and once a reaction from europe of german on, on china policy happens, then that will be china reaction. and then we will see whether a ton of real politics we are working with really. yeah, let me just let me ask you, let me ask you, do you think that's really going to happen? because, you know, you could argue that china needs, the european union needs germany just as much as germany needs china when we're talking about, you know, the 2 way street of business here. so if you do in of turn the screws a little bit, when it comes to human rights, i mean the china is not going to run away. no time is not uncommon ray, but china is able also to, to school on its side. i mean, you've seen that with your p o was international companies and issues. seeing that when i, when one company tried to, to void a custom to use content from saint john. because it said that we could use them for labor can. so john, a complaint against the company. so that means that business will be effective and efficient, especially in the house cover crisis situation, which will be facing soon. might that just not wa

no, china's hold on going to rain, but china is able also to, to talk the screws on it side. i mean, you've seen that with your people with international companies and the issues that when i, when one company try to, to avoid a call to them, to use them from st. john's. because it said if you could use them both later, can. so john, i need to be sure to be complaint against the company. so that means that business will be all more effective and efficient, especially the post covered crisis situation, which will be facing soon might than just not want to to, to make the economic situation worse. for the country, so this will be a good question for all european countries. actually to, to answer arianna reimers with the mayor carter institute for china studies. we appreciate your time, your insights tonight. thank you. was i'm sad. news to report denied the ground breaking actor sidney point he has died at the age of $94.00. he was the 1st black person to win the best actor award. best oscar for the 1963 film lilies of the field. he inspired a generation during the civil rights

you arrived in beijing during a time of tension between china and germany, with reports of china hacking the german government computer network. how did things change during your 6 years as ambassador? yes, clear when when i arrived in 2007 and the 1st big conflict between our 2 governments was dollar lum. and in fact, the reception by america of della lama in berlin really put, put a big strain on our relationship. and i think it has been a mixture off the dialogue and having a very clear position that america took really put off this and difficult conflict and step by step developed in a more open, constructive, co operative kind of relationship. and i think under america, we saw the status of the relationship between berlin in beijing upgraded it to a comprehensive, strategic partnership. but a long list of human rights issues remain a foreign in the side of the relationship. especially in, in jang and hong kong. could germany have done more on pressing for human rights to be up health? but it's always the question if you tackle human rights publicly or in a very clear. but the direct

so, more outspoken on human rights reducing economic dependencies on china. so germany now has a chancellor who doesn't want to rock the boat and a foreign minister who wants a tough line. also in the mix, a liberal finance minister who's pro human rights, but close to business. this could get very complicated. we could see as sort of coffee, many of discordant signals on china from this new government signals from bay ging suggest things are changing, they're more focused on the domestic economy. more state control, this could lead china to pull away from the west rather than the other way round. so as germany's new team gets down to work, finding a coherent way forward on china will be a massive challenge. the world is watching sport now and the buddhist legged returned with a bang after the winter break as met can glad back. stunned league lead as by and munich, bon would normally have come into this match a strong favorites, but the bavarian were missing 9 stars. g to covet 19 glad back, took advantage, and in doing so brave a little life into the title c

hopefully people in china, mainland china will see thousands of people wearing those pinks white t shirt to be straight up in grand final. and they will know that she still not safe. they will know that people all across the world are still speaking of pinks. roy, whether she knows it or not, tang schwein has plenty of fans who want to see her back on a tennis tour. like our next gas is a b, c journalist, max walden. he joins us now from melbourne, macs. i need to ask you about why the organizer said that they backtrack on their decision. what was the reason that they gave yeah. will they come out and said now that you know that they're okay with paypal, wearing a shirts. i'm although banners which were also taken off the activists the other day. um that you know this, you're not allowed you to safety reasons. i'm. there has been a b public outcry in that foreign minister may comment on this. so really, i think, you know, this decision's been made. i'm off the significant public and media pressure. now we saw that report there, tennis legend martine, an average alova slamming the origina

