ah ah ah ah, this is, do you have any news ly, from berlin, a wave of protest unlike any seen recently in china, dozens of demonstrations breakdown nationwide over ongoing covenants restrictions. they include calls or president teaching paying de, stepped out. also coming up as russia continues its relentless bombardment of ukraine's recently liberated hassan region. civilians are packing up,

leaving their homes in search of safety and other big shock at the world cup and cotton morocco stun, belgium's golden generation north africans when to nailed to give himself huge chance of making the knockout stage. but the belgians campaign in jeopardy ah, i my blue cross. welcome to the program. large protests have broken out in several cities across china over the country. strict and ongoing, coven 19 measures. they're a rare and dangerous defiance of chinese authorities. some protesters are calling for president, she doing thing to resign, but his 0 coven policy doesn't appear to be going anywhere. oh, they've become a symbol of the biggest threat yet 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 prison. gigi and 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 8 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 brought 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 residents an hour or so rising up here, they chant, lift the co would lock down. the tension with officials boils over is protesters break through a fence. the pro she's come just weeks after he's in ping was re appointed as the country leader for an unprecedented food. tim, his cause of restrictions as some of the harshest globally, with official sticking to a 0 call the policy well,

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. to get more on this with william hurst, he's a professor of chinese politics at the university of cambridge, william, welcome to d. w. can you 1st put this outbursts of protests in perspective? how unique are they for china? well it's, it's the sort of coordinated or, or conflagration of things happening at once that we haven't seen in a while. right. it's, i'm not sure if it's coordinated sort of protests, but it's certainly a series of process that bring together several lines of content, just politics that had been quite distinct and even quite desperate over the past 30 years. so it is something we haven't seen in a while. the question to me is her durable. is this sort of fusion of otherwise very distinct frames? are such a looking from the outside?

in the 0 coven policy seems very confusing because it's causing public unrest. it's taking a bite out of the economy and covert cases or anything but 0. and yet the chinese leadership is intent on sticking with it. what is their interest in that? well, i think there are really 3 aspects to it. one is that there is a tremendous amount of legitimacy stage to the idea that the virus can be controlled. and that the c, c, p is the entity to control. and these are the measures they've been using to control it. it's worked relatively well compared to most other places in the world, in terms of keeping cases and deaths down. and they want to stick with that in order to maintain that sense of legitimacy. the 2nd factor is that there are political incentives for maintaining the restrictions and loc don's, the sensitivity of all the events that's been happening this year, and that will happen early next from the winter olympics to the 2 meetings. back in

march, the 20th party congress just concluded as the report you just ran and talked about . and also then the 2 meetings coming up in march. so at least until next march, there's strong political incentives to leave many of the locked on measures in place that have nothing to do with covered. and then the 3rd factor is that if restrictions were to be rolled back, it's quite likely there would be a rise in cases and, and also potentially arise and death. and this would be in many ways contravene a sort of high stakes position that the c c p leadership claimed over the summer, particularly in july when they issued a statement from the policy or a standing committee. and quote, quotes from seeking himself, saying that persistence is victory. there can be no retreat. and that you know, if we're not moving forward or moving backward when it comes to the virus, so to suddenly say we're just going to live with the virus now. would be a very embarrassing retreat, potentially for the party and the leadership. it seems like they put themselves in

a bit of a corner, which begs the question, at what point of these protest threatened she's power? i think they're extremely alarming to anyone inside the chinese state already. i think the fact that they've happened at all is an indication that things are less stable than perhaps some had thought. but the question is, how to react to any reaction is very high stakes and potentially very high cost rates are doing nothing. and hoping that the fizzle may be the strategy of the moment, but, and then they very well may fizzle if these otherwise disparate strands do become disentangled. and we start to see, you know, very distinct mobilization around labor issues. only our urban governance issues only. or, you know, something else if that happens and an approach as will begin to dissipate more or less with their own accord. and i think the state would be very happy if that occurs. if that doesn't happen on thing for different variations of repression is extremely costly and also extremely risky. and

a lot left to find out william hearst from university cambridge. thanks very much for that insight. thank you very much for having me. now turning over to ukraine authority say days of heavy shelling by russian forces have totally 32 people in the southern region of hash. some long lines of traffic have built up as civilians leave. the area in search of safety, ukrainian forces liberated, has shown just 2 weeks ago. moscow has since kept up a relentless garage that's primarily targeting power and water supply. ukrainian authorities have begun restoring control over areas previously occupied by russia. and when russian troops moved in many civilians, left other states put other questions over whether they should be treated as collaborators. everybody needs to pitch in. andrew could need jenko, teaches geography and information technology. but right now he's helping to patch

