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Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News 20240713

Who want a temple built there. Catastrophic bushfires in eastern australia kill at least three people and force thousands from their homes and its a happy 50th birthday to the american childrens tv series sesame street. Coming up, well have all the latest sports news including a sixth Consecutive Premier League win for chelsea. Seven severe Flood Warnings that represent a threat to life remain in place on the river don in South Yorkshire. Water levels in some areas are still rising. A woman swept to her death by a flooded river has been named as derbyshires former high sherriff annie hall. Her body was pulled from the River Derwent near matlock on friday, as persistent rain caused floods across yorkshire and the midlands. Our reporter luxmy gopal reports from the village of fishlake near doncaster. Rising water levels posing a danger to life. This was the scene last night, at fishlake in doncaster, where a severe Flood Warning has been issued. A0 people had to be rescued from their homes overnight. It adds to the severe flooding that has hit other parts of South Yorkshire and derbyshire. This wall shows you very clearly where the water came up to. The basement storeroom of this florist, in matlock in north derbyshire, is completely ruined. All the stock, ready for the run up to christmas, now worthless. To get things started again is going to cost a lot of money. The Insurance Company will help out, but of course we have to get those things to start with. We are talking between £5,000 and £10,000 a lot of money, a lot of money to recoup. Other businesses in the town have suffered a similarfate. This new toy shop didnt get a chance to open its doors to the public. Everybody has had a terrible time of it, but our shop was due to open yesterday. So, we were here the day before yesterday until ten oclock and evening and we have been for the last three weeks, and we were so excited about opening yesterday, and then we got here and it was full of water. As the clean up operation gets into full swing, many here say they feel lucky they were not worse affected. It was at matlock that a womans body was found after being swept away in the River Derwent. Today, she has been formally identified as annie hall, a former high sheriff of derbyshire. In derby city centre, a number of properties were evacuated last night. Today, they are trying to get back to business as usual. But travel continues to be disrupted, with many roads still closed and many Train Services still cancelled across South Yorkshire and derbyshire. There are seven severe Flood Warnings in place along the river don. Flood warnings in place while the flood waters have subsided in some areas, the danger is not passed yet. As we speak, those severe Flood Warnings remain in place. Earlier i spoke to Matthew Gable from the Environment Agency. Weve had a very, very high level of rainfall, possibly the third or fourth highest on record. So, it is the sheer volume of water, and compounded on that is the amount of saturation in the ground, so with a ground being so wet, any rainfall that does fall is immediately going into the river so the river are reacting really quickly. This is still a live incident, we are still on the ground responding, we are working fantastically with all of the other Emergency Services and the local authorities as well to make sure that people who have been displaced from their homes have got somewhere to go and obviously making sure that as the water moves down the river network, we are warning and informing those people that may be impacted further down. And that is our current focus, watching the peak of water as it moves downstream into the watercourses. The response effort continues around the river don, as assistant chief fire officer steve helps, from South Yorkshire fire and rescue, explained to me earlier. Most of our efforts are now working in the doncaster district, and we have four areas where we are either pumping large quantities of water or helping to evacuate people that are vulnerable and at risk of the rising floods. So we are working with partners and continue to support those who require our help. A lot of what we have seen has been anticipated. Weve had significant quantities of water, the ground was already quite wet and as a consequence we are now predicting where the water is going, hence it has moved from sheffield, through rotherham, and out into doncaster. We are working with the ea, weve got staff on the ground monitoring the waterways to make sure that we can prepare and help to pre empt where there may be breaches and work with local communities that will become effective. It is challenging, it is worth mentioning there are two areas we are particularly working at the moment, we are moving water where it is feasible to move water and clearly where there is an area that is particularly flooded, it has to go somewhere, so alternatively it is around moving people that are vulnerable and at risk and that is where a lot of our activities are taking place. 