:00:00. > :00:09.Britain sends its biggest aircraft carrier - HMS Illustrious - to help
:00:10. > :00:16.in the relief effort in the Philippines. As the Americans send
:00:17. > :00:28.helicopters and more food - the aid effort steps up a gear. We are
:00:29. > :00:35.seeing the outside world turning up for the first time in real force. A
:00:36. > :00:44.week after the typhoon, little sign of any aid in the Morimoto areas. --
:00:45. > :00:48.the more remote areas. Also tonight.... A last chance.
:00:49. > :00:57.Birmingham Council could be stripped of its troubled Children's
:00:58. > :01:05.Department by Christmas. Applause rings out in Mumbai as Sachin
:01:06. > :01:09.Tendulkar plays his final test. Dropped by club and now country. Joe
:01:10. > :01:12.Hart will not start for England against Chile in their friendly at
:01:13. > :01:31.Wembley tomorrow. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:32. > :01:34.News at Six. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious, is on her
:01:35. > :01:38.way to the Philippines to help in the relief effort. She'll join the
:01:39. > :01:42.US aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, which has arrived with
:01:43. > :01:46.5000 sailors on board and will be a floating base for helicopters
:01:47. > :01:52.carrying supplies. HMS Illustrious arrives in ten days. The ship can
:01:53. > :01:55.produce large amounts of much needed drinking water. As well as sending
:01:56. > :01:58.support and supplies, governments have pledged millions of pounds to
:01:59. > :02:13.help including ?12 .5 million from America and ?16 million from the UK.
:02:14. > :02:21.It has taken nearly a week. Today, the might of the US Marine Corps
:02:22. > :02:27.finally arrived in Tacloban in force. Not just the Americans back
:02:28. > :02:31.from France and Belgium, Malaysia and Australia. It is the Americans
:02:32. > :02:39.who have, in the end, had to take control. When we got here, not a lot
:02:40. > :02:44.was happening. It was like everyone was recovering from the shock of it.
:02:45. > :02:49.Now the Philippines military believes we are getting on and we
:02:50. > :02:55.can get them out of here. There has been a dramatic change in the
:02:56. > :03:01.streets beyond the airport. After a week of lying in the open, the dead
:03:02. > :03:07.are being counted and removed for burial. In this one district alone,
:03:08. > :03:13.police registered more than 100 dead bodies. It is a grim task. Even for
:03:14. > :03:29.those trained to deal with death. You are a trained policeman but is
:03:30. > :03:35.it shocking? Yes, yes. We have something to do. I need to finish.
:03:36. > :03:40.One of the most important things is to work out the true death toll.
:03:41. > :03:45.This afternoon we returned to a devastated neighbourhood either see.
:03:46. > :03:55.Even here, some progress is being made. -- why the sea. When I came
:03:56. > :04:00.down here on Monday, this road was totally impassable. It was piled
:04:01. > :04:05.high with debris and fallen trees. Today it has been cleared and
:04:06. > :04:09.traffic is flowing again. This building behind me was used as a
:04:10. > :04:17.morgue and was piled with dead bodies. Those have gone as well. It
:04:18. > :04:29.is not only the dead who have gone. Every day, more and more of the
:04:30. > :04:40.living are helped. This man is wife 's freshly covered grave is behind
:04:41. > :04:45.me. -- this man 's wife 's freshly covered grave is behind me. However
:04:46. > :04:50.much international help now arrives, for some here it would be
:04:51. > :05:00.impossible to overcome the agony and loss of the last few days. The
:05:01. > :05:05.island of Leyte is one of the worst hit in the Philippines. Much of the
:05:06. > :05:07.focus so far has been on the city of Tacloban. But our correspondent,
:05:08. > :05:11.Alastair Leithead, has travelled from the north west of the island to
:05:12. > :05:15.its east coast to find out how more remote areas are coping. He's sent
:05:16. > :05:21.this report. Under clear skies, it is hard to imagine the terror that
:05:22. > :05:29.blew into this beautiful island. These scars are deep. It is an
:05:30. > :05:35.agricultural economy. Broken coconut palms lost income, now and for years
:05:36. > :05:41.to come. Livelihood and homes have been crashed. Rice paddies and
:05:42. > :05:46.banana plantations have been flattened and feedstocks which
:05:47. > :05:51.survived the storm are running low. We drove from west to east as people
:05:52. > :05:57.started to cope with the new normal - shortage and uncertainty. They are
