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:00:07. > :00:12.Bad weather hampers the search for wreckage of the missing Malaysian

:00:13. > :00:15.airliner. In China, desperate relatives of the

:00:16. > :00:21.missing march on the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing demanding more

:00:22. > :00:24.information. More boats are being sent to the area in the Southern

:00:25. > :00:30.Indian Ocean. One man thanked search teams as he paid tribute to his

:00:31. > :00:38.missing parents. We are grateful to all of the organisations and

:00:39. > :00:42.countries who are involved in the search and our thoughts go out to

:00:43. > :00:46.all family members of the passengers and crew on board the flight. Why

:00:47. > :00:49.the flight was so far off course is still a mystery. We'll have the

:00:50. > :00:52.latest on the search. Also this lunchtime: Lower petrol prices help

:00:53. > :00:56.inflation fall to its lowest rate in four years. It's down to 1.7%.

:00:57. > :01:05.14 people are dead and scores still missing after a massive mudslide in

:01:06. > :01:11.the American state of Washington. We were tumbled inside and had much

:01:12. > :01:19.in our eyes and nose and mouth. IM really grateful I'm alive.

:01:20. > :01:23.More text messages between Oscar Pistorius and his girlfriend sent in

:01:24. > :01:26.the weeks before she died are read out in court at the murder trial.

:01:27. > :01:37.Taking the temperature of Britain's climate. The Met Office predicts

:01:38. > :01:57.mild, wet winters and hotter summers the future forecast?

:01:58. > :02:03.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

:02:04. > :02:08.Bad weather is hampering the search in the Indian Ocean for wreckage

:02:09. > :02:13.from the missing Malaysian airliner. Most of the passengers on board were

:02:14. > :02:19.Chinese. In Beijing, angry relatives have clashed with police outside the

:02:20. > :02:24.Malaysian and the sea. `` Malaysian Embassy. And it's still a mystery

:02:25. > :02:27.why the plane was so far off course. The black box could help to shed

:02:28. > :02:30.light on what happened but the authorities have just ten days to

:02:31. > :02:32.find it before the batteries run out. This report from Western

:02:33. > :02:37.Australia, from where the search operation is being coordinated. His

:02:38. > :02:44.belief in anger from the families of Chinese passengers of MH370 in

:02:45. > :02:51.Beijing today. They tried to break through to the Malaysian Embassy,

:02:52. > :02:57.still frustrated by the lack of information about what happened, and

:02:58. > :03:01.by the way they have been treated. The Malaysian authorities have, at

:03:02. > :03:05.times, struggled to cope with this extraordinary crisis, but insist

:03:06. > :03:10.they have always put the feelings of the families first. Yesterday's news

:03:11. > :03:19.was incredibly hard for the family members, as our Prime Minister

:03:20. > :03:26.said. It was released out of a commitment of openness and respect,

:03:27. > :03:35.two pencils which have guided the investigation. `` to principal. This

:03:36. > :03:39.couple were on board. They worked hard to reap the rewards of their

:03:40. > :03:45.retirement so they could spend time with friends and family. We are

:03:46. > :03:52.extremely grateful for the love and support from all of our family and

:03:53. > :03:57.friends. We are grateful to all the organisations and countries

:03:58. > :04:02.providing the extensive search operations now `` and our present

:04:03. > :04:11.thoughts now go out to the families of the passengers and crew on board

:04:12. > :04:14.the flight. Six countries are now contributing to the search, but bad

:04:15. > :04:19.weather prevented them from going out today. Chinese ships are also on

:04:20. > :04:23.the way to join an Australian supply vessels in the area where possible

:04:24. > :04:27.debris was spotted yesterday, but nothing has been picked up yet.

