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The Health Secretary acknowledges that patients are facing "completely | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
unacceptable" delays at hospitals in England. | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
But Jeremy Hunt says the NHS is not alone in dealing with growing | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
patient numbers. It is wrong to suggest to people | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
that these profound challenges such as the ones we face of an ageing | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
population other ones with a silver bullet where you can solve that | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
problem overnight. The BBC has spent the week | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
highlighting some of We'll be speaking to our Health | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Editor about what's been uncovered. Also, many areas in England and | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
Wales could face above inflation council tax rises. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
A US appeals court rejects President Trump's attempt | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
to re-instate a ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
We have a situation where the security of our country is at stake | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
and it is a very, very serious situation so we look forward, as I | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
just said, to receiving them in court. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
A firm of London plumbers loses legal battle over whether to give | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
freelance plumbers the same rights as full-time staff. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
And England prepare to take on Wales this weekend. | :01:29. | :01:42. | |
And coming up in the sport, the Russian athlete stripped of her gold | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
medal and banned for doping. Good afternoon and welcome | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
to the BBC News at One. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
says it's "completely unacceptable" that some patients in England | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
are waiting up to 13 hours in A Figures show that waiting times | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
in casualty units are worse Mr Hunt says he does | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
have an improvement plan, but admits it will take time, | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
and says there's no silver bullet. NHS England figures this winter show | :02:15. | :02:30. | |
the worst waiting time performance in A E units since records began | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
more than a decade ago. Jeremy Hunt paid tribute to the work of stuff | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
but said the problems of high patient demand were not unique to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
the NHS and all leading health systems or grappling with the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
challenge. He said there was no silver bullet. I think it is wrong | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
to suggest to people that these profound challenges such as we face | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
with an ageing population are ones where there is a silver bullet so | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
you can solve the problem overnight. We have a very good plan, it has the | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
support of the NHS and it will take time to deliver. Asked about BBC | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
coverage this week of patients enduring long waits in A E and an | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
elderly woman spending six months in hospital because no care place was | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
available he said he did not want to make excuses and these problems were | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
completely unacceptable. It is incredibly frustrating for me, doing | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
this job because I want NHS care to be the safest and the best in the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
world, and that kind of care is completely unacceptable, no one | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
would want it for members of their own family. But it is | :03:37. | :03:49. | |
happening in a hospital rated good, so what can you do about it? What | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
you need to recognise is that overall there are positive things as | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
well as negative things and there is huge commitment in the NHS to sort | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
out those negative things and the particular pressure point we have is | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
A E. What we need to do is find ways of treating people with complex | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
conditions, older people with dementia, treating them at home or | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
in the community. And that is the big direction of change we have | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
embarked on. There have been cuts to social care funding under your | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
government, has that not created the problem? No. On social care the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Prime Minister has been very clear, we recognise the precious, we know | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
there is a problem with sustainability in the system and | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
that needs to be addressed and we will do | :04:30. | :05:00. | |
that. More money in the budget? That is for the Chancellor and the Prime | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Minister. Look at what the Prime Minister said this week, this is an | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
area where there is pressure and we need a long-term sustainable | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
solution and not a quick fix. Although Labour has accused the | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
government of losing control of the NHS this winter, patients paying the | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
price as targets missed. Sir Robert Francis who headed the Staf | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
fordshire inquiries as the NHS is in an existential crisis and pressures | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
continued there could be a repeat of the mid Staffordshire care on the | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
NHS and even the Health Secretary says there are some unacceptable | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
problems. Your assessment of what we have learned? On one level, Rita, we | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
have learned from images we showed of patients in Hugh is with me now. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
We have spent the week reporting on the NHS and even the Health | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Secretary says there are some unacceptable problems. Your | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
assessment of what we have learned? On one level, Rita, we have learned | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
from images we showed of patients happening because of the real | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
difficulties hospital says even with staff working flat out. The other | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
