and generosity and compromise because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problems together. that's well, 0 is so important. we make those connections the use. ready this is al jazeera ah, hello, mario minimizing welcome to the news our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes a year late and in unprecedented circumstances. firework signal, the official opening of a controversial olympics in tokyo station, present of an animal ease is laid to rest at his family home. his widow describes

the dark days of his assassination in love and daily electricity. blackouts are endangering hospitals of putting lives at risk. as the countries grips by a deepening economic and financial crisis, reinventing the way we take medication, a pill printed, especially for you. by a 3 d printer ah billed as the greatest show on earth. the 2020 somewhere olympics is now officially started in the japanese capital toko. after being delayed for a year, because of the corona vars pandemic that were only a handful of dignitaries at the opening ceremony because of the kobe restrictions in place. but plenty of the usual fireworks and fun facts of this included a surprise choice of athlete to light. the coltrane and richardson brings us this

report now from tokyo. the ever since the modern olympics began in $1896.00, an opening ceremony to showcase the identity of a whole nation as being part of the games. but really has a city had to pull off a balancing act like this. the shows creative director said the aim was to produce a spectacle that was also sober and in sync with the sentiments of a country going through a pandemic. the ceremony was made for tv event. full fans were bound from attending, just as they will be for the games to come. a scale down athletes parade was socially distanced and relatively subdued. but athletes from kurdistan to jacob's down in pakistan didn't wear facial masks breaking supposedly strict rules laid down by organizes just more, more headache for olympic president thomas back. he's admitted to having sleepless nights and daily doubts in the build up to the games that he believed it was the

right decision to push on and give athletes the chance to fulfill their olympic ambitions. he's, he's all of us hope for our, for the journey to get much of the local population is still to be convinced that this is the event the city needs. in the midst of a panoramic japanese tennis, thought naomi soccer was handed. the job of lighting the olympic coltrane, organizers will now be hoping, the sporting exploits of athletes like her can help turn public opinion around in the days ahead. went okay last posted the lympics in 1964, the game showcase the country reemergence. after world war 2 foreign visitors and athletes were welcomed and what became known as the inclusion games this town around suddenly the world is happens to be cat at arms one and the richardson algae cetera. ok. and this is the scene now in tokyo, where you can see the limb,

think flame burning away thereafter. and he was saying in his reports, a smaller scale. so many of the worst celebrations, unusual performances that you would see. but it was on a much smaller scale than we have seen. of course, before the pandemic and somewhat subdued as well bought more than $11000.00 athletes from over $200.00 teams will be competing without spectators, though on the unprecedented restrictions. lympics organizes are grappling with a shortage of cov, at $900.00 testing kits, athletes and meant to be tested every day. but reportedly none were tested on monday. 3 more athletes have tested positive though, bringing the total to 11 or 11 related cases, including officials and media rose by $19206.00. the city of tokyo announced 2359 infections on friday, despite being in a state of emergency for 12 days. another concern, the impact of the talk show some is extreme heat and humidity. friday's temperature

is a high of 34 degrees celsius. humidity stands at 76 percent. the tallow mohammed is a silver med list for great britain and the he was in the 2016 rio olympics and a bronze medalist at london in 2012 and says that spectators can affect how well the athletes performed. so not having them there is us that back. 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 quando, which on traditional big sports like football and tennis. so you have to understand that this is really the only time once every 4 years. but most of these athletes get to compete in a packed health 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. $1084.00 games that were boy caught in that there will be the mention of o. fraction 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 for chocolate. gold medal london was this absolutely epic james bond flying in. and the queen was this so memorable, a very, very british occasion. and if i'm being honest, i watched the open. so i mean, just now like we all did, i was hoping to see that picture to in the summer i and the car. i see i already thought they were going to lean in 2 elements of japanese culture that spread across the world. but they went for a more artistic approach.

