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This is BBC World News Today. Another Friday of bloodshed in | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Syria. Thousands take to the streets in continued defiance of | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
the Government's violent crackdown. Our correspondent becomes one of | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
the few journalists to enter Syria. He hears from those trying to flee. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
What many have told us is the Syrian army and secret police are | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
getting closer to this point every day. We believe they are two or | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
three miles in that direction. Openly defying the authorities and | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
the driving bans, Saudi women take to the wheel. | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
German retreat - the German debt crisis, Berlusconi lin and France | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
show the way forward. Leaving Britain to fight on the frontline | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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in Libya. We hear one student's Hello. Welcome. Three months on | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
from the first protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
thousands of people have taken to the streets after Friday prayers, | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
demanding reform. Unconfirmed reports say at least 16 protestors | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
were shot dead in several cities. Syria are fleeing violence in the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
north and heading towards the border with Turkey. International | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
journalists are not allowed into Syria, but our correspondent | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
entered the country earlier today. This is his report. We took the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
route the smugglers use, winding through the olive groves and down | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
the hillsides to avoid the border patrol. We were inside Syria. This | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
is how some 10,000 now live here - standed along the border in a no- | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
man's-land, too scared of their own army to return home. In one tent | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
sat this woman, elderly and frail. "I came here because of the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
violence. Because of the Army. We're frightened of them.", she | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
said. Everyone here has a tale of horror. Few will tell theirs on | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
camera, too afraid of reprisals, but their stories are all similar. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
TRANSLATION: We were watching from a place in Jisr al-Shughour so we | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
could tell our families what was happening. The soldiers went in | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
with tanks and army vehicles. They started to attack the buildings. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
They entered offices and stole whatever they wanted and set fire | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
to them. The people of Syria have been all but sealed off for three | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
months now, as the President has tried to crush are rebellion he | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
blames on religious extremists. Many have told us the Army and | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
police are getting closer to this point every day. We believe they | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
are just two or three miles in that direction. On the other side of the | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
country we know that army units are getting closer to centres of | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
rebellion along the border. The tactics seem clear. The Army, the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
ageem is trying to quash the rebellion. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
-- the regime is trying to quash the rebellion. This, many here told | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
us, this is how the Army is doing it. We cannot show this mobile | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
phone footage. It's of a dead man with a long bloody wound across the | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
top of his skull. What does this make them think of their President? | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
"he's a traitor. He should give us our freedom." Such open decent was | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
once unheard of here. It is perhaps a sign that the brutality, far from | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
crushing this rebellion is actually fanning its flames. | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Today's protests have been taking place across the country. The | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
capital Damascus demonstrators gathered in several areas. Nine | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
people died in Homs, after army units opened fire there on | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
protestors. Soldiers, backed with tanks and helicopters have taken | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
control of two northern towns, Marat al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Reports are coming in of Government troops shooting protestors in | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
Banias. Tens of thousands have rallied in the southern town of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Deraa. Now some other stories making the news. In Yemen, tens of | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
thousands have held another demonstration in the capital | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
calling for a transitional Government to replace the President. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
The Yemeni Government has denied reports that President Saleh will | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
not be going home. A spokesman insisted the President will return | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
in the coming days. A rebel leader in the Sudanese region of South | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Kordofan has offered a one-month ceasefire. Seen here in the middle, | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
he said his side would stop fighting Government troops if talks | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
began to settle security and security issues. Some areas of | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
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Vietnam are contaminated with algt orange. Troops will rid the area. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
The British Government has banned the shipping firm UPS from | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
screening air cargo at some airports in the UK because of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
concerns about security. The Department of Transport said there | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
was no immediate or specific terrorism threat. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
The leaders of the two larger eurozone economies, Germany and | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
France have presented a United Front on a new rescue package for | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Greece, adding they want it agreed as soon as possible. Angela Merkel | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
and Nicolas Sarkozy have been meeting in Berlin to discuss the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
issue. In Athens, a new Greek Cabinet has been sworn in, after | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
days of mass protests. They will propose new spending cuts and tax | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
