Its covid lockdown. Hello and welcome to the programme, i am live in tokyo for day ten of the olympic games. We start our coverage today with news that the czech republic and poland have offered to help a belarusian sprinter who was ordered home from the games by her country s olympic officials. Krystsina tsimanouskaya was due to compete in the women s 200m event on monday. But after posting a video complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. She then contacted police, and uploaded a video on social media, appealing for help, and the flight took off without her on board. In the last hour, the ioc spokesman mark adams says the unhrc is now involved in the case. After she spent the night an airport hotel in tokyo. Adams says her wellbeing is their first priority and the ioc are waiting for a report on the incident from the belarusian national olympic committee. With this particular athlete, the most important
have to have a clean speech soon, if you listen to what i said in my speech, there are lots of things that need legislation, we will need to have a budget very quickly and by the way, that thing not connected tonight as we will have a budget with the preparations for a no deal brexit and big business tax cuts and the first week of september. applause. and then we ll have the queen speech earliest available. applause. and then we ll have the queen speech earliest availablem you can give me a date for a budget why not for the speech? as much as i love you and i ve gotten to know you. steady now. ithink love you and i ve gotten to know you. steady now. i think there are some things we do not need to talk about in the public arena. so the which i ll agreement, is it dad? as it is now, yes. we have to be dead. i wanted to get a deal, and so we have to make some profound changes to that agreement, not that does not mean ripping up the whole thing. but it does mean that backstop
the two owners of local walkers restaurant on the square, who bought it and renovated it, they told me two weeks ago as they came out to give me a hug, they hired two more people this week at their restaurant because the economy is so much better in their small town. i think of russell, who because of tax cuts. they have 160 workers. because of the new tax code, they gave a million dollars out in bonuses. they raised all their workers, gave them a 10% raise, bought $5 million of new equipment and when you ask, and they green lighted a new headquarters for their pretty worn out building. and if you ask them what kind of year they are having, his answer, russell and sarah, is simply the best ever. but we can t stop there. we have to keep building off the momentum of last year s tax reform to ensure the committee keeps booming and that the tax code stays competitive. we are here to change the culture of washington, from one that waits an entire generation to modernize the tax
tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
government. anti-houthi fighters have recaptured yemen s biggest military base from houthi rebels, at least nine houthi fighters were killed in the operation at the base in the southern province and it is prove tone be news by the u.s. launched drone strikes against al-qaeda and we have details. reporter: this is the gate to a military base the largest now under the control of pro-government forces. they took it from houthi rebels and forces loyal to saleh and the battles continue since may. popular resistance used heavy weaponry with tanks and vehicles provided by saudi arabia and emirates and saudi-led coalition for weeks. this one brings them closer to thai a contested city that has seen fierce fighting in resent weeks and accuse hoouthis who will be used for prisoner in negotiations. in advances in the south which avoid the government in exile there is a change of tone as houthis on defensive in the resent days. translator: without the implementation of security cou