:00:13. > :00:17.This is BBC World News Today, with me, Zeinab Badawi.
:00:17. > :00:22.Justifying his veto, David Cameron tells Parliament why he refused to
:00:22. > :00:27.sign a pact to salvage the euro. He insists Britain is still committed
:00:27. > :00:33.member of the EU. I am a apps but it clear that it is possible to be
:00:33. > :00:37.both a full, commission -- committed member of the EU, but to
:00:37. > :00:41.stay at the range is when they do not protect our interests.
:00:41. > :00:47.Local elections in Syria - turnout is low as clashes continued between
:00:47. > :00:52.the army and opposition forces. Another demonstration in Russia,
:00:52. > :00:56.but this time apparently in support of Vladimir Putin. The excerpts
:00:56. > :01:02.voting irregularities but will not call fresh elections.
:01:02. > :01:06.Also coming up, the voice of the young and unemployed.
:01:06. > :01:16.We will report from Italy where unemployment is leaving young
:01:16. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:28.people facing a very uncertain Hello and welcome. David Cameron is
:01:28. > :01:32.continuing to face huge criticism that he has given up a seat at the
:01:32. > :01:37.EU top table and got nothing in return. Today he told MPs that he
:01:37. > :01:42.had acted in the UK's best interests last week by opting out
:01:42. > :01:48.of any potential treaty changes, to establish a new agreement to help
:01:48. > :01:54.save the UK law. But he insisted that Britain was still a fully
:01:54. > :01:58.committed member of the EU. David Cameron must be counting down
:01:58. > :02:01.the days until the Christmas break. His decision to veto an EU treaty
:02:01. > :02:07.last week has left him with a painful reminder of the tensions
:02:07. > :02:12.within his own coalition. As he took his place in the House
:02:12. > :02:17.of Commons, there were taunts of, where his clay it? A reference to
:02:17. > :02:21.the very notable absence of the Deputy Prime Minister. But Cameron
:02:21. > :02:24.was adamant he had had no choice in Brussels, because his calls for
:02:24. > :02:29.extra safeguards for the financial sector were not heeded by other
:02:29. > :02:34.countries. I wish those safeguards had been accepted, but frankly the
:02:34. > :02:39.choice was a treaty without proper safeguards, or no treaty. And the
:02:39. > :02:44.right answer was no treaty. Nevertheless the Prime Minister
:02:44. > :02:48.went on to argue that Britain was still very much part of Europe.
:02:48. > :02:52.am asked to be clear that it is possible to be bought a four,
:02:52. > :02:55.committed an influential member of the EU, but to stay out of
:02:55. > :02:59.arrangements with the do not affect our interests.
:02:59. > :03:07.The opposition leader argued that Britain had been dangerous the
:03:07. > :03:13.isolated. We will no rue the day Britain -- This Prime Minister has
:03:13. > :03:18.left Britain alone, without influence. He it is bad for Britain.
:03:18. > :03:23.Last time David Cameron appeared in the House of Commons, Euro-sceptics
:03:23. > :03:26.in his own party and told him to show some bulldog spirit. Since the
:03:26. > :03:34.summit may have been praising him for his stance, and there was
:03:34. > :03:38.plenty more of that today. He has stood up for democracy, and for
:03:38. > :03:43.free markets. This is to be wonderfully commended.
:03:43. > :03:47.But as the Prime Minister fielded questions from friend and foe alike,
:03:47. > :03:52.the fall-out from last week continued across the Channel. And
:03:52. > :03:58.there was still shaking of heads at Britain's decision to go it alone.
:03:58. > :04:07.I regret that the United Kingdom was not willing to join the new
:04:07. > :04:13.fiscal compact. I regret it as much for the sake of Europe and its
:04:13. > :04:17.crisis response, and -- as much as for British citizens.
:04:17. > :04:22.The bigger question remains whether enough was done in Brussels to say
:04:22. > :04:29.the euro. If the answer is No, the row over Britain's relationship
:04:29. > :04:33.with the EU may seem a bit of a sideshow.
:04:33. > :04:38.As we have been reporting, David Cameron justified his veto by
:04:38. > :04:44.saying he was acting to protect Britain's financial sector, but
:04:44. > :04:47.business opinion in the City is divided.
