and coming up at 7.30, all the day s sport, including leicester tigers dramatic win over saracens in english rugby s premiership decider. good evening. the rmt union has confirmed that next week s rail and tube strikes, the largest in three decades, will go ahead. they say talks have failed to resolve a dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions. network rail say it s serious about trying to find a solution which gives people a decent pay rise, but is also affordable for taxpayers and farepayers. the strikes on three days will cause disruption across england, scotland and wales. our business correspondent, vishala sri pathma, reports. it s set to be a chaotic time if you re travelling by rail at all next week. three 24 hour strikes planned across the week on tuesday, thursday, and saturday, with strikes on the london underground to go ahead on tuesday as well. for those who have plans to go on holiday by rail, or indeed go to work, the strikes are notjust disrupt
hello this is bbc news. the headlines. union leaders say that talks trying to prevent rail strikes next week have failed and the walk outs will go ahead. passengers across the country will be affected. i think there are so many sectors of our society at the minute and people who are struggling and we need to help each other where we can. theyjust want more money and yeah, they can hold the country to ransom. tens of thousands of people have marched in central london calling on the government to do more to help tackle the cost of living crisis. the government is to trial a scheme allowing asylum seekers who cross the channel in small boats to be electronically tagged. police in brazil confirm a body found in the remote amazon rainforest is the missing british journalist dom phillips. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m isaac fanin tigers on top again leicester are premiership kings after late drama at twickenham. day three of the
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or two areas and a similar story across sicily with 46 only across them inland areas. that is extremely cute. only a couple degrees away from the all time temperature record for the two that come outbreaks of rain from this low pressure working eastwards. wednesday. really what we re looking at is a slowly improving weather picture. chile started the day for part of scotland and northern ireland. temperatures down in single figures but it is a day of showers. mostly around scotland and eastern areas of england. temperatures will continue to be a little below average for this time of yearfor below average for this time of year for most. below average for this time of yearfor most. for below average for this time of year for most. for wednesday evening, those daytime showers will fade away and we will be left with clearing skies. again with those clear skies, the wind dropping it in many places and turns quite chilly. some friends of the charts, cabbages getting down into single figures.
we ve got this trough to our west, and with this we get areas of low pressure fired towards the uk, bringing outbreaks of rain. no change expected from that. but it s this ridge pattern across southern europe that s bringing the fierce heatwave, as air is forced down through the atmosphere with thatjet stream configuration, allowing extreme heat to be trapped near the earth s surface, butjust quite locally 46 is not typical in sardinia, it lljust be one or two areas. 46 likely in parts of sardinia and sicily, but for both, actually, that said, temperatures will continue to be a little below average for the time of yearfor most. now, for wednesday evening, those daytime showers will fade away, and we re left with clearing skies.