i love right, very long time. abandoned as a child by his own cristella is nothing of the early life in the republic of congo . after 40 years living in switzerland, cristella follows a fascinating paper trail that leads from his adopted home to the country of his birth and the most unexpected re union witness. in earlier on al jazeera, we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report, we brave bullets and bomb and we always include the views from all sites. ah, let me pretend, dismisses the us patriot promised to ukraine,

saying the defense system is old, and an antidote would be found. ah, lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live from london was coming up with inside the battle for back loot increasingly intense fighting on the new ukrainian frontline, the once in a generation storm about to smash the u. s. o goes to say it could become a bomb psy code. and a crypto currency entrepreneur accused a fraud of epic proportions is freed on a quarter of a $1000000000.00 fail. ah, let me let skis one day washington trip which drew fresh pledges of us support for ukraine tooting, the patriot missile defense system has drawn

a swift response from russia. president vladimir putin says the fighting has become a proxy war with a u. s. using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own, and he dismissed the patriot system as quite old, insisting russia would find an antidote to the missiles. the russian military also released images of defense mister sag assure ago, visiting troops on what it said was the front line. although no, no cation was given all the while a fighting continues back. moot is the latest focus with reports, thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle for the eastern city. zelinski met his parish county andre judah in poland on thursday, on his way back to ukraine. leaders discussed humanitarian issues and strengthening bilateral relations, including ukraine's defense capabilities. as one of ukraine's neighbors, poland has been one of its staunchest allies in the war. but with them as social emotionalism, we're coming back from washington. we're coming back with good results. the ones

that will really help us. but the victory will be ours. glory to every warrior of ours. glory to every one who protects our country. we bring to ukraine to don bass to pack mertz and the south decisions which our defense forces awaited to day in a special format one on one we discussed with dude or our corporation. i told him what i heard in the us, which was about our strategic vision of the upcoming year, were getting ready were strengthening our joint forces, nauseous, b, no articles. it's a pretty good us look regarding patriot marseilles. it's a relatively old system. it doesn't work as well as our s 300. no, none the less, those were confronting our say this as a defense of weapon as well. ok, but they will always be an antidote. so the people who are doing this are doing it in vain. it's just prolonging in the conflict that's all had your, in your conflict. so harder has more from moscow. moscow has said clearly today

that all 8 sent to ukraine 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 by the spokesperson of the kremlin misty put cold. and also today there was something very important spoken by the chief of. 5 staff of the russian army general didn't get us him off. he said that the united states is active, the 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 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 believe been russian a territory through breast that would facilitate the russian army, reaching the city often leave and thus cutting the main road that supplies weapons to ukraine through poland. you gray as if your back mode continues to be the center of fighting with russia focusing its attacks. the ukrainian forces have held the ground in the territory that russia could use to advance on other cities creating president go to business . kate has previously accused moscow of turning the city into bent ruins. charles stratford has more from keith is undeniably one of the hottest places along that 1300 kilometer front line. it's

a city that has been full 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 a very done where tens of thousands of soldiers were killed. we understand the 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 law g, 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 city of criminals and slob yonce. but it's fair to say that the situation has come to a very brutal war of attrition and a stalemate. melinda herring is the deputy director of the atlantic councils eurasia center. she says, put in strategy in ukraine is faltering and rushes on. a could be planning more attacks on critical infrastructure. i think we know where this is heading. so vladimir putin has opted for the cowardly options since about mid october, and he has no game in ukraine. he can only defend the territory he's taken. so he is going to continue to attack ukraine's infrastructure grid with impunity. and we don't know how many more times the infrastructure grid and you, craig can take these missile garages, there's about 80 to 90 missiles every time there's a big garage and experts say maybe 3 to 5 more times. but we simply don't know

that's the strategy. but i do think that there is an expectation in moscow that they need some kind of small wind in order to mobilize. there's an expectation that the russians want to mobilize another $200000.00 troops and try to hit key of again with a spring offensive. the head of a private russian military company known as the wagner group, as dismissed a u. s. claim that it had taken delivery of an armed shipment from north korea. russian. jordan has more from washington. the white house did confirm on thursday that tom north korea did sell a weapons to the a wall near group of which is essentially a private russian military operation, acting on behalf of the government and moscow inside the ukraine. the usaa is a very, very angry about this development. there are plants at the un security council to bring the matter up because it does as represent

