:00:00. > :00:08.More tragedy in Europe's migrant crisis, as 44 people drown off
:00:09. > :00:12.the Turkish coast, including at least 20 children.
:00:13. > :00:15.Another desperate rush to help survivors from a freezing sea,
:00:16. > :00:22.With thousands continuing to try to get to Europe,
:00:23. > :00:24.the German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges a joint approach by EU
:00:25. > :00:33.TRANSLATION: Deep inside, I am convinced that the problem
:00:34. > :00:35.of illegal migration can only be solved if we work together
:00:36. > :00:37.in fighting the root causes of the refugee crisis.
:00:38. > :00:42.With European leaders now talking about the EU's very future
:00:43. > :00:49.being in danger, we'll be asking whether member states can put
:00:50. > :00:54.The mother of five who's had her sentence in prison more
:00:55. > :01:02.than doubled for killing a convicted paedophile.
:01:03. > :01:04.Good morning, America, blizzard emergency.
:01:05. > :01:07.The east coast of America braces itself for what could be
:01:08. > :01:09.the heaviest snow in a hundred years.
:01:10. > :01:12.Using your loaf - the call to boost bread with folic acid
:01:13. > :01:18.Most of these images are not comic at all.
:01:19. > :01:21.The actor Jerry Lewis and the movie about the Holocaust he's suppressed
:01:22. > :01:25.And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30.
:01:26. > :01:28.How Scotland could be the first part of the UK to add folic acid
:01:29. > :01:31.to all flour, and help reduce the number of children born
:01:32. > :01:52.And climate change experts raise concerns about spending cuts
:01:53. > :01:58.At least 44 migrants - including 20 children -
:01:59. > :02:00.have become the latest to lose their lives in the freezing
:02:01. > :02:03.seas off the Turkish coast, drowning in three separate
:02:04. > :02:10.This latest tragedy came as the French Prime Minister said
:02:11. > :02:15.were putting the very future of the EU in "grave danger."
:02:16. > :02:17.Last year, more than 1 million migrants arrived by sea
:02:18. > :02:24.Now, in these early weeks of 2016, over 36,500 people, undeterred
:02:25. > :02:26.by worsening weather, have made that journey,
:02:27. > :02:37.Today, Germany urged Europe to work together to tackle the crisis.
:02:38. > :02:39.Our correspondent Jenny Hill reports from Berlin.
:02:40. > :02:44.These people were trying to reach Greece.
:02:45. > :02:47.In the last 24 hours, more than 40 have died trying
:02:48. > :02:52.This baby was rushed to intensive care.
:02:53. > :02:57.Europe's leaders barely agree on how to help.
:02:58. > :02:59.Today, the German Chancellor met the Turkish
:03:00. > :03:06.TRANSLATION: Deep inside, I am convinced that the problem
:03:07. > :03:08.of illegal migration can only be solved
:03:09. > :03:10.if we work together in fighting the root causes
:03:11. > :03:24.Europe's leaders have yet to fully implement a controversial quota
:03:25. > :03:26.system to relocate 120,000 refugees and
:03:27. > :03:33.They are setting up so-called hotspots,
:03:34. > :03:36.special reception centres in Italy and Greece from which migrants can
:03:37. > :03:41.be sent on to other countries or turned away.
:03:42. > :03:43.And they've offered Turkey more than ?2 billion in return
:03:44. > :03:50.TRANSLATION: I want to tell people in Germany and the EU that this
:03:51. > :03:53.is not a German crisis, or a European
:03:54. > :03:57.crisis, it is not a Turkish crisis either.
:03:58. > :04:01.We can't just pass the crisis onto each other.
:04:02. > :04:08.We have to solve it together, in Syria and in Iraq.
:04:09. > :04:14.Germany was the promised land of Europe
:04:15. > :04:16.but look at it now, these people told us they have waited
:04:17. > :04:18.here for days and they need money, housing
:04:19. > :04:24.And they couldn't manage when all of these people arrived.
