rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in yamagata, northern japan.this is bbc news. thank you for watching. hello there. 0ur sunshine that we see believe it or not is linked to the extreme weather we've seen across other parts of europe. it's linked by the jet stream. this is the pattern that we've seen. a very undulating jet stream. it means slow moving weather. we've had low pressure bringing the rain across europe. that low pressure will move eastwards. eventually taking the rain away from germany. high pressure will bid in across the uk, bringing dry weather. with the sunshine we had on thursday, temperatures in northern ireland reached 26 degrees, making it the warmest day of the year so far. it's going to be a warm start across belfast, temperatures at 16 degrees. we start with cloud across east anglia, but it will break up more readily. it's going to feel warmer. sunshine across england and wales. some patchy cloud developing. there will be spells of sunshine for northern ireland, but across western scotland, more of a breeze and more cloud. s

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, ichinomiya, japan.e of the patient people have for surfing but i got distracted by the typhoon. how big an impact this have? well, there was real concern a couple of days ago because it looked like this typhoon no eight, they numbered them in japan, it looked like it was heading straight towards tokyo in real concern it would cause massive disruption to the events. it is disrupting the surfing. the good news is as of this morning, it looks like it's taken a sharp turn north, currently about 300 nautical miles, the centre of it, but it's quite a big storm, 300 nautical miles off the coast and moving towards where i am that it's expect it over the rest of the day to track further north up the coast here and will actually miss tokyo. heavy rain, quite a lot of wind already, but tokyo is not going to take a direct hit. an places further west are going to get hit but fingers crossed, the olympics is going to be missed by the storm. we look forward to the actual sport. let's get some of the day's other news.

our correspondent, rupert wingfield-hayes, is in tokyo and has sent this report. : the uno family, it has been a long and anxious wait to get to this moment. they are serious olympic fans. dad has spent over 3000 pounds on olympic tickets. so you can imagine t mixed emotions they are feeling tonight. >> yeah, we think about the kids as the first time to have the olympics in japan. so we were excited. >> i am very disappointed, he says. if they were not going to have spectators, they should have postponed again until next year. then we could have welcomed people from abroad properly. rupert: those who think the whole show should have been scrapped long ago were out on the screen -- the streets again this evening. they were vastly outnumbered by the crowds that have turned out to try to get a glimpse of the action. this was the park at lunchtime. pans air force display team painted the olympic rings across the line -- the sky. >> bigs, it is one of -- the olympics, it is a once-in-a-lifetime event. i just wanted to have my kid have the experience to see those athlete

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.way. this one is outside the hotel where ioc president thomas bach is staying. their message to him is pretty blunt. over at the olympic village, three covid cases have now been confirmed. across the city, 1,400 new cases on saturday. despite this, when i sat down with the governor of tokyo, she told me the games must go ahead. translation: i believe that not holding the olympics is even - sadder than holding it during these dire times. i do not want to show the world that we have lost to covid—19. there is still meaning in holding the olympics in tokyo, despite the current situation. this was wembley stadium in london a week ago, but with just 20% of japanese vaccinated, there will be no scenes like this in tokyo's olympic stadium. governor koike concedes ifjapan had moved faster on vaccines, things might have been different. translation: | agree, i it would have been better. if we had a faster vaccination rollout, we may have been able to have spectators at the olympics. but the spee

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.ve days to go, the anti—olympic protests are not going away. this one is outside the hotel where ioc president thomas bach is staying. their message to him is pretty blunt. over at the olympic village, three covid cases have now been confirmed. across the city, 1,400 new cases on saturday. despite this, when i sat down with the governor of tokyo, she told me the games must go ahead. translation: i believe that not holding the olympics is even - sadder than holding it during these dire times. i do not want to show the world that we have lost to covid—i9. there is still meaning in holding the olympics in tokyo, despite the current situation. this was wembley stadium in london a week ago, but with just 20% of japanese vaccinated, there will be no scenes like this in tokyo's olympic stadium. governor koike concedes ifjapan had moved faster on vaccines, things might have been different. translation: | agree, i it would have been better. if we had a faster vaccination rollout, we may have be

