health issue and like feeling the pressure is too much, they choose to speak out then, then they should be encouraged and supposed to do so and they should be listen to because these people speak from genuine and authentic experience. i want to fire the girls out there watching right now. in the next 2 weeks, i soccer and thousands of other elite female athletes have the chance to do just that. and be richardson al jazeera, tokyo well guidelines as a retired petition pick silver medalist in babington from the athens games in 2004 joins me now from the british town of milton teams in the u. k. could have with us on the program. 5050 representation thereabouts. it's been reached in the olympics . is it really a case that we can sort of take that box, shut the chapter and move on? i really hope so. it's great that we're talking about it, but want to talk about it just a little bit. i'd like to stay just leave on permit it. we need to just mention it

because i think some people forget that for so many years may or representation has been way more than the female. so it's great that we just have a little minds up. but like you say, just come on golf. let's just keep this a 5050 now, in this particular gains in japan, obviously there are other really rough ride over the 18 months as of most of the global athletic community. and naomi soccer, being the face of the olympics and say how she moved to having to take over the running of the games and the very difficult circumstances. how. how would you say she's performed leading up to the opening ceremony? i'm of so many people we've just been on the edge. is it going to happen that we just didn't know, you know, all the kind of cases pandemic? all that's been happening. i think i think it's just nice that the games have started. and now we can that the sport do the talking. and i think that's the most important thing with that, it's happening. i, we just got to kayla mason on it didn't talk possible being successful at this

moment in time. was it taken so long? you know, to get parity in sport. i mean, i know neither of us are around when the suffragette movement made huge gains at the turn of the 20th century, but voting rights, an equal rights, and that conversation has been going on for over a 100 years. yet sport to strike its feet. yeah, and that's one thing that we have to cat business. i think businesses have been doing amazing on the policy stage inclusion di fast to take the some reason sport has been lagging behind is a bit of a boy's club is very odd. when you think about sports, competitive, i'm just old. very male characteristics is always put women down. so now that we've got a sharp sensation now. okay, so why have we let this go on how we will not let this happen? again, there's been a bit of controversy though about, you know, so you say women inequality and everything, not norwegian beach volleyball team who wanted, for example. sure. like the man they weren't allowed to wear shorts,

had to wear the skimpy bottom half of a bikini outfits. and because they didn't, they were fined. so you know, the equality and the issue of equality has got to go a long way. hasn't it yet? drives me crazy bay. i saw stars. me price only have stories like that is the fight . you are why, you know, i'm obviously millions for, you know, i'm a, i remember getting my case, you know, live in the next to him of the latest competition. and i let you pick it up with me about this big and i'm thinking, how the hell am i supposed to play a sport in best buy? so when i try to see the sexuality or you know you're female, i say i'm not equal or just swallow, you know, like, oh, but we seem to have slightly lost gail that i don't think we've got gail, any more gail, can you still hear me? maybe it might last the the connection that we will of course try and get her back

if we can. but i think the general gist of what gail has to say. very interesting conversation that's still ongoing with the olympics. and as it's all coverage, well, still had him on al jazeera, more on why the you and decided that australia is great. barrier reef is not in danger for now. and the nfl facing the backlash over at 1900 vaccine rule. that story, coming up with joe in for to stay with his head home and he is out. ah, ah, hello, we're going on a trip out of europe and north africa. and 1st we got to talk about the wet weather in some feisty thunderstorms. at times for southern parts of the united kingdom was certain france right into the low countries and this will impact already water logged areas of both belgium and germany. now if we look on sunday, where this is going to move, we track it further to the east,

a bigger part of germany, the czech republic, just starting to slide into poland. meantime, toward the north, we've got the heats on, so $31.00 degrees and also towards the south. so we'll go there right now in spain, cordova, the 38 degrees, a bit of instability though for northern parts of iberia on saturday. we've had continuous rain for turkey's black sea region leading to seems like this. and unfortunately there is more rain in the forecast on saturday. i do think by sunday some of that heavy rain will start to back off, but this is saturdays. so we have more in the forecasts. you know, for nigeria, we've been talking about rain not only toward the south, but also toward the north, picking up 210 millimeters of rain in canada. that's almost about a month's worth of rain. and just 24 hours. heavy rain around the gulf of guinea, mostly for liberia, sierra leone, and also guinea in the forecast on saturday. that sure weather update. the news,

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forcing people near lake el mano to evacuate. al, just trying to stay calm, not panic, and just you know, fill up your car with gas and take care of the good business. i. the dramatic start of the u. s. wildfire season comes with the drought amplified by climate change. the dry conditions have helped fuel this fire in oregon, it's the nation's largest and responsible for the destruction of at least 70 home. so far. the impacts so big it's creating its own weather pattern, sending smoke across country to the east coast, contributing to hazy sky lines as far away as new york city. hot temperatures and high winds are also responsible for the fires with little respite predicted as the americans summer continues hydro, castro al jazeera washington. the russia is in the grip of a spike, and current virus infections and deaths due to the highly contagious delta variant

. 799 people died from the virus in the latest day. the count of maybe 24000 new infections were reported. but in moscow, infection rate has started to decline by 26 percent. the matter of moscow says he hopes you infection there. have piqued after having to revise the decision to ease restrictions. last week. malaysian has reported as high as daily number of cave in 1900 cases. since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry registered nearly $16000.00 new infections on saturday, as despite the government tightening restrictions on movement and businesses this month, pauses. se asia saying is kind of research fuels by the highly contagious delta various thousands of little strangers. most popular city have breach kind of iris restrictions to protest against lockdown measures. are broken, sidney and items were thrown at offices. please shut down the city center and made

them for the rest. that needs been locked down for the past 4 weeks. and the state of new south wales, west of the is located as just reported a 163 new infections. that's the biggest daily rise in cases. yes. now the government wants to speed up the vaccine rollout. limited supplies mean only about 15 percent of adults there have had been vaccinated. now certainly, federal government says it'll send an extra 50000 doses to the state after others refuse to share their supplies order by those other states and territories. that last looked, we were a common wealth. we work together and it disturbs me that would appear that all we've ever done to work together. has justs say me living costs, saw mosquito because in florida, her officially end of the search for bodies of the site of an apartment building that collapsed last month. dozens of firefighters have been working 12 hour shifts

and sleeping at the science side near miami, at least 90 stuff. people are confirmed that one person is still missing, providing closure to families with the ultimate test of everybody here. and i think we, we did our best to do that to make sure that everybody knew that, that we were in it 1000 percent to make sure that they had to lose or they needed. now the you and i decided not to classify the great barrier reef is an endangered heritage side. despite evidence that is under threat from climate change and coral bleaching green pieces condemning the australian government for lobbying against it . being granted the protected status, salina warders and coal reef scientist on the scene electra at the university of queensland, she says it's time for strolling government to take climate change. seriously. there's absolutely no doubt that the great barrier understood the threat and the daughter is there. it's from only a strain government organizations as well as all the universities,

making it very clear, very few still beautiful and we can still save it, but we are getting more frequent mess, bleaching events, which will, which frequently result in large mortality on the rave. we have one quality problem for industrialized being the coastline of the great barrier reef, which adds to water quality problems. so if the threats we've lost considerable sections of the great barrier reef. and if we don't take very dramatic action on climate change, we will get more and more bleaching events and the race will not have time to recover. the federal government has an a calling record on climate change. not only do we have aspiration to 0 emissions, not actual target, but we government also aggressively chases new fossil fuel development, which i think in the current climate is absolutely unforgivable. so they are

seeking new call, mine's new gas developments. and even using funding for renewables to try and say fossil fuel. well, the strategy is a fairly small country population was. so our missions huge is a global plan. if we consider the emissions of the big coal mine that have proposed and the gas developed, and then we can become a much more important player globally. so our government really needs to step up and take con, change seriously. and the case, the synagogue and laura tamia, the world's largest known cold watery home to countless rare and endangered species . well, it's also where international companies are drilling for oil and gas, but local fishermen, they, dolphins, and turtles are washing up dead on the shores of senate go. because sank reports now from the fishing town of cairo. deep in senegal, the territorial waters,

500 meters below sea level, are creatures that humans have not yet encountered. it is a canyon as long as the great wall of china, 400 kilometers, and 100 meters high. this is the world's largest cold water reef. home to oysters, that are 30 centimeters long and 500 years old. here are the court of orest reef each fish and endangered charge to meet it is at the edge of this precious ecosystem until now, undisturbed by human interaction. that multi national companies are preparing to extract billions of barrels of oil in a trillion cubic feet of gas. since the drilling began, endangered dolphins, turtles, and other sea life have washed up on the shore. fishermen by beer on fall has never seen anything like it. and says it is about only also if i feel pain and sadness, they like us. they like human beings. these are noble animals the guide us when we go fishing while they lead other fish, their death is

a bad sign. clinicals ministry, fishing says oil and gas companies are not to blame it. think a technique using dynamite to fish may be responsible for the death while it is illegal. fishermen might watch shows his son how it's done. the device does not detonate in front of our camera. he says he doesn't want to be seen breaking the law. i've got to get a leg up on if you're caught, you're in trouble and i covered the devices with type so it stays dry. otherwise, it won't light up when it's held tight, it's like throwing a small bomb in the water. the fishing ministry says the sound of the explosion alone is enough to kill animals. and it's the worst type of fishing because it destroys the environment and what's already a fragile ecosystem. scientists believe oxygen level in the ocean or dropping due to human pollution. this too may be causing sea mammals to suffocate in the water.

this used to be a prestige beach where people used to come in swim the ocean abundance with fish. look at it now. it's bells like a dumb sight, while the government installed electricity and the internet for communities living by the sea, there's no infrastructure to deal with the human waste and toxic chemicals there are being thrown into the ocean. but environmentalists say this is just the tip of the iceberg, because out of sight, hundreds of nautical miles away is environmental pollution of far greater magnitude . chinese and european deep sea trawlers scraped the ocean floor with giant nets. in a matter of minutes, they kill and destroy everything in their path, including coral reefs. scientists predict that within a decade, ocean ecosystems will collapse because of a combination of rising temperatures, over fishing, and human pollution. with it will disappear the opportunity for humans to encounter

new species of life. because for them, time may be running out. nicholas hawk al jazeera k are sending all while still at hell out there are raining elim pick champion, crushes out of the gymnastics home school action coming up in the 2020, elliptic coverage with jo. any child was a there the young virtuoso grayson concert hall and dominating international competition. 1018, south korea's musical prodigy. one out to 0. it's the you case. biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covet 19 patients built inside a london conference center. it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar

sites are under way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertising . researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close. extrapolate that across the country. and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. oh, be the hero world needs right. ah washer. in, [000:00:00;00] ah ah, type of full history.

ah, the hail, thanks. well, they're well on the way i'm day one of the tokyo olympics in the 1st metal have been awarded. china young cn one the women's 10 meter and rifle compositions. the back of the 1st metal of these games 21 year old had never won a major well competition in the men's 10 me to air pistol. it was javert, fuji, who took gold for iran. the 41 year old, who also as the nurse back home did it with a new olympic record school. it was also iran, 1st ever metal in shooting of any color pushing very happy that i did my job on both sides as a nurse, we battled the pandemic and the last year was very hard. and as a shooter, i've worked a lot in the last 2 years for this moment, and i'm happy that we've achieved some success. a huge result for eco don't to i don't the ever 11 pick called metal before now, but they've clicked that you can. thanks to cyclist, richard, cut

a pen who won the men's race toward the farms champion. they forgot to clinch wrong just behind while after photo finish. while fans been banned from olympic venue, many still gathered on the streets of tokyo to check the cyclists on the right. right. and there were thousands more at the finish line at the fuji international speedway by supporters were allowed because that's not in touch here. the news outside the whole city are allowed up to 50 percent capacity. the on the south, late to compete at these games has been knocked out though 12 year olds, serene table, tennis player hen. vasa exited the competition in the opening round of losing to an opponent more than 3 times her age. in the 39 year old. you shall. so very early stages, but here's how the metal table is looking, its china out in front with 2 gold medals and shooting and weight lifting than full countries tied for 2nd with a gold medal, a piece, ecuador, iran, south korea,

