most of the next few days, it will be just scattered showers here and there, but i wanted to show you the satellite picture over the last couple of days of those rainfall patterns we have seen, because in some parts of the country, it has been raining, we have had heavy showers, but what seems to be happening is that these weather systems are taking this more south west to north east track, so they are mostly skipping southern parts of the uk, so yes, it may be raining where you are further north, but it is in the south where we have had that 8% of rainfall recently, the lowest since records began, so over the next five days, the most amount of rainfall in western scotland and parts of northern ireland, may in the lake district. but in the south, where we really need it, very little in the way of rainfall, just a few showers. but generally speaking across the country, july for example has been below average, well below average. so the temperatures today, it has been very humi
election has been delayed, after concerns were raised that hackers could influence the outcome. and it s 50 years since nearly 30,000 ugandan asians began to arrive in the uk after being forced to flee their homes by uganda s then military ruler. we ve been hearing some of their stories. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the speaker of the us house of representatives nancy pelosi has met the taiwanese president during a visit that s been strongly condemned by the chinese government. taiwan is self ruled, but beijng sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it. it s an island roughly 100 miles from the coast of south east china. china took the island from japan in 1945 after world war two, but after a civil war in china, defeated nationalist forces fled to taiwan. today it sees itself as an independent country, with its own constitution and democratically elected leaders. only 13 nations recognise taiwan as sovereign
christine won her heat. she advances with a time of 51.34 seconds ahead of jamaica s junelle bromfield. now, notjust now, not just about track and field. it s the final day of swimming. what a games it s been for scotland s duncan scott, he s already picked up four medals to become scotland s most decorated athlete with 11 medals overall. and he s been in the men s 200 metre individual medley heats this morning, winning his heat to advance to tonight s final looking to add to his gold in the 200m freestyle. england s tom dean has secured his place in tonight s final as one of the eight fastest swimmers. he won his heat. he already has five silvers in birmingham but is still chasing his first commonwealth gold. can he get it this evening? also through is james
20 year old pattison kicked away from the competition to take the win in 01.48.00 seconds, ahead of defending champion wycliffe kinyama who finished second. on the track this morning, we ve seen the heats for the 400 metres. scotland s nicole yeargin and zoey clark are through to the semi finals clark going through with england sjodie williams in heat 3. england s ama pipi also won heat 4. and the british champion victoria ohuruogu who s the younger sister of 2006 commonwealth champion christine won her heat. she advances with a time of 51.34 seconds ahead of jamaica s junelle bromfield. the stadium make so much of a difference. ifeela bit the stadium make so much of a difference. ifeel a bit rusty, but hearing their home crowd cheering at the start, itjust feels great. it