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:00:15. > :00:17.This is BBC World News Today with me, Lebo Diseko.

:00:18. > :00:19.The Headlines: Breakthrough in the European Union's on-off free

:00:20. > :00:22.Leaders of the Walloon region of Belgium finally approve it

:00:23. > :00:30.We are extremely happy that our requests have been accommodated. We

:00:31. > :00:33.always vote for treaties would support our way of life, our

:00:34. > :00:34.environment, and support our public services.

:00:35. > :00:39.calls it "miraculous" no one was seriously hurt.

:00:40. > :00:45.With just 12 days to go before the US chooses its next president,

:00:46. > :00:47.Hillary Clinton is joined by Michelle Obama -

:00:48. > :00:51.The world could lose more than two thirds of mammals,

:00:52. > :00:53.fish and other species with a backbone, by 2020

:00:54. > :01:21.You can feel the relief in Brussels and across the Atlantic in Ottawa.

:01:22. > :01:24.The European Union and Canada have now finally agreed

:01:25. > :01:32.The Belgian region of Wallonia - who'd blocked the agreement

:01:33. > :01:34.with objections - has finally come on board.

:01:35. > :01:37.Belgium's Prime Minister said the text now has guarantees for

:01:38. > :01:39.farmers, and on the controversial dispute settlement system.

:01:40. > :01:41.But as protesters gather outside the European Commission, it's clear

:01:42. > :01:44.that free trade is a difficult issue, and future deals -

:01:45. > :01:46.including with the UK - may be very hard to achieve.

:01:47. > :01:54.Behind the doors of the official residence of Belgium's federal Prime

:01:55. > :02:04.Minister, a moment of relief after a week of embarrassment.

:02:05. > :02:12.The Prime Minister says he now has a deal with the regional

:02:13. > :02:14.assemblies, without whose agreement Belgium and therefore the whole EU

:02:15. > :02:17.was unable to sign up to free trade with Canada.

:02:18. > :02:18.TRANSLATION: The consultation committee just reached

:02:19. > :02:21.an agreement about the text that reflected the Belton position and

:02:22. > :02:24.an agreement about the text that reflected the Belgian position and

:02:25. > :02:26.that is immediately being addressed to the European Commission and the

:02:27. > :02:30.In the coming minutes, I'll be talking to commission president

:02:31. > :02:32.Jean Claude Junker and Council President Donald Tusk.

:02:33. > :02:42.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also scheduled for today.

:02:43. > :02:45.French speaking Wallonia led the rebellion.

:02:46. > :02:46.Critics say its leaders are playing politics

:02:47. > :02:48.to raise their profile in

:02:49. > :02:59.They say there are sticking up for European consumers.

:03:00. > :03:02.Translation: We in Wallonia are extremely happy that our requests

:03:03. > :03:10.We've always voted for treaties that would support our way

:03:11. > :03:14.of life, our environment, and which protect our public services.

:03:15. > :03:18.So nothing is set up purely to benefit

:03:19. > :03:21.individuals, but rather it is overseen by accountable public

:03:22. > :03:23.bodies, which legally guarantee equal treatment.

:03:24. > :03:32.Well, the economic and trade agreement aims to eliminate 98%

:03:33. > :03:36.of tariffs between Canada and the EU.

:03:37. > :03:39.That could save European Union exporters more than half a

:03:40. > :03:42.Supporters say the deal would increase trade by 20%

:03:43. > :03:43.and would especially help small businesses.

:03:44. > :03:46.But critics say it gives too much power to big business.

:03:47. > :03:48.They're worried that EU regulations on product standards could be

:03:49. > :03:52.And that multinationals would be able to sue governments to

:03:53. > :03:58.Belgium's internal deal came finally on the day when

:03:59. > :04:06.the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was due

:04:07. > :04:13.It is still not clear when the deal will finally be signed.

:04:14. > :04:19.But after a difficult week for Belgium's national

:04:20. > :04:27.Government and frustration for Canada and the rest of the EU, CETA

:04:28. > :04:32.Although there will be no celebrating until it is finally

:04:33. > :04:36.With me is our business correspondent Tanya Beckett.