increases. The streets of Athens is clear. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Government finances may be clear of difficulties but Greek citizens | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
don't want more belt tightening. Who does pay? In Berlin today, they | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
fear they know. Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy agreed a | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
second bail out is needed. And said it should be sooner rather than | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
later. TRANSLATION: Europe and the euro are intertwined. Speaking on | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
behalf of Germany, Germany has benefited enormously. Germany's | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
strength is connected to a strong euro. We will do all we can to | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
preserve the euro and its stability. TRANSLATION: Like our German | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
friends we are kopbs convinced a new debt restructuring programme is | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
necessary for Greece. We appreciate the efforts taken by Greece so far. | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
So this was French-German, shoulder-to-shoulder unity, private | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
disagreements vanished. Chancellor Merkel had been keen on bans that - | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
- banks that lend to Greece. She accepted today that this would have | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
to be voluntary. If the banks don't extend their lending to the Greek | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Government, Chancellor Merkel say knows the German taxpayer will pick | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
up the bill. There'll be much resistance to that, both among | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
ordinary people and in the bud des tag, the German Parliament. She has | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
a fight on her hands. In aththen, a new Cabinet has been | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
-- in Athens a new Cabinet has been sworn in. They may enact austerity | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
measures, so easing the pressures elsewhere to come up with bail out | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
money. TRANSLATION: The country needs to | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
be saved. It will be saved. It must regain its dignity and economic | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
domination. It must exit this turbulence. All Greeks must fight | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
to take our heads out of the water and take a breath. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Despite the words in Athens and Berlin, the forces of opposition on | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
the streets remain. In Athens, the mood is - we will not pay higher | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
taxes or cut spending more. In Germany, the popular mood is, we | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
don't want to transfer our taxpayers' money to the struggling | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
economies of the eurozone. Parliaments will have to be | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
consulted in both Athens and Berlin. Leaders have chartered a way | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
forward. That doesn't mean that all will follow them. Let's go to | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Berlin. We can speak to Professor Irwin Collier. Thank you for | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
joining us on the programme. How much of a retreat is this for | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Germany and a victory for the European Central Bank? This is | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
really hard to judge because so much is -- must be happening behind | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
the scenes. Banks do not want to come forward, in the same way that | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
politicians have to come forward. The test will be this call for | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
voluntary rollovers, if we in fact see French and German banks | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
engaging in the voluntary rollovers, then we'll know this was agreed | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
upon ahead of time. This was the so-called Vienna initiative, when | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
banks kept credit lines open to those struggling economies in the | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
Soviet bloc. How do you endeuce these banks to do it voluntarily? I | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
don't understand. Times are getting more complicated, through the | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
existence of these credit swaps. Once you are engaging in this sort | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
of activity, it's like a horse race. Betting on horse races depends on | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
people having different opinions on the outcome. There will be people | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
who will gain from a credit event. There will be people who will lose | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
from a credit event. The interests are not nearly as homogenius | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
throughout the banking community. We will see how hard it is to | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
unwind such positions. I would be surprised, if in fact, we see this | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
massive move of banks to do the rolling over. In terms of public | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
opinion in Germany, how much trouble does this place Angela | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Merkel in, do you think? She is desperately holding on and this is | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
just one more item that makes the job of being a federal Chancellor | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
so difficult. And it's not merely a case that the German voters are | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
worried about the transfers going towards Greece. They are also very | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
much concerned about the idea of their tax money also being used to | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
subsidise or to help the banks, who helped, or at least one party to | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
the entire transaction. She has a very difficult political waters to | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
navigate through. Does this prevent a default further town the line | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
when it comes to Greece being able to manage these debts? This press | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
conference, by itself, certainly will make no difference in history | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
if we do not see in fact the rapid unification around the common | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
policy that is more than merely voluntaryry. Policy co-ordination | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
right now is absolutely essential. One does have the feeling from the | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
press reports that in fact they are still at loggerheads and the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
interests are very different, according to country and according | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
to which bank happens to have the era of the respective leader. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Thank you for talking to us here on the programme. Saudi Arabia is one | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
of the few Middle Eastern countries which has seen little open protest | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
since the Arab Spring began six months ago. Today women's right | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
supporters have been openly driving cars. The campaign follows the | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
detention last month of a Saudi woman who posted a video on the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
