:00:19. > :00:26.This is BBC World News today. A court in the Hague rules that - --
:00:27. > :00:28.Dutch peacekeepers failed to protect 300 Muslim men and boys were killed
:00:29. > :00:30.during the Bosnian war. Some families should
:00:31. > :00:31.now get compensation. The funeral takes place
:00:32. > :00:33.for four Palestinian children killed whilst playing on a beach - the
:00:34. > :00:36.latest victims as Israel intensifies Also coming up,
:00:37. > :00:42.the hidden scale of child abuse in the UK - a massive police operation
:00:43. > :00:46.arrests 660 suspected paedophiles. Are we winning the fight
:00:47. > :00:48.against AIDS? The number of deaths worldwide from
:00:49. > :01:10.the disease is falling dramatically. It's been called the worst atrocity
:01:11. > :01:14.in Europe since World War Two, and today a court in the Hague has
:01:15. > :01:17.ruled that the Netherlands was partly responsible for the deaths
:01:18. > :01:26.of more than 300 people killed in The court says Dutch peacekeepers
:01:27. > :01:30.failed to protect men and boys who sought protection
:01:31. > :01:33.at a United Nations base in 1995. Although more than 7,000 men
:01:34. > :01:35.and boys were murdered in a few days, this ruling relates
:01:36. > :01:39.to the 300 who had made it to the UN compound at Potocari, rather than
:01:40. > :01:42.the thousands more who'd fled to The Dutch handed
:01:43. > :01:50.the 300 over to General Mladic's Within just three days
:01:51. > :01:55.the first reports emerged of Muslim Our World Affairs correspondent,
:01:56. > :02:00.Mike Woolridge, has more on today's Relatives of the Bosnian Muslim men
:02:01. > :02:06.and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica have waged a lengthy legal campaign
:02:07. > :02:10.to have the Dutch government held responsible for the killings on
:02:11. > :02:17.grounds that Dutch peacekeepers had failed to protect them from Serb
:02:18. > :02:20.forces. The Mothers of Srebrenica, as they call themselves,
:02:21. > :02:22.won a partial victory today with a ruling that the government could
:02:23. > :02:26.be held liable in the deaths of 300 Their leader said said this could
:02:27. > :02:34.leave them having to tell a mother that for one of their sons
:02:35. > :02:37.there was Dutch responsibility but for another there was not
:02:38. > :02:40.and so, she said, the battle for A few months before the end
:02:41. > :02:47.of the Bosnian war, thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages
:02:48. > :02:50.had gathered here at Srebrenica to The Muslim enclave was under
:02:51. > :03:01.the protection of Dutch troops But then it was overrun
:03:02. > :03:07.by paramilitary units under the comand of Ratko Mladic,
:03:08. > :03:13.who is now on trial in the Hague Terrified civilians were removed
:03:14. > :03:17.from the camp without the Dutch And the massacre of men
:03:18. > :03:20.and boys that followed is considered Some experts say today's judgement
:03:21. > :03:29.will mean countries thinking more carefully
:03:30. > :03:30.about deploying peacekeeping troops That, of course, is unfortunate
:03:31. > :03:33.because peacekeeping is a long-established tradition and it is
:03:34. > :03:36.important there be a certain amount of protection for individuals
:03:37. > :03:41.involved in that process. But I think countries do need to
:03:42. > :03:45.be held accountable for public In the 19 years since the Srebrenica
:03:46. > :03:53.massacre, further discoveries of the remains of those killed has
:03:54. > :03:56.brought continuing grieving, and today a significant court ruling
:03:57. > :04:03.for the relatives conjure. and today a significant court ruling
:04:04. > :04:13.for the relatives to conjure. Alan Little covered the Bosnia war
:04:14. > :04:17.for the BBC for three years and joins me now. From the outside it
:04:18. > :04:21.was such a shock when these reports of massacres emerged, modern Europe,
:04:22. > :04:24.massacre on this scale. You were there and saw the seeds are being
:04:25. > :04:27.sown. Yes, indeed, and those of us who
:04:28. > :04:32.were there pretty much knew this would happen if Srebrenica was
:04:33. > :04:34.allowed to fall. Srebrenica was only different in scale from what had
:04:35. > :04:40.been happening pretty consistently for three years beforehand. Was
:04:41. > :04:45.started in 1992 and its signature was this grim euphemism, ethnic
:04:46. > :04:50.cleansing. Trying to carve out an ethnically pure territory in Bosnia,
:04:51. > :04:55.through mass murder. We knew that mass murder was a technique,
:04:56. > :05:01.therefore it was highly predictable that something of this sort would
:05:02. > :05:06.happen, though the scale of it - between 7000 and 8000 in a few days
:05:07. > :05:15.- even to seasoned observers of that walk on it together one by surprise.
