:00:13. > :00:17.Crunch day for millions on benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans
:00:17. > :00:22.to cap payments. It would mean working age benefits and tax
:00:22. > :00:26.credits would rise by 1% a year rather than the rate of inflation.
:00:27. > :00:32.If they stop it already is it any more, one of us will have to go on
:00:32. > :00:37.the dull and that is it. That is reality. Fires rage in South
:00:37. > :00:41.Eastern Australia. They are the worst conditions ever seen there.
:00:41. > :00:45.A British soldier is killed and six others are injured after a man in
:00:45. > :00:50.an Afghan army uniform opens fire in Helmand.
:00:50. > :00:53.Northern Ireland is being held by ransom by protesters in the Union
:00:53. > :00:58.flag dispute says the secretary of state.
:00:58. > :01:06.And is this what we will all be wearing one day? I say to my
:01:06. > :01:11.glasses, which way to my hotel? Later on BBC London, a retrial has
:01:11. > :01:17.begun of a man accused of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan who was shot
:01:17. > :01:27.dead by police. And a promise for 20% more seats on rail routes into
:01:27. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:40.Welcome to the BBC News at One. Millions of people on benefits will
:01:40. > :01:45.find out today if increases to their payments will be capped to 1%
:01:46. > :01:50.over the next few years. MPs will vote on the plans later which will
:01:51. > :01:54.amount to real-terms cuts for working aid claimants. Labour says
:01:54. > :02:00.it would hit working families hard, but the Government says it is
:02:00. > :02:05.unfair for payments to go up by a higher percentage than wages.
:02:05. > :02:09.This is the argument at the very heart of the benefits question, how
:02:09. > :02:13.to share the pain of austerity between those in work and those on
:02:13. > :02:17.benefits. The Government says it has no choice but to cut the
:02:17. > :02:24.welfare bill in order to deal with the deficit. What we have seen his
:02:24. > :02:28.many people in work paying tax for all the welfare benefits. The
:02:28. > :02:34.reality is their money and their pay has not risen by anything like
:02:34. > :02:38.what welfare has done, in fact less than half. We have to save the
:02:38. > :02:43.money and the fairest way to do this is to save for that money from
:02:43. > :02:49.welfare payments. The Government aims to save around �4 billion by
:02:49. > :02:54.capping and not increasing as benefits by 1%. With inflation over
:02:54. > :03:01.2%, that is effectively cutting the value of benefits such as
:03:01. > :03:06.jobseeker's allowance. It is also being planned to affect tax credits.
:03:06. > :03:11.This couple both work part-time and receive child tax credits. She says
:03:11. > :03:14.the benefits cat will make their situation harder. It means one of
:03:14. > :03:20.us will have to stop working and go on benefits which is what the
:03:21. > :03:24.Tories do not want people to do, particularly women. Labour says it
:03:24. > :03:29.is precisely because they want to protect families like this that
:03:29. > :03:33.they are opposing the bill. We are going to be voting against a tax on
:03:33. > :03:37.strivers, a tax that will hit people who are working hard,
:03:37. > :03:42.getting up early, staying up late and you are going to see their help
:03:42. > :03:47.reduced as a result of this Bill. In the House of Commons Nick Clegg
:03:47. > :03:53.challenged Labour's deputy leader over where she would make the cuts.
:03:53. > :03:59.Would she take it on the NHS? I know her health spokesperson things
:03:59. > :04:05.increasing spending under the NHS is not good. But not all Liberal
:04:06. > :04:10.Democrats agree with him. A handful of others may abstain from the vote.
:04:10. > :04:15.The majority of MPs will back the bill, so the Government is expected
:04:15. > :04:18.to succeed in limiting the rise in benefits, but the arguments over
:04:18. > :04:24.spending cuts and who should bear the brunt of them is expected to
:04:24. > :04:29.continue right up until the next general election.
