18/01/2012

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:00:15. > :00:19.This is BBC World News today. Agencies admit thousands of lives

:00:19. > :00:23.could have been saved in the Horn of Africa last year it early famine

:00:23. > :00:27.warnings had been heeded. As fears grow of another food

:00:27. > :00:35.crisis, this time in the west of the Continent, we ask have lessons

:00:35. > :00:41.been learned? There is a shortage of grain, we are waiting for the

:00:41. > :00:44.consequences of the shortage. The rescue operation on the Costa

:00:44. > :00:48.Concordia is suspended as the ship shapes down the rocks. The

:00:48. > :00:52.government says there is a risky could sink completely.

:00:52. > :00:55.Hungary's Prime Minister faces his accusers in the European Parliament.

:00:56. > :01:01.He says he will change legislation it branded undemocratic, but will

:01:01. > :01:07.it be enough? I appeal to him to accept the principles of democracy

:01:07. > :01:11.and freedom and implement them. Also coming up. Blacked out in

:01:11. > :01:16.protest. Wikipedia shuts down its English-language website for 24

:01:16. > :01:21.hours in protest a new anti-piracy proposals in the US.

:01:21. > :01:31.Lights are set to switch off in this Somerset town, so people can

:01:31. > :01:36.

:01:36. > :01:39.see the stars clearly. Hello and welcome. Aid workers in

:01:39. > :01:43.East Africa were so slow to sound a warning over last year's Fanon,

:01:43. > :01:48.that thousands of people died unnecessarily. That is the

:01:48. > :01:53.conclusion of a report by two of the aid agencies, Oxfam and Save

:01:53. > :01:56.the Children. They say agencies took more than six months to act on

:01:56. > :02:00.information from satellites and eyewitnesses of the developing

:02:00. > :02:05.crisis. The report comes as fears grow that the Sahel region of West

:02:05. > :02:12.Africa could be facing a further food crisis. Our correspondent now

:02:12. > :02:15.reports. The mothers are waiting when this health clinic opens,

:02:15. > :02:23.almost all their children were being treated for severe

:02:23. > :02:31.malnutrition. It is this child's third visit and she is showing

:02:31. > :02:39.progress. Many more children are at risk of severe malnutrition in the

:02:39. > :02:43.share at this time.. Her mother returns to a village nearby. The

:02:43. > :02:48.last rain stopped early in many places, pests did much damage to

:02:48. > :02:52.crops as well in this region, supposed to be one of the bread

:02:52. > :03:02.baskets of the country. The what are seen as more precious than

:03:02. > :03:06.usual. The hardest game has only 10% of the Food We need she says.

:03:06. > :03:10.My husband went to Nigeria to work, but the money went quickly and he

:03:10. > :03:18.has gone back. I have to fetch wood and water to sell them for

:03:18. > :03:27.something for us to live on. There is great on sale in the market in

:03:27. > :03:32.this town. The poor can ill-afford the rising price. Here, a scheme to

:03:32. > :03:37.help the poorer buying food when it is still available. This is visited

:03:37. > :03:40.today by the EU humanitarian aid conditioner. This is a typically

:03:40. > :03:45.hard-pressed village, people are given cash to help them feed their

:03:45. > :03:50.families, increasingly seen as the quickest way to state of

:03:50. > :03:56.malnutrition. The commissioner said it was a race against time. We see

:03:56. > :04:01.the hunger season coming much earlier, February or March, rather

:04:01. > :04:06.than May or June. We see already the scale of the problem been

:04:06. > :04:12.substantial. If we act swiftly and early and we target the most

:04:12. > :04:17.vulnerable, we can prevent a catastrophe and we will. That

:04:17. > :04:22.places even more importance on centres like this one, run by Save

:04:22. > :04:28.the Children, which shows mothers how they can reduce the chances

:04:28. > :04:31.that the children will become acutely malnourished and sick.

