elsewhere in tokyo, our correspondent mariko oi is on the streets of tokyo to gauge the athmosphere in the city where so many would rather the spectacle wasn t happening. well, samantha, last night, when we were here for the opening ceremony, this place wasjam packed with not much social distancing taking place. and as you say, a lot of people still queueing up to take a picture with the olympic rings. i think it s fair to say that some people are getting excited. of course, we did have those protests as well last night. but here, outside the stadium, people got very excited when they saw that roving globe created by 2,000 drones during the opening ceremony, which we could see from here as well. i also managed to get some newspapers for you, to show you some of the reaction here injapan. this one says delayed by a year no cheers but let s hope the power of sport will bring some joy. the paper wishes the athletes the best of luck, but also wishing
much social distancing taking place. and as you say, a lot of people still queueing up to take a picture with the olympic rings. i think it s fair to say that some people are getting excited. of course, we did have those protests as well last night. but here, outside the stadium, people got very excited when they saw that roving globe created by 2,000 drones during the opening ceremony, which we could see from here as well. i also managed to get some newspapers for you, to show you some of the reaction here injapan. this one says delayed by a year no cheers but let s hope the power of sport will bring some joy. the paper wishes the athletes the best of luck, but also wishing them, hoping that they would stay healthy and safe. also this newspaper. whoops, apologies. this newspaper showing a picture of emperor naruhito who declared the opening of the tokyo olympics last night, just as his grandfather did for the 1964 games. and there were some people
morning, here? well, as rupert mentioned in his report, we felt that excitement here as well outside the liberty stadium. several 100 people gathered to watch it. they were very excited to see that roving globe made by several 100 drones here as well. i also managed to grab some newspapers for you. i managed to grab some newspapers for you this morning. this is a delayed by a year, no cheers. but it also says that let s hope sport bring some joy. it wishes the athletes good luck but to stay safe and healthy. and i want to show you this picture of the emperor naruhito, who declared the opening of the tokyo olympics just like his grandfather for the 1964 games. there were some people on twitter who were comparing the duration of the emperor s speech,
this place was jampacked with not much social distancing taking place. as you say, a lot of people still queueing up to take a picture with the olympic rings. it is fair to say that some people are getting excited, of course, we did have those protests as well last night, but here, outside the stadium, people were very excited when they saw that roving globe created by 2000 drones in the opening ceremony, which we can see here as well. i also got some newspapers here to show you some of the reaction here injapan. this one says, delayed by a year, no cheers, but let s hope the power of sports will bring some joy, the power of sports will bring some joy, the paper wishes the athletes the best of luck but also hoping that they would stay healthy safe stop also, this newspaper. this newspaper showing the picture of an polite no hitter, who declared the opening of the tokyo olympics last
and missed out on a medal at the last x in rio. last olympics. mike, thank you very much. elsewhere in tokyo, our correspondent mariko oi is on the streets of tokyo to gauge the atmosphere in the city where so many would rather the spectacle wasn t happening. well, samantha, last night when we were here for the opening ceremony, this place was jampacked with not much social distancing taking place. as you say, lots of people still queueing up to take a picture with the olympic rings. i think it is fair to say that some people are getting excited. of course, we had those protests as well last night, but here outside the stadium, people were very excited when they saw that roving globe created by 2000 drones during the opening ceremony, which we could see from here as well. i also managed to get some newspapers to show you some of the reaction