try something new in tokyo when hit up tokyo. sushi bars. these are noodles 101.e mecca ramen. you can make it with pork, also with miso broth. this is the dlbuckwheat noo which is the healthy one of the bunch. >> soeba can be eing either cold or hot, which is why you should try cold noodles in japan as well as hot. it's going t be hot this summer, next summer. >> you like the sake hot or cold? >> i love it cold. it is not traditionally drunk hot in japan. we like it room temperature or cold. and higher quality sake in my opinion is not drunk hot. so try to look for cold, and also, the craft beer that we love in japan is high quality japanese. love their beer. >> so this ice cre is very american. in japanese culture, it's full of lima beans andsw tened. and we also have this, which is also found all over japan. delicious meat on a stick. sake plus beer, either way, in japan, we don't drink them together, though. so the sake bomb is very american. they say that american soldiers actually brought that to japan. >> of course. >> i hope you come to tokyo with us and b

try something new in tokyo when you hit up tokyo sushi bars these are noodles 101.man, it's comfort food you can make it with pork. you can also make it with miso broth. this is the buckwheat noodle, which is the healthy one of the bunch. zoba can be eaten cold or hot, which is why this summer you should try cold noodles in japan as well as hot it's going to be hot this summer, next summer. >> do you like sake hot or cold? >> i like it cold. it is not traditionally drunk hot in japan they typically like it room temperature or cold. higher quality sake is not drunk hot. try to look for cold, and also the craft beer that we love in japan is high quality, love their beer. >> craft beer. >> so mochi ice cream is very american japanese culture is full of lima beans and it's sweetened >> sake is great >> sake plus beer, either way, in japan we don't drink them together, though so the sake bomb is very american they say that american soldiers actually brought that to japan >> of course we did. and the big mac. >> i hope you come to tokyo and >>> we want . >>> we want to th

the monsoonal moisture we're having or the typhoon weather in tokyo? >> yes, exactly. in tokyo.uld, maybe simulate that somehow. but it's going to be so hot and humid there. at least that's what the weather averages are, so it's something a lot of the athletes are probably mentally preparing for and thinking p about as well. i want to start with twunts it doesn't get that cold, down do 72. we get rain in july, 5 1/4 inches. and humidity is going to be impacting the games, not only for the athletes but the tourists as well. it's going to be that kind of heat and humidity that can catch up on people, may cause people to pass out. make sure to hydrate. typhoon season la will be in effect. as we bring you to the bay area, a touch of humidity for us. it's mainly about the heat. the good news for tomorrow, i don't see temperatures as hot as 104, that was the hottest we've been so far. but i do see numbers increasing for tomorrow. a hot day on the way for wednesday. 69 in the tri valley. 65 in the peninsula and south bay at 68. i do expect fog near the coastline in san francisco and a

you have been around tokyo. you have seen these facilities.opose? 0h absolutely. it is fantastic. it is the first time in the history of the olympics there was a bigger stadium going to build, cost overruns, they cut it and built a cheaper version by a starjapanese architect. wonderful facilities at a third of the pros of the original one. but still absolutely spectacular will that is the way to runa spectacular will that is the way to run a modern country —— price. exciting times for the japanese economy with the tokyo 2020 olympics just around the corner. let us look at the asia pacific markets that are open for business. the nick ayers up by o.4%. open for business. the nick ayers up by 0.a%. the all 0rdinaries gaining 0.5 -- by 0.a%. the all 0rdinaries gaining 0.5 —— nikkei. the wall street dumped overnight after news of face—to—face jobs between us dumped overnight after news of face—to—facejobs between us and china resume next week. stronger than expected earnings lifted investor sentiment. we also saw the s&p 500 at a new record high ov

i think tokyo will. we talk about, tokyo is ready to go right now.oing to have some sushi and sake. >> and guys, i also gave raj a little quiz about the olympics he's been to. you can see which questions i asked and how raj did tomorrow when i post the full "synced in" episode on our instagram. you can watch it there. the handle is @nbcbayarea. the latest episode will pop up. it's a fun one. >> i felt like i was doing the s.a.t. again. >> pop quiz. i love it. good job, abby. >>> b.a.r.t. station soon to become a historical landmark. we'll show you why. >>> before we go to break, here is another olympian, swimmer simone manuel. >> graduate from stanford. she brought home two silver and two gold from rio. she wants to do better in tokyo. back in a moment. show me the crown. show me homecoming. baby sloth videos on youtube. amy, do you uh mind giving someone else a turn? oh... yeah i made myself a little comfortable here. i got a pizza for amy! yes, that's me! xfinity lets you search netflix, prime video, and youtube with the sound of your voice. and i

