welcome to bbc news — i'm lewis vaughanjones. our top stories: a first ever gold for bermuda — as flora duffy is celebrating after wininng the women's triathlon. heavy rain, wind and high waves expected injapan — prompting organisers to bring the surfing finals forward by 2a hours. afg hanistan�*s descent into violence continues with the un saying civilian deaths this year have increased by 50%. and pledging to unite a diverse country as canada's first indigenous governor—general is sworn into office.

the first medals of day four of the tokyo olympics has been won by bermuda — their first ever gold medal. flora duffy came first in the women's triathlon. bermuda is the smallest nation taking part in these games so, many of those 65,000 would have watched their fellow bermudian cross the finishing line around a minute ahead of second placed briton georgia taylor—brown. tom dean of britain won in swimming. 22 medals to be won today — an increase caused by the rescheduling of the surfing competition because of the weather. here's how the overall medal tally looks at the start of day 4 — japan leads with eight golds, one more than the us

and two ahead of china. more from tokyo later. in afghanistan — high numbers of civilians — many of them children — have been killed or injured in the first half of this year — according to the united nations. as violence escalates, more than 1,600 civilian deaths have been recorded — a rise of nearly 50% compared with this time last year. government forces have been fighting taliban insurgents — who now control vast areas of rural territory — following the withdrawal of most international troops. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani sent this report. fighting has been flaring across afghanistan. as international troops pull out, afghan forces have been trying to hold back an intensifying taliban advance. these brothers lived in ghazni province.

when fighting erupted close to their home, their family tried to flee. "the taliban stopped us," theirfather told me. "they accused my sons of being soldiers. "i went to get their id cards to prove they weren't, "but by the time i got back, they had already been shot." this year has seen record high numbers of child casualties. this horrendous attack left more than 80 dead, mostly schoolgirls. the un's warning violence could get even worse. unless there is a de—escalation in the conflict, we are very concerned that based on what we have seen in the past six months, we will see high levels and perhaps the highest on record number of civilian casualties.

so far most of the taliban's advance has been in more rural areas but their focus is increasingly switching to the more densely populated cities. with peace talks largely stalled, that means even more innocent lives are likely to be lost. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul. let's cross to the beach at choshi near tokyo now and speak to the bbc�*s rupert wingfield—hayes. to see you. a little windy? the pacific coast of japan, about two hours east of tokyo this morning, that's because we've had with the problems already with the olympics. 0n with the olympics. on sunday and monday, a lot of them with heat, with the tennis events, and the triathlon, very hot in tokyo. now we have a slightly different weather problem in that we have typhoon number eight currently off the coast to coming in this direction and

that has caused disruption to the surfing, they had to bring the surfing, they had to bring the surfing vinyls which were tomorrow, they brought them today to get out of this typhoon. this is the first time the surfing has ever been held in the olympics and what i know from living injapan is that japan has a very big surfing scene. many people outside japan may not knowjust how huge the japanese surfing scene is. this is the pacific coast ofjapan, about an hour and a half drive east of tokyo. this place is called ichinomiya, and it's really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that's because we've got a typhoon blowing in. when you think of surfing, probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, not japan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it's estimated around two millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before 6am.

the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy. this beach isjust 2km from where the olympic surfing competition is being held. so how do they feel about not being able to go along and watch? "it doesn't feel right not to be able to go "and watch ourselves," he says. "but other people may say it's not fair to have spectators "at surfing when other sports don't have spectators". that over there behind me, that's where the olympic surfing competition is taking place right now. this was supposed to be a huge festival of surfing. the first time it's ever been in the olympics. despite the fact we are outside, there's lots of wind, there are still no spectators and this is as close as we can get. that over there behind me, that's where the olympic

surfing competition is taking place right now. this was supposed to be a huge festival of surfing. just down the beach is the ldest surf shop in town run by shingo nakamura. so close but shingo and his staff are forced to watch the action on television. shingo�*s father was one of the first to develop surfing here, learning from american sailors based injapan. there's a lot of sadness and frustration here, but also hope that the world will see that japan is notjust about sumo orjudo,

