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[00:00:03] of
[00:00:07] From our studios here in Nairobi, you're watching Focus on Africa coming to
[00:00:11] you live on BBC News, our top
[00:00:15] stories, well it's celebrations across Africa
[00:00:17] of after Kenya wins the bid to host the 2029 World Athletics
[00:00:20] Championships, the first African nation to stage this
[00:00:25] of event, until now we know how to compete and win race in
[00:00:29] outside Africa. but now we now it's
[00:00:32] time to host to organize the rest
[00:00:36] uh here in Africa. Meanwile South African police warn
[00:00:40] women against walking alone in the eastern part of Johannesburg
[00:00:44] after the seventh body of a murder victim was found around the Kempton
[00:00:48] Park suburb
[00:00:49] in a matter of weeks. It
[00:00:51] of is not okay that you'll be afraid to go to the
[00:00:55] shop. It is not okay that you'll be afraid to go in
[00:00:59] gym.
[00:00:59] It is. is not okay that you'll be afraid to just take a walk
[00:01:03] and also coming up in the program, Nigerian billionaire Alico
[00:01:07] Dangote launches Africa's largest ever share
[00:01:11] of sale, offering the public a stake in his oil refinery for
[00:01:14] four
[00:01:16] US dollars. Today is not
[00:01:18] of simply about listen a company, it is about listen
[00:01:22] a listen new
[00:01:25] possibility for Nigeria and for Africa and for
[00:01:29] black race.
[00:01:30] of
[00:01:38] of Well hello and welcome to the program, many
[00:01:42] thanks for joining us, this is Focus on Africa, I
[00:01:47] of Wahiga.
[00:01:47] of All right, let's begin today's program here in Kenya, because the
[00:01:51] country will host
[00:01:51] of the 22nd edition
[00:01:53] of the World Athletic Championships in
[00:01:56] in 2029. Now, this is the first
[00:01:57] of time Africa is hosting such a historic event. despite producing
[00:02:01] some
[00:02:01] of the sports biggest stars. Kenya's president William Ruto welcomed
[00:02:05] this announcement, saying, and I quote, this is Kenya's moment,
[00:02:09] Africa's moment, and victory for generations of athletes who've made
[00:02:13] our nation synonymous with excellence on the track on the
[00:02:17] of road and cross
[00:02:18] of country. Well, this East African country is one
[00:02:20] of the most successful in the history
[00:02:22] of the world championships with 72 gold medals. It's
[00:02:27] of athletes have also bagged 38 Olympic goals. most
[00:02:30] of them in the middle and long
[00:02:32] of distance of events. now Nairobi previously bit to
[00:02:34] in stage the
[00:02:35] in 2025 event
[00:02:36] but lost out to Tokyo with lack of adequate
[00:02:39] stadiums as the key weakness. Now here's what World Athetics
[00:02:43] President Sebastian Coe had to say: taking our
[00:02:47] championships to
[00:02:48] of Africa for the first
[00:02:50] of time will be historic. Nairobi has presented a
[00:02:53] com compelling and an emotional bid. This
[00:02:57] is fast growing, dynamic, modern. metropolis that serves as the
[00:03:01] economic, cultural and political hub of East
[00:03:05] Africa. It was important that the World Championship should come to
[00:03:09] Africa, when
[00:03:11] of we had the right host, the right bid, and the right
[00:03:15] circumstances. Nairobi has demonstrated
[00:03:18] emphatically that this is their moment to supercharge the
[00:03:21] development of our sport in Kenya and across
[00:03:25] Africa, leave leaving a compelling
[00:03:28] legacy that... as a continent,
[00:03:32] well we got reactions from former olympic and world champion h gebr
[00:03:36] salasi from ethiopia and kenyan javeline former world champion
[00:03:40] julius yego, that's the best news to to hear
[00:03:43] today and i'm really excited on third of this month that
[00:03:47] was just the day
[00:03:48] of before the brussels so we were in brussels
[00:03:52] and i remember in the morning during breakfast
[00:03:55] i met with sebastian co
[00:03:59] in the... and we spoke for like two minutes and the
[00:04:03] last words I told him was I
[00:04:05] of hope the world athletics will consider Nairobi has host for
[00:04:08] 2029 and then he was like yeah we will see and then the
[00:04:12] last conversation the last thing I told him was please don't take it to
[00:04:16] London give us to give it up in Nairobi and he smile
[00:04:20] and he told me yeah I will consider that leave
[00:04:24] that to me and yeah karibu sana the world to Nairobi
[00:04:28] until now we know how competent win racing outside
