21/02/2012

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:00:13. > :00:18.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. Greece gets a

:00:18. > :00:22.lifeline but with numerous strings attached. Five years in recession,

:00:22. > :00:28.life for the Greeks will get even tougher. I am relieved that we are

:00:28. > :00:33.still in the Eurozone but I think life will get much worse.

:00:33. > :00:40.The Red Cross calls for daily ceasefires as the bombardment of

:00:40. > :00:44.Holmes's claims dozens more lives. -- bombardment of Homs.

:00:44. > :00:47.We are live in Christchurch in New Zealand to mark the first

:00:47. > :00:51.anniversary of one of the country's darkest days.

:00:51. > :00:56.Also coming up, a reputation in tatters. Dominique Strauss-Kahn,

:00:56. > :00:59.the former IMF boss wants front runner for the French presidency is

:00:59. > :01:03.questioned by police over a prostitution ring.

:01:03. > :01:13.And someone with something to smile about in austerity it Spain. But

:01:13. > :01:19.

:01:19. > :01:22.she is not what she seems. It was the longest of nights, the

:01:22. > :01:27.finance ministers in Brussels all getting a personal sense of the

:01:27. > :01:34.Greek word marriage on. In the end, the Greek Prime Minister liked it,

:01:34. > :01:38.as did the EU president, Jose Manuel grosso. Even so, the second

:01:38. > :01:43.bail-out has been agreed, with numerous strings attached, but

:01:43. > :01:48.cannot be implemented? -- was a Manuel Barroso. Greeks will see yet

:01:48. > :01:53.more spending interned -- in return from the -- in return for the bail-

:01:53. > :01:57.out. In a moment, we will see what former Prime Minister George

:01:57. > :02:01.Papandreou mix of that. Four two years, Greece has been the

:02:01. > :02:05.epicentre of the Eurozone crisis. Now after months of bitter argument,

:02:05. > :02:08.the country has been granted the biggest bail-out in history. The

:02:08. > :02:16.threat of bankruptcy has been lifted and Europe have breathed a

:02:16. > :02:20.sigh of relief. Greece has made its choice. We now have to focus on the

:02:20. > :02:25.next step, constructing a far wall that is large enough to prevent

:02:25. > :02:30.contagion within the Eurozone. 12 hours, ministers and officials

:02:30. > :02:34.argued over how to reduce Greece's debt mountain and how to prevent

:02:34. > :02:41.the country defaulting and threatening the European economy.

:02:41. > :02:46.But risks remain. There are downsize risks. It is not an easy

:02:46. > :02:51.programme, it is very ambitious. The bail-out is aimed at reducing

:02:51. > :02:56.Greek debt. Private investors have agreed to take big losses, 107

:02:56. > :03:04.billion euros. Greece will get a loan of 130 billion euros, and the

:03:04. > :03:09.hope is that by 2020, the debt will be down to 120% of GDP.

:03:09. > :03:14.The deal is intended to draw a line under months of violent protest. It

:03:14. > :03:20.period when a Greek Prime Minister was forced to stand down and an --

:03:20. > :03:25.a period of increased hostility against Germany foreign --

:03:25. > :03:28.insisting on more austerity. On the streets of Athens today, further

:03:28. > :03:32.protest. There is particular anger that under the deal, the country

:03:32. > :03:37.will have to accept permanent monitors to ensure that it lives up

:03:37. > :03:42.to its promises. The mood, as in recent demonstrations, was fearful

:03:42. > :03:46.and resentful. I am relieved that we are still in the Eurozone but I

:03:46. > :03:51.think life will get much worse year. TRANSLATION: The people will be

:03:51. > :03:54.even worse after last year. The measures will deepen the recession.

:03:54. > :04:00.Families know that more austerity is coming in exchange for the new

:04:00. > :04:06.bail-out. This man is a bus driver and his wages have already been cut

:04:06. > :04:14.by 400 euros a month. Now, he is threatened with losing his job.