0ur call centre has received 1,600 calls into the command and control centre since thursday evening, and we have rescued almost 200 people from the risk of water from either vehicles or property. So that is the activity we are working at the moment. Weve got incidents, like i said, across doncaster, and weve got National Resilience assets, so boat crews and high volume pumps from across the uk working with South Yorkshire to meet the demand. Its a busy day on the campaign trail, with less than five weeks until the general election. The conservatives have unveiled plans to train more gps whilst labour and the liberal democrats are focussing on increasing support for childcare. Heres our Political Correspondent peter saull. So whats going on . Labour wants there to be facilities like this in every community in england. The last Labour Government help new parents by building sure start centres but hundreds of those have closed in recent years, and should he become Prime Minister, he would bring them back. We are determined to open Childrens Centres so that sure start can become a reality, as it was in the past, for so many of our children. All our funding commitments will be clearly there, in the grey book, that will be published alongside our manifesto. Their parents might like the sound of another labour policy extending the 30 hours of Free Childcare a week for two to four year olds to all families. And the liberal democrats are going even further. This is 35 hours of childcare for all two to four year old for 48 weeks of the year 35 hours being the average school day, so that makes sense. But then that would also and this is what is really radical and new about this it would also be from nine months to two years old for families who work. This wont come cheap, and care providers are calling for greater clarity on funding. Questions too, for the conservatives, who have made another pledge on the nhs. The Health Secretary wants to make it easier for patients to see their gp. The package will deliver 6000 more doctors in primary care and that will lead to 50 million more appointments. I know how frustrating it is when you cant get a gp appointment fast enough. The tories made a similar promise, four years ago that there would be 5,000 extra Family Doctors by 2020. Theyre nowhere near that target. The reality will be seeing these delivered on. Whichever government we have, in a few weeks time, we need them to recognise the stressed state of general practice, we need them to recognise that these promises are solid and should be delivered on, but they need to be delivered swiftly. There is a long way to go yet, but day by day we are getting a clear idea of the policy is that the parties hope will win your vote. 0ur political reporter pete saull spoke to me earlier, and began by focusing on the conservatives plans on training gps. It has been a challenge for some years now, to recruit medical staff to the nhs, to train them up. The conservatives have a two prong approach to this. On one side is training up more gps, and secondly its recruiting from overseas. They announced a new medical visa earlier this week to try to attract more Foreign Staff into the nhs. I suppose the issue with that, though the cost will come down for applying for that visa, it will apply for the first time to eu nationals once we leave the eu. And the second part of that is a better effort to retain the staff that currently are working as gps within the nhs. They said 5,000 new gps by 2020 back in 2015, a pledge made by the then Health Secretaryjeremy hunt. According to the latest figures we have got, the numbers are pretty much the same. So they are a long, long way from meeting that target. If they do go back into the government, the conservatives, it will be interesting to see if they do deliver on this promise of, fundamentally, making it easier for patients out there to get an appointment with their gp. 0n the question of extra support for children and young families, we have already had announcements on things like maternity pay from labour yesterday. Today it is also about sure start centres. Labour is kind of still determined to hang on to this concept. It dates back to the blair brown days, a Big Initiative in 97. Some of the providers seem a bit sceptical about whether there are. It is all very well to promise this, but are there the nursery care workers, are there the people available to work in the centres, even if you can open them . A familiar subject, sure start, a realflagship policy of the blair years. They spread up and down the country, and the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner talks fondly about how she, as a teenage mother, used a sure start centre and it really helped her teach the basics. Labour will argue that, in a sense, they pay for themselves because they avoid referrals to the nhs and to other Public Services by offering that education at a very early stage in life. The funding has been cut since 2010 by around a third, there is a slight dispute about the number of Childrens Centres that have closed since 2010. Labour say around 1000, otherfigures suggest it is in the hundreds rather than up to 1000. I think they will continue to talk about that. 0n childcare, this is a Battle Ground in this election. The conservatives have introduced it in recent years, Free Childcare, labour saying they would extend it to all families, notjust people that are working a certain numbers of hours for the 30 hours of Free Childcare a week for two to four year olds. The liberal democrats looking at it differently, saying it should still apply to people going into work, but it will be 35 hours and they will say it should start at the age of nine months. In a sense, the lib dems are rather outbidding the labour party on this, but both really trying to go after the voters younger parents, youngerfamilies as potential individuals that could swing this election. In the run up to polling day well be bringing you an essential guide to the various campaigns in a daily electioncast. Starting on monday night, adam fleming and the bbcs Politics Team provide a round up of the days events and will look at the twists and turns of the campaign so far. Watch it here on the bbc news channel or listen to it on bbc sounds app. Ceremonies are taking place in germany to mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall. The german chancellor angela merkel, who grew up in east germany, has been attending a commemoration at a remaining section of the wall, thats preserved as a memorial. 