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:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today. Almost a week after Typhoon Haiyan

:00:10. > :00:16.swept through the central Philippines, major aid supplies are

:00:17. > :00:18.now getting through. The US military arrives in force, helping more aid

:00:19. > :00:25.deliveries across the devastated region, especially in remote areas.

:00:26. > :00:28.As the grim and monumental task of cleaning up continues, we look at

:00:29. > :00:33.the health hazards for survivors of the disaster.

:00:34. > :00:36.Also coming up: We report from the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo,

:00:37. > :00:49.where the Sri Lankan Government warns critics its human rights

:00:50. > :00:53.record is not up for discussion He wants to complain about human

:00:54. > :01:02.rights in Sri Lanka. We have a system. You must respect this

:01:03. > :01:05.system. A German company is ordered to pay

:01:06. > :01:09.compensation to 1700 women fitted with defective breast implants.

:01:10. > :01:12.And India's biggest sporting legend plays his last international match

:01:13. > :01:27.after more than two decades at the top of the game.

:01:28. > :01:32.Hello and welcome. The massive international relief

:01:33. > :01:35.effort in the Philippines is gaining a bit of traction today, although it

:01:36. > :01:40.is almost a week since Typhoon Haiyan tore through the country But

:01:41. > :01:45.the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has admitted that the UN could

:01:46. > :01:49.have done more to help the people of the Philippines. Well, now a US

:01:50. > :01:55.aircraft carrier has arrived off the island of Leyte, bringing with it

:01:56. > :01:59.several heavy-lift helicopters. That will triple the number of helicopter

:02:00. > :02:02.flights delivering aid. The Philippines Government has been

:02:03. > :02:06.criticised over its slow response to the devastation. The local media has

:02:07. > :02:14.accused President Aquino of not being up to the job. But the

:02:15. > :02:17.situation is improving. The US aircraft carrier USS George

:02:18. > :02:20.Washington and its escort of two cruisers have arrived off the

:02:21. > :02:23.Philippines coast. It will help to distribute supplies to inaccessible

:02:24. > :02:29.areas. Britain has sent nearly ,000 shelter kits to Cebu and more are

:02:30. > :02:31.expected in the coming days. Rice and canned goods have been

:02:32. > :02:40.distributed to 50,000 people in Tacloban. About ten tonnes of High

:02:41. > :02:45.Energy Biscuits - enough to feed 30,000 people for a day - have also

:02:46. > :02:48.been delivered to Tacloban. Our first report this evening is from

:02:49. > :02:54.Rupert Wingfield Hayes, who has spent the day in Tacloban.

:02:55. > :02:58.It has taken nearly a week. But today, the might of the US Marine

:02:59. > :03:04.Corps finally arrived in Tacloban in force. And not just the Americans,

:03:05. > :03:10.but from France and Germany -- Eldon, Malaysia and as Chile. -

:03:11. > :03:17.Australia. But the Americans have taken control you. Not a lot was

:03:18. > :03:22.happening. It was like everyone was recovering from the shock of it It

:03:23. > :03:25.seems like the Philippine military and police are getting organised and

:03:26. > :03:29.getting on with organising civilians to get them out of here. On the

:03:30. > :03:35.streets be on the airport, there has been a dramatic change as well.

:03:36. > :03:42.After week of lying in the open the dead and now being counted, bagged

:03:43. > :03:44.and removed for burial. In this one district alone this morning, police

:03:45. > :03:52.registered more than 100 dead bodies. It is a grim task, even for

:03:53. > :03:58.those trained to deal with death. I know you are a policeman, but is it

:03:59. > :04:10.shocking? Yes, yes, yes. It is shocking for us. It is a disaster.

:04:11. > :04:15.We have something to do, sir. I understand. One of the most

:04:16. > :04:19.important thing to work out the true death toll. This afternoon, we

:04:20. > :04:26.returned to a devastated neighbourhoods down by the sea. Even

:04:27. > :04:29.here, some progress is being made. None of this might look like much of

:04:30. > :04:34.an improvement, but believe me, it is. I came down here on Monday and

:04:35. > :04:37.this road was totally impassable. It was piled high with Debbie and

:04:38. > :04:44.falling trees. We had to clamber over to getting here. Today at house

:04:45. > :04:47.-- it has been cleared. This building behind me was used as a

:04:48. > :04:55.model and was piled with their bodies. Those have also gone. But it

:04:56. > :04:59.is not only the dead who have gone. Every day, more and more of the

:05:00. > :05:05.living and leaving as well. The house where I met a man and his

:05:06. > :05:10.three boys on Monday is now empty. His wife's freshly covered grave is

:05:11. > :05:17.in the garden behind. I ask a neighbour if he knows where they

:05:18. > :05:25.have gone. Manila with his boys Yes. A ghost town now. However much

:05:26. > :05:28.international help now it is, for some here, it will be impossible to

:05:29. > :05:39.overcome the agony and worse of the last few days. -- agony and loss.

