:00:00. > :00:09.This is BBC World News Today with me Tom Donkin.
:00:10. > :00:13.A major step forward in the fight against the so-called Islamic State.
:00:14. > :00:15.That's President Obama's verdict on the battle for Mosul as Iraqi
:00:16. > :00:18.forces and their allies close in on the city
:00:19. > :00:27.Melania Trump is standing by her man - she says his comments about women
:00:28. > :00:33.Remembering the victims of the Aberfan disaster 50 years ago -
:00:34. > :00:36.a special report on how a Welsh mining community was let down
:00:37. > :00:51.Black people don't even talk about race, nothing is attributable to
:00:52. > :00:54.colour anymore. It is all mitigating circumstances. The only people
:00:55. > :00:56.discussing race with any courage are loud, middle-aged white men, who
:00:57. > :00:59.reminisced the Kennedys and Motown. I meet the award winning
:01:00. > :01:01.author Paul Beatty to talk about his new novel that satirises
:01:02. > :01:14.race relations in modern America. President Obama has described
:01:15. > :01:17.the start of the military operation to take back the Iraqi city of Mosul
:01:18. > :01:20.from so-called Islamic State The city has been under
:01:21. > :01:24.the extremists since the summer of 2014 and dislodging them
:01:25. > :01:27.is expected to take many weeks. From the south,
:01:28. > :01:29.Iraqi Security Forces - backed by coalition air strikes -
:01:30. > :01:33.have captured a string of villages. From the east, Kurdish
:01:34. > :01:35.Peshmerga forces have also Our Correspondent Orla Guerin
:01:36. > :01:39.is travelling with them In the distance, Mosul,
:01:40. > :01:47.a city in waiting for deliverance It is the last bastion of IS in
:01:48. > :01:55.Iraq, but for how much longer? On the horizon today,
:01:56. > :01:59.black smoke from burning oil. The extremists trying to thwart
:02:00. > :02:04.attacks from the air. As the net closes on so-called
:02:05. > :02:07.Islamic State, the risks are increasing for those trapped
:02:08. > :02:11.down below in Mosul. There's the danger of coalition air
:02:12. > :02:16.strikes, IS could try to use the local population as human
:02:17. > :02:20.shields, and if and when Iraqi forces make it inside
:02:21. > :02:22.the city, they could be Here's what IS wants
:02:23. > :02:29.you to see from inside Mosul - its latest propaganda video paints
:02:30. > :02:34.a picture of normality. Anyone daring to say
:02:35. > :02:41.otherwise could be beheaded. "Thank God everything
:02:42. > :02:45.is fine," says this man, A year ago, they were driven
:02:46. > :02:59.from this area by air strikes and troops from Iraq's autonomous
:03:00. > :03:05.Kurdish region, the Peshmerga. They took us to see what IS may have
:03:06. > :03:11.in store when the battle Chlorine gas attached
:03:12. > :03:20.to an improvised mortar. As the Peshmerga advanced
:03:21. > :03:36.deeper into IS territory, This hidden layer was uncovered
:03:37. > :03:46.in villages captured yesterday. "They built a bedroom
:03:47. > :03:49.to rest," he says. The extremists had the basics
:03:50. > :03:56.for survival hidden from view. The authorities here hope
:03:57. > :04:00.they will run out of hiding places Our correspondent Richard Galpin
:04:01. > :04:19.is in Irbil in the north of Iraq. He joins me now. Richard, are there
:04:20. > :04:27.any signs yet of anyone leaving the city? Well, there are some reports
:04:28. > :04:35.coming in from various agencies saying that some families, the quote
:04:36. > :04:39.is about 100 families, who apparently have started leaving
:04:40. > :04:43.their homes in the kind of south-eastern area of Mosul. We
:04:44. > :04:47.can't confirm that ourselves, but certainly, there do seem to be some
:04:48. > :04:53.initial indications of people at least trying to get out of areas at
:04:54. > :04:56.least where they think there may be an attack in the coming days or
:04:57. > :05:01.weeks. The aid agencies have been preparing for quite a long time for
:05:02. > :05:05.a huge out flux of people, they are expecting hundreds of thousands of
:05:06. > :05:10.people to try and get out of the city. Once the Iraqi army and the
:05:11. > :05:14.Peshmerga fighters and the others involved in this offensive against
:05:15. > :05:18.IS start really closing in on the city. At the moment, we are not sure
