:00:15. > :00:19.out. Thousands of prisoners were starved, beaten and executed.
:00:20. > :00:25.Investigators say the victims looked like they had been in concentration
:00:26. > :00:30.camps. The pictures of starved bodies were evident, I mean were
:00:31. > :00:35.reminiscent of the pictures one saw that came out of Auschwitz and
:00:36. > :00:38.Belsen after the Second World War. Also tonight, we will have the
:00:39. > :00:42.latest from the peace conference. The UK economy is growing faster
:00:43. > :00:47.than any other major European country, a new report out today. The
:00:48. > :00:54.thousands left without power after the Christmas storms. MPs say energy
:00:55. > :00:57.company bosses are complacent. The FA charges West Brom striker,
:00:58. > :01:02.Nicolas Anelka, for his controversial gesture after scoring
:01:03. > :01:06.a goal. A warning to pet owners after a mystery disease kills more
:01:07. > :01:12.than a dozen dogs from Cornwall to County Durham. Tonight, on BBC
:01:13. > :01:15.London. Security measures are to be lifted on six terror suspects, one
:01:16. > :01:19.had plans to attck the capital. And, NHS bosses reveal a plan to save
:01:20. > :01:37.1,000 more lives a year in the capital with earlier diagnosis.
:01:38. > :01:44.Good evening and welcome to the BBC's news at six. As international
:01:45. > :01:47.diplomats gather in Switzerland for a conference aimed at ending the
:01:48. > :01:50.conflict in Syria, there are claims that Syrian government forces are
:01:51. > :01:55.guilty of torturing and executing prisoners. It comes in a report by
:01:56. > :02:00.three former war crimes prosecutors, they were commissioned by Qatar,
:02:01. > :02:04.which backs the rebels. They have examined 55,000 images smuggled out
:02:05. > :02:09.of the country. The disturbing photos show injuries to 11,000 dead
:02:10. > :02:14.prisoners. The Syrian government has denied claims of abuse. Our
:02:15. > :02:18.correspondent, Paul Wood's report contains some graphic images. Tens
:02:19. > :02:22.of thousands of people have disappeared in Syria's jails, many
:02:23. > :02:28.tortured to death, according to the opposition. They say there is proof
:02:29. > :02:33.of that in these disturbing images. A military photograph Erekat logged
:02:34. > :02:38.some 11,000 deaths in custody. He defected, taking the whole library
:02:39. > :02:44.of abuse with him. It shows body after body, beaten, emaciated. The
:02:45. > :02:49.injuries were repeated time and time again. The brutal beatings of half
:02:50. > :02:53.starved people. The pictures of starvation, of course starvation
:02:54. > :02:58.itself can be used as a means of torture. The pictures of starved
:02:59. > :03:04.bodies were evident. I mean were reminiscent of the pictures one saw
:03:05. > :03:08.that came out of Auschwitz and Belsen after the Second World War.
:03:09. > :03:13.The photos are in a report, commissioned by Qatar, which backs
:03:14. > :03:17.the rebels. It was written by some of Britain's leading war crime
:03:18. > :03:20.lawyers. They say such evidence would support findings of crimes
:03:21. > :03:25.against humanity against the current Syrian regime. Such evidence could
:03:26. > :03:32.also support findings of war crimes against the regime. I've seen a lot
:03:33. > :03:36.of this evidence, it is compelling and horrific. It is important that
:03:37. > :03:42.those who perpetrated these crimes are one day held to account. All
:03:43. > :03:45.that doesn't all go for the peace talks here in Montreux, where
:03:46. > :03:49.President Assad's representatives are due to arrive shortly. President
:03:50. > :03:53.Assad is hardly likely to want to negotiate his own exit, if that
:03:54. > :03:59.leads to an appearance at the Hague. He has made it clear all along he he
:04:00. > :04:02.believes these talks are about anything but the transition of
:04:03. > :04:07.power. For the opposition, that is the main order of business here.
