Scotland seeing the rain. And then as we look into wednesday those weather front still close to scotland and northern ireland. And a new set pushing into scotland and northern ireland. The main store is the chance of rain in scotland and northern ireland is about to go up and later in the week that moves south clearing into the weekend. If you re one of those that like summer temperatures to be average at best, it is the week for you! that s all from the bbc news at six so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday. I m olly foster live at wimbley staley stadium. Here is what s coming up on sportsday this evening. Scotland s man of the match against england, billy gilmour, has tested positive for covid and will miss their final group game tomorrow. That has had an impact on england. All their players have tested negative. But two of them are having to self isolate without coming into close contact with their che
Among young people. Amateur astronomers across the northern hemipshere are treated to a partial eclipse of the sun. And on what would have been the duke of edinburgh s 100th birthday, the earl of wessex talks to us about remembering his father. I think that we go ahead and we celebrate what might have been in his life, and i think we try to turn it into something that s very positive. The us presidentjoe biden will hold talks with borisjohnson in cornwall in the new few hours, at the start of his first overseas tour since taking office. The two leaders are meeting on the eve of the g7 summit and will agree a new atlantic charter, aimed at refreshing the relationship between the uk and us. But tensions about post brexit trade arrangements for northern ireland threaten to overshadow their discussions. Our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports from cornwall. President biden arriving in cornwall late last night. His first steps on foreign soil since taking office, the start of a t
For rory burns, but england struggle in the 1st test against new zealand. Good evening. The world s biggest economies have agreed what they re hailing as a historic deal, to create a global tax system, aimed at preventing huge multinational companies from avoiding tax. The agreement made in london today, by the g7 finance ministers, will include a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The chancellor, rishi sunak, said that it will mean firms pay the right tax in the right places. Google and facebook have welcomed the move. Our economics editor faisal islam is in central london, where the deal was struck. Faisal. Now over decades the world s biggest multinationals have effectively been able to pick and choose the rate of tax they pay on hundreds of billions of pounds of global sales and that is even more the case in the past few years with the big digital tech giants. Now as a result of this deal of the world s biggest democracies and their economies, they say that this will end her
Of business to go round. Coletta smith, bbc news, in the peak district. Time for a look at the weather. Here s helen willetts. Some pretty decent camping weather across the east of the country but not plain sailing for everyone. This is how it looks along some of our coasts. We have some sunshine for central and eastern areas but further west these weather fronts are invading with some patchy rain to come as well. Particularly drizzly around some of the irish coasts. But most central and eastern areas hold on to the strong sunshine. The med, to high 20s. Even with cloud and rain it is still warm. Overnight that rain and cloud continues in the north and west and the cloud will move further east. With all that cloud cover it is going to be a muggy night for many parts of the country because we have this south westerly flow. The weather fronts are looming large towards another west soap more clad tomorrow coinciding with the partial eclipse of the sun. South and east the better chance of
Time for a look at the weather, here s ben rich. Good afternoon. We start in baku and a pretty hot afternoon, 32 degrees and only a touch cooler for the kick off a bit later on. Not quite as warm here at home but not far off it with some parts of the south getting close to 30 degrees today. Across the southern areas are set to turn quite a lot more turbulence later on because of this cloud you can see now drifting across northern france. This is heading in our direction and for some of us, southern and central parts of england in particular it is set to spark off some thunderstorms through tonight and tomorrow with the risk of some torrential downpours in places. Further north and west you will wonder what all the fuss is about. Quite a cool and fresh afternoon for northern ireland and scotland. Some rain for west wales, southern scotland. Further south we had that heat and also humidity. Up to 30 degrees. And then the thunderstorms start to develop drifting across the channel islands