thing we have had this week 's important data. We learned yesterday | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
that it was the worst waiting for hours, mothers sitting on floors | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
with babies, in some hospitals there is a strain which the Health | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Secretary has admitted is quite unacceptable. I suspect Blackburn is | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
not alone. We've had a lot of reports from around the country of | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
this kind of thing happening because of the real difficulties hospital | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
says even with staff working flat out. The other thing we have had | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
this week is important data. We learned yesterday that it was the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
worst A E England hospitals since records began in 2004. A leaked | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
document revealed to the BBC that January would be even worse. Today | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
we've learned that the number of operations cancelled by NHS England | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
at the last minute, a very traumatic experience for patients, was at a | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
high last year. So the performance figures show that the NHS is really | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
struggling at the moment. There's a debate that's also been going on, | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
we've had figures on the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggesting that | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
although NHS spending has gone up in Britain it will tail England | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
hospitals since records began in 2004. A leaked document revealed to | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
the BBC that January would be even worse. Today we've learned that the | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
number of operations cancelled by NHS England at the last minute, a | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
very traumatic experience for patients, was at a high last year. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
So the performance figures show that the NHS is really struggling at the | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
moment. There's a debate that's also been going on, we've had figures | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggesting that although NHS | :06:48. | :06:48. | |
spending has gone up in Britain it will so there's a lot of pressure on | :06:49. | :07:05. | |
the government to put more money into health, and accusations it has | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
been underfunded in England, equally it could be more efficient, more | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
needs to be done with the resources that have been pledged. The debate | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
goes on. Is there likely to be more money? You had Jeremy Hunt say they | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
are looking hard at social care because the problem in England is | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
that the funding has been cut over the last seven years, even as NHS | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
funding has gone so that house if you like head back on the NHS | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
because of shortcomings in social care. He made it clear work was | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
going on. When I ask about the budget he said it was up to the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Chancellor and Prime Minister. In other words he's making his pitch to | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
say to Downing Street that this needs urgent attention. I think work | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
is going on there, what happens in the budget, will have to wait and | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
see. Hugh, thank you can see all the you can see all the | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
A federal appeals court in the United States has refused | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
to reinstate Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
The controversial immigration reform was suspended last week, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
when a judge in Seattle issued a temporary order. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
But the President appears determined to continue the legal battle, | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
saying on Twitter: "See you in court. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
"The security of our nation is at stake!". | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Od the office upon which I'm about to enter... | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
As his controversial pick for Attorney General was sworn in, | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Donald Trump hailed a new era of justice in America. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Former Senator Jeff Sessions, now the US' top law enforcement officer, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical | :08:15. | :08:26. | |
Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Donald Trump's sudden ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
nations caused chaos at airports and sparked protests across the US. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Then, last week, a district judge in Seattle granted a stay, | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
and now a San Francisco-based appeals court has backed that stay, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
citing, amongst other things, the fact that nobody from those | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
seven nations has actually carried out an attack on the US. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
The decision infuriated Donald Trump. | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
"See you in court," he wrote, "The security of our | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Prompting the leader of one of the states leading | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the court challenge, Washington governor Jay Inslee, | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
to reply, "Mr President, we just saw you in court, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
The president is nonetheless convinced he will win. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
It's a political decision, we're going to see them in court | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
So you believe the judge has made... | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
We have a situation where the security of our country | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation so I look | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
forward, as I just said, to seeing them in court. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
We are a nation of laws, and as I've said, as we have said, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
from day one, those laws apply to everybody in our country. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
And that includes the President of the United States. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
An appeal to the highest court in the land, the US | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
But that could put the decision in the hands of a court that's | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
