[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is dw news live from burly chinese authorities step up efforts to crush on rest a good cove at 19 restrictions. violent clashes breakout overnight in the city of

bung shoe. as police confront protesters authorities vow to suppress what they call the hostile forces stoking descent. also coming up the west of hughes is russia of using the winter as a weapon of war and pledges more weapons and more money for ukraine. also, russian forces phase losses on the battlefield and hard line as in moscow called for tougher military action. and the u. s. score one goal against iran, and that's all they need to get through to the knockout round of 16 at the football world, cup and cutoff. ah, i've got others, well come to the program. police and protesters have clashed overnight in the southern city of long as you,

as protests against harsh cove 19 measures. contin video footage on social media of shows that protest is being confronted by security forces in protective suits. china's ruling communist party has said it will quote, resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotaged by hostile forces. it has increased police forces in major cities to suppress further demonstrations ranging against 3 years of cobit locked down measures, protest. pete at historic levels never seen during the era of president eugene pain . it's signal to sum that she's power in his 3rd term could be tested. we don't want authoritarianism, we want human rights. we don't watch a monarchy. but after unprecedented demonstrations and china and elsewhere, and clashes with police over the weekend,

anger appears to have simmered and police who are out in greater numbers, appear to have more control on the streets. to water for china is a country governed by the rule of law and the various legal rights and freedoms enjoyed by chinese citizens are fully guaranteed in accordance with the law. at the same time, any rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law. harley cong, gently shook activists are under threat of investigation for their role and the push back against cobit lockdown measures and political oppression. now, the possibility of repercussions seems to have reduced the size of the protest. china's biggest wave of discontent under she has also been met with the relaxation of some lockdown measures like east social distancing rules and coven 19 testing exemptions for seniors. and people who work from home

a sign that the people's voices and frustrations might be getting through to chinese authorities. oh yes, i spoke with journalist probably and transfer in her beijing. i asked him if the protests are actually having an impact. was the easing of the append any policy so far are not very substantial, but yes, i do believe that am the protests will have an impact that the government will be quite cautious now when it comes to m, implementing excessive locked dance as not to you know, provoke any additional public anger and at the same time they will not am. of that he said, we'll try to not make it appear as they would get into the protesters. because that in the logic of the chinese government could encourage further protests. and those protests were not only about the change of pandemic policy. there were also a lot of political demands. and for that aspect there, there were not, won't be any compromise, just the opposite. i think the chinese government will, you know, counter with a lot of repressions talk mother of repressions or chinese authorities are really

cracking down. right? yeah, definitely hin baiting, you can feel it with a heavy police presence until deep in the night. and in shanghai, the police was systematically profiling and young people in some ways in streets, and then taking their phones and eating vpn software did eating any critical footage shot, for example, photo or video recordings of the protests, et cetera. and also of course, there's a lot of digital survey and the same content tracing tools that were use during the pandemic can also be used m, you know, to find out who was at the protests. and there's a lot of intimate intimidation going on despite this. they are still clash us on going not the typical political protests, but, you know, in one joe, there were people am, you know, locked down and they were fighting with the health focus and full helmet suits. so the anger is still there. so a very briefly,

how are chinese media reporting on these protests not directly, not them. or what mentioned at all, only on social media. there's a lot of conspiracy theorists are spread that you know, the u. s. government would finance protests, us, et cetera. but let me emphasize without and not even the slightest evidence for that. bobby and such mother talked us from a beijing. thank you 5 him. and now i'm joined by right now, beautiful for he is the chairman of european parliament's delegation for relations with china. and the chinese government imposed sanctions against him last year. mister whitaker, if you look at the protest in china right now, have they become a about more than just the coven restrictions? you think? yes, indeed, i would say. so. normally, china not allowed approaches by good workers, are drug testing. they're working conventions or farmers that have been picked up