:04:31. > :04:35.The search for survivors from the Costa Concordia has been suspended

:04:35. > :04:39.after the ship has shifted, making it too dangerous for divers. The

:04:39. > :04:42.Italian government says there is a risk that the ship could sink

:04:42. > :04:48.completely because of rough seas and salvage teams have just days to

:04:48. > :04:51.siphon off the ship's fuel. Italy's Prime Minister who is in London for

:04:51. > :05:01.talks with David Cameron says everything has been done to limit

:05:01. > :05:06.the environmental impact of the disaster. It is slow going inside

:05:06. > :05:13.the ship. They are moving through the floating debris of a once a

:05:13. > :05:17.luxury liner, a long corridors turned on their side. Specialist

:05:17. > :05:27.divers here are searching for survivors, but they know they are

:05:27. > :05:33.likely to only find the dead. This is how they have been entering the

:05:33. > :05:37.ship, through the top deck, now on the waterline. At one point, the

:05:37. > :05:42.glass door of the shop was a of me, with the contents inside all

:05:42. > :05:46.pressing down. It could have shattered at any moment.

:05:47. > :05:52.rescued was put on hold today, as the ship began to move slightly,

:05:52. > :05:58.making it too dangerous to look for the missing. Among them, Russell

:05:58. > :06:01.Rebello, a waiter on board. Today, his brother Kevin came to the

:06:02. > :06:10.island and sold the wreck of the Costa Concordia for the first time.

:06:10. > :06:17.Does he think his brother can possibly be alive? It is the 5th

:06:17. > :06:22.day. Five days, but there have been miracles and people have come home

:06:22. > :06:27.after many days. On the mainland, the captain's wife was mocked by

:06:27. > :06:32.journalists. He is enemy Number One, criticised for abandoning ship. He

:06:33. > :06:37.is reported as saying he slipped by mistake into a departing lifeboat.

:06:37. > :06:41.Few here believe that and his lawyer says the captain, he is

:06:41. > :06:49.under house arrest, is deeply shaken by what happened, but the

:06:49. > :06:54.sister of another missing crew member has no sympathy. It is

:06:54. > :06:58.outrageous they have come under house arrest. He is like a free man.

:06:58. > :07:03.The search is taking too long. salvage operation is ready to go

:07:03. > :07:06.just as soon as they get permission. Equipment and personnel have been

:07:06. > :07:11.brought in. Everyone knows that removing the ship from its current

:07:11. > :07:16.resting place is going to be a mammoth task. The long days are

:07:16. > :07:20.taking their toll on rescuers. One collapsed exhausted today. A

:07:20. > :07:30.satellite picked up his image of the ship, lying peacefully against

:07:30. > :07:33.

:07:33. > :07:36.the island. Down on the shower, Kevin Rebello waits for his brother.

:07:36. > :07:41.Hungary's Prime Minister says issues raised by the European

:07:41. > :07:43.Commission cannot easily be resolved. A day after the European

:07:43. > :07:46.Commission announced they are taking legal proceedings against

:07:47. > :07:52.hungry for infringing the rights of data protection, the judiciary and

:07:52. > :07:55.the central bank, he defended his country's position. In the debate

:07:55. > :08:00.in the European Parliament the EU president appealed to the Prime

:08:00. > :08:04.Minister to respect the principles of democracy. The on the legal

:08:04. > :08:08.aspects, some concerns have been expressed regarding the quality of

:08:08. > :08:13.democracy in Hungary, its political culture and the relations between

:08:13. > :08:16.government and the position between the state and the civil society. I

:08:16. > :08:20.strongly appeal to the Prime Minister up to respect the

:08:20. > :08:25.principles of democracy and freedom and to implement them. He needs to

:08:25. > :08:29.implement them in the practice and social life of his country. We are

:08:29. > :08:34.talking about a restructuring of enormous scope, enormous importance

:08:34. > :08:39.and we understand that there are debates in relation to that. Today,

:08:39. > :08:42.I address the letter to the president of the commission and I

:08:42. > :08:46.expressed an opinion in this letter and I said that the problems that

:08:46. > :08:56.had been raised by the commission it could easily be resolved. They

:08:56. > :08:57.

:08:57. > :09:00.could swiftly be resolved and remedy to. It looks on the face of

:09:00. > :09:07.it as though he has backed down quite considerably, is that the

:09:07. > :09:13.case? He has backed down, but he is putting a brave face on it and is

:09:13. > :09:18.trying to maintain what he would call his own dignity. It is

:09:18. > :09:22.interesting listening to the president of the commission talking

:09:22. > :09:26.about not only the letter of the law and the European treaties, but

:09:26. > :09:32.also about the spirit. The Prime Minister was quieter on the spirit,

:09:32. > :09:36.and he is keen to point out that only the letter of three laws at

:09:36. > :09:41.the 365 that he passed last year have actually been challenged.