:04:29. > :04:33.Let's get more from our political correspondent Norman Smith who is
:04:33. > :04:38.in Westminster. There is a lot at stake for people on benefits and
:04:39. > :04:44.for the politicians. This is all about appealing to so-called
:04:44. > :04:49.strivers and I am reminded of the film Spartacus where once Labour
:04:49. > :04:54.gets up and says, I am Spartacus and another says, no, I am
:04:54. > :04:57.Spartacus. We have got pretty much the same going on here at
:04:57. > :05:02.Westminster where they are saying they are on the side of the
:05:02. > :05:06.striders. Both the coalition and Labour want to use the vote to
:05:06. > :05:11.demonstrate how they represent the interests of the low and middle
:05:11. > :05:15.income earners. The coalition say by imposing a benefit cap they are
:05:15. > :05:20.standing up for the interests of strivers to have seen benefits
:05:20. > :05:25.going up faster than paid. Labour say by opposing that cap they are
:05:25. > :05:29.the ones standing up for striders because they are resisting cuts To
:05:29. > :05:33.Working tax credits which many of them received. This matters
:05:33. > :05:38.politically because both sides are trying to push the other into an
:05:38. > :05:42.awkward corner. The Government are trying to say Labour by opposing
:05:43. > :05:46.the benefit cap, that shows they are on the side of claimants.
:05:46. > :05:51.Labour are saying the Government by hitting tax credits, that shows
:05:51. > :05:55.they are out of touch with the concerns of ordinary families.
:05:55. > :05:58.Politically this is hugely significant because it is about
:05:58. > :06:04.identity, though you stand for and how you are perceived by the
:06:04. > :06:09.electorate. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is here. This
:06:09. > :06:12.serves to remind us how much money is at stake. It was always
:06:12. > :06:17.inevitable when you look at what the Government was trying to do, to
:06:17. > :06:21.bring down the deficit, that we would have rowers of this kind. You
:06:21. > :06:26.cannot squeeze public spending without squeezing welfare. He
:06:26. > :06:30.cannot squeeze welfare without affecting a lot of people. Nearly
:06:30. > :06:35.10 million households will be affected by this change, more than
:06:35. > :06:40.half of working age households. Some of them will not lose very
:06:40. > :06:44.much, but rightly or wrongly they feel they have paid a lot into the
:06:44. > :06:50.system and they deserve to get it back. There is an element of
:06:50. > :06:55.uncertainty because a lot depends on the economy. If inflation
:06:55. > :07:00.behaves as forecasters expect it to do, and it is not very high, the
:07:00. > :07:05.real level of benefits will be cut by about 4% over the next few years.
:07:05. > :07:09.That is roughly what has happened to average earnings, but if
:07:09. > :07:15.inflation picks up, this policy would leave some of the poorest
:07:15. > :07:25.households quite exposed to that shock. You can find out how the
:07:25. > :07:27.benefit changes may affect you by going to the BBC News website.
:07:27. > :07:32.Firefighters in the Australian state of New South Wales are
:07:32. > :07:36.battling some of the worst fires they have ever faced. More than 130
:07:36. > :07:41.are burning and the risk is at its highest level because of the
:07:41. > :07:48.combination of higher winds, extremely dry vegetation and
:07:48. > :07:54.temperatures above 40 Celsius. Bath in scale, frightening in
:07:54. > :07:56.intensity, the New South Wales bush fires are being fanned by ferocious
:07:56. > :08:03.winds and some of the highest temperatures the state has ever
:08:03. > :08:08.witnessed. Four large regions are at the highest state of alert, a
:08:08. > :08:13.catastrophic. The bushfires are uncontrollable and fast moving and
:08:13. > :08:17.residents are being urged to escape their path. At ground level we saw
:08:17. > :08:23.for ourselves how terrifying and unpredictable they can be. They
:08:23. > :08:27.look like the mouth of hell. This is one of the main roads, the
:08:27. > :08:32.Princes Highway, to dangers for all but the emergency services to
:08:32. > :08:36.travel. Dust off his our country homes and property is most at risk.
:08:36. > :08:41.Close to the front you get a sense of the conditions the firefighters
:08:41. > :08:47.are dealing with. These swirling, vicious winds, the soaring
:08:47. > :08:53.temperatures, 45 degrees. There has been a sudden change in the wind
:08:53. > :08:59.and that is what makes these fires so unpredictable. In this small
:08:59. > :09:05.town, Barbara Bennett had decided to stay and protect her home, a
:09:05. > :09:11.garden hose is her main defence. am only going if necessary. So,
:09:11. > :09:16.let's hope it does not come to that. With roads at Shap and communities
:09:16. > :09:21.isolated, many locals faced a different kind of agony, Standard
:09:21. > :09:26.from family members. Two of them cannot get out and I cannot get
:09:26. > :09:31.into them. I told them to pick up every available bucket and Bath.
