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The world mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela as tributes pour in | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
for a man described as the greatest leader of our time. People gather | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
outside his house in Johannesburg as South Africa gives thanks for the | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
life of the country's first black president. Thank you for the gift of | :00:17. | :00:33. | |
Madiba. Thank you for what he has enabled us to know we can become. In | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
the South African township of Soweto, there is mourning but also a | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
celebration of Nelson Mandela's life. Outside South Africa House in | :00:44. | :00:57. | |
London, people gather to sign a book of condolence, including the prime | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
minister. He lived this extraordinary life, this | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
extraordinary struggle of all those years in prison then the immense | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
triumph against adversity. We'll bring you reaction from around the | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
world and we're live in Johannesburg with the latest from South Africa. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Also tonight: Landslides and flooding after the worst tidal surge | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
for 50 years along the east coast of England. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
The Royal Marine found guilty of killing a Taliban in cold blood is | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
given a life sentence. And England learn who they'll play | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
in next year's World Cup Finals. The capital pays tribute to Nelson | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
Mandela. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:39. | :02:10. | |
News at Six. As South Africa and the world mourns the passing of Nelson | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Mandela, there has been a rare unanimity among world leaders as | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
they paid tribute to him. David Cameron said the man who had brought | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
democracy to South Africa after 27 years in prison had lived an | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
extraordinary life and inspired people around the world. Mr | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Mandela's close friend, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said the country's | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
first black president had inspired the South African people to walk the | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
path to forgiveness and reconciliation. Gabriel Gatehouse is | :02:32. | :02:43. | |
Johannesburg. Flags are flying at half-mast across South Africa | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
tonight, as indeed they are in many countries across the world. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Condolence books have been opened in South African embassies in tribute, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
which have been pouring in for the former president Nelson Mandela. His | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
death was anticipated, he was 95, he had been frail for months, receiving | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
intensive medical care, but tonight there is no doubt about it, this is | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
a country in mourning. They come from all walks of life and | :03:10. | :03:24. | |
from all communities. To pay their respects outside the home of Nelson | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Mandela. The sense of bereavement is palpable. For some, almost private | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
and personal. But this is also a coming together, a nation united in | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
mourning, but also in celebration of the life of the man they call | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Madiba. People are celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. I think he | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
would want us to celebrate his life. As South Africa prepares for a state | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
funeral of unprecedented proportions, thoughts turn to what | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
kind of nation was to Mandela leaves behind. We will always love Madiba | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
for teaching us that it is possible to overcome hatred and anger. In | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
order to build a new nation and a new society. For decades, the | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
struggle against apartheid looked like it might be crushed by a brutal | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
regime, a system that applied violence and racist ideology in | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
equal measure to our press South Africa's black majority and keep a | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
white elite in power. But Nelson Mandela 's achievement amounted to | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
more than the victory of the oppressed over the oppressors. I | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
think his greatest legacy to South Africa and to the world is the | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
emphasis which he has always put on the need for reconciliation. Nelson | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
Mandela went to prison and angry young man, a fighter committed to | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
defeating his enemies by violence if necessary. 27 years later, he | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
emerged, preaching reconciliation, but he never gave up the struggle. I | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
have no doubt that each and every one of you who is here can say, with | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
authority, and confidence, that I have travelled this long road to | :05:45. | :05:58. | |
freedom. I trust I did not falter. I made missteps along the way. But I | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
have discovered the sentiment that after crossing a great deal -- great | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
hill, one only finds that there are many more. Cross. His message has | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
been an inspiration to millions, at home, in Africa and beyond. He | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
achieved more than could be expected of any man. Today he has gone home. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
We have lost one of the most influential, courageous and | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
this earth. It would be a hard heart that wasn't moved by this | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
spectacle, these flowers, these candles, and these messages, many of | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
them written by children born in a post-apartheid South Africa. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Messages that all more or less boiled down to one thing stop | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Madiba, thank you for freeing our country. In death as in life, Nelson | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
Mandela 's read unique ability to bring people together and lift their | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
spirits remains undimmed. In Britain, tribute came from across | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the political spectrum. The Prime Minister was the first to sign a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
book of condolence for Mr Mandela in South Africa House in London. He | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
praised his generosity, humour and sense of forgiveness. Our Political | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
Editor Nick Robinson examines the impact Nelson Mandela made on | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
British politics during the apartheid years, and since. In death | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
as in life, he is a towering figure who looks out alongside parliament. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
To millions he is more father figure than politician. A man with the | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
