likes of the australia captain meg lanning in theirside, so it might be an uphill battle for perth scorcherseirform. business news is next. see you ina business news is next. see you in a moment. hello again. we had some big weather contrasts across the uk on tuesday, england and wales, a lot of dry weather with some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, some fine sunsets to end the day particularly for eastern areas, but it was north wales that was the real mildest spot in the country, 15 celsius, mild weather across most areas. contrast that with the rain that just wouldn't stop across scotland and northern ireland, thanks to this weather front, this cold front, and as this pushes east over the next couple of days, colder air will be arriving across all parts of the country. back to what we have at the moment, that weather front is still bringing some splashes of rain across wales and western england. it will very gradually move eastwards, bringing rain into parts of the midlands and central and southern england before long. a few showers for northern ireland and scotland, otherwise wit

england cricket captain heather knight put on a great performance, as her side sydney thunder beat perth scorchersbash league. she hit five boundaries in a quick—fire 57, as sydney made 144—4. and knight then took two wickets, as perth fell 2a runs short of their target. rio olympic medallists johnny brownlee and vicky holland, and world champion georgia taylor—brown, have been named in the squad for next year's delayed games in tokyo. olympic champion alistair brownlee will have to wait to see if he is selected. he moved onto ironman distances after winning back—to back olympic titles, and has only recently started his bid to qualify. for his brotherjohnny — who won bronze behind him in rio — it'd be a boost to have him in the team: if alistair could be on the team it would be absolutely amazing for both of us. firstly for him to go to an olympic games. and for me, i genuinely believe it increases my chances of winning a medal, having him on that team. people might find that strange, but we like to swim hard, get out on the bike and ride hard, get out on the bike and ride hard, getting to a small

cricket now, and england's nat sivver helped melbourne stars to victory over perth scorchers in the women'soving opener beth mooney with the catch as well. the stars were set 119 to win and sivver scored 33 not out, as they won by eight wickets. that's all the sport for now. you can see hello, you're watching the bbc news channel — with me, geeta guru—murthy. the gap between donald trump and joe biden may be growing, but the race in the remaining battleground states is still incredibly close. reeta chakrabarti takes a look at the electoral map and where the presidency will be decided. this is the state of play at the moment. this is the electoral map, and you can see the states in grey are the ones that are still to be decided, and there are some very close races going on. it's so close in georgia that they're going for a recount. arizona is also extremely close. pennsylvania in the east, which we have all been focused on all day, well, there we have seenjoe biden edge his way past donald trump. and the democrats are now confident that they will take pennsylvania. what happens if they do? w

perth scorchers were put in by the melbourne stars, and there was disappointment for england's amyjonesam, and sciver made a breakthrough to reduce perth to 82 for five. a few moments ago they were 111—7. talking of cricket, before we go, we have a moment of magic from the former england captain kevin pietersen. here he is during a round of golf in south africa. and, off the second tee, he produced a hole in one. very unlike pieterson to boast, but safe to say he was rather pleased with himself. that's all the sport for now. up up to three households will be allowed to stay together and form a chris palace bubble from the 23rd 2027th december. many of us have questions about it many of us have questions about it and here to answer all your questions, we're joined by professor sian griffiths, epidemic specialist and epidemiologist at the chinese unicersity of hong kong, and professorjonathan ball professor of molecular virology at the university of nottingham. jonathan and sian, welcome to you, tha you for for jonathan and sian, welcome to you, tha you forfor agreeing jonathan and sian,

sciver top scored in their match against perth scorchers, she hit five boundaries and was unbeaten on in the uk. mr sunak confirmed that public sector workers, excluding some nhs staff, will have their pay frozen to help repay more than £390 billion the government has borrowed this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. let‘s talk about all of today‘s developments with the leader of the scottish national party at westminster, the mp ian blackford. ina in a nutshell, your response to what he outlined today? it is a missed opportunity to show we‘re going to support millions of public sector workers who are now looking at a pay freeze. there had to be physical recovery, freeze. there had to be physical recovery , we freeze. there had to be physical recovery, we had to make sure they could bounce back and the government had to take for that. and if westminster cannot do that, they should hand the powers to the scottish government to just do that. but what does horrify me is what is happening with the aid budget, to see that cut from 0.7 down to 0.5%. it is the wrong thing to do, we need to

sciver top scored in their match against perth scorchers, she hit five boundaries and was unbeaten on rishi sunak leaving number 11 a few moments ago, he didn't hang around before getting into his car. here is the chancellor leaving number 11 downing st on his way to parliament for the spending review. he will be setting out his plans and at less than an hour's time, you'll be able to watch all of that life here on the bbc news channel. let's talk more about the relaxation of rules in the uk. for some families the new rules are going to prove a real dilemma about what to do and who to see. jo dunbar is a journalist from newcastle who is facing that decision and she's talking to us now. thank you forjoining us to talk about your particular dilemma. let's begin by getting you to tell our reviewers what your family set up is and how problematic that is going to be in at this particular situation with coronavirus. i live in newcastle with my husband and two children, my husband's family are all here in at the north—east, but my family all here in at the north—east, but myfamily are all he