you re watching bbc news, broadcasting in the uk and around the world, i m lucy hockings live in tokyo. austria s anna kiesenhofer causes one of the biggest shocks in olympic road racing history with an audacious victory in the women s cycling race, beating the dutch favourite. africa wins its first gold medal, as a tunisian teenager stuns the field to win the men s 400 metre freestyle. two huge disappointments for team gb as double olympic champion andy murray is forced out of the tennis singles with injury, while jadejones is beaten in the taekwondo. there are still lots of medals up for grabs on the second day of action, including injudo and fencing. i ll have all the latest. i m ben mundy in london. in other news.
record for the women s 400 metre freestyle team relay. the hosts, japan, also won their second gold, in the pool. while the tunisian teenager, ahmed hafnaoui, stunned the field to win the men s 400 metre freestyle gold. thousands of people in the western united states are spending the weekend in evacuation centers, as wildfires continue to burn across the region. more than 80 large wildfires in 13 us states have burnt around 1.3 million acres in recent weeks. british mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the government s coronavirus spending for decades. a report found £372 billion has already been spent, pushing government debt to a rate not seen since the early 1960. the department of health says there are measures in place to ensure taxpayers receive value for money. now on bbc news. the future of fashion halima aden, the world s first hijab wearing supermodel meets us fashion
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this is bbc news, the headlines: australia has claimed their first games gold, breaking the world record for the women s 100m freestyle team relay. the hosts, japan, also won their second gold, in the pool. while the tunisian teenager, ahmed hafnaoui, stunned the field to win the men s 400 metre freestyle gold. thousands of people in the western united states, are spending the weekend in evacuation centers, as wildfires continue to burn across the region. more than 80 large wildfires in 13 us states have burnt around 1.3 million acres in recent weeks. thousands of people have marched through the streets of the hungarian capital, budapest, to mark the largest gay pride gathering in the country s history. it comes after viktor orban s right wing government pushed through a law banning the portrayal of homosexual or transgender content to people under 18.
and not just those athletes achieving their olympic dreams but also a very proud moment for those flower farmers. mariko oi there. japan is not the only country that has been winning medals today. there has been an extraordinary upset in the women s cycling road race with austrian mathematician anna kiesenhofer taking gold. she has not had a professional contract since 2017, and raced ahead of the peleton with more than aokm still remaining. a phd from cambridge, so she obviously did the sums in terms of winning that race. just remarkable from her. great britain s first medal of the games was a bronze, won by chelsea giles in the women s 52 kilojudo. and in men s swimmming, 18 year old tunisian swimmer, ahmed hafnaoui, has pulled off a stunning victory the outsider won the men s 400 metre freestyle gold despite qualifying last.