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Delays discharging patients from NHS hospitals reach record levels. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The latest figures show the NHS in England has missed key targets | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
again amid warnings it will struggle this winter. | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
We'll be asking what more can be done to take the pressure off | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Also this lunchtime: Flooded for the second time in just days - | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
people in the Cumbrian of village of Glennridding had to be moved | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
In the last four days we have tidied out of the whole shop, basically. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Everything has been put outside for the insurance company, | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
and then last night, it started to rain. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Within a matter of minutes it was back inside the shop, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
The Government apologises after one of England's biggest health trusts | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
failed to investigate the deaths of more than 1,000 patients. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Our hearts go out to the families of those affected. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
More than anything, they want to know that the NHS | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
learns from tragedies such as what happened | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
to Connor Sparrowhawk, and that is something we patently | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
failed to do on too many occasions at the moment. | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
In a holding pattern over Heathrow - the Prime Minister will meet | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
ministers this evening - but the decision's expected to be delayed. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
A Syrian mother and her seven children drown as they | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Her husband says they were fleeing Islamic State extremists. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
And how catch-up television is expected to dramatically change | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Later on BBC London: Most London hospitals are failing to meet A | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
waiting times, according to new figures. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
We're on set with the man who brings droids to life. | :01:37. | :02:00. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
The NHS in England has missed targets in four key areas | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Targets for ambulance response times, A waiting, cancer care | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
and diagnostic testing were all missed, and on many | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
measures, the figures are worse than this time last year. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
The number of bed-days lost to delayed discharge has also | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
In a moment we'll be speaking to our health editor, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Hugh Pym, but first this report from our health correspondent, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
For many hospitals across the UK like the Queens Medical Centre | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
in Nottingham, the pressure on A | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
One big reason, the growing number of older, sicker patients | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
being treated, and the difficulties in making sure | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
they can be properly cared for back in the community. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
We have patients with much more complex patient care needs. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
We also have a huge demand for our services and obviously, | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
once we have treated and made people well, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
we have also got to make sure we have got the right care and right | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
services to discharge our patients back into the community. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Even before winter kicked in, the NHS in England | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
Figures in October show delays in discharging patients | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
were at the highest level since monthly records began | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
That in turn causes delays in A, where | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
just over 92% of patients were dealt with within four hours, | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Other key targets, ambulance response times, cancer care | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
and diagnostic tests were also missed. | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
New research by the Nuffield Trust highlights why the system | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Last winter, a tiny proportion of mostly frail, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
elderly patients, just over 3.5%, accounted for more | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
than a third of all NHS bed capacity in England. | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
The system becomes blocked because wards are fuller | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
There is an extra demand during winter, but the real issue | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
is whether we can get patients out ay the back door. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
If we can't do that, there is no room for the ones coming | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
in and you get this problem with the in performance. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Surgery is cancelled, patients have to wait | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
The NHS in Scotland is performing better. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
One reason, maybe schemes such as this one in Glasgow. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Patients are discharged from hospital into care homes | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
where they can complete their rehabilitation before going home. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
NHS England says the figures underline how much | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
hospitals depend on well functioning social care services, | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
particularly for older people living at home. | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
The next few winter months will be a severe test for the NHS | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Our health editor, Hugh Pym, is with me. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
That is the big concern. Those figures were from October, before | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
the busy winter months had even begun. Yes, six out of seven targets | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
for NHS in England being missed. The four-hour wait for accident and | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
emergency has been missed. And the winter months and cold weather is | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
still to come. In Scotland, it is a slightly different story. More | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
patients being seen within four hours, although England is ahead of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. The key issue is really being seen as the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
delayed transfers. You have to wait longer at the front end of the | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
hospital coming in, partly because there are not enough beds. And that | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
is because it is difficult to move people out of hospital and that | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
sometimes down to the social care situation not being available. The | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
government line is they have committed a lot more money to the | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
NHS over the next four years. They say that shows the amount of | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
resources available there. Actually, the targets for A are still pretty | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
stretching and nine out of ten are being seen within four hours. Think | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
