:00:09. > :00:12.This is BBC World News Today with me Tim Willcox.
:00:12. > :00:22.Cornered in his apartment in Toulouse - French police surround
:00:22. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:28.the man suspected of being behind the recent killings.
:00:28. > :00:32.He referred to the fact he was planning other killings. If he is
:00:32. > :00:35.telling the truth, the gunmen would have left his house this morning
:00:35. > :00:39.and once again killed any soldier he came across.
:00:39. > :00:42.Cutting the top rate of income tax - but how big a political gamble is
:00:42. > :00:46.George Osborne's budget? This country borrowed its way into
:00:46. > :00:49.trouble, now we're going to earn our way out. It's a millionaires'
:00:49. > :00:56.budget which squeezes the middle - wrong choices, out of touch, same
:00:56. > :00:59.old Tories. Free after more than six months -
:00:59. > :01:04.the British woman held in Somalia is released after a ransom is
:01:04. > :01:08.handed over. Also coming up in the programme:
:01:08. > :01:18.The increasingly amazing aspirin. New evidence that a daily dose
:01:18. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:24.might not only prevent the spread of cancer, but actually treat it.
:01:24. > :01:29.In the name of imperial Caesar, hail Caesar.
:01:29. > :01:39.And how easy is it to translate one of Russia's greatest literary
:01:39. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:42.Hello and welcome. As we come on air, the man suspected of being
:01:42. > :01:45.behind the recent killings in France remains cornered in an
:01:45. > :01:48.apartment block in Toulouse. The man, identified as Mohammed Merah,
:01:48. > :01:51.a 24-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin with links to
:01:51. > :01:55.Pakistan and Afghanistan, is surrounded by police commandoes.
:01:55. > :01:58.Shots have been fired and several policemen injured. It's also
:01:58. > :02:05.emerged that French intelligence had been tracking him for years.
:02:05. > :02:09.Christian Fraser has been following events.
:02:09. > :02:13.They swooped in the early hours of the morning. Intelligence gathered
:02:13. > :02:17.in the biggest manhunt France has known led them to an apartment in
:02:18. > :02:24.this quiet residential street. Inside was the gunman responsible
:02:24. > :02:28.for seven murders. His name is Mohammed Merah, aged 24-year-old
:02:29. > :02:32.French citizen who was arrested in Afghanistan and was known to the
:02:32. > :02:36.intelligence services. As they try to force their way end, there was
:02:36. > :02:40.an exchange of fire in which two policemen were shot and injured.
:02:40. > :02:45.The gunman's brother was arrested in a separate operation and his
:02:45. > :02:48.mother was brought to the scene to try and talk him out. We have now
:02:48. > :02:53.spoken to the man who yesterday afternoon handed the police their
:02:53. > :02:58.key piece of information. 10 days ago, Mohammed Merah came to this
:02:58. > :03:02.Yamaha franchise in Toulouse to discover how to disable the
:03:02. > :03:08.tracking device on his scooter and how he would dismantle it to
:03:08. > :03:12.respray it. This man has known the killer since he was a teenager.
:03:12. > :03:17.seemed a normal kid. A bit more unruly than others and he did have
:03:18. > :03:27.a criminal record, but there was nothing that may Keith -- make me
:03:28. > :03:28.
:03:28. > :03:32.think he was capable of this. remembered their conversation and
:03:32. > :03:37.phone the police. President Sarkozy has come to congratulate the based
:03:37. > :03:41.on a job well done but serious questions will be asked. How did a
:03:41. > :03:44.well-known fundamentalist managed to kill seven people and how did he
:03:44. > :03:47.gather such an extraordinary arsenal of weapons which was found
:03:47. > :03:51.in the boot of his car without raising the concerns of the
:03:51. > :03:54.surveillance teams which were following him. For the families,
:03:55. > :03:58.who were today attending the funeral of the victims in Israel
:03:58. > :04:03.and France, they will be anger and frustration that maybe this could
:04:03. > :04:07.have been prevented. Two weeks ago, Mohammed Merah appeared in court
:04:07. > :04:10.charged with a minor driving offence. It was the last
:04:10. > :04:16.opportunity to stop the man who would soon become the most
:04:16. > :04:22.dangerous killer in France. We can now go live to the scene and
:04:22. > :04:29.the BBC's Richard Galpin. One deadline to give himself up has
:04:29. > :04:34.been and gone. What is the situation? The siege continues. The
:04:34. > :04:38.police commandos still surrounded the apartment building. Mohammed
:04:38. > :04:44.Merah is still inside his flat and we now know they have been many
:04:44. > :04:50.hours of negotiations because the first initial police raid was at
:04:50. > :04:56.3am in the morning. We are talking 17 hours ago. They have been
:04:56. > :05:01.talking but so far it seems there has been no breakthrough. They have
:05:01. > :05:04.not persuaded him to actually surrender and come out of the
:05:05. > :05:10.building and the question now is, it is night-time here, what will
:05:10. > :05:14.the police do? Will they continue talking to him throughout the
:05:14. > :05:18.night? Or will they decide that they have got used force and try
:05:18. > :05:23.and break into the apartment he, perhaps when he is feeling
:05:23. > :05:29.particularly exhausted and tired? Fills this began at 3am in the
:05:29. > :05:36.morning. At some point, it is likely he is going to fall asleep.
