that's my the precious my game in the game. my them bob way on al jazeera. you want to help save the world, needs into your elbow, in the analytic fans and opening ceremony like no other. after a year's delay, the world's greatest athletes are coming together as the games officially begin time on the richardson at the national stadium in tokyo, where the opening ceremony for the games many people would never take place is just about to get underway by the frustration on the streets protested, say the gains shouldn't be going ahead. swell corona virus remains a threat. ah,

i'm, how am i here? this is al jazeera life and joe ha, also coming up fighting words from the taliban group point. there will be no peace in afghanistan until certain conditions are met. hospitals in lebanon are on the brink of running out of fuel, pushing the lives of patients at risk. and rescue work continues in the central china after the worst floats and living memory displays hundreds of thousands of people. i well, it's a little after 11 hours she and see and so we'll begin into q where the greatest show on earth has begun. bringing life pictures now over the lympics stage in

tokyo and then pick stadium that was both specially for these 2020, and lympics. however, no part, no participation will be alert in to watch that opening ceremony, which is guessing on the way of a lympics ceremony, of course, a symbol of unity and national pride. and during these, unprecedented times, moments when the greatest athletes show their strength, solar, charity, and courage. we're also going to bring you life pictures. i said japan's national stadium where of course, there are protest, those who are holding a process to the fact that these games are being held a toll. so these are earlier pictures in the process taking place sides the stadium. of course, the nation over japan is divided as to whether or not these these games should be

going ahead at all. now the period of nations says be happening inside. that's nearly empty stadium. as i was mentioning, there will be no spectators taking place at these games. the games are being held in the middle of the global pandemic, which is, of course, not at over. however, the stadium will be completely empty. there are foreign dignitaries and guess who will be present the us 1st lay the joe biden will be in attendance and the french presidents. emmanuel micron is among the 15 dignities heads of states who are that's a lympics opening ceremony. well let's cross live now a t l just here is on the richardson he is in talk you for us joins are some sites that stage in the this isn't the lympics like no other. what do you think we can

expect to see from the opening ceremony? yeah, it's called a, it's quite an accent. the host got to pull off to the creative director saying the show will try and reflect. it will be sober and in sync with the sentiment today. that the panoramic, the japan and the rest of the world is going through. i mean, really since the, the modern lympics began in 96. the opening ceremony has always been an important part of every games and showcasing the national identity. getting 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 the impacts and make people feel little, the sacrifice is worth while. just look at the stadium behind a $1400000000.00 stadium bill for these games and send it to house $68000.00 people

. but of course, for tonight and for the truck and failed event, since the closing ceremony, that will be next to nobody inside their faults, most taking part in a few 100 visiting dignitaries. and in terms of the performance in the athletes going into that ceremony said i was going to be some fireworks for them to say, as we can see behind me. now we've got 12000 involved in the opening ceremony. that won't be as many that tonight because one thing many athletes on flying in and so last few days since it's due to carpet 19 restrictions and having that training camps away from the city. but also the facts. you go to bear in mind that if you're an athlete and you're surrounded by and other athletes, the real concern many have is that one of those individuals subsequently touched all that. if it covered 19, you are identified as a close contact, and therefore your participation in these games is on the threat. and then if the

shuttle will athletes, that means games that are on them. if looking for positive things coming up from this opening ceremony, then it has to be gender parity. all 9 percent of all athletes taking part of these games will be women, the highest number we've ever had. and that is reflected in the ceremony where countries have the opportunity to have a male and female athletes, bringing the flag into the ceremony to represent that country. which ceremony just getting on the way to homie. now, as you can think, as we can see, what we saw those far were being set off behind you, andrea and certainly the japanese government seems to be much happier to see images of fireworks than images. perhaps the protest to you, i believe we can, you show you thing behind, you know, what's the atmosphere like in the city right now you've been talking through a few days now. how does this compare to previous olympics that you've covered?

well, well, it's completely different. i think everyone's experiences will generally be completely different over the last 18 months. this is a national holiday. let's be dive celebration all these games. but how care itself is under a states of emergency covered 19 level se hitting the heights that have not been seen since the start of the year. and while there are no official spectators at the stadium to spend, a lot of people gathered here has to be said, it's a fairly basic split between people who are taking photographs of the state and wants to just be here to, to place some part in the opening, sorry and it, but there is, as you can hear behind me, a very vocal my know receive it are opposing the games and have opposed the games since the star, the amounts of public money that has gone into these games that the delay of the year cost an extra couple of $1000000000.00 for the whole nation. so a lot of work to be done for the organizes to convince the people that these games that we're pushing on with. and if we think back to when, so can host to the games in 1964. really that was