tokyo 2020 olympic games exactly one year away. a preview of how the city is preparing and if they are on track. plus the bay area athletes on the road to tokyo. today in the bay continues right now. >>> good morning, thank you for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we'll have a look at the commute. but first, we want to talk about the heat up. coming back from mexico, i'm thinking about going to the bay area to cool off a bit. >> you brought mexico back. >> you did. it's going to hang out for awhile. hot temperatures at least we don't have the humidity. but we will see some more clouds moving in as we get a live look outside in san jose. temperatures quickly heating up at noon. we're at 81 degrees. we'll get a look at the microclimates coming up. >> we're looking to the trivalley. a little blips for 84. we see the early slowing. coming toward the bay bridge, we don't have any delays for travel times. we'll show you the toll plaza coming up. >>> happening tomorrow morning, all eyes will be on capitol hill a

it's raining in tokyo not under the umbrella though. the message being broadcast from the highest television tower in the world. one year to go no matter the weather. to indonesia now and efforts to save the sea turtles on the island of bali poaching has nearly wiped out the population on the island but now thanks to an awareness campaign at least one of the poaching house spots has become a turtle sanctuary. the beach side send off in the. least 80 turtle hatchlings are ready to launch their olive ridley sea turtles listed as a vulnerable species now these humans offer a helping hand. i'm happy people around here are working to conserve this ecosystem especially considering many turtle species are now almost extinct or endangered. the sandy shorelines of bali are ideal for egg nests. but the turtles are under threat by human hunting and pollution from natural predators. somewhat there even by dogs crabs ants and birds. but fisherman have now also independently joined the conservation effort to save the turtle eggs. awareness campaigns

tokyo 2020 will be very different for a variety of reasons.cifically for adam peaty it will be the first game is that he goes into as defending champion and that brings added attention and pressure. but that is something that he is relishing and feels being here a year ahead of the olympics will be a massive advantage. japan is a special place in terms of their culture, how they treat each other, they are so respectful and the amount of investment they put into facilities. we were treated like royalty a nd facilities. we were treated like royalty and i think that is just down to the kind of upbringing and culture. it is a great place, what better place to have that feeling and have great facilities. the british team are testing at the venue british team are testing at the venue this week and also completing their final preparations for the world swimming championships beginning on the 21st ofjuly. siobhan—marie o'connor is an action and desperate to rediscover the form that saw her become olympic silver medallist back in 2016.” that saw her be

he could make a splash in tokyo.ricane omar i player kelsey bing also a stanford grad. she's a goalkeeper for the women's national team, a two-time goalkeeper of the year. good luck to kelsey and akash. hopefully we'll be seeing them in tokyo. >> for sure. before we go a big pat on the back for an east bay city. it may have you thinking about a move. fremont is considered the second best city in the nation to raise a family. that is according to a new report by wallet hub. wallet has compared 182 u.s. cities across five key areas. fremont scored high for health and safety, socioeconomics, education and health care. the last category, affordability. they didn't do well on that. >> that can't be affordable. >> over land park, kansas, came in at number one on the list. number three, irvine, california, followed by plano, texas, and south burlington, vermont. >> we like fremont. >> fremont is gred ha won. our producer alley son, where did she gro z grow up? oh, fremont. interesting story. >> we love her. >> before we go,

the countdown begins — it's one year until the tokyo olympics.isers are already worried about the summer heat. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. hello and welcome to newsday. it's 7:00 am in singapore and midnight here in london, where borisjohnson is preparing for the biggest act of his political career. on wednesday, after being invited by the queen to form a government, he'll pick up the keys to number 10 — fulfilling an ambition he's held for decades. borisjohnson promised a "new spirit of can do" and said he would get brexit done by october the 31st. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. applause . and therefore i'd give notice that borisjohnson is elected as a leader of the conservative party. a brief moment of weight away go now, as the rest of the room got to its feet. a thumping majority for mrjohnson, a knowingly controversial pick. there will be people round the place who will question the wisdom of this decision and there may be some people here who still wonder quite what th