tanks say that is for next year. This winter is still to come and | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
real pressure there on the whole service. Thank you. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Well, the BBC News website has more information about how the NHS | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
You'll find more news, video and analysis | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
Heavy rain overnight has caused yet more flooding in Cumbria. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
A river in the village of Glenridding near Ullswater | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
burst its banks for a second time - forcing many people | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Judith Moritz is there. This is the case macro back. Where I | :06:27. | :06:43. | |
am standing last night is underwater. It was so blocked tear | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
from the floods at the weekend, that when the fresh rain came, add | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
nowhere else to go, so for the second time in a week, the water | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
went into shops, houses and hotels. It has caused a second round of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
devastation. This morning, they have been doing everything here, not just | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
to clear up, but to prevent this sort of flooding. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
This was Glenridding last night, underwater for the second time in a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
week. This was the village minimarket which had only just been | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
cleaned up when the river came right back in again. This morning, the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
shop was still under water. The Brown family have owned it for 30 | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
years. Although this is now their fourth flood, it does not get any | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
easier. What do you do? There is nothing you can do. It was up to our | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
waste again. We could not do anything. So much of the | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
mountainside collapsed in the weekend floods, the river here was | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
blocked when the rain came here again yesterday. A call went out for | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
big diggers. Local volunteers responded, working through the night | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
and the morning to dredge the back. I know everyone around here, so I | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
just needed to do my bit to help out. When you see the massive team | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
effort from everybody, you have to try and do your bit, haven't you? | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
Paul Edgar's own home flooded. Once he bailed that outcome he came to | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
pitch in with the river dig. Do you think enough has been done by | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
agencies? No, they have done nothing here, the Environment Agency. How | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
good has the effort been by the locals? Tremendous, out of this | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
world. The Environment Agency are on-site working with local people | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
and volunteers. Are they doing the right job, volunteering, that should | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
have been done by other agencies like the Environment Agency? | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Resources are stretched. This is a community out doing it itself which | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
is brilliant. We will support them to do what they can to make things | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
right again. Those who live here no flooding is a risk, but they say | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
they have never seen it this bad, and to be hit twice in a week feels | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
doubly cruel. The scenery here, the mountains and | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
rivers have brought great pleasure. The tourist drive keep somewhere | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
like this going, but they also know the very difficult, harsh flip side | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
of that is this can be a very cruel place to live and work, when this | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
sort of devastation happens. There is still a massive job ahead of | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
these people. You can see the are still out. They are still clearing | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
this rubble. There is so much of it. They know it will take some time. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
There is also, as well as the volunteers, huge number of different | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
organisations. The police, the bar at agency, mountain rescue and | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
others who are all trying to coordinate the effort. It has just | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
started raining again. They are not expecting another deluge but they | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
say before -- until they clear this river fully and it has been properly | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
diverted, they will not rest easy. Even when they have done that, there | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
is the clean-up to begin. How difficult that is, to begin it for a | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
second time. Thank you. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has described the failure of an NHS | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
trust to investigate the unexpected deaths of more than a thousand | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
people as "totally and utterly unacceptable". | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
He was speaking to the Commons following the publication | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
of a report which investigated deaths at Southern Health NHS | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Let's speak to social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
who's outside the Trust headquarters in Southampton. | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
Jeremy Hunt was hauled to the Commons this morning, to explain the | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
problems at Southern Health, mental health and learning disability NHS | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
trust here in Hampshire. He paid tribute to the family of Connor | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Sparrowhawk, a teenager who died in 2013 at a hospital run by Southern | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Health in Oxford, and whose death led to NHS England commissioning | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
this report into how Southern Health investigated all unexpected deaths | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
over a four-year period. He all issued an apology to all families | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
affected by the trust's failings. Our hearts go out to | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
the families of those affected. More than anything, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
they want to know that the NHS learns from tragedies | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
such as what happened to Connor Sparrowhawk, | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
and that is something we patently failed to do on too many | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
occasions at the moment. Nor should we pretend this | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
is the result of the wrong There is an urgent need to improve | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
the investigation and learning from an estimated 200 avoidable | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
deaths, we have every week Mr Hunt said he was particularly | :12:02. | :12:19. | |
appalled by the low level of learning disability deaths that | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Southern Health had investigated, just 1% of deaths in that capacity | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
were looked into over the period of this report. He said because of | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
