and pressure has been growing on authorities to consider didn't they today japan's prime minister shinzo abby acknowledged that rescheduling the games may be the only feasible course of action for weeks needed japan knew the international olympic committee was prepared to countenance it now prime minister shinzo abi has tabled the possibility of postponement but obviously that. if the circumstances make it impossible to hold the games as planned then we have no choice but to consider postponing the. i.o.c. president thomas back had been playing for time saying on sunday that the decision would be made within the next 4 weeks but pressure from athletes and associations has grown massively canada became the 1st country to announce that they would not send any athletes to the games shortly followed by australia where the local m.p. committee is demanding a delay. it gives certainly to the athletes to get into our sports and that's the most important thing over the weekend in japan where public life is yet to be restricted as in other countries 50000 people gathered to catch a glimpse of the olym

much the 2020 took you some of them picks has been postponed on tuesday japanese prime minister shinzo abby announced that the games will be 1st back in 22021 the decision photos months of discussion and pressure from mass needs across the globe. the turkey and then picks our own. the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of the health needs and everybody involved in the olympic games that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games so talk you were 2022 the year of 2020 year one with the aim to her feet there or at the latest in summertime $21.00 it's a decision that was not taken lightly or willingly but pressure had been mounting from athletes and sports federations it's it's a power moment that i will give the be no limits this year but not yet that you have to understand the situation understand that things are a little bigger than organ and we will have a next year it's important that they. exist because so many athletes are not. i'm not been able to. prepare you know they haven't been able to do t

won't send their teams to tokyo until the health emergency is over now the japanese prime minister shinzo abby has conceded that the games could be and brian reports. after weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese prime minister cannot. 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 as it to be held in july but the virus that's caused both human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is threatening the world's biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce its and then pick in paralympic teams be participating in the games urging the 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 beating out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus sit

holding talks to discuss the postponement of the 2020 and then picks and japan japan's prime minister shinzo abby has been saying for weeks that he is determined that the games should go ahead the i.o.c. says it's confident they will have the finalized the tokyo games discussions within the next 4 weeks. from new infections to the number of deaths and where else it has to spread to we're getting information about covered 9000 on a daily basis and while it's important to stay informed the information being given can be difficult to understand there are global guidelines for testing by the world health organization but countries may adopt differently and germany we've seen a lower mortality rate compared to its european neighbors because that may be because it's been testing more people early on the u.s. is far behind many countries in testing the public meaning the true number of cases may actually be higher than what's being reported and then there's the potential that some countries simply aren't reporting the toll despite most being legally obliged to by the w.h.o. north korea and soviet for ex