:09:31. > :09:37.is not just New South Wales, Victoria, the state which suffered
:09:37. > :09:42.the Black Saturday Disaster in 2009, is being hit again. Australia has
:09:42. > :09:48.rarely witnessed a heat wave quite like this. Nor fires that have
:09:48. > :09:52.devastated such a large area of the country.
:09:52. > :09:56.Tributes have been paid to a British soldier from 28 Engineer
:09:56. > :10:00.Regiment who has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by a man
:10:00. > :10:06.wearing Afghan army uniform. Six British soldiers were injured in
:10:06. > :10:10.the attack. The dead soldier's family has been informed. More than
:10:10. > :10:14.60 foreign troops were killed by their Afghan colleagues last year.
:10:14. > :10:18.The latest attack happened in Patrol Base Hazrat. Later today,
:10:18. > :10:23.Hamid Karzai is due in Washington to discuss American withdrawal from
:10:23. > :10:29.his country and a strategy for tackling the Taliban. Quentin
:10:29. > :10:35.Somerville is in Kabul now. This attack happened late last
:10:35. > :10:39.night in a very small patrol base near Nahr-e Saraj in Helmand. It
:10:39. > :10:43.seemed the gunman got into an argument with his Afghan colleagues
:10:43. > :10:47.and firstly fired on them before turning his weapons on the British
:10:47. > :10:52.engineers who were working at the base, tried to prepare it for
:10:52. > :10:56.handover to Afghan security forces. One British soldier was killed and
:10:56. > :11:02.six were injured. We do not know if the dead British soldier was armed
:11:02. > :11:05.at the time he was attacked. This is one of the growing tensions we
:11:05. > :11:12.have seen in Afghanistan's relationships with its foreign
:11:12. > :11:14.allies. There has been a huge rise in these attacks and it will be one
:11:15. > :11:21.of the issues President Karzai will discuss when he meets President
:11:21. > :11:27.Obama later today. They are cleaning up and clearing
:11:27. > :11:31.out. US Marines and their armoured vehicles are leaving Afghanistan
:11:31. > :11:36.behind and heading back to the States. 30,000 foreign troops left
:11:36. > :11:41.the country last year. This compound holes only a tiny fraction
:11:41. > :11:48.of what is to be returned. But it is all going to be sent back home.
:11:48. > :11:52.We are not leaving anything behind. We have a history of bringing
:11:52. > :11:59.everything out with us and unless it is totally broken and cannot be
:11:59. > :12:02.used again, it will be coming back with us. Far from Afghanistan, the
:12:02. > :12:09.President's will discuss who will replace these soldiers and the kind
:12:09. > :12:15.of support they give Afghan troops. Hamid Karzai wants US soldiers out
:12:15. > :12:20.of his country's towns and villages and Afghans have taken over
:12:20. > :12:24.security from a nearly 90% of the population, but some places are
:12:24. > :12:30.still far from ready. This was the last time they sat down together in
:12:30. > :12:40.May. On their agenda this week will be progress on talks with the
:12:40. > :12:41.
:12:42. > :12:45.Taliban and in advance the insurgents sent a warning. If they
:12:45. > :12:50.leave a single soldier, they will be responsible for all future
:12:50. > :12:55.casualties. Some hope the meeting will mean troops will pack up and
:12:55. > :13:02.head home sooner. That might help the peace process. If the
:13:02. > :13:09.international troops withdraw from the country, the jihad or holy war
:13:09. > :13:14.against international invaders will be, if not totally, but more than
:13:14. > :13:16.90% stopped. This meeting will influence the number of American
:13:16. > :13:20.soldiers President Obama is prepared to send here and the
:13:20. > :13:28.number that President Karzai is willing to tolerate, but it could
:13:28. > :13:33.also changed the nature of the war. Will this change into a war of
:13:33. > :13:38.counter-terrorism where the main enemy is Al-Qaeda? The interests of
:13:38. > :13:42.Afghanistan and America will not easily be disentangled. Across the
:13:42. > :13:46.country US bases are disappearing and troops are leaving. This week's
:13:46. > :13:53.meeting of the leaders will in part help determine the direction it
:13:53. > :13:58.will take and the speed at which they will go.
