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the appointment of li keqiang as premier will concern some. disastrous months—long shanghai lockdown with significant food shortages. now mr li is in charge of managing china's economy. i think the appointment of li keqiang as the premier shows that xijinping is not principally interested in the economy. he's never really been interested in the economy except as a political tool. china's new leadership faces exploding youth unemployment and a massive property crisis. they also have to generate economic activity while implementing strict zero covid lockdowns. xijinping and his team have pledged to tackle these problems with ideological unity and nationalist zeal. well, many will wonder if that's going to be enough. translation: | don't care | whether xi is in a third term, so long as we have food. translation: putin has had four terms and 16 years. - now xi is imitating him. the mysterious removal of china's former leader at the end of the communist party congress led to speculation that this was a symbolic step to ram home the transition with

the appointment of li keqiang as premier will concern some. isastrous months—long shanghai lockdown with significant food shortages. now mr li is in charge of managing china's economy. i think the appointment of li keqiang as the premier shows that xijinping is not principally interested in the economy. he's never really been interested in the economy except as a political tool. china's new leadership faces exploding youth unemployment and a massive property crisis. they also have to generate economic activity while implementing strict zero covid lockdowns. xijinping and his team have pledged to tackle these problems with ideological unity and nationalist zeal. well, many will wonder if that's going to be enough. translation: | don't care | whether xi is in a third term, so long as we have food. translation: putin has had four terms and 16 years. - now xi is imitating him. the mysterious removal of china's former leader at the end of the communist party congress led to speculation that this was a symbolic step to ram home the transition with xi

the appointment of li keqiang as premier will concern some. i lockdown with significant food shortages. now mr li is in charge of managing the chinese economy. i think the appointment of li keqiang as the premier shows that xijinping is not principally interested in the economy. he's never really been interested in the economy except as a political tool. china's new leadership faces exploding youth unemployment and a massive property crisis. they also have to generate economic activity while implementing strict zero covid lockdowns. xijinping and his team have pledged to tackle these problems with ideological unity and nationalist zeal. well, many will wonder if that's going to be enough. crucially, there are no identifiable successors to mr xi in this group. yet another indication he could remain in powerfor a long time. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. what do voters make of the turbulent events in westminster? danjohnson has been speaking to people in the conservative consitutency of peterborough. here are some alternative candidates who

the appointment of li keqiang as premier will concern some. anghai lockdown with significant food shortages. now mr li is in charge of managing china's economy. i think the appointment of li keqiang as the premier shows that xijinping is not principally interested in the economy. he's never really been interested in the economy except as a political tool. china's new leadership faces exploding youth unemployment and a massive property crisis. they also have to generate economic activity while implementing strict zero covid lockdowns. xijinping and his team have pledged to tackle these problems with ideological unity and nationalist zeal. well, many will wonder if that's going to be enough. translation: | don't care | whether xi is in a third term, so long as we have food. translation: putin has had four terms and 16 years. - now xi is imitating him. the mysterious removal of china's former leader at the end of the communist party congress led to speculation that this was a symbolic step to ram home the transition with xijinping in charge. it's

xi and also patted on the shoulder of premier li keqiang. both men seem to have nodded in acknowledgement. because of the opaque nature of chinese politics, we really don't know for sure the circumstances surrounding this highly unusual moment in this otherwise highly choreographed moment. as soon as we started talking about this moment, the chinese censors blocked cnn's signal here, and the state media here has not reported this at all. other than this moment of surprise, the proceedings seems to have largely gone according to plan, and the delegates on saturday selected a new central committee. that is nominally the party's leadership group comprising some 205 members, and in another signal that xi jinping is further tightening his grip, li keqiang, as well as the number four current party leader, they are both out, losing their party position, meaning really even though they may keep their government titles for a while, they are no longer at the center of the party's power structure. if we could show our viewers this hierarchy of the chin

he tapped his protege, li keqiang, on the shoulder and is helped off the stage. with xi jinping out with the old in with him. you know, there's something like that. and that was people's initial feeling, the initial thought of what was going on. really, though, i think what's much more likely is that it's something to do with his health, because when you look at the footage a little bit earlier, when he's still sitting down to his left on stage, other seniorfigures in the party, you can see they're turning to him. they look a bit worried about him. and then when he stands up and the fact that he says something to xijinping and nods, i think what's most likely is that he has some sort of a serious health problem. and that's why china's former leader wasn't able to sit through the final session there at the communist party congress. donald trump has been summoned to the hearing via subpoena. donald trump has claimed the inquiry is politically motivated. the new italian government has been sworn in at a ceremony in rome. she is the first female primer and the first

person currently in the politburo standing committee who are not in xi's faction — that premier li keqiang out, so people are expecting a xi loyalist to come in, so he might actually have a clean sweep of the politburo standing committee, the upper echelons of power within the party. so we are seeing, you know, greater centralisation of power, more crackdown, more repression, more stability and security over economic policies. so overall, you know, bad news forforeign investors, bad news for the economy and more about security and stability maintenance. as we've been reporting, italy's first female prime minister, giorgia meloni, and her ministers have been sworn in at a ceremony in the presidential palace in rome. she's the country's first far—right leader since world war ii. her brothers of italy party won last month's elections with just over a quarter of the vote. stefano fasano reports. giorgia meloni, the first woman to be italy's prime minister takes the oath of office. she is also the only leader of the party with neofascist routes to form a government in the republic cosmic histor

