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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: "Always in our hearts". | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The parents of six-day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane, who died at the family home | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
where a dog was seized, say they will cherish the little time they | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
had with her. Here in part about bury the community is pledging its | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
support as the family say there are no words to describe how they feel. | :00:28. | :00:43. | |
Also tonight: The Prime Minister visits flood-hit businesses in | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Pembrokeshire and pledges to work with the Welsh Government on flood | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
defences. For the first time in five years, | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
unemployment in Wales falls below the UK average. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Rare access to the team looking into allegations of historical abuse at | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
North Wales care homes. The man in charge is confident of more arrests. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
And after indiscipline in Dublin, Mike Phillips is on the bench for | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
the Friday night clash with France. Good evening. The parents of | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
six-day-old Eliza-Mae, who died following an incident in Pontyberem | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
yesterday, have said she will always be in their hearts and thoughts. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Sharon John and Patrick Mullane said there are no words to describe how | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
they feel. The family dog has been seized as part of the police | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
investigation. Our reporter Cemlyn Davies is in the Gwendraeth Valley | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
tonight. The police called in has gone from | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
the road and more floral tributes have appeared outside Eliza-Mae's | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
home. In terms of the police investigation we have not had an | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
update today but what we have had is a touching tribute from her parents. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Eliza May was less than a week old when she died. Today her parents | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
shared -- said she would always be in their hearts and thoughts. Sharon | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
John and Patrick Mullane said their baby girl brought joy into our | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
family and losing her like this has cast the most horrible shadow over | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
all of us. There are no words we can use to describe what we feel at the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
moment and we don't think they will ever be. Flowers and a soft toy have | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
also been left outside the family home. One of the messages reads, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Eliza-Mae, with the Angels, rest in peace. This is a community in grief | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
and shock. This family will need a great deal of support over the next | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
months and years. Our sympathy goes out to them because it is a real | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
tragedy. The emergency services were called to the road around half eight | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
-- half busted yesterday morning. She didn't know whether she was | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
coming or going. She was walking around in a daze. I don't think she | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
took it all in. The family dog has been seized by police as part of the | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
investigation. It is an Alaskan malamute, breed which is not banned. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
The tragedy that has unfolded in this small community has drawn | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
journalists from far and wide and today's edition of the Sun newspaper | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
has been criticised for its graphic front-page headline. The press | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
complaints commission has confirmed it has received complaints and this | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
afternoon the newspaper explained it had no intention of being this | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
respectful. -- this respectful. The sun has drastically overstepped the | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
mark in terms of what is decent. They have caused offence to the | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
people of Pontyberem. The investigation into what happened is | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
continuing. The police say they are not in a position to confirm how | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Eliza-Mae died and the postmortem is expected to take race later this | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
week. Do we know any more tonight about | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
what happened? Not really. We have not heard from the police and they | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
tell us there is unlikely to be an official update until the end of the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
week. That means they is more speculation and some of that it's | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
making its way into news coverage and that is what is starting to | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
anger local residents. More official information is expected from the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
police towards the end of the week. The Prime Minister has told Wales | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Today he's happy to talk to the Welsh Government about any help he | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
can offer to prevent flooding here in the future. David Cameron was | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
speaking on a visit to Pembrokeshire today, where he met people affected | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
by the recent storms and saw some of the damage. While Mr Cameron didn't | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
dismiss the idea of financial help, he pointed out the responsibility | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
for flood defences is devolved. Here's our Environment | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
Correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd. Pembrokeshire was one of the worst | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
hit areas in the recent winter storms. Newgale has suffered more | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
than most have to deal force winds, high tides and rain affected the | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
coast causing flooding and sweeping much of the famous beach across the | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
main road. David Cameron came to see the damage for himself today. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Earlier this month this pub was completely surrounded by water. | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