0ur berlin correspondent jenny hill reports. In broad daylight, with the world watching, east berlin became a prison. Its citizens sealed off from friends and family in the west. 30 years after its fall, its still a powerful symbol of division. Theres not much of it left today, but its the focus of commemorations, led by angela merkel, who herself grew up behind the iron curtain. For monika, an emotional day. The wall, she told us, tore her family apart. Monika speaks german. She never knew her grandfather, who lived in the west. By the time the wall fell, he was dead. It was, astonishingly, a bloodless revolution which followed weeks of street protests. Many declared the birth of a new world order, one which some warn is at risk today. Translation the values upon which europe is founded freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, the preservation of human rights they absolutely cannot be taken for granted and must constantly be defended. Today is a bittersweet day for germany. Its about commemorating hardships endured, freedoms won but also a chance to reflect on the divisions on today. Solemnity, but later, there will be celebration too, to mark an iconic moment which shaped the world as we know it today. Jenny hill, bbc news, berlin. The headlines on bbc news. The Environment Agency says flooding in parts of South Yorkshire still poses a risk to life, even though water levels are expected to drop. The conservatives lay out plans to train and employ thousands more gps, despite failing to meet a previous recruitment target. Labour and the liberal democrats promise to fund more hours of free child care but providers express scepticism over funding. Lets return to politics now. The Scottish National party leader, nicola sturgeon, has been campaigning in scotland today. The party are calling for the minimum wage to be the same for younger workers as it is for those over the age of 25. Campaigning in liberal democrat leaderjo swinsons seat of east dumbartonshire, ms sturgeon stressed the importance of voting in this general election. We are campaigning today for a fairer deal for young people, in particular an end to the age discrimination around the statutory living wage. Right now you can do exactly the same job with the same duties and workjust as hard but get paid less if you happen to be under 25 and thats wrong and we will be campaigning in the next Uk Parliament to have that discrimination ended. Of course, if we could have powers over Employment Law devolved to scotland, then its something the Scottish Parliament should do and that brings to the fore one of the key messages in this campaign from the snp which is we should put scotlands future into scotlands hands, not allow westminster to continue to decide these issue. You were stopped on the street thereby a man saying you should back borisjohnson to get brexit done. You disagreed with him but do you see the problems of running on such an anti brexit message, that there are people here who just want to see it done over over and to stay ultimately in the uk . I respect the view of that gentleman and i respect the view of everybody who takes a different view to me on brexit but the reality is the overwhelming majority of the people in scotland opposed brexit, didnt vote for it back in 2016 and are very strongly opposed to it now. They are also opposed to the complete mess that brexit is becoming. I have spoken to some people in this campaign who voted for brexit in 2016 but now think it is such a mess that they want to escape it, just like others do. You see what happens to labour when they try to sit on the fence on big issues like brexit. The snps position is clear, it is the position that is right for scotlands interest, we shouldnt get dragged out of the eu against our will. Instead, we should have the future of our country in our own hands. Lets return to our top story and Severe Weather warnings that remain in parts of the english midlands and yorkshire. Lets speak now to craig wingfield. Hes been among those worst affected by the heavy rain and flooding in doncaster. Thank you for talking to us doncaster. Thank you for talking to us this afternoon. Let me ask you this afternoon, what sort of damage has this flooding caused you . M this afternoon, what sort of damage has this flooding caused you . It has absolutely destroyed all of our house. The floorboards have been dug up house. The floorboards have been dug up today. My grandad, his bedroom has been damaged and we will need new beds and a new wardrobe. Everything. We are just trying to sort all of that out now, but luckily, it is thanks to people who offered to buy a ski beds and all of that, to help us and my grandad. My grandad has dementia, and weve got a bed for my grandad now as we speak. That is some good news, in terms of the water that has got in, is it river water, or waterfrom terms of the water that has got in, is it river water, or water from the breaking of the flooding of the rates 7 breaking of the flooding of the rates . Do you know where it came from . It actually came from the river don. 0n the thursday night, me and my dad were going up to the river to keep our eye on it. We came up, we river to keep our eye on it. We came up, we rang river to keep our eye on it. We came up, we rang the council on the thursday night, and we asked them, and they had ordered sandbags, but how do we know that it was going to get flooded like that . Then the next morning, the sandbags came about ten oclock. And the water was one foot deepin oclock. And the water was one foot deep in our house. It was too late then, really. And presumably, now you know that the rain has started again, i dont know if it is raining in doncaster but it is raining in the area. It is raining in doncaster. Heavy . Yes, all of the sandbags have gone back up. We could get flooded again, they are actually pumping water from there into the river don. It could be coming back ont

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