[00:04:32] africa, but now we now it's time
[00:04:35] to host to organize the rest
[00:04:39] here
[00:04:40] of in Africa, which means it build up our confidence for
[00:04:44] the next generation, for the current generation as well, you see we
[00:04:48] of africans
[00:04:50] a - can do things like the others, so
[00:04:54] in one athlete who's wearing to bring his country glory at home
[00:04:57] of is kenyan sprinstar Ferdinand Omanyala, is
[00:05:00] of Africa's 100 meter record holder. I began by asking him about the
[00:05:03] significance of this selection and whether he expected it at
[00:05:07] all. I'm not, I'm not surprised, but I mean
[00:05:11] it was, it was a hard. competition to go into i
[00:05:14] mean to bid for the world championship, we tried against uh
[00:05:18] Tokyo last year, we didn't get it, but this year again we were
[00:05:21] going against like very formidable countries, london
[00:05:25] hosted the world championships i think a couple of times, munich definitely
[00:05:29] one the big cities in the world, but now if you
[00:05:33] put that aside and you look at now the the
[00:05:36] culture and what brings
[00:05:39] you know the fun zone and the athletics vibe around the country? "I think
[00:05:43] Kenya is stands out the most out of this country, so there's that part that
[00:05:46] was still you know having a lot of weight and carrying lot of weight, and
[00:05:50] then the fact that Africa has never hosted a major global
[00:05:54] championship before, we stood a higher chance having
[00:05:58] that we bid last year to host the Tokyo and then we
[00:06:02] didn't get it, so we I'm sure the team was more experienced this
[00:06:05] time on how to beat and what to put forward, so I
[00:06:09] was i was really in faith that you're going to get it and I'm glad that we did." so are
[00:06:13] you feeling the pressure? the fans will be there, your family will be there, everyone will be
[00:06:17] watching in 2029, i don't it's 100 meters or you want to do something
[00:06:21] else, how do you start preparing for that? i don't feel any pressure,
[00:06:25] mean competing at home is always a privilege and
[00:06:28] um one thing about me is there's always a level of
[00:06:32] excitement and adrenaline rush that comes to with
[00:06:35] competing at home and i'm glad that of course uh not
[00:06:39] that i all my best performances are here but um most
[00:06:42] them are in Kenya and preparation
[00:06:46] starts now, what are your thoughts about the capability of
[00:06:50] Kasarani, the stadium in Kenya that would host this
[00:06:53] potentially uh compared to other stadiums that have
[00:06:57] hosted world championships that you've participated in, does Kenya have, does
[00:07:01] Nairobi have what it takes, what needs to be improved? um, I'm happy
[00:07:04] that the stadium is doing, there's an overhall of construction going
[00:07:08] on and um an upgrade as well, so that's that gives
[00:07:12] us better chance to host even
[00:07:15] better um championship, but definitely Kasarani has
[00:07:19] everything it takes, it does all it takes, I'm sure with this bit of
[00:07:22] course the world athletics and all the stakeholders are going to support
[00:07:25] this preparation towards the world championship,
[00:07:29] so expecting world class equipment, let's say like the track
[00:07:33] to be laid there within hopefully in less than year or
[00:07:37] two so that we can be ready for that, but of course
[00:07:40] Kasarani is always a stadium
[00:07:43] that uh times are run fast there you
[00:07:47] a high altitude area and post sprinters we're
[00:07:51] expecting to have very fast times uh come
[00:07:54] 2029 beyond kenya what what does
[00:07:58] this mean for the African continent athletics
[00:08:00] infrastructure what do you think what do you see this
[00:08:04] sparking once Nairobi manages uh to
[00:08:07] hopefully host successful world championship? definitely
[00:08:11] it will give us show the world that what that that africa is capable
[00:08:15] of hosting it, but just recently botsuana hosted the world
[00:08:19] relay championships and it was really really good and we are
[00:08:23] having more events come to Africa as well, so having Kenya
[00:08:27] hosting the World Championships in 2029 definitely is something that
[00:08:30] will be put into history books and we hope that we can be hosting it
[00:08:34] even later in the coming years and it will be
[00:08:38] a big boost to us and the generations to come because I remember I got a...
