:00:13. > :00:18.This is BBC World news today. Running battles in Spain as unions
:00:18. > :00:21.hold a strike in protest at austerity plans. 50 people have
:00:21. > :00:25.been arrested with more been arrested with more
:00:25. > :00:31.demonstrations plans in cities across the country tonight. Mortars
:00:31. > :00:37.and no-shows at the first Arab League meeting in decades. What has
:00:37. > :00:46.been achieved? The world's largest growing economies want their own
:00:46. > :00:51.bank. Also coming up, chasing a childhood dream. Why the
:00:51. > :01:01.billionaire Amazon boss wants to retrieve the Apollo 11 rocket
:01:01. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:12.engines from the seabed. And defining the sound of country music.
:01:12. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:26.Hello and welcome. The government insists the destruction was minimal
:01:26. > :01:31.but the scuffles and arrests and cocktails met the general strike in
:01:31. > :01:35.Spain left its mark. Called in protest at austerity cuts and
:01:35. > :01:39.reforms there was destruction to flights and transport and workers
:01:39. > :01:45.walked out of factories. More protests are planned for tonight.
:01:45. > :01:50.Let's go to Madrid. Hundreds of thousands have gone on
:01:50. > :01:57.to the streets of Madrid and other cities. The point of opposition is
:01:57. > :02:01.the new Labour reforms which is hoped to cut its unemployment by
:02:01. > :02:05.making it easy to hire and fire. There is opposition to the
:02:05. > :02:12.Government's reforms which will come in the new budget tomorrow.
:02:12. > :02:18.There have been some of violent scenes in Barcelona. Trouble on the
:02:18. > :02:25.streets of Barcelona. Spain is not a country used to violent protest,
:02:25. > :02:31.even in these austere times. Before the protests anger at government
:02:31. > :02:36.cuts and reforms. Scenes like this have been isolated to the city but
:02:36. > :02:40.there have been arrests across the country. Pickets tries to stop
:02:40. > :02:48.businesses opening. The authorities did what they could so people could
:02:48. > :02:51.go to work. Many Spanish commuters struggled on. As expected, other
:02:51. > :02:57.services have been affected. For many companies, it's been business
:02:57. > :03:01.as usual. The strike is mainly a response from the unions to the new
:03:01. > :03:05.Labour reforms which it hopes will cut the soaring unemployment. It
:03:05. > :03:10.comes a day before the government announces its budget. We can expect
:03:10. > :03:17.more cuts to public services. Officials in Brussels says Madrid
:03:17. > :03:21.must do more to reduce spending and get the budget deficit in order.
:03:21. > :03:24.Demonstrations have been building steadily today. The unions say
:03:24. > :03:30.Spain should stand up to Brussels are not bowed to pressure for more
:03:30. > :03:34.cuts. The government says it is committed to its programme of
:03:34. > :03:39.reforms and will not change anything. It says many have been
:03:39. > :03:45.working today and tomorrow it promises an austere budget. That
:03:46. > :03:53.will fuel more discontent. This is the biggest test for the new
:03:53. > :03:56.government. The party to power in December but what we will see over
:03:56. > :04:00.the months and weeks is more protest because the government is
:04:00. > :04:04.under pressure from Brussels, it try to cut the budget deficit
:04:04. > :04:10.recently but had to alter the target this year because Brussels
:04:10. > :04:16.said it must do more. Cuts are needed of 41 billion euros, is it
:04:16. > :04:22.possible? I spoke to an economist and he said there would have to be
:04:22. > :04:26.a huge surprise in the Budget or it will not be credible. We also spoke
:04:27. > :04:30.to one of the main union leaders on the eve of the strike and he was at
:04:30. > :04:34.pains to say Spain must take back its sovereignty from Brussels. He
:04:34. > :04:39.was critical of the pressure being put on the Spanish government to
:04:39. > :04:44.cut the budget deficit to make reforms more than it would like.
:04:44. > :04:50.There is this slight sense in Spain, it's normally a pro-European
:04:50. > :04:56.country but there is a building sense of scepticism towards
:04:56. > :05:01.Europe's pressure on Spain to cut its budget deficit so much.
:05:01. > :05:06.Thank you very much. The Arab League has held a meeting
:05:06. > :05:12.in Baghdad, the first time in 20 years. Great stuff if you consider
:05:12. > :05:16.the security risks, fewer than half the Arab world leaders turned up.
