On day 13 of the olympics, where more medals will be up for grabs in the men s hockey, and i ll be talking to a five time olympic gold medallist, the former australian swimmer ian thorpe. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. It s newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. It s 7am in the morning in singapore and 2am in the morning in lebanon, where a day of remembrance for the victims of the huge explosion in beirut s port a year ago has descended into violence. The deaths of more than 200 people were commemorated at a multi faith event in the shadow of the ruins where the blast happened. Relatives of the dead observed a silence, and each of the names of the victims who died was read out. But a little later, near the parliament building in the centre of beirut, angry crowds gathered to voice their frustration at what they see as a lack of accountability for the disaster and failures in government. By nightfall, the situation ha
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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 to more n
Well being. It s confirmed that human remains found in the pyrenees are those of the missing british hiker esther dingley. And warming up for tonight s first night of the proms, as the royal albert hall welcomes back a full audience with no social distancing. And coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: more from the tokyo games, as bryony page wins bronze for team gb in the women s trampolining final. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said she s determined to make changes that will save lives after the country reported a record number of deaths from drug misuse for the seventh year running. More than 1,300 people died of drug misuse in scotland last year alone. Almost two thirds of all drug related deaths were of people aged between 35 and 5a. Scotland s drug death rate continues to be more than three and a half times that for the uk as a whole. It means scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate re