the news, ah, this is a w, news lies from the japan prepared for an olympics without fans, and take flame arrives in tokyo to an empty stadium. a view of the games to come as organized has been all spectators made a corona of our state of emergency. also coming off us, president joe biden sets an august 31 deadline for the country. the longest rule

saying it's time for us out of town to decide its own future. the taliban could be the biggest win is off the withdrawal. the told at long cove it is taking on people in india. take a look at what it's like to live with the lingering effects of a cove at 19 infection and cultivation. as for sounding the alarm is hundreds of dead marine animals wash off on for like a week offer a ship carrying toxic chemicals. ah ah hello, i'm rebecca. this is welcome to the program. it's now just 2 weeks until the tokyo olympics are due to stop, but they'll be games with no spectators organizes have announced a total ban on both foreign and domestic fans. attending the event after new karone of ours, state of emergency was declared across parts of japan. games will be the 1st in and

pick history to be held behind closed doors, and some say they shouldn't be happening at all. that info matter late than never. some might say. after a long journey through all of japan's 47 prefixes, the olympic flame has finally arrived in tokyo, one year behind schedule. due to the corona virus pandemic. rising cove in 1900 cases in the capital. also, many members of the public were not there to greet the flame authorities announced the state of emergency in tokyo for the duration of the games to try to curb the spread the virus amid fears of the delta various the measure mostly limits alcohol sales and restaurant opening hours to try to stop contagion. but it also means these will be the 1st limpid games without fans in attendance. stadiums like this one will be mostly empty. to the government

restrictions for tokyo site them or can i go well and cheap? anything sure would have kept event attendance at 50 percent, the venue capacity up to $5000.00 people. so the data to go to this again, we haven't decided to allow no fans during the games as a stricter measure to prevent further spread of the virus. my stuff, the decision has put a damper on the mood, just 2 weeks ahead of the opening ceremony. polls show large swaths of the public don't want the games to take place. some people are even taking to the streets. who are you doing? what do you people, i don't think we should hold the olympics in such a situation together with these people who share my same opinion. we want to protest against the olympics till the very end and we want them to be cancelled. that's why i came here today. the organizers are not giving up and are determined

to move forward. the olympic flame may be small right now, but they hope it will help spark enthusiasm ahead of these unprecedented game of more, let's be in journalist martin france. he joined us from tokyo, martin, the olympic flame has arrived in tokyo to quite a lackluster reception. how much enthusiasm overall is there in japan for the games? well, i think there's a variety of rather harsh reactions here to the decision yesterday. not too low, and he's picked us into the stadiums. many japanese who were able to get the tickets 2 years ago, naturally disappointed. and so the $80000.00 volunteers who spent a month preparing and will not have much to do without spectators. and overall, i think there's a sense of defeat here. many japanese still don't want the olympics to happen, so they are dissatisfied and angry. and you can see that on social media. and

rhetoric, owners complain that they have to close early in the evening and are not allowed to so which frightens their likelihood. and all of this, just for the olympics to be staged. and another part of the public in japan is that the japan has broken its promise to make these games a success with our spectators. that hardly seems possible anymore. and some japanese people i talked to here are a bit ashamed of this failure. so quite a bit opinion that you might say that although cases are surging there at the moment, japan overall has relatively low cases. audio authorities just being over cautious when they have a big problem. they have promised to a stage secure and save games. and now they have to make sure this happens. so the number of new infections in tokyo is quite low. it's so far below the peak levels.

we, yesterday we had about $900.00 cases and the death of a ryan makes up to 20 percent out of them. but prime minister your sheet is to justify this whole state of emergency for the kept the region with its almost 40000000 inhabitants by saying that he wants to prevent the national outbreak of the panoramic. and of course, this is being done with an eye on the some of the big switch begin in 2 weeks today . and it is imperative to prevent the pandemic from effecting the staging of the games. so the virus must be contained now as far as possible. that is the idea how the immunization program going there relate up to the games. immunization rates had been quite low, as i mean some improvement that's taken problem. the government had to take into account yesterday in its decision the vaccination speed has risen quite a lot. now about 15 percent of the japanese population vaccinated twice and about