:04:14. > :04:19.am afraid that I will not have enough money to buy the basics for

:04:19. > :04:22.my children and for the family. gamble with this new bail-out is

:04:22. > :04:27.that Greece is being asked to embrace further cuts whilst its

:04:27. > :04:32.economy is in freefall. It does not solve the great problem because the

:04:32. > :04:36.burden on the Greek is very high and intense. I am afraid that we

:04:36. > :04:41.will meet again in six months' time to discuss the great situation

:04:41. > :04:46.again. What a massive bail-out has done is to buy the Eurozone time to

:04:46. > :04:51.strengthen its banks and to shore up the defences around of a weaker

:04:51. > :04:58.European countries. For the moment, Greece has avoided bankruptcy but

:04:58. > :05:01.it faces years of hardship. As we saw in that report, the

:05:01. > :05:06.former Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou resigned in November,

:05:06. > :05:10.stepping aside for a government of national unity. What is his verdict

:05:10. > :05:17.on events in Brussels? Zeinab Badawi has been speaking to him in

:05:17. > :05:24.Athens. It is the only interview he has done. I have heard many experts

:05:24. > :05:30.over the last few years talking about the possible outcomes and the

:05:30. > :05:36.Domesday -- doomsayers. We will not enter the Euro one we will not a

:05:36. > :05:41.fault. -- Exeter the Euro and we will not default. Of course, it

:05:41. > :05:49.means we need to do hard work. But we will demand, and I use that

:05:49. > :05:55.respectively, more respect. We have made major sacrifices. More respect

:05:55. > :05:58.from you -- from who? International analysts. Do you think this has

:05:58. > :06:03.engendered humiliation? I think there is pressure on Greece and

:06:03. > :06:08.much speculation about what will happen with Greece, if Greece will

:06:08. > :06:12.default and leave the Euro. This has been a pain in Greece, it has

:06:12. > :06:16.contributed to the recession. People will not invest, people are

:06:16. > :06:21.feeling that if they take their money out of the banks, they will

:06:21. > :06:26.not consume, and this deal gives us breathing space to make these major

:06:26. > :06:31.changes. On the question of sovereignty, and the German bashing

:06:31. > :06:34.that we have seen here, with effigies of the Chancellor Merkel,

:06:34. > :06:38.and the German flag being burnt, do you have sympathies with that kind

:06:38. > :06:43.of you when you see the protesters? They say they are being controlled

:06:43. > :06:51.by the European Union, specifically the paymaster of the EU, Berlin.

:06:51. > :06:54.think we need more democracy and our European institutions. -- in

:06:54. > :06:57.our European institutions. Particularly in Greece, with this

:06:57. > :07:00.kind of programme, people think that there is ownership and the

:07:00. > :07:08.programme, they need to feel ownership about what Europe is

:07:08. > :07:11.doing. The moment, citizens in Europe feel this empowered. They

:07:11. > :07:15.look to Brussels and stronger countries and they say, who is

:07:15. > :07:21.making the decisions? I think this is a question for Europe. You can

:07:21. > :07:25.see it from the Germans point of view, they say, why should we work

:07:25. > :07:29.until we are 65 so that Greek train drivers can retire at 50? In order

:07:29. > :07:32.that they have a minimum wage which when it was 700 euros, was much

:07:32. > :07:37.higher than a lot of other countries. Why should we support

:07:37. > :07:41.that kind of Greek state, do you sympathise with that you?

:07:41. > :07:44.understand that you and very often I have said that we have to

:07:44. > :07:51.understand citizens of other countries that are helping us. They

:07:51. > :07:55.want to see that we changed. But I think there is also problems in the

:07:55. > :07:59.Eurozone, of which make it quite unique. We are a family, but we

:07:59. > :08:03.have not really understood how deeply interconnected we are in

:08:03. > :08:07.Europe. That is why we need more economic Government's --

:08:07. > :08:11.governments, but we need to get away with populism, prejudice and

:08:11. > :08:19.extremism. Is that what you are seeing here? I'm seeing this around

:08:19. > :08:22.Europe, forces that are prejudicial, even racist, trying to scapegoat

:08:22. > :08:29.the real problems. George Papandreou was speaking to Zeinab

:08:29. > :08:32.Badawi. Syrian opposition activists say at least 30 people have been

:08:32. > :08:36.killed in the city of Homs as government forces continued to

:08:36. > :08:40.shell the district of Baba Amr. 20, including for my children are said

:08:41. > :08:43.to have been killed. The Red Cross is the only international aid

:08:44. > :08:51.agency operating inside Syria and is calling for a daily ceasefires

:08:51. > :08:55.to deal with the wounded. Bombardment was unleashed in the

:08:56. > :09:00.early morning and went on relentlessly. Hundreds of shells

:09:00. > :09:05.and rockets slammed into Baba Amr, which has been under siege for two

:09:05. > :09:08.weeks. Several hundred rebel fighters from the Free Syrian Army

:09:08. > :09:14.are entrenched here but many civilians are also trapped, some of

