A very warm welcome to the programme. 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. 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 down with the governor Of Tokyo, she told me the games must go ahead. Translation i believe that not holding the olympics is
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Whoever first said that politics and sport shouldnt mix, well, they were wasting their breath. Theyve always mixed. And why wouldnt they, given the huge part that sport plays in our culture . Right now, england is consumed by an agonising debate about racism in football after three black players on the national team were targeted for vile abuse, but it affects other sports, too. This is lords, the headquarters of English Cricket. My Guest Today is the former West Indian Fast Bowler michael holding, who has become a prominent voice confronting racism. But is this a fight that sport can win . Michael holding, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you, stephen. It is pretty much exactly a year since you used your platform as a Cricket Commentator to speak with great Eloquence And Passion about the continued damage being done to society by racism. Now, in the year since then, do you see any signs of progress . Definitely. I
You have heard him speaking out in favor of mike pompeo. giving a little bit more information about his trip to north korea. that it went well. all of that was the help of the white house. and here is the prime minister of tokyo, and his wife, also very interesting discussion today on trade and what japan might be willing to do to narrow the trade gap that the president is obviously not happy with and that he would like to see narrow. one of the ways that might happen is the acquisition of weapons, defense, and machinery from the united states. let s listen here. president trump: thank you very much. mr. president. thank you very much. the one so sometimes he will turn around and to take a couple of questions on that kind of
And one man battered in a city. at least 16 people were killed in the clashes there. do keep in mind, cnn can t verify the authenticity of these images. in damascus, president assad was greeted before he delivered wednesday s 45 minute speech following two weeks of violent anti-government demonstrations. france is showing its solidarity with disaster struck japan. the french president, nicolas sarkozy is going to be meeting with the prime minister today in tokyo, the official visit comes as radiation levels in ocean water near the crippled fukushima plant skyrocketed to more than 4,000 times the normal level. martin savidge has been covering the story since the tsunami and earthquake hit and joins us now. 4,000 now.
Welcome back. you are watching world one in london. coming up at 6:00 a.m. in new york, 8:00 p.m. in tokyo. pro-gadhafi sforsz aforces are continuing to drive rebel forces out of libya. the opposition lost control of ras lanuf and bin jawad. and the u.s. president has signed a secret order to allow the american government to support rebel troops. the white house is refusing to comment. there is no end in sight to japan s nuclear nightmare, radiation levels surged to new highs in ocean water near the damaged fukushima plant. samples taken near the plant show radiation levels 4,000 times higher than normal. and officials say they don t know how to stop it. on a mission of solidarity,