we haven't seen much of president xi jinping during the past couple of weeks that changed on monday when state television broadcast pictures of him visiting a district of beijing he met neighborhood representatives volunteers and medical workers and there he was wearing a surgical face miles i think that's possibly the 1st time we've seen the chinese president wearing a face mask he also had his temperature taken this was president xi jinping doing his best to burnish his man of the people image he also came to deliver a message he said that together the chinese people the country can overcome this virus if they work together. we must fight the battle for total warfare and the people's war against the epidemic with full competence we must have the confidence that we will definitely when president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the government would prevent large scale job losses that's because of course china's economy has been battered by this virus thousands of factories across the country are now standing idle it's a

that china has ever confronted since the founding of the people's republic in 1949 now president xi jinping has said that we have to get the balance between containing this violence virus and also getting people back to work he is very mindful of the fact that the economic growth in china the engine of world growth is beginning to slow and one thing we should remember at the national people's congress that is when the premier outlines his growth targets for the year ahead now we know that the growth target is going to be much lower in 2020 but of course we're now going to have to wait perhaps a bit longer to know what his forecasters forecast that is of course being complicated by this virus. ok and adrian so again you've touched on this but if you can just put into perspective the significance of president xi jinping and knowledge ing that china hasn't necessarily done the best with this that is that is significant yeah i mean he used the word shortcomings he was the president of china i haven't heard the president of china admit shortcomings in the government but he did that on friday nig

trump as president is the one guy who is saying xi jinping is great.hase one trade deal done and we are engaged together, he will get this fixed. underneath trump you have people complaining about the chinese on every front, and you feel that in munich today. whether it is on 5g or on hong kong, whether it is on intellectual property, whether it is on the south china sea. you name it, there americans with a serious problem with china. if trump changes his tune on china in a significant way, it is very different environment in 2020. vonnie: how much is the split between what is being said publicly and what is actually the bowl? of thed seem the goal u.s. and china would be the same thing. ian: the goal of the united states and china is the same thing in the sense they both want the economy to grow as quickly as possible. what i am saying is if it suddenly looks like the bowl will not be met and suddenly the goal istates -- trumps very much organized around november. it is around these elections and choosing the economy to make the election look good. th

largest number of fatalities outside of china the deaths all standing at 8 there in china president xi jinping has admitted they were shortcomings in the country's response describing coronaviruses the largest public health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 we look further afield to italy as well where 5000 people have been quarantined in the north been told to stay home 132 people have been infected 3 have died as well while in south korea the president has called for unprecedented powerful measures to control the out break let's begin in south korea this report from robert brought . the worst affected areas in so. east korea the city of daegu and neighboring chango county remain at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases reported so far one of them at this hospital quickly spread infecting more than 100 patients and staff wards are being prepared to treat the increase of new coronavirus patients raising the alert to the highest level came at an emergency meeting chaired by president moon j. in this weekend the number of

president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the government would prevent large scale job losses that's because of course china's economy has been battered by this far as thousands of factories across the country are now standing idle it's a reminder that the world depends on china for so much but so much of what is producing simply isn't leaving the country and this one of the world's largest car producers in japan announced it was shutting production of one of its major plants the problem is the supply chain just last week a south korean car manufacturer said it was having to hold production because it couldn't get the parts it needed from china it's bad now it's going to get much worse thank you for that update there that say adrian brown live from hong kong meanwhile the number of confirmed cases on a cruise ship in japan has almost doubled if they 66 more people were found to have the virus on the quarantined vessel brings the number of cases onboard to 130 more than 3 and a half 1000 people have been stuck on the

and chinese president xi jinping calls for more decisive measures to combat the coronavirus risk of the death toll in china from the outbreak passes $1000.00. i'm told me a lot of ball welcome to the program. until recently considered a done deal the german chancellor's succession plan has fallen apart the woman widely seen as next in line to chancellor angela merkel says she's changed her mind and will not run for the top job in next year's elections and a great crime karen bond known as a k k is stepping aside following events last week that broke a political to boot in germany a conservative c.d.u. party for the 1st time teamed up with the far right alternative for germany party to win a regional election to boot too far put a case credibility as party leader into question. on the come gave little notice before informing party leaders of her decision she was long chancellor angela merkel's hand-picked successor now she won't be her party's candidate for chancellor and plans to step down as party chief she says to see to use decision 2 years ago to separate the role of chancellor cand

