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This is BBC World News Today. The Greek Prime Minister offers to | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
resign and make way for a national unity government. The Greek people | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
express their anger at more or austerity measures in order to pay | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
off these huge debt. It is not about me any more, it is | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
about our children. I do not see a bright future. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Syrian refugees in Turkey vent their anger against the Assad | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
regime, as the Syrian army prepares to enter another town in the north. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
In search of Tripoli's disaffected, we hear he is rarely told stories | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
from opposition voices in the capital of Libya. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
President Barack Obama calls for a ceasefire in Sudan as fighting | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
intensified amid claims of ethnic cleansing. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
There are reports from serious colics, who would not make things | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
up, that they have been taking people from their homes and killing | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
them because they are to black. And, the fisherman's Friend now put | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
to music, D Shipping Forecast becomes an inspiration for a new | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Hello. The Greek Prime Minister is between | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
a rock and a hard place. Greece has run out of money, it cannot borrow | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
any more unless it hikes up taxes and carries out more cuts, but the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Greek people have had enough of this unpalatable economic medicine. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
They voiced their anger in a general strike and a huge street | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
protests as the parliament debated the new plan. State TV is reporting | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
that the ruling Socialist Party is now in talks with the opposition | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
Conservatives to form a national unity government. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
The fighting that took place outside Parliament was the most | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
serious violence seen on the streets of Athens for over a year. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Evidence, if it was needed, that the Greek public cannot take any | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
more. The indignant movement, which had been holding a peaceful | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
demonstrations, stood back as the rioters did their work. Nearly | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
three weeks of continuous protests by the movement have had the | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
desired effect. According to government sources, the head has | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
offered to step down, but only on the condition that the new unity | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
government sticks to the plan put down by the EU. He had always | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
promised he had the strength to save Greece from economic collapse. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
But it appears he was forced to Tell the President he had lost the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
support of a rebellious element of his Socialist Party. Chris's | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
economy is in a parlous position. Its national debt is �300 billion. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
It is supposed to be receiving �95 billion as part of a bail-out | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
package. But the political chaos has put the handouts in doubt. As | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
well as the hopes of the protesters. It is not about me any more, it is | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
about our children. I do not see a bright future. The indigo movement | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
has caught the imagination of the rest of the Greek mainland, and the | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
islands off. -- the islands. In this fish market, they try to keep | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
flies off the sea food. It is a metaphor for the Greek economy, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
except it is in a more advanced state of decomposition. This | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
island's prosperity is dependent on visitors from Athens. On first | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
glimpse, the waterfront looks puzzling. But it is just a facade. | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
On the street behind, businesses have gone bust, and the full rent | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
signs are spreading. You will find FIFA it -- 15 different places that | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
are closing down. Business has been bad. In a backstreet bar, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
grassroots activists are stoking up opposition to the government, and | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
the manner in which it is carrying out the demands of the EU and | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
International Monetary Fund. What we are trying to communicate is the | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
fact that we could bypass the parliamentary democracy, without | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
furnishing it, but creating assemblies that can overall | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
legislation. Some participants believe they should have become | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
more vocal a year ago, when Greece received the bail-out. Everybody is | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
fed up with the economic crisis and the way it has been handled | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
internationally, because of the solutions are oppressing the people, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
and not helping development. How can we pay off debts without being | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
able to develop? The speed with which the Greek public is losing | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
confidence in the Prime Minister is exhilarating. For the first time in | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
years, his governing Socialist Party is lagging behind the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
conservative opposition in the polls. The demonstrators may have | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
won a victory against the Government today, but whether it | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
benefits them and the longer remains to be seen. | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
-- in the long run. Joining the from Athens, the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
political economist at the University of Athens, Yanis | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Varoufakis. The Prime Minister George Papandreou had a lot of | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
support for his first or austerity plan. Why have people lost faith in | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
him now? Because it proved a catastrophic disaster. Every single | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
prediction, every single statement by the Finance Minister and the | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Prime Minister was undermined within a few short days after it | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
was issued. You can for some of the people of the time... -- for what | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
some of the people... Now, the recession, the crisis, the | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
investment seizure has been added to a list at also contains a crisis | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
of political legitimacy. But he always says he did not have any | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
choice, these measures were imposed upon Greece by the IMF, by the EU, | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
who have bailed the Greeks out. one sense, a recognised the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
conundrum in which he finds himself. He inherited an awful situation | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
from the previous government. Just when he was finding his feet in | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
government, the quit kit exploded. But having said that, a political | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
leader has to make important decisions and take risks. In | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
accepting 110 billion euro, on condition of austerity, that was a | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
major assault on reason. Thinking that these huge expensive loan | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
