from home for good. let me know if you think working practices have changed for ever and if so, whether that s a good thing or not on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh or #bbcyourquestions. also coming up this hour. out of this world four amateur astronauts, including a billionaire will spend the next three days circling the earth in the latest milestone for space tourism. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the uk, the us and australia have launched a new security partnership with plans to develop a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. the pact, to be known as aukus, will also cover artificial intelligence, cyber and quantum technologies. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, says the project will be crucial for the protection of their shared interests in the indo pacific region but china has accused them of having a cold war mentality. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. britain s decision to send its aircraft carrier hms q
first lady of the united states, jill biden, talking about military veterans. the couple are, says time magazine, part of a community that in a year of crisis have leapt into the fray. jonny dymond, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. he is chris fawkes. we ve seen a bit of patchy cloud since the clear blue skies, nevertheless a lot of dry, fine weather. however, the northern ireland we ll see the cloud continue to thicken here with outbreaks of rain starting to spread in, as these weather fronts just our west start to approach and these fronts will be bringing more of us rain over the next couple of days as we will see in a moment. over the next few hours turning wet in northern ireland. the rain most persistent across western counties. turning quite cloudy for western scotland but east scotland along with england and wales dry and sunny spells, feeling warm, temperatures as high as 23 degrees. overnight tonight the rain will begin to spread from northern ireland into
for britain in a dramatic bmx park freestyle final. tourists have been leaving beaches in south western turkey, where raging wildfires are now threatening hotels and homes. now on bbc news, living with arina, nina is experiencing an independence that had always been out of reach for her in the past. but can she make the transition into assisted living? hello there. summer 2021 so far has seen a lack of consistency. yes, through the middle part ofjuly, we had some warmth. in fact, for seven consecutive days somewhere saw temperatures around 30 celsius or above and that triggered off some sharp thundery downpours with some localised flooding from time to time. however, we are now in august. the first couple of days of august are going to be pretty disappointing in terms of the feel of the weather, with some places really struggling to get out of the high teens, but if we re lucky we ll see 20 or 21 celsius. the next couple of days will give us some drier w
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of august, but nothing particularly outstanding, i m afraid. in fact, today summarises it quite nicely. we have seen some breaks in the cloud out to the west, a lot of cloud generally elsewhere and some nuisance showers from a weather front that s drifting its way steadily south and east. some of these may well turn quite heavy and thundery before the day is through, but as that cold front clears away, it then allows this ridge of high pressure to build from the west and quieten things down. but the wind direction s still coming from a northerly source, so it s a cool start to monday. some early morning sunshine will quickly be spoilt by quite a lot of cloud developing into the afternoon, and a few sharp showers as well could break out across south wales and southwest england. temperatures subdued, really, for early august the maximum of 20 degrees, but perhaps feeling even cooler on those exposed northeast coasts. dry, settled and a little more sunshine around on tuesday,