steve holden there and ou can global. steve holden there and you can read — global.d much more about| you can read much more about eurovision on our website. that's it from us for now. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @bbcvishalasp. hello. yet another day of lively weather to come across the uk this wednesday. we start the uk this wednesday. we start the day with a band of rain sweeping its way in from the south—west and it should quickly move through, but then as the sun comes out anticipate some lively showers as well. he was the rain first thing out towards the south—west and through the morning it quickly slips across england and wales, pulls out of northern ireland and settles across scotland by lunchtime and will slowly work northwards here through the afternoon. brighter skies following on, yes, it will stay windy throughout the day, gill is possible around the irish sea coasts and those winds will carry some pretty punchy showers and carry them a fair way east, so we could see she was just about anywhere, likely to be most frequent in the west. in temperatur

next year it will be held in liverpool — here's steve holden — host of the official eurovision song contestscore. in a semifinal next year, those professionaljuries are being eliminated, essentially, from the vote, so it is powered to the vote, so it is powered to the people, so only the public at home will decide who goes through from the semifinal to the grand final. in a grand final itself, there will still be a professionaljury on each country to make up half the marks and the other really exciting development is that countries or people from countries or people from countries that do not compete any revision from next year will be able to vote for their favourite acts, meaning there will be arrested the world vote, so eurovision, it has been like this for a while, but it is truly going global. the slovak ice festival which is one of the most famous winter attractions in slovakia has opened. and the main attraction is a replica ofjerusalem's church of the holy sepulchre. if you like facts and figures it took 22 sculptors and carvers from slovakia, the czech republic and germany to carve

president zelensky congratulated them on their win saying let's speak to steve holden, host of the officialment is this 50—50 split between the public boat~ _ this 50—50 split between the public boat~ so— this 50—50 split between the public boat. so you and i voted for who would _ boat. so you and i voted for who would like — boat. so you and i voted for who would like and a professionaljury. in a would like and a professionaljury. in a semi — would like and a professionaljury. in a semi finals next year those professionaljury being eliminated from the — professionaljury being eliminated from the vote. in its power to the people _ from the vote. in its power to the people so— from the vote. in its power to the people so on the public home with the sight _ people so on the public home with the sight of who goes through from the sight of who goes through from the semi _ the sight of who goes through from the semi finals to the grand final. in the grand final itself there will still be _ in the grand final itself there will still be a — in the grand final itself there will still be a professio