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The Health Secretary admits waiting times in A and E | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
in hospitals in England are completely unacceptable. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Figures show patients are waiting longer than at any time | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
That kind of care is completely unacceptable. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
No one would want it for members of their own family. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
And new figures today reveal the number of cancelled operations | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
last year was the highest in fifteen years. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
A discredited government investigation into thousands | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
of allegations of abuse by Iraq war veterans is shut down. | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
This will be a huge relief to hundreds of British troops | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
who have had these quite unfair allegations hanging over them, | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
A court in the US refuses to reinstate Donald Trump's travel | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Scottish Power raises its energy prices while British gas announces | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
And desperate efforts to save over four hundred whales that washed up | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Coming up in sport we are live here in Cardiff | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
at the Principality Stadium to preview all of this weekend's 6 | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Nations fixtures including Wales against England. | :01:19. | :01:41. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, says it's "completely unacceptable" | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
that some patients in England are waiting up to 13 hours in A | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Figures show that waiting times in casualty units are worse | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
And the number of operations cancelled at the last minute hit | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Mr Hunt insists he does have an improvement plan - | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
though didn't reveal it - and he admits it will take time. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
He was talking to our Health Editor Hugh Pym. | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
The worst monthly A figures in more than a decade. They have | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
corridor nurses as well. Times are very desperate. Images like this | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
across BBC News. No one would want it for members of their own family. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
It has been a difficult few days for the Health Secretary and he has now | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
come out and acknowledge that some of what is happening in the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
hospitals in England is unacceptable. The BBC has shown | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
images from Royal Blackburn of people waiting 13 hours, mothers and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
babies sitting in the corridor, are you embarrassed? It is incredibly | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
frustrating for me. I am doing this job because I want NHS care to be | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
the safest and best in the world. That kind of care is completely | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
unacceptable, no one would want it for members of their own family. Ara | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Sibley's story featured on BBC News this week. She had to wait six | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
months in hospital before a care home place was available. What did | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Jeremy Hunt have to say to her family? I don't want to make any | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
kind of excuses. It is totally unacceptable. It is terrible for Mrs | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Sibley but also bad for the NHS... It is not the only case. No. There | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
are no excuses. It is completely unacceptable. Her son said he was | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
pleased that Jeremy Hunt had recognised that his mother was let | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
down but he had this message for the Health Secretary. What I would like | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to say to Jeremy Hunt is to admit, to have the guts, to admit, that the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
system of social funding is broken. If we have to pay more, I would say | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
to Jeremy Hunt, I am prepared to pay more in tax and I am sure most of | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
the country would be as well, because our old people are worth it. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
And the state of social care was something I raised with Jeremy Hunt. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
We recognise the pressure is there. We recognise there is a problem | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
about the sustainability of the social care system and that has to | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
be addressed and we will do that. There have been calls for more | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
funding for the NHS in England including from an American health | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
expert who advise David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt and he thinks the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
current spending plans of the government are set too low. I have | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
serious doubts as to whether you can have the health care that is | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
universal, not rationed, and responsive to the needs at that | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
target level. I am concerned. But others say it is not just about | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
money and getting the NHS to be more efficient is important, with new | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
ways of working the real priority. Jeremy Hunt says that change is | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
needed on many fronts. I think it is wrong to suggest to people that | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
these profound challenges such as we face with an ageing population are | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
ones where there is a silver bullet that you can solve the problem | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
overnight. We need the help of the public, because we know that a | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
number of the people seen in A could actually have | :05:09. | :05:31. | |
their needs dealt with in another part of the NHS. New figures show | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
last minute cancelled operations in England were up 16% last year, | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
whether it is A, routine surgery or community care, the pressure is | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
clear across the NHS. A 34 million pound government | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
investigation into allegations of abuse by Iraq war veterans | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
is to be shut down. It follows a report by MPs | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
investigated but there's not been Around 90% of misconduct cases | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
involving British troops who served in Afghanistan | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
are also being dropped. It is almost 14 years since British | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
troops invaded Iraq and the legacy of the war is still causing | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
controversy. In the aftermath of the occupation thousands of allegations | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
of abuse were made against British soldiers. And a special team called | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
IHAT was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer Phil Shiner | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
business. Now the Ministry of Defence is wrapping up the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of British | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
troops who have had these quite unfair allegations hanging over | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
them. They are now being freed of that and we will put in place new | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
measures to ensure that this never happens again, that there are proper | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
safeguards to prevent completely malicious and unfounded allegations | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
being made against our brave servicemen and women. There is no | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
doubt that some abuses did happen in Iraq, these were detainees being | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
beaten in Basra in 2003 and over the past few years the Ministry of | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Defence has paid out millions in compensation. But the IHAT | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
investigation has been criticised for getting out of hand. It was set | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
up seven years ago and it has had to examine more than 3000 claims. It | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
has caused over ?34 million. IHAT and its work has been controversial | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
in the military but the downfall of Phil Shiner and mounting concern | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
over the toll it was taking on former soldiers and their families | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
has led the MoD to act. I think this is something important, it will make | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
a big statement to the Army and most importantly it shows that the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
government is foursquare behind supporting the Army and providing it | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
with the appropriate framework in which our soldiers can deal with | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
those very difficult operational decisions that they have to deal | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
with. Of all the allegations made over the course of Britain's long | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
involvement in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence now says that by the summer, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
only about 20 will be left to be investigated. Just a few will | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
continue to be investigated. The investigation was being wound down | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
but the decision today has been precipitated by the end of Phil | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Shiner 's career and also by a blistering attack by MPs today, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
calling the investigation a disaster. Former soldiers have | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
welcomed the decision, a lawyer representing some of them said that | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
IHAT had been incompetent and repugnant and he said the careers | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and families have been destroyed. What happens now is that the Royal | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Navy police will take over the investigation next year and all of | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
the claims brought by Phil Shiner that had any | :08:36. | :08:48. | |
evidence to back them up are now been thrown out and the MoD says | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
there should be about 20 cases left and I am told some of those are | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
pretty serious allegations. Caroline, thank you. | :08:56. | :08:55. | |
Police in Manchester say a man and a woman have died | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
in a house fire in Withington, four children are now in hospital. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Firefighters were called to the property in the south | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
of the city at around 2:30 this morning. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
The children, aged between ten and 17, are being treated | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
Another man is in a serious condition. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Police have launched an investigation into | :09:11. | :09:11. | |
Britain's entire fleet of Royal Navy's attack submarines | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
is currently out of operation due to repairs and maintenance work. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Seven nuclear-powered subs are classed as non operational, | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
including three new Astute class vessels - they are the most powerful | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
attack submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy costing over | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Over 300 kilos of cocaine with a potential value of 50 million | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
pounds has washed up on the coast of Norfolk. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
A number of holdalls containing the drug were found on two beaches | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
We can talk to Debbie Tubby on the beach at Hopton-on-Sea. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
That's one of the beaches where the drugs washed up... | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
That's right. It is thought that some people walking their dog | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
yesterday found some cocaine in a sports holdall and they reported it | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
to Norfolk Police and today the authorities have spent the day | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
searching and 14 miles of this coastline looking for further bags | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
and they have found extra bags. Those bags were tied by a rope to | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
big green plastic containers to stop the Class A drugs from sinking in | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
the water. Now it is thought that the experts have now found 360 kilos | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
and if it was cut and sold it would be worth ?50 million. | :10:18. | :10:38. | |
The National Crime Agency says it is investigating why those drugs were | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
washed up here in Norfolk. They'd do not think here was the intended | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
destination and they do say tonight that this is a huge blow to the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
criminals involved. Thank you very much. | :10:47. | :10:46. | |
That's the response of President Donald Trump | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
to a court in the United States, which has refused to reinstate his | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
The controversial immigration reform was suspended last week. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
But the President appears determined to continue the legal battle. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel reports. | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
A full ceremonial welcome as President Trump greeted the Japanese | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Prime Minister at the White House on a cold crisp morning. That was as | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