:05:16. > :05:20.Baghdad was in virtual lockdown, there were two explosions in the
:05:20. > :05:28.City some distance from the conference. Top of the agenda was
:05:28. > :05:34.the crisis in Syria and calls for President Assad to bring about
:05:34. > :05:40.change. Its cost a fortune and a huge military effort to stage the
:05:40. > :05:46.summit. The first in Iraq the 20th. Thousands of police and armed Swat
:05:46. > :05:51.teams on the streets of Baghdad but also a day-long curfew. Iraq's
:05:51. > :05:55.relations with its Arab neighbours are tense. One reason why less than
:05:55. > :06:01.half of the League's 22 heads of state did not come to Baghdad,
:06:01. > :06:06.particularly those from the Gulf. Others may have been deterred by
:06:06. > :06:10.the precarious security situation. Two mortars landed not far from the
:06:10. > :06:16.conference centre at the summit began would not have calmed nerves.
:06:16. > :06:20.The main topic on the agenda is the crisis in Syria. Delegates formally
:06:20. > :06:28.supported a UN plan to end fighting. The Syrian government has written
:06:28. > :06:31.to the envoy Kofi Annan accepting his six-point plan which was
:06:31. > :06:41.endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. It is essential
:06:41. > :06:50.President Assad is committed, the world is waiting for commitments to
:06:50. > :06:59.be translated into action. Even as they spoke, footage of mortar
:06:59. > :07:03.shells smashing into buildings in Homs. The commentator on the video
:07:03. > :07:11.appeals to Syria's Arab neighbours for help. In their absence, he
:07:11. > :07:16.calls to God. Images showed protesters coming under fire. They
:07:16. > :07:21.say the regime is not interested in dialogue and the opponents have
:07:21. > :07:27.been routed. The situation in Syria is getting worse. 9,000 people have
:07:27. > :07:32.been killed but the army continues its offensive. As the delegates in
:07:32. > :07:36.Baghdad's departed, another lavish and inconclusive Arab League summit,
:07:36. > :07:41.they acknowledge the situation in Syria could take a long time to
:07:41. > :07:46.resolve. A degree of normality is returning to Baghdad but there's a
:07:46. > :07:50.huge security presence on the streets and it cost a small fortune
:07:50. > :07:54.to stage this summit. Iraq has declared the whole thing a success
:07:54. > :08:03.even though on a major issue affecting the region Syria, there
:08:03. > :08:08.has been little progress. Some other news and five African
:08:08. > :08:11.presidents seeking to restore the government in Mali have abandoned a
:08:11. > :08:17.visit. The plane turned around after supporters of the coup leader
:08:17. > :08:20.took over the airstrip. The group is meeting in the Ivory Coast to
:08:20. > :08:24.agree how to restore President Amadou Toumani Toure to power.
:08:24. > :08:30.The body of Mohamed Merah or the extremist who killed seven people
:08:30. > :08:35.in France is being buried in Toulouse. Mohamed Merah who were
:08:35. > :08:40.shot last week was buried at the city's cemetery despite objections
:08:40. > :08:44.from local officials. Algeria ejected receiving his body citing
:08:44. > :08:50.security concerns. The French perfume maker has been
:08:50. > :08:57.fined for making a racist insult on TV. The 75-year-old told an
:08:57. > :09:01.interviewer he had worked like a negro to produce a new perfume. He
:09:01. > :09:05.was ordered by a Parisian court to pay $8,000.
:09:05. > :09:10.Two German companies have pulled out of a project to build new
:09:10. > :09:13.nuclear power stations in Britain. The firms said they had withdrawn
:09:13. > :09:20.because of the cost and economic crisis and the phasing out of
:09:20. > :09:24.nuclear power in Germany after the full she met disaster in Japan.
:09:24. > :09:29.The world's top five emerging economies have proposed forming a
:09:29. > :09:35.bank which they hope could write -- rival the World Bank. The Brics
:09:35. > :09:44.countries agreed to seek closer trading currency links. Who are the
:09:44. > :09:48.Brics? Goldman's sacks coined the term for Brazilian -- Brazil, India
:09:48. > :09:58.and Africa. They are responsible for more than a quarter of the
:09:58. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:07.Thank you for coming in. How valid is the concern to set up their own
:10:07. > :10:12.bank and will be difficult to get off there bank? It makes perfect
:10:12. > :10:17.sense. Developing countries should have done this a long time ago. The
:10:17. > :10:24.World Bank and IMF have come under attack for not responding to the
:10:24. > :10:27.needs of developing countries. It's a good idea for them to start.
