:00:00. > :00:00.President Obama says the Malaysian plane was shot
:00:07. > :00:11.down with a surface-to-air missile, killing 298 people on board.
:00:12. > :00:14.He says it was fired from an area in eastern Ukraine controlled
:00:15. > :00:25.An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies filled with
:00:26. > :00:30.There has to be a credible international
:00:31. > :00:36.80 children are now known to be among the dead.
:00:37. > :00:40.Air crash investigators are heading to the scene.
:00:41. > :00:43.The faces of some of the ten British victims - students, a former BBC
:00:44. > :00:49.As international pressure grows on Russia there's still no
:00:50. > :00:51.confirmation of the whereabouts of the plane's black box.
:00:52. > :00:56.Israel continues its ground offensive in Gaza as the
:00:57. > :01:00.number of Palestinians fleeing their homes nearly doubles in a day.
:01:01. > :01:02.Evidence of a sustained attempt to impose a hardline Islamist agenda
:01:03. > :01:07.in some Birmingham schools, according to a leaked report.
:01:08. > :01:13.And Britain basks in the hottest day of the year.
:01:14. > :01:16.We reveal how some councils are refusing to tax empty properties
:01:17. > :01:20.And the primary where teachers claim they were forced to buy
:01:21. > :01:46.President Obama says the Malaysian airlines plane was shot down
:01:47. > :01:50.by a surface-to-air missile fired in eastern Ukraine
:01:51. > :01:53.from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
:01:54. > :01:56.He described it as an outrage of unspeakable proportions
:01:57. > :01:59.and demanded a ceasefire and a credible investigation.
:02:00. > :02:03.298 people died when flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
:02:04. > :02:12.Ten of the victims were British, among them university students,
:02:13. > :02:15.a former BBC journalist and two football fans.
:02:16. > :02:18.President Obama has accused Russia's President Putin of not
:02:19. > :02:25.He said Russia had given the rebels a steady flow of support,
:02:26. > :02:30.Our Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford is at the scene in Grabovo.
:02:31. > :02:41.You may find some of the images in his report distressing.
:02:42. > :02:48.The stark horror of the field of debris where flight MH17 crashed to
:02:49. > :02:51.earth, the place where the bitter war in eastern Ukraine suddenly
:02:52. > :02:57.ended the lives of people from around the world, this evening still
:02:58. > :03:02.controlled by rebel fighters. TRANSLATION: There was a very strong
:03:03. > :03:06.rumble, then a sort of explosion, and then people started falling from
:03:07. > :03:13.the sky. People were appearing right from the clouds. When we ran out, we
:03:14. > :03:19.saw part of a plane falling over our house. There are more parts of the
:03:20. > :03:25.plane in the yard, and papers, too. We also found this piece of a credit
:03:26. > :03:29.card from an American bank. In the nearby fields of sunflowers,
:03:30. > :03:34.off-duty miners, searching for the bodies of the passengers and crew
:03:35. > :03:41.who fell from the sky, almost 300 of them, their dreams and futures
:03:42. > :03:44.apparently blown apart in midair. The hopelessly inexperienced
:03:45. > :03:49.rescuers have found about two thirds of the bodies but around 100 are
:03:50. > :03:54.still missing. The bodies, body parts and debris are spread over
:03:55. > :03:59.almost ten miles. It is a tragic and devastating scene. People's clothes
:04:00. > :04:04.and belongings and their life jackets are scattered among the
:04:05. > :04:09.charred bodies. You can still smell the death and the burning in the
:04:10. > :04:11.air, but it is going to be a huge challenge for international
:04:12. > :04:19.investigators to get here and operate here safely. This is the
:04:20. > :04:22.middle of a war zone. With rebel checkpoints and closed airspace, it
:04:23. > :04:28.took us around 24 hours to get here from Moscow. There is confusion at
:04:29. > :04:33.the moment about who has the black box flight recorders, so it is hard
:04:34. > :04:37.for an investigation to start. The best theory is still that the plane
:04:38. > :04:41.was shot down by a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile fired by
:04:42. > :04:43.someone targeting a Ukrainian military plane, but it is not clear
:04:44. > :04:46.who. The government military plane, but it is not clear
:04:47. > :04:51.it was the rebels, or even the Russians. It claims these are
:04:52. > :04:58.pictures of a launch system being taken back from eastern Ukraine into
:04:59. > :05:04.Russia. We ask all respective governments to participate in this
:05:05. > :05:08.investigation and to support the Ukrainian government to bring to
:05:09. > :05:16.justice all these bustards who committed this international crime.
