so it has no relevance today. those campaigning against misuse of the law were recently given some halt by india's top court. last week, the supreme court throughout the case against the senior journalist who criticized the government, saying, disapproval doesn't amount to sedition. the judgement is being seen as the court pushing back against the high number of cases being brought on to that charge. the boy that i met says she hope this means cup and will be released from jail soon. elizabeth, koran m al jazeera new delhi. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here and i'll just see now and israeli causes postponed, a hearing in the case of full palestinian families facing forced expulsion from their homes and still one neighbourhood banks and occupied east jerusalem there in the building claimed by jewish trusts from the 3948 era. earlier israeli forces the

tank, the palestinian protesters who are demonstrating outside the court. sorry, false. it has more from occupy the jerusalem. this is the case of 2 separate families in 4 separate families in 2 separate buildings, 19 people's homes in all at stake in all of this. and it is a similar situation to what we've been seeing in unable to shift during recent weeks. a similar story with a jewish settler organization that says that it can prove that there is a jewish ownership claim on the, the houses that they currently inhabit. and that they have done the decades and generations. and so this is an appeal by the palestinian families against an existing eviction order, 1000000 miles to post civilian li down thank suit. she has been charged with corruption and faces 15 years in jail. she's accused of misusing them for

a charitable foundation. she's been detained since the military crew in february. us president joe biden is in the u. k for his 1st overseas trip of his term. he says the visit is about america rallying the world's democracies. the day visits europe will take in g 7 and nato summit, as well as talks with russia as president. india has recorded a global record of more than 6100 krona virus deaths in 24 hours. that takes its total toll most 360000. 94000 new infections were also reported. the increase comes in the capital, new delhi and financial hub maam, by begin easing restrictions a ration called his out lord political organizations linked to jailed opposition leader. i like seen of the labeling them as extremist. it means nevada and these

allies won't be allowed to rosalind september's parliamentary elections. it's the stream now. something was going to change. has anything really changed? this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barrier and know what to say. so we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just around with high us, i mean, okay, to day on the street, we asked how safe are the tucker olympics from cope with 19 we start our conversation with rich pound. he is a senior member of the international impact committee, which it is so good to have you here on the stream. you are going to be in japan in a couple of weeks time. what will keep you safe, participant safe, volunteer safe? well, i think all of the preparations that everybody has been taking,

including the, the olympic movement are designed to make sure that as many people as possible or are vaccinated twice. and i'll have my 2nd shot, i think next week. and the medical advice we have is the week and the bubble that everyone wants to create can be created and maintained. and that will start when i get on a plane in montreal, all have been tested a couple of times in the days preceding that. when i arrive in tokyo, 13 hours later, i'll get tested again and i won't be let out of the airport. if there's any doubt at all about by being infected, i'll be put on a bus and taken to the i o. c hotel, which is one of the bubbles if i were to be limbic athlete on this occasion, which despite my youthful experience, i'm not to be taken to the olympic village. and that's another bubble. and so we've

got a whole bunch of playbooks prepared and in process to make sure that everybody involved knows what should be done, what should not be done. what conduct is safe, what is not the advice we have is that there is no additional risk. so we, we have got to spell, he's going to come up and in this program talking about some of the protocols that should actually be in place. and she is concerned that best practices are not being a deal to, for instance. why would you put athletes in rooms together? junior global pandemic would be a good idea to have athletes in a single room at one by one by one phase. one of them unfortunately get having 1900 . not all of them get covered $90.00 per thing. this is not bad practice right now . well, this is the one income tax advice. talk to me. oh,

we're getting. we're getting medical advice in japan that we think is competent and the, the books and that may include more than one person in a room have been put together with, with all concern for health and safety. so let me just say that we and the japanese authorities are satisfied that advice and that's the what we're proceeding with. all right, let's see what happens professor tony will say, joining us a little bit later in the show. professor tani is concerned that public opinion in japan is beginning to change, but a lot of people do not want taylor picks to be held in japan right now during a global pandemic, japanese people will be paying for the olympics in some form in some way. why wouldn't you listen as the i o c to public opinion? so what are your questions?

