:00:13. > :00:19.This is World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. Repression in Syria
:00:19. > :00:24.is condemned by the UN's top human- rights body as protests inside
:00:24. > :00:29.Syria continued. Is the stage now set for further tough action by the
:00:29. > :00:33.United Nations? To the Syrian government, the time has come to
:00:33. > :00:39.end the violations of the human rights of your people and to step
:00:39. > :00:43.aside so that Syria can transition peacefully and democratically.
:00:43. > :00:47.Germany's Chancellor warns it will take years to resolve the eurozone
:00:47. > :00:53.debt crisis. An Afghan woman jailed for being
:00:53. > :00:56.raped is freed by President car side. A human rights activist tells
:00:56. > :01:02.us that the plight of Afghan women is abysmal.
:01:02. > :01:05.Also coming up, a test of popularity of Russia's ruling party.
:01:05. > :01:10.As the country prepares for Sunday's elections, we have a
:01:10. > :01:17.special report on corruption in public life there.
:01:17. > :01:19.Now warming temperatures have lent less sea ice. And the giant of
:01:19. > :01:29.Britain's Natural History of Broadcasting ways into the debate
:01:29. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:39.on global warming. -- wades into Welcome. The United Nations Human
:01:39. > :01:45.Rights Council has voted to condemn the gross and systematic abuses in
:01:45. > :01:51.Syria. Their record 37 countries voted in favour with just six
:01:51. > :01:54.abstentions and four against. This comes as America's by President Joe
:01:55. > :02:04.Biden praised the role that Turkey has been taking to put pressure on
:02:05. > :02:06.
:02:06. > :02:14.the Syrian regime to stop the A stand-off in north western Syria.
:02:14. > :02:18.For the moment, there is no shooting. They chant, we do not
:02:18. > :02:25.fear your soldiers or your militias. There was a similar scene in other
:02:25. > :02:30.towns. In Homs, in Deraa, and other places. They are calling for more
:02:30. > :02:36.international help, for protective buffer zones. Nine months into the
:02:36. > :02:42.uprising, President Assad's opponents cannot oust him. His
:02:42. > :02:47.efforts have exacted a heavy human cost. The commission's report
:02:47. > :02:53.documents widespread systematic and gross violations of human rights
:02:53. > :02:59.and fundamental freedoms by Syrian authorities by actors such as a
:02:59. > :03:03.killing of children, beating, shooting during demonstrations,
:03:03. > :03:07.arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment. At an emergency
:03:07. > :03:12.session of the UN Human Rights Council, delegates were given a
:03:12. > :03:16.chilling report. Our message is firm and clear. To the people of
:03:16. > :03:21.Syria, the world stands by you and we will not ignore your plight in
:03:21. > :03:25.the face of ongoing violence. To the Syrian government, the time has
:03:25. > :03:30.come to end of the flagrant violations of the human rights of
:03:30. > :03:33.your people and to step aside so that Syria can transition
:03:33. > :03:37.peacefully and democratically. council passed a resolution
:03:37. > :03:42.condemning the abuses. The High Commissioner wants them referred to
:03:42. > :03:49.the International Criminal Court. The report was dismissed by Syria's
:03:49. > :03:54.representative. TRANSLATION:, it lacked objectivity, he said. The US
:03:54. > :03:58.is leaning heavily on its ally Turkey to push for change in Syria.
:03:58. > :04:02.Vice-President Joe Biden was in the Turkish capital today paying his
:04:02. > :04:06.respects to an area leader who helped this country to modernise.
:04:06. > :04:12.And piling praise on his Turkish hosts for the example they offer to
:04:12. > :04:17.the rest of the Middle East. Turkey has its own dilemmas over Syria. It
:04:17. > :04:22.fears further chaos there will destabilised their long border and
:04:22. > :04:27.dried waves of refugees to join the thousands who have already fled
:04:27. > :04:35.here. Intervention by Turkish troops, even to protect -- protect
:04:35. > :04:39.civilians, is leaving ruled out for now. Events could change the policy.
