The Tokyo Olympics get under way this week but there is 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 she is not going to tokyo after testing positive. Despite the worsening Covid Situation and strong public opposition to the games, the governor of tokyo has told the bbc it would have been worse to cancel. 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 do
Of a part two of the partisan Benghazi Investigation which dragged on for years during the obama presidency. Questions are swirling around who house Minority Leader Kevin Mccarthy will appoint to the committee. Will it be a pragmatic republican determined to work in good faith and get to the Truth Or Trump loyalists devoted to derailing the work . Well speak to a member of the committee in a moment. First to Laurenne Fox on capitol hill. Democrats have a majority of the select committee. The House Speaker also has Veto Power that she may or may not use. What are the what is the strategy, in effect, right, to keep this focused on the questions of January 6th . Reporter well, jim, there is really a dual strategy here. One of them, of course, is to get to the bottom of what caused the insurrection, what were the factors leading Up To it. And you cant ignore the former president s role. They know that. They realize that trump is going to be a big piece of this. But in the meantime, they wa
Hello and thanks forjoining us. China has reacted angrily after President Biden ordered an Intelligence Investigation into whether the coronavirus first emerged as a leak from a chinese laboratory. Beijing said us intelligence had a dark history of spreading misinformation. President biden says hes likely to release the report and its findings publicly. Heres our china correspondent, john sudworth. For more than a year, the theory that the virus leaked from this Wuhan Laboratory has largely been dismissed as a conspiracy. The invisible enemy, the china virus. The theory s association with Donald Trump made it for manyjust one more piece of disinformation. But in the mouth of President Biden, well, that feels different, and suddenly the worlds media are taking it seriously. Well, i think its very important because it will feed into. A welcome change for those long trying to argue that all possible origins need to be investigated. Well, it matters because it has had a huge impact on ever
Sightings. Are ufos . Well tell you what the government is and isnt saying. This star from The Office is friending and well tell you why. Our woke expert will weigh in. Lets begin. With the covid Origin Story and the reportedly suppressed theory that the virus could have escaped from the Wuhan Lab. The Bombshell Report is 12,000 words but the key phrase in the report is five words. Smells like a coverup. That statement was made by Thomas Denanny saying it opened a Can Of Worms and digging into the Wuhan Lab theory could bring attention to the u. S. Helping to fund gain of Function Research at the Wuhan Lab. Gain of function is where a virus is made more contagious to ostensibly come up with a vaccine. Fox news was told there was an effort to oppose an extensive investigation into a possible Lab Leak but chris, who was then the State Departments Acting Undersecretary for International Security told fox he was not aware of any effort to quash inquiry into possible laboratory origin, and