some of the more popular routes include chiang mai to bangkok and bangkok to the southern beach resortstional. so, east to laos and cambodia, and even as far as malaysia and singapore. but i'm jumping off at a stop that will get me within easy reach of thailand's lush countryside. i've arrived in a province called surin, which, as you can probably tell, is pretty rural and remote, but it's also home to some pretty special residents. surin is the spiritual home of the mahouts, or elephant handlers. around a quarter of all the country's domesticated population are said to come from here. saeb used to work in the northern city of chiang mai, charging people for rides. hi, saeb! i want the tour. you've got to show me around. so, what's this big fella's name, then? ekasit. and how old is he? 38. 38! is that quite old in elephant years? yeah, yeah. so, shall we get more food? he's running out. wow! he's a big guy. eats a lot. during covid, when attractions shut, ekasit and saebjoined hundreds of others in making the long journey back to surin, where institutions have been set up to give mahou

i jonathan had in bangkok.committee ronna mcdaniel as a political contributor after hiring was widely criticised by staff. the news of her departure isjust staff. the news of her departure is just two days after she made her debut on nbc sunday morning show meet the press in which she claimed without giving evidence that there were problems in the 2020 election. the network had booked out $300,000 to bring her on board at a time when it is cutting front line journalists. in north america corresponded david willis has more details. it's not for former political insiders or party officials to land a lucrative second gig, providing analysis to american television networks. such is the revolving door between the two worlds. there is even a name for it called the politics to punditry pipeline. why then did the appointment by nbc of the former chair of the republican national committee ronna mcdaniel prove so controversial? herappointment was announced last and caught manny tsigas journalists at the network by surpri

and a 3-hour drive, but again we found out that he did not go to bangkok today and simply refused tod how? well, now my mother, who flew here to thailand, alla’s mother, she she received the necessary documents from the police department and she must go with them. embassy , ​​embassy police are not against releasing the body , that is, there are no obstacles for this now, in the future the relatives can decide for themselves whether it will be cremation or there, allah’s son, as i understand it, he is in thailand, what school does he go to, he is years old 15, that’s right, yes, he will be 15 years old, it’s probably better to ask this question, his grandmother, where does he go to school, does your grandson have an education, your grandson, of course, has an education and... it’s sad, or this is what a friend says, and we see some video materials, he’s in a bar, he’s with some women, you know, i ’ve been there for two nights, like denis, in general, yes. he is very sad, he constantly tells me that he loved alla, that he misses her, that he misses her, and all day long they constantl

so many chang has more from bangkok, crowds of tourists at what i wrote in the temple of doom in bangkok, many who they could be the answer to the governments. prince. tourism was nearly 20 percent of titans. gross domestic product has been slow to recover from the code that 19 pandemic. and b 's a wave is don't seem to be increasing visits, a numbers, all right, and that's why i prefer you rely on a particular industry for our main income. that's risky, things we never know when they will be labeled. economic crisis has some kind of natural disaster connected. we have to manage the risk and distribute across the board to the other sectors are performing fully to the economy contract within the last quarter of.

no day for sending to holy buddhist relics to bangkok, those who hold the items of loaded food that will be temporarily enshrined in thailand. the local tie into your community in bangkok celebrated the occasion, asking events with local dignitaries of spiritual leaders on business representative. they believe prime minister and moody's actions can boost the confidence of india nationals as well as the wealth. the loan is part of the indian governments. nope. is policy which emphasizes when they just as coach loan. they spied old. i functions against russia, western countries, and quietly increase the importance of nuclear materials from the country over the past year. as according to their reports by the bolona environmental foundation and g o in norway, my colleague discussed the reasons for this double spike with us a contributor prism, or russia has. it's probably the cleanest and the best best accessible nuclear nuclear fuel uranium is us in the world. so it's kind of impossible for then to book it again. it just shows the that the upset, the t of the sanctions. right. we can also s

