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Desperation and anger in the Philippines - hundreds of thousands | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
are still without food or shelter. In Tacloban, home to more than | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
200,000 people, everything has been flattened. It's a city strewn with | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
bodies and debris. People here are having to help | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
themselves, they're doing everything they can to rebuild their homes, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
their lives, and survive, but the question is, where do you start? | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Around 11 million people are thought to have been affected. Now there are | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
fears about the spread of disease. Britain is sending aid - the first | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
plane from the UK carrying supplies is due land in the next hour. | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
We'll be live in the disaster zone and we'll be assessing Britain's | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
response. Also tonight: The energy company EDF | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
becomes the latest to raise prices, but the hike's a lot less than its | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
rivals. Will shopping vouchers entice more | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
mothers to breast-feed? A pilot scheme is launched to find out. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
And designer Sir Paul Smith on Britain, brands and business. | :01:08. | :01:25. | |
England will be without Michael Carrick and Danny Welbeck for the | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
friendlies against chilly and Germany. | :01:28. | :01:41. | |
Good evening. There's growing desperation tonight among survivors | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
of the super typhoon that left a trail of destruction across the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Philippines. Many are facing a fifth night without the basics of life - | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
food, water and shelter - and there are serious concerns about the | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
spread of disease. There are fears that at least 10,000 people may have | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
died in the disaster. -- that up to 10,000 people may have died, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
although the final number could change. The United Nations has | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
launched an appeal for almost ?200 million. Tonight we'll hear from the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
worst affected areas - the towns and villages on Cebu island still | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
waiting for aid - and from the epicentre of the disaster, the city | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
of Tacloban. From there, Jon Donnison sent this report. | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
Rain was the last thing people needed here today. After a night of | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
thunderstorms, the homeless and the helpless are doing what they can to | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
put a roof over their heads. In this neighbourhood, the clean-up has | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
begun. It may look futile, but people are doing their best to | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
restore some sort of order. Remembering what they once had and | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
wondering when help will arrive. People here are having to help | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
themselves. They are doing whatever they can to try to rebuild their | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
homes and their lives and survive. But the question, surely, where do | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
you start? And this is just one block in one neighbourhood in one | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
city. Everyone here has remarkable stories | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
of how they survived the Typhoon. Powerhouse collapsed. I got into my | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
toilet. -- our house collapsed. I held onto the toilet. But the | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
survivors are still vulnerable. Clean water is in short supply. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Here, they are using a T-shirt to filter out the filth so it can be | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
used to cook with. People here are resilient, determined to get their | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
lives back, but they need help, and soon. We can survive without houses. | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
It is OK for us. We can sleep anywhere. But we need food. Only | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
food. No money, no places, no televisions, no cell phones, no | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
technology, it is food, we need food. To get it, some are | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
increasingly taking matters into their own hands. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Another big food warehouse was ransacked today. As the word got | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
out, hundreds rushed to grab what they could. Five days after the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Typhoon struck, people here are still having to help themselves. | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
The first British Government aid flight is expected to arrive in the | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Philippines shortly. It will bring tents and shelters. But getting the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
aid into the country is one thing. Getting the aid out to those who | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
need it is another. George Alagiah flew from Cebu city to try to reach | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
Tacloban, and sent this report. Flying time to tackle a ban, the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
heart of the disaster zone, is about 45 minutes. -- flying time to | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Tacloban. But the captain wonders that he might have to dodge a fewer | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
storms. Much of the aid effort so far is focused on some of the big | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
towns. From 300 feet above ground you can see just how many villages | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
have been affected. Helicopter mercy missions would be ideal, but there | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
is a problem. One of the pilots had a bad experience. He landed, and the | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
people just ran forwards and grabbed him. It was dangerous. I guess you | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
can't really blame them, they are just desperate? Exactly, they are | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
really desperate, they need immediate help. Really desperate | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
time. Around this area, the roads have been cleared, but other | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
infrastructure, from electric pylons to factories, have been destroyed. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Much of Leyte province is given over to agriculture - mostly coconuts, | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
sugar cane and rice. You can see that mile upon mile of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
crops has been destroyed. The rural farmers here have lost their whole | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