a violation of un security council resolutions involving north korea's behavior on the world stage. as well as out trying to bring up new concerns about the behavior of iran, which has also been providing military support, particularly in the form of drones to our russia as it continues its invasion of ukraine. the position here at the state department is that tom, north korea needs to be held to account. but beyond an extensive, our sanctions regime, officials here don't want to get into any more specifics about what else could be done to try to curb the behavior of young young in the saw war. a once in a generation, winter storm is making its way through the us, bringing with it the coldest christmas temperatures and decades. large amounts of snow and life threatening wind chills, a full cost with visit warnings in place for the midwest. the arctic loss and also causing travel house during one of the busiest times of the year had declined the

vote for many wishing for a white christmas. but not like this. a mass of storm is sweeping across the entire us. 75 percent of the population will be living with freezing temperatures by weeks n. yeah. storm frame, cold weather she on the map, the estimated know is 50 degrees. we're say dark red glow 0. her dad vision threatening is really very sure is whether we're here. it's a storm so big, it has a name elliott, the ice apocalypse is coming upon. the top concern, the temperature on wednesday in wyoming. the temperature dropped 17 degrees celsius in just 9 minutes. meteorologist are predicting, the storm will soon get another name because of that. a bomb psych loan, that is when the atmospheric pressure drops at least $24.00 mil bars over 24 hours the same pressure as a category 3 hurricane. and it's going to be wide spread,

sweeping down to the south as far as texas and other states that usually don't experience extreme cold. heavy snowfall will also be an issue with wind gusts expected in some places, as high as 80 kilometers an hour. that can create white out conditions and the potential for people to become trapped in their cars, in temperatures that can be fatal. and it's coming right in the middle of the busiest travel season of the year. thousands of flights have been cancelled, hired sty, hungry, just hopeless. honestly, the national weather service is calling this storm a once in a generation type event for much of america, a white christmas, but the coldest one, it's been in for decades. patty, call haine al jazeera embassies. maggie vesper has more from belvedere illinois. as millions hit the rose for christmas. we are getting down to the 0 our here in the

mid west and out east to get on the road and get to where you want to go. for the holiday as this or makes its way eas, millions across the mid west and beyond. waking up to blizzard warnings, in fact, 8 states and counting now under blizzard warnings from montana and the dakotas out to western new york. also a growing number of governors, including in kentucky, most recently declaring states of emergency, the governor of indiana, hauling in the national guard to help rescue people on the roads just in case they get trapped. this, after we saw examples our lesson, how bad things could get white out conditions from places 2 days ago in washington . also with the dakota's overnight in denver, they've opened the denver policy of that massive arena. welcome and hundreds as a warming shelter just in case there are power outages in that region, which is obviously a big concern here in the midwest and out use as well, which is advising people to sign up for emergency alerts as the system makes its way through and just be prepared to hunker down at home, potentially for days on ads. the founder of the collapsed crypto currency exchange

f t. x is left to new york, caught on bail. sam bank when freed was released on a $250000000.00 bond. while he awaits trial, he was flown out of the bahamas on wednesday night. after agreeing to be extradited . ackman reads accused of carrying out one of the biggest financial frauds in u. s. history and is facing several charges. christian salumi has more from new york. essentially, he's accused of using misusing billions of dollars of assets from f t x customers to fun things like buying real estate and buying naming rights for stadiums and making illegal contributions to political campaigns. what prosecutors have described as crimes of epic proportions. so this was his 1st appearance in court. he was flown from the bahamas, arrested in the book in the bahamas, where he was living. and his crypto exchange was based. we just found out in the

last 24 hours that to former colleagues of bagman freed have pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and money laundering. very similar to the ones that he is facing. they have agreed to help prosecutors in their investigation, no doubt, hoping that they will get a lesser sentence. as a result of that in prosecutors are actually encouraging other f t x employees and former employees to come forward if they have information or know that fraud was being committed. and so that it's very likely that we could see more people charged more charges against bagman freed himself coming. i've been if he is convicted, he could face decades behind bars still to come on out a 0. a stop warning in china with is half the population of shanghai could be infected with coven 19 i next week.