that, next June the government would introduce ratings for quality of | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
care for people with learning disabilities, as well as asking | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Bristol University to conduct a study of mortality rates across the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
whole of England. Southern Health have still not commented on what | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Jeremy Hunt had to say this morning. Thank you. | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
The Prime Minister and the Chancellor will meet ministers | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
later to discuss the timetable for any proposed expansion at Heathrow. | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
A Government-appointed commission has recommended a third runway | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
as the best option, but it looks like a decision could be postponed | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, reports. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
The aircraft might have changed a bit. But the issue has been the same | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
for decades. Where should Britain build a major new runway? There is a | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
chance the government will finally name a favourite scheme today, or | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
they may delay it yet again. Business leaders say a lack of | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
flights to new markets is already costing us billions in lost trade. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
The previous government did not take a decision, this government is | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
gearing up not to take a decision. We need a decision for the benefit | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
of jobs, which is why businesses and unions together are saying, please | :13:46. | :13:59. | |
just take a decision. Three years ago, the coalition government set | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
this issue into the long grass by setting up an independent | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
commission. Last summer, it finally chose Heathrow over its rival | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Gatwick. What is the hold-up? It is physically straightforward laying a | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
new runway, but the reason why these projects keep being delayed, is | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
because of the problems they create on the other side of the perimeter | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
fence. These tiny plastic tubes could stop expansion in its tracks. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
They measure pollution, not so much from the airport, but from all the | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
cars, lorries, buses and trains that people use to get there. Areas | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
around Heathrow already break European air quality limits. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Campaigners could use the issue to delay any new scheme in the courts. | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
We may delay a judicial review. That could start off six months for an | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
initial ruling, but it is very likely it will be appealed and go up | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
to the Supreme Court. That could be two or three years. Picking Heathrow | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
could come at a personal price for the Prime Minister. Look at this | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
poster before the 2010 election. No ifs, no buts, no third runway. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Heathrow is full, Gatwick is filling up. The government is under pressure | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
to say once and for all what it plans to do. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Let's speak to our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith. | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
A bit like a heathrow holding pattern - no idea when a decision | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
This is the longest-running saga in British politics. They have been | :15:23. | :15:34. | |
discussing it since the 1960s, since England last won the World Cup. All | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
the signs are they will keep discussing it for some time to come, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
because although the business community is screaming at Mr Cameron | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
to decide in favour of Heathrow, there is the politics. The fear of a | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
near Tory civil war, if he gives he threw the go-ahead, because Boris | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Johnson, the Mayor of London, has said he will lie down in | :15:55. | :16:06. | |
front of the Cabinet. Walking. We could be heading for more fudge and | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
delay. Maybe Mr Cameron will say Heathrow has made a terrifically | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
good case, but perhaps we should give them a bit more time, another | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
six months, just to meet all the environmental criteria. Some fear Mr | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Cameron may even seek to eke out that delay until he is no longer | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
even Prime Minister. Norman Smith, thank you. | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
The NHS in England misses key targets again - | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
amid warnings it will struggle this winter. | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
And coming up, we'll have the latest on the emissions scandal at VW. | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
In football, a great night for Arsenal and Chelsea, | :16:43. | :16:54. | |
we'll have a full sports round-up along with a look ahead at the rest | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
of the week's weather - that's coming up in 15 minutes. | :16:58. | :17:12. | |
Thousands of migrants and refugees are still trying to get across the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
street to cross the Europe despite the winter weather and as the flow | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
of people continues, so do the tragedies. This week a mother and | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
her seven children, the youngest just weeks old, drowned while trying | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
to cross the Aegean Sea. Only the father survived. Mark Lowen has been | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
speaking to him. Somewhere in the vastness | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
of the Aegean he lost them. Ali Alsaho scours the spot | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
where he and his family took their boat bound | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
for Europe, a new life. It flooded and Ali's wife | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
and his seven children drowned. The smugglers told them | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
they wouldn't need life jackets, How to comprehend such a tragedy - | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
it is too much to bear. They had fled Islamic State | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
hoping for sanctuary, believing the worst | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
horrors were behind them. TRANSLATION: I had the most | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
affectionate wife. I took my family out of Syria | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
to escape the killing. My children could have | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
had a future in Europe. What is your message to other | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
Syrians who want to make TRANSLATION: I would say | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
don't take this risk, They said we would reach | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Greece within 15 minutes. Stay in Syria, however | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
difficult it is. The bodies of some of his | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
children have been found. The others and his wife | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
are still missing, but hope The Greek island | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
of Chios is so close. This week, six other children - | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
