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:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi.

:00:09. > :00:10.Is help coming at last for the desperate, terrified and starving

:00:11. > :00:17.civilians trapped by the inter-communal violence in the

:00:18. > :00:19.Central African Republic? The United Nations Security Council votes

:00:20. > :00:22.unanimously to send nearly 12,000 troops to the country to help

:00:23. > :00:28.protect civilians and stop the mass violence.

:00:29. > :00:31.The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial says the South

:00:32. > :00:41.African athlete's version of events surrounding his girlfriend's killing

:00:42. > :00:46.is improbable and a lie. You see, again, Mr Pistorius, it is the

:00:47. > :00:50.strangest day-to-day. You just don't take responsibility to anything. You

:00:51. > :00:54.are a liar. Also coming up. The third day of the

:00:55. > :00:58.biggest electoral exercise in the world. India's general elections and

:00:59. > :01:02.why the ruling Congress Party may be losing its lustre with voters.

:01:03. > :01:08.And posting so-called selfies and other photos on the internet.

:01:09. > :01:10.Everyone's at it, but is it good for us? Research says it may be

:01:11. > :01:30.damaging, especially to young women. Hello and welcome. As the American

:01:31. > :01:34.ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said today, 20 years ago the world

:01:35. > :01:38.said never again after the Rwanda genocide. As the 20th anniversary of

:01:39. > :01:41.that genocide is being marked this week, the UN Security Council has

:01:42. > :01:44.voted unanimously to send a new peacekeeping force of nearly 12,000

:01:45. > :01:53.troops to the Central African Republic. Thousands have died in the

:01:54. > :01:58.conflict between Christian militias and Muslim rebels since last year.

:01:59. > :02:01.The UN says about 1.3 million people, a quarter of the population,

:02:02. > :02:08.are desperately in need of aid and protection from marauding militias.

:02:09. > :02:13.Around 5,000 African Union soldiers are in the Central African Republic.

:02:14. > :02:19.There are also 2,000 French troops in the country. And 500 EU troops

:02:20. > :02:25.started arriving in the CAR this week. All these forces currently in

:02:26. > :02:33.place will remain to support the new UN mission. Paul Woods reports.

:02:34. > :02:42.A city clinging continuously to normal life, but this and the rest

:02:43. > :02:46.of the country remain in the grip of violence and turmoil. Thousands

:02:47. > :02:51.killed, quarter of the population in desperate need of help. France

:02:52. > :02:59.already has 2000 peacekeepers here in its former Connelly. Working

:03:00. > :03:05.alongside 5000 African union troops. -- former colony. Now the UN has

:03:06. > :03:11.unanimously approved a new ocean, 12,000 police to take over from the

:03:12. > :03:16.African union, the French will stay on. We are engaging a long-term

:03:17. > :03:24.endeavour, to rebuild the central African state, rebuild prisons, the

:03:25. > :03:29.police and an administration. The challenges are enormous. That is why

:03:30. > :03:37.we are very happy that the members of the security council adopted that

:03:38. > :03:40.solution. We think the UN is the only partner in the world who can

:03:41. > :03:47.help us. Top is handled this crisis. The killings began a year

:03:48. > :03:53.ago when Muslim rebels seized power. After months of violence against

:03:54. > :03:56.Christians, it is now Muslim civilians who are the targets. Tens

:03:57. > :04:02.of thousands have been forced to flee. The violence began in late

:04:03. > :04:05.2012, with growing attacks perpetrated by Muslim and Christian

:04:06. > :04:10.militias, has brought the central African republic to the edge of

:04:11. > :04:15.disaster. The African union troops have done heroic work and sacrifices

:04:16. > :04:20.have saved lives, but aren't old horrors continue throughout the

:04:21. > :04:26.countryside. The new resolution authorises the UN to protect

:04:27. > :04:29.civilians and investigate both sides. It sets a deadline for free

:04:30. > :04:32.and fair elections by February next year.

:04:33. > :04:38.Joining us now from the UN in New York is the BBC's Nada Tawfik. So

:04:39. > :04:42.time is of the essence for the Central African Republic. Give us an

:04:43. > :04:52.idea of the timeline for this new UN force, when it might be deployed.

