this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines the uk has seen a record number of confirmed coronavirus cases. more than 100,000 are reported in a single day. nearly a week after a super typhoon struck the philippines, hundreds of thousands remained displaced amid widespread destruction. the pandemic has left children falling behind academically, but parents fear their kids mental health is suffering, too. this month, a mckinsey report found nearly a third of parents in the us are worried about their child s mental health. those concerns are higher among black, hispanic and asian families. laura trevelyan went to meet one mother and her daughter
attempts to fly a hot air - balloon had to be abandoned after a few minutes, but nobody seemed i to mind very much. as one local comic put it, it s not hot air- we need, it s hard cash. cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war with the cuban missile crisis. this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines. britain has banned arrivals from six african countries amid warnings over a rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant. let s stay with our main story now. john nkengasong, the director
in, it was clear. the monarchy would survive. of the american hostages there was no sign, they are being held somewhere inside the compound, and student leaders are threatened, that should the americans attempt rescue, they will all die. this mission has surpassed all expectations. voyager one is now the most distant man made object - anywhere in the universe, and itjust seems - to keep on going. tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals. this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines leaders at the climate change summit in glasgow, make some progress in the race to limit global warming.
this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines. president biden has urged democrats to press ahead with his agenda, after the party suffers a shock defeat in the state of virginia. global financial institutions controlling trillions of dollars of assets have signed up to help meet climate goals, with the uk aiming to become the world s first net zero financial center. australian police have released pictures of the moment a four year old girl was found alive and well more than two weeks after she went missing. cleo smith disappeared from a tent she was sleeping in with her family, on a remote campsite in western australia. police found her, locked in a house in her home town.
and itjust seems to keep on going. tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals. this is newsday on the bbc. i m mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines. the host of the glasgow climate summit, borisjohnson, has said that so far he is cautiously optimistic about the progress made. at least 25 people have been killed in kabul in an attack on afghanistan s biggest military hospital the islamic state group says it did it. a four year old girl, who went missing from a campsite in the australian outback more