ah, ah ah, ah ah ah, it's a dw nunes live from berlin, china's a 0 coven policy under increasing pressure, unprecedented protests and break out in the financial hub, shanghai, and several other cities, with hundreds calling for authoritarian president, champagne to go. the fresh wave of anger sparked by aids abilene, residential fire,

also coming up on the show. ty, one's a ruling party is thrashed in local elections. president, i in one steps down as leader after her focus on china backfires with voters. we look at what the outcome means for taiwan and, and guitar. leonor messy turns on the magic as argentina beat mexico and get their world's cup of back on track. ah hello, i'm claire richardson, a very warm welcome to the show. protests have broken out in several cities across china over the country. strict coping measures, hundreds of people turned out at demonstrations in shanghai and beijing. i mid rising anger over ongoing restrictions. it comes after an apartment fire in, in jang, which resident se turned deadly, has locked downs, hampered rescue efforts. the protests are

a rare defiance of chinese authorities. with some protesters calling for president, she, jim pink to resign. chinese officials have defended their 0 cove and policy despite the growing public backlash. let's get straight across to a family and kashmir in beijing again, just how unusual are these scenes of public protest that we have been saying? extremely unusual. i think the last time that we've seen so many of the public polk protests at the same time happening. he and china was in the ninety's, i guess. so it's really unusual. the most am critical protest. we're definitely in shanghai, you had the crowds shouting. yeah. dan was sitting pinged down with the ccp that has really, really a very unusual because it comes at a great risk. i mean, usually in china, even a critical social media posting could get you into trouble. and if you make that claim publicly it's, it's really very dangerous. i mean, every square inch here and those big cities are,

are controlled by surveillance camera. so this really a great risk for those people. and some of them actually also have been, you know, taken away by the police and not only in shanghai awesome beijing, there were a lot of residential communities who broke down the barriers of their lockdown apartments. there were protests in the universities in many cities here. so that's really could be the, the beginning of the end of the 0 covert policy. and do you think that easing china's tough co, vigorous directions would be enough to satisfy protesters or does this go to something much deeper whether it really depends for the people who are, who were demonstrating in shanghai as a da 0 cobra policy was basically a manifestation of the, you know, increasing repressions and increasing the civilian sir, increasing isolation of china that you've already observed before. so for them probably it's much deeper and m as soon as your corporate policies, blue only the trigger that you know a cost those protests. but i mean, he,

in beijing for example, today i followed am a residential community who basically am discussed and debated their way out of their locked down compartment to, to their freedom. and for them it was rather the opposite. they would consider themselves as rather pro government and they think that the problem of those excessive locked dance is with the, you know, am local neighborhood committees who abuse their power. so it's really a mixed bag and they're not really are very confidential about whether it's anti government or not. but people are definitely are fed up with the 0 corporate restrictions. and you mentioned that in some of those protest, there were instances where people were shouting down with president she, jim hang. and he's just secured an unprecedented 3rd term in our face. how worried you thinking should be about these protests we're definitely very worried. and that's why the sensors are wet, working overtime and, and that's really what makes it so hard for those protests to mobilize and are, you know, in different cities to connect because, you know, and if you follow social media then yeah, you, you will get a glimpse of it,

but i mean, a lot of those are smartphone videos and recordings of those protests are already deleted in china. and if you only follow the official media, then you wouldn't even get any idea what's happening. so it's really hard to mobilize and there's of course, a very repressive state here. people get arrested for much, your smaller incidence and are protesting. so it is very dangerous. so i would not expect, you know, any great danger. but i mean, who knows? those developments could take on a dynamic that it's really very hard to predict. well, thank you very much for bringing us up to date. that is valiant catcher in beijing . meanwhile, t hi. once president, sighing one is stepping down as leader of her party. i campaigned in local elections on a platform of defiance against china and upholding ty, one's democracy. but voters flocked instead to the main opposition party. a startling outcome in tie one's local elections. generally these poles focus on

domestic issues that hit voters close to home. but president, shy in when took a different approach in the face of been increasingly belligerent. china, now she sought to frame local votes as a fight for tie one's freedom and democracy. wars is how i give her that. are the strategies backfired? i changes the result of the election, an oil is leaking effected on the she hm. they saw them change their check or, or, you know, see harrison writing partner half her responsibility. she, i therefore resign from my people. i'm a thought. okay, is it by dragging international issues into a domestic election? analysts say try lost the attention of citizens more concerned with crime rates and a search in coven 19. it's been a difficult here for relations between taiwan and china. in august tensions rose to the highest level in years when beijing effectively blockaded the island with

a series of huge military exercises. the drills followed a controversial visit to taipei by u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi, which china saw as a provocation. 7 taiwan, so position the k m t as long accused shy of being too confrontational towards china. scoring strong gains in these elections. the k m t insists it will also focus on protecting ty, once freedoms, despite resigning as party leader. shy will continue as president until 2024. but her job just became a lot more difficult. oh, okay, we can bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines. kim jong and wants north korea to become the strongest nuclear force in the world. the leader made the comments after the test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile. he's touting as the world's most powerful strategic weapon,