:04:47. > :04:51.Whether it is UK banking, insurance or other financial services, the
:04:51. > :04:55.outcome of the summit could redefine the landscape. So has the
:04:55. > :05:00.clash with the eurozone's leadership generated short term
:05:00. > :05:05.gains because of David Cameron's stands, or other long-term losses
:05:05. > :05:09.because UK influence is reduced. The Prime Minister said he wanted
:05:09. > :05:12.to safeguard the City of London from further European regulations.
:05:12. > :05:17.He could not get firm commitments so he would not sign the treaty.
:05:17. > :05:23.Some say he was right. He played his hand as well as he could. The
:05:23. > :05:26.UK was never going to be part of a fiscal compact of 26 countries all
:05:26. > :05:31.tying together their budgetary discipline. Given that, he had to
:05:31. > :05:37.do his best to try to protect British financial interests from a
:05:37. > :05:41.slew of regulations. But there was a warning from a
:05:41. > :05:45.senior European official that the city was not immune from further
:05:45. > :05:49.restrictions even under the existing rule book. If this move
:05:50. > :05:53.was intended to protect bankers and financial corporations in the city
:05:53. > :05:57.from being regulated, that will not happen.
:05:57. > :06:03.It is a crucial issue because financial services makes up 9% of
:06:03. > :06:08.the UK's annual economic output. Manufacturing makes up just over
:06:08. > :06:12.10%. When it comes to employment, financial services with just over
:06:12. > :06:16.one million people lags well behind manufacturing with 2.3 million.
:06:16. > :06:20.There is no doubting the importance of financial services, but there
:06:20. > :06:24.are many other sectors across the UK economy, some with very
:06:24. > :06:28.different perspectives, including longer term views on whether their
:06:28. > :06:33.best interests have been served by the outcome of last week's summit.
:06:33. > :06:37.The Japanese carmaker Honda is a major investor in the UK. The
:06:37. > :06:42.company says its operations were not affected by Britain's political
:06:42. > :06:47.relationships in Europe, but other industry leaders are more concerned.
:06:47. > :06:54.It is better to be inside, working... A Sir Martin Sorrell,
:06:54. > :06:57.told the BBC that the UK's image had suffered.
:06:57. > :07:02.A I was talking to an Indian businessman this morning about
:07:02. > :07:06.where he would placate his plant given the last 72 hours. The
:07:06. > :07:10.perception would be that the UK is outside Western Europe...
:07:10. > :07:17.Looking into the future, the big concern is the possible break-up on
:07:17. > :07:21.the euro, and fears about that cent share price -- share prices lower.
:07:21. > :07:25.Do get a clearer idea of whether the veto wielded by David Cameron
:07:25. > :07:29.will help protect the financial sector here, we are joined by
:07:29. > :07:34.Damian Chalmers, professor of EU law at the London School of
:07:34. > :07:40.Economics. This Beatle, or will it jeopardise the City or help it? -
:07:40. > :07:44.Mac this veto. The City is already subject to financial services law.
:07:44. > :07:48.There is a large amount of EU regulation that applies to
:07:48. > :07:54.financial services, most of us decided by a qualified majority of
:07:54. > :08:00.voting. So nothing in the last week has changed that. But surely if
:08:00. > :08:04.there are moves to, for instance, introduce a tax on financial
:08:05. > :08:09.transactions, Britain would be protected from that? No, that is
:08:09. > :08:14.already being proposed under the existing treaty. The commission has
:08:14. > :08:18.already made a proposal for the financial transactions tax, and
:08:18. > :08:23.nothing in relation to changing the treaty, any amendments, will affect
:08:23. > :08:31.whether that gets adopted or not. Would it cost the UK billions of
:08:31. > :08:34.pounds, as George Osborne says it would? A tax on financial
:08:34. > :08:38.transactions, which Britain says would cost it billions and would be
:08:38. > :08:44.a waste of time if only introduced by the European Union, it has got
:08:44. > :08:48.to be global? There are many arguments for or against it, many
:08:48. > :08:52.estimates are a bit speculative, and at the moment it is just a
:08:52. > :08:56.proposal so we would have to wait and see the eventual form. There is
:08:56. > :09:00.of course a particular problem with that tax, which is that financial
:09:00. > :09:04.services are concentrated in the United Kingdom and this would be
:09:04. > :09:11.decided by a body where the United Kingdom accounts for about eight to
:09:11. > :09:17.9% of the votes. But by and David Cameron's concerns legitimate, when
:09:17. > :09:22.he says our financial sector accounts for a bigger chunk of GDP
:09:22. > :09:28.than other countries, and he wants to make sure it is not jeopardised?