so any time has more from bangkok, crowds of tourists at what i wrote in the temple of doom in bangkok, many who they could be the answer to the government's prince. tourism was nearly 20 percent of titans, gross domestic product has been slow to recover from the code that 19 pandemic. and b 's, a wave is done, seemed to be increasing visits, a numbers. all right, and that's why i prefer you rely on a particular industry for main income. that's risky things we never know when they will be labeled. you cannot make crisis with some kind of natural disaster connected. we have to manage the risk and distribute across the board to the other sectors are performing fully to the economy contract within the last quarter of 2023 trend expected to continue this year. agricultural products, the backbone of the tiny economy suffered from increasing prices unload the mon, liked industry in which thailand was once a leader. the suffered because of supply chain problems and the lack of investment indonesia are in vietnam, hopefully from the head. china is economic slowdown is a button which thailand h

waits patiently outside. blown prim prism in bangkok hood boyfriend get is inside serving 6. he is the crime of less met just a. how do i go on you get? uh huh. i don't think people can be okay when they left one is in now of prison, but we have just done with him. it was hard at 1st. i cried. every time he went in, i couldn't stop crying when the court tonight just bel request gets crime was to question how the ruling tennessee came to power over 200 years ago. in most countries, historical debate in thailand, the criminal offense. he was one of thousands of students who protested against the governments in 20202021 cooled at the moment key to reform in the years that followed. many of them had been charged under arms. cool. 11 to the less much of stay little between 2014 to 2020. usually our organization with handle was around $30.00 to $40.00 cases per year. then came the mass for democracy movement in 2020 . and suddenly the case number rose to more than 200 and by the end of.

the situation would have been impossible without the active actions of our honorary consulates in bangkok angon. ukraine is on the verge of default. standard and purс has lowered the country's credit rating to level 2. the international agency indicates that the restructuring of ukraine's debts will almost inevitably result in creditors not receiving their money. moreover, only for treasury obligations. fueling confrontation in europe, as well as promises from europe and the united states. it is impossible to refuse; we can only hope for financial help to extinguish the fire of already blazing conflicts, the residents of germany demand. in the very center of berlin at the memorial to soviet soldiers in the park tiergarton, peace rally. activists from all over the country gathered for the action. however, the german government is hardly ready to hear them. it listens with great attention. 2°, only in some places the air will warm up to +8. the weather will be dry, with rain and wet snow possible only in the southwest; in the middle of the week it will become a little more comfortable. on f

and in bangkok the temperature was 48°.s upon the zhigars to be charged with the threat of a chain strike. try to protect yourself from sleep and protect yourself from sleepy memories. metearolagi asceragayuzza. that the motsnaya sleepiness is the most important thing, yes chervenya. near ecuador, on the east side of fernandzina , there was a volcano called lacumbrere. the lava fell 300 m above the peak of volata and intensely disintegrated in the surrounding areas. the region itself is not inhabited, but there are tourists in the national park. lacumbra - adzin with 130 juicy volcanoes in the region. once again , the chatty bastards there will get out. ahvyarami frost and snow. in the winter, afghanistan has become less than 39 years old, according to the official representative of the national government for the fight against natural disasters. at the end of the day, snowfall and cold weather, yashche 30 chalavek patsyarpeli. 637 dams were drilled, 14 thousand gallons of violent ragatai life were frozen . family families

and here's bangkok's iconic temple of dawn, going dark. ben to turn off their lights between 8.30 and 9.30 tonight. we will bring you those pictures a little later but now it is time to have a check on the weather with ben rich. hello, it was a day of dodging the downpours. some really heavy showers out there driven by some big storm clouds, including this one captured by one of our weather watchers in surrey, with this shape here indicative of what we call mammatus clouds that form when the air is very turbulent, very unstable, and you can see that unstable air, all driven by an area of low pressure, allowing these big storm clouds to bubble up. a brisk north—westerly wind blowing those showers and storms through. the centre of our area of low pressure moving out into the north sea overnight. but still quite windy for eastern scotland and eastern england and still some showers in northeast scotland which will be wintry over high ground and clear spells elsewhere and because of the strength of the wind, it will not be a particularly cold n

restau ra nts restaurants have been affected overnight and it seems to be able to play a big issue in bangkokstralia, also where you are in the uk and ireland. some stores had to close reportedly because the it systems went down, people were not able to order because of the touchscreens are not able to place mobile orders. in some cases they went back to pen and paper to take orders and that old thing of accepting cash. all of this has been accepting cash. all of this has been a black eye for the chicago —based company who have come out and said it is not related to a cyber security attack but they have not given any more details about what caused the outage. they said in a statement we are aware of a technology outage which impacted our restaurants. the issue is now being resolved. if you haven't been to a mcdonald's lately it is all a very computerised affair now placing an order. do we have any sense for how much a problem like this costs mcdonald's? they have got about 41,000 stores around the world. most of them are in the united states. a lot of this outage seems to have happened in the

