:00:15. > :00:19.as unemployment falls by 5,000. But it comes as a new report says
:00:19. > :00:23.comparative wages have fallen sharply in the past five years
:00:23. > :00:26.putting a tight squeeze on household budgets. Plans to close three
:00:26. > :00:33.children's heart surgery units in England are suspended as the Health
:00:33. > :00:37.Secretary calls a major review. Tighter controls on electronic
:00:37. > :00:40.cigarettes. They are to be classed as medicines. Scientists warn that a
:00:40. > :00:47.generation of ash trees could be wiped out within a decade, killed
:00:47. > :00:50.off by the ash dieback fungus. And the Australian cricketer, David
:00:50. > :00:55.Warner, is being investigated after he attacked an England player,
:00:55. > :00:58.following a warm-up match for the Ashes. Later on BBC London, the
:00:58. > :01:04.inquest into the death of a reggae start during a police raid in
:01:04. > :01:14.Surrey. And Prest against Prest, the landmark divorce ruling by the
:01:14. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:34.news at One. The number of people out of work has fallen by 5,000 and
:01:34. > :01:37.now stands at 2. 5 million, according to the latest figures from
:01:37. > :01:41.the Office for National Statistics. The figure also show that 29. 7
:01:41. > :01:45.million people have some kind of job, that's a record number, but the
:01:45. > :01:53.figures come as a new report says the recession has had an
:01:53. > :01:57.unprecedented impact on finances, with lower pay and higher inflation.
:01:57. > :02:01.The labour market, the creator of jobs has moved up a gear. The
:02:01. > :02:04.jobless total has fall and the figures have dominated Prime
:02:04. > :02:09.Minister's questions. They show employment, the number of people in
:02:09. > :02:12.work in our country, going up. They show unemployment going down and
:02:12. > :02:18.they show that - I know the party opposite don't want to hear good
:02:18. > :02:22.news - but I think it's important we hear it. And the claimant count, the
:02:22. > :02:27.number of people claiming unemployment benefit has fallen for
:02:27. > :02:32.the seventh month in a row. There was a rise of 24,000 in total
:02:32. > :02:36.employment over the three months to April. Youth unemployment fell by
:02:36. > :02:42.43,000. But long-term unemployment was up 11,000. That's people out of
:02:42. > :02:47.work more than a year. For those in jobs, there's been a tinned squeeze
:02:47. > :02:50.on spending power. Ever Raj pay is well below inflation and a report by
:02:50. > :02:55.the Institute for Fiscal Studies says last five years have seen the
:02:55. > :03:00.biggest drop in inflation-adjusted pay since records began. The Labour
:03:00. > :03:04.leader picked up that point in the Commons' exchanges. What people see
:03:04. > :03:09.is prices rising, wages falling, while the Prime Minister tells them
:03:09. > :03:13.they're better off. He claims the economy is healing. But for ordinary
:03:13. > :03:17.families life is getting harder. They are worst off under the Tories.
