CCTV news anchors Zhou Yingfeng (left) and Hu Yuexin (right) read the day’s top news headlines according to China’s state-controlled broadcaster as spacecraft launch press conference opens Shenzhou-15, then the Russian media reporting the Kremlin’s plans to halt oil exports to react to the new sanctions; Ukrainian President Zelensk unveiling Ukraine’s wheat plans at the first World Food Security Summit in Kyiv; follows US media reports of rising violence in the United States and countries issuing travel warnings; finally the bulletin of the Chinese National Health Commission reporting the new Covid-19 infections on November 27. No mention of the mass demonstrations that are rampant in many cities in China: Beijing where it is spreading the protest of the blank sheetsShanghai where a BBC journalist claims to have been beaten by the police and in Wuhan itself where protesters on the street they also sing the national anthem.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV silenced today on protests against anti-Covid restriction measures that have erupted across the country due to growing public frustration. Opening the imminent launch of a spacecraft to its International Space Station (ISS).
