welcome to both of you fabi. i let me start with you. there's been some scaling back of measures in recent times, which is also been cause for confusion among people after almost 2 years of this very strict anti coven, 19 a policy? how have people been reacting to today's announcement? well, i would say the confusion is over now because now the new rules are implemented nationwide and they are really very remarkable. when you have mild symptoms and are infected now, you can cure them out in your own home. that's a huge change before just some we days ago who are basically transferred to a current in centers. also the locked dance have been suspended, the city wide testing. so that is a huge relief far and many people for many residents. why? because it brings a lot of, you know, predictability and to your everyday life. and of course, the fear of them. yeah, it getting transferred to earth, county and center is over. also the fee of locked down to basically over and also the a daily hassle of waiting in front of her p c r t s station is

i think fabi and you mentioned the problems that my may lay in the transition here. now we know that term, the immunity within china's population is quite low. so could a slow vaccine drive a slow vaccination drive now endanger the economic care recovery? what definitely the vaccination drive, that's not the most important thing that i think the government has understood that their goal is now to increase the booster rate. amanda over 80 year olds from now 40 percent to 90 percent until the end of january. that's a very ambitious go, but if that's necessary, if there's really not an increase of vaccinating the most vulnerable groups, then of course, the other health policy tragedy ahead to. but i think of course, the government is in a store that they want to increase the vaccination rate and of course, allowing of the west and vaccines would help. but i don't see that coming here. so probably the government wants to rely on domestic fixings. journalist fabian catchment and badging and dw business clifford conan here in the studio. thanks to you both. taiwanese chip

there's no turning back to 0, covert fabi on christmas in beijing there. thank you. ok, let's get a round up of some other world news headlines now. japan has lodge lodge to strong protest after north korea fired to ballistic missiles. eastwards on sunday, tokyo said that pyongyang actions threaten regional and international security. north korea has conducted an unprecedented number of tests this year. a prominent iranian actress has been detained by authorities after she openly supported anti government protest, taryn nearly to stay a took to social media without a headscarf in november in support of the nation wide movement. the judiciary statement said that several celebrities had been summoned in relation to recent events, or prominent palestinian french human rights lawyer. salah ha, marie has been a, has arrived in france after being deported by israel. now this is the combination of controversial and lengthy judicial saga that saw the activists hilde without formal charges. and since march authorities have accused summary of having ties to a group that israel

and crush mer in bay gene fabi. an after more than 2 years of propaganda about covert about how 0 cove it is absolutely necessary. as a matter of nationalism, is it going to be possible for the government to pivot and just say well now ko, it's not that bad and we all just have to live with it. well, it will cost a lot of credibility. i mean, the change and propaganda tone is really remarkable until very recently, the dangers of covert were, in my opinion, highly exaggerated tea and the reporting in china. now what is happening is rather the opposite. the danger of covetous even downplayed. i mean now the party newspaper, they quote, a lot of residents saying that they are not afraid of covenant that it's not dangerous, et cetera. that's a complete change in tone. another example m, yeah, there were, there were, was really a lot of reporting about the dangers of long cove it and how it is really a white spread in the west. and now suddenly the state media says, okay, long covert, that's scientifically not proven. an

that was fabi on crest from there in beijing the u. s. supreme court is being asked to rule on an important restriction on immigration title. 42 is a public health measure introduced by the trump administration. it allows people who request asylum at the border to be turned away to prevent the spread of covered 19. the biden administration says it cannot keep the pandemic policy in place long term. but conservative lead states argue that ending it will open the floodgates as the fate of this law hangs in the balance. growing numbers of migrants are crossing into the u. s. every day. in the border city of el paso, texas, the mayor has declared a state of emergency d, w sumi, so us gander has more. ah, the sacred heart church in at bethel. it's one of the oldest perishes in town. now it's become a refuge. migrants have been gathering here every day to receive food and clothes and shelter in doors at night. and the air from venezuela may the dangerous journey to the u. s. with her 2 children, mother and sister, she is clear, she cannot re

as get more from jealous fabi and fetched man who is in beijing fabi and we've just heard there about barricaded doors blocked off streets based on your reporting and how the chinese authorities have been forced there. 0 covey policies. what, what more can you tell us about these allegations? well i've been percy also in a current in hotel where the fire exit was either blocked or you know, and with heavy objects or literally locked with her with her with a lock and to be no from residence in shanghai and also other cities that am doing a lockdown, they also found they are on the door to their house, are locked with an iron lock. i mean, this is kind of plausible. i don't know exactly what's happened in odom. she but this tragedy, i think, can only be understood under the context of a lockdown. and am, i mean, in this a residential compound, the majority of residents, are we good and, and they've been, even before the pandemic are living in, in a, in a very controlled environment or with a lot of police checks m, intimidation by authorities and restrictions of movement so i could gues

