he scores early, as manchester united put three past nottingham forest, in the away leg of their league cup semi final. and we catch up with radio one extra s dj ace to find out why he s campaigning for more black and asian heritage organ donors. good morning. there is a touch of frost in western areas first thing. for many it will be a dry day with sunny spells, a little bit of cloud, and some showers in the east. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 26th january. ukraine s president zelensky has described the decision to send dozens of powerful nato battle tanks to the country, as an important step on the path to victory. commitments from germany, the us and the uk, follow weeks of diplomatic deadlock about the supply of heavy weaponry. president zelensky said the free world was united as never before, but that it was essential for the equipment to arrive quickly. our correspondent robin brant reports. for months, he s campaigned for these, in publ
in afghanistan as a child, made it to the uk and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. his is an extraordinary story. what should we all take from it? waheed arian, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, for inviting me and for having me here. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. ijust wonder, how much distance do you feel today as a distinguished doctor in the united kingdom? how much distance do you feel from your childhood and from your homeland, afghanistan? my family is still in afghanistan. my father, my sisters, five, six sisters are in afghanistan. one sister is newly displaced to sweden and two brothers are displaced as refugees to the united states. so i am all over the world when it comes to my heart, when it comes to my story, it s not finished that i m here in the uk. i m very proud to be an afghan british citizen both, and i ve got my cultural heritage from afghanistan and i m very proud of that as well. but on the other hand, it
he s also told the uk media that he never intended to hurt his family by writing a memoir. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. war and extreme poverty drive millions of people from their homes every year. some of those desperate people try to reach the rich western world where such inward migration routinely prompts fear and draconian countermeasures. do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised? well, my guest today is waheed arian, who fled war in afghanistan as a child, made it to the uk and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. his is an extraordinary story. what should we all take from it? waheed arian, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen, for inviting me and for having me here. it s a real pleasure to have you on the show. ijust wonder, how much distance do you feel today as a distinguished doctor in the united kingdom, how much distance do you feel from your childhood and from your homel
tomorrow and a risk of flooding, up to 100 millimetres on the hills. this is the cloud responsible, which the rocket flight will be flying into as we speak. it is going to be bringing rain quite extensively through the night and into tomorrow, in a cross from the west. and that will be spreading into all but northern and eastern parts by the morning. it is here there will be a touch of frost to start with, a milder start with heavy rain towards parts of western england, wales and northern ireland for the morning rush hour. the end of a shower across eastern parts of england, central and southern scotland, some snow over the hills. it will reach aldershot all but shattered by the end of the day. some drizzle on the end of the day. some drizzle on the hills before the next batch of rain comes in and a windy day across the board. wind gusting to a0 or 50 mph at times. the wind coming from the south or south west. temperatures well above where they should be for this stage inj
when it happens so quickly. as we head through the next few hours we ve got that rain in the south east clearing away, elsewhere some sunshine and also a rash of showers across parts of wales and the south west. those could well be thundery. for much of scotland and northern ireland some sunshine, a few showers and temperature is about average. this evening, you can see the circulation of showers across the circulation of showers across the south west, these will be heavy, perhaps thundery, and accompanied by brisk winds coming in from the north west affecting some coastal parts. through the early hours the rash of showers moving eastwards affecting south east england, thundery for some. you can see the ridge of high pressure building on and for some that means it s a quiet night, a dry night, a chilly night. through parts of scotland, even in the central belt towns and cities, down to freezing, if not lower, so for someone friday morning scraping the windscreen i imagine. fo