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Consistent. and what we're doing as a team is supporting that while also trying to prepare for the biggest game that this squad has had to date. >> reporter: certainly added another layer to what was already a crucial match, both team coaches are speaking to the media later today. no doubt this will be a hot topic in those news conferences. but both teams very much needing a win in this encounter on tuesday. both need it to book their place in the round of 16. >> yeah. absolutely. amanda, thank you so much for that. nice to see you. quick hits around the globe right now, a bbc journalist arr...

Because you can control the amount of the gift card. you can't control the price of the sweaters which have gone up. we're also seeing that plans to give apparel and food, sort of specialty food, but two categories hit hard by inflation this year are up. so it's a way to either have a more practical bent to your holiday gifting or make something feel more special because those aren't quite as affordable as they once were. >> fascinating. thank you so much. >> thank you. rare protests and clashes with police across china in response to covid lockdowns. and the dramatic rescue of two people ...

Protests, christine. >> steven the significance of that blank piece of white paper is it's a protest of censorship, right? >> reporter: that's right. you know, but the irony here is despite having the world's most extensive -- most sophisticated censorship, word has spread. there's a lot of people trying to post and reposting images and videos of those protests, even though they're quickly being removed by sensors, also a lot of discussions in coded lapg waj to evade censorship because the irony of the zero covid policy it's an equalizer in terms of making most people in this country suffer eq...

Measures are, quote, scientific and effective. let's bring in cnn's steven jiang live in beijing. people holding up blank white paper, a sign of protest that we usually don't see in china. >> reporter: yeah, christine. it's just extraordinary to see how widespread those protests were over the weekend. something we really haven't seen in this country for decades. but it's even more extraordinary to hear demands from some of the protesters really starting on saturday night in shanghai. up to that point, even the most vehement opponents of the zero covid policy have been dancing around the issue ...

Protest against censorship, right? >> that's right. >> how does xi respond here? does he double down on the lockdowns? or can he ease some of these lockdowns to try to cool this anger? >> well, my guess is that he starts by doubling down on bringing down the protests. we have seen cases of which the police have either been detaining people or forcing them to empty out their cell phones of pictures of the protests. i'm not sure what that accomplishes, but it is an act of control. there's no way xi will allow this to take root. once you see the blank sheets of paper, then you realize that the pr...