:00:09. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me Zeinab Badawi. Syrian forces
:00:16. > :00:19.launch their heaviest attack yet in Homs. We have a rare report from
:00:19. > :00:28.our correspondent who's entered the city and witnessed the shelling
:00:29. > :00:34.that's killing innocent civilians. We are hearing an impact every few
:00:34. > :00:41.seconds, and in reply, you can also hear some Kalashnikov fire. It is a
:00:41. > :00:45.pretty futile gesture. SCREENING. The pleas for outside help suffer a
:00:45. > :00:51.setback after Russia and China block a UN resolution. Britain's
:00:51. > :00:58.foreign secretary condemns their vetoes. These are the tears Arab
:00:58. > :01:01.betrayal of the Syrian people and they have let down the Arab League
:01:01. > :01:04.and have let down the people. Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah
:01:04. > :01:08.agree to set up a joint interim government. Can it end the deadlock
:01:08. > :01:11.between the two sides and what does it mean for the peace process?
:01:11. > :01:15.Also coming up in the programme: An anniversary celebration fit for a
:01:15. > :01:21.queen. 60 years to the day since she took the throne, Elizabeth II
:01:21. > :01:24.renews her vow to serve her people. One of the world's most popular
:01:24. > :01:34.writers - we ask why Charles Dickens remains such a superstar of
:01:34. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:49.Welcome. The Syrian city of Homs has been at the epicentre of
:01:49. > :01:53.opposition to President Bashar Al- Assad, so it is little surprise it
:01:53. > :01:58.is under heavy attack from government forces. Hundreds of
:01:58. > :02:02.shells and mortars have been fired into populated areas. Paul Wood has
:02:02. > :02:07.managed to enter Homs and people they have told him it is the worst
:02:07. > :02:11.bombardment they have experienced in the 11 month conflict. This
:02:11. > :02:20.report contains very distressing images.
:02:20. > :02:27.Daybreak in Homs. The artillery fire was just beginning. Dazed, he
:02:27. > :02:37.steered gently to safety. In this part of the city, it is the worst
:02:37. > :02:42.they have endured. God is great, he shouts, in defiance. The shelling
:02:42. > :02:51.is constant and we can hear impact every few seconds. In reply, you
:02:52. > :02:55.can hear a bit of Kalashnikov fire. It is a futile gesture. GUNFIRE.
:02:55. > :03:05.Eyewitnesses say at clinic was hit and they filmed the injured been
:03:05. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:13.moved. Over several days of this, most of the casualties have been
:03:13. > :03:23.civilians. The houses do not have basements, so there is no where to
:03:23. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:33.hide. Where is the Arab League, she shouts. This woman's son is badly
:03:33. > :03:40.wounded. Give us guns, she screams! We cannot defend ourselves. In the
:03:40. > :03:45.midst of all of this, most hide their faces, saying there is no
:03:45. > :03:49.telling what the regime will do. They had their hopes in the UN, we
:03:50. > :03:57.want is the Arab League to devour a situation to the UN so they could
:03:57. > :04:02.help us, now they have abandoned us. He will help us now? This man died
:04:02. > :04:10.attacking a government sniper position yesterday. The regime says
:04:10. > :04:15.that the violence is caused by the fighters of the free Syrian army.
:04:15. > :04:20.No, says the rebel commander here, everything that they do is to
:04:20. > :04:28.defend people. The regime cannot get to us, so it retaliate against
:04:28. > :04:38.civilians instead. There certainly paying the price. The shroud is for
:04:38. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:43.a seven-year-old girl. They carefully write her name. Like all
:04:43. > :04:50.of the dead here, she must be buried in darkness. It is too
:04:50. > :04:59.dangerous in the daytime. There is no family, no prayers, little
:04:59. > :05:07.dignity. They have to hurry, even now, they are attacked. There will
:05:08. > :05:12.be many more such desperate and lonely burials.
