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contacts will have to self isolate. the five year old boy found dead in a river in bridgend is named as logan mwangi. a man, woman and 13 year old are being questioned on suspicion of murder. an olympic sprinter from belarus who was ordered home is granted asylum and a visa at the polish embassy in tokyo. commentator: now bring it home for us, oliver. yes! and the first gold medal in team eventing for great britain since 1972. there will be a big celebration and i don t think it will be with a cup of tea and a biscuit! and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: history made by emily campbell who becomes the first british female weightlifter to win an olympic medal. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there have been tears, hugs and jubilant reunions at uk airports today as family members split across continents by the pandemic have finally been able to meet again. from today, people arriving in the uk from the united states and most of the european uni ....
10.60, it is an olympic record. a jamaican 1 2 3. the pace was blistering, the celebrations between them somewhat frosty, not that elaine thompson herah cared. my chest is tight, because i m over happy, i m so lost for words right now, but god it is amazing. heartbreak, then, for the queen of british sprinting, but the jamaican dynasty continues its reign. but i told you it was a pretty special saturday for team gb and the day got off to the perfect start with a gold medal in the mixed triathlon relay. it s the first time the event s taken place at an olympic games, but it didn t take the brits long to adjust, as they led from the front and secured another gold. adam wild watched the race. triathlon will be golden for great britain! super saturday had barely begun, but team gb was already looking at four new olympic champions. jessica learmonth, georgia taylor brown, alex yee and finallyjonny brownlee. finishing first is some achievement, but being the first to finish f ....
at the 149th open, the gates have just opened at royal st george s. the first golfers tee off in half an hour. and we ll reveal the total amount raised for children in need s 2020 campaign. plus, it is a dry sense within state. will it last for the next a0 days? we have at least got the prospect for the next five. good morning. it s thursday, the 15th ofjuly. our top story this morning is a call for sugar and salt taxes to be introduced in england, to improve the nation s health. a landmark report, commissioned by the government, says the money raised by the levy should be used to extend the free school meals programme and pay for gps to prescribe fruit and vegetables. ellie price has more. it s just what the doctor ordered, but not what you might expect. cathy runs the charity care merseyside, involved in what s called social prescribing. patients are referred by their local gp, and then offered things like exercise support and cooking advice here. they also provide he ....
a scottish government ban on travel to salford and manchester. if he wants a grown up conversation, he only has to pick up the phone, but if, as i suspect might be the case, about generating a spat with me over a labour leadership contest of the future, then i m not interested. scotland midfielder billy gilmour tests positive for covid and will miss the euro 2020 match with croatia tomorrow and the first person in the world to get a covid jab outside of trials 91 year old margaret keenan speaks to the bbc. whatever you said, i ve said before, please do have the jab, there s nothing to it, don t be afraid of a needle just to save your life and to save other s lives. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. it s been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the nhs the deaths of thousands of people who were given contaminated blood products. well today, the public inquiry into that disaster heard begun hearing evidence into how students at a school in hampsh ....
our economics editor faisal islam reports. multinational companies, especially the big tech giants, have become more powerful than some governments, especially in their ability to pay minimal tax bills. today, the finance ministers of the seven leading economies, the g7, hit back with an historic deal brokered by the chancellor rishi sunak. i m delighted to announce that today after years of discussion, g7 finance ministers have reached a historic agreement to reform the global tax system, to make it fit for the global digital age but crucially to make sure it is fair, so that the right companies pay the right tax in the right places. they agreed to the principle of a global minimum corporation tax of at least 15%. as well as rules to make the largest companies with profits of more than 10% pay more tax in countries where sales are made, notjust where they declare their profits. the us had initially wanted a higher minimum rate of 21%. what do you say to those campaigne ....