wales. generally dry for scotland and northern ireland but does temperatures continuing to drop maybe only 13 degrees, for example, in newcastle. the weather front takes the rain away from the south east and around this area of high pressure we are drawing in cooler air but this will be significant, this big low heading close to iceland. it will pick up the winds across northern ireland and scotland in particular during sunday. it brings some rain into the north west later in the day but away from here it should be generally dry. they will be some sunshine around but again it is on the chilly side, temperatures around 15 or 16. sophie. thank you. that is it from us. the news continues on hello and welcome to sportsday i m laura mcghie. football disorder in england and wales reaches an eight year high. with over 2000 football related arrests last season. wales need a win in their next two matches to remain in the top tier of the nations league and tonight, they face a daunting
meanwhile, an attack on ukraine s zaporizhzhia region leaves at least 23 people dead. a mounting death toll in florida after hurricane ian, president biden says it could be deadliest storm ever to hit the state. and saying good bye to sammy the story of a retiring guide dog good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. let us go back to moscow, where we have been listening to president vladimir putin officially, in his view, agreeing to the annexation and signing in the annexation of four regions of ukraine. this follows so called referendums that have been held in those four regions. in the east were talking about dunne esque in law hunts, donetsk and lou hanscombe dott. luhansk, hanscombe dott. lu ha nsk, zaporizhzhia. hanscombe dott. luhansk, zaporizhzhia. these areas supposedly wanting to rejoin russia. i think we might have some pictures of these signing ceremony, which took place in the kremlin in front of members of president putin s government. as you can see there, a
under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. it s 3:30. good morning to you. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mimic the minister s media habits. yes, so i wake up and i look through playbook, or as soon as it s come out, i look th
when the opportunity arises. so you get a bit of time to do that? when i can. when you can. well, look, you know, you ve been secretary of state at the dcms for four months now and you ve recently announced a big u turn, a big policy u turn. why have you decided not to privatise channel 4? so i think i agree with my predecessor and many other predecessors that have looked at this issue before, that there are long term sustainability issues and threats to channel 4. we know that it is a dramatically changing media landscape out there, which you ll be only too familiar with. we know that linear advertising is taking a hit, organisations are having to evolve and adapt and become more dynamic to cope with that and channel 4 have a very rigid business model. the public broadcaster restrictions, for one, don t allow them to create their own content, which means that their ability to flourish is capped from the off. and that sustainability fuelled the decision under my predecessor a