:00:11. > :00:15.The conflict in Syria reaches the heart of the regime with a bomb-
:00:15. > :00:21.blast in the centre of Damascus. The President's brother-in-law and
:00:21. > :00:28.the Defence Minister have been killed as rebels strike close to
:00:28. > :00:32.the Presidential Palace. violence has got worse. That tells
:00:32. > :00:36.us that this is a situation that is rapidly spinning out of control.
:00:37. > :00:41.In parts of Damascus, they are celebrating this latest blow to the
:00:41. > :00:45.regime. We will be asking if this marks a turning point in the
:00:45. > :00:49.conflict. Also tonight: Unemployment drops by
:00:49. > :00:53.65,000, helped along by new jobs during the Olympic Games.
:00:53. > :00:56.The heir to a multi-billion pound fortune - Hans Kristian Rausing
:00:56. > :01:00.charged with preventing the lawful burial of his wife.
:01:00. > :01:03.Blink and you will miss it - the pickpockets from Spain who say they
:01:03. > :01:07.are heading our way. And why sitting around doing
:01:07. > :01:12.nothing is more dangerous than you think. A new study says it is as
:01:12. > :01:15.bad for you as smoking. Two out of three UK adults are not
:01:15. > :01:21.doing enough exercise. I will be examining the research which says
:01:21. > :01:28.it is putting many of them into an early grave.
:01:28. > :01:38.We will have Sportsday with all the latest reports, results, interviews
:01:38. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:54.and features from the BBC Sports Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:54. > :01:59.News at Six. The violence in Syria has reached the heart of the regime,
:01:59. > :02:01.claiming the lives of key members of the country's ruling elite.
:02:01. > :02:05.President Assad's brother-in-law and the country's Defence Minister
:02:05. > :02:08.are reported to have been killed today, when a bomb exploded inside
:02:09. > :02:13.the headquarters of the national security organisation. It follows
:02:13. > :02:19.four days of clashes in the capital, Damascus. Caroline Hawley reports
:02:19. > :02:23.on what some are seeing as a turning point in the conflict.
:02:23. > :02:28.On state-run television, mouthpiece of the regime, a message of
:02:28. > :02:36.defiance. As the authorities announce that a bomber had attacked
:02:36. > :02:41.the heart of the country's military establishment. The dramatic news
:02:41. > :02:46.came this morning. No images released of the headquarters of
:02:46. > :02:51.national security, but the Defence Minister, seen here, was quickly
:02:51. > :02:54.confirmed dead on television. He had been meeting with other senior
:02:54. > :02:59.officials from Syria's secretive security system. It is a
:02:59. > :03:04.devastating blow at the heart of a regime presided over by the Assad
:03:04. > :03:14.family for 40 years. Two of the key figures are Bashar al-Assad and his
:03:14. > :03:19.younger brother, Maher and then there was the husband of his sister.
:03:19. > :03:24.This is about as close to the inner circle of President Assad as it is
:03:24. > :03:28.possible to get and it is a fight for survival now.
:03:28. > :03:32.TRANSLATION: This is a decisive battle. It is a decisive battle not
:03:32. > :03:36.only in Damascus, but in Syria as a whole. They are wrong to
:03:36. > :03:41.underestimate us. For months there's been fighting in
:03:41. > :03:45.towns and cities around the country. But in the past few days, it's come
:03:45. > :03:49.to Damascus itself. A major escalation in the conflict. 16
:03:49. > :03:55.Months since a peaceful uprising against Bashar al-Assad began, the
:03:55. > :04:04.battle is now on his doorstep. The capital once deemed impregnable has
:04:04. > :04:09.seen fighting which began in the At Tadamon neighbourhood. The battle
:04:09. > :04:12.then spread to Midan and further north as well. A military barracks
:04:12. > :04:17.close to the Presidential Palace was set on fire, just hours before
:04:17. > :04:21.the attack on the headquarters of national security. This is, as I
:04:21. > :04:29.believe now, the beginning of the end of this regime. The regime
:04:29. > :04:33.still has some power to continue killing Syrian people, but this is
:04:33. > :04:39.the natural escalation of the struggle of the freedom fighters in
:04:39. > :04:44.Syria. The Syrian army is still strong despite a string of
:04:44. > :04:47.defections. On State TV, it's promising to fight back. The
:04:47. > :04:51.international community is grappling with how to respond.