growing season. They will be dependent on food age for months. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Tacloban lies on the other side of a ridge of mountains. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Our pilot tried several passes but the weather was closing in. No | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
choice but to turn back. The rain is too thick, the clouds | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
are too close to the ground. You get a sense of how difficult the aid | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
operation must be. Filipinos are resilient, this is not the first | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
storm they have weathered, and it will not be the last. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
If nothing else, they have their faith to cling to. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
George Alagiah reporting there. As victims of the typhoon become | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
increasingly angry at the lack of food, shelter and medicine, the | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Filipino government has pledged to leave not one living person behind, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
no matter where they are. But many in the more remote areas have heard | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
nothing from the authorities so far. Our correspondent Alastair Leithead | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
travelled from Cebu city to the far north of Cebu island, which so far | :07:21. | :07:33. | |
has received no aid. On Cebu Island, the roads north is | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
littered with the remains of what the storm left behind. Holmes turned | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
to matchsticks. Trees stripped. Every village has a terrifying story | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
of the night the storm hit. Where is your house? There. Jena was inside | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
with her husband and three children when the roof flew off. The roof has | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
come off? They had to battle the win to reach the safety of a | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
neighbour's home. -- battled the wind. We saw two small teams working | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
on the power lines, a desperate task for so few people. All along the | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
roads, children have been sent to ask for help, but it has been slow | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
in coming. These people manage to collect a fewer sacks of rice | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
together and drove to the first place where they found people in | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
need. It did not take long. The line was soon up the road. We are packing | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
rice, candles and medicines. The further you go north, it is very | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
badly affected. She was right. The wind tore this roof off is one | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
peaches -- one piece. So much damage and help us not arrived, four days | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
on. Please, if you could help our people, some of them are dying for | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
hunger. We need the help and assistance of some kind-hearted | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
people. On the northern tip of Cebu Island, the storm hit hardest. Some | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
were lucky and just needed patch holes, others will need to start | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
from scratch. As we made the way to the area where the majority of the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
damage has been done, pretty much every house has been flattened or | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
had its roof taken off. The people here say the islands surrounding it | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
are even worse. There are still so many remote places along the trail | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
of disaster where people are desperately waiting for help. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
New footage has also emerged which shows the typhoon as it struck the | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Philippines. The amateur video shows trees and buildings in the city of | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Tacloban being battered by winds of up to 170 miles an hour as the storm | :09:55. | :10:07. | |
made landfall. Tim Willcox is at the airport in | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Cebu city, where aid is being called elated. Is there any sign that this | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
aid is coming through in larger quantities? There are problems. I am | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
in Cebu city, a few miles away from Cebu International airport, which is | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
meant to be one of the main departure points for international | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
aid into the worst affected areas. But because of a shortage of | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
suitable aircraft, for example for Tacloban runway, which is | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
particularly short, and the bad weather, some of the aid is not | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
getting through. Earlier today I spoke to a crew on board a Belgian | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
flight which had flown in from Brussels at dawn via Azerbaijan and | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
India. On board that flight will water purification systems and a | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
mobile field hospital, equipment that would keep 30,000 people going | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
for up to a month. But because there was no on-board transportation | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
availability, that aid is on the runway here at the international | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
airport. Very frustrating for the crew on board, they are desperate to | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
get into the worst affected areas. And really problematic for those | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
tens of thousands of people who need that aid to like that, -- who need | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
that aid, like that, you may now be denied. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
The rest of the news now. The energy firm EDF has become the latest to | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
raise its prices. But the hike of 3.9% was | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
significantly lower than those of its rivals, raising the prospect of | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
a price war between the companies. The Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, has | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
warned the big six not to treat their customers as cash cows to be | :11:47. | :11:58. | |
squeezed. John Moylan reports. Price rises have come thick and | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
fast. SSE, then three others. It is thought E.ON will move soon. Now 2.5 | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
million EDF customers will see bills increase by 3.9%, the lowest | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
increase so far. Instead of doing what the others have done, which is | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
to increase more than twice, we have held back part of the increase so | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
our customers will benefit now from this review of the cost. | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
