ah, ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live at from berlin. heavy fighting near bok mode in the east of ukraine is taking its toll on the city is defenders. but russia has gained a little. if anything, many of its troops, there are now prisoners of war and the united nations is investigating

a possible war cry also coming up tonight, the world health organization says that china is on the right track. now that the country is loosening its 0 tolerance, coven pulse of the chinese government is still per persecuting to protesters who opposed the restrictions and a south african parliamentary inquiry defines that president, rom, of hosa may have broken the law. many expect him to resign. the his supporters are urging him to stay on and another world cup shocked by an asian team. south korea last minute, winner against portugal seized him qualify for the last 16 and put your wife out of the tournament. ah, i'm brink off. it's good to have you with this on this friday. fighting is raging in the east of ukraine with the town of voc moved the main target of russian

artillery attacks, ukraine's army. they're struggling defend off the fighting and field hospitals are filled with injured people. meanwhile, the united nations commission is in the country, collecting evidence for an inquiry into possible war cross a field hospital near buck mote in eastern ukraine. russian forces are attacking the city relentlessly, exacting a heavy toll in its defenders. but the russian army is also losing men, many of which end up as prisoners of war, like these po, w's held in a facility in western ukraine. one of the prisoners agreed to speak about being drafted into the army and sent to fight. yet shasky maple granular feel at 1st they told us we were being sent to a military exercise and they told us many things. it was all rumors what none of us

knew that we were being sent to the front when we had him, even on the line. some of the prisoners are being investigated for war crimes. a united nation commission is working to collect evidence on as many cases as possible were crimes with respect to personally integrity violations. and so she weapons detention sheesh to load a sions in just 2 minutes you. most of them put in hath show no remorse for the crimes committed in his name. instead, he called on german chancellor, olaf shots to rethink his ukraine policy in a phone call. i'd want to go now to kiva corresponded john phillip sholtes. he's there forrest good. even to you, young philip, had there been any reactions to this phone call between potent and the german chancellor? i haven't seen many reactions. i haven't,

i've heard only one comment or that nothing new emerged tro from the conversation solids underlined that any diplomatic solution has to include a withdrawal of troops put in a blame the westfall prolonging the war. i think if any thing after this phone call ukraine sees that 3rd position confirmed that at the moment. so there is no room for negotiations. and this comes, of course, as much of the gum tree, the, or almost the entire country suffering from shortages of electricity, water and heating. how can the ukrainian government help it citizens right now? i mean, can do to help them at all. it has set up around 1000 emergency, sent us in the past days in these centers, people can get free electricity, they can get free eating, they can even get them

a basic medical services. and also it's quite impressive how fast technicians have been able to repair damaged infrastructure, but of course, with every attack it gets more difficult to repair this infrastructure. that is certain. so the ukranian government is also trying to upgrade its air defense systems so that it can intercept more missiles that said a trying to target for the human 1st from the treatment. for me it's impossible to just keep rebuilding infrastructure over and over again. and of course we've got the winter that is just now beginning, and i'm wondering if all of this put together, if it is, you know, becoming almost too much for the ukrainian government, are there are there signs that there may be increasing interest in pursuing a cease fire it's for sure that the concerns regarding the winter you, it's almost every day the,

the government has warning people about possible you a text. and it's, it's asking the people to get ready for more power cuts for very difficult times. but at the same time, it's keeping up, it's iron will to, to windless war by military means and not to seek any kind of ceasefire. and i think it's also the position of the big majority of ukrainians. they want to wind us while they don't want to given and they think that they can somehow survive this winter. all right, so very young, philip jolts with the latest tonight from key. thank you. and out to the energy crisis connected to this war to the european union countries agreed to cap the price of russian oil exports at $60.00 a barrel. now the hope here is that this will limit the revenue that russia makes from oil exports. and that money, of course,

