:00:14. > :00:19.This is BBC World News Today. Can France and Germany save Greece?
:00:19. > :00:21.Angela Merkel and President Sarkozy debate their options as the
:00:21. > :00:26.President of the European Commission calls it the biggest
:00:26. > :00:34.challenge facing Europe in a generation. This is a fight for the
:00:34. > :00:37.jobs and prosperity of families in all our member states. It's a fight
:00:37. > :00:41.for economic and good future of Europe. I angry scenes outside the
:00:41. > :00:46.Italian parliament, as MPs at vote on the country's plans to tackle
:00:46. > :00:51.its huge debts. The attack is over but the questions remain - how did
:00:51. > :00:55.six Taliban militants manage to hold Kabul hostage for 20 hours? A
:00:55. > :01:00.new strain of tuberculosis has the WHO worried. It is drug-resistant
:01:00. > :01:04.and on the rise in Europe. Life in a nuclear ghost town, six months
:01:04. > :01:10.after Japan's earthquake and tsunami. The radiation levels are
:01:10. > :01:14.still too high around Fukushima. And a disco diplomacy. Why is a
:01:14. > :01:24.sketch mocking the President's dancing censored from a Russian TV
:01:24. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:32.Welcome to the programme. An emergency telephone conference call
:01:32. > :01:35.between German, French and cricketers is taking place. It was
:01:35. > :01:39.called because of the turmoil on the financial markets, a turmoil
:01:39. > :01:42.triggered by the belief that Greece will default on its debts and
:01:42. > :01:46.inflict lasting damage on the European banks, not to mention the
:01:46. > :01:54.single currency there is huge pressure on Europe to find a
:01:54. > :01:57.lasting solution to the debt crisis. President Sarkozy of France and
:01:57. > :02:00.Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany moved today to try and fix the
:02:00. > :02:05.crisis of Greece and its debt. They are holding a conference call with
:02:05. > :02:09.the Greek Prime Minister, seeking guarantees that in exchange for
:02:09. > :02:13.further aid to Greece would live by its commitments and slash its
:02:13. > :02:17.deficit. The fear that Greece is heading for bankruptcy has Savage
:02:17. > :02:21.markets and the banking sector. Two French banks saw their ratings
:02:21. > :02:27.downgraded to date, on concerns they were heavily exposed to Greek
:02:27. > :02:31.debt. There was stark warnings that the European Parliament today, that
:02:31. > :02:34.Europe could be destroyed by the eurozone crisis. The mood was
:02:34. > :02:39.distinctly gloomy. One minister declared to Europe was in danger.
:02:39. > :02:45.Another said the European Union itself could not survive a break-up
:02:45. > :02:49.of the eurozone. We are confronted with the most serious challenge of
:02:49. > :02:55.a generation. It's a fight for what Europe represents in the world.
:02:55. > :02:59.This is a fight for European integration itself. President
:02:59. > :03:02.Barroso said the onset of the crisis was more Europe, more
:03:02. > :03:06.integration. But there were doubts expressed that Greece could be
:03:06. > :03:09.saved. Increasingly there are doubts whether Greece can escape
:03:09. > :03:12.bankruptcy in the long term. A German minister said today it would
:03:13. > :03:17.not be the end of the world if Greece was eventually forced out of
:03:17. > :03:25.the eurozone. And the Dutch government has begun exploring the
:03:25. > :03:28.cost to its banks if Greece defaults and runs out of money. So
:03:28. > :03:32.holt -- some will hold Greek government debt? The Greek banks
:03:32. > :03:36.are holding 49 billion euros. Germany's banks hold 10 billion
:03:36. > :03:41.euros. France is next with an exposure of 9 billion euros. The
:03:41. > :03:46.risk to British banks is much smaller - 2.2 billion euros.
:03:46. > :03:51.Germany does not bail Greece out, we need a back-up plan for when it
:03:51. > :03:56.goes horribly wrong. I don't get a sense at all we have any back-up
:03:56. > :04:00.plan, which means of a default happens it will be very messy.
