:00:10. > :00:12.Nearly ten years of austerity - the price Greeks will pay for the
:00:12. > :00:15.latest Eurozone bail out. 130 billion euros saves Greece from
:00:15. > :00:24.bankruptcy. For families already struggling to pay the bills, there
:00:24. > :00:29.could be worse to come. Greece has made its choice, and we now have to
:00:29. > :00:35.focus on the next step, which is constructing a firewall that is
:00:35. > :00:39.large enough to prevent contagion within the Eurozone. But for Greek
:00:39. > :00:42.families already struggling to pay the bills, there could be worse to
:00:42. > :00:45.come. I am afraid I don't have enough money for buying the basics
:00:45. > :00:55.for my kids. We'll be asking where the deal
:00:55. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:01.leaves the Eurozone crisis. Also tonight:
:01:01. > :01:08.The men accused of plying women with drink and drugs before they
:01:08. > :01:16.were sexually abused. Tesco battling accusation their
:01:16. > :01:19.employment scheme is slave labour. The Duchess visits a children's
:01:19. > :01:22.therapy session. On BBC London, Boris and Ken go
:01:22. > :01:32.head to head for the first time in four years.
:01:32. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:44.And the police investigate a Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:44. > :01:47.News at 6.00pm. Eurozone negotiators are breathing a sigh of
:01:47. > :01:51.relief after reaching agreement on a new bail-out for Greece, but for
:01:52. > :01:54.the country's people it marks the toughest of times. In return for a
:01:55. > :02:04.rescue package worth a 130 billion euros, Greeks will see yet more
:02:05. > :02:20.
:02:20. > :02:24.After months of argument the country has been granted the
:02:24. > :02:27.biggest bail-out in history. The threat of bankruptcy has been
:02:27. > :02:31.lifted and Europe breathed a sigh of relief.
:02:31. > :02:37.Greece has made its choice. We now have to focus on the next step,
:02:37. > :02:40.which is constructing a firewall which is large enough to prevent
:02:40. > :02:45.contagion within the Eurozone. 12 hours Ministers and officials
:02:45. > :02:50.argued over how to reduce Greece's debt mountain and how to prevent
:02:50. > :02:54.the country defaulting and threatening the European economy,
:02:54. > :03:00.but risks remain. There are downside risks. This is clear. It's
:03:00. > :03:05.not an easy programme. It's a very ambitious one. The bail-out deal is
:03:05. > :03:11.aimed at reducing Greece's debt. Private investors have agreed to
:03:11. > :03:17.take big losses, 107 billion euros. Greece will get massive loan of 130
:03:17. > :03:21.billion euros. The hope is by 2020, Greece's debt will be down to 120%
:03:21. > :03:25.of GDP. The deal is intended to draw a line under months of violent
:03:25. > :03:30.protest, a period when a Greek Prime Minister was forced to stand
:03:30. > :03:33.down, a period of increased hostility towards Germany for
:03:33. > :03:41.insisting on moral austerity, a period when Greece's economy
:03:41. > :03:43.collapsed. On the streets of Athens today
:03:43. > :03:47.further protests. There is particular anger that under the
:03:48. > :03:53.deal the country will have to accept permanent monitors to ensure
:03:53. > :03:58.it lives up to its promises. The mood, as in recent demonstrations,
:03:58. > :04:01.was fearful and resentful. I am relieved we're still in the
:04:01. > :04:05.Eurozone, but I think life will get much worse here. The people will be
:04:05. > :04:10.even worse off than last year. These measures will deepen our
:04:10. > :04:15.recession. Families know that more austerity is coming in exchange for
:04:15. > :04:20.the new bail-out. This man is a bus driver. His wages
:04:20. > :04:24.have already been cut by 500 euros a month. Now he's threatened with
:04:24. > :04:31.losing his job. I am afraid if I don't have enough
:04:31. > :04:36.money for buying the basics for my kids - for the family. The gamble
:04:36. > :04:41.with this new bail-out is that Greece is being asked to embrace
:04:41. > :04:45.further cuts whilst its economy is in freefall. It doesn't solve the
:04:45. > :04:49.Greek problem because the burden on the Greek is very high, is very
:04:49. > :04:53.intense, and I'm afraid that we'll meet again here in three or six
:04:53. > :04:57.months from now to again discuss the Greek situation. What this
:04:57. > :05:02.massive bail-out has done is to buy the Eurozone time to strengthen its
:05:02. > :05:05.banks and to shore up the defences around other weaker Eurozone
:05:05. > :05:15.countries. For the moment, Greece has avoided bankruptcy, but it
:05:15. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:20.faces years of hardship. What this will latest deal mean for
:05:20. > :05:24.Greeks, and will it help them out of the five-year recession that's
:05:24. > :05:29.seen one in five out of work? Our chief economics correspondent is
:05:29. > :05:32.here. Let's have some numbers. How big a hole is this country in?
