Hello. It was a very mild start to the working week. Temperatures quite widely got into the low teens, 61 fahrenheit, which is well above the february average. It was well above average in most places and it will again be well above average during the day on tuesday because we are on tuesday because were bathed in the atlantic air. Weather fronts towards the north and strong winds, High Pressure keeping the winds a little lighter further south and the Weather Fronts at bay. So, not as windy as we go into tuesday across the Northern Isles as we had monday, but wetter, and some rain approaches towards the west. Elsewhere, Misty Low Cloud Shrouding The Hills and coasts in fog, and some drizzle in the west. Central and eastern areas have the better chance of the sunshine, perhaps the north coast of wales, the moray firth, and thats when well see temperatures responding sunshine, again 14 15. But then a change as we go through towards wednesday. Behind this Weather Front we have got a chang
hello. it was a very mild start to the working week. temperatures quite widely got into the low teens, 61 fahrenheit, which is well above the february average. it was well above average in most places and it will again be well above average during the day on tuesday because we are on tuesday because we re bathed in the atlantic air. weather fronts towards the north and strong winds, high pressure keeping the winds a little lighter further south and the weather fronts at bay. so, not as windy as we go into tuesday across the northern isles as we had monday, but wetter, and some rain approaches towards the west. elsewhere, misty low cloud shrouding the hills and coasts in fog, and some drizzle in the west. central and eastern areas have the better chance of the sunshine, perhaps the north coast of wales, the moray firth, and that s when we ll see temperatures responding sunshine, again 14 15. but then a change as we go through towards wednesday. behind thi
tonight with the context. from edinburgh, alex massie scotland editor of the spectator. bill browder, the ceo of hermitage capital management and long time critic of vladimir putin. and joel rubin, who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. whenjoe biden spoke to vladimir zelensky on this day last year, there wasn t much confidence in washington he would be president for much longer, nor indeed that kyiv could be defended. yet here we are, a year on and not only is zelensky still there, but the us president was today standing alongside him, in kyiv. plans that involved extraordinary subterfuge and secrecy. on sunday night, as is usual, the white house issued the president s public schedule for monday, on which we were told he was leaving for warsaw at 7pm tonight. in fact, he was already in poland. air force one took off at 4:15 sunday morning, the press pool was left behind. and by late evening, the president was
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. nearly one year into the war, joe biden makes a historic visit to kyiv. kyiv stands, and ukraine stance, democracy stance. the americans stand with you, and if the world stands with you. mr biden slipped out of washington in the dead of night on sunday without notice. it is his eighth visit to ukraine, his first since the war began. and as the boss steals headlines in kyiv, secretary of state antony blinken heads to turkey, where he has been pushing president erdogan to approve sweden and finland s application to nato. tonight with the context.