their lands, protesting against that, all these traditional protests i've been localized and signally ship. and here for the 1st time in a long while in decades, citizen one together a citizen from different backgrounds nationwide and protest, i think that is adding a transformative effect on the relationship between the old prisoners and the old press. now the use a council, a president, sha michelle is scheduled to travel to china and hold talks with president she next week. what message should he take? i believe i shall. michel should dahl bring to massachusetts to she didn't bring number one. the european union still is ready to repeat it software that we made. month ago,

we made at the e channel summit in april that we are willing to provide our vaccines to help china. finding a way out of the a predicament in which she as armed, put them by insisting on his 0 corporate policies without having a sufficient vaccination strategy. secondly, he should also make it very clear that we are observing very intently what they do in there now. and nancy track down and that we are willing to re, is this is ne, p in international organizations, and also to respond with additional sanction. now, she didn't think recently consolidated his power as a party leader. do you think his position is threatened by these protests?

well, as he has concentrated all the power in his own accounts, obviously a protest like this immediately lands at his doorstep on his desk. and so that is the short coming off being a dictator in a way. on the other hand, i don't think that there is an organized opposition against them within the ranks of the communist party. so i don't think that he's weakened within the context of his supporters, but certainly the control that the communist party as, as a whole as been weakened because for the 1st time in a long while. as i said before, protesters have found a common language to express their own hopes and their own bands nationwide.

do you think these protests will actually have an effect? i believe they will have an exec they are having effect locally. we hear from one chief for instance, that the local authorities are trying to soften the song what the 0 probably the approach um, that may be transitory, but the longer lasting transformative effect that i expect is that on the, on the experience of protesting, being able to all aha nationwide activities where people learn from each other that will have a very great effect on. busy future mobilization, all citizens are not content with the governance of policies of the communist party,

chronological for them both european parliament. thank you very much. thank you indeed. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines to day. 3 chinese astronauts have successfully dr. that young gong space station for a 6 month mission to complete the stations construction. they blasted off from china's go be desert on tuesday. that young gong space station is the centerpiece of aging space ambitions. twitter that has removed his restrictions on misinformation about the cove. it 19 pandemic accounts that spread forth statements about the virus are now no longer blocked. following a wave of changes by the new owner, ellen masked move has raised concerns among public health experts. i think sometimes political allies over a joke, the jailed bell erosion. opposition leader, maria callas. the cover say she's in hospital in intensive care. authorities have

provided little information about her condition, and opposition spokesman says close. the cover was recently transferred to solitary confinement in prison. she is an outspoken critic of allusion, lead alexander luther shanker. you spoke with the u. s. senate has passed bipartisan legislation to protect same sex and interracial marriages. the bill would not require an estate to allow same sex couples to marry, but they would have to recognise all marriages that are legal in other states. what a great you're watching. did of you new still to come go? she thought is provocateurs. how hard liners in moscow are urging tougher measures in the war in ukraine, even including the nuclear options. the 1st nato allies are promising to increase a to ukraine, as it prepares for

a tough winter made worse by rushes bombing of its energy infrastructure, meeting and romania, nato. foreign ministers agreed to sent more military equipment as well as tar generator's fuel and medical supplies, broken houses and damaged energy infrastructure, leaving ukrainians in the dark. and the cold emergency power systems are urgently needed, as well as anything that can help people survive the harsh conditions of war and the winter. nato members say they will stand by ukraine. president to tin is trying to weaponized winter to force ukrainians to freeze or flee. he is trying to break the will of the brave ukrainian people. and to do, i'd all of us who support them. but ukraine's list of needs also includes more ammunition and more weapons defense systems. new crane are currently being destroyed faster than they can be delivered. recently,

korean foreign minister to meet your caliber, once nato, to speed up the process of a book, decisions on weapons decision on launching view, production lines of weapons in western countries. they have to be made, cluster and delivery of weapons. have to make a have to be done foster in order to strengthen ukraine. self defense need a relies primarily under fence of technologies that can ward off attacks or clear minds. nato members in bucharest, stood unified, thawing again to support ukraine as long as needed. location is highly symbolic. it was here in 2008 that needed drafts to perspective for ukraine to possibly join someday in the future. as grants president brockovich lensky says, his forces face a difficult situation defending the east of the country against russian attacks. and his overnight address, he said, russian troops are attempting to break through ukrainian defences. at many points