:04:25. > :04:29.Across Europe, attitudes are hardening.
:04:30. > :04:31.Germany, after the Cologne sex attacks, is divided.
:04:32. > :04:33.What I think is that Germany has got it
:04:34. > :04:38.What needs to happen is we have to help
:04:39. > :04:40.the refugees by all means, but not by opening the gates
:04:41. > :04:44.You cannot plan when war is in a country.
:04:45. > :04:45.I think we are doing the right thing.
:04:46. > :04:52.But Europe's doors are closing on these people.
:04:53. > :04:55.There will be fences, border checks and limits.
:04:56. > :04:57.Politically, the refugee crisis has exposed fault
:04:58. > :05:09.national interest over European responsibility.
:05:10. > :05:12.There is now a fear at the highest level, the German president,
:05:13. > :05:17.the French Prime Minister, that the crisis is not
:05:18. > :05:20.simply testing Europe, but that it could destroy it altogether.
:05:21. > :05:27.Well, Damian Grammaticas is in Brussels for us this evening.
:05:28. > :05:36.Do you sense any greater urgency to find a collective solution to this?
:05:37. > :05:40.I think there is which is why we have been hearing comments all week
:05:41. > :05:45.from European leaders, saying that they are a matter of weeks, they
:05:46. > :05:52.think away from getting a grip on the situation on the numbers of
:05:53. > :05:55.rivals. They see in a few weeks' time, as the weather gets better,
:05:56. > :05:59.those numbers, the Dutch Prime Minister said, could well quadruple
:06:00. > :06:03.and that is something he said Europe may not be able to cope with.
:06:04. > :06:07.There's frustration because the planned so far have not delivered.
:06:08. > :06:11.Turkey has not curb the arrivals. Greece has not been able to weed out
:06:12. > :06:15.the people who should be sent back home. And Eastern European
:06:16. > :06:19.countries, I think many other parts of Europe feel have not stepped in
:06:20. > :06:23.to share the load. There's a real frustration and a real fear that
:06:24. > :06:25.increasingly, countries will go it alone and that will lead to
:06:26. > :06:27.fragmentation. Thank you for joining us.
:06:28. > :06:29.A woman from east London, who was sentenced to three
:06:30. > :06:32.and a half years in prison for killing a convicted paedophile,
:06:33. > :06:34.has had her sentence more than doubled.
:06:35. > :06:36.Sarah Sands, a mother of five, stabbed her neighbour
:06:37. > :06:40.Michael Pleasted, who was 77, in November 2014.
:06:41. > :06:43.Three Appeal Court judges ruled the original sentence given
:06:44. > :06:51.Sarah Sands took a knife to a neighbouring man's flat
:06:52. > :06:59.Last September, the judge had described her case as exceptional.
:07:00. > :07:04.She lived with her five children on this east London estate.
:07:05. > :07:07.In November 2014, she was caught on CCTV, on her way to 77-year-old
:07:08. > :07:13.He was on bail, charged with sexually abusing young boys,
:07:14. > :07:16.and it emerged later he was a convicted paedophile.
:07:17. > :07:18.She stabbed him eight times, severing an artery.
:07:19. > :07:24.CCTV shows her leaving his flat 20 minutes later
:07:25. > :07:30.She was found guilty of manslaughter by reason of loss of control
:07:31. > :07:34.with her sentence set at three-and-a-half years.
:07:35. > :07:37.Today at the Court of Appeal, the Attorney General successfully
:07:38. > :07:42.argued that the original sentence was unduly lenient,
:07:43. > :07:46.highlighting that Sarah Sands took the knife with her when she went
:07:47. > :07:48.to Michael Pleasted's flat, that she made attempts to cover
:07:49. > :07:51.up what she had done and that she hadn't called
:07:52. > :07:54.the emergency services after she'd stabbed him.
