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Welcome to BBC World News Today. The race to decide which republican | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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will challenge President Obama gets personal. Mitt Romney and Newt | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Gingrich lead the pack but could allegations about Gingrich's | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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personal life trip him up in the South Carolina primary? | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
I cannot accept Afghan soldiers opened fire on French soldiers. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
A cautious rescue mission resumes on the Costa Concordia after the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
ship moves again from the ledge of rock beneath it. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Also on the programme: Bringing a personal touch to your own funeral. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
The report on the efforts to make your final ceremony a better way to | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
say goodbye. And we ask if Prokofiev, one of the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
20th century's greatest composers, was a man of the people. A festival | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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of his music opens in London. Hello and welcome. In the race to | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
become the Republican candidate to face Barack Obama in the coming US | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
presidential election, one of the big contenders is at the centre of | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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a furious row. There is plenty of interest in this Sunday's race. The | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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overall leader is facing opposition from Newt Gingrich. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
It was private lives, not policies, that said this did it alight. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
that. The topic he said he is outraged by it is an interview with | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
his ex-wife and revelations about what happened when they were | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
married. I said to him, we have been married a long time and he | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. What was he saying, do | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
you think? He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
wanted an open marriage? I accepted the fact that he had somebody else | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
in his life. And you said? No mark. It would have been the killer blow | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
for lesser candidates but just watch this for a masterclass in a | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
damage limitation. Let me be quite clear, the story is false, every | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
friend I have who knew us in that period says it is false. We offered | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
them to say it was false. I am tired of the media protecting | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Barack Obama. The is the kind of red meat republicans to bar. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Gingrich has appalled well and his ratings are up. More bad news for | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the man who has led the field so fair, the multi-millionaire who is | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
struggling to ask questions about his own private affairs. I will | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
take a look at what the documents are. In an election dominated by | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
the economy, he was ill prepared to explain where his money came from, | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
where it has kept and how much tax he is paying. Tomorrow will be the | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
third boat in this contest, and Newt Gingrich could squeeze into | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
first place. This race has just got a little tighter and certainly more | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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interesting. At Ronnie is still the man to beat. -- mitt Romney. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
They are joined now by Kevin Jackson. Kevin Jackson is a well- | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
known author, tea party activist and spokesman for the tea-party.net. | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
He joins me now. Have you decided, you have until Sunday, who are you | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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going to vote for? Will you tell us and tell us why? I will not reveal | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
who is my personal choice and are certainly the tea-party does not | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
endorse candidates, we just say whoever survives the fray is who | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
will support. But I think the most cataclysmic thing to come out of | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
this is a battle of philosophies. Typically the Conservative | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
candidate has to be the goody-two- shoes, very clean, very wholesome | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
candidate and what came at a visit was Newt Gingrich saying, as a | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
candidate who is flawed, he is actually in the running and that | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
has typically been the liberal stance. That really is going to | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
send a shot to liberals that you're not going to be able to attack any | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
more on issues of infidelity or sexuality and things that normally | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
are reserved for them. I think it is also going to make mitt Romney, | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
of two holes and at times so we will see what happens. To use your | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
phrase, goody-two-shoes, is Gingrich not enough of a goody Two | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Shoes because of these allegations of his wife? No, I don't think that | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
is the case. He got a rousing standing ovation when he went on | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
the attack for that and he started, that has been the death the of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Conservatives, that is they are meant to be too perfect and of a | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
sudden they find out some piece of evidence that says of their human, | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
suddenly the campaign gets derailed. What Newt Gingrich brings to the | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
poll is that he is flawed and this idea that the Conservatives are | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
admitting he is not perfect is the revelation to the left that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
suddenly they have to do with a human. Is that the game changed it | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
as far as Conservatives are concerned, you are not going to be | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
that bothered about candidates's personal lives? It is not a game | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
ginger, is how you handle it. Newt Gingrich knows he has been | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
