and as the uk's latest satellite goes into orbit, can it maintain its world—beating leadership in the sector?

i'm geeta guru—murthy with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fierce fighting in afghanistan — three cities are battling the taliban. the taliban already control vast swathes of rural territory in afghanistan. now they're really pushing in on a number of cities, advancing right to the heart of lashkar gah, capital of helmand province. more than a dozen aid trucks have reached the capital of ethiopia's war—torn tigray region. borisjohnson and his wife, carrie, have announced they are expecting a second child. their first child, wilfred, was born in april last year. and as jamaica's elaine thompson—herah takes gold in the olympic hundred—metre final, we'll look ahead to day nine of the tokyo games. hello and welcome. there is heavy fighting in the southern afghan city of lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province. security forces in two other key cities — kandahar in the south and herat in the west — are also battling to try to halt the taliban offensive. thousands of people have been fleeing their homes to other parts of afghanistan

i'm geeta guru—murthy with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fierce fighting in afghanistan — three cities are battling the taliban. the taliban already control vast swathes of rural territory in afghanistan. now they're really pushing in on a number of cities, advancing right to the heart of lashkar gah, capital of helmand province. more than a dozen aid trucks have reached the capital of ethiopia's war—torn tigray region. borisjohnson and his wife, carrie, have announced they are expecting a second child. their first child, wilfred, was born in april last year. and as jamaica's elaine thompson—herah takes gold in the olympic hundred—metre final, we'll look ahead to day nine of the tokyo games.

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hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. we begin in afghanistan, where the taliban look close to be capturing their first key city. there's heavy fighting between the afghan military and the taliban in the centre lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province. afghan security forces in two other cities — kandahar in the south, and herat in the west — are also trying to push back the taliban offensive. the taliban already control large parts of the rural areas, but have been pushing to capture cities as foreign forces pull out of the country. meanwhile, hundreds of people have been fleeing their homes amid the fighting. our correspondent secunder kermani is in the capital, kabul. this is the most serious fighting we've seen since this latest taliban offensive began. the group already had captured vast swathes of rural territory. now, they're trying to take their first city and earlier this evening, they made their way right to the centre of lashkar gah before being pushed back by afghan special forces. in the last few hour

in kenya more than 400,000 astrazeneca covid vaccine doses have arrived from uk totaling in excess of 800,000 doses the uk said the shipments are part of an effort to donate 100 million vaccine doses worldwide in brazil a polar air mass dropping temperatures and freezing coffee crops the cold weather causes a rise of international coffee and sugar prices. in argentina two lakes have turned florescent pink is not clear why but environmental's are concerned it could be the result of contamination from the nearby industrial park. in russia st. petersburg posted the cattle boarding festival thousands of participants all had to be vaccinated dressed up in colorful costumes taking to the waters. it was like fun. thousands taking to the streets to protest a new law requiring people in the country to present day health pass to enter restaurants and other public places. we have more from london t2000 people will march through the streets of paris on saturday. they are angry about a new pass to prove vaccination status before people enter public places. there were some clashes with police they

state department and centers for disease control advise against traveling to the uk because of covid-19. the u.s. isn't ready to reciprocate with british travelers. the border remains closed to uk citizens regardless of vaccination status. >> reporter: from hong kong, the highly contagious delta variant is spreading across china. on wednesday beijing recorded its first covid-19 case in six months and tens of thousands of residents there are on lockdowns. authorities scramble to control an outbreak linked to an airport in nanjing. on friday nanjing officials confirmed the origin is an air china flight from russia. the virus has been detected in several provinces. concern is growing over a possible secondary cluster connected to a popular live show in a national park in hunan province. officials say the beijing cases are linked to the hunan cluster. the outbreak is a test of china's virus suppression tactics. china takes a zero tolerance approach with mass testing and tracing operations. it's also a test of the efficacy of china's massive vaccination program. china has administered more

