but there of seeing some sunshine, but there will always be some rain up towards the north—west. a very moist and south—westerly flow, that is why it has been so great murky. they can cloud up to the north—west being at pics of rain. as we go through this evening and in tonight, we will see rain moving into northern ireland and scotland and into parts of england as well. to the south of that, predominantly dry, but lots of cloud around and that is producing a lot of drizzle, misty and murky conditions. in alternate, temperatures to start saturday morning double digits for so many west and north. we go into tomorrow, these frontal systems just making their way close to the north—west. a brisk wind, further south and east high pressure is in charge, meaning a lot of dry weather, but still with a lot of dry weather, but still with a lot of cloud in england and wales tomorrow. in parts of north—east wales, the eastern side of northern england, may see some brightness coming to our times. northern ireland and western scotland, rain at times, particularly heavy and

persistent for the hills of western scotla nd persistent for the hills of western scotland and north—east colour, hear a fighting chance of seeing a bit of sunshine. that may be where we had the highest temperatures, 13 it could be mounted still on sunday. saturday night, we bring this plume are fairly mother. —— this plume of fairly mild air. the cloud should start to break up a little bit more effectively. on sunday, a better chance of seeing some spells of sunshine, at least a time across england and wales, northern ireland and southern and eastern scotland. still some rain to the north—west of scotla nd still some rain to the north—west of scotland and with that south—westerly wind, it will be the places that have that seek the highest amateurs. 1a or 15 degrees as possible, way above the average by the time of year. into the last couple of days in 2019, it does turn colour. particularly in northern areas. some of that cool air will seek its way by the site as we turn to jersey. temperatures seek its way by the site as we turn tojersey. temperatures return close

tojersey. temperatures return close to where they should be the time of year. if you're out celebrating on tuesday night, new year's eve should be mostly dry and chilly, there could be patches of fog. that is all from me for now and i will have my weather in half an hour. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: at least 12 people are killed after a plane crashes in kazakhstan. dozens of people, including babies and children, are being treated in hospital — the cause of the crash is still unclear.

the whole plane started vibrating. the head of the uk supreme court, lady hale, has criticised the impact of funding cuts on the justice system, especially in family cases. a man who was shot dead on christmas eve in front of his family may have had criminal links in sweden. a single dad from preston is celebrating after winning £1 million on the national lottery. now on bbc news, megan rapinoe was one of the stand—out stars of the united states' world cup winning campaign in 2019. she's also been an outspoken voice on equal pay, lgbt rights and politics. in this special bbc interview, she talks tojo currie about the issues facing the women's game on and off the pitch and her role in that stunning world cup win. it is our responsibility to make

this world a better place. this team does an incredible job of taking that on our shoulders, understanding the position that we have on the platform that we have. the usa have woi'i platform that we have. the usa have won the women's world cup for the time. they secured back—to—back titles after the netherlands. —— overpowering. the usa have been champions in every sense with megan rapinoe winning the golden boot and the golden ball award for the tournament's best player.m the golden ball award for the tournament's best player. if we want tournament's best player. if we want to have meaningful change, what i think is most inspiring would be if everybody other than raheem sterling and colour barley, if they were as outraged as racism as they were.

it isa it is a few months on from the craziness of the world cup, what has it been like for you post—france? can you go to the supermarket by milk? milk and selfies! that is the accompaniment. i can go places. but it is so much more. there is not a place i am going that for the most pa rt place i am going that for the most part people do not recognise me, evenif part people do not recognise me, even if they don't say anything. there are glances around. i am very observant, just in general, so i feel like i could feel everything around all the time. it is interesting. it has been totally insane. in the best way, in the most exhausting way. hard in ways. i have been home a little bit, mostly to

unpack and do laundry and repack and leave again. it is kind of amazing to have the career that i have where we started at this point. itjust seems that every year it is getting blown out of the water and the sport is growing so much so i have this real perspective of where things have come from, a fiscal perspective of it, so feeling that and figuring out, you just can't help it. it feels surreal and i am awestruck by everything that has happened. i went through ten years of my career in a particular way, growing every year and whatever. but i got put on a rocket ship. i am enjoying the ride but i am like, this is insane, this is crazy! but in a good way. winning back—to—back world cups is an incredible achievement but you also