:04:28. > :04:34.Finding the remains of the airliner is still a huge challenge. We are

:04:35. > :04:39.not searching for a needle in the haystack, we're still trying to find

:04:40. > :04:42.the haystack. That is just to put it in context. We now know beyond

:04:43. > :04:48.reasonable doubt that MH370 is somewhere out there in the Indian

:04:49. > :04:50.Ocean, and that's definitive statements by the Malaysian

:04:51. > :04:56.authorities cannot seem final until they pull wreckage from the water,

:04:57. > :05:03.and that is still such a formidable pass that nobody can say when it

:05:04. > :05:09.will happen. `` task. Let's go to China now. Our

:05:10. > :05:13.correspondent is in Beijing. We saw those desperate scenes from

:05:14. > :05:16.relatives of the missing, many of whom cannot believe until wreckage

:05:17. > :05:20.is found that their loved ones are gone. Protests are pretty rare

:05:21. > :05:26.things on the streets of the Chinese capital. This one was highly

:05:27. > :05:30.emotional and spontaneous and appeared to catch the authorities by

:05:31. > :05:34.surprise. The police did their best to stop it. They are instinctively

:05:35. > :05:38.nervous of anything that looks like organise the gathering or shared

:05:39. > :05:43.grievance, but through sheer force of will, chanting, tell us the

:05:44. > :05:48.truth, the relatives pushed on the rail and made it to the Malaysian

:05:49. > :05:53.Embassy and handed over a statement that they do not accept this claim

:05:54. > :06:00.that the flight is lost, and with it, all hope. They want proof ``

:06:01. > :06:06.proof. What is also in the sting is that we are starting to see glimpses

:06:07. > :06:09.of the relatives putting more pressure on the Chinese government

:06:10. > :06:16.to intervene and do more on their behalf. The Chief Executive of

:06:17. > :06:21.Malaysia Airlines has defended the way his company has dealt with

:06:22. > :06:25.relatives of the missing passengers. Talking to our correspondents, he

:06:26. > :06:30.said his company's priority was to take care of those affected. We have

:06:31. > :06:42.done all we can within our means to help them. You must realise, in an

:06:43. > :06:46.incident like this, normally, in any tragedy, there is always some

:06:47. > :06:51.evidence in place. We have not had any evidence until maybe last night.

:06:52. > :06:58.So you are 100% sure the plane is lost. East on evidence provided to

:06:59. > :07:04.us, yes. Our transport correspondent joins me now. The time is running

:07:05. > :07:07.out, because this black box has batteries which last for just a

:07:08. > :07:12.couple of weeks more. I think it is unlikely that they are going to hear

:07:13. > :07:16.the black boxes. Then you move onto the second wave, which is the

:07:17. > :07:22.sonar, which is getting thrown submarines, no`one on them, they

:07:23. > :07:27.just the sea bed. They cannot overstate how difficult it is going

:07:28. > :07:31.to be defined as aircraft. You see all of these ships going out and you

:07:32. > :07:35.feel it is going to be found, but is very deceptive. They are still

:07:36. > :07:38.searching an area the size of the North Sea. I am told there are

:07:39. > :07:45.better maps of the moon 's surface than this sea bed area. They have

:07:46. > :07:49.not got the kit yet to find it. It could be months or years before they

:07:50. > :07:52.find anything, and it is possible they may never find this aircraft.

:07:53. > :07:57.There was a French aircraft that went down in the Atlantic Ocean,

:07:58. > :08:02.they found to breed a few days later, but it still took them two

:08:03. > :08:08.days to find the plane. `` they found debris. You can keep

:08:09. > :08:19.up`to`date with the search on the BBC News Channel or follow along on

:08:20. > :08:24.the BBC News website. Inflation is at its lowest level for four years.

:08:25. > :08:28.The Consumer Prices Index fell to 1.7% last month, down from 1.9% in

:08:29. > :08:31.January. The fall, which is partly down to lower fuel prices, means

:08:32. > :08:42.that the gap between pay increases and price rises continues to narrow.

