Tokyo Olympics

Tom Feiling in Tokyo joins Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC and India Bourke in London to discuss the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in Japan. As the country enters another state of emergency and spectators are banned from attending, we ask how are the Japanese feeling about the games – the first in Japan for nearly 50 years. Then in You Ask Us, they take a listener's question on whether the Olympic Games should be broken up to avoid having these expensive and controversial events all in one city. If you'd like to submit a question to You Ask Us, please email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk World Review publishes a new episode every Friday, and is available on all major podcast platforms. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Acast and more. Or, if you’d rather, you can access the RSS feed directly here: https://rss.acast.com/world-review. Read more "In Danger": Why Australia must heed Unesco's Great Barrier Reef warning How to listen to the World Review podcast 1. In your browser You can use the player above to listen in your browser right now. The World Review podcast publishes weekly, on Fridays. All episodes are published to newstatesman.com/podcasts on the day of release. 2. In a podcast app World Review is available on all major podcast apps including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, Google Podcasts, and more. Search 'World Review' in your favourite podcast app, and subscribe or follow to make sure you receive episodes as soon as they publish. While you're there, please leave a review for the podcast - it helps others find the show, which in turn makes it possible for us to keep making it. 3. On your smart speaker If you have an Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod smart speaker, ask it to "play the latest episode of World Review". The same command also works with virtual assistants on mobile devices.