she won t stop asking questions. well, it makes me very sad, and 80 years is a long time, and by the time 100 years comes, i won t be here, so i ve got a limited time to find these men. dame mary richardson finishing that report from hugh pym. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. hello. most of us had a decent day of weather. there was plenty of sunshine around, light winds and sunny skies. this fine weather was down to an area of high pressure, here it is. we reckon this is the first one we ve had for over three weeks, and it is already set to push off. looking at tomorrow, we are already back to the unsettled theme with more rain on the way. there are already places in the uk that have seen well over double the average rainfall this month and there is loads more to come over the next few days, so a change back to unsettled weather conditions i m afraid. overnight tonight, although we start with clear skies and dry weather, as we go through the night this rai
welcome to newsday we start with breaking news. it s six am in singapore and three thirty am in sri lanka where injust the last hour the bbc has confirmed that sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa has left the country days after popular protests forced him to abandon his official residence and after several earlier failed attempts to leave. he left by plane. his destination is not clear, but it s understood he had earlier tried to travel to the united arab emirates. president rajapaksa had promised to resign, but by remaining in position, he kept his immunity from prosecution. many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country leaving it short of funds to buy medicines or fuel. i m joined now by david brewster, a specialist in sri lankan politics with the australia national university. great university. to get you on the program, david. great to get you on the program, david. just to start by saying, the dramatic developments we ve h
much more clout around, more of a breeze and that will bring wet weather now and again. nothing particularly heavy but we will see some patchy rain and drizzle pushing its way northwards in eastwards briefly snow over the scottish mountains later in the day for the replacing that cloudy damp weather with some sunshine and some sharp showers in northern allen for up temperatures of 40 degrees, elsewhere higher than today.
for most of the country tuesday was a slightly cooler day. we have much more cloud around, thick enough to give a bit of rain here and there. despite the clarity here in london it was hot. temperatures over 30 degrees. much further north preparing for the open at saint andrews it is cooler, temperatures were in the low 20s despite the sunshine. that cooler, cleaner, fresher air is moving down from the north following this band of cloud thatis north following this band of cloud that is to bring one or two spots of rain. for much of the country it will be more comfortable night. these are the temperatures by the morning. still that uncomfortable warmth in the south east of england. across other parts of england, could start quite cloudy in the morning, even one or two spots of rain movie away. will see one or two showers for northern allen, sunny spells to come a much more sunshine arriving across england and wales that we had on tuesday. those temperatures continuing to slide away ever