:00:00. > :00:09.Tonight at 6pm - America's former FBI Director accuses
:00:10. > :00:12.Donald Trump's White House of lying about him.
:00:13. > :00:15.He was fired by the President, saying the FBI was in disarray -
:00:16. > :00:22.The administration then chose to defame me, and more
:00:23. > :00:31.Also on tonight's programme - three more arrests in the London
:00:32. > :00:37.New CCTV footage shows the attackers meeting at a gym five days before
:00:38. > :00:44.The moment armed police ended their rampage -
:00:45. > :00:48.opening fire as they arrived at the scene.
:00:49. > :00:50.They have responded and neutralised the threat as firearms officers
:00:51. > :01:01.I think that is kind of exceptional to the
:01:02. > :01:03.individuals and the training that they have received.
:01:04. > :01:05.A castle, a laundrette and a windmill - today
:01:06. > :01:08.they are all polling stations - voting in the general
:01:09. > :01:11.Life under the Taliban - three years after British
:01:12. > :01:13.combat troops left - Helmand is back under their control
:01:14. > :01:27.Scotland's Episcopal Church agrees to same-sex marriage, a first for
:01:28. > :01:29.Anglican churches in the UK. And coming up in Sportsday later
:01:30. > :01:32.in the hour on BBC News: For the first time in over 50 years,
:01:33. > :01:35.an England football team has reached a World Cup final -
:01:36. > :01:37.that's after the Under Good evening and welcome
:01:38. > :02:00.to the BBC News at Six. In one of the most politically
:02:01. > :02:06.explosive hearings Washington has seen the former director of the FBI
:02:07. > :02:09.has accused White House James Comey - who was fired
:02:10. > :02:12.by the President Trump - was giving evidence to a Senate
:02:13. > :02:15.committee which is trying to establish whether there
:02:16. > :02:17.was Russian interference in last year's election -
:02:18. > :02:19.and whether Mr Trump's campaign team As our North America
:02:20. > :02:25.editor Jon Sopel reports - the hearings could have significant
:02:26. > :02:32.implications for the People talk about the
:02:33. > :02:40.crackle of expectation. In Washington this morning,
:02:41. > :02:41.in this room as James Comey You solemnly swear to tell the
:02:42. > :02:45.truth, the whole truth and nothing It's being called the political
:02:46. > :03:00.Super Bowl and the former FBI director's opening
:03:01. > :03:01.statement didn't disappoint as he reflected on the manner
:03:02. > :03:02.of his being fired. The shifting explanations
:03:03. > :03:02.confused me and increasingly They confused me because the
:03:03. > :03:10.president and I have had multiple conversations about my job both
:03:11. > :03:15.before and after he took office, and he repeatedly told me
:03:16. > :03:15.I was doing a great job And he spoke of the President's
:03:16. > :03:21.portrayal of him and the The administration
:03:22. > :03:26.then chose to defame me and more importantly the FBI
:03:27. > :03:28.by saying the organisation was in disarray, that it was poorly led,
:03:29. > :03:31.that the workforce had lost But first the committee
:03:32. > :03:39.chair wanted to go If this were a game
:03:40. > :03:59.show, this was the Do you have any doubt
:04:00. > :04:01.that Russia attempted to Do you have any doubt the Russian
:04:02. > :04:03.government was behind the intrusions and the DNC
:04:04. > :04:05.and the DCCC systems and the subsequent leaks
:04:06. > :04:06.of that information? Do you have any doubt the Russian
:04:07. > :04:11.government was behind the cyber intrusion in
:04:12. > :04:13.the state voter files? Michael Flynn, the National Security
:04:14. > :04:20.Adviser, fired for lying about his contacts with Russia,
:04:21. > :04:23.the president wanted to protect and according to Comey asked him
:04:24. > :04:26.to drop the FBI inquiry into him. I don't think it's for me to say
:04:27. > :04:30.whether the conversation I had with the President
:04:31. > :04:32.was an effort to obstruct. I took it as a very disturbing
:04:33. > :04:35.thing, very concerning, but that's the conclusion I'm sure
:04:36. > :04:37.the Special Council will work towards to try to understand
:04:38. > :04:39.what the intention was there and if that's
:04:40. > :04:45.an offence. But why one senator wanted to know,
:04:46. > :04:48.if what the President asked about Michael Flynn was so wrong haven't
:04:49. > :04:54.the FBI Director cried foul immediately?
