Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsnight 20171023

We dont know how many people have left britain to fight with so called Islamic State over the last few years. There is talk of 850 of whom half may have already come back, that would leave hundreds still out there. But if we dont really know how many, we cant know all their names. And with isis now pushed out of its own self declared capital city, raqqa, we dont know where the remaining ones are, or what they are currently planning to do. The only thing we do know is that we need some approach to dealing with them if they return. One idea would be to ease them back into mainstream society. But one government minister, rory stewart, said yesterday that in most cases, theyll need to be killed. Hes clarified that he meant that they would fight to the death, not that we should illegally assassinate them. But mr stewart has prompted quite a debate. Our diplomatic editor mark urban has been looking at it. In the rubble of the self proclaimed caliphate live the corpses of many british jihadists. Some infamous figures like sallyjones were reportedly killed in the fight for raqqa, but the fate of many is unknowable, so in terms of the is group, how many uk jihadists joined . More than 800 tasted life in syria and iraq with various groups, and many died, groups, and many died, a fate which apparently the government wishes would befall them all. And we have to make sure that if they ever do return from iraq and syria they do not pose a future threat to our national security, but they have made their choice they have chosen to fight for an organisation that uses terror and the murder of civilians as a modus operandi. How many are still with is, thats very hard to know, given the fatalities. Figures compiled by the bbc suggest that of the 800 plus who went out, at least 7a are believed to have died. Around 400 are thought to have returned home, with a few dozen of them convicted, but hundreds are still unaccounted for. The majority of the foreign fighters, and we will come to find this out in the days ahead as we continue to work through and clear raqqa, but the majority of them, we assess, were killed in the battle at raqqa. Raqqa, as an example, was a place where isis could freely plot, organise, resource, launch and export their terror. They cant do that any more, and there are so few places now. As a matter of fact, 95 of the territory that isis once held is now underneath partner controls. What about returning jihadists . Now the caliphate is almost extinguished, some may be trying to get home. There are many possible routes, from turkey to iran, lebanon or other neighbours. How likely are returnees to get back undetected . I think that the uk agencies are probably going to be operating on the presumption that they cant be confident, that they will do their best but there can be no certainty that they are going to identify and detain all those who might merit that. How much of a threat are they . There are difficultjudgments for the security service. Since some of them may have realised the folly of their ways, and of course the summers attacks in the uk didnt involve anyone known to have been in syria and iraq though one had travelled to libya. It all adds to the complexity of the task facing mi5. As well as those we are looking at today, risk can also come from returnees from syria and iraq, and also the growing pool of over 20,000 individuals that weve looked at in the past, in our terrorism investigations. How are they being dealt with . Mi5 has means of watching the returnees and grading them as to their potential threat. If you look at the individuals who went sort of early on, lets say 2011, 2012, the sort of first travellers out there, one could argue, or one could believe the stories that they were going out there very much to go and, you know, protect the syrian people. If youre going in 2015 to go join the Islamic State, then youre joining a group that publicly has been decapitating aid workers, that has been launching attacks in the west, that has conducted all sorts of heinous activity, and so when youre looking at an individual who has gone out then, you are clearly going to be more concerned, than maybe someone who went a lot before. Some of the is fighters slipped away. They are hunted now but among them, or the ones who have already returned, will long worried the counterterrorist community. Richard barrett is a former british diplomat and intelligence officer, now a terrorism expert involved in countering extremism. What is your guess as to what proportion of the returnees come back regretting having gone and what proportion come back fired up with a mission to attack home . It is very hard to assess. About half have come back, so about 400, maybe. That is probably true in denmark and sweden. In other countries in the eu it is more like 30 . But eu wide, there has been about 5,000 people go and therefore you have 1,200 coming back, that is quite a lot of people to deal with. One might think, even if only 1 were dangerous and fuelled with the ideology, if you like, what do you do . Do you lock all of them up or can you tell the difference between the ones who come back ready to just reintegrate into normal life . You have to make that assessment. How do you make that assessment . You have to examine when they went and why they went, because the date it is important. And why they came back and when they came back, because that is also important. If they came back about 2014 when the caliphate was declared, you might say they were disillusioned and disagreed with what was going on and made a mistake. But if they lasted until the fall of raqqa, they were obviously more committed to the cause. But that doesnt give you the answer either because they may have gone wanting to join the Islamic State, not necessarily to train