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best newcomer and best pop vocal album. i want to thank my mom and my dad for being equally as proud of me forwinning a grammy as they were when i learned how to do a back walkover. this is for you guys and because of you guys. thank you. applause the big winner of the night, with five grammys — including best album — was the genre—busting jon batiste. ijust put my head down and i work on the craft every day. i love music. i've been playing since i was a little boy. it's more than entertainment for me, it's a spiritual practice. it was a musical journey that celebrated those that keep music on the road, and whether or not you agree with where the awards went, the grammys were back in all their glory. # are you gonna go my way? sophie long, bbc news, las vegas. # and i've got to know # and i've got to # got to know...# time for a look at the weather.
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here's susan powell. lots of us are under skies that looked rather like this today, quite flat light and it is great and drizzly. but it is a chilly considerably milder than it was over the weekend. we have pulled in some atlantic air behind an area of low pressure that is now heading across towards scandinavia. quite a breeze for this afternoon, we will keep a lot of cloud, but there are signs we will get breaks towards the south coast, southern corn will come around torbay, the brecon is and the pennines. western coastal hills generally staying pretty solidly overcast with further outbreaks of rain. mild, temperatures 12 to 14 degrees. this evening and overnight, we hold on to plenty of cloud. it will make for a mild night for the majority of the uk with temperatures staying in double figures. wetter weather for northern ireland and southern scotland. notice to the north of scotland, double figures to the south across england and wales,
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northern scotland come across developing with cold arctic air sitting to the far north of the uk at the moment and it looks like that will combine with some of the moisture on tuesday to bring some very heavy snowfall to the highlands and the grampians. persistent snowfall as well lasting a good part of tuesday into wednesday. central belt southwards, rain, quite heavy rain. but across the highlands and grampian, ten to 20 centimetres of snow falling in the 24—hour tuesday into wednesday. further south, brighter skies for england and wales, temperatures up to 15 degrees, rain for a time for northern ireland. in the middle part of the week, low pressure rolls through to the north and our temperatures start to edge down, that arctic air creeping further south into scotland at this stage. england and wales a shade cooler with showers, some of them heavy and thundery. temperatures perhaps at the lower end of double figures. the big change comes wednesday into thursday, you can say goodbye to that atlantic air, we are all into this arctic plunge as we finish the
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week. and the biggest question towards the end of the week is, what is going to happen is that cold air sits across the uk and weather systems try to run south? thursday looks relatively clear cut, showers for northern and eastern reaches of the uk, but the slow coming into the south on friday could be a headache as it bumps into the colder air and there is a chance across the hills of south wales and the moors of the south—west and the salisbury plain, we see something more significant in the way of wintry weather on friday. that is an element of the forecast we will watch very closely, but what we will watch very closely, but what we are confident in is by the end of this week, it is looking much colder, temperatures in single good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's
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your latest sports news. tiger woods says he'll make a "game—time decision" on whether he's fit enough to compete at the masters, which starts on thursday. he's at augusta to continue what he called his "preparation and practice" for the event, but he hasn't played competitively since suffering serious leg injuries in a car crash 14 months ago. woods has won the masters five times and he's named as one of 91 participants this week, but he needs to decide whether he can cope with the demands of a hilly course in tournament conditions. another american, jennifer kupcho, said it was "surreal" after winning the chevron championship in california, the first major of the season. she led by six shots going into the final round and it was a buffer she needed, as she closed with a nervy 7a and came home just two shots clear ofjessica korda. it was her first tour title — and kupcho observed the event's tradition byjumping
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into poppie�*s pond by the 18th green, along with her caddy and her husband. they'll be the last to do that, though — after 50 years at mission hills country club, the tournament is moving to a new home in houston, texas next season. so quite a day for kupcho. i came out, just trying to shoot a couple under. i had a six stroke lead and i tried eight under yesterday. i thought if someone could do that, they deserve to be in a play—off. that was my mentality and that was what i was fighting for all day. i think it is surreal to be a major winner. it is really special and to be the last person here, to jump into poppie�*s pond, it's all really special. neil robertson produced a superb comeback to beat john higgins and win snooker�*s tour championship in llandudno. the australian was 9—4 down