:04:55. > :05:01.I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in, the only
:05:02. > :05:04.thing I could think to say, and it was playing in my mind because I
:05:05. > :05:08.could remember every word he said, it played in my mind, what should my
:05:09. > :05:13.response be? I carefully chose the words. Comey was at his most damning
:05:14. > :05:17.when he explained what he needed to keep records of his conversations
:05:18. > :05:20.with the President. I was concerned he might lie about the nature of our
:05:21. > :05:23.meeting so I thought it better to document them. Back combination of
:05:24. > :05:27.things I never experienced before but it led me to believe I had to
:05:28. > :05:31.write it down in a detailed way. Days after his sacking President
:05:32. > :05:35.Trump fired out a warning shot on Twitter that Comey had better hope
:05:36. > :05:43.there are not tapes of their conversations. Today brought this
:05:44. > :05:45.riposte the former FBI Director. I've seen the tweet about tapes and
:05:46. > :05:47.I hope there are tapes. In Washington bars opened only to show
:05:48. > :05:50.the hearing. Everyone will have their views on what happened but the
:05:51. > :05:52.key judgment on whether there was legal wrongdoing will now rest with
:05:53. > :05:58.the independent special counsel who has taken over this investigation.
:05:59. > :06:02.Today marks the end of act one, act two now moves to that inquiry.
:06:03. > :06:07.There was one bar in Washington offering its clear until a free
:06:08. > :06:12.drink every time Donald Trump tweeted. Smart move, he didn't tweet
:06:13. > :06:16.once, but his sun did saying there was no obstruction of justice and I
:06:17. > :06:20.just bumped into a senior White House staff who said one thing to
:06:21. > :06:23.me, the President is not a liar. In the next half an hour we are due to
:06:24. > :06:29.hear from the President's external counsel, his lawyer he has taken on
:06:30. > :06:35.to deal with this, and I expect him to hit back hard. They will not let
:06:36. > :06:37.James Comey's testimony stand. The Trump White House wants to hit back.
:06:38. > :06:39.Jon Sopel, thank you. New images have emerged
:06:40. > :06:41.of the moment armed police shot dead the three London Bridge attackers -
:06:42. > :06:56.firing within seconds Police have also been looking at
:06:57. > :07:00.CCTV footage of the men five days before the attack.
:07:01. > :07:06.Five days before the rampage, the three attackers meet, Khuram Butt,
:07:07. > :07:10.Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba. Redouane puts his phone on the
:07:11. > :07:13.ground while they walk away for a conversation, perhaps worried it
:07:14. > :07:18.will somehow be used to record what he has said. They seem in good
:07:19. > :07:22.spirits, there is no sign they are about to kill and maim innocent
:07:23. > :07:28.people. The cameras outside a gym where one of the three Khuram Butt
:07:29. > :07:32.worked out. The gym is closed, renovations and today a massive
:07:33. > :07:37.media attention. But outside Wynette Fahad Khan, Khuram Butt's cousin in
:07:38. > :07:40.law. He argued with Khuram Butt about his religious views and his
:07:41. > :07:44.desire to put them into practice abroad. He wanted to go to Syria to
:07:45. > :07:53.fight. Because of the family pressure, or it might be
:07:54. > :07:56.intervention by the authorities, who seized his passport or whatever, he
:07:57. > :08:01.couldn't go. He identified from the picture another man regularly seen
:08:02. > :08:06.at the gym. He was once accused of being a leading member of the band
:08:07. > :08:10.Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, although he has denied it in the
:08:11. > :08:16.past. You are the leader of al-Muhajiroun? No, I wasn't. On the
:08:17. > :08:20.wall is a statement that says he is not employed at the gym and does not
:08:21. > :08:24.own the business. That might be strictly true, but a number of
:08:25. > :08:29.people told us that he is directly connected with this place. More CCTV
:08:30. > :08:34.images today showed the final seconds of the attack in Borough
:08:35. > :08:38.market. The killers had just set up on the final victim. When a police
:08:39. > :08:43.armed response team arrived. They had seconds to assess the situation.
