, like calming down a little bit. this is from highland scotland, close to fort william. a beautiful scene here, from one of our weather watchers, blue skies overhead and relatively still water is here. that is not quite the whole story, it does still feel chilly despite the fact it is not as windy. we start the weekend and a chilly note. the question you have been asking is, winds it going to get warmer? into next week, we bring up southerly winds, changing the wind direction and that brings warm air. the outlook for the weekend, quite chilly, particularly at first, it will often be dry with a few showers. into next week, feeling warm and any sunshine, but not sunny all the time, there will be some rain around as well. talking of rain, this is this morning across southern england and the channel islands, heavy downpours of rain now beginning to clear away. sunny skies and wintry showers to the north—west, quite a few showers

already full scotland and northern ireland that start to break out more widely during the afternoon across england and wales. may be thunder and lightning mixing in. temperatures seven to 12 degrees, not as windy as it was yesterday, but still temperatures a little below par for this time of year. tonight, the winds for light in most places, most of the showers fade, we keep some going in northern scotland with the risk of ice. quite a widespread frost into saturday morning, may be down to —1i in some places in the countryside in northern england. a cold start to the weekend, but a bright start. lots of sunshine around. some showers tomorrow, but probably not as many as today. most of them towards the north and the east. not as many towards the south and the west. those temperatures still a little disappointing, seven to 12 degrees. where it is breezy towards the north—east corner, it will still feel quite chilly. the grand national tomorrow, feel quite chilly. the grand nationaltomorrow, of feel quite chilly. the grand national tomorrow, of course, at aintree, looking mainly fine. i wouldn't completely rule out a

shower but, on balance, it should stay dry. and staying dry on saturday night under this ridge of high pressure that allows it to get cold. out west, a big area of low pressure throw some cloud into western areas so not such a cold start for belfast or plymouth. elsewhere, another frost on sunday morning. not a elsewhere, another frost on sunday morning. nota bad elsewhere, another frost on sunday morning. not a bad —looking day on sunday, most places will be dry, but things clouding over from the west is that big area of low pressure starts to approach. a little bit of rain in western areas, but winds coming up from the south side temperatures beginning to nudge upwards. and that is the story into next week. temperatures will continue to climb. when we get some sunshine at times, highs of 18, i9 sunshine at times, highs of18, 19 and i sunshine at times, highs of 18, 19 and i wouldn't be surprised if someone saw 20 degrees next week. however, that is not the whole story, there will still be rain at times, it still looks pretty unsettled, but at least it will be warmer rain rather than the cold rain we have had to contend with this week. that is all the weather for now, have a good weekend.

it is getting better, thank you! a reminder of our top s it is getting better, thank you! tory: a strike in the eastern city of kramatorsk has killed at least 30 people and injured hundreds more. the city's mayor said 400 civilians gathered at the station to flee a russian advance. that is all, goodbye from me. on bbc one, we can join the team is where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. british cycling have decided to suspend their current transgender and non—binary participation policy pending a review. it comes after the case of transgender cyclist emily bridges was cleared to enter domestic women's races by british cycling, but then prevented from competing by the world governing body, the uci, and this difference in guidelines has led to their decision.

british cyling say their policy was developed with the intention of promotiong diversity and inclusion, but they understand it's a fast—moving area and they're committed to reflecting emerging circumstances. day two at the masters is just getting underway, and what a return it was for tiger woods to the augusta national course. the 15—time major winner said he wouldn't play unless he thought he could win and, from his opening round, it's clear he's not finished yet. andy swiss was watching. welcome back. 14 months after the car crash he said he was lucky to survive, the remarkable return of tiger woods. would he be up to it? how is this for an answer? that certainly got the crowd going and, while there were inevitably mistakes, there was plenty more magic. a round of one—under par was impressive in any circumstances. in his, it was astonishing. i am able to do it.

i am lucky to have the opportunity to play and, not only that, to play in the masters and to have this type of reception. the place was electric. as for rory mcilroy, a day largely of frustration. he had his moments, but not enough of them. six shots off the pace. the best british performance from danny willett, the 2016 champion, is two off the lead. but this is the man they are chasing — a superb round from south korea's sung—jae im on an intriguing and emotional first day. formula 1 is back in australia for the first time since the race was cancelled at the start of the coronavirus pandemic two years ago. 0ce again, it's ferrari leading the way. charles leclerc set the quickest time of the day in second practice in melbourne.

