ah ah ah, this is dina. we news line from berlin. the united states is hit with more snow wind and ice. millions of americans face bone chilling temperatures. a massive arctic storm leads to power outages, flight, cancellations, and weather warnings across the country. also coming up deadly shooting, sparks,

unrest and central parents. 3 people were killed and several others wounded in the attack, targeting a kurdish cultural and china health care system struggles to cope with a surge and corona virus cases, hospitals are overwhelmed by new infections. now that china has abandoned much of its 0 covert policy. ah article, really, it's great to have you with us. a massive polar blast making its way across north america is disrupting travel plans, causing power outages and putting huge pressure on homeless shelters. around 60 percent of the united states is estimated to be under a weather warning with a huge storm stretching right across much of the us and canada. visit blizzards and

severe snow. who do not bode well for cross country christmas travel, and as america enjoy as a once in a generation storm, some a struggling to find the feast of spirit. we don't know what's gonna happen whether or not they have extra flights for tonight or they're saying maybe they won't even have flights tomorrow. so it's christmas, it's what's the weather outside truly is frightful and it's creating travel calles for the millions of people heated home for the holidays. more than 3000 flights have been canceled. many a stranded at airports during what is one of the busiest travel times of the tribe, like dozens and dozens of different airports. i called the airline and they tried, but there's like no availability till after christmas. the severe cold isn't only a problem for air travel. driving is extremely treacherous with roads blanketed and snow and ice. the weather has left more than 1000000 homes without power.

but conditions are especially dia for those who don't have any shelter. with the cold, one of the things that can be dangerous as people can be laying on the sidewalk or sleeping outside. and you don't always realize just how dire of a situation that you're in. it can be really easy for people to kind of dose off and fall asleep and unfortunately end up losing their lives because of the cold weather. more than 200000000 americans are under extreme wither advisories, the national weather services. it's one of the largest warnings, eva the satellite images revealing what santa could be up against and time for the big day. forecast as a warning that parts of the country could be on track for the coldest christmas on record. from wireless brandy w correspondence and we saw us canada in washington soon. it looks comparatively. com, where you are. what's the situation in the country right now?

it's not as common. the rest of the country nicole, just to bring you some numbers more than 1500000 homes and businesses don't have any power right now. and more than 200000000 people, which is about 2 thirds of the us population, they are under some form of severe winter warning or advisory. and here in d. c, the worst is yet to come along the east coast. the temperatures are going to drop further to morrow. this is a storm that is really stretched from coast to coast. we're seeing frigid temperatures and conditions in seattle all the way down to florida, which is actually going to see some really unusually cold temperatures this weekend as well. this really is just a massive storm and i'm from upstate new york. i. i live in chicago. these are places that are used to really cold weather tons of snow blizzards. but what makes a storm different is this bomb cyclone effect that meteorologist here of talked about? that is when atmospheric pressure drops so quickly in a strong storm. and to give you an idea, the city of denver saw temperatures drop of $47.00 degrees in 2 hours, 47 degrees,

so we're talking about plunges. we don't usually see. and the other aspect there is the wind. so there is this incredible windshield wind has been whipping up snow. it's created white out conditions on roads. so as we heard this really as a once in a generation storm in the report, we heard a woman concerned about the fate of homeless people. how are people coping with this? as you say, once in a generation storm? yeah, this really is the biggest concern for many people, the elderly and the homeless. so those who don't have shelter authorities and lot of cities have been scrambling, they've opened up warming centers and short term emergency shelters to help resident stay out of the cold, particularly the homeless. and i should say, nicole that i was just in at paso, on the border in texas, where thousands of migrants had been entering there and texas, the seeing unusually cold temperatures. we were there earlier this week and people were sleeping on the streets. there were wrapping up in blankets, but it's getting too cold to do even that. so the city has set up some buses where

people can go inside and warm up. and they've also opened up the convention center . so people don't have to sleep on the streets anymore. but the other big concern, of course, is travel we heard in the reported is just before christmas, usually have millions of people on the road or in the air heading to their loved ones. and as of now to day only more than 9000 flights have been cancelled. and even though people have been told to, to stay home and stay put, some people are also taking to the roads. we've seen reports of crashes and, and people getting stuck on highways at previous storms have had devastating effects on, on the infrastructure with millions of people left for days on end without power. our authorities better prepare it this time around while authorities in many cities say they are better prepared. we know that texas in 2021 had that massive storm that hit the power grid. really hard and authorities there said they are better prepared to make sure that electricity is still available through the storm. here