:09:14. > :09:18.them paying the price. At the improvised field hospitals, doctors

:09:18. > :09:24.were struggling to save the lives of the wounded, including this baby

:09:24. > :09:28.hit by shrapnel from an exploding rockets. Activist said that some

:09:28. > :09:33.buildings were reduced to rubble by the intensity of the shelling. One

:09:33. > :09:37.of the heaviest since the siege began. Tanks and armoured vehicles

:09:37. > :09:41.were on the move in the district immediately adjacent. It is not

:09:41. > :09:45.clear whether the bombardment was the prelude she -- prelude to the

:09:45. > :09:49.ground offensive the Government has threatened. Human rights groups say

:09:49. > :09:52.such an attack would result in a massacre. They have called on the

:09:52. > :09:57.world to intervene. The International Red Cross is trying

:09:57. > :10:06.to mediate a truce to get supplies in an civilians out. No result so

:10:06. > :10:09.far. -- and civilians out. Western and Arab count -- Western and Arab

:10:09. > :10:13.partners are planning for a meeting on Friday to step up opposition to

:10:13. > :10:21.the regime but there was still no clear way ahead. The Syrian regime

:10:21. > :10:27.is going to be under increasing pressure, which will create space

:10:27. > :10:34.for all of us to push hard on a transition. We will intensify our

:10:34. > :10:39.diplomatic out reached -- outreach to those countries still supporting

:10:39. > :10:44.the regime. But the world is not united. Russia and China continued

:10:44. > :10:47.to resist the idea of regime change and accuse the West of fuelling

:10:47. > :10:56.civil war. They advocate dialogue but there is very little of that

:10:56. > :11:03.going on. A resident of Forteviot who managed

:11:03. > :11:13.to escape from the city speaks to us now. -- Homs. What is the

:11:13. > :11:30.

:11:30. > :11:40.information you're getting from inside Homs? AUDIO PROBLEMS... We

:11:40. > :11:41.

:11:41. > :11:50.have no medical supplies... So make people are dying in their houses.

:11:50. > :11:53.Of sickness and power -- of sickness and hunger or by shelling.

:11:53. > :11:59.Thank you very much. I'm sorry, the line is very bad and it is

:11:59. > :12:02.difficult to make out what you're saying.

:12:02. > :12:06.Gunmen have killed at least nine people at polling stations in Yemen

:12:06. > :12:12.where elections are taking place for the new president to replace

:12:12. > :12:17.Ali Abdullah Saleh. There is only one candidate on the ballot, the

:12:17. > :12:22.current Vice President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

:12:22. > :12:29.Leon Panetta has apologised after copies of the Koran were allegedly

:12:29. > :12:34.burnt by American forces in Kabul. Following angry protests, officials

:12:34. > :12:37.told the BBC that Americans took the holy books after suspicions

:12:37. > :12:41.that prisoners were using them to send messages.

:12:41. > :12:45.A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for over

:12:45. > :12:52.two months has agreed to end his protest. He will be released in

:12:52. > :12:57.April. He is widely believed to be a member of a militant Islamist

:12:57. > :13:01.group which Israel regards as a terrorist organisation.

:13:01. > :13:06.Sotheby's has announced that The Scream will be sold in New York in

:13:06. > :13:16.May. There were painted by F are Moon Beach is expected to fetch

:13:16. > :13:17.

:13:17. > :13:24.more than $80 million. -- Munch. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been

:13:24. > :13:31.detained by police on suspicion of being involved in a prostitution

:13:31. > :13:39.ring. Charges of rape against a hotel worker were dismissed last

:13:40. > :13:43.year. It is accused that he -- it is alleged that he used funds to...

:13:43. > :13:47.Another very difficult day for a man once tipped to be President.

