rescuers in eastern afghanistan are trying to reach a boy trapped in a village well for three days. the operation comes less than two weeks after a similar, unsuccessful attempt to rescue a child from a moroccan well gripped the world. the five year old boy, named haidar, is wedged deep inside the well, but is still able to move his arms and upper body. the beijing winter olympics come to an end on sunday, but international activists are continuing their calls for countries and athletes to take protest action. their chief concern is beijing s mistreatment of millions of muslim uyghur people in the north western region of xinjiang. in the last 2a hours, a games official dismissed claims of human rights violations against them as lies, and china has been accused of using the winter olympics for the
kamila valieva , the teenage russian skater who earlier failed a drugs test , has failed to win a medal in the individual women s figure skating at the winter olympics. valieva was beaten into fourth place after numerous misrakes in herfree skate routine. she d been expected to win gold but her failure to make the podium means a medal ceremony can now take place. the games come to an end on sunday, but international activists are continuing their calls for countries and athletes to take protest action. their chief concern is beijing s mis treatment of millions of muslim uyghur people in xin jiang. in the last 24hrs, a games official dismissed claims of human rights violations against them as zumretay arkin is a uyghur activist and head
arrested by russians which is unacceptable. they have no authority to arrest anyone here at all. 400 people and people still want to protest after that. that is amazing and shows the level of spirit i myself being ukrainian didn t expect and this is what we will see here in ukraine. and people are so desperate and they know that we are fighting. people go to the streets in protest and you can see those things not just there but in many other cities in the south, and a small town in the north which has several thousand people and i ve seen protest action of at least 1000. which isjust amazing and wejust of at least 1000. which isjust amazing and we just want the road to know that this is happening and ukraine is fighting back and we just want support from the west and hearing the nations that we cannot get engaged, ijust hearing the nations that we cannot
i guess i have to ask you, there s domestic consumption of information but then there s the economic changes in russia. there s the funerals. there s the parents of soldiers who are dying. there s the fact that 30 years of economic achievement has been pulled back as a result of these sanctions. how do you think russians who get this information square their daily life and the changes they ve experienced in the last month with what they re hearing? this is going to be the really interesting how this plays out over time, and we ve already seen that there are people who are opposed to the war, there are protests, uptick in protest action and an uptick in arrests as a result as the russian government moves in to get people off the street so that this doesn t get any momentum, a careful of course decapitation of the russian opposition, thinking about alexey navalny, he was the opposition figure who is sitting in jail, and an effort to assassinate him in the few months before this invasio
the protest action i think is going toe intensify over the course of the week ahead. but these are all people who had gone to a great deal of effort to come here and maintain pressure on world leaders so that the most significant progress is possible over the course of the next two weeks, isa. phil black in edinborough, scotland. phil, good to see you. ahead on the show i ll talk to a climate expert about the pledges being made at the cop-26 summit, particularly what phil was talking about, the deforestation. we ll go live to glasgow in 20 minutes or so for that. back in washington, the center piece for biden s agenda may get a green light after being stalled in congress for months. democratic leaders have been trying to pass a $$1 trillion bill in the house. they are holding it up on the finalized social safety net plan. while progression inland valleys in the democrat house say they re ready to move forward,