to human stories with political and economic tension driving them be ahead to the pope as a country to define the future. august on the . ready news. ready the, the 2020 tokyo summary lympics have begun with a scaled down opening ceremony in a nearly empty stadium. and it was japanese, tennessee, naomi, a soccer field and pick cauldron, officially launching the gang. ah, hello, i'm come all santa maria here in doug. how this is the world news from al jazeera haitians saying goodbye and say president jovan,

through the faith assassination has brought renewed violence and political uncertainty to the country. and a warning from the taliban, as it says, there will be no peace in afghanistan until certain conditions are met. ah hello, for after a year's delay, the tokyo 2020 summer olympics are officially opened. the games happening as japan battle, the new wave of the corona virus pandemic, were colorful despite the fireworks at the event at japan's national stadium, the president of tokyo 2022nd. she said she hopes that ellen pix will offer a moment of peace for people whose lives have been far from peaceful stephanie tennis down there. me stock lit the limpid cauldron. one of more than $11000.00 athletes from $200.00 nations who will be competing without spectators and under

unprecedented restrictions inside the stadium. very different thing to what we're used to the 68000 seats that the venue will mostly empty only around a 1000 people actually attended most of the teams war masks as they came out to represent their countries. and the team sizes for the ceremony also appeared to be smaller than usual, with plenty of social distance thing in place. some of the performance is also took on a rather somber symbolic tone. this was a lone runner in the stadium on a treadmill and apparent nods to the difficulties. athletes must have faced as they trained in isolation and in quarantine to prepare for the competition. these are the most expensive summer olympics in history. but they also deeply unpopular among the people of the host nation, nearly 80 percent of japanese say they are again holding the game. during the pandemic processes, we're rallying near the venue to voice their opposition components. they shouldn't be going ahead. while the corona virus remain such a threat, more than a 100 people attending the game have tested positive coven 19 in the run up to the

events. let's bring it all together now, his anti richardson reporting from talk to you. but at least we now know why no, i mean i suckers 1st tennis. much of these olympics was pushed back from saturday to sunday. the japanese stall, given the honor of lighting, the olympic coltrane, to get these tokyo games underway during the opening ceremony. we also heard from the international olympic committee president thomas back, he said, amongst other things, this feeling of togetherness, this is the light at the end of the don't tunnel of this pandemic has to be said. that sense, but may not be shared entirely by the rest of the japanese population who perhaps remain to be convinced about the wisdom of these games going ahead. the athletes parade, while it was scaled down socially distanced, somewhat subdued. several athletes from the countries of kurdistan. pakistan and to jacob on entering the stadium without wearing a facial mask. clear contravention of the strict rules and regulations of these games athlete were warned that if they didn't follow all the safety protocols, they could risk being kicked out of these lympics. as for the ceremony itself,

well opening ceremonies like them, a load them have always been a part of the games ever since. they came back in 1896, a chance for the whole nation to showcase all of that culture national identity, but rarely as a whole. nation had such itself balancing act to pull off like tokyo house and to try and get public opinion to turn and shift in favor of these olympics. earlier on the news that we spoke to latan mohammed is a taekwondo world champion, a silver medalist for great britain at the rio olympics. the last one's in 2016. he says not having spectators will have an impact on some athletes. it's impossible to overlook the impact, but having a war in crowd it lives. you and i think the historic great performances that were used to us in the lympics, the crowd has a major role to play, especially for sports like mine, take window, which on traditional big sports,

like all in tennis. so you have to understand that this is really the only time once every 4 years that most of these ask this gets compete in a packed house arena, with the crowd cheer and pull them. so it's going to be strange. it will be probably like the moscow $980.00 or l. a. 900. 84 games where there were boy caught, there will be the mention o struction sauce actually wasn't there. it's unfortunate, but i still think it is happening so that the athletes do get an opportunity to go and compete with a nation and compete for themselves. what's that gold medal london? was this absolutely epic james bond flying in the queen. it was just a memorable, a very, very british occasion. and if i'm being honest, i watched the open. i mean, just now, like we all did, i was hoping to see. pick a 2 in the summer i and the kerosene. i really thought they were going to lean in