would solve an insolvency problem, as if it were a liquidity problem. | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
What is the alternative? If I were to offer you a credit card with a | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
very high interest rate, to pay back your mortgage, because you are | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
finding it hard to meet your repayments, you would have been | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
foolish to accept it. Leaders do not break, they know how to say no | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
when it is fitting, and it was fitting last year for the Greek | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Prime Minister to attend the EU summit and declare what the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
situation was, presented to his colleagues in Europe and say, this | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
is the situation, I am afraid I would have to declare in a few days | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
or months, perhaps, that Greece is in default. But in that case, if | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Greece had done that, would the EU, the IMF and the banks have said, we | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
are not helping you? If they wanted the Coretta Microsystems to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
collapse, that is what they would have said. -- euro system to | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
collapse. That fear had a major fall in living standards after 2008, | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
and they stabilised the situation by creating internal devaluation. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Greece is integrated into the banking sector of Europe, and the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
contagion that is common to happen if Christie faults, because there | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
is no way of avoiding it, the system was not designed to sustain | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
a great Shockwave like that, and it would be history, together with the | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
living standards of the average person. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Another town in northern Syria is bracing itself for an attack by | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
government troops. Thousands of people are leaving a Maaret al- | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Namaan and its fears of a crackdown. But in nearby Jisr al-Shughour, the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
government says things are getting back to normal after troops and | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
tanks moved in on Sunday, and it is calling on the people to come home. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
He signed a fear of a northern Syria. Villagers have set up their | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
own checkpoints to help protect people fleeing from the regime's | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
guns. More and more are fleeing. These are Syrians waiting to cross | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
into the safety of neighbouring Turkey. It is already playing host | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
to over 8000 refugees, after the miniature crackdown on Jisr al- | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Shughour. Amid fears that the town of Maaret al-Namaan is next. More | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
people on the mood. Based on evidence from refugees and from | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
human rights groups, the United Nations says at least 1100 people | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
have been killed over the past three months, and up to 10,000 | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
jailed. International outrage at the actions of Bashar Al-Assad's | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
regime is growing. We just demanded freedom, this man says, just | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
freedom. He has killed half his people. Today, an envoy from the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
President was in Turkey, which has become increasingly critical of the | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Syrian regime. He insisted the refugees will not be in Turkey for | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
long. Our citizens are here for a short time, temporarily staying | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
here in Turkey, but soon they will return. We are prepared for them, | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
and they are returning now, actually. In Damascus, a grand | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
display of defiance. This is being billed as the world's biggest | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Syrian flag. It was unfurled at an organised show of support for the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Government. State TV said it was a sign of the country rejecting | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
foreign interference, and of the country's cohesion. But elsewhere, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
protests have continued. This placard asks if the flight is long | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
enough to make shrouds for the dead. Images from inside the country | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
offal to regard, filmed by the protesters. But the full story of | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
what they are protesting against, the actions of the regime's tanks | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
and troops, cannot be told, with the international media shoot-out. | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
-- shot at it. Pakistan says it has obtained several people suspected | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
of providing information on Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts to the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
American intelligence agency the CIA. And on a spokesperson said | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
most of the alleged informants had been arrested in the garrison town | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
of Abbottabad, where Osama Bin Laden is said to have been hiding | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
for years before he was killed last month. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
American reports said that the Central Intelligence Agency is | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
preparing to operate on drone aircraft over Yemen to target all | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
al-Qaeda suspects could. The Washington Post says the drones | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
would join at unmanned craft than by the American military. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
British banks are being ordered to reorganise in an effort to avoid | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the multi-billion dollar financial crisis of three years ago. The | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Chancellor George Osborne is to announce later that banks should | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
structure their businesses so that accounts held by the public are | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
protected. He has also announced be nationalised Bank Northern Rock | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
will be tougher sale. In Libya, opposition activists in | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Tripoli have told us that Colonel Gaddafi is more unpopular than ever. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
But he is clinging on to power through intimidation and murder. | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Foreign journalists work under strict government restrictions. Our | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
correspondent has met opposition members, who live in daily fear for | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
their lives. In a city penetrated by fear and | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
suspicion, this is the only way to find out what many Libyans are | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
really thinking. We have given our government minders the slip, but it | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
is still a nervous journey to a safe house in a Tripoli suburb. The | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
four young activists I need have also put at the regime's hands, in | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
one way or another. Friends have been killed, they are tired of the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
corruption and nepotism, and they say pressure is mounting on Colonel | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
Gaddafi to go. Their words are spoken by actors. It is a fight, we | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
will fight, but not with empty hands. It is crazy to go out, | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
facing people with guns, and we know what intentions they have. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
you think that Colonel Gaddafi will have to go? He is finished already. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
He is damaging the country as much as he can, but he is finished. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
the early days of the uprising, anti-government protests in Tripoli | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