:04:39. > :04:44.As pressure mounts on the Assad regime, the alternatives to his
:04:44. > :04:48.role are being considered more seriously. The head of the main
:04:48. > :04:51.opposition, the head of the Syrian National Council, Dr Burhan
:04:51. > :04:56.Ghalioun, has said that he would revise Syria's relationship with
:04:56. > :05:04.Iran. He said he regards to Nessie as a model and refutes claims that
:05:04. > :05:06.there is civil war in Syria. -- he regards Tunisia as a model.
:05:06. > :05:12.Let us talk to Bilal Saab from the Monterey Institute of International
:05:12. > :05:15.Studies. It is no longer fanciful to think of a post Assad Syria.
:05:15. > :05:20.There could be a serious realignment of foreign policy
:05:20. > :05:24.there? That is very true. His statement is quite puzzling to me.
:05:24. > :05:29.I am not sure why he felt of the need to go publicly with this
:05:29. > :05:34.statement saying that, should a new government emerge in Damascus, we
:05:34. > :05:39.will see a very different Syria, a Syria that no longer has a special
:05:39. > :05:43.relationship will Iran, a Syria that no longer offers military
:05:43. > :05:50.assistance and political sponsorship to has by laugh. It is
:05:50. > :05:53.puzzling to me why he went public with this statement. It has been
:05:53. > :05:58.interestingly read by allies in Washington. Do you think it has
:05:58. > :06:04.been co-ordinated somehow by Joe Biden's visit to Turkey? Obviously,
:06:04. > :06:08.it would be in America's interests if Syria did we orientate itself
:06:08. > :06:14.away from Iran. I do not know about any efforts of co-ordination. I
:06:14. > :06:18.think it is fair to say that what he said could reflect his own
:06:18. > :06:23.personal convictions and that is fair. I hope it is shared by other
:06:23. > :06:29.members of the Syrian National Council. Is that music to the ears
:06:29. > :06:34.of Washington? Absolutely. To what extent have these statements speak
:06:35. > :06:39.ordinated -- been co-ordinated? I cannot say. Syria's population it
:06:39. > :06:47.is traditionally Sunni. It has been governed by an offshoot of Shia
:06:47. > :06:52.Islam. It would make sense, wouldn't it, if post Assad Syria
:06:52. > :06:56.went more towards the Arab Sunni majority? It does make sense,
:06:56. > :06:59.absolutely. We have been arguing for this for a long time. It is
:06:59. > :07:06.quite refreshing to see it being spoken publicly. We have all
:07:06. > :07:11.assumed that if Syria has a majority Sunni population, it would
:07:11. > :07:15.have a government that would be dominated by Sunni, and it would be
:07:15. > :07:22.a very different Syria. It reflects the geopolitical realities of the
:07:22. > :07:30.region. Syria has quit given a great deal of support do Hezbollah,
:07:30. > :07:35.at a Shia operation in Libya. A lot of people would say, what has that
:07:35. > :07:41.done for us? That is very trip. Hezbollah is going to be a very
:07:41. > :07:47.different actor should the Assad regime collapse. It would be a
:07:47. > :07:51.politically isolated entity in Beirut. We are already seeing that
:07:51. > :07:55.given that they have agreed to fund a special tribunal to Lebanon which
:07:55. > :07:59.they see as an entity used by the United States and Israel to defeat
:07:59. > :08:09.it. It is planning to me that we are seeing changes in the behaviour
:08:09. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:15.of Hezbollah. Thank you very much. Let us go to Egypt now. Within the
:08:15. > :08:19.last hour, the country's electoral authorities have begun as a result
:08:19. > :08:22.of the first round of parliamentary elections there. The Muslim
:08:22. > :08:27.Brotherhood is predicted to win most votes in the election. However,
:08:27. > :08:33.a more radical Islamist party is also expected to do well.