:08:44. > :08:47.They opened fire and it was over. I don't think anything more could
:08:48. > :08:51.have been done given the circumstances. They have responded
:08:52. > :08:54.to an incident which has lasted eight minutes, they have responded
:08:55. > :09:02.and neutralised the threat as firearms officers within six seconds
:09:03. > :09:08.and I think that is credit to the individuals and training. Among many
:09:09. > :09:16.stories from that night, one stands out, the British Transport Police
:09:17. > :09:18.officer who stepped in to stop the attack. In a statement today he
:09:19. > :09:22.said, I want to say to the families that lost their loved ones, I am
:09:23. > :09:25.sorry I could not do more and I want you to know I did everything I
:09:26. > :09:29.could. He started off engaging with one of the terrorists and ended up
:09:30. > :09:35.fighting with all three of them. It is an astonishing story when you
:09:36. > :10:00.hear it. The victims have all now been identified. Eight people from
:10:01. > :10:00.five countries killed in an attack on the people of an international
:10:01. > :10:02.city. Tom Symons, BBC News. Voting is taking place
:10:03. > :10:04.in the general election. Polling stations opened at seven
:10:05. > :10:07.this morning and you've got until ten o'clock this evening
:10:08. > :10:09.to cast your vote. Nearly 47 million people
:10:10. > :10:11.are registered to vote - The first results are
:10:12. > :10:14.expected from around 11pm. Our political correspondent
:10:15. > :10:15.Gary O'Donoghue reports. Bright and early, the first
:10:16. > :10:18.of the leaders out this morning was the Prime Minister with husband
:10:19. > :10:20.Philip, voting in her Not long after came the man
:10:21. > :10:24.who wants her job, Jeremy Corbyn greeting the photographers
:10:25. > :10:27.with a smile and a thumbs up as he made his way into a polling
:10:28. > :10:29.station in north London. Just a hint of irony
:10:30. > :10:35.from the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron as he braved the elements on the way
:10:36. > :10:37.into the polling station. But he was well out of the way
:10:38. > :10:40.when tempers frayed among And up-and-down the country
:10:41. > :10:45.other party leaders The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon,
:10:46. > :10:50.and Paul Nuttall from the UK 47 million of us are registered
:10:51. > :10:58.at this election, one that's been overshadowed by the terrorist
:10:59. > :11:01.attacks in Manchester and London. Those attacks have meant a bigger
:11:02. > :11:05.police presence than usual. Everyone conscious that the threat
:11:06. > :11:09.level is still severe. This Westminster polling station
:11:10. > :11:13.is just one of 40,000 the length and breadth of the UK where you're
:11:14. > :11:17.electing your 650 representatives to the House of Commons,
:11:18. > :11:20.just a couple of hundred yards down Those new MPs will be here next
:11:21. > :11:26.Tuesday and on Monday week the Queen will open Parliament and set out
:11:27. > :11:28.the new government's plans. Some peculiar places have
:11:29. > :11:30.been pressed into action This one is in a
:11:31. > :11:34.launderette in Oxford. And this pub was playing host
:11:35. > :11:42.to voters in Exeter. Last orders for casting a ballot
:11:43. > :11:45.are at 10pm tonight with the first And if you'd like to see
:11:46. > :11:53.all the results as they come in - you can join David Dimbleby
:11:54. > :11:55.and the team tonight on BBC One and the BBC
:11:56. > :11:58.News Channel for Election 2017. The Scottish Episcopal Church has
:11:59. > :12:08.made history, voting to allow same-sex couples to be
:12:09. > :12:12.married in church. That makes it the first branch
:12:13. > :12:29.of the Anglican communion to do so. For Scottish Anglicans it's now a
:12:30. > :12:32.case of here comes the bride scum of the Episcopal Church, born of
