so you are not a visitor, not a guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. a massive winter storm threatens holiday plans for millions of americans. airlines have already cancelled thousands of flights leaving many passengers scrambling. the storm is forecasted to bring bone chilling arctic temperatures and snow too much of north america. president biden urges americans to prepare for the worst. also coming up. russia accuses the united

states of fighting a proxy war and ukraine. it's after you create a president, voted me as a lensky, visits washington and receives pledges of military assistance, including the patriot air defense system. and coven, 19 sweeps through china. now the beijing has abandoned its strict 0 coven policy infections, or surging, causing international alarm. ah, i'm ami a nice if welcome to the program. millions of americans are under severe weather warnings as a major winter storm moves across the u. s. freezing arctic air is bringing blizzards and icey winds to much of the country as it pushes, se forecasters are warning that temperatures could plunge as low as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. in some areas, the record breaking cold comes as lions hit,

the roads and the skies for the holidays. airlines have already cancelled thousands of flights. it's been called a once in a generation storm. earlier i spoke to meteorologist matthew poochie and asked him why it's packing such a punch. yeah, most definitely you know, from a structural standpoint is very impressive, which will we say in a bad way because it has so many different ingredients that are bringing to worse every single facet of severe winter weather. in other words, we start with is a bomb side bone, basically a rapidly intensifying, low pressure system. this back to me in so much air, intensifying so quickly, then it pulls down our to get on the back side in. we're on the east side and the big snow. so east of the center up now, the eastern seaboard you asked very heavy rain damage, wings gushing 90 to 100 kilometers per hour on the back side. that siberian air mass with temperature song back to about 40 degrees below 0 celsius and windshields down to minus 54 minus 55 celsius,

which could be definitely produced without shelter without the preparations in between to air masses meet you squeeze all the year. big time, snow and the winds are using blizzard conditions. and this time you're about a 130000000 people are traveling for the christmas holiday. bombs icon doesn't sound like something i would like to be a part of and you've mentioned temperatures as low as 50 minus celsius fahrenheit. that sounds like something on the moon. how dangerous is that for humans? yeah, most definitely know this is mainly relegated to the north central us from the populations router as far as that. so there are some big names, cities there, aberdeen peer bismark, over billings, montana, temperatures reaching those crazy levels, which indeed, that is celsius, 50 below 0 celsius for the actual wind, jill. and about 40 below 0, in many places for the air temperature. and so we're down those if you have to travel, have an emergency getting your car even. it's only a 5 minute drive. 5 minutes is all it takes in an emergency to get frostbite for

your skin to literally essentially die added your traverse rated a. the results can quickly become deadly. so people have to have operations with them. what about holiday travel? i mean, if getting in your car to go 5 minutes is dangerous. does this mean that a lot of people around the country are going to have to cancel their holiday plant? i think so, or at least push them back one day friday to morrow is going to be a bad travel day for millions. i think saturday, we'll see some improvement in mosul. cows. but in addition to the driving issue, we talked about in north central u. s. air travel in big concern do as you major hubs. chicago in detroit, both being affected by snow and strong winds, especially detroit, were about, i'd say $8.00 to $12.00 centimeters where the snow could fall back in cost wise, be cancelled already. 2000 flights being canceled. and in addition to that, the storm is so why, like 1800 kilometers. why that? and then those do hubs. the rest of the airports lightly seeing issues because the strong wind with the system which even in the opposite was invitation. whereas out from across winds, that will make its oper plans to take off and land. and then one more thing, ro,

travel the treaty of now, eastern seaboard, new york, philly, boston, d. c. thanks a flash breeze. carson roads is that re ice up tomorrow afternoon? arisen good cozy at home, perhaps meteorologist matthew caputo there in washington, d. c. thanks for analysis that you let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. and i've got to stand dozens of women have rallied in the capital kabul to protest the ban on women entering universities. the taliban announced the measures earlier this week, prompting international condemnation. female students have since been turned away from university campuses across the country. the u. s. judge has released disgrace crypto currency executive sam bank mon fried on a $250000000.00 bon facing fraud charges related to the collapse of the f t x crypto currency exchange, which he founded. prosecutors accuse them of stealing billions of dollars from customers. the united states senate has passed

a $1.00 trillion dollars spending bill for the next year. the bill is aimed at averting a partial government shut down and includes $45000000000.00. a new aid for ukraine . bill now goes to the house of representatives where it's expected to pass. cranium, president, villa meter zalinski is back home after a surprise visit to washington. he made a stop in poland on his way back, where he met with his polish counterpart on j duda and aid to do this. and the leader spoke for about 2 hours, posting a social media zalinski said they discussed the war in ukraine and its quote, historic challenges. while in washington, zalinski made the claim that next year would bring a turning point in the war. but he also stressed that ukraine is still very much dependent on continued support from its western allies. reacting to zalinski his trip, the kremlin accused ukraine and the u. s. of ignoring its concerns. and despite russia's continued attacks on ukraine, russian president vladimir putin earlier toll today,