:08:33. > :08:38.Live to Cairo. Give us some idea what -- idea of what the early
:08:38. > :08:43.results are sharing. It is a little bit complicated. We have got not
:08:43. > :08:48.many details yet. Broadly speaking, we believe the Muslim Brotherhood
:08:48. > :08:51.are going to be the big winners, in the sense that they will get around
:08:51. > :08:56.30% of the votes. They are in a coalition with a couple of secular
:08:56. > :09:00.parties. There coalition will get over 40%. The Muslim Brotherhood
:09:00. > :09:04.of's share of that will be about a third of the vote. Unfortunately,
:09:04. > :09:07.they haven't yet announced the details because that is part of a
:09:07. > :09:12.proportional system which they are not announcing to the end. They
:09:12. > :09:18.have given us a very small chunk of the results. So far as one
:09:18. > :09:23.understands, the Muslim Brotherhood will have around a third, another
:09:23. > :09:30.block of the more radical Islamists would we think, we are not sure,
:09:30. > :09:37.but we think get up to 20% of the vote in this first round of voting.
:09:37. > :09:43.They are vying for second place. Vying for second place with the
:09:43. > :09:50.more liberal secularist party. There have only been about four
:09:50. > :09:54.winners, clear winners, so far. All of those are independents. It seems
:09:54. > :09:58.as if the Islamists are going to be the largest single block in the new
:09:59. > :10:01.parliament. Lots of different variety of the Islamists. The
:10:01. > :10:05.Muslim Brotherhood are seen as being relatively moderate. They are
:10:05. > :10:10.not talking about banning alcohol or imposing a dress code. The more
:10:10. > :10:15.radicals are doing strongly in second place. It is a complicated
:10:15. > :10:24.process, as you said. Elections will go on for some time. Remind us
:10:24. > :10:29.again of that. There are three... There are two Houses of Parliament.
:10:29. > :10:33.There are three rounds within the people's Assembly elections. The
:10:33. > :10:40.last one is not until January. Each of the three rounds also has a run-
:10:40. > :10:45.off. In case that was not complicated enough, there -- they
:10:45. > :10:48.are voting on to substance. There is the first-past-the-post that we
:10:48. > :10:52.use and in the United States. There is also a proportional system so
:10:52. > :10:58.you vote for a list and a coalition of parties. Two separate voting
:10:58. > :11:01.systems. Two separate houses. Six rounds of voting in all. Simple
:11:01. > :11:07.enough. A the I am glad there is someone who understands all of
:11:07. > :11:11.that! Other Nears. The Iranian embassy in
:11:11. > :11:15.London now stands empty after its diplomats were expelled from
:11:15. > :11:19.Britain. Removal men cleared the west London address and later
:11:19. > :11:23.Iranian diplomatic staff and families throw out -- flew out of
:11:23. > :11:27.Heathrow. William Hague has ordered the closure after the British
:11:27. > :11:30.diplomatic compounds in Tehran were stoned on Tuesday.
:11:30. > :11:35.The former military American headquarters near Baghdad has been
:11:35. > :11:41.handed over to Iraqi control. Baize was certainly grounds of a huge
:11:41. > :11:45.palace complex built by her Saddam Hussein. It was once home to 50,000
:11:45. > :11:50.US service personnel. Hillary Clinton has met Burma's
:11:50. > :11:54.pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for a second time. They met in
:11:54. > :11:57.Rangoon where Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest until her
:11:57. > :12:03.release the year ago. After talks, Aung San Suu Kyi said she was
:12:03. > :12:06.confident about the prospects for democratic reform in Burma.
:12:06. > :12:11.The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ended the week on a somewhat
:12:11. > :12:16.downbeat tone saying it will take years to resolve the eurozone debt
:12:16. > :12:20.crisis. She also told the German parliament that work had begun to
:12:20. > :12:23.create a fiscal union which would provide greater stability among
:12:24. > :12:27.countries using the European single currency. Meanwhile, President
:12:27. > :12:33.Sarkozy of France has been meeting the British Prime Minister David
:12:33. > :12:39.Cameron to discuss the Franco- German rescue plan.