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in common with the senior national team and that a kyrgyz trip is planned and even connecting to bangkok itself for training, which solves this issue. go forward and i hope that the children can win a share like we can in tokyo at least two. we had a quota with our cuban head coach . can you make a conclusion about our situation ? we hope you see that the head coach of our national team is now one of the prominent figures in the world, and he is mr. fantana, who has been the head coach for many years in different countries. you can see the cost he has for it, we have a cost for a foreign coach. let's do that we can pay that fee for our national team, children. now i hope that with the cost that is going on and the things that are going on and the trouble that the president of the federation mr. ruhollah hosseini is having, the manager will die. mr. hossein rahmati's national teams, i hope that this will happen and that we will get a quota, because i feel that if this issue had arisen and this had happened in the previous camps, that is, in previous years, we would now be looking for an o

the situation would have been impossible without the active actions of our honorary consulates in bangkok consultations with our kazakh and russian colleagues. i would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to everyone involved. i would like to express special gratitude. to work abroad, you need to carefully check everything to make sure that the offer you receive is legal. you can get the necessary information by calling the department of citizenship and immigration or check on the website of the ministry of internal affairs. brutal attitude towards other people culture, ignoring international treaties in the field of migration policy and keeping silent about the scale of the tragedy. another demonstrative genocide on the borders was carried out by our western neighbors. the next video is not for the faint of heart, please leave the impressionable. three victims of the eu migration sweep at once, two foreigners died. belarusian researchers are looking into the circumstances of the incident. our border guards recorded two cases of inhumane treatment of refugees the

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the final match of this competition between thailand and iran was held in bangkok, where the national team of our country defeated the opponent three to one, and i hung the medal on my neck , and the weightlifting championship of asia ended with our country winning the men's division. in this competition hosted by south korea, the iranian team took the first place with 635 points and the teams of uzbekistan and china were in the second and third places , and despite gaining 31 points, they could not prevent their team from losing. bastan achieved his 55th win of the season with this victory. in another important game this morning, the cleveland cavaliers lost 14-17 to the miami heat and lost 26-0. in this match , miami forward george butler was selected as the best player by scoring 30 points, recording four rebounds and five assists and had a great impact on miami's 3rd win this season. in other games, oklahoma is the leader of the western conference 119, 17 utah jazz philadelphia defeated phoenix 12 115. iranian national snooker player hossein wafaei after two victories against scot

tony chang explains from bangkok, waits patiently outside blown. prim prism in bangkok, pip boyfriend get is inside serving 6. he is for the crime of less majesty. how do i go on you get? uh huh. i don't think people can be okay when they left one is in now of prison, but we have just done with him. it was hard at 1st. i cried every time he went in, i couldn't stop crying when the court tonight just bel request gets crying was the question, how the ruling tennessee came to power over 200 years ago. in most countries, historical debate in thailand, a criminal offense. he was one of thousands of students who protested against the governments in 20202021 cooled to the moment key to reform. in the years that followed, many of them had been charged under onto 11 to the last met just a little between 2014 to 2020. usually our organization with handle was around $30.00 to $40.00 cases per year. then came the mass for democracy movement in 2020 and suddenly the case number rose to more than 200. by the end of 2020. and by the end of 2021 to on an 800 cases. more than a 100 sentences behind th

the promise to lift the much weakling penny chang has moved from bangkok, crowds of tourists at what i wrote in the temple of doom in bangkok, many who they could be the answer to the government's prince. tourism was nearly 20 percent of titans, gross domestic product has been slow to recover from the code that 19 pandemic. and b 's a wave is don't seem to be increasing visits, a numbers or read why pay for we rely on a particular industry for our main income. that's risky, things we never know when they will be labeled economic crisis. with some kind of natural disaster connected, we have to manage the risk and distribute across the board to the other sectors of performing poli, to the economy contract within the last quarter of 2023 trend expected to continue this year. agricultural products, the backbone of the tiny economy suffered from increasing prices unload the mon. like industry in which thailand was once a leader has suffered because of supply chain problems and the lack of investment indonesia are in vietnam, hopefully broke to head. china is economic slowdown is a button

