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d. c. after receiving unwavering support from the u. s. government. ah, i'm sammy's i dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up with the battle fullback remote intent street fighting is russian troops continued their assault to seize the ukrainian city. fears of a new spike of cabbage 19 across china. the world health organization urges bay ging to give more information and the u. s. price is faults being called a once in a generation winter storm. ah, russia is accusing the white house of fighting and indirect war,

saying the u. s. is using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own. the comment follows a visit by the ukranian president to washington d. c. it was vladimir savanski his 1st overseas trip. since russian troops invaded nearly a year ago, he address congress sang the supply of military aid was an investment in global security in democracy. on the ground rushes far from giving up the defense minister . sir j. sugar's, been visiting military units in ukraine. the foreign ministry spokesperson also responded accusing ukraine and the u. s. of not wanting to end the war. bidding got warning letter the negotiations. well, you understand, we say negotiations in quotation marks showed that neither ukraine nor the united states as striving for pace, thus simply determined to continue hostilities cell am ha, that has more from moscow. moscow has said clearly today that

all 8th sent to crane by the united states patriot systems or other would be legitimate targets to the russian army. also the personnel that might be deployed with such systems to train or to operate the systems would be also a target for the russian army. we have heard this clearly my, the spokesperson of the kremlin missy put called and also today there was something very important spoken by the chief of. 5 staff of the russian army general didn't get us. the more he said that the united states is actively in getting involved in this conflict through sending ad, supplying more weapons to clean this what moscow has it clearly said it will respond to the more arms being sent by the united states and other european and nate 2 countries to ukraine, that are also another scenario that would be possible. but it's not clear if russia

would resort to such an option that would be launching an attack from the beller bella, russian, a territory for the best that would facilitate the russian army, reaching the city often leave. and thus cutting the main road that supplies weapons to ukraine through poland. dave ross, she's a professor at the national defense university. he explains how the u. s. will aid ukraine. don't think that they'll be an impact immediately of the patriot missiles on some of the more less headline grabbing weapon reach. i think we'll have more of an effect. i mean, what do you craniums really need at this point? is artillery something as mundane as 152 millimeter artillery rounds. they need air defense guns, not missiles to defeat drones. and they need

a sustainable logistics system to move all this stuff up to the front line. all of these are not very glamorous, but they'll have a big, the big impact. the patriot missile on the other hand, i think in the short term will primarily be a morale boost for the ukranian population. the battle for the east and ukrainian city of his continuing nearly 5 months off, the russian troops invaded the please. some of the races, pictures coming out of the city that's in ruins, ukrainian forces of how they ground that tantra that russia could use to advance on other cities. shall stratford has more now from give. mood is undeniably one of the hottest places along that 1300 kilometer front line. it's a city that has been fought for with increasing intensity, i suppose over the last 5 months of this 10 months wall. and it's bad to say that

suddenly in the last month or so, the russians have made very little advance. we know that the fighting is especially a tense in the east of the city. this is a place that is now being called a meat grinder. and that's with reference to that world war will. one bustle is very done with tens of thousands of soldiers were killed. we understand that thousands of ukrainians and russian soldiers have been killed in the battle for back moot, many civilians as well. we also know that there are still surprisingly quite a few civilians in that town. refusing to leave la z, as is usually the case because they have nowhere else to go and they're worried about their properties. but mood is strategically important because it is potentially a gateway to other large cities in the don't it's region the cities of criminals and sloppy answer. but it's, it's fair to say that the situation has come to

a very brutal war of attrition and a stalemate. now the world health organization is urging beijing's provide more details on the spread of co. 19 in china. reco numbers of infections have been reported since the government started easing restrictions, but deaths from cove with 19 have been relatively low since china changed its criteria. it's now only counting those juice in pneumonia or response refining via w choice. very concerned over the evolving situation in china with increasing reports of severe diseases in order to make a comprehensive risk assessment of the situation on the ground. w joe needs more detailed information on visit severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for ice. you support w. j supporting china to focus its efforts on vaccinating people and the highest

risk across the country. and we continue to offer our support for clinical care and protecting its health system. managers are shanghai hospital of told staff to prepare for a surgeon covey. 19 cases of the virus sweeps across china. they said in a social media, post half of the cities 25000000 people could become infected by the end of the year. dr. annalise well, the smith is a professor of emerging infectious diseases that under school of hygiene and tropical medicine, she says, china is prepared for an outbreak, but it's warning. hospitals will probably be overwhelmed. this is clearly the side of a major wave in, in china and, and we'll see a major salami the words that i always like to use off of cases. and it will just swiftly go through the entire country. no country is really prepared for such a search of cases and, and china problem all countries as the best prepared because they are able to