to come back as a domestic terrorist, they are two Different Things in my view. But having been subject to the ideology, they may come back all fired up, ready to do something stupid here. What do you think our approach should be . The great thing about our country and the great thing about terrorism is that we have this stick to our values and we mustnt let terrorism undermined those values. Therefore, people who comeback must be treated according to the rule of law. Must be treated like any person suspected of criminal activity. There has to be a criminal investigation and during that investigation, what do you do with them . If you put them in prison, is it legal . But if they go in, they might radicalise other people in prison. If you leave them outside, and they do something, people will say, what the hell was going on. The answer is going to be expensive, leaving them out and watching what they are doing. I dont know how many officers it takes to follow one person, but we are talking probably more than we have got . It is enormously resource intensive. This is what all governments in europe understand and that is why there is little action so far to address this problem of returnees, so hopefully they wont come back. I was going to say, that is the hope. A lot of people are saying it would be better if they have died out there, is that your view . It isnt going to happen, some of them are going to come back, many are back already. What will you do now . You cant escape the problem by the hoping it doesnt care. I suppose you might call it social work, which you intensively coach and look after them, nurture them to a peaceful existence. Does it work, is that more expensive than surveillance . It will work with some, but i dont think it will change the mindset of people, but it will change their behaviour. It is important to disengage them from violent activity and change their views on how society should be. We all have our own view on how society should be and it is only when we impact our fellow citizens with violence, we make a problem. As a former Senior Intelligence person, how useful are the ones who returned, come back disillusioned, if you like, are they ready to shop their mates, is it how that works . Some may do that and that will be invaluable if they can point out the people who were members of the Islamic State and people like jihadi john, we want to identify those people quickly because they have committed serious crimes. You dont want them wondering about free. Richard barrett, thank you very much. The labour mp jared 0mara, who won his Sheffield Hallam back injune by beating nick clegg in that very studenty seat, has resigned his place on the Commons Equalities Committee over some comments of his which surfaced today. Theyd been left on various internet forums. Apologies for any offence, but ill give you a taste of the remarks there was reference to having an orgy with the pop band girls aloud, there were comments on fat women and he referred to gays as fudge packers, and driving up the marmite motorway. You get the picture. As i say, he has apologised and resigned from the equalties committee, but heres the thing these comments were made 15 years ago, when he was 22. He is now in his late 30s. Should we really hold him to account now for those views . Or should there be a statute of limitations on speech crimes, trails of which are inevitably left all over the web . Its a problem that the millennials might find cropping up more and more often. We have asked two political writers to talk this through with us. First onjarrod 0mara himself, should he have resigned . Absolutely. No question, he cannot be seen to be taking a qualities issue seriously before he has really explained and thought through his previous comments. He has apologised for them and they were 15, 13 years ago . Parliament is supposed to hold our trust. Its not just the women and equality select committee, it isnt just a body to scrutinise bills and talk about law, it represents the body of the british people as we face up to what are very serious issues of discrimination in the world today. It is impossible for us to have faith in that committee while it holds people like jarrod 0mara, and people like philip davies, the controversial tory mp. Were not here to discuss philip davies. Hes not here to defend himself. Do you agree with it . I dont think he should lose the labour whip and he shouldnt stand down as an mp. But its not just any select committee, it is about women and equalities. I am sure we will come back to that in a second, and he was in his early 20s when he made those comments. If you are a child, you are an idiot, but at 22, 23, you are an adult. Does this reflect his current personality and views towards homosexuality or women . I dont think we have seen enough to prove they dont. There is a question to answer about his views today based on those comments back then . Until we see otherwise, yes. Hes not someone who is known for his great feminism. There are other controversies over him. I dont fundamentally disagree, butjess phillips, chair of the womens Parliamentary Labour Party said she talked to him today and she does accept his apology and things he was genuine. She is not known for being a tolerance of misogyny. Tell me what the rules are. What age do we forgive, what age do you start having to take responsibility . If he was 17, we would probably forgive his crimes if he was 70, we would probably forgive his crimes but 22, do we or not . If he was 17, we would probably forgive his crimes but 22, do we or not . What are the rules . Set them out, because this will come out time and time again. That is the thing. Im not entirely sure, and that is why i think the jared 0mara story is interesting and we will look back on it. We have not really had this until now. These young people who grew