i see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with starts december 23rd on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, china battle surgeon cove. at 19 cases, infections rise as people take advantage of new freedoms. public protest forced beijing to scrappers christians and many believe official figures now played down the scale of the crisis. also coming up the flight of those seeking

a better life on this international myron stay, our reporter goes to a camp in serbia to find out why people from the middle east are trying to make it to europe. and the biggest showdown and world football has arrived. lean on, messy takes on kilian and bob a as raining champions friend's face argentina in the world comp final. ah a marion. i haven't seen thanks for joining us. covered 19 cases are surging across china as people take advantage of new freedoms. nationwide frustration and unprecedented public protests, forest authorities to ease quarantine and travel restrictions bud since then, more and more people are testing positive official figures on infections and fatalities remain low. but some estimates put the likely death toll at more than

1000000. by the end of next year. people in beijing line up to get nasal spray boosters. cases are surging after the government abruptly ended. it's strict 0 coven policy. in the wake of nationwide protests against the restrictions authorities are trying to persuade reluctant seniors and others at risk to get vaccinated to prevent large scale outbreaks, hospitalizations, and deaths. those already showing symptoms make their way to temporary clinics set up around the city like is public gymnasium, where they can get medical advice and treatment. others are opting to stay home either because they're already sick or trying to avoid infection. that means deliveries of food and every day items are in heavy demand. but scores of workers are also coming down with the virus. so packages pile up on

the streets unclaimed. in china's financial hub, shanghai schools of switch to online classes as cases, sore nurseries, and child care centers are also set to close across the country. people were quick to return to old habits when the restrictions were eased. crowding shopping malls, subway stations, restaurants only, and for young people, it's about going out traveling and enjoying life. and many popular places are already full and it's difficult to make reservations. life was returning to pre pandemic levels. koya is uday and us on one. the freedoms have come at a price. the official death toll remains low at a little more than $5200.00. but experts believe the real figure is many times higher and that china may be facing it's worse surge yet in the build up to the winter travel season and lunar new year when hundreds of millions of workers will

travel home by road rail and air journalist fan crash mar is in beijing and a short time ago, he told me how hard it is to estimate the actual scale of infections and deaths and china. well, we try our best. i mean that we cannot use the official data anymore and the data we not only are not credible anymore, but really misleading. why it's has a simple reasons that people don't get tested anymore at the designated testing site. so the vast majority of infections are this girl going unreported. and so we use other tools, for example, where we analyze big data. and for example, how many pandemic related keywords have been used in search engines or at hashtags in on social media? or we use other available online polls and you know, all those are data suggest sick. he in beijing is basically right now, one of the epa centers of the pandemic. and also one of the places where the 1st call would waive would peak probably the earliest to could already peak at the end

of the month. and we know that probably most of the people here in beijing have already been infected in the last 2 weeks. and now are slowly recovering and in the beginning, especially there were long queues in front of the hospitals, especially at the fuel fuel fever clinics. that has improved quite a bit. but we know from reporters who visited funeral homes and also crematorium that and they are working at full capacity, saw that all points to an excessive amount of deaths, but we don't know exactly how many that is really are very difficult to answer right now. well, certainly the government can't ignore these facts on the ground as you describe them, you know, they're the lines of the hospitals and the crematorium, the working over time, or just people not showing up for work because they're sick. so would the government possibly consider returning to this 0 covert policy? where that is literally impossible, as you recovered was basically am to contain the virus completely. and once you

know, the virus has spread to a certain amount like it hasn't china, of course, there's no turning box back any more. what we could see is some kind of efforts to slow the spread of the virus, for example, that schools were target suspended, or it may be our elderly homes getting close to for visitors. those matters. yes, those can happen. but, and those really locked down if you've seen during others recovered policy here, and they will not happen again. i'm quite sure about that because they were also many big reasons why the government has suspended. as he recovered, it wasn't only the public protest into that public sentiment and that his are brought on as he recovered. also, the really direct derek deterred deteriorating effect on the economy. and so as he recovered was not sustainable anyway, so i don't think there will be returning back to their policy now with journalists, fabi, and credit reporting for us from beijing. earlier. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. a prominent iranian actress

has been detained by the authorities after she openly afforded anti government protest. at an alley duty took her to social media without a headscarf in november in support of the nationwide movement. and due to sherry statements said that several celebrities had been summoned in relation to recent events. tenicia electoral board says there was just under 9 percent voter turnout and saturdays parliamentary election ballot was also boycotted by the opposition. 9000000 people were eligible to vote, but the new parliament will have no authority following a power grab by the countries president. lawmakers in peru have voted against holding early elections demanded by anti government protesters. unrest again, when the, our president has ro, castillo, was arrested for trying to dissolve congress. his replacement dina blue r t a is refusing to step down and wants national election. dozens of demonstrators have been killed and the holy winter may be here,

but the plunging temperatures have not put off migraines trying to cross into the european union. one increasingly popular point of entry is along the border between serbia, which is not in the e. u and hungry, which is a number of illegal migrant camps, have emerged their serbian police off and raid these camps and move people to other parts of the country. at the end of november, they said it was in response to an incident involving guns, more than a 1000 migrants were detained. of that raid to place just after our reporter either a city visited one of the camps. such a wall, se for the museum, the volunteers that the group housing migrants on their way that he understands more than most what we are driving towards. he came here from, of gone, is done. and now's, what if they had to risk everything for a chance of something better?

