a discovery the world around you subscribe to d w documentary on you to be this is did other news asia coming up to date, china's biggest of and locked down since the start of the corporate pandemic. shanghai is being locked down in 2 phases to control a new outbreak. it's left many asking if a 0 corporate strategy is still the best one. plus a political litmus test in pakistan from mr. john con. he's facing a serious challenge from the opposition to step down. will he stay? will he go?

and how the water ukraine has interrupted a sporting connection with india. we meet the indian athlete. what is for his coaches safety in bomb doubt, aki ah, i'm british energy. welcome to d. w. news asia. glad you could join us. china's 2nd biggest city shanghai has entered into lockdown to cover spartan colonel. nobody's case is 3400 new cases in a city of 26000000 compared to the rest of the world. it isn't much bit in 0 over china. this is a lot. the locked down will be in 2 phases, beginning with the eastern half of the city 1st, followed by the western half shanghai zwang pu river, splits the city in 2 conveniently at this moment. when officials are locking the

city down in halves over there on the eastern pou dong side, including the financial center restrictions are already in place than the western pu. she section locks down starting friday tunnels and cross river bridges are closed as our highway toll booths and crossings. and there will be testing, testing and more testing in the eastern side than testing and more testing. and the more populous western side, those found to be infected, may be shuttled from health care facilities onto buses and taken to quarantine hotels. this in a country that had previously kept the corona virus under control, through strict 0 tolerance measures for even small numbers of cases, a shingle. i'm feeling very insecure and hearing a lot of rumors on the outside like we're short of this or that. and we need to rush to by them. people are panicking. just i am panicking to some extent. i don't feel optimistic to be honest. i sent in

a city wide lockdown. might do us good. the epidemic right now is quite serious. compared to other countries, the infection numbers are very low in china, and corona virus related deaths. the government says, stand at about 4600 as the us closes in on a 1000000 deaths from the pandemic. but as shanghai is response team has said that the number of intensive care beds per 1000000 people is much lower in china than many countries. facilities are improving. but vigilance, stunning vigilance to many remains and imperative. shanghai has looked on is china's largest city wide lockdown since the stall to the pandemic. we asked corresponding fog and gretchen, if it marked the end of the 0 covert policy, no m, i, my interpretation is d m opposite because m actually, there were a lot of speculation going on. whether they, the government would basically have

a pilot project in shanghai. i'm living with the virus co existence of the virus, but they decided otherwise, i mean, the financial center of china, they just put in to locked on. the economic cost is really very high. and it shows a commitment that they want to keep the 0 corporate policy with a lot of effort, a lot of costs. and, and probably one reason is that in autumn we have the, and the 20th party congress. and until then i don't think that china is ready to risk opening up the country and i think they are committed to are keeping 0 cove. it at least for now jealous barbie and chris robert to artist on next were prime minister im ron hahn has claimed a foreign funded conspiracy is behind an attempt to unseat him from his post. addressing supporters at a week and rally in the capital, islamabad count claimed he had proof of the alleged conspiracy, but declined to elaborate. hon is facing a no confidence motion brought against him by opposition. parties who accuse him of

mismanaging the economy and foreign policy are sure is how hon rebutted his opponents attempts are being made by to change the government through foreign funding. good nike gorski daughter. yeah. ah, the money is from a broad huh. beth and the people that are being used as the are pakistan, is some of them unknowingly and some knowingly john are using this money against us side a lot. and from on this i'm joined now by my colleague sean williams. sherman. what does this foreign funding con keeps referring to?

well, i have no idea. no, no one knows because he didn't see any. you just showed a letter of paper actually. and he said that some foreign countries are conspiring against me. so we don't know. i believe it is an attempt to distract people's tension and also from the no condoms that he's facing in parliament. and also i think it's a very popular, you know, and the u. s. logan's already bought, i think he's referring to washington, and that's a very bob john slogan. and bob, be sure that the speech that we heard last night is a pre election speech. whether he's or wife to no confidence or not, there are going to be early elections in boston. so he's trying to get his orders behind him, support him. so that if and when he's election less than he is ready to deal with it with are no confidence forward. give us a sense of how serious this is as

