The Tokyo2020 Olympics official get underway tomorrow. The Games have divided Japan into 2 worlds: on one hand Japanese people, unable to attend any games because of the pandemic. On the other hand – and completely separated - are athletes and reporters…in a sort of ‘Olympic bubble’, with very strict rules. Our reporter Sofia Bettiza sent us this report from Tokyo.

BBC Radio 4 PM: Inside the Olympic bubble in Tokyo

Artificial intelligence is changing how we interact with everything, from food to healthcare, travel and also religion.  Experts say major global faiths are discussing their relationship with AI, and some are starting to incorporate this technology into their worship. Robot priests can recite prayers, deliver sermons, and even comfort those experiencing a spiritual crisis. The BBC's Global Religion reporter, Sofia Bettiza, has taken a look at whether AI’s relationship with religion is just a gimmick, or whether it can truly transform how people experience faith. This is 5 Minutes On Robots and religion - a match made in heaven?

BBC 5 Minutes On: Robots And Religion

This year marks 40 years since the Falklands War: a ten-week armed conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. Argentina lost the war, but to this day it maintains that the islands belong to them. The President of Argentina told the BBC that he will keep fighting to get the islands back, and has accused Britain of colonialism in the 21st century. Our South America correspondent Daniel Pardo travelled to Buenos Aires to look at what the legacy of the war is in Argentina.

Falklands War: 'The UK is still usurping our land'

"I am just a peasant woman. I don't understand why I've become a celebrity."  The woman who has become known as Babushka Z - "grandmother" in Russian, the Z referring to the symbol often painted on armoured vehicles - was gobsmacked when we showed her photos of her newfound fame. "I've never seen any of it," she says.  The video shows her walking towards two Ukrainian soldiers holding a red Soviet flag.  The soldiers say they have arrived to help and offer her a bag of food. Then they take the flag off her, throw it on the ground and stamp on it. So the woman, feeling insulted, gives the food back to them. "My parents died for that flag in World War Two," she says, indignantly.  For the Kremlin, this was propaganda gold dust. They saw this woman as a rare example of a Ukrainian who regretted the collapse of the Soviet Union and considered the Russians to be liberators. Within days, her image - a throwback to a stereotypical peasant woman of the Soviet era in her orthodox headscarf, felt boots and thick skirt - started to appear everywhere, from Moscow and Siberia to Sakhalin Island in the far east.  She has now been immortalised in murals, placards, postcards, sculptures and bumper stickers. Songs and poems have been dedicated to her. Russian officials even unveiled a statue of her in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city that has been bombed to the ground. But her story is very different from the image that the Russian media has been painting. She does not support the war. "How can I support my people dying? My grandchildren and great-grandchildren were forced to go to Poland. We live in fear and terror."  For 5 Minutes On, BBC reporter, Sofia Bettiza, heads to Ukraine to track down "Babushka Z".

Babushka Z - the Kremlin's unlikely propaganda icon

Last month, a bold counter-offensive by Ukraine’s military in the country’s east led to a retreat by Russian forces. But as the Russians left behind cities they occupied for months, allegations of atrocities they committed began to emerge. Sofia Bettiza met some Sri Lankans held captive in the city of Kharkiv.

From Our Own Correspondent: Sri Lankans freed from Russian brutality in Ukraine

Brazil's left-wing Presidential candidate Lula da Silva made a political comeback this week, narrowly beating the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro. In Lula’s victory speech, he promised to tackle hunger, which is affecting more than 33 million people there. Sofia Bettiza travelled to Northeastern Brazil, where many people voted for Lula.

From Our Own Correspondent: The Return Of Lula

The football team Napoli are on the verge of becoming the champions of Italy’s premier football league - the Serie A. Fans are counting down the hours, hoping their team can finally end a three-decade drought and take the crown - after decades of dominance from the big clubs in the country’s richer north. For the last few weeks, the city of Naples has been preparing for a party of epic proportions.

Napoli's dream to win Serie A

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