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The eastern United States has been hit by one of the biggest blizzards | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
in history - it has blanketed the region in snow, disrupting | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Emergencies have been declared in 11 states and at least 10 | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
people have been killed, mainly in road accidents caused | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Tens of thousands are without power, with the states of New Jersey | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Tunnels and bridges into New York city are being closed | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a travel ban | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The snow ploughs cannot keep up and the situation is getting worse and | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
the last thing we want is for nature in the day to have a lot of people | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
on the roads and dangerous circumstances. We have been there | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
before and it is not pretty and it is frightening and there have been | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
circumstances where we could have had a loss of life. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
In the capital, Washington, and surrounding states, | :01:13. | :01:13. | |
more than 60 centimetres of snow has already fallen, forcing most | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
But children and animals have ventured out to enjoy or at least | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Our reporter, Laura Bicker, reports from Washington. | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Some attempted to clear a path but there are very few venturing out | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
The President is said to have worked from the White House throughout | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
the blizzard as the nation's capital came to a standstill. | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
The city's two main airports felt abandoned as over 6000 flights | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
were cancelled up and down the east coast. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
And those who tried to drive struggle. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Eight people have been killed in car accidents. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
We have not moved an inch at all. are stuck on a main motorway. | :02:04. | :02:18. | |
Police were forced to set up emergency shelters by the roadside. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
In New York they tried to reclaim Times Square | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
And in New Jersey they failed to fight the flood during high tide. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
This is an emergency event and we are very much | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
still in our emergency response phase. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
This has been billed as one of the worst storms in Washington's | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
history but there are some who simply cannot hide their joy | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Tian Tian is one of the few out in this weather, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
doing his own kind of dance through the storm. | :03:03. | :03:18. | |
Barbara Platt usher is in Washington. How other people coping? | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
-- are the people coping? There is a lot of snow in the suburbs and it | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
looks like it might reach that record set in 1922, 28 inches. We | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
have not had any reports of fatalities or power outages in the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
city and the Mayor has been strong in saying stay at home and do not | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
come out, it makes more work for people clearing the roads. If you | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
people have been venturing out and some restaurants have opened and a | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
boy and his sled what past as well as a baby carriage so some people | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
are enjoying the snow and once the snow stops we will see more of that, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Capitol Hill will be open for sledging and we might see that on | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Sunday and maybe Monday. But officials say they are still in the | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
emergency phase and they want people to stay at home and as we reported | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
in New York, they expect even more snow, the Mayor said it looks like | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
it will be in one of the top five snowstorms in New York history so | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
they are taking steps to cut out the traffic, they have banned traffic on | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
all roadways except for emergencies and Broadway shows have cancelled | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
performances so the storm looks like it will be worse than predicted. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
There will be concerns about the economic impact on businesses and | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
cities as well, presumably the authorities will be working hard to | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
get places back and running but we are told that some of the worst is | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
still yet to come? Yes, it looks like this storm might continue into | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
the evening and possibly only let up on Sunday morning so things will be | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
shut down at least until then but as far as the business side goes, the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
prediction was that could be $1 billion in losses or it could cost | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
that to clean things up and get things back on track but I think | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
that the fact that this storm is taking place on a weekend will have | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
helped in those calculations and as soon as the snow stops, we will see | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the clearing out in full force. There already is some of that | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
happening but there is still an emergency phase and they will then | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
look at clearing things up and recovering. It is a cold job but | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
somebody has to do it! And for up-to-the minute news | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
on conditions in the eastern US, It has full information | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
on the weather, travel services affected and which areas have seen | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
the heaviest snowfall so far. Services from the port of Calais | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
have been disrupted after 50 It is understood that the migrants | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
boarded a P ferry named the Spirit P Ferries described it | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
as a "security incident" and said passengers could expect a delay | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
of between 90 and 120 minutes. From the dockside, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Dan Johnson reports. There has been serious disruption at | :06:18. | :06:31. | |
the port this evening, it closed for some time with huge disruption and | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
massive delays with hundreds of cars and lorries backing up in long lines | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