:09:28. > :09:31.I agree they are completely ginger tonight, -- completely legitimate,
:09:31. > :09:38.but there are no new safeguards added in the last week to protect
:09:38. > :09:45.them. Whether there will be in the negotiations around the tax
:09:45. > :09:50.regarding financial services regulation, we will wait to see.
:09:50. > :09:54.Some of the Day's other main news. And President Barack Obama has said
:09:54. > :10:00.that US troops are leaving Iraq with their heads held high. After
:10:00. > :10:04.talks with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Mr Obama said the
:10:04. > :10:08.US would remain an enduring part the two mack even after the troops
:10:08. > :10:11.have pulled out at the end of this month.
:10:11. > :10:15.Panama's former strongman Manuel Noriega has returned home more than
:10:15. > :10:20.two decades after United States forced him from power. He has
:10:20. > :10:25.served sentences for drug offences in the UK -- US and money
:10:25. > :10:28.laundering in France. He returns to Panama to serve 328 year terms for
:10:28. > :10:32.the murder of political opponents in the 1980s.
:10:32. > :10:38.Jonny Wilkinson has announced his retirement from international rugby.
:10:38. > :10:42.He won 91 caps in a 30 year career, and memorably clinched a 2003 World
:10:42. > :10:46.Cup for England with a drop goal in extra time. He leaves the
:10:46. > :10:51.international stage second on the all-time scoring list.
:10:51. > :10:55.It is almost 100 years since Roald Amundsen became the first person to
:10:55. > :10:58.reach the South Pole. Today in Norway's Prime Minister Jens
:10:58. > :11:04.Stoltenberg made the same journey by a rather easier means, an
:11:04. > :11:08.American Hercules plane. He schedule to welcome around one
:11:08. > :11:12.dozen expeditions marking the event. Opposition activists in Syria have
:11:12. > :11:15.been boycotting the local elections in the country, saying they are
:11:15. > :11:20.just irrelevant. The Government claims that large numbers of people
:11:20. > :11:24.are going to the polls, but the boycott is especially in opposition
:11:24. > :11:29.strongholds like Homs is believed to be high, suggesting that civil
:11:29. > :11:33.disobedience is taking hold in Syria. As voting began, security
:11:33. > :11:36.forces battled pro-opposition army defectors in clashes. Jonathan
:11:36. > :11:42.Haynes reports from neighbouring Turkey.
:11:42. > :11:47.Syria is a country divided. Today, between those who voted, and those
:11:47. > :11:50.who are still fighting. And then there were those who chose to
:11:50. > :11:57.protest. These opponents of President Assad mocked his
:11:57. > :12:02.elections by holding one of their own. In Hammer, they protested in a
:12:02. > :12:06.more conventional way. The general strike is in force in many
:12:06. > :12:09.opposition strongholds. Here, almost everything is shot. The
:12:09. > :12:16.likelihood of any voting taking place in neighbourhoods like this
:12:16. > :12:20.is not high. These pictures are said to be from the contested city
:12:20. > :12:27.of Homs. Ten people are reported to have been killed in the last 24
:12:27. > :12:32.hours. A local election has little
:12:32. > :12:36.relevance here. But in Government strongholds like Damascus, people
:12:36. > :12:40.did come out of court. These elections are, says the Government,
:12:40. > :12:45.the first step in its own reform programme. It says they are freer
:12:45. > :12:49.than before and will give more power to local administrations, but
:12:49. > :12:53.insists President Assad is the only figure who can do never bought
:12:53. > :12:56.reform and stability. But, with perhaps half the country racked by
:12:56. > :13:02.violence and no independent monitors, the value of this
:13:02. > :13:06.exercise, if any, is impossible to judge.
:13:06. > :13:11.For the millions who have turned against President Assad, reform
:13:11. > :13:15.under his leadership is now an impossibility. Their protests have
:13:15. > :13:22.cost perhaps 5,000 lives, but they will not stop. Once the voting is
:13:22. > :13:26.over, the struggle for power in this country will resume.
