will understand the sacrifice was not for nothing. i don't know what the future holds for us. marina ovsyannikova speaking to our moscow correspondent caroline davies. the actor peter bowles, who starred in the bbc sitcom to the manor born, has died of cancer at the age of 85. it's a multinational operation, it could be here of timbuktu. i it's a multinational operation, it could be here of timbuktu. i hear other some _ could be here of timbuktu. i hear other some excellent _ could be here of timbuktu. i hear other some excellent properties. could be here of timbuktu. i hearl other some excellent properties in timbuktu — bowles played self—made businessman richard devere alongside dame penelope keith in the show, which aired from 1979 to 1981. he began his long stage career at the old vic theatre in 1956, with his last appearance in the exorcist at the phoenix theatre at the age of 81. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes.

he has a picture of northamptonshire. yes, proof that even puddles can be pretty. the early morning sunshine, blue skies reflected beautifully on the still waters of this big puddle which came to us courtesy of the deluge that we had yesterday. across parts of southern england, the midlands, we had the best part of an inch of rain, 2a millimetres in parts of dorset. but there is a big change in our weather patterns and where it has been wet over recent days the weather is looking largely dry for the next week or so. the change is brought about by this developing big area of high pressure. come the weekend, quite an intense area of high pressure with a central pressure around 1050 millibars. today, we have a lot of rain in the forecast, a narrow band of rain is moving across scotland and northern ireland and bringing about ten to 15 minutes of rain.

that's moving into northern ireland. a few showers elsewhere. stays quite windy for western scotland, gusts of 40-50 windy for western scotland, gusts of 40—50 miles an hour. across most areas of england and wales, lots of sunshine, temperature is about 12-14. it will sunshine, temperature is about 12—111. it will feel pleasant in the sunshine, the wind is quite light at the south. overnight tonight, high pressure with us. it will turn quite cold with a widespread frost across northern areas, the frost more patchy in the south, but they could be some mist and fog patches developing particularly around the welsh marches and somerset levels as well. forsome welsh marches and somerset levels as well. for some a murky start to friday morning but the mist and fog will lift and clear and we are looking at spring sunshine. not a lot of cloud. temperatures coming up a few degrees, high is potentially reaching 15 in liverpool, birmingham, cardiff, and 16 in london. there is fine and sunny settled weather looks set to last into the first part of the weekend as well. the winter is coming in from an easterly direction, that will keep some of the eastern coasts of scotland and england a little bit

fresher with temperatures for these areas around 12 degrees or so, but across western areas it will become quite mild, 111—15 c, quite gusty winds for the headlands of cornwall, but it's across the hills and valleys of scotland we could see temperatures really starting to get boosted, 17—18 c locally here. on sunday still largely fine with some sunshine across western areas. there is a tendency for more cloud to fill in across eastern areas with some showers pushing instead eastern england. there could be a bit of soft hail mixed in with those and those temperatures coming down so it will be slightly cooler with highs of around 10—12. will be slightly cooler with highs of around 10—12 . but the weather set fair at least for quite a while yet. that's all from the bbc news at one. it's goodbye from me. 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. formula one world champion max verstappen says there's no healing to be done in the sport despite the end of season drama in abu dhabi that saw him pip lewis hamilton to his first title. the new season gets underway in bahrain this weekend and our sports correspondent natalie pirks has been speaking to this season's man to beat. he had always out of the world title but finally seeing his name in lights is farfrom but finally seeing his name in lights is far from straightforward. with mercedes's said lewis hamilton coating and only faith world title, a crash brought it into the grand prix and saw him crowned champion. the title was to serve but the fallout is still fresh. when you were a kid, he must have dreamt of that moment of winning a world

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by then he'll be able to compete. day two of england's second test against west indies gets underay at two o clock this afternoon withjoe root�*s side in complete control. it's after root and dan lawrence led the charge in barbados yesterday, with the captian getting an unbeaten century. lawrence fell short of his madien testmatch century, caught for 91 in the last over of the day. england resuming on 244 for 3 this afternoon. interested parties in buying chelsea will be finalising their bids ahead of tomorrow's deadline. lifelong chelsea fan lord coe is backing a consortium led by former liverpool chairman sir martin broughton and if the bids successful he'd have a seat on the board. while the owners of the chicago cubs baseball team, the ricketts family, have the financial backing of ken griffin one of america's richest men in their bid. it's valued at around £2.5 billion pounds. it's valued at around

£2.5 million pounds. former ukranian tennis player alexandr dolgopolov says authorities are "too passive" and should ban players from russia amid the ongoing war in ukraine. speaking to bbc sport he said the decision to continue playing as neutrals is "not changing anything". i believe russia should be blocked from any participation in any sport in any culture because of what they are doing, it is too much. the same we see in soccer, they are not allowed to compete. until this is stopped, just saying being neutral, taking away their flag, we know that is not changing anything. even the sanctions, even their destroyed economics, it is not enough for him to stop.