:05:16. > :05:19.-- of that war, it took everyone by surprise. This only applies to 300
:05:20. > :05:24.of those who were killed, how are they distinguishing between these
:05:25. > :05:29.and the more than 6000 others? These 300 men had managed to get
:05:30. > :05:33.into the Dutch compound at Potocari. They thought they were safe they are
:05:34. > :05:38.with their families and the Dutch peacekeepers handed them over. They
:05:39. > :05:42.made a decision to hand them over to Serb forces. The court found today
:05:43. > :05:46.that at the time in which they were handed over, the killing had already
:05:47. > :05:48.started. The court ruled the peacekeepers new or should have
:05:49. > :05:54.known there was mass murderer already underway. That is what
:05:55. > :05:59.distinguishes these 300 from the other 7500. What about the relatives
:06:00. > :06:03.of those who do not come under the 300?
:06:04. > :06:09.They are not satisfied at all with this and they want to take on their
:06:10. > :06:12.campaign. One woman who has been an indefatigable campaigner for the
:06:13. > :06:16.last two decades has said, how can you did in which between two
:06:17. > :06:20.mothers, one of whose sons was on one side of wire and the other whose
:06:21. > :06:24.son was on the other side? They are both dead in the same mass grave.
:06:25. > :06:29.And there was a failure protection both sides?
:06:30. > :06:32.Yes, the United Nations two years before it happened declared, the UN
:06:33. > :06:38.Security Council in New York, Dix -- declared Srebrenica as a safe area.
:06:39. > :06:44.They failed to render it safe. This is a statement not just to the Dutch
:06:45. > :06:52.peacekeepers and the Dutch state, it is a continuing stain to the UN with
:06:53. > :06:58.peacekeepers there with no peace to keep.
:06:59. > :07:01.And the ongoing trial of VAT, la ditch and Milosevic. -- Ratko
:07:02. > :07:06.Mladic. Yes, both of these men are accused
:07:07. > :07:12.of genocide. Srebrenica features heavily in the indictment of both
:07:13. > :07:14.men. The court has been heavily criticised of taking so long to
:07:15. > :07:17.apprehend the men in the first place and once they were in custody to
:07:18. > :07:21.bring them to justice. Both trials have been going on for years now and
:07:22. > :07:29.there was no sign of them ending. I have sat in that courtroom watching
:07:30. > :07:34.both of them and sat beside some of those mothers of Srebrenica. Their
:07:35. > :07:37.pain is unimaginable, they follow this day by day and it consumes
:07:38. > :07:41.their whole lives. The compensation the court will award 300 of those
:07:42. > :07:46.families today is inconsequential to them in comparison with what they
:07:47. > :07:50.see as a search for justice and recognition at last of what happened
:07:51. > :07:53.to them, particularly how they were let down by the international
:07:54. > :07:55.community. Thank you.
:07:56. > :07:57.Four Palestinian children from the same family have been
:07:58. > :08:00.killed by a rocket attack on a beach in Gaza City.
:08:01. > :08:02.The Palestinians say it brings the death total to 213.
:08:03. > :08:05.Israel says hundreds of rockets have been fired from Gaza.
:08:06. > :08:11.This afternoon one Israeli civilian to die as a result of the
:08:12. > :08:14.attacks and was buried by his family.
:08:15. > :08:17.Israel has urged tens of thousands of people to leave their homes in
:08:18. > :08:21.Gaza amid signs that it is preparing to step up its military campaign.
:08:22. > :08:23.The children were playing on Gaza's beach
:08:24. > :08:30.It struck with such force there was nowhere to hide.
:08:31. > :08:33.As the survivors ran for cover, there was further shelling.
:08:34. > :08:37.The injured - more children - were taken to a local hospital.
:08:38. > :08:40.As family members arrived, the shattering news -
:08:41. > :08:48.Their ages vary between ten and 12 years old.