:04:08. > :04:13.Most of the rebels actually doing the fighting inside Syria aren't
:04:14. > :04:18.represented in Montreux. Most too want an Islamic state, not a
:04:19. > :04:25.democracy. Some rebel groups are part of al-Qaeda. They will fight
:04:26. > :04:29.on, whatever happens in the talks. Meanwhile, President Assad seems to
:04:30. > :04:34.be winning. No-one really expects a peace deal in Switzerland this week,
:04:35. > :04:38.but perhaps it's hoped a durable ceasefire might emerge. That's
:04:39. > :04:47.something the UN could never achieve in three years of Syria's civil war.
:04:48. > :04:49.Paul Wood, BBC News, Montreux. Our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget
:04:50. > :04:53.Kendall, is in Montreux where the peace talks are taking place.
:04:54. > :04:59.Bridget, with all these allegations, what hope is there for these talks?
:05:00. > :05:03.Well, the expectations have been kept incredibly low. It's been so
:05:04. > :05:08.incredibly difficult to get the two delegations to agree to come here,
:05:09. > :05:13.and to orchestrate all the other people as that spectacular row over
:05:14. > :05:17.whether or not to I invite Iran yesterday showed us all. If they can
:05:18. > :05:21.keep the two delegations from shouting at each other or dramatic
:05:22. > :05:24.with a walk out by one other another the organisers would think that was
:05:25. > :05:28.positive, let alone any real positive breakthrough on the
:05:29. > :05:32.political side. I think the UN, who is in charge here, what they really
:05:33. > :05:34.want to see are some kind of concrete steps on the ground that
:05:35. > :05:38.would help the humanitarian situation in Syria. All those
:05:39. > :05:44.millions of displaced people, who are trapped or short of food. I
:05:45. > :05:48.think what may be the focus, are some small steps, if they could get
:05:49. > :05:54.the two sides to start some sort of dialogue for temporary truces or
:05:55. > :05:58.temporary corridors to let humanitarian aid through. If they
:05:59. > :06:02.were able to do that in the next few days they would consider it a real
:06:03. > :06:05.achievement and something they could build on in the future. A year ago
:06:06. > :06:11.they warned the Chancellor, George Osborne, that he was "playing with
:06:12. > :06:13.fire" over his austerity policies. Today The International Monetary
:06:14. > :06:17.Fund says the UK economy will grow faster than any other comparable
:06:18. > :06:23.European country. The IMF says growth this year will be 2.4%,
:06:24. > :06:27.that's a lot higher than it ises previous forecast. Britain, back at
:06:28. > :06:31.work, the economy growing again.s perhaps a surprise though to the
:06:32. > :06:34.influential International Monetary Fund, which was warning recently
:06:35. > :06:38.that the Chancellor was playing with fire by not easing off on spending
:06:39. > :06:45.cuts when our economy was flat as a pancake. Is George Osborne smug that
:06:46. > :06:51.he ignored the IMF's council? We had some advice to avoid taking the
:06:52. > :06:55.decisions in Britain. We rejected that vice. We rejected the quick
:06:56. > :06:58.fixes and easy options. By working through our plan we are delivering
:06:59. > :07:01.economic security for the hard-working people of this country.
:07:02. > :07:04.That is reflected in the good news today. Although we don't yet have
:07:05. > :07:11.the official figures, growth last year was probably around 1.8%. At
:07:12. > :07:16.the end of 2013 the recovery accelerated. That is why the
:07:17. > :07:19.Government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget
:07:20. > :07:23.Responsibility, and now The International Monetary Fund, are
:07:24. > :07:31.expecting growth this year 2014 of 2. 4%. Many economists think they
:07:32. > :07:36.are piano pessimistic. The Bank of England expects growth of 2.8%. The
:07:37. > :07:43.US bank Citi is expecting the kind of growth we enjoyed in the boom
:07:44. > :07:47.years. 3. 2%. Gratifying as it is that we are growing again there may
:07:48. > :07:51.be bumps in the road. Too much of the UK's recovery is arguably based
:07:52. > :07:53.on consumer spending, shopping, rather than investment and is
:07:54. > :07:57.vulnerable to rises in interest rates. There is a disturbing
:07:58. > :08:01.widening in the deficit between what we buy from the rest of the world
:08:02. > :08:05.and what we sell abroad. The Labour Party wonders with when we will
:08:06. > :08:09.enjoy the recovery in our pockets. After three years of flatlining, any
:08:10. > :08:12.growth is good news. For most families, with their living
:08:13. > :08:16.standards still falling, this is no recovery at all. If we start to see
:08:17. > :08:20.businesses investing more and selling more abroad, and growth is
:08:21. > :08:25.therefore sustained, will it be back to the good old days? The UK economy
:08:26. > :08:28.is picking up. That is a good thing. We should be realistic about the
:08:29. > :08:32.growth we can expect for the future. We're not back in the world that we
:08:33. > :08:37.were before the financial crisis when the UK and other western
:08:38. > :08:41.economies had a world of easy money, cheap imports and confidence that
:08:42. > :08:46.has now gone. Therefore, underlining growth rate is going to be weaker.