:07:55. > :07:57.Three Appeal Court judges today more than doubled her sentenced to seven
:07:58. > :08:06.The offender took with her to the scene
:08:07. > :08:14.a knife which was used in the infliction of fatal injuries.
:08:15. > :08:17.The jury were sure that at the time she intended to cause
:08:18. > :08:20.at least serious grievous bodily harm.
:08:21. > :08:24.Appearing in court via video link from prison, Sands appeared shocked
:08:25. > :08:31.It will be devastating for her because she has had her time
:08:32. > :08:37.She will have been warned it was possible but plainly hoped
:08:38. > :08:44.That is what the Court of Appeal is there for,
:08:45. > :08:47.to make these kinds of decisions in these difficult cases.
:08:48. > :08:53.She was expected to be released this summer but can now expect
:08:54. > :08:56.to stay in jail for at least the next two years.
:08:57. > :08:59.Sarah Campbell, BBC News, the Court of Appeal.
:09:00. > :09:02.Tens of millions of people on the US east coast have been warned
:09:03. > :09:04.to prepare for a huge blizzard that's expected to leave near-record
:09:05. > :09:09.In Washington, DC, more than two feet of snow is forecast to fall
:09:10. > :09:14.A state of emergency is already in place there,
:09:15. > :09:20.as it is in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
:09:21. > :09:28.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in the capital and joins me now.
:09:29. > :09:34.This is a city that is going into shutdown, not metaphorically and
:09:35. > :09:40.literally. All federal buildings have just been closed and offices
:09:41. > :09:45.are being shut early. The rush hour has started about four hours before
:09:46. > :09:50.normal and people are being told to stay off the streets from 3pm this
:09:51. > :09:51.afternoon, in about two hours' time. As we speak, the first snowflakes
:09:52. > :09:57.have just started falling. The north-eastern seaboard
:09:58. > :10:00.of the United States is bracing itself for a once in
:10:01. > :10:02.a hundred years event. And the District of Columbia
:10:03. > :10:14.will be hit hardest. is shutting down and apocalyptic
:10:15. > :10:27.warnings are being given. It has life and death implications
:10:28. > :10:36.and all of the residents of the District of Columbia
:10:37. > :10:39.should treat it that way. If you do not need to
:10:40. > :10:59.be out, we are asking folks is, by three o'clock today,
:11:00. > :11:02.you need to be where you are going People are taking heed,
:11:03. > :11:05.if the lines in shops this supermarket in Washington
:11:06. > :11:13.had been stripped bare. Empty shelves.
:11:14. > :11:14.Nothing left. Hardware shops too have been
:11:15. > :11:16.doing a roaring trade. And we are getting provisions
:11:17. > :11:22.and we are going to It was crazy, cleared
:11:23. > :11:32.there is no bread and no milk. It is like snowmaggeddon
:11:33. > :11:39.from a couple of years ago where everyone
:11:40. > :11:40.is stocking up. A little snow did fall on Wednesday,
:11:41. > :11:43.and it caused total No one was exempt, not even
:11:44. > :11:53.the passenger from this flight. The president returned
:11:54. > :11:57.from Detroit only to find his armoured limo
:11:58. > :11:59.and the rest of the motorcade That was after an inch
:12:00. > :12:03.of snow. Two feet is forecast to fall
:12:04. > :12:07.over the next 36 hours. How did a British mother
:12:08. > :12:12.come to take her son, Today, Birmingham Crown Court heard
:12:13. > :12:19.how Tareena Shakil went to Syria to live under Sharia law,
:12:20. > :12:22.but then had to make a dramatic escape, after she changed her mind
:12:23. > :12:25.about living under the rule of the group calling
:12:26. > :12:26.itself Islamic state. Sian Lloyd has been listening
:12:27. > :12:42.to proceedings and joins us now. Today, Tareena Shakil told the court
:12:43. > :12:46.how she came to flee from Raqqa in Syria ecology was disillusioned with
:12:47. > :12:49.life in a single women's store, where she said she was closely
:12:50. > :12:53.watched and her mobile phone was taken from her. She described how
:12:54. > :12:57.she planned her escape, which involved bribing a taxi driver to
:12:58. > :13:02.take a close to the Turkish border. She said as she neared a checkpoint,
:13:03. > :13:06.she ran from the car, carrying her toddler son with her, crossing the
:13:07. > :13:12.final kilometre into Turkey over barbed wire, before adding herself
:13:13. > :13:16.into a patrol there. The 26-year-old is accused of encouraging acts of
:13:17. > :13:20.terrorism on social media and also of being a member of a banned
:13:21. > :13:25.organisation, namely so-called Islamic State. The jury has been
:13:26. > :13:32.shown pictures of her, taken while she was inside Syria, wearing a
:13:33. > :13:36.balaclava bearing the IS logo, and also photos of her posing with guns.
