high winds in nevada and utah in the united states have swept in a huge number of tumbleweed, causing disruption. the high winds are expected to continue and locals can expect the tumbleweed to keep on tumbling. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. no problems with high winds and tumbleweed here? quite the opposite, it is looking more calm and settled as we move through this week. quite typical of the first of meteorological spring. it is looking increasingly drier in fact as high pressure over scandinavia starts to exert its force towards our shores. but we still have low pressure round which will throw up some wind and rain towards southern and western areas as we move through the rest of today and tonight. you can see that thomas the satellite picture and also the radar, the rain moving towards south west england and south wales, a few

showers ahead of it. but notice how much sunshine there is across the country. those white speckles are the fog which we had this morning, it was a cold and frosty stock for money but at least we have plenty of sunshine across much of the uk. but the rain and the breeze continues to push into the south—west and wales. temperature rise, up to 11 or 12, pretty much where we should be for this time of year. although it will be a bit cooler further north. through this evening and overnight for cloud and the breeze and rain moves northwards, becoming confined to eastern scotland and eastern england. a few heavy showers in the channel, one or two for northern ireland. where we have clearer skies, a touch of frost, may be some fog. when we have cloud, not quite as cold. for tuesday, a couple of other fans, as cold. for tuesday, a couple of otherfans, one on as cold. for tuesday, a couple of other fans, one on the eastern side which will fizzle away and we have this other one affecting northern ireland and western scotland. this is where we are likely to see most of the cloud and showers. a rain slow to clear the east coast, i

think eventually it will do although there will be some in north—east scotland. showers across western parts of scotland, particularly northern ireland and western scotland. plenty of sunshine around but the vast majority will stay dry with some such. the temperature is 9 to 12. what we see when we are heading into wednesday, this large blocking area of high pressure over scandinavia will start to exert its force across the uk pushing france towards the atlantic. so i think wednesday looks largely dry. variable cloud, may be the odd shower across eastern scotland and eastern england. and unsure south easterly breeze. maybe the odd shower for the west country and northern ireland, was the most, largely fine and dry day, settled with sunshine. top temperatures 11 or 12. thursday and friday, the high pressure really dominates the scene so it looks like it will stay largely dry up from the jurors. brisk south easterly breeze is but there should be quite a bit of sunshine. feeling quite springlike and friday. temperature is pretty

much what we expect in early march. that's it from me. and that's bbc news at one. now it's time to join our colleagues for the news where you are. goodbye. katie boulter has got into the top 30. british athletes being tipped to shine at the olympics. a big blow to the cheltenham festival. constitution hill will not be able to defend the champion

hurdle. great britain's katie boulter has broken into the top 30 in the world for the first time after winning the second tour title if of her career. she came from a set down in the san diego open final to beat the 21—year—old ukrainian marta kostyuk. boulter won on grass last summer in the nottingham open, ultimately consistency was also one of the biggest things i wanted to go into this year with. and ifeel like i am beating people a lot higher than me, day in, day out.

that's where i need to be. but nothing stops you. it's an uphill battle and ijust want to keep going and see how far i can get, because ultimately, ijust want to do the best i can and i have always asked that of myself. katie always asked that of myself. boulter said it was a s week. she came into the tournament and ceded. a series of upsets, she beat five players inside the top a0 to lift that title. the previous title, the nottingham open, she did not have to beat a player inside the top 30. katie boulter showed resilience to come back from a set down, and

dominated, to wrap up a three set victory. she... it was a double celebration for the two of them. she is up to 27 in the world. it has been an incredible rise up the rankings for her. last year she was ranked outside the top 130, now she is 27th in the world, she has established herself as a danger to all the established seeds. she lost in qualifying at indian wells last

year, it is often known as a fifth grand slam. this time, because of a new standing in the world rankings, she was straight into the first draw is one of the seeds, and in red—hot form, as one of the ones to cause an upset. u pset. world upset. world the its president has said he is excited about british olympic prospects this summer. britain won four medals at world indoor athletics jammy chips this weekend. —— championships. she beat a work glass field. if —— world—class field. performances off the back of

