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China is taking steps to make affordable nursing services available to more elderly people in the next four years to meet the needs of its aging population and improve the quality of their lives.
New york announced five new confirmed cases. it has also been detected in california, minnesota and colorado. since omicron was first discovered by scientists in south africa, it has spread to at least two dozen countries. it is now the dominant strain in south africa where infections are spiking. the biden administration today launched a new campaign to get more americans a booster shot part of a strategy to manage a surge of delta infections already underway. cbs's weijia jiang leads off our coverage from the white house. good evening, weijia. >> good evening, margaret. tonight, we are learn...
To prove that he was a chinese police officer, jiang is showing me many photos of different police badges, training certificates, even portraits of his graduating class at police academy, images that we cannot show on television because they would reveal his identity. jiang says he was sent from his home province to work in xinjiang three times during which he was ordered to arrest hundreds of suspects, all of them ethnic uyghurs. how were the interrogations being conducted? >> translator: beat them, kick them, beat them bruised and swollen, knock their heads on the radiator, police would step...
>> translator: yes. >> reporter: cnn cannot independently confirm jiang's allegations. nor those of the kindergarten teacher who says in addition to beatings, he was raped on his first night of detention by chinese prisoners who followed the orders of prison guards. >> it is very bad. >> reporter: this was prisoners who sexually assaulted you? >> yeah. the prisoners. >> reporter: more than one? >> more than one. yeah. like, just first of all they surrounded me and the police there ordered me to take off my underwear and -- >> and bend over. >> and bend over. don't do this. don't do this, i cri...
>> reporter: jiang, the police officer who fled china, describes in graphic detail methods of sexual torture that he says police officers used. >> translator: if you want people to confess, you use the electric baton. we would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person is tied up. the result is better. >> reporter: he also says police sometimes ordered prisoners to sexually assault detainees. >> translator: we call it an in prison investigation. >> reporter: the chinese government insists it is battling violent extremism in xinjiang. beijing also ...