:04:53. > :04:53.The civilian component of the peacekeeping operation will start

:04:54. > :04:58.immediately, but what's really needed, the military component,

:04:59. > :05:03.those 10,000 military officers and the 1800 police forces, are not

:05:04. > :05:07.going to get into the country until September 15. That is because the UN

:05:08. > :05:11.have to build from the ground up its forces. The 5000 a year troops that

:05:12. > :05:16.are currently in the Central African Republic, many of them will be under

:05:17. > :05:21.the UN command. But the UN will have to go to other African and Asian

:05:22. > :05:24.countries to try and make up the rest of that 12,000 strong force for

:05:25. > :05:32.the Central African Republic. So this will take time. But groups here

:05:33. > :05:36.in the Security Council, the secretary general, everyone realises

:05:37. > :05:39.that there is a real risk of ethnic and religious cleansing. There is a

:05:40. > :05:42.real effort to get these peacekeepers by September 15 ready

:05:43. > :05:47.to start their strong mandate to protect civilians, monitor human

:05:48. > :05:52.rights violations and leave the country going into a political

:05:53. > :05:57.transition process. Thank you very much.

:05:58. > :06:00.The UN force will be going by September. The South African athlete

:06:01. > :06:02.Oscar Pistorius, who is standing trial for the murder of his

:06:03. > :06:05.girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has faced tough questioning from the

:06:06. > :06:08.prosecution for a second day. He denied accusations by the

:06:09. > :06:11.prosecution that he bullied Reeva and that he was self obsessed. Mr

:06:12. > :06:15.Pistorius denies intentionally killing the twenty-nine year-old

:06:16. > :06:24.model. First our correspondent Andrew Harding reports.

:06:25. > :06:28.This was not a good day in court for Oscar Pistorius. His character and

:06:29. > :06:36.credibility coming under withering attack. First target, his selfish

:06:37. > :06:41.behaviour towards Reeva Steenkamp, as shown in text messages. I had to

:06:42. > :06:46.go to training, I had to go to lunch. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel

:06:47. > :06:53.suggesting the story is, as usual not shown on camera in court, cared

:06:54. > :06:58.only about one person. Your life is about you, what is important to

:06:59. > :07:02.Oscar. Then to the athlete's reckless attitude to guns, and an

:07:03. > :07:07.incident at this restaurant, where he fired a friend's pistol by

:07:08. > :07:10.mistake. The prosecutor said Oscar Pistorius must be lying when he

:07:11. > :07:17.suggested he had not actually pulled the trigger. I must accept that it

:07:18. > :07:22.is your version, the government off by itself or study gave you a gun

:07:23. > :07:27.and it went off by it self. I do not recall how the firearm went off, my

:07:28. > :07:33.finger was not on the trigger. Note yesterday, in fact, Oscar Pistorius

:07:34. > :07:37.became increasingly assertive, but refusing to look at the prosecutor

:07:38. > :07:41.and directing all his answers to the judge. But Gerrie Nel was making

:07:42. > :07:46.headway, suggesting a pattern of Oscar Pistorius backing response

:07:47. > :07:53.validity for his actions. You see, again, it is the strangest day. You

:07:54. > :07:56.don't take response booty for anything, you don't do anything

:07:57. > :08:04.wrong. You are lying. -- responsibility. He said that was the

:08:05. > :08:11.same on the night that Reeva Steenkamp died. I went out onto the

:08:12. > :08:17.balcony, I shouted for help, the fan might have been in the way. It never

:08:18. > :08:23.happened. You see because, Mr Pistorius, your version is alive.

:08:24. > :08:28.Oscar Pistorius strongly denied that but alone on the stand it has been a

:08:29. > :08:31.bruising day for him. The killing of Reeva Steenkamp and

:08:32. > :08:34.the case of Anni Dewani, the young British bride whose husband may yet

:08:35. > :08:38.stand trial for her murder three years ago, have both been used by

:08:39. > :08:43.women in South Africa to speak out about the high rates of domestic

:08:44. > :08:46.violence in the country. Joining me now from Pretoria is Rachel Jewkes,

:08:47. > :08:56.of the South African Medical Research Council. Why are women

:08:57. > :08:59.campaigners using the Oscar Pistorius trial, Reeva Steenkamp and

