Winter olympics, which start exactly one year from today. The ioc president thomas bach says its almost a miracle china has managed to prepare for a winter games through the pandemic, but Sophie Richardson of human rights watch, says the Olympic Movement needs to rethink. This would be a miracle. Ending mass arbitrary detention, ending the devastation of cultural property, ensuring that decent human rights environments exist before a warning that government, really the propaganda of posting. This is not a rights friendly of environment, and i think commitments of the con john of the Chinese Government made is clearly not worth the paper they were written on. Its certainly going to be a controversial games those allegations and questions over the Environmental Impact of the games but preparations are continuing. Among those hoping to compete are british mogul skiers the gerken schofields. Tom and leonie could become the first british twins to compete at a winter olympics, and younger si
the late, great tina turner. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. as you know, i can t stand the rain, and there hasn t been much of that this week and there won t be much as we head into the bank holiday weekend. today most of us are seeing some sunshine once again. there are some sunshine once again. there are some areas of cloud that are floating around, developing and trapped under this high pressure and thatis trapped under this high pressure and that is keeping it fine and dry. the wind has changed direction a bit today, meaning some northern and eastern areas might be cooler. this is the cloud we have seen developing in places over the last three hours, turning more cloudy. in northern ireland. clown developing across east anglia and the south east and parts of the midlands could see some more cloud. it could squeeze out showers the pennines. showers of the shetland area as well. higher temperatures are squeezed more to the south west, a very pleasant 22
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weather can t make its mind up. we will eventually get something drier and warmer with more sunshine, but the chance of rain in liverpool before then. that sums it up for the whole uk over the next couple of days, a mixture of sunshine and showers developing more widely and the met office has issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms this afternoon and into the evening in this area where we will get the really heavy downpours, hail, thunder and light rain, 20 or 30 millimetres of rain in that area too. thunder and lightning. downpours hedging from the midlands to the south east, turning drier in north west scotland, north west england and eventually northern wales, heavy showers elsewhere, temperatures peaking at 17 or 18. downpours arriving widely over the next few hours, continuing in the evening in the south east and east anglia, they will fade away but there is more cloud from the atlantic into northern ireland and western scotland bringing more showers, clearer skies