currently evenly divided, and a tied decision would leave | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Mr Trump maintains his ban is necessary in order to protect | :10:01. | :10:10. | |
the US from the threat of terrorism, but it may yet be proven | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
And, until he has his day in court, refugees from around the world | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
and citizens of those seven Muslim nations can continue | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
on the BBC say a man and a woman have died in a house fire in the | :10:23. | :10:40. | |
south of the city, firefighters were called there at 2:30am police in | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Manchester say a man and a woman have died in a house fire in the | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
south of the city, firefighters were called at 2:30 the children aged | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
between ten and 17 are being treated for injuries, another man is in a | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
serious condition, police 's handling of the arrival of | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
unaccompanied child refugees from an investigation to establish the cause | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
of the blaze. Campaigners are at the High Court to challenge the | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
government 's handling of the arrival of unaccompanied child | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
refugees from scheme. Council tax rises could hit many households in | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
England and Wales according to new research. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
The Local Government Information Unit | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
says that 94% of council leaders and senior officials | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
questioned said they would be forced to put up taxes and increase | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Some households will face rises of up to five-percent, | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
Our correspondent Judith Moritz reports. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
From rubbish collections to road resurfacing, local councils are | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
responsible for the nitty-gritty of community life. The pressure their | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
finances are under is well known is that it is not surprising that the | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
majority of them want to take measures to bring in more money. But | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
now some councils are warning that things are so desperate, they simply | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
cannot make ends meet. We are really at a crisis point now. Councils have | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
already cut all the mice to have things and they are down to the bare | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
bones, the statutory services they have to deliver, adult social care, | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
looking after elderly people, protecting vulnerable people, | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
keeping the streets clean, collecting referees. There is a real | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
chance in the next two to three years we will see councils not able | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
to meet those obligations and that would be a tragedy for the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
communities they serve. Survey of local councils in England and Wales | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
was carried out, 131 responded, 94% of them say they will be forced to | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
increase council tax by more than 1.5% next year. 42% say the cuts | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
they make will be evident to the public and 80% say they will add an | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
extra charge for social care. In Salford the authority is considering | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
raising Mixu's council tax together with its charge for social care by a | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
total of just under 5%. Lisa Stone has been a Salford councillor for | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
six years and says it is becoming impossible to balance the books. We | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
were able to freeze council tax for six years but we had to put it up | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
last year and will be looking to put it up again this year unfortunately. | :13:22. | :13:50. | |
Do you remember things being as bad? No, this is the worst it's ever been | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
because every year you have to make more cuts on top of those you've | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
made in previous years. Five councils, not named, planned to go | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
to the polls to increase bills significantly but have decided not | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
to after a 15% rise was controversially dropped by Surrey | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
council this week. But all of the councils surveyed had one thing in | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
co not one of them said that it was able to reduce council not one of | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
them said that it was able to reduce next year. -- one thing in are | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
facing an Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt acknowledges that hospitals are | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
facing we look forward to another weekend of fierce but friendly | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
rivalry in the six Nations tournament in rugby union treasures. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
And in the sport, in Cardiff as we look forward to another weekend of | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
fierce but friendly rivalry in the six Nations tournament in rugby | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
union. One change to the side that beat Ireland as one change to the | :14:36. | :14:36. | |
side that beat None of the UK's fleet of attack | :14:37. | :14:50. | |
submarines is currently Seven nuclear-powered vessels, | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
including three new Astute-class submarines, which cost more | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
than ?1 billion each, and four Trafalgar-class | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
boats are all currently Normally at least one | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
of these boats is deployed. A Royal Navy spokesman said | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
they wouldn't comment on specific Our diplomatic correspondent | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
James Landale reports. They're known as hunter killers, | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
the attack submarines armed with torpedoes and Cruise missiles | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
that the Royal Navy uses to project Normally, at least one | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
is always at sea on active duty, but it's now emerged that none | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
is currently deployed on operations. If none of them are operational, | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
it is very serious. The submarines are needed | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