hopefully people in china, mainland china, will see thousands of people wearing those pinks white t shirts to be straight up in grand final. and they will know that she is still not safe. they will know that people all across the world. still speaking of pinks, roy, whether she knows it or not, tang schwein has plenty of fans who want to see her back on a tennis tour. like santa has pursued a 0 coven policy since the start of the pandemic, and claims to have recorded fewer than 5000 deaths as a result. in the u. s. by comparison, coven 19 has killed nearly 900000 people. but it's unclear of china will be able to hold back the more infectious alma chron variant as a country prepares to host the olympic games. here in beijing, life appears to be back to normal, with people enjoying traditional winter activities, like ice cheer, writing cove. it almost seems to be a thing of the past or other general i think being outside here is all right. besides the gin has done an exemplary job of finding the pandemic. so far as yeah, glenn is long as people keeping careful everything should be okay. i ha

you could say just between china and western world, and i think china just really wants to show that they can pull this off successfully. i think they want to show that they can have a more successful winter olympics than the summer olympics. that just happened last year. until you know, that was was of course also distracted by coping. but i think they're really show that their strategy of, of cove is 0, is the right strategy and, and the big contrast of the rest of the world and how, you know cove, it has really ripped through a lot of society that hasn't happened here. china since 2 years ago, and i think they really want that to be the case going through the rush, the february march, jonathan chang from the wall street journal, speaking to us from beijing. thank you very much, jonathan. i'm trying let's get a round up of some other world headlines now. the sudanese protest who was killed on sunday during demonstrations against the military that brings the tally of death since the military crew. in october 2, 62, the united nations has called 4 talks between military leaders and p

i think his, his view of china was shaped by his 7 years as mayor of hamburg. that's a foreign minister in a bad book, like green party, she's been highly critical of a jane. she's called for essentially a break in, in, in germany's approach so, more outspoken on human rights. reducing economic dependencies on china. so germany now has a chancellor who doesn't want to rock the boat and a foreign minister who wants a tough line. also in the mix, a liberal finance minister who's pro human rights, but close to business. these could get very complicated. we could see as sort of coughing any of discordant signals on china from this new government and signals from bay ging suggest things are changing. death more focus on the domestic economy. more state control. this could lead china to pull away from the west rather than the other way round. so as germany's new team gets down to work, finding a coherent way forward on china will be a massive challenge. the world is watching. time not ever look at some of the other stories making news around the world. police inciden

hopefully people in china, mainland china will see thousands of people wearing those pinkish white t shirts to be straight up in grand final. and they will know that she is still not safe. they will know that people all across the world are still speaking up a pinks roy. whether she knows it or not, tang schwein has plenty of fans who want to see her back on the tennis tour. like let's go straight to melbourne. now we're abc journalist max walden is standing by max. why has the australian open back tracked on their decision about these teachers? what reason did they give? yeah, well initially they said that they don't allow taisha political or commercial messages on them. i'm however, a quite a strong public and media backlash. i'm, they have now reverse this decision. indeed, b r is trailing foreign minister day white in saying that patients should be allowed to be won. so long as protests is aunt disturbing the why. so in day yeah, within really 24 hours. they back lived on this decision. now we saw in that report the tennis legend marching, an average rollover slammed the original

plus the authorities in china, again mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious omar variant are detected in a city near beijing less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host the winter olympics. ah, hello, i'm clare richards and thank you for joining us. echo was leaders have slapped severe new sanctions on molly's military rulers. this after the who just suggested postponing elections for up to 4 years, instead of holding them next month. the leaders of the west african regional walk meeting in gone as hello opera called the timeline totally unacceptable. before announcing the steepest consequences, formally 2 dates, the west african country is highly unstable and has seen 3 military takeover since to 2012. most recently last may so let's find out more about what all this means. i'm now joined by dw corresponded. isaac collects the in accra, where the echo was special meeting is taking place. i can tell us more about what echo was. leaders have agreed so at the end of the i'm, it's amy and i cra, they've decided not to compromise on the principles and also the

