:00:00. > :00:09.Michael Schumacher's condition improves slightly after a second
:00:10. > :00:14.operation on his brain. But doctors in France treating the former world
:00:15. > :00:16.Champion driver say he is not yet out of danger following his skiing
:00:17. > :00:21.accident on Sunday. TRANSLATION: We can't say he is out
:00:22. > :00:24.of danger, but we have now gained a bit more time in the development of
:00:25. > :00:29.of his injuries, the hours to come are still critical. The stores giant
:00:30. > :00:34.Debenhams predicts a sharp fall in profits after disappointing
:00:35. > :00:42.pre-Christmas sales. This one is on me, I insist. Money, Jerry. Now it's
:00:43. > :00:49.Dame Penelope Keith in recognition of her Good Life, one of many women
:00:50. > :00:54.awarded a nur year's honour. 3, 2, 1. And 2014 is welcomed in by
:00:55. > :01:11.spectacular fireworks around the world.
:01:12. > :01:16.Good evening. Surgeons in France, who are treating Michael Schumacher,
:01:17. > :01:19.say he is showing a slight improvement following a second
:01:20. > :01:23.operation last night to relieve pressure on his brain. His condition
:01:24. > :01:27.is now said to be better controlled, although the former Formula One
:01:28. > :01:31.World Champion is not yet Ouattara of danger. He suffered a serious
:01:32. > :01:34.head injury after a skiing accident on Sunday. Richard Conway is outside
:01:35. > :01:44.the hospital in Grenoble now. Richard. Michael Schumacher is a
:01:45. > :01:48.seven-times Formula One World Champion. He is beloved by millions
:01:49. > :01:54.of fans around the world. He is a father, a husband, a brother, and a
:01:55. > :02:00.son. Tonight, his family stand guard here in Grenoble as he recovers from
:02:01. > :02:06.a second operation. It started as a quiet Sunday morning skiing with his
:02:07. > :02:08.son. After falling and sustaining a violent blow to the head, it's
:02:09. > :02:13.thought this helicopter carried Michael Schumacher to hospital for
:02:14. > :02:18.urgent treatment. His father has now arrived at the hospital, joining his
:02:19. > :02:20.wife and brother, who agreed to go-ahead with the second operation
:02:21. > :02:27.last night. Something which doctors say relieved pressure on his brain.
:02:28. > :02:31.TRANSLATION: The situation is better controlled than yesterday. We can't
:02:32. > :02:35.say he's out of danger, but we've now gained a bit more time in the
:02:36. > :02:40.development of his injuries. The hours to come are still critical.
:02:41. > :02:46.Schumacher is no stranger to risk. A love of speed, danger and living
:02:47. > :02:52.life on the edge led him to to be described by one Juan Manuel Fangio,
:02:53. > :02:56.his closest rival, has "the greatest of adventurers." This area of France
:02:57. > :03:01.is a skiers paradise. Accidents on the near by slopes leave the
:03:02. > :03:07.University Hospital in Grenoble a busy place at this time of year.
:03:08. > :03:10.Mary's husband suffered a brain haemorrhage after falling while
:03:11. > :03:14.skiing last week and is being cared for in the same unit as Michael
:03:15. > :03:18.Schumacher. He is on course to make a full recovery and will soon return
:03:19. > :03:22.to Britain. From the minute he had his accident last Friday the care
:03:23. > :03:26.has been superb. From the transfer to the first hospital, then on to
:03:27. > :03:30.here, it has been just so efficient and so caring. Those close to
:03:31. > :03:36.Michael Schumacher though recognise that he still has a long way to go.
:03:37. > :03:39.There was a slight improvement, a slight improvement compared to the
:03:40. > :03:46.situation yesterday. Which doesn't mean that we can be optimistic yet.
