with g7 leaders in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. mr zelensky will address the leaders of the major western democracies during meetings on sunday. while the war in ukraine continues to dominate those summit talks the war itself is raging on. bakhmut has been the focus of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war but the leader of russia s private wagner group has said the city has now been taken. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax says president putin has congratulated troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine says its units are still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets to help with its fight against russia a move moscow and china have criticised. here now, our political editor chris mason, who s in h
hello there. it s been a lovely start to the weekend, really, especially across england and wales where we ve had lots of sunshine. so blue skies over these bluebell woods in south wales, in pontypridd. and on the satellite picture you can see the extent of the sunshine that have more cloud for scotland and northern ireland. the weak weather front overhead here, but we ve still managed some brighter spells for scotland, and for northern ireland, england and wales we had temperatures reaching the low 205 and the warmest spots, the 21.5 there in porthmadog, actually making it the warmest day of the year so far for wales. now, over the next few hours we ve got another weather front moving in. it s kind of pepping up, bringing a bit of heavier rain ju5t for a time to scotland and northern ireland. but then as we get towards dawn, that will tend to start to fizzle away. clear skies for england and wales, allowing temperatures to dip down to around 5 to 8 degrees celsius.