Translator tokyo is on the brink of an explosisive increas of infections. We are trying to prevent a situation like that andnd t try to prevent further spread of virus levels. This is needed now. There are more than 2,100 confirmed cases across japan. Not including 712 cases from the diamond princess cruise ship. A total of 70 people have died including 11 from the cruise ship. Meanwhile, japan is set to further restrict entry into the country. Nhk has learned that the new measures will apply to the 49 countries and territories. The u. S. , canada, china and south korea as well as most of europe and some parts of Southeast Asia will be affected. Once the measures are in place, foreign nationals from a total of 73 countries and regions will be banned from entering japan. The restrictions also apply to people who have visited the designated countries within the past two weeks. Translator we have decided to raise the warning level for Infectious Diseases in response to the rapid spread of
Thats it from aberdeen. Well have more on the bbc news channel throughout the day. Time for a look at the weather. Good afternoon. Earlier we saw the flooding and extreme weather in venice, behind me is a video of some very heavy snow in north west spain, its more like midwinter in cold conditions so very Severe Weather gcioss conditions so very Severe Weather across much of the central western mediterranean attributed to an area of low pressure bringing heavy snow over the alps and dreary weather to oui over the alps and dreary weather to our shores that will continue to feed in easterly winds, cloud and rain and more persistent rain pushing into the south waste in the latter pa rt pushing into the south waste in the latter part of the day. The best of the brightness in the afternoon will be western scotland and Northern Ireland but a chilly day for most. This evening and tonight we hold on to the cloud, rain moving west, much of scotla nd to the cloud, rain moving west, much of scotl
as we thing about how close we came to losing our democracy. last thursday it was june 16th a day forever branded in our memory a day that is joined the pantheon of tragic turning points in human history. where are you on six, 16 and neither will we. at the time they are preparing a show and tony fauci has pushed for another for kids. seems so trivial now as we were speaking on air at that very moment a team of seven saboteurs had entered the capital grounds and then proceeded to saboteurs do to breach the capital itself. inside those hollow grounds within the very womb of democracy these records began their hunt for standing members of congress. that happened ladies and showman it sounds shocking to you it gets worse from there. this is not some spontaneous outbreak of insurrection, no. this was a meticulously planned coup from afar. the group in the capital was under direct control of an extreme called stephen colbert definition is a white extremist. this white extremist st
history. [cheers and applause] i know. i know. in history. i would not believe it myself except that there it is. in the chart i made an hour ago. super bowl xlix, final match episode good the last episode of cheers. and there s gutfeld! in that middle, doubling all of that. 4 billion viewers. [cheers and applause] the data is right there. we did it without our staff breaking into the capitol. [laughter] i bet you did not know that stuff. why? because we live in two different worlds. in one world. you are the hero and in the other, are the billing. i could be thor or say 10. each worlds mirror each other. for example it went broke the supreme court justice he wrote would be so mr. tamayo so yes to mayor. in the opposite would be the reverse. we are told by that may get that you can t respect both sides. it is one or the other. there are 64 genders but only one worldview. once in a while it is good when someone comes along to remind us that it does not have to be this way.
federation, fina, has voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women s events. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again, the row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guest this week is someone whose life and career is based on a refusal to take sides in that political battle. it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyalist parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in th