the 77 percent every weekend on d. w. the world cup in guitar. i feel important tim version important because we are here for you with the report and background information about football figures. everything you need about the 2022 world cup on d w a shina has wrestled nonstop with the corona virus for 3 years. unable to gain the upper hand vaccines quarantined 0 coven policy. none of it produced the results. the beijing wanted to see, and then the public's patience broke. after a week of nationwide protests,

the government is now signaling major changes 0 cove. it could be history in just a few months. did it take levels of public anger, reminiscent, a piano mon square to move the needle to night and china's tone deaf president. if you want to be heard, you'll need to shout. i'm broke off in berlin. this is the day. ah! the facts have proven that china's epidemic prevention and control a scientific correct and effective. we don't believe the 0 call it policy is based on signs yield on who's in finance. 3 years, the chinese government has been putting the health, the safety and lives of its people 1st and its epidemic response to prove that you don't lot of people up in their homes and not giving them sufficient medicinal care

food. ginger, we have been adjusting and improving october 19 protocols in light of the development of the situation. like i said, there's a lot that the government should be doing, but number one is just give everybody basic human rights. also coming up, the united nations is bracing for unprecedented crises around the world next year. it's asking for more than $50000000000.00 just to keep up with request for humanitarian aid. who will write that check. we're talking about humanitarian assistance to 339000000 people. so it's, it's a, it's a phenomenal. it's a phenomenal number and it's a depressing number which are of you was watching on p b. s. in the united states, into all of you around the world, welcome. we begin the day with china's absolutist approach to the corona virus pandemic. the policy is known as 0. coven is self explanatory. no tolerance for

anything less. the past week, the nation wide protests, the police have startled and strong response. they tell us that this absolute is approach has problems and it is not only in public health. consider the absolute power of president. she's in pink, china's most powerful leader ever appears to have some serious blind spots. he is able to push through his agendas such as 0 cove it. yet he seems unable to read the room to receive feedback, to get an honest answer to the question. is this policy working ah, lustration boiling over in going joe and scuffles with cove workers in shanghai rare public displays of anger with chinese strict coban 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 the 1st feeling that came to my mind when i read the news very incredible port passed across china. was the spirit of 1989 has come. a key in beijing responded by unleashing a fears, crackdown, deploying huge numbers of police to stamp out the demonstrations, but it is also signal changes to the strict cobra policies that have angered so many of the lead on wednesday advice premier 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 phone call . inquiring 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 cobit room 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 will have this wave of public frustration is it forced the government's hand for the chinese perspective. we spoke to victor galloway, former government official,

and currently vice president of the beijing base thinktank center for china and globalization. first of all, there have been changes to the original version of the dynamic 0 cove in policy ever since the end of october. however, you may know for sure that moving from the original version of the a dynamic, a 0 covey policy to the new version is, 1st of all, all sudden. and secondly is very risky. moving from one version to the new version is actually a very dangerous period of time. and the government has been very cautious in moving from one version to the new version. and therefore, the protests you talk about are very unfortunate things because they do not know that the transition has already started from the end of october. and the reason why the transition needs to be handled very cautiously is because if you do not handle

it cautiously in the transitional period, there may be massive amount of people who may be infected and a very large number of people who may die. therefore, i think we need to proceed forward with great caution and we need to move in the same direction rather than for example, a kid he agitated and lose control of the situation. or i want to bring in now eric fargo doing he's an epidemiologist and co founder of the world health network is good to see you again. eric, let me get your take on what we just heard. is it true if they start lifting restrictions, they could open the floodgates to more coven 19 cases? yeah, thanks helping me back. that is very real risk because we've seen it again in hong kong in taiwan. both those countries used to be absolute 0. and when they loosened it, as we know, hong kong had a huge hospitalization and mortality wave in the spring with the b 2 and tie,

