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ukrainian soldiers welcome us, pledges of more help not but russia's president blasts the patriot missile system as old. the battle for buck moot reports, thousands of soldiers on both sides had been killed as the fighting reaches a stalemate. ah, i'm how much i'm doing this is al, does your alive from door ha. also coming up the u. s. braces for what's called a bomb cyclone. it's facing a white christmas that could be the coldest in decades and flooding right on their doorstep. thousands of people are forced from their homes in ne, malaysia. ah bellotta miss zalinski is one day trip to the u. s. is being held as a success by ukrainians. but russia says pleasures of support, including the patriot missile defense system are only fueling conflict. president

vladimir putin says the fighting in ukraine has become a proxy war with the u. s. using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own. and he dismisses the patriot system as quite old, insisting russia will find an antidote to it. defense minister sergey show you visited troops on what the russian military says was the front line, although no location was given. all the wild, the fighting continues. bahamas is the latest focus with reports. thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle for the eastern city. zelinski met his polish counterpart on j duda on his way back to ukraine. the poles have been one of keeps staunchest allies separately. zalinski has been invited to brussels for ukraine, e u summit in february over them. his social emotional has looked at. we're coming back from washington. we're coming back with good results. the ones that will really help us determine. the victory will be ours. glory to every warrior of ours . glory to everyone who protects our country. we bring ukraine to dumbass,

to pock mertz and the south decisions which our defense courses awaited so little to day in a special format one on one we discussed with dude or our corp you. i told him what i heard in the u. s. which was about after teaching vision of the upcoming year, were getting ready. we strengthen our joint forces, nash's law, our focus is a bit through that with us. regarding patriot missiles, it's a relatively old system. it doesn't work as well as our s 300. no. nonetheless, those who are confronting us say this as a defense of weapon. 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 you in your country. sam holler has more from moscow. moscow has said clearly today to all aids 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 these systems would be also a target for the russian army. we have heard this clearly my, the spokesperson of the kremlin missy post school. and also today, there was something very important spoken by the chief of staff of the russian army general and 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 ukraine. this what moscow has clearly said it will respond to the more on 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 territory. so best that would facilitate the

russian army, reaching the city often leave. and thus cutting the main road that supplies weapons to ukraine through a pole in the u. s. congress has cleared the biggest defense budget to date, which includes support for ukraine and taiwan. and one of her last acts, a speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi signed the $885000000000.00 bill. it's about $45000000000.00 more than president joe biden recommended. it now goes to his desk for final approval. the budget includes a 4.6 percent pay increase from military personnel. it is a remarkable piece of legislation inspired by president landscape moving words to the house chamber. the congress remains committed to defending liberty and democracy here and around the world on the ground in ukraine. the city of buck mode continues to be the center of fighting with russia focusing its attacks there.

the so far ukrainian forces have held their ground in a territory that russia could use to advance. on other cities, president lensky has accused moscow of turning the city into burnt ruins. charles stratford is monitoring the fighting from keith. buck 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 war. 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. one battle is 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 la z, as is usually the case because they have nowhere else to go and they're worried about their properties. but the mood is strategically important because it is, it takes a gateway to other large cities in the don't, it's region the cities of cremmit, sourced and sloppy ads. but it's, it's fair to say that the situation has come to a very brutal war of attrition and a stalemate. rushes, his talks on the security of ukraine's appreciate nuclear power plant will continue following a meeting with the head of the winds. nuclear watchdog raphael grossi once a safe zone around the russian occupied facility. it's europe's largest nuclear power plant. it has repeatedly come under shelling since being captured by russian

troops in march, raising fears of a disaster. russia and ukraine, blame each other for targeting the facility. a severe winter storm is sweeping across the us. the snow and extremely cold weather. coincide with the start of the holiday travel season, practical haine has the latest for many wishing for a white christmas, but not like this. a massive storm is sweeping across the entire us. 75 percent of the population will be living with freezing temperatures by weeks at the storm. extreme, cold weather you can see on the map the estimated area, you know, as low as 50 degrees, where it said dark red hello, 0 danish and threatening. this is really a very serious weather alert here. it's a storm so big. it has a name elliott, the ice apocalypse has coming upon us. the talk 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 mill bars over 24 hours . the same pressure as a category 3 hurricane. and it's going to be widespread, 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 canceled, tired, hungry, just hopeless, honestly, the national weather service is calling this storm a once in a generation type of event for much of america, a white christmas,

