starmer has spoken to ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky. spoken to ukraine's president volodymyrzelenskyead a bit of the statement. it said, the pm began by reiterating the uk's concrete support for ukraine for as long as it is needed. he was unequivocal that there could be no talks about ukraine without ukraine. we will have more on that and the rest of the issues around ukraine and the war there throughout the morning. stay with us, i will be back in a moment. hello. there are parts of the uk, particularly in england so far this week. some places had no sunshine at all through monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. friday may change that. the chance of some sunshine, although some outbreaks of rain affecting western areas in association with this frontal system pushing in from the atlantic, but it is running up against this area of high pressure, so that weather front not making much progress. but a zone of cloud, splashes of rain, maybe some hill snow as well across south—west england, wales, northern ireland. it could be fairly windy here. but further east, as you can see, a better