she is also a member of the elders, an international non governmental organisation of public figures who are calling for a shift in policy from us presidentjoe biden. the elders were started with nelson mandela as patron, kofi annan has chaired it, until his untimely death, and now it is the former president of ireland mary robinson. and mary robinson and ban ki moon, former un secretary general, both actually visited israel palestine backin actually visited israel palestine back in may this year and came away extremely worried about what they saw. and it was really with a sense of dread that the elders saw these events unfold. so, we did in the past of weeks right to president biden, we said that it needed him to step up now to rally forces for peace. there needs to be a clear plan for peace. now, clearly the longer you can keep a cessation of hostilities and a truce going, the more chance you have of building the conditions for peace. but it is going to need a big coalition
elsewhere, clear spells and cold, below freezing pretty much across most of the country. but notice there s a weather front here bumping into that cold early in the morning. so there is a possibility of some wintry showers, for example, across dartmoor and exmoor through the early hours of thursday and through thursday morning itself. so it could be quite wintry here for a time. but for most of us, we re talking about rain, pretty chilly as well. and in fact, it could end up being pretty cloudy, grey, rainy across most of southern england. sunshine for the midlands, for wales, for northern ireland, many western parts of the uk. but again, some wintry showers, mostly of rain but occasionally sleet or snow across eastern areas of the uk and every bit as cold, three or four degrees celsius. and then thursday evening, a really chilly evening will follow. and we re approaching the peak of the cold really through thursday and friday. the wind is coming out of the east, northeast. s
1 1 draw against newcastle. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. four teenage friends who were found dead in a crashed car in gwynedd in north wales earlier this month died from drowning, a coroner has said. wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris had gone missing during a camping trip. our reporter chris deardenjoins us from the inquest in caernarfon. yes, this morning s hearing at the coroners court lasted just four minutes here in caernarfon, and another none of the families of the four young men were present. the senior coroner confirmed the names and ages of all four, 16 year old kevan hurst, wilf fitchett, jevon hirst, harvey owen and hugo morris, all four described simply as being from shropshire, we are told they were in north wales on a camping trip that weekend before last. the coroner said the post mortem exam nations had taken place and showed that all four had drowned when the car they were travelling in left the a4085, the car was l