ah, we don't do something our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air units with on d w a . ah ah, this is deed of you use light from berlin. iran's leaders appeared to make a big concession. after months of anti government protested and violent crackdowns, the country so called moral morality, police is abolished. also coming up unprecedented levels of protest appear to have

led to change in time and china to. as the government begins to roll back some coven 19 restrictions. many residents are cautiously celebrating to regained freedoms. and we check in on the world cup and cutter work things god. and shall we say messy for the australian team. looking 1st part of the quarter finals that's coming up later in sport. ah, i'm nick spicer, welcome to the program. and we begin with breaking news from iran, where local media are reporting the country has abolished is morality police. the announcement comes after months of nationwide demonstrations triggered by the rest of gina massey, armine. the young woman died after being taken to police custody for violating iran's strict female dress code. iran's attorney general told

a major state news agencies that quote, morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary will bring more in the story during the course of the day. but for now, let's bring in camera and match in. he is a senior lecture on international relations at the university of sussex. what are we to make this announcement, sir? well 1st of all, i would sure note of caution initially about the announcement because the attorney general said the morality so called morality police was not part of the judiciary system. it wasn't an organ of the tree. it was actually part of the so called low enforcement forces or, you know, police force. so did the, such an announcement should really be announced by that institution. and that hasn't happened yet. and secondly, since the protest began after the killing of fuzzy and i mean these,

this morality police patrols have de facto seized because of the situation. so they really haven't been in operation allowed 2 or 3 months anyways. so i think until the government formerly announces, if you have to treat this question, but what is clear is that the government is, pursues a to policy similar heinously seems. on the one hand, it has increase the crackdown issuing like this sentences against those that arrested in the, in the, during the protests. increasing military presence in certain areas, such as cornerstone and baluchistan at the same time. they are like signaling sets and messages about flexibility or adaptability of the mac or public towards certain policies, including the so called, hey job policies. so hoping this combination of the to the stick and the current might bring the protest on ends. so it's not quite perhaps a victory. is it likely to stop the protest? do you think though?

well, the very fact that for the 1st time, really islamic republic announcing such approach, it is in itself quite a significant victory because there is a team is really not used to making concessions to process. so in that sense, i think the process have already actually achieved something quite significant. but i really, i'm not sure actually this will bring the process to a whole. in fact, one reason such announcements might be made is that people, organizations of civil society protested have announced that they will have a 3 days of action on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of december and over the course of the coming week. and maybe the government is trying to somehow preamp this by announcing such decisions to kind of discourage people from coming to the street saying that what you want is already being discussed or is going to be implemented. but i think those 3 days are crucial in assessing whether the protest movement is going to have the momentum it has had

thus far. ok, thank you so much for that insight, cameron martin from university 70. thank you. thanks. and when to turn to china now we're covered, 19 curves are being relaxed. following some of the biggest displays of public anger in decades. residents in beijing and beyond have been welcoming the 1st signs of normalcy. after years of tough restrictions on saturday, authorities began dismantling some of the testing facilities in the capitol. however, they insist that they're not a band in abandoning the countries 0 coven policy. just implementing it more flexibly. and to understand what that might mean, we're going to bring in journalist 5 in customer who joins us from beijing. fabbing . do you get the impression that people feel a bit free or now? yet he, on the ground actually had to get this impression and at least the public life. and

beijing is gradually of actually in very slow steps resuming again. you see, you're testing boobs closed. you see lot of the gates that have been close throughout the whole pandemic now opening up again and am yes. so there's a sense of something is happening now, but there's another feeling also and deep feeling of uncertainty because now m. yeah. because the virus policies changing, we don't know what the next weeks will bring. also, many of the new rules are not open common, communicated yet. so am, i mean, i think you have this really ambivalent, see of, you know, if you're feeling free, but also feeling very uncertain and fabric to remind us of what the 0 coven policy was supposed to be. really an exceptional policy. if you look at policies around the world, what, what was it a uniform nationwide set of rules? how does it work? yes. so the idea behind as euro covert policy, as it was implemented in china, was basically to eliminate the virus. and that means that, you know, every single infection was met with resolute measures. for example,

a whole building was shut down and several, hundreds of people were sent to current facilities, et cetera. every 3 days he and beijing and many other cities, you needed to go to a p c r testing station to be able to participate in public life and to some of the routes that have changed, for example, and paging. are now that, yeah am, i could confirm that if you are in fact that he and beijing at least many of the residential compounds now would allow you to isolate at home. you can q out your sickness at home. that might not sound super significant. maybe for outside us, but he in beijing, this is a huge relief because every day you will basically we're what we're going to sleep waking up. not knowing if our building would be a sealed off or whether there would be help workers knocking on our door. and taking us to a current facility, so there is this change happening and it is not implemented in the whole nation. i know in some cities, as you recall, it is still very strictly implemented. he and beijing, as in other cities,

