she follows me everywhere we are really struggling with donations. we have done a lot of work and built a lot and knowing with animals when they need help. it might take a week or two weeks or six months of the year but at the end of it, you let them go. the grand final of the eurovision song contest is just days away. let's join maryam moshiri in the fan zone in liverpool. it is amazing here and thousands of

fans from around the world here. including many ukrainians living in the uk ukraine is very much in focus because it was supposed to be held in ukraine and there are so many signpost to ukrainian culture all over the city. i spoke to one mother and daughter who came here from dnipro after the war started. i asked them how excited they are. i really wanted to see a lot here because it is very nice and exciting and i'm very happy. teili because it is very nice and exciting and i'm very happy-— and i'm very happy. tell me a bit about the — and i'm very happy. tell me a bit about the fact _ and i'm very happy. tell me a bit about the fact ukraine _ and i'm very happy. tell me a bit about the fact ukraine one - and i'm very happy. tell me a bit about the fact ukraine one this i and i'm very happy. tell me a bit i about the fact ukraine one this year and it is being hosted here and i

get a very strong sense of ukraine everywhere walk in the city, do get that too? , . ., , ., that too? very nice and strong su ort that too? very nice and strong support from _ that too? very nice and strong support from people. - that too? very nice and strong support from people. are - that too? very nice and strong support from people. are you | that too? very nice and strong - support from people. are you happy to be here? — support from people. are you happy to be here? tell— support from people. are you happy to be here? tell me _ support from people. are you happy to be here? tell me about— support from people. are you happy to be here? tell me about your- to be here? tell me about your journey from dnipro to the uk. we moved journey from dnipro to the uk. - moved from ukraine to the west and then from the west moved to hungary and then from hungary to the uk. how difficult was that journey? very - difficult was that “ourney? very difficult was that journey? very difficult generally _ difficult was that journey? very difficult generally and - difficult was that journey? - difficult generally and mentally because it was very difficult for me to say goodbye to my family and my dad so very difficult for me and from hungary it was not that difficult because we wear with our ukrainian friends so there was support so we were altogether you

are a sing out yourself, who do you support on univision this year apart from ukraine?— from ukraine? there is lots of very nice singer — from ukraine? there is lots of very nice singer sia _ from ukraine? there is lots of very nice singer sia and _ from ukraine? there is lots of very nice singer sia and all _ from ukraine? there is lots of very nice singer sia and all countries . nice singer sia and all countries are so talented but i really like spain and albania. ukraine and albania and spain and my three countries along with the united kingdom. countries along with the united kinudom. .,, ., countries along with the united kinudom. ., ,. countries along with the united kinudom. ., ., ., , kingdom. those are your favourites, who do you — kingdom. those are your favourites, who do you think— kingdom. those are your favourites, who do you think will— kingdom. those are your favourites, who do you think will win _ kingdom. those are your favourites, who do you think will win on - who do you think will win on saturday night? i who do you think will win on saturday night?— who do you think will win on saturday night? who do you think will win on saturda niuht? ., ., , ., saturday night? i am not sure that robabl saturday night? i am not sure that probably spain- — saturday night? i am not sure that probably spain. thank _ saturday night? i am not sure that probably spain. thank you - saturday night? i am not sure that probably spain. thank you both i saturday night? i am not sure that| probably spain. thank you both are coming in to talk to us on the bbc. mother and daughter there. the fan zone behind me is already starting to fill up and people come here to spend a day and listen to different acts and there receiving ukrainian enough. that is where i think we can

cross my college a little earlier sam ryder made a surprise appearance and fans flock to it. hopefully you can hear that a little bit later. we have fran and rachel. how big a univision fan are you? absolutely immense. _

univision fan are you? absolutely immense. it _ univision fan are you? absolutely immense, it is _ univision fan are you? absolutely immense, it is like _ univision fan are you? absolutely immense, it is like our _ univision fan are you? absolutely| immense, it is like our christmas. how do you feel about the fact it is being hosted in the uk? last how do you feel about the fact it is being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young _ being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young to — being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young to come _ being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young to come but - being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young to come but i - being hosted in the uk? last time i was too young to come but i think. being hosted in the uk? last time i | was too young to come but i think it univision _ was too young to come but i think it univision in — was too young to come but i think it univision in the uk has often been seen _ univision in the uk has often been seen as— univision in the uk has often been seen as a — univision in the uk has often been seen as a daft thing that it is great — seen as a daft thing that it is great and _ seen as a daft thing that it is great and a good northern city. how was it last year when you guys were _ how was it last year when you guys were watching? mac it was just so lovely— were watching? mac it was just so lovely to— were watching? mac it was just so lovely to say we have an incredible song _ lovely to say we have an incredible song on _ lovely to say we have an incredible song on and a fantastic performance and i_ song on and a fantastic performance and hust— song on and a fantastic performance and ijust got so emotional. and and i 'ust got so emotional. and what and ijust got so emotional. and what ou and ijust got so emotional. and what you think _ and ijust got so emotional. fific what you think about the and ijust got so emotional. el"ic what you think about the entries this year? what you think about the entries this ear? ., , , ., ,, this year? our money is on sweden and i am this year? our money is on sweden and i am a — this year? our money is on sweden and i am a real— this year? our money is on sweden and i am a real sweden _ this year? our money is on sweden and i am a real sweden fan. - this year? our money is on sweden and i am a real sweden fan. i - and i am a real sweden fan. i absolutely love sweden this year. fran, do you agree?— absolutely love sweden this year. fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia. fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia- we — fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia. we will _ fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia. we will let _

fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia. we will let you _ fran, do you agree? absolutely not, croatia. we will let you fight - croatia. we will let you fight amon . st croatia. we will let you fight amongst yourselves - croatia. we will let you fight amongst yourselves later. i croatia. we will let you fight l amongst yourselves later. the croatia. we will let you fight - amongst yourselves later. the big final on saturday on the bbc website. a high—profile tory mp has criticised the british prime minister for ditching plans to scrap thousands of eu laws at the end of the year. jacob rees—mogg says the policy change is "hard to fathom". ministers say they want a "new approach" to removing eu laws, and would not race to a deadline. mr rees—mogg was speaking to the bbc�*s nick robinson on radio laws, and would not race to a deadline. mr rees—mogg was speaking to the bbc�*s nick robinson on radio 4's today programme. this comes back to the prime minister's promise in his video during his leadership campaign when he said he would do this. now, bear in mind, at that time he had already given right

round consent to the retained eu law bill. i had briefed him on it. he knew that it wasn't easy. he knew that it was going to be an effort to get it done by actually a slightly longer deadline at that point. he accepted the deadline of 2023, and then he has broken his word. and this is very serious, in my view. our chief political correspondent, nick eardley, has more. i've got to say, when that legislation was introduced, but i tell you who didn't say that, rishi sunak because at the time he was running to be conservative leader, he actually promised to review our scrap all those laws within 100 days. very different picture today, though, the government is saying, well, look, actually, we've discovered all these laws we didn't even know were there. there's about a500 of them. and we just don't have time to go through them all and decide what we want to keep and what we want to scrap. so instead of automatically scrapping them all, we're going to now say here are the ones we want to get rid of instead. now, my understanding is the government hopes to get rid

of about 2000, so just under half. that's infuriated some conservative mps on the brexit wing of the party. i've been on the phone to some of them this morning. they are not happy. having a go at kemi badenoch, the business minister, saying that this is not good enough, that it was one of the few things that the conservative party could agree on when it came to brexit. and they are very unhappy. the tensions in the conservative party over brexit aren't what they were two, three, four years ago when it was open civil war on an almost daily basis. but it is a reminder that those tensions are still there and it is a reminder there is a group of conservative mps, probably about 20, maybe slightly more, who can get pretty unhappy at the government pretty quickly when it comes to brexit.

it is the second it's second day of a trial at the high court in london over alleged hacking byjournalists employed by the publisher of the daily mirror. prince harry and three celebrities claim the mirror group newspapers were involved in phone hacking and securing information through deception. our correspondent sancha berg is following the story from the high court with the latest. sancha. the trial is scheduled for seven weeks and the apology yesterday was only one very small part and not what is being claimed in this case. so there are a lot of elements to this case and this morning we heard the opening from the lawyer for the claimants and what he alleged is that at all levels mirror group newspapers knew about and concealed these different methods of unlawful information gathering, phone hacking and something called blagging for you impersonate somebody else to get

details of their personal information and what the lawyer is doing is trying to establish this was a pattern of behaviour people at the highest level knew about and editors knew about and were involved in it, people like piers morgan. to illustrate this and prove it they have taken one example, a story the mirror ran about the finances of prince michael of kent the claimants say was based on information they had blagged, obtained unlawfully and they know that because they have the invoices of the private investigation company that did that. what they have done is through disclosure of material they have got from mirror group newspapers, now reach and have corn through all that information and —— combed through that information and put together a jigsaw of information they have

presented. this morning we've heard about prince michael of kent and his finances and the claimants see how that came about and noted that this and tomorrow morning and then tomorrow afternoon the time when four defendants in the newspaper group will start to put its case and very briefly what they will say is an off a lot of this is out of time, it has been raised far too late because these events happened at the very least 12 years ago. thanks for that update. much more on all the stories on the bbc website and we will be back with headlines at the top of the hour hour hello again. lots of slow moving thundery showers today bringing a risk of some flooding this afternoon. the early morning cloud in manchester was spun

around by these white vortices coming off this landing a380 plane. beautiful picture, but enough of the plane spotting and on to the cloud spotting. well, there's plenty of that. and many of these clouds are turning into thunderclouds, cumulonimbus clouds. the big problem today is the storms are going to be slow—moving because there's not much wind to move them along. and so there's a threat of seeing some localised flash flooding. you're highly likely to see showers across the pennines, north west england, the midlands and wales. they'll be very widespread here and some of them torrential and also draped around the coast of east anglia, a few across the south downs, and because the storms are slow—moving rainfall totals can build up 20 to 50 millimetres of rainfall in the space ofjust an hour or two. that is why we could see some flash flooding this afternoon. now, overnight, the showers do clear off as we start to draw in some

cooler cloudier weather from the north sea and that will tend to lower the temperatures. and so we're not going to see the same amount of showers around for friday, that's for sure. but it's a different type of weather we'll have — across the north sea regions we'll have — across a lot of low clouds start the day. we'll have — across a weak weather front bringing some patches of light rain across east anglia, pushing towards the midlands, south east england and central southern england. now, away from that, there will be some sunshine for scotland, northern ireland, western parts of england and for wales. and in the sunshine it's going to feel warm tomorrow with highs up to 18 degrees or so. but feeling cool around the north sea coast. the weekend? well, we start off with high pressure across the uk on saturday and with that we could see temperatures go as high as 22 degrees, which would make it the warmest day of the year so far. however, we really shouldn't get too excited by 22 because at this time of the year, in previous years, we've already had much warmer spells of weather. more typically, temperatures reached 25 to 26 degrees by this time of the year.

so it has been relatively cool. now, saturday, we start off with a bit of cloud, but there will be some sunshine coming through widely. the highest temperatures, scotland and northern ireland, that's where we could see the temperatures hit 22 degrees celsius in the best of the sunshine. make the most of that on saturday because it's all change on sunday. it looks like it's going to turn a lot cloudier with outbreaks of rain and cooler weather conditions extending in from the northwest.

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