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some businesses in the uk are following suit. back in the uk, the latest government figures show there were just over 26,000 new cases in the latest 24—hour period, meaning an average of 27,464 new cases per day in the past seven days. 71 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, that's an average of 70 deaths a day in the past week. the latest figure for the number of people in hospital with covid is just below 6,000 — it hasn't been updated from yesterday. more than 88% of uk adults have now had theirfirstjab and more than 72% are now fully vaccinated. nhs england and the body that regulates health care products are issuing new guidance on pulse oxygen meters — also known as oximeters — after it was found that the devices can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin. with more here's our health correspondent, amara sophia elahi. ranjit sanghera—marwaha caught coronavirus in december last year and eventually ended up in hospital with seriously low oxygen levels. so basically, flip the lid, put yourfinger

thejet stream has been pretty active just recently and it's been to the south of the uk. as soon as we're on the north side, that's the coolest out of the jet but the jet will weaken. that's going to potentially allow an area of high pressure to build for the weekend and then the jet stream sits to the north. so we hopefully should get a little bit warmer but you can see it wants to squeeze back in on sunday. so, it isn't a consistent picture by any means. it's a really messy story to try and paint, i'm afraid. drier with lighter winds to begin with, some blustery showers through the middle part of the week and the start of the weekend looks promising. this is bbc news. super saturday comes round again for team gb in the olympics — with a gold medal and a world record in the four—by—100 metres mixed medley final. and in the triathlon mixed relay, finally, a first olympic gold medalforjonny brownlee at his third and final games. victory for the fastest woman in the world — elaine thompson—herah, ofjamaica, in the women's 100m. we'll discuss how team gb�*s succe

hello, and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. there is heavy fighting in the southern afghan city of lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province. security forces in two other key cities, kandahar in the south and herat in the west, are also battling to try to halt the taliban offensive. thousands of people have been fleeing their homes to other parts of afghanistan and neighbouring countries. our correspondent, secunder kermani, is in kabul with the latest. this is the most serious moment, i would say, in the weeks of intensified fighting that we've been seeing in afghanistan. the taliban already control vast swathes of rural territory, they've captured that in the last couple of months, but now they're trying to take their first city. earlier this evening they advanced right into the heart of lashkar gah city — that's the capital of helmand province. afg ha n afghan army soldiers are still there, they are trying to hold the taliban back. we have been told that fresh trips have been sent into the city, including specialforces.

she was the first ever british bangladeshi mp elected to the uk parliament. when political leaders amplify tensions, when they fail to show courage and leadership and stand up in the face of division and hatred, then we send the wrong message. you made history when you became the first british bangladeshi mp. how did yourfamily take that decision? they were quite nervous, if i'm honest, because nobody had done it before. they could see that it was not going to be an easyjourney. and they were right, of course. when i won the election, what was really obvious was that it had a huge significance to the british bangladeshi community, particularly my mum and dads generation. they often would say, "now we feel like we belong "because we have somebody who's, you know, one of our daughters "in the mother of parliaments," and they would talk like that. week in, week out, my constituents have been mourning the loss of loved ones. british bangladeshis are twice as likely to die from covid—19 than the white british population. the covid—19 pandemic has hit our commu

to the pandemic now — and the latest government figures on uk coronavirus infections show that there were just over 26,000 new cases in the latest 24—hour period, meaning an average of 27,464 new cases per day in the past seven days. 71 deaths were recorded in the last 2a hours — that's an average of 70 deaths a day in the past week. the latest figure for the number of people in hospital with covid is just below 6,000 — it hasn't been updated from yesterday. onto vaccinations now — more than 88% of uk adults have now had theirfirstjab and more than 72% are now fully vaccinated. meanwhile, bbc news understands the government is no longer considering making it compulsory for students to be fully—vaccinated to attend lectures in england. ministers still plan to require people to have both jabs to enter nightclubs and other large indoor venues from september. but it's now thought that the idea of introducing vaccine passports on university campuses has been shelved. nhs england and the body that regulates healthcare products are issuing new guidance on pulse oxygen meters — a

