:00:14. > :00:22.This is BBC World News Today with me Kirsty Lang. Sectarian violence
:00:22. > :00:25.arrives in Afghanistan. These Shia pilgrims marking the festival of
:00:25. > :00:30.Ashura were the target. In two simultaneous attacks leaving nearly
:00:30. > :00:33.60 dead. Hundreds flee the Democratic Republic of Congo as
:00:33. > :00:40.fears grow that delayed and disputed election results will
:00:40. > :00:44.plunge the country into widespread violence. TRANSLATION: I'm from
:00:44. > :00:46.Ivory Coast, I saw what happened there. I don't want to go through
:00:46. > :00:49.the same thing here. America's treasury secretary ups the pressure
:00:49. > :00:59.on Europe to get its house in order. Arriving in Berlin, Tim Geithner
:00:59. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:10.said the world is watching. Also coming up in the programme -
:01:10. > :01:20.Remembering Ted Hughes. To gold bears came down and swam like men
:01:20. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:40.beside us, and dived and stood in deep water as on a throne. Hello
:01:40. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:44.and Welcome. As if Afghanistan didn't have enough problems, the
:01:44. > :01:47.spectre of sectarian violence between Sunnis and the minority
:01:47. > :01:50.Shia community has raised its ugly head. A suicide bomber struck in a
:01:50. > :01:52.crowd of Shiite worshippers in a packed Kabul mosque while another
:01:52. > :01:55.exploded minutes later in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
:01:55. > :01:58.It's an ominous sign just a day after the Bonn conference promised
:01:58. > :02:00.to retain international support in the country once troops withdraw in
:02:00. > :02:04.2014. Let's hear from our correspondent in Kabul, Quentin
:02:04. > :02:07.Somerville. You can get an idea of this by the fact that President
:02:07. > :02:11.Karzai has cut short his trip to Europe, he was planning on visiting
:02:12. > :02:21.the UK and had meetings planned with David Cameron, those have been
:02:22. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:36.cancelled. Instead he will return Afghan Shias be themselves in a
:02:36. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :02:59.A massive explosion from a suicide He it is chaos, hundreds are heard,
:02:59. > :03:06.dozens dead. The dying and injured are piled up on drugs. -- trucks.
:03:06. > :03:14.At the City Hospital it struggles to cope. And on the pavement
:03:14. > :03:18.outside a mother mourns her lost son. Her -- my heart is broken, she
:03:18. > :03:27.cries. Desperate and in despair, more gathered for news of missing
:03:27. > :03:32.family and friends. TRANSLATION: This is a day of mourning, it is an
:03:32. > :03:39.attack against humanity and an attack against Islam. It was part
:03:39. > :03:46.of a co-ordinated assault against Shias, a bomb it also exploded in
:03:46. > :03:51.Kabul but the -- in Mazar-i-Sharif but the explosion in Kabul was
:03:51. > :04:01.bigger. The people here are very angry, there has long been tensions
:04:01. > :04:05.between Afghanistan's, Sunnis and Shias but violence on this scale is
:04:05. > :04:10.unprecedented. In Germany, President Kasai had just finished
:04:10. > :04:15.attending a summit on his country's future. This is the first time on
:04:15. > :04:22.such an important religious day that something of that horrible
:04:22. > :04:26.Major has taken place. We all wish the best for those who are injured,
:04:26. > :04:32.a quick recovery and patience to the families of those who have lost
:04:32. > :04:35.dear ones. As the injured were treated the Taliban issued a
:04:35. > :04:40.statement saying they had not carried out the attack. The
:04:40. > :04:44.government says they are lying. These attacks turned this Muslim
:04:44. > :04:49.day of mourning into a day of terrible loss, bringing a new kind
:04:49. > :04:52.of suffering to this already fractured country. We still do not
:04:52. > :04:56.know who carried out the attacks, you have to ask the question who
:04:57. > :05:00.would benefit from further disharmony, more violence and
:05:00. > :05:04.insecurity here in Afghanistan? There are a large number of
:05:04. > :05:08.insurgent groups, many of them based in Pakistan, who would
:05:08. > :05:17.benefit from introducing a sectarian strain of violence into
:05:17. > :05:19.this country, a strain of violence we have not seen before.
:05:20. > :05:22.Thousands of people have fled the Democratic Republic of Congo and
:05:22. > :05:24.riot police are patrolling the capital, Kinshasa amid fears that
:05:24. > :05:32.the election results could spark violence. President Joseph Kabila
:05:32. > :05:35.is reported to be ahead of his main rival after preliminary results.
