staff members his resignation is the 2nd high profile one off the organizing committee president yoshida mori stepped down also for making sexist comments about women. we've just 4 months to go until the opening ceremony the tokyo games have once more been overshadowed by insensitive remarks made towards women this time it was creative director he rushed saki who suggested to a planning group that niamey want to not they could perform as a quote a limp pig later apologizing and offering his resignation what a nobby is due to perform in the opening ceremony the entertainer has challenge body image norms in japanese media. just last month your ciro mori stepped down from his role as president of the tokyo 2020 organizing committee after he among other things claimed women talk too much the committee then set up a gender equality team and the former prime minister was replaced by athlete turned politician seiko hashimoto who now has to find a new director for the opening and closing ceremonies. i saw the headlines and was really shocked that his remarks were inappropriate and it is very reg

japan's prime minister has also had his 1st vaccine yoshida suger is the 1st government official to be publicly inoculated the head of a meeting with the us president joe biden next month there will be the 1st world leader to meet as president thousands of protesters have turned out across several rebel controlled parts of syria they're marking 10 years since the start of the civil war the conflict has calls one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than a heart of syria's population displaced the un special envoy to syria has expressed profound regret that the un has been unable to broker peace to end the war. so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost statement that's watching live from. teaching. english streaming night all night channel. plus thousands of our programs will be documentaries and. subscribe. al-jazeera english. hello i'm terry you navigate and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week the perfect storm pandemic drought and china's demand prices hit 6 ye

own population japan's prime minister has been given his 1st dose of the pfizer covert 19 vaccine yoshida suga is the 1st japanese official to publicly receive the shot brazil's health minister has been sacked as the corona virus outbreak hits record levels his replacement muscle ok will be the 4th person in charge since the pandemic began the streets of brazil's most populous states but only empty on tuesday after emergency restrictions came into effect infection and death rates in sao paolo have been climbing rapidly the state's health care system is on the brink of collapse of dizziness manuel ruppel who is in mexico city he says that brazil's vaccination rollout has barely got off the ground arguably this is the reason why we're seeing the outgoing health minister being booted out of brazil ironically prior to the pandemic had a tremendous track record when it came to vaccination programs currently the program has stalled only about 1.4 percent of the population is fully vaccinated brazil is in the process of securing new vaccines more vaccines we know the pfizer we know about the chi