why as you see yeah, it's public public opinion in japan. it's saying we are not comfortable with the olympics happening this year. your response is what richard or response is look where it's concerned as anybody about public health and safety. and we're not going to put anybody in incremental danger at all. the advice we have now is that this can all be done the way it's been described. and i like anyone interested in the olympic games that i'm getting more excited as that the time gets closer and closer and i'm sure that excitement is spreading throughout the world with all of the olympic athletes have been on tenterhooks about some of this. this is opinion and negative opinion is quite often apparent just before the games and it disappears. as soon as you find out that the games are being well organized and are

perfectly safe. i want to bring out one more point and this is from jos boy called political science professor pacific university. he's pointed on video, which is have a listen and then respond immediately afterwards. please. medical officials in tokyo and around the world are clamoring for the tokyo olympics to be cancelled. more than 80 percent of the population in japan do not want the olympics to be staged this summer. olympic athletes are amazing to behold, there is no question about it. but the olympics are wholly optional sporting spectacle, not an essential service to humanity. it's time that we listened to the science holding the tokyo olympics under pandemic conditions could create a massive potentially dangerous petri dish. let's listen to the scientists. it's time to cancel the tokyo olympics for the sake of global public health. i think one of the things we should do is,

is he serious fat check. i don't know what medical experts he's talking about. we are in constant touch with the people that we think are competent and we're getting advice that says it's quite safe to go with these games under these conditions. and that's what we're going to do. let's a pound is a senior member of the international olympic committee. he did not want to bait on the stream today, but he was kind enough to take off the conversation. i'm going to bring in another thought here. and this comes from the head of the advisory committee on corona virus response in japan. as this happened in parliament last week in japan, have a listen. i will look. you got a whole lot, isn't it cool. you probably just not normal to hold the games during a pandemic. but they, the organizers are trying to do that. if they hold the games,

the government and the olympic committee will have to bear a heavy responsibility for their sectors. or the general public will not support them done as you see there when i did, i got the so you now you've had to very different perspective. where did you stand a few on youtube, you can be part of our discussion. jump into the comment section. be part of today's program. let me introduce you to i guess you can talk to them as well. dr. sparrow. professor a tiny megan o'leary. so good to have you. i'm going to get you to introduce yourself in the context of the olympics. dr. barry, you go 1st. hi for me, good to be here. i am a critical care physician and i work on the front lines of the about regs, including cars, border polier's, and i am a global public co specialist. i'm here in my capacity as one of the co authors of the new england journal paper where we support a 1000000 pix, but we ask for 1000000 bix being informed by the science professor at tawny get to have here in central south to enter national audience. lou, i'm sorry,

wait tani from speaking from the japan. i am a professor of sports agenda initially studies. i've been looking up the impact of the lympics on the whole cities for the past 10 years. and through that, i've been seeing more and more cases of people who especially marginalized in the community, be negatively impacted. and this time with ok. all right, thank you answered option more to come. i reckon introduce yourself, try international. go ahead. hi me, megan leery. i'm currently in princeton, new jersey, united states, i am in 20162021 pin. scheduled that had to tokyo and just a few weeks to computer game like it. i am looking at team usa, the rowing team here. they looking fine for me. are you freaking out about you know, i think as athletes we at this point sort of put the blinders on. right. there's

a lot of support staff around us that are meant to try and take on all of the, the noise around us. but i, you know, i have concerns. i, i was in real obviously we all remember a lot of the conversation as we headed into the real games about, you know, the water quality of the, you know, i'm rover. i was on that body of water. and so, you know, it's, it's not foreign to me in terms of this conversation or that head into the games. but this is something different. this is definitely something different. this time you heard the most senior member of the i see just at the top of our program. was he reassuring for you as an athlete? you know? yes and no. i think that's coming from a place of i do, i have to put trust in my n g b, you know, us throwing i have to put trust in my own, my support staff, and that, that funneled up to the support and i o. c. but i do think it's the responsibility of the athletes, and we are the reason that the games exist to continue to apply the appropriate

pressure to the powers that be in this case. the see to make sure that the games are safe for all and equitable for all in terms of the experience we're having. and so, you know, i, i want to continue to apply that pressure in the best way i can because it needs to be safe. if you know we've decided to host the game or hold the games and go forward delta star, i feel like i'm seeing your cynical space looking down for your office. no, i am not sure that you are convinced by richard pounds. and i'm also looking here my laptop at the playbook, athletes and officials, your guide to the safe and successful games. you had a look at what should be concerned about. well 1st of all, i think that down rather have a different definition of what a bubble is. pounds very definition for bubble. look to me more. i could change where, you know, these are not bubbles. these are, you know, really open spaces where a lot of people are coming and going,

and they're simply not informed by the best practice. for example, the village is ventilated with pre corbett ventilation. that means it's got defined as korea changes per hour. the minimum we would be necessary if 5 a changes per hour, if not 9. now actually expected to spend a lot of time in their hotels in the village particular because they're not allowed now to go outside to mix, mingled in those lies. now that's what that means is they're going to be spending a lot more time in the hotel and not necessarily but in each other's street. and instead of actually doing the obvious and of course it postulate now to retro no ventilation everywhere. and the same applies to indoor venue, which is very different from outdoor venue. so if you're a role like megan will to some extent to protected in her field of play because she's out in the open rowing. if you're a wrestler, you know that's about as intimate as intercourse,