we don't understand at this point how israel, the uk, they're so far ahead of us in data collection, the cdc is supposed to be the premier public health institution of the world. where are their data? >> hopefully we get some answers soon. i think the underlying message is that one way to help accelerate the end of this pandemic is simply just to get vaccinated, and dr. lina wen, we appreciate you spreading that message. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> of course. >>> now to the coronavirus crisis in florida. the state seeing a more than 144% jump in new infections in the last two weeks. despite the surge, governor desantis has said there will be no lockdowns, no school closures, no restrictions, nor mandates in the state. in addition, he just signed an executive order that will let parents rather than schools decide whether their kids need to wear masks in the classroom. listen. >> i have young kids. my wife and i are not going do the plmasks with the kids. i want to see my kids smiling. i want them having fun. [ applause ] i don't know -- look, my kids are a little younger, bu

both chargers have been approved for sale in the uk by the government's department of transport. so how can this happen? well, thankfully, the good guys have found the problems first. the number of so—called �*white hat�* hackers is growing fast — these are the people who test systems and products to find flaws before anyone else does. vangelis is the hacker who found the security failures. so on wallbox, you could take full control of the charger. it could gain full access and remove the usual owner's access on the charger. it could stop them from charging their own vehicles and provide free charging to an attacker vehicle. for the project ev, it's way worse because you can sideload finware, you can make it — you can brick it, you can make it to be part a modnet and you could also make attack other servers. it to be part a botnet and you could also make attack other servers. the problem in both cases is the lack of proper authentication between the mobile app on our smartphones often used to control these chargers and the computer servers that relay instructions to the

that was in a phone call to that uk official, to mr rab on friday night, and in terms of the details we have now about this attack as you say, us navy for explosive experts have been on board and the maritime security industry is saying that they understand this to be a drone attack by a so—called attack drone. now, these are explosive laden phones that are flown by remote control into objects and it is believed this was flown directly into the bridge of the ship and that is when the fatalities occurred say there is an investigation going on. the ship is continuing north past muscat at the moment under its own power, officials say, but it is under us naval escort but what this does is to really ramp up tensions into what is often seen as a shadow war between the iranians and the israelis across parts of the middle east but this in terms of what happens at sea as far as those confrontations are concerned max a serious escalation. tom bateman injerusalem. bbc news has been told that the government is no longer considering making it compulsory for students to be fully vaccinated again

we have seen delta rise sharply and then fall sharply, not just in the uk but also in countries like india, and there are some thoughts that there may be something to a genetic -- an aspect of your immune system that is genetically inherited that may protect some people better than others against this. >> that's interesting. to your point of not shaming anybody, nobody deserves to be shamed for how they believe or behave. that said, this is very interesting. it comes from our colleague gabe gutierrez who spoke with several north carolina health workers, and they said this week they are not getting vaccinated. here is part of what they said. >> we don't know what the long-term side effects are. >> it also hasn't been proven to be effective. >> the cdc and many public health experts say it is more than 90% effective. >> they do say that. that hasn't proven to me to be true. >> i'm not just going to jump on a bandwagon with something that has not been tested. >> reporter: when you say it hasn't been tested, it has been tested though. >> but not to the -- if you look at the normal, the n

more than 88% of uk adults have now had their firstjab and more than 72 72% are now fully vaccinated. nhs england and the body that regulates health care products are issuing new guidance on pulse oxygen meters — also known as oximeters — after it was found that the devices can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin. with more here's our health correspondent, amara sophia elahi. this person caught virus in december last year and eventually ended up in hospital with seriously low oxygen levels. , , levels. so, basically, flip the lead, out _ levels. so, basically, flip the lead. out your— levels. so, basically, flip the lead, put your finger - levels. so, basically, flip the lead, put your finger then. .. | levels. so, basically, flip the - lead, put your finger then. .. she had been lead, put yourfingerthen... she had been monitoring her levelled at home with a pulse oximeter but the metre can teach, consistently told her she was in safe levels even as she increasingly struggled to breathe. ~ ., . breathe. when i went into hospital the first thing _ breathe. when

