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triathlon, with team gb s georgia taylor brown winning the silver medal. we ll bring you all the latest from the fourth day of the games, with britain now in fifth place on the medals table. also on the programme. damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades long abuse of more than 700 children in 5 children s homes. electronic tagging of burglars after release from prison part of a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. and a rare sight on northern shores we hear from the family who met a red octopus on the beach. and coming up on the bbc news channel. more from the olympics, where bianca walkden misses out on a taekwondo final after being beaten in the last second. she ll now go for bronze. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. there s been more triumph for team gb at the olympics in tokyo, with gold and silver medals in the men s swimming 200 metres freestyle. tom dean touched home in one minute a422 seconds, securing a british rec ....
tonight at ten the culture of cover up which led to hundreds of children in south london suffering cruelty and sexual abuse over four decades. they were in the care of lambeth council an independent report says the abuse happened on a scale that was difficult to comprehend. the report is scathing about the culture of the council in the 1980s, and now, a0 years on, the council s apology does not impress the victims. i don t care what lambeth have apologised for their apologies are meaningless. it doesn t mean anything, because if they meant what they said, then they would have sorted this out and they would have got this done a long time ago. the independent report focuses on five of lambeth s care homes from the late 60s. we ll have the details. also tonight. as the vaccination roll out continues, the latest figures show the number of covid infections across the uk has fallen for the seventh day in a row. in the pool in tokyo, olympic gold and silverfor team gb ....
mumbles. through the rest of the day we keep the unsettled theme, a bit of sunshine here and there but plenty of really heavy, thundery downpours that could cause disruption today. the reason for these downpours is this area of low pressure, not many isobars so the wind is not planning those showers through any hurry and across parts of scotland the met office has issued an amber warning for those thunderstorms. they will bring really torrential downpours, a risk of severe flooding and disruption due to a happy nature of those intense storms and it is notjust across parts of scotland, 2a northern ireland, wales and parts of england too. if you catch one it could bring hail and a lot of rain ina could bring hail and a lot of rain in a short space of time. temperatures cooler than recently, between 15 and 21. we could see 23 or 2a across parts of eastern england if you miss the torrential downpours, if you catch one it could bring disruption. most of the showers in the so ....
and heroic effort to safe her baby and her mother, we ll hear from the police officers who rescued them from under a car. happy tuesday, thanks for joining us. in a few hours, a handful of lawmakers will begin their investigation of the january 6 capitol on the the attack on the u.s. capitol and it will further highlight the deep political divide in congress. the house select committee will hear from four police officers who battled insurrectionists. newly released videos are expensed to sho expected to show how dangerous the assault was. many republicans have consistently opposed the investigation. kevin mccarthy has lashed out at speaker nancy pelosi and as well as two republican lawmakers that she chose for the panel. more from ryan nobles. reporter: the house select committee designed to investigate the january 6 insurrection is preparing for their first hearing, it will feature police officers who were on the front lines defending the capitol that day. we d ....
sometimes or cautiously optimistic, but will obviously continue to monitor the. situation i do hope that you re right, it is a big risk, but anyways on today s subject thank you for being with us, i hope you ll come back and will continue have this conversation better circumstances. when i come home, it will be. thanks for having me on the show. there has to, it has to. thank you for coming on, thank you all at home for watching, we will be right back here next sunday, 8 pm eastern. you can catch me monday through thursday live at 7 pm eastern on the choice, on nbc s streaming channel, peacock. now, it is time to turn it over to joshua johnson. good evening, joshua. good evening committee, thank you very much. good evening to you, it is great to be with you tonight. on a rather historic day. tonight, we re keeping a close eye on cuba. thousands of people marched today in havana, protesting food and medicine shortages during the pandemic, we ll have the latest th ....