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at least 430 migrants made the journey across the english channel to the uk yesterday a new record for a single day. we ve just come across this small dinghy, probably three or four metres long. we think there s maybe 12,13 on board. a couple of small children at the front and a couple of women. i ve asked them how long they ve been at sea this morning they ve said a couple of hours. the met office issues its first ever amber weather warning for heat as parts of the country will hit 33 degrees celsius. and we re at some eid al adha celebrations the first time many muslims have been able to mark the festival in person since the start of the pandemic. and coming up on the bbc news channel: coronavirus continues to dominate the build up to the tokyo olympics as yet more athletes test positive with just three days to go. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. downing street has tried to clear up confusion about whether people should self isolate when p ....
engineers, making it the first fully automated space tourism mission. yes, nine days ago we thought sir richard branson, he went with three other passengers. we saw sir richard branson. this time, you will see when the new shepherd launches, they will just be four people see when the new shepherd launches, they willjust be four people on board, all civilians was not a fully autonomous flight. it is quite something, when you think about it, there will be travelling 62 miles above the earth s surface, no pilot on board. there will be a huge number of personal emission control, they will rocket up to 62 miles above the earth s surface, that internationally recognised boundary of space and they will have just eight fewer minutes up there where they will be able to float weightless and experience that few of us before they descend firstly in a freefall, so going out without a human pilot, fully autonomous, and a freefall back to earth before parachutes are released and when the ....
vaccinated avoiding to have to quarantine. bronze for team gb s charlotte dujardin who has riden into the record books, as britain s most decorated female olympian of all time with six medals. this is wonderful. gold to great britain in the men s 4x200 metres freestyle relay! and britain s swimmers strike gold again at the tokyo olympics with victory in the men s 200 metre freestyle relay. the american gymnast, simone biles, pulls out of another final saying she wants to focus on her mental health. nearly 28,000 new covid i9 cases have been reported in the last 2a hours across britain that s an increase of over 4,000 and the first rise in the daily total after seven days of falling cases. prince charles unveils a national memorial in honour of all the british police officers who ve died in the line of duty. and after liverpool lost its world heritage status, it s given instead to the slate landscapes of north west wales. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. t ....
around 32 degrees. even around the coasts. further north temperatures in the mid to high 20s. but notice the yellows in the north and east of scotland and the coast of north east england, the temperatures limited by the cloud. some storms in eastern england with hail and flash flooding. the temperatures tonight still in the 20s. it takes a long time for them to drop down to the mid teens in the morning. the showers fading by the morning. mist and low cloud spreading in, but still temperatures 19 degrees starting tomorrow. after the warm start, northern ireland will have the extreme heat warning with an amber warning. temperatures will climb further here. plenty of sunshine again on wednesday. a few showers later. but a cloudier start to eastern parts of scotland and north east england before that low cloud melts away and into the afternoon 30, 31 in the south west. around 30 across fermanagh in the afternoon. and it could get hotter in northern ireland on thursday. we s ....
also on the programme. nightclubs reopen for the first time since last march as covid restrictions are lifted in england, but there s a last minute sting in the tail for revellers. we re are planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather. proof of a negative test will no longer be enough. that came on the day almost all covid restrictions were lifted in england, as cases continue to surge. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel, yet more covid cases among athletes in tokyo, with the olympics just days away from the opening ceremony. good evening. the prime minister s former chief adviser dominic cummings has claimed that borisjohnson resisted tightening coronavirus restrictions again last autumn because the virus mainly affected the elderly. in a series of whatsapp messages seen by the bbc, borisjohnson appears to say that the people who were dying of covid were essentially all over 80 , and ....