. >> host: it's this kind of us, uk joint operation or allied operation and they are watching, they see the suicide bomber put on his best. and it's some of this the reason why i think that people ask me this don't always know how much is real and how much isn't but there's this opening vignette and this kind of man nano drone flies in the window to conduct video surveillance. they see this guy put on his surveillance or his suicide vest. just to kind of eliminate thatquestion of is he a bad guy or not and we all see is . and then it's what you were describing. so this drone tracks this guy every day or weeks. and then there's this point in the movie where they have a clear target. this guy is unassisted,he's by himself . and the rental in this is that at the last minute, this cute little girl who's selling bread goes up within proximity of him to the point where you know that any strike is also going to kill her. and there's this debate behind the scenes between the and among the operators about what do we do ? like, this they had bought, there's a part of the scenario because someone

let's take a look at the latest coronavirus figures for the uk a further 26,1114 new infections have been recorded. 71 people have died in the latest 24—hour period. that's those who've died within 28 days of a positive covid test. on to vaccinations — over 46.8 million people have received their first dose of a covid vaccine. and 38.1 million people have now received two doses. that is 72.1% of the adult population. medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called a pulse oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. nhs england and the medicines regulator, the mhra, say pulse oximeters can overestimate the amount of oxygen being taken in. authorities are advising patients to speak to health care professionals before using the devices and not to rely on a single reading. the director of the nhs race and health observatory, dr habib naqvi, says concerns about oximeters' reliability have been mounting. although a valuable clinical tool, what we do know is that clinicians are increasingly becoming aware of the potential errors or inconsistencies i

two to three times more transmissible than the uk variant, the b.1.1.7, which was more transmissible than the original lineage. so we're looking at something that's up there with chicken pox and not quite measles level, but it's one of the most transmissible viruses we've seen in a long, long time. and as a result, as this virus starts to circulate across the south, where vaccination rates are the lowest, we've got maybe 15%, 16% of adolescents in louisiana, for instance, vaccinated compared to 70% up in the northeast. that's how big a disparity this is among young people. this is going to accelerate across the south, and the big safety signal that i'm worried about is what happens when schools open in a few weeks here in the south. we tend to start earlier than in the northeast and that's where things can go very wrong very quickly. we're already seeing young people getting admitted to the hospital, we've seen pediatric intensive care unit admissions, and that's what i'm looking for closely. so the real takeaway needs to be we have to aggressively vaccinate the south and we have to

the ioc would probably be getting more viewers in the uk if the bbc had all the rights to tokyo. so how do you make thatjudgment? i think what's really important is you've got the right balance between revenue and reach. i think we've got that balance right with cricket, and in particular across the hundred, where sky will televise every single game of the hundred live, or the men's and women's competitions. but they've also given us an extensive reach across their channels, they are using sky sports main event and also sky one, and sky sports youtube. so we've got really good reach across the sky platform, and obviously if you supplement that with the 11 live games on bbc, we think we've got that really nice balance between getting enough revenue in to build investment in the tournament, and make it what it is, but also getting that reach right and making sure we reach more people and appeal for cricket. now the hundred is a completely new format in cricket — why did you feel that a new format was needed? we were going after and wanted to get more families involved, particular

the total number of adults in the uk who have had both dosesis adults in the uk who have had both doses is now an 72.1%. medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. nhs england and the medicines regulator, the mhra, say pulse oximeters can overestimate the amount of oxygen being taken in. authorities are advising patients to speak to healthcare professionals before using the devices and not to rely on a single reading. the director of the nhs race and health 0bservatory, dr habib naqvi, says concerns about oximeters�* reliability have been mounting. although a valuable clinical tool, what we do know is that clinicians are increasingly becoming aware of the potential errors or inconsistencies in the interpretation associated with pulse oximeter readings, so we need to have these points in mind when using these devices. this is an example of health inequalities that we see, an example of the disproportionate kind of stratification we have in terms of accessing health care. what we do know is that ox

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both chargers have been approved for sale in the uk by the government's department for transport. so how can this happen? well, thankfully, the good guys have found the problems first. the number of so—called "white hat" hackers is growing fast. these are the people who test systems and products to find flaws before anyone else does. vangelis is the hacker who found the security failures. so on wallbox, you could take full control of the charger. it could gain full access and remove the usual owner's access on the charger. it could stop them from charging their own vehicles and provide free charging to an attacker vehicle. and for the project ev, it's way worse because you can sideload finware, you can brick it, you can make it to be part a botnet and you could also make attack other servers. the problem in both cases is the lack of proper authentication between the mobile app on our smartphones often used to control these chargers and the computer servers that relay instructions to the boxes, known as apis. do you think it's an easy hike to do? could anyone do it? yes. well, th

