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Tackling child abias. The Government unveils a national | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
database for children who visit hospitals. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
All children in England will have details logged to help doctors spot | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
the early signs of abuse. The growing north/south divide in | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Britain's house prices. Parts of the south-east prosper as prices in | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland falter. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
At least six die as blizzards sweep across parts of the United States. | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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After a year of unprecedented sales, which gadgets will we take to next? | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
Good afternoon. All children who visit A&E | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Departments in hospital or see their doctor out-of-hours are to be | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
entered on to a national database to help authorities tackle child | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
abuse. It is hoped that the system, to be introduced in all hospitals | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
in England by 2015, will allow professionals to spot the early | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
signs of neglect and abuse. Luke Walton has this report. A&E | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Departments like this one in East London see thousands of children | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
every year. Their injuries are often conspicuous, but the abuse | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
that sometimes lie behind them can be less obvious. When it comes to | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
spotting it, the staff need all the help that they can get. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
For every child who has died, had an inquiry, when you look back | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
through, there are lots of attendances, but no-one had the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
whole picture. We want to give each doctor that sees them the whole | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
picture. The staff will be able to see on | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
hospital computer if children are on at-risk register, are in local | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
authority care or have been freak want visitors to other A&Es. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
It will be rolled out Nashally in 2015. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
The children who are most at-risk of abuse tend to have devious | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
parents who may well take them to different settings in different | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
parts of the country. This allows us to have a record of when and | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
where children have attended A&E Department settings. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Calls for greater co-ordination between the agencies involved in | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
caring for children, go back to the death of Victoria Climbie more than | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
a decade ago, but there have been delays in coming up with a solution. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Campaigners say that it is vital that the promises of today are | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
followed by delivery. It is people that keep children | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
safe, not systems and databases. We are concerned that the training of | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
health professionals in child protection is patchy. We hope that | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the Department of Health will look at this to ensure that alongside | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
the announcement, improvements in training can be made. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
This announcement will be closely scrutinised by Labour it criticised | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
a decision by the coalition to halt the implementation of a bigger data | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
because to tackle child abuse. Amid complaints that it was intrusive. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Weather the new approach will finally fill the gap remain as | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
point of contention. Well, our correspondent joins us | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
here now, Philippa, how will the system work? It is a way of | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
spotting children that are frequently using urb Gent care. | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Presenting with what you would call suspicious injuries, bruising, bite | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
marks, scratching and burns. The evidence is that parents and carers | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
who abuse go to great lengths to cover their tracks. So the idea is | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
that even if children come in miles away or months after the last | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
admission, that they will be spotted. There are concerns about | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
intrusion on parents.and bureaucracy, the Department of | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
Health is stressing that it is not more red tape. We log children who | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
come in. That this is it a way of putting all of the information | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
together. Also it is about clinical judgment, whether you are talking | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
about a child who has fallen out of a tree and keeps doing it, or likes | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
to fight or whether they are a victim of abuse, but this is a | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
national system that has been recommended since twouds when | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
Victoria Climbie died. She was seen by dozens of doctors, nurses and | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
nobody spotted that she was basically being tortured to death. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Thank you very much. It appear as flat year for house | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
prices in 2012 is mask aggroing north/south divide. The figures | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
from the Halifax show that the biggest falls in property values | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
were in Craigavon in Northern Ireland and in Scotland and in | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
lajshire. The biggest house prices were in Rochester, Basingstoke and | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
the Southend area. There is a price rise of up to | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
almost 15%. Emma, what is driving the house prices where you are? | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Well, it may look pretty in this area today, but this seaside town | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
has seen the biggest house price increases than anywhere in the UK, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
according to the Halifax. There are a few simple reasons. There are | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
good schools and a decent commute to London, proving more affordable | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
for families looking to move from the capital. That is the theme in | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
the report. That the top performers have been London commuter towns in | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the south-east, where on the whole the economy has been buoyant. What | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
has been driving it is what is happening in London itself, a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
housing market all on its own, where the prices continue to defy | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
gravity with lots of foreign buyers that is producing a ripple effect | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
where the house buyers and families are looking further afield. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Beyond the south-east, though, it is a different picture, isn't it? | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Yes, we did get more evidence of the north/south divide when it | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
comes to property. The vast majority of the worst fer formers | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
in terms of price rises have been outside of the south-east. Another | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
survey shows there is an average of �100,000 different between the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
average property in the north and in the south, but the overall | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
national picture has not changed that much throughout the year. A | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
fairly stagnant market with little movement in prices or in sales. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
That is looking set to continue in 2013. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Emma, thank you very much. The former American President, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
George Bsuh Senior, who has been in hospital for treatment for | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
