And that's our first story this Wednesday.

I'm Carl Azuz for CNN.

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The games were still officially called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, even though they were postponed last summer because of the coronavirus pandemic there now set to begin on July 23rd of this year.

But we told you how there's been some doubt about that because the disease is still spreading and Olympic organizers have said if the 2020 games don't happen this summer, they'll be canceled altogether.

Well, here's what's new.

Japan's prime minister says he's determined to hold the Summer Games in Tokyo this year, and the president of the nation's Olympic organizing committee says that will happen no matter what's going on with Cove in.

This is significant because there've been reports that Japanese government officials have privately discussed canceling the Games that government has publicly called those reports categorically untrue.

If concerns about this persist, though, the chief financial officer of the U.

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State of Florida says the games could be held there instead, he's reportedly sent a letter saying that to the IOC.

He highlighted the fact that Florida has successfully held several major sports events during the pandemic, including the N C.

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A college football championship, the MBA final, the upcoming Super Bowl, and he mentioned that Disney World is open and operating safely.

There are questions about that proposal is well, though, in terms of how the games could be moved, how much it would cost, who would pay for it.

For its part, the International Olympic Committee, which is based in Switzerland, has said it's committed to holding the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo this summer.

I'm Blake Essig in Tokyo.

The Summer Olympic Games are pressing forward with no Plan B.

Japan's prime minister has extended the state of emergency for Tokyo and nine other prefectures through March 7th.

That's 18 days before the torch relay is set to begin, all in the effort to prevent the spread of Cove in 19.

Olympic officials have said that vaccinations will not be a prerequisite for athletes hoping to compete in these games, but there will be rules that they have to follow.

Those rules will be laid out in a Siris of playbooks expected to be released as early as tomorrow explaining how Japan plans to protect the health of athletes, coaches and others.

I'm Steven Zhang in Beijing.

A team of World Health Organization experts are continuing their closely watched investigation into the origins of the covert virus in the city of Wuhan, visiting an animal disease control center on Tuesday, indicating they're looking into the possibility the virus made the jump from animals to humans.

Although they say the Chinese authorities have been transparent and helpful so far, critics remain unconvinced, with the US Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, saying over the weekend that the Chinese government has been falling far short of the mark in terms of allowing access to the sites the experts needed to visit 12th trivia.

Which of these astronauts participated in NASA's longest spacewalk?

Peggy Whitson, Susan Helps, Scott Kelly or Buzz Aldrin.

Susan Helms joined James Boss in a 2001 space odyssey lasting eight hours and 56 minutes.

Astronauts Helms and Voss were installing new equipment on the international space station.

There's was one of 234 spacewalks conducted on the most expensive man made object.

NASA calls these missions Evas extravehicular activities and two of them were completed within the past week.

NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Junior upgraded some batteries and installed some high definition cameras On Monday.

They were assisted by NASA's Kate Rubins and Japan's Soichi Noguchi, who are operating a robotic arm from inside the space station.

The latest spacewalk took five hours and 20 minutes, but the astronauts experienced seven cycles of day and night during that time alone because the space station is orbiting the earth at 17,500 MPH, so lots of quick, bright sunlight and quick, cold darkness, NASA says the astronauts outside the space station don't feel the extreme cold and heat, but they do have heated gloves to keep their hands from getting too cold to more.

Spacewalks are planned for the weeks ahead.

One is related to the station's power supply, and the other will include more upgrades about 240 miles beneath the S.

And effort is underway in China to save the golden snub nosed monkey.

This is one of the most endangered primates on earth.

Conservationists say their numbers are dwindling because of habitat loss and hunting.

Other animals, like wolves and tigers, try to catch golden snub nosed monkeys for food.

People have also sought these primates for their fur and meat.

But some Chinese wildlife officials have been able to breathe the monkeys in captivity, and community programs near their natural habitat are helping as well.

This'll Chinese national treasure Is mawr endangered than the panda?

It's like uncovered forest home at risk.

Known as the wild men of the mountains.

The Union golden monkeys or black snub nosed monkeys are fighting for survival in the high altitude woodlands of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

They're hanging on for dear life, and conservation groups say only a few 1000 are left in the wild.

Almost 100 monkeys are killed by hunters every year in the region, according to the Nature Conservancy E, but it's part of a forest monitoring campaign shoe.

How trains local Villagers to patrol the monkeys habitat and look for old wire traps entrance.

I tell you, his team has installed over 100 infrared cameras in the forest to monitor the monkeys and some of their inquisitive neighbors like the Red panda, the Asiatic black bear and the yellow throated Martin.

Protecting the astonishing biodiversity of this region is the goal of the Nature Conservancy, which has been working with local Villagers for the past 20 years alongside government agencies and other partners.

In 2019, this conservation coalition established a protection network for the monkeys stretching across nearly 2700 square miles.

Their work includes supporting local communities to create alternative livelihood is toe hunting and logging, like selling handicrafts and training them in forest.

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Ensuring the monkey survival for future generations hangs in the balance for all the residents of the region.

Way need to consider the development of the local area, the community.

But at the meantime, we need to consider the conservation the monkeys and hopefully we can make sure the people and the monkey can strive at the same time proving the proverb.

It takes a village.

Golden monkey populations in the region are finally increasing, says Lee Pong.

He says Ladron Shan area now has around 300 golden monkeys, and the total number across young man in Tibet is around 3000.

Hopefully, the number will grow even mawr in the future.

This monkey is like a flagship species in the area, one of the only kind of animals living in this high attitude.

So the existence of this species is kind of important and critical to the whole world.

Theo, tallest chimney in Europe, is at a power station in Slovenia.

It stretches more than 1180 ft into the sky, and, after weeks of preparations, withholds fastened to the tower specifically for them.

Two athletes decided to try to free climate last fall.

Speaking of fall, there were some.

Thankfully, they had ropes, and after seven hours and 32 minutes of climbing, they reach the top of the world's tallest artificial multi pitch route.

If the fear of heights is at the height of fear, it seems, why not try to climate chimney just to let off some steam?

It takes power to ascend the tower up in the clouds.

You've got event your fear.

Don't give it rise.

Just funnel it out.

You've got to take it one hold at a time, like climbing a ladder.

You've gotta make up your mind to put your mind over the matter.

And if the words don't look down, cloud up your head and start to pound it.

Remember, it takes Santa's chimney magic just to come down it.

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It is located in Battle Creek, Nebraska.

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