cheering. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. some beautiful weather watchers last night. as you can see from the skies, these are from highlands scotland but it s a strong our rowrah at the moment so if we get clear skies we may see it. towards the north we have that coming in to parts of scotland and perhaps a bit further south as well. we do have cloudier skies here, you see at the moment, on that weather front. lots of showers and still the remnants of the overnight rain, pacific oceany rain in the south. between it, sow good spells of sunshine and we have lost the humidity. so while we have a blustery breeze and showers continuing across scotland, northern ireland, they tend to ease, temperatures aren t quite as high, as they were last night, because we have lost the humidity. sorry, yesterday, but it feels pleasant out there. we should see evening sunshine as the showers fade away, so an opportunity to witness the northern lights in the north but not
on an unannounced stop. he said us officials were working to secure a humanitarian pause in gaza, that would advance several priorities, including getting more aid in and getting hamas hostages out. following my conversations with the prime minister and with the israeli government, this is a process. israel s raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. we ve got to answer those questions. we re working on exactly that. in fact, we agreed that our teams would get together and they re doing just that, including today, to work through the specifics of the practicalities of of these pauses. second, it s important that the pause advance a number of things. one of them is hostages. we are intensely focused the united states, israel, every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by hamas to bring them home. now, it s important that as we re engaged in pursuing humanitarian pause, this can be something that advances the prospect of
good afternoon. it s 1.30pm and here s your latest sports news. england have already lost two wickets in their second innings at lords against south africa on day three of the first test. opener zak crawley went for just 13. he was lbw off the bowling of keshav maharaj. and he got ollie pope the same way lbw forjust 5. south africa finished their first innings on 326 after england took three wickets this morning. a fantastic one handed catch from stuart broad saw kagiso rabada at lunch, england are 38 2, they trail by 123. let s take you to munich now for an update on the european championships. olympic silver medalist keely hodgkinson has qualified for the women s 800 metres final. the gb star looked relaxed as she won her semi final heat in a time of 2:00.67. she will be desperate to take gold in the final