[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. chinese authorities step up efforts to crush unrest against coven restrictions. violent clashes break out overnight in the city of juan ju asked,

police confront protesters thirty's bow to suppress what they call the hostile forces that are stoking the set. also coming up the west accuses russia of using the winter as a weapon of war and pledges more weapons and more money for you crank 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 woke up in ah, i'm good. how about as well come to the program? in china, police and protesters have clashed overnight as demonstrations against harsh coven 19 measures. continue. a violent confrontation took place into wednesday morning in the southern city of one jew. video footage on social media shows protestors

throwing rocks at security forces with ride shields and protective suits china's ruling home. this party has said it will quote, resolutely cracked down on infiltration and sabotaged by hostile forces. authorities have bolstered police presence of major cities in an attempt to suppress further demonstrations ranging against 3 years of cobra. lockdown measures, protest, pete at historic levels. never seen during the era of president eugene pain. it signal to some that geez, 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. closer 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 and accordance with the law. at the same time, any rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law. ali calling gently shook activists are under threat of investigation for their role, and the pushback 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.

a journalist robin catch what jones is now from a bay ging for the latest of i've been fresh class classes in the southern southern city of juan ju broke out overnight. us authorities born a fact dance. what more do you know? yeah, the videos seemed to be from last night. it shows that residents were clashing with the police. the police dressed in full helmet suits their hair wearing shields to protect themselves. the residents are throwing rocks at the police and, you know, those are protests. we don't know the details, but they seem to be the anti locked on protest. why? because they happen in the same district where similar incidents happened before 2 weeks ago. and let me tell you, those incidents are really extremely risky. this is survey and state and china has a lot of measures to trick down. people who participated in those are, yeah, a form of civil disobedience and they get punished. i mean, it's really quite rare and risky to do so. now,

do you think that the protests actually are having an impact? well locked down still continue. also the mandatory transferring of suspected cobra cases to current teen centers continues. the 0 covey policy in general, also continues. well, i expect that, you know, the, the government is listening to some demands of the protest. us, namely, it will be cautious to not, or, you know, provoke too much additional public anger. i'm sure about that. but every political demand by the protesters will be met with a lot of repressions. we know that by now there was clearly stated also by the government who has given basically a kia, wanting here and beijing at the 1st night of the protest in sunday night. the police was rather cautious, but anything that that happened further over continue will be met with repression. now, how a chinese media reporting on these protest what not

directly there are some wake mentions of, you know, the stability must be upheld, it cetera. but there are no direct mentions of the protest themselves, but on social media we see a campaign of, you know, influence us who basically spread conspiracy series about anti china forces, quote unquote, foreign forces who, you know, provoke those protests or even at the u. s. government paying those protesters, which of course there is no credible claim for no, no. for proofs at all. pub in customer, they're reporting from beijing. thank you for the erosion of democracy worldwide reached a new peak last year. that's according to a new report by the international institute for democracy and electoral assistance . the study says that the number of countries moving towards author italian ism, is more than double the number moving towards democracy. it found declines, world wide,

half of european democracies eroded in the last 5 years. while there was also no significant backslide. also significant backsliding in the americas and rising of rhetoric. terry in ism, in asia, one bright spot was resilience in several african democracies. despite chronic instability on that continent or kevin casa summaries, the secretary general for the institute for democracy, intellectual assistance, and he joins us from stock on knock, having your report makes for bleak reading. why is democracy having such a tough time globally? i think it's a combination of factors, some of them, a more link to the, to the moment that we're, we're living in the elliptical hang over it that comes out to depend damage, but also a, as a result of the russians war of aggression in ukraine. that's a factor, but

a most of the fall is structural factors that predate the pandemic. and the war is things like the runaway level. so larry zation and the task levels is inequality. there are only societies apart that are a undermining the, the capacity of democracies to resist the repairing onslaught. and there's also the visible, a erosion in the faith in liberal institutions as a result of a very widespread perception that democracies are not a brewing able to delivery notifications, wait to social expectations and demands. and then there's the question of corruption that having a toxic effect globally in eroding the timothy. and generally speaking, a very inhospitable environment,