for our security vis-a-vis Russia, who at the moment | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
is sabre rattling. They are good to ease tension | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
because they are so capable, and the Russians know that, | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
and they can give us They are very important | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
in the Middle East, around around the Persian Gulf | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
and areas like that. Their intelligence | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
capability is quite There are currently seven Royal Navy | :15:59. | :15:59. | |
attack submarines in Four are ageing | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Trafalgar-class boats They are to be withdrawn | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
from service from next year. The other three, the | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Astute class, are the Four more are due to | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
enter service by 2024. The BBC understands that the Navy's | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
struggling to maintain the Trafalgar submarines, | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
and the bigger Astute class have One submarine has been repaired | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
after colliding with a merchant vessel off | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
Gibraltar last year. And HMS Astute is understood to be | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
at sea, but only to conduct The Ministry of | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Defence said it would not comment on specific | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
submarine operations, but said the Royal Navy continues | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
to meet all of its operational tasking, deploying | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
globally on operations, and An MoD source insisted | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
that there were attack submarines that were operationally capable | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
and ready, but where they might be was clearly | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
sensitive operational information But not having one on active | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
operations will raise fresh questions about the effectiveness | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
of Britain's naval fleet. ScottishPower has become the latest | :17:06. | :17:26. | |
of the Big Six energy companies to raise its prices. It is increasing | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
the price of electricity by 11% and gas by nearly 5%. British Gas has | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
said it is freezing prices until August. Simon Gumpert is here with | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
me now. Last week, we had npower raising its prices, now this. What | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
is going on? People would say competition is going on. On the one | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
hand, you have ScottishPower raising prices for more than 1 million | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
customers, so bad news for them. On the other hand, you have British Gas | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
extending its price freeze, which was supposed to be over the winter, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
up until March, and it has been extended until August, benefiting 5 | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
million customers, a lot of whom had been worried about speculation in | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
the press of a very significant increase in the standard tariff. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
This affects the standard tariffs, which tend to move up and down, not | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
the millions of customers on fixed-rate tariffs, who continue | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
with what they have. What is going on in the background,? They have | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
said that their costs work-out slightly higher, so they may have | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
more wriggle room. There is always pressure on British Gas, because it | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
is the biggest player and there result was an outcry when it moves, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
so maybe that is why it has held back. Maybe it has been better at | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
securing future stocks of gas. They might have done well on that score. | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
In any case, it is a relief to British Gas customers. There is | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
still -- there are still, though, some suppliers who have not | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
announced what they are going to do. What can we expect from them? There | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
are six bigger suppliers. Npower last week said it would bring in a | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
big price increase. EDF has said electricity will go up next month, | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
and now we have ScottishPower. The other three, British Gas says it | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
will be frozen until August, but aeon and SSE have also had a price | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
freeze in place over the winter. What about them? We wait to hear. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
SSE tell me that there are price freeze will be in place until at | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
least April. At least - maybe a little bit of hope there for its | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
customers. Simon, thank you. The London firm Pimlico Plumbers has | :19:42. | :19:42. | |
lost its challenge over the employment status | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
of a former worker. The Court of Appeal upheld | :19:46. | :19:46. | |
the ruling that it has to offer workers, hired on an ad-hoc basis, | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
the same holiday and pensions The head of the company had said | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
the employee involved had wanted Our industry correspondent, | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
John Moylan, reports. Is Pimlico Plumbers is one of | :20:00. | :20:13. | |
London's best-known firms. It is claimed that plumbers here can earn | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
more than ?100,000 a year, but they are all self-employed, so they don't | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
have the raw it's -- the rights enjoyed by employees. When Gary | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Smith went to a tribunal, it found that his employment status was the | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
same as that of a worker. He was classed as a worker because he | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
provided a personal service to Pimlico Plumbers. They controlled | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
him. He had to wear the uniform, to drive their fan, and he was tightly | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
controlled by Pimlico Plumbers. Self-employment has soared in recent | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
years, with many people juggling several insecure jobs, what some | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