:05:12. > :05:16.United States has announced it has closed its embassy in Damascus and
:05:16. > :05:20.in Britain, the foreign secretary said he would intensify efforts to
:05:20. > :05:25.build an international coalition to ensure a peaceful solution to the
:05:25. > :05:30.crisis. He strongly criticise Russia and China for their decision
:05:30. > :05:35.to veto a UN Security Council decision on Syria. We regard this
:05:35. > :05:39.as a grave error of judgment by China and Russia. There is no need
:05:39. > :05:44.to mince words about this, Russia and China have twice vetoed
:05:44. > :05:48.reasonable and necessary UN action by the Security Council. These are
:05:48. > :05:51.betrayal of the Syrian people and and applying them they have let
:05:51. > :05:56.down the Arab League and increase the likelihood of what they wish to
:05:56. > :06:01.avoid in Syria, civil war. They are on the wrong side of Arab and
:06:01. > :06:05.international opinion. The foreign secretary, William Hague, and we
:06:05. > :06:08.hope to get reaction to the news from Syria and little later in the
:06:08. > :06:12.programme, but first, some of the other news in brief and in the last
:06:12. > :06:17.hour, it was announced that Romania's President has asked the
:06:17. > :06:21.head of foreign intelligence to form a new government. This follows
:06:21. > :06:25.the decision of the Emil Boc to resign as Prime Minister to date.
:06:25. > :06:29.He said he wanted to defuse political and social tension after
:06:29. > :06:32.weeks a protest against his centre- right government on his drastic
:06:32. > :06:37.austerity measures. Much of Europe is still suffering
:06:37. > :06:41.under freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall. The number of
:06:41. > :06:45.people at dying has run into hundreds. In the Ukraine, the
:06:45. > :06:50.thermometer has hit minus 33 degrees Celsius. More than 130
:06:50. > :06:53.people have died in the Ukraine. The former First Minister of
:06:53. > :06:58.Northern Ireland Reverend Ian Paisley has been admitted to
:06:58. > :07:02.hospital. The 85-year-old was taken ill yesterday but his condition is
:07:02. > :07:06.not yet known. He was the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party are
:07:06. > :07:11.almost 40 years. A local military official in the
:07:11. > :07:17.Philippines has more than 40 people were killed by an earthquake. The
:07:17. > :07:23.6.7 magnitude quake shook a central province on Monday morning.
:07:23. > :07:27.We can return to our main story, the events in Syria, we showed you
:07:27. > :07:32.that report by Paul Wood from the opposition stronghold of Homs Verde
:07:32. > :07:35.there is very heavy shelling. The residents have told us it is the
:07:35. > :07:41.heaviest shelling they have experienced in 11 months of
:07:41. > :07:45.conflict. We are joined by a Ausama Monajed, an adviser to be chairman
:07:46. > :07:49.of the opposition National Council and he is joining us now, so the
:07:49. > :07:54.fact that China and Russia have vetoed this resolution on Syria,
:07:54. > :08:00.what is the impact of this going to be on the ground? People suggested
:08:00. > :08:08.would be the fighting on both sides getting worse. It is indeed, it is
:08:08. > :08:11.a very, sad day when Russia and China have decided to take sides
:08:11. > :08:18.with a killing regime. They are committing atrocities against the
:08:18. > :08:22.people. This is just leaving the population, the revolutionaries and
:08:22. > :08:25.the opposition, it leads them to believe there is no hope in the
:08:25. > :08:31.international community and the only way is to bring down this
:08:31. > :08:37.regime by arming the opposition and fighting the regime's forces. We
:08:37. > :08:42.have confirmed information and intelligence that the regime is
:08:42. > :08:47.preparing for recorder needed a military attack on the city of Homs.
:08:47. > :08:51.The reason why, it has become a symbol of the military uprising in
:08:51. > :08:59.Syria and snout if they managed to crack it, it is going to have a
:08:59. > :09:04.dramatic effect on the people. Those armed opposition groups, Euro
:09:04. > :09:09.information is that they are going to step up their fight against the
:09:09. > :09:19.police? Yes, the weaponry, the support and the logistical support
:09:19. > :09:24.is now pouring into the country. Different groups are mushrooming
:09:24. > :09:28.and also, all around the country. Unfortunately Russia and China,
:09:28. > :09:32.their veto on the UN Security Council resolution put an end to
:09:32. > :09:37.any diplomatic or political solution for the conflict in Syria,
:09:37. > :09:40.and that is why everyone is getting ready for the big fight.
