a colorful cultural history, secret weapon lipstick, dogs, december 3rd on d, w with ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china cracked down on protests against the country, 0 coded 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 to 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 cup in 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, more protests at china 0 cobit policy. but this is not beijing o shanghai. this small gathering is taking place in hong kong business district at its hearts, 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 measures and that 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. he 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 want to live like humans. so what that's yeah, go young. legal thinking. what is the hong kong has, has been suffering from this regime for semen. he is there for, we share the same feelings. i know what it means that we're mainland chinese are facing the same public. again, i think it matters to hong kong and even the world, like i don't want to see on a hong kong university campus. they sing a hit 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 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 happens over the weekend for 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 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 locked down 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 gradually 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 widespread 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, 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, though that's rather interesting, is they've apparently been tracking down people who were captured on video at protest using her 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 protest 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 eased since the protests 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 sir,

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 as like, you're in the u. k. but they don't call it a lock on that. that's the ease 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 is 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 rocked iran 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 mona, loa 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 the scientists, one that lava flows can change rapidly. us 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 stripes 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 workers 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 conical 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 into 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, 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 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 off shore 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

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who could tar and germany strike an energy deal? the gulf nation has agreed to supply. europe's biggest economy with liquefied natural gas, as berlin seeks to replace brush and energy flows. also

coming up after days of protests, china's streets are quieter, where the heavy police presence will the government keep cracking down or given to demands to roll back. it's 0 covered strategy. and we look at a railway project, mexico's government hopes, i will bring more tourism to remote my in site. this is the w business. i'm janelle dumas on welcome 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, with the deal set to last at least 15 years. the agreement between katara state energy company and u. s. oil di canoga phillips will see ellen g delivered to germany's northern ones,

but old terminal. germany has been scrambling for new sources of gas to replace russian supplies in the week of the war in ukraine. christoph rule is from the center of global energy policy at columbia university. thank you for being here, christoph. so in terms of actually replacing the rush and gas flows that germany wanted to win itself off of how much will this deal actually help? good morning. so it's not going to be of a magnitude which will change the gas, the natural gas world for germany or europe. it amounts to about 3 percent of for germany used to consume in 2021 before the war started. but it's a start and as they say in english now, every little helps. and i think there are 3 important points of the background here which, which, which are worth mentioning. the 1st one is this is the 1st time of course for germany to engage in that kind of contract and to keep one of his terminal busy. this comes into bone spittle starts only in 2026, but it is sort of

a stepping stone on which to build. the 2nd is not only a 1st for germany is also for us for cut. tar. not only in delivering to germany in working with germany, but it's also coming from a new segment of the north field, which is, which is what they're just trying to produce and gas together. it's chronicled phillips, this is the american company should send that to you. and the 3rd one is the most important one. there was a lot of haggling, not so much for that are capable of willing to buy gas and that the germany was capable of taking it. what about the length of the contract for many reasons? and was 15 years there agreed on a contract length, which is considerably above the short term which germany wanted, and considerably below the long term cut on wanted to cut. i wanted to use the current price terms to lock in a contract much longer term. they have at the same day announced a contract with china for 27 years. right. so you can see that between 0 and 27

germany. it's not just because we mentioned the length of the contract, we are still talking about a long time contract, even though it's not as long as the guitar is warranted. we're still talking about 15 years. what about germany's client climate goals? doesn't l n g, then endanger those goals? that is a very interesting development you, when you think about 10 years back or so, it was all the pipeline delivers of gas countries like russia, which wanted long term contracts in which reduce the long term contracts. the gas markets for, you know, when you have a pipeline goes from a to b, that is where you do market and you fix it with a long term contract. that was a boring market following, following oil prices more or less, it was only risk. the merchants of liquefied natural gas, that suddenly gas could be delivered everywhere and coming from everywhere, like the oil market. and as a result of the market price, you said to just liquefied natural gas. and the shipments would go all over the place and price wanted to let you reside, to which was unknown for in gas markets,

as countries competed toward the recent export us computer to customers. and again, it was the ship us with gas pipelines like russia who wanted long term prices and to didn't like the short term costs. now prices are so high that the delivery of energy like cuts are the ones one long term contracts. because we want to look in was young prices like germany, one shorter trunk process, but for climate change, i mean it's, it's probably on avoidable to switch to gas. to some extent people scan as you transition will take longer. okay. then thank you so much. first off, rose from the center of global energy policy at columbia university. we have to leave at fair. thank you very much. thank you. fidget is cracking down on protests against 0 coven strategy and several cities. the chinese government is detaining people, censoring social media, and suddenly tweaking its trick measures in a bid to quality on ref. meanwhile, global markets are already recovering from monday, fell off,

