joe clarke won't have the chance to defend his olympic k1 slalom title after british canoeing confirmeds going to take the team it's already named to the postponed tokyo games. clarke missed out on this year's olympics after finishing second behind bradley forbes—crya ns at the world championships and there'll be no reselection

joe clark won gold in rio and feels he should have been given a second chance to make the team.y now be in vain. but he might look to challenge the british canoeing decision to honour their initial selection. i really don't understand to be honest. it's such a long time until the 2021 olympics and so much can change. it might not necessarily be me who get selection but the best person will be chosen. if it's the same person, it's the same person. at the end of the day, you can all compete in sports to be the best and put yourself under the start line to test your skills. we're all highly competitive people. we want to be out there waiting, but for me with everything going on itjust felt like few people are trying to capitalise on these unfortunate events. these are turbulent times for everyone. elite athletes need to see a finishing line. the target of tokyo will be on a more distant horizon now. olly foster, bbc news. at 8 o'clock tonight there's another opportunity to clap for carers, as people show support for the nhs, and to mark the moment the turf at twickenham rugby stadi

all players had nine matches to play while the league was suspended on the 15th of march. joe clarkenfirmed it's going to take the team it's already named to the postponed tokyo games. clarke missed out on this year's olympics after finishing behind bradley forbes—cryans at the world championships and there'll be no reselection process. understandably, there were contrasting reactions from both men when they found out: this morning to receive that news was first of all absolutely fantastic, but for me, just knowing this is really not what i thought we would be focusing on, just for me it feels like, you know, the globe has to recover from the current pandemic thatis to recover from the current pandemic that is going on. i really don't understand it to be honest, obviously there was a policy in place before hand that some of those athletes couldn't question, obviously that was all done by the book, but going forwards after the olympics got announced that it was postponed there was no policy in place to keep those athletes in those spots and with such a big delay those athletes that ha

joe clarke won't have the chance to defend his olympic k1 slalom title after british canoeing confirmedteam it's already named to the postponed tokyo games. clarke missed out on this year's olympics after finishing second behind bradley forbes—crya ns at the world championships and there'll be no reselection process for next year's games. understandably, there were contrasting reactions from both men when they got the news. this morning to receive that news was first of all fantastic, but for mejust now this was first of all fantastic, but for me just now this is really not what i thought we would be focusing on. for me it feels like the globe has to recover from the current pandemic that's going on. i really don't understand it to be honest, there was a policy in place before hand that selected those athletes that you couldn't question. fair play, that was done by the bug. but going forward when it was announced the olympics would be postponed there was 110 olympics would be postponed there was no policy in place to keep those athletes in those spots. with such a delay the athletes who

. >> reporter: joe clark is a retired sergeant with the sheriff's office. but he came out of retirement a few weeks ago to help enforce the new shelter-in-place order. which as a surfer himself hasn't been an easy task. >> glad i could help out. i've been surfing for 45 years. right out here. this is my spot. so i thought it would be fitting that if i could help out in any way, i'd come right here. >> reporter: over the last few weeks, he and a team of about a dozen deputies have enforced the shelter-in-place along the unincorporated coast. >> making sure nobody goes down into the water, down to the beach. >> reporter: all parks and beaches are closed, which means no surfing too. >> what's it like having to enforce no surfing? >> yeah, it's one of the hardest things i've done. >> reporter: we were with clark when the first offender broke the rule. inhe water. deputies staked out various exits and waited for him to get out and handed over the $1,000 citation. >> it's gonna be a zero tolerance. if you go surfing, we're gonna wait for you when you get out of t

voiced concern their nationals are being mistreated and harassed in the city of gone joe let's go live now to sarah clarke she joins us from hong kong so so looking up the stats on this and it looks like africa is a continent is behind the global curve when it comes to deaths and infections why africans being targeted in particular them. well certainly that seems to be the key concern out of china that the african community living in china in particular the city of quando could be behind a 2nd wave of infections of the crowd a virus in that city now i've seen a number of reports from social media from members of the african community in one joe making complaints of mistreatment arrests home addictions and being denied access to restaurants and hotels and some students are even claiming to be living on the streets and being denied food we've also seen a cartoon that shows an ex-pat in front of a trash can that's depicting foreigners as breaking rules and expects being labeled as trash that needs to be sorted so is escalating scrutiny of foreign nationals but they're targeting the african and the african-am

joe. let's get the latest on this now from sarah clarke in hong kong so sarah i was just looking up the stats and it seems africa as a continent is behind the global curve when it comes to the rate of infections and deaths why are they being particularly targeted then. well the reports that we're seeing are from a number of different social media platforms in particular twitter and it's from members of the african community in joe no one joe is a city in the south of china it's a considered industrial have probably about 13000000 people in the complaints missing or of mistreatment students being a victim from their homes african-americans and africans being denied access to hotels restaurants and bars and simply the reason behind this is what we believe is that the africans have been a target of suspicion in particular in the city last week on thursday we had reports coming out of one joe of around 114 you cases of the crime of arson fiction and 16 were africans and it's been a bit of anger in the community as well about accusations of planes that some of the members of the african community