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo.or the men's road race which started off at mount fuji and is now winding its way around the various streets around tokyo, looking down at the screen, you can see plenty of people out on the streets, that is an outdoor event that people may get a glimpse of it. they have been encouraged not to do that but in some junctures, people three or four that but in some junctures, people three orfour deep people three or four deep watching that. let's head into the centre of tokyo and speak to the bbc�*s mariko oi who was there for us. we had the opening ceremony and the mixed reaction from the japanese public and some people as we were just saying, out on the streets watching some of the events. how do you feel the mood is at this saturday morning here at tokyo as the games have got under way? sarah, this is where rupert was last night, jampacked, without much social distancing, i must add. this morning as well, there is a long queue of people waiting for their turn to take a picture with the

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rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, ichinomiya, japan.app whenever you wanted. the headlines in the business news in just a few minutes, don't go away. hello. the forecast for the next few days is looking quite turbulent and at times very wet indeed, with some torrential, heavy, thundery downpours, albeit with some sunny spells in between. now, let's take a look at the recent satellite picture because you can see all of these areas of cloud just rotating around, circulating on top of the uk, and this pattern continues with low pressure firmly in charge. close to the centre of the low, particularly, we are going to see some really intense downpours and thunderstorms popping up during tuesday. so, some cloud and some showery rain from the word go across western and southern parts, a bit more sunshine further east. but through the day, the showers will pop up quite widely, and some of them will be very heavy and thundery, especially across parts of north wales, the north midlands, northern england and scotland. and with very light winds, tho

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo.or says the world must hurry in the battle against climate change. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week's deadly flash floods, she expressed her shock at what she called "surreal destruction". more heavy rain has caused furtherflooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports. "we really need help here," she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why. as in so many other parts of western germany, people in the town of bad munstereifel still can't quite believe what happened. we met gertrude here. volunteers have brought food, water. she told us she spent the night alone, upstairs, as water flooded into her house. "i've never seen anything like it, never. it leaves you speechless." "gertrude," he says, "the two of us will never see this place come back to what it was. we will never see it again. it's no longer my home. it's terrible." earlier, angela merkel came to see for herself. this is the town of schuld, where whole ho

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.ddle of a state of emergency, in the middle of a pandemic. these bars are not supposed to be serving alcohol and should be closed by 8pm, but no one is taking any notice. "i'm not worried at all, this young man says. "i want to go drinking. "i want to go out drinking." "lots of people want to stay at home", his girlfriend said, "but we all have our limits". the japanese government says this behaviour has nothing to do with the games, but even its own advisers disagree. what we really need to have is the leadership by the governors or even the prime minister, and those people may have kind of mixed messages. now we have the olympics, so the people may not really be cautious to covid—i9. cheering. critics call this the olympic effect. we saw it last week on the streets around the olympic stadium during the opening ceremony, and it's all happening in a country where most people under the age of 50 remain completely unvaccinated. to tell people that it's dangerous, you have to stay home an

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in yamagata, northern japan.spread flooding and rest europe. people have been urged to evacuate —— across europe. our sunshine that we see believe it or not is linked to the extreme weather we've seen across other parts of europe. it's linked by the jet stream. this is the pattern that we've seen. a very undulating jet stream. that we've seen. it that we've seen. means slow moving weather. we've had low pressure bringing the rain across europe. that low pressure will move eastwards. eventually taking the rain away from germany. high pressure will bid in across the uk, bringing dry weather. with the sunshine we had on thursday, temperatures in northern ireland reached 26 degrees, making it the warmest day of the year so far. it's going to be a warm start across belfast, temperatures at 16 degrees. we start with cloud across east anglia, but it will break up more readily. it's going to feel warmer. sunshine across england and wales. some patchy cloud developing. there will be spells of sunshine for northern ireland

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo. sports presenter sarah mulkerirns in tokyo. despite all the controversies and threats of cancellations — the opening ceremony oficially kicks of the games later but there has already been plenty of action on the football is not my favourite sport until very recently, for obvious reasons, but you have been paying attention to a very important game. tell us more. absolutely. good morning this friday morning ahead of the opening ceremony here in tokyo. that will take place at 8pm local time a little bit later. some of the action already in it that way, you have been enjoying the football, we have as well while they wait for the sport to come together suddenly we won't know what to be watching her where to look for all of those metals to come. so far we had the women's tournament starting on wednesday, then we had the men's tournament, a big game between brazil and germany. a bit of a grudge match, the repeat of the 2016 find out which brazil won in rio, and last night, they were winners