:08:43. > :08:48.It is the cost of living increases that have been putting the squeeze

:08:49. > :08:52.on household budgets in the past two years. Today, the rate of ablation

:08:53. > :08:58.cell again. Smaller price rises and energy bills helped, and clothing

:08:59. > :09:04.and footwear also rose less quickly, but the main factor was here at the

:09:05. > :09:08.pumps. The fall of petrol and diesel prices. Wholesale prices were low

:09:09. > :09:12.towards January. The weather might have suppressed demand for fuel. It

:09:13. > :09:18.will be interesting to see what the supermarkets continue to do. Since

:09:19. > :09:22.the financial crisis, prices have been rising faster than earnings,

:09:23. > :09:28.meaning the amount of money in average pay packet will bring has

:09:29. > :09:32.effectively been falling. Today we have further evidence that this gap

:09:33. > :09:36.is now narrowing. Here is the picture. The red line shows the rate

:09:37. > :09:41.of inflation over the last 13 years, and it's sharp rise, much of

:09:42. > :09:46.it since the recession. Now look at the blue line to see how wages have

:09:47. > :09:50.failed to keep up. But it may not be too long before they meet and we

:09:51. > :09:58.start to see real rises in average pay. The latest numbers,

:09:59. > :10:03.manufacturing pay growth is growing quite rapidly. Construction growth

:10:04. > :10:06.is rising year on year. Over the next few months, we will see the

:10:07. > :10:10.rest of the economy picked up as well. But judging by the people we

:10:11. > :10:16.spoke to in a rainy Birmingham this morning, there is no feel`good

:10:17. > :10:19.factor just yet. Our salaries have stayed the same for years on end and

:10:20. > :10:24.we still have the same bills. It just seems like every day everything

:10:25. > :10:27.is going up in price, and they are trying to rectify things with

:10:28. > :10:33.salaries, but it is just not good enough. Most economists believe

:10:34. > :10:39.inflation will remain below the Bank of England's 2% target for the rest

:10:40. > :10:44.of this year, easing pressure on it to raise interest rates. Not so good

:10:45. > :10:51.for savers, but perhaps the end of the big financial squeeze on

:10:52. > :10:55.households is finally in sight. Our chief political correspondent is

:10:56. > :10:57.in Westminster. We have heard about lot of political arguments over

:10:58. > :11:02.recent months about the cost of living. How far will these figures

:11:03. > :11:05.go in changing that? I think they changed in the sense that the

:11:06. > :11:09.figures are hugely politically symbolic, because were the first

:11:10. > :11:14.time in a long time, for most people, pay is now increasing as

:11:15. > :11:17.fast as prices, so if you work in the private sector, which most

:11:18. > :11:22.people do, roughly around two thirds of people work in the private

:11:23. > :11:27.sector, pay is increasing at 1.7%. We have learned that inflation has

:11:28. > :11:32.come down to 1.7%. Pay and prices are now neck and neck for most of

:11:33. > :11:36.us. You would imagine, for ministers, this would be an occasion

:11:37. > :11:39.to do a little high then the jig in the corner of their office, but it

:11:40. > :11:43.has not been because most of us probably do not feel any better off

:11:44. > :11:48.at the moment, and also, it is a very different story in the public

:11:49. > :11:52.sector, where pay is still well behind prices increasing at just

:11:53. > :11:57.0.5%. There is another reason, and that is because ministers have got

:11:58. > :12:02.to sell some very difficult decisions and deficit reductions to

:12:03. > :12:06.the public in terms of LDM pounds worth of welfare cuts and filled in

:12:07. > :12:14.for the next election. `` ?12 billion. Today's figures are more

:12:15. > :12:17.problematic for Labour, because though they could argue that people

:12:18. > :12:23.will still be worse off than they were at the last election, you sense

:12:24. > :12:27.that gradually the tide is beginning to go out on the whole cost of

:12:28. > :12:33.living arguments, as slowly, pay creeps up to prices, with

:12:34. > :12:43.suggestions that by the second half of this year, pay will have

:12:44. > :12:46.overtaken prices. 14 people are now known to have died

:12:47. > :12:51.in a massive mudslide in the American state of Washington. But

:12:52. > :12:54.scores of people are still missing after the mud and debris swept

:12:55. > :13:02.through the town of Oso near Seattle. The authorities say they're

:13:03. > :13:05.still trying to account for more than 170 people who've not been

:13:06. > :13:10.heard from since Saturday. Are there any injuries? Yes, there are people

:13:11. > :13:14.yelling for help! A desperate call to the emergency services as a

:13:15. > :13:18.deadly tide of mud and rock crushed everything in its path. Houses were

:13:19. > :13:25.swept off their foundations, trees keeled over, and people were sucked

:13:26. > :13:30.into the sea of mud like quicksand. We were tumbled inside and had much

:13:31. > :13:36.in our eyes and nose and mouth. IM really grateful to be alive. From

:13:37. > :13:40.the air, it is possible to see the scale of the disaster. Weeks of

:13:41. > :13:44.unusually heavy rain had stopped and the ground, and then without

:13:45. > :13:50.warning, eight slice of the hillside collapsed into the river valley.

