of hospital beds have remained as a low level, the impacts of the various strains must be taken into accounts. and we must strain from the counter measures to prevent the infections from spreading to the rest of the country. again. while on the pic, organizers had already cap spectators to 50 percent of the venue capacity and bard international fans from attending the new ruling now prevents any spectators from attending the games. though public sentiment in japan has widely turned against hosting the tournament. olympic organizers have dug in their heels and are committed to seeing the games through we continue to be committed to our principle of organizing safe olympic and paralympic games that together with you. and we have shown, you know, this responsibility seen the day of the postponement. games are estimated to have cost more than $20000000000.00 cancelling them,

which should cut off broadcasting. revenue would make recouping any of that next to impossible for tokyo and the international and the committee for better or for worse, just like the olympic torch. the games look set to march on. let's get more from matters from that data abuse for welcome marks. i'm coven, is responsible for all sorts of unprecedented things over the last couple of years . now we have a spectator free, lympics. what sort of games then we infill a very, very strange one. as you say, we've got used to this idea of not having fans and stadiums over the last 18 months, especially with football. but when it comes to the biggest sporting event of all, that only comes around every 4 years. it's a big, big blow. it's a big blow for the japanese athletes because they were really counting on having japanese fans in stand, pushing them along, japanese fans tend to be very passionate, very excited. we already knew that spike takes us from abroad,

weren't going to be there, but still it's going to change the whole sort of the force of the games. really. i mean, you think about when you, when you watch it, even on television, the fans are part of the game. maybe when you're watching archery or rowing, you don't see the fans quite so much. but in the really big sports, like athletics and swimming, especially the noise when it comes to swimming, the fans are a big, big part of it. so it's going to feel very, very strange. so you mentioned the football there, so we're in the middle of a european football championships. we've seen large crowds, we've seen large crowds at wembley, while london is in the middle of an increasing number of corona virus infections. so what is the difference between the 2 events, the 2 cities, i guess the japanese are being extra cautious. it is true that in britain, the vaccine rate is higher than in, in japan. so japan fee is that the delta vibrant, really variant, really great stead. and they could be in serious trouble, and they started, they have no other option. even though as you say,

the cases are relatively low in compared to what we're seeing in, in europe. i think also is political dynamics in there. there's an election coming up in, in japan in october. but other people will say people in europe are being too rash . i mean 60 found that these english games, wembley, when cases are rocketing maybe in a month 2 months time, people will realize that actually japan took a very sensible course of action. and the international olympic committee is determined to press ahead with this. they have to, it's all about money basically. i mean, it's cost billions and billions to host the games. the postponement cost extra now they're not getting ticket income. the only income they're getting is from sponsors, from television. and if we're honest, the sponsors care about the t. v viewers know the spectators in the stands. that's how they make their money. and so that is basically what they see is relying on if they scrapped these games that were being big, big bother,

especially with the next olympics the winter olympics being beijing and various governments talking about diplomatic boy cox. the best case scenario is an olympics without fans where at least you have the sport and you have the tv views. ok, caregiver meadows, w. school jacobs. duma has spent his 1st night in prison. the former president of south africa ended his standoff with authorities and gave himself up overnight that the zoom had been evading arrest since last week when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for fighting to appear before a corruption inquiry. he'll be eligible for parole in around 4 months. this is the 1st time south africa has jailed a former president. mr. schumer, a previously served time during the struggle against apartheid. cutting it close to a midnight deadline. the convoy your vehicles carries foremost south african president, jacob xena on his way to hand himself over to authorities. ah,

the 79 year old is now in custody in his home province, beginning his 15 month sentence for contempt of court. on sunday is in a stretch, he wasn't afraid of jail time referencing his previous incarceration for his role in fighting south africa's races apartheid regime to remind them. and i am not scared of doing of bowing to jail. for my beliefs it will not be. for the 1st time, i will be a prisoner of conscience. the former president, it was in office for 9 years, has been at the center of corruption allegations surrounding his time in public life. the contempt of court charge came as a result of him refusing to appear at a corruption commission. he's called the process a political conspiracy but authorities have accused him of misappropriating

funds and fraud. some of the charges date back 20 years. the on monday, the constitutional court is due to consider an application by xena for the cancellation of his prison sentence. for let's take a look at small stories making news around the world will starting to have our lease of killed for suspects and directed to people following the fascination of the countries. the president of an al luis was shot dead as his private residence near the capital. forced upon officials say the attack as belong to a group of professional commanders and foreign mercenaries who killed the president while posing as us special agents. german forces are investigating an attack on a turkish journalist. living next in ben agenda is a prominent critic of turkish present wretched type. but he say he was attacked by several men outside his address. as one of the men told him in turkish,

you will not write the forces of demolish the home of palestinian man accused of carrying to shooting in the west bank. and he's really caught, rejected a petition by the strange wife that lived at the property with their children. the drive by shooting in may killed one person and wounded 2 others. the dozens of people have held the vigil for the victims of the building collapsed. name, miami, florida. authorities have ended. the search for survivors, though they will continue to search for bodies. 60 people who have been confirmed day 80 more unaccounted for. department tower collapse nearly 2 weeks ago. and climate researchers say the world may have passed a critical global warming threshold as a heat wave such records across north america. thoughts of canada reached maybe 50 degrees celsius on the high temperature of like hundreds of deaths. europe is also experiencing one of its artist f,