:09:41. > :09:48.it realistic to imagine that he could stage an enormous political

:09:48. > :09:53.U-turn? No, be it is difficult to imagine that. He did not have to go

:09:53. > :09:57.to Strasbourg, he invited himself and offered to go and face this

:09:57. > :10:05.criticism that hungry has been under. It will be interesting to

:10:05. > :10:09.see in the coming days or what happens next. We will see if they

:10:09. > :10:12.have the man is to persuade the IMF, they have been looking for a lead

:10:12. > :10:18.it into the EU and we will know that on Friday when the Minister in

:10:18. > :10:22.charge of Hungary's undergoes Houston's with the IMF talks to the

:10:22. > :10:26.European Commission. Then we will have a clearer idea of how credible

:10:27. > :10:31.the commission finds the responses which the Prime Minister has given.

:10:31. > :10:35.He suggested that he did not think that Hungary actually needed money

:10:35. > :10:40.from the IMF, but that it was willing to talk to the IMF and that

:10:40. > :10:44.it could do with some sort of security, what do you make of that?

:10:44. > :10:48.Is it is the line and a consistent line from the government that it

:10:48. > :10:52.prefers to borrow on the markets from the financial world, rather

:10:53. > :10:57.than turning to the IMF, even though the IMF would offer that

:10:57. > :11:01.money, the loner that Hungary wants a better interest rates than that

:11:01. > :11:06.available on the market. The government is keen to show that it

:11:06. > :11:13.can finance its debts from the market, but it does that not want

:11:13. > :11:21.to face the difficulties of that. He wants to have this alone as the

:11:21. > :11:24.safety net, not as some think the Government wants. Thank you.

:11:24. > :11:28.And a jury in a police commissioner has been suspended for alleged

:11:28. > :11:31.negligence after a suspected member of the Islamist sect Boko Haram

:11:31. > :11:34.escaped in a shoot-out. Kabiru Sokoto was thought to have

:11:34. > :11:39.masterminded the bombing of a Roman Catholic church on Christmas Day.

:11:39. > :11:45.He was arrested on Saturday, but was freed a day later in an attack

:11:46. > :11:49.by a Boko Haram gang. The Iranian Foreign Minister at the -- Ali

:11:49. > :11:52.Akbar Salehi is in Turkey for talks on his country's nuclear programme

:11:52. > :11:57.and has suggested a new round of international talks on the subject

:11:57. > :12:02.could take place soon. He said the talks, which collapsed a year ago,

:12:02. > :12:06.would probably be held in Istanbul. The British Prime Minister David

:12:06. > :12:10.Cameron has accused Iran and its allies in the Lebanese Hezbollah

:12:10. > :12:14.movement of helping Syria's government to suppress the uprising

:12:14. > :12:19.there. Mr Cameron said evidence had emerged that Iran was supplying

:12:19. > :12:24.arms to the Syrian security forces. He said Hezbollah was also

:12:24. > :12:28.supporting the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

:12:28. > :12:32.The online Encyclopaedia Wikipedia has shut down its English-language

:12:32. > :12:35.website in the 24 hour blackout. The action is a protest against a

:12:35. > :12:40.proposed law in the United States aimed at stopping online piracy.

:12:40. > :12:50.Other websites have also joined the temporary shutdown clot, including

:12:50. > :12:56.word press. We have taken it for granted for so long now that any

:12:56. > :13:01.end to the free flow of information on phones, tablets and PCS, seems

:13:01. > :13:06.impossible. It has happened. One of the world's was popular websites

:13:06. > :13:10.and cribs sheet for students everywhere has gone dark. Wikipedia

:13:10. > :13:15.has blacked out it site in protest at the threat of legislation from

:13:15. > :13:19.the US Congress. Two bills, one in the House of Representatives and

:13:19. > :13:23.one in the Senate, would force search engines to delist websites

:13:23. > :13:28.but hose a pirated material. Advertisers would be forced to cut

:13:28. > :13:33.links with the pirates to. It isn't just Wikipedia, a clutch of

:13:33. > :13:38.websites are making a stand a what they say is heavy-handed

:13:38. > :13:42.legislation that will not work, but could damage the World Wide Web.

