Of ireland in five years. Downing street says saturdays visit marks a new era of co Operation And Friendship between britain and ireland, with london looking to continue a reset of damaged relations with European Union nations after brexit. The Prime Minister met with Simon Harris, who was only elected taioseach in april, just 3 months before his british counterpart, so both are relatviely new to their roles. Sir keir and Mr Harris swapped Football Shirts ahead of their talks before attending the Nations League Match between the Republic Of Ireland and england in a short time time at the Aviva Stadiun In Dublin. They are speaking at the moment and we will bring it out to you as soon as they come out. Actually, they are speaking. Lets listen to what they said earlier. Think you to simon and for everyone here this afternoon. I appreciate everybody listening to the discussion we are about to the discussion we are about to have. As simon has said, todayis to have. As simon has said, today
These eastern areas, brighter conditions further north and west but with really heavy showers, so we had some sunshine earlier on today in Northern Ireland, not been a bad morning here, but showers will work their way in right across Northern Ireland, Notjust Staying in western counties and across into Western Scotland too. Today, showers with hail and thunder mixed in, in orkney and shetland windy with gusts reaching 50 60 miles an hour, temperatures on the mild side, 8 12 degrees. Overnight tonight an area of low pressure and swinging a band of low pressure and swinging a band of rain and from the west. Ahead of the rain we are looking at cold and frosty conditions setting and particularly across scotland and Northern Counties of england, then into tomorrow, this area of low pressure could bring one or two issues because weve got this occluded front stretched across parts of North West England and Northern Ireland and its along that that we could see a spell of hill snow. The amount
Lewis hamilton led a mercedes one two in second practice in bahrain. Team mate George Russell was second with Aston Martins Fernando Alonso third. Max verstappen whos aiming to win his fourth consecutive title was down in sixth, nearly half a second off the pace. Paul pogba says hes sad and shocked after being banned from football for 4 years for a doping offence. The juventus midfielder and world cup winner was provisionally suspended in september after elevated Testosterone Levels were found in his system. He says hell appeal the ban as Michael Redford reports absolute best is driving Manchester United from a career that always promise so much for that once the worlds most expensive footballer could now be over after his give given a 48 bed for doping. In a statement he said. The band was given after the midfielder tested positive for elevated levels of test or burn in a system back in august. The second positive sample released in october confirmed the doping violation. Less than tw
leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita