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a grim choice to be in warming their homes for eating food. if leading to an increase of malnutrition and the more in their cases a bunch of ah i'm british manager, welcome to did up the news asia glad you could join us. beijing's local government has said it will no longer block off apartment compounds where cove cases are discovered. it's only like session that's been prompted by city wide protests against china is still continuing. 0 corporate measures protested, began in the city of john, drew then spread to oregon cheap best in china. over the weekend, more cities joined in including beijing and shanghai mission by protest. like these haven't been seen in decades in china. and as correspondence, fabia and gretch. my explains the demands from protest her as a truly historic and i think the difference is that in shanghai and some protest

this have an openly demanded seating pink to step down. he and been ging at the demonstrators were more cautious. they made it. they also made very critical slogans, for example, at the country belongs to the people not to the party, et cetera, but and they did not specify a specifically criticized seating pink and overseas chinese have also been raising the pressure on beijing with protests elsewhere in the world. like outside the chinese embassy in london, they held our banners calling for the release of protesting citizens in shanghai. the also equal to shanghai protest as demands for the resignation of she jim being here they are chanting step down in mentoring. and in talking about a 100 people gather at the she you transition again calling on she and the communist leadership to resign and singing china's national anthem in sydney,

australia, a candlelight vigil over the weekend commemorated the victims of an apartment house fire in chief in western china, 10 people died, many blamed the high death stall on the cities corbet lockdown, which is trapped people inside their homes. and gentlemen are for more analysis on this is did of the correspondence william young from our east asia bureau in type bay, william what explains the protests in the chinese mainland, spreading abroad to places like london talk your sydney this is a trend that we have actually already seen just last month when a loan protester display a banner on a bridge in bay jane that call for the chinese leader. she, jim pink to step down in this is once again the overseas chinese student and overseas chinese citizens using their leverage on social media to really help to

spread the words in those social solidarity throughout the entire world. so we have already seen very large skilled memorials and visuals, and at the same time, also similar protests chanting. the same slogans that have been chanted in different parts of china in places like london, new york. and then we are also expecting more in the coming days or chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said paging wasn't aware of any solidarity protest abroad against it says your corporate policy is paging and denial. yes, i think this is a very clear strategy from the chinese government. try not to directly confront a topic that is so sensitive and so uncomfortable for it right now. as we can also see in the domestic media, there is almost no mention about the protests that have broken out in different parts of china. even though those protest, lilly disrupted

a lot of the everyday life and has, in fact become the main discussion point between chinese citizens living inside the country. so we are seeing a very clear strategy and the clear stands from aging, which is that they don't want to openly publicly being asked or having to address the issue until they have a very clear strategy about how to deal with the of pressing crisis. how much of a challenge are these protests in china to president she just being in the communist parties authority so i think this is actually in fact putting the chinese government in a very difficult position as we know the 0 cov, his strategy has been docked as the success story throughout the entire pandemic where he compared it as a successful model to the western style of handling the pandemic. whereas at the

same time, the, the pendant strategy has also dealed a huge blow to china's economic growth in beijing is facing a lot of pressure on how to push for a booth. it's economic growth in the coming year. so right now, facing with this call for the drug and a to the policy of aging, is now made to have to decide what they need to do to move forward in a way that it is not going to look like it is given in. in caving into the demands of the chinese citizens. and do you see these protest expanding over the coming days? i think this will largely depend on how the chinese government decides to enforce the rules and regulations. so far we are only seeing police making arrests and also at the same time placing i think banner relate barriers

around places where the port protesters have been gathering over the last few days . by so far, we are not seeing more clear long term strategy from aging, so that will remain to be seen how they respond to the protest and whether the protest can expand from here. let me angry, leave it there with that being thanks so much for joining us today. ah, child pneumonia and malnutrition on the rise and have got a son as winter said to him and family struggle to feed or heat. the international committee of the red cross is 20000000 people face acute food insecurity. it's urging 8 agencies and governments who left following the pot bonds, i'll grab last year to now return to the country. my had been and her family huddled close. afghanistan's winters are always brutal, but with only straw to barn, this one is especially harsh. and for her children,