:12:39. > :12:43.Talk of a treaty change was in the air as the car carrying the lead up
:12:43. > :12:52.of Britain's biggest non- eurozone economy came into the courtyard of
:12:52. > :12:57.the lease a palace. They were getting together again for talks.
:12:57. > :13:03.Mr Cameron would have wanted to hear what his friend has meant when
:13:03. > :13:06.he talked of the French and Germans creating a revised treaty. Mr
:13:06. > :13:10.Cameron once the crisis resolved quickly but not at the expense of
:13:10. > :13:16.British influence. When you look at the crisis in the eurozone, the
:13:16. > :13:21.need is for the institutions of the eurozone to get behind the current
:13:21. > :13:24.sirens -- currency. The second fundamental thing is real
:13:24. > :13:28.competitiveness throughout the eurozone so that it works properly.
:13:28. > :13:33.Neither of those required treaty change. I am very clear that if
:13:33. > :13:37.there is a treaty change, I will make sure that we further protect
:13:37. > :13:41.and enhance Britain's interest. truth, this was where the real
:13:42. > :13:45.focus on the eurozone crisis was today. From Europe's biggest
:13:45. > :13:50.economic power and its key leader, the latest message that it is time
:13:50. > :13:55.to think they can work towards fiscal Europe's -- fiscal union.
:13:55. > :13:59.She also warned that it will be a long haul. TRANSLATION: There are
:13:59. > :14:03.no easy and fast solutions, especially not, as some people
:14:03. > :14:07.insist of saying head off any summit, the apparent one last push.
:14:07. > :14:11.That is neither my kind of language or my way of thinking. The
:14:11. > :14:17.resolution of the euro crisis is a process and this process will take
:14:17. > :14:20.years. Despite that forecast, in Frankfurt the market reacted
:14:20. > :14:23.positively to the news that France and Germany are working on new
:14:23. > :14:28.joint proposals. There is still a nervousness that next week will be
:14:28. > :14:33.another important week and are France and Germany really talking
:14:33. > :14:37.the same language on greater integration and discipline in the
:14:37. > :14:41.eurozone? On Monday, the ozone's bid to will have their latest get
:14:41. > :14:45.together to thrash out their ideas. Angela Merkel may have brought
:14:45. > :14:50.about years, but the focus right now is on a crisis calendar that
:14:50. > :14:55.will lead to a Brussels again at the end of next week and the latest
:14:55. > :14:59.grunge EU summit. -- the latest crunch EU summit.
:14:59. > :15:04.The plight of women in Afghanistan and the rough justice they are
:15:04. > :15:09.often subjected to forced supposed sexual transgressions hit the hen
:15:09. > :15:15.nights from time to time. One case that has attracted a lot of tension
:15:15. > :15:19.is that of Gulnaz. She was jailed for being raped. When she appealed,
:15:19. > :15:23.her sentence was increased from two to 12 years. Then she was given the
:15:23. > :15:33.choice of marrying the man who wrote tap and made her pregnant or
:15:33. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:39.of serving a jail sentence. But she I appealed the first time my
:15:39. > :15:45.sentence was two years. The second time it became 12 years. I didn't
:15:45. > :15:50.do anything. Why should I be sentenced for so long? Today,
:15:50. > :15:55.President Karzai of Afghanistan intervened and gave Gulnaz a full
:15:55. > :15:59.pardon. She won't have to marry the man who raped here. It is possible,
:15:59. > :16:04.as in Afghan culture it would restore her family's honour. This
:16:04. > :16:09.is what her lawyer said about that. Gulnaz is going to be released with
:16:09. > :16:14.no conditions. She does not have to marry her attacker. She has been
:16:14. > :16:24.pardoned and also granted early release by President Karzai, with
:16:24. > :16:27.no conditions. If she so chooses to marry him, that is her decision. I
:16:27. > :16:33.received that from the President shall palace, so I could have
:16:33. > :16:38.better clarification on what exactly her situation was.
