but it does look now, with the relatively slow progress of ukraine s counter offensive, as if they might be approved in order to give ukraine a further push in its battle against russia. yes, one of those countries, as you touched on there, gordon, is germany. it has come out and said it is opposed to sending cluster munitions to ukraine. but you did touch on there on that counter offensive and some criticism as we enter that second month of the counter offensive about how little progress it seemingly is making. we know president zelensky asking forfurther ammunition to progress that offensive. what do we know about what s happening on the ground right now? well, i think there s an acknowledgement from the ukrainian progress that from the ukrainian side that progress has been slower than they d like in that counter offensive. that s because they ve met with really entrenched russian positions. the russians had time to dig in to prepare their lines. ukraine probing, looking for gaps, we
down to three or 4 degrees. pretty chilly here for the time of year. monday, the high pushing eastwards sense those showers away from the north sea coast, we see another weather front. north sea coast, we see another weatherfront. note north sea coast, we see another weather front. note success getting any significant rain out of it but there will i think these thick cloud, some drizzle across eastern scotland for a time early on and on monday. by the afternoon, it will be looking much brighter here. any early showers for east anglia clearing away. a lot of sunshine later on in the day on monday, and our temperatures up to 22 degrees, perhaps 23 across england and wales. the high teens for southern scotland. forfurther the high teens for southern scotland. for further north and into northern ireland, perhaps 16 degrees. the chelsea flower show gets under way on monday. a great looking week here. temperatures in the high teens to low 20s. damages very day on day and that will be the cas
part of the investigation. that was of course the house, the headquarters of the s&p in edinburgh as well. a report will be sent to the crown office and fiscal service for further considerations the crown office and fiscal service forfurther considerations snp. for further considerations snp. so forfurther considerations snp. so very difficult day for the snp today. that is with current first mr humza yousaf was saying, it s difficult and challenging day and actually this evening nicola sturgeon the former first mr release a statement through a spokesperson saying she had no prior knowledge of police scotland s actions or intentions and that she will fully cooperate with police scotland if required however at this time no such request has been made. thank ou ve such request has been made. thank you very much such request has been made. thank you very much indeed. police forces around the world have taken part in a major operation to dismantle one of the biggest online c
that these kind of moments, conversations would be had. you would hope so. between russia and the west to find out what actually happened. and to avoid further escalation. avoiding forfurther avoiding for further escalation, as steve rosenberg just put it. very much i imagine the sentiment here at the 620 summit. it s just gone about seven o clock in the morning here, but let s bring in. let s speak now to melinda haring, who s deputy director of the atlantic council, an expert on russia and ukraine. she joins us from washington. thanks so much forjoining us on the programme. just a start by saying, so much we don t know yet, so much more information we do need to verify. but what s your sense of what happened today?- verify. but what s your sense of what happened today? thanks for havin: what happened today? thanks for having me- what happened today? thanks for having me- we what happened today? thanks for having me. we don t what happened today? thanks for having me. we don t k