has been used to fund the war in ukraine, the president of the european commission. ursula on the lion to the explain the idea behind this price care. this price cap has 3 objectives. first, it strengthens the effect of our sanction. second, it will further diminish, rush us revenues. and thirdly, at the same time, it will stabilize global energy markets. because it allows some russian seaborne oil to be traded, brokerage transported by e u operators to set countries as long as it is sold below the cap. so this price cap will benefit directly emerging and developing economies. and it will be adjustable over time so that we can react to market developments. artless fill in our correspondent jack pair. he is in brussels. he's been covering this forest. good evening to you, jack. it looks good on paper. i'm just wondering in the practice though,

if this is going to work, how is it supposed to work this price get or this is really the big question is how enforceable this will be. but the, i think that feeling pretty proud of themselves. the european union countries to manage to get an agreement on this. the idea is that this is a sort of global a what they say global. but really a western push to pack the price on gas. essentially, a lot of european, specifically, companies and countries are involved in the shipping of gas, especially greece, cyprus and malta. and essentially night, those shipping companies in the insurance companies that ensure the ship that transport russian oil can only do so if it's capped at the price of $60.00 a barrel. and ensures that developing countries still have access to the energy that they need from russia. you can't simply skew an entire market a global market immediately. but what they want to do is cap those prices to try limit the amount of money that russia is earning from their sales of oils.

therefore, trying to limit the ability they have to continue to wage the war and ukraine and, and there were some e u countries, which is poland, who wanted this price camp to be even lower than, than 60 dollars, but was 60, the lowest that they could all agree on yeah, that's right. there's been a bit of doing a frame with her the perhaps it could have gone down. this is that some countries, including po, might have suggested that somewhere in the region of $3035.00 a barrel, which would be my a massive method cuffed in the price on models is already that there's been doing and throwing those countries that i mentioned, cypress increase etc, was suggesting somewhere in the $7075.00 a barrel. but in the end they've managed to land on this $60.00 per barrel. the big question was, what got it over the line? and it seems that that was a decision or an agreement by the other countries at the insistence of poland, which was the last country holding aids. then i start negotiations on a 9th round of sack sanctions against russia for the war in ukraine. it, let's talk you about the e. u aid for ukraine. today we heard that hungary prime minister, victor, or bon,

he plans to veto the european union's latest multi 1000000000 euro aid package for ukraine. what is his beef with this? yeah, that's right. and perhaps they've managed to get one agreement over the line or no price gap, but that doesn't mean that the countries as a source of that the other issues, essentially the european commission, has proposed raising money on international markets like it did with the coverage recovery funds in order to support ukraine's infrastructure project to rebuild ukraine and support them financially to the tune of somewhere in the region of $18000000000.00 euros 9. the hungarian simply say that you country should not get indebted in order to try and support ukraine. they think it should come out of the use existing budgets, but as difficult because most of those budgets already ascribed to particular projects or other things that, that you need to do it. as i say, we managed to get the they what they've managed to get the oil pipe price cap over

the line, but they're still big battle on that recovery fund. he's always jack beard with the ladies tonight in brussels. jack, as always, thank you. and his look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. a former high school teacher in australia who became the subject of a popular true crime podcast has been jailed for 24 years. so christopher dawson was jailed for murdering his wife. 40 years ago, the 2018 podcast shed light on the cold case and prompted police to reopen their investigation. women in iran insist on baluchistan province joint nationwide anti regime protests. and what is called a rare move in the staunchly conservative sunni muslim province. iran has been walked by for approaches since the death in custody of gina masa. a mean it's a virus strategy. chinese authorities have announced the new changes in the wake of

nationwide protests against these covered rules or justice have also been demanding more political freedom in the country of war. now we want to bring in sarah cook. she is research director for china at freedom house, a non governmental organization aimed at defending human rights and promoting democratic change. it's good to have you with us this evening, this loosening of this 0 coven policy? does it answer what the protesters have been demanding or is, is this more to make it look better for chinese president? she's in pain. probably a little bit of both. i think it is a move in a direction, not even a week ago, many experts were quite skeptical up, especially when we see a combined with some propaganda narrative. some seemingly moved towards a more aggressive vaccination campaign among the elderly. so it does seem that

