for a walk through people, we ship light on the opaque worlds who's behind with why are they a threat to whistle oak creek wools this week on d w? ah ah, this is dina. we news lines from berlin. a winter storm with near hurricane force winds batter's the west east. new yorkers are asked to stay at home as weather

service as forecast, 60 centimeters of snow and travel grind to also coming up as tension between russia and the west to rise. ukraine warns not to fan the flames of war while those living on the frontline prepare for escalation and germany is green party comes together to elect new leaders, offer these to talk high ranking ministerial posts, and germany is new coalition government. we speak to one of the winner. ah. i'm nichol. i should be good to have you with us. a powerful winter storm packing. heavy snow and high winds has palmer large parts of the us east coast. blinding blizzard conditions have forced airlines to cancel 1000

a flight. a severe weather alert sounded across a region of around 70000000 people. the state of emergency has been issued, and 5 states more snow is expected as well as coastal flooding. and joining us now from the snowy streets of new york city, as journalists have banned by one neighbor, haven't experts, our warning of historic snow fall. what's the situation in new york right now? we're here in new york. the situation is not extreme. ah, it's about 25 centimeters of fresh snow that said average storm in new york city. but of course, the situation is very different. up the new england coast, especially in boston, boston is in the crosshairs of this dramatic coastal storm. our people say in boston that might be the worst snowstorm in the history of the city, a responsible fall. this of course, is this extreme low pressure system off the coast, just be rapidly intensifying. nit urology cold is at bob sykes. when i basically

and match the logical ball that goes off off the coast and basically destroyed ballasts all against the cities from boston. and people on the east coast are of course no strangers to blizzards, but what makes this one so dangerous and so dramatic chaos. oh, like a loss and a half baths there in the snow. how bad can you hear me? we well try and get back to him, and one of our later shows that was habit bow unable from new york city. moving on us president joe biden has announced he will send american troops to nato's eastern

flank in europe, but ukrainian president, william years the landscape has cautioned the west against stoking fears of russian military action. people living in ukraine's eastern border region have already faced ears of conflict. now school children and teachers are preparing for an escalation of fighting new york elementary school. not the big apple, but a small town in the don bus. no one knows how it got its name. inside the curriculum is different. this is not just reading and writing the students here or taught what to do in the event of a bomb attack. what stop? no, what's like if they cover their ears so they have less stress is by hearing less i what we're worried about of what is an attack near us, not necessarily on the school, not us,

but that the windows could break because an explosion is too strong and you might disco, we put a protective material on the windows because we're worried about the glass flying through the classroom. and potentially cutting someone, or even really looked up the not the proper i belong basic of an international aid organization, gave us this protective film for the window. and they told us that the glass won't shatter. we don't know if it works, but fortunately we haven't had to find out the book. but with the scope is uprising allow teachers try to stay calm. but these are tens times along ukraine's eastern front. and the children feel it to show the egg. most shooting happens at night. sure. let me go so you don't know who is shooting and where it comes from. yeah, for sure. is it alive? c, e, w for it's terrible. i'm really worried. i'm really afraid that there will be an attack essay and that will all die regarding the corridors. 2 are aligned with

grim reminders and stark warnings of a fate that is not yet sealed. and that every one here hopes will never come to pass. and so take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. spanish rescue workers have picked up 86 migrants who have been stranded into dang, ease, also, canary islands. the archipelago off the coast of west africa has become the main destination for migrants trying to reach a member country, spain. your paying far right parties have held a summit in madrid, hosted by the spanish box party. among delegates attending the 2 day gathering were hungarian prime minister, victor, all bun, polish, prime minister, mateo. we're ivy at ski and french far right leader in the pen. in december, the parties discussed joint votes and sovereignty and emigration issues in the european parliament, but stopped short of striking

a formal alliance. so to jill mont, that a law has agreed to serve a 2nd term as italy's president, he was asked by leaders of the ruling parties to stay on as head of state after they failed to reach an agreement on a candidate who could secure broad support from parliamentarians and regional representatives germany's green party has elected new leaders to cap off it's 2 day conference and berlin delegates selected the 28 year old, the condo lung deputy co leader of the greens until today and omit lulu for a member of the committee on foreign affairs, as well as electing new leaders. the conference is meant to reassure members. the party is capable of steering germany in the right direction. following a scandal over coven 19 payable linda. and we can now speak to ricardo along the greens new coal leader. welcome to d w. miss long. first of all,

congratulations to the election. of course. what are you hoping to achieve as the youngest ever co leader of the green party? well, i think that's true talk. we have to hand out the same type of screen party. we're just trying to coalition and government at the one hand, we have to put the things we have now. listen paper into l g from a child guarantee fee to exit of coal. and then the other hand, we have to gain the trust of more people and get more people to engage with us and to trust and especially in rural areas. and i think to, yeah, we as a partner to play our part in getting these chops to fit together your party dorothy here support and last year's general election. how are you planning to maintain this momentum and reach even more people? i think 1st of all, we have to show that it makes a difference. if the queens are in the government, the life of people are getting better with us being in the government. and on the

