hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. president putin has announced a partial military mobilisation to help fight the war ukraine. in a television address, president putin said the west wanted the end of russia just as it had brought the soviet union to an end. it comes a day after russian occupied territories in ukraine announced votes on joining russia. that mobilisation the first since world war ii is aimed at those with previous military experience and begins today. 300,000 reservists will also be called up to reinforce the russian military in ukraine. mr putin also said that he would support independence in areas of eastern ukraine currently controlled by russia backed separatists. here s some of what president putin said in his address on russian television. translation: | repeat, | we are talking of a partial mobilisation only. 0nly people in the military reserve will be drafted. the priority will be on people who served in the armed
system pushing down towards the south west. we will have showers. particularly in northern scotland, showers heavy with hail and thunder. across northern ireland and north west england and wales, showers to come and go all day long and towards cornwall and devil and the channel islands cloud and rain through the day. cornel and devon. longerspells through the day. cornel and devon. longer spells of dry weather elsewhere and in the sunshine feeling quite pleasant but out of that, ten, 16 degrees and feeling cool that, ten, 16 degrees and feeling cool. the windfall in lighter through the afternoon and into wednesday. a few showers in the west but fewer compared with today. the focus on one state is on longer spells of rain down through yorkshire towards the east midlands and east anglia. turning quieter through thursday before wet and windy weather arrives on friday. thanks, matt. and that s bbc news at six on monday, 26th september. you can keep up with all the latest de
the bison move through so this baby bison could be just the beginning. jonah fisher, bbc news, in kent. time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. high. good afternoon. it is going to stay mild over the next few days but big downpours lurking on the horizon today and indeed the weekend is going to be quite changeable. certainly not a wash out, we have some sunshine on the way but it will change. this is what the satellite picture looks like now. quite a complicated sort of pattern of clouds, you can see there are vortices, low pressure swelling around the uk, and the air is crucially coming in from the south, from the southern climes so hence it feels so mild out there. as we go through the weekend you will see areas of low pressure sweeping across the uk bringing further outbreaks of rain through that very changeable autumnal picture. the temperatures today, 19 in london, more typical in the mid teens but the average in london this time of year is closer to