:05:32. > :05:36.Greek economy is in a very, very poor state as we were hearing in
:05:36. > :05:40.Gavin's piece. This deal does nothing to improve that in the
:05:40. > :05:46.short term. Remember, Greece has already had a bail-out from
:05:46. > :05:49.Eurozone governments of �73 billion euros. That's already been paid.
:05:49. > :05:53.Today's bail-out adds to that creating 200 billion of bail-out
:05:53. > :05:57.money, which has to be repaid at some time. Since the first bail-out
:05:57. > :06:02.a couple of years ago things have gotten worse for the economy. Let's
:06:02. > :06:06.look at the unemployment figure. In 2009 it was pretty high, 9.5%, but
:06:06. > :06:11.since then, it's nearly doubled to 19% of the workforce, and in terms
:06:11. > :06:14.of growth, things have got a lot worse. There hasn't been any. Back
:06:14. > :06:24.in 2009, the economy contracted by more than 3%. It fell again the
:06:24. > :06:29.next year. Last year it was down by 5 pine 5 -- 5.5%. What it needs is
:06:29. > :06:33.to bring in tax revenue to pay off the debt. If things are so bad, why
:06:33. > :06:36.are people saying this is a good deal? I guess things could have
:06:36. > :06:39.been worse. The markets are relieved that the catastrophe
:06:39. > :06:43.didn't happen, which means Greece wouldn't have to pay off its
:06:43. > :06:46.private sector debt due next month, and there could have been
:06:46. > :06:50.disorderly default affecting the whole Eurozone and banks and so on.
:06:50. > :06:56.That hasn't happened. A bit of time has been bought, but the key
:06:56. > :07:06.questions remain, how will the Greek people put up with austerity?
:07:06. > :07:06.
:07:06. > :07:09.Where will the country go from here?
:07:09. > :07:12.Here, official figures show the biggest surplus in Britain's public
:07:12. > :07:14.finances for four years, boosting the Government's hopes that it will
:07:14. > :07:18.meet this year's borrowing forecast of �127 billion.
:07:18. > :07:21.A court in Liverpool has heard how a group of 11 men plied girls as
:07:21. > :07:24.young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could sexually abuse them. The
:07:24. > :07:27.five girls were described as vulnerable and all from broken
:07:27. > :07:32.homes. The court heard one girl, aged 13, told police her number was
:07:32. > :07:42.passed around the Pakistani men in her area of Rochdale. All the men
:07:42. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:51.deny the charges. Judith Moritz reports from Liverpool Crown Court.
:07:51. > :07:56.These are some of the men accused of exploiting girls as young as 13,
:07:56. > :07:59.giving them drink and drug for sex. It's said they passed the girls
:07:59. > :08:05.around, sometimes offering them to other men. One girl said she had
:08:05. > :08:08.sex with several men a day several times a week. In total 11 men from
:08:08. > :08:12.Rochdale and Oldham are accused of conspiring to have sex with the
:08:12. > :08:16.girls. Some of them face charges of rape and trafficking for sexual
:08:16. > :08:20.exploitation. The prosecution said the girls' experiences were, at
:08:20. > :08:25.best, saddening, and at worst, shocking. The prosecution said that
:08:25. > :08:31.the men targeted particularly vulnerable teenaged girls here in
:08:31. > :08:34.Rochdale, giving them alcohol, food and money in return for sex, and
:08:34. > :08:39.sometimes subjecting them to violence as well. Some of the men
:08:39. > :08:43.worked at take-away restaurants, including this one, which is now in
:08:43. > :08:47.new ownership. The prosecution say some girls met the men here and at
:08:47. > :08:51.this restaurant nearby which has also since changed hands. Here,
:08:51. > :08:54.it's said, they were given alcohol and taken upstairs for sex. The
:08:54. > :08:57.defendants are all of Asian heritage, and the court heard that
:08:57. > :09:07.they knew each other socially and through work.