:03:17. > :03:21.For young people trying to find work, it's been a challenging task
:03:21. > :03:24.for some time now. At this time of year, many students are about to
:03:24. > :03:29.graduate and they are having to face up to the realities of trying to
:03:29. > :03:35.land their first job. At recruitment fairs like this one at the
:03:35. > :03:38.University of Nottingham, they are offering a helping hand. Employers
:03:38. > :03:41.here are advertising career opportunities, with students
:03:41. > :03:46.discovering that getting a job is possible, but only if you work hard
:03:46. > :03:50.at it. I applied for several graduate opportunities and didn't
:03:50. > :03:54.get anywhere really. It's hard, I guess. I think that it will be
:03:54. > :03:57.difficult at first, but then eventually I hope I'll get a good
:03:57. > :04:01.job. It doesn't matter where you start, because if you work hard
:04:01. > :04:05.you'll get somewhere. They can only hope signs of improvement in the
:04:05. > :04:10.economy translate into more demand for their skills and greater numbers
:04:10. > :04:14.of jobs. We'll speak now to Norman Smith. We
:04:14. > :04:19.have a record number of people in work now, but a big squeeze on wages
:04:19. > :04:24.and both sides in the Commons seem to be blaming each other? I do think
:04:24. > :04:27.we learned a couple of truths today. One, that people are absolutely
:04:27. > :04:32.desperate to stay in work and if that means working part-time,
:04:32. > :04:37.working fewer hours, taking a pay cut, they will. But the consequence
:04:37. > :04:39.of that is huge pressure on family incomes and household budgets, with
:04:39. > :04:43.that Institute for Fiscal Studies report saying in effect that we have
:04:43. > :04:49.never had it so bad when it comes to the contraction in the sort of pay
:04:49. > :04:52.people are bringing home. Worse than the 1930s. And you think then there
:04:52. > :04:55.was the Great Depression and all that sort of thing. Ed Miliband
:04:55. > :05:00.blames it on coalition austerity. David Cameron blames it on the
:05:00. > :05:05.Labour boom and bust of 2008. I suspect most people want to know
:05:05. > :05:08.when is it going to end. Today's figures, they don't give us much
:05:08. > :05:12.cause for optimism, because what they basically tell us is that
:05:12. > :05:16.unemployment is pretty much sticking where it was six months ago and it's
:05:16. > :05:21.not really shifting much. Similarly, the deficit, not really shifting
:05:21. > :05:25.much. Similarly, growth, not really shifting much. All of which
:05:25. > :05:30.suggests, I'm afraid, that the pressure on family incomes is very
:05:30. > :05:33.likely to go on for some considerable time. Thank you.
:05:33. > :05:37.Plans to stop children's heart surgery at three hospitals in
:05:37. > :05:41.England have been suspended. An independent review into the proposed
:05:41. > :05:45.closure of the sites at Leeds, Leicester and the Royal Brompton in
:05:45. > :05:51.London, has ruled that the original decision was based on flawed
:05:51. > :05:56.analysis. The Health Secretary told the Commons the proposals have been
:05:56. > :06:04.suspended while the issue is re-examined. The surgery is delicate
:06:04. > :06:08.and precise. Around 3,500 operations are carried out a year on children.
:06:08. > :06:12.Most of successful, but successive inquiries have included that
:06:12. > :06:20.outcomes would be even better if surgery was restricted to fewer
:06:20. > :06:23.centres. I would like to make a statement on the review of
:06:23. > :06:27.children's congenital heart services. After more than �8 million
:06:27. > :06:33.and five years, the biggest independent review into NHS care has
:06:33. > :06:39.been suspended. Outcome of the review was based on a flawed
:06:39. > :06:44.analysis of the impact of incomplete proposals and leaves too many
:06:44. > :06:53.questions about sustainability and implementation. This is clearly a
:06:53. > :06:57.serious criticism. Last year, the review had concluded that three
:06:57. > :07:01.hospitals should stop children's heart surgery from 2014. There was
:07:02. > :07:05.an outcry from those affected. The Royal bomb tonne in London, Leeds
:07:05. > :07:10.General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Earlier this
:07:10. > :07:14.year, children's heart surgery was briefly suspended at Leeds, after
:07:14. > :07:20.concerns over death rates. That came just after the hospital had won a
:07:20. > :07:25.High Court case quark plans to shut the unit. The NHS won't now contest
:07:25. > :07:29.that ruling. All those involved agree that the quality of care for
:07:29. > :07:33.children must be the number one priority, but this bitter battle,
:07:33. > :07:40.over the issue of children's heart surgery, has shown how difficult it
:07:40. > :07:46.is to reorganise NHS services. Fergus is with me now. This was a
:07:46. > :07:50.five-year review. Major review. It's a bit of a mess now? It is. It's a
:07:50. > :07:53.huge embarrassment for the NHS and it raises the question how do you
:07:53. > :07:57.reconfigure services? Ministers thought this was a great way of
:07:57. > :08:00.doing it and they didn't have to take the difficult political
:08:00. > :08:04.decisions about cutting which units. They would leave it to the
:08:04. > :08:09.independent panel. That panel spent a huge amount of money. It does a