in china, you routinely see all sorts of encryption flaws built into software. in fact, not that long ago, the citizen lab discovered such a flaw in china made zoom soccer platform that many people use during the pandemic. but you know, this is also an authoritarian regime that has a long history of weakening encryption and of course surveillance of its users. so, you know, either way, it's something that i would advise everyone who is attending the games to be aware of because it puts their data at very serious risk. and i thought that was going to be my next question. because if this has been mandated, either how worried should i be about using this app? well 1st of all, i was in instructing or giving advice to anyone, particularly a journalist traveling to china. i would recommend not taking your regular phone or your work phone. i would recommend taking a burner device, not trusting the network anywhere within china because surveillance is extensive there. what this adds though, is the insecurities that we discovered add a layer of potential criminal fraud 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 or pandemic restrictions was he heard earlier more americans than ever before or in hospital with corona virus. on point 3000000 cases were registered on monday that so world wides daily records. the volume of infections is overwhelming. hospitals administrators say many doctors and nurses are infected with the virus to doctor patrick tang is a microbiologist and division chief of pathology, et cete

also coming up on the show authorities in china again, math testing after 2 cases of be highly contagious, omicron variance are detected in a city near beijing. less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host a winter olympics. and a baby boy separated from his parents during the chaotic american evacuation of afghanistan is reunited with his family. but it means heartbreak for those who looked after him. ah, i am claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. a call whilst leaders have slapped severe new sanctions on molly's military rulers. less after the hunt, i suggested postponing elections for up to 4 years. instead of holding them next month, leaders of the west african regional block meeting and gone has capitol, accra have announced harsh restrictions similar to those imposed after a 2022. the west african country is highly unstable and has seen 3 military takeovers since 2012. most recently, last may, so let's find out more about what all this means. i'm now joined by d. w. corresponded isaac collect the in accra where the echo was special meeting is taking pla

the recovery in china. well, rob, to start off, maybe we should look at, you know, there are positives here that we've seen car production group for the 1st time since april. we're seeing that industrial production grew strongly and to a certain extent helped to offset as a drop in retail sales. and they're also higher than that. the figures are higher than i had been expecting. but then again, looking towards the end of the year, we can really see that there are a lot of challenges facing the economy. the primary one is the course, alma kron. nobody knows what china 0 cobit policy is going to mean for how it deals with alma chrome because it's shown itself to be so infectious and we're seeing a lot of cases there. so that's really giving people lot of headaches. and then also we have the real estate issue which hasn't gone away. it's worth $55.00 trillion dollars, which is 4 times total gdp and china. so there's a lot of these headwinds that the economy is facing in to now. now we just seen the shape of th

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why we seeing that change from china? morning, rob, i think china has several priorities here. the 1st one is, is, is energy security. it's an obsession with china as well as with most government. and how's that sound is a key part in the ensuring that china has enough oil and natural gas. one fixed of it's natural gas comes from context on or through cars next on past quantities. but all are coming through there, so they need as much stability as possible there. and i think another thing which change them is the fact that russia intervened. russia and china hubs, what you'd call it best, a fraction relationship. but at the moment it's a salo does, it's going to ever be on there. i think the fact that russia was able to intervene meant that china was able to be a bit more vocal in how it felt about what was going on there. and also, as it was mentioned, the word, the word in the report, the words color revolution can have a chilling effect in china because it's always afraid of a popular uprising over throwing power. so once the overturning it's government in china, so once you

and also in recent years, china, a lot of cold from custody. i think in terms of energy security cost on the sector, extremely important to china, let alone we talk about the one bed, one new initiative which is accurate. cost on is a dissenter of the whole thing. yeah. so, so this is in terms of, in the future politics and, you know, my couple fun extremely important to china and i don't think waiting would just let us start one on this home. and we'll keep a break, cross i onto it. and especially nowadays when the west and china has been struggling on the problem of seem jones, a cost on and others, social, asian country has cars in terms of culture and religion. we've seen john coffin, especially among the muslims and china, will definitely work closely with russia and also the see a seal ice to try to stop and prevent potential spill over into china. incredible amount revocation, arthur, david, the protest do look coordinated, you know, when you go after a tv station, you go after a new report that's out of the playbook, isn't it? of the re

