more rain across east scotland so more rain across east scotland and north—east england. western areas have the best of the dry and bright weather with some sunshine, and quite a range of temperatures. so it will feel quite chilly for newcastle and edinburgh. the weekend, the same weatherfront is still on the charts, still pestering us with further rain. the rain becomes more expensive across england as it moves back westwards. it will probably reach wales as we go through the day. across scotland and northern ireland that they will have the best of the dry weather but some sunshine. temperatures come down a bit and for many, it's going to be a cool day on saturday. there could also be mist and fog patches first thing in the morning to watch for. on sunday, the front is probably still going to be across parts of england as we start the day, so there could be extensive rain initially before it starts to slide down towards south—west england. the best of the dry and

bright weather will be across the north—west of the country. so for the rest of scotland and northern england, we are looking at fine weather and sunny spells. for other areas of england and wales, it should brighten up gradually as we go through the day. then a quick look ahead to next week. that area of high pressure to our east is going to start to move over to west russia. we then get these cold easterly winds. so although for the first part of next week, there should be dry weather with sunshine, there will be that chilly wind blowing and perhaps some mist patches and low cloud across our north coastal areas.— north coastal areas. chris, thank ou ve north coastal areas. chris, thank you very much- _ a reminder of our top story... russian troops have taken control of a key city, kherson — the first major urban area now under the control of the russian army. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s

news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. the impact that the war in ukraine is having on sport continues to dominate, with the news this morning that the international paralympic committe has now banned russian and belarushian athletes from competing in the winter games which start in beijing tomorrow. yesterday the ipc decided to allow athletes from those countries to compete in the winter paralympics — albeit under a neutralflag — and not featuring on the medals table. however, it was heavily criticised by its own members and so this morning has changed its stance. in the last 12 hours, an overwhelming number of our members have been in touch with us and been very open, for which i'm grateful. they have told us that if we do not

reconsider our decision it is now likely to have great consequences for the beijing 2022 paralympic winter games. multiple national paralympic committees — some of which have been contacted by the governments, teams and athletes — are expressing the intention not to compete. ensuring the safety and security of athletes is of paramount importance to us, and the situation in the athletes' village is escalated and has now become untenable. one of britain's greatest paralympic athletes, baroness tanni grey thompson, said it was the correct move, even if she did have sympathy for russian and belarusian athletes. it's the right decision, i mean i think what the ipc were faced with were multiple countries refusing to compete, almost every medal event could have been affected. would overshadow everything and i think also, i mean what andrew parsons said about the village, it is not a big village at the winter game, you

know, you, you are in close proximity, you eat in the same tent and it would be almost impossible to keep athletes apart. there might be some russian athletes who wouldn't want to compete. although it is leyte have got to the right decision in the end. we had already had confirmation from formula one that the russian grand prix in sochi would not be going ahead this september — well, today formula i terminated its contract with the russian grand prix, which means there will no longer be a race in st petersburg, where it was due to move in 2023. the sport's commercial arm, which controls the calendar, decided racing in the country would be impossible in the wake of the invasion of ukraine. president vladimir putin is closely associated with the race — he was instrumental in bringing it to russia in 2014. the decision means fi will not race in russia for the foreseeable future. thomas tuchel says it's "not sunk in" that chelsea owner roman abramovich is selling the club, with the manager now expecting "a big change". in a statement on the club's website, businessman abramovich said it was an "incredibly difficult

decision to make", which "pains" him. it's thought abramovich is under pressure to sell after the threat of sanctions was raised in parliament. the russian says proceeds of the sale will be donated to victims of the war in ukraine. former england captain alan shearer says it won't be resolved quickly. he's brought massive success over his 20 years, but it's not as simple as say, selling a football club as we know, it can take months or even years to sell a football club, but i think more importantly, there's still, still no condemnation from roman or the club, about what's happening in ukraine. more details on that and more on the website. let's get more on our top story.