:04:00. > :04:07.President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel reaffirmed today that they
:04:07. > :04:12.are still determined to save Greece if they can. Italy is under
:04:12. > :04:15.pressure as well because of its debts. After weeks of delay, the
:04:15. > :04:21.Italian parliament is voting on austerity measures put forward by
:04:21. > :04:26.the government. The plan aims to reduce Italy's deficit by more than
:04:26. > :04:31.$70 billion over three years. We can cross live to roam and join our
:04:31. > :04:36.correspondent. How is this going, I understand there were quite angry
:04:36. > :04:39.scenes outside the parliament? About an hour ago there were
:04:39. > :04:43.several hundred protesters demonstrating outside the
:04:43. > :04:48.parliament building. There were some clashes with the police. No
:04:48. > :04:54.injuries reported so far, but the police gradually pushed the
:04:54. > :04:57.demonstrators back towards the pantheon, a square near by. Now I
:04:57. > :05:03.understand the demonstrators are making their way towards the
:05:03. > :05:08.Coliseum. There were similar scenes when the Italian upper house of
:05:08. > :05:11.parliament voted the austerity package last week. I think it was
:05:11. > :05:17.predictable there would be this sort of protest. What's happening
:05:17. > :05:26.inside, are they going to pass it? Yes. It's a foregone conclusion. Mr
:05:26. > :05:31.parliament a few minutes ago. The vote was due to take place shortly.
:05:31. > :05:37.There was a confidence vote earlier in the day which the government won
:05:37. > :05:40.quite easily. I think the national feeling is that parties have got to
:05:40. > :05:45.pull together for the austerity package, even though it's a very
:05:46. > :05:52.bitter pill to swallow. What we have to find out now is whether the
:05:52. > :05:56.Italian government is actually able to implement these measures are,
:05:56. > :06:00.the increase in VAT, that's fairly easy to administer. But there's
:06:00. > :06:05.been a lot of aggravation over proposals to cut pensions and
:06:05. > :06:11.various other economy methods. But the situation in Italy is extremely
:06:11. > :06:15.serious. The debt mountain that the government has, according to the
:06:15. > :06:23.National Institute of Statistics today, has reached unprecedented
:06:23. > :06:28.levels. 1.9 trillion Euros. This is going to be a lot of money to have
:06:28. > :06:34.to pay back. The Italians obviously can't do this in the short-term,
:06:34. > :06:43.but the long-term position is perhaps almost as serious as that
:06:43. > :06:49.of Greece. Nobody knows yet. There's a lot of detail to come out.
:06:49. > :06:54.As I said before, the detail also in the implementation of this match
:06:54. > :07:01.changed austerity package which has been to-ing and fro-ing for weeks
:07:01. > :07:05.now. But finally it appears it's going to get past. Still staying
:07:05. > :07:11.with that euro debt crisis, I'm joined from the European Parliament
:07:11. > :07:18.in Strasbourg by the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannon. Addressing the
:07:18. > :07:22.European Parliament today was the President, Barroso, of the European
:07:22. > :07:25.Commission. He said the only way out of this crisis is more
:07:26. > :07:31.integration in Europe. Presumably that's a sentiment you would
:07:31. > :07:35.disagree with. It's more of the medicine that sickened the patient
:07:35. > :07:39.in the first place. The problem was too much European integration
:07:39. > :07:43.jamming these disparate countries into the same monetary policy. Now
:07:43. > :07:46.he's saying that what we need is even more, fiscal and economic
:07:46. > :07:50.union as well. The problem is too much debt and we've loaded more
:07:50. > :07:57.debt on to them, pressing on to countries that could and pay their
:07:57. > :08:00.existing liabilities. What is your solution? We should recognise that
:08:00. > :08:04.we are in business because we were trying to jam countries together
:08:04. > :08:08.that didn't have compatible economies. There are three possible
:08:08. > :08:13.outcomes. You can have an orderly unbundling of the euro. You can
:08:13. > :08:17.have a disorderly collapse of the euro or you can try and carry on as,
:08:17. > :08:23.at present, and option three is the most painful of those, none of them
:08:23. > :08:28.is attractive, but option three is the one they are going for. What is
:08:28. > :08:32.an orderly end of the euro, how would you do that? Every would have
:08:32. > :08:34.Germany and its satellite economies reading and establishing a new hard
:08:34. > :08:38.currency among themselves, that would be the neatest way of doing
:08:38. > :08:42.it. You would bequeath the legal carcass of the euro to the
:08:42. > :08:47.Mediterranean countries. Or you could do it the other way round.
:08:47. > :08:52.Pulling out by Greece and some of the other peripheral countries.
:08:52. > :08:55.you would let Greece default? Everyone can see that Greece is
:08:55. > :09:02.going to default except the people that were talking in the European
:09:02. > :09:06.Parliament. If Greece defaults, won't you see it -- a run on
:09:06. > :09:11.European banks, once you have a Lehman Brothers crisis? All of the
:09:11. > :09:15.options are bad, but nothing can be done to prevent default. The issue
:09:15. > :09:18.was whether you get it out of the way now or whether you defer it and
:09:18. > :09:22.make it more painful when it eventually happens, because the
:09:22. > :09:26.debt by then will be even larger. You don't help and indebted country
:09:26. > :09:29.by forcing more loans on it, that is what the EU has been doing.