:08:09. > :08:14.huge public consultation with 75,000 responses and it came up with this
:08:14. > :08:19.plan that three units in London, Leeds and Leicester would shut. But
:08:19. > :08:24.the trouble was that that became -- began to unravel, because the
:08:24. > :08:29.analysis was repeatedly found to be flawed and there were two High Court
:08:29. > :08:37.cases and that led to effectively one part of the NHS spending NHS
:08:37. > :08:41.money taking another part of the NHS to court. It has been poorly
:08:41. > :08:46.handled. NHS England has to July to take stock and decide how to go
:08:46. > :08:49.ahead and at the end, what we have to think about, is the childrenened
:08:49. > :08:53.-- children and the families. The intention is to improve the care for
:08:53. > :08:57.those children. The surgery is very successful anyway, but to
:08:57. > :09:01.concentrate it in fewer bigger centres. Everyone agrees that is the
:09:01. > :09:06.right way ahead, but it's how you do it and that's the problem. They have
:09:06. > :09:14.five years on, and they still have that problem. In Instanbul, a heavy
:09:14. > :09:18.police presence remains in tack six square after -- Taksim Square after
:09:18. > :09:25.overnight clashes. There are doubts that a meeting will take place with
:09:25. > :09:32.the President. -- with the Prime Minister. In Instanbul's morning
:09:32. > :09:36.rain no-one has the energy to protest. The police have cleared
:09:36. > :09:45.Taksim Square and antigovernment protesters have all moved back to
:09:45. > :09:50.next door Gezi Park. This is why everyone needs time to recover.
:09:50. > :09:55.Skirmishes between the police and demonstrators lasted late into
:09:55. > :10:04.night. The police took back some of the ground they had lost at the
:10:04. > :10:10.start of the protests. It took quite an effort. The police now control
:10:10. > :10:14.Taksim Square. But, coming up here the protesters are still in control
:10:14. > :10:24.of next door Gezi Park and they want to make it as difficult as possible
:10:24. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:32.for the State to get back in. Theirs is a damp, bedraggled stronghold.
:10:32. > :10:37.This woman is a law student. Every night she camps here with her
:10:38. > :10:41.friends. She doesn't think the Prime Minister is serious about
:10:41. > :10:48.negotiating an agreement. I don't think he will negotiate with the
:10:48. > :10:53.protesters. He will meet the community? I don't know. They don't
:10:53. > :10:59.present us -- represent us actually. The protesters say they refuse to
:10:59. > :11:08.talk to a government which uses violence against them. To those
:11:08. > :11:12.here, camping makes more sense than talking.
:11:12. > :11:16.Australia's opening batsman, David Warner, is being investigated
:11:16. > :11:21.following on attack on the England player, Joe Root. The incident
:11:21. > :11:25.happened in a bar after a warm-up game. Warner has apologised, but the
:11:25. > :11:31.incident puts a question mark over his selection for the Ashes. Andy
:11:31. > :11:35.Swiss is at the ground for us now. Australia are playing a one-day
:11:35. > :11:39.match against New Zealand here today, but all the talk is about
:11:39. > :11:43.someone who is not playing. Australian batsman David Warner. His
:11:43. > :11:53.tour of England could already be over in quite extraordinary
:11:53. > :11:59.circumstances. Australia lined up for their latest match this morning.
:11:59. > :12:02.Their summer already mired in scandal. Conspicuously absent, this
:12:02. > :12:07.man, David Warner. On Saturday, he played for Australia against
:12:07. > :12:11.England. In the early hours of Sunday morning, in this bar in
:12:11. > :12:17.central Birmingham, the England camp say he physically attacked one of
:12:17. > :12:21.their youngest stars, Joe Root. Hes with back practising today seemingly
:12:21. > :12:26.unharmed. England have condemned what they say was an unprovoked
:12:26. > :12:29.attack from one of their opponents. Clearly disappointed that the
:12:29. > :12:33.incident happened, but after obviously investigating on our side
:12:33. > :12:38.we realise we haven't done anything. We don't believe we have done
:12:38. > :12:43.anything wrong, so - Warner is no stranger to controversy. He was
:12:43. > :12:47.fined for making insulting comments on Twitter and my Australian fans
:12:47. > :12:53.believe he should be sent home. a disgrace. He's an absolute
:12:53. > :12:57.disgrace. He needs to pull his socks up. I guess behaviour with players
:12:57. > :13:01.is always a challenge. Hopefully whoever takes his place will do a
:13:01. > :13:08.great job. We have to be consistent with what we do with the guys and he
:13:08. > :13:11.has to sort himself out before he gets back into the side. Australia
:13:11. > :13:16.have enough problems on the pitch, as they soon showed again this
:13:16. > :13:22.morning. They are a team lacking the stars of the past. So this is all
:13:22. > :13:26.they need. David Warner was reduced to bringing on the drinks. His Ashes
:13:27. > :13:30.summer may already be over. David Warner will now face a disciplinary
:13:30. > :13:35.hearing, where he will be given any further punishment. The one thing
:13:35. > :13:41.that is certain, that the traditional pre-Ashes tension will
:13:41. > :13:46.only be ramped up a few notches after this.
