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Powerful gales and heavy rainfall return - causing fresh disruption | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
and misery for many across large parts of the UK. Flooding and | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
landslides leave people stranded and tens of thousands of homes are still | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
without power. Have the council built around since? The prime | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
minister meets storm victims in Kent who complain too little's being done | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
to help them. We need the council to get round with skips so people can | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
get their furniture and carpets removed, we need to learn the | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
lessons. Five Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia after a protest | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
arrive back in Britain after being freed under amnesty. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
And England come late to the Ashes party with a much better performance | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
on the second day of the fourth Test. | :00:55. | :01:15. | |
Good afternoon. Powerful gales and heavy rain have returned to the UK, | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
causing further disruption. Around 20,000 homes are without power, rail | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
services have been disrupted and many roads are closed. The Met | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Office says gusts over 100 miles per hour have been recorded in north | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Wales. And there are still more than 40 flood warnings across the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
country. Today David Cameron said there needed to be a better response | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
the next time properties are threatened by flooding. Judith | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Moritz is in Blackpool for us now. Yes, this is not the Blackpool that | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
you see on the postcards. It's been so windy here today that the central | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
pier next to me has been closed and the North West Ambulance Service, | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
which has had more calls than usual, has been getting them from people | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
who have said they have literally been blown off their feet. Slicing | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
across the sea, gale force winds slammed into the black hole | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
promenade today, blasting the beach and gusting into the town. Wind | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
speeds of 85 mph were recorded in north-west England. The emergency | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
services in the region saw a surge in weather-related callouts. We have | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
been dealing with slates on roofs, and save chimneys. Signage on shop | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
fronts. The South of England is still dealing with the effects of | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the storms earlier this week. The Prime Minister was in Kent this | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
morning, visiting people who were flooded before Christmas. One angry | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
resident who were still without power told Mr Cameron nothing had | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
been done to help them. We need the electric! We tried to contact the | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
council on Monday. Nothing. He said the priority should be to help | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
people recover from the effect of the floods. We need the insurance | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
companies to come round, we need the council to get round with skips so | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
people can get their carpets and furniture removed, we need to get | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
the power back on and then we need to learn the lessons. We are seeing | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
these events take place more often. The high winds have more power lines | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
down. In Northern Ireland 20,000 homes are to be reconnected | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
overnight. This house caught fire when an electricity pole fell on the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
roof. On the rail network there has been delayed across the lines, and | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
passengers across Victoria Station in London were in for long waits. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
There is no state here, standing for three hours, it died. I have been | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
here since seven, I had to get a coach. The only coach I could get | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
was seven in the morning to meet these at 12, so I have been here | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
five hours. Network rail defended the way the system had been running. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
It would be ridiculous to get passengers on trains and leave them | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
stuck and stranded and tainted the emergency services to ask them to | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
help when everybody is so stretched. So it is the right thing to do what | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
we did last night, what I'd read last week, to stop, check the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
network is safe before we let people run. The holidays have been a | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
wash-out for this family in Surrey. They are spending the end of the | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
year dealing with the damage. Even if the worst of the weather has now | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
passed, for some this will be a Christmas they would rather forget. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Whilst it is still a case of battening down the hatches here, | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
things are improving. The Atlantic depression, which brought these | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
gales, is moving away from the North of England and at around midnight or | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
so, these winds should eventually start to drop and then remain calm | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
overcoming days. -- over coming days. And the BBC website has | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
details of all the latest weather news in your area. | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
Five British activists from the environmental group Greenpeace, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
who'd been detained in Russia, have arrived back in the UK after being | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
freed following an amnesty. They were among 30 campaigners arrested | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
after protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic. Rajesh | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Mirchandani is at St Pancras Station in London, where the freed activists | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
arrived this afternoon. His report contains some flash photography. | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
Long but welcome to the ends. Edition environments of protesters | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
arrived back on home soil after the Russian government dropped charges | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
against them that allowed them to leave, freed but defiant. Our | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
mission is to protect the Arctic and stop oil exploration going on there. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
We have never enjoyed quite so much media. But the loved ones, there is | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
just relief. Great, absolutely fantastic. I'm really happy. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Christmas is late but no less festive for the families reunited | :06:21. | :06:34. | |
here. The protesters were among 30 arrested in this traumatic encounter | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
with Russian authorities in September. After Greenpeace tried to | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
stop oil drilling in Russian waters. They were charged with hooliganism | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
and faced several years behind bars. Then, a few days ago, except theses | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
wrote were granted after Russia's parliament approved an amnesty bill. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
That move also brought food and the members of the punk band Pussy Riot, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
jailed for singing protest songs in a country full -- Cathedral. Some | :07:05. | :07:17. | |
wonder if Greenpeace was wise to go up against President Vladimir Putin. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Others note the amnesty comes just weeks before Russia hosts the Winter | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Olympics. Back in London, the activists say they will continue | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
their protests against Arctic oil drilling but they might reconsider | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
future tax kicks. Right now, international politics takes second | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
place to family reunions. The inquest into the death of a | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
British doctor who died in prison in Syria has been opened and adjourned. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Walthamstow Coroner's Court in east London heard how the Syrian | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
authorities believe Abbas Khan killed himself. His family insist he | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
was murdered. A former Lebanese government | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
