documentary series will show you how people, companies and countries are rethinking everything and making, making changes. if we don't do something, our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. breathing this week on d. w ah, 50 dublin years aisha coming up to date. can chinese censorship, suppressed anger over draconian corbett measures. both of these begin to center information on mobile phones, tv, and the internet to do with antique over protests in the country and abroad. but is this stopping chinese people from getting the information they want from where they want it? ah,

my british manager, welcome to did up the news asia. glad you could join us. antique over protests in china appear to be on pause after the weekend of demonstrations across the country . a heavy police presence and barricades insured protested, stayed away. these are images from shanghai from tuesday morning, but the enforcement had already begun a day earlier. police were already checked and nobody phones of passers by in the city and deleting what they deemed objectionable and the same extent to chinese television as well as social media. and gentlemen of a more from beijing is correspondent far beyond credit map fabia. read on historic protests over the past few days. how much of it have people seen on chinese television news? when the official media was just on the state controlled,

you will see nothing. i give you one example and she went limbo. that's the biggest news show every day they show the news of the day in the evening on cctv that the state broadcast every show will start with seating thing. doing something, for example, visiting effect, re nowadays the news that the seating team met with them on golden president. but you know, those protests will not take place. they are the only possible been that i could imagine how they would re possible those protests would be, you know, the, like, foreign forces, quote, unquote provoking trouble or something like this. i mean, the chinese media really a parallel reality, quite detached from what's happening here on the ground. i mean me to kind of, you will not find any mention in chinese media or, you know, human rights violation young that doesn't exist in the cost of the media. what about online? are people being able to share information about these protests online?

well, i mean yes, so on social media is definitely more free. there is for example, the on time platform label, which you might. yeah. maybe compared to twitter a little bit or at yahoo, that's a platform where you can ask questions and then there's also go in, which is the chinese version of tick tock. and there, you know, i'm all free to debate, but some topics remain taboo. and for example, the ship of seating thing or the power of the c. c p cannot really debate directly because the send us will step in and you will believe very quickly. but, you know, if you really say something very critical, you could also get in trouble. so it's also risky. so is all this censorship working? i mean, we've seen today that they've been la empty streets devoid of protesters in beijing and trying guy for instance, before is the censorship working on the empty streets also due to the heavy police presence on the ground and to you to the intimidation so best that but of course,

the censorship is working very efficiently. why am it's, it's actually quite smart. it's not only deleting everything, but you know, i would compare to a metaphor of a boiling water for to. so if you don't leave any space, then you know the corporate board over, but you know, the chinese centers usually leave a little bit open. so there's some room to, for example, criticize local governments or maybe talk about the corruption of a, you know, a business man, etc. but you know, the very central question is, cannot be debated. and here what we've seen now with the protests, we could see that, you know, everything was flatly deleted and people would share videos. but when they get to eat it, then they want to try to flip those videos on the site or make a filter on them or find other ways to it around to send a ship. and when that even didn't work anymore, some just found very indirect ways to criticize the government. one was for example,

to just post long essays, long text, which only consisted of one character, namely how, which is a good good. everything is good and when people saw those texts, which basically said good, good, good, good, good. in like the $600.00 times in a row, they renew, it was a cast. it was ironic. and maybe people outside of china would understand this. but really, the young chinese are very smart in reading between the lines and finding very indirect ways to criticize the government. literally reading between the lines. so this will also not be the 1st time, as you mentioned that the chinese internet and tv platforms have been censored. so how do chinese get that information when censorship kicks in? yes, yes, always one way, because the chinese internet is heavily tends or heavily controlled. if you really want to access free information, you need to get around it. and how can you do that? you can have a v p n, a software on your phone, on your laptop. that's basically

a tunnel to prevent that to get out of the chinese internet. and if you turn on the c p n which doesn't work very reliable, it really quite complicated. only a few bpn software are still working, then you can access twitter, then you can access instagram, telegram, etc. you can access also the w, et cetera. so then, chinese use us. they are posting pictures and once they land on a document that they cannot be completed any more by chinese sensors, that's how basically stuff gets out. there was no support those protests. and does the chinese state truly believe that in this day and age sensitive information will actually prevent people from accessing it? so what i mean, it's kind of ambivalence 1st, when you know, social media was starting, the chinese government was very afraid, especially after seeing the revolutions in the arabic world. and so the censorship kicked in very,

