oh, a conflict between india and pakistan pristine kept mounting. one in with the kashmiris. i live on al jazeera ah, a grinding battle in southern ukraine ukrainian force is attacked. the russian controlled city of melissa paul by moscow strike still leave 300000 without power in odessa. ah, i'm robeson, this is obviously relieved from doha. also coming up. a libyan man accused of making the bomb the blew up. a passenger playing over his skull fund is taken into u. s. custody. tensions run high and nolan,

kosovo were ethnic serbs of blocked rows after a night of gunfire and explosions. and 3 democrats from the u. s. congress meet the cuban president in havana. this concerns man about the biggest exodus me, island and decades. ah, the governor of hon screeching says ukrainian forces have hit a hotel that was being used by mercenaries from russia's wagner group. so he hide, that aim, says a number of 5 artists were killed in the blast in the fountain of adieva. the wagner group is a private military contractor with close ties to the kremlin rushes defense ministry hasn't commented on the attack. meanwhile, operations have stopped at the port in the ukrainian city of odessa, after russia attacked the local energy grid. it's a vital transport help for delivering grain to much of the developing world. russia blocks ukraine's ports for months until 3 were allowed to carry on working under

a deal brokerage by tolkien and the u. n. cave once more ports added to the deal, but moscow said that would only happen if its own demands were met. meanwhile, around 300000 people in the odessa region are still without electricity. now she's used jones to hit to power sites. electrical supplies are gradually being restored, but many houses and businesses remain dark and cold. in freezing temperatures. elsewhere, ukraine's military is attacked. the russian controlled city of melody poll, ukrainian officials say scores of russian troops have been killed while russia says 2 people are dead. a stipend melita paul was one of several overnight rocket strikes, targeting russian bases explosions have also been reported in russian, annexed crimea. fighting is reportedly intensified around the city of buck mode in the eastern done yet screeching. it's the only major area of the front line where russia forces are still trying to advance or challenge as more funky. if the

fighting in back mood has been described to me by some of the people involved in it says reminiscence of stalingrad like some of the 20 centuries, worst attrition of blood bars, but happening in this country. and right now, despite months of intense combat, you friendly forces do still hold on to back, move quite why russia is willing to sacrifice so many men to take what is a relatively strategically unimportant city. as many observers perplexed in the southern city of a desa, the situation is improving for 1500000 people who are plunged into darkness by russian drone strikes and ukraine is hitting back probably using a high mars that precision rocket system given to it by its western allies, it's been targeting russian bases and barracks in occupied territory. melissa pole being particularly hard hit. now 2022 is drawing to a close and ukraine is a country radically altered from a year ago. and our rapport looks at

a group of ukrainian scientists who had big plans for this year. change in an instance by russia's invasion, a frigid landscape of snow and ice the natural habitat for a polar specialist. but this is, keeps war scarred out a suburbs, not the antarctic wilderness, elena and her colleagues, should have been exploring this year. ukraine's national antarctic scientific santa expedition was due to set off last february, till russia's invasion froze their dreams. instead, they've hung up the po, lower, and their lives have taken very different parts. some of our bullet dentists operate in the, in different kinds of france. so some of them and, and bought some of them in the south. but the one group of the scientists form the old unit and they called themselves military pimpton. i believe it's

a characteristically ukrainian flourish of humor to help see them through these dark times. they even have their own badge. you can see that it's been in causal style. he is angry by the way, this penguin battalion of arctic scientists is doing real fighting in some of the was toughest battles. the guys also on the, on the somewhere near boston with, again, this is for sure. involvement back, which is tough for boss motors. i lena can see what the war is doing to friends and colleagues. she's known intimately for years. i see how he becomes old and older, and also he becomes sentimental when race and mental about motions. she like, she could start crying, watching some, some more fields or saying and, and what is it also important that this time to say, i love you, i care about how much more than before you actually love. march anchor is the antarctic centers technical director. just out of a key of hospital following

