:00:00. > :00:08.broadcasting in the UK and around the world.
:00:09. > :00:10.I'm Tim Willcox. The headlines:
:00:11. > :00:12.World powers agree to push for a temporary halt to the fighting
:00:13. > :00:16.in Syria to relieve besieged towns, but President Assad says
:00:17. > :00:23.Pope meets Patriarch - the heads of the Roman Catholic
:00:24. > :00:26.and the Russian Orthodox churches are to hold their first talks
:00:27. > :00:30.Also coming up, Britain's Independent newspaper
:00:31. > :00:32.is to disappear from newsstands next month
:00:33. > :00:41.And a Japanese MP behind a national debate about paternity leave
:00:42. > :01:01.resigns, after having an affair while his wife was pregnant.
:01:02. > :01:06.Russian warplanes have been in action over Syria again today,
:01:07. > :01:08.just hours after major powers agreed on a pause in fighting.
:01:09. > :01:12.Officially the so-called cessation of hostilities is due to begin
:01:13. > :01:14.in a week's time, but the UN says aid deliveries
:01:15. > :01:16.to some besieged areas inside Syria could begin
:01:17. > :01:23.The agreement reached in Germany came shortly after
:01:24. > :01:26.President Bashar al Assad said he intends to fight on
:01:27. > :01:30.until he's brought the whole country back under his control.
:01:31. > :01:37.Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports.
:01:38. > :01:44.Syria's biggest, once beautiful city, now broken.
:01:45. > :01:50.This month tens of thousands are fleeing Russia's bombing there.
:01:51. > :01:54.Moscow says it is striking so-called Islamic State.
:01:55. > :01:56.The West says it is aiding the Syrian military
:01:57. > :02:03.Now, the world's most powerful diplomats emerged to say they had
:02:04. > :02:13.We have agreed to implement a nationwide cessation
:02:14. > :02:20.of hostilities to begin in a target of one week's time.
:02:21. > :02:24.That's ambitious but everybody is determined to move as rapidly
:02:25. > :02:30.Russia's Sergey Lavrov signalled an intention to move
:02:31. > :02:40.But the doubts became clearer, most of all about Russia's intentions.
:02:41. > :02:46.It is possible that the Russians had limited military objectives and have
:02:47. > :02:51.largely achieved them and are now ready to see a scaling down
:02:52. > :02:55.of military activity, but we won't know that until we see
:02:56. > :03:07.Today Syria's rebel leaders are raising objections.
:03:08. > :03:12.So did President Assad who spoke before the deal was done.
:03:13. > :03:20.We have fully believed in negotiations and political actions
:03:21. > :03:22.since the beginning of the crisis. If we negotiate,
:03:23. > :03:24.it does not mean we will Two tracks are inevitable in Syria,
:03:25. > :03:28.first through negotiation and second The two tracks are
:03:29. > :03:33.separate from each other. This war is also a major
:03:34. > :03:36.humanitarian crisis. The Munich deal means that
:03:37. > :03:39.government and rebel forces must let aid enter areas where
:03:40. > :03:45.people are starving. Imagine we have several convoys
:03:46. > :03:49.for several days and repeated it Do you think this
:03:50. > :04:02.is a turning point? Strong words have emerged here
:04:03. > :04:06.in Munich, but great scepticism too. The next week will make it clear
:04:07. > :04:09.whether this was a major breakthrough that can help ease
:04:10. > :04:11.the suffering of Syrian civilians or whether it is another major
:04:12. > :04:14.setback that will make Well, as that agreement
:04:15. > :04:27.was being reached in Munich - today US Defence Secretary
:04:28. > :04:29.Ash Carter was participating After the discussions he said
:04:30. > :04:32.he expected Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
:04:33. > :04:35.to provide special operations forces to help Syrian opposition fighters
:04:36. > :04:40.battling so called Islamic State. Secretary Carter sat down
:04:41. > :04:52.exclusively with What is your reaction to what has
:04:53. > :04:56.happened in Geneva? This agreement in principle for a cessation of
:04:57. > :05:02.hostilities. John Kerry has done great work to try and ease the
:05:03. > :05:08.suffering, the terrible suffering of the Syrian people, and ultimately to
:05:09. > :05:12.put a political end to the civil War in Syria. I want to make clear,
:05:13. > :05:19.there is no cessation of hostilities in the war against Isil. All the
:05:20. > :05:22.countries here are agreed to step up their efforts to accelerate their
:05:23. > :05:26.efforts, we want to get Isil defeated. Especially and initially
:05:27. > :05:33.in Iraq and Syria. As soon as possible. You have 50 countries, all
:05:34. > :05:40.of them saying that they would do more, just like the United States,
:05:41. > :05:43.President Obama has pledged to more. Do you trust the Russians? This is
:05:44. > :05:47.an agreement with them, the same who have been main moderate rebels when
:05:48. > :05:52.they say they are bombing extremists. They have killed
:05:53. > :05:55.civilians, they are strengthening Assad's and? They were way off
:05:56. > :05:59.track, they have been from the beginning. But we will see, weather
:06:00. > :06:03.they implement the agreement he signed up with. We will just see.