:08:47. > :08:50.Unlike economies doing worse than us right now, Britain's national income
:08:51. > :08:55.is still less than it was at the time of the 2008 crash. Our recovery
:08:56. > :09:00.is real, but it will be some time yet to we are again as rich as we
:09:01. > :09:05.were before it all went so horribly wrong. Robert Peston, BBC News.
:09:06. > :09:10.Power distribution companies have been accused of "utter complacency"
:09:11. > :09:14.by MPs over their response to the power cuts during the Christmas
:09:15. > :09:17.storms. Around three quarters of a million homes and businesses were
:09:18. > :09:21.affected. This morning, the company bosses faced tough questions from
:09:22. > :09:26.MPs. Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, reports. It was one of
:09:27. > :09:30.the stormiest periods in decades, which left hundreds of thousands of
:09:31. > :09:35.households without power over the festive season. But why had it taken
:09:36. > :09:39.so long to restore supplies? David Smith runs the industry trade body
:09:40. > :09:46.the Ken Livingstone energy Networks Association, he couldn't say exactly
:09:47. > :09:50.how many homes had been hit. As the trade body, we're now three weeks
:09:51. > :09:56.after this problem, you can't tell us how many customers were without
:09:57. > :09:59.power for more than 24-hours? I will have it buried in my head. I will
:10:00. > :10:02.tell you that figure as soon as it comes into my head. Apologies, I
:10:03. > :10:08.don't have it off the top of my head, Chairman. In fact, customers
:10:09. > :10:12.lost power right across the UK, most were in the south. 46 o 0,000
:10:13. > :10:17.households had supplies interrupted in the south-east and eastern
:10:18. > :10:24.regions. A further 338,000 inle central and southern England.
:10:25. > :10:31.134,000 households were hit in the South West, south Wales and the
:10:32. > :10:37.Midlands. SSE covers parts of Scotland and southern England. It
:10:38. > :10:40.was a massive event. I heard it quoted elsewhere it's the stormiest
:10:41. > :10:45.since 1969. Certainly we haven't seen damage like this in the south
:10:46. > :10:51.back from the early 90s or even back to the great storm of 1987. Had the
:10:52. > :10:59.firms done enough contingency planning? UK Power Networks covers
:11:00. > :11:03.the south-east and eastern England? There is a combination of the
:11:04. > :11:09.severity of the storm, the national nature of the storm, with - You had
:11:10. > :11:14.a robust plan in place, you feel that planned work? Absolutely, yes.
:11:15. > :11:18.The MPs were unimpressed. Not least with confused plans for an emergency
:11:19. > :11:25.information number, but also with the levels of industry compensation.
:11:26. > :11:30.?27 for customers who were without power for 48 high pressure hours.
:11:31. > :11:33.It's an absolute pittance. The companies under the spotlight here
:11:34. > :11:37.at Westminster are not exactly household names, yet they own a very
:11:38. > :11:41.important part of our energy infrastructure which carries
:11:42. > :11:44.electricity to our homes. They can be very profitable. They are, for
:11:45. > :11:49.the most part, foreign owned, up until now they have escaped this
:11:50. > :11:54.sort of scrutiny. Not any more. I have to conclude that you're
:11:55. > :12:00.exploiting your privileged monopoly position you displayed a neglect to
:12:01. > :12:04.your customers which I found absolutely astonishing. Thank you
:12:05. > :12:09.for coming in. The Liberal Democrat row over sexual harassment moved a
:12:10. > :12:12.step closer to the courts today after Lord Rennard, the man at the
:12:13. > :12:15.heart of the crisis, said he is taking legal advice. He's been
:12:16. > :12:19.suspended after refusing to apologise to women who claim they've
:12:20. > :12:23.been sexually harassed by him. Lord Rennard denies doing anything wrong.