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo.o our sports presenter, sarah mulkerirns who's in tokyo. so the opening ceremony not far away now and the action will soon be coming thick and fast, who are some of the names we should be looking out for? once we get the opening ceremony over and done with we will be talking about all those big names that are competing for the next couple of weeks. the japanese hosts will be looking out for naomi osaka, the four—time grand slam winner in the tennis, she will be wanting to bring a metal bar, novak djokovic going for a golden slam, if you look at mount howe some of the more traditional olympic sports, shelly ann fraser, from jamaica, brilliant sprinter, aged 3a, going to be going for her third olympic gold in the 100 metres, that would be some achievement. in the pool we love watching the swimming at the olympics. watch out for the american pair of kayleigh becky and kaleb dresser, they will be dominant, but looking at people all around the world, one name, you would be looking out for a

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.yo in the middle of a state of emergency, in the middle of a pandemic. these bars are not supposed to be serving alcohol and should be closed by 8pm, but no one is taking any notice. "i'm not worried at all, this young man says. "i want to go drinking. "i want to go out drinking." "lots of people want to stay at home", his girlfriend said, "but we all have our limits". the japanese government says this behaviour is nothing to do with the games, but even its own advisers disagree. what we really need to have is the leadership by the governors or even the prime minister, and those people may have kind of mixed messages. now we have the olympics, so the people may not really be cautious to covid—19. cheering. critics call this the olympic effect. we saw it last week on the streets around the olympic stadium during the opening ceremony, and it's all happening in a country where most people under the age of 50 remain completely unvaccinated. to tell people that it's dangerous, you have — to

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in yamagata, northern japan.ns jeff bezos on the first human flight launched by his company, blue origin on 20 july. oliver daemen, who just turned 18, willjoin 82—year—old wally funk, who will become the oldest ever person in space, on the new shepard rocket. orwe go, if or we go, if you are in the northern hemisphere and wanting to go swimming, you may want to give one siberian like a mess. it is mighty chilly, where international swimmers plunge into icy waters, with temperatures as low as four celsius. maybe not for me! see you soon. hello there. our sunshine that we see believe it or not is linked to the extreme weather we've seen across other parts of europe. the flooding in germany, for example. it's linked by the jet stream. this is the pattern that we've seen. a very undulating jet stream. it means slow moving weather. we've had low pressure bringing the rain across europe. that low pressure will move eastwards. eventually taking the rain away from germany. high pressure will build in across the uk, brin

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes reports.le of a state of emergency, in the middle of a pandemic. these bars are not supposed to be serving alcohol and should be closed by 8pm, but no one is taking any notice. "i'm not worried at all, this young man says. "i want to go drinking. "i want to go out drinking." "lots of people want to stay at home", his girlfriend said, "but we all have our limits". the japanese government says this behaviour is nothing to do with the games, but even its own advisers disagree. what we really need to have is the leadership by the governors or even the prime minister, and those people may have kind of mixed messages. now we have the olympics, so the people may not really be cautious to covid—19. cheering. critics call this the olympic effect. we saw it last week on the streets around the olympic stadium during the opening ceremony, and it's all happening in a country where most people under the age of 50 remain completely unvaccinated. the japanese government is now telling young people to go out a

our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports from tokyo.en a long, anxious wait to get to this moment. they are serious olympic fans. dad has spent over £3000 on olympic tickets, so you can imagine the mixed emotions they are feeling tonight. yes, we think about the kids, it's the very first time to hold their olympics injapan, so we were excited. i am very disappointed, masato uno says. if they were not going to have spectators, they should have postponed again until next year, then we could have welcomed people from abroad properly. chanting. those who think the whole show should have been scrapped long ago were out on the streets again this evening. cheering. but they were vastly outnumbered by the crowds that have turned out to try and get a glimpse of the action. this was shinjuku park at lunchtime, as japan's air force display team painted the olympic rings across the sky. the olympics is very... a once—in—a—lifetime kind of event, right? so ijust wanted to have my kids have experience to see those athletes at least. but due to this c

