and china is very, very close to the usa now. so it's not about policy. it's really about many other things that are happening that are driving these low fertility rates in difficult question to answer. it will depend, i suppose, on where in the world we're speaking about, you know, we've seen this demographic trend in japan and now we see much of the western world going in the same direction. but would you describe this as an opportunity or a looming crisis? i think it can be an opportunity, it's really up to governments and societies to make it what it means is that the same amount of resources that we have on our economies will be shared by small number of people. i think that's very good to make people wealthier in many ways. i think it creates an opportunity for older people to stay active and healthy and work. i think it's going to create employment opportunities for young people. so reduce unemployment, which is very good. of course it was. ready it could be good for the environment if we consumed less well that just new y

it's the same thing with china . china doesn't want to hear dick that's from the united states over how it behaves, to watch the mom or to watch tie one. why? because it wants to become a continental power. and these are the things that the, by the administration is to start tackling how to accommodate to respect. and at the same time, prussia laws, governments, in order for the china not to invade thy wine, in order for a shut in, not to invade ukraine, but they need to do it in a certain way, not simply by dictates and what the conditions. but by that kind of involvement, along with the european eyes in a responsible way, because the united states, we all are going to need all of these powers to operate, whether it is on the vaccines global warming on health, universal insecurity, beast. this armament and source of my when as ever thank you so much. my numbers out. are they talking to us from doha? okay, we will pause for your weather forecast with rob. we just hit hard and last week with a lot of snow in turkey handler van. this is a big jump from, took eastern turkey come across the

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

this was the largest incursion by china's military close to taiwan. this year, the sunday exercise involves $39.00 chinese warplanes, which flew close to the ty when he's controlled, protest islands. now, china's foreign ministry would not elaborate on the reasons behind this exercise, but it follows just one day after a huge show of military force by the u. s. and japan in the philippines. see now this exercise, this joint military exercise included to us aircraft carriers. and the u. s. navy said that this exercise was designed to preserve a free and open indoor pacific. now china considers taiwan a rogue chinese province that will inevitably be reunited with the mainland, and beijing has not ruled out using force in order to achieve this. in recent months, it's increased the number of military exercises taking place close to taiwan and the highest number of incursions in the court. it took place in october, which included $56.00 chinese warplanes, which flew close to taiwan on the same day. now, begging does the denies that these exercises are desi

so i think that this also causes problems for china . so this is a huge issue both for the shipping and present. pretend so thank you for your time . okay, teresa, thank you so much for joining us there from brussels. theresa fallon in brussels. lots more still to come here on the user for you, including the expert who feel the army kron variant may be a positive turning points in the pandemic. and the u. s. imposes sanctions against the controversial bosnian serb leader. and in the sports news, a london darby to forgets if you're a sports fan population coming up with thorough in about school, 40 minutes. ah, tennis diane nowak jacobin fighting against being deported from australia. he arrived there to play in a grand slam tournament. but the authorities refused to accept his exemption from pandemic and crew rules. his lawyers are appealing against the decision in court. the case has been adjourned until monday is sarah clark. this wasn't the arrival the world's number one men's tennis player had planned on the eve of this giant. ivan w

the challenges the china poses. i think that they are increasingly lock step over china. i think that that would be a fair characterization. and we see this, especially with regards to taiwan with prime minister to she does predecessor prime minister super when he traveled to the white house, the 2 countries featured taiwan and the point statement for the 1st time in decades . we saw taiwan reiterated again today and the 2 nations are increasingly working together to ensure that they can deter chinese aggression against taiwan and respond jointly and effectively if to turn scale. so i think that increasingly, the 2 countries, you see, i, on the challenge that china and what about north korea, are they in full agreement there to well, you know, it's hard to know why president biden's approach to north korea is so far that he hasn't restarted negotiations with the north but nor as he ratcheted up the pressure. so i think what this meeting was trying to accomplish is to get on the same page with an approach or 3. i thi