:05:17. > :05:19.In Moscow, the man Kiev accuses of supplying the rebels with their
:05:20. > :05:25.sophisticated weaponry was keen to spread the blame.
:05:26. > :05:28.TRANSLATION: I express my condolences on behalf of the Russian
:05:29. > :05:31.Federation and I want to underline that this tragedy would not have
:05:32. > :05:35.happened if this land was at peace, or combat operations had not been
:05:36. > :05:38.resumed. It is obvious that the state on whose territory this
:05:39. > :05:44.happened bears the responsibility for this. But the US president said
:05:45. > :05:47.that Vladimir Putin was not doing enough. There has to be a credible
:05:48. > :05:52.international investigation into what happened. The UN Security
:05:53. > :05:56.Council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all
:05:57. > :06:02.members, including Russia, to their word, in order to facilitate the
:06:03. > :06:07.investigation. Russia, pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine must adhere
:06:08. > :06:10.to an immediate cease-fire. Ukraine and Russia have been at Bagger is
:06:11. > :06:15.drawn since Russia took over Crimea in March. Things have only got worse
:06:16. > :06:20.since then and now almost 300 people, none of them Ukrainian or
:06:21. > :06:23.Russian, have paid the price with their lives. Daniel Sandford, BBC
:06:24. > :06:26.News, Grabovo. Throughout the day stories
:06:27. > :06:28.have been emerging about those Two-thirds
:06:29. > :06:30.of the victims were Dutch. And there were dozens
:06:31. > :06:32.of international delegates heading to an AIDS conference in Australia,
:06:33. > :06:35.families heading off at Among the ten British victims,
:06:36. > :06:39.a university student heading to Australia for six months and two
:06:40. > :06:59.Newcastle football fans on their way These pictures so passengers
:07:00. > :07:03.settling down on board flight MH17 yesterday, a familiar routine. --
:07:04. > :07:08.show passengers. Four hours later, everyone on board was dead, their
:07:09. > :07:11.lives cut short in an instant over Ukraine. In a back garden in
:07:12. > :07:16.Newcastle today, the father of one of the victims told me about his
:07:17. > :07:21.28-year-old son who he will never see again. Liam Sweeney grew from a
:07:22. > :07:25.schoolboy who loved Newcastle United to a young man who was on his way to
:07:26. > :07:30.watch them in New Zealand, on the trip of a lifetime. Ringing up the
:07:31. > :07:34.emergency lines, whatever, hoping, to be honest, that one of those nine
:07:35. > :07:38.Britons was not my son. Horrible towards somebody else, but you do
:07:39. > :07:47.think of your own one when something has happened. I would rather it was
:07:48. > :07:50.me sitting on the plane. Liam was travelling with fellow lifelong fan
:07:51. > :07:58.John Alder. Friends left tributes to him at the club. John was there in a
:07:59. > :08:03.suit, cheering the team on, showing his passion. The club has set aside
:08:04. > :08:07.this dedicated area for the two fans who they say were known to thousands
:08:08. > :08:13.of supporters. Newcastle United have said the loss of the two fans is
:08:14. > :08:17.truly devastating. Also on board, 49-year-old Glenn Thomas from
:08:18. > :08:22.Blackpool, a press officer for the World Health Organization travelling
:08:23. > :08:27.to an aids conference in Australia. Other British people on the plane
:08:28. > :08:30.included Ben Pocock from Bristol, a student at Loughborough. And Richard
:08:31. > :08:36.Mayne, also a student, who studied in Leeds. But it is the Dutch who
:08:37. > :08:40.bear the brunt of the death toll. These two were heading off on their
:08:41. > :08:48.holidays. She ran a flower shop in a town north of Amsterdam. The grief
:08:49. > :08:54.here is obvious. We can do nothing. All we can do is lay down flowers
:08:55. > :09:03.and think about them. We know them very long. It's a tragedy. I don't
:09:04. > :09:07.know what to say. Little shrines are popping up around the world now to
:09:08. > :09:10.remember the lives snuffed out yesterday. This is the grief of
:09:11. > :09:13.family and friends which will last for the rest of their lives. Danny
:09:14. > :09:16.Savage, BBC News. The plane's flight path took it over
:09:17. > :09:19.Donetsk in the troubled region of eastern Ukraine,
:09:20. > :09:22.a route some airlines had chosen to There are also concerns