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if you're in a big city, it's all the same, and it doesn't matter if it's berlin or istanbul or bangkok but when you're somewhere in little macedonia, somewhere in some village, yes, you go , or you are somewhere in india, in thailand, some countries that are less developed economically, but which have still preserved something traditional, and even then we began to think about what well... there is something in this that civilization destroys something, it gives comfort, but it takes away something, perhaps much more valuable. today , adriana with her husband and daughter live in the village of hrushka, near bakuta. the decision to move here did not come immediately, after years of living abroad. but the most interesting thing in this story is that adriana and her husband did not stop at buying a house and created a whole project to transform the village. the house belongs to us, we bought it, this project is a painted village, we named it, we initially thought how a kind of, you know, a hobby, we just really like everything that is connected with ukrainian traditions, actually wall pa

the situation would have been impossible without the active actions of our honorary consulates in bangkokltations with our kazakh and russian colleagues. taking this opportunity, i would like to express... sincere gratitude to everyone involved, i would like to express special gratitude to the leadership of the myanmar belarus friendship association, which provided invaluable assistance. mid-belarus recalled that before going to work abroad, you need to carefully check to ensure the legality of the proposal received, obtain information about whether the company has a license, its terms, the country of employment and specialties. you can call the department of citizenship and migration of the ministry of internal affairs. the beginning of the muslim holy month. ramadan in jerusalem turned violent. israeli police have banned muslims under 40 from entering the al-aqsa mosque. however, no such restrictions were reported on arab social media. as a result, the group palestinians tried to break through the cordon, riots broke out. the israeli army will station about 500 soldiers in the west bank

fairly, quite, quite hot though, in thailand, looking at the temperature in the book at 38 degrees, bangkok, looking at 30 for the high on friday the 1st day of march. quite cool though, for this eastern side of china it's a northerly wind. so you're certainly going to feel it in places like shanghai and this storm system now moving away from japan's main island to poncho, but it straight down colder air over here across the korean peninsula. so sub 0 in sol and we've got rounds of rain to go right across indonesia is main island of java. some of this could be severe and produce some flooding the because of the war. and you praise, run deep, but the devastation of the countries precious ecosystems may take the longest to hear the people in power documents, the environmental impacts of the fight to and follows the premium for prizes investigators, as they collect evidence of what they described as eco site ukraine ground 0 on that just the the you're watching, i'll do 0 reminder about top stories this hour. at least $112.00 palestinians have been killed after his release snipers fired at the

and every night this information was coded and set down to just mag in bangkok, back to washington and kissinger. yes. the vietnam war ended in failure for the u. s. military. it brought about the death of almost $60000.00 us troops and disastrous consequences for many of the people of vietnam and cambodia. and especially for the la ocean monk who are almost wiped out, as even their children were recruited and forced to fight. and what was by then a lost cause towards the end, they were very few young man. we did our best to keep the 13 and 14 year olds out of the out of the line. but the they did show up and there was just the terrible and tragic loss of the young man is among nations. for all practical purposes, most of the generation of mom was destroyed. one would think that us politicians, members of the intelligence community, the military, batt brass and others would have learned something from the horrors and the failures that we all suffered as a country from the vietnam war. we did. in fact, that model that was ushered in with arrow america as a secret air force accountable t

with protect seeing exceptionally high numbers and they'll continue to climb over the next few days. bangkok, surgical degrees celsius the on saturday. now, despite that heat across indo, china was still seeing some weather weather for the likes of vietnam as well as los and ken bode yeah, i'm very wet. weather continues to dominate across indonesia, particularly across sumatra. as we go into such a day, some heavy rain, that is good news or full australia or it's dried off across central areas like alice springs after a very wet 3 days. so from heavy rain effecting central pots of w a. and for the east in queensland, when we was all flowing very high. so we got flood watches out for queensland and new south wales, but largely dry for past numbers, continuing to climb up into the high twenty's here. and so that southeast corner of australia. but there's a much cooler feel for new zealand. we've got wet to whether it's gonna build this way across the north island on saturday. but it's most settled for the south silent . the why have american evangelicals become his real strongest back? or is

