particularly treacherous conditions here. this is the radar picture showing us where the snow is falling. furthersouth showing us where the snow is falling. further south across much of england this is falling as rain and they could be some heavy and possibly thundery downpours clearing away later on this afternoon. of most concern is where we are seeing the falling snow, this weather front is stalling, some very strong winds too particularly over pennine routes where we could see blizzards and drifting snow. a wide range of temperatures today, 12 or 13 celsius in devon and cornwall later this afternoon with that much milder air towards the south. a weather system is going nowhere overnight tonight, particularly for central parts of the uk where the snow totals start to stack up even further, strong gusty winds on the edge of this as low as well, coastal gales towards the far south west, the channel islands potentially and we may see -15 islands potentially and we may see 15
we will be live in israel and also in kyiv in the next few minutes. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s ollie foster. hello from the bbc sport centre. we ll start with the masters golf, because there s been a big move at the top of the leaderbaord. the american brook koepka has moved three shots clear on ten under. he was one of the early starters at augusta and birdied the par five second to move to eight under. he had beenjoint leader withjon rahm and victor hovland who dont start their second round for another few hours. koepka has just eagled the eighth. ten under at the moment. he is one of 17 rebel liv series golfers who are taking part at augusta. jason day has made a strong start, two under for his second round, he s up to seven under, tied for second. a lot of golf to be played on friday. scotland s women failed to qualify for this years world cup but they have claimed a morale boosting victory over the co hosts australia. they won i nil,
short on. matching its rhetoric, with the kind of support ukrainians to win this war, not just for ukraine, but for the u.s. and u.s. national security. we re gonna watch then very closely, president biden arrives in the region on monday. he will be delivering an important speech on tuesday. we ll see if any of that changes. colonel, may we not be talking about this and a year, or at least be talking about it as history, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, is the former director of european foreign affairs at the national security council. he s the author of the important book, here right matters. an american story. should, ahead more on the war in ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary another hour of velshi, live from kyiv, begins right now. begins right now good morning to you, it is saturday, february the 18th, welcome to our new home. a 10 am and 11 am eastern, our show is celebrating three years on the air this weekend. we thank you for watching u
closing of access to asylum in the uk for people arriving irregularly, we believe it s a clear breach of the refugee convention. they will enable us to take a very bold and forward leading steps in order to reduce the rights of people to claim and to thwart their removal. the bbc is to speak to one of its highest paid presenters, gary lineker, after he criticised the government s immigration plans on social media. he bbc investigation reveals how scammers and con people out of hundreds scammers and con people out of hundreds of millions of dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. the un secretary general, antonio guterres is in ukraine to hold talks with president zelensky about the continued export of ukrainian grain. brokered by the united nations and turkey lastjuly, and secured with russia, the deal enabled the shipping of ukrainian grain from odesa via the black sea, through the bosphorus strait and istanbul. but, now the deal is up for renewal and russia has signalled t
we start with a denial from ukraine of any involvement in september s attacks on the nord stream pipelines, which were built to carry russian natural gas to germany. the denial follows this report from the new york times. it cites us intelligence officials, suggesting a pro ukrainian group was to blame. before we look at those claims, let s get more details about the nord stream pipelines. let s get more details this map shows where they run along the sea bed, from russia, across the baltic, to germany. the damage was discovered near the danish island of bornholm. it s also relatively close to the russian territory of kaliningrad. it was first noticed when huge amounts of gas were spotted bubbling up to the surface. when cameras were sent down, this is what they recorded. several experts said it appeared the pipes had been damaged by an explosion on the outside of the pipe. here s ukrainian defence minister oleksi reznikov on the new allegations. for me, it s a little bit o