At least 430 migrants made the journey across the English Channel to the Uk Yesterday a new record for a single day. Weve just come across this small dinghy, probably three or four metres long. We think theres maybe 12,13 on board. A couple of small children at the front and a couple of women. Ive asked them how long theyve been at sea this Morning Theyve said a couple of hours. The Met Office issues its first ever Amber Weather Warning for heat as parts of the country will hit 33 degrees celsius. And were at some Eid Al Adha celebrations the first time many muslims have been able to mark the festival in person since the start of the pandemic. And coming up on the Bbc News Channel coronavirus continues to dominate the Build Up to the Tokyo Olympics as yet more Athletes Test positive with just three days to go. Good Afternoon And Welcome to the Bbc News at one. Downing street has tried to clear up confusion about whether People should self isolate when pinged by the Nhs Covid app. The B
in the can be as closely contested presidential election, where voters are rushing in a new chapter in the countries democratic transition. russia is accused of weaponized in its energy resources to put pressure on ukraine. al jazeera reports from near the front line. russia has recently stopped exporting coal to cry, saying that there s just too much domestic internal demand for the natural resource sa mileage. so describing this is nothing short of black players. i m far as my with sports news live from our fee for arab studio event. plenty of goals in saturday s games wins earlier in the day for morocco and algeria, and now for egypt as well with possibly being go the tournament so far. their game i guess today, ah, ah, this is a phone call that s been hailed as an important 1st step towards restoring times between lebanon and saudi arabia. in the last couple of hours, we ve learned that the crime prince, mom had been selma lebanon s prime minister and the french president
really important. talk to ben porter. he will tell you that this election is very important and significant in many respects. this was the 1st time they voted in close to 3030 years with lots of freedom of choice, lots of freedom of expression. they were in fact, peers of things going wrong during the campaigning period. nothing like that happened on election day. there was a few incidents not violent incident and wait, but we are waiting to see exactly what happens tomorrow when the election results i was expected to be announced if you missed the counting of the balance and seeing the models in practice. what is happening right behind me, in fact, police officers, election officials who after counting the balance and ceiling this boxes, initially this here is where the marble is placed or put into the box. it goes in there and rings a bell. and then at the end of the voting process, everything is counted here. now the process has been concluded. what s happening right now i