:04:37. > :04:49.It is not a done deal yet, is it? No. The area is in the south. It is

:04:50. > :04:54.a French-speaking area and is far less affluent than the Flemish

:04:55. > :04:57.north. Much of this deal is based on the idea of food products going back

:04:58. > :05:02.and forth between Canada and the EU, so that is why they felt themselves

:05:03. > :05:07.particularly exposed. They were also feeling that some of the regulations

:05:08. > :05:10.that they had in place, as far as they were concerned were a

:05:11. > :05:14.democratic matter, would really end up in the hands of multinationals

:05:15. > :05:18.and that Canada would end up as a gateway for big US companies. There

:05:19. > :05:24.are these type of concerns about other free-trade deals with the US,

:05:25. > :05:29.for example, as well. Yes. Neither side looks well out of this. Canada

:05:30. > :05:31.looks rather inept and naive and rather inexperienced when it comes

:05:32. > :05:35.to diplomacy and the EU really doesn't look in any way unified in

:05:36. > :05:39.this does not bode well for the UK, which of course is leaving the EU

:05:40. > :05:42.and have to negotiate its trade relationship once again. I would say

:05:43. > :05:46.there is an important distinction, though, that what we are talking

:05:47. > :05:49.about here is a change in the lower product between Canada and the EU

:05:50. > :05:52.and that is what will ultimately happen, whereas with Brexit what we

:05:53. > :05:56.are talking about is the EU trying to be establish what it already has,

:05:57. > :05:59.so nobody feels ridiculous under threat because of the EU gets it

:06:00. > :06:03.right then things would not particularly change. So with the

:06:04. > :06:08.Brexit negotiations and the Brexit deal, are there other countries that

:06:09. > :06:13.may, like Wallonia, scupper those negotiations? They are unique in the

:06:14. > :06:17.way that the parliament works is that you have to have all three

:06:18. > :06:23.parts of it agreeing and then it has to be agreed centrally. In this type

:06:24. > :06:28.of deal was described as a mixed deal. Meaning that it requires the

:06:29. > :06:32.individual approval of all of the EU member state and therefore in the

:06:33. > :06:36.case of Belgium it is also its constituent states. That is not

:06:37. > :06:40.always the case with a trade deal. Sometimes you can get you to agree

:06:41. > :06:43.directly. It depends what it is and whether it contains this mixed

:06:44. > :06:48.factor which means it would include services to, but underlying this is

:06:49. > :06:52.a very portion trend and that is a suspicion that trade deals do not

:06:53. > :06:56.bring uniform wealth. The big figures might suggest that but there

:06:57. > :06:58.are always those who lose out. Fantastic you with us. Very

:06:59. > :07:01.interesting. Thank you very much. There's been severe damage

:07:02. > :07:03.in central Italy, after two strong Hundreds of people have had

:07:04. > :07:07.to leave their homes. And many historic buildings

:07:08. > :07:12.have been damaged. Rescue teams have been struggling

:07:13. > :07:15.to reach some areas but officials say the situation

:07:16. > :07:17.is not "catastrophic". The centre of these latest

:07:18. > :07:20.earthquakes is about 70 kilometers from Amatrice, where

:07:21. > :07:22.an earthquake in August killed James Reynolds is in the region,

:07:23. > :07:28.and sent this report. The people of Central Italy have

:07:29. > :07:31.always known that they live in But the last two months have

:07:32. > :07:35.proven just what that Wednesday night's quakes have

:07:36. > :07:45.damaged roads and buildings. Rescue workers have

:07:46. > :07:46.helped people from We have a lot of fear and we don't

:07:47. > :07:54.know what to do right now because this is a place

:07:55. > :07:56.that is about tourism. I don't know how

:07:57. > :08:12.we will start again. The church of Saint Salvatore

:08:13. > :08:14.is on the tourist It was hit in previous quakes

:08:15. > :08:19.and it has now come down. The effects of the two earthquakes

:08:20. > :08:21.could have This church collapsed,

:08:22. > :08:24.but no one was hurt. And across this region,

:08:25. > :08:25.many people have They've also had to get

:08:26. > :08:28.through a series of Rescue workers will now have

:08:29. > :08:43.to check every road, bridge and One of this country's most beautiful