a showcase of the country to show its reemergence after world war 2, the world got to see the bullet trying to the 1st time. nothing was too much trouble for visiting funds and visiting athletes. it became known as the inclusion games and sadly, at these games, the world is necessarily being kept at arm's length. the whole, the organizers have is that wants the sport stops on saturday, the focus shifts the, what's happening inside the stadium that has happened at previous games, where the public has been reticent and reluctance is for games. once the ceremony happens and the game start, people start to get into it. a huge challenge for that to happen under the circumstances. it is indeed the, we're just showing our viewers pictures all of those protest taking place site, the stadium. and it is unfortunate that these games have many turns into the covert olympics if you like. but in terms of the actual sports is this. if the organizes

managed to pull this off and attention is pulled back on to the sporting progress of the athletes, the fluid in from the round the world to take part in these games. what exactly should we be looking out for? i'm thinking of course of the 2008 lympics that one was wired by you st. bolt. and then of course and, and lympics. afterwards, it was michael phelps dominating the conversation. who are the, the athletes that you've put your eyes on? over the next few weeks, you mentioned that there's a real behemoth lympics forward over the last couple of decades. really you same both michael fish will be the 1st lympics since 2004 when neither of those particular faces. taken part is a huge counseling to sales. somebody i think, as i mentioned previously this, this could really be the lympics of female athletes with so many taking call now.

and it's such a rare platform for men and women speak competing alongside each other on the same sort of stage. and we've got some really big names taking part from the female world of sport, non soccer. the japanese tennis player is probably the face of the lympics. she saw a couple of months out from santas. and she'll be back playing on sunday, so high hopes for her to win a gold medal on and beyond. but you have the likes of semi biles, gymnastics. she's already got a lot of empty gold medal. she will look into when a few more. i'm assuming, pull calculate jackie, who is a huge star in america. she want 5 goals and reaction guidance of 5 more in tokyo. so that the stage you sent really it's up to somebody to really steal the headlines because without balls, without spouse, that man sort of being the olympian of 2021 is, is wide open for someone to climb ok and richardson,

they're joining us live from a to q, it's like the elliptic stadium and eat. thank you very much indeed. will of course be hearing a lot more from a, in the days and weeks to come on . let's bring you some other news. not a member of the taliban negotiating gene says there won't be a last thing in afghanistan until a new government is installed in cargo. that all sides agree on, fell on faces of the seizing many areas as the last of the u. s. nathan forces leads, i've got a son. so hell. shaheen says the taliban does not want to monopolize power, but it will only lead its weapons. the government, i shaft, honey, is gone. james phase has the details from carbo diplomatic efforts or

intensifying many countries, deeply concerned about what's going to happen in the coming weeks in afghanistan. and that's why many countries are trying to get those talks going again in doha. and there's been a meeting in the last few hours between abdul salaam. huffy, who is the deputy head of the taliban delegation, endo hall with representatives of the e u. the u. s. the un katara. now some of those countries want an immediate cease far in place, but the taliban, making it clear that so far, the proposals from the african government aren't serious. they won't not won't re constellation, but they won't start entering. they won't come. connie n harbor c spied and we will continue our waterman as it is. so that's the

also not realistic approach not to pragmatic approach. it is necessity that all of one should have are, should eagerly upon i knew god meant and that was meant what to replace the new this couple administration. and that's what it meant will be acceptable for us. and to other up months, another taliban spokesman mohammed naive has issued a clarification saying that tell them that or not demanding the immediate removal of the afghan president ash ref gone for a cease far. and now to 0, understands that for a cease while the taliban will release of the prisoners and they want to de listing of those taliban members who are designated under un security council sanctions who have the latest. so the scramble to save people stranded by munson plugs in western india as the vessel gross lease,

but not for the math and project exclusion. the federal in the villages is trying to hide ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, thanks for tuning in 1st things 1st, we'll give you an update on typhoon in. as it we take it out toward sunday. this is when it is expected to make landfall. the eye of the storm here just south of shanghai is going to have a major impact will give you a wider view rate now. so shanghai expecting pretty close to about a 100 millimeters of rain and we'll see wind gusts with up to about a 100 kilometers per hour. in time. we've got the olympics underway in tokyo. we've got some sunshine there, but it disturbing. so toward the pacific looks like it will scoot south of tokyo, but of course we'll watch that for you in the days to come. next we're going to

southeast asia. we've got some very heavy rain toward northern areas of indo china . and that's because we're dealing with remnants of what was typhoon gen pack, which was the 1st to make landfall so far in china this year. next i'll take you to the sub continent and just in tense, monsoon rains, hammering the west coast of india, in particular for martha roster, we've seen deadly land slides here. and unfortunately in the forecast we're still dealing with heavy pulses of rain. so the darker the color are, the more intense the rain here, and we've also got a disturbance in the be a band gall, which is amplifying rainfall. mountains when this weather updates send pockets down, we've got a high of 32 degrees in karachi. sponsor, cut on airways besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by racism and integration, era traces,

