:00:11. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me David Eades. Water cannon and
:00:16. > :00:19.baton rounds - Britain's Prime Minister says the fightback is on.
:00:19. > :00:23.After four nights of violence, more than a thousand people are under
:00:23. > :00:25.arrest. Police are promised whatever they need.
:00:25. > :00:28.Restoring a stronger sense of responsibility across our society,
:00:28. > :00:34.in every town, in every street, in every estate, is something I'm
:00:34. > :00:36.determined to do. As David Cameron bemoans a lack of
:00:36. > :00:42.responsibility, Parliament reconvenes tomorrow for an
:00:42. > :00:45.emergency debate. But what can politicians do if the problem is a
:00:45. > :00:48.moral one? US forces in Afghanistan say the
:00:48. > :00:58.Taliban insurgents who shot down an American helicopter on Saturday
:00:58. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:02.have been killed. A glimpse of life in the world's
:01:02. > :01:05.largest refugee camp - we explore the link between aid and the
:01:05. > :01:08.economy of Dadaab in Kenya. Back to the future at the
:01:08. > :01:18.Roundhouse - we'll walk you through a performance where the spectator
:01:18. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:29.Welcome to the programme. The day after rioting spread from London to
:01:29. > :01:34.other major English cities, David Cameron has promised to do whatever
:01:34. > :01:39.necessary to restore law and order. Plans are in place to provide the
:01:39. > :01:43.police with water cannon if needed and baton rounds had been
:01:43. > :01:48.authorised - plastic bullets. 1,000 people have been arrested across
:01:48. > :01:53.the country and many people are to be tracked down as the police
:01:53. > :01:57.lookout CCTV pictures. Last night, three Birmingham man from the Asian
:01:57. > :02:02.community were killed in a hit and run. A man has been arrested on
:02:02. > :02:06.suspicion of murder. As the rioting has spread, people
:02:06. > :02:10.are wondering what to do it to defend themselves if necessary. In
:02:10. > :02:14.Birmingham, three young Asian men were trying to protect the area
:02:14. > :02:21.when they were run down by a car and killed. A murder inquiry has
:02:21. > :02:26.been launched. The car came flying down, took out three of the guys.
:02:26. > :02:30.They flew into the air and landed and it was gone off. It was over in
:02:30. > :02:34.seven seconds. Three of them were in hospital. The local community
:02:34. > :02:40.say there should have been more police in Birmingham overnight.
:02:40. > :02:46.This man's son was one of the victims. He was trying to help his
:02:46. > :02:52.community and he has been killed. He was a very well liked boy. I
:02:52. > :02:56.cannot describe to any body what it feels like to lose your son.
:02:56. > :03:01.police had been at full stretch in different parts of the Midlands and
:03:01. > :03:07.there have been more than 300 arrests. I do not feel in any need
:03:07. > :03:11.to ask for a different and additional resource. What I do need,
:03:11. > :03:15.is the additional police officers because of the geography of what
:03:15. > :03:19.we're dealing with. We need to make sure that I can offer at the same
:03:19. > :03:24.reassurance to people and Wolverhampton, Sandwell, West
:03:24. > :03:32.Bromwich, as I can in Birmingham. To do that, I need enough officers
:03:32. > :03:35.to go across the hall for us. Manchester, there were battles for
:03:35. > :03:39.I was with the police and there was looting which the police were
:03:39. > :03:45.unable to stop. This was not a protest, it had been criminal
:03:45. > :03:50.behaviour, the worst seen on this scale. Looking at the damage today,
:03:50. > :03:56.local people voiced their shock. is quite scary. We sat last night
:03:56. > :04:01.and watched everywhere that we live and work getting completely trashed.
:04:01. > :04:06.A few of us came into day and it's horrible, really horrible.
:04:06. > :04:10.already, the clean-up has begun. Volunteers came on to the streets
:04:10. > :04:14.of Manchester to show pride in their city. Manchester has dealt
:04:15. > :04:18.with a lot, we had rioting, bombings, but it is important that
:04:18. > :04:22.we come together to show what Manchester is about, the true
:04:22. > :04:27.spirit of Manchester. They are destroying the city and it's just
:04:27. > :04:31.not right, really. That is why we're here today. There is still
:04:31. > :04:36.anxiety about what happens next. The police say they are ready, but
:04:36. > :04:41.the events of the last few days have caught everyone by surprise.
