will you ah ah ah ah, this is w news light from berlin genocide raw when the run up to the winter olympics, beijing welcomes athlete says leading nation stage a diplomatic boycott over human rights abuses. and there are growing concerns over

aspiring at colona virus infections. also coming up war clouds over ukraine, america and britain threatened new sanctions. if russia invades in a stormy session at the united nations and a year on from the army, who in march, we look at the people's fight back. and the hooters determination to crush resistance to its rule ah. on land hark, thank you so much for watching. we begin in beijing with the winter olympics due to open later in the week, the united states and other nations are staging a diplomatic boycott of the event in protest. ad china's human rights record are growing numbers of covet 19 cases are also worrying. athletes and officials,

beijing and says the games will be safe arrival at the airport in beijing. chinese workers and protective gear. welcome the incoming olympic teams and their baggage. then it's a p c r test, before a trip to the venues in the olympic village. where similar tests are to follow on a daily basis. caution. as the watchword, china's cross country skiers are being shielded from foreign rivals. their norwegian coach tells us with this to him, we have been staying in china full time for the past 2 years. so, and they have been extremely careful. we haven't actually computed that the nationally for 2 years of the foreign athletes who have already arrived. 125 of tested positive for coven 19, and have isolated. it's not clear whether they're all get the negative test result the need in time to compete. the opening ceremony fireworks have been rehearsed.

but critics say that china is using the possess of the games to distract from human rights abuses. this is a case have hers is, is that okay to turn this arina into a space o clinical is minisey and are talk to white was all those are sizes, but china itself boasts of its strength and promises a safe winter olympics in beijing. the plight of china's weaker community and their harsh repression lose large over the winter olympics with opposition suppressed within china itself. many are making their voices heard elsewhere. our washington bureau chief in his pole has met a weaker restaurant owner in los angeles, whose father disappeared 3 years ago. these mountains remind book ra, keen, very much of home. he left china 6 years ago to start a new life in the u. s. everything seemed to go well until his father,

who remained in china, was a properly snatched from his home during the night of october 25th in 2018. his father owned one of the biggest rigor publishing firms and our king believes that his fight to protect the regal language and culture was the reason why the chinese government put him in prison. he and our keen were best friends. his father also supported him financially in the us. my biggest fear i really scared like he couldn't her cuddle his grandfather, childrens to his color of his me again, the smiley, his fear to see him again, are you vish u. s. government? then you're all they can do more to pressure on china about the engine,

the genocide. ah, after his father was detained, mcgraw are keen, opened the restaurant in the larger l. a area. he named it to lance after the rigor region in east dungeon, john, where he grew up. one of the most popular dishes is lockman. a dish of hen pulled noodles. the weaker kitchen reflect the far western area of china, the border of curious dawn and touching is done where most of the regions, 12000000 wiggers live. surprising, not many people know about vigorous even there. so many news on the media. so like i have to le, attract them to career like curiosity, then lesser this t shirt. i think it helps a lot like people. they ask about vigor. they googled riggers, some of his customers already know

a lot about the topic. others are just about to find out. as an american, i feel a responsibility as a conscientious consumer. to understand that the wiggers are inextricably connected to american consumer ship and capitalism. that there are so many companies that have direct or indirect relationships, to weaker labor through the forced detention and force labor camps that the chinese are inflicting on them and have been for so long. so i am definitely interested in knowing more about them and i planned to google a wicker mater today. let's go to munich now and speak to ed soon retire kin program manager of the world, weaker congress, which advocates for weaker human rights. ok to have you with us. we are just obviously days away from the winter games in beijing with the eyes of the world focused on china. how much attention do you think will there be on the plates of

the week hers? we certainly hope that there will be enough attention on the human rights atrocities that are occurring in not only easter design, but also to back hong kong and all across china as well. because this is a unique opportunity when the war the, the world's eyes will be focused on china and we hold that just focus. it is not only going to be on sports, but also on what's happening behind. do you feel that the i you free and an elite sport in general are indifferent to the plight of the weaker is i think that they don't necessarily care enough to act because we did meet with the ifc on more than one occasion. and we shared our please and shared or concerns about what was happening. you know, in the context of the games, what would be happening is and citing very concrete examples such as we were for slavery that might be involved in introducing olympic olympic goods at olympic

