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:00:10. > :00:12.This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas.

:00:13. > :00:14.The first Israeli civilian has been killed by Palestinian rocket fire,

:00:15. > :00:17.and Israel warns it will intensify its military campaign against Hamas,

:00:18. > :00:22.Almost 200 Palestinians have now been killed by air raids.

:00:23. > :00:25.Aid agencies in the Gaza Strip are warning that

:00:26. > :00:28.the bombardment is close to destroying the water system there.

:00:29. > :00:39.More top jobs for women in the British Cabinet,

:00:40. > :00:41.up from three to five, and in the pre-election reshuffle,

:00:42. > :00:44.the Foreign Secretary William Hague steps down.

:00:45. > :00:48.At least 20 people are killed - more than 120 injured when a Moscow

:00:49. > :00:50.subway train derails at the height of morning rush hour.

:00:51. > :00:53.And we'll be in Berlin to hear all about the World Cup celebrations -

:00:54. > :01:07.a huge welcome for Germany's victorious football team.

:01:08. > :01:12.Israel's prime minister has just warned that the military campaign

:01:13. > :01:18.in Gaza will be "expanded and intensified".

:01:19. > :01:23.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had no choice

:01:24. > :01:25.as Hamas had rejected a diplomatic solution. The

:01:26. > :01:28.first serious move to try to stop the fighting and bloodshed

:01:29. > :01:35.between Israel and Hamas had come in the shape of a proposed ceasefire

:01:36. > :01:38.laid on the table by Egypt. Israel agreed it and ceased fire.

:01:39. > :01:41.But Hamas rejected the plan, saying they hadn't been consulted.

:01:42. > :01:45.And so now Israel is to press ahead and intensify the military offensive

:01:46. > :01:51.Since then more than 190 Palestinians have been killed.

:01:52. > :01:57.More than 800 Palestinian rockets have hit Israel,

:01:58. > :02:02.with at least 76 rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel today.

:02:03. > :02:05.Within the last two hours, the first Israeli civilian has been

:02:06. > :02:11.One of the places hit was the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon,

:02:12. > :02:19.from where the BBC's Quentin Sommerville sent us this report.

:02:20. > :02:24.Bringing the battle between Israel and Hamas on the control was never

:02:25. > :02:30.going to be easy. By early afternoon, cease-fire plans were

:02:31. > :02:35.already in ruins. Rocket fire from Gaza narrowly missed an Israeli fuel

:02:36. > :02:40.depot and dozens of rockets were launched while Israel observed the

:02:41. > :02:44.cruise. About 25 firefighters here think that the rocket landed over

:02:45. > :02:49.there. They are trying to hold back the fire because of our fuel tanks.

:02:50. > :02:55.They are browsing the area with water, trying to stop it spreading.

:02:56. > :02:59.It is about four hours since Israel agree to those cease-fire proposals.

:03:00. > :03:04., says it was not party to the talks. And the rockets continue to

:03:05. > :03:14.hit Israel. -- Hammerson says it was not. -- Armas says it was not. We

:03:15. > :03:17.know that the other side is apparently not interested in

:03:18. > :03:25.cease-fire. We're prepared for the normal fighting to resume. And so it

:03:26. > :03:29.did. More Palestinians have been told by Israeli air strikes. The

:03:30. > :03:35.cease-fire was only in place for six hours. Hamas says it was not

:03:36. > :03:41.genuine, from the start. The cease-fire proposal was discussed by

:03:42. > :03:45.everyone except cars. Netanyahu and Egypt, but not Hamas. We will

:03:46. > :03:49.continue to defend our people and fight, we are fighting to better our

:03:50. > :03:59.conditions. This cease-fire proposal is like an ambush. On the Israeli

:04:00. > :04:05.side of the border, this man has a farm. By mid-afternoon, rockets and

:04:06. > :04:10.bombs were flying both ways. Violence, and more violence. This

:04:11. > :04:14.field cease-fire will likely make the con -- will be likely to make

:04:15. > :04:22.the conflict here even worse. It's the most significant reshuffle

:04:23. > :04:24.of the British cabinet since the prime minister came to

:04:25. > :04:27.power - and with ten months until the UK's next general election,

:04:28. > :04:29.David Cameron has given his He's swept away some

:04:30. > :04:33.of the old guard, increased the number of women in cabinet from

:04:34. > :04:38.three to five and - in the biggest surprise - moved Michael Gove from