other hand, we need to look at the parks where people still maybe have some feelings off. well, i don't really know whether to trust them, especially people who don't have a lot of income or people who live in rural area. and to tackle the issues that really interested people and just show them that we are part of the fighting for their interests and for their rights. what will your role be in, in that process? where do you see yourself making a difference? first of all, i think that takes you to the common shifter party will be kind of like a link between the government and the one hot, the party members on the print. then i think that we will be something like a motel for years. so we will thing to forum in longer terms to test the coalition, and we will have to put forward new ideas. and i think we will also be responsible for showing the queen positions because was in the government who will have to make compromises. this is something normal, this is not something bad,

but we still have to see what is the difference between our 3 positions and what is happening in the government at the moment. and i think the party will be the one showing that as a member of the executive board of the greens, you are currently under investigation for awarding yourself a coven bonus of 1500 arrows and 2020. you greenlit measures that you yourself benefited from financially. how do you explain that decision to potential voters that case has already been by disgust with him last year and the money was paid back nowadays, i wouldn't make the same decision again. i think what is important now apart from paying impact, which we are learning from that the party getting better self new rules within this subject. do you understand though, that some people would say that that overshadows your leadership role in the party? i would not say that because i think the party today showed that they gave us

a strong position with me and i'll be movie poor that they are standing behind us. and i think now the parties looking into the future because there's so much for us to gain and especially to so much change within the society, prompt lima protection to getting pill children out of poverty. i think this has to be the things that we are looking at at the moment. we're kind of the elected green party co later thank you for your time today. yeah, no problem, bye. if streaming giant spotify continues to feel the backlash from as decision to remove neil young from the platform with another music legend joanie mitchell, also removing her music and solidarity. the singers are protesting upon cast her sent by joe rogan on the platform, which they say it spreads mis information about the corona barnes. earlier this month, hundreds of scientists and medical professionals find a letter urging spotify it to remove the popular pod cast, which they have not done. and anthony howard is here to talk more about this.

this story just keeps rumbling on, doesn't that? and the longer goes, it gets more interesting to look at why joe rogan is there, and to music legends are gone. joe rogan was paid a $100000000.00 to pick up his giant audience and lift them and plump them down and spotify, that's what they were hoping to achieve. and that's exactly what he did. the problem is that he has extreme views. he's told his large audience not to get vaccinated and talked about his use of information, either make them and how it has helped him, not approved by the drug administration in the states. so joe rogan still where he made the look and sound both like a man in a tin foil hat with really extreme views. but don't make any mistake. he's a content giant, a tin kung tin tongue content. gorilla, an audience of 11000000 people twice a week. to put that into context, tucker carlson fox has $3000000.00 per episode. joe rogan, the strange man,

everyone thinks is just crazy. $11000000.00 per podcast it, he's enormous. and spar fi is facing quite some backlash over their decision to stand by. and joe rogan, i'm they, year neil young fan circle, the wagons on spotify in response to the way the hash tags fortified. the later trended on twitter yesterday and found inundated the helpline on spotify to such an extent the customer support line that it came offline, and that completely went to water and just melted the system. so spotify our feeling the pressure and they were aware of the frustration the kid story at the same time was this one was the shape process was going down. nicole, the angry mob on twitter wanted to relate one story to the other saying that the share process going down because joe rogan still there and neil young is gone. but really this is an interesting industry wide trend on they says they've got 25 percent spot to find the 1st month of this year. so to more or less have tesla and netflix. so we can't quite married. i was, it was tantalizing to do it. but it's not quite. all right,

you're very deep in the story. do you think there is any chance that spotify bend and cancel jo broken show? no, this is the moment the cool kids that spotify became the big, the big, ugly parents with a capitalist that they had to do at some point. joe rogan is a star influencer. the he's a living incarnation of their business model. that's the sort of look we're talking about. but he did exactly what they wanted to happen. and so they've got to turn to their investors in the shareholders and say, it's going to be way more costly to lose rogan and he's $22000000.00 downloads awake. rather than have a few 1000 people go to apple to listen to heart of gold or more money, make the walk around and so much anthony, our in women's tennis world. number one, ash bardy has won the australian open after beating danielle collins and the final on saturday party becomes the 1st australian and 44 years to win the home title. a 25 year old took the 1st set $63.00. the 2nd set was

a back and forth battle with her american opponent. taking a 51 lead bud bardy fought back to win on a tie break. the victory is barney's 3rd major title offer the french open in 2019 and wimbledon. last year. they're wanting d w news lines from berlin, stay tuned for our documentary moron off about the ghosts of warsaw. we'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour until then there's always our website dw, dot com, and make sure it also follows on social media. i'm really thank you so much for watching her home. any portion of love us her work.