targets linked to houthis in yemen. president biden has issued the following statement today at my direction us military forces together with the uk and support from australia, bahrain, canada and the netherlands successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in yemen used by houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation on one of the worlds most vital waterways did it let s get some immediate reaction to this development in the statement from the us president. let s quash now to washington and our correspondent there. what can you tell us? figs correspondent there. what can you tell us? correspondent there. what can you tell us? as you said we had a statement you tell us? as you said we had a statement from you tell us? as you said we had a statement from the you tell us? as you said we had a statement from the white - a statement from the white house confirming that the strikes have begun, saying it was the us, uk and lists a number of nations includ
volodymyr zelensky the president of ukraine is visiting germany. in the last hour, he was greeted by the german chancellor olaf scholtz, with whom he is now holding talks. germany has just announced its biggest sum of military aid to ukraine yet 3 billion dollars. that s about £2.1i billion. earlier, mrzelensky was received by president frank walter steinmeier. the trip comes just a day after a visit to italy, where he met the italian pm, the president and the pope. let s cross to our correspondent jenny hill in berlin. thank you forjoining us. germany is certainly pulling out all the stops for the visit of president zelensky? indeed. first of all from the formalities and ceremonial prospective he has had the thought military honours at the chancellery and he met the german president early this morning. and while he was there, president zelensky thanked there, president zelensky thanked the german people, describing germany as a true friend under a reliable ally. he
trying to approach from the north west but lots of dry weather this afternoon, the best sunshine the further south and east you sit on top temperatures are around 16 degrees. underthe on top temperatures are around 16 degrees. under the cloud, some rain by the evening approaching western scotland and northern ireland, hides between 12 and 1a. this evening and overnight cloud continues to drift east across the uk, does not look like much will get into east anglia and the south east so we could defrost towards the end of the night. generally milder elsewhere because of the wind is picking up at the cloud insulating things, temperatures in double figures. northern ireland, wet overnight and first thing on wednesday. should brighton quite quickly across the north east of scotland, pain in the south lingering in the morning, drier weather for northern ireland for the second half of the day, temperatures very similar to today. england and wales overall have more cloud and patchy ra