internet of herself driving. Peter Biles reports. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
It's Friday 17th June. I'd like to go to the supermarket, says the | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
woman at the wheel of the car. A routine errand, but in Saudi Arabia | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
her mission is Strictly clandestine. The pictures have apparently come | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
from a social media website. Her location is not revealed as she | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
drives along the deserted streets in the early hours of the morning. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
All this is about, she says, is if I need something I can go and get | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
Saudi Arabia is the only country where women are prevented from | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
driving. There's no written law, as such, but driving licences are not | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
issued to women. Now though, campaigners have turned to the | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
internet to gather support. TRANSLATION: We should have courage | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
in this country at the highest levels. The leadership in this | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
country should resolve the issues so women are not deprived of their | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
natural rights. Women are part of this society. They form at least | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
50% of this community. Why deprive half of the community of their | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
rights? This YouTube video shows a Saudi | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
woman, Manal al-Sherif, driving while talking to a passenger. "we | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
want change in the country," she is heard to say. Last month | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
authorities arrested her. She has been released, but tens of | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
thousands of people have joined the campaign calling for her acquittal. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
The determination to defy the ban has made the Government nervous in | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
this era of instant communication. A week ago we drove and we got the | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
campaign in a matter of 30 minutes. We were reported. We were attacked | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
at the bus. Six cars were surrounding us and they took us to | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the police station. We weren't allowed to leave unless | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
our guardians came and signed a pledge to take us home. | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
Some Saudi women complain that they experience problems of harassment | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
when riding in taxis. Driving themselves, they argue, would allow | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
them greater independence and security. Protests in Saudi Arabia | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
are extremely rare. It is why this call for social change has drawn so | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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Let's speak to Amnesty International. Thank you for coming | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
in. How significant a protest was this today and how many members | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
took to the streets? We talk to people who were connected with the | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
protest earlier and they said several dozen people defied the ban | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
and got into their cars. Do we know if they were arrested? So far, no | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
reports of arrests. Some were told they were committing a traffic | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
offences but no one has been arrested. It dates back to 1990, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
the last time something like this happened. When you look at the Arab | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
Spring and the Saudi dynasty, how far have they gone in terms of | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
addressing the Democratic calls? way near far enough in terms of the | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
human rights calls. This is one facet of a much wider problem | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
affecting women's rights and discrimination. The Saudi | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
authorities promised for years that they would lift the ban and | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
promised they would allow women the right to vote in municipal | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
elections, the only game in town in terms of elections in Saudi Arabia | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
but are yet to come good. This will hopefully push them to go further. | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
The King when he returned from convalescence announced welfare | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
payment increases, has that Board of the opposition at local level? | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
It is difficult to know. They have not been widespread protests like | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
North Africa, there were rumblings in the sense of demonstrations that | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
were repressed in the East which has eight Shia majority. People | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
were demonstrating on behalf of detainees held without trial. Also, | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
the beginnings of a challenge to the one-party state, in terms of | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
the Royal Family because the number of political activists trying to | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
set up the party were arrested and detained. Have we seen signs of | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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nervousness? There is nervousness and for good reason because it will | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
at some stage be pushed up and the sort of protest women are bravely | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
undertaking today will hopefully be a step in the right direction. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Thank you. Libyan rebels say ten people have been killed and forty | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
injured in a series of rocket attacks by Colonel Gaddafi's forces | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
on the rebel-held port of Misrata. After weeks of stalemate, the | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
rebels seem to be gaining ground, pushing forwards from their | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
stronghold of the port city itself along the road to Tripoli. And | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
their cause continues to attract recruits some from as far away as | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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Europe. Andrew Harding reports. In high spirits, rebels heading | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
towards Ms rata. Among today's reinforcements, a young maths | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
student from Lancaster University, Sadeeq Belach. In England I could | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
not do much for this revolution is so I decided to go and hold a gun | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
for the first time in my life. him, it is personal. His father | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
greets him but Gaddafi's forces have taken 16 members of their | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