a summers living near an outdoor swimming pool during a heat wave is a fortunate thing. the temperature, swords so high in alberta, canada that can be melted. it's random events. it's very seldom un servatius. you don't see this over the last 100 or maybe a 150 years and there's no penalty or climate. the evidence from from tree rings from other archives that would support the next few in the past. such, he may be a freak event, but what role do human activities on earth play in climate change? so the human activities with a release of greenhouse gas field to methane and so on are leading to increase of these greenhouse gas. yeah, we'll see here and they also prevent the heat from, from the earth is leaving the atmosphere so it's collecting the heat and

it leads to a warm and this warming was modeled by scientists in the us, canada, and europe for a world whether attribution report, researchers say, hitting nearly 50 degrees in western north america is virtually impossible without climate change caused by people. they estimate this global warming made the heat wave a $150.00 times more likely. this is not a british columbia problem, it's not a candidate problem. it is a global challenge, and we all need to have citizens of the world coming together as we have quite frankly, to address a global pandemic. there is a lot of uncertainty in the data covering the frequency of heat waves as the phenomenon was so extreme. but something of the scientific community does agree on is that climate change played a big role. let's explore this stuff and i'm stuff is a climate scientist at the potsdam institute for climate impact research. welcome

to d w. that was quite a scary report have we passed the point of no return? if the world was wacked in good faith and try to reach the parish climate target to day? when would we see the benefits? well, we certainly haven't passed the point of no return. we can still stop global warming . and of course, in the pairs agreement it was agreed to stop warming well below 2 degrees and pursue efforts to stop it at $1.00 degrees. and this is still possible if we ramp down our greenhouse gas emissions down to 0 in the next 2 to 3 decades. right? so if we could do that in the next 20 years, what benefits would we say? what change would be evident to us? why were basically would be limiting the detrimental change that is ongoing now and

has been going on since 900 a piece. and in that way we could avoid the worst catastrophe, basically. and that's why there was unanimous agreement in paris to do that. ok, but we're not, we'll just say if we could do that in the next 20 years, we see with the cove it pandemic when global events, rich countries, hard solutions, effective solutions can be found. now we say the pacific northwest, seeing these extremes, hundreds of people dying, is that the sort of is that the sort of thing that you think will perhaps make countries like in the us and canada act with more urgency while one would hope so. but if you look at europe, we were hit by air, heat wave in 2003, which caused 70000 fatalities. and we're still struggling with half hearted climate

policy. so i think the just the extreme events are not enough. it needs a lot of political pressure as well, from the people to push their own governments and to do their share and implementing what was agreed in paris. so why isn't this cutting through? the word is out there. governments talk about limiting climate change, but still the action doesn't happen in insufficient so sufficiently effectively that we can actually reach the parrot parish climate change. so why isn't that happening? why isn't the action following the words? while over the last decades, i have more and more come to the conclusion that this is basically due to lobby forces. the lobby of the past. i. e. fossil fuel companies is always stronger than the lobby of the future industries. right? so in your assessment then this is, this is down to the old fuel,

this is the answer they, the orland gas industry, try to preserve deposition the economic power i think so, and it's well documented in the united states that they have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on supporting a so called climate skeptics and confusing the public about the causes of global warming, which of course our use of the product of fossil fuels is climate change . all bad news? are there any places that have actually benefited from the climate changing? well, of course there are some benefits and in germany, of course, we can enjoy a longer swimming season and the north sea and politic. but these benefits, fairly minor compared to all the the losses that we suffer from global warming. because in principle,

a world it's 3 degrees warmer or 3 degrees colder than now would not be a problem. had we been adept to this for the last 1000 years or so. but we are adapted with all of agriculture, with the cities build to the current coast lines to the climate that we have had in the last millennium. and so any change a major change in either direction is a huge problem for humanity. foster, very clear. thank you so much for joining us, jeff and rom stuff from the pub for climate at impact research now to hungary, when a new law has come into effect, despite condemnation from the european union, the law bonds per trails of homosexuality. agenda change in school of educational materials of tv shows on the 18th critic say it discriminates against l g b t q people. european commission has urged hungry to repeal the law due to pass.

