traumatic stories. the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera ah, a grinding battle in southern ukraine. ukraine force is attacked, the russian controlled city of melita, bolt, or moscow strikes still leave 300000 people without power in odessa. ah, i'm about this and this is our deserve alive from doe hob. also coming up, a libyan mines in us custody. accuse of making the bond that blew up a plane over scotland. tensions run high and northern kosovo, or ethnic serbs. a block rose after a night of gunfire and explosions. 3 democrats from the u. s. congress meet the cuban president and havana as concerns man about the biggest exodus from the island

in decades. ah, the governor of la hon screeching says ukrainian force is happy to hotel that was being used by mercenaries from russia's wagner group. so he, hi days, says fighters were killed in the blasts in the town of cody, if cut, wagner group is a private military contract set up close ties. the kremlin rushes defense ministry hasn't commented on the attack. operations have stopped in the porter ukrainian city of odessa, after russia attacked the local energy grid. it's a vital transport tub for delivering grain too much of the developing world. russia blocked ukraine's ports from months until 3 were allowed to carry on working under a deal broken by to clear and the un 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 rushes, use drones to hit to power sites. electrical supplies are gradually being restored, but many houses and businesses remain dark and cold and freezing temperatures. mcclain's presidents as emergency cruise has been working to ease the power shortages away you'd normally when you're on board and restoration works, continue in the south of our country. we are doing everything to return lights to odessa. at this time, it is become possible to partially restore supplies in odessa and other cities. we are doing everything to reach the maximum number possible in the conditions that develop after the russian strikes elsewhere. ukraine's military attack, the russian controls city of maricel. paul, ukrainian officials say scores of russian troops have been killed while russia says 2 people are dead. the strike on melita paul was one of several overnighted rocket strikes, targeting russian bases explosions have also been reported in russian. annex crimea . fighting is reportedly intensified around the city of backbone in the eastern.

done yet, screech and it's the only major area of the front line where russian forces i still trying to advance or a challenge has more from cave. the fighting and back moot 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 for new forces do still hold on to back, move in 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. its

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 report 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 policy, ah,

put it in an indifferent kind of france. so some of them lined and bought some of them in the south. but one group of the scientists form the whole unit and they called themselves military pimpton. i believe it's a characteristically ukrainian flourish of humour to help seed him through these dark times. they even have their own badge. you can see that it's been been in cossack 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 about motors. atlanta 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 to start to say, i love you, i care about too 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 describes the hellish coffin he of pounding on, hillary and hand to hand combat the muzzle was keen. it usually be what 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 a pit under the mac, the mac, the suit for now, we are just laugh, can't afford to think of what he be doing. if russia hadn't attacked the point, he completely focused on the war. but i really wanted to end when he returned to me for life. again, i want to grade something, not destroy,

but for now i have to destroy. unfortunately, alena is busy helping to. she's raising money and supplies food helmets, drones to send to the front lines. the 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 of frontline warriors. crowdfunding is one of millions of civil or transformations everyday lives indefinitely put on hold. so they can help their country in its hour of need for each highlands, al jazeera, here i live in manns being held in u. s. custody suspected of being linked to the so called lockerbie bombing. a burglar muscle is accused of making the explosive device that blew up pan am flight one o 3 over the scottish tongue. lockerbie in 1988 all. busy 259 people on board, the flight or killed, as well as 11 people on the ground. the g u. s. justice department says he'll appeared a federal court in washington. d. c. allen fisher has more from washington. other

gillum, a sued, 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, d. c. 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 them 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 a locker be in scotland. 270 people were killed. one international law expert says the apprehension of masoud is a significant development. since very, very clear message, 22 inserts this matter hasn't been forgotten and those responsible 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 that there are many families of those who died in the pan am bombing, who believe that al mcgraw. he was wrongly convicted, that the libyans had no involvement with the piano bombing. know the americans and tend to put on trial, the man that they believe built the bomb the don't. the jet over lockerbie pakistan's military says 6 civilians have died after afghan forces shelled a border town. the army says 17 others were wounded in charmin than the pakistani

troops fired back. afghanistan says a taliban member was killed and 10 people were wounded. the clash reportedly happened after afghan forces tried to cut part of offense installed by pakistan. most trade between afghanistan and pakistan passes through sherman a palestinian teenagers, been killed during a raid in the occupied west bank. this really army carried out. the operation is jolene. on sunday night, 2 people have been arrested. israel's been increasing military raise in the occupied territories. the united nations says 2022 looking the deadliest cheer for palestinians. in 16 years, serbia's president has held a national security meeting after unrest in northern kosovo. there been explosions, gunfire and roadblocks in an area where the majority of the population or ethnic serbs around gaba reports for a 2nd day trucks, a block in 2 main roads leading to border crossings between crossover and serbia.