:05:40. > :05:41.Much of the focus so far has been on the city of Tacloban as we saw in

:05:42. > :05:46.that report. The island of Leyte is one of the

:05:47. > :05:48.worst hit in the Philippines. But our correspondent Alastiar Leithead

:05:49. > :05:52.has travelled from the northwest of the island to its east coast to find

:05:53. > :06:00.out how more remote areas are coping. He's sent this report.

:06:01. > :06:06.Under clear skies, it is hard to imagine the terror but blew into

:06:07. > :06:11.this beautiful island. The scars in this area update. It is an

:06:12. > :06:16.agricultural economy and broken coconut palms are lost income for

:06:17. > :06:22.mail and years to come. Likelihoods and homes have been crushed. Rice

:06:23. > :06:24.paddies and banana plantations have been flattened and food stocks which

:06:25. > :06:33.survived the storm are now running low. We drove from west to east

:06:34. > :06:41.People were starting to cope with the new normal - shortage and

:06:42. > :06:47.uncertainty. There waiting for a bus to take them anywhere there is a

:06:48. > :06:57.mobile phone signal and to get food. We do not receive any donations

:06:58. > :07:01.Other areas do not have that. Down in the island's interior, the extent

:07:02. > :07:08.of the disaster unfolded in front of us. After striking the city of

:07:09. > :07:13.Tacloban, it powered West Dennis agricultural valley, destroying

:07:14. > :07:19.everything in its path. Imagine the strength it takes to bring down the

:07:20. > :07:21.street. There is fear here in Alangalang that some prisoners have

:07:22. > :07:26.escaped and people are getting desperate for food. This man is

:07:27. > :07:34.taking his daughters to Manila for safety. No food, no communication or

:07:35. > :07:40.anything. For the safety of myself and children, we're going to Manila.

:07:41. > :07:48.Are you worried? We are scared for our safety gear. Very desperate

:07:49. > :07:54.When a person is desperate to have food, they do whatever they can to

:07:55. > :07:57.have food. It is even more miserable when the rain comes and seeps

:07:58. > :08:04.through the thrown together shelters. The bulk of the aid effort

:08:05. > :08:09.has focused on the areas worst affected, and you can understand

:08:10. > :08:13.why. This is an area right on the coast that took the full force of

:08:14. > :08:18.the type -- typhoon. But up the road, there are people who are not

:08:19. > :08:21.as badly off as this but are running short of basic supplies. Unless the

:08:22. > :08:29.aid network widens quickly, this country faces an even greater

:08:30. > :08:34.catastrophe. We hope to be getting a response on

:08:35. > :08:38.the humanitarian relief effort in little later in this programme. Now,

:08:39. > :08:44.time for the other news. Suicide bombers are targeting Pilgrims in

:08:45. > :08:50.Iraq and have killed more than 0 people and wounded dozens more. The

:08:51. > :08:56.attacks coincide with the most important event in the Shia

:08:57. > :09:02.calendar. It commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammed's death in

:09:03. > :09:07.battle. There has also been a rally in Lebanon with crowds in Beirut to

:09:08. > :09:11.hear an address from the leader of Hezbollah. He has pledged to keep

:09:12. > :09:20.forces in Syria, fighting alongside President Assad's trips. -- troops.