the uk telecommunications industry hopes a satellite that has gone into orbit will help maintain its global leadership in the sector. a quarter of the world's big telecoms spacecraft are manufactured in britain, and the new quantum platform is billed as the market's next—generation product. quantum was launched on an ariane rocket from french guiana last night. here's our science correspondent, jonathan amos. another rocket climbs skyward to bolster a sector that europe, and the uk in particular, has come to dominate — the business of telecommunications satellites. there are hundreds of these spacecraft overhead — bouncing tv, phone calls, broadband and other data services around the planet. but the new satellite going into orbit, called quantum, represents a big step forward in technology. while traditional telecom spacecraft are configured before launch to do very specific tasks, quantum has been built for flexibility. it is the sector's first fully reprogrammable spacecraft. it is able to rapidly change the coverage, bandwidth, power and frequency of its signals. one of its

that's right, some interesting data coming from here in the uk. remember those headlines we saw at the start of the summer in europe fearing a devastating third wave due to the delta variant. well, it's still early days, but data from here in london appears to indicate that the uk may be past its peak. we got up to more than 50,000 daily infections in mid-july, that was close to the record in the second wave, which was over 68,000, but daily deaths and hospitalizations have been way down since back in the second wave in january. we got up to a high of 131 daily deaths this month. compare that to a high of more than 1,800 on a day back in january. daily case numbers have also dropped pretty consistently this last week. scientists say that the euro 2020 soccer tournament could have caused a surge that has now waned now that the tournament is over. school vacations may be also responsible for a dip in spreading between children and parents. however, in the last two weeks, nightclubs and other possible superspreader events have had restrictions lifted

major milestone for the uk. she was talking to my colleague, ben mundy. it isa it is a giant of the sky, three and a half tonnes. this is a telecommunications satellite, and it will deliver the ability to make phone calls, deliver messaging, internet to people in aeroplanes, supporting communications between bouts and at the maritime sector. but the beauty of it and the worlds first about it is that it will be able to change what it does as our needs here on earth changes. if we needs here on earth changes. if we need more bandwidth in a particular point, it will be able to change its focus to provide it to people there. traditionally, these are configured in the factories. haifa traditionally, these are configured in the factories.— in the factories. how much of a breakthrough — in the factories. how much of a breakthrough is _ in the factories. how much of a breakthrough is that? - in the factories. how much of a breakthrough is that? that - in the factories. how much of a breakthrough is that? that is l i

that's because we've got northerly winds running down across the uk. that area of low is what was storm evert. we've got showers in the forecast, mainly across england and wales through the day. some showers also across eastern scotland, north—east england. this will tend to turn heavier into the afternoon, but it's part of wales, the midlands, southern england which will see the heaviest of the showers. hitand miss. some places will stay dry. we could see quite a bit of dry weather for scotland and northern ireland, albeit rather cloudy. the winds are going to be lighter today than what they were yesterday, particularly across england and wales. it's not going to feel particularly warm for the time of year, particularly across the north of the country, 15 to 19 degrees here, but we could make 21 or 22 across the south—east. the winds will be lighter and, given the sunshine is pretty strong this time of year, it shouldn't feel too bad. as we head through this evening and overnight, most of the showers die away, but a few will linger here and there.

the final is at 1.50 uk time. and in the men's100—metres heats, european champion zharnel hughes ran a season's best time of 10.94, to reach the semi—finals along with team—mate cj ujah. but away from the athletics, it's already been a golden saturday for team gb in tokyo... and it's been a day when team work has been the key to success... firstly in the new triathlon relay and then after that back in the pool — where the british team are enjoying their most successful games, in over a century, as adam wild reports... the triathlon will be golden for great britain. it's the mixed medley relay, great britain win the gold by miles. for all the individual brilliance, in the tokyo today it was teamwork that triumphed. super saturday had barely begun, but team gb was already looking at four new olympic champions in this, the inaugural triathlon relay. jessica learmonth led the way for britain. then the turn ofjonny brownlee. individual bronze in london, silver in rio, this his final olympic race, a last chance