:05:58. > :06:03.waiting for a bus to take them anywhere - anywhere where there is a
:06:04. > :06:14.mobile phone signal and to get food. If we do not receive any donations,
:06:15. > :06:18.these stores do not have food. Down in the interior of the island, the
:06:19. > :06:23.extent of the disaster folded in front of us. After striking the city
:06:24. > :06:29.of Tacloban, the Typhoon powered West down this valley, destroying
:06:30. > :06:35.everything in its path. Imagine the strength needed to bring down a tree
:06:36. > :06:40.of this size. There is fear here. Some prisoners escaped and people
:06:41. > :06:45.are starting to get desperate for food. This man is taking his
:06:46. > :06:51.daughter is taking his daughters to Manila for safety. No communication
:06:52. > :06:58.and electric. For my children, we are going to Manila. Are you worried
:06:59. > :07:04.for your safety? At the same time, scared. We are very scared. When
:07:05. > :07:11.someone is desperate to have food, they do whatever they want to have
:07:12. > :07:17.food. It is even more miserable when the rain comes. It seeps through the
:07:18. > :07:22.thrown together shelters. The bulk of the aid effort has focused on the
:07:23. > :07:29.areas worst affected and you can understand why. This is on the coast
:07:30. > :07:37.and it took the full force of the typhoon. Unless the AIDS network
:07:38. > :07:44.widens quickly, this country potentially faces an even greater
:07:45. > :07:50.catastrophe. -- the aid network. Let's go back to Tacloban now. Tim
:07:51. > :07:54.Willcox is there. It's a week since the typhoon hit, but there are still
:07:55. > :08:01.an awful lot of people not getting the basics they need. Absolutely
:08:02. > :08:06.right. Many people may now be seeing the first signs of a concerted
:08:07. > :08:10.international aid effort. They can hear the planes and helicopters
:08:11. > :08:16.landing at the airport through the night. For tens of thousands, life
:08:17. > :08:21.is still incredibly miserable and squalid. Some corpses have been put
:08:22. > :08:26.into body bags. When we arrived earlier today, they were still lined
:08:27. > :08:31.up by the roadside. Survivors have seen very little change. There is no
:08:32. > :08:37.power, no proper food and no shelter. They will be hoping that a
:08:38. > :08:40.week on things will change radically in the next few days. Birmingham
:08:41. > :08:42.City Council could be stripped of its troubled Children Services
:08:43. > :08:46.Department by Christmas if standards don't improve. The Department for
:08:47. > :08:49.Education will step in to run it if inspectors decide it hasn't improved
:08:50. > :08:52.when they return in a few weeks. Last month, the chief inspector of
:08:53. > :08:54.Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, said the city's failure to protect
:08:55. > :09:07.vulnerable children was a national disgrace. Our social affairs
:09:08. > :09:12.correspondent reports. For more than a decade, children in Birmingham
:09:13. > :09:16.have been dying needlessly - killed usually by their families but also
:09:17. > :09:23.failed by the agencies failed to protect them. Innocent young lives,
:09:24. > :09:27.whose deaths shame the second city. More than a million people live in
:09:28. > :09:31.this sprawling city - nearly a quarter are under 16 and nearly 2000
:09:32. > :09:37.children are being looked after by social services. Tara Collins new
:09:38. > :09:42.Keanu Williams during his short life. She gave evidence in court on
:09:43. > :09:47.behalf of her friend were his mother, who is serving a life
:09:48. > :09:57.sentence for his murder. She feels betrayed. He was used as a punchbag.
:09:58. > :10:08.I think he had 37 injuries, if I remember. Bite marks, Burns,
:10:09. > :10:14.bruises. He had been put through so much suffering because nobody
:10:15. > :10:19.noticed anything. Each individual tragedies speaks of a broader
:10:20. > :10:26.failure. There is a huge demand for services here in this city. It has a
:10:27. > :10:30.large, young, diverse population, often living in some of the most
:10:31. > :10:34.deprived communities across the country. Years of challenges and
:10:35. > :10:39.broken promises that improvements are imminent are now coming to a
:10:40. > :10:42.head. The man currently running children's services will here by
:10:43. > :10:49.Christmas the fate of his department. The Secretary of State
:10:50. > :10:53.has a big decision to make. If there has been an easy answer, and that
:10:54. > :11:01.includes bringing in people to run the service, we would have taken it.
