both give statements this afternoon. | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
In a moment we'll get the latest from our correspondent in Cardiff | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
Alex Salmond leaving, membership of the SNP rising, whether Scotland go? | :23:51. | :24:05. | |
Scottish politics is moving into a new phase. An extraordinary rise in | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
membership of the Scottish National party, nearly doubling to 50,000 | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
members, making it a bigger political party by membership than | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
the Liberal Democrats. Membership of the Scottish Green Party is also | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
doubling since the referendum on Thursday. The trick for the | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
pro-independence parties is to harness the energy and turn it into | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
an argument about these extra powers that should be coming to this | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Parliament, according to all the political parties. There will be a | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
commission that will take shape and discuss these powers. Lord Smith has | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
been here this morning and he has been saying that it will be | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
difficult to secure agreement but Scotland expect a deal will be done. | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
An interesting period coming up and questions in this for the Labour | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Party on how they respond. Matthew, what challenge does the assembly | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
face there after the last week? For the First Minister, his main concern | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
is that Wales's voice is heard as loudly as Scotland and it is | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
involved in discussions about future powers. He made his comments at the | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Labour conference yesterday, saying there should be home rule for all | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
the four Nations. He has been talking about a constitutional | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
agreement for the past two years. He says the conversation has taken | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
place in three separate rooms, between Scotland, England and Wales. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Everybody should be under the same roof, he says. Wales is in line to | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
get more powers. Wales Reel is going through and that could give more tax | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
raising ability. Another commission has suggested that some powers, like | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
policing, could be devolved here. There is a feeling this may have | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
been overtaken by events in Scotland, but all the parties want | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
to make sure we do not get left behind. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
out of their home after a tidal-surge swept | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
into their sanctuary during the floods last December. | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
But today, turtles, seals and penguins are among 2,500 creatures | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
who are making the delicate journey home to the Hunstanton Sea | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
They were sent to temporary homes after floodwater knocked out | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
the power system, cracked windows and left the | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
It was an early start and Ernie the green turtle was | :26:34. | :26:50. | |
reluctant to leave his temporary aquarium in Great Yarmouth. | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
After some assistance, eight-year-old Ernie was | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
on his way back to Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary. | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
When the tidal surge hit the Norfolk coast last winter, | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
10 months on it is almost ready to reopen. | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
Ernie was the first resident to be welcomed back. | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
Weighing 80 kilos, lifting him was no easy task. | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
It was carried out under the watchful eye | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
It did not take him long to reacquaint himself with | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
It is absolutely fantastic to start seeing the first | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
of our creatures returning this morning. | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Over the last few years, Ernie has been one of the most popular | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
It was a race against time to evacuate | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
the building last December when floodwater reached three feet high. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
The power to the temperature control tanks had been cut | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
Ernie seems happy enough but he will be monitored closely | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
He has got some time to settle in now before he is joined | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
The penguins were the next to come back. | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
They will be joined later today by seals | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
and otters who are also returning from their temporary homes. | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
Some seemed apprehensive of their new enclosure | :28:09. | :28:09. | |
but one brave fellow couldn't resist taking a look around. | :28:10. | :28:23. | |
A lot of people are glad to see the water, and a lot of people are | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
because it has been dry. A week ago we had some statistics for the first | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
half of the month which indicated it was below average. Then we had a | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
week where we had a few episodes where it absolutely hammered down | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
for a time. In the coming week, we are expecting to see some rain in | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
the high lands, but we are expecting a great swathe and little or any | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
meaningful rain. The reason some rain this week because we have two | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
fronts manifesting themselves towards the North West corner of | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
Scotland. Not a cheery forecast for many as it has been but you will | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
notice that there are many parts of southern England and Wales that will | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
be dry for a good part of the afternoon. A moderate burst creeping | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
into Scotland late in the day. Make the most of the dry weather in | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
Northern Ireland because it won't be like that to dusk. The odd moderate | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
burst running through to the Pennines and perhaps later, across | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
North Wales. Generally, you get the sense that the raw many locations | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
which will be in for a dry and fine afternoon. Those two zones of | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
relatively wet weather will ease their way further south and we can. | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
The consequence of all that cloud is that it will not be as cold as last | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
night, and we will not have the fog that we had in southern England that | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
you saw today. There they are, the two fronts. They will take their | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
cloud and rain further south and east, across England. Following on | :30:13. | :30:21. | |
behind, we all join in the fun with mine, dry weather. One or two | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
passing showers on a north-westerly breeze. Temperatures around the mid | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
teens or 20 degrees, exactly where it should be for this time of year. | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
Thursday, the fronts will tend to be away from the UK. A lot of isobars | :30:39. | :30:47. | |
on the chart, though. One of the themes for the tail end of the week | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
is that we will be breezy but that is coming from one direction and by | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
day and night, it will be relatively warm. For the most part, it will be | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
predominantly dry. Thank you. A reminder of the top story: The US | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against the | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
Islamic State militants in Syria. There are reports that 50 people | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
have been killed in the attacks. That is all from us, | :31:20. | :31:20. |