Traveling again. And the layers of pakistans a rapid transport project has many blaming the Prime Ministers provincial government for corruption. And im peter some of these sports as you heard the 2020 Olympic Games in tokyo or later this news of a look at what it means for the athletes who will now have to wait until 2021. Well we begin this hour with breaking news out of torture the 2020 and then fix have been perspire and the announcement was made just in the past alibi Prime Minister shinzo he says he has asked the i. O. C. For an up to one year postponement of the tokyo island fix and now appears likely that theyll be held in 2021 nowadays are vassal followers weeks of insisting it would go ahead in july as planned its like you know the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. President back that there will be no cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the tokyo lympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and we. Very free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspire only games for approximately one year of a class Sports Correspondent a wellings joins us now live les this is clearly no real surprise given what weve seen over the last 24 hours i mean not mounting International Pressure but why this decision now this is the decision weve been expecting this is the noises i was hearing around that its nationally became its a despite the fact i wanted to show was patience is possible to you all the impossible Health Organization all the legal advice all of the ramifications of this all the potential to be rooting for all of the time was running out for them to be the huge anxiety that all of stoke cancelled around the globe you get to the point where the big one the olympics still be shit for july and theyre big and account for the gardens when there was no chance of these games. In general and in fact out of practice and come into play like really be a perspired or cancellation of course its the perspire and that makes sense big is even though there are big hurdles theres none she treason while the games can take place in limbo. Some time in 2021 days or something and i can tell you although they wont take place this year there was this all speculation there was a chance to take place later this year its very clear on the statement that it wont actually be next year for sure its just a case of when whether it will be the same dates of 2020 simply moved to 2021 and only i say that the last time the take carolina picks were postponed was back in 1014 because of world war 2 on at that point they may have to have thinking and then eventually cancelled youre saying you dont see that happening hannah dench will cancellation possibly. Not did absolutely nothing which can be ruled out that were what weve seen with the coronavirus crosses i think everything that he said in sport and all kinds of and ministration legislation has to have some of us to excite it because the situation is changing by the day we dont know where were going to be in months that said you did it you would hope that imagine the well regarded different plants in 2021 that it does now and its an entity doesnt it that the only time and it picks have been cancelled before it didnt warn were often here in the world war being used as as the world is a war with with this clarks so actually that shows you the level where and here it is unprecedented in terms of the reason to perspire and the olympics and the reason that the world cancellation was being used by not letting council and its ugly bit Committee Men and the dick pound he was very powerful but also powerful now hes outspoken and he said i need to make a decision. Which start quite ludicrous the way things were going the decision had to come saying no and he also said use the word cancellation when of course even though there are more good legal reasons to explore all that is very different in terms of insurance or canceling despondent actually common sense has come for a while it will even happen to happen in picks next year is because its going to cause a lot this auctions operates and suddenly bingo cards and spoke out but as has been said in a statement it could provide the beach and. Still by the way be crowned 2020. Our Sports Correspondent. Thanks very much lee well lets take you to a live event of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games is holding a press conference right now following announcement about a did want to couch this whole postponement as saying that it would be a complete Olympic Games when it is held eventually potentially in 2021 not only the summer games but also the Paralympic Games and he said it would be held as a victory against coronavirus well lets speak a little more about the ramifications of this for japan with our correspondent rug bride whos in seoul rug clearly pressure has been mounting for this decision over the last few weeks and has appeared to push back against it repeatedly what finally got him over the line today. Thats right i mean even until about a week ago he was still insisting that they would still go ahead but he was i think hed think that this phrase of having the olympics take part take care take place in their entirety meant that he was thinking about some sort of postponement and in the hope of still staging this this crowning event of his premiership but he was under increasing pressure and i think this was inevitable in fact polls that were conducted in japan with ordinary people in the street seem to indicate that about 2 thirds of japanese people expected this announcement set to come but it is a blow for him politically for his credibility these games are very much based games he went out and won these games many years ago for japan they were going to restore japanese prestige on the world stage after decades