:08:49. > :08:51.Medical teams are still in the area looking to evacuate
:08:52. > :08:55.the dead and wounded from the site that was completely destroyed.
:08:56. > :08:57.Israel's military says it is investigating the deaths.
:08:58. > :09:00.Earlier it had dropped leaflets across northern Gaza,
:09:01. > :09:09.They carried what they could and headed for shelter in schools.
:09:10. > :09:12.Israel has promised to intensify its military offensive.
:09:13. > :09:20.Already, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed.
:09:21. > :09:22.And today, for the first time in this conflict,
:09:23. > :09:30.The family of Dror Hanin gathered with mourners to bury him.
:09:31. > :09:35.He was killed last night by a mortar from Gaza, the first Israeli to die.
:09:36. > :09:39.Dror Hanin died just hours after a cease-fire attempt here failed.
:09:40. > :09:41.If it had succeeded, he may have lived.
:09:42. > :09:45.So too may have the ten or so Palestinians who died overnight
:09:46. > :09:50.But, nine days into this conflict, there is still no great appetite
:09:51. > :10:02.And this evening Gaza was overwhelmed with grief.
:10:03. > :10:05.Their pain was raw as the bodies of the dead children were carried
:10:06. > :10:09.Yet more civilians killed in a conflict that shows no sign
:10:10. > :10:20.Deaths from HIV-AIDS fell to 1.5 million last year.
:10:21. > :10:29.That's 200,000 fewer than in 2012, according to a new report released
:10:30. > :10:32.It's good news - the global effort to beat
:10:33. > :10:35.But 35 million people are still living with HIV.
:10:36. > :10:38.Dr Gitau Mburu is senior adviser on HIV and health systems at the
:10:39. > :10:54.Welcome to World News Today. First, the positive side. A significant
:10:55. > :10:58.drop in the number of deaths. Is this due to more people getting the
:10:59. > :11:01.right drugs? It has been a combination of a
:11:02. > :11:05.number of factors. One of them is that there has been significant
:11:06. > :11:15.scientific development that has enabled more people to get diagnosed
:11:16. > :11:18.earlier. There has also been a rapid expansion in HIV programmes in low
:11:19. > :11:22.and middle income countries meaning that people who were initially
:11:23. > :11:26.harder to reach our able to access treatment. Expansion of treatment
:11:27. > :11:30.has played a significant factor in this reduction of numbers of deaths.
:11:31. > :11:36.I think it is important also to highlight that when people get onto
:11:37. > :11:41.treatment earlier, it means they are able to live much longer lives and
:11:42. > :11:49.recent evidence also shows that when people get on treatment their life
:11:50. > :11:55.expectancy is as close to those without HIV. We are extremely
:11:56. > :11:59.excited about that at the Alliance. One of the figures that jump out at
:12:00. > :12:04.me from this report is that of the 35 million people living with HIV
:12:05. > :12:08.globally it says 19 million do not know their HIV-positive status.
:12:09. > :12:14.The number of people who are living in ignorance is still alarming.
:12:15. > :12:21.Yes, it is a remarkable figure and one that is actually alarming. As
:12:22. > :12:27.you know, getting treatment can only start once you know your status. We
:12:28. > :12:33.have continued to see that only 50% of people with HIV actually have an
:12:34. > :12:36.idea that they have got it. Even though we have made tremendous
:12:37. > :12:41.progress in terms of producing the deaths from HIV, we still know that
:12:42. > :12:47.we have 50% of people living with HIV, which is actually about 19
:12:48. > :12:50.million, to get to understand their HIV status. That is not only
:12:51. > :12:56.important for their own good, because research has shown over and
:12:57. > :12:59.over again that 61% of new infections in the US come from
:13:00. > :13:02.people who do not know they have got HIV, so it is extremely essential
:13:03. > :13:10.that people have ways of eating able to access HIV testing. -- of being
:13:11. > :13:14.able. That is one of the areas where we have to put more resources, we
:13:15. > :13:17.have to reach people who are marginalised or people who do not
:13:18. > :13:21.have access to conventional health facilities. We have to be able to be
:13:22. > :13:26.smart enough to reach them in their own communities.
