:00:12. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today. The Greek Prime Minister offers to
:00:16. > :00:21.resign and make way for a national unity government. The Greek people
:00:21. > :00:25.express their anger at more or austerity measures in order to pay
:00:25. > :00:31.off these huge debt. It is not about me any more, it is
:00:31. > :00:35.about our children. I do not see a bright future.
:00:35. > :00:40.Syrian refugees in Turkey vent their anger against the Assad
:00:40. > :00:46.regime, as the Syrian army prepares to enter another town in the north.
:00:46. > :00:49.In search of Tripoli's disaffected, we hear he is rarely told stories
:00:49. > :00:53.from opposition voices in the capital of Libya.
:00:53. > :00:56.President Barack Obama calls for a ceasefire in Sudan as fighting
:00:56. > :01:01.intensified amid claims of ethnic cleansing.
:01:01. > :01:05.There are reports from serious colics, who would not make things
:01:05. > :01:13.up, that they have been taking people from their homes and killing
:01:13. > :01:17.them because they are to black. And, the fisherman's Friend now put
:01:17. > :01:27.to music, D Shipping Forecast becomes an inspiration for a new
:01:27. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:34.Hello. The Greek Prime Minister is between
:01:34. > :01:39.a rock and a hard place. Greece has run out of money, it cannot borrow
:01:39. > :01:43.any more unless it hikes up taxes and carries out more cuts, but the
:01:43. > :01:47.Greek people have had enough of this unpalatable economic medicine.
:01:47. > :01:51.They voiced their anger in a general strike and a huge street
:01:51. > :01:55.protests as the parliament debated the new plan. State TV is reporting
:01:55. > :02:01.that the ruling Socialist Party is now in talks with the opposition
:02:01. > :02:04.Conservatives to form a national unity government.
:02:04. > :02:08.The fighting that took place outside Parliament was the most
:02:08. > :02:12.serious violence seen on the streets of Athens for over a year.
:02:12. > :02:16.Evidence, if it was needed, that the Greek public cannot take any
:02:16. > :02:21.more. The indignant movement, which had been holding a peaceful
:02:21. > :02:24.demonstrations, stood back as the rioters did their work. Nearly
:02:24. > :02:30.three weeks of continuous protests by the movement have had the
:02:30. > :02:35.desired effect. According to government sources, the head has
:02:35. > :02:40.offered to step down, but only on the condition that the new unity
:02:40. > :02:43.government sticks to the plan put down by the EU. He had always
:02:43. > :02:47.promised he had the strength to save Greece from economic collapse.
:02:47. > :02:52.But it appears he was forced to Tell the President he had lost the
:02:52. > :02:58.support of a rebellious element of his Socialist Party. Chris's
:02:58. > :03:02.economy is in a parlous position. Its national debt is �300 billion.
:03:02. > :03:06.It is supposed to be receiving �95 billion as part of a bail-out
:03:07. > :03:11.package. But the political chaos has put the handouts in doubt. As
:03:11. > :03:18.well as the hopes of the protesters. It is not about me any more, it is
:03:18. > :03:22.about our children. I do not see a bright future. The indigo movement
:03:22. > :03:30.has caught the imagination of the rest of the Greek mainland, and the
:03:30. > :03:33.islands off. -- the islands. In this fish market, they try to keep
:03:33. > :03:38.flies off the sea food. It is a metaphor for the Greek economy,
:03:38. > :03:43.except it is in a more advanced state of decomposition. This
:03:43. > :03:48.island's prosperity is dependent on visitors from Athens. On first
:03:48. > :03:54.glimpse, the waterfront looks puzzling. But it is just a facade.
:03:54. > :04:02.On the street behind, businesses have gone bust, and the full rent
:04:02. > :04:07.signs are spreading. You will find FIFA it -- 15 different places that
:04:07. > :04:11.are closing down. Business has been bad. In a backstreet bar,
:04:11. > :04:15.grassroots activists are stoking up opposition to the government, and
:04:15. > :04:21.the manner in which it is carrying out the demands of the EU and
:04:21. > :04:29.International Monetary Fund. What we are trying to communicate is the
:04:29. > :04:37.fact that we could bypass the parliamentary democracy, without
:04:37. > :04:40.furnishing it, but creating assemblies that can overall
:04:40. > :04:46.legislation. Some participants believe they should have become
:04:46. > :04:51.more vocal a year ago, when Greece received the bail-out. Everybody is
:04:51. > :04:57.fed up with the economic crisis and the way it has been handled
:04:57. > :05:01.internationally, because of the solutions are oppressing the people,
:05:01. > :05:06.and not helping development. How can we pay off debts without being
:05:06. > :05:14.able to develop? The speed with which the Greek public is losing
:05:14. > :05:17.confidence in the Prime Minister is exhilarating. For the first time in
:05:17. > :05:20.years, his governing Socialist Party is lagging behind the
:05:20. > :05:24.conservative opposition in the polls. The demonstrators may have
:05:24. > :05:28.won a victory against the Government today, but whether it
:05:28. > :05:34.benefits them and the longer remains to be seen.