a at the international level for the protection of democracy. so all of those factors are coming together for really bleak landscape for, for democracy. now, even in europe, that's according to your report, nearly half of so called highly performing democracies have suffered erosion. what does that mean and why is that me? what that means essentially is that the mocker sees even high performing. the mocker sees a lot of them practically all of them, according to our measurement, are to be found in western europe. are not making progress in terms of protecting and securing access to fundamental rights. and that of course has different manifestations according to the country. but generally speaking,

and there is the perception that democracy are not being able to deliver in a new environment defined by almost permanent crisis. and this is, this is very important. and that's why question of making sure that the quality of democratic governments is at the heart of all the debates is so essential for the future. all of them are, you know, if there is one lesson that we should lead from. the experience of that make is the quality of democratic governance literally saves lives. having caused some are there from the institute for democracy and electro assistance in stock on thank you very much. my pleasure. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. if you go 3 chinese astronauts have successfully docked at the jungle space station for

a 6 month mission to complete the stations construction. i have blasted off from the china go be desert on tuesday. townhome space station is the centerpiece of aging space. twitter has removed its restrictions on misinformation about the cove at $900.00 pandemic accounts that spread false statements about the virus are now no longer blocked. following a wave of changes by the new on the mosque has raised concerns among public health experts. political allies of the jail, bella regional position leader, maria callas. nick over, say she's in hospital in intensive care. authorities have provided little information about her vision and opposition, spokesman says felicity over was recently transferred to solitary confinement in prison. he is an outspoken critic of the roof leader, single example because shankar so he's not just any b u. s. senate has passed bipartisan legislation and to protect same sex and

interracial marriages. the bill would not require any state to allow same sex couples to married, but they would have to recognize all marriages that are legal in other states here . president, what a great day, what a great day nato allies are promising to increase aids to ukraine as it prepares for a tough winter, made much worse by russia's bombing of its energy infrastructure meeting in romania, nato. foreign ministers agreed to sent more military equipment, as well as power generators, 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 routine is trying to weaponized winter to force ukrainians to freeze

or flee. he is trying to break the will of the brave ukraine in people and to do either all of us who support them. but ukraine's list of needs also includes more ammunition and more weapons. defense systems in ukraine are currently being destroyed faster than they can be delivered. in korean, foreign minister to meet your caliber, once nato, to speed up the process of a barbara 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 her 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. somebody in the future. ukraine's president program is lansky says his forces face a difficult situation defending the east of the country against russian attacks. in his overnight address, he said, russian troops are attempting to break through ukrainian lines of multiple points on the front. should lighten up the situation at the front is difficult to little despite heavy losses. the russians are still trying to advance in the da nets griego in lieu hands region and the hockey region chanel. they're also planning something in the south. blong b o. some of the heaviest fighting in the east is around the town of buck mort. my asked mike martin, a former british army officer and a senior fellow at the war studies department at kings college in london for his analysis. 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 trench 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 the cranes 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. this is justin circle or the ukranian forces. are there other reasons as well? you're absolutely right. excuse me. 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. probably remember that president putin war aims are to bring, don't ask in the hands the dumbass region into russia. and it 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 can don't ask, then he's in a position say all that we want in ukraine. we can pull out of other areas now, rush and strikes as we've been reporting for weeks on ukraine's 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 this 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 air 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 ah, at the football world cup on tuesday evening, the wrong battle with the united states for the right to move on to the round of 16 rainy inside has 1st government pressure after showing support for pro women protest as back home. still, they held out hope of advancing the tournament if they could defeat the u. s. 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 lack power and precision. 10 minutes later it was western mc kenny's perfect cross into the run of surgeon odessa who squared it to kristin pool as aj. chelsea's attacker puts the u. s. one milla head. however, while the fans were going wild pull as it was in a lot of pain, after crashing into that 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 her alley 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. now,