:13:47. > :13:52.Another extraordinary turn in the life and tribulations of Dominique

:13:52. > :13:56.Strauss-Kahn. Quite a fall from grace for a man who could have been

:13:56. > :14:00.a presidential hopeful in two once time. This was an investigation

:14:00. > :14:06.that has been rumbling on for some months. It is called the Carlton

:14:06. > :14:10.affair, named after a hotel in Lille where Mr Strauss-Kahn

:14:10. > :14:15.allegedly attended orgies. It is alleged that women were supplied at

:14:15. > :14:18.his request by high-ranking officials and businessmen. Not just

:14:18. > :14:24.in Lille but also in Paris and Washington where he was serving as

:14:24. > :14:28.the leader of the IMF. It is sent in French reports that some of

:14:28. > :14:31.these businessmen paid for the prostitutes out of corporate funds

:14:31. > :14:35.from a very big construction company. And that he knew these

:14:35. > :14:38.were prostitutes. He has denied that although he has not denied

:14:38. > :14:43.sleeping with the women. He has publicly denied that he knew they

:14:43. > :14:49.were prostitutes. His lawyer went on a French baroque -- French

:14:49. > :14:53.television station to say that "I challenge you to recognise a

:14:53. > :14:58.prostitute without a close off and a ordinary woman without her close

:14:58. > :15:02.off. " As I understand it, having sex

:15:02. > :15:06.with prostitutes in France is not illegal. What are the specific

:15:06. > :15:10.charges? There is no charge for sleeping

:15:10. > :15:14.with prostitutes, but there is a charge for supplying prostitutes,

:15:14. > :15:20.known as Pennyburn. In this case, he has put distance between himself

:15:20. > :15:23.and the hiring of the prostitutes. The allegation is that he wanted to

:15:23. > :15:29.keep a distance because he was serving of the head of the IMF and

:15:29. > :15:32.these people were doing his bidding. He denies this charge. As for the

:15:32. > :15:38.Socialist Party, I would think the reason number of people within the

:15:38. > :15:41.party who were breathing a huge sigh of relief. If this had come

:15:41. > :15:44.out earlier -- had not come out earlier and he had not been

:15:44. > :15:48.arrested in May and had managed to get the ticket for the Socialist

:15:48. > :15:52.Party to stand in the presidential elections, this could have blown up

:15:52. > :15:56.in the final two bombs of the presidential campaign. That might

:15:56. > :16:06.well have derailed the party's best chance in 20 years of winning the

:16:06. > :16:06.

:16:06. > :16:10.One year ago, an earthquake devastated New Zealand's second

:16:10. > :16:14.biggest city, chairs -- Christchurch. The centre of the

:16:14. > :16:19.city was left in ruins. Today people were marking the anniversary

:16:19. > :16:28.with events from a round the country and a two-minute silence.

:16:29. > :16:34.We can cross now to Christchurch to my colleague Lucy Hawking.

:16:34. > :16:38.Still some remote -- morning here in Christchurch. To mark that

:16:38. > :16:45.devastating moment a year ago today when a massive earthquake hit this

:16:45. > :16:49.city, devastating parts of it and killing 185 people. The service

:16:49. > :16:55.about to get under way is for families of victims. That is

:16:55. > :16:59.poignant, because where we are standing is in the Square on the

:16:59. > :17:03.edge of the central business district, an area that had been

:17:03. > :17:09.completely devastated. But this was whether to the large hospitals were

:17:09. > :17:13.set up on that day, concerts -- coincidentally to doctors'

:17:13. > :17:17.conventions what taking place in time, so the doctors came to help.

:17:17. > :17:21.The damage one year on is still shocking, there are still many

:17:21. > :17:24.buildings that need to be brought down, and they took the in to see

:17:24. > :17:28.it yesterday. New Zealanders call it the quake

:17:29. > :17:33.that changed and nation. One year on, at the centre of Christchurch

:17:33. > :17:37.is still completely off limits. Street after street destroyed and

:17:37. > :17:44.still dangerous. For the Dean of the city this is as close as he and

:17:44. > :17:48.his congregation can get to the cathedral. Most of us are getting

:17:48. > :17:53.on with our lives, and we live with this reality that we could have

:17:53. > :17:58.more quakes, and we live with the reality of a city that could get

:17:58. > :18:04.more devastated. But in the midst of it all, there is hope.

:18:04. > :18:07.This is the sight of the Canterbury Television building. The building

:18:07. > :18:10.was one of the first to be cleared, and of visual reminder may be gone,

:18:10. > :18:15.but tributes from a round the world remain.

:18:15. > :18:20.It took 160 years to build Christchurch and on the 24 seconds

:18:21. > :18:24.to rip apart the satyr of it. This used to be the middle of New

:18:24. > :18:29.Zealand's second biggest city. 50,000 people came into work here

:18:29. > :18:38.every day. Now it is home to just a few demolition workers, but

:18:38. > :18:40.crucially also construction workers - a $2 million plan is in process

:18:40. > :18:47.to rebuild this part of Christchurch.

