and i come to mind a magic wand and grounds to divorce secret weapon lipstick doth december 3rd on d w like ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. chinese state media announced the death of a former president junk se men lead china out of isolation in the aftermath of 1989 tiana mon square massacre. becoming one of the major figures in recent chinese history. also coming up, the announcement comes as

a fresh protest against stringent coven measures rock. the country violent clashes breakout overnight in the city of one show, as authority seek to crush what they called the hostile forces behind the unrest. plots nato allies accusing russia of using the winter as a weapon of war, as they pledge more weapons and money for ukraine. and the u. s. score one goal against iran, and that is all they need to get through to the knockout round of 16 at the football world. cup in co. tar. ah. i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. former chinese president young se men have died at the age of $96.00. according to state media,

he came to power in the wake of the repression of the pro democracy protests in panama square. in 1989. he steered china through economic reform that transformed the country into a global manufacturing power house. he also oversaw the return of hong kong from the u. k. in 1997 and macau, from portugal in 1999 young step down as president in 2003 but remained influential and the ruling communist party long after he retired. and let's get more on this. we are joined by d. w reporter. clifford couldn't, who worked as a correspondent in china for many years. how important figure was he in chinese history? well, he was a very important figure in those years in china was constantly being reported. the young man was dead, so this finally be confirmed. he was an emblematic figure of change in china. in many ways. he oversaw some of the biggest events in chinese history. and in some

ways created the kind of china which she, jim ping, the current leader has inherited, particularly with accession to the, the world trade organization in the early, 2, thousands, the process which continued over the early 2, thousands and, and he basically was a transitional figure in some ways because she didn't ping has now become this enormous figure, but at his, his position in history and chinese history is certainly assured how do you citizens of china see him? well, he was fine. in some ways he was, he was more charismatic than a lot of chinese leaders who tend to be technocrats. and he was famous for his rendition of love me tender. he could recite the gettysburg address in english, which was pretty remarkable. he, when you go to shanghai, he was very, very popular and shanghai which was his power base and taxi drivers always had stories about him and, and then you come into the huge, entire year after that. and the stories and the technocrats come in. and now we have,

she didn't being who courses another stage in some ways of communist rule in china and that he's very much hard line the communist party figure, not to say the young men didn't oversee his own share of them, of events that were controversial, including the crackdown on the fallen gong movement, the spiritual movement which was led to a lot of people being arrested and killed, to we know what he thought of shipping. and he, he was this. i think he was the skeptic because he led the shanghai faction, which i was supposedly in opposition to, to see jim things function at the party congress last year. he very, he had a large magnifying glass and he was kept looking at his watch during shipping speech. and things are that he, he, he was sort of, they were, they were, they were rivals, but at the same time they both believed in keeping the party strong. so they, they couldn't express it too, obviously. but they were definitely rivals ok. clifford conan, joining us with this news chunk same in has died the age of 96. thank you so much.

now saying, and china authorities and gong shall have relaxed some anti cove. it measures following clashes between demonstrators and police and violent confrontation took place on wednesday morning. in the southern chinese city, video footage on social media shows protesters throwing rocks at security forces in protective suits. china's ruling communist party has said it will put resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotaged by hostile forces. authorities have holstered police presences and major cities in an attempt to suppress further demonstrations. and earlier we spoke with journalist fab encroachment in beijing for more on those clashes in functional videos a seem to be from last night. it shows that residents were clutching with the police. the police, dressed in full helmet suits their very shield to protect themselves. the residents

are throwing rocks at the police and you know those protests, we don't know the details, but they seem to be anti locked on protest. why? because they happened 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. yeah. a form of civil disobedience and they get punished. i mean, it's really quite rare and risky to do so. and that was journalists having touchmart and beijing. here's a look at some other stories making news. 3 chinese astronauts have successfully dr . young base station for a 6 month mission to complete the stations construction. they blasted off from china desert on tuesday. that young base station is the centerpiece of beijing base ambition. twitter has removed its restrictions on this information about the coven

. 1900. pandemic accounts that spread false statements about the virus are now no longer blocked. following a wave of changes by new billionaire owner, ilan mosque, the move has raised concerns among public health expert. the us senate has passed bipartisan legislation to protect same sex and interracial marriages. the bill would not require any state to allow same sex couples to marry, but they would have to recognise all marriages that are legal in others. but what a great day, what a great political allies of jail, bella, rosie, and opposition need. are maria collecting cova say that she is in the hospital in intensive care? authorities have provided little information about her condition and opposition spokesperson says collecting cova was recently transferred to solitary confinement in prison. she was an outspoken critic of valuable team leader,

alexandra with an fishing love. the nato foreign ministers are meeting for a 2nd day of talks in romania. they are promising to increase aid to ukraine, as it prepares for its health winter made worse by russia's bombing of its energy infrastructure. on the 1st day of talk, foreign ministers agreed to send 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, britain is trying to weapon noise winter to force ukraine is to freeze or flee. he is trying to break the will of the brave ukrainian people

on to do odds, 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 from ukraine foreign minister to meet your caliber, once nato, to speed up the process of a book, decisions on weapons decision on launching fuel production. wines of weapons in western countries, they have to be made, cluster and deliveries of weapons have to make, have to be done foster. in order to strengthen ukraine. self defense need relies primarily undefended technologies that can ward off attacks or clear minds. nato members, in bucharest, stood unified, vowing again to support ukraine as long as needed. location is highly symbolic. it was here in 2008, that nato drafted a perspective for ukraine to possibly join someday in the future.

ah, at the football world cup on tuesday evening, around battled with the united states for the right to move on to the round of 16. the iranian side has come under government pressure after refusing to sing the national anthem in their 1st game in support of protesters back home. fill their hopes of advancing, fell short against 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 lack power and precision. 10 minutes later it was western mc kenny's perfect cross into the run of sir geno desk who squared it to kristin pool as aj. chelsea's attacker puts the u. s. one nella head, however, while the fans were going wild pool, 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. he 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 iran match outcome was disappointing to the team and many fans, other expressed happiness at their outcome in video shared from various cities in iran after the last score. and later, after the match cheering is heard. this video is from a tall building in the capital t ron and was posted by someone saying they were jubilant about the he was victory. is what, what from one football fan from iran told d w after he saw the match in person. it's very, very, very difficult or tricky position. at the same time our national team,

he wanted to win, but odyssey don't, we didn't want them to in because they are representing go ideology off. it wasn't there on or we were happy that the loss because they were using for propaganda was putting a propaganda on flood form to show the world. everything is normal, everything going up according to our normal. what are they going on? and politics and sports collide, there are going to turn to some other news now. in the us state of hawaii, people are being warned to be ready to leave at short notice the mount. a lower volcano on the big island is of rotting, for the 1st time in nearly 40 years. homes are not in the path of the lava flow at the moment, but scientists are warning that could change quickly. law of a 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. griff 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 wakes up here watching t w news. a quick reminder of our top stories. chinese state media have announced the death of former president young se men at the age of 96. he led china out of isolation in the aftermath of 989th t hanniman square massacre and oversaw the handover of hong kong from british school. to chinese. china is cracking down on what it calls hostile forces, protesting cova 19 restrictions, violent clashes between demonstrators and police, broke out in the southern city of flung soap and nato has pledged further military aid for ukraine. the alliance will also send food fuel and electrical equipment as winter sets, and secretary general again, stilton berg has accused russia of using the winter as

a weapon of war. of next sunday. the news, it is business news with my colleague to now do milan. in the meantime, you can always check on our website d, w dot com and also follow us on social media. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for joining us. take care. ah, with secrets lie behind these walls, discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites.