a magic wand and ground to divorce with secret weapon lipstick doth december 3rd on d w like ah ah, this is dw news to live from berlin. china cracked down on protests against the country, 0 co good policy. police block off districts where public anger had let loose and censor cell phones. the images coming out. now, people once again falling in line with mass testing and lockdown,

also coming up could tar and u. s. oil giant conoco. phillips announcing the major deal to deliver millions of tons of liquefied natural gas to germany. and portugal advanced to the last 16 of the world's cup. and tar thanks to a to no victory over serbia. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. beijing has deployed more security forces to clamp down on demonstrations against it, 0 coven 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 and mass testing has 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, sending students home to try and stop protests from gathering while crowds have rallied in cities across china. solidarity protests have also sprung up outside embassies around the world. after a weekend of public unrest and anger mo, protests at china 0 cobit 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 rome, 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. yeah. we just want to live like humans school. so what that's young a young, legal thinking. what is the hung homes have been suffering from this regime for so many years? therefore we share the same feelings over you know, what i mean that we in mainland chinese are facing the same public earlier. yeah, i think it matters to hong kong like, and even the world 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 over 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, but i think the chinese 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. both 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 happens over the weekend. but the world is now watching and for some analysis, i'm giants now by william hurst, who is a professor of chinese politics at the university of cambridge. thank you so much for joining us. i'm, as we've been hearing their police out in force today, protests are seemed to be reportedly quieting down. what do you think the staying power of this protest movement is?

was far too early to tell, but i've thought throughout that it's very difficult to hold together. what's come about as a kind of coalition of rather disparate strands under increasingly general claims and framing. right? so most of the time and we see protest, we see the claims become more and more specific. here we've seen them become more and more general. and also we've seen this sort of master frame of anti lockdown mobilization. really bringing in all of these otherwise very distinct strands. and so i think it's quite hard to hold that together, especially as the state is very grad, judy and slowly beginning to kind of turn up the pressure to indicate that the cost to protests will not be low. and some of the protesters have been calling for political change. how big a deal do you think that is? how wide spread are those sentiments? it's extremely difficult to say because what we've also seen occasionally happen is

that when some protesters say something like that, others in the same crowd will start singing the national anthem or shouting that. no, no, they don't agree with that. so i think the more true extreme, or general the claims become, the less able they are to actually capture and hold together this broad coalition of different groups that are in fact aggrieved, about locked down and other things. so the other thing that's happening is that the state is beginning to turn up the pressure in terms of at least signaling the possibility of repression. most of what they've brought in have been what i would call a nuisance measures, putting up barricades and streets where protests have happened, making it difficult for people to get their stopping people and looking at phones, deleting images of protest checking ideas. the other thing they've been doing that it's rather interesting is they've apparently been tracking down people who were captured on video at protest using ser facial recognition. or other means i don't

know exactly how they're doing it, but they're tracking down people who've been at the pro just calling them on the phone and asking them some questions about what they were doing, why they were there, whether they planned to keep protesting. and so on, they haven't actually threatened them as far as i know, nor of they arrested people through that means. but it's a clear signal that the police are watching. and that things could turn far more repressive, and that may be enough to deter a lot of people from turning out. and while the state cracks down as a highlighted there, we're also seeing parallel to that some covered rules being east, since the protest began. what do you make of that? what does that say about the state's approach? well, it's actually very clever if in fact that's what's happening. it's hard to say what's really going on with that because there is no one single national policy in china. unlike a lot of other countries, what's happened there is every locality imposes a different type of lockdown,

or set of policies that we might think of collectively as locked down. and so what, in fact is called a lockdown in china is far more severe than most of what we've seen in anywhere in europe and the normal relaxation of that, or the partial relax ation of that is closer to what we might recognize as a lockdown. so much of beijing right now is under a situation in which, you know, almost all shops and businesses are closed. schools are closed, universities are closed. you have to work from home, if you possibly can. and you're discouraged from going out that's rather similar from to lockdown in terms of what logged on is like here in the u. k. but they don't call it a lock on that. that's the eased situation. professor william hurst, thank you so much for joining us to share that you on what is happening right now in china. we appreciate it. great, thank you very much for having me. and here's a look at another story making news around the world. and iranian general says that