That review is into the green and social levies suppliers pass on to | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
households. The government is seeking to scale them back. Another | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
of the big six suppliers has confirmed that if that happens, | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
prices will fall. If the levy comes down, the price comes down. On the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
same basis as EDF, our price would go up net around 6%, from 10% 26%. | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
What has been forcing prices higher? Some have blamed higher wholesale | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
gas and electricity costs, but EDF says these have been flat. It is | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
threatening to increase tariffs if those cuts in levies do not come. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
The move today by EDF has put the pressure back on the government. The | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Prime Minister has said he wants to roll back the green levies, but the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
question for his Energy Secretary is, can the government deliver on | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
that and, if so, I how much can they reduce bills? ?50 to ?60 seems to be | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
the informed speculation. The Energy Secretary would not comment today | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
but stepped up his attack on the firms. It is so difficult for people | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
to work out what is going on, and they fear that the big energy | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
companies are taking them for a ride. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Fair or not, consumers look at the big suppliers and see a reflection | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
of the greed which consumed the banks. Consumers say the big energy | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
companies always raise prices by the same amount. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Now EDF has broken ranks, but will that be enough to get people to | :14:06. | :14:06. | |
switch? Inflation has dropped to its lowest | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
level in more than a year. It's fallen to 2.2% in October, down from | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
2.7% in September, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index. Our chief | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
economics correspondent Hugh Pym is here with the details. | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
It was expected to fall, but not by this much? Indeed. Most analysts | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
were surprised by the sharp drop in inflation, which measures cost of | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
living increases. Let's look at some of the detail behind the latest | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
figures. It is worth bearing in mind that although inflation has fallen, | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
food prices are raising pretty sharply, up 4.3% in the year to | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
October. The clothing price increases are more muted, up 1.4%. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
The downward pressure on inflation came from fuel prices, on average | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
they were down 4.2% in the year to October. Inflation is still running | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
three times the rate of average pay rises, it is not totally clear where | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
it goes from here because of these energy price increases, but this is | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
better than expected news for consumers, who will be a bit more | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
relieved. Our top story: The UN launches an | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
appeal for ?200 million to help the victims of the Super Typhoon that | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
hit the Philippines. Coming up, I will be reporting from this Oxfam | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
warehouse. 16 tonnes of equipment and supplies, heading out to the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Philippines. I will be showing you some of the stuff that is heading | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
out there. In Sportsday, head Ernie and have appointed Terry Butcher as | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
their new manager. The former England captain joined from | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Inverness. He has admitted he left the Highlands with a heavy heart. | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
The British fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has spent his life | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
building his business into a global brand. Now his contribution to | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
fashion is to be recognised in an exhibition at the Design Museum in | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
London. Sir Paul, 67, opened his first shop in 1970 in Nottingham. He | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
now sells clothes in 74 countries around the world. The fashion | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
industry contributes an estimated ?21 billion to the UK economy. But, | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
as he told the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz, it is still a | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
struggle for designers to get the recognition they deserve. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
The latest catwalk show from 67-year-old British designer Sir | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
Paul Smith. His career is the subject of a new exhibition at the | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Design Museum in London. It starts with a replica of the tiny backroom | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
in Nottingham from which he started his fashion empire by, he says, | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
trusting his instincts. Do not clutter your head with information | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
about other people and other stuff. Just look around. What I really | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
tried to talk to are lots of youngsters, when I see them, people | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
that visit the building is that it is there if you want it, but you | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
have to be patient. Nowadays, everybody wants to go like a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
rocket. To be a designer now, I think you have really got to have a | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
point of view. What is the Paul Smith point of view? The overused | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
phrase is classic with a twist. I worked out many years ago, I am not | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
a confrontational person, I wanted people to be at ease in my clothes. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
But I also wanted them to be a bit special. I thought, why would | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
anybody buy anything from me when there are brilliant things out | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
there? And I kept thinking, well, all I can do is make something that | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
is easy to wear but makes you smile. Or something that has a little | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
secret that only you know about. What about where we are now, as far | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