:04:39. > :04:43.his job as Education Secretary. His replacement - Nicky Morgan who's

:04:44. > :04:48.only been a minister for 9 months. William Hague will be replaced as

:04:49. > :04:52.Foreign Secretary by Philip Hammond. He vacates his job as Defence

:04:53. > :04:54.Secretary - to make way for former

:04:55. > :04:57.energy minister Michael Fallon. Here's the BBC's Political

:04:58. > :05:08.Editor Nick Robinson. We counted them in and we counted

:05:09. > :05:11.them out, the ministers sacked or moved today, mostly men, and the

:05:12. > :05:17.ones promoted, some of them women. In a wide ranging reshuffle, more

:05:18. > :05:22.wide-ranging than anyone expected. The big news story of the day was

:05:23. > :05:26.the promotion of Nicky Morgan, the first of three women to get

:05:27. > :05:31.significant promotions. The answer, the job of Michael Gove. Michael

:05:32. > :05:35.Gove is saying goodbye after four years of being in charge of

:05:36. > :05:39.England's schools. Just as significant on a day that the

:05:40. > :05:44.British defence industry showed off its finest, at the Farnborough

:05:45. > :05:47.airshow, a change to the defence minister post of the new defence

:05:48. > :05:51.minister is Michael Fallon who replaces Philip Hammond, who is now

:05:52. > :05:56.the new Foreign Secretary. Tories say that he is more Eurosceptic than

:05:57. > :06:01.William Hague. He once said he would vote to leave the EU if it could not

:06:02. > :06:05.be reformed. I do not think that the way to enter negotiations is to

:06:06. > :06:10.start issuing threats. You have to look for areas where you do agree,

:06:11. > :06:13.and there are many issues where Britain is not isolated, where other

:06:14. > :06:19.EU members also understand the need for reform. William Hague will be

:06:20. > :06:24.spending much more time at home. As Leader of the Commons, you will be a

:06:25. > :06:29.pre-dash-mac a key figure in the Tories election campaign. What about

:06:30. > :06:33.the pledge that more women would take their place at the top table?

:06:34. > :06:40.Liz truss will be needing her wellies as a new Environment

:06:41. > :06:44.Secretary. The welfare Minister Esther McVey will only attend

:06:45. > :06:51.Cabinet but has is a face and a voice that you will soon be familiar

:06:52. > :06:53.with. The former TV reporter will now deploy her on-screen talent is

:06:54. > :07:00.trying to sell the Conservatives to the country. She will be helped by

:07:01. > :07:05.other women promoted to one rung below the Cabinet. He has promoted

:07:06. > :07:08.people on the basis of their talent, and that is the most

:07:09. > :07:16.important thing. Labour are not impressed. Politics has the look and

:07:17. > :07:22.sound like Britain, and when so many of the Cabinet are men, that falls

:07:23. > :07:28.short. The Labour Party has half and half men and women in their Shadow

:07:29. > :07:29.Cabinet. The worst that happened today was a new cabinet minister,

:07:30. > :07:43.trying to get into the wrong car. Well Foreign Secretary William Hague

:07:44. > :07:45.will not just be leaving the Cabinet, he's stepping down in

:07:46. > :07:48.2015 from his role Over the last four years in his role

:07:49. > :07:52.as Foreign Secretary he's faced and the descent of Syria into civil

:07:53. > :07:56.war to Cold War-style tensions over

:07:57. > :07:58.Ukraine, and his recent work hosting ending sexual violence in conflict.

:07:59. > :08:02.Angelina Jolie that focused on Writer and former Conservative MP

:08:03. > :08:07.Louise Mensch is in New York, where she moved after standing

:08:08. > :08:17.down from parliament two years ago. First, I should put it to you that

:08:18. > :08:21.this was supposed to be a reshuffle that got rid of the mail, the pale

:08:22. > :08:26.and the stale. Do you think it worked? I think it was there to

:08:27. > :08:30.promote the best people to the job. You have seen the women who have

:08:31. > :08:34.matured and grown since being elected in 2010 reaching a stage

:08:35. > :08:39.where you can promote them into senior positions. The Prime Minister

:08:40. > :08:46.has moved as fast as he could, without being gimmicky. I think it

:08:47. > :08:51.is another action-winning reshuffle. -- it is an election-winning

