:00:11. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today, with me, David Eades.
:00:16. > :00:21.30 years and at least $1 billion, there UN lays out the cost of
:00:21. > :00:26.cleaning up oil pollution in the Niger delta as Shell admits
:00:26. > :00:31.liability to two major spills. Europe's instability is spilling,
:00:31. > :00:35.global markets plummet. More gloom at the International
:00:35. > :00:40.Monetary Fund, its new head faces investigation in France for abuse
:00:40. > :00:45.of authority. Turkey's Armed Forces Day up a
:00:45. > :00:52.silent civilian shake-up. Can the government keeping up haunt -- keep
:00:52. > :00:56.the upper hand over the military? And you can hear it, you can play
:00:56. > :01:06.it, but you cannot touch it. A celebration of the electronic
:01:06. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:12.instrument invented nearly 100 and it -- a 100 years ago.
:01:12. > :01:16.Welcome. The United Nations has called for a $1 billion fund to
:01:16. > :01:22.clean up 50 years of oil pollution in the delta region of Nigeria. It
:01:22. > :01:25.comes as the oil giant Shell has accepted liability for two oil
:01:25. > :01:29.spills in the region and now faces compensation claims running into
:01:29. > :01:32.hundreds of millions of dollars. The report by the Environment
:01:32. > :01:36.Programme in the UN said contamination levels were far worse
:01:36. > :01:40.than previously thought and would take 30 years to clean up. Local
:01:40. > :01:45.people were also blamed for breaking into pipelines to steal
:01:45. > :01:50.oil. In this report is a forensic
:01:50. > :01:55.examination of how oil has brought pollution and run into a small part
:01:55. > :02:00.of Nigeria. For decades, oil was pumped from Ogoniland, but it came
:02:00. > :02:05.at a terrible cost. At least 10 of the communities surveyed now
:02:05. > :02:08.Drinkwater so contaminated it poses a public health risk. Land was
:02:09. > :02:13.sampled as well and the results show for the first time that years
:02:13. > :02:17.of pollution have sunk deep down into the soil, five metres down in
:02:17. > :02:21.some places. This is primarily -- primarily a report about the impact
:02:21. > :02:26.of the pollution which it is thought will now take between 25
:02:26. > :02:31.and 30 years to clear up. Oil giant Shell was criticised for failing to
:02:31. > :02:40.maintain the infrastructure in the area, which directly led to leaks.
:02:40. > :02:45.The local community' s attempts to steal the oil lead to problems as
:02:45. > :02:49.well. We were surprised to be here that the oil industry is not
:02:49. > :02:54.implementing its own standards. That is pretty serious. We have
:02:54. > :02:58.also discovered that the government, the regulators, are not
:02:58. > :03:03.implementing their own rules and guidelines. This is putting
:03:03. > :03:07.communities at risk. Earlier this week, a shell accepted
:03:07. > :03:12.responsibility for two macros spills in Ogoniland in which oil
:03:12. > :03:17.flowed unchecked possible once. The UN has recommended that a $1
:03:17. > :03:21.billion fund be set up for what it is calling the most wide-ranging
:03:21. > :03:24.and long-term team operation the world has ever seen. It has asked
:03:24. > :03:29.oil companies and the Nigerian government to come up with the
:03:29. > :03:32.money. This is the United Nations report, it is a fairly hefty
:03:32. > :03:36.scientific reports and it is being looked that by the Nigerian
:03:36. > :03:40.President and the big oil companies. The question is, having made
:03:40. > :03:45.billions of dollars by exploiting the oil of the Ogoniland, whether
:03:45. > :03:51.the cash can now be found to begin the process of clearing up the
:03:51. > :03:54.pollution. I am joined by Ben Amunwa from its
:03:54. > :03:59.oil industry watchdog Platform. Thank you for joining us. Quite a
:03:59. > :04:05.weighty tome, I do not expect to to have read all of it, essentially
:04:05. > :04:11.does the UN assessment meet your own? The report essentially tells
:04:12. > :04:16.us what we already knew, at which is that Ogoniland in particular has
:04:16. > :04:21.suffered extensive in Rome until damage. Their report looks into the
:04:21. > :04:24.scientific extends of the damage -- extensive environmental damage.
