:00:10. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. The US debt
:00:16. > :00:21.deadlock rattles America and the global markets. Default looms as a
:00:21. > :00:24.Republican plan goes to a vote. The maid who claims the former IMF
:00:24. > :00:34.boss Dominque Strauss Kahn raped her says she and her daughter have
:00:34. > :00:34.
:00:34. > :00:41.been left traumatised. What happens to me, I don't want that to happen
:00:41. > :00:44.to it any other woman. This was too much for me. It's too much for me
:00:44. > :00:47.and my daughter. New revelations in the UK phone
:00:47. > :00:51.hacking scandal - police tell the mother of murdered eight-year-old
:00:51. > :01:01.Sarah Payne that she was a target. China's Premier promises to
:01:01. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.severely punish anyone responsible for the country's fatal rail crash.
:01:04. > :01:14.And the great classical music of the East comes to the hallowed
:01:14. > :01:26.
:01:26. > :01:29.concert hall of the West. We talk Hello and welcome. Political
:01:29. > :01:34.brinkmanship is still creating economic paralysis in the United
:01:34. > :01:38.States as the country tries to deal with its massive debt crisis.
:01:38. > :01:42.Global markets have reacted to the uncertainty as European stocks fell
:01:42. > :01:46.for the fourth straight session following their Asian counterparts.
:01:46. > :01:52.A Republican proposal forehead deficit-cutting plan is on the
:01:52. > :01:56.table, but as Andrew North reports from Washington, bipartisan talks
:01:56. > :02:01.are coming nail-bitingly close to the all go second deadline.
:02:01. > :02:05.Fears of an American and defaulter rippling worldwide. Japan that
:02:05. > :02:11.lends millions to the US sought stocks plunging again. In Congress,
:02:11. > :02:15.the battle goes on. Republican hardliners say they will back plans
:02:15. > :02:19.for a short-term increase in the debt limit insisting Americans are
:02:19. > :02:24.on their side. They want to see the President's plan. If he can do
:02:24. > :02:29.better, show as you plan! If the Senate can do better, pass a Bill!
:02:29. > :02:33.We are the only ones that have passed a bill to resolve this debt
:02:33. > :02:38.crisis issue. We will pass the second one today. The reason this
:02:38. > :02:42.has been difficult is because we're taking Democrat ideas in this deal.
:02:42. > :02:46.The White House has already rejected the Republican plan saying
:02:46. > :02:51.it would postpone the inevitable. Our objection is to any proposal
:02:51. > :02:56.that puts us through this three- ring circus again. In any short
:02:56. > :03:00.period of time, because it has already had a significant impact on
:03:00. > :03:10.the economy, and it will Army have even more and more severe negative
:03:10. > :03:10.
:03:10. > :03:14.impact on the economy. It is a small sign of progress that the, --
:03:14. > :03:17.that Republican hardliners are getting behind the programme. But
:03:17. > :03:23.there needs to be compromise between Republicans and Democrats
:03:23. > :03:27.and that is a long way off. There are signs that this is undermining
:03:27. > :03:31.confidence and the US recovery is still anaemic. Many economists
:03:31. > :03:37.believe that whatever happens, the American credit rating will end up
:03:37. > :03:42.being downgraded. Joining us from Washington to talk
:03:42. > :03:47.about this, Michael Tomasky, special correspondent for Newsweek
:03:47. > :03:52.and the Daily Beast. Barack Obama, has he got any options other than
:03:52. > :03:56.to accept what Republicans put on the table? I think he has some
:03:56. > :04:02.options, without getting too deep into the weeds of the technical
:04:02. > :04:05.details, there is something that a section of the United States
:04:05. > :04:10.constitution, that some people think that they can use that to
:04:10. > :04:15.raise the debt limit unilaterally. As far as legislator options go,
:04:15. > :04:18.there are rent money at all. Whether this Republican Bill is
:04:18. > :04:24.passed or not is obviously the question everyone is looking in
:04:24. > :04:28.Washington today, but as your correspondent said, the question of
:04:28. > :04:34.finding an agreement or marrying a Republican and Democratic built
:04:34. > :04:39.from the Senate is very up in the air. Raising the debt ceiling,
:04:39. > :04:44.apparently, President in the past, President Reagan, for instance, he
:04:44. > :04:49.asked for the debt ceiling to be raised eight times, so why is it so
:04:49. > :04:58.difficult for Barack Obama? simple question, President Reagan,
:04:58. > :05:02.it is 18 times! The debt ceiling has been raised many times since
:05:02. > :05:06.President Reagan. The difference this time is that the Republicans
:05:06. > :05:10.are attaching conditions, which has never happened before. This time,
:05:10. > :05:14.the Republican said we will not do with unless you accept these
:05:14. > :05:19.draconian cuts to domestic spending budgets. No party has ever done
:05:19. > :05:22.that to a President before, so that is why we have this situation.
