tim is 10 sentra giant little choppy and kenya ice lights, africa direct on al jazeera. it was supposed to be a refuse, but south korea's brother's home was allegedly the scene of torture, drape, and even murder $1.00 oh, $1.00 east investigates the crimes. and those set to be behind on al jazeera, as 2022 jewels took place. we reflect on the major stories hit shatelle. join l d 0 for a series of in depth reports. looking back at this year, and to head to 2022 mm mm. aah warnings to beware of frostbite and hypothermia

as the us and canada and your sub 0 temperatures. ah, um, how much room this is, how does your live from door, how also coming up? ah, anger in the french capital, after 3 people are killed in a suspected racist attack on the kurdish community. rebel fighter sail retreat from a strategic frontline town and the democratic republic of congo. as a good will gesture, body bags mounting up fears a lot more people will die in china. surgeon, coven, 19 cases. ah! a bitterly cold storm is threatening to disrupt holiday travel plans for millions

of americans. the arctic blast known as elliot is enveloping most of the u. s. in canada forecasters are calling it a once in a generation weather event. more than 200000000 people, that's about 2 thirds of the us population are under weather warnings. more than 4000 flight within into or out of the u. s. had been cancelled on friday because of high winds and heavy snow. and more than 700000 homes of already lost power, mostly across tennessee, north carolina, virginia, and main. the cold snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. for the north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 celsius. some areas are forecast to get as low as minus $45.00 celsius. experts warned this could lead to frostbite in 5 to 10 minutes. rosalyn jordan reports with dreaming of a white christmas sounds romantic for song but

for millions of people in the west this holiday weekend, it's more like a nightmare. a massive winter storm from canada has brought sub freezing temperatures and heavy snow to most of the country. as well as nationwide flight disruptions, power outages and pipe breaks, and the threat of frostbite and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. yahoo, alan called there please, my clothes on. i think most winters we unfortunately deal is some of our neighbors who are living outside the weather against volleyball. it's, it's a sad name happens every year deteriorating road conditions and melting power outages have led some officials to declare a state of emergency. the best thing you can do is stay off the roads, stay inside the storms. intensity has experts debating whether global warming is to blame. so really cold because the very cold air in the arctic, the vortex has been displaced. the question is why?

and there's really 2 schools of thought. one is that this is clearly a climate change related phenomenon because he arctic is warming so fast and the other school says, all this is natural, variability as flight cancellations pile into the 1000 traveler. st. going home just isn't an option of where from an eminence family and like my parents and their siblings moved to the u. s. many years ago. but every year we try to spend christmas or thanksgiving or something like that together. just you know, to keep the family connected so it's, it's really important trying to stay focused on the reason for the season in the face of intent. seasonal weather. ah, rosalind jordan al jazeera nbc shaquille brewster has more on the severe weather conditions. their invention, harbor, michigan, which is essentially right across the lake from chicago. we're getting all of the

impacts of this massive winter storm. you see the snow that's coming down? well, they're expecting the snow to continue possibly for more days. it's this lake effect snow. some areas expecting more than 2 feet of it to come by the time we get to christmas, but it's not just the snow. it's also the wind. at some points there are breaks in the snow, but you can't tell because of the wind whipping the snow around the toughest when the strongest wind is expected to come later this afternoon, up to 60 mile an hour wind gusts for this area, but the danger is and what you're hearing from a local authorities, local police authorities, is that you shouldn't be out on the roads. because what this, when does, is it whips around the snow that's already on the ground and on the road that creates 0 visibility in those white out conditions that so many are concerned about some of the hundreds of migrants hoping to get into the u. s. from mexico are battling temperatures well below freezing to chance their luck. they're waiting for

the u. s. supreme court to lift trump error restrictions that prevent many of them from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings were set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was granted. i'm lying at bay. they're going to see had to move from the coastal use in his will. little son in the with the here fixing a little is very cold, right. know we're having upon fights, i will muscles of all of their producer. that's going to come down to almost 23 degrees tonight and are some of them, there's been nitrogen, it's been so cold that people i step outside and they say police, i let me. and even if they're standing room only, i don't even have to find a place on a floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in. and a record breaking snowstorm has hit parts of northwestern japan, killing at least 8 people. it's led to traffic chaos, disrupted railway services and cut power to thousands of homes. forecasters are expecting more severe weather in the coming days. investigators in france are