:03:47. > :03:53.Michael Schumacher transcended his sport in the way few drivers do. He
:03:54. > :03:58.faces his toughest fight yet with doctors enable at this stage to give
:03:59. > :04:03.a long-term prognosis. Debenhams, Britain's second large department
:04:04. > :04:07.store chain, in terms of sales, says half yearly pre-tax profits could be
:04:08. > :04:12.down by auto nearly a quarter. Shares in the company fell 13% today
:04:13. > :04:16.in response to the warning issued after Debenhams failed to generate
:04:17. > :04:24.strong sales in the last week of Christmas trading. Here's Emma
:04:25. > :04:29.Simpson. Gifts, glamorous dresses and glossy TVads, Debenhams has been
:04:30. > :04:35.trying to entice shoppers. Whatever you wish for this Christmas, make it
:04:36. > :04:39.fabulous with Debenhams. It wasn't what Debenhams had wished for. The
:04:40. > :04:43.this household name is well-known for its promotions, but this
:04:44. > :04:49.Christmas many others were doing the same thing. Today, it issued a
:04:50. > :04:54.trading statement warning investors that this year the going had been
:04:55. > :04:57.tougher than expected. Debenhams said an anticipated surge in
:04:58. > :05:01.spending failed to materialise in the final week. Meaning, it would
:05:02. > :05:06.now have to cut costs even further over the next few months to clear
:05:07. > :05:13.stock. That is likely to mean a big fall in profits. City analysts had
:05:14. > :05:18.expected Debenhams to make ?110 million in pre-tax profits in the
:05:19. > :05:23.first -- half of the year. The company said it would be nearly ?85
:05:24. > :05:29.million, 23% less than expected. With many shoppers still feeling the
:05:30. > :05:33.financial strain, and ever more canny it hasn't been an easy
:05:34. > :05:36.Christmas season for other retailers either. The big story will be
:05:37. > :05:40.profits under pressure for a lot of retailers. There is ferocious
:05:41. > :05:46.discounting in the run-up to Christmas. The consumer got Great
:05:47. > :05:49.Barr gains, the retailers have probably taken a hit. I don't think
:05:50. > :05:54.Debenhams will be the last to feel pain on profits. There will be
:05:55. > :06:03.winners on the high street too. The The question is, how much? Nearly
:06:04. > :06:06.1,200 people have had their work and achievements recognised in the new
:06:07. > :06:09.year honours, for the first time women make up more than half the
:06:10. > :06:15.list. They include the actress Penelope Keith, who has been made a
:06:16. > :06:18.Dame. I should tell you that Lizo Mzimba's report contains flash
:06:19. > :06:23.photography. She has enjoyed the Combood Life, now she is heading to
:06:24. > :06:28.the Palace. Penelope Keith becomes a Dame for services to the arts and to
:06:29. > :06:32.charity. I feel it's a recognition, not only for my 54 years being an
:06:33. > :06:37.actress. Which is extraordinary when I say it out loud, for all the
:06:38. > :06:43.charities with which I'm associated. I think they will be thrilled. Also
:06:44. > :06:47.becoming a Dame, actress Angela Lansbury for services to drama. It's
:06:48. > :06:55.a lovely thing to be recognise and given that nod of approval by your
:06:56. > :06:59.own country. I really cherish it. Award-winning sculptor, Antony
:07:00. > :07:09.Gormley, the man behind the Angel Of The North receives a knighthood. A
:07:10. > :07:14.knighthood too for Marcus Setchell. Gavin Stacey Nessa, Ruth Jones, is
:07:15. > :07:23.appointed MBE. After their son Jimmy was murdered in south-east London,
:07:24. > :07:33.Barry and Margaret Mizen set up the Mizen Foundation for Young People.
:07:34. > :07:37.They both become -- MBE. We will work for peace for our beautiful
:07:38. > :07:41.young people. Are like most of the names on this list, people not in
:07:42. > :07:47.the public eye, but who made a significant contribution to their
:07:48. > :07:50.community. The Government has urged political parties in Northern
:07:51. > :07:53.Ireland to continue their efforts to find a solution to a number of
:07:54. > :07:58.contentious issues in the peace process after months of talks failed
:07:59. > :08:01.to produce final agreement. Our correspondent Chris Page is in
:08:02. > :08:05.Belfast for us now. Chris, what has gone wrong? Well, there was no deal
:08:06. > :08:09.because of disagreement about details. These negotiations were
:08:10. > :08:13.aimed at resolving three issues, flags, parading and to deal with
:08:14. > :08:17.unsolved killings from the Troubles. Richard Haass said there was
:08:18. > :08:21.significant progress, the parties had positive things to say about the
:08:22. > :08:26.general outline of what was being proposed. In Northern Ireland every
:08:27. > :08:30.word and detail matters so no final agreement. The politicians will work
:08:31. > :08:34.on the issues in 2014. In the next three years elections will be held
:08:35. > :08:39.here. The parties will be mindful of what potential voters might think of
:08:40. > :08:41.any compromise. Overcoming these differences not impossible. It will
:08:42. > :08:48.certainly be very difficult. Thank you. Energy distribution companies
:08:49. > :08:52.have been summoned to a meeting with the Energy Secretary Ed Davey, to
:08:53. > :08:55.discuss ways to improve their response to power cuts. They have
:08:56. > :08:59.been criticised after tens of thousands of people were left
:09:00. > :09:03.without electricity for several days over Christmas. The firms have
:09:04. > :09:08.already been called to appear before a committee of MPs next month. Over
:09:09. > :09:12.the Christmas period 150,000 homes were without power, as floods and
:09:13. > :09:16.storms swept across the country. On Christmas Day itself, more than
:09:17. > :09:21.20,000 households had no electricity at all. The companies that look
:09:22. > :09:26.after the power lines say everyone affected has now been reconnected,
:09:27. > :09:30.though some are still getting their electricity from generators. Plans
:09:31. > :09:36.by one, UK Power Networks, which made more than ?500m profit last
:09:37. > :09:42.year, to offer ?75 to those who were without power on Christmas Day have
:09:43. > :09:46.been condemned. MPs are summoning the firms in to explain themselves.