:05:23. > :05:28.are both sides, Republicans and Democrats, basically playing
:05:28. > :05:31.politics with the country's finances and economics? I think it
:05:31. > :05:34.is the Republicans that they are playing a lot more politics with
:05:34. > :05:39.the finances and economics because as I just said, no party has ever
:05:39. > :05:42.done this to a President before and, the opposition party has always
:05:43. > :05:47.aroused when they had to raise the debt ceiling, but it has always
:05:47. > :05:51.been raised. This is the first time this has happened. It is a very
:05:51. > :05:58.strange situation and Barack Obama has not really Aggie did very well
:05:58. > :06:03.before the American people. -- has not really argued it very well. The
:06:03. > :06:08.fact that no Congress has attach conditions like this before, I am
:06:08. > :06:10.sure that very few American people know about this. How do the
:06:10. > :06:14.Americans look at this, you say that the Republicans are holding
:06:15. > :06:18.things up, will they blame the Republicans or say that Barack
:06:18. > :06:22.Obama, this happened on your watch and we do not like this
:06:22. > :06:26.uncertainty? Most Pauls will say that more people blame the
:06:27. > :06:30.Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats have dropped their
:06:30. > :06:33.insistence that revenues be included in any compromise package
:06:33. > :06:39.and they are accepting cuts, which was to Republican position from the
:06:39. > :06:44.start. Not massive majorities, but a majority stake that they want
:06:44. > :06:48.this to happen and they think that the approach of Barack Obama that
:06:48. > :06:53.would include revenues, although that is hype about go now, would
:06:54. > :06:58.have been a better approach and more people blame the Republicans.
:06:58. > :07:03.-- that is hypothetical now. 35 % of the country really hates Barack
:07:03. > :07:07.Obama said they will blame him. Michael, what happens, the August
:07:07. > :07:12.second deadline is approaching and they will have to do something
:07:12. > :07:18.pretty soon. Yes, pretty soon, probably by Saturday, Sunday at the
:07:18. > :07:22.latest before the Asian markets open Sunday afternoon. I am a
:07:22. > :07:27.little under 50 % that there will be a deal by August second. The
:07:27. > :07:30.question that it will come down to really at the end of the day his,
:07:31. > :07:35.how many Republicans in the House of Representatives, I think the
:07:35. > :07:39.Senate will be fine, I think in the Senate, they do a little bit more
:07:39. > :07:43.compromising there. I think they will come to some kind of terms in
:07:43. > :07:48.the Senate. The question is, how many Republicans in the House of
:07:48. > :07:52.Representatives will be willing, at the end of the day, to take the
:07:52. > :07:56.economy down because of their hatred with Barack Obama being that
:07:56. > :08:01.intense. They want to cast a vote against him, will they really do
:08:01. > :08:05.that to put the economy at risk? I know that we would like to see no,
:08:05. > :08:09.they will not do that, but clearly some of them will do that, and how
:08:09. > :08:12.many of them at the end of the data as well not quite be able to do it?
:08:12. > :08:19.That is what it comes down to it and we do not know the answer.
:08:19. > :08:23.Thank you. The woman that accused the former
:08:23. > :08:29.head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss- Khan of trying to rape her said
:08:29. > :08:31.that she and her daughter had been left traumatised by the situation.
