that was emily campbell, another great day, day two producing lots of upsets and plenty more to comend we'll have more on the olympics from the bbc sports centre later this hour. thousands of people in the western united states are spending the weekend in evacuation centers as wildfires continue to burn across the region. more than 80 large wildfires in 13 states have destroyed around 1.3 million acres in recent weeks. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. the dixie wildfire, california's biggest blaze to the north of the state, is growing rapidly. firefighters are battling day and night to try to bring it under control, but it's spreading with such ferocity that it's making its own weather, creating huge clouds that are generating lightning strikes across the region. about a fifth of the fire's perimeter has been contained, but officials say the extreme nature of the fire, along with low humidity, is hampering efforts to quell the flames. people have been evacuated from their homes in several nearby counties. smoke from the fire is travelling far and wide and is eve

that was emily campbell, another great day, dating producing lots of upsets and plenty more to come frombc sports centre and speak to austin halewood, who's been watching the action in tokyo. at the end of the second day, quite a lot to talk about, let's talk about japan's success festival. absolutely, another really busy day from tokyo and it really has been a great start to the games forjapan, a remarkable story from the shadow here today, uta abe and her brother hifumi both taking gold medals within hours of each other, uta abe in the women's and her brother in the 66 kilograms category, the first siblings in any sport ever to win olympic gold medals on the very same day, and injago it originated in japan, huge sport over there, making that even more special for the home fans watching around the country. and if that wasn't enough japan took another gold in the men's skateboarding, the world champion yuto horigome won the men's street event not to far from where he grew up event not to far from where he grew up as a boy, so wise decision by the looks of it from the organisers to debut

i'll also be speaking to british weightlifter emily campbell about how she's preparing for her event. all that in a moment here on bbc world news. i'm tim willcox in london. in other news... plans to require football fans to be fully vaccinated if they want to go to premier league matches from october are being considered by the uk government. wildfires in northern california force thousands into evacuation centres while a covid outbreak in oregon puts firefighters into quarantine. it's day two of the olympics and the sporting action has brought us just the sort of unpredictability and excitement only these games can bring. there have been some major shocks in the swimming pool — a world record was broken — and today has brought something of a gold rush forjapan�*s olympians. mariko oi has the details. what an exciting evening for teamjapan but in particular for one family — thejudo siblings uta and hifumi abe winning double gold medals within an hour of each other, and now the hashtag the most powerful siblings is trending on social media. also, earlier in the day, we had yuto horigo

i'll also be speaking to british weightlifter emily campbell about how she's preparing for her event.ootball fans to be fully vaccinated if they want to go to premier league matches from october are being considered by the uk government. wildfires in northern california force thousands into evacuation