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

they beat china to new ending their opponent, types of making it to the finals in japan. now sit just the points ahead of the straight in the standing and iran will secure that pace at casa 2022. if they beats iraq, they haven't lost any of their might. she's so fall and do sits hope of a group a, but both teams are missing pays because of the 19 iraq beats the story, rather iran beats iraq, 3 know in the fixture when they played. and so how back in september now later there are 3 qualifies in the south american zone, brazil and argentina have already qualified, but there are still 2 places available and also pay off spots as well. when for ecuador over brazil would all but send them to kathy while she lay would move into the automatic pace. if they beat argentina and you're going face parkway, with both team still in with a chance of making the world cop you may need as well as the shields here that they can be achieved. we are in a difficult moment, but the time has come to compete and do something that has never been done in qualifying ground, which is to win 3 games i

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and as you just know, china was growing as a one percent. so that was the 1st year in many years they have to worry about girls. so they did a lot of things. they think a structural know to the ross model, including many industries. but this year, i mean 2022. i think the policy has shifted again. they mentioned the word to the plantation many times last month in a high level conference. so i would say, you know, the d d policy trip actually is going to be quite different as they, they will become a little bit more concerned about girls again, just like previous years. and then i think the practice of the industries will be a lot of local growth on, on the domestic level is about people being able to have the money to be able to spend. and what the government certainly in beijing wants to see is people buying into the property market, owning their own home, having those aspirations to be able to be home owners. but with the collapse of certain property developers, people get nervous stove. they, they don't want to spend that money, they will

the 1st batch of aid to come directly from china has arrived in tonga. the $33.00 ton shipment includes food, drinking water, tents, and radio equipment. but people on the island will have to wait for the aid to be distributed cove at 19 prevention measures mean that everything has to be disinfected and quarantined for 3 days on dearest sworn in its 1st female president, shimaya castro swept the national both in november, promising to restore democratic institutions optimal than 12 years of single policy rule. but a growing rift in congress threatens to derail the new president's political agenda . i'll just here as manuel ra follow reports from the capital o celebrations across the goosey golden. as human against all former 1st lady upon doris was sworn in to become the country's 1st female president. yet either in a manner he had a man, oh dear sisters and brothers honduran people, the presidency of the republic had never been assumed by a woman in honduras, 200 years have had to pass since the declaration of our independence. oh, city streets, through

so according to official information about 7000 people have arrived in china, head of the games. then already 176 people at least have tested positive. now, officials here trying to come many concerned saying that there is no outbreak within the bubble, per se, and the catching most of these infections at the airport. now there is a very rigorous system in place to try to keep tabs of people who do have covered 19, not only 2 people have to register the temperature every day for 14 days leading up to their flight to china. they have to test at the airport and then every day they are in beijing, they have to start the day with another curve at 19 test. what that's done. it's created a very tense environment within the bubble athletes and the support teams of terrified of catching curve in 1900. because if you do test positive, you will immediately be separated in quarantined and you will only be allowed to return to normal routine once your test negative twice. so there is a very big chance of completely missing out on your competition. and that means 4 years of preparations would

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 piling 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. plenty. morehead, on the, on the renew our including destroying data europe, police agency is told to get rid of information it holds on thousands of people criminalizing the cages. seems like these are set to become a thing of the past in south korea and, and sport tennis action from the australian open as a woman. numbe

i think listening closely to china, china clearly voted with russia. china is interesting though. i think for fun, not just because it's a superpower and it's on russia side. but also because in just 5 days time, you've got the beijing olympic starting. that is the centerpiece of china's year, it's their huge key event. you keep hearing from the us site from the pentagon, particularly that a military escalation of military incursion by russia could be imminent. i think many diplomats think no, certainly not this week because at that opening ceremony we're the mix. we're expecting president putin to go to beijing or to be there with president she and no one thinks you launch military action at a time of the opening of the olympics. a many, a questioning whether it happened at all during the olympics because china wouldn't want that. and certainly many diplomats to say to me, they think it's more likely that something could happen in terms of military action at the end of the link. lympics which put it in your door is ends on, on the 20th of february. also worth telling you that fro