call the gig economy. Tribunal 's have ruled against high-profile | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
businesses, including Uber and city sprint. The Government has launched | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
a review of modern working practices. The founder of Pimlico | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
Plumbers said that Mr Smith wanted to have his cake and eat it. This is | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
an historic case. This was a contract we had with Gary six years | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
ago, on a self-employed basis, absolute by England revenue, -- the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Inland Revenue and employment lawyers. He had the benefit of being | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
self-employed. Six years down the line, you had a heart attack and | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
wanted the benefits of being an employee. This is the highest court | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
yet to tackle this complicated issue of employment status, but it will | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
not be the last. There are a number of cases pending and more about to | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
be launched, which looks set to challenge firms over how they treat | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
people in the so-called gig economy. John Moylan, BBC News. | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
Hundreds of Wales had beached themselves in New Zealand. They | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
ended up high and dried as the tired fell -- whales. A warning - some | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
viewers might find images in this storing district -- in this story | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
distressing. A tragedy rarely seen on such an enormous scale New | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Zealand's shores. Hundreds of volunteers poured water on the | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
survivors while waiting for the high tide. This large part of pilot | :22:36. | :22:47. | |
whales washed Ashour. Rescuers were forced to put their efforts of until | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Friday morning, but by then, almost three quarters of the pod had | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
already died. This is the largest mass grounding we have recorded. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Logistically, it is a massive undertaking. Of the more than 400 | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
whales that beached themselves, now just over 100 are alive. Some had | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
successfully refloated on the high tide, but most were quickly stuck | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
again as the tide ebbed. Many hands still don't make light work. The | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
huge task is far from over. There are people from all over the world | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
have heard about this. We brought three hitchhikers over who said they | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
wanted to come and do anything they could. It is good. It is fine, it is | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
good to be here to help. It is the largest whale stranding since 1985, | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
when 350 were stranded in Auckland. Wales also -- whales often get | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
stranded here. Volunteers will continue to work through the night, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
keeping the surviving whales as comfortable as possible before | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
another attempt to refloat them tomorrow. | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
It's another weekend of fierce rivalry, intense pressure | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
and big expectations in the Six Nations tournament. | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
England take on Wales tomorrow, and if England win, | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
they will be just three games away from breaking the world record | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
for the most unbeaten Test matches - a title currently held | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
Italy take on Ireland, and Scotland play France on Sunday. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Our sports correspondent, Joe Wilson, reports. | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
The prospect is enough to warm the coldest of weekends. Both teams won | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
their opening matches in Asia's tournament, neither at their best. | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
England in particular know they need to improve a great deal after | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
scraping past brands. They have won their last 15 matches, so why would | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
they be nervous about this game? I think, quite simply, because we are | :24:59. | :24:59. | |
in Cardiff. Their coach wondered this week | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
why England have seemed 2013 has a lot to do with it, | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
when a buoyant England team sank The current coach says | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
it's just another city. Yes, but in Cardiff, | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
it's named after the Welsh captain - The game does mean a lot | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
to a lot of people. We are able to share that, | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
and hopefully we can We are very fortunate | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
to have a stadium that is suitable and | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
adds to the occasion. Cardiff stage-manages sensationally | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
- lights, fire, music. England's Eddie Jones suggests | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
he is preparing for what he calls What are the shenanigans | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
you are prepared for? Oh, I don't know, but they are | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
a cunning lot, the Welsh, aren't They've got goats, | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
daffodils, they got Mischievous, friendly rivalry, | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
that's what the Six Nations should It is an outlet for passion, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
and that's exactly why England have decided | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
that here in Cardiff, the roof should be open | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
for Allowing all that Welsh noise | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
to escape into the sky. Everyone in professional sport | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
is trying to find an edge. That's Gareth Southgate | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
at England training this week, as in the England | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
football manager. Fresh ideas are always | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
being sought in sport. Fresh faces too, like England | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
fly-half George Ford. He took a break from | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
training this week I think, as a player, | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
if you learn to embrace it, and learn | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
