we start saturday, a lot of cloud across east wales and is scotland. that will tend to get nibbled away back towards the north sea coast and most of us will have some warm sunshine to into the afternoon. temperatures in the high teens to the low 20s. could reach 22 in northern ireland, which would make it the warmest day of the year so far. on sunday, a cold front moves in, bringing cloud and rain across north western areas and dropping the temperatures here. across central and eastern england, it should be a bit warmer, with temperatures again reaching the low 20s. that is how our weather is looking this weekend. however, i thought we would take a quick look at what is going on in the bay of bengal, where we have a dangerous looking cyclone. it is set to make landfall on sunday around the border between bangladesh and myanmar. this is the region that is currently housing hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees. the weather looks serious and we could have some catastrophic
the commons work and pensions committee say vulnerable people will be pushed into destitution. and i in victoria square in the centre of birmingham where the city and the region are preparing to host the 2022 commonwealth games. rail passengers are facing huge disruption after thousands of workers walked out in a continuing dispute about pay and working conditions. only about a fifth of britain s train services are running many areas having no services at all today. the red lines here show the routes where some trains are operating but network rail has warned people to travel only if absolutely necessary. many journeys will many journeys manyjourneys will be manyjourneys will be ending manyjourneys will be ending earlier manyjourneys will be ending earlier than they normally work this evening. our correspondent emma simpson has this report. going nowhere. once again, half of the uk s rail network brought to a halt. at manchester piccadilly some trains were leaving with tr