:05:35. > :05:37.But the opposition claims there's been electoral fraud and says it
:05:38. > :05:40.will reject the outcome. There were several violent clashes between the
:05:40. > :05:50.two sides during the election campaign. Here's our correspondent
:05:50. > :05:54.in Kinshasa Thomas Hubert. Fleeing from the post-election violence by
:05:54. > :06:00.a fear is on its way in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over
:06:00. > :06:04.the last two days more people have left the capital, many making the
:06:04. > :06:08.short journey to the neighbouring republic of Congo, results from the
:06:08. > :06:11.presidential election are due out on Tuesday evening but the
:06:11. > :06:14.electoral commission itself is not certain it will be ready in time.
:06:14. > :06:20.Security has been tightened amid fears the result could spark
:06:20. > :06:25.renewed violence. TRANSLATION: I say better safe than
:06:25. > :06:29.sorry. I am from Ivory Coast, I saw what happened there. I don't want
:06:29. > :06:33.to go through the same thing here. With two-thirds of the votes
:06:33. > :06:40.counted the incumbent Joseph Kabila is reported to be ahead of his main
:06:40. > :06:43.rival. The opposition has already said it will reject the had come.
:06:44. > :06:50.All these electoral documents, these bags of ballot papers, these
:06:50. > :06:54.results sheets are being compiled and brought together in this centre.
:06:54. > :06:59.This is one of 169 centres across the country where the presidential
:06:59. > :07:02.results are being tallied together. Tensions have only been increased
:07:02. > :07:08.by a slow and seemingly chaotic accounting process as well as
:07:08. > :07:12.allegations of vote rigging. TRANSLATION: I think the results
:07:12. > :07:15.that will leave this place will no way of represent the real results
:07:15. > :07:23.from the votes counted in the bureau's immediately after the
:07:23. > :07:28.official ballot. This is what people fear, even
:07:29. > :07:33.before people went to the polls of violence broke out as security
:07:33. > :07:36.forces were called upon to restore order. According to Human Rights
:07:36. > :07:40.Watch at least 18 people have been killed in election related violence
:07:40. > :07:45.so find witnesses are reporting army deployments in several cities
:07:45. > :07:50.around the country. These were the first locally organised and funded
:07:50. > :07:55.election since the official end of years of war in 2003 and were meant
:07:55. > :07:59.to offer hope of greater stability in the mineral-rich, crisis-ridden
:07:59. > :08:07.giant. But fears are mounting that the rejection of the results will
:08:07. > :08:10.pave the way for further bloodshed. Jendayi Frazer is former US
:08:10. > :08:13.Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. She's now a
:08:13. > :08:15.professor at Carnegie Mellon University and has co-authored a
:08:15. > :08:23.book Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa. She joins me from our
:08:23. > :08:29.Washington studio now. How concerned are you about the way
:08:29. > :08:34.this election was conducted? think it was conducted as best it
:08:34. > :08:39.could be from the point of view of the significant operational and a
:08:40. > :08:46.logistical challenge is that exist in a country of such a huge size
:08:47. > :08:49.and with such limited infrastructure. So I think the
:08:49. > :08:52.Independent Electoral Commission with the support of the
:08:52. > :08:57.international community, particularly the United Nations,
:08:57. > :09:07.did the best it could in terms of conducting an election. Despite the
:09:07. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:15.images we see, it was largely peaceful, so I think they have done
:09:15. > :09:19.well. The country of that size will have problems and challenges.
:09:19. > :09:25.were involved in the Congo's first democratic elections five years ago
:09:25. > :09:30.following this long period of civil war, are you disappointed by the
:09:30. > :09:35.progress in the last five years? the contrary. I think there has
:09:35. > :09:40.been significant progress. In fact, there was more violence in the last
:09:40. > :09:47.election than there has been in this election to my understanding.
:09:47. > :09:51.At that time the opposition carried out major clashes in the capital
:09:51. > :10:01.city and we have not really seen at this time, so I think things are
:10:01. > :10:05.better. You have an opposition that has, even prior to the boat and
:10:05. > :10:09.accounting, been threatening violence and claiming a rigging, so
:10:09. > :10:18.they are essentially trying to deal legitimise the election and the
:10:18. > :10:22.process before losing the election -- prior to the vote. The thing
:10:22. > :10:30.that has been unfortunate. But I think the electoral commission
:10:30. > :10:34.should be congratulated. This is a real concern, that the opposition
:10:34. > :10:38.has said it will not accept the results. Presumably this is why
:10:38. > :10:41.thousands of people are fleeing the area, they are terrified? They are.