:05:36. > :05:42.What sort of weapons has he got in there? According to reports we have,
:05:42. > :05:47.he is quite well armed a. He handed over one Pistyll earlier round
:05:47. > :05:53.today in exchange for getting a mobile phone. But we understand he
:05:53. > :05:58.still has a Kalashnikov assault rifle, apparently he has a machine-
:05:58. > :06:02.gun and there are reports also that he has a number of hand-grenades.
:06:03. > :06:06.He remains well-armed and we know that he is prepared to use them
:06:07. > :06:12.against the police because, in the initial raid this morning, he
:06:12. > :06:16.opened fire, firing through the door, injuring three policemen. He
:06:16. > :06:21.remains an extremely dangerous man and it is going to be a very
:06:21. > :06:29.difficult decision for the police as to what they should do in the
:06:29. > :06:34.coming hours. Thank you very much. Let's go to Paris now to speak to a
:06:34. > :06:38.French journalist. What sort of questions are being asked there?
:06:38. > :06:43.The strange thing is that he had not entirely served under the radar
:06:43. > :06:47.because he was known as being increasingly radical eyes in is a
:06:47. > :06:54.part of Toulouse where he lived and he was under an amount of
:06:54. > :07:02.surveillance which also kept an eye on him. He applied to join the army
:07:02. > :07:09.twice, we don't know why, but the police were aware of him. He was
:07:09. > :07:16.rejected. These three different spate of murders have taken place
:07:16. > :07:20.within 10 days so he was under the radar but not, they could not get
:07:20. > :07:25.to him a fast and ever. This all comes ahead of the presidential
:07:25. > :07:31.elections. President Sarkozy said this would not divide France but
:07:31. > :07:35.has it? We don't know yet what the result is going to be. I think all
:07:36. > :07:41.the politicians in France are terrified that they will say the
:07:41. > :07:51.wrong thing and then they will destroy their electoral chances,
:07:51. > :07:54.
:07:55. > :08:02.the way it did for the Spanish conservative premier who was not
:08:02. > :08:06.cautious and described the Madrid bombings to the Basque separatist.
:08:06. > :08:13.Mohammed Merah's grievances include the deaths of Palestinian children
:08:13. > :08:18.and France's role in Afghanistan, the 4th largest contingent. Could
:08:18. > :08:23.this change the withdrawal of forces? The Socialist candidate is
:08:23. > :08:28.on record as saying he wants forces out sooner rather than later.
:08:28. > :08:32.Several politicians are on record on that and I suspect the French
:08:32. > :08:36.military are not happy with the way the Afghanistan campaign is going
:08:36. > :08:40.but what is certain is that nobody is going to ask for a faster
:08:40. > :08:45.withdraw mouth because that means if you perpetrate a terrorist act,
:08:45. > :08:49.the country will yield a. It is an encouragement to go and kill people.
:08:49. > :08:59.I would imagine that nobody in France will call for any kind of
:08:59. > :09:02.
:09:02. > :09:04.early withdrawal out of Afghanistan. Thank you very much.
:09:04. > :09:07.There have been weeks of pre-Budget speculation but, today, Chancellor
:09:07. > :09:09.George Osborne took quite possibly the biggest gamble of his political
:09:09. > :09:13.career. During an hour-long statement, he confirmed he's
:09:13. > :09:17.cutting the top rate of income tax, taking it down from 50% to 45% next
:09:17. > :09:20.year. The 50p rate, he said, had raised next to nothing. Labour has
:09:20. > :09:23.dubbed it the millionaires' budget. But Mr Osborne said he'd also
:09:23. > :09:25.helped millions of low and middle income earners by raising the
:09:25. > :09:33.income tax personal allowance to more than �9,000.