:04:51. > :04:56.is a situation that is rapidly spinning out of control. And for
:04:56. > :05:01.that reason, it is extremely important that the international
:05:01. > :05:06.community, working with other countries that have concerns in
:05:06. > :05:09.that area, have to bring maximum pressure on Assad. What the
:05:09. > :05:13.diplomats are doing is increasingly irrelevant to what is happening on
:05:13. > :05:19.the ground, where the rebels have been given a major boost. The
:05:19. > :05:23.Syrian crisis has now entered a new phase.
:05:23. > :05:28.Frank Gardner is here with me now. I know we have to be careful about
:05:28. > :05:32.these things. Some people are seeing this as a turning point in
:05:32. > :05:37.the conflict? I think it certainly marks the most serious threat yet
:05:37. > :05:41.to President Bashir bash because Assef Shawkat is the closest you
:05:41. > :05:46.can get to the President, other than his wife, or his brother, or
:05:46. > :05:48.possibly his mother. He was the power behind-the-scenes. He has a
:05:49. > :05:53.political intelligence and security background. It is really a triple
:05:53. > :05:57.blow. It is a blow to the family, to the personal command and control
:05:57. > :06:04.that he built up and it's going to make people in that regime look
:06:04. > :06:07.over their shoulders and wonder, "Where next?" So it is troubling.
:06:07. > :06:11.The General that we heard speaking earlier, who I met earlier this
:06:11. > :06:15.year, several months ago he was saying it was the beginning of the
:06:15. > :06:20.end. For 16 months people have been saying it's the beginning of the
:06:20. > :06:25.end. Russia is still very much perhaps blocking tougher action
:06:25. > :06:30.diplomatically. On the ground, things are moving. I think that we
:06:30. > :06:36.will see a different evolution in the next few weeks. It does seem to
:06:36. > :06:39.be escalating. Thank you. The latest figures for unemployment
:06:39. > :06:44.show it's fallen for the fourth month in a row. The number of
:06:44. > :06:49.people out of work for more than two years has risen to a 15-year
:06:49. > :06:53.high. With forecasts for the economy still looking gloomy, the
:06:53. > :06:59.Chancellor has announced a new financing deal aimed at boosting
:06:59. > :07:05.expenditure on big infrastructure projects.
:07:05. > :07:11.Two years ago, Lianne Mellor was an unemployed graduate who liked
:07:11. > :07:15.drawing as a hobby. With a bit of encouragement, that hobby is a
:07:15. > :07:22.thriving business. It is really hard work. It is so worth it. When
:07:23. > :07:29.you can look around you and kind of think, "I got me here." Everything
:07:29. > :07:33.around you you have created, it is a fantastic feeling. The number of
:07:33. > :07:38.people in work grew by 181,000 in the three months to May, that is
:07:39. > :07:45.the biggest rise in nearly a decade. The broadest measure of
:07:45. > :07:49.unemployment fell by 65,000 to just over 2.5 million. There are still
:07:49. > :07:53.more people out of work today than there were a year ago and 440,000
:07:53. > :07:57.who have been looking for a job for more than two years. We have had a
:07:57. > :08:02.positive run of figures for a few months. It could perhaps indicate
:08:02. > :08:05.that the economy isn't doing as badly as the official GDP figures
:08:06. > :08:12.suggest. I think it might be a matter of time lags and I would
:08:12. > :08:16.want to see the positive figures continue for a fair bit longer.
