ladies and gentlemen, fatima bhutto.ou up to date with how the next few days look across the british isles. we continue with the theme of a real mixed bag. not all doom and gloom but sunday's satellite imagery shows a big area of low pressure still to the west of the british isles and an area cloud running into the south—west, pepping up the showers, perhaps giving longer spells of rain. ahead of that, a mixture of sunny spells and showers. persistent rain, perhaps more for the north west of scotland, and beginning to show its hand from that increasing cloud across the south—western quarter. through the evening and overnight, persistent rain moves up and across the west of england through wales into the heart of scotland and northern ireland too, and it will leave a trailing portion of the weather front to keep the rain going into parts of wales and the north west of england. and we still have persistent rain arcing across parts of west and northern ireland and the northern half of scotland. not much changes into monday.

today i will be talking to fatima bhutto.ger to conflict and controversy coming as she does from a high—profile political dynasty in pakistan. her latest book the runaways follows the story of three young people and asks why each of them from very different backgrounds ends up joining the jihadi cause. the thing aboutjournalism, where ever you do it, is that you can do the how it happened, when it happened, who did it, if you like, there is cctv cameras, all of that, but there is one question thatjournalists find much more difficult and that is the why. and i am happy to say that my guest today, fatima bhutto, that is a question she has tried to answer in her latest book, the runaways. it follows a number of young people who come from very different backgrounds but all of them end up in the same place, associated with thejihadi cause if i can put it that way. and in the runaways, fatima explores what happens, what goes on in their minds, what drives them towards this thing, so, fatima, welcome. thank you. there are a number o

ladies and gentlemen, fatima bhutto.up once again, not too bad for a time up towards the murray coast area, the north—east of scotland but it isn't like that everywhere. yet again for the rest of the day we have got some rain in the forecast, quite a bit of shower activity but not without the possibility of a bit of sunshine as well. big area of low pressure still sitting to the western side of the british isles, it will be there for the rest of the weekend and the first half of the forthcoming week. spinning bands of wet weather ever towards the east. it didn't stop this good in pembrokeshire but it has got better because the band of weather that has been affecting england and wales has made a bit of progress further eastwards during the afternoon and into the evening it will be into east anglia, the south east, all the way because you are closer to that centre of low pressure, western scotland, northern ireland, they will get out of northern ireland and eventually come to rest across the northern half of scotland as we

and the internationally—acclaimed writer fatima bhutto talks to george alagiah in talking books, in halfur on bbc news. good afernoon. following huge protests, the leader of hong kong has suspended plans to introduce a new law that would allow extraditions to mainland china. the proposals have prompted big demonstrations, including one last sunday where organisers said more than a million people took part. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from hong kong. and a warning, the report contains some flashing images. the large demonstrations just days ago turned into running street battles with the police. it would prove the turning point in this stand—off. the hong kong government has been forced to concede that its controversial extradition bill has prompted ill will and division here. and the announcement came that it would be shelved, at least for the time being. i now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise, restart communication with all sectors of society, do more explanation work and listen to different views of society. a v

and the internationally—acclaimed writer fatima bhutto talks to george alagiah in talking books,

and the internationally acclaimed writer fatima bhutto talks to george alagiah in talking books, in halfhour on bbc news. good afternoon. tens of thousands of protestors are back on the streets of hong kong, a day after the territory's chief executive, carrie lam, suspended highly controversial plans to allow extraditions to the chinese mainland. carrie lam has apologised to the public with "utmost sincerity and humility". the demonstrators are calling for the proposals to be completely withdrawn and for mrs lam to resign. our china correspondent, stephen mcdonell, has spent the day at the protests. hong kong's streets are again a sea of protest, a day after the government was forced into a humiliating back—down. it's delayed a bill to allow for people to be sent to mainland chinese courts, where demonstrators say a free trial is not possible. but those marching are demanding more. they want the plan scrapped altogether. basically, we shouldn't let the government have all power to us because we have our own freedom of rights and freedom of speech and this is why we are out here. if the b