how do we make seni screener? how can we protect habitats? we can make a difference. global ideas. the environmental series in global 3000 on d, w, and online. ah ah, this is a deed of you news live from berlin. the death toll from north america 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 in the program. a war of words between serbia and neighboring casa vote

intensifies ethnic tensions are threatening to break out into open conflicts. we'll have the details ah unexpired. welcome to the program. it's been called the storm of the century, the snow storm battery, 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. so has buried parts of buffalo. new york, an emergency crews are struggling to reach trapped residence. some of the dead have been found frozen in vehicles in snow banks. a lighthouse in case in ice, in across the continent, winter storm elliots has less striking scenes of beauty in its wake,

tight 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 i won't be boiler standards, 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 can't please, please, you are the mayor bag. i'm begging stay whole. the storm has also cause chaos for travelers during the holiday season. popular budget terriers, southwest airlines cancelled more than 10000 scheduled flight. leaving passengers surrounded and scrambling to find love's luggage

to 4 airports, 2 or one, or 3 days late. as residents trying 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 poochie if this historic science storm rather is the side of more extreme whether to come in any question or was asking is whether or not this particular event is tied to human is climate change when it comes to buffalo? so there are certain things we can link to climate change, certain things. we can't one to go change because weather course is sort of what you get in crime is what you expect. in the case, what happened buffalo and i think that, you know, if we were seeing warmer water temperatures and the great lakes and we will be

saying yes, lightly, more snowfall and sort of more light backs. 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's it. there are some things that will be made more stream thanks to climate change. a wet or storm systems more drought at times are due to something called classes from weight and you're basically war air and hold more water, stronger hurricane. and perhaps like we said, bigger flood vents. ultimately, that was a meteorologist. matthew, cookie jellies winter may not seem so harsh to north americans, but thousands of indians who live on the city streets must struggle to survive the season. this time of year, local authorities open additional homeless shelters. other organizations bring help directly to the streets. d, w. me near a child, rejoins one of them, as it assist those most in need. it's early morning on a frigid day in daily,

and scores of people had lined up for a cup of hot tea and breakfast. for most of them, it may be the only decent wheel they'll have to do. this is just one of the locations where the chad a t v chica data, or elder brothers home. and that is called an english is to be with food, who migrant workers and the homeless bread. those come a gte and cream. do you think you're on the organization? a large group of warranty with joined them every morning. during winter they also had the destitute in otherwise apart from giving out food in the gorge to them we find that the people they have they don't have you know, warden with clothing. so read, recollect a warm clothing or to used clothing from people and distribute to them or even give blankets to them. and you estimate the number of homeless in deli, at a 150000. the hard winter season becomes a big challenge for them. the state government also has its own set of measures

every year for people without a roof over their head. the daily government had launched its winter action plan under which it has set up a centralized control room and how blind numbers to identify the locations of homeless people. and it has that abreast you deems to ship these people from the streets. do shall, to homes, like the one you see behind me, where they are provided with food and blankets. remember, the efforts seem to have beat off. families eat thing says until a few years ago, many used to die of the cold on the streets. no more people are able to survive. the punishing weather scenes organization also provides free health care every morning in the old city area. there are many homeless d. warranty as give policy to those who are injured and a dr. offers free consultations and medication in the winter when but amongst you see a lot of people with her from her lung do

a little over the very high levels of death to lot of people are coming. reba, breathlessness live linux. so they are given by the doctor, did he do the drugs for the estimate looking for work every day and living on the streets is a challenge for many poor people in the capital. but organizations like the g carnita make life a bit easier for some of them. it will be back here again tomorrow morning, waiting for a cup of tea. let's get a round of now of some of the other headlines around the world. 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. authority say many homes and roads were damaged and more than 80000 people are in shelters. a new york republican elected to congress in november is facing calls to resign. after admitting that he lied about major parts of his