a close call and back moved to the fighting. he described a hellish coffin. he of pounding on hillary and hand to hand combat the muzzle was keen. it usually be when we had a very difficult night battle. if i have a stone by 24 of them, they broke in some part of the building. we did not control. and the fighting was 5 or 6 meters grenades flying. everyone shooting grenades fell just one and a half meter from my head. as i was in the pit under the mac, the mac, the suit for now, we are just now i can't afford to think of what he'd be doing if russia hadn't attacked the pony completely focused on the war. but i really wanted to end when he returned to me for life. again, i want great something not destroy. for now i have to destroy. unfortunately, a lender is busy helping to. she's raising money hand supplies, food helmets, drones to send to the front lines, things that might end up saving the lives of her colleagues,

the story of ukraine's antarctic scientists and how they became the penguin legion, a frontline warriors crowd fund. this is one of millions of similar transformations, everyday lives indefinitely put on hold. so they can help that country and it's out of need where we talents. how does era key, if loving man's being held in us custody in connection with the lockerbie bombing. abigail, a muscle is accused of making the explosive device that blew up phantom flight, one o 3 over scotland in 1988. the justice department says he'll appear at a federal court in washington, d. c. all 259 people on board to fight were killed as well as 11 people on the ground. unofficial has more from washington dc. either gillum assumed it was originally indicted with offences linked to the lockerbie bombing 2 years ago. he's now an f b i custody. how that happened will only become clear when he makes

a court appearance. here in washington dc. it was reported that he was being held in a libby in jail on unrelated offences. another report from libya suggested that just last month he was kidnapped by an armed militia group, and the intention was they would hand him over to the americans for a ransom. only one man has ever been convicted of involvement in the lockerbie bombing. that happened 34 years ago this month when the pan am jet, clipper made of the seas was blown out of the skies. over lockerbie and scotland, 270 people were killed. one international law expert says the apprehension of mustard is a significant development. it sends a very, very clear message to, to the victims that this matter hasn't been forgotten and those will be held accountable. the one man convicted of involvement in the lockerbie bombing was libyan abdel bassett on the ground. he was charged by the scottish authorities in 1991, eventually appeared before

a panel of scottish judges in 2001 and found guilty. he was serving time in a scottish jail when in 2009 he was diagnosed with cancer. he was released on humanitarian grounds and in 2012 he died in tripoli. now there are many families of those who died in the panel bombing, who believed that al mcgraw, he was wrongly convicted, that the libyans had no involvement with the piano bombing. no, the americans intend to put on trial, the man that they believe built the bomb, the don't. the jet over lockerbie, augustine's melody says 6 civilians have died after afghan forces sheldon bordered town. now he says 17 others were wounded in sherman and the pakistani troops fired back of kansas. don says a taliban member was killed and 10 people were wounded. clash a portable happened out, or afghan forces tried to cut part of offense, installed by pakistan. most trade between afghanistan and pakistan passes through

sharma so be as president, has called a national security meeting after unrest in northern kosovo that have been explosions, gone, fire and board blogs in an area for the majority of the population of ethnic serbs . barbara groper reports for a 2nd day trucks of blocking t main roads leading to border crossings between costs of her and serbia. that softer overnight gunfire. tensions been rising in northern cause of it since the rest of a former policeman. he was part of a mass resignation of serbs from crossovers, police force last month. they were protesting plans to ban license plates issued by serbia and replaced them with once issued by the cost of government. the serbian president is demanding their release was rather it's important that asian panted, and many of the serbs are released because they do not have any evidence against them whatsoever. that is the key point. they manufacture the indictments against

them. caceres prime minister has worn violence, won't be tolerated, or to put an ambient to tear the peacekeeping mission in kosovo is supposed to create a calm and safe environment. which also means to have freedom of movement. the blocking of public roads with heavy machinery by criminal gangs that shows at police officers is not acceptable and should not be repeated again in the future. serbs living in northern casa, have mounted armed attacks over government plans. they consider anti serbian, the european union mission in kosovo says as tom grenade was held at one of its armored vehicles on saturday. the blocks rule of law chief called for dialogue. this new proposal, her husband table by the european union support frances germany also the united states, and the focus of younger focus would be on torso negotiations. casa medicaid independence

