And we still have some one plateau across parts of scotland, northern england, down through the midlands and east anglia today, but it does not like that everywhere. In the south west, rather grey and cloudy with rain. All courtesy of an area of low pressure, the swell of cloud you can see here, and the thing is this band of Rain Affecting South western wales, Northern Ireland is particularly slow moving, so there are some fairly beefy Rainfall Accumulations to come through today. 20 or 30 millimetres for these areas, but double that of the high ground, so there could be some localised Surface Water Flooding issues. Because the rain man is a slow moving, chances are if it is raining with you every moment, it is raining with you every moment, it likely still will be towards the end of the day. We call parts of north and Eastern Scotland and the east side of inwood, keeping some warm spells of sunshine. The days top temperature perhaps reaching 25 in parts of east anglia. Yes, it will fe
To an all weather partnership. Kishore mahbubani was singapores former ambassador to the united nations. He gave me a sense of what lies ahead for eu china relations. Trade differences are normal. The important thing is notjust the trade in balance but the trade volume. At the end of the day, as you know, europe is looking for new sources of growth for itself and europe is acutely aware that china is going to become a very, very important market for eu products too, and let me give you some very important statistics so listeners understand how things have changed. In the year 2000 the european economy combined, eu economy combined was six times bigger than chinas economy. Now they are the same size. In five years time china will be bigger than the european union. Europe is aware of this. While they will have difficulties over trade they also rely china is it going to become the big market for them also, so thats also part of the european calculations. Do you seeing that the Balance Of
Be bigger than the european union. Europe is aware of this. While they will have difficulties over trade they also rely china is it going to become the big market for them also, so thats also part of the european calculations. Do you seeing that the Balance Of Power shifting, then, and they have to adjust accordingly . I think the europeans are acutely aware of the change in the Balance Of Power. And remember, for europe today, one nightmare that they really worry about is the reelection of donald trump coming in for a second time as president of the united states, and they know that donald trump has absolutely no emotional connection to europe. He does not quite see the value of his european allies, and europe may have to get a much more difficult geopolitical environment. In that difficult geopolitical environment, when europe is looking for ways and means to possibly restrain russia at that point in time, maybe they can talk with china. And as you know china played an Important Role
Become the big market for them also, so that s also part of the european calculations. D0 the european calculations. Do ou the european calculations. Do you seeing that the Balance Of Power shifting, then, and they have to adjust accordingly . I think the europeans are acutely aware of the change in the Balance Of Power. And remember, for europe today, one nightmare that they really worry about is the reelection of donald trump coming in for the reelection of donald trump coming infora the reelection of donald trump coming in for a second time as president of the united states, and they know that donald trump has absolutely no emotional connection to europe. He does not quite see the value of his european allies, and europe may have to get a much more difficult geopolitical environment. In that difficult geopolitical environment, when europe is looking for ways and means to possibly restrain russia at that point in time, maybe they can talk with china. And as you know china played an I
And trying to find a way of winning the game or certainly get ourselves back a couple of games goals in front. we will try and do a khan do everything we can, but also we need to be careful, manful how we do it. mindful. aston villa kick things off this evening, away at lille it gets under way at 5.a5. should they progress, they ll face the winners of 0lympiacos and fenerbache. stay across all of tonight s games on the bbc sport website. the england and wales cricket board has announced eight counties that will host professional women s teams as part of a major restructure of the domestic game from 2025. the plans will see the creation of a three tiered domestic competition structure which the ecb says could lead to an 80% increase in professional women s players in england and wales by 2029. jane dougall has been across this story and joins me now.