:09:00. > :09:05.the case of Anni Dewani, to highlight their campaigns? Nobody

:09:06. > :09:13.has been found guilty, the husband and the partner, so why are they

:09:14. > :09:18.using this? Well, over 1000 women are killed by their partners in

:09:19. > :09:22.South Africa every year. And there's a desperate feeling that the

:09:23. > :09:27.government is doing far too little in order to mobilise the

:09:28. > :09:30.population, and mobilise its resources to address our problem of

:09:31. > :09:37.gender-based violence effectively. And in that context, these women who

:09:38. > :09:45.are part of these, the victims in these very high profile trial cases,

:09:46. > :09:51.become named and known figures. For these large numbers of otherwise

:09:52. > :09:53.unknown women. And so they provide a way of mobilising and galvanising

:09:54. > :09:59.interest and action and putting the spotlight on the government, and the

:10:00. > :10:04.campaign and the efforts to advocate for really effective action to

:10:05. > :10:08.prevent gender-based violence. But by using the pictures, both of Reeva

:10:09. > :10:14.Steenkamp and Anni Dewani, in their campaigns as we have seen, injuring

:10:15. > :10:18.the Oscar Pistorius trial particularly, photographs of Reeva

:10:19. > :10:21.Steenkamp being held up, isn't this seen as influencing the trial in

:10:22. > :10:27.some way? Does it not matter in South Africa because there are no

:10:28. > :10:31.juries? We have professional charges, and the judges are trained

:10:32. > :10:37.not to follow what happens in the media. And in civil society. Around

:10:38. > :10:41.the cases that they are judging. And so we trust our judges to be able to

:10:42. > :10:46.reach an impartial judgement based on what goes on in the courtroom. It

:10:47. > :10:49.is as straightforward as that. You are talking about violence against

:10:50. > :10:53.women that they are trying to highlight, how far does gun culture

:10:54. > :10:57.in South Africa make the matter worse? Just talking away from the

:10:58. > :11:04.Oscar Pistorius situation, just in general terms. Well, when we look at

:11:05. > :11:11.all murders of women, we find that 17%, nearly one in five, are as a

:11:12. > :11:16.result of a gunshot. And the proportion is the same whether women

:11:17. > :11:19.are shot by a partner or by a non-partner. The big thing about

:11:20. > :11:24.guns is that they are incredibly lethal. So if somebody points a gun

:11:25. > :11:27.and fired it, the chance of a person dying from that injury is very much

:11:28. > :11:33.higher than with other forms of injury. And that's why we see it as

:11:34. > :11:39.so incredibly important to campaign against gun ownership in South

:11:40. > :11:42.Africa, and to ensure that we can eradicate at least a proportion of

:11:43. > :11:47.violence which is associated with handguns. Thank you very much

:11:48. > :11:50.joining us. It's the biggest voting event in the

:11:51. > :11:54.world and most polling stations have closed on day three of India's

:11:55. > :11:58.general elections. In some constituencies voting was extended

:11:59. > :12:03.by an hour to deal with the demand. On day three, more than 110 million

:12:04. > :12:06.people were eligible to vote. Voters had to choose 91 members of

:12:07. > :12:11.parliament across 11 states including the densely populated

:12:12. > :12:16.northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Many areas reported high voter

:12:17. > :12:21.turnout. It was as high as 65% in some states. One of those with

:12:22. > :12:24.high-voter turnout was the capital Delhi, where a new anti-corruption

:12:25. > :12:27.party is making a strong challenge to the two main parties, the

:12:28. > :12:32.governing Congress and the Hindu nationalist BJP. Today's voting saw

:12:33. > :12:37.leaders of both those parties vying for seats. So, who is appealing to

:12:38. > :12:46.the electorate? Andrew North reports from a polling station in Delhi.

:12:47. > :12:52.The quiet dignity of democracy in action. From here in north Delhi, to

:12:53. > :12:58.southern India, millions of voters are going to the polls. Many

:12:59. > :13:03.bringing their families as the voting means a public holiday.