:09:29. > :09:33.say all the options are bad but many economists will say your
:09:33. > :09:36.solution will make things worse in Europe, because what you will have
:09:36. > :09:40.as a Lehman Brothers situation which will spread to all the other
:09:40. > :09:45.countries - Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal - who are under pressure,
:09:45. > :09:51.and we will see a huge and very deep European recession. This is
:09:51. > :09:54.what Angela Merkel is warning against. Usain -- you seem to say
:09:54. > :09:59.otherwise. It's an inevitable event. There's going to be a correction of
:09:59. > :10:02.some bad investment decisions that were made over the last 10 years.
:10:02. > :10:05.Banks, like individuals, made some wrong course. There is no way we
:10:05. > :10:10.can get out of the correction when it comes. If you try to postpone
:10:11. > :10:14.that, the reckoning will be heavier when it comes. It cannot be right
:10:14. > :10:17.yet again to come and ask taxpayers to rescue some very wealthy
:10:17. > :10:24.individuals from the consequences of their own errors. We've already
:10:24. > :10:28.seen that that policy has failed. To Afghanistan, where details have
:10:28. > :10:32.been emerging about Tuesday's brazen attack in the diplomatic
:10:32. > :10:36.quarter of Kabul. A small group of militants paralysed the Afghan
:10:36. > :10:40.capital for 20 hours, raining down gunfire and rockets on the US
:10:40. > :10:43.embassy and the ISA at headquarters. It's understood that the militants
:10:43. > :10:53.hit a stockpile of weapons in an unoccupied building and then went
:10:53. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :10:59.into which dressed as women. Afghan soldiers celebrate. The City of
:10:59. > :11:06.Kabul breeds a sigh of relief. After 20 Abbas, the last suicide
:11:06. > :11:12.attacker is dead. -- after 20 hours. 6 had made it into this building,
:11:12. > :11:16.bloodied and under fire. Just two suicide attackers held off Afghan
:11:16. > :11:19.and international forces while terrorising the city below. The
:11:19. > :11:23.insurgents quickly made it into the building and came to the highest
:11:23. > :11:27.floors. When they got here, this is what they could see. Over there is
:11:27. > :11:32.the American embassy. Right beside it is the NATO headquarters. They
:11:32. > :11:36.couldn't have picked a better firing position. But it was here on
:11:36. > :11:40.the streets where most of the damage was done. People ran for
:11:40. > :11:45.cover, hiding in their homes. Explosions and gunfire could be
:11:46. > :11:49.heard all day and all night long. At the international mission,
:11:49. > :11:56.troops moved to return fire. This was the longest running attack in
:11:56. > :11:59.Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. At ISAF, they knew this attack was
:11:59. > :12:03.coming but they couldn't stop it. We have known about these threats
:12:03. > :12:08.that have been going after these networks is dramatically throughout
:12:08. > :12:12.the month of Ramadan and Eid. We knew that the enemy intended to
:12:12. > :12:16.attack the population and Kabul during that period of time.
:12:16. > :12:21.they still managed to get in. They only have to be right ones. We
:12:21. > :12:24.have to be right every single time. For now, Afghan and foreign troops
:12:24. > :12:28.are plentiful, but still the Taliban were able to bring urban
:12:28. > :12:35.warfare to the heart of Kabul. As foreign troops begin to leave,
:12:35. > :12:39.protecting the people here will become even harder. Let's take a
:12:39. > :12:42.look at some of the day's other news. Severe flooding has led to
:12:42. > :12:47.huge swathes of southern Pakistan and a water. More than 200 people
:12:47. > :12:51.have died and over 1 million homes have been destroyed. Sindh province
:12:51. > :12:56.is amongst the worst affected areas. The floods are a result of 10 days
:12:56. > :13:00.of torrential rain. They prompted Oxfam to launch an emergency appeal.