:08:16. > :08:20.The picture in London was much brighter than many other parts of
:08:20. > :08:24.the UK. Some said that short-term hires for the Olympics might be
:08:24. > :08:28.flattering the figures, with the broader economy so weak no-one is
:08:28. > :08:33.very confident that the good news on jobs is going to continue. Which
:08:33. > :08:36.is probably why you found the Chancellor joined at the hip to his
:08:36. > :08:40.Liberal Democrat coalition Chief Secretary standing by a massive
:08:40. > :08:44.hole in the ground in Central London this morning unveiling their
:08:44. > :08:48.plan to help the economy by partly guaranteeing big infrastructure
:08:48. > :08:52.projects that can't otherwise get funding. There are private sector
:08:52. > :08:55.projects, business projects, that can't go ahead because there is
:08:55. > :08:58.problems in the banking system, problems in the world economy and
:08:58. > :09:03.we are using the good name the British Government has earnt over
:09:03. > :09:08.the last two years, thanks to this Coalition Government, that enables
:09:08. > :09:13.us to borrow cheaply to lend to projects that wouldn't otherwise go
:09:13. > :09:18.ahead. Everyone gets excited about big infrastructure projects. They
:09:18. > :09:23.started digging here in April 2010 and they won't be done until the
:09:23. > :09:27.end of 2016. Still, if the projects the Chancellor is talking about are
:09:27. > :09:32.so worthwhile, some are asking why it took the Treasury nine months to
:09:32. > :09:35.work out how to help. We have come a long way. We have had a speech
:09:35. > :09:40.from the Prime Minister on infrastructure. Now, the Treasury
:09:40. > :09:45.is getting its act together and starting to do stuff. But given the
:09:46. > :09:50.scale of the infrastructure requirement, this is a small step.
:09:50. > :09:54.They first started talking about building this Crossrail link
:09:54. > :10:00.through London in 1948. Infrastructure doesn't come quick.
:10:00. > :10:06.But whether it's new jobs or new investment, in a flat economy every
:10:06. > :10:11.little helps. New figures show the Scottish
:10:11. > :10:14.economy has gone back into recession. It shrank by 0.1% in the
:10:14. > :10:18.first three months of the year, a second successive drop. The largest
:10:18. > :10:24.contribution to the fall came from the construction sector where
:10:24. > :10:26.output was down by nearly 7%. David Cameron has been visiting
:10:26. > :10:30.British troops in Afghanistan where he's promised that more of them
:10:30. > :10:34.will be brought home next year. During the trip to Helmand Province,
:10:34. > :10:41.he said he wanted a sensible orderly process of handing control
:10:41. > :10:45.of security to Afghan forces. Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to
:10:45. > :10:50.a multi-billion pound fortune, has appeared in court charged with
:10:50. > :10:58.delaying the burial of his wife, Eva. Our correspondent is outside
:10:58. > :11:07.the house for us now. The discovery of Robert
:11:07. > :11:12.Rauschenberg's body has devastated -- of Eva Rausing's body has
:11:12. > :11:17.devastated her family. The family have issued a statement. They said
:11:17. > :11:21.they hoped their son could begin the long, hard journey to
:11:21. > :11:26.rehabilitation. Driven from hospital to court, the
:11:26. > :11:29.multi-millionaire, Hans Kristian Rausing. He has been receiving
:11:29. > :11:33.specialist medical treatment since the body of his wife was discovered
:11:33. > :11:37.nine days ago. Today he stood in the dock accused of preventing the
:11:37. > :11:42.lawful and decent burial of her body. Looking thin and frail, he
:11:42. > :11:46.spoke only to confirm his name, his date of birth and his address. He
:11:46. > :11:51.showed no reaction as details of the case were read out to the
:11:51. > :11:58.packed courtroom. Police arrested Hans Kristian Rausing on July 9th
:11:58. > :12:03.following reports of his erratic driving. They searched the couple's
:12:03. > :12:06.home in Chelsea. Eva Rausing's body was found in a bedroom on the
:12:06. > :12:12.second-floor. The court was told it was discovered under layers of
:12:12. > :12:19.bedding, clothing and bin bags. Eva Rausing's background was a
:12:20. > :12:29.privileged one. Her family describe her as a loving, shy girl.