of traffic spreading around the roads around the port but it looks | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
like things might be starting to get back to some level of normality, we | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
have seen traffic moving again through the port and a number of | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
ferries have arrived so it does appear that the port is now | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
reopening. But the spirit of Britain, you can see that, it has | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
been stuck here for some time because of these migrants who | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
stormed the terminal and climbed aboard we saw the video which shows | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
the firefighting hoses being used to try to get rid of the migrants and | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
cover them and what to get them to leave and we could see many police | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
officers here trying to deal with him earlier on this evening. It is | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
not clear if they have managed to remove all of them but it does look | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
like things are starting to get back to some level of normality here with | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
traffic moving although it will be some time before things are | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
resolved. An interesting day for the migrant community. They had a visit | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
earlier from the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and he has been | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
raising the questions about how Europe deals with this issue with | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
these numbers of migrants and about the role of Britain in that, how | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
many we should take and whether we should sign up to the quota system | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
that is likely to be rolled out across Europe with countries taking | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
different amounts of migrants based on EU rules. At the moment the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
British government is doing its own thing, excepting 20,000 but it is | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
selecting from refugee camps closer to the Syrian border so a difficult | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
day for people here at Calais and an interesting day for the migrants in | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
this region, certainly a day when the migrant story has got back in | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
the news. Dan Johnson reporting. Several Latin American and Caribbean | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
countries are warning women to avoid getting pregnant as concern grows | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
over links between the Zika virus Women expecting a baby are also | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
being urged to seek advice before travelling to some countries | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
in the region. Brazil is facing an unprecedented | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
surge in cases of a condition that leads to babies being born | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
with abnormally small heads. Julia Carneiro has been | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
to the country's northeast, Agents are talking to the people on | :08:41. | :08:55. | |
the streets and carrying out inspections as part of a programme | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
to eradicate the mosquito, it is well known here as their dengue | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
fever mosquito but infamous for also spreading the Zika virus and Zika is | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
associated with a surge in cases of babies born with head smaller than | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
normal, almost 4000 cases registered in Brazil and this is the third most | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
affected state with almost 500 cases. Brazil is getting ready for a | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
carnival and in Salvador around 7000 people are expected summer is a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
special effort interest areas to clean up and combat the mosquito | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
that Brazil has been notoriously unsuccessful at tackling this | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
mosquito in the past decades with epidemics every year and with the | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
appearance of Zika, this does lead to international concern, the virus | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
was first detected last May and it already is present in most Latin | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
American countries. The US Vice President Joe Biden has | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
said the US and Turkey are prepared to seek a military solution | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
in Syria if a political He's been in talks in Istanbul | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
with the Turkish Prime Minister. We do know that it would be better | :10:02. | :10:13. | |
if we can reach a political solution but we are prepared, if that is not | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
possible, to make a military solution to this operation. And | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
taking out Daesh. The BBC's Selin Gerit in Istanbul | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
has been following the talks. Joe Biden at the press conference | :10:24. | :10:35. | |
said that there could be a military solution although not preferred if a | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
political solution to the problem in Syria was not maintained but the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
White House made it clear afterwards that what he was referring to was | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
actually the ongoing current operations against Islamic State | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
grips so at this moment we should not expect anything further than | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
that. Mr Biden gave strong support for the Turkish fight against | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Kurdish militants, PKK. He called them a terrorist group and it | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
already is defined as that either the US but, and the EU and Turkey | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
but making that statement loud and clear is of course pleasing to | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Turkey. There was something else interesting in the press conference. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
They said that the support that would be given to the rebel groups | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
fighting against Assad regime is would continue and would go further | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
and there is a question over that because what would happen to be | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Kurdish Syrian opposition militants who are deemed as the strongest | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
opposition that the Islamic State has faced. On Friday, Mr Biden had | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
voiced strong concerns about the freedom of speech and press freedom | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
in Turkey and he said that Turkey is not setting a great example in the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Middle East, considering that it has actually accused over 1000 academics | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
of treason because they had concerns about the operations against PKK and | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
