ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, china battle surgeon cove at 19 cases, infections rise as people take advantage of new freedoms, public protest force beijing to scrap restrictions. and many believe official figures now played down the scale of the crisis. also in the show,

the plight of those seeking a better life. on this international migrant state, a reporter goes to a camp and serbia to find out why people from places like afghanistan and pakistan are trying to make it to europe. and the biggest showdown and world football has arrived to leonor messy takes on kilian and bob a is raining champions, france face argentina in the world of final ah a mariner evans dean, welcome. covered 19 cases are surging across china as people take advantage of new freedoms. nationwide frustration. an unprecedented public protests forced 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 it more than

a 1000000 by the end of next year. o, 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 in 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, judy 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 journalists, 5 in crash bar is in beijing and a little while 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 any more of 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 any more at the designated testing site. so the vast majority of infections are, is go 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 hash tags in, on social media. or we use other available online ports and you know, all those are data suggest sick. he is in beijing is basically right now, one of the epa centers of the pandemic. and also one of the places where the 1st covered wave will 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 a hospitals, especially at the 5th, a few few berkeley knicks. that has improved quite a bit. but we know from reporters visited funeral homes and also crematorium that 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 us 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 beck 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 maybe i elderly homes getting close to for visitors. those metals, yes, those can happen. but, and those really locked down. so if you've seen drink others, recall the 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. that was journalist 5 in crash mar in beijing. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. japan has launched a strong protest after north korea fired to ballistic missiles eastwards on sunday

. so you said the town yankee actions threatened regional and international security. north korea has conducted an unprecedented number of test this year. a prominent iranian actress has been detained by the authorities after she opened the supported anti government protest. cardona ali do see took to social media without a headscarf in november, in support of the nation wide movement. as you to sherry statement said that several celebrities had been summoned in relation to recent events. israel has deported french palestinian lawyer, selah moody to friends after he was accused of being a member of a band militant group. amory was previously convicted of planning a terror attack in 2005 and served 7 years in prison. israel's interior minister shock at ordered his expulsion after a year long effort by his really authorities to revoke his residency status. wash

them a thought so fast. to day is international migrant stay marked 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. but plunging temperatures have not put up 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 u and hungry, which is around the serbian village of hartigan, where there is a border crossing. a number of illegal migrant camps have emerged. serene police often read these camps and move people to other parts of the country. at the end of november, more than a 1000 migrants were detained. oh that raid took place just after our report or interest of ferry visited one of the camps, which all safely amused are the volunteers with the group housing migrants on their ray vest. he understands more than most what we are driving to worse. he came here

from afghanistan and knows what if he has to risk everything for a chance of something better. got you a tomboy? thought when you are on his road, you don't know what's going to happen in an hour. what will happen to you? shed the children you're walking in a jungle with smugglers, but you never know if you will make it or not. oh, where you are going. we got national dollars to children then. safely and was 14. when he tried to get to germany. he only made it to serbia. now he of those that are meant to get further than the woman. there's go out a few times a week towards the border with hungary, with the you. there they find camps lay this one abandoned buildings a few kilometers from the border. the lot has made it all. busy 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. well, 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 that it is that we should be allowed. he is one of the few to have some kind of solid shelter is far from 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 hope i can get asylum. and later i can take my children to germany. you can find canceling this dotted or on the board, the region this on his lars, the guns injuring 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 built 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 month, they'll have to overcome an argentinian side led by an on formerly at o messy. he's aiming to crown his glittering career with his 1st world cup title i spoke earlier, did he w forth corresponded max merrill, who is in doha for us. and i asked him how argentina recovered from his surprise defeat in they're opening world cub game to reach the final yeah, they went in this tournament with the longest active unbeaten run, an international men's football 36 games without losing stock. this tournament

writes 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 linda messy around them has a really tightened at squad. they didn't manage to equal italy's record of 36 games unbeaten. but they have since really grown into this tournament a bit of a stutter in 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 the 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. we've been reporting that the french players were ravaged by a flu like virus. i mean 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 common,

trained separately from the squad yesterday. and it is coming at a really unfortunate time for them before the morocco game, dia, open economy, adrienne, 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 just we'll see, did to sean reshuffle the deck and he's also contending with 3 injuries. sure, manny 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 form and only matched by and boppy 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 a see later today, next, maryland pointing from dell. ha, thank you so much. back on saturday, croatia and morocco staged a thrilling battle for 3rd place. and it was the croatians who ran on 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 piece strategy, a fake by luc um aldrich, yvonne perez, it's with the past and your score godaddy 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 him, he's left or says 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. and that's the latest sunday w news, this hour and marion evans, dean from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for watching. oh, up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program on line d, w dot com, highlights our games on the melting ice reporter tracks down the.