a success in a weekly coping, $900.00 special every thursday on d. w with this is the w news line from berlin, that china signals the relaxation of its strict curve in 19 measures. several major cities, east testing requirements and restrictions on movement. as officials try to diffuse public anger, fuel and widespread protests, also on the program, gradient told to head to air raid shelters as officials war russia is gearing up

for a massive aerial attack, satellite images from russian f. you will suggest preparations for an assault brushes, foreign minister uses the west of rejecting dialogue with moscow. so again, laughter of criticizes the organization for security and cooperation in europe and says, nato is directly participating in the war in crime and on world aids day. we look at how south africa is using preventative measures and new drugs to tackle the disease which still claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. china's top cove 19 response official, has signaled a shift in the strict policies that provoked protest on a scale not in for decades, vice premier,

so on to land told health officials the country's corona virus approaches entering what's called a new stage. big cities like one joe and chunk ching and already easing restrictions. as officials try to qual, public anger. frustration boiling over in wine, joe, and scuffled with covey workers in shanghai. rare public displays of anger with china's strict cobra policies. in recent days. in many cities they moved into something even bigger with protests as calling for the communist party and gigi and ping to go they. c they themes that reminded many of the piano men protest 1st, the feeling that came to my man, no reason is very incredible. port test across china was the spirit of

a 99. has come. a key in beijing responded by unleashing a fears, crackdown, deploying huge numbers of police to stamp out the demonstrations. but it has also signaled changes to the strict coban policies that have angered so many of the lead on wednesday advice for me. and soon john learn told health officials china was entering a new stage in its pandemic approach. due to increased vaccination rates and experience with the corona virus funky in gwen jo authorities have already announced an end to mass p. c. r testing and lifted locked downs across the city. all part of a drive to implement cobra rules with more local flexibility. according to officials. beijing said is also planning to step up. vaccinations of the elderly,

lagging vaccination rates among the old have been used to justify the current 0 covey policy. with protest seemingly stamped out for now and a shift away from the approach that provoked them in the work. beijing may well be hoping the biggest challenge to its authority in decades is already behind it. a sophie richardson is china director for human rights watched. i asked her what she thought this relaxation of corona virus restrictions tells us. i think it reflects some level of official awareness popular unhappiness about the coven restrictions. but do you think it remains to be seen whether the 3 lactation is actually will happen? whether people believe that they are happening and whether be authority,

you change their mind real, who the strict or constraints, if in the case number sir. during these protests, what we have seen is people identified via facial recognition systems. a people being arrested for their protest. do we know what happens to the many demonstrators who are then identified and detained? it's early days. and so the, the information that we have is really anecdotal, that people, some people have been detained and are likely to be charged. you know, and some of the authorities favorite charges like picking corals and stirring up troubles. but i think there's a lot that we don't yet know about whether the authority is will impose longer time constraints on people. we know, we do know, for example, that become human rights defenders who have been critical of the authorities

response both to covered and to these protests have been confined to their homes and prevented from communicating for example, with journalists and with their own colleagues domestically. but, you know, in other circumstances, we've seen the authorities use more heavy handed tactics like the use of tear gas. for example, the censorship machinery is certainly working hard both. i think, to prevent discussions about development, to keep people from organizing. but i think it will be in the, in the coming days and weeks when we're able to discern whether there is a pattern with respect, particularly to attention and charges. approaches to one side do have a problem where the way that china has handled it's that with a chinese approach to this pandemic. because where i was, we were hearing from a chinese spectacle a little earlier, who just compared the number of deaths in a massive country like china, with those in europe and the united states and justified it on the basis that we

have that few people have died as a result of these measures, right, i think from human rights perspective, particularly it has more effective health strategies have become available, for example, vaccines to continue pursuing such draconian measures a way of limiting infections. you know, and let's be clear. these are policies that have people lacking access to food. have people locked down and unable to access medical care for other conditions. have people locked in buildings that are on fire and can't leave this. and these are, these have been very strictly in public policies that have caused other human rights violations. and so the concern is not just about dealing with cove it, but doing so in a way that creates other violations, especially at a time when there are other strategies available to the authority to do. thank you

for joining us. sophie richardson from human rights watch as the war and ukraine and satellite images suggest russia may be gearing up for a massive aerial assault on ukraine. these pictures show almost 2 dozen long range bombers and cruise missiles being prepared for combat the angles to add a new out of touch or blast in russia, ukrainian military officials to local media. the bombers will be used to increase strikes on ground targets in ukraine, especially energy infrastructure like car respondent young. philip shots is in the ukranian capital and told us have prepared the country is for these expected strikes. well, the image is certainly come as no surprise to ukrainians on sunday. already information emerged that new messer for waves of attack might be imminent, actually eric alerts. so we're active here in keith and all over the country this