joan gangs as the rock i can reach the u. s. mainland venezuela's government and opposition have reached a preliminary agreement to find a way out of the country's political and economic crisis. it aims to ensure that billions of frozen government funds will be released to help fund social programs. the united states east, some oil sanctions on venezuela in response. and emergency crews are searching for multiple people still missing after a landslide on the italian island of escape. at least one person was killed in the slide, which was triggered by heavy rain block roads and bad weather have hampered rescue efforts. and now to the latest on the war in ukraine, authorities say days of heavy shelling by russian forces have killed at least 32 people in the southern region of herse on. long lines of traffic have built up a civilians, leave the area in search of safety. ukrainian forces liberated harris on just 2

weeks ago. and moscow has since kept up a relentless barrage, primarily targeting power and water supplies. and this is, british military intelligence has suggested that russia's likely firing agent, cruise missiles stripped of nuclear warheads, ukrainian targets. i spoke earlier to d, w, 's, russia analyst, constantine agates, and asked him what that might tell us about the state of the russian offensive. well, i think it means that russia is gradually, are running out of a modern ammunition. and one has to remember that a po to still has to keep his troops prepared on rushes, western borders on the chinese border. he got just consent, all russian army into grain. so that means that if this report is true, that means that our modern style ammunition is definitely in very short supply. and that means that on the one hand, military commanders in russia understand that they,

they have to do something about it. on the other hand, it seems that they can repeat, procure of the russian military industrial complex can produce modern weapons of fast enough. that's why i think we keep hearing about moscow trying to buy missiles from iran, which basically like in 2 years ago or one year ago would have been unthinkable. but it seems like there is a significant shortage. and what about rational trips as winter is setting, and how is their morale holding up? well, it doesn't seem to be very high, and i don't know whether you've seen this confirmed footage from the ukraine. an armed forces of a bunch of russian soldiers being attacked by grenade from the air and they come to the react when they see that the grenade is landed and exploded. because it seems they are suffering hypothermia. and they are huddled in a very badly. ah, ah, ah, i that this is symbolically quite true of what's been happening,

especially to the russian recruits on the battlefield. they are not well prepared. they are not well said, but at the same time i have to say, we do not see any kind of a signs of, of these troops. mutiny are, again, refusing to fight. so on the one hand, they really have very mediocre conditions or the other hand, it doesn't mean them offensive will be stop tomorrow. thank you so much for that update. that is our usher analyst constantine. i got ah, to the world cup and guitar now and argentina, redeem themselves after their shock loss to saudi arabia by beating mexico too. and now, after a quiet 1st half argentina, superstar leonor massey burst into life and put them ahead with a precisely targeted strike. and a wonderful goal from end, so fernandez a rounded off the wind leaves and 2nd in group. see one point behind poland.

so we know saudi arabia kicked off their world's cup campaign by shocking argentina . but the wave of joy after their greatest ever victory came to an abrupt end with a defeat to poland in group see their star strive for robert. ivan dobbs. he scored his 1st world cup goal to round off a to new victory. an emotional moment for the former buyer, munich star, in a group day, raining champions, france gave denmark to one to become the 1st team to qualify for the knockout stage . killian m bob base, or both french goals to break danish hearts. after a gall this 1st half this match came to. 5 life on the hour mark. who else killian and pappy pursued france in france. tear hernandez with the pass back and back pay typically doesn't miss from their

denmark though, have a good recent record against france and 8 minutes later. and chris christenson headed them level christenson, arguably lucky to still be on the pitch of reciprocal fall on him back pay him the 1st half still francis superstar had the last laugh of back pay on target. again, a release of emotion for him and relief for france, even if it wasn't the prettiest goal will ever score france through to the last 60 . we'll be seeing a lot more of him back a and let's see how that result leaves group d after 2 games. well, france are on top with 6 points. drawing their last game is enough for them to win . the groom and australia one now went over to nero, puts them 2nd, a win over denmark, we'll see them qualify. and of course, it is crunch time for germany when they faced spain and group

e later today. i spoke earlier to our did other sports correspond, jonathan harding who is in doha. and i asked him what a loss would mean for the germany team. it will be a disaster and maybe to put it in even more obvious or clear terms. if germany do lou suspending, they will have the same number of points as hosts cut off to 2 games which is 0. i mean, that is a terrible situation for germany to find themselves in, but it's also a logical result really of the way that this tournament has gone for germany. that training camp in oman was pretty rushed. the performance against japan was largely positive, but then they fell apart at the end. and then there has been a lot of field conversation about the arm band. and then of course their protest in return. so it's been a pretty tumultuous performance in terms of germany's woke up. and i'm a little bit worried about again, that was our, did a very sports correspond jonathan harding in doha, drinking to me earlier. you're watching a dw news, and let's get

a quick reminder of our top story before we go protests and broken out in several cities across china, over the country strict cove. it measures hundreds, turned out at demonstrations in shanghai and beijing, and the rising anger over ongoing restrictions. it comes after an apartment fire engine jang, which resident se turned deadly as a walk down hampered rescue efforts. and as your knees update at this hour, there is more on our website and d, w dot com. thanks for watching the world cup in guitar. exciting. important, tim. where should important things were there for you with report and background information.