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
she gave of sending government documents to people unauthorised to see them. and we ll get latest results from the premier league and women s rugby world cup in sportsday at 6:30. good evening. a period of national mourning has been declared in south korea after more than 150 people were crushed to death while out for halloween festivities in the capital seoul. most of the victims were teenagers and young adults who had gone to the itaewon district, known for its nightlife and restaurants, and were caught up in the disaster while in a narrow alleyway that runs down the side of a hotel. 0ur correspondent, jean mackenzie, sent this report from seoul. you may find parts of it distressing. as the bodies are counted and the victims identified, devastating accounts of seoul s halloween night of horror are emerging. thousands packed onto the streets to party. until this narrow alleyway became so crowded, people were crushed to death. this is where most people died. most people died
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Of the globe. Now a bri project could be a railway in kenya, a port in sri lanka, a bridge in the maldives. The largest project so far has been the china Pakistan Economic corridor. A 60 billion network of Roads Railways and pipelines, going through a deserty Mountain Pass on the china pakistan border. The second thing you need to know is that it has two official names. One for inside china and one for outside. Initially it was called one belt, one road which sounds great in chinese. The problem is in english it sounds a bit bossy, that china is dictating to the rest of the world. So a few years ago the official english name was changed to the slightly blander but definitely less threatening belt and Road Initiative. The third thing is that it is controversial for some. China has ploughed more than 1 trillion into developing countries. There are trains, airports and roads that literally would not exist were it not for chinese investment. Ultimately, nothing comes for free. Is it a so c
Growth figures later. They are expected to show the economy did pretty well at the end of last year, but with rising prices and a fall in the value of the pound, what will the value of the pound, what will the year ahead have in store . In sport, a Wembley Final for southampton. They knock liverpool out of the league cup with an injury time winner. It has taken tim peake to space and back. Now the Soyuz Capsule is going to be landing in london. Well be finding out why. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Today is a cold start to the day. Weve also got a fair bit of cloud around. Some of it will break to see some sunshine and a few of us will see some snow. Wherever you are it will feel raw in the wind. More details in 15 minutes or so. Good morning. First, our main story the us President Donald Trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. But he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring Back Techniques su