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to the 1.4 billion chinese people. if the us is bent on having its own way, china will take resolute countermeasures. it s not clear what those measures will be. it was only a few weeks ago that presidents biden and xijinping were talking face to face, almost, but in announcing the decision to keep its officials and dignitaries away, the white house said it came down to one thing genocide. the athletes on team usa have our full support. we will be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from home. we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. us diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the prc s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in xinjiang, and we simply can t do that. the biden administration says china is committing genocide against some of its own people
muslim ethnic uighurs in xinjiang in the west. attention will now turn to other like minded nations, and will they follow suit? in the months leading up to this decision, one senior british government official intimately involved in forming policy towards china told me the uk ran the risk of being seen as a poodle if it simply followed american s lead on a boycott. china s biggest concern about hosting these games has been covid, but the prospect of like minded nations rallying around a boycott based on claims of genocide is not part of the story it is trying to tell at these games. robin brant, bbc news. in turkey opposition parties have renewed calls for early elections amid growing economic instability, following historic falls in the value of the turkish lira. the currency has lost 47%
programme who remained to be put through the programme and taken out, and at that point, the plan, as you know, was to get them through the process come out to the uk and resettled in advance of any potential need for an evacuation. so you are talking about a total of 7000, are you surprised by the figures that were given to us by mr marshall are between 75000 and 150,000 people who applied for refuge in the uk? i 150,000 people who applied for refuge in the uk? refuge in the uk? i think it s important refuge in the uk? i think it s important to refuge in the uk? i think it s important to distinguish - refuge in the uk? i think it s - important to distinguish between what we important to distinguish between what we are talking about. there were what we are talking about. there were in what we are talking about. there were in the what we are talking about. there were in the end three ways in which people were in the end three ways in which people were evacuated. under the
talking about this weekend, for some children, they are most definitely safer in school than out of school. china has warned the united states will pay a price for its decision to stage a diplomatic boycott of the winter olympics over human rights concerns. american athletes will still take part in the games, but the united states won t send an official us delegation. china has called the boycott pretentious and a political manipulation. our china correspondent robin brant reports. china has been preparing for years. now it is almost ready for the boarders, the skiers, and the skaters. this us decision has been a long time in the making as well. but when it came, china didn t hold back. translation: us politicians keep hyping a diplomatic boycott - without even being invited to the games. this wishful thinking and pure grandstanding is aimed at political manipulation. it is a grave travesty of the spirit of the olympic charter, a blatant political provocation, and a serious affront