:04:41. > :04:45.Staying with Manchester, footage has emerged showing the police in
:04:45. > :04:48.the city confronting suspected looters on the streets. This video
:04:49. > :04:54.was posted on YouTube and was filmed near Manchester Piccadilly
:04:54. > :04:58.station, an area where the BBC say there was trouble last night. We do
:04:58. > :05:03.not know when it was taken or the context leading to this particular
:05:04. > :05:07.instance. Fairly graphic example of the police response to one
:05:07. > :05:12.individual in particular. The police have not yet commented on
:05:12. > :05:16.this footage. David Cameron says a more robust
:05:16. > :05:23.response to the writing is working with more her breasts and
:05:23. > :05:28.prosecutions. -- the riots. He says there is a lack of responsibility
:05:28. > :05:31.in society and he has vowed to restore it standards and values.
:05:31. > :05:41.Nick Robinson has been with the Prime Minister in the West Midlands
:05:41. > :05:42.
:05:42. > :05:46.Today and sent this report. Taken now, don't pay later. This
:05:46. > :05:51.was Wolverhampton last night. They lined up to clean out this family
:05:51. > :05:57.electrical store having first robbed and assaulted at sauna.
:05:57. > :06:04.Abbas frightened for my life. -- I was frightened. One of them grabbed
:06:04. > :06:10.to be by the neck and I was frightened. David Cameron promised
:06:10. > :06:14.him and other retailers at tougher police response. Earlier, the Prime
:06:14. > :06:19.Minister presented himself as the leader of a new moral hammy that
:06:19. > :06:24.would stand up against what he called the worst of Britain.
:06:24. > :06:28.moral army. We needed a fight back and a fight back is under way. We
:06:28. > :06:31.have seen the worst are Britain, but we have also seen some of the
:06:31. > :06:35.best of Britain. The millions of people that signed up to support
:06:35. > :06:39.the police on Facebook and communities coming together to
:06:39. > :06:45.clean up. There is no room for complacency. There is much more to
:06:45. > :06:51.be done. He promised more robust policing using water cannon and
:06:51. > :06:57.rubber bullets if necessary. There are pockets of the society better
:06:57. > :07:01.not just broken, but frankly sick. When we see children as then as 12
:07:01. > :07:06.and 13 looting and laughing, on the seabed disgusting sight of an
:07:06. > :07:09.injured young man with people pretending to help them when they
:07:09. > :07:14.are robbing him, it is clear that there are things badly wrong in
:07:14. > :07:19.society. He did not go risk walking through the city on edge where
:07:19. > :07:25.groups of young people gathered menacingly and work the police move
:07:25. > :07:29.in at the first sign of trouble. Wolverhampton is still living in
:07:29. > :07:34.fear tonight. Arrests on the streets and shops that have closed
:07:34. > :07:41.early in order to avoid another night that people fear might bring
:07:41. > :07:46.more trouble. The Labour leader Ed Miliband took to the streets of
:07:46. > :07:51.Manchester. For now, political leaders are speaking with one voice
:07:51. > :07:56.about what has gone wrong. We must not have a situation where there
:07:56. > :08:01.are people that think it is OK to go out and commit that kind of acts
:08:01. > :08:07.we have seen. I do not want my children to grow all been a country
:08:07. > :08:11.where people think it is OK to do that. -- to grow up in a country.
:08:11. > :08:16.We have responsibility to make sure that we do not see these kind of
:08:16. > :08:19.events repeated. Back in Wolverhampton, they are preparing
:08:19. > :08:23.for the worst tonight. Businesses have closed early and boarded
:08:24. > :08:33.themselves up. Police have been brought in and people are staying
:08:33. > :08:38.at home. Except those that roam the streets.
:08:38. > :08:42.There remains a real question over the reasons behind the loosing and
:08:42. > :08:46.the rioting. People believe there is little sign of local figureheads
:08:46. > :08:49.bringing order back into their communities let alone stopping the
:08:49. > :08:56.disorder in the first place. What is the best way to manage the
:08:56. > :09:00.situation? Am joined by Professor Marion Fitzgerald, a professor of
:09:00. > :09:05.criminology and a former consultant for the police force. Also, Jeffrey
:09:06. > :09:15.Butts, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of
:09:15. > :09:18.New York. Thank you. Marion, if I can start with you, David Cameron
:09:18. > :09:23.has said he is in charge and he will deal with it, he see the right
:09:23. > :09:27.person? Should it be at the top of the treat for the grassroots?