that softer overnight gunfire. tensions been rising in northern cause ever 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 cause of our government. the serbian president is demanding their release was murder. it's important that asian pan tissue and many other serves 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 for have mounted armed attacks over government plans . the 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 and has been taken by the european union support in france and germany, also the united states and the focus of younger focus would be on torso negotiations, casa medicaid independence from serbia, and 2008. after a war from 1998 to 1999, but some subs in the breakaway republic said they're being marginalized. caceres president post spent local elections in the majority serb northern region until next april, after sab said that boy caught the pulse. yep. barbara and gave her out to sarah or

europe harlem european parliament, vice president has been suspended after being caught up in 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 cotter. belgian prosecutors to say the country tried to influence decisions made in the european parliament by giving cash payments and gifts to legislators. a catherine official has rejected the claims. cilla had anal, does it not as a step closer to selling humans back to the moon? as the autumn, a spacecraft splashes down safely? must we had to a fee for woke up studio. what our team looks ahead to the semi finals are 2022. ah, anticipation is rising. and so with most of my cattle aways

i there thanks for joining in while that cyclone, that midland falls south of to nights injected a lot of moisture into the atmosphere for india. but the rain are quite a ways nor so in lots of per dash mahar roster. i don't think rain though for me by but increasing cloudiness does seem likely on monday with the high of 32 degrees, i got something cookin up to the northeast of the philippines before it got there. i did drop quite a bit of rain on the philippines. around manila we had severe flood advisories in play. i think those will be dropped as that. rain starts to dissipate, but really now the worst of the rain through the malay peninsula, column, poor singapore. and that top end of sumatra, anywhere in that zone, about 50 to a 100 millimeters of rain, get ready for it. another courts have come into china. so here's the picture on monday. already can see signs of it, right. 10 degrees in shanghai. let's go to wednesday, paint the colors on dark or the blue, the lower their temperature, shanghai 5. even hong kong in on this is while just 16 degrees, some snow showers,

few showers, as while through the korean peninsula. fairly quiet for japan. but let's put this forward to wednesday as well, cause that see effect snow really picking up. i think we're going to see some blizzard conditions. western who kado and western honshu island on wednesday. so later the weather, sponsored by categories. when the news breaks, it's designed to represent a bedouin has now become a place welcome fans from around the world when people need to be heard. and the story told this area of size will, will be an island within a 100 years. with exclusive interviews and in depth reports here, germany's largest, going to write up for sure. how to come to, how would you see iran has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lives ah

ah, he was, you know, the 0 reminder, we're top stories this out around 300000 people in the ukranian city of odessa are still without electricity brushes, sets of used drones to head to the power sites. but as, as ports has grown to a halt, but ukraine's agriculture minister says much need to great exports will continue from 2 other ports. olivia manson custody in the us accused of making the bomb the blue off pan on flight one o 3, wisconsin in 1988. the justice department says abil gila, my suit will appear at the federal court in washington, dc, database, explosions, gunfire, and roadblocks, and northern, kosovo. for most of the population, out ethic sounds tensions of sword. over the arrest of a former policeman, he resigned along with hundreds of other ethnic serbs after kosovo. government set

it with ban license plates issued by serbia. see democrats from the u. s. congress have been meeting representatives of cuba government in havana. 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. keepers facing its greatest accidents of people in a decade due mainly to economic energy and political crises and pies. geo cuban arrivals at 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 installed since 2017. michael shifter is a senior fellow at inter american dialogue. it's a think tank focusing on latin america and the caribbean. he says, much ground will have to be covered between the u. s. and cuba before an effect and

migration is going to be felt. 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 is really a serious attempt to overcome it in the opening under president obama. but then with president trump, the trust obviously deepened as 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, a, have remained. and of course, there's the historic embargo or blockade of cuba, which is an act of congress. and i think there was an expectation when that there was the opening in 2015 and with the obama that there would be a move towards greater political reform and economic reform in cuba,

on and greater attention to, to human rights. and if anything, the opposite has happened, there's been increased repression. and there have been some demonstrations and 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 as an african shift which would help alleviate some of the acute, a humanitarian conditions in cuba, not as out of a spacecraft has completed its mission to the moon almost one month off to launching from cape canaveral. the ryan cap so splashed on off the coast of baja, california. the unmanned test flight is part of a plan to put humans in the moon again in 2025 or ions. 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 are 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 are finding from the james web space telescope. that it is a very, very large universe out there to be understood and explored.

