:00:16. > :00:18.Egypt's military says sorry for the deaths of protestors in the past
:00:18. > :00:23.week's unrest and insists that Monday's parliamentary elections
:00:23. > :00:30.will go ahead. But some protestors are not convinced and are are
:00:30. > :00:33.refusing to leave Cairo's Tahrir More talks at the EU's top table,
:00:33. > :00:42.but beneath the apparent unity, big differences exist between France
:00:42. > :00:44.and Germany on how to stabilise the euro. The Harry Potter author JK
:00:44. > :00:54.Rowling tells the inquiry into UK media ethics that press intrusion
:00:54. > :00:57.hounded her out of her home. Also coming up in the programme... We
:00:57. > :00:58.have a special report from the Syrian/ Turkish border. How safe
:00:58. > :01:03.are Syrian anti-government protestors who've crossed into
:01:03. > :01:06.Turkey? The assumption is that agents of Syrian intelligence were
:01:06. > :01:12.waiting for him, grabbed him and perhaps took him back over the
:01:12. > :01:18.Syrian border. Most people round here think that he's been killed
:01:18. > :01:28.already. And the first novel of beat generation writer Jack Kerouac
:01:28. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:42.is finally published more than 40 Hello and welcome. After six days
:01:42. > :01:44.of violence in which nearly 40 people have died, Egypt's ruling
:01:44. > :01:46.military has insisted that parliamentary elections will go
:01:47. > :01:56.ahead as planned on Monday. But protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square,
:01:57. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:00.the symbolic heart of the Egyptian revolution, are not placated.
:02:00. > :02:03.Although a truce has been brokered by Muslim clerics, there are still
:02:03. > :02:07.large crowds in the square demanding the military leadership
:02:07. > :02:10.step down immediately. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo. The state of
:02:10. > :02:15.Egypt four days before what should be a triumphant celebration of
:02:15. > :02:20.democracy. The troops on the streets, barbed-wire surrounds the
:02:20. > :02:23.Interior Ministry. Overnight there was the latest in a series of
:02:23. > :02:29.truces between police and protesters. But nobody is
:02:29. > :02:33.optimistic it will hold. On state TV two generals appeared. For the
:02:33. > :02:37.first time they offered an apology for the deaths of protesters. They
:02:37. > :02:46.insisted they were not like the former regime, they did not want to
:02:46. > :02:51.hold on to power. But in the city of Ismailiyah, they sent tanks out
:02:51. > :02:55.during the night as demonstrations continued across Egypt. The
:02:55. > :03:02.opposition claimed live fire is now being used against them, the army
:03:02. > :03:06.firmly deny they had shot any protesters. After last night's
:03:06. > :03:12.apology, two more generals appear today to insist elections on Monday
:03:12. > :03:17.will go ahead. TRANSLATION: We will not relinquish power because of a
:03:17. > :03:21.slogan chanting crowd. Being in power is not a blessing, it is a
:03:21. > :03:25.curse. Meanwhile, parliamentary elections are still scheduled for
:03:25. > :03:30.Monday. There is almost no campaigning going on, but the bosom
:03:30. > :03:38.but there had are among the parties who do want them to happen -- of
:03:38. > :03:43.the Muslim Brotherhood. -- the Muslim Brotherhood. We need can't,
:03:43. > :03:48.we need to bring the quietness back to Egypt because we are losing
:03:48. > :03:51.money every day. In Tahrir Square there are mixed opinions about the
:03:51. > :03:55.election but determination that they won the generals to go and
:03:55. > :03:59.hand over power to a civilian government. The generals have
:03:59. > :04:02.apologised but they also made it clear they are not about to give up
:04:02. > :04:06.power. The crowds here have not been pacified by anything they have
:04:06. > :04:14.heard, they made it clear they are not going anywhere either. We could
:04:14. > :04:20.be in for a long stalemate. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which expects
:04:20. > :04:25.to do well in the election, says next Monday's poll must go ahead.
:04:25. > :04:27.The group is the largest to be represented in the election. It's
:04:27. > :04:34.also Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation and has
:04:34. > :04:37.influenced similar movements across the Arab world. In previous
:04:37. > :04:41.elections, the group ran candidates as independents to get round a ban
:04:41. > :04:44.on religious parties. In 2005, its candidates won 88 seats, a fifth of
:04:44. > :04:50.the total, and far outstripping the legal opposition, which won only 14
:04:50. > :04:53.seats. After the fall of President Mubarak, the group was legalised.
