why for now. winning the crowd cramming for an international film may have. planned al-jazeera sets the stage for egypt in the theater will be the life of the 9 is the life of the nines dead everybody is there global ex-pats you kidding we're going to let the planet go through it because we're not doing it's job just open your eyes to an alternative view of the wild today on al-jazeera. in the midst of a crown of virus pandemic china is in lockdown. beijing capital of the world's most populous nation stands deserted. millions of residents are forced to stay behind closed doors in moves now being replicated in countries across the globe. on this episode of one a 18th we report from inside the quarantine capital of beijing. it's

been months since there's been a real reason to get up in beijing. other than to see the latest infection right from the epidemic. can you. imagine their life i came to china as a journalist in 2007 i'm married lulu a beijing go we have one son and leave in an apartment building in the north of beijing i often travel around china for my work but there's no moving now and the niagara. around the

cities. barry is have sprung up everywhere. in the provinces across neighborhoods and around each apartment block where i live many new uniform chik everyone going in and out. the communist party security apparatus is in full force neighborhood committees which usually monitor the political or social behavior of residents have now been turned into bar risk watchdogs with temperature checks mandatory quarantine if you leave the city and mandatory muffed the people of beijing have gradually disappeared from her being. forced to stay at home by both the government and fear. so this is the only kind of report possible a story of confinement our days seem empty but i hope many questions for the future of china. and the world.

this is one pace of good family unity has never been so strong. i even managed to get my son to give me a hand for just you know i at. the top water is a drink a bowl so buffalo water has to be delivered almost every day since our neighborhood is closed off to outsiders we have to go and pick up the water ourselves. my son is lucky the barrier that blocks off the entrance to our building isn't high. since the epidemic began lou and i must take new precautions each time before going out we put on our mosques. since the quarantine began we can't go anywhere without one. on the wise will be arrested. this is what the last of

the 4 entrances to our area looks like a chick point. to late we've been given exit cards. checked every time we go through. looking at these beijing streets you think it's 5 o'clock on a sunday morning instead it's mid afternoon on a friday. normally on a friday night she looks like this. it's nice to have more breathing room for a change but it does start to feel a bit long. to make this tense situation works at temperature is checked every 300 natives with. the sort of.

the shopping mall is empty is the straits. luckily the basketball court still open to liven things up. i'm surprised they still allowed to play without masks. we can still find some hand sanitizer but who knows for how long. there's another temperature check at the supermarket at least there are a few more people here. since we've been quarantined we do a lot more kooky. it's a relief to see 4 shelves in the supermarket. everyone in beijing saw the peaches on social media of the empty stores in wu han the situation in the epicenter of the epidemic with tame of the thousands of people infected is on everyone's mind. but

the situation here is nowhere near as severe as woo han. nevertheless the city is in lockdown. i'm a genius lee my translator in beijing subway. the temperature is checked as she enters the station all the entrances and now a quick with the imaging system. if your temperature is above the threshold of 37.3 degrees you kept behind this barrier before being sent to hospital. in every train a guard ensures that everyone is wearing a mask. there are many people to check. the problem is there's a shortage of slots. mislay and

a going to try and find some. young iraqi. in hand the fact that i've often thought. i know you go down there. and the cut out. the only mask he has left cost $45.00 he's happy to recommend it highly confident that my. hands are. desperate they will say yes to the transporter you will sell them. $100.00 will be all the harder maybe on their home. and he will. take it up can you go on to achieve a new angle on my door one new underwear or a colonel one interlude alum here. you know who are killing the mill jaylen unclear . down them their names and the list how many if you know i'm don.

lemon alla new line of how. you are not on our line i'm on the new york on the. anti that hey that was. you national going to your. hindu muslim in colorado to learn now that i found them until now. i don't read in june you know don't you know you'll do the loser. i don't. know what. i'm going. we keep looking and try another pharmacy a few blocks further the wrong way but it's even more discouraging. in this war. and. how you might well. feel much the stuff even open the door and my heart when we try to ask them anything. after several attempts one pharmacist finally agrees to come talk to us now of make

hell of a national. how can the epidemic be for without mom. the situation does explain why everyone is at home. i had to tiananmen square to see what it's like in the heart of the season the footpaths have been closed off so the only solution is to go around the square by by. to the north of the enemy is the forbidden city there are police everywhere keeping people out. the city is never be sorry for being. a fuming says further on is john high the government headquarters. its

leaders work and live behind the store confined by the fear of the bars. it's impossible to stop anywhere near. and lastly is the most impressive view to lodge a square in the world full of history with mal's muscling him right in the center lately deserted and on a plus $39.00 men come when i've been standing here. with such tight restrictions at my apartment building and in the city center i'm curious to see how it is in beijing poorest neighborhoods as he accompanies house they work

in small one room or. mr cheney is a taxi driver who was hired him for the day to show me around. they had to wait and hear what are you going there for you and yeah yeah when the highways are going to destroy them are going to. happen but. it's impossible to enter without the necessary pos we try using mr chen. who i know been coming here for her younger brother ben a woman from richard i mean i was true down there with me so you know there. were not the only ones wife no one escapes the right of the neighborhood committees these workers along with local communist party branches manage the quarantine procedures and they're going to from or they not only grant entry and exit passes

