he scores early, as manchester united put three past nottingham forest, in the away leg of their league cup semi final. and we catch up with radio one extra s dj ace to find out why he s campaigning for more black and asian heritage organ donors. good morning. there is a touch of frost in western areas first thing. for many it will be a dry day with sunny spells, a little bit of cloud, and some showers in the east. details later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday, 26th january. ukraine s president zelensky has described the decision to send dozens of powerful nato battle tanks to the country, as an important step on the path to victory. commitments from germany, the us and the uk, follow weeks of diplomatic deadlock about the supply of heavy weaponry. president zelensky said the free world was united as never before, but that it was essential for the equipment to arrive quickly. our correspondent robin brant reports. for months, he s campaigned for these, in publ
welcome to the programme. amid the turmoil in uk markets this week, the chancellor met the us banks today and was told in no uncertain terms that his budget which he has planned for november is way too far away . the government needs to communicate much sooner, said the banks, on what the solution will be to the problem the city believes they created. it has been another chaotic day on the markets. this morning, the bank of england performed a screeching u turn, putting the brakes on its plan to sell government bonds and instead launching a new scheme to buy them. think of it as a form of digital money printing. the bank is creating funds to to buy bonds which the government issues to borrow money. and this is why. since the mini budget, the cost of government borrowing long term has shot up. it was spiralling above 5%. that s a 20 year high. we have seen rises in the last two days that would normally take years. the bank of england is buying up the debt, in essence creating
here, too. further east for eastern england, well, blue sky and sunshine as you can see from our weather watcher picture from stunning kent. but even here, the clouds will increase through the afternoon and there will also be possibly outbreaks of light patchy rain and drizzle from our weather front that is gradually continuing eastwards. it will eventually clear overnight tonight. forthe it will eventually clear overnight tonight. for the rest of the day, still further outbreaks of rain, heavy downpours potentially for the scottish borders through northern england, maybe into east anglia by the end of the day, further south. then a lot of the rain is light and patchy. there could be sunny spells developing across devon and cornwall and northern ireland, but watch out for heavy and thundery showers, temperatures in the low 20s, may be 25 degrees in norwich, where we will see the sunshine last longest. and overnight, our weather front clears into the north sea. for many, it wi
and eurovision host contest the shortlist is announced for the cities who will stage the famous celebration of song. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the author salman rushdie has been stabbed on stage at a literary event in new york state while preparing to give a lecture. his agent says he has been going under surgery for the police that he suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck and a man has been taken into custody. the 75 year old novelist has received death threats and it release of his book satanic verses in the late 80s many muslims view that focus blasphemous. our north america correspondent john sudworth has more. there was confusion and panic. the attack happened in full view of the audience. sir salman was left injured, lying on stage, and eyewitnesses in deep shock. there was nothing audible from the attacker. we just saw him move on stage very quickly and, repeatedly and with vicious determination, stabbed salman rushdie. peop