likes pass the gift of skateboarding. she has missed doing that as well. skateboarding. she has missed doing that as well. skateboarding. she has missed doing that as well. thank you very much indeed. well, we saw britain get their first medal on track in tokyo, with keely hodgkinson s silver in the women s 800 metres. and there could be more to come. but there won t be anything in the heptathlon. there were high hopes for a medal for katarina johnson thompson, but a cruel injury on the track put end to her dreams. drew savage reports. and a picture that says it all the. and a picture that says it all the. a painful end to hopes of a gold medal. she had started the day getting off to a flyer in the 100 metre hurdles. the second fastest time ever. but the world champion needed treatment midway through the highjump competition needed treatment midway through the high jump competition before needed treatment midway through the highjump competition before leaping into third place
also tonight. the government s furlough scheme which saved millions ofjobs during the pandemic comes to an end today but around a million are still using it. almost 80 years after working as a secretary in a nazi concentration camp a 96 year old woman is arrested after going on the run to avoid trialfor complicity in mass murder. and we meet randall goosby the 25 year old who s being hailed as the rising star of classical music. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. a report into boxing corruption at rio 2016 identifies 11 suspicious bouts, including a final which saw britain s joe joyce lose out on gold. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. a former metropolitan police officer
eventually be rewarded. warren gatland had a few weeks to plug those gaps. in many ways, warren gatland got what he wanted here, a positive performance to build on. but it has been completely overshadowed by that tour ending injury to alun wynjones. now the lions fighter south africa needing a replacement and a new captain. katie gornall, bbc news, in edinburgh. in the club game, there was a thrilling win for harlequins against exeter in the premiership final at twickenham. two late tries from 20 year old louis lynagh secured quins first title in nine years, as they came from behind to beat exeter 40 38. the tour de france got under way today with french rider julian alaphillipe claiming the yellow jersey. the closing stages were marred by two big crashes the first caused by a spectator. and the second saw britain s four time winner of the event, chris froome, go down in the pack and his team say an update will be given tomorrow on his future in the race. geraint thomas finished 8
revolutionary guard, the first direct military engagement with iran during the latest standoff. there s diplomatic relations with iran that have worsened since the trump administration a announced the u.s. would withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. miamid all these tensions, the u.s. has an aircraft carrier in the gulf, the uss lincoln and is sending 1,000 troops to the region. president trump did call off the military strike as we know, to retaliate against the shooting down of the drone. he said that would have been a disproportionate reaction. he s saying now he would be open to talks but he s not ruling out military action in the future. but he has already announced more sanctions on tehran today. now, there is of course growing international concern about this standoff with iran and today we saw britain send a foreign officer delegation to tehran in the hope of talking to officials there to try and deescalate the
think of another one besides the vampire movie. that was the only one. that s number two. this book looks at him among other ways as a foreign leader, as sort of the dawn of american power rising through him. how so? well, i mean i think we all think of the civil war as a domestic conflict but there s always a series of tests that lincoln had in foreign policy. the biggest thing was trying to keep the european powers from intervening in the war but there s also a series of crises with france and spain and britain that if he handled badly could have erupted into war. so he had to prevent those from happening as well. i m sorry, go ahead. how did he do all that? how did a guy who never left this country, never spoke any languages, had no experience whatsoever in foreign policy, i guess that might remind us of some others, i don t know, how did he do all that? one thing he had was a strong