:12:33. > :12:37.Protestantism's schism with Catholicism, has separated itself
:12:38. > :12:42.once more from the wider Anglican family. At its General Synod in
:12:43. > :12:47.Edinburgh the church backed a proposal to allow gay marriages in
:12:48. > :12:53.its churches by just one vote. The motion is therefore carried. The
:12:54. > :12:58.supporters of this change had quiet satisfaction rather than unbridled
:12:59. > :13:01.joy. It means equality for gay couples who want to come and get
:13:02. > :13:06.married in church, equality for gay pistes like me. It also means we
:13:07. > :13:09.have been a church that has decided to stay together over this and it
:13:10. > :13:14.means that people who disagree with me will still have an honoured place
:13:15. > :13:19.within the church. The vote will improve Scotland's reputation as a
:13:20. > :13:25.global wedding venue. Thousands of couples like them come to the town
:13:26. > :13:31.each year to tie the knot from across the UK. And now gay Anglican
:13:32. > :13:35.couples could join the marital March north. So far this church has not
:13:36. > :13:38.been able to capitalise on Gretna's worldwide reputation for holding
:13:39. > :13:42.weddings. That could all change now this vote has been passed. Gay
:13:43. > :13:47.Anglican couples can now come to Scotland to get married in church.
:13:48. > :13:52.For gay campaigners in the Church of England, which doesn't allow
:13:53. > :13:56.same-sex marriage, today's news is a bittersweet moment. Lucky for me I
:13:57. > :14:01.have friends and family in Scotland, and, yes, potentially I have
:14:02. > :14:05.churches that I know up there. But I must admit I yearn to get married in
:14:06. > :14:11.my home church where I have worshipped for many years with my
:14:12. > :14:15.partner so that you can have our friends, family and community around
:14:16. > :14:19.us. Traditionalists, however, are appalled and seek support for gay
:14:20. > :14:24.marriage as the latest sign that Anglican churches, first in North
:14:25. > :14:28.America and now Scotland, are moving further from God's teachings.
:14:29. > :14:31.Today's decision by the Scottish Episcopal Church to change the
:14:32. > :14:35.biblical and historic definition of marriage has highlighted the need to
:14:36. > :14:39.respond to the cries and pleas of those Scots who today have been
:14:40. > :14:46.marginalised by their leaders. The attempt to redefine marriage is not
:14:47. > :14:50.one that a faithful Christian can support. The first gay marriage
:14:51. > :14:54.should take place in the Episcopal Church later this year, and while no
:14:55. > :14:59.priest will be forced to conduct such a wedding today's vote will put
:15:00. > :15:03.pressure on other Anglican churches to follow suit. Michael Buchanan,
:15:04. > :15:09.BBC News, Edinburgh. The time is nearly 6:15pm. The top
:15:10. > :15:13.story this evening. The former FBI Director accuses Donald Trump's
:15:14. > :15:21.White House of lying about him. James Comey hits back after he was
:15:22. > :15:23.fired by the President. And still to come, we've just got to put our own
:15:24. > :15:25.package together. Cutting dialogue -
:15:26. > :15:27.how the National Theatre's latest play is hoping
:15:28. > :15:28.to attract new audiences. Coming up in Sportsday in the next
:15:29. > :15:34.15 minutes on BBC News: A very happy birthday
:15:35. > :15:36.for Jelena Ostapenko - the first unseeded player to reach
:15:37. > :15:37.the French Open final It's almost three years
:15:38. > :15:55.since British combat troops withdrew from Afghanistan
:15:56. > :15:57.after more than a decade Some of the heaviest fighting took
:15:58. > :16:02.place in Helmand Province where over Since the withdrawal,
:16:03. > :16:05.Helmand and many other parts of the country have fallen back
