o'brien al jazeera, which on his laid his locked hands, deepening the crises being faced by factories in shipping. the covered pan during silvery expose weaknesses in the global supply chain. transportation experts gathering in the us state of arkansas to try to fix the problems as john henry reports. china is aggressive. pandemic lockdown, haven't just imprisoned. many residents of the world's most populous country in their homes. they've also dramatically slowed commerce across the global supply chain. we haven't really seen the true anti russian yet, so i think it would be best whether it's right now what's going on and where we're headed locally. a potential economic. although chinese ports are still working only about 20 percent of the trucking capacity and economic powerhouse of shanghai is operating. that's meant raw materials and components for finished products are not getting to the ports for export to the u. s. and elsewhere, the entire supply chain has been constrained and limited. so there's very, there's limited movement at every stage of the supply chain, which is relat

alex o'brien al jazeera, her abdel ha made is even as every year where it's hugged, evacuated from mary paul will arrive in the next 24 hours. there's still quite a bit away there still in russian controlled, occupied territory rather. ah, it's moving very slowly. and that's because that's as at several stages they have to stop or they have to be checked again. and these are russian check boys. they have to go through a filtration center where the russians have to vet every single person coming out. so it is an extremely long process. and if you recall, i mean the u. n. and the red cross conway haven't arrived in or you pull on saturday. and it's only she day that there is some movement and only about a 100 to a $120.00 civilians. of those that were in the, as of south steel plug are coming out, we still don't know how many us still inside is relieved. maybe this they were up to a 1000. so maybe 900 are still in there is all quite fluid. i spoke earlier to the mayor of more, you will, who is his upper region. he said to me, well, today is the big day of evacuations because apart from th

o'brien al jazeera and his growing concerned. the china strict covered 19 rules could be damaging the world's 2nd largest economy, continues invasion with more. i've spoken to a number of analysts and they all say that the outlook is very grim. one said he, she hasn't seen this kind of impact on china's economy for about a decade now. now the latest figure that we had released this morning, mostly inflation and figures. we had the consumer price index and it came in at 2 point one percent high, a year on year for april, which is higher than expected and expense attribute. this really to a lot of the supply chain and logistics disruptions call this like corbin lockdown . we have in china, currently dozens of cities under some sort of restriction. and of course the abbey center of the current lockdown a current outbreak in china. it remains in shanghai. they've had about 1500 new cases reported today, which is really down from numbers that we saw earlier. i during this current outbreak in april, which we so figures of about $20000.

alex o'brien al jazeera. as we mentioned, some evacuate are expected to be taken to the city of zappa's asia. that's where hodder abdel, her maid joins us from her. what more do we know about this operation? while is going very slow and it's not sure at this point whether they will arrive. she day, we've asked you and we've asked the regional administration, they dbhdd move a little bit, but it is as sluggish a drive. i would say they facing several hurdles that they have to go through as so as there was anticipation a few hours ago that they would be arriving more or less at this time. now it seems that that may not happen. also, the sun is about to set in about an hour, an hour and a half, and they won't be driving or under darkness. so we still don't know at this point when they will make it past the rush and check boys. at the moment the convoy is under move inside russian occupied territory. what are, what are some of the logistical challenges authorities are trying to navigate here? well this is a vague