:00:00. > :00:07.Warnings that the Zika virus is spreading explosively.
:00:08. > :00:10.Up to four million people could be infected in the next year.
:00:11. > :00:16.The mosquito borne virus - suspected of causing birth defects
:00:17. > :00:19.in babies - is expected to spread right across the Americas.
:00:20. > :00:22.In Brazil the army's drafted in to help warn people about how
:00:23. > :00:27.If there's just one little gap in a tank like this,
:00:28. > :00:34.Imagine multiplying that thousands of times.
:00:35. > :00:37.World health officials have called an emergency meeting next week
:00:38. > :00:40.to discuss ways of tackling the crisis.
:00:41. > :00:43.Also tonight: A man carrying two guns and a copy of the Koran
:00:44. > :00:50.At least 26 migrants have drowned off the coast off Greece -
:00:51. > :00:57.On hold - the Chancellor postpones selling off the government's
:00:58. > :01:06.final stake in Lloyds bank - blaming turmoil on global stock markets.
:01:07. > :01:10.And the winner of the record ?33 million lottery jackpot is finally
:01:11. > :01:11.found. And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30:
:01:12. > :01:14.Half a billion pounds of funding is announced to support
:01:15. > :01:16.the economy of the north east. And it's down to Andy Murray now
:01:17. > :01:19.to make it three Scots into the finals of
:01:20. > :01:41.the Australian Open. Good evening and welcome
:01:42. > :01:44.to the BBC News at Six. The Zika virus - which is thought
:01:45. > :01:47.to cause birth defects in babies - could infect up to four million
:01:48. > :01:50.people in North and South America That's the warning from
:01:51. > :01:53.the World Health Organisation which is holding an emergency
:01:54. > :01:55.meeting next week to discuss ways of dealing with the virus -
:01:56. > :02:01.which is transmitted by mosquitoes. So far it has spread to more
:02:02. > :02:03.than 20 countries. Officials are warning that in Brazil
:02:04. > :02:06.alone, one and a half million people Our Science editor David Shukman
:02:07. > :02:10.is in the city of Recife in North East Brazil where it's
:02:11. > :02:13.thought more than 100,000 people could have caught the virus -
:02:14. > :02:20.which has no cure. The slums of Brazil are the front
:02:21. > :02:23.line in what has become We watch as soldiers try to search
:02:24. > :02:31.every single home here. Because one of the very few ways
:02:32. > :02:34.to combat the Zika virus is to hunt While we are with the patrol,
:02:35. > :02:45.soldiers find exactly the conditions The challenge is that
:02:46. > :02:49.everywhere you look, And because in a favela
:02:50. > :02:57.like this, the supply is not But if there is just
:02:58. > :03:02.one gap in a tank like this, the mosquito can get in and you have
:03:03. > :03:05.got yet another problem. Imagine multiplying that
:03:06. > :03:08.thousands of times. In a tiny yard, a discovery,
:03:09. > :03:11.a larva which left alone would emerge as a mosquito
:03:12. > :03:15.within 48 hours. Health officials
:03:16. > :03:20.sterilise the water. A tiny victory in a war
:03:21. > :03:23.which is proving hard to win. There is no definite
:03:24. > :03:32.proof that the Zika virus caused her microcephaly
:03:33. > :03:35.but the evidence is growing. Her mother says she was caught
:03:36. > :03:38.by surprise, but she will do everything to help make
:03:39. > :03:43.her baby's life better. In this one city, Recife,
:03:44. > :03:45.officials say up On a map, pins mark the cases
:03:46. > :03:52.of microcephaly, There is a major public
:03:53. > :03:58.health challenge, probably about the most difficult challenges
:03:59. > :04:03.we have to face And it is already becoming
:04:04. > :04:09.a globalised issue. In a government lab,
:04:10. > :04:11.analysis of a sample But despite all the gleaming
:04:12. > :04:15.technology here, there are key questions about the virus that
:04:16. > :04:23.scientists simply can't answer. If a woman has Zika,
:04:24. > :04:27.is the risk of having That is very important for women's
:04:28. > :04:32.choice, for the importance We don't know if there is a viral
:04:33. > :04:41.treatment which will prevent This is the first major city
:04:42. > :04:48.to be hit by the virus. Because it was taken
:04:49. > :04:50.completely by surprise, That means it is almost
:04:51. > :04:53.inevitable that more babies There is a lesson in this,
:04:54. > :04:59.for the other cities around the world which are
:05:00. > :05:00.vulnerable Day after day and street
:05:01. > :05:06.by street, it will take real And for many babies
:05:07. > :05:15.and those yet to be born, And you can get more information
:05:16. > :05:23.about the Zika virus French police have arrested a man
:05:24. > :05:32.carrying two guns at the Disneyland theme park outside
:05:33. > :05:36.Paris this afternoon. Our correspondent Lucy
:05:37. > :05:50.Williamson is in Paris. Well, we know that two people have
:05:51. > :05:54.now been arrested, the man and his female companion. They were
:05:55. > :05:58.reportedly booked into the New York hotel inside the Disneyland complex.