:08:31. > :08:35.Nafissatou Diallo told supporters in a public statement that she
:08:35. > :08:40.cries every day. She said she wanted to address the world to
:08:40. > :08:44.clear up the rumours that was spread about her. People call you
:08:44. > :08:53.bad names. People say bad things about you, because they don't know
:08:53. > :09:00.you. You have to remember, this man, he is a powerful man. Everybody
:09:00. > :09:03.knows that, but for you, only the people that you were quips or
:09:03. > :09:09.neighbour as were the people back home that know you, but those
:09:09. > :09:17.people say good things about you. - - only the people you were quits or
:09:17. > :09:22.neighbours. My daughter says, be strong for me, I promise I will be
:09:22. > :09:29.strong for you and every other woman in the world. What happens to
:09:29. > :09:35.me, I do not want that to happen to any other woman. Because this is
:09:35. > :09:39.just too much for me. It is too much for me and my daughter.
:09:39. > :09:49.That was Nafissatou Diallo, the woman accusing Dominique Strauss-
:09:49. > :09:50.
:09:50. > :09:55.Khan of rape. This case is a very hot topic in France and we can now
:09:55. > :09:58.speak to the French political commentator from France, and very
:09:58. > :10:01.much appealing to people to believe her story because there were
:10:01. > :10:06.questions raised about her credibility. What impact does this
:10:06. > :10:13.kind of statement have on Dominic Strauss-Khan? He doesn't look good.
:10:13. > :10:17.You have got a close guard around him, a fellow socialists that say
:10:17. > :10:23.he was framed and has nothing to do with it and it was a set-up. But
:10:23. > :10:27.more and more, the impact that even if the case cannot be brought to
:10:27. > :10:32.trial, he still has lost complete credibility as somebody suitable to
:10:32. > :10:36.have any public role in the country. So he may as well kiss goodbye to
:10:36. > :10:41.any hopes of reviving his career in public life in France, possibly
:10:41. > :10:46.even standing in the presidential elections next year? It is
:10:46. > :10:50.unachievable. He is not cleared, first late. His hearing keeps being
:10:50. > :10:57.delayed, presumably because the New York District Attorney's Office
:10:57. > :11:05.does not know what to make of this woman. Can you imagine, even if he
:11:05. > :11:11.is cleared in America, of which presidential person would meet this
:11:11. > :11:17.man. The best you can say in his defence is that it was consensual
:11:17. > :11:21.paid sex. It does not work out. was talked about a possible
:11:21. > :11:25.Socialist Party candidate, he is a very popular socialist in France,
:11:25. > :11:32.has there been any fall-out for the social standing because of this in
:11:32. > :11:39.France? I think, yes, Abby has people bend over backwards not to
:11:39. > :11:45.criticise him. -- because people bend over backwards. They say this
:11:45. > :11:48.was a not serious, it was just hanky-panky with the hired help.
:11:48. > :11:52.They had been very silent about the rights of the victim, and that is
:11:52. > :11:58.not just that this is alleged attempted rape, there is a class
:11:58. > :12:04.issue, a race issue, it looks incredibly and feeling. The more
:12:04. > :12:07.they clubbed together, the less credible they look. It is damaging
:12:08. > :12:11.to the Socialist them, who benefits? Nicolas Sarkozy benefits
:12:11. > :12:15.immensely and friend number of reasons, he was very careful not to
:12:15. > :12:21.comment on the case and to be aloof. His poll numbers have gone up by
:12:21. > :12:31.six points and it's not over. It was really a gift to Nicolas
:12:31. > :12:33.
:12:33. > :12:37.Sarkozy. Thank you. There have been further revelations
:12:37. > :12:42.in the UK phone hacking scandal. Police have told Sara Payne his
:12:42. > :12:46.daughter Sarah was murdered by a paedophile 11 years ago that she
:12:46. > :12:49.was on a list of people whose phones they had been hacked. Her
:12:49. > :12:54.name appears in notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, the investigator at
:12:54. > :12:58.employed by the News of the World newspaper.
