the world with his building and architect emotions. architecture is kind of a mystery. believe me, daniel, the discount starts december 25th on d w. mm hm. 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 living many passengers scrambling storm is forecasted to bring bone chilling arctic temperatures and snows to much of north america president by an urgent americans to prepare for the worst. also coming up, russia uses the united states of fighting

a proxy war and ukraine after ukrainian president below 2 meters. lensky visits washington and receives pledges of military assistance according to patriot air, defense system. and coven 19 sweeps through china, now that beijing has abandoned its strict co with 0 cobra policy infections or surgeon causing international alarm. ah, i'm ami a niece of welcome to the program. millions of americans are under severe weather warnings as a major winter storm moves across the us. freezing arctic air is bringing blizzards and icy winds to much of the country as it pushes, se forecasters are warning that temperature is could plunge as low as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. in some areas, the record breaking cold come is millions hit the roads in the skies for the

holidays. this is been quite a once in a generation storm. the threat of heavy snow ice and dangerous t. hi, vince has already prompted some states to declare a state of emergency. this really, very sure is whether we're here or goes from oklahoma, always to wyoming, to wyoming, to maine. and it's a real consequential. i encourage everyone. everyone, please he, the local warning. this the we're read that has destructed holiday plans for millions of americans, frustration, news, as thousands of flights have been cancelled every year. we'd rather spend christmas or thanksgiving or something like that together. just, you know, to keep the family connected. so it's, it's really important. and many of those thing home i briefing for record breaking

quote, temperatures. if you're not bottled up, if you don't have love to have a nice or a booth, probably some under so long, long, johns or whatnot, you will be called. the storm is sweeping through the french united states and heading east forecast as warned millionth more will 5th, harsh weather in the coming days as no place like inside your home. for the holidays. early i spoke to mid urologist matthew caput she 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 written to worse every single facet of severe winter weather. in other words, we start with is a bomb cycle. basically, a rapidly intensifying low pressure system. this vacuuming in so much air, intensifying so quickly, then it pulls down our to given the backside in warm air on the east side. and the

class is big snow. so east of the center up now, the eastern seaboard, new ass, very heavy rain damaging winds, guessing 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 can be deadly produced without shelter, without advert preparations in between to air masses meet you squeeze all the bush out here big time, snow and the winds are using blizzard conditions. and this and a tommy are 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. you asked where the populations router as far as that said, there are some big names. cities there, aberdeen pier bismark over billings, montana, temperatures reaching those crazy levels. wish indeed, that is celsius,

50 below 0 celsius for the actual when 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. and if you're tractor stranded, it results in quickly become deadly. so people have to have operations with them. what about holiday travel? i mean, you're 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 batch around leave for millions. i think saturday, we'll see some improvement in most of all cows. but in addition to the driving issue, we talked about the north central u. s. air travel in big or do 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 would be

handled already, 2000 flights being canceled. and in addition to that, the storm is so wide like 1800 kilometers wide that other than those do the rest of the airports, likely seeing issues because the strong, with, even in the absence to presentation was from across when that will make it separate late to take off the land and then one more thing road trap will be tricky of now. eastern seaboard, new york city, boston d. c. thanks a flash. brittany cotton roads is that re ice up tomorrow afternoon? arisen again, cozy at home, perhaps meteorologist matthew can put you there in washington, d. c. thanks for re analysis. thank you. and now on to some other stories making headlines around the world. in afghanistan, dozens of women have rallied in the capital kabul to protest to ban on women. entering universities. taliban announced the measure 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 been freed on a $250000000.00 bond. he's facing fraud charges related to the collapse of the f t x crypto currency exchange, which he founded. prosecutors accused 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. the bill now goes to the house of representatives where it's expected to pass. we haven't had a speak. ukrainian president volota me as a lensky is back home. after a surprise visit to washington. he made a stop and pull it on his way back, where he met with his polish counterpart on j. duda and aid to do the said the leaders folk for about 2 hours, posting on social media. zalinski said they discussed the war, new crane and its quote, historic challenges. while in washington,

zalinski made the claim that next year would bring a turning point in the war. but stress, ukraine is still very much dependent on continued support from its western allies. reacting to zalinski strip kremlin accused, or ukraine, end the u. s. ignoring its concerns. and despite russia's continued attacks on ukraine, russian president vladimir putin told reporters that russia was open to diplomatic negotiations to end the war. a conflict. if you were only gonna conflict all armed conflicts, i could eventually end with diplomatic negotiation, alina gregory, 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 for i would even say strange or tim, you mean you know, but sooner or later the wally side yet are in a conflict with each other. i just sit down and negotiate with the it sooner. our

opponents realised that the battery was faith remote, and we don't have never rejected that. federal prosecutors here in germany have rested an employee of the country's foreign intelligence service for legibly spying for russia. the suspect who has been identified, identified only as carson l is accused of sharing state secrets of moscow. w political correspondence. simon young has more. yeah, this man is a, an employee of germany's, for an 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 federal judge on

thursday, accused on a charge of treason, and he's now being held in custody. his appointment that his workplace and all the locations have been searched. and there's 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 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. i was, did all these political correspondence, simon young, covered 19 cases are surging across china right now until recently the country has

some of the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare street protests lead to many rules being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying cova deaths. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there have been no official record a desk for 2 consecutive days. we have a report coming soon at times china 0 called it 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 home. 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 coveted rules were some of the most strictly imposed anywhere. residents were repeatedly told 0 cove. it was the only way to keep them st. george indian wage and we must unswerving leave here to the principle of people 1st and life. first, the strategy 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, some one 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 st demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping to resign. grades i read 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, holly 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, reduce testing, and making it easier to travel. chinese authorities and state media largely ignored the protests and accusations that 0 cove had 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 and 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. and finally, europe's biggest lottery has made some dreams come true and its pre christmas draw . people have been celebrating and 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 lost her job 2 years ago. she said she bought lotto tickets everywhere. she went now she's $325000.00 euros richer after taxes. and helps to buy an apartment. if you go just a little bit, here's a reminder of the top story we're falling for you. us airlines have cancelled thousands of flights amid busy christmas holiday. travel as a winter storm threatens, much of the country. temperatures are forecast to plummet to dangerous arctic

levels in many areas, along with high winds and snow. president biden is urging americans to take the storm warning seriously. watching t w news. a business news is up next with my colleague, daniel winter rimmer, there's much more on our website. that's d, w dot com. you can also find us on twitter or instagram or handled. there is at the w news. i'm almeni's to thanks so much for joining us. ah, every journey on this that rises, we've gone all out to give you some test one day in to put that on the right.