rapidly ramp up building of off of makeshift hospitals and they've done so in the past. so i do think that china will soon, montana system will soon be overwhelmed. a batch and maybe that some kind of knocked out. i needed to to basically safeguard the hospital system about yes, of all countries. i do think china is really well prepared. it will definitely also go outside of china, but you know, we need to remember that travel out of china is still quite low and, and the rest of the world we are, you know, we do have a very high vaccine coverage rates on the chrome is clearly a van that causes less severe disease. so i do think that we may see a slight search in cases. but i don't think it will be the same kind of tsunami that we had in in 2020 of galveston is facing

a shortage of basic goods. as the un warns of famine is imminent. the countries now and the group of winters people are also battling a fuel crisis for their car reports. once, if you have a co is no stranger to the cold on the freezing temperatures are normal in december . thoughts this year people are struggling to find the fuel. they need to stay warm her just in the little knuckle. my goodness that we don't have anything to bend in the winter. there was no, you mentoring a to no proper food to eat, i'm disabled, and can't work. and my kids go in the plastic pep, i and other staff, so that we could ben and keep ourselves, or what is shana was in his family of 9 or among thousands of people in afghanistan who are struggling as cole. and what prices, serge? it's the 2nd winter afghans have spent under the taliban since at retook power. in the spring of 2021 with billions of dollars of the countries cash reserves frozen

by the us. the government is short of money and struggling to provide basic services. the global energy crunch is also making life harder and dizzy and full price increase by about $46.00 per ton. most of the buyers coming by only up to 20 kilos of cool or would because of the kind of car chip the taliban leadership says it's considering a cap on domestic prices, but it's unclear how much, how to government can offer thousands of people and said conflict drives and floods in the countryside. now face a freezing winter in cabal and other cities. and the united nations, world's food program is warning. the country faces its worst famine in 20 years. for many enough scanner, stan life is looking more than ever like a fight for survival and the taliban promise of a peaceful and prosperous country at best a distant one. friday, a car out to 0. a powerful winter storm is making its way through the us and canada,

bringing with it massive amounts of snow. alex friendly, low temperatures. it's been called a once in a generation event and it's disrupting travel during one of the busiest times of the year. car leg reports for people in parts of the us. this christmas is beginning to look a lot like the coldest in decades. will the 90000000 in at least 37 states have been warned. off severe winter weather. the arctic blast began in the pacific northwest and has swept east, causing temperatures to plunge across the us and canada. the wintry conditions and freezing roads have brought travel chaos and also misery for many stranded at airports at the start of the busiest travel time of the year. checked our flight no 5 this morning and headed to the airport. and then when we got here, we found it was canceled tired, stress hungry. just hopeless,

honestly. about 80 percent of the u. s. is set to experience sub 0 temperatures, including places as far south as texas. the governors of kentucky and north carolina have declared state of emergency and while people in some areas are used to conditions like these many have never seen such extremely cold weather in a long time, i think in my 7 and a half years living in the pacific northwest and and specifically here, one of harry, i don't remember a specific instance where i can remember temperatures quite as low as the storm develops, it's set to become what you asked me to. religious call a bomb sy. clone. that's when a system intensifies rapidly with its central air pressure dropping at least $24.00 mil bars in 24 hours. that would put it in line with a pressure of a category 3 hurricane and bring about blizzards as well as severe thunderstorms

and white out conditions. the once in a generation, when to weather event is threatening to deliver the coldest christmas to the midwest. in nearly 40 years, and it may not be so long until the next one, you are assigned to say climate change is made storms like this increase in frequency and intensity. during the past 70 years, carl egg al jazeera o still had an al jazeera by naming that no said to returns of power the most right when coalition government in israel's history. so kia, says sweden must take concrete steps to address security concerns. ah . hello there. the weather is turned rather unsettled across the middle east,

thanks to a weather system that's pulled its way out of the mediterranean out brought to rain . so the levant was going to continue across a saudi arabia. look at that very heavy rain, thunderstorms likely to affect jetta where we just saw some flooding of the past weeks. it's going to push its way into iraq. we could see up to a 100 millimeters of rain for here. and that could cause some localized flooding. but by the time we get to saturday, you can see it turning into a wintry block in west of iran that's going to stretch up. and if it places like armenia for the south of this much dry, a picture across the gulf states that we may see some cloud moving in as that system shifts its way further east. and as we moved to the north of africa, we still got bits and pieces of that system affecting parts of libya as well as egypt, keeping things a little cooler and the cloud around the wind continues to blow down. we could see some sandstorms from that out west before the wet weather. we have to head to southern africa. we've got a band of very heavy rain stretching from gap. bon all the way to madagascar with

