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dry conditions. she will the fast moving slaves and locked down china 0 tolerance policy towards coven 19 leaves. people stranded at home, running out of food and supplies, and south africa lifted nighttime curfew is an optimism growth that it's on the cross wave has passed. a number of new coping cases is dropped by nearly 30 percent in a week to hospital admissions or town. ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program. tens of thousands of residents if the american state of colorado had been forced to evacuate due to quickly spreading wildfires. hundreds of homes have been destroyed in some of the worst fires the state has ever seen.

powerful winds have fueled fast moving flames which come after an unusually dry autumn and low levels of snow. at least one 1st responder and 6 others have been injured since the fires began. and we can speak now to us base journalist and meteorologist matthew caput you who joined us from washington. d. c . matthew, a congressman for collar. colorado says the wild fires have caused a level of devastation. never before seen. does that sound about right? personally, i'd be pretty comfortable saying that back in just $1000000000.00. is aspen, colorado ordinarily there hell storms? because we call them the mile high. senior mile of the atmosphere, ca call there. they get hailstorm, but with fires ordinarily we see these areas that are very against the popular. but this time around we're seeing it in downtown area is the middle of near walmart to cosco very dense population. and so to see this in neighborhoods character, at least 580 homes is virtually unprecedented centennial state and something that

we haven't really seen before. and i have a fairly are gonna answer by talking somehow about global warming. but i need to say that it's the middle of winter. shouldn't it be snowing in colorado? yeah, this really has been the weirdest fall on record that i remember at least about one centimeter, we're snowball in denver. they saw the latest personnel on record feeding out all other years. in fact, in the past, the latest person we saw it was november the summer and was around december, i think 8 or 9. so really bizarre, stopped there. that we saw that when the war was years on record, she was a beverage more was route really just kind of desk is rise up the landscape. and so back in the saw that you buy with very strong, with this evening to upwards of 100 kilometers per hour really is the worst case scenario event. and unfortunately, we're senior fire spread to more than $600.00 acres. and just a final question. if i may, the governor of colorado says there is very little time to get out of who's he

talking about? what does he mean? most enduring urban areas. the one thing that we were about now is that a lot of folks are building what's called the urban, the wildly urban interface. kind of at the border of town is that bridge area outside of towns right along kind of the woodland areas. and lot of those in recent years have been billing. there were some divisions there, and unfortunately many people don't have adequate escape routes to evacuate when they meet you. ordinarily, the roadways you have are adequate to supply traffic. but when it talks, when it comes to a high end of that situation alone, leave to get out of dodge quickly. we just don't have the roadways needs. you really hand that capacity. and so when they say people need to back with now it's urgent, it's dire, and the stands and these flames are being van by very strong weeds upwards of 110124 hours for our coming down. the mountains, drying out here really is a worst case scenario. situation is something we really haven't seen in colorado before. also worth mentioning the top 20 largest wildfires or c history and all of

her in the past 20 years. and so climate change is written. there is one of those things we'll see manifest and extreme weather and this is kind of a list. all right. meteor all of this matthew poochie. thank you for that insight. if you're now, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stores making news around the world . today. russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart, joe biden, have discussed russia's troop build up near the ukrainian border. biden demanded a d escalation and threatened russia with new sanctions. but put war such measures would cause a complete rupture of ties. despite their differences, both sides agreed that progress was made on the call. russian authorities have designated a member of the russian punk group, pussy riot, judged a tele konica as a foreign agent to other people were officially given the title,

a satirist. and an art collector move by the justice ministry is being seen as an attempt to stifle dissent. in russia, the indonesian navy has brought more than 100 rou, hinge a refugees to shore. after they spent days aboard, a sinking ship indonesian authorities had originally planned to provide the stricken vessel with humanitarian aid and then push it back into international waters. but after pressure from rights groups, the navy has now allowed the refugees to disembark and seek shelter. and now some uplifting news on the pandemic from south africa. government officials have listed over night curfews and say it's possible the country maybe over the peak of our micron. the variant was detected in gao tank province at the start of november. sick patients were expected to overwhelm the health care system. but that didn't happen instead, hospitalization, rates decreased despite more contagious. the more contagious nature of armor crohn

