Good mornIng and a very warm welcome to bbc news. We are just hours away from the OpenIng Ceremony for the much troubled tokyo 2020 olympIcs. They were postponed last year because of the pandemIc, but now the waIt Is almost over for more than 11,300 athletes tryIng to get theIr hands on an olympIc medal. DespIte beIng postponed, the games are not clear of covId. There have already been more than 90 confIrmed coronavIrus cases In tokyo dIrectly lInked the games. CelebratIons at the OpenIng Ceremony wIll be the most subdued of any olympIcs In hIstory. But our Tokyo Correspondent Rupert wIngfIeld hayes has stIll managed to track down some excIted fans. FIndIng olympIc fans In tokyo these days Isnt so easy. But on thIs Roof Top at least, Its a dIfferent story. SkateboardIng Is In the olympIcs for the fIrst tIme, In the hope of attractIng young new fans, and It seems to be workIng. TranslatIon It would be cool to watch great skateboarders at the olympIcs. TranslatIon | love snowboardIng, so
Ireland every year. Oh, my god. What a gorgeous horse. Oh, no. Whats he about to do then . And we reveal how horses once trained by some of the biggest names in the industry have ended up here, in an abattoir, where theyre slaughtered. Theres been quite a lot of animals that im concerned have not been killed well. If Thats Representative of how theyre being killed, then weve got a really serious problem. I come from Horse Country County kildare in ireland. Growing up here, i know how much both the british and irish love their racehorses. Many of the animals trained here go on to the biggest stages in racing. Voiceover the defining stage. 300 years in the making. This is the glamorous image racing likes to portray. Its a £5 billion industry in the uk and ireland. Some of the most successful horses in racing are trained at the Cullentra Stables in county meath, promoted here by now disgraced trainer Gordon Elliott. The Dead Horse he was pictured sitting on was a seven year old called mo
The fate of some of the thousands of young horses dying in the uk and ireland every year. Oh my god, what a gorgeous horse. Oh, no. What he about to do . And we reveal how horses once trained by some of the biggest names in the industry, have ended up here. In an abattoir. Where theyre slaughtered. There are a number of animals that have not been killed well. If Thats Representative of how theyre being killed, then weve got a really serious problem. I come from Horse Country County kildare in ireland. Growing up here, i know how much both the british and irish love their racehorses. Many of the animals trained here go on to the biggest stages in racing. The defining stage. 300 years in the making. This is the glamorous image racing likes to portray. Its a £5 billion industry in the uk and ireland. Some of the most successful horses in racing are trained at the Cullentra Stables in county meath, promoted here by now disgraced trainer Gordon Elliott. The Dead Horse he was pictured sitti
The winner of the Kentucky Derby, Medina Spirit failed a drug test, would he be the first horse in more than 50 years to be stripped of his title for Drug Use and what happens to that Prize Money . Escalation in the middle east, palestinian rocket attacks, deadly israeli Air Strikes, hundreds are hurt in clashes, in one of the bloodiest days in recent years. Tiger on the loose, police are looking for an alleged murderer and his pet after the exotic animal was wandering around a houstoton neighbororhood. Hohondas Steering Problems, the Investigation Tonight about a possible defect in more than A Million honda accords. And, amazing amy, shattering barriers, Making History, and inspiring us all. This is the Cbs Evening News with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you so much for joining us. Well begin with that Breaking News because the f. D. A. Says it is authorizing Pfizers Coronavirus Vaccine for children ages
The record late today in advance of that cdc meeting, saying the Clinical Trial data on pfizer makes it clear to them that kids 12 to 15 are fine the take the pfizer vaccine, what it means Bottom Line is that american Kids Aged 12, 13, 14, 15 could end up being eligible to be vaccinated by The End of this week, which is fantastic news. In terms of the country being able to just live more normally. Vaccinated kids in schools, in sports, in summertime activities, families being able to be together in multigenerational ways without worrying that an unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an unsymptomatic case of covid and might infect Grandma Or Grandpa to devastating effect or a relative who cant be vaccinated for some reason. This should fix those worries for families with Kids Ages 12 and up. But again, the Cdc Advisory Meeting is going to happen in the next couple days. With the fda saying today from their perspective, theyre ready to go. That means as soon as that Cdc Decision is in,