[00:08:42] lot of inspiration from the under 18 that was posted in
[00:08:45] 2018 2019 i think the about and i can
[00:08:49] imagine what this gonna this going do to the coming to the up and coming
[00:08:53] athletes like they are going to see all these stars coming into the country
[00:08:57] and they'll be having this chance to watch them warm up to
[00:09:01] watch them go and compete you know that will be huge
[00:09:04] motivation factor for the generation that's
[00:09:08] coming and now to south africa where police have warned
[00:09:12] women against walking alone in Eastern Johannesburg after another
[00:09:15] body was found near the Kempton Park suberb. That brings a total
[00:09:19] to seven bodies found over the past two months. Well, these
[00:09:23] discoveries have sparked fears that a serial killer could be at large, and it's
[00:09:27] triggered a high level police investigation. Authorities say the deaths may be
[00:09:31] linked, though they have not confirmed if one person or a single
[00:09:35] person is responsible. Now the case underscores longstanding concerns for
[00:09:38] violent crime in South Africa, particularly against women. and
[00:09:42] children, latest statistics show that the country recorded more than
[00:09:46] 5,400 murders between April and July, average of
[00:09:49] about 45 every day. The organization UN Women says the
[00:09:53] country's femicide rates are among the highest in the world. The BBC's
[00:09:57] Nom Sasego sent us this report from Kempton
[00:10:00] Park. The body of sixth woman has been
[00:10:04] discovered here in the east of Johannesburg a township of
[00:10:08] Guatema. Police investigations have suggested that her
[00:10:11] body was is dumped here overnight or early um this
[00:10:15] morning and they are saying that she is believed to be in her 30s
[00:10:19] and that her body is badly decomposed,
[00:10:23] but what is also worrying here? is the fact that her
[00:10:26] body is the fourth body that has been found in
[00:10:30] just one week and that has left south african women
[00:10:34] terrified. it is not okay
[00:10:37] that you'll be afraid to go to the shop, it is not
[00:10:41] okay that you'll be afraid to go in gym, it is not okay
[00:10:45] that you'll be afraid to just take a walk because that walk around to the
[00:10:49] corner might be the last time you ever walk in your lifetime, mean what happened to the
[00:10:52] days when we grew up and we could play? streets, there are fears
[00:10:56] that a serial killer is on the loose, however the police have moved to
[00:11:00] say that there is a possibility that there is more than one
[00:11:04] perpetrator who is uh behind these murders, and they
[00:11:08] are saying that they are following uh very positive leads
[00:11:11] and the detectives are doing all they can to
[00:11:15] ensure that whoever is responsible for these
[00:11:18] murders is brought to book, we are looking a number
[00:11:22] of possibilities um whether we are dealing with one
[00:11:26] perpetrator or multiple suspects, the
[00:11:29] investigators are still on the ground, peacing
[00:11:33] information together, gathering the necessary
[00:11:36] evidence to try and prove that theory, whether are we
[00:11:40] dealing with one perpetrator, are these copy cat crimes
[00:11:44] and murder scenes or are we dealing with a group of
[00:11:48] people that are um committing these
[00:11:52] crimes? body of a runner that was... ly
[00:11:55] identified yesterday is that of woman who
[00:11:58] disappeared when she had gone for a run and she never
[00:12:02] returned home. we all received the news from the
[00:12:05] daughter at the age of eight years cuz tunzu had
[00:12:09] routine, she was one the people
[00:12:13] that from work, she had a time to
[00:12:16] start jogging and the time to return back
[00:12:19] home. so that young lady,
[00:12:23] i still take... heard of that young lady buse she's
[00:12:27] the one that actually broke the news after she noticed
[00:12:30] that uh half past six the mother didn't return
[00:12:34] back that's how we all received the
[00:12:37] information president sir ramaposa released a
[00:12:41] statement saying that the discovery these bodies is living
[00:12:45] fear and uncertainty among south african women and also promised
[00:12:48] that the government will do all it can to find the
[00:12:52] perpetrators well thanks Stay with us, you are
[00:12:55] watching Focus on Africa, still to come on the program, torture
[00:12:59] a bottle. We speak to an acid attack survivor who shares
[00:13:03] her story of living with trauma, finding the strength to heal
[00:13:07] and rebuilding her
[00:13:09] life.
