hello, i'm ben thompson. you're watching the context on bbc news. tonight on al decoded, all you need to know from the london ai summit, and we take a look at some of the latest top tech in artificial intelligence. sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's marc edwards. hi, ben, and we will start with football. euro fever continues to build as scotland prepare for their opening match against the hosts germany in munich on friday. the scottish squad have already been telling the bbc that their game faces are on ahead of this pivotal tie. they'll want to get a good start to the competition, bearing in mind they've never gone beyond the group stage at a major tournament. we know it's a big game.

but for us, it's the opening game. four—team section, three matches. we know what we have to do to qualify, and that is all we are focused on. the enormity of the opening game and whatever, that's a little bit of a sideshow. and hopefully we don't get too involved in that. one of the mantras i've always had is respect everyone and fear no—one. so we've come here with a lot of respect with the host nation, we know they're a good team. but hopefully on the night, we can show that we're a good team as well. well, england begin their campaign against serbia on sunday in gelsenkircken, and some good news out of the camp. all 26 of their squad trained today, including john stones, who was missing yesterday with illness. so a boost to gareth southgate�*s plans. meanwhile, conor gallagher says defeat in their final warm—up game to iceland last weekend was a real wake—up call for the whole squad to make sure they start well in germany.

in tournament football, just during the first thing as well as you can, even if it's the right pass or winning your tackle, win your headers, the second ball, it's just the basics to give the whole team confidence to go and win that first game. and with the iceland game, i think, although it wasn't a good result and not the best performance, i think, in a way, it could be good that it happened, i think. i think it was a bit of a wake—up call for us that, you know, it's not easy to win games against any country. we're about half an hour into a crunch game for england at the t20 world cup. they need a big win over oman to stay in the competition. england won the toss and chose to field first in antigua, and it looks to have been a good decision. oman are 25—5 off six overs. joffra archer and mark wood

with two wickets apiece. another wicket falling in the past few minutes withjos buttler getting the stopping. bangladesh took a big step towards the super 8s with a 25—run victory over the netherlands in st vincent. shakib al hasan made an unbeaten 64 from 46 balls to guide his side to 159, and rishad hossain took three wickets as the netherlands fell short in their chase. it's tight at the top of the leaderboard in the opening round of the us open, the third major of the season. the american patrick cantlay leads at pinehurst in north carolina. he shot a 5—under—par 65 to finish one shot clear of sweden's ludwig aberg. rory mcilroy has had a good start. he's 2—under after seven holes. and that's all the sport for now. you are watching the context. it is time for our our new weekly segment, ai decoded. welcome to ai decoded, that time of the week when we look

in depth at some of the most eye—catching stories in the world of artificial intelligence. well, the ai summit landed in london this week, showcasing some the most innovative companies using cutting—edge artificial intelligence. and we were there. in a moment, we'll show you what we discovered and hear from the biggest names attending the event, including boston dynamics, the world's most advanced robotics manufacturer. they were featured in the internet of things website after a tiktok video of the company's robot dog spot demonstrated its potential civilian uses and went viral. we'll hear exclusively from spot — well, his human handler anyway — in a moment. variety magazine asks, "is the music industry too frightened of artificial intelligence?" as artists raise concerns over the changes ai could bring to musical creativity, we'll hearfrom one pop star and a famous music producer who believe ai will help unleash human the imagination and make music even better.

with me is our regular ai decoded contributor stephanie hare, who's an author on technology and ai commentator. good to see you as always. it's been tech week and the summit summit was part of it. right up your street? this is like christmas and birthday week all rolled into one for anyone interested in technology and particularly ai. we had a ai summit yesterday and today in east london, a really dynamic part of the city were a lot of tech companies are already located. and then all week we have a having this big kind of gathering of lots of scholars flown in and researchers from north america at the royal society, giving papers, sharing talks, sharing best for this is the really important for researchers to come together and get their research at the policymakers, lawmakers and business and vice versa, the kind of feedback into the

