i saw you are not a visitor, not a guess. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah ah. this is detail you news live from berlin. the death toll from north america's storm of the century goes up. as authorities and residence in hard head buffalo, new york, dig their way out. some of the dead are found frozen in vehicles and snow banks. also on the program, a war of words between serbia neighboring kosovo,

intensifies ethnic. tensions are threatening to break out into open conflict. we'll have the details. and another pandemic surprise from china. international travel restrictions are lifted to the relief of many, but with heard immunity still far off, dangers from the virus remain. ah, next, spicer, welcome to the program. it's been called the blizzard of the century. the snow storm battering the u. s. in canada and emergency has been declared for new york state, which is bearing the brunt of the storm. at least 50 people have died across the united states. snow has buried parts of buffalo, new york and emergency crews are struggling to reach trapped residents. some of the dead have been found frozen in vehicles and snow banks. a lighthouse

in case 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 stay, there's a lot of 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 they have, please, please, you're 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 love's luggage to for airports to airline or 3 days late as residents try and take 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. earlier i asked us based meteorologist matthew caputo, this historic storm is a sign of more extreme whether to come. so any question or was asking is whether or not this particular event is tied to human is climate change when it comes to awful

of so there are certain things you can link to climate change, certain things we can't change because weather course is sort of what you get in climate is what you expect. in the case, what happened? buffalo, i think that, you know, if we were seeing more water temperatures in the great lakes and we would be saying yes, lightly, more snowfall and sort of more light effects. knows what happened in buffalo though, doesn't really bear that the your bread because the water temperatures were normal and ice cover over the lake was normal. so buffalo, probably not that said there are some things that will be made more stream things to climate change. a weather storm systems more drought at times, and due to something called classic relationship, basically war air and hold more water, stronger hurricanes, and perhaps, like we said, bigger flood events. ultimately, tensions are growing between the balkan states of serbia and casa, with concerns about the possibility of armed conflict. breaking out, serbia has put its military and high alert and erected roadblocks along the border . kosovo, says serbia is preparing a pretext for

a military operation. negotiations with the u and u. s. or ongoing in a hope of avoiding. renewed fighting in the balkans vehicles blocked a route from kosovo to sophia. at the clubs living and not possible accused the government of discriminating against them and have barricaded the roads in protest . the vizier, so b as president phase. he is eval ready to defend them really to be in your sober with joe. 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 our put at military on high alert. the interior minister with the troops and ordered. but the 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 the observer minority group making up only 6 percent of crossovers, population they protested enlarged numbers with added to them. now the situation has worsened due to rumors that kosovo was planning an attack against its sub community casa, those leaders say otherwise that or what the situation in the north, 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. it is crossing the red lines that the

right he must urgently withdraw his wrong from the naughty for an order. the removal of the barricades and had gone to the negotiating table was all, he cannot challenge kosovo which is set for these delirium for our customer when therubi offered a war from 1998 to 1999, after which constable unilaterally declared its independence. sylvia does not recognize that status until to day, neither do sober living in prosper. let's get a round up of some other headlines now. ukraine is ready to take part in an international summit to end the war is to foreign minister demitra columbus as ukraine wants a piece summit within 2 months, un secretary general intent tonia guiterres, acting as mediator labor added. he doesn't think russia which invaded ukraine 10 months ago would take part the death toll from devastating floods in the

philippines has risen to 25. dozens of others are still missing. heavy rains over christmas weekend, inundated eastern central and southern parts of the country. authorities say many homes and roads were damaged and more than 80000 people are in shelters. 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 of unity may be close thanks to widespread vaccination and natural immunity. the german justice minister is calling for an end to all restrictions, but the health minister has urged caution. meanwhile, china's pandemic restrictions are set to ease further, even though the country is far from her immunity and cases appear to be soaring. aging announced its ending almost 3 years of border controls on january the 8th, when covered 19 is downgraded to an infectious disease. but that may put the

country's old and sick populations in particular danger. the end of these are restrictions for chinese, wanting to travel abroad, a spark to search in flight bookings from china. people that 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. dante, we'll go you to franklin 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 not your order. mean, of course are some people prefer control measures only which for you also have cases or 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. well, yeah, 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 a result of those developments, japan has announced it will require a negative. cobit 19 to us from visitors from china. the emergency measures come into effect on friday. earlier d w spoke to molecular biologist emmanuel wheeler. we asked him for his opinion on

just how severe the code situation really is in china. so basically what the situation in 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. 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 chains is optional. 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 are source called to can emerge from china right now. this is not being generally considered as a major issue. and here's a health story for you now, with holiday festivities in full swing, many people find it hard to get off the sofa and exercise. researchers in the united states have found that it's not all just down to sheer willpower in a mouse study published in the science journal nature, they discovered that got bacteria appear to play a key role in motivating animals. and hopefully humans to move their bodies. scott, bacteria play a fundamental role in human health that research is at the university of

pennsylvania, investigating exercise didn't set out to give the mike her by him yet another starring row. they studied mice to try and understand what biology can tell us about the motivation to walk out. according to the world health organization more than one in for adults world wide, don't get enough physical activity to stay healthy. the u. s. scientists wanted to find out if mice could show them why. what we did in the studies. we took a very large cordele for genetically diverse my, and we prefer the exercise capacity. the research has looked at what impact them. i says genes metabolism, blood chemistry, and got flora had on their willingness to exercise. they did that by altering the rodents, got mike her by hymns. some were given no got bacteria retool, others were given the floor of top performing mice, others of lazy mice. the animals could run as much as they liked on wheels and cages. what was clear from our experiments is that if we later michael by m overlap

models, or if we use the term for and also doesn't have to start with exercise capacity is reduced by about 50 percent. i'm so this is a really, really strong overall contribution on the contributes to basically half of the animals axis has performance. after running on the wheel, the mass is got my k by m, cause don't mean to surgeon it's gray matter. plus the new transmitter that drives the brains reward system. the discovery of this connection between the gut in the brain and how it influences exercise is new and could prove groundbreaking. the sciences i catching the wood a whole truth, the humans. in fact, the, the circuits in the brain that control motivated behavior are actually streaming conserves between mice and humans. and, and many other mammalian species. we hypothesize that if this is a very ancient and evolutionarily conserved mechanism that drives the motivation for exercise. it might be present in humans as well. a study in humans is already

underway to see if got bacteria could make us exercise. just like the mice. and that's it for now. but before we go, for many of us, winter is an excuse to stay home and keep warm, but not so for these giant panders their fur provides natural protection against the cold. here at china's kindling giant panda research center, they certainly appear to be rolling with it. with d. w looks back only during crisis mode. the corolla virus pandemic, more convenient crate. the climate crisis.