england and wales, wintry showers clipping the far west of wales and a few snow showers down the north sea coast. the heaviest snow will continue to be focused across the north of scotland and northern ireland. it will stay cold in places, temperature is not expected to get above freezing. tomorrow evening, a line of snow showers forms across the irish sea affecting parts of north wales, merseyside, cheshire and the north midlands. the amount of snow will vary, but you could get a bit in a few areas. into friday, temperatures come up a little, and the showers piling into scotland will turn to rain or sleet, leaving the snow confined to hilly parts of the country. temperatures on the face of it a degree or to hire, not much in the way of change until we get to the weekend, when the south westerly winds will bring much milder air across the uk, but it won t only be mild but it will also be wild with gusts up to 70 mph. thanks, chris. and that s bbc news at ten. 0n bbc one, it s
we meet the south african woman who used her own experiences of period poverty to help empower girls in hundreds of schools by delivering free pads. hello, i m nancy kacungira. turks have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between the long time authoritarian leader, recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters these are the live pictures from istanbul turkey s biggest city, where reports say there s been brisk voting. people displaced by february s earthquake have been taken back home by bus to cast ballots. turnout among voters in the diaspora appears to have grown since the first round. earlier we spoke to our middle east correspondent anna foster w
wording of the resolution. it comes down to aid and the monitoring mechanism that is in the draft resolution. our north america correspondent nada tawfik has more from new york. diplomats are in consultation and what i heard from one diplomat is that they have made more progress today and they have all week and they are narrowing the gap and we have received the latest draught resolution and it is different and key aspects from the last proposals and the suspension of hostilities the draught now calls for urgent steps to allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access with creating conditions for sustainable station of hostilities and from the original draught in the resolution on the table now also appoints senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator that will appoint a mechanism to try to speed up aid into gaza. it s quite a mouthful but these are the proposals on the table and this was made to try to prevent a veto to get the united states on board with this resolutio
mark knopfler who wrote private dancer for tina turner fondly remembers the singer who died on wednesday. it s seven am in singapore and seven pm in washington where us officials say the russian wagner group mercenaries may be working through other countries to acquire military equipment for use in ukraine. the us treasury said in a statement it has imposed sanctions on wagner s chief in mali ivan aleksandrovich maslov. central to this is the battle for the eastern city of bakhmut, in ukraine. mercenaries have been fighting on behalf of russia there a battle that s taken on a symbolic significance. now, they say they re withdrawing and handing their positions over to the russian army. let s hear from the leader of the wagner group. it will make we are withdrawing units from bakhmut. today, it is sam on the 25th of may. the 1st ofjune, the main parts of ist ofjune, the main parts of the unit will be relocated at the unit will be relocated at the rear camp. there handin