labs the real world challenges and experiences with al. find labs the real world challenges and experiences with al.— labs the real world challenges and experiences with al. and i suppose the sense is _ experiences with al. and i suppose the sense is when _ experiences with al. and i suppose the sense is when you _ experiences with al. and i suppose the sense is when you were - experiences with al. and i suppose the sense is when you were there, | the sense is when you were there, you can have these conversations and meet all the people and that is where the real work gets done. yesterday for me was sort of magical because i was talking with ibm about that responsible ai practices and how they are trying to use generated ai in a really ethical way. and looking at cyber security because the more we use ai cam greater the attack surface and we have to protect all that data. we met with boston dynamics and i will not spoil the surprise and for me i spoke to a woman named crystaljohnson, a scientist at nasa who was talking about nasa poss make efforts to get humans back onto the moon and eventually to mars using ai as part of. it'sjust eventually to mars using ai as part of. it's just breathtaking. eventually to mars using ai as part of. it'sjust breathtaking. let’s of. it's 'ust breathtaking. let's have a of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look— of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look at _ of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look at what _ of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look at what you - of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look at what you found | of. it'sjust breathtaking. let's have a look at what you found out, shall be? hello there. welcome to the ai london summit 202a. music.

brendan, first thing i have to say is i'm wearing an "i heart ai" badge. you're wearing one that's slightly different. can you discuss cos it's got something to do with the little dog that's walking around behind us? yes, thank you. i'm wearing a pin that represents our spot robot. spot is a quadruped robot that does commercial and industrial inspection. it's often used in manufacturing facilities, energy plants. it's being used here in the uk for decommissioning of nuclear sites, for example, at sellafield. and now when you say it's being used, who's using it? and to do what? like, what's does spot do? is he fetching, rolling over, or is he helping people in some way? spot typically is used in industrial facilities as an inspection robot. so, for example, it will walk around the facility autonomously 24 hours

a day looking for anomalies in the plant. for example, a piece of equipment might be overheating or a bearing might be wearing out. to alert the maintenance staff if something needs to be fixed before the entire facility has to be shut down. so that's the way of doing preventative maintenance and inspection in a way that's much more efficient and cost—effective for the industrial facility. now, how's he doing that? is that sensors? how many cameras does he have embedded in him? how how does that work? so the robot has cameras around its body for navigation purposes. and then as you see here, there are sensors on top of the robot, and those can be changed depending on what the customer wants to do with the robot. so in this case, there's a lidar sensor there. that's used to create a 3d map of the environment. it can create, like, a digital model of a building or a construction site. but we also have customers that do visual or thermal payloads. so a thermal sensor might be used to detect overheating of equipment or other types of problems that might need to be addressed in the facility. and is this a case of spot is doing things that are too dangerous for humans to do or simply that

you don't have to pay for 24/7 security in a facility, you can simply have a robot dog do it for you instead that has six cameras instead of two eyes? it's a combination of doing things that are either dangerous for humans. for example, decommissioning of a nuclear site. or things that are that are dull because it's a 24—hour inspection routine that just consists of walking around looking at things. or dangerous. it might be sort of a hazardous type of situation. maybe it's an industrial plant with extreme temperatures. send the robot in, keep people safe, keep them focused on more productive or more interesting tasks in the facility. now, you've mentioned safety a couple of times in this conversation, so i'd love for us to broach the topic of safety, ethics and the law. of course. how do you make sure that a robot dog is always friendly to humans and never harmful? well, one of our ethics principles is that, and this is right in our terms and conditions of sale, is that the robot is not allowed to be weaponised, nor can it be used to harm or even intimidate any person or animal.

so if you buy the robot from us as a customer, you are legally agreeing not to misuse the robot in that way. do you have the remote capability, for instance, to shut it down? if you were seeing, you as a company, that your product was being used in a way that was harmful to humans? so there's two solutions to that. first of all, it's never happened. we haven't had to do that. but we do have legal remedies because it is in our terms and conditions of use. as soon as that misuse occurs, the software licence becomes invalid and they no longer have legal authority to operate the product. and we would pursue legal options in that respect. but there also is a software licence on spot that expires every year. and so in the event that we learn of misuse, it's possible that we would not allow automatic update of that licence. so that's one additional way that we could take a technical measure to address it. who would have the responsibility to police that? you would expect the authorities, starting with law enforcement and then prosecutors and of course the judicial system, to resolve it, to figure out what exactly happened, did they do something wrong or not, and then to apply penalties if appropriate.

definitely part of our long—term vision for robotics in society is for this type of technology to be helping people who might be disabled, who might need physical assistance, who might even need companionship. that's not a product we have today. i wouldn't say that spot is designed for that application yet. our focus is on the industrial inspection and public safety. actually, we had a robot about three months ago that was shot during a police encounter with an armed suspect in a sort of barricade scenario. the robot was sent in to try to figure out what, you know, what's going on inside this house where someone has barricaded themselves with a weapon. and that person sort of kicked the robot and then decided to shoot spot three times. so spot took three bullets, which sounds awful if you like robots, but to us, it's a great story because that's a machine being harmed instead of a person.

