ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. china's health care system struggles to cope with the surgeon corona virus cases. hospitals are overwhelmed by the wave of new infections. now that the country has abandoned its 0 covert policy. authorities say the case load will keep rising, also coming out. brushing attacks have left many ukrainians without power or much

to celebrate the holiday season. but an unexpected gift has brightened christmas for one key of family. and a massive winter storm threatens holiday plans are millions of americans, airlines cancel thousands of flights, leaving passengers scrambling, bone chilling temperatures and snow. our forecasts are much up north america plus bethlehem gears up for its 1st normal christmas following 2 years of covet restrictions. the w visits the west bank town revered as the birthplace. ah, hello and terry martin, good to have you with us. china is reeling from a wave of coven 19 infections. hospitals are overflowing with career buyers cases now that the country has abandoned the strict 0 cobit policies. it has upheld for

so long medical authorities say the current wave will continue rising into next week. for those still healthy, the rule is keep out of each other's way. 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 challenge with 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 jing, 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 8 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, but they may ologist me. it may only take a month from the beginning to the end. for that to occur with $6070.00 even 80 percent of people being attracted. so we know the overall 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 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 the severe course of the disease. spoke earlier with back 1000000 girl pilla, he's an epidemiologist at the shortly tay hospital here in berlin. i asked him how

concerned he is about the panoramic reports emerging from china with, as you said in the record, 1500000000 versus vastly underestimated or naive to the buyers with the most public health measures to continue with the holiday season with dozens of hundreds of millions of chinese going to trevor in the next week. this, this is indeed concerning. it should other countries outside of china be worried about possible spillover effects as the virus rips through the countries. huge population, there would travel bands make sense? what is so concerning this moment is the, the non immunization, low grade vaccination in the 4 countries receiving travelers from china.

and they're very much on the level of immunization in this new population. so i would not expect a spill over. so in those countries, talking about immunization, there would access to more and different vaccines make a difference for china's population. at this point we've, we've seen made that is that the best immunization is based on getting the different vaccines are having a head to roger immunization stages. and this is what is lacking in the chinese population. so i've seen the activity for over the past months would have been of course the advantage now, but no time is very,

very short to change to new ignition maximilian cat blood epidemiologist, berlin's shy hospital. thank you so much. thank you. sketchup on some other stories making headlines around the world today. 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. hi. the panel has asked the justice department to prosecute trump for, for alleged crimes, including aiding insurrection. i false. a u. s. judge has released sam bank man prayed on a $250000000.00 bond. he's 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. russian air strikes have cut power, disrupted water supplies, and knocked out heating and the war has broken up. families sending millions abroad in many to the front dw maxed sunday. i met up with a family in kia, enjoying an unexpected christmas gift. a bit of a holiday spirit. and the break from the you will, you brought her kids cuter and daddy to keeps only christmas. it's her 5 year olds, 1st time on the ice, and brings back memories of her own childhood. whenever, when i lived in russia in bars cortes time, very often the entire street was frozen. the rich and we used to escape very often that the by monday to tell them a lot. but um did you like it? that was done? yes, it was scary though. cuz he 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 i am 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 loss 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 civilian justness, cuz it is impossible to relax completely on the 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 less than 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 that 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 boys inserted in, in, but there's without the 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 be through was 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 this lebanon, quizlet is the last 4 moves. men say her for me every christmas, especially because the children are growing each year momento, they're changing and it's the moment you can see the changes in life how the year passed by us. but at the christmas and new year's are kind of summary of the year. that is wonderful. you can see what kind of father you were kids highly and what kind of situation your family was in the emotional up with with a son that they came to. bo boyd come moves ali

a jak long of southern of dania. right now, it's a family reunited by surprise for a war time, christmas, one fare determined to make as memorable and meaningful as they can. from earlier i spoke to kiera roodick. she is a member of the ukrainian parliament and had the opposition holiday party. i asked her how her country is holding up after 10 months of war. hello, thank you so much for having me. as you see, no matter how hard it is right now, without the electricity, without the heating, without the running water and was constant iraq attacks out we are holding up. we are pushing put his forces back, and we are doing things that nobody believed we would do at the very beginning of the full scale invasion. this 10 months have been incredibly hard on our people. however, there were so many things that sought to be impossible and became possible starting

