at president xijinping. to do that publicly is a very rare thing in china, but anger has been escalating since rules aimed at stamping out the virus were blamed for people not being able to get out of a burning building. that happened in urumqi in north west china there have been protests there and in cities from chendu and wuhan to nanjing, shanghai and beijing. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from there. it s not unusual to see acts of defiance in china, but this was something different. chanting. a crowd of protesters in shanghai chanted, calling for the country s leader, xijinping, to stand down and for the communist party to give up power. a fire which killed ten residents
intake of that policy, which is draconian in china, it is mass lockdowns and travel is deeply restricted inside china and indeed internationally. there are mass vaccination policies in place and it is proving hugely unpopular. they have had protests and a lot of major chinese cities this weekend. the approximate cause seems to be claims that a fire in the building in northwest china, people were locked into the building because of covid policies and ten died, but actually does much wider than that and much more about the broad nature of this policy. this is fascinating because this is very much president of