we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
tomorrow but we still have the stubborn heat in the south east of england. moving into thursday, more of a north westerly breeze that will bring more showers perhaps do northern ireland, scotland and one or two for northern england but further south still dry and still more sunshine but it is continuing to cool down a little bit. even in the south east, temperatures are more comfortable, 27 degrees. so it is cooling down for a while and then it heats up. not so much for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. sunday or monday, nearerthe far north of england. sunday or monday, nearer the mid 20s but it s across this area of england and wales where we have this extreme heat warning from the met office that temperatures will soar, not just on sunday but into monday as well and you can see in the strong sunshine how the temperatures rise significantly. it will be hotter than it s been in the last couple of days and we have 36 in london and the temperatures could
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