we don't do something our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. use with this week on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. there's a now the huge shock of the world cup in guitar, germany on out how many flicks men finally got a wind beats in costa rica, but it's not enough to stop them heading home at the group stage for the 2nd consecutive time. fans are now coming to grips with

a disappointment. i can't describe as like empty. they're like 30 minutes. so just looking him up on hold. being old, being spain was gone, but unfortunately not on that i'm going to absorbs and also on the program. deadly fire sparks, a wave of protest across china. did people die because of the stringent cove? it looked down measures chinese authorities, issue broad denials, t w's investigative team. find evidence that suggests otherwise. ah, i manual cubes, makennan. welcome to the program. we starts with football and germany are out of the world cup and guitar despite beating coast to reach of forced to in a thrilling game. germany took the lead than lost at ben retook it,

but it was cold comfort as their fate was decided on another pitch costa rica and germany lined up for one last chance to move out of the group phase. as stephanie for pub became the 1st woman to referee amends, world cup match, gemini, played the 1st half, swarming forward and got the games 1st. go on 10 minutes through surge. can every one mill late was days past half time, but they soon came to regret not having more on 58 minutes. yeltsin tahita put costa rica on level terms, the underdogs and their fans riding an unexpected emotional high and soon on cloud 9. when the ball was squeezed, past germany, goalkeeper men will know it. as costa rica took the lead, was out have bade limit the l. betty stadium the 70 costa rica read the place in the last 16. germany settled down though, and struck back another 3 times. at the atmosphere fell flat as would spread,

the japan were beating spain. the wind was in vain, and germany a hitting hm. and he is how that result went down, the german fans who followed their team all the way to tar. i can't describe, i feel nothing. it's like empty there. last 30 minutes. i was just looking him up on hoping, opening spain with score but unfortunately not i'm and i'm gutted. i'm so very disappointed. jeremy. it was a great game. so dramatic. i were very disappointed that jeremy's out again, it was video, nice of you know, speed actually obvious. if you said florida fears hot breaking cast companies to 10 is heartbreaking as of right now. but you can compare this to time it or not, but i need to go look at us. we are coming and coming and always going home early advertise did her is horrible. you know, germany, i can't deny that. so the country like germany, football county, like jimmy, can't be losing 2 times in a row, and i need a round of strong

w. d. w. sports correspondent jonathan harding has been covering the jan, the national team, his his assessment is that well cut performance? not solid disaster. i don't really know how better to explain it, but we saw in 2018 was bad enough. we thought that was probably the worst it was going to get there was time to improve and last summer, the years. but this really takes the biscuit as i say, i can think of a worse situation for germany supposed to be and you know, back to back well cups where they've gone out in a group stages. this is germany is a full time well cup when they find themselves in the situation. embarrassed, going home again despite having one and ultimately is because they left it out of their own hands. you have to control your own destiny. it's almost like this. and germany pay the price, but not doing that until playing bad football. i key times well, an inquest will follow and i could probably write a dissertation about how many problems have been on display here for germany. i think you've got to look at the structural issues in youth football, not producing

a number 9 nicholas folk who played a role here. sort of pops that a big one. you've got issues in certain positions as well, such as wing backs. that's been a major issue for germany of the recent years ever since i retired. so there are issues on the field. there are issues off the field, the dfi and their approach in recent years has been arrogant, not really connecting. think about the fact that germany have had that base come here in the north of the country completely far away from everybody else. isolated, you might say, so there are a number of issues, but the bottom line is that germany is just not very good and they haven't produced good enough players in certain positions for a long time. and that's why the rounds of another welcome t w's jonathan harding. they're now in china. covered restrictions are easing in some cities where the virus is still spreading. now this is a mark shift away from the countries 0 cove policy. after days of rad, nationwide, protests, public anger erupt. id after word, spread of a deadly apartment. fire in jang province. room is quickly spread that covert

locked downs were to blame. now it's an allegation, the authorities refutes t w's investigative team has more. oh, the fire started on the evening of the 24th of november in a room chief, the capital of singeing province. most of the people living in the building are wiggers and muslim minority, long oppressed by chinese authorities. that night, 10 people died in the blaze. t w's investigative unit analyzed dozens of photos and videos to try to figure out what happened. we also talked to several sources who had had the rare opportunity of hearing from eyewitnesses. it's almost impossible to get reliable information from the ground, just contacting someone who lives abroad is enough to get you thrown into jail. but for a very brief period of time, relatives abroad were able to contact their loved ones back in the room. she and the other people we talked to. we located the 21 story building in this

neighborhood. while we identified 3 vehicle access points, sources told us that at least 2 were blocked, most likely to better monitor their residence. every move on the night of the fire, those road blocks prevented emergency vehicles from getting closer to the burning building. firefighters were reduced to trying to operate from the road. as you can see here, the water barely reached the flame. but with that, the only reason why so many people died shortly after the fire these videos flooded . social media lay claim to show doors filled shot by local authorities as part of the country 0 cove with policy where the residence locked in the building. it's an allegation that official to refuted at a press conference show chip of 100 years. laquon bonner with no doors were locked with wise in this community. law the all the doors of all the flats and the front doors were open. i am jewelry from the pictures of doors sealed with wires posted

