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Freezing temperatures and heavy snow
cause disruption | 0:00:06 | 0:00:11 | |
across large parts of the country. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
Hundreds of schools are closed,
roads are blocked, trains | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
and flights delayed or cancelled -
and there are amber warnings of more | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
severe weather ahead. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:27 | |
Here on the North York Moors we have
had several centimetres of snow and | 0:00:27 | 0:00:32 | |
it keeps on falling. Snowploughs and
gritting teams have done their best | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
to keep the main routes open. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:37 | |
We'll have the latest from our
correspondents round the country. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:40 | |
Also this lunchtime... | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
The International Trade Secretary
says a customs union would prevent | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
Britain doing other trade
deals after Brexit. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
It would be a complete sell-out
of Britain's national interest | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
and a betrayal of the voters
in the referendum. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:58 | |
A temporary ceasefire in the Syrian
enclave of Eastern Ghouta | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
appears to have collapsed,
with more air strikes and shelling. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
A mother and her two sons are among
the victims after the explosion | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
in Leicester that left
five people dead. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
And a takeover tussle for Sky. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
Now an American media giant joins
the fight to buy the TV network. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:23 | |
And coming up
in the sport on BBC News... | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
Women and men will play together
at a European Tour golf event | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
for the first time later this year | 0:01:28 | 0:01:29 | |
as the new GolfSixes
event is launched. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:37 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
Heavy snowfall is hitting parts
of the UK, causing road, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
rail and flight disruption
in many areas. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
Police say driving conditions
are "treacherous" in places - | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
three people have died
in Lincolnshire after a crash | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
involving a car and a lorry. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
Many schools are shut,
and forecasters say some rural | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
communities may be cut off. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
The Met Office has issued amber
warnings for swathes | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
of the country as cold air sweeps
in from the East. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Up to 10cm of snow
is expected today, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
and as much as 20cm is predicted
in some parts of eastern England, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
The transport network has
been badly affected, | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
with many cancellations and delays. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
Robert Hall reports. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:44 | |
The East Coast had time to prepare
but the snowfall sweeping in from | 0:02:44 | 0:02:50 | |
Europe gave travellers a taste of
what this week has in store. Kent | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
had declared a snow emergency with
the gritting shifts working flat | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
out. The lack of traffic overnight
meant that salt couldn't do its work | 0:02:59 | 0:03:05 | |
and by the time the morning rush
arrived, accidents and ice had | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
closed a series of routes including
the M 20 motorway which became in | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
effect a lorry park. Elsewhere,
conditions added hours to journey | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
times. Make sure you are only taking
the journey if it is absolutely | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
necessary. You can be assured that
the motorways and major trunk roads | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
are going to be cleared and treated
but other areas are going to have | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
snow on the ground and it may affect
traction and the way your vehicle | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
handles. Up to ten centimetres of
snow fell across Kent, Surrey and | 0:03:36 | 0:03:44 | |
East Sussex. Farmers were on
stand-by to keep minor routes open. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
Many heeded advice to stay at home
until conditions improved as some | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
towns stage their own Winter
Olympics. The greater hazards lie | 0:03:53 | 0:03:58 | |
away from main roads where there is
less traffic and the snow has had | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
time to settle and to freeze. That
brought a series of accidents which | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
began before dawn and disrupted bus
services and caused the closure of | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
dozens of schools. In Norfolk, where
36 schools were closed, the freezing | 0:04:11 | 0:04:18 | |
conditions also disrupted rail
services. Greater Anglia trains said | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
they were forced to cancel services.
Our trains have to go slower, the | 0:04:22 | 0:04:29 | |
points can freeze, the signals can
freeze. That means that if the | 0:04:29 | 0:04:35 | |
points freeze, the train can't go in
the right direction. The amber | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
warning also covers north-east
England where the problems caused by | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
snow and ice mirrored those further
south. Crawling traffic, pedestrians | 0:04:43 | 0:04:49 | |
slithering through their daily
routines. But on Tynemouth beach, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:56 | |
the swimmers defied subzero
temperatures for a dip that was | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
rather more than just bracing. In
East Yorkshire, the snow swept | 0:05:00 | 0:05:07 | |
across York's millennium Bridge.
