Boy fell into a well. The United States says it did everything it could to minimise civilian casualties during a raid in syria in which the leader of the Islamic State group was killed. The president said that Abu Ibrahim Al qurayshi, also known as Hajji Abdullah, blew himself up, along with four members of his family, as us specialforces approached the building. 13 people, including children, were killed, but no us casualties were reported. The bbc S State Department correspondent Barbara Plett usher reports. In a corner of Northwest Syria where a forgotten conflict simmers, america reminded the Islamic State group that its leaders were still a target. The raid took place in the dead of night and lasted two hours. Us Special Forces landed in helicopters near the home of the is leader, Hajji Abdullah. Those close by described a night of terror. Translation when we got out of the house, we saw aircraft flying over our heads. And after ten minutes, we heard them shouting, give yourself u
say some looking on. translation: | 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. 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 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 meeting about athletic performance. every meeting they ve had has been either about covid protocols are about athlete safety, personal safety and bruising in
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 the names translation: it s sad we can t go to the games in translation: it s sad we can t go to the games in person. translation: it s sad we can t go to the games in person. we ll translation: it s sad we can t go to the games in person. we ll have - translation: it s sad we can t go to the games in person. we ll have to i 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. th
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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 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 about their athletic performance. every meeting they ve had has been either about covid protocols or about safety 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.