it's a living in germany. chinese food is one of the things i miss the most. but by taking a step back, i see thing a little differently. now. men in foot processing a regulations that exist the other part of the world haven't been implemented in china. that to leave and not have 10 people wondering if their food safety. but if people have a ride to learn to ready is. this is the job job that isn't how i see it. and that's why i love my job. because i tried to do exactly this every day. my name was adding to, and i work at the w. this is deed of the news asia coming up to date, china's colbert containment efforts in focus ahead of the winter olympics. the

country 0 coven 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 corona virus, plus, reaching out with vaccinations? outbox based on the officials, are making sure women in garage street get a coven back seen at home. and later in the program, the story of an internet, pioneer in the rural foothills of their father. how this man has made it his mission to connect remote villages online. ah irish energy, welcome to d, w. use asia. glad you could join us with less than 2 weeks to go to the baked winter olympics officials have detected the new covered cases amongst games related

personnel. on monday, this includes either an athlete or teams official. the cases but 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. but that population in turn has been experiencing china's video corporate policy as it's known for some months now. millions, updates to daily across china and some cities have been placed in some form of lockdown to contain over one team. in the chinese capital, at least this policy appears to have people's approval. oh, 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 channel i think being outside here is all right.

besides, the gin has done an exemplary job of finding the pandemic. so far as yeah, glenn is long as people keeping 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 locked n 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, rudolph and oscar is assumed that omicron is spreading everywhere in the china will

be no exception and 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 our micron 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 in lockdown 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 warns people to keep away from buses carrying olympics participants, even in the case of an accident. no one should come to help. rheumatoid 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 in little earlier, in separate schemes, officials and athletes from the general population to prevent the spread of covered 19 of the loop begins right from the airport on 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. van yos is also by dedicated transport. moving on purpose, built roads and grid lines. cove, it precautions that off to continue to be implemented at the olympic games venues.

and has more on what's been called the most ambitious quarantine ever implemented. the olympic rings and metal barriers with the i'm a kron variance spreading fast. china ceiling the beijing winter olympics, inside a giant bubble cocooning, thousands of people, a closed loop covering 3 separate games. venues over 180 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, and 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 that will be daily virus test. a quick look at developments across asia to do with the code on the way to spend demick, beginning with china, where the city of shyanne has ended a month long over locked on 13000000 residents of the city, famous for it's called a water statues. had been completely isolated over covert outbreak. south korea 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 aid and is being blamed in japan as well for us. jan infections and hospital admissions authorities have signed off on tougher counter measures in 18 additional

regions among them. the western prefecture of osaka and kyoto. now experts generally agree that increased vaccinations is the way out of the car. 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 are trying to change that. women in karachi are missing out on coven 19 vaccines. so pakistan's biggest city has launched a drive to reach them. nobody at taylor. this is a very good step by the government. we don't have enough time to go to hospital and get the shots you to work at home. it's really good with be vaccinated at home. della gaga, local female health workers are key to the project. they go door to door to

vaccinate the women noon called the guy that we're providing them with his door to door vaccination facility gothic father. thank god. in this district, we're getting a good response supervisor. so our team's including a female health supervisor. female health work is vaccinated, and social mobilizes i going house to house to vaccinate people who see me. supervised, settled by a doctor, gotta go jacket your local vaccine government. some elderly men who cannot get to health centers are also benefiting there are plans to target women in rural areas at a later stage. ah, a change of fear. i'm theme here on deducting musician on to our next report with profiles. a community leader who's been working to improve the lives of his fellow ne pollies for decades. bobby boone's efforts have given mountain villages greater

access to education, health care and commerce. by bringing the internet, took homes and businesses some of the breathtaking scenery surrounding for kara, and it's half a 1000000 people. one of them is my b poon, who's made a his mission to connect new poles, remotest regions to the internet. we're filter sarah. this is theresa in different bar from nabarra. we get leaf mountain when it is connected with the o. r las internet net or a today, a weird way. oh, we did one of the bases griffin. ah, if it were a 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 $200.00 villages in nepal have internet, thanks to him, to acknowledge it was just being developed and nobody in, oh, believed that it would be possible to, oh, and all make a long range link. we just had to port a kilometer from this village to the top of that mountain over there. you can see beardless she that mountain with y dish, no cap. with poon, accomplish what few thought possible that 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 for his english patients from our village. can now talk to doctors and kaplan do without having to travel there or to pa kara connection when

she was here. he poon spends most of his time in the capitol. cat man do where he runs an innovation center. all students here devote themselves to using technology that will change tomorrow's world. pseudo would lay such as a model meeting. when right now i'm working out an automated robot about it does things that otherwise only humans can fail. it can carry items from one place to another home and then it can deliver packages when it can help out in a restaurant by serving meals. generally. it can also work in a hospital and handled the medicines nathaniel, and he mentioned that could also be used in pounds home town. but the goal of the innovation center goes beyond creating gadgets. but poon wants to keep the young talent in nepal and give them ways to grow and thrive so that they don't leave the country once they've finished school. that is the reason, ah,

we decided to may start this innovation center. oh, the support of the people ah, ah, to encourage young people are people with innovative ideas to develop something or innovate 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 day of the news asia as our brothers mo, on our website, the w dot com, forward slash app. and of course are going to follow us on facebook and twitter. we'll see you back here at the same time tomorrow. so i'm just kinda,

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percent of the use gas applies. come from the country. in germany, even more, we'll look at whether brussels and berlin, or perhaps rethinking their independence also on the show will look at why business outlook is improving in germany, even as cobra 19 cases, surge around the country. hello, welcome to the show. i'm seeing beardley in berlin. a fears remain high that a russian invasion of ukraine is setting off a wider dispute between moscow in the west, including potentially over gas. a russian spokesman said monday that the country would not cut off its supplies to europe, but moscow's leverage and energy politics is hard to ignore. it's the largest single deliver of natural gas, the e. u, and demand is only sets rise. let's take a look at germany. it's still very dependent on non renewable energy.