and icons like a magic wand and ground through divorce, secret weapon lipstick, dart december thread, until a light ah ah, this is dw news light from berlin. a wave of protests unlike any scene in china recently. dozens of demonstrations against harsh cove 19 restrictions breakout nationwide. they include calls for president, she didn't thing to step down. also coming up,

surviving torture in ukraine. we have an exclusive report about 2 citizens of kind of song. and they're all deals as prisoners of the russian occupying forces. and at the wealth carpet carter, germany restore some trot it and keep their hopes for the next round alive. nicholas fuko, scores that equalized a hard fought one all draw with spain. but germany delivered tough battle ahead to qualify for the knockout stage. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. calm has now returned to this streets off several chinese cities, following large scale protests against the government strict cove at 19 measures. in shanghai, there's been an increase police presence on the streets this morning. authorities

dell, so preparing for the possibility of moral protests. directing barriers in places where people gathered overnight. the rallies are rare, show of defiance against chinese authorities. with some protest as even calling for president. she didn't ping to resign, but there's no sign the harsh restrictions office 0 cove, it policy will be lifted any time soon. 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 say, wrote current policy. oh, here in the capital, beijing, the line, the banks of america 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. we want basic human rights. we want to freedom one,

a free our country from this on fire. absurd regulation in shanghai, another outpouring of anger and something different. that will concern not only china's ruling party, but also it's leda. oh my god, amongst the crowd, one protest the shouts out. down with she ging ping. c then they replying, 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 that detain, protested. oh, these latest protests was sparked by the deaths of 10 people in a fire at an apartment building in the city of m g, with ac ations,

that strikes covert restrictions were to blame the jewels to remember those who died there. and now at the heart of these growing demonstrations, we have human dignity, we're humans, we are chinese, and we need constitutionality. this is uncharted territory for china's leader. the question now, how much longer can you hold on to 0 cobit policies in the face of such public pressure? and earlier i spoke to journalist probably in summer in the beijing and he described to me the atmosphere there after a weekend of protests. yeah, i was just at the protest site were yesterday and at least several hundreds, possibly thousands have gathered. now it seems calm, but there is a police presence. some are in uniform, summer, and plain clothes. and as soon as they identified me as a journalist, they asked me to leave. but yet, and shanghai there were already to arrest, according to news agencies from to day. and if you want to get

a glimpse about the roots among the people, and if you look at social media, a lot of young, a chinese people, they're posting very critical videos. they're also posting videos of the protests from yesterday and the weekend. of course they get censored immediately, but then there find other ways to, you know, voice, the anger, they play with the center ships, for example, one theme that is quite popular right now. people are posting the video to the pink floyd song in other brick in the wall and in the lyrics it says, we don't need know caught control. and i think that captures really the state of might of many young chinese right now. so across china, how's the government, how are authorities reacting to these protests? it really depends. yesterday in beijing the police was rather cautious because i mean the demonstrations were peaceful and we don't know many latch arrests. but in shanghai, it was different that there was at least a full bus of a police bus,

crowded with people who got arrested. and also one, b, b. c. journalist, got arrested, not only detained. he was also beaten down. it's really a new law and how the, you know, security apparatus treats foreign correspondents here. and i think the difference is that in shanghai, some processes opened, the demanded shooting pink to step down. he and been doing the demonstrators were more cautious. they made it. they also made very critical slogans. for example, the country belongs to the people, not to the party, etc. but they did not specify specifically criticize seating thing, but definitely the leadership should be worried because in the previous years, of course we had a protest here and there, but they were always localized. for example, labor protest or student protest. now we have a broad distance that, you know, has spread to all over the country. basically, it's very risky, of course, to do these kind of protests what kind of repercussions are the protesters facing

what you could get arrested and really quite easily in the previous months. we seen, especially during the pandemic that you know, even critical social media postings, could get you into trouble, including, you know, visits from the police and possibly detained. and we know of many cases of human rights lawyers, you know, just disappearing for, for a long time. so if you would demonstrate openly on the street that is very risky and you could pay it with your freedom by then catch mother in a bad jane. thank you very much. 5, you that several of not some of the other stories making headlines around the world . at least 14 people have died in a landslide and come roads capital. the own date of the victims have been attending a funeral ceremony. rescue teams are still searching for survivors as dozens more are missing the governor despite the areas dangerous and urged people to leave. and after another landslide on santa down, the italian island of esquire rescue is also searching for 5 people. still missing

them. authorities say the death toll has now risen to 7, including a new born baby. the slide was triggered by storm. a state of emergency has been declared. the grass president full of them is zalinski has urged his country to prepare for a new wave of russian air strikes as long as they have rockets. they will not rest lensky said in a video address, referring to russia's military and it attacks it's attacks on critical infrastructure. there's been no rush response to this claim. last week intensified russian strikes subjected ukrainians to the most acute power cuts since the war began. as of sunday, millions still had little electricity or heat. though authorities say power and water has now largely been restored to the capital. keep fighting is far from over in the southern city of kent,

