ah ah ah, this is the w news life from berlin. a massive winter storm threatens the holiday plans of millions of americans. airlines cancel thousands of flights leaving passengers scrambling. the storm is full cost to break bone chilling temperatures and snow too much of north america. thousands of people in key for living without

power. rush attacks have damaged the capitals, electrical grid. we visit one ukrainian family determined to enjoy the christmas season. police in berlin arrest a suspected spy for a day to the passing on secrets to moscow. suspect worked for germany's foreign intelligence service and bethlehem. he is out for its 1st noble christmas. following 2 years of code restrictions he w visits the west bank town, reviewed as the birthplace of jesus. ah, i been fizzle and welcome. severe where the warnings for millions of americans, a huge winter storm is moving across the united states. freezing arctic air is bringing blizzards and ice winds. too much of the country. forecast as a warning temperature could plunge as low as minus 40 degrees celsius in some pot.

and that in the middle of the busy christmas travel rush. 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 is really very service, 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. just the we're read there has to stopped it. 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 staying home. i briefing for record

breaking quote temperatures. if you're not bottled up, if you love love to have a nice or a booth, probably some unders zelma long. john's or what not. you will be called, the storm is sweeping through the french united states and heading east forecast as warned millionth more. we 5th harsh bread there in the coming days. i asked betty or ologist matthew poochie, how bad the storm is. this term is bad for many different reasons. number one is a bomb, a genetic cycle or a bomb cycle. basically, a storm it's rapidly intensify when you're back in air from all different sides. now on the eastern side of it on the eastern seaboard i. e, washington, d. c, baltimore, philadelphia, new york, boston. those areas are seeing a lot of rain up to about 5 or 6 centimeters. and very strong winds in new england gushing upwards of 90 longer per hour. that's high impact up there. and we'll also

see a flash fries tomorrow, which cause major issues in the roadways, off the west on the backside of the system fridge inside period areas are rattling down to their side with temperatures, while about about my is 40 or lower celsius, an esque celsius. so very impressive stuff with windshields of minus 50 celsius in between the 2 air mass clash. yes, no. and with the wind up blizzard conditions we travel nightmare for the roughly 110000000 americans at about 80, glovers or more the solid. how dangerous is a wind temperatures drop that load will attempt to get that low as the point where the human body can't really function unless they're inside a shelter. so one of the big piece of advice we've been getting boats is that if they're driving have an emergency can in the car, you simply can't survive these kind of temperatures. if you're not prepare, all it takes is your vehicle to breakdown versus farmers can't get, you know, thing to them could become very problematic very quickly. so it's imperative folks have a way to sort of have

a backup plan that's watching right now. should people be venturing out at all? ideally, know it, and that's for many different reasons. on the eastern seaboard, we briefly looted you that flash breeze temperatures will go from i say 3 or 4 degrees celsius, with rainfall to sunlight, like 3 or 4 below 0 celsius with ice. and so all the roadways to morrow will freeze up and down east coast doesn't very dangerous travel. farther westland and temperatures are purely low as we talk about very dangerous travel. and in between or you're getting snow. visibility is may only be a couple 100 meters at best. so that's dangerous to drive. of course the air force issues as well. chicago and a choice of both the major hubs impact by the snowfall to 2000 lights already cancel in get worse before he gets there. are authorities prepared for this? would you say? i do believe they are. so we saw this coming in at least once a 6 or 7 days in advance with you, the overall power was favorable for a storm. i think one of the things that we're wondering about 3 wise is whether

texas can handle the cold temperatures back last year. in february, they saw dozens of fatalities in the entire state about 4000 customer and we're really around customers lost electricity as a power group in the gold. this time around authorities academy please, i need to power companies in the same thing. other very much barrenness time. thank you very much. pleasure. some other stories making headlines around the world. the paddle investigating the attack of the u. s. capital has released its final report and the congressional committee found fuller, president donald trump criminally engaged. did a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election is to ship? the panel has asked the justice department to prosecute trump for 4 major crimes, including aiding insurrection. this is murphy, us judge has released sam, bank and fried on a $250000000.00 bond, is facing fraud charges over the collapse of the f t x crypto currency exchange. he found prosecutors accuse him of stealing billions of dollars from customers. dozens

