There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
gustavo petro, takes office in august. mr petro himself a former rebel has become the country s first left wing leader after winning sunday s presidential election. now on bbc news, it s the travel show. coming up on this week s travel show. hello and welcome to this week s travel show, with me, ade adepitan. now, it s a beautiful day, and i am in my home city of london, where the international tourists are slowly returning and it s so good to have them back. well, over the last couple of months, i m really pleased to say, everyone on the show has been able to do a fair bit of travelling too, and i know the whole team has been really happy that we ve been able to get back out there, especially after all the restrictions that we have all had to put up with over the last couple of years. so this week, we re going to look back at some of the places that we ve been to as the world starts opening up again. 0k, first up, back in march, carmen went to chile. now, you re not go
then brighter skies follow and a scattering of showers to the north. perhaps a better patchy round on the weakening weather front, perhaps a better patchy round on the weakening weatherfront, but perhaps a better patchy round on the weakening weather front, but a lot of dry and rather cloudy, fairly cold weather. not as cold it is going to be. by the time we get to sunday, we are opening up the doors to that arctic blast. the showers will turn to snow and could start to build up. you can see from the temperature profile here it is a colder day for many, even further south we will feel the effect of that wind. already there are warnings and force personal for northern ireland and scotland, primarily sunday and monday. these are the primarily likely to see so, but they may not be only areas. there is this little runner potentially. we ll have to perm up on details for northern ireland, parts of scotland and northern england. we will have to there s a chance of disruptive snow further
to dominate, so that will mean light winds for many and a lot of fine weather. but the tail end of the front will bring showers into eastern england in the short term. a weakening weatherfront will push its way in from the north west through the evening and overnight. hardly any rain in association with it by the time that front gets into wales and northern england at the end of the night. there will be some mist and fog across eastern england. elsewhere, some patchy cloud, but it is a mild and fine night on the whole. for tuesday, the high pressure is more dominant on our weather chart. notice the isobars towards the north west are quite squeezed together. it will be a breezier day across northern ireland and western scotland. a bit more cloud around here. a lot of sunshine to come for the majority of the uk. early morning mist and fog clearing. but we could see some showers grazing into western scotland as that wind kicks up through tuesday afternoon. windier still for western scotla
front begins as a head south on sunday. there is a fly on the element, this area of low pressure, how far north and east it will spread its influence, spider trains by the time we get to sunday. cloudierfor by the time we get to sunday. cloudier for the eastern side of england and scotland on that weakening weather front, england and scotland on that weakening weatherfront, but england and scotland on that weakening weather front, but try a further north and brighter. fewer showers for northern ireland, and further east across england as well. some drier weather. it could be that when a front get stuck across western areas, so even by monday most of the rain is on the west. there s quite a bit of uncertainty surrounding that next area of low pressure at this stage. so, as ever, there s more on the website, including the warnings and we will keep you up to date.