:13:04. > :13:11.Before casting their ballots, everyone has their finger marked

:13:12. > :13:15.with ink to prevent fraud. This electrician came to vote early,

:13:16. > :13:18.bringing his six-month-old grandson to the polling station. Like many

:13:19. > :13:27.other Muslims living in this part of Delhi, he said he was staying loyal

:13:28. > :13:31.to the ruling Congress party. I have always voted for the Congress and

:13:32. > :13:35.the Gandhi family. Inflation is an issue for us, but it is not the

:13:36. > :13:39.fault of the Congress party. But others said it was time for a change

:13:40. > :13:50.and were backing the petition BJP candidate. Narendra Modi has clean

:13:51. > :13:53.politics. People say he is against Muslims, but I think he should get a

:13:54. > :13:59.chance. We should see how he performs. As well as in Delhi,

:14:00. > :14:03.voters are casting ballots in nearly a fifth of India's Parliament treat

:14:04. > :14:06.seats in this latest round of voting. But it will be another month

:14:07. > :14:11.before the world's biggest election is over. There has been a steady

:14:12. > :14:17.flow of voters arriving at this polling station in the old city.

:14:18. > :14:20.This is the biggest day so far in India's marathon elections. Voters

:14:21. > :14:23.have been saying issues like corruption and inflation are

:14:24. > :14:27.deciding their vote, but others are also talking about old loyalties. We

:14:28. > :14:31.will know the result in the middle of May. With me is Rahul Roy

:14:32. > :14:39.Chaudhury, senior fellow for South Asia at the International Institute

:14:40. > :14:42.for Strategic Studies. First of all, opinion polls seem to suggest that

:14:43. > :14:50.the Congress party is not doing very well, but its appeal is often

:14:51. > :14:54.underestimated, is in the pre-election opinion polls? Yes, but

:14:55. > :15:00.at the same time opinion polls get it wrong quite often. The Congress

:15:01. > :15:07.party appeals to a wide range of the electorate in India, huge number of

:15:08. > :15:11.people, but one of the key problems this time is that it has been

:15:12. > :15:15.governing the country for the last ten years and there have been

:15:16. > :15:18.several own goals for the Congress, including widespread allegations of

:15:19. > :15:22.corruption, a sense that the leadership has not been decisive

:15:23. > :15:26.enough, that leadership has been divided in the country. The head of

:15:27. > :15:30.the Congress party and the Prime Minister. This time, I think it

:15:31. > :15:41.might be difficult for the Congress to return to government. How big an

:15:42. > :15:46.issue is corruption for the electorate and will the new

:15:47. > :15:59.anti-corruption Patsy Kane traction for this? -- anti-corruption party

:16:00. > :16:03.keen traction. We have seen challenging in the daily province,

:16:04. > :16:10.challenging the government and getting power for 49 days in Delhi.

:16:11. > :16:14.But we should not overestimate its influence throughout the country.

:16:15. > :16:20.Today ironically we are seeing a presidential style of elections in

:16:21. > :16:27.the largest Parliamentary democracy in the world. The focus is on the

:16:28. > :16:38.two leading contenders for Prime Minister, not necessarily their

:16:39. > :16:45.parties. One party is unlikely to have the importance nationally. So

:16:46. > :16:54.you have Rahul Gandhi, and Narendra Modi for the BGP -- BGP. How can

:16:55. > :17:05.Rahul Gandhi appealed to the youthful? There will be 100 million

:17:06. > :17:10.new voters from the last election. There is a tremendous appeal that

:17:11. > :17:16.Rahul Gandhi could hold for Indian use, but unfortunately he has not

:17:17. > :17:20.capitalised on that. There was a horrific incidents of Crete in Delhi

:17:21. > :17:26.when you go and we never saw Rahul Gandhi coming out onto the streets

:17:27. > :17:34.of Delhi to empathise... He has had a low profile? He has had a low

:17:35. > :17:45.profile. He is 43 years old. His main rival is 63. It is a 23 year

:17:46. > :17:49.gap. He does have an advantage in that he is talking about decisive

:17:50. > :17:55.leadership. He is talking about change and governance. Areas in

:17:56. > :18:03.which the youth of India are very keen, to move forward and get jobs,

:18:04. > :18:09.and modern India, a strong India. There is an appeal that he is

:18:10. > :18:14.putting to the use even though he is older than Rahul Gandhi. Thank you

:18:15. > :18:17.very much indeed. Now a look at some of the days other

:18:18. > :18:19.news. Russia's President Vladimir Putin

:18:20. > :18:23.has written to several European leaders to warn them their supply of

