Covid jab incentives such as discounts for Takeaway Food and taxi journeys in a bid to boost vaccine uptake. And the taliban ramp up their offensive on afghan cites with reports of heavy fighting in Lashkar Gah in helmand province. And large Cruise Ships have been banned from the centre of venice after yea rs of environmental protests. And coming up shortly, Wejoin Shaun Ley for Dateline London. And here is shaun. Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who write, Blog And Broadcast to audiences back home from the Dateline London. This week the unvaccinated become the unloved, and is democracy bound to wither in the arid lands of North Africa and The Middle East . Let me introduce our Dateline Panel this evening. Mina Al Oraibis Family originated in iraq. Shes editor in chief of the national in abu dhabi. Ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the United States but has spent much of his
Into the afternoon. Again, some of them could be heavy and thundery. But mainly dry further north with variable cloud and sunny spells. Those temperatures high teens, perhaps 20 or 21 degrees. It looks pretty similar on tuesday and wednesday, sunshine and heavy showers. But then by The End of the week, it turns very unsettled with some wet and windy weather. Hello this is Bbc News with lukwesa burak. The Headlines Gold for Team Gb s Max Whitlock the gymnast retains the Olympic Pommel Horse title. Another gold for Team Gb Charlotte Worthington wins a dramatic Bmx Park Freestyle final. Young people in england are to be offered Covid Jab vaccines such as discounts for Takeaway Food and Taxi Journeys in a bid to boost vaccine jabs. The taliban ramp up their offensive on afghan cities with reports of heavy fighting in Lashkar Gah in helmand province. And large Cruise Ships have been banned from the centre of venice, after years of environmental protests. And coming up shortly, a trip to ice
Contributing 20 of workers wages from today. And large Cruise Ships have been banned from the centre of venice after yea rs of environmental protests. Team gb have two more Gold Medals on day 9 of the tokyo olympics, with success in gymnastics and bmx. In the ariake arena, Max Whitlock retained his olympic title, with gold in the Pommel Horse final the 28 year old now becomes the most successful gymnast ever in the event and it brings his overall tally of olympic medals to six with three golds and three bronze. In the Bmx Freestyle Charlotte worthington recovered from a fall in Herfirst Run to claim a remarkable victory and becomes the first woman to complete a 360 Degree Backflip in competition. Duncan brooks took bronze in the Mens Event Britain have now won a medal in all four bmx events. And, there was further success in the swimming with silver in the mens medley relay. Britain have now won a record eight medals in the pool. With four medals, duncan Scott Become Britains most succ
Tourists have been evacuated from beaches in south western turkey, where raging wildfires are now threatening hotels and homes. Employers who still have staff on furlough will have to start contibuting 20 per cent of workers wages from today. And coming up later this hour, witness history. Team gb have two more Gold Medals on day nine of the tokyo olympics, with success in gymnastics and bmx. And in the last few minutes, italys Lamont Marcelljacobs has taken gold in the 100m final. It means a new Olympic Champion for the first time since 2008. But heartbreak for britains Zharnel Hughes who was disqualified after a false start. In the gymnastics, Max Whitlock retained his olympic title, with gold in the Pommel Horse final the 28 year old now becomes the most successful gymnast ever in the event and it brings his overall tally of olympic medals to six with three golds and three bronze. In the Bmx Freestyle Charlotte worthington recovered from a fall in Herfirst Run to claim a remarkable
Will answer today and between them, they are reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. They are andrew georgiou, president of sport at Discovery, and he joins us from tokyo, where Discovery are covering the olympics. Minal modha covers sport for ampere analysis, and Sanjay Patel is Managing Director of the hundred for england and wales cricket board. Sanjay, the hundred has got matches on every day. You want to bring cricket to a new wider audience how are the ratings going for it so far . What are the Tv Audiences like . Well, were a week into the hundred and weve been absolutely delighted with the reaction, both in stadia and on broadcast. Over the first week, weve reached 8. 4 million people. Whats really important to us is 3. 3 Million people who never watched cricket before this year. So that suggests we are reaching a new audience. And we were just blown away by the two opening games the womens opening game got 1. 9 million, which was the peak, which is great for the Womens Game