i had to put my scarf on earlier today, and i think many others might have to dig out the thick coats in the coming days. it will turn chilly, even wintry showers across northern parts of the uk, but today, we have a tale of two halves. beautiful weather across scotland and northern ireland, but across england and way is, this sneaky weather front has been pushed england and way is, this sneaky weatherfront has been pushed in by quite a strong easterly wind. you can see on the radar where it has rained in the last few hours across parts of england, into wales as well, but the cloudless skies in place across scotland and northern ireland. it is also very gusty across the pennines in the north of england all the way from merseyside towards particularly cumbria, gusts of wind up to gale force. here is that tale of two halves. today in some parts of western scotland, high teens, perhaps nudging up to 20. by sunday, i was talking about coats and scarves, and the northerly wind, an
but will that be enough given russia s evident vulnerabilities? my guest is vetreran russian foreign policy analyst and kremlin adviser sergey karaganov. is putin s invasion turning into a longterm disaster for russia? sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome and let me ask you a simple question, after almost a year of war in ukraine is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is no question about that, the question is of course, the casualties, the destruction of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in order war of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in our war with the west, i sympathise with them. but it is their fate. i m surprised you say that because a month before the invasion began on the 24th of debris, on the 19th of january you actually said this i am sure we have no plans to invade ukraine because it would be and to quote your
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain. there are over simplistic explanation. voice-over: live simplistic explanation. voice over: live from our voice 0ver: live from our studio voice 0ver: live from our studio in voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us, where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is b
decisions on interest rates and they put up interest rates again by 0.25%. the last time they were there was middle of they were there was middle of the financial crisis in 2008. they also say they will stay for that level for quite some time so this idea of high interest rates to say is here to stay. interest rates to say is here to sta . f , interest rates to say is here to sta . j , , . to stay. they re big picture message to stay. they re big picture message is to stay. they re big picture message is not to stay. they re big picture message is not great, - to stay. they re big picture message is not great, it i to stay. they re big picture message is not great, it is| message is not great, it is pretty bleak. they are saying things may not be as bad as had been predicted. been predicted. that s where the graphs been predicted. that s where the graphs come been predicted. that s where the graphs come in been predicted. that s where the graphs come in and - bee