on twitter @annitabbc. a decision is expected today over whether hundreds of gmb union members working as check in and ground staff at heathrow airport will take strike action. the taliban appeals for international help in afghanistan after a powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people. we are desperately trying to work with local partners to get through that rubble and see if there are any survivors that we can administer first aid to get to local hospitals. borisjohnson arrives in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government with food security, climate change and the government s migrants policy expected to be on the agenda. polls have opened in two parliamentary by elections which are taking place today in wakefield, and tiverton and honiton. eight medical staff who treated the football legend diego maradona in the days before he died are to stand trial for alleged criminal negligence. dat two of glastonbury gets underway. more than 200 thousand fest
oui’ across western areas and no longer our temperature is particularly high. stilla our temperature is particularly high. still a residual warmth left in lincolnshire and maybe east anglia tomorrow and on friday that s when we are going to see showers moving through glastonbury, so i think that mud potential is rising, or thinking, think that mud potential is rising, orthinking, depending think that mud potential is rising, or thinking, depending on your point of view, of course. so yeah, i think the breeze is certainly on the way and with a bit of luck not too many showers. so, here is the forecast for saturday. low pressure over ireland, it s not moving, it will still be here on sunday and probably monday more or less as well and that basically means an increasing breeze around western areas, showers, and look at these modest temperatures, 16 in plymouth, 16 in belfast, with just approaching 20 degrees in the midlands, where today it will actually be in the high 20s and
Yeah, its great. Nice to see you. Some Breaking News for you, official figures released in the last hour show the uk economy is no longer in recession. The economy grew by 0. 6 in the first three months of this year. The uk entered recession after output fell during two consecutive quarters at the end of last year. Most economists had predicted growth of 0. 4 . This is the fastest growth rate for more than two years. Well, i think its encouraging that we, in the last quarter, have grown faster notjust in france and germany, but also the United States. But i think more significant is the longer term data that is coming out now about the uk economy. We can see that since 2010 we have created morejobs in the uk than anywhere else in europe. Weve attracted more greenfield foreign direct investment, notjust done anywhere in europe, but anywhere in the world outside of the United States and china. In terms of the most rapidly growing industries, we have by far the largest Tech Industry in eu
0ver six months, gaza has been ravaged by war, disease, death and now imminent famine, caused by israels siege. The un calls it a betrayal of humanity. Kibbutz nir oz, right on israels border with gaza, feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed and actually the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. The interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. Going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very