Wildfires in northern California Force thousands into Evacuation Centres while a Covid Outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. British mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the Governments Coronavirus Spending for decades. A parliamentary report says the Uk Military is failing to protect female recruits with almost two thirds of women experiencing bullying, Sexual Harassment and discrimination. And the Uk Army safely detonates a World War ii bomb on the site of a new Housing Estate. A warm welcome to tokyo, its day 2 of the olympics and the Sporting Action has brought us just the sort of excitement weve been looking for in the games. There were major shocks in the swimming pool, a World Record was broken and for some big names their Olympic Dream has come to an end. A couple of sports have made their debut too. Lets cross to the Bbc Sport Centre and speak to our reporter jane dougall, whos been watching the action. What an exciting Road Race for the women a
Extra support for parts of the country including of the North East of england in the battle against rising numbers of covid 19. Its due to recent data showing that nearly 30 of adults in newcastle for example, havent even had their firstjab. Among younger adults its almost half. In the whole of england nearly 70 of the Adult Population has had both jabs which is why auhorities say theyre taking action. The bbc s Martin Forster reports. Injanuary, worried people queued up to be vaccinated and the limiting factor was how quickly the nhs could get hold of vaccines. Six months later, and its a very different story. The vaccines are there, the vaccinators are there, but the nhs is dealing with a far more sceptical audience. While the North East are seeing the highest rates of infection in the country, in newcastle, nearly three in ten adults remain completely unvaccinated. I guess theres a sense that perhaps were getting towards The End of the pandemic and i think thats probably playing int
Bronze Medal Bout in the judo. Chelsie giles from coventry in a Bronze Medal Bout in thejudo. She rose to the challenge, securing bronze in style. Delight for her and for Team Gb. Theirfirst Medal of the games, and you could see just what it meant. In the Tae Kwon do, meanwhile, Bradly Sinden from doncaster was ready for the fight of his life. Victory in the semifinal and he would be guaranteed a Medal, but with less than 20 seconds less heat left, he was trailing, until this. The stunning late flurry saw him pass china into the final. What a moment for him, now guaranteed at least a silver, but hoping it would soon be gold. But earlier it was a different story as jade jones hopes of a third consecutive olympic Title Endedin of a third consecutive olympic title ended in a shock defeat. Her team mates left in tears as one of britain s biggest Medal hopes left early. I britains biggest Medal hopes left earl. Early. I felt scared, i felt too much pressure, early. I felt scared, i felt too
Hello, welcome to tokyo, day two of the olympics. The Sporting Action has brought us just the sort of Unpredictability And Excitement only these games can bring. In the last few minutes, Team Gb has won its first Silver Medal, with Bradley Sinden narrowly missing out on winning the first ever gold in mens taekwondo. Earlier, there were some major shocks in the Swimming Pool a World Record was broken and today has brought something of a Gold Rush forjapan s olympians. Mariko oi has the details. What an exciting evening for teamjapan but in particular for one Family Judo Siblings Uta and Hifumi Abe winning double Gold Medals within an hour of each other, and now the hashtag the most powerful siblings is trending on social media. Also, earlier in the day, we had Yuto Horigome winning the first ever Gold Medalfor skateboarding. We went out to find out how people made of his achievements. Lets take a listen. Translation | used to do skateboarding and i knew horigome, so congratulations to h