:08:44. > :08:47.regions is also one of its The United Nation's children's

:08:48. > :09:02.agency UNICEF has said if the air strikes on a school

:09:03. > :09:05.in Syria on Wednesday were deliberate

:09:06. > :09:07.they are a war crime. More than 20 children and six

:09:08. > :09:10.teachers are reported to have been killed in the strikes

:09:11. > :09:12.in a rebel-held village A residential area around the school

:09:13. > :09:17.complex was also hit. Russia has insisted it had nothing

:09:18. > :09:20.to do with the airstrikes. The UN's humanitarian chief said

:09:21. > :09:23.it was up to member states to act. This is not inevitable,

:09:24. > :09:29.it's not an accident. It is the deliberate actions of one

:09:30. > :09:32.set of powerful human beings on another set

:09:33. > :09:39.of impotent human beings. And it can be stopped

:09:40. > :09:42.but you the security council have The former British Prime Minister

:09:43. > :09:48.and UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown

:09:49. > :10:01.is at the United Nations Thank you for joining us. You are

:10:02. > :10:06.saying that if this is deliberate, it is a warm crime and it should be

:10:07. > :10:10.prosecuted mother and how does that actually help people on the ground

:10:11. > :10:13.today? The International criminal Court should be brought in. We

:10:14. > :10:17.should find out what has been happening. There have been 98 school

:10:18. > :10:22.attacks in the last year and a half and we have 30 children at least,

:10:23. > :10:27.perhaps more, who have been mutilated, who have died and two

:10:28. > :10:31.were the victims of what is an education atrocity, which is the

:10:32. > :10:34.worst one that has happened. If we do not investigate and we do not

:10:35. > :10:39.hold people responsible and if we do not prosecute, then this will

:10:40. > :10:42.continue to happen. It is time that the United Nations security council

:10:43. > :10:46.said that we are putting this to the International criminal Court. I will

:10:47. > :10:50.come back to that in a moment, but those prosecutions take a long time.

:10:51. > :10:56.What does that differ people in Syria on the ground today? Because

:10:57. > :10:59.whoever is responsible is put on notice that they are going to be

:11:00. > :11:03.investigated. They cannot do with impunity for too long as Stephen

:11:04. > :11:06.O'Brien has said, the international community has stood by and innocent

:11:07. > :11:10.children in their thousands have lost their lives as a result of or

:11:11. > :11:14.failure to act. Now what has prevented the Security Council

:11:15. > :11:18.acting in the last two years is Russia and it vetoed an

:11:19. > :11:22.investigation into atrocities two years ago. Today, the Russian

:11:23. > :11:25.Foreign Ministry said that they would welcome an independent

:11:26. > :11:30.investigation, so in theory, all the security council is now in favour of

:11:31. > :11:33.investigating this crime. The security Council should now meet, it

:11:34. > :11:38.should agree that the International criminal Court be brought in. If it

:11:39. > :11:41.can't agree on the International criminal Court was that prosecution

:11:42. > :11:43.authority, it should agree on a separate security Council

:11:44. > :11:48.investigation. You cannot have people bombing children in this way

:11:49. > :11:51.with impunity. You have got to show that they are going to be held

:11:52. > :11:56.accountable if possible, prosecuted by the International criminal Court

:11:57. > :11:59.at a later date. Is that the core issue within the Security Council

:12:00. > :12:03.that Russia itself says that it has been threatened by Nato and that

:12:04. > :12:07.some people might argue that the West has mishandled its relationship

:12:08. > :12:13.with President Putin and with Russian? But hold on. This is

:12:14. > :12:16.international law. It is a war crime, agreed when we said of the

:12:17. > :12:18.International criminal Court that any attack on a school that is

:12:19. > :12:23.deliberately seen as something that is a violation of human rights and

:12:24. > :12:26.has got to be both investigated and where people are accountable, they

:12:27. > :12:32.have got to be prosecuted. Do you think that is adequate? This is a

:12:33. > :12:35.clear-cut case that if there is a war crime, then people should be

:12:36. > :12:38.held responsible. Now whether it is the Syrian army or the Russian air

:12:39. > :12:44.force or whoever has been responsible for this, the means

:12:45. > :12:46.exist now that Russia has said it wants an investigation for the

:12:47. > :12:51.Security Council to agree on this. We should call the Russian bluff on

:12:52. > :12:55.this and hold the Security Council meeting, agree if we can get

:12:56. > :12:58.everybody together on this, now that Russia has said it wants an

:12:59. > :13:01.investigation that it should happen. We have been waiting for years now

:13:02. > :13:07.to have the sort of investigations that would deter people from doing

:13:08. > :13:10.this in the future. If people are bombing hospitals, civilians,

:13:11. > :13:15.children, is the possibility of a prosecution and adequate deterrent?