:13:27. > :13:30.Just briefly, if 19 million people do not know their HIV-positive
:13:31. > :13:34.status, how do we know? Is this just statistics? How do we come to that
:13:35. > :13:39.number? Very good question. One of the ways
:13:40. > :13:44.in which people come to percentages is by doing scientific surveys. We
:13:45. > :13:48.would come to a time and try and figure out how many people know they
:13:49. > :13:55.have HIV status after weeks test them. -- after we test them. We ask
:13:56. > :14:00.them, have you ever been tested before, do you have a partner that
:14:01. > :14:04.is HIV-positive? A lot of it is based on small surveys that are then
:14:05. > :14:09.extrapolated to group levels, but they are very scientific and we have
:14:10. > :14:16.confidence that they are absolutely the right amount of people that do
:14:17. > :14:22.not know their status. Dr Gitau Mburu in Brighton, Viking
:14:23. > :14:25.for joining us. -- thank you for joining us. We have some breaking
:14:26. > :14:30.news for you, a British man has been jailed for 12 and a half years by an
:14:31. > :14:33.American court for running a website and distributing publications that
:14:34. > :14:38.promoted violence and raised money for Al-Qaeda.
:14:39. > :14:49.The 39 yield was extradited from the UK two years ago. Another man is due
:14:50. > :14:52.to be sentenced tomorrow. Nick Bryant is at the court in
:14:53. > :14:57.Connecticut where this sentence was handed down. Tell us more. The
:14:58. > :15:00.sentence has been handed down in the past few minutes following a three
:15:01. > :15:04.and a half hour ruling by the judge, during which he went into
:15:05. > :15:08.great detail about the details of the case and the details of the
:15:09. > :15:10.character, which is one of the reasons why she has decided to give
:15:11. > :15:10.him character, which is one of the
:15:11. > :15:15.reasons why she has decided a 12 and a half year sentence, rather than
:15:16. > :15:20.the 25 year sentence the prosecutors were looking at.
:15:21. > :15:26.Because he has served ten years already, Philip, fighting
:15:27. > :15:29.extradition in Britain and for the past two years held in solitary
:15:30. > :15:35.confinement in a super max prison here in America, it seems according
:15:36. > :15:37.to his legal team that he will be out of prison, based on good
:15:38. > :15:43.behaviour come in about seven or eight months. So, by next spring.
:15:44. > :15:49.His good behaviour was a crucial element in the judge's thinking. She
:15:50. > :15:52.said this was a very serious crime. He had pleaded guilty to providing
:15:53. > :15:59.material support to the Caliban and also a charge of conspiracy. --
:16:00. > :16:03.support to the Caliban. He had entered into this plea agreement and
:16:04. > :16:09.she said the seriousness of the crime had to be weighed against his
:16:10. > :16:13.good character. She spoke movingly of the testimonials she has received
:16:14. > :16:16.from his friends, his supporters in Britain particularly, speaking of
:16:17. > :16:20.his good character and the good deeds he has done in prison,
:16:21. > :16:25.speaking of the care he has shown for people outside prison. He spoke
:16:26. > :16:28.on his behalf during this sentencing procedure, so did his sister,
:16:29. > :16:32.welling up at one point talking about how much she loved her brother
:16:33. > :16:36.and what a great man he was, and the judge really took that into account
:16:37. > :16:41.when she delivered this sentence. As I say, it was half of what the
:16:42. > :16:44.prosecutors were looking for. He has been centred to 12 and a half years,
:16:45. > :16:47.he has served ten of them already, on good behaviour he should be out
:16:48. > :16:51.by next spring. Thank you.
:16:52. > :16:56.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:16:57. > :16:59.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been sworn in for another
:17:00. > :17:03.Mr Assad was declared the winner of an election held last month
:17:04. > :17:12.but the opposition dismissed the vote as a sham.
:17:13. > :17:15.In a speech he claimed western and Arab countries would pay
:17:16. > :17:16.a heavy price for supporting opposition fighters
:17:17. > :17:20.A court in Egypt has sentenced seven men to
:17:21. > :17:23.life imprisonment and two others to 20 years for sexual assaults
:17:24. > :17:26.Some took place during celebrations to mark the inauguration
:17:27. > :17:30.There's been concern in Egypt that the authorities were
:17:31. > :17:38.not doing enough to tackle widespread sexual harassment.
:17:39. > :17:40.A court in Sweden has upheld an arrest warrant issued against
:17:41. > :17:43.the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault.