White and the sands of Scarborough | 0:05:07 | 0:05:15 | |
Beach, scenes that will become all
too familiar. The wind is going to | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
change and push the heaviest snow
across north-east England and | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
Northern and eastern parts of
Scotland. There could be some areas | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
that 25-40 centimetres over the next
couple of days alone. Back in Kent, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
the snow showers have eased but the
dangers remain. Ice is likely to | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
form later and further every snow
will bring growing challenges in the | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
coming days. Robert Hall reporting. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
In a moment we'll speak to Ben Ando,
who's in Colchester in Essex, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
and to our Transport Correspondent
Victoria Fritz | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
at London Bridge Station. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
First to North Yorkshire
and our correspondent | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
there - Phil Bodmer. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
What is the picture there? The snow
keeps on falling, it comes in waves. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:09 | |
We have an hour or two without it
and then a real downfall. Several | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
centimetres here on the North York
Moors. This is the a 170 between | 0:06:15 | 0:06:21 | |
Pickering and Whitby. It is normally
busier than this. Drivers are not | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
using it like they would ordinarily
but gritting teams and snowploughs | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
have been doing their best to keep
this route over the North York Moors | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
clear. There has been disruption
across the region. The police have | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
been busy in Lincolnshire, three
people died in a crash between a car | 0:06:38 | 0:06:43 | |
and a lorry. They dealt with half a
dozen accidents before 6:30am. There | 0:06:43 | 0:06:51 | |
have been reports from Merseyside
Police dealing with collisions on | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
icy surfaces and on the M 62, the
Northwest Medway police have had a | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
busy day. If you are heading to the
airport, regional airports are | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
operating but the airlines advise is
to check in early if you can and | 0:07:04 | 0:07:09 | |
allow extra time for your journey
from home to the airport. Here in | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
Yorkshire, several hundred schools
are closed today. The disruption | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
wasn't perhaps as bad as initially
anticipated but nonetheless with | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
more snow anticipated tonight,
conditions could deteriorate and | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
drivers are being warned to take
extra care. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
Phil Bodmer in Levisham
in North Yorkshire. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
Ben Ando is in Colchester in Essex. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
How much disruption has there been
there? There has been a fair amount. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:42 | |
Greater Anglia who run trains from
this station into London normally | 0:07:42 | 0:07:47 | |
packed with rush-hour commuters were
running barely half the number of | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
services. The snow levels weren't as
high as anticipated but the | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
temperatures were very cold. Some
commuters were asking if the beast | 0:07:55 | 0:08:02 | |
from the East was the least from the
East. The difficulty for the rail | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
network is they need to plan for the
worse. Snowy conditions can cause | 0:08:05 | 0:08:12 | |
signals and points to fail and all
sorts of difficulties and they can't | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
run as many trains and those that do
run have to run more slowly. They | 0:08:15 | 0:08:21 | |
are looking to reinstate some
services, particularly to rural | 0:08:21 | 0:08:26 | |
lines. They are aware that tonight
the forecast is for more snow and | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
there could be more disruption to
come over the next few days. Staff | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
here have been helping out. There
have been engineering workers, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
people who normally work in
Administration coming down to help | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
passengers. Although passengers were
frustrated most appreciated the fact | 0:08:43 | 0:08:49 | |
that there was an early warning of
problems and they could plan | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
accordingly. They understood
pragmatically that there were | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
difficulties. Thank you very much
indeed. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Our Transport Correspondent Victoria
Fritz is at London Bridge Station. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:04 | |
One of the busiest stations in the
country. How are things there? It | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
has been a busy day at many of the
main hotspots for travel because | 0:09:10 | 0:09:17 | |
resource has been chucked at the
arterial routes in and out of major | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
cities, London being one. As we've
been hearing, the bulk of the snow | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
has been hitting the eastern flank
of the country so the services that | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
have been affected the most are in
Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey, for | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
example. Some of them come through
here at London Bridge. There have | 0:09:35 | 0:09:41 | |
been services disrupted and
cancelled. Lots of customers coming | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
and saying, what is the fuss about?