one also saw a huge or wave of opposition. and so we have to be very careful. and we know that mainland china is actually less vaccinated then on congress high one. so the other thing is china, you know, they are really of actually, but they have a few other things up their sleeve. they were trying to have the know the country has right now using hailed nebulizer back. see that vaccine is not just the naval vaccine, but you actually hail it in the mucosal vaccine as much higher efficacy in some of the early studies than any other vaccine m. r n, a astrazeneca or whatever. so i think i think this in china is relying on it and i did their changes dynamic coated risk. so i think there is things changing in there are lifting airline guidelines. so i didn't,

china is trying to loosen it. and while the rolling out the new generation of vaccines, so it changes of how they're going to do it. i'm just asking that if they've got this, this, this nasal spray that works even better than the vaccine, if they've got that, didn't, shouldn't it give them even more certainty as they lift these restrictions that they aren't, you know, giving a free pass to a new wave of infections, i mean they've got the tools to protect the people. yes. so i think that's what i'm saying. like china is in this transition period. they're not going to stay absolute 0. and by the way, 0, cobra was never, always locked out. you can have, this is a total misinformation. i wanna clear you can have 0 code with combination of mass testing, tracing vaccination and ventilation air disinfection strategies. it's not equal to locked out and trying to is relaxing airline flights. people from international oh, who are not chinese or working, trying to can actually come to china and but the thing is that the,

the new vaccine. well it's not just the needle, it's an inhaler. so it's like a nebulizer for asthma. yeah. they are rolling it out, but they haven't rolled it out enough. so they're doing is we weird in between time where they want to ramp up soon and reopen as much as they can. but they haven't gotten to that part where they are coffee enough to do that since they haven't rolled out this new in nasal, this inhaled nebulizer vaccine yet. well, i think they were trying to is that because of some huge changes when you look at the rest of the world, where we have not had a 0 coven policy, and compare it to where we are right now. to where china is right now, would you say that the medical merit of this policy has withstood the, the test of time? there are many ways to look china's per capita mortality and excess mortality. not just a coven. what a s want to tell the is so much lower than all western countries,

all latin american countries. you know, if china had adopted the same strategies and had the same per capita, deaths and hospitalization, china easily would have $5000000.00 or more depths. but the china has a boy that trend is in, it's probably just a couple of $110000.00. so i think it is a miracle myself. but of course, there's the economic trade off in how it's obviously boiling service. but with this new generation of vaccines are people not, not in my know, the, there are mass inoculating with new generation vaccines in terms basically it's like the space race in terms of where they are in terms of the exact same technology. you know, the west right now is still on the rocket platform, not even taking off what trends already in the next generation of these new inhaled vaccine. that's where in the next year, you're really going to see the difference. so going to china is going to have both

worlds. so are you, are you saying that right now, for example, the situation we have here in europe or what i just saw in the united states, where the numbers are low people are, are beginning to forget about the pandemic? are you saying a year from now? they're going to be dealing with higher numbers. well, the chinese will have this, this better, the preventive that you have resources and they're going to be in a better position. is that what you're saying? it's going to be like a year from now. i think, i think so, because you know, china also hasn't suffered couple 100000000 long as debilitated their population turn the cardiovascular, you know, cognitive dementia, early risk in other, you know, risk in terms of, you know, compromising effects of cobit trying to avoid it. a couple 100000000 people we have to deal with that while the west have to deal with that. so in terms of workforce, you know, i think there's gonna be a huge difference. now the question is kim us in europe. ketchup, i hope they can, but we need to really,

really double down on the new generation of vaccines. yeah. well, i hope, a year from now we're, we're not talking about increases in cases anywhere on the planet. that would be the best way to come out of this area faculty. it's always we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. the world humanitarian response system is being tested to its limits. that is the morning coming from the united nations to night. as it launches the largest appeal for aid funding in its history, the u. n. c. mandatory office is asking for a record 51500000000 dollars for 2023 as multiple crises and the ongoing war and ukraine keep driving up the need for assistance. the winds global humanitarian overview, says 339000000 people will need humanitarian aid next year. that is 4 percent of the world's population. i let that sink in the u. s. a chief says for so many