Afghans - died here, Turkey is under pressure | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
to stop the boats. Shortly after Ali and his family set | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
off from here the waves rose up Over 3500 people have died this year | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
trying to make the trip to Europe. The EU is giving Turkey money | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
and resources to patrol the border But still, even in winter, | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
the desperate ones are making His dreams of Europe now | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
just wretched memories. How many more will follow | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
in his wake? Let's speak to our correspondent, | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
Chris Morris, who's on the island of Lesbos - still one of the main | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
destinations for people crossing Has the winter weather had any | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
effect at all on the numbers who are taking, risking, this perilous | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
journey? Very little. I think a lot of policymakers thought if we get | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
through to roughly November or so, then we have a few months, a window, | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
when the whip -- when the numbers will fall off dramatically, but that | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
hasn't happened. Behind me, we have seen 15 boats coming full of | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
migrants. All told on average during the first few days of December, 4000 | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
people a day are arriving on the Greek island, 2000 of them here in | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Lesbos. When you look back through the year the numbers are simply | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
astounding. More than 920,000 people, according to the UN, have | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
now crossed by sea to Europe during the course of 2015. Some of them | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
have come across from Libya to Italy. Most of them, the vast | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
majority, from Turkey to the grill islands full -- the Greek islands. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
What we are seeing here in Lesbos over the last few days is the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
direction of the journey has changed. They used to come to the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
northern coast of the island, the shortest sea route from Turkey, but | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
in the last week or so, we believe this may be because the Turkish | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
authorities are starting to crack down on smugglers in certain places, | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
they have been at sea for much longer, up to three or four hours, | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
really dangerous journeys. Chris Morris on the Greek island of | :21:33. | :21:33. | |
Lesbos, thank you. David Cameron has failed to win | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Poland's support for his plans to change the benefits rules | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
for European Union migrants coming The Prime Minister visited Warsaw | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
as part of his effort to negotiate a new relationship with the EU | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
before the in/out referendum. The Polish prime minster confirmed | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
she did not see "eye-to-eye" He said curbing "excessive | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
migration" was a difficult goal, but was key to his EU | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
renegotiations. The number of people arrested | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
on terrorism charges has reached a record level, driven by rises | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
in the number of women Arrests of women more than doubled | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
to 50, while the number of under-18s Overall, there were 315 arrests | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
in the year up to September - an increase of a third | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
on the previous year. One of the men who killed | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
Fusilier Lee Rigby is trying to sue the Prison Service for compensation | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
after two of his front teeth Michael Adebolajo claims | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
he was assaulted by officers They were investigated but told | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
there was no case to answer. The Ministry of Justice says it | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
will "robustly defend" the claim. Volkswagen says it believes only | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
a small number of people were involved in the car | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
maker's emissions scandal. The firm's new chairman, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
Hans Dieter Poetsch, says the beginnings of the crisis | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
stretched back ten years - and that winning back trust | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
was the firm's "top priority Let's speak to our Berlin | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
correspondent, Jenny Hill, who's at the firm's | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
headquarters at Wolfsburg. Wingback trust is hard thing for | :23:00. | :23:12. | |
them to do? It certainly is. Today, the two men at the top of the W | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
stood together for the first time since the scandal broke and promised | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
to do just that -- at the top of VW. They promised to be relentless in | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
their pursuit of what they say is a small number of individuals | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
responsible for Reading those emissions tests. Interestingly, they | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
say those individuals got away with it at the time because of a culture | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
if you like in some parts of BW, that culture they pledged today will | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
now change. They made promises today the customers, particularly those in | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
Europe. They have said all affected vehicles will be recalled and | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
repaired by the end of 2016. It will be a staggered recall. They will be | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
no cost, they say, the customers and car owners. I asked the Chief | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Executive of Volkswagen, Mateus Muller, whether customers would be | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
compensated for what they might perceive to be a loss of -- loss of | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
residual value following this scandal. He replied yes, BW are | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
trying to come up with some kind of package, but he said there will be | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
some form of compensation -- VW. They are still working but they are | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
determined to win back trust which they considered vital. In the words | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
of the chief Executive, we are fighting for every customer and | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
every car. Not so long ago millions of us | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
would sit down at the same time on Christmas Day to watch | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
programmes like EastEnders Catch-up television now means more | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
and more of us won't sit down to watch programmes | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
live as they go out - Our technology correspondent | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones is with me. Television is changing rapidly. | :24:48. | :25:03. | |
There are lots of new gadgets. Research shows UK viewers are ahead | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
of the game in adapting to the New World. 80% of adults who are | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
