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ukrainian soldiers welcome us, pledges of more help, but russia's president bloss the patriot system has only, ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up flooding right on that doorstep. we've an update from malaysia on thousands of people forced from their homes. but us braces to what's being called a bomb cy, clo, it's facing a white christmas. that could be the coldest in decades. i'm trying to say their school, how teachers, pupils and parents abounding together to overcome hardship in the you for letting me zalinski is one day trip to the u. s. is being held as a success by ukrainians. but russia says pledges of support, including the patriot missile defense system, only fueling conflict. as went,

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 saga assure you visited troops and what the russian military says was the front line, although no location was given. meanwhile, the fighting continues back mooted. the latest focus with reports that thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle for the eastern city of valencia met his polish count about andrea duda on his way back to ukraine. the poles have been one of keep staunch us allies separately. lensky has been invited to brussels for ukraine, e u summit in february. but with them as a short term emotional hazard 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, a glory to every one who protects our country. we bring to ukraine to don bass to

buck mirth, and to the south decisions which our defense courses awaited us a little to day in a special format one on one we discussed with dude or our corporation. you. i told him what i heard in the us, which was about our strategic vision of the upcoming year. austin, we are getting ready. we strengthen our joint forces, nash no, our focus is a better off 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 were confronting are said this as a defense of weapon as well. okay. 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 you can sell are hotter, has more from russia's capital. 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 missy post school and also today there was something very important spoken by the chief of. 5 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 clean this what moscow has it clearly said it will respond to the more arms being sent by the united states and other european natal 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 through breast that would facilitate the russian

army, reaching the city of sin leave and thus cutting the main road that supplies weapons to ukraine through opponent, mino on the ground in ukraine. the city of back moved, continues to be the center of fighting with russia, focusing its attacks that the fall ukrainian forces held their ground and the territory that russia could use to advance on other cities. presidents, the landscape is accused moscow of turning the city into burn ruins, which all stratford is monitoring the fighting from keith butler 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 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 will. one, bustle is a very done with 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 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 sloppy answer. but it's fair to say that the situation has come to a very brutal war of attrition and

a stalemate. a severe winter storm is sweeping across the us. the snow and extremely cold weather coincides with the start of the holiday travel season. practical have as 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. storm extreme coal, whether you can see on the map, the estimated areas you know, as low as 50 degrees, where it said dark, red kilo 0, dangerous and threatening. this is really very serious weather large 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 milla 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 wider 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 event for much of america, a white christmas. but the coldest one, it's been in for decades, patty call hain al jazeera and b c's. maggie vesper has more now from velvet in

illinois. 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 east. 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 the saw examples out west is how bad been to get white out conditions from places 2 days ago in washington. also with the dakota's overnight in denver, they've opened the denver coliseum, that massive read us 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 use as well. if it 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. tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in malaysia off the days of heavy monsoon, rain, the northern states of kilometer on turn, gonna have been worst it roads, houses, and cars have been submerge, emergency services, se 5 people have been killed in florence. louis is stunning by in turn gone estate for us. now florence will bring us up to date with the latest on the floods, and the number of people displaced of flood waters are receding, but quite slowly. in some places it hasn't rain much in the last 2 days, so that has helped the number of people taking shelter in temporary flood relief centers. now at its peak with 70000, but that has now reduced 250000. nearly all of the displaced are in coolant and engine guy, new states, which are the worst affected. now, many more towns and villages, though, are now assessable by 4 wheel drive and other vehicles when previously they could only been reached by boat. but of course now with people returning home,

it's time for them to assess just how badly their homes have been damaged. um and they begin the slow process of cleaning up their homes. for many of these people, not only will their homes have to be replaced or repaired or rebuilt, but also the live their belongings, their vehicles may have to be replaced and just behind me as well. if you can see the river that you can entry, can see the river bank that gives an indication of just how high the water levels in rivers rose. but it, of course, it has now receded. a bronze monsoon floods, the militia happen every year. so. so what's a government plan to do with this? that's right. monsoon season typically occurs from november to february and sometimes stretches to march. and it brings very heavy rains and also strong winds, and particularly to the north, east and east coast to peninsula milan. and also suburbans for our states. and flooding is very common in these areas, particularly implant and intern go new state so much so that many people in flood prone areas tell us that it's not

