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Rescuers in eastern afghanistan are trying to reach a boy trapped in a village well for three days. the operation comes less than two weeks after a similar, unsuccessful attempt to rescue a child from a moroccan well gripped the world. the five—year—old boy, named haidar, is wedged deep inside the well, but is still able to move his arms and upper body. the beijing winter olympics come to an end on sunday, but international activists are continuing their calls for countries and athletes to take protest action. their chief concern is beijing's mistreatment of millions of muslim uyghur peopl...

Kamila valieva , the teenage russian skater who earlier failed a drugs test , has failed to win a medal in the individual women's figure skating at the winter olympics. valieva was beaten into fourth place after numerous misrakes in herfree skate routine. she'd been expected to win gold but her failure to make the podium means a medal ceremony can now take place. the games come to an end on sunday, but international activists are continuing their calls for countries and athletes to take protest action. their chief concern is beijing's mis—treatment of millions of muslim uyghur people in xinâ...

Arrested by russians which is unacceptable. they have no authority to arrest anyone here at all. 400 people and people still want to protest after that. that is amazing and shows the level of spirit i myself being ukrainian didn't expect and this is what we will see here in ukraine. and people are so desperate and they know that we are fighting. people go to the streets in protest and you can see those things not just there but in many other cities in the south, and a small town in the north which has several thousand people and i've seen protest action of at least 1000. which isjust amazing a...

I guess i have to ask you, there's domestic consumption of information but then there's the economic changes in russia. there's the funerals. there's the parents of soldiers who are dying. there's the fact that 30 years of economic achievement has been pulled back as a result of these sanctions. how do you think russians who get this information square their daily life and the changes they've experienced in the last month with what they're hearing? >> this is going to be the really interesting how this plays out over time, and we've already seen that there are people who are opposed to the war...

The protest action i think is going toe intensify over the course of the week ahead. but these are all people who had gone to a great deal of effort to come here and maintain pressure on world leaders so that the most significant progress is possible over the course of the next two weeks, isa. >> phil black in edinborough, scotland. phil, good to see you. ahead on the show i'll talk to a climate expert about the pledges being made at the cop-26 summit, particularly what phil was talking about, the deforestation. we'll go live to glasgow in 20 minutes or so for that. back in washington, the...