further between further north but we have a northerly wind so it will feel cool but drier and more settled on friday and over the weekend temperatures will build particularly in the north and the west. l in the north and the west. i am hanuain in the north and the west. i am hanging on in the north and the west. i am hanging on to in the north and the west. i am hanging on to the in the north and the west. i am hanging on to the good - in the north and the west. i am hanging on to the good news at the atlantic. and that s the bbc news at six. now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m olly foster. a day affected by rain but dan evans is on court which hopes in the french open singles in the next few hours as dan evansis singles in the next few hours as dan evans is on call right now, we will get the latest from paris. leicester for chelsea? and rain, rain go away england s cricketers look set to be frustrate
of high pressure will be nosing its way in from the west. now, some big areas of cloud moving around the highs. so it s not going to be completely sunny, but it will be largely dry. and, actually, across northern areas, particularly parts of scotland, it is going to turn very warm indeed, with temperatures by sunday of 22 or 23 degrees. hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a full blown freak out at democratic party headquarters according to politico asjoe biden continues to struggle in the polls. welcome back. right now, president zelensky is on a whirlwind european tour, trying to secure crucial military aid for ukraine. and he needs it quickly. russian forces are making considerable progress towards the eastern ukrainian city of kharkiv. and with air defences running low, ukraine s second largest city is all but defenceless against the air attacks. those still there, soldiers and civilians alike, are sitting ducks. on the latest leg
on security, and through the prism of the baltic states. as former members of the soviet union, lithuania, estonia and latvia have been sounding the alarm about the existential threat they face from russia ever since theyjoined the nato alliance two decades ago. this year, they have been the loudest voices within the european union urging allies to go further and faster, raising the alarm about the kremlin s real intentions. this past week, the russians removed buoys that were marking the border with estonia on the narva river. the russian defence ministry briefly published a plan to revise its maritime border in the baltic sea, which was then quickly deleted, the kind of tactics that put all three countries on edge. the baltic states see two possibilities on the horizon. the first, if russia were to succeed in ukraine, is that they would try to exploit a weakened west. perhaps a surprise attack in the baltic states, followed up with a credible nuclear threat. the second scen
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