:04:53. > :05:00.And standing as the Freedom and Justice Party, it's said it will
:05:00. > :05:02.contest up to half the seats in next week's elections. Joining us
:05:03. > :05:10.now from Cairo is Kamal Al Helbawy, spokesperson for the Muslim
:05:10. > :05:20.Brotherhood. Is it fair to say the Muslim brothers have done a deal
:05:20. > :05:30.with the military? I do believe that the Muslim Brotherhood played
:05:30. > :05:30.
:05:30. > :05:34.the role the area efficiently with the military and with the people of
:05:34. > :05:42.Egypt. Now they are coming to elections, the people understand
:05:42. > :05:48.they are the most organised group in Egypt and they are heading to
:05:48. > :05:52.get there with other is a must so at least 50 per cent of the vote.
:05:52. > :05:57.Nobody disputes you will have a strong showing but the specific
:05:57. > :06:00.question is the protesters out in Tahrir Square now, many of them
:06:00. > :06:05.secularists, say they are concerned a new transitional government may
:06:05. > :06:11.have to answer to the military in some way. What is your view on the
:06:11. > :06:17.role of the military now in Egypt? Should it be enshrined in any new
:06:17. > :06:24.constitution? I believe the military role should be shrinking
:06:24. > :06:28.in the future and the more participation from the
:06:28. > :06:36.revolutionary and civilian powers in growing the future and shaping
:06:36. > :06:42.the future of Egypt, not only in implementation. I wrote and spoke
:06:42. > :06:49.on Arabic Television about the role in the future and the co-operation
:06:49. > :06:53.between the revolutionary and the army. And at least 19 people from
:06:53. > :07:01.the revolutionary should be collected who was quite genuine and
:07:02. > :07:06.trusted by the people to participate in working for the
:07:06. > :07:11.future and resolutions with the military council and not to leave
:07:11. > :07:18.all the burden on the shoulders of the Military Council as happened
:07:18. > :07:23.during the last 10 months since the fall of Mubarak. The military have
:07:23. > :07:29.said they will hand over to win national salvation government. Who,
:07:29. > :07:39.in your view, would be right to lead that government? We've heard
:07:39. > :07:39.
:07:39. > :07:48.different names. Who would be acceptable to you? For me every one
:07:48. > :07:53.of them is acceptable because it is a transition period and it will not
:07:53. > :07:59.continue more than a few months and it will be very busy but I do
:07:59. > :08:08.believe any potential candidate, if they accepted to play the role of
:08:08. > :08:11.the transitional period to lead this government, they will have no
:08:11. > :08:20.role to play in the future of Egypt, or participate in elections as
:08:20. > :08:24.candidates. And remove so can lead but will have no right to
:08:24. > :08:30.participate in the presidential elections. Another name was
:08:30. > :08:40.mentioned but I think he did not approve that and they wanted to
:08:40. > :08:45.
:08:45. > :08:48.stay behind until the presidential The leaders of France and Germany
:08:48. > :08:50.are proposing changes to the European Union treaties to tighten
:08:50. > :08:52.control over the eurozone. President Sarkozy and the German
:08:52. > :08:55.Chancellor Angela Merkel also expressed their strong support for
:08:55. > :08:58.Italy's interim prime minister, Mario Monti, after the three met in
:08:58. > :09:00.Strasbourg today. France and Germany are keen to present a
:09:00. > :09:02.united front, however, they disagree on the role of the
:09:02. > :09:12.European Central Bank in helping stabilise the eurozone. From
:09:12. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:26.Or on the Franco-German border in a city synonymous with the idea of
:09:26. > :09:31.European unity -- unity, they want to send a message to the markets
:09:31. > :09:36.that Italy is in safe hands and has the support of its allies. But what
:09:36. > :09:42.is this new triumvirate going to do to try to present the eurozone
:09:42. > :09:47.crisis spinning out of control? TRANSLATION: Faced with the gravity
:09:47. > :09:51.of the situation we have told Mario Monti that France and Germany will
:09:51. > :09:56.propose changes to the treaty over the next few days to improve
:09:56. > :10:00.eurozone confidence. We hope Italy will join us. The idea of a treaty
:10:00. > :10:04.change will not be welcomed by everyone. Many are focusing on
:10:04. > :10:07.trying to persuade Germany to ease its opposition to allow the
:10:07. > :10:12.European Central Bank to use it unlimited firepower to protect
:10:12. > :10:18.countries which are struggling to service their debts. No sign yet of
:10:18. > :10:23.Mrs Merkel budging. TRANSLATION: Were modifying the
:10:23. > :10:26.treaty we are talking about fiscal union, political co-operation, it
:10:26. > :10:33.is a different story, we have proposals, which have nothing to do
:10:33. > :10:37.with the ECB. Plenty for Mario Monti to ponder as he embarks on
:10:37. > :10:42.the enormous task of trying to turn the Italian economy around. His
:10:42. > :10:49.country is too big to fail but too big to bail. The eurozone needs him
:10:49. > :10:52.to deliver. TRANSLATION: We have shared our
:10:52. > :10:59.thoughts on this and we agree the health of the eurozone his priority.