Surely, this is just the great | 0:09:45 | 0:09:50 | |
British flake out, rather than the
beast from the East, to quote a | 0:09:50 | 0:09:57 | |
newspaper this morning. The real
problem is the cold weather, not | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
necessarily the snow. Although
drifts and falling icicles do cause | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
problems. The low temperatures mean
the tracks can stick and the points | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
can't move and that means signals
stay red and trains cannot pass | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
through. Network Rail, amongst other
things have been trying to heat the | 0:10:15 | 0:10:20 | |
points, they have massive heaters
that they are trying to use to keep | 0:10:20 | 0:10:25 | |
the points want to keep signals
green. They have been running trains | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
through the night to keep the lines
clean. We have seen more disruption | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
as the beast from the East heads
West. Thanks to all our | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
correspondence. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
And you can keep up to date
with the weather and travel | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
situation in your area,
by visiting the BBC News Live page. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:50 | |
The International Trade Secretary
Liam Fox has been delivering | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
a speech about Brexit. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 | |
He talked about future trade
opportunities and restated | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
the government's intention to leave
the customs union. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
He also claimed it's not
in the interests of the UK or the EU | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
to put in place barriers to trade. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
Our Political Correspondent Alex
Forsyth reports from Westminster. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
He came to explain which way Brexit
is heading. In front of business | 0:11:15 | 0:11:22 | |
leaders, the international trade
secretary restated the government's | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
case, arguing that staying in the
customs union would bind the UK to | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
EU rules and limit trade
opportunities. It would be a | 0:11:30 | 0:11:37 | |
complete sell-out of Britain's
national interest and a betrayal of | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
voters in the referendum. Then there
is the issue of constraints on the | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
ability to negotiate independent
range arrangements. A customs union | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
would remove the bulk of incentives
for other countries to enter into | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
comprehensive free trade agreements
with the UK. But only hours earlier, | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
this man who was until recently be
most senior civil servant in the | 0:12:00 | 0:12:05 | |
Department for trade warned that
leaving the customs union would | 0:12:05 | 0:12:12 | |
damage the economy. With market
access through Europe and | 0:12:12 | 0:12:18 | |
preferential trade deals against
bilateral trade deals with smaller | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
markets, it's like giving up a three
course meal for the promise of a | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
packet of crisps. A customs union
means a single set of tariffs are | 0:12:26 | 0:12:34 | |
charged on goods moving from outside
the EU. They can move freely around | 0:12:34 | 0:12:40 | |
the block but members cannot trade
independently with other countries. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:46 | |
The government says that leaving
gives scope to trade deals outside | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
the EU. But that's not to everyone's
taste. Labour says that the UK | 0:12:51 | 0:12:58 | |
should stay in a customs union after
Brexit so there is a clear | 0:12:58 | 0:13:05 | |
difference between them and the
government and some conservative MPs | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
agree with Labour, making the
politics of this as tricky as the | 0:13:09 | 0:13:14 | |
practicalities. One of the questions
is what happens with the Irish | 0:13:14 | 0:13:18 | |
border. It will be the frontier
between the EU and UK. The question, | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
how to avoid border checks. The
Foreign Secretary claimed a solution | 0:13:22 | 0:13:29 | |
was possible but was criticised for
com pairing it to the London | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
congestion charge. When I was Mayor
of London, we and is politically and | 0:13:32 | 0:13:40 | |
invisibly took hundreds of millions
of pounds from the accounts of | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
people travelling between the
borough 's without the need for | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
border checks whatever. For him to
say that the Irish border is similar | 0:13:47 | 0:13:55 | |
to two London boroughs is grotesque.