the history assess generation lebanese australians, exploring the conflicts and the struggle for acceptance. ah, once upon a time in punch bowl on our just 0 i me ah, this is just a quick mind of the top stories this on the opening ceremony for the trouble. the lympics history is getting them to weigh in tokyo, more than 100 people attending the game for tested positive corpus 9 team. in the

run up to the event. a member of the taliban negotiation team sense that will be the last in piece in afghanistan into a new government is installed and cobble that all sides agree on how shaheen says the taliban doesn't want to live a shortage of fuel to run generators and federal lebanese hospitals is threatening the lines of patients feed the kids one night with an iris. c o 2 juice can last more than 20 hours a day. in several hospitals in lebanon may run out of fuel to power generators. within a few hours. they say para cuts can last at least 20 hours a day, so they're reliance on generations to keep hospitals running. there are,

we're fears that this is putting patients' lives at risk, especially with the pandemic ceiling with an economic crisis made worse by the recent resignation of prime minister designate side hurry are they are we spoke with dr. feed us at the ad. c works up the ref, he carry the hospital in bay roots. he says the situation is the worst it's ever been. we cannot continue like this. and we are putting a lot of patients in harm's way, especially considering that we are seeing the surgeons in the number of new cases yesterday live and report with one of the highest number of coffee case. it's been several months and it's clearly that our ice use are also receiving motivations. so electricity now is more that the content zayna hunter has more from beirut. the situation is critical. they need diesel fuel. hospitals are saying that they can no longer use their generators,

and they need to use the generators because the state does not provide more than 2 to 3 hours of electricity a day. this country is in crisis, the country is falling apart. there's a breakdown and state services and the diesel fuel is also needed, not just for hospitals for bakeries as well. the bakeries are saying that as of monday will no longer be able to make breads, and restaurants and hotels. they're saying that we're going to have to ask our clients to leave because we're not able to provide any power of the state to pay to electricity sector. if i just show you this is one of the main public hospitals, more and more lebanese are relying on the public health sector because they've lost their job. they've lost insurance, they can no longer rely on private health care. so all this strain on the public sector which has for decades been neglected by, by the authorities. if not just the question of diesel fuel manpower nurses, doctors, they're leaving in droves because of the economic situation. their salaries are now

worthless because of the collapse of the local currency. and it's not just that the hospitals are not able to import medical supplies and medicine because this country imports more than 80 percent of its needs and this country is close or nearly bankrupt. you need dollars to do this, the central bank is using up its foreign currency reserves. so the situation is dire and now hospitals are saying patients' lives are at risk if the government is unable to secure diesel fuel. indonesia has recorded more than 1500 cone of virus death in 24 hours a new records. it also registered just under $50000.00 infections. the countries become the epicenter, the surgeon cases in se, asia fueled by the highly contagious delta variance. rapidly rise in covert 19 cases of lead to a declaration of emergency in the history of the state. nissan whales, half of the country's population has been put into locked ins. the brick spills

over into other states, state home orders and sidney and likely to be extended beyond their current end dates off july 30th, neighboring new zealand suspended calls in fee travel with all of a string for 2 months, so called travel bubble was already poles. the new south wales victoria and fence stray earlier for the searches into our during his warning of the increased risk to travelers. echoes president was declared an emergency in the country's prisons after fighting among rifle gangs. as these 22 people are dead and others injured. this is the 3rd violent incidents in ecuador is overcrowded jails in 6 months. hardy, jo, castro reports the deadly gang violence has again taken hold in ecuador, it's over crowded prison system at 2 of the country's largest penitentiaries. it's taken $450.00 members of the special police unit to bring this latest round of

riots under control. as well as what are the la montana. we weren't able to reach all the prisoners in a different sales until 4 am local time. the contingency officers managed the bring this situation under control. also with the help of the armed forces. then you can see along the perimeter at the prison in leather, coon gus police recaptured about 80 and made to try to sleep. with the death toll still in flux, their family members gathered outside the prison gate on thursday, fearing the worst but healing his kimmy. my son got in touch with me instead inmates in medium security are going up to murder the once in maximum security. they have rifle from guns. yesterday they went up there. my son is hurt in there, so they have not taken him to the hospital yesterday. anyway, he's been to hospitals moves and the movie and not giving us the list of the dead. there are people who are not yet been identified, but most of us go north. in february,

at least 79 inmates died at 3 prisons in clashes between rival gangs, the country. the jails are built the house 29000 inmates, but have 38000 experts say guards are out numbered with gains effectively in charge . and that without reform, more prisoners will die. heidi joe castro al jazeera keepers foreign minister has dismiss new sanctions from the us as irrelevance. the measures come as washington accuses cuba of human rights abuses against the testers. in march, protest blaming governments for an economic crisis to widespread shortages, the food medicine and power cuba says and persisting us sanctions on to blame for the crisis. really one that this then we stopped. but these sanctions are relevant for a practical point of view because i know that this minister has no accounts in us bank has never said he's interested in going sight. seeing in miami, i've said that this is a relevant matter because the political and aggressive implications that shows my