:09:47. > :09:49.Too many consumers were left without prisoners of warrer for too long and
:09:50. > :09:52.without information about when it would be restored. At a time when
:09:53. > :09:57.people are now really dependant on a continuous supply of electricity, to
:09:58. > :10:03.be left without pow her over night, sometimes for more than one or
:10:04. > :10:06.two-days, that is simply simply un-Septemberable. Was hit hardest,
:10:07. > :10:13.100 homes were evacuated on Christmas Eve. When David Cameron
:10:14. > :10:19.visited on Friday, he was confronted by this woman. Angry at being left
:10:20. > :10:23.without electricity. Today, this resident was still angry with the
:10:24. > :10:28.power companies. It's all right coming down after David Cameron come
:10:29. > :10:31.down. We never saw anyone until David Cameron came here. It's wrong.
:10:32. > :10:35.Of the companies at the centre of the last week's problems have said
:10:36. > :10:40.they will co-operate with any inquiry by MPs. Coming after the
:10:41. > :10:45.grilling that the the domestic energy suppliers got here two months
:10:46. > :10:49.ago, 2013 has not been a good year for the energy industry generally.
:10:50. > :10:53.The distribution companies in England, Wales and Scotland are
:10:54. > :11:00.being summoned by the Energy Secretary, in a letter he calls for:
:11:01. > :11:07.an urgent discussion about the ongoing resilience of the network.
:11:08. > :11:15.With more heavy rain expected tonight and tomorrow, people are
:11:16. > :11:19.bracing themselves for more problems ahead. A woman suffered serious
:11:20. > :11:23.injuries to her neck and spine after being attacked by a stag in the
:11:24. > :11:29.Scottish Highlands near Fort William. Kate Stone was airlifted to
:11:30. > :11:33.hospital in Glasgow where she is in intensive care. The annal charged at
:11:34. > :11:37.her as she stood with some friends outside a house. She had been on
:11:38. > :11:42.holiday there. In South Sudan the government and rebels have agreed to
:11:43. > :11:45.meet for peace talks to try to halt the violence that's killed at least
:11:46. > :11:49.1,000 people. The talks, due to be held in Ethiopia, are the first
:11:50. > :11:55.since conflict began two weeks ago between forces loyal to President
:11:56. > :11:58.Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy, rebel leader Riek Machar. The
:11:59. > :12:01.Archbishop of Canterbury has said it will take a generation for the
:12:02. > :12:05.banking industry to regain customer trust following the financial
:12:06. > :12:10.crisis. Justin Welby took part in Radio 4's today programme this
:12:11. > :12:15.morning, which was guest-edited by the new Chief Executive of Barclays,
:12:16. > :12:22.Antony Jenkins. Banking has been high on the Archbishop of
:12:23. > :12:27.Canterbury's priorities. He appeared on the BBC's Today programme he
:12:28. > :12:30.argued that repairing tarnished reputations could take decades. I
:12:31. > :12:36.spoke to him afterwards. To change a culture that is so deeply embedded,
:12:37. > :12:41.which almost no-one remembers anything different, to reinvent a
:12:42. > :12:52.different kind of culture it has got to be a generational change. He said
:12:53. > :12:59.many bank chefs had got to chiefs had got to grips, but some had not.
:13:00. > :13:08.We can go back to normal, we can repair, we don't have to replace.
