terms if they refuse to appear for sentencing. nominations for the snp leadership race close at midday with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. good morning and welcome to bbc news. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. our first report comes from james waterhouse. a thud, marking the moment when ukraine and the world. air raid siren sounds. ..changed foreve
people sing classical music # hallelujah #. it s very bad. # hallelujah #. the weekend is just around the corner, let s see how the weather is looking for most of us it s not looking for most of us it s not looking bad at all. we have plenty of dry weather on the way with a few sunny spells but it s going to be chilly. high pressure is set to establish itself across the uk and will stick around, not just establish itself across the uk and will stick around, notjust over the weekend but for most of next week. so here are the details and starting with the satellite picture from earlier on this morning it actually was quite bright in some areas but then the cloud came and we ve seen this weather front, a weak weather front across the country, it did produce a bit of rain but the skies are starting to break across the western and north western areas. the temperatures are about 9 12 which is above the average for the time of the year, but it feels quite a bit colder because of tha
we are live in ukraine as the country marks a year to the day since russia s invasion. we have a special report on the battle for one strategic town. a t20 world cup semi final. on bbc london: a year after the war in ukraine began and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. harry brook breaks another test record to put england on top in the second test against new zealand. action for three days, it s got a pretty difficult to deal with across the nhs. there will be other parts of the nhs taking industrial action in march. there will also be ambulance worker strikes on 6th march, 8th march, 20th march involving three separate unions. there is no strike action in scotland after a higher pay offer and some unions are considering an offerfrom the welsh and some unions are considering an offer from the welsh government. the royal college of nursing is in talk with ministers about pay in england. but no news yet on how that is progressed. thank you. pol
i m olly foster. the cape town collapse, england s women are heading home home from the t20 world cup but there s another hundred for harry.brook keeps england s men on top in new zealand. and graham potter opens up about his personal struggles as he tries to turn around chelsea s fortunes it s probably the toughestjob in football and there are lots of factors for that. all eyes on wembley an hampden on sunday. we ll look ahead to league cup finals in england and scotla nd and the focus in welsh rugby returns to the pitch, we ll look ahead to another six nations weekend evening, for the past few weeks in south africa, england s women looked like the team most likely to end australia stranglehold on the t20 world cup. but they came up short against the hosts. chasing a very gettable 165, england were on course for sunday s final, but simply unravelled, as south took late wickets to win by six runs. england s mattress began the chase really well but they took catches for the fi