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but he reeled off six successive frames, winning a tense decider with a break of 72 to retain his title. lt is the third time higgins has lost a ranking final this season after needing only one frame to win. robertson said the victory had given him "a huge amount of belief" going into the world championship, with starts at the crucible theatre in sheffield in 12 days�* time. the netherlands coach louis van gaal has revealed he has prostate cancer. the former manchester united boss says he kept the news from his players during the recent international break, and he had to leave in the night to go to hospital for treatment to stop them finding out. van gaal is due to lead the netherlands at the world cup in qatar this winter. poland's iga swiatek has been confirmed as the new world number—one in the women's tennis rankings, replacing ash barty, who retired last month. she celebrated her new status in style at the weekend, winning the miami open with victory over naomi 0saka. that was her third title in a row and extended her winning streak to 17 matches. after the event, she was able to reflect on the past couple of weeks, and her reaction
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when she heard that barty had decided to quit. i was crying for a0 minutes, basically, both because of her retirement and i didn't really know it was going to happen and it really surprised me because i always had this vision that we were all going to play until we were 35 or something. after two hours of being really emotional i happen yet, you have to win some matches and that is that with the emotions and being excited and that's what i thought and i think it really help me to stay focused on the tournament. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, has said he's
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assembling a team of international judges to investigate alleged war crimes committed by russian soldiers. officials say about 400 bodies have been recovered from areas around kyiv that were previously occupied by russian troops. images of dead civilians in the streets of bucha, north west of the capital have led to international condemnation of russia — including by the prime minister borisjohnson — with the threat of further sanctions. russia says the images have been falsified. in the past hour, the mayor of mariupol has been giving an update of efforts to rescue people from the city that has been the centre of russian attacks for days.
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we were going with humanitarian mission to mariupol and in berdiansk, in the occupied city of berdiansk, the occupiers and the so—called donetsk people's republic stopped our cars and unloaded the cars, and they took some of the cargo for themselves. that was the situation. a week ago, we also had an opportunity to send two trucks to berdiansk, but they were arrested by the russian troops and they disappeared somewhere unknown. we also see the so—called republics issuing ouraid, passing it off for their own humanitarian aid. what was the information for the past days? are there mass bombardments continuing in mariupol?
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have they subsided a bit — the intensity of the fighting? unfortunately, from the five in the morning, it was a very, very harsh war and mariupol was destroyed. everything which is possible, all the forbidden munitions, the grass, the merchants, the hurricanes, the moratinos, the mls systems. from the tenth hour of the war, they started sending militaryjets, two and five, and more. they were going over town as if going to work — every 30 minutes. they would bomb mariupol and destroy our city. sir roderic lyne was the british ambassador to russia from 2000 until 200a. he says although most russians
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will not be aware of the images of atrocities it's inevitable that the russia people will find out. the russian people will not have seen them through the mainstream television channels, which a lot of particularly elder russians use as pretty well their own news source. younger russians use a lot of social media. putin has clamped down on that. he's cut off a number of their channels of communication. but there are russians who will have had access to external reports of this, particularly the younger, the more it—savvy russians, and perhaps some of the political and business class, the intelligentsia, if you like, who will be desperately trying to get some truth from the outside world, there are minority. but russia has pretty
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efficient grapevines. word will get around. word will get around from soldiers coming back from ukraine, including wounded soldiers of what is really happening there. images from the town of bucha show widespread destruction and bodies lying in the street, some with their hands and feet bound. russia says images of civilian killings are �*fake�*. 0ur correspondentjeremy bowen sent us this report from kyiv, which you may find upsetting. the last bleak kick of winter froze any euphoria left from ukraine's successful defence of kyiv. the war is switching to the east, both sides will learn lessons. the russians left their armour vulnerable to drone artillery and fast—moving infantry with anti—tank weapons. you can see the results scattered across the roads and villages around the capital. this was a russian supply column on the main highway that runs west from kyiv. the lorries were carrying ammunition, artillery shells are scattered across the road. russia will find logistics less challenging in the east, closer to its border.