but that it has a very cool surfing scene, too. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, ichinomiya, japan. that was lovely, you've got a real sense of the patient people have for surfing but i got distracted by the typhoon. how big an impact this have? well, there was real concern a couple of days ago because it looked like this typhoon no eight, they numbered them in japan, it looked like it was heading straight towards tokyo in real concern it would cause massive disruption to the events. it is disrupting the surfing. the good news is as of this morning, it looks like it's taken a sharp turn north, currently about 300 nautical miles, the centre of it, but it's quite a big storm, 300 nautical miles off the coast and moving towards where i am that it's expect it over the rest of the day to track further north up the coast here

and will actually miss tokyo. heavy rain, quite a lot of wind already, but tokyo is not going to take a direct hit. an places further west are going to get hit but fingers crossed, the olympics is going to be missed by the storm. we look forward to the actual sport. let's get some of the day's other news. president biden has said us troops will end their combat mission in iraq by the end of the year. america has about two thousand five hundred forces there, to help iraq fight the islamic state group. this comes as us forces are ending their mission in afghanistan too, and mr biden tries to wind down the wars that were launched after the 9/11 attacks. iraq's prime minister was at the white house on monday, as mr biden explained the role of us troops in the future. officials in north—eastern india say at least five police

officers have been killed in a territorial dispute between the states of assam and mizoram. the officers who died were from assam. more than 50 people were injured after clashes between police and civilians. tensions have been running high after a group of police officers from assam took over a hilly area of mizoram last month. at least 57 migrants drowned on monday after a boat capsized off the libyan coast near khums. that's according to the un's international organization for migration. hundreds of thousands have made the crossing in previous years, many fleeing conflict and poverty in africa and the middle east. the inuit rights advocate, mary simon, has become canada's first indigenous governor—general. at her swearing in ceremony in ottawa, she pledged to build bridges across the diverse backgrounds and cultures in canada at a time when the country is reckoning with its past.

courtney bembridge reports. do you swear that you will well and truly serve her majesty queen elizabeth ii in the office of keeper of the great seal of canada? i do. with those two simple words, history was made and mary simon became canada's first indigenous governor—general. today is an important and historic day for canada. but my story to these chambers began very far from here. i was born maryjeannie may in arctic quebec, now known as nunavut. my inuktitut name is ningiukudluk and, prime minister, it means �*bossy little old lady'. she will serve as the official representative of queen elizabeth, canada's head of state. she's already had a virtual monarch, but it comes at a time when the country is

grappling with its colonial past. this year, hundreds of unmarked graves have been found at former residential schools where indigenous children were taken after being forcibly separated from theirfamilies. the schools, often places of neglect and abuse, were run by the catholic church and part of a larger colonial policy to erase indigenous language and culture. in recent weeks, more than a dozen churches have been burned across canada, and statues toppled of queen elizabeth and queen victoria, who reigned over the country when the first residential schools were opened in the late 1800s. mary simon was a student at a day school similar to the residential schools, and says her appointment marks an important step forward on the long part path towards reconciliation. to meet this moment as governor—general, i will strive to hold together the attention of the past with the promise of the future.

she was nominated by prime ministerjustin trudeau after the sudden resignation of her predecessor amid bullying allegations. this is a big place, this is the diverse place. and so we need people like ms simon. because we need people who build bridges and bring us together. a message of unity from the prime minister, but his minority government is increasingly butting heads with opposition parties, so one of mary simon's first official tasks may be to dissolve parliament and trigger snap elections as early as september. courtney bembridge, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: horror and heroism, the moment passers—by tried to rescue a small child trapped

under a crashed car. crowd cheers. the us space agency, nasa, has ordered an investigation after confirmation today that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. the last foot patrol in south armagh. once an everyday part of the soldiers�* lot — drudgery and danger are now no more, after almost four decades. if one is on one's own in in a private house, not doing any harm to anyone, i don't really see why all these people should wander in and say, " you're