:05:59. > :06:03.It was when the man was walking into the entrance of the hotel through
:06:04. > :06:08.the metal detector, that alarms went off. Police found he had two guns in
:06:09. > :06:13.his suitcase, a box of ammunition and also a copy of the Koran. He was
:06:14. > :06:25.arrested, and after a short search for his companion, she was arrested
:06:26. > :06:27.as well. Adding to the mystery of all this, our reports coming through
:06:28. > :06:30.now, saying the initial elements suggested police that they are
:06:31. > :06:35.excluding terrorism as a motive for carrying guns into the Hotel. We are
:06:36. > :06:39.very much in the dark about what happened today at Disneyland Paris.
:06:40. > :06:42.With France under a state of emergency, and the government
:06:43. > :06:46.warning the population to be on high alert for further attacks, incidents
:06:47. > :06:51.like this do nothing to dispel the fear. You can see from the response,
:06:52. > :06:55.what high alert France is under right now. Thank you.
:06:56. > :06:58.The Chancellor has postponed the sale of the government's
:06:59. > :07:00.final stake in Lloyds Banking Group, saying the global turmoil
:07:01. > :07:02.in the markets and slowing growth had prompted the delay.
:07:03. > :07:04.The Chancellor said that he would not give the go-ahead
:07:05. > :07:11.Here's our Economics editor Kamal Ahmed.
:07:12. > :07:17.Fancy owning a bit of a bank? Joining a journey to a new era of
:07:18. > :07:22.shareholder democracy? The government thought you might do and
:07:23. > :07:27.thousands were interested in buying into the biggest privatisation since
:07:28. > :07:33.the 1980s. Today, the Chancellor applied the brakes. My principal
:07:34. > :07:37.concern is frankly the turbulence in the stock markets. That is not the
:07:38. > :07:42.right time to have a big share sale to the British public. We need those
:07:43. > :07:47.markets to calm down and then we can proceed with the sale. Since the New
:07:48. > :07:53.Year, markets have tumbled, banks and struggled and the economy has
:07:54. > :07:57.slowed. The taxpayer to ?20 million into these banks and I want to get
:07:58. > :08:01.the money back. It was the big election idea, sold by the Prime
:08:02. > :08:06.Minister, as a way of raising ?2 billion to pay off the government's
:08:07. > :08:11.debt. Now selling off the government's stake in Lloyds and the
:08:12. > :08:15.other collapsed bank RBS, seems a long way off. When it comes to
:08:16. > :08:21.Britain's banks, this is what the government still owns. The state has
:08:22. > :08:28.a 9% stake in Lloyds bank, down from 50%. It paid 74p a share to rescue
:08:29. > :08:32.the bank in 2008. Those shares are now only worth 64p a share, meaning
:08:33. > :08:45.the government would make quite a loss if it sold now. It also owns
:08:46. > :08:48.73% of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Eight years ago it paid 500 and 2p
:08:49. > :08:54.per share for the bailout. Now those shares are worth the less than 200
:08:55. > :08:59.and 50p a share. It was the falling price of Lloyds that really raised
:09:00. > :09:02.the red flags for the Treasury. George Osborne is still keen on a
:09:03. > :09:09.share sale, but my banking sources tell me it could be next year before
:09:10. > :09:12.that share price is healthy enough, to offer millions of shares to
:09:13. > :09:16.hundreds of thousands of small investors. Potential buyers of the
:09:17. > :09:20.shares admitted they were disappointed. It is frustrating
:09:21. > :09:26.because the decision seemed to have been made and now it has been back
:09:27. > :09:30.track Don. It is something when someone made a decision this morning
:09:31. > :09:40.and then all of a sudden they made the change. There was no sign of it
