for these correct only these, we learn to give them the straightest people seen extreme dreams. rough getting 200 people around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines ah, today on dw news, asia, the race narrowed says sri lanka, lawmakers prepared to replace their ousted leader who fled the country. time is also taking away for the millions of people going hungry. medicine and fuel are also in short supply, who will rescue sri lanka from an economic collapse and north korea claims. it's

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 fizzle, 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 pre madison 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 victor massena has the backing of the s l p. p leadership,

but faces calls from protest is to resign. the 3rd candidate is left us and nora. this angelica who brand for president in 2019 and last the winner will take charge of the bank cropped nation that's seeking an international bailout. and while the presidential banks is narrowed, it's also got more complicated as t w's i'm re to chamber explains. 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 she duncan parliament votes for the new president. in a surprised development this morning, the leader of the opposition czar did fame dasa withdrew his name from the boys to president. now 3 people left, john in victor missing on the acting president, had the support of ousted president dodge boxes, spotty, which has a huge majority. but in another development that file 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 vote takes place tomorrow. it's a secret about it. so anything can happen. weekly hill, i shouting, children's against and on his victim of thing. they don't want to have a president who has means to have support from the ousted 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 with a standing a 2 bedroom station olivia today, but there was a q kilometers long of 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, i've and a half 1000000 sri lankan are in need of life saving assistance. but those fuel

shortages, we just thought about main supplies copied 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 get meals reluctant or 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 in my mom, 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 while you're here, but because we don't have much money, sometimes we give it to the children that come in and we adults only to grade 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. 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 paxis blames the countries former leaders for the current crisis. he believes that his work at the protest camp is a positive influence. are not going. these people are kicked out after. i'm not going, i'm here because they like and people need the so that's really such and how to make this this land come in my knowledge you want to give 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 awe,

warnings today of another wave of cove at 19 in parts of asia. there are new clusters of infections in several big chinese cities, including shanghai officials or extending locked downs on millions of residents ad rolling out you've 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 that 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 defuse the epidemic crisis and restore stability. but pyongyang claims cannot be confirmed because there's no independent data. when the world health organization has pointed this out in the past with north korea only acknowledged it's cove it outbreak in may. you see 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 cove at vaccines. instead, state media have emphasized measures like nationwide medical checkups and daily testing of water supplies. here. so 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 lucky yet father 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 as from south korea. frank, let's look at the numbers. the north says 99.9 percent. if it's so cold fever, patients have fully recovered. i know north korea is 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? 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 indicates 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 knoll 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 marrying 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. busy also reports from, from north korea media that they. busy 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 i thank you for joining us here on t w's and you sasha fumbled sh her. i'm skin that. i think that's hard and in the end is a me, you are not a lot us to you anymore. we will send you back her are you familiar with this smudges were lions as of

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