:09:33. > :09:36.Let's hear more from our Political Correspondent, Naomi Grimley. A
:09:36. > :09:42.difficult decision politically for the Chancellor because he lays
:09:42. > :09:47.himself wide open to attack from Labour. Although polls we have had
:09:47. > :09:50.on the subject of the top rate of tax to suggest it is going to be a
:09:50. > :09:55.tough sell. It was just part of a Budget which actually opens up some
:09:56. > :09:59.new dividing lines between the two parties on the subject of tax.
:09:59. > :10:05.Let's have a look at the main points. The government will cut the
:10:05. > :10:11.top rate of tax for the nation's highest earners from 50 % down to
:10:11. > :10:16.45 %. That is coming into effect next year. But ministers also
:10:16. > :10:19.pledged to take more low earners out of tax altogether. That is by
:10:19. > :10:24.increasing the personal tax allowance significantly. And to
:10:24. > :10:30.help pay for those tax cuts, has George Osborne announced a new 7%
:10:30. > :10:35.rate of stamp duty on properties over �2 million. But inside the
:10:35. > :10:40.chamber, inevitably, the debate pivoted on that whole question of
:10:40. > :10:44.cutting the top rate of tax. George Osborne pointed to a report that
:10:44. > :10:50.the Treasury had done, showing that the tax only raised a third of what
:10:50. > :10:58.it was supposed to do. He also suggested that wealth creators
:10:58. > :11:03.could be scared away from the UK altogether. Mr Deputy Speaker, no
:11:03. > :11:12.Chancellor can justify a tax rate that damages our economy and raises
:11:12. > :11:16.that. And thanks to the other new taxes on the rich, which I have
:11:16. > :11:21.announced today, we will be getting five times more money each and
:11:21. > :11:27.every year from the wealthiest in our society. Ed Miliband was not
:11:27. > :11:33.convinced that was going to be the case. He did this a budget for
:11:33. > :11:38.millionaires. What has he chosen to make his priority? For Britain's
:11:38. > :11:41.millionaires, a massive income tax cut each and every year. The
:11:41. > :11:45.fairness test for this Budget was whether the Chancellor used every
:11:45. > :11:51.penny he could to help middle- income families that are squeezed.
:11:51. > :11:55.He has failed that test. One other constituency which will not be very
:11:55. > :12:00.happy are pensioners. It was almost an off-the-cuff remark that the
:12:00. > :12:05.Chancellor announced he was going to freeze some of the tax-free
:12:05. > :12:10.allowances for pensioners. This is probably going to pick between 4
:12:10. > :12:14.million and 5 million over 65 year- olds. It has already been dubbed on
:12:14. > :12:17.Twitter as the granny tax. Knowing what we do about the power of the
:12:17. > :12:22.green lobby in Britain, I think it could cause the government quite a
:12:22. > :12:27.big headache. We have got a few will rise as well in a few months'
:12:27. > :12:31.time and he was under pressure to postpone that, but that has not
:12:31. > :12:36.happened. The fuel tax has been something that caused the
:12:36. > :12:41.government a lot of pain as well because it points to squeeze to
:12:41. > :12:45.household budgets. There has been a lot in the press talking about the
:12:45. > :12:49.squeeze Middle, a phrase adopted from America, and although in the
:12:49. > :12:55.past the Chancellor has offered help to motorists, this time he did
:12:55. > :12:59.not. He says it is a fiscally neutral but the other question has
:12:59. > :13:06.been that of child benefit. What sort of tweeds have been done
:13:06. > :13:09.there? -- tweaks? That has proved very controversial in the past,
:13:10. > :13:14.particularly hitting a group of middle earners who are going to see
:13:14. > :13:20.their money, their benefits cut. He has actually raised the threshold
:13:20. > :13:24.at which that it is going to taking so there will be some relief from
:13:24. > :13:29.those households, well-off households, who are going to see
:13:29. > :13:33.this benefit cut, but some people will say, if people at the bottom
:13:33. > :13:43.end of the income scale were going to suffer benefit cuts, why
:13:43. > :13:47.
