Hand it over to the covid candidate. I don t believe the science suggests that young people should be vaccinated. I don t believe the science suggests that young people should have to wear masks at school. I m not sure the science is settled on that at all. Young people are not likely to contract the coronavirus and when they do, their symptoms are likely to be mild and they re not likely to be hospitalized and certainly not likely to die. If misinformation could kill. It all helps to explain why governor gavin newsom beat the recall effort and by a lot, winning support from more than 60% of the electorate. According to exit polls, the most important issue for voters was the coronavirus. And when asked about the governor s job on covid, 65% said his policies were about right or not strict enough. So republicans, your thirst for covid is why you lost. Nobody likes your policies that threaten our safety and our kids. You, you may want covid. You may want toin gest horse dewormer and atte
Hello and welcome. A huge success forjapan, which has topped the table for the country with the most gold medals in its olympic games. It s one of the most controversial. But after today the mood may have changed. Japan has now won eight gold medals, which put it ahead of the us and china. Momiji nishiya made history by winning the first ever olympic gold medal in women s street skateboarding, atjust 13 years old. Japan defeated china to win gold in the mixed doubles table tennis final, and defeated georgia in the men s 73 kilojudo final. Our correspondent mariko oi, is in shimbashi, tokyo. We now have a new star, momiji nishiya becoming the youngest athletes ever at the age of 13 in japan to be winning a gold medal. She looked so relaxed, when she was asked how heavy her gold medal was, and she said it feels like it weighs and she said it feels like it weighs a tonne. Meanwhile, we havejudo bringing us the seventh gold medal, and we ve seen spectacular performances by those judo class
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Hello and welcome. First afghanistan, now iraq. In the past few hours presidentjoe biden has announced that the us s armed forces will leave iraq by the end of the year. The move was announced during a meeting with iraqi prime minister mustafa al kadhimi at the white house. He has been urging president biden to withdraw troops who have been a presence in the region since 2003. Roughly 2,500 us troops remain in the region but their presence has been harder to justify since the killing of qassim suleimani, iran s top security and intelligence commander, by american drone strike in 2020. After the strike iraq s parliament demanded the government expel us forces, a powerful message for the country s prime minister, who s been in power for just two years. But many of the us troops still in iraq, won t actually be leaving. They ll be reclassified as advisers, a non combat role. White house press secretary jenn psaki explained how the us saw their new role in iraq. The real announcement today
Rostrum over there, and about to be announced as olympic champions, and then to hear the national anthem play, i was gone. I couldn t even sing. History from adam peaty, as he wins the 100 metre breaststroke, making him the first british swimmer to defend an olympic title. I haven t felt this good since 2016. Itjust means the world to me. And there was a third gold this morning, from 21 year old tom pidcock, in the cross country mountain biking. We will have all the details. Also tonight. There s been another big fall in the daily covid cases, for the sixth day in a row. A man describes how he tried in vain to save his wife and nine year old son, after they got into difficulties in loch lomond. And extreme weather across the globe wild fires, flash floods, landslides now some of the world s leading scientists warn that not enough is being done to tackle climate change. And, coming up on the bbc news channel, tom pidcock completes a gold and david team gb. The 21 year old is the new