Test. Englands cricketers are sliding towards defeat in birmingham, five wickets down now on the final day. We will have the latest for you. Thanks olly and matt has all the weather one word wet. We are in the height of the Holiday Season we are in the height of the Holiday Season and the weather is in a cantankerous mood, lots of showers around and wetter weather to come, believe it or not. I will have more details in half an hour. Thanks matt. Also coming up on afternoon live, well have the latest from hong kong where police have fired tear gas to disperse democracy activists trying to enforce a general strike. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im martine croxall. The Prime Minister has pledged to spend 850 Million Pounds on nhs building projects, at 20 hospitals in england. The money over the next five years, will be used to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment. A further billion pounds is to be used to tackle a backlog in hospital improvements. Speaking on a visit to a hos
Constitution that gives significant autonomy to kashmir is at the heart of why the region joined india in 1947 it allows the Regional Government to make its own laws except in finance Defense Foreign Affairs and communications that means the rest and so the state live under different laws from the rest of the country in matters such as Property Ownership and citizenship now the Central Government plans to split up the region into 2 parts. And one and the uk which will be directly governed by new delhi the government has put parts of indian and ministered kashmir under security lockdown and has deployed tens of thousands of additional troops internet is blocked and phone lines are down. 3 prominent me politicians 2 fem former chief ministers are under house arrest revoking indian administered kashmir special status is expected to garner strong reaction this is a straightforward pandering to the hindu majority electorate in india b j p o the Hindu Nationalist Party came to power in the e
Is this two front teeth. Now its time for the weather, with ben rich. Hello there. Is it august or is it autumn . You may well be wondering after you have seen what is in this weather forecast. Over the next couple of days some turbulent weather on the way. Some heavy rain at times, but also some unseasonably strong winds, which could well cause some travel problems. Now, the jetstrea m some travel problems. Now, the jetstream has been dipping a long way south across the atlantic, and these strong winds high up in the atmosphere have spun up an area of low pressure. You can see it here on oui low pressure. You can see it here on our earlier satellite image. A beautiful swell of cloud, the sort of thing we would be used to seeing ona of thing we would be used to seeing on a chart like this during the autumn of the winter, not really during the summer. But this area of low pressure pushes in our direction as we had to friday. We will see some outbreaks of heavy rain pushing northwards. A
Bigger weight on the shoulders of marcus rushford, maybe Alexis Sanchez will come back into the picture. But they have £74 million in the bank for when they choose to spend it, perhaps nextjanuary or even the following summer. And you can see the welcome he received in intermilan, can see the welcome he received in inter milan, quite extraordinary that. This is a player who almost scored a goal every other game for Manchester United yet never really ca ptu red Manchester United yet never really captured the hart of the united fans, and he departs to link up with antonio conte, who has wanted him for a long time. Some of the others on the move today david luiz, the Brazilian International defender. He leaves chelsea after two spells with them to make the short trip across london to arsenal. That is in a deal worth around 10 million. Leaving arsenal is the nigerian striker alex iwobi. He came through the ranks at the gunners, playing 149 times, but he is now on his way to everton. They
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