:09:07. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:19.The men all deny the charges against them. Tomorrow, the court
:09:19. > :09:24.is due to hear evidence from the first teenaged girl, who was 15 at
:09:24. > :09:27.the time it's said she was raped. Police in Perthshire say they're
:09:27. > :09:30.treating the death of an 80-year- old woman who was found dead at her
:09:30. > :09:32.home as suspicious. A forensic examination is underway at the
:09:32. > :09:42.property in the village of Forteeviot. Our Scotland
:09:42. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :10:01.Correspondent James Cook is there now.
:10:01. > :10:07.Yes, he was very well Yigtsdz3 irshe was 80 years old, she was an
:10:07. > :10:11.active member of this community. Beneath the wooded hills of rural
:10:11. > :10:14.Perthshire, a major police inquiry is under way. All day this quiet
:10:14. > :10:21.country lane has bustled with activity. Inch by inch, officers
:10:21. > :10:27.have been searching the cottage for clues about what happened to Jenny
:10:27. > :10:34.Methden. At this time we're treating her death as suspicious.
:10:34. > :10:36.The inquiry is at a very early stage right now. We're carrying out
:10:36. > :10:40.door-to-door inquiries and painstaking inquiries. She was 80
:10:40. > :10:44.years old, but friends say you wouldn't have known it. Every day
:10:44. > :10:48.she would walk for miles with her dog. She cut days tinktive figure
:10:48. > :10:53.in the farmland where she'd lived most of her life. Friends say she
:10:54. > :10:57.was a kindly woman, a pillar of a night-knit community. Absolutely
:10:57. > :11:06.devastating because everybody knew Jenny, so it's hard to get my head
:11:06. > :11:11.around the fact that anything could have happened to her like that. We
:11:11. > :11:16.only seen her on Saturday morning. She was out - you know, when we had
:11:16. > :11:20.the blizzard, it was a white-out, and she was out walking the dog
:11:20. > :11:24.because that was Jenny. As police continued their careful work, it
:11:24. > :11:28.emerged that she had been found by her son. The details of her
:11:28. > :11:33.injuries are not known, and police are not yet calling this a murder
:11:33. > :11:37.inquiry, but already it looks like one.
:11:37. > :11:40.That's probably because they're waiting for the results of a
:11:40. > :11:43.postmortem examination which is due to be held tomorrow. I have just
:11:43. > :11:46.been speaking to the detective who is leading this inquiry, and he
:11:46. > :11:50.says that there is some new information that they now know that
:11:50. > :11:55.the the last she was heard of was in a telephone call yesterday
:11:55. > :11:58.morning at 10.30am. That's narrowing down the times, but they
:11:58. > :12:01.want anyone who can tell them anymore about where she was
:12:01. > :12:03.yesterday to get in touch. Thank you.
:12:03. > :12:05.The former head of the International Monetary Fund,
:12:05. > :12:08.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being questioned by French police
:12:08. > :12:18.investigating a hotel prostitution ring. Last year he was charged in
:12:18. > :12:19.