:09:21. > :09:26.The former German president has gone on trial for the option charges

:09:27. > :09:29.Mister Wolfe, a former ally of Angela Merkel, resigned from the

:09:30. > :09:34.presidency last year after West than two years in the post. He is accused

:09:35. > :09:42.of accepting payments from a film producer in return for favours. He

:09:43. > :09:44.denies the allegations. The Sri Lankan President Mahinda

:09:45. > :09:47.Rajapaksa has defended his government's human rights record on

:09:48. > :09:51.the eve of the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo. He said his Government

:09:52. > :09:54."had nothing to hide". Sri Lanka has been criticised for its refusal to

:09:55. > :10:00.allow an independent inquiry into its treatment of Tamils at the end

:10:01. > :10:04.of the country's civil war in 2 09. In a moment we will hear why the

:10:05. > :10:06.Labour opposition here believes the prime-minister David Cameron

:10:07. > :10:08.should've boycotted the summit, first our correspondent Charles

:10:09. > :10:16.Haviland sent this report from Colombo.

:10:17. > :10:20.Mister Cameron says it is only by attending the summit and making this

:10:21. > :10:24.writing president that he can raise difficult human rights issues. He

:10:25. > :10:29.will make one new departure. He will be the first leader to visit the

:10:30. > :10:35.Tamil moth of the island since independence in 1948. The Government

:10:36. > :10:37.war against the Tamil Tigers, a ruthless separatist group, lasted

:10:38. > :10:42.three decades and caused over 100,000 deaths. After an all-out

:10:43. > :10:47.army offensive, they were crushed four years ago. Both sides were

:10:48. > :10:50.accused of atrocities but with most Tiger leaders dead, it is the

:10:51. > :10:54.Government that gets the brunt of accusations. Mister Cameron has just

:10:55. > :10:58.been in India. Speaking to journalists, here is -- repeated his

:10:59. > :11:03.message of toughness for the shoreline. There must be proper

:11:04. > :11:10.enquiries for what happened at the end of the war. I think we will get

:11:11. > :11:13.further by going and having conversations with the Sri Lankan's

:11:14. > :11:19.about what needs to happen and shining a light about the problems

:11:20. > :11:23.that are there. The shoreline can Government is on the defensive.

:11:24. > :11:26.Speaking this morning, the president said they had been suffering for 30

:11:27. > :11:34.years, not just at the end of the war. If anyone wants to complain

:11:35. > :11:40.about human rights violations, whether it is torture or rape, we

:11:41. > :11:45.have a system. You must respect the system of the country. Meanwhile,

:11:46. > :11:50.the Prince of Wales, representing the Queen, flew in with the Duchess

:11:51. > :11:55.of Cornwall. They will attend a reception for his 65th birthday

:11:56. > :11:59.before he opens the summit tomorrow. Kerry McCarthy is a Labour Member of

:12:00. > :12:05.Parliament in the UK and a front bench spokesperson on Foreign

:12:06. > :12:12.Affairs. She joins me from Bristol in the West of England. Your boss

:12:13. > :12:19.Douglas Alexander says David Cameron should have boycotted that summit.

:12:20. > :12:21.Why did he say that? The prime minister of Canada and the Indian

:12:22. > :12:25.prime minister have decided to boycotted the cause Sri Lanka have

:12:26. > :12:30.simply not made progress on human rights that they promised they would

:12:31. > :12:33.do after the end of the war. The Canadian prime minister has said

:12:34. > :12:36.since August 2011 that if there was not progress made, he would boycott.

:12:37. > :12:45.We watched David Cameron to do the same, the fact that an event was

:12:46. > :12:49.about to happen in Colombo, he could have used it as a way to put

:12:50. > :12:51.pressure on show anchor and the Government. He has barely mentioned

:12:52. > :12:54.the issue of human rights until he has arrived in the lank and has been

:12:55. > :13:04.put under public pressure to do so and it is too little and too late.

:13:05. > :13:07.-- arrived in the lank. The decision to post that ensure lank was taken

:13:08. > :13:17.by the Commonwealth when Labour was in power in 2009. They were due to

:13:18. > :13:21.host it in 2011 and Gordon Brown made the case that it wasn't right

:13:22. > :13:30.to hold it then. It was put off until 2013. It was taken under the

:13:31. > :13:32.auspices of a Labour Government It's because the Sulangan Government

:13:33. > :13:39.made allsorts of promises about addressing the human rights

:13:40. > :13:42.situation. They had been through a very difficult and prolonged

:13:43. > :13:44.conflict. They said they would address these issues and it would be

:13:45. > :13:50.justice for the people that suffered. But we have actually seen

:13:51. > :13:54.is continued human rights abuses. Now that the summit has started we