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

you are watching dw news alive from berlin omicron arrives in china. authorities begin mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious corona virus variant are detected in a city near beijing. less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host the winter olympics. also coming up on the show, a baby boy separated from his parents during the chaos of the us evacuation of afghanistan is reunited with his family. by any means, heartbreak for those who looked after him. ah, hello, i'm claire richardson, thanks so much for joining us. authorities in the chinese city of jen, jen have started testing. it's nearly $14000000.00 residents after 2 cases of the omar kron corona, virus variant were detected and tangent is near china's capital beijing, which will host the winter olympics next month. and with the major new year festive period approaching, china's authorities have imposed a strict lock downs and mass testing to contain outbreaks of the corona, virus. police offices, and protective gear. outside an apartment block in the port city of t and gin. health officials found to people

so it's a scene that's already been repeated in cities across china. like here in shan, where an outbreak began in december health officials, they're say new corona virus case is transmitted within the community or falling off to mass testing and a severe lockdown. now in its 3rd week millions a confined to their homes. residents have complained about not being able to buy food or get medical care because of the restrictions. china is trying to stamp out the virus within its borders. the winter olympics are due to take place in just a few weeks and with preparations well underway. authorities want to avoid a coven 19 outbreak at all costs, especially in a major port city on beijing's doorstep. china's state tabloid global times says the change in health officials hope the mass testing in the city would stop an outbreak from reaching the capital. but as tangents residents are told to get tested and stay home, the new clusters of locally transmitted cases are testing china's 0 cove, its strategy. the situation in kazakhstan, the largest city almighty is

— sense the current situation is good for china? thank you for havin: good for china? thank you for having me _ good for china? thank you for having me on. _ good for china? thank you for having me on. my— good for china? thank you for i having me on. my understanding is that the current situation, if it is not too bad for china because if you look at it from the chinese perspective, much of the us focus during the barn administration has been on the strategic competition with china. right now with the developments in ukraine there has been a lot more us attention as well as western intention on russia, ukraine and the west. this temporarily leaves from the tension that was currently focused on china. but i think your question also is too if situations to escalate and if we do see a russian invasion of ukraine or a conflict over ukraine, that could put china in a much more difficult spot. i5 could put china in a much more difficult spot.— difficult spot. is there a sense that _ difficult spot. is there a sense that china - difficult spot. is there a sense that chin

due to the epidemic control in many parts of china. at the same time, china's face ignore mich headwinds, including the shrinking population of poverty sector, slow down their local government debt. it's a big challenge for the authorities to boost market confidence while maintain their own cove. it strategy we've been hearing about a concern. there is outside of china about what impact it's measures could have on global trade. exactly. i was sort of affect, could it have well, china, us economy has been the main local motive of global growth in the last few years. and china is likely to remain the world's leading export or for the near future with strong external demand for things like consumer electronics, furniture, and other home comforts. but now millions of small and family owned private on businesses have crumbled. during the pandemic, we could expect renew disruption of supply chains. and the slow in chinese academy would certainly be a new hit to the global recovery. and if the slow down were to be serious enough, some experts

