Bombardment of ukrainian ports. Michael bossicue is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Councils eurasia centre. I asked him whether nato could be drawn into a wider conflict with russia. If that is what it takes to stop mr putin form organising food mr putin form weaponising food and hijacking millions of tonnes of grain to go to many poor countries, the egypts, the yemens and iraqs of the world i say lets do it and get armed escorts for carrier ships across the black sea because mr putin and the kremlin cannot get away with this. I just crossed the area across the danube that the russians have been striking and you can see what is happening. The infrastructure and road is packed with trucks because it is affecting neighbouring countries such as moldova. You say its unsustainable, what is the solution . The solution is for ukraine to go ahead with the unilateral humanitarian corridor supported by Surveillance Planes from nato and Western Allies or friendly neighbouring countries and armed
Primary wins overnight and in the sport. This morning, on a nervy night in north london, david rayais night in north london, david raya is the hero as arsenal scrape past porto on penalties. Scrape past porto on penalties. Novak djokovic loses to the world number 123, and the darts player banned for punching his opponent. Good morning. Theyll be very heavy rain across northWestern Areas through the next few days, but elsewhere it will be very mild. Find out all the details with me a little later. Mild. Find out all the details with me a little later. On. With me a little later. On. Right. Racist and wrong. Prime minister didnt say that, but a spokesperson did after hes branded the comments made by a Major Tory Party donor about the first woman black mp, diane abbott. Over night. The comments came from frank hester. Yeah, and he is one of the partys biggest donors. He gave £10 million to the conservatives, and he told a meeting that diane abbott should be shot and made him want to hate
In about 90 minutes time well get the latest health check on the economy and everyone is asking the question will the numbers reveal we are officially out of recession . Well, most experts predict yes, and say we will see a smidgen of Growth Injanuary of 0. 2 . This would confirm the Bank Of Englands suggestion that the downturn is behind us. During the final three months of last year, the data showed the uk slipped into recession and inflation injanuary was at 4 so its still twice the Bank Of Englands target. Lets discuss all of this with azad zangana, Senior European Economist at schroders. Good morning to you. Are you with the majority believing today will give us a Growth Number . Today will give us a Growth Number . ~. ~ ~ number . We are. We think it could be number . We are. We think it could be even number . We are. We think it could be even a number . We are. We think it could be even a little number . We are. We think it could be even a little higherl could be even a little h
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
Across the west. We will see a bit of patchy cloud in scotland, but the temperatures will continue climb and they will be widely into the mid to high 20s. Maybe a shower into wales and Northern Ireland later, but then it is all change, can you believe it, thursday night into the early hours of friday morning. A cold front is going to bring some showery outbreaks of rain, some of it quite heavy into the far north of scotland. And it will linger over there for much of friday, im afraid. So some wet weather for scotland. Not too bad for england and wales. A more breezy day, a south westerly flow. Sunny spells and a few scattered, sharp showers, but temperatures will still be on the one side, particularly if you keep the sunshine. And as we go into the weekend, that cooler, more unsettled theme is back, unfortunately. Unsettled theme is back, unfortunatel. ,. , unfortunately. That is tonightsbbc news at six, unfortunately. That is tonightsbbc news at six, but unfortunately. That is tonight