a remote guy with a testament to perform with one of any success stories, bastion of biodiversity. sports may 20th on d, w. you're watching d. w. news asia coming up today. another 20 plus 1000000 people in china face of potential lockdown cove. it has arrived in a chinese nation's capital of bay. jean, how will officials respond to this outbreak? meanwhile, in taiwan, kobe cases continue to grow, but the government there is opting for a very different response. and in india, channeling the pain of the pandemic into art. these creators hope their works can

help future generations grasp the chaos and loss wrought by the virus. with. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. first, shanghai now bay ging, that capital city of china with more than 20000000 people faces a potential city wide lockdown. as cova cases grow, some apartment blocks have been quarantined. some subway stations closed and restaurants are only doing take out now. residents are on edge given what they know happened in shanghai with its extended lock downs and people going hungry, aging or sphere. they could be next. china is scrambling to eradicate an army con

outbreak in bay. jing among the weapons in the cities arsenal must testing residents are required to prove that covered status 3 times a week. the government hopes this will allow them to detect and isolate cases immediately. for now things appear calm. that concerns are growing. oh, wouldn't worried about the situation, but i can't do anything about it. i just wonder how long it's going to go on. and what the economic consequences will be should, along with on aging residents are still allowed to go out in many districts. but a lot of activity has been wound down with taurus sites and other public spaces, closed authorities, a taking an incremental approach. first locking down individual buildings

then expanding the measures to whole neighborhoods. if the virus spreads, this is all in line with china. 0 cove it strategy. many subway stations and bus routes were closed on wednesday. in person classes at many of beijing schools have also been suspended for at least a week. city authorities akin to show that they have a handle on the situation bounce yet. there are still some hidden sources of sporadic covered 19 infections at the community level across bay jane. we need to speed up screening tight controls, prevent virus spillover between districts to stem, the spread of the epidemic to andrea colder each in the course on pneumonia. they're also working to avoid the kind of locked down imposed in shanghai the to see 1000000 sealed in the homes, often without enough to eat and has created negative headlines across the globe. restrictions are easing in some parts of shanghai as cases drop. but some fear,

it's only a matter of time before they explode again, because of the high trends miss ability of the on the cron variant. joining us is journalist 5 in crash, mary in beijing fabi and we know the government try to censor what residents of shanghai were sharing about their locked down experiences. so i'm curious, to what extent do people in bay gene have a sense of what they might be facing yet? depends actually there's a really white spectrum, some residents, especially the elderly. they get their information from the state media for example . they watch the evening news and then they get the impression that everything's under control and they're not really aware of the human suffering of people in shanghai. and then at the other end of the spectrum, you, you have the am youngish crowd who am a uses a vpn software that's, that's the device that is needed to get around the censorship here. and they are

follow international media. they follow, you know, social media platform with critical information and, and they are very well aware of the suffering and shanghai. and they also know that this could happen in beijing and most residents that have talked to their, somewhere in between. and they know to some degree what has happened in shanghai and what potentially also could happen in beijing, but they chose also not to focus too much on it. and i think that's also one way of coping with the situation. they don't want to anticipate the worst case scenario. that's a certainly a very human instinct. so overall, how on edge is everybody there? yet, when the authorities 1st announced an army kron was spreading, here in the city, there was a lot of panic buying. and m a really tense situation. i'm also something that i have not really witnessed in the early days of the pandemic. really this time it felt a yet different, more tense actually. and now that has relaxed to some degree. why?

because we have not seen an exponential growth of the a daily cases numbers we're at roughly 50 or 60 every day and that is rather stable . so there's no panic. and m a disruptions here of daily life because of the restrictions they are annoying. they are also economically damaging, but am they are only really an existential threat for a minority of people to give you an idea that here the restaurants are close to only open for take out and delivery and who basically have to get em tested. i mean, really p c artists every day am but we can still go wherever we want. and the people who are really locked down, sealed off, and so far, really, baby, several of $100.00 thousands, maximum. and which is a lot of people or very little if you look at the entire population of aging, i do, you have a sense that official learned from their experience in shanghai. and we won't be seeing some of the more draconian measures implemented in the capitol

with the lesson that they drew from the situation and shanghai am, is, may be different than a many would assume, i mean, and basically they thought that m, our 0 corporate strategy is working a but it was not really implemented radical and swiftly enough by the authorities in shanghai. so now what the authority c, a doing as they step in really very early and as i said, i mean, i'm sorry, 100 thousands of people are locked down in the apartments with only 60 daily cases . it is really quite early and very radical. so to speak, and i get the same said some residents. m a speculate that because beijing as a political center of the center of power, that am the authorities, cannot afford to also lockdown this really symbolic city. and they have some trust . however, if that is justified, i think probably it will be decided in the, in the coming weeks. i mean, definitely everyday life is not really normal and am and we have to brace that. it

