ah ah ah, this is the www sly from berlin. china's health care system reals from a surgeon corona virus cases. hospitals are overwhelmed by the wave of new infections. now that the countries abandoned its 0 covert policy authority say that caseload will keep rising. a massive winter storm threatens holiday plans for

millions of americans. airlines cancelled thousands of flights leaving passengers scrambling. bone, chilling temperatures and snow were full cost for much of north america. police in berlin arrest a suspected spy for allegedly passing on secrets to moscow. the suspect one for germany's foreign intelligence service russian attacks have left thousands of ukrainians without power or much to celebrate this holiday season. but an unexpected gift has brightened christmas for one key fan like ah, i've been fizzle and welcome. china is reeling from a wave of cove at 19 infections. hospitals were overflowing with corona virus cases . now that the countries abandoned the strict 0 covert policy, seated up help for so long. medical authorities say the current wave will keep

worsening in the next week. for those still healthy, the rule is keep out of reach, keep out of each other's way. us be generous practicing their balancing skills on a frozen river in the middle of the city. after 3 years, a constant restrictions on freedom, many are still strangers to the new situation of ha, ha ha. we're afraid of the virus, especially because we have a child. we don't want him to get too close to any one and we really go out. many chinese are struggling with the government's messaging until recently, officials issued regular warnings about the virus. now suddenly, it's not supposed to be so bad when it's a shouted. the core problem people are making themselves afraid. in recent years, the government has had good intentions, but exaggerated the danger of virus. awkward, normal life outside seems to be returning. the streets are busier,

but saw 2 other hospitals. as the rapid spread of the virus mix its mark on the health care system, staff are completely unprepared at this emergency room in b ging, it's over flowing and over loaded in the corridors the deceased lie on hospital beds on the floor. a completely exhausted elderly lady. she has covered according to her relatives, outside. someone brought his 80 year old parents here. oh, we've had a check up and were waiting for the results. know if had a fever for a week, the temperature goes up and down. all her since the end of the 0 corbett policy official death, tolls have been hard to come by. but in front of the crime atoria, there are long lines with houses. we can only briefly take pictures with the smartphone. police are on guard everywhere. employees of the crematorium,

tell us they are much busier than usual. the virus is spreading as a rapid pace. you can see that in the big cities, according to one epidemiologist, it may only take a month from the beginning to the end for that to occur on with 6070, even 80 percent of people being infected. ah. so we know the oval timeline and that this narrow window of opportunity to, to have actions. now that would save people's lives. thanks. officials have played to expand clinical capacities like here at the sports hall and to ramp up vaccination rates among the elderly. many of them are still not adequately protected. according to scientists, only 3 injections of the chinese inactivated vaccine offer protection against a severe course of the disease. severe weather warnings for millions of americans. a huge winter storm is moving across the united states. freezing arctic air is

bringing blizzards and icy winds too much of the country, and that in the middle of the busy christmas travel brush. 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 and it goes from oklahoma, always to wyoming, to wyoming, to me. and it's a real consequence. i encourage everyone. everyone, please. he the local warning destiny director has destructed holiday plans for millions of americans. prestige news as thousands of flights have been cancelled every year. we try to 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 to thing home i briefing for record breaking, quote, them preachers. if you're not bottled up, you know, of love to have a nice or a booth, probably some unders, selma, long jobs or whatnot. you will be co. diff tom if sweeping through defense, united states, and heading east forecast as warned millions more will 5th, harsh weather in the coming days. i asked me to urologist matthew poochie, how bad the storm is to this storm is bad for many different reasons. number one is a bomb, a genetic cycle, or a bomb cycle. basically, a stall, it's rapidly as a by and when you're back in air from all different sides. now, on the eastern side of the eastern seaboard, i. e, washington, d. c, baltimore, philadelphia, new york, boston. those areas were seeing a lot of rain up to about 5 or 6 centimeters. and very strong winds in new england,

just upwards of 90, longer hours. that's high impact up there. and we'll also see a flash fries tomorrow, which caused major issues in the roadways, off the west on the backside of the system fridge in siberia areas, wrapping down the backside with temperatures while back about why is 40 or lower celsius. and he ines celsius. so very impressive stuff with windshields at minus 50 celsius in between the 2 air mass clash. yes, no. and with the wind blizzard conditions we travel nightmare for the roughly 110000000 americans at about 80, glovers more the solid. it. how dangerous is it? when temperatures drop that low will intentionally get that low as the point where the human body can't really function unless they're inside a shelter. so what a 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 break down in verse for fire? can't get, you know, thing to them could become very problematic, very quickly. so,

imperative folks have a way to sort of have a back up like watching right now. should people be venturing out at all? ideally now, and that's for many different reasons on the eastern seaboard were briefly looted to that flash breeze. temperatures will go from i say, 3 or 4 degrees celsius, with rainfall to suddenlink, like 3 or 4 below 0 celsius with ice. and so all the roadways to morrow will freeze up and down east coast, causing very dangerous travel. farther westland and temperatures are purely low as we talked about very dangerous travel. and in between or you're getting snow. visibility is might only be a couple 100 meters at best. so that's dangerous drive. of course the air force in issues as well. chicago and detroit. 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 i'd say 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 or to about 4000 customers were really rather customers lost electricity because a power group in the gold this time around authority to kind of main please. they need to power companies than the same thing. they're very much barrenness time. thank you very much. pleasure. and returning to our top story, tracking the shop rising code 19 infections in china. ruby while joins us from the school of medicine at the national taiwan university. she's monitoring things in china. forest. describe the situation for us. hi, yes. does southern u turn of the 0 covey policy and the rapid wave of cove is spread? apparently has revealed the front jaw health care system of china and the thing they are to implement vaccination drive to the vulnerable populations such as the

elderly. so we are seeing down to search capacity of the infrastructure in china being saturated very fast. with newly diagnosed cases, every day, hospital beds are overloaded, medications are in shortage and this has caused spell over, in fact, to places like in singapore. in taiwan were over the counter medication for flu, are being brought out to be sent to china to help friends and family there. none of this is a surprise considering the recovery policy is now over. so how prepared was trying to for this yes, china was probably the last major country to hold on to harshly 0 tolerance policy towards commit. but china probably overlooked the reason for any country to hold

harsh containment policy towards any pandemic. which is to buy enough time for other preparedness to lean meant as such as vaccine and medications. so we're seeing that the chinese government has failed to actually implement a broader preparedness program. a plan in terms of how to cover the majority of the population with more effective vaccine, such as the m r n a technology and also to stockpile the antiviral medications that even the fundamental as the flu and type a fever of medication. and so we see that the communication as is lacking in the public domain

to actually educate the elderly, to encourage them to come up to get vaccinated. and we see that the elderly population are the most vulnerable group for this new wave of cove. it hit just briefly to see china getting on top of this anytime soon. we hope so because we know this will has, this will have tremendous impact globally because 1st of all, the supply chain probably will be disrupted if a lot of the work force is out of out of the duty due to colgate. so we think that they could probably, the 1st thing they could do is to speed up their vaccination. dr. now and probably be more tolerable on welcoming other flooring vaccines such as a m,

or any technology vaccines. we know that they are now open up for the flooring expense in china to get the m r. and that seems whether or not they could consider to get to seeing vaccine, which has been proven to be more effective than their own vaccine to their own population. we hope that they would consider this. thank you very much for your analysis. professor ruby, one in taipei saw the stories making use. now the panel investigating the attack on the u. s. capital has released its final report. the congressional committee found former president donald trump criminally engaged in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election of the penalties. asked the justice department to prosecute trump full for alleged crimes including aiding insurrections murphy. the u. s. judge has released san bank and fried on

a $250000000.00 bond. is facing fraud charges over the collapse of the f t x crypto currency exchange he founded. prosecutors accuse him of stealing billions of dollars from customers. this holiday season is a struggle for ukrainians. ross and air strikes have come power, disruptive water supplies and knocked out heating. and the wall has broken up families, sending millions abroad and many to the front, dw max thunder mit 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 barsh court huston, very often the entire street was frozen. and we used to escape very often that by monday to tell them like a lot. but um did you like it?

that was yes, it was scary. the okay. cuz you know the 3 than pay a visit to santas village, a recreation of the magic that takes place in the north pole with candles presence . oh 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 m a whole great victory for ukraine and a robot. okay. 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. both soldiers and civilian justice cuz it is impossible to relax completely on your printer, 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 lesson. 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 frontline, yahoo, i'm 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 you said in the

end there was an incident in 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 me throw is 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 lebanon, causing that is the last 4 moves. because let's say a for me, every christmas, especially because the children are growing each year momento with their changing and it's the moment you can see the changes in life how the year passed by us. but as at the christmas and new year's are kind of summary of the year,

that is one where you can see what kind of father you were kids i li, and what kind of situation your family was in the emotional up the with the son that they contribute white come moves. i li, 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 leisha. hassling co joins us. she is a lawyer, a member of the ukrainian parliament for the opposition hollow, spotty, welcome. you posted a photo of you and your children this week and allowed us to share it with our viewers. 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 discussed what to do over christmas, there was no doubt about it. that we wanted the children to be with their

grandchildren, but we wanted the whole family to sit together at the big family table. i how was, with the christmas kneeling, give a sense of morality despite all the norman that has been brought into our lives by this war the russia is waging against the cray. and of course, the children played that bog because they were absolutely desperate for all the science and combat to see that friends. 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 own 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 not easy. it's definitely not the place for children to be at,

but there's no mental health versus a physical physical safety which are to stay here. and as a mother, i am 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 break down 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 a he didn't like, doesn't like watch live now. well, school, he asked friends there. right, 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 her 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 of 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 the child come back with good me. was the strategy to increase the grains, the defense counter offensive capacities and i'm very high. well, maybe it's wishful thinking here, but that's by end of spring. maybe miss so much 2023. we will see russian soldiers out from the character of the brain. all of the brain. that's $991.00 borders, crimea included. that's a long way to that. a long way was depend largely on the capabilities of the cranium. they're actually supported by

a mobilized west who are able to give us missiles tanks, air defense systems who are able to give us the munition to go, was old, the sophisticated weapons. and not the least 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. does the air defense system, the very powerful law that germany has already provided for you brain, but we will need more of those. we hope that the production line and 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 the good always

prevails. are evil ukraine. well, when this is a sexual victory will be ours, and by hours i mean, older freak mccracken worked slow. greene, county and parliamentary man by this year, i think i thank you for being on our show today. 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 for the work with german intelligence service and sharing it with a russian intelligence agency. i asked al political correspondent, julius, ideally for more details on how the village 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 spying for russia, and when these suspicions became 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 or security forces and intelligence forces, documents, and information that he obtain during his work that are classified as state secrets . so quite some important information delivered there. is there a reason why we are getting so little information about this suspect from prosecutors? so we've heard from the head of the german, a foreign intelligence service. that the if the case it is very important for the

case that a lot of the emperor information remains 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 and contacts of the german intelligent 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 in euchre? well, we've 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, and berlin is by expert still considered the capital of spies also given germany's importance as well, 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 here in berlin who were working on sensitive topics like energy. we're also accused of spying for russia. so there are definitely not isolated cases. julius lee, thank you very much for the update and a reminder of the top stories by following for you. hospitals in many parts of china was struggling to cope with a wave of corona virus cases. the country recently dropped its strict 0 covert

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