:09:28. > :09:32.problem is, Prime Ministers have to say this. He came back from his
:09:32. > :09:36.holiday and looks to be in charge. He is recommending measures that
:09:36. > :09:40.the police don't appear to want. There is the danger that
:09:40. > :09:46.politicians at national level that have no understanding of these
:09:46. > :09:51.local situations will start to come had with these statements. In order
:09:51. > :09:56.to sand tough and in order to above all appealed to sections of the
:09:56. > :10:01.electorate that they depend on to bring them back into office. These
:10:01. > :10:07.people are appalled by what they see on TV even they are in affected
:10:07. > :10:14.by them. There should be dry come to respond to these situations? --
:10:14. > :10:19.where shared? Local politicians, and I mean MPs because the local
:10:19. > :10:25.state is relatively weak, local MPs that represent those areas for a
:10:25. > :10:29.long time are reasonably in touch with what is going on. They watch
:10:29. > :10:33.things developing. Unfortunately, a lot of the current government does
:10:34. > :10:38.not represent these kind of areas. Rather than having a circus are
:10:38. > :10:42.people going around staging consultation events after the horse
:10:42. > :10:46.has bolted, you need to tap into local knowledge and people that
:10:46. > :10:51.work with young people and people that no young people and will work
:10:51. > :10:55.with them over a long time and to sort out from them what is going on
:10:55. > :10:59.rather than stage-manager consultation event. Jeffrey Butts,
:10:59. > :11:08.if this was going on in New York as opposed to London, who would run
:11:08. > :11:12.the show now? Jeffrey Butts, can you hear me? We seem to have
:11:12. > :11:17.problems with Jeffrey Butts, let me come back to you, Marion, given
:11:17. > :11:24.what you have said, can you see a way where local community leaders,
:11:24. > :11:33.perhaps driven by MPs can come to get their and regain initiative? --
:11:33. > :11:37.can come together. You have to understand the situation in the
:11:37. > :11:45.United States is very different. There is a federal system where the
:11:45. > :11:47.local state can raise taxes and has more autonomy and control. The
:11:47. > :11:50.politicisation of the police is something that worries me and I am
:11:50. > :11:55.worried about going down this road. As the notion of community leaders,
:11:55. > :12:00.this comes into play when we talk about ethnic minorities. Backed
:12:00. > :12:09.away colonial approach, take me to your leader, we have been led up
:12:09. > :12:14.the garden path at times, we need to be talking to the people that
:12:14. > :12:19.know what young people are feeling. I don't think there are many people
:12:19. > :12:27.there that would stand up and say my local leader is my MP. No, MPs
:12:27. > :12:30.are not local leaders, but there are people that don't see
:12:30. > :12:35.themselves as leaders but have a finger on the pulse of what is
:12:35. > :12:39.going on on the ground and had that has developed over time. There is a
:12:39. > :12:43.network including police officers and safer neighbourhood teams,
:12:43. > :12:46.officers on the ground, back together, can give in authentic
:12:46. > :12:51.picture of those locally specific situations where the Government
:12:51. > :12:55.needs to look at this rather than going for slogans. Is the great
:12:56. > :13:00.potential to do this. The police will say we have no resources we
:13:00. > :13:05.cannot be community operas as well as an forces. Where will the
:13:06. > :13:09.impetus come from? We mean informing government policy and
:13:09. > :13:13.some measure of understanding from the people on the ground that know
:13:13. > :13:16.what the situation is and what the problems are and what to do about
:13:16. > :13:20.it, as opposed to knee-jerk solutions that will appeal to
:13:20. > :13:26.certain sections of the electorate and which make even forfeit taking
:13:26. > :13:30.measures necessary if it is likely to be unpopular with the electorate.
:13:30. > :13:37.There are also long-standing problems on the problem is,
:13:37. > :13:40.politicians looking at the short term are not up for situations that
:13:40. > :13:43.will not turn around overnight. We are talking about generational
:13:43. > :13:48.problems in many areas and politicians are not necessarily
:13:48. > :13:53.interested in investing in a time where resources are short in long-
:13:53. > :14:02.term measures that will turn this around. Thank you. Apologies for
:14:02. > :14:04.using Jeffrey Butts at the start of The commander of US forces in
:14:04. > :14:07.Afghanistan says the Taliban insurgents who shot down a US
:14:07. > :14:10.helicopter on Saturday have been killed. There's been no word from
:14:10. > :14:12.the Taliban on the incident. A statement by the International
:14:12. > :14:15.Security Assistance Force says there were "multiple intelligence
:14:15. > :14:18.leads and tips from local citizens" about the identity of those who
:14:18. > :14:28.shot down the Chinook - killing all 38 on board. From Washington, Steve
:14:28. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:32.Kingstone reports. The final homecoming. A military
:14:32. > :14:37.transport plane touches down at Dover Air Force Base, bearing the
:14:37. > :14:42.remains of 30 American soldiers, most of them a lead Special forces.
