things are cheering up in the next few days with the weather becoming drier and warmer and all down to what has been going on in the atlantic. this warmer air has been moving north and that helps to form these waves in the jet stream. for us that brings high pressure but overin us that brings high pressure but over in europe there is going to be some very nasty thunderstorms likely to bring some pretty nasty flash flooding in the next few days. but for us these waves create a big area of high pressure and that is increasingly going to be moving of the uk. that is going to bring increasingly fine weather. today is pretty nice as well, because england and wales will have this kind of flat cloud which will break up more as we go through the evening so increasing amounts of sunshine. the exception is east anglia and it will take some time for that cloud to break up. claudia for scotland and northern ireland. claudia. in the sunshine around 25 degrees, a little warmer than aver
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hello and welcome. more than 70 people have now died after a week of unrest in south africa sparked by the jailing of former president jacob zuma. shops and warehouses have been looted and set on fire, with the worst violence in years centred on durban and johannesburg. the government says it plans to deploy 25,000 soldiers on the streets to try to quell the violence. here s our south africa correspondent, nomsa maseko. factory after factory after factory, ransacked and burned by looters. two young men lying dead beside a railway line, 48 hours after they died. this is what six days of looting and rioting in kwazulu natal and gauteng provinces in south africa looks like. violent protests began just hours after south africa s former president, jacob zuma, was jailed for failing to comply with a court order to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. however, speculation is rife that even though this may have started out as a pro zuma protest, it was a well orchestrated plan desi