i'm alexia brown in the wet sunday islands the gateway to a stray is great barrier reef to find out why some tourism operations psycho mining is putting the race and their livelihoods at risk. and then school despite mounting criticism and japanese officials have welcomed a limpet flame. i'm alexia brown in the wet sunday islands the gateway to a stray is great barrier reef to find out why some tourism operations psycho mining is putting the race and their livelihoods at risk. and then school despite mounting criticism and japanese officials have welcomed their lympics leymah today. country organizers say they're determined to hold a safe and secure tokyo games. but corona virus has now led to the deaths of more people in italy than anywhere else in the world and at the moment there's no sign of the infection rate slowing just over $3400.00 people have died in italy so parsing the figure reported by china where the virus 1st emerged china's death toll stands at more than 3200 but for a 2nd consecutive day it's reported no locally transmitted cases in the u.s. there are now more than 140

but as you heard earlier in china the number of new reported cases continues to drop water from alexia brown. the corona virus outbreak began in december last year in the chinese city of about 11000000 people epidemiologists or scientists who study epidemics have traced the source to a seafood market where they think the virus was initially transmitted from animals to people and on the 13th of january the 1st case of the new corona virus outside china was reported in thailand and now almost 2 months on this shows how far the virus has spread those big red circles are the hot spots china of course but also south korea iran and italy a team of johns hopkins university in the united states started tracking the numbers of cases deaths and the people who've recovered the totals are always changing but this is how they looked about 9 g.m.t. on tuesday morning just over 4000 deaths 114544 cases and just over 64000 patients who've recovered that means there are about 50000 active cases remember these are confirmed cases because in countries such as iran it's thought far more people are infected then

considered canada has announced it won't send its teams to compete if they're held this july as planned alexia brown reports. after weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese prime minister. we hope to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that cancelling them is not an option at all but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing. the games to see it to be held in july but the virus that's caused both a human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is great thing the world's biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce at the olympic and paralympic games be participating in the games urgently international olympic committee and the tokyo organizers to push back the event by at least a year. we're witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes speaking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you'v

ocean and environmentalist's of blaming the burning of fossil fuels for the climate crisis as alexia brown reports from the sunday islands off queensland's tourism operators say called mining is putting the reef and their livelihoods in danger. and the deep blue pacific ocean off the coast of queensland lies a wonderland of coral fish and picture perfect beaches. the great barrier reef brings in billions of tourist dollars every year so if you've got to save gaza keep them on. but it's in danger of scientists than environmentalist say from climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels like coal. tony has been a dive instructor here for 40 years. he's watched parts of the reef die and fish disappear with climate change global warming said the reef health is deteriorating significantly and that is already affecting the tourism industry despite growing pressure to cut carbon emissions the government has approved what will be one of the biggest mines by the indian company adani. critics say the world heritage reef now lies under a cult shipping superhighway and the adani project could s

i'm alexia brown in the wet sunday islands the gateway to a strain is great barrier reef. and find out why some tourism operators psycho mining is putting the race and their livelihoods at risk and in sport despite mounting criticism japanese officials have welcomed the olympic flame to their country organizers say they're determined to hold a safe and secure. the coronavirus pandemic continues to type its. on europe there is no side of the infection rate slowing with thousands more confirmed every day of the death toll is rising to just over $3400.00 of people have died in italy that's more than anywhere else in the world including china infections of suppost 40000 the country is said to extend a nationwide lockdown as it tries to control the outbreak while in spain the death toll has now passed 1000 infections there have also risen to nearly $20000.00 the government said that around half of those cases were in hospital and iran has announced another $149.00 deaths bringing its total to more than $1400.00 president hassan rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to t