that is all for now. i will be back with mark throughout the afternoon. let's return to the conflict in ukraine. president zelensky has been speaking to the german parliament by videolink. in an emotional address he urged german mps to help destroy a new "wall" that he said russia was erecting in europe. translation: sanctions are obviously not enough to stop this war. _ and after, when we've seen how many links, connections here businesses have with russia, where russia is using you and some other countries to fund, to finance this war, for these three weeks of war, for our life, for ourfreedom, we... we witnessed, again and again, what we were confident about in the past but not all of you are noticing.

it's as if you're behind a wall, not the berlin wall, but in the middle between freedom and non—freedom. and this wall is getting stronger and stronger with every bomb dropped on our land, with every decision which is not taken. the ministry of defence has today given an update on the situation in ukraine. it states that, three weeks after the military action began, �*the russian invasion of ukraine has largely stalled on all fronts.�* it adds — russian forces have made minimal progress on land, sea or air in recent days and they continue to suffer heavy losses. the statement goes on to say — ukrainian resistance remains staunch, and well—coordinated. and it also notes the vast majority of ukrainian territory, including all major cities, remains in ukrainian hands. earlier, my colleaguejoanna gosling spoke to lord richard dannatt, former head of the british army from 2006 to 2009. he gave his assessment

of the russian military advance. vladimir putin's plan is not going according to plan and it is certainly well behind timescale. i think viewers are looking at the map. i think at the outset what he intended to do was a major thrust down from belarus towards kyiv. a thrust along the southern coast and a thrust west from the donbas area. well, all that has been achieved so far is minimal penetration down from the north. i will come back to that in a moment. in the south, that is where they have made more progress, and you can see mariupol is absolutely critical to preventing the linkup between crimea and russia proper through the donbas valley. i think over time it is quite likely

that he will take control of mariupol, despite the brave efforts of the ukrainians, and reporting overnight of the bombing of the cinema or theatre and risking the lives of so many children is actually quite appalling. so whatever his plan was, it is not going according to plan and he is still well behind schedule. one has to say that the ukrainians have fought determinedly and extremely well, proving again the power of the defender against, frankly, a pretty weak and disorganised attacker. in terms of strategy, is it a familiar strategy that you have seen in play before in other environments? do you expect it to change? well, i think we need to separate the strategy from the tactics. i think the strategy is failing. if his strategy was to make a lightning strike to kyiv from the north and to gain control of the south, ultimately gain the control of the whole of ukraine, that strategy is failing. because his soldiers

have made such poor progress on the ground, he has had to revert to the appalling tactic of surrounding towns and then shelling them, helping to bring the town to surrounding towns and then shelling them, hoping to bring the town to submission as a result of the appalling casualties that the civilians will be suffering. of course, that is what president zelensky every night is talking about, every day is talking about. the pain and suffering that his countrymen and countrywomen are experiencing, but it is quite remarkable their resilience and determination. what can be done to effectively counter that russian tactic? president zelensky said he wants there to be a no—fly zone. is that the only possible way to take this on? well, i'm afraid not. a no—fly zone, as everyone has been arguing, would risk movement toward general war with all the implications that could have between nato and russia.

i think the other thing to bear in mind is the practicality of a no—fly zone. if one was attempted to be established, it could be policed perhaps but with fixed wing aircraft, but we have already established the fact that that is a very highly risky thing to do and the west had written it out. sorry to interrupt. this is an important point. a no—fly zone does not stop missiles or artillery shells or mortar bombs going through the air. and it is the latter, mortar bombs, artillery shells and missiles, that are causing most of the damage in the city. so a no—fly zone, i'm afraid, is something of a red herring. what can be done though, and what is being done is passing into ukraine from friendly nations, from friendly nations, nato nations, more air defence equipment, which can shoot down drones and can inhibit missiles coming through the air. ok, so you have clarified the point that i was going to ask, whether it was

actually taking away all the concerns around what a no—fly zone would mean in terms of escalation, whether it was the only military way to take on the russian tactics. but you have said there it is not. but if we look specifically at mariupol, which is besieged, the city is slowly being razed to the ground. what can be done now to support that, to support the people and to restore the situation there? the tragedy is, and i am only going by the reporting which i have seen and other snippets of news and intelligence one has picked up, the situation in mariupol has been very difficult. it has been getting on for ten days, almost two weeks now. i don't think, frankly, much can be done. the russians have got control of both sides of mariupol. they are able to shell that town pretty much at will, and the remaining people there are having the most appalling