:13:00. > :13:03.Federal investigators in the United States have blamed last year's oil
:13:03. > :13:08.spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the failure of a critical cement
:13:08. > :13:12.barrier which led to an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
:13:12. > :13:16.11 people died. Reports say poor management by BP and other
:13:17. > :13:21.countries was also to blame. The judiciary in Iran has issued a
:13:21. > :13:26.statement denying that two Americans held as spies since 2009
:13:26. > :13:29.are about to be released. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were
:13:29. > :13:34.sentenced to eight years in jail last month. On Tuesday, President
:13:34. > :13:37.Ahmadinejad said they would be released within days. Libya's
:13:37. > :13:41.interim leader has told the BBC that he believes that Colonel
:13:41. > :13:49.Gaddafi is still in the country. He made the comments in the past few
:13:49. > :13:54.hours during an interview with the BBC. He was asked Mustafa Abdul
:13:54. > :14:04.Jalil if he knew where Gaddafi was. I don't know exactly where he is
:14:04. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:09.but the fact we know he is in the south side. With that much money
:14:09. > :14:12.and that much gold with him, it is not just dangerous for Libya but
:14:12. > :14:19.Libya and all of the Arabs. He is planning to do some revenge attacks
:14:19. > :14:29.which will harm a lot of people in the area. Have you made any
:14:29. > :14:29.
:14:29. > :14:34.progress at all in catching him? All the troops have run away down,
:14:34. > :14:41.they are down south. The fact that the rebels have not been yet able
:14:41. > :14:46.to cross, but there will be a lot of fierce fighting in this area to
:14:46. > :14:51.the south side, with a lot of equipment that we yet do not have.
:14:51. > :14:58.But we ask a support to get the right equipment in order to conquer
:14:58. > :15:02.these troops and to proceed further south to try and capture Colonel
:15:02. > :15:12.Gaddafi and his family. You say that he is planning to carry out
:15:12. > :15:18.attacks. What kind of attacks are TRANSLATION: He is in possession of
:15:18. > :15:24.a lot of money and all of the gold. The main problem is, he will be
:15:24. > :15:34.planning for attacks in many places. Attacks on either cities, oilfields
:15:34. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:39.or power plants around Libya and in other places might be on his manner.
:15:39. > :15:44.You have Colonel Gaddafi and his sons on the run, but you have four
:15:44. > :15:50.town's remaining in the hands of loyalists. Why is it taking you so
:15:50. > :15:57.long to capture those towns? TRANSLATION: Colonel Gaddafi's
:15:57. > :16:01.troops who ran out of Tripoli have situated themselves in Sirte and
:16:02. > :16:08.Sabha. They are trying to overcome the revolution.
:16:08. > :16:13.The interim leader of Libya. Europe used to regard tuberculosis
:16:13. > :16:18.as a disease of the past, but not any more. The World Health
:16:18. > :16:22.Organisation says a new drug- resistant strain has affected more
:16:22. > :16:28.than 80,000 Europeans. It is most acute in Eastern Europe,
:16:28. > :16:32.particularly Russia, the Ukraine and Moldova. Treating it is a long,
:16:32. > :16:39.unpleasant and costly process but has long been at the forefront of
:16:39. > :16:45.medical campaigns. A big ceremony in St George's
:16:45. > :16:50.Square opens Glasgow's five-week campaign. The 1950s the UK ruled
:16:50. > :16:53.out a programme to stamp out tuberculosis. Mobile X-ray units
:16:53. > :16:58.went around deprived areas of Glasgow encouraging people to get
:16:58. > :17:06.tested. Banalities back, and with it and you generation of mobile
:17:06. > :17:11.testing units. This is tuberculosis under the microscope. The WHO says
:17:11. > :17:15.it has been evolving and some strains of it like MDR-TB have
:17:15. > :17:19.become resistant to standard antibiotic treatment.
:17:19. > :17:23.The spread of MDR-TB as well as the spread of tuberculosis is done
:17:23. > :17:29.through the air and by people who are sick and not on treatment and
:17:29. > :17:35.not diagnosed, so they continue to spread it. In terms of speed, what
:17:35. > :17:40.I can tell you is a one person who is sick can infect another 10 in
:17:40. > :17:45.the year. The WHO as warned Europe against complacency, Eastern Europe
:17:45. > :17:49.has the highest level of infection and almost 12% of newly diagnosed
:17:49. > :17:53.patients had this drug-resistant form. But it is London with its
:17:53. > :17:59.high levels of immigration that has the highest rate than any capital
:17:59. > :18:04.city with over 3,000 UK's is diagnosed every year. They are
:18:04. > :18:08.fighting it and on such a scale, hopes of victory are high.