it's looking like it will be another tricky weekend for mercedes. lewis hamilton could only manage 13th in second practice, two places behind his team mate george russell. nothing will change in the car makes a difference at the moment, so that's the difficult thing. you get on very optimistic, you make changes, and the doesn't seem to want to improve. we made some changes going into second practice, first practice was better. second practice ended up being harderfor me. i don't know, it'sjust a tricky car. i don't know, it's just a tricky car. gb s most successful 0lympic canoeist, liam heath, has announced his retirement from competition, saying it was "time to move on". after winning bronze along withjon schofield at london 2012, the pair took silverfour years later in brazil, where heath enjoyed the highlight of his career — solo gold in the k1200m. he won countless world and european titles, and another 0lympic bronze in 2020.

i have gone way and above what i thought i could achieve in this sport and i've checked pretty much every box on the list that any athlete would want to take in their careers. i definitely think and feel it is time to move on as a competitive athletes. not move on from the sport, of course, butjust as a competitor internationally. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. researchers in cambridge have rejuvenated the skin cells taken from a 53—year—old women, making them equivalent to those of a 23—year—old. writing in the journal e life, the scientists say that they believe that they might be able to do

the same thing with other tissues in the body. the eventual aim is to develop treatments for age—related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and neurological disorders. here's our science correspondent pallab ghosh. the breakthrough was made in this lab in cambridge. dilgeet gill added chemicals to the skin cells of a 53—year—old woman. he could scarcely believe his eyes when he studied them under a microscope 12 days later. i remember the day when i actually got the results back. i was basically in shock and didn't quite believe that some of these samples were 30 years younger than they were supposed to be. i literally double—checked that the labels were the right ones and spoke with people in the lab. yeah, it was a very exciting day! the technology is based on techniques used to create dolly the cloned sheep more than 25 years ago. she was created from an adult cell that was rejuvenated all the way back into an embryo.

the aim at the time was to use cloning technology to turn cells taken from human patients into embryonic stem cells to combat many of the diseases of ageing, but it didn't really work out. those behind the latest research believe that they have now made a significant step forward. to be able to know the margin, that there could be applications that could help thousands and thousands of people out there with conditions. as we all know, many common diseases in humans get worse with age or arise with age, and to be able to think about helping people in this way is very, very exciting. but there is still a long way to go. the chemicals used in the rejuvenation process increase the risk of cancers, but now that the scientists know that age reversal is possible in principle, they have a new way forward.

now it's time to take a look at some of the stories this lunchtime from our bbc newsrooms �*across the uk'. a man who killed two children in a car crash in south wales has been jailed. he was over the alcohol limit and had cocaine in his system. he admitted causing the deaths of the children, who were on their way home from a birthday party in february. they were travelling home from a friend was not birthday party when they were killed by a drink and drug driver on the m4.—

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devastated here today.— devastated here today. the man resmnsible _ devastated here today. the man responsible for _ devastated here today. the man responsible for their _ devastated here today. the man responsible for their deaths - responsible for their deaths arriving in court here today. we have been taking cocaine and drinking cider until five o'clock in the morning. he sipped on red wine as he swerved along the m4. he ploughed into the family's ford fiesta. he said he had fallen asleep at the wheel. he has not been sentenced to nine years and four months in prison. this sentenced to nine years and four months in prison.— months in prison. this is a tragic case that has — months in prison. this is a tragic case that has resulted _ months in prison. this is a tragic case that has resulted in - months in prison. this is a tragic case that has resulted in the - case that has resulted in the needless loss of two young lives. he was left with no option but to plead guilty owing to an overwhelming amount of evidence gathered by our investigation team. the amount of evidence gathered by our investigation team.— investigation team. the family of the children _ investigation team. the family of the children are _ investigation team. the family of the children are now— investigation team. the family of the children are now calling - investigation team. the family of the children are now calling on i the children are now calling on parliament to change sentences. they want those who kill on the roads to receive life in prison. women in northern ireland are borrowing each other�*s hormone replacement therapy medication due to supply shortages, according to a menopause support group.

roisin hillman, who founded the local group, says supplies can somtimes be incredibly low orjust not available and there's no other option. bbc newsline's health correspondent marie louise connolly reports. last summer, roisin hillman set up a local medical support group. with nearly 2,000 members, she says it is a good gauge of what women are talking about. at the moment it is the lack of hrt. fist talking about. at the moment it is the lack of hrt.— the lack of hrt. at the moment, women are _ the lack of hrt. at the moment, women are saying, _ the lack of hrt. at the moment, women are saying, i _ the lack of hrt. at the moment, women are saying, i have - the lack of hrt. at the moment, women are saying, i have some l the lack of hrt. at the moment, - women are saying, i have some extra, if you need it, you can borrow it and give it back to me. this is what is happening to women who can't get the hrt that they are prescribed. currently, there is a national shortage of hrt, which women take to relieve menopausal symptoms, including mood swings, night sweats

