the biggest thing in the world is the spirit and motions. district starts december 25th mom, d w ah ah ah . this is dw news live from berlin cove at 19 case numbers, spike in china, infections spread and beijing after unpopular virus rules are curved. companies struggle as workers fall ill among them. funeral also coming up ukrainian city is plunged into cold and darkness after russia unleashes another wave of missile

strikes. moscow steps up, attacks on critical infrastructure, leaving millions of people without power or running water. to european union condemns the strikes as indiscriminate terror and germany starts up its 1st liquid natural gas terminal bond. will it be enough to cut loose from russian energy? ah, a marion evans dean. it's good to have you with us. the chinese capital beijing is seeing a sharp increase in coven, 19 cases. and high numbers of workers testing positive for the virus means that the cities funeral homes are overwhelmed. undertakers say they're short on drivers and workers. so families have to wait longer to cremate their relatives. local media

ported more corona virus linked debts even though official tallies. do not include the latest victims. china relaxed some of the world's toughest measures to control the spread of the virus just over a week ago. or for more were joined now by our correspondent fabi and catch moore, who is in beijing. hello to you? far beyond. so no official reports about coven related deaths, or even just an uptick in cases. but how reliable is government information? what are you seeing in the capital? well, the official numbers are completely misleading, actually absurdly misleading. and yeah, what we've seen him begging us basically how the r last or 0 covert a fortress became the number one cove at hot spot in a matter of days. it is literally hard to find any one in the city or who has not been infected to the last 2 weeks with a virus. so literally, i mean,

i've spoken to companies whose employees are 90 percent sick, or the consulate service of the german embassy had to close down many of our companies that had to a suspend the operation because too many people who are sick, it's really an earth. so spread that are even doctors who are infected have to continue working in hospitals because there is no other way. and yeah, of course we know that people are also dying. am some reporters, for example of the financial times. they went to a crematorium, they went to funeral institutions and both of working at full capacity and they to say that much more bodies are coming in than a dream. usually 2 terms. so i think that's a clear sign, but those are deaf as they do not show up in the am official to statistics. and that is a really irresponsible to still publish them because they're really completely misleading and do not reflect the situation on the ground. was the picture in other large chinese cities. we're hearing that shanghai, the financial hub,

is now closing its schools. are other big cities likely to follow or take other measures to curve the spread of the virus? yet it's very hard to really assess the situation on the ground because of the lack of a transparent data and from my understanding shanghai season increase of a corporate cases, a mess of increase. but the situation is not as bad as and begging, at least not yet. and the closure of schools is basically a mitigation effort. and i'm sure we will see a similar efforts also in other cities because the real stress or a stress test of the pandemic is, will not happen in beijing and shanghai where we have a rather developed a medical system. but more in the 2nd tier cities are in the, in the provinces and in the west or, and also the southware a, some of the medical systems really very rudimentary developed. and in the coming weeks, we will have a chinese new year the, the travel season where hundreds of millions of chinese will travel to their home towns. and of course then also take the virus am and it will spread it to every

corner of the country. so they are, we will really see em how, how am fast, you know, senior people can get bexar natives. and because really that, that time is ticking. and i think the country really was not prepared for such a radical opening up after 2 and a half years of the recovered. fabian krench mar in beijing for as 5 in thank you so much for your reporting. well, the european union hasn't announced the latest wave of russian bombardments on ukraine's energy infrastructure as indiscriminate terror. he crane is struggling to restore electricity and heating to residents and major cities after rushes missile attacks on friday. he cranes, national energy supplier said these later strikes disabled half the systems capacity and at war and that'll take longer to restore power. a 3rd of kids residents still have no electricity and have have no heating. dw

correspondent emma shars is in care of and she told me about the situation over night in the ukrainian capital, the night a here in ukraine for people in general. i was of course, very cold. people are coping or even if they are living in very, very dire situation here in their capital. people, workers wax around the clock to fix the damage that was inflicted on a power infrastructures. just to give you an idea, there were 40 miss eyes launched on the capital only yesterday, the majority of them 37 of them were shut down. but some hid the targets that they were aimed to it, which is critical infrastructure which is entrust rector, which is vital for citizens energy infrastructure water a plan. so it means that yesterday the capitol was without power for a while. this was quickly fixed, but the water took away longer. we didn't have running water until this morning

that we only had a cold water. the situation is not the same depending on which suburbs you leave, but all the country is affected. how to keep the, a former, the 2nd biggest city of ukraine, which is mostly empty of her or the majority of it in abby tennessee had with feel there are thousands who are still living there. when most of them were the 5 bills of electricity, off my germany is opening its 1st liquefied natural gas terminal to day. chance are all of sholtes and several ministers are expected to attend the ceremony on the north sea coast. the new energy infrastructure is part of germany strategy to win itself off, russian gas, and look for ways to import gas from other parts of the world. this floating facility is the centerpiece of germany's new ellen g terminal. built in record time