:13:26. > :13:31.Staying in the Middle East, the situation in Bahrain. David Cameron
:13:31. > :13:34.has been meeting King Hamad and he urged him to bring in concrete
:13:34. > :13:39.reforms after his Government suppression of pro-democracy
:13:39. > :13:44.protests. After their meeting, King Hamad told the BBC he was looking
:13:44. > :13:49.to Britain to help reform by rain's police and judiciary. Frank Gardner
:13:49. > :13:54.reports. A controversial visit by the king
:13:54. > :14:00.of a country racked this year by violence. By rain. -- King Hamad is
:14:00. > :14:06.seeking Britain's help in implementing reforms. David Cameron
:14:06. > :14:10.has urged him to act swiftly to prevent abuses.
:14:10. > :14:14.What we are looking for to move from dictatorship to democracy, to
:14:14. > :14:21.move forwards from a Prime Minister being in power for 40 years, to a
:14:21. > :14:25.Prime Minister to being elected. That is what we are really willing
:14:25. > :14:31.now to, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to discuss this
:14:31. > :14:36.issue with that the king. In Bahrain, the protests and the
:14:36. > :14:40.clashes with police and villages continue. Many protesters want an
:14:40. > :14:46.end to the Sunni monarchy, but large parts of the population do
:14:46. > :14:50.not. Ahead of the main opposition party -- the head of the main
:14:50. > :14:55.opposition party, says he is ready for dialogue with the king.
:14:55. > :15:01.King Hamad, seen here receiving a damning report into human rights
:15:01. > :15:06.abuses, tells the BBC he plans to invite in personal advisers from
:15:06. > :15:09.all political parties, but most remain sceptical. Bahrain's
:15:09. > :15:13.Government was hoping that report would draw a line under the
:15:13. > :15:18.violence that has claimed around 40 lives, but political grievances
:15:18. > :15:28.remain. This gulf state is now deeply divided between the Shia
:15:28. > :15:29.
:15:29. > :15:35.opposition and those who support Thousands of Russians have taken to
:15:35. > :15:39.the streets of Moscow in support of Vladimir Putin, facing calls to go.
:15:39. > :15:42.The President, Dmitri Medvedev, announced on Facebook an
:15:42. > :15:46.investigation into fraud allegations in the vote. But a
:15:46. > :15:50.spokesman for Vladimir Putin said the allegations about the elections
:15:50. > :15:54.eight days ago do not undermine the legitimacy of the vote or the
:15:54. > :16:00.result. Over the weekend, huge demonstrations were held in demand
:16:00. > :16:05.or fresh elections and the opposition was planning another big
:16:05. > :16:12.protest on 24th December. Meanwhile, one of Russia's richest businessmen,
:16:12. > :16:19.Mikhail Prokhorov, has said he will challenge Mr Putin next March. We
:16:19. > :16:29.are joined by G blogger -- a blogger who was in protest last
:16:29. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:40.week. Fair to say that the protests are an urban phenomenon. Yes, it is
:16:40. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:49.a natural phenomenon. People go to the streets, naturally. The point I
:16:49. > :16:53.was making is that these are young people, for the large part, who are
:16:53. > :17:01.on the internet, and not perhaps typical representative of the
:17:01. > :17:10.Russian population at large. Yes, of course, because in Russian
:17:10. > :17:20.protests, usually, they consist of pensioners. Young people do not
:17:20. > :17:29.like politics. That is the common thing for the Russian population.
:17:29. > :17:38.But now, when big things happen, old people have friends in the
:17:38. > :17:43.social networks, or they subscribe to the main leaders' opinions. They
:17:43. > :17:51.can read that something is happening and something is wrong.
:17:51. > :17:55.And they are interested in politics, and involved. Vladimir Putin has
:17:55. > :18:00.said there may have been some fraud, some irregularities, but he will
:18:00. > :18:06.not accept calls for a fresh election. What happens from here?
:18:06. > :18:13.To protests continued? Yes, I think protests will continue. -- do
:18:13. > :18:19.protests continue. We're waiting for her the Communist Party, to see
:18:19. > :18:29.if they will use the amendments, and then we can have free elections.
:18:29. > :18:31.