and evenjoint pains. gps are warning against women swapping their medication. the warning against women swapping their medication. . , warning against women swapping their medication. ., , ., ., medication. the dangers of that he ma have medication. the dangers of that he may have taken — medication. the dangers of that he may have taken a _ medication. the dangers of that he may have taken a while _ medication. the dangers of that he may have taken a while to - medication. the dangers of that he may have taken a while to get - medication. the dangers of that he may have taken a while to get to l may have taken a while to get to their regimen, not because they can get hold of it, they are taking other preparations which may not suit them, which they may have adverse reaction to. the dosage may not be the same as they were taken before, but because they are desperate they are resorting to it. the royal college of obstetricians and gynaecologists recently described the hrt shortage is catastrophic. a local pharmaceutical group says it tends to be temporary. certainly, when we go to sources such as the british menopause society, we are able to get advice from them on the duration of the likely shortage and then the advice to prescribers about how to change or transition patients. last october, _ or transition patients. last october, women - or transition patients. last october, women brought. or transition patients. last october, women brought the menopause 0ctober, women brought the menopause campaign to westminster. many believe the issue isn't taken seriously enough. hrt

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scientists at the university of bristol have created a mechanical fingertip that replicates human touch. the 3d—printed device uses artificial nerve signals which replicate ones produced by human nerve endings. it is hoped that the technology could improve prosthetics. here's andy howard. i am going to show you something pretty incredible this lunchtime. it is this robotic hand, developed here at the university of bristol. what we are focusing on are these fingertips, which are very special sensors indeed. if i show you the squidgy toy, you see how my hand pushes it in, this hand knows just how much to grip it. in order to hold it. without squeezing it. incredible. nathan, talk us through what is going on here in layman terms if you can? these fingertips are built in a way that their structure mimics the way our fingertips work,

so the hand uses this sensory feedback, this tactile feedback from the fingertips in order to hold this soft panda gently and without grasping it. how long has it taken you to get to this point? we have been working on it for a decade now. it used to be that the sensor was really big, and over the years we have gradually made it smaller to make it the size of a human finger tip. where could this go, in another ten years? prosthetic hands? prosthetic hands... anything we can do with our hands, we would want robots to do with robot hands. on that note, watch this. we think that this is a first on bbc points west. i am going to shake his hand. that is very gentlemanly indeed. andy howard, bbc points west, university of bristol.

the yorkshire dales offer some of the uk's most spectacular landscapes, but much of it is off—limits to people who use traditional wheelchairs. now one woman has launched a charity aiming to help more people access the national park. abi jayeloa reports. debbie north has always been passionate about the countryside, and spent many happy hours rambling with her husband, andy. he sadly died last year, but she was determined to keep doing what she loved, and to help other people in wheelchairs do the same. she set up access the dales in his memory. i wish andy was here to see it, because i know... ..i know he'd be looking down and i know he'd say, "good one, kiddo." yeah, he'd be very proud.

and, you know, today, watching so many different types of wheelchair coming to this stunning location, it is a tear—jerker, but tears ofjoy. the charity, launched this week, has funded 14 specially—adapted all—terrain wheelchairs. some of them are like the one debbie is using. they'll be loaned out from five hubs in the dales. today is the first visit here to gordale scar for many who would have found it difficult to access otherwise. there's so many people who i know, they're indoors right now, and they're not getting outside. and to get out and have a good bunch of people, and have a good old chat and a singalong as well, which we've been singing on the way up, it's brilliant. completely impossible with my normal wheelchair or other devices, _ completely out of the question. so this is a machine that will transform lives. - it's a really lovely place here, but very hard to access

in a normal chair, and very bumpy and uncomfortable. so it's really lovely to be out again. paralympic rower and cyclist rachel is an ambassador for the charity. i really do think it's critical that we look at changing access to the outside. there are lots of really simple things that can be done, that will have a really huge impact, and a lot of times sort of hear things like, "oh, well, nobody�*s out there in a wheelchair", but if you can't access it, then you can't use it. and so it's kind of chicken and egg, and that's something that i think this is what access the dales are trying to change, and doing a fantasticjob of. and for debbie, this isjust the start. i know there are places that are just not going to be accessible, but where possible and when possible, itjust would be great that this place can grow, and that we can have more and more hubs around the place where everybody�*s welcome to the yorkshire dales. it's a landscape loved by many, and hopefully, from now, accessible to even more.

