Winter olympics, which start exactly one year from today. The ioc president thomas bach says its almost a miracle china has managed to prepare for a winter games through the pandemic, but Sophie Richardson of human rights watch, says the Olympic Movement needs to rethink. This would be a miracle. Ending mass arbitrary detention, ending the devastation of cultural property, ensuring that decent human rights environments exist before a warning that government, really the propaganda of posting. This is not a rights friendly of environment, and i think commitments of the con john of the Chinese Government made is clearly not worth the paper they were written on. Its certainly going to be a controversial games those allegations and questions over the Environmental Impact of the games but preparations are continuing. Among those hoping to compete are british mogul skiers the gerken schofields. Tom and leonie could become the first british twins to compete at a winter olympics, and younger si
Katty. We will be speaking to a criminologist about the spike of crime in england and wales. That is all ahead on bbc news, but now it is time for sports day. Sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday imjohn watson. Coming up cilic ends edmunds remarkable run in melbourne. Not on the shortist and forced to apologise for sexists tweets why phil neville was the fas leading candidate for the england womens job. He fitted to 80 what i had been looking for, and the moment that i spoke to him, i was really sure from that first moment that he was the right man for the job. Why curling will be a Family Affair for the Scotland Team at the Winter Olympics. Yes it was unchartered territory for kyle edmund at this years Australian Open the farthest hes been at a grand slam, but the semi finals is where that journey ended for the british number two following a straight sets win by the world number six marin cilic this morning. Hywell griffiths is in melbourne. What 82 mac weeks it has been for kyle
On the streets in england reaches the highest level since current records began. And, after his best performance in a grand slam today, britains kyle edmund stops at the semifinal in the Australian Open. Its 5 00. Our main story is that president trump, at the start of his visit to the World Economic forum in davos, has predicted a tremendous increase in trade between the uk and usa. He spoke after he held talks with theresa may and insisted that both countries were joined at the hip on military matters. Mr trumps trade policies, and his America First approach , are under scrutiny at the gathering of the worlds political and business elite. Its rare for a serving us president to attend the forum, and the president , who recently cancelled a visit to the uk, also rejected claims that there were growing differences between britain and america, no least on the global terror threat. Our correspondent Richard Lister has the latest. Sweeping in across the mountains, the first sitting us pres