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beijing rejects a plan by the who for a second visit to the country to investigate the origins of covid 19. this the response from washington. we re deeply disappointed, their position is irresponsible, and frankly, dangerous. live from a studio in singapore, this is bbc news. welcome to viewers around the world and in the uk. it s eight in the morning in singapore and nine o clock in tokyo where the much troubled 2020 olympics will finally open in a few hours time. after a year delay due to covid 19, the wait is almost over for more than 11,300 athletes trying to get their hands on an olympic medal. there s already been a total of 91 coronavirus cases in tokyo directly linked the games. celebrations at the opening ceremony will be the most subdued of any olympics in history. nevertheless, our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has managed to track down some excited fans. finding olympic fans in tokyo these days isn t so easy. but on this roof top at least, it ....
time for click. now it is time for click. this week the plant with a secret in its seeds, a plane that can fly itself, and dinner is served, and it is. ..an acquired taste. in the middle of the otherworldly landscape of iceland, something strange is going on. 130,000 barley plants are slowly making their way from one end of this greenhouse to the other. and what s even stranger is what this barley is going to be used for. it is in the food chain but it s not food for us and it s not food for animals. no, this is something much, much weirder than that. this grass is a host. it s been genetically modified to carry a special protein called a growth factor in its seeds. once the plants reach the end of theirjourney, these seeds are harvested, milled and purified and the resulting growth factor protein can be used to help produce something very unexpected meat, in a lab, without the animals. i think we will reach the point where it s not, like, nice to have. i think it s ....
good morning and welcome to bbc news. humanitarian workers in ukraine are preparing to welcome around 100 people who were allowed to leave a steelworks plant in the eastern besieged city of mariupol. they re expected to arrive in the nearby city of zaporizhzhia today, and there are hopes that more will be freed later. the un refugee agency has confirmed that more than 5.5 million people have now fled ukraine. tim muffett has the latest developments. daylight at last. after weeks in a maze of underground tunnels. it s thought around 1,000 civilians have been hiding beneath the azovstal steel plant in mariupol, sheltering from russian bombardment. supplies had been cut off. conditions were desperate. yesterday, around 100 were evacuated. this child is six months old. he s spent nearly half of his life underground. translation: i can t believe it. two months of darkness. when we were in the bus, i told my husband, we won t have to go to the toilet with a torch and use a ba ....
support for mental health issues hits a record high. and the queen marks her platinium jubilee, viewing some quirky cards and gifts celebrating her 70 years as monarch. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: the old rivals meet again but who ll come out on top this time as scotland face england on the opening weekend of rugby union s six nations? good evening. the conservative backbench mp aaron bell has become the latest to confirm that he has submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister. it comes as an embattled borisjohnson saw a fifth adviser resign today from downing street, after the departure of four others yesterday. downing street said the resignations were not a sign the prime minister was losing control. as well as being under pressure over lockdown parties in downing street, mrjohnson has come in for particular criticism over a false claim made in the commons that the labour leader sir keir starmer had failed to prosecute the child ....
every chance given the money involved, we re talking perhaps a s salary, cbs reporting 700 million euros per year. that s going to be hard for mbappe to turn down. but you re talking about that sort money you re talking about that sort money you have to give the chance that he will accept an offer. trevor francis, the footballer who became britain s first million pound player, has died as the age of 69. the former england striker, broke the record with his move from birmingham city to brian clough s nottingham forest in 1979. he went on to win back to back european cups with forest and played for his country 52 times. his family say he died of a heart attack at his apartment in spain on monday. now to the women s world cup in australia and new zealand brazil had a comfortable win in their opening match, beating debutants, panama, 4 0 in adelaide. ary borges was the star of the show scoring a hat trick. the pick of the four brazillian goals though was the third, scored ....