[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin. russia reports a drone attack. i just of kilometers from the front lines of his war in ukraine. the drone is shot down before can strike an air best. according to the russian defense ministry, the wreckage allegedly kills 3 people. also on the show, chinese warplanes enter tiwana aerospace, one of the largest violations of its kind, china plains provocations for united states and taiwan. and residents of the united states and canada battle to clear snowdrifts and restore power after

a huge storm kills dozens of people across those 2 countries. and according to the story jesus was born in bethlehem, but which bethlehem israeli archaeologist is certain he's found the real birthplace of the christian messiah. ah, i mind bluecross. welcome to the program. russia says a drone attack on one of its air bases is killed. 3 people going to moscow, the fatalities were caused by falling debris after its air defense is destroyed. the drone air base is used by long range bombers and its located deep inside russia . security cameras near the base recorded the moment of the explosion, russia sais, the drone used in the attack failed to hit its target,

but was shot down instead. the angles ebay sees hundreds of kilometers from the ukrainian border. these losses booker boards. these are the consequences of russian aggression issue. if the russians think the war reached and deep in their territory, they're wrong or can, which we knowledge are glad only available on what else. it's more than 300 days into the war in ukraine. but in the bitterly contested city of back moot. no one is counting any more. the frontline city has become a fortress. russian forces have targeted black moot repeatedly. look up seneca herancha situation, the city is sure to reassure it's very loud. constant explosions issue was that we have to survive and we will survive. the struggle for back moot has been costly on both sides. analysts say dozens of soldiers dying here every day medic alexi and these colleagues treat wounded ukrainians. they say it's

more than a job. it's their purpose in life. the courtroom. oh, i thought the osi would be more festive over the holiday. i was wrong. we're still dealing with human suffering every day of volume over me, of ukraine's president is warned of continued russian attacks with miss allison drones in the coming days. and that means more of the same for alexia and these colleagues did have you, reporter maria, to measure, explain the significance of the attack on the angles air base in russia. 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 bombast,

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 this attack was part of a comeback from the ukrainian military. our russian authorities responded to this attack deep into its territory. while other action from, from the russian side was likewise restrained on the russian 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, this attack 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 to open up a discussion about the efficiency of russian system of the times. the main question essentially is how it could make it so far away on the russian territory without

being detected and shut down before to approach the base as a premium. debbie reporter maria cut them out of their thanks very much. the government of taiwan says that more than 70 chinese military aircraft entered it's aerospace, over the last 24 hours. that would make it china largest incursion near the break away island, which china claims as its own. taiwan defense ministry said dozens of fighter jets crossed. what's called the median line in the taiwan strait, which acts as an unofficial divide between the 2 sides. beijing set its conducted drills in response to provocations from taiwan and the united states. let's get more on this from elizabeth find lara's. she is the president of elaine consulting and a fellow at the pacific form in washington dc. very good. have you with us on the w 1st. let's just look at this. show a force. it's by no means the 1st one that china has done. it probably won't be the

last one. how seriously should we take these kinds of actions? well, we always need to take this type of action from china seriously. of course, the timing of it is interesting on christmas day, sending a message that you're, if you want to have peace, particularly peace across the taiwan strait on, you need to quit enhancing your support of taiwan. this of course, is in response to prison by then, signing that national defense authorization act, which includes in it the taiwan enhanced resilience act, which for the 1st time specifies a defense monetization program. for taiwan. it gives a $1000000000.00 in annual presidential draw down authority with that means is that president binding can draw down from pentagon stump piles to send defensive weapons antimissile,

land based and see based missiles to taiwan. and so chinese see that as a provocation. there's a lot more in the national defense authorization act that supports taiwan. so chinese coolness or provocation. so we do need to take this pretty seriously. you mentioned that draw down authority has a ring of what we've been seeing in ukraine with us support for ukraine. i was trying to, looking at the warn ukraine as it sizes up its options with taiwan. well, the change in paying and the chinese communist party sees is that since the collapse of the soviet union, $991.00 over those 30 years, ukraine moved gradually and consistently out of the orbit of russia. china does not want the same thing to happen to taiwan, and in fact, one has been moving out of china's or that. and so she's hoping wants to prevent a situation where it has to use force against taiwan. so better to prevent

