i can is full cultural history, secret weapon clip steak doth december 3rd on d w with ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin, a wave of protest unlike any scene recently in china. dozens of demonstrations break out nationwide over. i'm going coban 19 restrictions. thank that calls for president changing thing to step down. also coming up in parts of newly liberated ukraine, we meet people struggling with the physical and emotional burden,

putting their city back together and at the world cup and caught our germany, restore some pride after their opening defeats japan. nicholas full could scores their equalizer. any hard fall, $11.00, draw with spain. but germany still have a lot to do to qualify for the knockout stage. ah, i'm when bluecross, welcome to the program. large protests have broken out and several cities across china over the country. strict and ongoing coven 19 measures are rare and dangerous defiance of chinese authorities. some protesters or even calling for president eugene ping to resign. but his 0 cobra policy doesn't appear to be going anywhere. ah, this is an extraordinary moment in china,

and it's spreading further. i'm wider in cities right across the country, hundreds and taking to the streets, angry and fed up with the government 0 current policy. oh, here in the capital, beijing, they lined the banks of it for several hours, many holding up blank pieces of paper. now a symbol for this growing unrest and an act of defiance in the face of chinese censorship. in shanghai, another outpouring of anger and something different that will concern not only china's ruling party, but also its leader. oh my god, amongst the crowd, one protest the shouts out, down with she ging ping. c then they reply, unison stepped down. it's dangerous to criticize the government and his leader here and such a public challenge is extremely rare. oh to,

there's no surprise when police move in and detain, protested. oh, these latest protest was sparked by the deaths of 10 people in a fire at an apartment building in the city of erm. she, with accusations that strict coven restrictions were to blame vigils to remember those who died there. and now at the heart of these growing demonstrations which have spread beyond china, they've even reach sydney in australia. ah, i think 1st is because of the stinky, the president, the kitchen a wish old. and he's 30 dictatorship because he only cab on his pizza. he only cavalcade off is competitive. so this is a why many people that this is uncharted territory for china's leader?

the question now, how much longer can you hold on to a 0 cobit policies in the face of such public pressure? earlier i spoke to william hurst, he's a professor of chinese affairs at the university of cambridge. i asked him why the chinese leadership is still sticking with his their strict 0 cove and policy. 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 lock downs, the sensitivity of all the events that's been happening this year. and that will

happen early next from the winter olympics to the, to 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, arise in cases and, and also potentially arise and death. and this would be in many ways contravene in 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 pot up your standing committee and with quotes from c jumping 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 to 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 are urban governance issues only. or, you know, something else if that happens and an approach as will begin to dissipate more or less with the court. and i think the state would be very happy if that occurs. if

that doesn't happen, often for different variations of repression is extremely costly and also extremely risky. right? a lot left to find out william hearst from university of cambridge, thanks very much for that insight. turn our to some news making headlines around the world. as well as 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 us dollars in frozen government funds will be released to help fund social programs. united states ease some oil sanctions on venezuela. in response, nasa's latest cargo ship has successfully reached the international space station. the unscrewed space ex dragon is carrying 3 and a half tons of fresh supplies, including new solar wings, equipment for scientific experiments, at a tasty treat for the ice as crew ice cream. long lines of traffic has built up in the southern ukraine has shown region as civilians leave the area in

search of safety already. se russian shelly has killed at least 32 people in recent days. moscow has kept up a tax despite withdrawing its forces on the grant. the training authorities have begun reasserting control over areas they've liberated. the clean of task, though is enormous, as is the emotional burden our porter visit. it could be ask in the countries east to see 1st hand or people there are dealing with in the wake of russian occupation . everybody needs to pitch in and re cuz new jenko teaches geography and information technology. but right now he's helping to patch up high school. number one in cooper dance. russian missiles damaged the buildings. was a girl who was there after the occupiers left. it started to get bad her was that was not a single day without shelling lin unable and was running the hood young. bullshit,

both the shelling is rushes 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 occupies insisted on a russian curriculum. there are still russian text books in the classroom. yoga for those as i was, mike was for the lead time, but the 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 2020 to let the latimer put in sign to decree about the recognition of the so called people's republics. little of don't ask

a new hands for so am i supposed to sit there and teach that. that was wonderful. and that have been most for those in cities of cause the russians occupied could be asked 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. so i am looking for a suit on her them. if we talk about doctors, they took the hippocratic label, you have to help anybody who's in need that from the lack of the co would. but these people had a choice. this one on the market, they could either cooperate or not. well, in law, if this were a fact, there were many teachers who quit after the russians arrived with miss walker. he love us oliver, are one of those who took part in training by the russians or who received payment, sir, under the spotlight. cousin 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 lose empathy level was what they okay. typically it was a highly nice to have to survive on was what most of them had not received a wage since april had they had to continue living was what that some had parents to care for old people. what get little 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. ah, at the world cup in cut, our germany restored some pride after if he to japan by drawing 11 with spain and group e. after a goal, this 1st half of auto murata put spain,

one mill up on 62 minutes. what's nicholas fo? craig smashed in an equalizer with 7 minutes left to play. germany still need to win their last game against ghosts, erica, to have any chance of qualifying for the knockout stage. there was a big shock and grew back for morocco. b belgium to nail, substitute abdel hamid to barry, opened the scoring when his free kick went straight in on 73 minutes. and another sub zachariah, a mccloud, made the game safe for morocco in injury time to stun belgium's collection of stars . it also sparked chaos in the belgian capital brussels where celebrations boils over into violence. police use water canon and tear gas after people torture vehicles, smash windows and through fireworks. layer. brussels told people to avoid the city

sent back and caught our croatia, moved up to the top of group ap. thanks to a comfortable for one victory. over canada who go out of the tournament. oppenheim forward andre camacho, which ca, edge, scored twice for teresa. this was his 2nd goal and gracious 3rd on 70 minutes. putting the game behind canadas beyond canvas, bridge, or asia are top of the group on 4 points, the same as morocco after beating germany in their opening games pants surprisingly last one nil in cut to costa rican group. e. k. sure, fuller scored the winning golfer costa. rican on 80 minutes. it was their 1st shot on target at this world cup. the result keeps costa rica in the tournament making groupie very interesting. they were worthy winners. dw sports, chris harrington told us, sir. oh,

it goes 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 guitar. 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 has 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 may need to look at the enthusiasm and fullers face after celebrating everyone in the stands 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. they better watch out. you better not cry. let me tell you why. the end of the pandemic restrictions means the return of a frightful christmas time tradition for one town in austria. a parade of

terrifying monsters took to the streets of paula brown. that's north of vienna. the organizers are keeping with regional folklore that tells the tale of cramp. he's a devious st aside. dick who punishes naughty children, and the real baddies can even find themselves carded. scary stuff. up next reporter looks at russian military deserters who fled to georgia. have more at the top of the hour. i'm label croft actual with a devastated houses of to our we can will most and of course carry defects of climate change. i mean, phil to plug would be for a station in the rain forest continue carbon dioxide emission.