of women have protested in the afghan capital cobble against the ban on women attending universities. the taliban announced the measure this week fronting international condemnation. female students have since been turned away from campuses across the country. # this christmas is a struggle for ukrainians. russian and strikes have caught power, disruptive water supplies and knocked out heating. and the war has broken up families sending millions abroad and many to the front. dw max honda made up with the family and keep enjoying an unexpected christmas gift. a bit of a holiday spirit. and the break from the war you will be brought her kids kiera and daddy to keeps only christmas market. it's her 5 year olds, 1st time on the ice, and brings back memories of her own childhood. and when i lived in russia in bars

court huston, very often the entire street was frozen. and we used to escape very often that the diamond to tell them did you like it? yes it was scary though because that ah the 3 then pay a visit to santa's village, a recreation of the magic that takes place in the north pole with candles presence . ah, and use a santa is always on his great throne. listening to the children's wishes. keeta and daddy's are different this year shorter and truth be told, impossible for santa to fulfill that in law whole great victory for ukraine and a robot. i me on that victory to ukraine. i will not ask for anything else.

christmas is different this year. for jojo christmas usually means spending time with family visiting her parents and in los celebrating and unwinding this year. millions are flat. the country are displaced or living under russian occupation. tens of thousands of families have lost their loved ones, with soldiers and civilians will just those cuz it is impossible to relax completely on your friend. but it is good for the kids to see that there is not only evil in this world, but also good law. yet there are things to live for, was it that there is a desire to make this a holiday. and we put up a christmas tree and we are going to celebrate. anyway, she tries to comfort them as best she can, but she doesn't hide anything. the children know what war means and what their father does on the front line. yeah. who i am really worried. he is a medic,

miranda. he knows how to deal with the leading saw. but if he has a bigger wound, as well as another person who is injured, he will try to rescue the other person. and not himself, of course, inserted in that in, but there was nothing sort of dinner on this event. it's time to go home. in the dark there's no power and time to see dad exceptionally back from the front for a routine medical checkup the elevators out. so it's walk up 16 floors to see him. to be thorough as just back from the hospital. there's been a small christmas miracle. he's found out he won't have to return to the front line right away, but his lebanon, causing that is the loss for moves. because let's say a for me, every christmas, especially because the children are growing each year, am

a man thaws with their changing and it's the moment you can see the changes in life how the year passed by us. but as the christmas and new years are a kind of summary of the year, that is one that you can see what kind of father you were, the kids i li, and what kind of situation your family was in the emotional up to with this. and that they contribute bite come moms, ali a jacqueline of southern of dania. right now, it's a family reunited by surprise for a war time, christmas. one, they are determined to make as memorable and meaningful as they can. cooper, human rights groups in iran say some 500 people have been killed and thousands arrested since anti government protests rented 3 months ago. the movement was spot by the death of the young woman, massa armine, and police custody for allegedly wearing her head scoffing correctly. the protests of echoed around the world, not least in the art world,

a strong message of support for the people and even that is what graphic design manager fatty wants to convey with her arts. here in washington, d. c. she rumson art studio together with her husband, his son though they live here in the u. s. were mine, i grew up both. so feel a deep connection to you, ron. my art has always been linked to my iranian background. the images, the resistance that we're seeing from the people and the people saying that they want respects for woman life, freedom. and that has really lit a fire in me. the 2 artists met and you and have fond memories of traveling. the country together has some moved to the us to be with minor a few years ago, leaving the country. he was born and raised and they are both in regular contact with family and friends and around. despite his concern for loved ones,

