can china maintain it? zill covered strategy. the handful of infections is enough to trigger new lockdown restrictions on travel. how will leaders in beijing view the followed on the economy and the lives of one and a half 1000000000 chinese? this is inside story. ah, ah, hello and welcome to the program, rob madison. how many countries have abandoned the aim of stopping all covered 19 infections? as the on the chronic delta variance was spread across the world, most governments have avoided re imposing locked ons and travel dance, but not in china. where the corona virus was 1st detected in 2019, china's 1st locally transmitted alma con case was found in beijing where the winter olympics start in less than 3 weeks. now that's prompted health workers to seal off the patients residential, compound, and workplace with our colleagues. still inside a 130 kilometers away in change in 20 infections triggered mass testing for the whole population of 14000000 people. another 13000000 in g and remained stuck in their homes after a handful

, jealous of china's achievements. and they're ruining this moment for china by boycotting the olympics. but that's not going to affect the success of the actual games. but then you, ah, what this does is it really stifles and creates nor space for any discussion around the validity of these criticisms. these accusations of human rights abuses in even genocide around the treatment of the wiggers for example. so that's what's happening inside china, but very much, sir, outside of china, you're seeing this international criticism that is really tarnishing china's image . it's really, this is 1st be china's mormon. to show the world that it's not only a, a strong country, but it's an influential one. and this is really undermining its credibility because it a lot of countries now every capital about how they deal with china. a lot of sponsors multinational companies are very wary about showing their sponsorship or their relationship will support of the games or, or they ging, ah, so it's almost 2 worlds. so there will be

but not in china, where the corona virus was 1st detected in 2019. china's 1st locally transmitted on a con case was found in beijing where the winter olympics start in less than 3 weeks. now that's prompted health workers to seal off the patients residential, compound, and workplace with our colleagues. still inside a 130 kilometers away in change in 20 infections triggered mass testing for the whole population of 14000000 people. another 13000000 into an remained stuck in their homes after a handful of infections was detected 3 weeks ago. videos and social media have showed long queues for food. china's leaders are urging everyone to avoid traveling for traditional celebrations at the start of the lunar new year. but kenneth has more from hong kong, lead up to the olympic games and the lunar new year travel, the largest migration in the world. there have been several cur, on the chrome cases, a in that region tinge in being the focus of the outbreak containment control in the area. one case in beijing, which is near some olympic venues as well. so that's prompted whole range of new

and let me ask you a question about china. i mean, could china's economic worries be beneficial? do you think to smaller economies? because cobra 19 indeed is highlighted, the risk of concentrating supply chains in china, hasn't it? of course. and i mean, latin america has a huge role to play for potential near shoring for us manufacturers. right. and that was the buzzword since the beginning of the pandemic, right? could companies relocate to the region, but that doesn't come, you know, without its own challenges around logistical infrastructure, around human rights issues, which are also prevalent in latin america and around the cost of doing business in the region and the bureaucracy and overcoming some of those country risks of investing in latin america. so of course there's, you know, a strong emphasis from words and governments, particularly those with very close commercial links to the united states and with existing manufacturing infrastructure to increase on that. but this will be a very uneven development in terms of which countries some benefits or not from near assur

i'm talking about china and australia, for example, or china and japan, or japan and south korea. i mean, how is this effectively going to work when you have countries that make up this block? the do have quite serious issues with one another. i think that's a good point. well, the short on says that, you know, they'll have to use this as a vehicle to try and deal with those problems that they have with each other. and this is the best way to go forward in addressing those sorts preventing those sorts of non trade issues interfering with what is mutually beneficial exchange. so i think this is how we can slowly work towards, you know, dealing with those difficulties in the longer term. but we know that, you know, trade can occur even when relationships are not at the best whole history of that happening. and i think, you know, safe is one way in which perhaps some of those concerns can actually find resolution overtime. they won't interfere with tracy can actually help deal with the underlying sources of friction. i think over time as trade is a way of actually dealing with it usi

is it just that india is concerned about opening up to china? was that the main bone of contention here, or was there more to it? ok, so i can really speak for india, but i think what you just said is probably the most likely reason. i think there was concerns about chinese goods flooding the indian market. but i think more generally the curren mowdy administration is not yet fully convinced of the benefits of liberalization. india has a tendency to judge every free trade agreement, in terms of its bilateral surplus or deficit. that is a wrong way to go about it. that is a very old ma capitalistic view of trade policy and it's still hanging onto that idea. and i think unfortunate li them already and ministration is starting to reverse. some of the good works that have been done over the last couple of decades in moving india forward towards more liberal and open economy. so i think this fear of china, but it's part of a broader distrust of liberalization. and judging every free trade agreement as to whether it adds the trade surplus as being goo