up on the internet, became mps. Have left their trail all over the place. Of course, and if someone said some stupid things at 14 15, i would say that was clear, unless it was quite extreme nazi stuff, you know, it would have to be really abhorrent, and anything from sort of mid 20s onwards i think is clear cut again, but early 20s, i think it is a bit of a weird one, case by case basis. You just introduced both of us as millennial writers who have no problems putting ourselves over the internet, and there are things in our careers we may disagree with now, and something to even be embarrassed about, but as writers i would say that marie and i both explain our political journeys, we talk about the way in which we have changed our minds and that is quite an important part of being a writer in the public sphere, demonstrating that ability, and my answer to your question, if mps have embarrassing tales online, what they will have to do in the future is right at the beginning, we are also in an age of transparency, so embrace that, they need to fess up, and that is basically good pr advice, fess up before folks find it. If he had said, i had written all this nonsense in the past, all this rubbish, would that have made a difference . If it had not been exposed. I think so, yes, but that being said i would argue that not everyone our age can remember everything they have posted before, and i know that because i looked at my early facebook account recently, and was quite horrified. How can you confess when you dont exactly know what you have posted. We are all delighted that aol instant messenger shut down this week your older viewers may not realise this but we have a lot of memories of that, we millennials. Talking about redemption for people who have gone out to fight with isis in syria. Are we overblowing speech crimes in the great pantheon of our career mistakes . I dont think so. What would that say to women and lgbt people, that this person said this incredibly offensive stuff, notjust sillyjokes that were on the line, but genuinely offensive stuff . It would send such a message, i think, to say it is sort of fine. So i think him resigning from the committee while remaining as mp and apologising is kind of a decent way to do it. Speech crimes, the problem is in the phrase they are, you said two words, and i think it was about ten. A more open society would be one in which we accuse people less often of speech crimes but we could also have intelligent debate about changing our minds. Thank you very much indeed. Like the low Cost Airlines before them, short term letting apps like airbnb are making travel more affordable for people. For some neighbours the property has been. 0ur for some neighbours the property has been. Our Technology Editor looks at the phenomenon. Like the low Cost Airlines before them, short term letting apps like airbnb are making travel more affordable for people. They get to stay in interesting places, and as the slogan says, live like a local. Wherever you go, dont go there. Live there. And if Property Owners can make a few quid too, whos complaining . Actually, quite a lot of people. As weve seen from taxi apps like uber, the sharing economy isnt always without its downside. In terms of short term letting apps like airbnb, the evidence is that its starting to have a profound impact in some local housing markets, and on the experience of some local people. Our Research Shows that its primarily a london problem, but its very definitely a growing problem in other large cities, with a tourist interest, so manchester is seeing a lot of growth, and in glasgow and edinburgh were particularly seeing a large level of growth. The london borough of westminster is particularly hard hit, with an estimated 5000 properties taken out of the traditional rental market. It is taking homes away from people who might otherwise be living there on scale. So there are wards in westminster where one in Ten Properties are permanently in the short let sector, and thats not good. To be clear, no one is saying that a Property Owner shouldnt be able to let a room out, or go away on holiday and let their flat out thats all absolutely fine. Its the increasing professionalisation of this that is making a difference. This is what a real hotel looks like, regulated to have minimal impact on locals, because however welcome to a city short term visitors dont make great neighbours. Its been going on for couple of years now, and it has got to the point recently where weve wanted to move away from it. This neighbour of a busy short term let flat in london doesnt want to be identified because she is frightened of repercussions. Theres just no feeling of security. You dont know whos around you, you dont know that when you come home at night youre going to get a good nights sleep. Itsjust irritating when youre just dropping off, to have a sudden reminder, oh, yeah, your neighbours are airbnb theyre back now, theyre going to keep you awake. Often, the first sign of a property moving over to short term letting is the appearance outside of these key boxes. Getting complete data from airbnb is extremely hard, but weve analysed the website to find out how many hosts let out more than one entire home. That may be an indication that theyre operating as a business. In london, we found 12,1128 entire homes run by multi listing hosts. Thats 37. 