let's say in china for instance, that's part of it. part of it is domestic production capability. mean, north korea seems to have developed some domestic production capabilities, notably for filament well and missile casings which, you know, pretty, is a very strong missile body with quite a light weight which increases range for instance. so it's a mixture of domestic production capability plus, international sanctions busting and help comes from them. and the implications for regional security are not good. because the more than northridge normalized as a nuclear state, less credible us extended nuclear deterrence looks for south korea and japan, which over time might decide that they themselves need to develop their own nuclear capability. which would you know yourself and already under way arms raised in east asia. also missile defense comes into play as the u. s. and south korean japan might begin to think about how they could integrate their missile defenses to push back in for 3 years. this would be considered provocative to chi

its allies and china, particularly over taiwan. and despite a recent telephone conversation between president putin and president biden mistrust is growing between the us and russia. with some in the us intelligence community predicting and invasion of ukraine could be imminent. the un secretary general antonio terrace is starting his 2nd 5 year term and the job this week. the world welcomes 2022 with our hopes for the future being tested by deepening poverty and worsening inequality by an unequal distribution of co, with vaccines by climates commitments that fall short and but ongoing conflict division and misinformation. the secretary general has been criticized by some for being too cautious, reluctant to speak out, particularly on human rights issues. but his supporters say a secretary general currently achieve things. if he has the full backing of the permanent members of the security council and their division right now, leaves him in walking a tightrope with others. james bayes al jazeera of the united nations lawyers for th

and this is a very dangerous time for the virus here in china. we're just heading into the lunar new year period or chinese new year, where typically many people travel across the country. there are hundreds of millions of trips made here in china as people travel home to see relatives for the most important public holiday here in the country. now, officials have discouraged travel this chinese need because of these outbreaks and officials are saying that they are staunchly committed to maintaining, trying to 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic. despite the fact that already 20000000 people here in china are affected by very severe lockdown or pandemic restrictions. more americans are in hospital with corona virus now and any other time, 1300000 cases were registered on monday. that's the highest data tele worldwide. the volume of infections is overwhelming. hospitals, administrative say many doctors and nurses are infected with violence. sweeping vaccine mandate for large businesses has come into effect in the us. despite the highest court hasn

not something between china and the new . again, the shoppers and turkey. conks look forward to lower prices anytime soon. the central bank is forecasting, but the inflation rates this year will be a 23 percent cent. costello reports from a stumble high inflation as a major talking point for all turks. the lira has lost nearly half of its value within the past year. as the central bank may steep cuts to interest rate. that also the policy cost prices to sor, 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 ra milk. the price of milk doubled with the increase on electricity. natural gas prices arising or regular customers cut their consumption . nearly 40 percent turkey is inflation rate rocketed to 36 percent in december after a series of interest rate cuts demanded by president project type. it's the highest inflation rate since as election 20 years ago. true to marcia because we used to buy in kilos last year now. and grams for mor

but of course, china is also healthier and more highly skilled and more highly educated. so there is actually, there is sending the potential that the china to be able to respond to that using these kind of long term plans to be able to whether some of these demographic challenges. let's go to your insights to get to boston. thanks for joining us. from rotterdam. thank. now the coven 19 pandemic is having a dramatic effect on jobs worldwide, and recovering from the job losses is expected to take longer than predicted. the international labor organization says that while unemployment rates aren't expected to be as high as last year, the deficits in working hours worldwide will be the equivalent of at least $52000000.00 full time jobs. that's and he double last year as estimate of 26000000 jobs. before the pandemic started in 2019, at least 189000000 people globally were classified as unemployed. that total is expected to surpass 200000000 this year. the jobs markets in europe and north america showing the most encouraging signs of recovery, while se, asia, latin america, a

have a morgan reporting from her to china's economic growth slowed at the end of last year. after a strong start, the pandemic real estate troubles on the lowest birth rate in decades are being blamed for the slum brick clinic reports from hong kong. as trying to tackles its on the chrome spread, a temperature check on the health of its economy shows mixed results. 4th quarter g d p rose by 4 percent from a year ago. according to china's national bureau statistics that stronger than the government's own target. but nearly a full percentage points slower than the previous quarter. the chinese economy grew by 8 point one percent in 2021 with the help of steady industrial output as the world continue to buy china's goods for years. and actually father industrial production, experienced sustained development and high tech manufacturing and equipment manufacturing experienced fast growth. but momentum is waning and its economy last steam in the 2nd half of the year, triggered by a slow down in the real estate sector and regulatory clamp downs authorities restricting the amount of