[00:13:19] In the world of business, everything is connected. The straight
[00:13:23] of homoz is a... waterway for commercial shipping, but its
[00:13:27] closure due to the Iran war has disrupted the global supply chain,
[00:13:31] affecting millions. So what does it mean for you? If the
[00:13:35] disruption continues, economists warn the ripple effects could mean
[00:13:39] slower hiring, less investment and more pressure on businesses
[00:13:43] and consumers. Across Africa, countries like Kenya,
[00:13:47] Mozambique, South Africa, and even here in Tanzania,
[00:13:50] prices are rising. The crisis is exposing the
[00:13:54] continents. dependence on importent energies,
[00:13:57] subdivers just haven't been able to fill up fuel, there's a major
[00:14:00] shortage, so very real consequences of what's going on in the Middle East and
[00:14:04] it's being seen right here in the Philippines. Even if everything is resolved
[00:14:08] straight away overnight, we're still talking about nearly billion
[00:14:12] barrels of oil taken out the world's supply. Business on BBC
[00:14:16] News, make the
[00:14:17] connection.
[00:14:25] As the war in Ukraine continues, how is the fighting in the Middle East
[00:14:28] potentially influencing the course the
[00:14:30] conflict? See the headlines as they
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[00:14:59] Welcome back, this is Focus on Africa. Now, if you are
[00:15:03] Nigerian, you can own a share the Dangote oil refinery
[00:15:07] this month. This is after the company listed publicly in what is
[00:15:10] described as Africa's largest ever share sale. The monthlong
[00:15:14] offer could raise as much as 2.1 billion US
[00:15:17] dollars. The refinery, which started production back in
[00:15:20] 2024, is one the largest in the world and took more than
[00:15:24] decade. to complete. Alico Dangote who is Africa's
[00:15:28] richest man, made his fortune in cement and sugar in
[00:15:32] Nigeria before expanding to 16 other countries on the
[00:15:35] continent. Nigeria is Africa's biggest. all producer, but until the
[00:15:39] refinery was opened, most the country's fuel had to be
[00:15:42] imported due to lack of refining capacity locally.
[00:15:46] let's listen in to what else mr. dangote had to
[00:15:49] say when he listed his company. today is
[00:15:53] not simply about listing a company, it is about listing
[00:15:57] a about listing a new
[00:16:00] possibility for Nigeria and for Africa and for
[00:16:04] black race. today we from: open
[00:16:08] the initial public offering of danguti petroleum
[00:16:11] refinery and petrol chemicals (fze) that
[00:16:15] were inviting Nigerians,
[00:16:18] Africans,
[00:16:19] Caribbeans, uh, Europeans,
[00:16:23] Americans, Chinese, everybody across the world
[00:16:27] to become shareholders in one the Africa's most
[00:16:31] transformational industrial projects.
[00:16:35] But, what is an initial public offering? and how does it
[00:16:38] work? the BBC's Ayuba Ilia breaks it down for
[00:16:41] us. imagine your friend owns a very successful business,
[00:16:45] say huge supermarket that sells almost everything,
[00:16:49] then your friend wants to expand it, so instead of boring all the
[00:16:53] money, they decided to sell small pieces the business to
[00:16:57] lots of people a fixed price per share.
