not bothering to debate with the other candidates. not focused enough on the problem faced by the french. and you ll remember, this is the end of the mandate, and the end of the term. max, the [inaudible] emmanuel macron faces had lasted for a long time. and it really showed a great amount of violence on the streets or french cities because of that problem for the cost of living. that remains a problem, and in fact, it s probably worsen here in france with rising inflation growing prices at the petrol pump and a lot of the fencing that they re struggling a great deal. that is exactly what marine le pen wants to tap into. that will be fascinating, thank you for joining us from paris. shanghai officials say that more covid testing is needed to help slow a surging outbreak. but residents, there clearly growing frustrated with the government lockdowns. and now, a food sorted just. well i, and april s wild weather continues in the u.s.. our reporter will have a later forecast for you. a
parliament is listening to address to the president vladimir zelenskyy. a live report from seoul in just a few minutes with the details of the message that he s giving out there. do stay with us for that. officials in shanghai say they ll start to ease covid lockdown measures starting a day. allowing residents in covid free areas to start moving around areas more freely. this comes amid days of soaring infections and growing frustrations among its residents over the tough restrictions. shanghai has stuck to china s zero covid policy with multiple rounds of testing and restrictions on movement. as well as mandatory with anyone testing positive. and the current joins us from hong kong with more on releasing the frustrations boil up on social media, haven t we? yes, that s right max. there s a video circulating online. we cannot independently verify it. we should add, however, it shows a protests happening at a
residential compound in shanghai. it would appear that these precedents managed to break out of their homes. and they are confronting police who are holding the gates, screaming at, them saying give us supplies. i think it just goes to illustrate the level of desperation that these people are feeling. they have been locked up in their homes since the end of march. we are talking about 25 million people in the most popular cosmopolitan city in china. shanghai is the engine of the country. it contributes to 4% of gdp and officials had thought, prior to this, way that they did not have to head here to the covid zero we strategy. where we saw the snap lockdowns take place in the rest of the country, they were more about targeted lockdowns. which they were commended for and said how visionary they were in allowing this economic
engine to continue operating. but, with this wave that has hit shanghai, the way that it has, we saw numbers today, record high of 26,000 cases in shanghai. i know relatively, that is low compared to the rest of the world. but, in a country like china, they cannot afford for covid to rip through. the reason being is the low level of vaccination. particularly among the elderly, there is no immunity because they have really cut off china from the rest of the world. and, quite frankly, max, the health system will be completely overwhelmed. and that was pointed out today in a commentary in xinhua, news agency, let me quickly read this to you. it says that china s medical system would collapse leading to an enormous loss of life if it gives up on prevention and control. the government certainly doubling down on their zero covid strategy, max? all right, anna in hong
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