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These olympics playing out amidst an increasingly divided world. erin, as you and i have been talking about, there s so much going on geopolitically and chinese leadership thought they would find a win amongst the domestic audience. the chinese audience love an olympic games, especially when they are hosting. the worsening covid restrictions, they have kept many chinese families separated during the chinese new year and here in beijing folks are feeling disconnected from any olympic spirit because you ve got barriers going up everywhere, erin. the barriers are just incredible. it s like a totally different world. thank you so much for your reporting, david, from beijing tonight. next, a captivating new documentary follows putin s top cricket as he takes on the russian president and investigates how alexei navalny was poisoned. and british prime minister boris johnson apologizes again as he tries to save his political life, but is it way too late? ....
Stands out from the crowd. so, after seeing many, many pictures of this thing, i am pleasantly surprised byjust how lightweight and comfortable it is, it s unobtrusive in fact, it s not really that different to any mask that i ve been wearing over the past couple of years. the only difference being that this is loaded with tech and it connects to an app. the clever tech in here will actually monitor how long you ve used it for and even the number of breaths you ve taken. it sends the data to an app on your phone and, using your location data, tells you just how much harmful pollution that it s been filtering out, wherever you are in the world. with covid fears lingering, something that s designed to filter out airborne nasties can provide real peace of mind. plus, i think it s really useful that something like this takes things a step further to tell you what you could be putting into your lungs, wherever it is in the world that you re travelling to. ....
And a computer in your phone that s powerful enough to do so, it s a fairly new innovation. as with so much else in aviation, covid has proven a real accelerator here. last but not least, i have i have the thermo smart temporal thermometer from withings. so, once you switch this on, it measures your temperature using your temporal artery which runs across your forehead to your temple. it s all over very quickly, in around two seconds, and it vibrates to let you know it s done. there s my temperature. i then scroll to my profile lucy, that s me. click the button and it tells me i m fever free because it s green something i m sure my cameraman is very pleased to hear and pressing that button also means it syncs your data to a dedicated app on your smartphone. ....
We re starting this week 1800 metres above sea level, in the shadow of an alpine valley. this is st moritz, in the swiss alps it s the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting history it s where the bobsleigh was created. but skijoring is an even stranger sporting event than that. the race is a wild mix of horses, skiing, all done over this frozen lake. the white turf event has happened every year since 1907, pausing only for covid in 2021. it sees three days of racing on ice, with the skijoring ....
Welcome to bbc news, i m david eades. was the russian billionaire roman abramovich poisoned as he attended russian ukrainian peace talks earlier this month? as russia continues to hit targets across the country, a new round of face to face negotiations are due to take place on tuesday in turkey after a gap of two weeks. will smith says sorry to chris rock for slapping him at the oscars he admits his behaviour was unacceptable and inexcusable. and lockdown shanghai style, as the authorities there try to stamp out a worsening covid outbreak. ....