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo.e south of the japanese capital but let's go to the bbc�*s mariko oi who is close to the olympic stadium in the centre of tokyo. we saw those great scenes of the opening ceremony last night but we do know, don't we, that these games are taking place in a pretty tough time with the coronavirus pandemic. ongoing all around the world, and here injapan. what is the feeling from locals around it?— what is the feeling from locals around it? ., ., ., , around it? sarah, i am not sure whether you — around it? sarah, i am not sure whether you can _ around it? sarah, i am not sure whether you can see _ around it? sarah, i am not sure whether you can see behind - around it? sarah, i am not sure| whether you can see behind me. this is outside the stadium where rupert was. it was jampacked last night and you can see a lot of people still queueing up to take a picture with the olympic rings this morning. when people were here last night watching the opening ceremony from outside the olympic stadium,

here is our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes in japan.e is called ichinomiya, and it's really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that's because we've got a typhoon living in. when you think of surfing coming probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, notjapan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it's estimated around 2 millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before six a:m. the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy. this beach isjust two km from where the olympic surfing competition is being held. so how do they feel about not being able to go along and watch? translation: it does not feel right not to be able to go and watch - ourselves. other people may say it's not fair to have spectators at surfing when other sports don't have spectators. that over there behind me, that's where the olympic

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo.f, former athlete, now a professor of politics and government at pacific university, oregon, researching the politics of the olympic games. iimagine the i imagine the research is quite heavy on these olympics in particular. now that the action is under way, what do you make of the journey to get to hear? it has been an unparalleled journey, sarah, to make it to this point. a lot of people didn't think we should get this far. a lot of people didn't want us to get this far. and here we are, nevertheless. there is this raging coronavirus situation across the world. in the united states, it was reported only 83% of the athletes going to tokyo are vaccinated. there is news of the pitch all over the place. unlike previous olympics where we tend to on the athletes focus at this point, i think we will have off the pitch, off the track stories around his olympic games. what have ou around his olympic games. what have you made — around his olympic games. what have you made of _ around his olympi

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo.r sports presenter sarah mulkerirns, who's in tokyo, and we have some new olympic sports to look out for? we certainly do, good afternoon from tokyo. i think we all wondered whether we would get here with the opening ceremony just hours away here, eight pm local time in tokyo, and once we get through that, the sport will certainly grab the headlines free the pandemic one of the big talking points about these olympic games was these introductions, as you say, rich, of these new sports, all donein rich, of these new sports, all done in order to protect the future legacy of the international olympic committee and their games, they want to bring young people to the games, make sure they bring the demographics with them as the games continue so we have here in the home of karate we have that as a new sport, injapan, but the three really interesting ones are the one of sport climbing, very exciting, and then especially this weekend a lot of people will be finding out about surfing and skateb

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in yamagata, northern japan.me: we all hearfrom we all hear from the parents of amy winehouse who will feature in a bbc documentary, marking the ten year anniversary of the single's death. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the euro zone. the immediate prospect of greece going bust in the worst crisis to hit the euro zone has been averted. emergency services across central europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worst floods this century. nearly 100 people have been killed. broadway is traditionally called the great white way by americans, but tonight, it's completely blacked out. it's a timely reminder to all americans of the problems that the energy crisis has brought to them. leaders meet in paris for a summit on pollution, inflation and third world debt. this morning, theyjoined the revolution celebrations for a show of military might on the champs—elysees. wildlife officials in australia have been coping with a penguin problem. fairy penguins

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo.now to our sports presenter sarah mulkerirns in tokyo because despite all the controversies and threats of cancellations — we're just about there. i think we all wondered if we would get to the friday morning ahead of the opening ceremony of these delayed olympic games but we are, the city of tokyo is ready, as rupert outlined, it has been such a fraught and troubled build—up to these games. troubled build-up to these names. ~ ~ ., games. we know the ioc president _ games. we know the ioc president this _ games. we know the ioc president this week - games. we know the 10c. president this week finally admitted to some sleepless nights in the build—up to this. so many concerns and a various range of issues here injapan. let's get the view from somebody here in tokyo. i'm joined by a local bar owner in tokyo, fumiki yukawa. in normal times, if we didn't have a pandemic, if you had lots of overseas tourists coming in, this could have been a boom time for your business? of a boom time for y

rupert wingfield—hayes, in tokyo.insists he always races fairly after max verstappen accused him of driving dangerously. hamilton won a dramatic british grand prix — despite being penalised for causing the championship leader to crash out. our correspondentjoe wilson reports on a race to remember at silverstone. silverstone and a crowd from a pre—covid scale, 140,000. and organised relation to be checked for tests. many were supporting the reigning world champion. lewis hamilton started second on the grid in his black mercedes, aware that red bull�*s max verstappen ahead of him had a faster car and that he had to make an impression quickly. first and second in the drivers�* championship, battling for the lead in the british grand prix until this. on the inside, and a touch. max verstappen is out of the race, and that�*s a big crash. the most important thing was that max verstappen was ok. of course, he was out of the race. lewis hamilton�*s assessment was that verstappen moved into him. red bull said that hamilton was

