the biggest thing in the world is the spirit and motions. she just starts december 25th. oh d w ah ah, business day that we knew his line from berlin. the united states is hit with more snow winds 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 with

a deadly shooting sparks, unrest in central pears. 3 people were killed and several others wounded in the attack, targeting a kurdish cultural center and china's health care system struggles to cope with a surge and corona virus cases, hospitals, or overwhelmed by new infections. now that china has abandoned much of its 0 coven policy. ah, i'm to call for relief to our viewers. joining us on p b. s. and the united states and all around the world. welcome 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 the huge storm stretching right across much of the us and

canada. bitter blizzards and severe snow. who do not bode well for cross country christmas travel. and as america and joe, as a once in a generation storm, some a struggling to find the face 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 cancelled 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 to 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 those 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 wither 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. full cast as a warning that parts of the country could be on track for the coldest christmas on record. earlier i asked w correspondence and we some us gonna in washington to describe the situation in the united states. it's not as common the rest of the country nicole just to bring

you some numbers, a 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 the 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, $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 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, 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. they're 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 contacted 26 governors to off 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 nichol, these are temperatures and this is a type of storm that is just unprecedented. dw series must go now in washington. thank you so much for that update. ryan con is a science writer who covers climate change and i asked him whether he believed this storm is an anomaly or part of a larger pattern. 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, tied to clarity and 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 worrying faster than the rest of the world, that sort of creates this sort of imbalance where essentially call there 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, not as 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. assume 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 cold air 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 sort of 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. well, also realizing that with these coolant outbreaks, keeping up on winter as ation, having redundancy back power, making sure that people have the resources they need, maybe in installing batteries at home. those are the kinds of things that 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 happen. i'm an editor and frank. com. thank you so much and you and he is a round up of some other weather emergencies. japan remains in the grave of severe snowstorms, which weather officials say are intensifying across the country. wind gusts of more

than a 110 kilometers per hour in some parts of also made conditions hazardous and have blown down power lines. torrential downpours and saudi arabia have led to flood waters sweeping through the streets of the city of mecca. videos and images captured on social media showed city streets being and gulf by rushing waters after intense spells of flash flooding. a wildfire and central chile is threatening the coastal city of india, that it might fire fighter say the blazes out of control and that residential areas are being evacuated and ongoing heat wave has contributed to a recent space of forest fires. french president monro mccoy, has condemned a deadly shooting in paris, which he says was a deliberate attack on the kurdish community through people have died in the shooting in 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 on the barbershop. really gonna, we saw it is jl holding onto it. man a big old man i. there were 3 people wounded in the barber shop on salon. some one asked me to ring an ambulance, so i called them and the place to watch after the police. the suspected shooter, a 69 year old french citizen, was placed under arrest. the former train drive and 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 cheryl t. r manager visited the crime scene and said the attacker that clearly wanted to target foreigners the more you more jasa do everything we

can to clarify. the details of the attack showed her body and the motive editor said, don't get good at him. he was over, it already seems clear, he manifest that. he acted alone. them was so dominant announced that authorities would step up efforts to protect kurdish residence while he was visiting center. clashes broke out between police and demonstrators with protesters throwing stones and police responding with tear gas. he w correspondence on you found a car in paris filled us in on more details about the shooting. well, what we normally call is that the shooting am 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 frances, a 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 treat. pre places came under attack here. that that was the coding cultural center hairdresser and a restaurant, m and m, you know, prison macro. like you said a tweeting today about this. he must attack targeting the goodish community. the suspect himself was 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 a 69 year old french national, a retired a crane driver. he's known to the police. he's been previously charged with the racist violence. he was in fact arrested last december for attacking a migrant camp in eastern paris or with the sword and the french in tito minister. general domain, as we saw in your report, was talking to john yesterday at that scene. and he said that motive of 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 known links as yet to ultra fall right 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 a point to see that at the stage. you know, he was far from certain whether, whether the shoot 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 in paris or it not only shocked. 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 female act of the swell muttered in paris in january 2013. that included the co founder of the militant national go to stun workers, party, the picky key, and a judicial investigation into those murders is still ongoing in france authorities, he'll have spoken of the involvement of certain members of turkey secret services.

