The long awaited and long delayed Summer Olympic Games officially begin a few hours from now. But the director of the Opening Ceremony, well, he wont be running the show. He was abruptly fired yesterday, the fourth olympics official to be forced out. We are Live In Tokyo where the games have already been postponed of course for a year because of the pandemic. And covid continues to cast a shadow over them. For the first time, olympic events will be held without spectators in most venues. And only a fraction of the 11,000 athletes scheduled to play Will Parade in the Opening Ceremony. The u. S. Will have one of the larger presences with about 200 athletes. As the clock ticks down, covid cases keep ticking up. About 20 athletes have so far tested positive and have been forced to drop out. The Olympic Village has had at least a dozen cases of people Testing Positive too. We begin our coverage with Blake Essig joining me live from tokyo. And despite all of those negatives, the show is goin
The Tokyo Olympics get under way this week but there is already a growing number of athletes and officials testing covid positive or being forced to self isolate. In the Olympic Village, two players and a coach for the south africa Mens Football Team have the virus. Eight members of Team Gb Athletics team are also in isolation after being in close contact with positive cases. And us Tennis Player Coco gauff has announced she is not going to tokyo after testing positive. Despite the worsening Covid Situation and strong public opposition to the games, the governor of tokyo has told the bbc it would have been worse to cancel. From tokyo, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. With five days to go, the anti olympic protests are not going away. This one is outside the hotel where Ioc President Thomas Bach is staying. Their message to him is pretty blunt. Over at the Olympic Village, Three Covid cases have now been confirmed. Across the city, 1,400 new cases on saturday. Despite this, when i sat do
Reverse plans to continue working rather than self isolate after receiving a official coronavirus alert. We did look briefly at the idea of us taking part in the Pilot Scheme, which allows people to test daily, but i think it is far more important that everybody sticks to the same rules. Two athletes and an official at the tokyo Olympic Village have tested positive for coronavirus just five days before the start of the games. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. The german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against Global Warming and promised financial aid after the floods in germany and parts of Western Europe killed more than 180 people. Angela merkel has been visiting the affected areas in germany this morning. More Heavy Rain has caused further flooding in southern Germany And Austria overnight. Lets cross to my colleague kasia madera, whos in the german town of sinzig. Sinzig is one of those towns in western germany that caught the full fo
Are you ready black people . Are you ready . And at 5. 45, Mark Kermode has the Film Review including a look at new Release Summer of soul. This afternoon its been announced the uk has recorded more than 50,000 Daily Coronavirus cases for the first time since mid january. In the past 2a hours there were a further 51,870 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk and another 49 people had died within 28 days of Testing Positive for covid bringing the Uk Total to 128,642. Earlier this afternoon official figures suggested that one in 100 people in the uk had Coronavirus Last week. It comes just days before The End of restrictions in England And Scotland on monday. Our Health Correspondent James Gallagher is here. That Top Line takes us back to january. Explain the context of all of this. ,. , of this. Let us rewind six months and we had of this. Let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 of this. Let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 cases of this. Let us rewind six months and we had 5
More than 120 people have been confirmed dead after parts of NortHern Europe were devastated by some of the worst flooding in decades. Hundreds more are injured and otHers unaccounted for. The work of the Emergency Services is being severely hampered by the difficult conditions. The german president has called for a more determined battle against Climate Change. The german states of Rhineland Pulatinate and North Rhine westphalia were worst hit. Over 100 people have died tHere. In belgium, wHere at least 20 people have been killed, July The 20th has been declared a national day of mourning. The netHerlands is also badly affected. The power of the water has been immense. Here you can see what the village of Baat Noyunar Arvieler looked like before The Floods. And Here it is afterwards. The Flood Water gushed through the town causing major disruption. You can see Here it had such power it has destroyed this bridge. 0ur Correspondentjenny Hill has just sent this report from the german tow