sunshine and showers the best way to describe saturday s weather. showers should be isolated and the best of the brighter weather the further north and west you are. top temperatures likely to reach 12 to 18 celsius. any showers through the i8 celsius. any showers through the evening will tend to fade away and we will have clearer skies across england and wales so temperatures will fall away quite sharply. cloud in the north west where temperatures are likely to hold into double figures, but it will be a chilly start to sunday morning, hopefully a sparkling one as well, lots of sunshine around first thing on sunday. a few showers in north west scotland and eventually more persistent rain as we go through the day. top temperatures through sunday afternoon 13 to 18 celsius. that weather front will introduce much colder, windier conditions on monday, and as you can see, a notable difference to the feel of the weather. hello. this is bbc news. i m lewis vaughanjones and these are
identify. good morning from an empty london euston station as more than 16,000 rail workers go on strike again. when will it be over and what should you do if you are travelling today? i will have the details. is it ratcliffe to the rescue for manchester united? british billionairejim ratcliffe says he would be interested in buying the club if the glazer family wants to sell. from trash to treasure. we find out how items destined for the tip are raising thousands for charity thanks to upcycling. good morning. after yesterday s torrential date range which led to localised flooding in parts of the south east, today it will be drier with some sunshine and the odd shower, we have got a new weather front coming in across the introducing thick cloud and some rain. all of the details throughout the programme this morning. it s thursday 18th august. our main story. thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland will be getting their a level, t level and btec results
days of hostilities. but, it s reported the israeli military has struck targets in gaza within minutes of the ceasefire coming into force. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. russia s war on ukraine has turned culture into a battleground. in countries supportive of ukraine s resistance to putin s invasion, some russian artists, musicians and dancers have been stripped of their platforms or they ve been asked to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkov, a very warm welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so. maybe be
outrage. now, there is virtually no facet of american life immune from politics and partisanship. it s in a tiny example of what i mean. some friends invited my wife and i to the essence festival concert last saturday night at the superdome in new orleans. it should have been a fun time. 50,000 people there to see janet jackson patti labelle. just before the headliners took the stage, this well-known warm-up act wandered out. we are in the middle of a critical time. they are trying to take women s right to choose. they are trying to take voting rights. raymond: the reverend may have gone may have well is gone to a chump rally. nobody wanted to hear that political message. at that point miss jackson hit the stage. no. hello, essence festival, this november we will be electing folks who make critical decisions in our community. decisions about our health care, very personal decisions we make about our bodies. stay on with black approval of the president biden below 50%
my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so. maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was the city, when it was called leningrad. leningrad today, st petersburg. so the dna, the roots are there, have always been, always will be. but then what happens is that i come to america, i live five years, my first five years, in new york, and then i conduct grand rapid symphony in michigan, buffalo philharmonic, so altogether i think, what, 13, 14 years of life in america, becoming us citizen, having