we are here for you with reports and background information about football figures . everything you need about the 2022 world cup on d w. blue. ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, china signal's a relaxation of its direct cove and measures to major cities, ease with obstructions. meanwhile, demonstrators clashed with security forces and police crackdown on protests against

math testing and like the lockdown. also coming up on world aids day, we look at how south africa is using preventative measures and new drugs to tackle the other pandemic that is far from over and in the world cup, argentina and poland, both advanced to the knockout stage. we will hear from our sports team and tar about the teams kicking off today, and their chances, like germany ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. china's top covered response official has hinted at relaxation of its hard line approach that has sparked unrest not seen since the 1989 pro democracy protests aging has said that it will crack down on demonstrations of public anger against the measures. but the vice premier, who is

a central figure behind asians pandemic response has now suggested to health officials, the china's cove controls mason b, relax. big cities, light, one show and chill. ching had already started easing restrictions. and for more let's bring in fabric crutch. mar, who is joining us with the view from beijing. now fabian, as we just heard, they are china's top cove official signaling. the restrictions will be eas. should this be seen as an admission that president cheese 0 coven policy? has felt where at least an admission that the strategy is not sustainable. any mind this opinion is also widely shared by many chinese and it's really quite obvious. the shift in public rhetoric by the politicians is really quite remarkable. the vice premier basically said we are now in a new phase of pandemic control and are also many state media have published articles focusing on, you know, vaccination campaigns. and also saying that,

you know, when you're vaccinated, that the on the chrome variant is not as of as much of as a dangerous a threat as, as it used to be. and this are public messaging is quite different than what we've heard before. so there's definitely a change and you can see it in at least 2 cities who have already started some easing or measures he and beijing, i would say you can also feel it a little bit. namely m many neighbor commitee. so the local level, it's don't enforce those locked ons as strict as anymore. but of course it's, it's a long process and there are many steps and probably a lot of back and forth. and i don't expect any reticle shift or radical opening up at more like small steps. southern, where does the protest movement go from here? where i think the political part of the protests is basically suspended. it's repressed. and i'm, i'm also having some security issues yet unusual wet and we'll walk on to the need . and thank you, sir, because i mean, they're so heavy intimidation. tactics are,

i mean yeah, yeah it's, so i am sorry, am enter, for example people are getting phone calls and are or basically of been, he's been this year report or they asked him to leave us just happening here and are, yeah that's, that's, that's, i mean, the police presence is basically am hindering those protests, but of course those anti locked on am protest. they might continue, but they're not political nature. they're more about and you're leaving are getting into freedom and leaving their compound rallies in solidarity have been taking place all over the globe. are chinese protestors aware of the international support will only to some degree, namely only those trainees will use weepy and software and m that this is a software tool which is actually illegal here, but you can use it and then you can access free information. for example, innovation platforms, as twitter, and on those and platforms, those images of, you know, outside in chinese, for example, in south korea or in, in europe or

u. s. in those universities where they hold demonstrations and, and post critical messages. i mean, it's not accessible within the chinese internet because it gets really very quickly deleted. but with some tools, if you get around to censorship, then you can access those, adding petra and by aging. thank you so match and here's a look at some other stories making news around the world. on a one day visit to china, european council president sean michelle has signed the book of condolences for former chinese president junk theme men. in beijing, michel met chinese leader exclusion paying as he seeks to shore up diplomatic and trade ties. he also discussed protest over china 0 coven policies, and human rights groups say that a man has been shot dead by security forces in northern iran for celebrating the iranian football teams defeat against the us and exit from the world cup. many

iranians refused to support the national team in response to a violent government crackdown on anti regime protest. germany's parliament has officially recognized a historical famine in ukraine as genocide, ukraine's commit ukrainians commemorates the hollow dome are a famine engineered by soviet russia's communist liter. joseph stalin, in the 19 thirty's, nearly 4000000 people starved to death. several countries already condemn it as genocide. now it is world aids day, but with global efforts to battle the corona virus pandemic. there's been much less of a focus on h. i. v aids for you and estimates that last year around $38.00 and a half a 1000000 people around the world. we're living with h i v aids. and although the virus is claiming far fewer lives than it did at its peak back in 2004, 650000 people, died of

