from the olympics early because she feared for her safety is due to arrive in poland this evening, after being granted a humanitarian visa by the polish government. during the day the most prominent opposition leader left in belarus maria kolesnikova was being tried in secret on charges of plotting to seize powerfrom president lukashenko. the president has been robustly condemned by many world leaders for his regime s human rights abuses. our correspondent bethany bell is in the polish capital, warsaw. what is going on? well we re at warsaw airport what is going on? well we re at warsaw airport where what is going on? well we re at warsaw airport where we - what is going on? well we re at| warsaw airport where we expect krystina timanovskaya to arrive within the next hour or so. we understand that she is flying here today. it has been a very long day. she left tokyo earlier this morning, initially there were reports she was going to fly directly here, but there were concerns ab
we started to launch a formal investigation into the case of krystina timanovskaya. we received a written report of the noc which will be evaluated. further development is that the ioc is opening a disciplinary condition to establish the fact in this case in the case of krystina timanovskaya, and to hear the two officials who have been allegedly involved in this incident. so, the two people mentioned there specifically by the ioc are artur shumak he s the deputy director of belarus s national track and field olympic training centre and yury maisevich, the head coach of the belarusian olympic track and field team. there are already sanctions from the international olympics committee on belarus. as mariko oi explains. the ioc has started an official investigation into the matter.
hello and welcome. krystina timanovskaya, the belarusian sprinter who refused her team s orders to fly home from the olympic games, is on her way to vienna. it s not clear why the 24 year old has taken the flight to vienna and not to warsaw, her original planned destination after she was granted a humanitarian visa by poland. she arrived at narita airport from the polish embassy, where she had been helped following events on sunday, when she had been taken to the airport against her will by belarusian officials because she had criticised her coaches on social media. with more, here s mariko oi from tokyo. the ioc has confirmed she is on her