considering a possible racist motive for a shooting in paris that killed 3 people near a kurdish cultural center. a 69 year old suspect previously jailed for attacking migrant has been arrested. the attack sparked protests by members of the kurdish community. natasha butler reports from the french capital here until the police and emergency workers cordoned off an area in central paris after gunman went on a deadly shooting rampage. firing it, people in a hair salon kurdish restaurant and kurdish community center eye witnesses said people ran in panic. or downtown marcia, the loan officer, walking down the street. we heard shots, we turned around, people were running left and right. we're after 5 or 6 minutes, we went to the hairdressers, up and we saw people had stopped the man. he was quite all 3 people were injured, mozilla solander police arrested a 69 year old frenchman. he was known to authorities and had been previously

charged with racist violence against my grants, living intense in the city of cycle till the end of the jail may have attack these tenderly and investigation started at the end of 2021 and the individual has greasy been released as news spread of the shooting people from the cities kurdish community gathered to protest. separate comma to random. the killer did it to scare the kurdish community. follow who we don't know how we will go on with north kurdistan is dangerous, where we live in france, in the capital, and now it's dangerous here. frances prison condemned to what he called an odious attack against curds and france. earlier the interior minister had said the shooters motivation was unclear, pacific more pointing fuel than he was clearly targeting foreigners. what we need to know from the judicial inquiry presided over by the public prosecutor whether it was specifically for the kurds. but for the moment, there was no evidence to show that there was no doubt though in the moon. this is

demonstrated angry and upset. they then flags and fools, literally moved in now to try and clear the protesters, because they only becoming quite by the protest subsided. the police remained on standby and investigations been opened into the attack, and the interior ministry says security will be increased. it could you sites in the country for some they say it's a welcome measure, but one that comes too late. natasha buckler, al jazeera paris. the m 23 armed group which is, sees territory in the democratic republic of congo, says it will retreat from a strategic frontline position fighter se they'll withdraw from the town of cuba and the northeast as a good will gesture. m. 23 is widely understood to be backed by wander and allegation were wandered denies. his african leaders had been pushing for an end to the conflict. it's forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since october volunteer pier. let them go through the phil who shall do this. this is

a good will gesture that the m 23 will make to day. it is in the name of p. last and a gesture that is part of the recommendations of the mini summit of heads of state health in angola in november 2020 to me. so we hope that the kinshasa government will seize this opportunity to handle us at work to bring peace to our country. malcom web is monitoring developments from nairobi. in recent months, the $33.00 armed group took control of several key towns in advance towards the regional capital of goma. the city of my sites have been photographed and filmed with rwandan soldiers among them quite as usual under military equipment for everyone to deny. the $23.00 is it proxy. now people in cities across i've been demonstrating for a month, the, again, rwanda and uganda. they accuse of decades of military battling and aggression.

they've also been protesting against the international community, particularly u. k. and france for that silence on this issue in recent month. rolanda depends on a military aid from western countries. the campaign is say, it simply need the international community to way in to stop one day from its military aggression. now, just 4 days ago, after months of silence from which is the key ally of rwanda and a military partner, france finally said that one that is back in $23.00 in the land. and then just days later, we are seeing this, you turn on the ground with them 23, pulling back from territory. that is taken in weeks and weeks for you in peacekeeping mission, in the d. r. congo is the biggest in the world, but it hasn't prevented attacks by armed groups. the m $23.00 is one or more than a 100 based and eastern congo. it emerged more than a decade ago when fighters seized the city of goma on the border with wanda. they

say they're defending the interests of the ethnic towards the minority. in 2013 the congress army and you went back to forces defeated the m 23, and it's fighters fled to wander. and you've gone to in $23.00 split into several factions. but earlier this year, 2 of them united to launched the latest offensive john michelle line do as a congolese researcher and act of his space in belgium. he says the conflict has made women and girls, especially vulnerable, is incredibly difficult for women or women are generally viewed as 2nd class citizens and that part of the world. and the weapon as ation already has been of the female body has only just increased the softness, the suffering for women in eastern congress and incredibly difficult place for women to live in the fire. by any standards, it's important to have a tribunal to stop this whole trav impunity, dr. denise mccrae gay. who's them? who's the man who fixes women has been arguing that point for the last 20 years