:09:23. > :09:25.about the whereabouts of the plane's Richard Westcott looks at what
:09:26. > :09:40.the investigation will focus on. Investigators will be desperate to
:09:41. > :09:43.secure the crash scene as soon as possible. Right now there is no
:09:44. > :09:49.guarantee evidence hasn't been moved, or even taken away by the
:09:50. > :09:52.people there. It won't be an easy investigation. The Ukrainians would
:09:53. > :09:56.normally take charge but the crash site is in an area controlled by the
:09:57. > :10:00.people they are fighting. However, one former investigator who worked
:10:01. > :10:07.on the Lockerbie bombing says that once experts arrive it should be
:10:08. > :10:11.full of clues. If you have a missile warhead explosion, or an explosion
:10:12. > :10:15.of something on board an aircraft, the surfaces that get washed by the
:10:16. > :10:21.blast tend to have traces of explosive left on them. So it is
:10:22. > :10:28.then possible to swab the surface, send that to a laboratory, and
:10:29. > :10:31.relatively easy to identify the actual explosive. It is a missile
:10:32. > :10:36.from a launch are like this one that they will be looking for, a Russian
:10:37. > :10:41.made launcher. It is radar guided and easily able to reach the
:10:42. > :10:47.aircraft. The maximum range is more than double the altitude of the
:10:48. > :10:50.airliner. Expert operators, are trained to identify what they are
:10:51. > :10:55.aiming at before firing, but in the wrong hands it is easy to make a
:10:56. > :11:00.mistake. They may have had enough training to get a lock on a target
:11:01. > :11:05.and scan for targets, but not enough to understand the full intricacies
:11:06. > :11:08.of the system. For example, telling between different transponder codes,
:11:09. > :11:13.which would indicate a civil aircraft, rather than military.
:11:14. > :11:16.There are now questions about why airliners were flying over a
:11:17. > :11:21.conflict zone. These radar tracks show that Malaysia had been using
:11:22. > :11:25.the same route for some time because it had been officially declared safe
:11:26. > :11:30.over 32,000 feet, and they want a loan. Look at Lufthansa, using it,
:11:31. > :11:36.too, along with dozens of other airlines. But British airways
:11:37. > :11:41.decided to avoid Ukraine altogether. Incidentally, this is the radar
:11:42. > :11:47.picture from earlier today. You can see the aircraft now skirting around
:11:48. > :11:52.the danger zone. So, where does the investigation go from here? As ever,
:11:53. > :11:56.recovering the black boxes is vital. One of them records sounds in the
:11:57. > :12:00.cockpit and you would hear an explosion. Anyone with a stake in
:12:01. > :12:04.the flight will want to be involved. It is a Malaysian airline, an
:12:05. > :12:07.American aircraft, with British engines, made by Rolls Royce, and
:12:08. > :12:11.there were at least ten nationalities on board. It will be
:12:12. > :12:13.one of the most controversial aircraft investigations ever, and
:12:14. > :12:16.one of the most closely watched. Our Transport Correspondent Richard
:12:17. > :12:17.Westcott. In a moment we'll talk to our
:12:18. > :12:19.diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall in Moscow but first let's go
:12:20. > :12:30.to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam This tragedy is being felt
:12:31. > :12:38.particularly in the Netherlands, where so many of the victims were
:12:39. > :12:42.from. Yes, almost 200, we believe, Dutch nationals on board this
:12:43. > :12:46.flight. One newspaper said the country is being submerged under
:12:47. > :12:50.grief. Right across the country, not just the flower shop you saw
:12:51. > :12:53.earlier, but right across the country outside the houses of
:12:54. > :12:58.victims, in town centres and elsewhere, outside one house where
:12:59. > :13:04.we now know six family members, the whole family was wiped out, there
:13:05. > :13:08.are candles, there are flowers, as, really, a nation begins to come to
:13:09. > :13:13.terms with what has happened. The Dutch prime minister cut his holiday
:13:14. > :13:17.short. He said that if it does turn out the plane was brought down by a
:13:18. > :13:21.missile strike, he vowed to bring the people who fired that missile to
:13:22. > :13:26.justice. We owe it to the victims, he said, and their families.
