and drizzle around. as we go through the day, the winds will start to strengthen and we see rain pushing into northern ireland in western scotland. a mild day, 9 12 c. windy across western areas tomorrow evening, gusts of 40 15 mph, may be 70 mph gusts across north west scotland. a weather warning for that. the blustery and wet weather will sink south east into the first part of wednesday. it will try to clear but you can see another pulse of rain pushing in from the south west, and with that, the winds will once again strengthen. that takes us into wednesday night. this will be our stormy spell of weather. a very deep area of low pressure. gales are likely. that will cause some disruption. the wind is only slowly easing towards the end of the week. sophie. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall. still significant gaps between men and women s prize money in some sports including football, but a bbc study finds the majority now offer parity at the top level. a decade
at the top of tennis for 311 weeks. federerjust one week fewer. that is five years and nine months. many have been sending their congratulations to the 33 year old serb. a message on wimbledon s official twitterfeed reads. a lifelong dream achieved. congratulations to novak traffic djokovic. djokovic has spoken exclusively to the bbc s lee james about his achievement, saying he s very lucky to have played in an era with federer and rafa nadal. the new generation of top men s tennis players are all really tall, they are very powerful, they have big serves and everything happens very quickly on the court. i think rafa, roger, myself, we had to adjust to that. i feel like we have been able to do that very well and the rivalries that i had with fedor and nadal over the years have made me also a stronger and a better player. of course, they also keep motivating me even more to keep going and, of course, each one of us has their own unique journey and it is wonderful to share the
Book with points. On thursday attorneys for President Donald Trump sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author of fire and fury inside the Trump White House demanding the book not be released next week they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author Michael Wolff that Donald Trump Jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen president ial election it would be really nice to do it in a at a white house meeting thursday the president downplayed ranker between him and his former strategist and. Me that you. Dont really know me very bad last night so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick but on wednesday and enraged president son of bannan when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind bannon hit back on twitter saying i wont speak about who lost their minds or ever had won the books release comes at a troubling time for the white house special prosecutor Robert
Instability and now the news north and south korea are set to hold talks after two years of silence the meeting on tuesday will initially focus on the north a split dissipation in the Winter Olympics in the south next month but seoul says discussions are expected to move on to what it calls other areas of common interest florence three reports from seoul in a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south korea will be a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north Korean Leader kim jong il would initiate a dialogue in his new years day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u. S. And south korea agreed to postpone annual military drills shed used for the end of february these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. Leaders agreed not to conduct sauce cr
There was animated debate in the Council Chamber before the discussions began to members taken aback by the lack of notice from the u. S. In calling for this public debate the u. S. Ambassador adamant that it was essential iran be called to account if the founding principles of this institution mean anything we will not only hear their cry we will finally answer the Iranian Regime is now on notice the world will be watching what you do russia had vehemently opposed what it saw as an unacceptable intervention in irans internal affairs but also argued that the u. S. Had another motive in pushing for this meeting. Used to mean put up the real reason for convening today is not to protect human rights or promote the interests of the iranian people but rather a veiled attempt to continue to undermine the Iranian Nuclear agreement would have an agreement that the french ambassador maintained in his speech was crucial also distancing himself from the u. S. Decision to call these discussions wi