:13:16. > :13:19.No, of course not. It is only one of the measures that we should be

:13:20. > :13:25.taking. But we have a year of fear because children have become the

:13:26. > :13:32.innocent victims of so many of the wars in the middle East and of

:13:33. > :13:36.course in Africa. We have stood by and the international community has

:13:37. > :13:39.done so little when schools have been militarised, when young people

:13:40. > :13:43.have been recruited into militias, and when schools themselves had been

:13:44. > :13:47.bombed. And it is time to say that this is enough and we are going to

:13:48. > :13:52.do something about it. And if we do not seize this opportunity when

:13:53. > :13:57.Russia has admitted there is a need for an investigation, to call their

:13:58. > :14:00.bluff or to force an internal investigation, then we will be

:14:01. > :14:04.failing all of the children who were put in danger in future. You talk

:14:05. > :14:08.about Russia and having to put Russia on notice and called their

:14:09. > :14:11.bluff. President Putin is saying that he is holding restraint at the

:14:12. > :14:18.moment and actually he intends to continue bombing Syria, rooting out

:14:19. > :14:21.what he has called a nest of terrorists, despite the fact that

:14:22. > :14:26.they are our civilians there. There is not a great deal of sway that you

:14:27. > :14:30.have over Russian actions. I think you're missing the point. There is a

:14:31. > :14:34.clear-cut case for a war crime that has been committed. The

:14:35. > :14:37.international legislation we have all approved says that if that does

:14:38. > :14:40.happen, it should go to the International criminal Court. If we

:14:41. > :14:44.stand by when these atrocities are happening and allow children to be

:14:45. > :14:49.the innocent and the vulnerable victims of wars that are being

:14:50. > :14:54.conducted in this region then we are failing the next generation of

:14:55. > :14:57.children. If you try to sidestep the issue and say Russia did this or

:14:58. > :14:59.someone else did that or someone else is to blame, you have got to

:15:00. > :15:07.investigate a crime when it is committed. We believe was

:15:08. > :15:10.intentional. Isn't the real issue the fact that the Security Council

:15:11. > :15:13.has essentially been paralysed because of this breakdown in the

:15:14. > :15:18.relationship with Russia and many people would argue that the West has

:15:19. > :15:23.failed in that relationship? Hold on. I am does pointing out that

:15:24. > :15:27.Russia stood out against the security council resolution in 2014.

:15:28. > :15:30.It did not support an investigation into atrocities. Now they have said

:15:31. > :15:35.and perhaps they will regret saying this but they have said that they

:15:36. > :15:38.would welcome and have called upon the international authorities to

:15:39. > :15:42.have an independent investigation. If we do not then follow-up and have

:15:43. > :15:46.that independent investigation and we are failing the children who have

:15:47. > :15:51.died, but failing also those children and those adults who are at

:15:52. > :15:54.risk in the future. Now, there are 6 million displaced children in Syria.

:15:55. > :16:00.There are two Melbourne refugees children who are now outside of

:16:01. > :16:04.Syria. They are a lost generation and if we continue to do nothing and

:16:05. > :16:09.stand-by when atrocities are committed and there is a clear-cut

:16:10. > :16:11.case for an investigation, then we are responsible, but this is the

:16:12. > :16:17.moment when the Security Council could act. OK. Former British by

:16:18. > :16:22.Minister and UN special envoy for education, Gordon Brown, thank you.

:16:23. > :16:24.Now a look at some of the day's other news.

:16:25. > :16:26.Japanese carmaker, Nissan, has decided to build new versions

:16:27. > :16:29.of two of its leading models in Britain, in what is the first

:16:30. > :16:32.major deal for the industry since the UK voted to leave the EU.

:16:33. > :16:35.Nissan's decision will secure at least seven thousand jobs.

:16:36. > :16:37.The firm said it has been given assurances that its UK-based plant

:16:38. > :16:42.Twitter has announced major cutbacks after reporting a sharp slowdown

:16:43. > :16:51.The social media giant has confirmed it will shut down its short-form

:16:52. > :16:52.video sharing service, Vine, and axe 9%

:16:53. > :16:59.Two Yazidi women who fled the Islamic State group in Iraq have

:17:00. > :17:02.won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize.

