Production. in one viral video we see dozens of workers at quanta, a major supplier to apple and tesla in shanghai, security guards trying to vault over factory gates to escape because they learned there might be positive cases among the workers. so all of that, of course, is weighing heavily on a chinese economy, disrupting global supply chains and taking a very heavy psychological toll on millions of chinese across the country including people in beijing even though there is no citywide lockdown and the daily case count is in the dozens. the authorities here have been ramping up restrictions as well, especially in the city s biggest district and where we are located we have been ordered to work from home. they are also shuting down all nonessential services and suspending most public transportation, not to mention the incessant mass testing you mentioned. i just took my ninth test in the past two weeks early this morning. officials have made clear this is a requirement to access most
Hello. i m paula newton here at cnn center. north korea has fired what appears to be a single ballistic missile into the waters east of the korean peninsula. now, that s according to south korean officials. seoul held an emergency meeting of its national security council in response to pyongyang s ninth test of the year. analysts say the increased testing shows north korean leader kim jong-un is trying to show his nation remains a key player in the struggle for power. ukraine has won its first gold medal of the 2022 beijing winter paralympics. now, it was in the parabiathlon men s sprint standing event. the games kicked off with a message of peace. during the ceremony on friday, the president for the international paralympic committee made an impassioned plea for dialogue and diplomacy, not war and hate. earlier in the week, the committee banned russian and belarusian athletes from competing in the games.
North korea has fired what appears to be a single ballistic missile into the waters east of the korean peninsula. now, that s according to south korean officials. seoul held an emergency meeting of its national security council in response to pyongyang s ninth test of the year. the u.s. condemned the launch and says it s monitoring the situation. analysts say the increased testing shows north korean leader kim jong un is trying to show his nation remains a key player in the struggle for power. now, as russian troops pummel ukrainian cities calls are growing for the man who ordered this invasion to face war crimes charges. now, the u.s. embassy in kyiv sent this tweet. you see it there. on friday. saying russia s attack on a ukrainian nuclear plant is a war cr crime. the state department later told other embassies not to share that tweet. but as brian todd reports, some want prosecutors to go after president putin himself.
Significance of this test. does it feel like this is a back and forth between the president trump administration and north korea or north korea independently trying to get the world s attention? this was entirely expected. north korea has always tested this is his 75th missile test since kim jong-un came into power. and ninth test under trump s administration. this is expected. now that it is a second failed test this month, i think they have to continually test. and we are probably looking at another nuclear test down the road. and possibly even an icbm test. you don t think this is a response to donald trump making that out of the blue statement that we could have major, major conflict with north korea? well n a way because kim jong-un cannot back down and look like he is caving under pressure. but this is also north korea, as i said. in five and a half years he conducted 75 nuclear missile tests. one of the strange thing that
This is his 75th missile test since kim jong-un came into power. and ninth test under trump s administration. this is expected. now that it is a second failed test this month, i think they have to continually test. and we are probably looking at another nuclear test down the road. and possibly even an icbm test. you don t think this is a response to donald trump making that out of the blue statement that we could have major, major conflict with north korea? well, in a way, because kim jong-un cannot back down and look like he is caving under pressure. but this is also north korea, as i said. in five and a half years he conducted 75 nuclear missile nuclear missile tests, excuse me. one of the strange thing that happened is over the course of the 99 days donald trump haas has gone from being the biggest attacker of china and critic of china to sort of having this bff relationship with the president of china.