nothing compared to the icy blast coming from the West Wing after last | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
night 's court ruling. Donald Trump tweeting very soon afterwards in | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
block capitals, a sure sign of irritation... And then he bumped | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
into reporters and said this. It is a political decision. You believe | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
the judges... We have a situation where the security of our country is | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
at stake. It is a very serious situation. So I will look forward to | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
seeing them in court. In Washington state which brought the original | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
case, defiance to Donald Trump's see you in court. We have seen him in | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
court twice. And we are two for two. We respect that the President has | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
broad authority when it comes to executive orders, but they still | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
have to follow the constitution. That's the bottom line. The three | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
federal Appeal Court judges ruled that there is no evidence that any | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
alien from any country is named in the order has perpetrated a | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
terrorist attack in the United States. The safety valve for the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
most vulnerable people offered no explanation for how these wave of | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
provisions would function in practice. And in conclusion the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
judges say, competing public interest do not justify a state, in | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
other words, the decision of the lower court will not be overturned. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
The next and last legal stop is the Supreme Court, with one vacancy | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
still to be filled, it is split evenly between four liberal and for | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Conservative justices. If they were too tight, then the judgment of the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
lower court would be upheld. The President and his advisors have a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
tough decision to make. Daily press on, take this to the Supreme Court | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
and risk another defeat? Or rip up the existing executive | :12:59. | :13:14. | |
order, redrafted and admit that they got it wrong in the first place. Not | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
easy choices. The President promised during the campaign that he would | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
win so much Americans would get bored of winning. This is not the | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
story so far on his migrant ban. Thank you everybody. Jon Sopel, BBC | :13:23. | :13:23. | |
News, Washington. Scottish Power has become the latest | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
of the Big Six energy companies It's increasing the cost | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
of electricity by almost 11 per cent But British Gas says it's freezing | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
prices until August. Our personal finance correspondent | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Simon Gompertz is here - why the difference in prices | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
from these two companies? Why the difference in prices from | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
these companies? British Gas says it is evidence of competition at work | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
and that is important for them because it means it is less likely | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
that they will have MPs and even ministers breathing down their necks | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
about high gas and electricity prices. ScottishPower putting up | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
prices from more than 1 million of its customers on standard tariffs, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
not the fixed once and then British Gas saying it is winter price freeze | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
will now be extended through until August. Evidence that they do not | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
move as they herd as they are often accused of doing. ScottishPower say | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
it is harder to get hold of gas and electricity at cheap prices, they | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
have to pay for subsidies for new smart meters, British Gas say that | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
they have kept their running costs down. The big question now after | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
that good news for 5 million British Gas customers is what two other big | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
companies, SSE and aeon are going to do because they also had a winter | :14:36. | :14:47. | |
price freeze but they have not said what they will do next and they will | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
The Health Secretary tells the BBC waiting times in A | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
in hospitals in England are completely unacceptable. | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
History, rivalry, aggression, humour is all part of the Six Nations. I | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
look back at the build-up and forward to the rugby here in | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Cardiff. On Sportsday, who can catch Chelsea? | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
Liverpool and Spurs go head-to-head tomorrow. Another big weekend in the | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
Premier League. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
is continuing to carry out his reshuffle, following the resignation | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
of several shadow cabinet ministers and a rebellion by Labour MPs | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
over the Brexit bill. One of the big tests | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
of his leadership will be the byelections due to take place | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
this month in the Labour-held seats Our Deputy Political | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
Editor, John Pienaar, has been talking to voters | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
in both constituencies. John Pienaar is in Hanley | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
and he wants to know how people feel about the by-election | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
in Stoke-on-Trent Central. Is Stoke going to | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
stay a Labour city? I think for far too long we've been | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
taken for granted by Labour. I'd like to think it was | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
going to stay Labour. They sort of work for | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
everybody, don't they? Whereas I don't know, the guys | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
who are potentially going to get in, are quite bigoted in | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
a couple of their views. By all accounts, the Labour | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
candidate is pro-European. So how does that square with 70% | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
plus anti-European votes? You have been Labour, | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
but you're switching? Most probably. | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