:12:19. > :12:22.New York with the attempted rape of a hotel maid. -The case was later
:12:22. > :12:26.dropped. Today he was detained at a police station in the French city
:12:26. > :12:28.of Lille. He's said to have denied knowing that young women he met at
:12:28. > :12:31.hotel parties were prostitutes. Thousands of people have protested
:12:31. > :12:34.outside an American airbase in Afghanistan after copies of the
:12:34. > :12:37.Koran were reportedly burned by foreign troops. The most senior
:12:37. > :12:39.American commander there has since apologised, saying an investigation
:12:39. > :12:44.was taking place into what he described as the improper disposal
:12:44. > :12:46.of Islamic religious materials. The high street giant Tesco is to
:12:46. > :12:49.offer paid work experience places after its involvement in a
:12:49. > :12:57.government backed unpaid scheme led to accusations that it was using
:12:57. > :13:00.slave labour. The move came just hours after the Deputy Prime
:13:00. > :13:02.Minister Nick Clegg told the BBC the scheme should be celebrated,
:13:02. > :13:08.and that suggestions it promoted slave labour were "ridiculous".
:13:08. > :13:13.Here's our political editor Nick Robinson.
:13:13. > :13:16.Every little helps - so Tesco's must have thought when they agreed
:13:16. > :13:22.to take part in a Government scheme to offer unpaid work experience to
:13:22. > :13:27.young people without a job. What do we want? Real jobs. When do we want
:13:27. > :13:30.them? Now. But that was before this - a campaign against what
:13:30. > :13:35.protesters dubbed slave labour. They demanded people should be paid
:13:35. > :13:39.to work. Today Tesco offered to do just that but Ministers came out
:13:39. > :13:43.fighting. It isn't slave labour. It is not compulsory. It is entirely
:13:43. > :13:48.voluntary. What the scheme is - the work experience scheme is simple -
:13:48. > :13:52.we say to employers, please take on these young people. The Government
:13:52. > :13:57.will pay them through benefits, but could you please keep them on for a
:13:57. > :14:01.few weeks because it increases their chance of them then finding
:14:01. > :14:07.work. Iain Irving is exactly the sort of person Ministers had in
:14:07. > :14:11.mind. He did unpaid work experience, but kept his benefit. He's now got
:14:11. > :14:15.a job as trainee cabinet maker in Harrogate. It's really important
:14:15. > :14:19.for people like me because it helps you get a job at the end of it, and
:14:19. > :14:22.if that's not at all possible, getting a reference and some work
:14:22. > :14:25.experience in a workplace environment. All well and good, say
:14:25. > :14:29.some, but people shouldn't be expected to stack supermarket
:14:29. > :14:34.shelves for nothing, and with the added threat that their benefits
:14:34. > :14:38.could be cut if their placement goes wrong. Today Tesco's said they
:14:38. > :14:43.agreed. We're offering - continuing the Government's scheme, but we're
:14:43. > :14:48.also offering a four-week paid placement to get really
:14:48. > :14:54.transferable skills. We're trying to break the vicious cycle. Our CEO
:14:54. > :15:00.started stacking shelves. Tesco is the ultimate meritocracy. Ministers
:15:00. > :15:03.complain they're being targeted by a tiny protest group. Today Right
:15:03. > :15:06.to Work welcomed Tesco's decision but hinted it would target other
:15:06. > :15:09.companies. The Government should accept young people struggling to
:15:09. > :15:12.find work should be paid on these schemes. They should be paid the
:15:12. > :15:16.national minimum wage. That means occupying other shops around the
:15:16. > :15:23.country, so be it? Whatever it takes, really. We think people need
:15:23. > :15:27.to be paid. We'll do whatever it takes to get it. If people say
:15:27. > :15:32.you're destroying shops by occupation and these schemes?
:15:32. > :15:36.think that would be ridiculous to say. Waterstone's are amongst other
:15:36. > :15:39.big High Street names like Sainsbury and Matalan now not
:15:39. > :15:42.taking part in the work experience scheme. The people I care about
:15:42. > :15:46.more is not the companies. It's the young people, and the evidence
:15:46. > :15:49.shows it helps young people because it means they learn the discipline
:15:49. > :15:53.and get the self-confidence of actually going out and working
:15:53. > :15:57.alongside other people. Tesco's have reacted to a campaign claiming
:15:57. > :16:01.that a very profitable company was employing cheap labour, but what
:16:01. > :16:05.worries Ministers here at Westminster is that more companies
:16:05. > :16:15.may abandon a scheme which they say offers invaluable work experience
:16:15. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:21.Our top story tonight: A �130 billion bail out saves
:16:21. > :16:28.Greece from bankruptcy, but ten years of austerity lies ahead.