the message is to protect children. is it you commission president on the line? this is because it stared homosexual law with homosexuality and gender reassignment on par with pornography. just because it, it uses the protection of the children to which we are all committed as an excuse to severely discriminate against people. because of their sexual orientation yet, this law is disgraceful. that is champ dish. ok. so how is this new law being viewed in hungary is dw correspondent, funny for shop in budapest. a huge rainbow hard here behind me has been set up 10 meter high. it's a symbol right here in front of the parliament for this controversial algebra law was passed may june and came into a fact today. now you would thing that people who are hungry collectively refused to accept this law,

but actually that this is not the case. the society is actually quite split over the law and it's not as easy to say that everyone who supports the government supports the law, and people who oppose the government will oppose to no, no. in fact, regardless of party affiliation, you will find people in the street seeing that they actually agree with this law because they themselves do not understand what transgender life or homosexual life is about. so why should their children under 18, learn about this? well, people who actually support that this law is being scratched and taken off the agenda . he altogether say it is very important to educate children before they turn 18. that life is very diverse. and it's not just about being heterosexual. but there are different ways of experiencing and living sexuality. this action right behind me of this symbol, this heart is very unlikely to be the last symbol to prove past the law as hungary is gearing up for all actions next year. so to show the european union

has find german comic as 875000000 euros, are colluding to prevent the roll out of clean emissions technology. the new anti trust body says diamond b m w, the false bargain group denied customers chance to buy less polluting car diamond if gates being fined because it revealed the cartel to the commission. margaret a vesta, the european commission for competition. i said, companies cannot coordinate their behavior to limit the full potential of any type of technology. all citizens must be able to trust that. com manufacturers compete with one another. also, when it comes to reducing harmful emissions from the cars. but these companies did not meet this expectation for over 5 years. the car

manufacturer is deliberately avoided to compete on cleaning better than what was required by you emission standards. let's get more less from d w corresponding to jack park in, in brussels. welcome a jack. so the interesting, that's this case sort of fits on 2 planks of european policy competition and the green new do hi. so yeah, it does indeed. and what's interesting in that press conference from margaret of s dash she even, i lined really that while this is under competition law and that's why that bringing it in. and under the competition portfolio. the reason that they're doing this is to ensure that you're the, comes to continents to be climate neutral by 2050, which is the use big ambition by what happened here. essentially, the economy has decided the european commission has signed and they have tacitly accepted by agreeing to settle for this 875000000 euros. some that when diesel

calls are produced, these 5 companies have regular technical meetings to agree to only put in these tiny filled with something called blue, which is mixed with the emissions when the car is driving and then comes eyes to reduce the nitrous oxide. that's going into the atmosphere. they agreed to limit the the size and the ability of those, the capacity of those times to do that job. the commission says that this meant that they were firstly making the cause more polluting than they needed to be. but also stifling competition among other calm acres and that's why they've come out. and given this fine to these 5 companies, 875000000 euro sounds like a massive amount of money. but when you're talking about global corporations like bad w and v w, is it well not really to be on her veil is able to you and i,

a 175000000 years is a lot of money to these companies. bearing in mind, volkswagen group, for instance, has an annual turnover rate of revenue around $223000000000.00 euros and they're going to pay probably only about half a $1000000000.00 euros in this fine. it's not so much money for them. they go to 45 percent reduction in that fine. it's important to say because they agreed to cooperate with d. u under these investigations. and that was something that was re praised by margaret of essay she says, going forward, companies like this need to make sure that they are coming forwards to the european commission and cooperating because the you needs to be able to have that cooperation to force these companies to reach those climate, climate agreements and ambitions. so 3 of these companies, 33, these car companies were taken to task by the a you but only to will find dimer escape the find why. donors gave the fine

because they essentially flies this as an issue. a few years ago, what happened was the, the european commission in back in 2017, started looking into this and diamond came on board and started informing them that actually some of these meetings were happening. it was more that they didn't try to hide it so much as perhaps some of the other companies made may have done. that's what your officials have explained over the last few years. because of that, they decided that those fines wouldn't be imposed. as we said, the find is really symbolic, it's much more about showing that, that trying to punish these companies. and also trying to show that that, that forcing them to come, come forward with this information and to play fair. all of this fell comes down to one thing. the european union wants to make sure that the cars that we drive and that we're buying diesel cars, especially which obviously have the polluters are as green as they possibly can be . ok, thank if that day w correspondent, jack park in brussels now to football and england are through to the

final of the european championship after defeating denmark at wembley stadium in london. again, finished one all in regulation time. captain hurricanes scored england with an extra time on sunday, italy and the 1st major final since winning the world cup. in 1966 for england fans at london to fog square, it was a native tension on relief. the end of extra time harold did their 1st final and 55 years. typically we can see only one destination where the creepy. 6 boy was coming right. how do you canes,

extra time winner was decisive and sparked a special moment for his pro coach. i think we deserved it. and the i for our country. i mean, i've not heard this new wembley like that ever. and to be able to share that with everybody and share it with everybody at home is very special. and copenhagen, the air finally went out of the danish funds balloon. after a hugely emotional campaign, their team had opened the scoring with their mission to win the tournament. for stricken teammate christian ericsson ultimately run out of steam macklin, linda felt the whole nation has supported us. it's been emotional for the entire team. and it's amazing to be danish and to be part of this, but then school. but right now we're all disappointed and we wanted to make that final become well. so this is a great, great disappointment though. you know, so, so food need tons, daughter in store school her to but then they belong to england,

whose funds parted like it was 1966. to make sure you do 2020 come home rather than going to room england have to overcome it. it's really team unbeaten and it's last $33.00 matches. but you can be sure their funds are confident that they do just the video of today's world news at the top of the our next on the w focus on the europe takes a look at the soviet era flying vote that's come to be known as the caspian symbols by the me the news the news, the news

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