ah, this year as we celebrate 75 years of the declaration standing up for our wives, we have the chance to no claim. and then our wives oh, the taliban government bonds university education for all female students across afghanistan. ah. hello them nora kyle. this is al jazeera live from dough ha. also coming up on the front lines of war, ukrainian president brought him, his zalinski visits the city of backwoods, which has been bombarded by russian attacks,

a victory parade for team argentina. tens of thousands of fans gather to give the world cup winners. heroes, welcome and concerns over the face of migrants trying to cross into the u. s. supreme court keeps a temporary bond in place. ah, afghanistan's taliban brunettes have banned all female students from attending universities. the latest government order cracking down on women's rights takes effect immediately. girls have already been banned from middle schools and high schools. foreign governments including the u. s. of said a change and policy on women's education is needed for it can consider formerly recognizing the taliban government or shortly after the taliban made that announcement, the united nations condemned the move. it's clearly another broken promise from the

job we have seen since their take over and also in the past months, just a lessening of the space for women, not only education, but access to public areas, their non participation in the public debate. it's another very troubling, troubling move and it's, it's difficult to imagine how a country can develop a deal with all of its the challenges that it has without the active participation of women. and the education decision was confirmed just after the taliban released to us presence in what was called quote, goodwill gesture, state department spokesman, that net price at the are any of the timing was not lost on us. officials is how long have permanently sent him out in went into

a darker and more barren future without opportunity. no country can thrive. one half of its population is arbitrarily held that education is an internationally recognized human right. and it is essential to afghanistan, economic growth and stability. this unacceptable stance will have significant consequences for the telephone and will further alienate the taliban from the internet community and deny them legitimacy. they desire rights activists say the movie shows a ton of bonds, indifference to international criticism every single time the will put to pressure on the toilet, on my saying, do this. so you haven't done this or this is not done enough. then become around. and david tied to it and they make it harder on the woman. so the woman of have a son actually have become, as i said, you know, they don't put them, they don't, they don't really exist. they're not human beings. they are, i don't know what they are. they don't consider them as you know, they just,

they just think continuous for the way they think to them than they did. you think because the have erased the woman from the, from the society, people, water from vacation, from everything, from life of natalia as former deputy minister of women's affairs in afghanistan. and she joins us now from washington. d. c. thanks very much for being with us. this seems especially cruel by the taliban after allowing afghan girls to fit university entrance exams. did you see it coming up? it wasn't just me. i think it was all the african women who had dealt with them for the last 20 years and fought with them. we knew it's coming because we never believed in the idea the taller one could ever be moderate or they had been changed for the sake of the negotiations with the u. s. it same, so that's all about to be making promises and then going back on them. do you get

a sense that this is because there's a battle going on within the organization? and when it comes to the battle between different functions among the telephone, that's not something that we. ready collect or that's not something we can ignore bed when it comes to the tale, bonds, anti women policy, i cannot divide the thought of one in 2 different factions. so why? why do the tell them, why do they fear women so much? oh, well in afghanistan with educated women, of course is not going to be doing by the taller one. it's about their own survival . but education is one thing allowing women to go into a park as quite another. it feels that they are cussing women off from any aspect of society that they possibly can. he ask and women historically, they have always been leading the resistance,

these civic resistance against the brutal regimes. so as much as they operate the women, it's easier for them to manage the rest of the country. so as the space for women grows ever smaller, what can be done to help women cope with this? if not indeed overcommit i would say we need to divide our attention on our resources in too short term. what can be done in short term and what can be done in mid and long term. in short term, i think ensuring access to education for women virtually which already exists all these platforms and resources exist, and we just need to expand the opportunities for african women who already have the foundation to continue. i think that's one thing that i would stress on, but the, at the same time as far as the regime is there and the regime is not a more inclusive with more moderate policies. it's impossible actually to come up

with a long term hope for a change. so i would say a change must happen, and that has to happen um from inside afghanistan, with the support of afghans out would you have to take, would you ever go back to afghanistan to try to join that fight? are you going to go best place to do it from where you are? oh, well, i've been fighting them through all means available from where i am, but i can't wait to be back in afghanistan. and that can be an rule as well. you said last year when you were in afghanistan, the feeling of freedom was very shaky with concerns about the van piece talks that were being held by the taliban. do you think that not enough was done in the 20 years between them being in power to ensure that they didn't return it in 1st of all 20 years is not enough actually to change society. but at the same time,