power to move as well as inspire. This morning the prime minister | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
signed the official book of condolence, ending with the biblical | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
quote, listed are the peacemakers. The abiding memory I have is his | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
complete forgiveness, his total lack of malice towards those who have | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
done this to him. The Labour leader praised Mandela and those in Britain | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
who have fought apartheid. I remember all the people who were | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
part of his movement. He once said that was the second headquarters of | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
the ANC in X oil. Today people of all parties and of non-United, | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
praising Nelson Mandela. During his long struggle against apartheid, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
that wasn't always the case. There were divisions here just as there | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
were in South Africa. In the 1970s, rugby and cricket teams who agreed | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
to play South African touring sides were targeted. There were demands | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
that British governments and companies stopped investing in the | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
apartheid regime to stop a leading campaigner went on to be Britain's | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
minister for Africa. Many countries in the West, including Britain and | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
the US, almost saw Nelson Mandela and the ANC as agents of communism. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Palpable nonsense but that was the way it was seen. Nelson Mandela had | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
been in prison for 20 years when Margaret Thatcher chose not to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
boycott South Africa but welcome their prime minister to Chequers. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
You don't want to always have the stick to South Africa, she is fed up | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
of that. When she does things we want her to do, we have got to | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
encourage her. She was accused of giving respectability to a murderous | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
regime. Her allies insist she was acting to prevent more bloodshed. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
What we did was to ensure that apartheid ended peacefully. That was | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
what happened. Some people may say that was despite our policy. I like | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
to think it was because of our policy. Some will never forgive Mrs | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
Thatcher to calling Mandela's ANC terrorists and for opposing | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
sanctions. Others point to letters that show that in private, she did | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
urge the government to release him. After his release, Nelson Mandela | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
was a regular visitor to London. At the unveiling of the statue, he | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
recalled what he and an ally had said 45 years ago. We hope that one | :10:34. | :10:45. | |
day a statue of a black person would be erected here. Freedom fighter, | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
political prisoner, global statesman. Perhaps Mandela's | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
greatest achievement was to bring together those who once disagreed | :11:00. | :11:13. | |
violently. With me is our Johannesburg Correspondent Nomsa | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Maseko. Nelson Mandela is an irreplaceable figure, in the world | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
but particularly for South Africans, what are your thoughts on | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
South Africa now after Mandela? I think it's starting to sink in that | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the pulse of the rainbow nation has topped beating. He took his last | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
long walk to freedom yesterday when it was announced that he has died. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
People have said it is time to emulate him, make sure that his | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
dream of a rainbow nation, united South Africa, in which the equality | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
gaps can be closed, is fulfilled. Having said that, there are | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
anxieties about what the future holds, because there are still some | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
racial tensions in South Africa. As we have been seeing, the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
anti-apartheid movement in Britain increased the pressure to release | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Nelson Mandela. We have been looking at his relationship with written and | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the legacy he leaves behind. -- with Britain. Primary schoolchildren in | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
London, taking a moment in assembly to reflect on a man they appear to | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
know quite a lot about. Thank you Lord Jesus for the life of Nelson | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
Mandela. Aged ten and eight, these children have been told about Nelson | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Mandela by their head teacher. He is like a great hero, no 1's going to | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
forget him, he is going to go on for generations. I think he is a real | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
inspiration and a true hero. I think everybody will be remembering him | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
today throughout the whole world. And I think they will in hundreds of | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
years to come. That's how great he really was. And perhaps nowhere more | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
keenly remembered that here in the UK. His affection and affinity for | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
those who supported the anti-apartheid struggle was clearly | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
signalled by his frequent visits. And it was here in Brixton, home to | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
one of the largest black communities that he received a rapturous | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
reception, for a man whose life had been transformed by the struggle, he | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
in turn transformed the lives of those he encountered. He changed my | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
life can be brought Brixton together, united us. He was a symbol | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
of peace and we have never had that kind of experience before. For | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
decades now, his presence has become embedded in British society, | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
statues, street names and scholarships. This man is a | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
recipient of the Mandela scholarship. He remembers the | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
speeches the newly released Nelson Mandela made. Iran's with my friends | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
to be in the stadium where he was giving an address. -- I ran with my | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
friends. Those are the memories that never paid. -- never fade. The | :14:09. | :14:21. | |
cultural connections run deep. This song is thought to have contributed | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
to the pressure to have him released from prison. A campaign like that is | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
like a clock, the smallest corgis as eager as the biggest. That is the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
most important thing, help take things can grow from little things. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