in the hope of ending dependency on russian gas and adding to an existing europe wide network. the amanda, we've spoken to our friends on europe's west coast in the netherlands and belgium, about extending their terminals and carrying capacity. and france will send us gas for the 1st time to wants, leaf under liquefied natural gas comes from all around the world, but imports from russia into europe have risen to record levels accounting for 13 percent of the total. beyond my net whom f liquid imports from russia to europe are increasing again to spain and friends and funk. and there are long term contracts between these countries and russian law. some is also going to belgium and the netherlands, and this gas is being sent on to germany, uses gas for dental vide doggedly fat nuff deutschland siberian gas is being transported by see russia has been building new l. n. g terminals of its own

export volumes are smaller than before. but russia is earning $5.00 to $10.00 times more from liquid gas than it used to make. why the north stream pipeline. and there's no talk of boycotting russian gas. as long as it was, as long as russian gas is on the market somewhere in the world, it's a 0 sum game. i love if everyone does without russian gas than they were going to be massive shortages that have to be made up somewhere. and that means higher prices, isaac, driven far from ostracizing, russia, french companies, for example, our joint venture partners with the russian liquid gas group, nova tech. in a complex market gas flows are effectively borderless. germany would like to operate its 1st ellen g terminal free from russian supplies. but in the international gas market, there is no fair trade certificate was bringing some of the other stories making

news around the world. twitter owner, ellen musk says he will restore the accounts of several journalists suspended after tweeting publicly available data. immediately. tunisians are going to the polls for a parliamentary election, but opposition parties of call for a boycott saying new electoral laws have effectively neutered the parliament. the vote comes as president carissa continues to tighten his grip on power. after voters back to new constitution, back in july, peruse, congress has rejected a bill to bring forward elections after president pedro castillo was removed from office. castillo. supporters are calling his removal a coo and have clashed with police. dozens of people are still missing after a landslide in malaysia. more than 20 people are known to have died when the ground gave way at an unofficial camp signed to north of the capital. koala, poor authorities say,

heavy rain has hampered rescue f. a gunman has killed 2 un peacekeepers in tim buck, 2 in molly, 4 others were wounded. molly's government has been locked in a struggle against a g hottest insurgency for the last decade. at the football world, carbon carter, argentina, and france are preparing for sundays final. and as if worrying about leonor messy weren't enough. now, a virus has hit the french squad, 5 players including defensive linchpin raphael baran, have miss training. but attacker was, man, delay isn't worried. and he's even providing some medical treatment of his own in the book. no, we're not afraid of the virus dial. palmer colonel and audrey and rob you had a headache and a bit of stomach. i made them a little tea with ginger and honey and they were better. but no, we're not worried about that. no, no,

i hope everyone is on the mend and will be ready for the final bill to move it. paper policy did of is for it's reporter mark meadows is in can't, are covering the world for us. and he told me earlier how that virus is likely to affect the french team. well, friends have proven themselves to be resilient. all tournaments, dale obama carno and as an globule, missed the semi final against morocco with this virus. but they still won. now they've had personal problems all tournament of france before the world cook big names. they can go low, can't say impulse papa ruled out another big name who was ruled out was their main strike a cocking benz emma. now he's actually fits again now and training for his club side rail madrid. there has been speculation that he might make a surprise and sudden return to the team to morrow night. france and bends em, are playing that down despite their virus problems. but of us having a virus in the camp is not what you want to have all of a world cup final,

especially against argentina and leonor messy. then a messy, of course, going for his 1st woke up at the final attempt, is the one big trophy missing from his glittering c v. okay, so we'll have to wait another day until the final on sunday to night. there is though, the 3rd place play of mark. how important is that to morocco and croatia to, to win this match today? well, normally the 3rd place playoff for fans and players is seen as a bit of a waste of time. but this year i think it's going to be a bit different, oversee morocco about such a fabulous run in the tournament. and it will feel like the equivalent of a bronze medal if they can win it. they'd be the 1st african or arab team to do it . it's also important for curation, midfield linchpin, luca mod rich. now he's 37, so he assume this is his last wilcock game. if he's gonna play a, wanna go out on a high and as really quickly mark there was a press conference by the, the president john infant t. now, what was his big announcement?

will his big announcement was that we're going to have a different sort of we'll cut from 2025 at the moment. we have a club world cook with 8 teams that happens every year, but from 2025 revenue club world cook with 32 teams. so it's going to be a lot like a national team woke up. of course, the next national world, tim t national team woke up in 2026 is gonna have a record 48 teams. so there's big changes ahead for football. that was the w. mark meadows reporting for us from doha, at the world cup 2 more big matches to go this weekend. everybody is very excited. mark, thank you so much. we know you'll, the falling all the action will to newly completed spires. and as that rather familiar, basilica and barcelona have been lit up for the 1st time. ever look as fire as our tamp by a sculpture as of an ox and a line representing the biblical figures of the evangelists. luke and mark

construction of the cathedral began in 1882 and has been ongoing ever since. when completed, the building will have 6 fires. work is expected to finally finish up in 2026. you're up to date and dw news, stay tuned forest for his life i'm marrying i haven't seen for me and the team in berlin. thanks for the company. with will you become a criminal.