to clear. elsewhere on thursday it has a bright day, sunshine, one or two showers, a breeze in western scotland and fresher for all areas, the high teens and low 20s. closer to the seasonal norm. friday, a rather cloudy day with outbreaks of rain, most in the north and west. the weekend is brighter but most of the showers in the north and west and warmer and brighter in the south and warmer and brighter in the south and east. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at ten theres more analysis and that s bbc news at ten. newsnight with victoria derbyshire which isjust getting under way on bbc two the news continues here on bbc one as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it s goodnight. 11 million people are estimated to be experiencing food insecurity in the uk. why? tomorrow the chancellor will summon the five economic regulators in the uk to try to force down prices for consumers. tonight new figures
urged the chinese leader, xijinping, to make president putin see reason. later, the european commission president, ursula von der leyen, encouraged china to promote what she called a just peace . she warned beijing not to sell weapons to russia. the chinese leader said beijing was seeking a political solution to the war. rebecca choong wilkins is an asia government and politics reporter at bloomberg news. well, we have seen beijing really rolling out the red carpet for macron, scenes of that great fanfare in tiananmen square a and at the great wall wall of the people, and macron s endorsement, he earlier said that he expects china to play a major role in the resolution of the russian war in ukraine. his endorsement is significant for ukraine, because xijinping is seeking to restore ties with europe and portray china as a neutral mediator, a responsible world actor that can actually help to mediate and end the the war in ukraine. and of course, the vague blueprint for peace t
hello, welcome to bbc news. we start once again in france because we have seen big numbers taking to the streets. the 11th day of mass protest against the pension age in france. some of the pictures from streets in the centre of the capital. a meeting between the prime minister and labour unions failed to break the deadlock yesterday. france s constitutional council will decide next week on the validity of the government s move after the change was rammed through parliament with no vote. those are the live pictures. let s speak to our correspondent hugh schofield who is on the streets near the protests in paris. we have seen deadlock between the government and protesters. yes. government and protesters. yes, still deadlocked government and protesters. yes, still deadlocked and government and protesters. ye: still deadlocked and another demonstration on this 11th day of action. the first one was back in mid january and i have reported on every single one of them. it s pret
affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst floods the country had seen in a decade. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. and boy, there s quite a lot of politics to think about, isn t there? all the drama about this government mess, though, a dramatic shift in our politics. it has become the conventional wisdom overnight that labour will win the next election. the polling suggests there s been a greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst financial crisis to hit a conservative government black wednesday back in 1992. and that ll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what labour will do. faced with the same economic fundamentals high taxes, high borrowing, high inflation and low growth. if labour does indeed win an election, lisa nandy will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what s become known as