:13:09. > :13:14.The Archbishop said this yearly year he was embarrassed that Wonga was
:13:15. > :13:19.partly backed by a financier of the Church of England. Barclays is one
:13:20. > :13:24.bank trying to make a break with the past. The former boss Bob Diamond
:13:25. > :13:29.quick after the bank was fined over attempts to rig the benchmark
:13:30. > :13:32.interest rate by LIBOR. The new Chief Executive, Generaling
:13:33. > :13:37.scombreng Generaling, acknowledged it would take five to ten years to
:13:38. > :13:42.restore trust in Barclays. What society has the right to expect of
:13:43. > :13:46.us is to see continuous progress along that journey. Of course it
:13:47. > :13:51.will be time before actually recognise the change and then give
:13:52. > :13:55.us credit for it. Looking ahead to 2014 there will be clouds hanging
:13:56. > :13:58.over the city. Investigations into alleged attempts to manipulate the
:13:59. > :14:02.foreign exchange markets are continuing. That is a reminder that
:14:03. > :14:10.for banks, restoring reputations may well take some time. The comedian
:14:11. > :14:14.John Fortune has died at the age of 74. His agent said the veteran
:14:15. > :14:18.satirist died peacefully with his wife at his bed side. Best-known for
:14:19. > :14:26.his television appearances with Rory Bremner and John Bird, he
:14:27. > :14:27.ex-compelled -- excelled at playing self-satisfied but bumbling
:14:28. > :14:45.establishment figures. A US government consultant on IT
:14:46. > :14:49.systems? John Fortune with John Bird in Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He
:14:50. > :14:57.will enter all that appointment information. That's how they do it.
:14:58. > :15:02.In the computer. And almost instantaneously, the computer will
:15:03. > :15:10.tell you you can't do it. They largely improvised interviews, and
:15:11. > :15:15.satirised bumbling politicians and businessmen, something John Fortune
:15:16. > :15:20.had been doing all his life. It was a consummate performance. Two
:15:21. > :15:28.people, two seats, no gimmicks, no tricks. Just the words. The two
:15:29. > :15:37.Johns wrote the satire boom of the 1960s. They had met in the 19 --
:15:38. > :15:42.they had met at Cambridge. You can use your personal knowledge to
:15:43. > :15:48.start... For decades, he was a reliable comic performer on stage
:15:49. > :15:54.and screen. What you know personally but not officially you will know...
:15:55. > :15:58.He and John Bird won awards for their performances together. Rory
:15:59. > :16:04.Bremner called John Fortune a father figure and mental. In some ways, he
:16:05. > :16:11.was one of the pillars of the anti-establishment. Particularly
:16:12. > :16:16.with John Bird, his performance will hold for many years as an example of
:16:17. > :16:19.what satire can be. He was a true satirist who turned his anger at the
:16:20. > :16:23.world's absurdities into laughter. The comedian John Fortune who has
:16:24. > :16:26.died at the age of 74. There are just a few hours of 2013
:16:27. > :16:29.left here, but already millions of people around the world have been
:16:30. > :16:32.welcoming in 2014. In Australia, more than a million people lined
:16:33. > :16:37.Sydney Harbour to watch a huge firework display. And in just over
:16:38. > :16:39.an hour, Dubai is aiming for a new world record for the largest ever
:16:40. > :16:44.pyrotechnic display, stretching over 30 miles of seafront. Nick Beake
:16:45. > :17:00.looks at the best of the celebrations so far.
:17:01. > :17:04.Three, two, one! Sydney at New Year, a spectacular sight. On a warm
:17:05. > :17:10.summer's evening, more than a million crammed into the harbour, as
:17:11. > :17:19.seven tonnes of fireworks illuminated the night sky. The great
:17:20. > :17:29.Wall of China became a campus of colourful celebrations in and around
:17:30. > :17:35.Beijing. And this was the party on the waterfront in Shanghai. Happy
:17:36. > :17:39.New Year! Meanwhile, a British cannon fired at midnight in Hong
:17:40. > :17:46.Kong, a tradition reaching back to the end of the Second World War. In
:17:47. > :17:49.Japan, there was time for prayer and reflection before Shinto priests
:17:50. > :17:56.rang in the New Year. Back in the UK, with just hours until our turn,
:17:57. > :17:59.Edinburgh is expecting. In Central London, they are gearing up for the
:18:00. > :18:02.moment Big Ben strikes midnight. There's more throughout the evening
:18:03. > :18:04.on the BBC News Channel. I'm back with the News at Ten. Now it's time
:18:05. > :18:06.for the latest