, this delta variant for seven months as we watched it rip through india, singapore, israel and the uk and now coming into the united states. this should not be a surprise to us. it's disappointing that news is still being delayed coming out of our public health agencies who i know are working hard to get in front of this virus. we need to be honest. we need to be transparent and we need to be rapid with this communication about this virus. we're learning, as you said, it is more contagious than the previous version of the covid virus. it's more contagious than many viruses we've ever dealt with in the past, in history. but i don't want to get lost in that message the value of the vaccine. so even as we learn and information is revealed about this delta variant, we're also learning that the vaccines are working really, really well at preventing people from dying and from being hospitalized, even though they can still get infected with this virus. >> rick, last year there was the politicalzation of a number of these health agencies including the cdc. there was tension within the cdc abo

that's because we've got northerly winds running down across the uk. that area of low is what was storm evert. we've got showers in the forecast, mainly across england and wales through the day. some showers also across eastern scotland, north—east england. this will tend to turn heavier into the afternoon, but it's part of wales, the midlands, southern england which will see the heaviest of the showers. hitand miss. some places will stay dry. we could see quite a bit of dry weather for scotland and northern ireland, albeit rather cloudy. the winds are going to be lighter today than what they were yesterday, particularly across england and wales. it's not going to feel particularly warm for the time of year, particularly across the north of the country, 15 to 19 degrees here, but we could make 21 or 22 across the south—east. the winds will be lighter and, given the sunshine is pretty strong this time of year, it shouldn't feel too bad. as we head through this evening and overnight, most of the showers die away, but a few will linger here and there.

these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. mixed fortunes for team gb on �*super saturday�* at the tokyo olympics. gold — and a world record — in the a—by—ioo—metres mixed medley relay. team work makes the dream work, because there was another gold in the triathlon mixed relay event — where jonny brownlee won his first gold medal at his third olympic games i'm sarah mulkerrins, here in tokyo — where there's been disappointment for dina asher—smith — who has failed to qualify for the women's 100—metres final. fighting is raging around three strategic cities in afghanistan — which the security forces are trying to defend from taliban militants. reports say fighters have breached front lines in the southern part of herat. donald trump's been ordered to hand over his tax returns to congress. the usjustice department overturned a ruling — made when he was in office — that the information could stay private. medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less wel

. >> reporter: the volcanic cloud has closed the skies over the uk, the netherlands, scandinavia, and northern france and germany. round home times bigger is that one? >> probably 4,000 times bigger. >> reporter: the scale of that potential destruction is why yellowstone means yet something else to brian walsh. >> what's the unlikely but potentially catastrophic outcome if a bunch of bad things happen at once? >> reporter: walsh's book "end times" argues we should think more seriously about very unlikely but potentially world-ending dangers. the table of content reads like a hollywood pitch meeting. >> i'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened -- >> reporter: warning of the accidentntal n nuclear w war of strange lovove -- [ screams ] ] ththe a asteroid impactt of armamageddon -- >>>> what's a a global killlle. >> reporter: even the unwelcome visitors of "men in black." does the alien invasion concern you? >> well, i wouldn't say it concerns me as much as some of those other risks. but if it did happen, we'd be screwed. they would be so much more advanced than we

in the uk, they could be excluded from football stadia. president biden announced that employees of the federal government who decline to be vaccinated will have to wear masks, keep physically distanced from their colleagues and be tested once or twice a week. earlier, he'd praised the republican governor of alabama, kay ivey. she had said, "it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down". ned, less carrot, plenty of stick around, and it's notjust in the united states. what do you think that tells us? i think, as you said earlier, it's a window into the huge frustration that governments in countries that are lucky enough to have stocks of vaccine and the ability to put the vaccine into arms has so far fallen far short of the number of vaccinations that they wanted to administer, and they feel they need to administer. the other thing it reflects is quite frankly a new urgency, because there have been reports, even in the last 2a hours, based on an in—house assessment by the centers for disease prevention in the

these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. a great start for team gb on super saturday at the tokyo olympics. gold — and a world record — in the 4 x 100 metres mixed medley relay. add to that another gold in the triathlon mixed relay event — including a first gold medal forjonny brownlee. fighting is raging around three strategic cities in afghanistan — which the security forces are trying to defend from taliban militants. reports say fighters have breached the front lines in the southern part of herat. donald trump's been ordered to hand over his tax returns to congress. the usjustice department overturned a ruling — made when he was in office — that the information could remain private a british satellite has launched from french guiana — in a boost to the uk tele communications industry. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. it's been another great start for team gb at the tokyo olympics — adding two more gold medals to their tally — in new events involving both men and women.