looking fairly quite, quite hot though, in thailand, looking at the temperature and book at 38 degrees, bangkok, looking at 30 for the high on friday the 1st day of march. quite cool though, for this eastern side of china it's a northerly wind. so you're certainly going to feel it in places like shanghai and this storm system now moving away from japan's main island to punch you. but it straight down colder air over here across the korean peninsula. so sub 0 in sol and we've got rounds of rain to go right across indonesia is main island of java. some of this could be severe and produce some flooding. the, the, the latest news as a break closer to the philippines was drafted and approved after the 1986 last uprising with exclusive reports. that one across the board dr. kalonde is here. say there was, is to make sure that go, ma, is protected from around the world. the model has already been banned from running for public office until 2030. but his supporters will show voters that the fear of, of president still has political clout. what role does parliament play in iran, your body is choosing, a

and here's bangkok 5 iconic temple of dawn, going dark.dmarks like big ben to go dark in an hour's time. this is the scene live in london where you can see in the centre of your picture the london eye. in the next five minutes or so that should go into darkness. stay with us here on bbc news. it was a day of dodging the downpours. some really heavy showers out there driven by some big storm clouds including this one captured by one of our weather watchers in surrey. the lumpy shape indicative of the martyrs clouds which form when the area is very turbulent and unstable. all driven by an area of low pressure allowing these big storm clouds to bubble up. a brisk north—westerly wind bringing those showers and storms through. the centre of this pressure moving out into the north sea overnight. still windy for eastern scotland and eastern england. showers in north—east scotland which will be wintry over high ground. clear spells elsewhere. because of the strength of the wind it won't be a particularly cold night but still getting down to betwee

gonna be bad news for the government, the promise to lift the monetary gloom, trying as more from bangkok, the crowds of tourists, at what i wrote in the temple of doom and bank, called many who they could be the answer to the government's prince. tourism was nearly 20 percent of titans, gross domestic product has been slow to recover from the code of 19 pandemic. and b 's a wave is don't seem to be increasing visits a numbers or read them. but why pay for we rely on a particular industry for our main income, that's a risky thing. we never know when they will be labeled economic crisis with some kind of natural disaster tonight. we have to manage the risk and distribute across the board to the other sectors, the performing poorly to the economy contract within the last quarter of 2023 trend expected to continue this year. agriculture will product, the backbone of the tell you economy, suffered from increasing prices, unload the mon, liked industry in which thailand was once a leader, the suffered because of supply chain problems and the lack of investment in denise here in vietnam, hopefu

photo shoots weighing in at almost one and a half tons, the albino of buffalo met the tie leader in bangkok. the bulls become exceed the star of sorts after featuring and popular soap opera. the news hour is at the top of the hour analysis. they're up next. it's inside story, thanks for watching by the the weather brought to you by visit the naming, just tropical cycling. but it's still active in the spring, a huge amount of rain to the northern territory as a result, but it will be some flooding. there is to be expected and out of springs, full cost consume, $3.00 days worth of rain on off costs are that heavy as during saturday, with temperatures to write down $21.00 to $22.00 degrees as dropping by 15 degrees, to be honest, but not a big surprise, the active cold frontier that doesn't look so active, brought much colder weather to a c t to victoria and new south, but also the sunshine by days with things up slowly. it's still warm and i didn't pass it that fish degrees and most of west australia is not surprisingly dry. avenues even nice looking picture, mostly it's going to be fine. rig

in thailand — hundreds of people joined a march in bangkok — calling for improvements to the kingdom�sed the occaision to stand in solidarity with the women of gaza. meanwhile in berlin — where international women�*s day is a public holiday — thousands held a rally calling for gender equality. and we�*ve seen the day play out on the political stage too. let�*s start in france — which has become the first country to enshrine abortion in its constitution. this was the moment — outside thejustice ministry in paris. abortion was decriminalised in france 50 years ago — but parliament voted to officially amend the constitution on monday. this was president macron�*s message. translation: the backward steps of our time made it - a necessity and emergency. because everywhere in the world, including the greatest democracies, including within our neighbours in europe, we are seeing a step backwards in the right to abortion in women�*s rights,. and a rise in those who refuse women the right to love and to choose and to live freely. and so, since the unthinkable is taking place, it was necessary