on the front line should lighten up the situation at the front is difficult literally, despite heavy losses, the russians are still trying to advance in the de net screeching de lu, hans region and the hockey region chanel. they're also planning something in the south blown that b a much on to by mike martin, a former british army officer and a senior fellow at the war studies department at kings college in london, at some of the heaviest fighting of these is around the town of blackwood at the moment, what's the latest? so the fighting around which has been going on for a couple months actually. and it's reminiscent of what we had in the 1st world war with, with change systems in march and the opposing forces just tens of meters away from each other. and what the russians are trying to do at the moment is get around the flanks of the ukrainian forces to encircle them in the city, which is a trick that ukrainians views on the russians quite

a lot. so far they been unsuccessful. both sides taking very heavy casualties in battle, but the lines aren't moving very much about mode. doesn't have any of the strategic value in russia. you still seems determined to take it, even at the cost of, as you say, heavy casualties is just to circle the ukranian forces. are there other reasons as well? you're absolutely right. you're absolutely right. in military terms, the city has no great value. it is not a railway junction, for example, but what it is is it's part of the region and your viewers are probably remember the president putin war aims are to bring, don't ask in the hands the dumbass region into russia. and that is merely another city,

or another large town in that process of bringing those 2 blasts into russia. so really, this is putin is directing this because once he's taken lance burnett, then he's in a position say all that we want in ukraine. we can pull out of other areas now, russian strikes, as we've been reporting for weeks on the cranes power grid have of course, blackouts across the country. is this also having an effect on ukraine's ability to fight at the front? well, in, in a sort of tactical military sense, not really a military is tend to come with their own power generations that have you know, generators that they run their own equipment off in a strategic sense. it does because what the destruction of the power grid does is it means that ukraine's leaders both civilian and military have to focus on getting critical supplies to say, for example,

hospitals or traffic control and stuff like that. and that taking up of that time is time that they would otherwise be spending, thinking about how to beat the russians in military sense. mike martin, they're from the war service department, kings college london. thank you very much, mike. thank you. now, according to russian human rights activists, 9000 russian soldiers have died since the war and ukraine began. and of these, almost 300 are said to be men who have been recently mobilized. gremlin is far from its goals of ukraine. many russians are concerned about that, including those in fourteen's, in a circle. what does that mean for the war for pollutants, political career, or correspondent, you are russia to analyze the situation in this report. confusion about the reasons for going to war. few gains on the ground and the chaos of mobilization. the war ukraine is not going well for russia. the withdrawal of

troops from house on, at the beginning of november, was moscow's biggest set back since the world began. hard line, as in moscow had been grumbling, ever since. 3 of the loudest have been businessman yevgeny pre goshen. chechnya leader graham's unclear of and former president dmitri mcdade, if for goshen, when a flat m. f. curtains close, his confidence is making himself especially noticeable. for years he denied the existence of his mercenary army, the volcanic group. but recently he changed his story and said, he's been in charge of the paramilitary organization since 2014 global warming. erosion has 2 political instruments. you the wagner group and the

media outlets that have helped him gain popularity and status. law latanus to switch to no history of one, i suppose. all know, sure, she doesn't french, she rushed. he's a kind of external service provider for the state. he has some of the power in the state and acts as a political figures. you brought in mid september, a video came out that showed a man who looked like promotion. recruiting russian prisoners to fight in ukraine. really made an impact on the 5th, it more their mouth walk, their reward, freedom more and money. his cash. he's another putin ally who has been all over the headlines since the war began. is rums on career of chechnya. leda has publicly criticized russia's generals for being too soft on luck on i looked at in the united year of is using the media to broaden his influence and to show everyone that he is a major player or chrome rushed on till sir still does regroup. chechen soldiers

