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wildfires in northern california force thousands into evacuation centres while a covid outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. british mps have warned that taxpayers will bear the cost of the government s coronavirus spending for decades. a parliamentary report says the uk military is failing to protect female recruits with almost two thirds of women experiencing bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination. and the uk army safely detonates a world war ii bomb on the site of a new housing estate. a warm welcome to tokyo, it s day 2 of the olympics and the sporting action has brought us just the sort of excitement we ve been looking for in the games. there were major shocks in the swimming pool, a world record was broken and for some big names their olympic dream has come to an end. a couple of sports have made their debut too. let s cross to the bbc sport centre and speak to our reporter jane dougall, who s been watching the action. what an exciting ro ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. day two of the olympics saw some high drama, most notably in the swimming pool but also in cycling and tennis. theere was an unexpected gold medal fortunisia in swimming and the first medals for team gb, with a silver in taekwondo and a bronze injudo. the women s road race resulted in a huge shock and ash barty couldn t replicate her wimbledon success. lucy hockings is in tokyo for us. day two here in tokyo has produced some extraordinary performances and some real upsets as well. the day started with a big upset in the women s road cycling race the austrian mathematician anna kiesenhofer took gold, she has not had a professional contract since 2017, she raced ahead of the peloton with more than a0 kilometres still remaining, it was an amazing race, and in fact she has a phd in maths from cambridge so very clearly made the right calculations in today s race, a great victory for austria and for anna ....
wildfires in northern california force thousands into evacuation centres while a covid outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. it s day two of the olympics and the sporting action has brought us just the sort of unpredictability and excitement only these games can bring. there have been some major shocks in the swimming pool a world record was broken and today has brought something of a gold rush forjapan s olympians. mariko oi has the details. what an exciting evening for teamjapan but in particular for one family thejudo siblings uta and hifumi abe winning double gold medals within an hour of each other, and now the hashtag the most powerful siblings is trending on social media. also, earlier in the day, we had yuto horigome winning the first ever gold medalfor skateboarding. we went out to find out how people made of his achievements. let s take a listen. translation: | used to do - skateboarding and i knew horigome, so congratulations to him for ....
coming up in sport, more than one of the bigger shocks of the olympics so far as austria s ana kiesenhofer upsets the odds to win the women s cycling road race. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it s day two of the olympics, and the sporting action has brought us just the sort of unpredictability and excitement only these games can bring. an unexpected gold medalfor tunisia in the pool and the first medals for team gb with a silver in taekwondo for bradly sinden and a judo bronze for chelsie giles. the women s road race resulted in a huge shock earlier in the day. lucy hockings is in tokyo for us. day two has produced some extraordinary performances and some real upsets as well. the day started with a big upset in the women s road cycling race the austrian mathematician anna kiesenhofer took gold, she has not had a professional contract since 2017, she raced ahead with more than a0 kilometres remaining, it was an amazing race, and in ....
of the day s headlines. young people in england are to be offered covid jab incentives such as discounts from uber and deliveroo in a bid to boost vaccine uptake. 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 yea rs of environmental protests. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a warm welcome to day nine of the olympic games. everyone is talking about team gb s charlotte worthington. she took a sensational gold medal in the bmx freestyle. the 25 year old, former chef from manchester who only took up bmx seriously at the age of 20, after switching from her main love of scooters. she fell on her first run but then landed a backflip 360 a trick never before completed in a women s competition. a sensational performance. on the final day in the pool, us swimmer caeleb dressel took his gold me ....