The government s handling of the covid pandemic. Hello and a warm welcome to the programme. It s day three of the olympics and we have all the latest from japan. Sarah mulkerrins is live in tokyo for us, where the first medal of the day has gone to norway. Tell us all about it. It certainly tell us all about it. It certainly has. Welcome to tokyo bay early on monday morning in the japanese capital and the behind me is where the triathlon took place. It is also where we saw that false start occur. What happened is that all triathletes were on the pontoon and ready to dive in, half went in but there was a big lack boat covering one half of them so they were blocked from entering into the bay here and they had to pull the swimmers already in the water back onto the pontoon and then they finally got under way. They had a 1500 metres swim around the bay here and then on their bikes for a0 kilometres cycle around the streets of tokyo and then they transitioned into that ten kilometre run.
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Afghanistan is seeing the heaviest fighting yet between government forces and the taliban. The militants are trying to seize three major cities in the south and west of the country. They ve made rapid gains in less populated parts since it was announced almost all foreign troops withdraw by september. Taliban fighters have now entered parts of herat, kandahar, and lashkar gah the capital of helmand province, once the home to british troops in the country. The fate of these key cities could be crucial amid fears of a humanitarian crisis, and there are concerns about how long government forces will be able to hold out. This update from our correspondent in kabul, secunder kermani. Well, this is now the most serious fighting we ve seen since this latest taliban offensive began. The militants had already captured vast swathes of rural territory, now they re trying to take their first city and earlier this evening, they made their way to the very centre of l
night of protesters in the streets of brooklyn center, minnesota. and we re watching at this hour because there s a curfew going to take effect in one hour. and usually around this time things will start to happen because it gets close to the curfew and people are confused what time had curfew had been. they d been moving it up and moving it back. here s what the protesters are demanding. they re demanding justice for daunte wright. he s the latest black man to die in an encounter with police. i want to get right to sarah snyder. good evening to you. you ve been out there covering this since the beginning. what are you seeing tonight? reporter: we have seen early on the crowd being a bit more angry earlier. and you re seeing sort of the exchange that happened. somebody there firing less than lethal rubber bullets. we ve seen several people hit with those bullets and also seeing people you can see there they re spraying pepper spray just over the fence. there s a lot of folk
all right. people on the streets of brooklyn center, minnesota. but so far, there is nothing approaching anything like violence. so, thank you for watching. the coverage will pick up with cnn tonight and its star, d lemon. the question, once again, in another community is, are we going to see justice? is there or this about what happens to just us? yeah, well, that s a good question. and and a good question is what is going to happen, later tonight? hopefully, nothing. protests, that they re peaceful. no rioting. and nothing that is that can harm the community. i am going to get to it, though, chris. i m going to get to our developing news that s happening. of course, we know this is happening. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. take a look. this is the fourth-straight night of protests in the streets of brooklyn center, minnesota. and we are watching, at this hour, because there is a curfew that s going to take effect, in one hour. and usually, around this time,
oh hi, good morning, just going to 11 o clock in moscow. you watching asi international. i. poland to secure sped roost deliberately escalating the migrant crisis on its border and says that several 100 people have arrived at the frontier under the full control of the bell russian authorities. this is before crossing the voltage border, a border crossing with these all that i just pictures from the better russian polish border where my grants have gathered in the hope of getting into europe. as you can see, there are at children, hey, it say at the sight, some of them very young. and the russo at disabled people to among the refugees. now monday clashes, bro, cat with border guards and gunfire was heard when crabs tried to force their way into po, ah, company, no thought you were doing. this is norma. right now. we re in bell room, a few meters away from the polish border. we re thousands of migrants from the middle east are stuck trying to cross into the ear after failing to