:10:41. > :10:46.And it is because they said they would not accept a result and were
:10:46. > :10:54.threatening violence if they do not win. That is just irresponsible on
:10:54. > :10:58.the part of political parties and politicians. The book we wrote on
:10:58. > :11:02.preventing electoral violence, one of the suggestions was there should
:11:02. > :11:05.be criminal charges if you incite violence prior to and after results
:11:05. > :11:10.because you lose. There has to be a willingness of political parties to
:11:11. > :11:17.accept defeat. They all want to win but they need to accept defeat as
:11:17. > :11:24.well. Thank you very much. Now a look at
:11:24. > :11:26.some of the day's other news... Police in Moscow say they have
:11:26. > :11:29.arrested about 250 people, including opposition leader Boris
:11:29. > :11:32.Nemtsov. The detentions came during a second night of demonstrations in
:11:32. > :11:35.the Russian capital. The protesters were holding an unauthorised rally
:11:35. > :11:42.against the result of Sunday's election, which they say was rigged
:11:42. > :11:45.in favour of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party. Belgium
:11:45. > :11:48.finally has a new government 18 months after the country's election.
:11:48. > :11:50.Elio Di Rupo is the country's first French-speaking prime minister for
:11:50. > :12:00.more than 30 years. He's promised to push through tough austerity
:12:00. > :12:03.measures. Forming the government has taken a year and a half - it's
:12:03. > :12:06.believed to be a world record. Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the
:12:06. > :12:11.Lebanese Shia movement, Hezbollah, has made his first public speech in
:12:11. > :12:14.several years. He gave a short address to tens thousands of
:12:14. > :12:17.supporters in Beirut to mark the Shia Muslim holy day of Ashura. He
:12:17. > :12:27.offered his support to the Syrian government and accused the United
:12:27. > :12:32.States of plotting to destroy Syria. French parliament has began
:12:32. > :12:35.debating a law against prostitution. It will then begin debating a
:12:35. > :12:40.tougher new law aimed at punishing people who pay for sex. The Bill is
:12:40. > :12:50.seen as a test of the country's long history of liberal attitudes
:12:50. > :12:52.
:12:52. > :12:55.towards sex. Eurozone leaders felt the heat from America today. First
:12:55. > :12:57.came the warning from the credit rating agency Standard and Poor's
:12:57. > :13:00.that 15 European nations - including France and Germany -
:13:00. > :13:03.could lose their triple A credit rating. And then hours later the US
:13:03. > :13:06.Treasury chief flew into Berlin to impress on European leaders that a
:13:06. > :13:16.break-up of the single currency would be disastrous for the world
:13:16. > :13:17.
:13:17. > :13:21.economy. Stephen Evans reports from Berlin. Power meet power - shoulder
:13:21. > :13:26.to shoulder as eurozone leaders try to work out had to keep the
:13:26. > :13:32.currency afloat. Tim Dyke the's message was that he is reassured
:13:32. > :13:37.that European leaders -- leaders are acting to prevent the euro
:13:37. > :13:40.shattering -- Timothy Geithner. encouraged by the developments in
:13:40. > :13:45.Europe in the past few weeks including reform commitments made
:13:45. > :13:50.by the new Government's in Spain and Greece and the new steps taken
:13:50. > :13:54.this week about progress towards a physical combat for the eurozone.
:13:54. > :13:58.earlier Timothy Geithner went to the European Central Bank in
:13:58. > :14:03.Frankfurt at the start of a whistle-stop tour. It comes as the
:14:03. > :14:07.ratings agency Standard and Poor's, which assesses credit risk and
:14:07. > :14:12.which the Finance markets listen to, threatened to strip eurozone
:14:12. > :14:17.countries including Germany of their triple A rating. Across the
:14:17. > :14:25.eurozone there has been irritation from political leaders, the
:14:25. > :14:29.chairman of the -- Jean-Claude Juncker said it was an exaggeration
:14:30. > :14:35.and unfair. A similar annoyance in Paris - we have done much to cut
:14:35. > :14:43.deficit and we will do more, that was the tone. TRANSLATION: Does not
:14:43. > :14:48.take into account Franco-German proposals. The rating of France and
:14:48. > :14:51.the others will depend a lot on that. The talking continues as many
:14:51. > :14:57.leaders gather in Marseille for a political conference. The European
:14:57. > :15:02.Central Bank meet on Thursday with the crisis top of the agenda. And
:15:02. > :15:07.then at the summit in Brussels to consider the Merkel Sarkozy plan.
