Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra
Northern area, sunny skies in aberdeen but temperatures right now round 12 degrees, further south, some warmth holding on. 21 in norfolk but with more in the way of cloud. Dividing the weather we have this band of rain, Heavy Rain Falling in parts of west wales, into north west england, to the north of that, some beautiful sunny skies, scattering of showers in the north west of scotland. Windy in the far north no. The south of the rain band any brighter spells will lift temperatures to 22, maybe 23, further north we have seen that 12 for aberdeen, same goes for glasgow, 13 in belfast and the Dividing Line between the cool air in the north, the warm and muggy air in the south is this Weather Front and this is going to move a bit further southwards as we go through tonight. Really stalling across southern england, parts of south wales and the midland, so more rain to come. Temperatures in the south west overnight, 16 degrees, compare that with, well, just one in the scottish highlands, c
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