i told reporters that russia was open to diplomatic negotiations, and the war a conflict, if it were only gonna conflict all armed conflicts, eventually, and with diplomatic negotiation, alina gallery, and we have never rejected such an opportunity with some what he believes ukrainian government that's barred itself from holding negotiations now which it looks quite unusual. or i would even say strange or tim. yeah. but sooner or later, really side yet or in a conflict with each other. so just sit down and negotiate with the it sooner our opponents realize that the battery with faith remote and we don't have never rejected that. meanwhile, across ukraine, millions of people are struggling without access to water, electricity, and heating due to rushes, ongoing strategy of attacking civilian infrastructure. some cities like the black sea port of odessa have set up warming centers where people can go to escape the

miserable conditions if only for a little while. without power, there's no school. that's why these children are here, and one of the deaths as many public warming centers, unlike many places here as electricity, water and heating, cham steadying meaninglessness and your muscle knows, i have to do my homework. but because of the blackouts, it's hard to study in school. you have shatoya. russia has pounded the city with airstrikes in recent weeks. infrastructure is severely damaged. power lines of broken all over the city. electricians are repairing them as fast as they can. her obama, you then were working day and night, a band on weekends. it's really hard. the width trilemma, that i will win the fight to keep the power on, but a more and will win in other ways to you. and that get to see, you were some wisdom. odessa, as mer is worried for the coming months. with in havoc michelle malta copolla,

we can't rule out new blackout solemnly. we are preparing for the worst case scenario. the more we we have the warming centers do. we have stoves and generators . you so people weren't for his lewis, you don't plumber themselves and our dish kirkpatrick up. she now didn't have power for 8 days. she's installed emergency lights throughout her apartment. at the moment there is let christie on an hourly basis, but she fears new attacks. minyaun i man, i conquer. i get real panic, attack husky, yet i try to cope with it, of course. but even when i try and be rational, i find it difficult about but zalinski is visit to the u. s. gave her, at least a little hope. federal prosecutor here in germany have arrested an employee of the country's foreign intelligence service for allegedly buying for russia. the suspect who has only been identified as carson,

l is accused of sharing state secrets with moscow. the w political responded, simon young has more. yeah, this man is a, an employee of germany's foreign intelligence agency. the b and d is a german citizen. and he's been arrested on the orders of the federal prosecutor accused of spying for russia. a he is alleged to have passed information that he obtained in the course of his work to russian intelligence services during 2022. and he appeared before a federal judge on thursday, accused on a charge of treason, and he's now being held in custody. his apartment at his workplace and other locations have been searched. and there is now an ongoing investigation which is a very sensitive investigation. in fact, the head of the b, n,

d has said that it's important that further details of this and not made public because doing that, he said just helps. germany's opponents who want to hom, germany, and he went on to say that russia is a particularly ruthless and violent actor. so this is a very serious information leak, right. at the heart of germany's intelligence establishment. there was, did all these political correspondence, simon, young, covered 19 cases are surging across china right now until recently the country had some of the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare st protest led to many rules being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people can soon be infected, chinese authorities have near narrowed the criteria for identifying covey death. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes,

there have been no official recorded death for 2 consecutive days. at times china 0 called a policy, looked like this empty streets and some of the world's largest cities like shanghai . here, 28000000 people are nowhere to be seen. other times it looked like this with aggressive scenes in supermarkets and people desperate to grab some of the sparse food and supplies. i'm still available to the child waller. there were also containment camps. entire city blocks and neighborhoods locked up and barriers built to prevent free movement. china 0 covet rules were some of the most strictly imposed anywhere . residents were repeatedly told 0 cove. it was the only way to keep them safe. george indian, we each and we must unswerving lea at here to the principle of people 1st and life . first, the trilogy of curbing imported cases and domestic resurgence is and the policy of dynamic 0 cove it found in. but then this fall cases began to spread rapidly

despite the strict policies many chinese experienced for the 1st time someone close to them getting sick with cove it and as cases spiraled, so did public discontent. in late november, a rare showing of public descent erupted in multiple parts of china. oh, there were street demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping to resign. their direct the kind of public outcry unheard of inside china. then 2 weeks later, a change of heart from the government, the health department announced the loosening of 100 covey rules, you know, generally footer. it just it how so she, our focus will be increasingly science based and targeted lucia, we should firmly correct oversimplification or a one size fits all approach and avoid taking excessive policy steps. even gamma on

december 7th, china loosened measures, allowing home quarantine reduced testing, making it easier to travel. chinese authorities and state media largely ignored the protests and accusations that 0 cove it failed. instead, they've been insisting the relax policies are due to a weakened corona virus. but weakened or not, the infections have been spreading rapidly, creating fear and anxiety, and further disrupting an already fragile economy. experts warn china could soon be facing a peak of up to 800000000 cases in the country, which they say could mean as many as one to 2000000 deaths in the coming year. finally, europe's biggest laudrie has made some dreams come true in its pre christmas draw. it will have been celebrating in spain after the winning numbers in the l. gordo.

jackpot were announced among the winners of the 2500000000 euros and prize money as a woman from peru who lost her job 2 years ago. she said she bought lotto tickets everywhere. she went. she's now 325000 euros richer after taxes. hopes to buy an apartment? easy out of the really rocking d w news. next up is a documentary looking at the prospect of an ice free arctic in summer for summits, environmental catastrophe. i'm almeni's of thanks for joining us. i went interest in the global economy our portfolio d w business beyond here the closer look at the project. our mission.