or brain changes. so get really for the brain up to 40 to the answer to almost everything. starts january 15th on d w. now, ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin, liberated ukrainian city is now losing residence. as russia steps up, a tax on casts on some residents are deciding they will not risk becoming the was next casualty class. the death toll from north america's blizzard of the century.

climes as americans dig their way out of as smote, snow small that holiday weekend. we look back at the year of extreme war weather events that experts say are assigned, that climate change is here. and another pandemic surprise from china and the national travel restrictions are lifted to the relief of many, but others are wary as dangers from the virus remain. especially for old people ah, i'll get head off as welcome to the program. the southern ukrainian city of her song was a scene of jubilation in november when ukrainian troops pushed russian occupies out . but in recent days, it has been the target of intensifying russian attacks. grains military says russia fire to $33.00 rockets and to civility targets in the 24 hours going into wednesday

. hundreds of civilians are now fleeing as russian forces pound populated areas with mortars and artillery care sewn is a city slowly being reduced to rubble. keep says moscow is deploying more tanks and armored vehicles to the area and further stepping up its aerial bombardment of the city. people here, if already seem more than their fair share of this brutal war here, that in recent days and nights, things have become even worse yet. village gil? yeah, this woman says she lost her son and an overnight grade. for the cura, the enrollment. i must have felt that something would go wrong in the morning because i urged him to wake up and leave the house. but he didn't. that was it was only our lives a ruin. welcome rushes, relentless shelling is destroying her songs, critical infrastructure, and taking

a massive toll on civilian life. a mortar attack on christmas eve killed 11 people and injured dozens more among the dead. a social worker, a butcher, and a woman selling mobile sim cards at the cities, central market. some who have held out here. now say they can't take it any longer. digging out while they still can. so some little done, we stayed this whole time and thought it would pass. but when the home next to ours and my father's home with it, it was too scary. just last month there was celebratory scenes of his own as key of reclaim to the regional center. now it appears moscow is trying to retake it either that or simply raise it to the ground. after russia's president vladimir putin announced partial mobilization and september, hundreds of thousands left russia,

german politicians promised back then protection to those who refused to fight in ukraine. returns out that actually getting a solomon. germany is not that easy for russian draft. evaders are correspondent, met with a few men. what try dainey soup room decided to flee russia immediately after president vladimir putin announced a partial mobilization? ne richer we was. i don't want to fight, because no one is attacking russia. not a senior thing in the products. i had a military service card yet. yes. was, i served in the russian army in 20112012 of senate for in the bill yet. and this military card is proof that i would be drafted again, this time a cent of it is old sir. no, why not? dennis crossed the border into georgia on a bicycle and then flew to germany. he requested asylum in the berlin airport. he has been to 3 different migrant center since then. most recently here evinced of

south of berlin. we are not allowed to fill on the premises, but ironically it is right outside the former soviet forces german headquarters. now abandoned. there are more than a dozen men like dennis here, asked why they came to germany. they all have this same answer. besides little souls, the media reported the chancellor shawls had germany would grant asylum to russians . we support european values and don't want to be drafted corners. pals of a german interior ministry spokesperson confirmed to the w. a. t. russians who refused military service can apply for asylum here. each case, however, will be considered individually. but most of these men enter germany, either through other you countries, or with visas issued by those countries. according to what is known as the dublin regulations. asylum seekers must make their claim in the 1st you country, they set foot in or that issues them a visa, not wherever they end up. dennis has already been refused asylum. exactly on those

grounds. now he is being sent to sweden, but not all european countries are willing to grant asylum to draft a waiters from russia. and these men are afraid that they will eventually be sent back to russia, where either the army or prison awaits them. natalia smudge of her file. this report is with de w's a russia desk. and jones is in the studio. natalia. tell us more about these men. what do they think about the warn you crime as so this might have actually left russia because they didn't want to become part of this war. but if unclear how politically aware the what's happening in russia has been happening for the past years. out of all the men we've spoken and it's in around 57 people who are in this you know, in the refugee camp here in germany. and only one was active, politically active before he was going to protest actually taking part in local

elections. and he was planning to leave russia already after the beginning of full scale and weighed invasion in february. other men have been seemed to leave their normal life after the beginning of the war. and only when the politics came directly to their houses. and we're taking them to the work, then they decided they wanted to flee. so what is the impact of all those young men leaving russia? i think it's for me to be seen in the next 2 years, but estimated hundreds of 1000 people have left russia and they say dogs killed man, this is the core of economy. and especially people who working in a t specter in academia, engineers, those people are to bring country forward and we're going to see big brain faint. and this can affect russian economy together, where the western sanction we can see that russia will citing into their profession . i think next year now there are talks that there's a new wave of mobilization on the horizon. what can you tell us about that?

