ah, i will jazeera with ah, a grinding battle in southern ukraine, ukrainian force is attacked, the russian consoled city of melita paul, while moscow strikes and still leave 300000 without power in odessa. ah, i'm all baptism, this is our deserve alive from doha. also coming up a libyan bouncing u. s. custody accused of making the bomb but blew up a plane over scotland. tensions run high and northern kosovo were effing sobs, unblocked roads. after a night of gunfire and explosions. nasa is a step closer to sandy humans. back to the moon. as the autumn,

a spacecraft splashes down safely. ah, the governor of la han screeches says ukrainian forces have hit a hotel that was being used by mercenaries from russia's wagner group. so he, high days, says fighters were killed in the blast, and the town of caddy, of the wagner group is a private military contract sent up close ties to the kremlin rushes defense magistrate hasn't commented on the attack, operations have stopped at the port in the ukrainian city of odessa, after russia attacked the local energy grad 8th, a vital transport hub for delivering grain to much of the developing world. marsh blocks you frames point for months until 3, but a lie to carry on working and deal broken. but to camp and the un key once more ports added to the deal. but moscow said that would only happen if its own demands

for matt. meanwhile, around 300000 people in the odessa region, i still without attic, tricity rushes, use jones to hit to power sites. electrical supplies are gradually being restored, but many houses and businesses remain dark and cold in freezing temperatures. it brings president, says emergency crews have been working to ease the power shortages divide. you don't do any more than restore ation 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 off to the russian strikes is military is attacked. the russian controlled city of melissa poll, ukrainian officials say scores of russian troops have been killed by russia. says 2 people, a dead start family to poll was one of several overnight rocket stripes targeting russian bases. explosions have also been reported in russian, annexed crimea. fighting has reportedly intensified around the city of back moves

in the eastern, danielle screech, and it's the only major area of the front line where russian forces are still trying to advance. rory challenge has more, forgive the fighting and 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 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 a 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 2020 sous 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 scientists operate in

and 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 whole unit and they called themselves military pimpton. i believe it's a characteristically ukrainian flourish of humour to help see them through these dark times. they even have their own badge can see that it's been in cause like style, his angry reservation. this penguin battalion of arctic scientists is doing real fighting in some of the was toughest battles. the guys also on they, when they found the near barking with again, this is for sure. involvement come back, which is tough for bath motors, right? 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 all saying and,

and what is it also important that we start to said, i love you. i care about you much more than before. we just love march anchor is the antarctic centers technical director. just out of a key of hospital following a close call and back move to the fighting. he describes the hellish krakowski of pounding, artillery 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 from part of the building. we did not control. and the fighting was that 5 or 6 meters grenade flying, everyone shooting grenades fell just one and a half meter for my head. as i was in a pit under the mac, the mac, the pseudo is for now, we just love 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 with him to return to a peaceful life again, i want to create something not destroy. for now i have to destroy it. unfortunately,

a lender is busy helping to. she's raising money and 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, antarctic scientists, and how they became the penguin legion, a front line 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 here every man is being held in us custody suspected of being linked to the so called the lockerbie bombing muscle is accused of making the explosive device a blue up panel fight one o 3 over the scottish ton of lockerbie in 1988, all 259 people on board. the flight were killed as well as 11 people on the ground . the us justice department says appear in

a federal court in washington. d. c. and fisher has more 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, dc. it was reported that he was being held in a libyan 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 panam jet clipper made of the seas was blown out to the skies over lockerbie and scotland. 270 people were killed. one international law expert says the apprehension of masoud is a significant development is since very, very clear message to,

to the victims that this matter hasn't been forgotten. and those are we 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 pine on 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 like a son's mother to says 6 civilians have died after afghan forces shelled or bordered tone. the army says 17 others were wandered in chairman and the pakistani