:18:47. > :18:52.The nearby port of Lyttleton was the closest suburb to the epicentre.

:18:52. > :18:57.This mobile phone footage captures the full force of the quake. Alex

:18:57. > :19:00.Herbert showed her as the damage to his home. The house had to be

:19:00. > :19:06.pulled down. On so many different levels, the past year has been a

:19:06. > :19:12.tough one. The aftershocks always get your heart jumping, but we get

:19:12. > :19:17.used to them a little bit. The fear for us is more financial, and

:19:18. > :19:22.social, than anything else at this stage. We have lost a lot of

:19:23. > :19:27.friends, but have gone, and that time, lost a lot of businesses, the

:19:27. > :19:31.bars... This whole event has strengthened my resolve to be in

:19:31. > :19:36.this time, because it turns out that things we laugh about it goes

:19:36. > :19:40.so much deeper than the buildings, and it is the people, the geography,

:19:40. > :19:48.and this rare thing this debt -- these days which is a committee

:19:48. > :19:53.that cares about each other. You can feel the remarkable sense

:19:53. > :20:00.of community here. On a golden evening in Lyttleton, this festival

:20:00. > :20:05.is a moment to celebrate that. A stitching circle started sewing

:20:05. > :20:09.hearts as out symbol of hope. have people walking by with jackets

:20:09. > :20:13.and uniforms, so we had the opportunity to give these people

:20:13. > :20:18.one, and they have ended up all over the world. So it was a chance

:20:18. > :20:23.to say thank you to those people. The attitude in Christchurch is one

:20:23. > :20:28.of stoicism and the -- resilience. But with years of rebuilding and

:20:28. > :20:33.uncertainty ahead, people here have little choice.

:20:33. > :20:39.It is that stoicism and resilience that is so apparent as you talk to

:20:39. > :20:45.people here in Christchurch. So as you can see, this memorial service

:20:45. > :20:49.about to get under way. The Army band playing, it will be a sad day

:20:49. > :20:53.for the people of New Zealand, not just for the people in this city.

:20:53. > :20:57.If we are not sure how many people will show up, many people have said

:20:57. > :21:04.they want to mark this day with their family, quietly and on their

:21:04. > :21:06.own. Nearly 40 children have frozen to

:21:07. > :21:09.death in Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials, as the country

:21:09. > :21:12.experiences one of its harshest winters in decades. About 40,000

:21:12. > :21:16.people are living in makeshift camps, with only basic shelter and

:21:16. > :21:19.little food or clothes. Many have arrived in recent weeks to escape

:21:19. > :21:22.fighting and insecurity. As Andrew North reports from Kabul,

:21:22. > :21:32.it's also raising new questions about the capacity of the Afghan

:21:32. > :21:33.

:21:33. > :21:40.government. It could be a scene from the last

:21:40. > :21:50.century, but this is Afghanistan at 2012. They fled to Kabul for safety

:21:50. > :21:58.- now this family are overwhelmed by the cold. Born three months ago,

:21:59. > :22:04.the little one has already fallen sick. Just 22 years old, this one -

:22:04. > :22:09.- and he cannot feel -- he cannot keep them warm. TRANSLATION: We

:22:09. > :22:16.took my daughter to the doctor's, but the medicine did not help and

:22:16. > :22:21.we cannot afford to go again. Across Kabul, it is the same story

:22:21. > :22:26.for thousands of people displaced by fighting, now living in

:22:26. > :22:30.makeshift camps. Some help is coming in - these hats have been

:22:30. > :22:38.donated by people in Britain. But it is just touching the surface of

:22:38. > :22:47.the problem. At some camps, they only have tense to shelter from

:22:47. > :22:52.Afghanistan's harshest winter in decades. This is home for this

:22:52. > :23:00.family, and where the baby daughter died last week, the other daughter

:23:00. > :23:05.asks her father when she has gone. -- where she has gone.

:23:05. > :23:10.We were up all night, trying to keep her warm, he says. We did not

:23:10. > :23:15.have enough blankets. Then we heard her cough, and it was her last

:23:15. > :23:20.breath. It is heartbreaking what has

:23:20. > :23:24.happened to this family. And to so many others this winter. But it is

:23:24. > :23:27.also has a telling about life in Afghanistan, more than ten years

:23:27. > :23:31.since the fall of the Taliban. Despite all the billions that have

:23:31. > :23:35.been spent here, the Afghan Government and its Western backers

:23:35. > :23:39.still cannot do anything as simple as protect people against the cold

:23:39. > :23:43.weather. Nearly 40 children have died in

:23:43. > :23:49.Kabul so far this winter. The Afghan minister responsible can

:23:50. > :23:53.only offer apologies. TRANSLATION: I am sorry for what has happened,

:23:53. > :23:58.especially to the children. They do not have the support they need, and

:23:58. > :24:07.they are the future of our country. But if Afghanistan still cannot

:24:07. > :24:10.cope with its own winter, that future looks bleak.