tokyo is a big city that handles millions of people every day. are going to be in good shape for the games next year. >> i know that you've got a lot to prepare for with all the athletes as well. some of the athletes are still competing just to be able to compete, qualify, i should say. >> reporter: absolutely, that's a big part of the story. people with bay area ties making a comeback. katielet decky, i was talking to her about coming back for a third olympic games. she's at the world championships right now. not having the run she hoped at the world championships, but i know how much tokyo means to her. so many athletes in your backyard are training to get here next year and making the team is where it begins. it doesn't matter what you have done before. you have to be good enough to be here in 2020. >> i know the athletes are training to get prepared. i'm sure you're doing some training to know all the names and all that stuff. >> how do you keep track of all that? >> reporter: piles of research. we have an amazing research team, but you try t

some say it's an incursion on your privacy >>> tonight your ticket to tokyo, let the countdown to the 2020 games begin >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening i'm savannah guthrie in for lester tonight iran is making bold accusations against the u.s., the country claiming it busted the iranians laid out their case on state television in dramatic fashion today. but the white house was quick to dismiss these claims as just the latest provocation from a country feeling the heat chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell leads us off >> reporter: tonight another escalation in iran's showdown with the u.s this highly produced video claiming to show that the cia recruited 17 iranians, a charge president trump strongly denies. >> i read a report today about cia. that's a false story they put out propaganda. they put out lies. let's see what happens with iran we are ready for the absolute worst, and we're ready for sense too. >> reporter: iran also showing alleged business cards from u.s. diplomats iran says are cia agents in turkey and other countr

david mcdaid, bbc news, tokyo.tting ready for the twenty20 olympics. that is one way to do it. i will be cheering you on the stand, go, rico! my gold medal. and i'm rico hizon, in singapore. i'm ben bland, in london. stay with us. hello. temperatures have been soaring across the uk. in fact, to record levels forjosey on tuesday and a newjuly record set in maison saint louis of 35.7 degrees. and don't be too surprised i think if we don't see some further records being broken before this hot spell is out. the peak anticipated on thursday and some spots could get up to 37 degrees celsius and that would be a new ukjuly record. to start us off on wednesday, plenty of humidity around, and some pretty widespread thunderstorms across the northern half of the uk. potentially some big hail, gusty winds and a lot of lightning and thunder. losing their intensity as they drift across scotland through the morning. they clear from all but the northern isles by the afternoon. then we are then left with widespread sunshine. bit mor

one year until the summer games begin in tokyo. now surf's up as new events make their olympic debut. >> reporter: tonight, tokyo ready for its close up. 50 years since the city last hosted the summer games. this time, it's all about blending old and new from the venues to the medals made from recycled phones and laptops. a record 339 medal events and 33 sports including some new ones like surfing, skateboarding, climbing, and karate all making their olympic debut. soft ball and baseball are back too after a 12-year absence. >> mixture of the new sport and the new era will give people absolutely a brand-new feeling about the olympic games. >> young feeling. >> young feeling. >> reporter: the biggest challenge of these games may be the extreme temps. the marathon now starting earlier due to heat fears. for nearly a month last july, tokyo was as hot as the heat wave that just swept the u.s. reducing lines for athletes and officials using facial recognition. some of team usa's biggest stars from rio expected back. gymnast simone biles

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at the beginning of the year a retrospective exhibition at the renowned national art center of tokyo provided a comprehensive overview of her 4 decade career the current show at the equally groundbreaking current museum basle toward new season shows a considerable selection of her work. career got off to a different start back home in japan they were initially studied spanish and emigrated to spain in the early seventy's at the age of 21 she then started painting in seville a few years later a summer job took her to switzerland where she appreciated the greater freedom women enjoyed in comparison to japan or spain through marriage she obtained a swiss passport which she continues. to this day. germany for many years now 67. has studio. and it's a great pleasure to welcome to our studio here this evening in the flesh thank you so much for coming in like 02 big solo exhibitions this year one in tokyo one in basel as we just saw there what's it like to see 40 years of your life's work gathered and juxtaposed together like this. it was amazing for me to see them once again because usuall

