mark devices are embedded in our daily lives tracking our every move. oh, we headed to a futuristic utopia, poor but digitize nightmare. the internet of everything starts january 17th on d, w. ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin 1st wild, far than heavy snow. parts of the american state of colorado are devastated by eerily opposing conditions. hundreds of people have been left homeless to search

for the missing is under way. also coming up. mysterious person crosses south korea's heavily fortified border into north korea. we'll look at how they did it and was behind this apparent defection. and france takes the reins of the european union for the next 6 months. the government in paris is under pressure, as coven, 19 cases, surge of elections spring. ah, i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. hundreds of people have been left homeless and the american state of colorado. after gale force winds, fueled wild fires that tore through to communities outside the city of boulder. fires destroyed a 1000 homes but were put out in large part by heavy snowfall. at least 3 people are missing and fear dead. president joe biden has declared the area a disaster,

so it's a new twist in colorado battle against the elements just days ago, heat, raging wildfires was for problem for people. he now is the cold volunteers handouts. he says to help those about power keep warmer. well we saw 2022 might be better. c and then we had omicron, and now we have this and it's not starting out very well. we're just looking to get warm and get our water turned back on here soon. the arrival of a snow extinguished for flames. saving hundreds of homes. it was cold and new year's miracle. now it's presenting new challenges. orthor it is shuts off the water supply to stop pipes from freezing, leaving residents with nothing on top of it. with the cold came too late to

save nearly 1000 properties. residents are now returning to see if anything can be salvaged stroller. hopefully, we can go back something, but there's just so much lost. i was going to want to come back to this residence on no closer to knowing how this all started. authorities haven't ruled out often as because of a most destructive blazes in colorado's history. south korea's military says an unidentified person has crossed the border into north korea. the army detected the person in the demilitarized zone and surveillance equipment later showed that that person had gone into north korea. the border region between the 2 countries contains millions of land mines and is one of the

most heavily armed places in the world. and for more on this, we can bring in tranq smith, a journalist in sole capitol of south korea. frank, how can someone cross this border, which is as i was just saying, one of the most heavily defended in the world? well, it's very difficult. you can just walk up to the d, m z here in south korea, there's a line of civilian control before you get to the dmc, with guard posts and check points and fencing. and then you have to go through that . and then usually a couple of kilometers later, there's more guard posts in the dmc for real. so this person had to make it quite a deliberate, you know, endeavor to get into north korean. we don't have any sort of confirmation that he made it there. there are, as you mentioned, land mind something like 2000000 land mines scattered across this area of otherwise

wilderness that that person would have to traverse to get to north korean. and the north korean guards, you know, have, you know, according to reports, been instructed to, to shoot on site. anybody trying to get into north korea from the outside, especially with the onset of, of covey. 19. and so, you know, it is again, a very deliberate and difficult endeavor to make it to north korea from the south sounds how to get into this dmc, or demilitarized zone and, and survive with minds. it sounds incredible. do we do we know how or why the south korean border guards didn't notice this until several hours later while they're conducting an investigation into this, in the preliminary report suggested there was monitoring equipment that found out that saw this were recorded. this person breaking through some fencing at 6 40 pm on saturday evening 3 hours before there was some human intelligence and

intervention to go in and look for this person. so that's certainly going to be a point that the south korean officials and government are going to be looking in to, you know, it, it reminds one of the challenges facing south korea, the south korean military, it as a mandatory military service. the, the, the spot that the soldiers are doing their mandatory military service don't want to go is along the dmc. it's a very stressful area to patrol and between border and stress. and it's a difficult deployment certainly. yeah. and, and just one last question. if i may, this is, it's such an incredible side store and he does it, does this happen a lot? no, it's, it's, it's very, very infrequent. and you know, there have been a, there was another occasion last year in 2020 of fishery official either fell or

went to overboard a fisheries vessel in the maritime border and drifted toward into north korea and was subsequently shot by a north korean patrol. vessel following these coven 19 prevention measures, according to north korea, which subsequently apologize. there have been very high profile cases of northwind soldiers coming to south korea. one that was shot at 40 times as he crossed at the border village of pan moved jerome. and neither that came across, this is in 2070 another. they came across in 2017, made it all the way to a south brain guard post and turned himself in knocking on the door of a so the green guard post. okay, thanks for that. i update on the incredible story. frank smith reported from sol, sketchup speed now some of the other stores making use around the world. a major fire has broken out in the south african parliament building in cape town. fire fighters were struggling to control the fire and the roof of the building.