to be excited about it, I think that's the best | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
way to approach it. You look back on it in a few | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
years or whenever, if you look back and feel | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
you didn't enjoy it, After their scintillating | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
victory over Ireland last weekend, Scotland | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
suddenly look like the team to After that defeat in it before | :27:18. | :27:38. | |
Ireland, they are under pressure to win tomorrow against Italy. You | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
wouldn't expect them to lose again, but if it were predictable, it | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
wouldn't be the Six Nations. title at London 2012, | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
has been found guilty of doping by the Court | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
of Arbitration for Sport. Savinova will now be stripped | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
of all her titles won between 2010 and 2013, | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
including her Olympic gold. Caster Semenya, who finished second | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
in 2012, and British athlete Jenny Meadowsm, who finished in | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
bronze behind Savinova at the 2010 European Championships, both stand | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
to have their medals upgraded. The Hollywood film star | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
George Clooney and his wife Amal are expecting twins, | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
with reports suggesting that they The news was confirmed | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
by Clooney's fellow actor and close friend Matt Damon, | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
who said he was "thrilled for the pair" and that they were | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
going to be "awesome parents." Congratulations are in order for | :28:31. | :28:43. | |
George and Amal loony. The news was broken by Entertainment Tonight. It | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
has been confirmed that the 55-year-old superstar and his very | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
accomplished attorney wife are expecting twins. At 55, George | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
Clooney has hung back a bit before taking on fatherhood, but his good | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
friend Matt Damon has no doubts about how to did he will be to his | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
new role. He's a good man, incredibly smart. He is a loving, | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
funny guy. He is married to a spectacular woman, who is going to | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
be an amazing mother. And you know, you know, again, those kids are just | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
incredibly lucky. They are going to be... They are all going to be fine. | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
George Clooney's marries just over two years ago finally took him off | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
the list of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors. And today's news | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
has brought congratulations. In a little echo Beyonce's famous photo | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
posted to announce that she was expecting twins, Ellen DeGeneres | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
posted this version of the famous picture. Amal loony, a human rights | :29:49. | :29:59. | |
lawyer, has worked on cases including Julian Assange Wikileaks | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
and the campaign to return the Elgin marbles to Greece. She's also the | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
president of the Cluny foundation for justice. Her twins are expected | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
in June. The demands and pressures of raising a family now to add to | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
her and her husband's already full public life. | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
It is a bleak picture for most of us, lots of damp and dismal weather. | :30:23. | :30:43. | |
Good spells of sunshine in Scotland. Speckled wintry showers coming in in | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
the afternoon and into the evening. This picture captures everything. | :30:47. | :30:57. | |
Wintry showers of rain, sleet and snow over eastern areas, the best of | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
the brightness in the West. Brightness in the South West of | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
England and North and West Wales. Elsewhere, cloud will be thick and | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
it will be a dismal, cold feeling day. The best of brighter weather | :31:11. | :31:22. | |
will be across north and west of Scotland, some of it getting into | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
Northern Ireland as well. Temperatures between two and five | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
Celsius. Overnight, showers pouring from the East, mainly affecting the | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
coast. Sleet and snow inland. Accumulations through central and | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
eastern parts. Don't be surprised to wake up tomorrow to a modest | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
covering of snow, certainly over high ground. A cold night with frost | :31:48. | :31:55. | |
and ice in the West. There will be further wintry showers this weekend, | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
and it will be cold because of the wind. Snow will be confined to the | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
hills over the weekend. This feature pushing in across the country will | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
bring more organised showers on Saturday, and then noticed this | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
squeezing isobars on Sunday. It will be really cold and raw. Later in the | :32:13. | :32:21. | |
day, it looks like the snow will retreat to the higher ground. Brain | :32:22. | :32:29. | |
on lower levels. It will be a cold day, temperatures below single | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
figures. The wind will be a feature on Sunday. Temperatures may be up, | :32:35. | :32:47. | |
but it won't feel like that because of the strength of the wind. Heading | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
into next week, we start seeing these orange colours migrating up | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
from the south. Temperatures will just about make double figures in | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
one or two places. A reminder of our main | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
story this lunchtime: The Health Secretary acknowledges | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
that patients are facing "completely unacceptable" delays at hospitals | :33:04. | :33:05. | |
in England. I think it's wrong to suggest the | :33:06. | :33:17. | |
people that these profound challenges, such as we face with an | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
ageing population, are ones where there is a silver bullet that you | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
can solve the problem with overnight. | :33:27. | :33:28. | |
That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me. | :33:29. | :33:31. |