because i'm a cool b u i. it was just me in the moon. oh ha. ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. a wave of protests unprecedented in modern china, up dozens of demonstrations breakout nationwide, including in beijing and shanghai. as anger flared over, ongoing covey restrictions, and a rare out pouring of descent. hundreds call for president jim ping to step down.

also coming up in katara leona. messy turns on the magic argentina. beach mexico and get their wealth copy back contract. ah, i'm monica jones and glen. welcome to the program. large protests have broken out in several cities across china over the country. strict and ongoing covey measures . the demonstrations are a rare defiance of chinese authorities and comma mid rising anger over lengths he locked downs. some protesters or calling for president, judging ping to resign. chinese officials have refused to back down over their serial cobit policy despite the growing public backlash. oh, they've become a symbol of the biggest 3. get to china's leadership. blank pieces of paper held

aloft by protesters like here in beijing. a silent rejection of censorship. this rally just one of dozens that have sprayed across china. oh, just hours early, a huge crowds turned out in shanghai in a re, a defiance of chinese authorities. years of pandemic locked downs, have pushed people here to the limit. hundreds face down, police and hold on president jean ping to step down. many in the crowd refusing to hide their identities, despite potentially severe consequences for their disobedience scuffles eventually broke out with offices warning the crowds to move back as police reinforcements arrived, a woman can be heard yelling, you were employees, you have food to eat and money to make what about us?

it's been 3 years saturdays protest came to a heed following a candlelight vigil for the victims of an apartment 5, it's shaken the country at least teen died in the blaze which broke out on thursday and the northwestern city of odom. she many have blamed the deaths on lockdown restrictions, which they say hemp at rescue effects with some lug was banned from leaving their homes for over 3 months. odom, she residence and now also rising up here. they chant, lift the co would lock down. the tension with officials boils over is protestors break through a fence. the protests come just weeks after gigi and ping was re appointed as the countries leader for an unprecedented food to him. his private restrictions as some of the harshest globally, with official sticking to a 0 coven policy, while much of the rest of the world tries to coexist with the virus. but despite

the public backlash, g shows no signs of backing down. early i spoke to correspondent fabi and crash mountain beijing and asked him for more details about these protests . yeah, we're basically seeing the biggest protest in china since at least in 1990. so it's really remarkable. and in the night or from saturdays to sunday, the several hundreds of young people in shanghai gathered. they did not only voice their criticism against the 0 corporate policy, but also against ceasing ping's rule. they were shouting down with she to ping down with the party. i mean, it's really unheard of and you have a protests in basically all of the country. i give you one noticeable example he and paging at the really very prestigious chink, while university am also several hundreds, maybe even more than a 1000 students are gathering, also shouting slogans,

demanding freedom. and it's really, i mean that they are very courage us there. basically for the 1st time speaking up and that comes really at a great risk. and i mean, the chinese government is known to have a very low tolerance for, for criticism. what does it tell us that are so many and willing now to defy the regime? to be courageous. as you just said, yet many have had enough. they feel also like they have nothing to lose. i would say they are different motifs or especially that say migrant workers for them, the locked downs are an existential economic threat. so read, they have nothing to lose for the students. for example, chip, while university for more for them, i'm sure it's a moral obligation. they want to show solidarity because on thursday night there was a fire, wooden wood, she in a, in a cindy young 10 people died and many people in china believe those deaths could have been prevented. they were basically a side effect of those very excess of locked downs. and it's not the 1st time that people had to die because of those locked downs. and basically,

every day on social media, you see em, people in a desperate don't m the suicide and jumping from their roofs because they've been off a week, sometimes months locked down in their home. so and they had the feeling now it's too much, we have to assure our solidarity. we have to say something. and do you think that easing china's half coded restrictions would be enough to satisfy protesters or is there really maybe something deeper going on for some yes, i mean in shanghai, we've really seen that. and they want more than just a change of the covert or panoramic policy. i mean, they basically asked sitting pink to step down. i mean, for them, you know, the endless repressions, the civilians that no came during the per pandemic but was also observable before i think they want a different society. i'm sure about that, but also from any other people, it's really mostly. the endless covered lockdown said to, you know, em, herb of brings their patients to an end, or he, in a begging for example,

i followed one, you know, residential compound. they, you know, a fought their way to the outside of those barriers that they had in front of their locked down compound. and they see the problem more with local neighborhood committees who abuse their power. they wanted to call the police wanted to call the authorities because they actually had trust and them that they would, you know, correct those things. so there's really a mixed bag of motifs behind those protesters. but all of them definitely had enough m of a 0 covert. i if i the and that is sort of obviously in out makes you wonder why is eugene king insisting on these larry rigid covey measures, given the low numbers, there are let along the economic and to what we see now. also the social backlash. yeah, that's really a complicated question because i mean nobody knows we're 100 percent for sure. um, but i would say that you know, the government has put itself in a dead end. we have for more than 2 years, an endless propaganda telling that there's no tentative to recover that. china,

the only place that managed to you know, em contained the virus. and now we see that this strategy is not sustainable anymore and, and they don't know how to change in, in, in the last months achieve for more than a year. they're so much resources in endless testing and are currently facilities and they both fail to start a nationwide herb exceed the campaign. i mean, now the people over 80 years old, this a rate of less than 40 percent who had a booster shot. so if now we would open up completely, i'm sure there would be a lot of damage to the people in terms of health. so now it's really, there's not good options left, right? correspond if i didn't catch mother reporting for us, we're amazing. thank you so much fabian and his a look now at some other stories making news around the world. ty, once president shy in when i stood down as leader of the islands ruling democratic progressive party after it's off that it's worst local election defeat in decades.

