to enjoy fresh air, ah, revealed the sleep on d w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china cracks down on protests against the countries 0 cove. it policies, police block off districts where public anger had let loose and fence or cell phones. the image is coming out now show people once again falling in line with mass testing unlocked. i'm also coming up katara us all giant konica phillips and

answer major deal to deliver millions of tons of liquefied natural gas to jerk. and portugal advanced to the last 16 of the football world cup and caught up. that's thanks to a to know victory over said ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. and we begin in china where bay jane has deployed more security forces to clamp down on demonstrations against it's 0 covet policy, but with infection numbers still high across the country. some cities have returned to a daily routine of testing nearly 3 years of lengthy locked downs at mass testing house set china apart from the rest of the world. and the frustration has sparked rare sights of public descent. in response, police are out in force patrolling,

city streets, and universities, or even sending students home to try and stop. protesters from gab a while. crowds have rallied in cities across china. solidarity protests. have also sprung up outside the embassies around the world. after a we can't the public unrest and anger mo, protests at china, 0 cove, it policy. but this is not beijing or shanghai. this small gathering is taking place in hong kong as business district at its heart, a vidual to remember those who lost their lives in a building fire last week. in the city of a rom, she 10 deaths. it's alleged that were caused by china strict cove. it matches and it have sparked this way, but demonstrations, just like in cities across the chinese mainland. here they hold up blank sheets of paper, now a symbol of descent in his growing movements, all under the watchful eyes of the authorities. getting the situation in china has

gotten worse and worse over the past few years, people's basic demands are ignored. we still wear carto, which is one to live like humans, school. so well that's younger, young legal thinking. what is the han homa have been suffering from this regime for so many years? therefore we share the same feelings. i know what it means that we in mainland chinese are facing the same public money. i think it matters to hong kong and even the well, like i don't want to see on a hong kong university campus, they sing a hits from the musical. les miserables an unofficial anthem of previous anti government protest here in hong kong is now part of this uprising that spreading across the world. like here in tokyo, outside, the chinese embassy. and in london where concerns ever beijing's crack down on protesters has sparked this response from the u. k. foreign secretary. well,

protest against chinese government all rare. and when they do happen, i think the world should take notice by thing which one is government should take matters. it's clear that the chinese people themselves are deeply unhappy with what is going on about the restrictions imposed upon them by the chinese government. china's foreign minister has defended the country's cobra restrictions, but on the streets, tensions are running high as a heavy police presence in cities, including shanghai, with authorities, quick to make arrests. they do not want to repeat what happened over the weekend, but the world is now watching. with fewer images of the protests have made it out of china and the last 24 hours. and earlier i asked her unless fabia and freshmen bridging, whether the demonstrations are actually dying down, or if the chinese suppression campaign is now working. well, we are looking at a, brought a suppression of protest, craig correct on m. i mean,

all diversities have organized several buses to send back students to their home town under the pretext of hope of prevention. but of course, they are afraid that they might gather to, to protest. i mean, because students were at the forefront of the protest right now. the big gatherings on pause, but only because of a heavy police presence in beijing. it's really a mess of and when you go to the area where the protest erupted immediately, you get stopped and asked to go away. in shanghai, it's even heavy. i mean, there are people who get arrested if they don't show their id or if they don't show their phone because what the police does is they check any critical photos that you might have on your phone or any western app. or, for example, a messenger apps as telegram or, or also instagram, any apps that might be used to share and document critical contents. now some corporate rules seem to have been ease since the protests began. is that assigned

that china is actually yielding to some demands of the demonstrators? well, the, the easing so far is not substantial. i would say i'm china will stick to 0. cobit that's the bigger picture today. the government announced to boost they are vaccination campaign for the elderly. probably that's a good sign to open up in the long term, but i think it will stick to a 0. cobit, at least for this winter, and you know, those smart uses, you can say maybe they meet a little bit of the demand of the protesters, but really only a little bit. now, are these protests only about coven restrictions? or is this bigger? yeah. much bigger, of course, for some people, i mean, the main concern is locked down here that have been very unpredictable, unscientific, and really very draconic other people, they want a more free society. they want more freedom of expression. and you know, some people even want a change of leadership that this is really the,

the harshest form of protest that we've seen, for example, in shanghai, but to some degree, also engaging. so i think that's not a unified voice. there are a lot of intentions. and, but they all share really, that they're fed up with your covert. now, how much of a threat then is the, are these demonstrations for she didn't things grip on power? well, i think it should be concerning for sheeting thing. i mean, right now, it seems rather successful by the, you know, security apparatus that the protest on pause, but that was only achieved with really repression and correct down in police presence. of course, the anger of the people will not disappear, it will remain and will find its way sooner or later. and really, this is the 1st time in several decades. it, you know, there's a broad form of descent and it spreads to basically all parts of the country. this has really not been seen before. he and china since probably the 1995. in fact, mother reporting from paging. thank you for being let's have