:05:19. > :05:22.how long that could take. It could take some time or it could be quite
:05:23. > :05:26.quick, it is difficult to tell at this moment, but there are extensive
:05:27. > :05:31.preparations by the UN and other aid agencies to look after and shelter
:05:32. > :05:34.hundreds of thousands of people. How are the Allied forces going to
:05:35. > :05:41.manage this exodus and make sure just civilians are leaving? Well,
:05:42. > :05:46.that's a very good question. Our understanding is that there will be
:05:47. > :05:53.one root out and that, of course, being for civilians to get out when
:05:54. > :05:57.the fighting gets really close. We understand that Iraqi forces, we are
:05:58. > :06:01.not sure exactly which ones, will be on that road and will be trying
:06:02. > :06:05.their best to check the people who are coming out, because obviously
:06:06. > :06:10.they want to stop the Islamic State fighters from being able to flee,
:06:11. > :06:13.get out, and be able to fight another battle another day, but
:06:14. > :06:17.obviously that can be a very hard task of the kind of numbers people
:06:18. > :06:21.are talking about are actually realised and there are hundreds of
:06:22. > :06:25.thousands of people on the move. Aid agencies are talking about it
:06:26. > :06:29.potentially being the biggest humanitarian crisis of the year. You
:06:30. > :06:33.are in Iraq and if Mosul is liberated by these forces, what does
:06:34. > :06:39.it mean for the influence of IS where you are in Iraq? Well, it is
:06:40. > :06:44.enormous. It would be an absolute hammer blow to Islamic State. It is,
:06:45. > :06:48.of course, as we all know, the place where the leader of ices declared
:06:49. > :06:57.the caliphate for both here and Iraq and Syria -- ISIS. And Mosul will be
:06:58. > :07:03.the last big urban centre which IS control outside of Syria, it would
:07:04. > :07:09.leave them only rack in Syria. It would be enormous impact. IS would
:07:10. > :07:14.have some control in the north and east of Iraq, but essentially, their
:07:15. > :07:16.control of the big swathes of territory would be over. Richard,
:07:17. > :07:19.thank you very much. Now a look at some of
:07:20. > :07:21.the days other news. Russia says it has halted
:07:22. > :07:23.its air-strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods in Aleppo,
:07:24. > :07:26.48 hours ahead of a planned pause. The defence minister,
:07:27. > :07:27.Sergei Shoigu said Russian and Syrian forces were stopping
:07:28. > :07:30.their bombing to allow preparations for civilians and fighters to leave
:07:31. > :07:32.Aleppo during a scheduled Mr Shoigu called on the rebels
:07:33. > :07:36.to take advantage of this Austria's backtracked on plans
:07:37. > :07:40.to demolish the house after a panel of experts said it had
:07:41. > :07:45.not been their recommendation. The government had said that
:07:46. > :07:48.a new building would take its place. But in a new statement, the
:07:49. > :07:51.government backed the experts' view into an administrative building
:07:52. > :07:53.or something similar The British bank NatWest has denied
:07:54. > :07:58.reports of the Russian international
:07:59. > :08:01.television channel R-T. A bank spokesperson said a letter
:08:02. > :08:05.about account closures was sent to one of the station's
:08:06. > :08:07.suppliers, not RT itself. The spokesperson said the accounts
:08:08. > :08:10.had neither been frozen Ministers in the UK will choose next
:08:11. > :08:16.week which of London's airports should be expanded to meet
:08:17. > :08:19.the growing demand for air travel. Both Heathrow and Gatwick
:08:20. > :08:22.want to build new or longer runways. But a final decision by Parliament
:08:23. > :08:25.won't be made until next year at the earliest,
:08:26. > :08:28.after a public consultation. It's been delayed repeatedly
:08:29. > :08:32.because of environmental concerns. The head of the International
:08:33. > :08:35.Olympic Committee says he's confident that the cost of the 2020
:08:36. > :08:38.Games in Tokyo can be brought down. Thomas Bach's comments follow crisis
:08:39. > :08:42.talks with the city's new governor. She wants to reduce the costs,
:08:43. > :08:44.which are now projected to exceed $30 billion,
:08:45. > :08:48.that's over ?24 million , and more Just three weeks ahead of the US
