suzanne lynch there from political.is in istanbul —— exports of ukrainian grain will resume. i'm interested in what the participants they are, privately, how much optimism and confidence to express that this really will unlock something, that something will come out of this? i something, that something will come out of this? ., ., , ., out of this? i think turkey have been very _ out of this? i think turkey have been very confident. _ out of this? i think turkey have been very confident. they - out of this? i think turkey have been very confident. they have j out of this? i think turkey have - been very confident. they have been driving the steel for several months now alongside the un. and turkey had a couple of things —— driving this deal. they are a couple of things in their favour to act as a mediator, maintaining good diplomatic relations with both russia and ukraine and at the west as well. they are in a good position to actually try and get the parties to agree, but also geographically as well, if you think of al

suzanne lynch, polly toynbee and isabel hilton, thank you all very much.s week. laughter we're back the same time next week. hello there. some signs and showers sums up the weather for the weekend. —— sunshine. will turn out to be quite heavy and thundery, but should be sunny spells in between. the reason for unsettled weather is low pressure close by to our shores, series of weak weather fronts across the countries. it will start dry and sunny across the southeast, but into the afternoon, it'll be pretty widespread and some of them will be heavy, breezy in the north and west of scotland, where temperatures will struggle around 13—16 degrees, but warmer further south. sunday, the showers faded away and we'll see further showers pushing to scotland and northern ireland. clear spells further south, temperatures 9-12. further south, temperatures 9—12. high pressure want to filled in, so here, it's going to be turning a bit warmer and thundery are, but always cloudy and cooler further north. welcome to bbc news. iam rich i am rich preston. our top stories: in

suzanne lynch, polly toynbee and isabel hilton, thank you all very much. this week. we're back the same time next week. hello there. high pressure�*s going to continue to build in for this upcoming week. by the end of the week into the weekend, some southern and eastern areas are going to turn pretty warm with increasing sunshine. but back to the here and now, we start the week off again with sunny spells and a few showers — that's because we've got low pressure just to the north of the uk, bringing some windy conditions to the northern half of the country, especially for scotland. so, it's here where we'll start off windy with some showery bursts of rain. a few showers in northern ireland, northern england, perhaps in towards north—west wales. a sunny start for england and wales but this band of cloud will sink southwards, but i don't think many areas will see showers across the south east, and we could see 22—23 degrees here. further north, generally the mid—teens. through monday night, the showers fade away for many, though it stays quite cloudy for the

suzanne lynch, isabel hilton, thank you very much. the excuse this.ures down a little bit where we normally expect for this stage injuly. the bulk of today's rain is linked to this weather system here. it's linking across scotland at the moment in the far north and north west. this is where we'll continue to see the more persistent rain. this one here drifting through the midlands in the direction of east anglia and south east, producing showery bursts of rain, eventually reaching the south east into the evening but the bulk of the day remains dry. but where we started with cloud and rain through northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, wales and including the north and west midlands, things will turn dry and brighter with more sunshine around through the afternoon. still one or two showers, a bit of a keen breeze coming in from the south west and then those cloudier moments that will make it feel a touch on the cool side, 16 to 19 degrees — below par. but we could still get around 20—21, east anglia, south east. by this evening there wi

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