:13:46. > :13:49.E cigarettes are to be classed as medicines to tighten up the
:13:49. > :13:52.regulation of products containing nicotine. It means tough new tests
:13:52. > :13:58.for manufacturers and there will be tighter controls on how they are
:13:58. > :14:03.marketed. More than one million people in the UK use the
:14:03. > :14:07.e-cigarettes, inhaling a mist of nicotine rather than smoke. Len
:14:07. > :14:13.probleming yin cigarettes look and feel like the tradition traditional
:14:13. > :14:17.tobacco equivalent, but what appears to be smoke is water vapour, giving
:14:17. > :14:22.smokers the nicotine hint, without the dangerous chemicals and they
:14:22. > :14:26.offer former smokers a way to cut down or give up. You have the health
:14:26. > :14:30.benefits. It does taste like a cigarette. The production, use and
:14:30. > :14:34.sale of them has been largely unregulated, with no restrictions on
:14:34. > :14:38.advertising or sales to children. But as the number of people using
:14:38. > :14:43.them in the UK approaches one million, regulators have decided to
:14:43. > :14:47.act. The content of the nicotine, how it's delivered, other things
:14:47. > :14:51.that are in them, the quality of the manufacturer, is not of the standard
:14:51. > :14:55.we would expect and it wouldn't current currently meet the medicine
:14:55. > :14:58.standards, that's why we want to send a clear signal that we want the
:14:58. > :15:02.products to be brought up to a standard where people can rely on
:15:02. > :15:06.them to cut down on the harms of smoking. Medical opinion on the
:15:06. > :15:10.devices is split. Some believe they could help save millions of lives
:15:10. > :15:14.through helping smokers quit. Others argue not enough is known about the
:15:14. > :15:17.long-term effects. At the moment everyone says they are probably
:15:17. > :15:22.safer than cigarettes. That's not good enough. We need to be able to
:15:22. > :15:26.say to people, these are the risks. The e-cigarette industry initially
:15:26. > :15:34.resisted regulation, but it will now have to adapt to the product being
:15:34. > :15:44.as a medicine will improve their quality, but other questions such as
:15:44. > :15:50.
:15:50. > :15:55.use in public areas like pubs or The UK jobs market has a record
:15:55. > :16:01.number of people in work. Still to come, how serious children are
:16:01. > :16:07.coping with the effects of civil war. -- Syrian. Later on BBC
:16:07. > :16:12.London: The e-mails that one London Council congratulating themselves
:16:12. > :16:21.on a number of tickets they issued. Could there be a massive
:16:21. > :16:24.redevelopment of the unloved end of They are a beautiful sight. Acres
:16:24. > :16:27.of native ash trees in the Peak District. But there are fears they
:16:27. > :16:30.could soon disappear forever. The Forestry Commission is warning that
:16:30. > :16:34.a generation of ash trees could be wiped out within a decade, killed
:16:34. > :16:40.off by the ash dieback fungus. The disease was first discovered in the
:16:40. > :16:43.UK last year. And, with young trees now coming in to leaf, scientists
:16:43. > :16:47.say it is becoming apparent that the country is facing its biggest
:16:47. > :16:57.woodland disaster since Dutch Elm disease in the 1970s. Our
:16:57. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:08.Welcome to the iconic, beautiful ash woodlands of the Peak District.
