Heavier more persistent through thursday. THis is the wetter day for many, especially in the west. Some eastern areas will stay dry, but the rain clears truth telling a brighter day with a few showers on friday and saturday, then dry, sunny and warm to The Weekend. To The Weekend. Good news, Thank Ou, to The Weekend. Good news, thank you. Matt and thats bbc news at six. You can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. Hello and welcome to sportsday im hugh ferris. The headlines tHis evening the president says paris is ready. Its the week of the olympics, and Emmanuel Macron prepares to welcome the world to the french capital. Mark Cavendishs Tour de France Career didnt end in paris because of the games, but he confirms tHis Years History making edition of the race will be His last. And yet anOther record broken Dame Sarah Storey is heading to an unprecedented ninth paraylmipcs, we hear from her and about her from an admiring teammate. So successful and its quite inspiri
Good morning. Another dry and mostly sunny day on the cards today. If youre desperate for some rain, well, there is some in the forecast for the week ahead but possibly not enough. All of the details coming up here on breakfast. Good morning, it isjust gone Good Morning, it is just gone six oclock. Its Sunday 25th april. Our top Story India has recorded a global record of Coronavirus Cases for the fourth day running with 349,000 cases reported in the last 24 hours. More than 2700 people have died as overcrowded hospitals warn of dire shortages of oxygen. Simon gerrans reports. , heres simon jones. Patients continued to arrive in hospitals struggling to breathe, needing urgent treatment but the Health System is close to collapse, almost 350,000 new cases in the latest daily figures, another record. This man is desperate to find help for his sister in delhi. Translation ive been trying non stop for three days from one hospital to another and i have never seen anything so terrible ever in
the role commerce something unusual happens. emily missed. it looked like it was going to the first score less opening haas in six years of this tournament in england found a way through. poppy is in the summer giving her side the lead. it was a leap that fun started to chip away at. france were within one point. yes, it was that close. but then scarlett found his shooting boots since well, extinguishing any hope the fans had. it wasn t pretty at times by england won t care. the domination of this championship continues, now three in a row. bbc news. so no walkoverfor england but the world cup winning scrum half natasha hunt felt they d earned the their latest six nations title. great to see them come out with the result. i think today, everything they talked about would have been getting the result and that is exactly what they have done, crushing for this french side. england have come out on top so many times in the last bits of the game so, yes, it is crushing for them
continue to put them towards eastern parts of england. maybe producing a light shower. it will be cloudy a little on the dark side on heavy shower later in the day in the scottish highlands. notice the winds are strongest through england and wales. very dusty through the channel, channel islands and into southwest england for the overall it s a bit cooler. especially long that north sea coast but around 17 in the sunniest parts of the west. 0n through sunday night and into monday we do start to bring in more cloud. monday morning is looking cloudier. notjust cloudier but wetter. in northwest scotland as the weather system moves in. but still where there are some clear spells overnight and into my date you could still have a touch of frost. it is a different looking picture on monday. the high pressure being squeezed away as we see this area of low pressure begin a rather slowjourney southwards throughout monday and tuesday. bringing at least the chance for rain. there will be
variants. facebook is a tackle racism online. wanting it could be finding companies not taking steps to prevent racist content. they re among a growing list of footballers subject online racial abuse, a recent spate of incidents heaping pressure on the social media giants. today the biggest of all finally addressed the issue. facebook, which owns instagram, said they were determined to tackle the crisis. i m horrified at the type of abuse that people, especially these footballers, have to deal with. as a company, we re disappointed to see that sort of behaviour that plays out offline also playing out on our platform. today facebook announced what it called tougher measures, vowing to disable the accounts of those found to have repeatedly sent abusive private messages on instagram. now because of the wave of revulsion and criticism that you and other platforms have received 7 so we ve had ongoing conversations around abuse and hate on the platform for a while, and we have cont