and software our brain changes. so get really for the brain of 40 to the answer to almost everything. starts january 15th on d, w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is the w news live from berlin. authorities in the us warn the death toll in north america's blizzard is set to rise as recovery efforts speed up. the area around the buffalo in new york state is the worst affected region with dozens of

people reported did due to the bad weather conditions. also on the program, a war words between serbia and neighboring kosovo intensifies ethnic tensions are threatening to break it out into open conflict. will have the details and china into 0 coverage policy maple breathed a sigh of relief. but with her amenities still far off dangerous from the virus remained. ah m, anthony, how'd welcome? many parts of the united states grappling with rescue and recovery efforts after a snow storm left dozens of people did. of the 50 people died because of the extreme weather conditions that think it is expected to rise according to officials in the us. new york state has been hit hot. the area around buffalo in western new york has struggled with

a weather phenomenon known as lake effect snow. that's when cold air passes over the warm waters of the great lakes, bringing the region huge amounts of snow for and that's what buffalo has been experiencing along with heavy winds and arctic cold. ah, a lighthouse encased in ice in across the continent. winter storm elliot has left striking scenes of beauty in its wake and frightening scenes of devastation, radio state and military police have been called into the hard hit city of buffalo to ensure drivers keep off the roads. a driving ban had been issued earlier, but some was still found dead in their cars. so i won't be boiler standard log. roads that are completely blocked right now that have no access whatsoever. and people are trying to drive into on these roads or trying to get into these

neighborhoods and make heads. please, please, you heard the mayor bag. i'm begging stay. all the storm has also cause chaos for travelers during the holiday season. popular budget carriers, southwest airlines cancelled more than 10000 scheduled flight, leaving passengers surrounded and scrambling to find lots luggage to 4 airports to arrive 3 days late as residence. try and dig their homes out from the snow or store. it is a warning that more bad weather may be on its way rain and a rapid rising temperature or in the forecast which could cause flooding. it's been called the blizzard of the century and will certainly be remembered here for a long time. that early we spoke to bruce, andrea chase,

the assistant managing editor of the buffalo news, the major newspaper in the buffalo niagara falls area. we asked him how the city's coping thinks are still not good. the worst snowfall has passed our airport, which is about 8 miles from where i'm sitting. no, i received 50 inches of snow and you know, the region itself is, is buried. we have, we've never seen anything like this. i'm, i'm old enough to remember a storm that hit buffalo 45 years ago. that's always been known as the blizzard of 77. those of us to are old enough to remember it. never thought we would see anything like it again. it also buried the city. i was 12 years old at the time, co school for a week, which was on a heard of. i can tell you now that having lived through this past weekend, this storm that we're experiencing now is worse. well, we had the,

the people in the equipment here morrow before the 1st. the 1st snow fell and i believe it would have been friday morning. we were preparing the precision of the forecast with such that we knew this was cutting. we knew it was going to be a blizzard. we knew how bad it was going to be, or rather we knew that it would be bad. i think that by friday afternoon, as you said, even those of us who are winter veterans were stunned. and just how ferocious the store was used to. and i, i heard your report say that we're used to lake effect storm here, which just last month dumped more than 7 feet us know 80 inches, which i guess would be almost double. what we've seen at the airport and that's not unheard of what is on a hurdle for buffalo. the western new york is to have sustain snowfall and wins about 40 miles an hour for 48 hours or more in some areas. so even though we had

the people, we had the equipment here, there was no way for it to move forward. just as one example. the governor said that let's say that you had a plow that was able to navigate the street. you wouldn't be able to drive more than a little bit before the way down conditions were such, you couldn't see in front of you and suddenly a car or another vehicle that had been stranded would be in front of you. and then that would have been out of action. i had to wait for the storm to last a little bit before they could attack. and that proved to be a deadly combination as we're seeing now. or let's go round up now of some other headlines. the co leader of a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitner has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. prosecutors described adam fox as the mastermind of the plan to a duck. whitman at gunpoint ahead the 2020 presidential election. a friend's foreign minister has floated the idea of an international summit to win the war in his country. to meet rec, labor, said ukraine once a pace, summer,

within 2 months with you and the secretary general, antonio good harris, acting as mediator glib added. he doesn't think russia which invited you grand 10 months ago would take part. russian president vladimir putin assigned a decree banning oil exports to countries that have imposed a price cap on russian oil. the van comes into effect from february 2023, and the last 45 months. western nations have set a price cap on russian petroleum products as they try to limit moscow's ability to finance it's war in new prey. the attention to growing between the balkan states of serbia and kosovo with concerns about the possibility of armed conflict. breaking out serbia has put its military on high alert and erected roadblocks along the border cost versus serbia is preparing a pretext for

