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in malaysia, 5 days offer an inconclusive election. finally, a lead up unborn ibrahim will be prime minister, often ethnically diverse nation that see political instability for the past 4 years . willis appointment change 3rd ah i british manager. welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. china has reported a new record high of covert 19 infections of more than 31000 cases, the highest since the virus was 1st detected in von in late 2019. cities across the country are expanding locked downs, despite recent announcement by b ging to scale back it's 0 cobit policy in the central manufacturing hub. jung ju

0 covert fatigue, and p. disputes have kicked off violent protests among workers at fox guns. vast i phone factory. they've been under covered restrictions for weeks, but there will be no relief yet. on thursday, 6000000 people in parts of john jew were told to stay at home for 5 days and undergo mass testing. for more, let's go across the corresponding far beyond gretsch bye. in b ging fabiani, chinese authorities had promised more targeted measures as part of this as you recovered policy. do these current city wide loc downs feel different than what people have so far experienced? but if so only slightly am yeah, you could argue that. and now am the locked down a little bit more targeted. for example, in betting at least some parts of the population can still go out or can go on the street. it's better than we're compared with her locked down in shanghai this

spring. but yeah, if you go out then basically all shops are close, schools are close. so the bigger picture i would say is quite similar. we are back in lock downs and m. yeah. also caught up in this endless cycle of ya, mass testing karen teen and locked downs. and either foresee images or fox con workers clash and with right police in the city of john jew, have chinese people reached their limit with averse 0 corporate policy. yeah, i mean, the frustration the angles increasing actually massively increasing. interestingly, it's not so much the other protest in junk jaw that the people are talking about because of the heavy censorship. the biggest eye opener, the wake up call for many chinese is interestingly the world cup and cut out the football world cup. because if you watch it on your tv from china, it's really a very surreal experience and a, your are many of us,

i locked on here and some of us cannot go out on the street. and then you watch on the screen. you see crowded stadiums, you see shearing fence and a lot of people without masks and m. so people began to wander and began begin to ask questions. why are we still caught up at the situation? why the rest of the world seems to have a learn to live with a virus. i mean, this information that they get is basically contradicting the propaganda that always said that, you know, it, china is controlling the virus while it spreads out of control in the rest of the world. and we are basically the only country that achieved success. so many angry users they posted on web, on their social media platforms and began to ask the critical questions. and it's a question that i've been asking you as well, or are in their conversations that we've had. because china had promised a relaxation in the 0 chord policy. if you're seeing these city wide locked on, is it a case of implementation up to local officials?

they decided how severely locked on his slit to some degree. it's true that the more on the ground, the more local you get are the strictest, the implementation. and that has to do with the fear of people, of the authorities to cause problems and towards stare, am bosses. but i would say by now it's quite clear that also the central government does not want an opening up m to day and they sent out a statement or via the office official and use agency sin. we're saying that our new rules are the quote unquote optimization of m. covered rule doesn't mean that we will not do nothing that we will let the virus spread. so it was really kind of a correction and, and what it costs was really a lot of misunderstanding, a lot of confusion. nobody really knows exactly where the weight is going. but now it should actually be clear, we are back to like, dance. and as you recall, we, as you recovered, will be an hour implemented as before. actually lots are for

b ging have also entered or locked down far beyond the city where you are. what is it like being in bridging right now? yeah, it's quite depressing actually. um your every day there are new several hundreds of residential buildings that are getting sealed off. and many of us don't know whether we wake up tomorrow and then you know, find a lock in front of our doors or not. they are really of very horrible stories. people very that. what happens if i have a medical emergency and are but cannot go out to the hospital and in other chinese woman in her mid twenties, she told me that she is now in a current health center because she tested positive for the virus but and before the health workers came to transfer her. she immediately took all the cat food she had in her home and spread it on the floor because she has 2 cats. and she's just hoping now that the cats will survive the time or her being in the current center, because she doesn't know when she can get back home. and her building a sealed offer fled a sealed off. and i mean,

those are the problems that many of us have to worry about. and as it seems, it will not get better. and the next days i've been crushed. my believe it there. thanks so much for joining us. militia has a long time opposition leader on but it brought him has been sworn in the countries 10th prime minister. his appointment ends nearly a week of uncertainty of the elections produced a hung parliament. the king invited abraham to form the government, but he faces a challenge from his rival, former prime minister. we deem you seem, has challenged, unworthy to prove he has a majority. that however, didn't prevent unbar from being administered. the oath of office with the king's blessing on what he brought him, becomes the new prime minister of malaysia. after an unprecedented political stalemate, while his supporters celebrate his success, many others say they are fed up with the country's political drama. i think the