:17:44. > :17:45.Mr Assange denies the allegations made against him by two female
:17:46. > :17:51.He has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London
:17:52. > :18:06.for the past two years to avoid extradition to Sweden.
:18:07. > :18:11.Here in Britain a six-month-long police operation has led to the
:18:12. > :18:12.arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles, including doctors, teachers,
:18:13. > :18:14.scout leaders, care workers, and former police officers, most of whom
:18:15. > :18:17.The operation focused on people accessing indecent images
:18:18. > :18:23.There are millions of images of child sexual abuse online.
:18:24. > :18:25.Every digital device has a camera meaning paedophiles are
:18:26. > :18:34.now making and trading obscene pictures more than ever before.
:18:35. > :18:37.The National Crime Agency launched last October,
:18:38. > :18:45.But preventing online child exploitation has become
:18:46. > :18:50.I think what's been developing over the last couple of years really is
:18:51. > :18:52.an increasing understanding of the scale of this issue.
:18:53. > :18:56.So the ability for people to access material very easily via
:18:57. > :19:01.the internet has changed the face of this type of criminality.
:19:02. > :19:06.He had more than one million obscene images.
:19:07. > :19:10.Another was a grandfather with access to 17 grandchildren.
:19:11. > :19:15.There was also a foster carer looking after a vulnerable child.
:19:16. > :19:18.This operation sends a clear message.
:19:19. > :19:21.There is no hiding place for paedophiles on the web.
:19:22. > :19:23.The National Crime Agency won't talk about its tactics.
:19:24. > :19:26.But we do know officers had expert training from the
:19:27. > :19:28.Los Angeles Police Department and I had exclusive access to their online
:19:29. > :19:47.Backed up by high-tech forensic units and sophisticated software
:19:48. > :19:53.which tracks, in real-time, people who are accessing abuse images.
:19:54. > :19:55.So from what I can see here, just above Croydon,
:19:56. > :19:59.there is a red dot that means there is an individual there who we know,
:20:00. > :20:05.at this moment, is swapping images of child sexual abuse.
:20:06. > :20:08.For experts based in the UK, the scale of Operation Notarise must
:20:09. > :20:15.It is a crime that cuts across every strata of society so you
:20:16. > :20:19.can't actually depict who is going to be looking at these images.
:20:20. > :20:25.Police can't arrest their way out of this problem.
:20:26. > :20:29.It's also for the internet industry and wider society to stem
:20:30. > :20:59.the tide of obscene images and protect children from abuse.
:21:00. > :21:01.When I say Guantanamo Bay, you probably think of the US
:21:02. > :21:04.But there's also a US naval base there.
:21:05. > :21:06.Neither are particularly welcome by Cuban citizens.
:21:07. > :21:08.Many of whom believe there's no strategic
:21:09. > :21:10.reason for a continued American military presence on their island.
:21:11. > :21:11.From Guantanamo, Sarah Rainsford reports.
:21:12. > :21:13.This is Guantanamo Bay from the Cuban side.
:21:14. > :21:15.A sunbaked spot where life moves very slowly
:21:16. > :21:19.The watchtowers mark the edge of the US naval base at Guantanamo.
:21:20. > :21:21.The American military here inside Communist Cuba.
:21:22. > :21:25.But there is resentment under the surface.
:21:26. > :21:28.The Americans control the entrance to Guantanamo Bay, restricting Cuban
:21:29. > :21:33.Alexander tells with the best catch are in the deeper
:21:34. > :21:40.He says the men here are hoping, praying even,
:21:41. > :21:45.But their base was part of the landscape here long
:21:46. > :21:50.Both sides must agree if it's to be closed.
:21:51. > :21:53.The US base is so close to this town that every morning locals here
:21:54. > :21:56.on this side of the bay hear the American national anthem coming
:21:57. > :22:00.Cuba calls the Americans' presence here an
:22:01. > :22:03.illegal occupation and ever since the revolution, Fidel Castro has
:22:04. > :22:09.refused to cash the rent cheque that the Americans pay for being here.
:22:10. > :22:11.The base proved pretty lucrative for some, though.
