ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin barring chilling temperatures in the united states . millions of americans hate with more snow wind and ice. and massive arctic storm is causing power outages, flight cancellations, and where the warnings across the country also coming up on race and anger after

a deadly shooting in central powers. 3 people were killed and several others wounded in the attack targeting occurred as cultural center. ah, i'm jared raid. thanks for your company today. what's being called a deep freeze is stretching right across north america today. a huge winter storm is disrupting travel plans. it's causing power outages and putting enormous pressure on homeless shelters. around 60 percent of the us is under some kind of way. the warning right now we've people being told to stay indoors bitter blizzards and severe snow. we do not bode well for cross country christmas travel and as america and joe as a once in a generation storm, some 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 like 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 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 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. and a little bit earlier d, w correspondence to me. so must gander in washington told us a bit more about the situation fair and across the country journey. it is pretty cold. her we might not have that white out. those blizzard conditions you seen in those pictures, but at the round minus 10 degrees celsius, right now on the windshield makes it feel much colder. this scale,

the scale of the storm is really remarkable. there are more than $1500000.00 homes and businesses without power across the country right now. and 2 thirds of this entire country right now under severe winter weather advisory, the almost entire country being effective at the storm from coast to coast. we're seeing blizzard conditions on the west coast and the state of oregon and washington even florida is going to see unusually cold temperatures this weekend. you know, i'm from upstate new york. i lived in chicago. we are used to blizzards and cold weather. but what is remarkable of remarkable rather about this storm is what meteorologist or calling that bomb cyclone effect. we're seeing these massive drops in temperature just to give you an idea. the city of denver saw temperatures fall, $47.00 degrees fahrenheit within 2 hours. so it is really incredibly cold, a storm here, the wind chill is really biding and it's affecting, as i said, much of the country. so me, how are people coping with all these well,

that is the big question. people are being told to stay home to shelter, to stay out of the weather. but the big concern, as we saw on that report is of course for the homeless populations, particularly in cities. we've seen authorities offer emergency shelters and warming centrist to try to get people in out of the cold. people are also making use of libraries and, and tra, of course, transportation, public transport as well to stay out of the cold. but really, jared, it is hard to prepare for a situation like this. and again, what most people are trying to do if they can, is to stay inside. that's dw, see me so my scandal braving the cold there in washington, stay warm, see me. thank you. well winter storms have been increasing in frequency and intensity over the past 17 years. that's according to research from the you with global change research program. earlier i spoke to climate added to brian con and asked him if the current, severe weather was an anomaly or part of

a lot of pattern green. this is an extremely unique storm in the sense that it is not just very cold, doesn't have just the winds and snow, but it has such a big footprint source in effect across, you know, areas across the us from coast to coast as well as canada. so in some ways this firm is an anomaly because it is so big, in other ways, does it fit a pattern? i mean, there are certainly there have been a number of major call there, outbreaks over the course of the past few years. and so we have seen this happen more than once. it's just the extent of this one is particularly notable. now you, you cover climate, how much of a role does climate change play here? that's an area that's an open question. some ways we know that, for example, that the arctic is running faster than the rest of the world. and what that does is it essentially allows the jet stream, which is the sort of river of air that separates the north and south, allows that just to count wobble a little bit more. and when it does that allows cold there to spill the arctic and come down in here, places like this. so there's, you know, that's an area of very active research for scientists. it's an area where they're

still trying to tease out some sort of specific things. but i think that it seems that there is some evidence that this could be an impact of climate change. ok, and does that mean that we could be expecting more storms like this in the coming years to mean we could be expecting more storms. i think it's also to note that even in a warming world will still see winter events like this. and so while the trend is to certainly have warmer winters and warmer every season for that matter, we will still occasionally see these clear outbreaks happen regardless of whether this is driven by climate change or whether the climate is running as well. that was climate in science, right, brian con, speaking to us from new york city. brian, we really appreciate your insights there. thanks so much for joining us or french president. manuel. micron has condemned a deadly shooting in paris, which he says was a deliberate attack on the kurdish community. 3 people died in friday, shooting in the capital and several others were seriously injured. police have

