ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. they survive the brush an occupation now they must survive winter. a correspondent reports from the ukrainian town of butcher, where residents placed a cold and difficult holiday season. the power outages and the constant sound of

air right. also coming up this, our bone chilling temperatures in the united states. millions of americans hit with snow wind and a massive arctic storm causes road chaos, mass, flight, cancellations. and when the warnings across the country ah a method he how'd welcome we begin in the ukraine where the bitterly cold reality of daily life is setting in as rational airstrikes on countries power facilities continue across the country. authorities have set up thousands of centers for people to charge their phones, continue to work and perhaps most importantly, to simply warm up in the dead of winter d, w. a man will shots reports on the new normal that ukrainians are adapting to

boy. so is a suburb on the outskirts of key. if victor survived a rush, an occupation and now must survive the winter constant as tracks on power facilities, catalogs, tricity and running water to his entire building. so he makes do as best as he can do is get the good volume good as we feel bottles with hot water somewhere. i already hit a hot water bottle. as for food for the fridge, we try not to buy anything like that. which was the golden local, bought them from just as we speak a surprise. the power comes by con. gotcha. and so does the heat for a while, at least whenever victor doesn't have electricity. he comes here a small prefab installed by the authorities, so that residents can charge their phones and warm themselves up around the stove. a short drive away is butcher. the city council is now a rallying point for those without electricity. it is one of thousands of wide

presidents. zalinski calls invincibility centers on the father of a back to the butcher. city council is now a social hub where a generator works and where you can charge fines. and most people don't come here for social services, but because there is no electricity at home, no water at home. here you can collect water, you can connect to the internet. here resident study work, and stay in touch with their relatives online or over here, velva to leave them online. those invincibility centers are crucial for ukrainians to simply survive. the arid siren goes off. but here, nobody seems to care any more. who needs them here? those i don't really like you. i would rather sit at home with the light on, but you need to charge a phone so you can call your relative or more more they didn't tell for you to

model under orders. shoppers only did. yeah. felicia, i came to recharge my mobile phone. i just want to pay my utility bills, and most all i just want to contact my loved ones is what it is. your daughter is so a human, a blish, human click, still kilowatt. the butcher city council relies largely under nations to get to the winter for a foreign n g o gave dis generator, but it's not powerful enough to cover all the needs. back in the capital, keith, electricians work day and night to repair and maintain the city agreed that despite all their efforts, the situation remains critical. but a very, unless on put her in the with her, would you the strategies 1st of all, to restore the electricity supply. however, we can so that people have some, we can't always stick to schedule or return equipment to how it was before the war . but the temporary salute since like plant power cars are working. so people are getting some light to their homes. but the capacity that existed before the war is

no longer there. and that's a problem of law. the way anybody a doors out as you on the my e senior problem. a problem that is likely to continue to out the winter here with temperatures often dropping well below freezing and no end in sight. to rush and air strikes. all right, work from among bushes who filed that report in the ukraine. m a good to see you. a couple of fundamental questions coming from that. how to people coat with power cuts in the middle of winter and what does that really mean for their everyday life? right now. good morning, antony. ah, well, you know we've seen this man victorian to report just to give you an idea. he called us this morning and he said, please could you say in your report that we haven't had electricity since you came, we just had one hour a day or we could warm up a little. but since electricity was gone again, and that's very much what is happening for millions of people here to situation is

slightly better here in the capital key. if since yesterday there's 50 percent of households who have electricity. but that means that half of the people here still dont and what it means is that they are leaving cold floods. they cannot have a warm shower shower for example. they, you know, they don't have, he, they cannot simply put on a washing machine, you know, put on a wash on. that's all the things that makes life very complicated and beyond, you know, do that their home comforts. i would say they also cannot work because there's also no found coverage in some areas and they need to charge their computers, et cetera, et cetera. and that's why those invincibility, as centers such as a while we saw in the report are crucial. yes. at the russian strategy was to make life unbearable by ripping the power from the grid as winter arrived. is that russian strategy working well,

what is working is that definitely have a very negative impact on power facilities. every single power facility in the country has been hit, has been damaged. now, does that mean they don't work anymore? no, they are being repaired and people are very, very ha, that's work to, to fix that as quick as possible. and the strategic that he's definitely not working is the one that will be a to discourage people you know, to, to, to the press people to make them accept defeat. and that's not something ukrainians are ready to do. of course they're fed up that they don't have electricity. of course, it's a very, very hard way of life right now in ukraine. that does not deter them from continuing a fighting to aggression. that, that answer is definitely, you know, the doubly correspondent, amino shows you cried. thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world now. so when