currently in the politburo standing committee who are not in president xi's faction is a premier li keqiangn their way out so people are expecting a president xi loyalist are coming so he may have a suite of the politburo standing committee, the —— upper echelons of power with the authorities wissing a greater utilisation of power, more crackdown, more repression, more stability and security over economic policies ——we could see a greater utilisation. bad news for foreign investors and the economy and more about security and stability maintenance. professor lionette on, glad we were able to talk to you. president zelensky has denounced renewed russian attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure as an attempt to break his country. kyiv says almost 1.5 million households are without power following another barrage by russian missiles on civilian energy facilities. the national electricity operator said the latest strikes could have caused more damage than the intense bombardment lasting several days earlier this month. president zelensky said the world had to stop the terror. translation: russ

leadership team of the country, it was stacked with xi loyalists and, most significantly, he's made li keqiangy and now he's put the man who was in charge of the disastrous shanghai lockdown, a lockdown in which tens of millions of people were confined to their homes for months on end, with significant food shortages, that's the person who has been placed in charge of the economy. it's hard to imagine that you can't find somebody in this enormous party a bit better qualified to manage this huge, significant economy, and yet, there you have it. i think analysts will see this as an example of loyalty to xijinping trumping proven ability. the communist party, for all of its other faults, had in the past said it was a meritocracy. and you wonder how you could stack up that appointment as an example of genuine meritocracy. again, no women in the politburo standing committee. there has never been a woman on that top committee in china apart from, i suppose, madam mao, she was in the power mix as part of the gang of four, but not really an official politburo standing committee appointment, and women

china's premier li keqiang, a longtime rival to xi, was demoted while four xi loyalists were promoted party's top official in shanghai li qiang appears set to become china's new premier. he is a close ally to xi. he oversaw the harsh covid-19 crackdown in shanghai. perhaps the most traumatic moment of the chinese communist party's congress came when former president hu jintao was abruptly escorted out of the closing ceremony. he had been sitting next to xi jinping when two men came to escort him from his seat. some analysts speculated that the move was an assertion of xi's dominance. chinese state media later said it was because the former leader was not feeling well. we turn now to look more closely at the future of china as xi begins a third term. under xi, china has continued a decades long effort to eradicate extreme poverty. some 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty over the past four decades in what un secretary general antonio guterres has called "the greatest anti-poverty achievement in history." but xi has also ovseen a growg surveiance state to silence ssent an

you had li keqiang who retired and wang yang as well.can't go without reminding viewers of that very bizarre moment, julianna, where we saw the former premier escorted out of the great hall which led to speculation if this is a power the politics at play we must say the official line is that he was feeling unwell many analysts are not buying that reasoning back to you. >> sam, thank you so much for that breakdown what a mysterious exit indeed. we will take that up with duncan rigley before we come to that, which captured the attention of so many of odd scenes from congress you wrote a line in your latest research that stuck oust to me you said why -- you said xi jinping is actually more pragmatic than usually given credit for all of the headlines have been about him consolidating power and choosing loyalists over any technocrats or market-friendly leaders. what makes you think we have it wrong in his level of pragmatism >> so, one example is his view on common prosperity if you look at what he is saying in the speeches, it evolved over t

proteges, leaving out several members who were closer to hu jintao's orbit, including the premier li keqiang premier who you can see in that video, he taps on the shoulder before he exits, erin. >> this comes as protests against chinese president xi jinping and his zero covid policy are spreading. what's amazing, and you've done such incredible reporting on this, mostly inside the bathrooms, one of the only places the chinese government doesn't have cameras in. watch selina's report on that. >> reporter: graffiti with angry messages scribbled all over bathroom stalls might be a common sight in much of the world. but not in china. the chinese characters scrawled in this beijing bathroom reads, anti-dictatorship. anti-covid tests. messages like this are spreading in bathrooms in several chinese cities. it's because public restrooms are one of the only places in tightly surveilled china without security cameras. this graffiti says, remove dictator and national traitor, xi jinping. some of them even written in english. no to covid tests. yes to food. no to lockdown. yes to freedom. no to great l

as the incident unfolds, xi jinping looks at the man to his right. this is li keqiang.is unavoidable. let's not forget that this all happened just when the cameras were allowed in. at this congress, xijinping definitely wanted the world to see these displays of unanimous support. perhaps he wanted to see this as well. either way, what we did see was a president with even greater power and an empty chair where his predecessor had been. let's go back to uk politics. rishi sunak has been clear that the uk economy faces profound challenges. and i want to look at one issue that he and others have raised this week — brexit. as he took office on tuesday, rishi sunak turned to the conservatives' election manifesto of 2019. i will deliver on its promise, building an economy that embraces the opportunities of brexit. mr sunak wants to build the economy but there is no shortage of people who say brexit isn't helping do that. brexit is, was and will be a total disaster. brexit is doing the economy real damage. brexit, as negotiated, is, frankly, a disaster. - rishi sunak would not