:17:08. > :17:14.At the moment there is no ash dieback he get. It is spreading
:17:14. > :17:21.across the country. When it gets to areas like this, it is young trees
:17:21. > :17:26.that are almost certain to die. A classic, British landscape. Almost
:17:26. > :17:31.every tree you can see is an ash tree. Almost every tree you can see
:17:31. > :17:36.will get the ash dieback disease as it sweeps across the country.
:17:36. > :17:41.Thousands of them will die. On the forest floor, it is hard to find
:17:41. > :17:49.any good news. I suspect we will start to lose all the young ash in
:17:49. > :17:54.this landscape. Best-case scenario, most of the mature ash will survive.
:17:54. > :17:58.Worst case scenario, we will lose the majority of ash in this
:17:58. > :18:02.landscape and that will be a tragedy. If it is a tragedy, it
:18:02. > :18:07.looks something like this. In the woodlands of eastern England, the
:18:07. > :18:13.ash dieback fungus is already a clear and Present danger. This
:18:13. > :18:21.summer canopy should be fully grown but the leaf cover is sparse. These
:18:21. > :18:31.trees are already dying. The area is brightly son let. That is
:18:31. > :18:36.obvious if we look up. -- brightly lit by the sun. The disease is
:18:36. > :18:43.getting to grips. The experience on the Continent is not encouraging.
:18:43. > :18:50.In Denmark, the vast majority of ash trees are dead or dying. But,
:18:50. > :18:55.about 2% of trees appeared to be naturally resistant. UK scientists
:18:55. > :18:59.are on the case, making intensive studies of ash DNA. They cannot
:18:59. > :19:04.save existing ash trees from infection but there is some hope
:19:04. > :19:08.for the future. We are hoping that eventually we will be able to
:19:08. > :19:14.produce a strain of ash tree witches resistant to the ash
:19:14. > :19:19.dieback fungus. It can be planted in the UK so that it will be
:19:19. > :19:25.healthy without needing fungicides to help it. It is a potential
:19:25. > :19:29.solution but one that could take decades to deliver. The Forestry
:19:29. > :19:32.Commission is stressing that it is not all bad news here. They are
:19:32. > :19:36.developing management techniques which will slow down the spread of
:19:36. > :19:40.the disease and they are putting lots of money into this research to
:19:41. > :19:45.find naturally resistant trees, to use those to produce a new stock of
:19:45. > :19:52.young trees which can eventually use that natural resistance and
:19:52. > :19:57.replace all of the trees which will be lost in landscaped like this one.
:19:57. > :20:02.In the last few minutes, Jacob Zuma has said Nelson Mandela is
:20:02. > :20:06.responding better to treatment. He is being treated for a lung
:20:06. > :20:09.infection at a hospital in Pretoria. This is the first bit of positive
:20:09. > :20:15.news we have had since Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital
:20:15. > :20:19.last week. Jacob Zuma was speaking in parliament. He said just that.
:20:19. > :20:24.Nelson Mandela was responding better to treatment and that was it.
:20:24. > :20:27.Yesterday evening, he went on television to say he had met the
:20:27. > :20:31.doctors treating Nelson Mandela. He was satisfied they were doing
:20:31. > :20:36.everything to make them better. His assessment was more upbeat than
:20:36. > :20:39.what we had been hearing in the preceding hours. He said Nelson
:20:39. > :20:43.Mandela was a fighter and he expressed the hope he would be back
:20:43. > :20:48.with us soon. What we had been hearing from the presidency before
:20:48. > :20:53.that was, no change in his condition. That lack of detail
:20:53. > :20:57.perhaps accounts for the very intense scrutiny here, outside this
:20:57. > :21:00.hospital from the media and the public. This morning, we have been
:21:01. > :21:06.seeing a steady trickle of family members coming and going as they
:21:06. > :21:10.have been over the past few days. His ex-wife, Winnie Mandela,
:21:10. > :21:13.underlined the seriousness with which they treat this condition now.