:18:31. > :18:38.But I do not believe that they will refuse their deputy in the States
:18:38. > :18:44.demands. Thank you for joining us. Unemployment has joined corruption
:18:44. > :18:49.and poverty as the most talked- about topics across the world. In a
:18:49. > :18:52.new BBC opinion poll, almost a 5th of the 11,000 respondents said that
:18:52. > :18:56.they had discussed job losses with friends and family over the
:18:56. > :18:59.previous month. This week on BBC World used, we are looking at how
:18:59. > :19:03.on employment has affected young people around the world, starting
:19:03. > :19:06.in Italy where Ben Thomson has travelled from Tuscany in the north
:19:06. > :19:12.to Naples in the South meeting young people facing a pretty
:19:12. > :19:17.uncertain future. The city of Prato in northern Italy
:19:17. > :19:22.is dominated by factories making textiles. They once employed
:19:22. > :19:26.thousands of people. But the recession has not been kind. In
:19:26. > :19:30.recent months, many factories like this one had been forced to close.
:19:30. > :19:35.Italy, like Greece, Spain and Portugal, is in serious financial
:19:35. > :19:41.difficulty. During the boom years of the 1980s, the government here
:19:41. > :19:48.spent too much money, and now it has to pay that money back. For
:19:48. > :19:52.students at the local college, that means jobs are hard to come by.
:19:52. > :19:57.think that when I finish my studies, I will have problems in finding
:19:57. > :20:05.jobs because for young people, it is more difficult to find a job.
:20:05. > :20:10.am going to go abroad because in Italy, there are not many jobs for
:20:10. > :20:16.young people like us. The school's Head Teachers says the future looks
:20:16. > :20:21.bleak. TRANSLATION: I am not worried only for my students, I
:20:21. > :20:26.worried for the whole generation. I am a father, so why am very worried.
:20:26. > :20:30.Travel south to the rural areas and the problem is much worse. This is
:20:30. > :20:35.Pompeii, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, an area traditionally
:20:35. > :20:39.known for farming and agriculture. Unemployment here has always been
:20:39. > :20:44.high but over the last few years, it has jumped, particularly among
:20:44. > :20:52.young people between 16 and 24. The rate of employment is now the
:20:52. > :20:59.lowest in Italy. Here, instead of protesting about the problems, they
:20:59. > :21:03.are making music. They say it gives them a voice. TRANSLATION: I think
:21:04. > :21:12.the economic crisis is really huge. But we have a weapon against the
:21:12. > :21:19.economic crisis. It is music. Sometimes I do cash-in-hand jobs to
:21:19. > :21:23.get money, but it is so difficult. It is all about who you know.
:21:23. > :21:26.want to leave Italy, but the crisis now engulfing Europe means that
:21:26. > :21:36.finding a golf -- finding a job elsewhere could be as difficult as
:21:36. > :21:41.finding one here. In our Paris studio, is a
:21:41. > :21:46.representative from the European Youth Forum. His youth unemployment
:21:46. > :21:54.any different from my general unemployment. -- his youth
:21:54. > :22:00.unemployment any different from a general unemployment? Good evening.
:22:00. > :22:08.Youth unemployment has always been higher than regular unemployment.
:22:08. > :22:15.We have seen that since 1945. Since to designate, youth unemployment
:22:15. > :22:20.has been accelerating at an alarming scale. -- since 2008. The
:22:20. > :22:24.differences in be access to the labour market. The market is more
:22:24. > :22:28.volatile and insecure in comparison to the previous times. Young people
:22:28. > :22:33.today are much more mobile. They are better educated, they are more
:22:33. > :22:37.driven and have more ideas that they want to put into new jobs, but
:22:37. > :22:41.there are simply no jobs available, so there is a big difference
:22:41. > :22:45.between winning young person wants to enter the labour market and
:22:45. > :22:50.another regular person who is already in the market or has had
:22:51. > :22:55.experience. It is the first job that is the main cause of problems.
