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Now it is time for HARDtalk. In July, a fifth of Afghanistan was | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
handed over to the control of Afghan security forces. All western | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
combat troops leave by 2014. Yet the Taliban are getting bolder in | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
their attacks. The first six months of 2011 were the deadliest for | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Afghan civilians since the war began 10 years ago. I talk to US | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Lieutenant-General William Caldwell who is tasked with training Afghan | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
soldiers and police. Most can't even read or write and corruption | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
and disloyalty is rife. Does he believe western nations are | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
withdrawing combat troops too soon - risking a return of Taliban | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
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control? General William Caldwell in Kabul, | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
welcome to HARDtalk. The violence is getting worse in Afghanistan. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Our Afghan forces up to the job? Having been on the ground here for | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
almost two years now, I think they are. They are continuing to improve. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Air quality gets better all the time. Air force is still growing. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
By December 2014, when they need to take the lead, our assessment is | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
that they will be ready. When you took over this job as NATO's head | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
of training in 2009, you were widely reported as saying that you | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
were horrified by what you saw. That is correct. In fact a life | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
find that many people's perceptions exist from that time period. We | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
found that the police were underpaid, they were poorly led. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
They were illiterate. They didn't have the proper equipment. What we | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
found was a force that was untrained. There were significant | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
challenges that existed in autumn of 2009. In the army we found the | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
exact same things. The US vice- president, Joe Biden, says the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
training of the Afghan army is painfully slow and difficult. Is he | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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right? What I would say is we want the training to be enduring. What | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
we did in the first 18 months here it is we develop 100,000 new | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
security forces for Afghanistan. They are out today serving their | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
country. Now we are developing their systems. Their maintenance, | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
logistics. The second part is a training leaders and training them | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
really takes time. This is a time- consuming process - it doesn't | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
happen overnight. Joe Biden is right? It is a time-consuming | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
process. Are you comfortable with the fact that we have seen one | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
fifth of the country now looking to Afghan forces for their security? | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
No, in fact I am, and more importantly, the Afghans are - they | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
are eager to take on the lead for security. It doesn't mean coalition | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
forces have gone all we are not here to support them as required, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
it means row making the decisions that their forces will be the first | :03:49. | :03:58. | |
to respond. -- it means they are making the decisions. I understand | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
that Western forces are still there in a supporting role. However, you | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
are putting the Afghan forces in control. My question is this - | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
those Afghan forces - are they adequately trained, in your | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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opinion? Are back up to it? -- are they up to it? They are. The police | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
and army forces are vastly different to what they were two | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
years ago. There has been significant progress. I was just | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
out in large Kashgar last month and I found that the police forces | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
there, from one year ago to now, they have been upgraded. They are | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
better equipped, better trained. We have been able to provide more | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
leaders, Junior leaders for them who didn't exist a year ago. There | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
are those people who study Afghanistan very closely and know | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
the country well. The International Crisis Group, for instance. They | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
have carried out a study this here and they say that there is a danger | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
of moving too quickly on training. You won't have the cohesiveness, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
the loyalty or the infrastructure to support those soldiers and | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
police. She says there is domestic pressure to wrap this up and get it | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
done so it becomes easy to rush. Are you being rushed in any way | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
that you are having to train as quickly as possible? I can tell you | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
- I don't feel any pressure to rush. My civilian boss - the NATO | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Secretary General has been very clear - he sees at the NATO | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
training mission in during here beyond 2014. What I understand is | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
that we have to put in place, by 2014, capable Afghan army and | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
security police forces who can take control of the country. There will | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
be challenging, I do want to downplay them, but as I have | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
watched what has happened over the last two years - I am confident -- | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
I do not want to. What happens if they are not ready by 2014? They | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
will be. It is a great hypothetical question, but... If I could | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
interrupt - it is not a hypothetical question. When you | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
hear the British Prime Minister talking about UK involvement he | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
says it will finish by the end of 2014 regardless of what is going on. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
The deadline is a deadline and it won't slip. Suppose for the sake of | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
argument goes troops are not ready - there is David Cameron saying | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
that the deadline is the deadline. I think what your Prime Minister | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
also said is that he is committed to the training effort. Very | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
recently, in the last couple of months, he made an announcement and | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
