for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ..ruled first by the tsarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep. in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been travel bans for russian tourists and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments are being removed from public view, and notjust here. the other baltic states, latvia and lithuania, are making similar symbolic gestures. this was among the first a replica tank commemorating soviet soldiers killed during world war ii. it s been moved to estonia s war museum from the town of narva, which sits right on the russian border. the government says it s to avert what it calls increasing social tension . oh, wow. look at this. you re very welcome. the t 34 was produced from maybe aos to 60s, more
absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
got the rain piling into western areas already, one or two macros bit of light drizzle ahead of it, otherwise it s chilly with clear spells. the rain has got going now across northern ireland, pushing into the south west of england, south wales and west of scotland. it will continue to journey its way eastwards during the overnight period. you can see the isobars quite a feature, it will be windy as well. after the chilly start across the eastern side of the country temperatures will rise to around highs of 9 12 to start saturday, so warm, mild start, windy, wet. that rain band will spread eastwards eventually clearing the east coast for about lunchtime, then it s brighter for for about lunchtime, then it s brighterfor all for about lunchtime, then it s brighter for all areas with sunny spells and scattered showers. gales around some western coasts and heavy, maybe thundery showers across the south and west, the best of the sunshine towards the east. after a mild start it wil
and the first extraordinary images from nasa s new telescope distant galaxies and light from 13 billion years ago that have left scientists speechless. a miserable day for england, they are thrashed by india in the first of their one day matches at the oval. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. sir mo farah has told the bbc that is hugely relieved that the government says no action will be taken after he revealed he was trafficked illegaly into the uk as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant. the four time olympic champion says he was born hussein abdi kahin, but was given the name mohamed farah by those who flew him from east africa to london with fake documents when he was 9 years old. until now he had always told people that he came with his parents to the uk from somalia as a refugee. our community affairs correspondent, adina campbell has the story. he isa he is a household name and winning double gold at london 2012 was one of the defining mom
tomorrow but we still have the stubborn heat in the south east of england. moving into thursday, more of a north westerly breeze that will bring more showers perhaps do northern ireland, scotland and one or two for northern england but further south still dry and still more sunshine but it is continuing to cool down a little bit. even in the south east, temperatures are more comfortable, 27 degrees. so it is cooling down for a while and then it heats up. not so much for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. sunday or monday, nearerthe far north of england. sunday or monday, nearer the mid 20s but it s across this area of england and wales where we have this extreme heat warning from the met office that temperatures will soar, not just on sunday but into monday as well and you can see in the strong sunshine how the temperatures rise significantly. it will be hotter than it s been in the last couple of days and we have 36 in london and the temperatures could