:13:51. > :13:54.There were frantic efforts to dig people out of the mud. One local

:13:55. > :14:00.resident heard screams and ran over to find a baby at his mother `` and

:14:01. > :14:07.his mother worried the need the debris. He used chainsaws to get

:14:08. > :14:10.them out arrived `` alive. It was just all debris. Another narrow

:14:11. > :14:16.escape, AIPAC dog pulled from the rubble. `` a pet. This family could

:14:17. > :14:23.not believe their luck. But others felt helpless and overwhelmed in the

:14:24. > :14:27.face of such distraught Ocean. `` this traction. We stayed back from

:14:28. > :14:32.the river, but unfortunately, we uncovered bodies, and we had to

:14:33. > :14:37.contact authorities to try and get somebody to come down and remove

:14:38. > :14:43.them. When help arrived, many used dogs, and others took to boats and

:14:44. > :14:46.even a hovercraft. It was dangerous work. Some rescuers got stuck in the

:14:47. > :14:51.mud themselves and had to be pulled out. This was a quiet community of

:14:52. > :14:56.180 people, but it did not stand a chance when a wall of mud, 1,500

:14:57. > :15:03.feet wide and 600 feet high on the crashed down on top of it. There

:15:04. > :15:07.were contractors coming in, people coming to work on their homes and

:15:08. > :15:15.their guards, people driving on 530, syndicate just the wrong time. `` so

:15:16. > :15:17.it came it just the wrong time. The hopes for survivors is fading.

:15:18. > :15:32.No`one has been found since Saturday. Royal Mail says it is

:15:33. > :15:36.cutting 1600 jobs, mainly in managerial roles and at its head

:15:37. > :15:41.office. Consultations are now taking place with unions. Honda has also

:15:42. > :15:47.announced it is cutting production at its Swindon factory, leaving 340

:15:48. > :15:51.jobs at risk. They are the people who keep our

:15:52. > :15:56.letters and parcels moving 24 hours a day. In recent years, rank and

:15:57. > :16:01.file staff at Royal Mail have been at the front line as tens of

:16:02. > :16:05.thousands of jobs have gone. Now, five months after privatisation, the

:16:06. > :16:11.company has announced a new cost`cutting plan. This time, it is

:16:12. > :16:16.managers being targeted. The efficiency programme will see 1600

:16:17. > :16:22.managerial roles go, although 300 new posts are being created. It is

:16:23. > :16:27.expected to save the company ?50 million a year. In total, more than

:16:28. > :16:32.50,000 staff have left Royal Mail over the past decade. I'm

:16:33. > :16:36.disappointed by the way it happened and I'm surprised by the number that

:16:37. > :16:41.has been announced. We expected something to happen

:16:42. > :16:47.post`privatisation but the scale is very much a surprise to our members.

:16:48. > :16:50.There was bad news at Honda's Swindon plant today as well. Three

:16:51. > :16:56.and 40 full`time staff will lose their jobs, a further 160 agency

:16:57. > :17:01.workers will not have contracts renewed. The plant will suspend one

:17:02. > :17:07.production line and move from three shifts to two on the back of weak

:17:08. > :17:12.demand from the continent. Europe is a marketplace has been very

:17:13. > :17:16.difficult, not just for us but other manufacturers as well. 90% of

:17:17. > :17:21.Swindon production goes into Europe so it is sensitive to a downturn in

:17:22. > :17:25.demand there. Just last week, the Chancellor outlined measures to

:17:26. > :17:29.boost manufacturing and exports. Today, visiting a steel plant in

:17:30. > :17:35.Wales, he insisted jobs were being created. We've had announcements in

:17:36. > :17:39.the last few days of thousands of jobs being created in construction,

:17:40. > :17:43.in the pub industry and of course here we are at the heart of

:17:44. > :17:46.manufacturing and there was a huge investment in the future of

:17:47. > :17:50.manufacturing in the budget. Any individual job loss is a matter of

:17:51. > :17:56.great regret but jobs are being created in Britain and the economy

:17:57. > :18:00.is moving forward. Back in Swindon, Honda said it is confident about the

:18:01. > :18:04.long`term future of this planet. The economy may be on the mend, but for

:18:05. > :18:10.some, the road to recovery may be a long one.