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

for china studies or merrick. thanks a lot for joining us on the to be your business. can you just explain to us why we are seeing more overseas companies investing in china? yeah, thanks for having me on. i think there are 3 main reasons why we're seeing this. the 1st is just from a basic portfolio perspective. companies are going to put money where they're seeing good recently and return this on their investment and trying to handling the pandemic. and how that allows trying to sort of, you know, remain economically quite strong overall compared to the rest of the world. meant from portfolio perspective, investment, mid cents. the 2nd is, as you alluded to, we've seen some steady increases and market access over the last few years. and companies are now able to take advantage of some of these areas like motor than chemicals and a few others. we've seen some steady increase in investment, but i think the 3rd and probably the most important reason is that companies are really looking to onshore their supply chains

so you have all the countries and japan, china, and korea that these 3 countries, japan, china, and korea also never had an agreement between themselves. so that's value addition of the agreement. yeah. and finally, i guess the countries that do have agreement amongst themselves, this is an opportunity to try and harmonize those rules, make them more, he rent and get over these noodle both affect nations big and small involved in this. and you've got giants like china and india, and other winners and losers. though among those countries, i think everyone will gain from the membership. there are no loses, as such, the gains will not be equal though. and a lot of concerned that china be the biggest when the, the expense of the others. that's not the case. i don't think that's true. china is already a major player. the incremental games will not be that great to china, japan, korea. in fact, the smaller countries, like cambodia, where i am or vietnam, allows can potentially be the largest winners if they use this opportunity to pursue the kinds of reforms that they need to do. they have to m

and china's birthright dipped to a record law. we look at the implications as large parts of the world, c, declining populations. ah, the saudi led coalition has launched a strikes on yelman's capital killing, at least a dozen people. it's in response to a deadly attack by who if he rebels in the united arab emirates, the her feet say they fired 5 ballistic missiles and a number of drones had oil facilities as well as the apple darby and to buy airports. police say 2 indian nationals and one pakistani were killed. the who fees are wanting of more strikes in the u. a. the, a moratti's announced a partial withdrawal from yemen back in 2019, but maintain a military presence there. washington has condemned the attack, calling it an act of terror and bow to hold who these accountable for this strike? mohammed ela tub has more from yeoman's capital santa cut into the statement of the how these spokesperson the area. he says that the, the carried out this attack against the united bremerton order and retaliation. 2 of the he described it

and china, there were covered in 1900 strategy. that's 3 cases. true many. so we've had a number of residential neighborhoods invading under locked out at least 2000000 people, forced to undergo a mass testing twice this past week in the city. and today on monday it's the beginning of the lunar new year festival. so traditionally, we should see hundreds of millions of people traveling from the city to the countryside to celebrate with a family book because a very strict corporate restrictions ahead of the opening of the winter games. many people are not able to do that, so they've been separated for the family for this big celebration this week. i katrina you there in beijing. thank you. a cabinet minister in hong kong, a step down author, attending a birthday party despite a government call for people to avoid large gatherings. casper 3 was the home affairs minister and arising figure in the probate ging political party, the da b. the celebration has become a source of embarrassment for hong kong, chief executive carry lamb among

now, china's current uptick in cases could prove even worse. right now there are 4 port cities that are under threat of lockdown. they're still running for there have already been delays to logistic centers because of tightened measures. experts at the p and institute for international economics, for example, say that china could actually end up broadening its measures if it's proven that it's sino farm. vaccines are not as sufficiently effective against the army con variant as they need them to be. so i've been speaking to our correspondent in tie pate on hand, so i asked him what told china's tough pandemic approach was already having on its own economy. well, china as a 0 tolerance approach, could lead to disappointing consumption growth this year. more serious economic damage more widespread day intervention and more disgruntled crowds. week domestic demand remains a major problem for china at the moment. according to official statistics, china's annual growth rate for consumption and investment both fell to single digits late last year, fr

