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country 0 covert policy aims to prevent corbett cases from entering its territory, but they have been detected amongst those involved with the winter games. how effective are china's efforts to contain the cone of iris plus, reaching out with vaccinations? outbox based on the officials, are making sure women in got audrey get a coven vaccine at home. and later in the program, the story of an internet pioneer in the rural foothills of their fathers, how this man has made it his mission to connect remote villages online. ah irish energy, welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us with less than 2 weeks to go to the baked winter olympics officials have to did 15 new covert cases amongst

games related personnel on monday. this includes either an athlete or tombs official. the cases were detected amongst new arrivals to the games and those already in the so called closed loop. this is winter olympic speak for restricting anyone connected to the games in any way to designated venues. the aim to prevent over transmission to the general population of that population in ton has been experiencing china's 0 covert policy as it's known for some months. dow millions are tested daily across china, and some cities have been placed in some form of lockdown to contain government in, in the chinese capital. at least of this policy appears to have people's approval here in beijing. life appears to be back to normal with people enjoying traditional winter activities like ice cheer, writing, cove. it almost seems to be

a thing of the past. or the other job i think being outside here is all right. besides b, g has done an exemplary job of fighting the pandemic so far. yeah. good. as long as people keepin careful everything should be okay. i have great confidence in china. but just 135 kilometers away from the olympic venue. life looks very different. the city of tianjin, with a population of 14000000, has been in locked down since mid january, according to authorities. it's the 1st city in china with known cases of ama kron and more cities are recording the new variant, almost daily. 500 kilometers away in the city of on young to i'm a chron cases, lead to a complete lockdown. online media shows videos of students on their way to isolation facilities. china is strict about at 0 cove at policy, but scientists have doubts about it. success would have been all screws assumed that omicron is spreading everywhere and the china will be no exception. it might

take longer for it to catch on there that could be, but ultimately it will arrive there just as it has in other parts of the world. back in beijing, the winter olympics are set to open here in early february, and aman cron could spread rapidly as a result to make sure it doesn't. all olympic venues have been cordoned off and are closely monitored. the villages surrounding the olympic slopes are unlocked down as a precaution, gates are closed. even an interview from a safe distance is not welcome. here was the guard says that residents also have to ask for permission in advance. if they want to enter. after all, we're in the midst of a pandemic. a veritable no man's land separates the olympic village from the rest of china. in the media canteen,

everything is automated. access to the olympic area is heavily restricted for the chinese. the government wants people to keep away from busses, carrying olympics participants, even in the case of an accident. no one should come to help. rooms with protection against the pandemic seems to be more important than protecting ordinary people's lives. in china, the fear of alma crohn is growing and that's where the olympics is. closed loop system comes in, as we said a little earlier in separate games, official than athletes from the general population to prevent the spread of covered 19. and the loop begins right from the airport upon arrival, after passing through a selected corridor and taking a test, officials and athletes are taken by dedicated transport to where they are staying transport from here to the games. venues is also by dedicated transport, moving on purpose, built roads and rail lines. covered precautions that off to continue to be

implemented at the end of the games venues. and has more on what's been called the most ambitious quarantine ever implemented. olympic rings and metal barriers with the micron varying spreading fast china ceiling the beijing winter olympics inside a giant bubble cocooning, thousands of people. a close loop covering 3 separate games. venues over 100 ac kilometers. about 3000 athletes and 10000 media people are expected at the games which run from february, 4th, until the 20th from the time they fly in till the time they leave the capital athletes support staff and media will live, sleep on ease inside the bubble. completely cut off from the rest of the city. there are $72.00 hotels inside and over $4000.00 designated vehicles to transport participants within the bubble. their robots to serve food and strict hygiene rules