:13:37. > :13:39.There have also been pictures shown to the court of her young son
:13:40. > :13:42.wearing similar clothing. Tareena Shakil denies all the charges. The
:13:43. > :13:45.case continues. David Cameron was in
:13:46. > :13:47.the Czech Republic today, pressing his case for EU
:13:48. > :13:50.reform ahead of a possible He said he'd welcome alternative
:13:51. > :13:54.proposals to his controversial plans Among measures proposed
:13:55. > :13:59.by the Czech Prime Minister was allowing countries
:14:00. > :14:03.to close their borders temporarily as an "emergency brake",
:14:04. > :14:05.if a country's welfare system Our Political Correspondent Alex
:14:06. > :14:11.Forsyth reports from Prague. In the snow-covered capital
:14:12. > :14:14.of the Czech Republic, there has been some frostiness
:14:15. > :14:17.towards the idea of changing some David Cameron wants to ban EU
:14:18. > :14:25.workers from claiming benefits in the UK for four years,
:14:26. > :14:31.to try to reduce migration. In Prague today, his counterpart,
:14:32. > :14:34.supportive of most reforms, said he would not back anything
:14:35. > :14:38.that would discriminate TRANSLATION: We discussed other
:14:39. > :14:46.possible alternatives to make it possible for the UK to respond
:14:47. > :14:50.to the mass influx of migrants. One of those involves giving member
:14:51. > :14:53.states the possibility of an emergency brake,
:14:54. > :14:57.if there is an enormous pressure Today, there was little idea of how
:14:58. > :15:05.an emergency brake on migration David Cameron said
:15:06. > :15:09.he was open to ideas. He needs agreement from the whole EU
:15:10. > :15:14.to the changes that he wants to make which includes cutting regulation
:15:15. > :15:17.and more power for parliaments. Talk now is of compromise
:15:18. > :15:22.and solutions ahead of the EU Obviously now we need to make
:15:23. > :15:30.decisions as we get closer But I believe that if there
:15:31. > :15:39.is goodwill and hard work, we will be able to achieve
:15:40. > :15:43.the outcome necessary. The Czech Republic,
:15:44. > :15:47.like most countries, wants to do a deal to keep the UK
:15:48. > :15:51.in the EU and quickly. Because while the EU grapples
:15:52. > :15:53.with the migration crisis, leaders don't want anything else
:15:54. > :15:55.like the possibility of the UK leaving to further
:15:56. > :15:58.destabilise the union. In Prague, some people agree
:15:59. > :16:00.and others understand the UK's concerns about EU membership
:16:01. > :16:04.but question the timing. I think you should get
:16:05. > :16:09.out as soon as you can. I think everything is going
:16:10. > :16:13.to change because of the immigrants and the whole of Europe
:16:14. > :16:15.is moving, you know. For now, David Cameron is focused
:16:16. > :16:23.on securing a deal he can sell So far, there is the political
:16:24. > :16:31.will from all sides but not As more migrants drown
:16:32. > :16:47.trying to reach Europe - Angela Merkel calls for an EU-wide
:16:48. > :16:49.response, saying national solutions And still to come the Englishwoman
:16:50. > :17:03.keeping wicket in a men's team Coming up in Sportsday, Liam Brodie
:17:04. > :17:18.believes that tennis authorities are fighting a losing battle.