:10:59. > :11:03.It is fundamental duras days, that the eurozone integrate. -- the euro
:11:03. > :11:07.stays. They will meet again in Rome and then there is another Euro-
:11:07. > :11:17.summit in a couple of weeks amid a feeling that time is beginning to
:11:17. > :11:22.
:11:22. > :11:25.run out. Now a look at some of the days other news... -- day's. The
:11:25. > :11:28.Yemeni president may have signed a deal to step down, but the violence
:11:28. > :11:31.continues in the capital Sanaa. At least five people were killed and
:11:31. > :11:33.several wounded when gunmen loyal to the president opened fire on
:11:33. > :11:36.thousands of protesters objecting to his being given immunity from
:11:36. > :11:40.prosecution. President Saleh has condemned the attacks and ordered
:11:40. > :11:43.an investigation into the violence. Large international supermarket
:11:44. > :11:46.chains like Tesco and Walmart can now set up shop in India following
:11:47. > :11:50.a ruling by the government. Supporters of the move say it will
:11:50. > :11:57.increase competition and quality while reducing prices. Opponents
:11:57. > :12:01.believe it will squeeze out India's smaller and poorer traders. The
:12:01. > :12:07.leaders of Hamas and Fatah say they have narrowed their differences
:12:07. > :12:12.after talks in Cairo. The work in session between Mahmoud Abbas and
:12:12. > :12:19.the political leader of Hamas was the first since Hamas took control
:12:19. > :12:23.of Gaza in 2007, leaving Fatah with just the West Bank to control.
:12:23. > :12:27.American Samoa's football team have won their first international match
:12:27. > :12:31.after 30 consecutive defeat. They beat Tonga in their first
:12:31. > :12:38.qualifying match for the 2014 World Cup. In his previous 13 matches
:12:38. > :12:44.they conceded 229 goals, scored just 12 and suffered a world record
:12:44. > :12:51.31-0 defeat to Australia in a World Cup qualifier 10 years ago. They
:12:51. > :12:54.have done well now. A succession of the rich and famous, like the actor
:12:54. > :12:58.Hugh Grant, have been appearing before the Leveson Inquiry into
:12:58. > :13:06.media ethics here in London this week. Today the Harry Potter author,
:13:06. > :13:09.JK Rowling, was the main witness at the inquiry. She told the committee
:13:09. > :13:15.that press intrusion into her personal life was so great that she
:13:15. > :13:18.felt she was hounded out of her first home. The government
:13:18. > :13:21.appointed Lord Leveson to carry out the inquiry into media practices
:13:21. > :13:23.after a phone and e mail hacking standard engulfed newspapers here,
:13:23. > :13:31.especially in the Rupert Murdoch news empire. Nicholas Witchell has
:13:31. > :13:34.more. She has written books which have captivated millions, yet for
:13:34. > :13:40.JK Rowling there is an absolute rule, that heroin children are
:13:40. > :13:45.entitled to complete privacy. Unfortunately as she told the
:13:45. > :13:50.inquiry... A significant section of press in my view have seen it
:13:50. > :13:53.almost as a challenge. Many times she said she felt trapped at home
:13:53. > :13:58.by photographers. She recalled an incident after the birth of her
:13:58. > :14:04.son... We were besieged for one week, then I believe the
:14:04. > :14:11.photographers had gone. For the first time in a week I was able to
:14:11. > :14:14.get out of the house with my daughter and the baby. We were
:14:14. > :14:17.long-nosed, on this occasion I saw the photographer taking the picture
:14:17. > :14:25.from across the street, I pulled my daughter behind me because it
:14:25. > :14:32.ignored. I rather absurdly gave chase, how I thought I could out
:14:32. > :14:35.run a twentysomething a paparazzo while pushing a buggy... My
:14:35. > :14:39.daughter was saying calm down, don't be silly, it does not matter.
