There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
here since 2017. following him will be last year s overnight sensation emma raducanu, who went on to win the us open. she is optimistic about her chances, despite her recent injury. but it won t be easy today. she has got a very good first round opponent. and then andy murray is last on the centre court. nine british players in action today. laura, thank you. that takes asunder a look at the weather with susan powell. we saw the rain messing with the cricket. i d say odds on we will see the covers at wimbledon within the next hour. the showers are merging their way across central england at their way across central england at the moment. not great news for haymakers. the grass still standing nicely behind in herefordshire. showers clearing eastwards in the last error. but through this week that the challenge of those showers sweeping their way through is going to stay with us. you can see a band of them here on the radar. some of them are turning to be quite heavy and thunder
across england and wales and warmer than yesterday. in scotland and northern ireland it was the warmest day of the year so far yesterday, todayis day of the year so far yesterday, today is cooler with much more cloud. not much rain left over and i think the cloud will thin and break so we should see sunshine. some cloud pushing into the far north of england, the rest of england and wales enjoying blue skies and strong sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 2&25, i7 sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 2&25, 17 or 18 sunshine, temperatures higher than yesterday, 21125, 17 or 18 scotland and northern ireland where we have the cloud. some patchy cloud overnight tonight in scotland and northern ireland, the bulk of england and wales dry, clear, no wind, temperature is probably more evenly spread overnight, 11 or 12 degrees, may be warmer in northern ireland with more cloud. i hope we should break through that cloud tomorrow more readily across northern ireland add
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she was emotionally, physically and even financially abusive. according to recent figures by the domestic abuse charity mankind, in 2019, one in three victims of domestic abuse in the uk were men. and since 200a, the number of women convicted of perpetrating domestic abuse has increased from 806 to a,9a8 in 2020. experts say the issue of male domestic abuse is only increasing in the country. we deal with a lot of clients and over the years that i have been practicing, there have been a lot. and it is very similar to when abused women speak to professionals. they are also very, initially, not willing to talk about this, for many issues. maybe there is shame, maybe they don t want to make things more difficult, but with men, there is that issue of if, i speak about this, then maybe i am branded as weak. a new service called men reaching 0ut has been launched in bradford to help tackle this growing issue and it is the first