:08:52. > :08:56.reshuffle. But he seemed to be falling short of his target of

:08:57. > :09:01.promoting women. People forget that it is easy to have someone elected

:09:02. > :09:06.to Parliament. Before David Cameron changed selection procedures, the

:09:07. > :09:12.Conservative Party was 91% white men with no woman to a point. All of the

:09:13. > :09:17.women who have been appointed today was elected only in 2010. If Cameron

:09:18. > :09:21.had promoted them before they had learned anything about element, he

:09:22. > :09:26.would have looked very stupid. Now is about the right time for those

:09:27. > :09:29.women to have mature and Sue have come through Parliament with four

:09:30. > :09:33.years of experience, and Sir promoted them any earlier, it would

:09:34. > :09:39.have been just diverting women for the sake of it. Do you think if you

:09:40. > :09:45.had stayed you could have been one of those women walking into Downing

:09:46. > :09:48.Street today? Having served as an MP I know all of these women

:09:49. > :09:53.individually and I know how talented they are. Even from Labour, who are

:09:54. > :09:59.complaining about the number of women, we saw that this was a

:10:00. > :10:02.so-called massacre of the moderates, they were saying today on twitter,

:10:03. > :10:07.because they have nothing else to say, I have not heard any

:10:08. > :10:13.commentators say that any woman is being promoted just because she is a

:10:14. > :10:20.woman. They have got a great new team in place. William Hague is

:10:21. > :10:24.standing down with Philip Hammond taking his place. Philip Hammond is

:10:25. > :10:28.thought to be more sceptical about Britain's future in Europe. Will

:10:29. > :10:37.that set the cat amongst the pigeons? Let us hope so. This is an

:10:38. > :10:42.election -winning reshuffle. He fought a lonely but principal battle

:10:43. > :10:47.to stop Jean-Claude Juncker getting the plum job at the EU. We saw

:10:48. > :10:52.conservative ratings go up over that. We would like to stay in the

:10:53. > :10:58.EU, we like the balance of trade, but we need a strong renegotiation.

:10:59. > :11:01.David Cameron sent an important electoral signal by appointing

:11:02. > :11:06.Philip Hammond, there is no doubt about that at all.

:11:07. > :11:09.Now a look at some of the day's other news.

:11:10. > :11:11.Iraqi MPs have broken their deadlock and elected

:11:12. > :11:18.It's the first step towards forming a new government in Baghdad -

:11:19. > :11:21.a step seen as crucial to confronting the rebels who have

:11:22. > :11:25.The new speaker is a Sunni - Salim Jabouri.

:11:26. > :11:27.Parliament still has to elect a new Kurdish President and a Shia

:11:28. > :11:32.Typhoon Rammasun has made landfall with winds of up to 130 kilometres.

:11:33. > :11:37.Low-lying villages were flooded and a trail of destruction was left in

:11:38. > :11:40.its wake. No casualties have yet been reported. Parts of the

:11:41. > :11:43.Philippines are still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan,

:11:44. > :12:05.which killed more than 6,000 people last year.

:12:06. > :12:08.A French soldier has been killed in a suicide bombing in northern

:12:09. > :12:11.Mali.The Foreign Legion soldier was killed in Gao on Monday -- the ninth

:12:12. > :12:14.to die since France sent troops to its former colony in January last

:12:15. > :12:17.year. Local and foreign troops have struggled to restore order after

:12:18. > :12:26.beating back an Islamist insurgency there.

:12:27. > :12:29.21 people have been killed in an accident on the Moscow Metro -

:12:30. > :12:32.at the height of the morning rush hour. Local officials say a train

:12:33. > :12:35.came off the rails after a power surge. Oleg Boldyrev is in Moscow

:12:36. > :12:41.At mid-morning on Tuesday three carriages derailed. Rescuers are

:12:42. > :12:46.still trying to pull people out of the crumpled metal. By mid afternoon

:12:47. > :12:51.they speculated that there was nobody left alive. The injured and

:12:52. > :12:54.those who escaped unharmed well read out a long hundreds of metres of

:12:55. > :12:59.track after spending more than one hour in the darkness. The dozens of

:13:00. > :13:08.wounded had to be brought out on stretchers. The most gravely injured

:13:09. > :13:11.were flown out to hospital. We understand the majority of

:13:12. > :13:15.casualties were caused by people being flung against the wall of the