due to the fact that it's a violation of international law. just imagine that some the europe, ian country decided the sanction the president of the united states. i do not know what the u. s. secretary state would say about that, because the united states does not have the least legal, political, or moral authority to be thanks to the people around the world. stream clean up operations runs away in the central chinese city as john jo, which was hit by this week. one of the worst floods in the region has experienced in recent history. other cities in the region are under red, alert. the rescue teams search for survivors. katrina, you reports from junk, jo. the rain and john jo may have east, but flood waters are still submerging major highways. just one reminder of the devastating storm which struck central china earlier this week. teams are working hard to pump and clear water line areas. the city is more than 7000000 residents are struggling to resume normal life. many neighborhoods like access to running

water authorities have set up temporary out the water stations. the gen says he's grateful he was safe at home, went to rental rain lashed. the city would have gotten in history, whether it's safer to stay indoors, that the lesson i learn, then just things happen unexpectedly. people need to be more cautious. this kind of tragedy could have been avoided, but we've got them. people are still coming to terms with the loss of life and loss of livelihood caused by what authorities have described as the worst. on 4000 years, many businesses remain closed. internet and phone connection is unstable. junk jose famous clock tower is frozen at 5 pm. the time electricity was cut off during the height of the storm on tuesday, getting around gender, city is still very difficult. the entire subway system remains closed with tunnels full of water. taking a subway during the storm was extremely dangerous. hundreds of people were trapped

encourages as flash, floods quickly filled the underground system. in keeping with chinese tradition offerings has been bird at the entrance to the station. to honor the 12 people who died on the ground, commuters are sharing harrowing details of their experiences waiting for rescue team to arrive. many believe they would not survive in rural areas, some were rescued after 3 days of being stranded. the army has been sent to reinforce vulnerable dance and reservoirs. meteorologists say the worst weather has passed and many here are waiting patiently for government disaster relief for the flood waters to recede and for the sun finally returned by treating you all to 0. jim jones, monson reins of triggered landslides in west and india, killing at least 35 people flooding left thousands of people stranded with parts of her astra. badly hit the dime, pose of ease for rescue teams have been struggling to reach sherry as console find

flood waters. israel's high chords has asked the government to clarify its position on the bedroom and village of con, mar. by september. one of dozens threatened with demolition across israel and the occupied west bank. they're not recognized by the states and their people are facing that force displacement when you ex, efficient, and television as highlighting the scale of the issue. as the other hand needs reports, it's been destroyed and we built 190 time since 2010. the village of a lot of keep home to, to re bed when tribe internet give desert to one of the so called legally unrecognized villages. in israel, they are barely any standing constructions left, but people still live here among their ancestors in the vans and trucks. but fellow, we go lower than that. they don't acknowledge anything bed when he's villages have been recognized since the days of the ottomans. and then the british,

the tribes exist since well before the creation of the state of israel. what do they think the tribes came down from the skies a week ago? this is how a ladder keep looks from above. you can see the marks of raking bulldozers that took down homes and smoothed the land. plans are made for forest to replace the village. these images are part of an exhibition base, really photographers, mickey craftsman, and shut tape jeff ski cold anti mapping to create that not turn, not the way of talking about maps. yes, we believe that they, they stay doesn't want us to see or 20 percent where to but it's to me on villages and the green line and in those days what's happened daily in don't recognize beds when villages. yes, they don't want us to say craftsman and ben shasky took thousands of pictures by drone and then super imposed them to provide high resolution images that show

a reality that is uncomfortable for many israel like palestinian villages. the dark spots on this picture raised to the ground in 1948 when israel was created. this is the spot where that picture was taken. now somewhere there, they used to be the village of jamaica. we can't figure out where exactly from this vantage point. it's all been covered with agricultural land. one of the many ways to raise palestinian heritage from inside the borders of israel. land confiscated uncovered. here they used to be the village of our now a training base for the military. i was surprised. how much isn't though there was such an effort to remove those places not only from maps, but also from reality. in each place, there was something that we can find cemetery, walls or stones that would indicate that there was something there in the past.

also from the discovery is through the connecting of those cases. it's what the people have had in could face at any moment. plans are in the works for it to be replaced by newly built israeli town with the same name. other places like handle asthma are also under threat of disappearing. the pictures of craftsmen and jeff ski now irrefutable proof of their existence, put up the meat l 0 in southern israel. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the, the opening ceremony for the most trouble in recent history is underway in tokyo. more than 100 people attending the games is tested positive for.