:06:04. > :06:09.That is what they said they would do. We will see if they do it. More
:06:10. > :06:13.broadly in sera, they said they were going to come in and fight Isil,
:06:14. > :06:18.they did not. Instead they joined the civil War. They fuelled the
:06:19. > :06:26.Civil War. That was a negative contribution. Let's hope they can
:06:27. > :06:30.contribute in a positive, humanitarian way. You can understand
:06:31. > :06:34.people being sceptical, because the Russians have not said they will
:06:35. > :06:38.stop bombing. It does not go into effect for a week, and we will have
:06:39. > :06:44.to see whether the Russians actually abide by it or not. But Secretary
:06:45. > :06:47.Kerry got them to make that commitment, they need to meet that
:06:48. > :06:53.but we will have to see, as in all things with Russians. You have been
:06:54. > :07:00.trying to get that coalition to do more. What concrete have you
:07:01. > :07:04.achieved in Brussels? Two things. They all agree unanimously to the
:07:05. > :07:08.coalition, military campaign and that the United States devised that
:07:09. > :07:20.calls out the objectives specifically. Taking Raqqa and Mosul
:07:21. > :07:23.from Isis. And protecting our homeland, all those aspects, and we
:07:24. > :07:27.went through all the capabilities that were going to be needed and
:07:28. > :07:34.what each country could do to increase its contribution. We are
:07:35. > :07:41.looking to help and enable the Iraqi Army, it is day that took back
:07:42. > :07:43.Ramadi from Isil with our help. With the help of our excellent UK
:07:44. > :07:49.partners and other coalition partners. Your intelligence chief
:07:50. > :07:55.says it will not be until 2017 before you start even contemplating
:07:56. > :08:00.going for Mosul, is that correct? Our timeline is as soon as we can
:08:01. > :08:03.possibly do it. The Iraqi Prime Minister himself has said he would
:08:04. > :08:08.like to get this done this year. We are going to do everything we can to
:08:09. > :08:12.help him do that. As soon as possible. We need to defeat Isil as
:08:13. > :08:15.quickly as possible, both in Iraq and Syria, and in other places.
:08:16. > :08:18.The Pope and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch are meeting in Cuba -
:08:19. > :08:21.significant because it's the first ever encounter between the heads
:08:22. > :08:25.of the two churches since they split in the 11th century,
:08:26. > :08:30.The Vatican has been pushing for such a meeting ever since
:08:31. > :08:33.the collapse of the Soviet Union, but Moscow had always resisted.
:08:34. > :08:38.The meeting is being seen as a major step towards warmer relations.
:08:39. > :08:44.Our correspondent, Will Grant, is in Havana.
