good afternoon. the cyclist laura kenny has become britain s most decorated female olympic athlete, after she and team mate katie archibald won the women s madison event in the velodrome. the pair dominated the 120 lap race, winning 10 of the 12 sprints. it means kenny has won gold in three consecutive olympic games, and archibald in two. elsewhere after their gold in rio, britain s hockey women have taken bronze in tokyo, with a narrow victory over india. and team gb s 18th gold medal of the games came from kate french in the women s moden pentathlon. and in the last few minutes, team gb s laura muir has won silver in the 1500m final. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. two more golds on day 1a of tokyo 2020 have taken team gb up to fourth in the overall medals table. the first of the two was a historic one for laura kenny. she has become the most decorated female olympian in british history. she and katie archibald were crowned the inaugral women s m
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sonia sodha, chief leader writer at the observer and tom newton dunn, chief political commentator with times radio. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the front page of the metro looks at the row over lobbying of politicians involving the collapsed firm greensill capital. it echoes the words of labour leader sir keir starmer who accused ministers of a return to tory sleaze . in the wake of the greensill row the telegraph focusses on the crackdown on senior civil service officials who have been asked to declare any paid second jobs by the end of this week. meanwhile as the treasury select committee looks into lobbying the is headline reads. uk lobbying watchdog is, lobbyist . the daily mail s front page reports that the prime minister himself was lobbied by the saudi crown prince in a bid to buy a top english football club. away from greensill the guardian warns th
sheriff s county s office is tight lipped about the shooting of brown, and nor has the county released any body camera footage, and calls for the release of that footage is calling louder, and the governor is tweeting that he calls for the footage to be released as quickly as possible. and there is an emergency council meeting to have that released as quickly as possible, and the request will be formally filed monday. natasha chen was at that briefing involving the city mayor and manager, and natasha, the family of andrew brown is expected to hold a press conference, and what are you hearing from anyone? yes, fred that is going to happen right here where we are, the mount lebanon zion church, and we are expected to hear from some of the brown families and the attorney, and the head of the local naacp, and you know, there is a lot of understandable frustration, questions about why that body camera footage has not been released. we should mention in addition to the city counc
aim at the gop for talking down the economy, as he touted the unemployment rate dropping to a new pandemic low. now, i hear republicans say today that my talking about this strong record shows that i don t understand. i don t understand a lot of people are still suffering, they say. well, they are. or that i am not focused on inflation. malarkey. i want to talk down the recovery because they voted against the legislation that made it happen. i refuse to let them stand in the way of this recovery, and now my focus is on keeping this recovery strong and durable, notwithstanding republican obstructionism. and the president taking on the gop on the economy, as he is facing skeptical conservative justices, i should say, on his covid plan and vaccine mandates for large businesses. that, as the republican party seems to locked into a never-ending game of how low can you go? here is exhibit a. ted cruz who is now trying to backtrack after getting caught doing something that see
doctors behind these reports and why they made a public call to the white house for a needed strategy overall. the president promised that his mission was to shut down this virus. remember these? i m going to shut down the virus. i ll shut down the virus, not the economy. i m not going to shut down the country but i ll shut down the virus. martha: now president biden being told that people will need to learn to live with this as 49% of voters say the president is failing on his handling of the virus. that s up 15 points since may. that was one of his strongest areas going through a rough patch where that is concerned. dr. michael olsterholm is one of the president s advisers urging him to make changes. doctor, thanks for being with us today. i guess i d like to ask you right off the bat what made you publish this strong group of letters? well, first of all, let s characterize them for what they are. we re looking six months or a year from now or maybe longer. we re in a