the elements of japanese culture that spread across the world, but they went for a more autistic, more somber approach. now there are reports of shots being fired, close to the funeral of haiti's assassinated president. jove no more thing. they tourists in the grounds of its family, home in the countries. second city have hashem outside the police report. the 5 p, a guy that protests in sending a us delegation and other dignitaries russians because we the course shot date on july 7th. we've got andy gallagher, reporting from miami on this one if nothing else. and it shows that there is no peace in haiti even at and it's somber event like this. it's still mod by violence . yeah, i think that's a great point. i think there were many people who have thought this might be a moment that brought the nation together, but clearly that is not the case. people in k patient are very suspicious of those

from port of prints. in fact, i've been hearing reports, the chief of police from puerto prince, attended those services people in the crowd where were yelling assassin, because they know in k patient, you know, i'm always is from, there were members of the security detail of you have no more. we weren't injured and even some police officers have been arrested in that ongoing investigation into his assassination on july the 7th. so at those fractures that were already there, that tenuous nature of this entire nation just being exposed again in a moment that should be peaceful and serene if you like. so what happens now and who's really in charge for the interim at least and, and what do they have to do to try to? and i know it's a big ask, but to settle things down or remember, and a 2 weeks or so following job. now he says death, there was this power struggle between various different senior politicians,

which basically was ended when a core group of international countries, including the organization of american states in the united states. got behind are y'all on re he has now been appointed as the new prime minister, and his sole purpose really is to lead this nation into free and fair elections. that hasn't been over 4 years. there have been so many problems in previous elections, but there are many haitians telling me, look, even if we get to vote, that is not going to solve this nation's myriad of problems. the senate is barely operating. the parliament has already been dissolved, gangs that running large portions of port prince they think going to the ballot box isn't going to solve those problems, but the international community certainly think that is the way ahead. thank you. and he galico reporting from miami on the situation in haiti right now. now remember the tunnel bands negotiating teams as they won't be lasting patient canister until a new government is installed in cobbled at all sides. agree on taliban fighters

have been seizing many areas of the last of the u. s. and nature forth of leave afghanistan. so hey, shane says the taliban doesn't want to monopolize power, but the current government can expect things to carry on as they are diplomatic editor, james space has more from combo. certainly what everyone wants, i think on the international community is some way to have a negotiated settlement between the african government and the taliban. some way of sharing power. and what they'd like is to restart those talks that have been taking place in doha and currently adjourned. great deal of effort to try and get that back on track and get that going. there been a meeting recently with the deputy heads of the taliban political office in doha of the salon monopoly and representatives of diplomats from the e u. u s u n. and katha know many of those diplomats in addition to getting the

talk started, think that the best atmosphere for the talks is to have a cease for the taliban reluctant to have a c spot. at this stage, they say the proposals that the afghan government have put on the table so far are unacceptable. they won't not want reconciliation, but they won't start entering. they won't come come n harbor c spied and we will continue our government as it is. so that's the also not realistic approach not to pragmatic approach. it is necessity that all avalon should have are, should eagerly upon i knew god meant and that was meant what replace the new this couple administration. and that's what it meant will be acceptable for us. and to add that up months,

another taliban spokesman later clarified those comments, making it clear that the taliban is not demanding the president should have gone. he is removed or stands down before a ceasefire. that's not one of the conditions that demanding before a cease for al jazeera understands what the taliban want. in order to have a cease for, for them to a greek, to a c swap would be for all the prisoners being held by the african government to be released and that will be difficult. moved by president gun, he got a lot of christmas last time. he released prisoners and also for all of those taliban members that are listed by the un under the sanctions committee to be de listed your secretary state anthony blanket and is that iraq's foreign minister in washington dc topping the agenda. the potential withdrawal of combat troops by the end of the year. this may allow the us military to take on an advisory role, including training and arming iraqi forces to fight iso friday's meeting is to lay the groundwork for president jo biden's in person meeting with iraqi prime minister