another interesting thing to watch is xi jinping himself. i think it's terrific that he decided he wanted to be in charge for a long time. all of the longtime leaders i know get their good ideas early arend their later years following on old ideas. i think xi jinping's ideas are out there and if he lasts until 2030 we will see the same as that. there is an impetus for new ideas that comes with new leadership in china. i think we need to be -- the reagan administration used to say that we need to be moderately worried about this and intelligently worried about it not go crazy which is what you said in your opening remarks. the last part of this is, in there is armedr intervention for humanitarian purposes. you would think you would see that out of china but they did right and that a couple of times against vietnam and indonesia. importantat is a very point, thank you. >> commissioner cleveland. >> do we see any differentiation in chinese assessments of what they are willing to protect when it comes to economic investments? are they more incli

at one point a title, special envoy of xi jinping. then the chinese told us in september not to use that title anymore. then we had to ponder what that meant. -- himself showed up. i see this is really good news. the details are not so important to me as the cooperative attitude after a really severe emotional experience from both sides over the last two years. >> so i've read the agreement on in english, not the chinese version. what i felt was extremely novel is the dispute resolution mechanism which i know you're calling something else to because it sensitive on the chinese side but we are here in english. really novel 121 sided tariffs if you need to and let's hope it works. and on the intellectual property side, some pretty important gets a special biologics and pharma and all those things. was it worth the cost, the amount that the economy has suffered because of the tariffs? was what only came out of the phase one deal worth it? >> i think so but i try to put myself in the might of another president or other future presidents w

chinese resident xi jinping said over the weekend -- president xi jinping said the coronavirus was at he said the virus control remains at a critical stage. let's bring in a research fellow. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. paul: you have written a scathing critique of how china has handled this crisis. >> i am critical of the way the party state handled the crisis at the outset. i think it is important to note there are not many systems that an outbreakell with of this nature. we see korea and japan have many systems. in china's case, at the beginning in particular, the priority on controlling information, unofficially sanctioned narrative, did prevent many whistleblowers from being able to raise the alarm for weeks if not most a month before we saw national emergency measures put in place. paul: we saw the who praising china and set a new standard for outbreak response. were they misled, or was that a good ascription? -- description? >> the who wants to be able to preserve their access into china and to send officials in at the same time as being able to be real

it seemed that xi jinping was a retreating from the center stage. now we are seeing state media reporting that the central role -- you will see xi jinping wearing a mask. he is getting his temperature taken. he appears to be showing empathy to the ordinary people of china who have been dealing with stringent travel restrictions. earlier, we did speak to the world health organization china representative. even though case number's are stabilizing, they said it is too early to say whether china's worked.ent strategy has it is also too early to say whether containment has been reached or more broadly. -- in china or more broadly. >> we are hearing from carrie lam and also the hong kong secretary of food and health. they are saying that the government has stepped up disinfection. it has affected housing. we are hearing from the secretary of transport and housing. we are also back to hearing from carrie lam, the chief executive in hong kong, speaking before her executive council meeting. let's get to yvonne. we are seeing greater public health and hygien

in china are now questioning it especially because state media itself said that on january 7th xi jinpingover meeting, talked about coronavirus, wasn't reported at the time, people are saying in china, of course, that xj jinping completely allowed the virus to spread when he knew what was going on. shortages and parts and what it means for the economy, so there's that end of it but there's also the situation where there's enormous pressure on xi jinping over this, you pressure of the coronavirus with 2,000 people dead, you've got the protests in hong kong which by the way you don't hear about anymore, but what kind of pressure is all of this meaning for xi jinping, i know he's dictator for life, is he, could the military take him out as a result of this? >> yeah, every option is on the table. you can't rule anything out, the reason xi jinping is right now is certainly under pressure because it's his policies responsible for the spread of the coronavirus, on the other hand, he's been imposing draconian and totalitarian controls and those will survive even after the epidemic passes, there's

westerdam a day earlier now in china there is more controversy over reports that president xi jinping knew about the corona virus outbreak much earlier than previously thought adrian brown has more on that from hong kong. what's been happening this weekend is that state controlled media has been publishing details of a speech that president xi jinping gave on feb 3rd almost 2 weeks ago now this speech was delivered to the politburo standing committee that's like china's cabinet the most powerful political body in the land and jury in that speech president xi jinping concedes that he knew about the virus as early as january the 7th this is 2 weeks of course before the 1st cases of human to human transmission were confirmed then on january the 20th the president said that he issued special instructions to try to contain the virus and we now know that 3 days later the city of was put into lockdown measures that were lauded by the world health organization now analysts say what seems to be happening is that the leadership is trying to cover its back in response to all the flak it's taken