doing something wrong". six rare white lion cubs on the prowl at worcester park and already they've been met with a roar of approval from visitors. they are lovely, yeah, really sweet. yeah, they�* re cute. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: on day four of the tokyo olympics, a first ever gold for bermuda — flora duffy celebrates after winning the women's triathlon. afghanistan's descent into violence continues with the un saying civilian deaths this year have increased by 50 per cent. there've been international calls for calm in tunisia, after the country's president sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament following widespread protests about the govenrment�*s handling of the covid outbreak. after parliament was suspended, supporters of president kais saied clashed with those who oppose his action and accuse him of staging a coup. the president insists that he acted in line

with the nation's constitution. i asked steven cook, senior fellow for middle east and africa studies at the council on foreign relations, if he thinks this is a coup. it's a very, very good question. the president certainly has an assumed executive power — something that he previously shared with the prime minister — and has suspended the parliament for at least 30 days. that seems kind of like a coup, but of course, a coup is in the eye of the beholder, so he claims that everything he has done is perfectly legal and is consistent with article 80 of tunisia's constitution, where as his opponent, the parliamentary speaker, rached ghannouchi, who is the leader of an islamist party called ennahdha, has called it a coup d'etat. given time frames are often crucial here, how quickly do

you think some kind of stability could resume if, indeed, it can? well, it is a very good question because tunisia is quite a divided society, and as you are lead—in report suggested, there were a large numbers of people on the street hailing saied's effort to consolidate power in his hands. and ennahdha consistently gets the most votes in the country. if people defy a recent order by the president that makes gatherings of three people or more illegal, you could have a situation where you do have some instability in the country. already, on monday, there were protests and counter—protests, with supporters of the president facing off against those who oppose this move, so there is very much the possibility of broader instability in tunisia. what is you bet then

of what does happen in the next coming days and weeks — what kind of outcome could we expect? it seems at this point the president does retain the support of the security services, the national police, the ministry of interior, and the military. he also does seem to have at least some base of support among the tunisian people, who are tired of poor governance, a lack of economic opportunity, and, quite honestly, a third wave of covid—19 that has just devastated the country. it seems at least some significant number of the tunisian population is willing to give some form of authoritarianism a chance again. ok, we'll keep an eye on that situation. thank you so much for coming on. that was steven cook. flash floods, heatwaves, wildfires. we've seen some record—breaking extreme weather in the last few weeks. representatives of 51 nations have met in london for what the british government called "critical discussions" ahead of the landmark climate

conference due to be held in glasgow in november. our chief environment correspondentjustin rowlatt has been talking to the minister in charge of the conference, alok sharma. he says a priority will be persuading the world to stop using coal. i was very disappointed that we did not reach agreement on the transition to phase out of unabated coal use, and obviously we need to continue working with all partners and all countries to make sure that we do come forward with this. how sure are you that the funding pledged for developing countries will be delivered? back in 2009, the developed nations, donations, they said by 2020 there would be putting forward $100 billion to support coping with the impacts of climate change. in 2018, we

were short. i can't tell you how much of this figure... it a matter of trust. we must deliver on this 100 billion each year now. how confident are you people will come to glasgow and attend the conference face—to—face with two i have been clear from the start that this needs to be a physical conference. when i have talked to countries around the world, irrespective of if they are a developed nation or not, they understand why this needs to be a physical meeting. we have already delayed this by one year. during that year, climate change hasn't taken time. last year was in fact the hottest on record, last decade was the hottest decade on record, and the agency demands, this is under negotiation with over 200 countries, and it is why we need a physical meeting so we can sit on the table as equals and look at each other in the eyes. some shocking footage has emerged of the moment a mother and her daughter were run over

by a car in new york. the vehicle crashed into a barber's shop in the north of the city. there was then a frantic attempt to rescue the child — who was trapped under the car. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. a summer's day in new york, and a quiet street in the district of yonkers. it is around 8:30 in the morning and suddenly, out of nowhere, this happens. look again. this time, close up. you will see a woman and child hit by the car as it crashes into a shopfront. glass shatters. we got a baby under the vehicle! let's lift it up. this was the aftermath inside the barbershop on lake avenue. bystanders, including two police officers who had been getting breakfast at a nearby bagel shop, frantically tried to rescue the eight—month—old child trapped under the car. pull him out! come on, come on, kid!