:13:47. > :13:50.shouldn't those who are better off Now a look at some of the day's
:13:50. > :13:53.other news. The UN Security Council has given its backing to a peace
:13:53. > :13:56.plan for Syria put forward by its envoy, Kofi Annan. In a statement,
:13:56. > :13:59.agreed after weeks of negotiations with Russia and China, the council
:13:59. > :14:01.urged the Syrian government and its opponents to implement Mr Annan's
:14:01. > :14:04.proposals immediately. It said further steps would be considered
:14:04. > :14:07.if they failed to do so. A Libyan government delegation has
:14:07. > :14:11.left Mauritania without the former Libyan Intelligence Chief, Abdullah
:14:11. > :14:13.al-Senussi, who was detained there last week. Earlier, Libya's Deputy
:14:13. > :14:16.Prime Minister had said he'd been promised Mr Senussi's extradition
:14:16. > :14:19.from the Mauritanian president. Mr Senussi was considered to be
:14:19. > :14:22.Colonel Gaddafi's right-hand man. Foreign private security companies
:14:22. > :14:26.in Afghanistan have begun to hand over control to Afghan government
:14:26. > :14:29.forces after a new law came into force. President Karzai has been
:14:29. > :14:32.increasingly frustrated by the behaviour of some companies.
:14:32. > :14:35.They'll be replaced by an Afghan special protection force. The
:14:35. > :14:37.change also reigns in private Afghan security companies, raising
:14:37. > :14:39.fears that foreign aid workers could be less well protected in
:14:39. > :14:42.future. Thousands of mourners attended a
:14:42. > :14:46.memorial service in Lommel, Belgium, for some of the victims of last
:14:46. > :14:49.week's bus crash in Switzerland. 22 children and six adults died when
:14:49. > :14:53.their coach crashed in a road tunnel while the group was
:14:53. > :14:56.returning to Belgium from a skiing holiday.
:14:56. > :15:00.The Beatles didn't manage it, nor did the Rolling Stones, but the boy
:15:00. > :15:03.band One Direction have. They've become the first British group to
:15:04. > :15:09.go straight to the top of US music charts with their debut album,
:15:09. > :15:17.selling 176,000 copies of their album Up All Night. The group was
:15:17. > :15:22.formed in 2010 by judges on the Judith Tebbut, the British woman
:15:22. > :15:25.held hostage in Somalia for more than six months has been freed. Mrs
:15:25. > :15:28.Tebbutt has been reunited with her son in Nairobi following her
:15:28. > :15:31.release which came after a ransom was paid to her kidnappers. Her
:15:31. > :15:40.husband, David, was killed when she was snatched from a beach resort in
:15:40. > :15:46.northern Kenya last September. Will Ross has the details.
:15:46. > :15:52.The dramatic rescue from Somalia, or as a security official whisks
:15:52. > :15:59.Judith Tebbutt of to a plane and freedom. Emotions are mixed. She
:15:59. > :16:09.held back the tears as she spoke of her husband's dying. A I did not
:16:09. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:22.know he had died. I think it was about two weeks from Mike Catt
:16:22. > :16:28.chair. I assumed he was alive -- two weeks from my capture. My son
:16:28. > :16:34.told me he had died. The terrifying ordeal began last September, at
:16:34. > :16:42.this isolated, tranquil resolve to on the Kenyan coast. An armed gang
:16:42. > :16:48.burst into the room in love the night. Shots were fired. The gunman
:16:48. > :16:52.bundled Judith into a boat. Her husband was left behind and died of
:16:52. > :17:01.his injuries. Just before her flight out of Somalia, Judith
:17:01. > :17:07.Tebbutt spoke to the man who helped raise the ransom. Her son, Oliver.
:17:07. > :17:13.OK, Honey bun. Sorry, Oliver! Mother and son have been reunited
:17:13. > :17:18.in Kenya. On arriving here in Nairobi, officials from the British
:17:18. > :17:21.High Commission stepped in to take care of Judith Tebbutt. The British
:17:21. > :17:26.government's involvement in her release had been minimal, because
:17:26. > :17:31.it opposes the idea of paying a ransom to secure the release of a
:17:31. > :17:36.hostage. Two people who know the horror of captivity in Somalia and
:17:37. > :17:42.the joy of being set free appal and Rachel Chandler. The process of
:17:42. > :17:47.release is about 20 or 30 hours of travelling towards freedom. You get
:17:47. > :17:50.on an adrenalin high. It is fantastic to realise you are free.
:17:50. > :17:55.As Judith Tebbutt puts it, now is the time to pick up the pieces and
:17:55. > :17:58.move on. The extraordinary qualities of the
:17:58. > :18:00.simple aspirin have been known for years, but today came evidence of
:18:00. > :18:03.another one, with research published in the Lancet suggesting
:18:03. > :18:08.aspirin can not only protect people against cancer but actually treat
:18:08. > :18:15.it as well. But there can be side effects as well, which include
:18:15. > :18:19.internal bleeding. Fergus Walsh has this report.
:18:19. > :18:27.The possible benefits of aspirin against cancer appear to be
:18:27. > :18:31.mounting. This research shows its protective effect are quicker than
:18:31. > :18:35.previously thought. For the first time, it showed a reduction in the
:18:35. > :18:41.spread of disease of patients with cancer. For some patients, such as
:18:41. > :18:45.those with bowel cancer, the risk was reduced by 50 % six years after
:18:45. > :18:50.diagnosis. That means cancer spreading two out of 10 patients
:18:50. > :18:54.taking daily aspirin, compared with four out of 10 taking a placebo or
:18:54. > :18:58.a dummy pill. The researchers believe the guidelines on who would
:18:58. > :19:03.benefit from daily aspirin need revision, as they do not include
:19:03. > :19:07.the cancer benefits. I think we need to do more research on which
:19:07. > :19:12.particular people are at highest risk of cancer and vascular events,
:19:12. > :19:16.and have the most to gain from taking aspirin. I think we are
:19:16. > :19:22.urgently need to do some trials of a spring in the treatment of cancer.
:19:22. > :19:27.A weather, long-term aspirin used as a major and well researched
:19:27. > :19:31.drawback -- however. That is the risk of internal bleeding. That is
:19:31. > :19:36.what prevents it from being used daily in healthy adults. Aspirin
:19:37. > :19:40.has long been known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Now,
:19:40. > :19:43.cancer prevention must be included, but the dangers of internal
:19:43. > :19:48.bleeding mean that anyone considering taking a small daily
:19:48. > :19:50.dose of aspirin should first talk to their doctor.
:19:50. > :19:57.Jessica Harris is a health information manager at Cancer
:19:57. > :20:00.Research UK and joins us now from central London. That is the
:20:00. > :20:05.question. We will be, you were excited, but how many of us should
:20:05. > :20:10.think about taking aspirin? These are encouraging findings. It is
:20:10. > :20:14.great to say so much good quality research into the benefits and
:20:14. > :20:19.drawbacks of taking aspirin daily. It is important that people talk to
:20:19. > :20:23.their doctors. Some people will have conditions, quite common
:20:23. > :20:29.conditions in some cases, which mean it is a bad idea to take
:20:29. > :20:34.aspirin. For example, asthma, and other medications people might be
:20:34. > :20:38.taking, such has anti-inflammatory drugs, they can react badly with
:20:38. > :20:45.aspirin. It is a good birdie to be careful with whom should not take
:20:45. > :20:49.it -- it is a good idea. But it is extraordinary, isn't it? Every
:20:49. > :20:54.month, we seem to be hearing of some other feature of this. The
:20:54. > :20:59.fact that it could actually prevent cancer, is it credible? There could
:20:59. > :21:05.be a number of different ways. The way it is looking like it is
:21:05. > :21:09.probably working is to do with its effect on our platelets. As far as
:21:10. > :21:14.cancer developing goes, it has an effect on reducing inflammation
:21:14. > :21:17.throughout the body. That could be how what is having that effect. It
:21:17. > :21:21.is a very interesting drug, and one which has a range of effects across
:21:21. > :21:26.the body, which is why it is so important to make sure we balance
:21:26. > :21:31.appropriate in the benefits, which seemed to be stacking up highly,
:21:31. > :21:36.with making sure we do not put people at risk. What age should we
:21:36. > :21:41.stand? In these studies, the benefit was most his team of people
:21:41. > :21:44.to locate in middle-age. For example, people in their fifties.
:21:44. > :21:50.His is something that should perhaps be advocated for children?
:21:50. > :21:55.-- is it something. We need to make sure people are recommended to take
:21:55. > :22:01.it at an age at which the benefit is greatest, and the risk of harm
:22:01. > :22:07.is lowest. The risk of side-effects goes up quite a lot in older people,
:22:07. > :22:10.in elderly people, they are at more risk of the side-effects. You go
:22:10. > :22:17.people will be at low risk of cancer so the benefit will not be
:22:17. > :22:20.so great -- younger people. We need a review of the risks and
:22:20. > :22:26.recommendations from the government at him -- about to his best to take
:22:26. > :22:31.it and who should not definitely take it. Thank you.