:04:24. > :04:30.What is needed, rather than more studies commissioned by oil
:04:30. > :04:33.companies, is immediate and effective action on cleaning up the
:04:33. > :04:40.7000 oil spills. There are propositions hear about the fund,
:04:40. > :04:45.$1 billion to go towards the clean up, we have had also shell
:04:46. > :04:52.acknowledging liability for two Major spells. Does this represent a
:04:52. > :04:57.a turning point, is this a turning point? It could be. The cases that
:04:57. > :05:02.Shell has admitted liability for two Oil spills, that is a welcome
:05:02. > :05:06.step forward for the campaign to hold corporations like Shell
:05:06. > :05:11.accountable for their human rights abort -- aboard. It has been
:05:11. > :05:13.welcome in Nigeria, this is the people who rely on the health of
:05:13. > :05:18.the environment for their livelihood, their basic human
:05:18. > :05:22.rights to food and water have been violated. It is worth pointing out
:05:22. > :05:27.that a lot of this has been seen by the UN as well, there is sabotage
:05:27. > :05:32.involved, there have been efforts to tap into the oil wines. It
:05:32. > :05:37.cannot all be blamed for the oil companies. Shell is to blame for
:05:37. > :05:41.some of the spills, and some of the Community's tried to get
:05:41. > :05:44.compensation. We have to realise that bringing a case in London is
:05:44. > :05:48.the last resort for these communities. They tried to get
:05:48. > :05:54.compensation from Shell within Nigeria, but were denied access to
:05:55. > :06:01.justice. What they offered were �3,500, plus bags of rice and sugar,
:06:01. > :06:06.which is vastly inadequate which is considering there are 369 people --
:06:06. > :06:12.369,000 people in the area. This is the last resort, it -- is it the
:06:12. > :06:17.best resort? It could be. Shell and it investors could be concerned
:06:17. > :06:20.that the company is sitting on a mountain of claims in the Niger
:06:20. > :06:25.delta, where they have been over 9 million barrels of oil spilled in
:06:25. > :06:29.the last 50 years. Twice the amount that was spilled in the Deepwater
:06:29. > :06:34.Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, that BP caused. In the Gulf
:06:34. > :06:40.of Mexico, 20 billion was mobilised within weeks to clean it up. In the
:06:40. > :06:43.Niger Delta, we have not seen that. 50 years of this going on, the UN
:06:43. > :06:49.report talks about another 30 you to clean it up properly.
:06:49. > :06:53.Nonetheless, do you draw some confidence that even the notion all
:06:53. > :06:59.the recommendations for or $1 billion fund, and the sense,
:06:59. > :07:03.perhaps, let us not forget that this was funded by Shelf. I think
:07:03. > :07:07.for communities in the delta, this will be cold comfort. So many
:07:07. > :07:12.people have been impacted, had their human rights violated by a
:07:12. > :07:17.oil spills over the last 50 years. This compensation is just 4 two oil
:07:17. > :07:22.spills. Shell continues to refuse liability in other cases. There is
:07:22. > :07:25.an ongoing litigation in the Hague where they are denying
:07:25. > :07:30.responsibility for the oil spills. What is important is that the
:07:30. > :07:34.clean-up is effective. One of the findings of the report today is
:07:34. > :07:37.that Shell has covered up the full extent of the pollution in
:07:38. > :07:43.Ogoniland by labelling or will cite as clean when they are in fact
:07:43. > :07:48.highly contaminated. -- labelling will excite as clean. The whole
:07:48. > :07:54.process has to be rigorously monitored by international
:07:54. > :07:58.organisations to insure that Shall cleaned up its act.
:07:58. > :08:03.The eurozone is back in deep trouble, and even did present of
:08:03. > :08:08.the European Commission is admitting it. Jose Manuel Barroso
:08:08. > :08:12.it admitted that measures agreed by the EU last month have failed to
:08:12. > :08:16.spread the debt crisis. He said it is no longer restricted to the
:08:16. > :08:20.periphery of the council -- countries that use the euro.
:08:20. > :08:23.Reflecting that anxiety, the European Central Bank has started
:08:23. > :08:27.to buy bonds in countries such as Spain to protect against the yields
:08:28. > :08:33.reaching a manageable levels. Two weeks ago today, at their
:08:33. > :08:37.opting emergency summit, eurozone leaders said they had finally taken
:08:37. > :08:43.tough decisions and the future of the euro was safe. Someone stopped
:08:43. > :08:46.-- someone forgot to tell financial markets. A couple of weeks ago,
:08:46. > :08:51.markets anticipated that the ECB and the players had got together
:08:51. > :08:54.and found a solution. When you dig into the detail that lies behind
:08:54. > :08:58.the grand statements, it is very clear that there is not a lot of
:08:59. > :09:03.money on the table. There is no real political will to sort out the
:09:03. > :09:10.problems. Once again it is Italy and Spain paying a price for
:09:10. > :09:18.investor's doubt. A year ago, the Spanish government was borrowing at
:09:18. > :09:23.4.4%, but a few weeks ago, it had gone up to 6.3%. It is now back
:09:23. > :09:26.very close to that level. Italy is paying nearly as much. The higher
:09:26. > :09:29.the interest rate they pay, the more difficult it will be for these
:09:29. > :09:34.countries to get on top of their debts. That is the fear
:09:34. > :09:38.concentrating minds in Brussels, but they are running out of ways to
:09:38. > :09:44.respond. The European Commission President said today -- today cent
:09:44. > :09:48.has turned left -- a stern letter to European governments. He said
:09:49. > :09:53.the crisis have now extended well be on the periphery of the eurozone.
:09:53. > :09:57.He said they should push ahead with what they had already agreed, and
:09:57. > :10:01.urged a rapid reassessment of what more could be done. The European
:10:01. > :10:07.Central Bank did take action today, announcing it to step in to support
:10:07. > :10:12.government under pressure by buying their bombs. Something it has not
:10:12. > :10:16.done since March. The bank's President also had stern words for
:10:17. > :10:22.national politicians. The key for everything is government, ahead of
:10:22. > :10:26.the curve. In both their fiscal policy and there reforms,
:10:26. > :10:31.structural reforms. They are absolutely of the essence, a
:10:31. > :10:36.structural reforms. I know they are difficult here and there. They
:10:36. > :10:41.might be politically difficult in democracies. They are paying off.
:10:41. > :10:45.Of course, the UK did get ahead of the curve on cutting its deficit,
:10:45. > :10:50.the opposition would say too far ahead. But bank stocks fell sharply
:10:50. > :10:54.today on fears that Britain's banks and our fragile recovery could be
:10:54. > :11:00.blown off course by the crisis across the Channel. Everyone can
:11:00. > :11:03.agree it is about time for Europe's leaders to be heading for the Beach.
:11:03. > :11:12.-- it is a bad time for you's need is to be heading for the Beach.
:11:12. > :11:15.Also trouble at the top for the International Monetary Fund foot --
:11:15. > :11:23.whose successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn is facing
:11:23. > :11:33.investigation. Christine Lagarde denies any Liskeard -- has come up.
:11:33. > :11:38.
:11:38. > :11:43.Among Christine Lagarde's first day training, was training. The IMF
:11:43. > :11:50.wrote tough new guidelines into her contract. Today's decision by
:11:50. > :11:55.French judges will come harshly. The prosecution allege she abused
:11:55. > :12:00.her position as finance minister. She approved of 400 billion dollar
:12:00. > :12:05.payment in conversation to this man, to settle his claim that the former
:12:05. > :12:10.state owned bank had defrauded him in 1993 when he stalled -- sold his
:12:10. > :12:15.stake in the sports company Adidas. The former left-wing minister had
:12:15. > :12:19.switched sides in 2007 to support Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential
:12:19. > :12:23.campaign. Some months earlier, he had lost his case in the highest
:12:23. > :12:30.court in France and was appealing his decision when his friend,
:12:30. > :12:34.Nicolas Sarkozy, took power. Today, Ms Lagarde's lawyers said she
:12:34. > :12:37.welcomed the opportunity to take her -- clear her name. She is
:12:37. > :12:44.perfectly, but all of this. Just because an investigation has been
:12:44. > :12:51.launched does not mean she feels weak or worried. She is not worried
:12:52. > :12:55.in the least, and neither am I. IMF new Christine Lagarde was
:12:55. > :13:00.facing his investigation when they appointed her, but still appointed
:13:00. > :13:04.have. Nevertheless, it is damaging, particularly given the
:13:04. > :13:08.circumstances in which she got these jobs.
:13:08. > :13:12.Virginia Tech University, the sight of the worst compass shooting in
:13:12. > :13:17.American history, it remains under lockdown after reported sightings
:13:17. > :13:21.of a gunman. The university issued an alert telling all students and
:13:21. > :13:23.staff to stay indoors after three youths reported seeing a man
:13:23. > :13:27.holding what may have been a handgun.
:13:27. > :13:30.Human rights groups and lawyers in Britain have withdrawn from a
:13:30. > :13:34.planned inquiry into allegations that British security services knew
:13:34. > :13:38.about or colluded in the torture and mistreatment of suspected
:13:38. > :13:42.terrorists held a board. They claim proceedings will not be a good
:13:42. > :13:48.enough to establish the truth of a dog and unemployed Swedish man who
:13:48. > :13:53.was arrested after it spread -- experimenting with nuclear
:13:53. > :13:58.materials in his kitchen said he was trying to build a nuclear
:13:58. > :14:03.reactor as a hobby. Ogoniland was detained for
:14:03. > :14:13.unauthorised material. He said he bought some of the material from
:14:13. > :14:15.
:14:15. > :14:18.the date -- back -- Richard Handl bought the material from eBay.
:14:19. > :14:23.30 people have been killed, some people say, as troops backed by
:14:23. > :14:33.tanks we took the main square in Syria. Foreign journalists are
:14:33. > :14:34.
:14:34. > :14:37.With no independent reporting at all, communications cut and the
:14:37. > :14:41.impossibility of terrifying footage light is on the internet, the bug
:14:42. > :14:49.has been left to guess what has been happening in Hama after the
:14:49. > :14:53.troops and the tanks moved in. -- the world. But residents who were
:14:53. > :14:58.able to be contacted after they fled the city said water and
:14:58. > :15:02.electricity was cut off and food and medicines were running low.
:15:02. > :15:08.They spoke of random firing by a regime militia men at anything that
:15:08. > :15:13.moved. One said the city looked like a battlefield in Gaza or Iraq.
:15:13. > :15:20.He scorned the new political party and election laws decreed by
:15:20. > :15:24.President Assad in a bid to defuse the crisis. After killing so many
:15:24. > :15:30.people and invading cities and burning buildings and houses and
:15:30. > :15:35.raping people and putting people in jail, what kind of flaws will he
:15:35. > :15:39.make for us now a? It is too late. Despite the punishment meted out at
:15:39. > :15:43.Hama and elsewhere, defiance has continued in many parts of the
:15:43. > :15:50.country. It has gone beyond the point of reconciliation with the
:15:50. > :15:53.regime. They chant slogans saying, it has to go. Many of the night
:15:53. > :15:59.time demonstrations now being held in different places after Ramadan
:15:59. > :16:03.prayers are in solidarity with the people of Hama. It has emerged as
:16:03. > :16:08.the key flashpoint for the moment, but there are many others in
:16:08. > :16:11.different parts of the country. Jim Muir, from Beirut.
:16:11. > :16:15.A new military high command has been appointed in Turkey less than
:16:15. > :16:19.a week after the previous one resigned en masse. Tensions have
:16:19. > :16:23.been growing between the military and the Government over the arrest
:16:23. > :16:28.of forces personnel accused of plotting a coup. The Turkish
:16:28. > :16:31.military is the second-biggest in NATO and has brought Stan four
:16:31. > :16:37.governments in the past. But the Prime Minister appears to have
:16:37. > :16:42.forced them to accept civilian supremacy. Some things in Turkey
:16:42. > :16:47.never change, like the Somme visits the prime minister has made to the
:16:47. > :16:52.mausoleum of the country's founding father Ataturk. That used to be
:16:52. > :16:57.through by the military as well. Every year the top brass got to
:16:57. > :17:02.decide who would be promoted, Prime Minister has just rubber-stamped
:17:02. > :17:07.their tries. But look at the seating arrangements this year. The
:17:07. > :17:11.Prime Minister is alone in the chair. His choice to command the
:17:11. > :17:15.military sitting meekly on his right. For years Mr Erdogan has
:17:15. > :17:21.been pushing the soldiers back from the privileged perch from which
:17:21. > :17:25.they had unseated four previous governments. Now after a third
:17:25. > :17:31.successive election victory, he has forced them to accept civilian
:17:31. > :17:34.supremacy. That will not end the tension. The detention and
:17:35. > :17:40.prolonged trials of 250 serving officers have been a humiliation
:17:40. > :17:46.for a once and touch -- untouchable institution. The Government says
:17:46. > :17:51.they have real charges to answer of anti- Government plotting. Others
:17:51. > :17:57.say it is a judicial witch hunt. More changes are likely to follow
:17:57. > :18:05.this week. The police have been asked to take on many of the Army's
:18:05. > :18:08.roles in combating insurgency and terrorism. But there are questions
:18:08. > :18:13.about a largely conscript force. It remains an important part of
:18:13. > :18:20.Turkish life and an essential asset for the NATO alliance. Even its
:18:20. > :18:25.critics will want to see it recover its pride and prestige.
:18:25. > :18:31.I am joined now by Fadi Hakura, manager of the Turkey Project at
:18:31. > :18:34.Chatham House. All this talk of potential military coup, this one
:18:34. > :18:40.feels like a civilian Co on the military. Can they come back from
:18:40. > :18:43.that? I do not foresee the military anytime soon were recovered his
:18:43. > :18:46.power and privileges which it enjoyed in other decades. The
:18:46. > :18:51.Government has shown that the civilian authority is in full
:18:51. > :18:56.command of the military and it will stay that for a while. Is it
:18:56. > :19:01.reasonable for the Turkish military to feel they are being politically
:19:01. > :19:06.targeted by the AK Party? I think those feelings of injustice as
:19:06. > :19:11.expressed by the previous chief of staff, in his resignation statement,
:19:11. > :19:14.clearly showed the anxieties within the Turkish military that the
:19:15. > :19:19.Government is targeting them deliberately, that the Government
:19:19. > :19:24.is particularly targeting senior commanders of the military to try
:19:24. > :19:28.to promote its own officers in the upper command. There are four new
:19:28. > :19:33.people in positions of huge authority and responsibility and
:19:33. > :19:39.they are new in the post. Does that have a destabilising effect on the
:19:39. > :19:43.Army and the military? There is a serious risk that the
:19:43. > :19:47.professionalism and meritocracy that governed the Turkish military
:19:47. > :19:52.may begin to dissipate in favour of promoting officers who are seen as
:19:52. > :19:58.closer to the Government. If that is the case, it has serious
:19:58. > :20:03.implications for NATO, Europe and the US. How much is that concern
:20:03. > :20:08.reflected within Turkey today? That this is as much as anything about
:20:08. > :20:14.an essentially Muslim party pushing Muslim practices into a secular
:20:14. > :20:18.world? It is still a minority opinion. It is only among the
:20:18. > :20:21.certain intelligentsia of Turkish society, but the broad, popular
:20:21. > :20:26.support in Turkey is with the Government, rather than the
:20:26. > :20:30.military. In the midst of all this we are talking about the coup
:20:30. > :20:35.allegations. I credible are they? It seems there is a germ of truth
:20:35. > :20:39.to them, but there is a question over the conduct of the cases, had
:20:39. > :20:43.the cases are proceeding, and the lack of due process in many
:20:43. > :20:48.occasions, and some of the quality of the evidence that masks some
:20:48. > :20:54.other cases. In the reports they were talking about the need for
:20:54. > :20:56.Turkey to have a credible army and military and possibly a
:20:56. > :21:05.counterbalance in Turkey is live. That will be difficult to achieve
:21:05. > :21:09.again. It is healthy for Turkey to have a politics governed by
:21:09. > :21:14.democratic pluralism rather than by having an autonomous military
:21:14. > :21:18.acting as a supervisor of the system. Presumably people would
:21:18. > :21:22.have to believe in the credibility of any justice meted out to
:21:22. > :21:29.arrested generals, to believe this is a sensible and positive way
:21:29. > :21:33.forward. Turkey has to go through these motions. Democracy is an ever
:21:33. > :21:38.-- never a clean process and has its injustices, but it is more
:21:38. > :21:43.healthy for the future of Turkish democracy to rely on civilian
:21:43. > :21:48.politics rather than military interference. We have had four
:21:48. > :21:50.governments overthrown in the past by the military. Can you foresee a
:21:50. > :21:55.point anywhere in the future where we get back to those sorts of
:21:55. > :21:59.times? I think the future likelihood of a military coup in
:21:59. > :22:04.Turkey is becoming increasingly unlikely. The bigger danger to the
:22:04. > :22:08.Government is less a military coup, than the state of the economy. The
:22:08. > :22:14.economy is the number-one factors that governs how Turkish people
:22:14. > :22:19.vote in the elections. Did you know there is a musical instrument you
:22:20. > :22:23.can play hands-free, in fact hands of is the name of the festival and
:22:23. > :22:30.symposiums celebrating the theremin, an electronic instrument invented
:22:30. > :22:34.in the 1920s by the Russian musician and Engineer Leon Theremin.
:22:34. > :22:44.The BBC's Russian Service has been to the festival for a rare
:22:44. > :22:45.
:22:45. > :22:54.experience. It sounds spacial and futuristic,
:22:54. > :23:03.music for a sci-fi films. But the theremin is nearly 100 years old,
:23:03. > :23:07.but it still remains the domain of a chosen few. Its inventor, Leon
:23:07. > :23:12.Theremin, had a longer and adventurous live with everything in
:23:12. > :23:18.it, from fame and success in the US two years in the Gulag. He lived
:23:18. > :23:23.and some 97 and handed over the legacy to his grand knees. I think
:23:23. > :23:31.the theremin was probably invented a little bit too early for his age.
:23:31. > :23:36.It was developed in the 1920s as electricity was just fresh born.
:23:36. > :23:42.Since it became more popular, there are many thousands of instruments
:23:42. > :23:47.in the world, but this is a question of who can play
:23:47. > :23:57.professionally. You can still count them on your fingers. You play it
:23:57. > :24:07.by moving your hands around the two and 10 A. The right one is the pits.
:24:07. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:14.Modern players introduce new techniques. -- the pitch. It is a
:24:14. > :24:20.monophonic instrument, but I can construct an orchestra with my loop
:24:20. > :24:24.station. I am able to keep a note which I am playing live and I keep
:24:24. > :24:30.it with the loop station and it makes a never ending loop. There
:24:30. > :24:40.can be many layers and I can construct chord structures, so I
:24:40. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:50.can play in harmonic structures. is so iconic and I think most
:24:50. > :24:57.people will have heard the theremin even if they have not realised it.
:24:57. > :25:02.It has influenced film music, effects. It is still a flexible
:25:02. > :25:12.instrument and works in a classical context as well as a range of other
:25:12. > :25:13.
:25:13. > :25:21.musical genres. And so at the theremin came to Scarborough, a
:25:21. > :25:31.futuristic instrument in an old Yorkshire town. The music is taken
:25:31. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:43.to places as distant as diverse as I still do not really understand it,
:25:43. > :25:48.but there we are. Our main news: The United Nations says it could
:25:49. > :25:52.take 30 years to clear up pollution from oil operations in the
:25:52. > :25:57.Ogoniland region of Nigeria. A report by the UN Environment
:25:57. > :26:01.Programme says oil spills have contaminated land, sea and air,
:26:01. > :26:05.seriously threatening public health in some parts of the region. It
:26:05. > :26:09.also said the oil giant Shell had not followed its own guidelines on
:26:09. > :26:16.maintaining infrastructure, but it also said local people had
:26:16. > :26:19.endangered lives by breaking into pipelines to steal oil. The head of
:26:20. > :26:24.the European Commission has warned that saving grace was not enough
:26:24. > :26:28.for the euro-zone to avert a financial crisis. Now Italy and
:26:28. > :26:34.Spain are struggling with a loss of market confidence and that is
:26:34. > :26:39.triggering a downfall in European and US stock markets. Jose Manuel
:26:39. > :26:43.Barroso also added there was a fear or the problems were spreading
:26:43. > :26:53.beyond the periphery of those countries using the euro. That is
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:27:01. > :27:04.about it for now. Next, the weather. Today's reign is clearing away. It
:27:04. > :27:07.is going to bring a fresher feel and a more Cover to Barack Obama
:27:07. > :27:12.for sleeping and a brighter day tomorrow with some spells of
:27:12. > :27:16.sunshine. The warmest weather is across East Anglia and the south-
:27:16. > :27:22.east of England. This area of low pressure brought the rain, some of
:27:22. > :27:25.it quite heavy, especially in southern counties of England. On
:27:25. > :27:31.Friday the cloud will come and go and there will be some spells of
:27:31. > :27:36.sunshine with the odd, light shower. Some Sunny spells for the North of
:27:36. > :27:42.England. Temperatures not that exciting, 19 or 20 degrees. It will
:27:42. > :27:46.be warmer in the south-east, possibly getting as high as 25. It
:27:46. > :27:52.will feel quite pleasant, actually. In the south-west it will not be
:27:52. > :27:57.quite as warm. There will be cloud and a bit of sunshine in between.
:27:57. > :28:03.In Wales temperatures could get as high as 21 degrees. Across Northern
:28:03. > :28:09.Ireland there will be the odd shower around, but they will not be
:28:09. > :28:14.as heavy as we have seen to date. One or two showers in western