making landfall in the us for a second time hurricane ian strikes south carolina with heavy rain and powerful winds after leaving a trail of devastation in florida and cuba. and introducing 0ptimus the tech billionaire elon musk presents the latest prototype of a humanoid robot which he hopes will eliminate poverty. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukraine appears to be pressing ahead with its efforts to liberate russian held areas of the country. that s despite vladimir putin s declaration that four occupied regions are now part of russia. the ukrainian military now says it has encircled russian forces in the strategic eastern town of lyman. and the ukrainian flag has been raised on the outskirts. it s impossible to independently verify the claims. 0ur correspondent, hugo bachega, is following developments from kyiv. ukrainians are saying that this changes nothing, everything that happened in moscow yesterday was a farce, that the annou
the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. members of four unions are taking part in the strike in a long running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. 0ur transport correspondent, katy austin reports. another train strike and it s the biggest yet. karen from staffordshire is running the london marathon tomorrow to fund raise for the hospital where she had breast cancer treatment. news of the strike meant she had to make other plans to get there. so for me, this just blew everything apart. i couldn t even begin to think of how we would get there. so ijust worried, until we knew what our plan was, ijust panicked, just worried about it. the red lines on this map are the only parts of the rail network which do have services today. where trains are running, they started a lot later than usual and they ll finish a lot earlier than normal as well. there are no trains running between london and some
and the desert island and the team are doing so well at the moment that the other teams might as well not show up ireland and their team. sarah keith lucas has all the weather. sarah. the strong winds have moved away but we have lots of wintry weather on the cards with snowfall and ice and i will bring you all those details in halfan i will bring you all those details in half an hour. some day their prince will come but crowds gathering in cardiff for prince harry and his bride to be meghan markle will have to wait a bit longer because the royals‘ train is running an hour late. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. i m simon mccoy. the french president, emmanuel macron, is in the uk for a summit with theresa may and it s an important one for both countries. the leaders will be concentrating on what could be a crucial relationship once britain leaves the eu. they already have strong security links, underlined today by the first ever meeting of the quint , the heads of
for cumbria down towards cornwall. and it is pretty mild, 13 degrees is the high and belfast. into the evening, the rain in the north west pushes south and east. it merges with an area of cloud and rain in the south east. skies clearing from the south east. skies clearing from the north west overnight. staying cloudy with that a patchy outbreaks. but we start tuesday with a frost free start, cloud and rain lingering in east anglia towards kent. but away from the selfies, not a bad day. more sunshine than there is today, temperatures down. many of us in double figures, but cooler in the east coast on tuesday. eventually, we lose the cloud and the wet weather from southern and eastern parts overnight heading into wednesday, the winds falling quite light so we re clear spells, a chilly night. a frost in scotland and northern ireland. milderfurther south first thing on wednesday, but likely to see some mist and fog lingering. wednesday is largely dry, with mist dan fog and low cl