and stuff. roe call me on monday or from patty co haines state department, iraq foreign minister came here to the state department to meet with the us secretary of state. and they spoke to the media, but they didn't really make any news that's expected to happen on monday when her ex prime minister heads to the white house to meet with us president joe biden. they're expected to announce that they will take all us comment troops out of iraq by the end of this year. but the foreign ministers been telling the press that he still needed the us military to do intelligence and surveillance. do training to fly for air power. air power is in fact combat. and that's pretty much what us troops are doing in iraq right now. and sources in the putting on or say they don't expect that the numbers going to change very much right now. they have 2500 troops in you in iraq, but they're not only supporting the mission in iraq. they're also supporting the $900.00 or so troops, us troops that are in syria. so we are respect that mission is going to change very much. this is being seen widely as

a political move to try and help the racks prime minister in the run up to the next election. we'll check whether next to and then hospitals 11 and on the britain kit running out of fuel within hours, putting the lives of patients at risk. we'll find out how 3 d printing revolution and luck, risk all revolutionizing pills and how they work and the human body. ah hello, nice to see you. there's no change across the weather in the middle east. we're still dealing with some high heat, particularly around the gulf kuwait's 49 degrees. we've got a slight shamal wind here, so we're seeing a northwest wind gusts about 4050 kilometers per hour. we do have some rain moving across much of yemen, and our southwest monsoon is giving us some rain as we would expect to see in sola,

for example, on saturday. next, i want to take you to turkey, where the black sea region has just been hammered with some heavy rain. we've also seen as a result of this land slides at home, going down right there. and unfortunately, it's looking like much of this heavy rain will continue on saturday, toward that southeast corner of the black sea. next, we're going to go to africa and check on the tropic street here, and we've got storms coming and going. but what's a bit unusual is the storms are lifting further to the north and falling across the sou hale region. so we do have some rain in the forecast for juba on saturday with a high of 32 degrees. further to the south. we had some soaking rains for the eastern cape port. elizabeth picked up 50 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. but look at this on saturdays, things start to dry out and we've got some sunshine with the temperature of 21 degrees. the

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a year delay the tokyo 2020 summer lympics of officially opened with a low key ceremony and nearly empty stadium. japanese tennessee soccer was given the honor of life, indian, and big coltrane. the president of the games said she hoped they will offer to piece for being a funeral of have the fascinated president joke normally used to taking place in his home town of compassion. he was shot dead at his residence in the capital more than 2 weeks ago. and a member of the taliban think shedding team said there'll be no lasting teeth. and i've got this done until a new government is installed and cobbled at all sides. the cree on. so hail shaheen says the taliban doesn't want to monopolize power in a while . lebanon's hospitals are running out of fuel. the economic crisis is led to pound cups that can last up to 20 hours a day, and that is putting lives at risk. as the pandemic righteous on st reports from beggars. these generators are a lifeline for hospitals in

a country where state electricity cuts last most of the day, but they're running low on diesel fuel. lebanon is an economic and political turmoil, and the state is nearly bankrupt. doctors warned the health sector is close to collapse with all the what's going on with the shortages, whether in human resources, whether in medications, whether in supplies, and on top of that now fuel electricity and more of a case is coming in. i'm believable that the hospitals are still able to it's not just hospitals bakeries to say if they don't receive diesel fuel in a few days, they will have to close the state electricity company has all but stopped providing power. already the sector was crumbling from years of neglect, but in recent weeks rationing has been severe. we rely on tandal. there is no electricity and i can't afford to pay private generator. many no longer can afford

basic food since the local currency crashed. prices have increased by 50 percent this month alone. the price is very controlled by many factors, including the exchange rates or the dollar depending on the black market prices for fuel and for diesel. you know, we have market, we have to have electricity, 247. the black market has taken advantage of states subsidies on basic goods including medicine, many of which has been missing for months. many blame this for the crisis on the 11 . something. when we started, i think they would be out of market. it was one of the number one and even if they were the company, but they would be the source on the market. merchants have been blamed for hoarding supported goods or smuggling them to neighboring syria or other countries. mama