a very heavy falls and funder storms for places like zambia as well as in bob, wy and northern mozambique. that's weather update. ah, with the in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world, whatever the deed was offered to them, they have to sign because they didn't, they didn't get in frank assessments. do you think diplomacy still spends a chance? so i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody tweets, everybody on tick tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have them for a winter is going to be whole there pretty soon. inside story on al jazeera with

ah, or come back here watching al jazeera time to recap, our headlines now. ukraine's friends them involved them is the lensky is returning from the united states after meeting president joe biden. and addressing congress is thompson potent to meet with his counterpart there. the world health organization is urging china to provide more details on the spread of coven 19 in the country. china has not recorded any new coven deaths for a 2nd straight day, but reports indicate bodies have been piling up in crumb at all rims. north america is facing a deep freeze. powerful winter storm is making its way through the u. s. and canada . it's been called a once in a generation event, so really disrupting travel during one of the busiest times of the year. israel's longest serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has secured

a last minute deal to form a new government that now was facing a midnight deadline to arrange a coalition. it follows weeks of tough negotiations with religious and far right. coalition partners from my bride reports from west jerusalem. o 7, ha, ha ha. since his election victory several weeks ago, benjamin netanyahu has been bogged down in tough negotiations to form a new israeli government. the right wing, the could leader was granted a 10 day extension of his mandate to form a government which he has needed yet. it's quite remarkable and a little bit hard to fathom. he won a decisive election victory way back on november. the 1st we knew exactly who the allies would be in his coalition. they ran as a block. i guess he would say it's been really hard. they been driving a really tough bargain. but from the outside, it looks like he projected a bizarre weakness, and this is made for a very complicated process. netanyahu has formed an alliance with leaders who until

now have been considered under fringes. if the political spectrum limit like him up and give this convicted of supporting a terrorist organization and racist incitement, he will become police minister with expanded powers to control the force that's allowed. smoke rates will be given ministerial responsibility for the illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. he has long lobbied for their expansion as well as control over palestinian construction and area dairy, who is still serving a suspended sentence, the tax fraud and who needed a change in the law to allow him to become minister. the question for many is whether netanyahu can keep these partners in check. i mean, the, what he said is, trust me on running the shell here. but if you look at the way he's negotiated this coalition, they've certainly had, they've made their influence felt, and you have to assume that will continue to be the case. i made fears that already

combustible tension could flare out of control. palestinian seemed to be expecting the worst with no one expecting this government to follow any path towards peace. critics, the coalition speculate that some of its more hard line members might welcome a violent palestinian response to justify further crackdowns on the occupied west bank and gaza. what's clear is with the unprecedented makeup of this government, israeli politics entering you and uncharted territory. robert bride al jazeera west teresa. a funeral has been held for a 23 year old palestinian man killed in an israeli re them the occupied westbank had happened while his ready troops rated the city of nobliss to schools. israeli settlers on the incursion of a religious site. madame male was from the nearby town of to us. the number of palestinians killed by israel has risen to 224 so far this year. that is the

highest since 2006 christmas may be just around the corner, but it seems us consumers may have had roadblock inflation reach right cold levels this year on interest rates of also climbed. now some shoppers are having to put on the brakes. tristan salumi explains tis the season to buy gifts and rising prices are on many shoppers mines. inflation may be slowing in the united states, but prices are still way up over last year. and holiday sales are lagging. right, so i definitely have noticed my price hikes is here, things are a lot more expensive than they typically are bills like it's a holiday. so i don't want to short change anyone, but you know things are more expensive noticeably in an effort to reduce inflation to 2 percent. the fed has been raising interest rates from near 0 in march to just under 4 and a half percent by year's end. and your own power made clear recently he wasn't

ready to stop the increases just yet. and i don't think any one knows whether we're going to have a recession or not. and if we do, whether it's going to be a deep one or not, it's just, it's not knowable. still, it's not all bad news. wages for the lowest earners have gone up considerably and the labor market remains strong. you're somebody who's stalking that milk in the grocery store. you're noticing your wages have risen more in the past 3 years. then in the past 20 years, and your chance of getting a job or quitting your job, if you don't like it and getting a better one are better than they've been in one of your 25 years. of course, it's not just holiday presents that have gotten more expensive, it's things like rent and mortgage rates and services like hair cuts. so some economists are worried that raising interest rates may do more harm than good. last week, the bank of england and the european central bank followed the fed raising rates by half a percentage point to 3 and a half percent, and 2 and

