In the south and west. For the rest of us it will be fairly cloudy with sunny spells. But the wind will strengthen widely throughout the day. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, 18th october. Theres been International Condemnation after an explosion at a hospital in gaza is reported to have killed at least 500 people. The blast has raised the diplomatic stakes for President Biden, whos currently flying to israel to try to prevent the violence spreading elsewhere in the middle east. Hamas a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments says the Al Ahli Hospital was hit by an israeli air strike. But israel has blamed the palestinian group, islamichhad, but its denied any involvement, describing the accusations as lies. Wyre davies has the latest. Pictures from Gaza Last Night showed scenes of utter chaos. Bloodied, wounded casualties from the partially destroyed al ahli arab hospital. Videos many too graphic to broadcast showed the broken
The weather will be transitioning to something colder over the next 2a hours and right now a Weather Front is approaching south Western Parts of the uk and heavy rain will be sweeping across much of wales and england overnight, but wales will get maybe 50 to 60 centimetres in the hills and plenty elsewhere across england. It will not be too cold tonight, far from across england. It will not be too cold tonight, farfrom it, so 15 in london and ii in birmingham. But in the north it will be a little bit fresher. Tomorrow is that transition day. This is the front and north of it we have colder, autumnal air. To the south we have very gusty, mild south westerly winds up to 50 miles an hour, so luckily gale force winds. The weather is looking really messy, so check your local forecast. We have a band of rain here and to the site there is some sunshine. As we go through saturday into sunday we go through saturday into sunday we develop that north westerly wind with colder air sweeping in from
hello and thanks forjoining us on sportsday. we start with football. france s star studded squad have arrived at their euro 2024 headquarters in germany and they ve got straight down to training. fronted by kylian mbappe, france are many people s favourites to win the tournament. they re second in the world rankings, behind only argentina, who they lost to on penalties in the world cup final two years ago. they begin their campaign against austria on monday. borussia dortmund captain emre can has been given a late call up to the germany squad. the former liverpool man replaces bayern munich s aleksander pavlovic who was forced to pull out with tonsilitis. pavlovic is just 20, and he only made his international debut just over a week ago, but he was named injulian nagelsmann s squad for the tournament. the hosts kick off their campaign on friday against scotland, who are now well settled into their base in the bavarian ski resort of garmisch partenkirchen. midfielder billy g
joining us on sportsday. we start with football. france s star studded squad have arrived at their euro 2024 headquarters in germany and they ve got straight down to training. fronted by kylian mbappe, france are many people s favourites to win the tournament. they re second in the world rankings, behind only argentina, who they lost to on penalties in the world cup final two years ago. they begin their campaign against austria on monday. borussia dortmund captain emre can has been given a late call up to the germany squad. the former liverpool man replaces bayern munich s aleksander pavlovic who was forced to pull out with tonsilitis. pavlovic is just 20, and he only made his international debut just over a week ago, but he was named injulian nagelsmann s squad for the tournament. the hosts kick off their campaign on friday against scotland, who are now well settled into their base in the bavarian ski resort of garmisch partenkirchen. midfielder billy gilmour says the exci
i m in rome for the final night of the european athletics championships with keely hodgkinson and the relay teams with keely hodgkinson and the relay teams will hope to deliver our gold. and world number one scottie scheffler makes golf look easy but how will he fare in what s always billed as the toughest major of the year, the us open. hello and welcome along to sportsday. euro 2024 is inching ever closer, the hours ticking away until scotland get the tournament under way on friday against hosts germany we ll hear shortly from midfielder billy gilmour who was talking today about his desire to deliver for scotland fans, while england youngster adam wharton told press today that his call up to the national team was surreal . gareth southgate s side had open training today ahead of their opener on sunday against serbia jon stones was the only one who missed that due to illness. we ll get more from our correspondent andy swiss who is following england shortly, but firs