every one, questions for the present, a future that heads filled with ideas. so get really for the brain update. 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on d, w. ah, this is d, w. news live from pearl and they survived the russian occupation. now they must survive winter correspondence reports from the korean town of butcher risen face a cold and difficult holiday season with power outages and the constant sound. air

right. also coming on chilling temperatures in the united states, millions of americans hit with snow, wind and massive arctic storm pauses, road chaos, mast flight cancellations, and where the warnings across the country ah, i'm anthony howard. welcome. we begin in ukraine where the bitterly cold reality of daily life is setting in as russian strikes on the countries power facilities continue across the countries authority. ab set up thousands of centers for people to charge their phones continue to work and perhaps most importantly simply warm up in the dead of winter d. w. 's a man will shars reports on the new normal that ukrainians are adapting to boy's

cell is a suburb on the outskirts of key. if victoria survived a russian occupation and now must survive the winter constant as try excel power facilities, catalytic tricity and running water to his entire building. so he makes do as best as he can go. doors give the good deliver, i'm 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. but as it was the golden local bought them from just as we speak a surprise, the power comes by con cartoon. 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 act. 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 the years velva to leave them online. dose invincibility centers are crucial for ukrainians to simply survive. the arid siren goes off that here, nobody seems to care any more. need 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 are more, more they hadn't done before. you shamela rodney shoppers only. yes, 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, they blish, you mean, cliff still kilowatt. the butcher city council relies largely under nations to get to the winter. a foreign n g o gave dis generator, but it's not powerful enough to cover all the needs. back in the capitol keys, electricians work day and night to repair and maintain the city. agreed that despite all their efforts, the situation remains critical. but of a he, unless i'm 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 solutions 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. blore. the william a perio doors out as you on the my e senior problem. a problem that is likely to continue to route the winter here with temperatures often dropping well below freezing and no end in sight to rush and air strikes. i spoke with d. w correspondent, a men or shaws who fall that report. a short while ago, i asked her how people cope with the power cuts and what that means for the everyday life. 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 bit since electricity was gone again, and that's very much what is happening for a millions of people. here to situation is slightly better here. indicator key, if since yesterday, dest,

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 live in cold flops day, cannot have a warm shower shower, for example. they, you know, they don't have heat, there cannot simply put on a washing machine, you know, put on a wash on. and that's all the things that makes life very complicated and beyond, you know, do that to home comforts. i would say they also cannot work because there's also no found coverage in some areas, and they need to charge a computers, et cetera, et cetera. and that's why those invincibility centers, such as the one 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, we're 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 hard at work a to, to, to fix that as quick as possible. and the strategic that he's definitely not working. is that 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, but does that deter them from continuing a fighting to aggression? that that answer is definitely, you know, dw correspondent amino shows you crime. thank you. done that. so take a look at some of the stories making headlines. russian president vladimir putin has referred to his country's invasion ukraine as a war for the 1st time. not merely a special military operation,

said he hoped the conflict would in the soon as possible response the u. s called on to pull russian troops out of the country. and i'm not sure what i shall. thirty's meanwhile, had begun demolishing the ruin theatre in the occupied ukrainian city of muddy running authorities say. hundreds of civilians were killed when russia bombarded the venue much keys. moscow of destroying ukrainian culture rather trying to cover up the crime like 20 people have been killed in russia after a fire broke out at a private nursing. dozens of 5 father's fort to control the place in the siberian city of chimerical authority. say the care home was operating legally and avowed to inspect similar facilities in the bridge. the g is sworn in a new prime minister ending 10 days of uncertainty after elections ended with a hung parliament. former military commander sid if any,

rem booker won the nomination by a single vote. selection marks the end of 16 years in power for incumbent frank on the murano. and what's being described as a deep freeze is stretching right across north america at the moment. huge wind storm is disrupting travel plans, 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 pricing for i see conditions bisset, 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 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 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. 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 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 these 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. or spoken earlier with meteorologist matthew to poaching in washington, they say and asked him what the current situation is like in the capitol. yeah, most definitely. so me here in the nation's capital and temperatures abruptly dropped yesterday afternoon, eastern time. so we saw a morning temperatures around 345 degrees celsius, plenty of rainfall. then this side during arctic front came through. we saw a brief versus no garage, also snow pellets, and then suddenly those temperatures plummeted. all the moisture on airy roadways froze and the wind picked up gusting to about 70 kilometers per hour and actually

knocking down a tree just as a city. and fortunately, killing a driver. now across the us, we're seeing the worse are pretty much every season over the central u. s. temperatures calling 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 this know as well in some places. the empty about 150 centimeters off legs here in ontario, matthew whip and tracking this storm for dice. 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 evacuating 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 to 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 travel of the busiest travel week of the year. you're paying for a vivid picture of elliot 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 kind of want to talk a weirdest bits 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 the 1st half 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 ratings are 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 a 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 tossed thing may the religious matthew could purchase the in washington. they say thanks so much. thank you. before we go, christmas eve is here and the world's best loved frequent flyer is not too far away . crowds gathered near the north hold in finland to see santa claus make one last appearance ahead of his annual journey site. nick said this year he perceived many letters from people young and old to come asking for pace. children,

i've been making that announcement, it was time to take to his sleigh and head out on his mission, visit children all over the way. i don't, but that is all the news for now. coming up next sports law. the title is the arctic adventure slade, dog bryce, on the eternal ice. more slating. ok. more can be found on d. w dot com. if you need more news for a mix bulletin in 45 minutes tops with with ah, will you become.