:15:07. > :15:12.In Berlin shoppers are spending but we fear of the economic future
:15:12. > :15:22.rising. Their ability to spend over the coming years really depends on
:15:22. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:26.whether this summit of leaders at Tim Geithner goes from the finance
:15:26. > :15:30.ministry here to meet the leaders of France, Germany and Spain. His
:15:30. > :15:33.message is that if the euro collapses, the damage goes wider
:15:33. > :15:41.than the eurozone. He is not saying whether extra funds may be
:15:41. > :15:45.available to keep it afloat. In Ireland, the new austerity
:15:45. > :15:52.budget there has been unveiled, including more than $1 billion in
:15:52. > :15:54.tax increases and a hike in VAT to 23 p cent. The finance minister
:15:54. > :15:59.said that tough measures are necessary to tackle the deficit,
:15:59. > :16:05.and despite the gloom, he does -- expect Ireland to make as swift
:16:05. > :16:08.recovery if plans to ease the eurozone crisis succeed.
:16:08. > :16:13.It may look like Christmas, but it does not feel like it in Dublin.
:16:13. > :16:18.The Irish government's December Budget contained a whole new set of
:16:18. > :16:22.austerity measures. Hitting every section of society. For those in
:16:23. > :16:28.the retail business, the timing could hardly be worse. People are
:16:28. > :16:35.fearful to spend. Two categories, younger people, 18-25s, they are
:16:35. > :16:40.not saving -- spending, they are spending. 25-fortifys have no money.
:16:40. > :16:44.The over 55s are fearful, all they have is doom and gloom. There is no
:16:44. > :16:50.optimism, people is paralysed. Ireland has gone from boom to bust
:16:50. > :16:57.a bail-out, and still has big problems. The Government's freeze
:16:57. > :17:01.spending more than it is taking him. The unemployment rate is almost 15%,
:17:01. > :17:07.and he is now having to raise taxes, including an increase in VAT. It
:17:07. > :17:10.was want of a series of revenue- raising measures announced today by
:17:10. > :17:14.Ireland's new finance minister. He said the previous government had
:17:14. > :17:18.let the country down. The people of Ireland have paid the very high
:17:18. > :17:21.price for the mismanagement of the economy. Personal wealth has been
:17:21. > :17:27.destroyed, thousands of people are sinking into poverty. Immigration
:17:27. > :17:31.has returned, and unemployment is far too high. He said it would take
:17:31. > :17:35.another four years at least for the country to recover. In spite of
:17:35. > :17:39.Ireland's huge debts, there are still grounds for optimism. Exports
:17:39. > :17:45.are going well, and after three years of political and financial
:17:45. > :17:49.turmoil, the country has now entered a period of relative calm.
:17:49. > :17:55.The problem for the Irish people is that it looks like the cutbacks are
:17:56. > :18:00.going to get worse, before the economy get better.