:14:39. > :14:42.But it mattered hugely to meet. Much of the media did excellent
:14:42. > :14:49.work, she said, but there was a section which seemed to have few
:14:49. > :14:57.scruples. The attitude seems to be utterly Cavalier. In difference.
:14:57. > :15:02.What does it matter? You are famous. You're asking for it. JK Rowling
:15:02. > :15:06.said if you fought back again some papers you could expect retribution.
:15:06. > :15:09.In the case of the actress Sienna Miller, the risk could amount to
:15:10. > :15:14.physical danger. She told the inquiry how, for years, she had
:15:14. > :15:24.faced almost daily pursued by photographers. She said at times it
:15:24. > :15:28.I would find myself at 21 running down the street at midnight with
:15:28. > :15:32.ten big men chasing me and the fact they had cameras in their hands
:15:32. > :15:37.meant that was legal, but if you take them away, you have a pack of
:15:37. > :15:40.men chasing a woman and that's a very intimidating situation to be
:15:41. > :15:44.in. Photographers seemed to know her movements and reporters her
:15:44. > :15:50.secrets. They accused her family of leaking information. Her phone was
:15:50. > :15:56.being hacked, in fact. When she finally saw the notes kept by Glenn
:15:56. > :16:01.Mulcaire, this is what she found. Dates referring to very personal
:16:01. > :16:07.things within my life. All my telephone numbers, the three I had
:16:07. > :16:12.changed in three months and my access numbers, PIN numbers and
:16:12. > :16:17.password for my e-mail that was later used to hack it. The whole
:16:17. > :16:27.experience, she said, had created distrust and anxiety and left her
:16:27. > :16:31.feeling violated. The Arab League has given Syria one day to agree to
:16:31. > :16:34.allow an observer mission into the country or face sanctions. The
:16:34. > :16:37.country's been suspended from the Arab League because of a violent
:16:37. > :16:44.crackdown against anti-Government protesters. The leader of the
:16:44. > :16:49.opposition Free Syrian Army has told the BBC that the President's
:16:49. > :16:55.regime will fall soon. The colonel has given a rare interview to our
:16:55. > :16:59.editor John Simpson, who is in south-east turkey. -- Turkey. The
:16:59. > :17:05.border between Turkey on this side and Syria, a closed country on the
:17:05. > :17:08.brink of civil war. It looks quiet enough, but refugees slip across
:17:08. > :17:14.all the time, among them soldiers who have rebelled against the
:17:14. > :17:19.Syrian Government. But even though they are under Turkish protection
:17:19. > :17:22.now, they are not necessarily safe. There are seven refugee camps in
:17:23. > :17:30.this area. Many of the people who now live in them have been here for
:17:30. > :17:36.several months. A senior Syrian officer, who defected, lived here
:17:36. > :17:45.until late September. Then he went out by bus to do some shopping in
:17:45. > :17:50.the nearby town. Somewhere round here the colonel disappeared. The
:17:50. > :17:54.assumption is that agents of Syrian intelligence were waiting for him,
:17:55. > :18:00.grabbed hum, and perhaps took him back over the Syrian border. Most
:18:00. > :18:06.people around here think that he's been killed already. Syrian
:18:06. > :18:10.refugees still come here to shop, but they tend to be more wary now.