a military operation. negotiations with the e. u and usaa ongoing in a hope of avoiding renewed fighting in the balkans vehicles blocked a route from kosovo to serbia. at the clubs living and not possible accused the government of discriminating against them and have barricaded the roads in protest . the vizier selby as president faith he is ever ready to defend them really to be on your sober so city jewels, i wish to inform you that we are indeed in a difficult situation. but we will give our utmost to preserve peace and stability . not only that, we will protect our people in the not, of course, of course, i will take all measures necessary to protect our national trends on monday. so we are put military on high alert, the interior minister with the troops and order that they stand ready for combat. this in fight of nato forces being in kosovo,

and calling to calm the situation. tensions are often high between the 2 countries, but this is the strange situation was triggered by crossville decision to scrap old license plates from serbia that come from pre war times. local soaps saw that as an attack on their identity and autonomy, especially as serbs or a minority group making up only 6 percent of customers population. they protested enlarged numbers with another point. now the situation has worsened due to rumors that crossover was planning an attack against its sub community casa, was leaders say otherwise. the whole of the situation in the not, of course, of all is becoming more and more serious and complicated. we cover the war mongering perform a fortune, and his men installed in the north is crossing the red lines that he must urgently

draw his mind from the north and order. the removal of the battery gets entered on to the negotiating table or so. he cannot challenge causal which is set for peace to religion for our customer when phobia thought a war from 1998 to 1999, after which constable unilaterally declared its independence. sylvia does not recognize that status until today. neither do sober living in cluster members of germany's coalition. government are debating when to declare an end to the pandemic and dropped the last of the restrictions. public health officials say heard immunity may be close thanks to widespread vaccination and natural immunity. the german justice minister is calling for an end to all restrictions at the health minister has urged caution. meanwhile, china's pandemic restrictions are said, the eas, further,

even though the country is far from her immunity and cases appear to be sorry. by jing has announced this ending almost 3 years of border controls on january 8th, when coven 19 is downgraded to an infectious disease. but that may put the country's old and sick populations in particular danger. the end of visa restrictions for chinese wanting to travel abroad has sparked a surge in flight bookings from china, people there have spent 3 years putting up with travel restrictions locked downs, mass testing, and other tough measures. the sudden lifting of these has caught people by surprise . the official reason the army con variance is not as dangerous as 1st thought banker will go easily fungal, at the moment the pandemic response measures have entered a new phase in our country. were faced by a new situation and new challenges. oh jim, come with pivoting from preventing infection to protecting health and preventing

severe illness. so hooking will build, obey the policy changed, has been welcomed by some people. at least that's what you wrote to me. of course are some people prefer control measures like which boy, how's it if cases are isolated in a centralized way, i've only got flooded or so we know anyone outside is clear what, what we need now is heard immunity to them. yeah. so the government is quite right to do what is doing under the current circumstances. what i think mentality is very important. there's no need to worry about it too much. if the government is allowing things to open up again, then that means it can't be that bad, right? if the virus is highly infectious in everyone's life is in danger, the government wouldn't be easing up, or that i believe i'm headed. but corona virus infections have skyrocketed since the u turn by china's leaders. at the start of december. older people have been hard hit as vaccination rates among them are low, many hospitals overstretched. and it's estimated that coven 19, who claim a 1000000 lives in the coming months. and as the result of those developments,

japan is announced. it will require a negative coven 19 test, from visitors, from china. the emergency measures come into effect on friday. now, earlier they doubly spoke to molecular biologist manuel wheeler. we asked him for his opinion on just how severe the code situation is in china. so basically what the situation, china, as far as we can touch it from here, is quite boring. there seem to be massive number of infections. this also means that thousands, tens of thousands of people are going to die, are experiencing your disease. these will also put extreme strain on like logistics on supply chains. so one of the things that we have to foresee is that a lot of trucks are being made in china and lots of supply chain. this option of supply chains might also mean that we see and even more large, a lack of certain drugs here in europe, for example. and beyond that, of course, what we know is that every infection is a specific or certain,

but small risk that the new veteran can emerge, which can eventually also pose a certain threat to us. this is not something that generally speaking, expected at the moment because there is not so much community around in china at the moment. so it's not so likely that for it's on new immune s k, parents will emerge. this is what we have seen one year ago with your merchant army on barron in the south african botswana. this is not the same situation as back then. so even though there is a threat that completely new variants of source called to can emerge from china right now, this is not being generally considered as a major issue. now finally, for many of us winter is an excuse to curl up, stay home and just keep warm. not so for the joint panel, you see the colder it gets, the more active they are. they for provides a natural protection against the cold,

so they don't feel the chill. but here at the quick lane, giant pan research center in central china, they do appear to be pretty chill with the whole, with the situation. and on that now that is all the nice the now don't forget this more to be found on our breaking news app. also a d, w dot com and on social media handled you need for instagram and twitter is at d. w. news. i'm anthony howard. and in berlin from may and the team here with, if you're watching, have a good day and stay with a