the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has addressed president putin directly in a new video clip, saying that russia will pay ukraine back fully for what it has done against the state. but moscow remains defiant — its foreign minister, sergei lavrov, has this morning insisted that ukraine's aspiration to join nato is a threat to russian security. fighting continues in and around cities in eastern, southern and northern ukraine. kyiv remains under ukrainian control, but the southern port of kherson has become the first major city to be taken by the russians. the mayor there said russian troops had forced their way into the city council building. there were major blasts in kyiv overnight — ukraine officials say they were caused by air defence systems striking down russian missiles. there was heavy shelling in the country's second city kharkiv and hundreds of people are feared dead in the port city of mariupol, after a sustained bombardment. officials say that russian forces are trying to create a blockade, and the city needs a ceasefire to get power abd water supplies restored.

uk and us sources say the huge russian convoy that's about 30 kilometres from the heart of kyiv is still held up by local resistance, mechanical problems, and congestion. the un says a million refugees have now left ukraine since the russian invasion began. an investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine has begun by the international criminal court in the hague. and the international paralympic committee has said russian and belarusian athletes will be banned from the winter paralympics that start in beijing on friday. so let's take a look at the current situation in ukraine. so far, these areas in red are those which are largely controlled by russian forces. president zelensky insisted ukrainians would not give up defending their country. translation: we did not give anything to them, the up the defence of odesa, they won't to destroy our odesa, but they will see only the bottom

of the black sea, because they are the rock bottom. the cathedral in kharkiv became the target. that is the oldest, one of the oldest orthodox memorials in ukraine, currently used as a shelter for the residents of kharkiv, for those who believe and those who don't, because everyone is equal and that is a holy place now struck by war. they are not even afraid of that, they're using the fact that god did not have an immediate rebuff, however god sees everything and god responds. and you would not be able to hide from that. not in any bunker, from god's response. we will make sure to restore everything to erase old traces of war. you could destroy all our ukrainian cathedrals and churches, we will not destroy our faith, our sincere faith in ukraine and in god.

faith in people. we will restore every building, every street, every town, we are saying to russia, learn the word reparations and contributions, because you will compensate us everything you've done against our state, against every ukrainian in full and those who died will never be forgotten. we are together with god. you came to destroy our cities, to destroy our people, to take everything from us that we hold dear. you are cutting electricity, water, heating, to peaceful restidents. you are leaving people without food. you're leaving us without medicine. you are shelling at the routes that could be used for evacuation. there is no weapon that you haven't used against us. speaking at a debate of the un

human rights council, russia's envoy denounced ukraine and the west, while ukraine's deputy foreign minister accused russian troops of carrying out war crimes in her country, and called for the perpetrators to be held to account. emine dzhaparova talked of her personal experience of having to flee her home in crimea in 2014. because of the russian aggression, i know what it means to lose your home. i have this personal pain since 2014, when i left my home at crimea, with my daughter, with a cat in the basket and two cars full of books and clothes. and i wish no—one to live through it ever. russian bombs are destroying the cities an villages of my home land, targeting residential area, school, orphanages, hospital o church, museum, central squares, and critical infrastructure. we did not

to provoke it. wejust critical infrastructure. we did not to provoke it. we just strive to live independently, and to build up ourfuture as we live independently, and to build up our future as we see it, as we want, not our neighbour. the only reason why this is taking place, is because a group of war criminals with a nexuses to the nuclear button concluded that our people are too weak to resist and to fight and the world will not care. they put themselves about the international law, and above the rules based order. but ukraine is resisting is and our international coalition is strengthening the every day, the overwhelming support in the united nations general assembly that we saw yesterday, by the vote, is yet another testify of this fact. the very reaction of you, mr president, you madame high commissioner and and those who were in the haul, when all of those in the hall stood up and

gave us great applause, is yet another act of ole gunnar solskjaer carty and i was so emotional to so the video sent to me, i am very thankfulfor the video sent to me, i am very thankful for the solidarity. mr president, recent events clearly point to the fact that the russian troops fighting in ukraine carry out the most blatant violation and abuses of human right, systemically engage in acts that clearly amount to war crimes, and crimes against humanity. we thank the high commissioner and the human rights council special procedures for their objective assessment of the situation. we also wish to acknowledge the important legal focus of the russian aggression central scotland against ukraine by the international court ofjustice, the international court ofjustice, the prosecutor of the international criminal court and european court of human rights. we believe the human rights council has a leading role to play in