:13:16. > :13:19.carriages which derailed. I spoke to one lady who had a bad cut on her

:13:20. > :13:26.leg. She said she was thrown into the wall, into pieces of smashed

:13:27. > :13:34.glass. Another was struck by a fire extinguisher which was flung from

:13:35. > :13:39.the wall. The number of deaths kept rising through the day. The Moscow

:13:40. > :13:42.underground has seen bombs and explosions but nothing like this,

:13:43. > :13:48.from a split second malfunction of something, just exactly what is yet

:13:49. > :13:53.unknown. The authorities gave a number of theories from loss of

:13:54. > :13:59.current to sagging track. An investigation has been launched. The

:14:00. > :14:05.mayor of the city promised to return the defective linebacker service in

:14:06. > :14:09.two days. In the meantime millions of passengers on the Moscow

:14:10. > :14:15.underground will pay -- will feel uneasy at every shake of the train

:14:16. > :14:21.they are in. In a city of 15 million people, the Metro is the most

:14:22. > :14:27.functional way of transport. It has been a violin they in Afghanistan.

:14:28. > :14:32.89 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide last in the

:14:33. > :14:35.Eastern Province Kings. The victims include many women and children who

:14:36. > :14:44.had been shopping in a busy market for Ramadan. Another explosion in

:14:45. > :14:44.Cabo had killed two aides of the outgoing president, president cars

:14:45. > :15:00.I. they went to the polls last month.

:15:01. > :15:04.It happened to the east of the country close to the border with

:15:05. > :15:10.Pakistan. What we understand from eyewitnesses as it was a vehicle

:15:11. > :15:16.that was chased by the police. As it failed to stop at a checkpoint, the

:15:17. > :15:21.driver drove into a busy marketplace before detonating the explosives. It

:15:22. > :15:22.sent debris everywhere, more than 89 people were killed and

:15:23. > :15:25.sent debris everywhere, more than 89 people were many more were injured.

:15:26. > :15:30.Looking at pictures you can see the scale of the damage. Mark in stores

:15:31. > :15:36.and buildings destroyed for a large area around. -- market. The governor

:15:37. > :15:44.of the province has been speaking to us. The enemies of Afghanistan

:15:45. > :15:51.detonated a car bomb in this area that hurt a lot of people. If you

:15:52. > :15:55.look at this destruction you will come to the conclusion this action

:15:56. > :16:03.is against Islam, against humanity and against our territory. All night

:16:04. > :16:07.we have heard a lot of air activity, helicopters are bringing the injured

:16:08. > :16:10.from Paktika to hospitals. This is the deadliest attack since we saw

:16:11. > :16:15.the presidential elections last month. Those elections still to give

:16:16. > :16:23.an indication of who the next president will be. At the weekend

:16:24. > :16:29.deal was mediated. John Kerry was here. We are expecting the

:16:30. > :16:33.widespread audit, all 8 million votes will be audited, counted again

:16:34. > :16:40.in what will be a huge logistical operation. The two presidential

:16:41. > :16:45.rivals have been meeting for the first time to try to give some shape

:16:46. > :16:49.to a pledge that each of them made. Whoever will be the winner will hold

:16:50. > :16:52.a government of national unity. Exactly what shape that will take,

:16:53. > :16:55.we still don't know. The idea that happiness is a better

:16:56. > :16:58.measure of a nation's success than income might have seemed very

:16:59. > :17:01.radical when it was first proposed but it's now influenced governments

:17:02. > :17:04.all over the world. Today we're going to look

:17:05. > :17:06.at the related issue of how Just a few facts first to put you

:17:07. > :17:11.in the picture. Around the world,

:17:12. > :17:14.more than 350 million people suffer from depression, one of the most

:17:15. > :17:17.common forms of mental disorders. It's a problem that doesn't

:17:18. > :17:20.just affect adults. Around 20% of the world's children

:17:21. > :17:24.are thought to suffer from some Whether you get treatment may

:17:25. > :17:29.depend on where you live. The World Health Organisation tells

:17:30. > :17:32.us you're 170 times more likely to find a psychiatrist in high income

:17:33. > :17:37.countries than in low income ones. With me is the economist Professor

