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"Iran knew we were just tourists." That is Sarah Shourd's claim. She | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
was arrested when she was hiking with two other Americans on Iraq's | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
border with Iran. After many months in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
she was released. But her fiance and friend are still there nearly | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
two years on. They have had barely any contact with the outside world | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
and while they were promised a trial, it has still not happened. | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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What will it take to secure their Sarah Shourd, welcome to HARDtalk. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
Thank you. What were you doing hiking on what is one of the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
world's most volatile borders? was living in Damascus with my now | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
fiance. We had been living there for more than one year. He had been | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
working in the region as an investigative journalist for nearly | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
one decade. We moved to Damascus and the two of us are peace | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
activists and it was an extension of our work to actually come and | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
immerse ourselves in a diverse community in the Middle East and | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
learn Arabic. So northern Iraqi Kurdistan is a semi autonomous area. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
It is a no-fly zone. It was made that way in the 80s to protect them | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
from Saddam Hussein. It is a flourishing area for tourists and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
nobody has been kidnapped there in decades. But you went right to the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
border. It is not a very well- marked border but, you make it | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
clear, you are not naive and you know about the world and the area. | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
Why go there? We were very unfortunate. We were misled as to | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
how close the border is. We asked our hotel manager, our taxi driver, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
a restaurant owner, they all said it was the best place to hike. It | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
is a beautiful area with waterfalls and we arrived there by taxi and | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
there were hundreds of other people, whole families, camping there | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
overnight. We stayed overnight and asked about a good trail. They said | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
there was no problem with the trail so we hiked for several hours. The | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
only mistake we made is that perhaps we hiked too far and were a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
little over-zealous. We were enjoying ourselves so much that we | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
lost track of time and we thought the border was miles away. Do you | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
accept that it looks suspicious? accept that there is animosity | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
between Iran and the US that is real and it is 30 years of | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
animosity and suspicion on both sides of government. But it was | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
clear immediately when the soldiers saw us that there was no intention | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
from us to go to Iran. We had nothing on us, no equipment, I was | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
wearing shorts and no headscarf. The headscarf is mandatory in Iran. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
The soldiers immediately forced us into their Jeep, drove us to the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
nearest town and bought me a headscarf. They were immediately | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
suspicious of you? No. It was clear to them that that we came from a | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
tourist spot and had gone too far away and got lost. I have no idea | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
where the border is. Did they make it clear that they thought you were | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
tourists or they knew you were tourists? Yes, that was a strong | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
impression I got. They saw how confused we were. They saw we did | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
not speak the language and we had nothing on us except some food and | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
a few books. They said we had to come for an hour and talk to their | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
boss and then they would take us back to Iraq. They took us to Iran, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
bought the new clothes, drove us around for days and handed us off | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
to different groups of people. It was obvious we were tourists from | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the first second and absolutely no threat. I do not understand why, | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
when that became blatantly evident, we were not immediately taken back. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
But at the time, another woman was only just released from Evin prison. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Another American, picked up by the Iranians, resulting in a high- | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
profile campaign. And there were another two American journalists | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
being held in North Korea. Americans had been picked up on | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
difficult borders in difficult places. So when they picked you up, | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
what did you think? Of course I was frightened. It got progressively | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
worse. I got more terrified as one day turned into two days. I was | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
convinced from the get go that we had done nothing wrong and | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
everything would be OK. They drove us about for days and kept telling | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
us we were going home. At one point, they forced us into the car and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
drove us into the darkness. They drove us out into nothingness for | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
more than one hour and we were terrified. They were cocking their | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
guns and we were afraid for our lives. We had no idea. Nothing can | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
prepare you for this kind of situation. And then the next day, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
they took us to a small prison in the middle of nowhere and drove us | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
to Tehran. Up until the last minute, they said we were going to the | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
airport and going home. Do not worry. So it was not until... | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
they treating you badly? No. In the beginning they were not physically | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
rough. But we were completely disorientated and had no idea where | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
we were. Do you think they always intended to take you to Evin | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
prison? There is no transparency. I have no way of knowing what the | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
decision-making process was. All I know is it was clear that they knew | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
we were just tourists and they picked us up near a tourist site. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Whatever decision led to me being thrown into prison and my fiance | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
and I being torn apart...and now it is two years later. The situation | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