connected to the Internet are using an online service, such as the BBC | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
iPlayer, Netflix, Amazon Prime, or so on, compared with 65% in the US, | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
and 54% in the Japan. When it comes to using tablet computers like this | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
to catch up on TV, again we are ahead of the pack. 16% of the people | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
in the UK compared with 6% in the USA and 5% in Japan, way behind. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
It's worth remembering most of us are still watching most of our TV | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
live, three hours and 40 minutes a day is the average that we spend | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
watching live traditional TV, although that's falling faster in | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
the UK than in those of the countries we have mentioned. There | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
is always this question, is it going to see the end of appointment to | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
view television? We have been seeing that predicted for years but it has | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
stubbornly refused to happen. We are still watching a lot of live TV. A | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
lot of people are looking at the behaviour of 16-24 -year-olds, | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
watching YouTube and other forms of tea the com on mobile phones, they | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
are not really sitting down to watch appointment to view TV Wash there | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
watching other forms of TV on mobile phones. The question is is this | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
change permanent? Who knows? Thank you. American scientists have | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
announced as the Robert Dodd has given birth to the world's first | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
test-tube puppies. They were born in July. The sperm and eggs were | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
fertilised in vitro into the host mother. | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
We have seven normal happy, healthy puppies. You will see this one here | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
is a cross between a cocker spaniel and a beagle. Where is this one over | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
here is a beagle eagle, and they all came from the same litter but they | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
had different mums and dads, but were born at the same time and raced | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
together. Yes, I like you to! In vitro fertilisation is a really | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
powerful tool to help preserve endangered species of dog. If we | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
want to breed them in captivity and collect the eggs and sperm we have | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
to be able to do IVF to create new members of that species. IVF is also | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
important for the health of our pets because it opens up the possibility | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
that we could identify certain genes that cause disease and fix those, | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
replace them with a good copy of the gene, before those dogs are even | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
born. So instead of trying to cure disease we can help prevent it from | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
happening in the first place. Very sweet, the professor from | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Cornell University there. Today, the North of the UK are | :27:51. | :28:06. | |
seeing the bright, sunny skies. That is snow, it is cold, there are | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
plenty of snow showers across northern areas. To compensate, the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
skies are bright and sunny. The cold heirlooms across northern areas. The | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
dividing line, a band of rain across central areas. To the south, Miles, | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
cloudy and white. The rain will fragment as it moves south this | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
afternoon. Some sunshine following behind. Across Northern Ireland and | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
Scotland, a scattering of showers, some of them heavy and with thunder | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
and lightning mixed in, snowdrop -- not just falling over the higher | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
ground, but at lower levels. Quite a wintry feel. Sunshine in between the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
showers, as they will be for Northern Ireland and the extreme | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
north of England. The showers clearing away from Cumbria as the | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
afternoon wears on. Some sunshine the northern parts of Wales, the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
North Midlands, but for much of southern England drab conditions, | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
fairly mild but grey skies, outbreaks of patchy light rain. The | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
rain will move southwards clearing southern areas, a cluster of showers | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
following behind but as we head into the latter part of the night, most | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
showers, find the Northern Ireland and Scotland. These will be wintry | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
to all levels. Cold in the north, a bit milder across the South. The | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
pressure chart for Friday shows the weather from looming in the English | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
Channel, affecting southern areas and another weather front and | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
tightly packed isobars affecting the northern half of the UK. Quite a | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
wintry feel. Bands of showers moving in, wintry down the lower levels in | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
Scotland. In the centre of the country, dry and bright with some | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
sunshine. Southern counties having the cloud and outbreaks of rain. | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
Temperatures into double figures. For much of the UK, in the cold air. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
Saturday, the rain band starts to move northwards again. It will push | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
into the cold air across the North. We could see transient snow on the | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
leading edge for a time across Wales and parts of northern England. Some | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
heavy rain here. Southern areas will be cloudy and mild again. The North | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
is cold but bright with some sunshine. Cumbria could see some | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
heavy rain for Saturday so weather warnings have been issued for that. | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
As we move into Sunday the rain band through central areas fizzles out | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
and we see is a marked contrast with the milder air across the South, | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
northern areas bright but cold with some sunshine. Keep tuned to the | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
weather forecast until -- or the website online for the weather | :30:31. | :30:31. | |
warnings for Saturday. Now a reminder of our top | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
story this lunchtime. The NHS in England has | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
missed key targets again - amid warnings it will | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
struggle this winter. Flooded for the second time, people | :30:40. | :30:49. | |
in the Cumbrian village of Glennridding had to be moved to | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
safety overnight. We have tied a doubt the shop, everything put aside | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
for the insurance company, then the rain started again and in a matter | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
of minutes it was back in the shop, the deeper than before. George Alec | :31:03. | :31:03. |