of grain from occupied areas of ukraine as some countries grapple with shortages. one woman has died and a man is in hospital with life threatening injuries following a gas explosion that destroyed a house in birmingham and damaged at least three others. former prime minister sirjohn major is giving evidence at a public inquiry looking into how thousands of people were infected with hiv or hepatitis c through contaminated blood in the 70s and 80s. suffered incredibly bad luck. and in sport we ll be live at wimbledon as the first day of the tournament is under way. novak djokovic is on centre court now and he ll be followed by emma raducanu. and then andy murray. welcome to the programme. good afternoon and welcome. the leaders of the g7 group of nations have promised they will stand with ukraine for as long as it takes as they announced they would step up sanctions on russia. president zelenskyjoined the summit remotely, and told the leaders he needed more weapons and air
coming into western england and wales. tomorrow, we have high grass pollen levels across parts of england and wales, but those levels are dropping across northern england and north wales, perhaps because there could be more cloud around tomorrow. the bulk of the showers tomorrow. the bulk of the showers tomorrow will be across northern ireland, which i was on longer spells of rain in scotland, where it will be particularly windy, with gales in the far north. tomorrow it could be cooler in scotland and northern ireland, but in eastern parts of england, where it may stay dry, temperatures reached 22 celsius in the sunshine. it should be dry at trent bridge on saturday, and probably dry through the rest of the five day test match. a westerly breeze, and temperatures won t change an awful lot. the wind won t be as strong on sunday. the wind is easing down a bit because the low pressure bringing the windy weather and the showers is moving away. for sunday, we have lighter winds, a
The week in parliament. Coming up on this programme. As winter tightens its grip, theres a row in the commons about the health of the nhs. Our nhs, mr speaker, is in crisis. But the Prime Minister is in denial. The only way we can ensure weve got funding for the National Health service is a strong economy. With the Stormont Assembly in crisis, we find out whats gone wrong in Northern Irelands power sharing agreement. Also on this programme. A damning indictment of the uks approach to defence. We are short sighted, penny pinching, naively optimistic. We are complacent and we are ostrich like to the way in which the world has become interconnected. And, how can we get more women into parliament, a senior mp thinks its time for action. In our Committee Sessions, we heard very warm words from all of the party chair and leaders. We didnt really hear very much detail. But, first, it was a parliamentary week dominated by the stresses and strains facing englands nhs. Mps returned To Westminste
Justin trudeau, is in washington today for his first Summit Meeting with President Trump. And adele triumphs with five awards at the grammys, then pays tribute to rival beyonce, who had been tipped to win the best album. My artist of my life is beyonce and this album for the lemonade album, was just so monumental. Beyonce, so monumental. Its five oclock. Our main story is the governments response to the latest evidence of failings in the Prison System in england and wales. The Justice Secretary, liz truss, in her first major speech today on sentencing has said there can be no quick fix to reduce the Prison Population. She spoke as her officials launched an urgent investigation into evidence of Security Failings at the privately run northumberland prison, filmed by an undercover reporter from the bbcs panorama programme. He secretly recorded widespread drug abuse and major security lapses. Our special correspondent ed thomas has more details. Undercover in one of our biggestjails. For t