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ukrainian soldiers welcome us, pledges of more help. but russia's president last, the patriot missile system has uphold the battle for the eastern city of buck. moot reports, thousands of soldiers on both sides have been killed as the fighting reaches a stalemate. ah, i'm huh jim jim, this is al. did you rely 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 northeast malaysia. and a hospital in china's biggest city says half the population of 25000000. could be infected with coven 19 by the end of next week. ah!

bellotta merlin skis, one day trip to the us as being hailed as a success by ukrainians. but russia has pledges 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 showing who visited troops on what the russian military says was the front line, although no location was given. all the while the fighting continues back. moot is the latest focus with reports of thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle for the eastern city. so, and ski met his polish counterpart on j duda on his way back to ukraine. the poles had been one of keith's staunchest allies separately. zalinski has been invited to brussels for a ukraine, e u summit in february. but with them, his social emotional result that 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 every one who protects our country. and we bring ukraine to don bass to pock murtz and the south decisions which our defense courses awaited so little to day in a special format one on one we discussed with the reader, our corp you, i told him what i heard in the us, which was about our strategic vision of the upcoming year were getting ready. we strengthen our joint forces nash's been no, 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 is 300. 0, nonetheless, those who 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 the conflict. that's all that you sell out holder has more from moscow. moscow has said,

clearly today to all aids send to you claimed 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 cove. and also today, there was something very important spoken by b, a chief of 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 ukraine. this what moscow has 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 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 poland on the ground in ukraine. the city of buck, mood 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 is accused moscow of turning the city into burnt ruins. charles stratford is monitoring the fighting from keith. buffalo 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

potentially a gateway to other large cities in the don't it's region the cities of cremmit, sourced 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. russia says talks on the security of ukraine's operation nuclear power plant will continue following a meeting with the head of the us nuclear watchdog. raphael grosse once a safe zone around the russian occupied facility. it's europe's largest nuclear power plant. it is repeatedly come under shelling since being captured by russian troops in march, racing 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 coincides with the start of the holiday travel season. particle 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 kilo 0 days 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 hall haine al jazeera 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 east. 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 out west, 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 coliseum, that massive readouts 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 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. tens of thousands of people are in evacuation centers and malaysia. after heavy monsoon rains caused flooding and large parts of the ne florence louis reports from kelantan state,

most people evacuated this village when flood waters started rising earlier this week. the only way to get around now is by boat mohammad in yourself and his family among the few who decided to stay by yeoman's alley 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. a continued stay here, as long as it's safe to do so silly that will 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, even abraham, raised the height of the floor 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 banker, 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 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 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. 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 ahead on al jazeera out on

bail, the founder of failed crypto currency exchange f t. x awaits trial. after his extradition to the united states, an awe singing in the face of a spinning crisis. how one london primary school is dealing with pressure on public services in the u. k. ah. hello, we have yet more snow in the forecast for japan. i'm afraid it does remain very, very wintry higgs see this massive clamp pulling out of the way. couple of weather systems linked in to that wind still coming in from a north wesley direction, pushing that see effect snow into western parts of japan. and there will be plenty

of it. so temperature, since solar are minus 8 celsius for friday, recovering to minus 2 for saturday. and you can see the snow. yeah. that still keeps on coming. there's more where that came from. so the course at west side of honshu shelter by the mountains took a not too bad top temperature here around 10 degrees celsius. lottie troy, across a good part of china with little on the cool side, getting up to around 800 celsius down across southern parts. as we go on through sunday. meanwhile, for se, asia more driving showers, pushing in on that ne monsoon, the wet weather has pushed a long way further south. you wouldn't expect it, it is easy on the side of the equator. but that's what happened. western parts of borneo, we'll see some really heavy rain risk of flash flooding over the next couple of days. and that pushes in why up into central parts of the philippines went by the to developing system to what i've been cycling, making it's way to southeastern parts of india and much as for lanka. ah,