:11:02. > :11:06.Ofsted will soon return to Birmingham and discuss whether
:11:07. > :11:09.progress is being made. There have been eight whistle-blowing incidents
:11:10. > :11:15.and nine years of serious case reviews and a decade of failure.
:11:16. > :11:19.Whatever option the government chooses, for Birmingham social
:11:20. > :11:24.workers, the uncertainty continues. We have had lots of wee
:11:25. > :11:30.organisations, none of which have made a significant difference to
:11:31. > :11:35.lives of the children. After years of failure, a decision on how best
:11:36. > :11:38.to protect children in Birmingham is imminent. And you can hear much more
:11:39. > :11:47.about this story on Radio 4 tonight. Simon Cox investigates for The
:11:48. > :11:51.Report. That is at 8pm. Barclays says it is losing 1700 jobs from its
:11:52. > :11:56.high Street branch is because of increased use of technology and
:11:57. > :12:00.online banking by customers. These equate to about one job in every
:12:01. > :12:03.branch and it hopes the cuts can be achieved by voluntary redundancies.
:12:04. > :12:05.The hospital being investigated by police over allegations that staff
:12:06. > :12:09.were bullied into falsifying details about cancer waiting times has been
:12:10. > :12:12.placed in special measures. The health regulator, Monitor, says data
:12:13. > :12:18.inaccuracies at Colchester General Hospital meant it had breached its
:12:19. > :12:21.licence to provide health services. The hospital will now be given
:12:22. > :12:31.advice and support to make improvements. The NHS in Wales is
:12:32. > :12:35.struggling to meet its waiting time targets with the number of patients
:12:36. > :12:39.waiting for more than 36 weeks for hospital treatment doubling in the
:12:40. > :12:46.last six months. The Prime Minister has repeatedly accused the Labour
:12:47. > :12:52.administration in Wales for failing. Our Wales correspondent has the
:12:53. > :12:57.details. Planning treatment, dealing with emergencies. A pressure every
:12:58. > :13:08.hospital across the UK has to cope with everyday. Is the Welsh NHS
:13:09. > :13:13.coping? Not, according to Philip Jones. He has been waiting 12 months
:13:14. > :13:17.for a hip replacement and have just learnt his treatment may be
:13:18. > :13:23.postponed until spring, which means his weight could be 18 months. The
:13:24. > :13:28.target time for treatment in England is 18 weeks. I cannot believe things
:13:29. > :13:32.have got as bad as they are. It is difficult for me to come to terms
:13:33. > :13:37.with the fact we are so far behind our neighbours in England,
:13:38. > :13:43.especially on waiting times and on action such as this. That comparison
:13:44. > :13:47.with England is beating the Prime Minister has turned to several
:13:48. > :13:51.times. There will not be the winter crisis in the NHS in Wales where
:13:52. > :13:58.Labour are in control because there is a crisis every day of the week in
:13:59. > :14:02.Wales. The Welsh NHS has not been performing well for some time.
:14:03. > :14:07.Planned operations have been off track since March 2012. Ambulance
:14:08. > :14:13.response times have been too long since made 2012. Waiting times in
:14:14. > :14:17.A have not hit the target since August 2009. The Labour health
:14:18. > :14:21.minister for Wales was not available for interview today. The Welsh
:14:22. > :14:27.government stresses the majority of patients are seen on time. The
:14:28. > :14:31.pressure is mounting at Wells hospitals are also being felt
:14:32. > :14:36.elsewhere. The cuts to the NHS budget have been deeper than in the
:14:37. > :14:41.rest of the UK. As it finds ways to cope, it has been leading the way.