:10:27. > :10:31.wanted better representation for a long time given how much economies
:10:31. > :10:39.have grown, will be difficult to capitalise because these countries
:10:39. > :10:45.have different agendas? Yes, they promised the five countries would
:10:45. > :10:49.have large central reserves to capitalise but the problem with the
:10:49. > :10:54.membership of these institutions is the issue of how to capitalise
:10:54. > :11:01.beyond those four or five key member states. The criticism emerge
:11:01. > :11:06.from the World Bank and IMF is it is controlled by the US. Is the
:11:06. > :11:11.acronym Brics a fight turn given other emerging countries in South
:11:11. > :11:19.America and Africa? Do we need a new acronym? It has worked quite
:11:19. > :11:26.well. We would not be talking about this unless it was a huge marketing
:11:26. > :11:31.term for Goldman's sacks. It is week to look at the five countries
:11:31. > :11:35.as having anything in common. who were due out on to this list of
:11:35. > :11:44.developing emerging countries and who should we be looking at in 10
:11:44. > :11:53.years' time? I would remove Russia from the group. I think that would
:11:53. > :12:00.add other countries which are like Chile. Chile have had huge growth,
:12:00. > :12:08.what about Indonesia? Indonesia, Malaysia would be a good edition to
:12:08. > :12:12.the developing countries that have development. What lies ahead for
:12:13. > :12:16.the Brics and the problems each country has, India, for example and
:12:16. > :12:21.the infrastructure problem, the corruption but the same could be
:12:21. > :12:25.said for Russia. You could say think for all pricks countries.
:12:25. > :12:33.Corruption is a huge problem, they have a huge problem in terms of
:12:33. > :12:38.large populations with little per- capita income. I think the
:12:38. > :12:43.challenge is to come up with a plan as five countries and I am
:12:43. > :12:48.sceptical because they have nothing in common other than some sense
:12:48. > :12:53.they have something in common. per capita wage, China will
:12:53. > :13:01.overtake the US economy by 2026, the wages will be far far lower
:13:01. > :13:06.than the United States. Right now it is of four or $5,000 per year
:13:06. > :13:13.which is little and they are moving fast. You think they will get
:13:13. > :13:23.there? I am a pessimist on this issue, China and India to have huge
:13:23. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:31.problems of poverty. Politically, they are unstable, unstable
:13:31. > :13:36.countries... Brazil and China will be unstable.
:13:36. > :13:40.Thank you very much. A report into the deaths of 63 African refugees
:13:40. > :13:45.on a small boats last year set a catalogue of errors by coast guard
:13:45. > :13:51.and NATO meant they were never rested. The boats left Tripoli in
:13:51. > :13:57.March with 72 people heading to Lampedusa. After 15 hours at sea,
:13:57. > :14:03.the boat put out a distress call and run out of fuel. The boat
:14:03. > :14:07.drifted with 11 people still alive. Two of those died soon after. Chris
:14:07. > :14:12.Morris reports. Thousands of people took to the
:14:12. > :14:15.seat as conflict raged in Libya. They would try to cross the
:14:15. > :14:20.Mediterranean to reach Europe. Many of them are like these men have
:14:20. > :14:25.made it to the Italian island of Lampedusa. According to the Council
:14:25. > :14:31.of Europe, 1,500 people lost their lives. Attempting a hazardous
:14:31. > :14:38.voyage on a small boat. I was quite shocked, there were many military
:14:38. > :14:45.vessels, satellite centre and watching over the movements at sea.
