[000:00:00;00] with business detail, the 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 strongest forecasts to bring bone chilling arctic temperatures and snow to much of north america. president biden urges

americans to prepare for the worst. also coming up, russia uses united states a fighting a proxy war and ukraine after ukrainian president volota muse. lensky visits washington and receives pledges of military assistance, putting the patriot air defenses. and coven 19 sweeps through china. now that beijing has a band in the district 0, coven policy infections are surging, causing international alarm. ah, i'm amin isa! 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 icy winds to much of the country. as it pushes, se forecasters are warning that temperatures could plunge as low as minus 45

degrees celsius. and marius, the record breaking cold comes as millions hit the roads and 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 is really very service, whether we're here and it goes from oklahoma, always to wyoming, to wyoming, to maine and a several contra crunch. so i encourage everyone. everyone, please. he the local warning dis, the weird weather has destructed holiday plans for millions of americans. prostration, nunes 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, you know, of love to have a nice or a booth. probably some under selma long johns or whatnot. you will be called. the storm is sweeping through defense, united states and heading east forecast as warned millions more will 5th, harsh weather. in the coming days earlier i spoke to mid urologist matthew capuchin and asked him why this winter storm is 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 guarantee 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 temperatures are about 40 degrees below 0 celsius and windshields down to minus $54.00 minus $55.00 celsius, which could 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 may be relegated to the north central u. s. where the populations around as far as that said, 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 windshield 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 your traverse rented a, there was also quickly become deadly. so people have to have operations with them. what about holiday travel and getting in your car to go? 5 minutes is dangerous. does this mean 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 roundly for millions. i think saturday, we'll see some improvement in mosul. cows. but in addition to the driving issue, we talked about the 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 and say,

8 to 12 centimeters where the snow could fall back in cost wise, be canceled already 2000 flights been canceled. and in addition to that, the storm is so wide like 1800 kilometers wide. that other than those do have the rest of the airports. lightly seeing issues because the strong wind with the system which even in the absence of presentation or allowance from across winds that will make its opera land to take on land. and then one more thing road trap will be tricky. um now, eastern seaboard, new york, philly. boston d. c. thanks for a flash screenings, carson roads is re ice up tomorrow afternoon. arisen get cozy at home, perhaps meteorologist matthew caputo there in washington, d. c. thanks re analysis that you would take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. in afghanistan, dozens of women had rallied in the capital kabul to protest a ban on women entering universities. the 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 disgraced crypto currency executive sam bank were 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 are accusing him 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 and new aid for ukraine on the bill now goes to the house of representatives where it's expected to pass. we haven't had a single german authorities have arrested, an employee of the country's foreign intelligence agency, the b and d on suspicion of spying for russia. the suspect who has been identified only as carsten al, is accused of sharing state secrets with moscow. tensions between germany and

russia have escalated since the invasion of ukraine. ukrainian president volota me as a lensky 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 said the leader spoke for about 2 hours, posting on social media. zalinski said they discussed the war in ukraine, and it's quote, historic challenges. while in washington, zalinski made the claim that next year would bring a turning point in the war. but stressed ukraine is still very much dependent on continued support from its western allies. reacting to the lens is trip, the kremlin accused ukraine end, the u. s. of 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 with rolling on conflict,

all armed conflicts eventually and with diplomatic negotiation, alina galilee, and we have never rejected such an opportunity somewhat. he beautifully a 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 wally side yet or in a conflict with each other. i just sit down and negotiate with the it sooner our opponents realized that the battery with they killed and we don't have never rejected that. president putin has been claiming that he wants to negotiate away out of this conflict for months. perhaps because the war is not going to plan for him. we asked russia analysts, maria, cut the muggy, if prudent would be willing to compromise. well, i don't think the ladder put in, in society to compromise, at least at this moment. the stakes are too high for him is either only going forward whatever sacrifices that means for the russian people or defeat,

which will be devastating for the regime and potentially dangerous for human. his family, he will never compromise on crimea, for instance, which was an ox by russia back in 2014, and other 4 ukrainian territories that russia illegally faced after february, probably after having an ox ukraine territory. at this point most go wants to deal, but still at this point, there are so many instruments available to put in, such as black mailing western countries with gas and watering ukrainians, making it difficult for them to leave in home without electricity and water. now that he has leased instruments, he will see what kind of the fact they will have and then he will act accordingly. but we have seen that so far, he's ready to tucker 5, everything and compromise on nothing. cobra, 1900 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 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 narrow the criteria for identifying covered death. this means that despite the jumping cases and in some cases 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 and 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 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 legion, we must unswerving leah 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 founded. 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 st demonstrations and even some called for present teaching ping to resign. grades, i beg 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 again, 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, 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 an already fragile economy. experts warn china could soon be facing a peak of up to 800000000 cases in the country,

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along with high winds and snow. president biden is urging americans to take the storm warning very seriously. you're watching dw news next up as a documentary looking at the prospect of an ice free arctic summer. it's an environmental catastrophe. it's also changing international relations. remember there's lots more on our website, that's d w dot com. you can also find us on twitter and instagram or handled. there is at d. w. news. i'm ami annisa. thanks for watching. mm we've got to understand that globalization works, but he does not reach more than 30 percent of the world population in the mediterranean as become