hello, you re watching bbc news. i m rich preston. our top stories: new studies suggest the omicron variant of coronavirus could be milder than previous covid variants, with fewer people needing hospital treatment. as covid cases rise in china, more than 13 million people in the city of xi an are told to stay at home. hong kong s pillar of shame statue commemorating the tiananmen square massacre is dismantled by china. we speak to the work s danish sculptor. and celebrating a break from pandemic gloom in spain as thousands win a share of the world s richest lottery draw el gordo, or the fat one .
created by danish sculptor, jens galschiot, was ordered back in october. construction workers are said to have laboured overnight to dismantle the piece, known as the pillar of shame. the artwork, which depicts piled up corpses and anguished faces, was one of hong kong s few remaining public memorials to tiananmen square. the bbc s danny vincent is in hong kong and gave us this update. in october, the university contacted the sculptor to declare that essentially this statue, following legal advice, needed to be removed. after that, they set a deadline for the removal. the deadline passed and it wasn t clear when the statue would be removed but end of the morning, construction workers started covering up the statue. they put up yellow barriers, surrounding the statue,
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