:09:40. > :09:45.British foreign secretary and the Americans are trying to find a
:09:45. > :09:49.coalition of the willing to still get a peaceful resolution, the
:09:49. > :09:53.Russian foreign minister visits Damascus on Tuesday, is there a
:09:53. > :09:59.possibility, yet, that a rabbit could be pulled out of the hat by
:09:59. > :10:03.either party to find a negotiation between the two sides? The Russians
:10:03. > :10:07.are not in favour of asking Bashar Al-Assad to step down or finding
:10:07. > :10:14.any solution or reaching any solution read this regime is no
:10:14. > :10:18.longer in power. This regime is securing lots of arms deals with
:10:18. > :10:23.Russia and Russia, have they lost this current regime in this area,
:10:23. > :10:27.there will be a dramatic impact on the influence in the Arab world and
:10:27. > :10:32.in the region and they realise this. Unfortunately, they are taking the
:10:33. > :10:38.wrong decision, the wrong historic decision by a signing with the
:10:38. > :10:44.people. -- by not siding with the people. The attitude to what they
:10:44. > :10:49.have done, it is not only disappointment but also anger. That
:10:49. > :10:56.has made our work in the Syrian National Council very difficult in
:10:56. > :11:02.finding any negotiations in the regime, and the only way forward
:11:02. > :11:05.from that is the armed resistance. One file point, very quickly, the
:11:05. > :11:09.longer this conflict goes on, the longer they do not find a solution
:11:09. > :11:12.for this, the more dramatic and more problematic for every one it
:11:12. > :11:17.would be to deal with the aftermath when Bashar Al-Assad collapses.
:11:17. > :11:20.Thank you. Four months, but two main
:11:20. > :11:26.Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have tried to forge a united
:11:26. > :11:31.party. They now agree that the Fatah leader, President Abbas will
:11:31. > :11:35.organise elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Fatah has control the
:11:36. > :11:40.West Bank whereas Hamas was controlled Gaza since they fell out
:11:40. > :11:47.in 2007. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu has said that President
:11:47. > :11:52.Abbas would abandon the way of peace if he abandons the deal.
:11:52. > :11:58.Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader, the Palestinian President and now,
:11:58. > :12:03.the Prime Minister also. After talks with Hamas chief hosted by a
:12:03. > :12:10.Qatar, Mr Abbas decided to lead dementia and unity government for
:12:10. > :12:14.the West Bank and Gaza. TRANSLATION: We did not sign this
:12:14. > :12:18.agreement for the sake of signing. We want to implement what is
:12:18. > :12:22.related to the elections, the Government, the internal
:12:22. > :12:27.circulation and any aspect. And this with all the hurdles we have
:12:27. > :12:30.been surrounded by. We are serious about mending the old wounds and
:12:30. > :12:36.closing the chapters of division in order to achieve reconciliation on
:12:36. > :12:42.the ground. Palestinians have been crying out for political
:12:42. > :12:47.reconciliation four years. But the division between Fatah and Hamas
:12:47. > :12:54.has been bitter and sometimes violent. One year after a mosque
:12:54. > :13:01.macro won the elections in 2006, fierce fighting erupted. -- after
:13:01. > :13:07.Hamas won the elections. Mr Abbas says he wants this to change, with
:13:07. > :13:11.long overdue elections being held later this year. He is really have
:13:11. > :13:16.fall-back choice as Prime Minister. The two sides failed to agree on
:13:16. > :13:21.any alternative names. There remains the major differences in
:13:21. > :13:28.policy between Fatah and her mosque macro, not least, had to deal with
:13:28. > :13:32.Israel of which rejected the deal. -- and Hamas. Hamas strives to
:13:32. > :13:37.destroy the state of Israel and is supported by Iran. I have said many
:13:37. > :13:42.times in the past that the Palestinian Authority must decide
:13:42. > :13:47.between a packed with Hamas and peace in Israel. Hamas and peace to
:13:47. > :13:52.not go together. After decades of failed talks with Israel, President
:13:52. > :13:56.Abbas is increasingly frustrated with US efforts to mediate and
:13:56. > :14:02.Middle-East peace deal. For now, peace between Palestinians seems to
:14:02. > :14:06.be his priority. We can get a response from Israel
:14:06. > :14:13.on this, Danny Rubenstein is a political analyst and joins us from
:14:13. > :14:20.to ruler than -- from Jerusalem. Why should Israel opposed this
:14:20. > :14:24.unity government? From the Israeli point of view, Hamas is a terrorist
:14:24. > :14:29.organisation as they had been from the outset. The problem is, how
:14:29. > :14:37.mosque macro belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, and this is a sort of
:14:37. > :14:44.triumph from Morocco in the West. - - Hamas belongs. I do not think
:14:44. > :14:51.that Israel have any choice. We do not deal with Hamas because it is a
:14:51. > :14:58.terrorist organisation and we deal with Mahmoud Abbas, he is not only
:14:58. > :15:02.the Prime Minister, he is the head of the PLO and from a formal point
:15:02. > :15:10.of view, are negotiations is not with the Palestinian government, it
:15:10. > :15:13.is with the PLO. We have to have an option to continue in negotiations
:15:13. > :15:17.or what is left from the negotiations with the PLO and not
:15:17. > :15:21.the Palestinian government. said Hamas is a terrorist
:15:21. > :15:25.organisation and it is recognised by Israel and the European Union,
:15:25. > :15:30.but the Muslim brother read in Egypt is not, even though they have
:15:30. > :15:35.an alliance, I want to clarify that. How will Israel respond? In the
:15:35. > :15:44.past it has without taxes from the Palestinian Authority if they do
:15:44. > :15:49.not abandon this deal which it Israel will back off. They will
:15:49. > :15:55.make a concession here. Israel will say, we continue with Mahmoud Abbas
:15:55. > :16:00.because we know quite well that this reconciliation, up till now,
:16:00. > :16:06.is more symbolic. It doesn't have any practical steps. They're still
:16:06. > :16:10.in trouble and they're still, they cannot agree about the same
:16:11. > :16:15.political issues. They cannot agree even about distribution the
:16:15. > :16:19.newspaper from Gaza in the West Bank and from the West Bank in Gaza.