i mean, we did have the foundation there, we did have the legal framework, the policy that government supported with all its imperfections, but supportive of all the women's rights agenda. but at the same time, i mean do thing with a brutal regime led by a terrorist group. i mean, it's a complete different story. i mean, wiping the entire way that we had paid for the last 20 years and fighting in so many france to pay that way with just $1.00 sentence decree. i think it's, it's not that difficult for a region which is not accountable. huffman channel will leave at that for the moment, but we really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us and share with us your experiences of big enough guns on thanks very much for joining us. thank you for having now we're giving reports that the ukranian president floated zalinski will visit washington, washington, d. c. on wednesday,

it would be his 1st trip overseas since the russian invasion in february, correspondent medical and live for us now in washington, d. c. but it isn't sort of come out of nowhere. what do we know? it really did come out of nowhere. so here's how it started. usually joint sessions of congress are nouns well in advance. well, so how speaker nancy pelosi sent a message to her conference to the house, saying there's going to be a joint session of congress tomorrow to focus on democracy. you really need to be there. put this in perspective. it's the wednesday before christmas. there is a massive snow storm coming, that is going to really complicate airlines flights. and these congressional people like to get home to celebrate christmas. so the reporter started say, well, if that's the case, this is going to be a really big deal. so now it's starting to leak out that that special guest is in fact will in america, let's give the president of ukraine, and that he's expected to also meet with you as president joe biden at the white

house. this is a change of tone from the u. s, at the beginning of the war, they were very adamant and very public. they did not want to lisky to leave his country. obviously, his quite a target for the russians. still, it could be seen as an important side for him that he feels that he needs to come up and shore up congressional support. that is with the republicans taking control of the house in just a matter of the weeks. they have been more vocal about the fact that they think they need to put some more limitations on ukrainian aid. now the current budget that the democratic control house and senate have negotiate actually has 45000000000 and additional aid for ukraine. that's more than joe biden. even asked for, he wanted 37000000000, so he obviously zelinski and the people of ukraine do have the support of members of congress. we also expect, we've been expecting this announcement on patriot missiles for more than a week. we expect that they will finally announce the next aid package that they are sending. that is expected to include patriot missiles. there's

a long range defensive missile that the crating to that been asking for since the beginning of conflict. ok. article again brings the very latest from washington dc will be keeping a close eye on that over the next 24 hours. thanks very much. while ev ukrainian president paid a visit the eastern front line in ukraine, the city of buckman and presented a ward, ukrainian soldiers who has some of the heaviest fighting with russians and is now considered to be the conflicts api center. local source is told out to 0 that russian forces and fighters from the wagner group have lost some of that positions on the southern side of the city. control of backward would give the criminal a boost in the battle for the don bass region. yeah, which is because of the show move on the budget, which i want to say that we see what remains of where they left. nothing is alive with this issue isn't just in the don bus. that is why i want to tell you here and

dumbass, you protect the whole of you crime because after don bus, they will do all this and other cities of our country because they don't want anything ukrainian. i am 100 percent sure of us. and therefore, the protection of the whole of ukraine rests on your shoulder and not just on bus zach. tell stratford as in the key region and has more on the impact of recent russian attacks on energy infrastructure. this is one of more than a 100 electric substations country wide across ukraine. as you can see, the level of destruction here, this particular substation has been hit in 3 separate attacks by 6 russian missiles . the software tell us that this electrical plant supplies around $600000.00 people with electricity, those people now having to undergo and insure rolling blackouts as this sub station tries to distribute as much power as it can obviously after these attacks. what so

interesting though, is that this, like many of those substations was built during the soviet era, this particular one in 1958. and that means that the russians know pretty much exactly how this grid works. and incredibly, it was only 4 hours before the invasion that the ukrainians, disconnected from the russian and belushi and electrical systems was like them. we'll see the july was the where we all feel like we are on the 1st line of energy defense. all ukrainians are looking at us with hope that we can return a light and heat into their homes. with our teams are working round the clock, ignoring the freezing conditions. so much equipment has been destroyed and our company doesn't have enough spare parts to restore electricity to all civilians. all the time. ukraine's president followed him is zalinski. on december, the 13th said, restoring the countries par grade, could cost more than one point. $5000000000.00. damage then meant

a shortfall of 2.5 gigawatts, and that was before 2 more massive drone and missile bombardments targeted the countries energy infrastructure. as an example of just how well russia knows this electrical grid system. this was an electrical transformer and he's taken a direct hit. the staff here tell us that it contained 60 tongues of oil and the blaze off to the bloss. they say took around 5 hours to close out the sub station and moving a 100 like it across the country, our own constant alert there could be an attack at any time the estimated cost of repairing the damage. here the stove trellis could be tens of millions of dollars, and this is just one of what the ukrainian, or soar to say is around a 1000 kamikaze drone and missile attacks against vital infrastructure stations