Today, it has been completely gutted and the Prem and Esther went to see | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the renovation work. -- Prime Minister. Later while visiting a | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
factory in Saint Davids, he stopped short of making they would be UK | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
help to deal with the effects of flooding. -- stopped short of | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
saying. We are still waiting for the waters to recede to see how much | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
damage has been done but flood defences are a matter for the Welsh | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Assembly Government. The Welsh Government has pledged ?4.5 million | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
to deal with the recent flooding. In mid Wales, schemes like the one here | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
could give one solution. It is run by the Montgomeryshire wildlife | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
trust. This project is restoring peatland in around 1000 hectares but | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
here in the Cambrian Mountains there are 40,000 hectares that could | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
potentially store more water and hold the rainwater. It does not mean | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
it will stop flooding further downstream but it does mean it could | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
slow down the process of water leaving this area into streams and | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
rivers. As well as the peak itself, plants that grow here absorbs a lot | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
of moisture. It is absolutely a sponge. If extended to other areas | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
and the amount of sheep and cattle that Gracia is controlled, it could | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
make a difference. The three metres of rainfall we have on this land, to | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
be held back and slowed down so that it doesn't all rushed downstream and | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
end up in somebody's home. As well as the seven, the Wye River also | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
start in the Cambrian Mountains and as we've seen recently has caused | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
huge problems. But the peat bogs are only part of the answer. That is a | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
lot of different landscapes that are managed in different ways. They | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
could all be improved so things like planting woodland bents -- belts in | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
farmland. Elsewhere in Wales, the clean up is taking a long time. The | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
big decisions in future will include whether main roads can still be used | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
or if they will have to move further inland. If new coastal defences | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
should be built or really is re-routed. But without a commitment | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
from the UK Government that is still a question of who is going to pay. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Unemployment in Wales has fallen below the UK average for the first | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
time in almost five years. The rate of 7.1% is slightly below the UK | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
average of 7.2%. The number of people out of work stands at | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
105,000, a fall of 12,000. The governments in Westminster and here | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
have both been quick to claim the credit. Our Political Editor, Nick | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Servini, is here. So, Nick, who's right? The main economic leaders are | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
at Westminster in terms of things like tax and interest rates. Carwyn | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Jones the first Minister in Wales knows that but it's interesting to | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
the extent the Welsh Government are talking up their contribution to | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
this recovery. These figures are significant. This is the first | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
period of sustained time where the unemployment rate in Wales has been | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
about the same as the UK average and we have not had that situation since | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
before the recession. We should not be surprised that the political | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
parties are looking to claim credit. We have a general election next year | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
of course. If there is a sustained nature to this it is not a flash in | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
the pan, then the political parties and the government will be desperate | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
to be associated with something that could change the perception of Wales | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
as a country which performs poorly economic leaf. -- economic leaf. The | :09:59. | :10:14. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron was in Pembrokeshire today not just talking | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
about the flooding but talking about the economic recovery and how it was | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
being felt in counties like temperature outside of the | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
south-east Finland. -- Pembrokeshire. Carwyn Jones talked | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
about the role the Welsh Government has in all of this. The recovery has | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
been faster and stronger in Wales and that is where we can in. If you | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
can pay us with the north-east of England, unemployment there is far | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
higher. That's despite the fact the economic profile of that area is | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
similar to Wales. How much can we expect this to become a battle | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
ground? It will be about the narrative that the governments bring | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
to it. The Welsh Government built their narrative around the pro-act | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
wage subsidy scheme but now the mode in recovery is about jobs growth | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Wales, the scheme to try and get you back into the workplace. The real | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
battle ground will be about welfare reform because the Conservatives are | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
tying it specifically to the economic recovery. In Wales Labour | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
are saying it's a huge impediment to growth. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Behind the headlines showing more people are working in Wales, recent | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
figures from the Welsh Government illustrate that more than one in | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
five 16 to 24-year-olds are unemployed. There are Welsh | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
Government projects to try to get them into work but our economics | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