:08:49. > :08:56.presidential election, Melania Trump has insisted
:08:57. > :08:58.that her husband, Republican candidate, Donald Trump
:08:59. > :09:00.is a "gentleman" and that women who've made allegations
:09:01. > :09:03.against him are lying. She also said that lewd comments
:09:04. > :09:06.he made about women, that were caught on videotape,
:09:07. > :09:22.did not represent the man she knows. If we are under attack, what do we
:09:23. > :09:25.do? A protest this morning outside the tram headquarters in
:09:26. > :09:28.Philadelphia. There is ongoing outrage over the billionaire's
:09:29. > :09:32.obscene remarks that were caught on tape and the allegations that he
:09:33. > :09:37.repeatedly sexually assaulted women. We are sick of him, sick of his
:09:38. > :09:42.comments and we don't want a sexual assault as our president. I think he
:09:43. > :09:47.is a sexual predator, I think he has zero respect for women. He is also a
:09:48. > :09:49.racist. In the midst of this storm, a serene Melania Trump, wife turned
:09:50. > :09:52.character witness prepared to forgive her husband. Those words,
:09:53. > :09:58.they are offensive... and he apologised to me,
:09:59. > :10:01.and I accept his apology. It's in the American suburbs
:10:02. > :10:07.that this election will be decided and here female voters often
:10:08. > :10:12.have the decisive say. Andrea is still voting Trump
:10:13. > :10:15.and thinks Bill Clinton I think Bill Clinton
:10:16. > :10:23.is the epitome, the epitome, And for Hillary to tolerate
:10:24. > :10:29.that, she's just as bad. But a new poll, in the Philadelphia
:10:30. > :10:32.suburbs, found that Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton
:10:33. > :10:39.by a staggering 43% amongst female voters, the kind of numbers that
:10:40. > :10:42.spell disaster for his campaign. Nick Bryant, BBC News,
:10:43. > :10:55.Philadelphia. President Obama has been talking
:10:56. > :11:05.about the campaign. as he put, "discredit the elections
:11:06. > :11:10.before votes have even taken place". And he used Florida,
:11:11. > :11:15.which has a Republican The notion that somehow if Mr Trump
:11:16. > :11:20.loses Florida it is "Those people" that you have the lookout for. That
:11:21. > :11:26.is both irresponsible and, by the way, doesn't really show the kind of
:11:27. > :11:32.leadership and toughness that you want out of a president. If you
:11:33. > :11:38.start whining before the game's even over, if whenever things are going
:11:39. > :11:42.badly for you and you lose and start blaming somebody else, then you
:11:43. > :11:46.don't have what it takes to be in this job. That was President Obama
:11:47. > :11:47.speaking. Will Donald Trump's comment
:11:48. > :11:49.about women, affect the fortunes of other Republican candidates
:11:50. > :11:52.running for office in November? A number of senior Republicans have
:11:53. > :11:54.been distancing themselves from him. Our North America correspondent
:11:55. > :11:56.Rajini Vaidyanathan The seasons have changed and so much
:11:57. > :12:04.else since Donald Trump scored his first victory
:12:05. > :12:07.in the Republican primary Now we are just weeks away
:12:08. > :12:13.from finding out whether he will When Americans go to the polls
:12:14. > :12:17.in November, they won't just be electing a president,
:12:18. > :12:20.but a number of other offices, as you can see from this
:12:21. > :12:23.ballot paper here. Everything from Governor to Senator,
:12:24. > :12:26.all the way down to Sheriff But this election, many
:12:27. > :12:31.Republican candidates have withdrawn their
:12:32. > :12:33.support for Donald Trump. So the question is how
:12:34. > :12:36.will this make a difference? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
:12:37. > :12:39.are far from perfect. Kelly Ayotte is one of those
:12:40. > :12:50.Republican names on the ballot. She is seeking re-election
:12:51. > :12:52.to the US Senate and recently withdrew her support for Donald
:12:53. > :12:54.Trump. I cannot vote for Donald Trump based
:12:55. > :12:57.on what he has said and done and the actions he talked
:12:58. > :13:01.about in those tapes. I'm disappointed it took her so long
:13:02. > :13:06.to withdraw the endorsement. At this diner in Chester,
:13:07. > :13:10.New Hampshire, many Republican leaning voters believe Ayotte's