The arguments on both sides continue | 0:13:55 | 0:14:01 | |
as this complex negotiation about
Britain's future heads towards | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
crunch time. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
Our Assistant Political Editor
Norman Smith is in Central London - | 0:14:06 | 0:14:14 | |
What did you make of the trade
Secretary's speech? I think we | 0:14:14 | 0:14:21 | |
learned that the customs union is
shaping up to be one of the key | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
battle grounds over Brexit.
Probably, most others had never | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
heard of the customs union before
this blew up. Now it is a central | 0:14:29 | 0:14:34 | |
plank of the government's case for
leaving the U. Leaving it will | 0:14:34 | 0:14:39 | |
enable us to forge new trade deals
with countries in different parts of | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
the world where the growth in the
global economy is. Essential to our | 0:14:42 | 0:14:51 | |
economic future. However, we then
heard from the man who used to run | 0:14:51 | 0:14:56 | |
Liam Fox's department until March
last year saying pretty much the | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
exact opposite. It's such a bad idea
that we'll have two as to rejoin the | 0:15:00 | 0:15:06 | |
customs union and the single market
and will place the British economy | 0:15:06 | 0:15:12 | |
at a competitive disadvantage,
discourage inward investment and | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
turned Britain from one of the most
open economies into one of the most | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
bureaucratic economies. Why this
intervention matters is because it | 0:15:19 | 0:15:24 | |
follows a series of other
interventions on the customs union. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
Yesterday we heard from Jeremy
Corbyn saying Labour was going to | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
back staying in a customs union. The
CBI, the bosses organisation, said | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
that they would really like to stay
in the customs union. A number of | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
Tory Remainer is also signalling
they want to stay. After Easter, the | 0:15:42 | 0:15:47 | |
likelihood is that there will be a
vote in Parliament on whether we | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
should stay in a customs union. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:57 | |
should stay in a customs union. Le
crunch is looming. Thank you, | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Norman. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
The ceasefire in Syria
is feared to have collapsed - | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
with reports of continued fighting
in Eastern Ghouta, | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
the enclave of Damascus
controlled by Syrian rebels. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
The brief pause was ordered
by Syria's ally, Russia, | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
which said it would be repeated
daily to allow civilians to leave. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:20 | |
An estimated 400,000 people
are trapped in Eastern Ghouta, | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
and in the last week more than 560
people have been killed. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:27 | |
Martin Patience is in Beirut,
in neighbouring Lebanon. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:32 | |
Does it look like the ceasefire has
been shattered? Yes, I think it | 0:16:33 | 0:16:38 | |
does. At last -- it lasted briefly,
a brief period of relative calm, but | 0:16:38 | 0:16:46 | |
it broke down with counterclaims on
both sides, the government accusing | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
the rebels of firing mortar shells
on a fluctuation corridors which was | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
meant to be used by civilians trying
to flee the besieged area. In the | 0:16:55 | 0:17:00 | |
end, not a single civilian left
Eastern Ghouta this morning. We also | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
have not seen any access,
humanitarian access. Hundreds have | 0:17:05 | 0:17:10 | |
been killed, hundreds injured.