:12:24. > :12:26.Our deputy political editor James Landale is in Westminster. James,
:12:27. > :12:30.this seems to be going from bad to worse for the Lib Dems? Yes, it is.
:12:31. > :12:36.It certainly doesn't stop. The prospect of legal action is very
:12:37. > :12:39.possible. It's not inevitable. Lord Rennard, the Lib Dems say he should
:12:40. > :12:42.apologise over allegations of sexual harassment. He is refusing to
:12:43. > :12:45.apologise, because he denies the allegations. The Lib Dems have
:12:46. > :12:51.launched another inquiry into whether he is bringing the party
:12:52. > :12:54.into disrepute by -- disre-Bute by failing to apologise. Lord Rennard
:12:55. > :12:57.has formally instructed a barrister to look at whether or not that
:12:58. > :13:04.decision to hold another inquiry is lawful. His supporters say that
:13:05. > :13:07.could lead to legal action potentially perhaps seeking an
:13:08. > :13:10.injunction to try and stop this second inquiry into overturn his
:13:11. > :13:15.suspension from the party. There is talk of a legal blood bath some are
:13:16. > :13:20.saying, look, this could lead to an awful lot of Lib Dem linen being
:13:21. > :13:23.washed in public. In response to that the Lib Dem leadership are
:13:24. > :13:28.standing firm. They say it changes nothing. Nick Clegg, in the last few
:13:29. > :13:30.minutes, told a meeting of his parliamentarians the judgment was
:13:31. > :13:35.the right one to call for an apology. It was the right we are in
:13:36. > :13:39.the right direction. We stand by that judgment. So, for now, it looks
:13:40. > :13:43.locked into some kind of confrontation. We're not quite there
:13:44. > :13:46.yet. Lord Rennard hasn't started legal action yet. There are many in
:13:47. > :13:51.the party pushing for mediation. This still has some way to go.
:13:52. > :13:55.Dozens of people convicted after a you poker station protest five years
:13:56. > :13:59.ago have had their convictions quashed. The demonstrators blocked a
:14:00. > :14:04.railway line close to the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire in 2009,
:14:05. > :14:09.but Appeal Court judges ruled their convictions were unsafe because they
:14:10. > :14:15.were based on the evidence of an undercover police officer, Mark
:14:16. > :14:21.Kennedy. A a man's been jailed for a minimum of 27 years for murdering
:14:22. > :14:28.his ex-girlfriend in what the judge described as a "savage and sustained
:14:29. > :14:36.attack." Michael Cope, who's 28, strangled and beat mother of two
:14:37. > :14:40.Linzi Ashton at her home in June last year. Manchester Crown Court
:14:41. > :14:44.heard she suffered 108 injuries in an hour-long attack. The West
:14:45. > :14:48.Bromich Albion footballer, Nicolas Anelka, has been charged by the FA
:14:49. > :14:52.for making a controversial gesture after he scored a goal last year.
:14:53. > :14:57.Anelka has denied the charge saying the gesture called, quenelle, is
:14:58. > :15:08.anti-system, not anti-Semitic. Here's our sports editor David Bond.