. now ahead of the new year, south africans are feeling hopeful. this was the epicenter of only crone, but infections have dropped. and residents of gutting province a basking in the relief as our local health care workers, me grown woe at a at prominent healthcare level. definitely for the average patient course as much milder symptoms than even delta. if i look at my own personal experience of a 110 patients, we had to admit it from 3 to 4 patients. i'm not very severely you. the probability of landing in a hospital with only chron is 80 percent lower than the delta infections. experts say the reason is threefold. a great many people in south africa already have some immunity against the virus due to past infections. secondly,

the new parent is weaker, and thirdly, vaccines have helped. almost 40 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. patients who nevertheless need hospitalization, are not severely sick. very often they took off listen, we monitor how many needed oxygen or ethan? i see you more cynthia chemical cause. and that's that he, when he seemed sophia, who says windows, it in those with some south africans one. no, it's one micron is a blessing in disguise. those who fall sick, i'm not too sick. and the infection actors natural boosters in the chinese city of shyanne, people have been taking the social media to complain. they run out of food because of a major lockdown authority. say however,

that volunteers are now delivering supplies to people's homes. and just one family member per household is allowed to go out to buy groceries otherwise, and not more than once every 3 days. china has adopted a 0 tolerance policy towards code 19 infections, which could be a challenge when a host the winter olympics in february. i am fortunate and correspond fabbing credit for joins us now from badging from war. a fabulous, many of the 13000000 people living in shank said they are struggling to find enough food, but aging says there's enough. so what's going on? yeah, it's really crucial to talk to as many local residents and because and yet they will give you a quite a different picture compared to what's been reported in state media. the people from c on that i talked to some of them, they are receiving a foot delivery by the government. many others, however don't, and what they are doing a se, rely on their neighborhood, for example, with their neighbors. they form chat groups and then she are cooking spices, eggs,

meat, et cetera. so, and they rely on themselves m however, most vulnerable are the people that will live quite under privilege, for example, the migrant workers or, and people who don't have a refrigerator, refrigerator at home to store food. and they are, of course, most affected. but compared to the lockdown last year in will hon, and there is no panic and it's a relatively orderly and erm. what is fabian china doing to prevent the spread of, of the arm across very that striking it the entire planet where they already have um, one of the most severe restrictions in place and the board as a defacto closed or even for long term residents not easy to get in and outside of the country and, and when you do and come back then immediately at the airport, you're carry to a centralized hotel, karen teen and get tested every day and then stay there for 2 to 3 weeks. and that

doesn't, or make sure that there cannot be any local infections as we see now. but am the government has to stick to the or a recipe of lock downs and mass testing because the only approve fixing the chinese ones don't seem to help um, in terms of protecting from amazon. and just to return to the people of she and is there any and to the lockdown and site yeah. am health experts tell me both from inside china and outside china that and probably the infection cluster will be under control a maximum by february because the restrictions are really very severe. however, that doesn't mean that am yeah, there will be a lot another local infection cluster anytime soon. okay, did you say 5 in customer in beijing? thanks so much for that insight. as the world ready itself to welcome the new year, the iconic ringing of big ben in london was tested ahead of celebrations. the clock

tower of the houses of parliament had been under restoration for 3 and a half years. the scaffolding was moved just in time for the world famous bong bell . pardon me, to perform its most important duty. london's traditional new year's fireworks and concert have been cancelled due to coven 19 restrictions. but there's no holding back big bens box. that's what i meant to say. despite this being the 2nd year corona virus restrictions, it was nevertheless, a busy year for the arts. and we have this look back at some of the cultural highlights of 2021. ah, habits sounds like they never went away. the years most spectacular come back. maybe the come back of the decade. ah, james bond took longer than ever before between missions. the pandemic pushed back

the release date for the spy thriller. no time to die multiple times. you late? none the less, it was one of the year's biggest grossing films marking daniel craigs last outing as double 07. ah. the year also saw spectacular museum openings the luma in the french city about a seamless plant of art and architecture. in rotterdam, the new depot of the boy immense from virginian, is the world's 1st public exhibition warehouse slows. new monk museum is the biggest devoted to a single artist. at 5 mom. a version of the scream is on display. the artists

best known work. this artwork doesn't need a museum for the 1st time christies auctioned a digital piece. the collage of 5000 individual images was created by american artist and computer scientist. people it fetched a record, some of around $60000000.00 euros, would create a woman the hit south korean series, squid game, mid waves, around the world. south korean films and series have had more and more success internationally. as had the boy band b t s, with their music, ah, with perhaps the best gift of the year was the gift of freedom for pop star britney spears. after her fans kept up the pressure with the hash tag free brittany, her conservatorship was saw, her father control her fortune,

and her life was ended in port and you're of course watching it did of you use. here's a reminder, the top story we're following for you. in the american state of colorado, tens of thousands of people are forced to evacuate as powerful winds and dry conditions fuel fast moving wildfires. hundreds of homes have been destroyed in some of the worst fires the state has ever seen. and you are, of course watching dw news fly from berlin up. next is our coven 19 is special for more headlines and analysis? remember that always our website, d, w dot comp. um nick spicer, thanks to watch. ah ah, ah, ah, ah.