chinese president xi jinping has admitted shortcomings to how the country has responded to corona virus china as the at the center of the deadly outbreak and 3 other countries have now imposed tough new restrictions to contain the spread south korea's president has empowered his government to take what he calls unprecedented powerful measures a 6th death has been confirmed there and 602 infection cases when are you going to do we have vividly witnessed how dangerous it is to have mass meetings in an enclosed indoor space in terms of the spread of a contagious disease i urge everyone to restrain themselves from group of events corrective it is not only an indoor places but also outdoor places which can harm others and chinese president xi says the battle is at a crucial state with millions forced to stay at home and factories closed he admits the. kaname and society will take a relatively big hit those are his words now sunday marks a month since china's epicenter was put under heavy lockdown and iran almost half of the schools are closed and at least 8 people have died there with 43 inf

people have not really seen xi jinping. even in newspapers, you would expect to see him every day on the front cover. since the coronavirus story started, he has not been anywhere. there's speculation he has not been in the public eye because people want to criticize him. he's preparing, meeting people, being friendly, wisng people well, talking to locals about the food they areelling. it's the first time we have seen them be open. >> this virus was fst attacd it in the city of wuhan which ha s been in lockdown for weeks. you can see those figures going up through the last few weeks. while all of this has been are meant to be seller rating e lunar new year. we know that the -- celebrating the lunar new year. we know that it was supposed to go through the end of january. it is finished but things are a long way from normal. >> her ein sha -- here in shanghai, the commercial capital normally home to 24 million people. it was supposed to be the first day back but it was a trickle. the banks and shops remain closed. there are a

all of this as president xi jinping has been declaring this a people's war against the virus. a lot of manufacturers are under pressure to ease the shortage but also to make sure they have enough masks for their workers so they can continue to make what they always make. burberry said its demand in greater china has been affected. 24 out of 64 stores in mainland china is closed. foot traffic is looking really low in some stores that were open with stores with limited hours. the company said as of now, the spending looks as though it is holding up they expect that to change now that so many companies have put in restrictions from chinese nationals from spreading >> parent companies of names like coach, michael kors giving outnumbers too burberry doing the same there. thank you for continuing to follow this one for us >>> when we come back, can wall street make it five in a row that's the question we'll ask our next guest futures are lower by about 97 points shares expected to surge at the open plenty of question marks about growth in 2020 >> and the bull case for casper after i

medical workers who volunteers and soldiers the nations being encouraged to fight war president xi jinping pools of people's war against the devils virus and there's another virus his government is trying to contain growing cools to protect freedom of speech and online campaign led by academics who are demanding an end to media censorship seems to be gaining momentum that amounts to explicit criticism of the leadership which is rare in today's china in hong kong as in mainland china the death of dr li one leon has increased that anger he raised the alarm about the virus 6 weeks ago for doing his job he was reprimanded by police and forced to sign a humiliating confession he died from the virus on friday. martine it's worth pointing out that it was the death of another man hailed as a hero 31 years ago that was who we are bang a liberal politician his death brought hundreds of thousands of students out onto the streets of beijing i don't think we're going to say that again this time but certainly there is a lot of sustained anger online and it's possible that the government is allowing that

a national emergency the country's leader is normally front and center not so china's president xi jinping his meeting with the visiting head of the world health organization in late january was 1 of his few recent appearances on state television nightly news where he normally features prominently and since demanding a transparent and timely release of information about the coronavirus more than 2 weeks ago he's yet to visit will. ensue. he sent the premier league a chunk to test the temperature and encourage medical workers. figure one analyst says there's perhaps a good reason for the president's disappearing act if things turn that. thing the owners will be young. and so. in a way seeing ping is to protect himself from being too much exposed by that crisis it's almost 2 years since she was appointed president for another 5 years that was after china's parliament voted to abolish the 2 term limit on the presidency effectively allowing she to remain in office for life for president she this crisis is much bigger than the young going protests here in hong kong or trade friction with the un