:15:09. > :15:15.The Quenelle has long cause controversy in France, and now it is
:15:16. > :15:22.doing so in England. Nicolas Anelka has just been served with DFA's 34
:15:23. > :15:30.page case against him. The FA said it was charging the player with
:15:31. > :15:35.performing a aggravated -- performing a gesture which was an
:15:36. > :15:39.aggravated breach. If found guilty, he faces the FA's new minimum five
:15:40. > :15:45.match ban for racially aggravated offences, introduced this season in
:15:46. > :15:50.the wake of the John Terry and Luis Suarez race rows. His club say they
:15:51. > :15:57.will continue to pick him until his case is over. For me, the guy is a
:15:58. > :16:04.very good professional, a very good person. For me, I need Nicolas
:16:05. > :16:09.Anelka. Anelka's actions have pitched those in charge of English
:16:10. > :16:13.football straight back into another unwonted racial controversy. By
:16:14. > :16:20.charging the striker with a racial offence, the FA is hoping to send a
:16:21. > :16:23.message, but the issue of anti-Semitism is complex and quite
:16:24. > :16:28.different from any case they've had to deal with in the past. In France,
:16:29. > :16:36.much of the row has centred on this man, the French anti-establishment
:16:37. > :16:42.comedian. He denies his trademark Quenelle sign is racist, but his
:16:43. > :16:46.shows has been banned, and he has convictions for anti-Semitism. Is
:16:47. > :16:52.there now a risk of this becoming a major problem here in the UK? These
:16:53. > :16:57.things have a habit of spreading. Anti-Semitism is not special on its
:16:58. > :17:00.own. It's just another form of racism. If Anelka had made an
:17:01. > :17:06.anti-black Chester, there would be uproar here. We don't see why
:17:07. > :17:10.anti-Semitism should be treated any differently. Anelka has until
:17:11. > :17:15.Thursday to answer the charges against him, but it could be weeks
:17:16. > :17:20.until he discovers his fate. What we do know is English football has once
:17:21. > :17:25.again become the high-profile forum for a debate on the toxic question
:17:26. > :17:29.of race. Our top story this evening.
:17:30. > :17:31.On the eve of the biggest diplomatic effort to end the Syrian conflict,
:17:32. > :17:36.shocking pictures it's claimed show torture by government forces.
:17:37. > :17:40.And still to come: She's got nothing left to prove on the track. Now the
:17:41. > :17:45.world's most successful athlete sets her sights on the Winter Olympics.
:17:46. > :17:49.Later on BBC London. The brain tumour patient misdiagnosed five
:17:50. > :17:55.times by doctors, and how paying for a scan saved her life.
:17:56. > :17:58.And one of the West End's oldest cinemas under threat. Campaigners
:17:59. > :18:07.fight a plan to turn it into a hotel.
:18:08. > :18:11.The bad weather and flooding that has battered much of south-west and
:18:12. > :18:16.southern Britain has left a lot of farms covered by floodwater. Close
:18:17. > :18:21.to 1000 square miles in England is flooded as a result of the bad
:18:22. > :18:26.weather. In Somerset, a lot of productive farmland has been lost.
:18:27. > :18:30.More than 43 square miles of land has been flooded in that county
:18:31. > :18:39.alone. Jeremy Cooke reports from the Somerset Levels, where farmers are
:18:40. > :18:46.fearing a disastrous year. The meadows and wheat fields of
:18:47. > :18:51.Somerset, deep underwater. James Winslade's farm is one of many
:18:52. > :18:57.flooded out for weeks on end. How much of this is underwater?
:18:58. > :19:03.Everything bar a tiny little strip. Everything, including this property
:19:04. > :19:09.here. A massive problem, and for James, a new one. Flash floods here
:19:10. > :19:13.are common, but now, for a second year running, there's been standing
:19:14. > :19:19.water on the farm for weeks. Crops are rotting in the ground. The grass
:19:20. > :19:23.to feed 600 head of cattle are ruined. Many farmers blamed the
:19:24. > :19:27.build up of silt in drains and rivers which stops the flow of water
:19:28. > :19:31.off the land, and they want more action from the Environment Agency.
:19:32. > :19:37.Cleaning the river out. Everybody knows what needs to be done. Just do
:19:38. > :19:41.it. They are trying. The Environment Agency is doing all it can to get
:19:42. > :19:46.the water off the field and back into the rivers. These pumps have
:19:47. > :19:50.been going flat out day and night for weeks now, but every time the
:19:51. > :19:54.water level starts to drop, the rains come again, and that means the
:19:55. > :20:01.farmland all around here is still underwater. With the scale of the
:20:02. > :20:07.problem across the country, it is a question of cash. Some ?45 million
:20:08. > :20:12.of public money has been spent on dredging and wheat clearing in the
:20:13. > :20:16.past 12 months. But the protection for communities comes first. The
:20:17. > :20:21.priority at the moment is homes and businesses. Much of the farmland we
:20:22. > :20:25.see is natural flood plain, so we have to recognise the reality of
:20:26. > :20:31.nature working to use the flood plains in the way they always have
:20:32. > :20:35.done. The reality for farmers is is -- is if they want better drainage,
:20:36. > :20:39.they may have to pay for it themselves. A tough message for
:20:40. > :20:42.those who have already lost thousands, and whose land is already
:20:43. > :20:45.deep in flood. A postmortem examination has found
:20:46. > :20:48.that a yachtsman from Warwickshire who was murdered in the Caribbean
:20:49. > :20:51.was hit and then fell or was pushed into the sea, where he drowned.