:18:08. > :18:12.Britain did come close to eradicating it in the 50s, but in
:18:12. > :18:17.the globalised world, this constantly revolving bacteria knows
:18:17. > :18:22.no frontiers. Joining me is a doctor from the
:18:22. > :18:26.World Health Organisation at its annual meeting in Azerbaijan. Why
:18:26. > :18:31.are we seeing this rise in Europe at the moment?
:18:31. > :18:38.Good evening. Tuberculosis has always been there, but indeed we
:18:38. > :18:44.have been seen, for the last decade a rise in tuberculosis, and even
:18:44. > :18:51.more worrying, multi- drug- resistant tuberculosis. It is a
:18:52. > :18:56.form of the disease which cannot be cured with the drugs available. We
:18:56. > :19:00.have to use different drugs which are much more expensive, much more
:19:00. > :19:05.toxic for the patient with more side-effects and takes much longer
:19:05. > :19:10.to treat. There are a number of reasons, one of those being that or
:19:10. > :19:15.we have failing health systems. It in means we do not succeed to
:19:15. > :19:19.diagnose these patients early enough. And one of the things that
:19:19. > :19:28.we are recommending is to involve the patients themselves and civil
:19:28. > :19:31.society. I know the WHO plan is, you get a more people tested. But
:19:31. > :19:36.if this disease is now drug- resistant, if you test them and
:19:36. > :19:44.they are positive, what can you do? This is indeed a challenge. The
:19:44. > :19:49.good news, we now have rapid diagnostic tools. We can diagnose
:19:49. > :19:56.the multi- drug-resistant strain very quick. One of the big
:19:56. > :20:00.challenges is to develop new drugs and all so new vaccines. Meanwhile,
:20:00. > :20:06.we have to create circumstances for the patience to get through the two
:20:06. > :20:12.years of difficult treatment. It is not easy for patient to be treated
:20:12. > :20:15.with these drugs for two years. other words, there is a treatment
:20:15. > :20:21.for this drug-resistant strain, but it is difficult and you have to
:20:21. > :20:25.target the right patient? Absolutely, absolutely. The plan
:20:25. > :20:30.has been put together based on the new evidence of research and very
:20:30. > :20:37.importantly, with the patients. Nothing for the patients without
:20:37. > :20:44.the patient. It is about saving lives, we are saving 120,000 people
:20:44. > :20:53.on the plan by 2015. It will cost $5 million. The message is, come
:20:53. > :20:58.forward and be tested. Six months ago, emergency workers
:20:58. > :21:02.in Japan were launching their desperate fight to control the
:21:02. > :21:05.nuclear power station at Fukushima. Three of the reactors were
:21:05. > :21:11.overheating and a vast cloud of radioactivity escaped following the
:21:11. > :21:16.earthquake and tsunami. More than 100,000 people what ordered to
:21:16. > :21:22.leave their homes. A science correspondent is one of the few
:21:22. > :21:26.journalists who has ventured back into the deserted town of Tomioka.
:21:26. > :21:31.The nuclear ghost town of Tomioka. We have arrived in the long street
:21:31. > :21:35.of shops and there is no one here. We are a few miles inside the
:21:35. > :21:42.exclusion zone, a radioactive cloud blew over here six months ago, but
:21:42. > :21:47.experts have assured us radiation levels have fallen. A local farmer,
:21:47. > :21:51.Naoto Matsumura has slipped us past security. This is the main sleep?
:21:51. > :21:56.It is completely empty. He wants us to see how his community has
:21:56. > :22:03.suffered. We find it was hit by the earthquake and the tsunami of them
:22:03. > :22:09.by the leak from the power station. This used to be a town of 16,000,
:22:09. > :22:16.this is the main street but it is completely deserted. Motorbikes
:22:16. > :22:20.abandon, shops completely empty, no traffic at all. Weeds growing up in
:22:20. > :22:25.this for court. A shock wrecked in the earthquake, still six months on
:22:25. > :22:29.completely untouched. All the time we have been here, the radiation
:22:29. > :22:35.level has been surprisingly low. The problem is this, if you get
:22:35. > :22:39.down to ground level, it shoots right up. No problem for us and a
:22:39. > :22:44.quick visit, but what scientists are wrestling with is how dangerous
:22:44. > :22:48.this contamination is and will continue to be in the long term. It
:22:48. > :22:52.was in March that explosions at the nuclear power plant are released
:22:52. > :22:57.radioactive material. The leaks contaminated some areas more
:22:57. > :23:03.severely than others, but everyone within 12 miles of this devastation
:23:03. > :23:07.was ordered out. Naoto Matsumura decided to stay. He does not bother
:23:07. > :23:12.with protective clothing. In the ruins of his farm, spiders have
:23:12. > :23:18.taken over. There were just stretch over everything, but he clears a
:23:18. > :23:22.path. He wants to show us something. This is a distressing sight. This
:23:22. > :23:27.is the cattle shed, the owners left in such a hurry they were not able
:23:27. > :23:34.to release the animals. These are two that have died. And each of
:23:34. > :23:40.these pens there are two more making a total of 60. Some animals
:23:40. > :23:43.broke free and are roaming wild. Naoto Matsumura tries to care for a
:23:43. > :23:49.new generation born in the nuclear zone. He wants to keep his
:23:49. > :23:54.community going. TRANSLATION: There are no subsidies,
:23:54. > :24:01.no electricity, gas or hot water. But if the people still want to
:24:01. > :24:04.come back, even my mother and father their wishes to die here.