the stakes are higher than ever. higher. we see that are living conditions have worse and we have no source of income. i can't take my children to the clinic when they're sick. despite the freezing cold, coal and wood piles high in kabul, economic hardship means millions can't afford food. never mind fuel. does that he gordon when there are no buyers or people don't have money. they can't even find a job that allow them to afford a meal. what it is that played on the full extent of afghanistan's plight is laid bare at this children's hospital. cases of pneumonia, 55 percent higher this year compared to last. some parents worry that even if doctors can't help, it won't be long until they're forced to come back. if he's treated here and we

take him home, he'll get sick again because we can't afford to heat our home and provide him and my other children with proper nutrition. it's a grim choice that millions of parents must know contained with afghan families to gain facent impossible choice to eat or to buy food. and really they can't afford either. resulting in a frightening rice and malnutrition and pneumonia chases after the taliban storm to power. last year, many international organizations withdrew. no, the i. c r c says it's time for governments on day dejan sees to return to afghanistan and it's hour of need. and john miller for more is awesome for charles, she is director of well reason of what i missed on results. there's been a reported increase in malnutrition and pneumonia cases in afghanistan from last

year. what are you seeing in the countries, hospitals? yeah, as you rightly said, this is something that we have been cautioning for the past one year and there, then you said 24400000 people are needing humanity and assistance. and this includes 13000000 children and especially 1100000 children are at the wage of die because of malnutrition. so this latest increased according to one of the studies. it has increased to 90 percent from 2021. so malnutrition is on that. on the rice in afghanistan and children, i'm pregnant and lactating the men are becoming the victims of this anti malnutrition. it seems like we've been here before because we spoke earlier this year in january, and at that time you had said that situation is so desperate that some parents are selling their children for 200 to 500 dollars because they're not getting enough to

eat. they're not, they don't have money to buy food. just leave. who do wonder our agency is not getting the funding that they need to help the people of venison. yeah. when you say half the population needs humanitarian assistance, it requires a lot of funding. so agencies are trying to deliver the support of the donors, but the crisis is so huge that it's not sufficient. that's why the crisis is not ending the number that the numbers remain the same. but the are trying our level best to reach out to the communities, but at the same time as you know, the crisis is too huge to respond and it requires a lot of lot of money and support from the international community. and do you see that for support for coming year, support is coming and that is not documented in activities happening on the ground

. so food distribution, health sector. so we are trying to get to the needs of the people like around water sanitation activities are going on. but, but as, as i mentioned already, the crisis requires much more support. and this much more support needs to come from the international community, the slot to do with the generosity of the donors to support of kind of grandson's going to be completely been shot. and since the time the taliban took over a sizable chunk of a gun, a son's money has been frozen abroad. do you think it is time for this money to be released? yes, certain decisions are very, very political bet. but as a humanitarian organization, it's very difficult to say anything around this political decisions. but at the same time, it's the right time, the think about disgrace us as an economic crisis. it's not only a humana in crisis. the situation as we're worse and because of the sanctions banks,

not functional. so. so economy has the failure of economy has contributed a lot to the situation on the ground. so i think it's the right time the decision needs to be made to see that afghan is diane, is supported in all these possible russell patrols. we lever differently so much for joining us. thank you. and that's it for today. there's more bits in the region on our website, the dot, the dot com, forward slash teacher. and as of are, you can follow us on facebook and whichever back tomorrow you there. ah, enjoying the view and come take a look at this. our tv highlights every week in your inbox, subscribe. now. several did and right wing extremists, women's rights regression again, world might be a couple of weight and burned in south africa. people with disabilities more likely

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this is the w business. i'm janelle dumas on. welcome stocks around the world and oil prices slid monday. i made concerns about protests in china against the governments. 0 cove id strategy, the calls for an end to lockdown, se have spread across the country, making it china's biggest wave of protest since the 1989 pro democracy rallies. the unrest has caused worries in the markets. china link stocks are more affected by the sell off and crude oil prices has slipped to the lowest level since december last year. chris beecham is a chief market analyst at i g very, you are chris. so the 0 covered strategy has clearly caused a lot of suffering. it's driven people to the streets at this point. what is the way out? well, it's very hard to think to price in really did, did these demonstrations in china quite oppressive. you.