:12:58. > :13:02.Perhaps it seems this astonishing affair no longer had the capacity
:13:02. > :13:06.to shock. But the allegation this evening is that the bereaved mother
:13:06. > :13:11.worked alongside the News of the World, alongside its former editor,
:13:11. > :13:15.was all a long one of its victims. Sara Payne's charity was contacted
:13:15. > :13:19.last night to be told the details were in the notebooks of phone
:13:19. > :13:23.hacker, Glenn Mulcaire. In a statement it said, she is
:13:23. > :13:28.absolutely devastated by this news. We are all deeply disappointed and
:13:28. > :13:33.we are just working to get her through it. The Last Night of the
:13:33. > :13:38.News of the World. Its last edition. Sara Payne had previously been told
:13:38. > :13:41.she was not attacking victim. She agreed to write an article for the
:13:41. > :13:48.final issue. She described the tabloid as a force for good and an
:13:48. > :13:51.old friend. Rebecca Brookes, former editor of the News of the World,
:13:51. > :13:55.describes Sara Payne as her dear friend. The two people were
:13:55. > :13:59.together to campaign for Sarah's Law, the public right to know where
:13:59. > :14:03.paedophiles are living. The newspaper gave Sara Payne a mobile
:14:03. > :14:09.phone. The Guardian claims it is this phone that was illegally
:14:09. > :14:14.accessed. Tonight, Rebecca but said these allegations are abhorrent and
:14:14. > :14:18.particularly upsetting. The idea that any body and the newspaper
:14:18. > :14:23.knew that Sara Payne or the newspaper team was targeted by
:14:23. > :14:27.Glenn Mulcaire is unthinkable. this is true, it is rank hypocrisy,
:14:27. > :14:32.complete and utter hypocrisy. It makes you despair of modern
:14:32. > :14:36.journalism. 11 years after the murder of her daughter, Sara
:14:36. > :14:42.Payne's name is added to the long lists of potential hacking victims
:14:42. > :14:46.and this investigation is far from over.
:14:46. > :14:51.The Chinese government is facing a public backlash over the way it
:14:51. > :14:55.dealt with a high-speed train crash in Zheijang Province that killed 39
:14:55. > :14:59.people. Officials say the accident was caused by design flaws in
:14:59. > :15:03.signalling equipment, but allegations of corruption and lack
:15:03. > :15:07.of transparency have fuelled the public and there. In an effort to
:15:07. > :15:17.calm the situation, the Prime Minister has visited the crash site
:15:17. > :15:21.near Wenzhou and we have this He is the soft paternal face of the
:15:21. > :15:27.Communist Party, and in times of a crisis like this one, the premiere
:15:27. > :15:37.is called upon to sued the nation's nerves. At the crash site he paid
:15:37. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:49.his respects. But he was also No matter if it is a mechanical
:15:49. > :15:59.fault, a management problem or, indeed, a manufacturing issue, we
:15:59. > :16:04.For the two were high-speed trains collided on Saturday night. The
:16:04. > :16:08.authorities say the crash was caused by a signal failure. This
:16:08. > :16:13.train crash not only called into question the future of China's
:16:13. > :16:18.high-speed rail network, it also created a deep sense of mistrust
:16:18. > :16:23.between the authorities and the people. A seething public anger has
:16:24. > :16:27.been building here over a lack of answers. It has been inflamed by
:16:27. > :16:34.allegations of corruption, which are likely to have compromised the
:16:34. > :16:43.safety of the network. This lady is looking answers. Her husband was
:16:43. > :16:49.Officials from the railway will Ministry shrug off responsibility.
:16:49. > :16:53.They kept blaming the accident on a lightning strike. What we are
:16:53. > :16:59.waiting for is a clear explanation of what happened. China is spending
:16:59. > :17:05.hundreds of billions of dollars on its high-speed rail network. But
:17:05. > :17:10.critics say it has been built too fast, which is compromising safety.
:17:10. > :17:20.What started as a project that generated huge national pride has
:17:20. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:39.Now a look at some of the day's other news. The police in Norway
:17:39. > :17:41.say they're ending their search for bodies on Utoya island. But senior
:17:41. > :17:44.officers couldn't confirm that all those missing had been found.
:17:44. > :17:47.Anders Behring Breivik has admitted to shooting 68 people there, and
:17:47. > :17:49.killing eight in a bombing in Oslo. Prosecutors say he'll be
:17:49. > :17:52.interrogated again on Friday. The trial of the ousted Egyptian
:17:52. > :17:55.president, Hosni Mubarak will start next week in Cairo. Mr Mubarak is
:17:55. > :17:58.alleged to have been involved in the killing of protesters, during
:17:58. > :18:00.the country's revolution earlier in the year. He will stand trial along
:18:00. > :18:03.with his sons and his former interior minister.