25 percent. have gotten one shot. but at the moment, the japan is running low on vaccines, so the speed of explanations cannot be increased. and that is also another reason why this state of emergency will last until the middle of august. when japan seemed determined to push on with the games, despite everything mountain fritz journalist in japan, thanks very much and speaking to us, let's take a look now at some other story from around the world. haiti is a police chief, says 17 suspects, have been detained, and the killing of the countries president jovan always 3 others were killed in fighting with security forces an 8, a still at large columbia defense minister confirmed that several retired columbia and soldiers were involved in the destination parts of new york city were on the water on thursday, a tropical storm, else that makes its way up the coast. post. flash flood warnings were issued as

streets and subways was submerged. the national hurricane center has also for the full cost from when russia and western nations on divided over access to aid into north west syria. from turkey. moscow won't be un to authorize the extension of a delivery for just 6 mum, thought western nations are pushing for one. give millions of people depend on a getting through the bab, i'll how are crossing. the un security council is expected to vote on friday. he was president joe biden has announced american troops will leave afghanistan nearly 2 weeks earlier than planned by august 31st. that's despite taliban forces making rapid advances across the country. the withdrawal will bring an end to the longest us war a nearly 20 year conflict. but the departure of nato troops is leaving many worried about a swift deterioration of security in afghanistan. the tally been say,

this footage shows them celebrating after season control of the keyboard. they're crossing into iran. it was one of several advances made by the militants throughout ganesh, 10 in recent weeks. they've been gaining ground since the u. s. and now the departure of its military by the end of august, the same military that ousted them from power in 2001 in washington, president biden defended the speed of the withdrawal, saying the u. s. would no longer sustain the human cost of a conflict that cannot change of gone instance course ghani. so let me ask those who want us to stay, how many more? how many thousands more americans, daughters, and sons? are you willing to risk? i will much send another generation america to war and i can stand with no reasonable expectation of achieving the different outcome. but biden also argued the u. s. had achieved its original goal of routing al qaeda after the $911.00

terror attacks that led to the invasion. he said the decision to leave was overdue . we did not go to afghanistan to nation bill. and it's the right and the responsibility of afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. just days ago, the u. s. pulled out of background air base near capitol the center of its military operations for nearly 2 decades. the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is now more than 90 percent complete. as foreign troops depart, the african military struggling to push back the taliban. like here enough gun instance northwest peace talks between the government and the militants. have so far failed. and many fear the violence will only get worse once the last us soldiers have returned home. friends, marty is

a freelance journalist in afghanistan. he joins me now from the capital cobble from welcome the us troops leaving the country. and of course, those recent, mainly rural gains made by the taliban. how likely do you think it is that the entire country could fall to the telephone president by and time this turned to scenario highly unlikely. and i, as well as all the knowledgeable analysts degree, is not to say that the situation is not very dire. as you said, they have made unprecedented gains on the 50 plus districts in the pulse a little bit over to mom that they have taken over. however, it is nowhere if he that so far they haven't made a serious attempt to take over a provincial capital. this seems from the poly bon signs to be a deliberate decision. because they seem to now have to strategy to take over rural area. and the mom's a surrender of the african government at the negotiating table. and they will

pursue that in the like, foreseeable future, as far as it looks now, even if they would abandon this strategy and would try the ones that have been so forced, there is a question whether to tony bone have enough enough manpower to like actually take over everything they might be able to take over several provinces, but not swiftly. the whole country. in fact, i have spoken by phone to people in like newly conquered district, and they told me to barely, and you told me on our left because they move them to the new front lines. so that's why hope all of the whole country is still unlikely at this time. right. comes after 20 years of international support. the african national army is still not able to completely defeat the taliban, and it seems not even really keep them at bay. can you explain why that is?