:09:41. > :09:42.coming. Eight years after the financial crisis, there are still
:09:43. > :09:54.plenty of warning signs. The gloomy figure also reflected in
:09:55. > :09:58.the latest figures on the UK economy? Absolutely. If you imagine
:09:59. > :10:03.how we started this new Year, everything has been more twitchy,
:10:04. > :10:07.more nervous, there has been fear around in the global economy. If you
:10:08. > :10:13.roll back a year and think about the growth figure in 2014, it was 2.9%,
:10:14. > :10:17.pretty healthy. George Osborne was pleased with that number and said we
:10:18. > :10:22.are beacon of hope in global economies. Today, the Office for
:10:23. > :10:29.National Statistics has announced a figure for 2015 a year later, and
:10:30. > :10:33.that is 2.2%. So, a slowing. The Chancellor says we are still doing
:10:34. > :10:38.pretty well, but there are clearly lots of concerns. Some of those are
:10:39. > :10:43.international. Things like China slowing down, the exports may not be
:10:44. > :10:47.as strong to countries like that. The oil price is very low. Good for
:10:48. > :10:51.people filling up their cars with petrol, but not so good for things
:10:52. > :10:56.like the North Sea. The final thing that George Osborne is concerned
:10:57. > :11:00.about is the growth is coming from consumption, from us as consumers.
:11:01. > :11:04.There is not much evidence of that rebalancing the economy, the march
:11:05. > :11:13.of the makers the Chancellor likes to talk about, where we manufacture
:11:14. > :11:15.and export things, rather than just basing our economic growth in
:11:16. > :11:16.consumption, and I'm sure that is something which is concerning for
:11:17. > :11:19.the Treasury. Thank you. A sixth city broker has been cleared
:11:20. > :11:22.of trying to fix the inter-bank There was applause at
:11:23. > :11:25.Southwark Crown Court when Darrell Read was found not
:11:26. > :11:28.guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Five other brokers received
:11:29. > :11:30.the same verdict yesterday. They'd all been accused of helping
:11:31. > :11:32.the trader, Tom Hayes, who is serving an 11 year jail
:11:33. > :11:39.sentence for manipulating the rate. Police have dropped their
:11:40. > :11:41.investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse linked
:11:42. > :11:43.to the failed charity, Detectives at Scotland Yard said
:11:44. > :11:46.they found no evidence The organisation -
:11:47. > :11:50.which always denied the claims - was shut down in August
:11:51. > :11:52.when questions were raised Demands on the NHS across
:11:53. > :11:56.the UK keep on growing. But research for the BBC suggests
:11:57. > :11:59.patients in Wales are having to wait longer for many types of treatment
:12:00. > :12:02.than those in England. Last year the gap was widest for hip
:12:03. > :12:06.replacements with those in Wales having to wait for
:12:07. > :12:08.an extra four months. Our Wales correspondent,
:12:09. > :12:22.Hywel Griffith has been finding out. With every new appointment card,
:12:23. > :12:28.life on the waiting list seems to be getting worse for Raymond. Suffering
:12:29. > :12:32.chronic pain and sleepless nights, he is stuck halfway through his
:12:33. > :12:36.journey for a double hip replacement. The right hip was
:12:37. > :12:41.replaced while living in England after an 18 week wait. He moved to
:12:42. > :12:47.Wales to be told there would be an 18 month wait for the left hip to be
:12:48. > :12:52.treated. I think it is ridiculous. It is people's lives they are
:12:53. > :12:57.messing around with. I am 64. How many years have I got left? I don't
:12:58. > :13:03.want to spend 18 months in agony in the twilight years of my life. Hip