family. Within hours, a shy earnest student seems transformed. It is a | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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short journey to the front line. But is he ready for this? Those | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
were uncomfortably close. Gaddafi is superior firepower is a constant | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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threat for this part-time soldier. He has come right to the very front | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
lines here. Very active front lines, Gaddafi's forces a mile or so down | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
the road. Week in here micelles whistling overhead. NATO planes are | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
patrolling the skies. The men are bracing themselves for what they | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
believe could be an imminent Gaddafi offensive. In a quieter | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
moment, his training begins. These are the rockets. He hopes his maths | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
skills will help with targeting. Fantastic. I do not want to kill | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
anybody. My friends do not want to kill but we had to fight. Where is | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
the enemy now? His lack of experience is nothing new. The | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
rebels need training and weapons and too many are dying. And so | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
after a mere Aral Sea so of training, he joins the ranks. -- | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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hour or so. We live in peace or While the Arab Spring has been | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
dominating news coverage, a film about the themes of the wider | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
conflict has been gaining critical acclaim. Phil macro has picked up | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
awards around the world as well as an Oscar -- Incendies. It tells the | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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story of one family's journey to Lubna Azabal is the start of the | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
film, a Belgian actress of Moroccan descent. I asked if the Phil macro | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
-- Incendies... It could have been shot in Serbia. A war is a war. You | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
ask me about the effect of the movie. The effect is maybe it helps | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
people to open some windows and helps people to talk and we are in | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
the middle of the Arab Spring. It is a wonderful revolution. An | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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unexpected revolution. But the movie, it is more about a family | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
who lives inside a complex world in the Middle East. It is a coming of | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
age feel for these children who are left a letter. Explain what they do | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
and see in terms of retracing their family history over the turbulent | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
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40 years. It is the point of view of two teenagers, they are growing | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
up in a country without war, Canada. They know nothing about the Arab | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
culture and the war. So to their mother, they discover the reality | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
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I wonder why you think it fits into the Arab Spring which we discussed | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
earlier and the idea of liberation and discovering the truth and | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
trying to change what is going on. For the first time because of | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
social networking like Facebook and Twitter, they decide to handle | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
their own destiny for the first time in their lives. And that is | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
why it is wonderful and why -- and what he does in the movie, she | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
takes her own destiny and her destiny unfortunately will get | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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I never had to experiment -- experience this horror and violence | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
but I was lucky to talk to people who got through that thing, in | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Palestine and Jordan and I met a lot of Iraqi refugees in Jordan. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
And they let me know they wrote experiences and you learn a lot | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
about its the cruelty of the world. You think this is a film which is | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
optimistic, does the film show hope for the region or not? I think yes, | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
because the mother in the movie says that sometimes, sometimes, | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
peace comes only after death. There is a notion of sacrifice, a notion | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
of to win the freedom you must maybe sacrifice yourself for a | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
generation and to maybe also their love and hate can co-exist one day. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
And vengeance and forgiveness can co-exist also an this is may be the | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
message of the movie, yes. Lubna Azabal, the star of Incendies. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
A reminder of our main news: Thousands of people have | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
demonstrated in towns and cities across Syria against the government | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
of President Bashar Assad. Official media said a number of policemen | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
had been shot, and one had died. Unconfirmed reports from activists | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
said at least sixteen demonstrators were shot dead by security forces | :26:40. | :26:50. | |
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in several locations. That is all, Hello, for many it has been a wet | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
day so far and the rain is heading towards northern England as we | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
speak. Tomorrow, the rain lingers in the north and elsewhere | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
scattered showers. This area of low pressure, a band of rain stretches | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
through southern areas of England and tomorrow the wind turns | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
westerly with gusty wind and heavy showers. Today's band of rain by | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
tomorrow sits across northern England and southern areas of | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
Scotland. South of here, a little bit brighter, glimmers of sunshine | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
but showers heavy in the West tracking eastwards on the breeze. A | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
few in Ascot and Southampton for the cricket. In the south-west, a | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
dry day, tomorrow scattered showers, blustery and heavy with hail and | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
thunder but not persistent rain off today. Similar across Wales, sunny | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
spells and blustery showers. In Northern Ireland, not much | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
difference, sunshine in the West but scattered showers. Scotland, | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
cloudy with the best of the brightness in the northern isles | :28:10. | :28:15. |