President zelensky has repeatedly called for permission to use the weapons on targets across the border. He claims it is the only way to end the war. Our political editor, chris mason, has sent this report from the white house. I think the next few weeks and months could be crucial. What does President Biden make of russias threats against the west . I dont think much about that. This is the Blue Room of the white house, the president , the Prime Minister and their team spoke here for about an hour and a half. The war in ukraine dominated the conversation. Afterwards, Sir Keir Starmer wouldnt be drawn on whether he had persuaded the president That Authorising Ukraine To Fire Western Missiles at russia was a good idea. Instead, he said. Theres only One reason were having these discussions and thats because putin has illegally invaded ukraine and the quickest way to resolve this, obviously, lies through what putin actually does. Because its for him to end this, but we are having the disc
hundreds of thousands of students received their exam results on thursday, allowing them to sort out their university places. but some btec students are still waiting to see how they did in vocational courses. exam board pearson won t reveal how many are affected but says it s a small percentage. the association of colleges isn t impressed. pearson won t tell us the numbers, but i know in some colleges there are several hundred students who haven t got their results from pearson. in any normal year there is a handful, perhaps, in a college. but hundreds is unprecedented. so we absolutely need pearson to openly investigate what went wrong, publish the findings and make sure this doesn t happen again. in a statement, pearson said: another exam board, ocr, is also apologising for delays in issuing cambridge technical s results, a vocational qualification with an emphasis on workplace skills. it says it has delivered more than 1,000 results in the last 2a hours. among those waiti
towards the west. it will be a muggy start to the day, temperatures 14, 15, 17 degrees first thing tomorrow in london but let s pick up on those showers. the south west of england, wales, through the midlands, there could be a few more reaching the south coast tomorrow, but again, many of us will miss them. of course, what we don t want is an awful lot of rain in a short space of time because that causes flash flooding and i guess there is a possibility of that in some areas tomorrow, but the vast majority of us missing the heaviest of the rain. tomorrow, very modest temperatures, 22 in london, a mere 15 in aberdeen, a cold 12 for our friends 22 in london, a mere 15 in aberdeen, a cold 12 for ourfriends in lerwick. there is a change on the way some good news if you want some rain. a low pressure is approaching on saturday. but at the same this vortex of wind, this low pressure by its virtue is also going to scoop up warmer airfrom the its virtue is also going to scoop up warm
but turning hotter again in the south east. temperatures could reach 30 degrees, but certainly not looking at the temperatures we started the week with. thank you, sarah. that is the news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. the news continues here on bbc one as now it is time to join news continues here on bbc one as now it is time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. good night. hello there. here is what s coming up hello there. here is what s coming up for you. it is lift off for the lionesses once again. a look back at last night s victory and ask where they can improve ahead of their women zero semifinal. we will also head live to oregon where she defends her world tighter later this evening. and in the last stages, he is still on top of the tour de france, but there has been bad news for chris froom mac. hello and welcome to sportsday. good evening, the england head coach sarina wiegman