:22:31. > :22:33.It's considered one of the greatest novels of Russian literature. For
:22:33. > :22:37.many of its admirers, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master And Margarita is
:22:38. > :22:44.a rival to War And Peace, or Crime And Punishment. Now the British
:22:44. > :22:47.director Simon McBurney has adapted it for the stage. The BBC's Russian
:22:47. > :22:57.Service Arts Editor Alexander Kan has been talking to McBurney about
:22:57. > :23:01.
:23:01. > :23:08.It is not the first time Simon McBurney has turned himself to
:23:08. > :23:13.Mikhail Bulgakov. One year ago, he put on a production of Heart Of A
:23:13. > :23:17.Dog, based on the book. This time, he took on a more challenging task.
:23:18. > :23:21.I have lost count of the number of people who have said it is their
:23:21. > :23:27.favourite novel. That is very disturbing to me, because when you
:23:27. > :23:31.take anybody's favourite anything, you feel you have a responsibility,
:23:31. > :23:40.and so you have to forget the idea that it is everybody's favourite
:23:40. > :23:50.novel and just concentrate on the personal experience. The novel
:23:50. > :23:51.
:23:51. > :24:01.evolves in two parallel universes. The story of Jesus Christ and
:24:01. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:08.Pontius Pilate. If the biblical story is universal, Stalin's Moscow
:24:08. > :24:18.is fading into history. The way Mikhail Bulgakov right means that
:24:18. > :24:28.the story rises above local and particular -- the way he writes.
:24:28. > :24:31.
:24:31. > :24:41.You do not say, this is a portrait of Stalin, he is writing eminently
:24:41. > :24:47.not like Solzhenitsyn. It goes further, in my opinion. Master And
:24:47. > :24:50.Margarita, with its mix of fantasy and realism, and leaps between
:24:50. > :25:00.intersecting stories, asks for a unique approach in bringing it to
:25:00. > :25:06.the stage. In my adaptation, what I have done is splintered the novel,
:25:06. > :25:10.and I have inter-cut elements, so you are in one place and another,
:25:10. > :25:13.them back in the first place them in a third place. Then you were
:25:14. > :25:19.hearing something else, and seen something you were not sure about.
:25:19. > :25:26.What happens is, gradually, you piece together the fragments and
:25:26. > :25:34.they begin, slowly, to form something you in your mind. --
:25:34. > :25:39.something new. Let me be quite clear, this is not Mikhail
:25:39. > :25:48.Bulgakov's novel. This is filtered through Simon McBurney's lens, and
:25:48. > :25:52.doll-like can do is hope to put my own passion in it. -- and all I can
:25:53. > :26:02.do. A modern production with video and special effects, the music of
:26:03. > :26:03.
:26:03. > :26:07.Shostakovich and the Rolling Stones, Simon McBurney's masterpiece.
:26:07. > :26:09.A reminder of our main news. The prime suspect in the killing of
:26:09. > :26:19.seven people in France is surrounded by elite police
:26:19. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:28.commandos. The man, identified as Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old
:26:28. > :26:33.French citizen of Algerian origin with links to Pakistan and
:26:33. > :26:35.Afghanistan, is surrounded by police commandos. Shots have been
:26:35. > :26:43.fired at the house in Toulouse where negotiators have spent the
:26:43. > :26:47.day trying to persuade the man to give himself up. That siege
:26:47. > :26:57.continues. Commanders say they want to take him alive. We will bring
:26:57. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:06.you on the latest developments. Hello. We had a lot of sunshine
:27:06. > :27:13.across parts of the country. Tomorrow will be dry for many, with
:27:13. > :27:17.more sunshine. There will be a few exceptions. Essentially, we have
:27:17. > :27:20.high pressure in the Atlantic. There is a weather front moving up
:27:20. > :27:24.through the Bay of Biscay which will complicate matters in the
:27:24. > :27:32.south-west corner. It will throw in some more cloud for Devon and
:27:32. > :27:39.Cornwall and some showers may be. Along the coast of eastern England,
:27:39. > :27:43.it will be a bit misty and murky, and feel much colder. Inland, the
:27:43. > :27:48.sunshine, and temperatures could reach as high as 18 degrees. South-
:27:48. > :27:54.west England, we will see some showers on and off through the day,
:27:54. > :27:58.and temperatures at 12 degrees. Further north, in South Wales, it
:27:58. > :28:03.should be warm earth. Warm or through West Wales, with
:28:03. > :28:10.temperatures around 16. Cool around the coast of Northern Ireland, but
:28:10. > :28:14.in the north-west corner, we have some sunshine, and about 15 degrees.