in washington, president biden addressed the storm and said he wants everyone to stay home and that the white house has been contacted. 26 governors to offer a offer, aiden, and all sorts of supplies and help. and governors across the country have called up the national guard to help deal with accidents on the road to get supplies to people who need help. they have crews working round the clock to ensure that roads can be somewhat clear, especially for emergency vehicles to pass. so authority seemed to have been preparing all week and getting ready for this. but again, nickel, these are temperatures, and this is a type of storm that is just unprecedented. the w. c means must go now in washington. thank you so much for that update. now over to brian con, who's a science writer, he covers climate change and how society is responding to missouri. kind of welcome to the w. this is being called a once in a generation storm. is this an anomaly or part of a larger pattern that we will have to get used to? i mean, the storm is illimitable. i mean,

it certainly is anomaly in the sense that we're going to see records fall that have been standing for decades if not larger than that. so in some sense, this is a really unique event that people should take seriously. whether this is part of a larger pattern type declaring change i think is an area of very, you know, what research is called active research. and so we're still trying to, she's out. but there are some signs and ways that climate change is influencing this type of cold weather oprah, which may sound a little backwards. but that is a case in saying that scientists restore really working on their way more as such storms in coming years. then i mean, there could be so one of the concerns that scientists have is that because the arctic is running faster than the rest of the world, that sort of creates this sort of imbalance where essentially cold air that's in the arctic can dip down into the middle attitudes to places like the us, you are places where people live with more frequency. now that is a very, it's mean that we've seen repeatedly over the past decade or so. so it's something that they're certainly causal. assuming evidence of that, whether there's a direct link, assuming that people are still working on. but i think that,

you know, it's really important to realize that even with the world warming, we're still going to see these call their outbreaks and that doesn't make them any less dangerous. how can we, in our society now with our infrastructure, how can we adapt to storing like these? well, i think it's a question of you, you mentioned the texas grid in the previous segment. i mean, there is, there's a really that we saw, hadn't you don't have infrastructure repaired when it's not winter rise? that's when it goes down when demand spikes, that's when you have these problems. and so i think that, you know, we've to serve work on both sides of the quinn, be prepared for the fact that there's going to be incredible strain on the electric grid when it's really hot out, which we'll see lots more of in the summer. so we need to start to pay for that. we'll also realizing that with these coolant outbreaks, keeping up on winter as ation, having redundancy back a power of making sure that people have the resources they need be be in installing batteries at home. those are the kinds of things we really need to be thinking about. so it's kind of a 2 pronged approach to make sure that we don't have bad things happening. i'm an editor of ryan con. thank you so much. you french president, ammonia,

my car has condemned a deadly shooting and paris, which he says was a deliberate attack on the kurdish community. 3 people have died in the shooting and the capital and several others are seriously injured. police have arrested a 69 year old french citizen in connection with the attack. paramedics rushed to take care of the wounded. the emergency services launched a large scale operation in central paris. after shots were fired in a kurdish cultural center, a restaurant, and the barber shop will never gonna we saw the show holding onto it. man a big older man. there were 3 people wounded in the barber shop it on so long. some one asked me to ring an ambulance, so i called them and the police are much up to the police. the suspected shooter, a 69 year old french citizen, was placed under arrest. the former train driver hobby marksman is known to police

. he's been charged with committing violence against foreigners before, after allegedly injuring to migrants a year ago. he was released from jail early this month on the judicial supervision . french interior minister sher outdoor man visited the crime scene and said the attacker had clearly wanted to target foreigners the more you more yes, we'll do. we'll do everything we can to clarify. the details of the attack showed that he and the motive editor said don't get the credit when he was over. it already seems clear. he manifest that. he acted alone. the mirage so dominant announced that authorities would step up efforts to protect kurdish residence while he was visiting the center classes broke out between police and demonstrators with protesters throwing stones and police responding with tear gas for more em join. now by our correspondence, anya found a car in paris. sonya, what more can you tell us about the shooting at this point?