:24:10. > :24:20.It seems the Mona Lisa is such an important painting that it's even

:24:20. > :24:22.worth us looking at copies of it. The Prado Museum in Madrid has put

:24:23. > :24:26.on show an alternative version which was painted by one of

:24:26. > :24:29.Leonardo Da Vinci's assistants. We're told that seeing the copy

:24:29. > :24:39.will help us understand how Da Vinci worked, because the theory is

:24:39. > :24:43.

:24:43. > :24:51.that both paintings were produced at the same time.

:24:51. > :24:55.It is a famous stair. A familiar pose. But for a long time, this

:24:55. > :24:59.painting attracted little attention. Because it used to look like this.

:24:59. > :25:03.We now know that the black background was painted on at a much

:25:03. > :25:06.later date. When removed, it revealed something strikingly

:25:06. > :25:11.similar to that on the Vinci's Mona Lisa.

:25:11. > :25:15.The painting has been part of the Prada's collection for centuries.

:25:15. > :25:21.It was thought to be painted in the decades following de Vinci's

:25:21. > :25:23.original, and it was only when the Louvre asked to use it for an

:25:23. > :25:28.exhibition, but the discovery was made.

:25:28. > :25:33.In if we compare what is beneath the CERN -- the surface here, with

:25:33. > :25:38.what is beneath the surface at the the Louvre picture, you can see

:25:38. > :25:42.there are things going on which are not apparent on the surface.

:25:42. > :25:47.Because those alterations, those changes, those slight modifications

:25:47. > :25:53.are in both pictures, it is very likely that this was painted by an

:25:53. > :25:57.artist who was working at the same pace as Leonardo.

:25:57. > :26:01.It is not that the artist was one of da Vinci's apprentices, who

:26:01. > :26:11.achieved a very close copy of possibly the first -- most famous

:26:11. > :26:15.

:26:15. > :26:18.painting of the -- in the world. A reminder of our main news. The

:26:18. > :26:23.Greek Prime Minister says the agreement of another big bail-out

:26:23. > :26:28.from the eurozone it is at -- an historic opportunity to move

:26:28. > :26:31.towards stability. Lucas Papademos said the 130 billion you would deal

:26:31. > :26:37.was in the interests of the Greek people. There would be much more

:26:37. > :26:40.pain dull for the Greeks. And Syrian opposition activists say

:26:40. > :26:42.at least 50, including four children, have been killed by

:26:42. > :26:45.government forces across Syria on Tuesday, thirty of them during a

:26:45. > :26:48.heavy bombardment of the city of Homs. During the day hundreds of

:26:48. > :26:58.shells have been fired into the rebel-held Baba Amr district of the

:26:58. > :27:03.

:27:03. > :27:08.Tonight will be another frost-free night for most of us. But for the

:27:08. > :27:14.day tomorrow, the winds pick up. Also a lot of cloud and heavy rain

:27:14. > :27:22.a round. That is due to weather fronts coming in. Across parts of

:27:22. > :27:26.Northern Ireland and Scotland at first. Much thicker cloud elsewhere,

:27:26. > :27:31.the rain is likely to be heavy at times particularly through Western

:27:31. > :27:35.Scotland and north-west England. By 3:00pm, temperatures of nine or ten

:27:35. > :27:41.degrees across northern counties. A wet afternoon for the Midlands, but

:27:41. > :27:46.parts of Kent and Sussex holding on to the dried weather. The rain may

:27:46. > :27:51.be heavy at times across parts of Wiltshire and Hampshire, and across

:27:51. > :27:55.south-west England it is a wet afternoon. Temperatures should get

:27:55. > :27:58.to ten or 11 degrees. When you add on the strength of the south-

:27:58. > :28:04.westerly breeze it will not feel very pleasant. Northern Ireland

:28:04. > :28:10.stays damp and drizzly, highs of 13 to 14 Celsius. Cloudy with

:28:10. > :28:14.outbreaks of rain across much of Scotland, however, eastern Scotland