uniforms. and merchandise is because we know that the i, u. c, has contracted with chinese groups that are tightly linked to we were foreseen for . so when we shared these concerns, there was nothing concrete that they were willing to do to address these human rights issues. so the i o c was not receptive to some of your criticism. do you hope that there may be protest at the games from may be certain elite athletes competing in the olympics? absolutely. i think it's really up to the athletes to speak up. and we expect them to do it because yes, there will be consequences as we have heard directly from a member of the beating, organizing committee 2 weeks ago. basically threatening athletes if they wanted to speak up on, on certain issues. but we hope that athletes who will be the most protected and privilege groups of individuals. i. d,

's games will use their platforms to speaker and end. of course we know that because of rules, if you're not able to speak up on the podium, but we hope that they can use opportunities during press conferences and other occasions to bring up these issues. a number of countries, as you know, high profile countries have announced a diplomatic, a boycotts ahead of the games. are you encouraged by that? does it make any difference? it is very encouraging to see because it sends a very clear and strong message to beating that the international community will lots, assembly, watch fi the, you know, why, when china is committing a genocide. and at the same time, given this prestigious platform to host the games. so it sends a very clear message to beating. and we believe that beating is feeling that pressure or the way that he wouldn't be harassing activists and threatening athletes from speaking up. and another thing that is quite important to highlight

is that it gives our community hope in encouragement as well hope and encouragement . but in the meantime, the chinese leadership is not budging when it comes to its weaker policies. are these limited boycotts emboldening in a certain sense, the chinese precedent to continue on this path? i think this is something that's very difficult to tell just because of the extremely difficulty to access to any kind of information of what's happening inside. we've lost contact with her family members. you know, pretty much every single we are living in the exile doesn't have contracts. so it's in that situation is very difficult to see. these policies are being as soft in or it, you know, or worse. but we do know that in the recent years, even re, situation has a deter heated quite significantly. we're talking about a genocide. and we,

i think the only way to aggressive is by yet multilateral action, in enough countries are crushing china. because we, we know, and we've seen that china does care about his international reputation and, and credibility despite claiming otherwise somebody, ty, arkwin, is program manager of the world, weaker congress, which advocates for weaker human rights. thank you very much for coming on and talking to us. thanks. we're having the international community is stepping up diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over ukraine. the us and britain are threatening to impose tough new sanctions. if russia invades ukraine, russia and the united states have just resumed telephone negotiations, secretary of state antony blinking is urging moscow to withdraw its troops from ukraine's borders. are you with the flags of his allies on proud display?

ukraine's president announced a huge addition to his nation's army corps. the work was voted on. we will create a new political co operation format in europe between ukraine, great britain and poland, voice that was within the next 3 years, we will increase the number of the ukrainian armed forces 210-0000 professional soldiers. regina army, british prime minister boris johnson, flew to give to meet with zalinski a day after the u. k, announced new sanctions against kremlin linked oligarchs and companies. if russia invades ukraine, this will be the toughest sanctioned regime against russia. we have other hats, and it is the most radical departure in approach. since leaving the european union that is in and around the kremlin will have no way to hide. meanwhile, poland prime minister mateusz more of yet ski, was already in cuba, where he pledged his support to zalinski and compared sharing a border with russia to living near a volcano. 4 months is latricia. we could help ukraine with supplies of defensive

weapons in the event of possible russian aggression, ya know, which hopefully will not happen on, on, you know, some fuel level conceal. norgard assumes a still narrows. ukraine's president has welcomed the international backing diploma beach that bit didn't go can support for ukraine, is that it's greatest since 2014 he it's unconditional and ongoing, but it's the same with military aid. the whole it's priceless and it continues to come. we've seen that e, well, those are not, would. russia continues to build up its forces in the region, even as diplomats from both sides are still trying to solve the crisis. russian troops are set to hold military drills and bella roost this month. based from camps like this one, just a few miles from the polish border. let's go to our correspond to mathias brinninger, who is in the ukranian, a capital mathias that ukrainian president of a lot of. his lensky has welcomed a britain's that prime minister boris at johnston. for talks,