focus now should be the people of this company. not politicians, litigation goes what, what river in this country this murphy hor elections last saturday had no outright winner. and for the 1st time ever, the country faced a prospect of a hung parliament to main alliances, one led by unwise. the other one led by ex premier washington near seen, both claimed to have enough support to form a government. what followed were days of uncertainty. the 2 rifles were summoned by the king and militia also caused. you're gone to break the deadlock without clear results, nor timeline, because it is all discretion of the wrong. and i've said that i will give you the got in the fullest bricks and the discussion and her would seek his

advice and her accepted decision. the resolution finally came on thursday after the country's long ruling party agreed to the king's proposal to form a unity government under under the 75 year olds, road to premier ship husband tablet. despite being close, twice, he was deputy prime minister in the ninety's and the official prime minister in waiting in 2018. in between, he spent nearly a decade in jail on corruption and sodomy, charges. he says were politically motivated as to progressive liter takes to rains and sanity, and a multi ethnic sion also. greta is on my session under ex premie at hidden is now somewhat east that malaysia still grapples with soaring inflation and flow economic growth. a long to do list awaits to new premier. that's go across to correspondent,

to have grown or bomb has been monitoring developments in militia. dave does. i'm of abraham's appointment as prime minister give militia the stability it needs you know, an interesting question, because here we are. evening lenoir abraham is sworn in as prime minister appointed by the king, but the opponent move in your scene is still insisting that he has the mature members of parliament back. it wouldn't be a scene, a scene saying that he has a 115 when the number you need is 100. wow. and he is challenging and mark to prove that he has the numbers. so here we are, what, everything should be settled. we should be moving forward, and now they're still questions about this. ok, so at this stage it's a little difficult to say is, what is your scene camp? what? what's next steps are they going to take the days ahead? is and we're going to feel like he's going to have to have to prove it, or is he just going to say no, the decision is going to be as been made and we're going to move forward. so that is really still a little bit of a question. i'm going to be keeping an eye out for,

but this barbara abraham's appointment. at least the announcement has been church in a multi ethnic country. why is that? what am are you bringing is the 1st prime minister to have strong support from the country minority community. roughly 2 thirds of the population is ethnic malay. but then you have a sizable minority population, predominately ethnic chinese and ethnic indian. and this is that he's the 1st time in a strong support from this minority community. one of the things he was often talked about is not having opportunities based on race, but based on me because the country has ruled that give priority for government jobs for housing, for education to the malay majority. and, and we're talking about, you know, yes, we have to continue the opportunity that the more i get the, we're also going to provide more for the people who need it. so it's a big thing here. and the whole idea about having a, you are the government that's going to function and give it's going to represent

different regions. we've got it. you don't really see how this plays out in the weeks and months ahead of how this really works. does more really bring the country together because there are still deep divisions. there's still a lot of people were upset about his when. so can he really taxes, leadership or really talk leadership and bring the country together after what has been a really, really divisive election name? assuming the question of a majority is answered in the coming days and i'm not, abraham indeed remains a prime minister. and what are the most immediate challenges he will have to address? well, want to just as we talked about, bringing the country together, getting everybody to work together, not always being in separate camps and fighting each other. he's got to keep back going. but the big thing, of course, the economy. i mean, that has been the number one thing that people were voting on pocket book issues. people struggling with the cost of living, the high and lation that people are dealing with. you're like so much of the world and wages have not grown the economy. you know, dealing with inflation job,

people concerned that there may be, may off, next year, people worried about losing their job, how he's going to handle that, the value bring. it balling these them later in the currency here. so this is definitely a top top priority for his administration. we'll leave it there for the time being . the thanks so much for bringing us that up to dave, going to bomb. and melissa, thanks so much. that's it for today is more updates from the region on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash a chef, missouri. you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well. we're back tomorrow at the same time. consumer and cooper with the world cup in guitar. exactly. the sporting team we're should important with were there for you, with report and background information. everything you need about the 2022 world

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but there are challenges beyond the surface and massive layoffs in the u. s. pack sector are hitting one demographic in the country, particularly hard indian tech workers. this is the w business. i'm janelle milan on welcome european union energy ministers are in brussels to day where tense discussions are expected. the contentious issue at the center of these negotiations is a whole sale price cap on gas. the european commission has proposed cap being the guys, the gas price, if it hits $275.00 euros per megawatt hour for 2 consecutive weeks. and if the difference between that and the world price of liquefied natural gas is equal to or greater than $50.00 euro's, the measure is aimed at protecting consumers from while be fluctuating gas price.