back home has some serious inspired by the protests. if we unites together, if they don't divide us to the inflammation that we got to talking that we have the iranians officially outside or inside if united together. of course i, i feel that we can, if something's going to change in the minor, has some and other odd collective in the u. s. capsule are trying to raise awareness of the situation in the room from the start. mine are made her graphics available for protests worldwide, always driven by the powerful images of protesters and the message. this energy and this unity and this global attention. and that's what pushes need to keep pursuing, keep expressing the, the sent from the people. and i keep expressing messages of power

and empowerment on saturdays. people like these 2 women come by the studio to bind minus screen prints and take them out to local protests. minor says her contribution is a mere gesture of support, but it's given her way to share the sense of unity, where many in the diaspora community hope the protests and iran will bring about. last thing, change german authorities say they've arrested an employee of the foreign intelligence service on suspicion of sharing a state secret with russia. police arrested the suspect in berlin on wednesday. according to the prosecutor's office, is being held on suspicion of state treason. he's accused of taking information from his work with the german intelligence service and sharing it with a russian intelligence agency of join now by d. w's, political corresponded julius,

a deli julia. do we know how the alleged spy was uncovered? now we've heard from the foreign intelligence service here in germany that they were conducting their own internal investigation into this case. once they became suspicious that as someone within the service may be a spying for russia, and when these suspicions became a finally more concrete than they immediately reached out to the federal prosecutors to extend that investigation. and what we know so far is that this person was an employee of germany's foreign intelligence services, and that he is now accused of treason. and that is quite significant. usually we see these accusations of espionage but treason is, is quite a step forward. and that is because he is accused of delivering to russia, a security forces and intelligence forces, documents,

and information that he obtained during his work that are classified as state secrets. so quite some important information delivered there. is there a reason why we're getting so little information about the suspect from prosecutors? so we've heard from at the head of the german, a foreign intelligence service. that the, the case, it is very important for the case that a lot of the emperor information remains are confidential because there is a risk that by disclosing too much information on the case. this might a favor and help the russian, the counterparts that is trying to spy on germany. and there is also concern that the, the man who has now been arrested may have disclosed information on informants in context of the german intelligence services in russia to russian authorities. and there is a need to keep those people protected as well. so does all this show some sort of

increase in russian spy activity in germany since the war. and you always definitely heard from german authorities that there is a definitely the possibility of an increase in spying activity from russia in germany, especially since russia's invasion of ukraine. and also given how germany has played a role in pushing forward further sanctions against russia. but also in supporting ukraine with military and financial aid, or berlin is by experts still considered the capital. the spies also, given germany's importance, is the biggest economy in europe and one of the biggest economies in the world. and we have seen in recent years, some cases of spying just this year in april, 40 russian diplomats were expelled from germany, accused of working for russian intelligence services. we've seen a case also in august where 2 employees of the economy ministry are here in berlin who are working on sensitive topics like energy. we're also accused of spying for

russia, so they are definitely not isolated cases. julius lee, thank you very much for the update and returning to our coverage of the board, ukraine, lucia hustling, who joins us. she is a lawyer, a member of the ukrainian parliament for the opposition holiday party. welcome, you posted a photo of you and your children. this week and allowed us to share it without you as you evacuated your kids in march. but you brought them back home for christmas. tell us why. oh, there's less than the time of unity time to be with family. to share that, like when my husband, i discussed what to do over christmas. there was no doubt about it that we wanted the children to be with their grandchildren, that we wanted the whole family to sit together at the big family table. i thought there and how was, was the christmas nealon give

a sense of morality despite all the abnormal, that has been brought into our lives by this war that russia is waging against the cray. and of the children played that bog because they were absolutely desperate for all the science and combat to see that the death runs. so all these factors played their role. here we are. but coming back home, unfortunately, to a, to a home in the middle of a war, it was on coping with disruptions to power heating, water. i mean, it doesn't sound easy, it's not just me living in those. and it's, it's not easy. it's definitely not the place for children to be at. but you know, does mental health versus a physical physical safety which stay here and as a mother, i'm well aware of that, but it's a risk i was willing to take because to be honest,

my older son, 9 years old, he was almost in a full semester all over, all just asking every day, why don't we can go back home and he can't take this anymore. it's not there. he didn't like, doesn't like watch live now. well, school, he has friends there quite well. but it's just this home sickness was emphasis on the word sickness which prevails. and i think this is the case. was many, many of those people who have ever had to leave because of the war and were forced to live somewhere else when it's not your decision. when it's something that is forced upon you, this is what is extremely difficult excruciating, even on the side the and on the mental health is the more. busy hope now that the president to lensky has traveled to the west to drum up support.