a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. in iranian general says, more than 300 people, including security forces, have been killed in nationwide protests. that estimate is much lower than the death toll release by rights groups tracking the unrest. them protests have rocked iran for more than 2 months now. since the death of a young woman in police custody authorities on her why's big islands, have urged people to be ready to evacuate. if lava flows from the amount of lower volcano change direction on a low as the world's largest active volcano. but as you are opting for the 1st time in nearly 40 years, so far, the eruption is far away from homes. scientists juan lava flows can change rapidly . u. s. secretary of state antony blinking is in romania, head of a meeting of nato foreign ministers that lincoln is expected to announce measures

to help restore power in ukraine. following russian strikes on critical infrastructure. millions across the country have be left without power or heating. cut out energy minister has announced a long term deal to supply gas to germany. 2000000 tons of liquefied natural gas will be delivered annually from 2026. the deal is to last for 15 years, the agreement between cutoff date energy company and who has all joined clinical phillips will see. and then she delivered by ship the germany. berlin has been scrambling for new sources of gas to replace russian supplies in the wake of the war in ukraine. afterward on this, i am now joined by a political correspondent, julius our deli julia. how important is this gas for germany? of the amount of gas that is going to be delivered to germany with disagreement is not going to fulfill germany's entire and need for gas in the coming years. but it

is certainly significant, and it is part of the sort of campaign that the german government has put forward since russia's invasion of ukraine to try to substitute all the russian gas that germany was importing at the time. and it is clearly a deal that had been pushed for we saw that a german economy min or so, but how big had visited katara in march with business leaders to try to find an agreement. and we've seen chancellor, all of shawls a traveling to the country to, to strike a deal. so it is certainly important and it shows that germany is still working to try to find the solution to substitute the russian gas that it was actually so dependent on. so why is this decision coming now? are we seeing that last week, cetera, cetera strike a similar deal with china? in that case, it is a bigger amount of gas. it is going to be delivered yearly,

and the contract is quite long term. it would run for 27 years and that is set to be the longest kind of deal in this case that has been seen. and for germany, the issue was that germany did really didn't really want to subscribe to such a long term deal. that was one of the issues in the negotiations that were taking place between german companies, anchor tare, energy companies, because germany plans to become climate neutral by 2045. and that would not have a match with germany's climate goals. therefore, in this case, a shorter contract time compared to the chinese deal. so for germany, at least 15 years, and that gives us german companies also the chance to then maybe stop purchasing gas and shifting to other energy sources. all political correspondent,

julia saw deli there. thank you to you. aah! at the football world cup in carter portugal at become the latest country to seal their spot in the last 16 to bruno fernandez, girls saw them beat uruguay to now to have goddess 1st half portugal dominated the 2nd. christiana, rinaldo was merely a distraction on this cross from fernandez for another. didn't touch the ball, but it went in anyway and said portable on the way to victory in the other group hage match gone up, saw the fight back from south korea to win 32 gunners. victory means they will go through the knockouts through to the knockout. stage with a win against uruguay in their final group game a drawer would also be enough to see them through. if south korea do not beat

portugal and the group g was brazilian switzerland facing off and after both won their 1st games, a tie would have seen both teams advance with minutes to go. brazil has a mirror for the only goal of the game. brazil are through to the last 16 months. switzerland will advance by avoiding defeat in their last group stage game against certain and about many call the match of the tournament so far. who'd be clash between cameroon and serbia, turned into a goal fest. but each side still had to settle for just the one point camera and took the lead after 29 minutes. it was their 1st goal at the turn amend. it was also a 1st for serbia when they equalized just before the break and they weren't done yet. just a minute later, there turned the game on it said to on serbia at half time after the break serbia

state in control of the game. alexander meter, which with the 7th gold in the last 6 games for his country. but cameroon wouldn't surrender and showed their fighting spirit, a beautiful chip from vincent abaca got them within a gold, around the one hour mark. and just 3 minutes later via munich strike eric maxime chopper meting with the easy tap in for cameroon. 33. the final school, a result that keeps both countries woke up hopes alive. you're watching d. w. news is a quick reminder of our top story. several cities in china, c, heavier police presence after wrap protests against the government's 0 coven post. public anger is growing over mandatory mouse testing and looked at and a quick reminder, you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from google play or

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