:13:58. > :14:03.President Karzai arrives in Washington later today. He will not
:14:04. > :14:08.see President Obama until Friday. But if we return to the insider
:14:08. > :14:11.attacks, it is worth pointing out that of the six British soldiers
:14:11. > :14:15.who have been killed in this current six-month tour of duty
:14:15. > :14:20.every single one of them has died at the hands of the Afghan security
:14:20. > :14:24.forces. Forensic experts searching for the
:14:24. > :14:29.body of a schoolgirl who went missing more than 50 years ago have
:14:29. > :14:34.opened a grave in North Lanarkshire. Moira Anderson was 11 when she was
:14:34. > :14:40.last seen getting on a bus in Coatbridge in 1957. The bus driver,
:14:40. > :14:45.a convicted rapist, who has since died, has been linked to her murder.
:14:45. > :14:50.What happened to this little girl? For more than half a century the
:14:50. > :14:55.question has haunted whereat Anderson's family. But now the
:14:55. > :14:59.inquiry into her disappearance is under way again. Forensic
:14:59. > :15:04.scientists are exhuming a great where her body may have been hidden.
:15:04. > :15:09.We cannot lose sight of the real human story behind this. Moira
:15:09. > :15:13.Anderson went missing in 1957 and she left behind a family and we
:15:13. > :15:18.have a responsibility not only to her, but to her family to bring the
:15:18. > :15:23.inquiry to a conclusion. More it was last seen at this. Just a
:15:23. > :15:26.couple of miles from the cemetery. A few weeks later, the bus driver,
:15:26. > :15:31.Alex Gartshore, was jailed for raping another schoolgirl and
:15:31. > :15:36.before he died his own daughter accused him of murdering Moira and
:15:36. > :15:42.hiding her body. My dad said to me, I was the last person to see her,
:15:42. > :15:47.she got on my bus. He would say his own father had blamed him for all
:15:47. > :15:52.sorts of things including the Moira Anderson thing. But finding the
:15:52. > :15:56.truth after all these years is not easy. These are challenging
:15:57. > :15:59.conditions for the forensic scientists, the ground is
:15:59. > :16:04.waterlogged and the grade is old and the work is difficult. It could
:16:04. > :16:12.be many days before they find out exactly what is contained in his
:16:12. > :16:22.The Northern Ireland secretary's called for an end to demonstrations
:16:22. > :16:22.
:16:22. > :16:23.over the Union Flag in Belfast are holding nielgd to ransom. Last
:16:23. > :16:26.night, police officers were attacked with sledge hammers and
:16:26. > :16:31.hatchets by loyalists angry at a decision to stop flying the Union
:16:31. > :16:34.Flag every day above city hall. Mark Simpson is in Belfast for us
:16:34. > :16:37.now. One of the most remarkable things
:16:37. > :16:41.about Belfast is this City's ability to quickly recover from a
:16:41. > :16:46.very bad night. I can tell you all the roads are open, all the shops
:16:46. > :16:53.are open, there's peace and calm. I'm tempted to ask riot, what riot?
:16:53. > :16:54.But last night in East Belfast, things were pretty bad.
:16:54. > :17:00.Police officers came under sustained attack. Caught in the
:17:00. > :17:04.middle trying to keep the peace. In a part of East Belfast where
:17:04. > :17:07.largely loyalist district meets a mainly nationalist area. The
:17:07. > :17:12.troubles started as loyalist flag protesters returned from a
:17:12. > :17:16.demonstration in the city centre. A group of nationalists threw stones
:17:16. > :17:21.at them. When the police intervened, they were attacked.
:17:21. > :17:25.As the clear-up began today, the blame game continued.
:17:25. > :17:35.Police have accused some loyalist paramilitaries of organising
:17:35. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :18:54.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds
:18:54. > :18:59.trouble. Others blame social media. It is crunch day for millions on
:18:59. > :19:06.benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans to cap payments.
:19:06. > :19:13.Working age benefits would rise by just 1% a year. Coming up: Where
:19:13. > :19:19.Are We Now?? David Barrie's first new material for a decade is
:19:19. > :19:24.released today. Later on BBC London, the family is trying to stop a
:19:24. > :19:29.severely disabled man from being returned to present. And a
:19:29. > :19:38.recommendation for Lewisham's Hospital A&E to close. Thousands of
:19:38. > :19:43.staff and patients are unhappy. High street stores up only a slight
:19:43. > :19:47.boost in sales over Christmas. The British Retail Consortium says
:19:47. > :19:54.total sales were up by just 1.5% last month compared with a year
:19:54. > :20:00.before, but there was a big jump on how much consumers spent online.