china. nicaragua, recently switched diplomatic ties from taiwan to beijing. our latin america editor lucio newman reports. ah, this was daniela take us 4th consecutive swearing in ceremony flanked by his wife, reciting moody you his vice president. he bowed to improve conditions in nicaragua, the 2nd poor's country in the americas, after haiti read go home for me. so we are here again with a clean slate to build peace, to assure that nicaraguans have a dignified life to eradicate poverty in this country with sovereignty and freedom . the presidents of cuba and venezuela were there, and also delegations from iran, bolivia, russia, and china. but ortega was snubbed by almost every one else. november's presidential elections have been dismissed as illegitimate by much of the international community. the majority of ortega's competitors were imprisoned, so they could not run and thousands of others have gone into exile. and legitimacy is not an issue for ortega and he managed to essentially cons

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now this is a significant global public image event for, for china and china's global image. essentially embedded with that, but it's also embedded in with the way that it's handling a covert. if they did, the spread is not limited. if it's not contained, what could have impact you think that's going to have on china's global image when it's been so adamant that is going to maintain a covered 0 policy? i think china is facing this dilemma because it has been closing the border for so long, although now it allows more athletes and relevant personnel to come in with athletes . it's do very close the country now compared to what we had 2 years ago. so the policy side, so the central government in china are making will have a different image from before because miscommunication happens in this situation. we have saying. busy i'll quote the words of some of my foreign friends, the accidents of foreigners from china, because either they haven't been seeing their family for 2 years, they just have to. and the cost of that would be they need to leave their job in china, or they stay,

so it's a country where between 2 major powers of russia and china, and it's a key player on china's belts and road initiative. it's huge and big signature policy and to build kind of an idea of the old road and have economic instruments. but the other key aspect about this is the energy cousin sent a huge producer energy and the export by pipeline to china and during the heyday. ready when i was in. ready moscow in the old guy coated kosky was actually put in prison because he had the temerity to try to negotiate building a pipeline, an independent pipeline from cause it's done to china, directly circumventing russia's kind of monopoly on pipelines in the old soviet union. so this was a red light for putin and 100 kosky ended up in prison for 8 years on that. so this get put in an incredible opportunity to see is some leverage on china's energy exports from casa, and we see beijing's response to this because conflicts and the leader of the current leader because it didn't reach out to the cooperation organization. the su he into he rather reached out to moscow through the c s t o. s

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and so what china once will dominate this deal. and the other thing we've learned from, from data is that while these deals generate a small increase in income and actually economic terms, the amounts are tiny, less than half of a percent of g d p over 10 years at most. they have a much, much larger impact on the distribution of income. so, and of course, in this case, a power profits rise dramatically. the income, so the wealthy go up, comes to working people, especially in the north fall. so that's a pattern we seen. and after i see expected to be slightly different as ourselves because of course, china is not seeking to maximize only as profits, but its power and its control, not just over its economy, but over world affairs. and this is the way in which i think our sap is very different from that to. so this seems to be a win win for the powers that be in beijing. is it a win win for those other countries who you seem to be saying? a writing the economic coat tails of the coming power, particularly the coming power, both econom

and therefore, china was not abiding by market principles. and so they slept on these types on these chinese goods. now the w t o is saying that china has the right to impose $645000000.00 worth of retaliatory tariffs on the us. now there's 2 things to remember about this really number one that this amount of money, although it sounds like a lot is actually much less than what china originally asked for. china originally asked for the right to impose $2400000000.00 worth of tires against washington. secondly, this amount is really paling in comparison to the amount of tower of since imposed on chinese goods by the previous trump administration. and those tariffs have amounted to $110000000000.00. under this ongoing trade war, a british prime minister bruce johnson, has confirmed he intends to release in full a report into parties at his residence during lockdown. top civil 7 see gray has been investigating social gatherings at number 10, downing street, allegedly in breach of current virus restrictions at the time. a police are also conductin