International organisations are | 0:17:10 | 0:17:14 | |
saying they need to get into Eastern
Ghouta to provide assistance. In | 0:17:14 | 0:17:19 | |
terms of the government's part,
monitoring group said the Syrian | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
government itself also carried out
air strikes. A brief pause but a | 0:17:24 | 0:17:29 | |
collapse under the weight of
violence. What happens next? What | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
are the prospects for a lasting
ceasefire? It is very difficult to | 0:17:32 | 0:17:39 | |
see. I think we will see all sides
trying again tomorrow, but the big | 0:17:39 | 0:17:44 | |
issue in Syria, the story of the
country is a complete lack of trust | 0:17:44 | 0:17:50 | |
and a complete lack of consensus in
the international community about | 0:17:50 | 0:17:55 | |
what to do in Syria and on the local
ground. We hear talks are under way | 0:17:55 | 0:18:02 | |
between... Negotiations between the
rebel factions and the Syrian | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
government. Whether that leads to a
ceasefire tomorrow or the day after, | 0:18:05 | 0:18:11 | |
we simply do not know. Many thanks. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:17 | |
The Foreign Secretary,
Boris Johnson, says the Government | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
won't fund any aid agency that
allows the exploitation | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
of women in Southern Syria. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:22 | |
It follows evidence given to the BBC
that some women in the south | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
of the country have been exploited
by men delivering aid on behalf | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
of the United Nations
and international charities. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
Here's our diplomatic
correspondent, James Landale. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:38 | |
The fighting in Syria continues. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
Here, in rebel-held
Eastern Ghouta and elsewhere. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:49 | |
And it has now emerged that some
refugees fleeing the conflict have | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
faced demands for sex from local
Syrian officials delivering aid on | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
behalf of international charities. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
They were withholding the aid that
had been delivered and then | 0:18:58 | 0:19:06 | |
using these women for sex. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:10 | |
So, this was a range
of women, there were women | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
of different ages in the group. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
Some had experienced it themselves. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
Some were very distraught. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
Danielle Spencer's
an experienced aid worker. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
She heard these stories from women
who had fled to Jordan | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
and they told her that many refused
to go to distribution centres | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
because people would assume they had
offered their bodies for aid. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
Two charities, Care and
the International Rescue Committee, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
warned about this abuse three years
ago and tightened | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
up their procedures. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
But a report from the UN
Population Fund late last | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
year confirmed that sex
was still being traded for aid. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
Sexual exploitation and abuse
of women and girls has been ignored. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:57 | |
It's been known about and it's been
ignored for seven years. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:02 | |
This war is seven years old. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:07 | |
The UN and the system,
as it currently stands, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
have chosen for women's bodies
to be sacrificed. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:16 | |
The Department for International
Development said it was not aware | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
of any cases like this involving UK
aid, and if there were, | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
the Foreign Secretary said
the funding would be stopped. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
Obviously, we have talked a great
deal about this in the last few | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
weeks, since the whole business
broke with Oxfam and so on, | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
and Penny Mordaunt and I are
absolutely committed | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
to a zero-tolerance approach. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
Can it be stopped? | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
Well, we will not support
agencies that engage | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
in that kind of activity. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
UN agencies and charities said
they had zero tolerance | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
of exploitation but were not aware
of any cases of abuse | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
by their own partner organisations,
and one UN spokesman played down | 0:20:54 | 0:21:00 | |
the reports, saying
they were incomplete, | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
fragmented and unsubstantiated. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
James Landale, BBC News. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
Our top story this lunchtime... | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
Freezing temperatures and heavy
snow cause disruption | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
across large parts of the UK,
with amber warnings of more | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
severe weather ahead. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
And still to come... | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Penguins in peril -
why global warming is threatening | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
the survival of these birds. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
Coming up in sport... | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
Manchester United fan and eight-time
Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
will play at Old Trafford in June,
as captain of a World XI | 0:21:34 | 0:21:39 | |
in the Soccer Aid match. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
The emergency services say
there are no more survivors | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
in the ruins of a building
in Leicester that was destroyed | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
by an explosion on Sunday. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:55 | |
Police have now named the five
people who died in the blast, | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
including a mother and her
two teenage sons. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:03 | |
It's not yet known what caused
the explosion, which some residents | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
said sounded like an earthquake. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:07 | |
James Waterhouse is in Leicester. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:14 | |
What is the latest? Quite a lot of
activity on this quite fortified | 0:22:14 | 0:22:21 | |
police cordon at the moment. A press
conference taking place. Police have | 0:22:21 | 0:22:26 | |
announced they no longer expect to
find survivors from within the | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
rubble of the blast site. They are
using specialist cameras and sniffer | 0:22:29 | 0:22:35 | |
dogs to look for other human
remains. We have lent their names of | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
those who are thought to have died.
