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
look at that, look at the way. where are the scores? just! yes, es! and jubilation for diver tom daley with his new partner matty lee four olympic games and he s finally won gold. all day today, it s like everything is falling into place. we found that sense of flow. we didn t really say anything to each other. we just knew what we had to do to get the job done. and more british success a gold for tom pidcock in the men s mountain bike cross country and silver for alex yee in the men s triathlon a bit bizarre, really. that it s me that s doing this. i m just a normal guy from south east london. so it s just crazy. dreams really do come true. we ll bring you all the latest from tokyo as team gb shoots up to fourth place in the medals table. also on the programme. will more key workers in england be given the right to test daily for covid instead of self isolating? ministers are meeting to decide. flash floods and wildfires in a year of extreme weather globally, scientist
weather is approaching some western parts of the uk, particularly the south west here through the night, this is showery rain, showery means on and off, one minute it is quiet, then heavy then quiet again, but the vast majority of the country early on tuesday morning, pretty clear, with some morning sunshine. now here is the problem with tomorrow. so, low pressure often brings strong winds but this is large and there is very little wind in it, and that is not necessarily a good thing, because with the strength of the sun all of the moisture, will see big showers forming inland. some will be thunderstorms, some will be downpours as well and there is very little wind to push this round, so where the storm forms it dumps that rainfall and that leads to flash flooding, but flash flooding the localised. sud, most of us don t get it. it will be in spots round the country. on wednesday there will be more of a breeze in the southern half of the uk and the centre of that low transfers
an olympic title. we ll have full details of team gb s impressive day and we ll be looking at their prospects for the days ahead. also tonight. another fall in the daily number of covid cases in the uk they ve more than halved in the past nine days. the afghan army tries to contain the taliban, but high numbers of civilians have been killed or injured since the start of the year. and canterbury cathedral discovers that some of its magnificent stained glass is among the oldest in the world. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. tom pidcock wins great britain s third olympic gold at the tokyo games with a dominant performance in the men s mountain bike cross country. good evening. it s already being called magic monday thanks to the impressive achievements of britain s olympians injapan. three gold medals were won in the space of five hours, including one for tom daley and his diving partner matty lee. it was daley s fourth olympic attempt and lee s very f