:13:04. > :13:08.surgery is not the only treatment where there seems to be a
:13:09. > :13:13.significant gap. In average in England the wait for a cataract
:13:14. > :13:19.operation is 61 days, in Wales, it is 115, almost twice as long. For
:13:20. > :13:25.hire at bypass operations, the weight in England is 57 days, in
:13:26. > :13:29.Wales it is 111, almost double. Only one key measure do Welsh hospitals
:13:30. > :13:36.perform better, on kidney transplants. In England the weight
:13:37. > :13:39.is 20 days, in Wales it is 18 days. Scotland and Northern Ireland are
:13:40. > :13:50.grappling with their own waiting list problems. Why are Welsh wait so
:13:51. > :13:55.long? Welsh people are older and there is the industrial legacy but
:13:56. > :14:01.that does not explain the full difference which is very stark. Is
:14:02. > :14:04.it down to political decisions here in Cardiff Bay? The Welsh Government
:14:05. > :14:09.weather the storm went for three years it refused to protect NHS
:14:10. > :14:13.spending from cuts. It argues waiting times do not tell the whole
:14:14. > :14:18.story. If you ask patients what matter to them, almost all of them
:14:19. > :14:25.will tell you they are interested in the outcome. Will it result in pain
:14:26. > :14:31.and discomfort? Absolutely gutted. As the appointment cards mount, all
:14:32. > :14:32.Raymond can do is hope that his treatment will eventually be worth
:14:33. > :14:35.the wait. Warnings the Zika virus -
:14:36. > :14:48.carried by mosquitoes - could have infected 4 million
:14:49. > :14:50.people by next year, near extinction - the polecat
:14:51. > :14:55.is making a comeback And coming up on Reporting Scotland
:14:56. > :14:59.at 6.30: The Borders Rail Link carries its 500,000th passenger,
:15:00. > :15:01.just months after reopening. And Andy Murray looks to make it
:15:02. > :15:04.three Scots in the finals The coastguard in Greece says
:15:05. > :15:16.at least 26 migrants drowned when the boat they were travelling
:15:17. > :15:19.in from Turkey sank in the Aegean Sea, off
:15:20. > :15:21.the island of Samos. It is the second boat to sink
:15:22. > :15:25.in as many days. The last journey of those who died
:15:26. > :15:34.at sea ended this morning, Rescuers carefully brought
:15:35. > :15:44.the bodies to shore. We don't know the names
:15:45. > :15:46.of the children who died. We don't know who they
:15:47. > :15:50.were travelling with, nor what made them or their families
:15:51. > :15:53.get on boats that couldn't make it Out in the Aegean, rescue boats
:15:54. > :16:02.continued to search for bodies. The shipwrecked migrants
:16:03. > :16:04.from Iraqi Kurdistan may have spent more than 24 hours in the water
:16:05. > :16:10.before they were found. This afternoon, outside
:16:11. > :16:11.a police station, a small group of survivors
:16:12. > :16:19.tried to keep warm. This man lost his wife
:16:20. > :16:26.and two of his children. For a day at sea, he
:16:27. > :16:28.held onto his youngest child's body, hoping in vain
:16:29. > :16:36.that the infant could be revived. This doctor is treating some
:16:37. > :16:44.of the other survivors It is very difficult
:16:45. > :16:47.to manage the death of young It is very difficult
:16:48. > :16:57.to deal with relatives, mothers and fathers
:16:58. > :16:59.crying, because they have We found the migrants'
:17:00. > :17:07.damaged boat on the beach. And today the government responded
:17:08. > :17:18.to growing calls to do more to help unaccompanied children from Syria
:17:19. > :17:21.and camps in the region. There are promises of extra
:17:22. > :17:25.money and resources, but only in "exceptional
:17:26. > :17:27.circumstances" will children from the camps be permitted
:17:28. > :17:41.to come to the UK. Half of all refugees are children.
