Scared to return home and fears for her family s safety. And jamaica s elaine thompson herah becomes the first woman in history to win gold medals for the 100 metre and 200 metre races at back to back olympics. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. It s newsday. It s 6am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president biden has said that andrew cuomo should stand down as governor of new york after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed women while in office. Mr cuomo has denied allegations that he harassed 11 women, many of them young, by engaging in what the investigation described as unwanted groping, kisses, hugging and inappropriate comments. Mr biden said he had not read the details of the investigation, but he said he stood by his comments from earlier this year that if the investigation found against mr cuomo, then the governor should go. Back in march, you said if the investigation confirmed the allegations against governor cuomo,
I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances. That is just not who i am. And as records are broken at the olympics, are super shoes giving athletes an unfair advantage on the track? we start in afghanistan, where an attack on the home of the afghan defence minister has ended in the capital kabul, according to officials, with all the attackers killed. The first explosion occurred near the diplomatic quarters and a busy market square, where there are many government buildings. A powerful explosion, which you can see here, was fallowed by bursts of gunfire as armed men fought their way into the home of the defence minister, bismillah khan mohammadi our international correspondent lyse doucet is in the green zone in kabul. Tell us more about what we know about what happened to. You may still here the about what happened to. You may still here the constant about what happened to. You may still here the constant rat about what happened to. You may still he
And nonconsensual touching. Records are broken at the olympics are super shoes giving athletes and unfair advantage at the track? we will speak to an expert. We start in afghanistan where the capital kabul has come under attack. A series of blasts have been heard near the defence minister s home. The explosion occurred near the diplomatic quarters and a busy market square where there are many government buildings. You can see the smoke here following the attack targeting the home of the country s defence minister. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. We re also hearing of a second blast and sporadic gunfire. Syed anwar works for the bbc s afghan service is in kabul. What more do we know about the blast? well about the blast? there was a very loud explosion this well there was a very loud explosion this evening, after an hour it is clear that the carb warm targeted the guesthouse of acting government defence minister. The gun men entered inside the guest house an
jamaica threatened with olympic expulsion because of doping. all the details later in the program. hello, france has called for the world to react with force. if it s confirmed that the syrian government has used chemical weapons on its people. secluded boots on the ground as an option. while the u.n. has are already called for an investigation. an activist said, if the americans the british the french and why not the russians as well because they too have condemned the use of chemical arms. you remember? in principle, the russians signed the treaty which prohibits the use of chemical weapons. there has been reactions, turkey s foreign minister said all lines have been crossed. criticized the u.n. security council for its inaction. if such an attack was proven the rebels were responsible. and germany has urged the government to grant full access to u.n. chemical weapons experts to investigate the attack. well the attack allegedly happened in the southern suburbs o
politician bo xilai. and expulsion over doping procedures. more than two years after he was overthrown and then arrested, hosni mubarak is tonight out of prison. his release comes seven weeks later. it s not for long. helicopter rises from the tour of prison after hours of legal procedure hosni mubarak is released. but his immediate destination is just a short flight down the road his release is very much a technical term. he ll remain house arrest under the decree issued by the prime minister. a ban from him leaving the country has been imposed. we have lost everything. now justice will return and everything negative will we stayed away from will come back. mubarak is expected to be back behind bars in the courtroom on sunday when his trial on charge of complicit in the civilian deaths during the 2011 revolution resumes. the implication is that mubarak is not being acquitted. mubarak will now go to trial for three different cases. it means for the muslim brotherh