could get worse. how worse? i don't know your father in crush, where we will definitely be getting back to you on this again. and again, it seems like the china is intent on this 0 coven strategy. thank you so much. the counterpoint to what's happening in china is what's happening in taiwan. the democracy is teen to show that it will not infringe on citizen rights in the way it's authoritarian neighbor has. the government has relaxed quarantine rules for overseas arrivals, even as covert cases rise. the streets of taiwan remain pretty normal. but there has been a renewed rush and vaccination sites as people line up to get jad or boosted and as tie once premier explained the government's shift, he made some pointed barbs at china's continued insistence on a 0 co it approach. women boys young go. we will not look down the country in

cities as cruelly as china. homer jones, we're also not like some other countries where they have no choice but to live with the virus. joe, we move step by step according to plan. and there's a rhythm to it. you walk up your digital t w's. joyce lee has more out of taipei. here in taiwan, the owner, con alrick saw touch in april. this week, the number off daily case us pos, 20000, for the 1st time on. unlike china, the south route island is moving away from the 0 covert policy. public opinion shifted off to taiwanese p po. so what happened to in shanghai? according to the latest poll, 60 percent of taiwanese people now supported living with colbert premier, susan tongue, such earlier this week, that taiwan will not flop down cities as cruelly as china. he also stressed that the government is taking a gradual approach to resume normal lives out on the street in taipei city as

business as usual. but people are generally cautious. the biggest challenge is the lack of rep protest kids, the government launch, i rationing system last week, account, meet the mon, long q saw scene outside pharmacies. some people i spoke with you all for 45 minutes. was too left empty handed. after coming under strong criticism, the house, minnesota promise to make test kits more available on the island. ah, the pandemic has caused so much pain, death and collective trauma over the past 2 years across the globe. and for some, it has also been an unusually creative period, perhaps given all that time, people had to stay under lock down. here's a closer look at how that has manifested in india.

the indian sculptor near ash kupta. the pandemic changed everything. he lost several close friends to the disease for while got to feared for his own life after he also became infected. now he's channeling his trauma into his ot. this work made up of carved skeletons is called human catastrophe. he hopes it will serve as a record of the horror of the time. art is, art is the media. richard bell, our future generations. that what kind of situations we lived them. i've looked at me o me, these artists in rochester, dawn are using a very different medium. i'm tone to express their response to the pandemic list of believe juma khan and his brother. thing about the pain they felt as more people

started to die and food and money became scarce. cancer, he still has problems making ends meet and providing for his family. the hope of having the face many troubles during the pandemic, but what else can we do? but bothers hardships, my business completely said all we didn't on anything, if you must know and put very similarly, because don't, don't have enough money. basic expenses, right? when they get this all projects and mom buy and other cities began right at the start of the pandemic. it's called the quilt project and advise people to make an individual square for a larger tapestry. the idea being help citizens overcome the feelings of isolation and think of themselves as being part of a collective, whole united in their fight against the disease. that does it for us will levy with more images out of bay gene where people may soon face more.

a pandemic restrictions you tomorrow. and d, w i slash i'm just kinda, i think that's hard and in the end is a me, you are not locked up to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this? with the smudges were lions at subbing? what's your story? he wasn't, i was women,

especially victims of violence in labs and take part and send us your story. we are trying always to understand this new culture. so you are not the visitor, not the guests. you want to become a citizen in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah ah. the european union announces a phased in fargo on oil, an oil products from russia. the new plan still needs approval, but we'll give member nations until years end to replace the roughly 4000000 daily barrels and crude. break it all down with the help of an expert also on the show, russia stop gas deliveries to bulgarian. and it's dispute with the, you know, the countries neighbors are helping make up for what it lacks, move as the capital sophia and thousands of tons of wine grapes left to rot on the

vine. australian farmers feel the pain of chinese trade penalties flow. welcome to the show. the european commission plans to impose an orderly into its imports of russian oil as part of a 6th round of sanctions on russia. commission president or sl of underlying announcing wednesday, the e you would phase out deliveries of russian crude and oil products by the years. and it also wants to step up sanctions on the financial sector, disconnecting rushes. biggest bank, spare bog from the swift payment system. the proposed measures will need approval from all 27 member states hungry and slovakia have already said they'll seek exemptions. jago kierkegaard is a senior fellow with a german marshal fun. he joins me now from brussels. jak of thanks for coming onto the show. a big decision today announcing this phase then embargo how significant is this.