Won a silver medal in the women s traithlon and two more bronze, including bianca walkden in the taekwondo. More electronic tagging for burglars, and a promise to provide a named officerfor every neighbourhood are announced as part of a new crime reduction strategy for england and wales. An independent review into child sexual exploitation in bradford says some children in the city remain unprotected and are still being abused. And a woman who was seriously injured after being hit by a car at a festival says her two year old daughter was saved by her husband throwing her out of the way. Good afternoon. There s been more triumph for team gb at the olympics in tokyo, with gold and silver medals in the men s swimming 200 metres freestyle. Tom dean touched home in 1 minute a422 seconds, securing a british record on his debut games, with duncan scottjust 0. 04 seconds behind his team mate. It s the first time in more than 200 years that two british male swimmers have shared the podium. An
Triathlon, with team gb s georgia taylor brown winning the silver medal. We ll bring you all the latest from the fourth day of the games, with britain now in fifth place on the medals table. Also on the programme. Damning criticism of a london council for allowing the decades long abuse of more than 700 children in 5 children s homes. Electronic tagging of burglars after release from prison part of a government plan to cut crime in england and wales. And a rare sight on northern shores we hear from the family who met a red octopus on the beach. And coming up on the bbc news channel. More from the olympics, where bianca walkden misses out on a taekwondo final after being beaten in the last second. She ll now go for bronze. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. There s been more triumph for team gb at the olympics in tokyo, with gold and silver medals in the men s swimming 200 metres freestyle. Tom dean touched home in one minute a422 seconds, securing a british record on his debut
Mumbles. Through the rest of the day we keep the unsettled theme, a bit of sunshine here and there but plenty of really heavy, thundery downpours that could cause disruption today. The reason for these downpours is this area of low pressure, not many isobars so the wind is not planning those showers through any hurry and across parts of scotland the met office has issued an amber warning for those thunderstorms. They will bring really torrential downpours, a risk of severe flooding and disruption due to a happy nature of those intense storms and it is notjust across parts of scotland, 2a northern ireland, wales and parts of england too. If you catch one it could bring hail and a lot of rain ina could bring hail and a lot of rain in a short space of time. Temperatures cooler than recently, between 15 and 21. We could see 23 or 2a across parts of eastern england if you miss the torrential downpours, if you catch one it could bring disruption. Most of the showers in the south will ease aw
0n on bbc 0n bbc news, it s time tojoin stephen sackurfor 0n bbc news, it s time tojoin stephen sackur for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. I m stephen sackur. President biden is in the middle of his first overseas tour, taking in the g7, the eu, nato and a session with vladimir putin. America, he says, is back another way of telling the world the trump era is well and truly over. But how easy is it proving to be for team biden to set america on a new course? well, my guest is ben rhodes, the key national security adviser to barack 0bama through his eight years in the white house. Is the us in any position to lead a much touted global alliance of democracies? ben rhodes in los angeles, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks, stephen. I think it s fair to say that since you and your boss left the white house injanuary 2017, you have very publicly grappled with feelings of unease and alienation about what s happening in your own country and across the world. Is that feeling of unease and alienation
kind in the united states. leaders from around the world have been paying tribute to desmond tutu, one of the heroes of the anti apartheid movement, who s died at the age of 90. president biden praised the courage and moral clarity of the former archbishop of cape town. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, called him an inspiration to generations. our africa correspondent andrew harding looks back at his life. raise our hands and we say we will be free! desmond tutu was an exuberant figure, an outspoken anglican priest who became one of the world s great moral voices. it was during south africa s long and violent struggle against white minority rule that he rose to prominence, condemning the apartheid government, comparing them to the nazis. the system of this country, apartheid, is immoral. the system of this country is evil. with nelson mandela hidden away in prison, tutu soon became the face of south africa s struggle for freedom and forjustice. he leaves behind a l