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tens of thousands are forced to evacuate as powerful winds and dry conditions fuel fast moving, flames. south africa lifts. a nighttime curfew as optimism grows at its corrode on the cross wave has passed. the number of new coping cases has nearly dropped by 30 percent in a week in the hospital admissions are down. since d w. news live from a for lead. keeping the diplomatic door open for a door open for a diplomatic solution. forgive me. russia and united states to discuss the kremlin troop build up around ukraine, but neither side wants to give in to the others. demands. also coming up ah, tens of thousands of residents in the us state of colorado have been forced to evacuate due to quickly spreading wildfires. hundreds of homes have been destroyed

and some of the worst fires the state has ever seen. powerful winds have fueled the fast moving flames which come after an unusually dry ottoman 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 based journalist and meteorologist matthew caput you who joined us from washington, d. c. matthew, a congressman for color. colorado says the wild fires have caused a level of devastation. never before seen. does that sound about right? for me, i'd be pretty comfortable saying that in fact, a $1000000000.00 is ashton, colorado, ordinarily there hell storms because we call them the mile high senior mile atmosphere. ca call there they get hailstorm. but with fires ordinarily we see these areas that are very densely populated. but this time around, we're seeing it in downtown area is the middle of an area walmart to cosco, very dense population. and so to see this in neighborhood character,

at least 580 homes is virtually unprecedented centennial state and something that we haven't really seen before. and i have a feeling you're going to 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, where it was snowfall in denver. they saw the latest 1st know on record feeding out all other years. in fact, in the past, the latest person we saw in november of the summer and was around december, i think 8 or 9. so really bizarre. stop there. that we saw that when the war was years, number 2 was a beverage more. was the ground really just kind of just gates and drives up the landscape. and so the fact that you buy with very strong wind this evening to upwards of 100 kilometers per hour really is the worst case scenario event. and unfortunately, we're seeing as fire spread to more than $600.00 actors. 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? the 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 towns is that bridge area outside of towns right along kind of the woodland areas, and lot of folks in recent years have been billing there. there were some divisions there, and unfortunately many people don't have adequate escape routes to evacuate when they need you ordinarily to 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 their roadways needs you to really hand that capacity. and so when they say people need to back now it's urgent, it's dire, and the stands and these flames rather, are being fan by very strong weeds upwards of a 110124 hours coming down the mountains, drying out. it really is

a worst case scenario. situation is something we really haven't seen in colorado before. also really worth mentioning to talk 20 largest wildfires or c history and all occurred 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 latest. all right, meteorologist matthew ca poochie. thank you for that insight. thank you. let's get you up to speed now and some of the other stories making use around the world. working from russian authorities have designated a member of the russian punk group pussy riot and just a total of cova as a foreign agent to other people were officially given. the title sat, harrison art collector to move by the justice ministry is being seen as an attempt to stifle dissent. in russia, the united states, people in south africa, are streaming into cape towns, cathedral for a 2nd day to pay their respects to. archbishop desmond tutu anglican clerics carried his coffin into saint george's cathedral,

where the former nobel peace prize laureate, once railed against apartheid white rule, duty to 2 died last sunday at the age of 90 and some uplifting news from the pandemic. from south africa, government officials have lifted overnight, curfews and say it's possible a country maybe over the peak of our micron. the variant was detected and cow tang province at the end of november. sick patients were expected to overwhelm the health care system, but that didn't happen. instead, hospitalization, rates decreased despite the more contagious nature of on the kron. now ahead of the new year, south africans are feeling hopeful. this was the epicenter of only chron, 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 to prominent health care level definitely for the average patient cause as much

milder symptoms than even delta. if i look at my own personal experience out 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 or not severely think a severe he often hospitalisation often listen, we monitor how many needed oxygen or ethan. i see you can call cause i'm asked that

he has seen. it's sophia, who says, when noted in those with on some south africans wonder if micron is a blessing in disguise. those who fall sick, i'm not too sick and the infection act as natural booster. russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart, jo bud spoke for nearly an hour on thursday as tensions rise over russia's troop build up near the ukrainian border in their 2nd talk this month, biden demanded a d escalation and threatened russia with new sanctions, but couldn't warn that such measures would cause a complete rupture of ties. despite a long list of differences, both sides agreed that progress was made on the call. more talks between senior american, russian, nato and european officials are expected in january. there's

a deal and for more on this we can bring in d, w, correspond emily, sherwin in moscow. and emily, these were the 2nd tap, talks this month between biden and couldn't you think any headways being made? well, judging from the summaries that we saw from the kremlin and also from the white house on the one hand, a lot of the rhetoric that we heard yesterday in that talk between binding and pushing was kind of the same red lines. sanctions and threats were exchanged, but on the other hand, it does seem that some limited headway is being made. first of all, as he said, these are the 2nd talks between biden and they almost lasted an hour talking in these 10 times is important in and of itself. and one of hooton's aids us, you shall, shall call, said yesterday that the talks were open, substantial and concrete. and he also said that apparently biden gave,

put in some, a guarantee that there would not be us offensive weapons in ukraine. now if that is true, then that would be very important. putin has been talking a lot in recent weeks about the various flight times of missiles if they're launched in eastern europe. if they're launched in ukraine, how long it would take them to reach moscow. and one of the demands that russia has been issuing is for nato not to be able to station any missiles near russian borders. that's one of the demands that russia has issued in recent weeks to the u . s. a. just a reminder that russia is, of course, also pushing against nato expansion towards the east. they don't want ukraine in particular to join nato. putin has made it clear that that is really a red line for russia. that's about spheres of influence, of course, but also about security and is by and really did give that guarantee to put in

yesterday. then that would be some movement. then we would be seeing some movement on those talks. you know, just a quick last question. if i made, there would be more talks in january with russia, but also with nato and the o. s. e. so a whole bunch of countries around the table of involving russia. well, having more parties involved somehow make a solution easier. i think it's very important. i mean, russia has issued these demands to the u. s. directly, but i think even put in nose when it comes to nato, you have to talk with all the nato countries. and of course, these talks with the o. s. c, e are important because they bring ukraine to the table. and both leaders have been extensively discussing ukraine, essentially without ukraine being at the table. so i think that's very important. and putin has wanted talks all along, experts say, so if that's what he wanted, than, than, that's what he'll be getting in january, a whole range of talks. okay,

we'll be looking forward to your comments on the question in the weeks to come to w correspondent, emily sure, when thanks so much around the world, people are getting ready to welcome the new year in new york city. preparations are in full swing organizers illuminated and sent up the famous times square ball several times to make sure it was working. ball contains thousands of lights and crystals on friday night. they will lower the ball during the count down. new york city will ring in 2022 in time square with a scaled back celebration, as planned, despite record members of cope 19 infections and see and despite this being the 2nd year of corona virus restrictions, it was nevertheless, a busy year for the arts. 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. nonetheless, it was one of the year's biggest grossing films marking daniel craig's 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 deployments from ferdinand is the world's 1st public exhibition

warehouse. was lowe's new monkey museum is the big is devoted to a single artist at vod modem. 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 euros, or one crate or the other motor. the hit south korean series. squid game made 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.

perhaps the best gifted year was the gift of freedom for pop star, britney spears. after her fans kept up the pressure with a hash tag free brittany, her conservatorship was saw, her father control her fortune, and her life was ended in port and your of course watching deed of your news live from berlin. business uses up next. for more headlines, analysis and other information, remember there's always our website, w dot com and social media. your find is under at d. w to use our next by sir, thanks for watching. ah. these places in europe are smashing in the records. stepped into

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