:18:11. > :18:14.Our top story: In China, desperate relatives of those on the missing L

:18:15. > :18:21.I now march on the Malaysia and Embassy in Beijing demanding more

:18:22. > :18:26.information. And The Met office says the role of

:18:27. > :18:31.human influence is detectable in Britain's summer heat waves and

:18:32. > :18:52.intense rainfall. Later, I will have all the sport on

:18:53. > :18:56.BBC News. When it comes to wind power, the UK

:18:57. > :19:00.is considered one of the best locations in the world to harness

:19:01. > :19:04.it. Thousands of wind turbines are already helping to deliver wind

:19:05. > :19:09.energy to Britain, but critics have long complained that the turbines

:19:10. > :19:16.used are made abroad. Now, Siemens has announced it is creating 1000

:19:17. > :19:20.jobs in Hull, building the country's first purpose`built

:19:21. > :19:26.factory where offshore wind turbine blades will be built.

:19:27. > :19:31.These docs have seen better days. There has been steady decline here,

:19:32. > :19:38.until today. This place will be transformed. Here is the future. It

:19:39. > :19:41.will cost ?300 million and be the UK's home of wind turbine

:19:42. > :19:49.manufacturing. All backed by Siemens. This is about starting in

:19:50. > :19:53.industry. The UK is the world's biggest wind market. The Humber is

:19:54. > :19:57.where many of the wind farms will be built. It has great natural

:19:58. > :20:01.resources, great local employment possibilities. We've looked at 100

:20:02. > :20:11.sites and we decided to choose whole. `` Hull. This whole area will

:20:12. > :20:18.be regenerated. Giant turbines on ships, rotors manufactured and

:20:19. > :20:21.exported from here. And with it, a belief that this will create a

:20:22. > :20:28.European renewable energy capital right here in Hull. To six lead,

:20:29. > :20:42.Hamid is to rise to the challenge. 1000 jobs will be created. `` to

:20:43. > :20:51.succeed, Hull needs to rise. This college is already creating students

:20:52. > :20:56.to build a demand. Siemens coming into the area will be absolutely

:20:57. > :21:01.fantastic. Not just the economy of whole. The government wants the UK

:21:02. > :21:05.to take lead. It says 11% of electricity produced last month was

:21:06. > :21:10.from wind power. That number will grow with thousands of new turbines

:21:11. > :21:16.already planned for the North Sea. It is great news for the UK,

:21:17. > :21:19.brilliant news for wind industry and our energy security. Bringing 1000

:21:20. > :21:22.green jobs in high`tech manufacturing to the north`east of

:21:23. > :21:29.Yorkshire I think is a fantastic bit of news. Siemens will begin

:21:30. > :21:36.manufacturing in 2016. With it, a new era for this city and green

:21:37. > :21:39.energy in the UK. The jury at the Oscar Pistorius

:21:40. > :21:43.murder trial has been hearing more text messages exchanged between the

:21:44. > :21:47.athlete and his girlfriend in the days before she died. Reeva

:21:48. > :21:51.Steenkamp was shot dead on Valentine's Day last year. Oscar

:21:52. > :21:55.Pistorius said he thought she was an intruder. Andrew Harding was in

:21:56. > :21:59.court in Pretoria and joins me now. The tone of the messages today very

:22:00. > :22:06.different from those read out yesterday. Yes, yesterday remember

:22:07. > :22:23.we heard rebid steam camp text in that she was angry. `` Reeva

:22:24. > :22:28.Steenkamp. We heard she was scared, he was jealous and angry. Today, the

:22:29. > :22:32.other side. There were dozens of experts showing this was a very