:13:55. > :13:58.are seeing journalists are not allowed to report freely and

:13:59. > :14:00.fairly. You hear reports of white vans coming along and people

:14:01. > :14:04.disappearing from their homes because they have yet to criticise

:14:05. > :14:08.the regime. We do not know the president is prepared to meet David

:14:09. > :14:11.Cameron. David Cameron says he will raise human rights issues with him,

:14:12. > :14:16.but we do not you will get the opportunity. William Hague is going

:14:17. > :14:28.around the country urging reconciliation amongst the shoreline

:14:29. > :14:33.can -- the Sri Lankans. A lot of people accept it is an issue of

:14:34. > :14:41.human rights in Sri Lanka, but how do you deal with it? This summit is

:14:42. > :14:45.not about human rights. There is business people attending and

:14:46. > :14:50.business people from the UK, a lot of other countries have stayed away.

:14:51. > :14:59.Only three countries of the 53 stayed away. The point I am making

:15:00. > :15:05.is... Three of the 53 countries did not turn up. Constructive engagement

:15:06. > :15:08.is the point I am making. If there are criticisms, is that not a better

:15:09. > :15:12.way to achieve your objectives rather than lecture at the Sri

:15:13. > :15:17.Lankans? Engagement should have been taking place all year. I have been

:15:18. > :15:21.taking place in debates in Parliament called by people who have

:15:22. > :15:27.been critical of the Sri Lankan regime and urging ministers to raise

:15:28. > :15:33.these issues. They have left it until the last moment gods of the

:15:34. > :15:37.public outcry. There was a Channel 4 documentary the public responded to.

:15:38. > :15:41.It is only because of that David Cameron is putting human rights on

:15:42. > :15:45.the agenda at fault. We don't know whether David Cameron will get to

:15:46. > :15:53.meet the president to talk about it. He says he will raise it. We have

:15:54. > :15:59.got to leave it there. Thank you for joining us live from Bristol. Let's

:16:00. > :16:07.go back to our top story, the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. We are

:16:08. > :16:13.joined by the president of the charity Medicins Sans Frontiere You

:16:14. > :16:17.have sent out teams to those in the centre of the storm's path. What

:16:18. > :16:25.kind of assessment are you getting from your teams? We have been there

:16:26. > :16:28.since last Saturday. It is a very chaotic, difficult situation, as we

:16:29. > :16:33.have all heard on the news. Our teams are having difficulties

:16:34. > :16:37.getting out. We saw that the transportation will be the main

:16:38. > :16:41.issue so we have rented boats and helicopters, small aeroplanes and we

:16:42. > :16:49.are assessing the different areas. Some are around Lete Island. We are

:16:50. > :16:56.afraid for some of the smaller islands. What we have found in some

:16:57. > :17:00.areas, it is not tackled and, the big town, but in the smaller

:17:01. > :17:05.villages, disaster situation, almost everything destroyed, public

:17:06. > :17:11.hospital is down, a private hospital is trying to cope, so we have done

:17:12. > :17:18.consultation today. We are setting up a makeshift hospitals. And we

:17:19. > :17:23.will do mobile clinics by boat. Tell us about the health hazards that

:17:24. > :17:28.exist. Tetanus, for example, there must be a risk of that. We have

:17:29. > :17:35.rotting carcasses of dead animals, spell that out for us. We are almost

:17:36. > :17:40.one week after the disaster. People did not have access to health care,

:17:41. > :17:46.so those who survived, a lot of them will be winded because it was a

:17:47. > :17:52.destructive storm. People have had injuries on their heads. We will see

:17:53. > :17:56.a lot of injuries and fractures that after one week with no sanitation

:17:57. > :18:05.and clean water, will be infected. Infected injuries will already be

:18:06. > :18:14.had. We will have to treat those injuries. These are things that will

:18:15. > :18:19.come up in the coming weeks. And then tetanus, as you say, will be

:18:20. > :18:22.one of the risks. We know the vaccination coverage was not very

:18:23. > :18:28.high in the region so we will have to vaccinate to protect people

:18:29. > :18:32.against tetanus. Often people think they are a health risk, they are not

:18:33. > :18:43.a risk for spreading epidemic per se, if there was no Colorado four,

:18:44. > :18:47.they will not spread it. -- cholera. The problem industry is

:18:48. > :18:52.psychological. People will become fronted by dead bodies. It will

:18:53. > :18:58.start to smell and overall hygiene situation, including no access to