afternoon. bad sir, to my knowledge, or some airplanes, where spotted bud, sir, no, no strikes were registered. in the past weeks, the ukrainian air defense has been quite successful. it was able to intercept more than 2 thirds of all incoming missiles. but of course, the destructive power is still enormous and we have to keep in mind that ukraine is still suffering from the effects of their pastor and waves of attacks. they are still millions of people without power. still the government asked people not to panic and not to live in this constant anticipation of a new mess if attacks, because this is also part of the psychological warfare. right. and so how well equipped to our ukranian forces at the, at the moment to withstand such an assault looking at the message strikes up the past weeks. of course, the ukraine is in need of more air defense systems. so they have repeatedly set

this also at a nato meetings in the past 2 days and weeks. it is very important for them to have to receive for new air defense. it's part of for the russian strategy to exhaust the ukrainian air defense systems. but on the other hand, frontline battles are also continuing, so they have also been repeated so repeated calls for more tangs for more offensive for weapon systems. but at the moment, i think the biggest challenge for the ukrainians is to be prepared for those massive weights of missile. i take sent it to get more air defense and we see snow on the roost behind you. winter is obviously here. how are ukrainians that coping with that with winter conditions when though with less, less heat and power, they are still millions of people with all its power and snow power. also in very

many cases means no heating because in a lot of apartment buildings, the electricity is needed for the heating system to pump or hot water up. and also a lot of people rely on additional electric heaters. a government has set up a so called emergency sent us all over the country where 24 hour power is available . and so where people can also get a warm drink and, and to, to, to, to feel more comfortable. but it's, it's obvious that keeping the people warm is the biggest challenge here in the country at the moment. and he, and for a thank you for that yon, phillip shelton, keith. meanwhile, russia's foreign minister has criticized the organization for security and cooperation in europe. and it opens its annual meeting in poland without him. so gay lover of accused the se of being anti russian after host country poland banned him from attending the meeting. a watch opened with strong denunciations of

russia's war against ukraine. it's been one of the groups biggest challenges since it was created nearly 50 years ago as a forum to discuss security matters in your brain is also on the agenda. ad talks between nato secretary general. yes, dalton, bergen, german chancellor. all i've shown here a berlin, their joint press conference is due to start in the next half hour or so. i will try to bring that to you live me mo, a u. s. president joe biden as welcomed his french counterpart in manuel macro at to the white house. in the 1st formal state visit of mister biden's presidency. french president was greeted by a military army guard ahead of a lavish white house dinner at all. we'll focus on the war in ukraine with president macro also wants to discuss trade. used a press conference to attack a white house policy saying the u. s. policy of offering tax breaks and encourage

investments in u. s. companies green initiative was threatening the french economy. that coma let's get more from our correspondence in washington mckay. me shanna cook. no. welcome. michelle, at what we expect today. well, we just saw pictures of emmanuel, my cause official arrival at the white house for this 1st state visit by any foreign leader under the biden. ministration, so quite a special outing here in the white house pulling out all the stops. and both leaders emphasizing their historic role, their historic partnership, also particularly in the face of once again having arrived in europe and clearly symbolic speeches there with that much more detailed debate happening behind the scenes. the 2 leaders had dinner, also last night at a restaurant in georgetown at sea food restaurant. and it clearly already

a head to head has taken place on the more contentious issues, the nitty gritty, particularly of what do biden is terming the anti inflation investment. here in the united states, sold a broad as tackling climate change as significant investment. more than $350000000000.00 worth of for green technology, particularly relating to mobility. and this is where we saw emmanuel. my call this morning accused joe biden of having removed a level playing field for french and european companies that relations between washington and paris have been strained over recent months without any signs of those tensions. he has all that to come actually from a conflict, really a diplomatic route over the u. s. having cancelled the basic the submarines that

it had ordered in france and moved that order to australia. that was a multi 1000000000 euro deal and the french didn't take it very well. so both are recovering from that at the same time. this clearly signs that when do biden calls europe, he po, potentially cause a paris 1st angler, michael, is no longer there in mano my call. only 44 years old is one of the most seasoned european politicians, but they have a lot talk about there's already an speculation that there could be something like a trade stand off between the you and in the united states over this investment package that essentially is excluding european companies, well that's unless they move particularly their jobs to the united states. so yes, their partners, but they're a bit far from being economic allies at this moment. ok, thank you for that. to me. come here to christmas in washington. are let me take

you back to our previous story about the organization for security and cooperation in europe, or opening its annual meeting in poland without russia. so foreign minister, jerry schultz, is there for us. welcome terry. despite mr. love ros absence or russia is represented in a watch. so what's being said about russia today? that's right to russia is represented by its ambassador to the o. s. c. e. and certainly the issue of russia's war on ukraine absolutely dominated this meeting of 57 countries here in poland. country after country denounced moscow's actions, it's aggression against ukraine and pledged more support for keith. but foreign minister lever off may have been out of sight, but he was not out of mind as he gave a long rambling press conference at exactly the same time the meeting was getting under way. he trashed the organization, criticize the polish chairmanship of it,

