Of welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Or the bbc news channel in the uk or on bbc world news. It s the eve of the official start of the olympic games in tokyo. Delayed by a year because of the pandemic, and being held in unique circumstances, without spectators. New infections have been edging up again acrossjapan and among athletes. In tokyo itself, coronavirus cases are now the highest they ve been since the middle ofjanuary. On thursday, tokyo reported close to 2000 new coronavirus cases up by more than 600 compared with the same day last week. This chart shows the seven day average of daily covid cases in the capital. So far this month, a total of 91 cases directly linked to the olympics have been recorded. Organisers say these are isolated. They re keen to disassociate the games from any connection with cases in the wider population. Sebastian coe is a double olympic champion and president of world athletics he spoke earlier to the bbc s garry ric
touting his ability to steer the country out of the pandemic. rudy giuliani s lawyer responds, after federal agents raid the former mayor s new york apartment. what that could mean for his former client, donald trump. and india reports, yet another, record number of daily-covid-19 cases, as the country runs low on oxygen, meds, tests, and icu beds. good to have you with us. well, joe biden has big plans for his next-100 days in office. the u.s. president delivered his first address to a joint session of congress, just a few hours ago. touting an ambitious economic plan, costing $4 trillion. on top of the nearly $2 trillion, already, approved for covid relief. his new american families plan would include money for a host of bread-and-butter issues, like paid-family leave, childcare, preschool education, and free-community college. the president calls it an investment in the future, that will create millions of jobs and trillions, in economic growth. he is hoping to capit
hello, thank you forjoining us. several more countries around the world have detected cases of the new coronavirus variant known as omicron. it s the most heavily mutated version of the virus discovered so far and early evidence suggests that it has a higher risk of re infection. canada has confirmed two infections and france has also reported a number of suspected cases. a third case has been detected in the uk. at least 13 cases have been confirmed in the netherlands. they were all on flights coming from south africa where scientists first identified the variant. omicron is responsible for most of the infections found in gauteng province in south africa, and has been found in all provinces there. britain, as the current chair of the g7 group of leading economies, is to convene an urgent meeting of health ministers to discuss how best to respond. it comes as a number of countries have moved to restrict or ban incoming flights from southern africa, as caroline davies reports.
are now at the summit but chinese leader xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin are not attending. and a rallying cry to the conference from world renowned natural historian, sir david attenborough. in my lifetime i ve witnessed a terrible decline. in yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. all this comes as un scientists warn that extreme weather events are the new normal and the past seven years are on course to be the hottest on record. hello and welcome. our continued coverage here of cop26, here in glasgow. the summit billed as a make or break moment a test of whether countries can act together to limit global warming is getting underway. we have the close of the opening ceremony in the last couple of minutes. 7 we had. 120 world leaders are here to begin their speeches to delegates and the uk as the host is front and centre of this huge gathering. in advance of the conference s opening, the prime minister boris johnson has warned tha