Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We start with a Major Political political row here in the uk. The first Asylum Seekers to be housed on a barge off the south coast of england have now begun arriving on board. The governments use of the barge called the Bibby Stockholm Has been controversial. Officials say it will be used to house up to 500 men while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. Campaigners have expressed concern about the conditions on board, but the government insists the vessel is safe and that it will help reduce the cost of placing migrants in hotels. Our correspondent ellie price is in dorset for us. She gave us this update a little earlier. We also understand there are already a number of migrants on board. I cant tell you exactly how many, im afraid. Probably understandably the home office being a bit cagey about numbers. They dont want to be seen to be putting numbers on it, because i think that would imp
it is much cheaper. slightly hedging my bets in terms of the numbers, but certainly yes, there is movement today and we think there s migrants on board. you can possibly hear the helicopter above me which is tracking the progress of the bus, so i think we can take from that that it is pretty near. brute i think we can take from that that it is pretty near- it is pretty near. we can hear the helicopter and it is pretty near. we can hear the helicopter and also it is pretty near. we can hear the helicopter and also see it is pretty near. we can hear the helicopter and also see the - it is pretty near. we can hear the helicopter and also see the bus. | it is pretty near. we can hear the i helicopter and also see the bus. we have live pictures of the helicopter filming the bus as it makes its way to the port. there has been local opposition and you were with protesters earlier in the day, what did they tell you? i’m protesters earlier in the day, what did they tell you? did they
okayed. we have to leave it there but we will catch up with you - okayed. we have to leave it there i but we will catch up with you soon. thank you forjoining us. more to come from dorset. for a time this week, the weather is set to feel more summer like then it has of late. already looking like summer for has of late. already looking like summerfor this has of late. already looking like summer for this weather watcher in hertfordshire but we will see drier and warmer weather developing this week, but perhaps only for a short time. on the satellite picture you can see this big swirl of cloud, a storm system currently battering parts of northern europe. that will get close enough to strengthen the winds across the far north east of scotland, particularly shetland. quite windy here over the next few days. at the other end of the uk we have this zone of cloud and patchy rain pushing on across the far south west of england and the far west of wales, turning misty and murky for some coasts