The temperature slowly rising. Wednesday looks pretty wild ride across the country. Wet and windy conditions, rain heavy at times. This list of the winds through wednesday night will be across the irish sea. You can see that squeeze in the isobars there, got the 50 60 mph. Rains pushing northwards, light across the scottish mountains, it is across the scottish mountains, it is a transient area of snow, because as the cold air begins to drift northwards, the milder takes over. It will be reverting back to rain. Thats it. It is change. Thursday, blustery, strong southerly winds, so jonah showers. The best of the sunshine across the northern half of the country, more shelter to the south. We will see heavy doubles, maybe longer spells of rain. You will notice those temperatures, double figures value double figure values for all. Images may be 13 in the south. The rain keeps on coming through thursday night into friday, particularly across the south and the south east. There could be south
On women in afghanistan, banning them from working for the ngos, just days they were banned from studying at university. Hello and welcome to sportsday im gavin ramjaun. Leicester come back to take the honours against gloucester and win the first ever slater cup in the premiership. Brentford get frank. The dane commits to another contract at the club ahead of the Premier Leagues big boxing day return. And we meet the sailor who picked up some of his crew from the pub whos preparing to lead britains entry in one of the Worlds Toughest yacht races even if the seas make him a little queasy. Hello there and welcome along to the programme. The premiership match between leicester and gloucester had extra meaning today to honour theirformer player it slater. Player ed slater. The 34 year old retired from rugby this summer, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. And it was leicester who fought back the win the first ever slater cup. The victory a first for their new Interim Head Coa
For a football coach. And thats why im really happy with the result as well. Yes, its nerve racking, sorry, for all of us, but yeah, thats the first of the last 10. Lets keep going. In the late game, Manchester City failed to break down arsenal as a highly anticipated clash at the top of the Premier League failed to live up to the hype, ending in a 0 0 draw at the etihad. It means city keep their unbeaten home run, stretching back to november 2022, but it also ends arsenals eight match winning run in the Premier League. In the end, we tried. Just for the fact it is not easy. They defended really well. And yeah, we tried and i recognised my team perfectly. Now its just to relax, recovery, and wednesday well come back. You need a big performance, and defensively as well individually you have to be at your best. 2021, the last time they have scored here. That is the difficulty at the level that they have and of what we have done today. To the final of the womens English League cup now whe
There are reports from syria of a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta, an enclave on the outskirts of damascus that has been under intense bombardment from the Syrian Regime for a week now. The region is the last major rebel held area near the capital, and the assad regime is now determined to take it back. These are pictures weve just received of that suspected chemical attack. The reports come a day after the United Nations Security Council demanded a syrian ceasefire without delay. But clashes between Syrian Forces and the rebels have continued, as have the airstrikes. Russia has accused the rebels of attacking Syrian Government forces. Caroline hawley reports. In Eastern Ghouta today, a measure of calm after a week long storm of airstrikes. In small numbers, people ventured out from underground shelters to assess the damage. But there were reports of airstrikes continuing in some parts of the rebel held enclave. Once again, children were among the dead. Today is the first day of the
Ryanair boss, Michael Oleary, admits Significant Management failure, as it struggles to cope with flight failure, as it struggles to cope with flight cancellations. And three yea rs with flight cancellations. And three years after prince harry founded the Invictus Games, the uks biggest tea m Invictus Games, the uks biggest team yet is preparing to fly to canada to compete. Brendan rogers hello, good morning, it is thursday 21st october. I am annita mcveigh, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Rescuers in mexico are working equates the clock to find survivors after a huge earthquake caused widespread damage in the capital, mexico city, and in surrounding areas on tuesday. More than 230 people were killed, including more than 20 children, who died when their Primary School collapsed. 30 children are still missing and the death toll is expected to rise. The epicentre of the earthquake was about 17 five miles from the capital. The earthquake struck on the anniversary of weeks agos west ever qu