intelligence which might involve drones, so we might see a pretty high tech ceremony. rick has produced five different olympic opening ceremonies, including la in 1984 in beijing in 2008. we will have a lot more coverage on the winter games as they begin later tonight in beijing notjust on tv, but also on our website as well, on all the geopolitical tensions, human rights abuse allegations and controversies. check them out, as well. following the massive oil spill in peru last month, veterinarians are nursing a number of rare hambuldt penguins back to health. 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilt into a marine biodiversity hotspot after a refinery was hit by waves linked to a volcanic eruption on tonga. zoologists say many of the penguins arrived at lima zoo very stressed. the penguins have been bathed, watered, and fed
time told me why some of them are nervous about sharing this moment. i had one athlete tell me that they ve had nothing in the lead up to these olympics they ve had not a single team meeting about sport and their athletic performance. every meeting they ve had has been either about covid protocols or about athlete safety, personal safety in beijing. i don t think a single athlete is going to speak out at the games and nor do i think they should. if i were there i would be keeping my mouth shut because the risk is just too great. and this is really a failure of the international olympic committee. it s a failure of leadership that athletes are in this position. in many ways, this looks like a normal olympic games. there are updated rules in place to allow athletes to express their concerns away from the tracks, slopes, rinks and podiums. but what is always a cold gathering feels much more frosty this time round. this is a games defined by the big fissure on the world stage, with c
and to be captain, it s really special. got to make sure we lead by example. and at the winter olympics in beijing, after two wins from two, great britain s mixed doubles team have suffered their first defeat in the curling losing 8 7 to switzerland. with the match level, it all came down to the final end. throwing second, the swiss had the advantage and they made it count, getting the one stone they needed to secure the win over jen dodds and bruce mouat. they re back in action tomorrow against australia, when they ll try to secure a semifinal spot. and in the women s moguls, it was a day to forget for team gb s leonie gerken schofield. she failed to finish her first qualification run after falling during her attempt. a better run for her sister makayla, who finished in 12th place. both will get a second chance to qualify for the final on sunday, in the second qualification run. william feneley finished 23rd in the men s event. and that is all the sport from us for now.
functionaries and hand picked party members that means the audience themselves will be incredibly stiff and not responsive at all in the way that a normal general public audience is. so i think that in itself makes the ceremony unique. indeed, and you ve worked with the chinese authorities for the 2008 games what messages would you guess that beijing would be keen to stand amid all these tensions? well, in 2008 the same creative director is in charge night as was in 2008, and he s a master of the tightrope between politics and creativity. and it won t be any different this time. the government doesn t frame its requests by having a party functionary come and say, you must do x, y and z . it s implicit, i guess, and he knows his way around that very well. so the challenge in doing
of tomorrow maybe. she hadn t even been born the first time the olympics came to town. 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