hey, geez, might have president has been laid to rest his tensions over his assassination. cimarron, juanetta moiz was killed at his home on july 7th foreign dignitaries from across the america, attended the funeral and kept haitian nation 2nd largest city. they witnessed violence between police and protests which iraq did just outside the funeral, but no one was reportedly injured. and the gallagher has more even before the funeral of 53 rolls, you have no mo east got underway. tensions in comp, patient run high. protests seeking unanswered questions and angry with the nations ruling class took to the streets. many here hoped we since funeral would help men to fractured nation instead of unity. that deep suspicion over who killed me are we and why we the haitian people are demanding justice for the president. and we are saying that we do not agree to bury the president because they did not arrest the real culprit. we are blocking the entire northern department since the death,

the presidents have not made any money. i, despite security concerns, dignitaries from across the americas gathered to pay their respects to the former president. as services got underway, gunshots rang out forcing dignitaries, including those from the us and the un to be rushed to the safety of the vehicles. the fascination of job? no, but we says left, this fraudulent nation reeling, but on friday, those closest to him pay tribute, visibly shaken, martino is still recovering from a recovery after the assassination corporate justice. well, from what didn't work, that's why he's wanting to democratize a seeing how his fighting for equal opportunities to enter the civil service to come condemned to the taishan brothers. if you cross your arms and just look at the executioners, blood will not cease to flow. today it is jovan elma, we've got to morrow. who will it be? it will be him. it will be me. it will be our research in the wake of my research

fascination on july, the 7th, a core group of foreign nations back to arial on re to take the reins of haiti's, new prime minister. the international community is pushing for elections, which haven't successfully taken place in more than 4 years, with a barely functioning senate and a dissolved parliament that won't be an easy task. the launch haitian community here in miami, paying close attention to the enfolding political crisis in haiti. many a shock, but my waste was assassinated that more than anything else that deeply concerned about the immediate security of the nation. they left behind the notre dame to haiti church in little haiti, motors gathered to pay their respects to the for the president. like all haitians, those gathered have more questions than answers, but with a nation's future hanging in the balance. thoughts turned to those they left behind having all these rumors and so many questions, none of which were answered a lot of people to number one fear for the security of the country as

a whole. but of course, the fear for the security of their own families who are still in haiti. haiti sounds at a precarious moment as it lays its slain president to rest. the investigation to who was behind is this estimation appears no closer to giving haitians the answers they seek. a date for elections has not been set, security and stability for now a more pressing issues in this trouble nation. gala carruthers era, miami, florida. all as much was that i had for you on this news out from london, we're looking at floods and landslides in west and india. thousands of dead thousands have been last stranded. all that, while iran that drive year in 5 decades lead to a week of vine approach, i will be looking into that story as well. then of course, with the pit games getting on the way the temperature was too hot to handle for one competitor in tokyo that'll be coming up later with gemma in the for i

cleanable abrasions of started in the central chinese city of john jo, which was hit this week by the was flooding. the region has experience in recent history. nearby cities and now on red alert, as rescue teams scramble to search for survivors. katrina, you reports from joan john 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 from relying areas. the city is more than 7000000 residents are struggling to resume normal life. many neighborhoods lack access to running water authorities has setup temporary out the water stations. li jen says he's grateful he was safe at home, went to rental rain lashed. the city would have gotten 3 weather safer to stay in

those. that's the lesson i learned. then just things happen unexpectedly. people need to be more cautious. this kind of tragedy could have been avoided with 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. don, 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 under the city is still very difficult be entire. subway system remains 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 on the ground. commuters are sharing harrowing details of their

experiences, waiting for rescue teams to arrive many beliefs 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 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 returned by treating you all to 0 job job. well, at least $44.00 people died when monsoon rains triggered land slides and flooded low lying areas and west and india. thousands of people have been left stranded with rescue work is trying to evacuate people from vulnerable areas, at least 32 houses of collapse in one district alone authorities and now we're leasing water from dams. the risk of overflowing, elizabeth brought him has more on the story now from the capital new delhi. 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 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 goal 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 of bushes on highways ship learned the coastal town of chaplain, which is home to about 70000 people. that is where the rescue efforts a focus on now, half of it is flooded and that's in the district of us. my getting was received at the heaviest rainfall in july in full t years. but we're also seeing heavy flooding in a couple of other different states from the country. most notably in the southern states was telling donna we're hearing meteorologist is saying that the 30

centimeters of range for that. and that, and gardens capital. hi there, bob. the bets the highest rainfall in july, and hi there, bob, in 10 years that be 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 photo damage was seeing the destruction due to flooding due to land flies. it is common during the monsoon season when the flood and 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 with 11 and now the countries facing its worst crisis in modern history. there are shortages of food and continuing electricity, blackouts, unemployment and the currency crash of decimated living standards. and now on top of severe medicine, medicine shortages. hospitals are running out of fuel. economic collapse has led to

power cuts that can last for up to 20 hours. a day and that's putting lives at risk . st. reports on the story now from beirut. 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 corporate cases 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 market price 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 or something. when you started, i think they would be out the market was one of the number one. and even if they