on the internet. both are malicious forgery and false. b, u r g m o u pin's u. but that's not what our source is. say. they tell us that their relative living in the building told them some doors were in fact locked from the outside, were not identifying them for their own safety. her look of the like, is leon. a person in the house was co repository if they would lock the door from the outside. that's why some of the doors in the house were sealed shut. then when the fire started, the electricity was cut off. so people were stuck on because the elevators didn't work and the fire escape was locked as well. they couldn't get out because those are my while you either let me go over our investigation suggests people's anger may be justified. what we found, throws reasonable doubt on the authorities version of events. and 2 days after the fire room chill, 30 said they'd loosened some restrictions that by this time protests had already

spread to other chinese cities. as get more from jealous fabi and fetched man who is in beijing fabi and we've just heard there about barricaded doors blocked off streets based on your reporting and how the chinese authorities have been forced there. 0 covey policies. what, what more can you tell us about these allegations? well i've been percy also in a current in hotel where the fire exit was either blocked or you know, and with heavy objects or literally locked with her with her with a lock and to be no from residence in shanghai and also other cities that am doing a lockdown, they also found they are on the door to their house, are locked with an iron lock. i mean, this is kind of plausible. i don't know exactly what's happened in odom. she but this tragedy, i think, can only be understood under the context of a lockdown. and am, i mean, in this a residential compound,

the majority of residents, are we good and, and they've been, even before the pandemic are living in, in a, in a very controlled environment or with a lot of police checks m, intimidation by authorities and restrictions of movement so i could guess that many people a dream, those locked downs would have also been very intimidated to got go out even though they could have physically gone out. i think that i could have also played a role. so again, i don't know exactly what has happened, but am the lock downs have in the past definitely played a role of with those tragedies. and there were also many documented cases that m rescue workers could not reach on time to some compounds because of your fences. ok, now the chinese government is now signaling and easing of its coded restrictions when at i wanted sinless. that for the beginning of this year, abandoned it, sir. okay, that policy there was surgeon k that cases and death. so how worried is beijing now that something similar might happen in china?

yeah, definitely for it. i mean, the steps that you can see here, they are m very significant or within the chinese context, but i mean, they're still small steps, but i can see it on the ground here, there to, for example, and begging. i know of several cases of people who got infected with corbett, there were not transfer to a current incentives anymore. they were allowed to isolate at home. and it's not the praxis see anymore that the whole building skit are sealed off, but only am, you know, maybe the same floor. i mean, it was, it's, it's really an easing of measures. but and i think the government will be very cautious not to east too quickly because or we know that the vaccination rate among the elderly, especially the people over 8, he is really not high enough. the booster rate is only 40 percent for those 80 years or older and also the number of emergency beds in hospitals in um, international comparison is also not very high. so i think there are huge problems for the health system. if there's a really and a drastic increase of corporate cases and are so far today, we could see

a slight increase. but i mean, if those evenings are further implemented to allison, other parts of the country, then of course, the numbers will go up and probably will go up fast as a precarious situation for the chinese government fad encroachment in beijing. thank you. a ukraine's military says russia has pulled some of its troops back from the front lines near the southern city of her son. but keith official said thursday, but 2 civilians were killed by continued shelling of the area. they also warned that a russian aerial assault is being planned, which could worsen shortages of water electricity, and he sang across ukraine. d. w. young phillips shouts visited to towns in the countries east. there were people who, who he operated on the injured down here and he helped women give birth at times. surgeon, rudy couldn't yourself was the only doctor left as is you and was under heavy fire

. he wasn't charge of everything. this is upstairs, patients still arrive and medical staff have reclaimed some of the less damaged rooms. but the coming months are wary. linda zamora, good, good. we've got to survive the winter period. now. modern, we've got to somehow maintain our medical care at a higher level during that time or more the new way. unfortunately, we cannot rely on the hospitals, centralized heating system anymore and that amazon, but we've started to buy electric heaters with normally do it. at least an easier the attacks are already weeks old. it's a different story and coupons around 40 kilometers north. several people who were hurt by artillery fire. the morning we've visited. this is where they would normally go and attack ruined the local police clinic just a few days before the injured have to leave town. yet the head doctor shows us what

is left off his hawkers, provided we have had johnwooten then wasn't there simply no excuse for this said i, it looks like they want to destroy the civilian population. there is never been military personnel at the poly clinic, only civilians, no one. maybe we just provided medical treatment to normal people in need of well as movie some of the homo workers, lots of in them, wrote down them, hewing at one of the few 80 amps in the town that still works. those normal people see their home being destroyed around them and that the temperature draw cushion been recorded partition every day. when you leave your home, you see new devastation. and this was such a flourishing city. once i get no room, what's of my village of time had a very nice medical center, but it doesn't work anymore, but sometimes doctors visit them, but we don't have any doctors of our in any more literature, dr. sinclair says he's looking for a place to set up a temporary clinic,

but he says the russians didn't just damage that building viet blue, the keeper of the people who work in our medical facility have to come under fire 3 times. now, imagine a 3 time, frankly, people are frightened over so on the grounds, russian destruction of civilian infrastructure fields increasingly like a strategy for the people living here. the other front could become a met her off life or death and actually have time for business. news is up next. i many cubes, mckinnon. i'll see you again at the top, the out. i pulled stories that people the world over at d, w on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch and follow us with in many countries educate.