:17:42. > :17:46.Some fleeing war and persecution with their families, but many
:17:47. > :17:51.millions" on their own. At the Calais camp known as the jungle,
:17:52. > :17:56.desperate young people are knocking on Britain's door, pleading for
:17:57. > :18:01.sanctuary. This 15-year-old from Syria says he has a brother-in-law
:18:02. > :18:04.in the UK and just wants to be a schoolboy again. The government is
:18:05. > :18:08.under intense pressure to do more to help the vast numbers of
:18:09. > :18:12.unaccompanied children who have fled from Syria and other war zones. Some
:18:13. > :18:16.charities say the UK should accept at least 3000 more. But instead,
:18:17. > :18:22.ministers have come up with a plan which they say will discharge --
:18:23. > :18:26.discourage vulnerable children from arriving on Britain's doorstep. The
:18:27. > :18:29.plan focuses first on the conflict regions themselves, working with the
:18:30. > :18:33.United Nations Britain will help assess the scale of the child
:18:34. > :18:37.welfare problem, but only in exceptional circumstances will they
:18:38. > :18:41.bring any children to the UK. Ministers say it is much better that
:18:42. > :18:46.a vulnerable child remains close to his or her home. We're playing our
:18:47. > :18:51.role. I said that we are prepared to take more orphans from the region
:18:52. > :18:55.but I think it is right, our approach, to take refugees from the
:18:56. > :18:59.region, not encouraging people to make the difficult, potentially
:19:00. > :19:03.lethal journey to Europe. Our approach is, I think, compassionate
:19:04. > :19:08.and generous and I think it is right. The refugee crisis continues
:19:09. > :19:11.to claim lives on the EU's border. Today the UK pledged an extra ?10
:19:12. > :19:16.million to support vulnerable children who make it to Europe, and
:19:17. > :19:19.extra resources for registering stranded youngsters. But beyond
:19:20. > :19:25.Britain's legal obligations, there is no commitment to take any child.
:19:26. > :19:28.I think we need to see a more engaged the prime ministers here.
:19:29. > :19:32.Really looking at the issues and not just saying we will only help people
:19:33. > :19:35.in the region. There is a crisis in Europe and are children who
:19:36. > :19:39.desperately need our help. Thousands of unaccompanied children have
:19:40. > :19:44.arrived at the UK's border. Last week, a court ruled that under
:19:45. > :19:47.Britain's Asylum obligations, three unaccompanied children and young
:19:48. > :19:52.adult in the Calais camp should be allowed to join was relatives in the
:19:53. > :19:54.UK. A full ruling will be issued tomorrow and charity workers are
:19:55. > :20:01.trying to find any child who might be affected. There is absolutely no
:20:02. > :20:06.sign here that the desperate conditions children and young people
:20:07. > :20:11.are living in our preventing further children making the very dangerous
:20:12. > :20:15.journey. The number of refugee children who might come to the UK
:20:16. > :20:19.under the day's scheme is likely to be small. The fuel with relatives
:20:20. > :20:23.there will be allowed in. Ministers argue that to avoid exacerbating the
:20:24. > :20:30.migrant crisis and to protect overstretched services, children
:20:31. > :20:33.without family and community ties must be turned away.
:20:34. > :20:36.A jury's been hearing how a British medical student planning drive-by
:20:37. > :20:39.shootings on the streets of London posed with a gun and a book
:20:40. > :20:46.The BBC has obtained the pictures of Tarik Hassane who's
:20:47. > :20:50.part of a gang on trial at the Old Bailey.
