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Welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore, im karishma vaswani. the headlines. the final countdown to tokyos delayed olympics. anticipation rises but so do the covid cases and controversies. the opening ceremony is just hours away. im sarah mulkerrins live in tokyo as the city is waking up on the morning of the start of the games with organisers hoping the sporting action on offer will boost the mood of the nation. the devastating aftermath of catastrophic flooding in china thats clai...

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Quarter—finals however they are coming up against the netherlands. the netherlands have been flying in this competition and scoring goals forfun and competition and scoring goals for fun and that will be a repeat of that world cup final in 2019 that the usa won. so you wonder if the netherlands may feel that this is their time to get one over on the us national team and progress through to the semifinals. sarah with all this porting action for us there in tokyo. thank you forjoining us on the ...

Think— great game for us off and i think the mood of australia as we are — think the mood of australia as we are in— think the mood of australia as we are in with the beginning with— we are in with the beginning with a — we are in with the beginning with a lot of the country almost _ with a lot of the country almost half was in a locked down _ almost half was in a locked down. and i think the olympics had given— down. and i think the olympics had given a little bit of respite from be...

An honourfor a major donor. relatives of a female police officer in the ghor province of afghanistan have told the bbc that she has been killed by the taliban. the olympics and now the paralympics are over but there is still a lot to talk about and plenty of the sporting action. hello, again, 0llie. ithinki sporting action. hello, again, 0llie. i think i have written this before and said it. gareth bale has rescued wales! this has come in their world cup qualifier away against belarus, wales win...

The closing ceremony is coming to a close shortly but lets bring you up—to—date with the biggest sporting action at the last day because it has been a good final hole for team gb which started with a gold medal forjason kenny in the mens keirin cycling event in the velodrome and now makes him the most successful with a total of nine olympic medals in all. in the boxing ring, a gold for love in price the womens boxing middleweight final. she beat chinas athlete. price is an amazing athlete an...

To leave the country immediately. thank you. anbarasan ethirajan. to the olympics now — and its the sporting action is drawing to a close on the final day of the tokyo games. heres a look at the medals table as is it stands. with just hours left until the closing ceremony, the united states has overtaken china to take the top spot. the host nationjapan remains in third place. its been a good day so far for team gb with lauren price taking gold in the middleweight boxing and jason kenny winning...

Host nation, japan, theyve had this incredible record haul, 27 goals, far better than they were expecting in many respects. they got a brother and sister who both won medals in thejudo, young dynamic the judo, young dynamic skateboarders thejudo, young dynamic skateboarders who were only 12 and 19 when they stood on that olympic podium. they won the baseball the other night which is an absolute passion for manyjapanese. on the sporting field that was all the success so you started to feel the ti...

They stood on that 0lympic podium. they won the baseball the other night, which is an absolute passion for the japanese. so, on the sporting field, there was all the success, so you started the —— to feel the tide sort of turning here and the change. people started really enjoying the sporting action. like manyjapanese, i have also felt a bit conflicted that, yes, this has been happening and there is the pandemic with a huge amount of concern about the health care system and whether or not i...