like this across the country. ah, are javelin crowds have been packing central one of ours to celebrate the return of argentina's world champion football squad. but the huge turn out has forced the team to trade their boss parade for a helicopter tor. the government declared tuesday a national holiday to celebrate sundays, well cup when argentina beat france on penalties in what's considered to be one of the best finals f. up. when a kiana keith was at the parade and put osiris argentines have never seen something like this. it has been 3 days in a row. a people that are here have been here early in the morning. the celebrated when the national. i brady, i run dinner. jim. do you know i

do weekend. i there very, very good. so what they did with the loan, is it a windows site, but people i, until they know a victory that comes at the moment when tina spacing deep economic trouble. it's a very politically divided country. but today they feel united with this historic victory, which they've been waiting for so long. so i had her on out as aram, you case, winter of discontent. nurses will cough the job again over low pay and patient

safety. ah hello. let's have a look at the weather across north america and it's very cold, but it's set to get even colder as a major storm works its way across canada and northern areas of the u. s. knocking temperatures down dramatically that arctic cold air blowing down as we go into thursday. you can see spreading its way across the central states towards the south . we are expecting some heavy snow to fall across the northern rockies. got a bit of a wind chill here. could be dangerous, it's going to move its way across was the midwest where we will see the heaviest snow fall on wednesday. but those temperatures continuing to be pushed down. if we have a look, for example, at the 3 day for caspar well below,

the average exceptionally cold weather coming in here does improve. however, a least sunshine wise on friday. you can see those storms rushing away from florida picking up across the eastern seaboard, and those will join up with that storm as it blows its way towards the northeast. we have got major warnings out for that. wintery weather, however, there will be some improvement on thursday temperatures, however well below the average that was in to central america. it's very quiet here, lots of sunshine, across much of the caribbean. 20 degrees in havana on wednesday. that's your weather. to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide, and to reward merit and excellence, and encourage creativity to shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was funded to promote translation and honor translators,

and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. ah, o. a. again you are watching out there has reminder of our top story this hour. i've got to start taliban rulers have found all female students from attending universities . the latest government order cracking down on women's rights. tate suffice immediately. the reports ukrainian president for him as a landscape will visit the visit washington d. c. on wednesday would be his 1st trip overseas since the russian invasion in

february. it comes off the landscape, met trips on the front lines in the back months. and dodge and as well, the cup winning football team has flown over jubilant crown, celebrating the victory and central authority. the team had to trade a planned boss parade for helicopter flight because of a huge turnout. cruise congress has resumed debate on holding early elections on friday. members rejected proposed constitutional reform to bring elections for president dina watson says she will urge congress to move the vote from 2026 to december 2023 days a violent protest off to form present. pedro garcia was impeached and imprisoned this month, and sanchez joins us now live from lima. so miranda congress, we considering moving elections forward, but will they allow it? well, laura, that legislators how for resumed their debate. they've been talking since 10 am in

the morning and they have now resumed this debate to decide whether they will bring elections forward this after last week. they did not vote in favor of this. they are discussing this bill, sent by president. you know, a lot of the last week to bring elections, elections forward, us. most of the people in this country are demanding. she said, don't be blind to the people's that mad. the latest opinion poll says that 83 per cent of for ruffians, once new elections want a new congress. and that's a, that's election should be held soon. now as the electoral institutions here have said that they the earliest they could hold elections would be by december of 2023 . but it is not clear yet. if legislators will vote in favor because there's a division between the elect to some the rightist who are the left, is in favor of changing a remake of the constitution,

really with the constitutional assembly and the right to saying that this will never happen while they are in congress, they need 87 votes to pass this vote, which should be ratified in the next legislative period. but there's also a chance that they could reach 66 votes and called for a referendum, that's when peruvians will have to go to the polls undecided to hold you electrons . and this could be in a period of the next 4 months. so still, there's a lot of expectation of what's happening here today. laura, no, not happening on the international fronts as well. we've got mexico mana offering, political assign him to custio's family, but we're just seeing on the voices, news agency, bruce foreign minister saying that the government has declared the mexican ambassador in that lima persona non grata, and giving him 72 hours to leave the country relations between those 2, i'm really sorry, aren't they?