:22:55. > :22:59.It is a difficult problem. It is a hard one to Salford. All the
:22:59. > :23:02.talking Europe is of extending the retirement age, and so on, so
:23:02. > :23:10.people are obviously hanging on to their jobs. What does that mean for
:23:10. > :23:14.young people? It is a major problem. As representatives of youth
:23:14. > :23:19.organisations in Europe, we are more concerned about only focusing
:23:19. > :23:23.on austerity measures. And not focusing on investing. You might
:23:23. > :23:27.call me delusional, to call for investment in a time of crisis but
:23:27. > :23:30.it is important for us that we do not focus on cutting in the wrong
:23:30. > :23:34.places. If you invest in youth organisations and young people,
:23:34. > :23:38.offering possibilities for young people to develop their talents, to
:23:38. > :23:43.improve skills and capabilities, that will serve them on the labour
:23:43. > :23:48.market, providing for them a quality internship, for them to
:23:48. > :23:56.guarantee that within four months of leaving school they have the
:23:56. > :23:59.possibility of training or a first job. That would very much of young
:23:59. > :24:04.people on the path of becoming part of the labour market. We do not
:24:04. > :24:11.believe that just because some people are going to have to work
:24:11. > :24:14.more and harder in their late years, that that means that this means
:24:14. > :24:22.that there will be no jobs for young people. There is not this
:24:22. > :24:26.dichotomy. We are in favour of inter-generational solidarity.
:24:26. > :24:29.How is this for parental pressure? Especially for those of you with
:24:29. > :24:34.the challenge of getting children to school in the mornings, prepared
:24:34. > :24:37.with a healthy packed lunch. Imagine if you tried to achieve the
:24:37. > :24:43.very high standards of cuisine, but you also have to make it look good.
:24:43. > :24:46.In Japan, it is not just about being healthy. The ancient Japanese
:24:46. > :24:56.skills of food presentation had been brought to the humble school
:24:56. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:01.lunchbox. It is lunchtime at this
:25:01. > :25:06.kindergarten in Japan. The children are eager to see what their parents
:25:06. > :25:11.have made for them. In this country, a sandwich wrapped in tinfoil just
:25:11. > :25:18.will not do. The packed lunch has been elevated to something nearer
:25:18. > :25:28.an art form. At his table, there is some great ones. This is a teddy
:25:28. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:40.bear and hollow Kitty. Next to this, there is a piano. This woman is an
:25:40. > :25:47.acknowledged master of making character into boxes. -- dental
:25:47. > :25:56.boxes. She gives lessons to other mothers. Is the competition among
:25:56. > :26:01.others? -- is their competition among mothers. I feel that it is
:26:01. > :26:10.Sportsday, and the expectations are getting high. You know, you have to
:26:11. > :26:16.sit next to other mothers, so I feel pressured. What else have you
:26:16. > :26:24.done? The teacher has kept photographs of her best designs.
:26:24. > :26:29.Who are these portraits? Michael Jackson. Harrison Ford. As Indiana
:26:29. > :26:34.Jones, with the hat and stubble. How did you draw the stubble?
:26:34. > :26:44.Little seaweed. And do you do this kind of character box every day
:26:44. > :26:48.queue meant yes. That is very devoted. -- every day? Yes. I enjoy
:26:48. > :26:55.doing it and the children enjoy it. Back in the kindergarten, lunch is
:26:55. > :27:00.coming to a noisy end. It did not last very long, the colourful
:27:00. > :27:06.characters, that took eight hours to make have been gobbled in a
:27:06. > :27:16.matter of minutes. -- that took hours to make.
:27:16. > :27:17.
:27:17. > :27:21.More a work of art than a lunchbox. Yes, you have been hearing it, the
:27:21. > :27:25.rumours are true. We are in for a stormy week of weather. Stormy
:27:25. > :27:32.conditions starting tonight with heavy rain and strong winds. Later
:27:32. > :27:35.this week, torrential Wayne -- torrential rain is forecast. This
:27:35. > :27:41.weather front is moving through tonight, bringing heavy rain to
:27:41. > :27:48.most places. It will be a wet start for the south-east. Windy for all
:27:48. > :27:54.of us. Tomorrow, some of the strongest gusts are around exposed
:27:54. > :27:59.coasts. Across the Pennines, we could see up to five centimetres of
:27:59. > :28:07.snow. Further south, it is a windy afternoon with frequent showers.
:28:07. > :28:16.There could be slush and sleet across the moors. Gusty winds in
:28:16. > :28:20.exposed areas. Snow falling across the tops of Snowdonia and maybe the
:28:20. > :28:24.Brecon Beacons. Across Northern Ireland, we are in the firing line
:28:24. > :28:29.for strong winds. Blustery conditions starting to develop