from key if standing out for more than 23 days that put in a set it up to be conquered at 2nd with us having their candidacy to european union something that were critics didn't ugly would happen. of course, nobody believed that we were capable of pushing russia back and taking cities like hair san to. 9 ah, to be back to ukraine, and right now, or the year is ending was president speech to congress, and you're talking to the president biden. no matter how hard we are motivated and planned to win the war next year. now german authorities say they have arrested an employee of the foreign intelligence service on suspicion of sharing state secrets with russia. police arrested the mail suspect in berlin on wednesday. that's according to the prosecutor's office. he's being held on suspicion of state treason

. he's accused of taking sensitive information from his work and sharing it with a russian intelligence agency. this is what germany's justice minister said about it on twitter. congratulations to the federal prosecutor on the rest of us suspected spy. if the suspicion is confirmed, an important blow against russian espionage has been struck here. this shows how vigilant we must be. and joining us now from the headquarters of germany's foreign intelligence services, d. w. political correspondent, fans. but how was this case uncovered and what kind of intelligence if any, was compromised? well, the surprising thing is that it wasn't covered by the buddhist. now, convinced by the foreign intelligence service itself, through its own internal controls, what we have behind me here is the headquarters of that foreign intelligence

service, which is in fact, reputed to be the biggest office building in the hall of berlin. so, so they themselves seem to have internal controls and had suspicions that were confirmed and then passed on to the prosecutors. as far as the information that is concerned is concerned that was passed on to the russians. reputedly, we know nothing at all about that. the authorities are keeping very quiet apart to know that the personal rest of the german citizen. but that's as far as that goes. we don't know what he has been working on. we don't know what russian intelligence service he may have been in contact with. the autocracy say that all of this needs to be kept secret to the further investigation or jeopardize to buy information leaking to the opposite side. what just this case say about russian german relations hunt. yesterday, russian, german relations have been deteriorating quite significantly for quite a while,

especially also in the field of espionage. there was an assassination offer what the russians called a traitor, bye assassin. from the russian secret service or military secret service right here . and berlin in the middle of good and just a couple of years ago, the alleged assassin is in jail here in berlin. the opposition politician, i like saying of only when he was poisoned in russia, he was flown here to germany to a hospital. just a couple of blocks away from here where he was treated and healed. so the germans have been very much critical of russian authorities that have books, obviously been supporting ukraine. so russian german relations really are deteriorating, are not in a good state. and that as a result, it could be expected that there will be spying probably on both sides. since russia invaded ukraine, 10 months ago, hines, moscow has been seen as a clear security threat for europe. do authorities believe that the kremlin has

stepped up? it's spying in germany during that time. absolutely. they do the internal intelligence service here in germany. the head of that said, recently that the level of spying the intensity of spying is probably comparable to the time of the cold war when this was the major friendship between the east and the west, between the communist world and the western world. and possibly even worse than that, so there's a lot of spying going on in this. what's called the capital spying in the world. but one has to say, obviously, it's not only spies from russia. there are western spies here in germany that are probably also trying to gather intelligence. it's something that is being done by all sides with punch. thank you very much. our political correspond it has. but let's take a look at a couple of other stories making headlines to day wildfire in central chile is threatening. the coastal city of vineyard of mar,

firefighter say the blaze is out of control and that residential areas are being evacuated. an ongoing heat wave in the country has contributed to a recent spate of forest fires. japan remains in the group of severe snowstorms which weather officials say are intensifying across the country. strong winds of more than a 110 kilometers per hour in some parts of also made conditions hazardous and a blown down power lines. well, severe weather warnings for millions of americans. a huge winter storm is moving across the united states. freezing arctic air is bringing blizzards an icy winds. too much of the country, and that in the middle of the busy christmas travel rush. this if 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 serious weather alert here. and it goes from oklahoma, always to wyoming, to wyoming, to me, and it's a real consequence. so i encourage everyone. everyone please he to local warning. dis the lea, a read that has destructed 20 day plans for millions of americans. prestige 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 don't have love to have a nice or a booth, probably some unders. so miles long, johns or whatnot, you will be cold. the storm is sweeping through the fennel united states,

and heading east forecast as worn millions more will. 5th, harsh red there in the coming days. made your love meteorologist. matthew kofuji is tracking the storm from washington. they gave us the latest on north america's arctic onslaught. to this storm is bad for many different reasons. number one is a bomb, a genetic cycle or a bomb cycle. basically a strong it's rapidly testify. and when you're back in the 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 just words 90 longer hours. that's high impact up there. and we'll see a flash fries tomorrow, which caused major issues in the roadways. off the west on the backside of the system fridge inside period areas wrapping down the backside with temperatures

while about about my is 40 or lower celsius. any ines celsius. so very impressive stuff with windshields of 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 that address about 80 glovers more the solid. now to argentina, we're dna tests have confirmed the latest case of a baby being taken from its mother during the countries dictatorship nearly half a century ago. the man who has yet to be publicly named is the 131st person to be found in the 1970s ladies. the military regime systematically stole babies from political prisoners who were then often executed. for decades, a group of grandmothers has been working to reunite these last children with their biological families. but oh yeah, celebrations for a lost child returned home. another success story for the grandmothers of the plaza

de mayo. the human rights group confirmed the identity of a man born to this couple. they belong to an armed leftist group and were arrested in 1977. she was pregnant and gave birth in detention. williams. i was in a hotel that married couple who presented here in this photo of these political activists who were kidnapped and tortured and murdered in the worst way. is it in a macabre plan? all you will to day they appear again, women of i listen, they appear again because their son knows who they are today. he looked at them for the 1st time in a photo, you know, and i think that is like bringing them back to life. real gisele is earl window. the couple of suspected fate remains unconfirmed. it's a pain, the founder of the rights group knows well. astellas own daughter disappeared while pregnant during the dictatorship, she found her grandson in 2014. now,

thanks to her efforts, another stolen child has been identified. estella has yet to meet him, but offered some insight. no, no, no. his reaction wasn't refusal, or sadness. when he found out he just took it as a reality, a new reality for him. and now we have to see how it unfolds. you know, i go under the dictatorship of general jorge. i fail the della 30000 people are estimated to have disappeared, including 500 babies given to couples loyal to the regime. some of those responsible for the atrocities during that era have been brought to justice. but with hundreds of stolen children, still unidentified. time is slipping away for lost generations to be re united l before the corona virus pandemic,

thousands of pilgrims and tourists visited bethlehem around this time of year. believe to be the birthplace of jesus christ, but locked downs and travel restrictions saw visitor numbers plummet. now, after 2 difficult years, people are finally coming back. d. w. correspond. tonya kramer traveled to bethlehem in the west bank to see how the town is doing during this christian holiday for bethlehem. traditional olive food covers, it's once again a busy time palestinian artisan jackson command has stopped counting on how many baby jesuses he has. hand crafted in beef and week. everybody want if mining baby jesus and this is the mos difficult to do, a smiling baby. jesus wandering marriage, mary, that she has. she born jesus and saint joseph. these the most 3 figures that people want from buff lamb. they don't want to see jesus on the cross in buffalo. i am

just around the corner from his shelf. the church of the nativity in the center of the palestinian town in the occupied by bank. the church is built over at the side where it is believed it all happened. i. over the past decade, the basilica has been renovated, precious mosaics. they're brought to light from under centuries. all plaster we are most happy when we see many people coming from all over the 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 actual birthplace of jesus a year 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 spirituality, especially need creek christmas period. for me it's, i don't know, enlightenment. actually i did all the preparations in bethlehem for christmas are very nice. it's just beautiful to be here. well, i thought i had we are. oh, but the christmas season also wraps up a difficult here. this year has been the deadliest at least a 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. if we have them union 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 christmas for a very long, fierce for this the palestinian scout troop, like this one from bid for who the host dis, repertoire lifted the teeth on december 24th. their message as important as ever, peace and goodwill to all watching dw news thanks for being with ah, with

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