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Newshour: 23/07/2021 13:06 GMT: Tokyo holds Olympics opening ceremony

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23/07/2021 13:06 GMT

23/07/2021 13:06 GMT: Tokyo holds Olympics opening ceremony

Tokyo holds Olympics opening ceremony

BBC World Service - Newshour, Tokyo holds Olympics opening ceremony

Ceremony takes place in a largely empty stadium

Ceremony takes place in a largely empty stadium.

The opening ceremony highlighted the isolation endured by athletes battling to train during the pandemic and remembered the millions who have died of coronavirus. Also on the programme: the assassinated president of Haiti is to be buried in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien; and a Chinese leader visits Tibet for the first time in more than thirty years.

(Picture: Torch bearers pass on the Olympic flame in Tokyo         Credit: Reuters/Edgar Su)

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