a question of whether ill flood but just how badly and for how many days ill last note. so the government has recently allocated billions of dollars um for flood mitigation projects around the country. but some of these projects have recently been suspended because a newer administration has taken over and it wants to review in particular projects that were given by direct award as opposed to an open tender process to ensure that there is no corruption. now the government has also said its going to get financial aid to families affected by floods, but many people here say that while that will help ease their suffering. it is not enough that they do want long term plans to help deal with this. now in some parts of the country, the government has fortified embankments so that the river overflow will not um, cause floods. but resident save that also causes problems because then flood waters are much slower to recede or to florence li live. was there in turn, gone and spare florence. thank you. just a short break here now to 0. when we come back, health work is in china's most pop in the city. sound. the alarm over a potential avalanche of corona virus cases and as britain's me monarch prepares to

deliver his 1st christmas speech. we look at an eventful year for the world family and the challenges i wanna stay with. ah cal, 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, very cold air, which is plunged 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 winds though it is gonna remain bitterly cold as we go through the next

couple days, but less so by the time we come to our sas day new york guys from 13 celsius plus 13 to ram minus 5, the top temperature recovering to minus 3. by the time we come to sundays, a fabulous now 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 gonna 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 western 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. the bowls janice and the police are going to be discussing protest this. these are some of a good tens of thousands of people troy to lee global,

inspired to program making. welcome to generation chains and rifle. it's broadcasting white people did not want black children in the schools. we have to fight for algebra, english proud recipient. the new york festivals broadcast year. the year award for the 6th year running. lou. oh, well get back from out of the top stories here. this, our russian president vladimir putin has accused the white house of fighting a proxy war, saying the u. s. is using your cranium soldiers instead of its own. it follows a visit to washington by ukraine's president. problem is lensky. tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in malaysia off

a days of heavy monsoon ray. in the northern states of columbia, montana gone. i've been worst hit emergency services say at least 5 people have been killed. and a severe winter storm has hit the united states, the national weather service, calling at the coldest and for decades. snow and freezing temperatures are disrupting holiday season. travel millions, no 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 seeing a surgeon cases after the government began easing restrictions this month following a wave of protests. the shanghai daisy hospital, as talbot staff to prepare for 8 tragic battle. the world health organization said is concerned about china. it's cooling on beijing to provide more detailed information on the spread of cases. meanwhile, china has imported foreign made covey 19 vaccines for the 1st time, the batch of bio take pfizer jobs from germany will be for use on german nationals . beijing has so far insisted on using its own vaccines. heat,

low as $20000.00 m. around 20000 germans can our benefits for this, for the time being that 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. what it's on a pies is from the 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's 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 restriction. but 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 up dying from cove it as a result of not just this way, but the consequent waves that will emerge from the current outbreak. women in afghanistan are protesting against a new policy that bangs them from university is the latest restriction imposed by the taliban. since it returned to power last year. and mana as more. ah, these protest her say they're being punished for wanting an education. their demand is simple, a woman's right to go to university,

but they say open defiance of the taliban government is increasingly putting them at risk. so good, mature mcgee. this is more even the tele been turned out demonstrations into violence. the girls were beaten and ripped. we ran away. some girls were arrested. i don't know what will happen. on tuesday, the taliban band, women from higher education, blocked from entering campus. students are coming to terms with a very different future than the one they imagined soccer. maybe more because it's training center, as i hope. why can we girls to we were full of hope and came here to learn. it is really a pity the tell them and i've taken all our hopes in the thought of all my them. the taliban came today. they beat us and kicked us out of the training center and said that you no longer had the right to study. the more we are in a very bad situation, the girls here, they've lost this paris. the government says women's faculties weren't following

their interpretation of islamic law. it says the policy was an internal matter and warrant foreign powers not to interfere. well, the bought the move has been widely condemned below un global education envoy gordon brown said the world can't stay silent in the face of discrimination. who yes, turkey is foreign minister said the band was on his la mc and inhumane. the taliban has imposed growing restrictions on women's freedoms since they return to power in 2021. but despite the risk of reprisals, some are still pushing back warning that the potential of generation could be lost . since modern al jazeera, israel's new government is shaping up to be the most right wing in 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 interest for years. let's take