:12:30. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:41.Hans Kristian Rausing has been released on bail, but on condition
:12:41. > :12:44.he stays at this mental health hospital. The magistrate told him
:12:44. > :12:51.he must not leave here unless accompanied by a member of staff.
:12:51. > :12:55.He is due back in court next week. Researchers say more than five
:12:55. > :13:00.million deaths a year worldwide are caused by a lack of exercise making
:13:00. > :13:05.it as big a risk to health as smoking or obesity. Here in Britain,
:13:05. > :13:13.we do worse in the exercise stakes than many other high-income
:13:13. > :13:18.countries. Pushing everything from pole vaults,
:13:18. > :13:24.to paddles, the world's elite athletes are descended on London.
:13:24. > :13:30.For most of us, the Olympics means a marathon in front of the TV.
:13:30. > :13:34.Inactivity which may help send us to an early grave. To stay healthy
:13:34. > :13:41.adults need to do two-and-a-half hours of moderately aerobic
:13:41. > :13:45.activity every week. Such as brisk walking or pushing a lawnmower.
:13:45. > :13:52.Riding a bike's another option, or swimming. You should be working
:13:52. > :13:57.hard enough to raise your heart rate. Twice a week, you need to do
:13:57. > :14:01.exercise which strengthens all the major muscle groups, such as heavy
:14:02. > :14:06.digging or yoga. Two out of three adults in the UK don't manage that.
:14:06. > :14:16.For example, that triggers one in ten cases of coronary heart disease
:14:16. > :14:20.and causes a staggering one in six deaths here. What went wrong?
:14:20. > :14:25.Britons used to be far more active, then came the car. Television glued
:14:25. > :14:33.us to our seats as did sedentary jobs. Then came computers and the
:14:33. > :14:41.internet, each generation getting less active. This Cardiff gym group
:14:41. > :14:47.all have heart problems. Many never used to do any exercise. With his
:14:47. > :14:52.manual job, this man didn't realise he was unfit until a heart attack.
:14:52. > :15:02.I had a factory job. I never thought I would be as weak as this.
:15:02. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:08.When a heart attack come to me all Children are meant to do an hour's
:15:08. > :15:12.physical activity every day. Four out of five do not manage it. The
:15:12. > :15:16.school is bucking the trend, part of an Olympics education programme
:15:16. > :15:19.aiming for a legacy of sports participation. I think it's
:15:19. > :15:23.important in school that you set the habits for the rest of your
:15:23. > :15:26.life. If we can get them engaged and enjoying sport and physical
:15:26. > :15:31.activity, hopefully they will do that for the rest of their lives.
:15:31. > :15:35.Inactivity is a killer. That is the message of the research in the
:15:35. > :15:45.Lancet journal. Well we can't all win medals, staying active might
:15:45. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:49.Our top story: The conflict in Syria reaches the heart of the
:15:49. > :15:55.regime as a bomb blast in the centre of the capital claims the
:15:55. > :15:59.lives of three senior officials. Coming up: We investigate why text
:15:59. > :16:04.messaging is now the most popular form of communication between
:16:04. > :16:07.adults. In the business news, UK
:16:07. > :16:12.unemployment falls by 65,000. The number of people claiming
:16:12. > :16:22.jobseeker's allowance rises. The Government will underwrite �40
:16:22. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:27.billion of infrastructure Police believe criminal gangs from
:16:27. > :16:31.eastern Europe are intending to target the Olympics. Pickpockets
:16:31. > :16:36.are a particular concern, with many expected to prey on tourists during
:16:36. > :16:39.the Games. Chris Rogers has been to Barcelona. In this special
:16:39. > :16:46.investigation, he exposes the career pickpockets with their
:16:46. > :16:50.sights set on London 2012. Welcome to way pickpocketing Mecca.
