A warm welcome to the programme. We begIn wIth North Korea. It claIms to have carrIed out successful long Range CruIse MIssIle tests over the weekend, accordIng to State MedIa. The report saId the mIssIles flew 1500 kIlometres before hIttIng theIr targets and fallIng Into terrItorIal waters. Pyongyang has contInued to develop Its arsenal despIte beIng subject to strIct InternatIonal sanctIons. We can go to seoul now to speak to our correspondent, laura bIcker. What more can you tell us . I thInk one of the bIggest questIons I get asked Is how BIg A deal Is thIs . FIrstly, thIs Is the fIrst tIme that North Korea has launched a long Range CruIse MIssIle whIch It says Is capable of a strategIc weapon, they descrIbe It, whIch means In North Korean terms that It Is capable, they claIm, of holdIng a nuclear warhead. Now, we dont know If North Korea has the capacIty to scale down, to shrInk down, nuclear warhead and put It on such a CruIse MIssIle that they are claImIng that It Is nuclear cap
Eastern and Southern England see the heaviest of the Rain And Thundery downpours mixed in through the morning and into the afternoon, confined towards eastern england. Southern and western areas improving, perhaps sunshine and if that happens, perhaps i was breaking out. Disappointing temperatures with The Rain, the brighter spots around 20 degrees. The low pressure clears away tuesday into wednesday and thursday, running into this ridge of high pressure. There will be quite quite a bit of cloud around, but a lot quieter, lighter winds, sunshine coming through. The best day for the sunny spells is thursday with quite a lot of misty and murky conditions on wednesday. But temperatures respond and feel pleasantly warm. All change by The End of the week with a new area of low pressure, a new Weather Front sweeping into western areas with heavy rain pushing towards the east late in the day. Hello and welcome to sportsday im chetan pathak, coming up on the programme. A day in the new life of