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, tokyo.ter, sarah mulkerrins, is in tokyo and gave us an idea of some of the names we should be looking out for. once we get the opening ceremony over and done with we are going to be talking about those big double names, the japanese hosts will want to look out for naomi osaka, the four—time grand slam winner in the tennis, they hope she will be able to bring a medal, novak djokovic going for what they call a golden slam, all the grand slam titles and olympic gold but look at the more traditional olympic sports as such, track and field, shelly ann fraserfrom jamaica, ann fraser from jamaica, william springer, ann fraserfrom jamaica, william springer, 3a, going to be going for a third olympic gold in the 100 metres so that would be some achievement. in the pool we love watching the swimming at the olympics, watch out for the american pairing, shirley dominant but if you were to ask everyone all around the world for one name as to who you would be looking out for at the olympics i imagine most

rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news in tokyo. here lots of tokyoites gathered to watch. we have been saying for weeks that there is a lot of opposition to the olympics here injapan, and that's still true. but take a look at this in the middle of tokyo today. in shinjuku gyoen, thousands and thousands of people have come in here and have taken over the park because this is the only chance many people are going to get to take part in the festivities today. in a few minutes' time we are expecting the arrival of the japanese air force acrobatic team blue impulse and that's what everybody is waiting to see. we are right in the right place, fantastic. so you can feel the excitement here. these are the people who have paid for this olympics. they are not supposed to be doing this. all the fan zones have been closed down, they are not allowed to go into the stadiums. but people want to have a bit of this celebration today and so they are taking over these parks and enjoying themselves, seeing this spectacle. do you feel a sense of sadness

from tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes has more.taken by surprise, almost at every stage in the run—up to the olympics over the last weeks and months. if you think back to march, we were talking about having stadiums full of spectators. we were talking about no compulsory testing of people coming into the country, certainly no talk of athletes having to be vaccinated before they came into the country. as time has gone on and the coveted pandemic has continued and then actually got worse here injapan in the last couple of months, we have seen the olympic authorities in response tightening further that 85% of athletes coming in will be vaccinated, there will be daily testing of everyone in the olympic bubble. they have been tightening and tightening and tightening. even last week, the president was saying that the olympics represented a zero risk to public health injapan, so that sort of sounds very much at odds when we see already, five days before the olympics opens so many cases of covid popping up in the olympic bay ledge, inside

rupert wingfield-hayes, bbc news, northern japan. laura: excitement despite covid. anne frank wrote while hiding from nazis in amsterdam during world war ii has inspired numero films and movies. the cannes film festival has an animated movie by a top israeli director. it has been getting strong reviews and generating controversy as tom bruck reports from cannes. >> this secret apartment will be our hiding place. reporter: much of the new animation set while anne frank was hiding in amsterdam, but moves between the past and future, with a focus on kitty, anne's imaginary friend from her diary. it is being hailed as the first international holocaust film for children. the israeli director has emphasized frank's humanity to make her engaging with a new audience. >> she is a teenager with all the cliched problems of a teenaged girl. she has endless issues with her mother, coming-of-age issues about boys. >> come down, i am waiting for you. >> she was sometimes funny, sometimes mean. reporter: his film has won praise, but at a reception for israeli cinema, it was controv

rupert wingfield-hayes, bbc news, and tokyo.: for more on the state of the games, we are joined from tokyo by the bbc's sarah. tell us about covid cases inside the global itself. sarah: we were talking about this. it was the only conversation in the buildup of the games. it kind of slowed as the metals have taken over, but it has reemerged, because yesterday, we had news that the u.s. palm -- polevault turn, a bronze medalist from rio, he tested positive and was also training, and it has a knocked down affect , put into lockdown because they were in contact with sam kendricks, but all three were in isolation pending further tests and precautions, and it really shows, laura, while we talked for the last few days on medals, and fun stories and celebrations were taking over, it is a reminder that anything can happen in these games. laura: absolutely. the other drama of the games has been the american powerhouse gymnast simone biles, who had to withdraw from two events this week, but tell us who she w cheering on today in this fairy