i feel really sad for spot, spot got shot. stephanie, you got really good insight into that. it strikes me watching that the intersection between ai and robotics, and the two can exist on their own but this is where the to really get quite powerful. where the to really get quite owerful. ~ where the to really get quite powerful-— where the to really get quite owerful. ~ ., , ., , ., powerful. we were actually able to see how spot _ powerful. we were actually able to see how spot the _ powerful. we were actually able to see how spot the robot _ powerful. we were actually able to see how spot the robot sees - powerful. we were actually able to see how spot the robot sees the l see how spot the robot sees the world, so i got down and was even looking at him and were able to see on the big screen how spot was seeing me. and it's totally different. a machine's i, if you will, sees differently than the human eye but what's really different is this taking and capturing all of that data along with its sensors and sending it back and learning all the time. find with its sensors and sending it back and learning all the time.— and learning all the time. and what is it learning _ and learning all the time. and what is it learning from _ and learning all the time. and what is it learning from that _ and learning all the time. and what is it learning from that image? - and learning all the time. and what is it learning from that image? is . is it learning from that image? is identifying who you are or you might be? ., ., , ., _, identifying who you are or you might be? ., ., , ., , be? potentially. you could put facial recognition _ be? potentially. you could put facial recognition on _ be? potentially. you could put facial recognition on that, - be? potentially. you could put l facial recognition on that, threat analysis on that. you learn to spot

body temperature, spot could learn to spot body temperature. maybe there is no light work to be taught or given can ability to see there is a human being hiding in the factory or passed out in a fire in the factory where there maybe it's just smoke and identify it and identify somebody that needs to go and rescue it. so it can be given all sorts of things. the thing i was a bit worried about and i would urge these engineers to just consider this is the ability to remotely disable a robot. ., ., _, , , robot. there are legal recourses, but actually... _ robot. there are legal recourses, but actually... i— robot. there are legal recourses, but actually... i think _ robot. there are legal recourses, but actually... i think that's - robot. there are legal recourses, but actually... i think that's too l but actually... i think that's too slow. but actually... i think that's too slow come _ but actually... i think that's too slow. come on _ but actually. .. i think that's too slow. come on lawyer- but actually... i think that's too slow. come on lawyer and - but actually... i think that's too slow. come on lawyer and twol but actually... i think that's too - slow. come on lawyer and two years later get a lawsuit filed. you slow. come on lawyer and two years later get a lawsuit filed.— later get a lawsuit filed. you would like to perhaps _ later get a lawsuit filed. you would like to perhaps see _ later get a lawsuit filed. you would like to perhaps see them _ later get a lawsuit filed. you would like to perhaps see them remotely| like to perhaps see them remotely disable the abilities of spot? for instance if disable the abilities of spot? er?" instance if it got hacked or if it went haywire went rogue. things happen, unintended consequences all the time of technology, it will be really nice in certain situations and notjust with this robot but i think with any robot, that principle is there if it can be remotely disabled. is there if it can be remotely disabled-— is there if it can be remotely

disabled. ,, , ., ., ., ~ ., disabled. stephanie, good to talk to ou about disabled. stephanie, good to talk to you about that _ disabled. stephanie, good to talk to you about that and _ disabled. stephanie, good to talk to you about that and really _ disabled. stephanie, good to talk to you about that and really nice - disabled. stephanie, good to talk to you about that and really nice to - you about that and really nice to see that piece and actually really brings it to life. for now, thank you and me will talk some more in a moment because still the,... still to come, music to their ears or a threat to musical creativity? we hearfrom pop star daniel bedingfield and legendary music producer fernando garibay about the future of human creativity in the shadow of artificial intelligence. stay with us on al decoded. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

welcome back to ai decoded. we just saw a glimpse of the future and how robots will reshape our daily lives, but what about human creativity in areas like art, literature or music? what role could ai play in writing songs and making music? are they a tool for creativity

