their effort to regain personal freedoms in light of these blockouts? the white house supports the right of peaceful protests. brian: gutless. the white house weighing in as china is gripped by large scale protests over his draconian lock down measures. here to react of china s victory. dr. jonathan ward. always great to see you. your reaction are to the scope of these protests in 15 separate provinces right now? we see it from a far. he you really understand what goes on in that country. hi, brian, great to be with you. still very early to tell. what matters is this is happening a across the country there are common symbols. the sim above these protests is a blank white piece of paper which means essentially here s everything we can t say to this regime. the fact that people are actually calling for xi jinping to step down and for the party to step down. this is the reaction to years of pent up sort of repression here.
ukraine is urging its people now to cut back on how much electricity they use after more than a week of russian aerial strikes against the power grid. ukrainians are facing rolling blockouts as half of the country s power stations have been crippled in the attacks. fred pleitgen is live with the latest on this. and you ve seen the intensity of the attacks firsthand. if you look where i am, in the area where we were yesterday, fighting is extremely intensive there and it is extremely brutal. especially the region why i am. vladimir putin has put in place some of his most brutal forces, the bagner military group and we came under massive fire yesterday in the center of that town. and for the people would live there, it is obviously a traumatizing thing. they ve been dealing with it for eight months. and on top of that now here in the eastern region and most
this is the outskirts of beijing and when you cross that river you are actually crossing into neighbouring hubei province and the town of yanzhou. now, yanzhou is a popular place to live for people with more modest incomes, because they can afford to pay the rent here and commute into the capital. it sounded like a great idea until these zero covid measures started kicking in and they found themselves stuck, unable to get from the place where they lived to the place where they work. injune, angerfrom the workers of yanzhou burst onto the streets. they were blocked from entering beijing because of clusters of new cases. these restrictions have now been eased, but the threat of sudden lockouts can make
crossing into neighbouring hubei province and the town of yanzhou. now, yanzhou is a popular place to live for people with more modest incomes, because they can afford to pay the rent here and commute into the capital. it sounded like a great idea until these zero covid measures started kicking in and they found themselves stuck, unable to get from the place where they lived to the place where they work. injune, angerfrom the workers of yanzhou burst onto the streets. they were blocked from entering beijing because of clusters of new cases. these restrictions have now been eased, but the threat of sudden lockouts can make yanzhou s long commute workers
lockouts can make yanzhou s long commute workers unattractive for employers. the buses fill up, but they are often delayed, and people run late for work, following time consuming id and health code checks.