while the round match outcome was disappointing to the team and many fans, others expressed happiness at the outcome and videos shared from various cities in iran after the u. s. board and later after the match, cheering is heard. this video is from a tall building in the capital tay ron. and was bo suppose someone saying they were jubilant about v as victory. and here's what one football fan from iran told d. w, after he saw the match in person. this is very, very, very difficult. a tricky position at the same time is our national team. he wanted to win, but at the same time, we didn't want them to in because they are presenting your ideas. yeah, that wasn't on and we were happy that the loss because they were use it for propaganda was putting up again on flood form to show the world everything is normal, everything going up according to our normal life, i think going on for more on this when are joined by the head of the ws persian

service yelled as our box yelder. how did iranian trans incatel react to that batch your words? we actually heard it very well as sets by, by this fan it is. we have to, when we talk about fans and katara, we have to really differentiate between fans really iranian fans coming to support and their team. and actually also coming in would obe having t shirts on women life freedom. so m trying to make it took to reach awareness for what is going on in iran for the revolution that is going on for the last 2 months for the human rights violations for the killing of so many over 400 people of 40 children. only this is the one hand, on the other hand, the ringing regime is really trying hard to influence to whole atmosphere within the stadium and outside. and there is a leaked audio file by an activist, a little black reward that shows a originally guard cope. general. i'm at a, at

a assembly with media and with media representatives after islamic republic. and they actually see that they are very happy about how much katara is helping and cooperating with iran in order to, to not be able to prevent the hearing. and fans were opponents to the regime to enter the stadiums. and on the other hand, they have thousands of free tickets to iranian support for regime regime supporter . and also by c, g 's also rang and intelligence who are in the stadium. you know, masked as fans actually. but what they do is, um is nothing else then also reporting on opponents or in the stadium, irena and opponents. and what we saw after the match was actually a very tense situation. and many fans, ceiling fans, bearing them alive, t shirts, friends were attacked by those people. now,

given the iranian players encounter declined to comment about the approaches in iraq. what, what's the team when they go home? yes, as we heard it, many, many, many of them iranians are disappointed are frustrated by the national team at a t mail lead. not having them, you know, not having shown more solidarity and spoken other than the other hand, they have been put under a lot of pressure before the match yesterday. yes, iran, they were even threatened that their families or themselves would be detained if, if they see any gesture or not singing to the anthem. so the revolutionary guard hooks and the islamic republic are kind of instrumental lising the team. and this is why many people in iran took to the streets last night, celebrating and dancing, and actually being happy about the loss of the iranian team. so they lost actually do the match. but they also lost

a kind of dare dare fans and people to support of the people in iran. there has been and quite a city in the hometown of gina must armine in suckers. we've seen cheering after the 1st gone. and we've seen people then taken to suit dancing after, after dad, of course, a brutal cracked on by the security forces and there is a 27 year old boy who gets that will have had been shot so far trouble. thank you very much. and back to some of the other action on the pitch at england were leading and grew be heading into the matchups. they were up against rival whales. and england found all the needed marcus rochefort. he connected on this free case to ensure england were up one mill earlier in the 2nd half and england put it on from that rochefort to pass along the right sun and weaved his way for left for the shot. england,

winning the match. sweeney. that's other look than at the results and group b, the winner is england. then after their victory over wales and usa comes in 2nd to also advance to the round of 16 after their when over iraq. and the final results from a group a, the winner is the netherlands after their victory over cotton and synagogue comes in 2nd to also advance to the round of 16 host country cot. i was unable to gonna any points in their 3 matches. if you are said of why people are, we being warned to be ready to leave their homes at short notice the amount a lower volcano on big island is erupting for the 1st time. in nearly 40 years, homes are not yet in the path of lava flows, but scientists are warning that would quickly change larva 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 while it 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 drifts 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 you watching d. w news. here's a quick reminder of all top stories. china is top security body has cold for cracked down against hostile forces following widespread rallies against coven 19th restrictions. several cities in the country have deployed more police to quell pro and nato has pledged further military aid for ukraine. the alliance will also send food fuel and electric. the look with winter sets in the secretary general. yes,

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