:14:42. > :14:46.A sobering moment for the Commander in Chief, who would spend more than
:14:46. > :14:52.an hour in private with grieving families before saluting the dead.
:14:52. > :14:55.Together, the single biggest loss of life in America's longest wall.
:14:55. > :15:00.In the mountains of Wardak province, investigators have sealed off the
:15:00. > :15:04.crash site while the wreckage of the downed helicopter is retrieved.
:15:04. > :15:09.Today, the Americans made a point of revealing that those responsible
:15:09. > :15:12.have themselves been killed. A poll so many midnight on 8th August, the
:15:12. > :15:17.coalition forces killed the Taliban in surgeons responsible for this
:15:17. > :15:21.attack against the helicopter, which process was an RPG round.
:15:21. > :15:25.This does not ease are lost, but we must and we will continue to run
:15:25. > :15:31.and thus to pursue the enemy. All across Afghanistan, the insurgents
:15:31. > :15:35.are losing. The general said two insurgents were killed by an air
:15:35. > :15:41.strike. Later, the Taliban insisted the man who had fired upon the
:15:41. > :15:46.Chinook was a live and already fighting elsewhere. 22 of the
:15:46. > :15:51.American dead when AVCs seals from the same unit that killed Osama Bin
:15:51. > :15:56.Laden. They operate in the shadows, but in death some are being
:15:56. > :16:01.remembered publicly the stock Alan Vaughn was 30 and a father of two.
:16:01. > :16:06.I heard the door bell ring and I thought it was just a neighbour. I
:16:06. > :16:13.came upstairs and I saw my father opening the door and then coming
:16:13. > :16:17.inside in uniform and I just fell to my knees. The energy, everything
:16:17. > :16:21.just drops out of you and I just remember saying, no. Some are
:16:21. > :16:24.asking why the Navy SEALs were asked to make such a vulnerable
:16:24. > :16:28.landing given that American lives were not under threat on the ground.
:16:28. > :16:32.Special forces are likely to play an even greater role in the war as
:16:32. > :16:38.the President shrinks by 10,000 the overall troop numbers by the end of
:16:38. > :16:40.the year. These deaths have posed new questions about the
:16:40. > :16:46.Afghanistan's tragedy at a time when the President is desperate to
:16:46. > :16:50.focus on matters here at home. But it may not be a turning point
:16:50. > :16:55.because many Americans had already concluded the war is unwinnable.
:16:55. > :16:59.There is a new warning today on the drought in the Horn of Africa. The
:16:59. > :17:02.latest assessment by a network of experts is that it will last for a
:17:02. > :17:04.few months more. Already the harsh conditions in Somalia have seen
:17:04. > :17:09.116,000 people flee into neighbouring Kenya since the
:17:09. > :17:12.beginning of the year. This latest influx has put a strain on the
:17:12. > :17:17.refugee camp at Dadaab - already home to 300,000 Somalis who fled
:17:17. > :17:27.drought and civil war in the 1980s. As George Alagiah reports, 20 years
:17:27. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:37.of aid to the refugees has raised For a few hours every day, the
:17:37. > :17:41.children on section M6 can pretend they are like children everywhere.
:17:41. > :17:48.The play room cocoons them from a harsh world. The Make believe
:17:48. > :17:52.houses they built Ari million miles from their reality. And the country
:17:52. > :17:57.-- in the country -- and the country well-meaning aid workers
:17:57. > :18:01.encourage them to believe is largely fiction. In fact, Abdullahe
:18:01. > :18:03.and his brother Bushar were born here and never went to Somalia.
:18:03. > :18:09.Their parents left the country 20 years ago.
:18:09. > :18:18.Would you like to go to Somalia? The answer is No. Their parents say
:18:19. > :18:23.it is a bad place. This massive aid operation sustains 300,000 people
:18:23. > :18:28.who fled the Somali conflict of the 1990s, and they have never gone
:18:28. > :18:31.back. They need help, but they are not starving. Three out of every
:18:31. > :18:36.four people you see in the camp have got nothing to do with the
:18:36. > :18:40.current crisis. In some cases, they have been collecting their rations
:18:40. > :18:47.like this for a decade and more. It is a graphic reminder that there is
:18:47. > :18:53.a much deeper problem at work than this year's drought on loan. -- a
:18:53. > :18:58.loan. It begs a question. Is all this aid solving a problem or
:18:58. > :19:04.simply prolonging it? This man, who has been years since 1992 has an
:19:04. > :19:08.answer, though it is not one for the faint-hearted. -- this woman.
:19:08. > :19:12.TRANSLATION: Let the eight bees stop -- let the eight be stopped,
:19:12. > :19:16.then we will have to go back home. Some will die but we will find a
:19:16. > :19:21.solution. Over the years compart some Dadaab refugee camp have begun
:19:21. > :19:26.to look more and more like a town. There are markets, mechanics, even
:19:26. > :19:30.a juice maker. It has its own economy driven in part by the aid
:19:30. > :19:35.that flows in. Effigies sell a part of their Russian and spend what
:19:35. > :19:40.they get at one shop with other traders. -- Refugees sell a part of
:19:40. > :19:47.their rations. TRANSLATION: Of course it would be better to own a
:19:47. > :19:51.business in our own country. But there is a war going on in Somalia.
:19:51. > :19:56.And the failure to solve Somalia's deep-seated crisis drives a new
:19:56. > :20:04.generation across the border. Another book -- mother building
:20:04. > :20:08.another shelter in this no-man's land of hopelessness.
:20:08. > :20:14.Police in Karachi admits nearly 60 arrester crackdown on ethnic
:20:14. > :20:17.violence. The Pakistani city has a population of 18 million, of which
:20:17. > :20:22.around a third of Pashtun migrants from the Terblanche north-west.
:20:22. > :20:28.Their differences are with the Urdu-speaking majority. The
:20:28. > :20:33.violence has killed an estimated 300 people in the past month.
:20:33. > :20:37.These people are trying to come to terms with the violence that has
:20:37. > :20:44.suddenly changed their lives. Over recent weeks, people from the area
:20:44. > :20:48.have been killed just because of their ethnicity. This man tells us
:20:48. > :20:57.how this 16-year-old brother was abducted while selling sunglasses.
:20:57. > :21:01.His body was found hours later. He had been tortured and shot. This
:21:02. > :21:06.man's brother has also been killed. He takes us has close as he dares
:21:06. > :21:12.to what has become a new battle zone. This is a community of ethnic
:21:12. > :21:15.Pashtuns, originally from north- west Pakistan. Across the main road
:21:15. > :21:21.is an area where a community of reduced because lives. He says they
:21:21. > :21:25.have often been fired on by gunmen positioned on the routes there. And
:21:25. > :21:31.over the last two months, front lines like that have opened up
:21:31. > :21:35.across this vast city. The two ethnic groups, Pashtun is and Urdu
:21:35. > :21:38.speakers driven by the political parties that claim to represent
:21:38. > :21:44.them and are now engaged in a fierce fight over control of
:21:44. > :21:49.Karachi. It is a fight that is -- has often pitted neighbour against
:21:49. > :21:53.neighbour. For this household, the armed attackers came from next door.
:21:53. > :21:56.They broke down this wall and then the gunmen are streamed into the
:21:56. > :22:02.home. They terrorised the family and looted the place as well. The
:22:02. > :22:05.family fled as it came under gunfire. It can see the Pollitt
:22:05. > :22:10.holes up the wall. Then the home was set on fire and all this
:22:10. > :22:15.because these neighbours were from different ethnic groups. In this
:22:15. > :22:20.area it is the Urdu speakers who say they are being targeted by a
:22:20. > :22:26.Pashtuns. The two describe how they have come under fire from gunmen in
:22:26. > :22:30.the neighbouring air -- area up on the whole. This Thirteen-year-old
:22:30. > :22:33.were shot in the legs by a Pashtun sniper as she tried to take a
:22:34. > :22:40.younger brother and sister to safety. Children here have to learn
:22:40. > :22:44.quickly about the ethnic divide. TRANSLATION: Are people cannot go
:22:44. > :22:48.into their area and their people cannot come into ours. This is how
:22:48. > :22:54.it has become. They hate it has grown so much that our children now
:22:54. > :22:58.don't want to meet people from that side. As more areas get marked out
:22:58. > :23:05.by the group they belonged to, there is a fear of much more
:23:05. > :23:07.bloodletting to come. A new way of seeing art - a chance
:23:07. > :23:10.to actually walk through the canvas. That's the idea of the
:23:10. > :23:13.international designer Ron Arad. He's constructed a giant circular
:23:13. > :23:23.screen out of thousands of rods for London's Roundhouse and a season of
:23:23. > :23:28.