there are several reasons. one thing that is important to us presidents was already before a president biden announced a withdrawal, pretty small, and they didn't to death march. so most operations were done by african government forces. so now that they lost that many districts used to be more psychological issue in many districts, government forces abandoned them without being like re forced by to tale bond. wasn't that they that probably about half this overwhelming military power to force them out. and then several districts were abandoned like that without apparently you to a clear plan. another thing is that like the taliban as a movement, they have like an advantage in this as a metric warfare. and at the end, reality is also a not insignificant parts of the population that probably don't have support,

especially in the rural areas. so there it is, sometimes that the tale bon, have more support than the government and that allows them to, to like, make them the phone says and makes it difficult for the african governments forces . ok, we're running out of time, but i really want to get a sense about the african people themselves. i mean, are they happy to see the end of foreign troops in their country, or is there a sense there being let down by the us and its allies? it's very split. some people profited from, from the us present from the progress that was made. they are worried, they fear what will happen if americans leave completely and if the poly bong move forward like this. there are orders that have seeing little benefit of the progress that remain like very rural, very traditional list and religious. and they are happy that like troops apart. so it's like really it's you have everything on journalist front mounting in kabul.

afghanistan, thanks very much for the analysis. watching a date of the news still to come the cost of her life because the worst ever environmental developed country is grappling with the aftermath of the thinking of a ship and his cargo of dangerous chemical. spain is famous. it's crazy. now a police suspended to eat less of it is proving hard for some to digest a 1st the global cove at 19 death. tell this weeks a past 4000000. many recent that have been in india which experienced a ferocious new wave of the virus. while infection right, they haven't started to fall. many people are still living with the lingering effects of long coded d, w report, manero salaries in delhi, where she met with some of those struggling to recover it's been almost a month since we broke up while came back home after a long bout in the hospital after losing 25 and still very weak,

be pulse is now slowly trying to get back to a state of normalcy and the life he had before it was disrupted by a c vehicle with 1900 infection. only she came to mind the 16th that i will be able to win up on this battle or not. after struggling, initially, the book managed to get admitted to a hospital when his workplace intervened. off the 50 days he spent that 40 was spent in the intensive care unit. he says he lost track of time, of days and nights. and that the time he spent lying in a room crammed with patients, broke is the worst thing was happening. at the end of the day, my legs i, i found that my legs are looking, they are, they are not part of my body. i was not able to cope of the oxygen mask what they have put. and i was really feeling helpless. i said, there is no point in living. no, because i can't cope of a discretion. i left a message to my one of my cousin brother that i'm not going to stay away. i think

the lot is going to be my last day. each day he could hear people screaming with pain and discomfort. and each the, he saw some one dying. we both knew he was fighting this infection at the time when the entire city was struggling hard to cope with it. it was his 2 children. he says, who gave him the card, she needed the 1st feeling that was there with me. 247 was the feel fuel of losing him. you want to return back to normal. you just want to see with 4 members of your family together on the dining table. clinical says the experience with their father and the site they saw at the hospital have made all of them stronger as a family. one of the biggest address was missing his retirement ceremony from an organization . he spent nearly 4 decades in an a day. he had spent months preparing for

but he's turning over a new leaf now under the entire focus is on his help. he wants to live along heavy fulfilling life was covered by is more tougher than the covert thing. i'm really finding it very difficult to cope with me. the recovery time because there's already one month, there's already one month. i'm not able to walk even the dentist, technical sorts of people dr. telling it will take 6 plus one small slow step at a time. he's trying to move towards full recovery. but with every task still a challenge. he knows it will take a long time. do you have any correspond namisha, j while joins me now from delhi mission of the health system there. and it was totally overwhelmed by the recent wave. and we heard in that report that some patients saw other patients dying and had them screaming. does india now have to

cope with a part of society that's under a post traumatic stress? but back to me, over the rapid month have definitely had a physically emotional and even a financial impact on town to people. it is baseball and to find others who have who have heard of debt among the family as well as fan and the sort of past impact . but on the other hand, now the even restriction major city, the, i'm looking it is also surprising to see how quick the bounce back is the market of being over again, that of the restaurant and once again. so if you leave the sites that are many what, what's happening with the law, not one, but then also you really want to get back to normal life. there's also an incentive to go to the bathroom economic impacts off the 2nd law down all around the country . and this is something with almost everyone in face and when you're there in the

focus of the fight against covert now, yes, the government especially is trying to make sure that they are not caught on where to be made to the pay the low. the 2nd be in the indian place, but not utilizing how difficult the dent could become for the country. yes, absolutely. in december and in march, week before the the has the seeing the, the end game of the fight against. now your addition for the dead read and that they don't do the was, but india had already declared to read the phone book. do they watch more? he thought the think we needed to find out if the judy can lead to it, but more comments on it, but it, it is more that now in terms of fighting off a 3rd wave, there vaccinations are expected to be k. how is the vaccination rollout going?