From an anthem for a generation to the legacy of future generations, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
there is a profoundly between ordinary people in this country and | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
an extraordinary man and his struggle in South Africa. Our main | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
headline... South African moorlands and celebrates the life of Nelson | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Mandela, who died last night. -- South Africa mourns and celebrates. | :15:07. | :15:18. | |
Coming up in Sportsday, England's women footballers have a new coach, | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Mark Sampson. He joins from Bristol Academy. | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
Hundreds of properties remain flooded across the east coast of | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
England after a powerful storm triggered the worst tidal surge for | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
60 years. At its height, water levels reached 19m, that is almost | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
six metres. The Environment Agency says flood defences protected | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
hundreds of houses. -- 19ft. Jeremy Cooke has been in Boston, in | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
Lincolnshire, one of the most severely affected areas. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
With the rising waters, rising drama. A stranded van, a | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
life-threatening situation, as the waves around Scarborough closing. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
The driver is out, just in time, and manages to clamber to safety. Within | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
seconds, his van is lost to the waves. In north Wales, Rhyl was | :16:31. | :16:43. | |
inundated. Yes, that is the lifeboat crew in a residential road, picking | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
up anyone who needs help. The battering meant hundreds of people | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
were rescued, more than 10,000 evacuated to safe shelters. At the | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
end of this streak in Hemsby, Norfolk, well, there is no street. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Three clifftop homes have been swept away by the biggest tidal surge for | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
at least 60 years. Buildings which have stood for decades, one in | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
minutes. We stood by the patio doors, and we could actually see the | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
kitchen fold, the kitchen and bathroom went down first. In | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
Boston, Lincolnshire, water cascaded into the city. Many flood defences | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
held, but some failed in the face of sea levels which were in place is | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
almost a metre higher than any ever recorded. Last night's tidal surge | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
brought water pouring down this road and into people's houses. The damage | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
was done in just a few hours. The clean-up will take much longer. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
First, the water has to be pumped out, and then there is the mess. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Sonia has friends to help, but it is hard to take. I have spent all year | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
saving up to replace my furniture in my lounge, and it is all ruined. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Heartbreaking. Yes. All of this will go down as the | :18:14. | :18:29. | |
great storm of 2013. At this lifeboat station and beyond, it will | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
be remembered for the ferocity and the speed of the rising water. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
The Royal Marines filmed executing an injured Taliban insurgent has | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
been given a life sentence, with a recommendation that he serves a | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
minimum of ten years in prison. Sergeant Alexander Blackman was | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
convinced it convicted last month. Jonathan Beale reports. Sergeant | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Alexander Blackman, a Marine with a proud career and a promising future, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
at least until what has been called a moment of madness. For the first | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
time, we can show the face of the man, until recently only known as | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
Marine A. These pictures are taken from the video which led to his | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
conviction for murder. Out of view is the wounded Afghan fighter, a | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
prisoner of war who he is about to shoot. | :19:25. | :19:36. | |
The judge said those words were chilling. The court also heard he | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
had been fighting in a part of Helmand which has been described as | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
hell on earth. These images were taken by another group of marines | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
nearby. Sergeant Blackman's defence said his unit was involved in a | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
relentless fight with a ruthless enemy. He stood as the same military | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
panel which convicted him of murder approved a life sentence with a | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
minimum 10-year is in jail. The judge told Sergeant Blackman that he | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
had betrayed his uniform and tarnished the British monetary's | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
reputation. He was then marched out of court for the last time after | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
being informed that he was being dismissed with disgrace from Her | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Majesty's service. It was left to his lawyer to express his remorse. | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
He is very sorry for any damage which has been caused to the Royal | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
Marines. Finally, Sergeant Blackman would like to thank the public for | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
the support which has been shown to him and his wife. This case has | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
proved highly controversial. Alexander Blackman were described by | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
his commanding officer is not a bad man, but a normal citizen, tainted | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
only by the impact of war. Police in Northern Ireland are treating an | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
incident last night in which shots were fired at police vehicles as | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
attempted murder. Officers say they believe military grade weapons were | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
used in the attack in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. No one was injured. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
There is a warning that the Chancellor's plans to reduce the | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
deficit could mean further cuts to public services, according to the | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Institute for Fiscal Studies. It warns that borrowing remains high, | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and that policies like free school meals are not funded after 2015. But | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
the Chancellor has defended his Autumn Statement, saying things are | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
improving. The energy company E.ON says it will | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
increase prices by 3.7% in January. It is the last of the big six to | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
announce price rises, and it blames the increase on the costs of | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
delivering energy and buying gas and electricity. In the last hour, | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