ah, and his public services in the u. k. face pressure one london primary school funds . a unique funding solution? ah. hello we may well say yea, developing tropical cycling, making its way across northern parts of australia over the next couple days. this massive cloud here that is how developing storm tropical low it's likely to become a night cy clone. and if it does become a name site and it will be known as early, so it's just running to the west of darwin over towards the kimberly some very heavy rain coming in across the northern territory. northern parts of her western australia, seeing some very wet weather as well. we can see how expansive that rain is. it pushes all the way across into inland parts of queensland. some wet weather there just sliding over towards new south wales as well for good measure. more the same

as we go on for saturday, the next couple of days could see as much as 50 to a 100 millimeters of right across parts of northern australia. so that will inevitably lead to some flash flooding down towards the south when it's not too bad . here, warming up at last adelaide touching 32 degrees celsius and melbourne. a welcome 29 coming through here. not too bad across new zealand, some showers around, but lottie dry and fire. if a little on the cloudy side penny cloud. meanwhile, across search japan, we are seeing that when she weather continuing, more snow drifting off the sea of japan and the we mel heavy falls come to that western side of honshu. ah, but it was supposed to be a refuse, but south korea's brother's home was allegedly the scene of torture, rape, and even murder. 11 east investigates the crimes, and those settings behind them on odyssey.

ah, al jazeera with blue blue. oh, oh, i tough stories and i was 0. russia has accused the white house of fighting and indirect war, saying the u. s. is using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own comment follows a visit by the president for the maintenance key to washington d. c. i want to generation winter storm is making its way to the us,

bringing with it extremely cold temperatures and massive amounts of snow. the arctic last is also causing travel chaos. during one of the busiest time of the year and a half of the collapse crypto county exchange f t x at the paid and in new york court on fraud charges back to the preach and has been released on a $250000000.00 bond on your weights trial, he was thrown out for the bahamas on wednesday night on 2 agreeing to be extradited . a hospital in shanghai says half of the cities 25000000 population could be infected with current of ours. by the end of next week, china is experiencing a surgeon covered 19 cases after the government began eating restrictions early this month, following a wave of protest, the shanghai did g hospital has told its staff to prepare for a tragic battle that won't help. organization is also expressed concern about the situation in china, and is calling on basing to provide more detailed information on the spread of cases. germany has sent its 1st batch of bio take pfizer covey 19 vaccines to china

. the 1st foreign corona virus vaccine to be delivered to the country vaccines will initially be given to german nationals currently in china. talks are reportedly underway with other european union governments about getting them to citizens of other nations. china so far, insisted on using only domestically produced vaccines for certain population love, $20000.00. around 20000 germans cannot benefits for this for the time being. at the same time, we're trying to ensure that in addition to germany, citizens and national foreigners or so called x portraits can also benefit from such as a physical global health advisor and electric university college london. she says the situation in china could pose problems for the rest of the world is going to be very difficult to combat this title. wave of covet 19 in the wake of what has been really a 3 years of quite severe, cooper restriction,

but some described as draconian, but it did in fact prevent many deaths. and we're seeing sort of the, almost the consequence of that success now because there are many people that will be experiencing who for the 1st time. so i think that there's also an issue here that we could see not, not just myself, but other models predict that over 1000000 people. i could end up dying from cove it as a result of not just this way, but the consequent waves that will emerge from the current outbreak. so it's almost as though, and we're going back to 2020 in china now with just the scale of, of the outbreaks and the strain that is causing on the health care system. despite again, the euro covert policy. so i think that here, the lesson could be to use a mix of back scenes, including fighter m, r n h. they're only just being shipped now. but of course there is, there is such

a huge population. we know that the world now is very global, lied and interconnected, the, the more people that we see this very fast rate of sustain transmission. these are ideal and optimal conditions for virus to mutate and potentially caused further variance and harm elsewhere. tens of thousands of people have been displaced in malaysia as flood waters inundate. large parts of the country's northeast emergency responders are using boats to rescue people and hundreds of release centers have been set up as far as the reports from kaylon town state. more rain is expected, most people evacuated this village when flood waters started rising earlier this week. the only way to get around now is by boat mohammed the use of and his family, among the few who decided to stay by you as i lay by you. it's

a bit difficult to move, it's not as comfortable because the relief centers are more crowded and my disability all need 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 i'll do a 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 deliberate 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 back of the rain was very heavy and i was concerned because i am in the help bad things got in 2014 that years flood was one of the worst in living memory. at its height, more than 200000 people were forced from their home official say the

level of rainfall recorded in some parts of the state on sunday was the highest since 1967. it looks like we're in the middle of the lake as water all around us and in some parts it's more than 2 meters deep. but this was once a paddy field and the rise 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. when they received many here, we'll have to slowly replace and rebuild what they've lost. florence, me, al jazeera to but cool, and then state malaysia. israel's new government is shaping up to be the most right wing administration in the country's history by minister benjamin netanyahu secured a last minute deal to form a coalition on wednesday. the agreement follows weeks of negotiations with religious and far right. partners, members of cabinet have been revealed and some have sparked controversy in yahoo

