watching d w news coming up next in d. w. news, asia, china 0 cove is 19 milestone shanghai and has locked down and becomes the largest at the city in china to be sealed off since the start of the pandemic. and why pakistan's prime minister enron khan is fighting to keep his job with their ash vanity off to the break. i'm and you could dismiss kinnon on the, on behalf of the entire team here. thanks for watching a every day for us and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect animals and their habitats? what to do with all our waste?

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a sport in connection with india, creamy the indian athlete wanted for his porch of safety. involved out ocoee. ah, i'm british energy. welcome to dublin news asia. glad you could join us. china's 2nd biggest city shanghai has entered into locked down to cab a spartan colonel nevada's case is 3400 new cases in a city of 26000000 not 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 2 phases, beginning with the eastern half of the city 1st, followed by the western half shanghai swan 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 locked 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. in 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 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 buy them. people are panicking. just i am panicking to some extent. i don't feel optimistic to be honest. sentilia. a city wide locked down 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. shanker is locked down, is china's largest city wide lockdown since the start of the pandemic. we asked correspondent, pardon gretsch, for if it marked the end of the z recovered policy. no, am i my interpretation is the am 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, am the financial center of china that is put into locked on the economic cost is really very high. and it shows the 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 them the, and their 20th party congress. and until then i don't think that i'm china is i'm ready to risk opening up the country and i think they are committed to are keeping 0 cove it at least for now. journalist bobbin crouch mother a to artist on next were prime minister in rock. han has claimed a foreign funded conspiracy is behind an attempt to unseat him from his boast, addressing supporters at a week and rally in the capital, islamabad con claimed he had proof of the alleged conspiracy, but declined to elaborate. hon is facing a no confidence more from brought against him by opposition. parties who accuse him

of mismanaging the economy and foreign policy. i sir, is how hon rebutted his opponents attempts are being made by to change the government through foreign funding. i ah, the money is from a broad base and the people that are being used, god is the, are pakistan, is some of them unknowingly and some knowingly john are using this money against us sized america. and from on this i'm john knob on my colleague sharma. chums shannon, what does this foreign funding con keeps referring to?

well, i have no idea, 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, can spawning against me. so we don't know. i believe it is an attempt to distract people's tension and also from the no confidence 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 a not somebody bought no. john slogan and boss. oh, be sure that the speech that we heard last night is a pre election speech, whether he's or wife to no confidence law or not, there are going to be early elections in boston, so he's trying to get his orders behind him, support him. so now if and when he's election less than he is ready to deal with

it, we're bizarre, no confidence forward give us a sense of how serious this is as a political challenge term, ron con. immensely. because a lot of her, his own party, lawmakers have deserted, how openly sent and they were voting support for the not confidence water. the opposition's no confidence lucian partners are contemplating leaving him. so it's all good that he has lost majority. and it's just clear as, as the day. but the problem here is that the army, the army, is also not supporting in the box. they want to remain neutral in this conflict. that is also what the constitution does them to stay. and that's how they are dealing with the situation. they are quite unhappy with. you cannot make an on policy 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 degrees of the country. the inflation is record high, the unemployment is rising. the army has a lot of economic stakes and bucks for more than anyone else. so the army is running off of the economic mismanagement and also the foreign policy has been offering himself as an empty breast politician and the rest prime minister in moscow and mac wooden and all that army is not, is very unhappy with allied with the getting the funding to get their equipment from from the us and the west and also boxed on trade is like immensely it's, it's quite big when it comes to the west and china and russia not as much bricklayer

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 do the no confidence or offer she embodiment. and then we see that there was a position lawmakers and government lawmakers. there were debate in the government destroying, delayed as much as possible, hoping that coalition partners lawmakers could come back on, which is very unlikely. and they come on, there's going to be working on it. i'm most likely. and that would be the ouster rather 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 shuddered. komatt. it was a 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 short of water for this quarter. safety shall come. i won his 1st olympics metal in high jump at the tokyo paralympics in 2020 a highlight of the sport in korea. he credits this success to his ukranian court. if guinea mckeithan with whom he trained for 4 years, i will do him because i want to dream with buddy. look what we really does for a while. and that's when i realized that he knew more about my body than anybody else. you came to some place where nobody knows english, and so court was the only person alive would communicate. so when we were in the grown, 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 staying with him. so i became a child diagnosed with polio at the age of 2 santa devoted himself to

a felony in height. 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 in region of ukraine. soon after the attract began, nickelodeon's home in the city of hartley was bombed august. he had to move into an underground bunker with his family. shot at keeps in regular contact with him. when the lines are working, you can in really big song was b o b, even postables his voice hours song good. are you afraid? it? yes. oh i did

change, doug. when he had started the dutchman to his courts got beyond sport, he calls him family, a father figure. we started to link together, we started trading together. we went on leg, lax, and sessions and altogether resign understanding talking wood family mature. he manages and everything the last 4 years, all the made of that given it to to which i'm jim meadows, who asian games, golden id, not a big so. okay. rather than, so we have lived up to the expectations. so you did just a sign that, you know, our partnership worked and though it only won't because the relationship was very nice. shuttled, it's currently training for the asian games to be his leader this year. but he misses his course and feels for his life. what started would like more if to bring that you've been to india, to safety and away from the conflict. and

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