And nonconsensual touching. Records are broken at the olympics are super shoes giving athletes and unfair advantage at the track? we will speak to an expert. We start in afghanistan where the capital kabul has come under attack. A series of blasts have been heard near the defence minister s home. The explosion occurred near the diplomatic quarters and a busy market square where there are many government buildings. You can see the smoke here following the attack targeting the home of the country s defence minister. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. We re also hearing of a second blast and sporadic gunfire. Syed anwar works for the bbc s afghan service is in kabul. What more do we know about the blast? well about the blast? there was a very loud explosion this well there was a very loud explosion this evening, after an hour it is clear that the carb warm targeted the guesthouse of acting government defence minister. The gun men entered inside the guest house an
Their first child, wilfred, was born in april last year. And, it s blast off for britian s telecommunications industry their latest multi tonne satellite heads into orbit. Hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. There is heavy fighting in the southern afghan city of lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province. Security forces in two other key cities, kandahar in the south and herat in the west, are also battling to try to halt the taliban offensive. Thousands of people have been fleeing their homes to other parts of afghanistan and neighbouring countries. Our correspondent, secunder kermani, is in kabul with the latest. This is the most serious moment, i would say, in the weeks of intensified fighting that we ve been seeing in afghanistan. The taliban already control vast swathes of rural territory, they ve captured that in the last couple of months, but now they re trying to take their first city. Earlier this evening they advanced right into the heart
Hello and welcome to the programme. The usjustice department says tax returns belonging to the former president, donald trump must after all be handed over to congress. The decision reverses a previous ruling officials now say lawmakers have legitimate reasons for asking to see the documents. Live now to our north america correspondent, david willis. Let s start with how this reversal actually came about to begin with. What changed? every president dating begin with. What changed? every president dating back begin with. What changed? every president dating back in begin with. What changed? er president dating back in modern times to richard nick and two richard nixon has disclosed their tax returns. Do you richard neck and two richard nixon has disclosed their tax returns. The one exception being dawdled trump. He has fought tooth and nail through the court to prevent those documents from becoming public. Until recently of course he had the backing of the usjustice department.
But we have come to the view that this is the best and only way to facilitate an effective information retrieval and provision process and the best way to help northern ireland move further along the road to reconciliation. Borisjohnson promises new measures to deal with racism in football including banning from matches fans who racially abuse players. And britney spears battle to end the conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years goes back to court in los angeles. There s growing confusion about the guidance on wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It will continue to be compulsory on public transport in london, but not in the rest of england from monday, when restrictions are lifted. London s mayor, sadiq khan, says the rule should have been retained throughout the country. The mayor of the west midlands says he is expecting passengers on all forms of public transport in the west midlands to wear face coverings. In scotland, masks still have t
for the first and second dose is being expanded to include new vaccines and more volunteers. an inquest into the death of jack merrick and saskia jones has heard from another victim who was also stabbed at fishmongers hall in 2019. climate talks between the world s two biggest polluters us envoyjohn kerry hopes to persuade beijing to agree new targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. and the countdown is on it s 100 days until the opening of the summer olympic games in tokyo. hello, good afternoon. mps will vote this afternoon on whether there should be a parliamentary inquiry into the lobbying activities of the former prime minister david cameron. labour says a government investigation into mr cameron s work for the collapsed firm, greensill capital, is insufficient. a debate in the commons is under way and at prime minister s questions boris johnson admitted it wasn t clear the boundaries between whitehall and business had been properly understood. the labour leader