hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. russia has shown its determined to assert control over ukraine s black sea coast, despite moscow s decision to withdraw from the much fought over snake island. missiles have hit the port of odessa where at least 19 people have died. before they were effectively blockaded, the black sea ports were used to export russian grain. now kiev has accused moscow of stealing that grain and it says this russian flagged cargo ship has left the russian occupied port of berdyansk with a cargo of seed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest. today we had another attack, once again using these old soviet era missiles which hit a resort town just to the west of odesa. it was a nine storey apartment block that was hit as well as a holiday complex. a 12 year old boy is amongst the dead. now, what s interesting about the odesa attack today is it happened maybe 12 hours after the russians had been pushed off an island called snake
can in ten minutes.this years contestants have now completed the pre event weigh in with 35,000 spectatros due to watch the contest in person hello, there. july has got under wayjust wherejune left off, with lots of heavy showers around. this was a shower in aboyne aberdeenshire, and if we take a look at the radar and lightning detector, you ll see today s biggest storms have been across eastern scotland and down the eastern side of england as well. already, our attention is turning to this next area of rain moving in from the west and over the next few hours, that will extend from northern ireland across scotland, good parts of northern england, wales, and eventually reaching the south west as well. temperatures as we start saturday morning well up into double figures, like they have been for the last few days and as far as saturday s forecast goes, this area of low pressure is dominating the weather picture. a band of rain pushes eastwards, followed by lots of showers.