we were hearing earlier in the in the week from the likes of china's foreign minister president xi jinping has also been stressing his concern about balancing the need to contain the virus while at the same time getting the economy moving again he's worried that the the great engine of chinese economic growth is not moving he wants to get people back to work but of course a lot of health experts are warning that if you do that you run the risk of secondary infections. adrian brown live in hong kong thank you very much well it's been almost 4 weeks now since the province of who bay which of course is the epicenter of this virus outbreak went into lockdown our correspondent katrina you has been speaking to residents living in the main city who had. one month after behind sealed off its borders its roads are empty and construction sites are abandoned the city's millions of residents have been ordered to stay indoors among them mark leo and his son craft your hands your feet your hands you know feet with schools across china closed until further notice eason is taking classes online through a

china's president xi jinping knew about the our break of the corona virus in early january that was 2 weeks before the government confirmed the 1st person to person transmission of the virus and more than a week before dr lee one leon was silenced by the government for alerting colleagues the president delivered a speech to the politburo standing committee china's most powerful political body that was on february the 3rd but details were only released by state media this weekend those details amount to an official timeline of what the president knew and when on january the 20th she says he issued special instructions to try to contain the outbreak 3 days later the city of woo han was locked down a measure praised by the world health organization some analysts say china's leader appears to be covering his back after mounting criticism that he didn't respond fast enough on one hand. the chinese leaders would like to demonstrate that it had not the late in reacting in taking action to contain the epidemic that it had not tried to conceal the facts from the puppy but then are obviously th

people don't trust xi-jinping.l that tho the regimese more efficient. they seem to spend time censoring the chinese internet. paul: the consequences for the world economy, i think china says it's officially growing at 6%. i doubt it was that i think it was closer to maybe 5, 5 and-a-half. then you get a cup he he'll of ---kim of half ---couple of -- >> it's a big economic and political event for first. their economy has taken a hit, a lot of factories are closed across china, a lot of american manufacturers, apple, starbucks closed all of their stores. paul: 2,000. >> the journal is reporting that freight bottlenecks are beginning to occur because planes are not flying into china. they fly in an enormous amount of electronic goods inside the planes. once the economy restarts, there will be people trying to get products out by ship, by sea and it's going to be very difficult. so yes, there's going to be a real suppressive effect on the chinese economy which is going to have a political effect on xi-jinping. because

another interesting thing to watch is xi jinping.t is terrific he decided to be in charge for a long time. all the longtime rulers get their good ideas early on and in their later years are pretty much following up old ideas of his ideas are out there now and if he lasts until 2030 we will just see reruns and know what is there. i think the impetus from new leadership in china, china forfeited for a while by sticking with what they have. what was it the reagan administration used to say? we need to be moderately worried about this and intelligently worried about it but not crazy which is what you said in your opening remarks. >> the last part of this is in the un charter there is armed intervention for humanitarian purposes. you wouldn't think you would see that except they did threaten that a couple times against vietnam and indonesia but we haven't seen them trade for it and that is an important point. >> commissioner cleveland. >> one final question. do we see any differentiation in chinese assessments of what they are willing to

last week he traveled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allowed chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization but that's not the recommend child when the chips are mistakes in that context a bit you'll really appreciate that the station and the highest level government leadership to receive this ship cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west of them when they eventually disembarked. and return home to the brain hey al jazeera cambodia. a rocket attack is hit and iraqi. province where u.s. troops are stationed another attack on the k. one base in december killed a u.s. contractor starting a chain of events which caused a rise in regional tensions that was blamed on hezbollah will and lead to retaliate for u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander qassam ceremony some 40 days ago the official mourning period for him ended early and with protests in iraq crowds of demonstrators gathere

its war on the corona virus as the number of deaths rises to nearly 4000 nearly 1400 president xi jinping is vowing to boost virus prevention measures and to fix problems exposed by the crisis in. the national health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and we've given a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these 2. commits we have imposed special requirements on hearts in the personal protection of medical workers hundreds more military medics have started work in hospitals in will hand the epicenter of the epidemic but there's growing concern about the availability of medical supplies as the number of infections rises or most all of the 65000 cases worldwide in who bay province in china fewer than 500 infections are confirmed in 24 other countries al-jazeera is adrian brown has more now on the growing concerns over the shortage of protective equipment for health workers. a number of doctors and nurses have be

last week he traveled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization but that's not the recommend child when the change the restriction in that context a bit you really. and the highest level government leadership to receive this ship cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west to them when they eventually decide. and return home wayne hay al-jazeera will cambodia. that of the world health organizations health emergency program says despite the spiking coronavirus cases inside china the profile of those contracting the virus remains the same we're not seeing a significant shift in the pattern of mortality or severity for that matter and this disease is still predominantly severe in those who are over 40 with a higher for the severity profile that increases actually with each decade after that and predominantly 2 that's a rarity is amongst men rather than them women and we have

last week he travelled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia those moves were also. welcome to the world health organization. that's not to recommend child when the chip the restriction in that context you'll really appreciate the decision and the highest level government leadership to receive this ship cambodia will also be praised by those on board the wish to them when they eventually disembark and return home pay al jazeera cambodia. some breaking news now in a rocket attack is hit and iraqi abbé sink a cook province where u.s. troops are stationed this is the 1st attack on the k one base since a u.s. contractor was killed in december that was blamed on the could type hezbollah group and led to retaliatory u.s. strikes including the one that killed iran's top military commander qassam ceremony 40 days ago the official mourning period for him ended earlier with protests in iraq crowds of demonstrators gathered at baghdad international airpor

last week he travelled to beijing to meet xi jinping china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia in those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization. but that's not to recommend child when the chip the restriction in that context the bit you really appreciate the decision and the highest level government leadership to receive this shape cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west to them when they eventually disembark and return home when hey al jazeera cambodia. now it was meant to be a minor cabinet reshuffle has turned into a major shake up after britain 2nd most powerful minister resigned cited javid was the chancellor of the exchequer and was expected to remain in his post however he stepped down a short while ago chalons tells us why from london. there had been differences between such a job it and boris johnson although they did have a pretty good relationship maybe over over government spending the prime minister wants to kind of open the taps and

last week he traveled to beijing to meet xi jinping and china's president praised cambodia's decision to maintain flights between the 2 countries and allow chinese nationals to continue entering cambodia those moves were also welcomed by the world health organization but that's not the recommend child when the chip the restriction in that context a bit you really. and the highest level government leadership to receive this shape cambodia will also be praised by those on board the west dam when they eventually disembarked and returned home when hey al jazeera sihanoukville cambodia . the head of the world health organizations health emergency program says the spike in corona virus cases inside china must be considered in context. we must take all numbers into account we must look at all numbers seriously we also must try and interpret what those numbers mean and not react directly to the number itself the number of countries reporting cases has changed and outside. the cases on the diamond princess cruise ship we're not seeing a dramatic increase in transmission outside china protester

officials, but really not much coming from president xi jinping himself.e saw him at this district in beijing, getting his temperature ofen, getting a mask, sort showing unity in the country and the fact that the government is trying to contain this outbreak. this coming at a time where he has consolidated his powers, essentially making him president for life. if this goes wrong, the blame for fall squarely on him. the blame a lot of has fallen on the local hubeiment of wuhan and province. scarlet: he sent his deputy to hubei. there is reason to be hopeful that the outbreak could peak soon. shery: researchers saying that we could see the peak this month. the problem is that this is a very contagious disease. the death toll has topped sars now, at least 910 people dead, 40,000 people infected around the world. by the time this in, according calculations, it could be around 500,000 people in wuhan infected. sonali: they are still warning theotspots, but what are dangers here? shery: they have been talking about these new inspection hotspots and some province

citizen as you mentioned before and president xi jinping is really scrambling to reassure people saying that the party has declared a war a people's war on this virus they're announcing all these new initiatives for example this hospital the 2nd emergency hospital with 1600 new beds for coronavirus patients has been opened today they're also trying to reassure people that these testing kits that are going out are valid and they're effective because there been some concerns about whether they're offering some false negative results so they're really trying to reassure people because we've had as you've mentioned this fear and panic 1st about the spread but now there's this frustration that the government is doing too much to really try to control the narrative and trying to cover up i guess how serious this is and we have some growing anger about the death of a doctor who was an early whistleblower who in early january try to really talk about the severity of this outbreak and he was punished by authorities for for so-called scaremongering and there's a lot of frustration about that ther

hisheory, xi jinping and years in power has attempted to perfect that.ated the process, how the localities should talk to the center and the like. in theory, the process he has put in place, reporting up the line, not saying anything out of line, has been part of the cause of the way the virus has spread. haidi: did this two week delay about when the province finds out about something and when they can say something, they need aging's approval -- they need beijing's approval? weeksd: on january 7, two before he made the public announcement, the public bureau discussed the virus. we don't know what level it might have been. it might have been 21 out of 30 agenda items they were looking at that day. the whole issue of governance -- it is a terrible word, it can mean anything to anyone -- but xi has emphasized this. governors ande the process of how they managed that did not work, and has made the situation worse. haidi: what is interesting and productive lives you have something like this, clearly a struggle on behalf of of those census to control the mess

