Gb In the Tokyo Olympics with a gold and a World Record In the four by 100 metres mixed Medley FInal. Teamwork makes Dream Work. Another gold, In the Triathlon mixed Relay Event and fInally a first Gold Medal Forjonny brownlee at his third Olympic Games. Victory for ElaIne Thompson Herah of jamaica In the womens100 metres fInal In tokyo. But before That there was heartbreakfor Team Gb sprInter, dIna Asher Smith, who had to withdraw from the games through Injury. Afghan security forces have bben battlIng to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban. Reports say militants have breached front lInes In herat medical experts are warnIng That an oxygen monitorIng device, called a pulse oximeter, works less well for people with darker skIn tones. And borisjohnson and his wife Carrie Have announced theyre expectIng a second child. Their son wilfred was born In april last year. Now on Bbc News its time for sportsday. Hello, welcome to sportsday, after another special saturday for Tea
and barcelona s bid to get rid of the wild boars besieging the city and stealing people s sandwiches. now the sport with sarah mulkerrins, let s start with the news a manchester united are set to get rid of ole gunnar solskjaer. there has been no official confirmation but we understand that the club s senior figures, including owners the glazers, have discussed solksjaer s future and decided the watford loss would be his last game in charge. everyone was waiting to see if there would be a reaction for manchester united after the international break. not the one they would have wanted they conceded four goals at waford and captain harry maguire was sent off. it s been a terrible run of results, united have won just four of their last 13 games. looked like a wave goodbye afterwards. strong comments from players saying it was a nightmare. technical director darren fletcher is set to take over as there s a big week ahead with a champions league trip to villarreal. at the to
and her coach in a restaurant. good evening. the world health organisation has called for an urgent tightening of measures across europe to halt spiralling transmission rates of the coronavirus. it has warned that 500,000 more deaths could be recorded by march, unless urgent action is taken. let s have a look at how the uk is performing in comparison to other european countries. based on figures from two days ago, this graph shows a rolling sevenday average of daily cases per million people in italy, germany, and here in the uk. but when the netherlands and austria are included, the numbers rise sharply to more than double those rates for the uk and germany. with cases surging in parts of europe, my colleague martine croxall, spoke to dr hans kluge the world health organisation s regional director for europe. he pointed out that, while cases are high, authorities know how to handle the situation and what measures to implement. we are definitely worried. but the good news is
we start tomorrow with heavy rain, windy conditions in northern ireland that will push away as it starts to brighten up. we will see some further pulses of rain pushing north through scotland, persistently wet through parts of eastern scotland. as for wales, the western side of england, some showery rain occasionally too, just starting to push a little bit further in towards parts of the midlands and across northern england, whereas the eastern side of england, much of east anglia, for example, stays dry with warm, sunny spells. just looking into sunday evening, the rainjust peps up again towards south wales and south west england, and once again with a stronger breeze. low pressure close by throughout the week ahead, further rain or showers around. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: nasa calls off their second attempt to launch its most powerful rocket, artemis 1 to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. moscow blames maintenance problems for