people on the break, this appeal is a lifelong so the next year is going to be the biggest humanitarian program in the world. the gap is because of the means, not because of the funding and the needs are going up because we've been smitten by the war in ukraine by cove. it by climate. and i fear that 2023 is going to be a, an acceleration of all those trends. and that's why we say in this report and generally that we hope 2023 will be solidarity. justice 2022 has been a year of suffering. i want to paula now alexandra cy, she's head of humanitarian policy advocacy. i'd save the children, she joins me tonight from washington. it's good to have you with. yeah. what we just heard. they're not very up lifting a record number of people in need of aid. a record appeal for aid funding more than $50000000000.00. the u. when's aid chief martin griffith calling it

a depressing number. does it depression as well? it's it's awful. i mean, the global humanitarian plan has shown that 2023 is on record to be the bleakest year ever in regards to humanitarian needs. for 339000000 people, that's one in every 23 persons on the planet need humanitarian assistance simply to survive simply to survive. and this is due to a convergence of crazy. as you mentioned, we have grinding conflict in many parts of the world. we have a deadly climate crisis which is fueling drought in places like somalia flooding in places like pakistan. we have rising how epidemics, there are places in the middle east where cholera was previously under control. and now we're seeing outbreaks. and then of course, you can't underestimate the, the aftermath of covet 19, the impact that, that's had on economic systems and the disruption to economic systems. and all of this has caused record levels of hunger record levels of displacement and worsening

poverty. driving enormous needs on the ground and with high inflation, an energy cost food cos, the the price drag for provided unitary and aid is skyrocketing. how was that impacting aid organizations such as yours? well, it's impacting 8 organizations, like save the children and others because it's so difficult to keep up with the needs. as you mentioned, there are, there is a massive got betweens, humanitarian needs and the resources available to respond to those needs. so the system is completely overstretched. we're responding to older crises like syria, a war sitting crises like afghanistan, new crises, yet mem, in ukraine, which is, has just a teary date. it has to tear rated and has really overstretched. the system like never before. so we need to respond differently. we need to respond early. we know that it would,

that responding in anticipation of crisis is what helps people get through it. and it is ultimately what saves lives. we can't let a warning signs of food shortages and risk of famine be ignored. we need collective action, we need it to happen now, and we can't, can't afford to wait. we need assistance to get que frontline aid workers that are on the ground with the acceptance and the access in communities to respond quickly . and we need this to happen immediately. but you know, also i had the gretchen, we're already ignoring it. we've been ignoring it last year the you and collected less than half of its target amount. and that's a massive funding gap. so clearly the system is not keeping pace with what these global emergencies actually cost and what they demand. i'm wondering where is the capacity then for even more to be provided, when we can't even keep up with what we need right now, you're absolutely right. and this is why we're also,

in addition to advocating for more assistance, we're also asking for more humanitarian diplomacy to end these crises. that's ultimately what's going to help protect children. that's gonna what's gonna be what help protect helps protect civilians. that's going to be what provide some sustained services. it's not just funding, it's not just assistance. we need governments to muster up the political will to find solutions. well, let me ask you something. let me, let me ask about the money. i mean, because we know that the u. s. provides about half of the you and budget, and there will be a lot of talk there about whether or not the americans are going to provide more. but do you see other sources around the world of money that have not been tapped to be there are countries that have huge sovereign wealth fonts. i mean, they would never even miss it if they finance the you win for the next decade. do you see those countries stepping up to the point? i think they need to step up to the plate we, there's no, there's no other option. if we want to avert further deaths for their crises,

they need to step up to the plate. we need to see governments provide their fair share in terms of assistance and, and, and it needs to happen immediately. i mean, there's no other option at the moment. it's all hands on deck, or else we're gonna see i've even bleaker 2024. yeah, i mean it's, it's, it's hard to look at these numbers already and imagine that things could get even worse, only vendor. we appreciate your time and your insights in the work that you do it's, it's valuable. thank you. thank you so much. and remember, if you cannot be conscious, why you can always watch today's edition on demand on line. just go to our website at d. w dot com slash the dew. aah! ukraine's battle to fight all for russian invaders has been fought with a lot of western aid. by far, most of the military support for the government. keith has come from the united states and at times, during the 9 months the german government has faced accusations of reluctance and