uniting the efforts for ensuring accountability of russia for its crimes against my country. this is the reason why, at the end of this urgent debate, the council will consider a resolution, establishing the commission of inquiry into violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, stemming from russia's war. we humanitarian law, stemming from russia's war-— russia's war. we believe this initiative will _ russia's war. we believe this initiative will become - russia's war. we believe this initiative will become a - russia's war. we believe this initiative will become a nextl russia's war. we believe this - initiative will become a next step with concrete practical implication in continuation of the un general assembly resolution, called aggression against ukraine, adopted yesterday, with overwhelming majority of un member states. mr president, i wish to take this opportunity to thank all of those colleagues from different regions of the world, that expressed numerous words of encourage. to us, and the ukrainian people, over the last week and for your strong solidarity with my country. this is the very moment

of truth not only for my country thatis of truth not only for my country that is striving for survival but for the international human rights system and its fundamental institutions and for those who were entrusted to promote human rights, as members of this council and this extraordinary moment we must stand together, to ensure accountability, or the war criminals spilling the blood of ukrainian children, barbarians, should not and have no seatin barbarians, should not and have no seat in the alliance of civilisations room. seat in the alliance of civilisations room. general sir richard dannatt, who was head of the british army from 2006 and 2009, has been speaking to the bbc today and gave this assessment of the threat of the conflict in ukraine becoming nuclear.

well, this is i'm afraid is an extremely worrying dimension to the whole problem and i'm afraid it's a fact of life that a western doctrine as far as the use of nuclear weapons is different from the russian doctrine. they integrate into normal war fighting procedures smaller tactical nuclear weapons. so, it is not the major crossing of the rubicon that we believe in the west, they don't see it the same way. now, i hope to goodness they don't seriously consider or even use even the small nuclear weapons. that is crossing a line that has not been crossed since 1945 injapan. but we have to take the threat seriously. and the worrying thing is that everything that vladimir putin has threatened to do, whether it is going into georgia, whether it is now indeed coming into ukraine, whether it's going into crimea, he has done. so, we have to listen to his words very carefully and hope that there are some more rational people by his side in the kremlin that would prevent actually doing in desperation something that he might be otherwise tempted to do. a small weapon would devastate an area of a kilometre or a couple of kilometres, but it would also release a major

release of... ..the kind of negative energy which is so damaging. chernobyl was a case in point when, ok, that was a nuclear plant, but even a small weapon would release a lot of radiation which itself would be extraordinarily harmful to anyone who took it in in a major dose. so, even a small tactical weapon would be hugely dangerous, contaminate the area for a very long time in which it was used. to my mind, if he is being at all rational and he is determined to show that he has nuclear intentions, the least damaging thing would be a demonstrable use somewhere in a desert or maybe out to sea to show that he should be taken seriously. but, frankly, it's a breach of rational thought and it is worrying. we have to hope and pray that this does not happen.

amidst the war, ukrainian journalist angelina kariakina got married to her husband yuri zozulya under martial law. they had a five—minute ceremony and were married by the chief of traffic police. i'm joined by angelina now. first of all, congratulations to you, and your husband, tell us about your wedding. you, and your husband, tell us about your wedding-— your wedding. thank you so much, well we weren't _ your wedding. thank you so much, well we weren't planning _ your wedding. thank you so much, well we weren't planning on - your wedding. thank you so much, j well we weren't planning on having your wedding. thank you so much, l well we weren't planning on having a wedding in the middle of the war, we have been engaged for some time, now, and we were planning a wedding with ourfriends, with now, and we were planning a wedding with our friends, with our families, somewhere in a nice place, but after short deliberations, for no specific reason, we decided that it might be a good time to do that, and to have this little ray of light, in the middle of everything that is happening, ray of light for us, personally, and for the people who

are surrounding us, yuri is the head of kyiv control police who are right now at the front line of —— front line of the resistance, of defendting the capital. i myself run news at the public broadcaster so i have a pretty big team toe take care of, and i didn't expect, but it turned out to be really something nice, and something warm for many people that we know. of course, we were missed ourfamilies, they are not with us, they are not in the capital, we missed ourfriends, but still, i am capital, we missed ourfriends, but still, iam pretty capital, we missed ourfriends, but still, i am pretty sure it was a good, a good thing to do for the people that we love, and for each other. , ., . ., people that we love, and for each other. , ., u, ., other. tell us who carried out the ceremony — other. tell us who carried out the ceremony for— other. tell us who carried out the ceremony for you. _ other. tell us who carried out the ceremony for you. well, - other. tell us who carried out the ceremony for you. well, first - other. tell us who carried out the ceremony for you. well, first of l other. tell us who carried out the l ceremony for you. well, first of all we went to — ceremony for you. well, first of all we went to the _ ceremony for you. well, first of all we went to the civil— ceremony for you. well, first of all we went to the civil registration i we went to the civil registration office so it was a civil short act, that they gave us, you know, the