from serbia in 2008 after a war from 1998 to 1999. but some subs in the breakaway republic say they're being marginalized, caceres president, post print local elections in the majority serb northern region until next april. after sab said that boy caught the pulse. yep. barbara and guy per hour to sarah. the european parliament, vice president's been suspended after being caught up with a corruption investigation. if occasionally was one of 5 people arrested by belgium police on friday in a bribery scandal which allegedly involves officials from cotton, belgium, prosecutors say the country tried to influence decisions made in the european parliament by giving cash payments to gun gifts, to legislators, a country official has rejected the claims stella had anal, does it up? nasa is a step closer to sending humans back to the moon. as the autumn, a spacecraft splashes down safely bus we had to i fi for world cup studio with our

teen looks ahead. the semi finals i caught on 2022. ah, here's your headlines for the americas hope you're well and this is what we're looking at on mondays. temperatures have fallen off across the river plate region winds have shifted around, so we're now tapping into a southerly wind storms for the southeast of brazil, and that eastern side of paraguay on monday. so what november for a french, diana, and that trend continues for the month of december bursts of rain around cayenne with a high of $27.00 degrees. central america. truth be told, it's fairly quiet right now. the trade winds not as pronounce or just some showers around this film, but where we have active in severe weather coming is southern plain. so this is a set up on monday. not much going on, right, but let's fast forward to tuesday. get that warm air coming off the golf meeting up

with cool air coming off the rockies. the 2 clash, i think we could see some nighttime tornadoes anywhere from missouri to southern texas. and louisiana was still some rain to be found in california from los angeles to san diego and for the pacific northwest. western canada. things are quieting down here, but cooler air, vancouver, 3 degrees, and more snow for alaska. this is your snowiest at this hamper and more than 20 years. whether moves away from new york, it curls up and it's going to generate some snow for nova scotia's cape breton island on tuesday. ah ha. ah, the in depth analysis of that day's headlines from around the world. do you think diplomacy

still stands at china? i'm not very optimistic about any negotiation. we're already in a bit of a crypto winter. it's going to be hell holder insight story on al jazeera. ah ah. ah. watching or does ita reminder what top stories this are around. 300000 people in the ukranian city will desa a still without electricity, russia set of use drones to have 2 power sites. but as this port has grown to a halt, but ukraine's agriculture minister says much needed grain exports will continue from 2 other ports. le mans in custody in the u. s. accuser making the bomb the blue up plan on flight one

o 3 over scotland in 1988. the justice department says abigail, or my sued will appear to the federal court in washington, dc has been explosions, gotten fire, i'm 4 blocks and northern kosovo. were most of the population or ethics serves tensions of sold over the arrest of a former policeman. he resigned, along with hundreds of other restaurant sobs off to call. supposed government set it with ban license plates issued by serbia. 3 democrats from the us congress have been meeting representatives of cuba, his government in havana, and the main topic has been migration. it's estimated the number of cubans arriving at the us. mexico border has gone up 6 times since last year. the congressman spoke with cuban president miguel diaz canal leaders of cuba, congress and it's foreign minister killers facing its greatest exodus of people in a decade, mainly because of an economic energy and political crisis. in the past year cuban arrivals of the us mexico border have skyrocketed,

boats packed with migrants had been found off florida's coast in just a few weeks time. the u. s. plans to resume visa and consular services in the island which have been stalled. since 2017. we're going to bring in michael shifter . he's the senior fellow at inter american dialogue. it's a think tank focused on latin america and the caribbean. he's joining us from washington. d. c, very good to have you or the soldiers either. thank you very much. indeed. and arguably, the u. s. is responsible, at least in part for the problem that sir cuba is now facing. how big an issue is it that there is a basic lack of trust between the 2 countries? well, this is a huge issue and it's a historic issue. it goes back many, many decades. and obviously there have been moments when that trust there's really a serious attempt to overcome it in the opening under president obama. but then with president trump, the trust obviously deepened and president biden really hasn't made any significant

changes to the trump policy on the margins here. and there, but fundamentally the, the sanctions, very tough sanctions that were put in place under, under trump, but have remained. and of course, there's the historic embargo or blockade of cuba, which is an act of congress that has not been revisited since the early sixty's. as i mentioned before, a lot of the, the, one of the reasons that people are leaving cuban the 1st place is because the economy is in such a terrible situation. the u. s. is in an ideal position to be able to, to help cuba out with that. but one would imagine that that kind of investment and certainly that level of investment that's needed isn't going to happen until cuba starts dealing with the allegations about a, hugh, it's human rights record. there's a lot of ground that needs to be covered. and a lot of stuff that needs to be agreed before. we can even get to the point really of having any tangible effect on the number of people heading towards the us.

