any thing he was proud of, it was to be a steel walker. is his business to come with you for life? who are the winners and losers? globalization, where do we stand? starts january 5th on dw. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is the w news live from berlin authorities in the u. s. warren, 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 covered 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 are grappling with rescue and recovery efforts. after a snow storm left dozens of people did. over 50 people died because of the extreme were the 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 cult. ah, a lighthouse in case in ice, in, across the continent. winter storm elliot has left striking scenes of beauty in its wake and frightening sense of devastation, radio. my current 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 what people are standard a lot of roads that are completely blocked right now that have no access whatsoever . and people are trying to drive into our these roads or tried to get to these

neighborhoods and they have, please, please, you are the mayor bag. i'm begging stay all the soon has also cause chaos for travelers during the holiday season. popular budget, terry a southwest airlines cancelled more than 10000 scheduled flight, leaving passengers surrounded and scrambling to find love's luggage. so for airports, 2 or one or 3 days late as residents try and dig their homes out from the snow or stories, 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 its been called the blizzard of the century and will certainly be remembered here for

a long time. the 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 cities coping things are still not good. the worst of the 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 if i was 12 years old at the time, co school for a week, which was on a herd 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 snowfall. i believe it would have been friday morning. we were prepared. the precision of the forecast was such that we knew this was calling. 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 the reporter say that we're used to lake effect storm here, which just last month, don't more than 7 feet us no 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. western new york is to have sustained 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. they had to wait for the storm to last a little bit before they could attack. and that proved to be a deadly combination of st. now or let's get around, but 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 had the 2020 presidential election. a friend's foreign minister has floated the idea of an international summit to win the boy in his country. to meet rec labor, said ukraine once

a piece summit within 2 months with you and secretary general antonio. good, harris, acting as mediator. belabor added, he doesn't think russia which invited you granted 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 bank 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 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 vacant 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 journals, 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 all i will take all measures necessary to protect our nationally out on monday. so be a, put a military on high alert. the interior minister with the troops and ordered, but 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 prewar 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 hospitals population. they protested enlarged numbers with another person. and 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 month. the situation in the not, of course of all is becoming more and more serious and complicated with either the war mongering perform a fortune and his men installed in the north. it is crossing the red lines that he

must urgently draw his mind from the north, and order the removal of the battery gets and return to the negotiating good cause long. he cannot challenge causal which is set for lisa to release for all possible anthea fought 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 panoramic restrictions are said, the east further,

even though the country is far from heard 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 has 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 omicron variance is not as dangerous as 1st thought. dante will go you to franklin at the moment the pandemic response measures have entered a new phase in our country. we're faced by a new situation and new challenges. oh, jan. call 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, not only got flat at all so we know anyone outside is clear what, what we need now is heard immunity. 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 head. 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, a manuel wheeler. we asked him for his opinion on just how severe the cove id situation is in china. so basically with the situation, china as far as we can touch it from here is quite worrying. 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. this 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 an 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 example, 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 veterans or source code 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 these joint pen this, 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 for now, don't forget there's 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 we're, if you're watching, have a good day and stay with the w looks back on in crisis mode in the corona virus