correspondent Sarah Dickins explains a new radical approach to behaviour | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
that its hoped will increase young people's chances of getting a job. | :11:47. | :12:01. | |
Pupils talking about their feelings and hearing how their behaviour has | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
affected others. That is at the heart of what is called a | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
restorative approach. It is hoped it will result in fewer young people | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
falling in the gap between education, Ed -- employment and | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
training. We had very strict processes in place and if a child | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
did a certain thing they would potentially be excluded. There was a | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
cycle where their behaviour was not changing. Three years ago pupils at | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
this Cardiff school were excluded for a total of 1000 days in a year. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Now behaviour has improved so much it is down to a days. The pioneer of | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
this approach in Wales is Andy Williams at Monmouth, offensive | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
school who says if students feel more listened to behaviour will | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
improve. They are starting to be able to articulate to other people | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
their thoughts and peep Ealing 's in an appropriate way. -- feelings. | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
Exclusions are down 91%. Referral to youth offending teams is down 70% | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
and crime in the area is down 48%. Andy Williams argues this is an | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
effective way of changing behaviour which will help students in the long | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
term. Whatever job they do they will have to interact with people. That | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
common humanity is very important. They will have to empathise with | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
workmates from an older generation. They have to be able to interact | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
with that. They have to understand and appreciate other people and be | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
able to take the lead themselves. The police and crime commission of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the Gwent is convinced. If you are excluded from school, what you are | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
either going to do? You start doing the wrong things. Monmouth has shown | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
it can work and the figures speak for themselves. Getting our young | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
people ready for work is vital for our economy and also for them as | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
individuals. In Wales at the moment about one in 516 to 24-year-olds are | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
out of work and in Cardiff it is one in three. I am more confident in | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
lessons. There is no move to extend this approach to more Welsh schools | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
to help young people be better placed to join the workplace. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Still to come in the programme: How scientists at Swansea University | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
have been working with NASA satellites to get a better picture | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
on climate change. The head of the National Crime | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Agency says he's confident more people will be arrested and charged | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
in the investigation into allegations of historic child abuse | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
in North Wales care homes. In its latest update, the Operation Pallial | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
team says so far more that 250 alleged victims of abuse have come | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
forward and 37 suspects have been identified. One man has been | :15:01. | :15:13. | |
charged. Roger Pinney reports. BBC Wales was given unique access to | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
the National crime agency had in Warrington. It is from here that | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
Operation Pallial is being run. The agency is normally highly | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
secretive. This most recent update gives an idea of the scale of what | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Operation Pallial is investigating. Offences being looked at data that | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
in 1953. I am confident they will be further charges and arrests. We will | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
pursue the truth and ensure we put the CPS and the best position | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
possible to make prosecutions. The team says information from 212 | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
people is under investigation. There are 37 potential suspects. 19 | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
suspects have been arrested and interviewed. One man has been | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
charged. Although they have been previous investigations, people were | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
asked in the 90s whether they were victims of crime and they said no | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
but that that time they might have had children and not wanted to talk | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
about it. As the lights have gone on, they have wanted to talk about | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
it. Perhaps it is a lack of understanding about the level of | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
abuse that had occurred. We are much better these days at recognising | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
what we need to do to ensure that we support people. Most of the key | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
homes under investigation have now closed but some of the buildings are | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
still there. They have been under the spotlight before not least | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
during the Waterhouse enquiry. Operation Pallial insists it is | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
different. And you can see more on this story | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
on the Wales Report tonight at 10:35pm on BBC One Wales. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Swansea Council has become the first in Wales to agree a 5% rise in | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
council tax. The Welsh Local Government Association says it | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
expects at least four others to increase their rates by the same | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
amount. The Welsh Government has informally capped any council tax | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
rises at 5%. Bridgend and Carmarthenshire councils have today | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
agreed to raise their rates by nearly 5% as well. | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
A further 700 pupils at a school in Llanelli are to be offered screening | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
