would have got steven gardiner. _ event. would have got steven gardiner, how _ event. gardiner, how is he looking? he: 3 looking pretty good. it's going to be the athlete that keeps their head on the day, to use a phrase the american athletes like to use, execute their race correctly and it will be the athletes i think that have coped and dealt with the situation notjust have coped and dealt with the situation not just for have coped and dealt with the situation notjust for today but over the last 18 months. it has been a really weird build—up to these olympic games, not the normal sort of build—up, so it is going to be that person and i did predict that there will be a lot of champions and medallists to come out of this you are not necessarily defeatist or fastest or strongest or the best, but those who have managed to adapt and change the way they have had to prepare for these games, the ones that may come out on top and the ones that can deal with this we would situation we find ourselves in in 2021, competing in the 2020 olympics which is a weird one to get your he

i am sarah mulkerrins live tokyo on day 14, where steven gardiner won 400—metre gold to secure the bahamast medal of the games. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it's 6am in the morning here in singapore and 2:30am in the morning across afghanistan, where the government is mobilizing its forces to try to repel taliban fighters as they move in on several big cities. 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. 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 came i

i'm sarah mulkerrins live in tokyo on day 14, where steven gardiner won 400—metres gold to secure athletesaving to battle the extreme heat injapan forcing _ the extreme heat injapan forcing the women's gold metal football— forcing the women's gold metal football match to be moved. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it's 7am in the morning here in singapore, and 3:30am in the morning across afghanistan, where the government is mobilising its forces to try to repel taliban fighters as they move in on several big cities. 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. | 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 de

we'll have all the latest from the olympics, including steven gardiner�*s win for the bahamas.s taken gold in the men's 400 metres race. we start in afghanistan, where fierce fighting has been raging in several provincial capitals. the afghan army is fighting back in crowded neighbourhoods, and all this putting more and more civilians in danger. herat in the west of the country is one of two provincial capitals being targetted by the militants there's been similar being targetted by the militants. there's been similar intense fighting in laskar gar in the south, with large parts of that city under the taliban's control. local people say dead bodies are lying in the streets. we have exclusive pictures from herat inside one of the cities being besieged by the taliban. this footage is from the photo—journalist masood husseini, one of the few journalists still inside herat. these pictures were filmed in the last 48 hours. he and other media who are there have been told to evacuate as soon as they can. as the fighting escalates fears are growing of a massive humanitarian crisis. let

we'll have all the latest from the olympics, including steven gardiner�*s win for the bahamas.