foot dragging when it comes to backing you crank. that criticism largely ignores what germany has done in the past 9 months when it comes to humanitarian and financial help. here's nato secretary general general secretary, yen stockton beg, speaking in berlin today. and i commend that german m for its leading role jam name is among the alice providing most military financial on minutes had an 8 to ukraine, military equipment provided by german that protects ukrainian homes. schools and hospitals from russian missile attacks. german arm deliver is saved lives and they don laws are determined to sustain our support so that ukraine pervades as a sovereign independent states. at this defining moment for you to pin

security, germany's leadership is crucial that off your speech, the bonus dog in february was historic. it was truly a turning point with the site and then the german has stepped up like, never before in support of ukraine on, in the fence of your natal, alice or this bringing our political correspondent, simon young. i'm, let's talk about what we just saw and heard there. i mean, it's not a surprise that stockton bag had good words to say about the man standing next to him. dear olaf, but this was a strident support for a government that's often accused of dragging his feet on. you crated that. how did you read that? yeah, that's true. but having some of the, some of the nato countries have pointed the finger at germany, said it's not moving quickly enough. dragging its feet, they've been skeptical about whether it will keep the promises that it has made.

but here was the nato secretary general in berlin, as you say, giving full some support to germany as a, as a key donor of military material and other kinds of help to ukraine. and both men were totally focused. they say on support for ukraine, while not allowing nato to get dragged in to become a party to this conflict. so yet still, but very impressed with the announcements of a 100000000000 for defense spending to get it to where some of the other nato countries are and picking up that turns tightened vendor. what no love shows said at the beginning of this year at the beginning of the war was a change in thinking as sort of a pocket change in germany's defense stones. so all of that is that shows himself says, you know, we're moving as quickly as we can to change things. but on the other hand,

there are things like the a deal to buy f 35, fight the bombers from the united states. that's been agreed. but it hasn't actually been signed off yet, so people are saying, you know, why does everything move so slow. but it is interesting to that, back the head of a given more than 400000000 years worth of humanitarian assistance. and that, of course, is needed even more urgently than it has been during the coming colder winter months. germany is given or pledged more than a 100000000 years worth of medical material and supplies and medicines indeed. also things like radios and generators, which are much needed. and they've also also provided more than a 1000000000 euros in direct financial assistance to ukraine to keep the public administration running. although there has been criticism there too, that germany hasn't done enough at european level at your level to make sure that

the pledges of money also go through. i think you could also mention the fact that jim, these taken in more than 800000 ukranian refugees germany has done a lot of, but the question is, could they pack do more? and, you know, we were talking about weapons. germany has supplied weapons but ammunition supplies and maintenance or ongoing issues. what was said about that today? well, that's right, maintenance and also ammunition because so the 2 ladies pointing out the, you know, it's been a lot of calls for more weapon systems to be sent to ukraine, but there's no point in sending them if you can also send the ammunition. and this is one of the problems as schoultz is admitted in the past, germany has neglected its defense spending. 8 is been moving in the wrong direction . he said, now that's changing. now they're spending more money and they're in talks with many of the key weapons manufacturers,

many of whom are located here in germany. so there's a way to get to more material, but it's got to be ordered. it's got to be manufactured, it's going to be st. there's no point in sending weapon systems that haven't been fully supplied and i'm calling to be maintained of good 15 seconds. i mean, yes or no, the patriot missile systems going to ukraine. you think that that's going to happen with germany helping it? well, it's something that key of his continue to call for presidency lead. sky says, you know, we need the systems that's really going to make a difference in the war. i think nato, germany and other countries are worried that if you provide a system like that, which may need nato troops to actually operate it. and you put those on the ukranian. so that will be interpreted by russia as an escalation. and that wouldn't be a good thing. no, it would not farming young is always i'm and thank you for the day's almost done the conversation that continues online. you'll find us on twitter either at dw news,

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