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
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Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Alexander lukashenko still sits in the president ial palace in belarus, six months after an election which he probably lost. Europes last de facto dictator continues to brutally repress protests and imprison political opponents. My guest is sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, the woman who believes she won last augusts vote, and who, from exile, calls herself the leader of democratic belarus. But is toppling lukashenko any closer to reality . Sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, in vilnius, lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in vilnius in exile. Alexander lukashenko is still president of your country, belarus, and it is now the six month anniversary since you are convinced you won the president ial election. So, im just wondering how you feel today . Oh, thank you. I feel responsibility, first of all. Responsibility for the belarusian people who believed in me, who believed me, and they know that on