It was announced as the whole city for the next 2020. So people were very anxious to see the limbic and their city about the, as you can see behind me, this is an event thats without being attended by 1000. Now there is only thousands of people, and most of them are relative of the body. Are the people who are going to hold the source book, you know, they think about raising a number of the picture of Coffee Infection and people are what it could be a credit for the virus, not Money And Book you in japan, but also in the world in the us, the number of daily new cove at 900 infections has nearly tripled in the past 2 weeks. The average is 37000. 00. Thats not from less than 14000. 00 a fortnight. To go. Nearly all corona virus, patients in the hospital are unvaccinated. South africa is also struggling with a surge infections, but the Vaccination Drive that is making progress. Reco 250000 people, got the job and just one day, but only around 7 percent of the population has received at le
Lympics he tested positive for coven 19. The highly contagious Delta Variance is behind the surgeon infections. Of course, on the Tandy Richardson in tokyo, was more on whats expected from the Opening Ceremony. While many of us thought visa lympics may never happen, but here we are counting down to the start of the Opening Ceremony. The organizers promising a show that is sober, but in sync with the sentiment of today, really since the modeling picks be done in 1996, some sort of Opening Ceremony has always been integral to the games. But i dont think i how cities ever had to try and pull off a balancing out quite like this. There will be no fans there for this Opening Ceremony. Its a made for T V. Only event. No fans allowed at any of the events. Subsequently, either several hospitals in lebanon may run out of fuel to power generators within a few hours. They say tricity outages can last of these 20 hours because of the economic crisis. So they rely on generators to keep the hospitals
Said she hopes the olympics will offer a moment of peace for people whose lives are far from peaceful. And richardson has more from tokyo. The Opening Ceremony has always been an important part of every games and showcasing their national identity, getting the, the people behind the games that are taking place. But rarely as a Host City had such a Balancing Act and such a push. Now to try and shift public opinion behind it elim banks and make people feel that all the sacrifice is worth while just look at the stadium behind mail 1400000000. 00 Stadium Bill for these games and send it to house 68000 people. But of course, for tonight and for the truck and failed event, since the closing ceremony, there will be next to nobody inside there. Apart from those taking part in a few 100 visiting dignitaries. A shortage of fuel to run generators in several lebanese hospitals is threatening the lives of patients and spirit. They could run out within hours. And economic crisis is led to power cost
President to bite and has been urging americans to get vaccinated in an effort to stop the spread. The cobra, 1900 Task Force as be meeting to discuss tightening the policy and masks. Kimberly, how could is more now from the white house. Right now the policy and the united states. If youve been vaccinated, you dont need to wear a mask. Its a personal choice. Those required to wear mask are those had chosen not to get vaccinated, but given the up to can cases from the very highly contagious delta. Very of all of that could change, but officially for now, there is no change to the policy, but its something thats being discuss iN Denisia is now the Epa Center of the latest wave of Corona Virus in se, asia fueled by the delta variant. Its reported that a record 1400. 00 deaths in just one day, but testing rates are low and the true figures could actually be much higher. The World Health Organization is urged the government to introduce a strict are locked down your pants capital. Tokyo is
we ll talk to her live at 10:15 and to lucy clarke, a trans referee. and how can we eat in a way that s good for the planet? students at loughborough university are going to try and change their diets this week as part of our sustainability challenge. or is way three of our sustainability challenge, we live in loughborough, this week it is food week, they are going to going to have to drastically change their dietand have to drastically change their diet and cut down on the amount they waste. and we ll talk to these women who are on birth strike they ve have decided they won t have children because of the impact on the planet. hello, welcome to the programme. we re live until 11 this morning with some new colours and a new logo hope you like it. and if you don t, we have done it now, it is too late! what do you think of sharron davis, former olympic swimmer, saying that transgender women who have a so called male sex advantage should not be able to compete in women s