what can we expect from their meeting? well, this is one of many meetings that enhanced gaz with western heads of state or has of government in their past few days. and her britain is certainly one of the more important allies to ukraine because a britain has been quite supportive also in terms of weapons or supply a supply of weapons and other things that the ukranian government hopes for. so this is an important meeting to forge ties. of course, we will not expect any breakthrough in the actual um, confrontational situation, the confrontation or by russian troops at the border because russia is not at the table. so this is a, is a meeting to, to closer forged ties that already existed and her, the 3 and, and, and the thing as they both are giving is that there would be working closer also

with poland. they have, they are creating an informal 3 party m, a group or to work on these issues. and meanwhile, the country continues to prepare for a possible armed conflict. yes, it's a fine line to walk. president lensky has warned last week that a too much warnings about a russian invasion harms ukraine's economy and weakens it at this critical state. at the same time, of course, the country needs to be prepared because of the threat is there. there are troops at the border and germ. there are many things ongoing in society, in the army, but also in society. and my colleague and i have taken a look at one of these events, deadly bombs, munitions, fire arms. we are not in the military facility,

but to school mine awareness training by the police with the kids at school number 259 in the ukrainian capital p. if the kids are told that explosives can come in all shapes and sizes seamless you humor. oh, no, it is visually ala. see this is melissa rose. johan, it looks just like an ordinary soft toy, but it contains an explosive and any contact picking it up, touching it or just walking by can set this off. i don't know. the kids are curious. all this is new to them. well armed conflict with russian back separatist has been going on for years. the front line is far from here. but given the latest escalations, the school wants to be prepared for the prospect of armed conflict. some of the stuff have seen this before. history teacher, alina jak, of liver, comes from

a town that is now occupied. wilson ali in a dollar. sure. all dinner, just over the weekend. we never thought we would need this kind of knowledge. but then suddenly, in june 2014, the school came under fire. why the kids were in class. we found out later it wasn't the army but separatist fighters. this became our daily reality. actually. took me disability on anything happening in ukraine gets broad coverage these days . the school would drill is no, it didn't then an alarm goes off, meaning the building has to be evacuated. this time it's just a drill, but it is a realistic scenario to have been frequent bomb threats against scores all over ukraine in recent weeks. they were all false alarms, but worries about the safety of school children and ukraine are growing.

i will tell you why it's important to do this. pupils we missed this will not know what to do and if it isn't actually we used to have fired rooms. now we are training for mines and paul, that is more interesting when you were given, my parents constantly give me advice on what to do when everyone hopes the children will need to put that training into practice. but they have to be ready for the worst. preparing children for war mathias. how common are these drills across ukraine? well, us showing children weapons and, and mines is something that doesn't happen in all the schools. it's rather an exception. it's up to the schools to book these trainings. oh,

with the police. but sir, what is more frequent are these bomb threats and the implications of schools that happens every few days? somewhere in ukraine. i and a most people here suspect a saw your to destabilize the country to so fear um, so being prepared to evacuate. the school is something that school children pretty much have to face all over the country. did ever use mathias sibling a reporting from kiev ukraine, but he has thank you. around up now or some of the other stories making world news to day. a court in norway has rejected the parole application of mass murder, unders, braving, who killed 77 people in an attack in 2011. the far right, extremist is serving norway's maximum sentence of 21 years. under terrorism charges the attack on a labor party youth camp on toya island and the government district in oslo isn't

always worst piece time atrocity. amnesty international says israel's policies towards the palestinians amount to the international definition of apartheid. israel rejects the allegation, saying its own arab citizens, enjoy equal rights. the government has called amnesty claim, anti semitic po. oh, the a judge and the you are state of georgia has rejected a plea bargain for 2 men convicted of killing ahmad, our breed, father and son, traverse, and greg mc, michael wanted to plead guilty to hate crimes to avoid trial felony vacated. ecuador is also being hit by natural disaster. landslides triggered by flooding, have killed at least 11 people. buildings and cars have been swept away in the capital. p. 2 heavy rains have pounded ecuador for months. scientists are blaming