because we don't put all of you on this road. if you don't know what's going to happen in an hour, what will happen to you? share your walking in a jungle with smugglers, but you will never know if you will make it or not. oh, where you are going. god knows muscle know dollars in that say for the in was 14 when he tries to get to germany. he only made it to serbia. now he helps those that are meant to get further money. the woman's ears go out a few times a week towards the border of the hungry you there they find camps, legs. this one abandoned buildings. a few kilometers from the border the lot has made it. busy all this way from pakistan. well i know that it is hard to cross the border because of the hungarian police and a month here and i've tried 8 or 9 times to get across the show, but we didn't make it yet. there too many patrols to me, but now i'm waiting for

a friend who broke his leg to get better and we will try again for a month. it is that he should be allowed should. he is one of the few to have some kind of solid shelter is focused on the long process by which he hopes to get for affection for his family. but he focused on, i have 4 children in pakistan, and my plan is to make it to germany as soon as possible. i'm on a plan. i hope i can get asylum. and later i can take my children to germany. you can find camps like this dotted are on the board, the region. this one is large, the dance enduring medieval conditions for their dreams of the future. activists and refugees. together the sense of solidarity as important as the supplies they bring to sports now.

and as anticipation bills for the world cup final, between france and argentina, the french squad has been contenting with a viral outbreak in their camp. but all the players have now been clear to return to training. they're hoping to become the 1st team to retain the title since 1962. but they'll have to overcome an argentinian side led by an on for lino messy. he's aiming to crown his glittering career with his 1st world cup title. earlier i suppose cdw 4th correspondence max meryl, who is indo, have for us and i asked him how argentina managed to recover from a surprise defeat in their opening world cup game to even reach the final yeah, they went to this tournament with the longest active unbeaten run an international men's football, 36 games without losing stock this tournament right away with a defeats, but i think that humbled them that got them or maybe the reality check that they

needed that this wasn't going to be a breeze for them. i predicted them to win this world cup because linelle messy around them has a really tightened at squad. they didn't manage to equal its least record of 36 games unbeaten. but they have since really grown into this tournament a bit of a stutter and the cause of final against the netherlands. again, i think a valuable lesson for this squad, which one the corporate america together. and in the semi final, they looked back to their imperious, best little messy, as you said in great form. so i think going into this final, they've hit the ground and they've, they've really come into this tournament and looked very, very good. within reporting that the french players were ravaged by a full like virus and they're back on training. but could this impacts their game yet social distancing measures employed in the squad as that i cannot say in command, trained separately from the squad yesterday. and it is coming at

a really unfortunate time for them before the morocco game. io. hooper macanna, an ugly, and the cabul were left out of the squad because of this virus. now in open con his case, it was actually maybe not a bad thing. he's had a few errors in this tournament. i sent him back, but his replacement canada is among the players. now ill as well as back on the other key defender in france's back for so a bit of a headache for them. hopefully some of them can recover in time, otherwise we'll have to. so we'll see, did here to show reshuffle the deck and he's also contending with 3 injuries. sure . many and mid field and, and as it left back and potentially even olivia asia, who, who's struggling with a bit of a knock to the knee ahead of the final he scored for goals already in this to him and only matched by and by pe and messy on 5 goals, so we could see france who have real depth probably the most depth of any team in this tournament. struggle to field a very, very strong starting 11 because a lot of players will be missing. and i don't think they're in the best of form,

so it's a tricky one for them. indeed, that time will tell a see later today, next, maryland pointing from dell. ha, thank you so much. for saturday, croatia and morocco staged at thrilling battle for 3rd place in the world cup. and it was the croatians who ran out victorious over the fights. he and her dogs, a game that many people called uninteresting or even irrelevant, did not take long to prove otherwise. croatia kicked off the scoring and just the 7th minutes after a brilliant set p strategy, a fake by luca moderates, even parasites with the past and your score body all with the headed finish. the 20 year old arby lights the center back, adding another highlights to his fantastic world cup campaign. however, just seconds later, it was morocco set piece and there center back ashcroft, ari that showed some real striker like instincts following a poor clearance attempt by clarissa to tie the game at 11. and the 1st half was

still not done. chris has left midfielder meizlish on said with a beautiful curl from a tight angle and a little bit of help from the woodwork reclaimed the lead. 2 to one. no goals in the 2nd half meant morocco. the surprise team of the tournament come in 4th and croatia can celebrate. start place. ah, that's the latest on dw news up next on doc film. we look at the fatal consequences of a world without these. i'm married ever seen from me in the entire news team in berlin . thanks for watching. the world cup in the top. exciting in sports and tim version in political science. we are here for you with reports and background information about the footfalls.