our top stories: olympic sprinter krystina simanovskaya who refused to go home to belarus arrives atokyo airport to fly to poland. krystina simanovskaya's flight�*s set to take off minutes — she was offered a humantarian visa by poland. piling on the pressure. president biden urges andrew cuomo to resign as governor of new york after an investigation found he'd sexually harassed women while in office. the afghan defence minister survived an attack on his home as the taliban insurgency in kabul continues. i am sarah mulkerrins in tokyo, where day 12 is underway and we have had a gold for brazil in the women's swimming marathon here below me in tokyo bay. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the belarusian sprinter who refused orders to fly home early from the olympics is due to leave japan in the next half hour. officials from belarus had tried to send her home after she complained about the events the committee had entered herfor. but poland has granted her a humanitarian visa, and she's about to fly to warsaw. in moment we'll be live in tokyo and kiyv, but

our top stories: 0lympic sprinter krystina simanovskaya who refused to go home to belarus arrives atto take off minutes — she was offered a humantarian visa by poland. piling on the pressure. president biden urges andrew cuomo to resign as governor of new york after an investigation found he'd sexually harassed women while in office. the afghan defence minister survived an attack on his home as the taliban insurgency in kabul continues.

krystina simanovskaya, the sprinterfrom belarus, has told the bbc that her country is not safe and sheot be able to go home for many years. she has left the polish embassy injapan and is thought to be on her way to the airport to get a flight to warsaw after officials from belarus tried to send her home early from the olympics. 0ur correspondent sarah rainsford in in minsk. she's a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. when sprinter krystina timanovskaya publicly criticised her coaches at the olympics, they tried to force her back to belarus. she refused. speaking to the bbc from tokyo, she said she was now scared for herself and for her family. translation: i can't go back to belarus now, of course. - it's definitely not safe for me. i have no idea when i can go back. it may be five or ten years. and today came another reminder of the danger for dissidents. in kyiv, a young belarusian activist was found hanging in a park, but his friends don't believe it was suicide. vitaly shishov fled to ukraine last year to avoid arrest. he'd been helping a flood of other oppo