:13:11. > :13:12.decision to dump Trump She must think that he's not
:13:13. > :13:18.going to do that well, so she wants to distance
:13:19. > :13:20.herself from him. I would vote for Kelly Ayotte
:13:21. > :13:25.for election and the most part, most of the Republican candidates
:13:26. > :13:30.that are rerunning for election that are already in office and it
:13:31. > :13:33.would take a snowball in hell before When you are not all together,
:13:34. > :13:45.you know, it hurts the party. One of New Hampshire's most
:13:46. > :13:48.influential newspapers has backed the Republican presidential
:13:49. > :13:50.candidate for more than a century, but this time they have broken
:13:51. > :13:52.with tradition and are endorsing I think Ayotte is doing
:13:53. > :13:57.the right thing. It may cost her the election,
:13:58. > :14:00.but I think it hurts, rather than helps down ticket
:14:01. > :14:03.Republicans that Trump is on the top And it may be one of those sea
:14:04. > :14:10.changes where the whole Congress Mr Trump still has a large
:14:11. > :14:19.support base in this state. For many of them, congressional
:14:20. > :14:23.races don't even matter. I don't think that the Republicans
:14:24. > :14:30.have done a particularly good job in their control of the house
:14:31. > :14:33.and Senate either, so as much as we like to see those seats
:14:34. > :14:37.retained, in the end, if we're not getting anything done,
:14:38. > :14:44.then what difference does it make? Both Donald Trump and Kelly Ayotte
:14:45. > :14:47.need to win here in November, but the Republican split in this
:14:48. > :14:50.small state could have a big impact This week, the people of Aberfan
:14:51. > :15:03.in south Wales are having to relive the terrible events of half
:15:04. > :15:05.a century ago, when a mountain of coal waste
:15:06. > :15:07.collapsed onto the village school, claiming the lives of 116
:15:08. > :15:10.children and 28 adults. The scale of the disaster made
:15:11. > :15:12.headlines around the world and people gave generously
:15:13. > :15:15.to support the shattered community. But as Huw Edwards reports,
:15:16. > :15:18.the families of Aberfan had to fight a fight that started on that Friday
:15:19. > :15:25.morning in October 1966. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: We are now
:15:26. > :15:29.returning to the newsroom. Disaster struck suddenly this
:15:30. > :15:32.morning at the small Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan
:15:33. > :15:36.near Merthyr Tydfil. At 9:15 on the last morning
:15:37. > :15:41.of lessons before half-time, At 9:15 on the last morning
:15:42. > :15:44.of lessons before half-term, Pantglas Junior School was buried
:15:45. > :15:46.underneath a mountain of coal waste. The scale of the loss,
:15:47. > :15:49.116 children and 28 adults, is still difficult to comprehend
:15:50. > :15:52.half a century later. What happened at Aberfan was one
:15:53. > :15:56.of the greatest disasters in the modern history of Wales,
:15:57. > :15:59.indeed the modern history And it's important to get
:16:00. > :16:02.one thing clear. It was a man-made disaster,
:16:03. > :16:07.it was entirely foreseeable, and it happened because of
:16:08. > :16:11.a combination of negligence, One of those who survived
:16:12. > :16:17.the disaster, her life still overshadowed by the events
:16:18. > :16:22.of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick. She was eight at the time
:16:23. > :16:25.and lost her brother Carl and sister She has since written a book
:16:26. > :16:29.about her experiences. We met in the Memorial Garden on the
:16:30. > :16:33.site of the old school in Aberfan. The ceiling of the school had come
:16:34. > :16:39.in and it landed on half the children and I had a radiator
:16:40. > :16:43.which had come off the wall I just remember looking at another
:16:44. > :16:48.friend of ours who had literally tried to climb up through the roof,
:16:49. > :16:53.which was on top of the children. And said, I'm going
:16:54. > :16:54.to get help, I was whisked away in the ambulance
:16:55. > :17:03.to Saint Tydfil's hospital. And I remained there, isolated,
:17:04. > :17:09.I feel, for over three months. And it was then in the evening time
:17:10. > :17:13.that I was told that my brother Within weeks of the disaster,