:08:45. > :08:54.Both men now on the ground, a very symbolic burying the hatchet? That's
:08:55. > :08:58.right. As you mentioned in your introduction, since the 11th
:08:59. > :09:03.century, we thought the relations were frosty between Cuba and the
:09:04. > :09:08.United States! It is nothing in comparison to the amount of time
:09:09. > :09:11.that has passed between the Eastern and Western religions of the
:09:12. > :09:13.Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic faith. But this is an
:09:14. > :09:19.important moment for them to be coming together, and Bob Francis,
:09:20. > :09:24.when he got off the plane and we saw some brief moments of him with the
:09:25. > :09:26.Patriarch, already mentioned the word brotherhood and I think that is
:09:27. > :09:30.the driving force of what they are trying to do. They no longer see
:09:31. > :09:34.this as a time for the Christian faith to be divided, but they should
:09:35. > :09:40.be coming together, this should be a moment of unity and cooperation, as
:09:41. > :09:43.so many Christians around the world feel persecuted. Very different men,
:09:44. > :09:49.very different styles. The church is very different as well. Roman
:09:50. > :09:52.Catholic priests are celibate, the Russian Orthodox ones are allowed to
:09:53. > :09:57.marry, for one example. What in concrete terms will this mean on the
:09:58. > :10:02.ground, and where does it feed into some conflicts like Syria and others
:10:03. > :10:09.around the world, in terms of that unity of the Christian faith? Well,
:10:10. > :10:14.that is a good question, and there is a lot of suggestions that the
:10:15. > :10:19.Russian Orthodox Church is staying very close to President Putin's
:10:20. > :10:24.foreign policy and that is a key tenet of it, staying close to the
:10:25. > :10:31.Putin Administration means it has been safe over the past few decades,
:10:32. > :10:36.as opposed to when it suffered in the wake of the fall of the Berlin
:10:37. > :10:41.Wall. So I would not want to suggest exactly what this would mean on the
:10:42. > :10:45.ground in terms of Syria or that kind of conflict. It may be that it
:10:46. > :10:49.takes so long for this kind of moment of unity to have any real
:10:50. > :10:53.effect on the ground, but perhaps it just has bolstered people, it makes
:10:54. > :10:57.the faithful feel they are part of a broader church, and no longer a
:10:58. > :11:02.church that is at war with itself, or at least divided. I think at this
:11:03. > :11:06.stage, these big symbolic moments are something about that, but
:11:07. > :11:10.showing unity in the eyes of the world, and it is down to the
:11:11. > :11:14.individual priests and parishes and religions to kind of apply it in
:11:15. > :11:16.their daily life. We'll grant, and you very much.
:11:17. > :11:18.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:11:19. > :11:20.Thousands of farmers from across Greece have
:11:21. > :11:21.taken their protest against austerity measures
:11:22. > :11:25.Fires have broken out among the crowds and there've been
:11:26. > :11:31.The workers are angry at government plans to increase their taxes.
:11:32. > :11:34.A five-storey building has collapsed in the centre of Istanbul.
:11:35. > :11:36.Local news organisations say the building came down
:11:37. > :11:39.near Istiklal Avenue, a busy pedestrianised street.
:11:40. > :11:42.The Istanbul Governor has told reporters that noises
:11:43. > :11:46.from the building alerted people that it was about to collapse,
:11:47. > :11:49.the area was evacuated and it appears that no-one
:11:50. > :11:54.European scientists have decided to give up trying to contact
:11:55. > :11:58.the Philae space robot, which became the first craft
:11:59. > :12:01.to touch down on a comet more than a year ago.
:12:02. > :12:05.Philae operated for just 60 hours after an awkward landing.
:12:06. > :12:08.Contact was briefly re-established with the lander last July
:12:09. > :12:12.but mission control has now given up hope of any further communication
:12:13. > :12:21.as the comet heads towards a much colder part of its orbit.
:12:22. > :12:26.Stay with us on BBC World News, still to come:
:12:27. > :12:49.A free man taking his first steps into a new South Africa.