of economic decline at a time when riches seemed japan become the worlds 3rd biggest economy not the 2nd biggest taken being taken of course by rivals china so its going to restore japans prestige shinzo out day as the countrys longest serving Prime Minister this was going to be the crowning moment of that premiership and i think it would have been hard for him to carry on can try trying to tough it out and its just that they go ahead japan may well have the coronavirus under control with only a little more than a 1000 cases across the whole country if you discount the cruise ship that had hundreds of cases on board but of course to try to organize games bringing hundreds thousands of athletes officials spectators supporters from hundreds of countries across the world countries that havent even had the coronavirus visit them yet would have been Wishful Thinking at best and probably an extremely irresponsible move that would have had more political damage for in a place called damage but also call it an economic ramifications matter for japan. To take a bull thing now this is even more bad news for the japanese economy rather. The japanese economy was already suffering i mean it had a disastrous yen last year it had the effects of typhoons there was a controversy over the introduction of a sales tax and fact the last quarter of last year already saw a contraction were expecting another contraction in the 1st quarter of this year which means a technical recession and the gains were going to in theory at least trying to stop japan slipping further well that seems to be gone now we are expecting economists here are predicting that without these games then youre going to see a further contraction of the economy as japan as everybody else is suffering from the effects of the corona coronavirus and of course the japanese the bank of japan is already putting together massive stimulus packages of billions of dollars to try to support the economy and a benefit from the olympics is at least a year away so that japan is economically in for some very tough times by bar for us on file thank you very much for that update on. Well lets move now to the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic to europe where there has been a rapid increase in the number of cases now spains death toll has sat with another 514 people dying the countrys highest daily increase so far now in total nearly 2700. 00 people have died in spain with nearly 40000. 00 confirmed cases and all of those cases more than 5000. 00 Health Workers who are fighting to contain the outbreak the country is now under lockdown and foreigners have been banned from entry but in china restrictions are being lifted and if you buy a province the place where the outbreak began more than 60000000 people there have been under lockdown since late january and theyll be soon allowed to travel again now the one exception is the city of woo him thats the worst affected area and in india the lockdown is only just beginning nearly a 1000000000 people have been ordered to stay in their homes nationwide cafes are in place and domestic flights have now also been banned thats in addition to International Flights india has reported now more than 460 confirmed cases and 9 deaths while lets speak now to moscow herrera who joins me from madrid last i want to start with these very disturbing numbers of Health Workers getting infected 5400 is that just because they dont have the protection they need that. They have the 40 you know people infected all coronavirus they are Health Workers they have been demanding immediate believe. Grown of our. Blood on the one in less than 24 hours we need to remember but believe people are fighting in the wrong line or were not. And monster weve also been hearing about discovery is very grim discoveries of bodies left abandoned in care homes what steps are now being taken to prevent this from happening. Well Spanish Army Spain has been taking over. I have been deployed to nationwide and have been taking over several tasks like this infection disinfecting train stations airports and care homes these care homes have had been isolated since the beginning of the of the coronavirus out outbreak because early people have been considered the most vulnerable as they are higher higher risk for more serious complications far from coronavirus so after yesterday the defense minister mari thought of those admitted in an interview to a Spanish Television that the army the army had found dead people in the us care homes and dead bodies in the bath. And these people of van jones by the staff had to take care of them this has led to. To an investigation from the Prosecutors Office and most i also want to ask you because these numbers just keep growing and the government has clearly bracing for an even fatter absentia talk us through the preparations youre seeing in the thread and beyond. Well the situation in the do it is quite critical but it has become the epicenter of the spanish outbreak there more than 12000 people in that state are out of the nearly 40000 of coronavirus cases nationwide or hospital to your are overwhelmed theyre doubling their capacity and patients are being diverted to improvised topi hospitals like the one we have in the fam out which is expected and expectant centers that the army built with 5000 beds in like took 48 hours other peoples are diverted to medicalize hotels but i think the worst the worst case here in madrid is that the madrid municipal funeral home has closed down due to the lack of protective equipment so were taking i mean theyre taking all the bodies to a block of the yellow an ice rink all the bodies of the dead bodies are being taken there so they can keep them because of the low temperatures and more train and ice rain while thats not a herrera who was