:13:27. > :13:30.Malaysian airlines has said it will try to fly the relatives of the
:13:31. > :13:35.victims, those who wish to go, to the crash site. Some of them are
:13:36. > :13:38.being looked after at a hotel not far from where I am standing. The
:13:39. > :13:44.overwhelming feeling here in the Netherlands this evening is one of
:13:45. > :13:49.profound shock and anguish at the immensity of their loss. Let's speak
:13:50. > :13:54.to Bridget Kendall in Moscow. The Americans are piling on the pressure
:13:55. > :13:59.on President Putin. How is he likely to respond? We have heard from him
:14:00. > :14:03.and his Foreign Minister a bit. In some way 's, their remarks sound as
:14:04. > :14:07.though they do want to cooperate. They do want a cease-fire and an
:14:08. > :14:11.international investigation. And they have held back from directly
:14:12. > :14:14.accusing the Kiev government of possibly being responsible directly
:14:15. > :14:19.for shooting down the plane, which has been aired in the Russian media
:14:20. > :14:23.and some of the rebel fighters have said. More broadly, they say that
:14:24. > :14:26.Kiev has to bear responsibility and there is no hint from any Russian
:14:27. > :14:30.official that they are conceding the point that heavy armoury and
:14:31. > :14:33.fighters have gone across-the-board and this might be what is
:14:34. > :14:39.responsible for what has happened. But why would they? People in the
:14:40. > :14:43.outside world are talking about criminal responsibility. Why would
:14:44. > :14:46.Russia admit that? The key is what they do. President Obama asked
:14:47. > :14:51.President Putin to close the border, and will they accept the outcome of
:14:52. > :14:54.any international investigation? Thank you.
:14:55. > :14:56.The other main news tonight, less than 24 hours after Israel
:14:57. > :14:59.began a ground offensive in Gaza the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
:15:00. > :15:02.Netanyahu says he's prepared for a significant expansion into Gaza.
:15:03. > :15:04.The UN says the number of people who've fled their homes
:15:05. > :15:08.in Gaza in the past 24 hours has almost doubled to 40,000.
:15:09. > :15:19.Lyse Doucet reports from Beit Hanoun.
:15:20. > :15:27.Late last night, Israeli soldiers crossed into Gaza on foot, backed up
:15:28. > :15:33.by tanks and artillery. A major escalation in its military campaign.
:15:34. > :15:37.This morning, families are on the run. Beit Hanoun sits next to the
:15:38. > :15:43.Israeli border. run. Beit Hanoun sits next to the
:15:44. > :15:51.they can carry they are run. Beit Hanoun sits next to the
:15:52. > :15:55.as they can. We were sitting run. Beit Hanoun sits next to the
:15:56. > :15:59.houses, she cries, they started shelling us. We went to a
:16:00. > :16:05.relative's house and they started shelling there. Israel says its
:16:06. > :16:10.forces are searching for tunnels used by Palestinian militants for
:16:11. > :16:17.cross-border raids. Are there tunnels used by Hamas? Why is this
:16:18. > :16:21.area targeted? TRANSLATION: There are no tunnels.
