i am philippa thomas.onavirus: your stories. hello. thursday offers up the promise of a dryer day for the majority of the uk in comparison to wednesday. there should be some decent sunshine and the winds will be a little light as well. how are we managing that when our weather is dominated essentially by this massive area of low pressure for the coming days? one with actually seven centres — but we are getting quite close to a little hill in the isobars. that is a brief ridge of high pressure that we will sit in through thursday. it's not plain sailing though, there will still be some more persistent rain across northern and eastern scotland through the day and coming into the south—west through the afternoon, some sharper showers that will push into wales, some for northern ireland, perhaps some more generally across southern britain later on in the day. but in contrast to wednesday, lighter winds, and the rain nowhere near as widespread — temperatures 14—15 degrees. we head through thursday evening, and

i am philippa thomas., the last in our edition of coronavirus: your stories. hello. september was a drier than average month across much of the uk, but as you know, it's october now, and here comes the rain, initially from this area of low pressure, named storm alex by the weather service in france for impacts there, but nonetheless, parts of the uk are also going to see some very wet and windy weather from that during friday. particularly in england and wales, where it starts very wet in southern england and south wales. the rain moves northwards across the rest of wales, the midlands and east anglia during the day. it clears from parts of southern england, though, to further showers, and it's windy with those strong easterly winds gusting on the south coast, perhaps nearer 60 mph at times, especially the coast of south—west england, nearer 70 mph in the channel islands. now, for scotland and northern ireland, well, there are a few showery bursts of rain in north—west scotland to the west of northern irel

i am philippa thomas.ion of coronavirus: your stories. the weather is continuing to cause disruption over the weekend, particularly with a slow—moving nature of the rainfall, a couple of areas have got ample weather warnings for the heavy rain, particularly wales, west midlands, down to was part of south—west england flooding likely, eastern scotla nd england flooding likely, eastern scotland heavy rain at the weather warning. could be 120 millimetres of the highest ground, causing significant flooding through the afternoon and evening. tonight we still have the rain weather is, driving on a brisk easterly wind across scotland, pushing into northern ireland, wet and windy weather across wales had much of southern england. some clearer skies for northern england, southern scotland, fog patches. sunday brings another wet and windy day for many, rainfall starting to ease, a spiral across northern scotland, northern ireland and southern wales and southern england as well. brighter weather in between but still

i'm philippa thomas.to heed a ceasefire after another deadly attack in the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh. president trump says he's immune to coronavirus — but scientists say the virus hasn't been around long enough to fully understand the body's response. the british government considers travel restrictions as the number of covid infections continues to rise — parts of the north of england may see significant curbs. and... how the pandemic‘s impact on the full moon party could change thailand's tourist industry for good.

i'm philippa thomas. searching for survivors — armenia and azerbaijan are urged to heed a ceasefire after another deadly attack in the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh. president trump says he's immune to coronavirus — but scientists say the virus hasn't been around long enough to fully understand the body's response. the british government considers travel restrictions as the number of covid infections continues to rise — parts of the north of england may see significant curbs. and... how the pandemic‘s impact on the full moon party could change thailand's tourist industry for good. hello and welcome. the ceasefire brokered by russia between armenia and azerbaijan — to try and end a flare up in fighting over the last two weeks — has been breached within its first 2a hours. a bbc team in the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh says it's heard regular shelling from the direction of the front line, despite a ceasefire being in place. the region — which you can see here in red — is officially part of azer

hello, this is bbc news with——philippa thomas. the headlines...ew system of coronavirus restrictions will be announced in england tomorrow, with the most serious measures expected in the north. liverpool is expected to be placed into the strictest tier. labour mps say there isn't enough support. scientists investigate whether a vaccine in use for more than a century might give some protection against covid. shelling kills civilians, amid fresh fighting between armenia and azerbaijan, despite a ceasefire being called just hours before. let's get more on the coronavirus pandemic. a potential other vaccine could be helpful in the fight against covid—19. as efforts continue to develop proven treatments for covid 19, british scientists are beginning a study into whether the bcg vaccine — which protects against tuberculosis — could be helpful. the uk study is part of an international research project. the hope is that bcg might provide some protection against covid until a specific vaccine against the virus is in use. james gallagher reports. in the fig