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From Our Own Correspondent: China's Media Control

06/10/2022

China's Media Control

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As China's economy falters, journalists are finding their job harder and harder.

As China's economy falters due to the damage inflicted by the zero Covid policy, journalists trying to report on the country are finding their job is getting harder and harder.

China’s communist party is preparing for a crucial meeting of the annual congress which is expected to award President, Xi Jinping a third term in office. But amid the tightened security surrounding this event, economic storm clouds are gathering. And investigating and reporting on the effects of this downturn is becoming ever more tricky, as Stephen McDonnell has found.

The storm surge triggered by Hurricane Ian engulfed several cities on Florida’s Coast. Buildings were torn apart and some 600, 000 homes and businesses were left without power. Alexandra Ostasiewicz went to a trailer park community in Fort Myers where residents are now trying to rebuild their lives and homes. 

There have been reports this week of a breakthrough by Ukrainian troops fighting in the South of the country in the Kherson region after further gains had been made in the East against the Russians. Abdujalil Abdurasulov was embedded with Ukrainian troops on the southern frontline where a protracted battle is underway.

Mexico is known the world over for its vibrant and spicy cuisine. But Will Grant is one of the unlucky few who is unable to savour the country's culinary delights due to losing his sense of taste after contracting Covid back in January. He's now resorting to more extreme measures to get it back.

Concealed among the algae or and broken seashells on Lithuania's coast are little pieces of drift amber. Its origins can be traced back thousands of years, when resin that fell from trees in vast forests was washed out to sea and transformed into the gemstone on the ocean floor. Heidi Fuller-love went on an amber trail.

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