:13:42. > :13:46.useful analogy might be that if you hear it there is this great

:13:46. > :13:51.invention called the of Mobile, then two years later you find it is

:13:51. > :13:55.being used by bank robbers, the answer isn't to band all to Mobiles,

:13:56. > :14:01.the answer is to deal with that problem directly. So on people see

:14:01. > :14:06.this as a clash between New Media and old, others as a battle between

:14:06. > :14:10.the creators of content, the people to make films or write songs, and

:14:10. > :14:15.those who aggregated, the big search engines like the local. The

:14:15. > :14:19.defenders of the bill say it is simpler than that. They say that

:14:19. > :14:29.piracy is threatening their intellectual property and with it

:14:29. > :14:33.

:14:33. > :14:37.This bill has focused on websites that there up stealing from

:14:37. > :14:40.American property and profiting from it.

:14:40. > :14:50.It is an unprecedented protest. American lawmakers will not be able

:14:50. > :14:55.to ignore it. For more than this, we can cross

:14:55. > :15:00.over to the activist director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

:15:00. > :15:03.It is an international digital right support group which opposed

:15:03. > :15:08.is the proposed laws. Is this not as simple as saying that some

:15:08. > :15:13.people believe that the internet should abide by-laws, and some

:15:13. > :15:17.people believe that the internet should have its own laws? Nobody

:15:17. > :15:22.here is debating whether or not, it was should apply to content on the

:15:22. > :15:29.internet. The issue at play is that a lot that Congress is debating

:15:29. > :15:34.right now, SOPA, and the protect i p act in the Senate, are overly

:15:34. > :15:39.broad laws. Instead of merely taking down infringing Materials,

:15:39. > :15:42.they would give unprecedented Materials to the executive branch

:15:42. > :15:46.to force search engines to dump search queries and other such

:15:46. > :15:51.measures. These are tools that we really don't ever want to use to

:15:51. > :15:55.fight piracy, especially when many of the tools already available are

:15:55. > :15:58.successfully fighting the so-called piracy problem. Some might say that

:15:58. > :16:06.the measures are not successful which is why you have to go this

:16:06. > :16:12.far. What is interesting about that is that the proposed legislation is

:16:12. > :16:17.working to try and improve rights holders abilities to withhold

:16:17. > :16:21.access to certain content online, but it has this collateral effect

:16:21. > :16:25.which is that the tech industry, the internet industry which has

:16:25. > :16:30.been in America and has been so wonderful to our economy, would be

:16:30. > :16:34.endangered by this. It could scare off investors. It could make it so

:16:34. > :16:38.that people who want to create new technologies might be worried about

:16:38. > :16:44.legal liabilities. I am very concerned about just what would

:16:44. > :16:51.happen if this legislation were to pass.

:16:51. > :16:59.Let's return now to Niger and the concerns there about food shortages.

:16:59. > :17:03.Our correspondent is in the capital of Niger. Over to you.

:17:03. > :17:07.Great concerns here, largely because of the drought and the crop

:17:07. > :17:15.pests that have affected the recent harvest, but also the rising food

:17:15. > :17:19.prices. So much so was their concern that today, the EU

:17:19. > :17:23.humanitarian aid commissioner, who has been visiting Niger, announced

:17:23. > :17:29.a more than doubling of humanitarian aid to over 100

:17:29. > :17:31.million euros. On top but that, a further 150 million euros will now

:17:31. > :17:38.be invested in long-term food security and other measures to

:17:38. > :17:43.build up people's resilience. I have with me the Unicef

:17:43. > :17:48.representative in Niger. Also, the UN that humanitarian co-ordinator

:17:48. > :17:53.at the moment. This idea of trying to do much more to integrate

:17:53. > :17:59.emergency aid, as we have just heard it is being more than doubled,

:17:59. > :18:02.with what you might call longer term eight, did try to address the

:18:02. > :18:09.routinely chronic poverty in the country. Why might that approach

:18:09. > :18:13.make a difference now? This is a lesson we have learned from the

:18:13. > :18:19.2010 crisis. Nearly two years later, we are back in a crisis and I think

:18:19. > :18:22.what we have seen today is climate change in action in this a have a.

:18:22. > :18:27.It is not enough to deliver humanitarian assistance. We need to

:18:28. > :18:33.be able to break the cycle of the current crisis, and to do so, we

:18:33. > :18:37.need to tackle and that the same time, the immediate needs of the

:18:37. > :18:43.population and the structural factors. For a long time now,

:18:43. > :18:47.people have been trying to break that cycle. Most particularly,

:18:47. > :18:54.since the 2005 famine here which killed so many people. Might there

:18:54. > :18:56.be any hope now that there will be more success in achieving this?

