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By the end of the week, we might have largely dry weather, but its a long way off yet. as ever, please stay tuned to the forecasts.

The health secretary matt hancock has spoken of the pain and suffering of victims of the contaminated blood scandal, saying the government will pay compensation if that is what is recommended. he was facing questions at a public inquiry into whats been called the worst nhs treatment disaster. around 3,000 people died after being given blood products containing hiv and hepatitis c in the 19705 and 1980s. heres our health editor hugh pym. ive now faced the fact that i will never see him again on t...

Lets turn now to lebanon and how the countrys economic problems have reduced access to even the most basic of amenities, clean, fresh water. lebanons geography means there should be no shortage, but infrastructure failures have left more than 1.5 million people lacking supplies. as our correspondent martin patience now reports its a story of chronic mismanagement. little nemo was named after the film about a fish. but water could kill him. because nemo suffers from a rare skin disease. it could ...

This swirl across the atlantic, another big low pressure and the weather front�*s already approaching ireland. you can see the low pressure, rather autumnal looking and that will be sweeping across us over the next couple of days. its pushed by a strong jet stream, you can see here at 30,000 feet. the forecast for the early hours shows the rain pushing into ireland but many parts of the uk are clear and calm. in fact we are expecting a touch of frost in the glens of scotland and even cities fu...

And yet, farmers like george are left to fend for themselves, sometimes with disastrous consequences. two summers ago, he lost half his crop. "the river dried up", he tells me, "and there was no water in spring. "we had to resort to ground water, which is very salty, and bananas are very sensitive to salty water." for decades, the government has been trying to build a massive dam here in bisri. supporters say it would go a long way to solving the countrys water problems, but protesters say it wo...

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Good evening, welcome to the programe. now, theres only one place to start tonight and thats in glasgow because stjohnstone have been crowned scottish cup champions. they beat hibernian 1—o. and its the icing on the cake of a brilliant season, having already won the league cup. our sports news correspondent chris mclaughlin was at hampden park for us. green against blue in scottish footballs showpiece final, no rangers or celtic inside this time. and with covid numbers rising in glasgow, no fa...

This was the view from a few hours ago in church in streatham, some sunshine but also some showers. not as wet as it was yesterday. the rains finally clearing away from the south coast would still be a scattering of showers. likely we will have cloudy skies with fair weather cloud. this low pressure through the space of 48 hours brought over 100 millimetres in some places. behind it, we have been plunged into a northerly wind. although that is easing, it is chilly air. temperatures around the 12...

After yesterdays strong winds and heavy rain, the weekends weather is looking a little bit more optimistic. certainly today we have drier and brighter weather than the last few days, and crucially it is less windy. still a few showers in the forecast, so it wont be dry across the board, but some usable weather between any showers. here is the area of low pressure, and all that cloud that swirled around it yesterday now clearing towards the east. that was what brought us the really heavy rain and...

Or so, but if youre stuck under the rain, more like 10 or 11 degrees. still not especially warm for this stage in may. into monday, the main band of rain clears from the east but lingers across scotland. elsewhere, a day of sunshine and heavy showers, could be the odd rumble of thunder mixed in. still relatively cool, around 13 or 1a degrees at best. into the new working week, things start off fairly cool and unsettled and showery, but it looks like we expect at last some slightly drier and slig...