thing in the world is this spirit attacked of emotions? architecture is this free? believe me. stuart's december 25th d w. ah ah, you're watching dw is life from her lead. russia strikes a recently liberated city and you price. at least 7 people are killed as shells target. her song ukraine's president condemned the attack as terrorism. also coming up on the bone chilling temperatures in the united states. millions of americans

hit with snow, wind, and ice. a massive arctic storm cause as road k offs. mass, flight, cancellations, and weather warnings across the country. and a leaky government document shows. china is under reporting the number of new coven 19 pieces and data. despite hundreds of thousands of new cases and hospitals and more filling up, the government continues to report. no new jacks will go live to a medical expert in taiwan. ah, hello, i'm claire richards and thank you so much for joining us. ukraine says at least 7 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after a russian strike on a market in the southern city of her son, president will ed moore's lensky, condemned the attack, saying there were no military facilities located in the area. he has warned that

russia could be planning more attacks during the holidays. the kremlin has previously said there are no plans for a ceasefire during the period. well, i spoke to d, w, corresponded, manual ch has in butcher at ukraine a short while ago. and i asked her wont more, she knows about the attack in her son. oh, hi claire. well, it's just to lay to this of a string of deadly attacks, dots or russia launched against your crime in harrison. there have been, according to their authorities, at least 7 people who died. thousands of people are injured including some very seriously and a very critical, a steady attack occurred in this city center. you could see a pictures to collating here on social media channels. a showing a bodies of civilians are lying in the streets said this happens at the time where ukrainians are already struggling with power, carrots,

millions of people don't have access to electricity. don't have running water and dot in the dead of the winter. and here in ukraine and also to redefine steve perio deven, if most ukrainians would be celebrating a orthodox christmas at the beginning of the year does already defy steve sees in here. and of course this has nothing. you know, there's nothing to rejoice about in such days when you're ukrainian and you constantly leaving, leaving under the fear of being shelled. thank you for that update and when you well, you are currently reporting from butcher, which many will remember became a symbol of the brutality of the russian invasion after a massacre. earlier this year, i now residence there in the area, as you've mentioned, are facing a grueling winter as russian strikes target powered for structure across ukraine. i want to take a look at a report that you filed on help, which is residence or coping. and then we'll come back to you for more. brazil is a suburb on the outskirts of key. if victo survived

a russian occupation and now must survive the winter. constant air strikes and power facilities, curt electricity and running water to his entire building. so he makes do as best as he can go, doors get the good deliver, i'm good at you. 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 musical boy cellphone, just as we speak, a surprise. the power comes by con our children, 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 the years velva for very 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 need them here? those i don't really like to be sure. i would rather sit at home with a light on. but you need to charge a phone, so you can call your relative more more they hadn't done before. you, shamela dorado shoppers, only thing. 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 yours, archer. you saw him in a blish, you mean? cliff 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 big unless i'm put her in the with her would you have 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 cuts 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 herb lore. the william

a perio doors out as you want me, my e sim, your 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 airstrikes. and when you well, thank you so much for reporting there. can you tell us more about how these power outages are affecting people's everyday lives? i will, claire i'm here just in front of the center. we saw her in the report. you might see that nobody here at the moment, that means that power is back. the problem is that this doesn't last. it's usually for a few hours and then people are deprived of power again. and just to give you an idea, victor, which we saw in it at the beginning of the report called us today, or to tell us, well, there was some a power back while we were filming. but since then he hadn't had any electricity against. it's a very dire situation, a situation that is said by millions of ukrainians across the country. the

situation is particularly dire in a key, if any to or region just oh, so you can imagine a pre war urgent tricity grid and key if was functioning, the other ha, functioning at a 150 percent of its capacity. now it functions only at 50 percent of its capacity . only critical infrastructure such as hospitals you know, are, is still, i still are being provided with that electricity. and her people are really bracing for more power caused cuts in the weeks to come because air strikes are continuing . thank you so much for that update. that's our course on it. and the notch has reporting from butcher ukraine or much of north america is in the grip of a deep freeze at the moment as a huge winter storm disrupts. travel plans causes power outages, and threatens lives. around 60 percent of the u. s. is under some kind of weather warning and even the sunshine state of florida is bracing for icey 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 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 leafed 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 with the 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. will china is battling a surgeon cove cases and new media reports could reveal the vast scale of the

outbreak. wynberg, in the financial times of reported around 250000000 people were infected during the 1st weeks of december, citing a leech government document. the chinese authorities appear to be down playing the severity of the current wave. despite the surgeon cases, they're continuing to report no new deaths, even as hospitals and morgues with philip. while i'm very pleased to welcome a ruby juan, joining us from the school of medicine at national tie, one university. i'd like to begin with those figures from the chinese government. they're reporting only 7 coven debts since restrictions were dramatically loosened . earlier this week. from what you've been hearing from china, can you tell us more about just how bad the situation is? i seen what is puzzling now is how accurate these figures are no matter the actual infection numbers in the desk. numbers and, you know,

dad to death definition from china is very different from the operational definition day. restricted to only for home with dairy causes of death. so we could expect that there could be related mortality rate was not reported again, come from case $215000000.00. is that possible? it could be, but the question is, how is that determined? is it by p c or a confirm, or is it by symptoms only? we don't have the information for that. so again, we're seeing as the statistics are not transparent. so that is something that i think the world is urging china to come up with more transparent status stakes, so that we can assess the i'll break scale and in your view, how well prepared was china for this wave. do you think it was a mistake for them to lift these strict restrictions so quickly?

i won't say is a mistake because you have to open up at some point it's. it's impossible to have to society be close down for such a long time and we've seen that from protest everywhere. and so, but the issue is trying to get him started as a step wise opening up that should actually of what stop the or booster destination, at least for the 3rd, even more doses to a certain population percentage of population before they actually opened up step by step on right now, it seems that all the object code in a policy was something at least off of a sudden and even the testing ghouls, which actually would be very helpful now for the community to us as a great is, oh good. so it's kind of puzzling whether or not there is actual leadership

down as little as every level in china. now, for the kobe control, china's, of course, most populous country in the world, and with such a huge number of people facing infection in the coming weeks. what do you think can be done to reduce what could be a huge number of people dying? i think i said god, yesterday, maybe they can use their technology like apps. a lot of their communities are have access to apps. we chat, they can use that to teach people how to try it out. if they have a mild symptoms or relatively asymptomatic, stay at home and wait for recovery. if they're gonna re people instruct them how to get to the hospital. so i think try aging is the key and the 2nd is i try to be more open up in terms of done on you and learning vaccines. i know

germany and u. s. has been advocating this to china and they haven't come up with a positive answer with more than that. see that probably will help them to survive . just wait because we don't think the way of the actual end and you know, probably yeah, we are seeing for the next few months. maybe i don't. i'm afraid for timing reasons, we're going to have to leave it there. we're running out of time, but thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us is updating at this hour . thanks so much for watching with we've got to understand that.