and hold on to your helmets kieran reilly and his bmx have the paris olympics in their sights. and coming up on bbc news, shane lowry s the player to catch at the open. he s in the clubhouse after this birdie helped keep him at the top of the leaderboard. good evening on a day of worldwide it chaos after a global outage hit systems in multiple countries, affecting millions of people. thousands of flights have been cancelled, banking and health care has been affected including the nhs and some tv channels have been taken off air. the problems were first reported at shops and banks in australia. in the united states, several airlines grounded flights, as the impact of the technical failure made itself felt. soon there were delays and big queues at airports in the uk and elsewhere across the world here are just some of the places affected. the american cyber security firm crowdstrike has admitted a defect in a software update it issued which crashed windows devic
emergency. that s a subway tunnel there. subway service is coming back this morning after it was suspended in a scene like that last night. imagine, hundreds are still stranded in stations across the city, and new york city saw rainfall worse. 50,000 olympic-size swimming pools in the course of just five hours. this is not normal, folks. these are live pictures from new jersey. that is flooding. communities up to their doors and windows, and that is a live rescue underway. first responders in an inflatable there going door to door, seeing if people need rescue at this hour. a tornado ripped through parts of gloucester county, new jersey. newark had its wettest day on record. records are being set virtually every day, folks. again, this is not normal. nearly all transit rail service has been suspended in new jersey. this morning united airlines says it is suspending operations from its hub in newark. that has tremendous repercussions for travelers across the country. all of th
the first gold medal of the tokyo olympics has been awarded to the chinese air rifle shooter yang qian. ten others are being contested on the first full day of action including in fencing, judo and weightlifting. organisers are hoping that the sporting drama will spark enthusiasm among the japanese public and dispel some of the anxiety about holding the games in the midst of the pandemic. let s cross to the bbc sports centre and speak to our sports reporter mike bushell, who s there and has been watching the action in tokyo. so, the first metals after this long wait, they are finally on the board? yes, indeed, a pretty prestigious moment, a bit of history if you can get the first gold medal of any olympic games. it was a real honour for yang olympic games. it was a real honour foryang qian, who olympic games. it was a real honour for yang qian, who got the first gold medal, as you were saying, for china. this was for the 10 metre rifle into shooting competition. it was quite
here in the uk, a number of airlines and some airport operators have told the bbc this weekend could be the busiest for international travel since the start of the pandemic. jet2 says it s operating 170 flights to more than a0 destinations, with fully vaccinated travellers to amber list countries no longer having to quarantine on return. simon browning has more. finally, the suitcases are packed. ..the hand luggage sorted. ..sunglasses at the ready. the last 18 months have been tough for the travel industry, but recent government changes mean most amber list countries are open for travel without quarantine on return if you re double jabbed. and people are booking, packing and jetting off. it s just so exciting to get on an aeroplane again. it s wonderful. we re off to ibiza. yeah. friends have got a villa there and we booked it ages ago, weren t sure if we can make it or not, but looks like, you know, we ve jumped through all the hoops, so. i m going to spain to see my fami
united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i am rosemary church. just ahead. haitian police take swift action after the assassination of the country s president. plus, an exclusive-inside look at a rebel-training camp in myanmar. how recruits there are preparing to take on the military junta. and a devastating-covid milestone, as countries around the world struggle to fight the rapid spread of the delta variant. good to have you with us. well, dramatic, new developments in the assassination of the haitian president. haiti s envoy to the u.s. says police have killed four suspects, and arrested two others. and he says, they are foreigners. he had, previously, described them as mercenaries. we can say for certain those those were professional killers. it was a well-orchestrated attack against the president. i wish i had known the motivations behind this. senseless act of killing. president jovenel moise was gunned down at his home,