:05:34. > :05:37.-- in the long run. Joining the from Athens, the
:05:37. > :05:42.political economist at the University of Athens, Yanis
:05:42. > :05:47.Varoufakis. The Prime Minister George Papandreou had a lot of
:05:47. > :05:56.support for his first or austerity plan. Why have people lost faith in
:05:56. > :06:00.him now? Because it proved a catastrophic disaster. Every single
:06:00. > :06:04.prediction, every single statement by the Finance Minister and the
:06:04. > :06:13.Prime Minister was undermined within a few short days after it
:06:13. > :06:20.was issued. You can for some of the people of the time... -- for what
:06:20. > :06:28.some of the people... Now, the recession, the crisis, the
:06:28. > :06:33.investment seizure has been added to a list at also contains a crisis
:06:33. > :06:39.of political legitimacy. But he always says he did not have any
:06:39. > :06:45.choice, these measures were imposed upon Greece by the IMF, by the EU,
:06:45. > :06:49.who have bailed the Greeks out. one sense, a recognised the
:06:49. > :06:54.conundrum in which he finds himself. He inherited an awful situation
:06:54. > :07:01.from the previous government. Just when he was finding his feet in
:07:01. > :07:07.government, the quit kit exploded. But having said that, a political
:07:07. > :07:11.leader has to make important decisions and take risks. In
:07:11. > :07:18.accepting 110 billion euro, on condition of austerity, that was a
:07:18. > :07:22.major assault on reason. Thinking that these huge expensive loan
:07:22. > :07:30.would solve an insolvency problem, as if it were a liquidity problem.
:07:30. > :07:36.What is the alternative? If I were to offer you a credit card with a
:07:36. > :07:40.very high interest rate, to pay back your mortgage, because you are
:07:40. > :07:48.finding it hard to meet your repayments, you would have been
:07:48. > :07:53.foolish to accept it. Leaders do not break, they know how to say no
:07:53. > :07:56.when it is fitting, and it was fitting last year for the Greek
:07:56. > :08:00.Prime Minister to attend the EU summit and declare what the
:08:00. > :08:07.situation was, presented to his colleagues in Europe and say, this
:08:07. > :08:13.is the situation, I am afraid I would have to declare in a few days
:08:13. > :08:18.or months, perhaps, that Greece is in default. But in that case, if
:08:19. > :08:24.Greece had done that, would the EU, the IMF and the banks have said, we
:08:24. > :08:29.are not helping you? If they wanted the Coretta Microsystems to
:08:29. > :08:36.collapse, that is what they would have said. -- euro system to
:08:36. > :08:41.collapse. That fear had a major fall in living standards after 2008,
:08:41. > :08:45.and they stabilised the situation by creating internal devaluation.
:08:45. > :08:49.Greece is integrated into the banking sector of Europe, and the
:08:49. > :08:59.contagion that is common to happen if Christie faults, because there
:08:59. > :09:07.is no way of avoiding it, the system was not designed to sustain
:09:07. > :09:13.a great Shockwave like that, and it would be history, together with the
:09:13. > :09:17.living standards of the average person.
:09:17. > :09:22.Another town in northern Syria is bracing itself for an attack by
:09:22. > :09:27.government troops. Thousands of people are leaving a Maaret al-
:09:27. > :09:30.Namaan and its fears of a crackdown. But in nearby Jisr al-Shughour, the
:09:30. > :09:36.government says things are getting back to normal after troops and
:09:36. > :09:41.tanks moved in on Sunday, and it is calling on the people to come home.