more than $300.00 people, including security forces, have been killed and nationwide, protest that estimate is much lower than that. the death toll were leased by rights groups tracking the unrest. protests have rock to ron for more than 2 months since the death of a young woman in police detention officials on hawaii's big island have urged people to be ready to evacuate. if lava flows from the mount lower volcano change direction of this volcano is the world's largest active volcano. it is the rocking for the 1st time in nearly 40 years. and so far the eruption is far from homes. but scientists, one that lava flows can change rapidly. u. s. secretary of fate, anthony lincoln, is in romania ahead of a meeting of nato foreign ministers. lincoln is expected to announce measures to help restore power in ukraine following russian strikes on critical infrastructure . millions across the country have been left without power or heating south korean

truck drivers have shaved their heads in protest of an unprecedented government order 2 and a worker strike. thousands of truckers have been striking over minimum pay for the 2nd time in less than 6 months. disrupting supply chains and building sites. guitars, 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 guitars, state energy company and he was oil giant konica phillips. we'll see ellen g delivered by ship to germany. berlin has been scrambling for new sources of gas to replace russian supplies in the wake of the war and ukraine. political correspondent, julia sal deli, has more on this. so put the steel in the context for us, julia. how far can it go to help ease concerns for germany?

well, it is definitely not going to be enough to cover all the gas and energy needs of germany at the moment. but it certainly contributes to germany's search for alternative sources of gas after it has been trying to move away from russian gas and russian oil after russia's invasion of ukraine. and it is part of a series of, of deals that the government in germany has tried to, to, to favor, to facilitate and to bring forward to try to again move away from the russian gas. and we've seen that with some trips in particular to cut our from economy, minnesota, but topic all the way back in march with a business delegation from leaders of energy companies and also a trip from german chancellor of shaun's to the gulf region in september. so it is certainly contribute to the whole package,

but it is not enough to fulfill the entire needs of germany. meantime, the government has been accused of double standards here criticizing. could tars human rights record on the one hand, especially in the run up to the world cup. but on the other hand, seeking enter, she partnership with the m. right. so tell us, what is the government response to that? all this certainly puts the german government in a difficult position. we've heard from economy minister hobbits, habit himself that he thinks that holding the football, soccer world cup in katara is a crazy idea. but germany is indeed in a complicated position. it does have to find gas to keep the country going. and if we look at katara, it's the, it has the 3rd biggest gas reserves in the world after russia and iran. and if we look at these other 2 countries, the situation in turns of human rights, but also if we look at russia with the invasion of ukraine, they are also not partners that germany necessarily wants to deal with. so germany

is a bit between a rock and a hard place and the government decided to push forward with a deal with guitar, despite the criticism to la sal daily with the view from berlin on this saw deal for ellen, g to co from katara to germany, thank you so much. ah, at the world cup and guitar, portugal have become the latest country to seal their spot in the last 16 to bruno fernandez goals saw them beat uruguay to mil. after a goal, this 1st half portugal dominated the 2nd half christiana, rinaldo was merely a distraction on this cross. from fernandez. rinaldo didn't touch it, but the ball went in and said portugal on the way to victory. in the other group h. match, gannon, saw off a fight back from south korea to win 3 to gone. victory means that they will go

through to the knockout stage with a win against uruguay in their final group game. a draw would also be enough to see them through. if south korea don't be portugal in grove, gee, it was brazil and switzerland facing off and after both won their 1st games a tie would have seen both teams advance with minutes to go brazil's casa mira scored the only goal. brazil were through to the last 16 months. switzerland will advanced by avoiding defeats in their last group stage game against serbia. you're watching v w news. the quick reminder of our top story. several cities in china are seeing heavier police presence after rare protests against the government 0 cobit policies. public anger has erupted over mandatory mask testing, mass testing and lockdown. and don't forget,

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