moscow of reckless behaviour and russian fighter jets forced one of its surveillance drones to crash into the black sea. thank you so much for watching and do with bbc news. very big swings in temperature to the next. temperatures in the double figures for us today, it s been about nine celsius colder than that for example, ia yesterday and just five this afternoon. a drop in temperatures that spread much colder air and temperatures that spread much colderairand in turn, we ve seen some snowfall over the staffordshire morrison here and here at low levels, and the carlyle area. across parts of northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, mixing some snow getting into quite low elevations in the sky a few showers pushing across the midlands, east anglia in southeast england with clearing later than night with clear skies following and we are
hello. for most of us, christmas day is going to turn out quite mild with temperatures pushing into double figures. 0n temperatures pushing into double figures. on saturday, we managed a bit of sunshine in the midlands and north east england but otherwise there is a lot of cloud around and we are going to continue to feed in rather cloudy skies for christmas day, with south westerly winds dragging in mild air around this area of low pressure to the north. it s really late in the day that we will start to see some colder air returning, especially the parts of scotland and, in the north west of scotland, you could see a few snow showers, so a white christmas for one or two but for most it will be a mild day. south westerly winds will continue to push bursts of rain across the country. the wettest weather will be in western areas, some bright or sunny spells in central and eastern areas but across scotland through the afternoon we stopped the feed in some slightly colder air and, stopped
they re measures to protect what the scientists say is the last pristine coast on earth. victoria gill, bbc news. 0ne one of those images of the penguins. now it s time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. good morning. i m glad to say it is not as cold here as it is there. it has been a cold start for some of us across northern ireland, northern scotland and northern england. for the rest of england and wales, we have cloud and drizzle, mist and fog clearing south courtesy of this with a friend. this is a cold front and behind it, colderairand as a friend. this is a cold front and behind it, colder air and as you see from the isobars, it is windy across the north and west, gusty winds blowing in showers to north and west scotland, one or two of those across northern ireland. this weatherfront sinks south, tightening up across
country in most of the country a colder start with the exception of the far south with mild air. but you can see fors, fives, quite widely across the uk. we have been pulling in colder air across the uk. we have been pulling in colderairand across the uk. we have been pulling in colder air and today and tomorrow it will be colder than yesterday. today will be windy and we are looking at sunshine and showers. some of those will be wintry on the tops of the hills and at lower levels at times across the far north of scotland. you can see the weather front moving south. showers followed behind. some of those will be wintry, even at times at modest levels in the far north of scotland. windy particularly down the west coast, north of the east coast, and then we run into showers. the weather front continues to push away in and across the straits of dover. a cold start wherever you are and the cold air getting down to the far