:18:10. > :18:15.Some don't want to show their faces on camera. They all seem to know
:18:15. > :18:25.about the disappearance of the colonel. The Turkishing police keep
:18:25. > :18:29.an eye on us. Though, in the end, they let us go on filming. And the
:18:29. > :18:33.Turkish army makes it hard to contact the leader the the Syrian
:18:33. > :18:38.rebels, who has come across the border. He and all the defecting
:18:38. > :18:42.soldiers are held in this one camp. While we were filming the pictures
:18:42. > :18:49.of the soldiers, the Turkish army came and arrested us and a judge
:18:49. > :18:53.had to get us freed. The only way we could interview the colonel was
:18:53. > :18:58.via the internet. It was all done very much at the last minute and it
:18:59. > :19:03.was pretty bizarre. We set up in a nearby farmyard and the chief of
:19:03. > :19:12.the Free Syrian Army appeared. The first time he's been interviewed on
:19:13. > :19:17.camera. TRANSLATION: We assure everyone that the President of
:19:17. > :19:23.Syria is finished. The Syrian nation is determined to bring this
:19:23. > :19:28.dictator down. Will it happen? TRANSLATION: God willing, God
:19:28. > :19:35.willing, very soon. The system is rotten to the core. It may look
:19:35. > :19:41.strong on the outside, but at the heart it's weak. Inside Syria, the
:19:41. > :19:44.Free Syrian km army will be more and -- Army, will be more and more
:19:44. > :19:54.important as the situation gets worse. It's not civil war there yet,
:19:54. > :19:55.
:19:55. > :19:59.but it seems to be heading that way. The Rory Peck Awards pay tribute to
:19:59. > :20:03.the freelance camera operators who risk their lives literally, to
:20:03. > :20:09.bring you pictures from difficult and dangerous places. This year's
:20:09. > :20:13.Sony Professional Impact Award went to a disturbing undercover
:20:13. > :20:17.documentary about the lives of impoverished children in Zimbabwe.
:20:17. > :20:25.Fill maker, Jezza Neumann said it was the toughest shoot he had ever
:20:25. > :20:30.been on. This school in Zimbabwe has 1,000 pupils. 350 of them are
:20:30. > :20:33.orphans. They are keen to learn, but the vast majority of their
:20:33. > :20:43.families can't afford the school fees, so one day they are forced to
:20:43. > :20:51.
:20:51. > :20:54.Jezza Neumann isn't supposed to be filming this. He has permission to
:20:54. > :20:58.make a documentary about the childhood of a South African
:20:58. > :21:06.colleague. What they are actually doing could get them deported or
:21:07. > :21:11.thrown in jail. To get these shots, the camera's on the ground and
:21:12. > :21:17.Jezza Neumann is pretending to tie up his shoelaces. He's interrogated
:21:17. > :21:21.in total 12 times. But it's the Zimbabweans there filming who Jezza
:21:21. > :21:25.Neumann worries about most. I did feel our contributors were at
:21:25. > :21:35.severe risk and they are the ones that the authorities would actually
:21:35. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:45.go after and the ones who are Nineyear-old Esther cares for her
:21:45. > :21:55.dying mother. Her father has already died of AIDS. HIV positive
:21:55. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:10.herself, she is also looking after The most heart-breaking moment
:22:10. > :22:17.comes when they return to see Esther and she tells them that her
:22:17. > :22:23.mother has died. Here's a young child who tells us mat ter of
:22:23. > :22:27.factly, that her -- matter of factly, that her mother has died.
:22:27. > :22:31.That is how she delivers it. The other sadness is she actually says
:22:31. > :22:38.it's a relief, because it means she no longer has to look after her
:22:38. > :22:41.mother as well as teen know. Tino. This story does have a happy ending.
:22:41. > :22:47.Viewers were so moved by the plight of Esther and the other children,
:22:47. > :22:56.that donations poured in. She and Tction ino no longer have to look
:22:56. > :23:00.after -- and Tino no longer have to look after themselves. The American
:23:00. > :23:07.writer Jack Kerouac, who died more than 40 years ago, is best known
:23:07. > :23:12.for his book On The Road. It became the Bible for the Beat Generation
:23:12. > :23:17.in America, but his very first novel, written while he was at sea
:23:17. > :23:20.in the Second World War has never been published until now. It's
:23:20. > :23:24.called The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel in one moment I'll
:23:24. > :23:29.discuss the book with Stuart Evers, but first we'll hear a little of
:23:29. > :23:34.Jack Kerouac himself reading from his book On The Road. I was trflg
:23:34. > :23:43.west one time at the junction of the -- travelling west one time at
:23:43. > :23:49.the junction of the state line of you tar and I saw -- Utah and I saw
:23:49. > :23:55.the of God with his forefinger pointing straight at me. Through
:23:55. > :24:03.halos and gold folds his right hand would say "Boy, go across the
:24:03. > :24:13.ground. Go home from man. Go grown alone. Go role your bones alone. Go
:24:13. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:19.there and be little beneath my sight." Also, "And of this world
:24:19. > :24:24.you report yourself well and truly." That was Jack Kerouac
:24:24. > :24:27.reading there. Stuart Evers joins me now. This new published novel,
:24:27. > :24:31.The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel, you have actually read it
:24:31. > :24:36.and it has just come out today? Yeah. It's an interesting book.