:14:42. > :14:48.This unit in Newport has consultant cover seven days a week. The wheel
:14:49. > :14:56.College of physicians want it copied across Britain. -- the Royal
:14:57. > :15:05.College. They get wetter treatment and they go home earlier quicker and
:15:06. > :15:07.they are more satisfied. -- better treatment. It is a service that is
:15:08. > :15:27.struggling. Coming up... We join the fans with
:15:28. > :15:36.tickets for cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar's last ever Test. Chris
:15:37. > :15:51.Coleman extend his stay as Wales manager for further two years.
:15:52. > :15:58.Prince Charles has arrived in Sri Lanka to represent the Queen at the
:15:59. > :16:02.Commonwealth summit, which opens tomorrow. David Cameron is also
:16:03. > :16:07.attending, despite some calls for a boycott because of the human rights
:16:08. > :16:10.record there. Sri Lanka's president hit back at criticism over human
:16:11. > :16:14.rights, saying any complaints or abuses committed during or after its
:16:15. > :16:18.civil war will be dealt with. The summit is being held for 53 nations
:16:19. > :16:23.in the Commonwealth, three of those staying away because of those rights
:16:24. > :16:30.issues. Our diplomatic correspondent sent this report, which contains
:16:31. > :16:34.some flash photography. Many people think about slowing down on their
:16:35. > :16:42.65th birthday, but not the Prince of Wales. He is present today. He
:16:43. > :16:45.arrived in Sri Lanka to open a Commonwealth summit, something the
:16:46. > :16:49.Queen has always done until now. She is cutting back on long haul travel,
:16:50. > :16:54.so the birthday prince is the centre of attention here. At a very British
:16:55. > :16:58.party for him in the High Commissioner's garden, all the local
:16:59. > :17:14.produce on show was organic, of course, and spicy, too. Is this for
:17:15. > :17:18.a spicy curry? Yes, spicy. This was always going to be a very
:17:19. > :17:21.significant birthday. It may seem even more significant when one
:17:22. > :17:30.remembers he is here representing the Queen at a highly charged
:17:31. > :17:34.political summit meeting. So a birthday cake offered by Sri
:17:35. > :17:38.Lanka's controversial president had a distinctly political flavour.
:17:39. > :17:44.David Cameron will confront the Prince's host over human rights
:17:45. > :17:48.tomorrow, while Sri Lanka's leader is still batting away all the
:17:49. > :17:52.criticism. If anyone wants to complain about the human rights
:17:53. > :17:59.violation in Sri Lanka, whether it is rape, the system. You must
:18:00. > :18:06.respect the system of a country. The culture of a country. But Britain is
:18:07. > :18:10.not backing down. Instead, the Foreign Secretary flew across the
:18:11. > :18:18.country to push the case for greater reconciliation. William Hague opened
:18:19. > :18:22.a new British funded reconciliation Centre in the south. Sri Lanka
:18:23. > :18:26.unites is a project bringing together and training together young
:18:27. > :18:30.people across ethnic, religious and political divides. That is something
:18:31. > :18:39.his government wants Sri Lanka's President Bush much harder. -- to
:18:40. > :18:44.push much harder. But this evening at his party, the Prince of Wales to
:18:45. > :18:47.get time to relax. For him, plunging into a divided Commonwealth summit
:18:48. > :18:57.is tomorrow's test, after the birthday greetings have faded. David
:18:58. > :19:03.Cameron is due to arrive in Sri Lanka shortly. Before he set off
:19:04. > :19:08.from India this afternoon, he spoke to us and explained why he feels it
:19:09. > :19:11.is important to engage with the government in Sri Lanka, despite the
:19:12. > :19:16.concerns about possible human rights abuses. I know before heading to Sri
:19:17. > :19:19.Lanka you watched a lot of the footage from the end of the terrible
:19:20. > :19:24.civil war there will stop what did it make you feel, what did it make
:19:25. > :19:31.you conclude? The images in that film are completely chilling. It
:19:32. > :19:35.really is an appalling set of allegations. These allegations have
:19:36. > :19:41.been backed up by the work of a UN special rapporteur who has had them