witnesses also reported cracks, appearing in its walls. there still no indication of what may have started the place. the european union wants to label some gas and nuclear projects as green investments. nuclear power plants investments could count as environmentally friendly if there are detail plans for disposing of radioactive waste. safety france has taken over the 6 month presidency of the european union and a difficult time for the government in paris. total corona virus cases have top 10000000 in a country of fewer than 70000000. and there's political uncertainty ahead with national elections in the spring likely to see strong challenges to president emanuel michael a new year. and a new start. as monuments across paris will lit up in blue to mark president emmanuel micron, taking over the rotating presidency of the council of the european union.

many already see micron as a natural successor to angler, merkel, as effective leader of europe and over, but you'll dominique so from midnight, let france will take over the presidency of the european union. and you can counter my total commitment to make this moment. mm hm. which only occurs once every 13 years, a time of progress, a you full with a mr. matthew micron is expected to run in the presidential elections. this april, though, has yet to formulate declare but there is also strong support for you or skeptic. candidates not including leader of the right wing national rally, marine the pen. she says, no patriot can accept the downgrading and dilution of the nation and criticize macros for swapping the trickle off for the flag under the arbitrary and asked franz buckles record breaking cove. 19 cases will microns you optimism cut through

a will his role as europe's at presumptive be brought to an early end? south africa has said farewell to the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid. the funeral of archbishop at archbishop, forgive me, desmond tutu, took place at cape town, saint george's cathedral, the church where for decades he railed against south africa's white minority, raging awe in death. as in life, desmond teacher requested a simple ceremony with a cheap coffin and donations for charity instead of floral attributes. corona by restrictions meant only a 100 guests could attend, but millions watched from home. his daughter, naomi said the family had been overwhelmed with messages of love and gratitude for to tease life dead, he would say the love the world has shown has wronged the cove of allah.

ha! and he then he would say, i don't know what a police, but whatever it is, it has been wound our cockle. ah mo, the front of the cathedral was eliminated in the color of teaching ropes, his widow leah, also dressed in purple. ah the man affectionately known as totter or sometimes simply the arch risked his life and his freedom to speak out against appetite. archbishop desmond tutu was without question, a crusader in this struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and for peace. not only in south africa, the country of his birth, but on the world as well. his friends with

sometimes writing. and so i didn't boys were always of voice from divorce. right up to old age to, to full for his vision of a rainbow nation in which all races in south africa couldn't live in harmony often . eco friendly, coronation. his ashes will be intent at the cathedral. ah, and we turn to sports now we're more karone, a virus. chaos is threatening. the german buena sleeva and the already beleaguered english premier league or madison served you w sports. welcome, mark. i. let's talk about buyer nunez. first. league leaders. how many cases to have? well, it says we 5 in total, it's manual noise, the captain and goalkeeper. he was going back from the mall div kings he come on was coming back from do by. we have content to lease. so he was back in his native

friends the holiday period with omar richards, the english defend, and also the assistant coach dino, top knitter. now, the blender, the, there has been an a 3 week break. it starts again on friday when by and due to face mentioned back. we don't exactly know how many of these players will be out. we assume all of them, but we don't know what stage is infection in florentine. obviously by and do have a big squad to the moment the game isn't in doubt, but they've moved the start of training back to to morrow from to day. and yet a little bit of chaos now in the book, these are, these are the 1st bio cases, right? no, indeed. i mean, before we had the coach hewley now, guzman, he missed 2 weeks at the seas, not to do his coaching from home. obviously the most famous cases you'll show came if he didn't want to get vaccinated, he then got the virus and the actually had a, a low problem because of corona virus and we don't know he's going to be fit for friday. we don't know if this is sort of a long covert situation or not. so there's big problems by and in the bond is they

go wildly. i mean, what is interesting is that these cases are people flying back from holiday? yeah, and i think some buying sounds will be saying, was it really a good idea to let these players go off? so you know why extremities across the globe when maybe they're sharing planes. we random people. obviously, i think last year, most of the infections were within the club and obviously that's how to stop. but now we've got a new element to it. and we've not really heard from menu. the bond is they good teams. they got lots of positive cases flying back as well. could we start to see postponements like we've seen in english premier league? the one is the guy who has a new boss from tomorrow. the 1st woman to lead the bonus they could do now to help them. and she's gonna have quite a busy in tray. and briefly mentioned the english premier league my and goes to liverpool, coach juergen, clock, just testing positive our is livable even gonna be able to complete the c. it's going to be a tricky one. i mean a grass as we know the game against chelsea is happening today. despite positive

cases. i think they might have to stop playing games during champions league weeks . which way for hate or even push it into june. we don't have a woke up in june. she has of his house, okay, w's, abarc, meadows from b, w. sports. thanks so much. and that's about it for now. coming up. it's one of the biggest fraud cases in german history. the v w. diesel gate scandal in our doc films series. stay tuned with us for that. i'm like spicer things to watch. imagine how many portion of lunch or so now in the world.