for Tuberculosis, after two previous testing sessions revealed six pupils | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
and three staff had positive results. None are infectious, but | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
the screening will be carried out as a precaution. | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Red tape's being blamed for Wales being the only part of the UK to see | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
a drop in new houses being built. 12% fewer homes were registered here | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
last year, that's compared to a rise of 28% in the UK overall. Here's our | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
business correspondent, Brian Meechan. | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
It has been a common complaint from developers. Overregulation and a | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
poor planning system makes building houses in Wales are costly business. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
It may be why many have chosen not to. In 2013 the number of new homes | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
rose 30% in England. There was a similar increase in Scotland. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
Northern Ireland saw a jump of 16%. Wales had a drop of 12% in a new | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
homes since 2012. House-builders say the planning process here is long, | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
expensive and uncertain. The primary impact is new housing and our | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
housing stock in Wales is very old. The primary benefits are of course | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
employment but there is a secondary benefit with the money that pumps | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
into the local economy. This company is building a thousand new homes in | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Wales this year. It adds the Welsh Government 's help to buy scheme | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
which helps people to buy is already boosting the market. Wales is in | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
need of new housing stock. The demand is only going to increase in | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
the future but it costs more to build here and wages are relatively | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
low so that keeps prices down. That raises big questions for the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
businesses involved. If costs are low and prices are higher outside of | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Wales why wouldn't you build the instead? Ministers have met some of | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the industry 's concerns by producing energy efficiency targets | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
but there are still complaints about other revelations. Personally I | :19:43. | :20:00. | |
think they will go that way but they lobbying groups are not very | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
powerful. We are trying to do something different. Rising demand | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
and shortage of supply pushes up prices long-term. So the answers to | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
the house-building questions are ones Wales has got to get right. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Rugby, and one of Wales' most decorated players, Mike Phillips, | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
has been dropped by Warren Gatland for Friday's Six Nations clash | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
against France. The Wales management were disappointed with his | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
indiscipline in the defeat against Ireland, where he was yellow-carded. | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
He's been replaced by Ospreys scrum-half Rhys Webb, who'll start | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
an international match for the first time. Ashleigh Crowter reports. | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
It was this little cameo performance that seems to have sealed the deal | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
for Rhys Webb. A try scoring run out for the Ospreys against Treviso on | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the weekend helped Warren Gatland make up his mind to changes from | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
half. Mike Phillips has been at the heart of Wales' success in recent | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
seasons but he did not help themselves against Ireland and has | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
now paid the price. We were not particularly happy with his game | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
against Ireland in -- and he got in a one-on-one confrontation with | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Conor Murray and got a yellow card. He had a spat with the referee as | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
well. It is a good chance for Mike Phillips to have an opportunity to | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
sit on the bench and the Rhys Webb to start. Warren Gatland did resist | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
the temptation to partner Rhys Webb with his regional colleague Dan | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
Biggar and Rhys Priestland will start. George North will start his | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
first international at centre and Liam Williams slots in on the wing. | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
To put the Welsh jersey on in any position is great. I have played | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
there for Northampton. I have trained there as well. You could | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
argue that a scrum-half is only as good as the ball provided for him by | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the forwards so there may be one or two especially in the pack feeling a | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
bit guilty that it was Mike Phillips and not them who was dropped. With | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Gethin Jenkins coming through his match with a blues on Saturday the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
only changes the return of first choice lock Luke Charteris after | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
injury. Apart from him it is the same eight who were outmuscled in | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Ireland. France are building seminar on them after two wins in the | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
championship and they have only made one enforced change. It is going to | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
be a battle of the giants in the centre. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
It's a mystery that's baffled scientists for more than a decade. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Why does the Amazon Rainforest seem to grow greener during droughts? The | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
answer lies in how the forest is photographed from Space. NASA | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
realised that its satellites were producing an optical illusion and it | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
called in experts from Swansea University to fix the problem. As | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Carwyn Jones reports, the real picture casts a very different light | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
on climate change. Launched back in 1999, NASA's Terra | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
satellite observes our planet's land, water and atmosphere from 500 | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