up high school number one. in cooper dance, russian miss isles damaged the buildings. what a girl that was there after the occupiers left it started to get bad her was there was not a single day without shelling linea unable and as one of her younger bullshit. both the shelling is russia's revenge for ukraine. taking back territory moscow's troops occupied the school and town for half the year. schools did continue with lessons cushioning. jenko says at 1st he was able to teach as usual. but after the summer break, the occupiers insisted on a russian curriculum. there are still russian text books in the classroom. yoga for those as i was my boss for the return of their lives. i opened the

geography textbook for 8 grade. there wasn't a real curriculum, but they gave us textbook slash about worship. i took a look and said no on the 1st page it said on the 21st of february 2022. he let the latimer put in sign to decree about the recognition of the so called peoples republics. little of don't ask a new hands for so am i supposed to sit there and teach that? that was wonderful and there have been a moisture edelton city. think of the russians occupied could be axed on the 3rd day of the war and controlled the town for more than 6 months. daily life is difficult. there is no running water and power outages of frequent. the question of who collaborated with the russians also looms the newly installed ukrainian town administrator is clear. we are short on the carry, but i saw it on her them. if we talk about doctors they took the hippocratic label, you have to help anybody who's in need rep from a lot of the co would. but these people had

a choice. this one on the market. they could either cooperate or not on them all as if this were a fact. there were many teachers who quit after the russians arrived in this is wafa novice oliver ellen of those who took part in training by the russians or who received payment. so under the spotlight, couldn't jenko is convinced he will not be charged. he was sent here by another school and carried on getting his ukrainian salary. but he does not judge his colleagues wondered what they level was, what they okay. typically a lead me to how to survive was what most of them had not received a wage since april or had they had to continue living was a lot that some had parents to care for old people. what good looking old leaking good ukraine secret service is investigating, and the teachers cases will come to court. difficult questions of guilt and morality will preoccupy people here for

a long time to come. stick a look now at some other stories making use right now. a workers in the t guy region have accused allies of ethiopian government of looting and carrying out mast attentions. the reports have raised fears of renewed conflict between the government and to grind forces to 3 weeks after the side a ceasefire ending 2 years of war. nasa is latest cargo ship has successfully reached the international space station. the and crude space ex dragon is carrying 3 and a half tons of fresh supplies, including solar wings, equipment for scientific experiments and a tasty treat. v i s s. crew ice cream. ah . from outer space down to the pitch world cup in cut our big shock in group f, where morocco f b in belgium to nil substitute abdel ha! mid to mary opened the scoring when his free kick went straight in on 73 minutes.

and another sub zechariah, a mccloud, made the game safe from morocco, an injury time to study belgium's collection of stars and put themselves in the driving seat for qualification. garage have moved to the top of group and thanks to a comfortable for one victory. over canada, who go out or go out of the tournament. oppenheim ford, andre cra, march scored twice for croatia. this was his 2nd goal and gracious 3rd on 70 minutes. when in the game beyond canada's reach, croatia are top with a group on 4 points, same as morocco who upset after beating jeremy are opening games are pan surprisingly. last one, neil the costa rican group a treasure fuller scored the winning goal for costa rica, 80 minutes. it was their 1st shot on target. at this world cup result keeps costa

rica in the tournament. a groupie rather interesting. and they, they were worthy winners. did have you sports as chris harrington told us her oh, close to rico's 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 cups. it's 1958 to concede 7 goals and turn around and become victorious. you know, a gets a team has been looking pretty good, you know, up into that surprised by fuller, the lowest he goes that they have to disprove in the world that it only takes one moment to change your faith. and i 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 you to look at the a through z as a one fuller's face. after celebrating everyone in the stance, cherry for goes to rica. yeah,

i think that's what the football tournament is all about, and it's nice to see some, a unlikely outcomes. always, i see some unlikely outcomes. stay tuned, though we got coming up a documentary about women's fight against sexist macho culture in latin america. we'll have more news for you at the top of the hour until then d, w dot com, and ask you to be news on twitter. and instagram is where you want to keep it locked in. i'll see you again real soon. ah. gret, small shell boot with explosives, a symbol of power, rebellion and sensuality. a magic wand to ground through divorce guy.