about china. but. busy you have to be very careful . the u. s. number about reserves in china was interpreted in some corner. this is china gone to the market and bought all this things that were 50 percent off the world. but that's not what us the a man, and that's not the real situation. these are stocks in china today and need to present more than 50 percent of the global see are having a bad, a really low and those numbers are not official numbers because trying to does not publish them and beat us the us and other information sources. we don't have knowledge about the stocks not just for trying to look for almost in that country. so that is a reserve that has been carried over from one year to another. it doesn't mean it can be useful or you can just be fed to people tomorrow. you need china important science. and this year, at the beginning of the year, we saw prices went up last because of trying to develop the medical corps. the demand for should be and if you map for me at the very beginn

but 1st let's go katrina, you and beijing the latest in china and katrina. how is the government reacting to confirmation of these cases? what are these authorities assaulted mass testing every one of the 14000000 residents who live in chin gin. now, all of those residents have been ordered until they are tested. they must stay at home. so it seems there is some sort of de facto lockdown already imposed in that city. there are a number of districts which are lock is highly affected areas. main district with this current infection seems to be called ging non district, which is not far from changing the airport now for context to engine is a very important port city. and the main problem for chinese authorities is it folks imitate to beijing, it's only about 3 hours drive away ill, one hour by high speed rail. there is a loss of frequent commuting between the 2 cities and aging authorities are on high alert that anxious to make sure that there is no outbreak in the capital before the beginning of the beijing winter olympics on february the 4th. so as i mention

but the i, m f and the world bank had cut grow forecasts for china. so these numbers, in some ways were expected. and china's growth rate has hate its lowest level in more than 70 years. it fell to 7.52 bursts for 1000 people according to the government. that's a drop from $8.00 to the previous year. the downward trend has prompted officials to allow couples have up to 3 children. last year's birth rate is a lowest since commerce. china was founded in 1914 i. i spoke earlier to andy mark, who's a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. it says it presents a chinese government with a significant challenge. what is necessary, but not sufficient to miss this change of government policies. so we've seen from the one child policy to a to child policy now to reach ha ha patterson. but there are many, many compet student factors yet, mostly socially. so i think we really do have to see how this plays out in the long term. one of the things the government has been doing that is having a ripple effect is starting with the state of cri

not something between china and the new . the when he to find the record inflation and soaring price as a leaving many shop is in turkey, struggling just to make ends meet. the central bank is forecasting a 23 percent inflation rate this year, but that's not before peaks at an estimated 55 percent in the coming months. since i'm concerned with the report from it stumble high inflation is a major talking point for all turks. the layer has lost nearly half of its value within the past year. as a central bank may steep cuts to interest rate. that also looks, policy cost prices to store, including for energy and food, such as the ingredients for a turkish breakfast. to make one kilo of this culture cheese, you need 11 liters of raw milk. the price of milk doubled with the increase on electricity. natural gas prices are rising, our regular customers cut their consumption. nearly 40 percent turkey is inflation rates rocketed to 36 percent in december after a series of interest rate cuts demanded by president treasure type a drum. i

to long play level, we're in china. welcome to visit of the united nations high commissioner for human rights to china and sion chance. we'd already sent an invitation and the 2 sides have a great to maintain communication on this. china's position has always been clear on the purpose of the visit is to promote exchanges in co operation between the 2 sides and one. we oppose any one taking advantage of this for political manipulation in the north korea has confirmed at testify at a serious of ballistic missiles on thursday. pyongyang has carried out 6 launches this month in defiance of the un security council. the leader there kim jong own, was seen at a factory that state media says helps to make missiles still to come here on this program, a police matter officers in london say they don't want an internal report to interfere with their investigations into the u. k. prime minister class, i do not want anyone to go through what i have been close to one man journey to ensure that migrants held in libyan detention center

but the i m f and the world bank had cut gro, forecasts for china. so these numbers, in some ways were expected and china's birth rate has hit it's lowest level in more than 70 years. it fell to 7.52 births for 1000 people according to the government. that's the draw from $8.00 to the previous year. the downward trend has prompted officials to allow couples to have up to 3 children. last year's birth rate is a lowest since communist china was founded in 1949. as bringing andy marked talk about this, he's a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. and he's joining us via skype from beaching. very good to have you with us on al jazeera. so a record drop in china's birth rate, despite the government allowing couples to have up to 3 children. what is this down to? what's deterring couples from having more children? why success? there's a number of factors about news home. first of all, thanks for have me on it. so i think the what is necessary but not sufficient miss this changing government policy. so we've seen from one child p

