ah, which is which is a, you know, the ukrainian present flood him is a landscape is reported to be planning a visit to the us on wednesday. it will be his 1st trip abroad since rushes invasion. ah, nora, this is out there alive from doha, also coming up taliban government bands, university education for all female students across afghanistan,

a victory parade for team argentina, tens of thousands of funds gather to give the world cup when a heroes welcome and germany convicts the so called secretary of evil and one of the countries last holocaust trial. ah, you begin with reports that ukrainian president vladimir lensky will visit the us on wednesday. it would be his 1st overseas trip since the russian invasion in february, particle have as lie for us in washington, d. c. poppy. what more do we know about this? you know, in a town that just doesn't keep secrets ever. this one was kept secret pretty well till the last minute we believe. right? ukrainian president low to marriage zalinski is going to be in washington. he's going to meet with president joe biden at the white house and head up to capitol

hill for a joint session of congress. so joint session of congress are fairly rare, but they're usually now to advance. so when the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi said, hey, i know it's the wednesday before christmas and a huge snow storms coming in and it's going to affect air travel. but you need to be in washington wednesday night. it kind of chipped everyone off that this was a big deal. so he's going to give a speech to the congress. undoubtedly he's going to thank us for the 10s of billions of dollars it is given to ukraine in economic and military aid. and the timing could re, because the republicans are about to take control of the house and what they've said, and they're going to be a very small majority. well, they've said that they still support can be an age ukraine's. they want to make sure they know where it's going, they want better tracking of it. so this is a message to rally, not just members of congress. it's is chance to rally the entire country, which is still dealing with its own economic issues to his cause. but it's pretty clear the congress is still very much behind ukraine. the bill that there tried to

pass to fund the government would give you create an additional $45000000000.00. just to give you some sense. that's more than even president joe biden asked for. he had asked for 37000000000, so we're also expected tomorrow to announcement that we've really been waiting for . and no one of the department of defense could explain why it was being held up. well, now we know they're going to enough. another charge of weapons being that will be sent ukraine. what i'm going to be looking for there, is it going to be in the hundreds of millions, or is it going to be in the billions and that will really determine exactly what kind of a, how much they're getting. and what will this new military a mean for the fight in ukraine? well, it's going to be a very different list we believe. and, you know, since the start of the war, ukraine isn't asking for patriot missiles, such as long range air defense missile system. and that could be helpful. the couple of caveats. it is a fairly good at shooting down cruise missiles. it's a longer range weapon. the problem is it just doesn't cover that big of an area.

usually you can use it to cover an airfield, but it's not big enough or strong enough to support let's say protect the entire city of keys. other issues is that it takes 90 people at least to train ukrainians and how to use this is very expensive. each missile cost around $4000000.00 each round is and so well that would be cost effective against another cruise missile. what we've seen russia have a lot of success with is these are rather inexpensive, $50000.00 drones that a target in the infrastructure. so doesn't make sense, you wouldn't use what you have a limited supply of a $44000000.00 missile versus a $50000.00 drone. but it could protect certain airfields. let's say it's also going to take time to train the ukrainians is a lot of people that need to be trained, they need to be trained on maintenance. what i'm looking for or hearing is the, perhaps the bigger game changer is the production of j t m's. now what james does,

it's basically takes a dumb bomb and makes it a smartphone. so what that will allow them to do is shoot over longer ranges and precisely target locations, making it a much more effective weapon on the battlefield. but again, there's a caveat with that. ukraine's air force uses ukrainian bombs. it's not clear that this j dams that are used. the kid is used to fix american bombs, if they figured out just exactly how to make those to marry together. so what i'm going to be looking for when we do get this announcement is how much total, how many patriot missiles are they going to send? and just how many j dams are they get? and so that's what we're going to be looking for. and i should point out the washington said, when it comes to the patriot missiles, they have warned us that there could be consequences if they in fact send the patriots over. yeah, very interesting indeed. ok. bought it for the moment. thanks very much for the update. on melinda herring is

a ukraine specialist and deputy director at the atlantic council eurasia center and she joins us 5 go from silverspring in maryland. good to have you with us. just how big a deal is this visit? thanks for having me. it's a huge deal. this is volota, mary louise, 1st international trip since the war started. it's a big deal because there are enormous security concerns. we know that the russians wanted to whack political kolinski back in february. so this, this visit had to be kept a secret as your correspondence, that it was a secret until the 11th hour until it was no longer a secret. i think it's also significant that he's coming to washington 1st to say thank you to president biden. and he's also going to congress. so he, i expect him to spend most of the time and energy on capitol hill because he knows that capitol hill has the most sympathy and can do the most for him. if he also concerns that congress, it might be that it's going to be changing leadership and the republicans will be

