Of showers in a short time, thunder and lightning, the best of sunshine for eastern coast of england and eastern coasts of scotland, some gusty winds associated with the showers, quite widely 30 110 miles an hour, somewhere on the south coast you could see gusts of 50 miles an hour. In the sunshine on eastern coasts, 21125, 19 22 in the showers and we keep the showers going through this evening and overnight. They track their way further north and east, through the midlands, north wales, Northern England, parts of scotland, try for Northern Ireland, try across central and southern england but another muggy night, temperatures not lower than 14 night, temperatures not lower than 1a or 15. Here is the area of low pressure responsible for these heavy showers, still with us tomorrow. By this stage its pushing further north and east, the main focus of the showers will be through north wales, midlands, Northern England, starting to work into scotland, not so starting to work into scotland, n
The currency markets and the pound has taken a record dive. The un has given a stark assessment of the situation in syria where 500 civilians have been killed in the most recent fighting. What you see is a level of distraction consistent with a Bombing Campaign aimed at a scorched earth policy. Almost every building destroyed in a three month period. Hes referring to the russian and syrian Bombing Campaign in rebel held northwestern syria specifically the province of idlib where the un has accused the government of deliberately targeting civilian areas including hospitals and schools. Last week, the un human rights chief said the resurgence in violence has been met by international indifference. Air strikes kill and maim significant numbers of civilians several times a week, and the response seems to be a collective shrug. The war in syria is in its ninth year. 370,000 people have been killed. Todays briefing to the Un Security Council on syria was the seventh since fighting escalated
I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world. What ive done for African Americans, i would say no president has done. Dealing with englands alcohol problem experts say huge cuts to services for alcoholics are fuelling a National Epidemic. You feel as if youre going to go insane. Ive thought to myself i cant cope, i cant carry on like this, ill kill myself. Borisjohnson has made his first visit to wales as Prime Minister, in a bid to rally support for his brexit plans. But theres been fierce criticism from farming groups, who say that leaving the eu without a deal would be catastrophic for welsh farming and could lead to civil unrest. Wales, which voted to leave in 2016, is heavily dependent on agriculture particularly lamb. 92 lamb exports go to eu source meat promotion more than a third of all welsh lamb is sold abroad, and 92 of that goes to eu countries. 40 eu tariffs on lamb likely in no deal source. But if we leave with no deal welsh lamb is likely to face eu tariff
Filled with smoke ten happening, things turning a bit minutes before landing. Unseasonable in the next few days. On friday and saturday, low coming up on afternoon live, pressure, not so normalfor this all the sport with sarah mulkerrins. Pa rt pressure, not so normalfor this part of august but fairly potent and wayne rooney in talks it will bring heavy rain and strong with derby county. With ben. Wayne rooney in talks winds on friday and saturday in with derby coun particular but to that in a moment. Hes been playing in america for the last couple of years, before that, to date has been sunny but wayne rooney is back in the uk as we speak. Hes in discussions skies with lively downpours that with derby county with a view to becoming a player coach continues through this afternoon. We can show you where that rain is at the Championship Club. Falling with some lightning particularly in scotland, Northern Ireland and the isle of man and the sunshine and showers for the next show in parts
Major currencies this morning. Iain conn, the chief executive of centrica, which owns british gas, announces hes stepping down after a challenging period for the company. Poorer pupils trail 18 months behind the rest of the class once they take their gcses, according to new research. Coming up in sport, gareth bale pulls out of real madrids pre season trip to munich after his big money move to china was blocked by the club. Greg and amber and, as the winners of this years love island are crowned, well ask whats made the reality show such a success. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A former high courtjudge says police may have broken the law in the way they investigated claims of a paedophile ring at westminster. Carl beech was jailed for 18 years last week for perverting the course of justice after lying about his claims. Sir Richard Henriques, who carried out a review of the Scotland Yard inquiry, claims that warrants to search the homes of some of those beech had accused o