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By australia at lords. It is a result which leaves their hopes of reaching the semi finals in the balance. Bathed in sunshine. France, germany and italy prepare for a heatwave, as temperatures are set to soar to above a0 degrees. And the source of that heat is coming up from north africa. It is coming up from north africa. It is coming our way as well. Some of us will have temperatures into the high 20s or low 30s by the time we get to the end of this week. Today it is a fairly cloudy, murky start, but they will be some sunshine, and i will tell you where in 15 minutes. It is wednesday 26 june...

Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, funda...

We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers� actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guine...

Tomorrow will be the last time the chancellor brandishes the budget red box outside number 11 before the election. Will there be any surprises inside . It is the eve of what is probably the governments last set piece before a general election, and speculation over tax cuts surroundsjeremy hunts budget. I asked rishi sunak ally, the former minister liam fox, whther it was time to unfreeze Tax Thresholds. Well, if i had my choice and if i were the chancellor, tomorrow that is what i would be doing. Well be asking labours Shadow Minister For Industry and decarbonisation whether a Labour Governmen...

Aggression by iran against israel and the United States, moving them from tehran to paris. What should we make of the french president s incautious remarks that western states could send Ground Troops to ukraine . In britain and germany rejected the suggestion, while Vladimir Putin said such a move could trigger a nuclear war. What did french voters think . And Elizabeth Moutet from the telegraph will tell us. Whilst neither rishi sunak nor sir keir starmer was a winner last week, the singer songwriter ray lance night won six awards at the brits. Whats the key to success . Finally in the first...