were the by they would give the broad market. merchants have been blamed for hoarding supported goods or smuggling them to neighboring syria or other countries mom and see if we can't find any med since there is 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 nation says water pumping could gradually cease 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 or more than 4000000 people in lebanon, including a 1000000 refugees on now the risk of losing access to say for you and agency for

children estimates that water will start pumping in $4.00 to $6.00 weeks with shortages of funding, fuel and supplies, including chlorine forcing the dwindling supply of even greater risk. the agency says that it needs at least $40000000.00 a year to keep the water flowing across the country. more than 4000000 people, including 1000000 refugees or the media risk of losing access to state water in lebanon. that's according to unicef with the rapidly escalating academic crisis shortage of the funding fuel and flies that chlorine and spare parts. you just have to estimate that most water pumping will gradually cease across the country in the next 4 to 6 weeks. in the public water supply system glasses unit that estimates that water costs good skyrocket by to 100 percent of the month. when securing water from alternative or private water suppliers or to shortages as well in iran are leading to week long protests in the province province of list on at least one

person was shot dead. 2 others were injured. security forces, say, unknown gunman opened fire, protest is police blamed people. they described his counter revolutionaries for the violence drought conditions in the province have been worse than by the national shortage. a wrong supreme leader is calling on officials to stop blaming the country's citizens for the water problems and step up to deal with them. and i said in a case where if the advice offered about the water and sewage structure and then especially the sewage system in the city of ours had been heated. and then we absolutely would not have been faced with the problems we have now that people have costano voice, the dissatisfaction, and they cannot be blamed for this at all. they're saying the problem with water supply no, not a minor issue, especially in the extreme with us down climate ologist warning iran will soon be facing severe war scarcity countries. energy ministers call 2021. the dry as year and 5 decades with a 50 to 85 percent reduction precipitation in the southern and eastern regions.

another factor driving drought is a temperature rise of $2.00 to $3.00 degrees celsius. depleted snow packs and dried out rivers, many angry at the way the countries that water has been managed. 90 percent of the countries water is used for farming. iran is a semi arid country in the role of agriculture is essential to government policy with economic independence or to consumption in big cities has been on the rise in recent years with insufficient hydro power generation leading to power cuts. while he knows me as a professor at concordia university and a member of the global institute for water security joins, is fine skype from montreal. so how serious is the threat to iran water supply? thank you very much for having me. you know, interesting about you'd probably want to answer too is, is very severe. now, the issue is actually come to the straits. the actually born for a long time for the show,

what are scars to teen iran in different places. 2 years ago we had the issue of flooding and death was a time that the country was going through the cbr effect of you know, the flooding issue across the country. so what we are seeing here is a senior issue of water security. right. and the government seems to be echoing that sentiment. the energy ministers are the con your warning of water shortages this summer, saying that it's one of the driest years in 5 decades. what are the factors, or that the catalyst behind this, this water shortage crisis? let's, let's actually try to open up a problem a little bit. so obviously a national source of water you're using is from precipitation. and one of the national losses that we have is from, from evaporation actually is increasing by increasing the temperature. however, what you're seeing here is a combination of natural anthropogenic processes,

but i'm talking about trans report, any processes, i'm talking about, water consumption, water management, and water governance. that you may use a colleagues of mine to you on and across the board showing that these, these metal, the water management, water governance and water oppression is not sustainable. the new on and, and in some time when you have issue off natural boundary between climate, either to what the extreme high or extreme low these problems i'm going to start to showing itself. so what you're seeing, who's just on now, is not a new problem, is a problem that is actually reveal itself once again. and once again in different parts of you on an unfortunate that we sent here. because perhaps where they picked up climate change with more severe and intensity and frequency. right? ron hughes, about 90 percent of its washer sources. agriculture. obviously, that puts a strain on supply you mentioning some other factors such as the full in the level of rain or precipitation. that's a contributing factor. what are the,

what else should we be looking at as a possible cause for this? it look, you know, when we are to, to look at the look at the issue of water security, we need to look at other elements of that. obviously some issue of the water securities between the territory of water and hydrology, and natural veritable and science and things that we know about that. but some part of that is going to are the other elements that are beyond the, the water science itself, or water to itself. you know, such as economy such as politics. and these, she is actually, the st trio is making it poverty. you and, you know, massively intertwined in iran, you know, environmental and political. i don't know. let's put it in this way. you know what, you want a lot of oil and, and bring the money back to you on what that money goes for, to subsidize the water and energy. so people can start working and doing, you know, d, c is not going to be the way that we can run the country in 21st century, which looming effect of the climate change that we know what's going on with that.

