Hello and welcome to the programme. The usjustice department says tax returns belonging to the former president, donald trump must after all be handed over to congress. The decision reverses a previous ruling officials now say lawmakers have legitimate reasons for asking to see the documents. Live now to our north america correspondent, david willis. Let s start with how this reversal actually came about to begin with. What changed? every president dating begin with. What changed? every president dating back begin with. What changed? every president dating back in begin with. What changed? er president dating back in modern times to richard nick and two richard nixon has disclosed their tax returns. Do you richard neck and two richard nixon has disclosed their tax returns. The one exception being dawdled trump. He has fought tooth and nail through the court to prevent those documents from becoming public. Until recently of course he had the backing of the usjustice department.
Hello, and welcome. The first full day of competition is under way at the 2020 tokyo olympics. 11 gold medals will be decided on saturday with the first likely to come in the women s ten metre air rifle. The opening ceremony took place despite the japanese capital being under a state of emergency because of covid pandemic. And another athlete, the dutch rower finn florijn, has pulled out following a positive test. The ceremony itself was watched by millions of people around the world on television. Here s our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes. For the uno family, it has been a long, anxious wait to get to this moment. The unos are serious olympic fans. Dad has spent over £3000 on olympic tickets, so you can imagine the mixed emotions they re feeling tonight. Yes, we think about, you know, the kids. It s the very first time to hold their olympics injapan, so we were excited. I am very disappointed, masato uno says. If they were not going to have spectators, they should have postpone
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejoe wilson, the uk politics reporter at bloomberg, and sian griffiths, the education editor at the sunday times. Let s catch up with the front pages again that they ve both been looking at. The future of quarantine the times writes that fully vaccinated people may not need to isolate if they come into contact with someone with the virus, a change it says could be made within weeks. Isolating also takes the front of the mail, as it leads with reports of calls to reform rules or risk crippling the economy. And another split in westminster, as michael gove becomes the second cabinet minister to part ways with their wife in the space of a week. The telegraph focuses on whether any social distancing rules could have been broken. A victory for decency” the labour leader sir keir starmer s reaction to the by election win in batley and spen leads on the front of the guardian. It s trading t
Hello and welcome. The last american troops have left bagram air base, the us military s centre of operations throughout two decades of occupation and engagement in afghanistan. The departure is a signal that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from the country is imminent. A taliban spokesman described the handover of bagram as a positive step. Our security correspondent frank gardner reports. Bagram air base, afghanistan, the most strategically vital base in the country. Last night, the us military pulled out after nearly 20 years there. It follows a decision by president biden for us forces to leave afghanistan by september 11. We re on track exactly as to where we expected to be, but i wanted to make sure there was enough running room, that we wouldn t be able to do it all till september. There will still be some forces left, but it s a rational drawdown with our allies. The base has now been handed over to afghan government forces. But all over the country, they re coming un
fleet street. i put that politely. thank you both very much. i hope if you are going on holiday you make certain that you can come back again because we would hate to not have you for the paper review. for now have a lovely weekend. thank you very much. and the same goes to you as well. if you are going to come back and we want you with us here on bbc news. sport and weather coming up bbc news. sport and weather coming up in a few minutes, and my colleagues will be here with the news at midnight, but before all of that it s time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode. rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in the home while we look forward to cinemas reopening in the very near future. the mortal kombat video game series first came to the cinema in the mid 905 during an early wave of dismal console to big screen adaptations that included the live action super mario bros starring bob hoskins and the ill fated street fighte