ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. china signals the relaxation of its strict covert measures. 2 major cities, east de restrictions. meanwhile, demonstrators clash with security forces. police is cracking down on protests against math testing. i'd like to lock. also coming up satellite images from a russian air field suggest moscow is gearing up for a passive aerial assault on ukraine's cranium. military officials say the bombers

are likely to be used to strike brown targets, especially energy infrastructure. south africa turns to break through preventative measures or h i v aids to tackle the other pandemic that is far from i'm in the. busy world cup, argentina and poland, both advanced to the knockout stage. we'll hear from our sports team on the ground in carter about the teams kicking off today. and that ah gabels as well come to the program. china's top cove, it response official as a hint, it at a relaxation of a hard line approach that has sparked unrest not seen since the 1989 pro democracy protest bay genie said it will crack down on demonstrations of public anger against the measures. but vice premier sunshine lawn,

a central figure behind bay james pandemic response suggested to health officials that the approach that has disrupted the economy and daily life might soon be relaxed. big cities like long joe and shawn ching have already started using restriction it sounds like more carrot and less stick in china's pandemic strategy . i asked journalist fabiani freshman in bay ging, if the possible easing of cove is restrictions means president. jeez. 0 cove, its strategy has failed. well, it was very obvious by now that the 0 corporate policy is not sustainable. that's an opinion. it's also widely shaped by many chinese and yesterday signal, or by the highest cobit official. he had something to learn and were really very significant. and she said that we are now in a new phase of pandemic control. so i am expecting a lot of small steps and also small progress are probably also back and forth. he

and they are not a radical shift, but definitely a breakthrough or like a start for opening up and yeah, this is quite a significant here and am. i would say, oh, we are seeing the end of 0 colbert, but not tomorrow, but it's a long road actually. could this actually emboldened protests as after all, it appears that their protests have worked were i think only to some degree. so am yes, probably the anti lockdown. clashes could continue in some parts, especially for those people who are locked down without any legal foundation. so i think that people might feel emboldened to am, you know, am or not comply with the roots. m. s. a used to last year, so yes, this part probably am of the protest us might feel important, but there are protests. we're also about a political. i mentioned many people, especially in shanghai and, and paging asked for political change and at those demands will be met by really

resolute or police presence and intimidation, a crackdown campaign which is really ongoing. also today, a lot of people receive phone calls. i mean those who took part in those demonstrations and are, you know, they get intimidated by a phone call to their employee through or through the university, et cetera. and that is still ongoing. and i don't think that. and those protesters might feel important. rather the opposite, they are intimidated now rallies and solidarity happen, taking place all over the globe. other chinese protests as aware of the international support. yes, it's really quite amazing. not only in europe enter the u. s. but also for example, university campuses in south korea. there were a lot of chinese students who am, you know, are even held demonstrations and those images, those m a. yeah. yeah, protest there. really quite a subversive message for the chinese government here. so the censorship of course, is working overtime to suppress and to need those images. if you want to access

them, then you have to use a vpn software on your phone or on your a laptop which eci officially is illegal here, but am only then can you excess free information, for example, on twitter or in foreign media where those images are shared here in china, people don't know about it and, and it, yeah, that's what, what makes it really very hard to for the masses or to immobilize, to solidarity and to really know about it. because only a few people use v p n and can only access those critical information you fabricate with their reporting from beijing. thank you. 5 him. let's have looked at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. human rights group say a man has been shot dead by security forces in all that iran for celebrating the iranian football team's defeat against the u. s. and they exit from the world cup. many radians refuse to support the national t. no response to a violent crack down on anti regime. and these 2 people are dead. dozens

more are missing. after a landslide swept away section of highway in southern brazil, rescue workers say bad weather and the remote location or in the state of parents are complicating the search for survivors. germany's parliament has officially recognized the historical famine in ukraine as genocide, ukrainians to memorize the whole of them or a famine engineered by soviet russia's communist leader, joseph stalin. in the 19th thirty's, nearly 4000000 people starved to death. several countries already of them will order more as you satellite imagery shows that russia may be gearing up for a massive aerial assault on ukraine. these images show almost 2 dozen long range bombers and cruise missiles being prepared for combat at the angles to airfield. as nearly south of blast in ukraine, ukraine military officials,

told local media the bombers will be used to increase strikes on ground targets in ukraine, especially energy infrastructure. mike martin is a senior fellow for war studies at the king's college london, and i asked him earlier if the activity on that russian military or field means that a new major our sold on ukraine is in the making. i think this is a continuation of what we've seen over the last few months, but perhaps at a larger scale, a bonus that have been concentrated at angles. and russia now has about 20 percent of the strategic air force low cases. that base carry cruise missiles and so they can fly over ukraine and unleash multiple cruise missiles at the same time. now the satellite imagery also show many large cargo aircraft. what does that tell us? and so this particular type of cargo aircraft used for bringing high value

cargo to where needs to get to. and so actually i think what these planes are doing, of course it's impossible to say exactly, but i think that they are bringing a cruise missiles from elsewhere in russia to that base and then load it onto the tuple bombers, which then take off a crane unleashing the cruise missiles, now it's going to freezing, call the ukraine, that right now, so the do the ukrainians need in terms of the ground or right now. so i think in terms of winter equipment for several months now, nato and allies have been donating quite a lot of winter equipment. so i think that's probably ok on that score. i think the comments yesterday of the swedish foreign minister for minutes, the bill from a very interesting he said, the way to win this war is the ukraine to win into russia, to be defeated militarily. and in order for that to happen, the west needs start looking at longer range artillery. the cranes are able to

strike targets deep in crimea for instance. and also need to look at and i think tanks. so far we've concentrated on what you might call defensive equipment, really to break through russian lines with the speed in the scale required. ukraine is going to need up to say a 1000 tanks as nightly address ukrainian, president the landscape said they were preparing a counter measure. what could that be as if you look at the way that the russians are organized in ukraine, they hold the east, of course, the dumbass and they hold crimea in the south and connecting those 2 areas is a relatively thin land bridge that runs along the coast of the sea as of if i were the ukrainians and i wanted to put the russians off balance. i would cut through that very thin land bridge and get to the sea of the coast as of and that would separate the russian forces into 2 areas and make it much more difficult for them

to operate effectively. so that, that may be what present zalinski syncing at. mark martin. thank you very much. thank you very much. it's world aids day today about with world wide efforts to baffle the corona virus pandemic. that's been much less of a focus on h. i. v aids the u. n. estimates that last year around $38.00 and a half 1000000 people around the world were actually living with aids. and although it is claiming far fewer lives than it did at its peak in 2004, still 650000 people died of h i v related causes last year. there's still no h i v vaccine. and that makes preventative measures to avoid infection. even more important. africa is the highest number of people living with the virus. and adrian krishna reports from cape town in south africa, where it's hope that trials for new preventative methods will drive numbers down

once a month since their medical penguin comes to this health center to get a package of prep, a daily pill of the pre exposure prophylaxis, protects people from getting h i v when having sex or my family to listen to generation it's, they do have the age of a positive. so i came here to take breath because i wanna, i don't want to be that puddle function. that is hugely plaza to the health center of the desmond to to health foundation doubles up as a research site for many years. residence in the massive familiarly township have been participating in clinical trials 18 year old marvel bengal ana is also considering taking part in a clinical trial for prevention auctions and injection instead of a daily pill. recently we had the breakthrough of that day per injectable, that only had to be given every 2 months. that cavity, grover, long acting injectable. and at the moment in this very vicinity, we are testing

a 6 monthly prophylactic injectable, known as lemma kappa via. so if we can get to a point where young people round the world, only have to take an injection every 6 months, twice a year. that would be an extraordinary breakthrough. linda. gail becker is a leading infectious disease specialist overseeing protocols for several prep and h. i v vaccine trials. she praises the achievements in the past. in the ninety's, hundreds of thousands died of aids. now anti retroviral drugs allow patients to live a normal life with a normal lifespan. but the crisis is not solved. particularly in the global north, there has been a, you know, turning away from a chevy. i think many people think the pandemic is over far from it. we had 4000 young woman became infected with h. i v in the last week alone. and we still have a $150000.00 children newly,

and it was all chevy every year. and there is still a pandemic raging in many parts of the world. it's almost like we've written half the book. and you know, we walking away before the rest of the book is finished and, and that to my mind is it, you know, is, is, is a catastrophe because of all the investment we have in the last 2 years could be lost if we don't actually finish the story then came up with penguin. i wants to play her pass in finishing the story back at home. the 18 year old is busy. convincing friends to take prep don't want to take that because they say they don't want you to t peel because they're not sick. i think it's to get people might kid about it. mattel, bengal on assess her generation, is the 1st one to openly talk about h i v, an important step to end the pandemic professor coaching i do is

head of h. i v treatment research at the center for the aides program of research in south africa. and she told us more about the positive effects of these preventative medications. and these prevented and medication is a huge game changer. and the poised as a new era offer a basket of tools for h i v prevention that includes a range on various products that can be administered, potentially annually, twice a year every 8 weeks or even monkey. so there's various products that are currently either with data that he's starting to emerge or currently in the field to be implemented in research studies in the near future. now in the report we just saw that we heard about an injectable version of that drug. the last 2 months is improving, more popular than the daily pill and why?