and here's bangkok s iconic temple of dawn, going dark.off. the 16—year—old initiative takes place at 8:30pm local time. major us landmarks including the empire state building, the space needle, niagara falls, and willis tower will all go dark for one hour. that is all from us here in washington. we will be back in about 30 minutes with more news and more updates on our stop start —— top stories. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. well, it's certainly been a lively start to the weekend weatherwise. loads of showers around on saturday, some of them with hail and thunder, some of them with mammatus clouds — always a sign of a good storm. now, the showers that went through south parts of greater london, around kent, they really dumped the temperatures. look at that — ten degrees at midday, just two degrees celsius a couple of hours later in the afternoon. that would have felt really cold, especially with those gusty winds. now, over the next few hours, many of the showers will tend to become confined to more northeastern areas of the

the vinyl of buffalo met the tie leader in bangkok. the bulls become a tv stock source after featuring the popular soap opera. he's also a renown spent and recently sold for half a $1000000.00. that is the news for now on out as they are in that set for me for the batch of both. stay with us next to whether the inside story asks what can be done to bring the suffering to an ending process. thank you for watching options here. tom mccrae will be with you with one using the as we approach the spring accurate notes, we're seeing a return to winter in a good part of japan, particularly hong. sure, this is the last day of this real cold wind, i think. and the sheriff's will be restricted to the higher ground, but it has been if that a white boy tc now for next last day. and so in contrast, so that's over child, the sunny sides and the suns up from the surf, which means temperatures in many places in central china are 6 degrees above the average. and again, that we see in the full cost of north korea and this northeastern pump of charlotte,

in thailand, hundreds of people joined a march in bangkok calling for improvements to the kingdom's lawsd islamabad. many used the occasion to stand in solidarity with the women of gaza. meanwhile in berlin, where international women's day is a public holiday, thousands held a rally calling for gender equality. and we've seen the day play out on the political stage, too. let's start in france, which has become the first country to enshrine abortion in its constitution. this was the moment outside thejustice ministry in paris. abortion was decriminalised in france 50 years ago, but parliament voted to officially amend the constitution on monday. this was president macron's message. translation: the backward steps of our time made it - a necessity and an emergency, because everywhere in the world, including in the greatest democracies, including within our neighbours in europe, we are observing a step backwards in the right to abortion, in women's rights, and a rise in those who refuse women the right to love, to choose, to live freely. and so, since the unthinkable is taking place, it was

six indian nationals have been arrested at bangkok's international airport for attempting to smugglethe country that's according to thai custom officials. snakes, parrots and monitor lizards were among 87 animals they were allegedly discovered in the suspects' checked luggage as they tried to fly to mumbai. a uk cabinet minister, michelle donelan, has had to pay damages to an academic after wrongly suggesting the professor had publicly expressed sympathy for hamas. it's understood the costs paid to professor kate sang which are undisclosed have been covered by the taxpayer. you're live with bbc news. let's turn to sudan now because the world food programme has warned that the war there could lead to the world's largest hunger crisis. more than ten months of conflict between rival military forces has left thousands of people dead and more than eight million displaced. during a visit to a camp in neighbouring south sudan, the head of the wfp, cindy mccain, said the victims of the war had been forgotten. 0ur deputy africa editor, ann soy, explained some of the background to the conflict

and here's bangkok s iconic temple of dawn, going dark. stay with us here on bbc news hello there.nd on saturday, some of them with hail and thunder, some of them with mammatus clouds — always a sign of a good storm. now, the showers that went through south parts of greater london, around kent, they really dumped the temperatures. look at that — ten degrees at midday, just two degrees celsius a couple of hours later in the afternoon. that would have felt really cold, especially with those gusty winds. now, over the next few hours, many of the showers will tend to become confined to more northeastern areas of the uk should become drier over the next few hours in the west. temperatures as we head into the first part of sunday morning, quite chilly around 3 to six degrees celsius. now, sunday will continue to be dominated weatherwise by this area of low pressure — it's the same one that we had on saturday, but it's starting to pull away into the near continent, but still influencing our weather. certainly there'll be lots of showers across northern areas of scotland and a few affectin