46-year-old Mary Ragoobar and her | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
two sons, Shane and Sean. It was
thought they lived in the flat above | 0:22:43 | 0:22:52 | |
the supermarket. And Leah Beth Reek,
Shane's girlfriend, and Viktorija | 0:22:52 | 0:23:00 | |
Ljevleva who worked in the
supermarket. Five other people are | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
still being treated in hospital and
one is described as having | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
life-threatening injuries. The
cause, until this point, the | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
priority had been search and rescue,
looking for survivors. The | 0:23:10 | 0:23:15 | |
authorities are not saying the
information as to the cause at this | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
stage. Vehicles have been signed in
and out, and active scene, and this | 0:23:18 | 0:23:24 | |
operation has a different emphasis.
Thank you very much, James | 0:23:24 | 0:23:30 | |
Waterhouse reporting. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:35 | |
An armed police officer who failed
to confront the gunman at last | 0:23:35 | 0:23:38 | |
week's Florida school shooting has
spoken out after being called | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
a coward by President Trump. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:41 | |
Scot Peterson said he believed
the shots were coming | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
from outside the school,
rather than inside, and claimed | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
he was following his training
by taking up what he called | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
a tactical position. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:49 | |
But at a meeting on gun
control at the White House, | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Mr Trump said he would have
acted more bravely. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
You know, I really believe,
you don't know until you are tested, | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
but I think I really believe
I would run into it, | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
even if I didn't have a weapon,
and I think most of the people | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
in this room would have done that
too because I know most of you. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
But the way they performed
was really a disgrace. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
Police in Northern Ireland say
at least three people have died | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
in a house fire in County Fermanagh. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
Emergency services remain at the
scene at the property in Derrylin. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
Police have arrested a 27-year-old
man on suspicion of murder. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:29 | |
German cities will be
allowed to ban older diesel | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
vehicles from some areas,
following a landmark court ruling. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
The court said the cities
of Stuttgart and Dusseldorf | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
could legally ban particularly dirty
diesel cars from zones worst | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
affected by pollution. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
Both the government and the car
industry have opposed the move. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
Diesel emissions containing nitrogen
oxide have been linked | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
with respiratory disease. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:53 | |
America's biggest cable operator
is trying to buy Sky television. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:58 | |
Comcast, which owns the US TV
network NBC and Universal Pictures, | 0:24:58 | 0:25:06 | |
has put in a bid of £22 billion. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
The offer challenges an existing bid
from 21st Century Fox, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
which has a minority stake in Sky. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:12 | |
Our media editor,
Amol Rajan, is here. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:18 | |
Quite the takeover tussle looming
for Sky? There are now three | 0:25:18 | 0:25:23 | |
separate bids involving Sky, the
British broadcaster. The bid by 21st | 0:25:23 | 0:25:28 | |
Century Fox, Rupert Murdoch's
company for the 61% of Sky it does | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
not already own. That has taken a
long time, stuck with regulators | 0:25:33 | 0:25:38 | |
concerned about media plurality, the
Murdochs having too much power. Now | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
there is a fresh bid from Comcast,
which owns universal studios and | 0:25:42 | 0:25:49 | |
NBC, the broadcast network, and it
is a cash offer and it is the £22.1 | 0:25:49 | 0:25:55 | |
billion. This will be attracted to
the shareholders because it is not | 0:25:55 | 0:26:00 | |
likely to have | 0:26:00 | 0:26:07 | |
likely to have the same regulator
considerations. And there is a | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
separate bid by Disney for the whole
of Fox. There is massive disruption | 0:26:11 | 0:26:16 | |
going on in the media, the internet
has changed the game, traditional TV | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
broadcasters are struggling and this
is a desperate bid for scale and the | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
people who own the content, they are
desperately trying to get together | 0:26:24 | 0:26:29 | |
with the people who own the pipes
and the distribution, in that | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
context, Sky's customers in Europe
are attractive. What does it mean | 0:26:33 | 0:26:40 | |
for Sky customers? It is an
endorsement of Sky as a company, if | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
you are one of the 22 million Sky
customers in Europe, it is good | 0:26:44 | 0:26:50 | |
news, it means people are continued
to continue investing in new and one | 0:26:50 | 0:26:55 | |
of these companies, Fox, Comcast,
Disney, with huge libraries of | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
content, they want to give you more
stuff. If you are Sky customer, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
reasons to be cheerful this week.
