bumper profits for the owner of british gas centrica more than a billion pounds this year as household bills keep rising. right on time! and from the railway children to the wombles and doctor who bernard cribbins has died at the age of 93. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we ll be in birmingham ahead of the commonwealth games and we ll look at what threat germany pose to england in the final of the women s euros. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. you the commonwealth games 2022 opens here at the alexander stadium in birmingham injust two hours time. this huge space seats 30,000 people, and although we don t entirely know the themes of the opening ceremony you do get hints of how they want to celebrate birmingham, with a mock canal and brickwork heralding its industrial past, and graffiti and skateboard ramps celebrating its gritty present. and we ve also been told to watch out for exactly how the royal guests arrive. 0rganisers say it s the bigges
during saturday, petering out. some patchy rain in the morning, scotland and northern ireland and then brightening up, not much rain for england and wales, mainly west and wales and north west england, brightness and sunshine ahead of that and very warm once again, 2627 celsius, low 20s in scotland and northern ireland. of uncertainty about sunday. this slice of cloud and rain across the middle third of the country, dry out to the to the north. the rain could be further south and it could be heavier. at the moment southern areas dry and still very warm in the sunshine in the south east. sophie. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six, from the six team it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall, and we are live from birmingham as the city prepares to host the biggest sporting programme in commonwealth games history. the countdown is on to the opening ceremony at alexander stadium, where 72 nations an
today there has been some heavy rain today as it pushes northwards across scotland and still affected north england and that put peter out for a while but we could see further pulses of rain into northern england and southern scotland overnight otherwise clear skies and the winds will be light. similar temperatures took last night, 11 14. if you re hoping for something warmer stay tuned for tomorrow because it looks like temperatures will be a bit higher and lighter winds and some sunshine. we start cloudy in the north and north east of england and southern scotland with the rain, that peters sunny elsewhere, the odd shower possible across northern england and eastern scotland. warmer day and temperatures could reach 28 celsius. we have some rain threatening northern ireland by the end of the day and into western scotland on that weather front which will head into england and wales
21. julian, 72% of americans are in favor of that. how will this movement show some actual wins that reflect those numbers in the mid terms? how do they show progress and not let this put peter out? it is a two-step process. they have to change congress and find leaders, whether they are incumbents or new politicians in the mid terms, who say this is the number one issue. come next congress, these poll numbers will turn into legislation. the second part is the students and families and allies come to capitol hill and lobby and rally people in districts for legislation. it will be a long haul. this is what happened with civil rights. the march is simply step one sgrch. we say that congress is done with major legislation. this is an election year. it is not even april.