:16:38. > :16:43.lawyer there for the woman simply known as "Gulnaz." Abuse against
:16:43. > :16:48.women in Afghanistan is monitored by Human Rights Watch. Heather Barr
:16:48. > :16:50.is with the organisation in Kabul. She told us why this case has
:16:50. > :16:56.attracted such international attention. I think it is really a
:16:56. > :16:59.shocking story. It's a shocking story in Afghanistan. It is a more
:16:59. > :17:03.shocking story to people who are not familiar with the challenges
:17:03. > :17:10.women face here. It is a shocking story because it comes at the
:17:10. > :17:14.moment when we're about to mark the tenth anniversary of the conference
:17:14. > :17:19.which marks the end of the Taliban Government and what was meant to be
:17:19. > :17:22.a new dawn for Afghan women. Do you think this denial of women's rights,
:17:22. > :17:28.discrimination, sexual violence against them is something which is
:17:28. > :17:31.more common in Taliban-held areas in Afghanistan? Well, I think that
:17:31. > :17:35.what Gulnaz's case really demonstrates is that while life is
:17:35. > :17:41.terrible for women under the Taliban, life is not good for women
:17:41. > :17:46.under the Afghan Government either. It's the Afghan Government's formal
:17:47. > :17:49.justice system that put Gulnaz in prison. So, while it's certainly
:17:49. > :17:53.true there has been significant progress made for women since the
:17:53. > :17:57.fall of the Taliban, this really demonstrates that progress has been
:17:57. > :18:01.far less than Afghan women had the right to hope for. And the sad
:18:01. > :18:04.thing is, Heather is there is a kind of conspiracy of silence
:18:04. > :18:09.because the women themselves are just too scared to speak out,
:18:09. > :18:16.aren't they? We had that case in 208, when a female Lieutenant
:18:16. > :18:22.Colonel in the Afghan police force, trying to document abuse against
:18:22. > :18:27.women was shot dead in her car. This sends a clear message - if you
:18:27. > :18:33.are being victimised, sexually assaulted, forced into a marriage
:18:33. > :18:37.against your will, don't go looking for hellch it is likely you'll be
:18:37. > :18:43.victimised again by being -- looking for help, it is likely
:18:43. > :18:46.you'll be victimised again by being stigmatised. It is a bleak
:18:46. > :18:50.situation you describe there, Heather. What can be done to
:18:50. > :18:53.prevent such suffering continuing on such a large scale in
:18:53. > :18:59.Afghanistan? Some of the things which can be done include making
:18:59. > :19:05.sure that shelter is available for women facing violence or forced
:19:05. > :19:08.marriage. Making sure shelters are protected. Pushing back against
:19:08. > :19:12.forces that want to close down shelters, who see women as property
:19:12. > :19:16.of men and don't think they should have the right to flee abuse. The
:19:16. > :19:21.Government can do a lot to make sure women have access to shelter.
:19:21. > :19:25.Donors can do a lot to pay for those services. There has been some
:19:25. > :19:30.progress. There are 14 shelters in Afghanistan. That does not meet the
:19:30. > :19:34.need in a country where violence against women is endemic.