because it's awful. what's happening to convert these women? i have sisters, i have on teeth, i have nieces and what's happening to the women in the eastern congo in congo, in general, personally upsetting because it's s one believe we see ourselves as one family. if the, if eastern congo is not healthy is it's like the whole body, it's not healthy. oil giant shell has agreed to pay nearly $16000000.00 to nigerian community is affected by leaks in its pipelines. but the company says the settlement for oil spills between 20042007 is not an admission of liability. it also stated that the pipelines were sabotaged. a dutch appeals court ruled last year in favor of farmers in the niger river delta. after 13 years of legal battles still had on al jazeera why the latest public sector strike in the u. k. could spoil christmas plans for hundreds of thousands of air travelers. plus this is one

of the saddest days for all those concerned about women's rights. you ins, education envoy, joyce, the course of condemnation against the ban on female students in app at afghan university's. ah hell i was still got some proper when to weather across japan over the next couple of days, you can see this wall of cloud here that's been rattling its way through a couple of areas of low pressure in the sea of japan drawer and in that's and north west lea, a wind, and as it moves across the relatively warm waters of the save to pan, it is dumping huge amounts of snow once again across that western side of honshu. it's a good part of chicago as well. so more of the same as we go through saturday, more of the same as we go through sunday. shelter by the amount is take out around

12 degrees celsius, some slushy conditions here. but the worst of that snow will continue across western parts of japan, causing further disruption. not too bad, crisp sunshine, therefore the cramping inch less. so struggling to get up to around freezing as a high, seamless temperature to for beijing, much of china is dry. but we have got some winter weather pushing into west central western parts over the next couple of days. as you try to cross much of indo china good scattering a shower estimate. the central parts of the philippines, pushing into northern areas of borneo more heavy damp was coming through here, but not as wet as it has been recently. say, some improvement on the cards say me. well, the weather was going down hill into the southeast of india. we got some very heavy right also making his way. it is for lanka, ah, progress or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our

lives. but very few of as really understand its capabilities. for better all was al jazeera explodes, the impact of a i accessing vast amounts of our personal data data land on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching all the 0 reminder of our top stories this out. more than 200000000 people in the us are under weather warnings as a bitterly cold storm sweeps through north america. the arctic blast is left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and caused major travel disruption.

there been protests in paris after 3 people were shot dead near a kurdish cultural center. police say the suspected shooter was previously jailed for an attack on mike and him $23.00 fighters who've seized large areas in the democratic republic of congo. a pledge to retreat from mr. ched from our strategic frontline position. china is battling a wave of corona virus infections that has hit the elderly population hard. this video shows dozens of body bags piled up at a funeral parlor in the southwestern city of cha ching. but bay jane has reported just a handful of doubts from the virus during the current search. it recently changed criteria for registration of coven 19 fatalities. the wave in infections has forced this hospital and cha ching, to use its main lobby. as a makeshift ward cases have been rising since the government east restrictions this month. following a wave of protests, china's top health authority says nearly 37000000 people may have been infected

with coven 19 on a single day. this week, the bloomberg news agency says, minutes from a meeting of the national health commission show 248000000 people are thought to have contracted the virus in the 1st 20 days of december. that equates to about 18 percent of the total chinese population. the institute for health metrics and evaluation predicts 290000 cov deaths by april. if china adopts the containment measures that researchers expect, but they expect 1600000 fatalities. if no new restrictions are adopted, ali mac dot is an epidemiologist at the institute that released those figures. he says the chinese government needs to be more transparent. you want your public to stay at home. you need to tell them what's happening in their own community. so far we don't see to ask the public to stay at home. why you're telling them that are not no cases and no desk. i'm go with 19, nobody is one to listen and people are gonna come outside. you need to be transparent, then people will listen to you right now to cove the blog,