and said that the o s e is basically under the control of the united states. but once again, the majority of the countries here, the vast majority, are firmly against russia. there's even discussion of, of whether russia should be kicked out of the organization despite their not being a mechanism to do that. so certainly here, sentiment was firmly against moscow. whatever lever may have been saying there, i'm that the foreign policy chief i chose that barrel has been saying that the plan is to make russia pay for the reconstruction of ukraine. how are they planning to do that? that's right, foreign policy. she's burrell brought up those issues here at the o. s. c e, and said he would be discussing them with partners here. and there are some creative ways that you is looking at, making russia pay for what is done in ukraine as it, as it reiterates all the time. for example, there are some 20000000000 euros in assets that have been frozen assets of oligarchs have been put on russia's black list. there's also some 300000000000

euros of assets that the russian bank has. they can't use right now. and so one of the ways that the u, as is thinking it could get money from russia to keep at the moment without any, any other legal mechanisms to do it, is by investing the russian money and using the interest to give it to keith. there are other ways that had plans to work on long term to do that, and one of them is, of course, paying war reparations after the war is over. but at the moment, they are very much looking for practical ways to get money to keep from moscow quickly. what else is on the agenda that which is a, presumably, it's not all about russia and ukraine. it's not all about russia and ukraine, but as i mentioned, that's absolutely dominating the meeting. you know, a speaker after speaker the foreign ministers are having to, to basically address the questions of whether the o s. c, e is a viable and effective organization because it operates by consensus. that means that in this case, russia or one of its allies beller, ruth, or,

or any other country on another issue, can block the organization for moving forward. for example, at the moment, moscow is blocking the 2024 budget and blocking the next chairmanship which would be held by estonia. so there's a lot of talk about about how the organization can be effective if it's running on consensus. but in, in general, the sentiment is that despite the difficulties it's undergoing now, there is still value in having $57.00 countries including russia. sit around the table. so, so for now there's a lot of support for the o. s. c, e in general. ok, thank you. terry terry schultz at b o. i c meeting in poland as lucas all stores making news around the world will start in spain or security at public buildings and embassies has been stepped up after a spite of letter. bombs, devices was sent to targets including the spanish prime minister, petra sanchez, and the ukranian embassy. according to the interior ministry. similar packages were

also sent to a spanish arms firm and an air force base. the court in mozambique has begun hunting down verdicts in the country's biggest corruption scandal. if i didn't include the son of a former president, he and 18 others, you state owned companies to illicitly borrow $2000000000.00 from international banks, triggering a default and currency collapse. $500000000.00 remain accounted for. hundreds of people have taken to the streets of to raise capital mikaela and sport of a recent cease fire with the ethiopian government. on $200.00 children performed as part of the p for all carnival schools. integrate have been closed for almost 2 years, and many hope the see. so i will mean they can reopen today is world aids day, but with world wide efforts to battle, the corona virus pandemic, there's been much less of a focus on h. i. v aids the un estimates that last year around $38.00 and

a half 1000000 people around the world. we're living with h i v aids. and although it's claiming a fewer lives than it did at its peak in 2004, 650000 people, died of h i v related courses last year. there's still no vaccine that makes preventative measures to avoid infection. even more important. africa has the highest number of people living with the virus and address crease reports now from cape town in south africa. when it's hope the trials for new preventative methods will drive 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. so my family generation to generation it's, they do have their age of a positive. so i came here to take prem because i wanna, i don't want to be that puddle function. that is, he driving 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 testing a 6 monthly prophylactic injectable, known as lemme capital. 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 to recall 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 that, the book is, is finished. and, 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 2 years could be lost. if we don't actually finish the story. then came up of been guar. 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 daily peel because they're not sick. i think it's to get people more and catered 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. ah, i woke up in katara every teeming group see, had a chance of advancing to the knockout stages. despite leonor massey missing a penalty, argentina managed to beat poland. alexis mcallister had some luck with the 1st goal . his shot went off his foot on to re shit against the post and then into the go. julian al virus that made it to nil later in the 2nd half. and that's how the game

ended argentina with the group and poland qualify as well. despite their defeat after saudi arabia, beat mexico. i'm via the told him as you saying, high numbers are female fans inside stadiums. and that before, and arab women from katara, saudi arabia, morocco, in tunisia, of attended in bigger numbers than expected a tom, an image as chris has broadcom, women from all over the at afford celebrating 15 and attending games in big numbers was the bottom. and then the value women are going to games. now i've lived in cut off her 28 years and i've always gone to watch football. i support the local club around coffee and my culture is moroccan. we're supporting the national team as a national duty. we all should be in the stadium to cheer for our team because that gives the motivation as well as the fears. and once i had my nightmare, we come from a conservative country. some families don't accept women going to stadiums while

other families don't have a problem with it. today i came with my colleagues and it's totally fine. my say i would be adding many out of women like me of what is going to say deals 4 feet of sexual harassment. however, at this was going to increase security diversity and one woman previously. nowadays there are no restrictions on women attending football matches in the out of port, but that are cultural differences. moral can woman have long attended matches while saudi arabia only lifted their ban on fema supporters. 4 years ago, miranda women now have the same rights as men, stadiums, and cinnamon avenue. our stadiums are open for everyone. football has been in saudi arabia for many years, but this world cup made all of us super excited that are a lot of new things. a 1000 woke up and at a woman and embracing the experience israelite of our

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