:22:33. > :22:41.loving couple that, almost immediately after those angry

:22:42. > :22:46.exchanges, past things up. Even the night before she died, the couple

:22:47. > :22:49.were talking about their plans for Valentine's Day, very romantic,

:22:50. > :22:54.clearly a loving couple for most of the time. After that, the

:22:55. > :22:58.prosecution called a couple more witnesses, but pretty quickly

:22:59. > :23:04.wrapped things up. Within the last half`hour, the trial has ended for

:23:05. > :23:09.now with the prosecution saying it is done, it has laid out its case

:23:10. > :23:12.against Oscar Pistorius. The defence has now asked the two days to

:23:13. > :23:19.prepare themselves and talk to other witnesses. Then it is likely that

:23:20. > :23:23.Oscar Pistorius will be the first on the stand on Friday. One of his

:23:24. > :23:28.lawyers did tell me that was not guaranteed, it is possible he could

:23:29. > :23:33.come later. I managed to have a brief word with Oscar Pistorius as

:23:34. > :23:36.he was walking out of the court. He was looking very sombre and spoken

:23:37. > :23:41.almost a whisper. I asked to be was ready to give evidence and whether

:23:42. > :23:50.he felt the case was going OK. He simply said it is a tough time,

:23:51. > :23:53.there is a lot of stuff ahead. Relatives of a young soldier who

:23:54. > :23:57.died at barracks in Surrey nearly 20 years ago have been told they can

:23:58. > :24:03.apply to the High Court for a new inquest. Private Cheryl James, who

:24:04. > :24:07.was 18, died from gunshot wounds. She was one of four soldiers to die

:24:08. > :24:12.there during a seven`year period, sparking allegations of bullying and

:24:13. > :24:16.abuse. A happy, bubbly teenager. Private

:24:17. > :24:22.Cheryl James died from a single gunshot wound to the head. Her body

:24:23. > :24:28.was found on the outskirts of the barracks. The army said her death

:24:29. > :24:33.was a suicide. Surrey Police investigated, but there were no

:24:34. > :24:37.prosecutions. It took years for the family to have the evidence released

:24:38. > :24:43.to them. It has now finally led to the prospect of a new inquest. It is

:24:44. > :24:47.a vindication. My daughter has not had justice and finally we have a

:24:48. > :24:51.pretty important character in the legal system who has agreed with

:24:52. > :24:56.ours. We've always been very confident that this day would come.

:24:57. > :25:01.The more we learned about her case and her death, the more we were sure

:25:02. > :25:06.that this has not been properly investigated. If a decision is taken

:25:07. > :25:11.here at the High Court to approve the new inquest, the Ministry of

:25:12. > :25:17.Defence says it will provide support when needed. It has faced years of

:25:18. > :25:23.allegations of a cover`up and claims it failed its soldiers time after

:25:24. > :25:27.time. Cheryl James was one of four young recruits who died with the

:25:28. > :25:32.uncut `` gunshot wounds at this barracks. A series of investigations

:25:33. > :25:35.found evidence of bullying and abuse of the barracks, but calls for a

:25:36. > :25:42.full public enquiry have been refused. The authorities have

:25:43. > :25:49.persistently shut the families down and tried to quite listening ``

:25:50. > :25:52.literally close ranks. Families have looked to other institutions to help

:25:53. > :25:59.them, such as the police, but they have failed them. Private James's

:26:00. > :26:10.family now face a six`week wait to see if an inquest is approved.

:26:11. > :26:15.This winter was an usually wet and mild but according to a new store at

:26:16. > :26:20.the `` a new study at The Met office, it could be a sign of things

:26:21. > :26:27.to come. Summers are expected to be hotter and drier. What does the

:26:28. > :26:33.future look like? The headline is more of everything.

:26:34. > :26:36.They are open about the fact there is a lot that they don't know, but

:26:37. > :26:44.they reckon they have honed in on two trends. With Winters, the trend

:26:45. > :26:49.is for milder, wetter winters of the kind we've just seen. But there is

:26:50. > :26:55.also potential for the extreme cold we saw three winters ago. Summers,

:26:56. > :26:58.they say the trend is for hotter, drier summers, but there is still a

:26:59. > :27:04.potential for that terrible wash`out summer we saw in 2012. It is a very

:27:05. > :27:11.difficult challenge for them to pick the different factors apart.