:12:50. > :12:53.Iran's spiritual leader has said he has passed a death sentence on
:12:54. > :12:58.Salman Rushdie, the British author of a book which many Muslims say is
:12:59. > :13:02.blasphemous. The people of Haiti have flocked to church to give
:13:03. > :13:09.thanks for the hosting of the former President. Because of his
:13:10. > :13:15.considerable value, Shergar was kept in a special secure box. Shergar was
:13:16. > :13:22.driven away in a horse box that these brought with them. There are
:13:23. > :13:26.steps down from the plane a figure in mourning. Head of the
:13:27. > :13:39.Commonwealth, defender of the faith. You are watching BBC World News
:13:40. > :13:44.today. The headlines. World powers agree to
:13:45. > :13:50.press for a cessation of hostilities in Syria, President Assad says he
:13:51. > :13:54.will fight on. And the heads of the Roman Catholic
:13:55. > :13:58.and Russian Orthodox churches are holding an historic meeting in
:13:59. > :13:59.Havana, almost 1000 years after a schism divided eastern and Western
:14:00. > :14:01.Christianity. One of the UK's major newspapers,
:14:02. > :14:04.the Independent, will be the first The paper was set up
:14:05. > :14:10.in 1986 and is now owned Falling advertising revenues have
:14:11. > :14:16.caused much upheaval in the newspaper industry
:14:17. > :14:18.but Mr Lebedev says there is a growing appetite
:14:19. > :14:22.for online journalism. The Independent will publish
:14:23. > :14:27.its final print edition next month. David Uberti from the Columbia
:14:28. > :14:44.Journalism Review has written Is this the start of a trend, do you
:14:45. > :14:50.think, over here? There are a lot of online papers in the US. Certainly,
:14:51. > :14:53.we have seen her trend, especially in our metropolitan newspapers, at
:14:54. > :15:00.least cutting back on the print delivery service. The theory is that
:15:01. > :15:03.they reduce overhead costs. Design, printing, delivery, and trying to
:15:04. > :15:10.target days of the week that maximise the print run. They have
:15:11. > :15:13.not been any US newspapers that have gone fully digital. The Washington
:15:14. > :15:19.Post has invested in digital properties and the New York Times
:15:20. > :15:22.has double that -- doubled down on its subscription. So they are
:15:23. > :15:28.hybrids. But for the Independent to go fully online, what are the key
:15:29. > :15:33.facts that they need to concentrate on? Presumably it is keeping that
:15:34. > :15:39.individual flavour of the newspaper, and funding, the other big issue.
:15:40. > :15:44.Certainly. Going digital is no panacea. I applaud the Independent
:15:45. > :15:47.for taking such a radical step. They are probing the unknown whereas
:15:48. > :15:52.other newspapers have not ventured as far forward. The quest for scale
:15:53. > :15:57.really requires both focusing on a global audience but also maintaining
:15:58. > :16:01.your brand and not watering down your journalism. One of the
:16:02. > :16:04.difficulties with this strategy is that advertising rates in the
:16:05. > :16:08.digital market are increasingly low, so they might look in the future
:16:09. > :16:13.towards a digital subscription model to supplant that advertising
:16:14. > :16:18.revenue. If you want to maintain that campaigning quality of
:16:19. > :16:24.something like this, presumably if you had funding from subscribers or
:16:25. > :16:28.crowdfunding or something like that, would it be difficult to maintain
:16:29. > :16:33.that objectivity? People would be paying for something they wanted to
:16:34. > :16:38.see and hear. It would be certainly difficult, and to this point we have
:16:39. > :16:44.not find a long-term answer. The New York Times is the golden standard in
:16:45. > :16:47.terms of creating a digital subscriber base that gives itself a
:16:48. > :16:53.lot of revenue. Having said that, it is the best in class. The
:16:54. > :16:59.Independent will really have to work on making its journalism strong,
:17:00. > :17:05.having said that, there has not been a newspaper in the US besides the
:17:06. > :17:09.New York Times that has really made that step. Doesn't mean so the
:17:10. > :17:15.reporters have to be much more multi-skilled? Having to shoot their
:17:16. > :17:19.own material as well as writing it. Certainly. We are entering an age
:17:20. > :17:25.where reporters have to do so many different things, they have to wear
:17:26. > :17:29.many hats. It is about tweeting, producing the page, the main thing
:17:30. > :17:33.with digital journalism is it has to be much faster. The market is
:17:34. > :17:36.different for this sort of journalism. So the Independent has
:17:37. > :17:40.to shift in that direction. With most of these papers making the
:17:41. > :17:45.transition, we tend to see very wealthy owners investing
:17:46. > :17:50.significantly in their digital operations. So I would assume in
:17:51. > :17:53.this transition to a digital army operation, the owner of the
:17:54. > :17:58.Independent would invest in its digital side as well and try to
:17:59. > :18:04.create its own new brand identity in its digital only operation. Thank
:18:05. > :18:06.you very much indeed. The last hard copy of the Independent next month.