:18:56. > :19:03.political environment has drastically changed with the new

:19:03. > :19:09.government. It is willing to tackle the situation openly which was not

:19:09. > :19:13.the case before. There is strong partnership between American

:19:13. > :19:22.agencies, UN agencies and the government here, and an

:19:22. > :19:25.understanding that we cannot just looked towards treating severely

:19:25. > :19:30.malnourished children but respond to the underlying causes of

:19:30. > :19:34.malnutrition and therefore act to solve that. The context is

:19:34. > :19:42.different but do you as confident as the EU aid commissioner that you

:19:42. > :19:46.should be able to contain this particular crisis? Yes. In contrast

:19:46. > :19:50.to 2010, this time the warning was early enough to be able to respond

:19:50. > :19:57.before facing humanitarian catastrophe. Thank you very much

:19:57. > :20:03.indeed. Obviously, we all have to see whether that actually happens.

:20:03. > :20:07.In Russia, a group of celebrities, writers, TV presenters and even a

:20:07. > :20:11.rock star have launched a Voters League. They say it is to ensure

:20:11. > :20:14.future elections are fair. It is part of a string of new initiatives

:20:14. > :20:17.made since the controversial elections in December. The

:20:17. > :20:22.Government has ignored plans for the vote to be held again but has

:20:22. > :20:26.already made some concessions to the protesters.

:20:26. > :20:30.As Moscow emerged from its long winter break, the Kremlin wall had

:20:30. > :20:35.been hoping that the protest movement for fair elections had

:20:35. > :20:41.lost its momentum. In secret meetings, in ever-changing venues,

:20:41. > :20:45.activists have been working hard to keep the fledge and movement alive.

:20:45. > :20:49.At a press conference today, a group of Russian writers and

:20:49. > :20:55.celebrities formally launched one of the initiatives - and newly-

:20:55. > :21:00.created Voters League. This is a non-political organisation to help

:21:00. > :21:05.people take part in fair elections. We want people to know that when

:21:05. > :21:09.their vote goes in the ballot box, it will be counted.

:21:09. > :21:12.Before the New Year, Moscow saw the three biggest protests of the

:21:12. > :21:18.Vladimir Putin the ear. Tens of thousands took to the streets,

:21:18. > :21:22.furious at what they believed where fixed parliamentary elections.

:21:22. > :21:27.Protests inspired and gave hope to a new generation of activists.

:21:27. > :21:34.Among them, this man, who is editorial director of one of

:21:34. > :21:41.Russia's biggest media empires. It is the start of a huge social

:21:41. > :21:50.discussion which was artificially frozen for many years. Now, it has

:21:50. > :21:55.woken up and they think it will be hard to stop it. The internet is

:21:55. > :21:58.still boiling with further evidence of alleged electoral fraud. This

:21:58. > :22:03.was a raid on Monday by a parliamentary deputy and

:22:03. > :22:09.journalists on what appears to be a room full of people falsifying a

:22:09. > :22:14.list of supporters for a pro Kremlin candidate. The videos are

:22:14. > :22:18.fuelling the anger of ordinary demonstrators like this internet

:22:18. > :22:21.entrepreneur and part-time lecturer. She says her fury overcame her fear

:22:21. > :22:27.of attending her first protest on the day after the elections. Now,

:22:27. > :22:36.she has been to them all. I have never been to any protest meeting

:22:36. > :22:40.before but I felt, and I called my parents, who said that I should not

:22:40. > :22:44.call and they begged me not to go but I felt there was no way not to

:22:45. > :22:49.stand up. In the weeks since the protests began, the Kremlin has

:22:49. > :22:52.made several concessions, including the introduction of several

:22:52. > :22:56.democratically elected governors and the regions. There is still a

:22:56. > :23:02.huge gap between what the government is offering and the

:23:02. > :23:07.truly fair elections the demonstrators want.

:23:07. > :23:11.Millions of BBC viewers across the UK have been glued to it this

:23:11. > :23:17.Stargazing Live programmes this week. One town has decided to get

:23:18. > :23:20.involved in a very strong way. Tonight, Dulverton is switching off

:23:20. > :23:28.all its lights to minimise light pollution and get a better view of

:23:28. > :23:32.the sky. Good evening from Dulverton. About

:23:32. > :23:37.2000 people live here and some of them have started coming down on to

:23:37. > :23:40.the States this evening having switched off their lights at home.