:14:45. > :14:49.Still so many people got drowned or missed. Her report focuses on one
:14:49. > :14:54.incident on 26th March last year, this boat left Tripoli with 72 sub-
:14:54. > :14:58.Saharan Africans on board, men, women and children. When it washed
:14:58. > :15:03.up at Libya 15 days later, there were only nine survivors. This was
:15:03. > :15:08.at a time when like other migrant boats like this one, it was in what
:15:08. > :15:13.NATO declared a military zone under its control. The whole area was
:15:13. > :15:17.being closely monitored. Survivors on the incident examined in detail
:15:17. > :15:22.said a helicopter, military vessel and fishing boats came close to
:15:22. > :15:28.their boat, the helicopter even dropped water and biscuits. But no
:15:28. > :15:33.further help ever came. We conclude it is a collective failure. It's
:15:33. > :15:41.not attractive to come up with facts were you admit you are to
:15:41. > :15:44.blame for such a failure. In a written statement, native says it's
:15:44. > :15:49.provided significant information to the council and says none of its
:15:49. > :15:54.aircraft or vessels had any contact with the boats in question. But the
:15:54. > :16:02.report says Corporation has been insufficient and it is calling for
:16:02. > :16:05.further inquiry into a tragedy The billionaire founder of
:16:05. > :16:08.Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, claims to have found the engines on Apollo 11,
:16:08. > :16:11.the historic American space mission that landed men on the moon for the
:16:11. > :16:13.first time. The self confessed space enthusiast, who is developing
:16:13. > :16:17.his own rocket ship to fly passengers into suborbital space,
:16:17. > :16:21.says he's located the engines at a depth of more than 4,000 metres on
:16:21. > :16:26.the Atlantic seabed. The five engines on the rocket Saturn-5
:16:27. > :16:31.launched Apollo 11 into space on July 16th, 1969. Saturn-5 was the
:16:31. > :16:34.tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket of its kind. The rockets
:16:34. > :16:41.were jettisoned into the sea as planned after lift-off, and these
:16:42. > :16:51.are what Mr Bezos says he has found. Four days later, Neil Armstrong and
:16:52. > :16:56.
:16:56. > :17:03.Buzz Aldrin stepped out onto the Keith Cowing is the editor of
:17:03. > :17:08.Nasawatch.com and joins us from San Francisco.
:17:08. > :17:11.He said what inspired him was watching this at the age of five
:17:11. > :17:17.when he saw this blast-off. What sort of conditions are these
:17:17. > :17:22.rockets going to be in? They have had 40 years in sea water.
:17:22. > :17:27.I am at the Nasa research centre and at the back of me is a Titan
:17:27. > :17:31.one engine. It has been outside for 40 years in California. It is in a
:17:31. > :17:37.good condition. Being in the ocean, that is a different story. It will
:17:37. > :17:42.have been at 40,000 ft for quite some time. One has to wonder what
:17:42. > :17:46.is left. But we found the Titanic at much deeper depths. It will have
:17:46. > :17:49.to do more with how fast the rocket hit the ocean when it came in than
:17:49. > :17:52.what it has been doing for the past 40 years.
:17:52. > :17:56.Do you think he has cut the cord and it's absolutely right? I have
:17:56. > :17:59.just been reading that the Atlantic seabed is littered with space
:17:59. > :18:04.debris. I am pretty sure he has. The sonar
:18:04. > :18:08.is pretty good. You can see the ships. They find a much smaller
:18:08. > :18:14.space craft than this. This thing is 40 metres long and over 100
:18:14. > :18:18.kilos. It does not look like a boat. It is a big tube. They will be able
:18:18. > :18:22.to distinguish it rather easily. Why hasn't masseur bothered to pick
:18:23. > :18:27.this up? There is such interest in this mission.
:18:27. > :18:31.When it went to the bottom of the ocean, the technology to find it
:18:31. > :18:35.did not exist. Nowadays it does, but Nasser barely has enough money
:18:35. > :18:39.to launch the new things. You would have to come up with an excuse for
:18:39. > :18:43.why you did want to do this. When you're a billionaire, you do things
:18:43. > :18:50.because they're fun. Exactly! Or if you're a film
:18:50. > :18:58.director! Everybody seems to be going to the bottom of the ocean.
:18:58. > :19:01.Exactly. Maybe that is the fact that so many people these days have
:19:01. > :19:08.of the kind of assets that could launch a main programme! It allows
:19:08. > :19:11.these people to go back and do the stuff like this. It really rings a
:19:11. > :19:14.bell with me to go back and actually find that moon rocket.
:19:14. > :19:19.When you have enough resources, fund becomes something you can
:19:19. > :19:22.actually do. Lucky them. He hasn't had much
:19:22. > :19:27.success with his own space rocket ship, this article take a thing,
:19:27. > :19:32.which had a few problems last year during trials at 45,000 feet.
:19:32. > :19:39.He lost one, but what we did not see robber success as he had. He is
:19:39. > :19:41.probably doing a bit better than a Nasser. They lodged a lot more of
:19:41. > :19:45.their rockets. I think he is doing well.
:19:45. > :19:48.Thank you. The name might not be immediately
:19:48. > :19:52.familiar, but his music is. One of America's most influential
:19:52. > :19:55.musicians, the bluegrass star, Earl Scruggs, has died at the age of 88.