the south-east. That was a strong position to the Turkish government | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
and he said we would have hoped that Mr Biden would have spoken to people | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
who lost their lives, the relatives of those who lost their lives in PKK | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
strikes. Still to come: Capturing | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
the world's longest sunset - we catch up with a BBC team | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
filming in Antarctica. A woman in the UK believes she has | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
a winning lottery ticket for an unclaimed ?33 million jackpot | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
- but put it in the washing machine. Although some details have been | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
washed off the ticket, the shopkeeper who sold it has sent | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
it to lottery operator Camelot in the hope the money | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
can still be claimed. Their first thing I asked was if she | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
had signed it and she said yes and that is good because that is what is | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
to be done, you have to sign the ticket before anything else and | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
after that I said, do you have the ticket with you and she showed me | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
the ticket but she said it has been in the wash so then I asked her to | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
see it and because it was washed, you could see those six numbers on | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the ticket for the game but you could see the date which was in 2016 | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
but not the other parts. It would be a win for us because it would be | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
very good for her and for us and the city of Worcester as well, it would | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
put us on the map once again, instead of the floods! | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
The latest headlines? All non-essential travel has been | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
banned in New York as a mammoth snowatorm hits the US east coast. | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Services at the French Port of Calais have been disrupted as 50 | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Google has agreed to pay nearly $200 million in back taxes to Britain | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
It's been accused of avoiding tax in spite of billions of dollars | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
OK, Google, how much tax does Google pay in Britain? | :14:29. | :14:40. | |
Google's tax affairs are quite a popular search item in the UK, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
especially now it has agreed to pay ?130 million of back taxes to HMRC, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
but there are some who feel that is a fraction of what should | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
I have been campaigning on this for the last 15 years. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Under the last government and this government. | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
But to be frank, it looks like what independent assessors have | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
Most corporations are paying 20%, ordinary individuals are paying | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
I think most people will think this is unfair. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Google enjoyed sales of ?4.6 billion in the UK in 2014. | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
Under normal circumstances, companies would have paid 21% tax | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
Because Google routes its UK sales via Ireland and then | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
on to the Caribbean, it pays much less each year | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
than this ?130 million tax deal, which covers a decade of accounts. | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
So does Google now accept it had been paying too little? | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
We were applying the rules they there were, that was then. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Now we will be applying the new rules. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Britain accounts for 10% of Google's total sales but only a sliver | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
Is getting the company to pay more tax merely an effort | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
When I became Chancellor, there were some companies that paid | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
That rightly caused a lot of public anger. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Now we have companies like Google paying tax and I want the message | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
to go out that in Britain, taxes are low but they have to be | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
paid and I expect more companies to follow suit. | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Apple, the world's largest company, Amazon, the biggest online retailer, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Starbucks, the number one coffee franchise, | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
Facebook paid only ?4000 in UK corporation taxes last year. | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
It may take a while to close the book on creative tax | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Some other news... A 17-year-old male's been charged with two counts | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
of first degree murder after four people were killed in a school | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
shooting in Canada. The incident at La Loche Community School, in | :16:52. | :16:52. | |
Saskatchewan province, was the country's worst gun violence in a | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
decade. Thousands of Poles have taken part | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
in marches in Warsaw and other cities to protest about plans | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
of the conservative government, which they say will curtail | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
privacy and freedom. The billionaire former mayor | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
of New York, Michael Bloomberg, is reported to be considering | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
running for President Unnamed advisors have told | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
the New York Times that the former mayor sees a gap in the race | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
and would be prepared to spend up to $1 billion of his personal | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
fortune on his campaign. Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City are | :17:29. | :17:47. | |
back on top of the Premier League table courtesy of a 3-0 victory over | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Stoke. Leicester took the lead through Danny Drinkwater who put | :17:51. | :17:51. | |
them ahead just before half time and then got the assist midway through | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
the second half as Jamie Vardy made it 2-nil - his 16th league goal this | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
season. It was a vital victory with some difficult fixtures coming up | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
next month. Top of the table. Very pleased because Stoke city are very | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
strong and tough. The team is very tall and it was very difficult to | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
fight against them. I am pleased with our performance because it was | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
important to be top of the league at the end of January because in | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