:17:03. > :17:05.Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar were among thousands

:17:06. > :17:08.of Yazidi girls and women abducted by IS militants and forced

:17:09. > :17:23.Both survived and now campaign for the Yazidi community.

:17:24. > :17:25.With just 12 days to go until the US Presidential election,

:17:26. > :17:28.the candidates are blitzing the key swing states that could

:17:29. > :17:34.Hillary Clinton's in North Carolina, while her rival Donald Trump

:17:35. > :17:41.He's been facing criticism for taking time out of his

:17:42. > :17:44.campaign to open one of his new luxury hotels -

:17:45. > :17:58.I built one of the great hotels of the world.

:17:59. > :18:05.I'm going to North Carolina right after this and am going back

:18:06. > :18:12.But I can't take one hour off to cut a ribbon at one of the great hotels

:18:13. > :18:17.She goes, she does one stop because she has no energy.

:18:18. > :18:21.She does one stop and nobody complained about that.

:18:22. > :18:26.Adele concert all night long, while I'm making two

:18:27. > :18:27.speeches and rallies with

:18:28. > :18:35.The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher is in Washington.

:18:36. > :18:42.Michelle Obama turning out to be the star of the show, right? Yes, she is

:18:43. > :18:45.passionate, she is seen as authentic. She is not a politician

:18:46. > :18:50.so she does not have that baggage but she does carry a parity. In the

:18:51. > :18:53.speeches she has made already, she is really resonated widely, so she

:18:54. > :18:57.is a heavy hitter for Mrs Clinton. They will be campaigning together

:18:58. > :19:02.for the first time and she in particular appeals to the

:19:03. > :19:04.constituencies like Mullany, like African-Americans, like women, and

:19:05. > :19:08.she has been brought with Mrs Clinton to a battle ground state

:19:09. > :19:13.like North Carolina where the race is very tight to renew this effort

:19:14. > :19:16.to get out the early voters. It all depends on who actually comes to the

:19:17. > :19:21.ballot box, so the Clinton campaign is really pushing this to lock it in

:19:22. > :19:27.as soon as possible. And issue managing to connect with those

:19:28. > :19:32.millennial 's, who may have supported Bernie Sanders before. It

:19:33. > :19:37.is interesting because Bernie Sanders really happy millennial 's

:19:38. > :19:41.support. They were not keen to switch their support to Mrs Clinton.

:19:42. > :19:46.They thought she was establishment and not radical enough and morally

:19:47. > :19:50.compromised. They had been flirting with independence. But the latest

:19:51. > :19:53.poll seems to show a reversing that trend. Now it looks like Mrs Clinton

:19:54. > :19:59.will get as much support from Mullany is as Barack Obama did in

:20:00. > :20:03.2012 and the reasons for that word because these people were beginning

:20:04. > :20:06.to really realise what was at stake in this election and also to realise

:20:07. > :20:08.that the independent candidates would not be able to help them out

:20:09. > :20:13.with the issues that they wanted help on so it looks as if she is

:20:14. > :20:16.stronger on that then she has been. OK, so for the two candidates, less

:20:17. > :20:21.than two weeks to go, but what are the key issues they are going to

:20:22. > :20:26.want to hone in on? Well, it is really all about getting the vote

:20:27. > :20:29.out now so it is going to be the question of closing arguments. They

:20:30. > :20:33.will make their statements. Not much different than what they had before.

:20:34. > :20:38.Making the case about why they are better to lead the country. Pounding

:20:39. > :20:42.their candidate, as such. The focus will be on the ground game, making

:20:43. > :20:46.sure that the voters get out. You have these rallies with the heavy

:20:47. > :20:50.hitters in the battle ground states. Mrs Clinton had much better

:20:51. > :20:55.grounding than Donald Trump does and she will really try to capitalise on

:20:56. > :20:58.that. Both of them do still pass to the White House. Donald Trump is

:20:59. > :21:01.definitely not out of the race but she has more parts than he does so

:21:02. > :21:06.she will be trying to exploit that as well. So that will be the focus

:21:07. > :21:09.of the next two weeks. All right. I am pretty sure it is going to be an

:21:10. > :21:14.exciting 12 days, if nothing else. Thank you very much.

:21:15. > :21:17.The world is facing the biggest extinction of animal life

:21:18. > :21:22.Seven in 10 mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and other vertebrate

:21:23. > :21:27.species will be wiped out in just 50 years.