lacy is element, we can't find any med since there's no electricity. food is so expensive. every aspect of life has been affected by the unprecedented economic and financial meltdown. water supply is likely to be affected by the collapse of the power grids . the united nations says water pumping could gradually seize within 4 to 6 weeks. the country is falling apart, its blamed on decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class still in power. the solution, many se requires a government ready to fight just that, that their elders either beirut. few of the covert headlines in tunisia, reporting more than $1500.00 deaths in 24 hours, which is a new record. and also registering just under $50000.00 infections. the countries become the epi center of a surgeon, cases in se, asia field, by the highly contagious delta there and rapidly rising cases of lead to

a declaration of emergency in the strait in state of new south wales, half of the country's population has now been put into lockdown as the outbreak spills over into other states. state home orders in sydney are likely to be extended beyond the current and date of july 30. a neighboring new zealand has suspended corn jean for travel with all of us ready for 2 months. the so called travel bubble was already paused for 3 states, new southwell, victoria, and south australia is the prime minister. just send her order and his warning of an increased risk to travel us now clean up operations surrounding the central chinese city of young joe, which was hit this week by the worst flooding. the region is seen in recent history . of the cities in the region are under red, alert as rescue teams search for survivors. katrina, you reports from juncture the rain and john joe 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. when to rental rain lashed, the city would have got history, whether it's safer to stay indoors, that's the lesson i learned. then just things happen unexpectedly, people need to be more cautious. this kind of tragedy could helping avoid a lot of 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. john, 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. the city is still very difficult. be entire subway system remain

closed with tunnels full of water. taking us away 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 had been burned at the entrance to the station to honor the 12 people who died under ground commute as a sharing harrowing details of their experiences. waiting for rescue team to arrive many beliefs they would not devise. in rural areas. some were rescued after 3 days of being stranded. the army has been sent to reinforce vulnerable dance and reservoirs meteorologist 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, retired, retreat you all to 0. jo. monsoon reins of triggered land slides in west in

india, killing at least 44 people flooding left thousands of people stranded with parts of marashi state badly hit the down ports of east. but rescue teams have been struggling to reach areas cut off by the flood forces from new delhi, elizabeth her on reports on the rescue operations in the areas hit by lance lights . officials are hopeful because after the at least 35 deaths from 3 landslides, i'm not sure that's what my daughter was phase lead of. the chief minister of talk today has said and around 30 people are missing. he also said that the national disaster response force has been having a lot of difficulty reaching some of the worst effected areas because of the damage to rows and to bridges. but because the flood waters are now starting to receive and that heavy rain has slowed down somewhat, they hopeful that everyone involved in the rescue efforts, national disaster response for that also the army, the navy, the coast guard on going to be able to get to the people who remain stranded more

than a 1000 people have been rescued in different parts of my austria. many of them have been from rooftop from the top on top of buses on highways shipping, the coast and town of chaplain, which is home to about 70000 people. that is where the rescue efforts focused on now, half of it is flooded and that's in the district of magazine which see the heaviest rainfall in july in 40 years now elsewhere in mud, austria, and the financial capital min. by in fact, another 2 people have died an 8th injured off, the house collapsed off the heavy rains and over the last week and seen 30 people die in and around by because of the heavy rain. that's the situation in austria, but we're also seeing heavy flooding in a couple of other different states in the country. most notably in the southern states of felon gonna, we're hearing meteorologist is saying that the 30 centimeters of range is called an impact on garden capital. high above that,