budapest have been outstanding. i was lucky to be at the games are a couple of weeks ago, the two mile world record being beaten. we are heading into paris, olympic games, with the most exciting crop of athletes i have witnessed for a few generations. the crowd are on their feet. the champion— the crowd are on their feet. the champion is_ the crowd are on their feet. the champion is coming home. brilliant _ champion is coming home. brilliant performance. did not put a foot wrong — foot wrong. josh has become physically intimidating now on the track. last night there was a lot of pumping, it is a tight circuit. 3000 metres is a complicated distance in doors stop 1500 metres runners. i thought physically and mentally he had the measure of everybody in that field. he is in that purple patch on

acharya who he probably is walking into a stadium thinking he is going to win. the opposition are probably thinking that it is also the case. next week's cheltenham festival will miss one of its stars. constitution hill will not race on the opening day. his trainer says he has failed to recover sufficiently from what appears to have been a respiratory infection. he will not be ready. they give him every chance, constitution hill, but he isjust not well enough. yes, this is the news that all british racing fans have been dreading. we have known for a week at constitution hill was a serious doubt for the champion hurdle. this is not any old horse, this is the best hurdler in the world, possibly the best racehorse ever in the world. if we could justly have a bit more often to see how good he could be. but he won last years race by

nine lengths. he was one of the few bankers for british trained horses, because unfortunately we are expecting a green wash of irish trained horses stop welfare as the greatest councillor. what does it mean for the big race on the opening day? for neutrals means the big race, the cheltenham hurdle, will be more exciting. there will be more horses running in it. there may be horses such as lossiemouth that will now go back into the champion hurdle is. state man is now the favourite. what it means were constitution hill, he now has another month, hopefully he will be ready for the aintree hurdle, and that is at the grand national meeting. hopefully, fingers

crossed, but he will not be the champion hurdle. formula 1 red bull remains united after max verstappen�*s father claimed. max verstappen�*s father claimed. max verstappen led 81— to finish at the opening race in bahrain on saturday but off the track there has been to mile. that anonymous e—mail including messages purporting to involve horner was leaked on thursday a day after red bull dismissed a complaint of inappropriate behaviour against the team principal. a team spokesman said, there are no issues, the team are united, we are focused on racing. arsenal are looking to stay in touch with liverpool and manchester city, they are at bottom side sheffield united. what will it take to win the

title? i don't know. there is a lot of games coming up. we will have crazy schedules. this league might be different to last season stop anything under 90 points it will be difficult. what i see in training every day, it gives me more reasons to believe that we have a good chance, because they really want. sheffield united are in a similar position to the german sides, bottom of the table on 13 points that would united resort to this? was this after a 6—0 hammering. they were given a dressing down. that is not the manager. that was one of the supporters who was given progression to go on the pitch and

tell them what he thought. the goalkeeper who let in five in the first i was asked about the exchange. he said, there were an ambiguous words but it was not aggressive at all. that was completely fine. more on that story. you can watch it again on bbc sport website. you're watching bbc news. i'm nicky schiller. we will get to hear the government's financial plans on wednesday. speculation of course continues about what the chancellor, jeremy hunt will announce. here's what the chancellor had to say a little earlier today — on the possibility of tax cuts. we believe that if you look around

the world, the countries which are growing the fastest, whether its north america or asia, have lower taxes because that makes them more dynamic, more energetic, more entrepreneurial economy. so we do want to move to a lower taxed economy, but we're only going to do so in a way that is responsible and recognizes that there are things that taxes pay for, that we couldn't cut taxes by borrowing. we'll do so in a responsible way. but if we can spend money on public services more efficiently, then that will mean less pressure on taxpayers. labour have accused jeremy hunt of failing on work. the party has set out plans to reform opportunites for under 2as if they win the next general election. the party's shadow work secretary, liz kendall, said there will be no option of a life on benefits for young people under a labour government. official estimates say there were 851,000 young people not in employment,

education or training in the last three months of last year. a tory spokesman said labour has an "abysmal" record on youth employment. let's speak to shadow employment minister, alison mcgovern. what did you mean when you said there is no option of a life on benefits for young people under a labour government? we will not leave anybody behind. too many of our young people are getting off track. we know that covid had a massive impact on young people. there is not been enough attention of what you need to do as attention of what you need to do as a country to help those young people have a decent start in life. all the evidence is that if you start your working life with a period of unemployment that has impacts on you and your earnings for the rest of your life. what we mean by, no option, is that every young person must have a clear chance, an