pledge to stop small boats crossing the english channel, and comes as a barge, set to house hundreds of asylum seekers, approaches portland harbour in dorset. our west of england correspondent danjohnson is there. how dan johnson is there. how danjohnson is there. much longer until the barge expected how much longer until the barge is expected to arrive there. flat how much longer until the barge is expected to arrive there. not much loner. it expected to arrive there. not much longer- it is expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust off expected to arrive there. not much longer. it is just off the expected to arrive there. not much longer. it isjust off the coast - longer. it is just off the coast here. we can see it from our other camera. it is being towed from falmouth where it has been having a refit to get the capacity of the accommodation from 220 up to 500. there is nobody aboard the ship at the mome
guys try to rescue a house. but it s impossible. it guys try to rescue a house. but it s impossible. it s impossible. it was not ust it s impossible. it was not just peeple it s impossible. it was not just people forced - it s impossible. it was not just people forced to - it s impossible. it was noti just people forced to flee. these horses onlyjust made it out in time. round the mediterranean, temperature records look set to tumble. the weekend saw croatia hit a1. while china, the world s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, recorded 52 celsius, smashing their previous record. but no one on earth can compete with death valley in california. here, the fact they re fast approaching the hottest temperature ever recorded is being treated as something to celebrate. it’s something to celebrate. it s still exciting. something to celebrate. it s still exciting. again, we re getting lots of visitors who are wanting to get their picture with a thermometer. who wants to feel wha
the national trust says that the recent cold weather has delayed blossoms in many parts of the uk, but the trust also says that when the temperatures start rising, we can look forward to a riot of spring colour, like these cherry trees in shipley in west yorkshire. and talking of temperatures rising, let s get the expert view with chris. well, we had temperatures up to 16 degrees today. that was in nantwich in cheshire. that is one feature of the weather this week. it s been pretty mild so far, more of that to come. it s also been quite grey and cloudy with rain around. more of that to come as well. this month has been a pretty wet month so far. alder grove, to the west of belfast, has had one and a half times as much rainfall as we would normally see in an average march. loads more to come. that area of cloud as the rain we had today and it will continue overnight. we have weather systems lining up in the atlantic, waiting to swing in. it is across western areas of the count
something quieter tonight before the next system arrives from the atlantic ocean as we head into tomorrow. tonight, for many, plenty of clear skies across the uk. that will lead to widespread frost and ice. snow showers feeding into northern scotland. wintry showers for the western isles. hill snow across the west of england and heavy in northern ireland. these temperatures 10, ii where we have had the snow. dry for many tomorrow particularly the further east you are. more snow arriving in northern ireland and scotland. slowly turning milder through sunday. we start saturday with a good deal of sunshine. this area of rain and hill snow for south west england pushing into wales and northern ireland, could see some snow showers across far north east england and across scotland. it is drier the further east you are. minus one degree across the northern isles. i2 celsius for the isles of scilly. this band of rain and snow pushes north, bringing further snow into parts of northe
bruno fernandes added a third before wout weghorst sealed a comfortable victory. the second leg is next week. meanwhile arsenal s hopes of reaching the quarter finals hang in the balance. they drew 2 2 with sporting lisbon william saliba giving arsenal the lead in portugal. but two goals for sporting turned the tie around until this own goal from morita meant the tie finished 2 2 delicately poised heading back to north london next week. in to north london next week. europe, very difficult1 very in europe, very difficult to get very positive result that date and we come i think the game at different phases, especially since we gave too many balls away and in this competition, you have to go through difficult moments. we knew that and we had to play for the emirates and hopefully will play better and win in the end. michail antonio scored twice for west ham as they took a big step towards the quarterfinals of the europa conference league. their 2 0 win over aek larnaca