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a few minutes further down the road, in the village of kalivnika, were a few civilians, a rare sight, so we stopped. irina kostenko wanted to talk about the tenth of march, the day the russians killed her only son, 0leksiy. the two lived here, just 500 metres from hisjob changing tyres at a garage. irina led the way to 0leksiy�*s bedroom. damaged by shelling, weeks after he was killed. we were the first outsider she had seen since the russians left on friday. and the story of 0leksiy�*s death spilled out. translation: the pain is so bad. now i am all alone.
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my son was young, 27 years old. he wanted to stay alive. 0leksiy was born when irina was 18. her life has not been easy, but she dreads the future without him. she said he had served in the army but that day, he was going to work at the garage. after they killed her son, she fled and the russian soldiers took over the house. they were having a good time, loads of bottles of vodka, jack daniel's, bells whisky, beer, you name it. it is hard to understand human behaviour like this, but what makes it really tragic is that there are so many accounts of it happening where russian soldiers had been and are now in ukraine.
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she cries. on her own, irina buried 0leksiy in the garden after she'd brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. translation: i covered the grave with a blanket| to protect it from the dogs. he isn't in a coffin. i had to roll him in the carpet. did you say to the russians, "why did you kill my son?" they were injeeps with guns. they killed him and fled. how can i talk to such morons? i want them dead. i want their children to lie like my son. close to where 0leksiy was killed, opposite the house, ukrainian troops are salvaging russian ammunition to use it against them. they'll need it if russia launches a spring offensive in the east. five weeks of war, but it only takes
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a moment to destroy a family. irina found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said. my sweetheart. jeremy bowen, bbc news, outside kyiv. 0n fridayjeremy bowen showed what happened on a road outside kyiv. the bbc team was able to get to the area on the highway approaching the capital because ukrainian forces had captured the sector ten hours earlier. just a warning — the footage we're about to show includes some distressing images. this is the road — the e40 — where 13 bodies were found. on 7th march a ukraine military drone captured footage of a tank on the side of the road firing
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at civilians. the drone shows civilian vehicles trying to get to kyiv to escape the russians, when they see the tank. let's show you that footage again. in these pictures in total — it was a convoy of ten trying to escape. in the first car, the driver tried to show he was an unarmed civilian but the russians opened fire and killed him. they also killed his wife. they are maksim iowenko and his wife ksjena.
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they were also travelling with their six—year—old son the little boy and elderly woman survived. when maksim was killed, he was shouting they had a child with them. someone else who was in that convoy of cars is tatyana — who's now in the uk with her daughter, 0lga. taytana was in the fourth car in that convoy of vehicles on the e40. earlier, she spoke to my colleague annita mcveigh about her escape from that road — alongside her daughter 0lga, who translated for her. she speaks ukrainian.
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so it is me and my neighbours, neighbours on the street and the street across and we've decided that time to leave, so we've decided to go in a convoy of ten to 15 cars. it was a huge risk. most of the cars had children and hence on every car it was written "children" in russian. when we reached the motorway, we saw a few burned cars. we were very scared. then we heard the shelling. i had my six—year—old granddaughter in a car together with my daughter—in—law.
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the car in front of me was starting to turn around. i could also already see that the cars didn't have any windows, and later on i found out that there were women injured in those cars. i'm sorry to interrupt. you didn't witness, as i understand, the shooting of maksim and ksjena directly. when did you hear about what had happened to them? we didn't see directly and we found out when we got
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home and when the people who were in the cars in front of us told us. and when you got back home, as you say, you knew it was a huge risk. it must have been a huge moment of panic when you heard that shooting and realised there was a tank there. when you got back home, what happened next? because you've described, or explained, that some people in those cars were injured, had been shot. we were panicking, we were horrified. when we got back home, i broke down in tears in the car. that was the decision to make us
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join a convoy. and it was the words of my six—year—old granddaughter who said, i would like to leave because i don't want to die here. unfortunately, not everyone got back to the settlement. and two days later, and this is a measure of the desperate situation you were in, you decided to attempt the journey again. did you know before you set out that it would be any less hazardous or were you fearful that you might come across a similar situation with tanks by the side of the road? yes, of course, we knew that we still might be in danger. it was successful because we were helped by the volunteer from our settlement.