you read russian, president vladimir putin has referred his country's invasion of the ukraine as a war for the very 1st time and not merely a special military operation. he said he hoped the conflict would end as soon as possible in responsible us called on prudent to whoever russian troops out of the country with the creation of wookey were busy. russian authorities have begun demolishing the ruined theatre in the occupied italian city of matthew o. declining authority, say, hundreds of civilians were killed when russia bombarded the venue in much accused moscow destroying ukrainian culture and trying to cover up the con john his health system as being strained by a surgeon covey. 19 cases. hospitals are running out of beds and millions are struggling to obtain medicines and testing kids. health official savvy infections are expected to pick within the next week. official figures report on the a handful of deaths, the spot rowing cases. if you have been investigators have confirmed in

a final report, faulty software course, the fatal crash of a boeing 737 met max in 2019 or 157 passages and crew died after the playing press just 6 minutes to take off it followed a separate federal crash involving the same model of jet months earlier and prompted a world wide grounding of the planes. what's being described as a deep freeze is stretching right across north america. at the moment the huge wind, a storm is disrupting treble plants, causing power outages and putting pressure on homeless shelters. around 60 percent of the u. s. is under some kind of where the warning even the sunshine state of florida is priced for icy conditions. bitter blizzards and severe snow. we 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 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 cases 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 triad, like dozens and dozens of different airports. i called the airline and they tried, but there's like no availability. so 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 m a is 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. i spoke earlier with matthew raleigh, just matthew pitchy in washington, d. c. and asked him what the current situation is like in the us capitol? yeah, most definitely. so me here in the nation's capital and temperatures are roughly dropped yesterday afternoon, eastern time. so we saw a morning temperatures around 345 degrees celsius plenty rainfall. then aside

during arctic front came through, we saw a brief burst of snow. you grapple so snow pellets and then suddenly those temperatures plummeted. all the moisture and airy roadways froze and the wind picked up gusting to about 70 kilometers per hour and actually knocking down a tree just as at the city. and fortunately, killing a driver. now across the us, we're seeing the worse are pretty much every season. over the center us temperature is pointing back about minus 40 celsius. over the eastern u. s. strong winds gusting to near 100 kilometers per hour over upstate new york. visibility is literally down to 0, people can't see more than 3 meters away. and of course you have the snow as well in some places. you've got 150 centimeters off legs here in ontario. at matthew, we've been tracking this storm for days now. how severe it is, the storm turning out to be i think will, the biggest thing is just really how big of a storm system it is, it's undergoing,

we call bob a chassis or rabbit, intensification. and what that means is basically it's of that you in so much air up and out of the center of the top like a chimney. they can 2nd more air from all sides. and that's why it's able to pull in the siberian air in the backside, in the moisture and east side in between where you get that glass, you get the blizzard conditions. but really the fact it's so big, close you both. 1600 kilometers across means. strong winds for at least half of the lower $48.00 happens to continue as united states, and that's why we're seeing so many flight delays up to about $2500.00 cancellation so far. and keep in mind, this is coming in a time when more than a $110000000.00 americans ordinarily would be traveling 80 hours or more for the holiday. so really, this is disrupting traveling in the busiest travel week of the year. you're paying for a vivid picture of elliott thing a once in a generation stone. is this an anomaly though, or is a part of a larger patent? no, that's

a really good question. so i kinda wanna talk about where this fits in. ordinarily we talk about these bomb psych loans. we see them in like november through roughly april. that's really want to get go, especially towards a forest hack the season. we typically see in though, in areas where we call barrow literacy, which, which sounds like a fancy word essentially means a large temperature range or temperature contrast to serve. yeah, to air masses kind of clashing, which is most common off the eastern seaboard of the united states. over the gulf stream, it's pretty rare to see one over land. so to see one over the great lakes is a typical, especially one, the strong. that said we do see them from time to time. so, well, i want to say that this is a novelist. it's not sort of a climate change. a cost thing meteorologist matthew could put she the in washington. they say thanks so much. thank you. oh christmas eve is here and the world's best loved frequent flyer is not far away. crowds gathered near the

north pole in finland to say santa claus make one last appearance a hit of his annual journey site. nick said this year he received many letters home from people young and old children asking for peace. and it was time to take to his sleigh and head out on his mission to visit children all over the world. i. and on that note, that is all for now coming out next sports law, the an arctic adventure minus the ride, the to slate sled dog rice. i chewed for that's coming up with in many countries. education is still a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes some young children work in mind. jobs instead of going to class others can attend.