yeah, a lot of people are hearing this, and this man i've been spoken to is over the weekend. they don't want to come back because they are afraid they'll be dropped again because the initial numbers of draftees, we haven't seen the numbers, but there were room with a 300000 people there. not enough clearly for rush to continue this war. and we see that russia is planning to go on continue with work in ukraine for sometimes it will need new soldiers. but it's very tricky to announce new wave of marble is ation because we see that the 1st one was very unpopular political move. and if before, and the majority of russians and have ignored the what are they preferred to close their eyes to? now it's become impossible because it is come to every house in every family and taking the man to the work. that's why it's meant to be seen, whether they're an authority in russia will make the step to go and actually announce a 2nd wave of level evasion. or they'll prefer to do this hidden, undercover and not, you know, not angry and anger, the people more or less will edge of a, d, w, 's, russia, dest,

thank you very much. now, let's have a look at some of the other headlines. pope frances has visited his predecessor benedict. the 16th who he said is very sick. they vatican confirmed that bennett it's condition is worsening. 95 year old form of pontiff has been almost entirely absent from public view. in recent years, the german board cleric resigned in 2013, due to declining health members of kosovo, sir minority have put up new vehicle road blocks in the north of the country. they have also defied international demands for remove those placed earlier tensions between serbia and causal have been on the rise for weeks. the serbian government accuses causal of trampling on the rights of its serbian minority. but i stole from devastating floods in the philippines has risen to 25. dozens of others are still

missing. heavy rains over christmas weekend and inundated, east and central and southern parts of the country, florida say many homes and roads were damaged and more than 80000 people on our in shelters. it's been called a blizzard of a century. the snow storm battering the us and canada and emergence and emergency has been declared for new york state, which is bearing the brunt of the stool. at least 50 people have died across the united states. snow has buried parts of buffalo, new york, and emergency who's struggling to reach trapped residents. some of the dead have been found frozen in cars and snow bottoms. now severe weather events are becoming increasingly common, floods fires and extreme temperatures re tabitha. across the world in 2020 to $1.00 of the warmest dia is on record places where cold is the norma also experiencing highly up normal temperatures. this is no rowdy ski holiday. it's

a research station near the south pole and minus 11.8 degrees celsius was 40 degrees hotter than usual on march 18th. it's probably the largest temperature anomaly ever recorded. incredibly, at the same time at the north pole. some places were 30 degrees warmer than usual mountain glaciers such as this one in the himalayas that feeds the mighty river ganges continued to shrink as india was hit by heat waves that came earlier and were longer and or hotter than usual. pakistan also swelter a few weeks later both countries were hit by massive monsoon rains. one 3rd of pakistan was flooded, creating a huge humanitarian emergency. the floods destroyed farmland killed more than 1700 people and displaced more than 33000000. in my child died in that deb called nights . we don't have anything to eat. my husband is unemployed and poor. my 2 children

have died in the camps. they implement west africa also suffered an unusually heavy rainy season. with months of flooding in nigeria, displacing up to 2000000 people in east africa, the rains failed again, worsening the most severe drought in recent history. the un says 36000000 people are affected in somalia and parts of ethiopia and kenya. with more than $5000000.00 children malnourished, their sick claim, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach about me. i just feel terrible. in madagascar, the seasonal rains also failed. i, after 4 years of drought, the south of the island is facing a food crisis. in some places, residents have had to dig into the dry river bed to find water. 2022 also saw china suffer it's longest and harshest heat wave on record. with the

yangtze and other rivers reduced to mere trickles, and many lakes turned into dust bowls. china will ease its pandemic restriction soon, even though case numbers appear to be rising. beijing has announced it's ending almost 3 years of border controls on january 8th. when kobe 19 is downgraded to a less dangerous class of infectious disease. many welcome the decision, while others still warn of the dangers, especially for old people. the end of visa restrictions for chinese wanting to travel abroad her smock to search and flight bookings from china. people that have spent 3 years putting up with travel restrictions locked downs, mass testing, and other tough measures to sudden lifting as these has caught people by surprise. the official reason the army con variance is not as dangerous as 1st thought bunker

. we'll go into fungal 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 altering call. with pivoting from preventing infection to protecting health and preventing severe illness, so hooking will yield, obey the policy changed, has been welcomed by some people. at least that's a your order, of course, are some people prefer control measures and i which boy incentive 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 to them. yeah. so the government is quite right to do what is doing under the current circumstances. what you're looking at, i, 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 head, but corona virus infections have skyrocketed since the utah and by chinese leaders

at the start of december. all the 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 that's it from me and the new seem up for now. don't forget there's a lot more news of business and sports to be found and all breaking news up and on social media to handle for instagram. twitter is at d. w. news. i recommend you follow us. i'm got office in berlin from me and the team is full. ah. d w looks back only during crisis mode. the corona virus pandemic working crate. the climate crisis revolt.