mexico border. absolutely, that's right. and i think there was an expectation when there was the opening in 2015. i with the obama that there would be a move towards greater political reform and economic reform and cuba on and greater attention to, to human rights. and if anything, the opposite that has happened, there's been increased repression. and there have been some demonstrations in protest in cuba that have been put down and squashed. and so the cubans haven't helped having given the us anything that would be helpful in terms of making a shift in policy, a sniffing shift which would help alleviate some of the acute ac, you know, humanitarian conditions in cuba. so i think that you're right, i think that everybody is thinking of leaving and cuban in fact, the number is

a highest height and they've been in decades, and i think they've been surpassed the venezuelans of those who are, who are crossing the us mexican border and and you know, there's very little. ready i think that can be done on, you know, in terms of major major a policy decisions by the u. s. is this so visit that's been made just recently as the solely about migration? i mean, we can't forget that the president sent me rogers canal, visited china in november, and china and cuba for example, have really strong trade links keepers part of the belt at the about road partnership. how much you think that is playing into these. they're the stepping up of diplomatic visits and the, the, the congressional visits that were se, i don't think that plays a huge role. of course, there has traumatized for china and of course, with russia as well. russia and cuba. i think in the case of these 3 members of

congress and apart from the concern about migration, i think they're just want to also call attention to the deterioration and the manage her in a situation in cuba and what's giving rise to this sort of mass exodus from cuba, and i think these are 3 advocates for a change of policy toward cuba. and i think they want to point to help sir. it is. and how cruel it is that the u. s. has these very heavy sanctions in place and embargo in place that are contributing to the misery and suffering of cubans who are leaving in droves. so i think they have an interest in agenda as well. they are critics of us policy and i think they want to see if there's a way that things could begin to, to move. but i think that's going to be very, very difficult, given the politics and congress as well as also in the above, in the, by the administration, with that any change from the cuban regime itself. it's going to be very difficult

. yeah. i not that, that, that the fact that you mentioned that the politics in the u. s. of course, is significant. these are 3 democrats that have been to visit havana. but of course, if they don't get republican support is not a great deal. that is gonna be able to achieve, especially if you're talking about republicans like ron desantis in florida, for example, who will have his own position presumably on the situation. yes, i remember this not only republicans is a very influential and important democrat, senator menendez, who is a democratic senator from cuban america. democrats from new jersey. and he chairs the foreign relations committee on and that's a very, very influence. he's a very influential figure, and he's very important for the bite administration on russia, paul from china policy and the like. and so he is very, very a committed to the tough sanction that embargo position. so i think the bite administration is trends very cautiously,

not to upset him that could make things difficult on other foreign policy issues. really interesting to get the benefit of your expertise in this michael shifter, as always, thank you very much. indeed for being with us on al jazeera. thank you very much. nasa's altima spacecraft has completed his mission to the moon almost one month after launching from cape canaveral. the ryan capsule spiced on off the coast of baja, california, a short while ago. the unmanned test flight is part of a plan to but humans and the moon again in 2025. a. ryan's next trip is in 2 years with 4 astronauts expected on the flight. what is the significance of this after a half century that we were last on the moon? there we did the impossible making it possible. now we're doing that again, but for a different purpose. because this time, we go back to the moon, to learn,

to live, to work, to invent, to create, in order to go on out into the cosmos, to further explore. the plan is to get ready to go with humans to mars late in the decade of the 20 thirty's. and then even further beyond them, we know from what we're finding from the james web space telescope, that it is a very, very large universe out there to be understood and explored. also shooting to the moon, a japanese start up that sent up its own lunar lander on a space ex rocket. the mission by the company i space is called ha koto which means white rabbit and japanese is carrying a lot of cargo, including the u. e. z 1st lunar rover and robot from japan. designed to roll around

