sitting to the north east of the uk, fairly brisk winds around the western flank and especially in northern scotland, we maintained the risk of gales. a band of showery rain sinking south across scotland and northern england, that could be accompanied by thunder and lightning, some showers elsewhere, generally large amounts of cloud but some sunny spells. remaining windy, though is that the average speeds, the gusts will be stronger in the far north but the wind is coming from the north or north west, feeling cooler particularly in northern scotland, 1a or 15 degrees, 25 in parts of eastern england. as we go deeper into the wee, low pressure swings away and high pressure swings away and high pressure builds from the south west meaning trike weather. there are places in the south east that could do with rain, not an awful lot in the forecast and after a relatively cool started a week, temperatures set to climb again as we move into thursday and friday. this is bbc news. the h
and supermodel kate moss tells the bbc that being asked to take off her bra during a photoshoot when she was 15 years old opened her eyes to the dangers of the fashion industry. now on bbc news split at birth: twins divided. in the 1960s, an adoption agency split up infant twins and placed them in different families as part of a controversial study. the move had a seismic impact on their lives. february of 2018, there was a 2020 episode about the louise wise agency separating identical twins back in the mid 60s, and my older sister who s adopted, called me and said, can you imagine if either of us was a twin? and i said, well, that s ridiculous. and i remember getting a shiver all over my body thinking, wow, what if this was real? in the 1960s, an adoption agency in new york, the louise wise services, began a policy to deliberately split up identical and fraternal twins, and place the infants in different families. the adoptive parents were never told that their childr
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. russia has admitted that its forces targeted the ukrainian port of odesa on saturday, just 2a hours after moscow and kyiv had agreed to allow grain shipments to leave the port. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria zakharova says cruise missiles destroyed what she described as a ukrainian military boat. the attack on odesa did not appear to hit anything connected with the storage or shipment of grain. but ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, called the strike barbaric, saying it shows moscow cannot be trusted. from odesa, our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, sent this report. in a war littered with broken promises an especially devastating betrayal, two missiles launched from the black sea hitting odesa s port. two others were taken out by air defence systems. for coffee vendor sergei, there was only one thing to do. translation: i saw black smoke after the missiles hit, so i knew i had to
15 years old opened her highs to the dangers of the fashion industry. more on those stories at the top of the other but now on bbc news it is dateline london. you hello and welcome to the programme bringing together leading british commentators with foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. this week, british conservative mps completed their colleague cull in the hunt for that new leader and the country s next prime minister, and they also called the economic consensus with which governments of left and right have operated for the last 20 years. and as the world waits for vladimir putin to allow safe passage of grain, why he himself was kept waiting. with me, cricket commentator ashis ray, and michael goldfarb, foreign correspondent for pbs radio in the united states, and podcast host, and steve richardson who began his career as a westminster correspondent as margaret thatcher was ending hers coincidental. his blog is called r
it s sunday, the 24th ofjuly. our top story: holidaymakers and hauliers are being warned to expect a third day of disruption around the port of dover and the channel tunnel. a major incident alert remains in place as officials work to clear a backlog of more than 1,000 lorries stranded on nearby motorways. simon jones has the latest. working through the night at the port of dover, to try to clear the backlog of traffic. and there is a third warning, but that they may as we approached all of the roads, in all directions, i think the infrastructure around the ports and the channel i think the infrastructure around the port, around the tunnel, needs to be looked at. because it isn t fair on the locals. the immediate challenae fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to fair on the locals. the immediate challenge has been to get - fair on the locals. the immediat