:20:00. > :20:05.Christmas, it seems a long time ago now. Today we got a snapshot of how
:20:05. > :20:12.retailers fared in this crucial month. Total sales were up in
:20:12. > :20:16.December, but not by much, 1.5%, a flat end to a flat year. It was
:20:16. > :20:21.neither a bumper Christmas or a complete disaster. We had modest
:20:21. > :20:26.growth in December. We as consumers have remained cautious threat the
:20:26. > :20:29.lot of 2012 and Christmas was no different. What little growth there
:20:29. > :20:35.was over Christmas was not generated by sales on the High
:20:35. > :20:41.Street. It was online with internet spending up by nearly 18% on the
:20:41. > :20:48.year. And this retailer did even better with online growth of more
:20:48. > :20:52.than 40% in its recent trading update. The boss of John Lewis told
:20:52. > :20:58.me their investment into making shopping easier was paying off.
:20:59. > :21:03.great result online, but the exciting thing is we had growth in
:21:03. > :21:08.our shops as well. If there was one thing that stood out, it was the
:21:08. > :21:15.making of the online collection service more convenient and working
:21:15. > :21:20.with Waitrose. Online goods on the move. It is the only part of this
:21:20. > :21:27.industry that is growing right now. But for some retailers sales have
:21:27. > :21:31.simply moved from the High Street to online. Online has opened a
:21:31. > :21:40.Pandora's box to their retail economic model. It has added cost,
:21:40. > :21:46.it has not added sales, and it has really left most retailers in the
:21:46. > :21:51.industry with far too many stores. The sales may have got off to a
:21:51. > :21:57.flying start, but with consumers still strapped for cash, 2013 looks
:21:57. > :22:03.set to be just as challenging for Britain's retailers.
:22:03. > :22:06.Network Rail has given details of how it plans to spend more than �37
:22:06. > :22:11.billion on running and improving services over the next five years.
:22:11. > :22:16.They include 1000 miles of electrified lines with faster and
:22:16. > :22:22.greener trains. But savings will need to be made and fares will keep
:22:22. > :22:26.on rising. It has been hailed as part of the
:22:26. > :22:31.biggest investment in our trains since the Victorian era. Billions
:22:31. > :22:36.of pounds to guarantee a better, more reliable service. Network Rail
:22:36. > :22:41.is setting out how it will deliver dozens of projects ours or by the
:22:42. > :22:47.Government. The plan includes a promise to add 170,000 more peak-
:22:47. > :22:52.time commuter seeds and a plan to spend �600 million protecting
:22:52. > :22:59.against flooding and to add 1000 miles of electrified line. The
:22:59. > :23:03.company boss says it is making up for decades of neglect. We have not
:23:03. > :23:08.invested to meet up with demand and playing catch-up is always more
:23:08. > :23:13.expensive. But there are warnings as well. These ambitious plans are
:23:13. > :23:19.only affordable if Network Rail manages to save more than �3
:23:19. > :23:24.billion over five years. They also say fares will keep going up above
:23:24. > :23:27.inflation to help pay for it all. Passengers want to see the
:23:27. > :23:37.investment is handled very carefully. The quality of
:23:37. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:40.information has got to be good so Five more years of inflation-
:23:40. > :23:42.busting fare rises. Nobody will welcome that. It will be a long
:23:42. > :23:49.time before commuters see a difference. Many of the big
:23:49. > :23:51.projects will take years to complete.
:23:51. > :23:56.From driverless cars to checking the Internet through a pair of
:23:56. > :23:59.glasses, this year's newest and cleverest gadgets are on display at
:23:59. > :24:03.one of the largest technology shows in the world in Las Vegas. So what
:24:03. > :24:13.does the future look like? Our technology correspondent, Rory
:24:13. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:18.Cellan-Jones, is there to take a It's the brashest, most colourful
:24:18. > :24:24.city on earth, the place where America comes to party, but for one
:24:24. > :24:27.week in January, Las Vegas is also the world's technology hotspot. And
:24:27. > :24:32.the Consumer Electronics Show is in town. We get a glimpse of how
:24:32. > :24:35.technology could change the way we work, relax and this year how we
:24:36. > :24:40.drive. From satnav to parking sensors, all
:24:40. > :24:43.sorts of new technology's entered cars recently, but none of it has
:24:43. > :24:47.transformed the basic driving experience. Now though, that could
:24:47. > :24:51.be about to change. Lexus, owned by Toyota, has been
:24:51. > :24:58.testing this vehicle packed with sensors which of feblgtively allow
:24:58. > :25:02.it to drive itself. -- effectively. Google has been testing its own
:25:02. > :25:07.driverless car. Lexus still thinks we'd want to be behind the wheel.