there is some kind of re evaluation of what the approach should be in the aftermath of the protests. but we are still seeing in at least some regions, you know, locked downs, pretty stringent controls. and in some cases, still some, some protests happening in china, relaxed some of its restrictions after nationwide pro judged that we haven't seen this intensity and decades. public anger was sparked after a deadly apartment fire in chin john province. to night we're asking is china's coated policy to blame for that? we've got an investigated report now by d. w. news. want to take a look at that. they're going to come back and talk about the fire started on the evening of the 24th of november, no room cheat, the capital of sin, john province. most of the people living in the building a week as endlessly minority, long pressed 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 eye witnesses. 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 mean on the night of the fire, those road blocks prevented emergency vehicles from getting closer to the burning building. fire fighters were reduced to trying to operate from the road as you can see here, the water barely reached the flames. 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. thrilled shot by local authorities as part of the country's 0 cove. it policy where the residence locked in the building. it's an allegation that officials refuted at a press conference, so she put funds out. yes, look, ramblewood no doors were locked with wise in this community. not all the doors of all the flats and the front doors were open. i am jewelry from the pitches of doors sealed with wires posted on the internet. both are malicious forgery and false. re you for 2 more or you can do. but that's not what our source is, say. they tell us that their relatives living in the building told them some doors were in fact locked from the outside, were not identifying them for their own safety. 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 was stuck on because the elevators didn't work and the fire escape was locked as well. they couldn't get out. those are mom. well, you either let me go in our investigation suggests people's anger may be justified . what we found is reasonable doubt on the authorities version of events. and 2 days after the fire or m chill. 30 said they'd listen some restrictions that by this time protest had already spread to other chinese cities. repulsor cook baggage from freedom house. miss good. let's talk about what happened with this fire. we know that it happened in the province, john, we know that there is the weaker connection there. and we know that there may have been people wiggers or we're orphans living in that building. does that play

a role here? or could it play a role in why it took so long for fire fighters to respond? i mean, i think that could be a possibility in terms of just a general level of restrictions and security control. i think more likely it may be that that was one of the reasons why you might have seen some of the more stringent types of restrictions on, you know, the secure whether the security or local coven policy enforcers were going to let fire engine close, or whether they felt that they needed to maintain stability to a more maximum extent than you might find in china and other parts of china. but the reality is that a lot of these measures have happened in other parts of china. and part of the spark of the protest is because so many chinese people in so many city could see the footage can look at the situation. whether in practice, doors were locked from the outside in this building or not,

they knew of cases and other information were that had happened year by them and very strongly felt. this could have been me and that was really kind of triggered the protest. in some cases, regardless of this particular fact, as your investigation shows, it does seem that there were some lots of in the building on that that may have increased the danger for the residence there. and do we know who these protesters are? and because we were talking about nationwide protests, and i'm assuming we're talking about the hon. majority of chinese who are now protesting, but there has been some, there been some claims that the, the suffering of the weaker is in the st. john is now being maybe used by the majority to actually demand change from beijing. do you see a cause and effect or a misappropriation europe suffering? well, i think it's interesting. i think again, the main motivation for protesters and i think the commonality are the coven

policies, in fact, as risky as it is. we have over the past few months, seen examples of protests actually in she and young, and in to back on, including by local minorities, they're against the coven policy. i think what we're seeing in other parts of chinese, again, the sense that oh my goodness, this could happen to me. and people taking the street more vociferous lee to demand change to the policy. but i suspect that along the lines, you know, there may be a breakthrough in some of the censorship and propaganda that surrounded the other horrific abuses happening. and she and john and possibly more hon. chinese learning about them. because now they're maybe jumping the firewall to access telegram, they're getting access to more and sensory information because they want to know what's happening in terms of the other protests. and we've seen that in the past where there's some triggering that gets people to maybe jump the firewall more, but then they learn about a wider range of an issue. we certainly seen that happening. a chinese embassies

outside china where you see han and weaker protesters side by side and some kind of cross education happening there. as a result of this kind of solidarity on a completely different topic. circle with freedom else was good to have your program. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. my pleasure . south africans, presidents is here a room officer is battling for his political survival tonight after a parliamentary investigation found that he may have broken the law. he's now facing increasing calls to resign or to face impeachment over his alleged cover of a burglary at his private for president rama posts as future is hanging in the balance. he's being dogged by allegations surrounding a burglary at this game fall in northeast and south africa since june. a former top security official told police that ram a person covered up