:17:38. > :17:39.Lord Richard Layard who pioneered that "science of

:17:40. > :17:42.happiness". He's now co-authored a book called

:17:43. > :17:45.Thrive, urging political leaders to make

:17:46. > :17:56.mental health a much higher Thank you for coming in to speak to

:17:57. > :18:02.us. The economic case for prioritising mental health

:18:03. > :18:05.treatment. Mental illness is the main illness of working age in

:18:06. > :18:10.advanced countries. It has huge economic cost when people can't work

:18:11. > :18:14.or go off sick. That is why it is so wonderful we now have evidence

:18:15. > :18:19.-based psychological therapies that can lead to 50% recovery rates,

:18:20. > :18:26.lower relapse rates and therefore when you think of the costs, they

:18:27. > :18:29.get reduced by the psychological therapy and the psychological

:18:30. > :18:33.therapy pays for itself and reduced welfare benefits and lost taxes. It

:18:34. > :18:38.pays for itself a second time over introducing physical health care

:18:39. > :18:48.costs because mentally health people cost 50% more than those who have

:18:49. > :18:51.physical illness. You can show that completely covers the cost to the

:18:52. > :18:54.health care authorities providing more psychological therapy because

:18:55. > :19:00.of the savings on the physical. Tell us about the psychological therapy

:19:01. > :19:04.that works, we know works. We have talked about what drugs can tackle

:19:05. > :19:08.mental illness but here in the UK there has been some pioneering work

:19:09. > :19:17.on behavioural therapy. Cognitive therapy. It works by getting people

:19:18. > :19:24.to think better and that leads to them feeling better. And behaving

:19:25. > :19:27.more constructively. This is the breakthrough therapy which has been

:19:28. > :19:32.really well be searched so we now know but the outcomes of that. It

:19:33. > :19:40.has much longer lasting effects and drugs do. That is the preferred

:19:41. > :19:45.treatment for 75% of people. Do main teaching people how to adopt the

:19:46. > :19:51.different anchor? Yes, yes. This is the good news. We have rolled it out

:19:52. > :20:01.in Britain. Half a million people are getting treated. We have trained

:20:02. > :20:05.6000 therapists. It is not costing us anything so it is a no-brainer.

:20:06. > :20:09.The other point want to make is the cost isn't the only thing. The main

:20:10. > :20:15.thing is human suffering. The research we have done shows that in

:20:16. > :20:17.rich countries mental illness is the biggest single cause of human

:20:18. > :20:21.suffering, more than physical illness, and a lot more than two

:20:22. > :20:25.subjects I worked on which is poverty and unemployment. We need to

:20:26. > :20:31.raise the profile of mental illness. I centre 's sake it should have a

:20:32. > :20:38.Cabinet Minister. -- I sometimes say. That is a surprising fact you

:20:39. > :20:43.are giving us. People tend to think about cancer or heart disease,

:20:44. > :20:49.mental illness occurs it is abstract seems to fall down the list of

:20:50. > :20:55.priorities. The extraordinary thing is the WHO figures show in terms of

:20:56. > :20:59.morbidity, in rich countries, mental illness accounts for about twice as

:21:00. > :21:06.much as cancer, heart disease, stroke and respiratory illness. It

:21:07. > :21:11.it gets such a small fraction of the effort and has such a low prestige.

:21:12. > :21:13.This has got to be be attacked and changed. Thank you very much to talk

:21:14. > :21:16.that through with us. The European Parliament has

:21:17. > :21:19.confirmed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European

:21:20. > :21:21.Commission. He'll succeed the current president,

:21:22. > :21:23.Jose Manuel Barroso, in November. Our correspondent, Chris Morris in

:21:24. > :21:26.Strasbourg, explained the background to his appointment and what his

:21:27. > :21:36.first order of business will be. It is hardly unexpected that Jose

:21:37. > :21:41.Manuel Barroso -- Jean-Claude Juncker is confirmed as the next

:21:42. > :21:53.president. He needed a minimum of 300 and 76 -- three and 76 votes.

:21:54. > :21:57.But 250 MEPs against him. He certainly won't have everything his

:21:58. > :22:01.own way as he tries to set out an agenda for the next five years. His

:22:02. > :22:05.first task now is basically to set out the new commission. It has to

:22:06. > :22:08.have one representative from each of the 28 member states and there's

:22:09. > :22:13.lots of jockeying going on between different countries about who they

:22:14. > :22:18.will nominate and which policy portfolios their nominee is going to

:22:19. > :22:21.get. Overall, looking at the next five years, the big challenge for

:22:22. > :22:26.Jean-Claude Juncker is pretty clear. It is the challenge for the

:22:27. > :22:30.European Union, how to improve the economy in the Eurozone, how to

:22:31. > :22:35.improve the governance. There are millions of young unemployed in

:22:36. > :22:40.Europe. Even though the Eurozone crisis is well past his critical

:22:41. > :22:45.phase it is not over stop there will be other things he will have to do.