and this is a very dangerous time for the virus here in china. we're just heading into the lunar new year period or chinese new year, where typically many people travel across the country. there are hundreds of millions of trips made here in china as people travel home to see relatives for the most important public holiday here in the country. now officials have discouraged travel this chinese new year because of these outbreaks and officials are saying that they are staunchly committed to maintaining time as 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic. despite the fact that already 20000000 people here, china are affected by very severe locked downs or pandemic restrictions. even senate committee is meeting to hear the federal government take on how it's handling the pandemic. president joe biden has said he is confidence. the country is on the right track or representatives on the centers for disease control and top pos infectious disease expert anthony ferrucci. or among those speaking, u. s. is experiencing 8 massive surge in cove with 19 cases. wit

in china. on the other hand, i think the debt encouraged by immigrant is more slate, one on one debt. that is a debt between a grant as a borrower versus it's lenders. a debt between every grant versus apply is and also problems between ever grant as the property developer versus its customers. now, in sharp contrast to the financial crisis in 2008, which was caused mostly by the subscribe, which is derivative product sold to many financial institutions ever guns that is mostly one or one. and it could be more easily restructures. one of the last remaining independent publications in hong kong has announced it will close journalists that citizen, you say they don't feel like work safely. after colleagues at several pro democracy news outlets were arrested for sedition. writ clinic reports from hong kong in hong kong, shrinking media space. another loss in a statement on social media independent online, you cite citizen, you said it would stop operating from tuesday saying it needed to ensure th

rights to china and sion chance. we'd already sent an invitation and the 2 sides have agreed to maintain communication on china's position has always been clear on the purpose of the visit is to promote exchanges in cooperation between the 2 sides call what we oppose. anyone taking advantage of this for political manipulation in more on this now from out of here is katrina you in beijing according to bay james, you and human rights chief is welcome to come to china. she's welcome to visit the north western shin junk region, but only with one very important pre condition. and that is that this trip is a friendly visit and it's not framed as an investigation, or as china's for miss re spokesperson, put it as political manipulation. now according to reports, beijing has said that she can come to should young, following the end of the winter olympics, which closes on february the 20th. but we have not had any confirmation as to whether this will go ahead from michelle bachelor's office. we do know 2 things though. first

and this is really going to test china 0 tolerance approach to curve at 19. there are already about 14000000 people in china under severe lockdown in the provinces of sun sheet in hearne and province. and these infections are continuing to spread to other areas as well. now this is really going to be a test of china as current locked down policy. that's not testing reactions here. and we're going to have to see whether this on the kron variance is going to spread here. what is concerning to authority so far is that they have not nailed down the origin of the virus. when it comes to these cases, intention, thousands of people have protested against coven 19 restrictions. in the belgian capital brussels country has been reporting its highest caseload since the pandemic began. people have been ordered to work from home for at least 4 days a week and night, continental sporting centers of also been closed hospitality. venues require visitors to show a digital cove its safe ass, while the belgium prime minister said he is now considering mandatory vaccinations . a

and this is a very dangerous time for the virus here in china. we're just heading into the lunar new year period or chinese new year, where typically many people travel across the country. there are hundreds of millions, true of trips made here in china as people travel home to see relatives for the most important public holiday. here in the country now officials have discouraged travel this chinese new year because of these outbreaks and officials are saying that they are staunchly committed to maintaining time as 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic. despite the fact that already 20000000 people here in china are affected by very severe locked downs all pandemic restrictions. ringo chiller is making plans to administer a 5th at corona virus vaccine dose. as the roll out of the force begins this week, she lands who are immunity compromised can now receive their 2nd booster, and in the highly vaccinated nation, even those in the animal kingdom are being offered a dose or latin america editor lucy, a new n reports from santiago susannah fuentes ar

