temperatures, ten up to 12, below average for the time of year. this area of low pressure going nowhere fast, trapped by high pressure in europe, so thursday is an unsettled day with outbreaks of rain moving north and east across the country. sunshine follows, but there could be a few showers later in the day. still very mild for most of us with temperatures coming up in northern ireland at 16 degrees as we head through thursday and if you re looking for signs of change in the weather forecast. looking for signs of change in the weatherforecast. for looking for signs of change in the weather forecast. for friday, through the weekend, and into next week, that same area of low pressure is with us and it means it stays unsettled with further rain and showers on the way. and that s bbc news at six. as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations hello, i m olly foster, here s what s coming up on sportsday tonight: putting the athletes welfare before medals, british gymn
and a female iranian climber who competed in south korea without a headscarf now says her veil fell off accidentally there are fears she will be arrested when she returns to iran. we start in ukraine, where the president says there is no space left for negotiations with russia following further attacks on the country. according to volodymyr zelensky, russian strikes have now destroyed around a third of ukraine s power stations. he s made another appeal for further western military support. translation: to guarantee the l protection of our skies and reduce the capabilities of russian terrorists to zero, we need significant and more modern air defence systems and more missiles for the systems. cities across ukraine have come under attack on tuesday, for which russia has admitted responsibility. there have been further air strikes in the capital kyiv, and also in dnipro, kharkiv, zhytomyr and zaporizhzhia. ukraine s civil defence service says hundreds of villages across the co
now on bbc news.unspun world withjohn simpson hello and welcome to unspun world. this is kyiv, the centre of the city, just a fairly short time after a series of missiles have hit it. one landed here but it doesn t look to me, completely untutored, as though it s a full scale missile. this looks to me like it s a drone attack. we are in an area of the city which is mostly kind of ministries and official buildings and museums and so on, and it looks as though there was an attack on a specific car, which has just been taken away. details, we don t know any more of, but we can assume, i think, that this is part at least of russia s revenge for the attack on the kerch bridge between russia and crimea last saturday. there is a feeling that now we are at a crossroads, that there is a chance of further escalation in this war. what does president putin s good friend xijinping of china think about russia s feeble performance in this war? the government is now toning down its once very