:16:28. > :16:38.Coming up: A week after she swept the board at
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:42.the Grammys, Adele looks set for Later, I will be rounding up the
:16:42. > :16:45.day's business news as markets around the world react to that
:16:45. > :16:55.Greek bail out. And Britain's bosses give their view on whether
:16:55. > :16:56.
:16:56. > :16:59.Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a growing threat to
:16:59. > :17:03.international shipping, costing the world economy more than �4 billion
:17:03. > :17:06.a year. This week, presidents and senior figures from over 40
:17:06. > :17:10.countries will discuss ways of tackling the problem at a
:17:10. > :17:13.conference in London. Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has
:17:13. > :17:16.become the first British journalist to be allowed on board an
:17:16. > :17:19.Australian maritime patrol aircraft as it flew a mission from Dubai
:17:19. > :17:29.over a high-risk area in the Somali Basin, where there were 25 pirate
:17:29. > :17:33.
:17:33. > :17:40.The Royal Navy confronting pirates off the Somali coast last month. It
:17:40. > :17:44.is an uneven match. Outgunned, the Pirates surrender. Royal Marines
:17:44. > :17:48.come aboard and sees the Pirates and their weapons. But many other
:17:48. > :17:54.attacks go unchallenged so how to patrol more than one million square
:17:54. > :17:58.miles of ocean? I am just about to board this Australian plane. It
:17:58. > :18:03.will take us felt over the ocean, the Indian Ocean, an area where
:18:03. > :18:08.they think they are most likely to see pirate activity. Flying out of
:18:08. > :18:13.an airbase in the Emirates, this Orion plane allows a combined anti-
:18:13. > :18:20.piracy force of 25 Nations to look far out over there horizon, but
:18:20. > :18:26.drawing down to the Horn of Africa. -- patrolling. That is the Strait
:18:26. > :18:30.of Hormuz, straight ahead of us is the area of suspect pirate activity
:18:30. > :18:37.that they will the cat. Flying at practically wave height, the
:18:37. > :18:43.Australians a record every vessel in a designated search area. Taking
:18:43. > :18:50.a lot of photographs. They are very good at hiding. They are trying to
:18:50. > :18:56.hide. Sometimes it needs close flying to be able to get the final
:18:56. > :18:59.details. Like these two fishing dhows we saw, filmed on the
:18:59. > :19:04.electronic camera. Something about them made the Australians
:19:04. > :19:09.suspicious. The pictures of beamed back to headquarters on land. If
:19:09. > :19:12.pirates were confirmed on board, a warship would investigate. But what
:19:12. > :19:20.really happens behind the scenes when a ship is first approached by
:19:20. > :19:24.pirates? Are you safe? On land, for UK Maritime Trade Operations, the
:19:24. > :19:28.first point of contact for merchant ships. Are they following year at
:19:28. > :19:33.the moment? The ship e-mails this photograph of the Pirates
:19:33. > :19:36.shuddering them, but they have got armed guards on boards and the
:19:36. > :19:41.Pirates withdraw. Yet for a crew that does get captured, and attack
:19:41. > :19:48.is terrifying. They will be in a massive panic, they will be running
:19:48. > :19:53.around if they are getting shot at. Sometimes they lock themselves into
:19:53. > :20:00.the ship. Pirates success rates are coming down, but they are now
:20:00. > :20:04.attacking ever further afield. nothing else, the Pirates have
:20:04. > :20:09.proved how flexible and determined they are. They are conforming to a
:20:10. > :20:14.very lucrative business model. If I was a pirate, I would rather hope
:20:14. > :20:18.for complacency on behalf of the international community because
:20:18. > :20:23.successful attacks have reduced. Everyone agrees the solution is not
:20:23. > :20:27.at sea, it is on land. But until that happens, Somalia's pirates
:20:27. > :20:31.will continue to risk capture, drowning and death for this multi-
:20:31. > :20:34.million-pound business. The International Red Cross has
:20:34. > :20:37.called for a daily two-hour ceasefire in Syria so that it can
:20:37. > :20:39.take emergency aid to people wounded in the fighting. Anti-
:20:39. > :20:43.government activists say that more than 50 people have been killed
:20:43. > :20:47.across the country today, including four children. 30 people are
:20:47. > :20:53.reported to have died in the city of Homs, where troops stepped up
:20:53. > :20:56.their bombardment of the rebel-held district of Baba Amr.