:17:14. > :17:24.an official tribunal was set up under the Welsh judge,
:17:25. > :17:26.Edmund Davies, I should hate to think that anybody
:17:27. > :17:32.would connect me with any But getting straight answers
:17:33. > :17:37.from the National Coal Board, the public body
:17:38. > :17:39.which owned the mines, The chairman of the National Coal
:17:40. > :17:45.Board was Lord Robens, and he denied any responsibility
:17:46. > :17:48.for the disaster and kept on insisting that it
:17:49. > :17:53.could not have been foreseen. We have our normal procedures
:17:54. > :17:57.for ensuring that pits are safe, but I'm bound to say that we have no
:17:58. > :18:00.procedure that tells us that there is a spring deep
:18:01. > :18:02.down under a mountain. This is the site of the old
:18:03. > :18:06.Merthyr Vale colliery. This is where coal waste was put
:18:07. > :18:09.in trams and then sent across the valley and piled high
:18:10. > :18:12.on the mountains opposite. And those tips used
:18:13. > :18:15.to dominate the landscape. And there was plenty of evidence,
:18:16. > :18:19.based on previous incidents, that piling this waste on wet
:18:20. > :18:22.mountainsides was an exceptionally By the time the report was
:18:23. > :18:33.published, the National Coal Board had been forced to admit
:18:34. > :18:35.that the disaster was foreseeable. It was blamed unequivocally
:18:36. > :18:37.for what had happened. But no one was
:18:38. > :18:40.disciplined or sacked. I only wish that Lord
:18:41. > :18:44.Robens was here today. They should have been sent to jail,
:18:45. > :18:47.lost their jobs. There were still coal tips
:18:48. > :18:51.above Aberfan and people quite But no one was ready to pay,
:18:52. > :19:00.not the Government, The families lobbied the Welsh
:19:01. > :19:03.Office in Cardiff, demanding help. What they got instead
:19:04. > :19:05.from the Welsh Secretary George Thomas,
:19:06. > :19:07.was the bill. He wanted the local community
:19:08. > :19:09.to use their charity fund Of course they will pay
:19:10. > :19:15.what they can afford. But the scheme will depend
:19:16. > :19:18.on what they pay. It took 30 years for the people
:19:19. > :19:21.of Aberfan to regain the money It was finally repaid
:19:22. > :19:27.by the Welsh Government and today the gardens and memorials
:19:28. > :19:30.of the village have been restored, giving the families the sense
:19:31. > :19:35.of justice that they surely deserve. Collectively, we have been able
:19:36. > :19:37.for 50 years to get I have always said
:19:38. > :19:42.Aberfan is a family. We have shared our thoughts
:19:43. > :19:45.and feelings, so many good things have come out of Aberfan
:19:46. > :19:48.and you have to think They are courageous,
:19:49. > :19:53.courageous people. That was Gaynor Madgwick,
:19:54. > :19:56.a survivor of the Aberfan disaster, speaking to Huw Edwards in this week
:19:57. > :20:11.of the 50th anniversary. Some breaking news this hour,
:20:12. > :20:15.Belgian media are reporting that 15 people are being held hostage by
:20:16. > :20:19.armed men in a supermarket in Brussels. Police are on the scene at
:20:20. > :20:24.the moment with a helicopter overhead. There is no information at
:20:25. > :20:29.this stage to suggest it is terror related. Breaking news, 15 people
:20:30. > :20:32.being held hostage by armed men in a supermarket in Brussels. No
:20:33. > :20:34.information yet that this is terror related.
:20:35. > :20:36.He's been called the "funniest writer in America",
:20:37. > :20:38.but Paul Beatty's novels cover the very serious topic
:20:39. > :20:42.His latest - The Sellout - is a satire about a man
:20:43. > :20:44.who tries to reintroduce slavery and segregation
:20:45. > :20:48.and it's been shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.
:20:49. > :20:51.and he began by reading a passage from his book.
:20:52. > :20:53.Black people don't even talk about race,
:20:54. > :20:55.nothing is attributable to colour anymore.
:20:56. > :21:13.loud, middle-aged white men, who reminisce the Kennedys and Motown.
:21:14. > :21:20.If a few freelance journalists in Detroit and the Americans who sit in
:21:21. > :21:26.their basements pounding away on the keyboard, proposing measured and
:21:27. > :21:29.well thought out responses to the torrent of racist online commentary.