and if you look at china specifically, i mean there was a record dropping the birth rate in china despite that change in the government policy from one child to 2 children. but there was no real uptake. no, the reason is because people really don't want to have it for kids. i and i, you know though, the report that was, that was on just before they said it's because of cost. well that's one part of it . but it's also that people, particularly women, have decided they just want to live a different kind of life in which the, the time and effort they put into parenting and raising a family is going to be less of their, what their life experience is going to be so you say that it's too late to reverse things, not possible to get to the replacement rate anymore. so since we can't reverse it, then how do we prepare for the future? once? not so much that we can reverse it, is that nobody's figured out a way to do it. so if somebody fix up way to do it, i guess maybe there's a, there's a chance, but there's been no country in the world. it's really in the modern age figured out a way to do it. so

therefore, the fallout, whatever it is for ever grant will be more contained in china. it will not blow out into the financial a sector as well as into the consumer market as a whole, because it is not a hugely leveraged derivative product as it was the case in 2008. there has been a fall grove uncertainty. hasn't there ever ever grounds that crisis is a been to an extent so played up by the chinese government intentional? no, i don't think so. i think a few people originally expected that the total debt incurred by ever glad would be of such magnitude. mainly because ever grant of operates in all the 31 provinces autonomous regions. and mew, noisy palate is in china. and a normally, it is dealt with on a one hour basis. that is, each province or each city will deal with ever grant as a, a separate piece of the operation. however, if you put everything together in china, not only in the property sector, bugging the automobile sector, quite a few other sectors. for example. then if you see the total magnitude all the indebtedness by ever grant, it is a shocking dimension

so all of those factors contributed to downgrade in china. the real estate sector has continued to slow and we now projected to significantly slow growth and real estate investment for next year than we did previously. and also consumption private consumption in particular has been so to come out and read, expected reflecting recurring outbreaks reflecting we found them in the economy at the moment. what's been described in the report as advanced economies are more likely to recover quicker. but what are the risks to emerging markets and developing economies? well they, there's been a difference in the amount of policy support that economies have been able to provide based on the amount of policy space that they have going into. this is the spend. and we've seen the economy and able to do much larger fiscal support on average than the emerging market in developing countries that's, that's helped with the rebound. it also does economies on average of also been able to, to vaccinate their populations at a faster pace than merging market and dev

there. china denies any allegations of abuse. seen the camps provide vocational training. china may soon require a security review for apps that could influence public opinion these cyberspace regulator. as su, draft rules targeting developers, stating that apps shouldn't endanger national security. it's the latest moved by the government to increase its oversight on tech companies. early i spoke to 400 an appeal, a cyber security specialist who explains more now about this. latest move by china is measures which is a broad either undertaking. iris is, is in a continuation of a series of measures with shorter not only uses privacy, but also in order to receive national security concerns as well. okay, if this is about so called data localization, does that mean that the chinese government only wants the people of china to see what the chinese government wants them to see there? the idea behind is the latest measures district. sure. it does change for me, which want to invest in a form entries or want to get listed. it can be they have to go to our service to go to the view mechanism afte

as long as he was china of stealing intellectual property from american companies, a charge china denies global food prices, john 28 percent last year, the highest figure since 2011. the u. n says price is east slightly in december, but they had climbed for the previous 4 months in a row. this is contributed to a surgeon general inflation and economies around the world. and as ever, poor countries are disproportionately affected, especially those relying on imports. adul reza upper santian is a senior economist with the u. n. food and agriculture organization. he says, prices have risen further than expected. during the pandemic use an index that measures what's happening in international markets. of course, not in individual countries, for prices. we include in this index cereals, to very important the staple vegetable oils, sugar meat and dairy. so this is sort of like the composition of our index and it had consecutive increase in the price worldwide for good, good part of last year. i would say not only the last 4 months and put some commodities all the way through if you look at the