china is hoarding supplies. the u. s. department of agriculture saying, trying to is expected to have 69 percent of of the entire world maze reserves in the 1st half of the crop here 2020 to 60 percent of its rise, 51 percent of its weak, weak. rather. what's your take is china also to blame? i think was linking this all to what the previous speaker said, and i don't know what the true picture in china is. we don't know the data. but what we do know from a state in india is that, that is also the question of who controls the systems. and as you're getting into more globalized systems, be out of my little bit too. all of these kinds of shots of a southern country making certain kinds of decisions or a climate change in one part of the world affecting the whole month, oil prices going up and so on. so i think all of this actually and the experience of the insecurity of what the last 2 years and always what it really wants us to is to ask or rather questions on how to be moved to what's more decentralized like i wa

some parts of china, at least it seems. the road to clean energy will be long and smaller. katrina, you al jazeera, says she, province, china now think new zealand. what comes to mind the all blacks rugby team? it's mallory culture and it's picturesque landscape. and yes, it's exceptional handling of the pandemic. but it's also been known as a leader in the field of economics. back in 1989 new zealand central bank was the 1st to commit to a specific target for consumer price inflation venue. the biggest threat to the world economy. at the time, there was great opposition to the idea, but inflation fell from 8 to 2 percent over 2 years. and inflation targets were adopted by most central banks to take runaway prices. so it wouldn't surprise you that the prime minister to send to our durn has tossed the central bank to limit the rise of house prices. an important issue globally, when you consider, despite the pandemic house prices have stored in new zealand, the average house price increase by 24.3 percent to $826000.00 new ze

over in belgrade, let's cross over to you who were talking about china, how do you think china is going to be viewing these protest? i mean, the 2 countries share a lot land border and china has been increasing its investment into context on how do you think it's going to be viewing what's happening there. now, while of course, cherry is also not interested in the care and turmoil in kazakhstan, as you correctly pointed out, chain that has been expanding, gets economic influence in central asia, including, you know, because i've done. and of course, frequently with economic influence comes creeps in political influence and the, the society has been wide, sensitive about increasing chinese activity and chinese, influencing their country and so on. the one hand channel is not interested in the cure and turmoil. on the other hand, beijing understands that the introduction of collective security 3 children is ation force is basically rush and bill of russian force a summer. i mean, you know, some others from central asia into cars next on will increase rushes influence and cause ex done and

think about china's role in your politics. for many years, china was considered to be a very, a reliable trade partner. and of course you members, there politicians highlights concerns about the right situation there and the treatment of minority, but most really were about trade and all sourcing products from the european union. and china also helped a great deal to buffer the unintended consequences from crisis. so china is an important economic partner, but now more, more it appears to be also that your political rival and the united states is pushing more and more law. of course, in the conflict between the united states and china. why the european union was trying to be a bystander and to watch the conflict of the giants. this seems not possible anymore. and that's why the european union has to deliver it's owens ends. and this is just another expression of it. and the trade problems between the united states and china have been well documented over the last couple of years, particularly since they throughout the, the tru

while china says the u. s. must immediately improve its trade practices with aging or face retaliatory terrorists. it follows the ruling by the world trade organization allowing china to take action on unfair u. s. duties and caps of decades long disputes katrina, you has more from basing china's commerce ministry has come out today on thursday and said that this is a significant ruling. that safeguards the interests of chinese firms. now this dates back to a case lodged by beijing against washington back in 2012 under the previous obama administration at the time. washington had import tariffs on a number of chinese goods, including wind towers, solar panels, things like citric acid. and washington's argument was that the firms creating these goods were partially owned by state or entity government entities. and therefore, china was not abiding by market principles. and so they slept on these tasks on these chinese goods. now the w t o is saying that china has the right to impose $645000000.00 worth of retalia

has become very big china. this here is becoming the largest importer of l. n t after japan and korea. so we have, we'll, we'll competition here for the if are the l m t molecules up pablo. same question to, you know, streams, who pipeline from russia into germany august in berlin says is effectively dead. what do you think long, long must? of course, that would be very bad news for office depot and may be smart. that could actually be mean, technically it's built, it's there. i, if the present acute crisis, so were you, graham, and between russia and the west, russia may go get some kind of more or less permanent. resolution may be more stream, could be part of that resolution. see a kind of bonus for russia, taking a bu, acting more. ah, in a more kind of concerned show matters. another place that could be part of a quid pro quo between no rush and the west, or at least may be germany with one to make it part of it with grow quote. so that's not most likely yet dead, but it's in serious problems. that's of ba