:19:42. > :19:44.verified. I've been talking to the UN High Commissioner about that
:19:45. > :19:48.precise point. These are chilling images of appalling acts. They need
:19:49. > :19:53.to be properly investigated. That is one of the points I will be making
:19:54. > :19:56.on my visit to Sri Lanka. Do you believe that the Sri Lankan
:19:57. > :20:01.government may be guilty of war crimes? I think what is clear from
:20:02. > :20:05.that film is there are legitimate accusations of war crimes that need
:20:06. > :20:11.to be properly investigated. That is actually what the Sri Lankan
:20:12. > :20:15.government and its own lessons learned down, that there were more
:20:16. > :20:19.questions to be answered. But it hasn't answered them. They need to
:20:20. > :20:25.be answered. This was an appalling Civil War, a civil war in which the
:20:26. > :20:28.Tamil Tigers, using suicide bombs and child soldiers, did some
:20:29. > :20:33.appalling things as well. At the end of the war and this particular set
:20:34. > :20:37.of events where civilians seem to have been targeted, that needs to be
:20:38. > :20:43.properly investigated. How on earth is it right that that man and that
:20:44. > :20:46.country is able to chair an important organisation like the
:20:47. > :20:50.Commonwealth and to welcome you as Prime Minister of the United
:20:51. > :20:54.Kingdom? First of all, the decision for Sri Lanka to host a Commonwealth
:20:55. > :20:59.conference was not taken by me or my government, it was taken by the
:21:00. > :21:04.Commonwealth in 2009 when there was a Labour government in Britain. I
:21:05. > :21:07.have the choice to go to that conference because the Commonwealth
:21:08. > :21:10.matters, because we will be discussing how you eradicate
:21:11. > :21:13.poverty, increase free trade and grow our economy is, or to leave
:21:14. > :21:22.that conference, leave an empty chair where we wouldn't be able to
:21:23. > :21:26.have our input. The body of Warrant Officer Ian Fisher has been
:21:27. > :21:31.repatriated to RAF Brize Norton this afternoon. The 42-year-old Warrant
:21:32. > :21:34.Officer Fisher from the 3rd Battalion Mercian Regiment died in
:21:35. > :21:42.Afghanistan on November the 5th. He was killed in a suicide blast while
:21:43. > :21:45.on patrol in Helmand province. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg,
:21:46. > :21:49.has said that Roma immigrants who come to Britain from Central and
:21:50. > :21:52.Eastern Europe must respect the British way of life. His comments
:21:53. > :21:56.came after the former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, said he
:21:57. > :22:00.feared problems in part of his constituency in Sheffield, where
:22:01. > :22:06.Roma migrants from Slovakia have set up home, and it could escalate into
:22:07. > :22:13.violence. It could be any terraced street in any northern town, but
:22:14. > :22:18.Page Hall in Sheffield is different. Come to hear at one o'clock in the
:22:19. > :22:25.night, all children, all of them outside. Who? The Roma. It's causing
:22:26. > :22:32.a lot of trouble. The road is dirty, noisy, everything. They are
:22:33. > :22:38.just kicking the ball to ball every time, I'm fed up of it. We never had
:22:39. > :22:43.it before. We are fed up with it now. There are hundreds of Roma
:22:44. > :22:47.here, mainly from Slovakia. In just a few streets they stick together.
:22:48. > :22:53.Not surprising when you consider they are the most discriminated
:22:54. > :22:57.against minority in Europe. These people didn't want to show their
:22:58. > :23:03.faces. Like many Roma here, they are suspicious of what people think. I'm
:23:04. > :23:08.working here ten years. I don't want to go back to Slovakia because I
:23:09. > :23:12.have a better life here. Better life for my children. Do you have
:23:13. > :23:18.problems here? Very good school here. Witt but change can be hard.
:23:19. > :23:24.Kashmir was born in Sheffield and has lived here all his life. People
:23:25. > :23:28.have moved out of this area. As politicians talk about the
:23:29. > :23:37.challenges of integration, the tensions are being felt here. I'm
:23:38. > :23:41.coming here for a better life. What is your problem with that?