5 of all entire airbnb homes in the city. Some of the businesses seem huge. Londons top ten hosts ran a total of 163a entire home listings between them. In edinburgh we found 1794 entire homes run by multi listing hosts. Thats a third of all airbnb entire homes in the city. Edinburghs top ten hosts ran a total of 302 entire home listings between them. In bristol, we found 226 entire homes run by multi listing hosts. Thats 30 of all the entire airbnb homes in the city. Bristols top ten hosts ran a total of 127 entire home listings between them. The attractions are obvious. Unlike residential properties, mortgages on holiday lets qualify for mortgage interest tax relief, and the returns can be two or three times as big as conventional letting. So much so that instead of buy to let, people are now setting up hugely lucrative rent to let businesses. Its increasingly common for landlords to rent property out, and find that property is sublet, either with their consent although perhaps not with their entire understanding or entirely without their consent, in what you might choose to call a sort of rent arbitrage, in that i pay you the market rent from an ordinary let property on the family market. If i then put it on airbnb on the holiday let market, for the same period of time, provided i can keep it full, i will get more money from airbnb and so i can guarantee to pay you a set sum of money and make a profit on the difference. Its possible to construct vast portfolios of property in this way, creating virtual hotels complete with a check in desk. Its dusk in londons brick lane. Its one of the most popular nightspots in the capital. Its where groups of people come for a curry and a night out. And its also one of the hotspots for airbnb there are lots of Properties Listed around here, many of them run by the same landlords. Ive checked into one, or at least ive booked it. Ive been e mailed some instructions of how i have to check in. I have to go and pick up the keys from a shop which is, i think, just down here. When i got there, the shop well, it didnt feel like a regular shop. More like just a guy sat behind a desk with a big ledger in front of him with all the bookings for different places. My name was on there, he checked my id, he gave me the keys, he gave me the instructions how to get there. Lets see what weve booked. So here we are. This is what weve booked. Floors a bit creaky, but apart from that it looks very nice, really. Seems very good value. In fact, it says in the welcome folder that the entire building nine flats are available from the same airbnb hosts. But whatever this place is, it clearly isnt somebodys home. This place has been kitted out the whole building has been kitted out for guests. Its a hotel. Looking for evidence of any wrongdoing is very tricky. Since 2015 Property Owners in Greater London have been legally allowed to short term let somewhere for a maximum total of 90 days in any calendar year. It makes it virtually impossible for us or anyone else, like the local authority, to prove whats going on. The problem is that its not actually an offence to breach planning control, unless youre told to stop breaching planning control, so they have to be caught and told to stop, and then caught again breaching the being told to stop and carrying on, so you have to catch people twice. Although airbnb has introduced restrictions on people letting out somewhere in london for more than 90 days, its a simple matter to list on one of the many other short term letting sites. Its really difficult to track how these landlords are using the different sites, and so we cant reallyjudge whether they are moving Properties Around across different platforms, but we know anecdotally that this has been reported, and so its something that if we had this availability to share the data across the platforms, and they worked together with the gla, this is something that we would be able to keep track of in a better way. Well, i think that the government needs to accept that local authorities have to have legal powers to act to ensure that when people are letting short lets, that they notify. If you have a notification it makes it much more straightforward then for a local authority to be able to monitor, make sure that the law is being upheld it doesnt stop people letting, but it means that the law is upheld. Other cities and countries are far further ahead in regulating the short term letting market. Airbnb declined our request for an interview, but said they already go far further than any other platform in making sure their listings comply with the law. This may not be much comfort to those trapped on the other side of the wall, or the floor, or the ceiling, from a succession of fleeting guests. Im nervous that itsjust going to turn into a Strange Hotel situation, in all the blocks, without any regulation or protection for the rest of us. Really, it feels like your block is changing . I am concerned that as we see this go on, if nothing changes, the block willjust turn into a hotel. Who can stop it . That was David Grossman reporting. Well, airbnb have given us a statement. It says that. We are good partners to london and have introduced automated hosting limits to help ensure home sharing is good news for everyone, and that growth is responsible and sustainable. We are pleased to lead our industry on this matter and urge policymakers to ensure other platforms act responsibly in london, before reopening the rule book. It is notjust a problem in london, though. Joining us now in the studio are Roddy Campbell from shared economy uk, the trade body for the uks sharing economy, and founder of the website vrumi which allows householders to share space with professionals. But in liverpool were joined by the labour councillor Laura Robertson collins. Laura, lets start with you. Short lets, what sort of problems do they cause for your . Do you get a lot of complaints as a councillor . It is a recent phenomenon in our city in liverpool, certainly moving out of the city into the more residential areas, but we have seen summers of absolute mayhem, where residents have had to call the police, naked men running down the street playing football, stag parties and so on going on, and of course in a city with a lot of student residents really do value that quieter time they used to get in