:16:50. > :16:55.Crime statistics show that Barcelona is one of the riskiest
:16:55. > :17:00.places in the world to hold on to your bags and wallets. Barcelona,
:17:00. > :17:04.very good. Very good for pickpockets! This gang are part of
:17:04. > :17:10.a network of 50 Romanian pickpockets will stop we are going
:17:10. > :17:16.to London this year! Johnny, Mario and Danny say they are aiming for
:17:16. > :17:21.gold at the Olympics. Look, we go for gymnastics! They agreed to show
:17:21. > :17:28.me how they do it. Here, Johnny is the destruction. Danny, the runner,
:17:28. > :17:32.slips off with whatever Mario, the debt pair, give to him. They named
:17:32. > :17:38.this tactic after the footballer who dances when he scores,
:17:38. > :17:48.Ronaldinho. Cameras, laptops and phones are sold on the Romanian
:17:48. > :17:48.
:17:48. > :17:53.black market. What they really prefer his cash from wallets.
:17:53. > :18:01.week you can make no euros, the next week you can make 5000 because
:18:01. > :18:04.of tourists. He has just left his bag for a second, you know? Even
:18:04. > :18:07.though I knew they were going to lift something from my pocket or my
:18:07. > :18:11.bag, I was still shocked and surprised how quickly it happened
:18:11. > :18:16.and the fact I did not notice. I did not feel anything leave my
:18:16. > :18:20.pockets or my bag. Only a trained eye has any chance of spotting a
:18:20. > :18:26.pickpocket as they strike. Tourists search for their valuables, but the
:18:26. > :18:32.thieves are long gone and so on their clothes, wallets and phones.
:18:32. > :18:40.The man in a white T-shirt is the pickpocket. The wallet! It is now
:18:40. > :18:48.with him. Yes. Not, he takes the money. Look at the guy. He doesn't
:18:48. > :18:52.know. He don't have wallet. This gang say they will soon leave
:18:52. > :18:58.Barcelona and head to London. They are doing their research. You are
:18:58. > :19:04.looking at the shopping centre, near the Olympic village?
:19:04. > :19:10.London buses, the tourist buses. You can go upstairs. That's a good
:19:10. > :19:16.target? But they spot a potential obstacle. An online article reports
:19:16. > :19:22.on the British police efforts to crackdown on foreign pickpockets.
:19:23. > :19:26.It is called Operation Podium, targeting a Olympic related crime.
:19:26. > :19:31.This is the early morning wake-up call many foreign pickpockets could
:19:31. > :19:37.receive. This house has been rented by a gang of suspected Romanian
:19:37. > :19:42.thieves in east London. This is a pre-emptive strike to put gangs of
:19:42. > :19:45.pickpockets out of business before tourists begin to arrive for the
:19:45. > :19:50.Olympics. It's also a clear message to gangs still thinking of coming
:19:50. > :19:54.here. We know where people are, the addresses they are using and the
:19:54. > :19:58.vehicles they are using. We will come through the door, very hard,
:19:58. > :20:01.and he will be arrested. In the first week of police raids, more
:20:01. > :20:04.than 80 arrests were made. Scotland Yard said that public vigilance is
:20:04. > :20:13.the best weapon against the pickpockets who claim they can
:20:13. > :20:18.With just nine days to go until the opening ceremony of the Olympic
:20:18. > :20:22.Games, the organisers have decided to cut some scenes. Apparently,
:20:22. > :20:28.rehearsals have been running over time and they stunt bike sequence
:20:28. > :20:31.has been taken out. Let's get the details from John Kay.
