this is deja vu news live from berlin another day of high drama in russia as activists defiant police warnings to stay away from protest rallies hundreds are arrested supporting the jailed opposition leader alexei navalny at demonstrations in dozens of cities nationwide about me why if you as among those detained in moscow also want to show. hope for hong kong citizens unwilling to live under

chinese rule the u.k. opens a new visa scheme offering millions the chance to gain british citizenship london says it has a moral duty to the people of hong kong. and in the fullness make of biren get their revenge against a side which trashed them earlier in the season we'll have all the goals as the variance and often i'm talking. on top of only yes welcome to the program we begin in russia where thousands of government opponents have defied police warnings not to join protest rallies they've turned out in cities nationwide and support to me authorities have mounted a massive operation in an attempt to contain the demonstrations campaigners say hundreds of activists have been arrested protest actions have been taking place from siberia in the east to moscow st petersburg and the west nile knee was

arrested on his return to russia from germany where he spent 5 months recovering from an attempt to kill him with a nerve agent supporters say his wife yulia is among those detained at a gathering in moscow. all for the latest from the russian capital we're joined by d.w. correspondent anthony share when i am really well you've been following the protests the protests all day what is the situation right now. well public. news team have said that this is the final point of today's protests this is come some square right in the center of moscow you might be able to see there is a huge police presence after that announcement they came here basically ready to start arresting protesters again that's what we've been seeing all day essentially what we've been seeing is kind of a cat and mouse game between the protesters and the police the police had initially

closed off a huge chunk of the center of the city including the spots where protesters wanted to meet so protesters had to then go somewhere else and essentially we've been seeing these team in moscow coordinating protests by a telegram which is a messaging service and people kind of following their calls and going to different places around the city on our way here we saw just the scale really of the protests because people were following that call to come to this final point and really there did seem to be really hundreds and hundreds of people who were marching through the city and chanting together so hundreds of people why are so many people coming out despite the threat of arrest. well we've been hearing today lots of different chance many of them traditional i think for the russian opposition including putin is

a thief they've been calling to people other people to come out to join them in the streets people said to me that you know this is not so much about not vitally at all or this is he's only part of the reason why they took to the streets people have been of course following the fact that he was arrested tried as many say kind of unjustly right in the police station that has angered people many people here say that it's really about improving their lives here they're sick of the. action in russia and they want economic conditions to be better and they're sick of the same people being in power for so long for seeing images there of some of the arrest taking place emily now it's the 2nd week of protests are we seeing less or more people taking to the streets. it's kind of hard to say because people have been kind of moving around the city today in moscow i think that the scale is slightly smaller than it was last week but just like last

week protests have been taking place across the country in cities across the country and that's not unusual you know usually in russia people kind of protest mainly in moscow and st petersburg but these protests in support of nonviolent have been much much more widespread we'll have to wait and see whether they keep keep it up or not. sure when moscow thanks for that update. germany and austria are offering to help portugal deal with one of the world's worst kovac 19 portugal has the highest number of deaths per inhabitant of any country germany's military is sending medical aid and doctors austria is preparing to take in some of portugal's critiquing ill patients portuguese doctors say the situation is becoming desperate. tight checks portugal's border is this entry point into spain only those with a valid reason are allowed through. portugal have seen

a period of relatively relaxed restrictions now people are confined to their homes except boys central outings nursery schools shops and cafes the shot the government has entered crisis mode. where i think it could be even stricter there are still too many people on the streets. because in many portuguese still haven't understood that we've gone from being a good corona country to one of the worst on ground is in proposals that are beyond . portugal's intensive care units a straining some hospitals are running out of bed sick over 1000 patients others are short of medical staff or oxygen supplies long lines of ambulances have formed outside some clinics many patients have to wait hours until doctors decide whether they can be admitted it and where. we have never before tree are just like we're doing now sometimes we're having to treat people in the ambulance it's less and

less authorities say the highly infectious virus variant 1st found in britain has caused hof of all cases in greater lisbon some patients have been airlifted from overstretched mainland hospitals to the madeira islands more than a 1000 kilometers away. well germany is sending its military the boneless fast to help cordial and d.-w. reporter jill dougherty is following the story for us hi joel now what type of assistance are the bundestag the german military town to provide so i've been talking to a spokesman from the point is very he's been telling me that an exploratory team has been on the ground in portugal over the past few days assessing the situation which of course is dire and now the military has to decide how and when and what kind of support it will give that decision will be coming imminently but the message is it will go as soon as possible what's likely to be sent world military medical personnel for starters as well as a quick moment such as this. ventilators i.v.