:09:41. > :09:43.He signed a fear of a northern Syria. Villagers have set up their
:09:43. > :09:51.own checkpoints to help protect people fleeing from the regime's
:09:51. > :09:58.guns. More and more are fleeing. These are Syrians waiting to cross
:09:58. > :10:01.into the safety of neighbouring Turkey. It is already playing host
:10:01. > :10:05.to over 8000 refugees, after the miniature crackdown on Jisr al-
:10:05. > :10:10.Shughour. Amid fears that the town of Maaret al-Namaan is next. More
:10:10. > :10:13.people on the mood. Based on evidence from refugees and from
:10:13. > :10:18.human rights groups, the United Nations says at least 1100 people
:10:18. > :10:22.have been killed over the past three months, and up to 10,000
:10:22. > :10:29.jailed. International outrage at the actions of Bashar Al-Assad's
:10:29. > :10:35.regime is growing. We just demanded freedom, this man says, just
:10:35. > :10:39.freedom. He has killed half his people. Today, an envoy from the
:10:39. > :10:43.President was in Turkey, which has become increasingly critical of the
:10:43. > :10:52.Syrian regime. He insisted the refugees will not be in Turkey for
:10:53. > :11:02.long. Our citizens are here for a short time, temporarily staying
:11:02. > :11:06.here in Turkey, but soon they will return. We are prepared for them,
:11:06. > :11:10.and they are returning now, actually. In Damascus, a grand
:11:10. > :11:15.display of defiance. This is being billed as the world's biggest
:11:15. > :11:19.Syrian flag. It was unfurled at an organised show of support for the
:11:19. > :11:26.Government. State TV said it was a sign of the country rejecting
:11:26. > :11:30.foreign interference, and of the country's cohesion. But elsewhere,
:11:30. > :11:36.protests have continued. This placard asks if the flight is long
:11:36. > :11:40.enough to make shrouds for the dead. Images from inside the country
:11:40. > :11:43.offal to regard, filmed by the protesters. But the full story of
:11:43. > :11:51.what they are protesting against, the actions of the regime's tanks
:11:51. > :11:57.and troops, cannot be told, with the international media shoot-out.
:11:57. > :12:02.-- shot at it. Pakistan says it has obtained several people suspected
:12:02. > :12:05.of providing information on Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts to the
:12:05. > :12:09.American intelligence agency the CIA. And on a spokesperson said
:12:10. > :12:13.most of the alleged informants had been arrested in the garrison town
:12:13. > :12:17.of Abbottabad, where Osama Bin Laden is said to have been hiding
:12:17. > :12:19.for years before he was killed last month.
:12:19. > :12:25.American reports said that the Central Intelligence Agency is
:12:25. > :12:29.preparing to operate on drone aircraft over Yemen to target all
:12:29. > :12:33.al-Qaeda suspects could. The Washington Post says the drones
:12:34. > :12:38.would join at unmanned craft than by the American military.
:12:38. > :12:41.British banks are being ordered to reorganise in an effort to avoid
:12:41. > :12:45.the multi-billion dollar financial crisis of three years ago. The
:12:45. > :12:49.Chancellor George Osborne is to announce later that banks should
:12:49. > :12:53.structure their businesses so that accounts held by the public are
:12:53. > :12:58.protected. He has also announced be nationalised Bank Northern Rock
:12:58. > :13:03.will be tougher sale. In Libya, opposition activists in
:13:03. > :13:07.Tripoli have told us that Colonel Gaddafi is more unpopular than ever.
:13:07. > :13:12.But he is clinging on to power through intimidation and murder.
:13:12. > :13:15.Foreign journalists work under strict government restrictions. Our
:13:15. > :13:21.correspondent has met opposition members, who live in daily fear for
:13:21. > :13:25.their lives. In a city penetrated by fear and
:13:25. > :13:29.suspicion, this is the only way to find out what many Libyans are
:13:29. > :13:35.really thinking. We have given our government minders the slip, but it
:13:35. > :13:39.is still a nervous journey to a safe house in a Tripoli suburb. The
:13:40. > :13:45.four young activists I need have also put at the regime's hands, in
:13:45. > :13:48.one way or another. Friends have been killed, they are tired of the
:13:48. > :13:54.corruption and nepotism, and they say pressure is mounting on Colonel
:13:54. > :13:58.Gaddafi to go. Their words are spoken by actors. It is a fight, we
:13:58. > :14:04.will fight, but not with empty hands. It is crazy to go out,
:14:04. > :14:08.facing people with guns, and we know what intentions they have.
:14:08. > :14:13.you think that Colonel Gaddafi will have to go? He is finished already.
:14:13. > :14:17.He is damaging the country as much as he can, but he is finished.