said that they are going to provide training to help stand up the | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Afghan officer academy here that will be modelled after Sandhurst. | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
We call at Sandhurst in the sand over here. It will train about | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
1,200 young Afghan officers every year. The commitment to that, as he | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
stated publicly, goes until 2023. I think there is a commitment on his | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
behalf to see the training mission through. I think everybody | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
understands that combat forces, the lead effort and the fighting itself, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
it has to be turned over to the Afghans. I am comfortable that, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
with the progress we have made, the path we are on, they will have the | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
ability to take the lead for security. What do you say about | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
other military figures who, perhaps, but as confident as you - for | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
instance, the former chief of the Defence Staff here in the United | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Kingdom. He said in June - the concern I have is about the date - | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
it seems to be more closely related to political and electoral | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
timescales than it does to a safe handover to Afghan forces. You know | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
that sentiment is expressed by some military people - what you say to | :08:29. | :08:38. | |
them? I find in a lot of cases - I hear that, and I try to understand | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
when the last time they were here on the ground. When did they get | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
their last experience out here? That perspective is very important. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
Two years ago, if you were to ask me this exact same question I would | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
say there was no way they would be able to do it. After two years I | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
see the growing ability of their forces. Again, I don't mean to | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
downplay it, there will be challengers out there for us. We | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
will have setbacks on the way. -- challenges. If the Afghan | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
leadership continues to support us the way they have, they will set | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
themselves up to do this. Are you worried? Because you said it if | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
people stay engaged. That is quite an if, isn't it? You look at | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
President Obama pushing for a fast withdrawal, you look at polls that | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
say the American public on to see the end of the war because it is so | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
expensive and everybody has a huge debt in so many countries. It is | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
possible, isn't it, that the commitment you're talking about now | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
to see the training programme through until 2023 may actually | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
slipped? Your training budget in 2010 was $12 billion. People might | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
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say that they don't have that kind of money any more. Today in this | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
command we have 33 different nations involved as part of the | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
NATO training effort here. We have about 2000 trainers with another | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
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600 inbound. I am not seeing, within this grip... By December we | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
will have an additional 800 Canadians as a part of this effort. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
What I am more concerned about is how rapidly we may draw back from | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
the combat role. In the training side I think there is an | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
understanding that the only way we'll get out of the situation is | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
to train our way out of it. The commitment to the training is very | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
real. I will clarify that - New Abbey you have people's support on | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
the training mission. -- you are confident. You are worried about a | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
too rapid withdrawal from combat? The way it is currently set I am | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
comfortable with. We have looked at this - different nations have made | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
decisions. The key will be everyone moving together. All the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
international nations who are here with combat forces having a | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
discussion. This is so we don't precipitously pull out of one area | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
or another without co-ordinating with the NATO effort. So on | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
training - how long do you think NATO is involved bilaterally - how | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
long does it have to remain in Afghanistan to train the forces | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
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they? -- for the forces there. think we would finish training the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Air Force until 2016. We all the trainers on the ground throughout | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
that time period. As far as the army and the police force goes, | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
there will be a need - one of the things we have worked hard to do is | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
build systems and institutions. Those are the type of things that I | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
would like to see trainers remaining engaged in for several | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
more years. Does take time to teach people to use a medical system or a | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
maintenance system or a supply system. How to run an institution | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
such as a school or academy. Thousands of Western troops could | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
remain in Afghanistan for, how long? Decades? I would not say | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
decades. One of the key things we're doing now is training against | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
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to become the primary trainers. December 2012 -- training Afghan us. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
We are starting a certification training programme for them. We are | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
building the army and police. We are also starting to train the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
trainers. They will take on the commitment to make it an enduring | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
and self-sustaining capability. You're still not giving me a | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
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specific year, but perhaps you do not feel inclined to do that. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
a fair question and what I would tell you is that by 2014 we should | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
see probably the training mission reduced to about half the size of | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
what it is today. We would take it from about 5,000 military and | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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police professionals down to about 2000-3,000. They could stay another | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