:24:04. > :24:10.After three hours, we checked our radiation dose, it is roughly half
:24:10. > :24:16.what you get from a chest X-ray. Canal, he refuses to think about
:24:16. > :24:22.radiation. He is determined to stay on. But he lives by candlelight,
:24:22. > :24:31.most of his food is tinned. Adopt is his only companion. He wants his
:24:31. > :24:36.town to return to normal. It will be a long wait.
:24:36. > :24:40.A TV comedy sketch making fun of President Dmitry Medvedev has made
:24:40. > :24:45.headlines in Russia by never making it to her. This kit, which mocked
:24:45. > :24:53.his dancing abilities featured in the most popular satirical game
:24:53. > :24:59.show but was edited out. It is Russian rock and roll, or
:24:59. > :25:05.strictly come Kremlin her! The man in blue is Dmitri Medvedev, on the
:25:05. > :25:10.dancefloor at a college reunion. This mobile phone footage has been
:25:10. > :25:19.viewed by millions. And now everyone seems to be copying his
:25:19. > :25:25.every move. By dancing like this, Dancing Dmitry these comedians to
:25:25. > :25:28.prise him Russian TV's top comedy competitions. But when the pre-
:25:28. > :25:35.recorded programme was broadcast, it had been edited out and they are
:25:35. > :25:42.not amused. We rehearsed, and then it was
:25:42. > :25:48.nothing. I was surprised. Kremlin is keen to point out that
:25:48. > :25:51.the President does have a sense of humour. His aides say they have no
:25:51. > :25:56.idea whether Dancing Dmitry sketch was cut and there has been no
:25:56. > :26:00.official explanation from Russian television. But media analysts say
:26:00. > :26:07.it is censorship by TV bosses keen to avoid upsetting the leaders of
:26:07. > :26:13.Russia. There are no straight rules of what you can show, what can go
:26:13. > :26:18.out and what cannot. What works is self-censorship on every level. On
:26:18. > :26:21.every executive level way you make decisions. Judging by some of the
:26:21. > :26:31.things the Russian leadership get up to in the line of duty, who
:26:31. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:36.needs comedy shows to make Russians chuckle.
:26:36. > :26:40.A reminder of the top story? The Greek Prime Minister has held
:26:40. > :26:46.urgent talks with the French and German leaders about Greece
:26:46. > :26:51.defaulting. They told increase must implement all reforms and he said
:26:51. > :27:01."yes we will". That's all from us for the moment, next we have the
:27:01. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:10.Tonight underneath clearing skies, it is going to turn quite chilly
:27:10. > :27:14.with mist and fog forming. That leads to a dry day with spells of
:27:14. > :27:19.sunshine. And things will warm up in the afternoon. We are losing the
:27:19. > :27:23.weather fronts but we will have cloud in a few places. High
:27:23. > :27:28.pressure developing throughout the day on Thursday. Any mist and fog
:27:28. > :27:32.at first in the morning should clear. It should take a bit of time
:27:33. > :27:38.through south-west England. In the afternoon, good spells of sunshine
:27:38. > :27:42.across northern England. Like to winds. Some cloud floating around,
:27:42. > :27:50.but I won't be surprised if some were through southern England we
:27:50. > :27:55.did manage to get into the low 20s. Across Wales, it is dry and fine,
:27:55. > :27:59.sung cloud clinging to the Cardigan Bay area. No further inland and
:27:59. > :28:05.things are bright. In Northern Ireland, the afternoon will bring
:28:05. > :28:11.thicker cloud, maybe one a two spots of rain towards the West. The
:28:11. > :28:15.same for western Scotland, but over or it will be fine and dry. Like to