but now, the six year old skater is inspired by the games. translation: it s very exhausting, but she presses on. she won t leave until she s learned how to do all the moves. she doesn t quit. she can t go to any of the events, though. she can t get close. the winter olympics is happening in beijing, but almost everyone here is excluded from it. translation: it s sad we can t go to see the games in person. we ll have to watch them on tv. china is in the middle of a renewed battle to try to maintain zero covid in this country, and it s decided not to sell any tickets for the games to members of the general public, so everyone who queues outside venues like this in the weeks ahead is going to be hand picked a member of the ruling communist party, or someone who works at a government controlled company. it s notjust covid measures keeping people away. there s confrontation over china s human rights record.
we ll have to watch them on tv. china is in the middle of a renewed battle to try to maintain zero covid in this country, and it s decided not to sell any tickets for the games to members of the general public, so everyone who queues outside venues like this in the weeks ahead is going to be hand picked a member of the ruling communist party, or someone who works at a government controlled company. it s notjust covid measures keeping people away. there s confrontation over china s human rights record. senior officials from the us, the uk, and more than a dozen other governments aren t coming to the ice rinks. the olympics is just sport, though, say some looking on. translation: i think sports are sports, - and they shouldn t be messed with politics. the games belong to everyone, and we should all participate and watch. politics is just politics.
and it s voters like this the dup wants to keep on side. and that election the party has in its sights may now happen even earlier. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. the government s latest coronavirus figures show more than 88,000 new cases were recorded in the latest 24 hour period. on average, 88,500 new cases were reported per day in the last week. the number of people in hospital with covid has fallen to 111,816. there were 303 deaths that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive test, though some will have died of other causes. on average in the past week, 256 deaths were announced every day. senior officials in washington say the leader of the islamic state group has been killed in a us special forces raid in north western syria.
ireland. that is all for me and much more sports day. much later in the day. a record number of patients are facing long waits for a bed when they re admitted to hospital, according to new nhs figures for england. it s the latest sign of pressure on accident and emergency units. 0ur health editor hugh pym is with me. what are these figures and what do you tell us about the winter pressures on the nhs? the real strain on hospitals pressures on the nhs? the real strain on hospitals is pressures on the nhs? the real strain on hospitals is not - pressures on the nhs? the real strain on hospitals is notjust i strain on hospitals is notjust covid 19, it is patients arriving with a whole lot of other conditions in some way of not come forward before because they re worried about covid 19 and things got worse for them. the figures from nhs england show that those who come into and the decision has been made to admit them to hospitals but then they have weights after that and it s number th
of the ruling communist party, or someone who works at a government controlled company. it s notjust covid measures keeping people away. there s confrontation over china s human rights record. senior officials from the us, the uk, and more than a dozen other governments aren t coming to the ice rinks. the olympics is just sport, though, say some looking on. translation: | think sports | are sports, and they shouldn t be mixed with politics. the games belong to everyone, and we should all participate and watch. politics is just politics. this is the official slogan of the games. and these children are singing about it in this propaganda video, released last month by the government in xinjiang, a place where china denies it s committed genocide. a former olympian who s close to america s athletes this