but the coldest one, it's been in for decades. patty call hain al jazeera and nbc is maggie vesper, has more from belvedere illinois. we're 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 midwest 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 when the dakotas overnight. in denver, they've opened the denver policy of that massive arena. welcome in 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 used as well. officials 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 end. meanwhile, in malaysia, nearly 65000 people are living in relief centers after flood waters hit large parts of the northeast. florence louis reports from kellen tom state. most people evacuated this village when flood waters started rising earlier this week. the only way to get around now is by boat mohammed yourself 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. i'll need to depend on someone to help me move around. a continued stay here, as long as it's safe to do so silly that will do a leg wooded goof. 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, billy brought 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. we landed on the rain was very heavy and i was concerned because i am in the help 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 home 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 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. but when they receive many here will have to slowly replace and rebuild what they've lost. florence li, al jazeera too, but cool. and then state alaysia still had on al jazeera health workers in china's most populous city. sound the alarm over a potential avalanche of corona virus cases plus, taking the shine off christmas are rising. prices are dampening, seasonal cheer, poor american consumers. ah

hell i will start by taking a look at that nasty winter weather making its way across north america. lots of cloud sharing up here and behind our cold fronts. just this tongue of very cold air which is plans from the arctic ride out of canada. right across the plains and will continue to dig its way further southwards. as we go through the next couple of days they go, you can see the cold air, the purple showing up, well below freezing minus 24 there. for calgary on places, at least it is a short lived bitterly cold spell with a driving wind though it is gonna remain bitterly cold as it go through the next couple days, but less so by the time we come to where sas day new york goes from 13 celsius plus 13 to round minus 5, the top temperature recovering to minus 3. by the time we come to sundays, a fair bit of snow in the forecast, of course, driving snow blizzard conditions, white out conditions around the lakes, around the northeast of the u. s. 3 new england, central and eastern parts of canada, but for many it's going to be cold, crisp, sparkling sunshine, coming through that the blue skies. but boy, will it be cold,

more snow up towards the northwest as well, more heavy rain coming back into a good part of what west and canada drifting down across sir, the far north west of the u. s. as i said, for most it is going to be dry, but cold. ah. with lou.

ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this our a severe winter storm has hit the united states. the national weather service is calling at the coldest in for decades. snow and freezing temperatures are disrupting christmas holiday travel for millions. russian president vladimir putin has accused the white house of fighting a proxy war, saying the u. s. is using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own. it follows a visit to washington by ukraine's president followed. amir zalinski. fighting continues to rage in buck moved in eastern ukraine. ukrainian forces have held their ground and territory. russia could use to advance on other cities. president zalinski is accused moscow turning the city into burnt ruins. the u. s. secretary

of state is warning winter in ukraine will be tough. antony blinkin was giving an end of the year address in washington d. c. he says it's crucial. the u. s. maintained support for ukrainians. we know that his huff winner lies ahead for ukrainians as president putin pursues his new strategy of trying to freeze ukrainian men, women, and children. the elderly to death were working with the g 7, another allies and partners to repair, to replace and defend ukraine's energy infrastructure, including bolstering its advanced air defense through precision systems like patriot missile battery that president biden announced yesterday. we are with ukraine for as long as it takes the head of a private russian military company, known as the wagner group, has dismissed a u. s. claim that it's received an armed shipment from north korea. rosalind 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 very, very angry about this development. there are plants at the un security council to bring the matter up because it doesn't 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 us 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 pyongyang. in this, a war,

an officer in germany's intelligence office has been arrested on suspicion of spying for russia. german authorities had been warning of potential espionage because of the kremlin stand off with the west over ukraine. dominic cane has the latest news that a member of staff full, the buddhist national needs. 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, sicily 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 services said that the system suspect has been arrested on suspicion of treason that it's

a state secret that is involved here. and the head 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 the authorities are building a case as far as they can. turkey is foreign minister says sweden hasn't taken any concrete steps to address its security concerns. metal of travel shola held a news conference with his swedish counterpart on thursday. joshua says stockholm has failed to extradite people with links to terrorism, sweden, once turkey to approve its bid to join nato peacock. i used to suck the b is shasta, they have extradited a person affiliated with p, k. k to our country. already these are steps taken in the right way. however, there are no concrete developments on certain subjects, particularly on extra dining terror linked individuals and freezing terror related

assets wasn't allowed that the suite swedish police authority and v security service give priority to operational cooperation. following this agreement and peak a k, maybe is not a great threat to sweden, but it is definitely a fretful took ear, and that is something which we take very seriously from the swedish government. a hospital in china's biggest city says half the population of 25000000 could be infected with cobit 19 by the end of next week. china is seeing a surgeon cases after the government began easing restrictions this month. following a wave of protests, the shanghai de g hospital has told its staff to prepare for a tragic battle. the world health organization says it's concerned about china. it's calling on begging to provide more detailed information on the spread of cases . china is imported foreign made cove 19 vaccines for the 1st time, the batch of via tech pfizer jabs from germany will be for use on german nationals