:21:14. > :21:17.These latest comments will certainly be a boost from the
:21:17. > :21:22.thousands and thousands of South Africans who are praying for Nelson
:21:22. > :21:30.Mandela to get over this, as he has done in the past. There is is still
:21:31. > :21:36.a sombre mood here. Among some, a recognition that we're talking
:21:36. > :21:40.about the man in hospital with a recurring lung infection and an
:21:40. > :21:48.acceptance of the mortality of this man, he has done so much to change
:21:48. > :21:51.South Africa. A schoolgirl has told a court how the teacher, who
:21:51. > :21:53.allegedly abducted her and took her to France, felt guilty when their
:21:53. > :21:56.friendship turned into a sexual relationship. The girl, who was 14
:21:56. > :21:59.at the time, told the court that she and 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest
:21:59. > :22:02.would meet in hotels. The couple disappeared last September, going
:22:02. > :22:09.on the run for seven days. He denies abduction. Duncan Kennedy is
:22:09. > :22:13.at Lewes Crown Court. We have been hearing more evidence from that 15-
:22:13. > :22:17.year-old girl at the centre of this story put that she has been telling
:22:17. > :22:21.the court had her relationship with Jeremy Forrest developed over the
:22:21. > :22:29.course of several months last year. She said it went from flirtatious
:22:29. > :22:34.text messaging to a full-blown sexual encounter. Today came more
:22:34. > :22:38.details of the intimate relationship of Jeremy Forrest with
:22:38. > :22:42.his 15-year-old pupil. She described it from going from the
:22:42. > :22:46.flirtatious to the serious. It developed last year at a school in
:22:46. > :22:51.Eastbourne, where he was her year 10 maths teacher. The girl said it
:22:51. > :22:56.started with text messages but that they moved on to kissing in the
:22:56. > :23:00.classrooms. She said she arrived early so they would not be seen. In
:23:00. > :23:04.court, he watched as the police into the was played on screen.
:23:04. > :23:09.Asked about their sexual relationship, she said he knew he
:23:09. > :23:15.could go to prison and lose his job. She said, I know in law it is wrong
:23:16. > :23:20.but this did not fill wrong to me. She was asked about the 15 year age
:23:20. > :23:29.difference and said it did not matter because they were in love.
:23:29. > :23:33.In September, they were captured on CCTV cameras leaving the country
:23:33. > :23:38.after the hearing they would be found out. They tried to disguise
:23:38. > :23:41.their identities. Eight days after leaving, they were found by the
:23:42. > :23:50.police and brought home. The prosecution says Jeremy Forrest was
:23:50. > :23:56.in breach of his position of trust as a teacher. The girl is currently
:23:56. > :23:59.in the middle of sitting her GCSEs. She told the court how she felt her
:24:00. > :24:04.relationship was normal. She said they spent several weeks before
:24:05. > :24:08.having a sexual encounter discussing the matter. She said, in
:24:08. > :24:11.the end, it was what they both wanted to do. She will continue to
:24:11. > :24:14.give her evidence this afternoon. Flights across Europe are being
:24:14. > :24:17.disrupted this morning because of a strike by French air traffic
:24:17. > :24:20.controllers. It is affecting flights to and from French airports
:24:20. > :24:29.but it is also having a knock-on effect on travel to and from the UK
:24:30. > :24:34.with almost 200 flights being It is having a huge impact, not
:24:34. > :24:41.surprisingly, on airports in France. Some have actually closed down for
:24:41. > :24:45.the day. It is the second day of a two-day strike. It was going to go
:24:45. > :24:52.into a their data rubber that has been called off. About 2000 strikes
:24:52. > :24:57.have been cancelled. -- a third day tomorrow but that has been called
:24:57. > :25:03.off. Many people from Britain are unable to fly to France today. This
:25:03. > :25:09.has been long in the coming and it has been planned for. They are not
:25:09. > :25:14.the scenes of queues and such force at airports. This afternoon, there
:25:14. > :25:20.will be some unplanned stoppages. Some people may find that flights
:25:20. > :25:22.are down. Tens of thousands of people have died in Syria's two
:25:22. > :25:26.year long civil war. Hundreds of thousands more have fled their
:25:26. > :25:30.homes to escape the fighting. But many have remained and all they can
:25:30. > :25:35.do is try to live as normal a life as possible, while the war rages
:25:35. > :25:44.around them. Lyce Doucet has sent this report from the Syrian capital,
:25:44. > :25:49.Damascus. In parts of Damascus, it is easy to forget there is a war.
