neel mukherjee, author of a state of freedom, thank you very much. thank you.sonably dry and warm weekend across most parts of the country things are turning much my changeable through the week ahead. the rest of this evening with still got some rain lingering across northern ireland. and into central and southern scotland is outbreaks of rain on a fairly weak weather front. to the south of that were still got some warm, humid air. a few heavy showers continuing across the midlands and east anglia. every night temperatures around 17 in the south—east. fresher conditions further north—west across the country. tomorrow it will shape up to bea country. tomorrow it will shape up to be a day of sunshine and showers. rain across the east of scotland should ease. showers cropping up almost anywhere. they could be heavy and thundery particularly in the east. we could have some surface water flooding here. temperatures not quite as warm as recent days. still some heavy showers around on tuesday. a better day for northern ireland. some more persistent rain in the south—w

neel mukherjee, author of a state of freedom, thank you very much. thank you.we're not done quite yet, another three hours yet! at its best, glorious across the southern half of the british isles, 32 celsius down the road in twickenham. heathrow, 32 celsius. in norwich, the wise woman had a good sense to be the right side of the window before she saw the thunderstorms coming. just of late we have had another crop of them as was forecast just begin to pop up through lincolnshire, yorkshire and on towards the north—east. whilst they're around towards the north—east. whilst they‘ re around another two towards the north—east. whilst they're around another two or three hours yet, standing water, sprays, gusty winds, hail as well. eventually they drift off closer to the rakes. then we may face for another weather front to push into the north west of scotland, the next ina the north west of scotland, the next in a succession we have seen of late. further south it is sticky overnight, possibly i9 celsius as the night—time low and from that base off we go again in some

neel mukherjee, author of a state of freedom, thank you very much. thank you.ove is part of the country, things are more changeable in the week ahead. we still have some rain moving across northern ireland where it is a bit ofa damp northern ireland where it is a bit of a damp day, and northern ireland where it is a bit ofa damp day, and in northern ireland where it is a bit of a damp day, and in seven and southern scotland, a week weather front. to the south, england and wales, some warm humid air, if you heavy showers moving across the meadows and east anglia. temperatures around 70 degrees, a sticky night, fresher conditions north and west. tomorrow it will shape up to be a day of sunshine, rain initially across the east of scotla nd rain initially across the east of scotland should ease, charles cropping up almost anywhere, could be heavy and country, particularly in the east, we could have some surface water flooding, temperatures not quite as warm as recent days, i6-22dc, not quite as warm as recent days, i6—22dc, still not quite as warm as recent days, 1

and it is the springboard for neel mukherjee in his new novel, a state of freedom.india, which portrays five different, but sometimes interlocking, lives that are in flux, on the move, looking for escape, or at least something better. a story for our time indeed. welcome. on the frontispiece of the book, before the story begins, you quote a syrian refugee on the austrian border, saying: "migrants, we're not migrants — we're ghosts. that's what we are, ghosts". now, the ghost is sort of suspended between this world and the next. is that the guts of that idea? yes, that is exactly the soul of my book. i wanted to look at migration, which is the thing that most characterises our times. people moving, mass movement of people from one place to another. and i wanted to sort of splice their history by thinking about the ghost story. because, what is a ghost? a ghost is something, a ghost is a creature that has not found settlement in some way. which exactly is what a migrant is. and the unhappy history of migration in the 20th and the 21st century. and i wanted to look at

and we'll be hearing from booker prize nominated author neel mukherjee about his new book.

and we'll be hearing from booker prize nominated author neel mukherjee about his new book.s all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to wimbledon sportsday, i'm katherine downes. here's a taste of what's coming up tonight. we had four, but could we make it five brits into round three? kyle edmund certainly tried on a hot and humid centre court. no sweat for djokovic. he's through to round three after demolishing adam pavlasek of the czech republic in straight sets. and there was plenty of hot stuff on day four of the championships — we'll bring you the best of the rest. and we'll bring you the rest of the day's sports news, including a great day for the new england cricket captainjoe root. it's been a realjacket off day at wimbledon. temperatures pushing upwards of 30 celsius, and over the last few days the british tennis has been pretty hot. yesterday we would talking about four british players through to the third round for the first time in 20 years, today kyle edmund had the chance to become the fifth. but although the british m

and at 8:45pm, we'll be hearing from booker prize nominee neel mukherjee about his new book.d evening and welcome to bbc news. thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of hamburg tonight, ahead of the 620 summit which begins tomorrow. there's heavy security in the city tonight. these are the live pictures. you can see a lot of riot police deployed. some 20,000 security officers, we were told, had been deployed. about 100,000 demonstrators, in various different protests around the city this evening, ahead of bgt 20 summit, protesting against globalisation. protesting in particular against donald trump, many of them, and america's withdrawal from the paris climate change accord. earlier on there were some quite a violent scenes, water cannon has been fired. quite a few scuffles, as well. police say a planned a protest march has been called off by organisers after the clashes. a short time ago our berlin correspondent was on the ground among the protesters in hamburg. correspondent was on the ground among the protesters in hamburgm is not over yet. police have dis