well, what we normally call is that the shooting and to place this morning at 11 local time, it happened near the guard the list of station in central paris. this is a major train station and the area around it is really bustling and lively with lots of restaurants and bars and shops. it's also home to many members of france's kurdish community. and witnesses as we saw in your report, really describing chaotic scenes of people panicking, fleeing the scene, or when gunshots rang out, not the local me of the district has said the 3 places came under attack here. that that was the coding cultural center hairdresser and a restaurant. and you know, prison macro, like you said a tweeting today about this he missed a tack targeting the garage community. the suspect himself has been arrested, was apparently injured in this a shoot out and, and has been taken to hospital. what do we know about the suspected shooter? he's the 69 year old french national, a retired

a train driver. he's known to the police. he's been previously charged with the races, moments he was in fact arrested last december for attacking a migrant camp in eastern paris, a with the sword and the french interior minister. general denman, as we saw in your report, was talking to john yesterday at that scene. and he said that more to that the attacker was, was far from clear. and he said, you know, he was not nor to intelligence agencies. there was, he was, there was no fight on him for radicalization, nor non links as yet to alcohol. alright. troops. but he, he is a shooter in a sports club. that's what he said. he has declared several weapons and dumb. and i really made it a point to say that at the stage, you know, he was far from certain whether, whether the shooter had really targeted the co dish community or whether it was an attack on thought partners in general or at now, members of the kurdish community there and paris, or not only shot, there were also frustrated because this isn't the 1st time they're being targeted in paris. is it? that's correct. i mean, this attack comes, you know,

nearly 10 years after 3 kurdish, a female act of the swell, murdered in paris. in january, 2013, that included the co founder of the militant nationalist go to stun workers, spotty, the picky key. and the judicial investigation into those murders is still ongoing in france authorities, he'll have spoken of the involvement of certain members of toki secret services. so i think there is a lot of angle here among the kurdish community for, you know, at the police will feeling to protect them yet again fulfilling to solve those murders 10 years ago. so i think emotions really running high among the kurdish population in france and community w. sonya found a car in paris. russian president vladimir putin has referred to his country's invasion of ukraine as a war for the 1st time and not merely a special military operation. in a press conference photon that moscow was striving for peace and was open to

negotiations to end the war. the president has long insisted that russia was not waging war on ukraine and the use of the word war to describe the conflict has effectively been outlawed. would you, here's what he had to say. no, not that city. our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict. but on the contrary to end this war, mckethan, we strive for this and we will continue to strive. why wouldn't we will strive for an end to this and the sooner the better. the balloon quinton jim brewster in cambridge, that's what the study that we are a border maria come and say, maria potent finally calling the invasion. what it is a war. how are we to understand as was this a slip of the tongue or a deliberate and if it was deliberate, what does it mean? well, i would say that it's a big deal. i just to remind you after moscow introduced a fake law legislation these march the would war has been essentially made illegal

to even be pronounced or written. well, if put his wording was deliberate, it may indicate that the whole conflict is entering, at least in his mind, a bigger and more significant. her face the crumbs logic behind her can be. we wanted it to be a short military operation. amy aiming as this specific military targets in ukraine in order to save russian speaking population into dumbass region. but for the past few months or the rhetoric is not just about saving russian, a speaking people in ukraine, but possibly about the resistance to the whole. anita blog. so it's interesting that the warrant war has been part of the states tv vocabulary for a while now. when talking about nato, so proxy war in russia are well putting under the state media is essentially trying to and to make russians and believe that it's

a fateful moment for the country. it's survival. is it sake? because the hostile was once to divide a once a divided and weak russia. so this can be an explanation why to why he use a are stronger and more accurate ward the same. but maria authorities had been cracking down on ordinary russians and media organizations for not sticking to the official party line to putin's line of using the term special military operations. so what consequences will boots use of the word war have? well, it may sound a funny and dickless, but to santa spoke opposition. a figure nikita you feed have demanded illegal investigation against the vladimir putin for using the word war. in his speech, according to you, fear for thousands have already been prosecuted for calling a russian invasion of ukraine. i am a warm and to put in is not an exception from the law. of course,

we cannot talk seriously about any legal consequences for the russian president, but for the war is this us and cramming critique or critics beat activist journalists or position i am the leaders that the danger is quite real. still. he w a reporter, maria, catamount, a. thank you. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today. a car bomb has exploded in a residential area of the pakistani capital islam a bond killing a police officer and 2 militants. suspected of carrying out the attack. the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the explosion which left 10 other people wounded. convicted killer charles sovereign has been released from a prison, an impala for nearly 2 decades behind bars. the 78 year old french national is suspected of killing more than 20 backpackers. in the 19 seventy's and eighty's, the paul supreme court ordered his release a year, early signing his advanced age. a man who entered 3 people in