:23:42. > :23:47.Disturbances, crowds, hanging around everywhere. It is not very good for
:23:48. > :23:52.the community and the area. The Roma here have been talked about like
:23:53. > :24:00.never before. Words that have to be chosen carefully. So everyone here
:24:01. > :24:03.can live their lives in peace. The Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar,
:24:04. > :24:09.regarded by many as the greatest batsmen of all time, has begun his
:24:10. > :24:12.200th and last ever test match. He is the only player to score 100
:24:13. > :24:17.centuries in international cricket and at close of place dashed back
:24:18. > :24:24.close of play today against the West Indies, he'd racked up almost 16,000
:24:25. > :24:27.runs. A record-breaking career. Our correspondent has been soaking up
:24:28. > :24:34.the atmosphere in Tendulkar's home city of Mumbai. There was an
:24:35. > :24:37.international Test match in India today. But Sachin Tendulkar was who
:24:38. > :24:53.they'd really come to see. The man they call the Master Blaster.
:24:54. > :25:05.Fans were queueing for block after block for a last glimpse. We are
:25:06. > :25:10.lucky to watch the match. They come from all over the world, among them
:25:11. > :25:14.this woman from London. All the dreams he's made come true for me,
:25:15. > :25:18.the country, the team and the fans. This is history in the making, his
:25:19. > :25:31.last ever match. I'm feeling really emotional. He is God. We all know
:25:32. > :25:37.that. Some fans had come from just down the road, including his mother.
:25:38. > :25:41.She finally built up the courage to watch for the first time ever. Many
:25:42. > :25:48.say he gives the whole nation a boost. Sachin Tendulkar is India's
:25:49. > :25:52.best antidepressant. Whenever India has felt depressed, whenever I've
:25:53. > :25:57.felt depressed, I've turned to this young boy, watched him bat and felt
:25:58. > :26:01.good all over again. After an earlier quarter century of hitting
:26:02. > :26:06.centuries, he's become a global superstar, bigger than Beckham,
:26:07. > :26:08.bigger than cricket. This is the countdown to Sachin Tendulkar
:26:09. > :26:12.leaving the international cricket stage forever, and India is in
:26:13. > :26:22.mourning. But many say his legacy will never be challenged. It is not
:26:23. > :26:30.goodbye yet, as the match is still not over. India is preparing for a
:26:31. > :26:37.new hero without its biggest brand. -- a new hero. Finally, the last
:26:38. > :26:43.living person born in Britain in the 19th century has died at the age of
:26:44. > :26:48.113 years old. Grace Jones, who would have turned 114 next month,
:26:49. > :26:51.was born in 1899. She was a seamstress who lived in London and
:26:52. > :26:55.retired about 50 years ago. She didn't marry, saying she never met
:26:56. > :26:56.anyone as nice as her fiance, who was killed in action during the
:26:57. > :27:10.First World War. The weather looks very different to
:27:11. > :27:16.last night. Temperatures will be dropping. Still got some light
:27:17. > :27:23.showers to come in Wales and the south-west. Where we've got the
:27:24. > :27:28.clear skies, eventually the winds will drop. Temperatures falling away
:27:29. > :27:32.quickly in eastern Scotland. Later, a touch of frost in rural areas
:27:33. > :27:38.across parts of England and East Wales. There is more cloud coming
:27:39. > :27:41.into western areas, western Scotland and Northern Ireland. That cloud
:27:42. > :27:45.isn't going to move a lot tomorrow will stop away from here we should
:27:46. > :27:50.enjoy a good deal of dry weather and some sunshine. Some cloud coming
:27:51. > :27:55.into Cornwall and western parts of Wales, northern parts of Wales.
:27:56. > :27:59.Elsewhere, a good deal of sunshine. After that cold start, temperatures
:28:00. > :28:02.only up to nine degrees in the Midlands and the south-east.
:28:03. > :28:06.Sunshine to the east of the Pennines, more cloud in the
:28:07. > :28:10.north-west of England. A reasonably mild state for Northern Ireland. A
:28:11. > :28:17.bit of rain in western Scotland, some sunshine for the North East of
:28:18. > :28:21.Scotland. Saturday looks like this. Maybe a touch of frost first thing
:28:22. > :28:27.in the south-east of England. A lot of cloud around on Saturday. Later,
:28:28. > :28:29.a band of rain coming in southwards into Scotland and Northern Ireland.
:28:30. > :28:33.Temperatures just getting into double figures. The rain slides
:28:34. > :28:39.slowly southwards into England and Wales. Behind that band of rain it
:28:40. > :28:44.turns a little cooler across the North. But early next week, this is
:28:45. > :28:46.when the cold air arrives. There's the potential for some snow.