al-jazeera beijing and china's president xi jinping has been out in a beijing neighborhood promising the fight against the virus will be one it really brought out as more of that. we haven't seen much of president xi jinping during the past couple of weeks that changed on monday when state television broadcast pictures of him visiting a district of beijing he met neighborhood representatives volunteers and medical workers and there he was wearing a surgical face miles i think that's possibly the 1st time we've seen the chinese president wearing a face mask he also had his temperature taken this was president xi jinping doing his best to burnish his man of the people image he also came to deliver a message he said that together the chinese people the country can overcome this virus if they work together. we must fight the battle for total warfare and the people's war against the epidemic with full confidence we must have the confidence that we will definitely when president xi jinping also wanted to deliver another reassuring message today and that was on jobs he said that the governm

china's leader xi jinping makes his first public appearance in days as the country tackles the coronavirus, as 97 infected people die in just one day. irish politics turned on its head, as the left wing republicans sinn fein take the biggest share of the popular vote. germany's politics also suffer a shock as the favourite to succeed angela merkel announces she'll no longer stand to be the next chancellor. and relief in australian as the heaviest rainfall in 30 years helps put out the bushfires. on sunday, 97 people in china died from the coronavirus. that's the highest number in a single day since the crisis began. in a single day since the death toll is now over 900. in a single day since across china, more than 40,000 people are infected, and over 180,000 are under medical observation. the only better news is that the number of newly—infected people per day has stabilised. here's president xi at a prevention and control centre in beijing. he's having his temperature checked like many people have done. the president says he's working to prevent large—scale job losses because of the virus

>> i think the reality is there's no good positionfor xi jinping. take the visible lead on dealing with a problem which you don't knowow large the problem going to get, and you look inept and unable to dal with the problem. recede too far behind the curtain, a you look distant and unconnected with the realities that people are deing with on the ground. so xi jinping right now is trying to find a goldilocks of just involved enough to where you look like you're in coma, but receding enough to where you can blame lower-level officia if this goes pear shaped. >> has he fou?nd it >> of course, not. we're sitting here having this discussion now, and i think pele are quite surprised by the lack of leadership. >> jude blanchette, thank you very muh. >> thank you. >> woodruff: even as health care officials ound the world struggle to deal with the coronavirus, a far more contagious and deadly disease, measles, is on the rise acrosse. the gl hari sreenivassan explores what is driving this deadly spike. >> sreenivasan: arly three times as many people have died

guy: we have finally seen xi jinping with a mask on, getting his temperature check.ow important an event was that? sophie: it is the first appearance by president xi jinping after the death of the chinese doctor who flagged the outbreak back in december. a lot of scrutiny then given an pressure to authorities on the mainland. he called for more resolute measures to contain the outbreak in hubei and elsewhere across the country. this is we are seeing disruption to transport supply chains, which has affected companies. they are seeing several operations remaining suspended, although we had hundreds of thousands of blue and white collar workers return to work on monday, but certainly not a typical back to work seen after the extended holidays. some companies like sony restarting their production, and foxconn decided to reduce some of their operations on the mainland, with just 10% of the workforce. that is going to demonstrate the long-standing impact potentially. has rewritten the supply and demand story and china. alix: thank you so much, sophie kamaruddin, joining us

it was so badly mishandled by president xi jinping let a combination of secrecy and incompetence, nown is does he survive? the idea they're going to bypass the united states with their economic growth. their growth numbers are collapsing and i don't believe them anyway. the china release their gdp numbers. gerry: with this really question residents she's position? >> let's take a look hong kong, the south china sea made no progress whatsoever. confrontation with the united states, many things going wrong in the financial system that is deeply troubled. and now this. i thought before this happened come inside the central committee there moves being made, raising the question does president xi jinping really know what he's doing? i think this is going to push it over the edge. gerry: what could follow him could be worse in terms of authoritarianism. you have a sense? >> thereto of china one model is the emperor's powerful the countries united in the other was in place a hundred years was china's fragmented. it's interesting to me they brought in the head of the shanghai party because sh