February, we arrive at bigger and bigger and tougher matches. But | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
there's more pressure on Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal - his | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
side are now ten points behind leaders Leicester after they were | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
beaten 1-0 by Southampton at home. The fans at Old Trafford made their | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
feelings clear at the final whistle. Southampton's new signing Charlie | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
Austin scored the only goal of the game, coming off the bench to score | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
on his debut. So more problems for Van Gaal who afterwards said he | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
shared the fans' frustration. There was some booing during the game and | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
at full-time. What is your response) they are right, I cannot deny that. | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
I also saw the match. I cannot deny that. But also, better or for worse, | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
we have to stick together. What can you say to those supporters to make | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
them believe that things will improve? Because we're working very | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
hard and we also have a lot of injuries and you cannot change that. | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
Not with words. It is also a lot of unlocking this when you have five | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
fullbacks injured. Jurgen Klopp has his glasses knocked off in the | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
celebrations that followed the winner in injury time against | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Norwich. Liverpool winning that thriller by a remarkable 5-4. We won | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
the game, I think everyone could have happened -- everything could | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
have happened but it was deserved because we were striking back in a | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
very good way and the boys played for well under a big pressure, it | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
was very important for us today. Five goals here is not easy. But we | :20:08. | :20:22. | |
did that. Glasses free. Elsewhere, Sergio Aguero scored twice to rescue | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
a point for Manchester City at Upton Park. That 2-2 draw means they're | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
now second, above Arsenal on goal difference. Tottenham are fourth | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
after coming from behind to beat Crystal Palace 3-1. Sunderland | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Bournemouth ended in a 1-1 draw, Newcastle are still in the | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
relegation zone after losing 2-1 at Watford. Aston Villa stay bottom | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
they drew 0-0 with West Midlands rivals West Brom. Barcelona have | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
returned to the top of La Liga with a 2-1 win at Malaga. No prizes for | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
guessing the name of the man who scored the winner - Lionel Messi | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
early in the second half. Espanyol drew 2-2 at home to Villareal and | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Granada are currently leading 2-0 at home to Getafe. The match between | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Rayo Vallecano and Celta Vigo is still in its early stages. | :20:55. | :21:08. | |
England's cricketers have it all to do after South Africa dominated Day | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Two of the fourth and Final Test in Pretoria. It was a tough day for | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
England in the field - their bowlers toiled, eventually bowling the hosts | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
out for 475 in their first innings. Quinton de Kock made his first | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
maiden century for South Africa, he finished 129 not out. In reply, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
England lost both Alex Hales and Nick Compton cheaply but captain | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Alastair Cook led the way. At stumps he was 67 not out and England 138 | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
for two, that's 337 runs behind. That's all the sport for now. I will | :21:27. | :21:38. | |
see you later on. Being a BBC News crew can present | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
some amazing opportunities and challenges, and the chance to go | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
to Antarctica is both. One of our teams is following | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
British researchers Victoria Gill sent us this report | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
on the unusual conditions We are in Antarctica, the Antarctic | :21:50. | :22:06. | |
peninsula and we're here to report on a team of scientists | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
investigating some of the threat to the penguins. We are trying to | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
capture why we're here, not just the scientists at work but the | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
experience of being in this landscape, just help brutally to do | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
for this place is and that is the job of Dave, here's a BBC cameraman. | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Hello. One of the things we have noticed is the bizarre experience of | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
the sunset because at this time of year it is not ever really get dark. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Every photographer will tell you about sunrise and sunset, the Golden | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
hours, then you get the best light and pictures. But in Britain the | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
best light, just as the sun is setting the horizon, lasted a few | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
minutes. Here it really is ours. The sun creeks around the horizon for a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
couple of hours, close to midnight, and when it finally goes down, it is | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
soon back up. We wanted to capture that also that has meant some late | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
nights filming for us and why I have not slept much on this trip. When | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
the conditions are good this place really is a photographer's dream. We | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
just have to see if we can do this just is. -- justice. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Victoria Gill reporting from the Antarctic. | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
Let's return to our main story - the snowstorm that has hit the east | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
We'll leave you with some of the best images from the past day | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
This storm will surpass 20 inches accumulation in New York City. When | :23:39. | :24:11. | |
that happens, that will put this in the top five snowstorms in the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
history of New York City, if it goes past 20 inches it will be in the top | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
five in terms of accumulation in recorded history going back to 1869. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
So this is a very big deal. From me and the rest | :24:25. | :24:59. | |
of the team - goodbye. Rain in the forecast for our shores | :25:00. | :25:24. | |
overnight but on the other side of the Atlantic we have seen an | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
incredible snowstorm, desert conditions for many | :25:28. | :25:28. |