san though it's back under ukrainian control, russian forces continued to shell. the city from across that ne pro river. at the same time, people there are coming to grips with the past 8 months of russian occupation. the w's, ne calmly met with 2 residents who survived weeks of torture. and a warning. some viewers might find the descriptions of violence in this report, upsetting hearing for food, huddling around the few working, why fi hotspots carrying on in spite of the shelling all around them. this is what everyday life looks like on the government key. it was people to evacuate 2 areas of power, water away from the russian guns. the new and victoria state put during 8 long months of russian occupation. they're not about to go anywhere. now. they might seem like old friends, but they only met in september. the seller of this unremarkable office block has

prisoners any of those of oliver forced their way into her flat. my grandma startled screaming, they let her off into the bathroom soon at a bag over my head. and they just started beating me over and over. who's your president, who's your president, you're coming with us and it's going to be a lot of fun. phil. i miss the neil had subscribed to a pro ukrainian chuck group on telegram enough for her son's increasingly anxious rush notifies to come off to him. victoria had been volunteering, taking food to people in need when a group came into suspicion for contacts in government control territory. even when the russians ready to home, they found ukrainian flags, army souvenirs and postcards. reasonable char, i guess that means your enemy, doesn't it? the interrogator asked me, i agreed with him, but what do people do to the enemies? he asked, i killed them, i replied, that you are right, he said, but they tortured them fast under wood. i didn't think i'd get out of there alive. you may want them to landra turned and you had no idea where it was that being kept

he there, he realized it's been told as weeks in the middle of have san and they recognized pictures of their basement shed online. we tried to go inside, but the police isn't letting anyone in the risk of russian mines is just too high. holden, l victoria ever saw was there so as soon as they left it, there were captain hoods, the captors determined to remain unseen. but as little as they could see, they could hear more than they want to. 2 of us, the worst was hearing you screams, lightning i was the loudest in our basement during the interrogation see of all the cells could hear yelping. i was unbearable. the men's shouts didn't travel quite as far, but when you started, all i could do was pray that they go easy. all you knew of was all quite up within the pat my last interrogation, my hands were bound. the pain from the electric shocks was so bad that i didn't even notice that i pulled a nail out. the, all of a sudden i could feel the blood dripping my hands my trousers. they were all

covered in blood. the lead, but the most terrifying moment was still to come of 2 weeks without news while the inmates was suddenly driven out to the city, the gods telling them it was time to say their prayers on the side of the that they made every one record a short video, you had to say your name, your date of birth, and saying to the camera that you are alive and well, for a moment i was really worried. what do they need this for? was it was that? did they need an alibi? and when you brush geffrey to seal them, they were told to close their eyes and count to a 100. but instead of the shots that expected, they heard they kept his driving away without them. yeah. with that, the likelihood the russian kept his low face justice is slim, they tortured the evidence as they left least one good thing has come of it all. victoria tells me we're done being scared. ah,

at the football world cup and cut our germany restored some pride after that it feed to japan by drawing a one all with spain and group e. but i still need to win their last game against costa rica to have any chance of qualifying for the knockout stage. spain so dare intent in this game right from the start, danny almo, coming close, 7 minutes in. but manuel noir in gold and the crossbar both came to germany's rescue. has he flicks i looked most dangerous from set pieces, but sadly for then antonia roodick as header was rude out of sight. the mountains fine between success and failure into the 2nd half in spain. drew 1st, glad how vari, murata had only been on the field. 8 minutes. a typical poachers finished from him and, and inspired substitution by spain coach louis enrique. but anything he can do, flick can to his super sub strike had nicholas full crew smashed in germany's

equalizer with 7 minutes to go raymond's full crew, repaying flaking bucket loads for his call up to the squad relief then for the coach will be hoping this doesn't turn out to be a temporary reprieve. and after that upset group, he has now gotten very interesting is by germany's hartford draug and spain only win against costa rica will do in their final game. if they're to avoid a strike early exit from the world cup, and even then japan could still make things difficult for on the flicks men. if they get a result against spain. and it was a big shocking group. s where morocco beat belgium to nil. substitute up the la sir berry opened the scoring when his free cake went right in on 73 minutes and another sub zacharia apple glove made the game. say for morocco an injury time to stun belgium's collection of stars and spark chaos. in the belgian capital brussels

police detained around a dozen people off the riots broke out in several parts of the city. on sunday evening thousands of sako found some drive the moroccan flags clashed with police before calm was restored that's it from me and the new scheme of finance sar kelly will have an update for you. at the top of the aisle documentary about martial culture is coming up next on miss that and gab office in berlin. for me, the team, thanks for watching we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship a minute. we're all in. as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to.