well, they will, because nicola sturgeon will be remembered as one of the most successful politicians of the most successful politicians of her generation in terms of what she delivered at the ballot box, a string of landslide victories for the snp, and if you take a step back to see where she came from, she talked about the 1980s, growing up in ayrshire, and it could have been pretty lonely in those days to campaign for scottish independence when labour was dominant in scottish politics. to go from there all the way to a scottish parliament and to run the government here for eight years is no small achievement, to say the least. but she has always beenin say the least. but she has always been in politics for one thing above all, and she has not delivered to scottish independence, which leaves her successor with big challenges. first of all, immediately on the issue of gender, what to do about westminster blocking the bill that was passed to try to make it easy to legally cha
around the world. this the scene live in dubai. hello and welcome to bbc world news. russia has launched another barrage of missiles at cities across ukraine in the second big attack in three days. a number of explosions were heard in the centre of the capital, kyiv. residents there have been told by the authorities to remain in shelters. from kyiv, hugo bachega sent this report. on new year s eve, another wave of russian missiles. the air raid alerts sounded at lunchtime on a day families usually celebrate together. this woman was at home when her district in kyiv was hit. translation: me and my husband were literally - thrown into the corridor. we heard glass shattering and then there was an explosion one after another. we came to the street and saw ambulances and casualties. you can see the point of impact where debris from a missile that was intercepted fell from the sky. one person was killed there a mother of two who was in the kitchen, making dinner to celebrate th
to control arrivals from china. and celebrations to mark the start of 2023, with firework displays in cities around the world. thanks forjoining us. russia has launched another barrage of missiles at cities across ukraine in the second big attack in three days. a number of explosions were heard in the centre of the capital, kyiv. residents there have been told by the authorities to remain in shelters. from kyiv, hugo bachega sent this report. on new year s eve, another wave of russian missiles. the air raid alerts sounded at lunchtime on a day families usually celebrate together. this woman was at home when her district in kyiv was hit. translation: me and my husband were literally - thrown into the corridor. we heard glass shattering and then there was an explosion one after another. we came to the street and saw ambulances and casualties. you can see the point of impact where debris from a missile that was intercepted fell from the sky. one person was killed there a mot
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actually a large area of high pressure is keeping things very dry and settled and warm across much of central europe. but for us, don t expect it to be settled, there is going to be a lot of rain over the next few days. the next batch starts to show its hand over the next few hours, pushing into the south west of bringing a lot of low cloud and mist and fog, keeping it on the mild side across england and wales, but clearer skies, single figures into aberdeenshire, where the best of the sunshine will be first thing tomorrow morning. but it will not last, the rain will push gradually northwards, fragmenting, showery outbreaks, some of it heavy, with the odd rumble of thunder. clearer skies with some sunshine following on behind, and it is in that sunshine where we might see 20 22. more rain to come on friday, still staying mild but we will see some wet and increasingly windy weather coming in from the west, gale force gusts on that band of rain. the heaviest of the rain will be