a half percent. but higher interest rates could discourage businesses from making new investments. it's already making it harder for poor countries, also dealing with inflation to payback loans. luanne says 50 poor countries are at risk of defaulting. most of the old sports companies find themselves on what to what could call them the role, steadying down the abyss of insolvency and the faults these yet alone, their depths service payments skyrocketed said the 5, but since the largest increase in decades and with credit card debt rising this holiday season, many family se santa will have to tighten his belt. we went in with like expectations. they were gonna get this a good listener where we went in. the prices have gone up were now right now we're just hold off. they to will feel the pinch of higher interest rates in the new year . kristin, silly me al jazeera new york. how took care of foreign minister says sweden hasn't

taken any concrete steps to address it. security concerns? my flew tow shallow, held a news conference with his swedish counterpart on thursday. charles shaw, lucille stockholm, has failed to extradite people with links to terrorism. sweden wants to care to approve its bid to join the nato security alliance. fiji has mobilized its military to help maintain security after disputes about the general election last week. concerns over ethnic tensions growing after the poles delivered a hung parliament. a coalition of 3 parties says it has a majority. a prime minister, frank binding mariama as long conceded defeat. lady 65000 people are living in flood relief centers in malaysia after flood waters hit large parts of the ne foreign slurry reports from kellen tan state. most people evacuate at this village when flood waters started rising earlier this week. the only way to get

around now is by boat, muhammad for yourself, and his family are among the few who decided to stay by your valet, by you, it's a bit difficult to move. it's not as comfortable because the relief centers are more crowded and my disability only to depend on someone to help me move around or continue to stay here. as long as it's safe to do so silly that will do her leg with the monsoon season. in malaysia lasts from november to february, and flooding has become more common some have modified their homes to deal with the threat. mohammed rose d, vinny bry him raised the height of the floors in some rooms by nearly 30 centimeters to keep his belongings dry. but that didn't stop him worrying when water started to rise on monday. the longer the rain was very heavy and i was concerned because i remember how bad things got in 2014 that he has flood

was one of the worst in living memory. at its height, more than 200000 people were forced from their homes. official say the level of rain fall recorded in some parts of the state on sunday was the highest since 1967. it looks like we're in the middle of a lake. there's water all around us and in some parts it's more than 2 meters deep . but this was once a paddy field and the rice was harvested before the floods came. the vegetable gardens have been destroyed. no official estimate of the damage the flood waters have caused has yet been released. but when they receive many here will have to slowly replace and rebuild what they've lost. florence li, al jazeera to but cool. and then state alaysia. iraq spent most of this year in political deadlock with no government wide spread demonstrations and calls for

change. but in october, a new government was sworn in same problems though, remain economic reform by the services more jobs, the most common demands who my mood abdougla had, has more from baghdad on the year. that was this is ellen wooten, a, b st. a landmark in baghdad. the city center, it's a cultural hob and a space for artists and activists to shape opinions these days. the conversations are often about iraq's latest political developments model on how that happened. we've learned from this years incidence that competition with the state is not the only option to see change. we are now regrouping with other political activists to create a unified voice based on national interest. unfortunately, all in rest prevailed through the year was based on partisan interest. it's a conflict overpower that conflict was between major she our political parties, following the elections in 2021. it led to the suspension of parliamentary process

and degrade the formation of a new government in june politicians affiliated with influential she, our leader looked at a saw that quit when the rival parties backed by iran, nominated mum mac a year or so. danny as prime minister, so the supporters took to streets. 6 ha, well, in august, thousands team had been that's heavily fortified green soon and occupied, the parliament building, holding sit in that lasted weeks. the conflict piqued when crowd stormed the presidential palace. dozens of people were killed as they were driven out of the compound by security forces. other protest must teach it through the year. holes for political and economic reform. order was finally restored when the

sudanese government took office in october. scenes like this give the impression of normality, but the same issues weigh heavy on iraqis. after that one year political deadlock, the finally have a government. but economic challenges, and under language, political rivalries, most crucial to ensuring a stability remain unresolved and many are skeptical that anything will change under the new administration. then who are daisy? while i, i, every government breaks its promises with the people. life has become so difficult . unemployment is exacerbating at all. prices are getting higher, nepotism and corruption. a deeply rooted in state institutions. we have no hope that a change will happen any time soon. the world food program, sad poverty levels, reach at nearly 32 percent in 2020. even though iraq is the 2nd largest producer of

crude oil, of the saudi arabia in the opec group of oil producing countries, either for park or the past 3 years, many development projects were aborted because of political unrest. now the government and parliament need to pass a budget for the upcoming year as soon as possible that would help mitigate current economic difficulties because the new year's budget is estimated around $200000000000.00. homer in october authorities revealed billions of dollars had been in business from a state farms and promised to recover the money. many iraqis hope it is the beginning of the end of government corruption. mod abdougla had eligible beaudet. ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now jazeera now you cry. impressive. invalid amid zalinski is on his way back.