Hello. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. We are going to start this hour in the us. Donald trump has held a Campaign Rally in the Southern State of alabama. He said the latest criminal charges against him are ridiculous. Mr trump said the charges over his efforts to overturn the president ial Election Results were an illegal and unconstitutional travesty. He claimed President Biden was trying to preserve his grip on power. Our washington correspondent Sean Dilley Reports from the beginning of our movement, its really been a true force in American Politics thats dead to stand up. Its incredible thing. We dare to stand up to the corrupt clinical establishment. Familiar words. Clinical establishment. Familiar words. Clinical establishment. Familiarwords. ,. ,. , familiar words. We are going to make america familiar words. We are going to make America Great familiar words. We are going to make America Great again. Familiar words. We are going to i make America Great again. Was donald trump make Am
also on the programme. the latest developments in the middle east. including the funeral of a hamas deputy leader in lebanon. thousands of people were there. prince andrew and bill clinton are named in files relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. we ll look at what we ve learnt. and ai terrorism, stethescopes and keyboard keys. all in our weekly look at artificial intelligence ai. decoded is coming up. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. opposition labour party leader keir starmer says sunak is squatting in downing street for months on end . here s our political editor chris mason reports. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conservatives
low pressure bringing strong wind. and now cloud rolling in from the atlantic bringing cloud and rain for some of us already today. this was county down earlier on with grey skies overhead but it could turn brighter in parts of northern ireland to the afternoon. some rain around and ahead of that, north east scotland holding on to some sunshine and further south across england and the south of wales increasing amounts of cloud but it should stay pretty much dry. temperatures between eight and ii pretty much dry. temperatures between eight and 11 degrees and on the night the rain continues north and east, some heavier rain racing into the north west of scotland by the end of the night. but we will see milder air working in from the atlantic so temperatures for some climbing as the night wears on. 5 degrees for aberdeen and ten in belfast tomorrow morning. i pressure to the south tomorrow, southern largely dry. further north the string of weather fronts waxing in the next few d
important this is to you on twitter @annitabbc #bbcyour questions united in music the slogan for this year s eurovision contest is unveiled as the official eurovsion handover ceremony takes place today in liverpool. and coming up on the third anniversary of brexit, we ll have a special phone in on the impact. my colleague nicky campbell will be asking what your experience has been so far, in the next half an hour. hello and welcome to bbc news. the uk economy is due to get smaller this year and do worse than other major nations, including russia that s according to the world s most important international financial organisation, the international monetary fund. it predicts the uk economy will shrink by 0.6% this year. it believes the uk will be the only country among the world s major economies to see its economy get smaller. it says its forecast reflects the uk s high energy prices, high inflation and high interest rates. the us, germany, france, italy and japan are