which has no detail yet, on the timing of a second jab. also today, a record breaking performance by team gb in tokyo. hannah mills and eilidh mcintyre win gold in the sailing. hannah is now the most successful female olympic sailor of all time. it s been one of the hardest weeks of my life, i m sure for eilidh as well, just every day, feeling sick, not being able to eat, just nerves building up, and yeah, the emotion ofjust, we ve done it. it s over, we ve done what we came here to do. and 13 year old sky brown took bronze in the skateboarding, to become britain s youngest olympic medallist. being in tokyo and eating my favourite food, spending time in the village, just is honestly one of my best memories. and at trent bridge test cricket is back, as england struggle against india. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the olympic dream is over for katarina johnson thompson in tokyo she pulls out of the women s heptathlon with a calf injury, ending her games. ka rsten kar
in the 400 metre hurdles. hello and welcome to the programme. thousands of people in lebanon have attended a memorial service in the ruins of the port of beirut to mark the first anniversary of a huge explosion that devastated much of city. the blast was one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in history. it killed more than 200 people. outside the lebanese parliament, the security forces fired tear gas at stone throwing protesters. along with the grief, there s real anger that a year on nobody has been held to account for the explosion. rights campaigners allege that the most senior officials in lebanon were aware of the danger posed by the huge quantity of ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in the port that caused the explosion. the blast plunged lebanon into a deeper crisis, but the country had already been facing serious problems for years due to the dire economy and political instability. carine torbey reports. one year after the explosion, all the debris is swept to a
on a tanker off oman is named as adrian underwood. a minute s silence and the reading of victims names of victims names to commemorate exactly one year since the catastrophic explosion in the port city of beirut. new research shows the amount of people worldwide who are exposed to flooding has risen by 24% since the turn of the century ten times higher than scientists previously thought. calls to boost the uk s forestry industry as the price of timber and pressure on supplies rise sharply. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. scientists advising the government have given the go ahead for 16 and 17 year olds to be given the pfizer coronavirus vaccine. thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation held a briefing. let s take a look at the key points. as mentioned, thejcvi says it is advising all 16 to 17 year olds to receive their first dose. they said there have been large changes in the way covid 19 is spreading in recent weeks, particularly in younger age gr
capitol, president biden attacks his predecessor and the supporters who went on the rampage. a former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. - almost 6 million people in england are waiting for routine operations and procedures because of the the devastating impact of the pandemic. and 12 days after launch, the james webb space telescope is ready to mount the biggest reflecting surface ever sent into orbit. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel, usman khawaja s century puts australia in control of the fourth ashes test against england, as the hosts declare on a16 in sydney. good evening. one of the biggest names in the world of sport, the men s tennis number one, novak djokovic, is still being held in quarantine in a hotel in melbourne. his australian visa was cancelled because he did not comply with covid rules. the serbian player is on record as saying he opposes vaccination but the tennis authoriti