:23:28. > :23:35.video and stage performances. David It is when the curtain falls that
:23:35. > :23:39.the show begins. This circular screen made of 5600 silicon rods
:23:39. > :23:42.was produced by one of the superstars of international design,
:23:42. > :23:50.Ron Arad. It would form the centrepiece for a series of
:23:50. > :23:56.installation videos and concerts. It has interactive element. You can
:23:56. > :24:03.touch the curtain, you can go in, you can go out. The idea was to do
:24:03. > :24:11.something that will allow people to be more than just a passive
:24:11. > :24:17.spectator. Some people will be completely taken by the content and
:24:17. > :24:24.they won't care much about the sculpture or the installation. Some
:24:24. > :24:32.other people will just maybe miss some of the content and will be
:24:32. > :24:36.thrilled by the sculptural spatial installation. His Curtain Call
:24:36. > :24:40.takes the round House back to its creative agitprop beginnings of the
:24:40. > :24:45.1960s. It offers the audience a chance to be part of the
:24:45. > :24:54.experimental. Mat Collishaw invites us for a trek through a tropical
:24:54. > :24:58.video landscape poisoned by disease. The fact that there were hanging 10
:24:58. > :25:04.drawls that the curtain consisted of these, lent itself to the idea
:25:04. > :25:09.that you could be walking through a tropical environment where you had
:25:09. > :25:13.the Leeds and various forms of plant life hanging and you were
:25:13. > :25:18.walking through these creepers as you went through it. So that lent
:25:18. > :25:21.itself quite what to my project. Damn it accompanied by the sound of
:25:21. > :25:25.drums, which were kind of suggesting that maybe there was
:25:25. > :25:30.some great sin going on, that we had disturbed our ancestors in some
:25:30. > :25:38.kind of way and that there was a spirit coming back to haunt us.
:25:38. > :25:42.it is a challenging backdrop of live musical performance as well.
:25:42. > :25:48.don't hold with the whole thing of people saying classical music is
:25:48. > :25:54.for more. It is not. But moving to a new venue with new surroundings
:25:54. > :25:58.and this amazing installation will certainly throw some light on the
:25:58. > :26:02.performance of Bach and Britain. The Curtain Call Project ignores
:26:02. > :26:12.the ideas and restrictions of the fine art world. It allows us to
:26:12. > :26:17.walk through the artist's computerised canvas.
:26:17. > :26:20.It's different. A reminder of our main news. The British Prime
:26:20. > :26:24.Minister David Cameron has promised that the police will get all the
:26:24. > :26:28.resources they need to prevent further rioting and looting after
:26:28. > :26:32.four night of violence in English cities. He said a fightback is
:26:32. > :26:37.under way. More than 800 suspects have been arrested in London,
:26:37. > :26:41.hundreds more elsewhere, with Mr Cameron promising they will be more
:26:41. > :26:45.arrests to follow, courtesy of CCTV images, which the police are still
:26:45. > :26:48.working their way through. That's all from the programme. Next
:26:48. > :26:58.the weather. But for now from me, David Eades, and the rest of the
:26:58. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:07.It was dry across southern parts of the United Kingdom today, but
:27:07. > :27:11.further north there was a lot of rain. It is central Scotland
:27:11. > :27:14.bearing the brunt of the heavy and persistent rain. There is a net of
:27:14. > :27:21.his amber warning for rain. Be prepared for the risk of stream and
:27:21. > :27:27.river flooding as the rain continues. An area of low pressure.
:27:27. > :27:33.Further rain into Thursday across central Scotland. There will be a
:27:33. > :27:37.band of rain across southern areas. Still very breezy across northern
:27:37. > :27:40.England. Early rain will give way to a few breaks in the cloud across
:27:40. > :27:43.north-east England in the afternoon and an area of showers speeding
:27:43. > :27:47.across south-eastern areas behind that area Rana moves through during
:27:47. > :27:52.the morning. A lot of cloud elsewhere across England and Wales.
:27:52. > :27:58.Some breaks from time to time. A muddy field to the weather, breezy,
:27:58. > :28:02.and every now and then you will get a pulse of rain and showers. For
:28:02. > :28:06.Northern Ireland, a good deal of cloud around to begin the day but
:28:06. > :28:09.hints of brightness developing later on. But it is dull rainy
:28:09. > :28:19.across the central swath of Scotland. A wet day to come in