border force staff at several ports, including calais, are on the second day of a four day strike about pay. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first our world: brits in battle: ukraine. on the battlefields of ukraine, you won t just find local soldiers. slava ukraini. ..but volunteers from all over the world. guatemala, portugal, america. ukrainian officials say 20,000 international volunteers have travelled to help fight back against the russian invasion. many of them came from britain. they needed help so that is why i got up and went. i ve got a purpose in life out there. you didn t have any military experience previously? 100% civilian. from those who d never held a weapon, to experienced soldiers, british volunteers are fighting and dying alongside the people of ukraine. i did not find out until the day before he was coming. a lot of people are like, why you are here and why are you doing this? is there a kind of war tourism? as i tr
heavy rain in northern scotland, a little bit of brightness sticking out across parts of eastern england. the weather is cloudy, wet or bright where you are, we are all in this wedge of mild air so it does feel unseasonably mild. but as i say sunshine quite limited. the best of it across eastern and southern parts of england, some other eastern parts of england, some other eastern parts of wales, but northern ireland seeing thick cloud, the odd spot of drizzle and that heavy rain continuing to affect northern parts of scotland. 11 13 the top temperatures. turning increasingly windy across scotland as we head into the evening, and this band of increasingly light and patchy rain sinking a little further southwards before beginning to drift northwards again by the end of the night. these are the overnight lows, very mild indeed, 6 10 so a very mild start friday morning. this band of cloud and patchy rain drifting its way through northern england and then up across scotland as we
celsius in some places. the head of the union representing striking border force staff in the uk says walkouts could go on for six months, unless the government enters talks about pay. police in pakistan say at least two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a suicide blast in the capital islamabad. protestors in afghanistan are arrested after makimng a stand against the taliban s latest prohibition on women and girls attending universities. tuesday s late night announcement has triggered international outrage. now, bbc news presenters look back and remember a century of the corporation s news coverage in 100 years of bbc news. can you just leave me fora moment, please? i will get what i can, but there s a huge change in the running order here. stand by, vt 20. stand by, tx. a, b, cand d, in that order, from five seconds. ten, nine, eight, seven, six. run vt 20. ..five, four, three, two. this is bbc one. ..one, zero. this is bbc news at 100. for a century,