and kosovo. well let's car cross live now to tokyo, to join correspondent and richardson and the action on the way. but some bad news for the japanese. one of the legend has crushed out of the games. quite literally co. hey chimera. one of the greatest mild gymnasts of old time is hoping for a real fairytale and for his career at the age of 32. going for one more. gold medalist the winning a couple in riyadh 5 years ago, but didn't even make it through. so the final bad news around really because the organizes desperate to have some, some good news for a japanese home athletes on the opening day to thought shifting attention away from, from that other narrative as to whether or not it's really a good idea to be hosting the lympics in the middle of a covered 19 pandemic. now, i mean soccer, the japanese tennis superstar, who of course the culture and the opening ceremony on friday, she plays in her 1st match on sunday. so i'll be huge attention on her. you

mentioned the mens road cycling rice and yes, there were people out on the streets throughout that events and there was a big gathering at the the finish line which is more than 100 kilometers away from here. and so i, so fans were able to gather that because there are different rules. so they're all people who are behind these games and that really was reflected. and what we saw the, the national stadium before. and after the opening ceremony on friday. yes, there were people out there protesting making their feelings clear, but also people just wanted to be near the stadiums and take some pictures, see the fireworks, even though they couldn't actually go into the stadium, said to witness the ceremony itself. and as far as the eye sees concerned, perhaps not surprisingly, they think the public mood is shifting behind these games. we can feel the love, even if we don't have the spectators so, so that, that is excellent. and just, you know, as an indication, the figure i gave you the very beginning of the, the press conference,

69400000 people have watched in japan alone have watched some portion of the sport so far. and that's before the games even as properly began. and what did the i o c, have to say about the athletes we talked about yesterday and what since the opening ceremony without them all on yet for any of any volunteers, it didn't say so. there were several athletes from august on just on a pakistani arrived for the opening ceremony, no masks on in front of the president's in clear breach of the regulations. here the question was put the i say today they said that wouldn't be any sanctions immediately if athletes were repeat offenders, then yes, disciplinary action would be taken. and the looming threat is, is that if, if athletes persistently disobey toby 19 rules, they could be kicked out of the games local, organize his data interests. me say that a few days ago they admitted there was

a shortage of testing kids to the athlete village which runs some accounts at the r c. constance refrain that they are running a safe and secure games. they did say now that situation is being remedied and this small elite community of sports men and women at that actually village all the most tested community in the world as far as they're concerned. but i think we got a really stark look what, what these games are going to look like is some of the, the metal ceremonies here in tokyo. athletes standing in front of mc stands face masks on putting their own metals around that next to reduce the risk of infection . and if there wasn't enough to worry about apparently as a tropical storm on the way, not quite as bad as the type thing we saw during the rugby world cup in 29 same and 3 games has become so well they have already rescheduled some some routing competitions for monday. so more problems on the horizon for the organizes. yeah, it seems when it rains it really pulls these games. and d. richardson. thank you. while away from the game, the nfl is dealing with

a backlash over new coven vaccine rules. as teams returned to training camp leaks, commissioner warner seems that they could be forced to forfeit games of an outbreak . of course, by on vaccinated players, while around 80 percent of players have the job numbers, the support staff have not. and it being reported that some, including the minnesota vikings assistant coach for being fact refusing to take it a big deal with that, coming out forfeiting games. you never want to do that, but i think we have the guys in the locker room that are either vaccinated or going to be smarter, but not that they did not try to hurt the team in any way. understand everybody's opinion. and i think everybody's has that right, i'm out, we would live in this country. we wouldn't be wouldn't be wearing the position that we're in. if that wasn't the case, obviously we'll have to do a better job of educating ourselves. busy of educating our neighbors, just on this whole pandemic, just this whole situation. the vaccine cleveland major league baseball team has changed its name to the guardians,

gave them one of the indians since 1915 bucks. like several sports teams, also the killing of george floyd long. they decided to drop the name, which many considered races. and now after a 140 hours of interviews of community leaders, they settled on the go the sticking with baseball. and we've got a great catch to show you in the seattle mariners open athletics game on friday, but know by a player luis potent and her runs to be knocked up by a mariners fan in the crowd with one hand. and if you that was impressed a what about this in the game center giants and the higher a high run went out to the grounds and in the water and also benefit the crowd was the man in orange and victorious his rival getting quite all right, that is,

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