to the lord for peace. turkey s president recep erdogan has addressed supporters on the last day of campaigning before sunday s election. he accused his opponent of planning to sanction russia on the orders of america. mr erdogan s party has been in power for more than 20 years. final preparations are taking place in the english city of liverpool for the eurovision song contest s grand final. the event is being held in britain on behalf of ukraine last year s winners. the pop band tvorchi is presenting this year s ukrainian entry entitled heart of steel . now on bbc news playing for ukraine following a group of ukrainian refugee actors living in the uk, as they prepare to premier a brand new play as part of liverpool s eurovision festival . for over a month, we ve been following a group of ukrainian refugees all seven of them prominent actors and directors in their home country. my life back in ukraine was tightly connected with theatre. they faced unprecedent
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when the may sunshine comes out from the word go in the west will feel pleasantly warm with temperatures widely in the high teens, low 20s, could be make it 22 in northern ireland, the warmest day of the year so far. second half of the week in, a cold front moving in across the north west of the uk dropping rain and temperatures. the rain milking into wales and north west england but ahead of that we are into the warm air across central and eastern england with temperatures reaching the low 20s but much cooler for scotland and northern ireland across the second half of the weekend. before i go i wanted to show you this, a dangerous looking cyclone set make landfall around myanmar, bangladesh border region, and this is home to hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees and the weather looks pretty atrocious over the next few days with some very serious weather impacts potentially. thanks, chris. could the us government really run out of money in less than three weeks? if congr
From a crucial scottish by election. What will it tell us about the prospects for labour and the snp . Stand by your Election Night coverage starts here. Party strategists at labour and the snp will be burning the midnight oil, working what todays crunch vote in scotland tells them about the next General Election. Nicks there and has read the runes. Both horses in this two horse race agree on the winner labour. Now a new race is under way Expectation Management. Snp and labour mps are with us to discuss whether labour is indeed about to carry this off. Also tonight, 51 people are killed in a strike that hit a cafe in kharkiv, while president zelensky meets european leaders gathered in spain. Are ukraines western allies still committed to the fight . We must not allow putin to destabilise any other part of the world and our partners in order to ruin europes power. We speak to the exiled Opposition Leader of belarus. And americas greens agonise about Mining Lithium for car batteries. Is
father, because he is a soldier. not together to gether , sound it out. yurii sjob is to get the play from the rehearsal room and onto the stage injust four weeks. maria is the story of a woman, and her life was, like, 72 years. and this is story from the birth to the death and how russian occupants break her life like, break ukraine. and this story will be about the hardest page of our history i mean, holodomor. the holodomor, literally translated by to kill by hunger was a soviet engineered famine of the 1930s. being the largest grain producer in the soviet union, ukraine was subject to higher grain quotas than other regions, leading to fewer crops for ukrainians, and causing mass starvation