:16:19. > :16:25.They didn't release prisoners. They didn't issue passports in Ramallah
:16:25. > :16:30.for people in Gaza. From practical point of view, the unification or
:16:30. > :16:40.the reconciliation doesn't work up till now. So, it can be... Does
:16:40. > :16:44.
:16:44. > :16:48.that suit your purpose? No, I think that Israel will continue, there's
:16:48. > :16:52.no negotiation any way. We can try to think about this and about that
:16:52. > :17:00.and about this option or that option from practical point of view,
:17:00. > :17:05.we don't have negotiation today with the not with Hamas, we don't
:17:05. > :17:09.have negotiation with PLO. So it's not a practical question for us. We
:17:09. > :17:15.can continue, Israel can continue and the government can continue
:17:15. > :17:18.with its rejection of the Palestinian demand to freeze the
:17:19. > :17:23.settlement activity and so on. Thanks very much indeed for joining
:17:23. > :17:26.us live from Jerusalem. Now it's 60 years ago that Princess
:17:26. > :17:31.Elizabeth became Queen of the United Kingdom and head of the
:17:31. > :17:39.Commonwealth. She was visiting Kenya on February 6, 1952 when she
:17:39. > :17:43.was told the news that her father George VI had died. To mark her
:17:43. > :17:47.Diamond Jubilee events will be held. Today it was a quiet advise toit
:17:47. > :17:52.Norfolk in the east of England. She has recommitted herself to
:17:52. > :17:57.serve, renewing the pledges she made at the time of her accession.
:17:57. > :18:01.In a Diamond Jubilee message the Queen says she's deeply moved by
:18:01. > :18:06.the messages of support she received as she marks her 60th
:18:06. > :18:10.anniversary of coming to the throne. At King's Lynn Town Hall, where
:18:10. > :18:16.photographs of previous visits are on display, the mayor delivered a
:18:16. > :18:19.loyal address and spoke for many. The 60 years Your Majesty has given
:18:19. > :18:23.exemplary service to the people of this country and the Commonwealth.