:22:46. > :22:49.Notably, dealing with the issue of whether Britain stays in all these

:22:50. > :22:55.the European Union. He was rather bruised by Britain's implacable

:22:56. > :22:57.opposition to his nomination as president of the European

:22:58. > :23:02.Commission. He won that fight and when it comes to Jean-Claude Juncker

:23:03. > :23:03.and Britain, Bridges will need to be built.

:23:04. > :23:08.It is hardly unexpected that Jose Manuel Barroso -- Jean-Claude

:23:09. > :23:10.The team that won the World Cup for Germany has been given

:23:11. > :23:14.Hundreds of thousands of fans gathered at the Brandenburg

:23:15. > :23:17.Gate to celebrate the men's arrival and Lucy Hockings was there for us,

:23:18. > :23:32.At many talked about how they thought were the way young boys of

:23:33. > :23:35.winning the World Cup. Imagine arriving home today, walking along

:23:36. > :23:41.the States, holding the World Cup and looking down at this. Half an

:23:42. > :23:46.onion people gathered here to see them and welcome them home. The fans

:23:47. > :23:56.have been so excited. They are so proud of their team. It must've been

:23:57. > :24:01.the most glorious moment for them. People are stretched as far as the

:24:02. > :24:05.eye can see. Ever since Sunday night, the entire country has been

:24:06. > :24:11.completely ecstatic and the party is going to continue for some time yet.

:24:12. > :24:13.They add showing no sign of leaving. We should leave the last words at

:24:14. > :24:39.the fans. Making sushi is considered a bit of

:24:40. > :24:44.an art. We had always told not to play with

:24:45. > :24:47.our food but that isn't how this woman rolls. She has transformed

:24:48. > :24:58.this woman rolls. She has transformed the of art. Her designs

:24:59. > :25:02.include faces that's change when you get them through. She was inspired

:25:03. > :25:10.to make out using materials everyone would have at home. For Japanese it

:25:11. > :25:15.is unheard of for a house not to have rice and seaweed even when I

:25:16. > :25:20.lived alone I had that. I thought I could do something with those. That

:25:21. > :25:28.is the added challenge of making sure the art not only looks good

:25:29. > :25:31.that tastes good as well. This goes into your body is too if you just

:25:32. > :25:36.paint a picture it may not have that much influence. This isn't something

:25:37. > :25:41.you look out, it is something you can experience in a variety of ways.

:25:42. > :25:47.She is sharing her skills and holding workshops teaching others

:25:48. > :25:51.how to make their own masterpieces. It feels like I've made my own

:25:52. > :25:57.artwork, more than making food. You can eat it that it is your own

:25:58. > :26:05.creation. A creation that may not stay on display for too long! A

:26:06. > :26:08.reminder of our main news. Israel's Prime Minister has warned the

:26:09. > :26:15.military campaign in Gaza will be intensified unless --. How mass

:26:16. > :26:20.rejected the cease-fire proposed by Egypt's. More than a Palestinians

:26:21. > :26:23.have been killed and 1200 wounded and within the last few hours, the

:26:24. > :26:28.first Israeli to billions have been killed. In the most significant

:26:29. > :26:32.recent full of the British cabinets is David Cameron came to power,

:26:33. > :26:38.there are more top jobs for women up from three to five. The Foreign

:26:39. > :26:40.Secretary, William Hay, stands down with ten months to go until the next

:26:41. > :26:42.general election. You can also talk to me about this

:26:43. > :26:46.or any of our stories @PhilippaBBC. But for now, from me and the rest

:26:47. > :27:01.of the team, goodbye. We saw a dry day on Tuesday with the

:27:02. > :27:08.exception of a few showers across northern Scotland. We'll see more

:27:09. > :27:11.rain come on Wednesday but what will really notice is somewhat of an

:27:12. > :27:15.timidity of driving across the country. It is all tied in with this

:27:16. > :27:16.set of weather front. It'll bring the rain across