:18:07. > :18:09.Lizzie Greenwood Hughes has all the sport now.
:18:10. > :18:12.Fifa's former General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, has been banned
:18:13. > :18:17.A Fifa ethics committee says it is for a number of offences,
:18:18. > :18:20.including his part in a World Cup ticket scandal.
:18:21. > :18:23.But his legal team have accused the committee of not
:18:24. > :18:27.being a credible, independent or objective
:18:28. > :18:31.decision-making body, and claim he did nothing wrong.
:18:32. > :18:33.Earlier I spoke to our Sports News Correspondent Richard Conway,
:18:34. > :18:39.who explained the ban was originally recommended to be for eight years.
:18:40. > :18:49.Well, Fifa's Fx adjudicator has increased the ban, the investigators
:18:50. > :18:55.called for a number of years for lower than 12 but he has given them
:18:56. > :18:57.12 years. Looking at the litany of offences that Mr Valcke has been
:18:58. > :19:03.found guilty of, you can see why. Using the private jet that Fifa
:19:04. > :19:07.sometimes hired for sightseeing is one of the things he has been found
:19:08. > :19:13.guilty of. Using that to transport himself and his relatives. In
:19:14. > :19:18.addition, questions over World Cup tickets, also the question of TV and
:19:19. > :19:24.media rights for the next two Welker best-mac. The Fx adjudicator Fifa
:19:25. > :19:29.says they tended to be sold for less than the market rate. The worst
:19:30. > :19:32.thing in the eyes of the investigators was not just the crime
:19:33. > :19:37.itself but an attended cover-up of what he had done. Several computer
:19:38. > :19:42.files were said to have been deleted or attempted to have been deleted.
:19:43. > :19:46.So, Mr Valcke was sacked last month by Fifa and has been banned from all
:19:47. > :19:49.football activity for 12 years. I think it is the last time we will
:19:50. > :19:50.see him involved in world football governance.
:19:51. > :19:53.The President of the International Olympic Committee says he's
:19:54. > :19:55.confident the Zika virus will not disrupt this summer's Games in Rio.
:19:56. > :19:58.Thomas Bach says the IOC are taking the issue seriously but
:19:59. > :20:04.health authorities don't expect the virus to pose a threat.
