will firm up the details for the precise timeframe. new research suggests that the protection given by two doses of the pfizer and astrazeneca covid vaccines starts to wear off within six months. a new lead in the case of the missing chef claudia lawrence 12 years on, police search gravel pits near her home in york. and it s a golden start in tokyo for paralympics gb, as cyclist dame sarah storey takes the 15th gold of her career. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s jane dougall. that is an absolutely phenomenal record for sarah storey, isn t it? yes, and possibly more to come from her, as we ve been hearing. she has won a great britain s first goal of the paralympic games, beating her team mate crystal lane right to give a 1 2 in the crackling sighting cycling. she smashed her own record
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happened here, but not many. joe wilson, bbc news, headingley. the cyclist dame sarah storey moved a step closer today to becoming britain s most decorated paralympian after she won britain s first gold medal at the paralympics in tokyo. the gold was the 15th of her career, and she broke her previous world record in the process. in total, great britain claimed six medals on the first day of the games. our sports correspondent andy swiss has been watching the action in tokyo. a golden start from one of britain s most golden athletes. for dame sarah storey, it seems winning is just a way of life. storey arrived here with 14 paralympic titles and the 15th was never in doubt. in the pursuit, she d set a world record in qualifying and her all british final against crystal lane wright was more a victory procession as she caught her team mate with laps to spare. and dame sarah storey! nearly 30 years after her paralympic debut, storeyjust keeps getting better.
we ll report on the afghan families here in the uk desperately worried about loved ones who are stranded. inside, ifeel like i am broken into many, many pieces. my body is here, my soul is in afghanistan. we ll be live with our correspondents in kabul, washington and westminster. also this lunchtime. researchers say protection against covid from two doses of the vaccine starts to wane within six months. and dame sarah storey adds another gold medal to her glittering career. a golden start in tokyo for paralympics gb, as cyclist dame sarah storey takes the 15th gold of her career. and once they were hunted to near extinction but now there are plans to release beavers back into the wild in england to help save the countryside. and coming up on the bbc news channel: anderson s in the mood. jimmy gives england the perfect start to the third test against
paralympicsgb have flourished at recent games. 120 medals in london, 147 in rio. here, they ve been set a range of 100 to 140 because of the uncertainty that covid has caused. and one athlete has a chance of history. swimmer turned cyclist dame sarah storey could become britain s most decorated paralympian after winning medals at the last seven games. i joined my first swimming club as a ten year old. i was told i d started training too late to be any good at anything. so it almost feels like you re constantly trying to prove someone wrong. and britain, of course, has already enjoyed plenty of medals this summer after soaring to olympic success. but the paralympians could be even more glittering. despite the shadow of the pandemic, it s now their chance to shine. andy swiss, bbc news, tokyo. time for a look at the weather, here s tomasz schafernaker.