also shooting for the moon, a japanese start up and sent up its own lunar lander on a space ex rocket mission. but a company ice space is called a cotto, which means white rabbits in japanese is carrying a lot of cargo, including the u. e. first lunar rover and a robot from japan designed to volt around in the moon's surface. but it's not going to be as quick as nasa's awry, and it's going to take nearly 5 months to reach the moon. by contrast, arrive took just 5 days. china's zeal covered 19 policies. been one of the toughest in the world was mandatory regular testing and quality and medical facilities. but that's led to rare protests. now the government is dropping most of the strict measures and it easy others. however, the result isn't exactly what officials have been expecting as him and con reports . you'd think that after imposing some of the toughest coven 19 restrictions on the planet, lifting them would fill the streets and cafes with people and life be getting back

to normal. by getting rid of measures like forcing people into quarantine camps, letting people isolate a home and allowing free travel within the country. china may have stopped the protest that took place last week, and citizens have express relief. but this is now happening. people are still afraid to go out in wu han, where the 1st cases of cov 19 were discovered. it still mostly empty and business owners are worried. they are the youth businesses are struggling to hold on. let's see how it goes after things have opened up, we'll have to see if there are any travelers. we have to see what the footfall will be like if things are still the same. next year people will have to leave. people are staying away because they're afraid, the lifting of the restrictions will mean more people will be exposed to the virus . but the government is working to reassure people that they are safe to get back to their lives. one of the other big worries is the lack of medical supplies and testing kids, but pharmacists in southern china say once disrupted supply chains and are

functioning as they're supposed to. there have been times when we've run out of stock because demand has significantly increased, but we have made some adjustments. so if we run out of certain items, they will be restocked the next morning. it will take a while for people to begin to get back some semblance of a normal life. the chinese government is pushed the narrative. the only way you deal with cov 19 is that you don't have any cases at all, but its own health experts are now saying by scrapping regular testing infections are going up. not so say the government health authorities reported 1661 new infections for beijing on saturday. down 42 percent from 3974 on december 6th, a day before the national policies were dramatically relaxed. transitioning from a 0 coven policy to a deal with coven policy is going to take some time and opinion that health experts and the government seem to agree on. but how that transition is managed is in

dispute with health official fairing a mass outbreak, but beijing's worried that the tough restrictions on movement that lead to rare protests and open critics of the government will flare up again. among our desert. i knew chance bought the uses artificial intelligence to generate human like responses has been surprising users online since it's launched this month, it's called chat g p t. which stands for generative pre trained transformer. the user types in a question or a prompt and the program types out of response, uncle. so michelle, if shows is how these so called chat boards deliver answers at high speed. so let's see what had can do. let's begin with an easy question, and that would be how do you make chocolate cake? ok, we seem to have the ingredient soutware. that's pretty quick. second question, let's try something harder, is artificial intelligence capable of freewill?

now finally, one question to the boss might be important to you and me, honey, get a promotion some useful to plan, maybe i should implement them. so we have one minute, 3 questions and pretty quick answers. tend to get the latest news from the fee for world cup. here is john. i got your oscar gutter creations play is sounding confident as they prepared to face argentina in the world cup semi's they reach the final 4 years ago. so this isn't new territory for many of the 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 technical 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 catholic 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 ending champions frans have been celebrating, reaching the semi finals, the team received the heroes welcome. as they returned to the hotel following the 21 victory over england, france bearing to the 7 semi final in the tournament history. no team has successfully defended the world cups in brazil. in 1962, thousands of rural confines have travelled to cancel 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 old well,

let's look ahead to the semi finals with our football analyst. jim is select croatia. jim went to penalties in the last 2 games. can they get away with it for the time he gets tina. well, it's not only the last 2, but this number is crazy. it the 8th of the last 9, no code. they just in major startlement, they have gone to extra time. so we can say they are experts in that shell take, although she call moment and then the penalties. so i think that if something works don't cheat. they, they know they are strong points and this is said that technology held a rival, and i think they need to approach this game against argentina as they have been doing it because they have been very successful. so corporations strong and defense, what argentine is strengths and what are the 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 the one that i believe is, i think they still haven't been able to show us that they can control a game much for a full 90 minute. we have seen these against saudi arabia. again paul, i need gloss. yeah. maybe a more controlled game, but again, again, so str, elia 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 bo against england. will they find it as tough against morocco? probably yes, because as you were mentioning just now, a moral cause, they don't conceive easily only one goal and nice and 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 high pressure,

they did again to spain against croatia. again, this powerful teams, i think they were friends, they will have to be extremely efficient to be able to be morkel and i start moment from morocco reaching the semi finals. they have a lot of support here when they cancel. yeah, they are locals. i mean, i was at the ration 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. i need to be like this because they are the favorite itself. i'll feel. 7 all the middle east, africa, and the story called moment as you were mentioning is so i'm sure that this play, you have a number 12 that is the fun base. it will definitely give them energy if in that key moments already in an extra time or in a penalty they have been so helpful and i'm sure they will keep on doing it. all right, jim, thank you very much. well, there's a new ball for those semi finals,

and the final, this is al him, which translates from arabic as the dream. it was unveiled by well cut when, as car from brazil and cassius of spain, the high tech bull has sensors inside and is a gold color which mirrors the castle, 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 qatar. and our team will have it all covered right here on al jazeera. this is al jazeera, these are the top stories around 300000 people in the ukranian city over.