Family in honduras. The Tokyo Olympics get under way this week but theres 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 shes 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 th
It seems to be odd to me to take all those risks with infectiOn when we are so close to vaccinatiOn doing the job of keeping us safe. Scotland currently has the highest rates of covid cases in europe, according to the World Health OrganisatiOn. The Scottish Government is hoping to ease all restrictiOns On the 9th of august, but they may end up retaining some basic measures. Hello and welcome to this special programme ahead of the prime Ministers Press COnference at Downing Street in around 15 minutes time. BorisjohnsOn is expected to cOnfirm he is cOnfident the majority of the remaining covid restrictiOns in england can be lifted from 19thjuly. The final stage of the roadmap out of lockdown in england was delayed after ministers said the four tests necessary to ease restrictiOns further had not been met. But tOnight, the Prime Minister will announce that wearing face masks will become voluntary from the 19th, and its also expected hell put an end to the One metre plus social distancing
Theyve lost one or even both parents, and they are now having to face a very uncertain future all alone. Englands mayors urge the government to think again about Making Masks Mandatory On Public Transport as 42,000 cases of coronavirus are recorded in a single day. And Britney Spears is back in court as her fight to end her Fathers Conservatorship gathers pace. We start in South Africa, where the number of people killed in the disorder thats gripped parts of the country has risen to 72. The countrys now facing the biggest Security Challenge since president Cyril Ramaphosa became president in 2018. The catalyst was the arrest, last week, of former president Jacob Zuma. But its gone beyond that now. Well get onto to that in a bit. But first, Take A Look at these images. What you just saw there is a mother throwing her baby to safety from a burning building in durban. Rioters targeted shops on the Ground Floor there and then set the building on fire. The mother with her baby were on the t