is the fifth person seeking to challenge president daniel ortega to be arrested in recent weeks. major western powers have co ordinated further sanctions against belarus after it forced a commercial flight carrying a dissident to land in minsk last month. measures announced separately by the us, eu, uk and canada include travel bans and asset freezes against more than a hundred high ranking officials. the spanish cabinet will be asked on tuesday to back prime minister pedro sanchez s plans to pardon nine catalan separatist leaders. they were jailed over a failed independence attempt in 2017. there have already been large demonstrations in other parts of spain against pardoning the separatists. the australian government has vowed to strongly oppose a recommendation that the country s great barrier reef be listed as in danger. unesco has published a draft
college sport in the us is a massive business. it s worth billions of dollars and attracts huge crowds. the us college system soaks up most of that revenue and imposes strict limits on what student athletes are allowed to make. but now the supreme court has declared the athletes should get a bigger slice of the income. our north america correspondent, david willis, has more. college sports is very popular here, i reckon billions of dollars in sport for colleges, countries, and the ncaa, the national collegiate athletic association, the sports governing body, but the stars themselves, the sportspeople themselves are deemed amateurs and so they are entitled to scholarships but not to pay. well, this decision by the united states supreme court, the highest court in the land, doesn t directly pave the way
only a handful of governments including the united states, uk and others have publicly taken a position and imposed certain measures. . . sorry to interrupt you. do you have any confidence that that will change and that there will be a concerted international effort to force china s hand here? it has to be, there has to be a way to make them stop. i think the international community so far, led by the united states and our partners and allies particularly in europe, are doing the right thing calling the chinese out for these evil policies and the atrocities committed against vulnerable and ethnic religious minorities. at the same time, we are going after their economic interests. specifically the technology aspect, the chinese using technology to advance and intensify its criminal acts against uyghur people.
further north, we have got more in the way of cloud, a few spots of drizzly rain coming out of this cloud for some places as well. temperatures getting up to about 20 22 degrees where you do see the sunshine. typically the high teens where you are stuck under the cloud, towards the north and north west. into thursday, again, we ve got a weather front that s a bit more active this time across western scotland, perhaps parts of northern ireland also seeing some fairly heavy rain on thursday, slowly slipping its way south. i think much of england and wales holding onto some dry weather, variable amounts of cloud. 20 22 degrees in the south, but the mid to high teens further north. bit of a mixed picture as we look towards the end of the week. most of us see some drier and eventually some slightly warmer weather too as we head towards the weekend. still, one or two showers around on friday. bye bye.
to escape some cats. i thought, another living being is having a bad day. i told my wife, and she asked, did you not take it? and i said no, i didn t. so i went back to pick it up, and i came home with blanchon in my pocket. wherever one goes, the other follows. xavier thinks their relationship could be an example for others. translation: there are billions of us, - and we have to share the earth. animals have as much of a right to be here as we do. we must know how to respect them, and everyone can do it. people often ask xavier how he managed to train the bird to be so tame. no trick, he replies just mutual respect. # thank you for being a friend.# tim allman, bbc news. there we are. a little heartwarming story to end the