biography, george santos confessed. he never graduated from university or worked for well known investment banks, despite claiming he did. the also falsely claim he had a jewish heritage. ukraine is ready to take part in an international summit to end the war. foreign minister to me, true labor says ukraine wants a piece summit within 2 months. un secretary general antonio gutierrez, acting as mediator lay bad. and he didn't think russia which invaded ukraine 10 months ago would take part tension or growing between the balkan states of serbian kosovo with concerns about the possibility of an armed conflict. breaking out, serbia has put its military on high alert and erected road blocks along a border. kosovo, says serbia is preparing a pretext for a military operation. negotiations with the you and united states or ongoing in hope of avoiding renewed fighting in the balkans. vacant block to road from

kosovo to so be on ethnic clubs, living and not kosovo, accused the government of discriminating against them, policy and have barricaded the roads in protest. the visa selby, as president says he is ever ready to defend. amber realty would be a sober soliciting. jones, 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 would protect our people in the not of kosovo. 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 prewar times. local soaps saw that as an attack on their identity and autonomy, especially as the observed 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 was 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. it is crossing the red lines that the roy he must urgently draw his one from the north and order. the removal of the battery gets down to the negotiating table or so. he cannot challenge causal which

is set for these to relieve for our cost of a $130.00. our fought a war from 1998 to 1999, after which casa will unilaterally declared its independence. sylvia does not recognize that status and till to day, neither do sober living in closer. and for more on this let's bring in our balkans expert ammonia rich, who is with the deed of you, sir. serbia. can you tell us how dangerous is the situation? is this really about license plates? no, it's not about license plates at all. that was the 1st thing that called firms to move out of course cost to ship. so there are now basically no 3rd being police officers because of no sir be, i'm judge, you know, serbian mayers and afterwards as possible has arrested a couple of serbs claiming that they are planning terrorist attacks or conducted

terrorist attacks in the north of kosovo. serbs made these road blocks about dozens of them and this everything happens in the north of culture, which is almost exclusively populated by serbs. it's really small, part of land with about 50 to 60000 people is basically playing with fire next to a pub. there can we had multiple gunshot the other day, and nobody knows who fired and why exactly. now the constable threatened to remove road blocks by force if necessary to regain control over its territory. and serbia is putting the troops on high alert and claiming that they are ready to take action if possible takes action against threats. and today, it seems that there will know there will be no agreement anytime soon. i can't help but thinking the last thing we need now is another war in europe to tell me the war

in ukraine is that having some kind of impact somehow in, in the balkans it has a huge impact because serbian serbia is considered traditional russian l. i and it's really like that most of the serbs love russia, and the russia is also supporting 30 be in the it's politics over the course of the also not recognizing causal as the security council member and the beto power power . so what happened after russia started aggression over to train is that the best during power, including germany, were afraid that maybe there could be another conflict in the balkans on the health of moscow made by serbs. but what we see, we saw similar things in the last couple of years like making a road blocks in the north of course, a little and having this type of instagram war. so everybody making photo shooting of their units. and at the end nothing happens. this time,

it might really be different because serves in the north of constable are keen to, to be on these barricades until a cost of or reaches some kind of agreement with belgrade and cultural. feels that there is a space to regain control over its whole territory. by presenting serbia and russian l i and, you know, take, take advantage of the situation. and who are the key players mean outside of the region internationally. the u. s. nato. how do they, how do they play a role here, perhaps, and hopefully averting war? well, entire western could in international community support the cause of us independence and that led to the nato bombing serbia. back in 1999 after serbia wanted to impose force over castillo's obedience. and now they're pushing towards

some kind of agreement between causal and serbia. we have a new french german idea, that's how it's referred to about serbia. not necessarily having to, to recognize culture listing dependence, but maybe to implicitly pretend that causal is, is independent states and to not to prevent possible from joining international organizations, especially united nations. and this is for serbia, this is a red line. so now the things that are really 10. okay, thanks so much for that insight. pneumonia rich balkans expert from d. w. serbia. that's all the news for now. next by sir, thanks for watching the news . any questions about.