a show from the street has already been successful. who opposition live on the rise? beds off with cheese dogs november 25th on d w. ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, after criticism and controversy. the mans football world comp have kicked off in katara. it's been 12 years in the making for the gulf nation, but will the action of the pitch give fi, fi and the host country a break from tough questions. also coming up

with more violence in iran, observers report large scale military action in a kurdish city in the country's west and at least 5 people are dead and more than a dozen of wounded in a shooting. at an elegy boutique united club in the us state of colorado. ah, i married evans dean, thanks for joining me. the mans football world comp has officially opened with the match between host could tar and ecuador. although several high profile stars refuse to perform the opening ceremony, it boasted a variety of local and international acts and was hosted by you as actor, morgan freeman. the headline performer was a pop star, sean cook, and

a speech katara ruling. amir spoke of celebrating diversity at the tournament. well, ecuador beat katara, in the opening match the tournament, the host fail to threaten their south american rivals, who cruise to a comfortable to no victory, oh, catchall, began there, 1st, ever willed cut, match on the back foot. just minutes off to kickoff ecuador had scored, however, and a valencia's goal was surprisingly disallowed by the video assistant referee for offside . a short reprieve for the hosts as valencia got another chance to school soon after felled in the box and awarded the penalty with 15 minutes played. the captain coolly converted for his $36.00 international go and he wouldn't stop there. just after the half hour mark equity was all time leading. scorer doubled the lead,

and his side were cruising. meanwhile, kits all failed to register a single shot on target in the match. among the few chances, this was the most spectacular. as substitute mohammed mon, sorry, lost his shot over the bar. i'm so could saw become the 1st ever world cup host to lose their opening match. well after the game i spoke to g, w 4 as correspondent daniel barcelona. and i asked her what she thought of the home science performance. well, unfortunately for guitar, they did end up losing their 1st world cup game to nothing, to ecuador. so a lot of disappointed categories tonight, you can maybe see behind me, a lot of them are leaving the stadium right now. it's actually the 1st time ever that a host nation has lost their opening game. now i was seated next to somebody in the stadium from guitar and he told me, he said that if guitar doesn't win this game,

they have absolutely no chance winning their next 2 games. so it will be kind of an uphill battle, let's say for them, because they do have senegal and the netherlands in their group, senegal, the raining asked on champions a very good side as well as a star studded netherlands. so it's going to be tough for them and who knows if they can turn it around? we know, of course. okay. tar invested heavily and making the opening match. feel like a major event. did they at least succeed in that? well it definitely did feel like a major event. i mean could tar and fees a really pump this game because there was the opening ceremonies taking place. they said it was absolutely admissible and it true could tardy style. it was lavish and extravagant. there was fireworks lights, people dancing, singing bizarrely enough. morgan freeman narrated the opening ceremonies. now during the game the atmosphere almost felt like

a mix of american sports and the nfl meets european football. there was stadium announcers and count downs. and then again, there were less ecuadorian fans, but you could always hear them at one point actually started chanting. we want to give us b maybe referring to the ban on alcohol. and bizarrely enough could tysons also started leaving almost at the beginning of the 2nd half maybe showing their disappointment. wow, where does indeed sound like quite a spectacle of the 1st for the 1st day. all right, so at least we've seen a bit of football now after all of this anticipation and danny, what are you then looking forward to over the coming weeks? so from a football standpoint, i'm really excited about this tournament. and a lot of fans are that we've talked to here, especially there is some massive story lines. i mean, everyone is looking forward to the messy argentina christiano, rinaldo,

portugal. both of them trying to win the world cup for the 1st time. both of them in their last dance, let say, and trying to solidify themselves as the goats are the greatest of all time in football. i mean, we have a favorite brazil with ne, my who is a little bit controversial in the football world, but he's really been firing, playing probably some of his best football. they have a great mix of talent and youth. also, france, it'll be interesting to see how they cope with a lot of injuries to their side. so all in all this will be a great world cup that was dw, forth correspondent danny barcelona, reporting from the world cup encounter. daniel, thank you so much. all right, let's get you up to speed now and some of the other stories making news this, our ukraine's up arissa nuclear power plant, which is under russian control has been hit by shelling the you and nuclear watchdog condemned the attack in a tweet, adding that such shelling could trigger

a nuclear disaster. moscow and key of blame each other for the attack. cossacks, tons, president cassim joe. out of talk, i have look set for reelection after voters when to the polls in the central asian country. while ballad counting is still under way of state media, exit poll shows him winning 82 percent of the vote. the snap election came months after took high of violently suppressed unprecedented protests. all rights groups are reporting that iranian authorities are carrying out a major crackdown in the north western curtis city of my habit there. unconfirmed reports of protesters being killed or wounded. the city has seen intense anti regime protested reason, days with people staging sittings and setting up barricades. iran's kurdish regions have been at the heart of the protest since the death of a young kurdish woman in the custody of the country, so called morality police back in september.