[00:17:01] that is basically what an initial public offer also known as
[00:17:05] IPO does and that is what, the Dangote refinery is
[00:17:09] offering. Africa's richest man Alico Dangote plans to sell about
[00:17:12] 4 billion of shares in his refinery, hoping to raise
[00:17:16] about 1.6 billion US dollars. With
[00:17:20] as little as about four US dollars, people can become part
[00:17:23] owners the company. So why does Dangote need the money?
[00:17:27] Well, the refinery currently has the capacity to process about
[00:17:31] 70000 barrels of crude a day, and the
[00:17:35] company wants to double that amount. by 2029,
[00:17:39] some energy experts say that this could mean more petrol, diesel and
[00:17:42] aviation fuel being produced in Africa rather than importing from
[00:17:46] elsewhere and could increase trade between African
[00:17:49] countries. Others however express concerns that the
[00:17:53] shares could be overpriced if today's high profits don't
[00:17:57] last or if the ambitious expansion plans
[00:18:00] falter. So we spoke to Temmy Popula, the head the
[00:18:04] Nigeria Exchange group, formerly known as the Nigerian stock. exchange
[00:18:08] about the significance the Dangote IPO listing, I started
[00:18:12] by asking him about how big or significant moment this listing
[00:18:16] was for Nigeria's stock market.
[00:18:18] The reality is that if we think about this transaction, there are two parts to it, first and
[00:18:22] foremost
[00:18:23] some transactions matter, they matter because their
[00:18:26] scale, some the transactions then matter because of
[00:18:30] what they make the market participants believe is
[00:18:33] possible, they matter because they change the way that those
[00:18:36] market put think about their market and this transaction brings
[00:18:40] both, if we look first to this from the level of
[00:18:43] scale, by many measures, it's the largest
[00:18:47] IPO ever in the history the African capital markets. talking about
[00:18:51] democratizing access to the capital markets, what sort of investment
[00:18:55] appetite have you seen from young nigerians, from young women, tell us
[00:18:59] more. on day one when we launched the offer, many many apps
[00:19:02] of, lot of our distributors actually halted and crashed
[00:19:06] if i could say, so just because the level of demand was you know uh
[00:19:10] way more than what we have actually really seen uh the interest
[00:19:14] is there, there's a lot of enthusiasm. i see, you mentioned expanding
[00:19:18] this now to bring in the wider African capital
[00:19:21] markets, um, people in Kenya, in South
[00:19:25] Africa and elsewhere had indicated at least on social media that they'd
[00:19:29] be keen to tap into this IPO, is it possible to invest beyond Nigeria?
[00:19:33] the simple answer is yes, Alaji Dangote has made it clear also that this is a big
[00:19:36] dream that... has, we share those dreams, if you think about it, the
[00:19:40] large African companies, frankly speaking, should be financed by
[00:19:43] Africans, we need to be able to mobilize capital across the
[00:19:47] continent and funnel them frankly into whatever businesses in whatever
[00:19:51] countries that they are to drive our collective growth, so my view is
[00:19:55] that over the next day or so a bit more clarity on this subject to be given as
[00:19:59] to you, each country, the regulations are different, the
[00:20:02] modalities are different, but in reality yes this is
[00:20:06] huge huge piece. of what we're looking to do here, so that by the time
[00:20:10] we are done, it's capital flows from retail investors
[00:20:14] right,
[00:20:15] that um has been a scale that we have ever seen before. ever since the
[00:20:19] Dangoti IPO went live, have you received interest from the founders
[00:20:23] or CEOs of other privately held companies that would want to potentially open
[00:20:27] up their ownership via the capital markets? the answer to that is yes, I mean
[00:20:31] before this offer we had we thought was decent enough
[00:20:34] pipeline, but I like that you asked that because for us one the things that we
[00:20:38] think will be key success from this is really not just the
[00:20:42] ability to raise capital, like alaji Dangote said yesterday during the
[00:20:46] launch, i think that question has been answered, the question around can he race?