speaking to us there from the dread thank you melissa hall from lock down in the dread to lockdown in milan lets bring in Francesco Jan but tony he is there for us francesca the city has been under lockdown now for more than 2 weeks the numbers of infected and dying still huge let me ask you how people are coping not only in terms of practical considerations but also psychologically. Well tyrants are taken very seriously the measures imposed by the government in the region but there has been a change in the mood of the people in the 1st week of the lockdown everyone was outside on balconies singing songs like the National Anthem or like bella. And those videos where everywhere on the internet they were and people were applauding and making chance for doctors and nurses but after after a week where the positive numbers kept growing the people of that home didnt see any results in their efforts and so nobody had anything to cheer for anymore basically and in milan away and in other provinces specially benteke and more and british are here a longer de harvested region discouragement and sadness started to feel in so now that the trend the numbers since a couple days seems to be changing in a good way and we see the light at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel is very long and we dont know how its going to last and longest no less saw francesco weve also been talking about the governments Approval Rating which i see is shot up since the beginning of the Coronavirus Crisis now despite the criticism that weve been hearing from abroad it seems the talents are broadly supportive of how the governments been handling all this. Yes the rating approval of the Prime Minister counters never been so high even if there were some. Criticize him and for the way he managed communication a road or if he signed some unclear decrees and he held some night late night press conferences and he didnt where he didnt reply to questions from journalists but. Still there is a deal between citizens and authorities the citizens no debt can stand all this all this lockdown they can stay home and they can respect all the rules but they need to know that the government is doing everything to make this and as soon as possible and the fact that the data that we have the number of deaths we are having from the civil protections could be not totally reliable is not easy for people to understand and to accept people are trying to stand together francesco jenga tony there for us in milan thank you francesco well lets now go to london where we can speak to Nadeem Bob Bennett and i believe youre on Oxford Street as i recall usually you can hardly move for all the people there but i say its a little quieter these days are people now actually following social distancing recommendations. Good question youre right this is usually even on a weekday full of shoppers tourists on britons alike look at it now it is almost empty there are some buses going up and down the road but with virtually nobody on board we see cyclists moving around and quite a few pedestrians now a lot of the people that weve seen on the streets are people like her the socalled geek economy workers delivery writers for example delivering food to peoples homes and bits and possibly businesses and weve also seen shops which sell food and banks open theyre allowed to under the new rules are certain other businesses like post offices even bike shops to keep maintaining peoples bicycles so they can get around because one of the pressure points has been public transport and just in the last couple of hours a main rail union has called on the police to actually check that everybody whos getting on trains and on the grounds in Central LondonCentral London are actually members of his sensual Services LikeHealth Workers members of the Emergency Services there have been quite worrying pictures again on social media of crowded carriages one of the problems is that construction workers are still having to go to work many of them a self employed and theyre not sure what provisions the government is going to make to ensure their income if they dont stay home so there are all those different types of workers on public transport increasing the likelihood of spreading coronavirus so yes people to an extent are staying home in suburban areas its very quiet as you get to Central London though its obvious that many selfemployed people for example plumbers and the like a driving around in their vehicles getting to where they need to be. The big question though is that for many people theyre not sure exactly if its a Lockdown People are still asking themselves can we go to the park the gov. Yes for exercise once a day but still a lot of questions from the public a freak so an indian bob that live for us on the streets of london thanks very much nadeem well as restrictions increase in the u. K. Seemingly the restrictions are starting to come off millions of chinese in the province where the corona Virus Outbreak actually began at midnight on tuesday qubit will start allowing some people to travel just as many other countries are introducing more drastic measures our correspondent katrina you is in beijing for us katrina talk us through the easing of these Restrictions Mean this must be coming as a huge relief to the residents of who may. It definitely is the sows ear so in general 23. 00 we had this lockdown when nobody could come into her brain nobody could leave 2 months later that seems to be finally lifting from midnight which is in about 3 hours here people will be able to drive their cars again in the streets of who babe will be able to travel freely between counties and cities get on public transport you can now enter who by if you or your declared to be healthy and most importantly if you have a green code certifying that your vi