:20:52. > :20:54.Police in St Lucia are questioning three men about the death of Roger
:20:55. > :20:58.Pratt, who was killed defending his wife from robbers. Mr Pratt and his
:20:59. > :21:01.wife Margaret were halfway through a year-long sailing trip when their
:21:02. > :21:05.boat was attacked. The number of 20 to 34-year-olds who
:21:06. > :21:08.have not yet flown the nest has grown by 25% in the UK in the last
:21:09. > :21:13.18 years, according to official figures. There were more than three
:21:14. > :21:18.million 20 to 34-year-olds living with their parents last year. It's
:21:19. > :21:21.thought higher hurdles to get on the housing ladder and the struggle to
:21:22. > :21:26.find a job have meant many of the younger generation stay in the home
:21:27. > :21:29.they grew up in. Dog owners are being warned about a
:21:30. > :21:34.mysterious disease that has killed 13 dogs across the UK in recent
:21:35. > :21:38.months. The illness, thought to be a condition called Alabama Rot, causes
:21:39. > :21:50.kidney failure. The highest number of cases has been in the New Forest.
:21:51. > :21:55.Duncan Kennedy is there for us now. I'm with seven-year-old Lola here, a
:21:56. > :21:59.German Schnauzer, who's been happily running around this beautiful part
:22:00. > :22:05.of the forest for the past hour or so, and luckily not picking up any
:22:06. > :22:10.of those tail tail lesions of -- on her feet which are a sign of Alabama
:22:11. > :22:16.dropped. Sadly, other dogs have not been so lucky. They've picked up
:22:17. > :22:21.those legions and gone on to suffer kidney failure. It has been deeply
:22:22. > :22:28.upsetting for owners. The signs were going up in the New Forest today,
:22:29. > :22:32.urging dog owners to be wary of the new disease. It follows the death of
:22:33. > :22:37.at least six dogs here, and perhaps another seven in other parts of
:22:38. > :22:43.Britain, causing great distress to their owners. It's a picture of my
:22:44. > :22:48.little boy, Barney. John trigger was one of them. His dog became ill
:22:49. > :22:53.after a walk in the forest. Within five days, Barney was dead. I was
:22:54. > :23:01.heartbreaking. He was the most precious thing in the world to me. I
:23:02. > :23:06.miss him. Vets believe the disease is something called Alabama Rot. It
:23:07. > :23:13.was first seen in the United States 25 years ago, causing kidney
:23:14. > :23:18.failure. If you see a skin wound on your door, don't just leave it.
:23:19. > :23:24.Ordinarily you might leave it for 24 or 48 hours. Don't do that. Get your
:23:25. > :23:28.local vet to check it out. The disease first surfaced a year ago is
:23:29. > :23:35.when bet nosed -- when vets noticed a cluster of dogs dying around the
:23:36. > :23:39.New Forest. But now they have been cases elsewhere. Whilst vets now
:23:40. > :23:44.think they know what this is, they don't know where it is coming from.
:23:45. > :23:48.Some of the owners we've spoken to believe it is coming from the water
:23:49. > :23:51.supplies in the ground and the rivers here, but the Environment
:23:52. > :23:56.Agency say they have tested the water and they cannot find any
:23:57. > :24:01.contamination. With 8 million dogs in Britain, Alabama Rot is still
:24:02. > :24:05.very aware -- still very rare. The advice now - be vigilant.
:24:06. > :24:08.She's been described as the most dominant athlete in world sport.
:24:09. > :24:11.Last year, American wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden won every global
:24:12. > :24:14.title at every distance - from the 100 metres to the marathon. Now
:24:15. > :24:17.she's swapping sports to compete at the forthcoming Winter Paralympics,
:24:18. > :24:22.in what will be an emotional return to the country where she was born.