taiwan from moving so far away that china has to resort to force. so when in chinese view right where the united states does strengthen military, political, and unofficial relations with taiwan, chinese see that as try one moving more and more out of the or that. and it doesn't want to get to a point of no return. that is, that it needs to use force in response. taiwan is at the moment anyway. outgunned out, matched by a much larger pho, across the taiwan straits. what options does it have encountering these kinds of incursions? i one does not have a lot of options. as you said, the balance of military power has shifted from taiwan to mainland china in the past 20 or so years. it relies heavily on the united states that you probably have noticed that japan has a doubled will be doubling its defense budget because japan is very concerned about

china's threats to taiwan as well. but one thing that taiwan has do has done yell other than, oh, you know, heightened alertness, scrambled the jabs in response as it has lengthened. the compulsory military service, previously taiwan high compulsory, 2 years military service for all they all say had to do between graduation in college. and then they went to an all volunteer force, but they didn't meet their quotas. then they went to 4 months compulsory training, which just isn't enough. so now they lengthen it to one year. the problem is it's not significant training. it's not hard core training. a lot of the people participating say it's more like a camp. they're not even using real weapons, so tie one needs to up the ante there. all right, elizabeth fine maris at the pacific form. we're going to leave it there for now. thanks very much for those views. and turn out to some other

headlights. china is set to strap it's cove 19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from overseas beginning january 8th. currently they have to quarantine for these 5 days at a hotel and lower free days at home. travelers still need or will still need a negative virus test. 48 hours prior to departing for china, south korea scrambled military jets and attack helicopters after 5 north korean drones crossed its air space. soft green official said the military fired warning shots at the drones and st. surveillance aircraft across the border is on 100 flights, were temporarily suspended at 2 airports near the south korean capital. so a 2nd group of exhausted orange of muslims as landed on a beach in indonesia, archie province, after weeks at sea, at least 185 adults and children, disembark from a rickety wooden boat. authorities are trying to confirm whether they were

a group reported by the united nations to be drifting. for a month. burnsy workers are battling to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across united states and canada after an unprecedented winter storm. in some areas, the death toll keeps on climbing as missing people are confirmed dead to date. more than 50 people across those 2 countries have been killed in other regions, locals are focusing on cleanup efforts. the deadly blizzard brought several meters of snow. heavy winds and misery to millions across north america. despite the power outages and freezing temperatures, people in many cities across the continent are being asked to stay indoors as snow plows get to work clearing roads and pathways. when the vehicles themselves aren't stuck in snow, drift workers are also out in force,

repairing down power lines in cities across the continent. to date, many of the deaths have been in hard hit buffalo, new york, individuals who had died as a result of the blizzard, died in a car, died outside for exposure. died in the snow shovel or cardiac of out regarding the snow blowing were found in a home. that number is expected to rise in the coming days. in canada, 4 people were killed and several more were injured. after a bus rolled over on an icy road in the western province of british columbia, the scope of the storm is unprecedented. stretching from canada as far south as texas in florida, frozen stiff iguanas dropped from the trees, unable to move, and in

a catatonic state. not only did the deep arctic fries keep people trapped in ice and snow and crusted homes, it also disrupted holiday travel plans for millions of people. several weather advisories remain in effect across the continent. but it bocce is a meteorologist based wash in dc. earlier asked him if he was surprised by the high diesel. since i am in really, i'm just more disturbed than anything else. this is something we're seeing in 2022 . this term 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 bomb side. when we signed up, much united states was having buffaloes much more localized behind the bomb cycle. we're having we use out of the west, south west holy direction pouring down here in ontario,

taking up boys from the lakes and just a policy and as very heavy snowball with about a $130.00 plus centimeters falling so far as a yeah, it's quite dramatic. images, even for places that are used to wild winter weather, given how well meteorologist like you seem to be able to gotten this storm. what can you tell us about what people in the hardest 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. really. it's just all about the big band of snow. this time around the winds were so gross and even the heels of travel temperatures talked about minus wanted 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 guess wizard, conditions require disabilities. blow about 4 long years. that's what you need for blizzard conditions. they normally get that once every year or so twice every year . so they were getting 12 hours. visibility is reported to the low 5 meters. that's something i've never seen before. my career. any place? never mind buffalo, a very bottom city. exactly. i'm as said places that know what a big snowstorm 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 eastern half united states. but to see something like this where buffaloes already far of their average annual snowfall. but like barrier 40 percent in just the 1st 2 months of the season,