so i think there is a lot of anger here among the kurdish community for, you know, at the police were 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 kennedy 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. futons at moscow was striving for peace and was open to negotiations to end a war. the president has long insisted that russia was not waging war on ukraine. the use of the word, the use to describe the conflict has effectively been outlawed. would you immediately? and here's what he had to say. no, i'm not sure 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. what will we will strive for an end to this and the sooner the better, the blizzard? fortunately justin, cumulative thought and finally calling the invasion, what it is a war. but how are we to understand this? was this just a slip of the tongue or deliberate and put that question to the w reporter maria accommodate? well, i would say, god, it's a big deal. i just to remind you after moscow introduced a fake law legislation. these march, the wood war has been essentially made illegal to even be pronounced or written as 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, a face to 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, l a put in and 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 these can be an explanation why to why he use a are stronger and more accurate would 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 it, demanded illegal investigation against the vladimir putin for using the wood war in his speech. according to you fare for thousands, have already been prosecuted for calling a russian invasion of ukraine. i'm 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 isas and crumbling critique or critics beat active as journalists or position. i am the leaders that the danger is quite real. still a w, a reporter maria cat months, a thank you on now to some other stories making headlines around the world today. if yoga investigators have confirmed and a final report that faulty software caused the fatal crash of

a boeing 737 max in 2019 a 157 passengers and crew died after the plane crashed into a field to 6 minutes after take off followed a similar fatal crash involving the same jet and prompted a worldwide grounding of the plains. a man who injure 3 people and in life attack on a train in southern germany last year has been found guilty. i'm unicorn found the man had an islamist extremist motive. it was sentenced to 14 years in prison, convicted killer charles, so we rise has been released from a prison in nepal after 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, nepal supreme court ordered his release a year early siding, his advanced age a car bomb has exploded, in a residential area of the pakistani capital islam about killing a police officer and to militants suspected of carrying out the attack. the

pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility for the explosion which left 10 other people wounded. hospitals in china are overwhelmed with corona virus cases. after beijing abandoned the strength, 0 coven policies, it had of held 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 still strangers to the new situation of yeah 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. no,

suddenly it's not supposed to be so bad when it's shouted. the core problem people are making themselves afraid in recent years, the government has had good intentions, but exaggerate to the danger of the virus. normal life boat site seems to be returning street so busier, but saw to are the 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 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. some one 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 cremmit toria, tell us they are much busier than usual. the virus is spreading at 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. ah, with 6070 even 80 percent of people being attracted. 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 in the 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 or for protection against a severe course of the disease will be one from the national taiwan university is monitoring the situation in china, and we asked her if the country was prepared for the search 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 wave. i think the southern you turns and the record spread of birth is a shock for everybody. and that has reveal a tremendous challenging time for the front jaw health care system. so i think what needs to be moved forward is one to speed up the vaccination dr. particularly to the elderly, the vulnerable so far, only 40 percent of those above 80 years old in china has received

to a least one booster dose, meaning feedback seals. and this is not enough. and 2nd, do alleviate the burden of the health care for my as much as possible, which is to try out. does the bureau cases away from the mild 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 health care facility for those bonner bo was co morbidities china is reopening more and more winter sports venues to the public falling lock downs. children made their way to the skating rinks and for some it was their very 1st time. several ski resorts have also reopened their doors around the beijing

area. a new movie about the hollywood motion picture industry called bobby lawn has just begun premiering it stars brad pitt and margot robbie and is sent during the hollywood of the 1920s. it's directed by damien, shes el, who also made the award winning la la land. in contrast to la la land, which takes amos deldrick. look at hollywood. babylon is a high octane eulogy to the early years of hollywood golden era. i think what we have here in hollywood is higher. it's babylon looks at 19 twenties, tinseltown. you know, when i 1st deal with signs on all the doors road, no act as a dogs allowed breath hid as a khaki films star changed feeling right from under me. see, i see her nipples at the park. i and i've been my nipples. now. marco roby as the towns are you it girl for my clothes. up now. it's

a crazy ride through the girls. number one filled town before hollywood was hollywood. the wild, wild west. they were figuring out movie. they weren't respected. they were. 2 making up the rules that went along, sex drugs and rock and roll was a, was a, i think they did it better than the citizens of disease. or some director damian chisel also shows the dark side of the dream factory. the people chewed up and spit out by the movie business, but i made it on my terms, not there. i think the story while they were to kind of, you know, she has no idea which next fans of should la la land might find this version of old hollywood a bit too dark, too cynical that could hurt the film at the oscars. but there can be no doubt that babylon knows how to put on his show

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