w011 incredible achievement but you also won the golden ball and the golden boot. was there a point at the final 01’ boot. was there a point at the final or afterwards when they shut down the walk for you when the novelty of what you had achieved really hit home? i think, coming what you had achieved really hit home? ithink, coming back what you had achieved really hit home? i think, coming back to new york and being in... certainly with a permanence in our country, and starting to understand how other people were feeling about it, people we re people were feeling about it, people were not like, you guys did so amazing at the world cup! it was not, greatjob for the soccer. and having the reference of 2015, going through that, it felt like 2015 we we re through that, it felt like 2015 we were being celebrated winning the world cup. and this parade in particular was like, we are all celebrating. we were the vehicle for it, but it felt like everybody won

the world cup, everybody had this piece of it and they were invested but they also helped, and itjust was something that transcended so far beyond what the sport was, and we are at the epicentre of that, getting to celebrate with everyone along the parade ground and the city hall, wherever it may be. and that sentiment has carried on into the rest of everybody‘s lives. it felt like we all won. your goal celebration in france was one of the iconic images, talk to me about the inspiration behind that. a lot of people are calling it the poz. i will go without. i did it for the first time against australia in a friendly. they were one of the more

talked about teams heading into the world cup. they have what i consider one of the best players in the world. they had a lot of hype around it. but it was more than that. it was time to stamp our dominance and gain that confidence heading into the world cup. i scored the go—ahead goal in the game or something. in the beginning, it was kind of like... almost like a touch of arrogance. i know you are entertained at this moment, i am entertaining you, are you not entertained? without the death of the gladiators. but certainly in the world cup, it was more of a defiance, but a joy as well, you will not take any of ourjoy. this

is what you get, this is what you asked for, this is what you really want. rapinoe. it's in! the french are left completely befuddled! everyone is light, she talks too much or whatever. but this is what you really want. and i will give it to you, and i am giving it to you, this team is giving it to you, and you kind of like it. so it is a defiance but playful. if i could have thrown a sneaky middle finger in there, i might have. it was sort of like a way to connect with the fa ns of like a way to connect with the fans too in some sort of sense. then they can do it and it means the same thing. if someone did the rinaldo, there is nothing behind it other

than him. this feels like there's more behind it there is more to everyone. it came right after president trump's tweet sent me. it was a huge game, the biggest game outside of the finals, the biggest game we have ever played, most important game, the fans were insane. it was a nice moment. you touched on the word arrogance there. alex morgan's cup of tea celebration, i don't think a cap on separate call so much controversy! we ta ke separate call so much controversy! we take our tea very seriously in england. what is the difference between confidence and arrogance? england. what is the difference between confidence and arrogance ?|j don't between confidence and arrogance?” don't know. i feel like we will have

fun. we work so hard, as every team does. we take a tremendous amount on and off the field very serious. we have had a lawsuit before. we were fighting for equal rights, all kinds of things. we have a very serious role to play. so it is kind of like the balance of that. when we get to be in the field, the whole point of the game is to score the goal, to win the game, so we have always done this, we have done cartwheels and when we played in the snow we did snow angels, danced and sung into microphones, everything, we want to have fun and we will enjoy it. and next level trolling of tea is so funny! especially because she is english. it was so perfect. i think

that, as long as we continue to do things the right way for the right reasons, i said this after the thailand game, if anybody wants to come at us for not playing the game the right way author not being good investors in sport or doing the right thing, i'm happy to have that conversation, happy to listen to them break that one town, but i really do feel like we want to enjoy the game, this is entertainment, sport is for the love of it, but this is entertainment, and in order to become the biggest, baddest sport on the planet and the biggest, baddest team in place, let's have fun with it, why not? when that whole spat blew up, in the middle of the world cup, you were in the tournament of your life, what was that like for you? honestly, it felt much less serious than it actually

was. logically, iunderstand much less serious than it actually was. logically, i understand the gravity of having a president quarrel with you. but presidents do not quarrel with people over twitter, presidents do not go after members of their own team and put undue pressure of them before the biggest game of the tournament. presidents do not bash every single powerful woman he could possibly bash and come across. it is like he is not presidential to me. it carries so much less weight. i knew it was a big deal but i did not have that, oh! feeling. it was pretty chill. i had amazing support within the group. all of our media income staff, our president was supportive of me, all of the executives and

coaches, everybody. everybody had my back and it did not become a thing within the group. i was already scheduled to do a press conference. so me and the media team decided i would address head—on, say exactly what i wanted to say, the media would have asked 1000 questions if they could have. so hold my beer! you have stood up for women's rights, lgbt rights, you have made a point of racial inequality, you said you have found your voice going into your 30s. what was the trigger for your 30s. what was the trigger for you to think, i will use my platform for something more than soccer and football? honestly, very early on in this team, you realise it is not just a national team, we have always fought for so much more. that is under threat of the team. very early

on, we were going through bargaining negotiations for our contract, understanding that we were a unique travelling team that represents america all over the country, we we re america all over the country, we were charged with inspiring and motivating young girls and boys and people everywhere. so from the first bit, you realise it is much bigger. ahead of the olympics, i decided to come out, it was starting to feel weird i was not out. i did that. so much positive impact and feedback from that. hoping to move that conversation forward. in that, asking people to be my ally and support me does not mean you are gay or you have to fully understand it in the way that i do but i need you to be my ally, so fast forward to