a look at who be in the new government. then basil out smart rich will be finance minister. he's a big supporter of israeli settlements and occupied palestinian territories, which are illegal under international law is far right religious zionism group will also get a post in the defense ministry. it am, i've been given another ultra nationalist leader will be national security minister . he was convicted of incitement to racism in 2007. i've him hours a religious nationalist known for anti l g. b t q views will have a deputy ministerial post with responsibilities over education. netanyahu himself is still on trial for charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust is always maintained. he's innocent. how does a receipt our political, alice, mormon, bashar 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 him. these really military and i is early, mid threes, north 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 going to be in charge of civil administration in the occupied territories. and you have the prime minister himself, who was indicted on corruption fraud and other charges. and now he is will be serving us with 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. the congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the u. s capital has released its final report. it says former president donald trump criminal, engage in what it called a multi part conspiracy. and failed to stop his supporters from attacking the capital building. the panel concluded the insurrection gravely threatened democracy and put the lives of american lawmakers at risk. one of the rising costs and increasingly constrained government spending, public services in the u. k. are under intense pressure health sectors, getting much of the attention. but education is also feeling the strain or challenge has been to our primary school in london to see their unusual solution to the funding crisis. ah, my, the children of barn croft primary school be heading the 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 for the christmas, number one single. ah, not for 14 or 15 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 redundant 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 i told her not the future really we need to invest in then it's 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 and trying on this now making noise in ne kick me ah, remembers things it had made that you mumsy very lee, my layer, new hampshire stevenson. and i basically just was, i give you said he got another and he knew an old one practice

a christmas number one would of course be a fantastic present for the kids and the parents of driscoll. but a better one would be the funding they need. indeed, the funding that every cast strapped school across this country needs and isn't receiving at the moment. rory challenge al jazeera london thing, charles, a 3rd will address the u. k. in his 1st christmas day speech on sunday, it kept say, tumult us year for the british monarchy out 0 xandra. simmons takes a look back on the past 12 months and the challenges facing the new came for the millions who follow british royalty 2022 will stand out in history for generations to come. the year queen elizabeth the 2nd celebrated 70 years on the throne, the platinum jubilee. i think i might just put a knife in it, but it was also the year her extraordinary reign was to end. this was the last the world saw of her on the 6th of september,

appointing her 15th prime minister at boehmer or castle in scotland. she died 2 days later, throughout her life. her majesty the queen, my beloved mother, was an inspiration, an example to me, and to all my family. and we owe her the most heartfelt debt. any family could owe to their mother. ah, followed, was a state hulu, with pageantry and tradition millions react to with respect and fondness. most of the british people had never known any other monarch. the queen's coronation was in june 1953 in westminster abbey. she was only $25.00 when she acceded to the throne, more than a year before. 70 years after his mother was crowned here, king charles will have his coronation in westminster abbey. it will be steeped in centuries old tradition, but there will be

a difference in tone and attempt to save money in difficult times for the economy of britain at $74.00. king charles will obviously have a much shorter rain than his mother, but he will face major difficulties. isolated incidents like this don't help but the public standing of king charles isn't his main problem. and while grumpiness may not be normal protocol, the reported feedback from this incident was mainly positive. royal watchers saying it shows even a king can have a temper tantrum. serious issues abound, though not least, the role of prince andrew who's stripped of royal duties. and most of his titles, a woman in the u. s. accused him of sexual assault when she was 17. he's made a financial settlement with her, but he denies any wrongdoing to describe what happened with an prince. angie's

association with jeffrey, obscene and glen maxwell as a scandal, is in some waiting under state how horrific that is for the palace till have continued to give shelter. and he give credibility is unbelievably damaging his a hierarchy of the family. this leaking, but there's also plenty of stories. prince harry and his wife, megan. michael, presented potentially even more damaging issue your home freedom flight. the 6 part docu series on netflix set out the couple's grievances and why they decided to leave royal duties a move to the u. s. we can't disregard the impact to the harry and make and split. but i think it's pretty clear that the monarchy will wherever this, as it has so many of the storms, not room watchers agree with that optimism,

though. other issues include a police inquiry into some of prince charles's charities over allegations that cash has been donated. in return for royal honors, there is consternation about the monarch his future in particular. it's 14 overseas realms. i still don't think that will see a republic during his life time, but i think the prospect of a republic ah, has drawn closer and i think a lot at the end of the seas rounds will depart during his reign. there's a big majority in favor of monarchy in the u. k. but critics say king charles needs to make the royal family more relevant to kraidish life and to crack down on scandals and excessive spending. andrew simmons, alger zoom, london, and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen. you address out a 0 dot com, that's al jazeera dot come.