a great cultural memorial to booth w travel we go ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, china battle surgeon, covert 19 cases, infections rise as people take advantage of new freedoms, public protest force beijing to scrap restrictions, and many believe official figures now to play down the scale of the crisis. also in the show, the point of those seeking

a better life. on this international migrant stain, our reporter goes to a camp and 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 in all messy takes on kilian and bob a as raining champions, france face argentina in the world. come finally ah, a mariner evans dean, welcome. 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. but 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

$1000000.00 by the end of next year. people in bay jing 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 is returning to pre pandemic levels. we thought is uday and us home. 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 for ban kretmoore is in beijing in a little while ago. he told me how hard it is to estimate the actual scale of infections and deaths in china. well, we try our best. i mean that we cannot use the official data any more and the data us, we not only are not credible any more, 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, we analyze big data. and for example, how many pandemic related keywords have been used in search engines or at hash tags in, on social media? or we use other available online ports and you know, all those are data suggest sick he it 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 visited funeral homes and also crematorium that and they are working at full capacity so that all points to an excessive amount of deaths. but we don't know exactly how many that is really a 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 at 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 there is a literally impossible. as you recall, it 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 m efforts to slow the spread of the virus, for example, that schools were to get suspended or it may be our elderly homes getting close to a for visitors. those matters. yes, those can happen. but, and those really locked down. so 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 was not only the public protest into the public sentiment and that his are brought on. as he recovered. also, the really derek 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. there was journalist 5 in crouch, my reporting from beijing. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making use this. our a prominent iranian actress has been detained. 5 years forties after she openly

supportive anti government protest. tell them that only do c t o 2 social media without a head scarf in november in support of the nation wives is meant. and due to sherry statements that several celebrities had been summoned in relation to recent events, israel has deported french palestinian lawyers to law maury to friends after he was accused of being a member of a band militant group. maury was previously convicted of planning a terror attack in 2005 and served 7 years in prison. he was arrest again in 2017 and his spend time in and out of administrative detention since then to new jersey . 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. however, the new parliament will have no authority following a power grab by the countries president. today is international

migrants day mark by the united nations to highlight the contributions that migrants make and the problems they face is taking place in the middle of a brutally cold winter. in europe. plunging temperatures have not put up migrants 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 around the serbian village of one of us, where there is a border crossing, a number of illegal migrant camps have emerged. serbian police often read these camps and move people to other parts of the country. at the end of november, more than $1000.00 migrants were detained. well that rage to place just after our reporter he drove the ferry visited one of the camps, such a wall. se for the muse, the woman tears with a group housing migrants on their way. he understands more than most what we are driving towards. he came here from, i've gone, is done,

and now's what is to risk everything for a chance of something better. because you don't put up when you are on his road. if you don't know what's going to happen in an hour, what will happen to you? chance you're 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 camp legs. this one abandoned buildings a few kilometers from the border. the whole 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 the lucky lot. i've spent a month here and i've tried 8 or 9 times, going to cross the show, but we didn't make it yet. and i had there too many patrols but now i'm waiting for a friend who broke his leg to get better. and we will try again. for a month, as 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 to focus time, i have 4 children in pakistan, and my plan is to make it to germany as soon as possible. i hope i can get asylum. and later i can take my children to germany. you can find, canceling this dotted around the board, the region. this one is largely of 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 anticipation billed for the world cup final between france and argentina. the french squad has been contending 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 d w 4th correspondent, max meryl, who's in dough. and i asked him how argentine recovered from a surprise defeat in their opening worldcom game to reach the final yeah, they went and as tournaments with the longest active unbeaten run, an international men's football. 36 games without losing stop 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 weld cut because linna messy around them, has a really tightened at squad. they didn't manage to equal,

it's less record of $36.00 games unbeaten. but they have since really grown into this tournament a bit of a stutter and the cause a 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 forms. so i think going into this final, they've hit the ground and they've, they've really come into this tournament and look very, very good. we've been 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 die, o 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 it 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. and this woman only matched by and by pe and messy on 5 goals. so we could see a 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 the see later today, next, maryland pointing from dell. ha, thank you so much. well, back on saturday,

croatia and morocco staged a thrilling battle for 3rd place. and it was the croatians who ran out victorious over the feinstein under 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, moderate even parasites with a pass, and your score by the 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 miss up or 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 3rd place. ah, some happy fans. they're here up to date on the w news. thanks for watching. ah. they breathe. ah, they have body and soul. the houses that dental leaders can construct are more than just building.