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nearing the end of its cobra. 1000 crisis. while a new wave of infections hit its asian neighbors, driven by some variance of ami kron ah, i've been fas all, and thanks for joining us. a shake up in the race for sri lanka, next president. the main opposition leader has dropped out such a premier dancer said he's throwing his support to another contender, making it a 3 way race on twitter, florida said he was withdrawing his candidacy for the greater good of the country and would work with the opposition for victory he's throwing his support behind dallas, alabama, of former education minister, and part of a distant wing. and the ruling party, acting president around a big from a singer has the backing of the s l p. p. leadership. but faces calls from protest is to reside. the 3rd candidate is left us and nora. this angelica who ran for

president in 2019 and last the winner will take charge of the bankrupt nation that's seeking an international bailout. and while the presidential braces narrowed, it also got more complicated as t w's and re to chamber explains. oh, i'm standing at one of the pill chairs taking place in the city of colombo. this one is called by the teachers union. many trade union have planned to protest a deed before issue duncan, parliament votes for the new president in a surprised development this morning, the leader of the opposition zod. you thema dasa, redo his name from the post to president there. now 3 people left. john in victor, missing of the acting president, has the support of ousted president dodge boxes, spotty, which has a huge majority. but in another development that body it says has split. and therefore, john in victor missing,

i can no longer be sure that he get the numbers to win the presidency when a boat takes place tomorrow. it's a secret about it. so anything can happen. weekly hill, i shouting children's against at on it, victor messing up. they don't want to have a president who has me. so i had a support from the house did president, what am i about just buckshot. they want a fresh start for the country. a new dawn for this beleaguered nation which has suffered so much in the past few months. the people who are still struggling is a sure did you feel you shipments have come the be the standing a 2 bedroom station olivia today, but there was a q kilometers long or people waiting to get just a little bit of fuel. so they could, so by head announced by the united nation to hescamp for relief as that relief of people here. but for now, for now on eyes on the presidential election, which mistake this tomorrow. the united nation says over 5 and a half 1000000, free lumpkins are in need of life saving assistance. but those fuel shortages,

we just thought about main supplies, copy transport, official figures, show food inflation, has reached 80 percent. milton pereira cannot afford enough food, and it shows at age 74, he keeps his hair neatly combed, but other features bear witness to long waits for the next small meal. it's very difficult to live. even a loaf of bread is expensive. we have 6 children in the family, and one we have to skip meals. 3 lumpkins are cutting back the world food program says 5 out of every 6 families are skipping meals, eating less or buying worse food inside his kitchen. pereira shows what his family can still put on the table, because my mom is we can only buy about 250 grams of fish. and sometimes that is

only one fish. we have to cut it into many small pieces, so everyone in the family can eat because we don't have much money. sometimes we give them to the children that can be and we adults only agree at a nearby vegetable shop. there is no lack of supply, but customers have to pay twice. what they did just 3 months ago. for many healthy produce is no longer affordable. that means that people are coming to buy food, but they aren't happy because they don't have money. the prices have gone up. the main reason is there's no way to transport those items because there's no fuel go out to do that, but that's why the prices have gone up again. but at an anti government protest camp, one man is cultivating a different solution. not through buying and selling, but growing his own food and,

and sharing it with others, free of charge. i'm have really happy, really, really, really happy. people are coming very happy. i get to it. we're seeing here 3. i'm not charged. like many reluctance, theodore roger poxy blames the country's former leaders for the current crisis. he believes that his work at the protest camp is a positive influence. oh, not going who these people are kicked out after. i am not going, i'm here. because of did to local people need be so they say you really suck and holden meekly. leslie and coming here, my knowledge, i don't of you to people. it's knowledge that many people in sri lanka may need to feed themselves and their families in a crisis that's just been growing and growing. ah,