were brutally crushed. But people are beginning to find their voices | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
again. At this recent funeral in the capital, the rebel flag is | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
raised in open defiance. On this video, which is impossible to | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
verify, government soldiers stand over dying rebels after recent | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
fighting in the capital. You dogs, they say, this is revenge. Colonel | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Gaddafi's opponents know that Tripoli is still a dangerous place. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
I think it is going to be bloody, because he is not going to give up | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
easy at all. Will we see more How does that make you feel? I am | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
scared. But I am willing to sacrifice my life for this. You are | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
willing to do for this? Yes, without hesitation. This is how the | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
regime portrays things. Fanatical they may be many faces are familiar, | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
and are fewer in number. Ten weeks of NATO bombing hasn't ousted the | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Colonel. From what we have seen, his fortress capital is solid no | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
longer. President Obama has called on the leaders of northern and | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
southern Sudan to stop escalating violence in border regions. In a | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
month's time the oil rich south of Sudan is due to become independent | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
from the north after decades of Civil War. South Kordofan will | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
remain under the jurisdiction of the north but some 60,000 people | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
have been displaced. The US President says both sides must use | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
talks taking place to secure the peace that their people wanted. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
leaders of Sudan and south Sudan must live up to their | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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Meanwhile the Vice-President of Sudan has been speaking to BBC | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Arabic television. He said immediate action is needed to stop | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the violence. In southern Kordofan we would want to see there is | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
ceasefire and the presence of the UN, UN forces is also felt by the | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
people, so that we don't get to a situation where there would be | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
genocide, ethnic cleansing and situation of Rwanda where you had | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
witness in the 1990s. We want to avoid this happening, particularly | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
in southern Kordofan. I have been speaking to Baroness Caroline Cox, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in Britain who is involved | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
in an aid charity down in Sudan. I asked what she had been hearing | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
from her contacts on the ground. Two main things to high light, the | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
first is the intensity of the fighting against the peoples of | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
southern Kordofan, they have been suggested to Aero bombardment. The | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
shelling and bombing of civilian targets and attacked by helicopter | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
gunship, chasing people like animals, trying to run away, so | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
there is the Aero bombardment, the military offensives and then there | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
is the taking from house to house of people and killing them in cold | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
blood, some of them in front of UN soldiers or peacekeeping troops who | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
are there to protect the people. Can I get this straight. This is | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
troops from the north. Attacking people who support | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
independence of the south? Yes, attacking the people who they | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
believe support the independence of the south but worry liing, reports | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
from serious colleagues out there who would not make things up, that | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
in some cases they have been taking people from their homes and killing | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
them because "They are too black." The people are a African people | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
with a long tradition of African culture and there seems to be an | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
element of ethnic cleansing as well as military terrorism. That is a | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
strong phrase to use. Yes. It is coming from several different | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
sources and all of them reliable. That is worrying. When I was in the | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
mountains last time, the people there are partners who are mountain | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
people, Christian an Muslim, they were worried that one of the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
results of their coming under the control of Khartoum would be a very | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
racist agenda, they would lose their African identity, so it does | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
seem as though that is one sad element of a bigger picture which | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
is the military offensive and the terrorising of the people of | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
southern Kordofan. So they feel in the run-up to independence for the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
south, that the north is trying to clear people like them out of the | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
country and shove them over the border south? Very much so. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Estimates are up to 60,000 people who have had to flee one of the | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
main towns, and other owns and villages, many are hiding in caves. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
It is rough terrain in the mountain, they suffered all this in the early | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
90s. 500,000 perished in that war. It's a rerun of the horror, hiding | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
in caves. You can't get water. If they are not in there it is rainy | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
season. A lot of the access routes have been cut off so the reports | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
coming in of people dying from humanitarian crisis as well as from | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
the military offensive. It is a real catastrophe. Do you fear that | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
independence of southern Sudan could be derailed by this fighting? | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
Well, that is a real fear, July 9th is when they are looking forward to | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
celebrating their independence but of course we have had the horrors | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
when that dis-- disputed area is being grabbed by northern forces | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and captured. We have southern Kordofan, they are Blue Nile, that | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
might become vulnerable. All this seems to be a serious policy of | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Khartoum perhaps to destabilise the region, and therefore by to | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
destabilise southern Sudan on the border and make that declaration of | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
independence precarious, think the sunners want their independence, | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
they will try to go for it but these are serious aspects in the | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
run up to that critical historic day. Briefly, President Obama has | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
called today for a ceasefire, do you think that will have any | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
effect? I hope it will. I have been asking the House of Lords this | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
afternoon when the British Government will raise at the UN | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Security Council is need for much more effective UN action for those | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
peacekeepers to stop looking on, and to do something, to help | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
