Through the city of water might now help preserve this jewel of civilisation. Mark lowen, Bbc News, rome. Now its time for a look at the weather with louise lear. Good afternoon. Its a rather grey sunday out there for many. If we take a look at the satellite picture, you can see exactly what im talking about. There are some breaks in the cloud and some Brightness Into Western Scotland in particular and parts of North Wales but a weak Weather Front is shifting its way steadily south and its enhancing some sharp, possibly thundery downpours to develop a little bit later on in the day. Also, a northerly flow means that its quite cool out there, particularly on exposed North Sea coasts. There will be a good deal of dry weather but, as i say, quite a lot of cloud around as well. So top temperatures, 12 20 degrees at the very best. It looks likely that the best of the weather as we go through the week, though, will be monday and tuesday, as this little bump of High Pressure will build in fro
Of august, but nothing particularly outstanding, im afraid. In fact, today summarises it quite nicely. We have seen some breaks in The Cloud out to the west, a lot of cloud generally elsewhere and some Nuisance Showers from a Weather Front thats drifting its way steadily south and east. Some of these may well turn quite heavy and thundery before the day is through, but as that Cold Front clears away, it then allows this ridge of high pressure to build from the west and quieten things down. But the wind direction s still coming from a northerly source, so its a cool start to monday. Some early Morning Sunshine will quickly be spoilt by quite a lot of cloud developing into the afternoon, and a few sharp showers as well could break out across South Wales and Southwest England. Temperatures subdued, really, for early august the maximum of 20 degrees, but perhaps feeling even cooler on those exposed northeast coasts. Dry, settled and a little more sunshine around on tuesday, but still not p
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Now on bbc news, is the media show. After the torrent of racial abuse that englands footballers suffered after that penalty shoot out, you might wonder why theyd want to be on Social Media at all. Do the benefits of direct access to the fans and being able to tell their own unedited story outweigh the really horrifying negatives . And what about the platforms themselves . Why cant they quash the abuse more effectively . It is an example of much broader issues around the Power And Accountability of Social Media giants, and that is the subject a behind the Scenes Book written by two New York times journalists about facebook. So, let me introduce you to our guests. Firstly to New York and to sheera frenkel. Sheera, youve called your book the ugly truth, which means, i guess, that youre not secretary of the Mark Zuckerberg Fan club. I wonder what facebook makes of you. Have they been in touch with you directly about what they think of the book . In the weeks leading up to the publication o