is persisting. Tell us about that moment when you get to the prison | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
and you realise that you're not going home. You are put in a cell | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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and separated from the men and put into a cell. Yes. Shane and Josh | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
and I agreed that if they tore us apart, we were terrified about | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
being separated, we would immediately stop eating and go on | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
hunger strike. We clung to each other, screaming, tears streaming | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
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down our faces. They physically tore us apart, put us into | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
different cells and we stopped eating for five days until they | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
finally let us see each other for maybe two minutes. At that point, | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Shane and Josh, we were reassuring each other. We said it was not | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
possible, they could not keep us, and we were sure they would let us | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
go any day. We had faith it would be resolved immediately. They were | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
put into a cell together and you were on your own. What was that | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
like? It is indescribable. The isolation is extreme. You go | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
through a complete withdrawal the first few months. Everything you | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
love, everything you care about, is torn away from you and you are just | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
flailing. It is excruciatingly painful emotionally. I would just | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
cry and beat at the walls. There were times when I had blood | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
streaming down my hands from beating at the walls because I | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
panicked and I feared the worst. Things got... There were so many | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
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different phases. This was a long period, as you know. When the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
investigation ended, there were two months when we had to write | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
everything about ourselves, they scoured through our e-mail accounts | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
scoured through our e-mail accounts scoured through our e-mail accounts | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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My interrogator came to my interrogation room after two months | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
and said "'I am sorry but the investigation is being shut down". | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
I asked why, was I going to court or going home? And he said he did | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
not know as my case had become political. He did not know what | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
would happen to me. In that two months, did you get any | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
information? No. No phone calls. My first phone call was five months | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
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into detention. Not even being able to tell my mother I am alive. Shane | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
and Josh have had three phone calls in 22 months. The other prisoners | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
get a phone call every week so their isolation is extreme. The | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
last time we did get a phone call, about three weeks ago, I missed it. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
But the mothers got a phone call. This is from the other two who are | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
still there? Yes. But to get a sense of what it was like for you, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
did you know the outside world knew you were in there? There were two | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Swiss diplomats who came to see you. Yes, after two months. That is what | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
kept me alive, having faith that the world would not forget us. And | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
that people would come to our aid. And even though it is only an idea, | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
it keeps you going and stops you from slipping away. You were | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
eventually allowed more regular contact with Shane and Josh? Twice | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
a day for half an hour? When the isolation was starting to take too | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
heavy a toll and they could see I was losing my mind, they started to | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
let... They put Shane and Josh in the same cell, they were in | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
complete isolation for the first three months, they put them | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
together and started to let us see each other in an open air room | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
which is a larger cell with bars over the roof. All we could do was | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
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just hold each other and cry for the first several weeks. But we | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
kept each other going and gave each other the strength to go on. Prison | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
is very scary and you do not know what is going to happen. Did you | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
have a window? Yes, a small window. The first several months I was | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
terrified of violence. I would sleep with a metal plate against | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the door. It was the only way I could sleep because I was afraid | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
someone would come in. You are completely subject to the prison | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
guards. How did the women guards treat you? Some were very | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
sympathetic because it was clear to them that I was a good person. That | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
I loved the Middle East. I would tell them about the fact that I | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
support Palestinian rights and that made them sympathetic to me. And I | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
lived in Damascus and was teaching refugees. We are peace activists, | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
the kind of people you would think Iran would applaud and not punish. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
But others were very cruel and they hated me and would not speak to me, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
they treated me like I was not human. There is one incident that | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
is hard to talk about. Shane and Josh were beaten by one of the | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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guards. They were coming back from the open air room where we spent | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
time together and nearly every day, Josh and Shane would get extra food | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
if there was any left over after the prisoners were served. This was | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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a daily occurrence. Then one of the guards just went crazy. He was | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
filled with rage and he pushed Josh away from us and tore us apart and | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
pushed Josh down the stairs and we had no idea where they were taking | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
him. And so Shane and I were screaming and yelling, stop! And | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
they pushed us back to our cells and I spent the next hour pounding | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