or threat to peoples' livelihoods? ai contributor samir malall, chief executive of creative ai company one day, is with us. nice to see you. this is the common debate when we talk about al, they can stifle human creativity, that robots and machines can never be as creative as humans. you don't agree necessarily. 50 creative as humans. you don't agree necessarily-— necessarily. so ai whenever placing sound nine i'm _ necessarily. so ai whenever placing sound nine i'm pretty— necessarily. so ai whenever placing sound nine i'm pretty limited, - necessarily. so ai whenever placing sound nine i'm pretty limited, but. sound nine i'm pretty limited, but it can _ sound nine i'm pretty limited, but it can expand what you're capable of. it can expand what you're capable of now _ it can expand what you're capable of. now you to create in a way that you never— of. now you to create in a way that you never been able to create before, — you never been able to create before, and the clip we are going to see what_ before, and the clip we are going to see what is— before, and the clip we are going to see what is a very good it with freshen of— see what is a very good it with freshen of that.— see what is a very good it with freshen of that. yes, and in this cli we freshen of that. yes, and in this clip we will _ freshen of that. yes, and in this clip we will explain _ freshen of that. yes, and in this clip we will explain what's - clip we will explain what's happening, talk to me about what we are going to we are going to see daniel and fernando and they will be doing an experiment. the experiment is how to make _ doing an experiment. the experiment is how to make that _ doing an experiment. the experiment is how to make that science _ doing an experiment. the experiment is how to make that science using - is how to make that science using this al _ is how to make that science using this at tool — is how to make that science using this ai tool. they will take two very— this ai tool. they will take two very different approaches are you're going _ very different approaches are you're going to _ very different approaches are you're going to discover which one works

best _ going to discover which one works best so _ going to discover which one works best. so fernando is going to ask the audience for emotional responses, and he learning to use that to _ responses, and he learning to use that to promptly ai it by prompting i that to promptly ai it by prompting i mean _ that to promptly ai it by prompting i mean he — that to promptly ai it by prompting i mean he is going to give ideas to the about— i mean he is going to give ideas to the about how should perform and took a _ the about how should perform and took a different approach. he will be took a different approach. he will he like _ took a different approach. he will be like the curator and who will quickly— be like the curator and who will quickly go _ be like the curator and who will quickly go through all the different iterations and pick the best one. so we are _ iterations and pick the best one. so we are going to discover which gives you the _ we are going to discover which gives you the best result let's find out, let's take — you the best result let's find out, let's take a — you the best result let's find out, let's take a look. the first ever electronic bedroom producer, i should say. yeah. you scale, you make pop music. probably, yes. this is my first, it becomes the owner of that title. one of the greatest producers of all time, and he wrote bailamos at 15. he had his first number—one at 15. you're going to take part in two different ways of working with the machine, with some very exciting special guests that have just flown in. and we're also going

to write, as a comparable... well, we're going to prompt the same platform to make a song on its own. anybody like drum and bass? light cheering. come on, london! ok, guys, you're not making a lot of noise. that means you're good listeners. go, "na—na—na!" what words can you hear? come on, writing a song. i'm putting the track that we just recorded into thatr al to generate new versions of what we just created until i'm happy. so i'm going to generate like 100 of them and pick one in ten minutes. no longer 10,000 hours to the equivalent of the mastery of a discipline, it's ten hours. so when you think about prompting, it's important to think, especially in the creative space, to think about what moves you,

what's truly honest to you. you could have one meal and only one meal as your last meal, with anyone that's ever existed in history, who would that be? frank sinatra. being replaced, and unless we pivot as musicians, it's over. so we all have to get used to this as a tool. this is a tool to enable creation, and we have to see it as our ally, at least for now. i'm asking that you write me a song about self—love, being seen, feeling free, and navigating the ups and downs of life, write it in a first—person point of view, and add a lyric about loving yourself better. we're going to show the full emotionally affective prompted from the audience. prompted from the audience al's song. again, it's a lottery system.

# woke up this morning # looked into the mirror # saw someone staring at me # a little bit clearer # through the highs and the lows # i haven't had a role # loving myself better # now i truly know...# because if you think that your creator and that's your identity and it's based on that, you're not going to have that to fall back on any more. we are creative as a world,

and i think we're going to have to move into the way to get our sense of self. ok, here we go again. drum and bass music plays. # cut the strings of your love...#. my son is in first grade, and he generates 12 songs in a weekend. this last weekend, and he dj'd them during his little lunchtime. and he learns, he plays every instrument, right, so manually plays every instrument from his piano, guitar. and so that, for me, that's the balance. i want him to learn how to be able to use an instrument to express his feelings. see it as a cathartic process. you know, it's a little different from prompting that you get from actually playing, expressing your emotions, you know, tactile. playing, picking up a guitar, there's a value to that. and equally, there's an extraordinary value to prompting and learning the language to better prompt to get to the song he wants to hear, to live in his feelings with the songs that he generates. # cut the strings of your love...#.