but that's an image tokyo 2020 organisers hope to change. all mr kumagami has to remind him of the house he lived in for a0 years. like 160,000 others, he was evacuated in 2011 when the great east japan earthquake devastated parts of fukushima prefecture. 19,000 people lost their lives and the radiation that spread when the daiichi nuclear plant exploded sealed off whole towns, including mr kumagami's. now he has a new home, but his family in tokyo don't visit any more. translation: i've lived here for eight years now, but they've not come to see me once. i ask him why. they're afraid of the radiation. it makes me quite sad. in a region damaged and tarnished by that radioactive association, sport is trying to help. the fukushima red hopes baseball team is run by a former american major leaguer with no prior link to the area. translation: after the disaster, i felt a lot of sympathy for people trying to get on with life and i thought "is there anything i can do?" so i thought we could bring a smile to peoples' faces through baseball. and when

korea japan denies its trade round with south korea threatens the global high tech sector instead tokyo puts the onus on seoul to return to the negotiating table and rebuild trust. the global grounding of the 737 max drags on costing u.s. plane make a boeing billions of dollars more. and space agency send companies joining forces to exploit the potential of asteroids we speak to a scientist to find out more about mining in the milky way. i mean physical and let's do business critics accuse the japanese prime minister of using his trade dispute with south korea to ghana votes with tokyo curbing exports of high tech materials to seoul there is an election in japan this weekend and shinzo abbay may have reason to celebrate the latest polls predict his coalition will come out on top when the nation votes for a new upper house of parliament positive economic data is also helping his chances japan's economy beat expectations expanding by 2.2 percent in the 1st quarter but it's not all good news exports fell by 2.4 percent in the same time period with japan shipping fewer cars trucks and steel

but all these concerns have not dump on the excitement of tokyo 2020. 5. years from now just like your previous olympics concerns will fade once national fever grips the country. on our heading to the swimming world championships in south korea and ongoing controversy surrounding china's son yang has taken mainstage the swimmer was banned for doping back in 2014 and last year allegedly smashed blood samples with a hammer in front of anti-doping testers yang has since been cleared of wrongdoing but it's just after an australian swimmer refused to share the podium with the alleged doper britain's duncan scott took a similar stance once the ceremony was over a gang of youths at the protesting rival several competitors have called for yang to be banned. a bit of culture now the hottest are ticket this summer is a major retrospective and we're talking about sons work that just opened up at the tate modern in london the exhibit includes a ton of lego bricks a long corridor of dense fog and a huge wall of reindeer box from finland now this artist has been billed

as interest builds in tokyo 2020 be a now is to keep preparations on schedule and organizers seem to be hitting targets one year to go all the excitement is growing here you've seen the unprecedented level of interest in ticket sales with $3200000.00 souls having tickets sold in the 1st phase the venue's also appear to be coming along only 3 remaining complete including the olympic stadium which is just missing its track and field. about 90 percent of the construction work has been completed and as you can see almost all the building work is done. we're now just working on the facilities inside the stadium. of all this but preparations for these olympics haven't always been smooth sailing a report released in may found that the construction workers for the venue's were working long hours and in dangerous conditions suspicions of corruption have also hung over the tokyo 2020 bit earlier this year the head of japan's a limpid committee stepped down amid allegations of vote buying. and the costs are another headache the original budget for the olympics was set at around $7000000000.00 e

. >>> finally tonight, exactly one year from now, some 11 now athletes will be in tokyo for the start of the summer olympic games. mike tarico of nbc sports is there with some of the team usa athletes to watch. >> reporter: she was the break-out star team usa in rio >> this has been her destiny >> reporter: and heading into tokyo, gymnast simone biles is as dominant as ever. she could nab the record for the most gold medals won by any u.s. athlete. katie ledecky looking to build on her run >> katie ledecka crashes her run. >> we're optimistic and we feel good about our chances >> reporter: then there's the winter star looking to trade snow for skateboarding three-time olympic halfpipe champ sean white announcing this morning he's competing at skateboarding worlds, a step toward qualifying for tokyo. >> why don't i test the waters, compete a little and see what happens. >> reporter: other marquee names considering an olympic run, tiger woods, lebron james and serena williams. for those already missing world cup action, just a year to go until the u.s. women's soccer team takes the fiel

