david shane is a professor of international relations at george washington university and also a former us ambassador to ethiopia. he says it's still unclear if the conflict in try will come back to hurt ibm it. i think it's a little early to judge. you know how it's being viewed both internally and. ready and in the international community, i think it is a success qualified success or prime minister ivy. but with some caviar acts, and that is the fact that about one 5th of the constituencies did not participate in the election for either technical or other reasons. you had a boycott by several key political parties and there have been some 207 complaints about the election. but nevertheless, there was a high voter turnout and it appears as always, totally peaceful. the election, of course, took place before the military defeat and t gray. so we had no impact upon the election remains to be seen. what people think about the problems that the government now faces and great that may come back to haunt prime minister ivy. but in the meantime, he can arrived on his laurels of the electoral

shane brennan, chief executive of the cold chain federation. just expressing some of the challenges that his members are facing currently. a lot more detail. davidou can find on the website. the tokyo olympics has got under way amid controversy with the sacking of the opening ceremony creator kentaro kobayashi. the games are held under heavy restrictions because of coronavirus with more than 70 cases now confirmed among people involved. the chief of the organising committee has not ruled out cancelling the games if cases arise at the financial damage has already been done as rupert wingfield hayes reports. i saw great men cry with joy tokyo got the olympics but that was before covid. they had to postpone the game and at the beginning of this year, covid rate into get started picking up rate into get started picking up and more people are dying. opinion polls so that 80% of people wanted the games postponed again or completely cancelled. people here are scared. specialist was saying the olympics could be a super spreader event and vaccines have been extremely slow to roll out here. barely 20% of the population is vaccinated even today. from the i

nations will spring in david sion he's a professor of international relations at george washington university and a former us ambassador to join me now by skype from washington dc. mr. shane can help you with this on the program. i mean, calling for humanitarian aid. corals is wall thing getting a date is a very different and often difficult store in the what signs should we be looking out for from the united nations security council, diplomats at the center of this conversation. that things can move ahead because at the moment it sounded like a situation report. well, i think you're right and the key will be how food actually moves in the region at this point. the whole situation and gray now as intertwined between tactical military decisions on the one hand going to do need to solve the humanitarian problem on the other. for example, one of the key bridges over that because the river is separating central western t grey was the stride within the last 24 hours. this is going to hinder significantly, the ability to move humanitarian food a. although i think the bridge. ready was destroyed, more or military, we have reasons to prevent the grant funds forces from re enterin