:16:22. > :16:27.There is nothing in our area here. That is just what they want to tell
:16:28. > :16:31.the other countries to justify this. This is one of the key areas of
:16:32. > :16:35.their targeting. The drones are in the sky. We have heard tank shells
:16:36. > :16:40.being fired and artillery, and we have seen families on the run,
:16:41. > :16:43.running in every possible direction, not sure where the military
:16:44. > :16:52.operation is going, not sure where they should go for safety. In Israel
:16:53. > :17:00.this morning, the Prime Minister convened his security cabinet.
:17:01. > :17:03.TRANSLATION: We chose to start this operation after exhausting other
:17:04. > :17:09.options and out of an understanding that without the operation, the
:17:10. > :17:13.price could be much higher. Israel is already warning it could
:17:14. > :17:20.significantly widen its military operations. More reservists have
:17:21. > :17:25.been called up. Israel says it is not seeking to topple Hamas, which
:17:26. > :17:34.controls Gaza. But today we witnessed another air strike
:17:35. > :17:36.targeting its leaders. Hamas says it won't destroy them. Lee's Doucet,
:17:37. > :17:42.BBC News, Gaza. President Obama has described
:17:43. > :17:45.the Malaysia Airlines plane disaster as an outrage of unspeakable
:17:46. > :17:48.proportions and called for And lighting up the night sky, 3,000
:17:49. > :17:53.lightning strikes leave a trail Why the Essex couple who took
:17:54. > :18:01.their children out of school to go on holiday so facing prosecution is
:18:02. > :18:06.a breach of their human rights. And heading to Glasgow,
:18:07. > :18:08.we catch up with the Reading man There have been passionate
:18:09. > :18:21.and personal testimonies in the House of Lords today during a debate
:18:22. > :18:26.to change the law to allow Under the proposals, a terminally
:18:27. > :18:33.ill patient must be judged to have Two independent doctors would be
:18:34. > :18:37.required to agree that the patient had made an informed
:18:38. > :18:40.decision of their own free will. And the patient would be required to
:18:41. > :18:43.administer the lethal dose Our medical correspondent, Fergus
:18:44. > :19:04.Walsh has been following the debate. You do not want people to have the
:19:05. > :19:09.choice! Powerful views on both sides. This is a debate which has
:19:10. > :19:14.polarised opinion. They charged atmosphere with a record number of
:19:15. > :19:22.peers wanting to speak. One Briton a fortnight goes abroad for an
:19:23. > :19:25.assisted suicide. Supporters say it is time to change the law here. The
:19:26. > :19:30.current situation leaves the rich able to go to Switzerland, the
:19:31. > :19:33.majority relied on amateur assistance, the compassionate
:19:34. > :19:37.treated like criminals, no safeguards in respect to an due
:19:38. > :19:42.pressure now and many people caring so much for those they leave behind,
:19:43. > :19:49.dying earlier and alone because they fear implicating their loved one in
:19:50. > :19:54.a criminal enterprise. But Baroness Campbell, who has a serious
:19:55. > :20:00.life-threatening disability said the proposals were frightening. The bill
:20:01. > :20:08.purports to offer choice, the ability to face death rather than
:20:09. > :20:17.disempowerment. But it is not a choice. Pain, suffering and
:20:18. > :20:25.disempowerment are treatable, I have to believe that. There is a profound
:20:26. > :20:29.gulf between those who see assisted dying as the right for the
:20:30. > :20:35.terminally ill and those who feel it could become a duty for the
:20:36. > :20:38.vulnerable and disabled. This law would change the moral fabric of the
:20:39. > :20:44.country. We believe that this current time in society, where there
:20:45. > :20:48.are cuts to the NHS, social welfare is being cut, this is not the time
:20:49. > :20:54.to have assisted suicide legislation. There were moving
:20:55. > :21:02.stories from campaigners for and against. Many who had lost loved
:21:03. > :21:07.ones. My wife wanted to die with dignity. She was denied that. She
:21:08. > :21:12.had excruciating constipation and was down to six stone. She said she
:21:13. > :21:18.was so tired and poorly and this was no life. Realistically, there is no
:21:19. > :21:20.chance that the bill will become law but this issue will keep re-emerging
:21:21. > :21:25.and both sides will have their arguments ready.