h i v related causes in 2021. now there's still no h i v vaccine. that makes preventative measures to avoid infection even more important. the african region has the highest number of people living with the virus. adria increased reports now from cape town in south africa, where trials for new preventative measures hold hopes of driving those numbers down . once a month since their medical been gone, i 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 generation 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 options 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 tasting a 6 monthly prophylactic injectable, known as lemma cap of yeah. 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 did result chevy every year. at 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, the book is, is finished am. and that to my mind is a, you know, is, is, is a catastrophe because of all the investment we've had in the last 30 years could be lost. if we don't actually finish the story, then came up of been gone. i wants to play her part in finishing the story back at

home. the 18 year old is busy. convincing friends to take prep the la ticket because they say little eaten tv pill because they're not sick. i think it's to get people more and catered about it. mattel, bengal on a says her generation is the 1st one to openly talk about h. i v. an important step to end the pandemic. lou at the football world cup and guitar, it was group seized turn to play and pray with every team hoping to advanced to the knockout stages of the tournament. despite leonel massey missing a penalty, it was argentina getting a crucial when over poland. the 1st score was a bit clumsy. alexis mcallister shot, went off his foot into his chin up against the post and into the goal. in the 67th minute julian alvarez made it to nil and that was how it ended. argentina won the

group, followed by poland, whose fans and players saw a few minutes after the game that they too, had advanced and back and went aside as thousands of supporters filled the streets and celebration following argentina's victory ah cheering on the south american champions, argentina, flags, and kits flooded the city squares with a party lasting for several hours. the to time world cup winners lost their opening match to saudi arabia. but they battled back to when their group led by little messy argentina. this australian and with france already guaranteed to advance australia and denmark, competed to join them in the knockout round. here's how that game unfolded. denmark showed 3rd to him to right from the start, but 10 minutes in australia is keep them at rhein was in the way of doing mugs

leads, their pressure continued, but either austria's defense stood strong or denmark wasn't accurate enough. how stress 1st chance came just before half time, but then most christians and in the right spot, with the clearance. after halftime australia dominated the game, but the shot from just outside the books was cleared by the danish defence. 5 minutes later, jackson, herb and shot went over the bar, and captain mux hopes alive just after the one hour mark, australia, 2nd half dominance paid off. matthew lackey with a clinical finish. one mill, austria denmark with the last chance of the game. but australia held on the soccer rosa through to the round of 16. a disappointing woke up for denmark comes to an end and we 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 then in group e, japan play spain and germany is up against costa rica. and germany suffered a stunning opening defeat to japan, but salvaged a draw with spain and their next game. germany were eliminated at the group stage in russia 4 years ago. and they don't want the same faith in katara. on the finally, it is one of the most enduring symbols of france and now the humble baguette has joined a united nations list of culturally important items invented by bakers in the army of the emperor napoleon. the by god is a quintessential part of what the french call the joy of life. diva love, i get this long. krispy love is the toaster france. and now the culinary world. it's brand new. first be with, with nice young sold, every tribe again,

here for repairs suffers a paris. so this is otherwise, this unesco, the united nations heritage body has put there tis no, no how and culture of the get bread on its list of intangible cultural heritage begets have come to be a symbol of france around the world and have been a central part of the french diet for at least 100 years. yeah, lord, there you can tell from the smell how it looks the color it was either good or as you the ingredients are simple. flour, water, salt, and yeast. but in the right hands, baker say the humbled bread becomes a masterpiece. larose low to learn by touching and shaping the doughnut off. they can take as long as 10 years on poker nestles it may be, it's the carp cutting, but fewer people are slicing into begets and recent decades. still, france makes about 16000000 loaves a day. that $6000000000.00 begets

a year and sold for about a euro and might be worth taking a bite bone at the feet. quick reminder, the top story that we're following for you here on t w. it is china's top covey response official, has hinted at a relaxed ation of the hard line approach that has sparked on breast and destructive the economy. big cities like want show and cha ching have already started easing, covered, restrict next up as business me as if my colleagues cayden beardley to say with us if you can for that i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thank you so much for watching. with fred.