Hello there. The storm clouds have been brewing today. Weve had some intense downpours already. Itll be quite nasty on the road. So the met office do have warnings out for those thunderstorms which are likely to give some sudden flash flooding, frequent lightning. More details on the website. But as i say, there are some quite torrential downpours out there. No surprise really when you consider today has been the seventh consecutive day where temperatures have reached 30 degrees or above. Thats a record for september here in the uk, and its really quite unbearable for some. But behind this Weather Front in the north, there is relief on the way. Behind it, much fresher air as we start to introduce winds down from the north and the west. But its going to take probably until tuesday to clear the south, but it is going to eventually freshen up through the next few days. But for this evening, some fairly widespread thunderstorms, possibly even more further south to start with. And then our
fighting his extradition to the us. a uk court ruled last month that he could appeal this decision after mr assange argued that he would not receive a fair trial. now he s agreed a plea deal, and legal documents show that mr assange is set to appear before a court in a us territory in the pacific ocean before an expected return to his home nation australia. paul hawkins has more. wikileaks published this clip on social media showing its founder flying published this clip on social media showing its founderflying out published this clip on social media showing its founder flying out of the country late on monday afternoon. it said it spent 9000 2/9000 days in prison for publishing what he called ground breaking stories of corruption and human rights abuses in this stories of corruption and human rights abuses i stories of corruption and human rights abuses in this period of our lives, i rights abuses in this period of our lives. i am rights abuses in this period of our live
ukraine and the us haven t commented on that, but moscow s claim is that five ataka missiles were fired towards crimea. four of them were shot down by air defences, by russian air defences, but one, they say, detonated mid air, raining shrapnel down on a local beach, and tv footage does show people running away, it appears, in panic from that beach. not likely to have been the target, probably a military target nearby was the intended place where those missiles were heading for. the russian authorities, saying a number of children were among those killed and a large number wounded. significant, i think, that russia is trying to hold the us accountable for this and saying that it was us specialists, as they put it, who programme the co ordinates for these missile strikes based on us satellite data. so suggesting that these are us supplied weapons and the details of how they re used are also coming from washington and the us. even though it s a ukrainian attack, the russian aut
diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season amd the airport has apologised to passengers. in a moment we will have the latest from our correspondent at manchester airport. but first, let s hear from a stranded passenger. i spoke with nikita pearson, a fitness instructor stuck at manchester airport waiting to board his flight to istanbul. we got to the airport at about eight o clock in the morning and you could see people sat outside on luggage. we didn t think anything of it. we got the lift to go upstairs to terminal one and you couldn t even get out of the lift. you had to trample over people to get out of the lift and then you just stood there. hoards of people just not moving anywhere. there was no tannoy announcement, no staff nearby anywhere, there were children getting trampled on, there were babies, it was chaos. we stood there for about an hour and a half and then nothing at all. you mentioned you couldn t see any staff to spea