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could be 5 degrees in scotland, but in england and wales nine and ten, starting cloudy in most places in the morning. more sunshine tomorrow in scotland and northern ireland. this rain will peter out but we will see some showers developing all the way from the west country, south wales, west midlands and towards yorkshire. temperatures on the whole should be similar to what we have seen today but with more sunshine in scotland and northern ireland, it may be warmer here. set the scene for the weekend, the area of low pressure bringing the rain into italy, star menino, but in the uk we are influenced more by high pressure. england and wales on saturday seeing a good deal of sunshine. here it s going to be warmest. temperatures peaking at 20, or 21 celsius, but 17 for scotland and northern ireland. a similar story for the second half of the weekend. sunshine for england and wales, won here in the sunshine, but just a little bit cooler around some of wales, won here in the sunsh
they produced the upset of the fa cup fourth round we ll hear how grimsby town s victory over luton town last night has gone down with the mariners players and fans. it was a record that seemed set in stone but history has been made as lebronjames sets a new nba all time career scoring record. also coming up in the programme. we speak to great britain s sophie mckinna who s had her shots stolen and says it s disrrupted her paris olympic preparations. and we hear from justin rose after his first pga they ve it s not as if they don t have any value. it s a could put them somewhere so that i could get them back. good evening and welcome along to sportsday. we will start with tonight s premier league action. manchester united host leeds at old trafford. erik ten hag s side will be seeking to close the gap to premier league leaders arsenal. as for leeds, they go into this evening s fixture managerless after relieving jesse marsch of his duties on monday, and as michael redford
China. Some actually call it a dragon bear partnership. The goal of these meetings, the partnership, is simply to change the global war router or did that was established by western democracies after the Second World War global world order. Working together to replace the Current System with the new system, air system. This is not only on the military front but the economic front. Think about the technology, energy. So, ithink it is really important to watch what will be set there. Because it is consequential. The aim is again to fight democracies in the system that was established in to replace it with their own system and we have seen the expressions of the use geopolitical aims not only in ukraine, but we have seen also and talk or see like iran in the middle east, we are watching also north korea, what that country is doing and we see those autocracies are working together, to a certain extent. But at the epicentre of that it really is the russian and chinese cooperation. Is very i
Brendan rodger s side need just a point, there to close the door on rangers. If for some reason celtic dont get the job done today, theyll have another chance against st mirren on saturday. At the bottom ross county can secure their premiership survival with a win over stjonstone and they are leading 1 0 just before half time. Wolves are calling on the Premier League to scrap var next season. Theyve triggered a vote at the Agm On 6th June by formally submitting a resolution to have it removed. Wolves say that after five seasons of the Video Assistant Referee its time for a constructive and critical debate on its future. In response, the Premier League say they fully support its use and remain committed, alongside the pgmol, to making continued improvements for the benefit of the game and fans. Joe lynskey has more. This is the club whose manager has just received a one Match Touchline Ban for comments about a var decision. Gary oneill called the disallowed goal for gary oneill called t