:17:19. > :17:20.The Scottish government is considering adding folic acid
:17:21. > :17:22.to flour to help prevent brain and spinal disorders in babies.
:17:23. > :17:25.Many countries - including the US - have been fortifying flour
:17:26. > :17:34.But Westminster has been weighing up the evidence for over fifteen years.
:17:35. > :17:37.77 countries around the world already add folic acid to flour.
:17:38. > :17:39.Research has suggested up to 2000 birth defects since 1998
:17:40. > :17:42.could have been avoided here if the UK had followed suit.
:17:43. > :17:50.Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports.
:17:51. > :17:59.How was school today? Very good today. Ella is 12 and in her final
:18:00. > :18:02.year of primary school and recovering from extensive back
:18:03. > :18:06.surgery after being born with spina bifida. Her mother did take folic
:18:07. > :18:15.acid supplements but not until several weeks into the pregnancy. We
:18:16. > :18:22.find it out 30 minutes after she was born. It is not easy. We have had 12
:18:23. > :18:30.years of a pen down things, she will ask us when she will walk and you
:18:31. > :18:35.go, never. Dozens of countries already at folic acid to flower
:18:36. > :18:41.because it reduces incidence of rain and spinal disorders if women take
:18:42. > :18:46.it before and during pregnancy. The Scottish Government is considering
:18:47. > :18:51.it, saying that it is disappointed that the UK wide policy has not been
:18:52. > :18:56.introduced. But it's complicated, this bakery in Glasgow ships some
:18:57. > :19:01.products down to England and inevitably bakeries and flour Mills
:19:02. > :19:08.sell their products up here. So some people question whether this could
:19:09. > :19:12.mean a UK wide altering flower by the back door. It is not just in
:19:13. > :19:18.Scotland but impacting bakers across UK. Would this be for all products
:19:19. > :19:24.which are made in Scotland, sold in Scotland? It is a major issue for
:19:25. > :19:27.the industry. What do parents elsewhere think about the proposals?
:19:28. > :19:32.These mothers in Bristol were divided. If Scotland could take the
:19:33. > :19:36.lead and initiate it and then we could follow on from there I think
:19:37. > :19:38.it is a good idea. Does everybody really need to have it in their
:19:39. > :19:44.food? I don't think we needed in our really need to have it in their
:19:45. > :19:46.food as well. Melanie says that she wouldn't change her daughter for the
:19:47. > :19:52.world but reflects on how different things might have been. This is our
:19:53. > :19:55.life now and we would not be without Ella, that we could have had a
:19:56. > :20:00.different outcome if the folic acid had already been in the flour. The
:20:01. > :20:04.debate over adding folic acid to flower has been long-running but
:20:05. > :20:06.supporters insist that the simple move could give more children the
:20:07. > :20:12.best possible start in life. The amount the Government borrowed
:20:13. > :20:19.last month fell sharply to ?7.5 billion, compared
:20:20. > :20:21.to over 11 and a half But the Chancellor is still thought
:20:22. > :20:25.to be likely to miss his target Here to explain more
:20:26. > :20:29.is our Economics Correspondent Andy Sounds like good news
:20:30. > :20:36.for George Osborne so why Well, it is like all households,
:20:37. > :20:39.really, if your income is not as high as your spending then you have
:20:40. > :20:43.to borrow money to plug the difference and like every government
:20:44. > :20:48.since 2002 the government has more money going out and going in and it
:20:49. > :20:53.has to borrow a certain amount. The amount it has to borrow, well, if
:20:54. > :20:56.you look at the forecast for November, the Office for Budget
:20:57. > :21:02.Responsibility said he would not have to borrow more than ?68.9
:21:03. > :21:11.billion for April to April, but when you look at what we have borrowed in
:21:12. > :21:12.the financial year so far, just nine months, 74.2 billion. We have
:21:13. > :21:17.already busted the overdraft limit. The Chancellor will get tax receipts
:21:18. > :21:20.this month when self-employed people pay their taxes and we will know
:21:21. > :21:25.about that next month so he can expect improvement, but the Office
:21:26. > :21:29.for Budget Responsibility is now forecasting that if we don't cut the
:21:30. > :21:35.deficit faster than now we will end up borrowing perhaps ?78 billion, so
:21:36. > :21:38.it is not so much slashing the deficit is giving it a gentle shake.
