just take a look at this weather watcher picture from whitworth in lancashire, glorious day here. however, different story down to the south east, we have had some heat, we have had some sunshinejust recently, but that was a thing of the past. this morning in finsbury, london, we started the day with some rain. the the rain has eased away, but the cloud is taking its time to clear down to the kent coast. so the best of the sunshine further north and west, with a rash of showers driven on by brisk, westerly breeze into the far north of scotland. so this is how we are likely to close out our day. in terms of the feel of the weather, a little bit fresher, but i suppose if you've got the sunshine, you are not too bothered, but highs of 15—22 degrees. now, high pressure is going to build monday into tuesday, and that is good news, that means it is going to be a lot of quiet weather in the story. a few scattered showers continue during the early hours of monday morning in the north, but with those clearer skies, temperatures are likely to fall away, and so we could be greeted with single figures first thing on monday morning. a bit of a shock to the system, but there'll be lots

of early—morning, sparkling summer sunshine, which will help lift those temperatures pretty readily. and so as we go through monday, again, still the risk of a few scattered showers into the north, but there will be lots of sunshine to look out for and temperatures will respond. so it will be a pleasant afternoon for many, with highest values, again, ranging from around 1a or 15 to 23, maybe 2a degrees if we get plenty of sunshine in the south east. that is the mid—70s. for the final day of the second test, well, it does look as though manchester may well say dry and there will be lots of sunshine to look out for. that is still with us though, little change as we go into tuesday, just some cloud into the far north west later, an indication of a frontal system that is going to be a little bit of a hiccup through wednesday into thursday. could bring some rain into the far north west. high pressure builds, but as we head towards the weekend, it is just worth a quick heads up, things could turn a little bit more unsettled. a lot of uncertainty about that at the moment, so generally, we have got that little hiccup

bringing some cloud and rain into the north west through wednesday, possibly thursday. dry and settled and a little bit warmer to the south. hello this is bbc news. the headlines...

the foreign secretary, dominic raab, accuses the chinese government of carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur population. it is deeply, deeply troubling. and the reports on the human aspect of it, from forced sterilisation to the education camps, are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a long, long time. meanwhile — china's ambassador to the uk tells the bbc the decision to drop huawei from it's 56 networks is a bad move for the country. i think uk should have its own independent foreign policy rather than to dance to the tune of americans, like what happened to huawei. there's been a record number of new cases of coronavirus in 2a hours — 260,000 cases were reported — the biggest increases were in the us, brazil, india and south africa.

borisjohnson says he doesn't believe another nationwide lockdown will be needed — even if there's a second spike of coronavirus this winter. eu leaders meet for an unscheduled third day of talks on a post—coronavirus economic recovery plan. and watford sack their manager — nigel pearson — with just two game to go in the premier league season — as the club fight to avoid relegation. now on bbc news will the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in bristol change the lives of black people in the city? musician and activist ngaio anyia explores inequality in her home city. antiracism protesters in england have pulled down... ..a 17th century slave owner was taken down. edward colston. the british slave

trader stands no more. what would have been an act of vandalism on any other day felt like an expression of pure joy. it has left me with one big question. will this change anything? bristol presents a fantastic story to the outside world, but it is also true that people like me are born destined to die earlier, to get sick earlier, to get a poorer education and end up in mental health institutions or end up injail. i am a ngaio anyia, musician, activist and bristolian. i love my city, so now the spotlight is on us. can we get it right?

my story with the man on the plinth starts 15 years ago when i was at colston‘s girls‘ school. once a year, there would be a big commemoration service where we would give thanks to him. what they didn't tell us was that edward colston made a large chunk of his fortune through the trade of enslaved africans. colston‘s ships transported an estimated 84,000 slaves. as many as 19,000 died en route and were thrown overboard. but much of bristol's wealth was built on the money from that trade. and colston‘s name is everywhere. finding that out changed everything for me. i didn't want to give thanks to a slave trader, so i refused to go to the service.

and i was given detention. the school didn't want to discuss it, and that was the end of it. i'm meeting cleo lake who also went to coulston‘s girls school a few years ahead of me. as a city councillor, she had portraits of colston removed from city hall. and her campaign persuaded several key institutions to drop the name. so how did you feel when you saw the statue come down? we had a message, "there's been incident." i was like, "well, what happened?" "cleo, the statue‘s coming down." and ijustjumped on my feet. i was just so happy, cheering, and, yeah, i couldn't hold back my instant reaction, really, because it's been so many years, not even in the last five or ten since i have been at school. i wasjust so, so happy.

you know, we have tried to do things through the right channels, if you like. petitioning, asking at council, requesting it. and now i am actually happy of the way it was taken out. it was very symbolic and it had to happen, and it shows that demands must be listened to and action, otherwise people will take and do what they need to do it to see the world they want to see. it's amazing that the statue has come down, but will it change anything? yeah. it's important, it has accelerated conversations, of course it has. the removal of statues is key because we couldn't be having this discussion without it. we wouldn't have seen the institutional shifts that we're experiencing. whether that's going to be permanent and sustained remains to be seen. i think there's a lot of work to be done in education. bristol is a prosperous city in the west of england with high income and low unemployment.

but not if you're black. a mural on jamaica street near the city centre says what many the point is that whilst we can obtain white labour in this city, we intend to go on engaging white labour rather than coloured labour. we don't want them on there, that's the main reason. bristol citizens boycotted the buses, it and led to the race relations act, making racial discrimination illegal across the uk. bristol today is a city divided. young black people are consistently disadvantaged compared to their white peers.

it is all in this report. it talks about the unrepresentativeness of the curriculum, the lack of diversity in teaching staff and the poor engagement with parents. aisha thomas is one of a few black teachers in bristol, although a career in education was not her original plan. i decided to go into law because i was really passionate about getting into the legal system and trying to deal with some of the discrimination that i could see there. but at the same time of doing that, i was actually doing some volunteer work with the prince's trust, so we were doing bits of pro bono and making sure we could help those in the present system and get back ——in the prison system. get back into the real world and into the community. i was working on a particular project about young people getting

back into education, and there was a particular young man i had dealt a really good rapport with and a really good relationship, and one day he said just out of the blue, "perhaps if i was your teacher, i wouldn't be your teacher today." and i was like, "0oh." good morning, class. today's lesson, we're going to be looking at... as a teacher, she was staggered by the lack of diversity amongst staff, so two years ago, she took part in a bbc documentary to shine light on the issue. secondary schools there are 1346 teachers.