I most probably switch this year. You're still agonising | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
a bit about it? This is a really big deal | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
in national politics, isn't it? Is Labour's traditional support | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
in industrial towns like this one in Stoke, away | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
from London and the big cities, Well look, most people here voted | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
to leave the European Union. Most of the MPs here, | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
the Labour MPs here, And Jeremy Corbyn, he is popular | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
with his party members. When it comes to the wider | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
public, not so much. One senior Labour MP has said that | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Labour here is hanging on by its fingernails against | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
the challenge of the UK Messages, thousands, came | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
in oun our BBC Facebook live page. "Jeremy Corbyn was a big | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
election issue for Labour." "Full of honesty, respect | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
and integrity," says Stephen. "Corbynites are enthusiastic, | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
but he costs votes." Labour is under siege | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
in two by-elections on Voters who never wanted Brexit | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
are being targeted by the Liberal Democrats | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
and the Greens. Will Ukip's campaigners see | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
their leader become Stoke's new MP? That would strike fear into Labour's | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
Brexit-supporting heartland. Tory campaigners are | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
daring to dream of They ran Ukip close in Stoke, | :18:07. | :18:07. | |
but in Copeland they feel they can beat Labour, | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
the first government gain over its main opponents | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
in a by-election in 35 years. So Labour is fighting | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
door to door, street to And far to the north, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
where Labour is facing a hard slog to survive | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
in a very different setting. In Copeland's coastal | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
town of Whitehaven, Ask almost anyone, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's past opposition to nuclear power counts | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
against his party. Though voting Labour | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
here is an old habit. Well, I'm going to stay with Labour, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
because I just think it's for the And all my family has | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
always voted Labour. Because of the workforce | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
at Sellafield, and what it creates in the wider | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
community, and what Mr Corbyn said about nuclear power, | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
they've got to think of themselves. And for the long-term | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
future of Sellafield, Losing here or in Stoke means talk | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
of existential crisis for Labour. Rejected by once loyal voters | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
who now feel left out and And to see a full list of candidates | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
for both the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections, | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
visit our website. French police have arrested four | :19:29. | :19:43. | |
people in Montpellier on suspicion of planning an imminent terrorist | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
attack. The three men and a 16-year-old girl were detained after | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
they bought bomb-making chemicals. Police said the teenager had pledged | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
loyalty to so-called Islamic State in a recent video. The explosives | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
discovered were similar to those used in the Paris attacks in | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
November 20 15. The London firm, Pimlico Plumbers, | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
has lost a legal battle over whether it should give freelance | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
workers the same rights to pensions, holiday and sick pay, | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
as permanent staff. The company went to the Court | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
of Appeal after a plumber on a self-employed contract, | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
Gary Smith, won a tribunal He wanted to work fewer days after | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
an illness and argued he was entitled to the same rights as | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
permanent staff. Liverpool Football Club has banned journalists from the | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
sun newspaper from covering all matches and press conferences at | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Anfield. The decision was taken after discussions with the club and | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
a campaign group opposed to the paper because of its coverage of the | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
Hillsborough disaster in 1989. More than 400 whales have beached | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
on the coast of New Zealand, one of the worst whale strandings | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
ever seen in the country. Volunteers in the community | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
of Farewell Spit are racing to save and refloat them, | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
but around 300 have already died, and time | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
is running out for the rest. Stranded, distressed | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
and barely alive. Volunteers have come from far | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
and wide to save the whales beached This is the third-largest | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
mass stranding that we've recorded in our history | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
and so it's a very large one, logistically it's | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
a massive undertaking. The whales started | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
stranding last night, We were notified of that, | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
and then this morning checked on them most | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
of the whales were already dead. I've never experienced | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
death like this before. For such a majestic animal | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
it's really strange There's a lot of death | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
here, eh, which is a sad, sad thing, but, hey, | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
if we can get some of them out it's Scientists don't know exactly why | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
whales beach themselves. Anybody that doesn't have a sheet | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
over the whale, make sure those sheets are really nice and wet, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
not covering the blowhole... Rescuers tried to re-float | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
some of the whales at high tide, but some just turned | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
