home and their lives. a stark warning from the head of the international energy agency, as europe is told to prepare for russia turning off gas supplies. a new statue to the windrush generation is unveiled in london. a tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries in the 1940s. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and left many more injured. the quake measuring 6.1 in magnitude, damaging thousands of homes in one of the poorest countries in the world. the country, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the
lives. loaded into the truck. and glastonbury is back after the pandemic. the crowds are heading to the iconic music festival in england, hoping for sunshine. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s 6am in singapore, and 2.30am in afghanistan where humanitarian agencies are scrambling to organise emergency shelter and food aid, following an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people. un staff say medical teams and supplies have been despatched to the worst hit province, paktika. hundreds of houses there were destroyed by the magnitude 6.1 event, and hundreds of homeless families are facing a powerful storm and very heavy rain. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana, the capital of paktika province, where casualties from the earthquake are being cared for. a desperate search for survivors. hundreds of homes, entire communities, wiped out in a single dreadful moment in the middle of the night. everythi
evidence that males have an insurmountable performance advantage over comparator females so it is our hope all other sports follow suit, however we also need to find a way to include and make sure that our transgender community feel welcome in sport too, to the massive physical and mental advantages that it gives people. i think fina exploring an open category is a start but our transgender community is really diverse as well. boxing new zealand found that out when they went to our rainbow community here and said how can we include you? they came back requiring 12 different categories and over the 13 different categories that boxing already has, i think they ve got four different age divisions, etc, they worked out that it would be 1872 divisions that it would be 1872 divisions that they would need in boxing to accommodate, so maybe a separate division like we have with the paralympics, a trans 0lympics could be the answer so