a knife attack on a high speed train in southern germany last year has been found guilty. i'm unit court found the man had an islamist extremist motive. he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. hospitals in china are overwhelmed with corona virus cases. after beijing abandoned the strict 0 cove and policies it had upheld for years medical authority say the current wave won't reach its peak until next week. china began dismantling it's locked down and testing regimes this month, becoming the last major country to move toward trying to live with a virus. be generous practicing their balancing skills on a frozen river in the middle of the city. after 3 years of constant restrictions on freedom, many are 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 the virus. awkward. normal life out site seems to be returning. the streets are busier, but saw to are the hospitals. as the rapid spread of the virus makes 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 we're waiting for the results. no. we've 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. with 6070 even 80 percent of people being infected. so we know the oval timeline and that this narrow window of opportunity to, to have actions. now that would save people's lives. then when officials have

pledged to expand clinical capacities like here at the sports hall and to ramp up the vaccination rates among the elderly, many of them are still not adequately protected. according to scientists, only 3 injections of the chinese and activated vaccine offer protection against a severe course of the disease. early one from the national taiwan university is monitoring the situation in china, and we asked her if china was prepared for the surge of corona virus cases. i don't think they're prepared and i don't think they have enough communication to the public to how to cope with this upcoming wade. i think the souther u turns and the record spread of birth is a shock for everybody. and that has reveal a tremendous challenging time for their front jaw health care system. so i think what needs to be moved forward is one to speed up the vaccination. try particularly

to the elderly, the vulnerable so far, only 40 percent of those above 80 years old in china has received to this a least one booster dose, meaning feedback seals. and this is not enough. and 2nd, do alleviate that burden of the health care shop. my as much as possible, which is to try out, does of your cases away from the mile cases, encourage people to stay home for those low risk patients. and you know, they have very good public assistance, probably use the absence and to teach the possibly, you know, what, under what circumstances they can stay at home and rest and recover and only come to the healthcare facility for those bonner ball with co morbidities and let's get some sports news now. katara build that 2022 world cup as the 1st carbon neutral

tournament. even building a temporary arena stadium 974, and a push for sustainability. the idea was to dismantle it after the tournament and ship it to another country. that means the infrastructure, but it would only really be sustainable if that actually happens. it hosted some of the world cups, biggest parties, but now stadium $974.00 will be dismantled. the 1st ever temporary venue that a world cup got its name from the 974 shipping containers that we used to construct the arena. organizers say the ability to take apart and rebuild 974, makes it more sustainable than other stadiums but fif, his own study revealed the initial construction actually had higher greenhouse gas emissions than permanent stadiums due to the use of carbon intensive materials. it only becomes more sustainable if it is re used at future events. and there are no

guarantees that that will happen as prospect gov. i don't think it will be rebuilt in another country. it will be, there are rumors that say it will be donated to a developing country, but i think it's impossible. it's very difficult in terms of building a stadium or down to concerts, august that sporting mega events have place that great to focus on sustainability lately. but there's no doubt consol 2022 has had a massive carbon footprint. the country built 8 new stadiums at a cost of some $6.00 and a half $1000000000.00 of the cooks children. so it could be a good thing for sustainability of your b. but i don't see how it's sustainable when you're spending billions of dollars to build them, their culture calls korea. the media got up 974, could yet become a prototype for world cup stadiums. but 1st, it will have to see more moments like this in another parts of the world. we'll take a look at some other forts headlines now. are in units of fountain,

davies has been named canada footballer of the year for the 4th time. babies helped canada get back to the world cup for the 1st time in 36 years. the 22 year old also netted canada's 1st ever world cup goal in kentucky. hilton and china have made their way to skating rinks after the country reopened. some of its winter sports been used to the public falling lock downs. that will ski resorts near beijing are open for business again. dozens of cities have east cove at 19 restrictions after major protests last month. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you today. a massive polar blast making its way across north america, is disrupting travel plans, causing power outages and putting huge pressure on homeless shelters. around 60 percent of the united states is estimated to be under a weather warning. shooting at a kurdish community center has sparked unrest and central paris. 3 people were

killed in the attack and several others wounded. french prosecutor say 69 year old suspect was taken into custody and a murder investigation is underway. stage and now for eco africa. this time we had to ivory coast to meet some young, dedicated eco activists. and we visit a german start up producing chocolate without coco. i'm nichol, ferla, him, berlin from me and the entire team. thank you so much for watching. mm hm. ah, with

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