:16:06. > :16:08.into the hands of the Taliban. Auliya Atrafi from the BBC's Afghan
:16:09. > :16:10.service has been given rare access to the Taliban's effective capital,
:16:11. > :16:20.Musa Qala. All we had to do was get off
:16:21. > :16:26.the main road and we were in. We passed through Sangin,
:16:27. > :16:28.where so many British The bustling market looks
:16:29. > :16:44.like any in Afghanistan but there are some tell-tale signs
:16:45. > :16:47.we are in Taliban territory. The men are all wearing
:16:48. > :16:49.traditional clothes, We leave the market and head
:16:50. > :17:06.for the local high school. It's religious studies and only
:17:07. > :17:10.boys get an education. Our Taliban minder insists
:17:11. > :17:14.there are other lessons, and that girls can go to school,
:17:15. > :17:21.just not here. The Taliban used
:17:22. > :17:23.to burn schools down. Now they are running them,
:17:24. > :17:33.funded by the central government. The Government inspectors do
:17:34. > :17:35.their supervision, the Taliban don't In the playground, the main
:17:36. > :17:39.attraction seems to be our cameras. Most of these children have never
:17:40. > :17:43.seen anything like them. It's a reminder just how isolated
:17:44. > :17:50.these communities are. But it's not just schools
:17:51. > :17:52.that the Taliban are running. It is also funded by the Government,
:17:53. > :18:00.but lacks supplies. There's no female doctor
:18:01. > :18:03.or child specialist. You can't even have
:18:04. > :18:07.a chest x-ray here. And now the surgeon is leaving too
:18:08. > :18:09.because he hasn't been paid The next day we meet
:18:10. > :18:22.the Taliban's spokesman. They remain a deeply
:18:23. > :18:24.controversial organisation in deaths. But they claim their
:18:25. > :18:29.approach to governance has changed. The Taliban has a separate
:18:30. > :18:30.committee for education, We don't only have military setups
:18:31. > :18:40.but also administrative systems. The Taliban have captured huge
:18:41. > :18:42.territories in Helmand, The next challenge is how much they
:18:43. > :18:55.join the modern world and how much Auliya Atrafi, BBC
:18:56. > :18:58.News, Afghanistan. The parents of a terminally ill baby
:18:59. > :19:01.are said to be devastated after losing a legal battle
:19:02. > :19:04.in the Supreme Court, to take their son to
:19:05. > :19:07.the United States for treatment. Chris Gard and Connie Yates want
:19:08. > :19:10.ten-month-old Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic
:19:11. > :19:12.condition and has brain damage, Our Medical Correspondent, Fergus
:19:13. > :19:32.Walsh, is at the Supreme Court. A terribly sad story, is this the
:19:33. > :19:37.end of the road for the parents? Almost. The Supreme Court has said
:19:38. > :19:43.doctors should continue life support for Charlie until 5pm tomorrow night
:19:44. > :19:47.to give time for the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to
:19:48. > :19:50.decide if it wants to hear the case. If it doesn't, doctors at Great
:19:51. > :19:53.Ormond Street Hospital will be free after that point to switch off the
:19:54. > :19:59.mechanical ventilator that keeps him alive. The judges said they have the
:20:00. > :20:03.utmost sympathy for his parents, who left the court distraught, but they
:20:04. > :20:11.said it was Charlie's best interests that were paramount. They said
:20:12. > :20:13.prolonging his life was simply prolong his suffering. The treatment
:20:14. > :20:17.being proposed was futile and that's why he should be allowed to die with
:20:18. > :20:18.dignity. Fergus, thank you very much.
:20:19. > :20:21.A company director has gone on trial accused of the manslaughter
:20:22. > :20:24.of four sailors who died when one of his yachts capsized
:20:25. > :20:27.The crew on board the Cheeki Rafiki were returning from Antigua
:20:28. > :20:33.to the UK in May 2014 when it got into trouble.