i'm very confident that our friends and come back with good news with the strategy to increase the grains, the defense about these encounter capacities. and i'm very high. maybe it's wishful thinking here, but that by end of spraying maybe miss some 2023. we will see russian soldiers out from the character of the brain all of the brain. that's $991.00 borders, premier included. there's a long way to that. a long way was depend largely on the capabilities of the brain and actually supported by mobilized west who are able to give us miss south tanks. air defense systems who are able to give us the ammunition to go was obesity. case and weapons and not denise also depends

on, on germany and german government. being able to provide us the weapons that we are asking for. we are grateful for the irish t system, the air defense system, the very powerful one that germany has already provided for your brain. but we will need more of those. we hope that the production line speed increases. and we will bury very much hope that germany will finally make the decision to give the tags to ukraine. finally, your message to ukrainians with family members on the front lines. base from believe and the armed forces of the grain believe in good and good always prevails . over evil grain, well when this is a sexual victory will be ours, and by ours, i mean older freak. and mccracken worked sato, greene, county,

and parliamentary member lanka. thank you for being on our show today or before the karone of ours pandemic, thousands of pilgrims and tourists visited bethlehem around this time of year the birthplace of jesus christ, but looked downs and travel restrictions so visited numbers, plummet. now, after 2 difficult years, people are finally coming back. he w, corresponded tonya kramer traveled to bethlehem in the west bank to see how the towns gearing up for this. the hens, traditional olive food covers it once again at 50 time. palestinian artis and jack jackman has stopped counting on how many baby jesuses he has handcrafted in bethany weeks. everybody want if mining baby jesus and that is the most difficult to do if mining baby jesus wondering mary mary that she has she born jesus. and saint josephs, these are the most 3 figures that people want from beth land. they don't want to

see jesus on the cross embark plan just around the corner from his shelf. the church of the nativity in the center of the palestinian town in the occupied west bank. the church is spilt over the side where it is believed it all happened. over the past decade, the basilica has been renovated, precious mosaics, there brought to light from under centuries of plaster. we are most happy when we see many people coming from all over the world, coming to craig with us to see exactly where jesus was born and to praise the lord and the place where it began. everything begun at the grotto, the silver star marks the supposed action birthplace of jesus. uh huh. funny about it. i've been here from brazil when we are very glad to be here and

especially at this period of the year for us it was a great, great miracle. and we are very thankful just to walk in these all places where jesus was born and i see the, the buildings that are filled with the spirituality, especially need, oh, freak. christmas period. for me it's, i don't know, enlightenment. i did all the preparations in bethlehem for christmas are very nice . it's just beautiful to be here. so i had, we are. oh, but the christmas season also wraps up at difficult here. this year has been the deadliest and live very palestinian conflict in almost 2 decades. and there's no solution. insight in bethlehem christmas will be celebrated 3 times in december for the western traditions in general. for the orthodox

communities, it, we have the armenian orthodox and the greek orthodox, and the latin chess. everybody has his own calendar. saw this make the date of birth, of christmas is different. and for this, we are happily celebrate a christmas for a very long video. for this the palestinian scout troop. this one can be it's a who a to live. this did the teeth on december 24th the message as important as ever piece and goodwill. 2 and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. you airlines have cancelled thousands of flights of mid busy christmas holiday travel as a winter storm threatens much of the country. temperature is a set diploma too dangerous arctic levels in many areas. i windsor focused and snow

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