impressive for earlyjuly, 17 19. we finished the day with persistent rain across in northern ireland. that s going to be affecting northern ireland through the evening, then spread into parts of central southern scotland, northern england and western parts of wales as we go through the night and into tomorrow morning. not a desperately cold night, temperature is around 9-13 to cold night, temperature is around 9 13 to start the weekend. here s the chart for the weekend. saturday, we ve got this hawk of weather system pushing slowly eastwards across the country, a bit more breeze on it than today. we ll see one when the front stretching from yorkshire down towards cornwall with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. that pushes slowly southwards and eastwards. east anglia and the south east staying dry until the evening then sunshine and showers for many although northern parts of scotland more in the way of persistent rain and cloud through the day. the winds lightest year, more of a
with covid in the uk in the last week a total of 2.3 million had the virus. rousing music. china celebrates the 25th anniversary of taking hong kong back from britain and claims the territory now has true democracy. half a century after the first pride march in london a million people are expected to take to the streets of the capital. coming up, i am at wimbledon where heather watson and cam norrie are trying to reach the next round of a grand slam for the first time. coming up on the bbc news channel, a roaring return forjames anderson who is taking wickets for england in their delayed fifth test against good afternoon. borisjohnson is facing calls to suspend from the conservative party one of his mps who s alleged to have groped two men. chris pincher resigned as deputy chief whip after admitting he had drunk far too much , and embarrassed himself at the carlton club, the conservative party members club in london. labour have questioned why he s being allowed to si
time for a look at the weather. here s matt taylor. a busy weekend of sport, how is the forecast? plenty of showers around as you ve just seen and heard from edgbaston, let s take you to wimbledon first because we ve got some showers very close by at the moment but then things should brighten up and we could get away tomorrow without any interruption without any interruptions until we head into the evening. the showers that edgbaston should clear and it will be brighter in the afternoon but more interruptions expected tomorrow morning and indeed for qualifying at silverstone we do expect some rain particularly during the middle part of the day and early afternoon. call forall, the middle part of the day and early afternoon. call for all, we ve got showers at the moment, heavy and thundery across the north and east of and, parts of scotland as well. if you wish south but bigger gaps between them, still will stay dry across southern and western parts of england and wales as we go thro
on freedom of speech, it s the attacks on civil society. this year, people were not allowed to take part in what has been a tradition, of vigils for those murdered in tiananmen square because the chinese want us to pretend that never happened. when i read the introduction, lord patten, and i referenced what xijinping had said, that true democracy began after the territory was handed back, i could sense a shudder from you when i read that. yes, well it is of course completely absurd. i don t think xijinping would know a democratic election if it hit him over the head with a police truncheon. the truth is, that one of the reasons why the chinese communists passed what is called the national security law, which in effect put hong kong into handcuffs, one of the reasons why they did that was they were terrified of the likely outcome of legislative council elections in 2020.
time for a look at the weather. here s matt taylor. a busy weekend of sport, how is the forecast? plenty of showers around as you ve just seen and heard from edgbaston, let s take you to wimbledon first because we ve got some showers very close by at the moment but then things should brighten up and we could get away tomorrow without any interruption without any interruptions until we head into the evening. the showers that edgbaston should clear and it will be brighter in the afternoon but more interruptions expected tomorrow morning and indeed for qualifying at silverstone we do expect some rain particularly during the middle part of the day and early afternoon. call forall, the middle part of the day and early afternoon. call for all, we ve got showers at the moment, heavy and thundery across the north and east of and, parts of scotland as well. if you wish south but bigger gaps between them, still will stay dry across southern and western parts of england and wales as we go thro