:19:55. > :19:59.He was a banjo virtuoso whose unique picking style gave country
:19:59. > :20:02.music a whole new sound. Critics described him as the
:20:02. > :20:05.Paganini of Bluegrass. Among his many admirers and musical
:20:05. > :20:09.collaborators, the Hollywood actor, Steve Martin, and singers Bob Dylan,
:20:09. > :20:11.Joan Baez and Elton John. He was also a committed political activist,
:20:11. > :20:21.supporting the anti-Vietnam war protest movement. David Sillito
:20:21. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:30.looks back at his life. Rarely has any instrument been that
:20:30. > :20:40.solely associated with one man, but when it comes to the banjo, we
:20:40. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:50.begin with Earl Scruggs. I started playing when I was five years old.
:20:51. > :20:55.I pretty much lived and breathed the banjo. He's three-fingered
:20:55. > :21:00.finger picking defined bluegrass. Earl Scruggs had developed his
:21:00. > :21:08.style while growing up in North Carolina. The 21-year-old was an
:21:08. > :21:12.immediate sensation when he joins his first band. The sound of Earl
:21:12. > :21:20.Scruggs and his partner, under foggy Mountain Boys, became a
:21:20. > :21:25.musical shorthand for abolition America. No wonder. He ghost
:21:25. > :21:31.appeared in and provided the theme tune to the TV shoots -- TV show,
:21:31. > :21:37.the Beverly Hillbillies. It was a surprise, especially to his partner
:21:37. > :21:41.or Leicester flat, when he took his -- playing with the stars of the
:21:41. > :21:48.counter-culture such as Bob Dylan and later, attending a Vietnam
:21:48. > :21:53.anti-war demonstration. I am sincere or about bringing our boys
:21:53. > :22:00.back home. From the soundtrack to Bonnie and Clyde to his many
:22:00. > :22:04.thousands leaves a legacy. His foggy Mountain breakdown became
:22:04. > :22:12.June the number one in the Banja songbook. When you hear a Banja
:22:12. > :22:15.today, you almost certainly during the sound of Earl Scruggs.
:22:15. > :22:24.Greg Adams is from the Smithsonian Centre for Folklife and Cultural
:22:24. > :22:28.Heritage. I assume that everybody could play the banjo like this
:22:28. > :22:33.until I realised that Earl Scruggs had invented it. How was it played
:22:33. > :22:36.before? The banjo as an instrument has a
:22:36. > :22:40.history that has been around for nearly 400 years. The earliest
:22:40. > :22:45.documentation goes back to the Caribbean basin. The documentation
:22:45. > :22:49.that we have over time, but are 80 per city of ways in which the
:22:49. > :22:52.instrument was played. What Earl Scruggs had done was taking the
:22:52. > :22:55.traditions as they existed in his community and really brought it
:22:55. > :22:59.together to make a very distinctive sound, whether you're looking at
:22:59. > :23:03.the role patterns, the intense syncopations or the melodic ways
:23:03. > :23:07.that he played. How difficult was it to play like
:23:07. > :23:11.that? In terms of the difficulties, it is
:23:12. > :23:17.really about how do you feel the music? The right hand is working
:23:17. > :23:21.the strings in these very fast arpeggios, but people will call
:23:21. > :23:25.patterns. With that, you have to feel the beat, the levels of
:23:25. > :23:28.syncopation that: with that. But what really makes the Banja
:23:28. > :23:33.distinctive in bluegrass is the way in which it can take the lead or do
:23:33. > :23:36.a solo just like the other instruments in a bluegrass ensemble.
:23:36. > :23:41.Presumably that makes it even more difficult, because you are having
:23:41. > :23:45.to pick out the tune above all the other noise as well.
:23:45. > :23:51.For absolutely. That is one of the incredible dynamics of bluegrass
:23:51. > :23:55.music. And the way that Earl Scruggs enervated as the deadpan
:23:55. > :23:58.to's use in the ensembles. If you look at all timed music, the violin
:23:58. > :24:02.or fiddle was going to be the key instrument and other instruments
:24:02. > :24:06.are going to play support. In bluegrass, everybody takes the solo,
:24:06. > :24:10.or whether it is the guitarist, the mandolin, the violinist, or the
:24:10. > :24:16.banjo. I think I know what bluegrass is,
:24:16. > :24:20.but I am not 100% sure how it do we define it. How did you do find it?
