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This is bbc news. the headlines: a golden start in tokyo — china has picked up two gold medals on the first day of the olympics, with yang qian winning the first in the women's ten metre air rifle. president biden has warned that the us is facing a "pandemic of the unvaccinated", as cases of the delta variant of coronavirus spreads across the country. several people have been arrested in sydney as thousands of anti—lockdown protesters breached covid—19 restrictions after authorities suggested measures could remain in place until october. hundreds more covid testing sites are to be set up...

The first medals of the tokyo olympics have been won. china's yang qian took gold in the women's ten metre air—rifle event. russia's anastasia galashina came second — and switzerland's nina christen won bronze. there are another ten gold medals up for grabs on day one of the games. president biden has warned that the united states is facing a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" as the delta variant of coronavirus spreads rapidly in areas where the uptake ofjabs has been low. mr biden said virtually all hospitalisations and deaths were among people who had not been vaccinated. tackling britain's...

We will get this fixed. >> tim "fox news sunday," mick mulvaney says while he is optimistic and hopeful congress can reach a deal to end this soon, he believed some democrats wanted the shutdown to distract from the president the comp which men on the anniversary of his exoneration. >> up i get over that, there's a chance this thing gets done before 9:00 on monday morning and if that doesn't happen it can go several days. other democrats want to see the president give the state of the union during the shutdown. >> albania said the administration is doing everything it can to minimize the impac...

Unhelpful in providing any real details about exactly what's going on. today, even though the state department is not sharing much of what's happening in cuba, they did take a big dramatic step. they announced they're pulling about 60% of the u.s. embassy staff out of the embassy of the united states and cuba. about 50 americans working at the havana embassy and the only ones to stay behind now are so-called essential staff, people there just to carry out emergency services. the state department has also announced they'll stop processing visas in cuba indefinitely. as of monday, no more visas ...

Would cause the symptoms that diplomats have experienced in cuba. so we know these incidents started in the fall of last year and then stopped for a while and then this summer, apparently, they picked up again. the most recent reportedly happened in late august. and we know all of that stuff from reporting, not from our government, not from the state department. they've been tight lipped an unhelpful in providing any real details about exactly what's going on. today, even though the state department is not sharing much of what's happening in cuba, they did take a big dramatic step. they announ...