By the man she called dad . As new rules on covid tracing alerts come in, giving some key workers in england the option of daily testing instead of self isolating, ministers meet to discuss how it s going. And coming up could canterbury cathedral be home to some of the oldest stained glass in the world? new research suggests it dates back nearly 900 years. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. There s been a gold rush for team gb at the olympics in tokyo. Adam peaty won the men s 100 metres breaststroke, becoming the first british swimmer ever to retain an olympic title. Tom daley and matty lee were victorious in the men s synchronised ten metre diving, and tom pidcock won britain s third gold in the men s cross country mountain biking. There were silver medals too for alex yees in the men s triathlon, and lauren williams in taekwondo. For a full round up of the action at the olympics today, let s cross to gavin ramjaun at the bbc sports centre. As you say, what a day to celebra
Welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs and around the globe. The ethiopian government has called on the african union to immediately stop an inquiry into human rights abuses in tigray. Almost eight months of conflict have devastated the region. Despite repeated calls by the international community to end the hostilities, the fighting continues and aid agencies cannot reach all those in need. The united nations warns that the area is in imminent danger of famine unless drastic measures are taken. The bbc s kalkidan yibeltal has travelled to tigray and sent us this report. This boy has had heart problems since he was a child. He needed constant medical attention. But as tigray s war raged, it became difficult to find care and food. Translation: we had medical appointments but roads were closed due to the war so we had to walk for three days without food. This affected my son a lot. Before the war we had hospitals and health centres. Since it started we literally had nothing. A0
not being allowed to surrender. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are inside now surrounded by a russian blockade. here you see pro-russian forces parading down a mariupol street as the kremlin reveals for the first time its goal seize full control of southern and eastern ukraine to provide a land bridge to crimea. this morning here on cnn, mariupol s mayor said the civilian losses in his city are horrific. translator: we have around 20,000 dead, civilian deaths in mariupol. and these were people who were buried by enemy shelling, by enemy bombardment. buried under the rubble and at the moment, we are witnessing the enemy trying to hide the evidence of their crimes using the instrument of mass graves. cnn s nic robertson joins us in brussels. what else do we know about this call between putin and the president of the european council? yeah, blunt and direct is how charles michel is categorizing the call with putin. it was 90 minutes long. the reason the eur
tonight with a stellar panel, anja manuel author of this brave new world, executive director of the aspen security forum, and also with us tonight lord kim darroch, former uk ambassador to the united states and author of collateral damage, britain, europe and america in the age of trump. good evening. ten people killed in a privatejet that was flying from moscow to st. petersburg telling us prigozhin was on the manifest will the flight was covering seven passengers and three crew. it was said to have crashed northwest of moscow. these are the pictures. there are multiple videos on social media that appeared to show the jet crashing. in the tracking date, load doesn t show with the plane departed. it does show it climbing to an altitude of near 29,000 feet before the data shows that dropping suddenly ending up shows that dropping suddenly ending up at zero feet. eyewitnesses said they heard to live bank shortly before hand. while the cause of this crash is not clear this man p
in the corporate world, take apart what we know, they were coming back actually from a trip in africa and could explain why a b they were just altogether at the time. this could explain why a b they were ust altogether at the timei altogether at the time. this is interesting altogether at the time. this is interesting because altogether at the time. this is interesting because what - altogether at the time. this is interesting because what we | altogether at the time. this is i interesting because what we are altogether at the time. this is - interesting because what we are not able to identify properly is where this video that appears just a few days ago it had been shot, when it had been shot and indeed what wagner s operations look like on the ground but you are suggesting that this was the return journey from that operation in africa?- this was the return journey from that operation in africa? we ve been filmin: that operation in africa? we ve been filming planes t