2016, watching and hearing everything that is happening, immediately, i'm like, i can help, i have got your back, i don't know exactly what it is like to be you, but i believe you in what you are saying and i understand that, in orderfor it to saying and i understand that, in order for it to change, it will have to be more than a press person taking on the responsibility, it has to be other people, people like me who had the privilege that i do. that was an easy decision for me. going through all of the backlash and craziness and hatred, from that only solidified my understanding of myself and the power in my voice. and ijust think myself and the power in my voice. and i just think everyone myself and the power in my voice. and ijust think everyone has a responsibility to do whatever it is they can in the most impactful way that they can to make the world a better place. i am semi—famous person on a very famous team that

has media access every single day with a growing platform all the time. it is like, this is the most impactful way i can say. to me, everything is connected, whether it is fighting for equal pay, equal access to sport, racial inequality, police brutality, lg bt access to sport, racial inequality, police brutality, lgbt q access to sport, racial inequality, police brutality, lgbt 0 rights, it's all the same thing, it is one grouping in power, overloading over everybody else, trying to keep everybody else, trying to keep everybody else, trying to keep everybody else at the power and not really sharing in the wealth and money, but the wealth of water is to live a really full life where you actually feel free and have the liberty to do whatever you want. i think it is still evolving, but i started to realise at a pretty young age, it's actually all the exact same thing, it isjust age, it's actually all the exact same thing, it is just on a

different way with different people and people dealing with different things, but we all need to be in it together in orderfor things, but we all need to be in it together in order for it to change. you sit here now. you are confident, you looked comfortable within your own skin, have you always been like this, what would you like at school? middle school and high school was weird, idid middle school and high school was weird, i did not know i was gay, and as soon as i figured that out, that was obvious, thanks, nobody for telling me! that would have been a nice little shout! but growing up, middle school and high school is awkward anyway, every single kid is so awkward! i see them now and i think, this is the cutest thing ever. they are breaking out, they don't know who they are, they are shy, even the confident once shy. you have had a twin as well? she was really confident during that time. soi really confident during that time. so i was like, thank god, i will follow you around. i also had sport

to gain my confidence from that, that was the place where i rested my identity for those years. but growing up, i was exactly the way i am now, iwent growing up, i was exactly the way i am now, i went through that word stage, we have always bounced each other perfectly, and then getting into college, after that, ifeel like that became myself. and being ona team like that became myself. and being on a team like this, this team in particular, any sports team especially with girls can give them confidence, but this team in particular, whenever you are elite asa particular, whenever you are elite as a woman, you are pretty much alone or with only a couple of other people. usually you are alone. and so to be able to grow up and mature ona team so to be able to grow up and mature on a team that has 23 other women who were just as elite as you, just

as confident, we give each other that space and build each other up, we challenge each other, but to us it is normal to be big and bold and wild like this. so i guess when you ta ke wild like this. so i guess when you take one of us out, people say, you don't see women act like this! for us don't see women act like this! for us it is normal because this is how we are all the time, this is how we grew up, empowering each other, and naturally i am a confident person. i am very thankful for that. who's your number one sporting hero growing up? i feel like it is two. for the 1919. that blew open all of our worlds at the time, girls who played soccer with 100,000 people watching a final, it transcended sport in such a big way, they are our blueprint on and off the field for what it means to be on our team but how to shake things up on how to continue to grow the sport. and

michaeljordan was always myjam. he just had such a swagger about him. just the way that he played, the swagger and in the style and creativity, everything was top. tell me about one breakthrough moment or crossroads moment in your career that has impacted you. probably the most impactful was 2015. i made it back to the olympics but was terrible. i feel like i back to the olympics but was terrible. ifeel like i should not have been on that roster. i do not think i deserved that very much. the tea m think i deserved that very much. the team did not do well so i was very disappointed. and i was not myself at all. i was a shell of the player. what i had to do to get back to my old self. and in the process of