:22:12. > :22:14.This man is one of thousands of Cubans who worked for
:22:15. > :22:21.The US stopped hiring after Cuba turned Communist but he
:22:22. > :22:24.and many others carried on working at the base and today collects
:22:25. > :22:38.When he started work in the 40s, Guantanamo's streets were full
:22:39. > :22:43.The city's historian points out a former brothel,
:22:44. > :22:50.and talks of the moral threat from the US base in the old days.
:22:51. > :22:52.Later he argues it became a threat to national security.
:22:53. > :22:56.After the revolution there were killings of fishermen, most of the
:22:57. > :23:02.acts of aggression in this region at the US base in Guantanamo.
:23:03. > :23:12.That's partly why the revolutionary spirit remains high here.
:23:13. > :23:15.That and the extra food rations to keep locals loyal.
:23:16. > :23:18.We are the first line of defence against imperialism,
:23:19. > :23:24.The hope here is that such fighting talk can be consigned
:23:25. > :23:29.But whilst President Obama talks of shutting
:23:30. > :23:32.down the US detention centre in Guantanamo, he's never talked
:23:33. > :23:48.of closing the naval base here or of returning this land to Cuba.
:23:49. > :23:54.European leaders have gathered in Brussels for a special summit to
:23:55. > :23:56.decide who should fill two top EU jobs - foreign policy chief
:23:57. > :23:59.The talks follow Jean-Claude Juncker's confirmation as
:24:00. > :24:02.the new president of the European Commission, a post he got in spite
:24:03. > :24:06.EU leaders are also likely to discuss the crisis in Ukraine,
:24:07. > :24:08.and the possibility of more sanctions against Moscow.
:24:09. > :24:10.Let's find out more from the BBC's Europe correspondent
:24:11. > :24:26.I know this is not a quick process, deciding these names but tell me why
:24:27. > :24:31.it matters who gets these top jobs. Because it sets the tone for the way
:24:32. > :24:37.Europe is run. If Barack Obama comes into town for example, the council
:24:38. > :24:44.will meet him and as for the foreign policy job, it started more low-key.
:24:45. > :24:48.National government guard this as their issue but the current
:24:49. > :24:53.incumbent has made progress on things like the Iran nuclear talks
:24:54. > :24:56.and the relation between Serbia and Kosovo. Tension is now turning to
:24:57. > :25:01.who gets it next for the leading candidate is probably the Italian
:25:02. > :25:06.Foreign Minister. He is relatively new in his job, less than six
:25:07. > :25:13.months. Several countries in Eastern Europe believe he and the Italian
:25:14. > :25:16.political establishment in general are to consider towards Russia when
:25:17. > :25:22.it comes to the current crisis in the Ukraine. Angela Merkel has
:25:23. > :25:27.warned there could be further sanctions, the feeling that Russia
:25:28. > :25:32.is not doing enough over Ukraine. Yeah, there's been pressure building
:25:33. > :25:36.on the EU over the last few days for the US, and the Ukraine itself to
:25:37. > :25:38.say, you have been threatening further sanctions for awhile and
:25:39. > :25:43.things are not getting better and it's time to take action. A draft
:25:44. > :25:48.statement circulating suggests the EU might cut of Russian access to
:25:49. > :25:52.several billion dollars worth of public loans for infrastructure and
:25:53. > :25:56.develop and projects to Russia. There may well be other individuals
:25:57. > :26:00.will be subject to things like these are bands and asset freezes, but
:26:01. > :26:05.it's not a move to phase three of sanctions, those pressing for the
:26:06. > :26:09.toughest line against Russia would like to see, against large sections
:26:10. > :26:14.of the Russian economy. At the moment, in the EU, there are some
:26:15. > :26:16.countries not prepared to go that far. Chris Morris, in Brussels,
:26:17. > :26:24.thank you. The government in the Netherlands
:26:25. > :26:27.has been found liable for the deaths of more than 300
:26:28. > :26:31.of the thousands of Bosnian Muslims A court in the Hague decided that
:26:32. > :26:35.Dutch peacekeepers should have known the men might be killed by
:26:36. > :26:38.Bosnian Serbs when they sent them It's a story of soaring temperatures
:26:39. > :26:57.and eventually thunderstorms as we We have high pressure across
:26:58. > :27:02.the country with this complication of a weak weather front across
:27:03. > :27:05.south-eastern areas so rather cloudy start to the day here with the odd
:27:06. > :27:08.spot of rain, perhaps mist near the coast but that cloud will thin
:27:09. > :27:12.and break and most