as the fashion business is concerned? You have a major | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
international business. The creative industries are considered to be a | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
huge part of Britain's future. Do you think they are supported | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
sufficiently well by government? I have been to Downing Street. You | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
know, fighting my corner for design. Not for me, Paul Smith, but for | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
design. Explaining... I remember years ago, explaining that design is | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
not just about bare breasts and red hair. It is about designing, for | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
instance, a tap that some body with rheumatism can turn more easily. If | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
you look at a lot of the key companies around the world, there | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
will be a British designer in there. So we are great at producing them | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
and creating them. But we are not always great at nurturing them. What | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
is the problem? Probably something to do with our attitude towards the | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
management of design. Not understanding design. Paul Smith | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
certainly does. Realising that an emotional connection as often as | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
important as functional practicalities. He is surrounded by | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
curios and objects sent in by happy customers. People wanting to | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
brighten up his world, just as he wanted to brighten theirs. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
The jury in the trial of former News International staff accused of phone | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
hacking has been listening to recordings of voice mail messages by | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
the former Labour Cabinet minister David Blunkett. They were left on | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
the mobile of his friend, Sally Anderson. The messages, left in the | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
wake of false newspaper claims that he was having a relationship with | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Miss Anderson, were seized from the home of the private investigator. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
New mothers are to be paid to breast-feed their babies as part of | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
a research project aimed at boosting low rates of breast-feeding. Mothers | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
taking part in the pilot scheme in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire will | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
get vouchers to spend at shops and supermarkets. Critics say the money | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
would be better spent helping those mothers that have difficulties | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
feeding their newborns. Breast is best. So says the health | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
message to mothers that their breastmilk can help protect babies | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
from infection. But breast-feeding rates are still low in some parts of | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
the UK. At this play scheme in Sheffield, the city where the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
research is based, some mothers are unconvinced that offering shopping | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
vouchers is the right answer. When I think about the people I know that | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
did not breast-feed, people I know personally, it would not work. It is | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
almost insulting, because they wanted to feed and they couldn't. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
You already save money if you breast-feed anyway, because you | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
don't have to buy as many bottles or the formula. There is already a | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
financial incentive. It's more important to give people support. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
This is early stage of a four yesterday begins today. It will | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
involve up to 130 new mothers in parts of Derbyshire and Sheffield. | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
If they breast-feed for six months, they will get shopping vouchers | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
worth ?200, given in five stages. The mothers and their midwife or | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
health visitor sign forms to declare they are breast-feeding, with the | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
project relying on honest conversations. The initial reaction | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
is, gosh, you can't do that. Once they start thinking about it and | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
realising the importance of breast-feeding to babies, nuns and | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
society, and the fact that the UK has one of the worst Best feeding | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
rates in the world, they think, OK, let's give this a try. When you look | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
at breast-feeding rates globally, the UK lags behind many companies. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Hungary has the highest proportion of babies exclusively breast-fed. | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
The rate is half for Japan. It even lower for the United States, with | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
the UK at the bottom. By the time they are six months old, just 1% of | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
babies here are exclusively breast-fed. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Some senior doctors have questioned the scheme because it rewards one | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
particular group of mothers. The problem is, certain numbers of | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
mothers may be put at a disadvantage or made to feel bad because of | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
this. Those are the small number of mums that cannot breast-feed their | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
babies. It is uncommon, but it does happen. The Royal College of | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
midwives says there is a much bigger problem, with generations of women | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
in some areas are unaware of breast-feeding as an option. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Midwives want to see mothers encouraged to do this because it is | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
best for their babies health and money should not come into it. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
The broadcaster David Dimbleby says he has fulfilled a lifetime ambition | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
by getting a tad too at the age of 75. He had it done as part of a BBC | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
series. He chose the design because Scorpio is his star sign. Having it | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
done, he said, did not hurt, zinged a bit. | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
Sir John Tavener has died at the age of 69. His career began in the 1960s | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
when he was signed to the Beatles record label, Apple. Over the years, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