papers, the ladies who are working there there, they were asking us, how long the war will, whether we know, you know, what is coming, whether there will be any air strikes coming in the night in kyiv. the ladies who are working in this office they were all living in the neighbourhood, living their kids in the basements, just to make sure that the office of civil registration is running, so they register births, they register death, they register marriages, everyone during the war, they keep on working but their kids are closed down in basements for safety, and after that, down in basements for safety, and afterthat, it down in basements for safety, and after that, it was like i don't know, a very very short celebration and the commander of my husband, who is the head of patrol police of ukraine, and he's a former military, i don't know if it is right to say,

a former military probably, he is a military tricks himself, who took a part in defending donbas in 2014, don necessary airport, we have this word calling the people and the way they defended the airports cyborgs so he is one to have cyborgs, so he came and he said according to the martial law, he has the power to pronounce us husband and wife, and he gave out, us a specific act, a document, proclaiming us wife and husband, so it was, it was also very very something warm and unexpected for us both. i very something warm and unexpected for us both. ., very something warm and unexpected for us both. . ., , for us both. i imagine he was delighted _ for us both. i imagine he was delighted to _ for us both. i imagine he was delighted to do _ for us both. i imagine he was delighted to do something i for us both. i imagine he wasj delighted to do something so for us both. i imagine he was i delighted to do something so up lifting. tell us what you were wearing, because it is an an interesting mix of something a bit bridle and something very civilian. i am —— bridle and something very civilian. iam —— bridal. iam bridle and something very civilian. i am —— bridal. i am wearing the

same clothes right now for almost five days i think, so it is the same clothes i have been wearing yesterday, and the police that we went to have this like ten minute celebration, it's, it's a restaurant, o yes, something like a restaurant, o yes, something like a restaurant, where people are cooking meals for the military, for the police, and for the territorial defence, who are defending kyiv, so they turned out, it turned out they have a veil, it was like something someone left after some show or celebration, so i didn't have a veil but they brought it to me and they said hey, we have a veil, o do you want to wear it? so it was kind of funny and very nice, so i had the symbolic veil. my friend, who came to see me, she cut down her home orchids, the orchids that were growing in herflat, and she gave me

sorted of this bridal, you know, flowers, that is it. nothing else. but it is lovely you were able to have those little touches, in such a strange situation and you both look extremely happy. what have your families said? mr; extremely happy. what have your families said?— extremely happy. what have your families said? ~ , ., . ., families said? my mother cried are, reall . i families said? my mother cried are, really- i ask — families said? my mother cried are, really. i ask her _ families said? my mother cried are, really. i ask her why _ families said? my mother cried are, really. i ask her why she _ families said? my mother cried are, really. i ask her why she is - families said? my mother cried are, really. i ask her why she is crying, l really. i ask her why she is crying, why she is not, why is she not celebrating, she said i cannot celebrate because i'm not there, so, actually it was a very hard moment for me, i thought that she will b i mean she is, she is very happy, but, she was crying because she couldn't be here with us r we got lots of, you know warm reaction from our friends and family, but of course for them it was very very hurtful they couldn't be here with us. but i

am sure they _ they couldn't be here with us. but i am sure they understood. mums are always upset about things like this, aren't they, but what in an ideal world, what would you choose, how will you mark it, when things settle down and we don't know when that is going to be, but what would you choose? ~ . ., , choose? well, we decided for sure that we will _ choose? well, we decided for sure that we will be _ choose? well, we decided for sure that we will be celebrating - choose? well, we decided for sure that we will be celebrating the - that we will be celebrating the wedding together, with the victory, having as much of our friends and people who are around us helping so many people all together. i don't know what is the possible place to have them all there, because there are so, so many people who are here and who arejust, are so, so many people who are here and who are just, just incredibly great. incredibly helpful, incredibly brave, so, we would love to have the celebration together with the celebration of the victory, which we believe, which we believe will come soon, because apart from,