:24:23. > :24:31.From her training base in the US, our sports correspondent, Andy
:24:32. > :24:37.Swiss, reports. Across the snowy wastes of Utah,
:24:38. > :24:42.Tatyana McFadden prepares for the latest chapter of one of sport's
:24:43. > :24:46.most remarkable stories. Born with spina bifida and left in a Russian
:24:47. > :24:52.orphanage, she walked on her hands until she was six, when she was
:24:53. > :24:57.adopted, brought to the US, and introduced to sport, with now
:24:58. > :25:02.extraordinary results. Last year, McFadden won every wheelchair racing
:25:03. > :25:05.title at every distance, from the 100 metres to the marathon,
:25:06. > :25:13.including London. Athletics has never seen such sweeping domination.
:25:14. > :25:18.Now, with her first full winter as a cross-country skier, she's only
:25:19. > :25:21.poised to qualify for the Sochi Winter Olympics. She traces her rank
:25:22. > :25:28.rentable drive to her childhood. Life is a battle. Whether you put
:25:29. > :25:34.that in sport or your personal life, it makes me who I am. It's just my
:25:35. > :25:41.personality, that will to live. As an athlete, it makes me a stronger
:25:42. > :25:46.and more focused person. Eddie McFadden was the American who
:25:47. > :25:51.adopted Tatyana. Without sport, she believes her daughter wouldn't even
:25:52. > :25:56.be here. When the hospital told me she would not live long, I thought,
:25:57. > :26:00.maybe there's something I can do to keep her alive. So we tried sports.
:26:01. > :26:07.Each one she tried, she loved it and was good at it. McFadden's career
:26:08. > :26:12.has already brought success. She is just one here at the US national
:26:13. > :26:16.championships, but her desire to compete in Sochi is about more than
:26:17. > :26:21.just medals. She told me she is now met her Russian birth mother, and
:26:22. > :26:29.for the first time in Sochi, she will watch her compete. I hope she
:26:30. > :26:37.is proud. She's seen me all over Russia on Facebook and Twitter. I'm
:26:38. > :26:44.really excited. Just ten days after Sochi, she will be off to defend her
:26:45. > :26:49.London Marathon title, an athlete whose sporting journey is
:26:50. > :26:50.never-ending, it seems. What an inspiration.
:26:51. > :27:02.Time for a look at the weather. The problem was fog, but this
:27:03. > :27:08.evening, rain is on the menu, moving ever eastwards as we speak. Some
:27:09. > :27:13.heavy rain on the cards through this evening, spreading west to east.
:27:14. > :27:17.Some snow up over the Grampians and the Southern uplands, the Northern
:27:18. > :27:21.Pennines. Later in the night, things will clear to the west and
:27:22. > :27:26.temperatures will ease down. It could be a rather damp start to the
:27:27. > :27:31.day across eastern counties of England. This could be the scene in
:27:32. > :27:36.rush hour. Some uncertainty about how quickly that rain will edge its
:27:37. > :27:41.way eastwards. Some snow on the Grampians and the Pennines. That
:27:42. > :27:46.will gradually ease away. Skies will brighten for most of us. Some
:27:47. > :27:51.sunshine and a scattering of showers around. Later in the afternoon, we
:27:52. > :27:55.could see a line of heavy showers pushing into parts of western
:27:56. > :28:01.Scotland. The last of the overnight rain clearing away from the far
:28:02. > :28:06.north-east, and most of us should have some sunshine tomorrow
:28:07. > :28:11.afternoon. It could well be that rain clings onto easternmost areas
:28:12. > :28:17.of England. But for most of us, it will brighten up. Temperatures in
:28:18. > :28:21.the sunshine not doing too badly. Tomorrow night, one line of showers
:28:22. > :28:27.crossing many areas, and then a bigger line of showers as we go
:28:28. > :28:30.through to Thursday morning. A bit of snow up on the high ground of
:28:31. > :28:36.Scotland and northern parts of England. A cold day on Thursday,
:28:37. > :28:41.despite some sunshine. A chilly start the day on Friday, with a
:28:42. > :28:47.touch of to the east, then wind and rain from the east.
:28:48. > :28:49.That's all from the BBC News At Six. On BBC One, we