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starting over on BBC Two in a moment. They'll be live in Kiev | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
assessing what chance today's deal has | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. A retired official has come forward to say that he took the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
decision to stop dredging on the Somerset Levels 20 years ago. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Ken Tatem says he stands by his judgement even though the lack of | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
dredging has been blamed for making the floods worse. Scott Ellis | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
reports from the Levels. I have been taking a closer look. I | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
have dredged some up myself. Here it is. A bucket full of silt and stop | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
this is not soil that is what of farmland. This is silt that has been | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
brought in on the tide and settled on the bottom of the river. The vast | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
majority of people here are elated that dredging is going to get | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
underway, but there are some people who think that this process of the | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
tide coming in and bringing up silt is natural and is no point | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
intervening. Ken Tatem was flooded manager on the Somerset Levels in | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
the 1990s during which time he called a halt to dredging, and | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
everyone agreed. It is as shallow gradient. When you | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
dredge at the top end you are making their gradient shallower and getting | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
less flow. He says the government wants to dredge the river simply to | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
win over locals. The area's MP knows Ken Tatem and has respect for his | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
views but remained in favour of dredging. There are a lot of other | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
people who have said we have got to get the mud out of the river. This | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
river ran efficiently until maintaining the five when there was | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
a fundamental policy change. We have got to get active what it was | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
before. The policy change was giving more | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
room to wildlife. Environmental groups are still keen that dredging | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
is not seen as a simple solution. It is like having a plughole that you | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
are clearing to stop your bath filling up with water. In the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
long`term it was be more efficient to look at how much water is coming | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
into the system and also the grip that is blocking the channels in the | :02:37. | :02:50. | |
first place. Everyone agrees eight kilometres of dredging is just part | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
of the answer. Reducing the speed at which water drains onto the levels | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
is also wouldn't. There is more water coming down from the catchment | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
area. That's what needs to go somewhere else other than my front | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
room. I want to live a normal life. I not ask to be flooded. | :03:07. | :03:19. | |
Ken Tatem has another solution. Greater use of this dream during | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
flood periods to take water north away from the moves. `` this drain. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
It is a large areas of storage with no properties at risk. The | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
difficulty is you are asking a set of farmers who do not get funded at | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
the moment to accept flooding. That is a difficult negotiation. In the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
long run if you are going to help this area that has got to be done. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Dredging is just one idea. There are many more. Somerset takes its final | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
20 year plan to the secretary of state on March seven. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
A man's been in court charged with murdering the Gloucester hairdresser | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
Hollie Gazzard. Twenty year old Hollie was attacked at the salon | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
where she worked on Tuesday evening. Asher Maslin, who's 22, appeared at | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Cheltenham Magistrates' Court and was remanded until next week. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
A pilot has had a lucky escape after a small plane crashed into a field | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
in Gloucestershire today. The fire service says the person walked away | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
uninjured after making an emergency landing in a field in Sandhurst | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Shrien Dewani, the Bristol man, accused of organising his wife's | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
murder in South Africa, is to take his fight against extradition to the | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
highest court in the UK. Mr Dewani's lawyers have won the right to a | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Supreme Court ruling. Last month the High Court ruled he could be | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
extradited as long as the South African government gave assurances | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
about his treatment in the country. Those assurances were received | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
today. Mr Dewani denies plotting to kill his wife, Anni, during their | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
honeymoon in 2010. A zoo in North Somerset has taken | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
delivery of its first elephant ` an African adult called Buta. Noah s | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Ark Zoo in Wraxall has opened a 20 acre park to house up to ten | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
animals. It's Europe's biggest elephant enclosure and was opened by | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Ann Widdicombe, the former MP, who is a supporter of the zoo. But some | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
experts have questioned whether these animals should be held in | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
captivity at all. The elephants have 20 acres all for themselves. But | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
then that 20 acres they have got their field, they have got weeds, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
they have got one lows, we have got a pool. There is not any thing these | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
elephants have not got. Bristol Rovers have moved up to 16th | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
in League Two after beating promotion`chasing Burton 2`0 at the | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Memorial Stadium. David Clarkson got the first before John`Joe O'Toole | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
scored his 14th goal of the season to seal the victory. It gives John | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Ward's side their first back`to`back wins in the league since August and | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
moves them further away from the relegation zone. | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
Newsnight is starting on BBC Two. Now let us get the latest weather | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
forecast. It was not a bad end to the week. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
The weekend is not too bad for the first half. Saturday is dry, bright | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
and sunny. Low`pressure spreads and on Sunday. Not much Clyde tonight. | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
Not much Clyde tomorrow morning A dry and bright start. Plenty of | :06:43. | :06:55. | |
winter sunshine. Change is on the way. Saturday night into Sunday this | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
area of low`pressure advancers from the Southwest. Rain and showers and | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
a strengthening wind. Sunday, leaden skies, grey and overcast. That | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
low`pressure eventually pushes through. Fund the into next week. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
The winds die down on Monday that they come back on Tuesday as another | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
low treasure pushes on. The National forecast is after this. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
National forecast in a few seconds. Some rain around on Monday. | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
If you remember, this time last week, we had some very vicious | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
weather costing the country, the storm on Friday night. Much quieter | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
this Friday night and a much quieter week. Come the weekend, the Atlantic | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
is still a little fierce. We will have some wind and rain in the | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
forecast, too, but not all of us. In fact, for some of us, the weekend | :08:07. | :08:07. |