Excess of 50 miles an hour. It will not feel warm in comparison to today in the sunshine, eight to 1a degrees. It does look as though saturday will stop promising, dry, settled and sunny. More rain on sunday, just a Sneak Preview into next week, high pressure building, quietened things down as we approached bank holiday weekend. A reminder of our top story. The Prime Minister says there is increasing confidence that vaccines work against the indian covid variant. Recorded cases reach almost 3000. Thats all from the Bbc News at six, so its goodbye from me and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc s hello, im Olly Foster heres whats coming up on sportsday this evening. The stage is set and we now know the Scotland Squad for the European Championship. Theres a very happy gilmour. From the euros to the push for europe, well have the latest from tonights Premier League matches. Could this be harry kanes last Home Game for spurs . Could this be harry kanes last Home Game for spurs . And can the big
facebook face lift. the beleaguered social media company re brands. the corporate name is now meta. a warm welcome to the programme. pressure is mounting on the world s richest nations to share vaccines with poorer countries as coronavirus cases once again continue to spike across the world and 620 leaders are preparing to meet in rome. more than 160 former leaders have called on western countries to send millions of covert vaccines before they expire to other countries or risk hundreds of thousands of lives. as the first leaders arrived in rome before a meeting of the world major economies, pressure is mounting on them to hand over stockpiled vaccines. ., , vaccines. together, these countries vaccines. together, these countries have vaccines. together, these countries have the - vaccines. together, these countries have the ability| vaccines. together, these l countries have the ability to make the political and financial commitment that are needed to end of this pandemi
to their appeal for help. has the isle of skye become a victim of its own beauty? the island is struggling to cope, as tourism reaches record numbers. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the united states and north korea are being urged to show restraint, after a growing war of words between the two nations. last night president trump said threats from pyongyang would be met with fire, fury and power. the communist state says it s considering a missile strike on the us territory of guam the us secretary of state rex tillerson has just arrived on the island. guam is a small island in the pacific ocean, where us strategic bombers are based. in the past hour, president trump has reaffirmed america s military power, boasting about the country s nuclear arsenal. the president tweeted again, saying: hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world. we ll have the latest from korea in a momen
whether lessons have been learnt. has the isle of skye become a victim of its own beauty? the island is struggling to cope, as tourism reaches record numbers. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. 17 men and one woman have been found guilty of sexual exploitation and drugs offences in the north of england. the convictions are in connection to a major investigation into sexual abuse and grooming. as pa rt of as part of the operation, police paid a convicted child rapist almost £10,000 to act as informant. our correspondent fiona trott is in newcastle for us. there have been two years of trials at newcastle crown court and now those verdicts have finally been returned we can tell you all about the sexual exploitation northumbria police have uncovered in this city. between 2010 and 2014, men, predominantly indian, pakistani, anchor dishy origin, targeted vulnerable girls and women. bangladeshi origin. they invited them to sessions and gave them drink and drugs, so many dru