i think this is much more important than china might, but china is saying publicly. might, but china is saying ublicl . , ., publicly. there is also the ever present _ publicly. there is also the ever present situation - publicly. there is also the ever present situation ofl publicly. there is also the l ever present situation of oil and obviously, russia is very central to that and the nord stream two, a lot of talk about that in europe and germany and the us saying it will not go ahead if they invade ukraine but obviously china also has interests in this field, doesn't it?— interests in this field, doesn't it? . ~ ., ., ., doesn't it? talk through that a little bit. sure, _ doesn't it? talk through that a little bit. sure, actually, - doesn't it? talk through that a little bit. sure, actually, it- little bit. sure, actually, it is expected that when putin visits beijing next week, their most important agreement but could be signed between russia and china would be a contract for the so—called power subarea two natural gas pipeline that would go from western siberia through mong

about start to 2022 for china's ever grand. the trouble with property developer has suspended trading and it shares on the hong kong stock exchange. company is heavily indebted with more than $300000000000.00 in liabilities. that includes nearly $20000000000.00 of international market bombs that are deemed to be in default after the developer missed payments. the suspension of its shares closely follows reports. every grant has been ordered to demolish 39 residential buildings in the chinese resort of high nan. because they were built illegally let's get more on this from our correspondent in beijing, fabia crash. net, thanks for joining us. far beyond, you actually know why ever grant has suspended trading. and it says in hong kong where there was no official explanation given. and we have to wait for more on that, but the news eci doesn't come as a big surprise at least not if you followed the recent developments of ever grant just this tuesday. i am the company is supposed to have mr. ab payment deadline of for $250000000.00

have coming up on the show authorities in china begin mass testing after 2 cases of the highly contagious omar con variant are detected any city near beijing less than a month before the chinese capital is set to host a winterland fix and a baby boy separated from his parents, during the chaotic american evacuation of afghanistan, is reunited with his family fight. it means heartbreak for those who looked after him. ah, hello, i'm claire richards and thanks so much for joining us. echo was leaders have slapped severe new sanctions on molly's military rulers. this after the home just suggested postponing elections for up to 4 years. instead of holding them next month of the west african regional block meeting in gone us capital opera have announced harsh restrictions similar to those imposed after a 2022. the west african country is highly unstable and has seen 3 military takeover since 2012 most recently last make so let's find out more about what all this means are now joined by d. w correspondent isaac collect the in accra where the echo was special meeting is taking place. i can tell u

people operate by this is acceptable in china. the context is very complex. a lot of people in china came from just 20 years ago, being a relatively not rich country. and now the spending power has gone up. everyone is quite happy with the system and in a way, thankful to it because that's enabled them to prosper. so the average consumer trying to is fine with this. but from a western perspective, we are very worried about this. let me go to the potential culture class or say, luca, the closing argument is good news or bad news. where the official recognition is is never good news. in my opinion. no, i luca longo, artificial intelligence research are joining us here. mateo dani as well. chief mobile opinion is a tech trouble gigs both of you. it's been a pleasure. thank so much have a good sunday evening. thank you for having us. thank you. so some news just in here at off into national now the median president has announced his resignation after 4 years in office in a statement published on his website, ottomans, or chrissy. and

so it's a scene that's already been repeated in cities across china. like here in shan, where an outbreak began in december health officials, they're say new corona virus case is transmitted within the community, are falling off to mass testing and a severe lockdown. now in its 3rd week millions a confined to their homes. residents have complained about not being able to buy food or get medical care because of the restrictions. china is trying to stamp out the virus within its borders. the upcoming winter olympics in bay ging will drill athletes and dignitaries of from around the world. and authorities want to avoid a major coven 19 out break at all costs. as change in health authorities roll out a mass testing program until residence to stay at home, the new clusters of locally transmitted cases, all testing china's 0 cove with strategy. and our some other stories making news around the world. the united states has condemned a deadly air strike in ethiopia to gray region collier unacceptable. the 6 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a strik

with the major new year 50 of period approaching, china's authorities have imposed strict measures to contain potential corona, virus outbreaks. police officers and protective gear outside an apartment block in the port city of tianjin. health officials found to people infected with the foss spreading. omicron variant of the corona virus, and more cases among the patients close contacts. due to the other 2 certain, another 18 corona virus infections were detected among the close contacts in tianjin. all of them have been transferred to designated hospitals for treatment and quarantine. the newly reported cases are students and their parents who go to the same nursery and school as the fust detected cases, yada. now almost every one of tangents, 14000000 residence. we'll have to be tested for the corona virus. for kids, a scene that's already been repeated in cities across china, like here in shan, where an outbreak began in december, health officials, they're say new corona virus case is transmitted within the community are falling after mass testing and a severe lockdown. now in its