:18:59. > :19:02.clean water, that will be a risk. When people see these full-size

:19:03. > :19:06.obviously the Philippines is accustomed to typhoons but you must

:19:07. > :19:14.be worried about post, take stress disorder for some of those

:19:15. > :19:18.survivors? -- post-traumatic stress. The Philippines people are used to

:19:19. > :19:23.typhoons. They have had previous storms but this one has been so

:19:24. > :19:27.disastrous. Our Philippine colleagues say that people are

:19:28. > :19:31.strong but now they are one way now we see people in the streets and

:19:32. > :19:37.areas where the storm hit and they are desperate. They have lost their

:19:38. > :19:45.houses but not only that, they have lost almost all of the families The

:19:46. > :19:48.people are devastated. So we will send psychological support. We know

:19:49. > :19:52.from other disasters like this, those who survived the storm will

:19:53. > :19:56.survive overall and they will have to cope with the situation. Food,

:19:57. > :20:01.clean water, medical care is extremely important, but we should

:20:02. > :20:06.not underestimate, because people have to build up and they need

:20:07. > :20:10.psychological support. Thank you very much indeed and we wish you and

:20:11. > :20:24.your teams of the best in your efforts to help the people in the

:20:25. > :20:27.Philippines. Thank you. A French court has ruled that a

:20:28. > :20:31.German safety standards company who gave the all clear to defective PIP

:20:32. > :20:34.breast implants should be held liable. More than 400,000 women

:20:35. > :20:35.worldwide were fitted with the implants. But they contained

:20:36. > :20:38.substandard, industrial-grade silicone gel, and 4,000 of them

:20:39. > :20:41.reportedly ruptured. The 1,700 plaintiffs will be paid $4000

:20:42. > :20:43.immediately. They could end up receiving up to ?53,000 each. Our

:20:44. > :20:51.Paris correspondent Christian Fraser has more details.

:20:52. > :20:55.This is a civil case that is running alongside a criminal case. The

:20:56. > :20:59.criminal case in Marseille focuses on the former owner of the company,

:21:00. > :21:04.John Paul mascot and for executives who are on trial for aggravated

:21:05. > :21:08.fraud. Separately that was this civil case which featured the German

:21:09. > :21:16.company that audited what went on at PIP. -- Jean Claude Mas.. They were

:21:17. > :21:19.the company they gave the European safety standards certificate to PIP

:21:20. > :21:22.and they checked on the distribution and training. Ever thing that went

:21:23. > :21:26.on at the factory, it was the plaintiff us case that if they had

:21:27. > :21:29.been there for 17 years, even most cursory check on what was going on

:21:30. > :21:34.there would have alerted them to various problems. There was a man

:21:35. > :21:38.working in quality control who had a diploma for cooking. There was a man

:21:39. > :21:42.who was in the laboratory was a pastry chef. These were not together

:21:43. > :21:46.people who had should have been in of medical products. -- these were

:21:47. > :21:53.not the kind of people. The court has agreed with the 1700 women who

:21:54. > :21:57.brought the case. Clearly there are massive implications for not only

:21:58. > :21:59.the company involved here, but also for the European industry which

:22:00. > :22:03.checks on medical products because if they have got it wrong, surely

:22:04. > :22:07.there will be questions about whether other companies are getting

:22:08. > :22:13.it wrong. I talked to the lawyers for the plaintiff, it is a 150 page

:22:14. > :22:17.report, they said it grants these women $4000 upfront for any surgery

:22:18. > :22:20.they would want to have the PIP implant removed now but an expert

:22:21. > :22:26.panel will look at the compensation as a whole and they will get

:22:27. > :22:29.anything up to $53,000. There are 400,000 women worldwide who are

:22:30. > :22:33.looking at this and have just had a quick scan of the Twitter, lots of

:22:34. > :22:38.women are tweeting who are now going to join what was a test case. There

:22:39. > :22:43.will be many more compensation claims and that of course has

:22:44. > :22:46.serious implications for TUV Rheinland because they could face a

:22:47. > :22:52.compensation claim for over 1 billion euros.

