at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. it s been a hot and sunny day across east anglia. temperatures in a number of sites exceeded 30 celsius, but further west, it wasn t nearly that hot. indeed, we had thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. quite a few of these pulses of rain turned out to be quite heavy as well. now, looking at the weather picture overnight tonight, there s a little bit more rain to come. light and patchy stuff across north western areas generally, but some heavier, more persistent rain hanging around, loitering in northern scotland. that s a weather front that s going to start pushing back southwards. a fresher night for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. much of england and wales, though, warm once again 16 18 degrees for many. now, tomorrow s forecast, this weather front pushes southwards, taking the rain across scotland, eventually moving into north east england. will be a few showers elsewhere, but some dry, some sunny
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his tax policies and linking it to the nhs. so he is beginning to unpack more of his thoughts. this trust is doing the same, she is out and about in kent later. liz truss. so real battleground is being set out there. of course it is a crucial weekend because a ballot papers gripe this week and because of that people can start voting this week so she do not cram your messages in now, people may have voted and you have six weeks of campaigning by you could just be shouting into the wind. there will be a lot of people watching this morning who can t vote but they will in two years time. that was quite a big speech for him to make he knew all eyes were going to make he knew all eyes were going to be on him. how do you think you did? because i felt he seemed a lot more relaxed off script then on. yeah, it was clearly rehearsed speech. he had key messages to get across and he put them across. but then questions from journalists, questions from party members, some misstatements f
trial between johnny depp and his ex-wife amber heard. the vicious accusations during closing arguments. the case now in the hands of the jury. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight it was a gutting admission today from texas law enforcement that a decision was made not to enter the classroom where the gunman was with an entire fourth grade class for almost an hour police admitting today that was a mistake we also learned for much of that hour there were 19 police officers outside the door who did not go in we have shown you the video of frantic parents outside the school pleading with officers to go in. today we learned that there were children inside the school calling 911. one of them begging, please, send the police now still they did not go in 19 children and 2 teachers were killed when asked how many lives could have been saved if they acted earlier the official could only say i don t know new imag
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m