. chinese keeping the bubble tightly sealed in line with the countries strict 0 covert strategy. everyone inside the area must be fully vaccinated or do $21.00 days. quarantine before going inside everybody must wear face math at all times and there will be daily virus tests. a quick look now at developments across asia to do with the kernel, nevada spend demick beginning with china, where the city of shyanne has ended a month long over lockdown, $13000000.00 residents of the city, famous for it's called a water statues. had been completely isolated over covert outbreak. south korea is said to expand testing up to registering more than 8000 new cases for the 1st time . experts believe the surge is driven by the highly contagious omicron variant and the weight, and he's being blamed in japan as well for us. jan infections and hospital admissions authorities have signed off on tougher countermeasures in 18 additional

regions among them. the western prefecture of osaka, and killed no experts generally agree that increased vaccinations is the way out of the go. don't know why to spend demick, but in pockets on accessing the vaccine has been a problem for women. that's primarily because of high levels of gender disparity in the south asian nation, which affects women's access to health services. but authorities in at least one city up trying to change that. i think women in karachi are missing out uncovered 19 vaccines. so pakistan's biggest city has launched a drive to reach them nobody had very good step by the government. we don't have enough time to go to hospital and get the shots due to work at home. really good to be vaccinated. data, local female health workers are key to the project. they go door to door,

to vaccinate the women. me go to go, we are providing them with his door to door vaccination facility. thank god. in this district we are getting a good response. so our teams, including a female health advisor, female health workers vaccinated and social mobilizes a going house to house to vaccinate people who supervised by a doctor got to go to a local vaccine and got some elderly men who cannot get to health centers are also benefiting their plans to target women in rural areas at a later stage. ah, a change of p. m team get on the news asia and onto the next report with profiles a community leader who's been working to improve the lives of his fellow police for decades. mojave boons efforts have given mountain villages,

greater access to education, health care, and commerce. by bringing the internet to homes and businesses. some of the breathtaking scenery surrounding the kara, and it's half a 1000000 people. one of them is my hobby poon, who's made it his mission to connect new poles remote regions to the internet. we're filter, sarah. this is jason in different bar from nevada. ah, we get leaf mountain when it is connected with the o. r. las internet net or a studio. we are a boy. oh, we did. one of the bases griffin ah, his in what our city poon began working to bring internet to remote villages. 20 years ago. now he can boast, having installed 35 radio towers with the help of numerous signal boosters,

more than 200 villages in nepal, have internet, thanks to him, to acknowledge it was just being develop and nobody in, oh, a believed that it would be possible to, oh, and all make a long range link, we just had to port a kilometer from this flish to the top of that mountain. over there, you can see beardley she that mountain with y dish, nor cap that the poon accomplish. what few thought possible. he brought mountain villages online. every summer he makes the rounds to inspect his work. he wants to make sure the internet keeps on working in these places. that technology has opened up new possibilities. villages can get online counseling from doctors located in the cities. i looking much. hm. tele, we had tele medicine here for 3 years now. it's a huge improvement. forrest patients from our village can now talk to doctors in kaplan, do without having to travel there or to pa kara. vanishingly she was hit

a poon spends most of his time in the capital catman do where he runs an innovation center. all students here devote themselves to use in technology that will change tomorrow's world. it over lays focus. i'm automating. when right now i'm working out an automated robot. it does things that otherwise only human can. it can carry items from one place to another and it can deliver packages. it can help out in a restaurant by serving meals. it can also work in a hospital and handled a medicine an invention that could also be used in tunes hometown. but the goal of the innovation center goes beyond creating gadgets. who wants to keep the young talent in the poll and give them ways to grow and thrive, so that they don't leave the country once they finish school. that is the reason we

decided to start this innovation center with the support of the people to encourage young people, saw people with innovative ideas to develop something or something and commercialize it. and maybe one of them will follow in the footsteps of this technological and social pioneer of testing. and that's it for to day on the dub, the news asia as ever there's more on our website, it up the dot com, forward slash shop. and of course, are going to follow us on facebook and twitter. we'll see you back here at the same time tomorrow by a one of mankind's oldest ambition could be within

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angela medical in the possible, also, germany, un ambassador. now you the few to head of the munich security conference. so when you look towards batson, ford, where russia faces ukraine, how close is europe to war there? well, i know you just mentioned that when i was the diplomatic advisor to transfer america. and of course, i lived through the period 20131415. the aggression of russia for the invasion of ukraine by rushers. so when you look at the situation today, you, you know, you remember what happened 8 years ago when the sanction cit then rusher scaled back their, their attacks. and you know, we don't want to have this and see that repeated. so what we want this time is to have this very strong, massive react.