the summer, which is now filled with hen and stag parties completely without any regulation. As your piece just showed, we would welcome home sharing that is genuine, but this is undeclared businesses not paying tax. But the tourists coming in, that kind of behaviour, it could happen in a hotel. If they want to run out and play football naked at night, isnt it the same thing . I wouldnt think so because the hotels would be staffed and this is com pletely u nstaffed and unsupervised, and these are small terraced streets i am talking about, not big country manners or something. Manors or something. Four bedroom terraces with 20 people for the weekend, it creates mayhem for the neighbours and other residents. Roddy campbell, that is effectively a lot of what is going on location. Businesses setting these up to defy the regulations . I dont know how you make the leap, london is my main area, that is where i operate my business in. Am i allowed to set up a hotel in london where ever i want . They are hotels without stuff . There are plenty of regulations for short term lets. How those are in force and whether they are enforced is another question. Enforcement issue for you guys, you are the council, it is yourjob . There are no regulations. We cant enforce anything, there are no regulations. There are minimal regulations in london, but outside of london we dont even have the 90 day restriction. We are asking home sharing sites to share their data with local authorities so we can regulate them and ensure minimum standards and have have a 90 day cap. Sharing the data so nobody can run their business for more than 90 days and a 90 day National Limit would sort out the professionals . There is a lot of laws on Data Protection and data sharing. But we can pass a law on that . If they pass a law on that then yes. We cant enforce the rules at the moment because somebody could put 90 days on one site, and 90 days on another. In london, that is illegal and they can be prosecuted for that and after they have been warned by the local authority, they can be fined for that. But the point is, we have to make it easier for the authorities to levy the fine against the Rule Breakers because they have to be able to catch the Rule Breakers to levy the fine. It is difficult for them to watch a property for 180 days or 91 days. Can i ask about the scale of this . When people are talking about rogue minicab company is, about rogue minicab companies, if there are two rogue drivers in the fleet who are not getting their tax and insurance done, it is not a problem. But if there is a thousand, then it is a problem. The numbers went through very fast on your tape, there are 226 properties on your tape, there are 226 propertyjob people identified as multi Property Operators in bristol and it was 1600 in london out of 3. 3 million households. The idea that this is a massive business. The buy to let businesses big. Private renting is a huge business and the short term rental is a sliver of that business. Let me put that to laura. The numbers are relative to the size of liverpool or london and we talking about a small industry . Absolutely, but it is growing very fast and the complaints are growing fast. We dont know where they are, we have landlord licensing in liverpool and we work hard to get that across the city so we can regulate the private rented sector. This is coming in below the radar, should these people be paying council tax, or business tax . We dont know where they are until we get the complaints in and then it is too late. Airbnb said we want to see everybodys income and then we can regulate the industry better. As a trade Representative Association would you support that . I am speaking as the owner and founder of a business roughly similar to airbnb. I know hmrc and the treasury have had conversations about what can and cant be done and what is right, and being on the board, airbnb have had endless meetings with treasury and hmrc about what can and cant be done. In the end they are a platform, like me having my make up done by your very nice make up man. He takes in travelling actors through his website. I am sure he pays his tax, declares it. Would he expect travelling actors to reveal his income to the taxman . Probably not. Local authorities are picking up the cost of this. We could run this a bit longer because it raises a lot of issues, but we have got to leave it there. People love to complain about politicians, but you wont hear much grumbling about baroness trumpington. Shes a tory member of the house of lords, appointed back in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher. During a career as a minister and a peer, trumpington has been independent of thought and has always been one to say what she thinks. She has also been mischievous, for example, she famously directed a v sign at lord king, when he remarked upon her age in the house of lords. Her life chronicles much of the history of the 20th century. She once worked for David Lloyd George on his farm. She is the sort of person for whom the words National Treasure were invented. But today, her 95th birthday, she is stepping down from the lords. They have been marking the end of her era with a party this evening, here is a picture of her celebrating with prime ministerjohn major and the lords speaker. I sat down with her on friday, to talk about her life and approach to politics. I began by asking her whether life is better now or when she was growing up. Betterfor some. Not so good for others. Better for who . Well, better for those who have money. I think. I think its amazing the way people climbed out of the mud and did wonderful things. Like who . Well, i can think of betty boothroyd, for instance. She was a Great Success and she had to fight to begin with. Another big woman in your life was Margaret Thatcher of course . Yes. And you still