is asking china to support efforts to resolve the situation diplomatically, china's foreign minister has told the u. s. secretary of state that all sides should avoid stoking tensions. but the u. s. state department is appealing to pay ging to be more actively involved in intervening in what's going on diplomatically. we are calling on a chair to use its influence with moscow to urge diplomacy. because if there is a conflict in ukraine, it is not going to be good for china either. johnny is now on a tangle. he's an independent political and economics affairs, common tasty. he's also a senior international fellow at the ty, her institute, she joints on skype from beijing ein a tangle, as far as beijing is concerned, is nate, so expansion in of itself an act of aggression? well, they see it as very similar to what's happening with taiwan. so yes, they have said, you know, the us request came about 8 hours after the chinese foreign ministry conveyed that they thought that the us needed to take rushes, security concerns. and that means nato seriously. the median line of relationships in

and therefore, china was not abiding by market principles. and so they slept on these types on these chinese goods. now the w t o is saying that china has the right to impose $645000000.00 worth of retaliatory tariffs on the us. now there's 2 things to remember about this really number one that this amount of money, although it sounds like a lot is actually much less than what china originally asked for. asked for china originally asked for the right to impose $2400000000.00 worth of tires against washington. secondly, this amount is really peeling in comparison to the amount of tower of since imposed on chinese goods by the previous trump administration. and those tariffs have amounted to $110000000000.00 under this ongoing trade war. so it seems like this decision is really mostly symbolic. what it does is give aging extra ammunition to pressure the bite and administration going forward when it comes to trade negotiations. the 2 countries are still locked in this trade war started by donald trump in 2018. those negotiations have been very m

a china orders mass testing for millions of people. it's oma kron cases are detected near beijing weeks before it stages the winter olympics. ah, hello nick, loud misses out 0 life window also come, attends common cause it's dawn after days of anti government violence, more than 5000 people have been arrested. condemnation and calls for dialogue, often asked ry. kanethia is to grow original kills at least 56 people in the comfy, internally displaced an unfolding space. the world's most powerful telescope is now fully deployed as it pres one. what was secrets of all universe with so china has reported its 1st locally transmitted omicron cases in the northern coastal city of change in which borders beijing, health officials say at least 2 people ever have been infected with the highly transmissible barrett authorities have begun mass testing in the city of 14000000, the winter olympic games are due to begin in beijing and near by venues in less than 4 weeks. katrina, you is in beijing and has more on china's latest cases. the main proble

i think, well, china. busy as a rapidly growing country economically, as well as in other ways as well. i think culturally that it is certainly moving to the center of the world stage and engages with countries throughout the world. and i think target is no different. so i think in that respect, yes, china is active there and i believe it has a pretty decent sized embassy in child as well. talking a china and tongue for us on this news now. thank you. andy. kim. now something that's chasing up is one of the biggest threats and ation history in a few years, a very public falling out between cutter airways and air bus. now air boston manufacturing giant has cancelled a multi $1000000000.00 order from the airline for 50 of these air bus. a 321 neo jets air bus isn't happy because caught her. it was grounded. our whole lot of a 350 air bus planes 21 of them now at of operation and the airline says it won't accept the rest of those aircraft it. it ordered. so just a 2nd 21, a 3 fifty's and 20 no. 321. 50 a $320

in sudan are again met with deadly force 7 people i killed calling for a return to civilian rule and china's birth rate, tips to a record. laura, we look at the implications as large parts of the world seat declining populations . ah, the saudi led coalition has launched a strikes on yelman's capital killing at least a dozen people in response to a deadly attack by hoof. he rebels in the united arab emirates, the healthy se they fide 5 ballistic missiles and a number of drones at oil facilities, as well as the abu dhabi and to buy airports. police say 2 indian nationals and one pakistani were killed. the who fees are warning of more strikes me you a there moratti's announced to partial withdrawal from yemen in 2019, but maintain a military presence there. washington has condemned the attack, calling it an act of terror, and vowed to hold hoof use accountable for the strike. mohammed al our tub has more from yeoman's capital santa cut into the statement of the how these spokesperson the heavier. he says that the, the carried out this attack against the graeme wrist and order and retaliation t