our aeroplane contrails. the water that aeroplanes check out the back makes controls. sometimes when there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere, seven miles up in the sky, where the aeroplanes fly, they can persist for many, many hours, going the spectacular sunrise and sunset pictures. you get a sense of these contrails starting to work away, these lines of cloud you can see on the satellite picture. and they are, because we are starting to get drier air moving in across england, seven miles up in the atmosphere. you are less likely to see those contrails hanging around quite as long. weather wise today we have a bit of patchy cloud across south west scotland and northern ireland, may be an odd light shower. otherwise, the vast majority of the uk having dry weather with plenty of sunshine stop the sunshine, of course, is stronger this time of year. we have high levels of uv. the temperatures are widely reaching the high teens or low 20s. probably peaking at 23 celsius this
five matches as punishment. prior to wednesday s game, the two sets of players demonstrated their support for vinicius, with his team mates all wearing his number 20 shirt the banner reading racists out of football . valencia are to appeal their punishment from the spanish football federation, which also includes a fine of nearly $50,000, while the la liga president issued an apology to the brazilian following his comments on social media, in which he accused vinicius of criticising and slandering la liga. 0n the pitch, karim benzema and rodrygo sealed the win. elsewhere, cadiz are still not safe after a 2 0 defeat at villarreal. 2-0. already relegated elche drew 1 1 with sevilla. atletico madrid slipped to third after a 3 3 draw at espanyol. and getafe boosted their survival hopes with a 1 0 win at real betis. in italy, inter milan have retained their coppa italia title after a 2 1 win over fiorentina at the stadio 0limpico in rome. fiorentina took the lead afterjust thre
that was always going to steal all the headlines. the coach of the barbarians, eddiejames, admitted he didn t know about that big retirement announcement and his playing namesake hasn t even spoken to the press today, which a lot of people were disappointed. they really wanted to hearfrom him. but eddiejones described alun wynjones as a player that he hated coaching against but he loves having on his team. he added it was a very easy choice for him selecting the welshman as his captain for sunday. he was one of the first ones we got, so he was always in. it s interesting because when you re coaching england against wales, wales are a fairly traditional rival. and he was the sort of player that you hate when you coach against him, but when he got him on your team, you love him. as far as the world xv is concerned, israel folau is playing and there s been a fierce debate over the last few days, since we knew
that he would be involved in the fixture overall, about his participation. folau was famously sacked by rugby australia back in 2019 for making anti gay comments on social media. he s actually expected to represent tonga at the fast approaching world cup later this year after he switched allegiance. and the coach of the world xv, steve hansen, he said yesterday that folau s selection could be seen as a positive thing, because the rugby football union have decided to fly the pride flag over twickenham this sunday. now even today, the rfu chairman, tom ilube, has made a statement online, saying that the rugby football union supports the lgbtq+ community. and we mustn t forget that a number of the england women s players who are part of that community, including their captain, marlie packer. sunday itself will mark the first time eddie jones himself will walk back into twickenham after he was sacked by the rugby football union as the england head coach just last december. i did ask him ho