to return and by the weekend, although there will cloud round with splashes of rain, for the majority temperatures will again be pushing backin temperatures will again be pushing back in to double figures so it will turn milder, that is how the weather is shaping up. thank you. thank you. and that s bbc news at six on monday the 16th of january. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team it s goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. raducanu s off to a win at the australian open but a tough opponent awaits in the second round. steve in the second round. borthwick names his first six nations steve borthwick names his first six nations squad as the man he replaced, eddiejones, returns to his homeland. and after a dramatic masters final, judd trump celebrates another snooker major. we ll be reflecting on his win at ally pally. also coming up in the programme. we catch up with the golfer defying the odds to claim victo
And we still have some one plateau across parts of scotland, northern england, down through the midlands and east anglia today, but it does not like that everywhere. In the south west, rather grey and cloudy with rain. All courtesy of an area of low pressure, the swell of cloud you can see here, and the thing is this band of Rain Affecting South western wales, Northern Ireland is particularly slow moving, so there are some fairly beefy Rainfall Accumulations to come through today. 20 or 30 millimetres for these areas, but double that of the high ground, so there could be some localised Surface Water Flooding issues. Because the rain man is a slow moving, chances are if it is raining with you every moment, it is raining with you every moment, it likely still will be towards the end of the day. We call parts of north and Eastern Scotland and the east side of inwood, keeping some warm spells of sunshine. The days top temperature perhaps reaching 25 in parts of east anglia. Yes, it will fe
including the stunning win over ukraine in munich. good evening. we start the programme with a bbc investigation that has uncovered shocking claims that the greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the mediterranean over a three year period including nine people who were deliberately thrown into the water. more than a0 people are alleged to have died as a result of being forced out of greek territorial waters, or taken back out to sea after reaching greek islands. with more on this, here s paul adams. for more than ten years, migrants escaping war, persecution or poverty have used a number of routes to reach europe. some travel from north africa to italy. others cross from turkey to the nearby greek islands. for many greece is seen as the best way into europe. last year, just over 41,000 people arrived using that route. human rights groups say thousands of people seeking asylum have been forced back, illegally, from greece to turkey. denied the right
largest trading partner and this is why. look at the figures, 2 way trade grew over 9% to over $300 million. i spoke with former australian ambassador to china geoff raby who explained the significance of this visit. the significance of the visit is that not only is it the first since 2017, but it marks the resumption of the annual reciprocal high level visit exchanges. these started in the 1980s and continued until 2017 and they are resuming again. to the comments by philjust then, relations have normalised and that s what china is looking for. beyond that, in terms of geopolitics, does it weigh on relations given the fact that australia is a strong ally of the united states but depends on china for trade? how do you reckon going forward that australia manages to balance these out? absolutely. it s a critical issue, it s interesting to note that since the seven years since the last high profile visit from a chinese leader to australia, china has gone from 16% to 75% of 60