:20:34. > :20:35.Today a court heard that Douglas Innes failed to maintain
:20:36. > :20:37.the vessel and allowed it to set sail.
:20:38. > :20:49.This is the Cheeki Rafiki on an earlier voyage before it capsized
:20:50. > :20:53.into the Atlantic, leading to the deaths of these men. The prosecution
:20:54. > :20:58.say the yacht was being brought back to the UK from the Caribbean but
:20:59. > :21:15.that it was broken and not safe. The Cheeki Rafiki was operated by
:21:16. > :21:19.Douglas Innes. There was a search by the American Coast Guard, they were
:21:20. > :21:23.criticised calling it off too soon and later resumed it. The court
:21:24. > :21:33.heard it is possible James mail and Andrew Bridge may have survived some
:21:34. > :21:36.time after Cheeki Rafiki. The prosecution say the bodies were
:21:37. > :21:48.never found. It was the loss of the Cheeki Rafiki keel that led to the
:21:49. > :21:56.capsizing. They said Douglas Innes had failed to get the boat properly
:21:57. > :22:01.maintained. They saw this three Tom keel had been broken off. In court
:22:02. > :22:06.the prosecution said Douglas Innes had been trying to cut costs and had
:22:07. > :22:10.let the men set sail without proper chart. He denies four counts of
:22:11. > :22:12.manslaughter by gross negligence and the first witnesses in this case
:22:13. > :22:15.will give evidence tomorrow. The growing resistance of bacteria
:22:16. > :22:17.to antibiotics is one of the most pressing challenges
:22:18. > :22:19.facing modern medicine. The problem has been made worse
:22:20. > :22:22.by the extensive use Now researchers at Leicester
:22:23. > :22:26.University are developing an alternative way of treating
:22:27. > :22:30.diseases in pigs. As our our science correspondent,
:22:31. > :22:32.Pallab Ghosh reports it's hoped the findings will have
:22:33. > :22:40.benefits for humans too. Nearly half the antibiotics used
:22:41. > :22:43.in Britain are given to livestock Simon Watchorn raised his pigs
:22:44. > :22:50.outside so he doesn't But indoor intensive farms do,
:22:51. > :22:58.so if their animals become infected with drug-resistant superbugs,
:22:59. > :23:00.then the infection could be passed on to people if the meat
:23:01. > :23:04.isn't properly cooked. There was a suggestion that
:23:05. > :23:06.resistant bacteria in animals might be passed to humans,
:23:07. > :23:13.and if we've got another tool in our tool box where we can deal
:23:14. > :23:16.with resistant bacteria - whether it be in the animal
:23:17. > :23:19.population or the human population - Researchers at Leicester University
:23:20. > :23:30.may have come up with just the tool farmers are asking for -
:23:31. > :23:33.of virus called a phage that kills The phage attaches itself
:23:34. > :23:36.to a salmonella bug. The virus then injects it
:23:37. > :23:38.with its DNA and makes developing in animals,
:23:39. > :23:46.it will reduce the risk to people. It can be completely
:23:47. > :23:48.transformative for human health. There are many bacteria that we just
:23:49. > :23:51.can't treat now with antibiotics because they have become resistant
:23:52. > :23:55.to all the antibiotics we know. So using this natural enemy
:23:56. > :23:57.of the bacteria for specific diseases could really change the way
:23:58. > :23:59.that we treat infection So far, they've shown that it works
:24:00. > :24:07.in the lab and they have freeze-dried the phage
:24:08. > :24:13.into a white power powder. The next phase is to feed
:24:14. > :24:16.the phage to pigs to see If it does, it could begin
:24:17. > :24:20.to replace antibiotics, and that could greatly reduce
:24:21. > :24:22.the risk of superbugs Trials are due to begin
:24:23. > :24:28.later this year. If they are successful,
:24:29. > :24:31.doctors can then see if the phage The barber's chair is taking
:24:32. > :24:42.centre stage in a new play The Barbershop Chronicles