committing myself to coming back, i blew past where i ever was before so i feel like that was a really pivotal moment, meeting shoe, my girlfriend at that time, she is like benjamin button, i don't know what she is doing but whatever it is, i wa nted she is doing but whatever it is, i wanted to do that! i changed up my training and eating habits, my level of professionalism. i am definitely not in this position without all of that, maybe i would still be on the tea m that, maybe i would still be on the team but not like this. what is the one thing you are still desperate to achieve in your life? in a footballing sense, no one has ever done world cup olympics back to back. it is very difficult for a reason. once you win a world cup, there are a million things you have to do, celebrating, you don't have that moment after the world cup where you commit to win the olympics

and nothing else matters. we are doing all these other things. that would be incredible. we have a good opportunity and the right mix of things, we have a new coach, so that puts a little extra anxiety, but in a good way. he has not won anything at international level so he is super motivating and all of us feel... some people who may be did not play as much of a fresh opportunity, if you play a lot, you have got to keep on top of your game to make sure you are there. so in a footballing sense, that is super motivating for all of us. in life, oh, god! i mean, everything! equal pay would be a really nice one. that would be a nice little cherry on the top of this year, whenever that

happens. in general, continuing to push the game forward, continuing to grow the game and challenge. we have done everything to prove, everything. i do not think any female professional football has anything left to prove. it is just eve ryo ne anything left to prove. it is just everyone else figuring it out. the young women, it is hard on them, there is pressure from social media and everywhere, what is your message to young girls growing up in today's society about finding their identity and voice? ijust learned very society about finding their identity and voice? i just learned very early on, after a game, you want to have a big pat on the back, you want to have someone crush you, go on your comments. it is a made up world. it is not real feedback. comments. it is a made up world. it is not realfeedback. so comments. it is a made up world. it is not real feedback. so lean on the people that are actually real, tangible and your friends. social

media is one thing. it is good in a lot of ways but it is horrible for kids. they are already dealing with so much. and never let anyone else define you or your dreams or what you want to be. especially now, there are so many more opportunities and lanes for people to be in that there is an opportunity... there is space for you to be exactly who you are and whoever you want to be, so don't let anyone ever tell you what that is. not much festive cheer from the

weather today. very grey and cloudy, gloomy and murky in places, but it started to turn milder. we stick with that milder weather through the weekend and should slowly but surely turn a bit brighter. always some rain at times up towards the north—west. very gladly lately because of the most south—westerly flow of air across the british isles and where we have had the thickest cloud, that is where we have had outbreaks of rain and where we will continue to see rain as we go through this evening and tonight, rain splashing across northern ireland into scotland, some rain in northern england as well. to the south of that, quite cloudy, misty and murky and drizzly in places, but not a cold night. these are the temperatures at 5am. double digits in the west and in the north of the uk. into tomorrow, these frontal systems snaking their way close to the north—west bringing outbreaks of rain at times, high pressure to the south—east keeping things settled for many of us. predominantly dry

but predominantly cloudy. the better chance of brightness across north—east wales. for northern ireland, rain at times, western scotla nd ireland, rain at times, western scotland having a wet day, but the north—east and scotland, a fighting chance of sunshine and potentially the highest temperatures of the day as well, up to 13 degrees, and generally up into double digits. but as we move out of saturday to sunday, even milder air up across the northern half of the uk. at the same time, we will try to tap into this drier air across the near continent. i am this drier air across the near continent. iam hopeful that this drier air across the near continent. i am hopeful that will allow the cloud to break up a bit more on sunday. so sunday should be a day that bring slightly more in the way of sunshine. not clear blue skies, still cloud around bit brighter. still some rain up to the north—west of scotland, breezy here as well, but with shelter from that breeze the north coast of scotland and northern ireland these areas

less favoured to see highs of up to 15 celsius. into the last couple of dates are 2019, temperatures will drop again, feeling cooler in the north of the uk and even further south, there is temperatures returning to where they should be at the time of year but it was state predominantly dry, and we take that writing with us into the evening on new year's eve. so if you are out celebrating at midnight, largely dry, a bit on the chilly side, but patches of fog.

this is bbc news, i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at 8pm. at least 12 people are killed, after a plane crashes in kazakhstan. dozens of people, including babies and children, are being treated in hospital. the cause of the crash is still unclear. the whole plane started, like, vibrating. everyone started screaming, the kids were crying. the head of the uk supreme court, lady hale, has criticised the impact of funding cuts on the justice system especially in family cases. a single dad from preston is celebrating after winning £1 million on the national lottery, but he still went to work on christmas day.