for more reliable information. mm hm. ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin. russia reports a drone attack. hundreds of kilometers from the front lines of its war in ukraine. drone a shot dab before can strike an air base that the russian defense minister says the wreckage allegedly kills free people. also on the show, chinese war planes enter tiwana air space, one of the largest violations of its kind. china blames provocations from the united states and taiwan. and residents of the us and canada. battles of clear snow

drifts and restore power after a huge storm kills dozens of people across those 2 countries. ah, and we will corrupt welcome to the program. russia says a drone attack on one of its air basis killed 3 of its people. the defense ministry said the attack happened at angles, air base hundreds of kilometers from russia's war in ukraine. the deaths were apparently caused by falling debris after a drone was shot down. official set, no plains on the base were damaged, but social media reports unconfirmed dispute that ukraine, however, has not claimed responsibility for the attack. w reporter maria cut the mazda, explained the significance of the angles, airbase. well,

as you sat before, the military air failed angles to is quite far away from ukraine, about 700 kilometers to be precise. many military experts say that choosing angle space as a target is not accidental. essentially, there are 2 key reasons why it was attacked. firstly, it's a base for russian strategic bumpers. and it's therefore it's an attractive target for ukrainians. and secondly, just to remind you, it was exactly from angles ebay, that to russia, launched massive attacks on ukraine 2 weeks ago. so i would say that these 2 factors make many observers believe that these attack was part of a comeback from the ukranian military. our russian authorities responded to this attack deep into its territory. while other action from, from the russian side was acquired restrained at russia, now minister of defiance,

claims that the job was actually taken down by air defense. and according to their statement, no military equipment was damaged, reassuring that it was not a big deal, or despite all the casualties. and what does this attack seem to mean to moscow? what are we hearing from them? well, according to military experts, this incident does not carry much of a military significance, but more of a propagandistic psychological and political one. suddenly this is a blow to moscow and we can say that it's big 3 or 4 key f ukrainians seem to be getting more comfortable and confident to target strategic facilities inside rush. well, maybe for moscow, the talk is not as big and devastating as an occupied crimea. bridge

explosion, for instance, lisa talk and dissimilar wants that happened in the past few months. and really, what it does is to open up a discussion about the efficiency of russian system of ed to the main question, essentially, how it could make it so far away on the russian territory. if without being to talk to the shore down before to approach the base as a brilliant reporter, maria, cut them out there. thanks very much. turn out some other news making headlines right now. i don't know. hundreds of members of francis curtis community of march to paris to pay tribute to 3 curds shot dead last week. a 69 year old french citizen has been charged with murder for the shooting at a kurdish cultural center. and a hairdresser, prosecutor say the attack was racially trying to set to scrap its cover $900.00

quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from overseas beginning january 8th . currently they have to quarantine for at least 5 days at o. tell, fall by 3 more days at home. travel which will still need a negative test 40 hours prior to departure. to enter china. days of massive snowfall across large parts of japan. if left more than 17 people dead and dozens injured, thousands of homes of suffered power outages, japans whether agency is warning residence in the effect of regions to avoid travel . for hundreds of cars got stuck on roads and heavy snow. south korea scrambled military jets and attack how helicopters after 5 north korean drones crossed into its air space. soft green officials of the military fire warning shot at the drones and sent him to surveillance aircraft across the border. flights are temporarily suspended at 2 airports near the south korean capital. so

the government of taiwan says more than 70 chinese military aircraft of entered its air space over the last 24 hours. that would make it china's largest incursion of that kind near the break way island, which china claims as its own tie ones, defense ministry said dozens of fighter jets, cross what's known as the median line in the taiwan strait. it acts as an unofficial divide between the 2 sides. beijing said its conducted drills in response to provocations from taiwan and the united states. a sion as a research associate on taiwan and chinese foreign policy at the your razor group. washington dc earlier asked her how seriously we should take china's behavior. this provocation is definitely the largest in scale that we have seen, but why not interpret this as a sign that the chinese is going to launch an eminent attack against how one china historically has conducted larger and larger aircraft drills in response to us

actions of supporting taiwan, so the most recent sign of increasing your support to taiwan is the passing of the national defense authorization act by congress for fiscal year of 2023. and within this n d a legislation, there is a $10000000000.00 defense authorization for taiwan, which will basically fast track military assistance to taiwan as well as equipment per procurement on behalf of taipei. so this is an unprecedented action on the part of the u. s. because a think a lot of law makers in congress are increasing their sentiment of support for taiwan. and obviously from asians perspective, this is and welcomed action. and therefore they have increased the amount of aircraft that they send across the taiwan strait. but this from beijing's