decade here inside Afghanistan. Ultimately, it would be an Afghan | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
decision. Let's look at the training that you are in charge. | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
There are currently something like 159,000 Afghan soldiers, about | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
125,000 Afghan police. The target is, what? About 300,000? Is that | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
right? You are about right. Today we have 302,000 Afghan army and | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
police combined. The army is at about 171,000 and the police is at | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
about 131,000. Our goal was, by this October, to be at 305,000. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
have been training them, but most of the recruits are illiterate, but | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
they? They can't even read the serial numbers on arrival, for | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
instance? That is one thing that shocked me. I didn't think it was | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
something I should have to do is a military professional, but I | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
recognised very quickly that if we were going to make this an enduring | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
army of police officers, we would have to teach them literacy. We | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
took it on. We test every new recruits coming in. Only one in ten | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
can even write their name. 90% are absolutely illiterate. They can't | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
read the serial number on their weapons. We now higher almost 3,000 | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Afghan teachers who run full-time literacy courses throughout all of | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
our training programmes. In some cases it is full-time school for | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
soldiers and police. We have made a real effort to raise that up. What | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
I can tell you is that there is a ceremony here just recently - we | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
just passed the 100,000 mark of young men who came in absolutely | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
illiterate but now have some level of literacy that they did not have | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
before they joined the Army or the police. What made you change your | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
mind? Are enthusiastic about what you do? When the late Richard | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Holbrooke said he would have to do something about these illiterate | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
recruits, you said - I am a military man, I don't do literacy, | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
I don't do nation-building. Did you just have to obey orders? Did you | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
do we reluctantly? Do you now. With joy? I actually now. With | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
tremendous enthusiasm. I consider myself one of the premier literacy | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
teachers in this country. What really made me a believer - and | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
again, Richard Holbrooke and I became very good friends before his | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
untimely death, he came back here periodically. After about two locks | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
on the ground I went back to him and said - you are exactly right. - | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
- two months. We have to take on literacy. In the West we hadn't | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Afghan unit that was well trained and had gone out on an operation | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
without coalition forces. A small unit of about 30 young Afghan men. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
They got into a firefight. They needed to call in medical | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
helicopters to come and pick up the wounded. When they called back - | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
because they know how to operate the radios - and asked for help, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
they were asked about their location. None of them could read a | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
map. They had never learned how to read a map. A basic skill that | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
soldiers have to have. They were unable to do it because they were | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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all illiterate and disorganised. That is what helped to transform | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
your ideas. You have other challenges as well. Would that | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
desertion. Didn't you say that out of 110,000 recruits of last year | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
only 70,000 exist. You do Pedy has talked about soldiers going back to | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
do the harvesting. -- your deputy. What we do find, again this goes | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
back to what we see as our number one priority, it is developing | :18:43. | :18:52. | |
leaders. There are cases, enough of them to make a significant | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
difference at times, where a young men have not been able to take | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
leave to go home so they do with independently. The minister of | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
defence will be the first to tell you that in any month around 2,000, | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
3,000 come back and want to continue serving. In the absence of | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
being allowed to delete in a formal manner they just take off. -- been | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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able to do it. What you will tell me is what? It has not hindered our | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
ability to keep growing the army. We have an overwhelming number of | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
recruits that want to come in every month. All right but you are | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
worried about, you can't trust the figures. When you say you have this | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
many, but you don't know how many are on the farm, which are serving. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Their numbers are always a challenge and that is why it is | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
very important that the coalition forces work with the Afghan forces | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
to reconcile that. We are doing a 100% inventory of every soldier in | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
the Afghan army. A 100% re verification of who is there, | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
serving in a position. I would like to run and quickly to some of the | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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other challenges you face. You get in for traitors, something like 50 | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Western troops have been killed by people who have turned against them. | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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-- you get in full -- people who infiltrate. We call it the inside | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
threat. We have analysed the situation is in the last five years | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
where it has occurred and the vast majority have been associated with | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
combat stress and associations. We have an eight step vetting process | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
which has worked pretty well. If they are attempting to come in | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
through the training system we are able to weave them out pretty well. | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