time presented the vote as a test of taiwan determination to stand up for democracy in the face of an aggressive china voters instead flocked to the opposition long lines and traffic is built up in southern ukraine's parasol region. a civilians leave the area in search of safety authority say at least 32 people have been killed in recent days by russian shelling ukrainian forces liberated her son earlier this month at moscow has kept up the rush of attacks. emergency workers on the italian island of east kia have recovered the body of a child as they search for multiple people. still missing. after saturdays lance light, at least one other person has been confirmed killed and the slide which was caused by heavy rain. aah! to the welk up now and on this action saw japan fall to of costa rica, one nil in group eat. picking up the action around the eighty's minute mark her

japan was attempting to clear the ball about costa rica had other plans. the ball found a kesha fuller, who made good waste. costa rica is very 1st shot on goal at the world cup in cut off the result keeps costa rica in it, making a group eat very interesting. and i would like to know a little bit more about that now. joining me for the woke up action. there's chris harrington from my d. w. sports. chris was that when japan's when was reserved. oh costa rica as victory i think was deserved. they had to even punch their ticket. they had to play a play off to even get in to could tar. and when you, when you look at how they were beat up with their opening match, you know, they become the 1st team in the world cup since 1958 to concede 7 goals and turn around and become victorious. you know, a gets a team that's been looking pretty good, you know, up into that surprised by fuller. the last he goes that they have to disprove in

the world that it only takes one moment to change your faith in. and now you spoke about group e, be more interesting. obviously it's somewhat levels the playing field, of course they have things like goal difference to be concerned about. but nonetheless, i mean, look at the enthusiasm fuller's face. after celebrating everyone in the stance, cheering for goes to rica. yeah, i think that's what the football tournament is all about and it's nice to see some unlikely outcomes. well, talking of which my for i didn't slip just now just shows the trauma that the game of germany and japan left behind. and of course, it's a do a die for germany later today when i meet spain. yes, head coach. ozzy lake refers to the matches bay. there's our final, of course, there. haunted by the ghosts of russia in 2018. be kicked out of the group stage. all the players. acknowledge that. you know, you have hi, have a to lead the attack in the opening match. you know, he's been great about scoring goals and so forth about the teams focus. well, according to the players, you know,

they've done some soul searching and they seem to be prepared. but when it comes, the opponent, spain, i mean history doesn't look so good. all right. the last time they play competitively was 2020, they got stopped by 6 goals. there was a hattrick, spain scoring 7 in their opening match. they're firing on all cylinders up front, they look very good and very dangerous, you know, which makes a match that much more interesting in even germany when it comes to the work up. you know, the tv viewership is the lowest in 30 years. you know, they've no one to didn't really to the japan fixture, but i'm just, my instinct tells me things might be, differ with spain, you know, because it's been 1988 the last time germany is actually been victorious in a competitive match. you know, so there's a lot of drama and fireworks and if they're considering it, their final, you know, i'm looking for some magic from mario goods of perhaps like who, who no, who knows. but i'm definitely pulling, you know, for germany to upset a lot of the naysayers and just focus on football. like the team has been saying, yeah, well, well, we'll know a bit more later. let's go back to the 2018

a look at that. you mentioned because the runners up in croatia are about to face canada. and from what we hear mood isn't that good already up front, right. well, you know, canada, their, their 1st woke up in 36 years. they actually out play belgium in their opener in a after that game. the coach, you know, john herdman was rallying the troops so to speak, trying to encourage the player saying, hey, you deserve to be here. we actually have a quote car. we could take a look at it, you know, and he was addressing the players and it just said, we're going to go and f croatia. you can use your measurement imagination with the f stands for. i think it's widely understood as those words made their way all the way to zagreb, where a correlation tabloid responded in actually put a naked picture of heard me. we actually have this image as well. and are they covered part of his body, his mouth and his private parts with maple leaves it saying the translation you

have the mouth, but do you have the balls as well? you know, so obviously it varies of the with that suggestion. but, you know, the press conference equation coach did like the comments at all. he used respect 13 times in his sal bite, saying, you know, we don't appreciate that, that's not the way you speak when i try to be respectful and so forth in a their players, yvonne pears, it says he's looking forward to the game. maybe there's some bloodshed let. oh, well, let's not hug for lunch at about. hopefully it's going to be a fearful and a good, an exciting game. chris harrington front, italy is full, it's thank you so much for that. thank you. and of course, argentina redeemed themselves after their shock last to saudi arabia, by beating mexico to nail on saturday after quiet 1st half argentina, superstar leona messy burst into life and put them ahead with a precisely talkative strike. and a wonderful goal from answer fernandez, rounded off the wind, which leaves them 2nd in group, see a point behind to poland and you watching dw news. a quick reminder of

our top story for you. unrest is growing in china over the country. strict kobe measures dozens of fresh protests, have broken out, including in beijing and shanghai. that's all from us for now. coming up next, sports live follows an icon of indian motor, racing on his journey to recovery after a serious crash. i'm monica jones from me on the anti news team here in berlin. thanks for watching. and we'll be back with the latest on the top of the hour when you become criminal. ah, franklin, aol, a reading.