a fighting on russia's side in the dumbass region. cook children's kitty are of, is being used by potent just by promotion to recruit fresh troops for the front lies meant the death who served as president and prime minister has been stoking the fires of anti western hatred and making optimistic predictions that russia were when the war and ukraine, pneumonia he is even said that nuclear weapons of the way to give brush a battle. it's for my imperial glory. se lucia mr. junia. sure. what is the la massage? so you always just from the he has a need for admiration of the former president who has become a nobody you yesterday. i think he wants to an political capital. he seems to still have political ambitions. and he said, just how much pre goshen cordero, a med gate at

a putting president putin under pressure is unclear. but 9 months into the war in ukraine, displeasure is growing in russia over its course. ah, at the football woke up on tuesday evening. iran battled with united states for the right to move on to the round of 16 iranian side has faced government pressure about the showing support for pro women produce as back at home. still, they held out hope of advancing if they could defeat the us with reports about the iranian government, putting immense pressure on the team. the players were singing the national anthem without a great deal of enthusiasm and accompanied by booze and whistling from fans to game, kicked off at the u. s. were in control after a half hour. it was timothy wire with the 1st big chance, but his header like power and precision. 10 minutes later it was western mc kenny's perfect cross into the run of surgeon or dest, who's graded to kristin pool as aj. chelsea's attacker puts the u. s. one nil ahead

. however, while the fans were going wild pull as it was in a lot of pain, after crashing into the iranian goalkeeper, he was pulled out at half time. iran had very few chances to tie it up, but in the ninety's 2nd minute it was center back mortise up rally gum g who barely missed the goal. with this header, the game finished one nil joy for the u. s. fans dismay for the iranians. who can still be proud of their effort in this tournament, both on and off the pitch. england, meanwhile, was the leader and grew be heading into the match ups. they were up against rival whales. and england found all the needed from marcus rush. he connected on this free cake to ensure england were up one mill early in the 2nd half and england ordered on from there. rochefort took a pass along the right sided weaved his way. for left footage shot england, england when 3. now let's have

a look then at the results of group b, the winner is england after the victory of a wiles and usa comes in 2nd to also advance to the round of 16 after their victory over iran. and then the final results, a from group a, the groups, a winner is the netherlands after their victory over kata and synagogue comes in 2nd to also advanced to the round of 16 host contra cot. i was unable to garner any points in their 3 matches. if you are state of hawaii, people are being warned to be ready to leave at short notice the mama, low volcano on big island, is erupting for the 1st time. in nearly 40 years. homes are not the path of lava flows at the moment, but scientists are warning the dark could quickly change lava pouring forth

from the world's largest active volcano for the 1st time in 38 years. mount a lower. hawaiian for long mountain is awake. the huge volcano on hawaii's big island is once again throwing forth streams of lava and ash, wallet spewing sulphur dioxide and other volcanic gases into the air. authorities say the islands, roughly 200000 residents, aren't in immediate danger. from lava lava flows are not threatening any downslope communities at this time, and all indications are that the rock sion will remain in the northeast drift zone on volcanic gas and possibly fine ash and police hair are may be carried down when people are being urged to be prepared to move quickly during

a 1950 eruption lava traveled some 24 kilometers in just 3 hours. but for now some a content to stand back and witness as a sleeping giant wake. so and finally, rising energy prices in europe are prompting many communities to scale back. the annual lights displays this holiday season, but one neighborhood in the hungarian capital, budapest has come up with a sustainable alternative. the local may or set up a 6 me to christmas tree that lit by harold power passes by take turns riding a bicycle that generates electricity. maybe that also helps to burn off some of those holiday calories.

and that's it from me as no steve for now, i'll have a will do is update for you at the top of the hour. don't go away the op next. we have close up looking at how weak is being weaponized in the war in the ukraine. that's coming up right after a short break. i remember there's always a more for you on our website. that's d w dot com with all the latest international . i've got office in berlin from the other news scene here. thanks for watching.

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