these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. a great start for team gb on super saturday at the tokyo olympics. gold — and a world record — in the 4 x 100 metres mixed medley relay. add to that another gold in the triathlon mixed relay event — including a first gold medal forjonny brownlee. fighting is raging around three strategic cities in afghanistan — which the security forces are trying to defend from taliban militants. reports say fighters have breached the front lines in the southern part of herat. donald trump's been ordered to hand over his tax returns to congress. the usjustice department overturned a ruling — made when he was in office — that the information could remain private

i'm ben mundy and these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world: a great start for team gb on �*super saturday�* at the tokyo olympics. gold and a world record in the 4x100 metres mixed medley relay. add that to another gold in the triathlon mixed relay event, including a first gold medal forjonny brownlee. i'm sarah mulkerrins live in tokyo, ahead of a blockbuster night for women's sprinting at the olympic stadium. elsewhere, donald trump has been ordered to hand over his tax returns to congress. the usjustice department overturned a ruling, made when he was in office, that the information could remain private. the afghan security forces say they have fended off a taliban advance on the capital of helmand province — one of several cities under threat. a new survey suggests seven out of ten british motorists want the speed limit on motorways lowered in wet weather. it's currently 70mph at all times. health chiefs are urging people under 30 to sign up for a coronavirus jab amid concern that they are reluctant to be immunised. a british satellite has launched from fr

that's because we've got northerly winds running down across the uk. that area of low is what was storm evert. we've got showers in the forecast, mainly across england and wales through the day. some showers also across eastern scotland, north—east england. this will tend to turn heavier into the afternoon, but it's part of wales, the midlands, southern england which will see the heaviest of the showers. hitand miss. some places will stay dry. we could see quite a bit of dry weather for scotland and northern ireland, albeit rather cloudy. the winds arew going to be lighter today than what they were yesterday, particularly across england and wales. it's not going to feel particularly warm for the time of year, particularly across the north of the country, 15 to 19 degrees here, but we could make 21 or 22 across the south—east. the winds will be lighter and, given the sunshine is pretty strong this time of year, it shouldn't feel too bad. as we head through this evening and overnight, most of the showers die away, but a few will linger here and there

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this is bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the globe. i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: notjust gold, but a world record win for team gb in the mixed 4x100 metre relay on �*super saturday�* at the tokyo games. plus, a decisive victory for team gb in their first—ever triathlon mixed relay, picking up gold in a time ofi hour 23 minutes ahead of the usa and france. the tax returns of former president donald trump will be handed to congress, after a ruling by the us justice department. as the taliban advance across afghanistan, a warning from the eu special envoy in a bbc interview, that there's little hope of an early end to the violence. the best scenario, the best realistic scenario is one where the taliban offensive is held back. singer kt tunstall postpones her tour over concerns she could become completely deaf. hello and welcome to bbc news. turning to the olympics now and we've reached the middle weekend of the games. there's 21 gold medal events up for grabs on super saturday. here's the medal table as it stands at the moment. china is on top

just go to bbc. co. uk/witnesshistory. now to the 1980s, and a protest which made the national news in america. in 1988, students at the deaf—only gallaudet university barricaded their campus, protesting their board of trustees' decision to appoint a hearing president. witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan. it's important to know that i am totally deaf — i can't hear a jet engine, i can't hear anything. right now i'm working with a sign language interpreter, sarah, so's sitting front of me next to the camera, so instead of hearing your questions, i am seeing sarah's signs. newsreader: gallaudet college has being the centre of deaf- education in america since1847. in 1987 the president at that time stepped down. right away there was a push for the board to recognise that the next president should be a deaf individual. so they narrowed it down to three finalists. two of us were deaf and one was hearing. i have a lot to bring to the university but i also have a lot to learn from it, and that process must being ri

