afternoon some heavy and thundery ones coming up through northern and central eastern england. not many showers in northern scotland and northern ireland and they will fade from wales in the south west and temperatures will be higher and it will feel warmer where you get the sunny spells, and tomorrow evening looking lovely, a fine end to the day and a sign that things are trying to settle down for the long weekend starting with the bank holiday on thursday. fewer showers around, look closely, and there are some popping up in parts of northern england and northern ireland but more places on thursday staying dry and temperatures are higher, so high teens into low 20s so it will feel warmer where use sea sunshine and thatis warmer where use sea sunshine and that is where temperatures will stay on friday and into the weekend. there will be dry weather around the outdoor plans, street parties, you have to factor in the chance of showers and on saturday and sunday possibly some he
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%