Hello, Im Rebecca riches welcome to the program. Its now 2 weeks until the tokyo olympics are due to stop thought that will be a games with no spectators organizes have announced a total ban on both foreign and domestic fans attending the event after a new corona, Virus State of emergency was declared across parts of japan, the games will be the 1st in history to be held behind closed doors. And some say they shouldnt be happening at all in the matter late than never. Some might say, after a long journey through all of japans 47 prefixes, the olympic flame has finally arrived in tokyo, one year behind schedule. Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic raising cove in 1900 cases in the capital. Also, many members of the public were not there to greet the flame authorities and to state of emergency in tokyo for the duration of the games to try to curb the spread of the virus. Amid fears of the delta variance, the measure mostly limits alcohol sales and Restaurant Opening hours to try to stop con
tell us about what happened at the u.n. today. well the united nations and the international community has been watching the situation in sudan very carefully almost as soon as word got out that omar al bashir had been deposed the united kingdom and europeans on the council were calling for a security council meeting to review the situation they haven t taken any specific action yet but certain members of the council have been very outspoken including the united kingdom who said that the call for a two year transition to a civilian government just wasn t good enough they were worried that wasn t fast enough. but they were also concerned about the situation of protesters their rights being protected the high commissioner for human rights has spoken out about that the secretary general has expressed concern so well no official action from the security council yet fair to say a high level of concern and as the president of the security council put it the fact that they even met
head to these bbc sport centre. good news for stuart broad but is it good news for stuart broad but is it good news for stuart broad but is it good news for england as well? england have been in the wickets today and they are in the fourth ashes test as they are in the fourth ashes test as they try to limit their opponents, innings. a moment to rememberfor stuart broad, his 600th test wicket taking travishead after team and adding to his first wicket in the session. moeen ali is bowling prevented marnus labuschagne from adding to his 51. steve smith was removed shortly after lunch by mark wood. australia currently are for five as they lead the five match series 2 1 sewing and have to win this one. we are less than 2a hours away from the start of the women s world cup with co hosts new zealand taking on norway in the tournament curtain raiser. the hosts will be hoping for a change in fortune, as they are yet to win a first group stage game at the women s world cup in 15 attemp
it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am in the gaza strip, where the palestinian islamist group hamas has called for a new popular uprising, or intifada. it follows president trump s recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. traditional allies of the us, including saudi arabia and france, condemned president trump s decision, but israel said it was a welcome step forward. our middle east editor, jeremy bowen, reports. over the years, palestinians have burned many american flags. the question is whether something fresh is happening. whether this old conflict has entered a new stage. volleys of tear gas were directed at palestinian demonstrators by israeli security forces in towns around jerusalem. many palestinians have serious doubts about whether these street clashes change anything. jerusalem, though, is as special for palestinians as it is for israelis. and trump s decision to ignore palestinian claims to the city has caused real anger. israel s prime mi
welcome to the programme. we re live until 11 this morning. we re going to be talking about children s mental health this morning. does your child suffer and are they getting the help they need? or maybe you didn t get the help you needed when you were at school. what effect has this had? are you a school counsellor? do you have enough resources to do yourjob properly? do get in touch on this and all the stories we re talking about this morning. use the hashtag victoria live. and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. two british extremists, believed to be members of one of the so called islamic state group s most notorious cells, have been captured by syrian kurdish fighters in syria, according to us officials. they are accused of being part of a unit which executed 27 western hostages and tortured many more. andy moore reports. alexanda kotey and el shafee elsheikh the two britons captured by kurdish forces last month and quest