hit the french riviera red carpet as the film receives its premier at the 75th annual cannes film festival. and how to stop the bees from buzzing off. with a fall in global bee colonies, we use world bee day to look at the importance of these pollinators. hello and welcome to the programme. the most seniorfigure in the us congress, nancy pelosi, has warned that the uk will lose out on a free trade deal if it scraps post brexit trading arrangements in northern ireland. the speaker of the us house of representatives said the northern ireland protocol preserved the good friday agreement, which she described as the bedrock of the peace process. let s get more from our north america correspondent, david willis. what s your assessment of the significance of these comments from the speaker? these are very stern comments from, as you say, one of the most powerful politicians in this country, the speaker of the house of commons that it is, nancy pelosi, a warning house of represent
hello there. governments around the world should subsidise food and edgy for the poorest members of society to double the cost of living crisis. that s the call from the head of the international monetary fund. she is concerned that if central banks raise interest rates too aggressively to tackle elation, stoked by the war in ukraine, they could cause recessions. she says any financial help from governments must be carefully targeted to avoid making inflation worse. they ought to care for and review who and what to support, to prevent the tightening of financial conditions and the shock but inflation is now causing one confidence, to turn what is still a positive world projection into the recession, you rightly are concerned about. so we say to our members, be very careful how much you spend and what for you stand. there are two priorities. one, the very poor people, segments of society that are now struggling with high food and energy prices. for people for whom this is like
south east 14 in the central belt of scotland. and we ve got a spell of rain in the evening, running eastwards across scotland, northern england. once that moves away, we ll have some clearer skies overnight, with a few showers left over in western parts of scotland by saturday morning and by then, temperatures will be around 9 11 celsius. this is the pattern that we ve got as we head into the weekend. higher pressure to the south of the uk, with a west to south westerly airflow and some weather fronts approaching northern areas, so expect a lot of cloud for northern ireland. we may well see a little bit of rain here. a bright start, i think, in scotland those showers in the west being replaced by thicker cloud and some outbreaks of rain in the afternoon. england and wales, a good chance of staying dry, some good spells of sunshine coming through, and those temperatures reaching 21 degrees in the south east. still only around 14 in the central belt of scotland. second half of the w
it there. thank you for your contribution. headlines coming up contribution. headlines coming up very soon, goodbye. hello, there. the weather is certainly a bit up and down at the moment. we had a pretty good day on thursday with sunshine across much of the country temperatures into the low 20s but after a much quieter night, things will change again on friday with more cloud, it s going to be cooler and breezy, and there will be some rain around at times. now, we ve got a weather front approaching the north west of the uk to bring some rain. we re also seeing more cloud moving up from the south across england and wales, starting to bring some rain by the morning. we will get wetter in the morning across the south east of england, then into east anglia. some thunderstorms just across the channel. as it gets wetter here, we ll start to see some sharp showers breaking out elsewhere. a spell of rain moves across northern ireland into western scotland and north west england in the aft
but that s all from me for now. hello there. it should be a frost free start to thursday. we ve still got some strong winds in the north, and a band of cloud, light and patchy rain is continuing southwards across england and wales. that ll eventually clear away from southern parts of england. sunshine then follows on. still a few more showers continuing, mainly in northern and western scotland, but the winds will continue to ease. even though it s a northwesterly wind, it s not going to feel particularly chilly. it will feel cooler, though, than of late across northern parts of scotland. as the winds ease overnight, it could get quite chilly across england and wales. 1 2 mist and fog patches too. then if we look out into the atlantic, we ve got more weather systems mainly to bring some rain into scotland on friday, but also drawing in some very mild south westerly winds. a chilly start, though, for england and wales. mist and fog will soon lift, some early sunshine and we may keep the