:21:39. > :21:41.-- is giving it. She may not be a household name yet,
:21:42. > :21:44.but in the world of cricket, Sarah Taylor is re-writing
:21:45. > :21:46.the history books. She's about to play her 100th
:21:47. > :21:49.One-Day International in the England women's team's forthcoming
:21:50. > :21:52.tour of South Africa. But over the winter,
:21:53. > :21:54.she became the first woman ever to play Australian club
:21:55. > :21:56.cricket - alongside men. Since she was 17, this has been
:21:57. > :22:01.life for Sarah Taylor. Batting and keeping
:22:02. > :22:05.wicket for England. Just enjoy it.
:22:06. > :22:17.crossed another frontier. Under the captaincy of an Australian
:22:18. > :22:19.international, she became the first woman ever to play men's grade one
:22:20. > :22:22.cricket in Australia, The club was Adelaide's
:22:23. > :22:28.Northern District's Jets. The idea of playing for a team
:22:29. > :22:39.like the Jets was to test my limits and see how far I could
:22:40. > :22:41.go as a cricketer. Even the guys said in the changing
:22:42. > :22:44.rooms, you know, she is good enough They wanted the best
:22:45. > :22:47.11 on the field. They were more than happy to have me
:22:48. > :22:51.and they did not care that You should have heard some
:22:52. > :22:55.of the language I had to listen to! They honestly did not
:22:56. > :22:57.care I was there. Most of England's players
:22:58. > :22:59.practise in Loughborough. Some are still in Australia
:23:00. > :23:02.where they have been playing England are playing some matches
:23:03. > :23:06.next month in South Africa, partly in preparation for a world
:23:07. > :23:09.tournament in India. Suddenly, it is a world of global
:23:10. > :23:12.opportunity for women's cricket. Meanwhile, England's new coach can
:23:13. > :23:15.see the potential for more female cricketers to break
:23:16. > :23:20.through barriers in the male game. If they start to become equals
:23:21. > :23:27.and start to hold their own ability-wise, and maybe pass
:23:28. > :23:30.holding their own and start to do well and dominate,
:23:31. > :23:32.there is no boundary. Sarah Taylor told me she hopes
:23:33. > :23:35.to play grade cricket Her schedule only allowed
:23:36. > :23:40.two games this winter. This summer, there will be
:23:41. > :23:43.a new women's league in England. The immediate challenge is to make
:23:44. > :23:46.that work in its own right. More than 40 years ago the American
:23:47. > :23:54.slapstick actor Jerry Lewis made But it was so controversial that
:23:55. > :23:59.Lewis himself banned the movie For decades, film buffs have
:24:00. > :24:03.wondered exactly what was in it. Now, still images from the film
:24:04. > :24:05.have come to light - Not you!