forthright about what has happened in his personal life but I believe | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
there has been somewhat of a watershed moment with respect to | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Conservative politics, that the candidates do not have to be | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
squeaky-clean. We are not squeaky- clean, nobody is in the world. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
led to here you have your floors! Met Ronnie has this problem with | :07:13. | :07:22. | |
taxation, his critics say, is that a problem for him? I don't believe | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
it is their problem for him, the question he was asked was, when you | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
like your father police have not won years. He said he would think | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
about it. His problem with taxation will come from the left in the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
sense that he has made a lot of money. The problem we have had from | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
the tactics of the left is, anybody who makes money is automatically | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
demonised. I will tell you this, whether you live in America for the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
UK, the majority of people who do not have money are probably doing | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
something to try to get money. There's nothing wrong with the | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
pursuit of money and I think he is covering up his defences for the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
onslaught that he knows is going to occur when he talks about the | :08:03. | :08:13. | |
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amount of money he has made. Still not spilling the beans about | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
to here he is voting for! France has suspended joint | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
operations with the Afghan army after a rogue Afghan soldier shot | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
dead four French troops and wounded at least 16 more. President Nicolas | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Sarkozy said he was considering an early withdrawal of French units | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
and said it was unacceptable for French troops to be fired on by | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
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their allies. North-east of Kabul, French troops | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
are trimming the Afghan army for an eventual security handover. It | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
means the troops from both nations are stationed side-by-side at | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
French bases. It was at one of these positions that a man in | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Afghan army uniform carried out the attack, Farren on a group of | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
unarmed French soldiers. More than the number of casualties, it is the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
manner of the killings that has angered the government in Paris. It | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
is the second fatal attack in three weeks, carried out by men that | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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French soldiers are there to instruct. The French army is in | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Afghanistan to help the Afghan people in their fight against | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
terrorism and against the Taliban. The French army is not in | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Afghanistan to be shot at by Afghan soldiers. We are friends of | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
Afghanistan, we're allies of the Afghan people but I cannot accept | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Afghan soldiers opened fire on French soldiers. The defence | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
minister, in Afghanistan for the new year, is being sent back. His | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
mission to assess security conditions for French troops. If | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
they are unsatisfactory, then France may consider an early | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
withdrawal. Most French troops are due to remain in place like the | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
rest of the NATO force until the end of 2014 but their mission is | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
not popular in France and the to presidential election. Political | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
as well as military considerations may be starting to count. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. There has been heavy | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
fighting in the Somali capital after pro-government forces | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
launched a major offensive to seize territory from al-Shabab militants. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Around 1000 soldiers have reportedly captured three al-Shabab | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
basis. African Union forces backing the government says they have | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
advanced for the first time. The government of south Sudan says | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
it is shutting down its oil production as part of a deepening | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
row with its northern neighbour Sudan over revenues. Most of the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
region's oil lies in south Sudan but it needs to use a northern | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
pipeline to exported. The two countries have been locked in a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
dispute over pipeline fees. Iran's English-language television | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
station, Press TV, has lost its licence to operate in Britain. The | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
broadcasting regulator Ofcom said the channel have broken the rules | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
because of its editorial control came from Tehran. Press TV has | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
responded by accusing Britain of censorship. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
The American rhythm and blues singer, Etta James, whose | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
passionate vocals anchored a string of hits, has died in California. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
She was 83. She had been suffering from dementia and serious health | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
issues. Her ballad, At Last, was the song that made her a star. It | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
became an anthem for weddings, commercials and President Obama's | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
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inauguration. Reports from the northern Nigerian | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
city of Kano say there have been a series of explosions there. Details | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
are still coming in but previous blasts have been blamed on the | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
militant group, Boko Haram. In recent months, they have carried | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
out several major attacks including the bombing of the United Nations | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
building in the capital Abuja and an attack on a Christian church on | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
Christmas Day. The most powerful religious leader | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
in northern Nigeria. Here, for hundreds of years, traditional | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
villas have maintained a huge influence. Christians living in the | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
north. A Muslim cleric has come to their church. It is a brave attempt | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
to build bridges between committees but efforts like these are fragile. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
There is a big issue between Christians and Muslims here in | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Nigeria which has once led to the historic split within the country | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
between the north and south. But these days there is potentially an | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
even more dangerous separation between the conservative Islamic | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
authorities in northern Nigeria and the more radical groups. The is a | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
must Boko Haram group said they were responsible for several | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
attacks including the deadly bombing of a church on Christmas | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
Day. I put it to a spokesman that they were killing innocent people. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
I don't understand how churchgoers at a church ceremony on Christmas | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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The Amir of can no granted the BBC a very rare interview. I asked him | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
whether the existence of a violent group in Nigeria meant his | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
traditional power was being eroded. The perpetrators have been told of | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
the tenants of Islam which does not allow a anything bad to happen to | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
anybody so his Highness is always telling her subjects to embrace | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
peace and live peacefully with one another. The vast majority of | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Nigerians, Christian and Muslim, said they want peace, too, but | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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religion and politics often get in In Italy, the rescue operation | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
aboard the Kung cost -- Costa Concordia or has restarted. The | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
search was temporarily halted for the third time because of fears the | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
ship could slip into deeper water. 21 people are still missing off the | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
island of Ji deal. -- EDL. The families of those still | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
missing came to Giglio today, the chance to see the wreck that still | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
holds their loved ones. Some laid a wreath near the carcass of the ship, | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
a poignant moment. It may be that some passengers did not make it out | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
of the ship because they were given a false sense of security. Footage | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
filmed by a passenger shows how a crew member tried to calm | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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There was some activity on the ship today, albeit on Dec. Below the | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
waterline had been deemed too dangerous for divers to resume | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
their search, because the ship had moved. But yesterday, divers were | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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allowed into the vessel. They came across this. The bell of the ship. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
As she reflects on the week - macro the events of a week ago, this | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
local resident told me how she and others helped to pull people out of | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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the water. "I still can't believe it," She told me. "Asked myself if | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
it is real. Then I realise it is real. When I go home at night, I | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
remember the crying children, the desperate people." Today, the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
captain said that if he has made mistakes he is ready to accept | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
responsibility. As the investigation continues into his | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
actions, he claimed he informed management in a phone call as soon | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
as he had hit the rocks. The company denied exerting pressure on | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
him to delay before declaring the ship should be abandoned. There are | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
still many questions about what happened on the Costa Concordia a | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
week ago tonight. Efforts by the United States to | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
clampdown on what it considers to be internet piracy has resulted in | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
one of the Web's most popular file- sharing sites been closed down. | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
Those allegedly behind it had been arrested. Four people from the Mega | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Upload site were detained in New Zealand after an extradition | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
request from America. Hackers are angry. They have attacked US | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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It was a thriving business with high-profile musicians apparently | :18:16. | :18:26. | |
happy to promote it. Now Mega Upload has been closed and its | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
executives have appeared in a New Zealand court. The US authorities | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
have accused them of facilitating millions of illegal downloads, in a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
criminal conspiracy. Homs belonging to the German-born founder have | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
been raided. Hackers retaliated, shutting down some American | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
Government websites for a while, to protest against the closure. It was | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
one of the most popular sites on the internet, with 150 million | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
people using it to what blood material, and to download files. - | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
Mega Upload material. It earned this man �27 million last year. The | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
FBI says it cost copyright holders more than �300 million in lost | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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revenue. The battle over online piracy is hotting up. This band | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
says it is not a crime. People have given up on paying for music. We | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
don't want to be rich, we just want to make a living so we can produce | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
another album. If we don't get revenue, how can we produce another | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
album? But where the freedom campaigners warn against over- | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
