a country in crisis. a year after the deadly beirut blast scarred lebanon we have a special report. and wildfires threaten parts of greece as strong winds fan the flames through the countryside north of athens. hello and welcome. let s start with the olympics and day 5 action is well underway in tokyo with medals events in the pool and on the water. australia s ariarne titmus picked up a second gold medal and an olympic record. our sports presenter, sarah mulkerrins, is in tokyo with the details. a brilliant olympic games so far for the australian. they call her the terminator, such is her dominance and ferocity in the pool. a couple of days ago she won gold in the 400 metres freestyle in that epic duel she had then with the american star katie ledecky. and today it was even more of a dominant win for her. she had a slow start but she came through to finish in that stunning time. a really interesting race, katie ledecky had finished fifth, that s the first time in 36 i
was taken to hospital. his condition remains unknown. mark lobel, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. no need for heroics, i m sure. stabbed danaos is here, looking rather pretty. this is scotland, the only place i could find a rainbow. most of the showers will be across scotland, western scotland, because close to the area of low pressure there more isobars on the chart so quite windy across northern areas but this area of high pressure is building and across the south bringing a largely fine day for much of england and wales. right across england and wales. right across england and wales of eastern areas, compared to yesterday, just the odd shower but most of the showers in scotland and northern ireland, longer spells of rain for the north west of scotland. temperatures impacted a bit because of the wind and rain, 14 degrees, but we could see the high teens across the south east of england, so warmer than yesterday. tonight it stays quite breezy, variable cloud, most