parliament in sri lanka has voted for prime minister ranil wickremesinghe to become the country s new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. he faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse, and restoring order. now it is time for empire and me. i m de graft mensah podcaster, presenter and proud british ghanaian. i m going to be leaving behind my dayjob and heading to west africa for the first time since i was nine. the murder of george floyd and the anti racism protests that followed led people to start to question britain s history, as well as its actions abroad when it had an empire. and it led me to want to find out more. i know that ghana used to be part of the british empire, so i want to discover what that meant for the country. i want to learn why britain made ghana part of its empire, how it affected the ghanaian people, and what impact it had on my own family. i ve made the 3,000 mile journey to accra, the capital of ghana, somew
widespread rain, we could do with some widespread rain but the showers will be hit and miss. some of them perhaps from the re and against standard temperatures for the time of year, around 23 also in london, 19 in liverpool, high teens for glasgow and edinburgh as well. toward the weekend this area of approaches so we do expect for cloud and outbreaks of rain move across ireland and into the north parts of the uk but ahead of it this south westerly breeze will scoop up some hot airfrom france breeze will scoop up some hot air from france so breeze will scoop up some hot airfrom france so by breeze will scoop up some hot air from france so by the time we get to sunday we could start to see these temperatures climbing across the south east and extend. as the area of low pressure onset of the night into sunday moves north, the wind for the south increases and drawers in the former continental airfrom the and drawers in the former continental air from the south but how warm it gets is stil