hello i m azadeh moshiri, welcome to the programme. we start this hour in the middle east. the united states military says it has conducted more air strikes on houthi missiles in yemen it s the latest action targeting the group backed by iran. us central command said it struck missiles which were preparing to launch against ships in the red sea. the british prime minister, rishi sunak, said thejoint air strikes were in self defence , that houthis attacks on shipping had put lives at risk, and were having economic consequences. now all this has happened as america s top diplomat us secretary of state antony blinken embarks on his fifth trip to the middle east in the past four months. tensions with iran, which, again, supports the houthis, are rising. and washington has also accused tehran of having its fingerprints on the drone attack that killed three us soldiers at a military base in jordan last week. the white house has warned that its retaliatory air strikes on targe
mr sunakjoined ministers at the executive round table this morning, sitting between the new deputy first minister, emma little pengelly, and first minister, michelle o neill. the irish taoiseach leo varadkar has also arrived at stormont. the assembly reconvened on saturday, exactly two years after the democratic unionist party walked out in protest against post brexit trade agreements. our correspondent charlotte gallagher gave us this update from stormont there has been a lot of comings and goings at stormont here this morning. firstly, rishi sunak, the british prime minister, he arrived around 8.00am, was met by chris heaton harris, the northern ireland secretary, and the speaker of the newly formed assembly. edwin poots, made his way into the building behind me to meet with parties to discuss issues. one thing we know they re going to talk about is money. as you ve hinted there, parties here don t agree on many things and that s partly why the assembly collapsed for two ye
thanks very much. we ve got a bit of sunshine breaking through the cloud today. but on the whole, it is a cloudy but very mild start to the new week. the thickest cloud is further north across northern parts of scotland. it has been very grey and gloomy and very wet. there has been over 100 millimetres of rain in highland scotland. 0rfrom that slow moving weather front producing this band of thick cloud. that move southwards over the next few days and following on from that, we see this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air isjust in this cold air moving south. at the moment, the cold air is just in the finals of scotland. way from here, we have mild south westerly winds and temperatures at 12 degrees quite widely. across england and wales, cloudy and quite windy overnight. some further light rain or drizzle here and there in the hills. but the main band of rain is moving southwards across scotland overnight into northern ireland. allowing some wintry showers in
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is now levelled at 1 1. despite a commendable batting performance from england, they were bowled out for 292, zak crawley top scoring with 73. india were impressive in their bowling, particularlyjasprit bumrah who took nine wickets. ravi ashwin also took 3 72 and is now on 499 test wickets. the series is poised at 1 1. stokes says he was encouraged by england s performance. i m happy with the way we went after that chase. that is exactly how we play cricket. when an opportunity presents itself and it s a pressure situation, i think that generally brings the best out of people. it doesn t always work, but there were a lot of times when we were on top of india and then india were able to produce something that then put them back on top. well, england won the opening test, before india took the second to level the series. it s well known that it s difficult to get a win in india, so india head coach rahul dravid has been complimentary of england s bazball approach. it is not wil