global warming. a year ago, me and mars army over through elected leader anson sushi and seized power in a coup for united states. britain and canada have now announced new sanctions against the honda targeting top members of the judiciary. you and chief antonio. good, dennis urged the world to put more pressure on me in mars military rulers, in a statement he says, in the past here, there has been an intense intensification in violence, a deepening of the human rights and humanitarian crises, and a rapid rise of poverty. the multiple vulnerabilities of all people across me in march and its regional implications require an urgent response. on the recent a security forces in me in march have arrested dozens of people to prevent a nationwide strike to mark the anniversary. over the last year of political turmoil, thousands of others have been killed, detained,

or fled their homes a year on from the coo and myanmar and things look relatively normal on the surface. but a pervasive armed presence betrays a country firmly under military control. on february 1st 2021 on the sang to tea, was ousted from her role as de facto leader of the civilian government. after the military placed her under arrest and handed power to the country's top general. the way the generals claimed without evidence that there had been massive voter fraud to explain their take over su, cheese ousting led to massive protests. thousands of people took to the streets for joined resistance groups. the military has retaliated with a bloody crack down. according to the un, at least 1500 people have been killed by the brutal effort to crush the scent. and at least 11000 people have been arrested and detained for voicing their opposition

. some 9000 people are still in custody, and 290 have died in detention. likely due to the use of torture, says the u. n. a year on, on democracy, looks a long way away for me and mark like to reach out in our to tend to neo, we're managing director of berman news international. and they join us from a bank called very good to happy with this. what are you hearing from me and mar, what's the situation like on the anniversary of the crew? even though, ah, we are, we are already one year past. but the people are scared very come the debt and in resisting the military coup. and then to are they will i to develop a political strategy without the miller g in the political environment? because the past years has been very, very dead has years for our of us and the whole country. because the country is not

in, in, in really, in fact as a duration in terms of gummy, they go nobody in crisis. and also held on integration, says them all collapse and also like a whole body rate. i double and then to half of the population cannot afford 40, not boot. that is what happens at the same times. many di hangs fall giant body and struggles since they, they were brutally attacked while the have the piece pu, protesting to demand for democracy in the country and human rights. so the country, the country is still seem like it is a, is a, it is a, in a situation. okay. but at the same time, it is not really okay in our country because every day people happy killed culture and also asked try, have been going on in some states. and also there are more and more ibp internally display bursey, and they're not united human italian prizes support. so these become

a big crisis for our crappy and that it days not, you know, i support and not you never transient from the intelligence communities and government that the country is going to be in a war situation and the people, the in division. so that's why we are asking you, and i see the yosemite council and also the whole count, the whole world as he more attention. and paul, for the goober, am amber gold. as long as there is no a minute to cook, cannot assist you any weapon. so arms they can, they can no longer hear their own people. so that is a one way that the people can ask a from this and who will military jim? you know, so the military were to, to, is seized power a year ago. what are they planning for the country's future? well, that is like a, they accuse our dolls as a d lab, patty fall fraught in a election in a boat here like that. and so that is why the they see the power,

but that is not the real reason actually like they will like to hold a dominant power in the country. so they say that they are going to do other nice another round of electron in the county. in fact, this other one. yeah, they tend to become 2 years after 2 years of they're in, within 2 years, they'll go to make sure that the, the control heavy, the, the whole county and that they will organize that election and then which party, which party won the election that the whole to transfer the power so that, that can nobody trust it because like as low as if their power b shape and they are always in a situation they can take the power, seeks to power. so they were willing to give the power to the civilian government, or they never listened to the people who went to democracy, humorous in the country. since in the neo managing director of the burma news international are talking to us from bangkok. thank you so much. we're taking our questions says force news now for

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