ready already here as their team gets ready to already here as their team gets ready to face fiorentina in the europe ready to face fiorentina in the europa conference league final as they look europa conference league final as they look to win their first trophy in 43 they look to win their first trophy in 43 years in 43 years. good morning, another cloudy an 43 years. good morning, another cloudy start today. like the last few days it will burn back towards the east coast and many of us will see some sunshine. if you are fed up with this weather, it is changing at the end of this week. # you can leave your hat on.# we catch up with the stars of the full monty good morning. it s wednesday, the 7th ofjune. thousands of people have fled their homes in southern ukraine, after a huge dam on the dnipro river collapsed and flooded towns and villages downstream. the un described it as one of the most significant attacks on civilian infrastructure since the start of the
lots of tributes today and rightly so to the great motown songwriter barrett strong, who has died aged 81. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. today we had some decent sunshine and a lot of dry weather. probably one of the best days of the week, with sunshine and relatively mild area as well. but we have got a change on the way. the weather is about to get a lot windier. zooming into the north atlantic, we can see this beautiful area of low pressure with the weather fronts spiralling down into the centre of the low pressure like water down the plug hole. actually, although this is over 1000 miles away, the fronts are connected and dangling right across the uk at the moment and pushing the rain south and east. they will bring outbreaks of rain overnight, the one here is quite weak and the cold front bringing some heavier rain for a time southwards across scotland, northern ireland and into parts of northern england and north wales by the end of the night. alth
caroline modarressy tehrani and seb payne, director of the centre right think tank, onward. welcome to the programme. the us secretary of state antony blinken, has urged israel and the palestinians to take steps to calm tensions during a spike in violence that has put the region on edge. in the latest incident, just hours before mr blinken was due to arrive in israel palestinian health officials say israeli forces shot dead a palestinian man at a military checkpoint in hebron. the violence was sparked on thursday, when ten palestinians were shot dead in the occupied west bank by israeli forces. then on friday, seven israelis were killed when a palestinian gunmen opened fire outside a synagogue in east jerusalem. secretary blinken has already met prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will also meet the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abas. from the moment mr blinken s plane touched the tarmac he made it clear that addressing the violence of the last week
there was a clash of champions at the etihad stadium as english premier league winners manchester city took on german champions bayern munich while benfica hosted inter milan in the first leg of their quarterfinal. now to bring us up to date with a busy night of action, our reporterjoe linskey has joined us and is with us now. joe, really good to see you. let s start by talking about that game in england, then manchester city. they looked very impressive, didn t they, against bayern munich? paul, this has been one of the great european nights really for manchester city in the champions league, 3 0 winners against the german champions bayern munich at the etihad stadium. city s manager pep guardiola recognising this as a real statement scoreline from his team, but also saying they ll need to be wary of defending that lead properly when they meet again in that second leg next wednesday in bavaria. the spanish midfielder, rodri, he opened the scoring for city with a brilliant cu
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president biden has arrived in belfast for a four day trip to mark the 25th anniversary of the historic good friday agreement. the landmark deal largely brought to an end the 30 year conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles. president biden says he looks forward to reiterating america s commitment to preserving the peace. my colleague emma vardy has more. air force i arrives at belfast international and northern ireland s first presidential visit in ten years is under way. time for a short hello with rishi sunak on the tarmac before the president was whisked away for the night. a ring of steel is in place in belfast city centre in what is one of the biggest security operations here of recent years. we ve been planning for this for a number of weeks. we ve prepared for all the various contingencies. our style and tone that we ll be delivering around this policing o