making me to change with you reviewed this week on d. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. china's a 0 coven policy under increasing pressure. unprecedented protests break out in the financial hub, shanghai and several other cities, with hundreds calling for authoritarian president. she jumping to go. the fresh wave of anger sparked by

a deadly residential fire. also coming up on the show. tie one's ruling party is thrashed and local elections. president sy, in one step down as leader i for her focus on china, backfires with voters. we look at what the outcome means for taiwan. and in katara, leonor messy turns on the magic as argentina, beef, mexico, and get their world cop back on track. ah. hello, i'm clear, richardson. thank you so much for joining us. on rest is growing and china over the country strict cove measures. and in rare defiance of authorities, fresh protests are taking place in multiple cities, including shanghai and beijing. rollins also took place in the early hours of sunday morning with hundreds of demonstrators in shanghai,

calling on president. she's paying to stepped down. anger has flared over a deadly apartment fire earlier this week, which many have blamed on excessive walk down measures. chinese officials have defended their 0 coven policy. despite the growing public backlash of the scale of the protest has stunned people both inside and outside china. i asked a fabian crash man, jest, how unusual these scenes we've been seeing really are extremely unusual. i think the last time that we've seen so many of the public pulled to protest at the same time happening. he and china was in the ninety's, i guess. so it's really unusual. the most critical protest were 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, us, and beijing, there were a lot of residential communities who broke down the barriers of their locked down apartments. there were protests in the universities, in many cities here to that's really could be the, the beginning of the end of the 0 covered policy. and do you think that easing china's tough coven restrictions would be enough to satisfy protesters? or does this go to something much deeper whether it really depends for the people who are, who are demonstrating in shanghai as a da 0 cobra policy was basically a manifestation of the, you know, increasing repressions and increasing a civilian sir. increasing isolation of china that you've already observed before. so for them probably it's much deeper and m, as you're as your corporate policies,

bro, only the trigger that you know, a cost those protests, but i mean, he and 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 clear 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 loc 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 colbert 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 sender's overweight 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, am, 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, awesome or 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 is valiant catcher in beijing? well this has tie once president sy in one is staffing down as the leader of our party. so i can paint in local elections on a platform of defiance against china and upholding ty ones, democracy. but voters instead flocked to the main opposition party. a

startling outcome in tie one's local elections. generally these polls 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 ty, once freedom and democracy was entirely dependent on the strategy. backfired. hi, changing the result of the election and loyal as league effected on the she hung, they thought them changing the jekyll or yes, the harrison learning partner half that responsibility. and she, i bet poorly shine for my people. i'm a pot. okay. 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 us house 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 empty 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. now, for more on the story, let's get across to date of these a william young in taipei, william it's. i made china a focus on her campaign and that has backfired. what do you think that means for

tie ones china policy going forward? i think it simply clearly shows that the platform did not resonate well with the voters at the local level. as the report has really said, the voters care a lot more about everyday life issue in this election. and they also care a lot about who they are going to in life that is going to bring more benefits to their everyday life. so these china factors and the threats have really put out on the back burner. for most of the voters, we are likely not going to be much changed to taiwan. is china policy, as in fact, over the last 6 years or so, there have been very little official dialogue, were exchanges or communication between the 2 sides and with the rising threats and also provocation from china. since the u. s. health secret goals, the visit in august is only going down the trends out time. one is going to strengthen its a national security and sovereignty in the event of the growing threat from china.

but it will be interesting to see how the china factors starts to play out over the next year as we enter into a very different election cycle, which is the next presidential election cycle in 2024. and what do you expect to happen there? do you see these results as a potential indicator for what we might see in 2024? right. so yesterday's result actually will give us some clue about who might be promoted to be the front runner from each party. and the 2024 election for the d p . p. with time when stepping down, she is going to make way for the likely successor is like, whoa, probably be the current vice president willing like. as for the kmc, the new type, a city may or who yo yo who one of lance lie yesterday with a record number of vote winning, he is likely going to be able to convince his party to throw unity behind him for the 2024 bit and another person to look out for is the outgoing type,

a city mayor who his party was the 3rd largest party, still relatively slow, but they were able to actually secure one very important race in this election. and that could translate into his calculation into measuring the effect of his party's national appeal to the voters in the 2024 election. those are the ones to watch. then. thank you so much. that's the w. william yan reporting from ty pay. thank you . the, the world cup in katara now and argentina, redeem themselves after their shock loss of saudi arabia by beating mexico to know after a quiet 1st half argentine as a superstar leonel, matthew burst into life and put them head with a precisely targeted strike. and a wonderful goal from end, though fernandez, rounded off the when that will leave them a 2nd in a group see

a point behind hold. and our dw reporters were on the ground in doha, after the conclusion of that match here some argentina fan reaction that they sent us from there. well, to suffer, i'll be in the portal. but in the magical murphy i'll be right in a little hold is over. we'll do a joint please. match was a may the was the best match ever. i my husband, it makes it got it in my do you already go? no, i don't even make the guy. no, no, i don't know where he had the he lead me already. i'd be, we'd get the board. this is the best. i just freak out. sorry. i'm so. sorry. i'm sorry. i just do want mercy. i love you. well, that must be a relief for argentina fans after their last to saudi arabia. but for saudi arabia, the wave of joy after their greatest ever victory came to an abrupt end with defeat,

to poland in group see their star striker, robert live in dogs. case court, his 1st world cup gold, round off a 2 mill victory. it was an emotional moment for the former wired munich star and in group d, raining champions, france beat denmark to want to become the 1st team to qualify for the knockout stage. korean and bob, a score both french goals to break danish hearts. ostrich, all this 1st half this match came to lie from the hour mark. who else? the killian and back a passing france in france. tear hernandez with the pass back and back pay typically doesn't miss from their denmark though, have a good recent report against france in 8 minutes later. and chris christenson headed them level christensen,

arguably lucky to still be on the pitch of reciprocal fall on him. back a in the 1st half still, francis superstar had the last laugh and pappy on target again, a release of emotion for him and relief for france. even if it wasn't the prettiest goal, they'll ever score. france through to the last 16 will be seeing a lot more of him back a and it's crunch time for germany when they faced spain in group e later today. as how to aren't in these parts. correspondent jonathan harding, who is in del, harsh, and asked him what a loss would mean for the germany to you. it will be a disaster and maybe to vote in even more obvious or clear terms. if germany dealers to spain, they will have the same number of points as hosts cutter after 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. their 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 her. i'm a little bit worried about again, that was our data. the sports corresponded jonathan harding in doha, speaking to me a bit earlier, and a off be to tradition when i tell you about it has returned to one town in austria for the 1st time since the lifting of crone of iris restrictions. hundreds of people turned out for a parade of monsters. they are not something of for the faint of heart, according to local folk lore. the cramp us monster is santa claus is evil sidekick who punishes children,

who've been naughty instead of nice. of youngsters who've been especially bad might even find themselves in cart it off. before we go, let's get a quick reminder of our top story. protests are broken out and several cities across china over the country. strict coven measures hundreds turned out at demonstrations and shanghai in beijing. a mid rising anger over ongoing restrictions. i comes after an apartment fire inch and jang, which resident se turned deadly as lockdown. hampered rescue efforts that she was update. thank you so much for watching. ah, i'm just kinda, i think that's hard and in the end is a me, you are not