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immigrants and if they don t qualify for asylum, they will be swiftly deported. that is a very big shift from the way this has been handled thus far. thank you, julia. that s nbc s julia ainsley with the latest on the situation at the southern border tonight. well, it is the top of the hour and it s very good to be with you tonight. we are waiting to learn the next steps for the house select committee that s investigating january 6th. lawmakers huddled behind closed doors last night, after some emotional testimony this week. simone biles is out for at least two of the four individual competitions in the olympic finals, after sparking pa big conversation about mental health. hers is just one big story this week about the ways we show up for each other. to give a teammate a break, to defend democracy, to stop a pandemic, or anything else that matters to us. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. . the working weeke ....
tonight at ten, downing street tries to clear up the confusion about the use of the nhs covid app in england. one minister says it s up to people to make an informed decision if they re pinged, but downing street says people need to isolate. business owners are complaining that the app is affecting far too many of their staff, and it s making them nervous. trepidation and panicking each week that those people who you ve rotaed on are actually going to be able to come. we ll be talking to business owners and workers in greater manchester about the effects of the nhs covid app. also tonight. one of several small vessels carrying migrants across the english channel today following a record number yesterday. dominic cummings tells the bbc there was talk of replacing borisjohnson as prime minister, days after his election victory. and a day trip to space for the world s richest man, in the first flight of its kind forjeff bezos and friends. and coming up in the sport on th ....
and continued in the triathlon mixed relay event a first gold medal for jonny brownlee at his third and final olympic games. victory for elaine thompson herah of jamaica in the women s 100 metres final in tokyo and heartbreak for dina asher smith from the uk who missed the final through injury. in other news afghan security forces have been battling to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban. medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called a pulse oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. and borisjohnson and his wife carrie have announced they re expecting a second child. their son wilfred was born in april last year. now on bbc news, ali official is one of the uk s top british bangladeshi comedians. in this film, he has some difficult, insightful and hilarious conversations about being british bangladeshi. i m ali shahalom, also known as ali official, and i m a comedian. no, no, man, just chilling. just filming ....
in april last year. now on bbc news living with arina. nina is experiencing an independence that had always been out of reach for her in the past, but can she make the transition into assisted living? hello there. july 2021 has been very changeable, hasn t it? one week, we ve had extreme heat. the next, very windy, damaging gusts of winds or heavy rain and it s going to stay changeable for our week ahead, i m afraid. this weather front here, well, it s the dividing line between a northerly flow and some cooler air that s starting to arrive now. you can see that by the yellow tones. the warmer russet s being squeezed down into the near continent and so that means for sunday, where that frontal system is sitting, there s the potential south of the m4 corridor for a cluster of sharp, slow moving thundery downpours. behind it, cooler, quieter. it will be largely dry, although quite a bit of cloud around but a noticeable difference with the feel of th ....
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 ....