this board have become very popular in china in recent years. the chinese government has poured billions of dollars into preparing to host the games in february, including investing in italian snow making equipment to help build up its fledgling winter sports industry bids will create a whole culture around the winter sports and we create a whole new mindset off in the, in the attorneys head as low now that time has those aspiration of re entry 100000000 people. and so in eyes $30000.00 international athletes and support staff will be among the 1st to stay in a new olympic village and trial. a chinese digital currency. these resorts have had their busier season this winter because of the olympic games, but they will be forced to close the week, leading up to the opening of the event. his entire area was sealed off to control the spread of the corona. virus. doors taking part will be restricted to a tightly controlled, then you bubble china is battling the delta variant in it's more severe, flare up of curve at 19 for months. with 13000000 people

in coven 19 testing has begun for 14000000 people in a city in china. doctor's report, at least 2 new infections of the army, kron variant in change. and it's a few hours drive from beijing where the winter limit games. the juices start. next month, the new cases have emerged despite the government so called 0 coven strategy. me correspondent, katrina you is in beijing with the main problem for chinese authorities is it's passivity to beijing. it's only about 3 hours drive away o 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 mentioned, change residents have been ordered not to leave their homes until they are tested and then they cannot leave their city unless absolutely necessary. those who work and aging the work from home and all others in aging, who have traveled to the affected areas in change and in recent weeks must begi

some call it china is hawaii. the island province in the south, a tracks tens of millions of visitors every year. and property developers have flocked here to accommodate them. real estate giant ever grad constructed this artificial island, complete with hotels and theme parks. but a debt crisis has caused many of its projects to come to a halt. these $39.00 unfinished apartment buildings would you to be completed soon? now the local government has called for them to be demolished, citing environmental concerns. the order has sparked confusion among local people. general jay holla, these buildings have already been constructed lodges and now they want to demolish down to love a personally, i think is a big waste of resources getting clover young's eyes. you, you thought isn't what if you tear down these buildings, it will just create more pollution. it also causing the owners of other apartments here to panic because they're afraid this will be next. the unfinished project was backed by a former marriage, john che

that type of restrictions that are being used in places like china. and yet, we've got some countries in europe who have got protests going on because people don't want a vaccine passport to still don't want to get vaccinated. how do you say that impacting the surge of only crohn cases but very important that we do do some measures to control this way up on the con, so there are in that can be done that are practical. so we've been having booster shots and delivered to that population, protecting the most at risk of giving them people protecting back the people around them. and. and where in math is another very important measure to reduce the bed of on the con and generally out. and then all the things that we've been doing throughout the candlestick and just quickly dr. before we let you go, i've been asking other health professionals about this. when are we going to stop saying? corona virus? when will we see the back of this pandemic are very hard to predict the future, but from, from this current wave up in action, look like it might be the last

so china has got, if you'd like to say skin in the game in china. certainly would like to be involved in bringing sort of a political solution or at least progressing political solution. and it has the opportunity with both president zaleski and president putin expected to turn up envisioning next week. so it's certainly the focus of attention in this particular kind of spend off. we'll shift to beijing during the next couple of days or coming up to the opening ceremony of the lympics chris or any compelling interesting aspect to this developing story. thank you so much, chris. we for talking to us problem to willing parties. nittany have asked the current president sergio montela to carry on for 2nd term politicians who spent the past week voting to find an alternative, but they failed. the 80 year old mister allen has previously said he does not wish to continue in the row. not in barbara following that story for us out of london. so what does this tell us? is this something of a result or was this how it was always going to shake down 90? no, don

the island, china claims taiwan as an extension of its territory. north korea has released pictures of what it says was a hypersonic missile that successfully hit its target. it was launched on wednesday and went into the ceo of north korea's eastern coast. it marked the 1st such test by the country since october. earlier this week, leader kim jong own, said his country will build on its missile and nuclear program. well, to the prices of it, a 10 year high, the u. n. food and agriculture organization has found prices jumped 28 percent in 2021. that increase is being blamed on poor harvest and a strong demand for food they go. scientists are on a mission to a giant glacier in antarctica to get a better idea of how much is being impacted by climate change. they'll use under water robots to get beneath the threats glazier rather chillingly. it's referred to as the doomsday iglesia, because it would raise global see levels by 65 centimeters. if it were to collapse and melt. recent research shows its hemorrhaging more and more ice. it is enormous, 19200

