Its monday, the 29th Ofjuly. Our main story. It was a dramatic second day at the olympics for Team Gb, winning two medals in the swimming And kayak. Adam peaty won silver in the 100m Breaststroke final Last Night missing out on gold by 200ths Of a second, while Kimberley Woods won bronze in the womens kayak single. Joe lynskey reports. For eight years, Adam Peaty has pushed his sport to new limits. Hes not used to silver but he now has perspective. In the 100m Breaststroke, he went for a third gold in the row And britains first at these games. He missed out by a margin, two hundredths Of a second. Commentator The Gold has gone to martinenghi Of italy. And a joint silver medal, its gone to Adam Peaty Of great britain. Less than two years ago, he said this sport had broken him. To get so close might have felt cruel. But, for peaty, the Breakthrough Wasjust to be here. Its just incredibly hard. Like, to win it once And to win it again then to win it again. Im not crying because ive come s
Good morning. For many of us today we are going to see sunny spells, variable cloud and the Odd Shower. But later, The Cloud will thicken in the west introducing patchy rain. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, 24thjuly. Seven Labour Mps have been suspended from the party for six months, after they rebelled against the government over the two Child Benefit Cap. Its the first big test of Sir Keir Starmer S Authority as Prime Minister. Hes said its unaffordable at the moment to scrap the cap, but he was defied by a group of mps who backed a call from the Scottish National Party for it to be lifted. Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. The ayes were 103, the noes were 363. So the noes have it, the noes have it. Unlock. Less than three weeks in power, the new government has had its first rebellion. It was small, but the Prime Minister has responded with his first show of force. Mps have been debating the Kings Speech, Keir Starmer s plan for his first m
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An american space was planned to develop a global Monitoring System to track objects up to 35 kilometres from earth the powerful Radar Stations established in the us, uk and australia. 3500 kilometres. Jonathan beale reports. The race in space is already underway, notjust for commercial ventures like Virgin Galactic with its recent maiden voyage, but for nations as well. Mission control three, two, we have ignition. Last year the us military launched another ten satellites into space. America also now has its own Space Force not least to protect The Systems we now all use, such as gps location. There are threats in space. Id say the two countries that are most threatening are china and russia. There have been anti satellite missiles that have been developed. America already has early warning systems to detect ballistic missiles, including the Fylingdales Radar in north yorkshire. Now the us wants to build a new Radar System for Deep Space, and one of the new sites could be in the uk. W
And nervous laughter in cannes, as the Director Spike Lee, accidentally lets slip the name of the winner of the palme dor. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Well, Rescue Workers searching for victims of the devastating floods across Western Europe have warned that more bodies may be found in submerged cars, cellars and collapsed buildings. At least 170 people are known have died, most of them in western germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to visit affected areas on sunday. With more, heres our berlin correspondent, jenny hill. In ahrweiler, everything, everyone, is covered in a thick, sticky mud. Theres no power, nowhere to buy food, not much mobile reception. But theyre doing what they can. Willie told us theyve never seen anything like it here, not even in his parents , grandparents , time. The water rose two metres in 15 or 20 minutes, he told us. People tried to save their things, went on to their basements, and unfortunately got trapped. I was lucky, he said, i could get out the