so we have various options for the in, for the injectable and vital option. there's the current trial that's underway, that is a lack of s a which can be administered every twice once a year. we have lena castle, which is a sub demo implant that can be given twice a year. and we also have the monoclonal antibodies we've given as infusions twice a year. currently being child is b, which is a ton of inhibitor. and the early studies that compared the use of anti vidal agents daily auto pip, which we know is a combination of turnover. di phosphate fume rate,

as well as m tri city bean. take against the lift sequin dosing of the long acting entry vitals found at least a c all lower incidence. so the early study shows that he effective and patient prefer to have less sequence dosing. we can see that a year ends today, the treatment if one of the biggest challenges. so all the trials of shawna that didn't these high initially. but as, as time goes on a dns wayne. and we know high is yet and is linked to high efficacy. so the injectibles approving, popular pew of dosing days is less need for reminders is less interaction with a with, with health services. and these are great at the, at the did all round a great up cake amongst end users,

professor coach in either there from the center for the 8th program of research in south africa. thank you very much for joining us here on the w news. ah, and at the football woke up and katara boys group ceased trying to play and pray with every team hoping to advance to the knockout stages of the tournaments despite linelle messy, missing a penalty. it was argentina getting a crucial when over poland. the 1st goal was a bit clumsy. alexis mcallister's shot went off his foot on to his chin up against the post, and then into the go. the 6th and 7th minute, julio, r estimate it soon ill. and that was, it ended argentina wanted route followed by poland, who's fans and plays so few minutes after the game. a 2 added

and following argentina's advancement into the knockout round thousands of support his back. and when his iris filled the streets in celebration, argentina, flags, and kit flooded the city squares with a party lasting for several hours to time woke up when his last opening match to saudi arabia buffy battled back to wind groups. led by you know, that i didn't in a phase australia, december. now let's take a look at the final standings and group see with the victory over poland, argentina finished on top of the group of 6 points to advance and poland gets through as well. thanks to goal difference, mexico, despite winning their final the final match while i go home as do saudi arabia and with france already guarantee to advance australian denmark competed to join them in the knocker round. and it was the soccer rose who got the needed when to make it through is how the game unfolded. denmark shoot,

they intend to ride from the start. but 10 minutes in australia, keep them at rhein was in the way of denmark's leads, their pressure continued, but either austria's defense stood strong or denmark wasn't accurate enough. australia's 1st chance came just before halftime, but denmark's christians and in the right spot with the clearance. after halftime australia dominated the game, but the shot from just outside the box was cleared by the danish defence. 5 minutes later, jackson irvine shot went over the bar and captain max hopes alive. just after the one hour mark, australia, 2nd half dominance paid off. matthew lackey, with a clinical finish. one mill, australia, denmark with the last chance of the game, not australia held on the sucker rosa through to the round of 16. a disappointing woke up for denmark comes to an end and all football fans can look forward to

another intense day. here's the schedule for the final group stage matches in group f, croatia, face belgium, and canada meet morocco than in group ege. apparently, spain and germany is up against costa rica. jamie suffered a stunning opening, defeated japan, but salvage to draw with spain and then escape. germany eliminated at the group stage in russia 4 years ago, and they don't want the same fate. in cut did have his boss corresponded johnson. harding is covering the world cup for us and told me earlier, what games to look out for today? well as well, carpet is the final round of group stage game. so sir, every day poses an exciting situation for a number of teams today, morocco, croatia, belgium, all trying to go through. and of course, as we just heard germany, the future of their tournament lies in their hands on the hands of other to other teams as well. so there's a lot of a lot of football to look forward to now,

as you say, a big day for, for germany today, they are currently sitting in the last place in their group. what has to happen for them to advance into the round of 16. they can't do it without help, can they know it's a complicated situation and i think i won't go into too much detail otherwise i will feel like a bit of a math class to be honest. i think the most important thing is that they win. if that doesn't happen, then we can forget the rest. they have to win. and i think they hope that spain be japan because that's the, the result that everybody's expecting. if that happens, germany are still going to be here for a while. if spain in japan draw than germany need to win by at least 2 goals, and if anything else happens, then it will be time to get the calculators out and it will get a little bit more complicated. the most important thing is that germany do the job that they need to do, which is when and as we saw 4 years ago. that's not always a guarantee. let's not forget that germany have one just once in their last 9 tournament games. so work to do indeed it also some of the atmosphere there

