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the hill. good to talk to you. let me recap on what we were from prime 5 giorgia meloni, who minister giorgia meloni, who pope francis, the has visited pope francis, the leader of the world catholics has visited pope francis, the le hospital. e world catholics has visited pope francis, the le hospital. he orld catholics has visited pope francis, the le hospital. he is .d catholics has visited pope francis, the le hospital. he is being |olics for 5 55 5 55fo5r5double 5 for double pne5umonia treated for double pneumonia and we heard from the pope's that he representatives that he was reading and praying and this e e: e who reading and praying and this ee e: e who says from giorgia meloni, who says she found him active, reactive elert 5 5 elert and 5 5 elert and she5 5 elert and she5 also 5 elert and she5also said5 he a5good 5 a good sense of humour and had a good sense of humour and that... me just had a good sense of humour and that... mejust find you... a. 55she55s5aid55 a. 55she55s5aid5he555555 a. 55she55said5he5wa5s5 5 a. 55she55said5he5wa5s55in here we go. she said he was in his usual sense of humour and him ' him alert and she found him alert and the latest reactive. the latest from giorgia meloni on how pope is doing in hospital. francis is doing in hospital. do stay with us here on the bbc verified life, programme. bbc verified life, much more to

things are set to turn milder but wetter and windier. that was how it looked in devon as this weather front passed through. lift temperatures in most places up into double digits. the north—east of scotland. rain and a bit of snow over the highest ground. a drier slot in between. temperatures in newcastle, glasgow, aberdeen — 6 or 7 degrees. eastwards over night. with it a lot of cloud, some mist and murk for western coasts and hills.

this is what you will be waking up to tomorrow morning. thundery rain on and off. as we go through the day. 11-15 . been used to of late. for some western coasts of wales, perhaps the east and some heavy rain. particularly wet for a time across scotland where we could

more wet and windy weather.