:20:51. > :21:00.This is the British medical student currently on trial for planning an
:21:01. > :21:06.alleged terrorist drive-by shooting, posing with a gun and a book about
:21:07. > :21:12.Osama bin Laden. He is accused of swearing allegiance to the Islamic
:21:13. > :21:17.State but he told police he was not a supporter of Islamic State. He is
:21:18. > :21:20.one of four men from West London arrested in the autumn of 2014 and
:21:21. > :21:29.now standing trial for preparation of terrorist acts and conspiracy to
:21:30. > :21:33.murder. Two of them had been at school together. What the men had
:21:34. > :21:36.not realised was that for months of 2014 they were being watched.
:21:37. > :21:40.Surveillance officers were following them and photographed one of the men
:21:41. > :21:44.as he used his computer under this tree and regents park. The
:21:45. > :21:49.prosecution says that at this moment, he was covertly messaging a
:21:50. > :21:53.jihadists overseas. In man who was helping him set up secret
:21:54. > :21:57.communications software. They were being watched on a night that the
:21:58. > :22:03.prosecution said a gun was handed over here in West London. It is
:22:04. > :22:06.alleged that Nile Hamlet, in the tracksuit, had obtained the gun,
:22:07. > :22:12.which was first in the black and grey bag and was then stuck into the
:22:13. > :22:16.back of this padded jacket. The handgun was later recovered when he
:22:17. > :22:20.was arrested the next day. All four men deny conspiracy to murder and
:22:21. > :22:27.preparing a terrorist plot inspired by Islamic State.
:22:28. > :22:30.Plans to overhaul the way legal aid contracts are awarded to solicitors
:22:31. > :22:32.have been abandoned by the Justice Secretary Michael
:22:33. > :22:37.Mr Gove said there were "real problems" in pressing ahead
:22:38. > :22:38.with the proposals drawn up by his predecessor
:22:39. > :22:42.in the face of a number of protests and 99 separate legal challenges
:22:43. > :22:54.Almost three weeks after their numbers were drawn,
:22:55. > :22:56.the second winner of a record ?33 million National Lottery jackpot has
:22:57. > :23:00.The ticket was bought in Worcester, but whose is it?
:23:01. > :23:09.We don't know because they have decided to remain anonymous. That
:23:10. > :23:12.means that there is a rather curious atmosphere here tonight. Everybody
:23:13. > :23:16.is looking out for neighbours suddenly coming home in expensive
:23:17. > :23:19.new cars, or friends who suddenly decide to move out to one of the
:23:20. > :23:25.desirable villages on the outskirts of the city. What we do know is that
:23:26. > :23:29.this is an undisputed ticket. It is not one of the hundreds of people
:23:30. > :23:33.who came forward saying that they had the ticket, but it was damaged
:23:34. > :23:38.or lost or stolen. This one is a clear winner. The ?33 million is
:23:39. > :23:42.going straight to these mystery winners. What happens as far as the
:23:43. > :23:50.other claimants is concerned will be up to Camelot. As for Worcester's
:23:51. > :23:52.multi, multimillionaire, what do you do with ?33 million? It has been
:23:53. > :23:57.suggested that Worcester city football club could do with a new
:23:58. > :23:59.stadium, because they do not have one at the moment. One definite I
:24:00. > :24:06.can give you is that it was not me. The polecat, a native British animal
:24:07. > :24:11.that was almost completely wiped out, has made
:24:12. > :24:16.a remarkable recovery. In 1915, the only polecats left
:24:17. > :24:19.were to be found in Wales and Scotland and it was feared
:24:20. > :24:21.they were heading for extinction. But now a major nationwide survey
:24:22. > :24:24.has found that the animals have Our science correspondent
:24:25. > :24:28.Rebecca Morelle has more. With its distinctive markings,
:24:29. > :24:33.the polecat is a secretive creature and it is a vital part
:24:34. > :24:37.of Britain's wildlife heritage. But these animals were once pushed
:24:38. > :24:42.to the brink of extinction by us. These little fellows scrambling out
