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countries 0 coverage policy aims to prevent corbett cases from entering its territory. but they have been detected amongst those involved with the winter games . reaching out with vaccinations, outbox based on the officials are making sure women in karachi get a coven vaccine at home. and later in the program, the story of an internet to 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 hughes asia. glad you could join us with less than 2 weeks to go to the baked winter olympics officials have detected 15 new covert cases amongst games related personnel. on monday, this is with 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 designate the venues the aim to prevent over transmission to the general population . of that population in turn has been experiencing china's 0 corporate policy as it's known for some months now. millions of test a 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 a vis 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 tool i think being outside here is all right.

besides the gin has done an exemplary job of finding the pandemic so far. i hagler and as 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 kron 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, rudolph and old cruise 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 i'm, a kron 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. who 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 warned people to keep away from buses carrying olympics participants. even in the case of an accident, no one should come to help him with what protection against the pandemic seems to be more important than protecting ordinary people's lives. in china, the fear of alma kron is growing and that's where the olympics is. closed loop system comes in, as we said in little early up 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 covered 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. olympic rings and metal barriers with the i'm a kron very and 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 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 that will be daily virus test. a quick look at developments across asia to do with the code on about to spend demick beginning with china, where the city of shyanne has ended a month long covered locked on 13000000 residents of the city, famous for its static or water statues, had been completely isolated over covert outbreak, south korea is set 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 your top now experts

generally agree that increased vaccinations is the way out of the code on a lot of span demik, 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, and 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 due to work at home. it's really good for us to 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 godaddy that we're providing them with this 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 a going house to house to vaccinate people who see me. supervised by a doctor got darker, local, mixing with government, 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 fear am fema here on the dublin musician on to our next report which profiles a community leader who's been working to improve the lives of his fellow named pollies for decades. my hobby of foods 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 per kara, and it's half a 1000000 people. one of them is my hobby poon, who's made a his mission to connect new poles remotest regions to the internet. we are filter sarah, mrs. dixon and different bar from nabarra get leaf mount and when it is connected to the o. r las internet net or a to here we're going. busy to, oh, we did one of the basic tiffany. now 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. this is more than 200 villages in nepal. have internet, thanks to him,

technology was just being develop and nobody knew, oh, believed that it would be possible to oh, and all make a long range link. we just had to port kilometer from dish flish to the top of that mountain. over there, you can see beardley she that mountain with why dish no cap with her tune accomplish what few thought possible. he brought mountain villages on line. 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 machine 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 katlyn do without having to travel there or to pa kara. vanishingly she was here, he went, poon spends most of his time in the capitol. cat man do where he runs and

innovation center. all students here devote themselves to using technology that will change tomorrow's world. it would lay focus on model meeting one right now i'm working on an automated robot of a it does things that otherwise only humans can fail. they can carry items from one place to another. what i would like to can deliver packages when it can help out in a restaurant by serving meals journal. it can also work in a hospital and handled the medicines. no, leblanc, an invention 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 ne, start this innovation shinta. oh,

and the support of the people ah, ah, to encourage our 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 today on the the avenues asian as i rather is more on our website, speed up the dot com forward slash a shout. and of course, are going to follow us on facebook and twitter. we'll see you back here at the same time tomorrow, but we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corner chat. hot spot for food. chat and some great cultural memorials to boot

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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 beardsley 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 sources in its energy mix. those include fossil fuels, a nuclear, and it counts for around 50.