:14:17. > :14:21.the early days of the uprising, anti-government protests in Tripoli
:14:21. > :14:28.were brutally crushed. But people are beginning to find their voices
:14:28. > :14:35.again. At this recent funeral in the capital, the rebel flag is
:14:35. > :14:39.raised in open defiance. On this video, which is impossible to
:14:39. > :14:47.verify, government soldiers stand over dying rebels after recent
:14:47. > :14:51.fighting in the capital. You dogs, they say, this is revenge. Colonel
:14:51. > :14:56.Gaddafi's opponents know that Tripoli is still a dangerous place.
:14:56. > :15:05.I think it is going to be bloody, because he is not going to give up
:15:05. > :15:10.easy at all. Will we see more How does that make you feel? I am
:15:10. > :15:18.scared. But I am willing to sacrifice my life for this. You are
:15:18. > :15:24.willing to do for this? Yes, without hesitation. This is how the
:15:24. > :15:31.regime portrays things. Fanatical they may be many faces are familiar,
:15:31. > :15:36.and are fewer in number. Ten weeks of NATO bombing hasn't ousted the
:15:36. > :15:46.Colonel. From what we have seen, his fortress capital is solid no
:15:46. > :15:50.longer. President Obama has called on the leaders of northern and
:15:50. > :15:54.southern Sudan to stop escalating violence in border regions. In a
:15:54. > :16:00.month's time the oil rich south of Sudan is due to become independent
:16:00. > :16:03.from the north after decades of Civil War. South Kordofan will
:16:03. > :16:08.remain under the jurisdiction of the north but some 60,000 people
:16:08. > :16:15.have been displaced. The US President says both sides must use
:16:15. > :16:18.talks taking place to secure the peace that their people wanted.
:16:18. > :16:28.leaders of Sudan and south Sudan must live up to their
:16:28. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:03.Meanwhile the Vice-President of Sudan has been speaking to BBC
:17:03. > :17:07.Arabic television. He said immediate action is needed to stop
:17:07. > :17:13.the violence. In southern Kordofan we would want to see there is
:17:13. > :17:21.ceasefire and the presence of the UN, UN forces is also felt by the
:17:21. > :17:24.people, so that we don't get to a situation where there would be
:17:24. > :17:29.genocide, ethnic cleansing and situation of Rwanda where you had
:17:29. > :17:35.witness in the 1990s. We want to avoid this happening, particularly
:17:35. > :17:39.in southern Kordofan. I have been speaking to Baroness Caroline Cox,
:17:39. > :17:43.former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in Britain who is involved
:17:43. > :17:48.in an aid charity down in Sudan. I asked what she had been hearing
:17:48. > :17:51.from her contacts on the ground. Two main things to high light, the
:17:52. > :17:57.first is the intensity of the fighting against the peoples of
:17:57. > :18:02.southern Kordofan, they have been suggested to Aero bombardment. The
:18:02. > :18:05.shelling and bombing of civilian targets and attacked by helicopter
:18:05. > :18:09.gunship, chasing people like animals, trying to run away, so
:18:09. > :18:14.there is the Aero bombardment, the military offensives and then there
:18:14. > :18:18.is the taking from house to house of people and killing them in cold
:18:18. > :18:23.blood, some of them in front of UN soldiers or peacekeeping troops who
:18:23. > :18:27.are there to protect the people. Can I get this straight. This is
:18:27. > :18:31.troops from the north. Attacking people who support
:18:31. > :18:34.independence of the south? Yes, attacking the people who they
:18:34. > :18:37.believe support the independence of the south but worry liing, reports
:18:37. > :18:41.from serious colleagues out there who would not make things up, that
:18:41. > :18:46.in some cases they have been taking people from their homes and killing
:18:46. > :18:51.them because "They are too black." The people are a African people
:18:51. > :18:53.with a long tradition of African culture and there seems to be an
:18:53. > :18:59.element of ethnic cleansing as well as military terrorism. That is a
:18:59. > :19:03.strong phrase to use. Yes. It is coming from several different
:19:03. > :19:08.sources and all of them reliable. That is worrying. When I was in the
:19:08. > :19:12.mountains last time, the people there are partners who are mountain
:19:12. > :19:16.people, Christian an Muslim, they were worried that one of the
:19:16. > :19:20.results of their coming under the control of Khartoum would be a very
:19:20. > :19:25.racist agenda, they would lose their African identity, so it does
:19:25. > :19:28.seem as though that is one sad element of a bigger picture which
:19:29. > :19:31.is the military offensive and the terrorising of the people of
:19:31. > :19:36.southern Kordofan. So they feel in the run-up to independence for the
:19:36. > :19:40.south, that the north is trying to clear people like them out of the
:19:40. > :19:45.country and shove them over the border south? Very much so.