a multi $1000000.00 theft here in february 2020. rather than alerting the police, he allegedly had the robbers kidnapped and bribed into silence ram, opposed to has denied any wrong doing, claiming false smallest sums were taken and at the crime was reported to the authorities. but now an expert panel appointed to investigate the allegations by parliament has submitted its report saying he may have broken anti corruption rules about procedure hope element that's less south africans divided on ram, a poses future on it. so and then a good that i think he shouldn't resign. he must continue because he's a good leader. he brings investors into the country, which creates jobs. the economy must grow. he's never misused ascent of government funds. that's at the center government. if the lawn is to take its course, it should, it should like anybody else,

justice has be sent to the end of the day with the potential impeachment inquiry looming and the media suckling officials from ram posts as ruling african national congress were gathering on friday to decide whether he should stay or go. ah, at they were coven katara. there was high drama in the last round games, a group h with the score at 11 between south korea and group leaders. portugal the portuguese pushed for a winning goal at a corner as the game headed into injury time. but south korea stole up the field and a perfect pass allowed one. he john to score a stunning winner in injury. tom, there was resulted in the korean van into nevada entity into the knockout state. ghana in uruguay kicked off at the same time, is that game with both teams in with

a chance qualified, the bike stars had the 1st opportunity with the penalty spot, but the shot was stopped by the goalkeeper. the you're going soon hit their stride . see right there george and the artist created scored twice in the 1st half, but there celebrations proved to be a little premature that jumped to re result meant that despite the win uruguay, well it's going home. portugal and already qualified after 2 games and they topped the group despite their loss. south korea's late winter puts them through in 2nd place and they'll likely faced brazil in the round of 16. gonna join uruguay in equity. the turn i for more let's go to don. now we're our sports correspondence on you. barcelona is covering the world cup forest game to you, donna happy friday to you. so south korea's when over portugal means that they joined japan in the last 16. i mean, these are good times for asian football,

right? absolutely. i mean this rogue cup has been brilliant for asian countries. and then we saw what japan did, beating spain and germany topping their group south korea. ok. australia is not a part of asia, but they do play in asian football confederation. so great times for the asian countries. now, portugal they'd already qualified for the next round. so they were able to rest a number of their players. now who they didn't arrest was christiano. rinaldo? of course everything is christian or another man. yeah. here. there has been a lot of talk about him, but it hasn't really faced portugal that much in their last 5 goals that they scored grew center. and although hasn't actually scored so that means they have a young, solid side who is not so reliant on rinaldo anymore. yeah,

yeah. times change job careers result. it meant that uruguay went out their game against gonna it was a bit of a grudge match wasn't this match was the match that people football fans have been looking forward to for 12 years and all those back to 2010 world cut when they faced off in the quarter finals now was tied $11.00 an extra time, and luis wise from uruguay, cleared the ball off the line, saved the goal with his hands. now he was sent off, he got a red cart, gonna then missed a penalty shot and ended up losing in penalties. so they really held that grudge. now today it was, you know, kicking off, but like you saw unfortunately you did win this match, but they both go home. a little consolation for ghana, but they end up going home. don't you have to ask you about the germany exiting gray clouds have been all over germany today. what's this to fall? what been like, were you well, it's been

a lot of disappointment. of course. i mean, when germany crashed out in 2018, that was disastrous. and now to repeat that in the group it, it's really seen as a big failure. you know, germany has always been, had always been considered a tournament team. and when they had to get those performances in these tournaments they did, they were always considered to go to the semi's at least now that is not the case anymore. also, we probably will see some german stars calling in and to their international careers mother and lawyer. we don't have any confirmation. they've hinted miller hinted that he might. but we don't know that for sure. their coach probably safe, but on a positive note, they do have a promising young players like to mom was yell at moving forward. yeah. had been a group of has been who knows, it doesn't look good at all done. you rush alone in the hall. thank you. very much

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