life. when president biden described vladimir putin yesterday as a war criminal, he is absolutely right. these tactics are appalling, they are bestial. they are certainly contrary to any norms of conventional warfare. this is a war crime in the making, probably verging on genocide. and when you talk about going against the norms, there has been a lot of speculation as to whether chemical weapons might be used. what would that mean if that were to be the case? well, it is quite possible that they may resort to that, but again, that is just another degree of appallingness. and if chemical weapons were to be used in principally civilian areas, that would just be compounding the number of war crimes being committed. i think putin and his acolytes need to be aware that everything that is going on is being

carefully logged, evidence is being gathered, and there will come a time when these people will be indicted for war crimes. whether they could actually be imprisoned and face a trial is another matter. but there is no doubt that thejudgment of history will be that putin and his generals have been conducting war crimes in the most appalling fashion. and if they were to use chemical weapons, that only increases thee magnitude of how awful it is. and you used the word genocide, and i assume is a former head of the british army, you do not use that word lightly. i spent a lot of time in the balkans in the 1990s, and if you look at what happened in srebrenica when 8,500 muslim men and boys were murdered systematically by the serbs, this is akin to that level of criminality. and i have given evidence against generals at the international tribunal in the hague against those war crimes, and the word genocide was

associated with that. these crimes are on the same sort of level and vladimir putin must be made aware, if he is not already aware, that he is standing in great danger. and also committing the most appalling atrocities. and irrespective of what news is actually reported in russia, i think we can all have the confidence that what we are understanding is true, it is not a fake news, it is appalling. and the truth will eventually out, even if it takes quite some time to do so. and the threat of facing the consequences of actions potentially a very long time down the line, does that, is that likely to have any impact or does it potentially make a mindset go another way which might be to think, well, now we've gone this far, there is no way back? well, that's quite possible. one of the things that has become fairly obvious in the last few weeks is the sense of history that vladimir putin has. he has been referring back

to the days of the soviet union, catherine the great and peter the great, and he has a great sense of his place in the flow of russian history. well, over time his contribution to russian history will be the leader of a moment when war crimes were perpetrated apparently in the name of russia, but actually rather more just at his behest, and he won't go down as a hero, he will go down as a villain of great magnitude. what is your view of what more can be done as this unfolds to try to mitigate the impact? i think there are two things, amongst other things. first of all is there must be a concerted effort to try and bring this conflict to a negotiated end. it would appear that there are some direct talks going on between the ukrainians and the russians. that may or may not make progress, but i believe it is going to need a third—party facilitator. and i think that the most

likely area orfactor of facilitation probably is the chinese. vladimir putin hates the west, but he fears the chinese. i am sorry. yes, he hates the west but he fears the chinese. but equally... and to come in there, there have been reports that russia has asked china for weapons. china did not give any clarity on whether russia had even asked china for weapons and under a lot of questioning from journalists, describing that as fake news and putting out that it is in the position to do what you are talking about, which is to have some sort of pressure to bear. but if china were to offer up military support, that would be another matter again, wouldn't it? it would. and i think we have to take the reports of russia asking china for military support at face value.

whether they are true or not, i don't know. but the point i was making, and not making it very well, is that russia fears china. russia fears china because of china's burgeoning economic growth. but at the same time, russia needs a friend. and because of that linkage, which has got stronger in recent days, going right back to the meeting of the two leaders at the start of the winter olympics, it does give the chinese an opportunity to be the one to put pressure on russia, to put pressure on vladimir putin, to say, whatever you are trying to do is not succeeding. this got to stop. we have got to find a negotiated solution to this. so i think a return by one means or another to negotiation is really critical. the other point is of course the west is absolutely right to go on supplying ukrainians with ammunition, additional weapons, anti—tank weapons, anti—aircraft weapons,

to stiffen and enable their resistance. their spirit is fantastic. they will at some point run short of weapons and ammunition and we should quite properly go on supplying them. but i think it has to be remembered that conflicts such as this throughout history rarely end with one side winning and the other side being defeated. they invariably end around a negotiating table. and the sooner the parties can realise that, and in particular putin can realise that, then the sooner they will get round a table and start to negotiate. what the terms of that negotiation will be is completely another issue. but that is where the pressure should come from the diplomats of the world to get the party is around a table and started negotiating an end to this appalling series of events. let's get more on the return of the two british—iranians, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and anoosheh ashoori — who've been freed after years in detention in tehran. they landed back in britain,

in the early hours of this morning. lara symons from the charity hostage international described to me the support that's available for hostages and their families while they're going through their ordeal. h osta g es hostages and families coming through this sort of ordeal, either kidnap our estate attention, they are facing a glut of difficulties. it is a hugelyjoyful moment. let me say, we are absolutely ecstatic to see nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and anoosheh ashoori back home. i think they recognise themselves, there may be spots ahead and it is a very difficult time when hostages return. it is a wonderful moment but also has huge difficulties. the families on the hostages had been through a huge trauma, whether it is short—term or long—term. and they have to come to terms with that, finding out what it is like living together again. and all the impact