:21:26. > :21:27.Millions more adults in England could now be offered
:21:28. > :21:29.cholesterol-reducing drugs to protect them
:21:30. > :21:34.It comes after the health regulator NICE recommended
:21:35. > :21:36.statins should be extended from high-risk to low-risk patients.
:21:37. > :21:39.But some doctors fear the move could do more harm than
:21:40. > :21:59.This five side team, mostly men in their 50s and 60s, are mostly fit
:22:00. > :22:05.and healthy. What will happen when we ask who should be prescribed the
:22:06. > :22:11.cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins. Under the current guidelines, two
:22:12. > :22:16.men not currently taking medication would be offered statins. I think we
:22:17. > :22:21.take too many pills but if it is necessary, it is necessary. If it is
:22:22. > :22:32.medically proven then I would give it a trial. NICE said over three
:22:33. > :22:37.years, statins would prevent two deaths, four strokes and seven
:22:38. > :22:40.nonfatal heart attacks out of 1000 people. That may not sound
:22:41. > :22:47.impressive but on a population scale of millions, that is tens of
:22:48. > :22:50.thousands of lives saved. Prevention is better than cure. One of the
:22:51. > :22:55.mainstays of modern medicine is to use health care treatments including
:22:56. > :23:01.medicines, to prevent bad things happening in the future. These new
:23:02. > :23:05.guidelines mean millions of us could soon be offered statins and that has
:23:06. > :23:08.led to concerns that so many otherwise healthy people could end
:23:09. > :23:14.up taking a pill every single day for the rest of their lives. A small
:23:15. > :23:19.but significant number of experts worry about the medicalisation of
:23:20. > :23:25.society. Almost every man about 60 years of age and every woman 65 is
:23:26. > :23:30.eligible for statin treatment. To me that is putting statins in the
:23:31. > :23:37.drinking water. I think we are medicalising a condition which is
:23:38. > :23:38.manageable. Doctors are divided about how many more could or should
:23:39. > :23:43.benefit. There is evidence
:23:44. > :23:46.of a sustained attempt to impose a hardline Islamist agenda
:23:47. > :23:48.in some Birmingham schools - that's according to a leaked draft
:23:49. > :23:51.of the official report in It comes on the same day that
:23:52. > :23:55.the city's council published They've apologised for not
:23:56. > :24:09.acting sooner for fear of being It is the end of term but the school
:24:10. > :24:14.cannot escape the spotlight. It is one of five at the centre of claims
:24:15. > :24:20.of a takeover plot by hardline Muslims, something parents today
:24:21. > :24:28.said they just don't recognise. It is just to prove a point. The school
:24:29. > :24:35.is good. But we spoke to one current teacher at the school whose identity
:24:36. > :24:39.we agreed to disguise, who described an increasingly Islamic ethos. The
:24:40. > :24:44.other macro first it was a trickle. New staff coming to the school were
:24:45. > :24:49.more and more Muslim. They seemed to get the idea was an Islamic school.