:24:36. > :24:39.Like with many of his books it's very auto buy graphical and it
:24:40. > :24:45.talks about him being in the merchant Marines, but what is
:24:45. > :24:49.interesting for people who know and love him, it is not very polished
:24:49. > :24:54.or as zipy perhaps as -- wouldn't expect that. Give him a
:24:54. > :24:57.break, he wrote it when he was 21? There are flashes of the Jack
:24:57. > :25:01.Kerouac that people have come to love and adore within the book.
:25:01. > :25:04.There is lots of youthful kind of indiscretions within the text,
:25:04. > :25:08.which doesn't make it perhaps the kind of literary event that perhaps
:25:08. > :25:14.we might think it is. It tells you a little about how he was
:25:14. > :25:22.developing perhaps as a writer. is a very interesting book in terms
:25:22. > :25:28.of his obsessions that came through, the outsidism and America and the
:25:28. > :25:33.concept of looking for things outside of a real sense of a place
:25:33. > :25:43.and looking for something support spiritual. You are in your 30's, so
:25:43. > :25:48.why do you think his writing has such enduring appeal? What is it?
:25:48. > :25:51.William S Burroughs said this book sold one million pairs of Levis and
:25:51. > :25:56.they are the last bastion of cool in as much they are famous for
:25:57. > :26:02.their lifestyle. Even as much as their actual output. It was about
:26:02. > :26:08.the Beat era. Why was that so important? It was a precursor to
:26:08. > :26:11.rock'n'roll and it came around at the time when he wrote On The Road.
:26:11. > :26:15.You can imagine there is a real sea change in America and you can
:26:16. > :26:18.imagine anyone trying to get hold of his book and following in his
:26:19. > :26:22.footsteps. There is something about him that appeals to the rebel in
:26:22. > :26:30.all of us? Yes, absolutely. He did things that nobody else had ever
:26:30. > :26:35.done. He wrote about them certainly. It's still as poignant and as
:26:35. > :26:41.exciting now as it was then. book came out today. You must be a
:26:41. > :26:47.fast reader? I got it two weeks ago. Are you a bit of a rebel too?
:26:47. > :26:52.quite too. Thank you very much. That is all from the programme.
:26:52. > :26:59.Next it's the weather, but for the moment from me, and the rest of the
:26:59. > :27:04.moment from me, and the rest of the team, goodbye. There are two sides
:27:04. > :27:09.to autumn weather, the mild and misty, the quiet or the wild and
:27:09. > :27:13.windy. That's what we have at the moment. This area of deep pressure
:27:13. > :27:17.is just off the north-west of the United Kingdom, giving strong winds
:27:17. > :27:24.across northernmost parts. The winds are increasing for us all, so
:27:24. > :27:27.blustery day for us all. It is pushing cold air across the country.
:27:27. > :27:31.Another band will work south during the day and gusty winds on these as
:27:31. > :27:36.well. Tending to weaken though just to a line of showers, as it reaches
:27:36. > :27:40.further south. That's where it will be sitting at around 3pm. Ahead of
:27:40. > :27:45.it though, there will be plenty of sun before the thicker cloud and a
:27:45. > :27:48.few showers get in much later in the day. That band of showers also
:27:48. > :27:51.stretching right into parts of south-west England and moving
:27:51. > :27:55.through Wales, with the blustery winds. Brighter conditions follow
:27:55. > :27:58.on behind. It could be quite a spell of heavy rain across northern
:27:58. > :28:01.England, but it will brighten in the afternoon. A few showers
:28:01. > :28:04.following on to the north and west of Northern Ireland. Breezy and
:28:04. > :28:09.chilly feeling in the afternoon and yes, this is snow. Central
:28:09. > :28:18.highlands into the crammians. Snow above 150 metres. Settling above