of what they have been through, having to sort through that, and then takes a lot of time. what having to sort through that, and then takes a lot of time. what sort of su ort then takes a lot of time. what sort of support is _ then takes a lot of time. what sort of support is there _ then takes a lot of time. what sort of support is there for _ then takes a lot of time. what sort of support is there for them - then takes a lot of time. what sort. of support is there for them through the process?— the process? hostage international is there to provide _ the process? hostage international is there to provide dedicated - is there to provide dedicated caseworkers to both family members and to the returning hostages, to be alongside them in this process, this journey going forward. we are also there during the detention is through the family, but we stick with them through this transition because it can be particularly difficult. they have a dedicated caseworker with a 2k seven for them to contact, and they are often people who have had first hand experience of either being a hostage or a family member of a hostage. so they understand what these people are going through. and they also can signpost. so we have within our organisation a lot of support. we can access medical, mental health,

financial help, media support. so we bring to them the full package. has bring to them the full package. as you indicate there, it is obviously a very complex situation with so many strands. and no one individual�*s experience is going to be the same as another�*s, but you obviously have a huge amount of experience in your organisation. one thing that comes to me, and i think it was terry waite, but i think other hostages i've said it, and it depends on the situation that they have been enduring during their time in custody, but he could never sleep in custody, but he could never sleep in a bed again because he was used to sleeping on a hard floor. that gives an indication of the level of the sort of practical impact, but as you have said, there will be so much emotional and intellectual questioning going on as to what was happening in all of that time, what they were —— while they were

incarcerated. they were -- while they were incarcerated.— they were -- while they were incarcerated. , ., , ., ., incarcerated. yes, and you mention ad'ustin: incarcerated. yes, and you mention adjusting to — incarcerated. yes, and you mention adjusting to being _ incarcerated. yes, and you mention adjusting to being able _ incarcerated. yes, and you mention adjusting to being able to _ incarcerated. yes, and you mention adjusting to being able to sleep - adjusting to being able to sleep on adjusting to being able to sleep on a bed or eat at a table with your family. it takes control of your life. people have been in captivity, whether a criminal kidnapping group of by a state, they haven't had the power to make their own decisions. they... now they are out, they are free, they have to learn to do that again. i have heard hostages say that on return home they were offered chicken pasta, which do you want? and they actually couldn't make that decision. the brain has to get used to adapting to being a free person, having freedom of choice. richard ratcliffe spoke a little while ago when he was on hunger strike for the second time and he was asked about... he would dream of when they would get reunited and it was really about the simple pleasures and trying to get back to

a normal life. it sounds like there will be such a journey ahead to be able to enjoy those simple pleasures without being bombarded with everything else that has crowded in. that is right, absolutely focusing on those small pleasures on life is a really great way to start. and getting back into a routine. having children in the family helps with that. children need routines, so responding to that, having that to focus on is really helpful. but it is a long journey and it will take time, but it is all about taking it day by day and there is a positive light at the end. definitely we see people who have come back from dire situations who go on to turn that into something very positive. time for a look at _ into something very positive. time for a look at the _ into something very positive. time for a look at the weather _ into something very positive. time for a look at the weather forecast now. the weather forecast is looking largely dry as high pressure built in but before we get there, we have

a few showers. a narrow band of rain crossing scotland and northern ireland, ten to 15 minutes of rain. eventually, late this afternoon it will move into the far north of england. south of that it is drivers pleasant spring sunshine, brisk winds from western scotland today with gusts of around a0 to 50 mph with gusts of around a0 to 50 mph with further showers to come. overnight, it will be largely dry with clear skies. it will be cold. there will be patches of frocks developing. —3 in newcastle. a bit colder than that in the countryside. there may be some mist and fog, particularly in the welsh matches and elsewhere. that fog takes a while to clear away but then for most abodes it is a sunny, lovely day. top temperatures around 60 degrees. —— for most of us.

this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the globe. i'mjames reynolds in lviv. our top stories: ukrainian authorities have begun rescuing people from a bomb shelter at a theatre in mariupol, which they say was hit by russian shells. moscow denies attacking it. applause a standing ovation for ukraine's leader at the german bundestag. president zelensky says that sanctions are not enough to end the conflict. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe is finally reunited with her family after years in detention in tehran. she was met by her daughter gabriella and husband who'd campaigned tirelessely for her release. bringing mummy home and showing mummy off will really validate gabriella's insecurities

there in that she was right, she does have two parents that love her.