of asian men is jailed for eight and a half years. china and russia have denounced a defence pact, agreed by the us, uk and australia, that will provide australia with nuclear powered attack submarines. russia said the pact would bring years of confrontation to asia. the chinese foreign ministry said the three countries were on a path of error and danger, calling the deal a violation of the aims of the international non proliferation treaty. here s the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson wang wenbin speaking at the daily press briefing. translation: china has repeatedly stressed that the aukus pact - and the three countries efforts to advance cooperation on nuclear submarines and other cutting edge military technology is typical cold war mentality. it will only spur an arms race and undermine the international nonproliferation regime and harm regional peace and stability. peace loving countries have expressed their serious concern and opposition. the three countries lates
mild night as temperatures stay around 10 celsius. a lot of cloud again tomorrow, and that cloud delivering patchy rain early and then spreading north across scotland where any early sunshine will be short lived. for england and wales, expect a lot of cloud. again, we may see brightness coming through at times but also damp and drizzly in the hills in the west. northern ireland trying to brighten up a little bit and it s a milder day, up to 14 degrees in hull and london. overnight and into saturday, whilst during the day england and wales stays mainly dry, will move south through scotland and northern ireland. temperatures are starting to come down a little bit. the rain is a cold front, and is that weakens overnight into sunday, that allows the blue, the colder air to come in. what a big area of high pressure is building in, and that means a lot of settled but also sunny weather on sunday. so it will feel colder but there will be abundant sunshine. bearin there will be abund
low pressure slowly starts moving eastwards into the north sea but there will be showers pretty widely overnight and it will remain breezy. a frost free nights with temperatures between 4 9 celsius. the weekend is going to be dominated by that low pressure. it might be moving out of the way but still close enough to bring in some showers. more rain on the way for the second half of the weekend. saturday s forecast, another showery day with a greater chance of seeing showers across northern ireland, parts of northern england, the midlands and east anglia. across wales and south west england the weather should become drier through the afternoon as pressure rises with a bit more sunshine to end the day. temperatures for most still on the mild side but the second half of the weekend sees some cooler air arriving across the north of the uk whereas in the south we have low pressure moving in, bringing a zone of rain across parts of england and wales. further north, we will see show