whatever you think of the music, fascinating insight into how that works. stephanie and samir are still with us. i thought interesting there that daniel thing left to pivot as musicians, is over, and i wonder how you think that role as a creative, as a musician in this case, will of all because of ai.— all because of ai. yeah, it's a really good — all because of ai. yeah, it's a really good question. - all because of ai. yeah, it's a really good question. what i all because of ai. yeah, it's a l really good question. what are all because of ai. yeah, it's a - really good question. what are the difference — really good question. what are the difference between daniel's track and the _ difference between daniel's track and the one produced directly with 'ust and the one produced directly with just the _ and the one produced directly with just the ai. daniel is like a curator. _ just the ai. daniel is like a curator, and that yielded a different result. his track was emotional, and he is to putting himself— emotional, and he is to putting himself into it and that is the role that i_ himself into it and that is the role that i see — himself into it and that is the role that i see us inhabiting as creative _ that i see us inhabiting as creative. and we have a huge advantage. we have ever tasted, we have our— advantage. we have ever tasted, we have our crafts, we have all of our experience that we can bring in we can elevate — experience that we can bring in we can elevate ai into a whole other kind of— can elevate ai into a whole other kind of collaborative medium. and

what strikes _ kind of collaborative medium. fific what strikes me when kind of collaborative medium. fific what strikes me when you look kind of collaborative medium. e'"ic what strikes me when you look at something like this as well is, yes, you may see it as a threat to the very nature of what humans do which is create stuff, but if we think about using it as a tool, the suddenly it opens the worst people then maybe don't have some of those skills but they have different skills. in it so many different creative fields, this could open the door to a lot of people.— door to a lot of people. absolutely an hint door to a lot of people. absolutely anything about _ door to a lot of people. absolutely anything about how _ door to a lot of people. absolutely anything about how we _ door to a lot of people. absolutely anything about how we don't - door to a lot of people. absolutely i anything about how we don't actually have a lot of funding for music education in so many countries now with the cost—of—living process. there is a start up cost to learning how to play the piano or learn music theory really well. these tools can give anyone the opportunity to experiment and compose their own kinds of songs and express themselves emotionally. a trained musician or someone with that training might take it much further, but it still makes it democratizing all sorts of artistic expression. democratizing it but if there are a danger that those tools fall into the hands of big business. this is a

common theme, about who has the power here, who has the tools available. and if that is a tool and accessibility tool for whatever industry, he needs to be available to all. i industry, he needs to be available to all. ., ., , ., ., to all. i totally agree with that. that's what's _ to all. i totally agree with that. that's what's really _ to all. i totally agree with that. that's what's really important i to all. i totally agree with that. i that's what's really important you people _ that's what's really important you people across all kinds of spectrums of society— people across all kinds of spectrums of society are getting the opportunity to use this tool, to learn _ opportunity to use this tool, to learn how— opportunity to use this tool, to learn how to use as a collaborator and not _ learn how to use as a collaborator and notjust— learn how to use as a collaborator and notjust get it to do things and not just get it to do things for you because that is going to create a new— you because that is going to create a new kind — you because that is going to create a new kind of class structure around ai. a new kind of class structure around al the _ a new kind of class structure around al. the people learn how to use ai al. the people learn how to use al to make _ al. the people learn how to use al to make themselves do more and to scale _ to make themselves do more and to scale themselves and to do things that they— scale themselves and to do things that they could not otherwise do, those _ that they could not otherwise do, those people are going to get way ahead _ those people are going to get way ahead. and so we need to encourage that across _ ahead. and so we need to encourage that across a — ahead. and so we need to encourage that across a broad section of the culture _ that across a broad section of the culture and — that across a broad section of the culture and society. you that across a broad section of the culture and society.— culture and society. you talked about education _ culture and society. you talked about education for— culture and society. you talked about education for things - culture and society. you talked about education for things like | about education for things like music or instrument and then having the financial means to be able to afford it, is there enough education around what these tools can do because these will be the instruments of the future? i would