:19:45. > :19:50.Estimates are up to 60,000 people who have had to flee one of the
:19:50. > :19:55.main towns, and other owns and villages, many are hiding in caves.
:19:55. > :19:59.It is rough terrain in the mountain, they suffered all this in the early
:19:59. > :20:05.90s. 500,000 perished in that war. It's a rerun of the horror, hiding
:20:05. > :20:09.in caves. You can't get water. If they are not in there it is rainy
:20:09. > :20:13.season. A lot of the access routes have been cut off so the reports
:20:13. > :20:18.coming in of people dying from humanitarian crisis as well as from
:20:18. > :20:21.the military offensive. It is a real catastrophe. Do you fear that
:20:21. > :20:26.independence of southern Sudan could be derailed by this fighting?
:20:26. > :20:31.Well, that is a real fear, July 9th is when they are looking forward to
:20:31. > :20:36.celebrating their independence but of course we have had the horrors
:20:36. > :20:40.when that dis-- disputed area is being grabbed by northern forces
:20:40. > :20:44.and captured. We have southern Kordofan, they are Blue Nile, that
:20:44. > :20:48.might become vulnerable. All this seems to be a serious policy of
:20:48. > :20:53.Khartoum perhaps to destabilise the region, and therefore by to
:20:53. > :20:55.destabilise southern Sudan on the border and make that declaration of
:20:55. > :21:01.independence precarious, think the sunners want their independence,
:21:01. > :21:04.they will try to go for it but these are serious aspects in the
:21:04. > :21:07.run up to that critical historic day. Briefly, President Obama has
:21:07. > :21:10.called today for a ceasefire, do you think that will have any
:21:10. > :21:14.effect? I hope it will. I have been asking the House of Lords this
:21:14. > :21:17.afternoon when the British Government will raise at the UN
:21:17. > :21:22.Security Council is need for much more effective UN action for those
:21:22. > :21:26.peacekeepers to stop looking on, and to do something, to help
:21:26. > :21:31.provide some peace, and the local people are asking desperately for a
:21:31. > :21:35.no-fly zone to protect them from this constant aerial bombardment.
:21:35. > :21:39.Baroness Caroline Cox. Now, economies in Asia have seen
:21:39. > :21:43.dramatic changes over the past 30 year, and that change is affecting
:21:43. > :21:47.power relationships in the region and beyond. If NATO is a western
:21:47. > :21:53.security alliance, how are countrys in the east getting together to
:21:53. > :21:57.form similar ties. Rayhan Demytrie reports from Kazakhstan which is
:21:57. > :22:02.playing host to the Shanghai Co- operation Organisation. Police in
:22:02. > :22:07.full dress. Keeping tight security across the city for the Presidents
:22:07. > :22:10.of China, Russia and central Asian republics. Their countries are
:22:11. > :22:14.members of the Shanghai Co- operation Organisation. A regional
:22:14. > :22:20.security alliance, which Iran, Pakistan and India are also keen to
:22:20. > :22:26.join. Military drills are at the core of this grouping. A fight
:22:26. > :22:33.against what it calls three evils, terrorism, extremism and separatism
:22:33. > :22:37.is the declared goal. For China that means a close focus on what it
:22:37. > :22:47.sees as activism in its western region and handing over suspects is
:22:47. > :22:53.part of the deal. Central Asia home to a large ethnic community. But
:22:53. > :22:59.this activist says Kazakhstan extradited a man who fled China
:22:59. > :23:06.after riots there. Through its ties says this activist, China is now
:23:06. > :23:11.putting pressure on them across central Asia After all... I was
:23:11. > :23:14.supposed to attend the Congress in the States but was stopped at the
:23:14. > :23:21.airport. The authorities prevented me leaving the country. Unlike in
:23:21. > :23:27.western alliances human rights is not a priority for the members. Its
:23:27. > :23:31.non-westernness makes it a point of interest for Iran while other
:23:31. > :23:36.states believe it has the potential to play a greater role in regional
:23:36. > :23:39.stability. As you know the Americans have announced a
:23:39. > :23:45.timetable to withdraw, then we will knee some other organisation to
:23:45. > :23:51.step in, that could be the SEO. Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
:23:51. > :23:54.is not yet the NATO of the east but with so many countries keen to join,
:23:54. > :24:03.some analysts believe it could one day change the global balance of
:24:03. > :24:09.power. BBC Radio 4's shipping forecast is intended to a to be a
:24:09. > :24:17.vital res for for crews to prepare for bad weather on the high seas
:24:17. > :24:20.but among non-nautical devotees it has a great following. It is a
:24:20. > :24:24.hypnotic mantra that can send do you sleep. Our correspondent has
:24:24. > :24:34.been finding out how it has become the inspiration for a new piece of
:24:34. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:48.music. Fair Isle, Faeroes. South- east Iceland. Shaning. Rockall.