:20:31. > :20:35.There are thousands of performers inside the stadium right now,
:20:35. > :20:39.rehearsing hard for their big night next Friday. It's a performance
:20:39. > :20:42.that could be seen by billions of people all around the globe. We
:20:42. > :20:46.have heard a bit of the music drifting out of the stadium in the
:20:46. > :20:51.last few minutes. I'm not going to ruin the surprise, but I can tell
:20:51. > :20:55.you what is not in the show. You will not know their names, but
:20:55. > :21:02.they are about to star in the biggest show on earth. Here is
:21:02. > :21:07.ready for the ceremony? Me! Performers of all ages, arriving at
:21:07. > :21:12.the Olympic Park today for more top-secret rehearsals. Opening
:21:12. > :21:18.ceremony? What part do you play? are not allowed to say. We are
:21:18. > :21:23.sworn to secrecy! We are hearing reports it is being shortened?
:21:23. > :21:27.sad. But the amount of hours we have put in, at this late stage to
:21:27. > :21:31.be told... But you know what, we have to work with what we have got.
:21:32. > :21:36.The ceremony is being cut by about half an hour to make sure the
:21:36. > :21:40.80,000 spectators can catch the last buses and trains home. So,
:21:40. > :21:45.what is Danny Boyle, the man behind the show, going to lead out, with
:21:45. > :21:50.just nine days to go? Will it be his celebration of the British
:21:50. > :21:54.countryside, which she has already revealed? No, it is a BMX bike
:21:54. > :22:00.routine, like this, that has been dropped, involving dozens of
:22:00. > :22:03.cyclists. So, when they told you, what was your response? I was
:22:03. > :22:09.completely and utterly gutted, to be honest. The bikers have signed
:22:09. > :22:11.contracts which means they cannot be interviewed on camera. A once-
:22:11. > :22:15.in-a-lifetime opportunity that is never happening again. I couldn't
:22:15. > :22:20.believe it. I thought there are going to take me out because I
:22:20. > :22:24.wasn't good enough or something. He says, no, it is everybody. It is
:22:24. > :22:27.being cut for one simple reason, that we need to get people out of
:22:27. > :22:31.the Olympic Park, on to the transport system and back into
:22:31. > :22:37.central London before the last trains leave at 2:30am. We need to
:22:37. > :22:41.do that in a secure, save and orderly fashion. Tonight, out of
:22:41. > :22:45.you but just about audible, rehearsals continue. It might be
:22:45. > :22:52.shorter now, but the organisers say it has only been Trent. The show
:22:52. > :22:56.must go on. -- trimmed. There was a time when it was good
:22:56. > :23:00.to talk. But in 21st century Britain, that is changing. Texting
:23:00. > :23:04.has overtaken phone conversations as the most popular way to keep in
:23:04. > :23:13.touch. On average, we send 200 messages a month from our mobile
:23:13. > :23:19.Want to get in touch? We used to pick up the phone and call. Now it
:23:19. > :23:24.seems we are more likely to tap a message on it and text. Here is the
:23:24. > :23:28.modern face of communications in one family. Amelia is on a tablet
:23:28. > :23:32.computer in one room. Her mother is on her phone, checking hair e-mail.
:23:32. > :23:36.Next door, Charlie is on the computer, playing games and chatted
:23:36. > :23:42.online. In the sitting room we seek dad on his phone, watching
:23:42. > :23:47.television. How do they keep in touch? I tend to use Facebook and
:23:47. > :23:51.Skype because they are free. No matter where someone is, I can talk
:23:51. > :23:58.to them pretty much any time. prefer to speak to people in person.