:24:43. > :24:44.of their hideout to say how But in the wild, thanks
:24:45. > :24:49.to their appetite for chickens and game birds they were considered
:24:50. > :24:52.a major pest and killed Polecats became really,
:24:53. > :24:57.really rare at the start of the 20th century, and were basically confined
:24:58. > :25:02.to a stronghold in mid-Wales. But a new survey shows they are
:25:03. > :25:05.returning to the countryside and Suffolk is just one area
:25:06. > :25:08.where they are making a comeback Scientists say legal protection has
:25:09. > :25:15.helped them flourish. This is something we really need
:25:16. > :25:19.to celebrate, the recovery of a native carnivore we once almost
:25:20. > :25:24.lost completely from Britain. We want to see them back here,
:25:25. > :25:32.as widespread as they can be. Here at the British Wildlife Centre,
:25:33. > :25:35.we are incredibly lucky to get a close look at what are
:25:36. > :25:38.normally very shy animals. Conservationists are thrilled
:25:39. > :25:40.at their success story, but now they fear that new threats
:25:41. > :25:44.could be looming on the horizon. In the wild, growing numbers
:25:45. > :25:46.are dying after eating poisoned rats, and more are being
:25:47. > :25:50.killed on the roads. Some are also crossbreeding
:25:51. > :25:52.with their domestic But many are optimistic
:25:53. > :25:56.that the animals can continue I love the idea that polecats
:25:57. > :26:01.could be living out there. I don't necessarily need to see
:26:02. > :26:04.them, I just need to know Sometimes when you just
:26:05. > :26:09.see their poo or a footprint or some prey remains, it
:26:10. > :26:10.means they are there. That's good, and the fact
:26:11. > :26:13.that they are back in England in my lifetime has to be
:26:14. > :26:15.counted as a success. This comeback is a rare
:26:16. > :26:19.natural recovery. Now conservationists say
:26:20. > :26:38.they want to ensure that the polecat A chilly start for all of us but
:26:39. > :26:43.glorious sunshine across central and southern areas. As depicted in
:26:44. > :26:47.Guernsey. A different story further north in Perth and Kinross, ominous
:26:48. > :26:52.looking, cloudy skies, and wet weather. The rain in the North West
:26:53. > :26:58.has been the overture to this, the main event. Gertrude, riding through
:26:59. > :27:03.the night. It is the seventh major storm of the season. The Met office
:27:04. > :27:06.has issued an amber weather warning, so be prepared for possible
:27:07. > :27:17.disruption. Certainly, it is going to mean business. Also, we will see
:27:18. > :27:24.heavy rain, moving through Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. There is
:27:25. > :27:31.a potential for localised flooding. But storm force gusts of winds will
:27:32. > :27:33.be the real cause for concern. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and
:27:34. > :27:37.north-west England for a time. Some of that rain heavy and persistent.
:27:38. > :27:42.That will make 14 years driving conditions. The rain will gradually
:27:43. > :27:46.push its way south and east through the day, weakening off considerably
:27:47. > :27:53.into the afternoon. Brighter skies, sunny spells and scattered showers,
:27:54. > :28:00.but still staying windy for all. But for the South West, turning colder
:28:01. > :28:04.in the North, and pretty significant because through the night we will
:28:05. > :28:09.see wintry showers at low levels. Blizzard conditions with heavy rain
:28:10. > :28:13.likely across the South West. Slowly moving south and east. That will
:28:14. > :28:18.gradually ease first thing on Saturday morning. Plenty of weather
:28:19. > :28:24.to talk about in the next 12-24 hours. More live on the news channel
:28:25. > :28:30.later this evening. A reminder of our main story this evening. The
:28:31. > :28:34.World Health Organisation warns that the Zika virus is spreading fast and
:28:35. > :28:36.could have affected 4 million people by next year.