:22:53. > :22:55.President Obama has announced changes to his flagship health care

:22:56. > :22:58.programme and admitted its roll out was fumbled. Only 106,000 people

:22:59. > :23:01.have enrolled in the new scheme - and barely 27,000 of those did so

:23:02. > :23:04.using a federal website which was beset with technical problems. The

:23:05. > :23:12.White House had predicted that nearly half a million people would

:23:13. > :23:15.have signed up by now. Speaking earlier, Mr Obama acknowledged that

:23:16. > :23:20.the scheme's roll-out had been 'rough' - but said he was going to

:23:21. > :23:25.make the policy work. I am not going to walk away from 40

:23:26. > :23:28.million people who have the chance to get health insurance for the

:23:29. > :23:33.first time and I will not walk away from something that has helped cost

:23:34. > :23:40.of health care grow at its slowest rate in 50 years. So we are at the

:23:41. > :23:45.opening weeks of the project to build a better health care system

:23:46. > :23:48.for everybody. A system that will offer real financial security and

:23:49. > :23:53.peace of mind to millions of Americans. It is a complex process,

:23:54. > :23:56.there are all kinds of challenges, I am sure there will be additional

:23:57. > :24:04.challenges that come up. It is important that we are honest and

:24:05. > :24:10.that we address problems in the laws. We have got to move forward on

:24:11. > :24:14.this. It took 100 years for us to even get to the point where we could

:24:15. > :24:18.start talking about and implementing, so I want to make sure

:24:19. > :24:21.people have health insurance. My pledge to the American people is

:24:22. > :24:26.that we are going to solve the problems that are there, we are

:24:27. > :24:34.going to get it right and it is going to work for the American

:24:35. > :24:37.people. President Obama. The Indian cricketer Sachin

:24:38. > :24:40.Tendulkar is a legend in his own country and admired by cricket fans

:24:41. > :24:44.all over the world. Many reckon he is the greatest batsman of all time.

:24:45. > :24:47.Well, he has begun his 200th and last ever test match. Tendulkar is

:24:48. > :24:53.the only player ever to score 1 0 centuries in international cricket.

:24:54. > :24:56.At the end of play today against the West Indies, he'd racked up almost

:24:57. > :25:00.16000 runs in test-cricket in a record-breaking career. The BBC s

:25:01. > :25:05.Sanjoy Majumder has been soaking up the atmosphere at the match in

:25:06. > :25:09.Mumbai. It is the end of the day and you can

:25:10. > :25:14.see the crowds streaming out from outside of the stadium after

:25:15. > :25:17.watching the hero play, Sachin Tendulkar is still batting, he gets

:25:18. > :25:21.to come out to back tomorrow and all of them are going to be back and we

:25:22. > :25:27.have found some people here to watch the game. You are wearing the India

:25:28. > :25:36.teacher. A Sachin Tendulkar play? Yes. What was he like? -- did you

:25:37. > :25:45.watch Sachin Tendulkar play I grew up in a country that worships

:25:46. > :25:49.cricket. I was not going to take a chance missing Sachin Tendulkar

:25:50. > :26:01.Will you be back tomorrow? Absolutely. Will Sachin Tendulkar

:26:02. > :26:03.get 100? Yes. OK. The next generation clearly won't Sachin

:26:04. > :26:07.Tendulkar to get 100 and I can tell you there will be millions of people

:26:08. > :26:12.are and India rooting for Sachin Tendulkar, he has been India's

:26:13. > :26:16.greatest sports star. He has been one of cricket's biggest stars. He

:26:17. > :26:25.is about to call an end to a glittering career. Everyone here

:26:26. > :26:29.wants to savour that moment. One of the world's rarest diamonds

:26:30. > :26:36.has fetched a record price at auction in Geneva. The pink star was

:26:37. > :26:40.sold for $83 million, no one has ever paid in such a high price for a

:26:41. > :26:45.diamond before. The successful buyer has chosen to remain anonymous. The

:26:46. > :26:55.sale came one day after the sale of the largest orange diamond ever sold

:26:56. > :27:00.at auction for $30 million. Good evening. Friday will start with

:27:01. > :27:03.perhaps the widest spread frost we have seen so far this season. Not

:27:04. > :27:10.particularly hard, but you will be scraping the cars. At least

:27:11. > :27:15.underneath those clear skies the temperatures will have fallen away

:27:16. > :27:19.overnight and marked a dry start to Friday.

:27:20. > :27:27.We have to thank an area of high pressure. There will not be clear

:27:28. > :27:29.skies in Scotland. We are off and running in the afternoon, a lot of

:27:30. > :27:30.fine weather to