very roughly. but sometimes they found out they can also use to send the ship, they can use a technological developments for their own or to or so, i mean right now it works quite a lot. many chinese actually don't use a v p and so they stay within this cost months and they don't even know what's happening in their own country to some degree. and of course, many old people who would, you know, read people's day the, the party use paypal, a watch when gamble the news. so they don't have any idea about those protests or problem stay with us. because another dimension to this is the information that chinese citizens are getting from outside, such as about the current football world cup in quarter, where images of fans fillings him to the mosque source of distancing, acc, warranting hell have left many chinese citizens wondering why their country is still trying to stand boat covered when people elsewhere are living with it. nowhere, not even china is immune from water cut, fever,

funds and shanghai have gather to t can again. but the spectacle has also offered a window one to a world which has left covert behind. i really envy them. despite the cheer, the threat of coded and particularly strict lock downs loon large. though some still think b james hard line approach is right. the withered and given chinese size and medical resources, i think it should reopen slowly. and that it's ok to keep the 0 coven policy for now. but while the match is may be on in china, the chinese are being served up a sanitized version. one sports writer has compared game coverage, revealing subtle differences. the 1st clip was what viewers outside china saw mosque. las fans cheering their team. and this was what chinese state tv showed

the coach on the touch line, shouting instructions. despite those efforts, the scenes from kits har of triggered, some soul searching online. one weeble user said you either lock down everything or you let go. the cut, her welled cup is proving that it's time to treat cove it as a regular infectious disease. another asked, is there no covered elsewhere? every one at the world cup looks so happy. we are living in the same world, aren't we? a 3rd said, look at the smile on the world cup audience's face. then look at us. the tournament it seems, has offer china not just some distraction, but also cause for self reflection. for them have these are images from the football world cup further added to anger about china covered restrictions.

yeah. extremely, really, because those direct information is often central, but a football tournament is something very a political. so the propaganda apparatus haven't, hasn't even thought about that. this could spark anger in the beginning, but it had a huge backlash. the people were watching, you know, on the tv, the football woke up, they saw no tens of thousands of people in the stadium. a cheering having a good time without masks, and was they themselves sit at home lockdown property cannot even leave the apartment. so they began to ask questions and that had a huge effect that was very frustrating for many chinese and what it seems to be the state tv actually did. they changed the way how they're broadcast those games whenever there's a close of fence and you can see them without mask and you know, they're celebrating, they wouldn't know, coach or cut to a like a bird. you so that you cannot really see those

a small details that you know that they are fans without mask the stadium. and that gives you an idea how, how smart an efficient this propaganda apparatus is walking. they can really adjust it. and if you wouldn't know that in other to be, they show the fence, you don't even know that d v actually manipulated the broadcast. but father is stephanie really still the most important source of information for the majority of chinese. it's hard to say, i mean young people, they don't watch it, not at all. they get used from social media and for them. i mean, they also don't believe for the set in the news. i mean, that's quite laughable. i mean, propaganda is actually really too much over the top. it's comparable to north korean propaganda and some degree and on social media it's a little bit different and young people basically consume, you know, those video streaming services are label as i mentioned. but many old people actually do consumer state use on the newspaper order and went and bought the new

show in the tv. so i would say split depends how old you are. these images from the world car, perf, argon, and the antique over protest over the weekend has something changed in china when it comes to what people expect. 2 years into the cobra panoramic. definitely, i think it was a quite historic even though we don't know if it will continue or not, but not for many i'm a chinese, it was really quite an encouraging a moment to see that some people were daring to go out and to protest. and there was unheard of, i mean, really an unimaginable just 2 years ago the, it has completely changed the mood here. but the frustration was rising so much that people who had the feeling, ok, we are fed up, we have nothing to lose. we just do it in one once a few did it, then you know, others joined in and they united and they realize ok if we are really the masters, then we have a voice and we have some power to speak up for. and thanks very much for that drop

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demands to roll back it's 0 coven strategy. 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 estate energy company and u. u. s. oil giant pinocchio phillips will see l n g, the liver to germany's northern bronze buttle terminal. germany has been scrambling for new sources of gas to replace russian supplies in the wake 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.