overturning of health care that will specifically harm women of colour and marginalised peoples. this specifically harm women of colour and marginalised peoples.- specifically harm women of colour and marginalised peoples. this is a heavy responsibility. and marginalised peoples. this is a heavy responsibility. to and marginalised peoples. this is a heavy responsibility. to make - and marginalised peoples. this is a heavy responsibility. to make an i heavy responsibility. to make an abortion heavy responsibility. to make an abortion illegal and impeccable throughout our nation. a second earthquake rocks an area in south eastern afghanistan causing further deaths and destruction. a third day of strike action on the uk s rail network only a fifth of train services are expected to run. and it s day two of performances at glastonbury with sir paul mccartney as the saturday night headliner. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson
that she was the kindest, most compassionate and most tenacious person i have ever met . now it s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. a fine afternoon for the north of scotland and eastern england but even in central and western parts of the uk there will be dry weather around. the breeze is bringing passing showers. they will move quite quickly but the odd heavier one is possible. they are more frequent the further west you are. close to an area of low pressure off the coast of ireland and it is here across ireland, particularly western ireland, that we will see persistent areas of rain. 22 in northern ireland and eastern parts of england. only about 16 or 17 in the west. where the breeze continues to freshen for the night, cloud and longer spells of rain across ireland and south west scotland, north west england, north west wales by the end of the night. elsewhere, rain clears and clear skies to take us into start to sunday and some southern and eastern
there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a. it s a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd phrase, european perspective . this is what european perspective that six months ago, if anybody asked us whether we would get it and we would be happy about it, we would be ecstatic about it because this is a formal recognition by the european union. georgia is part of europe and one day it will become a memberof europe. whether it s a candidate status with a long list of conditionality, that is a bump on the road. this is how we see it.
in the battlefield was quite visible to to the entire world, also the population in moldova and specifically in transnistria, the moods calmed down. so we do not see, at the moment, an immediate risk of escalation. everything depends on how the the progress evolves. just want to come back quickly to nicholas. you asked the question, what s your answer to it? will russia invade georgia? actually, it s very difficult to predict what will- be doing in one week, one month. actually, we live in an era -
we have to become - members of of the nato, and no single government can change that in this country. but we ve got a question about the eu again here in the audience. thank you for this interesting discussion. so my question is, what does georgia s application to join european union mean from president putin? you answer that. well, president putin, he said that he does not care about it, that he, as mentioned, he does not care about nato and he does not care about european union. but i don t think that he s telling the truth sometimes. he s lying. of course, for putin, georgian and ukrainian and moldovan applications for the european union are yet another reason to to be stronger on them,