Of the days 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 youre 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 womens competition. A sensational performance. On the final day in the pool, us swimmer Caeleb Dressel took his Gold Medal tally to five. Winnin
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Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Team gb have two more Gold Medals on day 9 the tokyo olympics, with success in gymnastics and bmx. In the past hour, Max Whitlock has retained his olympic title, with gold in the Pommel Horse Final. He now becomes the most successful gymnast ever in the event and it brings his overall tally of olympic medals to three golds and three bronze. Well, in the Bmx Freestyle Charlotte worthington recovered from a fall in Herfirst Run to claim a remarkable victory and she becomes the first woman to complete a 360 Degree Backflip in competition. Duncan brooks took bronze in the Mens Event Britain have now won a medal in all four bmx events. And, there was further success in the swimming, with silver in the mens medley relay. Britain have now won a record eight medals in the pool. With four medals, duncan Scott Become Britains most successful athlete at an olympic game. So, lets hear more about Team Gb s medal winning performances
in west yorkshire is suspended after showing their class a cartoon of the prophet muhammad. on a night of world cup qualifiers for three home nations, england get their campaign under way with a resounding victory over san marino. these are the hands that touch us first. and a year after the first clap for carers, the author michael rosen, who nearly died from covid, reads his poem to thank the nhs. and coming up in sport on bbc news england will be without captain eoin morgan for the final two one day internationals of their series in india, due to a hand injury. good evening. mps have voted to extend emergency coronavirus powers in england until september, despite a large rebellion by backbench conservative mps against the plan. the government has refused to rule out extending the wide ranging powers in october. the health secretary matt hancock told the commons he expected people would continue to wear masks long after restrictions are lifted and warned cases could rise
about the alleged use of uighur forced labour in cotton production. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. president biden has held his first news conference as president of the united states. the 78 year old said he expected to run again in 202a. mr biden announced a doubling of his vaccination target in his first hundred days to 200 million doses, and defended his policies on immigration and gun control. here s our north america editorjon sopel. no fanfare, no hail to the chief, no fight with journalists. please, please, sit down, thank you. no one even called another beauty . this is about as different from the trump era as you could get, though the memory was there. my predecessor, oh, god, i miss him. he wanted to parade achievements the speeding up of vaccine delivery, the boost to the economy from his stimulus package and a new tone for political debate. t