oh, don't with harmony down with a dictator. that's what these protests does in ma bought a chanting there on the streets again here in the code of city in west new rom calling for an end to these lamp republic. in spite of a massive correct on human rights group, say, authorities have deployed armed forces from other parts of the country to regain control of the city videos on social media, allegedly show them riding houses and firing indiscriminately at people. electricity was cut off for hours when it was restored, residence immediately sound with the alarm that he had in go a little asian. he is dangerous him. early in the morning, the security agents shot at women and children who were in line at a bakery to provoke us inter, hey, there's

a helicopter here day. i saw it with my own eyes, and there's news. they brought tanks, florida, they destroyed people's houses, and cars come on in my she not when i america my darwin, canada, a pro government news agency gifts, a different account of events saying it was riotous that was spreading terror and creating chaos. that's a narrative. the islamic republic often resorts to win its corridors, minority protests, and one that has worked in the past. this time, however, iranians apparently refused to be divided videos on social media, show people pouring into the streets in other cities and regions in support of ma habit. some with a rallying cry that must sound like a threat to the countries theocratic leaders. kurtz belushi is as a res, freedom and equality toward my router. that is all about all i. cameron martin is a senior lecturer at the university of south x,

where he teaches modern history of the middle east and international relations. he told us more about the new unity in the protests against the iranian regime. yes indeed, it says as with your remarkable because for decades islamic republic has invested in and actively promoting the division between different nationalities and cultural regions. and communities in iran and correspond, has been particularly subject to this policy, given the history of a national opened in the region. and the fact that go to the phone of iran is adjacent to the iraqi kurdistan and turkish coda son and so on. but it clearly evidence that actually that the people in other parts of iran do not buy into this narrative of separatism, which is what the government is trying to kind of propagates that they couldn't. regions are dominated by separate this movement. and these people want to kind of

disintegrate on despite that we see that people immediately from here onto a remote part of iran are coming out and accessing. busy support people to come under intense military attack actually by conventional military troops of the republic of their own. do you see a danger that the unrest in the kurdish regions of iran could still over into kurdish regions and neighboring countries such as iraq and turkey? well, it's not so much a matter of spreading to there, but a more of the iranian regime actively taking the conflict to that because you're in military commanders, the commander of quotes for some revel. she, god has been recently and bought about where he has delivers a stand warning that iran with launch a grand invasion against transfer is controlled by the correspond regional government, iraqi kurdish authorities where iranian cornish,

political opposition groups are based. so iran claims that the it wants to remove them or disarm them unless the government does so. so it disc, this is consistent with the current military attack on the city of mohammed because iran, iranian state wants to militarize cornerstone and a kind of conflict and external conflict would be a perfect pretext for doing so. and also in the, in the shadow of such a conflict to suppress and repress the protesters. and iranian coldest on and across iran, even more violently in order to kind of bring this revolution to an end. but i doubt this will really work given the, the kind of the depth of anger about the people and the consistency of the protest which has gone on for weeks now for more than 2 months. come on martin from the university of sussex. we appreciate all of your insights. thank you. thank you. to

the united states now where police in colorado say 5 people were killed and 18 others wounded in a shooting at an l. g. b t. 9 club in colorado springs club goers, father and stopped the suspected gunman who was now in police custody. it was over in a matter of seconds. police were alerted just before midnight, a shooting at club q o. the 1st officer arrived in the area at 12 am, and the suspect was detained and subsequently taken into custody at 12 o 2. but by then 4 people were already did. a 5th would die later at a hospital. police believe the 22 year old suspect entered the l g b t q nightclub and just started shooting with what they described as a long rifle. i ran to the dressing room immediately. there was a customer that called me, and it was

a jack former delusion over the in the directory. i made them lock the doors and we got none on the ground and cut off the light at least to her road people inside the club. confronted and fought with the suspect and were able to stop, stop the suspect from continuing to kill em harm. others. we go down a great, thanks. all i could think about is everything my life just every way family love was at the stroke of midnight. people at the club were planning to mark the start of the transgender day of remembrance, honoring those killed and transfer big violence. the worst such violence was 6 years ago at pulse nightclub in orlando, florida. when a gunman killed 49 people, an injured 50. the outcome might have been worse in colorado springs, were it not for the patrons who stopped the shooter.

club q is a safe haven for our l. g. b t q. citizens. i'm so terribly saddened and heartbroken. as dawn broke authorities said they believed with the arrest, the threat to the community was over. and as the latest on dw news, this, our off next is d. w reporter, a marion evans, dean from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for the company. okay and again all the harvesters are immigrants goal. okay. thanks for everything you enjoy eating at home with your family was harvesting. bipolar corby exploit it then i diesel.