would appoint parallel schmidt, smart rich as his finance minister. he's an ardent supporter of israeli settlements in occupied palestinian territories, which are illegal under international law. smart churches far right religious zionism group also be given a 2nd post in the defense ministry. it to my been given another auto nationalist leader has been named as national security minister. is, will be, give ben via who was convicted of incitement to racism in 2007 powers over the israeli police. i've a mouse, a religious nationalist known for anti l g b t q views will have a deputy ministerial post with responsibilities of education into now himself is still on trial for charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. he has always maintained his innocence out. there is a senior political analyst. my one machine has more here you have 4 of the stars of this government, right?

you have one guy who was convicted and served prison sentence for tax evasion and other such are a felonies and now he's gone probably will be minister of finance. you have another guy who was bard bard from serving in the is really military and i as early mr. is known for a lot of crimes. he was barred from vision and now he will be the minister of national security. you have this other guy who was in favor of segregation, segregation between jews and palestinians. and now he is going to be in charge of civil administration and occupy territory. and you have the prime minister himself who was indicted on corruption fraud and other charges. and now he's will be serving a firm as prime minister. so you have this coalition, this marriage of convenience between a bunch of corrupt people who the israeli judiciary itself has convicted, has invited. and yet now there would be the rulers,

the ultimate rules of israel. and they will be transforming is the judiciary within israel in a way that they will be in control of the judicial process. that's not a democracy. taliban reportedly arrested 5 women for protesting against the closure of afghan universities to female students. since the announcement on tuesday, women have been turned away and in some instances, physically forced out of education centers. girls had already been banned from secondary schools and from parks and jims, taliban education ministry. it says it implemented the ban because of women not following the countries dress code. a german intelligence officer has been arrested on suspicion of espionage. the man was taken into custody in berlin on wednesday, falling, arrayed at his flat and workplace permanent cane as more from ballad news that a member of staff for the boon does not list. and in the federal intelligence service was arrested, emerged on thursday evening in berlin. but the arrest took place on wednesday. we

know that property belonging to this person arrested has been searched as has the prophecy and the offices of a 2nd person. the authorities investigating this case, so they don't want to go into too much more detail. they want to wait until the attorney general has been able to assemble a case against this particular individual. it is also worth making clear that the federal intelligence service has said that this is the suspect has been arrested for on suspicion of treason that it's a state secret that is involved here. and the heads of the federal intelligence service has said that in russia, he believes that germany is dealing with an actor. his words, which has shown that his unscrupulous and prepared to use violence, the person arrested is now in custody. and clearly v o warranties are building

a case as far as they can, rising cost and increasingly constrained government spending, public services in the u. k. r. intense pressure. the health sector is getting much of the attention, but education too is feeding the strain or challenge has been to a primary school in london to see the unusual solution for a funding process. ah . my, the children of bon croft, primary school be heading the musical st. autumn. ah, kids on vocals, parents handling video and editing with this cover of an 18 pot classic he or the voice by john farnham, they're shooting for that most hallowed of british traditions. topping the charts with a christmas number one single. ah not

for 14 or fame though. they're much more modest aim is to keep their school lights on, and their teachers employed. ah, i've been a teacher since the late ninety's. ah, this is the worst i've ever known it. bon crosshead says the school is in a huge financial black hole and it's not alone. it's absolutely country light. and i think if you spoke to any had teacher in the country, they would say that and their school has been really badly hit by this earlier in the year, teachers wages went up, but the government did not give schools the money to pay for this, leaving them with serious budget deficits bancroft hopes they can raise enough money to buy solar panels for the roof. cutting soaring energy bills might mean the school won't have to make staff redundancy in a year or 2, the teaching assistants that vulnerable and special needs children rely on for support. despite having fun with the video, the situation has left parents to sponsored. i'm really angry and you know,

our children they, they, you know, say like our children on the future really we need to invest in them. it's a bigger home is affecting schools everywhere. and annette is very, very ring for the future of education in the whole country. you're the lazy. oh, meghan noise in ne coke. oh mums. things in. okay, thank you. months everyday, lima layer, any patches, devlinson and i basically knew just was i give you said he got another and he knew an old one practice the christmas number one would of course be a fantastic present for the kids and the parents of this school. but a better one would be the funding they need. indeed the funding that every cash strapped school across this country needs and isn't receiving at the moment. very challenge al jazeera london.