and any sport that is inside the gymnast, for example, you know, even though that they are not necessarily indirect proximity with other, with, with their competition. they're still at risk because it's an indoor venue. so one of the obvious pictures, for example, is complete the put in half the filters, high frequency particle, and it filters which can clean the air. we need to stop this charade, of cleaning the surfaces, which we know has nothing to do with getting rid of coverage and stop focusing on washing our hands and focused on cleaning the air and testing athletes every single day. and, and frankly, everyone else as well. and that's how we're going to make it as a really big autonomy. we have to remind because i was at the all the thousands of actually they're coming to japan. but also that means that the right potentially to japanese population as well. not just all we worried about are the athletes get to make it, they're pretty fit. most of them. i want to also talk about the paralympics. so

let's just talk about the influx of people coming into japan. are you feeling comfortable about that? in a months time, just over a months time. so 1st of all, i am a medical expert. so i've been trying to listen to the find this. i've seen doctors and nurses and advisors to the government. and i've been cheering only concerns basically. and based on that, i don't feel like the, the safety is assured. and when we talk the people who say it's going to be safe, they only focus on the athletes. i have a tremendous respect to off weeks, and i'm sure they will follow the rules. however, there are other kendall thousands of people trying into your pan and who are going to make sure that they are following the rules. and also another aspect that's not discussed is that there are again hundreds of thousands of people if no more coming to tokyo within japan. and these people will not be monitored now,

vaccinated enough and not to mention being tested. and the we are currently on in the 4th wave of infection and we are in the 3rd state we emergency, it's just because we had a some increase of row of people in march when the state of margins was lifted. so all these things indicate that if you only focus on the movement of the athletes we are, we're getting about the other huge risks that we are facing. i had a look for your twitter feed. professor tony, this is what i found. we are planning to have no impact action. and this idea, i have a feeling that if you could cancel the olympics, you would i was really, you know, this is not just about the risks of health risks, but the other 2 that we have seen from the i c and the government is enough to call for the cancellation because we have the voice in the opinion and the we are

taxpayers, we are putting a lot of result into this, but we are hurt. we are respected and the i o. c. so this self of the, you know, the movement of peace and friendship all the corporation. but we only should be basically being ignored and people feel increasingly frustrated. and the fact that the moral will have been ignored is enough. find this game must not go on. but maybe what would you say to professor autonomy because you train so hard so long. you are fortunate in the this is not only olympics that you will be attending, but sometimes it's the only challenge and you entire korea. what would you say to professor tony about that? you know, i mean it's, it's hard to, it's hard to argue with professor tawny on this, to be honest. i mean, i, you know, as an athlete, you're so focused on the goal. and the goal is, you know, for this instance, it's a go the olympics, but you never want that to be at it at the expense of someone else,

especially when it comes to health. you know, i've been fortunate to go to unlimited games. i made the decision last year to continue on thinking that when and if we decided to have the games, it would mean that the world was able to come together around the games. and it's, it's really difficult to, i'm excited, but it's really difficult to be excited because that's not the case. you know, we're, we're holistically not ready. we're not having international fans, right? we, i think there has been acknowledgement that this is not beaten yet. being coven, and so, you know, it's hard to argue with that at all, in terms of, you know, the science of supporting it and, you know, you see it in, in the press that the, the happy population, the majority, it's up to 80 percent, i think right now are calling for, you know, they don't want the games right now. and understandably, and i know, you know, richard power mentioned that there's always negative sentiment leading to games for some reason or another. but this is different. i understand that. absolutely. i'm looking he thought to spare a headline from the times of india. new poll finds half of japanese back and

lympics this summer. so the numbers who are appreciating that the olympics are coming to the country going up a little bit by little bit. i am just thinking about what could possibly be the worst case scenario. if you have a number of different variants coming into japan over a short period of time, what could happen? what could happen? and what almost certainly will happen if it proceeds as the under the current measures. and by i see it's what we'll see and the lim pick of the variance. and that means, you know, we, we already see the, the delta very much across the k. and we see that being vaccinated isn't necessary protection whether that is vaccine escape or whether it's because, i mean the virus is like software, right? a company interface. so we made our vaccines for version 1.0 of the virus and now

we're up to all the different variance we to practically, you know, 2.03 point there, wherever we're at. now, you know, the athlete a young and fit and healthy. they're also the most likely people to carry variance back, sorry, just to athletes, come in the village and the venues. and so will their support stop, so will the public. so will the media. so again, this in that where the variance can mix and you take and mix and match them. so as far as, pardon me have for me and take them back to 205 countries. now northern countries have a heavy case. those countries have variance, but what we can certainly see or expect to see is, is the global impact. i expect that we'll probably scrape through the olympics with, you know, david, there are so many different sporting events about the power limping cancelled. what