:24:48. > :24:53.Become north-easterly five. Cromarty, variable four, occasional
:24:53. > :24:59.rain, moderate or good. The shipping forecast, a daily reminder
:24:59. > :25:07.of the hazards round this windswept island but to some it is also
:25:07. > :25:10.poetry. It is rhythm. It is strange words, words depicting amazing
:25:10. > :25:18.spectacular places. I think our imagination jumps over the words
:25:18. > :25:22.and visualises some of those places. Fair Isle. Faeroes. And now it is
:25:22. > :25:27.the inspiration for this new musical work by the composer
:25:27. > :25:35.Cecilia McDowall, who like many others find the forecast both
:25:35. > :25:41.beautiful, and baffling. Lundy. Fastnet and Irish Sea. There is
:25:41. > :25:47.great beauty in the rhythm. Very poe tick, but there is also this
:25:47. > :25:50.baffling thing I don't understand it. And of course, now falling
:25:50. > :25:57.sometimes good, all these thing, I know they mean something to
:25:58. > :26:01.somebody but even though they don't mean anything to me, I enjoy them.
:26:01. > :26:06.High Biscay slow-moving with little change. Indeed for most of us the
:26:06. > :26:12.shipping forecast is when we hear it on the radio, a bit of a mystery.
:26:12. > :26:17.Five to seven in the south-east later. Those words, the reassuring
:26:17. > :26:22.almost poetry of it out here mean rather more. And for Alan Gick the
:26:22. > :26:26.skipper of the Alice, a Thames stale -- sailing barge, it is
:26:26. > :26:32.better than any high tech gadgetry I listen to it at sea. I listen to
:26:32. > :26:36.it less on shore, because obviously you have got computerised
:26:36. > :26:39.technology to give you the stuff, but it gives a kind of reassuring
:26:39. > :26:44.view that people are still doing the same thing, and still collating
:26:44. > :26:53.the weather and telling you about it. Somehow the electronic stuff is,
:26:53. > :26:57.doesn't have the same meaning. Dogger. So why it is for Port
:26:57. > :27:07.mouth's festival choir poetry, the shipping forecast out here means
:27:07. > :27:11.rather more. A quick reminder of the main news tonight. Greece is
:27:11. > :27:14.faith facing a deepening political as well as economic crisis, reports
:27:14. > :27:19.that the Prime Minister George Papandreou has offered to step down
:27:19. > :27:29.after a day of violent protests over a planned austerity programme.
:27:29. > :27:32.
:27:32. > :27:36.Hello, we have had a different feel to the weather. It has been
:27:36. > :27:41.dominated by the cloud and showers. The showers return tomorrow where
:27:41. > :27:45.they will be more widespread heavy and we are looking at thunderstorms
:27:45. > :27:48.at times. We are losing the weak weather front but the low continues
:27:48. > :27:52.to dominate as we look through Thursday's forecast. It will be
:27:52. > :27:56.driving in showers which will get going as we head through the
:27:56. > :28:00.afternoon, with only occasional glim others brightness at times. As
:28:00. > :28:03.we look towards the afternoon for cast, 17 degrees on the face of it
:28:04. > :28:09.doesn't feel too bad but of course if you get caught in the wet
:28:09. > :28:16.weather et it will feel colder. You can see plenty of showers, round
:28:16. > :28:21.the coast it may be a better chance of seeing drier weather at times.
:28:21. > :28:24.The showers will be blown inland. Cardiff's temperatures 16, given
:28:24. > :28:27.some afternoon sunshine, round about 18 in Manchester. For
:28:27. > :28:31.Northern Ireland, we have a fair amount of cloud again, showers here,
:28:31. > :28:35.most of them out to the north and west. Belfast seeing some decent
:28:35. > :28:40.spells of dry weather. A lot of cloud in a good part of Scotland as
:28:40. > :28:44.well. Through the Grampians again, another favoured spot for seeing