:18:00. > :18:04.To discuss that, I am joined by a London -- Mark Hennessy, the London
:18:04. > :18:08.editor of the Irish Times. That is a killer statistic we heard there
:18:08. > :18:11.in that report, the Irish government still spending 16
:18:11. > :18:15.billion more than it takes in. It is difficult to see a way out of
:18:15. > :18:19.that. Yes, if you take the cuts they have made today, if they
:18:19. > :18:24.implement them it will still leave us with a told billion gap. It will
:18:24. > :18:31.either have to be met by growth or by increased taxes or reduced
:18:31. > :18:35.government spending. There is no growth of any significant form. The
:18:35. > :18:39.majority of that is going to have to come from extra tax and lower
:18:39. > :18:43.government spending over the next three Budgets. What we had today it
:18:43. > :18:47.was bad, last year it was bad, every budget we have had for three
:18:47. > :18:51.years has been pretty awful, and they will remain or four for a
:18:51. > :18:54.considerable period of time. Irish have been pretty stoical
:18:54. > :18:58.compared to their other European counterparts. You have not had
:18:58. > :19:02.widespread demonstrations or civil unrest. We have not, largely
:19:02. > :19:06.because we are a pretty pragmatic people and we would tend to believe
:19:06. > :19:10.that 500,000 of us watching on the main street of Dublin would not
:19:10. > :19:15.make any difference, we would shout but it would not fundamentally
:19:15. > :19:19.change the facts in which we have to exist. The difficulty we have
:19:19. > :19:23.now at the European level, what is happening, with the euro zone deal
:19:23. > :19:28.which has been spoken about and a new EU treaty, that is almost
:19:28. > :19:31.certainly going to have to be put before the Irish people under Irish
:19:31. > :19:35.constitutional law. That is going to be very difficult to pass,
:19:35. > :19:39.particularly if there is anything in it which is going to look like
:19:39. > :19:45.there is greater transfer of sovereignty, and there has to be
:19:45. > :19:51.otherwise there would be no point of the treaty. Has this crisis
:19:51. > :19:55.brought about more anti-European feeling in Ireland? Well, it
:19:55. > :19:59.certainly a more questioning attitude to those people who would
:19:59. > :20:03.have argued that the European Union is always to our benefit, and the
:20:03. > :20:10.euro is to our benefit. Those in the opposite camp are going to get
:20:10. > :20:16.a more considerable hearing next time round. One lessons we have
:20:16. > :20:20.from referendum in the past, people start of being asked one person --
:20:20. > :20:26.question and they end up answering another one. Our people questioning
:20:26. > :20:32.whether posterity is the right way forward? People saying, the only
:20:32. > :20:35.way to get out of this is growing the economy, so investing?
:20:35. > :20:39.majority of opinion it would accept that, where will the money come
:20:39. > :20:42.from? It would not come from ourselves, we have not got it. It
:20:42. > :20:46.is not coming from our European partners and it is not going to
:20:46. > :20:50.miraculously appear. Unless you have money coming from somewhere,
:20:50. > :20:55.it will be impossible to do a stimulus programme. There is no
:20:55. > :21:01.belief in any short-term solutions. What has been impressive is the
:21:01. > :21:04.effort by small business in Ireland to get its act together, start
:21:04. > :21:09.fighting for export markets that they previously would not have felt
:21:09. > :21:12.they were capable of fighting for, or perhaps would not have been
:21:12. > :21:16.interested in fighting for. That sort of pragmatic response has been
:21:16. > :21:20.exhibited at many levels in Irish society.
:21:20. > :21:25.I'm afraid that is all we have got time for, thank you very much.
:21:25. > :21:29.It is almost 100 years since the British explorer Captain Scott's
:21:29. > :21:32.doomed expedition into the Antarctic, and it ended in the
:21:33. > :21:35.deaths of five men on their way back from the South Pole. A new
:21:35. > :21:39.exhibition in Cambridge has brought together papers and journals, some
:21:39. > :21:46.of which have been never seen before in public, which give a
:21:46. > :21:51.vivid record of the daily life of the exhibition.
:21:51. > :21:56.Miserable. Utterly miserable. We are camped in the slough of despond.
:21:56. > :22:00.The words were written on 6th December, 1911. It was the
:22:00. > :22:06.beginning of the end, the final push by Scott and his four
:22:06. > :22:11.companions to reach the South Pole. And we know that story, in
:22:11. > :22:17.extraordinary detail, because of this. The letters they wrote, those
:22:17. > :22:21.final words that were discovered after their deaths. Had we lived, I
:22:21. > :22:24.should have had a tale to tell of the hardy heard, endurance and
:22:24. > :22:30.courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of
:22:30. > :22:37.every Englishman. These rough notes, and our dead bodies, must tell that
:22:37. > :22:42.pale. There are also drawing, this the cave where one team it lived
:22:42. > :22:46.for 21 months. A line drawn to separate the men from the officers.
:22:46. > :22:51.There are even cartoons. It is the words which are most affecting.
