in the donetsk region within the last hour russia s military defence has confirmed its troops have left lyman. millions of people will pay more for gas and electricity from today as the new energy price cap comes into force. it doesn t apply in northern ireland. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges, before being released alongside nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, says he s dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. we ll be speaking to anoosheh ashoori live. do stay with us on bbc news. 0n the more than 50,000 rail workers are taking industrial action today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. .in . in parts of wales there are only trains around cardiff. there are no connections to the south west of finland. across scotland and england board and many parts of england too. south west of england. members of four unions are taking
early in the day. heavy rain affecting the south west of england. through the day, the rain becomes lighter and more patchy in many places become drier. we have a lot of dry weather across other parts of the uk, hunting ascension, just a few showers in the north west of scotland. certainly fewer and lighter than today. it will feel pleasant in the sunshine with temperatures 17 18. now on bbc news the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. as i am sure you have seen, these are tomorrow s times for the uk economy and this is a story as complex as it is important and there are ways to get the journalism right around the story but there are also ways of getting it wrong. we will look at bats. we will also hear from a man behind a whole raft of things. this man from the sunday times tells us how he lands his stories and then we will also hear the story of others leaving the abc. we will hear the story according to their agent. let s start with the situation with the uk e
weather. things now look and feel very different. beautiful blue skies overhead here in county antrim but some strong wind feeding in wintry showers. we continue to bring wind down all the way from the arctic. cold air stays with us through the next few days. the picture shows this mesh rash of wintry showers along the coast and parts of scotland, those showers still mostly falling at low levels even as snow. elsewhere a mixture of sleet and snow and some showers feeding into some north sea coasts. windy for all of us especially around the coasts, up of us especially around the coasts, up to 50 miles an hour in places. temperatures reading between three and 7 degrees but factoring in the strength of the wind it feels colder than that. during this evening and tonight the wind using a little, we keep some showers going in western and northern parts where there is the risk of some ice. and temperatures dropping away widely below freezing, perhaps down to 8 in parts of the highl
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