straight back to shore. Whale strandings in | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
New Zealand are common. Just two years earlier 200 | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
whales beached here. But this is one of the country's | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
worst mass strandings. It's another weekend of fierce | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
rivalry, intense pressure and big expectations | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
in the Six Nations tournament. England take on Wales tomorrow, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
and if England win, they will be just three games away | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
from breaking the world record for the most | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
unbeaten test matches, a title currently | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
held by New Zealand. Italy take on Ireland, | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
and Scotland play France on Sunday. Much anticipation there, I would | :22:39. | :22:57. | |
imagine? Absolutely. You have 30 players on the pitch who expressed | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the rivalry with aggression. So we can express it in a traditional | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
friendly way. Ireland may not lose again. Scotland feel they have | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
nothing to lose. It is a long time since England lost to anybody. Why | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
would they feel nervous this weekend? They are in Cardiff. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
Long before the bridge there was rugby. | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
The journey to Wales has petrified England, | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
In 2013 Wales scored 30 points in Cardiff, England humbled. | :23:21. | :23:32. | |
The coach says it's just another city. | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
Yes, but in Cardiff it's named after the Welsh captain, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
I think the game does mean a lot to a lot of people. | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
We are able to share that, hopefully we can share it | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
I think we're very fortunate to have a stadium that is suitable | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
We've experienced lights, fire, music. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
England's Jones, Eddie, now expects what he calls shenanigans. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
What are the shenanigans you're prepared for? | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Oh, I don't know, but, you know, they're a cunning lot, | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
You know, they've got goats, they've got daffodils, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Well, mischievous friendly rivalry, that's what the 6 | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
It is an outlet for passion and that's exactly why England have | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
decided that here in Cardiff the roof should be open | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
for the game, allowing all that Welsh noise to escape into the sky. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Well, everyone in professional sport is trying to find an edge. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Gareth Southgate - yes, the England football manager - | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
was at rugby training this week, seeking a different perspective. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
Well, England fly-half George Ford finished the session | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
and then told me he won't be in Wales in fear. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
I think, as a player, if you learn to embrace it and learn | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
to be excited about it, I think that's the best | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
If you look back and you feel like you didn't enjoy it, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
After their scintillating victory over Ireland last weekend, | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Scotland suddenly look like the team to beat in the 6 Nations. | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
The roof is going to be open at Cardiff. | :25:21. | :25:36. | |
Time for a look at the weather with Louise Lear. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Maybe some showers across Cardiff. Cloudy, cold wintry showers this | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
weekend. This Weather Watchers picture sums at up. A great, | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
threatening sky. A dusting of snow. Pretty dismal on the east coast. The | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
showers have been isolated but they have been a nuisance. A cluster | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
moved through the Midlands earlier on. They will continue overnight, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
becoming widespread. Expect a fairly significant dusting at lower levels. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Three to five centimetres across the East. Further west, clearer skies. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
It will be a cold start across the country. We will start with some | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
glimpses of sunshine across western Scotland. It is the snow showers | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
that will be the feature first thing. They will be falling as snow | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
across Aberdeenshire, running down the East coast. Rain across the | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
coast. For a lower levels at a time there will be some snow showers in | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
the morning. It will be a cold start to the day across East Anglia. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Through the day, those showers may well just push a little bit further | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
west. We could see some snow showers into North Wales, and East Wales, | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
may as far south as Somerset. Not a particularly warm honey were across | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
the country, particularly when you think about the strength of that | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
wind. -- anywhere. Further snow on Saturday night into Sunday, | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
particularly over the Pennines and in the Peak District. Then the snow | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
will ease back to rain on Sunday. It will be windy. Gales across Scotland | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
and northern England for a time. Quite dismal. Temperatures of | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
similar values. Between four and 6 degrees. If you are out and about | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
how might you will notice a difference. Sunshine will be at a | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
premium. I can hear you groaning of the television. I will finish this | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
forecast on a glimmer of good news. As we move into next week, fingers | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
crossed, it looks as though the winds will swing to a southerly and | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
we will see more in the way of sunshine, and maybe a little more in | :27:57. | :27:57. | |
the way of warmth. The Health Secretary acknowledges | :27:58. | :27:59. | |
patients are facing "completely unacceptable" delays | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
at hospitals in England. But Jeremy Hunt says the NHS | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
is not alone in dealing So it's goodbye from me, | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
and on BBC One we join the BBC's | :28:11. | :28:20. |