bronchitis has moved to intensive care. He has been in hospital since | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the end of November. It is thought that he developed complications, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
but is decide be talking to family and doctors. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
President Obama has cut short his Christmas holiday in Hawaii in an | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
effort to agreement on the budget for the dead line for what is known | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
as the fiscal cliff approaches to the end of the year. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
There are feers that the US economy could fall -- there are fears that | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the US comi could fall back into a recession. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
A severe storm that whipped up tornadoes in the United States has | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
brought heavy snow to the midwest. At least six people have died and | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
thousands more are without electricity. Hundreds of flights | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
have been cancelled as the extreme weather moves to the north-east. | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
When the snow came it came fast. Within a couple of hours, about 30 | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
centimetres had fallen on Indianapolis. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
It is basically a white-out. You looked out the window, you could | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
hardly see outside. You could not even see the cars out to the front. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
A massive winter storm, dropping record amounts of snow from | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
Arkansas to the midwest, up to Illinois and Indiana. A single | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
weather system, but more than just the snow. Tornado systems were | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
ripping through towns with little or no warning. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
We were sitting in the livingroom, doing Christmas with the family. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Then the sirens went off. Then we heard what sounded like a freight | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
train coming through. We grabbed the women and the children. We ran | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
to the bathroom, threw them in the tub and we stood watch over | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
eeverybody. Property damage, power cuts and | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
hundreds of flights cancelled too. We are from Dallas. That is where | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
it was pretty bad. The ice was on the roads. They did have the sand | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
infrastructures out. The sand trucks came out. It was not too bad | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
in the morning, but we were kind of concerned. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
In parts of the country, the clean- up operation is under way. The | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
impact of this storm is still being felt. It is predicted that there is | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
more bad weather on its way. The car manufacture, Toyota has | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle hundreds of lawsuits from | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
vehicle owners in America. It follows a problem with floor mats | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
that became trapped under neath the accelerator pedals on a number of | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
models. Toyota has recalled more than 14 million vehicles. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Officials in China are investigating how a shark tank | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
exploded in a shopping centre. The aquarium burst with no warning last | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
week, but the CCTV pictures have been just made public. 16 people | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
were injured and three sharks died in the incident. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Here a Government minister is urging well-off pensioners who do | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
not need their winter fuel payment to give the money to charity. Nick | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Hurd said he could congratulate any pensioner who chose to donate their | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
allowance. Let's go to Westminster. Chris, why | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
is the minister saying this? On the face of it it sounds odd, doesn't | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
it? A minister suggesting that money should be given away at a | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
time when twhr is not a lot of money in the Westminster pot and | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the Government is handing money out to all pensioners. The winter fuel | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
payment payment is available to anyone who can access the state | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
pension it is worth �200 a year if you are in your 60s or 70s, �300 if | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
you are in your eighties or older. The Government will not get rid of | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the benefits it was in the book of promises signed up to a couple of | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
years ago. So if you are a pensioner on modest means, a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
millionaire footballer, or an actress, you get it the Government | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
is to stick with the current plan, but you can give the money away if | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
you like. I suspect soon that the benefits could disappear the other | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
side of the election. Now with more than 90% of adults | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
owning a mobile phone and half of us using gadgets on social media | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
sites it is clear we are becoming a nation increasing -- increasingly | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
obsessed with technology, but which gadgets made the headlines in 2012? | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
We have been having a look. Everywhere you look you will find | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
screens, big and small, not just in the BBC's newsroom, but in people's | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
hands it has been the year of the touch screen device. With a couple | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
of helpers I've been looking back. Paul is a technology analyst, Keza | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
reviews video games for a living. We look back on a year when the Web | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
went mobile and more and more people started to use tablets and | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
smart phones and the battle between the technology giants grew fiercer. | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
Now I want you turning on the tablets. Tablets, smart phones and | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
e-reader arrived in all sorts of sizes and flavours, giving the | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
consumers more choice. The only really good tablet the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
only good e-reader was the tablet, but this year it is different. | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
There is the Google Nexus tablet. That runs on android. This one, the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Kindle Fire HD. This is a lot of people moving into the Apple's | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
space. When it comes to smart phones and | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
tablets it is not hardware that people are buying but fashion? | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Reare looking to a content to get on to the devices. It is about the | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
apps that they buy, the music that they download on to it or transfer | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
to other devices that they have got. Now the gaming. Two new consoles, | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
the Wii U and the Sony Vita arrived, but gaming is changing. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
A really interesting year for video games, we can play games on smart | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
phones, tablets, on any device that you have. People are not moving | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
away from consoles, many play games on those, but lots of other people | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
are joining in on smart phones and tablets. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
So, what is next? Paul points to the 3D printer. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Now they are about �1,000, but each year they will be chaefer and what | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
they make is more sew fist cased. There is the Raspberry Pi, it could | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
revolutionise how people think about computing. P is a bit like | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
the Spectrum from the eighties. I love technology, it is so ek | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
sesible. It is no longer a nerdy thing. It is something that | :14:04. | :14:09. |