Jobs numbers on friday. Investors worldwide are braced for a volatile week with the sell off injapan expected to continue in europe and the us. Lets have a look how asia is fairing now. As you can see, the main Market Injapan is down over 7 . This is in Reaction Injapan a great deal to what happened last week, the central banks apprising with a movable Interest Rate, and that because the japanese yen, the currency to strengthen versus the us dollar. So that specific pressure for stocks listed, slight decline for the Hang Seng, other markets in asia, they are down. Lets go to our Asia Business Hub tojoin the bbc s Resident Yen Geek, mariko oi, because, mariko, the sell off injapan is partly because of the japanese currency, isnt it . It isa it is a bit ofa it is a bit of a Bloodbath Today. The decay as you mentioned opening 7 lower and more crucially they are actually down by more than 15 in three Sections Nikkei. If confirmed at the end of today, biggest three day funds in 2011 when th
With the aim of driving down infections. Anything we can do to improve vaccination rates, including going to below the age of18, 16, 17 year olds, clearly will be a good thing, to get as many people vaccinated as possible, with both doses of the vaccine. If you want to get in touch with your views on any of today s stories including the idea of giving vaccines to children i m. Lebanon is holding a day of national mourning to mark the first anniversary of a massive warehouse explosion that killed over 200 people and injured thousands. The belarusian 0lympic sprinter who sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy in tokyo has now left japan, boarding a flight to vienna this morning. And coming up this hour, professor barbie. The scientist who designed the oxford coronavirus, vaccine has been honoured with her very own doll. A warm welcome to tokyo and it s been another incredible day on the athletics track, with another extraordinary 400 metres hurdles final and another dizzying world rec
Welcome to the programme. The belarusian sprinter who refused orders to fly home early from the olympics has left japan within the last hour. She was meant to fly to warsaw but she has been seen flying to vienna. Officials from belarus had tried to send krystsina tsimanouskaya home after she complained about the events the committee had entered herfor. Ina in a moment we will get the latest, but for now our correspondent has this report from minsk. She s a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. When sprinter krystina timanovskaya publicly criticised her coaches at the olympics, they tried to force her back to belarus. She refused. Speaking to the bbc from tokyo, she said she was now scared for herself and for her family. Translation: i can t go back to belarus now, of course. It s definitely not safe for me. I have no idea when i can go back. It may be five or ten years. And today came another reminder of the danger for dissidents. In kyiv, a young belarusian activ
The government s handling of the covid pandemic. Hello and a warm welcome to the programme. It s day three of the olympics and we have all the latest from japan. Sarah mulkerrins is live in tokyo for us, where the first medal of the day has gone to norway. Tell us all about it. It certainly tell us all about it. It certainly has. Welcome to tokyo bay early on monday morning in the japanese capital and the behind me is where the triathlon took place. It is also where we saw that false start occur. What happened is that all triathletes were on the pontoon and ready to dive in, half went in but there was a big lack boat covering one half of them so they were blocked from entering into the bay here and they had to pull the swimmers already in the water back onto the pontoon and then they finally got under way. They had a 1500 metres swim around the bay here and then on their bikes for a0 kilometres cycle around the streets of tokyo and then they transitioned into that ten kilometre run.