:24:20. > :24:26.Bluegrass music is a musical form that is largely attributed to Bill
:24:26. > :24:30.Monroe. Back in the 1940s, they came out with this really fast,
:24:30. > :24:34.driving music that was based in part on of the music associated
:24:34. > :24:39.with country music and back then it would have been called hillbilly
:24:39. > :24:43.music. But it also has these historic ties that, to the British
:24:43. > :24:46.Isles. But also, in terms of African-American music and culture,
:24:46. > :24:48.all of these things are coming together and bluegrass is one of
:24:48. > :24:52.these musical forms that really brings together a whole lot if
:24:52. > :24:58.moving parts. For I read somewhere that it was a
:24:58. > :25:02.fusion of blues, jazz and a high lonesome sound. He really did
:25:02. > :25:08.represent that. He embodied that whole country feel, the way he
:25:08. > :25:14.spoke, the way he lived his life. Absolutely. Earl Scruggs's
:25:14. > :25:17.playing... He gave voice to the banjo. It is amazing reading and
:25:17. > :25:23.number of the articles that have been coming out. There is an
:25:23. > :25:26.incredible outpouring. Just talking about the way that he could present
:25:26. > :25:32.the banjo, his stage presence with his instrument just rising above
:25:32. > :25:36.everything else, it has been very moving. There is an amazing reason
:25:36. > :25:41.why Earl Scruggs has influenced thousands, if not millions, of
:25:41. > :25:48.banjo players around the world. you meet him?
:25:48. > :25:51.I never did. But I followed him. I knew the different generations of
:25:51. > :25:54.people that were influenced by him. Lampard to be younger generation
:25:54. > :25:58.that does not have the lived experience of my parents and
:25:58. > :26:01.grandparents, but what has been really amazing for me as part of
:26:01. > :26:06.this younger generation is to learn about what Earl Scruggs meant to
:26:07. > :26:09.people as they were coming up. In some ways, the way that I can
:26:09. > :26:14.inherit Dutch tradition, the oral tradition that comes along with
:26:14. > :26:17.that and the memories of he was, it really shapes the way that people
:26:17. > :26:22.think about the instrument and how it is played.
:26:22. > :26:25.I think you are a banjo player, but unfortunately you left it at home,
:26:25. > :26:29.which is a great disappointment for us! Thank you.
:26:29. > :26:31.A reminder of our main news... In Spain, a general strike has seen
:26:31. > :26:34.transport virtually grinding to a halt and scuffles at a
:26:34. > :26:37.demonstration in Barcelona. Many schools, offices and factories are
:26:37. > :26:43.closed. Protesters are angry about the government's changes to labour
:26:43. > :26:46.laws which make it easier to fire workers. More cuts are also planned.
:26:46. > :26:56.Well, that's all from the programme. Next, the weather. But for now,
:26:56. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:03.from me and the rest of the team, There are weather changes on the
:27:03. > :27:08.way for the weekend as the temperature begins to take it up.
:27:08. > :27:11.For the moment, for Friday, it is more of the St. Sunshine and warmth.
:27:11. > :27:14.But the reason why the weather is changing for the weekend, at this
:27:14. > :27:18.area of high pressure has been right across us through and is now
:27:18. > :27:23.slowly drifting west, a line the floor there from the North and
:27:23. > :27:27.North West to cool the direction for us. Friday will have some more
:27:27. > :27:30.cloud than we have recently had. Elsewhere, it is an afternoon of
:27:30. > :27:34.blue-sky and warmth. For northern England, plenty of that sunshine
:27:34. > :27:39.around. Some patchy cloud developing in parts of East Anglia
:27:39. > :27:42.and the south-east. We have not had that recently. And across southern
:27:42. > :27:48.England and South Wales. This is where they are likely to see some
:27:48. > :27:54.of the warmest weather. Maybe 22 degrees. The beaches are in great
:27:54. > :27:57.shape. But there is cloud hugging the coast of west and North Wales.
:27:58. > :28:02.It is through the Irish Sea and across Northern Ireland. Just a few
:28:02. > :28:06.holes and that cloud to. Across southern and south-eastern parts of
:28:06. > :28:09.Northern Ireland, it will be warm. Glasgow and Edinburgh still have
:28:09. > :28:13.the sunshine. It will still be quite warm across south-east
:28:13. > :28:17.Scotland. In the evening on Friday, for most, the sunshine will be