that's the highest rainfall in july and hydro bob in 10 years that the flood gates of the main reservoir swan saga have had to be have had to be released for the 1st time. again in a decade. now the sort of damage was seeing the destruction due to flooding due to land flies. it is common during the season when the flood really affects the foundations of structures which are often poorly built. but we're also hearing from scientists that the frequency and the intensity of the monsoon of heavy rains is increasing because of climate change. and advise that a former us president donald trump is due to appear in court for a bail hearing. thomas barrack is charged with working as a foreign agent on behalf of the united arab emirates, prosecutors that he failed to register as a lobbyist and tried to influence u. s. foreign policy to benefit the u. s. e. he is also accused of lying to the f. b i international body of seeing the pe steel that ended the bosnian conflict in

the 1900 ninety's has now banned the denial of genocide. both me and serv. officials have refused to accept the massacre of more than 8000 bosnia and revenue was in fact, genocide. now, genocide denies will face up to 5 years in prison. the new law also forbids the glorification of war crimes. criminals even talked to ms. savage has more from sarajevo. in the recent years we've been witnessing a campaign of open and blatant genocide, denial both by the buzzing sales but also republic of serbia. that's find the bugs in public. there was a push towards international community and it's office of high representative to bring into power a law in criminal genocide, denial, which is basically what happened today. now there are 2 factors, probably that played an important role in this happening. first of all, there is in the recent years a more strong, a stronger us presence in the region,

especially since the navigation of the by the administrator by the who was very involved involved in the war in the ninety's. when he was a us senator, on the other hand, the incumbent, high representative, valentin info is leaving off is at the end of this month and in bosnia, this move this, bringing in to power this law is seen as a sort of a legacy move a legacy of his term as the hi representative in bosnia, the 3 d printing technologies used for all hooked things these days mostly in the assembly and construction of hardware infrastructure. now, a group of scientists in england is using it to customize pills for those in need of tailored doses. not in barbara has more at this lab in central england, the leading a revolution in health care. 3 d printing is already used to create perspective limbs and implants. now experts at nottingham university working to perfect the poly pill, that's

a tablet that can deliver multiple medications to the body and exactly the correct dose and time. with this, with the premium tech, and what we can do is we can have different print has each containing different drop. so this will be the pull this onto a structured a single drop it and drop a very small drop off the sides of the america here. so they will be here and then for each 5 stack out into a final structure. as the team highlights only wanting 10 people gets headache, pain relief if they take paracetamol. the problem is getting the right dosage for the patients. these researches foresee doctors prescribing a customized pill containing multiple drugs which will be released into the body in sequence. whereas the frenzy rosie met and then in, in the future the doctor will be able to tell what they expect those, that, that patient needs. and then they will be printed based on demand for that. so you think before materials, the pain medicine,

one everything will be put into one field together. chris roberts is 60, as well as suffering from mix dementia. he also has the lung condition, emphysema and arthritis. he has to take a tablet a day on top of painkillers and sprays. not surprisingly, can leave both him and his wife. jane exhausted. crystal can take his tablets in the morning that he takes a whole lot in the evenings. the difficulty is that there are so many chris can come and become a little bit discombobulated. now we live together. so as a carrier, it's my job to ensure he takes a tablet, but i'm only human, especially as i'm progressing as while and i'm getting a bit i'm difficult to manage. so one chocolate would be much better than done jane trying to do $810.00 times a day. every day in britain or my 600 people develop dementia according to the charity out time as research u. k. so the research going on in this lab could improve life for hundreds of

thousands of people. what they're doing here with 3 d printing has a wide range of potential applications, but at the heart of it as a simple idea, how to tailor the products, whether it's medication or a device to the individual. if a poly pill does become reality, the ideas for it to be produced locally, possibly it's a community pharmacy with a relatively cheap printer that could mean slashing transport costs were low income countries and saving many more lives. nadeem barbara al jazeera nottingham ah the top stories this our on our to 0 after years delay the tokyo 2020 summer lympics officially opened with a low key ceremony in an alien t stadium. japanese tennis don emmy a soccer was given the honor of lighting, the cauldron. the president of the game said she hopes they will offer people

a moment of peace. more for me and richardson in tokyo. but at least we now know why know me. i stuck his 1st tennis much of these olympics.