earth sciences at the faculty of environmental and life sciences at the university of southampton in tokyo michel. when presidents of japan sing at sioux newsagency and in bristol also in the u.k. mark simmons senior marine experts at the humane society international welcome to you will michael penn in tokyo 1st time in 31 years more than 3 decades what's the point well the point basically is to keep a political constituency happy. there are some small towns along the coast in japan where the economy is this largely based on whaling and these small towns have political. politicians who represent them and they are influential politicians so it's more a batter of the fact that there's a lot on one side of the issue in japan but not really on the other and the pro whaling side politically is stronger can call ins is it enough to say it's cultural well potentially yes but i question that there is the demand no one thing that avoids much attention as a fact or a 2nd shooter poll culling all smallish attentions which are outside such as dolphins poll percentage which are outside of any internati

met to discuss their effort differences a delegation from seoul's trade ministry trap traveled to tokyo to meet their japanese counterparts the plan is to tighten controls on high tech exports from south korea hasn't given specifics about why but it followed korean demands for tokyo to compensate forced labor it's from the 2nd world war also on friday south korea called for an international investigation into japanese claims it's failed to fully enforce sanctions against north korea. nobody likes to see food go to waste but when it reaches its expiry date and has gone on seoul shops often have no choice but to throw it away one japanese entrepreneur is tackling that part of the problem head on now using little more than a bicycle and a website. unsold and uneaten it's estimated almost $28000000.00 tons of food ends up in japanese trash cans each year but grabbing the issue with both hands as you yes saito his innovative business aims to keep bread out of the bit. from a further 3rd of the world's food gets thrown away even in japan it's not uncommon to see bakeries took out around 10 pe

still to come on this program with just one years ago until the tokyo olympic summer games organizers say ticket sales for unprecedented but there are still plenty of challenges ahead and complaints because left to do. but 1st a germany's new defense minister is set to take her oath of office during a special session of parliament today before an autograph hour has been laying out her priorities among them she wants to get the defense budget in germany closer to the 2 percent of g.d.p. berlin has committed to as a member of the nato alliance. a solemn swearing in ceremony for the newest recruits to to germany's armed forces when they started a few weeks ago was enough on the line with still their chief now their commander is conservative c.d.u. leader on it but come on bella. shinseki think it's very good i think it's good that women too can show what they can do it can be science she seems to me to be a very stable minister stuff to do in the seventy's and isn't the you i think she does a really good job and i have complete confidence in her. but not everyone was so positive when the

from tokyo. joins us now why this hard nosed reaction from tokyo. saying it has all to do with the main reflections in japan and i think even willing to strengthen the weak and i'm sure. we can think one of the i think japan is the best so yes i think you've just been going so far. so i think they're going to disagree. if we're looking at. the big companies that depended on exports or imports rather from japan some so for example how will some some get around this production wise. and there are so. you know used. for example is my thinking that it is actually good for you that i would not touch on it because this is actually fetish . making industrially and i find it is as absent has it has and has but i feel like it's a answer right like the mines are not that. they can stop using just inside the country and the government has also said that they're going to invest it in dollars to actually you know source. just making up and out in their own countries so. and then but i had would say that mixed reactions are mixed concerns that it might be difficu

accuse the japanese prime minister of using his trade dispute with south korea to ghana votes with tokyo curbing exports of high tech materials to seoul there is an election in japan this weekend and she may have reason to celebrate the latest polls predict his coalition will come out on top when the nation votes for a new upper house of parliament positive economic data is also helping his chances japan's economy beat expectations expanding by 2.2 percent in the 1st quarter but it's not all good news exports fell by 2.4 percent in the same time period with japan shipping fewer cars trucks and steel pipes abroad the burgeoning trade conflicts around the world could sour the outlook u.s. president or trump is still weighing a 25 percent levy on japanese car brands like toyota and nissan japan's also facing a boycott in south korea over a disagreement on reparations for its treatment of victims of war time slave labor . pill is putting up a boycott sign at the entrance to his grocery store he's taking all japanese products off the shelves including cigarettes and alcohol. we took away japa

i'm from tokyo a surprise surprise singer joins us now as a proud why this hardnosed reaction from tokyo. i think it has to do with being the main reflections in japan and i think even willing government is trying to please god that we do and i'm sure. we don't think one of that i think about is the best like i did you just been going so far that they just i thought that he did but. so i think very disagree on that which is that if we if we're looking at korea and the big companies that depended on on exports or imports rather from japan some so for example how will some some get around this production wise. where there are lots of. you know use. for examples of my thinking that it is actually good for you that if and when that that's done it's because this is actually flattish. making a dusty and by honeybees us as in has us and has a stop start but i feel much like it's a right with the mines are not that. they can start producing just inside the country and the government has also said that they're going to invest it in dollars to actually you know source. just making up a nut in thei

tokyo 2020 olympic games exactly one year away. preview of how the city is preparing and if they are on track. plus the bay area athletes on the road to tokyo. today in the bay continues right now.