miles above earth. Its on board instruments record seasonal changes | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
on the planet's surface and how those changes affect our climate. | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
The technology on board is some of the most sophisticated ever designed | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
by NASA but in one area of the world, it's thrown up more questions | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
than answers. For the last ten years, scientists analysing images | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
from Terra have noticed something unusual over the Amazon Rainforest. | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
This is one of those satellite images and it appears to show that | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
the rainforest actually grows greener in dry seasons and droughts | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
when you'd expect vegetation to die back. NASA scientists realised that | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the images taken from space weren't a true picture of what has happening | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
on the ground. So they turned to Swansea University for help. Experts | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
here specialise in studying the earth using satellite data. They | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
found that the greening up of the rain forest is an illusion. It's | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
caused by sunlight hitting the ground and reflecting back to the | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
satellite when it's focusing on the Amazon at a particular angle. When | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
we look very carefully at this we find a lot of the greening can be | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
explained by illumination. We are really seeing an optical illusion. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
For years, scientists have been trying to understand why this | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
ecosystem, which is so dependent on rainfall, would appear healthier | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
during periods of drought. The answer is, it doesn't, and that has | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
very real implications for climate change. It had been assumed that the | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Amazon rainforest was mopping up some of the carbon dioxide we were | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
releasing but it's not true the -- and that is bad news. That means | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
that carbon dioxide will cause increased warming. The last few | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
weeks have seen extreme weather conditions hit countries around the | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
world, from snowstorms in North America to flooding closer to home. | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
The collaboration between Swansea University and NASA casts doubt on | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
how we've been analysing images of our planet taken from space The true | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
picture on the ground could be very different. | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
Well Derek's been doing his own bit of satellite research. How is the | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
forecast looking, Derek? The weather is on the change tonight | :25:28. | :25:39. | |
with more rain. The wind picking-up as well. We're not expecting a huge | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
amount of rain. Typically 5mm to 10mm, although parts of the south | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
could see up to 20mm. Just under an inch. Tomorrow the rain will clear | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
to sunshine and showers and turning a bit colder as well. It has been | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
quite mild again today. 12C in Newtown, Rhyl and Wrexham. This | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
evening, a warm front will bring outbreaks of rain and drizzle. The | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
cloud lowering with mist and fog patches. The wind increasing too. | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
Becoming strong on the coast. Up to gale force in the north west and a | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
mild night. The temperature not falling below 7C. The chart for | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
tomorrow shows a cold front moving east across Britain. This will bring | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
a spell of rain followed by colder air and showers. By 8.00am in the | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
morning, most of the rain should have cleared leaving most places dry | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
apart from one or two showers. Windy on the coast. Strong to gale force | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
winds in the north west. During the day it will brighten-up. Some dry | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
weather and sunshine in the afternoon but with showers as well. | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
Heavy in places. Top temperatures, 9C to 11C. The wind easing and | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
turning a bit colder. In Gwynedd tomorrow, brightening-up with a few | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
showers. The strong wind easing with a high of 9C in Bala. Breezy in | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Merthyr Tydfil tomorrow. A few heavy showers and some sunshine. 9C in | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Quakers Yard. Tomorrow night, plenty of dry weather. Clear spells and a | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
few showers as well. And a colder night with a touch of frost inland. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Friday, chilly and windier with a mixture of sunshine and showers. | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
Heavy showers in places with hail and thunder and wintry on high | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
ground with a little snow. If you're going to Cardiff for the rugby on | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Friday a scarf will come in handy. It will feel cold with a few sharp | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
showers. As for the weekend, Saturday breezy with a few showers. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Becoming dry for a while although it may turn damp by the evening. | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Sunday, windy. Strong to gale force winds and some heavy rain. Next | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
week, it looks like the jet stream will bring further spells of wet and | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
windy weather. Probably not as stormy as it has been but more | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
rainfall means this winter could turn out to be the wettest on | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
record. will bring | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
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told Tony Blair advised the former chief executive of News | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
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July 2011. And the parents of six-day-old | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
Eliza-Mae, who died following an incident in Pontyberem yesterday, | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
have said she will always be in their hearts and thoughts. Sharon | :27:45. | :27:45. | |
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