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we are following what is happening in israel and uk, for example. we are seeing in israel, some of the studies on pfizer showing perhaps potential waning of immunity in the older population and that's where they have, you know, have basically come out with the recommendation of having a booster shot for those over the age of 60 in that population. that probably will, you know, also apply to here, in the united. but i think the biggest two things to take away is that we need to continue to follow the data. continue to do surveillance and monitoring on, you know, the overall-breakthrough cases and seeing, you know, if the vaccine-induced immunity is waning. and then, have a good plan. have that booster shot ready, when we need to use it. whether it's for the elderly population, those who are immunocompromised, or if it's for the younger population. but i think those are the two things. the last thing i will, just quickly, mention on that topic. as we are looking at boosters, i think it's important to also ensure we have good global equity of covid-19

that is expected to bring showers to more southern areas of the uk on sunday. they should be more confined towards the very far south towards the end of the day. that's how the day starts, so a little on the chilly side in some areas. those northerly winds, feels quite nippy along the north sea coast, could even be around 1a or 15 degrees during the daytime. best spots, i think, in southern wales, maybe northern ireland again, but i think in southern wales and cardiff up to around 21 degrees or so. so here's the weekend summary again and the outlook into next week, not an awful lot changes. there's no warm weather on the way. i think it's going to stay more or less the same — below average and a chance of some showers. that's it. bye— bye. this is bbc world news. i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: notjust gold but a world record win for team gb in the mixed ax100m relay on "super saturday" at the tokyo games. plus there's a decisive victory for team gb in their first ever triathlon mixed relay, picking up gold in one hour 23 minutes and ahead of the usa a

that is expected to bring showers to more southern areas of the uk on sunday. they should be more confined towards the very far south towards the end of the day. that's how the day starts, so a little on the chilly side in some areas. those northerly winds, feels quite nippy along the north sea coast, could even be around 1a or 15 degrees during the daytime. best spots, i think, in southern wales, maybe northern ireland again, but i think in southern wales and cardiff up to around 21 degrees or so. so here's the weekend summary again and the outlook into next week, not an awful lot changes. there's no warm weather on the way. i think it's going to stay more or less the same — below average and a chance of some showers. that's it. bye— bye. this is bbc news, the headlines: the us justice department has ruled that the tax returns of former president donald trump must be handed over to a congressional committee. unlike other recent presidents, mr trump had resisted the demand that he surrender his tax records, and the justice department had backed him while he

but since many folks are already vaccinated, it drops off very rapidly as it did in india, the uk and several early infected us counties. deltas worrisome. what about the one to follow delta, the longer large portions of the population remain unvaccinated, the more likely a new mutation, which is vaccine resistant, will arise. tom vacar ktvu, fox two news. federal ban on evictions is set to expire tomorrow. at midnight, the house tried to pass legislation today that would have extended that moratorium to october but it was rejected many republicans and democrats are also outraged over the distribution of funds that congress approved for rental relief of the $46.5 billion. that was set aside for aid. only three billion has been handed out. the people who want, uh, the verge of being evicted or paying the price for whatever obstacles localities and states refused to overcome. here in california, tenants will remain protected the state's eviction moratorium is good through september. the house is now on a seven week recess. the $1 trillion infrastructure bill cleared another hurdle in th

that is expected to bring showers to more southern areas of the uk on sunday. they should be more confined towards the very far south towards the end of the day. that's how the day starts, so a little on the chilly side in some areas. those northerly winds, feels quite nippy along the north sea coast, could even be around 1a or 15 degrees during the daytime. best spots, i think, in southern wales, maybe northern ireland again, but i think in southern wales and cardiff up to around 21 degrees or so. so here's the weekend summary again and the outlook into next week, not an awful lot changes. there's no warm weather on the way. i think it's going to stay more or less the same — below average and a chance of some showers. that's it. bye— bye. this is bbc world news. i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: the tax returns of former president donald trump will be handed to congress after a ruling by the us justice department. lockdown in brisbane as australia's third largest city tries to contain the spread of the delta variant. us champion gymnast simone biles wit