who joins us from washington. hello, welcome to the programme. the news emerging from the steel plant in mariupol is hard to verify, but it does seem tonight from the reporting of several news agencies, that the most severely wounded ukrainians have been taken out of the plant. 40 wounded ukrainians that need urgent treatment and we are told around a dozen buses have left the plant in the last few hours. the russian ministry of defence said those troops that do surrender would be taken to hospital in a nearby town, in separatist held ukraine, where they will then become prisoners of war. we will keep across that and bring you details as we get it. meanwhile there is some evidence emerging that vladimir putin is directly overseeing battle plans for ukraine. western intelligence sources believe the russian president, together with his military chief general garasimov, are intervening in day to day tactical operations and are making decisions that would normally be made by morej
hello. most of us has seen rain at some stage of the day. in scotland, it s been raining on and off of much of the day with the exception of some sunshine in shetland, and the rain with quite a cool easterly wind as well. for northern ireland, for much of england and wales, there s been some sunshine, but big clouds producing scattered, heavy showers and thunderstorms, too. we ve got low pressure sitting to the west of us at the moment, throwing up bands of wet weather and also thundery downpours. but the flow of air coming around it from a long way south and it s quite warm, quite welcome, quite humid, especially where you get to see some sunshine. warmer still for many into tomorrow. we ve still got heavy and thundery downpours in places at the moment and some rain in scotland, all of that clearing through getting into tonight. so, by morning, it s mainly dry, misty and murky in places. you ll find the lower temperatures across eastern scotland and northeast england.
english section c is explained that. hello. most of us have hello. most of us has seen rain at some stage of the day. in scotland is it raining on and off of much of the day with the exception of some sunshine in shetland with a cool easterly wind. northern ireland, for much of england and wales has seen some sunshine but big clouds producing scattered, heavy showers and thunderstorms. we ve got low pressure sitting to the west of us at the moment throwing up bands of wet weather it also thundery downpours. the flow of your coming around it from a long way south and it s quite welcome quite human especially where you get to see some sunshine. warmer still for many into tomorrow. we ve still got heavy and thundery downpours and places at the moment and rain in scotland. all of the clearing through,