:24:43. > :24:46.is the latest work by award-winning It explores issues around black
:24:47. > :24:50.identity and immigration. Our correspondent
:24:51. > :24:59.Elaine Dunkley reports. From Lagos to London,
:25:00. > :25:01.the black barbershop The sound of clippers
:25:02. > :25:07.the backdrop to conversations, Why is the barbershop such a source
:25:08. > :25:19.of fascination and beauty? I think the reason why it's sacred
:25:20. > :25:22.is because lots of places where men gather to show strong emotion
:25:23. > :25:28.in Britain have been historically hostile to black men,
:25:29. > :25:30.and I think of places like football stadiums or working men bars
:25:31. > :25:35.and little places like that. Therefore barbershops,
:25:36. > :25:37.where these are safe places Your work explores
:25:38. > :25:49.black masculinity, I was born in Nigeria and up
:25:50. > :25:56.until 12 my experience of the world was seen through a very
:25:57. > :25:58.Nigerian lens. And when I came to the UK,
:25:59. > :26:01.I realised I was black firstly, And within all of that,
:26:02. > :26:05.I realised there were kind Those of being rappers,
:26:06. > :26:08.being naturally born athletes, aspects of identity where
:26:09. > :26:11.they are projected onto me and clashed with who I actually
:26:12. > :26:14.was or who I actually felt like. There is a buzz around
:26:15. > :26:16.Inua Ellams's work. He's received awards
:26:17. > :26:18.and accolades but perhaps most importantly he is attracting
:26:19. > :26:28.a new audience to theatre. Parts of that I started to,
:26:29. > :26:31.like, get emotional because I saw my father in parts,
:26:32. > :26:33.I saw myself in parts. For me as an Indian woman,
:26:34. > :26:37.when I go and get eyebrow threading, it's the conversations I have
:26:38. > :26:41.so it was just so beautiful to have, and this is what we need
:26:42. > :26:56.in the theatre right now. We have had a lot of cloud around
:26:57. > :27:01.today with outbreaks of rain, a bit like this picture taken by one of
:27:02. > :27:07.our weather watchers earlier in north Wales. However there has been
:27:08. > :27:11.some sunshine out the too. This is deal in Kent. Some clear skies as we
:27:12. > :27:15.had through to this evening but there are some heavy showers around.
:27:16. > :27:22.This is the recent satellite and radar showing the heavy showers.
:27:23. > :27:27.More persistent rain across Scotland and that will push its way
:27:28. > :27:29.northwards overnight so towards the north-west of Scotland more
:27:30. > :27:33.persistent rain, whereas further south across the UK clearer spells
:27:34. > :27:39.and scattered showers, particularly across the west of England and Wales
:27:40. > :27:43.too. During tomorrow I think we will have fewer outbreaks of rain
:27:44. > :27:47.compared to today. Still some showers working from west to east
:27:48. > :27:51.during the day but equally good deal of sunshine, so the show was passing
:27:52. > :27:56.through fairly quickly on the breeze and temperatures touch warmer than
:27:57. > :27:59.today. Heading through Friday evening, overnight into Saturday,
:28:00. > :28:05.initially drive but then the next area of frameworks in from the
:28:06. > :28:10.south-west. The wind is picking up too, so rather unsubtle start of the
:28:11. > :28:16.weekend. We have wind and rain, particularly across north and
:28:17. > :28:19.western parts of the country. On Saturday that rain moves eastwards.
:28:20. > :28:24.Saturday in the south-east stays dry for most of the day if not all of
:28:25. > :28:31.the day. Temperatures not doing too badly, between 18 and 22 degrees.
:28:32. > :28:37.For most, Sunday will be the better day of the weekend. Sunny spells,
:28:38. > :28:38.showers, and temperatures around 23 degrees. More details on our
:28:39. > :28:41.website. That's all from the BBC News at 6pm,
:28:42. > :28:45.so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:28:46. > :28:47.news teams where you are.