but 1st let's go to katrina you in by jane with the latest on china. hello there. katrina, thanks for joining us. so miss news, our cases have been detected about 2 hours outside of beijing in t n. jing water authorities doing how would they reacting all chinese authorities have began testing every one of the 14000000 residents in change. and they say they'll finish this 1st round of testing of the entire city by the end of tuesday. now, people intention have been ordered to stay home until they've gotten tested. and this current outbreak 20 case is confirmed, at least 2 of these cases are confirmed to the armor chron variant. the 1st of this, a 1st local transmission of this highly infectious variant. and these are centered around one district in particular called ging, none district in change in which is quite close to the airport. now the problem for chinese authorities is the proximity of t engine to beijing. it's a very important port city, and it's only about 2 to 3 hours drive to the capital. people can take a quick, high speed rail train that a

technology would be a qu for china. if it found the aircraft 1st, the f $35.00 c crashed on monday as it tried to land on an aircraft carrier. it's the 3rd time that an f $35.00 is had to be retrieved from the ocean in november, a british f, $35.00, be a short take off a vertical landing version crashed as it last power, taking off from an aircraft carrier in the mediterranean at, in 2019 a japanese f. 35 a. the conventional take off of landing versions, crashed over the pacific, killing the pilots, and leaving a lead day bree to be recovered. let's bring in lawrence corbin, washington. he's a retired navy captain and former assistant secretary of defense. now a senior fellow at the center for american progress. lawrence, good to have with us. again. what do you make of what's happening with the f 35? it. why does it keep crashing? is it simply teething troubles, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this aircraft? what happened is we rushed, the production of it was in when it wasn't ready to go into productio

i'm not china, i'm not asking for castles in the sky. i'm asking her practical things, american people mask and for, for a long time, a long time. and i think we can get it done. you're not going to scale down any of these priorities, but so far that strategy isn't working. you haven't been able to get some of these big legislative to like i am john real big ones done bigger than any present who's ever gotten the 1st. but currently, mr. president, you're spending package voting rights legislation. they're not going anywhere. so that, sue, is there anything that you are confident you can get signed into law before the mid term elections? yes, i'm confident we can get pieces. big chunks of the bill back better law signed the law. and i'm confident we can take the case to the american people that the people they should be voting for her. but oversee with the elections in fact are legit or not. should not be those who are being put up by the republicans to dump, to determine that they're going to be able to change the outcome the election. s

so integrating more with the east primarily than china that lead state here. so because of this, they also believe that because nato is not going to stop its expansion into ukraine and you will further towards russia that that should repair itself for long term conflicts. so what is done is develop the new weapon systems, but also trying to make itself bullet proof to western sanctions. so on one hand, some of this has been deliberate response to sanctions by, for example, having more it will fiscal responsibility less reliant on foreign investments by those incorporation with china, the russia that been working towards as the coupling from the west, by diversifying its technologies, its finances industries and energy exports. so effectively, if for foreseeing back after 2015 and that, that this conflicts would not go away. so it's instead learning to live with that is conflict, right? but has this come at a cost sort of internally? because if you look at the russian economy, for example, it's grown point 8 percent annually on average that since 2013, if you c

but russia was joined by china and objecting to the session. and 3 other security council members, gabon, kenya, and india, abstained. the meeting went ahead, bought the procedural vote. and the comments of many of the non western members of the council should be noted. the u. s. is aim here was to galvanize international opinion against what it says is the russian threat. but to achieve a broad international consensus, it still has more work to do. james bay's al jazeera, the united nations, as concerned that a russian invasion of ukraine could compromise, europe's gas supplies, and the u. s. as we've had is looking to counter for help to try to plug the gap and he can suffers as the sharing a chair in energy and jeer politics at the center for strategic and international studies. he joins his life in washington, d. c. thanks very much for being with us sir. how are important apart? could cat a player nessa in trenton shore up supplies of gas or is one of the largest l n g suppliers in the world? so if we have a disruption of russian gas to eu

