important this is to you on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions united in music the slogan for this year s eurovision contest is unveiled as the official eurovsion handover ceremony takes place today in liverpool. and coming up on the third anniversary of brexit, we ll have a special phone in on the impact. my colleague nicky campbell will be asking what your experience has been so far, in the next half an hour. hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk economy is due to get smaller this year and do worse than other major nations, including russia that s according to the world s most important international financial organisation, the international monetary fund. it predicts the uk economy will shrink by 0.6% this year. it believes the uk will be the only country among the world s major economies to see its economy get smaller. it says its forecast reflects the uk s high energy prices, high inflation and high interest rates. the us, germany, france, italy and japan are
heavy, some rumbles of thunder, some winteriness and it will turn windy across the north and west of scotland. single figure values for much of scotland and northern ireland, ten to 12 degrees for england and wales. around midnight towards iam we are likely to see a squeeze in the isobars, the north highlands towards shetland are likely to see gusts of 70 or 80 mph, pretty ferocious winds likely to cause disruption through the early part of wednesday. showers affecting the northern half of the country, much of the south will be quite quiet, clearspells, much of the south will be quite quiet, clear spells, winds quite not so strong, some concerns with the strong winds across the far north of scotland, severe gales likely through the middle part of tonight lasting through the early hours, some disruption to ferry services early on wednesday. you can see that disruption pulling away through wednesday, the weather front draped across northern ireland, southern scotland, northern
just the latest marker in the rise of women s sports, but with fans and brands hungry for more, are the building blocks in place to fulfil all that potential? i will be discussing all that with the director of the english women s football association soccer to many of us. and a four time us olympic medal winner now running the sports innovation lab that focuses the spending focuses on the spending habits of women sports fans around the world. plus, levelling the playing field why is there such a difference in pay between men s and women s sport? when will that gap start closing? i ll find out from sophie goldschmidt, who has hammered out deals from basketball to rugby to golf and brought in equal prize money to the world of surfing. she s now the big boss of us ski and snowboard. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, a warm welcome to the show. women s sports is on the rise. here in the uk, the recent euro women s football championship drew record crowds at sta
you blame the russian soldiers and putin. what did you think of russians before this? since 2014, i felt they were bastards but i didn t want to believe in that. 2014 was the year russia invaded and annexed crimea. 2022, the rest of ukraine came under attack. why do you think the russians hit this hotel? i can t explain this, there were no military, no mercenaries, no terrorists, no ukrainian nazis. there was no one like that here. will russians ever be allowed to come back here and stay at this seaside resort? i can only allow them to come back if they re taken prisoner and forced to rebuild. and jake, you will hear this time and time again. this place, odesa, there were many people who were very close to russia and had very friendly ties, from tourism companies that made tons of money on russian tourists, to the mayor himself, who was a part of a russian party, if you will, a pro-russian party. but more and more, as this place keeps getting hit, that sentiment has changed a