a political challenge term, ron con, immensely because a lot of his own party, lawmakers have deserted. how openly sent and they were voting support for the non confidence warranty. oppositional, confident sport coalition partners are contemplating leaving. so it's all clear that he has lost majority and ball and it's just clear as day. but the problem here is that the army, the army, is also not suburban. here in the fall, they want to remain neutral in this conflict. that is also what the constitution does, then do the state you crew. and that's how they are dealing with the situation. they are quite unhappy with you cannot make an on all the c performances as well. what exactly has upset there are me. as i said,

the economic policies are extremely bad over the past few and a half years since on the grains of the country. the inflation is record high, the unemployment is rising, the army has a lot of economic stakes and bucks more than anyone else. so the army is running off of the economic mismanagement. and also the foreign policy has been bothering him and the best politician and the rest prime minister, he went to moscow and mac wooden and all that army is not, is really unhappy with allied with the get the funding to get their equipment from, from the us and the west and also focused on trade is like immensely, it's going big when it comes to the west, and china and russia not as much bigger. sherman. what should we be

expecting in the coming days? the national assembly, the lower house of parliament session, has started in this law and as we speak they are going to table the not confidence or office in parliament. and then we see that there was a position law makers, government lawmakers. there were debate in the government destroying, do it as much as possible, hoping that coalition partners lawmakers could come back on, which is very unlikely. and they come on, they're going to be working on it. i'm most likely that would be the ouster rochester. so much on the leave it there for the time being. thank you so much for joining us today. ah, the warden, ukraine has kept an indian athlete apart from his ukrainian coach, but olympian shut up tomorrow,

or the large part of his sporting success to his coach in the ukrainian city of how to give the city and the east of the country is presently under constant bombardment, that's left shot of water for this quarter safety shotgun. my one, his 1st olympics metal in high jump at the tokyo paralympics in 2020 a highlight of the sporting korea. he credits this success to his ukranian court. if guinea mckeithan with whom he trained for 4 years, i render you been because i want to renew his buddy, look good when he does for a while. and that's when i realized that he knew more about my body than anybody else. your friend is of place where nobody knows english, and so court was the only person alive would communicate. so when we were in the ground, it was not happy with our because we could dog we could do like we can understand the feeling that even use kids are not thing with him. so i became a child diagnosed with paul, you at the ease of to santa devoted himself to

a felon in hightail. he has several athletes and medals under his bed. he is currently training in delhi, but that wasn't his original plan. he was due to leave for ukraine in me to train with his coach in the city of car keith. that plan was dashed with russia's invasion of ukraine. soon after the attack began, nickelodeon's home in the city of hartley was gone. august he had to move into an underground bunker with his family. charlotte keeps in regular contact with him. when the lines are working, you go in really big strong wars b, o b, impossible says impossible. really ours song. good. are you afraid to? yes. oh you do

good. she. when he sat at the document to his coach goes beyond sport, she calls him a project, they go, we started drilling together, we started training together. we went for like relaxing sessions and all together. we started understanding talking about family, maturity, manages and everything the last 4 years. all of the matter that i've given him to which i'm jim meadows, who asian games go back to the big still came out of them. so we have live up to the expectations. so it is just a sign that, you know, our partnership worked and the, it only will because the relationship was a nice shot of this current. the training for the asian game to be has later this year. but he misses his course and feels for his life. what shot i would like more is to bring that you've been to india to see and read from the

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a service up in them, start new careers and jimmy, this is dw nissan. rogue was in berlin. welcome to the program. now monday is the final call for russian airlines to hand back hundreds of commercial aircraft to the foreign owners. he sanctions mean that leasing companies have had to cancel their contracts to supply russian carriers with plains now least planes make up the majority of the western bill commercial jest, used by russian airlines. there are more than $500.00 of them with a combined total of some $10000000000.00 a while these planes have been unable to fly outside of russia because of sanctions banning them from european air space. many are still flying domestic routes and less as are losing hope of actually getting them back. rushes, transportation ministers as the kremlin will compensate owners for their aircraft, but they've reportedly been no negotiation so far because any agreement would breach sanctions for let's get to the bottom of this story by speaking to aviation

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