England's footballers discovered who they will be playing in the opening | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
group stages of the World Cup in Brazil. Our sports editor, David | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
Bond, was watching the draw in the resort of Costa do Sauipe. What can | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
you tell us? There has been lots of talk about Brazil's ability to stage | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
an event of this magnitude. You only have to look at the draw to realise | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
that this is on another level altogether. Today at least gave | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Brazil a chance to focus on the football. Welcome to the World Cup | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
Brazilian style. Organisers have spent millions of pounds converting | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
this tropical beach resort into the venue for today's final draw. Much | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
of the talk in recent days has been of security, and construction | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
delays. But as the great and good of the game arrived here today, there | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
was at last a sense of excited anticipation. With the world | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
watching, this was Brazil's chance to give a taster of what they hope | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
will be a footballing carnival. As ever, no draw is complete without a | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
touch of the absurd. The dancing over, it was time to get down to the | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
real business. England manager Roy Hodgson not only wanted to avoid the | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
big guns, he was also worried about travelling huge distances across | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
this vast country. So, when 1966 World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
pick England, it was inevitable that both would materialise. Not only | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Italy in the same group, but also Uruguay. As well as that, and | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
opening game to be played in searing heat. You do not win football games | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
on paper. You do not look at games and think, this one we will win, | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
this one we will draw, this one we will lose. The damage and of the | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
field are the same, and if you are well prepared, you have got a chance | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
to win all three games, so I am not disappointed. On reflection, despite | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
the lower expectations around the England team these days, there would | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
be disappointment if they failed to qualify. Roy Hodgson's it fear | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
coming into this draw was not necessarily who England might play, | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
but where they might big fear. There will be a lot of focus on that | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
opening game against Italy, up in the very hot temperatures of the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Amazon. That game will be played at 9pm local time, two o'clock in the | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
morning in Britain. After that, they will come further south, to colder | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
climes, to play Uruguay in Sao Paulo, and then Costa Rica. It is | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
not an easy draw, but I think Roy Hodgson might be quietly hopeful | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
tonight. More now on our top story, and as South Africa and the world | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela, we can now speak to our | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
correspondent in Soweto, the township where Mr Mandela used to | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
live, and which was at the heart of the struggle against apartheid. Give | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
us a sense of the atmosphere there, and what it was like for you growing | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
up there. Yes, indeed. This is a township in Soweto, literally just | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
across the road from Mr Mandela's old home. The crowds have gathered | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
here all day. They have come from all sides of Soweto, and they have | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
been singing old liberation songs, a bit like a bit of nostalgia, because | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
they have been singing songs about, please release Mandela, you know, | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
when they were talking to the apartheid regime. There is another | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
one which they sang so many times, Mandela, there is no one like you. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
So, South Africans tonight, here on the second night after the | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
announcement of the death of Mr Mandela, are still celebrating the | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
life of their liberator. Let's take a look at the weather | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
now. Good evening. It has been a quieter | :25:54. | :26:04. | |
day today, but it is bitterly cold in Scotland. We finally got rid of | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
those wins into the near continent, and this is allowing this frontal | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
system to move to the north-west. It will enhance that cloud. That is | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
going to be responsible for bringing this light, patchy rain through the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
night. A cold nights to come in Scotland. But then we will have a | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
bit more clout, and maybe some freezing rain for a time before the | :26:39. | :26:50. | |
milder air comes in. -- cloud. That south-westerly wind will eventually | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
drag the milder air further north, perhaps with the exception of the | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
Northern Isles, but it looks as though we will keep quite a lot of | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
cloud and some showers along that coast. By the middle of the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
afternoon, for Scotland, have some snow still across the Northern | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Ireland 's . but look at the difference in temperatures. -- | :27:09. | :27:20. | |
across the Northern Ireland 's. -- Northern Isles. | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
That area of high pressure continues to build and dominate as we move | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
through the weekend, allowing these weather fronts to skirt and across | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
the top. But look at the difference again in the temperatures, the | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
milder air is set to continue into next week. So, for the weekend, it | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
looks like we can take a deep breath and relax. | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
That is it from us. There is a special programme on the life of | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
Nelson Mandela at nine o'clock on BBC this evening. We leave you for | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
now with the man and his words. There is no easy road to freedom. | :28:04. | :28:19. | |
None of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
together as a united people. Let there be justice for all. Let there | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water for all. For the body, | :28:34. | :28:46. | |
the mind and the soul to be freed to fulfil themselves. Never, never, and | :28:47. | :28:56. | |
never again, shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience | :28:57. | :29:08. | |
the oppression of one by another. The sun shall never set on so | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
glorious a human | :29:11. | :29:11. |