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
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
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 d
Would go on working, as part of a daily Testing Pilot Scheme prompting condemnation from labour. Hundreds of thousands of people are having to self isolate because of the Prime Ministers reckless decisions. He expects them to follow the Rules. As soon as the Rules apply to him, what does he do . He tries to wriggle out. We did look briefly at the idea of cars taking part in the Pilot Scheme which allows people to test daily, but i think it is far more important that everybody sticks to the same Rules. Well be asking what the governments handling of this might do to public confidence, as england prepares to drop most legal covid restrictions in a matter of hours. Also on the programme. More Rain And Flooding hits western europe. Germanys chancellor Angela Merkel calls the devastation surreal. Feelings run high in tokyo, with protests against the Olympic Games as athletes and Staff Test positive for covid. Hamilton is going to try again and Lewis Hamilton wins the british Grand Prix, af