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

the new clusters of locally transmitted cases or testing china's 0 covert strategy. the number of confirmed deaths from corona virus infections in the united kingdom. as top 250000, it's the highest recorded def, tall in any european nation. as the total of omicron cases in the u. k. surges ever higher, the health care system is once again under severe strength ambulances waiting to deliver patients to a hospital in north london. there's no space inside because all the beds are occupied by covert 19 sufferers. i seeing the as in school of providence st. mighty and an hour. i mean it's frustrating because i want to go in there. britain's hospitals are under pressure from record numbers of omicron infections around one in 15 people in england are thought to have cov, at 19 in london. the ratio is even higher of award. oh, i'd be 5 bedroom born, which was porpoise bed during the palm to make to look after patients, said colbert. currently alibi ward is fuller, and it's full with all conditions, said clover. most of those needing hospital treatment have not been vaccinat

for sure and, and whatever grants about china, the china isn't a medical economy and it's going, there's a long slot to get out of these problems and especially with as long as it continues with cove it by then all that's doing is basically taking it, it's work time is just increasing and is going to be going to be with china for many years. or i, china analyst, fraser, how i thank you very much. well, speaking of economic transformation, germany's new government says 2022 marks the real beginning of its economy. climate transformation. and one of berlin's biggest priorities is producing more electricity from renewables. they should account for 80 percent of all tricity by 2030. in fact, that will come cheap and minerals like copper nichol, cobalt and lithium, are all key elements of renewables, from wind turbines, to solar panels and e car batteries. according to the international energy agency, annual copper demand is expected to double in the next 20 years. demand for nickel will more than triple for co bought more than 6 times the current demand and lithium. don't even talk about it.

in china. also warning that developing economies are facing the biggest economic risks the world phases many economic challenges as the pandemic end as its 3rd year, the international monetary fund has revised 2022 economic growth forecasts to 4.4 percent. how the percentage point lower than it previously forecast. last october supply disruptions are expected to weigh on economic activity and contribute to high inflation due to travel and mobility restrictions. amid the rapid spread of the only can vary and that only adds to concerns about rising prices. we're seeing inflation come up strongly in many countries. if, for instance, that leads to much more tight and monetary policy in the u. s. than that's being expected than that could tighten global financial conditions in china if there are more locked downs because of the 0 cov it strategy than that could lead to mo, global supply chain disruptions. so these are some of the risks that we're concerned about. while corona virus remains a major c

fax, thoughts of cold leaving major clients like china's scrambling for supplies. we'll discuss the impact the world's biggest consumer electronics fair is back. we're in las vegas for a c. s. in the shadow of a pandemic. and your status in term, or we're here about the anger surrounding any you law. effectively bands many inks . this is date of your business on robots in berlin. welcome to the program. is the world's biggest exporter of thermo coal. but indonesia kicked off the year by announcing it was stopping supplies to overseas. the aim is to protect its own dwindling coal stockpile. indonesia, exported to some 400000000 tons. in 2020, it was the biggest overseas supply to china's powerhouse economy. now, 80 percent of the cold, indonesia exported last year. it went to just 5 countries. china actually accounted for almost half of it. india, philippines, malaysia, south korea made up the rest. but now and denise, his president, jekka with dodo says, coal mines are coal mines. as well as liquefied natural gas produces and need to prioritize, domestic supply and