invest billions and billions in hosting the olympics, and then millions of travellers will come from all over the world to your great cultural institutions, spending lots of money. as you can see, there s nobody here. shop owners here have seen sales fall by more than 90%. translation: it is - the government s fault. look at the other countries, like the uk and taiwan. they seem to be doing well. but look at japan. i cannot believe we call ourselves a developed country. back in tokyo, hundreds of athletes are now arriving each day. it s now clear that some of them will be carrying covid. the ioc s assertion that the games represent zero risk to public health is already starting to look flimsy. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. to discuss all this, i m joined now by professorjules boykoff, a former us footballer and an expert
this is kyoto, japan s ancient capital and number one tourist site. by now, this place should have been thronged with hordes of tourists from all over the world. forjapan, that was to be the big payoff. invest billions and billions in hosting the olympics and then millions of travellers will come from all over the world to your great cultural institutions, spending lots of money. as you can see, there s nobody here. shop owners here have seen sales fall by more than 90%. translation: it is - the government s fault. look at the other countries like the uk and taiwan. they seem to be doing well. but look at japan, i cannot believe we call ourselves a developed country. back in tokyo, hundreds of athletes are now arriving each day. it s now clear that some of them will be carrying covid. the ioc s assertion that the games represent zero risk to public health is already starting to look flimsy.
the government s fault. look at the other countries, like the uk and taiwan. they seem to be doing well. but look at japan. i cannot believe we call ourselves a developed country. back in tokyo, hundreds of athletes are now arriving each day. it is now clear that some of them will be carrying covid. the ioc s assertion that the games represent zero risk to public health is already starting to look flimsy. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. lisa m brosseau is research consultant at the university of minnesota center for infectious disease research and policy and she advises industry on how to reduce workplace risk to viruses. i asked her to assess to ioc s covid safety playbook. i have been criticising those efforts since the beginning. i think they have forgotten an important mode of
the government s fault. look at the other countries, like the uk and taiwan. they seem to be doing well. but look at japan. i cannot believe we call ourselves a developed country. back in tokyo, hundreds of athletes are now arriving each day. it s now clear that some of them will be carrying covid. the ioc s assertion that the games represent zero risk to public health is already starting to look flimsy. rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. the german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against climate change. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week s deadly flash floods, she expressed her shock at what she called surreal destruction . more heavy rain has caused furtherflooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports. we really need help here, she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why.