:20:56. > :20:59.The Duchess of Cambridge has been visiting two schools in Oxford to
:20:59. > :21:02.see how one of the charities she supports uses art to help children
:21:02. > :21:05.with behaviour problems. The Art Room encourages painting and
:21:05. > :21:07.drawing as a way of helping to build the confidence of vulnerable
:21:07. > :21:17.and disadvantaged youngsters. From Oxford, here's our royal
:21:17. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:25.This is the Duchess's third solo engagement in a fortnight, her
:21:25. > :21:29.royal duties keeping her busy while Prince William is in the Falklands.
:21:29. > :21:33.She came here because this school hosts a facility for one of her
:21:33. > :21:38.charities, the Art Room, which offers art as therapy to children
:21:38. > :21:42.and youngsters who are disengaged, disruptive or withdrawn. The
:21:42. > :21:46.Duchess personally chose to support the Art Room and that could make a
:21:46. > :21:49.big difference to this small charity. It is hoping that her
:21:50. > :21:55.patronage will make it possible to open every one of their dedicated
:21:55. > :22:00.art rooms five days a week and reach many more children. Once
:22:00. > :22:04.inside, after tea and toast with the children, the Duchess set --
:22:04. > :22:10.sat with them, discussing their art on the theme of Edward Lear's The
:22:10. > :22:15.Owl And The Pussycat. Were they missing lessons, she asked on her
:22:15. > :22:20.way out. Yes, but after the excitement, the children were as
:22:21. > :22:26.soon due back in the classroom. hope you have a fun time. Goodbye.
:22:26. > :22:32.And the Duchess was also off to another art room. This one hosted
:22:32. > :22:34.at the spires Academy also in Oxford. The Duchess was given a
:22:34. > :22:41.presentation by some of the children who benefit from the
:22:41. > :22:48.therapy. We were all standing in a line and she said we were all
:22:48. > :22:55.amazing and we were like artists. It really touched me. It made me
:22:55. > :22:58.feel happy that she liked my work. Sales assistant... Justin, 18, told
:22:58. > :23:03.the Dutch is how the Art Room helped him when he was a troubled
:23:03. > :23:06.youngster. To me, it felt like she was showing a genuine interest in
:23:07. > :23:12.the Art Room, in my story when I was speaking. She seemed so
:23:12. > :23:17.interested. By getting stuck into her charity work, the Duchess is
:23:17. > :23:20.establishing her role as a working member of the Royal Family.
:23:20. > :23:23.Just a week after her spectacular success at the Grammys, British
:23:23. > :23:27.singer Adele is a favourite for tonight's annual BRIT Awards in
:23:27. > :23:30.London. She's been nominated for three awards, including Best
:23:30. > :23:35.British Single. But there's competition from other artists -
:23:35. > :23:37.singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is in the running for four awards. Our
:23:37. > :23:47.entertainment correspondent, Lizo Mzimba, is at the 02 Arena in
:23:47. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:53.Yes, this is the night when the British music industry gives itself
:23:53. > :23:57.a massive pat on the back, but they have got a lot to be proud of this
:23:57. > :24:01.year. The biggest music artist in the world is British singer-
:24:01. > :24:07.songwriter Adele. So all eyes will be on her to see if she can repeat
:24:07. > :24:10.her recent granny's success here at tonight's BRIT Awards.