amidst broken glass and twisted metal, they lift up the vehicle as best as they can, the situation increasingly desperate. come on, come on. i got it, i got it, i got the baby. finally, they pull her free. crying, injured, but thankfully still alive. it is ok, we got you. we got you. her mother, seen here sat in front of the car, has broken her leg and must ensure the sound of her daughter crying. both of them were later taken to hospital, but they are now said to be doing well. as for the man behind the wheel, he was taken into custody and is facing charges of driving under the influence. this was an awful moment. we have got a baby under the vehicle. let's lift it up. but also a chance for some to show heroism. tim allman, bbc news.

let's have a little more of that olympic spirit. like many young children, moroccan asmaa niang dreamt of being a superhero. as an adult, she came close to that, working as a firefighter. and now, at the age of 38, she's competing injudo at the olympic games in tokyo. emeline nsingi nkosi reports.

some good news — in israel, we saw the welcoming of a baby orangutan. it is one of the most endangered great apes in the world, and the zoo had gone a decade without a new birth. for a while, the baby was hidden under the mothers fur, so this is our first look at the little orangutan, yet to be

named. zookeepers want something to start with the letter t, just like the mother. that is all from me. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. hello. the forecast for the next few days is looking quite turbulent and at times very wet indeed, with some torrential, heavy, thundery downpours, albeit with some sunny spells in between. now, let's take a look at the recent satellite picture because you can see all of these areas of cloud just rotating around, circulating on top of the uk, and this pattern continues with low pressure firmly in charge. close to the centre of the low, particularly, we are going to see some really intense downpours and thunderstorms popping up during tuesday. so, some cloud and some showery rain from the word go across western and southern parts, a bit more sunshine further east. but through the day, the showers will pop up quite

widely, and some of them will be very heavy and thundery, especially across parts of north wales, the north midlands, northern england and scotland. and with very light winds, those showers will be very slow—moving, so in one or two places, we could see an awful lot of rain, giving rise to localised flash flooding. temperatures not doing too badly in the sunshine between the showers, as high as 23—24 degrees. some of those big showers and storms will rumble on through tuesday evening into the early hours of wednesday, and we start to see some more persistent rain developing across parts of scotland. so, low pressure still very much with us for the middle part of the week. in the centre of the low, an area of rainfall is going to become very slow—moving across scotland, so that could well cause some flooding issues. see, the rain will just continue here throughout the day. for northern ireland, england and wales, it's sunshine and showers again, some of the showers heavy and thundery. some really squally, gusty winds, but the winds generally will be a bit stronger on wednesday. so, at least that means

the showers, where they do turn up, should move through a little more quickly. temperatures will be lower on wednesday, though. quite cool for the time of year actually, 14—20 degrees. as we move out of wednesday into thursday, the rain across scotland will only slowly pivot and start to move southwards. so, before this rain finishes, some places across scotland could see 100 millimetres or more, hence the potential for flooding. some of that rain drifting southwards into northern ireland and northern england through the day. some sunshine further south, chance of one or two showers, but we could well see another area of wet and blustery weather pushing into the far south west later in the day. and temperature still a little disappointing, 17—21 degrees.

this is bbc news — the headlines: day four of the tokyo olympics has got underway — and the first medals have been given out. bermuda's flora duffy won gold in the women's triathlon — ahead of team gb�*s georgia taylor—brown. it's bermuda's first ever gold — and they are the smallest nation competing at the games. new figures from the un suggest afghanistan has seen a record number of civilians killed in the first half of this year. the un says there's been a 47 percent increase in deaths the inuit rights advocate — mary simon — has become canada's first indigenous woman to hold the post of governor—general. at her swearing—in ceremony — the official representative of queen elizabeth pledged to strive to build bridges across the diverse backgrounds and cultures that reflect canada's uniqueness and promise.