his choral music took centre stage and his music was performed at | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
Princess Diana's funeral. Back to the main story, the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
devastation left by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The British | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
government has announced it will match pound for pound public | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
donations to UK charities raising funds for the victims. Jon Kay is at | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
an age distribution centre. -- aid. That is what 16 tonnes of equipment | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
and emergency supplies looks like. It is at the Oxfam Deco, ready to go | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
to the Philippines. The most important thing is water hygiene. | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
They have hundreds of metres of cabling and pipes to improve | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
hygiene. The red rocks are to build portable toilets to stop the spread | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
of disease. Each one of these contains a water treatment unit, | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
purification tablets to try to improve the supply. For the rescue | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
workers, they need these kits to treat and test the water to make | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
sure there is no disease or germs in there. Inside every one of these | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
little boxes is one of these. A great big bladder tank that can be | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
filled with fresh, clean water, put on the back of a truck and then | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
people can come and open it up and fill their bucket with water. Of | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
course, you do not want old, dirty buckets in the system when you are | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
trying to clean it up. So they are sending this. Thousands of | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
sterilised, hygienic buckets, piled on pallets, ready to go. On these | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
pallets, do you know what is in here? Thousands of blocks of soap to | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
encourage people to clean their hands and stop the spread of | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
disease. It has all been thought out. It is ready to go. Iain Gray | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
from Oxfam is here. We have seen pictures of the trouble and the | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
chaos out there. When will this get to families in the Philippines? It | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
will get there at the weekend. We wish you could get there sooner, but | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
it can't. We will be doing that as soon as possible. We can do that | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
because of the generosity of the British public. There are ?250,000 | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
worth of aid here, only because of the generosity of the British | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
public, that we can do this. That is why today, with other aid agencies, | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
we are calling for a big public appeal to help the people of the | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Philippines. Is there anything that could be done to get it out there | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
sooner? We will fly this out and get it there as soon as possible. The | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
big bottleneck is in the Philippines itself, in the disaster zone, where | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
the ports have been destroyed. It will be eight challenge to get it to | :25:40. | :25:51. | |
people. Rather than sending out tents, they are sending out pieces | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
of plastic like this. They can live under this canvas to start with and | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
then take it back to their homes and use it to rebuild it. If you want to | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
donate money towards the aid effort, the Disasters Emergency Committee | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
has launched a campaign this evening. | :26:11. | :26:25. | |
Many of us have been lucky enough to see at least a little autumn | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
sunshine this afternoon. But there is a price to pay as we move to this | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
evening and overnight. A widespread frost is developing. Not necessarily | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
unusual at this time of year, but the first widespread frost we have | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
seen across England and Wales this autumn. Western Scotland will be | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
protected somewhat by stronger wind and a few showers. The frost is | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
pretty widespread by the end of the night. Those are the temperatures in | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
towns and cities. These are rural figures. It will be ice scraper is | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
at the ready for the rush hour. There could be a few patches of fog | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
in the south of England and Wales. A lot of sunshine to get the day under | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
way, even if it is a chilly start. Sunshine for Northern England. For | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Northern Ireland, and northern Scotland. Some outbreaks of rain and | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
the wind beginning to pick up. It is strengthening for Northern Ireland | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
and northern England. It may touch of two Gayle force in parts of | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Scotland later in the day. Rain pushing into the West and Northern | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
Ireland for the afternoon. England and Wales should remain fine. Ten or | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
11 degrees should feel pleasant. Into Thursday, a slightly different | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
tale. We moved the band of rain across the British Isles, | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
accompanied by cloud. We are left with a north-westerly airstream and | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
a strong north-westerly wind for Thursday. On the face of it, not a | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
bad looking day. Pleasant spells of sunshine, a frost free start. That | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
win will make it feel colder than Wednesday. Temperatures, nine or 10 | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
degrees, feeling closer to nine or six on Thursday. A selection of | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
autumn weather tight is to come. All of the details are on the website. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
Our main story: There is growing desperation in the Philippines as | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
aid struggles to get through to the victims of the typhoon. The UN has | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
launched an appeal for almost ?200 million. As survivors struggle | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
without food, water or shelter, there are major concerns about the | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
spread of disease. That is all from | :28:40. | :28:40. |