:20:05. > :20:14.All the experts agree that given the temperatures, then in the Brazilian
:20:15. > :20:21.wintertime, when the Games are taking place in August, these will
:20:22. > :20:28.lead to a very different situation. So, we have confidence, full
:20:29. > :20:35.confidence in all the many actions being undertaken by the Brazilian
:20:36. > :20:44.and international authorities and health organisations, and we are
:20:45. > :20:47.also very confident that then the athletes and spectators will enjoy a
:20:48. > :20:51.safe conditions in Rio de Janeiro. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has
:20:52. > :20:53.defended the Premier League's pricing structure and says his club
:20:54. > :20:56.doesn't have a "massive problem". Ticketing costs is a hot topic
:20:57. > :20:58.in English football and there have been protests at the Emirates
:20:59. > :21:02.Stadium in the past over pricing. But Wenger is clearly
:21:03. > :21:15.a fan of the free market. How do you decide what is the right
:21:16. > :21:23.level of ticket prices, first of all? It is by your attendance. Then
:21:24. > :21:27.you have been compared many times to foreign clubs. I don't think we are
:21:28. > :21:37.on the same level ground, for example Bayern Munich. We paid ?220
:21:38. > :21:41.million for our ground. It is true we get much more television income
:21:42. > :21:47.but it is down to the audience for the success and the pressure on the
:21:48. > :21:49.market, we pay the players at a higher price and our expenses would
:21:50. > :21:51.come up straight the wages. Mark Cavendish has won
:21:52. > :21:53.cycling's Tour of Qatar, but just missed out on victory
:21:54. > :21:56.in the 5th and final stage. The sprinter started the day wearing
:21:57. > :21:59.the leader's gold jersey and put himself in contention to win
:22:00. > :22:01.the concluding stage. But he was just pipped to the line
:22:02. > :22:03.by Alexander Kristoff Second place though was good enough
:22:04. > :22:07.for him to secure Let's take a look at
:22:08. > :22:18.some other stories now. The Deputy President of Kenya,
:22:19. > :22:21.William Ruto, has won his appeal against the admissibility of key
:22:22. > :22:23.evidence in his trial on charges of crimes against
:22:24. > :22:26.humanity in The Hague. Mr Ruto and a Kenyan journalist
:22:27. > :22:28.are accused of inciting mass killings in the weeks
:22:29. > :22:31.after a general election The broadcasting authorities
:22:32. > :22:37.in Pakistan have condemned a television news channel, ARY,
:22:38. > :22:40.for airing hate speech directed at the Nobel Peace prize
:22:41. > :22:45.winner, Malala Yousufzai. The regulator said declaring someone
:22:46. > :22:49.an enemy of Islam was not the job of TV presenters and could
:22:50. > :22:56.endanger someone's life. A young Japanese MP who made
:22:57. > :22:59.headlines last year for his insisting on taking paternity leave,
:23:00. > :23:03.has quit parliament after confessing to an affair with a bikini model
:23:04. > :23:08.while his wife was pregnant. Kensuke Miyazaki made
:23:09. > :23:10.waves inside the ruling Liberal Democratic Party
:23:11. > :23:13.when he announced he would be the first Japanese MP ever
:23:14. > :23:17.to take paternity leave. But this week a Japanese magazine
:23:18. > :23:19.revealed the scandal. From Tokyo,
:23:20. > :23:26.Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports. Bowing deeply and repeatedly,
:23:27. > :23:30.Kensuke Miyazaki went before the cameras today to
:23:31. > :23:36.confess his infidelity. Young, handsome, successful
:23:37. > :23:39.and apparently a devoted husband, Kensuke Miyazaki had become
:23:40. > :23:43.the poster boy for those who want Japanese men to do more to help
:23:44. > :23:49.raise their children. Mr Miyazaki and his wife are both
:23:50. > :23:52.Members of Parliament for the ruling
:23:53. > :23:54.Liberal Democratic Party. In December he made headlines
:23:55. > :23:57.when he announced he would become the first Japanese sitting MP ever
:23:58. > :24:02.to take paternity leave. In Japan, only 2.3% of new fathers
:24:03. > :24:15.take paternity leave. The government wants to raise it
:24:16. > :24:17.to 13% by 2020. I thought that by declaring I wanted
:24:18. > :24:20.to take paternity leave Instead, Mr Miyazaki is out
:24:21. > :24:28.of a job and in disgrace. Earlier this week a Japanese scandal
:24:29. > :24:32.magazine published a story alleging that while his wife was preparing
:24:33. > :24:37.to give birth in Tokyo, Mr Miyazaki was in his apartment
:24:38. > :24:44.in Q2 with another woman. There is now concerned from former
:24:45. > :24:50.supporters that his scandal will be used by those who oppose Japanese
:24:51. > :24:53.men taking time off to be Japan has one of the most generous
:24:54. > :24:58.paternity leave systems Men can, in theory, take
:24:59. > :25:04.up to a year off work, but many bosses still refuse
:25:05. > :25:07.or threatened meal workers with dismissal or
:25:08. > :25:11.demotion if they do. Right now, only 2.3%
:25:12. > :25:33.of Japanese men take President Bashar al-Assad says he
:25:34. > :25:38.intends to fight on until he has brought the whole country back under
:25:39. > :25:42.his control. He said defeating the forces opposing him could take a
:25:43. > :25:47.long time. He also said he would continue fighting what he called
:25:48. > :25:49.terrorism during any peace process negotiations.