:18:03. > :18:06.Here in Britain, a group of former soldiers who took part in nuclear
:18:06. > :18:09.tests almost 60 years ago has been granted permission by the Supreme
:18:09. > :18:12.Court to appeal for damages. More than 1,000 former servicemen blame
:18:12. > :18:14.their involvement in nuclear weapons testing in Australia in the
:18:14. > :18:17.1950s for years of ill-health and birth defects in their children.
:18:17. > :18:20.The UK's Ministry of Defence denies negligence.
:18:20. > :18:23.More than half a million people who fled the post-election violence in
:18:23. > :18:26.Ivory Coast earlier this year are still too afraid to return home,
:18:26. > :18:29.according to the campaign group Amnesty International. In a report
:18:29. > :18:31.the organisation says that militias loyal to the new President Alassane
:18:31. > :18:41.Ouattara have not been disbanded and continue intimidating
:18:41. > :18:43.
:18:43. > :18:47.supporters of ex-President Laurent Major Hollywood studios have won a
:18:47. > :18:50.significant legal battle against online piracy. The High Court in
:18:50. > :18:52.London has ruled that the UK internet-provider BT should cut off
:18:52. > :18:53.customers' access to a website accused of "flagrant" copyright
:18:53. > :19:03.infringement. Our Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones,
:19:03. > :19:09.
:19:09. > :19:18.I have received... For for the movie industry it was a courtroom
:19:18. > :19:23.drama which ended in a victory in its battle against online piracy.
:19:23. > :19:29.If you want to get hold of a film like the King's speech, you can pay
:19:29. > :19:32.for a DVD or download it for nothing from the internet. This
:19:32. > :19:37.site based in the Seychelles has has links to more than 70 copies of
:19:37. > :19:43.that film alone, along with all kinds of others music, movies and
:19:43. > :19:50.games. But British Telecom has been told it must of its internet
:19:50. > :19:55.customers from getting access to the side. It has been out since May.
:19:55. > :19:58.That Momentum Pictures, the makers of the film, they say it was a
:19:58. > :20:01.success and they were celebrating. They say piracy is not at
:20:01. > :20:05.victimless crime. Without the money we make from legitimate users, we
:20:05. > :20:09.cannot make films. If you allow piracy to get out of control you
:20:09. > :20:14.could end up in a situation where the money isn't there and the films
:20:14. > :20:19.are not getting made and people cannot see them. Nobody argued in
:20:19. > :20:23.court that it wasn't giving access to all sorts of Paris's material,
:20:23. > :20:30.but it was a question of whose job it was just a bit -- pirated
:20:30. > :20:32.material. The judge has ruled that BT must block access to the website.
:20:32. > :20:37.But internet freedom campaigners say it could send us down a
:20:37. > :20:42.dangerous road. The concern is that consumers' freedom to roam where
:20:42. > :20:45.they like on the Web will now be curtailed. Our concerns about
:20:45. > :20:48.website blocking are that it is pointless and dangerous. It won't
:20:48. > :20:52.work stopping serious infringement. It is dangerous because there are
:20:52. > :20:56.risks of over blocking and degradation and slowing down of the
:20:56. > :20:59.service. The owners in the Seychelles say they are confident
:20:59. > :21:05.they can get around any blocking measures and critics of the ruling
:21:05. > :21:09.today say that for every site that is blocked, another will pop up.
:21:09. > :21:17.But movie-makers say without protection from pirates a whole
:21:17. > :21:23.One of the great classical music singers of the East has been
:21:23. > :21:26.performing on one of the great classical stages of the West. Aruna
:21:26. > :21:29.Sairam is widely regarded as the leading South Indian female
:21:30. > :21:33.vocalist of her generation, and for a long time she's tried to create a
:21:33. > :21:36.bigger following for Carnatic music. Well, now she has the chance to
:21:36. > :21:46.perform at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She
:21:46. > :21:57.
:21:57. > :22:02.spoke to us during a break in her It takes years and years and years
:22:02. > :22:06.to learn this music. Maybe 15 of a great apprenticeship with your guru,
:22:06. > :22:16.which could make you a debut to aren't musician in a concert hall.