:18:24. > :18:26.gas from Russia could be affected by Ukraine's energy debts. Many East

:18:27. > :18:29.European states import most of their gas from Russia via pipelines

:18:30. > :18:32.through Ukraine. And West Germany, Italy and Austria are high users of

:18:33. > :18:36.Russian gas. Meanwhile NATO has released

:18:37. > :18:38.satellite images and maps of what it says is the Russian military

:18:39. > :18:41.build-up on Ukraine's eastern frontier. They were taken as

:18:42. > :18:44.recently as the beginning of April and show sophisticated warplanes,

:18:45. > :18:47.helicopters as well as an airborne early warning aircraft and a number

:18:48. > :18:50.of military deployments on the ground. A NATO official said the

:18:51. > :18:54.force was at high readiness and could move quickly.

:18:55. > :18:57.Five members of Russia's parliament have called for the former

:18:58. > :19:00.president, Mikhail Gorbachev, to be prosecuted over the collapse of the

:19:01. > :19:03.Soviet Union. The deputies say he allowed the Communist state to

:19:04. > :19:05.disintegrate in 1991 despite a referendum vote to preserve its

:19:06. > :19:17.unity. Mr Gorbachev dismissed the move as a total absurdity that was

:19:18. > :19:21.driven by a hunger for publicity. As we alluded to earlier, it is 20

:19:22. > :19:25.years since the start of the genocide in Rwanda. The impact of

:19:26. > :19:33.that tragedy are still being felt in the neighbouring Democratic Republic

:19:34. > :19:37.of Congo. That's because Hutus, many of whom were behind the violence,

:19:38. > :19:40.fled Rwanda and ended up there. Some are refugees. But others are accused

:19:41. > :19:43.of taking part in the killing as members of the FDLR Hutu militia.

:19:44. > :19:46.Now UN and Congolese forces are preparing to move against FDLR bases

:19:47. > :19:49.inside the Democratic Republic of Congo. The BBC's Maud Jullien has

:19:50. > :20:01.travelled to meet the FDLR's president, in a remote village

:20:02. > :20:05.there. SIINGING.

:20:06. > :20:14.These Rwandan refugees have been living here in the DR Congo for the

:20:15. > :20:17.last 20 years. We want help from the international community, our

:20:18. > :20:20.children are sick and do not go to school, they sing. They may be

:20:21. > :20:23.desperate for a better living conditions but they are trapped,

:20:24. > :20:27.unable, they say, to go home. TRANSLATION: We are afraid to go

:20:28. > :20:31.home because in Rwanda there is no security for us. They live under the

:20:32. > :20:34.control of Hutu militia, the FDLR, who they say is protecting them but

:20:35. > :20:45.many of the group's members are accused of taking part in the

:20:46. > :20:49.genocide against the Tutsis in 1984. -- 1004, They fled to Congo after

:20:50. > :20:58.the massacres and then regrouped into trying to topple the Rwandan

:20:59. > :21:00.government. I'll --1994. The Congolese and Rwandan armies have

:21:01. > :21:04.attacked the group many times, forcing them to move further and

:21:05. > :21:07.further into the bush. I'm talking with the president of the FDLR and

:21:08. > :21:11.his security guards. We are being escorted to a safe place. They have

:21:12. > :21:15.walkie-talkies. They ask for IDs. They are very cautious. Major

:21:16. > :21:21.General Byiringiro says they have dropped their weapons and they want

:21:22. > :21:24.to negotiate with Rwanda. Major General Victor Byiringiro says he

:21:25. > :21:28.wants the country to become a "true democracy" and for the FDLR to be

:21:29. > :21:36.recognised as an opposition party. TRANSLATION: We hope that President

:21:37. > :21:39.Kagame will hear reasons for negotiation, we beg him to speak

:21:40. > :21:46.like a president and stop threatening his population. But the

:21:47. > :21:59.president will not speak to a group he accuses of committing genocide. I

:22:00. > :22:03.asked what his response was to that. TRANSLATION: This genocide is not my

:22:04. > :22:07.concern, to look into who committed the genocide is not my concern. It

:22:08. > :22:10.is my concern to lead a peaceful political struggle to change Rwanda.

