welcome to bbc news, i m ben boulos. our top stories: the olympic sprinter who refused to go home to belarus fearing for her safety arrives at tokyo airport to fly to warsaw. krystsina tsimanouskaya s flight s set to take off in 20 minutes she was offered a humantarian visa by poland. she is notifying elsewhere. 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. afghanistan s defence minister survives a suicide bomb and gun attack on his home in kabul, as the taliban s insurgency continues. countries across europe send help to turkey as wildfires enter a second week closing in on some tourist hotspots.
from the belarusian capital minsk. she s a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. when krystsina tsimanouskaya 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. i it s definitely not safe for me. i have no idea when i can go back, it may be five or ten years. and came another reminder of danger for dissidents. in kyiv, a young belarusian activist was found hanging in a park. his friends don t believe it was suicide. vitaly shishov fled to ukraine last year to avoid arrest. he d been helping flood of other opposition supporters, who followed. the opposition leader, sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, is
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sarah rainsford has this report from the belarusian capital minsk. she s a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. when krystsina tsimanouskaya 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 came another reminder of danger for dissidents. in kyiv, a young belarusian activist was found hanging in a park. 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