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he went to the motorway. he was checking if it's safe and he was letting people in the cars behind know that it's safe and then they can cross. when we were leaving, this time my son was driving the car and he told us to sit low so we can't be seen in the car. so you were taking what precautions you could. thankfully, on the second attempt that wasn't necessary, but then you arrived in the uk. to be with your daughter, 0lga, tatyana tell us, how long did it take you then to to get out of ukraine
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more than ten days, so first day they stayed over with their family, with theirfriends, not far from kyiv, the day after they managed to catch the train from kyiv to a west city of ukraine. we found a place where to stay there, but unfortunately, two days after they arrived, the air raids started in that city and it was too much for my mum, and she said that they'd like to cross further into safety. so they crossed a border with hungary, stayed two days in budapest, and after that we found a place for them to stay in vienna, where they awaited the decision on their clearance to enter the uk. and, tatyana, what you were involved in and you have described how the convoy of cars, almost all the cars had children in them.
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the word "children" was marked in russian on those vehicles, hoping for safe passage but not getting it. you firmly believe that that what happened to you was a war crime. you have said that you would be willing to give evidence, i understand, to any war crimes investigation. how are you able to try to process what happened to you? for those who are killed, for women that have been raped, for children
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that have been shot, those animals have to answer. and not only the soldiers who were doing those atrocities have to be punished, but also the people who gave those orders and who started the war against ukraine. now it's time for a look at the uk weather with susan powell. hello. plenty of cloud out there today for most of us. it's a drizzly and dank story but it is milder than it was through the weekend. however, don't get too comfortable with that because as this week plays out, colder arctic air will start to return. at the moment, the arctic air is held to the north of the uk, sitting across northern scotland. elsewhere, in this warm sector,
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we are sitting in milder atlantic air being pulled up under an area of low pressure heading across to scandinavia. the mild air will, though, mean a lot of moisture around as we head overnight tonight, so quite drizzly, misty and murky across the hills, but our overnight lows in some areas staying in double figures. just northern scotland in that arctic air seeing a frost developing but it's that arctic air through tuesday, as it meets a weather front, that is likely to cause some issues in terms of heavy snowfall for parts of scotland, particularly across the highest ground of the highlands and the grampians, but we could see some snow at lower levels across the north—east of scotland in general, but for some of the highest ground, tuesday into wednesday, there's the chance of up to a foot of snow accumulating. wet for tuesday for northern ireland, england and wales essentially dry. more in the way of brightness and temperatures in some spots possibly up to the mid—teens. tuesday into wednesday, this whole area of low pressure
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tries to track its way eastwards, it will feed some rain further south across the uk, we'll keep some snow going across scotland as we keep this low rubbing into that cold arctic air, still at this point confined to northern scotland. a windy day for everyone on wednesday, gales for scotland and northern england. some sunny spells, yes, but heavy showers possibly with hail and thunder, and you can already see the temperatures starting to eke down a little bit as we follow behind the area of low pressure. but you can really see the transition as we lose that warm yellow colour and the blue comes flooding in for thursday and friday. we move into cold arctic air, all of us, for the end of the week. for thursday, wintry showers for northern and eastern scotland, i think some for northern england and northern ireland. further south it looks like we will escape with a fine day and those temperatures, as you can see on the thermometer, it will feel colder in the northerly wind. cold air across the uk on friday and the potential for a frontal system to come bumping into the south, giving us a forecast
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headache at the moment — will we see some snow further south on friday?
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this is bbc news. the headlines — ukraine's president says he is setting up a special team that will start investigating alleged russian war crimes immediately. it follows reports of civilians being left in the streets in the town of bucha, outside the ukraine capital. june brown, who played dot cotton for over 30 years in the bbc one soap eastenders, has died at the age of 95. fines for breaching covid rules have been issued to some people who attended a leaving party at downing street the night before prince philip's funeral last april. travellers are facing long delays with queues at airports and ports.
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easyjet and ba have cancelled around 100 flights and eurotunnel warns

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