arrested a 69 year old french citizen in connection with the attack. ah, paramedics rushed to take care of the wounded. the emergency services launched a large scale operation and central paris. after shots were fired in a kurdish cultural center, a restaurant, and the barber shop will never gonna we saw visual holding on to a 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 after police. the suspected shooter, a 69 year old french citizen, was placed under arrest. the former trained 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 dharma nan visited the crime scene and said the attacker clearly wanted to target foreigners the more,

the more jasa do everything we can to clarify the details of the attack shudder. barry and the motive editor said, don't get the good. it was over, it already seems clear, he manifest that. he acted along the morsel dominant, announced that authorities would step up efforts to protect kurdish residents while he was visiting the center. clashes broke out between police and demonstrators with protesters throwing stones and police responding with tear gas and t w's. sonya veronica has more on the underlying anger, felt in the kurdish community which led to those crushes that you just saw. 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 worker's party. the picky key and the judicial investigation into those murders is still ongoing in france authority. he'll have spoken of the involvement of some members

of turkey secret sciences. so i think there is a lot of anger here among the kurdish community for you know, at the police are feeling to protect them yet again fulfilling to solve those mothers 10 years ago. so i think emotions really running high among the kurdish population in france. sonya family, kevin, it's get a round up of some other world news headlines now. if he o. p, an investigators have confirmed in a final report that faulty software caused fatal crash of a bowen. boeing 737, max in 20. 19 all 157 passengers and crew died after the plane crashed into a field just 6 minutes after takeoff. it follows it followed a separate, fatal crash involving the same kind of jet months earlier and prompted a world wide grounding of the plains. lawmakers in the us house of representatives have approved a sweeping $1.00 trillion dollar annual spending package. now this includes

$45000000000.00 in aid to ukraine, as well as reforms to an election law aimed at avoiding a repeat of last year's dorming of the capitol hill now go to president biden, who has said he will sign it into law. a german court has convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm after he injured 3 people in a knife attack on a high speed train. last year. the court found the man had an islamist extremist motive. he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. and china's health system is being strained by a surge in covey. 19 cases, hospitals are running out of beds and millions are struggling to obtain medicines and testing kids. health officials say infections are expected to peak within the next week. official figures report only a handful of death. despite growing cases. all 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, a potent said he hoped the conflict would end as soon as possible. until now, he'd insisted that russia was not waging war and ukraine in response to his statement. the us called on persian, to quote, acknowledge reality and to pull russian troops out of the country. let's hear a little bit more now of what bruton had to say. now national to 3, our goal is not to spin. the fly will of military conflict. but on the contrary to end this war, mckethan, we strive for this and we will continue to strive. when will we will strive for an end to this? and the sooner the better, the bill as a question that you invested in commuter, all of that in a person's finally called the invasion, what it actually is a war. but how are we to understand this? exactly? was this just a slip of the tongue or more deliberate? that's a question we put to dw correspondent maria komatsu. well, i would say that it's

a big deal. i just to remind you after moscow introduced her fake law legislation these march, that would war has been essentially made illegal to even be pronounced or written measure. 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 responded to crohn's 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 in the 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. an e to 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, wants 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 this time? no, was d w 's? maria cut matzoh speaking to us a little bit earlier. well, christmas eve is here or maybe where you are it's. it's still a few hours away and the world's best love. frequent flyer is on his way. no matter where you are. crowds gathered near the north pole in finland to see santa claus make one last appearance ahead of his annual journey. saint nick said this year he received many letters from people young and old, asking for peace. then it was time to take to his sleigh and head out on his mission to visit children all over the world. it's

a reminder now at the top story we're following for you. a massive pola blast is making its way across north american. it's disrupting causing disrupting travel plans, i should say closing power outages and putting a lot of pressure on homeless shelters. 60 percent of the united states is estimated to be under a where the wanting you're up to date here on d. w. stay tuned for business news. we've daniel winter, of course, is more in detail if you don't. com and you can follow up to on social media. we sent you some, jared read. thanks for watching the question of question about life, the universe and everything he knew the answer. well then give it.