[00:20:50] capital can capital be raised? the answer to that is yes. what advice would you
[00:20:54] have for young first time investors on the potential and
[00:20:57] also the risks of investing in the capital market? it is a
[00:21:01] long-term gain. capital markets are risky.
[00:21:05] you've got to make sure that you look at the potential investment
[00:21:08] properly. of course you typically invest because you expected to
[00:21:12] appreciate the reality is that it can also depreciate. so that's a
[00:21:16] very important piece of you know the advice I would like to... to give
[00:21:20] to people e now, imagine living
[00:21:24] with lifelong physical and psychological scars of attack,
[00:21:28] fueled in part by either misogyny, that's a dislike or distrust of
[00:21:32] women or romantic rejection. now this is a
[00:21:35] brutal reality for many women globally, yet the stigma of acid
[00:21:39] violence forces most survivors into silence. focus in africa
[00:21:43] podcast host Nkechi Ogbona spoke to one survivor
[00:21:47] living here in Kenya where doctors are noticing warring increase in
[00:21:51] cases, she begins by tracing back to the exact moment that she
[00:21:54] was attacked and a warning here, this next interview contains
[00:21:58] details and descriptions that some may find
[00:22:01] upsetting. i
[00:22:03] got attack when i was 16 years
[00:22:07] old, the parents passed on when we were young, i
[00:22:11] started working as house help, so here where
[00:22:14] i landed in this family, i went with all my documents, the
[00:22:18] papers of how old were you? this time i was 13
[00:22:21] getting to 14 okay so we stayed from form
[00:22:25] one, form two, form three, so basically it was
[00:22:29] from high school right, from from one started from high school, yes right,
[00:22:33] and they were still your guardians, yeah, okay, so from here, so
[00:22:37] i started like the guy started like demanding me, forcing me
[00:22:41] to accept him to be his girlfriend official, and
[00:22:45] then i said no, mimi, no, i'm not set for that,
[00:22:49] he would call me and ask me where are you, where are you? so that day he
[00:22:52] said, he told me that he has my surprise, told me, okay, let's
[00:22:56] go, and i saw something like he had jacket,
[00:23:00] a big one, and the jacket this side was shugging
[00:23:04] as if there was something inside it, so
[00:23:08] we left the main road and he told me
[00:23:12] there's a shortcut, so on
[00:23:14] now on our way with this shortcut in the middle, he started, okay,
[00:23:18] it might be the end of your life, depending with the answer you're going to give me, i
[00:23:22] said, oh, this is what you wanted, i said no, and i
[00:23:26] will not, in fact i'm going to tell my teachers even if i don't
[00:23:30] know them, for them to help me, even to accommodate me,
[00:23:34] so me, what i had in the next place, be without even
[00:23:38] knowing who and what was going on, i had
[00:23:41] something like a splash of something from the head
[00:23:45] here, here right, yeah, so the way he
[00:23:49] just splashed. like that
[00:23:51] the hot thing in it was like and choking smell i
[00:23:54] was like what is this now in plus the reaction
[00:23:58] and he repeated it after that now i knew now i'm dying so
[00:24:02] when i was i knew that so i was turning
[00:24:05] to to brag that whatever he had the can that he had
[00:24:09] so you wanted to struggle with him whatever yeah so me i knew that
[00:24:13] i'm still strong i'll come and fight him i know i'm dying
[00:24:16] but we are going to die together so when our time like this
[00:24:20] he timed me so it entered the face plus
[00:24:24] inside the high - when it reach there i could
[00:24:28] not think of anything the acid entered inside my mouth so the
[00:24:32] tongs were like so i could not i was like screening i could
[00:24:36] not i could not screen i could not cry for help and nobody would hear
[00:24:40] me he would splash it and say if you happen to be alive no man
[00:24:43] will admire you and he dropped that nini the the
[00:24:47] container yeah there and he left, talk me
[00:24:51] through the moment you saw
[00:24:55] yourself when you had woken up from
[00:24:58] consciousness, i saw something, i thought it was
[00:25:01] not me, i knew i was normal
[00:25:05] now, it was like i was counting hours now
[00:25:09] to finish up, but luckily basically
[00:25:13] you thought you were dying, yeah i knew that because i could not speak,
[00:25:17] is there something that this incident? did not change
[00:25:21] about you? I'm another person, I'm another new benter,
[00:25:24] because if I see the journey that
[00:25:27] I've come from since then, if the
[00:25:31] other benter, I think that benter would not make it, but I
[00:25:35] thank God, this benta is super
[00:25:38] strong. well, for more on that important conversation,
[00:25:42] do make your way to the BBC Africa YouTube channel, and of course
[00:25:46] for viewers in Kenya and Nigeria, you can also watch Focus on Africa live.