it is pretty concerning. and some of the wonder 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 we're seeing water temperatures, which in flux more ways in the air and less ice, a waste. your climate change might be a connection that we have to explore in the future. because there could be some like some worrying trends. you lay out there, the cities all around the world, going to have to deal with me or i'll just magic bushy. thanks very much. thank you . and massive stuff, all also on the other side of the world, large parts of japan have seen more than 17 people dead and dozens injure due to a winter storm. very thousands of homes are without power hands, whether agency is urging residence in the affected regions to avoid travel after hundreds of cars got stuck on roads in heavy snow in the north and northeast of japan, harsh gold friends have battered the country for 10 days. now,

authorities have warned that roofs might collapse from the snow, but they've also warned of the dangers of removing snow. the fire and disaster management agency says that many people have fallen while clearing their roofs. some more than buried underneath, thick snow piles that had slid in off. for many, these icy temperatures are unbearable waterloo, this is torture. i have to wrap up in a blanket to keep warm. hundreds of people left their cars stranded on freeways during the heavy snowfall. many households have been left without electricity and delivery service has met with extreme delays. dozens of flights and trains have also been cancelled. so far north eastern japan has ranked up 3 times the usual amount of snow fall for this time of year. bethlehem is widely celebrated as the birthplace of jesus, droves of pilgrims and taurus, visit the palestinian city in the west bank to see the grotto that believers revere

as the spot where jesus was born. but one is railey archaeologist thinks every one else has it. rock, his team has spent years collecting artifacts in another bethlehem that's to the north in israel's galilee. it's just down the road from the ancient city of nazareth. he says his findings prove that joseph and they heavily pregnant mary walked just 7 kilometers, not a 150 to the major, where the christian messiah messiah was born. it's a well known tale and the young family in need of a boy whose birth began the christian narrative and founded an entirely new religion. joseph and a heavily pregnant mary travel from their home in nazareth to the city of bethlehem, near jerusalem. or so the story goes, but not everyone agrees on the details. worth of the chances that a 9 month pregnant woman would ride on the donkey from nazareth all to bed lamb

judea, archaeologist abbey ram, or sri spent 11 years excavating, another bethlehem of the galilee, not far from nazareth. he says 3 key findings prove this is the real birthplace of jesus. this is the butler because justine, in the 6th century build a wall a wrong, but let him. and there is no wall lamp in the other wetland. and here by 2 he says shows the juice had settled in this area during that period. are you points toward jerusalem? we know that jesus was born as a jew, leave. this is drew and died as a jew. so there should be community living in this side where he was born and there is no traces archaeological traces a of inhabitants in the roman period in the other bit. lemme plus the remnants of

the big and important church he believes approved this bethlehem was wants an important place for christians. his thesis though hasn't ganged much traction by 100 and these other remains here in the traditional bethlehem in the occupied west bank. there's more at stake than historical truth all where exactly mary, joseph and baby, jesus found refuge for centuries. this has been a place of pilgrimage of tourism and of course big business. but that's not what's important to religious late as here. look only by the buildings itself, only by maybe the things that we're looking for exactly that this is the right place, but it's my belief and by faith. and this is the most important thing. all sri is committed to his theory and vows to keep promoting it. he claims it's supported by facts and logic. but ultimately he agrees that for the 1000000000 plus christian faithful, whether there or he will all come down to

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a fast and dramatic start on australia's east coast of the $190.00 boats. taking part in the 628 nautical mile race. some of the front runners were quickly kicked out due to penalties. those that remain have a downwind to thank. first boats could cross the finish line as early as tuesday night. look at those beautiful boats go we're going to leave it there for now. up. next is our science show tomorrow. today, say tuned for that i might bluecross morphia, soon extra watch with

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