stay home that is the message from tokyo authorities to local workers the city is introducing a number of measures ahead of the 2020 summer olympic games in a bid to reduce urban congestion in addition we are also promoting libya's campaign for the games these are a series of measures aimed at establishing new working styles including telework staggered working and just transportation management to reduce and distribute to affix. japan's workers on average spend more hours in the office than any other country in the world a plus for productivity but a major problem for vehicle and pedestrian traffic corporate convention has already followed suit a number of tokyo based companies have begun to implement their own teleworking schemes requiring some of their employees to spend certain days out of the office. and this is business asia here anti w. for be in the team and thanks for keeping us company. one of the world's fastest sinking sea to. get caught up in the media's capital top spy as much as 25 centimeters she. added on top of that climate change is causing increased flooding so what

that's all we're going to be thinking about >> reporter: tokyo olympic organizers are thinking about finishing the new permanent venues distributing enough tickets to match record demand. a venerable city and country ready to celebrate both the old and the new. kurt gregory, nbc news >> it's going to be here before we know it >> yeah. it's going to come just like that >>> all right. krispy kreme fans, do we have a sweet piece of news for you. the donut shop opened a new concept store in north carolina. customers can now build their own donuts by choosing different glazes, toppings, drizzle flavors. they also added some new menu items like donut-infused ice cream and milk shakes and scoop sandwiches this location is just one of 45 new shops that will open across the country through 2020 >> that was my face, that that kid just made right now. what ice cream sandwich donut oh, it will be so good >> thanks for waking up with us. i'm frances rivera >> intr aoducing my new spicy chicken strips combo. bigger, tastier strips of juicy chicken with crunchy batter. spice them up with hot sauce

japan denies it straight away of south korea threatens the global high tech sector instead tokyo puts the onus on seoul to return to the negotiating table and rebuild trust. the global grounding of the 737 max frank zone costing us plane make a boeing billions of dollars small. and space agency said companies joined forces to exploit the potential of asteroids we speak to a scientist to find out more about finding the milky way. i've been physical and let's do business critics accuse the japanese prime minister of using his trade dispute with south korea japan denies it straight away of south korea threatens the global high tech sector instead tokyo puts the onus on seoul to return to the negotiating table and rebuild trust. the global grounding of the 737 max drags on costing u.s. plane make a boeing billions of dollars small. and space agency send companies joining forces to exploit the potential of asteroids we speak to a scientist to find out more about finding the milky way. again physical and let's do this. those critics accuse the japanese prime minister of using his trade disp

nick hope, bbc news, in tokyo, japan.o compete in the bmx. greg rutherford's also with us — long jump gold—medallist in 2012, and he also got a bronze four years later in rio. good morning to both of you. good morning. greg, this must be very ha rd morning. greg, this must be very hard for you. you're retired last year. are you missing out being a pa rt year. are you missing out being a part of it? i am quite happy not to have to worry about the training and qualifications anymore. from my point of view to get to sit back and enjoy other people now hopefully going for their sporting goals and with some of those medals. one of them, charlotte, nobody knows who will be competing at the moment, but you are part of the bmx team, hopefully. the sport itself has come such a long way in a relatively short varied of time. oh, yeah, drastically. especially the female side of things. bmx probably had a kind of stigma that we are rebels like the skateboa rd kind of stigma that we are rebels like the skateboard scene and stuff. no, t

now he has a new home, but his family in tokyo don't visit any more. radiation. it makes me quite sad. in a region damaged and tarnished by that radioactive association, sport is trying to help. the fukushima red hopes baseball team is run by a former american major leaguer with no prior link to the area. translation: after the disaster, i felt a lot of sympathy for people trying to get on with life and i thought "is there anything i can do?" so i thought we could bring a smile to people's faces through baseball. and when they come to the games, we can help them forget about any stress they have. and even though it's 300km from the capital, the organisers of the tokyo 0lympics have also seen an opportunity by staging baseball and softball here. translation: we want to use the olympics being staged in order to demonstrate how far fukushima has come since the disaster. we want people to see that fukushima is an appealing place to visit. this is the azuma stadium just outside fukushima city, where they're getting ready to host seven 0lympic baseball and s