they were one of the biggest rock bands of all time, selling millions of records and selling out stadiums all over the world. members of pink floyd have just released their first new music together in almost three decades to raise money for the people of ukraine. �*hey hey rise up' features david gilmour and nick mason, with vocals from ukrainian singer andriy khlyvnyuk of the band boombox. matt everitt has more. where does this story start? because the track's happened quite quickly, but the genesis of it goes back a little. basically, the start of it is someone showing me an instagram feed from this singer called andriy khlyvnyuk

who is of ukrainian band boombox. and he is in a square in kyiv wearing military fatigues and carrying a gun and hejust bursts into this song. with all the ukraine stuff going on, itjust struck me that, as it's a cappella, one can turn this into something lovely, a beautiful song. by coincidence, the band boombox that this guy is a singer from, we played a benefit concert for in 2015, for the belarus free theatre. they were my backing band. and this guy, andriy khlyvnyuk, has quit his american tour and gone back home to fight

for his home country. i'd had spoken to him, said is this 0k? he said fine. i spoke to him from his hospital bed, strangely. where he had a pretty minor injury from a mortar. so he's right there, on the front line. and so i started mapping this whole thing out and i thought that maybe we, the pink floyd we, should do this as a thing for ukraine, for morale boosting, for peace, to show our sort of, isuppose, anger at what has been going on. a superpower invading a peaceful nation. so going back a bit, how did you feel when you were watching the invasion first unfolding? because you have some members of your family who are ukrainian. my daughter—in—law is from ukraine, so therefore my granddaughters, her daughters and charlie's

daughters, are half—ukrainian. so i feel a little bit of family sympathy with the whole situation. but the idea is just absolutely infuriating and frustrating, with our powerlessness and the powerlessness of the west in general to actually do something really concrete about it. the song that andriy khlyvnyuk is singing was originally written around the time of world war i. i believe it was written in 1916 by stepan charnetskii. and it is a rousing call to rise up for the ukrainian people. it is called 0i u luzi chervona kalyna — in my poor ukrainian. and a kalyna is a flower with beautiful red

berries, in the autumn. and it only grows where there are good people. there has always been a political element to pink floyd's work. this isn't a new thing for the band to be expressing their beliefs about conflict. it isn't. i've been rather less garrulous about it than some in the past, possibly. but this is a much bigger issue than most of the ones that have been argued and discussed. and it is now. so it is the most important, because it is right at this moment this is happening.

now it's time for a look at the weather with ben. good afternoon. it isn't as windy out there as it was yesterday, but it does still feel rather chilly for the time of year with this cold arctic air in place. that's how we start the weekend, but things are set to change. later in the weekend and particularly next week, we introduce southerly winds and something that will feel quite a lot warmer, but it will still be quite unsettled at times. for the weekend, then, chilly, particularly at first. it will often be dry, but there will be a few showers around and then next week something warmer, particularly in any sunshine, but there will also be some rain at times. talking of rain, well, the radar picture shows that we have had some this morning across southern parts of england and the channel islands. that is now pulling away. elsewhere, a scattering of showers. some of these showers through the rest of the day will be heavy, possibly thundery, wintry in place, especially over

high ground in the north. still breezy, but not as windy as it was yesterday, so not feeling quite as cold. these are the five o'clock temperatures, between seven and 11 degrees in most places. as we head into this evening, many of the showers will fade. we will keep one or two going here and there, especially in northern scotland, where it could get a little bit icy in places. temperatures, though, will be dropping. quite a widespread frost. some places in the countryside in northern england likely to get to —4 or —5 celsius. so, a cold start to saturday, but a bright start with lots of sunshine. still some showers, but not as many as we have had during today. the showers mostly towards the north—east of the uk, not as many further south and west. temperatures through the afternoon still a little below par, really, for the time of year — seven to 12 degrees. through saturday night, this ridge of high pressure will topple through and it will be cold and frosty. but then out west this big area of low pressure tries to work its way in. it will introduce more cloud, so sunday morning starting

on a slightly less cold note across some western areas. most of the start with a frost and some sunshine. as we go through the day, many of us will hold onto dry weather, but cloud amounts will increase from the west. a little bit of rain splashing into western parts later, but with southerly winds beginning to develop, well, those temperatures start to nudge upwards. that trend certainly continuing into next week. in any sunshine it will feel warm, with highs of 18 or 19 degrees, but there will also be some outbreaks of rain at times.

this is bbc news. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines at 2... at least 39 people are feared dead and 300 injured, after rockets hit a packed train station in eastern ukraine where thousands were trying to escape the conflict. the attack in kramatorsk is a hub for refugees, with many travelling to western europe and the uk. the home secretary apologises for visa delays. com pletely completely it's been frustrating. it's very frustrating. irefill completely it's been frustrating. it's very frustrating.— it's very frustrating. will you apologise? _ it's very frustrating. will you apologise? l— it's very frustrating. will you apologise? i will _ it's very frustrating. will you apologise? i will apologise, | it's very frustrating. will you | apologise? i will apologise, it takes time. _ in other news — the man who murdered primary school teacher sabina nessa in southeast london is jailed for life the chancellor, rishi sunak, describes reports about his wife's tax arrangements as a smear campaign

and insists no rules were broken. disruption continues for the easter break —