you know, this little news story i am sharing with you, i'm a journalist myself, i am covering what is happening in ukraine, what is taking place here in ukraine, working under the curfew, trying to see as much as i can, the bravery, and the things that we witness today, in ukraine, arejust incredible. i cannot tell you how many people are doing things for each other, all together. how much solidarity is there. how many restaurants and businesses are helping each other, preparing food, giving away, giving away even, you know, designer clothes, designer coats, really expensive, some shops like really expensive shops gave way their very expensive clothes to the guysin their very expensive clothes to the guys in the territorial defence, it is cold in kyiv and it is snowing so they gave it away, how much bravery

and solidarity is there and how much civil resistance, i know we are all, military expert, our military experts, the whole world is talking and analysing this like military force, that russia is using against ukraine, but apart from that, which we hope will be in force by our, by the whole world, the there is also enormously strong civil resistance, probably you saw the shots of people, footages of people, small villages anderstowns, who with their bare hands are stopping down tanks, stopping down army, it isjust incredible. tote stopping down army, it is “ust incredible.�* stopping down army, it is “ust incredible. ., ., ., , ., incredible. we are doing our bit to re ort all incredible. we are doing our bit to report all of— incredible. we are doing our bit to report all of these _ incredible. we are doing our bit to report all of these aspects - incredible. we are doing our bit to report all of these aspects of - incredible. we are doing our bit to report all of these aspects of this | report all of these aspects of this war. we appreciate you talking to us, we are delighted we have been able to share in this bit of happiness and congratulates to you and your husband.— and your husband. thank you for havin: and your husband. thank you for having me- _ and your husband. thank you for having me. pleasure. _ having me. pleasure. how nice. _ how nice. breaking new, we are hearing that

ukrainian delegation has arrived for talk was russia that will be taking place in belarus, this is the reuters news agency quoting tass, the russian news agency, these are from monday when talks were taking place, we are also hearing that the ukraine parliament has approved a law that will allow the seizure of assets is owned by russia or russian citizens in ukraine, part of very global efforts really, to seize assets as part of varying types of sanctions. so two pieces of breaking news there now, i think we can show you the scene, live in the ukraine capital kyiv now, which is where we were talking to our last guest. it is still snowing as you can see, kyiv remains in government control and the large russian armoured convoy we have been watching, still

remains quite a few kilometres away. said to be beset with sort of maintenance problem, congestion on the road, widely explained on social media as well, that mud is stopping some of these vehicles from moving and also armed resistance like we heard. russian forces have taken control of kherson in the south which is the first major city to fall. if they capture more southern cities, ukrainian forces could be cut off from the sea. mariupol a strategic port, a place where residents are trapped by intense shelling so just some of the latest developments from ukraine. much more coverage here in the hours ahead. do stay with us. now it is time for a look at the weather with chris. the cloud is e thick enough to bring rain. this was the scene earlier in herefordshire, a damp and misty

start here but it is not like that everywhere. in northern ireland we have glorious sunshine and it should last all day, also we have brighter weather affecting partings of east anglia, south—east england running into lincolnshire, but the west weather stretching up from wales into north—west england, eastern areas of scot where it will be cool. part of the midlands getting up to seven or eight for example. overnight tonight, ourslow—moving overnight tonight, our slow—moving weather front overnight tonight, ourslow—moving weather front barely budges more rain for east scotland. the rain getting into eastern areas as well. further west could see frost patches, maybe a few fog patches round, and here a chilly start to friday but it is in western areas that will have the best of the sunshine tomorrow. the wettest weather east scotland. i will be cool weather east scotland. i will be cool, highs of six in newcastle

this is bbc news, i'm lyse this is bbc news, i'm lyse doucet live in ukraine doucet live in ukraine where russian troops have taken where russian troops have taken control of a key city. now under the control, control of a key city. kherson in the south has fallen. kherson in the south has fallen. russian soldiers are on the streets. russian soldiers are on the streets.

it's the first major urban area, it's the first major urban area, now under the control, of the russian army. the strategic port of mariupol, has come under heavy fire, the battle for the city is intense. ukraine's president says the invaders will not win. "we will rebuild every single house, every single street, every single city." and we say to