about the, what about the power lympics? because we're talking about is incredibly fit athletes, but also athletes who have of the challenges which could be a whole spectrum of different challenges. so their health may be at a different level from athletes. he would been taking part in competition 2 weeks earlier, a few weeks earlier. absolutely said those are the 2 issues. first of all, we're going to see this huge spike, right? no matter, no matter what we can expect to see a spike, picture, the spike, the global spike after christmas, or they us bike after thanksgiving and the parent and picks going to be right. been smack in the middle of that because there know, we see that spike start 2 weeks after and then the parent picks out another 2 weeks after that. and the parent and more diverse did differently abled their less functional. they have a diverse range of competence. and they just simply not as, as able to cope with the virus the same way that actually can or that's better than

that. so is it kicked really vulnerable? and that's where we need to feel better too. so that, that can still go ahead, you know, at a different time and that, and actually don't compromise in the japanese government isn't held over by the way that the irish basically has roberto right now. okay. professor connie, i want to play this to you. this is poor o'shea, he's thinking about, he's an academic, he's thinking about the liberal democratic party and maybe where they stand in terms of the liberal definitely happening or not happening, haven't listened to poor and then respond to him. i don't think public opinion manage that much of the decision to go ahead to the game or somewhere and there is an election in autumn, but the opposition is pretty weak and divided. and due to the nature of the japanese political system, actually at the be only need about 25 percent of those to stay in power. the i o c for 5 is dead set on the games. going ahead. so for tokyo to cancel the mula, hurry would become very expensive during messy and it will party cost prime

minister suga his job. so from the government's perspective, actually, it makes sense to define public opinion and to push ahead of the games, at least under the current conditions. just of yours, you heard the l d p early ruling party is notorious for not listening to people. and that is even more the reason why people are worried about this olympics, no matter how much the l d p or the our government said it can be safe. we don't trust it. the past year and a half they feel to contain they fail to provide enough number of testing. and in this condition, they have a tremendous financial interest. and also right, the interest in national pride in hosting the olympics. so these people in, so these are the people represented in japan and people are not happy about this. and also i want to jump on to the popular popular opinion about that, about half of the people supporting. but i have to point out that the poll has

a flow because it does not have the choice, did not have the choice of post form. and if you are the option about 80 percent of people don't want olympic this summer in the pulling was done by the human symbol, which is one of the sponsors. but we see all these ways of making it look like people are supporting. and it's going to be safe, but it is definitely not the representation of what we are feeling here. and we do an on scientific poll on youtube here. hello for us. thank you very much for watching on youtube. i don't think my scattering is safe, no matter how careful the organizes are. s p o pure one. still recommends postponing with japan says i'd rather do it this year. we're not doing it. so there is no option is either happening or it's no operating. seems like it's happening. they are particularly worried about this new very into new cases. megan, i feel like we've given you the worst off the new never right, and you're probably so painfully. this is not good for your terrain. a look at your mental pro said, but what fleets like yourself talking to each other about if i could be on

a fly on the wall at the u. s. a rowing team, what would you be talking about? would you be like, oh do you just hands over and try not to think about it? unfortunately, i think it's the ladder, although, you know, even the earliest you know, just this, this morning after practice. you know, we, we are bubbled as a team and we've all vaccinated, but we're starting as we start to plan our departure and heading to a pre camp before entering into tokyo. you know, really making sure that we're all doing what we need to do to make sure were you know, the habits of wearing a mask and making sure that we're falling all the rules that we keep. we are capable of to protect each other. but also, you know, the professor atanya and dr. sparrow mentioned, there are so many people coming into the country and we are rely on everyone behaving positively in terms calling the world and you know, and then fix is

a party, it's about human endeavor. and that really is also using policy for people who are spectating people who are joining in and also some of the athletes a young. i'm not sure i know how well they can be behaving. all right, good luck. stay safe. megan, are you showing a room with anybody? you know, they haven't told us quite yet, or, you know, they haven't, even, they haven't told us our living situation the 1st time about that we would likely be running with another athlete. you know, i see dr. sarah nodding, we've been given little information. right. so yeah, we don't know or i so right, we're going to connect, she got to start megan, say view of the u. s. a. rowing team, he's got good advice. let me show you here. thank you so much. and we show you how you can follow americans journey. you can follow her on twitter or say, keep up with professor it's connie, and also dr. on a sparrow for the latest that on what they're thinking about the upcoming tokyo

olympics. i think it's upcoming. i think it's definitely happening. thanks for watching. i'll see you next time on the stream. take everybody ah . from the world's most populated region the and until the story from across asia and the pacific. to discover the current events with diverse coaches. and conflicting politics. ah, what he's on out there on the demand for low price,

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