but report people with a fever all those who go outside without a mosque everyone is checked even this couple who have lived here for the possible near. the are you know. really you aren't seeing and don't want to play what you think and they are sure that however they are not my dear fellow human. would never never forgive me dr bell. now that you can you cannot have. we refused entry without the necessary pass so we tried another entrance. with. all nonsense and you can't have on the

one meeting but the men who are living with. you could be. living in beijing these days means spending a. all of your time at checkpoints our driver is getting worried about being able to return hard. we try one what interests. me and if. i think of the next. since the crisis began the number of local committee workers has risen volunteers as they call themselves a swelling the ranks in the nation's bid to fuck the bar. in reality they're all paid by the state to ensure that everyone a base the route. the summaries the less he. can but i don't watch i would tell you. that i would i translate.

like everywhere else the streets the desert. it's hard to find anyone to talk to. except that this man is outside for the 1st time in days shy of. the mother of. her. book here. would you not for mental matter well your fire was a bunch. the entries were. that if. we stopped at another checkpoint this time in the middle of the road. i want to imagine what their time and their home but when i. got to. tell is already what you have feeling. when you're.

driving that lot i wouldn't. miss you know i think. there's a surprise waiting for me when i get back home. this is the 1st time i've seen an ambulance at my building where there's been no confirmed cases. we're now able to check almost in real time if anyone is still in the building special ops allow us to locate those who was sick. no. one bruce. seen wafa it. usual into.

the man. but today offered for the young my lad he is a. real korea 57 if. each red dot means a case of infection in chinese society where everyone shopping habits movements and faces a monitored it's impossible to go on and i was used not cleek. thank you no 2 in my land yeah i'm not gonna leave the beastly car. truck you know meant the one minor issue. of how that is hockey are not washed down . and they clear did not mind in 2000 would take me. but. what i'd really want. me. to comment.

on. most of the cases picked up by the op i hear in the city center. wangfujing street is does a. it's usually crowded with shoppers outside the big department store today instead of showing advertisement screens get out warning this is for preventing the spread of the virus. in the middle of the street the market is closed behind a barrier with a message and now it's an upcoming renovations but no one knows when. the day's along for shopkeepers. mrs owns a cafe the only one that's open around here today i'm her only customer oh my gosh . cheers how gung ho on a. high heart that i. got for her you

have a. whole. other it's a woman play $200.00 asher of play for the she and i think we're going to do about that. to. play. sections and coming ashore to. the seas asleep we feeling really cooped up at home these days any little asing is very welcome. since no one can visit us from the outside and everything's close we decide to go visit and my back. we don't know him that well but we always say hi when we make in the copy.

there are those out. there 500 time i was there. gary lives with his wife in caps usually sells 2nd hand cars but now like everyone else he's been cooped up in the more than a month at heart james closed restaurants closed and the barber shop closed so there's no coming here so. i try my best to do everything everything that's interesting in my home i play a game i do the work of i think it's rated barring it's rated r. and b. so bored. dearies allowed to go out but he doesn't day he's too worried. every day i woke up. the 1st emerged always to check the death toll. yeah every day because it's so i'm really concerning concern

about this since the quarantine began he hasn't missed any of the government news broadcasts. really but your wonderful my dog inside international our faith involved others are all what our national correspondent and they are stroken you know. the drought i mean them of course. then the whole cell what gondry on the tongue job you don't get wrong k'naan pummel. remember always doing so the other social media don't they don't take on those here . and. then you go to war going to church. means and ends our freedom of others rebellious for us and warning bell was i want to now sure you are my lucky. oh god only go to them and saying that it isn't a condo or your i mean there were some of us on the whole or 1000 without any that

are for example for. transparency or not the news gary watches is enough to keep him locked inside. every night the government channel shows images of the crisis. inside hospitals sick people and how doctors really are a coordinates and. they show you images from out of the sea here is to shine the governments with official response. and the prime minister is sitting an example if you want to convey that the situation is under control. with aids passing day beijing becomes more in the streets usually awash with cars and paper. now there's nothing but it definitely sign.

back at home. our entrance is not only closed but now it's a highway beds has been put on. every day life is a steady stream of deliverymen. of handing us provisions over the fence. here. it's a big move would to get out most of us. with feeling more trapped every diet. we can't bear being indoors any longer so we try to venture outside. the monitoring situation changed 2 days ago now we have to go through this military to . the color of

a car does change depending on how many cases are around us now we like grain but we don't know what that means. outside the streets are more deserted than ever. the only people we see ought to have read on bans or take out temperature and other such. yeah. only the. even the boscobel players are gone the course is off limits into further north. london one on you.

cannot another plan for that. evil little 1000000 mailman mail move. along one of. my own but we have. one of those u.s. hockey. oh i don't. know. we only have 2 cods for a family of 3 now there was there's no way of knowing if it's a good or bad sign but we can't comply some families only have one and are only allowed outside once every 2 or 3 die. in this fight to kick the virus out of the barricades a getting higher and now it's a challenge not only confronting china but one taking place across the world.

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