[00:25:50] on the BBC News YouTube channel as well, do give us your feedback on
[00:25:54] the program, I'm atwaahiga on next, thanks for your time, see you tomorrow,
[00:25:58] goodbye for
[00:25:58] now,
[00:26:09] Hello, let's take a look at the weather around the world
[00:26:11] and first off to North America where there's a real contrast in temperature, we've still
[00:26:15] got some very warm air holding place across the southern plains from
[00:26:18] Texas, Arkansas, all the way towards the Mid-Atlantic, cooler
[00:26:22] conditions to the north of that and where those air masses meet, we've got some stormy
[00:26:25] weather pushing across parts the northern plains, also some heavy
[00:26:29] downpours here around the desert, southwest these a monsoonal. showers pushing
[00:26:33] in here, for Mexico, one or two heavier showers around the bay of Campeche,
[00:26:37] and we've also got some heavier rain pushing in for Costa Rica, Panama, into Nicoragua as
[00:26:41] well, we could see some heavier downpors around the lesser antelies as
[00:26:45] well, heading across South America now and there's still some heavy rain
[00:26:48] across the far north of Peru up towards Colombia as well, dryer conditions
[00:26:52] around the Amazon Basin, this frontal system just starting to clear from the
[00:26:55] southeaster Brazil, temperatures will eventually rise for southern Brazil
[00:26:59] into Argentina over the next few days, but to the far
[00:27:03] south. now across Europe and we're seeing drop in temperature, it's been very hot
[00:27:07] across France, Spain as well, a frontal system is introducing cooler,
[00:27:10] fresher air and some heavy downpors affecting parts the alpine
[00:27:14] region, Switzerland up through Germany into Finland as well, still
[00:27:18] pretty warm to the south of that and some stormy conditions for southern parts of Greece,
[00:27:22] we've got low pressure in the Mediterranean here, that may affect some northern coast of
[00:27:26] Africa, around Libya, Egypt as well, heavy showers around the Gulf of Guine, some
[00:27:30] downpours likely here and it's going to turn and increasingly wet in Cape Town
[00:27:34] after Wednesday, 17 degrees on Wednesday, wet and windy weather then pushing eastwards
[00:27:38] across South Africa. Lots of dry settle weather for much the Middle East at
[00:27:42] the moment, few showers down towards Yemen, one or two up towards the Caspian
[00:27:45] sea, but dry and hot and sunny in between. Across
[00:27:49] India now and some heavy monsoonal showers building across
[00:27:53] northern and northeastern parts the country, heading across to Bangladesh, still one or two
[00:27:56] sharp showers around Rajastan, Gujarat as well, the bulk the heavy rain
[00:28:00] though, further south for the Maldives.
[00:28:02] that Sri Lanka, more heavy rain though working in across Japan, it's been
[00:28:06] very wet, to
[00:28:07] more of come, could be some flooding on Wednesday and some heavy showers for the Philippines across to
[00:28:11] Vietnam as well, quieter conditions further south, still very dry for
[00:28:15] much of Java into Sulawazi as well and across
[00:28:18] Australia much the country looking dry, a big area of high pressure in
[00:28:22] charge, it's a cooler spell of weather towards the southeast, 13 in Melbourne
[00:28:26] but it will be turning warmer here in the southeast, cooler towards western
[00:28:30] Australia through the rest the week and then will push northwards across both
[00:28:34] islands of New Zealand. Bye for
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