:25:49. > :25:55.Relief that one more exam is out of the way for these high-school
:25:55. > :26:00.students. In Syria, nearly one in five schools is now shut. These
:26:00. > :26:10.teenagers are fortunate to live in a safe, government controlled area.
:26:10. > :26:11.
:26:11. > :26:17.You do not have any worries. The answer in unison. Mayor, none at
:26:17. > :26:25.all. -- no throws up a bank the Army and President for keeping them
:26:25. > :26:31.safe. -- no. They thank. Some areas are a battleground. Rebel fighters
:26:31. > :26:37.are holed up and the Government responds with overwhelming force.
:26:37. > :26:45.Nearly everyone has left, including those 13-year-old. Her whole family
:26:45. > :26:55.fled and found shelter. What is it like? Not very good, it is very bad,
:26:55. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:03.she says. I ask her if there were problems. A lot of problems, she
:27:03. > :27:13.says. Even in parts of Damascus, like this, where it is peaceful
:27:13. > :27:16.enough to still play, the impact of the war is ever-present. Now that
:27:16. > :27:20.these pupils have covered in that apples, they will be asked to write
:27:20. > :27:27.what they will do when they are older. The last time they did this
:27:27. > :27:32.exercise, three children Road, we just want to grow up. She once
:27:32. > :27:37.every detail to be just perfect. She has made her wish. She has
:27:37. > :27:47.written, I want to go back to my home. She knows she has no home to
:27:47. > :27:53.
:27:53. > :27:59.Not much sign of any warm weather. Just when you thought it was safe
:27:59. > :28:04.to go into the garden, the fine weather has disappeared. Two areas
:28:04. > :28:10.of low pressure close by the UK at the moment which will deliver wet
:28:10. > :28:15.and windy weather at times. Into tomorrow, the squeeze of the
:28:15. > :28:21.isobars and strong winds into southern areas. I want to flag that
:28:21. > :28:26.up straightaway. And usually windy weather, coming into the south of
:28:26. > :28:31.Britain. Gales in places. Let's deal with today first of all. To
:28:31. > :28:37.the south, we have outbreaks of rain moving in. Steadily turning
:28:37. > :28:44.wetter in the south. There is a zone of drier and brighter weather.
:28:44. > :28:49.In the north of Scotland, some outbreaks of rain. Still some
:28:49. > :28:54.warmth to be had in the east of England. For the tennis, it will
:28:54. > :29:00.turn wetter during the afternoon with maybe some gaps in the rain.
:29:00. > :29:06.Tomorrow, the problems come from the strength of the wind. Tonight,
:29:06. > :29:11.the wind will start to strengthen. Tonight, we will have this band of
:29:11. > :29:15.rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland. There will be patchy rain.
:29:15. > :29:22.Also some coastal and hill fog around. That takes us on to
:29:22. > :29:28.tomorrow morning with the strong wind. Gales in places. It starts
:29:28. > :29:33.the day in the south-west. Gusts up to 50 miles an hour in the Bristol
:29:33. > :29:38.Channel. This will transfer through parts of the Midlands and into East
:29:38. > :29:43.Anglia. Right across the South, very gusty winds. With trees in
:29:43. > :29:50.full leaf, we could see branches coming down. Did a good conditions
:29:50. > :29:56.for small boats. Along -- difficult conditions for small boats. There
:29:56. > :29:59.could be some heavy and thundery downpours into the afternoon. In
:29:59. > :30:04.Northern Ireland, there will be sunshine and showers. Temperatures
:30:04. > :30:08.a little bit down on where they have been today. The winds will
:30:08. > :30:15.ease on Thursday night. On Friday they will freshen again to the
:30:15. > :30:25.western areas. Ahead of the rain, there will be sunshine and showers.
:30:25. > :30:25.
:30:25. > :30:34.It will stay fairly blustery for the weekend. In the South, the