but it will be impacted by china. what's happening in china? we have seen so far. billions of infections from on the car. what spending right now in china is b one, b 2 and b a 5. we haven't seen so far, and immune escape fatty, and so that's the good news. so we're expecting about 1100000000 to be infected and china, hopefully none of the new finance or immune escape will appear. so that's what we're looking at from the economy standpoint. china is a major review sort of how sir, goodness, that would be a lot short dish because chinese will keep them supplies at home will not export the neighboring. india is gearing up for a possible surgeon, toronto virus infections, as cases spread across china fights between the 2 countries are still operating, but the government has asked health officials to step up surveillance, poverty, metal reports from the deli. it's the holiday season and it's back in full swing for the 1st time since the pandemic began,

but the looming threat of another croon of ice outbreak could spoil the festive fer it faster. for the other dung guardian, i think our lives are more precious than the festivities we have to prioritize done . it all comes down to people's awareness. india had your back most restrictions after the rate of infection flowed in the past few months. most people have software in math, even in carter places such as markets. but the outbreak in china and i've taken several other countries have prompted me as another wave could be devastating for an undeserved health care system and is struggling economy. some pandemic protocols have returned. travelers need to be fully vaccinated against cov 19, and thomas screenings will take place at airports. the government says about 2 percent of international travelers are being tested upon arrival, and some tourist attractions are testing visitors before they enter. parliamentarians are wearing masks and encouraging people to do the same, cannot to ga, stayed in southern india, has made feast coverings,

compulsory indoors. and i don't, bobby, we have asked states to become more vigilant and increased genome sequencing of all positive cases. if we have a new variant in india, we can identify it in advance because of the festive season in new year. we have asked this to ask people to use masks and sanitizers and encourage social distances . there's also renewed focus on vaccines. why 90 percent of eligible people are fully vaccinated against cove? 19 only a quarter have received a booster shot epidemiologist, the immunization is crucial to managing a virus that he had to stay. i do not think india needs to pick it up because the situation in indiana very different from that in china and india, we have had exposure to the wireless radius form, including the immigrants early in january this year. and quite a fair amount of immunity because of the exposure to a different version of the wireless. while the government is asking people not to

panic, it's preparing more guidelines for the holiday season. several hospitals nationwide will conduct drills next week to ensure they're ready to handle an influx of patients should the need arise. park new metal al jazeera new delhi. as can ascends, taliban government has defended its decision to close universities to female students. ministers claim the ruling is partly due to women, not adhering to dressed because women across the country have been protesting against the policy. several have been arrested since the taliban return to power last year. women faced increasingly limited access to education and public life. the when special envoy for global education and former u. k. prime minister gordon brown says the taliban are taking away women's right to learn and the world can't afford to stay silent. well this is one of the saddest days for all goes concerned about women's rights girls rights. and the afghan girls and women are bearing the biggest. but in this struggle to persuade people that

girls and women have an equal right to education and to other amenities. and we've seen this, women and girls not going to school, not going to university, not able to teach at university, not doing public sector jobs being banned from many subjects that are taught already. and of course, what it means is that they are denied opportunity. what it means is that i've kind of son will not be treating doctor's and teachers, and researchers and scientists, and afghans economy will suffer in the long run. but in the short run, it means girls who are getting used to the idea before the talent. that there would be education for all of them. who were at school and know what it's like to be independent thinkers. who feel that oppression is something that they had got rid of around 2001 no feel that they are facing

a life where either they got to leave the country if they could or that got to submit to these rules. and it's not surprising that there are protests, not just from girls and women, but from men as well. because this is not the true afghanistan convicted, french serial killer charles abroad is on his way home from nepal is on a flight back to france after being released from prison on health grounds. so braj, nicknamed the serpent was jailed in 2003 from murdering american and canadian backpackers. the 78 year old was the subject of a television series. i've been good, great with me. i only whole full well i look a series of do think this is really police have shot dead, a palestinian men in the city of cover carson in the occupied west bank, according to authorities and health officials, israeli officials say in are in baghdad. attempted to run over and shoot security

personnel, israeli police say 2 officers were injured. palestinian media reports that there's family has accused israeli police of killing the man in cold blood. a union boss in the u. k. has warned that strikes by border for staff could go on for months. hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are facing a christmas of disruption and delays. as security staff begin 8 days of action, the military has been drafted in to help minimize delays at major airports. paul brennan has more. why don't we san jose, why does it weigh right now in a torrential rainstorm? just after dawn, the picket line took shape as an insight into how determined and desperate these work is our willingness to stand and protest in these condition speaks volumes u. k, price inflation is 10.7 percent. the government is offering these work as a pay rise of just who we are marginally above the national minimum wage, marginally just a heads whiskey. i don't think people really appreciate just how far lately poland