having a slight lead in a few weeks. is he concerned that that might then be a change in the approach that the, the congress takes towards ukraine with that change of leadership? i think he's less concerned about congress than we were. you know, 33 months ago. it looks like congress is going to continue the same policies toward ukraine on, on weapons, and particular republicans are solid where republicans are not solid. and we're, i'm worried is budget support. and this is the category of money. it's billions of dollars. the taxpayers are giving to make sure that the ukrainian states stays afloat, and that is controversial among republicans. what's his mean site less controversial? he said, is the weapons that a given. as all correspondent patty calhane just said, she's gonna be keeping an eye on just how many patriot missiles are going to be sent across. what do you, what she'll feeling them look, we know the patriot systems are going to be sent. it is a game changer. they are very expensive, they're not super effective on arena drones, which is

a big problem. i think the big issue though is you need 3 things to get ukraine through the winter. you need air defense systems, and there aren't enough air defense systems or to protect ukraine because it's such a big country. it needs airplane. so i hope zalinski, i expect him to bring that up with president biden and say come on, would eat, we need more airplanes in order to fight this. and also please help us with the emergency assistance to keep our electrical grid alive. we don't know how many more strikes the system can take before it goes down. russia has warned that there will be consequences to this type of aid being sent over to crane. how much does that factor into conversations? i think it's bologna, though, those threats were from dmitri mid bit of i don't take him seriously, and i don't think anyone else does. he makes a lot of empty threats. he's not the president of russia, of putin is the decision maker and hootin also likes to make a lot of empty threats. the russians don't have any game right now. they are exhausted and all they can do is defend what they've taken and they can't even

defend it very well. linda, her and going to speak to you. thanks. take the time. join us. thank you. well, at the cranium, president paid a visit to the eastern front line city of back moves and presented awards to ukrainian soldiers. backlit has had some of the heaviest fighting with russians is now considered to be the conflicts epis center. i call sort of told out there that rushman forces. i'm fighters from the wagner group, have lost some of that positions on the southern side of the city. control of backwards would give the criminal a boost in the battle for the dog bass region. yeah. which is because i have to show ms. watson 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, soccer. ok, that's bringing some breaking news out of peru where the congress that has agreed to bring elections. ford to april 2024. an early poll has been a key demand amongst protesters following the rest of former president patrick castillo. for the same days of violence as castillo, has him was impeached and imprisoned. this month, congress had been resisting calls to move out the vote from 2026, but the current present dina blew. i take them to, we can fit them. my son has joins us live from lima so well, this is a win for the president. how did congress vote on this? how was the split? well, that's right laura. it wasn't. it was a victory for dina. a lot of there for sure, but it is a victory. i think for most of the people in the country, 83 percent of for wins who wanted to who are demanding for early elections. now the

volt was way much more than what it was expected because we weren't sure if there they would able would be able to get the 87 volts needed to pass this. at 90 lawmakers voted in favor 30 voted against them there was will leave one abstention. but this is not the end laura, because this is the 1st vote and there needs to be a ratification. meaning that in perhaps by the end of february or early march, they have to vote again to ratify that indeed, electrons will be held in 2024. their lawmakers have approved this, but i think the conditions are that they will not talk about a constitutional assembly, which is what the left wing parties want. and exactly what that of right wing

parties would not vote for. in any circumstance, we were speaking with one of the congressmen who just came out of the vote. and he said that he hoped that this is the message that comes across that lawmakers want to listen to what peruvians are demanding and they have voted in favor. but like i say it is not the end it we will have to see what happens in about a month or perhaps 2 months from now. laura. okay, so that's on the political side. on the other side, casias family being offered a political asylum in mexico. do we know what's happening them well, what we know is that as they've been, they've been granted asylum. the wife of president, former for steven cassey olivia body this on her 2 children, were allowed to go and walk in the embassy. the bus has been declared persona non grata by the foreign ministry here,

but what the foreign minister of mexico a set today's that they were negotiating safe passage for the family of castillo. although there was no confirmation yet that they indeed wanted to leave the country . and go to mexico. so for now, what we know is that the family is still at the embassy. and we don't know if they will indeed decide to leave the country in the coming days. ok, my son just brings the very latest lines from lima. thanks very much, man. no, i've got a song taliban rulers 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. has said a change in policy on women's education is needed before it can consider formerly recognizing the taliban government. husband jelly lives a former deputy minister of women's affairs in afghanistan. she's is expanding