my door and screaming his name. Finally, I heard his voice and he | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
was being taken back to his cell and he said that he was OK. So that | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
was 24 hours before I heard what happened and what happened was | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Shane was forced back to his cell and he was so scared that he kept | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
banging on his cell the way I did. The same guard came back to his | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
cell and told him to be quiet. He kept asking where Josh was. The | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
guard just kept slamming Shane against the wall and he slammed him | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
against the wall again and again, 10 or 15 times, until the back of | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
his head was bloody. I saw them the next day and heard what happened. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
You never know when something like that will happen. We do not know if | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
they are safe, we hardly hear from them. This last phone call we got | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
about three weeks ago, it said... I was not able to talk to them but | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
they said they had been on hunger strike for 17 days. I don't even | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
know how that is possible. So we are terrified and we do not | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
understand. The Iranian authorities have made many positive statements. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
After I was released I met with the President and he said he knew about | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
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The chief of Human Rights says I was incapable of espionage, which | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
is true. Why haven't you told that story about Shane being beaten up | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
before? I did not imagine in a million years that they would still | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
be there eight months after I was released. Did you think that by not | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
saying it, that would hasten their release? The last thing we want is | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
to be part of animosity between the US government and the Iranian | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
government. We have nothing to do with government. All three of us | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
are peace activists. We want to help people. We want to understand | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
the world better. That is why we went to the Middle East. We fell in | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
love with the region. Our story should not be mixed up in politics. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
It is about two innocent people in prison. But it is so mixed up in | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
politics. You have been critical of the American government which you | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
think should have done more. Yes, I do. Nobody has done enough. Shane | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
and Josh are still there. What got you out? The judge told me I was | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
released because I was a woman and because I was in solitary | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
confinement which is a harsher sentence. There were fears over | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
your health. I had a clean bill of health before I was released. They | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
took me to a specialist and there was nothing wrong with me. It had | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
nothing to do with health. It was because I was a woman. Their chief | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
of Human Rights said they were able to convince the judiciary that I | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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was incapable of espionage. There was bail posted. $500,000 bail. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Sultan of Oman and his envoy facilitated my release and they're | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
still working to advocate for Shane and Josh's release. Do you give | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
them more credit than you give your own government? I am extremely | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
grateful to them. I will forever have the country of Oman in my | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
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heart. It was incredible being there. There is no transparency in | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
the situation. I do not know why they are holding Shane and Josh. I | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
have no idea why I was released. I have no idea why they have not been | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
released. Or at least why they have not been allowed to meet with their | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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lawyer. He has been defending them tirelessly within the parameters of | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Iranian law but has made no progress. The last session was | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
cancelled. The reason given by the judiciary was because Shane and | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Josh were not brought to court. How is this any kind of reason not to | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
give anybody a fair trial after 22 months in prison? I wonder how | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
often you think that they will be released. Or do you think this will | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
go on and on? I do have faith they will be released. I do not know | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
when. All of us live in constant anxiety and fear. Shane and Josh | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
have done nothing wrong. I have to believe that their good records, | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
their good work in the world will make a difference. I do not know | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
why it is taking so long. All of the people who have stood up for | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
them, like Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, these people stand up for | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Shane and Josh because they believe in who they are. Their innocence is | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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clear. The President of Iran has suggested on a couple of occasions | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
that America could release Iranians. They are raising the idea of a | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
possible prison swap. Is that something you have tried to pursue | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
with the American government? When I met with the President of | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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Iran, he did not mention that. He said that he hoped I would be | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
married soon and have many children. I saw him face to face and that is | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
what he said. Did you think he would then go back and arrange the | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
release? Yes, I did. I would like to believe... He has promised | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
several times to pass on the recommendation for expediency for | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Shane and Josh. I do not know why we have not seen that. You got | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
engaged in prison? Yes. It was incredible. Shane and I have been | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
dating for many years. It has been 5.5 years. We love each other very | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
much. Josh is now my best friend for life. He is like a brother to | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