well they're, they've been at odds since the president of mexico manuel of his photo said is the week before last that he would give them to the former president. they don't feel, he said that you had called him to ask for asylum before castillo. try to close congress and perpetrate this self to us. it's called now throughout the past the week and a half, if you will. you have said that he had not asked for a silent but actually this morning, the wife of a former president garcia. lydia, but it is on her 2 children, took a pilot in in the mexican embassy. now, what my fellow, but the foreign minister of mexico house said that they are negotiating for a safe passage because they are now in mexican territory and they would need a safe passage to be able to get on a plane. we don't know if the former, the wife

a former president kasteel will want to leave the country, but for now, this is what's, what's happening regarding regarding as former president, i see you and he's and his family, maria sanchez, joining us from lima with all the very latest and not happening, the improve thanks very much, marana now the white house has asked a supreme court to end a controversial from the era immigration policy. the rule known as title 42 was imposed in 2020 and was due to expire on wednesday. it allows the government to use coven, 900 protocols, to block my goods entry on the border with mexico. but on monday, the supreme court extended the measures following an appeal by republican lead states to keep them in face. i was sure castro joins us now live from el paso, in texas. high defense will give us an idea of what the situation is like at the border. the right, the greater context of all this laura,

is that the us has just experienced the record breaking number of people encountering border patrol as they tried to cross into the us more than 2000000 for the 1st time in one year. and here, and i'll pass, so it's sort of an episode center there, about $10000.00 migrants being released to el paso weekly. we're seeing some of those people here. these are asylum seekers, their families from venezuela, from you got one from ecuador as well. and they have turned themselves in at the border to us order agents. and they were released here temporarily as we wait for their asylum cases to process some have had to sleep out here in the cold overnight, even as temperature. low freezing. she has the shelters in this town are all full. even the airport has been converted into a makeshift shelter, but they count themselves lucky. they tell me because about half of all migrants

who tried across the us quarter, don't even make it this far as they're held up in mexico because of that title 40 to who you mention, which is still in place and will be in the in limbo in a sense because the republican lead states told the supreme court that they would be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of migrant if that policy were to go away. and now we had the latest news coming from the biden administration, that they have asked for this border policy to remain in place until at least after christmas, giving it more time to search resources. humanitarian assistance as well as resources to secure the border because they all anticipate many more people trying to cross. indeed. okay. hi d, thanks very much for the update that from el paso, in texas. a 97 year old woman has been convicted for nazi war crimes. and what could be one of germany's last holocaust trials and god fetched and i was as

secretary of the secretary of that whole for the concentration camp in poland. 2 in 1943 and 945. she was found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 11000 people has been handed to yes. suspended sentence. question has been sentenced under juvenile law because she was 18 and the crimes were committed less than the u. k. of walked off the job for a 2nd day this month calling for better pay and conditions. government says cant afford the 19 percent increase that demanding up to a $100000.00. thus is it taking part in the unprecedented strikes? jenna hall reports from london. the college of nursing. the nurses union used to be violently n t strike action milk any more. it's been this nancy and they have no choice. i think it would take to face to face time

ration. you can see that you're paid actually decreasing. i would, the cost of living is just another $1.00. the other go doing extra shift. banks to make ends meet, but that ends, i mean, but you're more already doing. you know, it wasn't long ago that message were applauded on doorsteps, up and down the country for their work saving lives during the pandemic. now they're quitting in record numbers because clapping as they charged doesn't pay the rent and nor does the 4 percent pay rise. currently on the table, vanessa is demanding substantially more as much as 19 percent to make up. they say for years of low pay that's failed to keep up with inflation. the government says the money just isn't there to give the nurse is what they want, as well as giving the national health service what it needs to survive. you can't have one without the other the say. and unless the government engages in people in

the coming days, they would be more of this in the thing to come to a point where it's an existentialist shortages and the collapse around me. and i think we are committed to not just the basic pocket, sustainable nature where people tend to live in a cup of london. opinion polls suggest the public her on the nurses side. yeah. getting there support, despite the inevitable disruption being cause to know nurtured patient care and that's uncomfortable for the government determined not to give in to striking workers. when increasingly being blamed for bringing the national health service to the verge of collapse, joe hall al jazeera london, germany's foreign minister has handed over more than 20 cultural artifacts known as

ben in bronzes, to nigeria. the items are a collection of sculptures and plaques that were looted from what was then the kingdom of bending in 1897. the return follows a deal made earlier this year between germany in nigeria to transfer ownership of more than 1000 artifacts. ah, who without, as there are, these are our top stories. afghanistan's taliban rulers have been to all female students from attending universities. the latest government order cracking down on women's rights takes effect immediately. girls have already been banned from middle schools and high schools. or shortly after the taliban made that announcement. united nations condemned the move. it's clearly another broken promise from top to bottom. we have seen since.