virtual education resources is one way to resist the taliban. the policies? oh, the asking women who had dealt with them for the last 20 years and spoke with them . we knew its coming because we never believed in the idea that taliban could ever be moderate or they had been changed. for the sake of the negotiations with us. i would say we need to divide our attention on our resources into 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 exist on the platform, the new resource that exists. and we just need to expand the paternity for african women who all we do have the foundation to continue. i think that's one thing that i would stress on, but the, at the same time as for, as the regime in 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 from inside of guns and with the support of africans out, we did have the foundation there. we did have the legal framework, the policy that government supported was all with all its imperfections, that 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 fronts 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. cilla had hair on al jazeera germany, hans precious. also facts looted in the 19th century, back to nigeria. ah

hello there. let's look to east asia. and when she weather continues to cause issues in japan, that's off the relentless, heavy, snow, affecting northern and western areas, bringing traffic to a standstill and affecting public transport. now there is a brief pause. we what mild weather coming in, picking up the temperature in tokyo, 12 degrees on wednesday, but behind it we have another front that's going to bring wintery wherever across the north, east of china, and into the korean peninsula. before it sweeps into japan, it's set to drop temperatures dramatically install. it will continue to do the same as it works its way further east bringing some of that heavier snow in particular, western areas of han shoot. now it is looking much clear across the north of china, down to the east coast shanghai things sunshine at 6 degrees celsius. and that

continues as we had to the southern coast. that's not the same as we had farther south of this to the malay peninsula. you can see those shower clouds continue to bring exceptional amounts of rain to the malay peninsula. we've already seen some flooding in the northeast and that trend is set to continue. thanks to the north east mon soon it's gonna bring heavy rain across parts of the philippines where this via flood threat remains across central areas that show them. ah, tens of thousands of children were born in 2 will lived under the iso regime in iraq and syria. now many are encamped either all funds or with them. widowed mothers rejected by their own communities. she could do you think people are going to welcome them after that? of course, milt, an emmy award winning documentary, his that chilling and traumatic story of the children throw stones at me erects

last generation on al jazeera lou. ah, again, you're watching out, is there a reminder of our top stories this? our ukrainian president of them is lensky is expected to visit washington dc on wednesday. that would be his 1st trip overseas since the russian invasion in february comes off as lensky met troops on the front line back. bruce congress has voted in favor of a plan to bring elections for to 2024. 90 poll is a key demand amongst processes crew, seen days of bonnets since former press, the petro casea was impeached and imprisoned. this month. and i've gone to sans

taliban rulers have banned all female students from attending universities. the latest government order cracking down on women's rights takes effect immediately. oh, jubilant crowds have packed central one as our as to celebrate the return of argentine as world champion football squad. but the huge turn up forced the team to trade, their bus prayed for a helicopter tore, and in some parts of the city, there are not scenes of violence. emerging is a live pictures of right. please. crashing with a few angry fans. the government declared tuesday a national holiday to celebrate sundays world camp when argentina beat france on penalties and what's considered to be one of the best finals ever wanna kiana kia was at the parade. infinistar as 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 with a very, very good. so what they did was a, 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. the white house has asked the supreme court to end the controversial trump era immigration policy. the rule known as title 42 was impatient. 2020 was due to expire. on wednesday. it allows the government to use coven 19 protocols to block migrants, and she 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 place. as your castro has moved from el paso, texas, the u. s. has just experienced the record breaking number of people encountering border patrol as they try to cross into the us more than 2000000 for the 1st time in one year. and here in el paso, it's sort of an episode center there, about $10000.00 migrants being released to el paso weekly. and we're seeing some of

those people here. these are the asylum seekers, their families from venezuela, from nicaragua, from ecuador as well. and they have turned themselves in at the border to us order agent. and they were released here temporarily as we wait for their a silent 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 help 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, which is still in place and will be in an 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 it. this water policy will 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 process the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion near the afghan capital has risen to at least 96 of those more were injured. and saturday blast happened when a truck transporting fuel overturned in a tunnel along the mountainous salon. paul d. blogs is enough gun journalist. he says the accident also calls made a traffic disruption on a key route. more important high lead of a gun that connects the central carbon capital cobbler to entire gnawed and prevented of a gun is done. it is of very high import is not only for the passengers to pass from college to northern provinces and back from the district to the capital