but the uncertainty remain. the protests are just the latest challenge posed by china. 0 coven strategy. which has already disrupted supply chains and her chinese consumption. done join by theresa fallon, she's a director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies. and our correspondence who is on hand, who is following the story from taipei. welcome to both of you, starting with you. so it seems like we're not seeing as many protests today, is it because of the crackdown? yes, the authorities have started standing please to investigate the protesters. and now the chinese government and pro china activists are deliberately portraying the protest as a result of foreign intervention. and that people in major city, such as saw, high embedding, have been randomly asked by please to check their mobile phones on the street as subway stations or shopping malls to see if people have installed overseas. social media platform such as twitter, instagram, telegram or are using the p

n. and that is why we are not seen as many protests a day. now protestors clearly on notice, but you know, it was always a risk to protest in china anyway, but theresa, i wanted to turn to you. a tipping point was clearly reached here in china. what does this unrest tell us about the country's economic model? i think that this protest, incredible because the entire country in cities across the country, everyone was protesting. this idea of the surveillance state didn't seem to work at this point. and of course they are cracking down today with censorship and, and no one can find out what's going on online, but we see how there's a real lack of trust in the government. and this whole idea of legitimacy that they have to do. and how do i say this are they have to deliver on the economy? and after 2 and a half years will be locked down to have been unable to do that. so people are getting very frustrated. we've seen the markets go up and down and all of this. and the biggest problem of all is that there has in the last 2 hours,

the foreign ministry has stated that they will increase, vaccinations with markets responded very positively to that. nevertheless, they will use chinese vaccines which have a very low effective rate, and only about 40 percent of the elderly population are vaccinated. so this doesn't look very good. it, when they do eventually open up it almost a lot of fatalities because they don't have any natural immunity. and the whole idea of the o micron has really changed everything. it's so infectious that the 0 coven strategy clearly is not working. yes, the german government has even suggested that they perhaps finally allow western vaccines, but so she didn't, things government seems have a choice now between meeting the protesters demands to rollbacks hiroko vid are cracking down even harder. what do you think we're going to see? yes, chemo, we have a response from the chinese government to the protests. and it says that the

closure and control measurement of should be quickly and properly resolved to reduce the inconvenience costs to the public by the epidemic. it did not mention the realization of the 0 coffee policy, but refer to the improper closure as an action by local governments and asked the public to step up and report. however, the stay media still emphasized that there is no waiver enough, as there will be policy. so we'll see how beijing can optimize it to a level that there people can accept. now, theresa, what do these protests mean for it? china's goal of becoming the world's largest economy by 2050. i think that even though these protests have happened, there are still some 5 major issues that the government has to tackle. so they have the oldest population in the entire world. there are huge demographic issue. people or have even less children during over 19. so that's been accelerated productivity has stalled. people are moving around. so there's very little economic activity

over 20 percent of the companies are actually in lockdown. so this has huge economic impact. but i would suggest, you know, people are really connecting the dots here today in progress. there's the natal meeting and the worst, the u. s. chip or has had the biggest effect on the chinese economy. and so more than any of trumps sanctions or any activities he didn't for years. so what was done kind of rather quietly by the, by the administration has had a massive impact on china and their supply chains. so i would suggest how things play out at the nato meeting today in progress us is trying to get l a. supports on the supply chain issues and not to exports high right. heck, equip china that will be the real a barometer of how the chinese economy will perform. and this also, it is an indicator at it, the people are so angry with the current government. one thing that can unite people is maybe some sort of activity towards taiwan. so markets are also factoring

that in so many factors that play there is a father in china, expert at the center for russia, europe, asia studies, and are corresponded to some hon. thank you both. thank now to some of the other global business stories making news. twitter owner ilan mosque issued a threat to apple saying the tech firm caught ads on twitter and threatened to block the up. he targeted the eiffel maker and several treat, asking whether apple halted, hated free speech, criticized that's app fees, and wondered whether it would go after other company. tesla block fi has become the latest u. s. crypto currency lender to file for bankruptcy. just a few weeks after f t x did the same as t x was blah fie's, 2nd largest predator causing a domino effect. when it went under, the company says it was money to more than $100000.00 creditors. china's biggest property developer ever grand has sold

a parcel of land for 1000000000 euros to mitigate its worsening financial position . the company has been off loading assets to pay off. it's 300000000 euro debt. the land in sons then was initially intended for southern tech headquarters. the european commission has approved germany's plan to give braille operator deutsche about 530000000 euros. the package is meant to help the company compensate for losses. stemming from the pandemic during 2021. this is the 2nd time the commission has approached a such a measure. and a reminder of the top, as the stories are following for you, this our 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. what the deal said to last, at least 15 years, germany has been scrambling for new sources of gas or place of russian supplies and

the week of the war and ukraine. b j is cracking down on protests against it's 0 coven strategy, and several cities. the chinese government is detaining people, censoring social media, and suddenly tweaking it's a strict measures in a bid to pile the unrest. meanwhile, global markets are already recovering from monday, fell off, but the uncertainty remained. that's all for me and the business team here in berlin for more from us, had to do w dot com slash business for the need to with. what is this timing ah, is weapon noises? wheat, massive crop failures,

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