Berlin Blackout: Arctic Cold Deepens Residents’ Crisis (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: We have a bit of a situation here in the south of Berlin. After an attack on the power grid, there is a severe power outage that is going to be going on for several days, possibly almost a week. And we have no power, no heating. Luckily, we still have running water. And now we've also been hit by an arctic blast. So at the moment, the temperatures are about minus two to minus three during the day, minus eight, minus nine, minus ten during the night. So right now we're all pretty much in survival mode. What I've done so far is I've bought these two generators that I'll show you right now. And I already want to apologize to the neighbors for all the noise that's out there. But yeah, right now we really have no other way to get any sort of electricity into our house. There's been a claim of responsibility for all this by a group called the Vulcan Group, which allegedly is fighting against rich people and for the environment. Let me just show you some of the places that are suffering right now. That over there is a refugee shelter where people are hanging their groceries out the windows so that they don't go bad. Behind me now, you will see that there is a daycare facility. Obviously, the kids can't go there, meaning a lot of parents have their kids at home in this very difficult time.