Well, welcome to saturday. Were so grateful to see you, im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Your new day starts right now. The only way we could lose, in my opinion, i really mean this, pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on. This is the biggest load of bull i ever heard. He refuses to do what ever other president ial candidates in decades has done and release his tax return. The folks out here say they did not expect it to happen this way. They thought theyd get some rain and some flooding maybe up to their front pomps. Terrifying scene out here in st. Helena parish. At this point, more rain to
come. Michael phelps making olympics history again. Breakout star Simone Manuel also breaking history becoming the first africanamerican woman to ever win an individual swimming event. Well good morning. Were going to begin this morning with the race for the white house. And donald trump who headed to connecticut tonight where hes going to rally supporters. Yeah, and trumps visit to connecticut
Some breaking news, the us has just topped 20 million cases of coronavirus. This come as Research Confirms the the new coronavirus variant discovered in the uk has a much quicker rate of transmission. If the new variant is now present, with this increase in the r number, all of a sudden instead of a decrease of 30 , we get a massive increase, the number of cases over the same period could triple. So, this is more or less the most serious change in the virus that weve seen. The us struggles to roll out the Covid Vaccine as it records over 20 million cases, according to thejohn hopkins university. A new era begins, as the brexit transition period ends and the uk completes its formal separation from the european union. Now on bbc news sportday. Hello and welcome to sportsday im sarah mulkerrins, coming up. 2021 is off to a flyer for bristol as the bears win to move second in the premiership and hand newcastle their first loss of the season. Amid rising coronavirus cases japans Prime Minis
England and wales. But in the afternoon thick cloud will work their way in across the snow capped mountains in scotland and north west england. Indeed, a shower stream is set up in the North Channel and will bring showers to the isle of man, north wales and the west of england, with the wettest area around the wirral. Away from this it is a fine afternoon with plenty of sunshine. Turning cloudy for scotland and Northern Ireland and in the far north of scotland we will see a band of rain moving. That is associated with a warm front, so damp weather pushes into scotland and slipped southwards overnight with the front weakening. Hill fog patches across the north and potentially quite dense patches of fog in england and wales where it will be another cold night. Eventually it turns milder later in the night in scotland and Northern Ireland as that mild air
works its way in. Over the next few days High Pressure will stay mainly with us over the uk. We are in the midst of a quiet autumnal sp
This is bbc news. The headlines the National Guard has been called in to help restore order in the American City of minneapolis which has now seeen its third night of violence and unrest. Crowds have been protesting against the killing of an African American man at the hands of the police. The state governor said he took the decision following widespread rioting on wednesday. The united states, britain, canada and australia have issued a joint statement warning that chinas National Security law in hong kong would curtail individual liberties there. They said it raised the prospect of people being convicted of political crimes and would make existing tensions worse. President trump has signed an executive order targeting social media companies, after being angered by twitter tagging two of his posts as potentially misleading. The measures limit the legal immunity the companies have against being held liable for what people post on their platforms. For two and a half months,
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hello and welcome to sportsday. i m marc edwards. raising the bar. italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrills home fans by taking highjump gold at the european athletics championships. erik staying hag, the dutchman, will remain as manager of manchester united following a post season review and still in with a chance. pakistan beat canada as they live to fight another day at the t20 world cup. hello and thanks forjoining us on sportsday. we begin with the penultimate day of the european athletics championships in rome with some of contenders sure to star at the olympic games in paris at the end ofjuly in action on tuesday. italy s olympic champion gianmarco tamberi thrilled the home fans by taking high jump gold while dutch star femke bol won the women s 400 metres hurdles gold. our correspondent natalie pirks is in the italian capital. well, another very busy night began with back to back championship records in both the men and women s 400 metre hurdles from world c