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Her son asked, "can we see it or not, mum?" "it doesn't matter," she said, "at least we are trying." for the athletes, just getting here is a lifetime achievement but their leaders have stayed away. britain, like australia and around a dozen others, hasjoined a us—led diplomatic boycott — a protest over what they claim is egregious abuse, or even genocide, carried out by china against muslim minorities here. but this leader was here — in fact, he was the star guest. russia's president putin is one of 20 or so presidents, prime ministers or kings who are keen to show their support for chi...

System, 32 people were detected today, and there have been dozens every day. the interesting thing is that only half of those are people arriving at the airport, so it means that within the bubble, for example around the bird �*s nest are what have you, were athletes and officials are being tested every day, there are those who i guess have either arrived carrying the omicron variant, which hasn't pepped up omicron variant, which hasn't popped up at the airport, tested a couple of days later, or that covid is spreading within the olympic bubble system. now, that could be the case. as i say, ...

"it doesn't matter," she said, "at least we're trying." the moment the olympic flame was installed was a subtle one. no big cauldron set alight. but not so the other message sent out by the hosts from this stadium, that china and russia are forging a new, much closer relationship. robin brant, bbc news, beijing. the olympics is always used by the hosts as a showcase, and what china wants to do, two years after the pandemic first emerged here, show the world it can put on a good show. it is also something that looks like normal. there is diplomacy to be done as well and it is born out of divisi...

Autocratic nations after a show of china's standing yesterday at the olympic games. xi in solidarity with russian president vladimir putin and across the city, people brimming with pride at the opening ceremony. i was so excited that i cried when i watched, he says, but it was this moment that is still stirring controversy. xi jinping who was deeply involved in planning the games choosing a uighur athlete to light the olympic flame. >> translator: when i saw two athletes my first reaction was gender equality, she says. >> the u.s. is holding a diplomatic boycott over human rights groups believ...

Here, in fact, minorities here. but this leader was here, infact, he minorities here. but this leader was here, in fact, he was the star guest. russia's president putin is one of 20 or so presidents, prime ministers or kings who are keen to show their support for china in person. but mr putin came for more, face—to—face talks, and has a great trade and energy deals and a new friendship of closer cooperation with china. they use to share communist rule, now what binds russia and china is concerned about research in us influence has tension over ukraine increases by the day. the moment the o...