The japanese government and organisers are planning to hold the 12 day event largely without spectators, following a surge in covid 19 cases. So what will it mean for sponsors? during the olympic games, toyota chose not to run olympics related tv commercials in japan. And panasonic scaled back its client entertainment plans after spectators were banned. Will the paralympics face similar challenges? joining me now is conrad wiacek, who s the head of sport analysis at globaldata. How does the paralympics sponsorship work? obviously for the vast majority of sponsors they were given activation plans for years in the making. Without fans in attendance, the ability to engage with fans directly, those activation plans would have changed to a more digital focus and there will be a change of strategy for a lot of these brands in their association with the olympics and paralympics. and paralympics. Presumably they need and paralympics. Presumably they need to and paralympics. Presumably th
Police announce a new lead. And delayed by a year but athletes are hoping to shine the 2020 paralympics gets under way in tokyo. Good evening and welcome to the programme. With the united states today refusing to budge from its deadline of august 31 for withdrawing troops from afghanistan a g7 virtual summit shared by boris johnson appealed to the taliban to allow safe passage and beyond that date for anyone wants to leave. But in an hardening of tone the taliban today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated in the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be airlifted out. They also said that all international evacuations need to be completed by the end of the month. Lease to set reporting from kabul in the situation at the airport. Her report contained some distressing images. Stay calm, orders this taliban guard. There is no calm here. Not in a crowd too big to count, too big to control. But the days are numbered now before the us pulls its soldiers
Company greensill. Celebrations as scotland lifts almost all its remaining coronavirus restrictions. And a heroes welcome for the last of the team gb athletes to return home from success in tokyo. Hello and welcome. We are changing the earth s climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways, risking widespread devastation, heat waves, floods and droughts. The head of the un has called it a code red for humanity. It warns that temperatures are on course to rise by more than 1. 5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels within the next two decades. Sea levels have risen three times more quickly compared to the previous century. But in a small message of hope, the report concludes it s not too late to stop the worst effects of climate change provided governments around the world make deep and immediate cuts in carbon emissions. Here s our science editor david shukman. As the world gets hotter, it s becoming more threatening. The terrifying scenes of mass escape from greek islands, burn
And that it would carefully consider any issues raised by the programme. Darragh macintyre, bbc news. You can see panorama: the dark side of horse racing on bbc one tonight at 8. 30pm. Time for a look at the weather here s susan powell. The whole team is a sleep deprived in these temperatures, it is tricky. Pretty unbearable now. Today the heat has built again as the sun has come up and we will continue with the story of heat humidity and sunshine for a few days yet. Look at the map closely. Even with a high pressure there is a little bit of blue flag there. A little bit of blue flag there. A little bit of instability higher up in our atmosphere that could spark of isolated. Slow moving, could be a lot of rain in a short space of time. The majority, though committees blue skies, the sunshine, some patchy cloud for the north west of scotland. These showers if they do get going could rumble on into the smaller hours of tuesday. I am afraid tonight does not look like will be very comfor