commerce. but ours is a very good friend. the way this, the goods from, from central asia that are coming through hire yet come through bout to massage and, and to call the capital and even to the south and eastern prevention, which is quite important. not only for people, for the family to with it, but also for the, for the economy, for the private and also for the business. they might just the services out of their emergency, attended, or the hospital there by the ministry of public health. and fallen. not only for the victims of the incident, but as well as for the rescue workers. they weren't there to. ready people to get the people out of the tunnel in case what the minister said in case they face any problem you injury. so there are the metrics, there are the medical and the health workers to help them indeed. so the total weight on the risk operation is still going on. ready way on the tunnel is blocked,

it's blocked. when the tunnel is blocked, it means the entire pollen gets blog because that that is the main road. so cars are still not allowed to pass through the tunnel on the district and the people who are lucky allowed. but not the cause. back on security forces say they've killed 33 taliban fighters who took hostages at a detention center. troops storm the facility in the northwest of the country where gunman has been holding several people since sunday. efforts to negotiate with the hostage takers failed to back on the soldiers were killed in the operation. come on to move from lombard. this incident took place on sunday, so that 3 days away, the hot stake were actually head the detention center of the county department. over the ball were dead in general, gators then took them hot stage, and b h. d. a compound. after that, the government decided to guard internet length and also off the residence of the

can to maintain area where this is situated. not to come out of the how did, because they would have fear that these people may i tag this at the military then car doors of the area. they were intense negotiations to try and find a peaceful settlement that failed an earlier today, the $30.00 bond budget on one of the leaders issued a statement are going to be over inside the compound, not to shut down by this afternoon. short rang out day will bloom your black smoke billiard come bound. the military began to corporations with the special forces and secured the come bound. it's always the standard operating procedure. the clean up or mob. all petition is going on. get your check for any booby traps or any of the fight dead. who may still be holding up and hiding inside that come on. a 97 year

old woman has been convicted for nazi war crimes. and what could be one of the japanese last holocaust trials and god freshness of a secretary at that hope the concentration camp in poland between 1943 and 45. dominic cane report e m god softener is a frail, old woman whose elderly years have been spent in a nursing home, but whose late teenage years was spent working for the commandant of the shutoff concentration camp. as his secretary, she would type out orders for the miss treatment and then eventual murder of many thousands of people. and then was the unauthorized of us had seriously. and we had to prove what she wrote. we analyzed all the documents which still exist from the concentration camp, and we searched for his signature and her initials, which was an incredible amount of work. he can't compare that to the trials against concentration camp watch guards. in her closing statement before the verdict thought anna had said she was sorry for all that had happened to shoot off,

and that she regretted having been there at the time. in the nearly 6 years of its existence, the camp passed as many as 110000 prisoners in atrocious conditions. it's estimated more than half of them died there either through starvation, brutal working conditions or deliberate killing. after the war polish authorities prosecuted, some of those had worked at stuart off 5 of the women guards they captured, were convicted and executed by contrast for many years. neither east nor west german authorities pursued many who'd worked at the camp through the courts. only in the last few years as that changed with trials like this one does goody, is not good on guy provides. the court has decided that through her work as a short hand typist at the concentration camp, the accused knowingly and willingly supported the cruel death of more than 10500 prisoners through guessing through the inhumane conditions at the camp. through

transfers to the ashwood spoken, our concentration camp and through death marches, shoot off was just one camp. among the many in the nazi system is death. toll was dwarfed by that of outfits and of treblinka. and yet by bringing him god, faulkner to justice. modern prosecutors have done what generations of postwar predecessors so often failed to do, actively pursue those who had a hand in the machinery of mass murder. dominant came al jazeera berlin, joanie's farmer says, handed a, the more than 20 cultural artifacts known as the ben in. bronze is 2 nigerian items or a collection of sculptures and plaques that were looted from what was then the kingdom of benning. in 18. 40 in 1997. the return follows a deal made earlier this year. godfrey ac at all is o historian and co author of the been in read book. he says the hand over is a significant step for the german government swap to make this move.

it's machine was with action because sometime in april, last year, there is, there was the resolution by the general government being the 1st country to accept that ownership i just got to read about this should be given to society of origin. and now they are also taking the lead to i've read on the largest number so far, so i, we don't 20 so and this property for us both richer on i'm, it's object of got to read the mutation. and again we, we, we see this object as very dear to us as the people because they were made by our ancestors. they are part of our civilization and a part of our living culture because these objects are functional within the safety of the been people. ah.