there's definitely a small step, a small steps of easing up. ok, journalist, a fabulous crutch. more reporting force from bay. jang, thank you so much. here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. russian defense minister survey showing who has traveled to belarus to discuss the ongoing war in ukraine. he met with bellows, his leader, alexander lucas shanker, and his defense minister to sign an amended security deal afterwards. lucre shanker said that his country in russia have, quote, a single army. l savage salvatore's government is intensifying, its so called war on gangs around 10000 soldiers, and police have sealed off the entire town of soil pango on the outskirts of the country's capital. the operations goal is to search for a suspected gang members. international human rights groups have criticize the government crackdown measures security forces in gaza have reported to

israeli strikes in the south with the strip of military training site in han, eunice, and an area in rafa. the israeli air force said it was targeting sites belonging to the palestinian group. hamas comes after a rock. it was far from the palestinian enclave towards israeli territory. ah, at the world cup and cutter argentina has made it through the quarter finals after beating australia $2.00 to $1.00. the soccer was acquitted themselves well, but argentina had genius on their side. this was the biggest middle eastern mismatch since david met goliath, australia's artisans versus the artistry of leonor messy. and the sa cruise soon saw his genius on 35 minutes when messy post to leave australia keeper, matt ryan helpless. but ryan was the architect of his own. don't fall when

argentina made it to just before the hour. leon alvarez was onto his pure touch in a flash, he made it to nil. ryan needed his teammates to dig him out of a hole and they got a lucky break when craig goodwin's wild effort afflicted an offensive, fernandez game on and the ozzy's nearly scored a shock equalizer. but emily martinez blocked brilliantly from garen cool. in the 7th minute of injury, time massey led the celebrations in front of argentina's rock as crowed, whose expectations will be even higher their site in the last 8. in the early match, the netherlands became the 1st team to make the quarter finals playing against united states. the dutchman scored twice in their 1st half and never looked back. memphis to pie struck 1st. the orange army was in full force as the game finished. 3 goals to one and for more on this,

i am joined now by a lima attack from d. w. sports high and lima. aah! argentina. tell me about messy after messiah coming to life. how is a typical, a messy asked performance in our doing what he does best? and that is setting the tone in midfield with his maisie ran into the final 3rd with his dribbling magic and paid off for him. you know, he scored. i know this is so difficult to believe that it took so long that this actually was miss his 1st world cup knockout goal while yeah and, and it had of course argentina to reach the quite a finance where they were now faced. the netherlands. bet this is also, this is, this word is also really personal for, you know, messy. there's a lot on the line for him. this very likely will be his last shot at it at a woodcut because his 35 years old after all. yeah. which is, which is all for football. yeah. in 4 years time will be $39.00. yeah. so look movie on another, on 16 match or how much fight did the americans put up against the dutch lever also

of people who to understand that the u. s. team as the 2nd youngest at the tournament, the youngest, in the knockout stages and m whenever they play, they always play with a lot of height and spirit. and, but i think against the netherlands, we saw the gap in quality. you know, the united states had a lot of the per bol possession, didn't you know what to do with it? and they kind of a tell. and they kind of fell right into the hands of the netherlands, who of course, we are comfortable without the ball. we're like, look, you say you can have it and of course the netherlands are ruthless when it comes to counter attacks in just a final quick question for me, or one of the pre terminate pre tournament favorites is playing to day to what's going on. cuz there's actually 2 of them. so you have france raining champions taking on poland. france of course, want to retain the title, but we know that's easier said than done because the last team to do so was brazil back in 1962. so that was quite a long time ago. and another tournament favorite, of course, it also england, the up against synagogue and england of course as well. semi finalists 4 years ago, euro run run us up and they haven't won

a major trophy at the men's as team in 56 years. but if there's one thing that we've learnt, nick is that upsets are possible at this tournament. for kaylee, montague, from the debbie sports, thank you so much and return to new york city, which is searching for an assassin sermon with the means to, to exterminate the cities, rodents authorities are offering an annual salary of up to $170000.00 us dollars for the right person to take up the job. seeking candidates with good communication skills and a bloodthirsty attitude. new york is on the hunt for a rat tsar to fight the cities booming road and population. the rats don't run the city. we do the ad for a director of road and mitigation, least they swashbuckling attitude and a general aura of bad. ah, sorry. as criteria for the role. previous multi $1000000.00 efforts to improve

trash collection and coll rodents have been thwarted by the cities cunning, ferry residents. everyone knows me. they know one thing i hate read, you know, when we started killing them in bar, all we're all summer to saying folks are criticizing us now called me a murder because i was killing red. well, you know what? we got to kill rat rat to have no place in this city. and we're gonna use every method method as needed to do so, so they are not harm and families in all quality of life. rach sightings in subways on straits and even in homes have soared over 70 percent in the past 2 years. the rodent boom has been partly blamed on more sidewalk dining in response to the pandemic. matt adams said any one with the dr. and chilla instinct needed to fight the cities rat problem should apply for their dream job. they are not

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