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of communications under president trump and lord kim darroch, former british ambassador to the us. first, the latest headlines. joe biden and volodymyr zelensky have signed a landmark us ukraine security deal, with the us president warning russia that kyiv s allies are not backing down . mr biden said the bilateral agreement, plus a g7 deal for a $50 billion loan for ukraine using frozen russian funds, collectively showed mr putin that he cannot wait us out. hezbollah has fired a fresh barrage of rockets and drones from lebanon into israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander on tuesday. israel said a number of projectiles were intercepted by air defences, although some hit open areas, igniting fires. russian prosecutors say the american journalist, evan gershkovich, will go on trial for espionage at a court in the urals, but no date has been given. mr gershkovich was reporting for the wall streetjournal when he was accused of spying. he denies the charge
and wales, it s pretty similar to sunday. plenty of sunshine, light winds and feeling warm in fact, even warmer. we could make 211 25 degrees across the south or the south east. and it stays fine, settled and sunny, particularly for england and wales as we head through the first week ofjune. temperatures holding up at around the mid 20s celsius across the south east.
20 celsius there across parts of scotland, too. now, for the bank holiday monday, we ll see this weather front push in from the north west, affecting the north west of scotland, parts of northern ireland. but for the south and east of scotland, much of england and wales, it s pretty similar to sunday. plenty of sunshine, light winds and feeling warm, in fact, even warmer we could make 2a 25 degrees across the south or the south east. and it stays fine, settled and sunny, particularly for england and wales as we head through the first week ofjune. temperatures holding up at around the mid 20s celsius across the south east.