:18:23. > :18:27.60 years ago this morning, the nation had been stunned when the
:18:28. > :18:33.BBC interrupted its programmes to announce the death of the Queen's
:18:33. > :18:39.father King George VI. This is London. It was announced from
:18:39. > :18:44.Sandringham at 10.45 today, February 6, 1952, that the king,
:18:44. > :18:49.who retired to rest last night in his usual health, passed peacefully
:18:49. > :18:53.away in his sleep earlier this morning. It's hard now fully to
:18:53. > :18:59.appreciate the impact the death of Britain's wartime king had on the
:18:59. > :19:03.country. Alisdair Donald Campbell was ten. He was at school. A
:19:03. > :19:08.Frenchman, veteran of Word War I was taking a French class. Halfway
:19:08. > :19:12.through that class, one of the other staff came in and whispered
:19:12. > :19:18.something into the teacher's ear. Suddenly, we were conscious that
:19:18. > :19:24.this grown man sitting in front of us was crying. For a child of our
:19:25. > :19:31.generation and in the 1950s, you didn't often see grown men
:19:31. > :19:41.especially in public expressing emotion of that kind. He recovered
:19:41. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:47.himself. He slowly walked to the chalk board and wrote the words
:19:47. > :19:51."(in French) that's how I learned of his death. The new Queen
:19:51. > :19:55.Elizabeth was in Kenya at the time of her father's death and just 25
:19:55. > :19:58.years old. She returned to London to be greeted by Prime Minister
:19:59. > :20:02.Winston Churchill and his Cabinet. At her accession Council she
:20:02. > :20:05.pledged to continue the work of her beloved father and to serve Britain
:20:05. > :20:09.and the other countries of which she is monarch. This morning on her
:20:09. > :20:12.last few days in Norfolk, before returning to back ham Palace, she
:20:12. > :20:21.was receiving the first of the thousands of greetings which will
:20:21. > :20:26.convey the country's thanks for 60 years of service. Kate Williams is
:20:26. > :20:28.a royal historian and she joins me now. Even those people who don't
:20:28. > :20:33.count themselves as ardent royalists would have to accept the
:20:33. > :20:39.Queen has done a good job. Yes, I think even those people who aren't
:20:39. > :20:45.ar dents royalists, even republicans have o to say she was
:20:45. > :20:49.thrust into the limelight at 25 and she has done an incredible job. 85
:20:49. > :20:54.and still going strong. Britain collapsed yesterday, no flights,
:20:54. > :20:58.the roads were barely running, the Queen was still on her walk about.
:20:58. > :21:03.She's keeping going. Do you think she adapted to the -- with the
:21:03. > :21:07.times. There were criticisms during the times of the death of Princess
:21:07. > :21:11.Diana who epitomised a more modern touch of the Royal Family, more in
:21:11. > :21:15.keeping with the times. You're absolutely right. Things have had
:21:15. > :21:20.to change very much. So the Queen's always felt if you just carry on
:21:20. > :21:25.with your routine, that's the way you'll get over the problems in
:21:25. > :21:29.life. That wasn't what the nation or the world wanted when Diana died.
:21:29. > :21:33.The coolness, the stiff upper lip was a disaster. The Queen had to
:21:33. > :21:38.rethink a lot of her relationships with the public and the Palace PR
:21:38. > :21:42.machine had to change. We wanted to see a different type of monarchy,
:21:42. > :21:44.more in touch with us and much less flamboyant in spending. Her father
:21:44. > :21:48.was very enthusiastic about the Commonwealth. He was regarded as
:21:48. > :21:55.one of those people who was instrumental in expanding it to the
:21:55. > :22:05.current 54 members today. Rumblings of republicanism in some countries,
:22:05. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:09.how has she done there? The Queen has seen her self-as the Queen of
:22:09. > :22:13.the Commonwealth. She's our greatest toured monarch. She has
:22:13. > :22:15.toured all over the Commonwealth. It's very close to her heart. In
:22:15. > :22:19.the Queen's speech at Christmas there's a lot about the
:22:19. > :22:26.Commonwealth. Things are changing. We have seen big changes in Jamaica,
:22:26. > :22:31.rumbles in Australia and I think we'll see big changes in Charles's
:22:32. > :22:33.reign. At the moment it's co-heerd under the Queen. She creates such
:22:33. > :22:42.affection in the people of the world.
:22:42. > :22:45.Thank you. Now, the British author Charles
:22:45. > :22:49.Dickens is one of the most popular writers in the history of
:22:49. > :22:52.literature, a man described as the first great media celebrity. On
:22:52. > :22:56.Tuesday ceremonies will be held to recognise his achievements. Robert
:22:56. > :23:03.Hall has been finding out what it is about Charles Dickens' work that
:23:03. > :23:09.keeps him alive in our imaginations for so long.
:23:09. > :23:15.A Christmas Carol. A ghost story of Christmas. On a rainy night in the
:23:16. > :23:18.Manchester suburbs, a familiar story is unfolding. Like so many
:23:18. > :23:25.before them, The Chorlton Players are telling a seasonal tale from
:23:25. > :23:29.another century. He's a natural story teller. He saw things that
:23:29. > :23:33.other people hadn't seen yet. I suppose he was ahead of his time,
:23:33. > :23:39.the poverty and the conditions and just told the story really well.