:19:34. > :19:37.Heather Barr from Human Rights Watch talking to us from Kabul. The
:19:37. > :19:41.parliamentary election campaign in Russia is coming to a close as
:19:41. > :19:46.voters prepare to go to the polls on Sunday. The key question is; how
:19:46. > :19:51.far the ruling United Russia party will hold on to its huge majority
:19:51. > :19:54.in the State Duma. The United Russia party is chaired by the
:19:54. > :20:00.Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin and has dominated legislators for the
:20:00. > :20:04.best part of a decade. It controls 315 of the 450 seats in the du ma,
:20:04. > :20:07.which gives it the two-thirds majority it needs to pass changes
:20:07. > :20:12.to the Russian constitution if it wants to. The rest of the seats are
:20:12. > :20:18.held by the Communist Party, the national and Liberal Democrats and
:20:18. > :20:22.the Social Democratic Fair Russia. Like his party, Vladimir Putin has
:20:22. > :20:26.dominated politics in Russia when he became President, he said he
:20:26. > :20:30.would clamp down on the oligarch, that is the small group of
:20:30. > :20:34.businessmen who control much of Russia's wealth. A decade on,
:20:34. > :20:39.Russian public life is still riddled by extensive corruption.
:20:39. > :20:46.Our Moscow correspondent has been investigating.
:20:46. > :20:51.In a Moscow graveyard, the tomb of a young corporate lawyer who died
:20:51. > :20:57.in prison after a severe beating and months of medical neglect. He
:20:57. > :21:00.had been investigating a tax fraud of over �100 million. The tax
:21:00. > :21:05.officials and policemen he accused of organising it turned the tables
:21:05. > :21:15.on hip and had him arrested. Within a year he -- on him and had him
:21:15. > :21:21.arrested. Within a year he was dead. This woman's family became multi-
:21:21. > :21:26.million yeahs soon afterwards. Her mother-in-law is the owner of this
:21:26. > :21:31.ultra modern house worth �10 million. Her husband bought villas.
:21:31. > :21:37.She claims the money came from her husband's business. The tax returns
:21:37. > :21:42.show a joint income of only �20,000. It's terrible. I don't know how
:21:42. > :21:47.these people live with themselves. They have no conscience. I find it
:21:47. > :21:57.very difficult to come to terms with that. For many observers the
:21:57. > :22:01.death of the man epitomises some of Russia's biggest problems. Out of
:22:01. > :22:07.control officials, enriching themselves and nobody to bring them
:22:07. > :22:10.to account. Outside Moscow, behind huge fences, dozens of secretive
:22:10. > :22:18.luxury estates have sprouted up. These �10 million houses should be
:22:18. > :22:27.way out of the reach of any public servant, but they're not. 60% of
:22:27. > :22:31.the buyers of housing in Russia, top end housing in Russia are
:22:31. > :22:36.Russian Government employees. ferry the new elite around,
:22:36. > :22:43.thousands of luxury cars have been bought, can taxpayers' money. Top
:22:43. > :22:48.of the range mersaisys, Audi and BMWs. This scandal was discovered
:22:48. > :22:53.by this man, a former KGB officer and one of the few voices in the
:22:53. > :22:58.Parliament against the rampant corruption. Our bureaucrats did not
:22:58. > :23:02.save any money. They spent a lot, just for their luxury, just for
:23:02. > :23:06.their pleasure. The corruption is spiralling
:23:06. > :23:11.because the Parliament has become a toothless tiger. During this
:23:11. > :23:15.session on fraud, it was half empty and no-one was listening. In fact
:23:15. > :23:21.the deputies themselves were cheating, running around voting on
:23:21. > :23:25.behalf of colleagues who had not turned up.
:23:25. > :23:29.Fascinating! He's the face and voice of natural history
:23:29. > :23:32.broadcasting in Britain. His extraordinary career spans almost
:23:32. > :23:37.60 years. Now Sir David Attenborough has spoken out on
:23:37. > :23:44.climate change, as his latest Frozen Planet series comes to a
:23:44. > :23:50.climax, he is warning in his view the speed of the ice melting has
:23:50. > :23:55.implications for us all. It is smothered by the world's greatest
:23:55. > :24:00.ice sheet. It is a journey of breathe of taking journey, to polar
:24:00. > :24:03.regions w audiences in their millions, guided by the giant of
:24:03. > :24:09.natural history broadcasting, David Attenborough. The last of the
:24:10. > :24:15.series next week is a highly personal view. The Adelie penguin
:24:15. > :24:22.is the most southerly nesting of all penguins. Like the polar bear,
:24:22. > :24:27.up in the north, their lives are dependant on the sea ice.
