Towns and villages evacuated. One of the worlds great footballers, Lionel Messi, is leaving barcelona, after more than 20 years. I am Sarah Mulkerinns Live In Tokyo on Day 1a of the games, we have had the first medal of the day and if the 50 kilometre mens walk. A very warm welcome. Dozens of Taliban Insurgents have been killed in a battle for control of Lashkar Gah forces fighting on several fronts. This map shows you some of the key areas of the fighting in kandahar, herat and Lashkar Gah. This is the situation earlier on thursday in herat, with taliban fighters reportedly moving at will, in much of the city. Here are the thoughts of some of the residents. Translation the situation is tough. | 0ur Houses have all been destroyed. People have all fled. There are eight or nine taliban on the roof of our house. If the Security Force hit there, everything will be destroyed. Then where should we go . Translation we feel very bad. Our house is in the in the basin area. Right now, the taliba
Across america, Dna Testing is uncovering a disturbing side to the largely unregulated fertility industry. Angelica casas reports. I see you, Evie Cheering across america, Dna Testing is uncovering a disturbing side to the largely unregulated fertility industry. I had prayed for 15 years to have another child. I was given this referral to see a Fertility Doctor, and i agreed to do the Artificial Insemination and that we knew that it would be an anonymous donor that would be used. Families have found out decades old secrets, turning their lives upside down. I took 23andme. I had no idea what i was about to stumble upon when those results came in. Hundreds of women who believed they were being artificially inseminated by anonymous donors say they were duped by their Fertility Doctors. Cases of doctor daddies, where Fertility Docs use their own sperm i to impregnate patients. Her biological father was actually her moms Fertility Doctor. It didnt make sense. Like, how . How is that possibl
Polands Dawid Tomala has won gold in the mens 50km Race Walk. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. There has been fierce fighting in the southern afghan city of Lashkar Gah. Dozens of Taliban Insurgents are reported to have been killed in a battle for control of the city. Afghan forces, backed by us air strikes, are fighting on several fronts. This map shows you some of the key areas of the fighting in kandahar, herat, as well as Lashkar Gah. This is the situation earlier on thursday in herat, with taliban fighters reportedly moving freely in much of the city. Here are the thoughts of some of the residents. Translation the situation is tough. | our houses have all been destroyed. People have all fled. There are eight or nine taliban on the roof of our house. If the Security Force hit there, everything will be destroyed. Then where should we go . Translation we feel very bad. Our house is in the in the basin area. Right now, the taliban came into the area from
Now on Bbc News, living with arina, nina is experiencing an independence that had always been out of reach for her in the past. But can she make the transition into Assisted Living . Hello. Lots of talk about heavy showers in this forecast, but it is important to point out it wont be raining all the time. There will be some drier, sunnier moments, too, but, yes, some areas on friday will be dealing with heavy, even intense thundery downpours, particularly across northern parts of the uk. Whereas further south, therell still be some heavy showers to contend with, but theyll tend to move through more quickly. More in the way of sunshine, more of the day dry compared with to the north, because to the southern flank of this area of low pressure which has come in, the winds are strongest, so the showers move through more quickly. But if youre close to the centre of this area of low pressure thats really across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, north wales, too the showers just h
Andrew pollard, a key figure in the development of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. Science has offered us tools to beat the virus. Are we making the most of them . Professor sir andrew pollard, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, there. It is pretty much seven months since that historic day when the uk began the Roll Out of the vaccine you were intimately involved with developing. That is the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. In those seven months, has the impact of that vaccine been what you expected . Well, there has over that seven months been the most enormous impact. I mean, theres now A Billion doses of the Oxford Vaccine which are out the door. And those vaccines are already having that impact. Theres almost certainly now hundreds of thousands of lives that have been saved already this year from the vaccine. So the impact is enormous, and i think its probably more than we could ever have hoped for, given the predictions from even a year ago about how long it would take to get to this point. B