the 2020 tokyo olympics gets underway one year from today. much of the city already decorated to celebrate the summer games. a huge olympic emblem hanging at the main mitsubishi building. one athlete training around the clock already just to get a spot on that team usa, barely old enough to vote and already has one olympics under his belt and bob redell breaks down the mission to be calm while playing ping pong. >> a warm-up that is rigorous and recentless. reaction time in split-seconds and a profuse amount of sweat. ping pong is no longer just a leisure activity. >> you could play it 10,000 different times and 10,000 different balls and spins and speed and you're always adjusting and learning more. >> reporter: he's been playing table tennis since he was 5 and now at 19 he's the top table ranked male player and just won the fourth national championship in a row. >> he has an extreme passion about table tennis. you have to kick him out of the gym. >> reporter: he grew up playing in the garage and played professional in german and while we ca

a busy week also brings policy decisions from tokyo and london. shery: let's get you started with a check of the markets closed. the session in the u.s., the s&p 500 and the nasdaq closed at record highs. the biggest jump in three weeks for the s&p 500. the biggest in five for the nasdaq. we have twitter and alphabet leading a tech rally on positive results. gains coming from stronger than expected second-quarter gdp numbers. we will see a rate cut by the fed this week. a very busy week for earnings in the u.s. we are expecting more than 160 companies to report. u.s. futures unchanged. let's see how we are setting up for asia. after a bright start, we have seen new zealand grinding steadily lower, looking kind of flat. nikkei futures, kospi futures also flat. busy week of earnings out of japan particularly. 157 companies reporting this week. twoy we will hear from among others. 1/5 other kospi will report this week. in australia, the future is looking bright. better than one quarter of 1%. bear in mind, those numbers will reset to 10 minutes befor

suspicions of corruption have also hung over the tokyo 2020 bid.arlier this year, the head of japan's olympic committee stepped down amid allegations of vote buying. and costs are another headache. the original budget for the olympics was set a at aroundeven billion eueuros. that is now expected to skyrocket to more than four times that amount. and taxpayers will have to foot most of the bill. >> the whole budget now is about $30 billion, and huge amounts of public funds flow into huge corporations while the poor are evicted, excluded, and mamarginalized.. repoporter: the heat is alsoso a major concern. countermeasures, however, will be put in place. organizers are encououging the use of u umbrellas. they w will also offer air-conditioning lounges, access to water, and jet sprays. but all these concerns have not dampened excitement ahead of tokyo 2020. perhaps a year from now, just like at previous olympics, concerns will fade once national fever grips the country. brent: here is a reminder of the top stories we are following for you. boriss johnso

and one year from today tokyo will welcome the world into the summer olympics organizers are heading into the final phase of preparations with ticket sales already said to be unprecedented but there have been problems from accusations of corruption in the bidding process to concerns about safety at construction sites. as interest builds in tokyo 2020 be a now is to keep preparations on schedule and organize the scene to be hitting targets one year to go all the excitement is growing here you've seen the unprecedented level of interest in tickets with $3200000.00 souls having been tickets sold in the 1st phase the venue's also appear to be coming along only 3 remaining complete including the olympic stadium which is just missing its track and field. and. about 90 percent of the construction work has been completed and as you can see almost all the building work is done. we're now just working on the facilities inside the stadium. with all this but preparations for these olympics haven't always been smooth sailing a report released in may found that the construction workers for the ven

russell, thank you so much, live out of tokyo. that on the chart for you -- at the end of the day, one metric matters for investors in deutsche bank stock. return in equity. you can see them come up with a specific target, return on tangible equity. the yellow circle is where they want to be by 2022, where we are is basically at zero. that's quite a tall order. we will see. we will be tracking this throughout the day on bloomberg television. in the meantime, markets are really falling. >> we are still trying to figure out why the big moves -- but we are still seeing a selloff in mainland markets, the csi 300 down more than 2%. hang seng down more than 523 points. yes, we had that u.s. job surprise, perhaps that's why the market is shivering, perhaps the fed will have a shallower fed rate cut by the end of the month. i don't know if it comes down to the fed or not. >> that's a hard question to answer. when you look at the bond market, it's not exactly moving the opposite way. stocks are down and speaking of the other equity markets