india? my guest today is yogendra yadav, leader of the swaraj party and prominent backer of the farmers' causeodi versus the farmers a defining moment for india? yogendra yadav, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are on the co—ordinating committee of the co—ordinating committee of the main group behind the farmers protests. we have been watching them for the last weeks and months but it does seem as though right now, they may be losing momentum. is that right? may be losing momentum. is that riuht? ., ., right? not quite. in an extraordinary - right? not quite. in an l extraordinary movement right? not quite. in an - extraordinary movement of this kind, given the size, scale and time, you have a bit of ups and downs. remember, we're looking at near about 100,000 farmers camping outside the capital, delhi. remember, it is nearly three months ago so yes, people come and go and yes, the mainstream media would like to imagine we do not exist anymore but all you have to do is send your correspondence out there to see farmers with a result unmatched in numbers the country is not seen in situation w

swaraj india, my own party, may not be the best measure of the resistance that india can offer, but iea of diversity, of democracy, of development for the last person. that idea shall triumph. all right. people like me may perish. we may have to pay some cost. you cannot defend your republic and not pay any cost. but india, the idea of india, shall triumph. the idea of india is much bigger than its current rulers or possibly the current dissenters. yogendra yadav, we have to end there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. hello. quite a lot of wind and rain in the forecast, but some sunshine too. at least it is very mild out there. thursday is going to be quite a mixed bag, so we might have a spell of very heavy rain, but there's also some sunshine on the way. you can see the weather fronts gathering out towards the southwest. they are going to be moving across the uk. there's another one deep out in the atlantic. that's on the way for friday, and that will bring more heavy rain and strong winds. so here is the first bout of wet and windy weather through the

swaraj india, my own party, may not be the best measure of the resistance that india can offer, but icracy, of development for the last person. that idea shall triumph. all right. people like me may perish. we may have to pay some cost. you cannot defend your republic and not pay any cost. but india, the idea of india, shall triumph. the idea of india is much bigger than its current rulers or possibly the current dissenters. yogendra yadav, we have to end there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. rain has already caused flooding in some parts of southern wales were a met office amber warning is enforced. if the baby highest brand we could see up to 200 millimetres of rain falling by the end of today. this is the radar over the last 2a hours, it showers that the of rain has been a build endless, also following heavenly across the south—west of england, parts of north—west england and rain has been pushing back across northern ireland and scotland as well but through the west of the afternoon, the rain will actually start to ease off a little across parts of

swaraj india, my own party, may not be the best measure of the resistance that india can offer, but i of democracy, of development for the last person. that idea shall triumph. all right. people like me may perish. we may have to pay some cost. you cannot defend your republic and not pay any cost. but india, the idea of india, shall triumph. the idea of india is much bigger than its current rulers or possibly the current dissenters. yogendra yadav, we have to end there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. 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 stil

swaraj india, my own party, may not be the best measure of the resistance that india can offer, but iea of diversity, of democracy, of development for the last person. that idea shall triumph. all right. people like me may perish. we may have to pay some cost. you cannot defend your republic and not pay any cost. but india, the idea of india, shall triumph. the idea of india is much bigger than its current rulers or possibly the current dissenters. yogendra yadav, we have to end there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. hello there. we can expect more mild weather through the rest of this week, but with that, there will be more outbreaks of rain. through wednesday, yes, it will be mild but also windy, some outbreaks of rain at times. quite a wet start to the day, actually, thanks to this frontal system pushing its way eastwards. now, that rain will clear from many areas quite quickly, but you can see this frontjust dangling down towards the south. that means the rain is going to linger across southern counties of england for a good part of the day. in fact,

swaraj india, my own party, may not be the best measure of the resistance that india can offer, but iacy, of development for the last person. that idea shall triumph. all right. people like me may perish. we may have to pay some cost. you cannot defend your republic and not pay any cost. but india, the idea of india, shall triumph. the idea of india is much bigger than its current rulers or possibly the current dissenters. yogendra yadav, we have to end there, but i do thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. hello. the latest live update from bbc weather. it is mild out there, we have another mild week to come. mild, regardless of whether you get the sunshine or whether it is raining, because there are some bright skies in the scottish borders this afternoon. here is the look of the departure from the average temperature map. look at those warm colours. it gets very mild for a time, while those temperatures ease later in the week. in terms of rainfall, regardless of how wet it is, parts of eastern england stay largely dry, but northern ireland and scotland get the wettes