:21:28. > :21:29.It found that human behaviour was eating, crowding and poisoning

:21:30. > :21:33.The Living Planet Report has been published jointly

:21:34. > :21:35.by the environmental group, WWF, and the Zoological Society

:21:36. > :21:44.The world's wildlife is under threat.

:21:45. > :21:45.From African elephants, whose numbers are

:21:46. > :21:47.plummeting because of poaching, to Europe's killer whales,

:21:48. > :21:56.The Living Planet report looked at 3700 different

:21:57. > :21:58.species and it has found that since 1970

:21:59. > :21:59.populations have fallen by

:22:00. > :22:05.That's a decline of about 2% every year.

:22:06. > :22:13.process but we are seeing higher levels of extinction than is

:22:14. > :22:24.So we are already seeing extinctions, but yes,

:22:25. > :22:28.we would expect those extinctions only to increase if we don't stop

:22:29. > :22:31.The researchers say that humans are to

:22:32. > :22:33.blame, from overfishing to deforestation and climate change.

:22:34. > :22:35.They warn if nothing is done wildlife populations could fall by

:22:36. > :22:38.two thirds by 2020, but some conservationists say there is not

:22:39. > :22:47.enough data to draw firm conclusions.

:22:48. > :22:52.The researchers say that humans are to blame.

:22:53. > :22:55.They warn if nothing is done wildlife populations could fall by

:22:56. > :22:58.two thirds by 2020, but some conservationists say there is not

:22:59. > :23:01.enough data to draw firm conclusions.

:23:02. > :23:08.It is true that the overall index is declining. Very markedly. But of

:23:09. > :23:12.course it is an overall measure. That is aggregated up from many

:23:13. > :23:16.different cases and it hides some really important differences.

:23:17. > :23:20.Between species, between different parts of the world, and between

:23:21. > :23:24.different habitats. But amid the declines, there have been some

:23:25. > :23:29.successes. Wild tiger numbers have now risen for the first time in a

:23:30. > :23:33.century. And giant pandas are now no longer classified as endangered. But

:23:34. > :23:35.it will be a challenge to reverse a problem that is on such a large

:23:36. > :23:45.scale. The president of Venezuela has

:23:46. > :23:51.offered a 40% rise in the minimum wage. It is the fourth increment in

:23:52. > :23:55.the year. This comes up day after 100,000 people took to the streets

:23:56. > :23:57.to protest against the Government. The oil-rich country is facing

:23:58. > :24:02.widespread food shortages and spiralling inflation. The mass

:24:03. > :24:07.demonstrations came after a recall referendum process, and attempt to

:24:08. > :24:10.remove the prime Minster from power was suspended.

:24:11. > :24:13.More than a million people in China have signed a petition demanding

:24:14. > :24:14.that a captive polar bear be relocated.

:24:15. > :24:17.The animal which is kept in a small enclosure in a shopping

:24:18. > :24:20.mall, has been described as the world's saddest bear.

:24:21. > :24:23.Animal rights groups have released video of the creature,

:24:24. > :24:27.in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

:24:28. > :24:30.They say it's displaying signs of agitation.

:24:31. > :24:32.The shopping mall is refusing to give up the bear,

:24:33. > :24:41.saying it's not breaking Chinese law.

:24:42. > :24:44.Belgian officials say they've reached a breakthrough

:24:45. > :24:49.on a European Union free trade deal with Canada.

:24:50. > :24:53.The Belgian prime minister said the heads of his country's regional

:24:54. > :24:57.and linguistic communities had now agreed a revised text.

:24:58. > :25:00.The agreement was due to have been signed today,

:25:01. > :25:04.but was delayed by opposition from the region of Wallonia.

:25:05. > :25:07.Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some

:25:08. > :25:09.of the team on Twitter - I'm at Lebo Diseko.

:25:10. > :25:16.And you can see what we are working on via Facebook too.

:25:17. > :25:19.Lots there to look at about our programmes coming up

:25:20. > :26:03.But for now from me and the rest of the team, goodbye.

:26:04. > :26:09.There is a weak weather front making its way across the country

:26:10. > :26:12.as we speak but it is not going to bring that much

:26:13. > :26:17.Some of it heavy and persistent across north-west Scotland but as it

:26:18. > :26:20.sinks further south, it will weaken off substantially.