:22:11. > :22:17.But their struggle has been far from peaceful. The rebels have been

:22:18. > :22:24.accused of recruiting child soldiers, rape. And systematic

:22:25. > :22:28.quitting. This woman lives in this hut because the rebels burned her

:22:29. > :22:36.house down. One night I slept in this forest, in the pouring rain. I

:22:37. > :22:40.could not lie to fire because of the rebels, these don't everything. They

:22:41. > :22:46.stole everything from me. I did not even have a piece of clothing to

:22:47. > :22:49.cover my body. UN peacekeepers in the DR Congo do not believe the

:22:50. > :22:53.group has disarmed.They say they will go after them in the next few

:22:54. > :22:56.months. But they are also worried about the hundreds of civilians who

:22:57. > :23:06.live with them, who they fear could end up being used as human shields.

:23:07. > :23:10.The craze for selfies - photos you take of yourself - usually on a

:23:11. > :23:13.mobile phone has become so prevalent that it was the Oxford English

:23:14. > :23:21.dictionary's word of the year in 2013. You want to do a selfie! And

:23:22. > :23:24.we know that President Obama and many other politicians as well as

:23:25. > :23:28.celebrities are not above being in selfies. But could the selfie, along

:23:29. > :23:38.with other photos that people post on the internet, be damaging to our

:23:39. > :23:42.psychological and emotional health? A new survey suggests sPending lots

:23:43. > :23:45.of time on the internet looking at pictures of friends could make women

:23:46. > :23:48.in particular insecure about their body image. The lead author on the

:23:49. > :23:51.study is Petya Eckler from the University of Strathclyde in

:23:52. > :23:55.Scotland. She joins me from our studio in Glasgow. What did you

:23:56. > :24:01.find, in what way was the health of women being damaged psychologically

:24:02. > :24:06.and emotionally? Hello. We studied University women in the United

:24:07. > :24:10.States first of all. We found that there was a clear linear

:24:11. > :24:16.relationship between the time they spent on Facebook and how they felt

:24:17. > :24:20.about their bodies. The more tiny spent on Facebook, the poor body

:24:21. > :24:28.image they had and the more the compared themselves to the bodies of

:24:29. > :24:30.their friends. Why is comparing themselves to their friends more

:24:31. > :24:37.damaging than looking at celebrity pictures for instance? We are

:24:38. > :24:42.speculating at this point because we did not ask them that but we think

:24:43. > :24:48.this is more damaging, because you know these people. These are people

:24:49. > :24:54.you are similar to. Celebrities are distant and aloof. This connection

:24:55. > :25:01.to your friends makes it more relevant to you. Another factor

:25:02. > :25:06.rethink make these photos more damaging than photos in magazines is

:25:07. > :25:13.because you know photographs in the traditional media are often photo

:25:14. > :25:20.shopped. The altered. This is not necessarily the case for Facebook

:25:21. > :25:23.photographs. -- they are altered. A lot of women try to present their

:25:24. > :25:30.best self online, not their real self. Women often try to look the

:25:31. > :25:37.best possible way online and that is not something we take into account

:25:38. > :25:41.when we look at those pictures. We're not just talking about

:25:42. > :25:46.selfies, which tend to be about the fees generally. You're talking about

:25:47. > :25:59.photographs in general. Why is this a problem about women rather than

:26:00. > :26:10.men? -- about the fees generally. -- the face. We're not talking just

:26:11. > :26:14.about winning. But young women at university are more inclined to post

:26:15. > :26:19.photographs. They are more inclined to share photographs and post

:26:20. > :26:24.photographs than men. The more photographs online, the more

:26:25. > :26:30.conditions for comparison. The conclusion is therefore do not post

:26:31. > :26:34.as many photographs of yourself, ladies, on the internets! Thank you

:26:35. > :26:38.very much. A reminder of our main news...

:26:39. > :26:40.The UN Security Council has voted to send almost 12,000 peacekeepers to

:26:41. > :26:44.the Central African Republic. The country's foreign minister said the

:26:45. > :26:47.UN had laid the foundation for a way out of the crisis, while the French

:26:48. > :26:50.ambassador to the UN called the resolution a key turning point.

:26:51. > :26:57.That's it from this edition of the programme. Goodbye.

:26:58. > :27:01.programme. Hello there. Thursday turned out to

:27:02. > :27:03.be a decent day for many parts of the British