reaction. It is important to remember that a file hosts are | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
legitimate services. They are incredibly useful for all internet | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
users and businesses. We need to make sure we do not throw the baby | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
out with the bath water. Mega Upload, based in Hong Kong, may | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
have been put out of business. But aside promising something similar | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
has surfaced in Belize. Funerals in some parts of the world | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
can be colourful occasions. More of a celebration of a life than the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
mournful event. There is no movement here in Britain to make | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
funerals more personal and meaningful to the people left | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
behind. None of our mates knew what it was | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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like to lose somebody. This is a film of a family funeral. When Jane | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
Harris and Jimmy Adams lost their son, they wanted to remember what | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
was a very personal, heartfelt and home made fare well. The film has a | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
message. Funerals matter. You don't have to make do with tradition. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
know I personally did not want some awful funeral which meant nothing | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
to me. People standing around not knowing what to do. I could not | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
bear it to be hands off. The film is part of the first festival of | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
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death, which tries to find better ways to say goodbye. We often | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
imagine our own funeral will be vivid and heart-warming. Too often | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
funerals are dreary and understated. We are looking at your coffin, | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
aren't we? Yes. Here is Ivan, a man who will be buried in a kite. A | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
cough and with humour and an innings. We are all floating on the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
winds of chance. Do you feel uncomfortable thinking about your | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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own death? No. No I do not. Let nature take care of itself. | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
Alongside that there are other personalised coffins. This is for a | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
train enthusiast. This is a corker. A festival about death? It is a | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is one of the 20th century's | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
greatest and most popular composers. He remains an enigma as a person. | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
He renounced the artistic freedom of Paris and return home to live in | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
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Russia under Stalin. Was Prokofiev The rehearsal of a rarely performed | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Prokofiev work. The aim of the festival is to delve deep into the | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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work of the composer. We are trying to find out what was Sergei | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
Prokofiev, what kind of man, what kind of artist was he? Was the | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
Russian, was he a man of the world? Was he connected to an ideology? | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
immigrant from Revolution Tour and Russia, he found fame in the West | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
only to return back to Russia in the 1930s. He was forced to comply | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
with the rules of socialism. Some of his best music was written | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
during that period. compositions he wrote the first 10 | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
years when he came back to Russia, were incredibly inspired. He really | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
enjoyed writing music that he loved and feeling it was reaching a wide | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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audience. Gabriel Prokofiev's piece was performed at last year's Proms. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
He says he is strongly influenced by his grandfather's music. I am | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
doing something similar, taking the rhythms from the clubs and from the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
radio and from people's cars, and bringing that into my classical | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
compositions. I feel I am doing something that really connects to | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
the contemporary world we live in. Prokofiev paradoxically has been | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
scorned by some in the West for eulogising the totalitarian regime. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
But this man has condensed much of the greatness of the music is how | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
it reflects the tragic and dramatic times. We are more capable of | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
understanding our times and the past times in the 20th century. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Something which has always been an immense interest to me as an | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
offspring of the Soviet Russian past, which I am not denying. | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
Rather the opposite, I find it is a very important component of my | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
artistic and human integrity. Prokofiev's contemporary said in | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
her great poem, Requiem, I was there with my people, where my | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
people certainly were. Sergei Prokofiev would have said that | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
himself. That he was a man of the people. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Alexander can on the the great Russian composer, Sir Guy Prokofiev. | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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That ends World News today. Good Hello. Today's rain clears into the | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
North Sea tonight. The wind picks up. It will be a windy weekend. | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
There will be showers. Low pressure to the north. Isobars close | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
together, the strong wind. Patchy light rain south across England and | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
Wales. Showers coming into northern Scotland. Snow on the high ground. | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
Northern England will brighten nicely. Strong winds over the east | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
of the Pennines. At weather front taking its cloud and rain further | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
south across England. In southern England you'll be hard pressed to | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
find much in the where uprightness. Another mild day. Gradually | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
brightening up in Wales. Drily in north-west England. A similar | :27:59. | :28:04. |