:24:50. > :24:54.One member of staff said he wanted to see an Islamic state in the
:24:55. > :24:57.country. Findings from the Department for
:24:58. > :25:09.Education were leaked to a newspaper. They said, this could
:25:10. > :25:12.leave young people vulnerable to radicalisation. A report published
:25:13. > :25:18.by Birmingham City Council said there was no conspiracy to take over
:25:19. > :25:22.schools or encourage extremism. They did find some individuals were
:25:23. > :25:26.promoting a slight practice and it agreed that weakness in governance
:25:27. > :25:31.and a failure by the authorities at the warnings had allowed this to
:25:32. > :25:34.happen. There is a culture in the City Council where individuals who
:25:35. > :25:40.could have taken forward action on matters have not done so, because of
:25:41. > :25:44.the fear they might be branded a racist or Islamophobic. The
:25:45. > :25:47.Department for Education will not comment until it has officially
:25:48. > :25:53.published its enquiry. While what has happened here is disputed, the
:25:54. > :25:57.focus is now on how to prevent a similar situation in the future.
:25:58. > :25:59.There were spectacular storms last night as large parts of
:26:00. > :26:02.This week's heatwave hit a highpoint today,
:26:03. > :26:07.In Gravesend in Kent, temperatures soared to 32.3 degrees centigrade.
:26:08. > :26:21.For many, the holidays start here and beaches across the east coast
:26:22. > :26:25.are filling up with visitors enjoying the sunshine and soaring
:26:26. > :26:29.temperatures. Hemsby in Norfolk is one of the hottest parts of the UK.
:26:30. > :26:36.But this is the calm after the storm. At Worthing in West Sussex,
:26:37. > :26:40.But this is the calm after the the sky was alight. Lightning struck
:26:41. > :26:46.more than 3000 times in two hours across the UK, generating dramatic
:26:47. > :26:51.pictures from viewers. The roof of this house in Streatham in London
:26:52. > :26:55.caved in. In Portslade near Brighton, lightning damage to this
:26:56. > :27:00.property both inside and out. Luckily, no one was hurt. We were
:27:01. > :27:08.all looking and we could see the lightning and here it is. Then we
:27:09. > :27:12.heard a crash. Tony Cross/ through the storms in the early hours to
:27:13. > :27:18.begin his holiday in Norfolk. His family are heeding warnings about
:27:19. > :27:21.the heatwave but they will not have any complaints about the
:27:22. > :27:24.temperatures here. You can never mind about the weather because you
:27:25. > :27:37.never know when you will get the hot weather, do you? I never moan! We
:27:38. > :27:43.are experiencing a heatwave but it is lovely on the beach! And there
:27:44. > :27:47.was a gentle breeze along the shore in Southwold in Suffolk. Apps only a
:27:48. > :27:52.brief respite with more thunderstorms predicted. -- perhaps
:27:53. > :28:04.only a brief respite. Hello, in the south we did hit 32
:28:05. > :28:09.Celsius. But, with more heat available, that means tonight's
:28:10. > :28:15.storms have more energy and potentially more violence. They are
:28:16. > :28:19.already brewing in France. They will drift in the Southern counties in
:28:20. > :28:24.the evening and really expanding overnight. Tonight's storms packing
:28:25. > :28:28.more of a punch. Yes, more lightning and thunder but also torrential
:28:29. > :28:33.rain. Even if you do not get the storms it will be a difficult night
:28:34. > :28:37.for sleeping. Generally dry across Scotland and Northern Ireland. In
:28:38. > :28:42.the morning, the storms will track across northern England and
:28:43. > :28:48.Scotland. Then a bit of a mole with more storms developing by the
:28:49. > :28:56.afternoon. They will be somewhat hit and miss. It may stay grey in
:28:57. > :29:01.Scotland. Perhaps not too many storms in Northern Ireland. We are
:29:02. > :29:05.keeping an eye on areas from northern England down towards
:29:06. > :29:10.southern England. The atmosphere is very volatile. Pinning down the
:29:11. > :29:15.exact detail is very difficult. The storms may not be in exactly this
:29:16. > :29:19.position. But please do take note, they are potentially going to cause
:29:20. > :29:22.some problems. The Met Office has an amber warning in force, torrential
:29:23. > :29:28.rain and the possibility for travel disruption. They continue on
:29:29. > :29:30.Saturday night. Generally, dry and brighter start on Sunday. Still warm
:29:31. > :29:34.and humid.