. aging has so far insisted on using its own vaccines. utilize 20000 m. around 20000 germans. can our benefits for this, for the time being at the same time, we're trying to ensure that in addition to journal citizens and nationals foreigners or so called expatriates, can also benefit from such a step asana. pisec is a global health advisor and a lecturer at the school of pharmacy at university college london. she says, china is vulnerable to a major outbreak. there is an immunity gap due to the 0 coven policy, which means that the majority of the population has not yet been exposed. and we do have an elderly population that been backing hesitant and it's been difficult to get the home grown vaccine available to this population. so those 2 factors mean that over 60 percent of the population can be hit in the next 90 days. and it's going to be very difficult to combat the tidal wave of covet 19 in the

wake of what has been really a 3 years of quite severe cubic restrictions that some described as draconian. but it did in fact prevent many debts. and we're seeing sort of the, almost the consequence of that success now because there are many people that will be experiencing who would 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 a 1000000 people i could end of died from covered as a result of not just this way. but the consequent waves that will emerge from the current outbreak. the taliban have reportedly arrested 5 women for protesting against the closure of african universities to female students. since the band was announced this week, women have been turned away or physically forced off campuses. the taliban education ministry says it was imposed because female students have not followed

its interpretation of the islamic dress code. girls are already banned from secondary schools. parks and gems claim the bomb. and then the taliban came to day . they beat house and kicked us out of the training center. i'm said that you no longer had the right to study more. we had a very bad situation. the girls here they've lost this perez. israel's new government is shaping up to be the most right wing in the nation's history. prime minister benjamin ment, netanyahu secured a last minute deal to form a coalition on wednesday. the agreement follows weeks of negotiations with religious and far right partners that in yahoo's alliance, one last month's election, which was israel's 5th in 4 years. he still fighting bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges, which he denies. let's just take a look at who'll be in the new government. basil l smart rich will be finance minister. he's a big supporter of israeli settlements and occupied palestinian territories, which are illegal under international law. his far right religious zionism group will also get a post in the defense ministry. it's a mar,

been via another ultra nationalist leader, will be national security minister. he was convicted of incitement to racism in 2007, avi miles. a religious nationalist known for anti l g b t q views will have a deputy ministerial post with responsibilities over education. that's in yellow m . c himself is still on trial for charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. he's always maintained his innocence. a 0 senior political analyst, matawan bushera 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 felonies. and now he's gone. probably wouldn't be minister of finance. you have another guy who was barred, bards from serving in these really military and i is early, mid threes is known for a lot of crimes. he was born from visited men, 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 bound to be in charge of civil administration and occupy territory. and you have the prime minister himself, who was indicted on corruption fraud than other charges. and now he is, will be serving a 5th them as prime minister. so you have this coalition, this marriage of convenience between a bunch of corrupt people who the is rainy. judiciary itself has convicted, has indicted. and yet now they would be the rulers, the ultimate rules of israel, and they will be transforming that judiciary within israel in a way that they will be in control of that judicial process. that's not a democracy. police in fiji, have called in the military to help maintain law and order. after last week's inconclusive general election. the police commissioner says he's concerned there could be racial violence between the indigenous majority and the ethnic indian

minority parliament still hasn't been recalled so that there can be a new vote on a new prime minister. a coalition of 3 parties have a combined majority and have agreed on the city of any rem boca as prime minister, but incumbent frank benny mariama has not conceded defeat the founder of the failed crypto currency exchange f t. x has appeared in the u. s. court after being extradited from the bahamas on fraud charges, prosecutors accused sam bakeman fried, of stealing billions and customer funds to cover losses at his hedge fund. he'll be under house arrest while he awaits trial. with just a few days until christmas, the last minute shopping rushes well underway in the us. but customers are but consumers are feeling the squeeze of rising prices and interest rates and they aren't spending as freely as in previous years. kristen salumi reports from new york. 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. but so i

definitely have noticed the might price hikes this year. things are a lot more expensive than they typically are bills like it's a holiday, so i don't want to show or change anyone, but you know, things are more expensive. notably 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 really, i don't think anyone 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 remain 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 or better than they've been in 20 or 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 haircuts. 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 one could call them to roll, steadying down the abyss of insolvency and the fault. these yet alone dep service payments skyrocketed cit, 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 and were like expectations. i every don't get is a good listener where we went in. the prices have gone up, were like, well, now, right now we're just hold all they to will feel the pinch of higher interest rates in the new year. kristin salumi al jazeera new york. a camera has recorded a meteor zooming across the night sky in the us state of alaska. video from the doorbell camera shows the moment a large fireball brightened the sky early on wednesday morning. the american meteor society says sightings are common in the 1st half of december. you can find much more on our website. the address for that is al jazeera dot com ah.