:25:07. > :25:13.REPORTER: You won't see a day when I'll let the car do the work?
:25:13. > :25:18.would prefer that you drove and the car made you a better driver.
:25:18. > :25:23.At a preview event, plenty more new ideas fighting for attention. Here
:25:23. > :25:27.is what could be the future of television. Ultra HD, amazing
:25:27. > :25:31.pictures at an equally amazing price.
:25:31. > :25:41.Wearable technology is a big thing here, like these new glasses.
:25:41. > :26:11.
:26:11. > :26:15.I'm obviously eating too fast. Some of the gadgets will take off.
:26:15. > :26:23.Others will not. Technology continues to invade every area of
:26:23. > :26:27.our lives. David Bowie is 66 today and to
:26:27. > :26:31.celebrate, he's releasing his first new material in a decade. He hasn't
:26:31. > :26:36.performed since 2006 and has rarely been seen in public since then. But
:26:36. > :26:40.now he's back and his new album will be out in March. Our
:26:40. > :26:45.entertainment correspondent, Liza Mzimba, reports.
:26:45. > :26:49.He's always been a musician famous for the unexpected, but this
:26:49. > :26:55.morning's news took David Bowie's fans around the world totally by
:26:55. > :27:00.surprise. # Where are we now... # After years
:27:00. > :27:09.of silence, a new single, his first in a decade, with an album to
:27:09. > :27:14.follow. It's a wonderful, heart felt, poignant song. We know he's
:27:14. > :27:19.had times of ill-health recently and I detect a bit of fragility in
:27:20. > :27:23.the voice, even though it's croony, which is a really endearing thing.
:27:23. > :27:28.# There's a starman waiting in the sky... #
:27:28. > :27:33.He's one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years.
:27:33. > :27:38.Ashes to ashes... # As well known for his ability to reinvent himself
:27:38. > :27:46.as his string of hits. Now a surprising birthday present
:27:46. > :27:51.for his fans. When he was 64, he kept quiet. Maybe he was doubting
:27:51. > :27:58.being a pensioner, et cetera, but I think in a way,, this is his last
:27:58. > :28:02.shot and he's having fun and dog it for himself with nothing to prove.
:28:02. > :28:05.He hasn't toured in years, but today's announcement has
:28:05. > :28:14.electrified fans who're now hoping that as well as his new album, they
:28:14. > :28:20.tour a legendary performer whom they feared turned his back on
:28:20. > :28:22.music for ever. music for ever.
:28:22. > :28:27.Let's have a look at the weather now.
:28:27. > :28:37.A bit of a temperature oddity over the past few days! It's been a mild
:28:37. > :28:37.
:28:37. > :29:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds
:29:27. > :29:33.The winds are starting to pick up across the far north of Scotland
:29:33. > :29:38.and it is quite gusty tonight. There will be some fog patches
:29:38. > :29:43.forming. It will be a misty and damp day in the southern half of
:29:44. > :29:48.England. It will be another mild night in the far south, but
:29:48. > :29:57.elsewhere there as temperatures will drop. Towns and cities will
:29:57. > :30:03.stay above freezing, but in rural areas there will be frost. The rain
:30:03. > :30:07.and strong winds will linger in the northern isles. For many it will
:30:07. > :30:12.brighten up tomorrow and there will be some sunshine. In the sunshine
:30:12. > :30:16.the temperatures are about average for this time of the year. But
:30:16. > :30:21.whether fog lingers we are going to struggle at about one or two
:30:21. > :30:26.Celsius. As temperatures drop again we are going to seize some pockets
:30:26. > :30:33.of frost as we head into Thursday morning. More rain will be heading
:30:33. > :30:37.in by then as well. Remember that cloud I showed you earlier? That is
:30:37. > :30:42.this weather front approaching on Thursday. Rain is coming in and
:30:42. > :30:47.many eastern areas will stay dry until late in the day, but there
:30:47. > :30:52.will be fought with the cloud increasing. There may be summer
:30:52. > :30:56.falls of snow on top of the hills. Temperatures are back closer to
:30:56. > :31:01.average and that is how we go into the weekend. There is more details
:31:01. > :31:07.online and also an update on the Australian heat wave. Our top