Thank you very much. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:09 | |
The retrial is under way
of the director of a yachting | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
management company charged
with the manslaughter | 0:27:12 | 0:27:13 | |
of four sailors who died
when the Cheeki Rafiki capsized | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
in the North Atlantic in May, 2014. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
The jury has been hearing how
Douglas Innes carried on drinking | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
after receiving an email saying
the yacht was in trouble. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
Duncan Kennedy reports
from Winchester Crown Court. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
This was the Cheeki Rafiki
long before the incident | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
at the centre of this retrial. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
She was a 15-tonne racing yacht,
but one that had not been inspected | 0:27:34 | 0:27:39 | |
for the three years before
she capsized in May, 2014. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:46 | |
Four men died when she sank -
Andrew Bridge, the skipper, | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
James Male, the first mate,
Steve Warren and Paul Goslin. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
Their bodies were never found. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
The prosecution say Douglas Innes,
whose company manage | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
the Cheeki Rafiki, was responsible
for their deaths because he had | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
failed to carry out proper
maintenance and didn't provide | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
enough safety kit. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
The court heard he had been
in the pub when he received e-mails | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
and calls from the yacht,
saying they were taking on water | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
1,000 miles off the Canadian coast. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:12 | |
A huge search was launched
and combed thousands | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
of square miles of ocean. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:20 | |
Eventually, the Cheeki was found,
overturned, with its keel missing, | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
and no sign of the men. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
The prosecution say the keel came
off because some of the bolts | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
holding it to the hull were rusty. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:34 | |
The prosecution say that
Douglas Innes was so negligent that | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
he created the conditions for death. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
They say what he did was criminal. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
They say his errors and omissions
were exceptionally bad and that | 0:28:42 | 0:28:48 | |
the Cheeki Rafiki was broken. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:53 | |
The prosecution also say
the Cheeki Rafiki should never have | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
taken a northerly route
across the Atlantic | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
because of bad weather. | 0:28:57 | 0:28:58 | |
Douglas Innes denies four
counts of manslaughter | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
by gross negligence. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
The trial is due
to last until Easter. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:06 | |
Duncan Kennedy, BBC News,
at Winchester Crown Court. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:12 | |
Scientists are warning that global
warming could have a devastating | 0:29:12 | 0:29:14 | |
impact on king penguins. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
Researchers say climate change
is shifting the ocean currents | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
the penguins depend on for food. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
70% of them may be forced
to move from their current | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
nesting sites or die. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:25 | |
Here's our science
correspondent, Jonathan Amos. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:31 | |
Splashing ashore after another
successful outing to find food | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
in the Southern Ocean. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:36 | |
These are king penguins,
one of the biggest of | 0:29:36 | 0:29:41 | |
the 17 penguin species. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:45 | |
The animals are currently doing
well, but their notoriously fussy | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
habits could soon get them
into trouble, say scientists. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:53 | |
The birds will only nest on smooth,
sandy or pebble beaches, | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
away from sea ice. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:57 | |
That restricts king
penguin colonies. | 0:29:57 | 0:29:58 | |
At the moment, their nesting sites
are limited to a specific | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
series of islands that
surround the Antarctic. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:05 | |
That is fine, for the moment,
because these islands are close | 0:30:05 | 0:30:11 | |
to nutrient-rich upwelling waters
that support lots of fish and squid. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
The problem is that as the climate
warms, these foraging waters | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
are moving southward and away
from current nesting sites. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
In a few decades, the penguins
could have to swim too far to feed | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
themselves and their chicks. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
French scientists are warning that
unless the birds can | 0:30:27 | 0:30:30 | |
adapt and find new homes,
their numbers will see a dramatic | 0:30:30 | 0:30:32 | |
fall by the century's end. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:39 | |
Jonathan Amos, BBC News. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
Here's Darren Bett. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:46 | |
You have even got snowflakes on your
tie! | 0:30:46 | 0:30:53 | |
The severe weather this morning, the
amber snow warnings, they have now | 0:30:53 | 0:30:57 | |
expired. Some heavy snow in the
south-east of England, notably Kent. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
Sevenoaks, and around | 0:31:02 | 0:31:08 | |
Sevenoaks, and around Maidstone, a
lot earlier. Snow coming and going | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
through the rest of the day as well.