perspective is more an act of deterrence rather than an act of offensive attack. even though from the outside person perspective. when we see those numbers, it's quite scary. but i would say, this is not an eminent sign that china will attack taiwan anytime soon. and china may be very far away if ever, from militarily taking taiwan. but i want none. the less, i'm sure, has a response to these kinds of air incursions. can you go into that a little bit? so how one of us as far has been doing some, you know, routine, you know, discouragement of those aircraft. i think the how many is military is it never really engages with the chinese aircraft. and what the timeline ministry of defense does is that reports daily on the number of chinese aircraft incursions. and they

post publicly on the internet and which shows sort of the increasing pressure that's how one is under from, you know, china from, from the chinese military. but in terms of concrete actions that at the time when is military has taken, i don't think there's anything that is, you know, very strong coming out from the outside, from the eurasia group there for us. thanks very much. thank you. hundreds of thousands of homes of businesses are still without power. after a huge winter storm hit much of canada and united states. across those 2 countries, people are working in a clear snow and restored down power lines. storms claimed nearly 50 lives. several weather advisories remain in effect. the deep arctic fries disrupted holly travel plans for millions of people. this couple in buffalo, new york faced the cold, unfit in

a final bed to be with their loved ones during the holidays. the relentless storms across north america are slowly dying out, but streets remained blanketed and snow. power shortages still leave millions cold and in the dark. even snow plies are getting stuck in drifts after working tirelessly to clear the roads. new york's governor please for caution. you need to stay off the roads. we've been begging. we've been asking in the vast majority of you have and i'm so grateful for that. but those of you who violate the driving bands, you may think you can go to the store for that 6 pack. but you are endangering other people across the border and canada travelers had to come to terms with the fact that they wouldn't make it home for the holidays. those going by train from ottawa, arrived at the station to find their journeys cancelled for some the luggage went back into the taxi, but others don't know how to get home portion of the change or cancel for today. so

just trying to get back to her for holidays, i'm waiting for her to go and stay there for a day. just go back to freezing winds. have st. temperatures plunging well below 0 for days. now. even though the worst seems to be over, the number of storm related deaths is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue across the continent. join now by meteorologist magic butcher. he is in washington, d. c. matthew, as always a pleasure to see you, but some very dismal news with the death toll just safe to keep going up and up. are you surprised by how many people died in this storm? he says, i am in really i'm just more disturbed than anything else. this is something we're seeing in 2022. this storm was well forecast we knew were days what the impact would be. we knew exactly how it all we knew the timing. we knew everything about

it, and yet the fact that people still ventured out defined sort of what we were supposed to do is very disheartening. now, this storm is tied to the united states was having buffaloes much more localized behind the bomb cycle. we're having ways out of the west, south west, i told the direction pouring down here in ontario, taking up moisture from the lakes and just a policy and as very heavy snowball without a $150.00 plus centimeters falling so far as a pass. yeah, it's quite dramatic images even for places that are used to wild winter weather given how well meteorologist like you seem to been able to gotten this storm. what can you tell us about what people in the hardest hit areas can expect coming up? yes, the conditions are beginning to get better right now that said, we silly at least another 24 to 36 hours for the things kind of finally wind down fully there in buffalo. but one thing that really struck me with this particular

system was the wind ordinarily, typically. yeah, get just about 3040 kilometers per hour, but really it's just all about the big band of snow. this time around the winds were so gross and even the heels, a temperature about minus 20 to minus 30 celsius. the impact was much greater. one other thing too is that the heavy snow combined with the wind to really to visibility down below about 5 meters at times. so get it. wizard. conditions require disabilities low about 4 kilometers. that's what you need for blizzard conditions. they normally get that once every year or so twice every year, so they won't get in 12 hours. disability reported to the low 5 meters. that's something i've never seen before. my career. any place. never mind buffalo, a very popular city. exactly. and as said places that know what a big snow storm is, can we expect major winter events like this?

again this season. so enforcing the pattern does seem right for things like this that said, i think you like 7 to 10 days will be very warm or the east united states. but to see something like this where a buffalo is already far out there. average annual snowfall by barrier 40 percent in the 1st 2 months of the season is pretty concerning. and so i was wondering, is there a connection to change? now the overall store was produced by the bomb cycle, which doesn't really have a plan that late. but when it comes to late effects, know that that we're seeing we're water temperatures, which in flux more with the air and less ice, a climate change might be a connection that we have to explore in future. because there could be some like some worrying trends. you lay out there the cities all around the world and a half of the a with meteorologist matic. pushy, thanks very much. thank you. and a reminder of the top stories were following for you. russia says a drone attack on one of its air bases has killed 3 military personnel. the angles

air base is located hundreds of kilometers from the front lines of the war in ukraine. depths for allegedly caused by falling debris after a drone was shot down over the base. and that's all we have for you for now, but up next me 3 different, but equally passionate business women. that's in her, our series about women in asia a little bit after this break more for you to stop the hour window craft actually watching in a

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