and i'll be you see that the decisions that the governments want to increase the population at the other issue of actually i see, unfortunately, i don't see that the environmental crisis is actually the 1st period between the countries as a, as a scientist, i believe that the most important of the problem in iran, in the next the case are going to be environmental problems. i hope people can hear that. is there anything that can be done to, to alter that or is the damage now irreversible? well, there is not, there is never late, you know, definitely we might not be that we want to be able to bring the environment to some of its pass to stays on for strategy. but, but i do believe that the are able to, to, to, to do much better than these, you know, we have, we have one of one telling the one is saying that's been if you take the fish from the water is actually ease is fresh. so, so i do believe that now what can be done in short term they, they need to change the operation on management of the water system. in iran,

they need to actually move toward a better understanding of the water system as well as working with, you know, making protein be at the base in between the different players and the different company, heaters off the water that now unfortunately are in front of each other so, so lots of things can be done. i hope that these can actually, these issues can bring more attention to the crisis. and just briefly, how is this going to affect people? could the strain on water is also resources result in migration to, to largest cities such as iran, people who are coming from provinces where this, this crisis is playing out. you know, migration you run has been, has been a long transition backing the time. been, you had the boring walks, you know, we had a mass immigration from the, you know, the same province from hold on to other places because they would actually be natalie or sat down was saying, but now you know, till now we don't have

a mass migration because of the environmental finances in your holly bird, you know, the whole system issue is not only now is about the issue of water scarcity is about the issue of groundwater is about the issue of water quality is about how these people want to leave in places that he has dried out so, so all of these things can contribute to the mass immigration and what is the, what is the consequence of mass mass migration? you know, in simple board, in a stability, you know, venue when you are bringing more people into the places that are already vulnerable and people are competing for resources and environment, bringing more people. it's just, we're sending the situation so, so i really hope that we don't get to that stage and the there are knock on social and economic effects to the thank you very much. ali knows me for joining. is that from lunch? i'll appreciate it. being your show, thank you. just days after sending thousands of firefighters to battle wildfires, devastating siberia, russia is now dealing with flooding in multiple regions of the country. and the

village of opium video is captured the moment as mentioned, bridge collapse as a truck try to cross fit the driver reportedly survived. the flooding has also wiped out at least 5 other bridges across the country. though including one servicing wash is at trans siberian railway, with shortage is their phase of food shortages in south africa in areas hit by days of looting and rising violence. broken off to the jailing of former president jacob's duma, rural areas and the 2 most populous provinces have been particularly hard hit with entire towns centers run factions on fire blended. smith reports now from beula and quite zulu natal province in the of the li comrey surveys, what's left of his parade of shops in bulwark next door. we have got a group of doctors that at the spent quarter of a 1000000 setting up a nice practice in under 48 hours. every shop in this bustling town was stripped

than torched. a community of 35000 people now left with no commercial center. it was instant, we suspect there were 2 buses, boston with, with organizes at ra, that people as soon as people heard. busy that there was stuff for free, they just came in by the bucky loads, carrying the looting was sparked by the jailing of former president, jacob's humor it was, give him a mental by chronic poverty and inequality in south africa. made worse by the pandemic. were a couple of hours dr. outside derb and, and it's only when you leave the city, you get a real idea of the scale of the looting because not a town or village seems to been left untouched. outside the furniture store. people cute for taxes to help them carry home the bulky beds and sofas they'd stolen and a store owner is here, a pass, watched from his home, across the street,

powerless to save his business, probably some of the vehicle, the right next to our house loading the things, and we're not able to do any lives on the line here. we don't even feel safe to hear like many business owners isn't in short. the local police overwhelmed, stood by and watched it took a week for the south african government to restore order. here in jacob zoom is home province, of course, in the town, and in how ting, in bulwark many people buy, what they need a day to day to get the coffee, you have to think about it. so we have to go to the big if it goes i think them sylvia. yes, if you to complete the debts with no shops and no post office to withdraw allowances and with distribution centers also hit by looting. people will likely go hungry. it'll take weeks at best for this town to be able to offer even basic

services again, bernard smith, al jazeera bulwark, conseula natal also ahead.