when prime minster scott morrision encouraged her to make a "v for vaccine" sign, she accidentally madeent gesture instead — much to the amusement of the medical staff. maybe she meant it. who knows? now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, it's been a fine day to day for scotland and northern ireland and it will be again tomorrow, whereas there is a weather front in parts of england and wales, which will continue to bring some rain, as it will through the evening and overnight. northern england, wales, the west midlands and the southwest in particular, eastern parts of england staying dry. a mild night across england and wales but temperatures close to freezing in the coldest parts of scotland and northern ireland. under largely skies. bar the odd shower approach in north—west scotland tomorrow, most here again will have a fine day. the weather system in england and wales nudges a bit further east. away from wales, northern and western parts of england, as it brightens up a bit but increasingly light and patchy rain edging back towards east anglia and the south—

when prime minster scott morrision encouraged her to make a "v for vaccine" sign, she accidentally made quite get it right... all is forgiven. australia's summer bushfires last year are thought to have killed or displaced roughly 3 billion animals. and on kangaroo island in south australia, conservationists are battling to save a unique species that was already threatened with extinction even before the blazes tore through its habitat. 0ur correspondent, shaimaa khalil, has returned there to see what's being done. it's possibly one of australia's cutest animals, but the kangaroo island dunnart is also one of its most critically endangered. before the january 2020 blazes, it's thought fewer than 500 dunnarts lived here. but the catastrophic bushfires scorched half of the island, destroying the dunnarts' natural habitat and food resources. they lost 93% of their known range just like that, within a couple of days. so, for those animals that have survived the fire, they're dealing with a highly modified landscape. it's a huge ask for any threatened species to survive. ecologists have been

prime minster scott morrision encouraged her to make the sign "v for vaccine" when she accidentally mader one. do stay with bbc news. hello there. the very mild south—westerly winds which we've had during the start of this weekend have also brought a lot of rainfall across some western parts of england, wales, northern ireland and western scotland. we have seen some local flooding in places, river levels running very high. and as a consequence from all the recent rain, the number of flood warnings has increased. but the good news is for part two of the weekend, it looks a bit drier across the board. we should see quite a bit of sunshine around. it's going to stay mild, but there will still be some rain around but not as much as what we had on saturday. now, the rain will be courtesy of this weather front, which will start out across more southern and eastern parts of england. low pressure to the north—west of the uk will bring fairly breezy conditions to northern ireland and scotland, where we'll start off for sunday with a few showers here. cloudier skies with outbreaks of mainly light

when prime minster scott morrision encouraged her to make a "v for vaccine" sign, she accidentally maderrestrial life. but now a uk—based business is hoping it might be able to discover if there's anybody out there. it's hoping to raise a million pounds to build a 100—metre long telescope that will listen out for alien factories, machines and spaceships. richard westcott reports. 0na on a disused warehouse they are launching a project that could one day answer one of life �*s great questions. are we alone in the universe? this concrete bunker behind me is where the staff had to come if the base came under attack. you can see the slits where they put their guns out. but today, there is something very different going on behind this blast proof door. it is the headquarters of the east anglia astrophysical research organisation. the charity is trying to raise £1 million to build a giant telescope to listen out for signs of extra terrestrial life. iiii out for signs of extra terrestrial life. , ., . . out for signs of extra terrestrial life. , ., .. ., , out for signs of extra terrestrial li