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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 holiday season, travel for millions. russian president vladimir putin has accused a white house of fighting a proxy war, saying the u. s. is using ukranian soldiers instead of itself. it follows a visit to washington by ukraine's president followed amir zalinski. fighting continues to rage and buck mooted eastern ukraine, ukrainian forces have held their ground and territory. russia could use to advance on other cities. president zalinski has accused moscow of turning the city into berk royce. the u. s. secretary of state, as 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 and other 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. the u. s. claim that it's received an armed shipment from north korea, pyongyang to has denied sending any weapons. rosalyn. jordan has more from washington. the white house did confirm on thursday that tom, north korea did sell 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 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 is also been providing military support, particularly in the form of drones to 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. the u. s. congress has cleared the biggest defense budget to date, which includes support for ukraine and taiwan. in one of her last acts as speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi signed the $808.00 and $858000000000.00 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 for military personnel. the founder of the failed crypto currency exchange f t. x has appeared in the us court after me, extradited from the bahamas on fraud charges. prosecutors accuse sam bank min fried, of stealing billions and customer funds to cover losses at his hedge fund. he'll be under house arrest while he awaits trial. christmas. salumi has more from new york . this is the 1st time that sam, bank, men freed, was formerly charged. in this case, he is facing 8 counts that include money laundering, and fraud, as well as campaign finance violations. he was flown from the bahamas, arrested in the buck in the bahamas, where he was living. and his crypto exchange was based at the request of us

authorities. us authority said that because he agreed to extradition and because his own wealth had decreased so much, they agreed that he could be released on bail if his family put up $250000000.00 in security. and as long as he agreed to electronic monitoring of his whereabouts now, sam, bagman fried, said very little in the court house himself. he agreed to those conditions and that said that he understood that his family would have to forfeit that money if he did not show up for his court appearances. but his attorneys have said in court papers that he wanted to come back to the united states and make his customers hall, a hospital in china's biggest city says half the population of $25000000.00 could be infected with cobit 19 by the end of next week. china is seeing a surgeon cases after the government began eating restrictions this month.

following a wave of protests, the shanghai desi hospital has told the staff to prepare for a tragic battle. the world health organization says it's concerned about china. it's calling on bay ging to provide more detailed information on the spread of cases. oksana pizza is a global health advisor and a lecturer at the school, a pharmacy at university college london. she says china is vulnerable to a major outbreak. there is an immunity gap due to the 0 cover 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 could be very difficult to combat the tidal wave of cobit 19 in the wake of what has been really a 3 years of quite severe cubic restriction. but some described as draconian,

but it did in fact prevent many debts. and we're seeing sort of the, almost the consequences 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 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. 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 had 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. i thought of all my then the taliban came today,

they be south and kicked us out of the training center. i'm said that you no longer have the right to study. we are in 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 and the nation's history. prime 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. netanyahu'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. 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 vote on a new prime minister. a coalition of 3 parties have a combined majority and have agreed on the city of any rom,

booker as prime minister, but incumbent frank by any mamma has not conceded defeat. it all spent most of this year in a political deadlock with no government, widespread demonstrations and calls for change. a new government took office in october, but the same problems remain with the sate struggling to grow the economy and create jobs. no doubt that why had has more from but that 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 shade opinions these days. the conversations are often about iraq's latest political developments model are kind of happy with 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 have 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 us. so that quit when the rival parties backed by iran, nominated mo, how much a year or so, danny, as prime minister, sort of supporters took to st. oh wow. wow. in august, 1000 storm 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 smooth, teach it through the year holes for political and economic reform. order was

finally told when the sudanese government took office in october scenes like this give the impression of normality. but the same issue is way heavy when iraqis, after one year political deadlock, the finally have a government. but economic challenges, and under language, political rivalries, most crucial to ensuring is stability, remain unresolved and many are skeptical that anything will change under the new administration. then who are they? the more while 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 part 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 embezzled from 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 with rising costs and increasingly constrained government spending. public services in the u. k. or under intense pressure. the health sector is getting much of the

attention, but education is also feeling the strain. rory challenge has been to a primary school in london to see their unusual solution for a funding crisis. ah . might the children of barn croft primary school be heading for musical st. autumn? ah, kids on vocals, parents handling video and editing with this cover of an 18 pop plastic your 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, 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 the am, their school has been really badly hit by this earlier in the year, teachers wages went up box. 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, to say like, our children are the future really we need to invest in them, is a bigger home is affecting schools everywhere and, and if it's very,

very ring for the future of education in the whole country, you're the voice trying on this data, making noise in make it. oh wow. i remember seeing it. i haven't made that he runs in everyday lee, my layer, any practice devlinson. and i basically knew it just was i give you a job and that was it. i mean you all to 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, a camera has recorded a meteor zooming across the night sky in the us state of alaska. video from the doorbell cameras just the moment a large fireball brightened the sky early on wednesday.