:22:51. > :22:57.They were starving, racked with frostbite, yet the handwriting is
:22:57. > :23:02.perfect pot of letters written for both their families and history. It
:23:02. > :23:07.veers between Scott to the tragic hero and Scott the stiff upper-lip
:23:07. > :23:11.bungler. 100 years on, what do the letters suggest? What is coming out
:23:11. > :23:16.of some of the less well known manuscript material, you get the
:23:16. > :23:19.sense of him having his public persona, being a buttoned up
:23:19. > :23:24.Edwardian. You read the letters to his wife and you realise, he is a
:23:24. > :23:29.man of real passion. And so, 100 years on, the first public display
:23:29. > :23:36.of the private letters. The words that turned the icy remains of
:23:36. > :23:40.history into a human story. The poet Ted Hughes has been added
:23:40. > :23:44.to the pantheon of Britain's greatest writers, a memorial has
:23:44. > :23:52.been unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. The stone with
:23:52. > :23:57.his name Nye it lays -- now lies next to his mentor, TS Eliot, and
:23:58. > :24:04.alongside torso, Wordsworth and Keats. -- Chaucer, Wordsworth and
:24:04. > :24:10.Keats. Ped would be utterly honoured to be
:24:11. > :24:17.at the foot of TS Eliot's stone. And he would be indeed honoured to
:24:17. > :24:20.be in the corner, because he was a poet of England. Do you think it is
:24:20. > :24:26.important that he is in Poets' Corner? I think it is what he
:24:26. > :24:30.deserved, it is his due. Thinking of the other poets who are there,
:24:30. > :24:36.there is a memorial to the First World War poets who made -- meant
:24:36. > :24:41.everything to him as well. A memorial to Sir John Betjeman,
:24:41. > :24:46.previous Poet Laureate, a memorial to John Clare, and native poet. A
:24:46. > :24:52.memorial to William Blake, a visionary. I think he is at home in
:24:52. > :25:01.that company. How would you describe Ted Hughes's poetry?
:25:01. > :25:05.of all, I think his work is linguistically compelling. It is in
:25:05. > :25:10.a direct line from Anglo's gap -- Anglo-Saxon languages, and he is
:25:10. > :25:17.aware of that, and he was conscious of the lineage, deep, deep into
:25:17. > :25:22.English tradition. His reputation took some bashes took his lifetime.
:25:22. > :25:27.Do you think putting him in Poets' Corner put that to rest? I think
:25:27. > :25:31.his reputation as a poet did not suffer that much. Now and again,
:25:31. > :25:40.everybody gets a few whacks from that area. But it was about his
:25:40. > :25:48.life, and I think, as he said himself, his version of his life
:25:48. > :25:57.was only one version of among many. That will be part of the discourse
:25:57. > :26:02.for a while. But I think it will dwindle to an awareness of two
:26:02. > :26:08.extraordinary 20th century poets been together, Sylvia Plath and Ted
:26:08. > :26:15.Hughes. All the evidence is that they energised each other as
:26:15. > :26:20.writers. And that is the literary fact of the matter. The
:26:20. > :26:29.biographical thing will probably go on a bit. What d'you think we have
:26:29. > :26:38.lost with the passing of Ted Hughes? I think we have lost a
:26:38. > :26:44.patriotic visionary English poet. And a great poet in the language.
:26:44. > :26:50.The poet Seamus Hughes, -- Seamus Heaney, remembering Ted Hughes.
:26:50. > :26:52.A suicide bomb attack on Shia Muslim worshippers has killed at
:26:52. > :27:01.least 58 people in the Afghan capital.
:27:02. > :27:06.It has been a chilly day, we have wintry weather to come tonight
:27:06. > :27:09.across part of Scotland. Once that has cleared away, tomorrow, many
:27:09. > :27:13.places will have a windy day but there should be sunshine around
:27:13. > :27:17.with showers in the north and west. This weather front through part of
:27:17. > :27:20.Scotland is bumping into the cold air through the night, giving a
:27:20. > :27:25.spell of sleet and snow up particularly across higher ground.
:27:25. > :27:29.Strong winds, and problems of ice across the night and tomorrow
:27:29. > :27:32.morning. Through the morning, we have got some snow across north-
:27:32. > :27:37.east Scotland, a few showers elsewhere but a lot of dry weather
:27:37. > :27:41.and sunshine through the afternoon. It will be a windy day, coming down
:27:41. > :27:46.from the north-west bringing showers. Across the Pennines, we
:27:46. > :27:51.may seep sleet and snow for a time, further south, try and sunshine.
:27:51. > :27:54.The dry afternoon to come for south-west England, sunny spells
:27:54. > :27:59.here. A bit more cloud for Wales, we could see a peppering of showers
:27:59. > :28:03.through the day with temperatures at seven degrees. Cloudier through
:28:03. > :28:07.north-west England and Northern Ireland. Many places down towards
:28:07. > :28:10.County Antrim and County Down should be dry and fine, but the
:28:10. > :28:13.north coast will have frequent showers. At 3pm, most the rain