That is part of the 1,000 we turned down every month. We have | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
established Counter Intelligence personnel who look for someone with | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
erratic behaviour, something unusual. Briefly on corruption you | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
have also got problems with heroin addicts are monks the police force. | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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What do you do about corruption? Corruption obviously is an issue | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
here. As I tried to put it in perspective, that is why we need to | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
tell them what right looks like in terms of integrity, leadership. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
They went through 30 years of civil war, not having anything. They have | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
developed a culture where you need to take care of yourself first | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
before others. Through training programmes, and by example if we | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
are trying to instil in them the idea of service to others. There is | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
a great thing in Sandhurst that talks about the need to lead. It is | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
the same thing we are trying to instil today. You have made it | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
clear that there is going to be a Western presence for some time. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
When the Afghans are totally in control of their own security is | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
there not a real possibility that the Taliban would re-emerge, retake | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
the country? I can tell you from the Afghans that I work with every | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
single day of the week, and I travel around the country every | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
week, go to 70 different training site, there is no Afghans that I | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
have met with yet that really want to have the time ran around. -- | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
that really want the Taliban around. They are not trying to build | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
something up for the people, they take it away from them. General | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
William Caldwell in Kabul, thank you very much for coming on | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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almost caused an accident. The stewards you of that would -- and | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
the steward's view of that would almost cost him the race. Until the | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
punishment was handed down for the spin, brother Nick watched Hamilton | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
take through his drive in penalty. It may be an important win for a | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
Jenson Button. McLaren will have to be just as dominant in the second | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
half of the season as Red Bull have been in the first. Sebastian Vettel | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
has stretched his championship lead. At the age of 22 most golfers are | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
finding their way in the game. On Sunday Yani Tseng won her fifth | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
major title. She used the youngest star to achieve that feat. The | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
final round 69 was good enough for the world number one to win the | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
tournament by four shots. Skull and's Katrina Matthew was the best- | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
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placed Briton. -- Scotland's. enjoy the crowd today. So many | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
players making history on this golf course. It is my honoured to win | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
the British Open again. I am learning from mistakes and have | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
been through it all here and throughout this year the memento, I | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
have got a great attitude and feel very happy. | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
Serena Williams has won her first title since Wimbledon in June of | :27:58. | :28:08. | |
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last year. She beat Marion Bartoli. She only recently returned to | :28:11. | :28:19. | |
tennis after 12 months out due to injury. She won straight sets. She | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
has fallen to 169 in the world ranking and this should see her | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
back into the top 80. She says she is far from finished. I feel I am | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
really good. I am happy to walk away with the wind. I have not won | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
a tournament in a while. I am not finished. I do not feel I am | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
finished by any means. I have to dust my shoulders off and keep | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
pushing. The day three of the second Test at | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
Trent Bridge will be remembered for a bizarre incident in the afternoon. | :28:55. | :29:05. | |
It is the hosts to have the upper hand on day four. A lead of 374 | :29:05. | :29:13. | |
runs from England. Ian Bell was the staff. Back to the incident in | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
question, Ian Bell was out for 137 after he believed a shot from | :29:18. | :29:27. | |
Morgan had gone for four. In fact it had not. The bails were taken | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
off but Ian Bell returned after the break following a sporting gesture | :29:31. | :29:38. | |
from MS Dhoni who decided to withdraw his side's appeal. | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
The Barcelona had a new superstar in one of their shirts in | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
Washington DC on Sunday but the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
City should not be worried because this player is better with a ball | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
in his hands and not his feet. Kobe Bryant took part in a celebrity | :29:59. | :30:07. | |
match but should probably stick to the day job, maybe ditch the | :30:07. | :30:16. | |
sunglasses. He was finding it hard to find the net. Kobe Bryant is | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
sweating on what he will do in the coming months with the NBA lock-out | :30:20. | :30:29. | |
pally in force. One thing for prepared is for sure - he will not | :30:29. | :30:39. | |
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Some pretty hot weather coming our way over the next few days and we | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
will see thunderstorms developing around the middle of the week. That | :30:49. | :30:59. | |
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is still some way off. Most of us will be dry. Pretty warm, too. More | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
cloud further west with some dampness across Northern Ireland, | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
Scotland, the western fringes of Wales. For south-west England, West | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
Wales, limited brightness. Further east it will brighten up for a term | :31:17. | :31:27. | |
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during a day. For Scotland, a good deal of cloud. Having said that, | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
largely dry across the east. At nine o'clock in the morning a lot | :31:32. | :31:40. | |
of dry weather across northern England. Reasonable as a start to | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
the day. The highest of the temperatures in the Midlands, the | :31:46. | :31:55. | |
south-east. Across the south-west of England, limited Brian has. -- | :31:55. | :32:02. | |
there will be limited brightness. There is every chance that the | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
cloud will break across parts of Somerset, Gloucestershire, the east | :32:07. | :32:17. | |
:32:17. | :32:21. |