ah, really does this morning see the world as you've never seen it before. cried now he dw documentary ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, russia report the drone attack, hundreds of kilometers from the front lines of its war in you cried the drone, a shot down before it can strike an air base says the defense ministry, wreckage allegedly kills 3 people. reportable have analysis also on the program.

twenty's warplanes in the taiwan day, a space in one of the largest violations of its kind, trying to blend publications from the u. s. and taiwan. class residents of the us and canada battle the clear snow drifts and restore power after a massive storm hills. dozens across north america. ah, i'm anthony howard broke into the program. russia says a drone attack on one of a tier basis has killed 3 people. according to moscow, the fatalities were caused by falling debris after it's a defenses destroyed the drawing. the air base is used by long range bombers and is one of 2 facilities believe to have been targeted by ukrainian drones strikes earlier this month. security cameras near the air base recorded the moment of the explosion. rush essays, the drone used in the attack failed to hit its target,

but was shot down instead. the angles at base is hundreds of kilometers from the ukrainian border. diesel allotted 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, if sure to reassure it's very loud. constant explosions issue was that we have to survive and we will survive. the struggle for batman has been coffee 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. walker room. oh, i thought the i would say would be more festive over the holiday. i was wrong. we're still dealing with human suffering every day of learning 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. of more on this day, doubly reported, maria kat demantzy spoke to us about moscow's reaction to the attack. well, according to the military experts, this incident does not carry much of a military significance of but more of a propagandistic psychological and political one. certainly this is a blow to moscow and we can say that it's a victory for our key f. ukrainians seem to be getting more comfortable and

confident to target and strategic facilities inside russia. well, maybe for moscow, this attack is not as big as devastating as an occupied crimea bridge explosion, for instance. but these attack and dissimilar wants that happened in the past few months. really, what it does is to open up a discussion about the efficiency of russian system of air defense. the main question essentially is how it could make it so far away on the russian territory. without being detected or shut down before to approach the base and that was a maria had a matter there. ok, let's get a round up of some of the other headlines now. some 9000000 ukrainians have no access to power. according to president to lensky and he's not the address, he thanked energy workers full the efforts in restoring power to some areas over

christmas. russia has been regularly targeting ukraine's power grade with miss alt and from the tax. since october survey has placed its armed forces on the highest level of alert, tensions have been rising between the balkan country and its former war time. folk cost over in recent shootings and traffic blockades because of kosovo rather declared independence from serbia in 2008. something belgrade refuses to recognize the 2nd group of exhausted ro hinge and muslims has landed on a beach in indonesia, as archie province, after weeks at sea, at least 185 adults. and children disembarked from a wooden boat authorities are trying to confirm whether they were a group reported by the you in to be drifting in the and a man see for a month at least 13 people have died and many more are still missing after flash flooding. his philippines at christmas rescue if it's still under way of a 40000 people were forced to take shelter in evacuation since

the government of taiwan says that more than 70 chinese military aircraft of entered it's a space over the last 24 hours. that would make it china's largest incursion near the break. why island that china claims is its own. taiwan defense ministry said doesn't to 5 digits crossed the median line in the taiwan strait, which acts as an unofficial buffer zone. badging said it had conducted drills in response to provocation from taiwan and the united states elizabeth throwing that last. laura's rather is president of e, lara's consulting, and a fellow at the pacific form in washington dc. we asked her how seriously we should take the show forced by china. 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 and that you need to quit. she

enhancing your support of taiwan. this of course, is in response to prison bite and 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. what that means is that president binding can draw down from pentagon stockpiles to sand, 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. there is a massive snowfall across large parts of japan has left more than 17 people didn't,

doesn't think it. thousands of harms of suffered power outages to parents where the agency is urging residents in the affected regions to avoid travel of to hundreds of cars got stuck on roads and heavy snow. in the north end, northeast of japan harsh cool trends have bettered 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 knopf 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 snowfall for this time of year. le, emergency workers are also battling to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses after an unprecedented winter storm swept through north america. more than 50 people have been confirmed date across the us and canada and authorities expect the told rise. 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 drifts,

workers are also out in force, repairing down power lines in cities across the continent. to date, many of the deaths have been in heart hit buffalo, new york, individuals who had died as a result of the blizzard, died in a car, died outside for exposure. all died of 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 for 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. matthew, who g is a meteorologist based in washington. they. so he told us what comes next for the areas affected, bug hostile yes, the conditions are beginning to get better right now that said, we still need 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, which i will let you know. yeah, i 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 ferocious and even the heels of trauma temperature jumped about minus, wanted to minus 30 celsius, then obviously the impact was much greater. one other thing too,

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