being held without spectators for one change and also covid 19 cases are going out for spectators and athletes. on thursday, tokyo reported close to 2000 new coronavirus cases, up by more than 600 compared with the same day last week. this chart shows the seven day average of daily covid cases in the capital. so far this month, a total of 91 cases directly linked to the olympics have been recorded. 0rganisers say these are isolated. they re keen to disassociate the games from any connection with cases in the wider population. sebastian coe is a double olympic champion and president of world athletics. he spoke earlier to the bbc s garry richardson. i do know that the protocols that were put in place the tracking, the tracing, the isolating, which is working and is testament to the amount of work that has already gone into this i believe will be enough to maintain a safe and secure games. and the rising numbers we re talking about, nobody is entirely sure, garry, whether t
senate. both outgoing president trump and incoming president by then will campaign in the state today. give us a state of play. trust theure we can polls, but if we did, what would they say? a lot of early voting. 3 million georgians have already voted. it is hard to predict the state of play but both sides believe this will be an extremely close race. it is not just you need to get to the polls, but you need to get to the polls and call all of your friends and family and make sure they are voting as well. guy: when are we going to get a result? emily: we think this will be a couple of days. are not expecting results on tuesday night unless the race is not as close as everyone is expecting it to be. we are expecting to see in person voting first. that is expected to give republicans an advantage. as absentee ballots will be counted we are expecting democrats to close that gap. guy: thanks for the update and we will look forward to the coverage. president trump is still disp
biggest amount in seven years. largely because of president trump s pro business agenda. we have the full details on how it could impact your business coming up. meeting with saudi arabia s deputy crown prince. this is on the heels of opec s new report showing conflicting data on saudi s oil production. saudi arabia directly reported to opec it increased oil production in feb to 10 million barrels a day. this conflicts with the secondary sources that saudi oil production decreased. let s bring in brenda shav schaeffer from georgetown, university. an issue that s hurt oil prices before we go on to saudi and opec s impact and that, of course, is u.s. inventory levels. is that a genuine fear for oil prices? i think we have to look at the short term and the long term. the short term, obviously we re seeing this is having a huge impact on the oil price, a very big dip down to november 2016 levels. so it s the saudi data, the confusion about the saudi data and also the u.s. inv
this house foreign affairs subcommittee hearing is an hour and a half. we will now call a hearing to order. this is a very important hearing in my opinion. some of them are not nearly as important as others. this one is extremely important because greg and i, the ranking member, we are all concerned about the influence of iran in the entire region, also in the gulf region. so today we are here to discuss the expanding influence in the south caucasus, but we re also talking about, i intend to talk about some of the problems in the persian gulf region because that s a vital interest to us. the straits of hormuz, persian gulf, or the swiss canal are blocked in any way they could have devastating impact on the united states because we still get a large part of our energy from the region. i traveled to azerbaijan an armenian in early september. and i also stopped in georgia and met with the president. when i talked to t
we remain to work in a bipartisan manner to achefer these objects. thank you to both of you for your testimony. mr. hochstein, you talked about the things that ukraine needs to do in order to reform its energy markets. this is the most energy inefficient country in the entire region and i ll direct the question to you but happy to have mr. yee respond as well. the reforms they need to need take are dramatic and the effective of those reforms done too precipitously is perhaps too destabilizing in a country that doesn t need much more instability. the vector between what gas prices are today and what they would be without the subsidy is enormous. the amount of money they have to spend on reengineering this wildly inefficient soviet energy architecture is essentially almost a rip down and build back up proposition. so, how do we ask ukraine to do this without requiring them to spend money they don t have, and impose price increases on citizens who are right now looking