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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. Thi...

Were very proud of our track record as you know on the Vaccines Task force and of course the deployment programme, but this is another part of the armoury. Eleven of the uks leading Health Groups have signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to make the temporary £20 per week increase to the standard allowance of universal credit and working tax credits permanent. Theres International Condemnation of china after a bbc report alleges women were systemically raped and tortured in uighur camps. B...

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Former President Donald Trump refuses to tesify under oath at his Impeachment Trial next week after House Impeachment Managers asked him to do so, to look at his role in the lead up to the events of january the 6th. The most expensive 30 seconds of television this years Super Bowl Ads feature some of the biggest names in hollywood, who have spent most of this year sitting on the sidelines. Hello, im Christian Fraser in london. Laura trevelyan is in new york. Rolling back the America First agenda...

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 tsikhanouskay...

And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions of pounds for the Uks National Health Service during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello and welcome women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured according to first hand accounts obtained by the bbc. Its estimated more than a million men and women have been detained in the camps, which china claims are Education Centres to De Radicalise Uighurs and other muslim minor...

The big Silicon Valley Tech Companies had a hugely successful 2020, prompting more questions about their overwhelming dominance in financial and business terms. From san francisco, James Clayton reports. There have been winners and losers from this pandemic, and some of the biggest winners are also some of the Richest Companies in the world, based around san francisco. Take here at apple, last week, the Company Posted record Quarterly Sales of more than £80 billion. At that rate, during this 2....

That he founded in his garage nearly 30 years ago. And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions for charity during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello to you. Women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured, according its estimated more than 1 million men and women have been Education Centres to Deradicalise Uighurs and other muslim minorities. 0ur correspondent, matthew hill, has spoken to several former detainee...

As Chief Executive of amazon, the e commerce giant that he founded in his garage nearly 30 years ago. And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions for charity during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello to you. Women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured, according to firsthand accounts obtained by the bbc. Its estimated more than a million men and women have been detained in the camps, which china claims are E...

Now on bbc news Tuesday In Parliament. Hello again and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament. As the Health Secretary promises to come down hard on a new coronavirus strain. Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether and break those chains of transmission. But is there light at the end of the tunnel in scotland . We may be able to begin looking towards a careful and gradual easing around the start of march. And the death of a hero, tributes to captain sir tom moore. He brought joy to the natio...