:25:50. > :25:53.The UN says it up is to be at the start delivering aid to some
:25:54. > :25:54.besieged areas in Syria within the next 24 hours.
:25:55. > :26:08.From me, Tim Willcox, and the rest of the team, goodbye.
:26:09. > :26:13.Good evening. Before we have a look at the weather in the UK, we will
:26:14. > :26:17.head elsewhere for other weather stories around the world. North
:26:18. > :26:22.America, some really cold air dumbing down from Canada over the
:26:23. > :26:29.Great Lakes into the north-east of the US. We disease in colder weather
:26:30. > :26:34.in northern Florida, threatening some overnight frost, which is not
:26:35. > :26:38.good use for the growers. Contrast that with the 26 Celsius in Los
:26:39. > :26:43.Angeles, very warm for the time of year. Even 17 in Denver. Significant
:26:44. > :26:50.wind-chill for the likes of New England. Then high pressure moves in
:26:51. > :26:55.on Sunday. But by then, they could develop another error of snow South
:26:56. > :27:00.of the Great Lakes. Elsewhere, around the Caribbean, and ongoing
:27:01. > :27:05.drought in Haiti. A few showers around on Sunday but the slow-moving
:27:06. > :27:09.band of rain stretches from eastern part of Cuba, through Jamaica into
:27:10. > :27:13.Honduras and Nicaragua. A weather front that could give two or three
:27:14. > :27:17.inches of rain in the space of a few hours. In Australia, not much sign
:27:18. > :27:22.of rain, it has all been about the heat in Western Australia. In Perth,
:27:23. > :27:25.not as hot as it has been but temperatures will rise early next
:27:26. > :27:29.week and with strong winds, the threat of some further wildfires. A
:27:30. > :27:36.lot of sunshine across Australia and New Zealand but looking close to new
:27:37. > :27:42.Caledonia and Fiji, we have two cyclones. The big one is Winston, a
:27:43. > :27:47.category format. Tatiana has strengthened to a category two. They
:27:48. > :27:53.are over open water. Unlikely to get as far South as New Zealand. Across
:27:54. > :27:58.southern parts of Africa, this is as far South as the rain gets at this
:27:59. > :28:03.of year. Seasonal rains very active. Threatening some flash flooding.
:28:04. > :28:08.There could be a few welcome showers for the farmers across South Africa.
:28:09. > :28:12.Likely to turn wetter and more windy later this weekend across northern
:28:13. > :28:20.parts of Morocco and Algeria. The jet stream now across Europe, is
:28:21. > :28:23.much further South. That picks up areas of low pressure, which in turn
:28:24. > :28:28.bring areas of Cloud, rain and in some cases snow. We will find some
:28:29. > :28:33.more snow over the Alps, most of which has been in the Western Alps.
:28:34. > :28:37.Really strong winds, and some heavy rain could bring some travel
:28:38. > :28:42.disruption. For the North East of Europe, the wind is from the South,
:28:43. > :28:47.very mild air all the way into the Baltic states. Here at home, we have
:28:48. > :28:51.cold air that will be with us for a while over the course of Monday, a
:28:52. > :28:55.bitter northerly wind, significant wind-chill, but how long will this
:28:56. > :29:00.last? Stayed tuned because there is more coming up.