:23:58. > :24:04.Increasingly, I find myself texting or using e-mail. See? That is the
:24:04. > :24:12.way the world is. The average UK consumer now Sen's... Up 50 text
:24:12. > :24:16.messages per week. As for 16 to 24- year-olds... 96% of them are using
:24:16. > :24:21.some form of text, sms or social networking, every day to
:24:21. > :24:27.communicate with friends and family. But we are making fewer calls. The
:24:27. > :24:34.time we spent chatting on the phone fell... By 5% last year. That is if
:24:34. > :24:39.you add up both landlines and mobiles. On Saturday? Yes, let me
:24:39. > :24:42.check my Filofax. Use of landlines has been falling for a decade. Now,
:24:42. > :24:46.for the first time since mobile- phone is arrived, we are calling
:24:46. > :24:49.less on them as well. 20 years ago you would walk past a bus stop and
:24:50. > :24:54.people would be chatting away to each other. 10 years ago they would
:24:54. > :24:59.still be talking, but on mobile phones. Today, you walk past the
:24:59. > :25:04.same bus stop and everybody has their heads down, frowning at their
:25:04. > :25:07.smartphone devices and tapping away at their screens. One thing is
:25:07. > :25:10.bringing families closer, the advent of bigger, better
:25:10. > :25:18.televisions means that we are more likely to spend time together in
:25:18. > :25:21.It is Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday. Some 12 million
:25:21. > :25:26.schoolchildren across South Africa have kicked off the celebrations.
:25:26. > :25:33.He became South Africa's first black president in 1994, after
:25:33. > :25:37.spending 27 years in prison for his fight against apartheid.
:25:37. > :25:46.A nation salutes its hero. The message is the same, from black and
:25:47. > :25:53.white, old and young. I would send him a gift and a card. I will write
:25:53. > :25:56.that we always love you, because he gave us freedom. Nelson Mandela is
:25:56. > :26:00.loved at home and respected around the world. Prime ministers and
:26:00. > :26:06.presidents have flocked to his side. He did say how moved he was by the
:26:06. > :26:10.way his birthday is being celebrated today. In South Africa,
:26:10. > :26:15.the 67 minutes of service by every citizen across the country.
:26:15. > :26:20.power, he symbolised public service. Today, South Africans volunteered
:26:20. > :26:30.for charitable duty. My grandfather has always instilled in us that we
:26:30. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:39.should be of great service to our They know apartheid only as history.
:26:39. > :26:47.Today, they celebrate the man who made that possible. Happy birthday
:26:47. > :26:54.You can see the full interview with Bill Clinton on Newsnight this
:26:54. > :27:03.Some flooding today in Scotland around Perth in particular. It's
:27:03. > :27:07.not surprising when you look at There is some very heavy rain for
:27:07. > :27:11.the next couple of hours around Lothian and borders. This band of
:27:11. > :27:14.rain really got stuck in Scotland today. Further south we have heavy
:27:14. > :27:18.and thundery showers whistling across Wales, through the Midlands
:27:18. > :27:22.and East Anglia. A few more of them to come this evening. Low-pressure
:27:22. > :27:26.is responsible for the wet weather. That is going to pull away, had to
:27:26. > :27:28.do not see. Take away the showers and the heavy rain, this weather
:27:28. > :27:33.front takes rain away from Scotland and pushes it into northern England
:27:33. > :27:38.by the end of the night, leaving behind cooler air. Temperatures are
:27:38. > :27:40.a little bit higher in the south, not as humid as last night. More
:27:40. > :27:44.comfortable for sleeping. The rain in northern England should be light.
:27:44. > :27:48.It drifts southwards through the Midlands, becoming patchy and
:27:48. > :27:52.turning more showery. Some sharp showers in the south-east.
:27:52. > :27:57.Elsewhere, showers few and far between. What will two in Northern
:27:57. > :28:03.Ireland. A drier day in Scotland. It's not getting any warmer just
:28:03. > :28:07.yet because the breezes coming down from the north or north-west.
:28:07. > :28:10.Showers will not be as heavy as today. With a bit of luck, the
:28:10. > :28:13.south-west will be seen very few showers in the afternoon. The
:28:13. > :28:17.south-east could be having some heavy, thundery showers. In and out
:28:17. > :28:23.at the Oval for the start of the cricket. For the Open, starting
:28:23. > :28:25.tomorrow, very few showers. It will probably stay dry with sunshine on
:28:25. > :28:31.Friday and Saturday it will stop the wind is becoming lighter as
:28:31. > :28:36.well. A scattering of showers around the UK on Friday. The we are
:28:36. > :28:46.going to get high pressure building in later on Friday, particularly on