well, it just did struggle with back to me. not too bad, especially when it opened the door to everybody about in the month of me, the number have to dive into the number, the how that all 4 or 5000000 a day. the government is able to get that. i don't what you did by the end of the year back nation drapes and happen to be able to reach that by the end of that. but they have to actually fight against back to the test and the not just yet. but nobody dared to make sure that the touch be, even if it is not a big data information which i was thinking does from delta. thanks very much. sure, lanka is experiencing an environmental disaster of hundreds of dead sea turtles and other marine animals washed ashore. it comes weeks after a ship carrying toxic chemicals and plastic pellets caught fire and sank of the

west coast environmental activist. it's just the 1st wave of long laughing say life devastation. once again, a dead whale is stranded on pan dura beach. every day the sea washes up new cadavers onto the west coast of sri lanka, to sean copper ru finger heads, the save the sea turtles project. he and his helpers work almost around the clock. still, their help comes too late. for most sea animals. it is very disappointing and i was really sad to see these scholars are coming regular busy almost every day we are getting calls like this. we're reading like a few 100 meters. there is a case to be made that there is a link between the dead animals and a ship disaster that occurred in mid may just a few miles off the coast to sri lanka, the sunken cargo ship express pearl carried terms of plastic, particles corrosive nitric acid and heavy oil,

but the government says there is no proof of the connection between the dead sea animals and the ship color. we have to investigate whether the sunken ship has anything to do with the dead sea turtles and other fish cadavers. it could also be the result of a natural phenomenon or human activity. we will work together with experts to research this cap. every single disagrees. he believes that the ship catastrophe one of the greatest environmental disasters ever to hit sri lanka, is responsible for the death of many animals in the past. many dead animals were washed on shore during the summer months, but never as many as this year. oh, now we out maybe 5 times more than that number. usually we will get about, you know, 3040 maximum for you. watched up in our course along the sense i didn't call mark. so probably i received more than 200 and calculate single believes this

number is still rising. he expects the catastrophe to have massive long term effects. in future you will see more any, mostly because there are no system got in fact, i know so effect, but i know that you system got effected. and in addition, with the time, more convenient as we add more can because into the water cap routing once answers and proposed solutions from politicians and for the government to deal with the effects of this ongoing catastrophe. now, spaniards, some of your biggest consumers of meat. now a spanish government minister, calling on people to eat less of it for the good of their own health and the planet, thought his message has drawn rebuke from sama spain's most ardent mate ages including the prime minister, spain

a paradise for meet lovers. the country's cuisine is famous for its hams and sausages, but the consumer affairs minister has sparked controversy by suggesting the spaniards should change their eating habits. gibbons idea, so because what would you think if i told you that excessive meat consumption harms both our health and also our planet, we can change our diet and improve the state of the planet. the minister noted the beef production in particular requires huge amounts of water and produces greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. some surveys have showed spaniards as europe's top carnivores consuming an average 98 kilograms of meter year. well above the average of 76. the suggestion to meet intake prompted the prime minister to weigh in from an official trip to let the way near it stop. let me get this

controversy is personal to me. as far as i'm concerned, there's nothing better than a perfectly done state. interesting, medieval. convincing spaniards to change their meat, loving ways may prove to be a hard so now last but certainly not least, a girl in the u. s. has become the 1st african american to win the national spelling bee contest. so i 11, god won the $50000.00 price by correctly selling the word, maria, which is difficult to say, let alone spell. and it's a genus of plums ago. genius is also a basketball prodigy. she held 3, get us world records, the basketball dribbling, says, spelling is her side hobby. congratulations, your database news. hey, the reminder of our top story, ellen pix blame has arrived in tokyo, 2 weeks before the games to stop. but there'll be no spectator in the stadiums due to

a new run of our state of emergency. and you as president joe biden has announced that the last american troops will leave afghan assigned by the 31st. the withdrawal and the 20 admission by foreign troops following the 911 attacks on the u. s. news update this i've done go away. the program global $3000.00 is coming out. next . we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour until then you can find much more use an analysis on our website at c, w dot com. i'm rebecca riches watching the news. the news. the news

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