here's rupert wingfield hayes, from tokyo, with the difficulties organisers face...over the last weeks and months. if you think back to march, we were talking about having stadiums full of spectators. we were talking about no compulsory testing of people coming into the country, certainly no talk of athletes having to be vaccinated before they came into the country. and as time is going on and the covid pandemic has continued and then actually get worse here in japan last couple of months we've seen the olympic authorities responding by tightening further saying that 85% of athletes coming in will be vaccinated, there will be daily testing of all the people in the olympic bubble. so the been tightening and tightening and tightening and tightening and tightening as things got worse. but even last week the ioc president was saying that the olympics repent but not represented zero risk to public health injapan. that sounds very much at odds when we see already, five days before the olympics open, so many cases of covid popping up in the olympic village, inside the olymp

here's our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes. family, it has been a long, anxious wait to get to this moment. the unos are serious olympic fans. dad has spent over £3000 on olympic tickets, so you can imagine the mixed emotions they're feeling tonight. yes, we think about, you know, the kids. it's the very first time to hold their olympics injapan, so we were excited. "i am very disappointed," masato uno says. "if they were not going to have spectators, they should have postponed again until next year, then we could have welcomed people from abroad properly." chanting. those who think the whole show should've been scrapped long ago were out on the streets again this evening. cheering. but they were vastly outnumbered by the crowds that have turned out to try and get a glimpse of the action. this was shinjuku park at lunchtime as japan's air force display team painted the olympic rings across the sky. the olympics is very... it's a once—in—a—lifetime kind of event, right? so, ijust wanted to have my kids have experience to see tho

still to come a bit later in the programme: we'll have a report from our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayesmpetition and the sport's history injapan president biden has said us troops will end their combat mission in iraq by the end of the year. america has about two thousand five hundred forces there, to help iraq fight the islamic state group. this comes as us forces are ending their mission in afghanistan too, and mr biden tries to wind down the wars that were launched after the 9/11 attacks. iraq's prime minister was at the white house on monday, as mr biden explained the role of us troops in the future. it's just to be available, to continue to train, to assist, to help and to deal with isis as it arises. but we're not going to be by the end of the year in a combat mission. our correspondent barbara plett usher is following the story at the white house. president biden didn't actually talk about a troop withdrawal. he talked about ending the combat mission. and so it looks as if this is really a redefining of what the americans are doing. they're defining it as a mission to assist and

out cancelling the games if cases arise at the financial damage has already been done as rupert wingfield hayes 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 international olympic committee point of view, the games should go ahead because of the money. it gets most of it revenues from broadcast. the japanese government position is slightly more difficult to explain but many people say the prime minister has decided to go ahead despite the risk because ahead despite the risk because a successful olympics is his only chance of being re—elected in the autumn. cancel the games now and his political career is finished. unfortunately for prim

rupert wingfield hayes, bbc news, ichinomiya, japan.ext few days is looking quite turbulent and at times very wet indeed, with some torrential, heavy, thundery downpours, albeit with some sunny spells in between. now, let's take a look at the recent satellite picture because you can see all of these areas of cloud just rotating around, circulating on top of the uk, and this pattern continues with low pressure firmly in charge. close to the centre of the low, particularly, we are going to see some really intense downpours and thunderstorms popping up during tuesday. so, some cloud and some showery rain from the word go across western and southern parts, a bit more sunshine further east. but through the day, the showers will pop up quite widely, and some of them will be very heavy and thundery, especially across parts of north wales, the north midlands, northern england and scotland. and with very light winds, those showers will be very slow—moving, so in one or two places, we could see an awful lot of rain, giving rise to localised flash

joe lynskey, bbc news. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes is in tokyo and has been assessing thehese games have had to encounter. public opposition and the fact that the pandemic is getting slow rather than better. and it how we ended up with a stadium empty for the opening ceremony but now we hope to have 16 days of smooth and enjoyable support for people to watch, i'll be on television and not in person. there are a couple of concerns. 0ne, it is very hot here at the moment and it is worrying some people and also just on the rise and we have a large typhoon off in the pacific heading towards japan. fingers crossed that it won't make a direct hit on tokyo. with cases of the delta variant rising around the world, governments are trying to increase uptake of covid vaccines, but there is conflicting advice about the gap between both jabs. now, a new study funded by the uk government has found that a longer gap between the first and second doses of the pfizer biontech vaccine is more effective at creating antibodies. i spoke to dr lance turtle, one of the authors of the pitch study.