As the taliban insurgency in kabul continues. I am sarah mulkerrins in tokyo, where day 12 is underway and we have had a gold for brazil in the women s swimming marathon here below me in tokyo bay. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The belarusian sprinter who refused orders to fly home early from the olympics is due to leave japan in the next half hour. Officials from belarus had tried to send her home after she complained about the events the committee had entered herfor. But poland has granted her a humanitarian visa, and she s about to fly to warsaw. In moment we ll be live in tokyo and kiyv, but first our correspondent sarah rainsford has this report from minsk. She s a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. When sprinter krystina timanovskaya publicly criticised her coaches at the olympics, they tried to force her back to belarus. She refused. Speaking to the bbc from tokyo, she said she was now scared for herself and for her famil
madagascar and mozambique. thousands have had to leave their homes. that s my mother s brother. and on holocaust memorial day, the survivor who has been silent on her ordeal but is now determined to tell her story after being diagnosed with dementia. hello and welcome. it is perhaps the most critical day in borisjohnson s premiership to date. in a few hours he is facing parliament in prime minister s questions, and later on wednesday, the official inquiry into parties at downing street and in whitehall during lockdown could be submitted. it is understood the senior civil servant sue gray has evidence including photographs and whatsapp messages and is keen for the report to be published in full. here is our political correspondent ione wells. can the prime minister bounce back from this? for many tory mps, their answer depends on what is in sue grey s reports into parties that took place behind these doors and across whitehall during coronavirus restrictions. yesterday, confir
hello and welcome. we start here in london where another difficult day lies ahead for borisjohnson as speculation grows about a plot to remove him by members of his own party. it could be a decisive day. a group of the most recently elected conservative mps are believed to be preparing to submit letters of no confidence in the prime minister having met to discuss the issue on tuesday. one conservative mp told the bbc he believed the threshold needed to trigger a confidence vote would be reached. here s our political correspondentjonathan blake. late night talks in a private members club. a small group of conservative mps met here last night with talk of removing borisjohnson from office on the agenda. after a day of intense speculation, theirs was confidence among some backbenchers that enough to submit a letter of no confidence on the prime minister could be achieved. the prime minister again denied that a drinks party at the downing street party was against lockdown restric
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. we have some pictures. these very limitied pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruption m
by president macron to raise the retirement age. and new zealand re opens its borders to international tourists for the first time in more than two years. asa as a new day begins in ukraine there is new hope they can be evacuees from the city of mariupol after on the steelworks were bought to safety in the weekend. it is thought 80 to 100 people were rescued by the un and red cross aid agencies, some getting theirfirst glimpses of their first glimpses of daylight after weeks spent in tunnels deep in the industrial complex. the ukraine military says one more round of evacuations are needed to get civilians out of a steel mill. while hopes remained for them there are growing fears for other parts of ukraine, having witnessed the horrors of mariupol and surrounded by russian forces, one of those towns is macro to from where one of our correspondence sent this report. lysychansk. we are following a medic pointing out he is taking us close to the front lines to hidden base when