think of her with affection because you often argued with her, i think . Oh yes, like mad. But that was my value to her and she realised it and i realised it. And we were really good friends. But if i didnt agree with her about something, i said so. And that was very good for her. It gave her a chance to know what the opposition might say to her. Important in politics not to have all the yes men and women around you who. Absolutely. What about the issue of women in politics . Because a lot has changed in your lifetime. Since nancy astor. And a lot has changed since you were in the lords, which was 1980. How should women deal with men who are interested in them physically . Because it is a big issue today, a lot of women are very angry about it, how should women react, slap them in the face go to the newspaper, how they react . To the newspaper, how do they react . I think you curse them and its quite possible to slap their face. If you can possibly get away, go. One of the big changes between men and women between your young life and now is, men just used to grope women more than they do now. You faced this in your life . Because women have learned to fight back. Really, women used to be terrified of making a fuss. Now they dont give a damn. If the man deserves it, he deserves to have a public fuss made of him. You see my point . Thats a good thing. I think its a very good thing. Otherwise, you know, it was unfair. Just tell me about David Lloyd George, because he was one of these, wasnt he . What about this thing with him measuring you up . You are a young girl working on his estate and hes taking a physical interest in you, correct . Well, he knew my family. And i think he liked young girls. Anyway, i was much too frightened and shy at that time to object. Of course, you worked at bletchley in the Second World War as part of the code breaking effort . When churchill visited us he said, you are the birds that laid the golden eggs, but never cackled. And that was the important thing, was that we never talks. Was that we never talked. Tell me about this episode in the house of lords, this is one you were very famous for, which was lord king, made some reference to your age and you did the v sign at him . And then the survivors of world war ii started to look pretty old as well, as my noble friend, the baroness reminded me, i believe claiming to be the only survivor . Now on some stories, you werent really making every sign, now on some stories, you werent really making a v sign but on other accounts, you knew very well, you knew what you were doing . I did know, because i thought he was insufferable. Now the name trumpington . Trumpington, we associate anything with trump with the president of the united states. God help us youre not a fan . No, im not. What an extraordinary man he is. How extraordinary the americans are to have let him get away. Well i wont say what i was going to say. Uncharacteristic restraint. Can i ask what you are going to miss most as you leave the lords and say farewell on that long period in your life . I shall miss it dreadfully. I will have permission to sit on the steps of the throne and i will be able to eat meals there, but i wont be a member and i wont be able to speak. I will be an outcast. And very, very sad. Not an outcast, no. Just a retiree. You will miss them and im sure they will miss you. Baroness trumpington, thank you so much. Thank you. And that is all we have time for. I will be back tomorrow but until then, good night. Hello there. If youre a fan of the mild weather at this time of year both by day and night you will be glad of this week because we have a run of south westerly winds bringing mild air but also outbreaks of rain. There will be cloudy at times, that will be the case tomorrow. Here is the satellite picture, you can see the satellite picture, you can see the cloud coming to our shores bringing in the cloud, outbreaks of rain but also that mild air. We have a complicated tangle of whether fronts pushing in on tuesday bringing outbreaks of rain in towards south western parts in wales and Northern Ireland and the west of scotla nd and Northern Ireland and the west of scotland by the end of the night. Double figures for all, mild in the south west. Tuesday morning temperatures around 15 or 16 degrees, some is stan murk, low cloud and drizzle. That weather front will move into words wales, bit of a dismal commute for the rush hour. That rain clearing away in Northern Ireland but a pretty wet start for scotland, breezy here as well. And improving picture in the north, sunshine coming out in Northern Ireland, parts of scotland, some showers, breezy here, the weather Front Holding on some showers, breezy here, the weatherFront Holding on in some showers, breezy here, the weather Front Holding on in the north of england in towards wales but to the south, mild air, largely dry and we could make 19 degrees there,. The weather front moves across central parts of the country on tuesday and buy weapons state, in south eastern birds, here we will see the dollar sped of the weather, in the north brighter, a few showers, temperatures around the mid teens, 17 or 18 across the south and south east. Heading into thursday, the weather front is further north, to the south very mild air, 18 degrees in the cloud, given some sunshine with kabila, 20 or maybe 21 degrees. A big change on friday, this High Pressure begins to build on pushing the weather front away, but it introduces some clearer drier and brighter weather but also colder airand that and brighter weather but also colder air and that will come in across northern and eastern areas in particular. For the weekend, although will be bright with sunshine, it will turn noticeably cooler by day and certainly by night. Good night. Im rico hizon in singapore. 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