out over pay and conditions. temperatures in japan are temperatures injapan are at their highest in nearly 150 years. now, fears that the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. hello and welcome. the chinese president xijinping has sworn in hong kong s new leader, john lee. the territory is marking 25 years since the handover from british colonial rule. in a speech, mr lee praised the security law that s been used to crush pro democracy protests. he said it had brought stability. britain has accused beijing of failing to meet the commitments it made to respect hong kong s freedoms. mark lobel reports. president xi s steps out of china since the start of the pandemic, choosing hong kong, two years on controller parr state security law here stifling protests, reducing the city public autonomy. it is also 25 years since the british handover to chinese rule. translation: the practice of one country, two systems has achieved success in hong kong, recognised by all. but after scen
particularly wales, the midlands, south west england and the cloud has been thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle. the guys are clouding up for northern ireland as the warm front starts to move in skies. plenty of scott sunshine further south and east. mid to high teens and we could be looking at 22 degrees across the south east. play continuing for wimbledon. this evening, that weather front brings outbreaks of rain too much of scotland, particularly north and west of scotland, it could be quite heavy and persistent. some showers likely for northern england and elsewhere further south clearer skies and temperatures in single digits but further north and west, quite a warm and muggy night. wednesday looks like being another cloudy one for northern and western areas, murky and feeling quite humid. spots of rain across scotland and it will be quite windy. best of the sunshine in parts of wales, the midlands and we could see the temperatures peaking at around 25 degrees, t
most of the next few days, it will be just scattered showers here and there, but i wanted to show you the satellite picture over the last couple of days of those rainfall patterns we have seen, because in some parts of the country, it has been raining, we have had heavy showers, but what seems to be happening is that these weather systems are taking this more south west to north east track, so they are mostly skipping southern parts of the uk, so yes, it may be raining where you are further north, but it is in the south where we have had that 8% of rainfall recently, the lowest since records began, so over the next five days, the most amount of rainfall in western scotland and parts of northern ireland, may in the lake district. but in the south, where we really need it, very little in the way of rainfall, just a few showers. but generally speaking across the country, july for example has been below average, well below average. so the temperatures today, it has been very humi
prince charles is reported to have privately described the british government s policy of sending migrants to rwanda as appalling. the comments, reported in the times newspaper, emerged after the high court ruled that the first flight taking asylum seekers from the uk to the central african country could go ahead next tuesday. we have more on his comments in a moment. but first here s the bbc s mark easton on the legal proceedings. is it lawful to give people seeking asylum in the uk a one way ticket to rwanda? telling them to pursue refugee status thousands of miles south in east africa? the first migrants are due to make thatjourney next tuesday with campaigners today failing in their legal bid to stop the removals. the high court in london heard from home office lawyers that six asylum seekers who had been due to be deported have had their removal directions cancelled, but thejudge was not persuaded to halt the flight carrying 31 others, dismissing arguments that the polic
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