:22:16. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:32.That is the kind of training you The artist can choose within the
:22:32. > :22:37.virtuoso music available to her to either concentrate on dealing to --
:22:37. > :22:42.on the intellectual heart of it all the emotional part of a, or the
:22:42. > :22:47.emotional part of it, all the rude sea and folksy elements, or do all
:22:47. > :22:51.of it in one concert, which is what I do. I do the intellectual stuff
:22:51. > :22:55.and on the emotions and at the end of my concert I'd do something that
:22:55. > :23:05.represents the folk elements from which this has evolved into way
:23:05. > :23:10.
:23:10. > :23:15.more sophisticated music. -- a more One is constantly learning. The
:23:15. > :23:19.number of pieces you have to learn, by the time I met my guru, from my
:23:19. > :23:23.mother I had learned nearly 150 pieces. By the time I was 10 years
:23:23. > :23:28.old. And then my guru taught me more than that over the next 15
:23:28. > :23:34.years. And even now, in every concert, I am trying to learn
:23:34. > :23:39.something new, compose something new or reinterpret something that
:23:39. > :23:49.is called into my own way of doing it, so it is constant. -- something
:23:49. > :23:58.
:23:59. > :24:04.If I look at my own limited experience of one of lifetime so
:24:04. > :24:10.far as an artist, more than when I began today, I am performing at the
:24:10. > :24:16.Carnegie Hall, New York, Paris, and in their Royal Albert Hall, that is
:24:16. > :24:22.enough proof that people are happy to experience new kinds of music,
:24:22. > :24:27.even in the classical idiom. It is just like food. More than earlier,
:24:27. > :24:31.people have taste for different kinds of food. We go to have an
:24:31. > :24:34.Italian, or a tie or Indian restaurant. I now think it is time
:24:34. > :24:44.for people to listen to music in the same spirit. I am very happy
:24:44. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:04.That was Aruna Sairam, with her Car and attic music. She apparently
:25:04. > :25:06.went down a storm at the Royal Albert Hall. A reminder of our main
:25:06. > :25:08.news: The House of Representatives is debating a revised Republican
:25:08. > :25:11.party plan to raise the government's borrowing limit and
:25:11. > :25:14.cut spending. Democrats and Republicans disagree on how to do
:25:14. > :25:17.this and without agreement by next Tuesday, the US government could
:25:17. > :25:20.run out of cash. Hours before a key vote in Congress on the American
:25:20. > :25:25.debt crisis, leaders of the country's biggest banks have called
:25:25. > :25:27.on President Obama and lawmakers to An open letter from financial
:25:27. > :25:30.institutions, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman
:25:30. > :25:33.Sachs, says the consequences of failure could be very grave. The
:25:33. > :25:36.hotel maid who's accused the former chief of the International Monetary
:25:36. > :25:39.Fund of sexually assaulting her in New York says that she and her
:25:39. > :25:41.daughter have been left traumatised. At a news conference organised by
:25:41. > :25:49.her supporters, the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, said she had
:25:49. > :25:59.been called many bad names and cried every day. That is all from
:25:59. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:05.If you were lucky enough to have sunshine today, it felt very nice
:26:05. > :26:10.indeed with temperatures in the mid- twenties. There is more of the
:26:10. > :26:14.same tomorrow with patchy cloud, sunny spells and maybe a greater
:26:14. > :26:18.chance of some cloud in the south, which is courtesy of this weather
:26:18. > :26:21.system pushing into England and Wales as we head into Friday, and
:26:21. > :26:25.not bring in much in the way of wet-weather. But a lot of cloud,
:26:25. > :26:30.and the remnants of a weather front where we could see outbreaks of
:26:30. > :26:35.rain developing at times. Across the band of rain, it will be cool
:26:35. > :26:38.and cloudy. To the south of the weather front there will be risks
:26:38. > :26:42.of showers developing as we go to fight -- Friday afternoon. They
:26:42. > :26:47.could be on the heavy side as we go through the afternoon, and as a
:26:47. > :26:52.result not as much sunshine and temperatures down a little, into
:26:52. > :26:55.the low twenties at best. Across Wales, a cloudy day, and slowly in
:26:55. > :27:00.northern areas the skies will brighten as we head through the
:27:00. > :27:05.afternoon. As the Northern Ireland, patchy cloud, sunny spells, a high
:27:05. > :27:09.of 17 maybe 18 degrees. That will feel pretty nice. Across Scotland,
:27:09. > :27:13.a good deal of sunshine around in the far north and up towards the