surrounding the t. many germans would be happy to see them go actually that's what we are told. why is that and does that affect the plays i think is so, so it's definitely an issue. let's put it like that the tournament is obviously the most controversial one we've ever had. the d. b continues to offer this slightly arrogant approach to certain situations. we sort of recently had a press conference when they didn't bring a player and then said, wow, we didn't want to put that stress of, of a travel on them. that of a ridiculous excuse. i think the issue really is the fact that this tournament is being played here. i mean, a lot of people find a controversial that the workers and guitar and as result, the german team under pressure to be here and be successful. and if, if they are, people won't really care. so it's, it's a tricky spot has affected the team. yeah, the players have said as much chi harvard nicholas for crew recently as well. they said it's not nice to not, not be cheered on. they've noticed it after all, everybody just wants to be loved. right. but the biggest issues that they haven't

performed while i just mentioned this, the physics, they've got to play better on the pitch. that would certainly help starts tonight. and we shall see the ws bosco's bonnen jonathan, either they're reporting from doha. thank you, jonathan. i was staying with football, but changed location from carter to mexico city to meet a team of transgender women footballers, they play the to peter district and mexico city, which is known for being a hotspot of crime and poverty. it's an unusual place for a transgender football team to make a name for themselves. and at 1st they found themselves at odds with the matcher world around them. but now that the pride of the neighbourhood lacing up their football bits and flipping into their sports pants. these women feel invincible. now, me, hala man, you ella, and the others. a transgender women, part of a football team called the gardenias of to peter, where we presume it was difficult being

a transgender team into pito. but we've earned our place here. and our respects is grandmother a. laura to pete her is one of mexico cities, most infamous neighborhoods. it's notorious for crime drugs and poverty. but it's also colorful diverse and now known for its transgender football team. they play against the men in city festivals, a level of acceptance, therefore, hard for, but the decision to host the world cup and co. tar where trans people are persecuted, they find particularly painful. look for them, they go to the water, you can't deny that transgender people exist. they gay, bisexual and non binary people exist. when not a minority were part of the population and were standing up against this discrimination from kat are so single gotta, the women know what it's like to struggle. now me move to mexico city as a teenager, leaving behind a strongly religious family in a village where she struggled to be herself. here in the city. she feels free,

lawyer possible. in my village, i would have always just be known as the gay one. and i knew i wanted more, i wanted to be something different. visibility, she says is important. that's why the gardenias were founded, violence and discrimination a part of everyday life for many transgender women in mexico. they are often pushed to the margins of society. will knock on the showing that is trans women were not just putting on a show or to put it plainly working as prostitutes. but trans women simply aren't given normal office job alone. that our, their gardenias have been playing football for 35 years, facing resistance and prejudice along the way. they used to be called names, people through to marty's at them. but now attitudes are shifting. they say that's because they're stuck it out. people have gotten to know them today, their ambassadors for tolerance, that above all their people with dreams and of passion for football. and they have

a message for guitar. it's almost as we human, let us live in freedom. after all, football isn't meant to divide, but to unite. o. and finally, the begets thus slend a loaf of bread. so typical of france has joined united nations list of culturally important items. the white lo 1st crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. when the central part of life and frost many french people by one every day, the forget was invented by bakers in the army of the emperor napoleon. you watching the w news is a reminder of the top stories were following for china's top covered response official has hinted at a relaxation of the hotline approach at a spot on rest and disrupted the economy. big cities like one jo, ann shock seeing have already started easy cove. it restricted and satellite

imagery from a russian air field suggests moscow. my may be gearing up for a massive aerial assault on ukraine. ukrainian military officials say the bombers are likely to be used to strike ground targets, especially energy infrastructure. that's it from me and the new steam phenomena of an update for you at the top of the out for me on the team. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

ah, with who into the conflict zone with sebastian the war in ukraine may have strengthened west of the alliance in europe, but not in all cases. the big allies, the hungarian leader, to all about who won't supply weapons here and won't let them transit these country . my guess from budapest is the prime ministers. they separate of public diplomacy . open cobra comp with

w. o, she may is fine team to survival for justice and for some happiness for herself and hundreds of thousands of aids patients in china victims medical scandal that began in the ninety's a single person do. she made kind of a scandal with 45 minutes on d, w. o a in many countries, education is still a privilege. tardy is one of the main causes. some young children work in mind. jobs instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish

working with millions of children all over the world can't go to school with. we ask why. and because education the world more just ah, make up your own mind a d. w. made for mines who the war in ukraine may have strengthened western alliances in europe, but not in all cases. the big outlier is the hungarian leader, victor, or van, who won't supply weapons to care and won't let them transit is country. my guest from budapest is the prime minister's fate. secretary opened co batch. do you want to lensky to win the war? we want peace. you don't want him to wear every day said power. it's a cheap it moscow's.