is that of staffing. these passport control desks at airport arrivals. 1000 quarter force officers have begun an 8 day walk out of a pe, pensions, and redundancy terms. 6 airports and one seaport are affected. the board for strike will effect 99000 in bond flights carrying an estimated 1700000 passengers. the west affected will be london heathrow with all $900000.00 passengers expected to be delayed during the strike days. but the impact will be felt nationwide at manchester airport, more than a quarter of a 1000000 passengers will be affected using military personnel to staff. the passport control dest appears to have minimized the disruption so far. on social media, some passengers reported no queues quicker than usual and passing through border control in the quickest time in 10 years. but as a growing wave of industrial unrest across several different groups of public sector workers. while the u. k. government is refusing to enter negotiations with the unions. prime minister richie sumac has expressed disappointment at the strikes

and insist pay rises would only fuel further inflation. it goes, it is difficult question of setting public sector pay. the government has acted fairly and reasonably in accepting all the recommendations of the public sector. pay review bodies. that's an independent process. the government has listened to, you know, i dodge everybody who's traveling at the moment to just please check before you make your journey. so you know what's up like sent him a public support for the strikers could be crucial in the days and weeks ahead. at the moment it seems public support is with the strikers by a small margin. more people blame the government for the ongoing disputes than the unions. additional public sector strike days have been announced with january. this is turning into a battle of attrition hold brennan. al jazeera he threat. it's been a difficult year for consumers in turkey. inflation has climbed to the highest level since president wretched type ardon came to power nearly 20 years ago. critics say his policy is focused on economic expansion and cheap credit,

instead of stability. but government officials blame rushes, invasion of ukraine. seneca solo has more from his stumble. 16 year old sammy's john has been training as a mechanic atlas shop in a stumble for a few months or 3 years ago, his parents divorced. his mother was forced to find a job to support him. but when tricky inflation skyrocketed, he decided to drop out of school. last is that the long, even if you have 2 people earned minimum, which salaries and life is difficult for that household and little i give myself to my family, medicinal i also work as a photographer over the weekend. the son, i spend that money for myself. i did not want to force my family to send them each school, especially as a young man, inflation reached 85 percent when the government cut interest weights at the end of 2021 in a year. the lira has those more than twice it's valley compared to the us dollar terms. bill alisha runs his 40 year old dowers shop. he says he's had to increase

the price is 5 times in the past. you have left us on a rent. the use of that inflation is like a monster increases in the minimum wage. don't help people. if we didn't have arab tourists, it would be too difficult. not only for us, all of istanbul, the hotels, groceries and markets are higher rent water in electricity bills are weighing heavily on the small business. yeah, mr. church, i will shoot us president b it up. there are 3 people working here. i need one more, but i can't afford it. many businesses around here half started to improve the afghan or syrian refugees older than ever sick you presenters have type out on an almost a total of 80 percent increase in the minimum wage this year. on top of the 50 percent high, at the end of last year, turkey is giving up for an election and mid 2023 present out on is expected to pump money into the economy before the vote, which is likely to lead to more pricing quizzes,

he also promised to reduce inflation to 40 percent in a few months. it is unclear how he will manage both, but in the meantime, turkey citizens are finding it more and more difficult to make. nc, sienna, her solo al jazeera, assembled. facebook's parent company mehta has agreed to pay $725000000.00 to settle a privacy lawsuit. the social media giant was accused of allowing 3rd parties to access users personal data. the lawsuit followed revelations that a u. k. based consulting firm cambridge analytics, accessed millions of facebook profiles. the firm has also been accused of using the data to support donald trump's election campaign. in 2016, the american in russian space agencies are facing a dilemma. how to get several astronauts home. that's after a russian so use spacecraft, spraying a leak last week. it's doc to the international space station. yes, 7 people are on board, but they're not endanger the craft might not make the trip back to earth as scheduled in march.