The International Red Cross says three of its staff have been killed by shellfire in the eastern Donetsk Region of ukraine. They were Unloading Supplies for ukrainian villagers when they were hit. President zelensky called it a russian war crime. The head of unrwa has told the bbc that israel has a deliberate objective to dismantle the organisation after six of its members were killed in an Air Strike in gaza. The israeli military published a list of nine men it says were members of hamas killed in the strike on a school in nuseirat refugee camp. The un says the names do not tally with previous lists given by israel. If you are just if you arejustjoining us, welcome to the programme. Post debate, some new polling is also out tonight. Reuters ipsos have Kamala Harris five points ahead of Donald Trump that is a wider margin than the four Point Lead she had in late august. But then, the Popular Vote is not the deciding factor. The winner of a us president ial election is the candidate tha
Showers off. After a really cold start, most of you should have a dry day with sunshine. The exception is Northern Ireland, where we will see a band of rain moving into the afternoon, so it will be Turning Wetter year. Into the weekend, we are eventually going to see the when switching to a south westerly direction. It will be bringing wet and windy Weather Conditions to the North East of the Uk North west of the uk, it should stay dry to the east. Temperatures will climb quite a bit and be much closer to average for the time of year. If you are fed up for the time of year. If you are fed up with the unsettled weather, next week it looks dry, sunny and quite warm. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im Olly foster. A strong start against the finnish, great britain make a winning start in their Davis Cup Group. Looking to the future, theres a fresh feel to the England And Australia sides as they start their T20 Series in southampton tonight. And Lee Carsley is also looking ahead, after a pe
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Now, come The End of the week, we are anticipating the winds to ease, and thats because High Pressure will be building in from the southwest this is the Azores High and this time of the year. When that happens, we do tend to see some somewhat warmer Weather Streaming in from the south. So perhaps the temperatures rising a little bit, maybe 16, maybe 17, in one or two spots and back to about 12, i think, in the north of scotland, not that youll particularly notice the difference. But you should notice the difference as we go through the weekend. Thats because Weather Fronts are coming closer towards us. That also means a change in the wind direction. It will mean the temperatures will rise, but well have to pay for that. There will be some cloud and rain. So yes, slightly more unsettled, but the temperatures for some of us at least will rise. So back into the 20s we go as we head into next week, not everywhere, but it will feel just that little bit warmer. Bye bye. This is bbc news, wel