really a wake up call and the government has understood that it needs to do something. journalist fabi and cut my reporting from emerging. fabulous. thank you. and his reminder of the top story we are following for you at this hour. a western lead price cab on russian oil entered effect on monday, drawing the ire of moscow and adding another inc. global oil markets to european union and g 7 nations agreeing to assuming of $60.00 a barrel over the weekend. plus guys about to stop all oil sales donations. participating in the cap and the reps up our show for now. for more news and background information, go ahead and check out our website at d, w dot com slash business, or the d. w seem to channel. i'm chris kolber on the link for me and the entire team. thanks for watching. have a successful day with a artificially nerve tissue and fresh scraps from the butcher. could these components to replace animal testing with institute is using them to investigate pain signals in common disease is a new direction from medical research hope tomorrow today with a 90 minute long dw d up to date don't

and i mean, that's almost an impossible task. fabi encroachment and beijing, thanks. lot fab in to peru now, where the caretaker, president, dean below r t a is refusing to step down and is urging congress to allow early elections that's after lawmakers voted against that proposal. unrest began when pedro castillo was arrested for trying to illegally dissolve congress castillo supporters or calling his removal. a coo, 22 people have died so far in clashes with police. police fire cure? yes. at demonstrators blocking an airport in southern peru, one of many protests that erupted across the country after lawmakers removed former president pedro castillo from office last week. over 20 people have died in the unrest and rights groups accused the authorities of using excessive force in their response to the printer. the former president still has white support, especially among peruse indigenous communities. ah, and protesters brought trucks to standstill at this border crossing between peru and bolivia, with good images here local glycerin. miguel, we won't be immediate dissolution of congr

let's hear from beijing based janice fabi and freshman. we asked him how much economic considerations played apart beijing's decision to loosen restrictions? officially, them the propaganda ever apparatus a saying, okay, now we discovered that the amik chrome variant is not as dangerous anymore. that's why we're changing our policy. but i think the timing suggests very clearly that it's the reaction of the public anger that you know, has culminated over those protests. and, and i also actually the economic pressure that is also not a to underestimate because the trait numbers from today, they're really disastrous. and i think there was a lot of pressure to change the policy. otherwise it wouldn't have changed it now because we are in the beginning of the winter and also the chinese new year. the season is coming soon. it's where millions were hundreds of millions of chinese will travel to their home, towns to areas where the medical system is really very rudimentary. so it is really not an optimal timing to open up covey encroachment that

really a wake up call and the government has understood that it needs to do something. journalist fabi and cut my reporting from an aging. fabulous. thank you. and his reminder of the top story we are following for you at this hour. a western lead price cab on russian oil entered effect on monday, during the ire of moscow and adding another inc, global oil markets, the european union and g $7.00 nations agreeing to assuming of $60.00 a barrow over the weekend. plus guys, well to stop all oil sales donations, participating in the cap and the reps up our show for now for more news and background information. go ahead and check out our website at d. w dot com slash business or the dublin used him to trammel. i'm chris kolber on the line for me and the entire team. thanks for watching. have a successful with with ah, ah, and fam yan destroyed by the taliban in 2001 shock waves around the world. will history repeat itself the year after islamists took over afghanistan? attacking cultural heritage has been a tried strategy since the dawn of culture. the fear is not on the founding. extinguis

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i'm encouraged my in beijing fabi and china's top corporate official, their signaling that restrictions will be eas. should this be seen as an admission that president, she's zip. well, it was very obvious by now that the z recovered policy is not sustainable. that is an opinion. it's also widely shaped by many chinese. and you are really very significant. and she said that we are now in a new phase of pandemic control. so i'm expecting a lot of small steps and also small progress, probably also back and forth. he and they are not a radical shift, but definitely a breakthrough or a dick a start for opening up and yeah, this is quite a significant here and, and i would say uh, we are seeing the end of 0 colbert, but not to morrow, but it's a long road actually, could this actually emboldened protest as after all, it appears that their protests have worked were i think only to some degree. so am yes, probably the anti lockdown. clashes could continue in some parts, especially for those people who are locked down without any legal foundation. so i think that people might feel emboldened to

citizens who have endured long periods of control over their daily lives. joining us as journalists, fabi and crush merrick in bay jing fabia just 24 hours ago, we were discussing the uneven roll back on kobe restrictions across china. will this new government announcement bring more clarity? yeah, definitely. so i mean, until recently there was really a very uneven picture acquaintances in shanghai taught me that you know, they still suffer from a rigid 0 covert measures. and in other areas, it was already quite open and relaxed. and now we have really a very even a nation wide new policy and those changes are now formalized, and they're quite remarkable as so if you are infected but only have mild symptoms, you can stay at home. there won't be any more, a city wide locked downs also the city wide mass testing has basically stopped. that gives us a lot of predictability in our everyday life. i think that's really a huge change and of course brings a lot of clarity to our life. him and on a mental emotional level, it must be a big relief to everyone, including yourself that folks won't ge

lunar new year when hundreds of millions of workers will travel home by road rail and air journalist fabi and christmas in beijing. and earlier he gave us a sense of the skype of the infections in china. the official number say you have become unreliable, really useless because some people are simply stopped testing at the designated testing side. most of them infections are unreported. so we have to use some other mirrors. he and beijing were many of correspondence are we can do on the round research and, you know, interview people and i spoke to many a chinese who's m, you know, colleagues were literally is suffering 90 percent, her f under colbert symptoms. so most of them are infected, and that's also what i've been hearing from my own personal network. i would say that the majority of bridging a st already been infected and you can see that it's really an extreme stress test because her infections are rising a. so rapidly and especially in the beginning of this rice, it wasn't an world really long queues in front of the fever clinics. and we know that from reports that are also the c