troops fired back of gaston says a tele by 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. the israeli army carried out the operation. janine, on sunday night, 2 people have been arrested. israel has been increasing military raids in the occupied territories. united nations, it says 2022 has been the deadliest year for palestinians. in 16 years. serbia's president has held our national security meeting after unrest in northern kosovo when explosions gunfire and roadblocks in an area where the majority of the population are ethnic serbs. barbara gordon reports for a 2nd day trucks, a block in

t main roads leading to border crossings between costs of her and serbia. that softer overnight gunfire. tensions been rising in northern cost 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 cause of our 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 warned violence, went, be tolerated, or putting ambient the teeth. 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 offices 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, and cause of it says a stunt grenade was held at one of its armored vehicles on saturday. the blocks rule of law chief called for dialogue. this new proposal of husband table, why the european union support, frances germany, most of the united states and the focus of younger focus reveal torsional negotiations, casa medicaid independence from serbia and 2008 after a war from 1998 to 1999. but some subs in the breakaway republic say they're being marginalized. caceres president, pa spent local elections in the majority serb northern region until next april. after sab said that boy caught the pulse. barbara and gave her out to sarah. still

hadn't al jazeera 3 democrats, newest congress made the cuban president in havana as concerns might about the biggest exodus from the islands and decades. plus, we had to our fee for world cup studio for our $2.00 weeks ahead to the semi finals . a cut on 2022. ah, anticipation is rise. so with most of my cattle aways. i there thanks for joining in while that cyclone that made land falls south of tonight's 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 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. it

did dropped 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 brain through the malay peninsula, call them poor singapore. and that top end of sumatra, anywhere in that zone of 50 to a 100 millimeters of rain, get ready for another courts half come in to 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 darker, 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 at see effect, snow really picking up. i think we're going to see some blizzard conditions. western who kado and western honju island on wednesday. see you later to with sponsored by categories. how does the team from

a smaller league draw the bigger crowd? why does the irish flag fly high? he's got his club. what is it about celtic that has the world over here in the more politics of football fan comedy impressed with the funds you mix with ah, you want to go to see it everyone over top stories this up around 300000 people in the ukranian city of desa, i still without electricity,

russia said to have used drones to hit to power sites or does his port his ground to a halt. but ukraine's agriculture menaces as much needed drain exports will continue from 2 other ports. albion manns in custody in the us accused of making the bomb that blew up pan am flight one o 3 over scotland in 1988. the justice department says albert giller must soon will appear at a federal court in washington, dc that are been explosions. gunfire and gold blocks and northern possible, where most of the population or ethnic serbs tensions of sort over the arrest of a former policeman. he resigned along with hundreds of other ethnic serbs after crossover, his government said it would ban license plates issued by serbian zambian police have found the bodies of $27.00 people suspected of entering the country illegally . they were found in the godaddy, an area north of the capital, the saca. it's believed the men were from ethiopia and died of hunger and exhaustion. migrants from east africa often use zambia as

a transit route to south africa in search of better economic opportunities. for democrats from the u. s. congress have been meeting representatives of tubers, 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 kim, but cuban president and miguel diaz canal leaders of cuba, congress and it's foreign minister. my host shifters, the senior fellow at inter american dialogue. it's a think tank focusing on latin america and the caribbean is as much ground will have to be covered between the u. s. in cuba, before an effect of migration will 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, but 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 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 that 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. ready the cubans

haven't helped having given the u. s. 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 ac, you know, humanitarian conditions in cuba. the airport and major rosen guatemala city have been forced to close because of a volcanic eruption or can a flagon spewed lava again on sunday, raising ash about 2 kilometers into the sky. some incoming flights had to be diverted. plato erupt, least every 4 years. 2018 interruption killed 215 people. the us has been asking the question for decades. can we turn to the moon and explore beyond it? now they have a cautious onset to go have has the story splashed down and this was the moment nasa knew success. a 1st step toward putting human back on the moon completed the

