RIver In south wales. How a brItIsh surgeon who travelled to aleppo to treat vIctIms of the SyrIan CIvIl War nIne Years ago InspIred a syrIan boy to become a doctor weve a specIal report. Also comIng up thIs hour. WIth three months untIl the un clImate Change Conference In glasgow the World WIldlIfe Fund joIns forces wIth leadIng InternatIonal artIsts to InspIre global actIon. Team gb are lookIng to add to theIr Medal Haul at the Tokyo OlympIcs wIth 22 gold medals up for grabs In todays events. The fIrst of the Track CyclIng events are underway and there are hIgh hopes for the team In three Day EventIng thIs mornIng. MeanwhIle, the SprInterfrom Belarus who says she was beIng forced to return home from the games agaInst her wIll Is seekIng asylum In europe. More on that In a moment, but fIrst for a full Round Up of the actIon at the olympIcs, lets cross to Jane Dougall At The Bbc Sport centre. Good mornIng. QualIfyIng for the Womens Team PursuIt Is under way wIth Team Gb up agaInst germ
How a brItIsh surgeon who travelled to aleppo to treat vIctIms of the SyrIan CIvIl War nIne years ago InspIred a syrIan boy To Become a doctor. We have a specIal report. Also comIng up thIs hour. WIth three months untIl the un clImate Change Conference In glasgow, the World WIldlIfe Fund joIns forces wIth leadIng InternatIonal artIsts to InspIre global actIon. Hello from tokyo. Its beIng reported that a belarusIan sprInter who sought protectIon, after she claImed she was ordered to return home from the olympIc games, has applIed for asylum In the PolIsh Embassy there. Yesterday KrystIna TsImanouskaya saId she feared for her safety If she was sent back To Belarus, as a penalty for crItIcIsIng her coaches on SocIal MedIa. What you are seeIng here Is the latest pIctures of her leavIng a sIlver van, latest pIctures of her leavIng a sIlvervan, enterIng latest pIctures of her leavIng a sIlver van, enterIng the PolIsh Embassy. She was greeted by two offIcIals before she went In. The offIcIals
To go through what we did. I think the pandemic has showed us the sacrifices that they give. I think the pandemic has showed us the value and sacrifices that they give. Before leaving, abbas s family gave karim a final, touching gift. A surgical textbook once belonging to abbas, now with a new generation of doctor. Charlie haynes, Bbc News. Time for a look at the weather. Heres nick miller. A Hint Ofjekyll and hyde in our weather at the start of this week, clear skies at times, and although temperatures are below average for this time of year it still feels warm in The Sunshine but the other face of the weather is Torrential Downpours, already bouncing off the panto on the isle of Wight Today with reports from the met office some spots may have had over 100 millimetres of rain from some particularly heavy downpours that have moved through, on the railfor radar. A few showers developing elsewhere in england and wales so there is a risk of flooding from some of these. Some rain in Northe
Releasing it in cinemas. Hello and welcome to the programme. After hitting a new record for the number of confirmed daily cases of more than 10,000 injapan, a State Of Emergency already in place In Tokyo has been extended to more regions. Theres increasing concern that enthusiasm for the olympics has contributed to a spike in coronavirus cases. Im joined now by Mariko 0i who is In Tokyo for us. Mariko what do we know about the expansion of the State Of Emergency . As you said, the government has proposed to State Of Emergency to include the prefectures of Tokyo And Osaka which should be confirmed later today and the State Of Emergency in place but Tokyo And Osaka and yokohama extended by ten days to the end of august. How effective this will be to control the pandemic, that remains to be seen, because it has been under a State Of Emergency for two weeks now but we continue to see that spike. I think the question is, what can the government do, what else can the government do to control