:21:30. > :21:35.Part of your book, but you think it is true, there needs to be a wider
:21:36. > :21:42.discussion about race in the US? Sure, why not? Is it true? I think
:21:43. > :21:47.that passage, what it is getting out, is the way people talk about it
:21:48. > :21:51.and I think it is changing a little bit in the past few months, but I
:21:52. > :21:55.think there are things that people want to say about race that they are
:21:56. > :22:01.afraid to say, for being castigated. There is a phrase in the States,
:22:02. > :22:05.they say "Playing the race card" all the time, so if you complain, it is
:22:06. > :22:10.out of bounds and there is something wrong with what you're saying, it is
:22:11. > :22:13.not valid. So I think people are afraid to step in that and if you do
:22:14. > :22:16.say something, people feel it put you into a box. What kind of thing
:22:17. > :22:22.do you think people are afraid to say? It's weird, because you know,
:22:23. > :22:26.this book, I finished this book almost two years ago, so things have
:22:27. > :22:30.changed but I think one of the things was talking about job
:22:31. > :22:34.discrimination, housing, all these kinds of things, and I think people
:22:35. > :22:39.censoring themselves, not just about race but about gender, about a lot
:22:40. > :22:42.of things. But I think because of the police brutality and these other
:22:43. > :22:48.things, Trump, these things have been amp took to another level, so
:22:49. > :22:53.there is rhetoric and that rhetoric is at pitch where people have to
:22:54. > :22:58.counter and, you know, Trump, a large part of his appeal is
:22:59. > :23:05.race-based. If anybody's playing the race card, it is him. So if there,
:23:06. > :23:10.there's no doubt. Part of the thing that got him to where he is was his
:23:11. > :23:15.fervour about Islamic migration and the Mexican border, all that, and I
:23:16. > :23:18.think that has tapped into another anger because the demographics of
:23:19. > :23:21.the country are changing and it is something no one is really talking
:23:22. > :23:28.about in any real kind of way about what that really means. America is
:23:29. > :23:34.never who it thinks it is, but even at that level... And he has made
:23:35. > :23:43.these kind of quirky appeals to and Latino voters, people... Like people
:23:44. > :23:47.know he is not serious but there is something that touches a sensitive
:23:48. > :23:51.bone, who does care about these things? One thing people are not
:23:52. > :23:54.talking about is the level of poverty in America, that is
:23:55. > :24:00.something no one talks about. However one thinks, is that tied to
:24:01. > :24:03.race or not, that is one thing people do not talk about at all.
:24:04. > :24:08.Your book is a satire, there is a powerful scene where the narrator's
:24:09. > :24:11.father is shocked by the police are unarmed, something you could read
:24:12. > :24:17.about in the papers in recent times. Is it a locator map about this
:24:18. > :24:21.stuff, do you think? Yeah, I think so. -- is it OK to laugh. It is not
:24:22. > :24:25.someone laughing about the thing, it is my take in retrospect about an
:24:26. > :24:30.imaginary act and it is that weird thing about, what's funny? The act
:24:31. > :24:35.itself by doubly funny but the analysis can be funny, the inside
:24:36. > :24:40.out thing can be funny -- the act itself might not be funny. I think
:24:41. > :24:44.it is always OK to laugh. I say that guardedly, that can be interpreted
:24:45. > :24:48.in a lot of ways, but when you are moved to laugh, you need to laugh.
:24:49. > :24:51.More now on the US election and rock star Bruce Springsteen has been
:24:52. > :24:54.speaking to our arts editor will compote is about the state of the
:24:55. > :25:04.presidential race. Part of what is going on is that you have 30 or 40
:25:05. > :25:07.years of deindustrialisation and globalisation of the economy, so
:25:08. > :25:13.there are a lot of people that were left out of that whose voices have
:25:14. > :25:21.been fundamentally ignored and not heard. These are folks who feel that
:25:22. > :25:24.Donald Trump as been listening to them -- has been listening to them
:25:25. > :25:31.and speaks for them on some level. I think he is a conman. Just before we
:25:32. > :25:35.go, we will update you on the breaking news we brought earlier,
:25:36. > :25:38.the hostage situation in Brussels. 15 people were detained in a
:25:39. > :25:43.supermarket but we are now seeing news reports that the man involved
:25:44. > :25:47.has surrendered to police, so an apparent end to that hostage
:25:48. > :25:51.situation in Brussels. That is all from the programme, next time, it is
:25:52. > :25:53.the weather, but for now, from me and all the team, goodbye. See you
:25:54. > :26:08.next time. The pressure chart I am just about
:26:09. > :26:12.to show you will become really quite familiar to you over the next few
:26:13. > :26:13.days as we approach the weekend, simply because things