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touched down in london for a brief uk visit, on his way to a major nato summit in lithuania. he's scheduled to meet with prime minister rishi sunak amid concerns from the uk and other nato allies over his decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine. the meeting with mr sunak will be their fifth in as many months. on monday, mr biden is also due to hold his first talks with king charles iii since his coronation. those conversations at windsor castle are expected to focus on environmental issues. london is the first stop on a packed european trip for mr biden. on tuesday, the president and prime minister will travel to the lithuanian capital, vilnius, for a today nato summit. then on thursday, biden will make his final stop in finland, nato's newest member nation, where he will attend the us—nordic leaders' summit. meanwhile, ahead of that nato summit, there are questions about two nations hoping tojoin the bloc, ukraine and sweden. president biden spoke on sunday with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan about sweden's bid tojoin nato — a move that has been held up by turkey. also on sunday, president biden addressed ukraine's potential membership, telling cnn the war
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and this will continue to drift towards the east in the early hours of tuesday. again, some of this could be heavy and thundery. to the south of it, quite a warm and muggy night to come. to the north of it, a little bit fresher, where we'll have clear spells and showers. for tuesday, then, our area of low pressure starts to drift northwards to the north—east of the uk, and that will bring plenty of showers to the country, pretty much from the word go, across the north. this area of rain will take its time to clear the south and east of england through the tuesday morning. eventually, it will do and then all areasjoin in sunshine and showers. most of these will be affecting scotland, northern ireland, northern and western parts of england and wales. again, the high teens in the north, a little bit fresher across the south—east. then beyond tuesday through wednesday, thursday, that area of low pressure moves to the north. it allows west, north—westerly winds to move down across the country, again, with plenty of showers. further low pressure systems will be moving into western areas by the end of the week and into next week. and so, a very unsettled rest
to drift towards the east in the early hours of tuesday. again, some of this could be heavy and thundery. to the south of it, quite a warm and muggy night to come. to the north of it, a little bit fresher, where we'll have clear spells and showers. for tuesday, then, our area of low pressure starts to drift northwards to the north—east of the uk, and that will bring plenty of showers to the country, pretty much from the word go, across the north. this area of rain will take its time to clear the south and east of england through the tuesday morning. eventually, it will do and then all areasjoin in sunshine and showers. most of these will be affecting scotland, northern ireland, northern and western parts of england and wales. again, the high teens in the north, a little bit fresher across the south—east. then beyond tuesday through wednesday, thursday, that area of low pressure moves to the north. it allows west, north—westerly winds to move down across the country, again, with plenty of showers. further low pressure systems will be moving into western areas by the end of the week and into next week. and so, a very unsettled rest of the week to come,
britain and that he is not especially fond of britain. i am sure the white house will go to great lengths to dispel the this and he has a good personal rapport with king charles, the two men share the same view on climate change and the environment, they will have a lot to talk about. they have met before and have a good personal chemistry when it comes to the political side of rings rishi sunak has reached out, tried hard to repair the special relationship but he is only got one meeting in less than one day to do it. so the transatlantic alliance is a bit of a work in progress, it is not the warmest it has ever been but let us see how this translates and whether it will lead to some kind of unified position in nato in the coming week in vilnius, and lithuania. us treasury secretary janet yellen has said efforts to improve relations between washington and beijing have made progress. she was speaking at the end of a four—day visit to china saying despite significant disagreements, the relationship is moving towards a �*surer footing.�*
amid concerns from the uk and other nato allies over his decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine. the meeting with mr sunak will be their fifth in as many months. on monday, mr biden is also due to hold his first talks with king charles iii since his coronation. those conversations at windsor castle are expected to focus on environmental issues. london is the first stop on a packed european trip for mr biden. on tuesday, the president and prime minister will travel to the lithuanian capital vilnius for a two—day nato summit. then on thursday, biden will make his final stop in finland — nato's newest member nation — where he will attend the us—nordic leaders' summit. meanwhile, ahead of that nato summit, there are questions about two nations hoping to join the bloc — ukraine and sweden. president biden spoke on sunday with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan about sweden's bid tojoin nato — a move that has been held up by turkiye. also on sunday, president biden addressed ukraine's potential membership, telling cnn the war
condemned by human rights groups right across the world. britain has come out to say "we're not going to be doing it" because britain is a signatory to the convention on cluster munitions and its main has condemned it. so has canada. not in strong terms, but they are not sympathetic to it. so, there is that issue. then there is the issue about who should become the next head of nato, the next secretary general. because there is a bit of disagreement over this they are going to extend the current nato secretary general for another year. nato secretary general for anotheryear. he nato secretary general for another year. he is already in his late 60s now and was planning to retire. now, britain wanted ben wallace, the uk defence secretary, to be the next head of nato. that was backed by the baltic states, latvia, lithuania, etc, but it was not backed by the united states, crucially, which instead seems to favour the eu had ursula von der leyen. that too is controversial because she has a poor record as