joining me now is dr. anne rimoin, doctor of epidemiology, joining me now from los angeles. thanks so much for being with us. i wanted to start with the obvious question which is how worried should we be about this. but looking into it the answer isn t necessarily very straightforward. i want to start with this. you ve been studying monkeypox for decades. you warned year ago about the possibility of it becoming a much greater threat. let s start with the worst case scenario that many people might be imagining, considering what the world has been through and still going through with covid. could this spread widely, say, here in the u.s., with tens of thousands of cases or even become another global pandemic? look, thanks for having me. you re asking a very important question which how concerned should we be. we should definitely be concerned. it s very concerning to see all
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: hundreds of ukrainian civilians, including children, are still trapped in a steel plant in mariupol. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over 40 l of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. we report from the town receiving those who ve been evacuated. also coming up on newsday: restaurants are closed in beijing as the authorities struggle with a resurgence in covid cases. and, some chinese firms investing in europe are accused of exploiting workers and treating them like slaves. we have a special report
lockdown. and as the city of 25 million shuts down, a digital uprising is happening online. cnn s david culver has the story. reporter: it s the video chinese censors do not want you to see or share. as it sparked a rare digital uprising on social media this weekend. highlighting a shared misery and helplessness felt across shanghai. the video points to dysfunction, mismanagement, a city in chaos, struggling to cope with a surge in covid cases. it resonates with so many of the 25 million residents feeling trapped, turning to the most popular chinese communication platforms, weibo and wechat to vent. amidst what is government-controlled internet with any dissent quickly suppressed and erased. china s censors over the weekend struggled to keep up. no sooner would they block one version of the video did another resurface, rapidly multiplying,
complaints. it s the videos chinese censors do not want you to see or share. [speaking foreign language] as it sparked a rare digital uprising on social media this weekend. highlighting a misery and helplessness felt across shanghai. the video points at this function, mismanagement a city in chaos, struggling to cope with a surge in covid cases. it resonates with 25 million residents feeling trapped. turning to the most popular chinese communication platforms, weibo and wechat to vent. amidst the government controlled internet with any dissent quickly suppressed and a raised, china centers over the weekend struggles to keep up. they blocked one version of the video, another resurface. rapidly multiplying. flooding china s web space. some versions even disguised as qr codes to throw off the sensors. the online modeling of social
flooding the cyberspace. some disguised as qr codes. it rattled the social stability. it was a growing rejection of the harsh covid containment measures. some even sharing this clip from the 2012 movie les mis referencing an uprising in paris. the censors swiftly clamped down. extinguishing the spread. but the users also taking aim at the obvious censorship itself. sharing clips of their own officials proclaiming china s citizens have a right to freely express themselves. seemingly ironic given even the first line of china s own national anthem is now blocked online. the words rise those who don t want to be enslaved used as a veiled reference to criticize their own government. for some, hang shy feels like the world s largest prison. cnn witnessing it firsthand. the extent of my freedom is all