:24:10. > :24:14.Fresh from her success at the American Grammy Awards, tonight
:24:14. > :24:24.Adele will hope to be just the celebrated, this time on home
:24:24. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:30.Performing at last year's BRIT Awards, she couldn't have imagined
:24:30. > :24:34.the success the following 12 months would bring. Her album 21 sold over
:24:34. > :24:37.14 million copies worldwide. Now she is expected to add to that
:24:37. > :24:45.success this evening. But how significant are Britain's most
:24:45. > :24:51.high-profile music awards? It's a chance for new or fairly new
:24:51. > :24:53.artists who haven't yet reached the wider public to be seen. From there,
:24:53. > :25:01.it has also a good launch for them to have achieved success
:25:01. > :25:05.internationally. Adele's nominations reflect her outstanding
:25:05. > :25:11.chart success, but surgery on her throat last November did prompt
:25:11. > :25:14.fears for her voice. There was a worry that it might take away her
:25:14. > :25:21.voice. I have heard other singers that have had problems and have
:25:21. > :25:31.never sounded the same. Luckily the American surgeon... She sounds
:25:31. > :25:39.An assessment backed up by her first post operation performance
:25:39. > :25:42.last week. She will be singing tonight, too, and appropriately,
:25:43. > :25:47.money raised from the BRIT Awards goes towards the school where Adele
:25:47. > :25:52.was a student, the Brit School in London. What set her apart was she
:25:52. > :25:55.was always writing, always looking to perform. In her final show at
:25:55. > :26:00.the school, she performed an original song and it was
:26:00. > :26:04.overwhelming. Staff were talking about it afterwards as a real
:26:04. > :26:09.stand-up performance. In that respect, her success is not
:26:09. > :26:14.surprising. It has already been an astonishing week. Tonight could
:26:14. > :26:19.mark another high point in what has also been an astonishing year.
:26:19. > :26:23.This year, there will also be performances from Rihanna, Coldplay
:26:23. > :26:28.and Le, who will receive an Outstanding Contribution to Music
:26:28. > :26:32.award. -- there. But this year, most people's attention will be on
:26:32. > :26:36.Adele, the singer-songwriter from north London on top of the music
:26:36. > :26:41.north London on top of the music world. Time for a look at the
:26:41. > :26:46.weather. A recipe to bring on the spring
:26:46. > :26:51.buds because we have mild Atlantic winds that will bring rain and some
:26:51. > :26:56.warmth to the shores. Tonight we have wet and windy weather. Wet
:26:56. > :26:59.across parts of wet -- West Scotland already. It will turn wet
:26:59. > :27:04.in Northern Ireland, north-west England and North West Wales.
:27:04. > :27:09.Further south and east, it will stay dry. Winds lighter here, so
:27:09. > :27:13.cooler conditions. It should be a largely dry start across many parts
:27:13. > :27:16.of England and Wales, although parts of west Cornwall and West of
:27:17. > :27:20.Wales will see rain to begin with. A bit of morning sunshine to the
:27:20. > :27:23.south-east and East Anglia. In the far south-east, it will stay dry
:27:23. > :27:28.until the evening. Patchy rain across north-east England, but to
:27:28. > :27:36.the north-west of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will wake
:27:36. > :27:42.up to rein. For some it will be particularly wet. In the Cumbrian
:27:42. > :27:46.fells we could see 16-100 mm of rain. Some surface water flooding,
:27:47. > :27:53.fast-flowing rivers as well and that is only part of the story. The
:27:53. > :27:56.winds are strengthening with gales. The south-east corner should stay
:27:56. > :28:01.dry until the evening rush-hour, but elsewhere outbreaks of rain.
:28:01. > :28:04.Mitre across the North and the West later in the day for up -- brighter.
:28:04. > :28:10.It might be a bit crawl across the Midlands and the south-east corner
:28:10. > :28:14.in comparison. -- cool. A wet rush- hour, that rain clears and we get
:28:14. > :28:20.into the mild air. With it comes a lot of cloud, very misty and damp
:28:20. > :28:24.across western parts of the UK. It will stay grey and damp all day.
:28:24. > :28:29.Some cloud breaks further east and we are going to lift temperatures.
:28:29. > :28:32.Even where there's cloud, 11 or 12 possible. Further east in the
:28:33. > :28:40.possible. Further east in the sunshine, maybe 17 degrees. We