poland s dawid tomala has won gold in the men s 50km race walk. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. there has been fierce fighting in the southern afghan city of lashkar gah. dozens of taliban insurgents are reported to have been killed in a battle for control of the city. afghan forces, backed by us air strikes, are fighting on several fronts. this map shows you some of the key areas of the fighting in kandahar, herat, as well as lashkar gah. this is the situation earlier on thursday in herat, with taliban fighters reportedly moving freely in much of the city. here are the thoughts of some of the residents. translation: the situation is tough. | our houses have all been destroyed. people have all fled. there are eight or nine taliban on the roof of our house. if the security force hit there, everything will be destroyed. then where should we go? translation: we feel very bad. our house is in the in the basin area. right now, the taliban came into t
the mother of a british serviceman killed in afghanistan says foreign troops shouldn t return, despite the taliban now threatening to take control. i don t think we should go back or have any involvement whatsoever, just leave them. just leave them to it. he was tactically masterful and it has led to a gold medal for great britain. and matt walls victory in the omnium helps take team gbs medal tally above 50. and coming up on the bbc news channel: she has waited three olympics to get a medal but holly bradshaw s pole vault bronze is a historic one for britain. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. ministers have defended changes to the rules governing foreign travel, with thousands of british tourists now scrambling to get home from mexico by sunday morning. the country has just been placed on the travel red list, and means those returning to the uk will have to quarantine in a designated hotel at their own expense. spain remains on the amber list, but the governm
india has recorded more than 330,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 2a hours, setting a world record for the second day in a row. over 2000 more people have died. india s hospitals are buckling under the strain, with oxygen running short and beds in many hospitals completely full. from delhi, here s our india correspondent, yogita limaye. the front line an emergency room in a covid hospital. just about standing under the weight of an unfolding disaster. a patient who s hardly breathing is brought in. as nurses tried to get him to respond, there s another person, even more critical. they couldn t revive him. to get past the shortage of beds, they ve packed in stretchers, wheelchairs, as many as they can. but the first line of treatment against covid 19 is oxygen. and they ve almost run out. at this point, there was just one hour of supply left. the staff knows how many lives hang in the balance. people are being turned away, but they don t know where they ll find oxygen o
anthony: i need a french coach. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: if you ve been to france, chances are you haven t been here. france s second largest city, the oldest city in france. it sits right by the mediterranean. the food is famously good. yet, it s a victim of bad reputation, bad history. marseille. as it turns out, exactly the kind of place i like. but, this is a buddy picture, isn t it? eric ripert is the chef of the three-star la bernardin in new york, a chevalier of france. i think that means he s some kind of knight or something, and my friend. this causes him some problems. he, i like to remind him, has a reputation to protect. i do not. welcome to marseille. eric: yeah. anthony: you ve never been he
it wasn t about retribution. it was about justice. it was a quiet fall night, close to midnight, the young couple finished dinner and then walked to the dimly lit centuries old cobblestone street of old san juan puerto rico, heading for their car. suddenly, a man armed with a knife and a loose block from the cobblestone streets attacked. the husband adam anhang fell to the ground. but the witness remembers hearing was adam screaming, run abe, run. fighting back as hard as he could, abe never stood a chance. he was stabbed repeatedly. it with the brick over the head. and, like that, it was over. the attacker melted back into the darkness, leaving adam and his wife aurea lying on the street. and ambulance arrived loaded aurea with injuries on her arms and legs and with her way to the hospital. but for adam, it was too late. he was 32 years old. the coolly police quickly arrived to the journalist , covered the murder for puerto rico s highest circulation newspa