:24:06. > :24:12.Not me! But in 1972, he made a film
:24:13. > :24:27.about the Holocaust, Now for the first time since then,
:24:28. > :24:33.these stills from it have surfaced. Called The Day The Clown Cried,
:24:34. > :24:36.it sees Lewis playing a clown It was so controversial,
:24:37. > :24:41.Lewis changed his mind and has never Most of these images are not
:24:42. > :24:49.comic at all in my eyes. Which is why the photos are now
:24:50. > :24:52.being eagerly studied by scholars There were very many ventures,
:24:53. > :25:04.both in terms of literature and film So I don't think there's anything
:25:05. > :25:07.wrong necessarily with doing that. But of course, we are in a very
:25:08. > :25:10.difficult area here. You have to be sensitive
:25:11. > :25:12.to what you have made. It sounds as though Jerry Lewis,
:25:13. > :25:15.in his sensitivity, felt it was best that what he had made
:25:16. > :25:18.was best not let out. For years, the Internet has
:25:19. > :25:21.speculated about the unseen film. It's very iconic,
:25:22. > :25:26.isn't it, the outfits? The BBC asked the Jewish comedian
:25:27. > :25:28.David Schneider to look There's a whole difficult
:25:29. > :25:34.area of whether he has Once a thing is made,
:25:35. > :25:38.whether he has the right to not But I think when you look at these
:25:39. > :25:42.pictures, and you realise just how badly it could go, how
:25:43. > :25:44.offensive it could be, then he has probably
:25:45. > :25:47.done the right thing. The BBC did ask Jerry Lewis
:25:48. > :25:50.for an interview to talk So all we have to go on are these
:25:51. > :26:02.newly released stills, As one film critic put it,
:26:03. > :26:06.this is one of the most talked about movies in history but no one
:26:07. > :26:09.has actually seen it. Three years ago, Jerry Lewis did
:26:10. > :26:12.give an insight into his decision I was grateful that I had the power
:26:13. > :26:21.to contain it all and never let The Day The Clown Cried is not
:26:22. > :26:28.the only film to inject humour But unless it is released,
:26:29. > :26:35.we will never know if it was Duncan Kennedy, BBC
:26:36. > :26:48.News, Southampton. Well, fairly quiet weekend of
:26:49. > :26:52.weather in the UK but the same can't be said on the other side of the
:26:53. > :26:59.Atlantic where dramatic weather is affecting the eastern seaboard of
:27:00. > :27:04.the USA. Developing low pressure is pressing further northwards over the
:27:05. > :27:10.next 48 hours, bumping into the cold air that has been in place, 45-60
:27:11. > :27:15.centimetres of snow falling for cities including Washington, DC and
:27:16. > :27:19.New York. Heavy snowfall and freezing rain will cause severe
:27:20. > :27:25.disruption. Closer to home it has been a tranquil end to the day for
:27:26. > :27:29.some areas. This was the scene in Dundee earlier, gorgeous and set.
:27:30. > :27:35.Many parts of the country continue with clear skies as we go through
:27:36. > :27:37.the course of the evening. Across Northern Ireland and Scotland there
:27:38. > :27:42.will be one or two showers but elsewhere things are looking largely
:27:43. > :27:46.dry. Temperatures will fall to around 3-7 in towns and cities but
:27:47. > :27:52.in the countryside we will see a touch of frost and mist and fog
:27:53. > :27:56.patches particularly in southern England and South Wales. A largely
:27:57. > :28:00.dry day on Saturday with decent spells of sunshine and increasing
:28:01. > :28:08.clouds with rain moving into western areas later. Temperatures around
:28:09. > :28:15.9-10d. Pleasant enough. A grey day on Sunday. Some outbreaks in the
:28:16. > :28:20.hills in western areas and a few breaks in the cloud and where we do
:28:21. > :28:24.see the cloud breaking it will be exceptionally mild, possibly even as
:28:25. > :28:28.high as 15 degrees. 20 going on, and you can check the website for the
:28:29. > :28:31.latest on the storm in the USA but it will be mild this weekend here.
:28:32. > :28:33.Thank you, Sarah. That's all from the BBC News at Six
:28:34. > :28:36.- so it's goodbye from me