:23:39. > :23:42.What I like is about the bankers being very rich, the poor being
:23:43. > :23:51.very poor and I like that sort of parallel with today's society as
:23:51. > :23:55.well. Charles Dickens book were drama tiesed almost as soon as he
:23:55. > :24:00.finished them. Today's biographers agree that the journey from page to
:24:00. > :24:04.stage made Dickens a Victorian superstar. What was that clanking
:24:04. > :24:08.noise? One biographer has played his own part in bringing Dickens to
:24:08. > :24:11.a wider audience. Whfrpblgts he was writing his books, he used to leap
:24:11. > :24:15.up and look in the mirror and check the expression on his face and
:24:15. > :24:20.report it and write it down. Because it was a performance for
:24:20. > :24:27.him. He was being those characters in exactly the same as an actor
:24:27. > :24:33.does. Charles Dickens didn't live to see his characters make it into
:24:33. > :24:37.the movies. A season of screenings by the British Film Institute
:24:37. > :24:42.includes the earliest version of A Christmas Carol made in 1901 and
:24:42. > :24:46.Great Expectations completed eight years later. Charles Dickens' fame
:24:46. > :24:50.was still spreading. He was a rock star. He was a rock star. He was
:24:50. > :24:54.the most famous man in the world. He travelled the world. Crowds
:24:54. > :25:01.flooded to him. He made millions of pounds in modern day money. He was
:25:01. > :25:03.the first great media celebrity. The more you look at him, the more
:25:03. > :25:13.you realise why he's still exciting and why people are still interested
:25:13. > :25:14.
:25:14. > :25:18.in him. Interested and inspired. These are the children of
:25:18. > :25:23.Manchester's All Saints Primary, tapping into Dickens for a sense of
:25:23. > :25:26.history and a spur to their own imagination. When you read his
:25:26. > :25:30.books you're like, say you stop at a certain part, you want to read
:25:30. > :25:36.more and you don't want to stop. They're more dramatic and they have
:25:36. > :25:41.twists in them. They're good, yeah really good. Another vote of
:25:41. > :25:44.approval for a journalist, author aspiring actor and campaigner for
:25:44. > :25:52.the disadvantaged. The road of discovery that Charles Dickens led
:25:52. > :25:55.us down remains well travelled. Charles Dickens there still
:25:55. > :26:01.enthralling people young and old. Now we have been getting reports
:26:01. > :26:05.coming in while we've been on air of a series of blasts in northern
:26:05. > :26:10.Nigeria. Witnesses say they took place at a marketplace in the city,
:26:10. > :26:13.the base of the militant group there. There are reports gunmen
:26:13. > :26:17.have attacked a police station also in the north. There at least 185
:26:17. > :26:22.people were killed last month in that series of bomb attacks carried
:26:22. > :26:27.out by the same group. Let's remind you of the top story: There has
:26:27. > :26:32.been a another massive onslaught by the Syrian Army on Homs with shells
:26:32. > :26:36.and mortars fired into populated areas through the day. They have
:26:36. > :26:41.told our correspondent that it is the worst bombardment since the
:26:41. > :26:51.uprising began almost a year ago. That is all from World News Today.
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:27:01. > :27:05.Hello there. More cold weather to come this week, as we look to
:27:05. > :27:09.tomorrow's forecast. A chilly start, widespread frost and that brings
:27:09. > :27:14.with it the risk of ice across many parts of the country. We're still
:27:14. > :27:17.holding onto this area of high pressure. It's moving in once again
:27:17. > :27:20.from northern Europe. Weather fronts are being kept out at the
:27:20. > :27:24.west. That's giving a contrast in our weather, because certainly
:27:24. > :27:27.through Monday it's not as cold in the west. We've had cloud. And
:27:27. > :27:31.through Tuesday we keep cloudier skies. A bit of sunshine elsewhere,
:27:31. > :27:35.after a rather slow start to the day in the east. We'll see brighter
:27:35. > :27:38.weather for the afternoon, but temperatures still struggling, just
:27:38. > :27:42.above freezing across East Anglia and the south-east corner. We'll
:27:42. > :27:49.continue with our slow thaw of the lying snow. Out towards the west,
:27:49. > :27:53.we see broken cloud aacross -- across Devon and Cornwall. We'll
:27:53. > :27:56.see more sunshine too. West Wales with brighter skies. Through the
:27:56. > :28:00.West Midlands we may see a bit of thicker cloud. Don't be surprised
:28:00. > :28:03.if there's the odd spot of snow, just coming out of that thicker
:28:03. > :28:06.cloud. For Northern Ireland it's cloudy for the afternoon,
:28:06. > :28:10.temperatures at seven degrees. A foggy start to the day, but much of
:28:10. > :28:14.that through the central low lands should clear. Yet again Scotland