me. Shane surprised me, it came out of the blue and it helped to keep | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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us going. He used cloth from his shirt and a towel to make a ring. | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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He asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. It was beautiful. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
You can imagine the power of the television images there are in you | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
going back to get your fiancee out of prison. Do you not think it | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
would help secure his release if you were there? It is a very | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
difficult decision. It is the most difficult decision I have ever made. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
But in the end I have to go with my psychologist who says that my post | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
traumatic stress disorder... We're all suffering from this but the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
toll it has taken on me and my mental health makes us so much more | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
afraid for Shane and Josh. How is it still affecting you? Extreme | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
anxiety. Obsession with the campaign. There is nothing else | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
that gives my life any meaning or direction. The only thing that | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
keeps me going is to try to advocate for Shane and Josh. I have | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
insomnia. I get very triggered with panic attacks of things that remind | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
me of prison. It was a very difficult decision. A part of me | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
would like to stand with them and defend our innocence. We have been | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
waiting for the chance to go to court now for 17 months. That was | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
the first time we were told we would go to court. But I know that | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
they would not want me to risk my own mental health for that. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
there a part of you that feels guilty for being out when they are | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
still in? Not guilty. The last thing that Shane and Josh said to | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
me when I was able to say goodbye to them is that they had total | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
confidence in me to advocate for them. They had joy in their faces. | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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I know they want me to be out here telling the truth. I am grateful. I | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
am grateful to be free and alive. What about Iran? What did you think | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
about Iran before all this happened? To be honest, I was not | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
at all focused on Iran. I was learning about Syria, learning | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
Arabic. I was focused on the Arab world. But I am interested in Iran. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
It is a fascinating country with an incredible history. I do not | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
understand how something like this could have happened. How do you | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
feel about it now? It is very hard to say. One of the things that | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
really kept us going in prison, through everything we went through, | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
the endless days, was the feeling, the confidence that we could walk | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
out unbroken, with our values, the essential parts of ourselves intact | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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and unchanged. I feel very proud of the fact that I am not bitter or | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
angry. I see this as a huge misunderstanding. It is a tragic | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
one. I see that our treatment was cruel. But I do not blame Iranian | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
people for that in any way. They have been extremely kind to me. | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
the women prisoners inside were a support to you? Yes, they were. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Even though I could never see them or talk to them, they would sing to | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
me sometimes in English. They would knock on the wall when I was | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
screaming and crying. They would shout, I love you Sarah. They | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
showed me a lot of humanity. Sarah Shourd, thank you for coming on | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
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We got the rain that we needed across England and Wales yesterday. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
A really contrasting day today. A much brighter and warmer day across | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
England and Wales. Different story further north for today. Let's | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
recap on what we had yesterday. A massive cloud stretching across the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
country that has been drifting north over the last few hours. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Clear skies behind it. A little bit misty and drizzly in one or two | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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places. That rain grinds to a stop in Scotland. With all the cloud | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
around it will be a much milder start to the morning in comparison | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
to the ones just past. Temperatures staying in the double figures for | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
many of us. 12-13 degrees greet us first thing. A mild and cloudy | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
start and a wet and windy day further north. The cloud will break | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
up and we will see sunshine coming through and it will eventually feel | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
quite warm. You will have to wait until the middle of the afternoon a | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
for that. You can see some decent spells of sunshine coming through | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
then. To the east of the Pennines it will be a pleasant afternoon. A | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
high of around 16-18 degrees, perhaps. There will be a little bit | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
of broken cloud from time to time along the south coast. A dry, | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
bright and sunny afternoon in the south-west and for much of Wales. A | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
breeze, perhaps, along the exposed coast, but generally speaking it | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
will be a pleasant afternoon. More cloud and the risk of a shower up | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
into the far north of Northern Ireland. Maximum temperatures | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
around 15 degrees. Into Scotland we will continue to see some pretty | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
wet weather up into the far north by the middle of the afternoon | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
accompanied by some strong wind. It will ease away, but those gust of | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
wind may be up to 60mph. In the Northern Isles in particular as | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
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that rain eases away. As we say goodbye to Monday we will see an | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
area of low pressure easing away, high pressure taking over. That is | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
what is in store for Wednesday. Tuesday shapes up to be a lovely | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
day really - dry, bright and sunny with a high of 23 degrees in the | :27:50. | :27:53. |