drips medication and protective gear now the real question is how much can germany they're already there around 17000 personnel on the ground here in germany helping the pandemic response and they'll have to see how many they can actually send to portugal. the spokesman for the bonus red said that any personnel who will 1st have to be vaccinated against cove 19 and several 1000 have already received the 1st shot and it's not the 1st time that the buddhism has been called in to help other countries that went into the czech republic and also helped lift patients out of northern israeli also to mention austria is going to airlift and treat seriously littlepage patients from portugal all right so portugal is just one of europe's pandemic struggles and another is of course you mentioned vaccine there the production of the vaccine now a senior german politicians are proposing that the government should use emergency powers to boost the supply tell us a little bit more about that if the vaccine market is fundamentally broken and the state must intervene now those are the words of moscow's search here is the state

premier from the state of bavaria he was speaking in developed newspaper and he says that much trust has been lost between the government and pharmaceutical companies as a broken supply contracts and he has proposed now a state lead agency vaccine economy to boost production is also spoken in favor of the use of the russian and chinese vaccines here if they are proven safe and effective now marcus order is not a federal politician but he is very influential because he's in the governing coalition c.d.u. c.s.u. padi's and he's also spoken of as a future chancellor candidate his words in on this regard have also received support from a leader of the green party showing that there is cross party concensus we've seen that in the united states the president joe biden has used the defense production at 2 to boost supply vaccines there and so now the question is will the german government follow suit well jelled older i'm sure you'll be keeping us all up to

date on the thanks for your reporting there. now to some other stories making headlines around the world a world health organization team investigating the origins of covert 19 has visited a market in china where their corona virus was 1st detected the seafood market has been shut for a year and the visit took place under tight security. 8 afghan security personnel have been killed in an attack claimed by the taliban militant group a suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into an army base the u.s. claims the taliban are not seeking to commitments agreement under a peace deal. now millions of hong kong residents have the chance now to become british citizens after the u.k. introduced a special visa scheme britain says it's fulfilling a moral and historic commitment to its former colony after china imposed a sweeping security bill of fare and launched a massive crackdown on dissent the scheme only applies to people born in hong kong

before its handover from britain to china in 1970 beijing has called the visa offer a gross violation of its sovereignty. let's bring in d.w. correspondent who's in hong kong now how are people in hong kong reacting to the u.k. visa scheme are many people day are likely to take advantage of that. well many hoho residents on the ground they welcome the rather generous offer by the u.k. government says lifeboat scheme for them to leave the toiletry. the political climate on the ground it's was something they buy they for many of the people here and possibly that will be over $5000000.00 a whole residence. for plying for the emigration skin food at the end the whole passport scheme of the u.k. government that accounts for over 70 percent of the population as well for this

game and i though not everyone will take action the u.k. administration has asked that made at that in the next 5 years that will be at least $250000.00 people's to do so what about china's reaction c.b. the foreign ministry says it will no longer recognise the british national overseas passport as a travel document can we expect some retaliatory measures against the u.k. . yes you're right so far beijing has announced that they will stub recognizing the yellow passport starting from today so there's this to fast a skin care. and so from today the hong kong and other beijing authority will no longer allow any home residents to leave the border with passports are though they are still allowed to do so with their own hong kong travel documents so many see this as a political and diplomatic chance sure to retell the aid of britain's offer to hong

kong residents but there are so room as on the hour that many politicians and now they're now suggesting that beijing all parties to vote or come to work the civil rights of residents who take that offer expression maybe to cancel their electoral rice too are banned from voting or run in office or even their right up to a more extreme extent so many here that this will only be the 1st hour for beijing to rid of bush to push back the case of power and beijing is trying to do soldiers said the message to hong kong residents who would take the offer from the u.k. that they may face consequences or even more serious consequences by doing so. hong kong. to sports now and in the bundesliga bar in munich hosted fair jinx opponents hoffenheim the visitors beat the reigning champions 41 earlier in the season this time it was the other way around. by and munich with

a case of the pre-game goes little did they know that have plenty more to smile about at the end of the match even though they needed a corner to finally break down often times defense not to mention the jumping skills of jerome boy taking his header from the back of the net to head by in the lead in the 38th minute a taste of what was to come thomas by n.z. 10 minutes later for his 10th goal of the season but not without the help of robert live and off ski sniffed the footwork. by and had barely finished celebrating when hoffenheim put one back just before half time thanks to andre crameri choice 13th goal of the season but that's as close as hoffenheim would get. enough so he made it 31 after just 57 minutes. king c c'mon with some slick play and the poland international finding himself in the right place at

the right time. the floodgates had opened search cannot be added in another to see a 41 victory for bye and a scoreline that might sound familiar as by and eventually a 41 loss against hoffenheim earlier in the season. you're watching news remember you can keep up to date will the latest news on our website he told you to dot com or you can follow us on twitter and instagram me in the news team here in berlin take care and see at the top of the next our. children to this. one joy. and nearly ignore the little. by leaving a teacher in him lately.