england put out west the cloud will thicken quickly. a few patches of rain across england and wales but not amounting to too much, whereas for northern ireland and scotland it turns wet and windy through the afternoon. all the while the south westerly winds bring mild air, south westerly winds bring mild air, so temperature is about 11 14. it gets very windy tomorrow night with gales and maybe even severe gales across the far north west of the country as a band of rain sweeps through followed by the showers. friday, blustery day in scotland with the showers rattling through on the strong winds. further southwards, a brighter, sunnier kind of day for most of you. and in the sunshine with the wind is coming up from the south west is, mild with temperatures widely into double figures across england and wales, eight and nine in scotland and northern ireland. this band of rain from that area of low pressure that i showed you a moment ago that is currently no canada brings a band o
paid their last respects to the former pope benedict 16th before his funeral at the vatican on thursday. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in ukraine, where a ukrainian battlefield commander in the eastern town of bakhmut has told the bbc that the fighting there is ferocious. a us official has said russian forces have made incremental advances around the town, with mercenaries from the russian paramilitary wagner group heavily involved in the assault. the battle has been described as a meat grinder with high numbers of casualties on both sides. almost all of the city s 70 thousand occupants have fled. russia is working hard to capture bakhmut in the hope it could lead to the fall of sloviansk and krama torsk as well the two most important cities in the donbas still under ukrainian control. but ukrainian forces are holding firm. the bbc s yogita limaye reports from the city. this is what the merciless bombardment of a city looks like. a
tonight, new video just into outfront showing ukrainian tanks opening fire on russian positions in bakhmut in eastern ukraine. cnn cannot independently verify just how recently this fighting happened. ukrainian commander telling cnn they re trying to prevent russia from establishing defensive positions in the hotly contested village. and all of this has come as russians are remembering wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin. matthew chance is outfront in moscow. reporter: don t expect to see these scenes on russian state television. when it comes to the wagner leader who challenged the kremlin, then died in a plane crash, there s a virtual media blackout.
prigozhin? reporter: well, kim, first of all, you know, yef gu againny prigozhin didn t even have a public profile by the full-scale invasion of ukraine. his usefulness was that he wasn t a public figure and through his businesses, he was able to provide denial services to the russian government, whether it be, you know, providing mercenaries to fight in syria, activities in ukraine s donbas region, as well as the interference in u.s. elections in 2016 through the notorious network of troll farms that he operated. it was only after the full-scale invasion, and wagner s ability to deliver some kinds of battlefield succession, particularly in the fighting against bakhmut in eastern ukraine, that prigozhin actually
global energy watchdog. and it expects that ratio to continue to rise. but here is the thing, unless we begin to reduce our use of fossil fuels and quickly, we simply are not tackling the real problem. justin thank yom one of ukraine s top generals has said that his country s counter offensive against russia is not progressing as quickly as hoped, saying rapid results were practically impossible because of well prepared russian defences. ukraine says that since it launched its counter offensive in earlyjune, it has taken back more than 81 square miles of land, but russia still holds vast swathes of territory following its full scale invasion last february. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, has been to the front line near bakhmut in eastern ukraine, to see how ukrainian troops are trying to advance. the bloody battle for