:24:27. > :24:32.His big concern is the effect of rising temperatures. Here a huge
:24:32. > :24:36.iceberg breaks away from Greenland. This does happen naturally, but the
:24:36. > :24:42.melting could accelerate if the Arctic and part of Antarctica
:24:42. > :24:45.continue to warm up. When I met David Attenborough for
:24:45. > :24:51.an interview, he explained it was the speed of change that was most
:24:51. > :24:57.striking and worrying. This change is extremely shift. It
:24:57. > :25:02.is happening within our lifetime. We've seen it happening. That is a
:25:02. > :25:06.- in geological terms, in biological terms, it is hugely
:25:06. > :25:13.swift. So, to adapt, you can adapt to slow change. Quick change is
:25:13. > :25:21.much more difficult. One of the great features of the
:25:21. > :25:26.Antarctic coast, the Wilkins Ice Shelf is scene breaking up. The
:25:26. > :25:32.crew filmed fissures. It fits into a pattern of change. It's not
:25:32. > :25:37.beyond possibility that warming will actually cause sea level rises,
:25:37. > :25:43.which could threaten the wildlife. Is there a risk of sounding too
:25:43. > :25:48.alarmist about this? I try not to. The fact is that we know these
:25:48. > :25:53.changes are happening. The evidence for that is incontro vertible. As
:25:53. > :25:58.far as we can see ahead, if they go on they will have catastrophic
:25:58. > :26:04.effectsen the human race. Be-- effects on the human race. Behind
:26:04. > :26:08.this is the life-long passion for what he is known - wildlife and his
:26:08. > :26:15.delight in his favourite polar creature.
:26:15. > :26:23.I think a caterpillar, a caterpillar that lives for 14 years
:26:23. > :26:30.and is frozen solid, frozen solid to its core, 14 times, which takes
:26:30. > :26:35.14 years to accumulate enough food to allow it to grow into a moth.
:26:35. > :26:40.That's amazing! But what about the future? Well
:26:40. > :26:43.scientists can not be sure about the rate of melting. We do know
:26:44. > :26:50.that distant regions that once seemed irrelevant feel much closer
:26:50. > :27:00.to us now. Got to go. Goodbye. Enjoy your
:27:00. > :27:01.
:27:01. > :27:05.Hello. There is rain tonight with England and Wales seeing the bulk
:27:05. > :27:10.of that. For all it will be windy. The windy weather stays with us for
:27:10. > :27:15.the weekend. With that, with plenty of showers for north-western areas.
:27:15. > :27:18.Low pressure to the north of the UK. This will push weather fronts over
:27:18. > :27:24.us with the rain. Quickly in the morning it will clear from the
:27:25. > :27:30.south. We keep a lot of cloud during the day.
:27:30. > :27:33.These showers are on brisk winds. By 3pm the showers keep on coming
:27:33. > :27:37.into north-west England. To the east of the Pennines, mainly dry
:27:37. > :27:41.with sunny spells. That is the picture for the East Midlands.
:27:41. > :27:47.Southern counties of England though, we keep a lot of cloud. One or two
:27:47. > :27:51.showers around here. It is mild, 11-12 Celsius, but it is windy so
:27:51. > :27:55.we lose the benefit. In Cornwall there could be spells of rain on
:27:55. > :27:59.and off. In Wales, brighter skies the further east you are.
:27:59. > :28:04.Showers to the north and west of Northern Ireland. The further
:28:05. > :28:08.south-east you are the more likely you will stay dry. Showers wintry
:28:08. > :28:11.on hills. Strong winds to begin the day in northern Scotland. They will
:28:11. > :28:15.ease down a little bit during the day. Showers on Saturday night