on the moon surface. but it's not going to be as quick as nasa's or ryan is gonna take nearly 5 months to reach the moon. by contrast or ryan took just 5 days. ah, time to get the latest news from the fif. her world cup here is drawn a garage at oscar in cutter croatia, players sounding confident as they prepared to face argentina in the well cut semi's. they reached the final 4 years ago. so this isn't new territory for many of their squads is criminal. i don't think we need to say anybody. we need to look at ourselves to play our best game. we will do a thorough analysis with the head coach and the tactical stuff, and then we will see how we will attack the game mobile. i would say the secret of our successes out together, miss our unity. the fact that we act and play as a family, everybody plays for one another. we play as a team and that's our secret argentina i've been training at that castle university

base. it's the 6th time the country has reached the stage of the well coupling. messy is looking to lead his nation to the 3rd title, and 1st since 1987. that if any champions france have been celebrating, reaching the semi finals, the team received a hero's welcome. as they returned to the hotel following the 21 victory over england, france bearing to the 7 semi final in the tournaments history. no team has successfully defended the world cups in brazil. in 1962, thousands american fans have traveled to council as a team progresses through the tournament on a historic run to the semi finals. americans have beaten belgium, spain, and now port school to reach this stage. they've only conceded one goal in the world as well, and that was an i'm going well let's look ahead to the semi finals with our football analyst, gemma select croatia. gemma went to penalties in the last 2 games. can they get

away with it for the time it gets tina? well, it's not only the last 2, but this number is crazy. it 8 of the last 9, no code. they just measure them and they have gone to extra time. so we can say they are experts in that as a shell take, although she call moments and then the penalties. so i think that they've something works done though they, they know they are strong points and this is said that technology held a rival and i, they need to approach this game against argentina as they have been doing it because they have been very successful. so corporations strong in defense, what argentine is strengths and what are their weaknesses? of course, the forward line is one of their strengths and in the individual it is they have more quality name by name in the squad, but they're not really the so i think they still haven't been able to show us that they can control a game a much for

a full 92 minute we have seen these against saudi arabia. again. poland, gas. yeah. maybe a more controlled game, but again, again, tell railey. and the netherlands, there is a moment that they go crazy looking for a goal or are they, they have a lack of at being efficient in defense. so that's, i think it's the weakness they have. all right, let's talk about from says a party mood in the french camp. they did find it tough po against england. will they find it as tough against morocco? probably yes, because so as you are mentioning just now, a moral cause, they don't conceive easily only one goal and nissan own goal, they are really strong in defense. they have that feeling of being the underdog up energy. so i think they will be a really tough opponent because if they are able to build up tight pressure, they did again to spain against croatia. again, this powerful teams, i think they bought friends,

they will have to be extremely efficient to be able to be moral. and i start moment for morocco reaching the semifinals. they have a lot of support here when they cancel, they are locals. i mean, i was at the location city that game against the spain. the booing the trying to impress a spain of the of the fun base was amazing. so much noise. and he would be like this because they are the favorite self feel of all the middle east, african and historical moment as you were mentioning is so i'm sure that dis, so player number 12, that is the fun base will definitely give them energy eve in, in that key moments, ari and an extra time or you know, penalties it, they have been sol, have full and i'm sure they will keep on doing it. all right, jemila, thank you very much. well, there's a new ball for those, the semi finals, and the final. this is al him, which translates from arabic as the dream. it was unveiled by woke up when,

as caca from brazil, an acre cassius of spain. the high tech bull has senses inside and is a gold color which mirrors the cat hot desert sands. the dreams are still alive for teams at best. well, come monday is another rest day to prepare for the semi finals, but there's still plenty to look forward to here in katha. and our team will have it all covered right here on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories around 300000 people are in the ukranian city of odessa. still without electricity rushes, use drones to head to power sites are just as port as grind to a halt, but ukraine's agriculture minister says much needed. green exports will continue from 2 of the ports the governor of the hunt.