:23:40. > :23:48.They are massing on this date for this Stargazing Live event

:23:48. > :23:56.organised by BBC. -- state. This is the high street here in Dulverton.

:23:56. > :24:00.It is not a huge place but still certainly lots of light pollution.

:24:00. > :24:04.In one hour, everyone was switched off their lights and the place will

:24:04. > :24:09.be full of darkness and everyone can look to the skies and hopefully

:24:09. > :24:15.see some stars. Dulverton at sunset. Tonight,

:24:15. > :24:20.things in this part of Britain will look rather different. At a time

:24:20. > :24:27.when light would normally be coming on, this evening, they will be

:24:27. > :24:31.switched off. The aim is zero light pollution. This is so that the

:24:31. > :24:34.skies are as clear as possible. will be really cool because we can

:24:34. > :24:44.all look up into the sky and see things we have not seen before.

:24:44. > :24:47.

:24:47. > :24:51.What will it be like? Ski area. you a bit nervous? -- scary. It

:24:51. > :24:54.will certainly be a change because these pictures from Nasa show how

:24:54. > :25:04.much like the is around the world at night, presenting us from

:25:04. > :25:04.

:25:04. > :25:10.getting a clear view of the stars. -- preventing. This is Britain's

:25:10. > :25:13.first darkness reserve. We take lighting for granted and turn

:25:13. > :25:17.lights on and off without even thinking about it. We want to show

:25:17. > :25:22.that even a small place like Dalton or Exmoor can make a big difference

:25:22. > :25:26.to light pollution. It seems that everyone in is a rural community is

:25:26. > :25:31.getting involved and later tonight, traffic will be banned and the

:25:31. > :25:36.councils which of every state light. Despite appearances, the pub is

:25:36. > :25:41.staying open. It will not be business as usual, however, with

:25:41. > :25:44.serving in the dark presenting new challenges. There may be a bit of

:25:44. > :25:53.spilt beer on the floor but hopefully not too much. It will be

:25:53. > :25:56.worse than the kitchen, I think. After weeks of planning, tonight,

:25:56. > :26:04.Dulverton get its moment in the spotlight. That is until the

:26:04. > :26:09.spotlight is also switched off. There are some things you cannot

:26:09. > :26:12.plan for and the British weather is certainly one of them. You can see

:26:12. > :26:16.that it is there is Olli Rehn tonight and it is rather Rover cast,

:26:16. > :26:20.so not the clear skies they were hoping for but they have the big

:26:20. > :26:25.telescopes here and there are installing special BBC night-vision

:26:25. > :26:31.cameras which good -- should give people the chance to see some stars.

:26:31. > :26:36.Have you switch the lights off. Yes! We will be back in an hour.

:26:36. > :26:38.reminder no other menus. Two major ad agencies have

:26:38. > :26:42.criticised the delayed international response to the

:26:42. > :26:46.drought in the Horn of Africa last year which led to thousands of

:26:46. > :26:50.unnecessary deaths. The report by Oxfam and Save the children comes

:26:50. > :27:00.as fear grows over another humanitarian food crisis in the

:27:00. > :27:03.

:27:03. > :27:07.Sahel region in West Africa. That Hour week of temperature of ups and

:27:07. > :27:09.downs continues today. Milder today but already called the there is

:27:09. > :27:15.spreading south across the UK so tomorrow it will feel fresher than

:27:15. > :27:25.it has done today. For the moment, the mild here or holds across other

:27:25. > :27:27.

:27:27. > :27:34.areas. -- beer. A wet start in the south tomorrow with some sunshine

:27:34. > :27:38.in northern areas. Rain, sleet and some health no coming tomorrow.

:27:38. > :27:43.Across southern areas, after a wet start, change in the afternoon with

:27:43. > :27:48.sunshine breaking through the cloud and a change of wind direction and

:27:48. > :27:51.that cold area started to move in. Despite the sunshine, it will feel

:27:51. > :27:55.fresher by the end of the afternoon as temperatures come back down

:27:55. > :27:59.closer to average for this time of year. A few showers in the north

:27:59. > :28:04.and those showers will move across Northern Ireland with rain, sleet

:28:04. > :28:10.and perhaps some snow across higher ground. Showers continued to pack

:28:10. > :28:15.into western Scotland. There will be some significant parts in high

:28:15. > :28:19.areas of western Scotland. Some of those wintry showers continued on