warnings today of another wave of covered 19 in parts of asia. there in new clusters of infections in several big chinese cities, including shanghai officials or extending locked downs on millions of residents ad rolling out you mass testing. china sticking with its 0 covert policy of eliminating outbreaks. as soon as they appear, japan has hit its highest number of new daily cases since february authority say the virus is spreading rapidly. the prime minister is calling for special care ahead of school, holidays and infections of surged in south korea. experts predict hundreds of thousands of new cases in the coming weeks over the world's most heavily fortified border in north korea. officials say they're at a very different stage in this battle, claiming to have already diffused the crisis. the case cna statement was both

celebratory and short on detail work to perfect the state anti epidemic and counter crisis capacity has intensified. and the anti epidemic campaign improved to finally diffuse the epidemic crisis and restore stability. but pyongyang claims cannot be confirmed because there's no independent data went the world health organization has pointed this out in the past where people think it'll north korea only acknowledged it's cove it outbreak in may use. that was when leader kim jong own, seen wearing a mask for the 1st time since the pandemic started in 2020, declared an emergency and ordered locked downs across the country. but the anti virus push has faced its own challenges due to border closures. north korea has no coven vaccines. instead, state media have emphasized measures like nationwide medical check ups and daily

testing of water supplies. here is all, we are conducting an examination of drinks produced in the city somewhat to guarantee the safety and hygiene of drinking water. they don't, we are also testing river water, including the tay dong river and potash river. were also checking the air and waste water to thoroughly prevent the spread of coven 19. whither lucky yet, fowler changed to listening or wicked. north korean authorities have admitted 4700000 corona virus cases. practically all of whom have now allegedly recovered. journalist frank smith joins us from south korea. frank, let's look at the numbers. the north says 99.9 percent of its so called fever patients have fully recovered. i know north korea's extremely isolated, but no other country in the world has got through this pandemic so unscathed.

well actually then it's 99.98 percent out of 4800000 people. they've reported just 74 fatalities if we compare that to south korea. so it's south korea has a fatality rate of about point one percent over the past couple of months where it's north korea is that point 002 percent. if we believe those figures, those are coming from the korea central news agency. one of the problems that we have with north korea is that transparency of media ngos really evacuated north korea after north korea sealed the border in about mid 2020. so the information that we're getting is really controlled by the government. and given what we know about the pandemic, it's, it's introduced a lot of skepticism into how north korea's is fearing with coven 19 ben. and if we

look at the timing, it was only 2 months ago. north korea 1st acknowledged an outbreak of covered 192 to 3 years after everyone else. and now it's on top of it. after only a couple months. yes, international health experts are having trouble with these figures. again, if we look at the trajectory of how the pandemic has played out in other countries, how from the 1st case, the development and the peak of a case and, and how it abs. busy following that peak, it's really difficult to believe that north korea is already down to the low numbers that it is suggesting. one of the things that is telling, though, in north korea, is that they are reporting about coven 19 quite a bit on korea's news agencies to the korean people that indicate

certainly that coven 19 is still a problem inside of north korea. and it's, and it's still affecting a wide number of people there. then what more do you know about these new methods? the note says it's been developing to better detect the virus. well, that's a kind of a difficult question to answer as well. early on in the, in the pandemic. you know, north korea said for 2 years that it didn't have any coven 19, even though north korea didn't accept any vaccines from other countries around the world. there have been reports more recently earlier this year. the north ria, accepted some medicine from china. recent pictures in july of political meetings in pyongyang showed some smaller meetings with delegates wearing masks. and then a large meeting with hundreds of delegates in a large auditorium. none of them were married wearing masks. so this suggest to, to some experts that north korea may be distributing some vaccines among certain

members of the population. there are also reports from, from north korea media that they are building p c r labs to, to further test people and get a better understanding of, of how serious, serious, the, so break is there been? i guess the big question is whether or not this outbreak is getting worse or getting better, but we'll have to leave with a frank. thank you very much for your analysis and inside and thank you for joining us here on c w. you. thanks have fun. i go, mike, how can miss passionate hatred of the people be explained? your goal tongue go. a history of anti semitism is a history of stigmatization and exclusion of religious and political power.

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