minister has been assassinated in Beirut. Mohamad Chatah was killed in | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
a car bomb this morning - four others were killed and dozens | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
injured. Mr Chatah was a staunch critic of the Syrian regime and the | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
militant group Hezbollah which supports it. His allies have accused | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Hezbollah of planting the bomb - they've denied it. Our world affairs | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
correspondent, Kim Ghattas has sent this report from Beirut. | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
The festive season came to a violent end in Beirut just after 9:30am. In | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
a country that has seen much of violence, the glitzy, renovated | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
heart of the capital had been spared so far. Cars were set ablaze by the | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
blast, windows of French restaurants and designer boutiques shattered. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Teenagers enjoying the sun and posting pictures on social media | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
moments before a car, parked behind them, exploded, wrecking their young | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
lives. TRANSLATION: We were inside and felt glass breaking and coming | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
in, then we heard the sound, and X lotion happened. We waited until it | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
was over and then went out and saw this. The target was Mohammed | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
Chatah, wants the ambassador to the US and the finance minister, a | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
father of two. He was the voice of moderation in a polarised country. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
He was also an adviser to the former prime minister, Saad Hariri, who was | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
also a critic of Hezbollah. The Lebanese Shia militant group has | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
been sending fighters to Syria for months to support President Assad. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Lebanon is deeply divided over the wall next door. Sunni militants from | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
here have been crossing into Syria as well to help the rebels. At the | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
sight of the bombing in Beirut, Mohammed Chatah's friends said his | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
killing was a message. He was an advocate of Lebanon's neutrality in | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
the war in Syria, and having an agreement to keep Lebanon away from | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
the fray in Syria. Hezbollah has also paid the price for its role in | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Syria. Suicide means have targeted civilian areas in its stronghold in | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
southern Beirut. Lebanon is also still haunted by a long string of | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
unresolved assassinations. And in the past, the finger has been | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
pointed in many directions, including at Syria. But who ever was | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
behind this powerful car bomb this morning, one thing is certain. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Lebanon's own fate is increasingly tied to the outcome of the war | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
raging across the border in Syria. Police are investigating the death | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
of a man at a house in Nottinghamshire. A woman found at | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
the address in Bircotes is in a serious but stable condition in | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
hospital. Two children in the house were unharmed. It's thought the man | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
who died suffered shotgun injuries. Sport now and Cardiff City have | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
sacked Malky Mackay, the manager who took them into the Premier League. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
The move comes a day after a 3-0 home defeat by Southampton - and | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
follows a long running and very public row with Cardiff's owner | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Vincent Tan. Andy Swiss reports. It has been the most public and | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
prolonged of sackings. But the Malky Mackay, yesterday's defeat proved | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the final whistle. Last week his billionaire boss Vincent Tan | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
sentiment e-mail, attacking his management and telling him to resign | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
or else he would fire him. That prompted protests against the owner | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
and a brief reprieve. And yesterday, Malky Mackay admitted the strain was | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
getting to him. It's not easy with a dirty laundry is being washed in | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
public every week but there are certain things within my control and | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
certain things without. This isn't the first Tom Vincent Tan has felt | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
the fury of the fans. Last year he changed the club colours from blue | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
to red. Now he has sacked the man who guided them into the Premier | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
League. The supporters are again less than impressed. It's not about | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
results. He is making the club looked like a circus. There was only | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
going to be one winner, as soon see announced he had to resign, it was | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
only going one way. So one of football's most fragile partnerships | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
has finally snapped, leaving a ruthless owner, irony patient battle | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
and the club in turmoil. -- a relegation battle. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Cricket, and England have produced a better performance on the second day | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
of the fourth Test in Melbourne. After being all out for 255, | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
England's bowlers got them back into the game, restricting Australia to | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
164 for nine at the close. Our Chief Sports Correspondent Dan Roan | :12:54. | :12:54. | |
reports. A generation has passed since | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Australia's greatest fast bowler struck fear into English hearts but | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
for the first hour of day two, it felt like the MCG had gone back in | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
time. Mitchell Johnson evokes memories of Dennis Lillee both in | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
face and in pace. Once again at his vicious best. Tim Bresnan didn't | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
know what hit him. Now seven down, English hopes hinged on Kevin | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Pietersen, but having barely added to his overnight 67 came this - four | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
hours of maturity undone in one moment of madness. With cricket | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
suddenly resembling a blood sport, Johnson went hunting again. Stuart | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Broad's scalp ensuring a third five wicket haul of a defining series. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
England's tail had been blown away, all out for 255. That seemed | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
inadequate but England's bowlers had other ideas as Warner and Watson | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
fell before lunch. Suddenly Australia knew they were in a fight. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Chris Rogers felled by Broad, and when Michael Clarke's judgement | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
deserted him, the hosts were 62 for three - the Test in the balance. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Rogers propped up the innings with a dogged 50 but England had remembered | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
how they used to win Ashes series. Three more Australian wickets | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
falling quickly as the tourists took control. Brad Haddin has been a | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
thorn in England's side all series, again threatening to rescue his | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
team, but he could do nothing about Bresnan and Broad's flurry of | :14:06. | :14:15. | |
wickets. Australia, still 91 behind. England had fought back, if only the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
series were still alive. Days like that have been few and far between | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
on this trip. We're just really hungry to get something out of this | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
tour. I thought we dived around a lot, we chased everything, I thought | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
Cooky set really good fields, we bowled to those fields, it was | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
really complete performance. After England's best day on tour, they may | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
now have the chance to seal what would be a morale-boosting | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
consolation win. The Ashes are long gone, of course, but this still felt | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
like an important first stage in England's road to recovery. There is | :14:43. | :14:55. | |
more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. We're back with | :14:56. | :14:57. |