Tokyo 2020 president: Olympics will go ahead

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has told the BBC she is “100%” certain Olympics will go ahead. We hear reaction from athletes who are preparing to compete in the Games.

Also, we get the latest from Israel where opposition parties have agreed to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as prime minister. We'll explain the significance of the agreement.

And we continue to bring together people facing the coronavirus pandemic with shared experiences. Today we’ll hear from two Australian cousins, one stuck in Kenya because of travel restrictions and the other one in Melbourne where a lockdown has been extended by another week.

(Photo: Seiko Hashimoto, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, delivers a speech during an unveiling event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Credit Reuters)