And through the rest of the week. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
More severe weather to come, more
weather warnings from the Met | 0:31:15 | 0:31:20 | |
Office, more travel disruption,
significant wind-chill. If you think | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
it is called now, wait until
tomorrow. The winds from Siberia, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:28 | |
the beast from the east, heading our
way. These are the snow showers we | 0:31:28 | 0:31:33 | |
have seen over the past few hours.
Temperatures barely above freezing | 0:31:33 | 0:31:38 | |
in most areas. The snow in Wales
should move away. The snow pushing | 0:31:38 | 0:31:44 | |
west. Overnight, more Eastern areas
seeing more frequent snow showers. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:48 | |
Some further west but also clear
skies as well. The snow easing in | 0:31:48 | 0:31:53 | |
the south-east of England, heading
through the English Channel to parts | 0:31:53 | 0:31:57 | |
of Devon and Cornwall later in the
night. Other widespread frost. Down | 0:31:57 | 0:32:04 | |
to -8 last night. The focus of the
heavy snow shifts north, Met Office | 0:32:04 | 0:32:11 | |
amber snow warnings into Thursday
and tomorrow in eastern Scotland and | 0:32:11 | 0:32:16 | |
the central Belt and north-eastern
parts of England, significant snow, | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
particularly over the hills. Snow
shower after snow shower for this | 0:32:19 | 0:32:25 | |
area is driven by strong to gale
force easterly winds. Snow showers | 0:32:25 | 0:32:27 | |
elsewhere. The temperature is a bit
lower than today. Add on the | 0:32:27 | 0:32:35 | |
strength of the wind, significant
wind-chill. It will feel more like | 0:32:35 | 0:32:40 | |
-9, minus ten. Really cold day to
come. It stays that way into | 0:32:40 | 0:32:45 | |
Thursday too. Low-pressure coming
up, into the cold air. Snow showers | 0:32:45 | 0:32:52 | |
overnight in the north but we will
find snow developing in the south, | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
pushing its way across the
south-western corner of the UK, | 0:32:56 | 0:33:01 | |
south-west England, Wales, another
snow warning, amber warning, from | 0:33:01 | 0:33:05 | |
the Met Office through the latter
part of Thursday. That is where the | 0:33:05 | 0:33:10 | |
heaviest snowfall will be in England
and Wales. Those are the | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
temperatures, but we still have the
bitterly cold easterly winds, so | 0:33:14 | 0:33:19 | |
again, wrap up well, if you have to
go out, it will feel like -9, minus | 0:33:19 | 0:33:23 | |
ten. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:29 | |
The weather is the main story this
lunchtime. Causing disruption across | 0:33:29 | 0:33:35 | |
large parts of the UK, with amber
warnings for more severe weather | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
ahead. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:39 | |
That's all from the BBC News at One,
so it's goodbye from me. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:44 |