sa not instruments of the future? i would say not yet — instruments of the future? i would say not yet because _ instruments of the future? i would say not yet because every - instruments of the future? i would say not yet because every catholic| say not yet because every catholic looking to capitalise on al and the abilities of it is going to rethink their education curriculum starting from the age of children at preschool on up. you want kids playing with this, learning to have a critical, constructive facility, the ability to sort of understand and differentiate between what is fake and what is real and how to play and manipulate with it. kids are really creative naturally and i think they're going to have so much fun with this. it's for parents and teachers to get in on this, too. what are you most excited about with this being a tool? with a view it as that, as will tool, not a replacement. and again in daniel's words, we need to pivot and is about that embracing it rather than fearing it. that embracing it rather than fearing it— that embracing it rather than fearin: it. ., , ., fearing it. yeah, some things are auoin to fearing it. yeah, some things are going to get _ fearing it. yeah, some things are going to get replaced. _ fearing it. yeah, some things are going to get replaced. is - fearing it. yeah, some things are going to get replaced. isjust - fearing it. yeah, some things are going to get replaced. isjust a i going to get replaced. isjust a fact of— going to get replaced. isjust a fact of any new technology coming in. fact of any new technology coming in so— fact of any new technology coming in so we — in. so we cannot sit around as artists and _ in. so we cannot sit around as artists and wait for that to happen, and give _

artists and wait for that to happen, and give all— artists and wait for that to happen, and give all the power to these ai companies — and give all the power to these ai companies and trust him when they so they don't— companies and trust him when they so they don't want to replace us. i really— they don't want to replace us. i really don't buy that. when you look at tools _ really don't buy that. when you look at tools like — really don't buy that. when you look at tools like sauron and things like that, _ at tools like sauron and things like that, what— at tools like sauron and things like that, what are they trying to do? we have to _ that, what are they trying to do? we have to get — that, what are they trying to do? we have to get out there and use this in our own— have to get out there and use this in our own way and do what creative do, in our own way and do what creative do. which _ in our own way and do what creative do. which is — in our own way and do what creative do, which is express ourselves through— do, which is express ourselves through this technology. that's what we always _ through this technology. that's what we always do, and it to find ways of doing that — we always do, and it to find ways of doinu that. . , we always do, and it to find ways of doinu that. ., , ., we always do, and it to find ways of doinu that. . , ., ., , doing that. really going to be fascinating — doing that. really going to be fascinating to _ doing that. really going to be fascinating to see _ doing that. really going to be fascinating to see how - doing that. really going to be fascinating to see how this . doing that. really going to be i fascinating to see how this plays out. so nice is in the pieces you made for us and thank you for doing them at the ai summit this week and a really fascinating insight into the rearward applications of all of this. thank you, really grateful for you being with us, thank you. that's it, we are out of time. we will do this again same time, same place, next week. much more on this on the website and you can watch previous episodes of the programme right there but they give your company this weekend, see you very soon, bye—bye.

hello. we've seen some unusually windy weather for the time of year across western parts of the uk today. not only strong winds, also some heavy rain. this was the scene for a weather watcher on the west coast of wales. it all came courtesy of this stripe of cloud. on the earlier satellite picture, we saw wind gusts touching 60 mph in the isles of scilly. and this wet and rather blustery weather will be pushing its way northwards and eastwards overnight. the winds easing somewhat, some rather misty, murky conditions following on behind the main rain band. some clear skies, too, albeit with a scattering of showers, and a much milder start to tomorrow morning than we had this morning. double digit temperatures for most as we start the day tomorrow, but with this area of low pressure firmly in charge. and that is just going to lumber its way very slowly eastwards through the weekend. so it does remain very unsettled indeed. this band of heavy and quite persistent rain in the north of scotland, at least for a time,

quite windy here as well. elsewhere, it'll turn into a sunshine and showers day, but there will be lots of those showers, some of them will be heavy with hail and thunder. but in the dry gaps between the showers, the sun is strong at this time of year, so it won't feel too bad. temperatures up to around 18, perhaps 19 celsius. but further showers through friday evening, in fact, this band of slightly more widespread rain pushing its way across northern ireland. and are low certainly still with us for the weekend. we've got bands of wet weather circulating around it. this area of rain here likely to hurtle its way westwards towards scotland. there's some uncertainty about exactly where this area of rain will end up, but the chance of some very heavy rain for parts of scotland. northern ireland, england, wales, sunny spells, heavy showers, temperatures of 13—17 celsius. so still a touch below par for the time of year. what about sunday? well, this area of low pressure still with us. this frontal system

in the north likely to move a little bit further south. so rain moving across scotland down into northern ireland and northern england. also some showers likely to crop up across southern counties of england, parts of south wales. in between, perhaps a slice of somewhat drier and brighter weather. temperatures creeping upjust a little bit with highs of 14—19 celsius. bye for now.

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