security presence in places where there have been protests including here in beijing. last night i went back to that exact place where i was the day before there at the protests, and we filmed video when we drove by, you can see that it s eerily quiet with a giant row of police vans parked with their lights flashing. this is a stark reminder that this is a police state with far-reaching security, surveillance capabilities. it s also a country where social media like facebook and twitter are banned, the main messaging platform is monitored by authorities. it s not easy for protesters to communicate, mobilize, and continue to have their voices heard in china. but while the authorities can snuff out evidence of what s happened here, that anger, well, it s not going away. incredible. all right, thank you so much, selina wang, in beijing and was at the protests there this weekend. it is stunning showing that image of the day after just with all those lights on and completely blocking off.
because, fra ily, people in china are seeing a lot because they re actually living through what we have been showing you for months out front. a desperate mother under lockdown jumping to her death from her 12-floor balcony. they hear the screams for food and medicine. [ screams ] armed chinese workers locking down airports, leaving passengers stranded. well, tonight the white house is weighing in. people should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws that dictate that they take issue with. but as throngs of chinese protests, how big do these protests get? or will the protesters pay a terrible price? selina wang begins our coverage live outfront in bangeige bei. you are there in beijing in person.
being banned in china. what will the chinese government do? what will xi jinping do if the protests don t stop? certainly this is the exact opposite of the message that xi jinping wants domestically as well as around the world. the last time you and i talked about china on air, it was about hu jintao and how xi jinping was displaying such extraordinary capacity to basically stifle and emasculate the former president of the country. now he has suddenly these demonstrations, some of which are even calling for his ouster. there s no chance he s going to allow that to persist for weeks on end. i think there will be carrot and stick. i think there will be some local officials that will be removed from poor implementation of zero covid. there will probably be loosening in the way that zero covid is actually laid out and policed compared to what we ve seen over
i d say pretty lucky. reporter: we are just learning tonight that one of the survivors this crash has now been released from the hospital. firefighters point out one extra piece of luck. that plane first sliced through the powerlines and then crashed into that trans emission tower behind me. they are calling it incredible that nobody here was electrocuted. so lucky. pete muntean, thank you so much for that report. i m brianna keilar in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, markets plummet after protests spread in china. and tonight the country going to new extremes to censor what the chinese people are seeing. is a brutal crackdown coming? we re live in beijing tonight. plus, election deniers
filed in, pushing the protesters back. demonstrators shout towards the authorities, we are not your enemy, we are in this together. these are unbelievable scenes in china where public criticism of the party can lead to prison time or even worse. in shanghai, police arrested roughed-up protesters, violently dragging them into cars. no protests of this scale demanding political reforms have been seen since the tiananmen pro democracy protests in 1989 that led to a massacre of unarmed protesters. these demonstrators know what they re risking, but they re determined to make their voices heard. and, erin, there is now a heavy