workers will travel home by road rail and air journalist 5 been cut my joints. men are from beijing, fabi, an official figures from a law. but is there any way to actual estimate the scale of infections and deaths? yeah, we're pretty much left in the dark here. the official number stay detached from reality, or just when the cases were exploding here, the numbers, the official numbers actually went down. so though they are not really reliable for anything right now, we cannot use them as an indicator. so he and beijing, where many correspondents are base it. it's easy to assess the situation by, you know, just reporting and researching you. stat. we'll talk to people in your personal network and you start to find out that most of them have been infected in the last 2 weeks. you to talk to companies, host your employees have also been infected to almost 90 percent in some cases. so am they're set and some correspondence also went to a funeral home caea in beijing and also crematorium. and they are working it over time. so that a strong indicator also for an excessive amount of covert death

and there's at least clarity and that also that slowly things are, can start to get back to normal fabi on back to you and, and beijing. a, give us your of you. how does this affect workers and china? well of course in now this is a huge change and also for the economy, a big relief because am the companies we're also am always in and clarity whether there will be a lock down of there are facilities of their factories or not. now they can at least plan, but let me be clear, the next a months could be painful because the transition of course will not be easy, will not be smoothed. now we also at the beginning of the winter and with, you know, chinese new year hats and that means a lot of trouble. so, but basically the virus will be spread to all the other provinces. so of course am there is a lot of a feeling of uncertainty. we don't know, and where this all will lead us. but definitely on the long run, i'm sure that the companies, the economy will keep going. but let me emphasize also, if you look at the trait numbers from today, which were really disastrous, not only all the problems a

earlier we spoke to journalists, fabi on kurt mar, in beijing to get his assessment on the situation day. yeah, what we've seen him begging us basically how the at last a 0 covert, a fortress became the number one, a covered hot spot. in a matter of days. it is literally hard to find any one in the city or who has not been infected. 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 are 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 dri, usual to terms. so i think that's a key assign, but those are deaf as they do n

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

china is ill prepared to face the wave of infections that might come with reopening journalists or fabi in crash mer, is in beijing. he told us how these changes will impact china's 0 coven policy. yes, so the idea behind a 0 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 a resolute measures. for example, a whole building was shut down. um, several hundreds of people were sent to karen teen facilities, et cetera. and every 3 days he and begging 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 infected, 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 were basically we're what we're going to sle

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

it was mostly negative. fabi a mic up if all but over time, their attitudes changed. not to listen that of course, where nature were very niche doing this, but we have revived the idea of making silk in switzerland. again, not every one is talking about it, but some are limb in the trip it off. the silk yarn they spin is destined for the world's catwalks fashion designer raphael cooter. a star in switzerland is a strong advocate of swiss silk in the textile industry. he's showcasing his collection at the swiss design awards in basil, the leading national design competition for years. rafael hunted down the best materials in the archives, museums, and companies. he decided on swiss silk. melissa thought my to the i'll to like by the silk, is a great material to work with it. and it has something special compared to other fabrics. and then it, i prefer to work with natural fibers, materials, what up cycle all materials and leftovers on it or did upside connect? i'd love to jada leftovers in 2019. rafael won the award for fashion and textile design at the swiss design aw

now, journalist fabi on catch mother in beijing, thank you. the u. s. has denied encouraging ukraine to launch strikes inside russia after 3 apparent drone attacks on targets that moscow blames on keys an air field in the course region and to add bases further inside russia came under attack. earlier this week, ukraine is not claimed responsibility, and washington stopped short of attributing the strikes to keith for fear of escalating the conflict. we have neither encouraged nor enabled the ukrainians to strike inside of russia. but the important thing is to understand what ukrainians are living through every day with the ongoing russian aggression against their country. in our determination to make sure that they have in their hands, along with many other partners around the world, the equipment that they need to defend themselves to defend their territory, to defend their freedom. to w correspondent ne comedy joins me now from keith make. we've just heard from the secretary of state there, but the latest escalation, what are ukrainian officials say t

earlier i spoke to journalist fabi on catch my in beijing and i asked him how much of a step changed? this is where in my opinion, this is really a paradigm shift, especially when you consider where we came from until very recently are basically you had to be transferred to a parenting center when you a tested positive or when you were suspected cobra case. now you can q out, at least if you have mild symptoms at home, that's really a big change, or also we don't need to be afraid of, you know, mess, white locked dance any more. i mean, until recently it was enough that only one of your hundreds of neighbors tested positive for your whole residential compound to be sealed off. now there's none of that any more. and also the mandatory testing is basically suspended. so, i mean, some companies can still require, you know, testing and in an elderly home there will be still are testing. but the general testing is basically stop. this is really basically the same, a signs of opening that we've seen previously in taiwan or in you sealant. i mean, other countries who also implemented as he r