provide some peace, and the local people are asking desperately for a | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
no-fly zone to protect them from this constant aerial bombardment. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
Baroness Caroline Cox. Now, economies in Asia have seen | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
dramatic changes over the past 30 year, and that change is affecting | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
power relationships in the region and beyond. If NATO is a western | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
security alliance, how are countrys in the east getting together to | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
form similar ties. Rayhan Demytrie reports from Kazakhstan which is | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
playing host to the Shanghai Co- operation Organisation. Police in | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
full dress. Keeping tight security across the city for the Presidents | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
of China, Russia and central Asian republics. Their countries are | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
members of the Shanghai Co- operation Organisation. A regional | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
security alliance, which Iran, Pakistan and India are also keen to | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
join. Military drills are at the core of this grouping. A fight | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
against what it calls three evils, terrorism, extremism and separatism | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
is the declared goal. For China that means a close focus on what it | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
sees as activism in its western region and handing over suspects is | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
part of the deal. Central Asia home to a large ethnic community. But | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
this activist says Kazakhstan extradited a man who fled China | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
after riots there. Through its ties says this activist, China is now | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
putting pressure on them across central Asia After all... I was | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
supposed to attend the Congress in the States but was stopped at the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
airport. The authorities prevented me leaving the country. Unlike in | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
western alliances human rights is not a priority for the members. Its | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
non-westernness makes it a point of interest for Iran while other | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
states believe it has the potential to play a greater role in regional | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
stability. As you know the Americans have announced a | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
timetable to withdraw, then we will knee some other organisation to | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
step in, that could be the SEO. Shanghai Co-operation Organisation | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
is not yet the NATO of the east but with so many countries keen to join, | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
some analysts believe it could one day change the global balance of | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
power. BBC Radio 4's shipping forecast is intended to a to be a | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
vital res for for crews to prepare for bad weather on the high seas | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
but among non-nautical devotees it has a great following. It is a | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
hypnotic mantra that can send do you sleep. Our correspondent has | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
been finding out how it has become the inspiration for a new piece of | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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music. Fair Isle, Faeroes. South- east Iceland. Shaning. Rockall. | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
Become north-easterly five. Cromarty, variable four, occasional | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
rain, moderate or good. The shipping forecast, a daily reminder | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
of the hazards round this windswept island but to some it is also | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
poetry. It is rhythm. It is strange words, words depicting amazing | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
spectacular places. I think our imagination jumps over the words | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
and visualises some of those places. Fair Isle. Faeroes. And now it is | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
the inspiration for this new musical work by the composer | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Cecilia McDowall, who like many others find the forecast both | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
beautiful, and baffling. Lundy. Fastnet and Irish Sea. There is | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
great beauty in the rhythm. Very poe tick, but there is also this | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
baffling thing I don't understand it. And of course, now falling | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
sometimes good, all these thing, I know they mean something to | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
somebody but even though they don't mean anything to me, I enjoy them. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
High Biscay slow-moving with little change. Indeed for most of us the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
shipping forecast is when we hear it on the radio, a bit of a mystery. | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
Five to seven in the south-east later. Those words, the reassuring | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
almost poetry of it out here mean rather more. And for Alan Gick the | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
skipper of the Alice, a Thames stale -- sailing barge, it is | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
better than any high tech gadgetry I listen to it at sea. I listen to | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
it less on shore, because obviously you have got computerised | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
technology to give you the stuff, but it gives a kind of reassuring | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
view that people are still doing the same thing, and still collating | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
the weather and telling you about it. Somehow the electronic stuff is, | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
doesn't have the same meaning. Dogger. So why it is for Port | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
mouth's festival choir poetry, the shipping forecast out here means | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
rather more. A quick reminder of the main news tonight. Greece is | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
faith facing a deepening political as well as economic crisis, reports | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
that the Prime Minister George Papandreou has offered to step down | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
after a day of violent protests over a planned austerity programme. | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
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Hello, we have had a different feel to the weather. It has been | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
dominated by the cloud and showers. The showers return tomorrow where | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
they will be more widespread heavy and we are looking at thunderstorms | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
at times. We are losing the weak weather front but the low continues | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
to dominate as we look through Thursday's forecast. It will be | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
driving in showers which will get going as we head through the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
afternoon, with only occasional glim others brightness at times. As | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
we look towards the afternoon for cast, 17 degrees on the face of it | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
doesn't feel too bad but of course if you get caught in the wet | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
weather et it will feel colder. You can see plenty of showers, round | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
the coast it may be a better chance of seeing drier weather at times. | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
The showers will be blown inland. Cardiff's temperatures 16, given | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
some afternoon sunshine, round about 18 in Manchester. For | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
Northern Ireland, we have a fair amount of cloud again, showers here, | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
most of them out to the north and west. Belfast seeing some decent | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
spells of dry weather. A lot of cloud in a good part of Scotland as | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
well. Through the Grampians again, another favoured spot for seeing | :28:40. | :28:44. |