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Thank you very much for being with us. turning to the olympics now, and weve now reached day nine of the games. heres the medal table as it stands at the moment. china is on top with 21 gold medals, followed by host nation japan with 17. well talk about the sport itself in a moment and what we can expect in the coming hours but first, lets cross live to our reporter mariko 0i, whos in tokyo for us. marinko. —— mariko. the number of new covid—i9 cases here in tokyo surpassed 4000 for the ve...

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The heavens can help us to answer some of the biggest questions like where we come from and how did we get here? this space telescope will help us to look further back in time than ever before to 13 and a half billion years ago, revealing the light from the very first stars to shine. the final preparations have been under way. its an incredibly tight fit, as the rocket is tentatively lowered over the folded telescope. this is high stakes science, but if it works, it could lead to discoveries tha...

Lets cross to the bbc sport centre and join gavin. its not looking good for england in adelaide. australia declared setting them a total of 468 to win, but with the end of the fourth day of the second test in sight, they have a battle to stay in this. things began well for england — jos buttler making up for dropping steve smith, the australia captain for this test. smith went for just six, but australia found their rhythm — and half centuries from travis head, and marnus labuschagne helped ...

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Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in the last half hour, red bulls max verstappen has won his first formula one world championship after beating rival lewis hamilton in a dramatic abu dhabi grand prix. verstappen took the title after a last—lap overtake. lets cross to the bbc sport centre and hugh ferris. he is still standing despite all of that. my goodness, what an afternoon. take us through it. i’m afternoon. take us through it. im sittin: afternoon. take us through it. in sitting b...

Year conservatorship returns to court today in a high—stakes hearing, the court will soon decide whether to revoke an order which gives the father and layers of britney spears control over her affairs and finances. lets cross to the court in los angeles and speak to our correspondent. sophie, a much—anticipated decision pending. what is going to happen? what will be here in court today?— be here in court today? wow, this is a ve bi be here in court today? wow, this is a very big day for �...

Anomaly that year. but over several decades, there is no doubt about what is happening. and this is what landsat is about. it was first launched in 1972 as a joint programme between the us space agency and you like us walter ve. it was called the orth resources technology. subsequent missions were all renamed and we have the lights going up this evening. really, it is that long time. there are satellites up that long time. there are satellites up there now. you can see the earth much sharper, bu...

Ayman. >> were looking at those live pictures of the president shaking hands with what appears to be some residents there. hes flanked as well by our new york city mayor, bill de blasio, as well as he continues touring that area in east elmhurst. mike, lets cross over to you and pose to you the question that the president is going to receive as we heard from that woman earlier from new jersey. the white house is asking congress to pass additional funds to help address the aftermath of the damage...

Hudson valley, and the capital district region. were working with the power companies. i have told them clearly and convincingly my opinion, that this is what we pay the power companies to do — to be ready for storms. weve seen this movie before. we dont pay power companies to be ready to prepare power for sunny days. we pay them to prepare power when its hard and to recover quickly after a storm. lets cross to new york now. 0ur correspondent bahman kalbasi is on fire island on the atlantic co...