:27:12. > :27:15.Why is it so difficult? We are a relatively small island on the edge

:27:16. > :27:20.of a very large ocean. So we receive a whole host of

:27:21. > :27:25.different factors at work ` whether the North Atlantic is getting

:27:26. > :27:29.warmer, for example. It is one thing to try to establish global trends

:27:30. > :27:36.for temperature or rainfall, but much harder to zero in on a

:27:37. > :27:40.relatively small piece of the Earth. There is one phrase that will

:27:41. > :27:46.attract a lot of interest. Human hand is detectable in some of

:27:47. > :27:48.this. That's right, they are cautious about whether global

:27:49. > :27:52.warming will necessarily mean more extreme weather in Britain, but they

:27:53. > :27:55.reckon may can detect it in a couple of ways.

:27:56. > :28:01.One is in summer heat waves. There is a greater risk of heat waves as

:28:02. > :28:04.the average temperature goes up. And also the intensity of rainfall.

:28:05. > :28:08.Warmer air can hold more moisture which at some point has the ball

:28:09. > :28:17.down, see you get a greater risk of increased intensity of rainfall. ``

:28:18. > :28:20.has to fall down. But the big unknown is the Jetstream we know so

:28:21. > :28:24.much about. They cannot pin down what is driving that and until then

:28:25. > :28:28.we will not know the certain what we are in for.

:28:29. > :28:38.What about today? Well, yesterday was lovely and sunny for much of the

:28:39. > :28:42.UK. Today is a different story. It is a cloudy picture. It has been

:28:43. > :28:47.heading eastwards, it will now turn around and work its way back

:28:48. > :28:52.westward is. And a need that it is largely disappointing with quite

:28:53. > :28:58.cold conditions, damp as well. There are some brighter weather drifting

:28:59. > :29:03.in from the North Sea with spells of sunshine developing in Yorkshire and

:29:04. > :29:07.Lincolnshire. East Anglia are doing quite well this afternoon. But under

:29:08. > :29:16.the rain, six or seven degrees is typical for many. Not a great feel

:29:17. > :29:19.at all. Something a bit brighter across Cornwall although it is

:29:20. > :29:24.clouding over in Devon without rain setting in through the afternoon.

:29:25. > :29:27.The western extremities of Wales should be drier and brighter and in

:29:28. > :29:32.Northern Ireland it is much brighter than yesterday. Similar temperatures

:29:33. > :29:35.in the North of Scotland where it should essentially be drier. Central

:29:36. > :29:41.southern areas will see a bit of patchy rain. This evening, the band

:29:42. > :29:45.of rain works westwards and the further east you are, the clearer

:29:46. > :29:49.the skies. Things could get a bit frosty but I think for many of the

:29:50. > :29:58.Premier League match as it should be essentially dried. Maybe just a spot

:29:59. > :30:01.of rain at the Manchester match. For the east overnight some holes in the

:30:02. > :30:07.east overnight some holes McLeod allow a touch of frost in a few

:30:08. > :30:12.places. `` holes in the cloud. Wednesday will be chilly, especially

:30:13. > :30:19.along the north`east coast. A fair bit of cloud along the east which

:30:20. > :30:22.will bring in some showers. A bit of snow across the Pennines. Showers in

:30:23. > :30:33.the West but there should be sun`dried bright weather across of

:30:34. > :30:39.Scotland. Thursday keeps the easterly wind. Quite blustery

:30:40. > :30:42.conditions. A fair bit of cloud and showers, most in the West and the

:30:43. > :30:46.South but there will be further showers coming in from the North Sea

:30:47. > :30:54.later on. Those temperatures still struggle. So a chilly breeze that

:30:55. > :30:55.will bring rain to some areas. Hopefully a bit warmer for the

:30:56. > :31:05.weekend. Our top story: In China, desperate

:31:06. > :31:10.relatives of those on the missing plane march on an Asian embassy in

:31:11. > :31:12.Beijing, demanding answers. Bad weather has hampered the search for

:31:13. > :31:14.wreckage in the Indian Ocean.