latest chapter of nasa journey to the moon comes to a close. on november 16th, the artemus one rocket lifted off and left off of order. this was taking a journey deeper into space than ever before. coming within 120 kilometers of the moon, but the hardest part, getting the unmanned module back without burning up, it would re enter the atmosphere going $32.00 times the speed of sound, the heat surrounding it. more than 2700 degrees celsius, we're going to do scientists tried a new technique to help with that and do a nominal skipped maneuver. will rest of the going to bounce off once we have 3 fully inflated main shoots, the parachutes deployed and the u. s. navy was ready and able to retrieve the capsule and the tests inside. next up, they hope to have a crew complete with a woman. and a person of color make the journey in 2024. but the end goal is much bigger. getting astronaut on the moon, able to build

a kind of way station for further exploration. that's why this is a defining de it is one that marks new technology, a whole new breed of astronaut. ah, a, a vision for the future. but big challenges remain before an american can step foot on the moon. the private company space x has to develop a kind of series of gas stations in space and build a lander. and there will likely be pressure from congress. these launches are costing 8 times more than was forecast in all expected to cost more than $93000000000.00 until you actually look at the earth yourself through the window. still susan kurland, the youngest person and only the 2nd woman to pilot a spacecraft tells al jazeera that she believed the eventual payoff is worth to have a price for. i think the most important is we're inspiring the, our, to miss generation. we're inspiring kids to wanna go into stem cells to want to

shoot for the stars. the landing coincided with the 50 dana bursary of the last time an american was on the moon, leaving quite the impression high was growing on the 50 years later, scientists believe they are one step closer to making sure some day. soon someone can take a stroll on the lunar surface again, particle haine, al jazeera, china 0 cove at 19 policies been one of the toughest in the world with mandatory regular testing and quarantine and medical facilities. but that's. busy lead to rare protests. now the government is dropping most of the district measures and easing some others. however, the result isn't exactly what officials have expected as him run con reports. he'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 and we'll hand where the 1st cases of cov 19 were discovered. it's still mostly empty, and business owners are worried. they are the is 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 relax. transitioning from a 0 covert policy to a deal with coven policy is going to take some time and opinion that health experts and the governments seem to agree on. but how that transition is managed is in dispute with health officials fearing

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. ah, time to get the latest news from the fee for world cup. his joanna gazelle, oscar at our studio on the cornish in doha, croatia, players sounding confident as they prepared to face argentina in the well kept semi's. they reached the final 4 years ago. so this isn't new territory for many of their squads. is grinnell. 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 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 that 3rd title, and 1st since $987.00. that if any champion, france have been celebrating, reaching the semi finals, the team received a hero as 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 well cuts in brazil. in 1962, thousands american fans have travelled council as a team progresses through the tournament on a historic run to the semi finals. americans have beaten belgium, spain, and now poor school to reach this stage. they've only conceded one goal in the world as well. and that was an own goes well let's look ahead to the semi finals with our football analyst. jim is select croatia. jemma went to penalties in the

last 2 games. can they get away with it for the time? it gets 1000 tina. well, it's not only the last 2, but this number is crazy. it 8 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 as a shallow psychological moment. and then the penalties. so i think that if something works done they, they know they are strong points. and this is said that technology held a rival. and i may 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 the ability is, i think they still haven't been able to show us that they can control a game

a much for a full 90 minute. we have seen these against saudi arabia, again, poland. gus, yeah, maybe a more controlled game, but again, again, tell alia. 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 the 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 higher 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 morkel and i start moment for morocco reaching the semi finals. they have a lot of support here when they cancel, they are locals. i mean, i was at the ration city that game against the spain, the bullying, the trying to impress a spain of the of the fun base was amazing. so much noise and he would be like this because of the favorite itself. i'll feel. 7 all the middle east, africa, it's a nice story called 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 marina penalties. it, they have been so have full, and i'm sure they will keep on doing it. all right, jim estella? thank you very much. well, there's a new bowl for those, the semi finals. and the final, this is al him, which translates from arabic as the dream. it was unveiled by well cut 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 canton. 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 of odessa are still without electricity rushes, use drones to head to power sites. addresses port has grown to a halt, but ukraine's of agriculture minister says much.