now this is really going to be a test of china's current lockdown policy. that's nass testing reactions here. and we're going to have to see whether this on the kron variance is going to spread here. what is concerning to authority so far is that they have not nailed down the origin of the virus. when it comes to these cases in tinge and india's rate of infection has risen to a 7 months high of nearly $160000.00 cases per day. several states are imposing new restrictions, including curfews. i'm cancelling political rallies for elections next month. putney natal reports from new delhi, usually bustling wood shop, or markets in new delhi, emptied as a weekend cause. he started most of the capital shut down as a number of daily coded life union structures, least 7 months high. the new club followed the imposing a nice curfew as well as closing schools jims and cinemas a few weeks ago. i'm most scared of the lockdown because we can't leave our home. students like me recently graduated, it's been very difficult to get a job with people who have recently lost the

and, you know, with all of that, and still obama wants to take over, was china and russia at the same time. it's not going to work very briefly mowing because we are almost out of time explain for me if, if we can the singular unpopularity of common harris. she, she got there on, on this blaze of publicity. she was supposed to be his diplomatic wing woman. um, nobody, no reputable opinion poll in the last 12 months, says that she's bleeping any place on any radar with anyone as doing a good job. what's going wrong there? hello, come in. she clearly was the accidental vice president, right. i mean, she was at, she was a chosen because she's among others, a sick, you know, as successful former prosecutor, a senator, a woman and a woman of color. so according to the polls that would have worked for job i then i they collected that now at the time i was also miss moore. i so i read her book. right. i did her memoirs, and i told you is there are so unremarkable, even for someone who would use shadow writers and you know, researchers on so forth. hem korea was really just unremarkable. and

the city between the u says the outbreak is bad news for china's leaders. this is not the picture they would have wanted so close to the went again to opens and only 10 days. but we've had reported in china 3400 cases around about since the beginning of december. this outbreak has spread to 6 regions, including some major cities such as shanghai and change. and but of course, what is really alarming authorities is these clusters now in the capital beijing. now there were 2 separate clusters that they've been trying to get under control. the 1st was about 6 cases of the highly infectious on the con variant. now authority say that they have seemed to contain that. but what they are still struggling to really fight is this cluster of the delta varied, which seems to center around a cold food storage plant in the district of fung tie. now the 2000000 people living in fungi district have been asked on tuesday to underground to undergo a 2nd round of mass testing. they're not allowed to leave their homes unless they can show a negative curve and test result. but

so this will be a time consuming, very painful process in ah, china. on the other hand, i think the debt incurred by immigrant is mostly one. no one debt. that is a debt between ever grant has a borrow versus it's lenders, a debt between ever but grant versus is a priors. and also problems between ever grant as the property developer versus its customers. now, in sharp contrast to the financial crisis in 2008, which was caused or mostly by the subprime, which is a derivative ah, product, sol, to many financial institutions ever grants. debt is mostly $1.00 0, $1.00 egg and it could be more easily restructures. one of the last remaining independent publications in hong kong has announced a will close journalist that citizen you say they don't feel they can work safely after colleagues at separate pro democracy news outlets were arrested for sedition, for clinic reports from hong kong in hong kong, shrinking media space, another loss in a statement on social media, independent, online news sites. citizen, you said it would stop operating from tuesday, sa

the plains highly classified technology would be a crew for china. if it's found the aircraft 1st, the f $35.00 see crashed on monday as it tried to land on an aircraft carrier. it's the 3rd time in f 35 percent to be retrieved from the ocean. in november, a british f 35 b. the short take hoffen vertical landing version crashed as it last power taking off from an aircraft carrier in the mediterranean. and in 2019 a japanese f 35 a. the conventional take off a landing version, crashed over the pacific, killing the pilot, and leaving just deborah to be recovered. lauren's court is a retired us naval captain, and formerly an assistant secretary of defense. he says this jet was rushed into production before it was ready. we had put all our eggs in this one basket. we stop producing the up the dean, the f, 16. and we wanted to have one plane for all of the services. and when it ran into problems, we had no alternatives. so we kept building them and work the problems out as we went along. but unfortunately, some of the ones that got into the fleet or with