Governor general is sworn welcome to tokyo where the first medal of day four has been won the first medals of day four of the Tokyo Olympics have been won. Bermuda the smallest nation by population getting their first ever gold. Most of the islands 65,000 would have watched their fellow bermudian Flora Duffy cross the finishing line in the womens triathlon. Within the last few minutes, Tom Dean of britain won the Gold Medal in the mens 200 Metres Freestyle and fellow briton Duncan Scott won silver. Heres how the overall Medal Tally looks at the start of day 4 japan leads with 8 golds, one more than the us and two ahead of china. We can now speak to Bill Zuill whos the digital editor of the royal gazette, iimagine the i imagine the celebrations are pretty busy and frantic in bermuda. Pretty busy and frantic in bermuda pretty busy and frantic in bermuda. , , bermuda. Definitely, but it is. Uite bermuda. Definitely, but it is quite late bermuda. Definitely, but it is quite late here, berm
Be checking the daily forecast. These symbols will be changing periodically during the day. That is what they are designed to do. Let me explain. Here is the model, the forecast, for the showers tomorrow, the showers could be plotted in one Weather Model Update and a few hours later plotted 20 miles away and that will be reflected, so lots of changeable weather on the way. The overall envelope of where we think the showers will be will remain the same but local details can be very difficult to forecast stop there will be lots of showers around, slow moving, delivering a lot of rainfall to a small area in a short space of time. We have seen Flash Flooding in the last couple of weeks in places. 0n the last couple of weeks in places. On wednesday, the low pressure is further north. This is where the calm weather is, to the south you can see the white arrows, more of a breeze, so the showers that all the middle of the Week Move swiftly along across southern parts but may hang around, may b
Onto the red planet. Facebook unfriends Australia The Social Networking Giant Blocks access to news media in australia in a row over paying for content. The Labour Leader proposes british Recovery Bonds to help fund the renewal of communities and jobs after the lockdown ends. Terrible, Terrible House damp, infestations and leaks how some of those shielding from covid are living in substandard housing. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Scientists say theres been a strong decline in the number of Covid Infections in england since the latest lockdown began. Researchers at Imperial College, who have been tracking the pandemic, say Infection Rates have dropped by two thirds. But there are warnings that virus levels are still high, particularly among the under 25s. The Vaccination Programme also appears to be having a positive impact on the number of deaths being recorded. But concerns remain about certain groups of people, among them some black and asian communities, who are not taking
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is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su